Recently I was looking for something for business that I needed that day. I think it was OfficeMax or OfficeDepot that would not show me if the item was in the store or not, but Target most certainly did. Try it for yourself. I just did a search for Hot Pot and within 3 clicks I have the nearest store with it in stock.
What retail stores do not understand is that they could have the best of both worlds. Some of them are starting too. Online-only products as well as products available both online and offline, and in-store pickup. They have the advantage of being able to pick up the product that same day.
The dirty little secret of free shipping online is that in most cases you will wait 5-7 days for ground shipping. On average I think it might cost me 5-10% more if I get it from the local store that day versus waiting a week for shipping. On some big items the shipping itself makes it cheaper to get it local if you can.
For some stuff, the retail stores will always be retarded, and I mean Monster Cable retarded. Trying to compete on HDMI cables with 4 billion percent markup when you get the same thing online within a couple of days at 25% of the price will cause people to wait. What if that $5 cable online with free shipping was only $6.99 at a retail store that day? I think the retail store will win out.... but NOT when the same cable is literally $30.
Radio Shack is the best example and I call it Radio Shaft. A fucking RCA coupler for $5. They must be on crack.
That is where they get stupid. Once it becomes the perception that retail stores are out to fuck you for needing it right away you will just wait and save a ton of money. If they get smart, they do have ways to compete. Even with the exact same products.
No... you're thinking about Whole Foods. The place you go when you have a lot of money, the perception you have discriminating tastes, and less brains. They honestly think any assortment of nuts could possibly be 10$+ per pound.
TJ's is about the same price as a regular store, but only once you factor in savings and discounts for card memberships. Without those kinds of savings, TJ's usually comes in a little cheaper.
Fresh and Easy is a much smaller store than Whole Foods and concentrates on its own brands with no chemicals, preservatives, etc. They can be very high quality and the cheapest around. Chicken is never more than about 2.30$ per pound, while I see the same stuff going for twice as much at a regular store.
There are also a couple of other grocery startups like Whole Foods popping up that are pretty competitive.
Don't forget ethnic grocery stores either. Stuff you can't find elsewhere and the quality is easily on par. China Town has some places that absolutely rock when you need that right ingredient that Whole Foods does not even know exists.
which they have already done in a way, using region codes and forcing DRM on downloaded music
Uhhhh, not they have not. Purchased music is widely available in DRM-free formats and has been for some time now.
Region codes do not force a specific piece of hardware at all. You still require a basic DVD-ROM to even begin to physically read the disk. I don't think that is forced, and certainly not by law. You have a choice of DVD hardware to purchase. Additionally, as stupid as region codes were, they were incredibly easy to bypass, even for the most unsophisticated person. When purchasing a new DVD-ROM you get to set the region code. At least on the last couple I purchased, and you could reset it up to five times. I believe I even found some DVD players that ignored region codes entirely. I can't say for sure... but I imagine they would be quite popular in some places.
You missed his point. The populace usually does not notice until you stop them from doing something they want and without an exceptionally good reason.
Telling people that a DVD jukebox is illegal, when they purchased the jukebox and all the movies, is something that they will notice and get pissed about. Once that happens, that is all the motivation they need to bring out Google, start talking to friends, and then..... welcome to the world wide web of pirating.
In my experience, once somebody finds out how easy it is to get stuff for free, they never pay again. I will pay for music, software, and DVDs out of principle, but I know I am not in the majority.
The poster you are replying to is right. The absolute last thing the content companies want is to provide motivation for people to get educated on their options. That is because none of those options is good for the content companies, even the legal ones.
Yeah? When you "buy" software you are only purchasing the right (as a license, not ownership of the codebase) to use the software in accordance with the license terms. Nothing more.
Those license terms you refer to are not dictated by the software creators. The terms are clearly spelled out in Title 17, which defines copyrights in the US. Only though an additional contract (EULA) can you even begin to restrict the consumer further, but it is questionable on both legal and moral grounds.
Without an additional contract, and supported time and time again by the First Sale Doctrine, the physical mediums and legal entitlements of copyrighted works are transferable to another party for any consideration.
If the copyright owners get to treat the copyright itself as property, then the consumer gets to treat their legal entitlements from the purchase as property too. As such, it is always available for sale to a third party.
Nothing in copyright law specifically excludes used sales. Nothing at all. It should not either, because it is morally reprehensible to do so.
However, in a world where a fucking mouse character gets copyright protection forever, it is not a surprise to me that very few people even understand copyright and that the copyright owners are trying to change the whole game to allow them to own it, control it, etc. forever regardless of how many times they are compensated.
Nowhere else in any economy is business conducted in such a fashion. Nowhere else. For good reason too. It makes no sense, screws the consumer, and goes against everything logical and moral.
You tell me where in reality you can go in a hardware store, buy a hammer, and have Bob (the owner) get to tell you where and how you get to use the hammer and that you cannot lend or sell the hammer to your friend Steve.
Yeah...... does not exist in reality. The situation with used software is no different at all.
Good point, but Americans are the ones who put those people in power and are allowing them to stay there.
Ummmmm, how?
It does not matter who we vote for, we get the same thing. Attempts at an independent party have failed.
Allowing them to stay there?
What do you propose? A bloody revolution? That's all that is left. Reform through political process is impossible because the political process has been corrupted so completely that only by burning it the ground and starting over *is* reform possible.
