One or two of the very few married EVE Online players in the world spent $100 of their household's real life cash to buy a freighter in-game only to have it stolen from them and then some other real life bill didn't get paid and then they faced their wives' wrath and as Porky Pig once said... badebadebadethatsallfolks!
I manage a data center off-site and on-site. On-site, I go to the cafeteria outside the secure area and have my fun via a nearby free wifi hotspot. If that ever happens to go away, well, at this point I'm just FUBAR'd if I have to be at work all day (which almost never happens). But I never use the company bandwidth.
At home I have a computer that VPN's to work and all the others are free and clear.
That we do a DMCA on people's personal information.
Remove the concept of 'public records' and make it all PRIVATE.
If Experian wants to collect personal information on you, they should have to pay a fee to you and agree to a standard distribution restriction agreement that makes them come to you for permission to distribute the data elsewhere.
Now of course credit card companies have to ask and pay you for the right to get that information but they can also charge higher fees, too.
Violations bring the same penalties as with "pirating" a mp3.
Why would a single employee want to pool their negotiating power with others against an organized management hierarchy?
What, are you afraid to defend your interests against 5, 10 or 20 managers or corporate officers?
Employee abuse is necessary for capitalism to succeed.
Bah, we've got bigger problems than labor unions. Can you imagine the damage that'll be done to a company if you're actually PAID for all of your 40 hours of overtime? Why, it could lead to communism - or worse, it could lead to fewer trips to Acapulco for your managers. You're fsckin with their God given right to profits and expensive vacations and international brothels. Capitalism don't play dat.
Work's a bitch, dude. It's meant to be pain and suffering and stress. Forget about unions, go find some stims. You know, some uppers. And when you can't take it any more we'll send tech jobs overseas and put America to work at McDonald's.
"ignore the facts about SUVs being more dangerous and listen to our imaginary anecdotal stories."
PS: I own a Highlander hybrid and a RAV4-EV and I know they're dangerous. So do insurance companies, which is why I'd pay lower rates if I just owned a Prius... it's just that a Prius is not sufficient for me, my wife and 3 kids.
All games have to be played online. There won't be single player games anymore, there'll just be web based games or virtual worlds you can play single player-style or massively multiplayer style, but in either case the data for the game world will only be on the server.
Then there'll be web based word processors where you can only store your data online, and you have to pay for it. No method to download it to your hard drive, but you can email it to people and they have to pay to use the app you need to read the document. If you need to move your data around in other ways, you probably are a pirate (in their mind).
The RIAA and MPAA then pull all their content and make it available only online. For a fee. You'll never touch that data again without the authorization of the server. (I actually see this coming first.)
In short, I could see companies making sure all of their copyrighted data is only available on their servers.
Carter wasn't bad - he inherited an oil crisis that would have crushed even Ronald Raygun.
If we had listened to Jimmy Carter we would be driving vehicles with 35mpg as a bare minimum by now. We had trucks back then that hit 35mpg. Heck, had we listened to Jimmy Carter, we might not even depend on oil right now.
Don't forget how Carter was succeeded by a guy who drove us SIX TRILLION DOLLARS into debt...
with gaming, it's almost an inelastic demand. if you want a particular game, there's only one publisher. you can't substitute a competing product for it. and all mainstream game publishers pretty much have the same general anti-consumer attitude. so it's not the same as buying an Honda/Toyota instead of a Ford/GM because imports have much higher resale values than domestics. that kind of decision-making process doesn't factor into game purchases. there's also less of a market for used games, and this is due to cultural as well as legal factors.
Hold up, pardner... every game store I go to, says used game sales make up the majority of their sales.
A used copy of Oblivion was a rare find for a long time. Try ever finding a used copy of Baldur's Gate/BG2.
Used games, if they were good to begin with, fly off the shelves like crazy.
Seeing as you employers can wipe out an entire town when you close down, and put hundreds of employees out of work at a time, thus driving down everything from consumer spending to property values in an area, not to mention the damage this does to other businesses
I say we as a society have a vested interest in knowing what you as an employer are doing after hours.
How do we as a community know you're not embezzling funds to pay your huge bills or gambling habit? This can cause YOU to mess up the lives of dozens or hundreds of people.
with open sourced direct competitors to large scale apps (smaller than, say, MS Windows, but on the scale of AutoCAD, etc.)?
I'd like to see a world where those new outsourced East Indian millionaire and sub-millionaire programmers are forced to compete heavily with FREE software.
Make everything open source and completely poison the IT offshore programming market. Nobody (at least no consumer, and few businesses but the really biggest ones) pays for commercial stuff because they can get it for free on freshmeat.net!
No, we the American people lost. The Constitution lost. America's credibility lost.
I lost real hard, I voted for the chimp in 2000. I did NOT make that mistake again in 2004. Bush Conservatism sold me on Liberalism and if you were someone who knew me in the 1990s when I was a Limbaugh fan... that was one hell of a sale. Er, more of a Republican epic fail, actually.
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One or two of the very few married EVE Online players in the world spent $100 of their household's real life cash to buy a freighter in-game only to have it stolen from them and then some other real life bill didn't get paid and then they faced their wives' wrath and as Porky Pig once said... badebadebadethatsallfolks!
But there's ways around it.
I manage a data center off-site and on-site. On-site, I go to the cafeteria outside the secure area and have my fun via a nearby free wifi hotspot. If that ever happens to go away, well, at this point I'm just FUBAR'd if I have to be at work all day (which almost never happens). But I never use the company bandwidth.
At home I have a computer that VPN's to work and all the others are free and clear.
There are ways to beat this.
Paris Hilton.
Remember what she did to airline passengers' luggage? That's normal. Rly.
I just wanted to say.. your post is absolutely epic. Good show!
