This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Over prescription is a valid problem, but "fixing" it with magic water is not a valid solution. Only those who believe in homeopathic remedies will even have a big enough suspension of disbelief to believe the "medicine" is working. Everyone else is going to know they're banking on the placebo effect and going to want real medicine. I don't think government sponsored ignorance is a valid solution to anything, even if some people genuinely believe in homeopathy and want their doctors to give it to them. You're hurting your citizens based on their ignorance by offering them snake oil instead of a real cure.
I don't think it's anyone's business but mine if I want to accept working 80 hours a week. No one is forcing me (if your employer was forcing you then that would be different). The thought that my manager could be sent to jail if I lived where you did over a decision of my own making is what sounds ludicrous to me. Those kind of hours saved me on more than one occasion, and despite stints of varied length working 9am to 10pm at that job, I was never in any danger driving home. Sure if if those kind of hours were physically demanding I could see a problem, but sitting at a desk, or even an assembly line?
Because giving it away would be illegal per the licensing terms you apparently didn't understand when you agreed to them. You can do whatever you want with it except give it to someone else. The DRM-free nature of the music is not so you can just willy nilly give it to whoever you want; it's for your convenience.
What if they fell off the Earth in 2006, before the iPhone? You'd be using Android (which looks suspiciously like BBOS) on a Samsung that looks suspiciously like a BlackBerry
My god does that ever sound lovely. I recently had a smartphone with a touch screen thrust on me after years of holding out hoping I'd never have to deal with one, but thanks to Apple, almost no manufacturers care about good ol' tactile input anymore.
Your analogy makes no sense. You can't copyright/trademark/patent the end result of a recipe, or a recipe for that matter. The baker could not do anything if "his" bread was used. Not only that, if the baker sold the bread to someone and they put flax seeds on the baker's very own bread and resold it, there would be no legal recourse for the baker in that circumstance either.
I've seen some terrible analogies before, but this was was probably one of the worst. Stick to car analogies.
Thanks for the info. I went ahead and purchased it and just thought I'd share my experience.
All you need to do is download the client, hover over the Guild Wars 2 listing in the "My Games" section, and there's a CD key button. Clicking that, you can copy it and take it over to the official Guild Wars 2 website to register your account. Then you can download the client straight from ArenaNet. Then you can remove the GameStop app from your computer.
There was no finding something "extremely clever" here - Some high end items were mistakenly listed at such a drastically low price people were buying hundreds to thousands of them and reselling them. I find it incredibly hard to believe that anyone putting so much effort into buying these items thought what they were doing was legitimate. Not everyone who bought and resold the items were banned. Only the heaviest offenders were; the ones who had to know something was wrong with the prices in comparison to the items of equal quality nearby having much higher prices.
Economy is very important to these kinds of games. If people screw it up days after launch then it brings serious problems to the table.
I have no sympathy for those banned. They are even able to lift the ban provided certain terms are met.
Uhh. What? ArenaNet should be fined by their local state government entity because some in-game items in a video game purchased with pretend video game money earned in a video game was marked as cheaper than the intended price?
Can someone explain the "GameStop App" to me? Is it just a service for downloading the game or does it try to be Steam acting as some sort of management software? If possible, I'd like to download the game and forget I ever bought it at GameStop. Definitely not interested in another persistent application. Steam is enough in that regard.
Have you actually played it for any great length of time on the PS3? It actually gets really bad as more and more information is loaded and stored. Skyrim on the PS3 is already starved for memory. Adding more is probably out of the question. I doubt Bethesda would just throw their hands up in the air for no reason. I mean it's not as though this DLC is free, so it would be hard to assume they just don't think it's worth it at all out of laziness.
No, it's like the old days, when words were in "books", such as "dictionaries".
New words come into use all the time. How many things do we say now that has no entry in a dictionary yet? Bioengineering wasn't in dictionaries until ~1955. Before that, I suppose we had cynics like you trying to mock it since it's a newer concept? Give me a break.
It's practically the definition of pretentious. There is no reason to use the UK spelling in the states outside of marketing purposes, unless you're all from the UK and can't drop the habit. They're just using the centre spelling opposed to center to appear more sophisticated because that's often an image Joe Random here tends to get in their heads when we think about European culture, regardless of its grounding in reality. It's nothing more than a marketing tactic.
Do you even understand the topic you're talking about? I don't know how you can even begin to compare male circumcision vs female "circumcision." For females, it has absolutely no function outside of mutilating the vagina. There is no medical rationale for the procedure.
Whatever your views of male circumcision, attempting to put what they do to girls in the same category shows a large degree of ignorance on the subject and is completely out of touch with reality.
All referenced files are legitimate, and that was the original source (the digitalriver url). They are available for everyone as long as you have a valid CD key.
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Er, dude, the royal family over there have long since relinquished any actual power it had over the governing of its people.
This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Over prescription is a valid problem, but "fixing" it with magic water is not a valid solution. Only those who believe in homeopathic remedies will even have a big enough suspension of disbelief to believe the "medicine" is working. Everyone else is going to know they're banking on the placebo effect and going to want real medicine. I don't think government sponsored ignorance is a valid solution to anything, even if some people genuinely believe in homeopathy and want their doctors to give it to them. You're hurting your citizens based on their ignorance by offering them snake oil instead of a real cure.