Nobody that gets put into office actually represents the people with their actions. I don't know how much clearer that can be made. It's not like the majority of us even vote anymore.
At this time I don't support a bloody revolution. I still have hope that maybe reform can happen, but I doubt it. It will probably need to get pushed to a point where people like me are finally willing to pick up a gun, get organized, and create a new government.
We are not there yet.
Of course, I could say the same things to you. Why do YOU elect people in your countries that are willing to accept the import of our "democracy"?
If the disc gets scratched, that too is my problem.
It is your problem. What you are protecting is merely the physical medium the copyrighted work was distributed on. That's why backup copies have always been considered Fair Use, but I would go even further and argue that it is not just Fair Use, but proper exercise of your rights. The ones that you were granted during the sale.
Which is why I have so many games and movies still in shrink wrap and I just grabbed a pirate release. The end result is the same. I paid money for it and I am enjoying my rights.
So while your disc may get scratched, you are 100% entitled to replace your copy of the copyrighted work by whatever means necessary.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing
There is absolutely everything wrong with they are doing.
I understand that digital delivery and games that can be played online has confused the issue, along with the persistent confusion over what copyright is.
However, it is really this fucking simple:
Customer purchased product from store. Customer owns product from store. Customer after some period of time sells product used to somebody else. Store already got paid, so they have no legal interest, much less moral or ethical interest, in the second sale.
First Sale Doctrine covers this. Everywhere else in the physical world you cannot pull this fucking shit for two seconds without being called crazy greedy retarded sons of bitches.
I have said before, and some of disagreed with me (they are wrong), but when you pay for copyrighted content you are granted rights in return for the consideration you paid. Part of that, is quite obviously, the ability to sell your copy. Traditionally in the past this was very easy to wrap your mind around with when it came to art and books, since they were physical items you could touch and pick up. Every single time a piece of artwork or book is sold the legal entitlements that came from copyright are transferred. It is completely legal, moral, and ethical to be able to do so. You own it, the physical medium and those rights.
They can try all the EULA crap that they want. That does not make it right, or legally defensible in a court of law. Shilling is a greedy fucking dumbass who cannot understand why he cannot get a part of each and every resale in perpetuity. Quite simply, he is not satisfied with being legally compensated one time, but has major entitlement issues to believe (erroneously) that he has every right to be compensated when his customer sells the game to another gamer used.
The fundamental problem being that Shilling does not want to understand copyright as it currently is, or what it was designed to be. Shilling, and other shitheads like him, only want to be part of a world where they have absolute control over every copy everywhere and that it always remains their direct property under their direct control at all times.
Well fuck him, and fuck Microsoft with their 720. When I purchase physical mediums, or directly download copies of copyrighted content I will absolutely protect, by force if required, my right to transfer those rights to anyone I please for any amount of consideration I please.
There is everything wrong with they are doing from every perspective you can think of.
It is AMERICA that is "myopic" in their presumption that they get to shove their dictatorship and police state down the throats of the international community.
Don't lump me in with those shitheads!
"AMERICA" is not who you think it is. The average American does not want to have anything to do with the dictatorship attitudes of the 1% and those in power, and we are pretty much split down the line on the wars. Americans who were for the wars, were only supportive because they honestly felt threatened and were manipulated by those in power to believe it had to be true. As for the police state laws being exported, that has nothing to do with Americans.
Those in power in this country had to use "National Security" to hide ACTA from us for so long. In less than 48 hours over 30,000 Americans told the Whitehouse to investigate Chris Dodd for bribery when he said some pretty stupid things on television because he was butthurt for his Big Content masters.
What about opposing SOPA? Some tech giants got together and a huge amount of Americans got up and screamed against it!
The American People are not who you need to place your anger with. We are powerless victims here either through apathy or the naivete that we can actually be involved in the political process. In other words, we are being played from multiple angles and we are having a very hard time fighting back.
As much as you don't want "our" copyright laws shoved down your throat, we don't want them to apply to us either.
Your anger needs to be placed very specifically on those running America into the shitter. Please don't sully the name America by including them in it.
What do you need the other hand for? Grabbing your partner's cock?
A strange inference from my post. Let me try do the same with your post.
You cannot understand what a 2nd hand could be used for, and your seemingly first thought is that it must be used for another man's cock.
There are several possibilities that are floating around in my head right now and let me take a whack at drawing inferences from your post as well.....
1) You are dealing with latent homosexual urges as evidenced by your apparent obsession with grabbing another man's cock. 2) You don't often have partners, because if you did, you would realize that there are 4 hands present and several orifices with the additional person. Cirque Du Soleil abilities aside, your own orifices are irrelevant. Only a single hand is required from either party to work the remote/mouse. 3) You are prepubescent and/or possessing of a small penis. Therefore it would never occur to you that an additional hand might be useful or desired. 4) You have at least one unusually large hand, and again, it would never occur to you that an additional hand would be needed.
Living in the post Atomic Age might cause one to conclude #4 to be correct, but statistically speaking, such mutations are very rare. #2 is certainly possible because this is Slashdot with the ever present stereotype that we are all in our mother's basements awaiting the delivery of Hot Pockets and Mountain Dew. #2 is also possible because the lack of logic and creativity with some people here never ceases to surprise me. #1 could be due to simple anonymous asshole syndrome, which is best explained by the Penny Arcade's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Hmmmmm.....
