Your argument is the same if you replace Chinese with Scammers:
Well, not really ten, but here goes: THE SCAMMERS WHO ARE SELLING ILLEGAL/BOOTLEG ITEMS SELL FOR FREE. I understand eBay wanted to jump into the burgeoning Scammer market, but they did it at the expense of their sellers. Not only do Scammer sellers get to sell for free, 99.9% of the Scammer sellers sell bootleg/counterfeit items and list a SHIT LOAD of them on ebay. Ebay totally screwed their bread and butter, the paying sellers, both ways. Not only do sellers have their auction listings artificially obscured by fake Scammer crap, the legit sellers can't compete in prices. Why buy a "Scrubs" one season dvd set when you can buy all of the seasons for the same price? Also since the Scammers now make high quality bootlegs of everything, ebay is very hesistant to pull an auction unless the VERO owner complains directly. If somehow the Scammer seller gets suspended, bam, he's back up instantly using one of his other countless HIGH FEEDBACK account.
The problem you describe is best fixed by dealing with scammers, not with people from a particular country. You may be shocked to learn that copyright infringment and the production of 'high quality' pirated materials happens in North America and in Europe. Seen in this light, the opinion that followed your argument seems less than enlightened:
Ebay will NEVER penetrate China. Different culture, different everything. If I were in charge of Ebay right now I would shut off China entirely, except for buyers and USA and other worldwide sellers should sue ebay for unfair competition.
You may be interested to learn that in many jurisdictions (notably Canada and the USA), the most common education for physicians is just a professional degree (the M.D.) and the most common education for lawyers is also a professional degree such as a J.D. or an B.C.L. / LL.B. / LL.L. Both fields have graduate degrees as well as these basic degrees, e.g., LL.M. and LL.D specifically for law, or a Ph.D. in a medical field for an M.D.
You don't need a graduate degree to practice in either field, nor does either of those professional degree streams normally require that applicants already hold another degree. (Admittedly, because competition for entry into medicine and law programmes can be fierce, it is usually very desireable to have or almost have an undergraduate degree.)
Are you American yourself? If so, perhaps you encounter more Americans because the hours that you play are more convenient for more people on the west side of the Atlantic. Many corps have European and American subsections, and it is not uncommon for the European section to be the larger.
> EVE basically destroyed one of the best groups of gaming comrades I had ever been in.
Or consider this: if a group's camaraderie is predicated on a particular set of game mechanics, perhaps the group wasn't all that tight to begin with: 'fair weather friends', if you will?
On the other hand, I agree that there is plenty for CCP to do to improve the game (bug fixes, features promised but not yet implemented), but I find it sufficiently fun already that it beats the other MMOs that I've played. The game has changed a lot since you played it, judging by the details you mention.
True, but sometimes the nuances of language can be important ("it depends on what you definition of 'is' is"), so if we want to be able to rely on it as a tool, it behooves us to maintain it in good working order.
I've no idea where a 908 area code is, so i'll assume that you are right and it is NJ.
But if you look at the information again, you'll see that the phone number in the registration is actually a 905 area code, which makes it a bit more likely!
Your comment suggest that the US needs an incentive to live up to its international commitments. That is disheartening. Although the US does have a somewhat-alarming official stated policy of global domination, it could try to start setting a good example as well.
If the US doesn't need to meet its commitments, why do other countries?
The US pursues trade practices that are to its own advantage because they are to their own advantage, not because they feel insulted by some guy they've never heard of before.
If you look back at the history of the softwood dispute, you will the see that the Liberals did indeed pursue a resolution through appropriate channels. Or was Emerson just dilly-dallying when he was a Liberal? Somehow I doubt that he was, or why would Harper have recruited him?
If only 90% of people who voted for the Conservatives actually wanted them to win, that means that a party that was wanted by less than a third of voting electors is now leading the country... That makes your 'left-field' look like a vast majority that is effectively disenfranchised right now... On the up side, if the Conservatives change tacks and become interested in meaningful electoral change (e.g., proportional representation instead of the tokenism they are currently engaged on), this kind of poor electoral outcome should become less common in the future.
Living up to one's obligations is what any responsible party does, even after being called names. The US shouldn't need an incentive or a pliable Conservative goverment north of the border to abide by trade agreements into which they entered voluntarily.
The speed with which the Tories knelt before the US is noteworthy indeed. It is too bad that they didn't care enough about our country to get us a good or even a sensible resolution though. Then again, we shouldn't have expected much, the Conservatives were elected because they were not Liberals (most of them, anyhow), not for their skills or policies.
It doesn't say that the registration was improper in any way, it says that the registrar used an automated system to suspend the registration and that the registrar claimed that the registration was improper. Keep in mind that the registrar elsewhere offered a different reason for suspending the site.
Looking at the whois page, it does look fake to me, but that's not a conclusion that CIRA has stated in their media release, and it's not provable in the basis of the whois page alone; what's recorded there could be valid.
'Directly'? Really? Oh, right, because the mighty US Department of Commerce takes actions like imposing improper tariffs on common trade goods because some foreign wanker bad-mouthed the US president. And they started on that path before the guy even made the comment!
