bunch of normal console games with GameCube level graphics
I know I shouldn't but I have to bite on this one. So far everything I've seen from the Wii looks quite a bit above the Gamecube in graphics level, which I think leaves it in great shape given that Resident Evil 4 was one of the best looking games of any console of the previous generation.
There is a huge differnace wtih software piracy vs. music piracy. With bigger bands they receive royalties from radio play and all bands make money playing shows. With software/games you have only the sale. That is it.
Depends on your deffinition of serious. We once had a chemical plant explosion that required immediate evacuation of the premises and several mile radius of the plant (which included a few residential zones). Everything was evacuated within an hour, the chemicals were contained within 4 hours, and cleaned up within 24. Within a month the plant what operating again almost back to full capacity. If the plans weren't drafted ahead of time there would have been much more confusion of who had to evacuate, how to handle the chemicals, and clean up would have taken at least a week, but since there was already a plan in place the loss was minimal.
The last 3 companies I worked for, and 2 orginizations I am involved with all have disater recovery plans. Every large company I know of has somewhere in the building a really large 3 ring binder filled with plans on what to do in case of flood, fire, chemical spill, tornado, etc. The what to do not only covers immediate response but also steps to recovery. One company I worked for even had plans in case of a nuclear attack (but I think it was drafted during the cold war and no one saw a reason to eliminate it).
So that is why my tube is so slow, your mom is clogging it up! (Man, I wish I was clever enough to make that into a fat joke, but alas I hit the rum too early this evening).
Come on now, he didn't comment on every aspect of China, just the corporate one. And to be fair in the corporate arena you pretty much have to do what the competition is doing to stay in business, wither it be espionage, bribes, maximizing efficiency, price cutting, or advertising.
You made a few mistakes, this is DARPA we are talking about, so it should be:
1) Space recycler, makes space junk into man-made aimable meteors.
2) The REAL off switch for competing positional systems and other countries targeting satellites.
3) No change needed, you were dead on.
4) Control who gets to space.
5) Guarantee that SkyNet is undefeatable, and that resistance will be futile.
Just so you know, you can limit it so only your friends can see your profile (and you have to accept people requesting to be your friend). Also remember that on networks other people are involved (as in even if you aren't on the network someone might put stuff about you or picture of you in embarrassing situations online).
Don't be fooled. Wars are about resources, religion is used to accomplish the goal. The Crusades weren't about spreading Christianity, they were about taking products, markets, trade routes, and land. Later Crusades didn't even attempt to hide this fact. Even with half the Crusades had trouble organizing due to wars in Europe (the 4th Crusade, for example, took a long time to start because England was in war with France and Germany was fighting the papacy. If there wasn't the policy of the first heir taking all of the family inheritance no armies would have ever been formed for the crusades.
Alright, replace the KKK with the Nation of Islam then. The Nation of Islam was(is?) pro-segregation while there is no doubt the members were(are?) discriminated against and were(are?) victims of racism.
I hate to do this because I pretty much agree with you but...
Go to Cambodia and tell people that, see how far you get.
That is a horrible argument. For example how ridiculous would countering a diversity argument with "Go to a KKK meeting and tell people that, see how far you get" sound?
I tend to disgree. I think the means to end the war with Japan were justified by the ends. If it didn't end the way it did the action would not have been been justified, and pretty much all other means were much worse ends (a land war would have been much worse for everyone involved).
You haven't needed an invite for some time now. I believe you still need to have a cell phone that accepts text messages, but you haven't needed an invite for like a year. I signed up for my gmail; I never received an invite.
(it is not the running that is the issue, it is the copies needed to be made for running it and those ar enot infringing)
I am not understanding your argument here at all, for Windows does not need any copies made in order to run the program (unless you buy a licence any for some reason don't get the software for the licence). That clause in copyright law is that you can make a copy if you need to in order to use the item in question, in the case of Windows it is unneeded, so that clause is irrelevant.
