At very least it needs to be investigated because while he could legally buy the videogames he couldn't legally get guns or explosives, both are heavily regulated. So whoever sold him those is an illegal arms dealer. That dealing ring needs to be busted.
The minimum age for military service is 18 with exceptions only if the drafted desires so. If he's just out of school he didn't do military service yet.
No, the net neutrality act did seek to force equal priorities for all packets while the current situation allows ISPs to deprioritize packets from senders that haven't paid for a "premium service" (or even drop those packets completely), no matter who they pay for their bandwidth. They do NOT need a law to change packet priorities, they can do that freely.
how about just selling internet access and charging you for the bandwidth that you *do* use.
That's the other billing option I didn't take. They offered various volume prices (so and so many GBs per month for a flat fee, some per-MB pricing above that) and a flat rate (no transfer limit, highest flat fee). I got the flat rate and I expect that to mean no charges for traffic volume.
In some cases, they will be unable to be cost-competitive if they are clean, and they will go out of business. Period.
How so? Their competition will be held to the same standard.
To me the real problem with Kyoto is that it allows developing nations to pollute. This is stupid. Right now they are not polluting because they don't have anything. Letting them pollute on their way up is only going to teach them to pollute. We should be expecting people to be clean from the get-green.
How would you meaningfully set emission limits for a developing country without crippling its chances to get out of that developing status (well, more than it's already crippled)? They have very low emissions per capita so they'd have to increase emissions a whole lot before reaching the limits that were set for developed nations. By the time they reach that the Kyoto prortocoll's deadline will be long gone and it's time to form new treaties.
Please, there are 100 good news for Nintendo for every 1 bad news, but you publish the bad one?
It's news, why not publish it?
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It is irrefutable that Kyoto would force millions of people into unemployment
Um, how so? Do you think cutting emmissions means simply closing the businesses that cause them? Reducing emmissions can be done by making processes cleaner and maybe using more expensive processes that have a reduced environmental impact. The correct solution is increasing spending on reducing the environmental impact of the industry and the only way to do that is making environmental impact somehow have a financial impact to the producer (instead of the people who get hit by the pollution which distributes the costs much differently and gives the producer little financial incentive to improve) so it becomes cheaper to reduce the environmental impact than simply swallowing the cost of it. Additionally the "green" technology doesn't fall from the sky or something, somebody needs to make it and that means additional employment.
Naah, it's Computer Science, Mechanic and Electronic Engineering. Not as in-depth as either of these but the versatility is needed in some areas, e.g. automobile design. Or designing robotic enemies for Godzilla. Except you don't need stop motion or Cg to make them move.
I don't think AO would be a problem in Japan, they cut the porn out of the console games because Sony doesn't like porn, not because of the ratings. Though I'm not sure Nintendo would allow the kinds of games that get released for the PC in Japan on the Wii either. Never mind that most of those are just multiple choice text adventures with a few pictures added, I don't think many of those dev teams could write a Wii game that uses the remote if their life depended on it.
Dunno, I'm not big on the English names of the various parts of a rifle and most people use clip to refer to a magazine so I thought that's the proper translation.
It is possible to rule any group with their consent and impossible without. Whether that consent is voluntary or just the result of not wanting to die does not matter. It is not possible to control those who do not fear or agree.
I live in Australia, and this sounds like total b/s. Who is going to enforce these rules?
Noone yet but it gives a handy tool for making sure there's something everyone is guilty of so if there's someone you don't like you could get him for a number of things noone sane would sue for.
That's why you have to soak people in enough propaganda to make the populace believe the insurgents are the bad guys. In Iraq the US has the image problem of being seen as the bad guys with various resistance groups as the good guys fighting them. The populace sides with who they think is the good guys. No support from the populace means the insurgents lack recruits and help. If the insurgents are seen as the good guys the populace will provide them with a nearly infinite supply of new recruits which makes stopping insurgents through force a futile task.
Re:Why can't they still sell PCs without OS?
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Yes but options are options because you can ignore them if you don't like them. The customer could still get Windows preinstalled, they'd just have the choice to not get it and save the money. Of course someone who's willing to install his own OS probably could just assemble the PC from parts anyway.
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Preinstalling Ubuntu wouldn't be without OS and wouldn't add software cost. So even if the user doesn't want Windows the manufacturer still gets the discount for selling all PCs with an OS (if MS made the terms that you have to preinstall Windows that would be antitrust material).
I don't think an automated system that is not infringing by itself counts as actively assisting. After all, providing a server to put files onto is just as active.
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At very least it needs to be investigated because while he could legally buy the videogames he couldn't legally get guns or explosives, both are heavily regulated. So whoever sold him those is an illegal arms dealer. That dealing ring needs to be busted.
The minimum age for military service is 18 with exceptions only if the drafted desires so. If he's just out of school he didn't do military service yet.
