The seal hunt has never been about profitability. Most seal hunters, while they hope to profit, are hardly corporations making tons of cash. For aboriginals and the atlantic sealers its a tradition and way of life.
Seals are hardly going extinct. And in fact high seal numbers might be threatening populations of less photogenic animals.
The real "corporations" are PETA and their ilk. They make the real money.
Afghanistan seems to do okay. Not that it can't do better, but it has Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs. Now it was bad under the Taliban but they aren't in control anymore.
Falcon
Really? Afghanistan is your example?
the place where the taliban destroyed those ancient buddhas carved into the mountain?
If Canadians want to become more/fully independent from the UK, the British aren't likely to stop them. We'd be a bit disappointed though (an understatement: that proves I'm English).
The Commonwealth countries all vary in how independent they are, from full independence, to following token tradition and ceremonies, to going crazy over Prince Harry, and some (at least used to) recognise a British High Court above their own.
I don't think you'd be disappointed per se, but it would be a little sad to think we traded ceremony and historical ties for nitpicky little things like strict adherance to republican ideals.
Besides, in Canada native treaties were made with the Queen, who is in a sense the Chief of the white people, who promises to give money and whatever else we give to the natives in return for the land we took. Without her, everything breaks down. The Governor General is the representative of the Queen, and acts on her behalf, and is appointed by the prime minister, and basically gets to do whatever she wants. Frankly its a nice check and balance to the manipulations of direct democracy. You need untouchables to keep corruption at bay.
Yet, most people are scared to change their laptop screen. It's only slightly more difficult than changing a lightbuld: it's basically 6 screws, pulling off a bezel, unconnecting the old screen and plugging this one in. That's it. It's a 5 minute operation.
Most people are scared to change their laptop screen because its so easy to break the bezek, which has strange little hooks and may be glued on at points so that it cracks and breaks.
I've taken apart laptops and I think they do things just to make us break it. Frankly I'm surprised my current thinkpad has the audio jacks on a daughter board that can be replaced (although you have to take apart the whole base part of the laptop to get it off.
backwards compatibility was not the point. the point was that they always came out with a slightly more incremental improved version. which was an annoyance. the moment you bought one, you'd have a new version. buy the GBA SP, you get the GB micro. thats the point.
you're right, you don't need to get it, but they release those revisions on purpose
Sure I'm exaggerating by including the NES, however every time I bought a gameboy revision a better one came out within a year.
And honestly I don't see how difficult it would be to include at least a 720p hdmi output on a wii. They will do it, and then release the Wii II not long afterwards.
original gameboy, then came the gameboy pocket, then came various versions with different colours, then came the gameboy colour. then came the GBA with various colour editions. then the GBA SP, then came the coloured editions of that, also the NES styled edition (which I admit I own and still play) then the GBA MICRO. Then the DS, which wasn't supposed to kill the GBA but did anyways.
Nintendo always does this. they milk the cow until blood comes out, then they kill it, bring in a new cow, and feed it to the new cow.
As for the disc loading, I was mostly referring to the mechanisms of the original NES vs version 2. top loading vs front loading.
>"when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
exactly. they've only just come out with a black wii. then they will have a blue wii, yellow wii, green wii, then they still have to do the special edition pokemon pikachu wii, the clear see through wii, the smaller wii with a different disc loading mechanism, an even smaller wii with a new controller, then FINALLY they'll release the WII HD, after all our waiting, then 6 months later they'll release the wii 2 electric boogaloo
"Please be assured that it is not ASUS intentions to steer you away in any which way.'"
but they've definitely steered me away from Asus. I probably wouldn't have even bothered with trying to get a refund, but their dishonorable actions disgust me.
Yes this is blatant self interest on the part of the NPG, when it should be happy to have this information out there for people to admire and desire.
This is one thing that has often bugged me, now when it comes to DRM for example, if you have a company that creates media that self destructs and cannot be circumvented, will that media EVER fall in to the public domain if the originals are always in the hands of the media conglomerate that owns it? If the NPG won't allow its high definition images to be used by the public domain, they should be forced to allow others to make their own public domain derivatives.
On the other hand, did Wikipedia really need the high definition images that badly?
Vote for the Liberals and you get what you have in the USA, Obama appointing every single judge from the RIAA. So, until the Liberals outright say "no" to a DMCA type law, whatever they bring in will be far worse.
whoever modded my post flamebait has a bug up their butt for the Liberal party.
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Those filthy rich PETA barons are buying up everything!
Maybe they'll be willing to trade their seal hunting for indoor plumbing and a life expectancy past 40. Not everything that's "traditional" is good.
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corporations make money if the seal hunt remains?
really?
corporations?
hahahahahahahah.
The seal hunt has never been about profitability. Most seal hunters, while they hope to profit, are hardly corporations making tons of cash. For aboriginals and the atlantic sealers its a tradition and way of life.
Seals are hardly going extinct. And in fact high seal numbers might be threatening populations of less photogenic animals.
The real "corporations" are PETA and their ilk. They make the real money.
