Silly argument. This price merely reflects what a tiny number of early-adopter gadget freaks are prepared to pay for it. Sure, they'd pay Sony that much for one, but nobody else would, and Sony are in the business of selling more than a few thousand consoles.
What I remember is that the first real big-selling DVD (here in the UK anyway, I think we were slightly slower on the uptake) was The Matrix, and a lot of early players had trouble with it because in places it was too demanding on their processors or something like that.
They don't want Sharia. Iraq's always been pretty laid-back that way. Most people are very moderate in their religious beliefs and don't care much if their neighbour's Sunni or Shia or even Christian, because there's a fair number of them about too.
No, they just don't like people coming in and fucking up their country to gain control of the oil supply. Dead simple.
And all the militias duking it out against each other are just engaging in a good old-fashioned power struggle, which is only to be expected in a country where the ruling thugs have been sent packing.
No, the best way to bring democracy to Iraq would have been to accept Saddam's offer to stand aside and allow free, independently supervised elections to be held, which he made just before the invasion, and which the media, conveniently, almost completely ignored. But then how would Rummy et al. have got a hold of all that lovely oil?
The IRA, for the most part, engaged in low-level, sporadic attacks, conducted clandestinely. There was almost never any open fighting - they were too cowardly for that. It was never a "war", it was a small number of utter idiots fucking life up for everybody else. And while I'm sure that everybody in Iraq tries to get on with life as best they can, it seems that in Baghdad and other places, just going about your everyday business carries a serious risk of being blown up for no reason at all. Life in Belfast was never like that, even in the very worst times, although there's no doubt that people thought twice about doing things like eating out in the city centre at one time.
And more importantly, the death toll was never, ever a fraction of what we're seeing in Iraq.
"When Erik returned to Iceland after his term of banishment, he brought with him stories of "Groenland". Erik purposely gave the land a more appealing name than Iceland to lure potential settlers. He explained, "people would be attracted to go there if it had a favourable name". This was ultimately done, though, to gain favor among people, as he knew full well that in order for Greenland to be successful, he needed the support of as many people as possible. His salesmanship proved successful as many people (especially "those Vikings living on poor land in Iceland" and those that had suffered a "recent famine") were convinced that Greenland held great opportunity."
Whatever measures they come up with to lock stuff down, some clever type will always break it. Always. The sooner they learn this, and stop wasting everybody's time, the better.
Listen up, dearie - the sole purpose of human existence is to reproduce. And you're suggesting that we should penalise people for doing it? Bit of a length to go to just to balance out your 50-mile trip to work, wouldn't you say?
Come on, man. It's because vinyl's nicer to work with. Nobody in a nightclub appreciates the subtleties of tone and dynamic range, and any quality improvement it might afford (and I don't think it does, but anyway) will be more than negated by the vagaries of the club's sound system and acoustics.
Unfortunately, to distract their attention from your own country, you've had to destroy somebody else's. And in doing so, you've increased enormously the number of people with a grudge against you, and while they might be duking it out in Iraq today, they'll drop in on your doorstep one day, and they'll come mob-handed. It's not just postponing the inevitable, it's making it worse when it does happen.
See, in my view your economy's only chugging along nicely because your government's running up astronomical debts without a thought for how they'll ever be repaid. I think they know they Democrats will get in next time, and they're going to hand them a mountain of debt, which they'll try and sort out, causing a serious cooling of the economy. Then four years later, back will come the Republicans, saying "remember how good you had it under us?"
Look under the surface and you'll find that the dollar's very, very vulnerable, and that China's busy buying up your bond markets piece by piece, using the money you're sending them for all those cheap imports you love so much. Sure, everything's rosy now, but I think it's going to get very ugly soon.
You've also got three million people in prison, many of them unnecessarily, many of them being put to use as almost-free labour. That's a rather less subtle form of slavery, in my book.
Darling, if one day your government does turn against you, exactly what good do you think your rifles will do you against tanks, cluster bombs and cruise missiles?
And I apologise if it sparks off a huge flame war, it's not my intention. I assure you it's a serious question.
Sitting here in the UK (and yes, it's hardly a shining example for the rest of the world, most of us are all too aware of it), it's easy to get the impression that George W. Bush has bumbled his way through office for six years or whatever and not done a single thing right.
Is this impression correct? Seriously, has he done anything good?
