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To give you a more serious answer:

First, Angry Birds cost a lot less to make than NSMB Wii. With the manpower/capital needed to make that game, Rovio could make several Angry Birds type games.

Second, the threat to gaming from these types of mobile games is mostly toward the kinds of games Nintendo made popular with the Wii- Wii Sports, Wii Fit, etc. Actually, Nintendo probably created this industry with their success with the Wii- and now it's beginning to be turned against them.

Third, the threat is much bigger in the minds of Wall Street people than it actually is in reality. Remember Apple is the latest big thing in the stock market, that has gone up and up and up, and is now the biggest company by market cap in the world. Meanwhile Sony and Nintendo are losing money, in large part because we're at the end of a cycle and they need new systems to be released. Wall Street will see Apple (and any associated companies) as a bigger threat to gaming companies than it is. Facebook is big too- and at least until Wall Street can actually buy FB stock, it's sort of using related companies as a proxy. Does anyone really believe Zynga is worth $8 billion dollars? I doubt very many do, but it's the next best thing to Facebook if you want to buy FB stock for another month.

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If Kant really proved space is flat (which, strangely enough, matches our latest observations), then space must be flat and we can toss out all observations to the contrary. Who are you going to believe, infallible logic or your lying eyes? I seriously doubt Kant actually managed to prove something as fact-dependent as space being flat though.

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How about comparing Angry Birds against one of the Mario games, instead of a series with hundreds of titles over 30 years? Or alternatively, let's figure the Angry Birds people will make a new game with similar sales every year for the next 3 decades.

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Logic has nothing to do with sensory experience. If you logically prove something, and sensory experience then contradicts that, then, well, it's your sensory experience that must be flawed.

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1. That way I could drink socially acceptable amounts without ever getting drunk.

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Of course it's violence. It's physical force to terminate something.

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In response to your stuff on Kolmogorov complexity, it's not surprising that God would have a very high or infinite KC- because God is undefinable.........by definition. Of course, "that which is undefinable" is not itself an adequate definition.

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You see probability theory/Baye's Rule as the fundamental mode of existence. But, why should we accept that for an axiom? And it's naturally incompatible with truth because truth usually implies underlying probabilities of 1 or 0, whether or it is ever possible to find them.

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The statute is also confusing because it is unclear whether "highway" means what we usually understand nowadays as a highway (=freeway) and the traditional meaning of highway as you would find going back centuries (meaning any road that is not very local, like most avenues, most main streets, etc.)

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California? It's the only place I've been to in the US with unincorporated areas that is not super rural.

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Probability theory is irreconciliable with "truth," there's your problem.

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Have you studied economics? (Well, given your statement, I highly doubt it.)

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Where would he go though? I don't think he wants to spend the rest of his life in one of the countries that doesn't extradite to the US, and he probably doesn't have the means to do so.

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And if it were the other way around, and Zimmerman had died- you bet Trayvon would have been charged with 1st degree murder.

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Unless, of course, the jury simply decides that he's morally not guilty enough to be convicted of 2nd degree murder, but too guilty to be acquitted, and compromises with manslaughter. Juries do do that kind of thing pretty often.

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2nd degree murder is appropriate because there was an intent to kill/harm, and no circumstances that would cause a reasonable man to act that way (unless, of course, he wins on self-defense, in which case he is simply acquitted). The intent came up in the heat of the moment, and was not premeditated, so 1st degree is not appropriate.

As far as I can see it, he either gets convicted of 2nd degree murder or gets acquitted- no room for a manslaughter conviction here.

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Tip for the actual LSAT: all the correct answers require absolutely zero real world knowledge, and can be reached solely by what is given on the test. If you find yourself selecting an answer because of factual knowledge from the real world, that is probably not the right answer.

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Probably not now. Nintendo stock has lost 86% of its value since the peak.

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http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20120411a.htm

One of the Fed members says we haven't had enough stimulus since 2009. QE3? Maybe that's why the market is up a lot today- Wall Street seems to be unabashedly clamoring for QE3 now. Less government intervention? Pft, that's so 2007. Now they just want to drink from the Federal Reserve spigot.

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As I said in Sess' topic, even second degree is a huge reach. I don't see how they can possibly have enough evidence to convict him of this.

There are states where courts have ruled that all the premeditation that is needed for first degree murder is the instant it takes to pull the trigger. I personally find that result patently absurd- why would the legislature put the word "premeditated" in there, if an instant is enough? Such a result essentially makes second degree murder irrelevant in all cases.

I dunno what the status of FL law on premeditation is, but I'm glad the prosecution at least recognizes the difference between first and second degree murder.

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So Zimmerman was charged with 2nd degree murder. Good call, prosecutors. I'm glad they didn't go for first degree. The way some states/courts handle it really reduces to nothing the difference between the two.

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3 ways, or driver pays for everything.

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Yup, Nintendo was briefly the #2 most valuable company in all of Japan back in 2007 (behind Toyota).

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The entire company.

It's actually possible that just the gaming division of Sony would be worth more than the entire company because the other divisions make losses. Also, Sony has quite a bit of debt, while Nintendo has 0 debt and the aforementioned $10B cash hoard ($15B when including non-cash assets, equal to 1.2 trillion yen).

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Previous result: Disney defeats Texas Instruments 6-3.

