Move to torrents? If you feel guilty about it, mail the creators 50c an ep or something. Watch it on your own time rather than when it is playing (scheduling your day around TV seems pretty rediculous after you've used torrents for a while). No commercials. Lasts forever, harder to lose a whole computer vs a Blueray. Saves you the cost of buying a blueray player.
You get charged per month to own a dvr? Man that is offensive.
Instead of giving mexico money let them move to the US and PAY TAXES. Rather than the system of having tons of illegals. Turn them into valuable citizens. All it would do is improve the ecnomy. But it messes with the voting patterns of southern states. Perhaps spread out immigrants throughout the states? Cheap labour everywhere sounds good to me. Hell, tax them extra, garnish their wages for their first 5 years. They will still come, though they get paid less than minimum wage (after the taxes).
Does 3D matter much for sports? Football/Soccer are recorded from a big distance a lot of the time. So the amount of 3dness doesn't matter a whole lot. Really, fake 3d might work there, pop the players and ball a little bit. You don't really need a huge amount of depth. How much immersion do you need to watch a game? Surround sound with the crowd noise pumped up a little should be enough.
Uber high budget TV shows like Lost/Heroes w/e would probably be helped by 3d. More immersive. And movies of course could benefit. LOTR type things, they are mostly CG anyways.
Lol If you think those countries don't buy ANYTHING from China thats pretty hilarious. The ore might be from china, could be melted down in china, maybe the bolts/ w/e were made in china, partialy-assembled? And thats just for the frame of the vehicle, there are still dozens of different computer bits, paints sealants and waxes, fabrics and cushions, windshields, plastics and more I'm sure.
Computers as well are made of many parts some of which are made of parts themselves. Buying a computer made wholly outside of china would be likely impossible. So to continue business google would need to create its own specialized computer. Google spends A LOT on computers, adding 50% or more to the pricetag would eat that 6billion very quickly. Even spending the money on research into finding out what stuff they own is made in china would be a big deal.
Instead of anal plug a fake vagina would make much more sense. The penis has 20,000 nerve endings, the anus has a lot but not nearly as many. The tongue having 10,000~ (probably more than the anus). But the tongue is best since it is closer to where the camera would be. And it it likely more hygenic. As well if the soldier were to get aroused he would go blind, which would be unhelpful.
Thats stupid. Google would go bankrupt very quickly. Any large company would.
This isn't about trying to hurt China, you've completely missed the point. It is to increase awareness of the censorship and to not actively assist in censorship and getting activists jailed.
Btw, you can't do good as a company when you go bankrupt and no longer exist.
Interaction is a good thing. Google opens the world up to China much better than China based Baidu. From there Chinese people get access to a wider range of views and opinions. They have greater contact with europeans and americans so they can see more opinions. They can realize more effectively that people aren't out to get them. Even though censorship is bad nothing is clearly more censorship.
The best solution would be for Google to poke holes in China's wall... repeatedly. Automated English -> Chinese translations brought to the forefront. That would increase the list of things China's firewall would have to blacklist by a fuck of a lot. How about having the Google logo say something 'interesting' about Chinese government each day? Or provide high-quality networking tools and remote networking tools that can act as a proxy. Just push the envelope repeatedly until either China cools down or they get thrown out.
"it would be a big FU to China to leave it as is but remove all censorship." While that'd be fun... it'd put google at pretty big legal risk. And more importantly the CEO has a duty to not have all his chinese employees taken to a chinese prison and not heard from again for 20 years...
Google has almost the same market share in China as Baidu. The meme that google is running since they have no shot in hell in china is convenient but wrong.
I think DLC done right will be more like expansions. - They gradually lower in price over time.
- People buying the game for the first time get all the current DLCs with the game.
- They will have to be decently large, or very unnecessary or else it will fragment the player base into nothingness.
In fact, pretty much exactly like expansions. The other kind of acceptable DLC of course is totally pointless stuff. 'Paint your skin green $1. Make your bow look like a machine gun $2...' These things I wholeheartedly accept, since they aren't needed. I don't know why the console industry didn't look at online games in asia where DLC supports a large corner of the market. They seem to mostly know wtf they are doing.
