The line is formed from people excited about Apple's next Apple/ATnT/CIA project. Once inside the store the sheeple will get a free month of CIA monitored web browsing for agreeing to register for certain privacy-intrusive biometric identifications, i.e. retina scans, palm prints, and butt prints.
Meanwhile, six feet underground, Orwell, Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson and Thomas Jefferson roll over once again.
I watched C-Span when the AT&T hearings were going on. I've forgotten many details but I remember a couple things and I'll close with why IMO this is important.
1. If you have an iPhone and use AT&T and think you're cool...YOU'RE NOT.
2. AT&T was basically giving the CIA/NSA a pipeline of raw info that far exceeded any "warrant" or current "virtual warrants" (my term...no I'm not a lawyer).
If the police come to me in an investigation seeking information, I DO NOT have to give them more than they need but I can if I want. EX: If they ask "have you seen this man around here today (picture)" and I truthfully say "No", unless I am called to court and so fourth I don't have to elaborate and perhaps say that I saw him a month ago.
When a company has access to information regarding certain online habits of my own and the government DOESN'T have a warrant and those habits DO NOT indicate criminal action, then a privacy conscious company should tell Johnny Spook to take a hike.
But AT&T opened the barn doors for the Feds and exposed private information of customers without any legal reason to compell them to, in some cases.
So, government spooks aren't concerned with the rights of the individuals that they trampled on and they aren't going to prosecute AT&T for working with them. This is why it is important to put some responsibility on the individual companies to require that the government properly have gone through the right channels to demand the information.
If the cops come to my aparment building and lie to my landlord saying they have a warrant to search my apartment and they DO NOT have a warrant and my landlord lets them in, then I've got a beef with my landlord...especially if he knew that he didn't have to let the cops in and I was found to not be a suspect.
It's called "calling the cops' (Feds') bluff and not revealing information that should remain private." These companies, whom the customers pay for their services, have corporate lawyers that damn well know when they are complying with the law and when they are getting down on their hands and kneew for a draconian "request".
Two COMFORTABLE chairs eh? Apparantly I've been seeing an awful lot of films in conterfeit "public theaters" with UNcomfortable seats. I demand my money back and as an American am thusly obligated to sue often and over all things great-or-small and as the MPAA and RIAA have shown ("shown"...via action...and not in an unregistered theater) no amount is too tiny when it comes to screwing over your fellow human being.
Anyone who has ever sat in the front row of one of these now exposed Counterfeit Theaters can eventually take the MPAA to court when they start kicking down our doors with the inevitable ATF escort. There's nothing comfortable about a pain in the neck or aching kidneys. I'll be readying my class-action-countersuit and sign-up-sheet for future reference.
Until then, everyone is invited to watch a dvd on my 32-inch screen. Dibs on comfortable chair #2. And just to stick it to the MPAA suits even further, I'll rent "Glitter" on dollar night. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
and character back to a ho-hum console gaming scene.
IMO the last console with any real character was the Dreamcast. Unfortunately, the planets weren't in line for that system but it has proven to have made a lasting impression on users of that system. There was a real breath of fresh air there. It turned into a gasp but it was there.
Where is the fun now? Playstations have always been rather ugly, as have other systems from all brands. Yes the guts matter and of course the games, but I have never felt "attached" to either flavor of my PS2s like other systems with more of a unique experience. In the flurry and often the drudgery of individual game ad compaigns, what ties everything together as a branded experience. A big ugly brick with no character. Black and white ads with crows for god's sake? I for one am tired of the "serious gamer" image and platform meaning that a system has to have the charisma of a bi-polar dictator.
I've had great experiences with many PS2 games and somewhere down the line I will of course play PS3 games, but the thing is ugly (I know I know...internal power supply, tech advances, etc.), somehow intimidating-looking, too damn expensive (3DO?), overhyped, ugly logo'd, and unsupported at launch.
Look at the Wii campaign. It's bright (gasp...yet N still managed to get a goth kid in the early promo pieces). People might look silly playing it. It's cheaper. Yes yes...but not as powerful. Maybe it's time to look a little silly. And it's all tied together with a cool fresh look and a cast of characters and titles that have proven to be fun over and over. Maybe the current political climate and so forth has the public wanting something lighter for consumption. It's a philosophy and launch "campaign" to get excited about.
The Nintendo DS is huge because of game variety and word of mouth. The Wii promises the same type of experience on a bigger level. The PS3 just unfortunately looks like Gloom and Doom and with the game reviews I've seen, again unfortunately, it appears to actually be so for a while. So, blood and guts on the Wii might not look as realistic as that on the PS3. What I see here with the Wii is something like that little indy film that conquers the box office because it touches a nerve. People are excited and Nintendo ain't paying them.
Perhaps the Dreamcast was, alas, destined for failure during the time it was release. It's looking like the Wii is destined to give semi-bored gamers and new players something to feel warm and fuzzy about. A charming console and enjoyable games.
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uh, yeah right. like my post is any different from any other 1-2 line comment on this stupid topic about a stupid insipid line.
