I won't buy either set until DVD can no longer be played, and the player I have stops working. Have I spent a fortune on the sets?
NO!
I waited until the DVD set of the original trilogy was relased that had older versions of the movie. The CG used in special edition is glaring in the sense it doesn't match the rest of the film: watch the scene added of the fighters in space on their way to the Death Star in A New Hope. My beef was that, and not that Holo shot first stuff.
Did I mention I waited until Amazon had them on sale, and that it was after the VHS set I had(orignal trilogy in a VHS release before Special Edition) finally stopped working. So Lucas isn't seeing much from me at all. I'm not an idiot that will buy every relase, and I'm only OCD about cleaning, organization, and logic.
No, I'll keep my capitalism. I don't buy much music or movies because it's complete s@#@@! The good stuff I do pay for, and I DO NOT WANT THE GOVERNMENT deciding whom to pay. Idiots or corrut aholes will pay the crappiest artists instead.
Has no one in the US learned that socialism means more government beuracracy?
Since when has the government effectively managed money, or any form of social welfare?
I would rather decide the private institution that gets my money, and that's the way it should be. At times that it's most needed the US citizenry comes through with aid. We conributed more than the rest of the world to Haiti. Even though I'm unemployed I dropped some money to the Red Cross.
Right now the government is taking too much money, and that's proven by the fact they are increasing the national debt by comepletely wasting it on stupid things. No business should receive a bailout, and the banks I use never even came close to needing it(even with free checking that doesn't require a minimum balance or direct deposit.) We should be closing all foreign miliary bases, ending both wars, and focusing the money on military research(led to the internet and most modern tech so why stop.)
The weird thing is that as an adult I tend to stray away from the extremes like GTA and Manhunt. I'll play something like WoW, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, or Spyro. On occasion a game like Medal of Honor(yeah, skip the level playing as the terrorist) because it's something that lets me avoid the merciless slaughter of innocents. That's because my stomach turns with killing civilians in GTA(I also don't enjoy the high amounts of foul language.) I'm not some highly religious nut, just an athiest.
It's something I would pass on to my kids by playing games with them, and teaching them killing innocent people is bad. That's the problem though. Too many adults have kids, but then want nothing to do with raising them: it's called giving them up for adoption.
I have a 50Mbs connection and have no problems streaming anything or loading webpages. I'm conent. To upgrade the speed in this rural area the costs would be really high, and cause interuptions. After the upgrade was complete I would be paying more for the connection. This is a capitalist country and it's completely unfair to expect a company to upgrade the lines, if 99% of it's customers are happy with their speed, and still charge the same rates. My cost would go up for more bandwidth that I'm not using.
One thing I am doing is downgrading my connection speed to save $15 a month from $45.
Those of you in countries that have really high taxes so the government can do the upgrades can have you 1Gb connection. I'll keep my taxes low, and my internet costs low(charity works as some teens died and the funerary expenses were raised to help the families in a couple of days in this terrible economy.)
With firefox I normally see a plugin container running under processes, so it should be possible to make the container a sandbox that does that. I'm not sure if IE has a process that manages addons.
I would imagine it tells flash it's storing the cookie where it wants to, but uses a pointer to the address of the firefox cookie folder; then tells flash it grabbed it from the location flash said it was stored?
You also realize I specified Firefox, etc. That means I was speaking of all browsers. I would be happy with just firefox doing that.
Also, you can completely block cookies now if you want to, and that was not my intent. It was simply to have them placed in a single location for easier management.
I would love to not need CCleaner(or whatever third party cleaner that grabs flash files) to clean out the cookies. Easy removal of Flash cookies is not the only thing. Microsoft, Mozilla, etc should force ALL cookies into one folder, and cause an error if a javascript(or any script) or flash attempts to place a cookie outside that one specific location.
Websitest that do this will be forced to comply or not get the data they need. An argument that they will hold customers hostage by not allowing the cookies at all is not valid. Those sites would cave rather than lose the money waiting for MS etc to change their minds.
