Then buy a physical copy and quit complaining, dumbass; money talks and so long as physical copies sell well they will continue to exist. By the way, if you download from Steam, you CAN play your games when and where you want to so long as you have an internet connection; you install Steam, log on to your account and then download and install your games. Tada asshat! It's the magic of the series of tubes.
What it really sounds like is you want to download a game from the internet without paying for it; or you want to just give the game to your buddies for free. And I'd submit that if that is the case, YOU are harming the PC industry by not paying them for the work they do; hell, if you're poor you could just wait until the game gets down to $20 or less and then purchase and play it.
If you can't afford to slap down $20 on entertainment, then perhaps you should stop working at McDonald's as a fry cook despite the fact that you're 43 and living in your parents basement, and get a real job so you can make real money and afford video games.
You could just let someone use your account...the only thing preventing anyone else from using it is YOUR username and password. And, you are quite welcome to complain if a publisher charges too much, as much as with a physical copy; you can send a letter to the publisher, you can write an e-mail to the publisher or you can call the publisher's complaint line (assuming they have one anymore). True, you can't let someone borrow a game from you, but you could let them borrow your account (just change the password afterwords). And finally, I don't know of a forum in the world that does not reserve the right to delete a thread if they so choose; particularly a forum created by a game publisher, have you ever been on a forum before you went on Steam's forums? If not, I'll give you the heads up; every forum has tons of deleted forum messages, because they were deemed offensive, off-topic, just plain stupid, for legal reasons or because they violated one or more forum policy.
That all said, however; I would point out that what most people call "Liberal" or "Conservative" in this country have been vastly changed to mean something completely different from the original definition. Conservativism now embodies a certain "go back to the good old days" mentality and is embodied by corporate funding from the oil industry (amongst others), fundamentalist christians and ranchers. Liberalism now embodies political correctness, "spiritualism" and funding from wealthy movie stars. The meaning of the words have changed in the public use, unfortunately to the point where they are little more than another way of saying Republican or Democrat (and what those parties embody); they are worthless words in the public use in my opinion.
...called Planetes in which the main characters are space junkers, people who's job is to either destroy or salvage pieces of junk floating around in space because there's so much of it now that it threatens satellites in orbit.
I thought Bioshock was easily on the level of those other games though, even if it was a bit overhyped. To be honest, the only thing I was disappointed about was that the AI which we had been told would be so spectacularly different didn't seem to act all that differently. Of course, funny story, that's my opinion and all reviews are...holy shit! Somebody's opinion?! Nah, they should be universal, everybody should think and enjoy a game just as much or as little as the reviewer; fall in line everybody! Bioshock got an 8.0 from game site X! You should enjoy it 80% as much as the perfect game which nobody has ever made or will ever make!
Call it what you will, call them "areas" if you prefer; but every game has levels. Metroid (mentioned in the summary) has levels, they make it look like its seamless but all they are doing is hiding it by delaying the door opening, the elevator taking longer or having to use your ship. Other games might hide their level load screens behind cutscenes, examples being Gears of War and Heavenly Sword. GTA has different areas that you can move between fairly seamlessly; that doesn't change the fact that every area was created at a different time (possibly by a different person or persons)and has a different level of difficulty to do things. MMORPGs are the only games that don't load the new level, instead connecting you to the server for the new area which already has the level loaded; but the world is still subdivided.
What the author is really asking is why do games still have loading screens? The answer is simply because not everyone can hide them or they want the levels to act like chapters in a book, giving some dividing lines to either skip to the interesting parts or subdivide the story.
Am I the only person who simply doesn't give a fuck about this? It's a retail store; I go in, buy my stuff and leave. Yeah, I miss the old EB Games from ten years ago that was more like a hobby store; but if I go to Gamestop to buy something, I get it and get out. If they don't have it, I go elsewhere; that's called capitalism, if you don't like their policies, don't shop there. As for the pre-order stuff, I call bullshit; you should get a few copies in, even if you aren't sure of the demand, I shouldn't need to lay down cash to get the game. If it is honestly the case that they won't get any copies in if nobody pre-orders them, I'll bypass their ass and go online to get it, sorry but I shouldn't have to dance to your tune just to purchase a game.
