At first glance of your post I thought it said cleric. I can see how a meat eating cleric would contrast to a grain eating druid. Hairy legs for the win, though.
"If a PRIVATE COMPANY doesn't want to host your content, they do not have to"
But that selfsame PRIVATE COMPANY must bear the consequences of their choice in the PUBLIC OPINION.
No, there's only one sun. There are lots of stars though, and we eventually figured out that the sun was one of them.
Look up "sun" in a dictionary and you might see a note that it is often capitalized, but it doesn't have to be, moreover it is itself never referred to as sun, it is always "the sun".
I'm deliberately splitting hairs, here, which is exactly what one must do evaluating law. The actual meaning of the word good is a physical object. Theft is the act of taking an actual physical object from its lawful owner.
Just because you and are able to understand each other speaking about virtual objects and virtual actions using the same words we use to describe actual objects and physical actions, does not make them into them. But it's an analogy only. In actual fact what is happening here is the manipulation of a computer to alter databases, where said manipulation happens to result in spatial renderings of images that mimic physical processes. Charging with theft in a legal sense would be just as incorrect as charging with robbery if the criminal's avatar held a virtual gun. But the charge of fraud is entirely consistent... fraud has nothing whatever to do with physicality.
I will repeat. There was NO good that was taken. There was no theft. Theft is not the right word for the crime that occurred, and a law against theft cannot be reasonably applied. Now, it may be in the Netherlands' legal system that the same laws which criminalize theft also criminalize what happened... I am not a Dutch a lawyer, couldn't say. But even if they did, describing this as theft, in the English language, is mistaken. Good enough perhaps for casual conversation and rapid communication, but not for actually thinking about the law.
It's not theft... more like fraud.
Money was not exchanged for goods. You can hold goods.
Virtual property cannot be a good. Rather, it seems
that a service, namely, the service of modelling and
displaying virtual furniture in the Habbo environment,
was exchanged for money.
The imposter lied by representing himself as the
owner of the account and placing an order, through
whatever control system manipulates virtual objects
there, that said service be transferred to another
party, thus depriving the purchaser of the service.
Hence fraud.
You realize of course that Sherlock Holmes was only such a keen investigator because he was written that way, and not because anything about him or his attitudes are necessarily effective, right?
Now, I do not speak any form of Chinese, but I have read a damn lot of Engrish. Especially given the surrounding statements, this sounds like he's talking about computerizing the army. Just because the word IT is mentioned doesn't make it cyberwarfare. My impression of his remarks as quoted in the article is that he wants Chinese soldiers to have similar capabilties as US forces are.
There's just too little information, the terms are NOT the standard english phrases that would be used to describe it, so I suspect a bad translation and assumptions went into making this article. I would want a tranlator WELL fluent in both Enlgish and Chinese to affirm that the Chinese words here translated as "IT based warfare" meant "cyberwarefare" and not "computer assisted soldiering".
Agreed, but with corporations, never be sure that's what's going on simply because of the spin they put on the reason. This could as easily be PR speak for "the project was FUBAR the moment it began, no one knows what they are doing and we don't even have something we could PRETEND might be worth selling", as be PR speak for "we really care about making a good game.
I have rarely read anything this unpersuasive. TFA is basically a "Ender's Game" hard on of some sort.
I found this quote to particularly stand out.
"Future leaders will naturally be more collaborative and more willing to make decisions than many of today's managers. This willingness to share authority, to make decisions collaboratively and to assign the person most suited to any given task is what games teach."
If the author had logged on for a session of Team Fortress 2 on any public server, he'd realize he's just dreaming. Computer games are not really teaching these skills more strongly than the games of our ancestors. They're just new is all.
Oh, we learnt them English. Learnt em real Old School. Then they came back and we learnt em agin. The Canucks'll say different, but its all sour grapes on their part. Ayup.
Carrier lock in is by definition an unfree market.
You're thinking of an unregulated market and confusing that with a free market, and then in your mind, thinking that the benefical efficiencies of a free market come from an unregulated one.
They didn't buy it in Thailand, they ordered online from a Thai merchant that makes international sales, and they didn't know it was region locked. Go to Fatwallet and read the forum discussion. Kind of funny to see their first their excitement and then agony unfold, actually.
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The entire soundtrack of Outlaws is outstanding, I play it to this day. And since it comes on the game discs as CD music, it's darn easy!
Just don't ever fire a lasgun at it.
He also wouldn't have a Curriculum Vitae.
At first glance of your post I thought it said cleric. I can see how a meat eating cleric would contrast to a grain eating druid. Hairy legs for the win, though.
"If a PRIVATE COMPANY doesn't want to host your content, they do not have to" But that selfsame PRIVATE COMPANY must bear the consequences of their choice in the PUBLIC OPINION.
