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Comment Re:As a matter of fact, you can (Score 1) 181

You could not be more wrong. You can't sue a company for not making enough money. You need some sort of gross misconduct, self-dealing, misrepresentation, illegality, corporate waste, etc. The bar is extremely high and Plaintiffs very rarely succeed. Take a look at the following from the wikipedia so you do not misrepresent the law in the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule The lawsuit you are referencing, I believe, alleges misrepresentations, which are illegal, as opposed to underperforming, which half of the stock market does all the time.

Comment Re:Childs Play (Score 5, Informative) 196

As I have noted from your other armchair legal opinions, you do not understand the law. You do not know anything about Penny Arcade's corporate structure or how they pay their bills or Child's Play's bills. You are accusing a charitable organization of fraud without any basis in reality. Here is a quick sample from the FAQ on their website: Q. Does Child's Play charge administrative fees? A. We try our best to have every dollar that comes in go right back to the hospitals, but there is a slight administrative cost that does get paid for with donations (for example, shipping $200,000 worth of Nintendo DS' to dozens of hospitals worldwide is not free, sadly). Historically, these charges have not exceeded 2-3%. It's true that we're a non-profit, but unlike most non-profits, we're not in it to create a self-sustainable entity. We do it to give. Again, I ask you to please stop polluting the internet with misinformation. These people are doing good work to make the lives of sick children better. By defaming them you are taking trolling to a whole new level.

Comment Re:Big deal (Score 1) 700

American mortgages are for the most part standard documents. They are some of the most well-understood legal documents in the world. The bank cannot just make up terms at will. Your understanding of the law is based on half-understood apocryphal anecdotes from the internet. I went to law school, took two bar exams and am practicing real estate law. I am telling you, as an expert, that what you are saying is entirely incorrect. Please stop polluting the internet with misinformation.

Comment Re:Big deal (Score 4, Informative) 700

IAL. I read, review and edit real estate loan documentation all day. I have never seen the term you are referring to, and would never allow a client to sign a document with that term in it. Generally it is considered bad practice to sign a document with terms you do not agree with and hope that the other party does not enforce them. Also, if they did not ever intend to enforce a term, why would anyone put it in?

Comment Re:George Orwell must be turning in his grave (Score 1) 664

How much more market share does the ipod have to gain before you concede that Apple has a monopoly on MP3 players? This article says that they have 90% of the market http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24795/ That seems a little high to me, but I can't remember the last time I saw someone with a non-ipod mp3 player.

Except unlike IBM or MS, Apple has never held a monopoly on anything. Its funny how people on Slashdot will both be quick to point out how the iPhone's market share is smaller than other smartphones yet at the same time will try to also claim that Apple is a monopoly. You can't have it both ways.

Comment Slashdot did this (Score 1) 258

If I remember correctly, every time an article on the PSP came up, people on here kept saying how stupid it was to have a UMD drive. Now everyone seems to think it is stupid NOT to have one. This is like the Snakes on a Plane of consoles. They probably thought people meant what they said on the internet.

Still probably isn't a terrible move for Sony even if it doesn't sell too well, as I suspect that they are moving toward convergence with cell phones and that this is a mere incremental improvement.

Comment Re:Do not want!! (Score 3, Insightful) 183

Yeah you can buy a 360 without the additional attachments, but if you do buy them, they are going to hose you with their proprietary hard drives and wireless adapters. If you end up spending $130 for a 120gb hard drive and $77 for a wireless adapter and the PS3 isn't really more expensive, plus you get free online play. I'm sure not everyone needs a blu ray player(well aware of the people who still insist that it barely looks better than a regular dvd), or wireless, and that xbox live is superior to PSN, but I think that for the average gamer there really isn't much of a price difference once you take everything into account.

Comment My current cheapskate move (Score 1) 135

Blockbuster rents games for 10 dollars. It is a ripoff for whatever time period they give it to you for(like 5 days). But it is a great deal if you take into account that the restocking fee is an extra 1.50. You can keep the game for an extra month before they just charge it to your credit card. I know it sounds crazy, 2 bucks a day for the rental period, and then 5 cents a day for the time you aren't supposed to have it, but that is how it works.

So any game that I can beat in under 35 days, I just rent and save myself 48 bucks or so. I think Blockbuster has gotten wise to my scheme though, and is trying to counteract it by having extremely limited numbers of any games I would want to rent, but having tons of them for sale. God forbid they actually rent the games for something proportional to the amount of time you keep it. They are a terribly run business. I expect them to go belly up soon.

Comment Re:Oh, don't be an idiot. (Score 1) 277

I will continue your foolish analogy. You said, "Likewise, when I buy a 360, it's not Microsoft's 360 anymore." This is entirely true. You own your Xbox 360, but what you are arguing is that not only should you be able to do whatever you want with the hardware, but that the manufacturer's online marketplace should not be able to regulate its content at all. In other words, not only are you able to do whatever you want with the hardware(no disagreement here) but that they should have no control over content on Xbox Live(give me a break). You own your Xbox 360 and your Iphone you don't own the Appstore or Xbox Live. Apple and Microsoft also have "Private Property."

Comment Re:Oh, don't be an idiot. (Score 1) 277

You are arguing that Apple has no "moral authority" to decide which apps it can provide in its own store because you own an iphone and it is your "private property." You are conflating the piece of hardware you own with the service that the company provides along with it. Isn't the app store Apple's private property? Shouldn't they have a right to use the property the way they want?

Comment Re:does an iphone.... (Score 1) 582

I still remember what made me get a Genesis. I remember going to the store the day Mortal Kombat came out and buying it for SNES. I think I paid 70 dollars for it. I got home and popped it in the console and the blood was replaced with sweat. Sure it was stupid, but I was 10 years old and I wanted my game to be ultra-gory. The worst part was that instead of ripping the opponent's spine out, Sub-Zero froze him and shattered him.

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