I only need to check my immediate left and right really quick. The mirrors on the Jeep Patriot are larger like most trucks, so I get a better spread: managed to get them so the blind spot is really small. For backing into a parking space I use them, the rear view, and looking back. They are tall enough I get the white lines of the space in them.
Also, more cars need the bouncy plastic collapsing mirrors like it. There are some tight parking spaces, and being able to fold my mirror to the side to get by it is sweet. The thing I hate is that it's mostly SUVs and trucks that have these features.
He's a lawyer so he has the money, and once it's done he can motion for his legal fees. I would imagine he could argue that it's the amount he would have gotten had he been able to charge a client for that time normally, but coulnd't because of the frivolous suit.
I wouldn't. I use a hands free device, and am perfectly safe. Some drivers do get distracted by the conversation. The problem is we would have to somehow prevent all talking in cars, disable any radios or mp4 players too.
Oh yeah, so how would the srambler work? Could it detect a flat and disable itself so you can call for a tow because you can't get the spare out; Jeep put mine in so tight, and the bolt so deep none of my tools would work. Yes, I have a basic car toolkit in the back just in case(with the snow brush, frost scraper, jumpers, tire four bar, and a blanket.)
This would be a stupid idea just for the increased safety risk it would impose in the event of accident or breakdown.
I agree the sum awarded is excessive. If she appealed that in the Supreme Court she can get it reduced as the Constitution does place a 'reasonable amount' on damages and fines.
The case of McDonalds v. the Coffee in Lap Lady for example.
McDs appealed the million plus dollar ruling and had it reduced to $300,000. The Supreme Court decided it was excessive to award over a million for her injuries.
From a Business Law standpoint my professor taught me this. Check to see IF they can pay the fine AND then sue. It's not worth the legal expense if you can't get back the legal costs. There are even judges that will give no award if the defendant has no money.
I'm not a lawyer, just studying to be an Accountant, but it makes sense.
It doesn't matter if that is the fine imposed by the law either. The Supreme Court can rule that in the case of home file sharers(not considered in the original law) there are exceptions if they are not generating money from it: since the original law was to fine the people making and selling bootlegs.
I love that exemption to federal wiretapping law. It's a good thing.
Why?
If I call Citi Bank resolving an issue, then I find out later that it wasn't and they bring me to court, I can use the record of the phone call(with my one party consent) as evidence in my favor.
In fact, there should be federal and state exemptions for this law. Call it the Legal Matters Clause. The clause would allow for one party consent in any case that a legal matter is discussed. All phone calls to a company about a product or service falls under contract law, and matters of will fall under laws regarding the transfer of assets.
I fully agree with the judges decision on this matter. Wiretapping laws were meant to prevent people recording me doing mundane or private acts, not discussing a legal matter.
It's got aquatic landing gear capability, can carry a large payload, and it works as long as it's well maintained. It's Alaska so you need the older aircraft with those specifications. Given that this one was owned by a company that deals with power or cable in the state they need something that can be converted from passenger to cargo, and land on water in remote areas.
Old plane models are perfectly fine if they are well maintained, why else do you still see WWII fighters still flying?
As for this crash it could have been a mechanical failure, but given the fact weather prevented rescue for so long it may be weather related.
1) Atmospheric reflection(hmm five lights moving really fast can't be a five fighter formation?) 2) Many bombers encountered ball lightning in WWII but because of lack of science education classified them as UFOs 3) Astronauts aren't seeing aliens. 4) X Planes: Flying wings were classified as aliens but have been in development since WWII. Area 51 was just a base for testing classified military aircraft. 5) Alien abductions are a) mass hysteria and b) usually involve some sort of dream or psychotic episode. 6) Roswell was established as a military x-plane crash at a later date. (The aliens being test pilots in jump suits some drunken hick though were aliens.)
