I would rather work with Japan anyways as it increases the likelyhood the spaceship would change into a giant robot once on the moon and include a direct link to some blue haired J-pop singer.
Grow up a little and realize that it is the governments job to protect us.
Hell No. I protect myself. If I waited for the police to come and help me when I was getting assaulted last summer, I would be dead. If I waited for the police to come and help me while my house was getting robbed 4 years ago, I would have lost my property.
It is the governments job to maintain basic services and programs that allow our country to work. Like highways, court systems, sewers, a standing army (I can see this as being a form of protection), stoplights, food regulations, medical standards - you know, things like that. It is not their job to protect me. It is in their best interest to do so, otherwise the politicians would have no constituents to pay taxes and thereby collect a salary.
And with special interest groups popping up like weeds, I don't really feel that the government is all that interested in protecting me and my interests anyways. I'll try my best to take care of myself, thanks.
Grow up a little and realize that it is the governments job to protect us. Just because some things (and i cant think of one yet!) are taken away from us, doesnt mean we will someday turn into a dictatorship. What we should worry about is being turned into a socialist or communist country by having health care, disasters, food and everything else paid for with our taxes.
There was exactly one sentence in between your statement and your own self contradiction. You should really define what you mean by "protect us" and from what we are supposed to be protected from. Some would argue that we should be protected from disease, hunger, and natural disasters.
Yeah sorry, my math was wrong. It's closer to 21,917 a day.
According to this article, China will have 140 million cars on the road by 2020. That's in 15 years. They currently have around 20,000,000 cars on the road now. The difference is 120 million cars. 120 million cars over a 15 year period is 8 million a year. 8 million divided by 365 days is roughly 21,917.
I was off by a factor of 22. That's a pretty large amount.
If you were convinced I was a moron because of some other reason the price of gas is going up and don't want to share your enlightenment, then you can toss off. Prove a point, don't just rant.
Using the numbers you provided for me regarding internet users we would be at roughly 43% of the population, not 70%. Incorrect, but still within the limits of what my argument was stating.
This has crossed my mind many times and it scares the crap out of me. I do not understand the mindset of someone whose only goals are safety and comfort.
Maybe I have read into Harrison Bergeron too much, but I see this as the ultimate end result of this mindset. No one can be better than me because it makes me feel bad. No one can have more than me because it limits me. There is no accountability there. No desire to make yourself more than you are. Maybe I liked Atlas Shrugged a little too much also.
The other subtle, yet substantial, danger this perspective facilitates is that in order to provide for it you must take away from someone else. In order to facilitate greater security on an airplane, I must remove some privacy from citizens. In order to provide healthcare for everyone, I must take funding from everyone. In order to provide entertainment objectionable by none, I must limit what is allowable entertainment. In order to provide everyone with bread, I must ration it.
Every situation must be taken on a case by case basis, but over time the whole can equal up to a very disturbing future.
I'm not of the sky is falling camp, but I can see how you draw that conclusion. The current leaders term will end shortly, and we will begin to argue about a new set of issues for the next 4-8 years. You have a made a fair statement in that for every disempowering agent there is an agent for empowerment. I happen to fall into the empowerment category.
I fully understand the state of affairs here in America, but within the context of the argument I was making I did have to demonstrate a perspective. The Patriot Act may have been dealt with to some degree, but what about the "National ID"? To paraphrase your statement, there is a Yin for every Yang.
We may not be the best, but were pretty well off. And of those impoverished people in New Orleans, how many of them didn't have a cell phone? How many didn't have a TV? I will agree that they may not have had the financial resources to flee the area, but that doesn't mean they lived in a box. We are not discussing the same thing. Get off the scemantics. Illiteracy and innumeracy are problems, but lots of people who are afflicted with those issues still have freaking cell phones. It's a matter of priorities.
Yeah...Sheehan found that out today.
No permit, asked to move 3 times. Publicity stunt. Notice the within reason part? Across the street would have been completely acceptable.
No...to many of you believe FOX and your president.
You're an idiot, you just disagreed with someone who agrees with you. Quit with the knee jerk reaction and think. We are too busy stuffing our faces. Check it out.
Sitting on the sidewalk in front of the White House has never been deemed an appropriate place to hold a demonstration, but people do it across the street all the time AFAIK. It should go without explaining why disallowing a mob to sit right in front of that Capitol has been classified as unreasonable because of the security nightmare it presents.
