A train can stop exactly where it is safely (provided no other train rams it), letting passengers leave the train (though that may be difficult on bridges). Trains have lots of doors and windows that can be opened (if necessary with hammers that are conveniently provided every few meters) and are very long with lots of people inside and many doors splitting the interior into compartments. Pretty much the only thing you can do to a train is destroy it with a bomb on the train or track (the latter only if it doesn't get detected). You can hijack a plane more easily and the most common use for that is to demand ransom. You really can't do that with a train, if it's stopped people will just escape through the windows and doors, if it's driving they'll pull the emergency brake. You also need lots more people to cover the whole train because of the cars and compartments. There's no security check so any weapon you can bring on board is a weapon any passenger can bring on board, too. If you e.g. try to hold a 5 car train hostage with 10 people you have two per car. The seats give a lot of view cover so you wouldn't know if a passenger pulls out a gun before he hits you. Leave a car uncovered, the passengers run away. You can't really take the whole train hostage and unless it's a really crowded one the few cars you can cover won't hold as many people as a plane. Plus you can't drive a train somewhere where you can demand an escape vehicle, even if you can drive it into an airport (would require cooperation from the rail control center which could just lock the switch and force you away from there) you'd have to cover a LOT of ground, enough for a group of snipers to pick you off.
Computer parts aren't the biggest issue really. Here in Germany I see some parts going for the exact same price as they do in the US despite tax. Others have the tax as the price difference. Consoles however have a markup that vastly exceeds the difference tax makes, especially games are priced as if their price got fixed back when the Euro was 0.8$ and never adjusted.
BTW, did Nintendo add the ability to listen to music or watch movies when I'm not in the mood to play games...
Yep but AFAIK it's not sold in the US yet. You can get a flash cart (some are just holders for SD cards AFAIK, flash storage doesn't get much cheaper than SD) for homebrew which includes movies and music, though.
By the way, the best game you've never heard of is The Chikyuu Boueigun 2 (Global Defense Force in the UK).
A pitifully shameful reality on the Hollywood gloss the world sees of America.
Actually, since Hollywood never shows trains in any form of contemporary movie most foreigners (including me) pretty much thought the US rail system was abandoned completely some time ago.
Europe has lots of unions too, it's not like those are a US-exclusive thing.
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These restrictions are all based on the idea that your rights end where everyone else's begin.
Other countries consider dignity a fundamental right which is why insulting someone is violating their rights. Your rights still end where others' rights begin, those others just have more rights.
if I lived in a country that doesn't have a true constitution
Um, what? When's a constitution not a constitution?
It's not about contents, it's about something leeching off your body's resources. You should have the right to deny it that, if it dies as a result that's its problem*. If someone is starving and you can't get him food you're not obliged to let him eat you. If someone is losing blood you are not required to transfer your blood to him.
*= Personally I'm in favour of abortion but only during a certain period. If someone wants to abort she should've done that before the lump of cells became sentient.
The issue isn't that they charge differently for each country, it's that they force people to shop in the store that belongs to their country instead of letting them choose. If e.g. their price was 1€+VAT in each country that would vary between countries. There's no issue with that as long as they let e.g. Brits shop in the Luxembourg shop (which would make the tax money end up in Luxembourg).
This has nothing to do with race but in the EU discriminating based on your country is just as bad as discriminating based on your race or religion. It also has nothing to do with setting up different stores, it's about making stores refuse you business because of a quality that is illegal to discriminate against. This is equal to saying "we don't sell to blacks" except you can substitute "French" for "Blacks".
Now try e.g. California deciding that cheaper goods from out-of-state need to be blocked (possibly after a cash injection from some lobbyist). Or a company threatening to stop shipping any goods to a store that imports some of its products from a state where it is cheaper.
The EU is suing Apple for breaking an EU law that directly conflicts with the license offered by the record company and with that country's law. You don't think it is a problem when every EU member has a law that contradicts an EU law?