As i feel the U.S. Soldier(I'm a US Citizen) that leaked that classified footage should be tried by court marshal(he was a US Soldier in a US Military facility therefore it shouldn't be a civilian court) for treason, and executed by a firing squad should he be found guilty.
I, with my Libertarian viewpoint, also feel that we should close all foreign bases, and put the tax dollars into researching military and space technology(for military and exploratory purposes.) That way we can increase our ability to defend ourselves from foreign attack, in addition to developing better technology.
That said, I still agree with the above poster. Lives are still being endangered, and most people probably don't care about reading those documents: except people that dislike the US Government.
I wanted sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads! Not Misquitos! Oh looK, a laser pointer on my arm! All the enemy has to do is not get it pointed in his eye.
*presses button on chair, floor opens, scream heard*
I would say there is also a corporate greed problem in the U.S. if you look at the difference between the pay levels of employees to executives up.
They also like having making the most profits they can for investors; then if it will cost them a great deal to upgrade infrastructure that not many people will go for, if it means my cost will go even higher for 24Mbs(at $55 a month,) then I wouldn't want it.
I was looking at Boston rent and in the city $2,000 a month is cheap with the Boston area at around $1000 a month. In my state rent is lower in the country (~$600 a month for a 1 bedroom.) That means if they improve the infrastructure they will be asking customers in a high cost of living area already to pay even more money during a recession that's not getting better so people are tightening their wallets even more. I didn't even include the cost of heat, water, and electricity because I don't know what that would do to a Bostonian budget.
So they way I see it there is no reason to add more capacity unless they need to add more subscribers because 24Mbs is more than enough for most users. Hell, I might even drop it down to 16Mbs because World of Warcraft will still run fine with it, and so will the videos I do watch.
That makes the fundamental problem not enough people actually want more bandwidth because of cost or just not needing it, and the point of any business is to make money so they won't invest unless they have enough demand.
If it's just an issue of the TVs being wall mounted it's a simple solution. My high school had wall mounted TVs; they solved the VCR issue by having wood shop make shelves, and mounted them near the televisions. If it's a matter of security too maybe talk to metal shop. Its not a tiny town I live in but it's still small. We used the metal and wood shops to make things the district needed to maximize resources.
In graphic design all the students made tickets for school dances, pamplets, etc. With the best being selected by the person needing them for mass production(we had a binder so small booklets could be printed and bound with glue.)
If the cost of them is the issue then I'm not sure about a solution.
I should have better linked that sentence with the piracy sentence. In context of that article, however, I remember seeing that as the official line for the lack of foreign content long ago. The article just seems like a late comer to an issue that has existed for a long time, lacking good research.
The only thing I managed to really garner from this article is this, it's about Apples country restrictions on music and movies.
If the economist did a bit more research independently they would see it's a rights management issue from the content generators. Music and film in both the US and UK tend to restrict certain things like to their respective countries on a belief it's the only way everyone gets their dues.
It's the reason the silly regional encoding exists for the encryption on almost every DVD; my Discovery Channel Living With Wolves DVD lacked any sort of encryption. Partly the irrational fear that artists won't get their rightful dues, because of currency exchange rates. Piracy fears I think are the biggest concern on the media companies not letting stuff out of the country digitally.
Along with the fact they make probably loads licensing manufacturers in other countries to make them locally and get around tariffs.
I rarely pass 20GB, and that's only if I get a new game on Steam or download an old one. Sixty gigs is a low limit only if you download tons of games, music, and movies each month.
I'm just being honest that, on some level, someone has to have an obsession with downloading everything they can; not likely watching, listening, or reading it.
Not necessarily. I don't even come close to that much bandwidth a month. If you download a ton of games on Steam, and stream many movies on Netflix then you might: or lots from BT ETC.
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I won't buy either set until DVD can no longer be played, and the player I have stops working. Have I spent a fortune on the sets?
NO!
