I can agree with Television and Cellphone even, but internet access is pretty much a required necessity these days. Even if you are flipping burgers as your sole income, if you ever expect to get out of that, internet access simply to help find jobs, raise your skills and communicate is so important these days that I would consider it more important than standard phone service even.
Up here in Canada, it is very very rare that I see a retailer that doesn't support the chip, but when I was down in Florida, I couldn't find a single one that took the chip, even major chains, including one we have in Canada.
Indeed, I've the same thing with a car, dealership offered 0.9% loan for the first year and 1.9% after.
I could bought it outright, but I can do do better than that in investments (Heck for the first year, a simple high interest savings does better), so I took the car loan.
How could he sue them for simply refusing to do something they aren't required to do in the first place.
Equitable estoppel (spelling?) only counts for specified contracts. You simply stop providing a free, no-obligation service when you want.
You can't even count a Google EULA in this matter as Google is the one indexing the content.
It would trivial for them to argue that the increased legal concerns have given them cause to drop them from the index.
If you did want to argue equitable estoppel, Google could make a complaint just as valid (read not very) as Murdoch could. Murdoch has been allowing Google to index its sites all this time (they use robots.txt and haven't blocked Google), and by specifically refusing them now, while not limiting any other search engines is causing damage to Google's business.
I was confused on how parts (perhaps a majority I won't comment specifically) of the chiropractic community saw itself in general.
I would agree, for things other than back and some skeletal problems, chiropractics are not an answer. I read your listed paper, and did some other research and I find it odd that they believe spinal adjustments would cure various ailments other than the obvious.
I still stand by my example, I had horrible back and leg problems, I listed what appeared to be the reasoning behind it (vertebrae out of alignment so it was putting pressure on the nerves around it causing pain - it seems sound to me) and I can't the deny the effect its had.
It does appear though that there is a developing group of chiropractors that are rejecting the mystical/metaphysical parts and simply focusing only on the muscularskeletal stuff.
I'm sure you could provide horror stories of quack chiros and what not.
And while my story may be anecdotal, but where is your proof that its a bogus science. I could show you my x-rays before and after and they certainly did something, and I don't think "how wonderful I feel" is just the power of positive thinking. The basic explanation was, my vertebrae were out of alignment (one had a noticable about 1/4 inch jut out on the x-ray - I don't know what the scale is), putting stress on the nerves, by putting them back into alignment, that is no longer there. The repeated sessions is to keep it that position so your muscles, body whatever can eventually do it themselves. I think it would require good knowledge to know what not to do, just as much as what may need to be done.
I had back problems and leg problems for about 12 years, so bad I could barely walk longer than 5 or so minutes at a time and standing longer than 1 or minutes was excruciating. Sometimes if I just forced it anyway, my bottom half would start going numb and I would collapse, not that I was paralyzed just in too much pain to stand or walk. I went to 9 doctors, a couple specialists, 4 foot doctors (I forget the specific name of them off the top of my head) and 12 physiotherapists. I had the physical therapy, various braces, stretches to do several times a day every day, a couple different insoles for my feet. Nothing helped. None of them ever referred to a chiropractor.
So I finally just figured I'd try it myself, after over a decade of nothing. Went twice a week for 2 weeks than once a week for 2, then once a month for a bit. I'm at twice a year at the moment. I was really sore and suffering the first few weeks, almost stopped it. But I figured I would see it through for at least a month. After about a month, I felt some improvement from the soreness and aching of the initial treatment, so I decided to stick with it. Within 3 months I could walk several kilometers. I helped build a fence one weekend after about 5 months, on my feet the whole time carrying stuff, had no problems. Today, I can jog 8-10 kilometers without back problems (can't really do that on hard surfaces yet, a treadmill or grass is great though). I play golf again, and got back into soccer. I can do crunches and yoga without issue. 12 years of pain and not being able to do really physical activity and a chiropractor changed all that.
I can only say about my experience, but they are more than a masseuse with a diploma and an ego. Mine was very courteous and listened to what I was willing and not willing let her work on and has helped me immensely. I wish you wouldn't stereotype.
The problem with 20 lane highways, is that they have to converge somewhere.
Most people don't just go out and drive on the highway, they are going somewhere, usually the same area as the others traveling around them in the same direction. We have this problem in my city, 4 lane freeway, which converges to 2 lanes with lights near the downtown area, and it is here that traffic grinds to a halt. Sure the freeway part is nice, traffic is steady but not heavy, but if you go anywhere near the convergence point and it will take you about 1 hour to move 1 km during rush hour. Its not bad outside those times, but you're still probably 2 or 3 green lights of traffic flow until you actually hit said green light.
For 3) there wouldn't need to be a direct relation to you, or even a keen interest in putting you behind bars. They only need a keen interest to not have themselves behind bars. If someone stabs somebody in your backyard, its not because they want to frame you, they just want to put as many layers between them and the crime.
