I've honestly had problems with this as well, actually. I've never played any of the Civilization games (excuse me for a moment while I put on a flame-retardant suit.), but I have seen sequels that inexplicably remove a feature that worked fine in the previous game for apparently no reason. Games should *add* on to the existing framework, not take things away. The one exception, of course, is if the concept just won't fit in with the current game, but there are a lot of things that are flat out inexplicable.
Agreed. It's not the pot calling the kettle black. It's the pot accusing the kettle of disrupting the peace and endangering national security, spiriting them away in the night, and then arresting the teacup, saucer, and spoon for being associated with the dissident kettle.
Everything I need to know about China and the Internet was said when they arrested Ai Weiwei. Even if they release him, still - nobody currently knows where he is, they've had 50 police thoroughly comb through his house. All of this basically over a goddamned tweet.
That can definitely affect your situation. If I were in his place (I'm single and childfree right now), I would have kept the fight going (especially since people have donated money to a legal defense fund in my name). I would have appealed left and right until all avenues were exhausted. I wouldn't have thrown up the white flag so easily.
Yes, I realize that I may be coming across as an idealist - that if I were in the same situation, I may have given up. But you know what? My life - and damn near every other single person's life - is mundane as hell. What do I risk losing? A couple years of my life in prison? All of my assets, possessions, and money? Then I'll get out of jail and crash on couches to rebuild my life. Some things are more important than possessions. I'll absolutely go to jail on principle.
I seem to recall Nintendo's owner manuals all having a disclaimer stating that making backup copies of games (which would be no different than downloading them) was illegal. I don't know if something like that has ever been tested in court, though, i.e. someone illegaly downloads a game/movie/song, gets busted, and gets off the charges because he has proof of owning it.
Disclaimer: all of the following linked pictures showcase absolutely no nudity; however, you probably wouldn't want to have someone looking over your shoulder when you open them regardless.
Since the Zero Suit. Compare to this. (As an aside, it is damn hard to find a SFW picture of a woman in a catsuit... probably more about my search parameters than anything.
Hell, even in the NES era - the first friggin' game! - they had her running around in a one piece.
The judge's point seems to be the following: you want to back out of the deal because you believe that the shares you were given as part of the settlement were not valued as highly as originally stated. However, those shares are worth a lot of money though, so things have worked out pretty peachy keen for you guys. Please stop wasting any more of the court's time.
<sarcasm>Because if you haven't memorized every little obscure fact and can recite it from memory with ease 20 years later, then clearly you've cheated and don't deserve your degree.</sarcasm>
Honestly, I always hated "show your work" as a concept. So long as a student can reliably come to the correct answer without cheating, that's good enough. I imagine some people might argue that the methodology used is just as important as coming to the right conclusion, but wouldn't the fact that you can consistently come to the right conclusion mean that the methodology is sound (or, at the worst, an incredible statistical fluke?)
3 my ISP. No caps. My home device is where I get my content from any location.
Your ISP almost certainly has caps; they just don't talk about them very much. Seed a terabyte or so (bandwidth-wise) of Linux ISOs for a month (as a safe test that won't get you into legal hot water) and see if you can maintain your speeds at all hours with no problems. If you can, then you're very fortunate and I wish I could get an ISP like yours in my home state of New Jersey.
Well then everybody would be mad about losing their accounts. To undo the damage they've done to this website, they'd have to format the hard drives and the backups, take the server racks out to the desert, and bury them in the landfill next to all of those copies of E.T.
Honestly I can't wrap my head around it. I was a child of the internet age and spent my formative years on IRC but I still know how to carry on a face to face conservation. I still understand the importance of eye contact and body language to human communication. How the hell do people make it to their late 20s/early 30s without learning these skills?
Faceless friends in a WoW Guild or IRC chatroom are far more appealing to someone who's had to deal with people in meatspace treating them like shit. At least with Internets friends, they can be ignored, blocked, or altogether avoided at the click of a mouse.
There are lots of things Perfect Dark did right that I miss in modern games, like interesting weapons and a main female character who didn't dress like a whore.
I would actually like a tablet that I could use to draw and write with. I have reams of paper and stacks of notebooks that I'd like organized digitally, but the iPad doesn't seem up to snuff. I'd like to go with a convertible tablet, but most of them don't have that great of a touch screen. I'm still waiting for the right device to come along at the right price point.
Hm, good point. The recipients didn't do anything illegal. However, ultimately the only harm to them would be the minor annoyance and the fees from the SMS message.
