The sad part is that this often means that the cracked versions of the games play better than the legally bought ones. Talk about adding insult to injury.
You assume that the player actually noticed that the update happened.
More and more games come now fall into the habit, at least if they're updated often and require large updates, to start their updater with the computer and keep it running, checking every now and then for updates and downloading and applying them in the background, without the user even noticing that an update occurred unless he just happens to want to play the game while the update is in progress.
If the game is on Steam, chances are even higher that any update happens without the user even noticing it.
A giant schlong? Pffft. Child porn isn't offensive if hanging in a church. Just paint some wings on the naked kids and call them Putti and you're fine.
Not to mention the infamous blowjob window. SFW? You decide, it's a church window, how NSFW could that possibly be?
Really? Courts around here require you to be a more or less sane person if you want to drive a car. If you try to use the defense that you can't be expected to have common sense, the least you can expect is for the judge to invalidate your driver's license because by your own confession you're unfit to handle a vehicle.
If you complain enough and piss off the judge he just might incapacitate you. And try to get out of THAT again.
You better accept that you're expected to have common sense when going to court around here. That's why the whole "I'm too stupid to conduct my own life and hence I sue the company not telling me to not do $stupid_thing" isn't flying here.
The problem here being that comics are still thought of as being targeted at kids. In came Japan with its Mangas and blew that idea out of the water. And we were sitting there and staring wide eyed as they took over the more profitable market segment of the adolescent and young adult market, a demographic that was able and very willing to spend WAY more money on it than any "serious" adult would spend on "serious" newspapers or magazines, including a long tail of add-on products like figurines. And we're not talking about cheap 5 dollar plastic action figures that only become valuable collector's items after staying in their original box for 50 years, these are essentially the same plastic junk figurines selling for 50+ bucks.
Still we don't learn and keep considering "comics" to be material for children. That's at least the only reason I could imagine why you can still find quite brutal anime series mixed into the Saturday morning cartoon lineup.
Hey, be happy it's at least tech news and not yet another politics story.
But just one story up we have some slashvertisment for a SoC nobody gives a shit about running an OS even fewer people give a shit about, maybe that's more up your alley.
Does it run the rest of the software, too? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's actually amazing that it can handle all the bullshit baggage Win10 comes along with, usually malware doesn't run nicely on systems it wasn't designed for, so it's generally a good sign for compatibility if the leaky shit runs, but... I don't know, I still wouldn't use it as advertising material.
Is it? Who does your body belong to when you no longer exist? Or rather, why do you cease to exist? As much a philosophical question as it is a legal one.
Ponder whether you really want that. Considering that there is a strong incentive for wives and husbands to off the relevant other part of the relationship for insurance money, how much stronger would the incentive be to put the SO on the organ market?
From a purely economic point of view it's more sensible to keep a trained individual alive than to try to produce a new individual and train it. Hence I would put more emphasis on using contraceptives and putting some research into abortion-on-the-go procedures to reduce the production of more individuals that need training and a lengthy, usually between 18 and 25 year long training period before they get productive, and instead focus on keeping the trained and productive individuals alive.
You are of course allowed to decide for yourself to end your productive live prematurely, as long as this does not entail wasting resources beyond yourself.
I could see that problem in the US, in France, there isn't really a financial incentive to the hospital to harvest body parts.
Also, the stories about people waking in the morgue are lovely tales from the crypt, but have little to do with reality, and have not had for at least 100 years now.
What makes you think a morally corrupt doctor would have any more incentive to keep you alive as a non-donor? If anything, it could convince him that you're a waste of human life anyway, selfish bastard.
Having your own opinion is a great thing. Having a different opinion may be a brave thing.
Having a different opinion from the rest just for the sake of nonconformity is stupid, though. It leads to people thinking bleach is a cure for something just because everyone else thinks it's poisonous.
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Trying the old "repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed" bullshit?
The sad part is that this often means that the cracked versions of the games play better than the legally bought ones. Talk about adding insult to injury.
You assume that the player actually noticed that the update happened.
More and more games come now fall into the habit, at least if they're updated often and require large updates, to start their updater with the computer and keep it running, checking every now and then for updates and downloading and applying them in the background, without the user even noticing that an update occurred unless he just happens to want to play the game while the update is in progress.
If the game is on Steam, chances are even higher that any update happens without the user even noticing it.
