Compared to some of the bon mots that the MPAA has dropped on us in the past, this satirical piece is totally plausible - the best gags are the ones that could actually be true, and the MPAA has given us more than enough reason to think something like this would be legit at first glance.
And I believe advertising a closed-membership torrent site ANYWHERE is just inviting trouble and offering nothing benificial in return.
Not erring on the side of caution has cost us much in the past half decade or so. Your viewpoint, and by extension you yourself, are part of the problem.
It's also just common sense to keep your mouth shut about specific sites when their brethren are being given the legal shotgun. You're not helping. Shut it.
it's interesting that they thought it was cheaper and easier to buy Pixar than to clean house.
They DID clean house, and still suckage abounded. Buying Pixar was an act of serious desperation. Let us not forget that when Pixar went packing, Disney went 'so what?', canned their traditional animators, and tried to re-establish with Pixar wannabe's.
Typical of all of Disney's gambits lately, their improvements sucked up the joint. Buying Pixar is an admission of defeat, and giving Jobs the reins might well be the only thing that can save them.
We used to use notch cutters to circumvent a single sided disk, making it double sided.
True, but there was more than that - you also had to make punches in the case for the seek hole, opposite the center spindle from the original. Without that step, the newly liberated back side of the floppy was still useless.
Imagine this: a brick comes sailing through your window, smashing glass everywhere. You pick it up and wrapped around the brick is a flyer for a glass replacement company.
This is how I've viewed the major AV companies for quite some time. Sure, there are non-affiliated virus threats out there, but they perpetuate their own business as well.
I didn't think that my opinion of McAffee and Norton could sink any lower... but I was wrong.
Banning smoking in a public place prevents harm from being inflicted on other people
You've obviously never been around a bunch of smokers when they're not allowed to smoke. We're real easy to piss off - and pissed off is one step closer to punching you in the throat.
Why would he waste his time downloading if he didn't want it?
There are many degrees of want, and most of them don't end up in a sale. I want a hovercraft - however, I'm not willing to pay for one, I don't want it badly enough. If someone were to give me a functioning copy of a hovercraft, I'd use it, but I still wouldn't have bought one.
The hovercraft company has lost no money in this scenario. They never would have had the sale in the first place. As my new hovercraft is a copy, they lose no production either. What's more, people will see me going through the Taco Bell drive-thru in my hovercraft and want one for themselves, possibly enough to go buy one. So, in a roundabout way, I'm actually doing the hovercraft company a favor, giving them advertising at no cost to themselves.
you are stealing would-be profit from the movie industry
Sigh. You can't quantify a possible sale. It has no value. There's no guarantee that had circumstances been different, the person would have actually bought the movie. Your argument holds no water./done feeding trolls
Hear, hear. This is about bad programming in people, not in games. If someone with shoddy wiring doesn't get the inspiration to shoot up a school or a McDonalds from a videogame, they'll just get it from somewhere else - TV, a newspaper, their talking dog, whatever. You can't fault the trigger for a gun that's already loaded and cocked.
...on how long before this assclown pulls a Morton Downey Jr. style publicity stunt, saying he was beat up in a men's room by some angry gamers or something, to bump his story and endear himself to the handwringers?
The EU is so hot and fired up to wrench control of the intarweb from the US, so let THEM deal with it. If we can't be trusted with the DNS system, seems logical to me that the EU would be much better off orchestrating and paying for the upgrade to IPV6.
Mudvayne IS pretty cool and exciting and original. Not that that lends any credibility to MTV or TRL or the public's general tastes in music, of course.
Honest question. Here's my honest answer - I learned something significant during the last presidential election: This is not the America I thought it was. This is not a criticism of any particular party or ideology, it is an awareness that my country doesn't think like I thought it did.
Just because I would not like to see America become a theocratic republic doesn't mean the majority of Americans feel the same, so in the interest of actual democracy, I'll let the majority do what they want.
I won't be quiet about it, but I won't stand in the way.
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10 print "Use the fucking Roomba's remote. IT ALREADY HAS ONE!"
20 goto 10
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Compared to some of the bon mots that the MPAA has dropped on us in the past, this satirical piece is totally plausible - the best gags are the ones that could actually be true, and the MPAA has given us more than enough reason to think something like this would be legit at first glance.
Still, well played, BBSpot.
