I regret that buy. I suppose to me it was a lesson of sorts. I was initially holding off, but then my friend bought it and then.. well.. it was a discovery that I tend to follow the instincts of my friends. The worst thing is, once I bought it, the other friends folded and bought it as well. I feel mildly responsible for a minor domino effect.
I call and get fee reversed, but I guess I am one of the few who bother to call and bitch about it( to clarify, I mean about it where it can make a difference... not online...:P)
Whose ego exactly? This dance has been going on for a while and if you saw some of those previously and read a little about negotiation tactics ( those used by the Russians in particular as the it is quite an amazing read ) you will notice that it is not about ego. It is about power and influence.
If I was Russian, I would be proud. My leader dictates all the other powers what to do.
For almost 50 years we lived under threat of instant vaporization. Both NATO and Soviets assumed that opponent army reinforcements will be stopped at Vistula line by tactical nuclear strike. Revealed war plans assumed that two million Poles will die in such strike and most parts of central Poland will become useless, radioactive wasteland for a number of years. Here in Poland we were trained how to survive nearby nuclear strike on a regular basis.
Things changed in 1990, when Cold War was finally over. Everyone became a friend. Some we liked some more [Americans] than others [Russians] for obvious reasons but it didn't really matter much.
Now, after 20 years of relative safety some psychotic US leader came here and started messing around with their 'anti-missile' shit. Arms race is back. Let assume that they'll install a system that will intercept 50% of russian missiles. Rational response I would expect from Russian is to have, say, twice as many nuclear tipped missiles they have now. I know this, Russians know this. Psychotic US politicians know this as well. So we have to live once again under threat of (instant) vaporization just because some dysfunctional psychopaths who happen to have too much power in their hands decided to pursue their geopolitical games. Having seen how these games have played out in, say, Middle East I'm really scared. Various "developments" since 2001 made me confident that United States will spark 3-rd world war sooner or later. I was hoping that in all the mess between US, Russia, China and Middle East - Poland will become a kind of place everyone forgot about, so we'll be relatively safe. Now I'm losing that hope - some whilte collar fucks along with our local puppet government placed us back into spotlight.
My message to US politicians and millitary: get the fuck out of here NOW. Take your anti-ballistic toys with you and shove them deep into your ass. You killed millions of people in the Middle East, destroyed so many countries. We don't want you to pursue the same psychotic games in Poland.
Regards,
Citizen od Poland.
Huh? So let me get this straight, citizen of Poland, what do you think will happen when US actually does what you propose. Who, do you think, will fill vacuum? Please, by all means, enlighten me.
And I really hope so. Otherwise, I will have to accept that there are people who truly believe that:
"it will be difficult to enforce due to the inherently criminal nature of digital technology"
I didn't know it was inherently criminal until few minutes ago. Someone please save me.
Its hard not to comment on the entire , prevalent these days, rent seeking behavior from some distant heirs. I do not five a flying rat's ass about descendants of Jane. She wrote the classic. Not the heirs. What did they do exactly?
I sometimes wonder if there is any sense of irony in those who name those bills. For second I figured it cannot possibly be real. Back to earth..
I skimmed through the text and found a nice little nugget stating search engines have to make sure the offending sites cannot be found. That will be fun.
I also find it especially heart warming that our leaders have time to draft this while the country is literally falling apart. Sigh, time for another letter to my, supposed, representative.
I do not pretend to know the answer. I do not even think there is one that would work for everyone.. but you have suggested that the end game of the extremists is to make things extreme. That they say one thing, and do quite another, or openly say different things than they do behind closed doors. I am fairly positive that this describes behavior of mankind throughout the history with few notable exceptions of some kids raised away from any kind of civilization and maybe Jesus.
Again, some perspective might help, I remember listening to an older woman in UK who still remembered the good ole days when the kingdom was indeed a kingdom and an empire ( she was not that old, just... well kinda pissed that it is no longer an empire and all those immigrants are coming and don't speak proper English ). With known company she was openly racist and anti-immigration ( the two kinda go well together in UK lately ), when in polite company, barely reminiscing the good ole days when UK was more homogenous ie. dirty immigrant free ( kinda ). People are like that. So are the muslims.
