"As far as I'm concerned, people who pay for a copy of their game software have *every* right to opt to use said software with other, alternate servers, if they so desire."
Yes, as far as YOU are concerned - NOT THE LAW. They don't buy a game, they pay for a license - that license is a contract specifying what you can do and what you can't do. You don't want to agree with that - then don't pay and stay away.
"They also have every right to run any manner of automated script or "bot" in lieu of physically sitting in front of their screen and hand-manipulating the character they've paid for the subscription to use on Blizzard's servers!"
Wrong. They pay for a license to use to the servers IF they follow certain rules, and cheating by running bots is specifically NOT allowed.
"Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!"
Thank god the people have won the right to not pay for the software.
"These are agreements the US and China both entered into voluntarily."
Of course its not the whole country who are behind this, its a tiny minority of (honest?) politicians who have signed this. A lot of people are against the ability to do a job once and then expect to get paid over and over for it again.
"Canadian citizens are not allowed, by law, to spend their own money to receive medical treatment if they desire to, "
The political reason is of course the politicians fear there will be a deeper separation of the rich and the poor: First the rich will pay for speed (notice they would just pay for faster service), and then they'll demand that taxes be lowered on this (since they don't want to have to pay for the poor) - its a defense against the greedy.
"The doctors themselves are leaving to work in the US."
Not "the doctors", a minority - presumably a greedy minority who became doctors to make money not save lives - and they know in the US greed is more important than actually saving people and by becoming a doctor there you can really fleece people.
"Yeah, that would require a constitutional amendment granting the President the additional power to remove judges"
I wasn't thinking about the president, which might be bad, but that they served for a limited time 4-5 years, and then a new one was appointed by a group of their peers plus business people and ordinary people (like here)
"No. The presidency would be passed on to Joe Biden."
Why would it when he was not vice president? Notice I said before the ceremony, he wasn't vice president yet - it would be passed to Cheney who could pardon him.
"If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back? Does superior technology give you the moral right to impose your will on a technologically inferior culture? "
"o Issue at least one executive order to have a supreme court judge arrested... (snip) o Issue at least one executive order to have a congressman arrested.. (snip)
Have you heard about "separation of powers"? The President can't do anything against the other two powers,"
With European eyes it seems totally nuts that the president picks a supreme court judge and he just sits there until he dies of old age. If one wanted to change that system how would you do that? Is that an amendment ?
"Having set up the streaming watching at a university, I can tell you that Foxnews.com had the best quality stream by a mile. Of course they probably had significantly better demand."
No no, its because all the Fox supporters hate Obama and refused to watch it! Plenty of bandwith just for your one stream!
What if Bush had pulled out a gun and shot him a 20 minutes to noon!? He would have still been president - would different rules apply? Or would they just arrest him a second past noon?:)
"So... how secure is this? I can't imagine anyone other than my doctor (and not even him, probably) are that interested in my biometrics, but I am not comfortable with the information being broadcast over a network. "
But how else would skynet manipulate with your medicines in order to kill you so you wont start a revolution against it in the future?
"Good grief. "Sharing" copyrighted music files on a P2P network was always an extremely bad idea. If you ever had any fraction of an excuse for doing it"
No excuses are needed, one *reason* for doing it to be combat the evil copyright system.
"Yeah. Kind of like Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, et al? Or do you hear the modern youth bumpin' those classics as they roll down the block? Yeah, man, music is dead all right. Might as well cut off our ears."
"And FWIW, at 35"
No way you could be 35 and write that rubbish paragraph, more like 16.
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"They paid for their accounts."
And agreed to follow the rules in the contract - but they are breaking it so they can fuck off.
"As far as I'm concerned, people who pay for a copy of their game software have *every* right to opt to use said software with other, alternate servers, if they so desire."
Yes, as far as YOU are concerned - NOT THE LAW. They don't buy a game, they pay for a license - that license is a contract specifying what you can do and what you can't do. You don't want to agree with that - then don't pay and stay away.
"They also have every right to run any manner of automated script or "bot" in lieu of physically sitting in front of their screen and hand-manipulating the character they've paid for the subscription to use on Blizzard's servers!"
