I know Unix fans are a bit on the Zealous side, but diverting an Asteroid to destroy civilisation so as to prevent this coding flaw from coming about is a bit too far.
Agree wholeheartedly. Some of the ideas were good, but I've read a whole lot more Sci-Fi since then and can see how weak it is, but only by comparison. The Descolada, though, was a good plot device.
Except it's not recent. The raising of the debt ceiling is recent. Hollywood has been making many movies where they are the wealthy powerhouse since before gulf war, despite being massively in debt and borrowing off China and other countries.
What money do you think they would be absorbing this with? The Massive deficit they have had since before Gulf War, or the money they borrowed from, guess who, China?
What you have to realise is that this is typical OSC writing. He had a good idea in book 1, then ran with it for 4ish more books and never developed them much farther. I'd recommend reading the Alvin Maker series as another example, but then you'd come back and give out to me for having made you read them all, just to prove above point.
There are some good and interesting points in each of the Ender books. Jade the AI, The Descolada virus, The planet of the OCD Genii, Relative Ageing due to light speed travel, Instantaneous point to point travel etc. I have to admit that I enjoyed all the Ender books, but that was quite a few years ago, and since then I've read Iain M Banks, Peter Hamilton and others, and realised that some writers are simply better than Orson.
Forget that. Go to the Ender books and see what happens when an alien species decides to terraform with a virus. Or look at Fallen Dragon, and Gamma Soak. But what we really should be considering is what cultural model would an alien race _have_ to be in order to achieve interstellar travel.
The only reason we haven't got colony ships and space stations is because of money, and the desire to do it. Remove money/funding from the equation, and give a suitable motivation and you can 'bootstrap' yourself like in the Time/Space books. There's so much in the way of resources available, so easy to obtain either A) on the moon where 1/6th gravity would allow easy re-launch, or B) farther out at asteroid belts (remember that asteroids are the remains of planet-type things) and you really have no reliance on Earth.
Thus we must consider whether we meet up with Vulcans who are 'peaceful' or Klingons who are 'warlike'. What motivation will the alien race we meet have for having gone to space. Friendly exploration (and uplift) or Conquest and eradication.
Many cultural changes will have to happen on Earth before we advance to space. I find it very unlikely that a corporation will independently expand to space for mining/manufacturing. The barrier to entry is too great. The cost to do it will have to be removed, either by it being a global/governmental initiative, or money, as er know it, will already be gone, people preferring to work for the greater good.
I wonder does it make any noise. If it's gliding, there's no engine. But I wonder if the sheer speed it's passing through the air would generate any. It would be so eerie to be nearby to it doing a fly-by.
A lot of my friends went to Australia for working holidays, where fruit picking was the only available job to foreigners.
This had clearly led to some confusion among native Australians about which apples grow on trees, and which don't.
Seriously Australia, sort yer shit out. You need to fix up your government that has wacky immigration laws, wacky import laws, and down right idiotic age-classifications for games etc.
Oh, and try to stop them from filtering all your internet.
How is this relevant? This is like comparing a movie to it's trailer, or a description of the movie on a review site, you are only getting part of the produce, the part that is freely available to the world, the part that cannot be governed.
If you came up with an idea for a new product, and I saw your blue prints, could I potentially steal it from you, without leaving you unable to develop your idea?
Like my other post, you can steal something without removing it from their possession. Or in order to steal an idea, do I need to then kill/lobotomise you to ensure you no longer are in possession of it?
This "its not stealing, it's copying" is getting tiring. If you try to euphamise it, are you not also guilty of emotional manipulation? The owner of the copyrighted material has lost _something_ but just not exactly what you are trying to say he lost.
Well those are the big questions, what is the most important property of theft, and do you need to fulfill all, some, or just major properties to be considered a true theft?
Being the Internet, it's hard to assure yourself of a 100% honest answer, but really, how many people can truely say, "with hand on heart" that they never willingly downloaded copyrighted content, with the intention of watching it so they could avoid paying for it. You might have a motivation like "well I heard it was bad, so I felt it wasn't worth the asking price" or "but surely it doesn't hurt the artists, I've seen how much money they make".
Are you still breaking the spirit of it by taking for free, what someone has attached a price to it.
You might argue that you would never have bought it in the first place, so taking it for free doesn't count. But that still doesn't take away the fact that you are receiving (regardless of the distributing of content by virtue of peer-to-peer transfer) something that has a monetary value attached to it, and not by way of a gift from the person who 'owns' said content.
