"Of course, if you don't like the system, you're free to not do anything noteworthy."
Yeah, if you don't want to keep slaves then just don't keep slaves! If you don't want to underpay your employees then just don't do it! If you don't want to beat up your wife then don't do it. We don't need to stinking laws or morality.
"Such is my right, since without me the idea would not have come into being"
If not you then somebody else - somebody less greedy perhaps.
"Last time I checked, fighting against the steady march of technology is rather futile unless you're Amish"
"intellectual property" is an amoral concept which has nothing to do with technology - on the contrary hopefully technology will help defeat it. One job, one pay, not over and over.
Or they actually count the number of dead instead of like the current administration DISCOUNT a lot of death because they don't fit a long list of arbitrary conditions.
The point of this group is to find ways to do something about "terrorism" - they have identified the internet as part of the problem, therefore something WILL be done about it. Unless someone wakes up and interferes.
...with what the intelligent of us have known for a long time - if you have neurogenesis obviously this is how it works - the brain is like a muscle, and most people can't really be bothered to train it after they escape from school and so it starts to "fail" - if you keep exercising it, it will not only be easy to learn at a old age but also change your mind - of course set in ones ways also owes a lot to psychology and unfulfillment in life.
"... You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."
Exactly, you can't delete your account - you can "deactivate" it - meaning others can find you or see you on the site - but facebook keeps your info stored.
"Please note in the future that Steam purchases, per the Steam Subscriber Agreement, are not refundable - this refund was issued as a one-time customer service gesture."
It doesn't matter - it's still amoral to sell a product to different prices. It has one value + profit - if you have different profit margines you are cheating your customers.
"No, they'd lose money if they sold it at $10 EVERYWHERE. They make maybe $2-3 per copy sold in Russia... almost not even worth the effort. If they only made $2-3/copy sold everywhere, they'd need to sell 15-20 million units just to break even. That would be an astouding number of sales for ANY game, and unachievable, even for Valve."
Though!
It has a certain value and that's it. If you can't sell it somewhere well that's too bad.
What they (and others) are doing there is sick and amoral - even if other creeps have been doing it forever.
"By your logic, they should either sell it at $10 everywhere and lose massive amounts of money (i.e, they get screwed), "
Yes because otherwise they are screwed US - forcing us to pay for it. It's an amoral way of doing business which should be forbidden.
"or not sell it in markets where they have to mark it down to make it affordable (customers in those markets get screwed)."
Tough.
"God forbid your sense of entitlement be trampled on by a company"
The company is trampling on us - they deserve to be spit at.
Slashdot Mirror
"The bottom line is this is much like the ruling in the US that companies had to keep a record of working memory (which is entirely impossible,) "
Not only would that be possible (but expensive) but that wasn't what the ruling said.
"This seems to be more legislators talking about something they know very little about."
On the contrary, for once someone who does know what he is talking about.
"Of course, if you don't like the system, you're free to not do anything noteworthy."
Yeah, if you don't want to keep slaves then just don't keep slaves! If you don't want to underpay your employees then just don't do it! If you don't want to beat up your wife then don't do it. We don't need to stinking laws or morality.
"Such is my right, since without me the idea would not have come into being"
If not you then somebody else - somebody less greedy perhaps.
"Last time I checked, fighting against the steady march of technology is rather futile unless you're Amish"
"intellectual property" is an amoral concept which has nothing to do with technology - on the contrary hopefully technology will help defeat it. One job, one pay, not over and over.
Yeah, we should only let the beautiful breed - it would be tough for the moment - but in a 500 years we'd all be so pretty!
....it was a lame experiment...
When you are in a store browsing - its only easy when you are downloading on the internet ;)
"You see, in their perfect world, they sell you the same content over and over again, each time in a different format. "
Such is the evil of "intellectual property" and should be banned from the planet.
" The more powerful the spell, the harder it is to play, so your character's skills are directly related to your skills."
If I had any skills i wouldn't be playing computer games!
Of course they will. Because they can improve the product.
There is still hope that the Internet can slay Copyright... I hope.
Is to whip the guilty parties 500 times each on live tv - then carve their bodies into little pieces and feed them to lions - also on tv.
In time the word would get around.
Or they actually count the number of dead instead of like the current administration DISCOUNT a lot of death because they don't fit a long list of arbitrary conditions.
The point of this group is to find ways to do something about "terrorism" - they have identified the internet as part of the problem, therefore something WILL be done about it. Unless someone wakes up and interferes.
So whatever the call plot isn't really relevant I'd say.
Life sucks too.
Wasn't it they couldn't use the 3M network, which ment that the IPhones internet was about 90% slower than the rest of internet phones in europe.
"... You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."
Exactly, you can't delete your account - you can "deactivate" it - meaning others can find you or see you on the site - but facebook keeps your info stored.
Seems like a totally dubious outfit to me.
It doesn't matter if your android is not so bright, as long as she is hot!
As if I'd want a phone with commercials.
Meh indeed.
"Please note in the future that Steam purchases, per the Steam Subscriber Agreement, are not refundable - this refund was issued as a one-time customer service gesture."
And we all know what thas gesture was...
"Now which option would you choose ? "
It doesn't matter - it's still amoral to sell a product to different prices. It has one value + profit - if you have different profit margines you are cheating your customers.
"No, they'd lose money if they sold it at $10 EVERYWHERE. They make maybe $2-3 per copy sold in Russia... almost not even worth the effort. If they only made $2-3/copy sold everywhere, they'd need to sell 15-20 million units just to break even. That would be an astouding number of sales for ANY game, and unachievable, even for Valve."
Though!
It has a certain value and that's it. If you can't sell it somewhere well that's too bad.
What they (and others) are doing there is sick and amoral - even if other creeps have been doing it forever.
"By your logic, they should either sell it at $10 everywhere and lose massive amounts of money (i.e, they get screwed), "
Yes because otherwise they are screwed US - forcing us to pay for it. It's an amoral way of doing business which should be forbidden.
"or not sell it in markets where they have to mark it down to make it affordable (customers in those markets get screwed)."
Tough.
"God forbid your sense of entitlement be trampled on by a company"
The company is trampling on us - they deserve to be spit at.
This is just another proof.