To sue someone you have to know who someone is. DTV has no idea who has the cracked cards they just know that someone does.
That's why they did the "cool thing" and didn't sue. They didn't sue b/c it would be impossible to do!
So save the "Thank you for not using the legal system," crap. DTV is a SEND ONLY service how the Hell were they supposed to figure out who was stealing their service?
a child pornographer.
--What though of the person who is a pedophile? What of that person's insatiable desire to have sex with a child? Wouldn't everyone be better off if this person beat themselves silly with VR goggles on? Not every nutcase necessarily has to die, or be castrated. There are plenty of men who at some point or another thought he knew "what that bitch needs," and maybe even acted out the scene in their bathroom. The guy is a creep but he didn't actually hurt anyone. Thoughts should not, cannot equal death.
--The Porn to Rape connection has never been made; so no matter how repulsed we are by child porn you as porn viewers (and what precisely do you think Buffy, Dark Angel, Popular, 90210, Melrose Place, et al really are?) must remember that you are next. Your latex fetish, your stockinged feet, cum shot, lez, cartoon women, alt.binaries.erotica is now under the gun. No one can say for certain that child porn makes pedophiles. Which makes virtual porn a safer alternative.
--Yes porn calluses the moral fiber of the world reducing its participants to parts and its viewers to lonely voyeurs stuck in a pathetic unachievable fantasy, BUT it probably doesn't make rapists out of people. There are people who will watch a movie and lie in the middle of the road only to be (predictably) killed by passing autos. Those folks were doomed to some idiotic death.
--However under no circumstances should any government be trusted to make moral judgments. Who is Bill Clinton to tell me I shouldn't hook up to a VR terminal and get a virtual blowjob? Or any of these other "moralists" (see also Jesse "love child" Jackson.) Humans have sex for fun. We are the only species on this planet that does so. If we choose to waste our inventiveness on 3D rendered Gillian Anderson's (replace Gillian with Pam if you like) so we can nail Scully so be it.
--How far removed is child porn then? Yes, the knee-jerk reaction is a 3D rendered child is wrong. There is no "consulting age" for a pixel though.
--This is a delicate and important debate. It is also very frightening. There can be no winners with this: Child pornography is so repellant that it must be destroyed and yet virtual child porn must be protected.
--It saddens me to not join the chorus of "Kill the kiddie porn people," because I know that is precisely what I would do to protect my 20-month-old son. No question about it. And seeing as Duke Nuke 'Em has completely removed the "halt instinct" that plagues the US Armed Services (you have to train some one to shoot first and ask questions later) from my psyche I am certain I would kill a lot of people in the process. Unfortunately this is not in that realm, but stems from it. It simply is not the same thing.
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---I agree here. But the subject is so repulsive you have to recoil from it and as a knee jerk reaction your first instinct is to say "No one should be allowed to do this!"
---Ultimately the government is not (nor has it been proven to be) trustworthy and this is simply too much power. They should not be able to decide what "art" (i.e. paintings, PhotoShop, drawings, etc) is dangerous.
---IN 1980 Lennon was shot and everyone thought that, that would be a defining moment in time but it wasn't. The Space Shuttle was.
---Where was I? I had just landed a job a Caldor's making $7.75 and hour, I was quite certain it would be the last job I would ever hold. College? I was making 16K a year!
---I remember hanging out in the TV department watching it go up and hearing the unitiated ooh and aww over how pretty the launch was. I stood behind them muttering, "That ain't right... That's not what it looks like."
---I don't remember the exact phrase but I remember the tone from the control announcer. It was like nothing out of the ordinary happened. It was like, "We have a system failure."
---I remember thinking that there was no system failure there was some dead people and one of them was a school teacher who didn't need to be dead. My Advanced English (whatever that is) teacher Mr. Posner was the alternate. I went and saw him weeks later and he was still visibly upset. "First time I was glad someone was better than me, my God why did this happen?"
---I enrolled at the Community College the next Friday. I decided I was going to be a Journalist based on my theroy that the government set this up to glamorize the program.
---Whoever posted this should have spent 20 minutes researching it. As several other have pointed out already Nintendo is legally in the right.
---Don't take pictures (screen-shots) of/from my stuff and sell it as your stuff.
---Don't make your stuff look like my stuff and try to legitimize it with a lame 100% Unauthorized disclaimer.
---Nintendo is a hard ass on this stuff; always has been. However, the quality of their products has always been good (which is not to say they make the best games (although Super Mario 3 & 4 did rock)) probably due to this diligence.
