I've long held a similar position. Laws should include sunset provisions, especially shit like PATRIOT Act or DMCA, FISA... but I think 25 years is too long. 10-15 years would be more ideal.
If nothing else, this keeps them busy and unable to create as much NEW bullshit.
Plus: Congressional term limits. Can you tell me that, by the end of his run, Strom Thurmond truly understood todays social structure and way of life? I don't doubt he was still a smart guy, but he was primarily born/raised/educated in a completely different era. Ted "The Internet is a series of tubes" Stevens. Nuff said.
In a time when the Fed is giving itself broader influence and control over all of us, we need to be able to rotate people in more regularly.
That means you get to go beat up the gang right? I mean they were being disrespectful to you by beating up your son. Eye for an eye.
Seriously though, you did talk to an attorney over this right? I'd be running for school board to get the fuck of a principle fired.
I'm amazed that somehow it's OK to react with physical violence when someone says something you don't like. Free speech and all that. How that shit has become to universally tolerated is beyond me.
Other than having to do a little jiggering with the atheros wifi chip my newly purchased T400 is running it great and has been since the alpha releases.
It seems people forget BioWare didn't make the second KotOR game and that it was, in fact, Obsidian Entertainment that did. Whois to say we won't still see one by yet another dev team? Afterall, I have a feeling it's up to Lucasarts more than BioWare when games bearing the STAR WARS brand are released.
I don't quite see it that way. I guess I'm a rube wanting to be fleeced.
By your rationale it seems magazine companies should simply deliver their product w/o a sub-fee.
Given their track record with story in games, I'm willing to give BioWare the benefit of the doubt that they feel they really can pull it off. If they do, I'll gladly pay them for new stories to play through every month (or other reasonable timeframe).
I've had this interesting idea for MMO's that would create nice variety...
Have storylines that run on each server and various outcomes. Let them be active for a month and at the end whichever outcome was achieved most often on that server, that outcome now becomes canon for that server.
So if the outcome is a major city is leveled, then that major city is leveled. You could have a mini-game that lets players help in rebuilding it over the next month by running quests for it.
You're right, the system we have now, where people go bankrupt trying to save their lives or the lives of a loved one is *so* much better.
What's funny and sad at the same time is we'll bankrupt the nation to support a war and help out big business... but providing health services would somehow be a big no no.
Exactly what I was thinking, hence why I tagged the article "whocares?"
I use Linux daily because I can get things done in a way that works best for me. That makes it far too important a tool to put a dollar figure on, IMO.
When I first read the story I was not able to get in via the web interface. The progress bar filled up then sat there. I left it for a few minutes and tried a refresh, same thing. It's fixed now, but I was having the issue.
Complain to your AG's office (about the crashing and DRM). I complained over Vista licenses (not including physical copies in case I have to replace a crashed hard drive and cannot use the recovery partition). Few weeks go by, I get two voicemails and an e-mail from the company wanting to overnight discs and work with me over various other complaints (a laptop with one of the flaky nVidia chips was having display issues within 3 weeks of receiving it and they wanted to charge me a restock fee).
Also, explaining my history working in IT and being relied on for recommending hardware/software (for individuals and in many cases companies) was powerful leverage when I got to actually converse with someone from the company about my consumer level issues. Same applies here, if someone asks if you've "Heard of this Spore game, I hear people talking about. You play games, what do you know about it?"
The way I see it, the tools are there. My AG office was even grateful, because they don't have the resources to police every company out there and can only deal with issues brought to their attention.
The easiest answer is the Boston Tea Party. That was aggression against a private company.
However, if you're suggesting a terrorist is a terrorist because they attack civilians, then I suggest our current military is a terrorist organization. How many have they killed since 2003? Compared that to how many died on Sept. 11.
Actually some of the earlier drug laws were aimed at wiping out the Asian opium trade. It was a bit of racism and simply being pissed the powers that be weren't getting a cut of the action.
It's funny how conveniently everyone has forgotten, while extolling their virtues, that the "Founding Fathers" were essentially terrorists against the British empire.
I wonder how much bandwidth is wasted on Flash and Javascript? I have a chuckle when I goto Verizon, Comcast, etc. sites and see all the Flash on there, and then they turn around and bitch about bandwidth hogging web services.
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That's funny it doesn't with my nVidia 7900GS or my 6800GS cards in either of the boxes I just installed it on.
To say nothing of corporations that work strictly from government contracts, most of the time from the military.
I've long held a similar position. Laws should include sunset provisions, especially shit like PATRIOT Act or DMCA, FISA... but I think 25 years is too long. 10-15 years would be more ideal.
If nothing else, this keeps them busy and unable to create as much NEW bullshit.
Plus: Congressional term limits. Can you tell me that, by the end of his run, Strom Thurmond truly understood todays social structure and way of life? I don't doubt he was still a smart guy, but he was primarily born/raised/educated in a completely different era. Ted "The Internet is a series of tubes" Stevens. Nuff said.