Well the simple answer is that in the second trimester the fetus starts to actually move; up until this point the fetus hasn't moved at all, sometime in the second trimester the fetus begins to move and be active. (Wikipedia summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy#First_trimester)
As to your other question, about the difference between terminating a pregnancy and killing a living child; the answer is simple, one is not yet alive and the other is. Overall though, I'd say what is better for society; to have a child be born into the world unloved and unwanted, or to have a pregnancy be terminated before the fetus can move (and most times before the cells that will become the fetus look anything like a human)? And besides that, shouldn't it be the choice of the potential mother (and potential father, if he is around) to end a life they started before it is born?
Impotent? It's pretty simple, murder (the literal word in the Bible could best be translated as "kill without reason") is wrong. Is that impotent? No. Killing is a part of life, and the Hebrew authors realized this; to live, a human must kill. As humans, we must kill plants and animals to eat, we must kill animals and plants to build a place to dwell in; to say "Thou shalt not kill" is to condemn you to death. Additionally, in ancient times people must kill in order to protect their property; wars of conquest, as well as attempts to rob people by force were common in ancient times. "Thou shalt not murder" says that you can't kill a man without a good reason to (and could be extended to say that you can't kill an animal or plant without reason as well), it's a simple law in a set of ten simple laws that (supposedly) everyone can follow, at least most of the time. The biggest reason that "Thou shalt not murder" is #1 is because you can't reverse murder, everything else can more easily be restituted.
Actually, it is HIGHLY irresponsible for him to do what he did; his boss (the district manager, most likely) is paying him money to do a job, make sure that things are running smoothly and that corporate policies are enforced at this Gamestop location. By the very defination of irresponsibility, he is irressponsible for abandoning his responsibilities at his job. You could argue he has a responsibility to the community somehow, but I would point out that that isn't laid out in writing anywhere, while his job's responsibilities are.
Yeah, but hiding a PS2 is a hell of a lot harder than hiding Playboys. And most kids who have that kind of money have jobs (ie, 16+) and can make their own decisions.
While I hate to take the side of corporate America, I have to disagree completely. It is not the job of a corporation to babysit your children; while I fully agree that parents shouldn't buy children video games when their grades are bad, it's not a game seller's damn business to know a kid's grades before selling to them. Is it a game seller's business to know if an adult has a good job (the closest comparable thing an adult might have to grades) before allowing them to buy a game? Of course not. If he offered discounts for kids who brought their parents and a report card in with good grades on it, that's another thing.
Yes. Let's be honest, most of management wouldn't know a good idea if it hit them in the face; slick presentation and an analysis of how much it could cost/save the company is more likely to get you some payoff than just showing them what you have so far.
You've obviously never been in a situation where leaving your current job would most likely bankrupt you, otherwise you'd know that sometimes you can't leave a job until you find another that pays as much or more. Furthermore, you can't just "quit" life in general aside from suicide, and you'll get a lot of the same crap you got in school in the "real world".
And who are these "people" who want to censor things? It's not me, I'll tell you that right now. And by the way, what exactly makes sex, a perfectly natural (and generally peaceful) act worse than slaughtering groups of the innocent populace? Honestly, if your kid is old enough to deal with the violence in GTA, then they should be able to deal with what is the equivalent of Ken and Barby bumping hips.
Sure, you can date and such, but what was the last game where you saw a deep relationship? The closest that I've seen are in a handful of Japanese RPGs, but the relationships are still usually more of a "you're my hero, I love you" sort of relationship. I haven't played Bully, but in Fable your relationship with women has all the depth of "hey he's cute and he's giving me gifts." If you read the whole article, he goes into a bit more depth in his comments, saying movies like "Eyes Wide Shut" couldn't happen in video games as they stand right now; you can't have deep discussions about sexuality and relationships in video games due to how they're rated. He's also complaining that the ratings aren't consistent, different games get different ratings with similar content.
It's not like you could stumble upon the Hot Coffee mod and suddenly be surprised by it. You had to put effort in to see it, using eitehr a cheating apparatus on the consoles or code modification on the PC; plus (according to Gamespot.com) several hours of effort to see anything. Why bother when your kid can see boobies just by using their local friendly search engine?
But the game had ALREADY been given an adult rating; Mature is for people 17 and older, just like a movie that is rated R and nothing in the Hot Coffee mod was nearly as bad as what you can see in a rated R movie. Not to mention that the Hot Coffee mod wasn't able to be found without either a cheating apparatus (on consoles) or some code modification (on PCs) plus (accoding to Gamespot) hours of gameplay. That's a lot of work to see some badly animated, pixelated characters bump hips (you never did see genitalia); especially when any teen who really wants to see some real sex can just put words like "sex" or "porn" into an internet search engine.