I will have to go with #3. You must have a tiny little penis. Do not lament your tiny penis my anonymous friend, because it is not the size that matters but how well you can convince somebody other than yourself to touch it.
Sorry for the late reply. I had to spend a couple of days laughing over you and "Numpty Boy". It's just funny to say. I love it.
I hope you're feeling mortified now, but frankly I really doubt it. It would require too much brainpower.
Noooo... being mortified in the fashion you suggest requires one to be British. Your doubts are well founded as I am not British, and therefore, cannot be mortified. I guess your premise is correct though, as ignorance and shame are probably mutually exclusive.
You know, the thing you are commenting on in such a spectacularly stupid fashion?
Spectacularly? Really? Funny we were having civil discourse (relatively I guess) before you had to bring out the multi-comment insult missiles.
I will admit to being impressive on many an occasion, this is true, I cannot deny it, it is my cross to bear. Lavish? Dramatic? Unduly lengthy? Didn't seem so at the time.....
Back to the business at hand and the generous amusement you have provided me...
The link is to the official website of the Leveson Inquiry.........I think it would be reasonable to assume that if Mr Justice Leveson calls it an inquiry, that's how it should be referred to.
So we are justified calling another Numpty Boy, spectacularly stupid, and phenomenally stupid for daring to challenge a Lord Justice of the British Empire? Are you going to just leave this with your fallacious appeal to authority, aka Argumentum ad Verecundiam, or are you going to provide actual etymology of the words and state your case with the intelligence you find so lacking in the rest of your society?
Assuming you are British, I would think you would be the one mortified now...... if not, I blame ignorance on your part.
Of course being American I can understand the fallacious appeal to authority. After all, look who we elected President for 8 years and how many of us blindly believed everything he said? I just find it strange you giving so much intellectual authority to a British Lord Justice of all people.
By all means, if Justice Leveson says it, it must simply be correct. I mean he is a Lord Justice right? No we need look no further than that. We can dump the rest of history like a Sheriff's sale, and when future generations inquire about the correct usage of the word and its history we will just refer them to the Great Lord Justice Sir Brian Henry Leveson. He used the word, and redefined it for the rest of humanity in perpetuity.
I guess I must apologize now. It's not your fault. It's the 1000+ years your people have had to kiss the asses of Lords and other nobles like that, so no wonder you suffer so greatly from a common logical fallacy.
You know I was confused for a moment because I work with "challenged" people all the time, until I realized you might have meant physically challenged people.
Seriously though, how is extra resolution on the kinect sensor going to help physically challenged people? I know some people that have challenges like that and I don't see how extra resolution is going to help with recognizing their hand gestures. I would think that training the software would be far more effective and required because each challenged person is going to have different "quirks" to their movements that need to be learned.
Having that sensor alone as a standard on laptops going forward, regardless of resolutions, seems to open the doors for software to help all sorts of people interact with their computers more effectively and easily.
Of course, ironically, one of the last articles had a poster with ALS being lambasted because he did not take the time to cut and paste from his blog instead of just linking to it. The Jerk! I know right? Would extra resolution help with somebody like Stephen Hawking to recognize facial twitches reliably?
It might not be as "clean" in terms of being a pure xray laser..(electrons bumped out of the containing vessel by the uv photons would be snatched up by the very electron hungry neon ions, releasing other species of photon.) But it would be easier to assemble.
I have this image in my head.....
Crazy Karlov's Weapon Emporium
Karlov - "Why go to all the expense of purchase of commercial Death Ray? For just a fraction of price I build for you economical Death Ray from used weapons lab parts sold at auction by my cousin Mikhail. Ehhh, 70% powerful as those really expensive "military grade" models. Might leak some radiation and possibly explode, but nobody lives forever right!? Besides, one fried asshole smells like another fried asshole. I sweeten deal with some hand grenades and American cigarettes. Take home to kids. Of course, any weapon explodes, you get 50% of next purchase!"
If you played Doom without Godmode on, it was fairly hard. You had to spend some time doing it, and learn tactics. Not to mention a fair amount of luck.
I put Doom and Pac-Man into the class of games that are enjoyable because they are hard, and progressively harder. The first few levels of Pac-Man are easy enough, but much like a good strong Habanero sauce, the beginning is fine but you start to figure out that you may have made a mistake about it being easy.
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A pleasure to see you again my liege. I am still most grateful for your correction of my unconsciable grammar and spelling last time.
I too lament how game players today have been turned into "whiny little pussies". I long for the days past when a kill screen was indicative of godhood.
There was great value in a game that was actually hard to play, and was progressively impossible to beat. The point of that game was the journey of suffering itself, not the end. Those that actually reached the end, the aforementioned kill screens, were granted immediate entrance into Valhalla and spoken of in legends.
I think the last game that I played that was actually hard might have been Doom or Doom II. To this day the sound of a Arch-Vile makes me twitch.
In fact, thinking about, the harder a game is, and the more I have to constantly replay levels to achieve perfection, the more I enjoy it. Games these days seem to be more like interactive stories requiring a modicum of effort and designed with soft rubber corners so you don't trip along the way.
Personally, I think it all went downhill the moment you had a save game state. The unrelenting suffering of being so close to finishing and seeing that start screen, and to keep coming back, was in my opinion, a rite of manhood in my day. It separated the boys from the men.
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most versions of tetris use pure randomizers, faggot.
LMAO.