Well, they also demanded we stop the seal hunt. Are they going to request that we all wear visors while playing hockey too? Honestly. How naive.
Afghanistan seems to do okay. Not that it can't do better, but it has Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs. Now it was bad under the Taliban but they aren't in control anymore.
Falcon
Really? Afghanistan is your example?
the place where the taliban destroyed those ancient buddhas carved into the mountain?
that Afghanistan?
really?
If Canadians want to become more/fully independent from the UK, the British aren't likely to stop them. We'd be a bit disappointed though (an understatement: that proves I'm English).
The Commonwealth countries all vary in how independent they are, from full independence, to following token tradition and ceremonies, to going crazy over Prince Harry, and some (at least used to) recognise a British High Court above their own.
I don't think you'd be disappointed per se, but it would be a little sad to think we traded ceremony and historical ties for nitpicky little things like strict adherance to republican ideals.
Besides, in Canada native treaties were made with the Queen, who is in a sense the Chief of the white people, who promises to give money and whatever else we give to the natives in return for the land we took. Without her, everything breaks down. The Governor General is the representative of the Queen, and acts on her behalf, and is appointed by the prime minister, and basically gets to do whatever she wants. Frankly its a nice check and balance to the manipulations of direct democracy. You need untouchables to keep corruption at bay.
good heavens! That's crazy talk.
Yet, most people are scared to change their laptop screen. It's only slightly more difficult than changing a lightbuld: it's basically 6 screws, pulling off a bezel, unconnecting the old screen and plugging this one in. That's it. It's a 5 minute operation.
Most people are scared to change their laptop screen because its so easy to break the bezek, which has strange little hooks and may be glued on at points so that it cracks and breaks.
I've taken apart laptops and I think they do things just to make us break it. Frankly I'm surprised my current thinkpad has the audio jacks on a daughter board that can be replaced (although you have to take apart the whole base part of the laptop to get it off.
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postcomment compression filter can kiss my butt.
I'd rather they didn't make the decision either.
... Just wait until the David Hasselhoff special edition is released.
backwards compatibility was not the point. the point was that they always came out with a slightly more incremental improved version. which was an annoyance. the moment you bought one, you'd have a new version. buy the GBA SP, you get the GB micro. thats the point.
you're right, you don't need to get it, but they release those revisions on purpose
Sure I'm exaggerating by including the NES, however every time I bought a gameboy revision a better one came out within a year.
And honestly I don't see how difficult it would be to include at least a 720p hdmi output on a wii. They will do it, and then release the Wii II not long afterwards.
original gameboy, then came the gameboy pocket, then came various versions with different colours, then came the gameboy colour. then came the GBA with various colour editions. then the GBA SP, then came the coloured editions of that, also the NES styled edition (which I admit I own and still play) then the GBA MICRO. Then the DS, which wasn't supposed to kill the GBA but did anyways.
Nintendo always does this. they milk the cow until blood comes out, then they kill it, bring in a new cow, and feed it to the new cow.
As for the disc loading, I was mostly referring to the mechanisms of the original NES vs version 2. top loading vs front loading.
>"when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
exactly. they've only just come out with a black wii. then they will have a blue wii, yellow wii, green wii, then they still have to do the special edition pokemon pikachu wii, the clear see through wii, the smaller wii with a different disc loading mechanism, an even smaller wii with a new controller, then FINALLY they'll release the WII HD, after all our waiting, then 6 months later they'll release the wii 2 electric boogaloo
canada and australia have unions too.
its mostly just maximizing the value of the dollar, cost of supplies, etc. also getting the best deals on appropriate locations.
you mean like all of those RIAA judges Obama's been appointing to the supreme court?
"Please be assured that it is not ASUS intentions to steer you away in any which way.'"
but they've definitely steered me away from Asus. I probably wouldn't have even bothered with trying to get a refund, but their dishonorable actions disgust me.
It was so obvious! How Could I not have seen this before!
this should not be patentable.
As long as it keeps my desktop active, like some sort of active desktop, then it's all good.
Yes this is blatant self interest on the part of the NPG, when it should be happy to have this information out there for people to admire and desire.
This is one thing that has often bugged me, now when it comes to DRM for example, if you have a company that creates media that self destructs and cannot be circumvented, will that media EVER fall in to the public domain if the originals are always in the hands of the media conglomerate that owns it? If the NPG won't allow its high definition images to be used by the public domain, they should be forced to allow others to make their own public domain derivatives.
On the other hand, did Wikipedia really need the high definition images that badly?
I only used that as an example of what Obama is doing in the USA. The Liberals are the same type of corrupt
Vote for the Liberals and you get what you have in the USA, Obama appointing every single judge from the RIAA. So, until the Liberals outright say "no" to a DMCA type law, whatever they bring in will be far worse.
whoever modded my post flamebait has a bug up their butt for the Liberal party.
As of late????? The Liberals are worse. If the CRIA asks them to jump, they escape the earths gravity.
It is when they're helping you push your car out of a snow rut.
thinking about it more, perhaps this is a preemptive strike on a potential pirate party as seen gaining traction in the EU.