During the last presidential election, I had to actively seek out TV programs where the libertarian candidate got a chance to speak, whereas I was constantly bombarded by "barack obama this" and "john mccain that".
I think the controlled media has more to do with it than anything else. Just look at how much tv time ron paul received in comparison to the millions of people who were supporting his campaign.
What privacy? You mean never knowing if you're being watched behind that 2-way mirror facing your cell block? You mean having your little tub of belongings searched at any time of the day and for any reason? You mean sharing a cell with 1 or more "buddies" that you can only get away from when you shower... if you're lucky?
Even if you were being sarcastic, jail is never the best place you can be.
I would assume that you have not read Freakonomics. In the book, while Rudy was patting himself on the back along with his new Police Chief, subtler forces were at work that were actually causing the decline in crime. Namely it was legalized abortions.
The author backs his claim up with the fact that after everyone saw the great success in the declining crime rates after Rudy and his chief, many mayors across America tried to copy the same policies, and many didn't. He found that the crime rate drop was nearly the same in all cases. Obviously it was more than just nabbing turnstyle jumpers and little old jaywalking women.
I had a hard time understanding how they thought this would be admissible in court as well. Picking out the first 32 bits from a frame header and trying to identify a file's hash out of it, does in no way necessitate that the user is downloading the entire file. Wouldn't you have to download the entire movie/game/program in order for it to be considered piracy? AFAIK you can't download 1/2 a movie/game/application and have it still work... and in most cases just missing a few bits can make all the other bits useless.
So is it illegal to begin a download of pirated bits?
"We reported that DoD processed $1.1 trillion in unsupported accounting entries to DoD Component financial data used to prepare departmental reports and DoD financial statements for FY 2000."
David K. Steensma
Acting Assistant Inspector General
for Auditing for the DoD
US Dept of Defense (DoD)
February 26, 2002
I believe you're correct. It's inevitable that companies will automate as much as possible. It's the only way to make a profit once someone else does it.
The way to go for jobs will be dealing with information and manipulating it, from the near future onward.
Then how do you explain the terrible english speaking skills of all my math teachers and co-workers in university? If they all communicate with each other in English, you would think they'd have at least a decent grasp of the language before they made it to the US... no?
Stealing is stealing where I'm from. However, stealing where no one actually loses PROPERTY would seem to be different. Unless of course you count revenue as property, in which case you should fire your accountants.
Well I haven't played the game, nor did I play the first one, but after reading this and a few other reviews, I surely won't be touching this title with a 10 foot pole.
Though you all did a great job in detailing just why the game blows harder than grandpa at his 92nd birthday candles.
Tell me about it.. I just bought WoW after moving into a place with a decent internet connection. I was excited because I had started playing it with a 14 day trial a year ago, but never went any further. Now I had a friend who was really excited to play with me.
I put the dvd in.. let it install. Got all ready to start it up and get mouse button clicking, and then the auto-patcher thing came up. And it stayed up for over 12 hours. Mind you I have a 22000 kbps downstream, but the thing wouldn't go any faster than 100 k/s.
It was doubly bad for my friend as he only can get a 256 kpbs connection without paying over $100 a month where he lives. So he ended up spending about 3 days updating before we could play.
That's just ridiculous, and I thought about trying to take the game back to WalMart for something else, but that rarely works.
The last place I lived was at the cutoff line for the city limits. The property literally began where the city limits ended. The house was approximately 25 feet from that line. There was not one provider who would run a cable or try to set up a wifi connection for us there, while our nearest neighbors all had cable/dsl.
In fact the man who owned the house had to pony up somewhere around a half thousand dollars to get Qwest to run a friggen phone line, which they wouldn't let us use DSL with.
The US really is shitty for 'rural' internet access.
Unfortunately more and more games are requiring you to "activate" online before you can even start to play them, even if there is no online content whatsoever.
This REALLY sucks when you don't have internet at home. I was finally able to save up some good money while living out in the boondocks on a farm, and went to walmart to buy a game to cure my no-internet boredom. When I got there, the only decent looking games I wanted to get had a little note at the bottom of the package stating "* This game requires online activation before use."
