"competition." If any of you slashdotters feel like starting up a game company this is a great time: Many Americans will be looking for something fun to do with their welfare checks-cum-tax rebates. Furthermore there are many coders willing to work for cheap in America and a public royally pissed off at the greed and mediocrity in the game business.
If a person or entity has a secondhand copy of the game and wants to sell it, thats fair use. If the real market value is higher than $20 for the seller or lower than $50 for the buyer, well no one is stopping you from setting up your own online used game store.
Any tactic like not selling the whole game is, if not a blatent violation of fair use, a dispicable act that will have the manufacturer forever banned from my collection.
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You're an idiot. The federal government doesn't have the right, this has nothing to do with state or local law. While many states' constitutions echo the second amendment, the constitution serves only to limit the power of the federal government. If you support the constitution from the standpoint of the Federalist Papers as you claim to, you must uphold the federal government's lack of a right to limit what laws the states can pass.
Actually, there aren't enough people with the money and time to break through piles of red tape. Thats the real problem. It costs thousands of dollars to adopt. There are many people who want to adopt, but can't.
I also credit my wife for her strict "anti-pr0n act". Being forced to keep such activities underground has allowed me a much more extensive viewing regimen.
On a more serious note, this analogous to the Boll Weevil Monument. The Boll Weevil taught farmers about crop rotation, among other useful lessons.
Considering the source of this software, one can be pretty sure of this lifecycle:
Phase one: deployment by thousands of small businesses, the poor schmucks. Phase two: serious security and compatibility problems go exploited and unreported. Those in the know start to advise against use of the software. Phase three: Patching attempts by Microsoft. Cracking attempts by crackers. Either: Massive advertising campaign by Microsoft OR Microsoft puts out Version 2 with bug fixes and advertises that. Phase four: more patching by Microsoft. More cracking by crackers. Microsoft comes out a with Service Pack. New Ubuntu does everything this product does, but faster and more securely. Phase five: fewer and fewer companies use this product, but it enjoys a long half-life as companies fail to stop using it.
The parent post is caustic, but on-topic, and even insightful. The title of this story is, "Australian government censorship worse than Iran." That is a strong -- and odd -- claim indeed. Why would the story compair censorship based on a religion against the arbitrary censorship of a fear-mongering government? Apples and oranges.
Furthermore, I disagree with the title. Forced filtering of the internet is nothing like government control of political speach. If the Australian government were forbidding discussion of certain key political figures, or of certain religions, the claim world hold. As it stands, this is pure FUD.
Most of those billion poor can best be helped by a few well placed bullets. The US tried shipping them grain, she tried building them pumps and sending economic advisors, The US government and US citizens gave massive amounts of aid for hundreds of years. Change only started when the right tin-pot dictators died.
There is not enough information to answer the question. I know that Tom and Ann have five friends in common, but I don't know how many other friends Ann has that Tom doesn't know. Friend!=Aquaintence. And I'm assuming that "Tom" is a boy's name. A fellow from South Africa or Japan wouldn't know that.
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"competition." If any of you slashdotters feel like starting up a game company this is a great time: Many Americans will be looking for something fun to do with their welfare checks-cum-tax rebates. Furthermore there are many coders willing to work for cheap in America and a public royally pissed off at the greed and mediocrity in the game business.
If a person or entity has a secondhand copy of the game and wants to sell it, thats fair use. If the real market value is higher than $20 for the seller or lower than $50 for the buyer, well no one is stopping you from setting up your own online used game store.
Any tactic like not selling the whole game is, if not a blatent violation of fair use, a dispicable act that will have the manufacturer forever banned from my collection.
I have a lovedoll you insensitive clod!
Quality Control: I would bet that Mac hires workers to make sure every component is working, and that it is indeed part of the price.
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...having never seen it.
You're an idiot. The federal government doesn't have the right, this has nothing to do with state or local law. While many states' constitutions echo the second amendment, the constitution serves only to limit the power of the federal government. If you support the constitution from the standpoint of the Federalist Papers as you claim to, you must uphold the federal government's lack of a right to limit what laws the states can pass.
Common sense is ignorance masquerading as wisdom.
Actually, there aren't enough people with the money and time to break through piles of red tape. Thats the real problem. It costs thousands of dollars to adopt. There are many people who want to adopt, but can't.
I also credit my wife for her strict "anti-pr0n act". Being forced to keep such activities underground has allowed me a much more extensive viewing regimen.
On a more serious note, this analogous to the Boll Weevil Monument. The Boll Weevil taught farmers about crop rotation, among other useful lessons.
Would someone mind doing a car analogy?
Considering the source of this software, one can be pretty sure of this lifecycle:
Phase one: deployment by thousands of small businesses, the poor schmucks.
Phase two: serious security and compatibility problems go exploited and unreported. Those in the know start to advise against use of the software.
Phase three: Patching attempts by Microsoft. Cracking attempts by crackers. Either: Massive advertising campaign by Microsoft OR Microsoft puts out Version 2 with bug fixes and advertises that.
Phase four: more patching by Microsoft. More cracking by crackers. Microsoft comes out a with Service Pack. New Ubuntu does everything this product does, but faster and more securely.
Phase five: fewer and fewer companies use this product, but it enjoys a long half-life as companies fail to stop using it.
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The parent post is caustic, but on-topic, and even insightful. The title of this story is, "Australian government censorship worse than Iran." That is a strong -- and odd -- claim indeed. Why would the story compair censorship based on a religion against the arbitrary censorship of a fear-mongering government? Apples and oranges.
Furthermore, I disagree with the title. Forced filtering of the internet is nothing like government control of political speach. If the Australian government were forbidding discussion of certain key political figures, or of certain religions, the claim world hold. As it stands, this is pure FUD.
illegal in America, you insensitive clod!
Would you mind a quick Turing test?
(Archive (the archive (the archive (the archive (the archive))))) fixed it for you
God forbid they exchange information that you don't like...
I have no mod points, and the parent post badly needs to be modded up. Please help.
I protest! I protest mightily!
Most of those billion poor can best be helped by a few well placed bullets. The US tried shipping them grain, she tried building them pumps and sending economic advisors, The US government and US citizens gave massive amounts of aid for hundreds of years. Change only started when the right tin-pot dictators died.
There is not enough information to answer the question. I know that Tom and Ann have five friends in common, but I don't know how many other friends Ann has that Tom doesn't know. Friend!=Aquaintence. And I'm assuming that "Tom" is a boy's name. A fellow from South Africa or Japan wouldn't know that.
more information please! Can you tell me the name of the program, the name of the group, anything? I'm really interested. Please?