So I am a free loading douche when the same music is legally streamed over digital radio every day, streamed over analog radio every day, streamed for free over the internet every day, all legal. So it is ok and legal, note legal, for me to make a perfect digital recording of a song played over digital radio for free, yet illegal to download a copy for free. The word retarded applies to you here.
You must have bad taste in music, a slow internet connection, or not going to the right places for torrents. A decent private tracker usually has more music available than you could listen to in a couple of years playing it 24/7. A really good site will have even more.
If the people bought the politicians like the big companies did, then the government would serve the people. Politicians, like most of us, work for those who pay them.
You can lobby. you can vote. you can inform. you can raise awareness. you can debate. Or you can do like the big corporations do an buy politicians. I will leave it to you to decide which is more effective in the short term and the long term.
Bullshit and a lie. There are TBC expansions in Walmart right now that come with 30 days game time. And there were a couple of years ago when I bought my nephew a copy of the game.
Buy Vanilla, comes with a month game play (so 20 bucks, 5 for game, 15 for months time) If you like it, then buy additional game time until you reach level 60. Then buy TBC, costs 20 bucks and comes with a month's game time. When you reach 70, Wrath will be 20 bucks and come with a month's game time. And if you actually take your time, try out different classes/races/specs, you might take a couple of years before you even get interested n Cata. Which will be about the time the next expansion comes out. Personally, I think the 15 bucks a month is the best entertainment value I got going at the moment. And that is if I log in for a couple hours a week, all day for a couple of days in a row, or not at all for a week.
There is also the idea that folks play the same game different ways. I love the low-level BGs. I have several XP-off toons that I do nothing on but PvP and run instances to gear them to the max. I have another toon I farm and fish on. I have several toons on different servers who only are lvl 5 or 6 and "live" simply to fill the gbanks with goods and then sell the stuff to make more gold to fill the gbank's money tab. don't raid, rarely quest (at lvl 10 I either BG for XP or I do the traditional grind of killing things)and I thoroughly enjoy playing WoW. I ain't buying Cata because Blizz broke my hunters, but I will eventually.
Low debt, or no debt if at all possible. Drive a decent older car. Buy what you need, not what you want (tempered of course by not living as a poverty stricken monk), and don't let what you see others have set how you feel about yourself. I would rather live frugally and not be beholden to another person, than live like a king and owe out my ass. Right now I am living on about 1000.00 bucks a month worth of expenses. Varies as I pay my car insurance every six months which causes a spike in my expenses. I make far more than that. My income above my expenses is stuck in a roth ira (sucky return but better than a savings account by far. I don't indulge in a lot of extras, although I do have an active WoW account and often go out with friends. Of course I eat before going out, and usually have a cup of coffee, and am the designated driver if we are bar hopping. I buy as much food as possible within my budget, buying raw or less prepared and cooking my meals instead of getting prepackaged junk food.
Blizz is doing what? Surprises me since I am not buying Cata due to them simplifying and homogenizing the classes and making the game too easy. Not to mention they broke PvP class balance. Now I am just playing XP-off BGs with my lowbies and farming on my mains. Figure once I level my alts, other than my XP-locked PvP toons, I might buy Cata. But until then, I am not.
I never have problems with my games. Just give it about 6 months or so and the copy you get will be bug free, patched and playable. Of course it will be free too boot, as the pirates are the ones who make most games playable. I figure if a company wants me to pay for their game, they will make it worth me paying for it. As long as their games are crappy, full of fail and AIDS and generally released and forgotten, fuck them. I will download a cracked, patched and working pirated version and play it.
It is xmas time. A few bombs hidden in shopping bags by the sit on Santa's lap thing at the local malls would work wonders for paralyzing our already teetering economy.
SO if Ahmed and five of his buddies build 20 bombs, detonate ten of them under bridges randomly selected on major highways throughout the Continental US and then claim to have planted 100 more while disclosing the locations of five of the others, you'd be in favor of shutting down the entire highway system of the US? Or having each vehicle inspected, scanned and passengers stripped prior to allowing them on the roads? If you leave your house in a car you have a much better chance of dying before you get to you destination than if you flew on a plane, even with no security screenings. I personally am not willing to trade my rights for safety, and damn sure am not willing to trade away my rights for something that doesn't even offer me that.
What is funny in TFA is the estranged wife's comment. "he became increasingly unstable since losing his job several years ago." I am from the South and around here we call what he did either batshit crazy or really pissed off.
I am disappointed. I RTFA and saw no mention how I was supposed to be able to copy and pirate drugs over the internet. I had utorrent all fired up and waiting for the torrent to download some good codeine and cocaine.
Gramps has a black belt in ass whuppin. And that is IMNSHO, one of the better shows on TV when dealing with typical stereotypes from any racial perspective.
