Let me start off by saying I don't know jack about how your system works but it sounds like the problem is with your system. How exactly can one person hold up national legislation? Do you need a unanimous vote? If not how is he holding things up?
UO does not have the player base it used to but it's no "hollow shadow of what they used[sic] to be" The game is better than ever with more to do than ever. They just, 2-3 months ago, released a new expansion with a new race and new landmass.
As for SWG you need to check your facts. Jump to Lightspeed didn't kill it. It worst it was a meh expansion. The NGE killed it. That's not a subject for debate. That's the words of the people who ran the game. You can't change the entire game overnight and expect players to stay. They literally shutdown SWG and launched SWG 2.0.
People used to gather the whole family around the TV and make an event out of it. They don't now. Is this due to (something something something) that we lost with the conversion to OTA digital or by running 200 channels over the same piece of coax?
No Rather it's not an event anymore. Many houses always have the TV on. It's hard to avoid TV in public spaces these days. Hell the tenants on our first floor have TVs all over the office, but in their defense they are part of a cable company.
Much like TV I don't think some unidentifiable feel is the reason people stopped sitting around a listening to music. I think the novelty has worn off. Music is everywhere. We're constantly hearing it. It's easier to acquire. No bins to flip through hoping they have what you want. Click click and it's there or on the way. You don't even have to leave the house. It's easier to listen to. There's no cleaning of the media or the equipment. It's push button instead of unpackaging the media, setting up the system, etc. Since it's cheaper to distribute we have more selection than ever.
More entertainment options, net, cable, recorded media of diverse types, video games, etc to distract us and limit our time contributes also.
Combine these all and music is simply no longer the event it used to be. That's why people don't sit down and listen. It has nothing to do with something we can't hear.
If we can't hear but only feel than there would be a significance listening difference based on speaker size. Different size speakers would generate different sized waves and thus would feel noticeably different. How does this "feel" differ with speaker sizes? What's better small or large? What part of the body should you direct the speakers at?
This is just backwards to me. I don't understand it at all. I was super scrawny and slightly self conscious about it so I started working out.
The people at the gym care how they look. That's why they're at the gym. They don't give a fuck how you look.
When you see an overweight person it's a two stage process. First you just ignore them because they're not going to be there after a week or two. If they do make it any period of time you generate a little respect for them since you know how hard it is to do regularly even when you are in shape.
Yeah there's always the one or two meatheads who judge people based on how much they can lift. No one likes those guys. But they'll never even acknowledge you so what's the problem?
When you train for strength, you burn fewer calories, but your body spends the next twenty-four hours burning extra calories trying to repair the damage you've done.
The article tested and directly counters this claim.
"To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the groups, including the athletes, experienced "afterburn." They did not use additional body fat on the day when they exercised. In fact, most of the subjects burned slightly less fat over the 24-hour study period when they exercised than when they did not."
This is another example of where regulation would help the consumer.
Why are they all on different techs? Because that's what they built out and it would cost the company money to change. There's no advantage to different companies offering transport technology. Hell I'm a "tech person" and I have no clue which system my phone uses. Even if I did it would fall under the heading of useless trivia.
It's really about viewing free market in two different ways.
The states view the free market as little interference. The states view it as bad to step in and force a company to do something. That's not "free market." Europe takes the view that for the good of the market as a whole we're going establish a foundation that everyone has to use. However once that base is established the rest of the market is free.
Simply different. Which is better will be argued for centuries.
Just file sharing? Say good bye to the internet. This applies to anything. Technically they'd have to check your email, IM, tweet, fb, or current flavor of the month, for copyright infringement. It's an impossible task. We went through this whole things with the telephone system in the 1930s. The same problems faced then exist now and just as then there are no solutions.
Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say media companies. You even quote me correctly then change what I say two sentences later. Then at the end you quote "the media" which is a phrase I never used. If you're going to respond to me then respond to me don't make things up.
I said newspapers and TV stations. They're two of the three largest users of fair use, with education being the third. They have the most too lose. If they choose to ignore the warnings and let the fair use they rely on erode *shrug* well you can never stop someone from killing themselves.
I agree informing the general public is silly. It's time for some good old fashioned civil disobedience. What would happen if 4chan started sending out C+Ds? Lot's of them. Automating generation of them would be trivial. Hit every residential IP that Time Warner, Charter, Cox, TDS, etc owns. Hit every clip on YouTube. Hit your council/congress members at the local and state level. Hit all your television stations and newspapers. What are the provisions for false claims? You don't have to register copyright and trademarks. Show how abusive the system is.
Nothing is going to change until someone important is inconvenienced.
A $200K or $300K judgment is essentially a billion dollar judgment. The median household income in the US is 50K, the take home is how much lower? You're never going to pay off a 200K judgment. It's a nonsensical amount of money. There's no leverage since you can't loose what you don't have.