Oh well, what's the next killer open source app that we use to thumb our noses at the man? This one's been assimilated.
We're losing control of EVERYTHING. We just don't know it yet.
Hit a nerve, huh?
And I believe advertising a closed-membership torrent site ANYWHERE is just inviting trouble and offering nothing benificial in return.
Not erring on the side of caution has cost us much in the past half decade or so. Your viewpoint, and by extension you yourself, are part of the problem.
It's also just common sense to keep your mouth shut about specific sites when their brethren are being given the legal shotgun. You're not helping. Shut it.
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Last thing those fuckwits need is another fuckwit supplying them names of future targets. You think they don't read forums?
it's interesting that they thought it was cheaper and easier to buy Pixar than to clean house.
They DID clean house, and still suckage abounded. Buying Pixar was an act of serious desperation. Let us not forget that when Pixar went packing, Disney went 'so what?', canned their traditional animators, and tried to re-establish with Pixar wannabe's.
Typical of all of Disney's gambits lately, their improvements sucked up the joint. Buying Pixar is an admission of defeat, and giving Jobs the reins might well be the only thing that can save them.
> nothing I have in my wallet uses RFID.
You sure about that?
Hell, SOMEBODY had to fill John Katz's shoes.
We used to use notch cutters to circumvent a single sided disk, making it double sided.
True, but there was more than that - you also had to make punches in the case for the seek hole, opposite the center spindle from the original. Without that step, the newly liberated back side of the floppy was still useless.
Imagine this: a brick comes sailing through your window, smashing glass everywhere. You pick it up and wrapped around the brick is a flyer for a glass replacement company.
This is how I've viewed the major AV companies for quite some time. Sure, there are non-affiliated virus threats out there, but they perpetuate their own business as well.
I didn't think that my opinion of McAffee and Norton could sink any lower... but I was wrong.
Banning smoking in a public place prevents harm from being inflicted on other people
You've obviously never been around a bunch of smokers when they're not allowed to smoke. We're real easy to piss off - and pissed off is one step closer to punching you in the throat.
Why would he waste his time downloading if he didn't want it?
There are many degrees of want, and most of them don't end up in a sale. I want a hovercraft - however, I'm not willing to pay for one, I don't want it badly enough. If someone were to give me a functioning copy of a hovercraft, I'd use it, but I still wouldn't have bought one.
The hovercraft company has lost no money in this scenario. They never would have had the sale in the first place. As my new hovercraft is a copy, they lose no production either. What's more, people will see me going through the Taco Bell drive-thru in my hovercraft and want one for themselves, possibly enough to go buy one. So, in a roundabout way, I'm actually doing the hovercraft company a favor, giving them advertising at no cost to themselves.
you are stealing would-be profit from the movie industry
/done feeding trolls
Sigh. You can't quantify a possible sale. It has no value. There's no guarantee that had circumstances been different, the person would have actually bought the movie. Your argument holds no water.
If I only had mod points. Very astute metaphor.
Hear, hear. This is about bad programming in people, not in games. If someone with shoddy wiring doesn't get the inspiration to shoot up a school or a McDonalds from a videogame, they'll just get it from somewhere else - TV, a newspaper, their talking dog, whatever. You can't fault the trigger for a gun that's already loaded and cocked.
...on how long before this assclown pulls a Morton Downey Jr. style publicity stunt, saying he was beat up in a men's room by some angry gamers or something, to bump his story and endear himself to the handwringers?
My guess is 3 weeks from today at the most.
Just one, and surpise, he's a lawyer.
The EU is so hot and fired up to wrench control of the intarweb from the US, so let THEM deal with it. If we can't be trusted with the DNS system, seems logical to me that the EU would be much better off orchestrating and paying for the upgrade to IPV6.
...we don't get French benefits?
Shut. The. Fuck. Up!
Those litigious asswipes read their press. Don't give them names!
Mudvayne IS pretty cool and exciting and original. Not that that lends any credibility to MTV or TRL or the public's general tastes in music, of course.
Honest question. Here's my honest answer - I learned something significant during the last presidential election: This is not the America I thought it was. This is not a criticism of any particular party or ideology, it is an awareness that my country doesn't think like I thought it did.
Just because I would not like to see America become a theocratic republic doesn't mean the majority of Americans feel the same, so in the interest of actual democracy, I'll let the majority do what they want.
I won't be quiet about it, but I won't stand in the way.