Actually, I'm not sure it does. I preferred to have a single location for the "close tab" button, rather than individual ones for each tab. By all means add them to the tabs in addition to the static one on the right-hand side, but it was nice to have a button that you could repeatedly click on to close several tabs, without scooting along the line from one to the next.
Just as an aside, in the UK the BMW 3-series outsells GM's nearest competitor, the Vauxhall Vectra, by three or four to one. And yet the Vectra's perceived as the mass-market car.
Well, we're already fingerprinting kids in schools so that they can borrow library books, the excuse being that it's too much to expect them to bring their library card with them. Now, this information isn't shared with anyone, but you can bet your life that if the police thought it would be useful, it would be handed over. So it's not that surprising to see a willingness to find a similarly innocuous excuse to systematically fingerprint adults too.
Still, at least you get some good public services with your taxes. We in the UK don't pay that much less tax than you, and our money gets spent on white-elephant IT projects that go over budget by SEVEN BILLION POUNDS, wars nobody supports, utterly pointless ID card schemes, and John Prescott's wages, while our hospitals and schools struggle to make ends meet.
Oh, I'm sure it was. They never seemed to have any intention of trying to cover their costs. It was the classic dot-com approach all over again - get as big as you can, as quick as you can, then worry about how to turn a profit. Or don't bother trying to make a profit and just hope somebody can be persuaded to buy you out. I know they've started to bring in ads lately, but how much ad revenue can you expect to make when people are free to embed content from your site in their own pages with their own ads?
But it strikes me as particularly cynical to sell it and then immediately set about devaluing it as much as you can. Maybe stage two of the gameplan is to buy it back off Google for a fraction of the price later on...
Here in the UK, the general attitude has always been that there's no VAT on necessities, so food, books, and children's clothes, among other things, don't have any (but if you eat in a restaurant, you pay VAT, by the way). I was amazes when a Spanish colleague of mine told me the other day that he had to pay VAT on the house he just bought, but food? That's insane.
Google aren't exactly known for shopping their users to the authorities. Remember when some department or other of the US government asked them to hand over a load of search data, and they told them to fuck off?
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Silly argument. This price merely reflects what a tiny number of early-adopter gadget freaks are prepared to pay for it. Sure, they'd pay Sony that much for one, but nobody else would, and Sony are in the business of selling more than a few thousand consoles.
What I remember is that the first real big-selling DVD (here in the UK anyway, I think we were slightly slower on the uptake) was The Matrix, and a lot of early players had trouble with it because in places it was too demanding on their processors or something like that.
They don't want Sharia. Iraq's always been pretty laid-back that way. Most people are very moderate in their religious beliefs and don't care much if their neighbour's Sunni or Shia or even Christian, because there's a fair number of them about too.
No, they just don't like people coming in and fucking up their country to gain control of the oil supply. Dead simple.
And all the militias duking it out against each other are just engaging in a good old-fashioned power struggle, which is only to be expected in a country where the ruling thugs have been sent packing.
No, the best way to bring democracy to Iraq would have been to accept Saddam's offer to stand aside and allow free, independently supervised elections to be held, which he made just before the invasion, and which the media, conveniently, almost completely ignored. But then how would Rummy et al. have got a hold of all that lovely oil?
I'm from Northern Ireland. I don't agree.
The IRA, for the most part, engaged in low-level, sporadic attacks, conducted clandestinely. There was almost never any open fighting - they were too cowardly for that. It was never a "war", it was a small number of utter idiots fucking life up for everybody else. And while I'm sure that everybody in Iraq tries to get on with life as best they can, it seems that in Baghdad and other places, just going about your everyday business carries a serious risk of being blown up for no reason at all. Life in Belfast was never like that, even in the very worst times, although there's no doubt that people thought twice about doing things like eating out in the city centre at one time.
And more importantly, the death toll was never, ever a fraction of what we're seeing in Iraq.
Exactly how much more "standing up and participating" would you like from the people of Iraq?
It was an early example of marketing bullshit.
From Wikipedia:
"When Erik returned to Iceland after his term of banishment, he brought with him stories of "Groenland". Erik purposely gave the land a more appealing name than Iceland to lure potential settlers. He explained, "people would be attracted to go there if it had a favourable name". This was ultimately done, though, to gain favor among people, as he knew full well that in order for Greenland to be successful, he needed the support of as many people as possible. His salesmanship proved successful as many people (especially "those Vikings living on poor land in Iceland" and those that had suffered a "recent famine") were convinced that Greenland held great opportunity."
