4,764 karma · joined February 20, 2007
2. Sending money to relatives in the third world
3. Keeping your savings when the currency of your nation is going through hyperinflation
It was only many years later when I chose to read them that I could appreciate their quality.
(learning to ignore these people was the most financially rewarding thing I've done in my life)
The point was that if you have deeper pockets than your opponent then you're able to leverage the legal system to make life hard and stressful for them.
Nintendo has deep pockets and the will to go after anyone it considers a threat to its business model.
Instead you'll stream a version that meets the restrictions of the day. Perhaps the soundtrack has been changed due to licensing issues, or entire scenes have been deleted for being politically incorrect (according to whichever politics are in power when you watch the film)
Does the 3% from burning fossil fuels seem too low? I thought that this would make up the majority of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere every year
The obvious downside being that maybe some of the assumptions you hold based on experience may not apply anymore.
Goes to show that if you have a money fountain then your business decisions can be indistinguishable from satire and you'll still be fine