Disclaimer: my post was NOT an attempt to diminish the American soldiers in the Pacific Theater. It's actually my favourite part of that War, especially the engagements off the Philippines (go go Taffy 3).
Excepting the fact that France fought on their own soil, while the Pacific Theater was, for the most part a war in neutral territory. I don't recall American cities invaded, their resources taken, nor their industry shelled. The European Theater was an entirely different scenario.
One attack on Pearl Harbour, some abortive amusement in the Aleutians, and some silliness involving balloons was all the USA suffered at home.
Honestly, Europe would have defeated Germany had the US not got involved at all, attrition and the turning points in Russia and over Britain assured that pretty much. The only difference would been how much of Europe spoke Russian.
It was televised in north america during the Mid-80s. 22 years ago. So you'd only needed to have been what, 26 to remember it vaguely, 30 to remember it well, and 40 to be a little old (18) to be watching Saturday Morning cartoons.
It's amusing how it has went from people defending copying on the basis: "some people wouldn't have bought it anyways" to it now being the absolute "pirates wouldn't have bought it anyways".
Fact is there ARE people who CAN afford it, WOULD afford it, but have the mindset of "Why pay when I can dl CD-quality, burn it and have it?". I know people who want albums once they come out, but just will torrent it. Previously (pre-Intarweb) they'd have went to a MusicWorld or such, or were members of music clubs..but now? I include myself in this catagory as well: there are albums I've mp3s of that I'd have bought otherwise.
Remove the pirating mechanism and a percentage of people would return to buying CDs: someone has to be the friend with the original copy if you're going to copy it, afterall.
Might want to change that analogy to "Piracy is ethically no different than asking people on the street if they have an item you want, so you can make an exact replica, and take the replica with you, leaving the original item unharmed".
Reminds me though, need to dl a recording of that Kanno concert in Korea:P
No, your idea of ownership is preposterous. All of those resources, products, and services do not belong to you. You are living on land that is stolen and consuming products that are the end result of theft, slavery, and murder. Wildlife would do well if the First Nations got up and left to go back home where it came from.
look: blindly embracing and excusing the usa (or any nation) is simple stupid nationalism
but blindly kicking and incriminating the usa (or any nation) is EQUALLY simple and stupid nationalism
Agreed. However the question I'm wonder is: do the other nations raise nearly as much of a stink about being 'ripped off'?
Trouble for me is no products really come to mind other than say, foreign films which are gleefully subbed and distributed here (e.g. anime, chinese films like "crouching tiger, hidden dragon"). It isn't until the american companies start to distribute them do you hear a stink about the fansubs.
I wouldn't call the US blameless (by any streatch), nor the only culprit in 'theft' (any by any streatch)...but it does seem that they are the ones that raise a stink if they are the victim, while overlooking their own transgressions.
Wonder what the issue with the CE bulbs is then. I've multiple ones throughout the house, in ceiling fans, standalone lamps, and in lighting 'trees'. Most exhibit instant illumination: as fast as the switch clicks it's lite. Some fixtures however have a momentary pause. Maybe the fixture is part of the cause of the delay?
You see on a landphone you are connected to the person you're talking to over a wire, no problem.
On a cell phone, you have to go thru the air first to the tower, and from there it goes thru a line to the other person. Because of that distance, you have to speak louder (c.f. shouting across the street). I'm assuming you are not the person being called, but in the presence of the cell phone user and hence your confusion about his volume. Rest assured on the other end his volume is just adequate.
*Basing this on a coworker who I've noted talks louder depending on how far away the person is he's calling...inside the same building, over the same internal lines. >.
Muckety Muck: Last quarter your unit had profits of $1.5mil. But this quarter you have a loss of $.5mil. Care to explain?
Weasely Sony Music Exec: Well, last quarter we had this awesome protection system on our cds noone noticed, and losses to pirates were down. But by this quarter the DRM was found out and we had stopped using it.
Muckety Muck: You've proof your losses were from pirates after this DRM was removed, and not negative publicity from your actions?
Weasely Sony Music Exec: Directly, no. But when you look at the expected hurricanes this year and the actual hurricanes that occured, remembering global warming was the expected cause of them, and this graph showing the correlation between piracy and temperature, it's blatently obvious piracy has increased so our sales suffered.
I'm sure the Execs can shift the blame and spin the numbers to prove they were in the right somehow.
And here I thought the Lebanon civil war was Christians against Muslims, hence the current 'news' of Christians and Muslims joining in to protest the government and finding common ground.
Don't need to go all the way back to Crusades to find examples of violence like Nigeria or Liberia. Doesn't seem to be mass conversion attempts though, just killings and mosque burnings and attempts for goverment control/change.
Guessing that most of the hatred you're seeing is just of religon in general and today's topic's target is the Christians. Likely see as much vitrol were it a game called Jihad and you were Al-Quada instead.
Personally I find the game sad in that it seems to exemplify one of the traits most pathetic in the 'terrorists': convert and recant on film or die.
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Disclaimer: my post was NOT an attempt to diminish the American soldiers in the Pacific Theater. It's actually my favourite part of that War, especially the engagements off the Philippines (go go Taffy 3).
Excepting the fact that France fought on their own soil, while the Pacific Theater was, for the most part a war in neutral territory. I don't recall American cities invaded, their resources taken, nor their industry shelled. The European Theater was an entirely different scenario.
One attack on Pearl Harbour, some abortive amusement in the Aleutians, and some silliness involving balloons was all the USA suffered at home.
Honestly, Europe would have defeated Germany had the US not got involved at all, attrition and the turning points in Russia and over Britain assured that pretty much. The only difference would been how much of Europe spoke Russian.