I waited until the DVD set of the original trilogy was relased that had older versions of the movie. The CG used in special edition is glaring in the sense it doesn't match the rest of the film: watch the scene added of the fighters in space on their way to the Death Star in A New Hope. My beef was that, and not that Holo shot first stuff.
Did I mention I waited until Amazon had them on sale, and that it was after the VHS set I had(orignal trilogy in a VHS release before Special Edition) finally stopped working. So Lucas isn't seeing much from me at all. I'm not an idiot that will buy every relase, and I'm only OCD about cleaning, organization, and logic.
No, I'll keep my capitalism. I don't buy much music or movies because it's complete s@#@@! The good stuff I do pay for, and I DO NOT WANT THE GOVERNMENT deciding whom to pay. Idiots or corrut aholes will pay the crappiest artists instead.
Has no one in the US learned that socialism means more government beuracracy?
Since when has the government effectively managed money, or any form of social welfare?
I would rather decide the private institution that gets my money, and that's the way it should be. At times that it's most needed the US citizenry comes through with aid. We conributed more than the rest of the world to Haiti. Even though I'm unemployed I dropped some money to the Red Cross.
Right now the government is taking too much money, and that's proven by the fact they are increasing the national debt by comepletely wasting it on stupid things. No business should receive a bailout, and the banks I use never even came close to needing it(even with free checking that doesn't require a minimum balance or direct deposit.) We should be closing all foreign miliary bases, ending both wars, and focusing the money on military research(led to the internet and most modern tech so why stop.)
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The weird thing is that as an adult I tend to stray away from the extremes like GTA and Manhunt. I'll play something like WoW, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, or Spyro. On occasion a game like Medal of Honor(yeah, skip the level playing as the terrorist) because it's something that lets me avoid the merciless slaughter of innocents. That's because my stomach turns with killing civilians in GTA(I also don't enjoy the high amounts of foul language.) I'm not some highly religious nut, just an athiest.
It's something I would pass on to my kids by playing games with them, and teaching them killing innocent people is bad. That's the problem though. Too many adults have kids, but then want nothing to do with raising them: it's called giving them up for adoption.
...and absolutely unecesary for most people.
I have a 50Mbs connection and have no problems streaming anything or loading webpages. I'm conent. To upgrade the speed in this rural area the costs would be really high, and cause interuptions. After the upgrade was complete I would be paying more for the connection. This is a capitalist country and it's completely unfair to expect a company to upgrade the lines, if 99% of it's customers are happy with their speed, and still charge the same rates. My cost would go up for more bandwidth that I'm not using.
One thing I am doing is downgrading my connection speed to save $15 a month from $45.
Those of you in countries that have really high taxes so the government can do the upgrades can have you 1Gb connection. I'll keep my taxes low, and my internet costs low(charity works as some teens died and the funerary expenses were raised to help the families in a couple of days in this terrible economy.)
With firefox I normally see a plugin container running under processes, so it should be possible to make the container a sandbox that does that. I'm not sure if IE has a process that manages addons.
I would imagine it tells flash it's storing the cookie where it wants to, but uses a pointer to the address of the firefox cookie folder; then tells flash it grabbed it from the location flash said it was stored?
You also realize I specified Firefox, etc. That means I was speaking of all browsers. I would be happy with just firefox doing that.
Also, you can completely block cookies now if you want to, and that was not my intent. It was simply to have them placed in a single location for easier management.
I would love to not need CCleaner(or whatever third party cleaner that grabs flash files) to clean out the cookies. Easy removal of Flash cookies is not the only thing. Microsoft, Mozilla, etc should force ALL cookies into one folder, and cause an error if a javascript(or any script) or flash attempts to place a cookie outside that one specific location.
Websitest that do this will be forced to comply or not get the data they need. An argument that they will hold customers hostage by not allowing the cookies at all is not valid. Those sites would cave rather than lose the money waiting for MS etc to change their minds.
