By the way, you might want to check out drug prices around the world. Nowhere in the world does anyone pay the kind of prices that exist in the United States.
Well, i only passed economics class because my teacher was high out of his mind, so maybe i have no idea what i'm talking about here, BUT... don't you think the reason for that is obvious? I mean, if all these drugs are produced in America, and then every country in the world except America forces the drug companies to artificially lower their prices... why the Hell wouldn't they raise prices in America? They've got to make up for the rest of the world somehow, right?
I mean, i'm not a huge fan of drug companies or anything, but that seems sort of, you know, logical to me.:/
I agree in spirit, i think, but come on. What do you expect Google to do? They can either offer their censored garbage to the Chinese people who want to read censored garbage, or they can get their whole site blocked by the Chinese government and that'll be the end of it all anyway.
Uh, guy. Look here. I really don't think there's a 'bandwagon' for people analysing genomic data and controlling robotic devices that gather DNA information. The people bitching and whining about SP2 aren't doing it because their enterprise- or research-grade analysis programs might fail to function, they're bitching and whining about it because their regular home-use stuff might fail to function, and that is the 'bandwagon' the parent was addressing.
Am i the only one who's getting sick of Firefox people flooding the entire fucking Internet with their advertisements? I mean i fully realise that Internet Explorer is a horrible browser and that it's important that people become aware that they have the right to choose what software they should use, but come on, you people are getting fucking obnoxious. When people have Firetruck advertisements as their sigs and avatars on fora and they put GET FIREFOX in their e-mail signatures and people start putting Firetruck banner ads all over the place and people start using Firefox advertisements as their desk-top wall paper, it's time to calm down, Jesus Christ.
You guys are the same people who complain about how ubiquitous pop-ups and banner ads are.
Uh, well, the Wikipedia article basically says 'some people think these stories were made up; you can read about this perspective in this here book'. Well, here's your book. What do you propose the troll is lying about? The contents of the book?
Well, um, maybe if that was like a college thesis or something you could make that example, but the fact that young Johnny's essay contains a piece of information (false or not) from a book doesn't mean that he plagiarised it.:/
I guess you could make a better example if you said that like World Book ripped off Britannica's article on Angorra, but even then it's doubtful. Even without that 'planted' information you would be able to tell they ripped it off.
... Um. Are you really an American? And are you really a supporter of the Libertarian Party?
Because, you know, you misspelled 'Libertarian' NINE TIMES in a single post. You also made sixteen or seventeen other mistakes. I hope you didn't learn that in private school.:/
Unfortunately for you, i guess, 'consumer' ISPs don't really operate on the assumption that people paying for their service are going to max out their bandwidth. If every single customer an ISP had used the maximum advertised speed, it'd be pretty hard for anybody to do anything.
That's why a 1.5-Mbps T-1 costs thousands of dollars and a 10-Mbps cable service is $40 a month. One is dedicated, one is not.
Well, that depends. If you have Windows XP and your music is in MP3 format, Explorer has a built-in feature that will read the ID3 tags, allowing you to sort the files based on album, artist, genre, et cetera, just as you would based on file type or size.
I guess if you're not using XP and/or your music is in AAC format, though, you might be in a bit more of a bind.:/
Composers collaborate all the time, but normally they kind of stick with their own kind. (e.g., Square composers will do work together, but it's more rare to see like a Square composer and a Konami composer doing something.) I don't know if that's because of pressure from the company the composers work for or if it's just they're more comfortable with their, um, co-workers, but yeah. I suppose if it's the former, it would be more likely for Uematsu and Yamaoka to get together, but i'm not holding my breath.
I don't know, maybe i'm just completely missing something here, but this article seems incredibly stupid to me. I just don't understand why you'd have to do any of this at all. Why would you not be able to get them off the iPod? In Windows you can press F3 and type *.mp3 in the stupid search box and it will list every MP3 on your iPod and you're free to copy them where-ever you like. You don't need EphPod or a hex editor or any of that, and you never did. -_-
They're not particularly easy to find anywhere outside of Asia. The best places, i think, to get them are cdjapan.co.jp and amazon.co.jp, who both ship internationally. AnimeNation and GameMusic.com have video-game music as well, but i'm not sure if they ship internationally, and (at least in the case of GameMusic) they can be a little over-priced.
