No, they (the cops) would go look to see where the known traps were and just stop sitting there and sit about half a mile down the road so when people sped back up they could tag em then.
You need to take that one step further and put in that the big lumbering companies not only stop innovating but will sue the small upstarts out of business to protect their market share.
Just because YOU don't go to them anymore doesn't mean NO one does. iain!=entire world. LAN party issue aside, as I pointed out a few posts up, what if I buy this game and want to be able to play against a family member on one of the other computers in my own house? Now I have to buy a $50 copy of the game for every computer I own? No thanks... pass. Will not buy this game at all now. RIP Blizzard.
And your POINT IS?? Seems to me if they had the ability to include LAN play ELEVEN YEARS AGO then it should be easy to implement now. On top of that, I have three computers in my house. So now this means that if I want to play this game against my son WITHIN MY OWN HOME, I have to purchase the game TWO OR THREE TIMES? Screw that and Blizzard!
OR, IV could have just as easily made that $120 mil from Intuit and other companies by licensing those patents to them as opposed to just sitting there holding them as secretly as possible waiting for someone else to come up with the same idea so they can threaten lawsuits. Nice try though.
Somehow I don't think this is a "rebulitards" vs "democrackheads" issue. I think its more of a keep the government out of my life issue, no matter who is running it.
But that aside, you bring up the point "Those speeding should pay for their wrongs"
I think that if people want to "speed" over the posted speed limit then those people should be able to pay an up front tax on their registration to get a higher speed limit.
For instance, here in Illinois it costs me I think $78 per year for my vehicle registration sticker I put on my license plate. What if I could pay say, double, or $156 for the sticker and get a speed limit that is posted speed limit +10 or something like that. That way we can call it what it is, a TAX, not a "fine". Just a rough idea that occurred to me the other day.
Wow, I didn't realize just how many people from Illinois or are familiar with Illinois frequent this site. Myself included of course. So glad I moved out to the far northwest suburbs.
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"Simplest terms: Google Wave is Gmail on crack. Imagine Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Docs in one big inbox."
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I remember when supernova was THE torrent site. When it got shut down, I think it took a week until 10 more sites popped to the forefront.
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I agree with Rob, you obviously haven't a clue.
But that aside, you bring up the point "Those speeding should pay for their wrongs"
I think that if people want to "speed" over the posted speed limit then those people should be able to pay an up front tax on their registration to get a higher speed limit.
For instance, here in Illinois it costs me I think $78 per year for my vehicle registration sticker I put on my license plate. What if I could pay say, double, or $156 for the sticker and get a speed limit that is posted speed limit +10 or something like that. That way we can call it what it is, a TAX, not a "fine". Just a rough idea that occurred to me the other day.
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