I thought how strange, being as how a couple of them didn't even have a multiplayer mode. I thought, well maybe that's just for some kind of updating scheme or something, but I sure wasn't going to risk $50 to find out. So I ended up buying a USB drive, taking it to a place with high speed public internet, and just torrenting a few cracked games instead.
That's not even close to a good troll. Like someone running a business is going to take an anonymous comment from a message board seriously and just start laying people off and shutting servers down.
My mother-in-law has like 10 of them, which we all had a good laugh about when we last visited for christmas. Then my sister knocked a full glass of wine over onto her rug, and that sucker pulled most of the wine out, and with a little carpet cleaner you couldn't tell it had ever happened.
I was pretty amazed... though I'm sure the same could've been done with about a roll of paper towels.
For starters, Bill Gates isn't running the company anymore.
And that's pretty bad business. See, the minions and peons of a country are the only ones who are shamed and goaded into being "patriotic". Corporations cannot be bothered by such sentiments or they will wither and die, or so the common sense of today would suggest.
Wait so is this an XP limitation or an Intel limitation? You started off by saying XP, then switched to Intel's 32-bit architecture, then went back to saying it was XP again.
Everything spiking at once sounds like that stupid "System Restore" process, or maybe a big swap dump (which is weird with that much RAM, but you know, it's windows.) Stupid programs like Norton can grab a huge chunk of resources every now and then for no discernable reason.
It is for this reason that I use services.msc to switch all non-vital services to manual mode, and only start them up when I need them, including the print spooler and even my wacom tablet. Also I rarely let AVG (or whatever AV software) run continuously. It may seem less secure, but I don't tend to download from a lot of untrusted sources, and I scan weekly.
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I agree.
During the last presidential election, I had to actively seek out TV programs where the libertarian candidate got a chance to speak, whereas I was constantly bombarded by "barack obama this" and "john mccain that".
I think the controlled media has more to do with it than anything else. Just look at how much tv time ron paul received in comparison to the millions of people who were supporting his campaign.
What privacy? You mean never knowing if you're being watched behind that 2-way mirror facing your cell block? You mean having your little tub of belongings searched at any time of the day and for any reason? You mean sharing a cell with 1 or more "buddies" that you can only get away from when you shower... if you're lucky?
Even if you were being sarcastic, jail is never the best place you can be.
I would assume that you have not read Freakonomics. In the book, while Rudy was patting himself on the back along with his new Police Chief, subtler forces were at work that were actually causing the decline in crime. Namely it was legalized abortions.
The author backs his claim up with the fact that after everyone saw the great success in the declining crime rates after Rudy and his chief, many mayors across America tried to copy the same policies, and many didn't. He found that the crime rate drop was nearly the same in all cases. Obviously it was more than just nabbing turnstyle jumpers and little old jaywalking women.
I had a hard time understanding how they thought this would be admissible in court as well. Picking out the first 32 bits from a frame header and trying to identify a file's hash out of it, does in no way necessitate that the user is downloading the entire file. Wouldn't you have to download the entire movie/game/program in order for it to be considered piracy? AFAIK you can't download 1/2 a movie/game/application and have it still work... and in most cases just missing a few bits can make all the other bits useless.
So is it illegal to begin a download of pirated bits?
"We reported that DoD processed $1.1 trillion in unsupported accounting entries to DoD Component financial data used to prepare departmental reports and DoD financial statements for FY 2000." David K. Steensma Acting Assistant Inspector General for Auditing for the DoD US Dept of Defense (DoD) February 26, 2002
Yes, much more trustworthy.
It's also better than causing "national security issues"... surely someone would notice if Americans started getting locked up at Guantanamo..
I believe you're correct. It's inevitable that companies will automate as much as possible. It's the only way to make a profit once someone else does it.
The way to go for jobs will be dealing with information and manipulating it, from the near future onward.
Then how do you explain the terrible english speaking skills of all my math teachers and co-workers in university? If they all communicate with each other in English, you would think they'd have at least a decent grasp of the language before they made it to the US... no?
Stealing is stealing where I'm from. However, stealing where no one actually loses PROPERTY would seem to be different. Unless of course you count revenue as property, in which case you should fire your accountants.