You would use somebody's else internet connection or IP address, so it doesn't link to you, not so that it links to them specifically.
You are putting your current mindset into the period in which you are talking. This is incorrect.
Before the 1700s if you asked somebody what's lightning, I am very certain the "proper" answer would have been God did it, not "I don't know". Heck there are people today where even though you can use science to explain lightning and thunder, they will still say, "God did it".
I met a Christian Engineer (some sort baptist I think) and she believed that Rainbows were simply the will of g(G)od and had nothing to do with the refraction of light on moisture in the atmosphere, and she was a bloody Environmental Engineer. Even after roughly explaining the concept, it was still a matter of "Ok, but God still causes it to happen".
I've used Stardock's Impulse a little bit and while I can't comment on all games on it, the 3 I have it works quite well. You can tie a license key to an account, however I have installed and played 2 of the 3 offline never connecting to the internet to play or install, simply by entering the license key in the normal installation. Then I can then tie it to Stardock Impulse which will automatically tell me about updates and help me install them. To register it with Impulse I simply entered the license key again with the online component. In fact Impulse recognized that I had the game installed and asked me if I wanted to add it into the system.
Also, I can then log into stardock impulse on any other computer and it will allows me to re-download and install the game on that one as well. Well I've only done it for one so far, Sins of a Solar Empire, so again I can't comment for all games.
In fact, I play offline all the time and only fire up Impulse (I haven't needed to run it to play the games) when I check for updates.
Even if fined or charged by a federal/state/provincial body I think the victims are still allowed to attempt civil charges against the company (please correct me if I am wrong).
Although that $50 million fine will probably "wipe out" all their assets so they have nothing left to pay the victims.
He bought it himself and when they found out they tried to take it away, and he killed them for it. At least that is what I remember from the initial story on Slashdot a little bit ago.
Personally I hope you never succeed or at least not with the way general smoking laws are now.
I wish they would ban all smoking in public places, including sidewalks.
You want to smoke in your house, fine, I don't care, but when you're smoking on the street and the wind blows into me I get a massive migraine and my throat starts closing up, almost immediately. Pot smoke is even worse, I get violently ill and nauseous and pretty much upchuck or get dry heaves right there.
Make self-contained smoking bubbles for around your head or whatnot, I don't care, just don't let it get to me.
Yea well, depending on your perspective your the car thief.
Your infected computer is causing my company time and money to deal with the crap your causing. By your carjacking anecdote it's all right for me take a bat and threaten to bash your computer unless you get it fixed?
I hate to say it, but that is a risk you take. Admittedly software isn't is as good a position as say a book, or anything else in that we can skim a lot of the material before purchasing or even return it.
However, I agree with their concerns about trying to show all the gameplay. The gameplay mechanics should be able to easily be put into the couple minute demo, how you move around, how you interact with the environment. For actual gameplay experience you're going to have to trust reviews of people you've agreed with in the past. Movies have some of the same limitations, you've either seen it or haven't. Sure there are trailers, but often there are parts in the trailer that are not in the theatrical release, or all the good parts are all in the trailer and the rest of the movie sucked.
And while there isn't much diversity in in-store demos admittedly, for several big games you can often see a display of it being played, or get a chance to do so yourself. If they could somehow expand this, I think it would be a nice compromise. This wouldn't work for small stores or in the middle of nowhere where it wouldn't be profitable admittedly.
Actually, if you read Harpers throne speeches carefully, he hints at plans to exploit the resources there as much as possible.
He doesn't quite directly say that he wants to pillage the land, but he does mention resource acquisition, and an increased presence, and given his origins (Alberta) and his general environmental stance, I expect nothing more than a token environmental front to the whole northern area and as many resources as he can effectively pull out of it.
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The point of the cyanide pill isn't to give your life for the cause.
They want to live. The point is to sacrifice yourself before they can question you. That's why in "Tomorrow Never Dies" M chastises Bond for not using it when he was captured, because they think he was the one spilling secrets.
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I can agree with Television and Cellphone even, but internet access is pretty much a required necessity these days. Even if you are flipping burgers as your sole income, if you ever expect to get out of that, internet access simply to help find jobs, raise your skills and communicate is so important these days that I would consider it more important than standard phone service even.
Indeed,
Up here in Canada, it is very very rare that I see a retailer that doesn't support the chip, but when I was down in Florida, I couldn't find a single one that took the chip, even major chains, including one we have in Canada.
This is true.
I have a domain, that if you simply go to:
www.somedomain.com it comes up with a blank website, actually I think its a 404 error, but I don't check.
It hosts nothing but subdomains for my own projects.
