If there is ever another major (e.g., PC/console) release of a Duke Nukem game, it will be released by different people. People, by the way, who will be smart enough to call their product, "Duke Nukem Tomorrow."
Unfortunately, the places where the cease and desist letters are posted all seem to be down. IANAL, but if they're going after the trademark, then that would be defensible. If they go after an app called "Mulana's Rating Calculator" (or whatever), then I have no freaking clue what interest or grounds they'd have to enforce it. Copyright on derivative works? Sounds like a legally fuzzy area.
My father, who is a psychiatrist, was looking over a medical journal one day and showed me an article where some researcher---in a study funded by one of the drug companies, I forget which one---had determined that whatever SSRI the company was peddling was effective against bipolar disorder. This had been a six-week trial.
I didn't understand. My father explained to me that yes, SSRIs tend to be effective as short-term treatment for bipolar disorder, but that over the long term, they actually can make bipolar symptoms worse. So the study was cherry-picked: deceptive, because what is good in the short term can be bad in the long term. Many bipolar people get put on antidepressants, which are counterproductive. And doctors often go along with it, because the drug companies have been intentionally misleading them in publications.
The rule is that if a media outlet is offering time to a particular candidate for a particular office, then other candidates for the same office should be able to get the same deal.
This is only relevant to media subject to FCC regulation. Which, in general, does not include the Internet.
But in any case, it's quite easy to get around the Equal Time Rule by doing everything as a newscast.
That's a very plausible, reasonable-sounding explanation. Not nearly as plausible and reasonable-sounding as, "Jesus H. Christ! It's not even important! We changed the way they're supposed to look, we didn't even have the make-up budget to do that shit at the time, deal with it, use your imagination, stop worrying about canon and watch the goddamn show!"
It may not be the case in this particular instance, but if censorship by the government and censorship by private corporations amounts to essentially the same thing---for instance, if American ISPs got together to initiate their own Project Golden Shield---what's the difference? Who cares who they're working for?
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For some reason, whenever I open a tab, it says it's this "IceWeasel" thing.
Duke Nukem Forever will never be released.
If there is ever another major (e.g., PC/console) release of a Duke Nukem game, it will be released by different people. People, by the way, who will be smart enough to call their product, "Duke Nukem Tomorrow."
1) Stuff that we don't like.
2) Stuff that you don't like.
I strongly believe that celery is a fascist vegetable.
They do, but whatever. Still don't care about their feelings.
I apologize for being redundant.
GP: "Parent, you're being redundant!"
P: "Parent, you're being redundant!"
I have karma to burn.
GP: "Isn't A like B?"
P: "Isn't C like D, except E?"
Redundant? ...someone please mod this entire thread Redundant. ;-)
"May cause sudden euphoric death."
Awesome; I've got some extra canisters of mustard gas I've been trying to get off my hands.
Unfortunately, the places where the cease and desist letters are posted all seem to be down. IANAL, but if they're going after the trademark, then that would be defensible. If they go after an app called "Mulana's Rating Calculator" (or whatever), then I have no freaking clue what interest or grounds they'd have to enforce it. Copyright on derivative works? Sounds like a legally fuzzy area.
My father, who is a psychiatrist, was looking over a medical journal one day and showed me an article where some researcher---in a study funded by one of the drug companies, I forget which one---had determined that whatever SSRI the company was peddling was effective against bipolar disorder. This had been a six-week trial.
I didn't understand. My father explained to me that yes, SSRIs tend to be effective as short-term treatment for bipolar disorder, but that over the long term, they actually can make bipolar symptoms worse. So the study was cherry-picked: deceptive, because what is good in the short term can be bad in the long term. Many bipolar people get put on antidepressants, which are counterproductive. And doctors often go along with it, because the drug companies have been intentionally misleading them in publications.
I think your argument is with GGP, not me.
The rule is that if a media outlet is offering time to a particular candidate for a particular office, then other candidates for the same office should be able to get the same deal.
This is only relevant to media subject to FCC regulation. Which, in general, does not include the Internet.
But in any case, it's quite easy to get around the Equal Time Rule by doing everything as a newscast.
That's not the end of it. Those goddamn Nazis running the German government have also banned the National Socialist Party.
The more appropriate term, rather than "thief," might be "freeloader."
Oddly enough, in a month or so I am, in fact, moving into a basement.
Life imitates art.
Actually, these criticisms have been pretty thoroughly debunked, perhaps most significantly here.
That's a very plausible, reasonable-sounding explanation. Not nearly as plausible and reasonable-sounding as, "Jesus H. Christ! It's not even important! We changed the way they're supposed to look, we didn't even have the make-up budget to do that shit at the time, deal with it, use your imagination, stop worrying about canon and watch the goddamn show!"
So it must have already happened, and it undid itself by resolving the paradox in four dimensions.
Fortunately, my username perfectly qualifies me to wear the shirt.
I guess we should having coloring books for the blown-off limbs of soldier who got caught by IEDs in Iraq.
It happened. Certainly, it's something one should know about. But it's in very poor taste.
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
"Can either of those titles be enjoyed at their maximum potential?"
Tetris is way more fun if you turn up the resolution and clipping.
Nonsense.
Do you really, honestly think that there is even a remote possibility that they'll have more adopters than lines of code? Or even close?
So? If the government chooses simply to burn books, but not send people to jail for reading them, is it not still censorship?
It may not be the case in this particular instance, but if censorship by the government and censorship by private corporations amounts to essentially the same thing---for instance, if American ISPs got together to initiate their own Project Golden Shield---what's the difference? Who cares who they're working for?