That poll is likely bogus. A majority of voters in Texas elected politicians who oppose such sales.
I'm going to guess that the poll is legit, if you want to see an example of how something can be correct and still get politicians that only cater to a select few, well there ya go.
I know several people who stay away from the polls "as a protest", not realizing that they're not affecting anything at all; it's not seen as protest, but as apathy.
How can you spot the person drinking the koolaid? They jump right into the "far-right think tank" conspiracy theory, then start making up the bullshit along the way.
Here's a useful tip, AEI employs people from the full political spectrum. CHS is also a democrat and classical liberal, sadly the fact that she came out in support of gamergate meant that her notability article on wikipedia then became a battleground for radical feminists, and people who have an axe to grind. Said people with an axe to grind also happen to be of the "social justice warrior" variety, who love to make mountains out of molehills while crying about how hurt their feelings are on first world problems. But woe to them if you actually drop a issue on actual women's rights on them, since the first thing they do is flee and scatter. So yes, you're exaggerating, perhaps ignorant to go along with it.
Good luck finding a high school that hasn't gutted their entire shop program these days. As for onboard diagnostics? Some places will let you borrow a scantool for 24hrs, one of the old small auto suppliers where I used to live did that. I know in the US there are some suppliers that will do it for you.
Back in 1994 my parents had a pontiac transport, the thing had been in and out of the dealer(warranty) for repairs(warm stall, cold stall, running stall, on and on). I finally had enough and asked him if I could take it to work(I was apprenticing at a local shop). It took me 10 minutes to figure out what the problem was, do the test, and tell him to take it back to the dealership. The problem? The TPS(throttle position sensor) wasn't working properly giving out of band voltage causing fuel to be cut. 10 minutes, the car had probably spent 2 weeks over a period of 5 months with them looking at it.
I've run across that several times over the years, with my old saturn under used warranty from a GM shop as well. Finding a good dealer with a competent shop is just as difficult. I've run across the same problems with friends from other companies, sometimes it seems that especially under warranty a garage will have the vehicle back in over and over again just to bill under warranty.
Heh. A 2000 Toyota running strong is not an exception, it's the rule.
My daily driver is a 1990 Supra with 7000 miles on its rebuilt engine. It had 310,000 miles when I decided that I was getting too little compression. I have replaced a lot of things on that car (every hose, for starters) but I can do everything but truly major work myself.
On the other hand, I just paid $5,800 to have the clutch, angle gear, etc... of my S60-R Volvo replaced. I could not have began to do the work myself. My regular mechanic was unwilling to work on it, and he has been fixing my cars for two decades. I still like that car a lot, it's a 460 sleeper with a hydraulic suspension that's my choice for long trips... but every repair is a major expense.
If I really want to feel that I own a car, it has to be something that at least a dozen of years old. Anything more recent is either really cheap crap, or is beyond my skills to really fully understand, let alone tinker with. Sure, I'm an CS guy, not a gearhead, but I do have an MEng, and I like cars. When I was thirty, I felt that I could at least talk with my mechanic. Nowadays... Oh, will you kids get off my lawn?
Oh, and if you want some more pictures feel free to let me know. I've got a dozen or so more. I'm not being snide or anything, but the way things are here in Canada with resource extraction are fundamentally different compared to many other countries, because we *are* a resource extraction country and know the benefits of restoring the environment when we're done stripping out whatever we need to.
I've walked through tree farms. They are about as close to a natural forest as a field of wheat is to a prairie.
That's great, but I wasn't talking about a tree farm. Those are something else fundamentally different aren't they. Rather I was talking about removing existing sections of forest and replanting.
Let me show you an example of a coal mine. That chunk of hill, or I should say remains of mountain to the right in the image? That was a coal strip mine 30 years ago. The entire town that's in the image? That was also in the middle of the coal strip mine.
I honestly can't figure out why you'd want to in the first place. My sister was part of the original clinical trials of insulin pumps here in Canada, they were 'dumb' in all terms, and were manually adjusted. If she could figure out how to do everything at the age of 8 with no problems, then I'm pretty sure anyone else can.
