The right to freely speak your mind is secured by the US Bill of Rights. With freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility includes recognizing that while you may not like what someone says, it's never justification for violent retaliation against them for it. And if one of those folks who participated were to be killed in a suicide bombing or other retaliatory act? The world would collectively condemn radical Islam, just as it has every other time. Standing up to extremists of any religion or politic is not just a right--it's a moral duty. The way in which it is done, however, needs to be tempered with the intent to actually make a change.
Of course, the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to Pakistan; it'd be stupid to expect it to. So while the legal system in Pakistan may allow for execution for those who would draw a picture of Mohammad, these acts did not occur on Pakistani soil, and thus are not subject to Pakistani laws and jurisdictions. If a resident of Pakistan chose to do this, they would be foolish if they didn't expect to be prosecuted for it.
It's always been that way when it comes to the trade/resale pricing. If you don't like it, sell privately for a couple bucks more. Otherwise, you pay the price for the convenience of retail trade-in and used sales.
I also have lived there for years (just moved), and this was the first I'd heard of it. Sorry, but something like that being mentioned in the newspaper "every so often" clearly isn't enough to get the word out properly, and shows the lack of attention the media pays to civil liberties issues. More likely, the thoughts of juicy images and video from crimes committed were dancing in their heads.
First, retailers aren't interested in stocking hundreds of games that will only sell for $10 if $8 of that goes back to the manufacturer. GameStop can do it because by the time the used games hit that price, they are going to be almost as profitable as selling a single new $60 game.
The big issue that publishers still seem to ignore is the fact that those used games don't just appear magically in GameStop's inventory. They are purchased from the consumer, who turns around and spends that money on--you guessed it!--more games. Now, sometimes that money goes towards other used games, but much of the time it actually goes to other new games. Games that wouldn't be affordable to these consumers if they didn't have trade-ins.
Text is hardly free in the US. Voicemail is free with any major US carrier when you have a monthly plan, but SMS is not.
I do agree the system needs to be better. Visual voicemail should just be free. I am not sufficiently inconvenienced by the voicemail system to justify spending another $5/mo or whatever for that service on my Storm, but if I got enough calls, I'd probably spend the money on it.
Bingo. The only common link among worldwide cases is Mexico City. Until a transmission method is determined, I really don't think that shutting down travel in and out of that city and the entire country would be overreacting. Sure, the cases in the US have thus far been non-fatal, but that could change. and 80+ dead in Mexico itself is not something to ignore.
Seems to me that the WHO and other organizations are treating this as a potentially catastrophic situation in the way they are reacting, yet the statements coming from officials are meant to downplay it. I really think that, as a whole, the people of the world are entitled to the honest truth about this sort of thing and would be best served by knowing the full details. Maybe it really is nothing. But it is spreading really fast and all over the world, and due to international travel, we can't always use the models that worked in 1918 or any other previous pandemics.
The PSP is failing not because of piracy, but because there are very, very few games coming out for it. There are hundreds of games made for the DS every year, and maybe a couple dozen for the PSP.
A Constitutional convention. New amendments, passed from the ground up, not the top down, are the way to implement sweeping changes that might enable a system that is more mathematically friendly towards other parties.
Yeah, and going with the EIGHTH most popular choice seems to be just a major slap in the face from NASA. The station won't be up forever. It's only got another decade or so of life if it gets extended. Way to epic fail an understanding of PR, guys.
The number of addons that solicit donations or charge for use is very, very low. Like, less than a tenth of a percent low. I won't cry a bit to see any of them go.
Intel has no intention of preventing AMD from making x86 chips, because they know they'll be unable to manufacture any of their own chips as well (with x86-64 licensing coming from AMD). This is purely meant to ensure that anybody who might come along and acquire the foundry business doesn't wind up trying to produce their own x86 chips. Or at least, I'd like to believe such...truthfully, I wouldn't put it past Intel to just be making a money grab here.