How can you get so emotionally involved in an algorithm used in a 20+ year old game? It's a game man. You think he is wrong about the algorithm so it is cause to call him a faggot?
You AC's crack me up sometimes. Faggot!
If the waiter brings you too much ice in your drink do you yell at him and call him a faggot too? I can hear Beavis and Butthead in the background telling you, "That was uncalled for dude".
First off, Microsoft can go fuck themselves. I have not bought a PS3, and my XBOX360 came second-hand to me and is now hacked.
Lately, I won't even purchase a device if I have to spend more than a super trivial amount of effort to load a custom firmware on it to let me do what I want with my own hardware. That was pretty much why I fell in love with Microsoft smart phones about 10 years ago. I could go on XDA-Developers and get the tools to cook my own firmware with my basic programs installed already.
Secondly, and you have really really missed the point here, is that... IT IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT IF IT IS BAD FOR THE INDUSTRY .
Forgive me for my passions, but fuck them. They are not entitled to profit under all situations and the First Sale Doctrine is sacrosanct.
Seriously. Fuck them. This was the course of events:
1) Somebody purchased the copyrighted work directly from the publisher. 2) At the point of sale, the publisher was compensated. 3) Physical medium was transferred along with the legal entitlements granted by copyright when the copyrighted work was given away freely, or sold for 1/100th of a percent of its original value. 4) The original publisher is not relevant to the second transaction because they were already compensated.
That's it.
The "industry" can bitch, whine, and moan like little three year old children about how they are not getting a slice of every used sale. What they cannot do, is make any kind of argument, with a correct legal, ethical, or moral foundation, that used sales is wrong.
They cannot stop us from used game sales. Period.
Coming into my home, living inside the XBOX 720 firmware, and having the unmitigated gall to tell me that I cannot play a second-hand game (in some cases given away freely by a friend) on a console I rightly purchased.
I'm sorry, but your post is infuriating. Their bottom line takes a back seat to ethics every single time.
P.S - There is PLENTY of PRECEDENCE. First Sale Doctrine has been argued to death and the Auto Industry got their asses handed to them by trying to destroy the after market industry in favor of keeping only their brand of parts in a car. There should be no difference with hardware and software, logically or ethically.
Err, I'm a finn myself, so I may be perverted in some puritan point of view, but yes, it's vanilla sex in my book. It's straight up vaginal penetration from front/back with a person who has accepted to have sex with you.
Accepted? As opposed to....?
Sounds like you might be reaching back to the ol' Viking roots there.
What exactly is vanilla sex in your book if not that?
Well I guess your description might be considered vanilla sex. Everybody's threshold is different apparently. I prefer French vanilla sex with cherries and copious amounts of chocolate sauce. Like I said, YMMV.
1) You state that fucking a chick, falling asleep, and fucking her again in the morning while she is still asleep is vanilla Nordic sex at best.
What is kinky Nordic sex? Please be detailed with your answer. I saw a picture of a couple hundred Nordic blondes in hot water pool or something. My penis has a vested interest in the answer.
2) Kinky Aussie Sex and lack of police reports.
Does this mean that all instances of Kinky Aussie sex involve police reports?
Neither the US embassies, or the US govt is the MPAA's bitches. There is lobbying (read corruption) at play certainly with Senators, which generally as a rule, tend to be complete whores. You tell them this is the dick (the law written by the lobbyists), and to suck it (make it the law), the only thing they ask, "What do I get paid?". Senators do this because it is how they hold on to power, and enjoy the benefits that their positions provide.
One of the reasons why all the branches of government seem to be so willing to cooperate with the MAFIAA is that Intellectual Property and the economic considerations surrounding it are excellent means to camouflage a darker purpose:
More power and tools to the Intelligence Community.
Check out the members of the Intelligence Committee, both former and active. Most are supporters of SOPA, I think only a few have switched sides, and the most "vocal" opponent on the Intelligence Committee is Wyden. That Senator is just the Plan B with his own bill to accomplish the same thing.
Don't confuse a momentary alliance on the part of the US Govt as them being bitches. Government are made up of people, and these people only do what is in their best interests, which often coincide with the interests of the groups they are representing. Whether it be Big Pharma, Military-Industrial Complex, etc.
It has been in the best interests since even before the Cold War began for America to be able to monitor its dissidents (as determined by those people) as closely as possible. See Hoover for references.
Laws disguised as protecting American jobs and the oh-so-poor artists coincidentally give the Intelligence Community a mandate to do even more by proxy then before, and with less legal resistance on the part of the technology sectors.
It's not a coincidence. A truly free Internet does nothing for the Intelligence Community, and they do in fact, see it as a threat.
Which is celebrated by exposing as much of our skins as is legal to it till it cries out in terror and reacts violently to the radiation.
Uhhhh... You're Dutch. I thought complete exposure was legal in your country. You could expose your taint if it were not so impractical physically speaking.
I'm not a complaint either. Well it is.. depending on which one of you is getting naked.
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Uhhhh, some places are like that, but not Target.
Recently I was looking for something for business that I needed that day. I think it was OfficeMax or OfficeDepot that would not show me if the item was in the store or not, but Target most certainly did. Try it for yourself. I just did a search for Hot Pot and within 3 clicks I have the nearest store with it in stock.
What retail stores do not understand is that they could have the best of both worlds. Some of them are starting too. Online-only products as well as products available both online and offline, and in-store pickup. They have the advantage of being able to pick up the product that same day.