Well I haven't played the game, nor did I play the first one, but after reading this and a few other reviews, I surely won't be touching this title with a 10 foot pole.
Though you all did a great job in detailing just why the game blows harder than grandpa at his 92nd birthday candles.
Tell me about it.. I just bought WoW after moving into a place with a decent internet connection. I was excited because I had started playing it with a 14 day trial a year ago, but never went any further. Now I had a friend who was really excited to play with me.
I put the dvd in.. let it install. Got all ready to start it up and get mouse button clicking, and then the auto-patcher thing came up. And it stayed up for over 12 hours. Mind you I have a 22000 kbps downstream, but the thing wouldn't go any faster than 100 k/s.
It was doubly bad for my friend as he only can get a 256 kpbs connection without paying over $100 a month where he lives. So he ended up spending about 3 days updating before we could play.
That's just ridiculous, and I thought about trying to take the game back to WalMart for something else, but that rarely works.
The last place I lived was at the cutoff line for the city limits. The property literally began where the city limits ended. The house was approximately 25 feet from that line. There was not one provider who would run a cable or try to set up a wifi connection for us there, while our nearest neighbors all had cable/dsl.
In fact the man who owned the house had to pony up somewhere around a half thousand dollars to get Qwest to run a friggen phone line, which they wouldn't let us use DSL with.
The US really is shitty for 'rural' internet access.
Unfortunately more and more games are requiring you to "activate" online before you can even start to play them, even if there is no online content whatsoever.
This REALLY sucks when you don't have internet at home. I was finally able to save up some good money while living out in the boondocks on a farm, and went to walmart to buy a game to cure my no-internet boredom. When I got there, the only decent looking games I wanted to get had a little note at the bottom of the package stating "* This game requires online activation before use."
I thought how strange, being as how a couple of them didn't even have a multiplayer mode. I thought, well maybe that's just for some kind of updating scheme or something, but I sure wasn't going to risk $50 to find out. So I ended up buying a USB drive, taking it to a place with high speed public internet, and just torrenting a few cracked games instead.
While you make good points, the immediate response I could see in this situation is that "you can't just copy a car to all your friends for free."
Why must they be Islamic? What if a Sikh got his hands on one? A Hindu? How about a Buddhist?
It takes a low ID number to have come to this conclusion I think. Spend enough time anywhere and you're bound to learn the ropes.
That's not even close to a good troll. Like someone running a business is going to take an anonymous comment from a message board seriously and just start laying people off and shutting servers down.
Get real.
But it actually does work, surprisingly...
My mother-in-law has like 10 of them, which we all had a good laugh about when we last visited for christmas. Then my sister knocked a full glass of wine over onto her rug, and that sucker pulled most of the wine out, and with a little carpet cleaner you couldn't tell it had ever happened.
I was pretty amazed... though I'm sure the same could've been done with about a roll of paper towels.
For starters, Bill Gates isn't running the company anymore.
And that's pretty bad business. See, the minions and peons of a country are the only ones who are shamed and goaded into being "patriotic". Corporations cannot be bothered by such sentiments or they will wither and die, or so the common sense of today would suggest.
B-b-b-b-but what about geico?
Wait so is this an XP limitation or an Intel limitation? You started off by saying XP, then switched to Intel's 32-bit architecture, then went back to saying it was XP again.
I'm confused.
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I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
I think you're modded down for entirely different reasons, but the end result will probably be the same.
You obviously don't have little kids in your house.
I know I wanted broadband when I didn't have it. Now I live across town where I have it.
Those who don't want it probably have no clue what the difference is, or don't have internet anyway and simply don't care about it.
Everything spiking at once sounds like that stupid "System Restore" process, or maybe a big swap dump (which is weird with that much RAM, but you know, it's windows.) Stupid programs like Norton can grab a huge chunk of resources every now and then for no discernable reason.
It is for this reason that I use services.msc to switch all non-vital services to manual mode, and only start them up when I need them, including the print spooler and even my wacom tablet. Also I rarely let AVG (or whatever AV software) run continuously. It may seem less secure, but I don't tend to download from a lot of untrusted sources, and I scan weekly.