Microsoft and Sony explicitly exempts refunds for their services. Someone *could* return their hardware purchases of course to their retailers. Xbox Live and Playstation Plus Subscriptions or games that were opened may very well not be accepted for return though.

Somewhere between $0 and $0. The benefit of having salaried employees in technical fields who are thereby exempt from overtime.

Your other points certainly have discernible monetary impacts though that could be inferred from previous and later dates sales records and expenses.

Some might argue that for most a home PC is also a toy as well. Considering the market share that XP still has, the idea that those devices could be replaced with commodity tablets that would let people do the same things they used to do and more. A PC is certainly able to do much more than a tablet, but when many spend their lives in a web browser Facebooking, Instagramming, and Pintresting until the sun sets, a tablet which likely is higher resolution, cheaper, and faster than their old computers without limiting them from doing the tasks to which they've become acustomed, they can start to look like a good choice.

Couldn't it also be that Tablets are a question of reaching market saturation, and that they fall more into the PC life cycle rather than the Cell Phone life cycle of being replaced yearly? From my personal experience, everywhere I go, I see people with tablets that are a year or two old because they are "good enough", lack compelling reasons to upgrade and also are typically appear significantly more expensive than their cell phone counterparts as they are typically sold unsubsidized.

Boo hoo. Go read "How Green Was My Valley."

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't work like that, however I can see how you might think it with a steady diet of Faux News.

No idea where the song is in the movie, but I've just verified that it's listed in the credits at 1h51m10s. It's stated as her performance, by her production company. As such, if they didn't actually pay for the rights, that's an extremely baller move as it presents zero ambiguity that it was known as her work and the company they'd need to get the rights from by everyone involved.

Misnomers?

Infinitely is a long time span to design for. And frankly speaking the sun will expand engulfing Venus and this proposed probe well before the clock expires on Infinity.

Pot Bellied Pigs fly quite regularly on commercial aircraft as "service animals" as do miniature chetlan ponies, for what it's worth! What a glorious day we live in thanks to the ADA! Some amazing breakthroughs in science must be coming any day now, right? Right?

Skytanic?

That again is also muddying the waters, considering that Apple established via their contracts with RIAA member companies that DRM was required for them to sell music online. The more appropriate question is whether their prevention of competitors DRM Schemes on the iPod drove up prices of either the music itself or the iPod devices upon which said digitally purchased tracks could be obtained. This would also seem to be an easier question to answer as it would allow for direct analysis of Apple's business model versus their competitors, or even the price jump experienced when their tracks went from $0.99 to $1.29.

I have, yes. Both conducted and had them conducted on me, including some tricks from a music producer friend who would send the same track mastered identically and simply exported into different formats. It's only possible with active listening when the information is present in the actual file. I can't tell the difference between one 16bit track and another regardless of format (even 256kbps to 320kbps for most tracks), or a 24bit track that was mastered in 16 and then upconverted versus a strait 16bit track. Passive listening without looking for those "defects" or "differences", or without having a point of comparison between the two, you'd be very, very, very hard pressed to infer the differences with a percentage greater than random chance. Active listening, when you know what you're doing and have a lot of practice, and have the right equipment, the differences are apparent. Are they significant? Not really and in no way impact the enjoyment of the track, but there nonetheless and in a predictable fashion between masters across a variety of genres.

I can certainly tell the difference between a FLAC 24bit sample and a MP3 320kbps with my theater setup, however that seems more of a comparison of 16 bit to 24bit mastered audio when using quality speakers and a good amplifier with a DSP supporting 24bit audio. Using a phone, I typically can't tell the difference between something streamed from Spotify and a FLAC 24bit, although that's probably speaking more to the DSP In the phone. Quality equipment and you can tell the difference in terms of recovery from extremes of different types of sound, maintaining amplitude in those recoveries, and not having "artifacts" from a master obviously intended for earbuds that simply aren't present in a 24bit master. Sort of like looking for macro blocking in an overly compressed 1080p video stream to point out which is the lower bitrate.

In the case of Deputy Andrew Wood striking Milton Olin Jr with his patrol vehicle while texting his wife, yeah... He did blame the victim, and deny the texting, that he was speeding, and made further false statements, and attempted to destroy evidence. And no repercussions came his way. Eye witnessed and telemetry data from his vehicle even show that he was entirely at fault and drove directly into Mr. Olin when the road curved. That incident is from end of August, not 2007.

By inverse, if *anyone else* did these acts, including but not limited to the destruction of property, harassment, assault and unlawful detainment, that person would be facing severe felony charges on multiple counts. The fact that the person has a badge and training... they should be held to a similar standard at least. They weren't carrying out their duties at the time of this incident, they freaked the fuck out and decided to harass someone because they could and knew that there would be no repercussions.

Considering your comments, would you too side with the cops who run people over in their cars while texting on their personal cell phones and then blame the victim for throwing themselves in front of their cars, all the while perjuring themselves as has also happened recently?