--I have this cat, named Cat, who makes a meow that sounds like heh-row. Anylou, I put the phone next to the cat, or on her and after a few minutes she starts, "Heh-row, heh-row," into the phone. Must drive them insane.
A: You apparently have no idea what a Camel Testicle Scraper gets paid (a CTSC is a very prestigous cert indeed.)
B: MCSE, I specifically don't hire them.
C: MCSE, CNE, CNA, A+, CLP, yadda yadda all well and good but when the Notes Server won't stay up for more than 12 hours and you have to deploy a 2000SQL, a 2000IIS and 3 dedicated workstations and your assistant's wife had a baby and you're going to Disney with your family (whoever they are) Camel Testicle Scraping looks good. They only work 10 hours a day.
D: I don't want anymore Sys Admin's out there.
E: I do like the part where I can surf for porn and call it "research"
F: I only got 15K more this year.
G: At the end of the month I still owe then $20 bucks b/c they are charging me rent since I sleep there.
I got yer name A-n-o-n-y-m-o-u-s C-o-w-a-r-d...
You think you're so big.
Oh if I had my mod points now I'd...
What? I have to wait five days for my mod points? But I'm angry now!
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To sue someone you have to know who someone is. DTV has no idea who has the cracked cards they just know that someone does.
That's why they did the "cool thing" and didn't sue. They didn't sue b/c it would be impossible to do!
So save the "Thank you for not using the legal system," crap. DTV is a SEND ONLY service how the Hell were they supposed to figure out who was stealing their service?
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--Since the singnal is SEND only it is impossible to "catch" someone doing this. Hence the destruction of the cracked cards.
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--Most of the "crackers" bought the cards from their cousins, friends, guy I know, etc.
--Direct TV should have blown their TVs up.
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-Damn helper monkey!
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duh - ull
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a child pornographer. --What though of the person who is a pedophile? What of that person's insatiable desire to have sex with a child? Wouldn't everyone be better off if this person beat themselves silly with VR goggles on? Not every nutcase necessarily has to die, or be castrated. There are plenty of men who at some point or another thought he knew "what that bitch needs," and maybe even acted out the scene in their bathroom. The guy is a creep but he didn't actually hurt anyone. Thoughts should not, cannot equal death. --The Porn to Rape connection has never been made; so no matter how repulsed we are by child porn you as porn viewers (and what precisely do you think Buffy, Dark Angel, Popular, 90210, Melrose Place, et al really are?) must remember that you are next. Your latex fetish, your stockinged feet, cum shot, lez, cartoon women, alt.binaries.erotica is now under the gun. No one can say for certain that child porn makes pedophiles. Which makes virtual porn a safer alternative. --Yes porn calluses the moral fiber of the world reducing its participants to parts and its viewers to lonely voyeurs stuck in a pathetic unachievable fantasy, BUT it probably doesn't make rapists out of people. There are people who will watch a movie and lie in the middle of the road only to be (predictably) killed by passing autos. Those folks were doomed to some idiotic death. --However under no circumstances should any government be trusted to make moral judgments. Who is Bill Clinton to tell me I shouldn't hook up to a VR terminal and get a virtual blowjob? Or any of these other "moralists" (see also Jesse "love child" Jackson.) Humans have sex for fun. We are the only species on this planet that does so. If we choose to waste our inventiveness on 3D rendered Gillian Anderson's (replace Gillian with Pam if you like) so we can nail Scully so be it. --How far removed is child porn then? Yes, the knee-jerk reaction is a 3D rendered child is wrong. There is no "consulting age" for a pixel though. --This is a delicate and important debate. It is also very frightening. There can be no winners with this: Child pornography is so repellant that it must be destroyed and yet virtual child porn must be protected. --It saddens me to not join the chorus of "Kill the kiddie porn people," because I know that is precisely what I would do to protect my 20-month-old son. No question about it. And seeing as Duke Nuke 'Em has completely removed the "halt instinct" that plagues the US Armed Services (you have to train some one to shoot first and ask questions later) from my psyche I am certain I would kill a lot of people in the process. Unfortunately this is not in that realm, but stems from it. It simply is not the same thing.
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---I agree here. But the subject is so repulsive you have to recoil from it and as a knee jerk reaction your first instinct is to say "No one should be allowed to do this!"