A giant schlong? Pffft. Child porn isn't offensive if hanging in a church. Just paint some wings on the naked kids and call them Putti and you're fine.
Not to mention the infamous blowjob window. SFW? You decide, it's a church window, how NSFW could that possibly be?
A picture of a guy with his wang out is only ok on Facebook if it's rock hard?
When has there ever been a customer pressing a company into DISALLOWING him to do something? No matter how stupid.
Really? Courts around here require you to be a more or less sane person if you want to drive a car. If you try to use the defense that you can't be expected to have common sense, the least you can expect is for the judge to invalidate your driver's license because by your own confession you're unfit to handle a vehicle.
If you complain enough and piss off the judge he just might incapacitate you. And try to get out of THAT again.
You better accept that you're expected to have common sense when going to court around here. That's why the whole "I'm too stupid to conduct my own life and hence I sue the company not telling me to not do $stupid_thing" isn't flying here.
The problem here being that comics are still thought of as being targeted at kids. In came Japan with its Mangas and blew that idea out of the water. And we were sitting there and staring wide eyed as they took over the more profitable market segment of the adolescent and young adult market, a demographic that was able and very willing to spend WAY more money on it than any "serious" adult would spend on "serious" newspapers or magazines, including a long tail of add-on products like figurines. And we're not talking about cheap 5 dollar plastic action figures that only become valuable collector's items after staying in their original box for 50 years, these are essentially the same plastic junk figurines selling for 50+ bucks.
Still we don't learn and keep considering "comics" to be material for children. That's at least the only reason I could imagine why you can still find quite brutal anime series mixed into the Saturday morning cartoon lineup.
Hey, be happy it's at least tech news and not yet another politics story.
But just one story up we have some slashvertisment for a SoC nobody gives a shit about running an OS even fewer people give a shit about, maybe that's more up your alley.
Does it run the rest of the software, too? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's actually amazing that it can handle all the bullshit baggage Win10 comes along with, usually malware doesn't run nicely on systems it wasn't designed for, so it's generally a good sign for compatibility if the leaky shit runs, but ... I don't know, I still wouldn't use it as advertising material.
Is it? Who does your body belong to when you no longer exist? Or rather, why do you cease to exist? As much a philosophical question as it is a legal one.
Yes, in the US, but can something like that happen in a country with better healthcare standards?
Mine isn't. But hating kids might play a role there, too.
In the first world or the US? Because quite frankly, when it comes to general healthcare, the US isn't quite on par with the first world...
Ponder whether you really want that. Considering that there is a strong incentive for wives and husbands to off the relevant other part of the relationship for insurance money, how much stronger would the incentive be to put the SO on the organ market?
From a purely economic point of view it's more sensible to keep a trained individual alive than to try to produce a new individual and train it. Hence I would put more emphasis on using contraceptives and putting some research into abortion-on-the-go procedures to reduce the production of more individuals that need training and a lengthy, usually between 18 and 25 year long training period before they get productive, and instead focus on keeping the trained and productive individuals alive.
You are of course allowed to decide for yourself to end your productive live prematurely, as long as this does not entail wasting resources beyond yourself.
If you're that paranoid, at least also come to the conclusion that it would be easy for a hospital to forge an opt-in.
I could see that problem in the US, in France, there isn't really a financial incentive to the hospital to harvest body parts.
Also, the stories about people waking in the morgue are lovely tales from the crypt, but have little to do with reality, and have not had for at least 100 years now.
What makes you think a morally corrupt doctor would have any more incentive to keep you alive as a non-donor? If anything, it could convince him that you're a waste of human life anyway, selfish bastard.
Sure I'm for donations, they might save my life!
But I'd want to receive, not give!
That's ok, there isn't really a decent insurance claim worker either, so they should do fine.
The hot topic on the management floor of 2030 is probably how it's no longer "android" but "gynoid".
Not to mention the studio execs and producers, the financiers that willingly accepted a lower payout to keep the dream that Hollywood is alive...
C'mon, let's start a bailout campaign for them!
The problem with that analogy is that the definition of a scientific theory is just that.
Having your own opinion is a great thing. Having a different opinion may be a brave thing.
Having a different opinion from the rest just for the sake of nonconformity is stupid, though. It leads to people thinking bleach is a cure for something just because everyone else thinks it's poisonous.