When you buy a movie, you are not buying it for every medium in every context in every release. If you buy an SD movie, you do not have the right to pirate the HD version. You didn't buy the HD version, you bought the SD version.

Likewise with songs, when you buy Guitar Hero, you aren't given the licensce to download the songs on your computer. You bought Guitar Hero, not the songs. An implication of buying Guitar Hero is that you can hear and "play" the songs in-game, but the fact of the matter is that you still have the buy the songs if you want to hear them outside of the game.

That's my opinion, anyways. Pirating is never justifiable, however admittedly sometimes necesarry. Not that, as you say, I would do it.

It's fine, however there should be a label on all foods that are genetically modified. That way, consumers can choose what they want. That's the way it's gotta be in a democratic society.

It's obviously a silly school policy, but the fact of the matter is that the kid's parents outright refused to cooperate with the school, which makes it their fault. If they had simply complied with the school policy, regardless of how stupid it is, then this would never have happened. Just sayin'.

It's not global warming, it's climate change. The only places that are getting warmer are the poles. Everywhere else is experiencing more drastic fluctuations in temperature. This is fact. Indisputable, objective, fact.

The only debate is whether or not it's man made, and how fast it's happening.

But anyone who says that climate change is a myth created by rich people is an idiot: rich people want climate change to not be real. The rich, politicians and bureaucrats all have their hand in the oil industry somehow. And the oil industry wants climate change to be false, so they can keep selling more oil.

Yes by a "small, but vocal" group. What annoys me more than this group is the fact this has to be posted on Yahoo's front page like it's a huge deal or something..

taj7575

This.

Haha, you call that cold? Damn I wish I lived there. Here it's currently -22C, or -7F for you Americans.

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Chances and ability are 2 different things. My family were poor immigrants. I'm doing fine. My dad and mother are doing fine. They found a way to afford night school. They own a house, and 2 cars.

I live on my own, have a post secondary degree and will soon be attending a non-technical school for another post secondary degree.

I did it with effort, and pursuing every opportunity I could.

That is literally all it takes. Save the sob stories for someone who has seen friend after friend fail because of a lack of pursuing opportunities.

grenadexjumpr

Most poor people don't try very hard, they don't put in the effort. And it's not because they're lazy. You can blame the parents for being poor, uneducated, abusing, and more, but this "if you try hard you will succeed" theory doesn't apply to everyone. It applied to you, so hurray, but you were raised in a way in which you cared about school, and were able to focus on it. What if you were abused as a kid, living in the slums. What if all your parents ever cared about were drugs and gangs and weapons. What if you had to work part-time to afford your parents health care checks, or to bail out your dad. If you were brought up in a environment like this, would you have succeeded? Most likely not.

I was put to work at the bare minimum age when we moved here to help support in any way. I also worked a real farm from the time I was 6 back in my home country. There, born poor remain poor forever.

Here, you can be born poor and get wealthy.

No system can ever be made to help every single situation one may encounter in their life. Its called striving above obstacles. And what would you count as abuse? My parents used the wrong end of a belt to put me in my place when I was wrong. Don't count that as abuse?

You can bring up every different situation ever, it would never end. But there are people who have risen above it, and that proves that anyone can.

There still needs to be a motivation to try hard. The rich kid, who gets an A on a report card goes home to be congratulated, and maybe even bought something as a reward. The poor kid, with a terrible family, comes home and gets nothing.

A vast, vast minority of the population can find motivation within. But most can't.

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Not true, at least in a public school setting. Go ahead and bash the public school system here..but everyone regardless of income is able to get somewhere. There are thousands of scholarships to apply for to help with university education. Effort WILL at some point or another equal success.

grenadexjumpr

Wrong, flat out. If you're born in a poor family, chances are, your family is uneducated. Chances are, your family is into drugs or other illegalities. You probably don't even care about school, due to a lack of support from your family. You can't afford a tutor. You can't afford university, even with the scholarships you probably wouldn't get. And you might even drop out of school to help support your family.

What about the rich man's son? If his family is rich, chances are they're educated. He'd be brought up in a environment that emphasized school, and he'd be able to afford a tutor, university, and more. And chances are, his family has connections that help him get places.

It's possible for a poor man to outperform a rich man in school, but tell me, what are the chances?

Chances and ability are 2 different things. My family were poor immigrants. I'm doing fine. My dad and mother are doing fine. They found a way to afford night school. They own a house, and 2 cars.

I live on my own, have a post secondary degree and will soon be attending a non-technical school for another post secondary degree.

I did it with effort, and pursuing every opportunity I could.

That is literally all it takes. Save the sob stories for someone who has seen friend after friend fail because of a lack of pursuing opportunities.

Most poor people don't try very hard, they don't put in the effort. And it's not because they're lazy. You can blame the parents for being poor, uneducated, abusing, and more, but this "if you try hard you will succeed" theory doesn't apply to everyone. It applied to you, so hurray, but you were raised in a way in which you cared about school, and were able to focus on it. What if you were abused as a kid, living in the slums. What if all your parents ever cared about were drugs and gangs and weapons. What if you had to work part-time to afford your parents health care checks, or to bail out your dad. If you were brought up in a environment like this, would you have succeeded? Most likely not.

I personally, will probably not be paying that much more. But the important fact is that business that offer health insurance will be put against the fence with a foot on their throat. Its either cut health insurance or raise the price for every employee. The public option WILL effect everyone, because the money has to come from somewhere. And it will come from those already paying for their own healthcare. Now those people will be paying even more, for a 3rd healthcare system to cover those that can't afford it.

grenadexjumpr

I didn't mean to say that the bill wasn't affecting everyone, I meant that not everyone was going to take advantage of it, and therefore the costs, when split about the entire nation, should be negligible.

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More often then not more effort equals better opportunities etc...

grenadexjumpr

Not true, at least in a public school setting. Go ahead and bash the public school system here..but everyone regardless of income is able to get somewhere. There are thousands of scholarships to apply for to help with university education. Effort WILL at some point or another equal success.

Wrong, flat out. If you're born in a poor family, chances are, your family is uneducated. Chances are, your family is into drugs or other illegalities. You probably don't even care about school, due to a lack of support from your family. You can't afford a tutor. You can't afford university, even with the scholarships you probably wouldn't get. And you might even drop out of school to help support your family.

What about the rich man's son? If his family is rich, chances are they're educated. He'd be brought up in a environment that emphasized school, and he'd be able to afford a tutor, university, and more. And chances are, his family has connections that help him get places.

It's possible for a poor man to outperform a rich man in school, but tell me, what are the chances?