I'm not against Cindy saying whatever she wants. I may not agree, but I don't want to stop her, because if she is silenced - I could be silenced too. But this was a publicity stunt, and one that worked too. If I wanted to protest something and motivate some people to my cause, I might have done something similar. But lets not confuse a ticketable offense with squashing a civil liberty.
Yeah, 1000 cars a day hit the roads in China. I'm not a moron. Do you know how damn big China is? Over 1.5 Billion people, thats alot of 1000 car days to catch up to the ubiquitousness of cars here in the US. Roughly 4383 years, taken population growth into account. Hrm, I guess 20 years isn't that much.
I live in a really big world, one where I take into account the population of the country in question. When compared to the US, China is no where close to where we are when it comes to the amount of crap it's population has. It may be getting better, but don't be naive and think it's all hunky dory. Better != Fixed.
I think we see eye to eye on this, but I disagree with some of your analysis.
The 100 million internet active Chinese are represenatives for the rest of their population. These people have the skills to use the internet to their advantage and have the resources to do. They use these skills to voice the opinions of those who cannot, and have been doing it for some time now - hence the attempts at censorship.
In reference to my previous statement of Americans having cars, cell phones, ect - I would argue that the 100 million internet active DO NOT have these things. Internet cafes are very popular in China, I can't say that I've seen too many here in the US. Now, we do have free WiFi everywhere but that is not the same. The free WiFi requires that we bring our own equipment, an internet cafe provides all of the hardware for you. This difference alludes to the fact that most of the Chinese population DOES NOT have the financial resources to obtain these items. Either the infrastructure does not exist or the proliferation of the hardware is not on par with what it is in the US.
Now, if most of the 100 million internet active in China cannot afford an item that is manufactured in their borders and available at a fraction of what it costs here (an internet capable computer), why would they have a car? And how could they afford it? A cell phone, I can concede that point, but only with the caveat that the infrastructure for its use is not on par with the ubiquitous coverage in the US.
Almost all of our population has a cell, a car, a computer, ect. For the sake of argument lets use a grossly underestimated number of 70%. That is almost ten times more that the 7% of the internet active Chinese, and thats assuming every one in that 100 million has all of these items. Now what do you think the difference in social response would be between an internet user who looks around and sees a society where comfort is almost ubiquitous and a user who sees that most of the people around him are impoverished?
Both users can make a case for being oppressed in some manner and having their rights taken from them, but the American can look around and easily justify to themselves that it's not that bad. That his fellow countrymen have a pretty ok life and that a few liberties are no big thing. I do not believe a Chinese citizen could look around and come to the same conclusion.
100 million out of 1,306,313,812 is not a majority. Actually, it's nowhere close.
So even if the complete 100 million online Chinese had everything they could want, a much larger chunk of the population is really unhappy with the state of their existence. Report on the subject. Basically, the American people are given all the Soma they want. By the time we need to stand up for ourselves, we won't know how.
Most Americans also have a car, two TV's, a video game system, a cell phone, a job , and could probably obtain illegal substances without fear of being caught.
They can also protest openly (within reason) against the government without fear of being arrested.
We're basically too busy entertaining ourselves and stuffing food in our faces to realize we are being slowly robbed of our freedoms.
No I don't listen to Art Bell. And there are logs on ISP servers, I know because I use them all the time to track down people trying to use my websites as spambots.
. I mean, if there ARE logs on all the ISPs then why AREN'T they being used to catch the criminals using them?
Logs are being used to catch criminals all the time, it's just a little difficult to do it over borders and shit like that. Plus there's a lttle thing called the Constitution getting in the way here in America. And it's really hard to convict someone of a crime on circumstantial evidence, which is what a server log is considered in a court of law.
. And also, what would these phantom logs contain? Every bit that has ever been downloaded?
Your ISP doesn't have to log everybit that you moved, but it does log what requests you sent where. Then you take that info and go to the IP that you requested data from and check it's logs. Guess what, a list of every request ever made by YOUR IP, pointing DIRECTLY to the material. These logs are text files, which are really really small. I have logs of every request going back to 2002 on my webservers at work. I know where they were made from and who refered them.
I can also delete these logs on anytime I want, which is how we save space. After seven years, much like tax records, we assume the log is safe to delete.
Now you think about it, if there were no such thing as a server log, how did the RIAA succefully sue people who downloaded and uploaded copyrighted files? How did they prove it? It most have been my "phantom logs". Jesus man, you have no fucking idea what your talking about, do you?