In the case of a whopper you would actually be depriving them of something. In the case of a person not buying the game anyways they aren't losing fuck all.
Today I was at KFC, got some chicken they asked if i wanted gravy with my fries and i said sure. I notice 5 minutes later that they charged me $1.40 (the fries were markedly less)! This is sort of the same situation, they sneakily charge you a bunch extra or withhold part of the product. Clearly that is underhanded. In my case I bitched and got my money back. Similarly, Bioshock should be prepared to get a lot of backlash, either in the form of massive piracy or people wanting their money back (which sadly will likely not be given).
You are supposed to break laws you don't agree with to move forwards and cause change. If it became illegal to gather in public. Even though you havent really done much gathering in past you should do it then. Just to show it is wrong.
OP could simply be taking the stance that giving out part of a product then selling you the rest is wrong. It is illegal to sell what is advertised as a car; when you get it is has no muffler on it. I don't personally think this case is so obvious but the position isn't completely rediculous.
Also, there is no reason this would extend to other software, thats just silly.
Since we are blaming whole countries for the acts of a few people.... Sweden seems nice too, but then ikea is the biggest 'charity' tax dodge on earth.
Software patents are less meaningful usually. You've heard 'you can't patent an idea'?
That is often what software patents boil down to. Something interesting like a type of encryption/compression maybe should be patentable. This also relates to obviousness, many software patents are obvious... but patents are annoying to get. This results in big corporations which have people to deal with patents just patenting everything. Which slows progress.
Next is cost. If you think that patent laws are important to encourage innovation not to make random people rich then this is an issue. A patent for something created in a lab may cost many millions to get working. Think about the money sunk into creating better computer parts each year. In software however most of the patented things were created in a minutes to days.
And there is compatibility. In the carbon based world not too many things need to work together, maybe wipers with cars and lights in sockets. In the computer world there is an incredibly complicated interconnected ecosystem of crap. Winamp talks to messenger, web server, windows, certain games and so on.... and that is just one piece. The problem is that many patented technologies causes needless fragmentation which slows progress. Think of all the crap oss people have had to build not because they wanted a better system but because of legal barriers.
They are also unnecessary because software is so opaque. It is unlikely anyone is going to copy your software's patentable bits since it isn't available to them. So each time someone creates say ogg over mp3 they are actually creating it from scratch anyways, showing that what was patented was an idea. In all othercases of software ripping-off copyright will be more than sufficient, there is no need for two overlapping laws.
In the end all you need to ask is this: "Do software patents help or hinder a healthy programming environment?" Most people think not.
Can you think of an example of a secret that we couldn't be TOLD we were being kept from? One which would be a good thing. Military operations for example could be kept secret but we'd be know that it is being kept secret and can accept that. Which prisoners are on transfer busses sure... but again we are aware that it is being kept secret.
The article listed some things that the US gove would have preffered to kept secret and not have been leaked to wikileaks:
"US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
The first one we could have easily been told they were keeping secret and either accepted it or have them tell us. The rest are offensive that they should be hidden from the public at all.
"The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks — US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
Hmmmmm, I suppose one of those could count as a military risk to be let loose. Mostly though, embarassing secrets being kept from the voting citizens not from 'bad guys'. Though in theory you might have a point.
Good point. I assumed by 'unclean' they meant it in a metaphorical sense... like 'Chaos God Nurgle the unclean one'. Apparently it really just meant dirty. And that there wasn't any particular reason given why certain animals were banned. (G-d has something against uncloven animals?)
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Move to torrents? If you feel guilty about it, mail the creators 50c an ep or something. Watch it on your own time rather than when it is playing (scheduling your day around TV seems pretty rediculous after you've used torrents for a while). No commercials. Lasts forever, harder to lose a whole computer vs a Blueray. Saves you the cost of buying a blueray player.