No, there's only one sun. There are lots of stars though, and we eventually figured out that the sun was one of them.
Look up "sun" in a dictionary and you might see a note that it is often capitalized, but it doesn't have to be, moreover it is itself never referred to as sun, it is always "the sun".
I would say it looks like phishing was done to get the information needed to defraud. Two criminal acts, woohoo!
I'm deliberately splitting hairs, here, which is exactly what one must do evaluating law. The actual meaning of the word good is a physical object. Theft is the act of taking an actual physical object from its lawful owner. Just because you and are able to understand each other speaking about virtual objects and virtual actions using the same words we use to describe actual objects and physical actions, does not make them into them. But it's an analogy only. In actual fact what is happening here is the manipulation of a computer to alter databases, where said manipulation happens to result in spatial renderings of images that mimic physical processes. Charging with theft in a legal sense would be just as incorrect as charging with robbery if the criminal's avatar held a virtual gun. But the charge of fraud is entirely consistent... fraud has nothing whatever to do with physicality. I will repeat. There was NO good that was taken. There was no theft. Theft is not the right word for the crime that occurred, and a law against theft cannot be reasonably applied. Now, it may be in the Netherlands' legal system that the same laws which criminalize theft also criminalize what happened... I am not a Dutch a lawyer, couldn't say. But even if they did, describing this as theft, in the English language, is mistaken. Good enough perhaps for casual conversation and rapid communication, but not for actually thinking about the law.
It's not theft... more like fraud. Money was not exchanged for goods. You can hold goods. Virtual property cannot be a good. Rather, it seems that a service, namely, the service of modelling and displaying virtual furniture in the Habbo environment, was exchanged for money. The imposter lied by representing himself as the owner of the account and placing an order, through whatever control system manipulates virtual objects there, that said service be transferred to another party, thus depriving the purchaser of the service. Hence fraud.
Can't believe I blew my own joke. Correction: Arrr, aye! Eh, Eh?
No... Arrr, aye! Aye, eh?
This incident just goes to show that the greatest security threat to your computer is ANYONE YOU LET HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
Don't forget shooting rhinos from a helicopter
Thanks for mentioning that. I had begun to wonder what Cheney's been up to all this time since he dropped out of the news.
The man over-reacted a tidge when someone took his red stapler.
You realize of course that Sherlock Holmes was only such a keen investigator because he was written that way, and not because anything about him or his attitudes are necessarily effective, right?
Now, I do not speak any form of Chinese, but I have read a damn lot of Engrish. Especially given the surrounding statements, this sounds like he's talking about computerizing the army. Just because the word IT is mentioned doesn't make it cyberwarfare. My impression of his remarks as quoted in the article is that he wants Chinese soldiers to have similar capabilties as US forces are. There's just too little information, the terms are NOT the standard english phrases that would be used to describe it, so I suspect a bad translation and assumptions went into making this article. I would want a tranlator WELL fluent in both Enlgish and Chinese to affirm that the Chinese words here translated as "IT based warfare" meant "cyberwarefare" and not "computer assisted soldiering".
Agreed, but with corporations, never be sure that's what's going on simply because of the spin they put on the reason. This could as easily be PR speak for "the project was FUBAR the moment it began, no one knows what they are doing and we don't even have something we could PRETEND might be worth selling", as be PR speak for "we really care about making a good game.
I have rarely read anything this unpersuasive. TFA is basically a "Ender's Game" hard on of some sort. I found this quote to particularly stand out. "Future leaders will naturally be more collaborative and more willing to make decisions than many of today's managers. This willingness to share authority, to make decisions collaboratively and to assign the person most suited to any given task is what games teach." If the author had logged on for a session of Team Fortress 2 on any public server, he'd realize he's just dreaming. Computer games are not really teaching these skills more strongly than the games of our ancestors. They're just new is all.
Mayhap you're right.
Oh, we learnt them English. Learnt em real Old School. Then they came back and we learnt em agin. The Canucks'll say different, but its all sour grapes on their part. Ayup.
Carrier lock in is by definition an unfree market. You're thinking of an unregulated market and confusing that with a free market, and then in your mind, thinking that the benefical efficiencies of a free market come from an unregulated one.
I can't say exactly, but I think it may be best expressed by mentioning pantloads.
Have you tried just switching your language setting to one you know?
They didn't buy it in Thailand, they ordered online from a Thai merchant that makes international sales, and they didn't know it was region locked. Go to Fatwallet and read the forum discussion. Kind of funny to see their first their excitement and then agony unfold, actually.
As the internet enters AOL's event horizon, time slows down, so, it will seem like a long while before that process is complete.