I only need to check my immediate left and right really quick. The mirrors on the Jeep Patriot are larger like most trucks, so I get a better spread: managed to get them so the blind spot is really small. For backing into a parking space I use them, the rear view, and looking back. They are tall enough I get the white lines of the space in them.
Also, more cars need the bouncy plastic collapsing mirrors like it. There are some tight parking spaces, and being able to fold my mirror to the side to get by it is sweet. The thing I hate is that it's mostly SUVs and trucks that have these features.
He's a lawyer so he has the money, and once it's done he can motion for his legal fees. I would imagine he could argue that it's the amount he would have gotten had he been able to charge a client for that time normally, but coulnd't because of the frivolous suit.
I wouldn't. I use a hands free device, and am perfectly safe. Some drivers do get distracted by the conversation. The problem is we would have to somehow prevent all talking in cars, disable any radios or mp4 players too.
Oh yeah, so how would the srambler work? Could it detect a flat and disable itself so you can call for a tow because you can't get the spare out; Jeep put mine in so tight, and the bolt so deep none of my tools would work. Yes, I have a basic car toolkit in the back just in case(with the snow brush, frost scraper, jumpers, tire four bar, and a blanket.)
This would be a stupid idea just for the increased safety risk it would impose in the event of accident or breakdown.
I'm forseeing a class action lawsuit over the single player lockout issue.
I agree the sum awarded is excessive. If she appealed that in the Supreme Court she can get it reduced as the Constitution does place a 'reasonable amount' on damages and fines.
The case of McDonalds v. the Coffee in Lap Lady for example.
McDs appealed the million plus dollar ruling and had it reduced to $300,000. The Supreme Court decided it was excessive to award over a million for her injuries.
From a Business Law standpoint my professor taught me this. Check to see IF they can pay the fine AND then sue. It's not worth the legal expense if you can't get back the legal costs. There are even judges that will give no award if the defendant has no money.
I'm not a lawyer, just studying to be an Accountant, but it makes sense.
It doesn't matter if that is the fine imposed by the law either. The Supreme Court can rule that in the case of home file sharers(not considered in the original law) there are exceptions if they are not generating money from it: since the original law was to fine the people making and selling bootlegs.
I love that exemption to federal wiretapping law. It's a good thing.
Why?
If I call Citi Bank resolving an issue, then I find out later that it wasn't and they bring me to court, I can use the record of the phone call(with my one party consent) as evidence in my favor.
In fact, there should be federal and state exemptions for this law. Call it the Legal Matters Clause. The clause would allow for one party consent in any case that a legal matter is discussed. All phone calls to a company about a product or service falls under contract law, and matters of will fall under laws regarding the transfer of assets.
I fully agree with the judges decision on this matter. Wiretapping laws were meant to prevent people recording me doing mundane or private acts, not discussing a legal matter.
It's got aquatic landing gear capability, can carry a large payload, and it works as long as it's well maintained. It's Alaska so you need the older aircraft with those specifications. Given that this one was owned by a company that deals with power or cable in the state they need something that can be converted from passenger to cargo, and land on water in remote areas.
Old plane models are perfectly fine if they are well maintained, why else do you still see WWII fighters still flying?
As for this crash it could have been a mechanical failure, but given the fact weather prevented rescue for so long it may be weather related.
I thought the cookie monster changed his diet to include good things within the last few years.
It's:
1) Atmospheric reflection(hmm five lights moving really fast can't be a five fighter formation?)
2) Many bombers encountered ball lightning in WWII but because of lack of science education classified them as UFOs
3) Astronauts aren't seeing aliens.
4) X Planes: Flying wings were classified as aliens but have been in development since WWII. Area 51 was just a base for testing classified military aircraft.
5) Alien abductions are a) mass hysteria and b) usually involve some sort of dream or psychotic episode.
6) Roswell was established as a military x-plane crash at a later date. (The aliens being test pilots in jump suits some drunken hick though were aliens.)
