And here I thought the police were there to charge inanimate objects with crimes, seize them and either sell them or claim them as their own without due process because inanimate objects have no rights.
Perhaps you should talk to whoever owns your country's distribution rights to MGM works and convince them to participate in this instead of ignoring international copyright treaties and treating it like the mean ol' 'mericans won't share their toys with you just because you talk funny.
Anyone want to put odds on the next Crysis requiring at least two of these?
All things considered, I'm glad I gave up the pc gaming habit. Consoles may not have the newest-super-duper-double-1337-hyper-lens-flair effect but they do tend to play any game made for the system without feeding it new hardware every six months.
With as much disrespect as Al Qaeda deserves, I can't believe they'd be that stupid to do something like that.
They'd instantly go from an air-quotes "threat" to an actual threat. As a "threat", they are useful to our politicians so they are permitted to slink around in the shadows and be the new commie-pinko-bastard threat that gets people elected and our rights flushed down the toilet.
They'd also have very dangerous attention directed at them by not only the U.S. but also, obviously, Pakistan and India. India just needs an excuse to try to wipe Pakistan off the map and I doubt Pakistan wants to be wiped off the map. Israel is always a wildcard in the best of situations and something like this would definitely increase the likelihood of a shoot-first-and-don't-bother-with-questions response. Iran likes to saber-rattle but that stops working when someone is stupid enough to start swinging one in earnest so they probably wouldn't be too keen on letting this slide.
In general, as much as the middle east hates the great satan, it would not be in their best interest for one of their little jihadis to cook off a nuke in any western-friendly city. It'd be like pulling a knife in a fist fight, Queensbury rules go out the window and the others draw their guns.
I don't think that having legislation enacted that cites the latest Die Hard movie as a source and has Ted "Tubes" Stevens as an adviser is a good thing.
We'll wake up one morning and hear that the cyber-terrorism meter is at paisley.
About the only reason I can see using the "cloud" version over my already locally installed copy would be for collaboration.
But if the cloud version is just an extension of the locally installed version, why not give those capabilities to the locally installed version?
I make use of google apps mainly to quickly and easily share "living" documents. Occasionally I use google apps because the device I'm using doesn't have room to install office and rarely needs those types of programs. If I don't need collaboration or online hosting and I already have the app type installed I don't use the google app version.
Which online services are Apple owners locked into?
Did you mean iPod owners? You know, iPods can play non-DRM tracks in mp3 and aac formats. iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and basically any other store front that isn't DRMed is really locked into Apple's online services.
If you can't understand the advantages to not having the player do all the work of cataloging all your music and its metadata I'm surprised you figured out how to operate a web browser. You can take care of all your obsessive compulsive urges for organizing your music with playlists. The days of mp3/artist/album/Artist_Album_TrackNumber_Song.mp3 are thankfully over.
Also, in less time that it took to type up your diatribe you could have found programs like Senuti. Or one of the many third party iPod interfaces. But just bash Apple and get your free karma instead.
Hmm, the anti-Apple mods must be out in force today and apparently they can't handle the fact that other phones, including phones that preceded the iPhone, have this exact same behavior.
Part of the appeal of console systems is that, generally, a console owned by person A is the same as the console owned by person B. Consoles provide a uniform environment. Both for game development and game playing. If you're playing SSBB online, you don't have to worry about someone running cheats or maphacks.
Is it that difficult of a concept to grasp, that console makers like having a nice uniform hardware (per console) environment?
Don't like big bad Nintendo patching out all your mods? DON'T GET THE NINTENDO UPDATES THEN!
If you want to mod your system and play official games and use official services perhaps you shouldn't try to do it with the same unit.
Once you buy it, you are free to do with it what you want. Nintendo has no obligation to keep their inventory compatible with your out of spec system.
I don't see it as limiting the use of your own hardware.
It's limiting the use of your modified hardware with Nintendo's servers and software. Just because you have the ability to take hardware out of spec does not mean the original manufacturer *has* to continue to interact with your modded hardware.
If the homebrew and various activities of questionable legality offer more value to you than Nintendo's services why even bother with Nintendo updates? Unless you want to eat your cake and have it too by expecting Nintendo to do the extra work necessary to make sure their services play nicely with your out of spec hardware and, more importantly, that your out of spec hardware plays nicely with their services.
Now if the Wii, or any console, was touted as a general purpose computer, restricting its use would be dirty pool. Though when you purchase a console, you know you are buying a device made for a specific purpose. Perhaps you can change it to do other things, but it is rather silly and selfish to expect the manufacturer to welcome this now foreign hardware with open arms.
For some extra disclosure, I run a cycloDS setup on my DS Lite. I got tired of having GBA carts protrude from the case. Not having to carry all the carts along (using roms made from my own carts only) is a big bonus. Now if there came a along a patch that would break compatibility with the cycloDS, I wouldn't install it, unless whatever the patch was for was worth giving up the flash carts OR purchasing a new DS to run the new firmware and whatever game or feature that needed the patch. I am totally aware of the fact that while the DS has the capability to be more of a general purpose platform that is not the way Nintendo intended it to be used and that in using such a way that it is not Nintendo's responsibility to keep their goods compatible with my modified system.
