1) I want it to be upfront it's a rent. I recently bought a game I'd pirated to support the company's DRM free business model...only to discover it has SecuROM (Shivering Isles). Since it's only on install I don't mind so much, but there was nothing on the amazon.com page or game packaging to warn me. If find this disgusting, especially if we disallow refunds on open games if they don't work. (Another reason to use a creditcard...if they refuse your rights...chargeback)
2) Sure that's their right to rent games...for a reasonable and known in advance price. To me, buying a game means I can play it 10 years later and yes I do this. Not advertising a game's crippling DRM or calling it a "purchase" when it's not is blatant false advertising.
I read TFA and something is seeming strange to me.
You pay 10.5% of all revenue to the MAFIAA. Does that mean that they're waiving the current royalties? Or is this tax in addition to the old royalty rate?
If this is all they pay does that mean I can:
* Stream RIAA music all I want if I don't make any money? * Broadcast it DRM free? * Get from the RIAA their music to play?
Clearly I'm missing something big somewhere, 'cause there's no way the RIAA would allow that chain of events.
lol they never found anything on me. All it would take is three moving violation tickets in 6 months. I left because my fellowship was ok, but I saw the crap the full-time employees had to put up with.
I'm also not that interested in space research. Rather, I want it done, and don't care if it's me or some other guy. If I were into it more NASA would be worth it.
I'll say one thing for NASA though, they sure pay well. I didn't talk to a single scientist, engineer, or technologist who felt underpaid (and yes I did ask). And the internship was a wad of cash too:-)
You're right. Algebra and sex ed taught true things. There wasn't any section on lobbyists, bribery, or corruption in the government class, just some stuff about "democracy" "republic" and "representation"
Algebra and sex ed aren't that different. They're both things you need to know how to do and both easy to figure out on your own.
> But not in grade school. That option is not available. It was at my high school up until like 8th week of term (terms were roughly 18 weeks incl. finals, forget exact length). Not as generous as Tech's
> You do. Fleming, forever! and Dabney eats it! Red's not my color, I go more for the black. You know, we wouldn't want people thinking the red robes at graduation meant some sort of honor or distinction.
I'm not sure I agree. Let's examine a game's path from store shelves to your hard drive *queue cheesy music*
1a) Game is purchased 1b) Game is somehow acquired pre-release 2) Game (images or discs) are transferred to one of a few skilled crackers/hackers (the line is fuzzy here) who enjoy breaking DRM for the challenge and pseudonymous credit. 3) Crackers break game for fun, and probably don't really play it. (This is why the DRM that sabotages you after only 20+ hours of play is actually not as brain-dead as most of it). Some do though. 4) Game is transferred to script kiddies/people in non-fascist countries. People who don't know/don't care/aren't affected by DMCA and foreign friends. 5) Product reaches final consumers, often before if not at the same time as the retail rental version from which it was produced.
I'd argue that the only people affected by DRM are primarily in it for the fun and rush, so really DRM only/helps/ piracy.
> "Antisemite" is the catch-all trump-card brandished by jews to shut-down critics, no matter how well-founded the critic is. Trouble is, it has been misused so much that it is starting to lose it's efficiency... Not exactly. It's a catch-all trump-card used by Zionists to try to claim that all Jews agree with their political views. Many Jews are against Israel's government's heavy-handed actions much as many of us in the US aren't too happy about the War on Terra.
Please don't confuse the two. Anti-zionism IS NOT the same as antisemitism.
> According to Catholic dogma, the Pope is infallible, so all decisions made by prior popes are by definition correct. A common misconception.
The pope is only infallible when he speaks/ex cathedra/. (ex cathedra is the cheat code for his infallible mode)
Otherwise the Church would have been dragged down forever ago by such conflicts between different Papal statements.
You are of course right about following books, though it is possible to view Gnostic interpretations of the Bible as nonviolent (since the God of the old and new testaments is not the same).
Jesus' teaching is very much nonviolent and completely pacifistic, but Christianity also includes Judaic teachings, which are as violent as any other ancient tribal religion.
The best part of your first paragraph is that the A.C. was rated flamebait:-)
The inconsistencies in the Holocaust can generally be explained away when your country offers honest debate. Of course, if discussion is censored, it being faked starts to look a lot more plausible.
100 questions T/F like "You can get pregnant your first time" vs all those slideshows of diseased genitalia...hmmm, tough choice. Yeah I studied real hard for that test. Not.
They closed the sex ed loophole after me.
The government, 10th grade english, and algebra were respectably representative though. Even had to write essays in advance and read some stuff for English.
The correcting disinformation is really smart. Good way to make sure your students speak up if they think your wrong. And they know you want it and will lie at least once:-) I wish my instructors would do that.
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1) I want it to be upfront it's a rent. I recently bought a game I'd pirated to support the company's DRM free business model...only to discover it has SecuROM (Shivering Isles). Since it's only on install I don't mind so much, but there was nothing on the amazon.com page or game packaging to warn me. If find this disgusting, especially if we disallow refunds on open games if they don't work. (Another reason to use a creditcard...if they refuse your rights...chargeback)
2) Sure that's their right to rent games...for a reasonable and known in advance price. To me, buying a game means I can play it 10 years later and yes I do this. Not advertising a game's crippling DRM or calling it a "purchase" when it's not is blatant false advertising.
treacherous platform is a form of DRM.
I read TFA and something is seeming strange to me.
You pay 10.5% of all revenue to the MAFIAA. Does that mean that they're waiving the current royalties? Or is this tax in addition to the old royalty rate?