Another little thing to think about. You are surely aware of the line "You stole my idea!". And your last line would lead me to believe that you are not adverse to the ideals of patenting truly innovative inventions, a system in place to allow someone time to get an idea from concept to a marketable product. Well, surely stealing someone's idea does not remove the idea from their mind, you haven't deprived them of anything. They are still able to go with that idea and attempt to take it farther. What stops big companies from then looking at patent applications, ripping them off and getting to market faster than an individual can. Since you haven't _Physically_ taken anything away from anyone, it isn't theft.
While copyright and patents are 2 different things, there is a definite parallel to be drawn. Theft does not mean the physical removal of something of worth from one player, leaving them without access to it anymore. It can also mean you are depriving someone of the potential to earn from what they have, or could, create.
So to summarise, whether you were going to buy or not should be irrelevant, as soon as you download it, you have broken "the law", and you do not make amends for it until you Really buy what it was you downloaded. If you get caught between the download and the buying, they surely have the right to prosecute you for violation and theft. Second, you can steal something from someone without removing anything physical from their possession.
So, because the word "Stealing" was invented/defined before the internet was created, crimes committed online cannot be stealing?
What if you interpret stealing to be "Obtaining non-free content without paying for it". Now it doesn't matter whether you shoplift it, or download it. No matter which way you try to bend words, downloading movies is a form of theft. Do not be under the allusion that it isn't, or try to quote "Information wants to be free".
"Sticking it to the Man" is also not acceptable. If you don't like the RIAA, you boycott them by NOT WATCHING IT. Not liking them does not mean it's not longer illegal to steal from them.
I am a current player in a good raiding guild (currently working on Ragnaros Heroic). I can definitely see what you describe in your post. I'm quickly coming to the realisation that no matter what Blizzard comes out with next, won't be enough to hold my attention any more.
The current tier of content was only interesting for a week. Once you beat the bosses in normal mode, (which for our guild was not challenging at all) you had seen everything. The 'new' storyline could be summarised in less than 30 minutes of narrative. When you go back in the next reset to do heroic bosses, the fight is not new, just harder.
I have recently started playing more single and two players games again, Oblivion, Borderlands, Never Winter Nights. I like that each game is different, has it's own story and I find these to be a better spend of my time, than going for 4 hours a night battling against my team-mates (and a some of my own I admit) mistakes/failures in an attempt to make 'progression'. This 'progression' is becoming less and less exciting, and more and more like work. Yes there is still the lure of new epics, but after the 11th time of a new tier, it has really become a stale exercise in devaluation of effort.
Totally aside from that, there is still some major class issues. Everyone has something they really hate about their current Main. There is always, somewhere, a major flaw. In my own example, Frost DK's are stacking haste and dpsing in UNHOLY presence. This just makes NO sense whatsoever. The alternative is to go Unholy, which is under performing, or Blood which is also under performing. Ferals are complaining about threat, shamans are super squishy, etc. Every class has some major flaw that we are 'forced' to put up with. This flaw just seems to never get fixed.
I can easily see myself quitting the game soon, likely when SWTOR or Diablo3 comes along. I might even stop for Skyrim. I did try Rift, but it's timing with the expansion may have crippled it somewhat. I may try again, though it did somewhat feel too similar to WoW for me. SWTOR with it's Sci-Fi theme may be fresh enough for me to break away from the Fantasy genre.
No, the reality of the Samsung Tab has been distorted. This is quite common when in the presence of Steve's field emitters. Once the evidence spends enough time in decontamination it should return to normal, we hope.
That's completely different though. When they use this plot tool, they show you a cliff-hanger. Like in House, end of current series, you are told that something big and bad has happened, and House did it. You are not told what he did, who he did it to (mostly) and how it gets resolved. So there is still BIG questions to ask, like "How did this happen" and "What happens next". It would be totally different if you read the plot on wikipedia or somewhere and were told that he drove the car into her house, after seeing her on a date despite her telling him she's not ready to start dating again, and that he escapes off to a beach and is all happy, then you find yourself bored throughout the episode.
There's a distinct difference between being given a glimpse (often misleading) of the ending, than having the true ending revealed to you.
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I know Unix fans are a bit on the Zealous side, but diverting an Asteroid to destroy civilisation so as to prevent this coding flaw from coming about is a bit too far.
Agree wholeheartedly. Some of the ideas were good, but I've read a whole lot more Sci-Fi since then and can see how weak it is, but only by comparison. The Descolada, though, was a good plot device.
