Brazil can be a pretty impoverished place, you can still find third-party SNES and Genesis clones kicking around pretty commonly (in fact, I believe they're still in heavy production). There are probably nicer Android devices available, but it's likely that most people can't afford something that would reliably run ICS or above.
There's a possibility of making more money at a pawn shop. Most big auction houses take fees of at least 30%, which of course is only worthwhile if you can get more out of the auction than the item is really worth. At a pawn shop you can often talk them into giving you 75%+ of the item's worth.
He doesn't really need any more publicity, if you're any sort of PC gamer you'd be among the minority not knowing who he is. He's only the founder of one of the more prolific PC game devs of all time, in addition to him having created the platform that revolutionized digital distribution and made it a viable market to enter into.
I wonder what a good way to organize one of those street revolutions would be in this modern age. It would preferably be online, and of course it would have to allow anonymity. Maybe a service which allows people to subscribe to and receive updates from others. Perhaps it could even be updated via SMS! Somebody ought to create a service like that.
Uh... do you really believe that the rate of reforestation is significant compared to deforestation? On top of that, what's political about saying "the forest is being cut down" when that's an objective truth and something we all should be concerned about?
Let me guess, you're one of those people who has a coronary every time the words "climate change" are used.
That's definitely not the case. Among stuff like shock images being uploaded by vandals, the WikiMedia commons has a growing problem of people taking pictures of their genitals for use on pages having anything to do with sexuality (or not!). I'd argue that an encyclopedia doesn't need any graphic videos of people ejaculating but that doesn't stop exhibitionists from adding them all the time.
Google's captchas are the worst I've ever seen. They're almost always unreadable and need to be refreshed all the time. I like Recaptcha (which isn't what Google uses on their sites despite owning it), they're generally pretty clear and in addition provide a free service to anyone that wants to use it. I have no clue why Google sticks with their awful in-house captchas for Gmail, Youtube, etc.
Really? Google has voluntarily put plenty of preventative measures in place in an attempt to keep copyrighted content off the site. I don't think their business model consists of a venture that costs them more in legal fees than any IP-infringing video could bring in. The "You" in their name should tip you off to their real business model, user-generated content, which is why they reward popular channels with a share of the ad revenue.
Is that something that still happens? I've never owned one so I'm admittedly not an expert on the subject but I was under the impression the various hardware refreshes had all but eradicated issues with the console dying early.
Yeah, torture (your stupid euphemisms don't change what it actually is) doesn't actually work. As has been explained to your ilk ad nauseam, people will tell their torturers what they want to hear in order to end the torture, even if it's entirely untrue.
You sound as though you think the lower classes don't pay taxes. It's not that they're not paying their share (they are), they're not making their share especially considering the difficult and manual nature of many low-paying jobs. Sales tax forces even the homeless to pay as much for their goods as the richest among us and it's shameful.
I really only put "luxury" in quotes to mean items that aren't absolutely essential, I still don't think there should be any but I imagine abolishing it entirely is going to be a hard battle and the first step will be removing it from items like food and medication (it's disgusting to me that even prescriptions aren't exempt from sales tax in most US jurisdictions).
Haha, I should have elaborated that we should eliminate sales tax entirely, but if we must have it then it should be restricted to things that aren't absolute essentials. I agree with you on that front.
Sales tax is an assault on the poor (and to a lesser extent the middle class), and I've been pretty upset to see it encroaching on the internet. I've always thought we should restrict sales tax to "luxury" items like furniture, electronics and so on.
Although I guess that's largely the type of thing Amazon carries, so maybe I shouldn't be so worked up about it after all.
Whoever it was didn't care that they were disrupting people's lives by having their classes cancelled over and over (and over, and over, and over. It was a continuous and practically psychotic series of threats), so of course they didn't care about getting a remailer taken down. I've spoken with people who live on campus there and the person sending the threats is clearly unstable at best.
Wow, you're either really classist or racist for assuming Martin was set up for a life of crime, and you're definitely a huge fucking moron for thinking there's not enough evidence to convict Zimmerman of, at the very least, manslaughter. It's pretty easy to find out whether it was his gun used in the crime, and it's pretty easy to comb the area around the body searching for anything Martin could have used as a weapon (hint: there weren't any).
If you never did anything even remotely illegal when you were young then you're an anomaly, nobody deserves to be killed for it (except maybe you for having such awful, awful opinions).
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Brazil can be a pretty impoverished place, you can still find third-party SNES and Genesis clones kicking around pretty commonly (in fact, I believe they're still in heavy production). There are probably nicer Android devices available, but it's likely that most people can't afford something that would reliably run ICS or above.
How about I stop pretending I'm important in any way, take my cellphone with my like a normal person, and live a life free of fear and paranoia?
