But this assumes that the only two viable options are Evolution or Creation. By saying this fails the Lemon test, doesn't the judge essentially discount any other possible explanations about our beginnings?
There's a reason that theatrical releases don't get as much parental grief as they could: they're perceived as making strides to police themselves. Video games have to give the same vibe, or we're going to have more legislation every year.
This isn't just about freedom, but about maturation on the industry. Despite the fact that's it's a multi-billion dollar business, it still has a stigma that should accompany something much smaller and seedier. Industry-enforced policing tells people that it really is an industry.
So if it means that a 12-year-old has to have daddy buy "Kill Mail Murder Destroy Deluxe 5" for him, it's a tradeoff I can accept.
After 9/11, pretty much all of the domestic airlines were bailed out by the government to keep them from going poof (except for Southwest and a couple of others, who didn't have their heads up their asses).
So I just want to know how long it will take this Delta affiliate to plead for money. That not only has it screwed over all of those passengers, the taxpayers will collectively pay for it.
They're not going to recoup the cost, at least not from the people of Mink. One of the line charge taxes included in your monthly bill is designed to compensate the phone companies for rolling out service in areas that are money losers. The Universal Service Fund, or something like that.
The only thing good on Spike are spoadic episodes of "Star Trek-TNG", but you have to dodge commercials of the recanned and redubbed Japanese game shows to watch it.
Now that's not fair. The unemployed techie audience here is big enough that you should know by now that there's four hours of Star Trek every weekday.
Geez, where the heck are you during the day, working or something?
I find this part the more interesting: he won an award for male voice or something like that, and happened to be the only nominee there. This meant that everyone knew the winners beforehand. Add into that, that there were teleprompters, so they were able to pre-write all of the dialogue. People were using them all night, and I doubt that the acceptance speeches were singularly off-the-cuff.
So, you've got pre-written dialogue, cleared by the production staff, calling the game GTA2.
Well, duh. If you want to have an experience at home that's just like a theater, then you need to have ads before your movie. Haven't you been paying attention?
Dismissed with prejudice just means that they can't bring up this issue again with the court in question. "No, I won't hear it, and in fact, don't come back again if you get new evidence." It doesn't impact appeal.
I only did one Gnome. A weird little Cleric fucker who went around saying he was working "in the service of that great and wonderful god Odin" in a stereotypical Indian voice.
Poor guy developed cyclophobia after he had to be resurrected. Seems the party's ranger couldn't control her giant eagle properly and it wound up clipping and killing the Cleric in the middle of a cure spell.
It didn't help that the ranger's player had a thing for birds, but not the brains to know what wasn't natural. The next campaign she tried to charm a baby roc, while failing to notice a certain large shadow from overhead.
I stopped gaming with that player shortly thereafter.
Not really. It's standard fare if they're using 128-bit encryption to send data across. If you around back in the days when Netscape first started offering a browser with 128-bit, you had to make a similar agreement.
I'm not part of the HL2 rush (I no longer buy new games until after the first price drop & patch release), but I can still appreciate the consumer's perspecive.
It's not simply that they can't play the game "right now", but that it's a further erosion in the viewpoint of product ownership versus product licensing. If we were to "own" a copy of HL2, these restrictions would be illegal. Instead, this is just another condition of usage.
This is compounded by the fact that they feel a tacit violation of trust in the "service" that is required by Valve to play the game. Valve overbooked themselves, and given the number of times we've seen launch day jitters from countless projects, this was not only anticipated, but expected. Valve chose a course of action that they knew would cause bottlenecks, bottlenecks that wouldn't exist if we owned the product instead of licensed it. And so the implied trust is violated.
When a software company violates your trust, you scream, you curse, and you vow not to do business with them again. A few of the posters really won't. Some more of them will begin to pirate the releases of this particular company, either as trial, or permanantly. And the rest will forget their bitching and buy HL3.
I know a mod marked you funny, but the same thing's been happening here since I got my dad to uninstall MusicMatch and go with WinAmp. He's been watching all sorts of stuff via the TV function. Family Guy, Penn and Teller: BS, Love Hina, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't matter that I have both Family Guy releases and he can just take them anytime he wants -- he watches it in that damn box anyway.
Thank you, WinAmp, for turning my 54 year-old dad into a regressed college student!
More interesting is what happens in a few years when you dust off the HL2 box to play it again and find that the activation system is no longer online. What then?
In many jurisdictions (here in Texas to be sure), server leasing is considered leasing real property, just as if you leased an apartment or a car.
Now, let's say the government confiscates your leased car. Do you have standing to retrieve your car, or do you say back to the car company, "Take it up with the government"?
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Been done. Look up "Neighbors from Hell".
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You know, considering the current market, and considering that they didn't run with Al Lowe (which was nonetheless a mistake), I thought the humor in MCL was a really good attempt. The gameplay was totally not fun, but the way it was depicted was, at times, inspired. If you stayed in it long enough to play the sendoff to Grease's "Summer Nights", you know that the new writers had some respect for what the game should have been about.
"Went to her room, she begged me to stay" "We made love, now I am gay" "College life turned her into a dyke "But uh-oh, those lesbian nights"
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But this assumes that the only two viable options are Evolution or Creation. By saying this fails the Lemon test, doesn't the judge essentially discount any other possible explanations about our beginnings?
Cockos? Sounds like a breakfast cereal for porn stars.
"Cock-O's. Now with nuts!"
Good.
There's a reason that theatrical releases don't get as much parental grief as they could: they're perceived as making strides to police themselves. Video games have to give the same vibe, or we're going to have more legislation every year.