---Ultimately the government is not (nor has it been proven to be) trustworthy and this is simply too much power. They should not be able to decide what "art" (i.e. paintings, PhotoShop, drawings, etc) is dangerous.
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Dude that Sea Otter is HOT... She wants me. Oh yeah.
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---Managed to stroke my ego enough to make me write some of the best stuff I ever wrote.
What video card does it have? Does it come loaded with Office 2000? Can I play NASCAR 4 on it?
--Man if i had my mod points you'd be so modded up
---I don't hold the person in contmpt or anything, I just thought it was eerie
---IN 1980 Lennon was shot and everyone thought that, that would be a defining moment in time but it wasn't. The Space Shuttle was.
---Where was I? I had just landed a job a Caldor's making $7.75 and hour, I was quite certain it would be the last job I would ever hold. College? I was making 16K a year!
---I remember hanging out in the TV department watching it go up and hearing the unitiated ooh and aww over how pretty the launch was. I stood behind them muttering, "That ain't right... That's not what it looks like."
---I don't remember the exact phrase but I remember the tone from the control announcer. It was like nothing out of the ordinary happened. It was like, "We have a system failure."
---I remember thinking that there was no system failure there was some dead people and one of them was a school teacher who didn't need to be dead. My Advanced English (whatever that is) teacher Mr. Posner was the alternate. I went and saw him weeks later and he was still visibly upset. "First time I was glad someone was better than me, my God why did this happen?"
---I enrolled at the Community College the next Friday. I decided I was going to be a Journalist based on my theroy that the government set this up to glamorize the program.
---Whoever posted this should have spent 20 minutes researching it. As several other have pointed out already Nintendo is legally in the right.
---Don't take pictures (screen-shots) of/from my stuff and sell it as your stuff.
---Don't make your stuff look like my stuff and try to legitimize it with a lame 100% Unauthorized disclaimer.
---Nintendo is a hard ass on this stuff; always has been. However, the quality of their products has always been good (which is not to say they make the best games (although Super Mario 3 & 4 did rock)) probably due to this diligence.
---anylou, that's how I feel.
Bah ha ha ha ha ha!
mmft.
Ho ho ho ho... ha ha ha ha ha ha
...read...no pictures...
Booha ha ha ha
That's fucking hillarious....
Man, if I had my Mod Points....
--I have this cat, named Cat, who makes a meow that sounds like heh-row. Anylou, I put the phone next to the cat, or on her and after a few minutes she starts, "Heh-row, heh-row," into the phone. Must drive them insane.
Gorg: What in Spalad 7 is wrong with my visual communicator?
Zerv: Mine too! I was looking at the lovely images of Natali... Damn Earthlings!
Gorg: Why do those infernal beasts send us these pictures? What do they mean?
Zerv: We should destroy them at once!
Gorg: Activate the BFG!
Zerv: This is for all that "Touched By An Angel" you sent too!
A: You apparently have no idea what a Camel Testicle Scraper gets paid (a CTSC is a very prestigous cert indeed.)
B: MCSE, I specifically don't hire them.
C: MCSE, CNE, CNA, A+, CLP, yadda yadda all well and good but when the Notes Server won't stay up for more than 12 hours and you have to deploy a 2000SQL, a 2000IIS and 3 dedicated workstations and your assistant's wife had a baby and you're going to Disney with your family (whoever they are) Camel Testicle Scraping looks good. They only work 10 hours a day.
D: I don't want anymore Sys Admin's out there.
E: I do like the part where I can surf for porn and call it "research"
F: I only got 15K more this year.
G: At the end of the month I still owe then $20 bucks b/c they are charging me rent since I sleep there.
H: Ha ha
I: What do you consider "raking it in?"
Oh yeah we're raking in the dough. I make less than a Camel testicle scraper (per hour that is)
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I got yer name A-n-o-n-y-m-o-u-s C-o-w-a-r-d...
You think you're so big.
Oh if I had my mod points now I'd...
What? I have to wait five days for my mod points? But I'm angry now!
Shakes Magic 8 Ball:
Is l33t j03 insane?
Most signs point to "Yes!"
--Oh you played the USA... um me too...
USA USA Uber Alles Uber Alles USA...
ugh.
Oh Grand Prix Legends is THE best racing sim ever. And it's old now.
Zork II
Aces Over Europe
Pirates!
Warcraft II
Duke Nuk'em 3D
Pirates! rules the Earth. I wasted many hours I could have been studying, which would explai the 6 years it took me to end up with a 2.8 GPA