Bust the all the myths that the companies quote about why they need to charge what they do, reliability, and especially that there is competition in the marketplace?
"After calculating all the abuse of power *that we know about* over 30 days in April, we find that every 90 minutes a police officer abuses his or her power. That's lying, stealing, cheating, fighting, driving drunk, shooting someone without cause, assault, battery, unlawful detainment, color of law violations, etc...
Maybe the next time you get stopped something will happen to you. Then you'll stop being ignorant and making excuses because 'most' cops are good--as if that excuses the bad ones...or that we shouldn't do something about them."
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and needs 3 AAA batteries you have the wrong metaphor.
Cute strawman but I didn't say that, what I did do is call you out on the opposite assumption that all cops are bad and we should be rid of them alltogether because of how horrible they are.
Something to consider also is that if it's THAT FREAKIN SERIOUS then you don't let a teacher deal with it, you call the police and let THEM deal with it. That's why we HAVE police to begin with, they know how to handle issues with that kind of gravity.
Teachers deal with school related issues, anything that's threatening life or limb gets sent to the police. The police deal with it, and then it goes to the JUVENILE justice system.
Then again not all cops are as awesome as the one's that have saved my ass from abusive and sometimes outright psychotic school administrators, but if a cop does something this absolutely fuck-dumb then there's already established means of dealing with it.
A physical book takes resources to create, data can be replicated (effectively) an infinite number of times at virtually no cost to a business that's already making a profit.
That's exactly my point, hence the "quotes" on license. They're basically selling bullshit by trying to take responsibility for a product but all the rights of a license.
Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. It relies on the argument that you're purchasing a service and not a product, but then you're treated as though you purchased a product and not a service. In effect what's happening is that the consumer expends money and then literally has no rights whatsoever and, thanks to TOS/EULAs, no recourse either.
Lets put it this way: the worst and most common insult in AA was to call someone an "Obj nub", which stands for "Objective nub".
The honor system heavily favored deathmatching and just plain surviving a round despite your team losing to the point that the easiest way to be successful in the game was to just run off and camp somewhere and try to get a few kills before the timer ran out.
It didnt help that there were literally no controls on honor servers. They could and often did have all sorts of wierd mods running on them.
I didn't say it was hard, just that when I DID die I felt more like it was shoddy collision detection and cheap shots (enemy randomly spawning inside you type stuff) more than legitimate difficulty like the older ones had.
Doesn't help that the game is basically plagued by its "Honor" system which rewards just about everything bad and wrong a player can do. I don't expect the new version to be much better.
Some of the later levels in the genesis sonic games were cant-win-with-infinite-lives hard but they didn't come across as cheap shots like 2/3rds of Sonic Rush does.
New Super Mario Brothers (DS) for example is the same way, at least half the time I died in that felt like the game just saying "Whatever, close enough" and killing me even when I otherwise would've survived.
This, mod parent up. All these idiots that are trying to be hip by jumping on the "i know fizziks!" bandwagon need to stop insisting that these plates are breaking the laws of physics by somehow magically causing massive amounts of extra energy to be expended that ordinarily wouldn't be when it's the other way around, they're harvesting energy that would be expended one way or another rather than just letting it be wasted.
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Bust the all the myths that the companies quote about why they need to charge what they do, reliability, and especially that there is competition in the marketplace?
"After calculating all the abuse of power *that we know about* over 30 days in April, we find that every 90 minutes a police officer abuses his or her power. That's lying, stealing, cheating, fighting, driving drunk, shooting someone without cause, assault, battery, unlawful detainment, color of law violations, etc...
Maybe the next time you get stopped something will happen to you. Then you'll stop being ignorant and making excuses because 'most' cops are good--as if that excuses the bad ones...or that we shouldn't do something about them."
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and needs 3 AAA batteries you have the wrong metaphor.
its worth asking if you don't know the mass of the moon, or can't really relate to it because it gets into "too big" territory.
If we're down to "he may or may not have a gun in his underwear" I'd rather the cops be called as well than just mom and dad.
The question we should also be asking is what happens when we start messing around with the total amount of mass the moon has.
Cute strawman but I didn't say that, what I did do is call you out on the opposite assumption that all cops are bad and we should be rid of them alltogether because of how horrible they are.
It's a fallacy either way.
How many cops are there in the country? How many people do the same things or worse without being cops?
That trick doesn't work on someone with a sense of perspective and the ability to look at numbers with more than 3 digits and not go cross-eyed.
In short: Quit trying to convince me that your septic tank is a gas station, your shit does not move me.
Something to consider also is that if it's THAT FREAKIN SERIOUS then you don't let a teacher deal with it, you call the police and let THEM deal with it. That's why we HAVE police to begin with, they know how to handle issues with that kind of gravity.
Teachers deal with school related issues, anything that's threatening life or limb gets sent to the police. The police deal with it, and then it goes to the JUVENILE justice system.
Then again not all cops are as awesome as the one's that have saved my ass from abusive and sometimes outright psychotic school administrators, but if a cop does something this absolutely fuck-dumb then there's already established means of dealing with it.
Oh please we all know he just looked under his bed for something at the last minute and scraped that off.
Really? HTML formatted vs "plain old text" made sense to me.
no the stories written by the beekeeper dude.
Or to quote a Farker when the same story showed up there the other day:
"Same reason you don't like eating steak with a balloon an your tongue... you can feel it, but you can't taste it."
or a distinctive side-effect... like a gold ring appearing around your finger?
K5: "I just read it for the bees"
A physical book takes resources to create, data can be replicated (effectively) an infinite number of times at virtually no cost to a business that's already making a profit.
That's exactly my point, hence the "quotes" on license. They're basically selling bullshit by trying to take responsibility for a product but all the rights of a license.
Did you notice that whooshing noise?
Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. It relies on the argument that you're purchasing a service and not a product, but then you're treated as though you purchased a product and not a service. In effect what's happening is that the consumer expends money and then literally has no rights whatsoever and, thanks to TOS/EULAs, no recourse either.
Lets put it this way: the worst and most common insult in AA was to call someone an "Obj nub", which stands for "Objective nub".
The honor system heavily favored deathmatching and just plain surviving a round despite your team losing to the point that the easiest way to be successful in the game was to just run off and camp somewhere and try to get a few kills before the timer ran out.
It didnt help that there were literally no controls on honor servers. They could and often did have all sorts of wierd mods running on them.
I didn't say it was hard, just that when I DID die I felt more like it was shoddy collision detection and cheap shots (enemy randomly spawning inside you type stuff) more than legitimate difficulty like the older ones had.
Doesn't help that the game is basically plagued by its "Honor" system which rewards just about everything bad and wrong a player can do. I don't expect the new version to be much better.
They're a bit late when you take into account all the other people that have been doing the same thing for the last 8 years.
THIS.
Some of the later levels in the genesis sonic games were cant-win-with-infinite-lives hard but they didn't come across as cheap shots like 2/3rds of Sonic Rush does.
New Super Mario Brothers (DS) for example is the same way, at least half the time I died in that felt like the game just saying "Whatever, close enough" and killing me even when I otherwise would've survived.
This, mod parent up. All these idiots that are trying to be hip by jumping on the "i know fizziks!" bandwagon need to stop insisting that these plates are breaking the laws of physics by somehow magically causing massive amounts of extra energy to be expended that ordinarily wouldn't be when it's the other way around, they're harvesting energy that would be expended one way or another rather than just letting it be wasted.