Well now you've gone and done it.
I don't think it's anyone's business but mine if I want to accept working 80 hours a week. No one is forcing me (if your employer was forcing you then that would be different). The thought that my manager could be sent to jail if I lived where you did over a decision of my own making is what sounds ludicrous to me. Those kind of hours saved me on more than one occasion, and despite stints of varied length working 9am to 10pm at that job, I was never in any danger driving home. Sure if if those kind of hours were physically demanding I could see a problem, but sitting at a desk, or even an assembly line?
You sound like you've got a stick the size of a flag pole up your ass.
Because giving it away would be illegal per the licensing terms you apparently didn't understand when you agreed to them. You can do whatever you want with it except give it to someone else. The DRM-free nature of the music is not so you can just willy nilly give it to whoever you want; it's for your convenience.
What if they fell off the Earth in 2006, before the iPhone? You'd be using Android (which looks suspiciously like BBOS) on a Samsung that looks suspiciously like a BlackBerry
My god does that ever sound lovely. I recently had a smartphone with a touch screen thrust on me after years of holding out hoping I'd never have to deal with one, but thanks to Apple, almost no manufacturers care about good ol' tactile input anymore.
And? That has nothing to do with the point they're making.
And will there not be someone who can operate the vehicle waiting to take control?
I don't think I've ever seen "don't get me wrong" used so many times in a single message before.
Your analogy makes no sense. You can't copyright/trademark/patent the end result of a recipe, or a recipe for that matter. The baker could not do anything if "his" bread was used. Not only that, if the baker sold the bread to someone and they put flax seeds on the baker's very own bread and resold it, there would be no legal recourse for the baker in that circumstance either.
I've seen some terrible analogies before, but this was was probably one of the worst. Stick to car analogies.
Thanks for the info. I went ahead and purchased it and just thought I'd share my experience.
All you need to do is download the client, hover over the Guild Wars 2 listing in the "My Games" section, and there's a CD key button. Clicking that, you can copy it and take it over to the official Guild Wars 2 website to register your account. Then you can download the client straight from ArenaNet. Then you can remove the GameStop app from your computer.
There was no finding something "extremely clever" here - Some high end items were mistakenly listed at such a drastically low price people were buying hundreds to thousands of them and reselling them. I find it incredibly hard to believe that anyone putting so much effort into buying these items thought what they were doing was legitimate. Not everyone who bought and resold the items were banned. Only the heaviest offenders were; the ones who had to know something was wrong with the prices in comparison to the items of equal quality nearby having much higher prices.
Economy is very important to these kinds of games. If people screw it up days after launch then it brings serious problems to the table.
I have no sympathy for those banned. They are even able to lift the ban provided certain terms are met.
Uhh. What? ArenaNet should be fined by their local state government entity because some in-game items in a video game purchased with pretend video game money earned in a video game was marked as cheaper than the intended price?
What?
Can someone explain the "GameStop App" to me? Is it just a service for downloading the game or does it try to be Steam acting as some sort of management software? If possible, I'd like to download the game and forget I ever bought it at GameStop. Definitely not interested in another persistent application. Steam is enough in that regard.
Have you actually played it for any great length of time on the PS3? It actually gets really bad as more and more information is loaded and stored. Skyrim on the PS3 is already starved for memory. Adding more is probably out of the question. I doubt Bethesda would just throw their hands up in the air for no reason. I mean it's not as though this DLC is free, so it would be hard to assume they just don't think it's worth it at all out of laziness.
No, it's like the old days, when words were in "books", such as "dictionaries".
New words come into use all the time. How many things do we say now that has no entry in a dictionary yet? Bioengineering wasn't in dictionaries until ~1955. Before that, I suppose we had cynics like you trying to mock it since it's a newer concept? Give me a break.
It's practically the definition of pretentious. There is no reason to use the UK spelling in the states outside of marketing purposes, unless you're all from the UK and can't drop the habit. They're just using the centre spelling opposed to center to appear more sophisticated because that's often an image Joe Random here tends to get in their heads when we think about European culture, regardless of its grounding in reality. It's nothing more than a marketing tactic.
Er, what? Is this like a modern day "Television isn't a real word" type of deal?
Its gotta start somewhere. In this case, I've seen "Bioinspiration" used a number of times already.
Don't care.
Do you even understand the topic you're talking about? I don't know how you can even begin to compare male circumcision vs female "circumcision." For females, it has absolutely no function outside of mutilating the vagina. There is no medical rationale for the procedure.
Whatever your views of male circumcision, attempting to put what they do to girls in the same category shows a large degree of ignorance on the subject and is completely out of touch with reality.
It's easy enough to find out.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-windows-7-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/
All referenced files are legitimate, and that was the original source (the digitalriver url). They are available for everyone as long as you have a valid CD key.
Herp. No.
Several Android tablets are doing rather well, actually.