Archive for July, 2009
The legality of those fun things we like to play with
July 11th, 2009
Photo: Video Games Blogger
Video Games Blogger put out an entry last year (http://tinyurl.com/kkc72k) on the issue of a pirater importing the pictured game system, loading it with NES roms, and then reselling the systems for about a 300% profit.
The guy got a handful of years to think about the issue.
I remember over the last few years seeing this same system sold in local malls in breezeway carts, all out in the open. It always seemed that you couldn’t go 10 yards without some hawker interrupting your shopping day. To find this news…priceless!
If you wanna pick up something legal like Wii accessories online, just know who you’re buying them from. If it’s original, then it’s cool.
If it’s not, ask yourself if you’d like the FBI checking around your house while investigating someone’s list of prior customers.
Word.
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Jacksonville's NIMBY: It's the green thing for local businesses
July 11th, 2009
Years ago the ‘classics’ were what we all were supposed to know we should know, that is until the internet came along and burst the bubble. People’s minds started wanting more than the books available in their local hamlet’s library.
While many local critics bash the use of local library’s use by their homeless residents, it’s a small percentage that are the actual problem cried about.
Take for instance the imagery of ‘the pooping man’, flaunted by back patters of Laura Street and other points of interest within a stone’s throw of the fear of their front windows being broken by bricks. The man was one of thousands of homeless residents in this city, but his image was used as a political tool against not only local government…but the businesses own pockets they were trying to line.
Yes, Jacksonville downtown businesses! Each time one of the people you’re ‘in bed with’ opens their mouth, the rest of you are judged. It goes from the one comment, it festers up within local message boards, and it ends up archived on search engines your future dollars are sought on.
The one thing that homelessness has taught me?
They’ll always have a place in Jacksonville. The failing businesses managed by people with closed minds?
Figure it out.