But the data IS available and it WAS available, they didn't even fudge the data. The only accusation made against them was that they started getting obstinate and refusing to give the data to climate doubters and the chart they had in the WMO report was misleading if you didn't read the report carefully.
The average population of of those 58 areas are 2.8 million while the average population of the Swedish areas are 0.64 million, not terribly surprising that they're smaller.
Though if you take into account that the capital is 2 million by itself (on 6500 square km), that leaves the next 6 areas at 3 million on 42000 square KM, average population of 0.41 million, a population density of 59 KM^2. While the areas in USA had 109 people per KM^2. So you may have three times the land, but you have six times the money and workforce, it's not a very good excuse.
Well, the funny thing is that you guys already paid but the internet companies just blew the money on booze and you still haven't punished them for it.
The difficulty of the act is immaterial. It's easy to walk through an unlocked door, yet we still expect you not to do that. It's easy to photograph someone on their lawn while they're having sex, yet we expect you not to do that either. It's just common decency(which in some countries are enshrined in law).
Well, HD video streaming does take a ton of bandwidth. Though what I really enjoy with my 100mbs connection is how I can pull down a 10gb game from steam in under an hour or 100mb patches in a minute, though even if you can't think of any bandwidth intensive tasks you want to do I'm sure that some enterprising business will find something for you to spend all that bandwidth on:p
Well, as been noted in other parts of the discussion she apparently lacked the authority to lower it further. It's partly the previous judges fault, partly the messed up laws fault and mostly the jury's fault. $750 is the minimum damage according to the law and they managed to prove willful infringement which causes triple damages which is why it was $2250 per song so she couldn't get away with lower (but the jury could).
The law seems to be in need of an update because it was obviously written with commercial infringement in mind, noone sane would ever expect a private citizen to run afoul of distribution laws.
I don't think the HFCS issue you americans suffer from is Pepsi's fault, in other continents they use different sources of sugar, it's just that your government has decided to make corn so cheap that using other sources of sweetness becomes financially unsound, if consumers were actually willing to pay more for non HFCS soft drinks I'm sure you'd see them on the market as the soft drink companies have no inherent interest in serving you bad sugar, they just want to sell soft drinks.
It's about reasonable expectation of privacy, not what's technically possible. Did you know that in many parts of the world people leave their door unlocked yet still expect people to not walk in uninvited? While many Americans seem to have a very free for all wild west attitude to these sort of issues many other parts of the civilized world expect others to behave civilly.
I find it funny how so many people are seeing SWTOR as the savior "It's made by Bioware, they're the good guys!", but then they forget that Bioware is currently owned by EA who are tied with Activision for pure profiteering and they've already shown their willingness to butcher Biowares work for more money (Just look at Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age).
In what way exactly is Facebook a cash cow? Blizzard has no ability to earn revenue from Facebook, they've been pretty explicit about what their goal is. Their theory is that if they can make their games part of the social network then they'll attract more players through "free" advertising and have those players play more.
Last time I saw the numbers I think the median net worth of a Swedish citizen was around $1000. This is because while they do have a car and a house they're both bought with borrowed money leaving them with very little ability to achieve liquidity and why wouldn't they expect you to write out a check the day after the trial is over?
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
What's next, I'm meant to start being worried about a potential griefer harassing random people out of the phone book if I type something that annoys him? Stop giving in to fear, geez, it's this sort of batshit craziness that allows police states to happen.
If you're going to be worried, atleast be worried about something remotely plausible, I mean where is this flood of IRL griefers going to come from anyhow? Stick to addressing the real privacy issues connected to name exposure rather then useless paranoia.(Professional consequences, name based discrimination, inability to escape RL etc)
You may notice that that entire subforum has less posts then the official forum RealID thread alone. And if you've actually read the thread of ultimate suck you may notice that most of the posts are pretty decent, just not EJ worthy.
No, that's the community managers, as they've said several times in addition to the posting community managers they have quite many moderators that never post. You probably don't notice because they don't show their bans publically.
Then don't post a bloody A4 worth of text, geez. You could have just typed "Maybe they reconsidered if it was a good idea after someone posted a bunch of info after Bashiok(one of the CM's) posted his real name (link)". That would have saved us a sizable amount of screen real estate and you wouldn't look so ignorant.