There are also places like Yahoo! Japan's auction thing and SoundtrackCentral's Marketplace, where you can buy them second-hand.
Be careful buying soundtracks from eBay, though -- there are a lot of bootlegs sold there. Some of the auctions do warn you (if you know what to look for), but some of them don't even do that. But if you ever see anything about EverAnime or SonMay, they're bootlegs.
There are several albums that 'regroup' the various music, although most of them are arranged or orchestrated.
'20020220 music from FINAL FANTASY' is a two-disc recording of the February 2002 concert performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. It's got music from all the FF games from the first to the tenth, although the later ones (especially like FF8) get more play time than the earlier ones.
'Final Fantasy 1987-1994' is a collection of songs taken from various arrange albums (like Celtic Moon and Dear Friends) during that period.
There are also 'N Generation' and 'S Generation', which are North-American collections of FF songs broken into two periods (the 'N Generation' being the Nintendo period and the 'S Generation' being the Sony one). I think some of the songs on these are arranged, but i'm not sure.
'FINAL FANTASY SONG BOOK mahoroba' is a vocal album with songs from different Final Fantasy games being sung by Manami Kiyota.
If Vocal Collections count, there are two or three of those, and, while they're entirely arranged and have added lyrics, they're probably my favourite albums out of all the ones i've mentioned so far. They're pretty rad.
And then the only other ones i know of are the 'POTION' albums (there's two of them), which i think are just compilations of arranged versions of the most relaxing songs from Final Fantasy.
You know, it's interesting that people (even Republicans, i find) totally ignore Democratic cases of voter fraud. Republicans are not the only ones responsible for it -- in fact, they seem to me like they're less likely to do it than Democrats, on the whole.
Some of these are really biassed, but here are some examples:
This isn't to say that the Las Vegas thing and Chuck Hagel's involvement with that voting-machine company and the convenient Diebold incident in Georgia aren't troubling, because they are, very much. But so many people mysteriously forget that the other party isn't the only one that can be 'filthy'.
The war did not 'come' to the forefront. It was brought to the forefront. Nothing that happened in Iraq was any different from anything that was happening before.
Whether that justifies going to war with them or not, or whether Bush planned to go to war before he was made president, that's up to you. But nothing happened to make Iraq any more of a threat than it was while President Bush was campaigning for office.:/
In American English, for some retarded reason, that is not always the case. Commas and full stops ALWAYS go inside the quotes, whether they were part of the quoted material or not. With other punctuation marks, they go outside the quotes unless they were actually part of the source material. (e.g., if your quote is at the end of the sentence, you would put the period before the quotation mark, but if you were shouting and the person you quoted was not, your exclamation mark would go outside.)
It's increasingly popular to ignore this rule, though, especially in technical situations (like computer manuals). But... in schools, they still teach it stops and commas inside.:/
I don't really understand what the purpose of them is either. But either way, if they really are as pointless as they seem, why not let them run the ads? Why waste money and time fighting the drug companies when the ads are useless anyway? It's not like it's your money.:/
You might be surprised about a lot of Canadian laws, then. People's television habits aren't (or... weren't, now, i guess) the only things the Canadian government restricts. They also tell you what you can and can't say, what kind of insurance you're entitled to purchase with your own money, and what commercials about prescription drugs are entitled to say, for example.
Not to say that Canada isn't a great country, because i think it is. But it isn't the model of libertarianism a lot of critics of the PATRIOT Act make it out to be.
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By the way, you might want to check out drug prices around the world. Nowhere in the world does anyone pay the kind of prices that exist in the United States.
Well, i only passed economics class because my teacher was high out of his mind, so maybe i have no idea what i'm talking about here, BUT... don't you think the reason for that is obvious? I mean, if all these drugs are produced in America, and then every country in the world except America forces the drug companies to artificially lower their prices... why the Hell wouldn't they raise prices in America? They've got to make up for the rest of the world somehow, right?
I mean, i'm not a huge fan of drug companies or anything, but that seems sort of, you know, logical to me. :/
I agree in spirit, i think, but come on. What do you expect Google to do? They can either offer their censored garbage to the Chinese people who want to read censored garbage, or they can get their whole site blocked by the Chinese government and that'll be the end of it all anyway.