Abusing a bad system to do bad things still makes you a bad guy.
There's a possibility of making more money at a pawn shop. Most big auction houses take fees of at least 30%, which of course is only worthwhile if you can get more out of the auction than the item is really worth. At a pawn shop you can often talk them into giving you 75%+ of the item's worth.
He doesn't really need any more publicity, if you're any sort of PC gamer you'd be among the minority not knowing who he is. He's only the founder of one of the more prolific PC game devs of all time, in addition to him having created the platform that revolutionized digital distribution and made it a viable market to enter into.
Gosh, that guy never whines about anything and everything that he possibly can to anybody who'll listen.
I wonder what a good way to organize one of those street revolutions would be in this modern age. It would preferably be online, and of course it would have to allow anonymity. Maybe a service which allows people to subscribe to and receive updates from others. Perhaps it could even be updated via SMS! Somebody ought to create a service like that.
Uh... do you really believe that the rate of reforestation is significant compared to deforestation? On top of that, what's political about saying "the forest is being cut down" when that's an objective truth and something we all should be concerned about?
Let me guess, you're one of those people who has a coronary every time the words "climate change" are used.
That's definitely not the case. Among stuff like shock images being uploaded by vandals, the WikiMedia commons has a growing problem of people taking pictures of their genitals for use on pages having anything to do with sexuality (or not!). I'd argue that an encyclopedia doesn't need any graphic videos of people ejaculating but that doesn't stop exhibitionists from adding them all the time.
Google's captchas are the worst I've ever seen. They're almost always unreadable and need to be refreshed all the time. I like Recaptcha (which isn't what Google uses on their sites despite owning it), they're generally pretty clear and in addition provide a free service to anyone that wants to use it. I have no clue why Google sticks with their awful in-house captchas for Gmail, Youtube, etc.
Really? Google has voluntarily put plenty of preventative measures in place in an attempt to keep copyrighted content off the site. I don't think their business model consists of a venture that costs them more in legal fees than any IP-infringing video could bring in. The "You" in their name should tip you off to their real business model, user-generated content, which is why they reward popular channels with a share of the ad revenue.
You lucky bastard.
Is that something that still happens? I've never owned one so I'm admittedly not an expert on the subject but I was under the impression the various hardware refreshes had all but eradicated issues with the console dying early.
Time Warner actually does own an ISP, I'm a little surprised they haven't been more proactive in filtering media they own.
We all know complaining on message boards never does anything, so tell them directly what you think of their ideas:
http://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback#idea
Yeah, torture (your stupid euphemisms don't change what it actually is) doesn't actually work. As has been explained to your ilk ad nauseam, people will tell their torturers what they want to hear in order to end the torture, even if it's entirely untrue.
You sound as though you think the lower classes don't pay taxes. It's not that they're not paying their share (they are), they're not making their share especially considering the difficult and manual nature of many low-paying jobs. Sales tax forces even the homeless to pay as much for their goods as the richest among us and it's shameful.
I really only put "luxury" in quotes to mean items that aren't absolutely essential, I still don't think there should be any but I imagine abolishing it entirely is going to be a hard battle and the first step will be removing it from items like food and medication (it's disgusting to me that even prescriptions aren't exempt from sales tax in most US jurisdictions).
Income tax is the way to go in my mind, too.
Well, sure. I didn't mean they should break the law, just that the law should be changed.
Haha, I should have elaborated that we should eliminate sales tax entirely, but if we must have it then it should be restricted to things that aren't absolute essentials. I agree with you on that front.
Sales tax is an assault on the poor (and to a lesser extent the middle class), and I've been pretty upset to see it encroaching on the internet. I've always thought we should restrict sales tax to "luxury" items like furniture, electronics and so on.
Although I guess that's largely the type of thing Amazon carries, so maybe I shouldn't be so worked up about it after all.
Having a bunch of games that look the same sounds awful to me.
Whoever it was didn't care that they were disrupting people's lives by having their classes cancelled over and over (and over, and over, and over. It was a continuous and practically psychotic series of threats), so of course they didn't care about getting a remailer taken down. I've spoken with people who live on campus there and the person sending the threats is clearly unstable at best.
You've really never heard of security companies coming up with exploits first so they know how to solve them in case somebody else has the same idea?
Wow, you're either really classist or racist for assuming Martin was set up for a life of crime, and you're definitely a huge fucking moron for thinking there's not enough evidence to convict Zimmerman of, at the very least, manslaughter. It's pretty easy to find out whether it was his gun used in the crime, and it's pretty easy to comb the area around the body searching for anything Martin could have used as a weapon (hint: there weren't any).
If you never did anything even remotely illegal when you were young then you're an anomaly, nobody deserves to be killed for it (except maybe you for having such awful, awful opinions).