How can you read "before the evil general destroys us all with the Zeus Cannon" and not realize that that's a probably a fictional reference you're not getting? If someone says "Beam me up, Scotty", do you try to start a discussion on whether or not real-world teleporters would use beams? After all, if they're wrong, Star Trek must be written by anti-science shills!
Not one with the universe, one with Gaia! It's one of the spirits! Quickly, use the spirit within yourself to stabilize it before the evil general destroys us all with the Zeus Cannon!
Unless one of the two major political factions is seriously pushing for the secession of Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and others, then that wouldn't really interfere with the point of the idea, which is to sift the real petitions from the joke-bandwagons.
It doesn't keep you from doing it, no, but it does slow down the process when you have to wait the 15-30 seconds for the file to appear in your inbox rather than having the raw scan instantly displayed. It's even longer when it's a large file (I'm talking hundred-page tax returns here, not a couple of loose sheets). That doesn't sound like much, but it adds up when you're doing nothing but scanning for 8 hours straight. The firm I worked at had 4 workstations, each with a dedicated scanner.
Again, I'm not saying that everyone does it that way, or even that it's the best way to do it for most people's general needs. I'm just saying that there are people out there, probably large numbers of them, who manually email scanned documents (i.e. infringe on TFA's process patent), because it's the best way for them specifically to do their jobs.
I'd hesitate to say "most" there. Many do that, yes. Others are plugged directly into a computer so the scanned file can be bookmarked, blacked-out, or touched up before it gets emailed. When I was a fileroom peon in accounting I "infringed" on this process something like 50 times an hour.
Of course! Think about it. A swarming, bloodthirsty race spreads from its blazingly hot, otherwise-lifeless homeland across the sector, devouring or perverting everything in its path. After they destroy a civilized human base, do you know what they do with the remnant? They infest it. They implant their essence into the base's very core, and turn it into a breeding factory - for suicide bombers! Poor, twisted versions of what was once human, with no free will, their only actions for the glory of Mohamm - I mean, the Overmind.
Starcraft is obviously an Islamic plot to destroy the US and Western Civilization.
God forbid you actually trust people to use their own money the way they want to
Dude, I just explained how that is a non-argument when you conveniently ignore the manipulation going on,
What manipulation? Advertising? There's advertising in BOTH business models - pay-up-front and pay-if-you-want. Yet one of those models lets you find out whether the ads are telling the truth before you pony up the dough.
You compared the game to a drug dealer earlier. You seem to be under the impression that this game is stringing people out on in-game items, that the only way someone can have fun on PS2 is to buy more Station Cash. There might be games that work that way on various mobile App Stores, but that's not how PS2 works. Again, as countless other commenters have stated, everything that actually affects the game is also available for free. There's no dragon to chase in this scenario. And inventing one because "we don't even know why we play games" is specious at best, akin to birtherism at worst.
I'm sorry you think that my points are straw men. You seem to have a deep-seated hatred of something (marketers? game devs? maybe just Sony specifically?) that prevents you from seeing the benefits of this business model. Yes, it's easy to abuse, especially in games geared towards children. But it's also pretty obvious when it's being abused and when it's not. When you get over your paranoia, you can join us on one of the non-abusive games. We'll be the ones having fun.
so fuck off with your moaning. Repeating the same BS with more words and getting modded up for it just means I hit a nerve, you dumb fuck.
God forbid you actually trust people to use their own money the way they want to, rather than tell them they're the village idiot for enjoying something you don't.
You're telling me that allowing people to play the game for free, then to make their own decision whether they want to put money into it, is vampirism? You'd rather pay $50 or more up front for a game you've only seen through advertising or reviews? What if it sucks? You're out $50 and you never play the game again. Here, if the game sucks, you're out $0. It gives the company incentive to make a good game, because they have to do more than get your foot in the door - they have to keep you around and make you happy. And it means they don't throw as much $$ behind bullshit piracy suits, because they can't claim they're losing money to piracy when their game is free. Everyone claims piracy is the result of a broken business model, then attacks the industry when they update their business model.
You're complaining that there's too much shooting in a first-person shooter?
Heck, given all the options for alternative roles thansk to the MMO environment (scouting, infiltration, sabotage/countersabotage, many more), this is probably the least repetitively shoot-y FPS out there.
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True, but Amateur Radio is sadly unavailable to the majority of citizens, due to their neckbeard allergy.
When you have a person there, you don't spend days looking at a photo, trying to determine if something is a pebble or a "flower".
That was my first thought too, but wp says otherwise.
How can you read "before the evil general destroys us all with the Zeus Cannon" and not realize that that's a probably a fictional reference you're not getting? If someone says "Beam me up, Scotty", do you try to start a discussion on whether or not real-world teleporters would use beams? After all, if they're wrong, Star Trek must be written by anti-science shills!