The whole point is moot anyways as this whole ignorant rant from you is in response to me proving to you the legal difference between downloading and recording a TV show. You got stuffed on that subject by everyone in here and had to argue something so you could "be right." I tried explaining it to you like an adult, and you still don't get it. I use these damn things every fucking day and yet you tell me they don't exist. I work with people who use these things in a forensic capacity yet you say they can't do it. You are a fucking idiot. And here is your proof:
There is (theoretically) no technological difference between:
-My recording a tv program
-Someone else recording it, and me downloading it.
The result of either case is the same- I end up with a copy of the tv show on my hard drive. So, why is one legal, and the other not, if the resuilts are the same??
Short answer: Method of delivery and fair use of copyrighted material. Those would be huge legal differences based on the technology.
Long answer: The end result may be the same, but the delivery method isn't. The matter was dealt with in Sony vs. Universal Studios. The TV show is copyrighted material, and as such is only authorized to be delivered by authorized parties. Unless you have written permission to do so, distributing these works is illegal. So what if the end result is the same? One has been declared legal, and one has not. That's law.
I would like to know why you think that you should be able to record TV shows and then redistribute them. Please give legal examples for your argument. And before you make some crazy off topic allusion to the Grokster case, please be aware that the case was refering to the legality of the SOFTWARE, not the right to record and redistribute copyrighted content.
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When you are about to begin work on a new project do you choose team members because you feel they will impact the design of the game in the direction you envision?
Or do you assemble a team consisting of different strengths and let the group dynamics mold what the end result of the game will be like?
Ok, where? Tell me where these phantom logs are that lists exactly where something comes from. Inform the naive of us out here that don't know where these phantom logs are that list something copied from a floppy or CD or anywhere else. These logs must be huge if it lists everything over the life of the computer. But hey, I'm naive. So tell me where they are so I could just read them. And this isn't me getting "huffy". lol.
start menu --> programs --> administrative tools --> event viewer --> log --> security. This is if you have admin rights on your box, and only on a windows box. If your using Linux, sorry can't help you. I suck on Linux.
Also, your ISP has logs for what you have been up to on the internet, and if you've been downloading things, they happen to have a record.
Not 100% positive, but I also believe a TCP dump can get you some nifty info too.
Dude, don't assume anything. But I'll admit it was my fault in my original post that I didn't go out of my way to say I was just talking about downloading in general and not using bittorrent.
I don't assume anything. I said alot of people here do.
If it's coming free over the air, and I copy that free over the air broadcast onto my hard drive without the commercials, how is any of that different than a download of a free broadcast without the commercials?
The broadcast may be free to WATCH and RECIEVE, but not to REDISTRIBUTE. By downloading the show, you have circumvented the prescribed method of distribution allowed by the copyright holder. That is breaking the law.
Now, if you were to record the show onto your harddrive YOURSELF and then watch it, you have made a backup of information for personal use. IANAL, but I believe this was dealt with when VCR's came about. Now, if you decide to upload this to a server and allow other people to download it, you are violating copyright laws.
See the difference now?
You also wouldn't be able to tell the difference if someone came to look at your hard drive on HOW you got that there.
You must be kidding me. There are logs all over your box listing EXACTLY where something came from. If you think their aren't, you are naive.
Before starting your righteous indignation, try reading beforehand.
Dude, almost everyone here uses BT to download stuff, and they just assume you do too. It's not neccessary to get all huffy about it. If you don't, and you just do direct downloads, I hope you use a proxy.
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I would rather work with Japan anyways as it increases the likelyhood the spaceship would change into a giant robot once on the moon and include a direct link to some blue haired J-pop singer.
Pennsylvania Ave. is 140 ft wide between 15th and 17th, which is the area in front of the White House.
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140 ft. offers a significant tactical advantage when compared to being up on the fence. Get a clue.
Grow up a little and realize that it is the governments job to protect us.
Hell No. I protect myself. If I waited for the police to come and help me when I was getting assaulted last summer, I would be dead. If I waited for the police to come and help me while my house was getting robbed 4 years ago, I would have lost my property.
It is the governments job to maintain basic services and programs that allow our country to work. Like highways, court systems, sewers, a standing army (I can see this as being a form of protection), stoplights, food regulations, medical standards - you know, things like that. It is not their job to protect me. It is in their best interest to do so, otherwise the politicians would have no constituents to pay taxes and thereby collect a salary.
And with special interest groups popping up like weeds, I don't really feel that the government is all that interested in protecting me and my interests anyways. I'll try my best to take care of myself, thanks.
