Being a non-American, I'm not interested in baseball. But if this story was about baseball, I would simply ignore it instead of posting a dumb comment just for the sake of pissing off Americans.
Now you reminded me of this: A group of young Muslims ask their religious leader what is democracy. He responses: "it's when I get up on the minaret and piss on you, but you can piss on me too".
What are you talking about? Fred Phelps and his gang have been shouting "God hates fags" all along, and they've never been in jail. Maybe it would be better if such hate speech was illegal, but when your government gives you such, almost limitless, freedom of speech, you should respect it. Most people on the world don't have such privilege.
From what I've heard, Brazil has one of the most technology-clueless governments on the world. They used to block Youtube, they have threatened Google with lawsuits for not complying with their laws and are generally quite pissed at the Internet being out of their legal reach.
Here's a message to their dumb politicians, who think they can bully the Internet - I hope you all die!
Seriousy, who wastes time and money on such stupid studies discovering something completely obvious?
What's next? Finding out that playing FIFA won't increase your football (or soccer, if you prefer) skills?
But I don't want my Government telling me what software I should have (or have not) on my computer, even if they think it's a friendly warning. Next thing they'll advise what food to eat, what clothes to wear or what haircut to have.
As George Orwell said - Government thinks for you so you don't have to!
There's nothing to stop anybody copying the laws of the EU if they wanted to, apart from the usual legislative hurdles of getting the laws passed. So?
True. But I'm saying that regulating how much salt can be in a food is not uncommon for EU bureaucrats, and that I wouldn't be surprised if Switzerland would introduce something like that to protect their cheeses. It has nothing do to with Switzerland being in or out of EU.
And in Switerland they have cameras everywhere, so you can forget about speeding. I had a friend who lived there for some time and he had to go to German autobahn to put his new Audi to some proper speeds.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if they pass a law which would, for example, regulate amount of salt in cheese. This will effectively ban all non-Swiss cheeses while at the same it would seem like they care about the health of their people. Sound very EU-like.
even in the unlikely event that that law then will be passed by the parlament, we just need 50k signatures to get a public vote on it (in a world with facebook, that will be very easy).
I doubt that Facebook groups can influence politicians to change laws, gamers would have to make some public protests and form lobby groups like they did in Australia to change anything. However, since Switzerland is the most peaceful nation on the world, I doubt that their people are very fond of street protests.
I'm not a Swiss though so I might be wrong about that, it's just how I percieve them, being happy with their Government and all.
Regardless, you can't *protest* on Facebook. as convenient as that would be.
These studies are silly, but some games seem like they're made for mentally retarded people. For example, Elder Scrolls IV: Dumblivion, which is full of simple, slowly articulated sentences and lack of player choices within quests.
For example, at one point I had to do a quest for a person who offended me earlier in the game by collecting some "evidence". I wanted to betray the quest giver by presenting the aforementioned evidence to opposing faction, but the game didn't allow me such an option. Instead I had to be a good puppet boy all along, following orders like a dog and never questioning anything.
Why? Because Bethesda thinks you're a sheep and doesn't want you to think! (I can see this company working together with Apple)
Old school RPGs, like Baldur's Gate 1&2 and Planescape:Torment were quite opposite though. Some of the dialogues there were really amazing and memorable.
If someone commits a crime in Italy and the police isn't around to intervene, the victim should be able to sue them for not preventing the crime. How they were meant to achieve that? That's their problem, not mine.
Also, women in Switzerland didn't had the right to vote until as late as 1971.
They are also possibly the only country in the world - and certainly the only one in Europe - where car racing is banned. They introduced that law in 1955 after Le Mans disaster and it's still in place.
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And that fool's opinion matters how?
What's up with so many comments like these being all over /. lately?
Is this some 4chan offensive or what?
Bill....Is that you?
No, Bill is a grown-up.
I don't that's an issue here, more like it's part of UK Govt's plan to increase taxes to get rit of its debt.
Being a non-American, I'm not interested in baseball. But if this story was about baseball, I would simply ignore it instead of posting a dumb comment just for the sake of pissing off Americans.
Now you reminded me of this: A group of young Muslims ask their religious leader what is democracy. He responses: "it's when I get up on the minaret and piss on you, but you can piss on me too".
"In America, you get arrested for shouting."
