I wouldn't call the absolute dictatorial rule of a hereditary autocrat a "weak central government" and I wouldn't call systematic pillage "low taxes", and setting people up in a life of privilege because they're born better than the common man is not a libertarian ideal.
So yes, my original comment stands.
I don't really have any links on their process, but I have a friend who worked on Skyrim.
Broadly, different designers get to come up with their own ideas, and as a group they decide which to include. Once something is in, it sounded to me like a single writer/designer has a great deal of creative control over the particular quest lines they work on.
Oh yeah, I believe that. I've been in several car crashes over the years. That one was both the slowest and the only one I wasn't able to immediately walk away from.
Probably the worst was colliding with a rock wall in a Geo Metro nearly head on at about 45 mph. The car bounced back into the road, rolled a couple of times, and was completely totaled. But both me and driver were able to walk away.
Only injury was to the driver, which was cuts on his hand from punching through the windshield in anger over having just totaled his mom's new car.
I've never been able to understand people who don't wear their seat belt.
Even at 25 mph, a head on collision is not something that you just jump up and say "I'm fine", especially when you're not wearing your seat belt.
As a corroborating anecdote, I was once knocked unconscious riding in the back seat of car when it hit a telephone pole traveling ~30 mph, while wearing a seat belt.
I have never been involved in a head-on collision at any speed, nor would I like to be.
Businesses are supposed to benefit society. Sure, their (as in the people behind the businesses) individual motivations may be to profit, but that does not mean they can or should do whatever they want. Some things are clearly immoral and we should not tolerate it.
I agree, but I hope you're not suggesting that this is the immoral, intolerable thing that the people behind the Sony corporation are guilty of.
I could easily imagine that Microosoft's QC is more focused on "does this damage our hardware/OS/reputation" than "does this do what the game designer intended".
One thing Mass Effect has going for it is that unlike in a Final Fantasy game, the player drives the cut scenes. The interactive conversations were really what did it for me. They finally managed to create a real role playing game on the computer (or xbox or whatever).
So many CRPGs seem to think "role playing" means "stat advancement", and ME (and even more ME2) threw that out the window in favor of defining who Shepard really was.
Excuse me, but if that were true, people would mainly be pirating older things. And although lifetime + 70 years is absurd, it may take an artist/writer/musician/coder/whatever more than 20 years to build a career. Why should they all have to write off their initial investment?
Because the alternative is the system we have now.
Ships full of water - multiply the difficulties to escape the gravity well by about 1000.
Perhaps these hypothetical aliens captured a comet, send their ships into orbit unmanned, and then thaw the comet's water, adding it to their ships in an environment of minimal gravity.
Or perhaps they're massively technologically advanced, and they have technology to defy gravity, so getting tons of water into orbit is trivial.
If that's the case, it seems like the petition in question is a very poor way to go about it.
A constitutional amendment is a non-starter. It's an incredibly difficult thing to do in any political climate, the president has no political authority to facilitate that process, and there is already a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from censoring the internet. If they can't be bothered to follow that one, what good does anyone expect from another one?
A more reasonable request would be to ask Obama to veto those bills, or at least publicly advocate against their excesses, which would achieve either goal more effectively.
By signing this petition, you are demanding the Obama Administration to add an amendment to the Constitution that limits the power of the Government from being able to censor the Internet.
Even if someone somehow got the impression that the Obama administration did not fully support the pro-copyright laws mentioned in the petition, the president cannot simply "add an amendment" to the constitution. The process by which amendments are added to the constitution is specified in Article V. Here it is so you don't have to bother looking it up:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Note that the president has no official role in the process.
Secondly: sorry folks, Obama is not your guy in this one, even if he could amend the constitution. Frankly, I'd very surprised to see anti-corporate-copyright opinion taken seriously by any presidential administration in my lifetime. You don't get to be in that position by making an enemy of Big Media.
In fact, it would appear you're being racist, in your implication that the Neanderthal race is inherently worse than other races... on the basis of what, cranial volume of a few fossils?
On the basis that they're extinct.
If TFA is correct then neanderthals live on in all of us who are not of pure sub-Saharan African descent.
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...or they can just do like we do on earth and drill for water, oil and gas. The planets are all made of the same stuff, so it should all be there.
There's no oil on the moon. Oil comes from ancient biomass. There was never life on the moon, thus there is no oil now.
I wouldn't call the absolute dictatorial rule of a hereditary autocrat a "weak central government" and I wouldn't call systematic pillage "low taxes", and setting people up in a life of privilege because they're born better than the common man is not a libertarian ideal. So yes, my original comment stands.
You seem to have a gross misunderstanding of libertarians.
Canonical has lost all respect from me by passing on the opportunity to call their release "Pretty Pony".
Some people just have no class.
I don't really have any links on their process, but I have a friend who worked on Skyrim.
Broadly, different designers get to come up with their own ideas, and as a group they decide which to include. Once something is in, it sounded to me like a single writer/designer has a great deal of creative control over the particular quest lines they work on.