Grow up a little and realize that it is the governments job to protect us. Just because some things (and i cant think of one yet!) are taken away from us, doesnt mean we will someday turn into a dictatorship. What we should worry about is being turned into a socialist or communist country by having health care, disasters, food and everything else paid for with our taxes.
There was exactly one sentence in between your statement and your own self contradiction. You should really define what you mean by "protect us" and from what we are supposed to be protected from. Some would argue that we should be protected from disease, hunger, and natural disasters.
Yeah sorry, my math was wrong. It's closer to 21,917 a day.
According to this article, China will have 140 million cars on the road by 2020. That's in 15 years. They currently have around 20,000,000 cars on the road now. The difference is 120 million cars. 120 million cars over a 15 year period is 8 million a year. 8 million divided by 365 days is roughly 21,917.
I was off by a factor of 22. That's a pretty large amount.
If you were convinced I was a moron because of some other reason the price of gas is going up and don't want to share your enlightenment, then you can toss off. Prove a point, don't just rant.
I stand corrected.
Using the numbers you provided for me regarding internet users we would be at roughly 43% of the population, not 70%. Incorrect, but still within the limits of what my argument was stating.
According to this, roughly 60% of Americans have a cell phone compared to the roughly33% predicted in China by 2007. I know these numbers are loose, but its what I could find.
This states that there were 2.1 cars in the US per person in 2000. So I'll stick with the 70% there.
These numbers support my underestimation of TV's in America, but I really don't think that was ever in question.
In summation, you are correct that I should have used the number of internet active people in the US instead.
If I had mod points, I would give some to you.
This has crossed my mind many times and it scares the crap out of me. I do not understand the mindset of someone whose only goals are safety and comfort.
Maybe I have read into Harrison Bergeron too much, but I see this as the ultimate end result of this mindset. No one can be better than me because it makes me feel bad. No one can have more than me because it limits me. There is no accountability there. No desire to make yourself more than you are. Maybe I liked Atlas Shrugged a little too much also.
The other subtle, yet substantial, danger this perspective facilitates is that in order to provide for it you must take away from someone else. In order to facilitate greater security on an airplane, I must remove some privacy from citizens. In order to provide healthcare for everyone, I must take funding from everyone. In order to provide entertainment objectionable by none, I must limit what is allowable entertainment. In order to provide everyone with bread, I must ration it.
Every situation must be taken on a case by case basis, but over time the whole can equal up to a very disturbing future.
I'm not of the sky is falling camp, but I can see how you draw that conclusion. The current leaders term will end shortly, and we will begin to argue about a new set of issues for the next 4-8 years. You have a made a fair statement in that for every disempowering agent there is an agent for empowerment. I happen to fall into the empowerment category.
I fully understand the state of affairs here in America, but within the context of the argument I was making I did have to demonstrate a perspective. The Patriot Act may have been dealt with to some degree, but what about the "National ID"? To paraphrase your statement, there is a Yin for every Yang.
I was making an observation on the behavior of our population as a whole. Half the US is just apathetic.
What are you talking about?
Reference on unemployment.
We may not be the best, but were pretty well off. And of those impoverished people in New Orleans, how many of them didn't have a cell phone? How many didn't have a TV? I will agree that they may not have had the financial resources to flee the area, but that doesn't mean they lived in a box. We are not discussing the same thing. Get off the scemantics. Illiteracy and innumeracy are problems, but lots of people who are afflicted with those issues still have freaking cell phones. It's a matter of priorities.
Yeah...Sheehan found that out today.
No permit, asked to move 3 times. Publicity stunt. Notice the within reason part? Across the street would have been completely acceptable.
No...to many of you believe FOX and your president.
You're an idiot, you just disagreed with someone who agrees with you. Quit with the knee jerk reaction and think. We are too busy stuffing our faces. Check it out.
Or across the street.
Sitting on the sidewalk in front of the White House has never been deemed an appropriate place to hold a demonstration, but people do it across the street all the time AFAIK. It should go without explaining why disallowing a mob to sit right in front of that Capitol has been classified as unreasonable because of the security nightmare it presents.
I'm not against Cindy saying whatever she wants. I may not agree, but I don't want to stop her, because if she is silenced - I could be silenced too. But this was a publicity stunt, and one that worked too. If I wanted to protest something and motivate some people to my cause, I might have done something similar. But lets not confuse a ticketable offense with squashing a civil liberty.
Yeah, 1000 cars a day hit the roads in China. I'm not a moron. Do you know how damn big China is? Over 1.5 Billion people, thats alot of 1000 car days to catch up to the ubiquitousness of cars here in the US. Roughly 4383 years, taken population growth into account. Hrm, I guess 20 years isn't that much.