The RIAA suing people is just not a threat. Why do you think they always try for the settle. They know it's all they're going to get. Going to court is very expensive. Winning huge settlements is really bad press, especially since they're never going to see the settlement.
The RIAA/Music Industry may lack innovation but they're not stupid.
Deep pockets pays. The ISPs have a lot to loose. So by shifting the punishment to them you gain leverage. By giving them a 100% iron clad immunity they're going to take it every time. It's basic game theory. Pick your cost: Huge judgment, lots of legal fees, or one customer?
That there is no due process. If you neighbor is angry at you they can make a claim and have your internet shut off.
What are the provisions for false claims? I suspect much closer to none than some.
Call the newspapers. Call the TV stations. Lay out exactly how trivial it will be to have their internet shutoff. The ISPs aren't going to follow up or verify these letters. They'll pull the switch, grab the immunity, and let you deal with your problem at that point.
This is the exact difference I'm trying to point out.
Your example is aiding and abetting. The article and my examples are not.
Sure the modems can be used to commit theft of services just as Shell gasoline can be used to commit DUI. However in your example the gun will be used in a crime.
Your example has prior planning and collusion to commit a crime. The two are working together. That makes it aiding and abetting.
Even telling people how to steal cable is not aiding and abetting. By that same logic if I say you can steal something by grabbing it off the shelf and walking out out the store with it I would be aiding and abetting all cases of shoplifting. That's simply nonsensical.
Once you're detained the cops have lost all power. They can't do anything more to you unless you let them. So shut the fuck up. At this point only the lawyers have any real power.
Even if you fancy yourself smart remember the cops do this for a living. They are trained at it. You are not. The smart thing to do is shut up.
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Let me start off by saying I don't know jack about how your system works but it sounds like the problem is with your system. How exactly can one person hold up national legislation? Do you need a unanimous vote? If not how is he holding things up?
Just need to correct two things.
UO does not have the player base it used to but it's no "hollow shadow of what they used[sic] to be" The game is better than ever with more to do than ever. They just, 2-3 months ago, released a new expansion with a new race and new landmass.
As for SWG you need to check your facts. Jump to Lightspeed didn't kill it. It worst it was a meh expansion. The NGE killed it. That's not a subject for debate. That's the words of the people who ran the game. You can't change the entire game overnight and expect players to stay. They literally shutdown SWG and launched SWG 2.0.
I can't speak for the other games.
Yes. Anyone with a mutual fund.
Yes that's correct. However gamers tend to fall into the bitch but play it anyways crowd.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00246.htm
People used to gather the whole family around the TV and make an event out of it. They don't now. Is this due to (something something something) that we lost with the conversion to OTA digital or by running 200 channels over the same piece of coax?
No Rather it's not an event anymore. Many houses always have the TV on. It's hard to avoid TV in public spaces these days. Hell the tenants on our first floor have TVs all over the office, but in their defense they are part of a cable company.
Much like TV I don't think some unidentifiable feel is the reason people stopped sitting around a listening to music. I think the novelty has worn off. Music is everywhere. We're constantly hearing it. It's easier to acquire. No bins to flip through hoping they have what you want. Click click and it's there or on the way. You don't even have to leave the house. It's easier to listen to. There's no cleaning of the media or the equipment. It's push button instead of unpackaging the media, setting up the system, etc. Since it's cheaper to distribute we have more selection than ever.
More entertainment options, net, cable, recorded media of diverse types, video games, etc to distract us and limit our time contributes also.
Combine these all and music is simply no longer the event it used to be. That's why people don't sit down and listen. It has nothing to do with something we can't hear.
If we can't hear but only feel than there would be a significance listening difference based on speaker size. Different size speakers would generate different sized waves and thus would feel noticeably different. How does this "feel" differ with speaker sizes? What's better small or large? What part of the body should you direct the speakers at?
I find it interesting that you don't way you want the better wine you want the more expensive wine.
The idea that expensive means better is a common marketing trick.
The number is a wild ass guess. It's from a an anonymous post to a forum. In typical internet fashion it's being parroted around as fact.
http://www.digital-forums.com/showthread.php?t=608748
It's literally friend of a friend info that the BBC et al. is reporting as fact.
What happens when you need to change your password?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-speeding-tickets-09-nov09,0,7869040.story
Yes you're exactly right. It's a trap. There's nothing more complex about it.
You know how you're obsessing about what others think of you? Guess what everyone else is doing? The same fucking thing.
This is just backwards to me. I don't understand it at all. I was super scrawny and slightly self conscious about it so I started working out.
The people at the gym care how they look. That's why they're at the gym. They don't give a fuck how you look.
When you see an overweight person it's a two stage process. First you just ignore them because they're not going to be there after a week or two. If they do make it any period of time you generate a little respect for them since you know how hard it is to do regularly even when you are in shape.