Either way, holding AMD in violation of their agreement means they would effectively forfeit 64-bit licensing rights as well, and that makes no sense for them.
GameStop's argument has also been that letting people trade in games means they have more money to spend on new games. There are plenty of consumers who can't afford to buy new games all the time, but being able to get something out of their old ones means they can, in fact, buy more new ones. Most developers stopped arguing against trades/used after seeing the amount of extra money that trade-ins are putting into the hands of gamers.
Most of those cars from yesteryear that got such great MPG did so while weighing half of what todays cars do. They wouldn't even come close to meeting our current safety standards.
Really? That's interesting... since most CDs have 10 or more songs, if the answer is more than one, isn't the RIAA making it pretty obvious that the law is out of whack?
And this is precisely why nobody should want to have a memory erased. No matter how painful, each thing that has happened to us has shaped us into who we are today. Change one thing in your past, even the memory of one thing, and you can become a totally different person. The lessons you learn from bad experiences are very valuable, and are worth far more than relieving the pain of that memory.
Darth Vader wasn't a robot though. He just had artificial limbs and lung assistance, and needed a cool suit to make it all look less grotesque. It's not that far out of the realm of possibility to do something like that at this point, really.
It's not as easy here in the US to have a charge reversed, and if that charge causes you an overdraft fee, you can be really left out to dry in the meantime.
You, my good sir, are the one living in a fantasy world. By attacking "terrorists" as if they are a nation state (which they are NOT, by any definition I've ever read), you create more terrorists. You cannot end terrorism strictly by killing those who are terrorists. Their deaths will only cause more people to become angry at the US, and turn to terrorism.
Nobody in the Democratic leadership has suggested we "cut a deal with radical Islam". If you can cite a source for your claim, please do. Nobody has suggested we negotiate with al Qaeda. We do not negotiate with terrorists, and never will. Perhaps you are confused by the suggestion by Jimmy Carter that we allow Hezbollah to negotiate as part of a peace deal with Israel. This is unfortunately a misunderstanding created by a lack of in-depth reporting by the general US media on Hezbollah. They are not really a terrorist organization as it is traditionally thought of, as they are actually a fairly large political party in Lebanon (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah ).
The compromises you seem to speak of, such as trials for captured al Qaeda operatives, are not compromises. Those things are part of our Constitution, part of the Geneva Convention, and part of long-established international law. The real compromise was the decision NOT to treat these prisoners under our own rule of law, and this was a compromise against our very premise as a country. It was and is an unacceptable compromise. You seem to take a short-term view that a little compromise is ok, but you seem to forget that the longer term is more important. The way to defeat terrorism is to end the reason for there to be terrorists -- our inept foreign policy has created most of them. The other way--killing them all--will require total nuclear warfare, because quite simply, the more people you kill in the name of ending terorism, the more people you enrage, and thus eventually the world turns against you. At what point do you realize that an eye for an eye does indeed leave the whole world blind?
I'm not saying we shouldn't have gone in to Afghanistan, because we directly requested that Osama Bin Laden and his top leadership be handed over for trial. The Taliban refused, and thus made themselves culpable in the acts of these terrorists. Some terrorists do have to die. But we must recognize that there are limits to this, and that we must remain in adherence with the law when we do use the military for this purpose, or we become the very thing we are trying to defeat.
"blogs" are little more than a genuine free application of the press. They aren't (typically) paid for what they write, yet they get "published" anyway, and the better the reporting, the more readership. Because of the open nature, you don't have to wait a couple days for your rebuttal comment (aka letter to the editor) to show up. There will always be "professional" journalists, but I suspect that at some point along the line, blogs will force those people to adapt, and acknowledge their biases and opinions.
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The right to freely speak your mind is secured by the US Bill of Rights. With freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility includes recognizing that while you may not like what someone says, it's never justification for violent retaliation against them for it. And if one of those folks who participated were to be killed in a suicide bombing or other retaliatory act? The world would collectively condemn radical Islam, just as it has every other time. Standing up to extremists of any religion or politic is not just a right--it's a moral duty. The way in which it is done, however, needs to be tempered with the intent to actually make a change.