Actually, in the case of the softwood lumber issue, I heard a rumour that there were some different wankers, ones with vested interests in the softwood market in the US, who made political donations and lobbied hard for those anti-free-trade actions on the part of the US government. That kind of thing sounds a bit more direct to me.
Make sure you don't look at Wikipedia when you're working on a paper, then.
If you do use the site to look up your topic and then you accidentally happen to find that useful but you fail to cite it, that is a form of academic dishonesty.
When socialism went bad, there was often a predictably-dangerous concentration of power in the self-anointed imperialist ruling elite that preceded the worst offences. Right now capitalism is supporting a predictably dangerous concentration of money and power in the hands of an imperialist mercantile elite, which seems awfully similar. Perhaps we simply haven't seen the full 'bad' that capitalism has to offer us?
Several examples of poor outcomes from totalitarian flavours of socialism don't mean that capitalism is better in the long run. Even if we assume for the sake of argument that capitalism worked out better over the past hundred years, that doesn't prove either (i) that it is better than socialism in general or (ii) that it is even a viable option to get us through the next hundred years.
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You never see anybody wringing their hands about rich densely populated countries as being "overpopulated".
I'm sorry you missed my point. I'll try to use your own terms to help you along:
We can't afford a world full of rich people if both (i) by 'rich' you mean living at standards considered comfortable in North America, Europe or Japan, and (ii) by 'full' you mean 6.5 billion people. We can't afford it simply because the earth's resources that make us 'rich' don't currently stretch that far; in fact, they stretch only about a quarter or a third of the way there.
There are some parts of the world that are both 'densely populated' and relatively clean. This is possible because technological richness has enabled us to push our problems out of our immediate neighbourhood (e.g., sewers carrying waste away instead of effluent flowing in the streets; pesticides contaminating aquifers not (directly) your tapwater). However, just because you don't see the impact in front of you every day does not mean it is wholly absent.
Unfortunately, you have no idea what you're talking about.
You seem to be punching above your weight! You've mixed up the words "you" and "I".
It's increasingly a trend in the world. Look at current populations and growth rates. What fraction of DVD players are made by those of Asian decent? T-shirts? Call centres?
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Where do you get your statistics on such topics? I would like to review the numbers for myself.
Racist much?
Your argument is the same if you replace Chinese with Scammers:
Well, not really ten, but here goes: THE SCAMMERS WHO ARE SELLING ILLEGAL/BOOTLEG ITEMS SELL FOR FREE. I understand eBay wanted to jump into the burgeoning Scammer market, but they did it at the expense of their sellers. Not only do Scammer sellers get to sell for free, 99.9% of the Scammer sellers sell bootleg/counterfeit items and list a SHIT LOAD of them on ebay. Ebay totally screwed their bread and butter, the paying sellers, both ways. Not only do sellers have their auction listings artificially obscured by fake Scammer crap, the legit sellers can't compete in prices. Why buy a "Scrubs" one season dvd set when you can buy all of the seasons for the same price? Also since the Scammers now make high quality bootlegs of everything, ebay is very hesistant to pull an auction unless the VERO owner complains directly. If somehow the Scammer seller gets suspended, bam, he's back up instantly using one of his other countless HIGH FEEDBACK account.
The problem you describe is best fixed by dealing with scammers, not with people from a particular country. You may be shocked to learn that copyright infringment and the production of 'high quality' pirated materials happens in North America and in Europe. Seen in this light, the opinion that followed your argument seems less than enlightened:
Ebay will NEVER penetrate China. Different culture, different everything. If I were in charge of Ebay right now I would shut off China entirely, except for buyers and USA and other worldwide sellers should sue ebay for unfair competition.
Definitely worth reading.
Windows XP does this already.
I thought that ongoing 'progress' in gerrymandering meant that you Americans soon won't need to resort to voting at all anymore, yes?
That's the same news item, aye. Note that the BBC item linked in today's Slashdot story is itself also from 2006-03-15.
You may be interested to learn that in many jurisdictions (notably Canada and the USA), the most common education for physicians is just a professional degree (the M.D.) and the most common education for lawyers is also a professional degree such as a J.D. or an B.C.L. / LL.B. / LL.L. Both fields have graduate degrees as well as these basic degrees, e.g., LL.M. and LL.D specifically for law, or a Ph.D. in a medical field for an M.D.
You don't need a graduate degree to practice in either field, nor does either of those professional degree streams normally require that applicants already hold another degree. (Admittedly, because competition for entry into medicine and law programmes can be fierce, it is usually very desireable to have or almost have an undergraduate degree.)
Are you American yourself? If so, perhaps you encounter more Americans because the hours that you play are more convenient for more people on the west side of the Atlantic. Many corps have European and American subsections, and it is not uncommon for the European section to be the larger.
> EVE basically destroyed one of the best groups of gaming comrades I had ever been in.
Or consider this: if a group's camaraderie is predicated on a particular set of game mechanics, perhaps the group wasn't all that tight to begin with: 'fair weather friends', if you will?
