What the heck is wrong with just asking the theater to enforce the rule and ask offenders to leave?
Have you ever worked at a theater? Do you know how much disruption rule enforcement would cause? Minor violations aren't enforced because the person would cause a bigger disruption arguing with management and such. Better to block cell phones period and prevent any problem of that sort.
Obviously a private company can't tell me what I can and can not have on my person.
Movie theaters, stadiums, etc, frequently have bans on what you can have on your person. The law allows them to ban outside snacks and such. So yes, a private company can tell you what you can and can not have on your person while on their property.
I'm hunting for "the right to use a cell phone anywhere you wish" in the constitution but I'm having trouble finding it. Movie theaters are private property. If they choose to block cell phone signals and you don't like it, take your business to some other private property. Someone has a heart attack, the theater will call 911 on the landline.
There would be a slight difference. Anyone can use any system of measurement they wish without any great consequence (ignoring the whole Mars thing). If the currency was changed then everyone would HAVE to change with it. People might not like it at first but eventually they'd get used to it. But my real point was the opposite, if people from Europe came over and started exclusively using our currency for a long enough period, they might not like it at first but I argue that they'd get as used to it as they are to their own currency now.
I've just got back from two months in the USA, and it was a huge pain trying to find the correct note in my wallet
People adjust to what they're used to. I'm quite used to looking at the numbers, you're used to looking at the colors. Different colored currency wouldn't be too big an adjustment, thought for most people in the U.S. it's just as easy to look at the numbers. Varying the size of the currency would be a major pain, I'd hate to have to jumble different sized bills. Yet for many people around the world it's not a problem at all. They've gotten used to it. We could get used to it too if faced with it long enough. They could get used to our system if faced with it long enough.
I don't see too many people shoving anything higher than singles into vending machines.
An increasing number of gas pumps allow bills to be inserted, automated charge payment stations at parking garages, self-checkout lines of grocery stores, etc etc. A few years ago you'd have been right but more and more devices are accepting large bills for large charges.
In order to do 3d viewing with Google you must install their specialized program: Google Earth. In order to do 3d viewing you must install their specialized program: IE with their 3d viewing add-on. How are these things different? People just like to gripe about IE, but this isn't any different than what you have to do to view 3d with google.
I suspect Apple favors DRM. It doesn't help them to distribute DRM-free media that everyone will redistribute to their friends. The lose money that way. Apple stands better with DRM content that makes it necessary for each person to purchase their own copy, though I grant there are simple enough ways around the DRM with their music. The first thing I always do with iTunes music is burn it to DVD then rip it back to my computer in WMA format since I don't particularly care for iTunes as a media player but I like WMP.
Yes, I do. For a very simple and sensible reason. If there were no DRM there would be no legal content of this sort. I have no interest in illegally downloading media, and I know the studios would never offer their content DRM free. So DRM gives me a legal method to obtain the content I want. And in reality I have had very few problems due to DRM. It allows me to do what I want to do so I can't ask for more.
everybody already has free or unlimited access to the shows
Or not. By choice I have neither cable nor television and yet there are some shows I would like to see. Previously I just did without. iTunes gives me a good legal option to see tv shows without having to go out and buy the DVD's. As far as I can tell the price is about the same as DVD sets and I'd have to agree that the quality isn't quite as good, but it saves space on my DVD shelf and gives me a convenient way to keep up with ongoing shows.
But some of those people are actually right. Take me for example - I'm smarter than pretty much anyone else out there. I even figured that fact out on my own! The fact that everyone else disagrees with my conclusion just proves how ignorant they all really are.
Computer manfuacturers are bent over a barrel to include an OEM Windows install on every machine they sell. The only realistic way for a user to get a computer without Windows is to build one themself.
Computer manufacturers are motivated to provide a product customers want to buy. The number of people that would buy machines with some flavor of Linux is very small. It would be foolish for computer manufacturers to make computers without Windows. Similar thing to the number of people that would buy computers without an OS. The percentage would be high in geek circles but geek circles don't exactly make up a large portion of the market.
Since everybody is already getting a copy of Windows, what incentinve is there for the end user to try an alternative OS? Better yet, even if they do, they've already paid for Windows and Microsoft still has their money and their "installed base" numbers
True enough but you are forgetting that most people are getting what they want. Windows isn't simply being forced on them - they want Windows and don't want to try an alternate OS.
People write software for the dominant OS rather than invest even more money into R&D for multiple OSes. Meaning that most applications (read "games") out there are designed for Windows
And what is more, people write software for an OS equipped for their software. Most of the games take advantage of many tools provided within Windows - from optimized ways of interacting with hardware to graphic and sound interface libraries. To just code the game for Linux would take significantly more work.
I used to be quite the anti-Microsoft zealot. Then I realized I was only anti-Microsoft because it was the geek thing to do. Microsoft has its problems, but it really does deliver good products and, IMO, the best OS's out there. In the end that sort of claim is simply a matter of personal opinion, but at the very least it is one of the options on the table.
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What the heck is wrong with just asking the theater to enforce the rule and ask offenders to leave?
Have you ever worked at a theater? Do you know how much disruption rule enforcement would cause? Minor violations aren't enforced because the person would cause a bigger disruption arguing with management and such. Better to block cell phones period and prevent any problem of that sort.
Obviously a private company can't tell me what I can and can not have on my person.
Movie theaters, stadiums, etc, frequently have bans on what you can have on your person. The law allows them to ban outside snacks and such. So yes, a private company can tell you what you can and can not have on your person while on their property.