As i feel the U.S. Soldier(I'm a US Citizen) that leaked that classified footage should be tried by court marshal(he was a US Soldier in a US Military facility therefore it shouldn't be a civilian court) for treason, and executed by a firing squad should he be found guilty.
I, with my Libertarian viewpoint, also feel that we should close all foreign bases, and put the tax dollars into researching military and space technology(for military and exploratory purposes.) That way we can increase our ability to defend ourselves from foreign attack, in addition to developing better technology.
That said, I still agree with the above poster. Lives are still being endangered, and most people probably don't care about reading those documents: except people that dislike the US Government.
I wanted sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads! Not Misquitos! Oh looK, a laser pointer on my arm! All the enemy has to do is not get it pointed in his eye.
*presses button on chair, floor opens, scream heard*
I would say there is also a corporate greed problem in the U.S. if you look at the difference between the pay levels of employees to executives up.
They also like having making the most profits they can for investors; then if it will cost them a great deal to upgrade infrastructure that not many people will go for, if it means my cost will go even higher for 24Mbs(at $55 a month,) then I wouldn't want it.
I was looking at Boston rent and in the city $2,000 a month is cheap with the Boston area at around $1000 a month. In my state rent is lower in the country (~$600 a month for a 1 bedroom.) That means if they improve the infrastructure they will be asking customers in a high cost of living area already to pay even more money during a recession that's not getting better so people are tightening their wallets even more. I didn't even include the cost of heat, water, and electricity because I don't know what that would do to a Bostonian budget.
So they way I see it there is no reason to add more capacity unless they need to add more subscribers because 24Mbs is more than enough for most users. Hell, I might even drop it down to 16Mbs because World of Warcraft will still run fine with it, and so will the videos I do watch.
That makes the fundamental problem not enough people actually want more bandwidth because of cost or just not needing it, and the point of any business is to make money so they won't invest unless they have enough demand.
If it's just an issue of the TVs being wall mounted it's a simple solution. My high school had wall mounted TVs; they solved the VCR issue by having wood shop make shelves, and mounted them near the televisions. If it's a matter of security too maybe talk to metal shop. Its not a tiny town I live in but it's still small. We used the metal and wood shops to make things the district needed to maximize resources.
In graphic design all the students made tickets for school dances, pamplets, etc. With the best being selected by the person needing them for mass production(we had a binder so small booklets could be printed and bound with glue.)
If the cost of them is the issue then I'm not sure about a solution.
I should have better linked that sentence with the piracy sentence. In context of that article, however, I remember seeing that as the official line for the lack of foreign content long ago. The article just seems like a late comer to an issue that has existed for a long time, lacking good research.
The only thing I managed to really garner from this article is this, it's about Apples country restrictions on music and movies.
If the economist did a bit more research independently they would see it's a rights management issue from the content generators. Music and film in both the US and UK tend to restrict certain things like to their respective countries on a belief it's the only way everyone gets their dues.
It's the reason the silly regional encoding exists for the encryption on almost every DVD; my Discovery Channel Living With Wolves DVD lacked any sort of encryption.
Partly the irrational fear that artists won't get their rightful dues, because of currency exchange rates. Piracy fears I think are the biggest concern on the media companies not letting stuff out of the country digitally.
Along with the fact they make probably loads licensing manufacturers in other countries to make them locally and get around tariffs.
Low limit?
I rarely pass 20GB, and that's only if I get a new game on Steam or download an old one. Sixty gigs is a low limit only if you download tons of games, music, and movies each month.
I'm just being honest that, on some level, someone has to have an obsession with downloading everything they can; not likely watching, listening, or reading it.
Not necessarily. I don't even come close to that much bandwidth a month. If you download a ton of games on Steam, and stream many movies on Netflix then you might: or lots from BT ETC.
Price is still a major hurdle to that hope. It's more than 3K for a 1TB SSD right now and $120 for a 30GB SSD(the same price as a 1TB SATA drive.)
In time it will replace it but not in the near future unless the prices drop to a reasonable level for a market shift.