Wrong. They pay for a license to use to the servers IF they follow certain rules, and cheating by running bots is specifically NOT allowed.
"Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!"
Thank god the people have won the right to not pay for the software.
Stop doing that kids, he is right.
"These are agreements the US and China both entered into voluntarily."
Of course its not the whole country who are behind this, its a tiny minority of (honest?) politicians who have signed this. A lot of people are against the ability to do a job once and then expect to get paid over and over for it again.
Of course if the westeners were less greedy, they could reduce the price they want from this stuff. A "fair price" is not "what you can get away with"
"Canadian citizens are not allowed, by law, to spend their own money to receive medical treatment if they desire to, "
The political reason is of course the politicians fear there will be a deeper separation of the rich and the poor: First the rich will pay for speed (notice they would just pay for faster service), and then they'll demand that taxes be lowered on this (since they don't want to have to pay for the poor) - its a defense against the greedy.
"The doctors themselves are leaving to work in the US."
Not "the doctors", a minority - presumably a greedy minority who became doctors to make money not save lives - and they know in the US greed is more important than actually saving people and by becoming a doctor there you can really fleece people.
"Higher taxes,"
Are not a problem when you save in other areas.
"more governmental control over our lives and less individual freedom"
Your idea of less freedom is being more anti social. If you don't want to live in a civilized country go live in the jungle.
99% of all humans end up needing a lot of health care - its basically bad design.
Of the impending apocalypse!
Everybody hide!
that there is porn on line - they'll be there like a shot!
Its not fixing, its forging - stop doing that.
"Yeah, that would require a constitutional amendment granting the President the additional power to remove judges"
I wasn't thinking about the president, which might be bad, but that they served for a limited time 4-5 years, and then a new one was appointed by a group of their peers plus business people and ordinary people (like here)
"No. The presidency would be passed on to Joe Biden."
Why would it when he was not vice president?
Notice I said before the ceremony, he wasn't vice president yet - it would be passed to Cheney who could pardon him.
"If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back? Does superior technology give you the moral right to impose your will on a technologically inferior culture? "
Can't we all be friends?
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"o Issue at least one executive order to have a supreme court judge arrested ... (snip) .. (snip)
o Issue at least one executive order to have a congressman arrested
Have you heard about "separation of powers"? The President can't do anything against the other two powers,"
With European eyes it seems totally nuts that the president picks a supreme court judge and he just sits there until he dies of old age. If one wanted to change that system how would you do that? Is that an amendment ?
"Having set up the streaming watching at a university, I can tell you that Foxnews.com had the best quality stream by a mile. Of course they probably had significantly better demand."
No no, its because all the Fox supporters hate Obama and refused to watch it! Plenty of bandwith just for your one stream!
Quote something to make it clear what you are talking about.
What if Bush had pulled out a gun and shot him a 20 minutes to noon!? He would have still been president - would different rules apply? Or would they just arrest him a second past noon? :)
What if he then refused to take the oath!
Would he be fired? By whom? :)
"So... how secure is this? I can't imagine anyone other than my doctor (and not even him, probably) are that interested in my biometrics, but I am not comfortable with the information being broadcast over a network. "
But how else would skynet manipulate with your medicines in order to kill you so you wont start a revolution against it in the future?
"Good grief. "Sharing" copyrighted music files on a P2P network was always an extremely bad idea. If you ever had any fraction of an excuse for doing it"
No excuses are needed, one *reason* for doing it to be combat the evil copyright system.
Don't forget the pyramids where power distributors, and if it was good enough for the ancient Egyptians it's good enough for us!
"Yeah. Kind of like Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, et al? Or do you hear the modern youth bumpin' those classics as they roll down the block? Yeah, man, music is dead all right. Might as well cut off our ears."
"And FWIW, at 35"
No way you could be 35 and write that rubbish paragraph, more like 16.
Just buy the Google Alcometer, then you'll always remember where you've been!
One should do that as a rule here, since many of the dumb kids mod you down when ever they don't agree with your opinion.