and then someone came and looked under the shelf anyway, found embarrassing photos that would be incredibly embarrassing to you and thousands of your friends. made copies of the photos and tried to illegally extort money from you.
As a consumer i can't force distributors to charge less to aussie retailers, i can't force retailers to sell at a lower price. i can't force online stores to not charge higher prices for digital downloads just because i'm in australia.
my options are: a) try and find someone online that will ship to australia with at reasonable price(incl shipping). b) get an overseas v.p.n. possibly credit card and pretend i'm overseas to buy digital copies at a reasonable price. c) pirate d) give up and pay inflated prices
i only hear about them earlier this year. Samsung sent them a C&D to stop advertising tat their TVs used Samsung panels............which they bought from Samsung and still have Samsung logos on them. Apple also successfully stopped them from selling grey import iPads at international prices. (we get quite stooged on electronics here)
i can't quite understand how grey market could ever be deemed illegal.
i also wish i didn't have to use stupid web-based apps that break if you use anything other than ie6/7 as part of my job and i could upgrade past 7 on my work pc.
a gun is a killing/maiming things tool. some people may decide to use them to shoot at paper but that's up to them. i've never heard of one using a gun to locate food, only killing/maiming it once you've found it.
The military uses them as a 'defend the lives of people with force when needed' tool
No it does not have a single player mode. every charachter you create has the ability to interact with other charachters and is thus a multiplayer charachter. the game is always played on blizzard servers. the actual player's PC does not contain all the code required to play the game.
Open bnet from D2 was crap. most people that played the diablo don't care about it or single player so Blizzard didn't waste effort coding for it.
it has to be online to prevent people cheating in the online space.
as has been pointed out they could have created single player charachters as well as multiplayer characters. they did not do this possibly due to the extra coding required which they have decided would not be worth it, possible as a DRM scheme.
i would think it's closer to the former as the whole game was designed to be multiplayer. i highly doubt they would have had a large amount of sales if the game could not go be played online.
i thought it was pretty clear(though probably a logical fallacy). widespread availability of depictions of one particular activity have not lead to an increase in related activity. therefore widespread depictions of another activity should not lead to the same.
yelling out child porn in the middle of your arguments doesn't change facts. you would make a better point by correlating 'illegality, social acceptance, & instances' of other activities.
better yet, point out that 'adult porn' is generally always not rape, whereas CP always is. if this was the point you were trying to make, you should have been clearer about it. English is not the first language of everyone reading this, nuances in language differ between English speaking cultures (even in the same countries) and to me that read kind of like 'no rational discussion is required on the matter because it's CHILD PORN'. which is essentially a worthless non-argument.
As an aggregator they would cease to function if the major search providers(that rely on advertising) disappeared. therefore they (indirectly) rely on internet users being tracked.
i don't know if it's just my monitor/settings but i also find that bottom line seperating sponsored links from real ones nearly impossible to see.
you know gmail has instructions for setting up POP/IMAP access in the help section. they even contain specific details for what you need to do in Thunderbird to get it working(and other clients)
the citizens of the town weren't aware of the activity, meaning it was apparently done without the knowledge of the citizens. In other words, secretly.
there's a difference between doing something in secret i.e. trying to hide the fact you are doing it, and just not telling anyone about it.
he said that he doesn't want to have to buy the cables and accessory players required to watch a blu-ray. if his PC played blue ray's then he would already have everything required and that would no longer be an argument for pirating over legal methods.
i also don't believe it was ever mentioned that his PC could do everything a blu-ray could, just that his PC has better functionality to watch content than a blu-ray player does.
yes, but if i ban heroin then your argument of 'psiclops shouldn't be banning stuff' holds less weight in a discussion about why i shouldn't ban alcohol.
