If you need something to occupy your mind may I suggest booze, it's great with friends or alone and after a while you won't have so much of a mind to worry about.
If you're not the drinking type there's also drugs, same basic end but with better visuals.
Is there anyone left out there who actually believes these assholes deserve to retain any degree of their unprecedented money, power, and political influence?
A music video is normally funded entirely out of an artist's pay check or advance, this usually isn't even optional, the label will simply tell the artists "we're taking x amount of money to make videos for these songs on your new album". I wonder how much of the money the RIAA is going to give back to the person who paid for it? My guess would be zero.
I don't know who's truly at the helm at SONY, but it's almost as if they've intentionally dug this hole, about six feet deep. I long ago eBay'ed and divested myself of all SONY equipment (still have SONY music CDs, sorry... ) and swore that, until SONY plays a little more nice, I'll never buy, recommend, anything SONY again.
What Sony hears:
blah blah blah SONY, blah blah blah, blah blah. Blah blah blah SONY blah (blah SONY blah, blah...) blah, blah SONY blah blah, blah, blah, blah SONY blah.
Another consideration is ease of development. Cell processors are apparently much more difficult to code for so any gaming house that wants to get a title in on a budget will choose the XBox 360 or Wii platforms.
Fraid not, I hardly ever post, but without fail (until now) I get mod points everytime I do, so it hasn't got anything to do with load. Either that or they give more mod points to newer members to try and encourage them.
I hate the forced adverts on DVD. what pisses me off even more is when they aren't even advertising products, they're just forcing me to watch their "copying DVDs is piracy and is the same as mugguing someone so don't do it" bullshit
My copy of Charlie and the Chocalate Factory was worse. The anti-piracy notice actually prevented the movie from playing, it would show the anti piracy notice, then run adverts (on a disc I bought for God's sake) and then go to a black screen, any attempt to get to the menu would be rejected. After I tried to return it I was informed that my DVD player (which has had no other problems) was out of date and needed replacement, because it's region free. Like hell was I going to replace a whole player for an inferior one (not to mention that region encoding is illegal in South Africa) for one movie, so onto DVD Shrink and watching it with a pirated burn.
The idiocy of these kinds of "protections" is how they alienate people like me. I tend to always buy legit copies of my media because I belive in financially supporting those who entertain me. I was going to go buy a copy of Freedom Force vs The Third Reich this weekend, now I know that it's going to muck up my computer I'm instead going to get an illegally pirated copy because it's safer.
Umm, childhood IQ tests can't test above 180, furthermore if your IQ is 190 you might want to get hold of Mensa and the Guinness Book of Records because that would make you the brightest man in the world.
This has also been a target for Nintendo, rather than trying to play the performance game against Microsoft and Sony, keep the technology nice and cheap, offer a new way of interacting and make it very easy to develop for.
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. When I went to Australia, Sydney was a wonderful place and though I didn't go I heard that Melbourne is too, but the rest of it? It honestly felt like how the world would be if Mussolini had won the war, a nation of trumped up bureaucrats out to exercise their power by making the lives of those around them slightly worse in all the ways available to them.
Australia isn't becoming a nanny state, it is a nanny state looking to become a police state. You can tell the world's completely off kilter when the First World nations that seem to be making the most sense at the moment are the Germans who can't even elect a leader and the French who don't bother to respond to massive riots for two weeks.
Personally I've noticed a serious bent towards totalitarianism in all the major players in the "Coalition of the Willing". Australia, Britain and America all keep passing these scary laws restricting free speech and removing rights from citizens and conferring them on corporations. It's a pity too, couldn't happen to nicer people, pretty much every single one of the ordinary citizens I've met from your countries I've liked and respected.
Here's some rules I learned from growing up in an oppressive society that eventually became free. I know it seems unlikely that an Aussie could learn anything from a South African, but they proved true here, watch out:
Censorship never works because wanting to be a censor is the first sign that you shouldn't be one. We banned Black Beauty on the assumption that it was inter-racial pornography. The same will happen to you, it may start with pornography but that can then be happily inflated to include into anything that doesn't promote "traditional" values. The haven't even passed the law yet and they've already started, note the phrase "and other inappropriate material"
No amount of government intervention will stop your children from finding out about sex, death or unpleasant political facts. Talk to them now and prepare them so that when they encounter it they act maturely. While they might not be adults that's not the same thing as being stupid.
No matter how many security laws you pass terrorists WILL still strike you again. No amount of policing will stop a determined terrorist from striking only diplomacy will.
Bad news for soldiers in Iraq. After an unjust war the soldiers will always be remembered poorly regardless of how heroic they're individual actions are. You will be painted with the same brush by history and it will be Abu Ghraib that will be remembered, not the time you saved your unit's lives.
Any church that allies itself with an oppressive government is evil. If your church overtly supports the current situation change now to a different one. If you're religious and are going to save anything start by saving your soul.
Distrust any politician who uses religion for political ends they are inevitably either corrupt, power-hungry or secually deviant. There's nothing preventing them from being all three.
Like all companies, large companies with a cosy relationship with the government will do everything they can to maximize their profits. The difference is that they have more power with which to do so. Beware of them.