When speaking about the root of all evil.. the big why,it is the religion itself as far as I can tell, but banning something like this would have a completely opposite effect and killing people for being of a certain faith ( as past would indicate ), tends to have quite the opposite effect. Our culture was relatively blessed with slow marginalization thereof... albeit very very slow and with moody radio making sure people are riled up. To be perfectly honest, modern Christians are mostly hypocrites. When checked against their actions, they openly say meh the holy book. The muslims tend to take Koran very literally.
Then again, politicians still have that verbal tick: God bless you and God bless America.. so I dunno.
Long story short, it is being a long week and it is already late. Can we agree to disagree in general and I think I will prolly be reading your posts more carefully from this point on.
Ugh... I am not absolutely sure why you are trying to dissect me with the questions most likely meant to make me 'pick one' side. I do not believe, but,based on available evidence, I think of a bunch of pissed off muslims thought it would be neat to blow some shit up. I do NOT think that this automatically makes it ok to blow up everything that is a-american( especially if that thing happens to be a US citizen ), because *BIG HINT* US happened to create those pissed off muslims. Is that clear enough and 'not vague' enough for you?
I think the goal was to, long term, destroy the good US of A and if you, think about it for more than 3 seconds you might find out that the might have succeeded, albeit I do not think, quite in the way they have intended. All of a sudden, we are spending our entire future and human capital on a war on an IDEA and if you do not see a problem with this.. well, you are an idiot. I am sorry. For the US, not for you.
If you do not think US is in a decline, I would like to hear your view of the next 10 years. Please tell me it is going to be all puppies and rainbows.
So tell me now... did they succeed and why do you think your response ( killing everything that moves ) is the correct approach? Because let me tell you now... US has less and less allies across the globe and well, US has been pissing against the wind for a fairly long time now and a day might come, sooner than any of us might anticipate, that they will piss against a hurricane. Personally, I am looking at China, who does not take kindly to intimidation. The only glimmer of hope, as far as I can tell, is that China, again based only on previous actions as a good indicator of future actions, is being very patient and is thinking long term, which does give US time to prepare..
And in case you are wondering: no, blowing up China might not work.
The real issue, you dumb tard, is people like you who are already drumming the war drum, which makes everything a-okay as long as we are the ones doing it. It does not. The sooner you realize that wohr does not excuse 'mistakes' ( BTW I absolutely love your language which is so euphemistic that it borders on Orwellian), the sooner we might get to what is important: BBQs and BJs. The real issue is that this is just another small step on a slippery slope of executive branch power grab. The real issue is that it is all fairly complicated and you immediately rubber stamp it all with 'fine by me'. Do you know why? Because you do not think, even for a second, that one day you might be one of the undesirables. Because you are innocent and innocent cool people like you have nothing to hide. Because you have no idea what power does to you. Or if you do, you just dismiss it with a snide remark. Because you really believe everyone has their best intentions in place and that rules are just for the lil ones:P
I just know that people are people.
Because the debate is about the future of this country and you are still stuck in the past.
I just realized why your comment bothered me so much and why initial response was simple anger at your mind-boggling, unswerving faith in your governing body. I realized that you really, truly think you are the good guy ( and by extension, the people that make the big decisions.. they must be good too). It is cute. A little sad, but cute nonetheless. It reminds me of this old joke about Americans during commie days.
What is the difference between the Russians and Americans? The soviets know they are a target of propaganda.
You are blind if you think the world is binary and simple 'Downhole'. The only thing that is clear is that nothing is clear.
but in the us all the gvmt institution has to do is to issue subpoena and pretty much all the information is up for grabs.. be it financial institutions, your m$ sexbox profile.. not to mention facebook which is basically founded on selling information of its users. I have to assume that UK wants somewhat quicker access to twitter, fb and RIM... less paperwork, more trees saved. because ya know.. they do care about the environment.
