Which is nice in theory, but then Microsoft went ahead to release a 360 without a hard drive, meaning that Mass Effect had to have those horrible elevator because it couldn't rely on pre-caching.
To add insult to injury, my 360 elite has a 120GB HD and games don't even fscking use it..!
Preventing piracy > Customer Experience Corporate-logic sucks ass.
Why is it that so FEW companies actually put out workable, GOOD products?
Because business graduates are retarded. They approach gaming from the perspective of business rather than gaming - the gaming is secondary to the business (in their tiny minds) - and as with everything else, they fuck it up for this very reason.
They turned something as inherently cool as a master race of robots into a blubbering suck-fest of limp-dicked pussies wimpering endlessly about their feelings.
it is apparent that the DHS is completely corrupting business and pleasure travel at the expense of our freedoms and economy.
I've heard the idea floated that the terrorists chose their course of action so that the US would be destroyed from within by the measures taken to prevent a future attack.
If this was their motivation, could they be said to have succeeded?
It occurs to me that if 911 were truly an attack from without, the US government would not allow themselves to lose control and let the terrorists achieve their goal.
Of course, the whole thing may have been organised from within (as paranoid and ghoulish as that sounds), with the end-goal of making the general public so afraid that they are more amenable to the idea of wave after wave of security (control) measure intended to protect (subjugate) them. There are large profits available to the companies supplying solutions to the blossoming security market...
How much more manipulation of 'reality' is needed before the general public is crying-out for an ED-209 on every flight / on every street corner?
Also, wtf is wrong with the comment form and parsing of entered text? Anyone tried to get a line-break (of any flavour?)
CongressCritters and Snoozators will soon be making a lot of noise about how they are protecting the public from being spied upon, while at the same time making it legal for us to be spied on.
Democracy in action:) - or rather that's what happens when the free market and democracy collide.
We had a similar situation in the UK recently with a company called Phorm. ISP's were entering into secret deals with them to collect our data so that they could modify the html streams returned from sites to inject targeted advertising. i.e. pure evil was afoot:)
The law says that all are innocent until proven guilty, however, the reality is far different.
You are innocent until a bunch of jurors, many of whom can't even comprehend your case nor care to seek the truth, decide they don't like your t-shirt.
..establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Mission accomplished. Oh wait.. the opposite of that:S
But given that we can't even recount the ballots for a presidential election (why do we bother saving them?
Why do you bother even pretending that the sham we in the west like to call democracy is anything more than lip-service to the idea of a self-governing populace?
Those entrusted with providing electronic vote-counting machines can't seem to deliver something which isn't open to abuse, so failure at the first stage.
Then, on to stage two where the millions of complex opinions of the people are run through a massively-lossy compression algorithm to result in a one- or two-bit number, signifiying the candidate of choice, who, when (s)he reaches office will rarely deliver on promises made.
What a fucking waste of time. What an insult to our intelligence. Day after day, we witness their ever-increasing levels of corruption; matched only by their technical incompetence. Meanwhile they're living the good life, laughing their asses off (in-between slanging-matches with the corrupt assholes from the other team.)
Waste of time....
-- There's a prize for anyone who can detect my disillusionment, which has been cleverly hidden using steganography within this post.
I would sell my vote, but Diebold already sold it for me.
Which is one reason why this is yet another travesty of 'justice' demonstrating that the individual is powerless against the government/industry complex who can do as they like without fear of any kind of punishment/curtailment of their freedom to continue to churn out the abuses.
They should have named the companies where the employees aren't up to the task of "ensuring they don't accidentally leave a £1000 piece of electronics with likely far more valuable data on, lying around". Would you want to do business with them? I mean, come on.. how difficult is it? Are these same people who lose shoes? You must have seen shoes in the street and wondered how someone would not notice. I know I have. Anyway..
Perhaps media companies should engineer a retrovirus which introduces blindness into the collective human genome. That way there's less chance of someone viewing 'illegal content'.
Ho ho ho - I cannot wait until these greedy corporate motherfuckers take it in the ass when the revolution comes (more "ho ho ho"'ing trailing off insanely....)
Perhaps media companies should engineer a retrovirus which introduces blindness into the collective human genome. That way there's less chance of someone viewing 'illegal content'.
Ho ho ho - I cannot wait until these greedy corporate motherfuckers take it in the ass when the revolution comes (more "ho ho ho"'ing trailing off insanely....)
It could be just prioritizing. Or it could be another lie to take your money without providing you the service (bandwidth) you contracted and paid for.
At the moment, every purchased service/product seems to bundle 'being lied-to' for free. I can't help wondering if 'they' will ever start selling that stand-alone. i.e. where the service one buys is 'to be lied-to'. Something like google's 'I feel lucky' button - you give us money and we arbitrarily choose what you get in return. woohoo!:D
Oh, and spare me the "little artist" crap. The MPAA/RIAA take away the copyrights of those "little artist" and then do "creative accounting" to basically pay them shit for their works of art while trying to maximize their profits.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see that others feel anger towards blatant corruption and double-speak. Perhaps there is still hope for the world as we knew it. Now if we can just persuade a critical mass of people to revolt against those that want to become our corporate overlords. I mean revolt, not just say "I don't support their actions".
Absolutely. But let's hear what the judge determines to be the sentence before leaping to conclusions, shall we?