Isn't that equivalent to music companies having no obligation to supply a replacement if your CD is damaged? The theory as I understand it is the license is part of the media, in this case the 'media' is Steam -- I suspect they will not be moved if 'Steam' is damaged.
I recall the old floppy-based copy-protected games would sometimes offer to replace media if it failed, but not always.
Not really, in Canada if you sell a digital good to a customer you must continue and provide access to it if you do not provide a physical media. This is covered under at least two instances of case law here. It's also interesting that said media isn't considered a lease, or licensing agreement here.
Offline mode only works for a finite time and editing ini files is likely against TOS and will get you banned, costing you your entire library of games. And how do you go into offline mode when the Steam servers are gone? What do you do when you want to install the game on another PC when the Steam servers are gone or a rights holder pulls their game?
No editing the ini is not against the ToS. It's even posted on the steam forums on how to do it, then again if you've never bothered to look that would explain why. And when the servers are gone, all they'd have to do is release a client that no longer requires authentication it's really *that* simple.
That burden would fall on the distributor, which would be Valve, who wouldn't care because they'd already have bankruptcy protection or have been bought out by another company that would not be responsible. Contrary to what you believe, your country's laws aren't global and any company could tell your government to fuck off without a care in the world.
Actually the burden would fall on the supplier. That means the company who gave the distribution rights to the distributor. Contrary to what you believe(and I'm guessing you're american), the laws in canada actually have as much reach as american laws do. Fun tip: If a company operates in canada, they can be required to setup a physical office here as well.
It's always hilarious when you good for nothing Canadians think you can talk shit to anyone. You people do absolutely nothing and contribute nothing to the world. That's why the rest of us laugh at you.
Yeah, it's pretty funny when you realize that a country of 35m people have more stringent data, personal and privacy laws than a country of 300m+ people. Who can't even figure out the difference between digital and physical goods.
To be honest here in Canada we need massive wildfires to clean up the pine beetle problem. The wood can be used, usually in chipboard or paper products as long as the tree isn't fully rotten among other problems. When I was driving out through western canada a couple of years back it was a serious problem, and if you want to see what happens when a wildfire plus pine beetle infestation can do to an area, look at the slave lake fire. The fire was deliberately set, but the forest in the area is infested with pine beetles which have caused massive die offs with the trees, basically making it a perfect situation.
Anyway, once a place is burned out, harvested, and so on we plant new trees there anyway. The forestry industry here is amazingly good at creating an entire harvest, burn, plant cycle. Not forgetting that we have laws on the books that companies that harvest(anything whether it be trees, oil, oilsands, coal, etc) have to by law set aside funds for restoration. The government oversees the funds to ensure that enough is being put aside.
In order to play *any* game bought from Steam, the Steam client must be running and have an internet connection.
HAHAHA! That's precious. If they ever shut down, they would have zero incentive to do anything like that and every incentive not to. "Offline mode" (a misnomer if ever there was one) can only work offline for a set period of time. Basically it turns your game into trialware, wherein you must then check-in with Valve to re-up every so often.
No, actually it doesn't. Offline mode ring any bells? Permanent offline mode? I guess not. Both work just fine. I've been running offline mode on my laptop for nearly 2 years now, strange how it doesn't need to reconnect. Of course you do need to edit a ini file for permanent offline mode to work, but that's trivial.
Also, what happens if Valve or the Steam service gets bought out by another company and is then shut down? What happens if individual game rights holders pull their games off of Steam? You're SOL, that's what.
In my case, the company who are the rights holders are legally required to provide me a copy. The same thing happens if they pull it off steam. Perhaps you should try updating your laws to reflect a digital society instead of bitching and moaning, I'm going to guess you're american which would explain a lot. Considering those of us up here in Canada, strangely don't seem to bitch and moan over things anymore, we actually accomplish what we set out to do.
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