The dirty little secret of free shipping online is that in most cases you will wait 5-7 days for ground shipping. On average I think it might cost me 5-10% more if I get it from the local store that day versus waiting a week for shipping. On some big items the shipping itself makes it cheaper to get it local if you can.
For some stuff, the retail stores will always be retarded, and I mean Monster Cable retarded. Trying to compete on HDMI cables with 4 billion percent markup when you get the same thing online within a couple of days at 25% of the price will cause people to wait. What if that $5 cable online with free shipping was only $6.99 at a retail store that day? I think the retail store will win out.... but NOT when the same cable is literally $30.
Radio Shack is the best example and I call it Radio Shaft. A fucking RCA coupler for $5. They must be on crack.
That is where they get stupid. Once it becomes the perception that retail stores are out to fuck you for needing it right away you will just wait and save a ton of money. If they get smart, they do have ways to compete. Even with the exact same products.
No... you're thinking about Whole Foods. The place you go when you have a lot of money, the perception you have discriminating tastes, and less brains. They honestly think any assortment of nuts could possibly be 10$+ per pound.
TJ's is about the same price as a regular store, but only once you factor in savings and discounts for card memberships. Without those kinds of savings, TJ's usually comes in a little cheaper.
Fresh and Easy is a much smaller store than Whole Foods and concentrates on its own brands with no chemicals, preservatives, etc. They can be very high quality and the cheapest around. Chicken is never more than about 2.30$ per pound, while I see the same stuff going for twice as much at a regular store.
There are also a couple of other grocery startups like Whole Foods popping up that are pretty competitive.
Don't forget ethnic grocery stores either. Stuff you can't find elsewhere and the quality is easily on par. China Town has some places that absolutely rock when you need that right ingredient that Whole Foods does not even know exists.
which they have already done in a way, using region codes and forcing DRM on downloaded music
Uhhhh, not they have not. Purchased music is widely available in DRM-free formats and has been for some time now.
Region codes do not force a specific piece of hardware at all. You still require a basic DVD-ROM to even begin to physically read the disk. I don't think that is forced, and certainly not by law. You have a choice of DVD hardware to purchase. Additionally, as stupid as region codes were, they were incredibly easy to bypass, even for the most unsophisticated person. When purchasing a new DVD-ROM you get to set the region code. At least on the last couple I purchased, and you could reset it up to five times. I believe I even found some DVD players that ignored region codes entirely. I can't say for sure... but I imagine they would be quite popular in some places.
You missed his point. The populace usually does not notice until you stop them from doing something they want and without an exceptionally good reason.
Telling people that a DVD jukebox is illegal, when they purchased the jukebox and all the movies, is something that they will notice and get pissed about. Once that happens, that is all the motivation they need to bring out Google, start talking to friends, and then..... welcome to the world wide web of pirating.
In my experience, once somebody finds out how easy it is to get stuff for free, they never pay again. I will pay for music, software, and DVDs out of principle, but I know I am not in the majority.
The poster you are replying to is right. The absolute last thing the content companies want is to provide motivation for people to get educated on their options. That is because none of those options is good for the content companies, even the legal ones.
Yeah? When you "buy" software you are only purchasing the right (as a license, not ownership of the codebase) to use the software in accordance with the license terms. Nothing more.
Those license terms you refer to are not dictated by the software creators. The terms are clearly spelled out in Title 17, which defines copyrights in the US. Only though an additional contract (EULA) can you even begin to restrict the consumer further, but it is questionable on both legal and moral grounds.
Without an additional contract, and supported time and time again by the First Sale Doctrine, the physical mediums and legal entitlements of copyrighted works are transferable to another party for any consideration.
If the copyright owners get to treat the copyright itself as property, then the consumer gets to treat their legal entitlements from the purchase as property too. As such, it is always available for sale to a third party.
Nothing in copyright law specifically excludes used sales. Nothing at all. It should not either, because it is morally reprehensible to do so.
However, in a world where a fucking mouse character gets copyright protection forever, it is not a surprise to me that very few people even understand copyright and that the copyright owners are trying to change the whole game to allow them to own it, control it, etc. forever regardless of how many times they are compensated.
Nowhere else in any economy is business conducted in such a fashion. Nowhere else. For good reason too. It makes no sense, screws the consumer, and goes against everything logical and moral.
You tell me where in reality you can go in a hardware store, buy a hammer, and have Bob (the owner) get to tell you where and how you get to use the hammer and that you cannot lend or sell the hammer to your friend Steve.
Yeah...... does not exist in reality. The situation with used software is no different at all.
Good point, but Americans are the ones who put those people in power and are allowing them to stay there.
Ummmmm, how?
It does not matter who we vote for, we get the same thing. Attempts at an independent party have failed.
Allowing them to stay there?
What do you propose? A bloody revolution? That's all that is left. Reform through political process is impossible because the political process has been corrupted so completely that only by burning it the ground and starting over *is* reform possible.
Nobody that gets put into office actually represents the people with their actions. I don't know how much clearer that can be made. It's not like the majority of us even vote anymore.
At this time I don't support a bloody revolution. I still have hope that maybe reform can happen, but I doubt it. It will probably need to get pushed to a point where people like me are finally willing to pick up a gun, get organized, and create a new government.
We are not there yet.
Of course, I could say the same things to you. Why do YOU elect people in your countries that are willing to accept the import of our "democracy"?