That being the case, though, the recipients could end up forming a class action (IANAL), which could turn, say, 1,000 people pirating the program and suing into 10,000 or even 100,000.
Despite the fact that my comments elsewhere in this thread may seem contrary to this fact, I (mostly) agree with you. I've done various martial arts for ten years; one of the major principles you're taught is that the best fights are the ones you never have.
On the other hand, there's also the sanctity of your home to worry about.
I'd definitely prefer to detain someone over shooting them, but if I can clearly see a firearm I'll drop them right then and there. That extra second of warning them to stop could end up having a bullet fly through your house and hit you or someone else. (And to cut off the potential obvious comment, I wouldn't shoot the damn thing if hurting anyone besides my intended target were a possibility.)
I live in New Jersey. New Jersey has some of the most overbearing gun laws in the United States and I hate them for it, but unfortunately I don't really have anywhere else to go right now. I'm well aware of Castle Doctrine and I really, really wish we had it here. Gun laws are getting better (thankfully!) and I am very hopeful one day I'll be able to exercise my rights the same way that most of the other states in this country can.
One of my most defining experiences towards a self-defense mindset was what happened to one of my best friends. He was robbed at gunpoint by four men and then shot just below the knee for kicks. He sat in the street screaming (and, for some reason, laughing) for a good five minutes while he waited for an ambulance to get there. I don't think the perpetrators were ever caught.
I'm one of those people who's stupid about things like principle. If I were in the same situation and armed, I'd probably rather die taking some of them with me than rely on their goodwill (they're robbing me!) to not harm me. If someone broke into my house and I had access to a gun, I'd probably shoot them in the leg. However, if they were visibly armed with a firearm, I'd keep shooting until they drop. And in my backwards state, I'd probably go to jail for that, and I'd be fine with it. Better to be in jail then dead.
Look up the term "Castle Doctrine" sometime. I can indeed shoot someone in the back if they're rifling through my house if I'm in a state that supports such laws. (Sadly, I'm not.)
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I've honestly had problems with this as well, actually. I've never played any of the Civilization games (excuse me for a moment while I put on a flame-retardant suit.), but I have seen sequels that inexplicably remove a feature that worked fine in the previous game for apparently no reason. Games should *add* on to the existing framework, not take things away. The one exception, of course, is if the concept just won't fit in with the current game, but there are a lot of things that are flat out inexplicable.
Agreed. It's not the pot calling the kettle black. It's the pot accusing the kettle of disrupting the peace and endangering national security, spiriting them away in the night, and then arresting the teacup, saucer, and spoon for being associated with the dissident kettle.
Everything I need to know about China and the Internet was said when they arrested Ai Weiwei. Even if they release him, still - nobody currently knows where he is, they've had 50 police thoroughly comb through his house. All of this basically over a goddamned tweet.
Does Geohot have a family?
That can definitely affect your situation. If I were in his place (I'm single and childfree right now), I would have kept the fight going (especially since people have donated money to a legal defense fund in my name). I would have appealed left and right until all avenues were exhausted. I wouldn't have thrown up the white flag so easily.
Yes, I realize that I may be coming across as an idealist - that if I were in the same situation, I may have given up. But you know what? My life - and damn near every other single person's life - is mundane as hell. What do I risk losing? A couple years of my life in prison? All of my assets, possessions, and money? Then I'll get out of jail and crash on couches to rebuild my life. Some things are more important than possessions. I'll absolutely go to jail on principle.
I seem to recall Nintendo's owner manuals all having a disclaimer stating that making backup copies of games (which would be no different than downloading them) was illegal. I don't know if something like that has ever been tested in court, though, i.e. someone illegaly downloads a game/movie/song, gets busted, and gets off the charges because he has proof of owning it.
I wonder if there's a People's Choice Award equivalent for the Grammy Awards.
Hacking is the same thing - leveraging how a piece of software or hardware behaves to achieve your goal.
Disclaimer: all of the following linked pictures showcase absolutely no nudity; however, you probably wouldn't want to have someone looking over your shoulder when you open them regardless.
Since the Zero Suit. Compare to this. (As an aside, it is damn hard to find a SFW picture of a woman in a catsuit... probably more about my search parameters than anything.
Hell, even in the NES era - the first friggin' game! - they had her running around in a one piece.
The judge's point seems to be the following: you want to back out of the deal because you believe that the shares you were given as part of the settlement were not valued as highly as originally stated. However, those shares are worth a lot of money though, so things have worked out pretty peachy keen for you guys. Please stop wasting any more of the court's time.
