then you are boycotting pretty much 75-80% of the games released now days. they all have some type of register/online activation system.
That sounds easy enough to do. Let's see, I just turned 45 half a month ago. Assuming I can make it another 45 years, there is a metric buttload of games on a wide variety of platforms (from Amiga or older to Wii, plus the arcade classics on MAME) that I have yet to get caught up on. As long as I have the hardware to run them on, I can easily go the rest of my life without ever purchasing a new game. Heck, now that I'm thinking about it, I am almost tempted to pull the Vectrex out and play a few rounds of Solar Quest...
To the person's point, did you read Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour."
Another little point that may be of note here...
If, when those quarterly reports come out it shows that Amazon had less than $10.8 billion in costs, then they made a profit and not a loss. Sure, it may have been 4.9 million less than expected, but is was still a profit and not a loss despite what the methods of Hollywood Accounting or Bistromathematics or whatever ethically challenged system they may use shows.
Yeah, I thought that when posting originally, but figured that goes without saying. And when something goes without saying, I don't say it (unless I am dealing with the Knights Who Until Recently Say Nee, then I will say it.)
You laugh, but in Peace Corps I actually had a fridge whose thermostat controls were dead, so it operated at either full-blast (freezing everthing) or unplugged. I abused an x10 plug and a timing script run off a computer to cycle it on and off over the course of the day to regulate it. Never died!
I think the most nefarious thing would be to turn off automatic coffee-makers ~ 15 seconds after they'd started, so the grounds are soaked and warm (i.e. ruined*), and there's no coffee.
That would be grounds for fully justified homicide. No jury in the 1st World would convict.
It could be worse. You could be a moose in a conoe going over/through the Bear Whizz Waterfall, after having bit my sister.
We apologize for rts008. He or she has been sacked...
So then, the doom is actually more like a llama riding on a raft the size of a baseball diamond's infield after having sung the anthem of the Royal Canadian Mounted Yaksmen...
All in all, this is sounding like just another scare tactic to maintain a perpetual state of war, keeping the public paranoid and distrusting of anyone except our "benevolent leaders" who pretend to be looking after our best interests.
I don't know your Family Guy reference, but how about you watch Seasons 3 and 4 of The Guild instead, so you will have a clue what is being talked about here, which will give you some perspective on my previous post?
Wil Wheaton as he is today would be pretty kickass I think. Imagine a grown up Wesley Crusher with the personality of the grown up Wheaton in command of the Enterprise.
How about Leonard Nimoy directing a Star Wars film? He's done pretty decently with the Trek films he directed. Or would the very idea cause the universe as we know it to implode?
I wonder what Joss Whedon would do with it? He did a smash-up job on firefly.
At the very least, I would love to see Whedon in charge of casting. At least all the ladies would be attractive with quite feminine figures (not these manly marginally female things that seem to typically get the key roles).
I'm sure they will eventually come up with some system to declare robots as gourmet certified, which will justify a higher price per bot vs. uncertified bots, despite them doing the exact same thing.
Peewee Herman did too, if I remember right. I think his looked like Abraham Lincoln. (Disclaimer...haven't seen that movie since it originally hit the theaters, so my memory may be faulty.)
Atari died when the Jaguar flopped and JTS quiety bought them in a "reverse merger."
I would venture to say though that after the crash of '83, and the NES started becoming cool two years later, was really when it started to fall.
I always figured the big mortal blow to Atari was when Tramiel turned down Nintendo's offer to market the Famicom in the U.S. for them. Instead, they brought the 7800 with its somewhat outdated specs out of mothballs and tried to take on Nintendo directly instead of working with them.
If I were buying a house, I would see high gun ownership in a neighborhood as a very bad sign, because it means that a large percentage of the people live in constant fear for their lives. It is an indicator of insufficient police protection, gang activity, drug activity, or other serious problems. It is not the only indicator (bars on windows are another good one), but it is a good indicator.
But even if that correlation did not exist, a high number of gun owners would still be a red flag.
Then in that case, you will probably want to avoid most any town in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, due to the high rate of gun ownership (fortunately, very little violence).
Oh yeah, and on that thought, note to self, on upcoming Spring trip to Eastern Oregon, I must not forget to bring a cooler... Little sister offered to load me up on a bunch of deer and elk steaks from their great recent hunting season... Drooooolllll...
I have a document in my backpack; my personal ToS. It states that everyone who shakes my hand must give me $20. By shaking, they agree.
Fails. Firstly other party is unaware of the terms prior to the hand shake and as you will remember from 1st year law school, past consideration is no consideration. Even if they were it still fails for lack of consideration: the other party suffers a detriment both in paying $20 and in shaking your hand, so the consideration only flows in the same direction... twice.:p
So put the TOS document in shrinkwrap, then it should be binding.
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then you are boycotting pretty much 75-80% of the games released now days. they all have some type of register/online activation system.
That sounds easy enough to do. Let's see, I just turned 45 half a month ago. Assuming I can make it another 45 years, there is a metric buttload of games on a wide variety of platforms (from Amiga or older to Wii, plus the arcade classics on MAME) that I have yet to get caught up on. As long as I have the hardware to run them on, I can easily go the rest of my life without ever purchasing a new game. Heck, now that I'm thinking about it, I am almost tempted to pull the Vectrex out and play a few rounds of Solar Quest...
To the person's point, did you read Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour."
