The problem is control. If you see no problem with Chevrolet selling a car that runs well, then crippling the car when it is resold, then there should be no problem with game developers crippling a game for anyone but the original purchaser.
Corporate America works for us, not the other way around. They get our money if they please us. Obviously, Curt and company are not pleasing their customers. Now, do you see the problem?
"Sometimes finding out what is going on in the world requires digging deeper than what the commercial giants publish."
Eliminate the "sometimes", and your statement will be accurate. None of the media reports the whole story. And, most of the media actually reports the story with a spin. The only way to get the real story in any case, is to read from multiple sources, check the police reports, and to read the transcripts of interviews. Even then, if it's really important to you that you have the full story, you had better be prepared to do your own interviews, and research the subject(s) relevant to the issue.
Uhhhhh - few songs are written by bands. They are written by songwriters. The list of band members who are also songwriters is probably less than 1/10 the size of band members. Many, many songs have been done and redone by scores of bands. Some of your favorite songs may well have been old, worn out, and discarded by other bands before YOUR band found it, recorded it, and made it famous. My own personal example, is 'My Maria' by Brooks and Dunn. I had never heard of it, before B&D did it. Only after finding it on Youtube did I realize that the song was around before B&D even became a group or band.
You, Sir, have done a better job than I of raising your son. I have three of those creatures. I swear, one is braindead. The second is plain stupid, and has the prison record to show for it. Only the third seems to be aware that there is a world out there. And, he isn't even interested enough in politics to get involved in ACTA, though I have done my best to explain it to him.
Be proud of your son for having had the time and initiative to call your congress critter.
Go ahead, allow ACTA to be signed, ratified, and put into effect. THEN, go online, open up a website, and start building up a case AGAINST ACTA and it's proponents. Watch to see how fast your site is taken down.
ACTA is nothing, if it is not a tool to censor the masses, and to form public opinion - while at the same time enabling "Rights holders" to fleece those same masses of their hard earned money.
Lawn? This patch of gravel with some weeds poking up? This is your LAWN?!?! FFS dude, take your decrepit old ass down to the hardware store, buy some grass seed, some fertilizer, and some garden hose. Hire a truck to dump about 10 (cubic) yards of topsoil before you start with the grass seed. There's a nice strain of Bermuda grass that only grows an inch of so high, so that you won't have to mow your yard all the time. I'll be back next year to see if you have a lawn yet. No way am I wandering into your tick and chigger patch this year!
Anecdotes are good - but you could fill in your (approximate) age, (approximate) location, elevation, etc. For all I know, you and I grew up in the same area, but I grew up 30 years earlier than you. You're used to mild winters? Well, I've gotten used to them, but my first ten or so were pretty vicious. One year, it snowed a couple times before thanksgiving, then it snowed hard a couple days after thanksgiving. We didn't see the ground again until spring thaw, which came late. At that young age, I took it as given that this would be "normal" for the rest of my life.
Like AC, I'm the exception to the rule. I don't watch television. But, that doesn't affect GP's post, or the analysis in the post. For 50 years, I've watched family and friends sitting in front of that boob tube, allowing their thoughts and views to be shaped by the news, by advertising, by the "entertainment" industry. Like sheep, people watch those media hucksters so that they know what to think, how to act, when and where to shop, and what to buy, what to eat.
In my post, to which you have responded, I stated that illegally dumped waste oil was traced back to our property. When some dude from the city came to the receptionist's window, she talked to the boss on the intercom, the boss came out, shook hands, listened to the problem, then walked around the property with the dude to see how bad the problem was.
We had nothing to hide, except an idiot of an employee. And, we would have been more than happy to allow the city to crucify that employee. Unfortunately, crucifixions seem to have gone out with the Romans.
There is nothing to "like" about any of this. I'm not going to "defend" the meat packers. But, one thing I noted while watching the video, is that it is a 99 year old plant.
I'll give them just one small benefit of the doubt. It's POSSIBLE that they didn't know they were discharging blood into the creek. Old plant, old plumbing systems, plus the fact that regulations a hundred years ago were pretty lax, makes it possible that a crappy old pipe was just never dug up or disconnected.
But, the fact that the company is turning away people who are officially required to investigate the mess unless they have a search warrant suggests that they probably knew all along.
Side note from personal experience: A couple years ago, one of our illegal aliens who grew up in some jungle village dumped a barrel of waste oil outside one of our doors. The oil was soon discovered in an ephemeral creek, and traced back to our plant. I thought my backward employers were pretty stupid - but at least they didn't block officials from the city coming in to look around, or require that they come back with search warrants. Two lessons to be learned here. Number one, don't hire illegal aliens from jungle villages. Number two, when you do screw up, cooperate with investigators. Unless, of course, it is your policy to conduct business in an illegal manner.
In fact, the idea that free copies of your work will "undermine sales" is so terribly misguided - I wonder if you've been studying economics at RIAA University.
Forget the massive flooding thing. If/when all the ice in the world has melted and run into the ocean, the ocean won't go up much more than a foot. That's ALL the ice in the world, land and sea.