You get charged per month to own a dvr? Man that is offensive.
If the government ever gets mad about it though they can just glitch out the universe and kill him.
Instead of giving mexico money let them move to the US and PAY TAXES. Rather than the system of having tons of illegals. Turn them into valuable citizens. All it would do is improve the ecnomy. But it messes with the voting patterns of southern states. Perhaps spread out immigrants throughout the states? Cheap labour everywhere sounds good to me. Hell, tax them extra, garnish their wages for their first 5 years. They will still come, though they get paid less than minimum wage (after the taxes).
Does 3D matter much for sports? Football/Soccer are recorded from a big distance a lot of the time. So the amount of 3dness doesn't matter a whole lot. Really, fake 3d might work there, pop the players and ball a little bit. You don't really need a huge amount of depth. How much immersion do you need to watch a game? Surround sound with the crowd noise pumped up a little should be enough.
Uber high budget TV shows like Lost/Heroes w/e would probably be helped by 3d. More immersive. And movies of course could benefit. LOTR type things, they are mostly CG anyways.
Lol If you think those countries don't buy ANYTHING from China thats pretty hilarious. The ore might be from china, could be melted down in china, maybe the bolts/ w/e were made in china, partialy-assembled? And thats just for the frame of the vehicle, there are still dozens of different computer bits, paints sealants and waxes, fabrics and cushions, windshields, plastics and more I'm sure.
Computers as well are made of many parts some of which are made of parts themselves. Buying a computer made wholly outside of china would be likely impossible. So to continue business google would need to create its own specialized computer. Google spends A LOT on computers, adding 50% or more to the pricetag would eat that 6billion very quickly. Even spending the money on research into finding out what stuff they own is made in china would be a big deal.
So yes, the idea is stupid and unreasonable.
Grats, an early christmas present! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35886780/ns/business-world_business
42 is short for hello world apparently.
Instead of anal plug a fake vagina would make much more sense. The penis has 20,000 nerve endings, the anus has a lot but not nearly as many. The tongue having 10,000~ (probably more than the anus). But the tongue is best since it is closer to where the camera would be. And it it likely more hygenic. As well if the soldier were to get aroused he would go blind, which would be unhelpful.
Thats stupid. Google would go bankrupt very quickly. Any large company would.
This isn't about trying to hurt China, you've completely missed the point. It is to increase awareness of the censorship and to not actively assist in censorship and getting activists jailed.
Btw, you can't do good as a company when you go bankrupt and no longer exist.
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Interaction is a good thing. Google opens the world up to China much better than China based Baidu. From there Chinese people get access to a wider range of views and opinions. They have greater contact with europeans and americans so they can see more opinions. They can realize more effectively that people aren't out to get them. Even though censorship is bad nothing is clearly more censorship.
The best solution would be for Google to poke holes in China's wall... repeatedly. Automated English -> Chinese translations brought to the forefront. That would increase the list of things China's firewall would have to blacklist by a fuck of a lot. How about having the Google logo say something 'interesting' about Chinese government each day? Or provide high-quality networking tools and remote networking tools that can act as a proxy. Just push the envelope repeatedly until either China cools down or they get thrown out.
"it would be a big FU to China to leave it as is but remove all censorship."
While that'd be fun... it'd put google at pretty big legal risk. And more importantly the CEO has a duty to not have all his chinese employees taken to a chinese prison and not heard from again for 20 years...
Search logs get activists killed. Censorship hurts a country. Products made in china less damaging to the people.
Google has almost the same market share in China as Baidu. The meme that google is running since they have no shot in hell in china is convenient but wrong.
Clearly a pan-European plot!
They must be REALLY old, those are some big ass records.
I think DLC done right will be more like expansions.
- They gradually lower in price over time.
- People buying the game for the first time get all the current DLCs with the game.
- They will have to be decently large, or very unnecessary or else it will fragment the player base into nothingness.
