Not all developers. That's been Blizzard's plan for at least 12 years or so and they're making out quite nicely.
You won't hear me complaining, though. Those crazy developers and bleeding-edge early adopters keep technology moving ahead at a quick pace for the rest of us.
First off, IANAL, so this won't be entirely correct but here's the basic idea. The 4th amendment to the constitution say this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How that has been interpreted is firstly that your own personal home and belongings are safe from government interference without a warrant. That one's pretty obvious. Other court rulings have extended that into the public sphere for communications. For example, if you make a phone call on a public phone system, you have a right to the government not listening on that line without a warrant, even though it's not directly addressed by the language of the 4th amendment.
What that doesn't cover is public speech. For example, if you are talking to your friend in the street so that others can overhear or shouting from a bullhorn, the government has every right to listen to that. What the Bush administration is doing is trying to get a federal court to rule that since most email is unencrypted and passed through different servers indiscriminantly, that the person sending it is has no expectation of privacy and that email is basically public speech. That would mean the government could legally monitor email traffic. It's pretty obviously a privacy breach, but legally it's not as ridiculous a claim as it seems on the surface.
What if you're a doctor on call? That changes things quite a bit.
If you're notified that the theater blocks cell phone calls then there's nothing wrong with that. But if someone is jamming cell phone signals, there's a pretty good chance that others in the area not talking on their phone would never realize they're out of contact. That could cause some pretty serious problems.
The music and talk selection isn't really any better than what you'd get on AM/FM.
That's just wrong. The music selection is vastly better than AM/FM radio, even in a major city like Toronto. If you listen to top 40 radio only it might be about the same, but if you listen to any sort of "niche" music it's unbeatable. The number of stations and deep playlists for those stations is way beyond anything done in traditional radio. Plus, you don't get commercials. When I had XM I had about 10-15 favorite satellite stations that were better than *any* regular radio stations I had ever heard. I'm not exactly a normal consumer of music, but I can't remember the last time I heard an artist I liked on the radio for the first time. That happened regularly with my XM subscription.
Of course, I don't have it anymore because I don't really drive that much anymore, but if I still had a long commute I wouldn't hesitate for a second to resubscribe.
I loved PSM when they first came out because they had such a unique personality. They gave away tons of free stuff (I wish I still had my smiley-studded PSX) and with art style, writing, etc. they really tried to create something unique. That didn't last very long. By the time the PS2 came out, they only had one or two original writers, completely different layout and style, lost the extras, mostly lost the hand-drawn covers (I felt like crying when the first CGI Madden cover came out). It really coincided with me "transforming" into a hardcore gamer and holds a special spot in my heart. I have all the early issues in a box somewhere in my garage. I'll have to break them out sometime to see if they still hold up.
AFAIK, biological evidence (I am definitely not a biologist) points to most common plants and animals being domesticated starting ~10,000 years ago. So while it's certainly possible that civilization existed before the earliest known settlements, there are more fields of study at play than just archeology.
Sweet zombie Jesus, I hope you're being sarcastic. If not your ignorance regarding rock music is staggering. Although I agree to the extent of their awesomeness, to claim Led Zeppelin isn't derivative is absolutely ludicrous. In fact, they have been taken to court at least once and criticized many more times for outright plagiarism. Some of their most famous songs are directly credited to other artists (Dazed and Confused, Lemon Song, Moby Dick, Gallows Pole, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, When the Levee Breaks). Take off the nostalgia goggles, gramps.
As other posters have pointed out, it depends on where you live. I live in a rural area (student) and work full time making $8/hr which works out to about 1k a month. I can support myself just fine with that, but to live my same cheap lifestyle in a city I would have to earn much more. So depending on where he lives and what he's doing in life that is definitely not ridiculous. Remember, there *are* people that make the minimum wage. At 40 hours a week that is only $12k a year. In many places your $12/hr shitty receptionist job would be nearly twice the average wage.
No, you are wrong. Median household income for New York City is $38,293. In San Francisco, median household income is $55,221 (higher because San Fran proper has few low-income areas unlike NYC). So assuming that OP is married and OP's spouse brings any any income at all (even something like 10k a year) OP is very much not lower-middle class, even in those expensive cities.
Yes, you are a fool and a waste of material to boot, if you pick a profession based on its earning potential. And I really have no patience for lectures on how arrogant my saying this is.
What if you love to make money? Seriously. I've never had a job that actually satisfied me, so why not take the one that gives me the most money to play with when I'm not at work? Unless of course someone wants to pay me 80k a year to play guitar and snowboard. If that's the case, show me where to sign.
Do, what you love to do -- and get to be really good at it, and you'll earn a lot.