I'm hunting for "the right to use a cell phone anywhere you wish" in the constitution but I'm having trouble finding it. Movie theaters are private property. If they choose to block cell phone signals and you don't like it, take your business to some other private property. Someone has a heart attack, the theater will call 911 on the landline.
Point taken
Oops I missed your point, I follow now.
There would be a slight difference. Anyone can use any system of measurement they wish without any great consequence (ignoring the whole Mars thing). If the currency was changed then everyone would HAVE to change with it. People might not like it at first but eventually they'd get used to it. But my real point was the opposite, if people from Europe came over and started exclusively using our currency for a long enough period, they might not like it at first but I argue that they'd get as used to it as they are to their own currency now.
Plus, we get none of that " 98 x $1 bills wrapped in two $100s " con over here! ;-)
:/
Yeah, that one got me just last week.
Personally, I've been getting a lot of cash from work in the form of tips, and I like the idea of using it and being off the grid.
Also known as tax evasion? I'm assuming tips are taxable income.
The US is the onlycountry on earth with notes that are indistinguishable from one another for the blind.
Somehow I doubt that you really know that. You've examined the currency from every country on earth?
I've just got back from two months in the USA, and it was a huge pain trying to find the correct note in my wallet
People adjust to what they're used to. I'm quite used to looking at the numbers, you're used to looking at the colors. Different colored currency wouldn't be too big an adjustment, thought for most people in the U.S. it's just as easy to look at the numbers. Varying the size of the currency would be a major pain, I'd hate to have to jumble different sized bills. Yet for many people around the world it's not a problem at all. They've gotten used to it. We could get used to it too if faced with it long enough. They could get used to our system if faced with it long enough.
I don't see too many people shoving anything higher than singles into vending machines.
An increasing number of gas pumps allow bills to be inserted, automated charge payment stations at parking garages, self-checkout lines of grocery stores, etc etc. A few years ago you'd have been right but more and more devices are accepting large bills for large charges.
Unless my math is totally off it would be more like 0.72 GB - 720 MB.
And more ominously maybe in 20 years large segments of modern, educated, scientific America will be silent.
"Who cares if they are right, they are right for the wrong reason so we will ignore them!"
There could be some wisdom in that. If only those shots were allowed, there would be far fewer wars.
Please get a dictionary. "for nottin" is supposed to be spelled "fer nuthin'"
I'm sorry, did you mean the X-303?
In order to do 3d viewing with Google you must install their specialized program: Google Earth. In order to do 3d viewing you must install their specialized program: IE with their 3d viewing add-on. How are these things different? People just like to gripe about IE, but this isn't any different than what you have to do to view 3d with google.
I suspect Apple favors DRM. It doesn't help them to distribute DRM-free media that everyone will redistribute to their friends. The lose money that way. Apple stands better with DRM content that makes it necessary for each person to purchase their own copy, though I grant there are simple enough ways around the DRM with their music. The first thing I always do with iTunes music is burn it to DVD then rip it back to my computer in WMA format since I don't particularly care for iTunes as a media player but I like WMP.
Do YOU like DRM?
Yes, I do. For a very simple and sensible reason. If there were no DRM there would be no legal content of this sort. I have no interest in illegally downloading media, and I know the studios would never offer their content DRM free. So DRM gives me a legal method to obtain the content I want. And in reality I have had very few problems due to DRM. It allows me to do what I want to do so I can't ask for more.
everybody already has free or unlimited access to the shows
Or not. By choice I have neither cable nor television and yet there are some shows I would like to see. Previously I just did without. iTunes gives me a good legal option to see tv shows without having to go out and buy the DVD's. As far as I can tell the price is about the same as DVD sets and I'd have to agree that the quality isn't quite as good, but it saves space on my DVD shelf and gives me a convenient way to keep up with ongoing shows.
But some of those people are actually right. Take me for example - I'm smarter than pretty much anyone else out there. I even figured that fact out on my own! The fact that everyone else disagrees with my conclusion just proves how ignorant they all really are.
We've all been over this before...
Let's go over it once more...
Computer manfuacturers are bent over a barrel to include an OEM Windows install on every machine they sell. The only realistic way for a user to get a computer without Windows is to build one themself.
Computer manufacturers are motivated to provide a product customers want to buy. The number of people that would buy machines with some flavor of Linux is very small. It would be foolish for computer manufacturers to make computers without Windows. Similar thing to the number of people that would buy computers without an OS. The percentage would be high in geek circles but geek circles don't exactly make up a large portion of the market.
Since everybody is already getting a copy of Windows, what incentinve is there for the end user to try an alternative OS? Better yet, even if they do, they've already paid for Windows and Microsoft still has their money and their "installed base" numbers
True enough but you are forgetting that most people are getting what they want. Windows isn't simply being forced on them - they want Windows and don't want to try an alternate OS.
People write software for the dominant OS rather than invest even more money into R&D for multiple OSes. Meaning that most applications (read "games") out there are designed for Windows
And what is more, people write software for an OS equipped for their software. Most of the games take advantage of many tools provided within Windows - from optimized ways of interacting with hardware to graphic and sound interface libraries. To just code the game for Linux would take significantly more work.
I used to be quite the anti-Microsoft zealot. Then I realized I was only anti-Microsoft because it was the geek thing to do. Microsoft has its problems, but it really does deliver good products and, IMO, the best OS's out there. In the end that sort of claim is simply a matter of personal opinion, but at the very least it is one of the options on the table.
IANALBILTRL (I am not a lawyer but I listen to radio lawyers)
I like this one better: IANALBIDSAAHIELN (I am not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night).