In essence, gvmt backdoor coming to all communication services. How long till that is broken and abused by evil hackers which will require even more draconian surveillance?
Huh? Why? It is not an MMO, not if it has a single player mode. I see absolutely no reason I should not be able to play without a connection. No reason at all. So no, you get used to my whining every single time a company pulls a stunt like that and fails to accommodate its player base.
be sure to scroll down for the new internet meme, it has been a while since i had a good lol
Meh Blizzard now. I used to love d1 and d2, but.. well, I got older and I don't feel like bending over just because Pardo wants me to. I want a date and a hug and kiss in the morning. Sheeeeet...
I was being a little facetious. Obviously, the current direction seems quite clear. I mean, when you think about it, once you are off a cliff there is only one way to go.. and besides,The Internet Threat (or TIT) is the new threat you can rally behind/scare people with. It is vague enough and gives you a good excuse to do just about anything. If anyone here ever listens to Moody radio lately, you will know, that this is already happening. We have a new official enemy. I seriously wish I was joking.
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Huh?:> They were both essentially saying the same things; not to mention, they had similar style.
I regret that buy. I suppose to me it was a lesson of sorts. I was initially holding off, but then my friend bought it and then.. well.. it was a discovery that I tend to follow the instincts of my friends. The worst thing is, once I bought it, the other friends folded and bought it as well. I feel mildly responsible for a minor domino effect.
Still, I know better now...
Lol. I will paraphrase Tony Blair who on some occasions got some things right:
There are people whose light does not dissapear.
Bill Hicks lives on because he saw things a lot more clearer than an obvious troll.:>
about the marketing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo&noredirect=1
"You are satan's spawn. Just kill yourself"
I call and get fee reversed, but I guess I am one of the few who bother to call and bitch about it( to clarify, I mean about it where it can make a difference... not online...:P)
In case someone needs a way help in that respect, I present you.. way to get fees reversed, discounted or eliminated
Naturally, you actually need to make an effort...
"...fuck the children; they are getting entirely too much attention"
What we need is back door to every website, program, app, house, doghouse, dollhouse... or we can't protect you.. from you.
Apart from obvious thought that you can't have any serious security with backdoors...
Whose ego exactly? This dance has been going on for a while and if you saw some of those previously and read a little about negotiation tactics ( those used by the Russians in particular as the it is quite an amazing read ) you will notice that it is not about ego. It is about power and influence.
If I was Russian, I would be proud. My leader dictates all the other powers what to do.
For almost 50 years we lived under threat of instant vaporization. Both NATO and Soviets assumed that opponent army reinforcements will be stopped at Vistula line by tactical nuclear strike. Revealed war plans assumed that two million Poles will die in such strike and most parts of central Poland will become useless, radioactive wasteland for a number of years. Here in Poland we were trained how to survive nearby nuclear strike on a regular basis.
Things changed in 1990, when Cold War was finally over. Everyone became a friend. Some we liked some more [Americans] than others [Russians] for obvious reasons but it didn't really matter much.
Now, after 20 years of relative safety some psychotic US leader came here and started messing around with their 'anti-missile' shit. Arms race is back. Let assume that they'll install a system that will intercept 50% of russian missiles. Rational response I would expect from Russian is to have, say, twice as many nuclear tipped missiles they have now. I know this, Russians know this. Psychotic US politicians know this as well. So we have to live once again under threat of (instant) vaporization just because some dysfunctional psychopaths who happen to have too much power in their hands decided to pursue their geopolitical games. Having seen how these games have played out in, say, Middle East I'm really scared. Various "developments" since 2001 made me confident that United States will spark 3-rd world war sooner or later. I was hoping that in all the mess between US, Russia, China and Middle East - Poland will become a kind of place everyone forgot about, so we'll be relatively safe. Now I'm losing that hope - some whilte collar fucks along with our local puppet government placed us back into spotlight.