Maybe he's Satre?
No, the net neutrality act did seek to force equal priorities for all packets while the current situation allows ISPs to deprioritize packets from senders that haven't paid for a "premium service" (or even drop those packets completely), no matter who they pay for their bandwidth. They do NOT need a law to change packet priorities, they can do that freely.
how about just selling internet access and charging you for the bandwidth that you *do* use.
That's the other billing option I didn't take. They offered various volume prices (so and so many GBs per month for a flat fee, some per-MB pricing above that) and a flat rate (no transfer limit, highest flat fee). I got the flat rate and I expect that to mean no charges for traffic volume.
It doesn't matter, consoles get the same rate as computers nowadays, they only tried that for the PS2 to get a refund.
Better don't go online then because that updates your firmware.
In some cases, they will be unable to be cost-competitive if they are clean, and they will go out of business. Period.
How so? Their competition will be held to the same standard.
To me the real problem with Kyoto is that it allows developing nations to pollute. This is stupid. Right now they are not polluting because they don't have anything. Letting them pollute on their way up is only going to teach them to pollute. We should be expecting people to be clean from the get-green.
How would you meaningfully set emission limits for a developing country without crippling its chances to get out of that developing status (well, more than it's already crippled)? They have very low emissions per capita so they'd have to increase emissions a whole lot before reaching the limits that were set for developed nations. By the time they reach that the Kyoto prortocoll's deadline will be long gone and it's time to form new treaties.
Fine for nintendo, but what happens if your console is out of warranty.
Then the copy and replace procedure costs money. Probably not more than you're paying for a new Wii anyway.
Please, there are 100 good news for Nintendo for every 1 bad news, but you publish the bad one?
It's news, why not publish it?
It is irrefutable that Kyoto would force millions of people into unemployment
Um, how so? Do you think cutting emmissions means simply closing the businesses that cause them? Reducing emmissions can be done by making processes cleaner and maybe using more expensive processes that have a reduced environmental impact. The correct solution is increasing spending on reducing the environmental impact of the industry and the only way to do that is making environmental impact somehow have a financial impact to the producer (instead of the people who get hit by the pollution which distributes the costs much differently and gives the producer little financial incentive to improve) so it becomes cheaper to reduce the environmental impact than simply swallowing the cost of it. Additionally the "green" technology doesn't fall from the sky or something, somebody needs to make it and that means additional employment.
Okay, now that the groundwork is laid I'm waiting for a 1541 II casemod.
Naah, it's Computer Science, Mechanic and Electronic Engineering. Not as in-depth as either of these but the versatility is needed in some areas, e.g. automobile design. Or designing robotic enemies for Godzilla. Except you don't need stop motion or Cg to make them move.
I don't think AO would be a problem in Japan, they cut the porn out of the console games because Sony doesn't like porn, not because of the ratings. Though I'm not sure Nintendo would allow the kinds of games that get released for the PC in Japan on the Wii either. Never mind that most of those are just multiple choice text adventures with a few pictures added, I don't think many of those dev teams could write a Wii game that uses the remote if their life depended on it.
Dunno, I'm not big on the English names of the various parts of a rifle and most people use clip to refer to a magazine so I thought that's the proper translation.
Um, the election machines already run Windows...
It is possible to rule any group with their consent and impossible without. Whether that consent is voluntary or just the result of not wanting to die does not matter. It is not possible to control those who do not fear or agree.
Which is the same as a vassal of Great Britain because of the transitive property.
I live in Australia, and this sounds like total b/s. Who is going to enforce these rules?
Noone yet but it gives a handy tool for making sure there's something everyone is guilty of so if there's someone you don't like you could get him for a number of things noone sane would sue for.
That's why you have to soak people in enough propaganda to make the populace believe the insurgents are the bad guys. In Iraq the US has the image problem of being seen as the bad guys with various resistance groups as the good guys fighting them. The populace sides with who they think is the good guys. No support from the populace means the insurgents lack recruits and help. If the insurgents are seen as the good guys the populace will provide them with a nearly infinite supply of new recruits which makes stopping insurgents through force a futile task.
Duh, that's why modern guns have a clip and semi-automatic loading mechanism.
Would add a whole lot of fun to Goatse.
Yes but options are options because you can ignore them if you don't like them. The customer could still get Windows preinstalled, they'd just have the choice to not get it and save the money. Of course someone who's willing to install his own OS probably could just assemble the PC from parts anyway.
Preinstalling Ubuntu wouldn't be without OS and wouldn't add software cost. So even if the user doesn't want Windows the manufacturer still gets the discount for selling all PCs with an OS (if MS made the terms that you have to preinstall Windows that would be antitrust material).
I don't think an automated system that is not infringing by itself counts as actively assisting. After all, providing a server to put files onto is just as active.