More like a "You have drained the global economy enough, it's time to put it to an end"
Except it's not recent. The raising of the debt ceiling is recent. Hollywood has been making many movies where they are the wealthy powerhouse since before gulf war, despite being massively in debt and borrowing off China and other countries.
What money do you think they would be absorbing this with? The Massive deficit they have had since before Gulf War, or the money they borrowed from, guess who, China?
What if they intend to nudge it into a trajectory that makes it hit the US?
What you have to realise is that this is typical OSC writing. He had a good idea in book 1, then ran with it for 4ish more books and never developed them much farther. I'd recommend reading the Alvin Maker series as another example, but then you'd come back and give out to me for having made you read them all, just to prove above point.
There are some good and interesting points in each of the Ender books. Jade the AI, The Descolada virus, The planet of the OCD Genii, Relative Ageing due to light speed travel, Instantaneous point to point travel etc. I have to admit that I enjoyed all the Ender books, but that was quite a few years ago, and since then I've read Iain M Banks, Peter Hamilton and others, and realised that some writers are simply better than Orson.
I for one welcome our Snooki eradicating overlords.
Forget that. Go to the Ender books and see what happens when an alien species decides to terraform with a virus. Or look at Fallen Dragon, and Gamma Soak. But what we really should be considering is what cultural model would an alien race _have_ to be in order to achieve interstellar travel.
The only reason we haven't got colony ships and space stations is because of money, and the desire to do it. Remove money/funding from the equation, and give a suitable motivation and you can 'bootstrap' yourself like in the Time/Space books. There's so much in the way of resources available, so easy to obtain either A) on the moon where 1/6th gravity would allow easy re-launch, or B) farther out at asteroid belts (remember that asteroids are the remains of planet-type things) and you really have no reliance on Earth.
Thus we must consider whether we meet up with Vulcans who are 'peaceful' or Klingons who are 'warlike'. What motivation will the alien race we meet have for having gone to space. Friendly exploration (and uplift) or Conquest and eradication.
Many cultural changes will have to happen on Earth before we advance to space. I find it very unlikely that a corporation will independently expand to space for mining/manufacturing. The barrier to entry is too great. The cost to do it will have to be removed, either by it being a global/governmental initiative, or money, as er know it, will already be gone, people preferring to work for the greater good.
I wonder does it make any noise. If it's gliding, there's no engine. But I wonder if the sheer speed it's passing through the air would generate any. It would be so eerie to be nearby to it doing a fly-by.
So, you're saying we might have to work weekends?
A lot of my friends went to Australia for working holidays, where fruit picking was the only available job to foreigners.
This had clearly led to some confusion among native Australians about which apples grow on trees, and which don't.
Seriously Australia, sort yer shit out. You need to fix up your government that has wacky immigration laws, wacky import laws, and down right idiotic age-classifications for games etc.
Oh, and try to stop them from filtering all your internet.
Tron would like a word with you.
I, for one, liked the Tron sequel.
I also liked The Dark Knight.
The Toby Maguire reboot of Spiderman was enjoyable.
In the immortal words of the big DV, "I find your lack of Faith Disturbing"
How many bad Ridley Scott movies have there been? I'm going to try keep a positive outlook on this one.
How is this relevant? This is like comparing a movie to it's trailer, or a description of the movie on a review site, you are only getting part of the produce, the part that is freely available to the world, the part that cannot be governed.
If you came up with an idea for a new product, and I saw your blue prints, could I potentially steal it from you, without leaving you unable to develop your idea?
Like my other post, you can steal something without removing it from their possession. Or in order to steal an idea, do I need to then kill/lobotomise you to ensure you no longer are in possession of it?
This "its not stealing, it's copying" is getting tiring. If you try to euphamise it, are you not also guilty of emotional manipulation? The owner of the copyrighted material has lost _something_ but just not exactly what you are trying to say he lost.
Well those are the big questions, what is the most important property of theft, and do you need to fulfill all, some, or just major properties to be considered a true theft?
Being the Internet, it's hard to assure yourself of a 100% honest answer, but really, how many people can truely say, "with hand on heart" that they never willingly downloaded copyrighted content, with the intention of watching it so they could avoid paying for it. You might have a motivation like "well I heard it was bad, so I felt it wasn't worth the asking price" or "but surely it doesn't hurt the artists, I've seen how much money they make".
Are you still breaking the spirit of it by taking for free, what someone has attached a price to it.
You might argue that you would never have bought it in the first place, so taking it for free doesn't count. But that still doesn't take away the fact that you are receiving (regardless of the distributing of content by virtue of peer-to-peer transfer) something that has a monetary value attached to it, and not by way of a gift from the person who 'owns' said content.