You don't need a license to copy windows for archival purposes, but you do need a licence to run it, since you don't actually own the program (you own the licence to use the program, which almost always comes with a copy of the program).
Sorry. I should not be subject to your lack of attention on the road.
So should people not be allowed to listen to and sing along with music, because I've seen some people that are deffinitely not paying attention to the road while "rocking out" to their music. Or not allowed to eat in their car? I've had seen several businessmen veer out of their lane after spilling some sort of sauce on their shirt. How about we eliminate carpool lanes and not allow passengers, since you are more likely to have more engrossing conversations with them since you also have body language to process and pay attention to. And I don't know about your car but I can hit the turn signal with my left hand without it leaving the wheel.
Spoiled young'n. If I recall correctly RealPlayer for linux supports MP3's right from the start, if you feel like putting realplayer into your distro. In order to play MP3's you need to have a program that pays the fee to decode MP3's. You used to have to download Winamp or an alternitive if you wanted to listen to compressed music, but now Windows Media Player pays the fee and is included on every Windows computer and iTunes pays the fee and is included on every Apple computer. If you can talk a distro into including realplayer, or if you want to start a company that pays the fee and roll out a media player for linux then you can have your out-of-the-box MP3 support.
You obviously don't pay for cable. The channels come in packages I have to pay for. In one of those packages is ABC/NBC/Comedy Central/ESPN etc., in another is Animal Planet/MTV2/The N/Boomerang/etc., and in another is HBO/HBO2/etc., all of them you have to pay for, just some channels charge more then others (HBO and ESPN are the ones that charge the most I believe). Unless you are watching an over-the-air broadcast, you are paying for your TV programming. ESPN, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, MTV, et al. don't get paid by commercials alone, they also charge the cable and satellite companies in order to show their content.
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People used to say that about cars and computers...
bunch of normal console games with GameCube level graphics
I know I shouldn't but I have to bite on this one. So far everything I've seen from the Wii looks quite a bit above the Gamecube in graphics level, which I think leaves it in great shape given that Resident Evil 4 was one of the best looking games of any console of the previous generation.
There is a huge differnace wtih software piracy vs. music piracy. With bigger bands they receive royalties from radio play and all bands make money playing shows. With software/games you have only the sale. That is it.
Depends on your deffinition of serious. We once had a chemical plant explosion that required immediate evacuation of the premises and several mile radius of the plant (which included a few residential zones). Everything was evacuated within an hour, the chemicals were contained within 4 hours, and cleaned up within 24. Within a month the plant what operating again almost back to full capacity. If the plans weren't drafted ahead of time there would have been much more confusion of who had to evacuate, how to handle the chemicals, and clean up would have taken at least a week, but since there was already a plan in place the loss was minimal.
The last 3 companies I worked for, and 2 orginizations I am involved with all have disater recovery plans. Every large company I know of has somewhere in the building a really large 3 ring binder filled with plans on what to do in case of flood, fire, chemical spill, tornado, etc. The what to do not only covers immediate response but also steps to recovery. One company I worked for even had plans in case of a nuclear attack (but I think it was drafted during the cold war and no one saw a reason to eliminate it).
So that is why my tube is so slow, your mom is clogging it up! (Man, I wish I was clever enough to make that into a fat joke, but alas I hit the rum too early this evening).
Come on now, he didn't comment on every aspect of China, just the corporate one. And to be fair in the corporate arena you pretty much have to do what the competition is doing to stay in business, wither it be espionage, bribes, maximizing efficiency, price cutting, or advertising.
You made a few mistakes, this is DARPA we are talking about, so it should be:
1) Space recycler, makes space junk into man-made aimable meteors.
2) The REAL off switch for competing positional systems and other countries targeting satellites.
3) No change needed, you were dead on.
4) Control who gets to space.
5) Guarantee that SkyNet is undefeatable, and that resistance will be futile.
Just so you know, you can limit it so only your friends can see your profile (and you have to accept people requesting to be your friend). Also remember that on networks other people are involved (as in even if you aren't on the network someone might put stuff about you or picture of you in embarrassing situations online).