Not everyone can make a lot of money, even if they are extremely good at what they do. Thankfully you seem to have a job that you enjoy and that brings in a lot of money, congratulations. But it is arrogant and just plain moronic if you think that everyone can find a satisfying job that makes a lot of money. How naive can you possibly be?
OK, I think I see what you're getting at. The problem is, just because those beliefs are not incompatible with science does not make them scientific beliefs. Scientifically speaking, materialism is the "correct" view because it's all we can prove.
It's not an errant assumption that the only thing that exists is matter. It's a scientific theory that has yet to be disproved. Unless of course, as I said before, you have some new evidence you would like to share with the community.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but science is based on materialism. If we can't see it or observe it, how can we empirically measure it?
For all scientific intents and purposes, mind and brain *are* the same thing. Unless you have some scientific information about the discovery of something other than the brain which controls human thought or emotion, in which case do please share it.
Perhaps those later wars would be more popular - in US and abroad - if people remembered that prior to WWII americans didn't want any part of world politics or being a global policeman.
Talk about selective memory. Are you forgetting about the US invasion of Mexico, the Spanish-American war, Phillipine-American war, banana republics, overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, etc? You may want to re-evaluate your knowledge of American history.
. It's no wonder all the American auto plants are shutting down, when you have to pay people $25 an hour for untrained labour, meanwhile, all the cars coming out of Japan can do it so much cheaper.
Bad example. Most Japanese cars sold in the US are manufactured in the US by organized labor. The biggest difference is that the Japanese auto companies have only been manufacturing here for ~20 years maximum, and they don't have ridiculous pensions to pay to workers who aren't producing for them any more. They're also generally better-run companies, but I digress.
Meanwhile, there's still people lining up for jobs every time a walmart opens, and people lining up to buy stuff from there. So while there may be a lot of people who don't like them, there's a ton more people who do like what walmart is doing.
True, but that doesn't make it right. Just because there are people that will take low prices and people who are in a bad enough situation economically to want a job at Wal-Mart doesn't make it right. For example, if Wal-Mart imported indentured servants from third-world companies to work there for a very small wage, I'm sure that many people would sign up for the program and many people would still shop there. That wouldn't make indentured servitude OK. (Note, I don't think Wal-Mart is that bad, but your reasoning here doesn't work).
No. It isn't. And if you think that passage somehow definitively states that the Earth is a sphere, you are either crazy or an idiot. There are other passages of the OT you can selectively quote to support the Earth being flat.
Also, that phrase in Hebrew is literally translated to "the circle of the Earth" not "the sphere of the Earth" which, especially when taken in context, makes it highly unlikely that the passage is making a claim about the physical shape of the Earth. Even for literalists, that's a stretch.
Well, I hardly think that Al Gore has been unanimously defended on/. Pretty much every story involving Mr. Gore brings up the old Internet joke. There is a difference, though. Al Gore made a statement that, while technically true, was terribly phrased. Mr. Stevens made it blatantly obvious in his internet rant that he had absolutely no idea what the fuck he was talking about. But like I said, that has no bearing. This site is obsessed with memes. It was pretty damn funny, possibly the most ill-informed thing I've ever seen a public official say. The tube thing is probably the only reason most people here know who Senator Stevens is.
You are also wrong. They chose the bots for the first two games, and the play was very close. They ran the 'coach' bot in the third game, and the computer got beaten "handily".
Genetic engineering enables changes that would take multiple generations to create and then even more generations to attain wide-spread use to happen in the span of a single generation.
Ok, so how is that different than selective breeding?
No shit the hardcore gamers don't understand the new games - hell, they never understood the old games in the first place (ie: why any of us enjoyed Twilight Princess as much as we did - the Wiimote was just a gimick, right??).
No, the hardcore gamers understand the new games perfectly well. They just don't like them, because they aren't meant for them. They still like the old way of playing games, and for better or worse Nintendo has changed that with the Wii. Don't be an asshole and claim like you're somehow smarter because you like the Wii better than somebody else. Different strokes and whatnot.
And the Wiimote *was* just a gimmick on Twilight Princess. The game was completely playable without it. It was hardly essential to the game, it was sort of tacked on at the end to make it a Wii game. That doesn't mean Twilight Princess sucked, far from it. It was a cool game, but I didn't even use the Wiimote. I preferred the GC controller.
So, the swear words refer to stuff you would never deal with in everyday life. You can't walk around naked or have sex in public, you can pull your pants down and pee in the street, you never see God or the Devil. Likewise, we it's impolite to bring these up in conversation.
But you're really missing the point there. Why is it less offensive to say poop and pee over shit and piss? Other than the fact that one is considered an obscenity, they mean the exact same thing. For example, if I wanted to say on broadcast TV "I just pooped" it would be fine. If I wanted to say "I just took a shit" it would not. Why is that? Both refer to the same "dirty" thing. Neither is polite conversation in most situations. There is a difference between an impolite subject and profanity (especially as defined by the FCC).