If this is all they pay does that mean I can:
* Stream RIAA music all I want if I don't make any money?
* Broadcast it DRM free?
* Get from the RIAA their music to play?
Clearly I'm missing something big somewhere, 'cause there's no way the RIAA would allow that chain of events.
lol they never found anything on me. All it would take is three moving violation tickets in 6 months. I left because my fellowship was ok, but I saw the crap the full-time employees had to put up with.
I'm also not that interested in space research. Rather, I want it done, and don't care if it's me or some other guy. If I were into it more NASA would be worth it.
I'll say one thing for NASA though, they sure pay well. I didn't talk to a single scientist, engineer, or technologist who felt underpaid (and yes I did ask). And the internship was a wad of cash too:-)
yeah. I wonder if it actually happened. Since when does the US make clothes and if we did since when do we export them to France?
I thought we ran up huge deficits to squander the planet's resources on an unsustainable way of life, not exporting things too.
You're right. Algebra and sex ed taught true things. There wasn't any section on lobbyists, bribery, or corruption in the government class, just some stuff about "democracy" "republic" and "representation"
Algebra and sex ed aren't that different. They're both things you need to know how to do and both easy to figure out on your own.
I don't see how GOTO is any more/less perverted than COMEFROM, they're both equivalent in expressive power...
Unless that's satire, I just lost all respect for you as a human being;)
fail.
> But not in grade school. That option is not available.
It was at my high school up until like 8th week of term (terms were roughly 18 weeks incl. finals, forget exact length). Not as generous as Tech's
> You do. Fleming, forever! and Dabney eats it!
Red's not my color, I go more for the black. You know, we wouldn't want people thinking the red robes at graduation meant some sort of honor or distinction.
I'm not sure I agree. Let's examine a game's path from store shelves to your hard drive *queue cheesy music*
1a) Game is purchased
1b) Game is somehow acquired pre-release
2) Game (images or discs) are transferred to one of a few skilled crackers/hackers (the line is fuzzy here) who enjoy breaking DRM for the challenge and pseudonymous credit.
3) Crackers break game for fun, and probably don't really play it. (This is why the DRM that sabotages you after only 20+ hours of play is actually not as brain-dead as most of it). Some do though.
4) Game is transferred to script kiddies/people in non-fascist countries. People who don't know/don't care/aren't affected by DMCA and foreign friends.
5) Product reaches final consumers, often before if not at the same time as the retail rental version from which it was produced.
I'd argue that the only people affected by DRM are primarily in it for the fun and rush, so really DRM only /helps/ piracy.
Promote space research, privatize NASA.
Seriously guys, the place is a red-taped bureaucracy waste. They're too busy running background checks on people in non-sensitive jobs to do research.
Dark + Science = We have no clue what's going on please fund us
Disclosure: I'm a heavy advocate of funding the sciences and a scientist myself. But seriously guys, just admit it if you don't have a clue;)
To put it from my freshman chem course:
If someone talks about:
Yuan-Teller distortion - 50% chance bullshit
Second-Order Yuan-Teller distortion - 100% chance bullshit
Pseudo-Second-Order Yuan-Teller distortion - You are being mocked.
Nous sommes désoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nous n'avons pas voté pour lui.
Easy, we patent the GPLed software and then make the author pay for surgeons to remove it.
> "Antisemite" is the catch-all trump-card brandished by jews to shut-down critics, no matter how well-founded the critic is. Trouble is, it has been misused so much that it is starting to lose it's efficiency...
Not exactly. It's a catch-all trump-card used by Zionists to try to claim that all Jews agree with their political views. Many Jews are against Israel's government's heavy-handed actions much as many of us in the US aren't too happy about the War on Terra.
Please don't confuse the two. Anti-zionism IS NOT the same as antisemitism.
> According to Catholic dogma, the Pope is infallible, so all decisions made by prior popes are by definition correct.
A common misconception.
The pope is only infallible when he speaks /ex cathedra/. (ex cathedra is the cheat code for his infallible mode)
Otherwise the Church would have been dragged down forever ago by such conflicts between different Papal statements.
You are of course right about following books, though it is possible to view Gnostic interpretations of the Bible as nonviolent (since the God of the old and new testaments is not the same).
Jesus' teaching is very much nonviolent and completely pacifistic, but Christianity also includes Judaic teachings, which are as violent as any other ancient tribal religion.
Deeds in the book. Yes. Deeds of its followers, no.
This is a general point, I agree it's the same thing in this case.
The best part of your first paragraph is that the A.C. was rated flamebait:-)
The inconsistencies in the Holocaust can generally be explained away when your country offers honest debate. Of course, if discussion is censored, it being faked starts to look a lot more plausible.
Those that deny the holocaust also start to get believed more often if it's illegal to do so.
If we allow open debate their lies get exposed and it works out the same way. But you can't debate someone if it's illegal to say it.
How does protectionism hurt our manufacturing sector? Isn't it generally used to reduce foreign competition to things we make here?
I'm against it too, but have never heard that particular claim before. Much the opposite.
I dont' think pirates care about DRM; it doesn't affect them.
I'm happy to buy games, I refuse to rent them. Especially if it's misadvertised as buying.
100 questions T/F like "You can get pregnant your first time" vs all those slideshows of diseased genitalia...hmmm, tough choice. Yeah I studied real hard for that test. Not.
They closed the sex ed loophole after me.
The government, 10th grade english, and algebra were respectably representative though. Even had to write essays in advance and read some stuff for English.
The correcting disinformation is really smart. Good way to make sure your students speak up if they think your wrong. And they know you want it and will lie at least once:-) I wish my instructors would do that.