Goes both ways.
If the disc gets scratched, that too is my problem.
It is your problem. What you are protecting is merely the physical medium the copyrighted work was distributed on. That's why backup copies have always been considered Fair Use, but I would go even further and argue that it is not just Fair Use, but proper exercise of your rights. The ones that you were granted during the sale.
Which is why I have so many games and movies still in shrink wrap and I just grabbed a pirate release. The end result is the same. I paid money for it and I am enjoying my rights.
So while your disc may get scratched, you are 100% entitled to replace your copy of the copyrighted work by whatever means necessary.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what they are doing
There is absolutely everything wrong with they are doing.
I understand that digital delivery and games that can be played online has confused the issue, along with the persistent confusion over what copyright is.
However, it is really this fucking simple:
Customer purchased product from store.
Customer owns product from store.
Customer after some period of time sells product used to somebody else.
Store already got paid, so they have no legal interest, much less moral or ethical interest, in the second sale.
First Sale Doctrine covers this. Everywhere else in the physical world you cannot pull this fucking shit for two seconds without being called crazy greedy retarded sons of bitches.
I have said before, and some of disagreed with me (they are wrong), but when you pay for copyrighted content you are granted rights in return for the consideration you paid. Part of that, is quite obviously, the ability to sell your copy. Traditionally in the past this was very easy to wrap your mind around with when it came to art and books, since they were physical items you could touch and pick up. Every single time a piece of artwork or book is sold the legal entitlements that came from copyright are transferred. It is completely legal, moral, and ethical to be able to do so. You own it, the physical medium and those rights.
They can try all the EULA crap that they want. That does not make it right, or legally defensible in a court of law. Shilling is a greedy fucking dumbass who cannot understand why he cannot get a part of each and every resale in perpetuity. Quite simply, he is not satisfied with being legally compensated one time, but has major entitlement issues to believe (erroneously) that he has every right to be compensated when his customer sells the game to another gamer used.
The fundamental problem being that Shilling does not want to understand copyright as it currently is, or what it was designed to be. Shilling, and other shitheads like him, only want to be part of a world where they have absolute control over every copy everywhere and that it always remains their direct property under their direct control at all times.
Well fuck him, and fuck Microsoft with their 720. When I purchase physical mediums, or directly download copies of copyrighted content I will absolutely protect, by force if required, my right to transfer those rights to anyone I please for any amount of consideration I please.
There is everything wrong with they are doing from every perspective you can think of.
It is AMERICA that is "myopic" in their presumption that they get to shove their dictatorship and police state down the throats of the international community.
Don't lump me in with those shitheads!
"AMERICA" is not who you think it is. The average American does not want to have anything to do with the dictatorship attitudes of the 1% and those in power, and we are pretty much split down the line on the wars. Americans who were for the wars, were only supportive because they honestly felt threatened and were manipulated by those in power to believe it had to be true. As for the police state laws being exported, that has nothing to do with Americans .
Those in power in this country had to use "National Security" to hide ACTA from us for so long. In less than 48 hours over 30,000 Americans told the Whitehouse to investigate Chris Dodd for bribery when he said some pretty stupid things on television because he was butthurt for his Big Content masters.
What about opposing SOPA? Some tech giants got together and a huge amount of Americans got up and screamed against it!
The American People are not who you need to place your anger with. We are powerless victims here either through apathy or the naivete that we can actually be involved in the political process. In other words, we are being played from multiple angles and we are having a very hard time fighting back.
As much as you don't want "our" copyright laws shoved down your throat, we don't want them to apply to us either.
Your anger needs to be placed very specifically on those running America into the shitter. Please don't sully the name America by including them in it.
What do you need the other hand for? Grabbing your partner's cock?
A strange inference from my post. Let me try do the same with your post.
You cannot understand what a 2nd hand could be used for, and your seemingly first thought is that it must be used for another man's cock.
There are several possibilities that are floating around in my head right now and let me take a whack at drawing inferences from your post as well.....
1) You are dealing with latent homosexual urges as evidenced by your apparent obsession with grabbing another man's cock.
2) You don't often have partners, because if you did, you would realize that there are 4 hands present and several orifices with the additional person. Cirque Du Soleil abilities aside, your own orifices are irrelevant. Only a single hand is required from either party to work the remote/mouse.
3) You are prepubescent and/or possessing of a small penis. Therefore it would never occur to you that an additional hand might be useful or desired.
4) You have at least one unusually large hand, and again, it would never occur to you that an additional hand would be needed.
Living in the post Atomic Age might cause one to conclude #4 to be correct, but statistically speaking, such mutations are very rare. #2 is certainly possible because this is Slashdot with the ever present stereotype that we are all in our mother's basements awaiting the delivery of Hot Pockets and Mountain Dew. #2 is also possible because the lack of logic and creativity with some people here never ceases to surprise me. #1 could be due to simple anonymous asshole syndrome, which is best explained by the Penny Arcade's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Hmmmmm.....
I will have to go with #3. You must have a tiny little penis. Do not lament your tiny penis my anonymous friend, because it is not the size that matters but how well you can convince somebody other than yourself to touch it.
These parting words I offer you as comfort.
LMAO.
Sorry for the late reply. I had to spend a couple of days laughing over you and "Numpty Boy". It's just funny to say. I love it.
I hope you're feeling mortified now, but frankly I really doubt it. It would require too much brainpower.
