Why the fuck was this posted? They NEED broad language! EVERYONE has broad language in regards to what they can and can't do with email accounts; it's called "CYA", short for "Cover your ass".
This is yet another non issue that KDawson has turned into a rant against THE MAN!!!!1111! Why is he still posting articles?
It seems like 9/10 of rulings in America are based on the ideal of precedent; it's worked a certain way in the past, so we see no reason to go against the grain.
There are a lot of precedents being set against the RIAA lately, and it leads me to believe that maybe... just maybe... there's light at the end of this tunnel.
Actually, that's not 100% accurate; the Navy has their own Warrant Officers, which are outside the enlisted scope completely (much like yours). Chiefs and up can go to Warrant Officer, which... seems pointless to me; they lose respect, and don't gain anything more than some money, and only in some cases.
Master Chief is the direct equivalent of the Army's Seargeant Major.
Not necessarilly. I've had a few online relationships where I've met the people, and they had about the same success rate (success = a few months or more of dating with a good, clean breakup, if applicable) as non-online relationships, and if there's any advantage either way, it's actually towards the online relationships. Yes, I've had a couple of spectacular failures, but the online relationships have a couple advantages:
* Shared interests; all of my online relationships, save a couple from personals sites (all failures, BTW), came from a website with an interest in a particular video game genre. Very geeky, but we have a good female population and they react well to guys that don't drool on their tits.
* An incubation period; you get a chance to talk to people, at least if it's a relationship you're looking for. If it's a camwhore, then enjoy Neopets. But for people you actually want to talk to, the chance to get to know the person is imperative. Especially if bullet point #1 applies.
I've had some good relationships born from online meetings, including my girlfriend of a year and a half, who I intend to marry. So it's possible; it's only fantasy if you think you're really cybering with a druid.
I remember an old Super Nintendo game back in the prime of the 16 bit era called Uniracers; for those too young to remember, or too old to have been playing games then, it was a decent little racer with an emphasis on tricks with little unicycles. It was a fun, simple game that drew a KA rating back then (today, a KA = an E rating) But when it came to naming your account, you could not user a swear word, nor could you use any Sega trademarks; it would simply say "not cool enough". This game came out - I believe - in 1994, so Nintendo was the first to get into that censorship thing... but in a totally cool, hip way.
And the thing of the matter is that this wasn't a game that was taken online, like XBox Live; it's not like Nintendo had a reputation amongst other people to live up to, or that some impressionable 8 year old would see the word "cock" in an online lobby. This MIGHT have been one of the games that that old, shitty dial-up service used, but that affected maybe 10 people.
Yes, but what percentage of the game market are you, the type of person that plays Naked War? Less than one percent. Not many people are that dedicated. Games like this that appeal to a wide range of gamers - or attempt to - need retail to make up their losses. Shit, just the advertising needed to get a game like that out is immense. They could get by without advertising, but how many games actually succeed with that? Even the obscure titles that have gotten big recently have big named behind them.
Actually, it does essentially give you what the game is about, but it's just enough to start with; it essentially lets you know "this is your situation, here are the key players, here's how you play", and it leaves you at a cliffhanger. It's a damn good demo (I played the X360 demo).
My view on Thompson is that his politics suck (almost my polar opposite politically) and that I'm not naive enough to believe he has any more integrity than any of these snake oil salesmen that are also running, but taking down Nixon gives him big points to me.
Of course, no one really cares about the issues. Or at least everyone's stupid enough to be fooled by the bullshit.
And with the propensity of television, the internet, and gossip columnists with a bone to pick, we've had jack shit since.
The big knock on Jack Thompson, other than the fact he's putting his toes into a pool that everyone else has done cannonballs into, is that his wife looks like a bimbo because she's blonde and has nice tits. People actually wrote about this! And people pay attention to it. This is what America has become.
I think there has to be a balance. We do have two extremes, and Bush is one of those extremes: someone that will hold true to his beliefs no matter how absolutely fucking insane it is. But on the other hand, I don't want someone flip-flopping on key issues because some polls tell him so. PROTIP: In polls and votes, everyone counts for one vote: reasonable people, faggy bleeding heart liberals, and Billy-Joe Dumbfuck with the Larry the Cable Guy records on repeat... all one vote.
I want someone that has strong beliefs, but knows that he doesn't know everything; no one does. For situations like that, then yes, I want someone that can look at the polls, see what the democracy wants, and use that as a GUIDE; not a gospel, a GUIDE.
Then, and only then, will we have a leader that we deserve.
Honestly, I think the media would jump all over it, especially if you get someone that can dress it up as the abortion of justice that it really is.