On the other hand, I agree that there is plenty for CCP to do to improve the game (bug fixes, features promised but not yet implemented), but I find it sufficiently fun already that it beats the other MMOs that I've played. The game has changed a lot since you played it, judging by the details you mention.
... there've been some rough spots, but overall they've done a good job.
True, but sometimes the nuances of language can be important ("it depends on what you definition of 'is' is"), so if we want to be able to rely on it as a tool, it behooves us to maintain it in good working order.
Not only that, but also:
"will be a major selling point for the console when it releases"
When it releases what, exactly? What is the console going to release?
Perhaps the writer meant 'when it is released'.
I've no idea where a 908 area code is, so i'll assume that you are right and it is NJ.
But if you look at the information again, you'll see that the phone number in the registration is actually a 905 area code, which makes it a bit more likely!
Your comment suggest that the US needs an incentive to live up to its international commitments. That is disheartening. Although the US does have a somewhat-alarming official stated policy of global domination, it could try to start setting a good example as well.
If the US doesn't need to meet its commitments, why do other countries?
Perhaps we should offer Air Miles?
The US pursues trade practices that are to its own advantage because they are to their own advantage, not because they feel insulted by some guy they've never heard of before.
If you look back at the history of the softwood dispute, you will the see that the Liberals did indeed pursue a resolution through appropriate channels. Or was Emerson just dilly-dallying when he was a Liberal? Somehow I doubt that he was, or why would Harper have recruited him?
If only 90% of people who voted for the Conservatives actually wanted them to win, that means that a party that was wanted by less than a third of voting electors is now leading the country... That makes your 'left-field' look like a vast majority that is effectively disenfranchised right now... On the up side, if the Conservatives change tacks and become interested in meaningful electoral change (e.g., proportional representation instead of the tokenism they are currently engaged on), this kind of poor electoral outcome should become less common in the future.
Living up to one's obligations is what any responsible party does, even after being called names. The US shouldn't need an incentive or a pliable Conservative goverment north of the border to abide by trade agreements into which they entered voluntarily.
The speed with which the Tories knelt before the US is noteworthy indeed. It is too bad that they didn't care enough about our country to get us a good or even a sensible resolution though. Then again, we shouldn't have expected much, the Conservatives were elected because they were not Liberals (most of them, anyhow), not for their skills or policies.
Did you read the page you linked to?
It doesn't say that the registration was improper in any way, it says that the registrar used an automated system to suspend the registration and that the registrar claimed that the registration was improper. Keep in mind that the registrar elsewhere offered a different reason for suspending the site.
Looking at the whois page, it does look fake to me, but that's not a conclusion that CIRA has stated in their media release, and it's not provable in the basis of the whois page alone; what's recorded there could be valid.
> directly harmed the Canadian Economy
'Directly'? Really? Oh, right, because the mighty US Department of Commerce takes actions like imposing improper tariffs on common trade goods because some foreign wanker bad-mouthed the US president. And they started on that path before the guy even made the comment!
Actually, in the case of the softwood lumber issue, I heard a rumour that there were some different wankers, ones with vested interests in the softwood market in the US, who made political donations and lobbied hard for those anti-free-trade actions on the part of the US government. That kind of thing sounds a bit more direct to me.
Make sure you don't look at Wikipedia when you're working on a paper, then.
If you do use the site to look up your topic and then you accidentally happen to find that useful but you fail to cite it, that is a form of academic dishonesty.
When socialism went bad, there was often a predictably-dangerous concentration of power in the self-anointed imperialist ruling elite that preceded the worst offences. Right now capitalism is supporting a predictably dangerous concentration of money and power in the hands of an imperialist mercantile elite, which seems awfully similar. Perhaps we simply haven't seen the full 'bad' that capitalism has to offer us? Several examples of poor outcomes from totalitarian flavours of socialism don't mean that capitalism is better in the long run. Even if we assume for the sake of argument that capitalism worked out better over the past hundred years, that doesn't prove either (i) that it is better than socialism in general or (ii) that it is even a viable option to get us through the next hundred years.
> sales on the uptake
Perhaps you mean "sales on the uptick".
I'm sure Microsoft is working on that:
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I'm sorry you missed my point. I'll try to use your own terms to help you along:
We can't afford a world full of rich people if both (i) by 'rich' you mean living at standards considered comfortable in North America, Europe or Japan, and (ii) by 'full' you mean 6.5 billion people. We can't afford it simply because the earth's resources that make us 'rich' don't currently stretch that far; in fact, they stretch only about a quarter or a third of the way there.
There are some parts of the world that are both 'densely populated' and relatively clean. This is possible because technological richness has enabled us to push our problems out of our immediate neighbourhood (e.g., sewers carrying waste away instead of effluent flowing in the streets; pesticides contaminating aquifers not (directly) your tapwater). However, just because you don't see the impact in front of you every day does not mean it is wholly absent.
You seem to be punching above your weight! You've mixed up the words "you" and "I".
It's increasingly a trend in the world. Look at current populations and growth rates. What fraction of DVD players are made by those of Asian decent? T-shirts? Call centres?
Seems acceptable to me.
So you're saying this new system is a massive waste of resources because the existing system already works okay? I'd have to agree.