<sarcasm>Because if you haven't memorized every little obscure fact and can recite it from memory with ease 20 years later, then clearly you've cheated and don't deserve your degree.</sarcasm>
Honestly, I always hated "show your work" as a concept. So long as a student can reliably come to the correct answer without cheating, that's good enough. I imagine some people might argue that the methodology used is just as important as coming to the right conclusion, but wouldn't the fact that you can consistently come to the right conclusion mean that the methodology is sound (or, at the worst, an incredible statistical fluke?)
3 my ISP. No caps. My home device is where I get my content from any location.
Your ISP almost certainly has caps; they just don't talk about them very much. Seed a terabyte or so (bandwidth-wise) of Linux ISOs for a month (as a safe test that won't get you into legal hot water) and see if you can maintain your speeds at all hours with no problems. If you can, then you're very fortunate and I wish I could get an ISP like yours in my home state of New Jersey.
Social engineering is modifying society to do what you want it to, just like, say, getting an Xbox to play a copied game.
A country could have a GDP of a million bucks and you're still gonna have poor people.
Well then everybody would be mad about losing their accounts. To undo the damage they've done to this website, they'd have to format the hard drives and the backups, take the server racks out to the desert, and bury them in the landfill next to all of those copies of E.T.
It wasn't a structural failure, it was just a beta test of new convertible jets..
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That can't be right, Snooki was born in Chile.
Honestly I can't wrap my head around it. I was a child of the internet age and spent my formative years on IRC but I still know how to carry on a face to face conservation. I still understand the importance of eye contact and body language to human communication. How the hell do people make it to their late 20s/early 30s without learning these skills?
Faceless friends in a WoW Guild or IRC chatroom are far more appealing to someone who's had to deal with people in meatspace treating them like shit. At least with Internets friends, they can be ignored, blocked, or altogether avoided at the click of a mouse.
There are lots of things Perfect Dark did right that I miss in modern games, like interesting weapons and a main female character who didn't dress like a whore.
That sounds like something a pinko commie would say. Why do you hate America?
I would actually like a tablet that I could use to draw and write with. I have reams of paper and stacks of notebooks that I'd like organized digitally, but the iPad doesn't seem up to snuff. I'd like to go with a convertible tablet, but most of them don't have that great of a touch screen. I'm still waiting for the right device to come along at the right price point.
Touche, sir. Something to think about.
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Hm, good point. The recipients didn't do anything illegal. However, ultimately the only harm to them would be the minor annoyance and the fees from the SMS message.
That being the case, though, the recipients could end up forming a class action (IANAL), which could turn, say, 1,000 people pirating the program and suing into 10,000 or even 100,000.
Despite the fact that my comments elsewhere in this thread may seem contrary to this fact, I (mostly) agree with you. I've done various martial arts for ten years; one of the major principles you're taught is that the best fights are the ones you never have.
On the other hand, there's also the sanctity of your home to worry about.
I'd definitely prefer to detain someone over shooting them, but if I can clearly see a firearm I'll drop them right then and there. That extra second of warning them to stop could end up having a bullet fly through your house and hit you or someone else. (And to cut off the potential obvious comment, I wouldn't shoot the damn thing if hurting anyone besides my intended target were a possibility.)
I live in New Jersey. New Jersey has some of the most overbearing gun laws in the United States and I hate them for it, but unfortunately I don't really have anywhere else to go right now. I'm well aware of Castle Doctrine and I really, really wish we had it here. Gun laws are getting better (thankfully!) and I am very hopeful one day I'll be able to exercise my rights the same way that most of the other states in this country can.
One of my most defining experiences towards a self-defense mindset was what happened to one of my best friends. He was robbed at gunpoint by four men and then shot just below the knee for kicks. He sat in the street screaming (and, for some reason, laughing) for a good five minutes while he waited for an ambulance to get there. I don't think the perpetrators were ever caught.
I'm one of those people who's stupid about things like principle. If I were in the same situation and armed, I'd probably rather die taking some of them with me than rely on their goodwill (they're robbing me!) to not harm me. If someone broke into my house and I had access to a gun, I'd probably shoot them in the leg. However, if they were visibly armed with a firearm, I'd keep shooting until they drop. And in my backwards state, I'd probably go to jail for that, and I'd be fine with it. Better to be in jail then dead.
Look up the term "Castle Doctrine" sometime. I can indeed shoot someone in the back if they're rifling through my house if I'm in a state that supports such laws. (Sadly, I'm not.)