I live in a really big world, one where I take into account the population of the country in question. When compared to the US, China is no where close to where we are when it comes to the amount of crap it's population has. It may be getting better, but don't be naive and think it's all hunky dory. Better != Fixed.
I think we see eye to eye on this, but I disagree with some of your analysis.
The 100 million internet active Chinese are represenatives for the rest of their population. These people have the skills to use the internet to their advantage and have the resources to do. They use these skills to voice the opinions of those who cannot, and have been doing it for some time now - hence the attempts at censorship.
In reference to my previous statement of Americans having cars, cell phones, ect - I would argue that the 100 million internet active DO NOT have these things. Internet cafes are very popular in China, I can't say that I've seen too many here in the US. Now, we do have free WiFi everywhere but that is not the same. The free WiFi requires that we bring our own equipment, an internet cafe provides all of the hardware for you. This difference alludes to the fact that most of the Chinese population DOES NOT have the financial resources to obtain these items. Either the infrastructure does not exist or the proliferation of the hardware is not on par with what it is in the US.
Now, if most of the 100 million internet active in China cannot afford an item that is manufactured in their borders and available at a fraction of what it costs here (an internet capable computer), why would they have a car? And how could they afford it? A cell phone, I can concede that point, but only with the caveat that the infrastructure for its use is not on par with the ubiquitous coverage in the US.
Almost all of our population has a cell, a car, a computer, ect. For the sake of argument lets use a grossly underestimated number of 70%. That is almost ten times more that the 7% of the internet active Chinese, and thats assuming every one in that 100 million has all of these items. Now what do you think the difference in social response would be between an internet user who looks around and sees a society where comfort is almost ubiquitous and a user who sees that most of the people around him are impoverished?
Both users can make a case for being oppressed in some manner and having their rights taken from them, but the American can look around and easily justify to themselves that it's not that bad. That his fellow countrymen have a pretty ok life and that a few liberties are no big thing. I do not believe a Chinese citizen could look around and come to the same conclusion.
100 million out of 1,306,313,812 is not a majority. Actually, it's nowhere close.
So even if the complete 100 million online Chinese had everything they could want, a much larger chunk of the population is really unhappy with the state of their existence. Report on the subject. Basically, the American people are given all the Soma they want. By the time we need to stand up for ourselves, we won't know how.
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I don't understand it either.
Most Americans also have a car, two TV's, a video game system, a cell phone, a job , and could probably obtain illegal substances without fear of being caught.
They can also protest openly (within reason) against the government without fear of being arrested.
We're basically too busy entertaining ourselves and stuffing food in our faces to realize we are being slowly robbed of our freedoms.
How did that get modded down as overated?
The first post in here:
What do think are the most important aspects of game design and do you think they vary greatly for different genres?
Like someone else pointed out, this question has been asked of every developer and designer in every game magazine out there.
Amazing.
It takes an honorable man to admit when they are wrong, and proving yourself as such a person does not go unnoticed.
I must apologize for my quick turn of tone and choice of words. I quit smoking recently (12 days) and the mood swings are brutal.
So pissed I didn't check my links.
Server logs: 1, 2, 3
ISP logs: 1, 2, 3 related directly to P2P apps
System logs: A textbook on the subject you might like to read, Explanation of how to read a system log
No I don't listen to Art Bell. And there are logs on ISP servers, I know because I use them all the time to track down people trying to use my websites as spambots.
. I mean, if there ARE logs on all the ISPs then why AREN'T they being used to catch the criminals using them?
Logs are being used to catch criminals all the time, it's just a little difficult to do it over borders and shit like that. Plus there's a lttle thing called the Constitution getting in the way here in America. And it's really hard to convict someone of a crime on circumstantial evidence, which is what a server log is considered in a court of law.
. And also, what would these phantom logs contain? Every bit that has ever been downloaded?
Your ISP doesn't have to log everybit that you moved, but it does log what requests you sent where. Then you take that info and go to the IP that you requested data from and check it's logs. Guess what, a list of every request ever made by YOUR IP, pointing DIRECTLY to the material. These logs are text files, which are really really small. I have logs of every request going back to 2002 on my webservers at work. I know where they were made from and who refered them.
I can also delete these logs on anytime I want, which is how we save space. After seven years, much like tax records, we assume the log is safe to delete.