It was televised in north america during the Mid-80s. 22 years ago. So you'd only needed to have been what, 26 to remember it vaguely, 30 to remember it well, and 40 to be a little old (18) to be watching Saturday Morning cartoons.
Buuut this is Robotech, not Macross. English-variant Minmei was...ugh. Rebecca Forstadt aka Reba West, same voice as the tanks in GitS.
Are you nuts? Last guy who went after Jean got a soapstone carving upside the head. A monster I tell you!
Seriously though, choice political attack weapon for Canada is pie...the only risk Howard would have been in was were it to have had been beef.
Umm...you're talking about the acid being tantalising, right? *just making sure*
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
"Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others."
It's amusing how it has went from people defending copying on the basis: "some people wouldn't have bought it anyways" to it now being the absolute "pirates wouldn't have bought it anyways".
:P
Fact is there ARE people who CAN afford it, WOULD afford it, but have the mindset of "Why pay when I can dl CD-quality, burn it and have it?". I know people who want albums once they come out, but just will torrent it. Previously (pre-Intarweb) they'd have went to a MusicWorld or such, or were members of music clubs..but now? I include myself in this catagory as well: there are albums I've mp3s of that I'd have bought otherwise.
Remove the pirating mechanism and a percentage of people would return to buying CDs: someone has to be the friend with the original copy if you're going to copy it, afterall.
Might want to change that analogy to "Piracy is ethically no different than asking people on the street if they have an item you want, so you can make an exact replica, and take the replica with you, leaving the original item unharmed".
Reminds me though, need to dl a recording of that Kanno concert in Korea
No, your idea of ownership is preposterous. All of those resources, products, and services do not belong to you. You are living on land that is stolen and consuming products that are the end result of theft, slavery, and murder. Wildlife would do well if the First Nations got up and left to go back home where it came from.
:P
They immigrated too ya know
Right, but when you send a message it would come out in the chat area as
<username> looking for DRM-free music? Come to mIRC #roio (irc.highway.net)for all your music needs
Ragnarok Online also uses it for letting players customise/control their homunculi and hired mercenaries.
Except where then did the money for the original car come from?
If you put it there, possibly some sort of charge for trying to cause injury or such would arise/suit be pressed...
but if some peckish beaver were to decide to partake of a nearby tree that just happened to fall...
...you did say it's the township, not you, responsible for maintaining (discovering) the state of the road 0:-)
Trouble is holding the beaver against that tree until he's hungery.
No, but there are a lot of people who aren't techie who own Macs
Might I suggest you read up on the activities of the Irgun prior to 48?
Neither side is blameless and that history of bloodshed by both sides keeps the deadlock.
You just gave me a mental picture of a group of 25-year-olds hanging outside the entrance to an electronic boutique...
"Hey Mister, if I give you $50 can you go in and get us a game?"
Trouble for me is no products really come to mind other than say, foreign films which are gleefully subbed and distributed here (e.g. anime, chinese films like "crouching tiger, hidden dragon"). It isn't until the american companies start to distribute them do you hear a stink about the fansubs.
I wouldn't call the US blameless (by any streatch), nor the only culprit in 'theft' (any by any streatch)...but it does seem that they are the ones that raise a stink if they are the victim, while overlooking their own transgressions.
Operation: Snowbird
You mean digging out Toronto?
Wonder what the issue with the CE bulbs is then. I've multiple ones throughout the house, in ceiling fans, standalone lamps, and in lighting 'trees'. Most exhibit instant illumination: as fast as the switch clicks it's lite. Some fixtures however have a momentary pause. Maybe the fixture is part of the cause of the delay?
Using EDXO-23 bulbs, 23W.
When I was in elementary school in early 80s, we used the UNIX-esque QNX OS on our computers.
It's all about distance.
You see on a landphone you are connected to the person you're talking to over a wire, no problem.
On a cell phone, you have to go thru the air first to the tower, and from there it goes thru a line to the other person. Because of that distance, you have to speak louder (c.f. shouting across the street). I'm assuming you are not the person being called, but in the presence of the cell phone user and hence your confusion about his volume. Rest assured on the other end his volume is just adequate.
*Basing this on a coworker who I've noted talks louder depending on how far away the person is he's calling...inside the same building, over the same internal lines. >.
You guys miss the spin:
Muckety Muck: Last quarter your unit had profits of $1.5mil. But this quarter you have a loss of $.5mil. Care to explain?
Weasely Sony Music Exec: Well, last quarter we had this awesome protection system on our cds noone noticed, and losses to pirates were down. But by this quarter the DRM was found out and we had stopped using it.
Muckety Muck: You've proof your losses were from pirates after this DRM was removed, and not negative publicity from your actions?
Weasely Sony Music Exec: Directly, no. But when you look at the expected hurricanes this year and the actual hurricanes that occured, remembering global warming was the expected cause of them, and this graph showing the correlation between piracy and temperature, it's blatently obvious piracy has increased so our sales suffered.
I'm sure the Execs can shift the blame and spin the numbers to prove they were in the right somehow.
And here I thought the Lebanon civil war was Christians against Muslims, hence the current 'news' of Christians and Muslims joining in to protest the government and finding common ground.
Don't need to go all the way back to Crusades to find examples of violence like Nigeria or Liberia. Doesn't seem to be mass conversion attempts though, just killings and mosque burnings and attempts for goverment control/change.
Guessing that most of the hatred you're seeing is just of religon in general and today's topic's target is the Christians. Likely see as much vitrol were it a game called Jihad and you were Al-Quada instead.
Personally I find the game sad in that it seems to exemplify one of the traits most pathetic in the 'terrorists': convert and recant on film or die.