Why can't you use something that people compete for as a moral judgment? By that logic, you can't make moral judgments on people who are competing for the title of "millionaire" Just because an "achievement" is there doesn't mean you have to achieve it.
Valve didn't give you that. They built it in on the non 360 version of the game because all 360 games have gamerscore, which was probably an idea taken from somewhere else, and I'm sure PC/PS3 players would be kind of annoyed if the 360 version had this and theirs didn't. And yes, there are tons of website dedicated to getting more gamerscore, see http://x360a.org/
While I'm not sying it isn't possible, those two examples you cited were poor ones. The Media Factory issue is 3 years old now, and if you follow through with thinking about it, the reason why MFI started doing taken downs is because they were about to license the DVDs for English sub/dub. Low and behold, there are DVDs.
For the ODEX issue, the works in question were already licensed works.
Not ever wow player pays with a subscription fee. In china and most other asian countries, you get the game and account for free, but you pay for playing time, eg 20 bucks for a 100 hour card.
It seems like some other people believe that actively managed funds both don't perform as well as simple index funds, and also cost more in the form of yearly managing fees and short term capital gains tax from stock turnover. Also, with an index fund, you at least have the security that past performance is more of a guarantee than with an actively managed fund. I prefer to keep my growth steady and my expense ratios low.
Do you think that a managed fund is any less of a gamble than an index fund? A managed fund is someone else getting paid to gamble for you. At least with index funds, you are essentially mirroring the area you are indexing.
A university I took some classes at in high school actually had a campus wide policy that the professor of the class could outright fail you for missing > 10% of class meetings. That means 3-5 classes, depending on meeting frequency. God that was awful.
The NES costed 200 bucks at release in the US. Find me a 10 year old kid with that much money to spend in 1986.
How about playing the game of (real) life? Too challenging perhaps? Not fun enough?
Oh yeah, big man on campus. Take shots and anonymous posters on the internet because clearing spending some money for some enjoyment clearly makes someone a loser who can't have fun.
That is a very similar concept to other high security places I have been in, except usually its revolving metal bars, so you couldn't even really break them if you wanted to.
Some people play games, some people drink and smoke. To each their own fun. If you amortize the cost of the 500 dollars over the life of the usefulness of it, you would probably find that it was about the same amount of money other people spent on their hobbies.
The only thing I can see is, it seems like the Cellphone detector will still alert even if the phone is on vibrate / silent, because it detects the waves, not the noise. Sure, being able to say no cell phone usage is fine, even if you want to not have people be able to text, but to say that you can't a cellphone on your person, or if it is, turn it off before you go into a store, thats rediculous.
And thats actually the reason Blizzard never gives hard ship dates. Despite doing this, some people can still get their panties in a wad. People assumed that the WoW expansion would come out around the christmas season, and then around November blizzard came out and said that it would be released after the new year, people were having a shit fit.
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Why can't you use something that people compete for as a moral judgment? By that logic, you can't make moral judgments on people who are competing for the title of "millionaire" Just because an "achievement" is there doesn't mean you have to achieve it.
Valve didn't give you that. They built it in on the non 360 version of the game because all 360 games have gamerscore, which was probably an idea taken from somewhere else, and I'm sure PC/PS3 players would be kind of annoyed if the 360 version had this and theirs didn't. And yes, there are tons of website dedicated to getting more gamerscore, see http://x360a.org/
So true, I wish I had mod points.
You didn't make that stipulation, and after reading the guy you replied to, I don't even understand where your comment came from.
There are services that do that.
For the ODEX issue, the works in question were already licensed works.
Not ever wow player pays with a subscription fee. In china and most other asian countries, you get the game and account for free, but you pay for playing time, eg 20 bucks for a 100 hour card.
You will TiVo late night recordings after the satellite box has been killed?
You keep all that information on your hard drive unencrypted?
Hotmail was bought out by MS as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail#Development_history
It seems like some other people believe that actively managed funds both don't perform as well as simple index funds, and also cost more in the form of yearly managing fees and short term capital gains tax from stock turnover. Also, with an index fund, you at least have the security that past performance is more of a guarantee than with an actively managed fund. I prefer to keep my growth steady and my expense ratios low.
Yes I do, and you still didn't answer how you think a managed fund is any less of a gamble than an index fund.
Because that 5 million egg that you were living off of isn't enough?
Do you think that a managed fund is any less of a gamble than an index fund? A managed fund is someone else getting paid to gamble for you. At least with index funds, you are essentially mirroring the area you are indexing.
A university I took some classes at in high school actually had a campus wide policy that the professor of the class could outright fail you for missing > 10% of class meetings. That means 3-5 classes, depending on meeting frequency. God that was awful.
kek, achievement whores, unite!
Hehe, my thought when I first saw the metal bar style turnstile was that it was a prison.
That is a very similar concept to other high security places I have been in, except usually its revolving metal bars, so you couldn't even really break them if you wanted to.
Some people play games, some people drink and smoke. To each their own fun. If you amortize the cost of the 500 dollars over the life of the usefulness of it, you would probably find that it was about the same amount of money other people spent on their hobbies.
The only thing I can see is, it seems like the Cellphone detector will still alert even if the phone is on vibrate / silent, because it detects the waves, not the noise. Sure, being able to say no cell phone usage is fine, even if you want to not have people be able to text, but to say that you can't a cellphone on your person, or if it is, turn it off before you go into a store, thats rediculous.
What about a non techincal user that had installed DivX?
And thats actually the reason Blizzard never gives hard ship dates. Despite doing this, some people can still get their panties in a wad. People assumed that the WoW expansion would come out around the christmas season, and then around November blizzard came out and said that it would be released after the new year, people were having a shit fit.
No, the candidate who most people think is the fittest will win, not necessarily the fittest.