The line is formed from people excited about Apple's next Apple/ATnT/CIA project. Once inside the store the sheeple will get a free month of CIA monitored web browsing for agreeing to register for certain privacy-intrusive biometric identifications, i.e. retina scans, palm prints, and butt prints.
Meanwhile, six feet underground, Orwell, Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson and Thomas Jefferson roll over once again.
I watched C-Span when the AT&T hearings were going on. I've forgotten many details but I remember a couple things and I'll close with why IMO this is important.
1. If you have an iPhone and use AT&T and think you're cool...YOU'RE NOT.
2. AT&T was basically giving the CIA/NSA a pipeline of raw info that far exceeded any "warrant" or current "virtual warrants" (my term...no I'm not a lawyer).
If the police come to me in an investigation seeking information, I DO NOT have to give them more than they need but I can if I want. EX: If they ask "have you seen this man around here today (picture)" and I truthfully say "No", unless I am called to court and so fourth I don't have to elaborate and perhaps say that I saw him a month ago.
When a company has access to information regarding certain online habits of my own and the government DOESN'T have a warrant and those habits DO NOT indicate criminal action, then a privacy conscious company should tell Johnny Spook to take a hike.
But AT&T opened the barn doors for the Feds and exposed private information of customers without any legal reason to compell them to, in some cases.
So, government spooks aren't concerned with the rights of the individuals that they trampled on and they aren't going to prosecute AT&T for working with them. This is why it is important to put some responsibility on the individual companies to require that the government properly have gone through the right channels to demand the information.
If the cops come to my aparment building and lie to my landlord saying they have a warrant to search my apartment and they DO NOT have a warrant and my landlord lets them in, then I've got a beef with my landlord...especially if he knew that he didn't have to let the cops in and I was found to not be a suspect.
It's called "calling the cops' (Feds') bluff and not revealing information that should remain private." These companies, whom the customers pay for their services, have corporate lawyers that damn well know when they are complying with the law and when they are getting down on their hands and kneew for a draconian "request".
"...two comfortable chairs".
Two COMFORTABLE chairs eh? Apparantly I've been seeing an awful lot of films in conterfeit "public theaters" with UNcomfortable seats. I demand my money back and as an American am thusly obligated to sue often and over all things great-or-small and as the MPAA and RIAA have shown ("shown"...via action...and not in an unregistered theater) no amount is too tiny when it comes to screwing over your fellow human being.
Anyone who has ever sat in the front row of one of these now exposed Counterfeit Theaters can eventually take the MPAA to court when they start kicking down our doors with the inevitable ATF escort. There's nothing comfortable about a pain in the neck or aching kidneys. I'll be readying my class-action-countersuit and sign-up-sheet for future reference.
Until then, everyone is invited to watch a dvd on my 32-inch screen. Dibs on comfortable chair #2. And just to stick it to the MPAA suits even further, I'll rent "Glitter" on dollar night. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
and character back to a ho-hum console gaming scene.
IMO the last console with any real character was the Dreamcast. Unfortunately, the planets weren't in line for that system but it has proven to have made a lasting impression on users of that system. There was a real breath of fresh air there. It turned into a gasp but it was there.
Where is the fun now? Playstations have always been rather ugly, as have other systems from all brands. Yes the guts matter and of course the games, but I have never felt "attached" to either flavor of my PS2s like other systems with more of a unique experience. In the flurry and often the drudgery of individual game ad compaigns, what ties everything together as a branded experience. A big ugly brick with no character. Black and white ads with crows for god's sake? I for one am tired of the "serious gamer" image and platform meaning that a system has to have the charisma of a bi-polar dictator.
I've had great experiences with many PS2 games and somewhere down the line I will of course play PS3 games, but the thing is ugly (I know I know...internal power supply, tech advances, etc.), somehow intimidating-looking, too damn expensive (3DO?), overhyped, ugly logo'd, and unsupported at launch.
Look at the Wii campaign. It's bright (gasp...yet N still managed to get a goth kid in the early promo pieces). People might look silly playing it. It's cheaper. Yes yes...but not as powerful. Maybe it's time to look a little silly. And it's all tied together with a cool fresh look and a cast of characters and titles that have proven to be fun over and over. Maybe the current political climate and so forth has the public wanting something lighter for consumption. It's a philosophy and launch "campaign" to get excited about.
The Nintendo DS is huge because of game variety and word of mouth. The Wii promises the same type of experience on a bigger level. The PS3 just unfortunately looks like Gloom and Doom and with the game reviews I've seen, again unfortunately, it appears to actually be so for a while. So, blood and guts on the Wii might not look as realistic as that on the PS3. What I see here with the Wii is something like that little indy film that conquers the box office because it touches a nerve. People are excited and Nintendo ain't paying them.
Perhaps the Dreamcast was, alas, destined for failure during the time it was release. It's looking like the Wii is destined to give semi-bored gamers and new players something to feel warm and fuzzy about. A charming console and enjoyable games.