When i used to use IE, i would get around 0 different pieces of spyware every time i ran Ad-Aware. It's called being responsible.
The fact that a program's default security settings are retarded doesn't excuse user incompetence. Well, not most of the time, anyway. :p
Uh, guy. Look here. I really don't think there's a 'bandwagon' for people analysing genomic data and controlling robotic devices that gather DNA information. The people bitching and whining about SP2 aren't doing it because their enterprise- or research-grade analysis programs might fail to function, they're bitching and whining about it because their regular home-use stuff might fail to function, and that is the 'bandwagon' the parent was addressing.
Am i the only one who's getting sick of Firefox people flooding the entire fucking Internet with their advertisements? I mean i fully realise that Internet Explorer is a horrible browser and that it's important that people become aware that they have the right to choose what software they should use, but come on, you people are getting fucking obnoxious. When people have Firetruck advertisements as their sigs and avatars on fora and they put GET FIREFOX in their e-mail signatures and people start putting Firetruck banner ads all over the place and people start using Firefox advertisements as their desk-top wall paper, it's time to calm down, Jesus Christ.
You guys are the same people who complain about how ubiquitous pop-ups and banner ads are.
May I point you to the poems of Catullus (for the down side of love) or perhaps the Song of Solomon (for the up side), both thousands of years old.
BITTER GUY: 'LOVE SUX NOBODY CARED AVBOUT IT EXEPT IN POEMS AN DBOOKS'
YOU: 'uh o rly??? well what about htese poems and books??? look here theyre both thousands of years old surely u must be mistaken'
(I mean i don't really agree with the guy, but come on. -_-)
NERD ALERT
Uh, well, the Wikipedia article basically says 'some people think these stories were made up; you can read about this perspective in this here book'. Well, here's your book. What do you propose the troll is lying about? The contents of the book?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=exaggerat ion
Maybe you missed where he said '[/troll]'. As if he were emulating a troll!
Well, um, maybe if that was like a college thesis or something you could make that example, but the fact that young Johnny's essay contains a piece of information (false or not) from a book doesn't mean that he plagiarised it. :/
I guess you could make a better example if you said that like World Book ripped off Britannica's article on Angorra, but even then it's doubtful. Even without that 'planted' information you would be able to tell they ripped it off.
... Um. Are you really an American? And are you really a supporter of the Libertarian Party?
Because, you know, you misspelled 'Libertarian' NINE TIMES in a single post. You also made sixteen or seventeen other mistakes. I hope you didn't learn that in private school. :/
It's OK, a lot of people make the same mistake.
Unfortunately for you, i guess, 'consumer' ISPs don't really operate on the assumption that people paying for their service are going to max out their bandwidth. If every single customer an ISP had used the maximum advertised speed, it'd be pretty hard for anybody to do anything.
That's why a 1.5-Mbps T-1 costs thousands of dollars and a 10-Mbps cable service is $40 a month. One is dedicated, one is not.
It's "very" clever and "insightful" every single "time" you do "this".
Well, that depends. If you have Windows XP and your music is in MP3 format, Explorer has a built-in feature that will read the ID3 tags, allowing you to sort the files based on album, artist, genre, et cetera, just as you would based on file type or size.
I guess if you're not using XP and/or your music is in AAC format, though, you might be in a bit more of a bind. :/
Composers collaborate all the time, but normally they kind of stick with their own kind. (e.g., Square composers will do work together, but it's more rare to see like a Square composer and a Konami composer doing something.) I don't know if that's because of pressure from the company the composers work for or if it's just they're more comfortable with their, um, co-workers, but yeah. I suppose if it's the former, it would be more likely for Uematsu and Yamaoka to get together, but i'm not holding my breath.
You can do it just fine on a PC as well.
I don't know, maybe i'm just completely missing something here, but this article seems incredibly stupid to me. I just don't understand why you'd have to do any of this at all. Why would you not be able to get them off the iPod? In Windows you can press F3 and type *.mp3 in the stupid search box and it will list every MP3 on your iPod and you're free to copy them where-ever you like. You don't need EphPod or a hex editor or any of that, and you never did. -_-
They're not particularly easy to find anywhere outside of Asia. The best places, i think, to get them are cdjapan.co.jp and amazon.co.jp, who both ship internationally. AnimeNation and GameMusic.com have video-game music as well, but i'm not sure if they ship internationally, and (at least in the case of GameMusic) they can be a little over-priced.