If the media can turn 4chan kids into this major hacker group called "Anonymous", then they can surely use this to try to sell some papers/air time. The difference between this and the RIAA lawsuits is that there's JAIL time involved potentially.
Again, this goes back to educating the unwashed masses. Works does 1/10 of what Open Office does, and it's FREE, and is more stable to boot. So users will have to configure it to save documents in.doc or.xls format; big fucking whoop. We have to let people know that the option is out there.
Course I think most people see the maximum fine and think the worst, doesn't mean the judge will give than, more often than not they don't
Exactly. Any judge worth his salt is going to see what's going on here, know that she's not some pirate, and give her nothing. Maybe force her to speak out against piracy. Big whoop.
And if he did sentence her to jail, there would be such a major public uproar that it would bring the MPAA and Crown to their knees.
Conversely, I've noticed that if a woman does know what my past was, they get this competetive streak within them that makes them think they can "change" me, and make me settle down. That makes them try HARDER, but I'm guessing this leads to problems upon actual marriage, once they "have" you.
Again, you're running into the same situation that Linux is in: not enough dedicated apps for 90% of the market, and a market that isn't really savvy enough to emulate Windows software in the Unix environment. I love Unix, I love Linux, and as a pure operating system, I think OS/X works well. OS/X would work a lot better if I wasn't convinced they're eventually going to stop concentrating on their operating systems for any other purpose than to sell their iPods and iPhones.
My gripes with Apple are all about their gadgets. They release virtual beta products as the Next Big Thing, and let their early adopters do the bug testing; with the iPhone, that was at $500 - $600 a pop. It's not even like this is a surprise; it happened with the iPod, and we knew what the issues were with the iPhone before it came out. But again, it's not Apple's fault that the general public fell for their marketing push. My problem isn't Apple so much as it is Apple fanboys.
I've stated the above in comments even better worded than this, and gotten modded down as either "overrated" or "flamebait" each time. I'm no M$ fanboy in the least bit, but I do think that OS/X - and Linux, of which I'm a huge fan - are too niche for Joe Luser. But the same way that people that talk good about Microsoft get modded down, talking bad about Apple - even in the abstract, using facts - results in the person getting modded down by it's cult of personality.
So, I have decided "fuck it", and react in kind towards the fanbrats. And I'm sure this post will end up like the last ones before it: in a perpetual battle of people that agree with me modding me up as "informative" and "insightful", with people disagreeing with me - not calling me a troll, but disagreeing - modding me down as "flamebait" and "overrated", which will cause others to mark me "underrated". With luck... I'll end up right back at 2.
You're absolutely right. My last comment got modded down, this one will get modded down, and that makes 90% of my posts that get modded down are because I'm saying something bad about Apple. The first couple times, I tried to be reasonable (I think Apples are too limited, software-wise, to be reliable for almost anyone), but I'd get slammed down by the pro-Mac crowd. No reason whatsoever. So now, I'm just saying they can go fuck themselves.
At best, I'm wasting someone's precious mod points. This is all they use them for anyway, so fuck it.
See, when people look at a game and go "there's nothing different! It's a roster update!", most of the time, that's not really the case.
See, I am a BIG time sports fan. Watch them, play them, officiate some of them... I KNOW my sports. And for awhile - especially in the PS2 era - every EA Sports game was an improvement over the prior year's to the point where it made the game worth it. The changes seem subtile to the naked eye, but even simple AI changes affect the way the game is played, making each subsequent version different - and better - than the prior version.
Lately, that's not the case; ever since buying out the NFL and ESPN licenses, Electronic Arts has proven that they will not improve Madden except in minimal instances (and even those are stupid, like "Oh, your big kickers have a foot icon next to their name!"), and they don't have to, because people buy the same game as 2004, but only at 2007, $60 prices. NBA Live has gotten WORSE over the years, and EA is openly ignoring the PS2 and XBox now. Oh, they'll still charge you $50 for their game, but it's going to have no differences from the year's prior game for that system... at all.
Sports games don't need "innovation" as much as refinement. But EA's not even doing that right. Not recently.
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Why the fuck was this posted? They NEED broad language! EVERYONE has broad language in regards to what they can and can't do with email accounts; it's called "CYA", short for "Cover your ass".
This is yet another non issue that KDawson has turned into a rant against THE MAN!!!!1111! Why is he still posting articles?
Hanged over a copyright law? That's a bit extreme.
She's a dirty politician, and should never be employed again as anything more involved than burger flipper, but let's cut the hyperbole.
