Hey, I'm with you. The problem is the Pirate Party is by definition attempting to work within the system. Doing things that could turn the tide against them runs counter to their goal.
We're long past the time when we need a real enemy of the state to save us. That doesn't mean it's a good idea for somebody trying to do things the peaceful way to make themselves into a fake one.
That's completely irrelevant. We're talking about politics, here. Conflation is the order of the day. The Piratbyran have associated themselves with an organization that every government hates. Talking heads will brand them security risks, and their agenda will be completely torpedoed.
This is the most disingenuous horseshit I've ever read. A McDonald's employee could figure out that the big fish is trying to crowd out indie devs. It's the same way any other industry works.
It seems like people misinterpreted my previous statement. This is largely my fault, I worded it kind of poorly.
The guy who first responded to me said "No, what his boss meant was that after the company gives said boss a huge bonus for "cost savings"(read working his people into the ground while essentially adding no value of his own), there is no budget left." That's basically exactly what I meant, except that his assertion that putting pressure on him will make the boss reduce his bonus for the sake of the company is naively optimistic given what we know about how corporations work lately. This is especially true for any kind of IT, which many bosses give absolutely no crap about. If you make waves to get a raise, you're just as likely to be replaced by an idiot who does the job wrong but cheaper as any other outcome, because most of the company won't know the difference.
You don't seem to understand how modern "capitalism" works. When your boss said "we don't have the budget," he meant exactly that. If you push for more money, or even just ask, if they're really antsy, you'll be filing for unemployment.
...I seriously got modded troll for this? I'm sorry, I wasn't aware we'd been merged with bluesnews. I'll only say negative things about game companies when they're wrong from now on.
I give it two weeks before we start seeing junk all over the net, possibly even here, along the lines of "ACTA not as bad as previously thought" or "why ACTA could actually save OSS" or other completely ripe horseshit like that. Hopefully everyone is smart enough to realize that's just the shills outing themselves, but they won't be.
I see a whole lot of limitations-of-equipment oops here, and a significant amount of standard-procedure oops as well. So, the military tried to cover it up. The reason for this is fairly evident: they wish to protect the careers, reputations, and lives of good men who made a tragic mistake. So, there's a further PR oops. And of course, in the larger scheme of things, the fact that this happened at all is ultimately a failure-to-communicate oops, since the troops should've known the photographer and his crew were in that area.
And now, wikileaks has blown the cover up, and brass have reacted to it by being brass, which is always an oops.
Mind you, I am under no illusions that any judge will respect that if so, deep pockets always win. But I am nearly certain this is exactly what prior art means. Maybe not, I'm not an expert.
UCAVs are not at all autonomous. For the very reasons already mentioned, they basically can't be. They can autonomously fly around and look at things, but firing weapons requires somebody on the ground calling for a strike, and somebody in a shack somewhere actually making it. It's not as though a drone can actually see the face of any people its shooting at; how would it know that it has found somebody on The Dreaded List unless somebody on the ground first said "he's over there?" The legality of killing people with drones is thus basically identical to the legality of doing so from any other aircraft. Good luck stopping that.
All that really has to be done to solve 70% of the problems with the game industry is assassinating Bobby Kotick. Why won't somebody get on it already?
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Hey, I'm with you. The problem is the Pirate Party is by definition attempting to work within the system. Doing things that could turn the tide against them runs counter to their goal.
We're long past the time when we need a real enemy of the state to save us. That doesn't mean it's a good idea for somebody trying to do things the peaceful way to make themselves into a fake one.
>those too ignorant to matter anyway
:/
What you don't know about politics could fill an ocean.
That's completely irrelevant. We're talking about politics, here. Conflation is the order of the day. The Piratbyran have associated themselves with an organization that every government hates. Talking heads will brand them security risks, and their agenda will be completely torpedoed.
Now fucking us out of due process to combat copyright violations is a "matter of global security."
Their heart's in the right place, but could they possibly have a worse strategic approach?
It has everything to do with it. Freedom is sometimes in poor taste.
SA goons do this all the time.
This is the most disingenuous horseshit I've ever read. A McDonald's employee could figure out that the big fish is trying to crowd out indie devs. It's the same way any other industry works.
Somebody has to actually use it first.
Wasn't Youtube supposed to be switching to it months ago?
Thanks for spoiling Wednesday's xkcd, you dick. :/
It seems like people misinterpreted my previous statement. This is largely my fault, I worded it kind of poorly.
The guy who first responded to me said "No, what his boss meant was that after the company gives said boss a huge bonus for "cost savings"(read working his people into the ground while essentially adding no value of his own), there is no budget left." That's basically exactly what I meant, except that his assertion that putting pressure on him will make the boss reduce his bonus for the sake of the company is naively optimistic given what we know about how corporations work lately. This is especially true for any kind of IT, which many bosses give absolutely no crap about. If you make waves to get a raise, you're just as likely to be replaced by an idiot who does the job wrong but cheaper as any other outcome, because most of the company won't know the difference.
You don't seem to understand how modern "capitalism" works. When your boss said "we don't have the budget," he meant exactly that. If you push for more money, or even just ask, if they're really antsy, you'll be filing for unemployment.
I went to tag this uweboll, and it already was.
...I seriously got modded troll for this? I'm sorry, I wasn't aware we'd been merged with bluesnews. I'll only say negative things about game companies when they're wrong from now on.
Maybe Nintendo should just give the Wii an actual hardware upgrade instead of a motion sensor copout. :|
Personally, I fear this won't be "middle path" so much as "Third Position."
I give it two weeks before we start seeing junk all over the net, possibly even here, along the lines of "ACTA not as bad as previously thought" or "why ACTA could actually save OSS" or other completely ripe horseshit like that. Hopefully everyone is smart enough to realize that's just the shills outing themselves, but they won't be.
Hate this fuckin' planet so hard. Let me off.
I see a whole lot of limitations-of-equipment oops here, and a significant amount of standard-procedure oops as well. So, the military tried to cover it up. The reason for this is fairly evident: they wish to protect the careers, reputations, and lives of good men who made a tragic mistake. So, there's a further PR oops. And of course, in the larger scheme of things, the fact that this happened at all is ultimately a failure-to-communicate oops, since the troops should've known the photographer and his crew were in that area.
And now, wikileaks has blown the cover up, and brass have reacted to it by being brass, which is always an oops.
Oops.
Mind you, I am under no illusions that any judge will respect that if so, deep pockets always win. But I am nearly certain this is exactly what prior art means. Maybe not, I'm not an expert.
UCAVs are not at all autonomous. For the very reasons already mentioned, they basically can't be. They can autonomously fly around and look at things, but firing weapons requires somebody on the ground calling for a strike, and somebody in a shack somewhere actually making it. It's not as though a drone can actually see the face of any people its shooting at; how would it know that it has found somebody on The Dreaded List unless somebody on the ground first said "he's over there?" The legality of killing people with drones is thus basically identical to the legality of doing so from any other aircraft. Good luck stopping that.
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If so, this guy's set for life.
"Tumbleweed" is a perfect description of what will be left of the space program after the current administration is done with it!
All that really has to be done to solve 70% of the problems with the game industry is assassinating Bobby Kotick. Why won't somebody get on it already?
Why do Brits keep reading dystopian fiction to get ideas? Why aren't we bombing them for it?
I'm really going to enjoy tax assessors rifling through all my shit.