Noooo... being mortified in the fashion you suggest requires one to be British. Your doubts are well founded as I am not British, and therefore, cannot be mortified. I guess your premise is correct though, as ignorance and shame are probably mutually exclusive.
You know, the thing you are commenting on in such a spectacularly stupid fashion?
Spectacularly? Really? Funny we were having civil discourse (relatively I guess) before you had to bring out the multi-comment insult missiles.
I will admit to being impressive on many an occasion, this is true, I cannot deny it, it is my cross to bear. Lavish? Dramatic? Unduly lengthy? Didn't seem so at the time.....
Back to the business at hand and the generous amusement you have provided me...
The link is to the official website of the Leveson Inquiry.........I think it would be reasonable to assume that if Mr Justice Leveson calls it an inquiry, that's how it should be referred to.
So we are justified calling another Numpty Boy, spectacularly stupid, and phenomenally stupid for daring to challenge a Lord Justice of the British Empire? Are you going to just leave this with your fallacious appeal to authority, aka Argumentum ad Verecundiam, or are you going to provide actual etymology of the words and state your case with the intelligence you find so lacking in the rest of your society?
Assuming you are British, I would think you would be the one mortified now...... if not, I blame ignorance on your part.
Of course being American I can understand the fallacious appeal to authority. After all, look who we elected President for 8 years and how many of us blindly believed everything he said? I just find it strange you giving so much intellectual authority to a British Lord Justice of all people.
By all means, if Justice Leveson says it, it must simply be correct. I mean he is a Lord Justice right? No we need look no further than that. We can dump the rest of history like a Sheriff's sale, and when future generations inquire about the correct usage of the word and its history we will just refer them to the Great Lord Justice Sir Brian Henry Leveson. He used the word, and redefined it for the rest of humanity in perpetuity.
I guess I must apologize now. It's not your fault. It's the 1000+ years your people have had to kiss the asses of Lords and other nobles like that, so no wonder you suffer so greatly from a common logical fallacy.
Cheers,
Numpty Boy.
today, someone sitting alone in the park making random jerky gestures would be someone on drugs, or insane
Uhhhhhhh, I think you forgot the 3rd option dude.
I'm excited too.
Something that might let me surf websites, go from links to links, control video playback, and have two hands free?
It's A Good Thing.
You know I was confused for a moment because I work with "challenged" people all the time, until I realized you might have meant physically challenged people.
Seriously though, how is extra resolution on the kinect sensor going to help physically challenged people? I know some people that have challenges like that and I don't see how extra resolution is going to help with recognizing their hand gestures. I would think that training the software would be far more effective and required because each challenged person is going to have different "quirks" to their movements that need to be learned.
Having that sensor alone as a standard on laptops going forward, regardless of resolutions, seems to open the doors for software to help all sorts of people interact with their computers more effectively and easily.
Of course, ironically, one of the last articles had a poster with ALS being lambasted because he did not take the time to cut and paste from his blog instead of just linking to it. The Jerk! I know right? Would extra resolution help with somebody like Stephen Hawking to recognize facial twitches reliably?
Hmmmm.... I like it.
I imagine that for extra irony you would have Darth Vader's Day Care as an added benefit for employees with children?
I think it is deeply ironic and hilarious that you think he is speaking like Yoda and has been modded troll.
In this case Yoda is making less sense than usual, and I have absolutely no idea what he could be trolling for.
Should I be offended?
I think there should be a +5 Perplexed instead.
It might not be as "clean" in terms of being a pure xray laser..(electrons bumped out of the containing vessel by the uv photons would be snatched up by the very electron hungry neon ions, releasing other species of photon.) But it would be easier to assemble.
I have this image in my head.....
Crazy Karlov's Weapon Emporium
Karlov - "Why go to all the expense of purchase of commercial Death Ray? For just a fraction of price I build for you economical Death Ray from used weapons lab parts sold at auction by my cousin Mikhail. Ehhh, 70% powerful as those really expensive "military grade" models. Might leak some radiation and possibly explode, but nobody lives forever right!? Besides, one fried asshole smells like another fried asshole. I sweeten deal with some hand grenades and American cigarettes. Take home to kids. Of course, any weapon explodes, you get 50% of next purchase!"
Let's be fair.
If you played Doom without Godmode on, it was fairly hard. You had to spend some time doing it, and learn tactics. Not to mention a fair amount of luck.
I put Doom and Pac-Man into the class of games that are enjoyable because they are hard, and progressively harder. The first few levels of Pac-Man are easy enough, but much like a good strong Habanero sauce, the beginning is fine but you start to figure out that you may have made a mistake about it being easy.
A pleasure to see you again my liege. I am still most grateful for your correction of my unconsciable grammar and spelling last time.
I too lament how game players today have been turned into "whiny little pussies". I long for the days past when a kill screen was indicative of godhood.
There was great value in a game that was actually hard to play, and was progressively impossible to beat. The point of that game was the journey of suffering itself, not the end. Those that actually reached the end, the aforementioned kill screens, were granted immediate entrance into Valhalla and spoken of in legends.
I think the last game that I played that was actually hard might have been Doom or Doom II. To this day the sound of a Arch-Vile makes me twitch.
In fact, thinking about, the harder a game is, and the more I have to constantly replay levels to achieve perfection, the more I enjoy it. Games these days seem to be more like interactive stories requiring a modicum of effort and designed with soft rubber corners so you don't trip along the way.