Some multinational shouldn't be able to use the main page as the sole defining attribute of whether I get to use that domain or not.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2560#comic
Yea, I know it's supposed to be an XKCD comic, but I like this one and found it an apt reply to your question.
I believe the op meant that it's not tax deductible for the giver.
So donating 5 million to a campaign is no longer a nice 5 million tax write off for a corporation.
Indeed, I've the same thing with a car, dealership offered 0.9% loan for the first year and 1.9% after.
I could bought it outright, but I can do do better than that in investments (Heck for the first year, a simple high interest savings does better), so I took the car loan.
Murdoch isn't paying Google to index their sites.
How could he sue them for simply refusing to do something they aren't required to do in the first place.
Equitable estoppel (spelling?) only counts for specified contracts.
You simply stop providing a free, no-obligation service when you want.
You can't even count a Google EULA in this matter as Google is the one indexing the content.
It would trivial for them to argue that the increased legal concerns have given them cause to drop them from the index.
If you did want to argue equitable estoppel, Google could make a complaint just as valid (read not very) as Murdoch could.
Murdoch has been allowing Google to index its sites all this time (they use robots.txt and haven't blocked Google), and by specifically refusing them now, while not limiting any other search engines is causing damage to Google's business.
Ok I will give you some points.
I was confused on how parts (perhaps a majority I won't comment specifically) of the chiropractic community saw itself in general.
I would agree, for things other than back and some skeletal problems, chiropractics are not an answer.
I read your listed paper, and did some other research and I find it odd that they believe spinal adjustments would cure various ailments other than the obvious.
I still stand by my example, I had horrible back and leg problems, I listed what appeared to be the reasoning behind it (vertebrae out of alignment so it was putting pressure on the nerves around it causing pain - it seems sound to me) and I can't the deny the effect its had.
It does appear though that there is a developing group of chiropractors that are rejecting the mystical/metaphysical parts and simply focusing only on the muscularskeletal stuff.
I'm sure you could provide horror stories of quack chiros and what not.
And while my story may be anecdotal, but where is your proof that its a bogus science. I could show you my x-rays before and after and they certainly did something, and I don't think "how wonderful I feel" is just the power of positive thinking. The basic explanation was, my vertebrae were out of alignment (one had a noticable about 1/4 inch jut out on the x-ray - I don't know what the scale is), putting stress on the nerves, by putting them back into alignment, that is no longer there. The repeated sessions is to keep it that position so your muscles, body whatever can eventually do it themselves.
I think it would require good knowledge to know what not to do, just as much as what may need to be done.
I don't agree,
I had back problems and leg problems for about 12 years, so bad I could barely walk longer than 5 or so minutes at a time and standing longer than 1 or minutes was excruciating. Sometimes if I just forced it anyway, my bottom half would start going numb and I would collapse, not that I was paralyzed just in too much pain to stand or walk.
I went to 9 doctors, a couple specialists, 4 foot doctors (I forget the specific name of them off the top of my head) and 12 physiotherapists.
I had the physical therapy, various braces, stretches to do several times a day every day, a couple different insoles for my feet. Nothing helped.
None of them ever referred to a chiropractor.
So I finally just figured I'd try it myself, after over a decade of nothing.
Went twice a week for 2 weeks than once a week for 2, then once a month for a bit. I'm at twice a year at the moment.
I was really sore and suffering the first few weeks, almost stopped it. But I figured I would see it through for at least a month.
After about a month, I felt some improvement from the soreness and aching of the initial treatment, so I decided to stick with it. Within 3 months I could walk several kilometers. I helped build a fence one weekend after about 5 months, on my feet the whole time carrying stuff, had no problems. Today, I can jog 8-10 kilometers without back problems (can't really do that on hard surfaces yet, a treadmill or grass is great though). I play golf again, and got back into soccer. I can do crunches and yoga without issue. 12 years of pain and not being able to do really physical activity and a chiropractor changed all that.
I can only say about my experience, but they are more than a masseuse with a diploma and an ego. Mine was very courteous and listened to what I was willing and not willing let her work on and has helped me immensely. I wish you wouldn't stereotype.
The problem with 20 lane highways, is that they have to converge somewhere.
Most people don't just go out and drive on the highway, they are going somewhere, usually the same area as the others traveling around them in the same direction.
We have this problem in my city, 4 lane freeway, which converges to 2 lanes with lights near the downtown area, and it is here that traffic grinds to a halt.
Sure the freeway part is nice, traffic is steady but not heavy, but if you go anywhere near the convergence point and it will take you about 1 hour to move 1 km during rush hour.
Its not bad outside those times, but you're still probably 2 or 3 green lights of traffic flow until you actually hit said green light.
For 3) there wouldn't need to be a direct relation to you, or even a keen interest in putting you behind bars. They only need a keen interest to not have themselves behind bars. If someone stabs somebody in your backyard, its not because they want to frame you, they just want to put as many layers between them and the crime.