I think that fear is completely overblown, people publish their real names in wide circulation all the time without getting overly griefed IRL, while the gaming community loves being abusive to eachother I doubt any notable amount will attempt IRL griefing.
There are way more rational fears connected to the disclosure of real names like having your stupid rant about hunters being OP immortalized for all time by the Google index to be found by all your future employers when they google your name or female posters having a horrendously hard time being taken seriously.
The whole "ZOMG, I'll get IRL griefed!!!" is just like the people that rather take the car then fly because this one plane crashed that one time and killed 300 people. Yes it happens, but not often enough to matter and there are much serious and probable things you should be worrying about.
Most people that want to post on Elitist Jerks are fairly well behaved and well informed people to begin with (Why else would they visit the EJ forum in the first place?), in the meantime the official forums have to handle what must be 100 times the volume with a much lower average post quality even before moderation. Just saying "Well get more moderators then!!!" probably doesn't scale well to that sort of post volume.
Do you know what makes you rather pathetic? That you haven't bothered to find out that info was not actually the right Micah Whipple lives in the opposite side of California.
That utter failure of a copy pasted investigation is probably the least of the reasons they decided to change policy.
All he really wants is for the major PC manufacturers to put together a HTPC with a gaming sticker on it, ideally the manufacturers and the gaming industry would would agree on standard specs and Activision would be able to say "All our games run on Dell HTPC Gamerz Edition".
There would obviously not be any difference between the Gamerz Edition and anything you could build yourself with parts from Newegg, the point would just be to aggressively market the idea that you can play TV-games with a PC. The main problem for them to overcome would be that consoles are heavily subsidized which makes the gaming PC's of equivalent hardware look very expensive.
As long as you don't appear to have done it on purpose you usually just have to pay royalties don't you? I can't remember reading about punitive damages happening very often.
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But the data IS available and it WAS available, they didn't even fudge the data. The only accusation made against them was that they started getting obstinate and refusing to give the data to climate doubters and the chart they had in the WMO report was misleading if you didn't read the report carefully.
The average population of of those 58 areas are 2.8 million while the average population of the Swedish areas are 0.64 million, not terribly surprising that they're smaller.
Though if you take into account that the capital is 2 million by itself (on 6500 square km), that leaves the next 6 areas at 3 million on 42000 square KM, average population of 0.41 million, a population density of 59 KM^2. While the areas in USA had 109 people per KM^2. So you may have three times the land, but you have six times the money and workforce, it's not a very good excuse.
Well, the funny thing is that you guys already paid but the internet companies just blew the money on booze and you still haven't punished them for it.
The difficulty of the act is immaterial. It's easy to walk through an unlocked door, yet we still expect you not to do that. It's easy to photograph someone on their lawn while they're having sex, yet we expect you not to do that either. It's just common decency(which in some countries are enshrined in law).
Well, HD video streaming does take a ton of bandwidth. Though what I really enjoy with my 100mbs connection is how I can pull down a 10gb game from steam in under an hour or 100mb patches in a minute, though even if you can't think of any bandwidth intensive tasks you want to do I'm sure that some enterprising business will find something for you to spend all that bandwidth on :p
Well, as been noted in other parts of the discussion she apparently lacked the authority to lower it further. It's partly the previous judges fault, partly the messed up laws fault and mostly the jury's fault. $750 is the minimum damage according to the law and they managed to prove willful infringement which causes triple damages which is why it was $2250 per song so she couldn't get away with lower (but the jury could).
The law seems to be in need of an update because it was obviously written with commercial infringement in mind, noone sane would ever expect a private citizen to run afoul of distribution laws.
Kansas: 12.7 KM^2
Nevada: 9 KM^2
Finland: 16 KM^2
Sweden: 20 KM^2
So cute, Kansas and Nevada are slightly less dense then the high tech countries. But if that argument had any sort of weight, how do you explain:
USA: 32 KM^2
New York: 157 KM^2
Pennsylvania: 105 KM^2
California: 90 KM^2
Texas: 30 KM^2
If population density was so decisive, why doesn't states with up to 10 times the density manage to compete?
I don't think the HFCS issue you americans suffer from is Pepsi's fault, in other continents they use different sources of sugar, it's just that your government has decided to make corn so cheap that using other sources of sweetness becomes financially unsound, if consumers were actually willing to pay more for non HFCS soft drinks I'm sure you'd see them on the market as the soft drink companies have no inherent interest in serving you bad sugar, they just want to sell soft drinks.