LVS is the biggest casino operator (and this year, I believe the biggest hotel operator) in the world by revenue. Pretty astonishing when they only have 8 casino/hotels (with their newest opening today in Macau, China).

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But they don't hit those home runs enough, or at least manage to profit from them enough. That's why Nintendo has been worth more than them since 2007 except for the past 3 or 4 months (and is ahead again tonight), despite being only slightly ahead of Sony in a single one of its industries, and having nothing else.

If you want to talk about companies that do the home run model well, look at Apple or Google.

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Honestly, Sony's never been very good at making money. A lot of good products, but somehow it doesn't translate into profit. Nintendo, on the other hand, has been an A+ company at delivering profits for more than 2 decades now. It's the kind of company you can buy and hold forever, like Coca-Cola. Or at least Nintendo's been on that on the actual business- their investment strategy of "let's keep $10 billion in cash and do nothing with it ever" strategy is a bit questionable.

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However, as of right now.......

Nintendo Market Cap: 1.52 Trillion Yen
Sony Market Cap: 1.51 Trillion Yen

Nintendo is back on top after a few months below Sony, and all is right with the world.

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Stock down 9% today on news that they lost twice as much money in the past year as previously projected.

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Disney dominating so far.

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Congress proposes and even passes nonbinding resolutions all the time. This one doesn't even try to overturn Florida's law (which Congress has no power to do). All it would mean is that the members of Congress express their disapproval.

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Everything being about money is literally the cornerstone of my political beliefs!

Well it's not mine. All the money that is spent on birth control is like loose change compared to bigger things like financials.

Now, if we banned abortion, how much would individuals be willing to pay to get an exemption for themselves? Now that could be a significant amount of money. And that's why the legality of abortion is a much bigger issue than the government payment issue.

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Also, I still think "War on Sex" would be a great campaign slogan for Santorum. Maybe next time if Romney loses. Here's a hypothetical platform:

1. Extramarital sex is banned.
2. Any man who has sex with a woman is obligated to take her as his wife if she requests so within a year. #1 will generally not be prosecuted unless a man has multiple women demand marriage under #2, and cannot meet his obligations.
3. Pornography of all sorts is banned.
4. Schools will teach abstinence until marriage.
5. Birth control of all forms is banned, except for methods explicitly approved by the Vatican.
6. Doctors are banned from advising patients on birth control, except for methods explicitly approved by the Vatican.
7. Promiscuous clothing in public is banned.
8. No-fault divorce is banned.

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Nah, only the extreme left cares about that. More people on the right care about that, because they don't want to support murder, but it still isn't that many people.

Not everything is about payment.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/titanoboa-slithered-planet/story?id=16046157#.T4TSe9U2H4s

If I were Smartmuffin, I would use this article to make a topic titled, "Global Warming 'Scientists' Now Threatening Us With Giant Snakes."

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On another note, the yield on the 10-year US treasuries is back under 2%. Really, people? You'll lend money to the US government at 2% interest, locking in your money for 10 years? At 2%?

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Yes, but nearly 99% of the people in favor of that position also want it to be absolutely free on-demand.

I daresay most people don't care very much about the payment issue, at least not in relation to the legality issue.

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Also, remember that gays can be and are frequently Christians.

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The whole idea of pure democracy is also a terrible way to rule a nation because you agree that if the majority says so, it's totally okay to enslave and murder people. I doubt you genuinely believe that there are not limits on what is and is not decided by the majority. And on an individual level the arguments themselves matter anyway.

It may be different in other countries, in America, the Constitution generally acts as a limit to the tyranny of the majority. But at least in my opinion, there isn't anything unconstitutional about not having gay marriage. It's not forcing beliefs on others. It's refusing to give a status to some.

Forcing beliefs on others would be, for example, requiring gay people to get heterosexual marriages. Or requiring the WBC to hold gay marriages.

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You cannot detach people's beliefs from their politics. And that is not the meaning of separation of church and state. Church and state are and ought to be intimately linked through individuals people, who are members of both. Separation of church and state means that the links must be at just that level- through individuals only.

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No, they're not relevant, because they change over time and thus have no relevance to a discussion on whether gay marriage should be legal or not, a debate whose answer needs to actually be applicable in general (this isn't even about the US in general and hasn't ever been, and I'm not even American).

Uh, the whole idea of democracy is that a law should be the law if the majority votes for it. We have a 15% tax if people vote for that, we have a 40% tax if people vote for that. We have government healthcare if people vote for it, and not if they don't. We have a draft if people vote for it, and not if they don't. A law doesn't need any reason to become law other than the will of the majority. And it makes zero difference that it changes over time, because whatever is the current law is what is current. If the opinions change over time, the people can change the law.

There doesn't need to be some general rule for gay marriage (or other stuff) across the whole earth. Many of us in the US think the UK's lack of free speech protection is appalling, an outrage to fundamental human rights. We're not going to invade Britain or anything to force them to change.

And yeah, forcing Christian beliefs into law solely because they are Christian is forcing religion on people. You have to be blind to not think that it's forcing religion on someone to say "well this groups religion says your beliefs are wrong, and we're going to make the law such that your beliefs aren't recognized and theirs are".

Oh? So then, it would be equally wrong for us to make laws that impede racism, because we are forcing our beliefs of equality on people?

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