My message to US politicians and millitary: get the fuck out of here NOW. Take your anti-ballistic toys with you and shove them deep into your ass. You killed millions of people in the Middle East, destroyed so many countries. We don't want you to pursue the same psychotic games in Poland.
Regards,
Citizen od Poland.
Huh? So let me get this straight, citizen of Poland, what do you think will happen when US actually does what you propose. Who, do you think, will fill vacuum? Please, by all means, enlighten me.
I wonder. Unless they are assisted by police can they actually stop me?
Terminal is a tricky area, especially an international one, but a public road?:P
Just an honest question..
First impulse, I almost immediately forwarded the link to the friendly local radio host.
Second impulse, now I am sure I am going to drive to New York instead of flying( I was a little on the fence because gf was complaining )
Still,. FTG
And I really hope so. Otherwise, I will have to accept that there are people who truly believe that:
"it will be difficult to enforce due to the inherently criminal nature of digital technology"
I didn't know it was inherently criminal until few minutes ago. Someone please save me.
Its hard not to comment on the entire , prevalent these days, rent seeking behavior from some distant heirs. I do not five a flying rat's ass about descendants of Jane. She wrote the classic. Not the heirs. What did they do exactly?
I sometimes wonder if there is any sense of irony in those who name those bills. For second I figured it cannot possibly be real. Back to earth..
I skimmed through the text and found a nice little nugget stating search engines have to make sure the offending sites cannot be found. That will be fun.
I also find it especially heart warming that our leaders have time to draft this while the country is literally falling apart. Sigh, time for another letter to my, supposed, representative.
I do not pretend to know the answer. I do not even think there is one that would work for everyone.. but you have suggested that the end game of the extremists is to make things extreme. That they say one thing, and do quite another, or openly say different things than they do behind closed doors. I am fairly positive that this describes behavior of mankind throughout the history with few notable exceptions of some kids raised away from any kind of civilization and maybe Jesus.
Again, some perspective might help, I remember listening to an older woman in UK who still remembered the good ole days when the kingdom was indeed a kingdom and an empire ( she was not that old, just... well kinda pissed that it is no longer an empire and all those immigrants are coming and don't speak proper English ). With known company she was openly racist and anti-immigration ( the two kinda go well together in UK lately ), when in polite company, barely reminiscing the good ole days when UK was more homogenous ie. dirty immigrant free ( kinda ). People are like that. So are the muslims.
When speaking about the root of all evil.. the big why,it is the religion itself as far as I can tell, but banning something like this would have a completely opposite effect and killing people for being of a certain faith ( as past would indicate ), tends to have quite the opposite effect. Our culture was relatively blessed with slow marginalization thereof... albeit very very slow and with moody radio making sure people are riled up. To be perfectly honest, modern Christians are mostly hypocrites. When checked against their actions, they openly say meh the holy book. The muslims tend to take Koran very literally.
Then again, politicians still have that verbal tick: God bless you and God bless America.. so I dunno.
Long story short, it is being a long week and it is already late. Can we agree to disagree in general and I think I will prolly be reading your posts more carefully from this point on.
Ugh... I am not absolutely sure why you are trying to dissect me with the questions most likely meant to make me 'pick one' side. I do not believe, but ,based on available evidence, I think of a bunch of pissed off muslims thought it would be neat to blow some shit up. I do NOT think that this automatically makes it ok to blow up everything that is a-american( especially if that thing happens to be a US citizen ), because *BIG HINT* US happened to create those pissed off muslims. Is that clear enough and 'not vague' enough for you?
I think the goal was to, long term, destroy the good US of A and if you, think about it for more than 3 seconds you might find out that the might have succeeded, albeit I do not think, quite in the way they have intended. All of a sudden, we are spending our entire future and human capital on a war on an IDEA and if you do not see a problem with this.. well, you are an idiot. I am sorry. For the US, not for you.