You are an AC, but I will respond anyway. Doesn't matter at what loss or profit MSFT sells their xboxes. I run an HVAC/R business. I sell equipment. If for some reason I decide to sell that equipment at a loss, hoping that the customer will buy an extended service contract and/or warranty, and they don't, well that's my problem, not theirs. I can't go to court or as in the case of the DMCA, buy a bunch of politicians to write a law making folks pay me for my lack of foresight in pricing the equipment I sell. If I buy something, then it is mine to do with as I chose. Modding physical objects to work in a manner that we decide has been going on long before electronics ever hit the market.
By that logic then, when your heating, cooling or refrigerator breaks, you should fix it yourself, and not call a trained professional. And when your car breaks, grab a book and a wrench and get busy. And hope if you fall off the roof, you can remain conscious so you can operate on yourself. Fact is that no one person can be skilled in every field. So instead of sitting on your high horse acting smug and uber because you have some computer skills, think about the fact that you can't do a whole bunch of things not involving computers. Me, I can repair any HVAC/R equipment on the market, weld using MIG, TIG, stick and gas, do framing, lay brick, float concrete, replace a roof, rebuild a 350 small block, resurface the heads, lay carpet or tile, paint, install rubber roofing, craft fine furniture, install and/or repair cable and phone systems and do most basic stuff when it comes to computers.
So, guess you are a geek with one skill, sort of like a trained seal blowing on a horn or balancing a ball on your nose. A one trick pony.
OK lumpy, free of charge, I am giving you this idea. Make what you said folks should do an easy, as in click and install, thing and sell it for a reasonable price (one that nets you a profit). I will buy it for my own computers and buy and install it on at least 5 of my relatives.
And dumbass, L2read. I am not a tech geek. I am however the most computer literate person in my extended family. And if I don't know WTF a host file is and ain't interested in using them, then what makes you think anyone less technically inclined than me will be, regardless of how many times you post links, and other useless junk? Most folks think IE is the internet. So instead of spewing posts about how host files are the next greatest thing in the world and will even make your dick bigger, how about writing an add-on for FF that will easily install and link to a host file so non-geeks can have it installed by semi-computer literate folks?
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So I am a free loading douche when the same music is legally streamed over digital radio every day, streamed over analog radio every day, streamed for free over the internet every day, all legal. So it is ok and legal, note legal, for me to make a perfect digital recording of a song played over digital radio for free, yet illegal to download a copy for free. The word retarded applies to you here.
You must have bad taste in music, a slow internet connection, or not going to the right places for torrents. A decent private tracker usually has more music available than you could listen to in a couple of years playing it 24/7. A really good site will have even more.
If the people bought the politicians like the big companies did, then the government would serve the people. Politicians, like most of us, work for those who pay them.
You can lobby. you can vote. you can inform. you can raise awareness. you can debate. Or you can do like the big corporations do an buy politicians. I will leave it to you to decide which is more effective in the short term and the long term.
Bullshit and a lie. There are TBC expansions in Walmart right now that come with 30 days game time. And there were a couple of years ago when I bought my nephew a copy of the game.
Buy Vanilla, comes with a month game play (so 20 bucks, 5 for game, 15 for months time) If you like it, then buy additional game time until you reach level 60. Then buy TBC, costs 20 bucks and comes with a month's game time. When you reach 70, Wrath will be 20 bucks and come with a month's game time. And if you actually take your time, try out different classes/races/specs, you might take a couple of years before you even get interested n Cata. Which will be about the time the next expansion comes out. Personally, I think the 15 bucks a month is the best entertainment value I got going at the moment. And that is if I log in for a couple hours a week, all day for a couple of days in a row, or not at all for a week.
There is also the idea that folks play the same game different ways. I love the low-level BGs. I have several XP-off toons that I do nothing on but PvP and run instances to gear them to the max. I have another toon I farm and fish on. I have several toons on different servers who only are lvl 5 or 6 and "live" simply to fill the gbanks with goods and then sell the stuff to make more gold to fill the gbank's money tab. don't raid, rarely quest (at lvl 10 I either BG for XP or I do the traditional grind of killing things)and I thoroughly enjoy playing WoW. I ain't buying Cata because Blizz broke my hunters, but I will eventually.
I drink cheap booze, and play WoW. I prefer to multi-task.
Low debt, or no debt if at all possible. Drive a decent older car. Buy what you need, not what you want (tempered of course by not living as a poverty stricken monk), and don't let what you see others have set how you feel about yourself. I would rather live frugally and not be beholden to another person, than live like a king and owe out my ass. Right now I am living on about 1000.00 bucks a month worth of expenses. Varies as I pay my car insurance every six months which causes a spike in my expenses. I make far more than that. My income above my expenses is stuck in a roth ira (sucky return but better than a savings account by far. I don't indulge in a lot of extras, although I do have an active WoW account and often go out with friends. Of course I eat before going out, and usually have a cup of coffee, and am the designated driver if we are bar hopping. I buy as much food as possible within my budget, buying raw or less prepared and cooking my meals instead of getting prepackaged junk food.
