Rainer Wolfcastle: The film is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost $80 million.
Jay Sherman: How do you sleep at night?
Rainer Wolfcastle: On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.
And what does having fewer kids have to do with anything? Are you trying to breed "ecological concern" out of the species in favor of "religious fundamentalism that doesn't believe in birth control and doesn't give a crap about the planet?" Because that's what happening when you have less kids.
I do not have $16,000,000 to blow to protect my copyrights, whether or not the copyright was free. I cannot afford to pursue school children and grandmothers with overblown legal threats either. The average dude lacks the resources of a giant, multi-billion dollar corporation, and because of that they are unable to pursue their legal rights.
In 18th century England, criminals were not guaranteed legal representation, and thus the poor almost always lost legal battles. Not because they were guilty, but because they were poor. Is the DA going to defend my copyrights? Ya, I'm so sure.
Seriously. You have got to be kidding me on this one.
Thanks to the miracle of vertical integration, I can bet you it's pennies compared to what it'd cost an industry outsider to get the same amount coverage.
For example, do you think Disney pays itself to run Hannah Montana ads on its own networks? I don't. Close relationships between labels and advertisers facilitate similar situations across the board, I'm sure.
Doesn't this just emphasize the incredible injustice of the American justice system? Giant corporations get legal protection because they can afford to waste millions fighting pointless legal battles. Joe Shmoe doesn't have that luxury. Isn't this an example of a corporate entity literally buying the law in some way?
I don't know. That just really, really bothers me.
If someone says something, and you remove it, that's censorship. I'm not saying Apple isn't within their rights to censor their own website, but there's no question that it is censorship.
"You just paid 40 grand for a new car that was supposed to run great. So what if the engine fell out? Stop whining already and drop that measly 5k to put a new one in it."
If only there were people with PhDs on the subject to do tedious and costly research over decades, publishing papers in important psychology journals and conferring with one another to develop a scientific understanding of how the mind works. Then we could trust these people to make scientific determinations about humans the way we can trust engineers to make decisions about bridges, or judges to make decisions about law.
Too bad psychologists are all a sham and are clearly only making it up as they go along. I mean, I've watched Frasier. Anyone could do their job.
Funny story, my grandfather was an electrical engineer and did a lot of design stuff for a big aluminum smelting company on the west coast. He decided to teach me to code at the tender age of 6, and I really took to it. I kept teaching myself right through high school (QBasic, VBasic, PHP, Java, C/C++, C#, ASM (using debug, not pansy NASM junk)) and decided to go to college for CS. I flunked out after the first year of doing idiotic crap in ADA.
Joined the military, now I'm back at university (BE in EE) with a 4.00.
Things might've turned out better if I'd skipped the university in the first place and decided to go self-taught all the way myself. Well, there might have been less horrible failure in the mix, at least.
But, ya, university = not so good for high schoolers.
I believe they originally meant P does not equal NP, not P factorial equals NP. You see, the joke is that Knuth posited an unproved theorem that P=NP when talking about scaling database management overhead. See this handy reference.
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Rainer Wolfcastle: The film is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost $80 million.
Jay Sherman: How do you sleep at night?
Rainer Wolfcastle: On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.
..you're simply illinformed and don't know what the bible says.
It doesn't matter what the bible says. Christians don't typically care about that, if you haven't noticed.
Ah yes, recycling... Didn't Penn and Teller do an episode on that?
And what does having fewer kids have to do with anything? Are you trying to breed "ecological concern" out of the species in favor of "religious fundamentalism that doesn't believe in birth control and doesn't give a crap about the planet?" Because that's what happening when you have less kids.
Can we get the ISS in on this and Slashdot it from orbit?
Removing a curse is a form of censorship
Damn those clerics, always trying to censor my new armor...
I do not have $16,000,000 to blow to protect my copyrights, whether or not the copyright was free. I cannot afford to pursue school children and grandmothers with overblown legal threats either. The average dude lacks the resources of a giant, multi-billion dollar corporation, and because of that they are unable to pursue their legal rights.
In 18th century England, criminals were not guaranteed legal representation, and thus the poor almost always lost legal battles. Not because they were guilty, but because they were poor. Is the DA going to defend my copyrights? Ya, I'm so sure.
Seriously. You have got to be kidding me on this one.
Thanks to the miracle of vertical integration, I can bet you it's pennies compared to what it'd cost an industry outsider to get the same amount coverage.
For example, do you think Disney pays itself to run Hannah Montana ads on its own networks? I don't. Close relationships between labels and advertisers facilitate similar situations across the board, I'm sure.
Doesn't this just emphasize the incredible injustice of the American justice system? Giant corporations get legal protection because they can afford to waste millions fighting pointless legal battles. Joe Shmoe doesn't have that luxury. Isn't this an example of a corporate entity literally buying the law in some way?
I don't know. That just really, really bothers me.
If someone says something, and you remove it, that's censorship. I'm not saying Apple isn't within their rights to censor their own website, but there's no question that it is censorship.
Think different indeed.
"You just paid 40 grand for a new car that was supposed to run great. So what if the engine fell out? Stop whining already and drop that measly 5k to put a new one in it."
Nope. It's always been fine. Read the fine article. Read the fine manual. Your wife and I were fine last night. Always just been fine.
... services with "creative" rank titles ...
Oh, you mean the Navy?
If only there were people with PhDs on the subject to do tedious and costly research over decades, publishing papers in important psychology journals and conferring with one another to develop a scientific understanding of how the mind works. Then we could trust these people to make scientific determinations about humans the way we can trust engineers to make decisions about bridges, or judges to make decisions about law.
Too bad psychologists are all a sham and are clearly only making it up as they go along. I mean, I've watched Frasier. Anyone could do their job.
"Net" profits are the losses they post on the net to show how much piracy is damaging them.
Very, very wealthy people.
Maybe, just maybe, they're right.
It's 547-55-5462.
Ya, well, I can see my foot. I can't see 1/10,000th of the circumference of the earth.
I hear it's already been rejected from the App store.
Funny story, my grandfather was an electrical engineer and did a lot of design stuff for a big aluminum smelting company on the west coast. He decided to teach me to code at the tender age of 6, and I really took to it. I kept teaching myself right through high school (QBasic, VBasic, PHP, Java, C/C++, C#, ASM (using debug, not pansy NASM junk)) and decided to go to college for CS. I flunked out after the first year of doing idiotic crap in ADA.
Joined the military, now I'm back at university (BE in EE) with a 4.00.
Things might've turned out better if I'd skipped the university in the first place and decided to go self-taught all the way myself. Well, there might have been less horrible failure in the mix, at least.
But, ya, university = not so good for high schoolers.
I believe they originally meant P does not equal NP, not P factorial equals NP. You see, the joke is that Knuth posited an unproved theorem that P=NP when talking about scaling database management overhead. See this handy reference.
I think this one should fall under Article 1, Section 10:
No State shall ... pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.
But then, that just says state, and I ain't no lawyer.
It's not all bad. They have very nice wine.
It has what plants crave?
No, no, no. Just like the Patriot Act and its intended purposes, this would only be used to pursue child pornographers.
Right?