That we do a DMCA on people's personal information.
Remove the concept of 'public records' and make it all PRIVATE.
If Experian wants to collect personal information on you, they should have to pay a fee to you and agree to a standard distribution restriction agreement that makes them come to you for permission to distribute the data elsewhere.
Now of course credit card companies have to ask and pay you for the right to get that information but they can also charge higher fees, too.
Violations bring the same penalties as with "pirating" a mp3.
If you write erotica and it's a hell of a bodice ripper with a nice story line, you may wind up not needing porn videos.
That is, except to watch them with one of the women who read your stuff.
Oh and these women aren't all DOGS, either. I know for a fact. I owe my marriage and three (well, one adopted) kids to doing this myself.
Hoo rah.
That's "if" it actually happens.
This should serve as a warning to liberals and labor rights activists.
If you want America to be competitive on the global market, you need to emulate China.
Cut American workers' wages to that of China, and eliminate workplace safety laws, or America will be left behind.
Most underrated post of the month.
Somewhere, some dentist would be making good money off any teacher who tried to reach into my briefcase to take out my notes without my permission.
That is my legal right in the State of California.
People in positions of authority are getting way out of hand and they need to know the strength of their chain before they leash us.
Or, "Jeri Ryan, you indirectly caused Barack Obama to become the 44th President of the United States! What are you going to do now?"
Does she say
"I'm going to DISNEYLAND!!!"
or does she say
"Oops.... I violated the Prime Directive"
?
Why would a single employee want to pool their negotiating power with others against an organized management hierarchy?
What, are you afraid to defend your interests against 5, 10 or 20 managers or corporate officers?
Employee abuse is necessary for capitalism to succeed.
Bah, we've got bigger problems than labor unions. Can you imagine the damage that'll be done to a company if you're actually PAID for all of your 40 hours of overtime? Why, it could lead to communism - or worse, it could lead to fewer trips to Acapulco for your managers. You're fsckin with their God given right to profits and expensive vacations and international brothels. Capitalism don't play dat.
Work's a bitch, dude. It's meant to be pain and suffering and stress. Forget about unions, go find some stims. You know, some uppers. And when you can't take it any more we'll send tech jobs overseas and put America to work at McDonald's.
Yay, capitalism!
(end right wing parody)
Dial down the "pompous ass" seems to translate to
"ignore the facts about SUVs being more dangerous and listen to our imaginary anecdotal stories."
PS: I own a Highlander hybrid and a RAV4-EV and I know they're dangerous. So do insurance companies, which is why I'd pay lower rates if I just owned a Prius... it's just that a Prius is not sufficient for me, my wife and 3 kids.
That's not far enough.
We'll have to give up our marginally drinkable tap water and breathable air, because environmental laws cost businesses money, too.
Collapsing factories, kids being killed by faulty machinery...
Without all of that, we're not competitive.
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's an excellent point soaring far over over Utini420's head!
Compare that to Japan, where you can get 100mb/s for $50 a month with a 900gb per month data transfer limit.
And to think we're so happy with 6.8 and Comcast's 250 gig monthly limit...
All games have to be played online. There won't be single player games anymore, there'll just be web based games or virtual worlds you can play single player-style or massively multiplayer style, but in either case the data for the game world will only be on the server.
Then there'll be web based word processors where you can only store your data online, and you have to pay for it. No method to download it to your hard drive, but you can email it to people and they have to pay to use the app you need to read the document. If you need to move your data around in other ways, you probably are a pirate (in their mind).
The RIAA and MPAA then pull all their content and make it available only online. For a fee. You'll never touch that data again without the authorization of the server. (I actually see this coming first.)
In short, I could see companies making sure all of their copyrighted data is only available on their servers.
You could calculate how much it costs to fly to China or India, which is where you'll be going if you want a job outside of teaching.
I thought it was labor unions.
When did that story change?
Carter wasn't bad - he inherited an oil crisis that would have crushed even Ronald Raygun.
If we had listened to Jimmy Carter we would be driving vehicles with 35mpg as a bare minimum by now. We had trucks back then that hit 35mpg. Heck, had we listened to Jimmy Carter, we might not even depend on oil right now.
Don't forget how Carter was succeeded by a guy who drove us SIX TRILLION DOLLARS into debt...
Hold up, pardner... every game store I go to, says used game sales make up the majority of their sales.
A used copy of Oblivion was a rare find for a long time. Try ever finding a used copy of Baldur's Gate/BG2.
Used games, if they were good to begin with, fly off the shelves like crazy.
Seeing as you employers can wipe out an entire town when you close down, and put hundreds of employees out of work at a time, thus driving down everything from consumer spending to property values in an area, not to mention the damage this does to other businesses
I say we as a society have a vested interest in knowing what you as an employer are doing after hours.
How do we as a community know you're not embezzling funds to pay your huge bills or gambling habit? This can cause YOU to mess up the lives of dozens or hundreds of people.
How about that?
It's all true.
Offshoring is part of how we got into this current mess.
with open sourced direct competitors to large scale apps (smaller than, say, MS Windows, but on the scale of AutoCAD, etc.)?
I'd like to see a world where those new outsourced East Indian millionaire and sub-millionaire programmers are forced to compete heavily with FREE software.
Make everything open source and completely poison the IT offshore programming market. Nobody (at least no consumer, and few businesses but the really biggest ones) pays for commercial stuff because they can get it for free on freshmeat.net!
No, we the American people lost.
The Constitution lost.
America's credibility lost.
I lost real hard, I voted for the chimp in 2000. I did NOT make that mistake again in 2004. Bush Conservatism sold me on Liberalism and if you were someone who knew me in the 1990s when I was a Limbaugh fan... that was one hell of a sale. Er, more of a Republican epic fail, actually.