Don't be fooled. Wars are about resources, religion is used to accomplish the goal. The Crusades weren't about spreading Christianity, they were about taking products, markets, trade routes, and land. Later Crusades didn't even attempt to hide this fact. Even with half the Crusades had trouble organizing due to wars in Europe (the 4th Crusade, for example, took a long time to start because England was in war with France and Germany was fighting the papacy. If there wasn't the policy of the first heir taking all of the family inheritance no armies would have ever been formed for the crusades.
Alright, replace the KKK with the Nation of Islam then. The Nation of Islam was(is?) pro-segregation while there is no doubt the members were(are?) discriminated against and were(are?) victims of racism.
I hate to do this because I pretty much agree with you but...
Go to Cambodia and tell people that, see how far you get.
That is a horrible argument. For example how ridiculous would countering a diversity argument with "Go to a KKK meeting and tell people that, see how far you get" sound?
If I had mod points this comment would have received them.
That's why I am so smart, my password is qwertyQWERTY, no on expects it twice - and a change in case on top of that! Haha!
I tend to disgree. I think the means to end the war with Japan were justified by the ends. If it didn't end the way it did the action would not have been been justified, and pretty much all other means were much worse ends (a land war would have been much worse for everyone involved).
You haven't needed an invite for some time now. I believe you still need to have a cell phone that accepts text messages, but you haven't needed an invite for like a year. I signed up for my gmail; I never received an invite.
(it is not the running that is the issue, it is the copies needed to be made for running it and those ar enot infringing)
I am not understanding your argument here at all, for Windows does not need any copies made in order to run the program (unless you buy a licence any for some reason don't get the software for the licence). That clause in copyright law is that you can make a copy if you need to in order to use the item in question, in the case of Windows it is unneeded, so that clause is irrelevant.
You don't need a license to copy windows for archival purposes, but you do need a licence to run it, since you don't actually own the program (you own the licence to use the program, which almost always comes with a copy of the program).
Dude, they need more then a simle CD for all that software. It will cost them at least $350 :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_media_tax#Unite d_States
It only applies to CD's labeled as Music CD-R's and to stand-alone burners, but we have it.
Ahh, that is the answer! Who watches the watchers: the ones being watched!
Sorry. I should not be subject to your lack of attention on the road.
So should people not be allowed to listen to and sing along with music, because I've seen some people that are deffinitely not paying attention to the road while "rocking out" to their music. Or not allowed to eat in their car? I've had seen several businessmen veer out of their lane after spilling some sort of sauce on their shirt. How about we eliminate carpool lanes and not allow passengers, since you are more likely to have more engrossing conversations with them since you also have body language to process and pay attention to. And I don't know about your car but I can hit the turn signal with my left hand without it leaving the wheel.
Spoiled young'n. If I recall correctly RealPlayer for linux supports MP3's right from the start, if you feel like putting realplayer into your distro. In order to play MP3's you need to have a program that pays the fee to decode MP3's. You used to have to download Winamp or an alternitive if you wanted to listen to compressed music, but now Windows Media Player pays the fee and is included on every Windows computer and iTunes pays the fee and is included on every Apple computer. If you can talk a distro into including realplayer, or if you want to start a company that pays the fee and roll out a media player for linux then you can have your out-of-the-box MP3 support.
You obviously don't pay for cable. The channels come in packages I have to pay for. In one of those packages is ABC/NBC/Comedy Central/ESPN etc., in another is Animal Planet/MTV2/The N/Boomerang/etc., and in another is HBO/HBO2/etc., all of them you have to pay for, just some channels charge more then others (HBO and ESPN are the ones that charge the most I believe). Unless you are watching an over-the-air broadcast, you are paying for your TV programming. ESPN, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, MTV, et al. don't get paid by commercials alone, they also charge the cable and satellite companies in order to show their content.
Draftsmen also roll papers, and stoners.