Another little thing to think about. You are surely aware of the line "You stole my idea!". And your last line would lead me to believe that you are not adverse to the ideals of patenting truly innovative inventions, a system in place to allow someone time to get an idea from concept to a marketable product. Well, surely stealing someone's idea does not remove the idea from their mind, you haven't deprived them of anything. They are still able to go with that idea and attempt to take it farther. What stops big companies from then looking at patent applications, ripping them off and getting to market faster than an individual can. Since you haven't _Physically_ taken anything away from anyone, it isn't theft.
While copyright and patents are 2 different things, there is a definite parallel to be drawn. Theft does not mean the physical removal of something of worth from one player, leaving them without access to it anymore. It can also mean you are depriving someone of the potential to earn from what they have, or could, create.
So to summarise, whether you were going to buy or not should be irrelevant, as soon as you download it, you have broken "the law", and you do not make amends for it until you Really buy what it was you downloaded. If you get caught between the download and the buying, they surely have the right to prosecute you for violation and theft. Second, you can steal something from someone without removing anything physical from their possession.
And because there's generally someone in the row behind you giving a full running commentary of what's going on.
So, because the word "Stealing" was invented/defined before the internet was created, crimes committed online cannot be stealing?
What if you interpret stealing to be "Obtaining non-free content without paying for it". Now it doesn't matter whether you shoplift it, or download it. No matter which way you try to bend words, downloading movies is a form of theft. Do not be under the allusion that it isn't, or try to quote "Information wants to be free".
"Sticking it to the Man" is also not acceptable. If you don't like the RIAA, you boycott them by NOT WATCHING IT. Not liking them does not mean it's not longer illegal to steal from them.
Were the pages stuck together? TNR is just a hot Font.
numbnut, a common side-effect.
I am a current player in a good raiding guild (currently working on Ragnaros Heroic). I can definitely see what you describe in your post. I'm quickly coming to the realisation that no matter what Blizzard comes out with next, won't be enough to hold my attention any more.
The current tier of content was only interesting for a week. Once you beat the bosses in normal mode, (which for our guild was not challenging at all) you had seen everything. The 'new' storyline could be summarised in less than 30 minutes of narrative. When you go back in the next reset to do heroic bosses, the fight is not new, just harder.
I have recently started playing more single and two players games again, Oblivion, Borderlands, Never Winter Nights. I like that each game is different, has it's own story and I find these to be a better spend of my time, than going for 4 hours a night battling against my team-mates (and a some of my own I admit) mistakes/failures in an attempt to make 'progression'. This 'progression' is becoming less and less exciting, and more and more like work. Yes there is still the lure of new epics, but after the 11th time of a new tier, it has really become a stale exercise in devaluation of effort.
Totally aside from that, there is still some major class issues. Everyone has something they really hate about their current Main. There is always, somewhere, a major flaw. In my own example, Frost DK's are stacking haste and dpsing in UNHOLY presence. This just makes NO sense whatsoever. The alternative is to go Unholy, which is under performing, or Blood which is also under performing. Ferals are complaining about threat, shamans are super squishy, etc. Every class has some major flaw that we are 'forced' to put up with. This flaw just seems to never get fixed.
I can easily see myself quitting the game soon, likely when SWTOR or Diablo3 comes along. I might even stop for Skyrim. I did try Rift, but it's timing with the expansion may have crippled it somewhat. I may try again, though it did somewhat feel too similar to WoW for me. SWTOR with it's Sci-Fi theme may be fresh enough for me to break away from the Fantasy genre.
No, the reality of the Samsung Tab has been distorted. This is quite common when in the presence of Steve's field emitters. Once the evidence spends enough time in decontamination it should return to normal, we hope.
Okay guys, we knew this day would eventually come. Sit tight and buckle up, we're dialling the Reality Distortion Field to 11.
That's completely different though. When they use this plot tool, they show you a cliff-hanger. Like in House, end of current series, you are told that something big and bad has happened, and House did it. You are not told what he did, who he did it to (mostly) and how it gets resolved. So there is still BIG questions to ask, like "How did this happen" and "What happens next". It would be totally different if you read the plot on wikipedia or somewhere and were told that he drove the car into her house, after seeing her on a date despite her telling him she's not ready to start dating again, and that he escapes off to a beach and is all happy, then you find yourself bored throughout the episode.
There's a distinct difference between being given a glimpse (often misleading) of the ending, than having the true ending revealed to you.