People aren't inately honest they're inately lazy.
If the reason people don't pirate is because they are innately lazy, then to decrease piracy, you have to make it easier to purchase than pirate. This can be done by adding additional services on top of the book that just make things easier. DRM usually does the opposite.
I buy ebooks from O'Reilly all the time DRM free. I know I can probably find a torrent for them but I don't. Because they don't treat me like crap like most of the other ebook publishers, I respect them.
They will state their intentions. After you have bought the games and opened the package, It will be in tiny letters in the most vague wording possible somewhere in the multi-page EULA that almost no one reads.
While I realize this was not a US server, I am curious. Can the FBI legally install a backdoor into a US server without a warrant to specifically do so? I would assume not. Of course, I guess that wouldn't keep the FBI from illegally installing a backdoor.
You admit that spanking is sometimes necessary. It shouldn't be the first thing that parents use but it should be an option and I would not call it abuse.
Sometimes spanking is necessary. It isn't necessarily the first thing I would go to. It depends on the child's personality as well as their age. Also, the whole of the point of discipline and part of the point of raising a child is to modify behavior. I doubt anyone wants to have a jerk for a son.
There is a difference between spanking and beating the crap out of a kid. When I was little, spanking was a few small pops on the butt with a sandal or a open hand.
I was wondering what he was talking about too. Since when is child abuse not taken seriously? Of course, I am assuming he is talking about real child abuse and not spanking.
First things first. Cut spending enough so that we can at least pay the interest on our loans and not take out any more loans. Once we get there, we can figure out how fast we want to pay off our loans and what we need to cut in order to pay them off that fast. The goal is not to get rid of our deficit by tomorrow.
Funny how they advertise 20 years but promise only 3.
At a $60 price tag, that doesn't boost my confidence in their product. If they are going to claim 20 years, they should have a warranty of at least between 10 and 15 years.
RIght, because of course when someone sells a phone they're going to immediately report it as stolen.
It's not like any records might exist that they had put it up for sale or something...
That would depend on how they sell it. If they meet up at the corner and everything is done with cash, what record exists? Perhaps, the seller is pissed at the buyer and the seller calls in the phone as stolen out of spite. That would be especially possible if the seller was trading the phone to relieve a debt owed.
That a company that puts someone in a 3-year contract worth thousands of dollars per customer has no record of what they are selling or they figured that they could get away with selling the same service twice to two different people?
"Your phone was stolen? It's only $550 to get another one, or we can just charge you for the services. Hang on, I've got a Mr. Crowbar McGee on the other line, how odd, same phone as you but no receipt."
You are forgetting there is a second-hand market. They have no way of even knowing if the person who reported the phone stolen is even the one who currently owns the phone. The original owner could have sold the phone without notifying the carrier. i could see the carrier possibly disabling the phone if someone attempts to use the phone on a different customer without the phone first being de-registered with the carrier by the previous customer. Unfortunately, that would probably cause another group of people to attempt to sue the carrier for disabling phones they legally purchased (that the previous owner forgot to de-register.
I don't think there should be any extensions on copyright. If you can't a profit off something by the end of the copyright, you should consider going into another business. Also what do you mean by "optimum profit"? I would think optimum profit could only be accomplished if copyright would exist as long as the amount paid is greater than cost of supplying the copyrighted material.
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People aren't inately honest they're inately lazy.
If the reason people don't pirate is because they are innately lazy, then to decrease piracy, you have to make it easier to purchase than pirate. This can be done by adding additional services on top of the book that just make things easier. DRM usually does the opposite.
It takes just one person to upload
I buy ebooks from O'Reilly all the time DRM free. I know I can probably find a torrent for them but I don't. Because they don't treat me like crap like most of the other ebook publishers, I respect them.
It would increase goodwill with me. I refuse to buy DRMed books.
They will state their intentions. After you have bought the games and opened the package, It will be in tiny letters in the most vague wording possible somewhere in the multi-page EULA that almost no one reads.
While I realize this was not a US server, I am curious. Can the FBI legally install a backdoor into a US server without a warrant to specifically do so? I would assume not. Of course, I guess that wouldn't keep the FBI from illegally installing a backdoor.
You admit that spanking is sometimes necessary. It shouldn't be the first thing that parents use but it should be an option and I would not call it abuse.
You forgot child birth also. Not that I remember, but I am sure that my birth was extremely painful.
Sometimes spanking is necessary. It isn't necessarily the first thing I would go to. It depends on the child's personality as well as their age. Also, the whole of the point of discipline and part of the point of raising a child is to modify behavior. I doubt anyone wants to have a jerk for a son.
Actually, I am in my 20's.
Spanking can also help stop a kid from doing something that ends up being even more traumatic.
There is a difference between spanking and beating the crap out of a kid. When I was little, spanking was a few small pops on the butt with a sandal or a open hand.
You mean you include spanking as child abuse?
You would think they would have included other forms of childhood stress also.
I was wondering what he was talking about too. Since when is child abuse not taken seriously? Of course, I am assuming he is talking about real child abuse and not spanking.
If enough people did that, no one would have console games.
And create games that are so good that no one bothers to trade them in. Also, we have a right to resell our property. Deal with it.
All US territories should be given a choice: become states or become independent. There should not be an in-between.
First things first. Cut spending enough so that we can at least pay the interest on our loans and not take out any more loans. Once we get there, we can figure out how fast we want to pay off our loans and what we need to cut in order to pay them off that fast. The goal is not to get rid of our deficit by tomorrow.
Funny how they advertise 20 years but promise only 3.
At a $60 price tag, that doesn't boost my confidence in their product. If they are going to claim 20 years, they should have a warranty of at least between 10 and 15 years.
Is it illegal? If it is, it shouldn't be.
Why can't it be used in games as well as practical applications.?
If they are given a copy of a police report as evidence of theft, I can see some merit.
RIght, because of course when someone sells a phone they're going to immediately report it as stolen.
It's not like any records might exist that they had put it up for sale or something...
That would depend on how they sell it. If they meet up at the corner and everything is done with cash, what record exists? Perhaps, the seller is pissed at the buyer and the seller calls in the phone as stolen out of spite. That would be especially possible if the seller was trading the phone to relieve a debt owed.
Which is more likely?
That a company that puts someone in a 3-year contract worth thousands of dollars per customer has no record of what they are selling or they figured that they could get away with selling the same service twice to two different people?
"Your phone was stolen? It's only $550 to get another one, or we can just charge you for the services. Hang on, I've got a Mr. Crowbar McGee on the other line, how odd, same phone as you but no receipt."
You are forgetting there is a second-hand market. They have no way of even knowing if the person who reported the phone stolen is even the one who currently owns the phone. The original owner could have sold the phone without notifying the carrier. i could see the carrier possibly disabling the phone if someone attempts to use the phone on a different customer without the phone first being de-registered with the carrier by the previous customer. Unfortunately, that would probably cause another group of people to attempt to sue the carrier for disabling phones they legally purchased (that the previous owner forgot to de-register.
I don't think there should be any extensions on copyright. If you can't a profit off something by the end of the copyright, you should consider going into another business. Also what do you mean by "optimum profit"? I would think optimum profit could only be accomplished if copyright would exist as long as the amount paid is greater than cost of supplying the copyrighted material.