Now you think about it, if there were no such thing as a server log, how did the RIAA succefully sue people who downloaded and uploaded copyrighted files? How did they prove it? It most have been my "phantom logs". Jesus man, you have no fucking idea what your talking about, do you?
The whole point is moot anyways as this whole ignorant rant from you is in response to me proving to you the legal difference between downloading and recording a TV show. You got stuffed on that subject by everyone in here and had to argue something so you could "be right." I tried explaining it to you like an adult, and you still don't get it. I use these damn things every fucking day and yet you tell me they don't exist. I work with people who use these things in a forensic capacity yet you say they can't do it. You are a fucking idiot. And here is your proof:
Server logs: 1, 2, 3
ISP logs: 1, 2, 3 related directly to P2P apps
System logs: A textbook on the subject you might like to read, Explanation of how to read a system log
Don't bother responding, cause I'm going to ignore the shit out of your ignorant ass anyways. Douchebag.
There is (theoretically) no technological difference between:
-My recording a tv program
-Someone else recording it, and me downloading it.
The result of either case is the same- I end up with a copy of the tv show on my hard drive. So, why is one legal, and the other not, if the resuilts are the same??
Short answer:
Method of delivery and fair use of copyrighted material. Those would be huge legal differences based on the technology.
Long answer:
The end result may be the same, but the delivery method isn't. The matter was dealt with in Sony vs. Universal Studios. The TV show is copyrighted material, and as such is only authorized to be delivered by authorized parties. Unless you have written permission to do so, distributing these works is illegal. So what if the end result is the same? One has been declared legal, and one has not. That's law.
I would like to know why you think that you should be able to record TV shows and then redistribute them. Please give legal examples for your argument. And before you make some crazy off topic allusion to the Grokster case, please be aware that the case was refering to the legality of the SOFTWARE, not the right to record and redistribute copyrighted content.
When you are about to begin work on a new project do you choose team members because you feel they will impact the design of the game in the direction you envision?
Or do you assemble a team consisting of different strengths and let the group dynamics mold what the end result of the game will be like?
Ok, where? Tell me where these phantom logs are that lists exactly where something comes from. Inform the naive of us out here that don't know where these phantom logs are that list something copied from a floppy or CD or anywhere else. These logs must be huge if it lists everything over the life of the computer. But hey, I'm naive. So tell me where they are so I could just read them. And this isn't me getting "huffy". lol.
start menu --> programs --> administrative tools --> event viewer --> log --> security. This is if you have admin rights on your box, and only on a windows box. If your using Linux, sorry can't help you. I suck on Linux.
Also, your ISP has logs for what you have been up to on the internet, and if you've been downloading things, they happen to have a record.
Not 100% positive, but I also believe a TCP dump can get you some nifty info too.
Dude, don't assume anything. But I'll admit it was my fault in my original post that I didn't go out of my way to say I was just talking about downloading in general and not using bittorrent.
I don't assume anything. I said alot of people here do.
If it's coming free over the air, and I copy that free over the air broadcast onto my hard drive without the commercials, how is any of that different than a download of a free broadcast without the commercials?
The broadcast may be free to WATCH and RECIEVE, but not to REDISTRIBUTE. By downloading the show, you have circumvented the prescribed method of distribution allowed by the copyright holder. That is breaking the law.
Now, if you were to record the show onto your harddrive YOURSELF and then watch it, you have made a backup of information for personal use. IANAL, but I believe this was dealt with when VCR's came about. Now, if you decide to upload this to a server and allow other people to download it, you are violating copyright laws.
See the difference now?
You also wouldn't be able to tell the difference if someone came to look at your hard drive on HOW you got that there.
You must be kidding me. There are logs all over your box listing EXACTLY where something came from. If you think their aren't, you are naive.
Before starting your righteous indignation, try reading beforehand.
Dude, almost everyone here uses BT to download stuff, and they just assume you do too. It's not neccessary to get all huffy about it. If you don't, and you just do direct downloads, I hope you use a proxy.
I offer you five words: British East India Tea Company.
I bet more kids want to be thugs than a member of the British East India Tea Company.
put a detector in the wrist bands so that if both are held inverted, it will send an alert
Yeah, so when the steward/stewardess does anything with the overhead storage bins, the alarm will go off.
Nice Design.
Plastic guns? Do you have any examples? I am rather curious
Normally when someone says that I always think of Die Hard 2 and snicker.
You need to quit getting your firearm information from movies.
Try Glocks, Smith & Wesson, or the HK USP. Disassembled with the components spread out amongst carry-ons, these weapons have plenty of opportunities to get on board.