Yeah, those poor down-on-their-luck RIAA lawyers. Only having enough Mercedes for Monday-Thursday, instead of the whole week around like the rest of us...
My suggestion is very similar. Why don't we mount a giant razor-sharp spike on the steering wheel, facing directly towards the driver, instead of airbags?
The answer to this question is very, very simple. Knowledge/experience/equipment for growing cannabis is a lot easier to find and implement than growing tobacco, which means that if cannabis were completely legalized everyone would grow their own. Which means it wouldn't be taxed.
The government (Australian, American, Canadian, etc) honestly doesn't care if you smoke yourself to death. Or get wasted on weed. Really. They just care about taxing you.
Really, I'm just reminded of the RIAA. They claim that piracy (arr, those damn Somalis!) cost them one hojillion dollars per year, but in that same year report their most profitable year *ever*, including during the Great Depression. Sorry guys, it's either one way or the other.
It's just plain out and out greed and lies. Pretty simple really.
As someone who was an avid fan of v3.5 and loves 4th edition *even more*, lemme just say...
3rd edition is very, very different from 4th. And very, very different from 2nd. Remember all those guys who, when 3rd edition was released spluttered and went; "WotC are trying to kill D&D! This isn't D&D at all; Gygax would have a fit if he saw this! 2nd Ed is all I'll play and that's final!"
Don't you look back on those guys and go, "Wow. Their complaints have a little merit, but overall the system is a lot better now. This '3rd Ed' thing is new and different, for better or worse (but mostly better)... those guys are really missing out by avoiding it."
Sorry you're this edition's fallbehinds.:) Pass the d20 mate, daddy needs a new pair of beholder-skin boots...
That's like saying, "Wow, it's getting rather hot here in this oven. Can we turn down the heat a little?"
"Hah! Let's see how you survive at absolute zero!"
Sorry to break it to you Americans, but "With Us Or Against Us" binary thinking is awesome for fantasy RPGs but pretty destructive when you apply it In Real Life.
Actually, I thought the problem with Star Wars: Galaxies was that SOE hated their customers and when one guy discovered how to dupe credits (aka 'money') and paid people with the duped creds, the SOE admins permanently banned the people who (unwittingly) received the money- but not the guy who duped it all...
The playerbase rioted, but SOE admins teleported them into space. At least, that's what Penny Arcade told me...
Happened just now in the Northern Territory, Australia. All phones and Internet out of the state were cut from 3:00am till 11:52am (just got back about 7 minutes ago).
if movie.isSuccess():
print ("The movie was good and succeeded despite heavy piracy.") else:
print ("Piracy killed this movie.") # ?? No checks on movie.quality() or movie.popular()?? Bug?!?
Bigpond counts uploads and downloads as the same thing, so that 25gb is "up and down", meaning that a 500mb file from Bittorrent usually costs you between 1gig and 2gig depending on your upload ratio.
I can't even fanthom downloading 8 TB of anything from the Internet.
To put this into context, the Australian National University charges its residents 2c AUD a meg for downloads. Prepaid. I went there for five years, so it's just what I'm used to and I use that as a comparison for internet services.
To download 8 TB of stuff, even from a local webpage in Australia (apart from ones on AARNET; aka other universities), it would cost you... $167,772 and 16c in Australian dollars. According to Google, 1 Australian dollar = 0.7162 U.S. dollars, so that's $120,158 dollars and 42 cents USD.
Now that I've graduated and moved out, I pay about $100 AUD ($71.6 USD) a month for a Bigpond ADSL2 8mbit connection with a 25 gig download cap. It's the second biggest and most expensive residential plan you can buy (the other is significanlty more expensive). Again, to download 8 TB of stuff, it would take me 27 years assuming I used every bit of my quota per month.
I'm split 50/50 between saying "Stop your whinging" or just saying ":(:(:(:(". I guess both are really appropriate.:(:(:(:(
I'm Australian, mwahahaha! You'll never catch me! The worst thing that'll happen is people will deport me to another country which in about 200 years will be just like Australia is today minus the screwed up laws... now all I have to do is live to 224, and... oh wait.
Just like here in Australia, where we said that Bart and Lisa were real people and if you draw/possess/distribute pictures of them naked, you go to jail. In the UK, that extends to South Park.
Well, that's a'right. I'm listing Bart, Lisa and Maggie as dependants on my tax return this year, as well registering Maggie to get the baby bonus (she's obviously only a year old or so so she counts- every year too!). I recommend UK citizens do the same for Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman.