And yes, I'm Canadian.
It seems like 9/10 of rulings in America are based on the ideal of precedent; it's worked a certain way in the past, so we see no reason to go against the grain.
There are a lot of precedents being set against the RIAA lately, and it leads me to believe that maybe... just maybe... there's light at the end of this tunnel.
Actually, that's not 100% accurate; the Navy has their own Warrant Officers, which are outside the enlisted scope completely (much like yours). Chiefs and up can go to Warrant Officer, which... seems pointless to me; they lose respect, and don't gain anything more than some money, and only in some cases.
Master Chief is the direct equivalent of the Army's Seargeant Major.
Wow, those anonymous cowards showed you! They're sure fighting the power!
Personally, I think you're off-base, but have a small point in there. But here's the question:
How long should someone stay independent at the cost of his own cost of living?
I've learned while here, before freaking out about an article, to see who approved the article to be front-paged.
96% of the time, it's kdawson, which means I can pass it off as idiotic FUD and go about my day.
Not necessarilly. I've had a few online relationships where I've met the people, and they had about the same success rate (success = a few months or more of dating with a good, clean breakup, if applicable) as non-online relationships, and if there's any advantage either way, it's actually towards the online relationships. Yes, I've had a couple of spectacular failures, but the online relationships have a couple advantages:
* Shared interests; all of my online relationships, save a couple from personals sites (all failures, BTW), came from a website with an interest in a particular video game genre. Very geeky, but we have a good female population and they react well to guys that don't drool on their tits.
* An incubation period; you get a chance to talk to people, at least if it's a relationship you're looking for. If it's a camwhore, then enjoy Neopets. But for people you actually want to talk to, the chance to get to know the person is imperative. Especially if bullet point #1 applies.
I've had some good relationships born from online meetings, including my girlfriend of a year and a half, who I intend to marry. So it's possible; it's only fantasy if you think you're really cybering with a druid.
I remember an old Super Nintendo game back in the prime of the 16 bit era called Uniracers; for those too young to remember, or too old to have been playing games then, it was a decent little racer with an emphasis on tricks with little unicycles. It was a fun, simple game that drew a KA rating back then (today, a KA = an E rating) But when it came to naming your account, you could not user a swear word, nor could you use any Sega trademarks; it would simply say "not cool enough". This game came out - I believe - in 1994, so Nintendo was the first to get into that censorship thing... but in a totally cool, hip way.
And the thing of the matter is that this wasn't a game that was taken online, like XBox Live; it's not like Nintendo had a reputation amongst other people to live up to, or that some impressionable 8 year old would see the word "cock" in an online lobby. This MIGHT have been one of the games that that old, shitty dial-up service used, but that affected maybe 10 people.
Cite some examples, please. I don't buy this.
Who says they have to be competent to baselessly sue people? They've been suing people regardless of proof for years now.
Yes, but what percentage of the game market are you, the type of person that plays Naked War? Less than one percent. Not many people are that dedicated. Games like this that appeal to a wide range of gamers - or attempt to - need retail to make up their losses. Shit, just the advertising needed to get a game like that out is immense. They could get by without advertising, but how many games actually succeed with that? Even the obscure titles that have gotten big recently have big named behind them.
Actually, it does essentially give you what the game is about, but it's just enough to start with; it essentially lets you know "this is your situation, here are the key players, here's how you play", and it leaves you at a cliffhanger. It's a damn good demo (I played the X360 demo).
Ack, I fucked up the name. Bad me.
My view on Thompson is that his politics suck (almost my polar opposite politically) and that I'm not naive enough to believe he has any more integrity than any of these snake oil salesmen that are also running, but taking down Nixon gives him big points to me.
Of course, no one really cares about the issues. Or at least everyone's stupid enough to be fooled by the bullshit.
And with the propensity of television, the internet, and gossip columnists with a bone to pick, we've had jack shit since.
The big knock on Jack Thompson, other than the fact he's putting his toes into a pool that everyone else has done cannonballs into, is that his wife looks like a bimbo because she's blonde and has nice tits. People actually wrote about this! And people pay attention to it. This is what America has become.
Wasn't it some of these same corporations that made it so that recording was an arrestable offence now, instead of just something for civil courts?
I think there has to be a balance. We do have two extremes, and Bush is one of those extremes: someone that will hold true to his beliefs no matter how absolutely fucking insane it is. But on the other hand, I don't want someone flip-flopping on key issues because some polls tell him so. PROTIP: In polls and votes, everyone counts for one vote: reasonable people, faggy bleeding heart liberals, and Billy-Joe Dumbfuck with the Larry the Cable Guy records on repeat... all one vote.