I think, perhaps, the person you quoted meant invasions by the military forces of actual countries.
It'd be more of an infiltration of the US by illegal aliens than an invasion. Invasions are rather obvious and hostile affairs.
Non-state actors aren't the target of MAD policies. They generally don't care what sort of destruction they face. A state, on the other hand, has to worry about the continuance of the state.
Psycho with a nuke: not deterred by MAD. Rogue state with a nuke: leaders still probably not deterred by MAD. Developed stable state with a nuclear arsenal: welcome to club MAD.
Plus I'm quite sure most (by surface area) of the US would be quite willing (and eager) to sink both coasts into the ocean to quell a fifth column threat.
Aside from demonstrating sheeple's willingness to let others die so they might live there was no continuing agenda or even goals for the primary actor. VT didn't happen to strike terror or as asymmetric retribution for the government's actions against some group or country. Just your run of the mill psycho and people that let it happen.
Why exactly would they want to *actually* catch OBL?
He was the new Red Menace. The commie pinko bastard that hides in your closet waiting for you to go to sleep so he can rape your dog, kill your kids and steal your wife.
The New Russian Empire is still building up steam and isn't scary enough yet to have Joe 'The Plumber' Sixpack duck and covering.
Now Joe Schmoe Revolutionary, he's actually a threat to them. The full weight of the government will be thrown against him, without prejudice or restraint.
Considering that syncing up with another computer's iTunes library is one of its basic functions, how was she not able to transfer music to the apple tv?
Or are you just using conjecture and trendy anti-apple-ness to try and appear insightful?
McCain has voted against a federal bill mandating that rape exams be taxpayer funded (exactly like every other part of police work) every time the measure has come up.
Have these been single purpose bills (like they exist anymore) or were there riders attached to this bill or was this a rider attached to other bills?
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And here I thought the police were there to charge inanimate objects with crimes, seize them and either sell them or claim them as their own without due process because inanimate objects have no rights.
Perhaps you should talk to whoever owns your country's distribution rights to MGM works and convince them to participate in this instead of ignoring international copyright treaties and treating it like the mean ol' 'mericans won't share their toys with you just because you talk funny.
Anyone want to put odds on the next Crysis requiring at least two of these?
All things considered, I'm glad I gave up the pc gaming habit. Consoles may not have the newest-super-duper-double-1337-hyper-lens-flair effect but they do tend to play any game made for the system without feeding it new hardware every six months.
The problem is under which country's laws are they protected, under which are they not protected and which country actually has jurisdiction.
With as much disrespect as Al Qaeda deserves, I can't believe they'd be that stupid to do something like that.
They'd instantly go from an air-quotes "threat" to an actual threat. As a "threat", they are useful to our politicians so they are permitted to slink around in the shadows and be the new commie-pinko-bastard threat that gets people elected and our rights flushed down the toilet.
They'd also have very dangerous attention directed at them by not only the U.S. but also, obviously, Pakistan and India. India just needs an excuse to try to wipe Pakistan off the map and I doubt Pakistan wants to be wiped off the map. Israel is always a wildcard in the best of situations and something like this would definitely increase the likelihood of a shoot-first-and-don't-bother-with-questions response. Iran likes to saber-rattle but that stops working when someone is stupid enough to start swinging one in earnest so they probably wouldn't be too keen on letting this slide.
In general, as much as the middle east hates the great satan, it would not be in their best interest for one of their little jihadis to cook off a nuke in any western-friendly city. It'd be like pulling a knife in a fist fight, Queensbury rules go out the window and the others draw their guns.
I don't think that having legislation enacted that cites the latest Die Hard movie as a source and has Ted "Tubes" Stevens as an adviser is a good thing.
We'll wake up one morning and hear that the cyber-terrorism meter is at paisley.
Why would they have anything sitting on or connected to a public network that they didn't want someone to find?
If the work isn't distributed you wouldn't need a temporary monopoly on the distribution of the work.
Copyright was intended to provide a temporary benefit to people who distribute things so that they _would_ distribute things.
Don't forget "bricked".
Bricked used to mean you took the piece of equipment out to the firing range for its final trouble "shooting".
Now it means you just press the reset button.
About the only reason I can see using the "cloud" version over my already locally installed copy would be for collaboration.
But if the cloud version is just an extension of the locally installed version, why not give those capabilities to the locally installed version?
I make use of google apps mainly to quickly and easily share "living" documents. Occasionally I use google apps because the device I'm using doesn't have room to install office and rarely needs those types of programs. If I don't need collaboration or online hosting and I already have the app type installed I don't use the google app version.
Which online services are Apple owners locked into?
Did you mean iPod owners? You know, iPods can play non-DRM tracks in mp3 and aac formats. iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and basically any other store front that isn't DRMed is really locked into Apple's online services.