As for what happened - the dinosaurs ruled the earth, so you would have to ask their historians. Our historians weren't even a gleam in a chimpanzee's eye yet.
You "think" it's about 100 meters. Now, try finding a credible source. The most credible source I have seen says.3 meters. Look again - that's not three meters. It's three tenths of a meter.
Either you pulled that 100 meters out of your ass, or you remember it from Water World.
You have a valid point. But, my eldest son has just moved out of the house, so now there are no Windows machines in the house. The worst thing that I've had to happen on Linux, is a browser hijack. Yes, browsers on Linux can be rickrolled, LOL!
I have used noscript, and it's very good. I just haven't felt the need to reinstall it since I've last installed my OS. And, that's the nice thing about my router - it's stable. My desktop is subject to change on a whim, starting with the OS, on through my choice of desktops, to my choice of browsers. Through it all, the router just keeps updating it's list of unwanted sites, and I don't see them.;^)
I'm not making fun of Windows, BTW - I'm making an observation. There is nothing that can be done about Windows, just as there is nothing to be done about idiots. You walk among the real people, and no one can tell the difference . . .
Backwards, you say? Maybe I should explain in more detail what I meant.
Eating while traveling was a genuine adventure, when I was a kid. You had no idea what the next restaurant might offer. See, there wasn't a Mickey D at ever major crossroads. The cities had so many different foods available, a kid's head would spin, trying to figure out what to eat next. Podunk towns didn't have that much variety, but the Podunks changed from one region to another. Crossing a state line could be a culinary adventure.
Today? Yeah, the cities still have quite a variety, in comparison to all the little backwater towns. But, they certainly DO NOT have the variety that was available when I was a kid. New York has it's deli stands, but, where to go for a real Russian menu? Or, German? Slovakian? They used to be a dime a dozen, sprinkled among Jewish restaurants, Chinese, and everything else you could imagine. Not just in Manhattan, but out in the Bronx, in Brooklyn, and out on Long Island.
No, I simply cannot find the variety that existed when I was a kid. You have to actually search out anything different, and then your choices are rather limited.
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Ahhhh - my mistake. Poor reading skills, I guess. Somehow, I missed the EU legislation thing, and focused on what ACTA is meant to do.
It's not within their rights, or their authority, to "track the second hand market". Sorry, but you've missed the boat here.
The problem is control. If you see no problem with Chevrolet selling a car that runs well, then crippling the car when it is resold, then there should be no problem with game developers crippling a game for anyone but the original purchaser.
Corporate America works for us, not the other way around. They get our money if they please us. Obviously, Curt and company are not pleasing their customers. Now, do you see the problem?
"Sometimes finding out what is going on in the world requires digging deeper than what the commercial giants publish."
Eliminate the "sometimes", and your statement will be accurate. None of the media reports the whole story. And, most of the media actually reports the story with a spin. The only way to get the real story in any case, is to read from multiple sources, check the police reports, and to read the transcripts of interviews. Even then, if it's really important to you that you have the full story, you had better be prepared to do your own interviews, and research the subject(s) relevant to the issue.
ACTA, for instance?
Uhhhhh - few songs are written by bands. They are written by songwriters. The list of band members who are also songwriters is probably less than 1/10 the size of band members. Many, many songs have been done and redone by scores of bands. Some of your favorite songs may well have been old, worn out, and discarded by other bands before YOUR band found it, recorded it, and made it famous. My own personal example, is 'My Maria' by Brooks and Dunn. I had never heard of it, before B&D did it. Only after finding it on Youtube did I realize that the song was around before B&D even became a group or band.
So - your analogy is pretty far off.
You, Sir, have done a better job than I of raising your son. I have three of those creatures. I swear, one is braindead. The second is plain stupid, and has the prison record to show for it. Only the third seems to be aware that there is a world out there. And, he isn't even interested enough in politics to get involved in ACTA, though I have done my best to explain it to him.
Be proud of your son for having had the time and initiative to call your congress critter.
GP's post is not misinformational at all.
Go ahead, allow ACTA to be signed, ratified, and put into effect. THEN, go online, open up a website, and start building up a case AGAINST ACTA and it's proponents. Watch to see how fast your site is taken down.
ACTA is nothing, if it is not a tool to censor the masses, and to form public opinion - while at the same time enabling "Rights holders" to fleece those same masses of their hard earned money.
I can order a cold beer in dozens of countries. I can ask about hot women in most of them too. What more does a guy need?
Lawn? This patch of gravel with some weeds poking up? This is your LAWN?!?! FFS dude, take your decrepit old ass down to the hardware store, buy some grass seed, some fertilizer, and some garden hose. Hire a truck to dump about 10 (cubic) yards of topsoil before you start with the grass seed. There's a nice strain of Bermuda grass that only grows an inch of so high, so that you won't have to mow your yard all the time. I'll be back next year to see if you have a lawn yet. No way am I wandering into your tick and chigger patch this year!
Anecdotes are good - but you could fill in your (approximate) age, (approximate) location, elevation, etc. For all I know, you and I grew up in the same area, but I grew up 30 years earlier than you. You're used to mild winters? Well, I've gotten used to them, but my first ten or so were pretty vicious. One year, it snowed a couple times before thanksgiving, then it snowed hard a couple days after thanksgiving. We didn't see the ground again until spring thaw, which came late. At that young age, I took it as given that this would be "normal" for the rest of my life.