Dare I point out...so what? The fact of the matter is that psychology in chess is a weakness; sure the chess super computers ONLY do chess and don't have psychology to factor in, but doesn't that just point out why these computers are as good as or better than chess champs? Are they as intelligent as a human is kind of a moot point, which is the whole point of the article, as is whether they play chess like a human; they're still as good as if not better than their human counterparts.
Dare I point it out; because Wizards of the Coast actually knows how to make money? As I recall, the previous owners of the Dungeons and Dragons publishing rights, TSR, crashed, burned and was devoured by WotC due to their shitty treatment of other companies and their own playerbase. Look, I liked the old version of DnD to some extent, but it really was just too bloody complicated; you had a rule for EVERY BLOODY THING YOU CAN IMAGINE INCLUDING GETTING PREGNANT! Simple rules that can be added to? Great. Backround info on my favorite settings? Great. Rules on getting freaky with it? No thank you.
The big thing that the SRD does not include is level advancement information and the like. In essence, the basics that you need to play "Dungeons and Dragons" itself; but you are welcome to build your own level advancement system, etc off of the OGL.
Think of it as kind of like Microsoft giving you enough code from Word to print, spellcheck, etc; but not giving you the ability to actually write text. You can write your own "text writer" for Word and incorporate it into the OGL version of Word, but you haven't created "Microsoft Word", you've created "Bob's Word."
Not to shatter your little fanboy jerk-off here but...those games are much less complex than Chess. Magic (and many/most other CCG) can be broken down into a series of action/reaction moves, and you don't necessarily need to bet on what your next card is most of the time. Only occasionally do you actually need to refer to your chances of getting a card in your particular deck. And the variety of cards can actually be simplified to a handful of categories and intensities; what's more, about half of the cards put out for CCG are reprints anyway.
That being said, both probability and the best move to make in CCG are easy to calculate as a general rule. Chess, which is more complex, still boils down to something that is easy for computers to figure out for a computer as the article points out; memorizing a list of moves and reactions to side moves. Strategy games that would be harder for computers to figure out (without cheating) are games like Warhammer, where often times the uncertainty is not in probability but in visual "gestimation" which can be hard to do without cheating (though certainly after a certain point you get better at it).
Ultimately though, the games that really will be difficult for computers to effectively and consistent do as well as humans at will be games like poker, where bluffing comes into the equation; games where you have to evaluate human emotion will be difficult to impossible for computers to do well at on a consistent basis without being able to evaluate human behavior in a nuanced way. In essence, to some extent, you have to teach a computer to think like a human in order to beat a human at poker, and that is really the tough point. That being said, I have little doubt that at sometime in the future (10-20 years or more) you will see computers/robots that can do it.
That's what a demo is for; and now there's little to no excuse for NOT playing a demo. Demoes for major games are either playable on PC (if the game is on PC) or can be downloaded for their respective consoles from the console provided service.
There's also this thing called "game reviews" and "word of mouth." Either find a review site you generally agree with and use them as a gauge of how good a game is, or talk to friends who have bought the game whose opinion you trust or both. And of course, you can wait until it goes down in price to buy it if you are unsure of it; most games are $20 or less in a year, and if you can't spare $20, you probably shouldn't be gaming because you're in deep financial shit (or you're a whiny little twelve-year-old, in which case I'll just drop-kick you to Mongolia).
Right, money is worthless; that's why you exchange it for your food, gasoline, clothing, car(s), kids' toys or hell, let's just get right to the point, almost anything that is physically made. Money is just a way of bartering goods or services in an indirect way; you get money by doing work or by selling something and then you exchange it for a good or service you want. Let's get real here, if money doesn't matter to you then try living in the US without it for a year; we'll see how far you get. Unless you want to live in the woods, in the US (and many other countries on Earth) you need money in order to have a home, buy food and basically just to live; a crime in which someone loses money due to the actions of another is denying them money which they want to use to live their life. You can call their life opulent or say "they don't need any more money" but the frank heart of the matter is that this is the same as if somebody stole money from your wallet; even if you just burn the money you stole or gave it away to the homeless, the fact of the matter is that you stole something. If you don't like it, go to another country, because I'm sick of listening to people bitch because they think that others shouldn't get money for doing their job.