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and then someone came and looked under the shelf anyway, found embarrassing photos that would be incredibly embarrassing to you and thousands of your friends. made copies of the photos and tried to illegally extort money from you.
no it's not, in your analogy the person is consciously sending the contents of the safe to you. at no point in the actual scenario did this happen.
we can agree however, that accessing the information was not a criminal offence.
what they did with the data afterwards quite clearly is though.
we don't
As a consumer i can't force distributors to charge less to aussie retailers, i can't force retailers to sell at a lower price. i can't force online stores to not charge higher prices for digital downloads just because i'm in australia.
my options are:
a) try and find someone online that will ship to australia with at reasonable price(incl shipping).
b) get an overseas v.p.n. possibly credit card and pretend i'm overseas to buy digital copies at a reasonable price.
c) pirate
d) give up and pay inflated prices
yeah, but how well would it have gone if russia wasn't part of the war.
it like this: if i take the spark plugs out of my car it won't start. that doesn't mean that the spark plugs are doing more than the rest of the car.
failed semantics.
words have more than one meaning. look up the word tax sometime.
my kingdom for some mod points.
i only hear about them earlier this year. Samsung sent them a C&D to stop advertising tat their TVs used Samsung panels............which they bought from Samsung and still have Samsung logos on them. Apple also successfully stopped them from selling grey import iPads at international prices. (we get quite stooged on electronics here)
i can't quite understand how grey market could ever be deemed illegal.
i also wish i didn't have to use stupid web-based apps that break if you use anything other than ie6/7 as part of my job and i could upgrade past 7 on my work pc.
so don't set your user-agent string to 'super-wheelchair-fun-time' and enjoy the low prices the rest of us get????
the mental disabilities that steer one to using particular browsers are not chosen.
Then there is no point in allowing people to play alone at all.
just like how they should ban people from leaving towns in wow if they are not in a party.
it's a multiplayer game. there's no single player option; however, you can solo if you like.
a gun is a killing/maiming things tool. some people may decide to use them to shoot at paper but that's up to them. i've never heard of one using a gun to locate food, only killing/maiming it once you've found it.
The military uses them as a 'defend the lives of people with force when needed' tool
Which military are you talking about?
No it does not have a single player mode. every charachter you create has the ability to interact with other charachters and is thus a multiplayer charachter.
the game is always played on blizzard servers. the actual player's PC does not contain all the code required to play the game.
Open bnet from D2 was crap. most people that played the diablo don't care about it or single player so Blizzard didn't waste effort coding for it.
it has to be online to prevent people cheating in the online space.
as has been pointed out they could have created single player charachters as well as multiplayer characters. they did not do this possibly due to the extra coding required which they have decided would not be worth it, possible as a DRM scheme.
i would think it's closer to the former as the whole game was designed to be multiplayer. i highly doubt they would have had a large amount of sales if the game could not go be played online.
i thought it was pretty clear(though probably a logical fallacy). widespread availability of depictions of one particular activity have not lead to an increase in related activity. therefore widespread depictions of another activity should not lead to the same.
yelling out child porn in the middle of your arguments doesn't change facts. you would make a better point by correlating 'illegality, social acceptance, & instances' of other activities.
better yet, point out that 'adult porn' is generally always not rape, whereas CP always is. if this was the point you were trying to make, you should have been clearer about it. English is not the first language of everyone reading this, nuances in language differ between English speaking cultures (even in the same countries) and to me that read kind of like 'no rational discussion is required on the matter because it's CHILD PORN'. which is essentially a worthless non-argument.
As an aggregator they would cease to function if the major search providers(that rely on advertising) disappeared. therefore they (indirectly) rely on internet users being tracked.
i don't know if it's just my monitor/settings but i also find that bottom line seperating sponsored links from real ones nearly impossible to see.
you know gmail has instructions for setting up POP/IMAP access in the help section.
they even contain specific details for what you need to do in Thunderbird to get it working(and other clients)
the citizens of the town weren't aware of the activity, meaning it was apparently done without the knowledge of the citizens. In other words, secretly.
there's a difference between doing something in secret i.e. trying to hide the fact you are doing it, and just not telling anyone about it.
statements thate are completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand do not require a rebuttal
it's not really a scam on thugs, its just that those traits no longer lead to dominance.
it may not be morally acceptable to you, but it is a perfectly rational reason.
also, then why bother to have laws?
he said that he doesn't want to have to buy the cables and accessory players required to watch a blu-ray.
if his PC played blue ray's then he would already have everything required and that would no longer be an argument for pirating over legal methods.
i also don't believe it was ever mentioned that his PC could do everything a blu-ray could, just that his PC has better functionality to watch content than a blu-ray player does.
yes, but if i ban heroin then your argument of 'psiclops shouldn't be banning stuff' holds less weight in a discussion about why i shouldn't ban alcohol.
no they wouldn't go 200mph, but they'd probably go faster than they do now. probably while drunk.