The only thing I can think of more terrifying than the idea of driving a super-mini on Californian highways and roads is the idea of letting my wife drive a super-mini on Californian highways and roads.
This proposal would not help the Big Three, because it won't encourage sales of new cars. People are not going to trade in a $200 clunker in exchange for $2,000 of a $20,000 debt on something that depreciates if they can even get a loan in this environment.
This proposal will help used car dealers at the expense of pretty much everyone. The demand for used cars will skyrocket as people try to trade in their $200 clunkers for $1,500 used cars. Of course in that $1,500 won't buy them what it would buy them now.
There _may_ be environmental benefits as people dump less fuel efficient cars for already existing more fuel efficient cars, but it's certainly not obvious that is going to be the case.
Unless you are a used car salesman, the only real benefit here is reducing our demand for foreign energy. But the amount of oil this is supposed to save after 4 years is only 40,000 to 80,000 barrels per day. That's not even a drop in the bucket. It's not even a drop in the bucket of how much our demand will have increased during the same time period!
I disagree. My five-year-old knows to drive the car you need to be 16, have a license, and have daddy's permission. She also knows that just because she can handle Mario Kart does not mean she knows how to drive. She knows that video games are fantasy and that when cars crash in real life people are hurt or even killed. We also don't neglect her or tell her we need to nap when it is time for her to go somewhere, so I guess that helps, too.
I am curious where you kept your keys while your child(ren) were young. Short of a locked safe, I honestly can't think of a place in my house my daughter couldn't get my keys if she were so determined.
We do keep things out of easy reach (e.g., knives). But those are things that can hurt her just by handling them. She knows enough to not try to reach them, but we don't want her encountering them by accident. She could reach them if she were determined, but she won't. She'd also never really have the opportunity since one of us is always around.
Car keys aren't really that dangerous in and of themselves. I'm more worried about her losing them than doing any damage with them. Just to use them in the car would take significant determination on the part of a young child, so I don't really think making them more difficult to get to is really going to prevent this type of thing if the kid is determined to have a go.
I will agree that retailers should, as a service to customers, inform them about game ratings.
I won't agree with refusing sale of M-rated video games to any adult with young children. It requires the assumption that the video game is for the children, which is tantamount to accusing your customers of bad parenting. Refusing to sell the game after notifying the parents of the M-rating is the same as saying you know better than the customers how to run the customers' lives and parent their children.
Honestly, is there a faster way to alienate customers than to insult their parenting skills and personal choices? Maybe you could just have the greeter announce at the top of his lungs that the person entering the store has Gonorrhea.
People with cable do need to be concerned about this if they ever want to watch OTA television. Lots of people use OTA if the cable goes out or to supplement satellite service which does not have local channels. They may also want OTA television in the future.
Cable and satellite companies are, of course, cheerfully telling people "we've got you covered". They don't want people getting free converter boxes. Without a converter box, people have further incentive to stay with cable television. Expect rates to rise slightly shortly after free converter boxes are no longer available.
You are implying one in three has value. I beg to differ.
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Anyone (other than the government, who have guns) wanting my money had better be prepared to offer me value in exchange.
Removing DRM will certainly remove one factor that lowers the perceived value of this Ubisoft title. Whether it will be enough or not, I don't know, I haven't really looked at this game. But buying it even if it gets chucked in the back of my car? Hell no. I demand a lot more for my dollar than a pretty box with no DRM inside.
Vote with your dollars by spending them wisely, not by throwing them away because someone happens to pander to your stance on a single issue.
Something like this only has appeal as a parent if you are too lazy to spend time instilling an appreciation of books in your kid.
I love books because it my parents took the time to instill an appreciation of books in me. My kid loves books because, every day, we help her establish and grow her love of books by having her read, reading to her, providing her with new and challenging reading material, and setting an example by reading ourselves. Except in extreme cases (e.g., learning disabilities), it's just not that tough.
Yes, occasionally kids pick up a love of books from other sources (sounds like maybe that's your experience?), but as parents it's not our job to hope, it's our job to provide. Anyone hoping that their kid is somehow magically going to learn to love books because they bought them Jane Austen for DS could probably benefit from cracking open a few books themselves. They're gambling, at best.