It is perfectly possible for a communist socienty to exist democratically if all residents endorse it.
In theory, everything works in theory, but unfortunately that is not reality. As long as it is rewarding to game the system, people will game it at the expense of all the other schmucks that go along with the ideology. That's why there's never been a "true democratic communist society". It's a utopian ideal that is impossible to implement in the real world.
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Not all developers. That's been Blizzard's plan for at least 12 years or so and they're making out quite nicely.
You won't hear me complaining, though. Those crazy developers and bleeding-edge early adopters keep technology moving ahead at a quick pace for the rest of us.
First off, IANAL, so this won't be entirely correct but here's the basic idea. The 4th amendment to the constitution say this:
How that has been interpreted is firstly that your own personal home and belongings are safe from government interference without a warrant. That one's pretty obvious. Other court rulings have extended that into the public sphere for communications. For example, if you make a phone call on a public phone system, you have a right to the government not listening on that line without a warrant, even though it's not directly addressed by the language of the 4th amendment.
What that doesn't cover is public speech. For example, if you are talking to your friend in the street so that others can overhear or shouting from a bullhorn, the government has every right to listen to that. What the Bush administration is doing is trying to get a federal court to rule that since most email is unencrypted and passed through different servers indiscriminantly, that the person sending it is has no expectation of privacy and that email is basically public speech. That would mean the government could legally monitor email traffic. It's pretty obviously a privacy breach, but legally it's not as ridiculous a claim as it seems on the surface.
What if you're a doctor on call? That changes things quite a bit.
If you're notified that the theater blocks cell phone calls then there's nothing wrong with that. But if someone is jamming cell phone signals, there's a pretty good chance that others in the area not talking on their phone would never realize they're out of contact. That could cause some pretty serious problems.
That's just wrong. The music selection is vastly better than AM/FM radio, even in a major city like Toronto. If you listen to top 40 radio only it might be about the same, but if you listen to any sort of "niche" music it's unbeatable. The number of stations and deep playlists for those stations is way beyond anything done in traditional radio. Plus, you don't get commercials. When I had XM I had about 10-15 favorite satellite stations that were better than *any* regular radio stations I had ever heard. I'm not exactly a normal consumer of music, but I can't remember the last time I heard an artist I liked on the radio for the first time. That happened regularly with my XM subscription.
Of course, I don't have it anymore because I don't really drive that much anymore, but if I still had a long commute I wouldn't hesitate for a second to resubscribe.
I loved PSM when they first came out because they had such a unique personality. They gave away tons of free stuff (I wish I still had my smiley-studded PSX) and with art style, writing, etc. they really tried to create something unique. That didn't last very long. By the time the PS2 came out, they only had one or two original writers, completely different layout and style, lost the extras, mostly lost the hand-drawn covers (I felt like crying when the first CGI Madden cover came out). It really coincided with me "transforming" into a hardcore gamer and holds a special spot in my heart. I have all the early issues in a box somewhere in my garage. I'll have to break them out sometime to see if they still hold up.
AFAIK, biological evidence (I am definitely not a biologist) points to most common plants and animals being domesticated starting ~10,000 years ago. So while it's certainly possible that civilization existed before the earliest known settlements, there are more fields of study at play than just archeology.
Sweet zombie Jesus, I hope you're being sarcastic. If not your ignorance regarding rock music is staggering. Although I agree to the extent of their awesomeness, to claim Led Zeppelin isn't derivative is absolutely ludicrous. In fact, they have been taken to court at least once and criticized many more times for outright plagiarism. Some of their most famous songs are directly credited to other artists (Dazed and Confused, Lemon Song, Moby Dick, Gallows Pole, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, When the Levee Breaks). Take off the nostalgia goggles, gramps.
Some more reading.
As other posters have pointed out, it depends on where you live. I live in a rural area (student) and work full time making $8/hr which works out to about 1k a month. I can support myself just fine with that, but to live my same cheap lifestyle in a city I would have to earn much more. So depending on where he lives and what he's doing in life that is definitely not ridiculous. Remember, there *are* people that make the minimum wage. At 40 hours a week that is only $12k a year. In many places your $12/hr shitty receptionist job would be nearly twice the average wage.
No, you are wrong. Median household income for New York City is $38,293. In San Francisco, median household income is $55,221 (higher because San Fran proper has few low-income areas unlike NYC). So assuming that OP is married and OP's spouse brings any any income at all (even something like 10k a year) OP is very much not lower-middle class, even in those expensive cities.
What if you love to make money? Seriously. I've never had a job that actually satisfied me, so why not take the one that gives me the most money to play with when I'm not at work? Unless of course someone wants to pay me 80k a year to play guitar and snowboard. If that's the case, show me where to sign.