You would use somebody's else internet connection or IP address, so it doesn't link to you, not so that it links to them specifically.
You are putting your current mindset into the period in which you are talking. This is incorrect.
Before the 1700s if you asked somebody what's lightning, I am very certain the "proper" answer would have been God did it, not "I don't know". Heck there are people today where even though you can use science to explain lightning and thunder, they will still say, "God did it".
I met a Christian Engineer (some sort baptist I think) and she believed that Rainbows were simply the will of g(G)od and had nothing to do with the refraction of light on moisture in the atmosphere, and she was a bloody Environmental Engineer. Even after roughly explaining the concept, it was still a matter of "Ok, but God still causes it to happen".
Actually, the company still received revenue from 4.5 million copies.
5 million playing the game (500k were pirates so they were copies of legitimate purchases)
However those 1 million used copies were new at one point.
So it was 4.5 million new, and 1 million old for a total of 5.5 million users (6 if you include the pirates).
She was the crazy sister of the doctor on Firefly.
I've used Stardock's Impulse a little bit and while I can't comment on all games on it, the 3 I have it works quite well. You can tie a license key to an account, however I have installed and played 2 of the 3 offline never connecting to the internet to play or install, simply by entering the license key in the normal installation. Then I can then tie it to Stardock Impulse which will automatically tell me about updates and help me install them. To register it with Impulse I simply entered the license key again with the online component. In fact Impulse recognized that I had the game installed and asked me if I wanted to add it into the system.
Also, I can then log into stardock impulse on any other computer and it will allows me to re-download and install the game on that one as well. Well I've only done it for one so far, Sins of a Solar Empire, so again I can't comment for all games.
In fact, I play offline all the time and only fire up Impulse (I haven't needed to run it to play the games) when I check for updates.
Unfortunately you are anonymous, but in case you read this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/7eaa/
Is this the game? I just chose an online retailer, there are probably brick and mortar stores.
This is the company that makes the above one:
http://www.khet.com/
I don't think so.
Even if fined or charged by a federal/state/provincial body I think the victims are still allowed to attempt civil charges against the company (please correct me if I am wrong).
Although that $50 million fine will probably "wipe out" all their assets so they have nothing left to pay the victims.
They didn't buy it for him.
He bought it himself and when they found out they tried to take it away, and he killed them for it.
At least that is what I remember from the initial story on Slashdot a little bit ago.
Personally I hope you never succeed or at least not with the way general smoking laws are now. I wish they would ban all smoking in public places, including sidewalks. You want to smoke in your house, fine, I don't care, but when you're smoking on the street and the wind blows into me I get a massive migraine and my throat starts closing up, almost immediately. Pot smoke is even worse, I get violently ill and nauseous and pretty much upchuck or get dry heaves right there. Make self-contained smoking bubbles for around your head or whatnot, I don't care, just don't let it get to me.
Yea well, depending on your perspective your the car thief.
Your infected computer is causing my company time and money to deal with the crap your causing. By your carjacking anecdote it's all right for me take a bat and threaten to bash your computer unless you get it fixed?
I hate to say it, but that is a risk you take.
Admittedly software isn't is as good a position as say a book, or anything else in that we can skim a lot of the material before purchasing or even return it.
However, I agree with their concerns about trying to show all the gameplay. The gameplay mechanics should be able to easily be put into the couple minute demo, how you move around, how you interact with the environment. For actual gameplay experience you're going to have to trust reviews of people you've agreed with in the past. Movies have some of the same limitations, you've either seen it or haven't. Sure there are trailers, but often there are parts in the trailer that are not in the theatrical release, or all the good parts are all in the trailer and the rest of the movie sucked.
And while there isn't much diversity in in-store demos admittedly, for several big games you can often see a display of it being played, or get a chance to do so yourself. If they could somehow expand this, I think it would be a nice compromise. This wouldn't work for small stores or in the middle of nowhere where it wouldn't be profitable admittedly.
I'd settle for a 1-3 minute linear run through a random area.
Put some explosions, or something else that usually chokes a computer in there somewhere and let me see how it runs and how it looks with my system.
I don't need the see 1/4 of the story to see if I might like the game, but just an idea of how it plays.
Actually, if you read Harpers throne speeches carefully, he hints at plans to exploit the resources there as much as possible.
He doesn't quite directly say that he wants to pillage the land, but he does mention resource acquisition, and an increased presence, and given his origins (Alberta) and his general environmental stance, I expect nothing more than a token environmental front to the whole northern area and as many resources as he can effectively pull out of it.
The point of the cyanide pill isn't to give your life for the cause.
They want to live. The point is to sacrifice yourself before they can question you.
That's why in "Tomorrow Never Dies" M chastises Bond for not using it when he was captured, because they think he was the one spilling secrets.