Yah, we don't we. Why don't we also look into the bank accounts of the judge and everyone the judge knows so that we can partially satisfy ourselves that [s]he hasn't been taking bribes from the penis-herders at the MPAA.
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Jeez dude. Chill...
not if it's a 24-hour clock.
Has it occurred to you that such a scumbag wouldn't give a fuck what you think and so would have no reason to lie? I guess not :)
To add insult to injury, my 360 elite has a 120GB HD and games don't even fscking use it..!
Preventing piracy > Customer Experience
Corporate-logic sucks ass.
Because business graduates are retarded. They approach gaming from the perspective of business rather than gaming - the gaming is secondary to the business (in their tiny minds) - and as with everything else, they fuck it up for this very reason.
Never!
Gotta love maddox :)
Perhaps I'm using the wrong term - I'm ignorant of world affairs..
I'm talking about the situation that exists when profit is used as a means to determine what is moral.
I've heard the idea floated that the terrorists chose their course of action so that the US would be destroyed from within by the measures taken to prevent a future attack.
If this was their motivation, could they be said to have succeeded?
It occurs to me that if 911 were truly an attack from without, the US government would not allow themselves to lose control and let the terrorists achieve their goal.
Of course, the whole thing may have been organised from within (as paranoid and ghoulish as that sounds), with the end-goal of making the general public so afraid that they are more amenable to the idea of wave after wave of security (control) measure intended to protect (subjugate) them. There are large profits available to the companies supplying solutions to the blossoming security market...
How much more manipulation of 'reality' is needed before the general public is crying-out for an ED-209 on every flight / on every street corner?
Also, wtf is wrong with the comment form and parsing of entered text? Anyone tried to get a line-break (of any flavour?)
Democracy in action :) - or rather that's what happens when the free market and democracy collide.
We had a similar situation in the UK recently with a company called Phorm. ISP's were entering into secret deals with them to collect our data so that they could modify the html streams returned from sites to inject targeted advertising. i.e. pure evil was afoot :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm
uhh, typo... 'brain-implant'
Why must lawyers be consulted before every action may proceed? Life is for living.
Daydreaming 50 years into the future..
*checks with lawyer*, *exhales*, *checks with lawyer*, *inhales*, *coughs*, *brain-implement logs: INFRINGEMENT DETECTED $50 fine*
You are innocent until a bunch of jurors, many of whom can't even comprehend your case nor care to seek the truth, decide they don't like your t-shirt.
no shit.
Mission accomplished. Oh wait.. the opposite of that :S
Why do you bother even pretending that the sham we in the west like to call democracy is anything more than lip-service to the idea of a self-governing populace?
Those entrusted with providing electronic vote-counting machines can't seem to deliver something which isn't open to abuse, so failure at the first stage.
Then, on to stage two where the millions of complex opinions of the people are run through a massively-lossy compression algorithm to result in a one- or two-bit number, signifiying the candidate of choice, who, when (s)he reaches office will rarely deliver on promises made.
What a fucking waste of time. What an insult to our intelligence. Day after day, we witness their ever-increasing levels of corruption; matched only by their technical incompetence. Meanwhile they're living the good life, laughing their asses off (in-between slanging-matches with the corrupt assholes from the other team.)
Waste of time....
--
There's a prize for anyone who can detect my disillusionment, which has been cleverly hidden using steganography within this post.
Which is one reason why this is yet another travesty of 'justice' demonstrating that the individual is powerless against the government/industry complex who can do as they like without fear of any kind of punishment/curtailment of their freedom to continue to churn out the abuses.
They should have named the companies where the employees aren't up to the task of "ensuring they don't accidentally leave a £1000 piece of electronics with likely far more valuable data on, lying around". Would you want to do business with them? I mean, come on.. how difficult is it? Are these same people who lose shoes? You must have seen shoes in the street and wondered how someone would not notice. I know I have. Anyway..
Nu-uh. I'm talking about revolution two point oh.
Perhaps media companies should engineer a retrovirus which introduces blindness into the collective human genome. That way there's less chance of someone viewing 'illegal content'.
Ho ho ho - I cannot wait until these greedy corporate motherfuckers take it in the ass when the revolution comes (more "ho ho ho"'ing trailing off insanely....)
Perhaps media companies should engineer a retrovirus which introduces blindness into the collective human genome. That way there's less chance of someone viewing 'illegal content'.
Ho ho ho - I cannot wait until these greedy corporate motherfuckers take it in the ass when the revolution comes (more "ho ho ho"'ing trailing off insanely....)
At the moment, every purchased service/product seems to bundle 'being lied-to' for free. I can't help wondering if 'they' will ever start selling that stand-alone. i.e. where the service one buys is 'to be lied-to'. Something like google's 'I feel lucky' button - you give us money and we arbitrarily choose what you get in return. woohoo!
It warms the cockles of my heart to see that others feel anger towards blatant corruption and double-speak. Perhaps there is still hope for the world as we knew it. Now if we can just persuade a critical mass of people to revolt against those that want to become our corporate overlords. I mean revolt, not just say "I don't support their actions".
mod parent up.
Yah, we don't we. Why don't we also look into the bank accounts of the judge and everyone the judge knows so that we can partially satisfy ourselves that [s]he hasn't been taking bribes from the penis-herders at the MPAA.