...isn't it possible that the reason AOL isn't all that upset about this is because it requires AOL software to run? Not just AIM, i mean; its a WinAMP plugin.
I could walk around Atlanta and find more than 2% of the population out on the street.
Excuse me, but do you understand what a percentage is? it means that two out of each 100 people in the country. That means across the whole country, 2% is the average. Walking the slums of a major city will obviously produce higher unemployment results than the national average, just as going to an upper-class neighborhood results in a lower unemployment rate.
Perhaps this is the message that the folks bringing the charges actually wish to silence?
I'm sorry, but will you please pull your head out of your ass for a second so you can hear some sense?
Whether the site incites people to violence is up for debate, but do you honestly think that its some liberal, atheist, or Satanic conspiracy to shut down the "message?" It doesn't seem more likely to you that they simply don't like the idea of someone keeping a public tally of who's been successfully killed, who we haven't gotten too yet, and who we almost got, but need to go back and finish off?
Note: I don't support pulling the site. I'm a huge First Amendment supporter. But to suggest that there's some kind of conspiracy to silence any anti-abortion opinion is just insane.
Wasn't it also John Adams who pushed the first Sedition Acts through Congress in 1800 that made it a jailable offense to criticize the current administration and/or the Federalist Party?
Be careful who you pick to fight your battles for you.
but what's the problem? Why is it that when you hear "AOLIM is the most used IM service," it means that they're evil and need to be stopped, just because they're a corporation, instead of "hey, that must mean they make a pretty good product, if everyone uses it."
They aren't forcing you to do anything. This is a democracy, and it is supposed to act on the behalf of its people. But if more people thought AOL was bad then good, AOL would have no user base and would be shut down on its own.
Seriously. It's pathetic that people can't simply make the decision to not use AIM if they think don't like the way AOL controls the IM business, so they have to bring the government in.
AOL has a "monopoly" on the instant messaging market.
Did it ever occur to you that they have a monopoly on instant messaging because they invented it?
AOL has a "monopoly" on the instant messaging market.
Why? so they can't profit from the work they do any more? Because making money is evil?
This allows anyone... to compete FAIRLY
fairly? so its fair that once aol invests it time and resources in developing the best (or most used, anyway) method of instant messaging, they have to give it up so others don't have to work as hard as they did? now really, who is that fair to?
Did anyone watch the Sifl and Olly Show back when it was on? They had a segment called "Champs-1," in which they would communicate with the winners of a fictional contest. The winners, three college kids as I recall, were shot into space for a vacation.
By the way, in each segment, something went horribly wrong...
I think a lot of people forgot that EP I was a setup for the other movies.
I love it when people make this excuse for EPI being a piece of crap. A bad movie is a bad movie, period. You know what happens with normal movie series' whose first films aren't good? no more get made.
Which was better, EPI or the Matrix? Now, they're making a sequel (or 2) to the Matrix, which makes it a series. So if the Matrix 1 is the setup for a series, why isn't it a bad movie?
If Rocky I is the setup for a series, why isn't it a bad movie?
If a movie sucks, it sucks. Please don't make excuses.
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I'm sure he does, actually. I know I do, and I agree with him that most console games (even RPG's) have shallow plots. I mean, seriously, find me ONE console game that's been made, ever, that isn't a port of a computer game, that has even half the depth of Fallout, or, say, Ultima IV.
Consoles can't (right now, anyway) provide the multiplayer capabilities of PC games, and they haven't historically delivered the depth of plot and character that makes PC RPGs (the best ones) so good.
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True, but imagine how easy it is to fix these current limitations. Adding a keyboard and an ethernet port to something like the Playstation would be trivial for Sony. If they decide to do it, there would be no reason that developers couldn't build complex-input multi-player games at least as easily for the Playstation as for a "real" PC.
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Excuse me, but do you understand what a percentage is? it means that two out of each 100 people in the country. That means across the whole country, 2% is the average. Walking the slums of a major city will obviously produce higher unemployment results than the national average, just as going to an upper-class neighborhood results in a lower unemployment rate.
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Hey, genius, did it ever occur to you that maybe BNL isn't even trying to shut Napster down?
Perhaps they're suggesting a new use for Napster. Perhaps they don't even want it shut down.
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I'm sorry, but will you please pull your head out of your ass for a second so you can hear some sense?
Whether the site incites people to violence is up for debate, but do you honestly think that its some liberal, atheist, or Satanic conspiracy to shut down the "message?" It doesn't seem more likely to you that they simply don't like the idea of someone keeping a public tally of who's been successfully killed, who we haven't gotten too yet, and who we almost got, but need to go back and finish off?
Note: I don't support pulling the site. I'm a huge First Amendment supporter. But to suggest that there's some kind of conspiracy to silence any anti-abortion opinion is just insane.
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Be careful who you pick to fight your battles for you.
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They aren't forcing you to do anything. This is a democracy, and it is supposed to act on the behalf of its people. But if more people thought AOL was bad then good, AOL would have no user base and would be shut down on its own.
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Did it ever occur to you that they have a monopoly on instant messaging because they invented it?
AOL has a "monopoly" on the instant messaging market.
Why? so they can't profit from the work they do any more? Because making money is evil?
This allows anyone... to compete FAIRLY
fairly? so its fair that once aol invests it time and resources in developing the best (or most used, anyway) method of instant messaging, they have to give it up so others don't have to work as hard as they did? now really, who is that fair to?
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Of course it a new kind. The old kind didn't get $4 million donations from open source companies.
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By the way, in each segment, something went horribly wrong...
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a "stock option" is the ability to buy stock at a fixed price as opposed to the trading price, not actual stock itself.
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Ok, so maybe it wasn't on purpose, but Taco seems to have found a solution to the offensive site.
by the time i got to this article, the site was /.ed. Hmmmmmm......
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Yeah, don't you just hate it when Bill tries to take over the "WOLRD?" :)
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Um... that was his point. Who's stupid now?
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I love it when people make this excuse for EPI being a piece of crap. A bad movie is a bad movie, period. You know what happens with normal movie series' whose first films aren't good? no more get made.
Which was better, EPI or the Matrix? Now, they're making a sequel (or 2) to the Matrix, which makes it a series. So if the Matrix 1 is the setup for a series, why isn't it a bad movie?
If Rocky I is the setup for a series, why isn't it a bad movie?
If a movie sucks, it sucks. Please don't make excuses.
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Consoles can't (right now, anyway) provide the multiplayer capabilities of PC games, and they haven't historically delivered the depth of plot and character that makes PC RPGs (the best ones) so good.
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People don't always do everything possible.
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