umm, unless it was women doing the abusing, it's homosexual whether they're adult or not... it's not like it suddenly becomes heterosexual just because one party is under age, ya know?
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the perpetual question, of course, being what rates as 'proper'?
... consider that most English speaking countries have trouble even teaching English literacy to a significant level, let alone anything else.
of course, step one is that the primary responsibility for 'proper' education must fall on the parents... schools, teachers, and such, are Employed to cover specific areas where specialist training is helpful, but pretty much the entirety of a child's existence is 'education' in some form or another. ... or sleeping.
the above aside, except for the weirdness that is 'credit ratings' and the like, Debit cards are actually a better option that credit cards... of course, for Most things cash is better still.
... and if you can get people to accept silver it's even better.
the odds of him being shot while resisting arrest are stupidly high. remember, this can happen to you in the USA because you can't hear what the hell the cop- is screaming at you and thus do not lie down on the ground fast enough because you don't realize that that's what you've been told to do. the one saving grace is that cops seem to have terrible accuracy over there, on average
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capitalism = economics. is opposed to various other economic systems.
plutocracy = who rules. chiefly as opposed to an aristocracy. admittedly does tend to mean 'rule by the wealthy'. all but inevitable in any representative democracy, as campaigns are expensive.
the proper solution in this case would, i think, be to have the rental version Just Not Have The Option for the extra stuff. it's not there. then on the version you can buy, have big lables on the back of the case 'includes extra stuff!'
the problem is, you cannot, EVER, give the impression that you have made a standard product and then Stripped Parts Out. this is done by either obvious attempts to get people to give you More money for what you have given the impression they've already payed for, or by taking standard features, stripping them out, and then demanding more money to return them, which is what is happening here.
also, the main complaint here is the artificial divide between the rental and bought versions of... exactly the same thing, combined with the sillyness of 'windows'. the reality is that standard consumer behaviour seems to be, in this situation, to be annoyed at the feature not being there, followed by either deciding they don't need it, or going out and pirating it because it's more convenient/cheaper.
the big, MAJOR distinction is: Mike says 'add value'. the movie industry insteads Removes value then tries to charge you more to put it back.
which a truly 'free' market rapidly devolves into if not properly regulated in the first place. of course, going to the other extream produces similar results.
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the unique part about the ones on techdirt is that they tend to make sense and only get used when the person they're responding to is being an idiot.
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... consider that most English speaking countries have trouble even teaching English literacy to a significant level, let alone anything else.
of course, step one is that the primary responsibility for 'proper' education must fall on the parents... schools, teachers, and such, are Employed to cover specific areas where specialist training is helpful, but pretty much the entirety of a child's existence is 'education' in some form or another. ... or sleeping.
all significant stuff.
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... and if you can get people to accept silver it's even better.
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there's difference between being good at something and being the only one to do something. one makes the other unnecessary, that is all.
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capitalism = economics. is opposed to various other economic systems.
plutocracy = who rules. chiefly as opposed to an aristocracy. admittedly does tend to mean 'rule by the wealthy'. all but inevitable in any representative democracy, as campaigns are expensive.
they are not mutually exclusive.
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the problem is, you cannot, EVER, give the impression that you have made a standard product and then Stripped Parts Out. this is done by either obvious attempts to get people to give you More money for what you have given the impression they've already payed for, or by taking standard features, stripping them out, and then demanding more money to return them, which is what is happening here.
also, the main complaint here is the artificial divide between the rental and bought versions of... exactly the same thing, combined with the sillyness of 'windows'. the reality is that standard consumer behaviour seems to be, in this situation, to be annoyed at the feature not being there, followed by either deciding they don't need it, or going out and pirating it because it's more convenient/cheaper.
the big, MAJOR distinction is: Mike says 'add value'. the movie industry insteads Removes value then tries to charge you more to put it back.
can you see the distinction?
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all things in balance, i guess.
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