Personally, I think it all went downhill the moment you had a save game state. The unrelenting suffering of being so close to finishing and seeing that start screen, and to keep coming back, was in my opinion, a rite of manhood in my day. It separated the boys from the men.
most versions of tetris use pure randomizers, faggot.
LMAO.
How can you get so emotionally involved in an algorithm used in a 20+ year old game? It's a game man. You think he is wrong about the algorithm so it is cause to call him a faggot?
You AC's crack me up sometimes. Faggot!
If the waiter brings you too much ice in your drink do you yell at him and call him a faggot too? I can hear Beavis and Butthead in the background telling you, "That was uncalled for dude".
First off, Microsoft can go fuck themselves. I have not bought a PS3, and my XBOX360 came second-hand to me and is now hacked.
Lately, I won't even purchase a device if I have to spend more than a super trivial amount of effort to load a custom firmware on it to let me do what I want with my own hardware. That was pretty much why I fell in love with Microsoft smart phones about 10 years ago. I could go on XDA-Developers and get the tools to cook my own firmware with my basic programs installed already.
Secondly, and you have really really missed the point here, is that... IT IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT IF IT IS BAD FOR THE INDUSTRY .
Forgive me for my passions, but fuck them. They are not entitled to profit under all situations and the First Sale Doctrine is sacrosanct.
Seriously. Fuck them. This was the course of events:
1) Somebody purchased the copyrighted work directly from the publisher.
2) At the point of sale, the publisher was compensated.
3) Physical medium was transferred along with the legal entitlements granted by copyright when the copyrighted work was given away freely, or sold for 1/100th of a percent of its original value.
4) The original publisher is not relevant to the second transaction because they were already compensated.
That's it.
The "industry" can bitch, whine, and moan like little three year old children about how they are not getting a slice of every used sale. What they cannot do, is make any kind of argument, with a correct legal, ethical, or moral foundation, that used sales is wrong.
They cannot stop us from used game sales. Period.
Coming into my home, living inside the XBOX 720 firmware, and having the unmitigated gall to tell me that I cannot play a second-hand game (in some cases given away freely by a friend) on a console I rightly purchased.
I'm sorry, but your post is infuriating. Their bottom line takes a back seat to ethics every single time.
P.S - There is PLENTY of PRECEDENCE. First Sale Doctrine has been argued to death and the Auto Industry got their asses handed to them by trying to destroy the after market industry in favor of keeping only their brand of parts in a car. There should be no difference with hardware and software, logically or ethically.
Err, I'm a finn myself, so I may be perverted in some puritan point of view, but yes, it's vanilla sex in my book. It's straight up vaginal penetration from front/back with a person who has accepted to have sex with you.
Accepted? As opposed to....?
Sounds like you might be reaching back to the ol' Viking roots there.
What exactly is vanilla sex in your book if not that?
Well I guess your description might be considered vanilla sex. Everybody's threshold is different apparently. I prefer French vanilla sex with cherries and copious amounts of chocolate sauce. Like I said, YMMV.
Questions.....
1) You state that fucking a chick, falling asleep, and fucking her again in the morning while she is still asleep is vanilla Nordic sex at best.
What is kinky Nordic sex? Please be detailed with your answer. I saw a picture of a couple hundred Nordic blondes in hot water pool or something. My penis has a vested interest in the answer.
2) Kinky Aussie Sex and lack of police reports.
Does this mean that all instances of Kinky Aussie sex involve police reports?
You guys have it all backwards.
Neither the US embassies, or the US govt is the MPAA's bitches. There is lobbying (read corruption) at play certainly with Senators, which generally as a rule, tend to be complete whores. You tell them this is the dick (the law written by the lobbyists), and to suck it (make it the law), the only thing they ask, "What do I get paid?". Senators do this because it is how they hold on to power, and enjoy the benefits that their positions provide.
One of the reasons why all the branches of government seem to be so willing to cooperate with the MAFIAA is that Intellectual Property and the economic considerations surrounding it are excellent means to camouflage a darker purpose:
More power and tools to the Intelligence Community.
Check out the members of the Intelligence Committee, both former and active. Most are supporters of SOPA, I think only a few have switched sides, and the most "vocal" opponent on the Intelligence Committee is Wyden. That Senator is just the Plan B with his own bill to accomplish the same thing.
Don't confuse a momentary alliance on the part of the US Govt as them being bitches. Government are made up of people, and these people only do what is in their best interests, which often coincide with the interests of the groups they are representing. Whether it be Big Pharma, Military-Industrial Complex, etc.
It has been in the best interests since even before the Cold War began for America to be able to monitor its dissidents (as determined by those people) as closely as possible. See Hoover for references.
Laws disguised as protecting American jobs and the oh-so-poor artists coincidentally give the Intelligence Community a mandate to do even more by proxy then before, and with less legal resistance on the part of the technology sectors.
It's not a coincidence. A truly free Internet does nothing for the Intelligence Community, and they do in fact, see it as a threat.
Which is celebrated by exposing as much of our skins as is legal to it till it cries out in terror and reacts violently to the radiation.
Uhhhh... You're Dutch. I thought complete exposure was legal in your country. You could expose your taint if it were not so impractical physically speaking.
I'm not a complaint either. Well it is.. depending on which one of you is getting naked.
It may have been an awful film from a technical perspective... but that was one hell of an interview process.