ALH 84001 is still being studied. Claims continue to be made back and forth. "We have no consensus yet" does not mean "no".
Not one with the universe, one with Gaia! It's one of the spirits! Quickly, use the spirit within yourself to stabilize it before the evil general destroys us all with the Zeus Cannon!
Yeah, they're used pretty interchangeably. Technically gears mesh with other gears, while sprockets mesh with a chain, belt, or strip.
Insider trading is the ultimate hack?
There is no hair in the inner ear. Even the submitter didn't RTFA, apparently...
Depends on the tribe, depends on the time period. Remember, they were around for almost a thousand years, and their borders weren't exactly static.
Unless one of the two major political factions is seriously pushing for the secession of Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and others, then that wouldn't really interfere with the point of the idea, which is to sift the real petitions from the joke-bandwagons.
Yeah, who wants to periodically show up to a government-approved site to cast a vote on how the country should be run? That's not how democracy works!
Wow, I figured /. readers would at least get a South Park reference. This makes me sad.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must shut down these websites!
Again, I'm not saying that everyone does it that way, or even that it's the best way to do it for most people's general needs. I'm just saying that there are people out there, probably large numbers of them, who manually email scanned documents (i.e. infringe on TFA's process patent), because it's the best way for them specifically to do their jobs.
I'm sure you have, hence my saying "Many do that, yes."
I'd hesitate to say "most" there. Many do that, yes. Others are plugged directly into a computer so the scanned file can be bookmarked, blacked-out, or touched up before it gets emailed. When I was a fileroom peon in accounting I "infringed" on this process something like 50 times an hour.
That plane was built in Ohio, though. Shows what you get with Union labor - four flights, then blown away by the wind!
Of course! Think about it. A swarming, bloodthirsty race spreads from its blazingly hot, otherwise-lifeless homeland across the sector, devouring or perverting everything in its path. After they destroy a civilized human base, do you know what they do with the remnant? They infest it. They implant their essence into the base's very core, and turn it into a breeding factory - for suicide bombers! Poor, twisted versions of what was once human, with no free will, their only actions for the glory of Mohamm - I mean, the Overmind.
Starcraft is obviously an Islamic plot to destroy the US and Western Civilization.
Is Rockefeller going to distribute copies of his driver's license with a Batman photo pasted over his face, too?
Dude, I just explained how that is a non-argument when you conveniently ignore the manipulation going on,
What manipulation? Advertising? There's advertising in BOTH business models - pay-up-front and pay-if-you-want. Yet one of those models lets you find out whether the ads are telling the truth before you pony up the dough.
You compared the game to a drug dealer earlier. You seem to be under the impression that this game is stringing people out on in-game items, that the only way someone can have fun on PS2 is to buy more Station Cash. There might be games that work that way on various mobile App Stores, but that's not how PS2 works. Again, as countless other commenters have stated, everything that actually affects the game is also available for free. There's no dragon to chase in this scenario. And inventing one because "we don't even know why we play games" is specious at best, akin to birtherism at worst.
I'm sorry you think that my points are straw men. You seem to have a deep-seated hatred of something (marketers? game devs? maybe just Sony specifically?) that prevents you from seeing the benefits of this business model. Yes, it's easy to abuse, especially in games geared towards children. But it's also pretty obvious when it's being abused and when it's not. When you get over your paranoia, you can join us on one of the non-abusive games. We'll be the ones having fun.
so fuck off with your moaning. Repeating the same BS with more words and getting modded up for it just means I hit a nerve, you dumb fuck.
This made me laugh. Thanks for that.
God forbid you actually trust people to use their own money the way they want to, rather than tell them they're the village idiot for enjoying something you don't.
You're telling me that allowing people to play the game for free, then to make their own decision whether they want to put money into it, is vampirism? You'd rather pay $50 or more up front for a game you've only seen through advertising or reviews? What if it sucks? You're out $50 and you never play the game again. Here, if the game sucks, you're out $0. It gives the company incentive to make a good game, because they have to do more than get your foot in the door - they have to keep you around and make you happy. And it means they don't throw as much $$ behind bullshit piracy suits, because they can't claim they're losing money to piracy when their game is free. Everyone claims piracy is the result of a broken business model, then attacks the industry when they update their business model.
Heck, given all the options for alternative roles thansk to the MMO environment (scouting, infiltration, sabotage/countersabotage, many more), this is probably the least repetitively shoot-y FPS out there.
"First they ensmartened my electricity meter..."
Cheese is made from milk.
Possibly. I hear that Kraft cheese is made from a liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike milk.