There's a great, ongoing hypertext literature site here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/
Oh yeah, I believe that. I've been in several car crashes over the years. That one was both the slowest and the only one I wasn't able to immediately walk away from.
Probably the worst was colliding with a rock wall in a Geo Metro nearly head on at about 45 mph. The car bounced back into the road, rolled a couple of times, and was completely totaled. But both me and driver were able to walk away.
Only injury was to the driver, which was cuts on his hand from punching through the windshield in anger over having just totaled his mom's new car.
I've never been able to understand people who don't wear their seat belt.
Apparently Lucas is working on the screenplay to #5.
George Lucas is worse than a common mugger.
At least the mugger has the decency to take your money once and leave you alone.
Hell no! What a steaming pile that thing was. Makes ... the Star Wars prequals ... seem good by comparison, which isn't easy.
Let's not get all crazy here.
Even at 25 mph, a head on collision is not something that you just jump up and say "I'm fine", especially when you're not wearing your seat belt.
As a corroborating anecdote, I was once knocked unconscious riding in the back seat of car when it hit a telephone pole traveling ~30 mph, while wearing a seat belt.
I have never been involved in a head-on collision at any speed, nor would I like to be.
Businesses are supposed to benefit society. Sure, their (as in the people behind the businesses) individual motivations may be to profit, but that does not mean they can or should do whatever they want. Some things are clearly immoral and we should not tolerate it.
I agree, but I hope you're not suggesting that this is the immoral, intolerable thing that the people behind the Sony corporation are guilty of.
In poor taste? Very much so.
Immoral? Intolerable? Meh. Not so much.
I could easily imagine that Microosoft's QC is more focused on "does this damage our hardware/OS/reputation" than "does this do what the game designer intended".
One thing Mass Effect has going for it is that unlike in a Final Fantasy game, the player drives the cut scenes. The interactive conversations were really what did it for me. They finally managed to create a real role playing game on the computer (or xbox or whatever).
So many CRPGs seem to think "role playing" means "stat advancement", and ME (and even more ME2) threw that out the window in favor of defining who Shepard really was.
Excuse me, but if that were true, people would mainly be pirating older things. And although lifetime + 70 years is absurd, it may take an artist/writer/musician/coder/whatever more than 20 years to build a career. Why should they all have to write off their initial investment?
Because the alternative is the system we have now.
Oooooooh.
Yes, now I remember. Thanks. I wish I hadn't required the explanation.
I feel like there must be something to your comment, and I wish I'd seen that movie recently enough to remember anything about it.
[Note: This post is utterly sincere. I have seen that movie, but probably not within the last 20 years, so I have no idea what the context is.]
Ships full of water - multiply the difficulties to escape the gravity well by about 1000.
Perhaps these hypothetical aliens captured a comet, send their ships into orbit unmanned, and then thaw the comet's water, adding it to their ships in an environment of minimal gravity.
Or perhaps they're massively technologically advanced, and they have technology to defy gravity, so getting tons of water into orbit is trivial.
Hunt and peck? That would be an improvement. I've known several "creative" types who refused to touch a 2 button mouse.
Part of this is solvable by making voting compulsory.
Or what? Throw people in jail?
Support a corrupt Republican, support a corrupt Democrat, or a rot in a prison cell. Sounds like an awesome deal to me.
I have a lot of other stuff to do (like my 100 hour work weeks) ...
You have a shitty job.
If that's the case, it seems like the petition in question is a very poor way to go about it.
A constitutional amendment is a non-starter. It's an incredibly difficult thing to do in any political climate, the president has no political authority to facilitate that process, and there is already a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from censoring the internet. If they can't be bothered to follow that one, what good does anyone expect from another one?
A more reasonable request would be to ask Obama to veto those bills, or at least publicly advocate against their excesses, which would achieve either goal more effectively.
By signing this petition, you are demanding the Obama Administration to add an amendment to the Constitution that limits the power of the Government from being able to censor the Internet.
Even if someone somehow got the impression that the Obama administration did not fully support the pro-copyright laws mentioned in the petition, the president cannot simply "add an amendment" to the constitution. The process by which amendments are added to the constitution is specified in Article V. Here it is so you don't have to bother looking it up:
Note that the president has no official role in the process.
Secondly: sorry folks, Obama is not your guy in this one, even if he could amend the constitution. Frankly, I'd very surprised to see anti-corporate-copyright opinion taken seriously by any presidential administration in my lifetime. You don't get to be in that position by making an enemy of Big Media.
The previous poster had claimed that the poster he was replying to was an ass for placing the blame on GM. I was highlighting that OnStar *is* GM.
I object to the socializing private losses with public money, but that wasn't the point of my post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar
First sentence: "OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors Which is owned 27% by the U.S. government and 12% by the Canadian government."
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Indeed.
In fact, it would appear you're being racist, in your implication that the Neanderthal race is inherently worse than other races... on the basis of what, cranial volume of a few fossils?
On the basis that they're extinct.
If TFA is correct then neanderthals live on in all of us who are not of pure sub-Saharan African descent.