Whatever measures they come up with to lock stuff down, some clever type will always break it. Always. The sooner they learn this, and stop wasting everybody's time, the better.
Sounds like you need one. Chin up, eh?
Listen up, dearie - the sole purpose of human existence is to reproduce. And you're suggesting that we should penalise people for doing it? Bit of a length to go to just to balance out your 50-mile trip to work, wouldn't you say?
Come on, man. It's because vinyl's nicer to work with. Nobody in a nightclub appreciates the subtleties of tone and dynamic range, and any quality improvement it might afford (and I don't think it does, but anyway) will be more than negated by the vagaries of the club's sound system and acoustics.
Unfortunately, to distract their attention from your own country, you've had to destroy somebody else's. And in doing so, you've increased enormously the number of people with a grudge against you, and while they might be duking it out in Iraq today, they'll drop in on your doorstep one day, and they'll come mob-handed. It's not just postponing the inevitable, it's making it worse when it does happen.
See, in my view your economy's only chugging along nicely because your government's running up astronomical debts without a thought for how they'll ever be repaid. I think they know they Democrats will get in next time, and they're going to hand them a mountain of debt, which they'll try and sort out, causing a serious cooling of the economy. Then four years later, back will come the Republicans, saying "remember how good you had it under us?"
Look under the surface and you'll find that the dollar's very, very vulnerable, and that China's busy buying up your bond markets piece by piece, using the money you're sending them for all those cheap imports you love so much. Sure, everything's rosy now, but I think it's going to get very ugly soon.
You've also got three million people in prison, many of them unnecessarily, many of them being put to use as almost-free labour. That's a rather less subtle form of slavery, in my book.
Darling, if one day your government does turn against you, exactly what good do you think your rifles will do you against tanks, cluster bombs and cruise missiles?
And I apologise if it sparks off a huge flame war, it's not my intention. I assure you it's a serious question.
Sitting here in the UK (and yes, it's hardly a shining example for the rest of the world, most of us are all too aware of it), it's easy to get the impression that George W. Bush has bumbled his way through office for six years or whatever and not done a single thing right.
Is this impression correct? Seriously, has he done anything good?
They do, man, they just start from one rather than zero...
Actually, I'm not sure it does. I preferred to have a single location for the "close tab" button, rather than individual ones for each tab. By all means add them to the tabs in addition to the static one on the right-hand side, but it was nice to have a button that you could repeatedly click on to close several tabs, without scooting along the line from one to the next.
Just as an aside, in the UK the BMW 3-series outsells GM's nearest competitor, the Vauxhall Vectra, by three or four to one. And yet the Vectra's perceived as the mass-market car.
Well, we're already fingerprinting kids in schools so that they can borrow library books, the excuse being that it's too much to expect them to bring their library card with them. Now, this information isn't shared with anyone, but you can bet your life that if the police thought it would be useful, it would be handed over. So it's not that surprising to see a willingness to find a similarly innocuous excuse to systematically fingerprint adults too.
Well, I'm from the UK, and they fingerprinted me. And yes, I have the the requisite machine-readable passport.
Nor does Google's share price, seemingly. So I reckon they'll be all right.
Still, at least you get some good public services with your taxes. We in the UK don't pay that much less tax than you, and our money gets spent on white-elephant IT projects that go over budget by SEVEN BILLION POUNDS, wars nobody supports, utterly pointless ID card schemes, and John Prescott's wages, while our hospitals and schools struggle to make ends meet.
Oh, I'm sure it was. They never seemed to have any intention of trying to cover their costs. It was the classic dot-com approach all over again - get as big as you can, as quick as you can, then worry about how to turn a profit. Or don't bother trying to make a profit and just hope somebody can be persuaded to buy you out. I know they've started to bring in ads lately, but how much ad revenue can you expect to make when people are free to embed content from your site in their own pages with their own ads?
But it strikes me as particularly cynical to sell it and then immediately set about devaluing it as much as you can. Maybe stage two of the gameplan is to buy it back off Google for a fraction of the price later on...
They charge VAT on FOOD?
Wow.
Here in the UK, the general attitude has always been that there's no VAT on necessities, so food, books, and children's clothes, among other things, don't have any (but if you eat in a restaurant, you pay VAT, by the way). I was amazes when a Spanish colleague of mine told me the other day that he had to pay VAT on the house he just bought, but food? That's insane.
Google aren't exactly known for shopping their users to the authorities. Remember when some department or other of the US government asked them to hand over a load of search data, and they told them to fuck off?