It's about reasonable expectation of privacy, not what's technically possible. Did you know that in many parts of the world people leave their door unlocked yet still expect people to not walk in uninvited? While many Americans seem to have a very free for all wild west attitude to these sort of issues many other parts of the civilized world expect others to behave civilly.
I find it funny how so many people are seeing SWTOR as the savior "It's made by Bioware, they're the good guys!", but then they forget that Bioware is currently owned by EA who are tied with Activision for pure profiteering and they've already shown their willingness to butcher Biowares work for more money (Just look at Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age).
In what way exactly is Facebook a cash cow? Blizzard has no ability to earn revenue from Facebook, they've been pretty explicit about what their goal is. Their theory is that if they can make their games part of the social network then they'll attract more players through "free" advertising and have those players play more.
They could just change the WoW TOS if they wanted to do that, no need to mess with the forum.
Last time I saw the numbers I think the median net worth of a Swedish citizen was around $1000. This is because while they do have a car and a house they're both bought with borrowed money leaving them with very little ability to achieve liquidity and why wouldn't they expect you to write out a check the day after the trial is over?
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
Johan Rydén, yours?
What's next, I'm meant to start being worried about a potential griefer harassing random people out of the phone book if I type something that annoys him? Stop giving in to fear, geez, it's this sort of batshit craziness that allows police states to happen.
If you're going to be worried, atleast be worried about something remotely plausible, I mean where is this flood of IRL griefers going to come from anyhow? Stick to addressing the real privacy issues connected to name exposure rather then useless paranoia.(Professional consequences, name based discrimination, inability to escape RL etc)
You may notice that that entire subforum has less posts then the official forum RealID thread alone. And if you've actually read the thread of ultimate suck you may notice that most of the posts are pretty decent, just not EJ worthy.
No, that's the community managers, as they've said several times in addition to the posting community managers they have quite many moderators that never post. You probably don't notice because they don't show their bans publically.
Then don't post a bloody A4 worth of text, geez. You could have just typed "Maybe they reconsidered if it was a good idea after someone posted a bunch of info after Bashiok(one of the CM's) posted his real name (link)". That would have saved us a sizable amount of screen real estate and you wouldn't look so ignorant.
I think that fear is completely overblown, people publish their real names in wide circulation all the time without getting overly griefed IRL, while the gaming community loves being abusive to eachother I doubt any notable amount will attempt IRL griefing.
There are way more rational fears connected to the disclosure of real names like having your stupid rant about hunters being OP immortalized for all time by the Google index to be found by all your future employers when they google your name or female posters having a horrendously hard time being taken seriously.
The whole "ZOMG, I'll get IRL griefed!!!" is just like the people that rather take the car then fly because this one plane crashed that one time and killed 300 people. Yes it happens, but not often enough to matter and there are much serious and probable things you should be worrying about.
It just annoys me how people keep copy pasting that thing without spending even two seconds to verify if it's even true.
Most people that want to post on Elitist Jerks are fairly well behaved and well informed people to begin with (Why else would they visit the EJ forum in the first place?), in the meantime the official forums have to handle what must be 100 times the volume with a much lower average post quality even before moderation. Just saying "Well get more moderators then!!!" probably doesn't scale well to that sort of post volume.
Do you know what makes you rather pathetic? That you haven't bothered to find out that info was not actually the right Micah Whipple lives in the opposite side of California.
That utter failure of a copy pasted investigation is probably the least of the reasons they decided to change policy.
All he really wants is for the major PC manufacturers to put together a HTPC with a gaming sticker on it, ideally the manufacturers and the gaming industry would would agree on standard specs and Activision would be able to say "All our games run on Dell HTPC Gamerz Edition".
There would obviously not be any difference between the Gamerz Edition and anything you could build yourself with parts from Newegg, the point would just be to aggressively market the idea that you can play TV-games with a PC. The main problem for them to overcome would be that consoles are heavily subsidized which makes the gaming PC's of equivalent hardware look very expensive.
As long as you don't appear to have done it on purpose you usually just have to pay royalties don't you? I can't remember reading about punitive damages happening very often.