Pasteurized or not? Whole, low fat, or fat free? Homogenized or not?
Blizz is doing what? Surprises me since I am not buying Cata due to them simplifying and homogenizing the classes and making the game too easy. Not to mention they broke PvP class balance. Now I am just playing XP-off BGs with my lowbies and farming on my mains. Figure once I level my alts, other than my XP-locked PvP toons, I might buy Cata. But until then, I am not.
Bad example. A Mac program used by an exceedingly small group of folks, versus games which have a much larger user base.
I never have problems with my games. Just give it about 6 months or so and the copy you get will be bug free, patched and playable. Of course it will be free too boot, as the pirates are the ones who make most games playable. I figure if a company wants me to pay for their game, they will make it worth me paying for it. As long as their games are crappy, full of fail and AIDS and generally released and forgotten, fuck them. I will download a cracked, patched and working pirated version and play it.
It is xmas time. A few bombs hidden in shopping bags by the sit on Santa's lap thing at the local malls would work wonders for paralyzing our already teetering economy.
SO if Ahmed and five of his buddies build 20 bombs, detonate ten of them under bridges randomly selected on major highways throughout the Continental US and then claim to have planted 100 more while disclosing the locations of five of the others, you'd be in favor of shutting down the entire highway system of the US? Or having each vehicle inspected, scanned and passengers stripped prior to allowing them on the roads? If you leave your house in a car you have a much better chance of dying before you get to you destination than if you flew on a plane, even with no security screenings. I personally am not willing to trade my rights for safety, and damn sure am not willing to trade away my rights for something that doesn't even offer me that.
What is funny in TFA is the estranged wife's comment. "he became increasingly unstable since losing his job several years ago." I am from the South and around here we call what he did either batshit crazy or really pissed off.
I am disappointed. I RTFA and saw no mention how I was supposed to be able to copy and pirate drugs over the internet. I had utorrent all fired up and waiting for the torrent to download some good codeine and cocaine.
So, has anyone told the Federal prosecutor in the region about the DMCA violations going on by the USAF?
Any links to how a person would go about doing the phone modifying? Seems like a good way to make some quick cash in these lean economic times.
Gramps has a black belt in ass whuppin. And that is IMNSHO, one of the better shows on TV when dealing with typical stereotypes from any racial perspective.
You are an AC, but I will respond anyway. Doesn't matter at what loss or profit MSFT sells their xboxes. I run an HVAC/R business. I sell equipment. If for some reason I decide to sell that equipment at a loss, hoping that the customer will buy an extended service contract and/or warranty, and they don't, well that's my problem, not theirs. I can't go to court or as in the case of the DMCA, buy a bunch of politicians to write a law making folks pay me for my lack of foresight in pricing the equipment I sell. If I buy something, then it is mine to do with as I chose. Modding physical objects to work in a manner that we decide has been going on long before electronics ever hit the market.
By that logic then, when your heating, cooling or refrigerator breaks, you should fix it yourself, and not call a trained professional. And when your car breaks, grab a book and a wrench and get busy. And hope if you fall off the roof, you can remain conscious so you can operate on yourself. Fact is that no one person can be skilled in every field. So instead of sitting on your high horse acting smug and uber because you have some computer skills, think about the fact that you can't do a whole bunch of things not involving computers. Me, I can repair any HVAC/R equipment on the market, weld using MIG, TIG, stick and gas, do framing, lay brick, float concrete, replace a roof, rebuild a 350 small block, resurface the heads, lay carpet or tile, paint, install rubber roofing, craft fine furniture, install and/or repair cable and phone systems and do most basic stuff when it comes to computers. So, guess you are a geek with one skill, sort of like a trained seal blowing on a horn or balancing a ball on your nose. A one trick pony.
OK lumpy, free of charge, I am giving you this idea. Make what you said folks should do an easy, as in click and install, thing and sell it for a reasonable price (one that nets you a profit). I will buy it for my own computers and buy and install it on at least 5 of my relatives.
And dumbass, L2read. I am not a tech geek. I am however the most computer literate person in my extended family. And if I don't know WTF a host file is and ain't interested in using them, then what makes you think anyone less technically inclined than me will be, regardless of how many times you post links, and other useless junk? Most folks think IE is the internet. So instead of spewing posts about how host files are the next greatest thing in the world and will even make your dick bigger, how about writing an add-on for FF that will easily install and link to a host file so non-geeks can have it installed by semi-computer literate folks?
Ok, I'll bite. Where does the google 8.8.8.8 plug in at?