So, just out of curiosity, are you a Democrat? =) Seriously though, I despise both Democrats and Republicans, but if you watch the news you can't deny the blatant bias in favor of Democrats. Yes, I know what you'll say "But there's the joke Fox News" - one station, big fucking deal. The majority of newspapers, magazines, news sites, and news channels are blatantly biased and don't even try to ignore it. That's why when I watch the news, I change channels a lot because they'll have something interesting for a bit, then they'll get into blatantly biased crap so I change to another station, watch that for a bit, rinse and repeat.
Yes, they should lost massive amounts of money to gain you as a customer. Their plans are already cheaper than AT&T PLUS they're superior due to unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls and unlimited data. You're exactly the kind of douchebag that companies don't want to do business with - you think you should get everything imaginable for less than it costs to produce.
I seriously want to pistol whip people who refer to Android as "Droid" - "Droid" is a particular line of phones sold through Verizon which was launched with a phone simply called "Droid". If you don't know the name of the OS you're using on your smartphone, perhaps you'd be better off using an iPhone?
Or should it know where to turn the Wi-Fi radio on and off based on GPS?
If you use Tasker on Android, you can program it to do exactly that. I do. I also programmed it to set my phone to silent when I get to work and turn the volume back up once I leave work.
Except that other carriers will track your unpaid tethering and either charge you extra or disconnect you. Sprint on the other hand does a *wink wink* *nudge nudge* deal with their $10 "premium data fee" and they don't give a rats ass if you root and then tether for free.
Customer service is good - I've had billing / account issues and never had any hassles at all or been on the phone more than 10 minutes, TOPS (it's usually under 5 minutes to work out an issue). I'm not sure what you mean by capacity though.
Can you prove that he's importing slaves or some such? Otherwise he's only a "crook" in the sens of violating one pointless law and another entirely arbitrary law. If you read a few posts back in this thread, this discussion isn't about legality but about morality.
Well, it is. There's no legitimate reason for prostitution to be illegal and "underage" is an entirely arbitrary notion and changes from country to country.
So you just leave those people out and let the other 95% of the country enjoy the future while they get left behind.
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I haven't purchased a Blizzard game in around 5 years, but I've purchased many others that don't fuck you in the ass with DRM. Blizzard used to be the epitome of great customer service and giving customers what they want - hell, I had a Starcraft disc get a mysterious burn mark on it and after one email to customer service, they sent me a replacement disc, no charge or questions asked. Now they only care about screwing the customer for more money.
Why do people bitch about needing a disc to play? It's not DRM because there's nothing limiting you from re-installing the game infinite times on infinite systems - it merely requires you to actually OWN the game to be able to play it. For the last decade I've been asking people like you the same question - is it really that hard to push a damn button and put a disc in the drive?
It is not even remotely the "same stuff". 50 years from now as long as I have functioning hardware, I can pop in my Warcraft disc from 1994 and it will work - 10 years from now you likely won't be able to play Starcraft II or Diablo III because they'll turn off the activation servers to pressure you to buy Starcraft III and Diablo IV. They are taking away your right to use the game you purchased whenever you want and to resell it to whoever you want. Just because you enjoy taking it up the ass and flushing your money down the toilet (most likely an allowance from Mommy and Daddy - people who work for their money generally care more about wasting it) doesn't mean that the rest of us should just bite down and wish they'd use some lube.
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Exactly. I haven't purchased Starcraft II and I don't plan on buying Diablo III. I've purchased every other game Blizzard made (save WoW expansions after I stopped playing years ago), but until they ditch the DRM, I'm done with them. Sadly, I don't think this is something Blizzards wants to do, but the DRM is most likely forced on them by Activision.
Good point - I say the citizens of the US take up a collection (I'm sure over the millions of people who enjoy movies, books, and music we could collect several million dollars) and contract the IRA to show the RIAA how terrorism is done.
The only negative to Prime (I have a free one year shipping only student Prime account) is that there's no app on PS3 for watching Amazon videos. They have Netflix, Veo, Hulu Plus, but no Amazon.