There are also places like Yahoo! Japan's auction thing and SoundtrackCentral's Marketplace, where you can buy them second-hand.
Be careful buying soundtracks from eBay, though -- there are a lot of bootlegs sold there. Some of the auctions do warn you (if you know what to look for), but some of them don't even do that. But if you ever see anything about EverAnime or SonMay, they're bootlegs.
There are several albums that 'regroup' the various music, although most of them are arranged or orchestrated.
'20020220 music from FINAL FANTASY' is a two-disc recording of the February 2002 concert performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. It's got music from all the FF games from the first to the tenth, although the later ones (especially like FF8) get more play time than the earlier ones.
'Final Fantasy 1987-1994' is a collection of songs taken from various arrange albums (like Celtic Moon and Dear Friends) during that period.
There are also 'N Generation' and 'S Generation', which are North-American collections of FF songs broken into two periods (the 'N Generation' being the Nintendo period and the 'S Generation' being the Sony one). I think some of the songs on these are arranged, but i'm not sure.
'FINAL FANTASY SONG BOOK mahoroba' is a vocal album with songs from different Final Fantasy games being sung by Manami Kiyota.
If Vocal Collections count, there are two or three of those, and, while they're entirely arranged and have added lyrics, they're probably my favourite albums out of all the ones i've mentioned so far. They're pretty rad.
And then the only other ones i know of are the 'POTION' albums (there's two of them), which i think are just compilations of arranged versions of the most relaxing songs from Final Fantasy.
The unelected civil servants who run the elections...
Er, you say 'unelected' as if it would be better if they were elected. ... Which brings up the question of who would run their elections.
You know, it's interesting that people (even Republicans, i find) totally ignore Democratic cases of voter fraud. Republicans are not the only ones responsible for it -- in fact, they seem to me like they're less likely to do it than Democrats, on the whole.
Some of these are really biassed, but here are some examples:
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article385 5.html
http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/004765.html (LOTS of articles about it here)
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/007968.php
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250035/p osts (admittedly, Free Republic is a pretty bad place to go for potentially reputation-harming information about Democrats, but there it is anyway <_<)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/fund20040913 0633.asp
Even The New York Times had a story about Democratic voter fraud.
This isn't to say that the Las Vegas thing and Chuck Hagel's involvement with that voting-machine company and the convenient Diebold incident in Georgia aren't troubling, because they are, very much. But so many people mysteriously forget that the other party isn't the only one that can be 'filthy'.
The war did not 'come' to the forefront. It was brought to the forefront. Nothing that happened in Iraq was any different from anything that was happening before.
Whether that justifies going to war with them or not, or whether Bush planned to go to war before he was made president, that's up to you. But nothing happened to make Iraq any more of a threat than it was while President Bush was campaigning for office. :/
In American English, for some retarded reason, that is not always the case. Commas and full stops ALWAYS go inside the quotes, whether they were part of the quoted material or not. With other punctuation marks, they go outside the quotes unless they were actually part of the source material. (e.g., if your quote is at the end of the sentence, you would put the period before the quotation mark, but if you were shouting and the person you quoted was not, your exclamation mark would go outside.)
It's increasingly popular to ignore this rule, though, especially in technical situations (like computer manuals). But... in schools, they still teach it stops and commas inside. :/
I don't really understand what the purpose of them is either. But either way, if they really are as pointless as they seem, why not let them run the ads? Why waste money and time fighting the drug companies when the ads are useless anyway? It's not like it's your money. :/
You might be surprised about a lot of Canadian laws, then. People's television habits aren't (or... weren't, now, i guess) the only things the Canadian government restricts. They also tell you what you can and can't say, what kind of insurance you're entitled to purchase with your own money, and what commercials about prescription drugs are entitled to say, for example.
Not to say that Canada isn't a great country, because i think it is. But it isn't the model of libertarianism a lot of critics of the PATRIOT Act make it out to be.