In fact, pretty much exactly like expansions. The other kind of acceptable DLC of course is totally pointless stuff. 'Paint your skin green $1. Make your bow look like a machine gun $2...' These things I wholeheartedly accept, since they aren't needed. I don't know why the console industry didn't look at online games in asia where DLC supports a large corner of the market. They seem to mostly know wtf they are doing.
In the case of a whopper you would actually be depriving them of something. In the case of a person not buying the game anyways they aren't losing fuck all.
Today I was at KFC, got some chicken they asked if i wanted gravy with my fries and i said sure. I notice 5 minutes later that they charged me $1.40 (the fries were markedly less)! This is sort of the same situation, they sneakily charge you a bunch extra or withhold part of the product. Clearly that is underhanded. In my case I bitched and got my money back. Similarly, Bioshock should be prepared to get a lot of backlash, either in the form of massive piracy or people wanting their money back (which sadly will likely not be given).
You are supposed to break laws you don't agree with to move forwards and cause change. If it became illegal to gather in public. Even though you havent really done much gathering in past you should do it then. Just to show it is wrong.
OP could simply be taking the stance that giving out part of a product then selling you the rest is wrong. It is illegal to sell what is advertised as a car; when you get it is has no muffler on it. I don't personally think this case is so obvious but the position isn't completely rediculous.
Also, there is no reason this would extend to other software, thats just silly.
Think of it as passive activism.
CPUs are the same... I mean, there is often soldering needed, not just a code. But the chip is the same in many cases.
Since we are blaming whole countries for the acts of a few people .... Sweden seems nice too, but then ikea is the biggest 'charity' tax dodge on earth.
Software patents are less meaningful usually. You've heard 'you can't patent an idea'?
That is often what software patents boil down to. Something interesting like a type of encryption/compression maybe should be patentable. This also relates to obviousness, many software patents are obvious... but patents are annoying to get. This results in big corporations which have people to deal with patents just patenting everything. Which slows progress.
Next is cost. If you think that patent laws are important to encourage innovation not to make random people rich then this is an issue. A patent for something created in a lab may cost many millions to get working. Think about the money sunk into creating better computer parts each year. In software however most of the patented things were created in a minutes to days.
And there is compatibility. In the carbon based world not too many things need to work together, maybe wipers with cars and lights in sockets. In the computer world there is an incredibly complicated interconnected ecosystem of crap. Winamp talks to messenger, web server, windows, certain games and so on.... and that is just one piece. The problem is that many patented technologies causes needless fragmentation which slows progress. Think of all the crap oss people have had to build not because they wanted a better system but because of legal barriers.
They are also unnecessary because software is so opaque. It is unlikely anyone is going to copy your software's patentable bits since it isn't available to them. So each time someone creates say ogg over mp3 they are actually creating it from scratch anyways, showing that what was patented was an idea. In all othercases of software ripping-off copyright will be more than sufficient, there is no need for two overlapping laws.
In the end all you need to ask is this: "Do software patents help or hinder a healthy programming environment?" Most people think not.
Can you think of an example of a secret that we couldn't be TOLD we were being kept from? One which would be a good thing. Military operations for example could be kept secret but we'd be know that it is being kept secret and can accept that. Which prisoners are on transfer busses sure... but again we are aware that it is being kept secret.
The article listed some things that the US gove would have preffered to kept secret and not have been leaked to wikileaks:
"US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
The first one we could have easily been told they were keeping secret and either accepted it or have them tell us. The rest are offensive that they should be hidden from the public at all.
"The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks — US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
Hmmmmm, I suppose one of those could count as a military risk to be let loose. Mostly though, embarassing secrets being kept from the voting citizens not from 'bad guys'. Though in theory you might have a point.
Lol... the link I saw between them all was 'requires creativity' ... or 'created by man'. So I'm not sure what he was getting at.
Good point. I assumed by 'unclean' they meant it in a metaphorical sense... like 'Chaos God Nurgle the unclean one'. Apparently it really just meant dirty. And that there wasn't any particular reason given why certain animals were banned. (G-d has something against uncloven animals?)
So my bad, I retract the statement in this case.