What are you talking about? Fred Phelps and his gang have been shouting "God hates fags" all along, and they've never been in jail. Maybe it would be better if such hate speech was illegal, but when your government gives you such, almost limitless, freedom of speech, you should respect it. Most people on the world don't have such privilege.
It's not about morals this time. They probably verified this application 'cause they might use it as an excuse to void your warranty.
Thanks for giving me some insight! :o
Shame I don't have any mod points
From what I've heard, Brazil has one of the most technology-clueless governments on the world. They used to block Youtube, they have threatened Google with lawsuits for not complying with their laws and are generally quite pissed at the Internet being out of their legal reach.
Here's a message to their dumb politicians, who think they can bully the Internet - I hope you all die!
True enough, but IRacing, being a dedicated simulator, as well as other "sim" games (GPL, GTR...) shouldn't apply to this study.
Seriousy, who wastes time and money on such stupid studies discovering something completely obvious? What's next? Finding out that playing FIFA won't increase your football (or soccer, if you prefer) skills?
But I don't want my Government telling me what software I should have (or have not) on my computer, even if they think it's a friendly warning. Next thing they'll advise what food to eat, what clothes to wear or what haircut to have.
As George Orwell said - Government thinks for you so you don't have to!
There's nothing to stop anybody copying the laws of the EU if they wanted to, apart from the usual legislative hurdles of getting the laws passed. So?
True. But I'm saying that regulating how much salt can be in a food is not uncommon for EU bureaucrats, and that I wouldn't be surprised if Switzerland would introduce something like that to protect their cheeses. It has nothing do to with Switzerland being in or out of EU.
You do realise that Switzerland is not in the EU, don't you?
Yes, but you missed the point. Nothing prevents them from copying laws of the EU, if they wanted to.
And in Switerland they have cameras everywhere, so you can forget about speeding. I had a friend who lived there for some time and he had to go to German autobahn to put his new Audi to some proper speeds.
Not everything. Not cheese or chocolate.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if they pass a law which would, for example, regulate amount of salt in cheese. This will effectively ban all non-Swiss cheeses while at the same it would seem like they care about the health of their people. Sound very EU-like.
even in the unlikely event that that law then will be passed by the parlament, we just need 50k signatures to get a public vote on it (in a world with facebook, that will be very easy).
I doubt that Facebook groups can influence politicians to change laws, gamers would have to make some public protests and form lobby groups like they did in Australia to change anything. However, since Switzerland is the most peaceful nation on the world, I doubt that their people are very fond of street protests.
I'm not a Swiss though so I might be wrong about that, it's just how I percieve them, being happy with their Government and all.
Regardless, you can't *protest* on Facebook. as convenient as that would be.
One might argue that piracy is evil, but RIAA is far greater evil. I'm downloading sogs because it's the lesser evil :)
These studies are silly, but some games seem like they're made for mentally retarded people. For example, Elder Scrolls IV: Dumblivion, which is full of simple, slowly articulated sentences and lack of player choices within quests. For example, at one point I had to do a quest for a person who offended me earlier in the game by collecting some "evidence". I wanted to betray the quest giver by presenting the aforementioned evidence to opposing faction, but the game didn't allow me such an option. Instead I had to be a good puppet boy all along, following orders like a dog and never questioning anything. Why? Because Bethesda thinks you're a sheep and doesn't want you to think! (I can see this company working together with Apple)
Old school RPGs, like Baldur's Gate 1&2 and Planescape:Torment were quite opposite though. Some of the dialogues there were really amazing and memorable.
...or set my E6600's VCore to 2.0 V. I'm pretty sure I'll end with some dead hardware after that
Software should not be able to destroy hardware, period
There's a piece of software which is able to do that for a long time, if not used properly. It's called BIOS.
If someone commits a crime in Italy and the police isn't around to intervene, the victim should be able to sue them for not preventing the crime. How they were meant to achieve that? That's their problem, not mine.
Shouldn't they also ban Safari? You can view images of boobs on that, too. How unthoughtful of them not to do that.
Also, women in Switzerland didn't had the right to vote until as late as 1971. They are also possibly the only country in the world - and certainly the only one in Europe - where car racing is banned. They introduced that law in 1955 after Le Mans disaster and it's still in place.