And, as a parent, I am certainly not looking for ways to get my kid to spend more time staring at a tiny screen.
Too bad Hollywood writers think science fiction adaptations are 50% special effects and 50% stuff they think is cool but is cliche and shows they didn't grasp the book.
Dune is complex, deep, and half of it takes place internal to the characters. Sci-Fi managed to stuff it into a five episode mini-series and did it a fair amount of justice, but I hold out slim hope for a feature length movie. That goes times a million if Brian Herbert is involved in any way.
Jordan goes on and on about setting. Not a problem for film. Jordan repeats himself over and over regarding character interactions. Easily condensed. Jordan constantly writes about his characters pulling their braids, smoothing their skirts, etc. They can all do those things at the same time while the story is moving along. Jordan has described the internal processes of wielding the One Power a million times. In film they'll just replace it with a fancy CGI or call it "metachlorians" (credit a poster above). Jordan thinks any character ever seen in a book needs a name. They can save about 5 hours just by not naming all their extras. The last four or so books in the series will probably fit on a single page of the script. And finally, Jordan didn't finish. There's a good 30 minutes out of the film right there.
Yes, because the GP's lame argument means ipso facto that he is accurately representing free market economics.
Have you alerted the authorities to your blinding insight that oligarchies can temporarily fix prices even in a free market? No one has ever thought of that before.
Please, keep beating that strawman. You almost have me convinced.
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The only thing I can think of more terrifying than the idea of driving a super-mini on Californian highways and roads is the idea of letting my wife drive a super-mini on Californian highways and roads.
This proposal would not help the Big Three, because it won't encourage sales of new cars. People are not going to trade in a $200 clunker in exchange for $2,000 of a $20,000 debt on something that depreciates if they can even get a loan in this environment.
This proposal will help used car dealers at the expense of pretty much everyone. The demand for used cars will skyrocket as people try to trade in their $200 clunkers for $1,500 used cars. Of course in that $1,500 won't buy them what it would buy them now.
There _may_ be environmental benefits as people dump less fuel efficient cars for already existing more fuel efficient cars, but it's certainly not obvious that is going to be the case.
Unless you are a used car salesman, the only real benefit here is reducing our demand for foreign energy. But the amount of oil this is supposed to save after 4 years is only 40,000 to 80,000 barrels per day. That's not even a drop in the bucket. It's not even a drop in the bucket of how much our demand will have increased during the same time period!
If you were sent to Hell for more almost 350 years just for telling the truth you'd be a little pissed off, too!
No, the real question is, are they zeerki proof?
I disagree. My five-year-old knows to drive the car you need to be 16, have a license, and have daddy's permission. She also knows that just because she can handle Mario Kart does not mean she knows how to drive. She knows that video games are fantasy and that when cars crash in real life people are hurt or even killed. We also don't neglect her or tell her we need to nap when it is time for her to go somewhere, so I guess that helps, too.
I am curious where you kept your keys while your child(ren) were young. Short of a locked safe, I honestly can't think of a place in my house my daughter couldn't get my keys if she were so determined.
We do keep things out of easy reach (e.g., knives). But those are things that can hurt her just by handling them. She knows enough to not try to reach them, but we don't want her encountering them by accident. She could reach them if she were determined, but she won't. She'd also never really have the opportunity since one of us is always around.
Car keys aren't really that dangerous in and of themselves. I'm more worried about her losing them than doing any damage with them. Just to use them in the car would take significant determination on the part of a young child, so I don't really think making them more difficult to get to is really going to prevent this type of thing if the kid is determined to have a go.
I will agree that retailers should, as a service to customers, inform them about game ratings.
I won't agree with refusing sale of M-rated video games to any adult with young children. It requires the assumption that the video game is for the children, which is tantamount to accusing your customers of bad parenting. Refusing to sell the game after notifying the parents of the M-rating is the same as saying you know better than the customers how to run the customers' lives and parent their children.
Honestly, is there a faster way to alienate customers than to insult their parenting skills and personal choices? Maybe you could just have the greeter announce at the top of his lungs that the person entering the store has Gonorrhea.
People with cable do need to be concerned about this if they ever want to watch OTA television. Lots of people use OTA if the cable goes out or to supplement satellite service which does not have local channels. They may also want OTA television in the future.