In a time when the Fed is giving itself broader influence and control over all of us, we need to be able to rotate people in more regularly.
Ideally it isn't the Federal governments job, but instead the States and the people that live there if they want to continue living there in safety.
Unfortunately this systems has become so twisted in order to keep us suckling off "Big Brothers" teet.
Or juvenile behavior.
That means you get to go beat up the gang right? I mean they were being disrespectful to you by beating up your son. Eye for an eye.
Seriously though, you did talk to an attorney over this right? I'd be running for school board to get the fuck of a principle fired.
I'm amazed that somehow it's OK to react with physical violence when someone says something you don't like. Free speech and all that. How that shit has become to universally tolerated is beyond me.
Hm, this pleases me. I may have to go buy this now. I was holding off until I had better clarification of their DRM scam... er scheme.
To only give these peons the ability to submit multiple account modifications, etc to someone up the chain for approval?
A bit of oversight?
I can understand if they need to change an address or something, but giving them carte blanche over an account seems pretty irresponsible.
Why did BioWare have to get swallowed up by these jackals? I was looking forward to trying out SW:TOR, but fuck this.
Other than having to do a little jiggering with the atheros wifi chip my newly purchased T400 is running it great and has been since the alpha releases.
It's all about 2012, baby. Joe the Plumber/Larry the Cable Guy!
It seems people forget BioWare didn't make the second KotOR game and that it was, in fact, Obsidian Entertainment that did. Whois to say we won't still see one by yet another dev team? Afterall, I have a feeling it's up to Lucasarts more than BioWare when games bearing the STAR WARS brand are released.
I don't quite see it that way. I guess I'm a rube wanting to be fleeced.
By your rationale it seems magazine companies should simply deliver their product w/o a sub-fee.
Given their track record with story in games, I'm willing to give BioWare the benefit of the doubt that they feel they really can pull it off. If they do, I'll gladly pay them for new stories to play through every month (or other reasonable timeframe).
I've had this interesting idea for MMO's that would create nice variety...
Have storylines that run on each server and various outcomes. Let them be active for a month and at the end whichever outcome was achieved most often on that server, that outcome now becomes canon for that server.
So if the outcome is a major city is leveled, then that major city is leveled. You could have a mini-game that lets players help in rebuilding it over the next month by running quests for it.
You're right, the system we have now, where people go bankrupt trying to save their lives or the lives of a loved one is *so* much better.
What's funny and sad at the same time is we'll bankrupt the nation to support a war and help out big business... but providing health services would somehow be a big no no.
Exactly what I was thinking, hence why I tagged the article "whocares?"
I use Linux daily because I can get things done in a way that works best for me. That makes it far too important a tool to put a dollar figure on, IMO.
When I first read the story I was not able to get in via the web interface. The progress bar filled up then sat there. I left it for a few minutes and tried a refresh, same thing. It's fixed now, but I was having the issue.
FWIW I don't seem to be having any problems getting gmail through my gmail-lite install.
Likewise via IMAP on my WinMo 6.1 phone. In fact I didn't even know there was an outage until just now; my mails been coming in fine.
Complain to your AG's office (about the crashing and DRM). I complained over Vista licenses (not including physical copies in case I have to replace a crashed hard drive and cannot use the recovery partition). Few weeks go by, I get two voicemails and an e-mail from the company wanting to overnight discs and work with me over various other complaints (a laptop with one of the flaky nVidia chips was having display issues within 3 weeks of receiving it and they wanted to charge me a restock fee).
Also, explaining my history working in IT and being relied on for recommending hardware/software (for individuals and in many cases companies) was powerful leverage when I got to actually converse with someone from the company about my consumer level issues. Same applies here, if someone asks if you've "Heard of this Spore game, I hear people talking about. You play games, what do you know about it?"
The way I see it, the tools are there. My AG office was even grateful, because they don't have the resources to police every company out there and can only deal with issues brought to their attention.
Do you even need to dump the pictures off your camera while you're still on vacation? Just buy another memory card if you're worried about space.
The easiest answer is the Boston Tea Party. That was aggression against a private company.
However, if you're suggesting a terrorist is a terrorist because they attack civilians, then I suggest our current military is a terrorist organization. How many have they killed since 2003? Compared that to how many died on Sept. 11.
Actually some of the earlier drug laws were aimed at wiping out the Asian opium trade. It was a bit of racism and simply being pissed the powers that be weren't getting a cut of the action.
I think when he said
And now: Demand to be placed in charge of maintaining the first standard?
he covered everything. ;)
It's funny how conveniently everyone has forgotten, while extolling their virtues, that the "Founding Fathers" were essentially terrorists against the British empire.
Amen, brother.
I wonder how much bandwidth is wasted on Flash and Javascript? I have a chuckle when I goto Verizon, Comcast, etc. sites and see all the Flash on there, and then they turn around and bitch about bandwidth hogging web services.
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