Yeah there's always the one or two meatheads who judge people based on how much they can lift. No one likes those guys. But they'll never even acknowledge you so what's the problem?
Yes damage. It's not early death it's prevention. The muscles tear. The body rebuilds them larger to prevent tearing next time.
When you train for strength, you burn fewer calories, but your body spends the next twenty-four hours burning extra calories trying to repair the damage you've done.
The article tested and directly counters this claim.
"To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the groups, including the athletes, experienced "afterburn." They did not use additional body fat on the day when they exercised. In fact, most of the subjects burned slightly less fat over the 24-hour study period when they exercised than when they did not."
This is another example of where regulation would help the consumer.
Why are they all on different techs? Because that's what they built out and it would cost the company money to change. There's no advantage to different companies offering transport technology. Hell I'm a "tech person" and I have no clue which system my phone uses. Even if I did it would fall under the heading of useless trivia.
It's really about viewing free market in two different ways.
The states view the free market as little interference. The states view it as bad to step in and force a company to do something. That's not "free market." Europe takes the view that for the good of the market as a whole we're going establish a foundation that everyone has to use. However once that base is established the rest of the market is free.
Simply different. Which is better will be argued for centuries.
Just file sharing? Say good bye to the internet. This applies to anything. Technically they'd have to check your email, IM, tweet, fb, or current flavor of the month, for copyright infringement. It's an impossible task. We went through this whole things with the telephone system in the 1930s. The same problems faced then exist now and just as then there are no solutions.
Don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say media companies. You even quote me correctly then change what I say two sentences later. Then at the end you quote "the media" which is a phrase I never used. If you're going to respond to me then respond to me don't make things up.
I said newspapers and TV stations. They're two of the three largest users of fair use, with education being the third. They have the most too lose. If they choose to ignore the warnings and let the fair use they rely on erode *shrug* well you can never stop someone from killing themselves.
I agree informing the general public is silly. It's time for some good old fashioned civil disobedience. What would happen if 4chan started sending out C+Ds? Lot's of them. Automating generation of them would be trivial. Hit every residential IP that Time Warner, Charter, Cox, TDS, etc owns. Hit every clip on YouTube. Hit your council/congress members at the local and state level. Hit all your television stations and newspapers. What are the provisions for false claims? You don't have to register copyright and trademarks. Show how abusive the system is.
Nothing is going to change until someone important is inconvenienced.
Short answer: leverage
A $200K or $300K judgment is essentially a billion dollar judgment. The median household income in the US is 50K, the take home is how much lower? You're never going to pay off a 200K judgment. It's a nonsensical amount of money. There's no leverage since you can't loose what you don't have.
The RIAA suing people is just not a threat. Why do you think they always try for the settle. They know it's all they're going to get. Going to court is very expensive. Winning huge settlements is really bad press, especially since they're never going to see the settlement.
The RIAA/Music Industry may lack innovation but they're not stupid.
Deep pockets pays. The ISPs have a lot to loose. So by shifting the punishment to them you gain leverage. By giving them a 100% iron clad immunity they're going to take it every time. It's basic game theory. Pick your cost: Huge judgment, lots of legal fees, or one customer?
Plus it neatly bypasses due process.
I recommend using your local television stations and newspapers as proof of concept.
That there is no due process. If you neighbor is angry at you they can make a claim and have your internet shut off.
What are the provisions for false claims? I suspect much closer to none than some.
Call the newspapers. Call the TV stations. Lay out exactly how trivial it will be to have their internet shutoff. The ISPs aren't going to follow up or verify these letters. They'll pull the switch, grab the immunity, and let you deal with your problem at that point.
This is the exact difference I'm trying to point out.
Your example is aiding and abetting. The article and my examples are not.
Sure the modems can be used to commit theft of services just as Shell gasoline can be used to commit DUI. However in your example the gun will be used in a crime.
Your example has prior planning and collusion to commit a crime. The two are working together. That makes it aiding and abetting.
Even telling people how to steal cable is not aiding and abetting. By that same logic if I say you can steal something by grabbing it off the shelf and walking out out the store with it I would be aiding and abetting all cases of shoplifting. That's simply nonsensical.
Helping them do it would be. That's an action.
Some auto making.
Ford is turning a profit and has reliability numbers higher than Toyota and Honda in some areas.
The other two companies are complete shit though.
So selling a car that can be used in DUI is aiding and abetting?
So selling an airplane makes your guilty of aiding and abetting crashing it into a skyscraper?
This. Exactly. Thank you.
Once you're detained the cops have lost all power. They can't do anything more to you unless you let them. So shut the fuck up. At this point only the lawyers have any real power.
Even if you fancy yourself smart remember the cops do this for a living. They are trained at it. You are not. The smart thing to do is shut up.