I suspect you are an I-hate-DRM-fanboy and 90% of your games most likely come with root-kits instead of DRM (that may even be the reason that 'your' CD-Key was distributed online (I hear that mega-warez-IV distributes your CD-Keys for you as a helpful gesture).
Nice Ad Hominem there.
Thanks
Of course you might have just made all of this up in an attempt to be one of those hip, happening, anti-DRM zealots who defend their rabid piracy by invoking the word 'freedom' in some catch-all phrase that appeals to all of the other 12 year olds who think they are hackers because they can use Winzip.
... and expanding it to include everyone else critical of Steam. Well done, sir. Well done. You've utterly discredited his story with your skepticism.
How does it discredit everyone else critical of steam?
Seeing as you are so familiar with Steam, perhaps you can answer a few simple questions:
1) Does Steam cut off your use of all products you have registered with them, despite having originally authorized them? Ever?
Not that I know of. I know someone that had a CD Key problem and it took about a week to fix. They sent a copy of their receipt to customer service and they were issued with a new CD Key.
During the dispute period access to their other Steam games was fine.
2) If #1 is true, by what process can you regain use of those legally purchased products, the validity of which was never disputed?
I think I answered that one
3) In a dispute with Steam about authenticity of any product, what is the process to prove authenticity of your purchase against a one-sided assertion of invalidity by the corporation?
I think I answered that one
and more generally,
4) What is the proper reaction to a (any) customer service department that directly accuses one of civil crimes that one has not, in fact, committed?
I believe this entire scenario was pulled out of the AC's bottom. I thought you realised that?
it makes the OP look like he's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Shouldn't be a problem in the future as they are already discussing the addition of Lithium to the water supply. They have even in some places added the plumbing infrastructure so as the mix can be tailored on a property by property basis. Anyway, whats the problem with MPD given enough Lithium no one is going to care.
And I am guessing that what it really boils down to is that you are one of those stinky, rabid Obama supporters(that can't accept an honest(this is a funny word to use in conjunction with Obama) apology). It used to be that the slogan was 'My country right or wrong' but it seems to have evolved in 2010 to be 'My coloured president right or wrong'(those who dispute this are lying, manipulative scumbags with xenophobic, racist agendas that hate all of the niceness, goodness, and freedoms that we won for you with our noble blood whilst simultaneously fighting sixteen world wars).
Or possibly spoken like someone from the USA(or just a believer in evil)
By a vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States) and no abstentions, the Committee also approved a resolution on the right to food, by which the Assembly would “consider it intolerable” that more than 6 million children still died every year from hunger-related illness before their fifth birthday, and that the number of undernourished people had grown to about 923 million worldwide, at the same time that the planet could produce enough food to feed 12 billion people, or twice the world’s present population.
Just so you get that, here it is again:
In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Yep, a secular church. Maybe call it the Church of Imagine meets Wavy Gravy. Offer spaghetti bolognaise as a sacrament if you must.
Many years ago I was looking up a phone number in the white pages(pre-internet days) and saw an entry for 'The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty'. I tried to call them to ask what they were all about but no one ever answered. I tried that number for months on a very regular basis. I am glad that they didn't answer as shortly after I stopped trying to call them I got to do a free IQ and Personality test and life has just been uphill from there.
scenario: You are on an uncharted desert isle. You have a radio with thirty seconds talk time in which to announce where you are. There isn't enough charge for them to get a fix on your position using the radio's signal.
All you have is a protractor, a frayed towel(never travel without a towel), pebbles on the beach, and a working wind up wristwatch. You don't have your calculator and you also have a sub-standard knowledge of how to do math/arithmetic without a modern device to do the hard yards for you.
I know I would be found. What would calculator kids chances be?
Like Bill Gates most of his philanthropy actually goes towards sterilisation and birth control in the third world. I don't consider these 'uses' of money very altruistic at all. It's like that investment Gates has in a bottled water plant in India that has lowered the water table to such an extent that several hundred villages are without water. You don;t hear about that bit of Gates portfolio but you do hear about the wells he had built in two of the affected violages to help them with their water scarcity problems. So kick yourself in the nuts you deserve it.
I have forgotten the name of the syndrome but their actually is a syndrome where people grow up with defective immune systems as it hasn't learnt how to do its job. Apparently an important part of playing in the dirt and the mud is having a good taste of it at that helps to train your immune system for the future. Probably OT a bit but interesting nevertheless.
When I went to school calculators had only been out for a couple of years. I think the big thing was a TI-59(I think it was a 59). Anyway, if any student had taken a calculator into a lesson it would have been a very serious matter. if it had been taken into a test it would have been immediate expulsion. I was recently flipping through some up to date math textbooks and though I do not have my old books to compare against I suspect that the math they are doing now is not as difficult as the math we used to do. I also met someone a few months ago who had managed a good pass in their HSC(year 12 leaving certificate in NSW, Australia) and had very little grasp on how to do math without a calculator(their multiplication and long division where totally abysmal). When I queried them on this they told me that being able to do long division on paper wasn't really very important as that's why they have calculators.