Not everyone can make a lot of money, even if they are extremely good at what they do. Thankfully you seem to have a job that you enjoy and that brings in a lot of money, congratulations. But it is arrogant and just plain moronic if you think that everyone can find a satisfying job that makes a lot of money. How naive can you possibly be?
OK, I think I see what you're getting at. The problem is, just because those beliefs are not incompatible with science does not make them scientific beliefs. Scientifically speaking, materialism is the "correct" view because it's all we can prove.
It's not an errant assumption that the only thing that exists is matter. It's a scientific theory that has yet to be disproved. Unless of course, as I said before, you have some new evidence you would like to share with the community.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but science is based on materialism. If we can't see it or observe it, how can we empirically measure it?
For all scientific intents and purposes, mind and brain *are* the same thing. Unless you have some scientific information about the discovery of something other than the brain which controls human thought or emotion, in which case do please share it.
Talk about selective memory. Are you forgetting about the US invasion of Mexico, the Spanish-American war, Phillipine-American war, banana republics, overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, etc? You may want to re-evaluate your knowledge of American history.
Bad example. Most Japanese cars sold in the US are manufactured in the US by organized labor. The biggest difference is that the Japanese auto companies have only been manufacturing here for ~20 years maximum, and they don't have ridiculous pensions to pay to workers who aren't producing for them any more. They're also generally better-run companies, but I digress.
True, but that doesn't make it right. Just because there are people that will take low prices and people who are in a bad enough situation economically to want a job at Wal-Mart doesn't make it right. For example, if Wal-Mart imported indentured servants from third-world companies to work there for a very small wage, I'm sure that many people would sign up for the program and many people would still shop there. That wouldn't make indentured servitude OK. (Note, I don't think Wal-Mart is that bad, but your reasoning here doesn't work).
Who really cares what percentage of PS3 owners are playing Blu-Ray discs? All they care about are total disc sales. More sales = more revenue.
Speak for yourself. My dog's name is a#D)3ma*7@K
No. It isn't. And if you think that passage somehow definitively states that the Earth is a sphere, you are either crazy or an idiot. There are other passages of the OT you can selectively quote to support the Earth being flat.
Also, that phrase in Hebrew is literally translated to "the circle of the Earth" not "the sphere of the Earth" which, especially when taken in context, makes it highly unlikely that the passage is making a claim about the physical shape of the Earth. Even for literalists, that's a stretch.
Well, I hardly think that Al Gore has been unanimously defended on /. Pretty much every story involving Mr. Gore brings up the old Internet joke. There is a difference, though. Al Gore made a statement that, while technically true, was terribly phrased. Mr. Stevens made it blatantly obvious in his internet rant that he had absolutely no idea what the fuck he was talking about. But like I said, that has no bearing. This site is obsessed with memes. It was pretty damn funny, possibly the most ill-informed thing I've ever seen a public official say. The tube thing is probably the only reason most people here know who Senator Stevens is.
You are also wrong. They chose the bots for the first two games, and the play was very close. They ran the 'coach' bot in the third game, and the computer got beaten "handily".
Are you kidding? Speak English much? Yes continues with the save, no doesn't. Sorry for sounding like a dick, but that's about as simple as it comes.
Ok, so how is that different than selective breeding?
Uh...Ebert is many things (most of them bad IMHO) but a Hollywood puppet is definitely not one of them.
No, the hardcore gamers understand the new games perfectly well. They just don't like them, because they aren't meant for them. They still like the old way of playing games, and for better or worse Nintendo has changed that with the Wii. Don't be an asshole and claim like you're somehow smarter because you like the Wii better than somebody else. Different strokes and whatnot.
And the Wiimote *was* just a gimmick on Twilight Princess. The game was completely playable without it. It was hardly essential to the game, it was sort of tacked on at the end to make it a Wii game. That doesn't mean Twilight Princess sucked, far from it. It was a cool game, but I didn't even use the Wiimote. I preferred the GC controller.
But you're really missing the point there. Why is it less offensive to say poop and pee over shit and piss? Other than the fact that one is considered an obscenity, they mean the exact same thing. For example, if I wanted to say on broadcast TV "I just pooped" it would be fine. If I wanted to say "I just took a shit" it would not. Why is that? Both refer to the same "dirty" thing. Neither is polite conversation in most situations. There is a difference between an impolite subject and profanity (especially as defined by the FCC).
In theory, everything works in theory, but unfortunately that is not reality. As long as it is rewarding to game the system, people will game it at the expense of all the other schmucks that go along with the ideology. That's why there's never been a "true democratic communist society". It's a utopian ideal that is impossible to implement in the real world.