Another little point that may be of note here...
If, when those quarterly reports come out it shows that Amazon had less than $10.8 billion in costs, then they made a profit and not a loss. Sure, it may have been 4.9 million less than expected, but is was still a profit and not a loss despite what the methods of Hollywood Accounting or Bistromathematics or whatever ethically challenged system they may use shows.
You can't lose what you do not yet have.
Unless you're the RIAA/MPAA
Yeah, I thought that when posting originally, but figured that goes without saying. And when something goes without saying, I don't say it (unless I am dealing with the Knights Who Until Recently Say Nee, then I will say it.)
Sounds more like that was 5 million in potential dollars not earned, not 5 million lost. You can't lose what you do not yet have.
You laugh, but in Peace Corps I actually had a fridge whose thermostat controls were dead, so it operated at either full-blast (freezing everthing) or unplugged. I abused an x10 plug and a timing script run off a computer to cycle it on and off over the course of the day to regulate it. Never died!
I think the most nefarious thing would be to turn off automatic coffee-makers ~ 15 seconds after they'd started, so the grounds are soaked and warm (i.e. ruined*), and there's no coffee.
That would be grounds for fully justified homicide. No jury in the 1st World would convict.
I just visited the WeMo web pages and couldn't find any technical information about what watt or amperage limits on it are.
I have a hard time believing that it can handle a 1500 watt heater.
1500... Would that be the definition of a WeMowatt? (Beware the sleeping lion tonight.)
I still haven't perfected the skill of omniscience. (This is of course, impossible). ;)
One derp point for me. I see now it even says that in the entry for Thor (only looked at the description for Peter before posting.)
Damn. And here I thought since Peter was described as the genius, that he was the inventor. Oops. Thanks for the correction though.
Finally, Peter's wheel has gone into production at last.
It could be worse. You could be a moose in a conoe going over/through the Bear Whizz Waterfall, after having bit my sister.
We apologize for rts008. He or she has been sacked...
So then, the doom is actually more like a llama riding on a raft the size of a baseball diamond's infield after having sung the anthem of the Royal Canadian Mounted Yaksmen...
All in all, this is sounding like just another scare tactic to maintain a perpetual state of war, keeping the public paranoid and distrusting of anyone except our "benevolent leaders" who pretend to be looking after our best interests.
And like one of his cohorts said in The Guild... "We don't do anything half assed. We use both cheeks."
Balls do not pay the rent.
I suppose that depends on what you do for a living.
As the Ghost of Ben said to Yoda...
Oh, get over yourself.
I don't know your Family Guy reference, but how about you watch Seasons 3 and 4 of The Guild instead, so you will have a clue what is being talked about here, which will give you some perspective on my previous post?
Wil Wheaton as he is today would be pretty kickass I think. Imagine a grown up Wesley Crusher with the personality of the grown up Wheaton in command of the Enterprise.
How about Leonard Nimoy directing a Star Wars film? He's done pretty decently with the Trek films he directed. Or would the very idea cause the universe as we know it to implode?
I wonder what Joss Whedon would do with it? He did a smash-up job on firefly.
At the very least, I would love to see Whedon in charge of casting. At least all the ladies would be attractive with quite feminine figures (not these manly marginally female things that seem to typically get the key roles).
My biggest hope is that Boba Fett remains in the Sarlacc Pit, still being slowly digested over the course of a thousand years.
I'm sure they will eventually come up with some system to declare robots as gourmet certified, which will justify a higher price per bot vs. uncertified bots, despite them doing the exact same thing.
Now, would you like to try our BIG ASS FRIES?
I'm sure Wallace and Grommit did.
Peewee Herman did too, if I remember right. I think his looked like Abraham Lincoln. (Disclaimer...haven't seen that movie since it originally hit the theaters, so my memory may be faulty.)
Atari died when the Jaguar flopped and JTS quiety bought them in a "reverse merger."
I would venture to say though that after the crash of '83, and the NES started becoming cool two years later, was really when it started to fall.
I always figured the big mortal blow to Atari was when Tramiel turned down Nintendo's offer to market the Famicom in the U.S. for them. Instead, they brought the 7800 with its somewhat outdated specs out of mothballs and tried to take on Nintendo directly instead of working with them.
If I were buying a house, I would see high gun ownership in a neighborhood as a very bad sign, because it means that a large percentage of the people live in constant fear for their lives. It is an indicator of insufficient police protection, gang activity, drug activity, or other serious problems. It is not the only indicator (bars on windows are another good one), but it is a good indicator.
But even if that correlation did not exist, a high number of gun owners would still be a red flag.
Then in that case, you will probably want to avoid most any town in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, due to the high rate of gun ownership (fortunately, very little violence).
Oh yeah, and on that thought, note to self, on upcoming Spring trip to Eastern Oregon, I must not forget to bring a cooler... Little sister offered to load me up on a bunch of deer and elk steaks from their great recent hunting season... Drooooolllll...
I have a document in my backpack; my personal ToS. It states that everyone who shakes my hand must give me $20. By shaking, they agree.
Fails. Firstly other party is unaware of the terms prior to the hand shake and as you will remember from 1st year law school, past consideration is no consideration. Even if they were it still fails for lack of consideration: the other party suffers a detriment both in paying $20 and in shaking your hand, so the consideration only flows in the same direction ... twice. :p
So put the TOS document in shrinkwrap, then it should be binding.