Of course, the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to Pakistan; it'd be stupid to expect it to. So while the legal system in Pakistan may allow for execution for those who would draw a picture of Mohammad, these acts did not occur on Pakistani soil, and thus are not subject to Pakistani laws and jurisdictions. If a resident of Pakistan chose to do this, they would be foolish if they didn't expect to be prosecuted for it.
It's always been that way when it comes to the trade/resale pricing. If you don't like it, sell privately for a couple bucks more. Otherwise, you pay the price for the convenience of retail trade-in and used sales.
I also have lived there for years (just moved), and this was the first I'd heard of it. Sorry, but something like that being mentioned in the newspaper "every so often" clearly isn't enough to get the word out properly, and shows the lack of attention the media pays to civil liberties issues. More likely, the thoughts of juicy images and video from crimes committed were dancing in their heads.
First, retailers aren't interested in stocking hundreds of games that will only sell for $10 if $8 of that goes back to the manufacturer. GameStop can do it because by the time the used games hit that price, they are going to be almost as profitable as selling a single new $60 game.
The big issue that publishers still seem to ignore is the fact that those used games don't just appear magically in GameStop's inventory. They are purchased from the consumer, who turns around and spends that money on--you guessed it!--more games. Now, sometimes that money goes towards other used games, but much of the time it actually goes to other new games. Games that wouldn't be affordable to these consumers if they didn't have trade-ins.
Text is hardly free in the US. Voicemail is free with any major US carrier when you have a monthly plan, but SMS is not.
I do agree the system needs to be better. Visual voicemail should just be free. I am not sufficiently inconvenienced by the voicemail system to justify spending another $5/mo or whatever for that service on my Storm, but if I got enough calls, I'd probably spend the money on it.
2007? WoW has twice as many subscribers as it did at the start of 2007.
Yes, but this story broke mostly over the weekend. Interest is going to start climbing fast on Monday.
Bingo. The only common link among worldwide cases is Mexico City. Until a transmission method is determined, I really don't think that shutting down travel in and out of that city and the entire country would be overreacting. Sure, the cases in the US have thus far been non-fatal, but that could change. and 80+ dead in Mexico itself is not something to ignore.
Seems to me that the WHO and other organizations are treating this as a potentially catastrophic situation in the way they are reacting, yet the statements coming from officials are meant to downplay it. I really think that, as a whole, the people of the world are entitled to the honest truth about this sort of thing and would be best served by knowing the full details. Maybe it really is nothing. But it is spreading really fast and all over the world, and due to international travel, we can't always use the models that worked in 1918 or any other previous pandemics.
Define "large enough percentage".
The PSP is failing not because of piracy, but because there are very, very few games coming out for it. There are hundreds of games made for the DS every year, and maybe a couple dozen for the PSP.
A Constitutional convention. New amendments, passed from the ground up, not the top down, are the way to implement sweeping changes that might enable a system that is more mathematically friendly towards other parties.
Yeah, and going with the EIGHTH most popular choice seems to be just a major slap in the face from NASA. The station won't be up forever. It's only got another decade or so of life if it gets extended. Way to epic fail an understanding of PR, guys.
Nintendo wasn't a huge multinational company when they entered the video game market.
The number of addons that solicit donations or charge for use is very, very low. Like, less than a tenth of a percent low. I won't cry a bit to see any of them go.
Intel has no intention of preventing AMD from making x86 chips, because they know they'll be unable to manufacture any of their own chips as well (with x86-64 licensing coming from AMD). This is purely meant to ensure that anybody who might come along and acquire the foundry business doesn't wind up trying to produce their own x86 chips. Or at least, I'd like to believe such...truthfully, I wouldn't put it past Intel to just be making a money grab here.