You really have to wonder what would happen to most people with a modern education if they suddenly had to rely on their own abilities rather than the gadget-enhanced abilities that they take for granted.
Then again I also think that computers have a time and a place and that place isn't the classroom. In an IT class is OK but IMHO that is about the only time is should be necessary(note to smarties don;t talk about disabilities as i am purposefully excluding them for the sake of brevity)
I suspect you are an I-hate-DRM-fanboy and 90% of your games most likely come with root-kits instead of DRM (that may even be the reason that 'your' CD-Key was distributed online (I hear that mega-warez-IV distributes your CD-Keys for you as a helpful gesture).
Managing to sucker a store clerk into letting you exchange the game just screwed over the next purchaser and means you aren't even worthy of me bothering to disrespect you. You suck.
No wonder you posted anonymously I would be ashamed if I was you too.
Of course you might have just made all of this up in an attempt to be one of those hip, happening, anti-DRM zealots who defend their rabid piracy by invoking the word 'freedom' in some catch-all phrase that appeals to all of the other 12 year olds who think they are hackers because they can use Winzip.
BTW I don't like DRM at all but Steam seems to be the lesser of the plethora(yes kids IT IS a biscuit) of various evils out there(no one mention Crysis: Warhead)
you have to wonder though that if some of the vocal opponents of this copyright brouha were suddenly heirs receiving tens of thousands annually on the work of dear old grandpa george if their righteous indignation would be toned down a bit.
This isn't a dig at you. I just think people suck in general.
Interestingly enough that particular Wiki - font of knowledge and wisdom doesn't have Israel on its list. There have been a few high profile dual citizens fleeing from the US to Israel and not being made to answer for their crimes by the Israeli government (Israel prefers to try its citizens for crimes committed overseas as being Jewish they wouldn't get a fair trial from the goy (or so the story goes).
Couldn't a program be run by some big corporate mob where they give you a hundred bucks off the cost of your shiny new laptop. Then they could take your old one, give it to the poor with Linux installed on it? I have a couple of old laptops here that would fit the bill perfectly and I bet a lot of other/. users would too. We don't need to create something when the resource they need is sitting around wanting to be used but headed for the dump or years in a dusty draw.
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I suspect you are an I-hate-DRM-fanboy and 90% of your games most likely come with root-kits instead of DRM (that may even be the reason that 'your' CD-Key was distributed online (I hear that mega-warez-IV distributes your CD-Keys for you as a helpful gesture).
Nice Ad Hominem there.
Thanks
Of course you might have just made all of this up in an attempt to be one of those hip, happening, anti-DRM zealots who defend their rabid piracy by invoking the word 'freedom' in some catch-all phrase that appeals to all of the other 12 year olds who think they are hackers because they can use Winzip.
... and expanding it to include everyone else critical of Steam. Well done, sir. Well done. You've utterly discredited his story with your skepticism.
How does it discredit everyone else critical of steam?
Seeing as you are so familiar with Steam, perhaps you can answer a few simple questions: 1) Does Steam cut off your use of all products you have registered with them, despite having originally authorized them? Ever?
Not that I know of. I know someone that had a CD Key problem and it took about a week to fix. They sent a copy of their receipt to customer service and they were issued with a new CD Key. During the dispute period access to their other Steam games was fine.
2) If #1 is true, by what process can you regain use of those legally purchased products, the validity of which was never disputed?
I think I answered that one
3) In a dispute with Steam about authenticity of any product, what is the process to prove authenticity of your purchase against a one-sided assertion of invalidity by the corporation?
I think I answered that one
and more generally, 4) What is the proper reaction to a (any) customer service department that directly accuses one of civil crimes that one has not, in fact, committed?
I believe this entire scenario was pulled out of the AC's bottom. I thought you realised that?
it makes the OP look like he's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Shouldn't be a problem in the future as they are already discussing the addition of Lithium to the water supply. They have even in some places added the plumbing infrastructure so as the mix can be tailored on a property by property basis. Anyway, whats the problem with MPD given enough Lithium no one is going to care.
How is Interpol (or another international organization) going to harm an ordinary citizen in the course of their official duties?
Personally i couldn't say at this point. I am sure though that there might be a few examples in the years to come.
And I am guessing that what it really boils down to is that you are one of those stinky, rabid Obama supporters(that can't accept an honest(this is a funny word to use in conjunction with Obama) apology). It used to be that the slogan was 'My country right or wrong' but it seems to have evolved in 2010 to be 'My coloured president right or wrong'(those who dispute this are lying, manipulative scumbags with xenophobic, racist agendas that hate all of the niceness, goodness, and freedoms that we won for you with our noble blood whilst simultaneously fighting sixteen world wars).
what's best Buy?
Just so you get that, here it is again:
Yep, a secular church. Maybe call it the Church of Imagine meets Wavy Gravy. Offer spaghetti bolognaise as a sacrament if you must.