I want someone that has strong beliefs, but knows that he doesn't know everything; no one does. For situations like that, then yes, I want someone that can look at the polls, see what the democracy wants, and use that as a GUIDE; not a gospel, a GUIDE.
Then, and only then, will we have a leader that we deserve.
My bad, meant to say "Regal", the cinema company.
Honestly, I think the media would jump all over it, especially if you get someone that can dress it up as the abortion of justice that it really is. If the media can turn 4chan kids into this major hacker group called "Anonymous", then they can surely use this to try to sell some papers/air time. The difference between this and the RIAA lawsuits is that there's JAIL time involved potentially.
Again, this goes back to educating the unwashed masses. Works does 1/10 of what Open Office does, and it's FREE, and is more stable to boot. So users will have to configure it to save documents in .doc or .xls format; big fucking whoop. We have to let people know that the option is out there.
Exactly. Any judge worth his salt is going to see what's going on here, know that she's not some pirate, and give her nothing. Maybe force her to speak out against piracy. Big whoop.
And if he did sentence her to jail, there would be such a major public uproar that it would bring the MPAA and Crown to their knees.
Conversely, I've noticed that if a woman does know what my past was, they get this competetive streak within them that makes them think they can "change" me, and make me settle down. That makes them try HARDER, but I'm guessing this leads to problems upon actual marriage, once they "have" you.
Again, you're running into the same situation that Linux is in: not enough dedicated apps for 90% of the market, and a market that isn't really savvy enough to emulate Windows software in the Unix environment. I love Unix, I love Linux, and as a pure operating system, I think OS/X works well. OS/X would work a lot better if I wasn't convinced they're eventually going to stop concentrating on their operating systems for any other purpose than to sell their iPods and iPhones.
My gripes with Apple are all about their gadgets. They release virtual beta products as the Next Big Thing, and let their early adopters do the bug testing; with the iPhone, that was at $500 - $600 a pop. It's not even like this is a surprise; it happened with the iPod, and we knew what the issues were with the iPhone before it came out. But again, it's not Apple's fault that the general public fell for their marketing push. My problem isn't Apple so much as it is Apple fanboys.
I've stated the above in comments even better worded than this, and gotten modded down as either "overrated" or "flamebait" each time. I'm no M$ fanboy in the least bit, but I do think that OS/X - and Linux, of which I'm a huge fan - are too niche for Joe Luser. But the same way that people that talk good about Microsoft get modded down, talking bad about Apple - even in the abstract, using facts - results in the person getting modded down by it's cult of personality.
So, I have decided "fuck it", and react in kind towards the fanbrats. And I'm sure this post will end up like the last ones before it: in a perpetual battle of people that agree with me modding me up as "informative" and "insightful", with people disagreeing with me - not calling me a troll, but disagreeing - modding me down as "flamebait" and "overrated", which will cause others to mark me "underrated". With luck... I'll end up right back at 2.
You're absolutely right. My last comment got modded down, this one will get modded down, and that makes 90% of my posts that get modded down are because I'm saying something bad about Apple. The first couple times, I tried to be reasonable (I think Apples are too limited, software-wise, to be reliable for almost anyone), but I'd get slammed down by the pro-Mac crowd. No reason whatsoever. So now, I'm just saying they can go fuck themselves.
At best, I'm wasting someone's precious mod points. This is all they use them for anyway, so fuck it.
It's not Apple's fault that their users are stupid enough to fall for it.
There's a sucker born every minute, and five more ready to take him.
See, when people look at a game and go "there's nothing different! It's a roster update!", most of the time, that's not really the case.
See, I am a BIG time sports fan. Watch them, play them, officiate some of them... I KNOW my sports. And for awhile - especially in the PS2 era - every EA Sports game was an improvement over the prior year's to the point where it made the game worth it. The changes seem subtile to the naked eye, but even simple AI changes affect the way the game is played, making each subsequent version different - and better - than the prior version.
Lately, that's not the case; ever since buying out the NFL and ESPN licenses, Electronic Arts has proven that they will not improve Madden except in minimal instances (and even those are stupid, like "Oh, your big kickers have a foot icon next to their name!"), and they don't have to, because people buy the same game as 2004, but only at 2007, $60 prices. NBA Live has gotten WORSE over the years, and EA is openly ignoring the PS2 and XBox now. Oh, they'll still charge you $50 for their game, but it's going to have no differences from the year's prior game for that system... at all.
Sports games don't need "innovation" as much as refinement. But EA's not even doing that right. Not recently.