Of course, the UK government will not see the humour in that. Ridiculous extremes only apply when used against the people, not for them.
But what if a corporation I start owns the recordings, and I as director state that they take a strong stance against piracy, then distribute them privately? The company's policy is not my own policy. They are separate entities.
Remember, corporations are people with all the rights associated thereof- but they can't be effectively punished because they don't really exist.
- Step one: Find the RIAA's ISP. They probably have a big T3 line or something. - Step two: Tape yourself singing in the shower. The worse the better. - Step three: Rename the recordings. Britney Spears - Toxic, Metallica - Until it Sleeps, etc. The more popular and highly prosecuted the better. - Step four: Copy files to a VM and install every virus-encrusted file sharing program you have on there. TRY to get caught. - Step five: Await lawsuit. Counterclaim for piracy. - Step six: Repeat three times. Three strikes, RIAA's out!... wait. I forgot that laws only really apply to people, not massive media conglomerates. Oh well, time to come up with another cunning plan...
I can't understand why any ISP at all (even a tiny one) is signing up for these trials. I mean, it's like the government saying that they're going to inject the ISP and their customers with herpes as a trial run for injecting the whole of Australia with herpes. Herpes brings no value to your business and causes a lot of headaches for you and your clients.
The moral of this story is: Practice safe browsing, and don't let the government stab you with herpes infected needles. If a needlestick happens accidently, seek another government immediately.
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Canada does have guns. They don't have school shootings.
Here in Australia we don't have guns (it's neigh impossible to get anything at all these days, believe me I have tried). Per capita, we've had a shitload of people going on killing sprees with guns.
What's this correlation I'm supposed to see? That gaining your independence from England makes you more likely to be a psychopath? Interesting.
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Yeah, those poor down-on-their-luck RIAA lawyers. Only having enough Mercedes for Monday-Thursday, instead of the whole week around like the rest of us...
Phil Collins sung a song about them once...
My suggestion is very similar. Why don't we mount a giant razor-sharp spike on the steering wheel, facing directly towards the driver, instead of airbags?
How many people would run into things then?
Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.
I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.
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The answer to this question is very, very simple. Knowledge/experience/equipment for growing cannabis is a lot easier to find and implement than growing tobacco, which means that if cannabis were completely legalized everyone would grow their own. Which means it wouldn't be taxed.
The government (Australian, American, Canadian, etc) honestly doesn't care if you smoke yourself to death. Or get wasted on weed. Really. They just care about taxing you.
I'm sad. :(
lolwut. :( I fail at posting.
Resisted! :(
Need more hit rating... it's a skull monster!
(edit: screwed up and posted as a reply to base, when it should have been a reply to this. Gah.)
Resisted. :(
Need more hit rating... it's a skull monster!
Really, I'm just reminded of the RIAA. They claim that piracy (arr, those damn Somalis!) cost them one hojillion dollars per year, but in that same year report their most profitable year *ever*, including during the Great Depression. Sorry guys, it's either one way or the other.
It's just plain out and out greed and lies. Pretty simple really.
As someone who was an avid fan of v3.5 and loves 4th edition *even more*, lemme just say...
3rd edition is very, very different from 4th. And very, very different from 2nd. Remember all those guys who, when 3rd edition was released spluttered and went; "WotC are trying to kill D&D! This isn't D&D at all; Gygax would have a fit if he saw this! 2nd Ed is all I'll play and that's final!"
Don't you look back on those guys and go, "Wow. Their complaints have a little merit, but overall the system is a lot better now. This '3rd Ed' thing is new and different, for better or worse (but mostly better)... those guys are really missing out by avoiding it."
Sorry you're this edition's fallbehinds. :) Pass the d20 mate, daddy needs a new pair of beholder-skin boots...
Huh.
That's like saying, "Wow, it's getting rather hot here in this oven. Can we turn down the heat a little?"
"Hah! Let's see how you survive at absolute zero!"
Sorry to break it to you Americans, but "With Us Or Against Us" binary thinking is awesome for fantasy RPGs but pretty destructive when you apply it In Real Life.
[Edit: Accidently posted as AC...]
Actually, I thought the problem with Star Wars: Galaxies was that SOE hated their customers and when one guy discovered how to dupe credits (aka 'money') and paid people with the duped creds, the SOE admins permanently banned the people who (unwittingly) received the money- but not the guy who duped it all...