Yes, because you claim that someone saying words is "harmful" to you is SO rational. Even damn kids know that words can't hurt you ("sticks and stones..."). Emotional distress is just one of the wonderful bullshit inventions of the legal system to allow people to sue others for no reason and win lawyers more money.
Oh bullshit. Grow the fuck up, be an adult, and realize that not everything is going to go your way and not everyone is going to like you. If you'd ever worked in any job that involves dealing with the public you'd know that this sort of stuff is what they deal with on a daily basis, yet you don't see them demanding people be arrested left and right.
Your "right" to not listen is that simple - DON'T FUCKING LISTEN. Walk away, don't go to that website, block their screen name, ignore them, whatever. It's not that complicated. All you have to do is use just one brain cell and you can figure it out.
Emotions are entirely irrelevant to right and wrong. Just because a guy bought the last copy of a movie and you're pissed doesn't mean he did anything wrong. Emotional distress is a load of shit for "I'm a pansy who can't deal with someone not liking me". Get over it, the world doesn't revolve around you.
You're clearly not from the US where we have freedom of speech. Protests are funerals happen often and as long as the people are not physically interfering with the funeral, it's totally legal.
And how exactly was he causing harm? Are they injured and requiring medical treatment? No. Did he steal from them? No. Did he cause damage to their property? No again. They were not harmed in any way shape or form. Just because you're sad or angry doesn't mean you've been harmed. If you could sue over that, then I'd be able to sue every dipshit who causes a traffic jam in the mornings because I'm pissed as hell over their inability to push the damn accelerator.
What, everyone should be a Vulcan?
It amuses me that you think aspiring to make decisions based on facts and logic instead of irrational emotions to be a bad thing.
A yes, "hate-speech", the politically correct term for "thought crime". Is the guy a dick? Sure. However, only in a truly fucked up police state can what he did be considered criminal.
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So, just out of curiosity, are you a Democrat? =) Seriously though, I despise both Democrats and Republicans, but if you watch the news you can't deny the blatant bias in favor of Democrats. Yes, I know what you'll say "But there's the joke Fox News" - one station, big fucking deal. The majority of newspapers, magazines, news sites, and news channels are blatantly biased and don't even try to ignore it. That's why when I watch the news, I change channels a lot because they'll have something interesting for a bit, then they'll get into blatantly biased crap so I change to another station, watch that for a bit, rinse and repeat.
Yes, they should lost massive amounts of money to gain you as a customer. Their plans are already cheaper than AT&T PLUS they're superior due to unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls and unlimited data. You're exactly the kind of douchebag that companies don't want to do business with - you think you should get everything imaginable for less than it costs to produce.
I seriously want to pistol whip people who refer to Android as "Droid" - "Droid" is a particular line of phones sold through Verizon which was launched with a phone simply called "Droid". If you don't know the name of the OS you're using on your smartphone, perhaps you'd be better off using an iPhone?
TECHNICALLY the 3G data is "unlimited" at 5 gigs, but they don't enforce it. 4G data on phones is 100% unlimited.
Or should it know where to turn the Wi-Fi radio on and off based on GPS?
If you use Tasker on Android, you can program it to do exactly that. I do. I also programmed it to set my phone to silent when I get to work and turn the volume back up once I leave work.
Except that other carriers will track your unpaid tethering and either charge you extra or disconnect you. Sprint on the other hand does a *wink wink* *nudge nudge* deal with their $10 "premium data fee" and they don't give a rats ass if you root and then tether for free.
Customer service is good - I've had billing / account issues and never had any hassles at all or been on the phone more than 10 minutes, TOPS (it's usually under 5 minutes to work out an issue). I'm not sure what you mean by capacity though.
who keeps the same phone for 5+ years? people that never use their phone instead of those who want something useful.
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Well there's supposed to be a remake coming out next year, so we'll see....
Can you prove that he's importing slaves or some such? Otherwise he's only a "crook" in the sens of violating one pointless law and another entirely arbitrary law. If you read a few posts back in this thread, this discussion isn't about legality but about morality.
Well, it is. There's no legitimate reason for prostitution to be illegal and "underage" is an entirely arbitrary notion and changes from country to country.
So you just leave those people out and let the other 95% of the country enjoy the future while they get left behind.