This isn't just about freedom, but about maturation on the industry. Despite the fact that's it's a multi-billion dollar business, it still has a stigma that should accompany something much smaller and seedier. Industry-enforced policing tells people that it really is an industry.
So if it means that a 12-year-old has to have daddy buy "Kill Mail Murder Destroy Deluxe 5" for him, it's a tradeoff I can accept.
Let's see. They'll probably gain another $5,000 in donations from the Slashdot link.
Unfortunately, they're going to burn another $10,000 from all of the extra bandwidth.
So it's gonna suck.
After 9/11, pretty much all of the domestic airlines were bailed out by the government to keep them from going poof (except for Southwest and a couple of others, who didn't have their heads up their asses). So I just want to know how long it will take this Delta affiliate to plead for money. That not only has it screwed over all of those passengers, the taxpayers will collectively pay for it.
They're not going to recoup the cost, at least not from the people of Mink. One of the line charge taxes included in your monthly bill is designed to compensate the phone companies for rolling out service in areas that are money losers. The Universal Service Fund, or something like that.
Now that's not fair. The unemployed techie audience here is big enough that you should know by now that there's four hours of Star Trek every weekday. Geez, where the heck are you during the day, working or something?
I find this part the more interesting: he won an award for male voice or something like that, and happened to be the only nominee there. This meant that everyone knew the winners beforehand. Add into that, that there were teleprompters, so they were able to pre-write all of the dialogue. People were using them all night, and I doubt that the acceptance speeches were singularly off-the-cuff.
So, you've got pre-written dialogue, cleared by the production staff, calling the game GTA2.
Try looking at it from that direction.
Well, duh. If you want to have an experience at home that's just like a theater, then you need to have ads before your movie. Haven't you been paying attention?
But this is a civil suit. And SCO is the plaintiff. Unless...
You for one have already welcomed your SCO overlords?
Dismissed with prejudice just means that they can't bring up this issue again with the court in question. "No, I won't hear it, and in fact, don't come back again if you get new evidence." It doesn't impact appeal.
Sounds like a line a Democratic nominee for President would use:
"The President did not give the American people tax relief. Instead, he provided exemptions so that people would not have to pay taxes."
I only did one Gnome. A weird little Cleric fucker who went around saying he was working "in the service of that great and wonderful god Odin" in a stereotypical Indian voice.
Poor guy developed cyclophobia after he had to be resurrected. Seems the party's ranger couldn't control her giant eagle properly and it wound up clipping and killing the Cleric in the middle of a cure spell.
It didn't help that the ranger's player had a thing for birds, but not the brains to know what wasn't natural. The next campaign she tried to charm a baby roc, while failing to notice a certain large shadow from overhead.
I stopped gaming with that player shortly thereafter.
Of course they would be. The Republicans won both houses of Congress, after all.
Just kidding, folks.
If you're benchmarking HL2, that's relevant.
If you're benchmarking video cards, it doesn't mean a damn thing.
Just as long as we don't have to watch the footage of the camera installed in Jack Valenti's bedroom.
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Not really. It's standard fare if they're using 128-bit encryption to send data across. If you around back in the days when Netscape first started offering a browser with 128-bit, you had to make a similar agreement.
I'm not part of the HL2 rush (I no longer buy new games until after the first price drop & patch release), but I can still appreciate the consumer's perspecive.
It's not simply that they can't play the game "right now", but that it's a further erosion in the viewpoint of product ownership versus product licensing. If we were to "own" a copy of HL2, these restrictions would be illegal. Instead, this is just another condition of usage.
This is compounded by the fact that they feel a tacit violation of trust in the "service" that is required by Valve to play the game. Valve overbooked themselves, and given the number of times we've seen launch day jitters from countless projects, this was not only anticipated, but expected. Valve chose a course of action that they knew would cause bottlenecks, bottlenecks that wouldn't exist if we owned the product instead of licensed it. And so the implied trust is violated.
When a software company violates your trust, you scream, you curse, and you vow not to do business with them again. A few of the posters really won't. Some more of them will begin to pirate the releases of this particular company, either as trial, or permanantly. And the rest will forget their bitching and buy HL3.
I know a mod marked you funny, but the same thing's been happening here since I got my dad to uninstall MusicMatch and go with WinAmp. He's been watching all sorts of stuff via the TV function. Family Guy, Penn and Teller: BS, Love Hina, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't matter that I have both Family Guy releases and he can just take them anytime he wants -- he watches it in that damn box anyway.
Thank you, WinAmp, for turning my 54 year-old dad into a regressed college student!
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Then, you claim DMCA exemption #3, and legally crack it.
Anyone responding with, "But what if there's no crack for Half-Life 2?" will be bashed about the head with a crowbar.
Query along those lines
In many jurisdictions (here in Texas to be sure), server leasing is considered leasing real property, just as if you leased an apartment or a car.
Now, let's say the government confiscates your leased car. Do you have standing to retrieve your car, or do you say back to the car company, "Take it up with the government"?
Been done. Look up "Neighbors from Hell".
You know, considering the current market, and considering that they didn't run with Al Lowe (which was nonetheless a mistake), I thought the humor in MCL was a really good attempt. The gameplay was totally not fun, but the way it was depicted was, at times, inspired. If you stayed in it long enough to play the sendoff to Grease's "Summer Nights", you know that the new writers had some respect for what the game should have been about.
"Went to her room, she begged me to stay"
"We made love, now I am gay"
"College life turned her into a dyke
"But uh-oh, those lesbian nights"
But still, at the end of the day, it's not Larry.
You mean the sales of tickets that cost half of a new CD? Try again.