Comment Well, that's a trip (Score 0) 918
Just found out my buddy's son is there because I saw footage on the news of his destroyer parked right there off Syria. Wild way to find that out.
It's in the opinion issued by the appellate judge, pg 8, last paragraph.
I don't know about how many hours each tech watches on his shift or anything like that, but, I agree, that job sounds horrid.
Unfortunately, Dish is annually named as 1 of the worst companies to work for in America. There was a blurb just a few days ago on that in the Wall St Journal/HuffPo/etc.
None of that would work because Dish technicians actually watch the broadcasts and manually record when the commercial breaks start and stop.
54 million Americans get their tv exclusively over the air. None of the big 4 are alienating that many of their audience.
What they *will* do, however, is go crying to congress after they finish losing their court appeals.
Well, I'm already a Dish sub. I started a chat with an online rep, asked if I could get HBO at half price for 6 months and they said ok. I almost crapped when I saw HBO pckg reg price is $18/month. I can stomach $9/month to get the new season of GoT.
Still not as good as free, tho.
I could never figure out the point of all these restrictions. One of the 1st things the govt did after 9/11 was lock and harden the cockpits and cockpit doors. Because of that, something like 9/11 can never, ever, ever happen again because terrorists can't get into the cockpit. Planes might have terrorists and they might get blown up or some passengers might get killed, but no terrorist will ever again have control of the plane and use it as a missile/bomb. Pilot's simply won't relinquish control.
So, what are we protecting against? Planes were hijacked long before 9/11 and we didn't have these restrictions, so wtf? NOW we're worried about bombs or a stew getting cut? Bullshit. It's all designed to make people feel better w/o actually providing better security. Making my 3 yro and my 70-something yro MiL take off their shoes was bullshit, too. That's changed now and lessening these restrictions is good, too, but they were never real security measures.
The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in all major markets.
Gamers don't care about that. The good news would be your mess is un-f'd.
Actually, I think this is a great example of why digital downloads (of anything) shouldn't cost as much as the same thing distributed on disk. Obviously the net worth of the digitally distributed version of these games is such that EA can pass out a bunch of them in the name of good will. Doing that is an economic decision and speaks to the lesser value of the digital good.
In conclusion, screw EA.
I don't think that was necessarily flamebait. I might have worded it a little differently, but I think ther eis a bit of truth in that post. Truth, in that, many gamers are fairly young or may not have the emotional growth and experience to relate purchasing to power.
I mean, how many adolescent gamers (read: those with the least experience in the market) really understand that by purchasing a product, you are, to the seller, endorsing the product and how it was made and marketed?
And it's not even adolescents. Plenty of adults don't make that connection, either. Many people know the phrase "money talks" but few seem to fully grasp what that means.
OK, so, now you're saying that having the US bogged down in another country, not possessing nukes, is what has kept the US from invading Iran.
Yet, the US has not been in Iraq for a while now and while Iran still has no nukes, the US hasn't invaded. That also seems contradictory to what you originally posted. Further, the US seems to have had no qualms about being in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time, so invading Iran, with its lagging nuke tech, would seem to be no problem. But, again, that hasn't happened.
You should at least be honest about why you want nukes: you want a big stick to wave around and feel like you have some power and get some respect in that part of the world. Not that that would win you any more friends amongst the nuclear powers, but at least its not some bullshit lie like "this would be the only thing preventing the US from invading."
Exactly how do you think having a couple of nuclear weapons would deter the U.S. from invading?
I don't think that. Dude I was replying to thinks that.
That's definitely a factor. But, it's not like retired folks are the only victims, nor are they the only immigrants. I think it's also influenced by the large population living of poor people, people for whom English is a second language, and the fact that so many Floridians are simply from elsewhere and perhaps don't fully understand local rules and regulations.
Forgot to mention the prescription drug fraud earlier, too. Oxycontin smuggling in to Appalachia is pretty much because of Florida and our foot-dragging on the prescription drug database these days.
PURGE COMPLETE.