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Then buy a physical copy and quit complaining, dumbass; money talks and so long as physical copies sell well they will continue to exist. By the way, if you download from Steam, you CAN play your games when and where you want to so long as you have an internet connection; you install Steam, log on to your account and then download and install your games. Tada asshat! It's the magic of the series of tubes. What it really sounds like is you want to download a game from the internet without paying for it; or you want to just give the game to your buddies for free. And I'd submit that if that is the case, YOU are harming the PC industry by not paying them for the work they do; hell, if you're poor you could just wait until the game gets down to $20 or less and then purchase and play it. If you can't afford to slap down $20 on entertainment, then perhaps you should stop working at McDonald's as a fry cook despite the fact that you're 43 and living in your parents basement, and get a real job so you can make real money and afford video games.
You could just let someone use your account...the only thing preventing anyone else from using it is YOUR username and password. And, you are quite welcome to complain if a publisher charges too much, as much as with a physical copy; you can send a letter to the publisher, you can write an e-mail to the publisher or you can call the publisher's complaint line (assuming they have one anymore). True, you can't let someone borrow a game from you, but you could let them borrow your account (just change the password afterwords). And finally, I don't know of a forum in the world that does not reserve the right to delete a thread if they so choose; particularly a forum created by a game publisher, have you ever been on a forum before you went on Steam's forums? If not, I'll give you the heads up; every forum has tons of deleted forum messages, because they were deemed offensive, off-topic, just plain stupid, for legal reasons or because they violated one or more forum policy.
That all said, however; I would point out that what most people call "Liberal" or "Conservative" in this country have been vastly changed to mean something completely different from the original definition. Conservativism now embodies a certain "go back to the good old days" mentality and is embodied by corporate funding from the oil industry (amongst others), fundamentalist christians and ranchers. Liberalism now embodies political correctness, "spiritualism" and funding from wealthy movie stars. The meaning of the words have changed in the public use, unfortunately to the point where they are little more than another way of saying Republican or Democrat (and what those parties embody); they are worthless words in the public use in my opinion.
...called Planetes in which the main characters are space junkers, people who's job is to either destroy or salvage pieces of junk floating around in space because there's so much of it now that it threatens satellites in orbit.
I thought Bioshock was easily on the level of those other games though, even if it was a bit overhyped. To be honest, the only thing I was disappointed about was that the AI which we had been told would be so spectacularly different didn't seem to act all that differently. Of course, funny story, that's my opinion and all reviews are...holy shit! Somebody's opinion?! Nah, they should be universal, everybody should think and enjoy a game just as much or as little as the reviewer; fall in line everybody! Bioshock got an 8.0 from game site X! You should enjoy it 80% as much as the perfect game which nobody has ever made or will ever make!
Call it what you will, call them "areas" if you prefer; but every game has levels. Metroid (mentioned in the summary) has levels, they make it look like its seamless but all they are doing is hiding it by delaying the door opening, the elevator taking longer or having to use your ship. Other games might hide their level load screens behind cutscenes, examples being Gears of War and Heavenly Sword. GTA has different areas that you can move between fairly seamlessly; that doesn't change the fact that every area was created at a different time (possibly by a different person or persons)and has a different level of difficulty to do things. MMORPGs are the only games that don't load the new level, instead connecting you to the server for the new area which already has the level loaded; but the world is still subdivided. What the author is really asking is why do games still have loading screens? The answer is simply because not everyone can hide them or they want the levels to act like chapters in a book, giving some dividing lines to either skip to the interesting parts or subdivide the story.
Am I the only person who simply doesn't give a fuck about this? It's a retail store; I go in, buy my stuff and leave. Yeah, I miss the old EB Games from ten years ago that was more like a hobby store; but if I go to Gamestop to buy something, I get it and get out. If they don't have it, I go elsewhere; that's called capitalism, if you don't like their policies, don't shop there. As for the pre-order stuff, I call bullshit; you should get a few copies in, even if you aren't sure of the demand, I shouldn't need to lay down cash to get the game. If it is honestly the case that they won't get any copies in if nobody pre-orders them, I'll bypass their ass and go online to get it, sorry but I shouldn't have to dance to your tune just to purchase a game.