Everyone has a deep, meaningful relationship with ten thousand individuals, right?
(pauses to reconsider the monkey theory)
I wish they were spamming dotslash . . .
"My question is, why the hell would they leave those controls accessible by the Internet in general?"
Exactly.
Like AC, I'm the exception to the rule. I don't watch television. But, that doesn't affect GP's post, or the analysis in the post. For 50 years, I've watched family and friends sitting in front of that boob tube, allowing their thoughts and views to be shaped by the news, by advertising, by the "entertainment" industry. Like sheep, people watch those media hucksters so that they know what to think, how to act, when and where to shop, and what to buy, what to eat.
In my post, to which you have responded, I stated that illegally dumped waste oil was traced back to our property. When some dude from the city came to the receptionist's window, she talked to the boss on the intercom, the boss came out, shook hands, listened to the problem, then walked around the property with the dude to see how bad the problem was.
We had nothing to hide, except an idiot of an employee. And, we would have been more than happy to allow the city to crucify that employee. Unfortunately, crucifixions seem to have gone out with the Romans.
There is nothing to "like" about any of this. I'm not going to "defend" the meat packers. But, one thing I noted while watching the video, is that it is a 99 year old plant.
I'll give them just one small benefit of the doubt. It's POSSIBLE that they didn't know they were discharging blood into the creek. Old plant, old plumbing systems, plus the fact that regulations a hundred years ago were pretty lax, makes it possible that a crappy old pipe was just never dug up or disconnected.
But, the fact that the company is turning away people who are officially required to investigate the mess unless they have a search warrant suggests that they probably knew all along.
Side note from personal experience:
A couple years ago, one of our illegal aliens who grew up in some jungle village dumped a barrel of waste oil outside one of our doors. The oil was soon discovered in an ephemeral creek, and traced back to our plant. I thought my backward employers were pretty stupid - but at least they didn't block officials from the city coming in to look around, or require that they come back with search warrants.
Two lessons to be learned here. Number one, don't hire illegal aliens from jungle villages. Number two, when you do screw up, cooperate with investigators. Unless, of course, it is your policy to conduct business in an illegal manner.
The question comes to mind - "Why is slashdot even commenting on this story, when no comments would just drive it off the bottom of the charts?"
Ehhh - I guess some of you find this drivel humorous.
Uhhhh - a lot of people distribute their work both free, and for a fee. http://www.baen.com/library/intro.asp
In fact, the idea that free copies of your work will "undermine sales" is so terribly misguided - I wonder if you've been studying economics at RIAA University.
That looks vaguely like zsh, really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBgMX5HW_g
Forget the massive flooding thing. If/when all the ice in the world has melted and run into the ocean, the ocean won't go up much more than a foot. That's ALL the ice in the world, land and sea.
As for what happened - the dinosaurs ruled the earth, so you would have to ask their historians. Our historians weren't even a gleam in a chimpanzee's eye yet.
You "think" it's about 100 meters. Now, try finding a credible source. The most credible source I have seen says .3 meters. Look again - that's not three meters. It's three tenths of a meter.
Either you pulled that 100 meters out of your ass, or you remember it from Water World.
It was hot enough for jungle ferns to have been found under the ice.
You have a valid point. But, my eldest son has just moved out of the house, so now there are no Windows machines in the house. The worst thing that I've had to happen on Linux, is a browser hijack. Yes, browsers on Linux can be rickrolled, LOL!
I have used noscript, and it's very good. I just haven't felt the need to reinstall it since I've last installed my OS. And, that's the nice thing about my router - it's stable. My desktop is subject to change on a whim, starting with the OS, on through my choice of desktops, to my choice of browsers. Through it all, the router just keeps updating it's list of unwanted sites, and I don't see them. ;^)
That from a dog-shit/cow-shit person?
I'm not making fun of Windows, BTW - I'm making an observation. There is nothing that can be done about Windows, just as there is nothing to be done about idiots. You walk among the real people, and no one can tell the difference . . .
Backwards, you say? Maybe I should explain in more detail what I meant.
Eating while traveling was a genuine adventure, when I was a kid. You had no idea what the next restaurant might offer. See, there wasn't a Mickey D at ever major crossroads. The cities had so many different foods available, a kid's head would spin, trying to figure out what to eat next. Podunk towns didn't have that much variety, but the Podunks changed from one region to another. Crossing a state line could be a culinary adventure.
Today? Yeah, the cities still have quite a variety, in comparison to all the little backwater towns. But, they certainly DO NOT have the variety that was available when I was a kid. New York has it's deli stands, but, where to go for a real Russian menu? Or, German? Slovakian? They used to be a dime a dozen, sprinkled among Jewish restaurants, Chinese, and everything else you could imagine. Not just in Manhattan, but out in the Bronx, in Brooklyn, and out on Long Island.
No, I simply cannot find the variety that existed when I was a kid. You have to actually search out anything different, and then your choices are rather limited.