Many years ago I was looking up a phone number in the white pages(pre-internet days) and saw an entry for 'The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty'. I tried to call them to ask what they were all about but no one ever answered. I tried that number for months on a very regular basis. I am glad that they didn't answer as shortly after I stopped trying to call them I got to do a free IQ and Personality test and life has just been uphill from there.
scenario: You are on an uncharted desert isle. You have a radio with thirty seconds talk time in which to announce where you are. There isn't enough charge for them to get a fix on your position using the radio's signal. All you have is a protractor, a frayed towel(never travel without a towel), pebbles on the beach, and a working wind up wristwatch. You don't have your calculator and you also have a sub-standard knowledge of how to do math/arithmetic without a modern device to do the hard yards for you. I know I would be found. What would calculator kids chances be?
What would you expect from someone who was such a big supporter of George W. Bush
Like Bill Gates most of his philanthropy actually goes towards sterilisation and birth control in the third world. I don't consider these 'uses' of money very altruistic at all. It's like that investment Gates has in a bottled water plant in India that has lowered the water table to such an extent that several hundred villages are without water. You don;t hear about that bit of Gates portfolio but you do hear about the wells he had built in two of the affected violages to help them with their water scarcity problems. So kick yourself in the nuts you deserve it.
I have forgotten the name of the syndrome but their actually is a syndrome where people grow up with defective immune systems as it hasn't learnt how to do its job. Apparently an important part of playing in the dirt and the mud is having a good taste of it at that helps to train your immune system for the future. Probably OT a bit but interesting nevertheless.
When I went to school calculators had only been out for a couple of years. I think the big thing was a TI-59(I think it was a 59). Anyway, if any student had taken a calculator into a lesson it would have been a very serious matter. if it had been taken into a test it would have been immediate expulsion. I was recently flipping through some up to date math textbooks and though I do not have my old books to compare against I suspect that the math they are doing now is not as difficult as the math we used to do. I also met someone a few months ago who had managed a good pass in their HSC(year 12 leaving certificate in NSW, Australia) and had very little grasp on how to do math without a calculator(their multiplication and long division where totally abysmal). When I queried them on this they told me that being able to do long division on paper wasn't really very important as that's why they have calculators.
You really have to wonder what would happen to most people with a modern education if they suddenly had to rely on their own abilities rather than the gadget-enhanced abilities that they take for granted.
Then again I also think that computers have a time and a place and that place isn't the classroom. In an IT class is OK but IMHO that is about the only time is should be necessary(note to smarties don;t talk about disabilities as i am purposefully excluding them for the sake of brevity)
I suspect you are an I-hate-DRM-fanboy and 90% of your games most likely come with root-kits instead of DRM (that may even be the reason that 'your' CD-Key was distributed online (I hear that mega-warez-IV distributes your CD-Keys for you as a helpful gesture).
Managing to sucker a store clerk into letting you exchange the game just screwed over the next purchaser and means you aren't even worthy of me bothering to disrespect you. You suck.
No wonder you posted anonymously I would be ashamed if I was you too.
Of course you might have just made all of this up in an attempt to be one of those hip, happening, anti-DRM zealots who defend their rabid piracy by invoking the word 'freedom' in some catch-all phrase that appeals to all of the other 12 year olds who think they are hackers because they can use Winzip.
BTW I don't like DRM at all but Steam seems to be the lesser of the plethora(yes kids IT IS a biscuit) of various evils out there(no one mention Crysis: Warhead)
Ten points if you know in which companies DRM version of GWTW the South wins.
you have to wonder though that if some of the vocal opponents of this copyright brouha were suddenly heirs receiving tens of thousands annually on the work of dear old grandpa george if their righteous indignation would be toned down a bit. This isn't a dig at you. I just think people suck in general.
Once they start adding this to the water supply you will all be happy (by order)
The irony of it being 1984 went over most peoples heads
Another "machines will take my job" story. This is as old as technology itself.
Makes me thank for the paperless office
Interestingly enough that particular Wiki - font of knowledge and wisdom doesn't have Israel on its list. There have been a few high profile dual citizens fleeing from the US to Israel and not being made to answer for their crimes by the Israeli government (Israel prefers to try its citizens for crimes committed overseas as being Jewish they wouldn't get a fair trial from the goy (or so the story goes).
saw a bright blue flash and a puff of acrid smoke and everything ground to a halt.
Your computer on drugs
You are amateurs. I use Havok
Couldn't a program be run by some big corporate mob where they give you a hundred bucks off the cost of your shiny new laptop. Then they could take your old one, give it to the poor with Linux installed on it? I have a couple of old laptops here that would fit the bill perfectly and I bet a lot of other /. users would too. We don't need to create something when the resource they need is sitting around wanting to be used but headed for the dump or years in a dusty draw.
you Americans just can't shut up about 9-11 can you?
"Christmas has no place at a United Nations event" -- UN Official
This was overheard at the Chanukah party
I recommend that we overload the spam filter in any way we can when it switches on