Well the simple answer is that in the second trimester the fetus starts to actually move; up until this point the fetus hasn't moved at all, sometime in the second trimester the fetus begins to move and be active. (Wikipedia summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy#First_trimester) As to your other question, about the difference between terminating a pregnancy and killing a living child; the answer is simple, one is not yet alive and the other is. Overall though, I'd say what is better for society; to have a child be born into the world unloved and unwanted, or to have a pregnancy be terminated before the fetus can move (and most times before the cells that will become the fetus look anything like a human)? And besides that, shouldn't it be the choice of the potential mother (and potential father, if he is around) to end a life they started before it is born?
Impotent? It's pretty simple, murder (the literal word in the Bible could best be translated as "kill without reason") is wrong. Is that impotent? No. Killing is a part of life, and the Hebrew authors realized this; to live, a human must kill. As humans, we must kill plants and animals to eat, we must kill animals and plants to build a place to dwell in; to say "Thou shalt not kill" is to condemn you to death. Additionally, in ancient times people must kill in order to protect their property; wars of conquest, as well as attempts to rob people by force were common in ancient times. "Thou shalt not murder" says that you can't kill a man without a good reason to (and could be extended to say that you can't kill an animal or plant without reason as well), it's a simple law in a set of ten simple laws that (supposedly) everyone can follow, at least most of the time. The biggest reason that "Thou shalt not murder" is #1 is because you can't reverse murder, everything else can more easily be restituted.
Actually, it is HIGHLY irresponsible for him to do what he did; his boss (the district manager, most likely) is paying him money to do a job, make sure that things are running smoothly and that corporate policies are enforced at this Gamestop location. By the very defination of irresponsibility, he is irressponsible for abandoning his responsibilities at his job. You could argue he has a responsibility to the community somehow, but I would point out that that isn't laid out in writing anywhere, while his job's responsibilities are.
Yeah, but hiding a PS2 is a hell of a lot harder than hiding Playboys. And most kids who have that kind of money have jobs (ie, 16+) and can make their own decisions.
While I hate to take the side of corporate America, I have to disagree completely. It is not the job of a corporation to babysit your children; while I fully agree that parents shouldn't buy children video games when their grades are bad, it's not a game seller's damn business to know a kid's grades before selling to them. Is it a game seller's business to know if an adult has a good job (the closest comparable thing an adult might have to grades) before allowing them to buy a game? Of course not. If he offered discounts for kids who brought their parents and a report card in with good grades on it, that's another thing.
Yes. Let's be honest, most of management wouldn't know a good idea if it hit them in the face; slick presentation and an analysis of how much it could cost/save the company is more likely to get you some payoff than just showing them what you have so far.
Only idiots call IBM a dinosaur; their processors are on the cutting edge of technology and they are behind a lot of big companies and projects.
You've obviously never been in a situation where leaving your current job would most likely bankrupt you, otherwise you'd know that sometimes you can't leave a job until you find another that pays as much or more. Furthermore, you can't just "quit" life in general aside from suicide, and you'll get a lot of the same crap you got in school in the "real world".
And who are these "people" who want to censor things? It's not me, I'll tell you that right now. And by the way, what exactly makes sex, a perfectly natural (and generally peaceful) act worse than slaughtering groups of the innocent populace? Honestly, if your kid is old enough to deal with the violence in GTA, then they should be able to deal with what is the equivalent of Ken and Barby bumping hips.
Sure, you can date and such, but what was the last game where you saw a deep relationship? The closest that I've seen are in a handful of Japanese RPGs, but the relationships are still usually more of a "you're my hero, I love you" sort of relationship. I haven't played Bully, but in Fable your relationship with women has all the depth of "hey he's cute and he's giving me gifts." If you read the whole article, he goes into a bit more depth in his comments, saying movies like "Eyes Wide Shut" couldn't happen in video games as they stand right now; you can't have deep discussions about sexuality and relationships in video games due to how they're rated. He's also complaining that the ratings aren't consistent, different games get different ratings with similar content.
It's not like you could stumble upon the Hot Coffee mod and suddenly be surprised by it. You had to put effort in to see it, using eitehr a cheating apparatus on the consoles or code modification on the PC; plus (according to Gamespot.com) several hours of effort to see anything. Why bother when your kid can see boobies just by using their local friendly search engine?
But the game had ALREADY been given an adult rating; Mature is for people 17 and older, just like a movie that is rated R and nothing in the Hot Coffee mod was nearly as bad as what you can see in a rated R movie. Not to mention that the Hot Coffee mod wasn't able to be found without either a cheating apparatus (on consoles) or some code modification (on PCs) plus (accoding to Gamespot) hours of gameplay. That's a lot of work to see some badly animated, pixelated characters bump hips (you never did see genitalia); especially when any teen who really wants to see some real sex can just put words like "sex" or "porn" into an internet search engine.