If you can't understand the advantages to not having the player do all the work of cataloging all your music and its metadata I'm surprised you figured out how to operate a web browser. You can take care of all your obsessive compulsive urges for organizing your music with playlists. The days of mp3/artist/album/Artist_Album_TrackNumber_Song.mp3 are thankfully over.
Also, in less time that it took to type up your diatribe you could have found programs like Senuti. Or one of the many third party iPod interfaces. But just bash Apple and get your free karma instead.
You were slamming apple, so that's A-OK with them.
Hmm, the anti-Apple mods must be out in force today and apparently they can't handle the fact that other phones, including phones that preceded the iPhone, have this exact same behavior.
Fixed that for you. Cell phones were doing this long before the iPhone.
Part of the appeal of console systems is that, generally, a console owned by person A is the same as the console owned by person B. Consoles provide a uniform environment. Both for game development and game playing. If you're playing SSBB online, you don't have to worry about someone running cheats or maphacks.
Is it that difficult of a concept to grasp, that console makers like having a nice uniform hardware (per console) environment?
Don't like big bad Nintendo patching out all your mods? DON'T GET THE NINTENDO UPDATES THEN!
If you want to mod your system and play official games and use official services perhaps you shouldn't try to do it with the same unit.
Once you buy it, you are free to do with it what you want. Nintendo has no obligation to keep their inventory compatible with your out of spec system.
I don't see it as limiting the use of your own hardware.
It's limiting the use of your modified hardware with Nintendo's servers and software. Just because you have the ability to take hardware out of spec does not mean the original manufacturer *has* to continue to interact with your modded hardware.
If the homebrew and various activities of questionable legality offer more value to you than Nintendo's services why even bother with Nintendo updates? Unless you want to eat your cake and have it too by expecting Nintendo to do the extra work necessary to make sure their services play nicely with your out of spec hardware and, more importantly, that your out of spec hardware plays nicely with their services.
Now if the Wii, or any console, was touted as a general purpose computer, restricting its use would be dirty pool. Though when you purchase a console, you know you are buying a device made for a specific purpose. Perhaps you can change it to do other things, but it is rather silly and selfish to expect the manufacturer to welcome this now foreign hardware with open arms.
For some extra disclosure, I run a cycloDS setup on my DS Lite. I got tired of having GBA carts protrude from the case. Not having to carry all the carts along (using roms made from my own carts only) is a big bonus. Now if there came a along a patch that would break compatibility with the cycloDS, I wouldn't install it, unless whatever the patch was for was worth giving up the flash carts OR purchasing a new DS to run the new firmware and whatever game or feature that needed the patch. I am totally aware of the fact that while the DS has the capability to be more of a general purpose platform that is not the way Nintendo intended it to be used and that in using such a way that it is not Nintendo's responsibility to keep their goods compatible with my modified system.
I think, perhaps, the person you quoted meant invasions by the military forces of actual countries.
It'd be more of an infiltration of the US by illegal aliens than an invasion. Invasions are rather obvious and hostile affairs.
Non-state actors aren't the target of MAD policies. They generally don't care what sort of destruction they face. A state, on the other hand, has to worry about the continuance of the state.
Psycho with a nuke: not deterred by MAD.
Rogue state with a nuke: leaders still probably not deterred by MAD.
Developed stable state with a nuclear arsenal: welcome to club MAD.
Plus I'm quite sure most (by surface area) of the US would be quite willing (and eager) to sink both coasts into the ocean to quell a fifth column threat.
Violence != Terrorism.
Aside from demonstrating sheeple's willingness to let others die so they might live there was no continuing agenda or even goals for the primary actor. VT didn't happen to strike terror or as asymmetric retribution for the government's actions against some group or country. Just your run of the mill psycho and people that let it happen.
Why exactly would they want to *actually* catch OBL?
He was the new Red Menace. The commie pinko bastard that hides in your closet waiting for you to go to sleep so he can rape your dog, kill your kids and steal your wife.
The New Russian Empire is still building up steam and isn't scary enough yet to have Joe 'The Plumber' Sixpack duck and covering.
Now Joe Schmoe Revolutionary, he's actually a threat to them. The full weight of the government will be thrown against him, without prejudice or restraint.
It's not just a Constitutional right. It's a Natural right that happens to be recorded in the Constitution as well.
The "worst" part about free societies is that it isn't always easy being a citizen of one. The "easier" it gets the less free the society.
You've got to be willing to take a blow, usually the first one, and not overreact.
You've got to let the rights that protect you protect the people you hate.
Strength is not going medieval on someone who hurt you.
And thank you for reminding me what a scary word loyalty truly is.
Don't forget that the Democrats are the majority in congress.
This couldn't have passed without some donkeys signing off on this.
Considering that syncing up with another computer's iTunes library is one of its basic functions, how was she not able to transfer music to the apple tv?
Or are you just using conjecture and trendy anti-apple-ness to try and appear insightful?
Have these been single purpose bills (like they exist anymore) or were there riders attached to this bill or was this a rider attached to other bills?
It's not like there was an investigation into the matter by Apple that proved Nvidia's claim to be false...
The anti-Apple force is strong with this editor.