Apple should've realized that just as country law supercedes contracts, EU law supercedes any national law.
The EU also has strict regulations on the limitations you can put in licenses that aren't negotiated individually so it's neither impossible nor unthinkable that the EU could dictate that licenses valid for one member state must apply to all member states or be made available under the same conditions.
Apple being charged different prices by the labels would fall under the same law as Apple charging different prices in different member states and preventing grey imports. IOW the labels would be just as liable for price fixing as Apple.
Actually Wind Waker and Metroid Prime use videos but only for e.g. quick scene changes that would take too long to load or scenes with too many characters in them (e.g. MP2's Ing assault on the Federation troopers cutscene).
If the ban applied to all gambling noone would complain (at least not to the WTO) but the ban only applies to online gambling sites operated in foreign countries which means the citizens can still gamble everything away with a mouseclick but the websites have to be based in the US.
It's not that subtle but it's still plausible (except for the time between the movie and the claim that a completed project is available), Python is named after Monty Python and naming a Python project "Python on Planes" is not that unthinkable (I've seen sillier names for opensource projects) though it may be a bit silly since "on Planes" doesn't exactly sound like a rapid prototyping tool. The other tool names are just as plausible. Hell, Python comes with a module called pickle and an IDE named IDLE. Examples tend to involve variables named parrot and containers that store cheese that's very runny.
Seriously, if it wasn't for the timing and the high version numbers this could very well have been a real announcement.
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A train can stop exactly where it is safely (provided no other train rams it), letting passengers leave the train (though that may be difficult on bridges). Trains have lots of doors and windows that can be opened (if necessary with hammers that are conveniently provided every few meters) and are very long with lots of people inside and many doors splitting the interior into compartments. Pretty much the only thing you can do to a train is destroy it with a bomb on the train or track (the latter only if it doesn't get detected). You can hijack a plane more easily and the most common use for that is to demand ransom. You really can't do that with a train, if it's stopped people will just escape through the windows and doors, if it's driving they'll pull the emergency brake. You also need lots more people to cover the whole train because of the cars and compartments. There's no security check so any weapon you can bring on board is a weapon any passenger can bring on board, too. If you e.g. try to hold a 5 car train hostage with 10 people you have two per car. The seats give a lot of view cover so you wouldn't know if a passenger pulls out a gun before he hits you. Leave a car uncovered, the passengers run away. You can't really take the whole train hostage and unless it's a really crowded one the few cars you can cover won't hold as many people as a plane. Plus you can't drive a train somewhere where you can demand an escape vehicle, even if you can drive it into an airport (would require cooperation from the rail control center which could just lock the switch and force you away from there) you'd have to cover a LOT of ground, enough for a group of snipers to pick you off.
Basically hijacking a train is a suicide mission.
Computer parts aren't the biggest issue really. Here in Germany I see some parts going for the exact same price as they do in the US despite tax. Others have the tax as the price difference. Consoles however have a markup that vastly exceeds the difference tax makes, especially games are priced as if their price got fixed back when the Euro was 0.8$ and never adjusted.
BTW, did Nintendo add the ability to listen to music or watch movies when I'm not in the mood to play games...
Yep but AFAIK it's not sold in the US yet. You can get a flash cart (some are just holders for SD cards AFAIK, flash storage doesn't get much cheaper than SD) for homebrew which includes movies and music, though.
By the way, the best game you've never heard of is The Chikyuu Boueigun 2 (Global Defense Force in the UK).
A pitifully shameful reality on the Hollywood gloss the world sees of America.
Actually, since Hollywood never shows trains in any form of contemporary movie most foreigners (including me) pretty much thought the US rail system was abandoned completely some time ago.
It's a huge investment and not guaranteed to pay off. Even if it can be done profitably it's too huge a risk for anyone to be worth trying.
Europe has lots of unions too, it's not like those are a US-exclusive thing.