Dare I point out...so what? The fact of the matter is that psychology in chess is a weakness; sure the chess super computers ONLY do chess and don't have psychology to factor in, but doesn't that just point out why these computers are as good as or better than chess champs? Are they as intelligent as a human is kind of a moot point, which is the whole point of the article, as is whether they play chess like a human; they're still as good as if not better than their human counterparts.
Dare I point it out; because Wizards of the Coast actually knows how to make money? As I recall, the previous owners of the Dungeons and Dragons publishing rights, TSR, crashed, burned and was devoured by WotC due to their shitty treatment of other companies and their own playerbase. Look, I liked the old version of DnD to some extent, but it really was just too bloody complicated; you had a rule for EVERY BLOODY THING YOU CAN IMAGINE INCLUDING GETTING PREGNANT! Simple rules that can be added to? Great. Backround info on my favorite settings? Great. Rules on getting freaky with it? No thank you.
The big thing that the SRD does not include is level advancement information and the like. In essence, the basics that you need to play "Dungeons and Dragons" itself; but you are welcome to build your own level advancement system, etc off of the OGL. Think of it as kind of like Microsoft giving you enough code from Word to print, spellcheck, etc; but not giving you the ability to actually write text. You can write your own "text writer" for Word and incorporate it into the OGL version of Word, but you haven't created "Microsoft Word", you've created "Bob's Word."
Not to shatter your little fanboy jerk-off here but...those games are much less complex than Chess. Magic (and many/most other CCG) can be broken down into a series of action/reaction moves, and you don't necessarily need to bet on what your next card is most of the time. Only occasionally do you actually need to refer to your chances of getting a card in your particular deck. And the variety of cards can actually be simplified to a handful of categories and intensities; what's more, about half of the cards put out for CCG are reprints anyway. That being said, both probability and the best move to make in CCG are easy to calculate as a general rule. Chess, which is more complex, still boils down to something that is easy for computers to figure out for a computer as the article points out; memorizing a list of moves and reactions to side moves. Strategy games that would be harder for computers to figure out (without cheating) are games like Warhammer, where often times the uncertainty is not in probability but in visual "gestimation" which can be hard to do without cheating (though certainly after a certain point you get better at it). Ultimately though, the games that really will be difficult for computers to effectively and consistent do as well as humans at will be games like poker, where bluffing comes into the equation; games where you have to evaluate human emotion will be difficult to impossible for computers to do well at on a consistent basis without being able to evaluate human behavior in a nuanced way. In essence, to some extent, you have to teach a computer to think like a human in order to beat a human at poker, and that is really the tough point. That being said, I have little doubt that at sometime in the future (10-20 years or more) you will see computers/robots that can do it.
That's what a demo is for; and now there's little to no excuse for NOT playing a demo. Demoes for major games are either playable on PC (if the game is on PC) or can be downloaded for their respective consoles from the console provided service. There's also this thing called "game reviews" and "word of mouth." Either find a review site you generally agree with and use them as a gauge of how good a game is, or talk to friends who have bought the game whose opinion you trust or both. And of course, you can wait until it goes down in price to buy it if you are unsure of it; most games are $20 or less in a year, and if you can't spare $20, you probably shouldn't be gaming because you're in deep financial shit (or you're a whiny little twelve-year-old, in which case I'll just drop-kick you to Mongolia).
Right, money is worthless; that's why you exchange it for your food, gasoline, clothing, car(s), kids' toys or hell, let's just get right to the point, almost anything that is physically made. Money is just a way of bartering goods or services in an indirect way; you get money by doing work or by selling something and then you exchange it for a good or service you want. Let's get real here, if money doesn't matter to you then try living in the US without it for a year; we'll see how far you get. Unless you want to live in the woods, in the US (and many other countries on Earth) you need money in order to have a home, buy food and basically just to live; a crime in which someone loses money due to the actions of another is denying them money which they want to use to live their life. You can call their life opulent or say "they don't need any more money" but the frank heart of the matter is that this is the same as if somebody stole money from your wallet; even if you just burn the money you stole or gave it away to the homeless, the fact of the matter is that you stole something. If you don't like it, go to another country, because I'm sick of listening to people bitch because they think that others shouldn't get money for doing their job.