I haven't purchased a Blizzard game in around 5 years, but I've purchased many others that don't fuck you in the ass with DRM. Blizzard used to be the epitome of great customer service and giving customers what they want - hell, I had a Starcraft disc get a mysterious burn mark on it and after one email to customer service, they sent me a replacement disc, no charge or questions asked. Now they only care about screwing the customer for more money.
Why do people bitch about needing a disc to play? It's not DRM because there's nothing limiting you from re-installing the game infinite times on infinite systems - it merely requires you to actually OWN the game to be able to play it. For the last decade I've been asking people like you the same question - is it really that hard to push a damn button and put a disc in the drive?
It is not even remotely the "same stuff". 50 years from now as long as I have functioning hardware, I can pop in my Warcraft disc from 1994 and it will work - 10 years from now you likely won't be able to play Starcraft II or Diablo III because they'll turn off the activation servers to pressure you to buy Starcraft III and Diablo IV. They are taking away your right to use the game you purchased whenever you want and to resell it to whoever you want. Just because you enjoy taking it up the ass and flushing your money down the toilet (most likely an allowance from Mommy and Daddy - people who work for their money generally care more about wasting it) doesn't mean that the rest of us should just bite down and wish they'd use some lube.
Exactly. I haven't purchased Starcraft II and I don't plan on buying Diablo III. I've purchased every other game Blizzard made (save WoW expansions after I stopped playing years ago), but until they ditch the DRM, I'm done with them. Sadly, I don't think this is something Blizzards wants to do, but the DRM is most likely forced on them by Activision.
Good god, now you're just giving the bastards ideas!
Good point - I say the citizens of the US take up a collection (I'm sure over the millions of people who enjoy movies, books, and music we could collect several million dollars) and contract the IRA to show the RIAA how terrorism is done.
The only negative to Prime (I have a free one year shipping only student Prime account) is that there's no app on PS3 for watching Amazon videos. They have Netflix, Veo, Hulu Plus, but no Amazon.
Yes, because you claim that someone saying words is "harmful" to you is SO rational. Even damn kids know that words can't hurt you ("sticks and stones..."). Emotional distress is just one of the wonderful bullshit inventions of the legal system to allow people to sue others for no reason and win lawyers more money.
Oh bullshit. Grow the fuck up, be an adult, and realize that not everything is going to go your way and not everyone is going to like you. If you'd ever worked in any job that involves dealing with the public you'd know that this sort of stuff is what they deal with on a daily basis, yet you don't see them demanding people be arrested left and right.
Your "right" to not listen is that simple - DON'T FUCKING LISTEN. Walk away, don't go to that website, block their screen name, ignore them, whatever. It's not that complicated. All you have to do is use just one brain cell and you can figure it out.
Emotions are entirely irrelevant to right and wrong. Just because a guy bought the last copy of a movie and you're pissed doesn't mean he did anything wrong. Emotional distress is a load of shit for "I'm a pansy who can't deal with someone not liking me". Get over it, the world doesn't revolve around you.
Your post was intended to inflict "emotional distress" on me. I'm suing you for $5 million and demanding you be locked up for 25 years.
Now do you see what a load of shit that is?
You're clearly not from the US where we have freedom of speech. Protests are funerals happen often and as long as the people are not physically interfering with the funeral, it's totally legal.
The Queen finds your use of the word "shit" to be offensive. You will now be sentenced to 38 years in a "pound me in the ass" prison.
And how exactly was he causing harm? Are they injured and requiring medical treatment? No. Did he steal from them? No. Did he cause damage to their property? No again. They were not harmed in any way shape or form. Just because you're sad or angry doesn't mean you've been harmed. If you could sue over that, then I'd be able to sue every dipshit who causes a traffic jam in the mornings because I'm pissed as hell over their inability to push the damn accelerator.
What, everyone should be a Vulcan?
It amuses me that you think aspiring to make decisions based on facts and logic instead of irrational emotions to be a bad thing.
This is the UK - they don't have free speech over there.
A yes, "hate-speech", the politically correct term for "thought crime". Is the guy a dick? Sure. However, only in a truly fucked up police state can what he did be considered criminal.