Cable and satellite companies are, of course, cheerfully telling people "we've got you covered". They don't want people getting free converter boxes. Without a converter box, people have further incentive to stay with cable television. Expect rates to rise slightly shortly after free converter boxes are no longer available.
You are implying one in three has value. I beg to differ.
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xstonedogx is scratching his crotch.
xstonedogx alsj;dfl;kj;
xstonedogx Sorry everybody, that was my cat.
xstonedogx is reading slashdot.
xstonedogx got up to get a Mountain Dew and some Cheetos.
xstonedogx is reading slashdot.
xstonedogx discovered the Higgs Boson.
xstonedogx False alarm.
xstonedogx HANNAH MONTANA RULES.
xstonedogx is punching his sister.
xstonedogx is cleverer than you.
xstonedogx is cleverer a word? is it more clever?
Normally people just say "I am not a lawyer" rather than proving it dramatically.
Except Jack Thompson.
Anyone (other than the government, who have guns) wanting my money had better be prepared to offer me value in exchange.
Removing DRM will certainly remove one factor that lowers the perceived value of this Ubisoft title. Whether it will be enough or not, I don't know, I haven't really looked at this game. But buying it even if it gets chucked in the back of my car? Hell no. I demand a lot more for my dollar than a pretty box with no DRM inside.
Vote with your dollars by spending them wisely, not by throwing them away because someone happens to pander to your stance on a single issue.
Something like this only has appeal as a parent if you are too lazy to spend time instilling an appreciation of books in your kid.
I love books because it my parents took the time to instill an appreciation of books in me. My kid loves books because, every day, we help her establish and grow her love of books by having her read, reading to her, providing her with new and challenging reading material, and setting an example by reading ourselves. Except in extreme cases (e.g., learning disabilities), it's just not that tough.
Yes, occasionally kids pick up a love of books from other sources (sounds like maybe that's your experience?), but as parents it's not our job to hope, it's our job to provide. Anyone hoping that their kid is somehow magically going to learn to love books because they bought them Jane Austen for DS could probably benefit from cracking open a few books themselves. They're gambling, at best.
And, as a parent, I am certainly not looking for ways to get my kid to spend more time staring at a tiny screen.
EA's Medal of Honor series taught me never to buy a game based on past experiences with the series. (Yes, it took me a long time. I'm an optimist.)
Not everyone has learned that lesson, though. Stinky sequels of great games/franchises often do quite well.
They've had 19 Halloweens.
Well, I have only indirect evidence of this, but roughly 1 billion seconds ago my parents were getting busy.
You're all wrong.
i can haz 10 livs?
It sounds like adults are required to use language rigidly, express no emotion, and generally not have very much fun.
How about we pretend to be rational instead?
Interestingly enough, if you squint just right, my car looks like the Virgin Mary.
I'll call Keanu Reeves!
Too bad Hollywood writers think science fiction adaptations are 50% special effects and 50% stuff they think is cool but is cliche and shows they didn't grasp the book.
Dune is complex, deep, and half of it takes place internal to the characters. Sci-Fi managed to stuff it into a five episode mini-series and did it a fair amount of justice, but I hold out slim hope for a feature length movie. That goes times a million if Brian Herbert is involved in any way.
Frankly, if Leto's Golden Path leads to any more Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Dune novels I say we just go along with our extinction.
Easy.
Jordan goes on and on about setting. Not a problem for film.
Jordan repeats himself over and over regarding character interactions. Easily condensed.
Jordan constantly writes about his characters pulling their braids, smoothing their skirts, etc. They can all do those things at the same time while the story is moving along.
Jordan has described the internal processes of wielding the One Power a million times. In film they'll just replace it with a fancy CGI or call it "metachlorians" (credit a poster above).
Jordan thinks any character ever seen in a book needs a name. They can save about 5 hours just by not naming all their extras.
The last four or so books in the series will probably fit on a single page of the script.
And finally, Jordan didn't finish. There's a good 30 minutes out of the film right there.
Yes, because the GP's lame argument means ipso facto that he is accurately representing free market economics.
Have you alerted the authorities to your blinding insight that oligarchies can temporarily fix prices even in a free market? No one has ever thought of that before.
Please, keep beating that strawman. You almost have me convinced.
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