Don't be afraid of immigrants or people of other races, religions or orientations. New talent and ideas from other countries and cultures won't destroy your culture, they'll make it richer. Underneath most people are the same and all they want is a good place to raise their kids.
Apathy is not a choice. If you don't like how things are going protest, organize a new political party, do something, as your indifference will be interpreted by the government as support.
Never underestimate the power of a government to suppress or control mainstream media, get your news from as many sources as possible.
If you do ignore this list, please at least just be Australians. Toss some meat on the barbie, knock
Even your source talks about the problems with upward distortion in online tests in the block right above your link. Having said that I've done numerous actual and online tests. If you're curious the test on tickle.com gave me the same result as the real test so it might be accurate.
As for the link itself as I said deviation is not the same as margin of error. What a standard deviation of 15 means is that most people fall with 15 points of the mean (75 to 115) not that the test is inaccurate to 15 points.
Standard deviation is not the same as margin of error, the poster above is more accurate with a 3 or 4 point margin. This obviously excludes online IQ tests which will frequently have an upwards margin of error of up to 30 points or more
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I prefer Jackass v. Rockstar
I would like to give away my music for free, i really would, but how will i survive?
Concerts. Works for the Stones.
Not to mention losing more money than the entire market cap of their inudstries
If you need something to occupy your mind may I suggest booze, it's great with friends or alone and after a while you won't have so much of a mind to worry about. If you're not the drinking type there's also drugs, same basic end but with better visuals.
DJ hero, you have a turntable input device that gives you a choice between Hip Hop (for Americans) and Dance (for Europeans)
Also known as John Sculley's 11 Step Plan to Wealth and Happiness
A music video is normally funded entirely out of an artist's pay check or advance, this usually isn't even optional, the label will simply tell the artists "we're taking x amount of money to make videos for these songs on your new album". I wonder how much of the money the RIAA is going to give back to the person who paid for it? My guess would be zero.
What you're looking for is called a Shuttle PC
What you say: What Sony hears:
Another consideration is ease of development. Cell processors are apparently much more difficult to code for so any gaming house that wants to get a title in on a budget will choose the XBox 360 or Wii platforms.
Fraid not, I hardly ever post, but without fail (until now) I get mod points everytime I do, so it hasn't got anything to do with load. Either that or they give more mod points to newer members to try and encourage them.
My copy of Charlie and the Chocalate Factory was worse. The anti-piracy notice actually prevented the movie from playing, it would show the anti piracy notice, then run adverts (on a disc I bought for God's sake) and then go to a black screen, any attempt to get to the menu would be rejected. After I tried to return it I was informed that my DVD player (which has had no other problems) was out of date and needed replacement, because it's region free. Like hell was I going to replace a whole player for an inferior one (not to mention that region encoding is illegal in South Africa) for one movie, so onto DVD Shrink and watching it with a pirated burn.
The idiocy of these kinds of "protections" is how they alienate people like me. I tend to always buy legit copies of my media because I belive in financially supporting those who entertain me. I was going to go buy a copy of Freedom Force vs The Third Reich this weekend, now I know that it's going to muck up my computer I'm instead going to get an illegally pirated copy because it's safer.
Probably because they worked out that less than 1/370th of their customers used it making the requested amount extortionate.
Umm, childhood IQ tests can't test above 180, furthermore if your IQ is 190 you might want to get hold of Mensa and the Guinness Book of Records because that would make you the brightest man in the world.
That's when the story will be duped
This has also been a target for Nintendo, rather than trying to play the performance game against Microsoft and Sony, keep the technology nice and cheap, offer a new way of interacting and make it very easy to develop for.
Is the American education system that bad or is the writer just willfully ignorant
Yes
Why do people not learn from history?
Because they get investigated if they try
Australia isn't becoming a nanny state, it is a nanny state looking to become a police state. You can tell the world's completely off kilter when the First World nations that seem to be making the most sense at the moment are the Germans who can't even elect a leader and the French who don't bother to respond to massive riots for two weeks.
Personally I've noticed a serious bent towards totalitarianism in all the major players in the "Coalition of the Willing". Australia, Britain and America all keep passing these scary laws restricting free speech and removing rights from citizens and conferring them on corporations. It's a pity too, couldn't happen to nicer people, pretty much every single one of the ordinary citizens I've met from your countries I've liked and respected.
Here's some rules I learned from growing up in an oppressive society that eventually became free. I know it seems unlikely that an Aussie could learn anything from a South African, but they proved true here, watch out:
If you do ignore this list, please at least just be Australians. Toss some meat on the barbie, knock
Even your source talks about the problems with upward distortion in online tests in the block right above your link. Having said that I've done numerous actual and online tests. If you're curious the test on tickle.com gave me the same result as the real test so it might be accurate. As for the link itself as I said deviation is not the same as margin of error. What a standard deviation of 15 means is that most people fall with 15 points of the mean (75 to 115) not that the test is inaccurate to 15 points.
Standard deviation is not the same as margin of error, the poster above is more accurate with a 3 or 4 point margin. This obviously excludes online IQ tests which will frequently have an upwards margin of error of up to 30 points or more
Who decides what's porn
That's easy, there are people who are paid to do it and have been doing it for thousands of years. They're called judges.