Either way, holding AMD in violation of their agreement means they would effectively forfeit 64-bit licensing rights as well, and that makes no sense for them.
GameStop's argument has also been that letting people trade in games means they have more money to spend on new games. There are plenty of consumers who can't afford to buy new games all the time, but being able to get something out of their old ones means they can, in fact, buy more new ones. Most developers stopped arguing against trades/used after seeing the amount of extra money that trade-ins are putting into the hands of gamers.
You mean like it's going to on 3/3 as Halo Wars?
Most of those cars from yesteryear that got such great MPG did so while weighing half of what todays cars do. They wouldn't even come close to meeting our current safety standards.
Really? That's interesting... since most CDs have 10 or more songs, if the answer is more than one, isn't the RIAA making it pretty obvious that the law is out of whack?
And this is precisely why nobody should want to have a memory erased. No matter how painful, each thing that has happened to us has shaped us into who we are today. Change one thing in your past, even the memory of one thing, and you can become a totally different person. The lessons you learn from bad experiences are very valuable, and are worth far more than relieving the pain of that memory.
Uhm.. FFXI *IS* a PC game. It's also been ported to PS2 and XBOX 360, but it most definitely is on PC as well.
Darth Vader wasn't a robot though. He just had artificial limbs and lung assistance, and needed a cool suit to make it all look less grotesque. It's not that far out of the realm of possibility to do something like that at this point, really.
Maybe YOU don't like to search your email instead of sorting it, but I and a lot of others actually prefer that.
It's not as easy here in the US to have a charge reversed, and if that charge causes you an overdraft fee, you can be really left out to dry in the meantime.
You, my good sir, are the one living in a fantasy world. By attacking "terrorists" as if they are a nation state (which they are NOT, by any definition I've ever read), you create more terrorists. You cannot end terrorism strictly by killing those who are terrorists. Their deaths will only cause more people to become angry at the US, and turn to terrorism.
Nobody in the Democratic leadership has suggested we "cut a deal with radical Islam". If you can cite a source for your claim, please do. Nobody has suggested we negotiate with al Qaeda. We do not negotiate with terrorists, and never will. Perhaps you are confused by the suggestion by Jimmy Carter that we allow Hezbollah to negotiate as part of a peace deal with Israel. This is unfortunately a misunderstanding created by a lack of in-depth reporting by the general US media on Hezbollah. They are not really a terrorist organization as it is traditionally thought of, as they are actually a fairly large political party in Lebanon (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah ).
The compromises you seem to speak of, such as trials for captured al Qaeda operatives, are not compromises. Those things are part of our Constitution, part of the Geneva Convention, and part of long-established international law. The real compromise was the decision NOT to treat these prisoners under our own rule of law, and this was a compromise against our very premise as a country. It was and is an unacceptable compromise. You seem to take a short-term view that a little compromise is ok, but you seem to forget that the longer term is more important. The way to defeat terrorism is to end the reason for there to be terrorists -- our inept foreign policy has created most of them. The other way--killing them all--will require total nuclear warfare, because quite simply, the more people you kill in the name of ending terorism, the more people you enrage, and thus eventually the world turns against you. At what point do you realize that an eye for an eye does indeed leave the whole world blind?
I'm not saying we shouldn't have gone in to Afghanistan, because we directly requested that Osama Bin Laden and his top leadership be handed over for trial. The Taliban refused, and thus made themselves culpable in the acts of these terrorists. Some terrorists do have to die. But we must recognize that there are limits to this, and that we must remain in adherence with the law when we do use the military for this purpose, or we become the very thing we are trying to defeat.
"blogs" are little more than a genuine free application of the press. They aren't (typically) paid for what they write, yet they get "published" anyway, and the better the reporting, the more readership. Because of the open nature, you don't have to wait a couple days for your rebuttal comment (aka letter to the editor) to show up. There will always be "professional" journalists, but I suspect that at some point along the line, blogs will force those people to adapt, and acknowledge their biases and opinions.