If you do not think US is in a decline, I would like to hear your view of the next 10 years. Please tell me it is going to be all puppies and rainbows.
So tell me now... did they succeed and why do you think your response ( killing everything that moves ) is the correct approach? Because let me tell you now... US has less and less allies across the globe and well, US has been pissing against the wind for a fairly long time now and a day might come, sooner than any of us might anticipate, that they will piss against a hurricane. Personally, I am looking at China, who does not take kindly to intimidation. The only glimmer of hope, as far as I can tell, is that China, again based only on previous actions as a good indicator of future actions, is being very patient and is thinking long term, which does give US time to prepare..
And in case you are wondering: no, blowing up China might not work.
The real issue, you dumb tard, is people like you who are already drumming the war drum, which makes everything a-okay as long as we are the ones doing it. It does not. The sooner you realize that wohr does not excuse 'mistakes' ( BTW I absolutely love your language which is so euphemistic that it borders on Orwellian), the sooner we might get to what is important: BBQs and BJs.
The real issue is that this is just another small step on a slippery slope of executive branch power grab.
The real issue is that it is all fairly complicated and you immediately rubber stamp it all with 'fine by me'. Do you know why? Because you do not think, even for a second, that one day you might be one of the undesirables. Because you are innocent and innocent cool people like you have nothing to hide. Because you have no idea what power does to you. Or if you do, you just dismiss it with a snide remark. Because you really believe everyone has their best intentions in place and that rules are just for the lil ones:P
I just know that people are people.
Because the debate is about the future of this country and you are still stuck in the past.
I just realized why your comment bothered me so much and why initial response was simple anger at your mind-boggling, unswerving faith in your governing body. I realized that you really, truly think you are the good guy ( and by extension, the people that make the big decisions.. they must be good too). It is cute. A little sad, but cute nonetheless. It reminds me of this old joke about Americans during commie days.
What is the difference between the Russians and Americans? The soviets know they are a target of propaganda.
You are blind if you think the world is binary and simple 'Downhole'. The only thing that is clear is that nothing is clear.
It is depressing that I even have to explain it.
'because there's no room for "neutral observers"'
FTFU
seriously
but in the us all the gvmt institution has to do is to issue subpoena and pretty much all the information is up for grabs.. be it financial institutions, your m$ sexbox profile.. not to mention facebook which is basically founded on selling information of its users. I have to assume that UK wants somewhat quicker access to twitter, fb and RIM... less paperwork, more trees saved. because ya know.. they do care about the environment.
In essence, gvmt backdoor coming to all communication services. How long till that is broken and abused by evil hackers which will require even more draconian surveillance?
Huh? Why? It is not an MMO, not if it has a single player mode. I see absolutely no reason I should not be able to play without a connection. No reason at all. So no, you get used to my whining every single time a company pulls a stunt like that and fails to accommodate its player base.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/diablo-3-drm-requires-constant-internet-connection-until-you-crack-it-of-course/
and the 1up interview:>
http://www.1up.com/news/diablo-3-requires-online-when-playing
be sure to scroll down for the new internet meme, it has been a while since i had a good lol
Meh Blizzard now. I used to love d1 and d2, but.. well, I got older and I don't feel like bending over just because Pardo wants me to. I want a date and a hug and kiss in the morning. Sheeeeet...
Wait.. being a jerk is what being an American is all about... I am confused ; ;
Cute. But no. Your oversimplification barely justifies a response, let alone a detailed explanation of the rationale behind it.:P Try again
I was being a little facetious. Obviously, the current direction seems quite clear. I mean, when you think about it, once you are off a cliff there is only one way to go.. and besides,The Internet Threat (or TIT) is the new threat you can rally behind/scare people with. It is vague enough and gives you a good excuse to do just about anything.
If anyone here ever listens to Moody radio lately, you will know, that this is already happening. We have a new official enemy. I seriously wish I was joking.
Nope, it is: "if irony were made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now."
the fifth of November.. Someone was watching too many movies?