The playerbase rioted, but SOE admins teleported them into space. At least, that's what Penny Arcade told me...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/08/25/
Happened just now in the Northern Territory, Australia. All phones and Internet out of the state were cut from 3:00am till 11:52am (just got back about 7 minutes ago).
It doesn't work that way.
if movie.isSuccess():
print ("The movie was good and succeeded despite heavy piracy.")
else:
print ("Piracy killed this movie.") # ?? No checks on movie.quality() or movie.popular()?? Bug?!?
Bigpond counts uploads and downloads as the same thing, so that 25gb is "up and down", meaning that a 500mb file from Bittorrent usually costs you between 1gig and 2gig depending on your upload ratio.
I can't even fanthom downloading 8 TB of anything from the Internet.
To put this into context, the Australian National University charges its residents 2c AUD a meg for downloads. Prepaid. I went there for five years, so it's just what I'm used to and I use that as a comparison for internet services.
To download 8 TB of stuff, even from a local webpage in Australia (apart from ones on AARNET; aka other universities), it would cost you... $167,772 and 16c in Australian dollars. According to Google, 1 Australian dollar = 0.7162 U.S. dollars, so that's $120,158 dollars and 42 cents USD.
Now that I've graduated and moved out, I pay about $100 AUD ($71.6 USD) a month for a Bigpond ADSL2 8mbit connection with a 25 gig download cap. It's the second biggest and most expensive residential plan you can buy (the other is significanlty more expensive). Again, to download 8 TB of stuff, it would take me 27 years assuming I used every bit of my quota per month.
I'm split 50/50 between saying "Stop your whinging" or just saying ":( :( :( :(". I guess both are really appropriate. :( :( :( :(
I'm Australian, mwahahaha! You'll never catch me! The worst thing that'll happen is people will deport me to another country which in about 200 years will be just like Australia is today minus the screwed up laws... now all I have to do is live to 224, and... oh wait.
Just like here in Australia, where we said that Bart and Lisa were real people and if you draw/possess/distribute pictures of them naked, you go to jail. In the UK, that extends to South Park.
Well, that's a'right. I'm listing Bart, Lisa and Maggie as dependants on my tax return this year, as well registering Maggie to get the baby bonus (she's obviously only a year old or so so she counts- every year too!). I recommend UK citizens do the same for Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman.
Of course, the UK government will not see the humour in that. Ridiculous extremes only apply when used against the people, not for them.
But what if a corporation I start owns the recordings, and I as director state that they take a strong stance against piracy, then distribute them privately? The company's policy is not my own policy. They are separate entities.
Remember, corporations are people with all the rights associated thereof- but they can't be effectively punished because they don't really exist.
- Step one: Find the RIAA's ISP. They probably have a big T3 line or something. ... wait. I forgot that laws only really apply to people, not massive media conglomerates. Oh well, time to come up with another cunning plan...
- Step two: Tape yourself singing in the shower. The worse the better.
- Step three: Rename the recordings. Britney Spears - Toxic, Metallica - Until it Sleeps, etc. The more popular and highly prosecuted the better.
- Step four: Copy files to a VM and install every virus-encrusted file sharing program you have on there. TRY to get caught.
- Step five: Await lawsuit. Counterclaim for piracy.
- Step six: Repeat three times. Three strikes, RIAA's out!
I can't understand why any ISP at all (even a tiny one) is signing up for these trials. I mean, it's like the government saying that they're going to inject the ISP and their customers with herpes as a trial run for injecting the whole of Australia with herpes. Herpes brings no value to your business and causes a lot of headaches for you and your clients.
The moral of this story is: Practice safe browsing, and don't let the government stab you with herpes infected needles. If a needlestick happens accidently, seek another government immediately.
He was clearly being sarcastic when he said that. If he was writing it, he would have written it thusly;
The... "caucasian"... race, wanted to etc.
It was quite clear to me.
Good point. I never thought of things that way- it's just needless formatting. I mean, taking things one step further now, I guess it doesn't really matter if you don't
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Edit: Even the filter won't let me post sentences like this without putting in some junk.
Another way to look at this is:
When in human history has encountering a more advanced civilisation ever been good for a less advanced civilisation?
Canada does have guns. They don't have school shootings.
Here in Australia we don't have guns (it's neigh impossible to get anything at all these days, believe me I have tried). Per capita, we've had a shitload of people going on killing sprees with guns.
What's this correlation I'm supposed to see? That gaining your independence from England makes you more likely to be a psychopath? Interesting.