These restrictions are all based on the idea that your rights end where everyone else's begin.
Other countries consider dignity a fundamental right which is why insulting someone is violating their rights. Your rights still end where others' rights begin, those others just have more rights.
if I lived in a country that doesn't have a true constitution
Um, what? When's a constitution not a constitution?
Oooh, we're gonna need a "war on unnecessary expenses".
So it's the train Rincewind would use?
Until that happens, Apple has to respect the law of each country above policies of the EU.
No, they have to respect both. If their business model is not possible without violating the law they can't run it.
Also there's a good chance they could have sued their suppliers for price fixing to get the conflict resolved.
What if you woke up one morning to find yourself inside Steve Ballmer?
Well, you've ever seen Alien?
It's not about contents, it's about something leeching off your body's resources. You should have the right to deny it that, if it dies as a result that's its problem*. If someone is starving and you can't get him food you're not obliged to let him eat you. If someone is losing blood you are not required to transfer your blood to him.
*= Personally I'm in favour of abortion but only during a certain period. If someone wants to abort she should've done that before the lump of cells became sentient.
The issue isn't that they charge differently for each country, it's that they force people to shop in the store that belongs to their country instead of letting them choose. If e.g. their price was 1€+VAT in each country that would vary between countries. There's no issue with that as long as they let e.g. Brits shop in the Luxembourg shop (which would make the tax money end up in Luxembourg).
This has nothing to do with race but in the EU discriminating based on your country is just as bad as discriminating based on your race or religion. It also has nothing to do with setting up different stores, it's about making stores refuse you business because of a quality that is illegal to discriminate against. This is equal to saying "we don't sell to blacks" except you can substitute "French" for "Blacks".
Now try e.g. California deciding that cheaper goods from out-of-state need to be blocked (possibly after a cash injection from some lobbyist). Or a company threatening to stop shipping any goods to a store that imports some of its products from a state where it is cheaper.
The EU is suing Apple for breaking an EU law that directly conflicts with the license offered by the record company and with that country's law. You don't think it is a problem when every EU member has a law that contradicts an EU law?
Apple should've realized that just as country law supercedes contracts, EU law supercedes any national law.
The EU also has strict regulations on the limitations you can put in licenses that aren't negotiated individually so it's neither impossible nor unthinkable that the EU could dictate that licenses valid for one member state must apply to all member states or be made available under the same conditions.
Apple being charged different prices by the labels would fall under the same law as Apple charging different prices in different member states and preventing grey imports. IOW the labels would be just as liable for price fixing as Apple.
So he can once again go on TV telling everybody that he thinks they're wrong?
Burglary is not an offense that warrants extradition.
Actually Wind Waker and Metroid Prime use videos but only for e.g. quick scene changes that would take too long to load or scenes with too many characters in them (e.g. MP2's Ing assault on the Federation troopers cutscene).
3 million isn't much. Eidos is waiting for a double digit million userbase.
If the ban applied to all gambling noone would complain (at least not to the WTO) but the ban only applies to online gambling sites operated in foreign countries which means the citizens can still gamble everything away with a mouseclick but the websites have to be based in the US.
Technically that was an RFC (like IP Over Avian Carrier), not a Slashdot invention.
It's not that subtle but it's still plausible (except for the time between the movie and the claim that a completed project is available), Python is named after Monty Python and naming a Python project "Python on Planes" is not that unthinkable (I've seen sillier names for opensource projects) though it may be a bit silly since "on Planes" doesn't exactly sound like a rapid prototyping tool. The other tool names are just as plausible. Hell, Python comes with a module called pickle and an IDE named IDLE. Examples tend to involve variables named parrot and containers that store cheese that's very runny.
Seriously, if it wasn't for the timing and the high version numbers this could very well have been a real announcement.
No, that's the final "boss" stage in Wario Ware: Touched! you're thinking of.