So what are you saying exactly? That one should not make positive comments about MS products and dislike Google's datamining? Should we censor people who do so? Freedom of speech for those who think like me and so on, right?
What is the good use for handguns? In any way you look at it, they're intended for killing people. They aren't good for hunting, and you can't really craft anything by shooting it. Their only purpose is to kill other people.
It was just somewhat related illustration on how your intent does count in court. Blubster, MP2P and Piolet are much more neutral names than one that directly advocates piracy.
Which also makes TPB's name choice "The Pirate Bay" stupid. It would be like naming your kindergarten "The Rapists Playground" and then jabbering how people need to have privacy there. It's obvious what happens on the site and what it is intended for, and therefore makes the owners liable too. They should had used some more neutral name. Of course, they wouldn't had grown so big and make millions otherwise.
I never said it would be so black and white or tried to argue that every pirater doing it counts as lost sale to competitor. The exact percentage is unknown, but that effect certainly exists.
What? Most known open source games are just ports of the best closed source games like Civilization, SimCity, Quake or Theme Hospital. On top of having sucky graphics, open source games are way too repetitive and all the open source shooters try to mimic Quake. Which is boring in 2011. Where is just as much fun open source multiplayer game than Team Fortress 2 is? Or Battlefield 3/Modern Warfare 3 online? Grand Theft Auto? Assassins Creed? Deus Ex? Portal? Left4Dead? Skyrim? The list goes on and on... Hell, they could even make a simple tower defense game. But Defense Grid beats them in that too.
There will be more than 0 sales because people will be ordering it from other countries. And EA will probably modify their version so that it passes censors.
It's not completely victimless. It's lost opportunity to other game developers since you're playing some other game you pirated instead of getting theirs.
It's no opportunity lost, as it's not an either/or situation. You could still get the other game developers game (if you were inclined to do so in the first place) as well as pirating the one that you are unable to acquire legitimately.
This would be true if everyone had infinite amount of time and endless interest in playing games. But we don't, and the pirated game is decreasing the time and interest you have to play other games. It's not really complicated.
Yes, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as back-end. Which kind of makes the usual slashdot "bing sucks ass" posts kind of funny, especially when the same people are telling how good DuckDuckGo is:)
Note that it's not a free game, you're just pirating it. If there's a free game that is just as good and more wanted by you then it's all good, but by pirating game it's unfair comparison.
It's not completely victimless. It's lost opportunity to other game developers since you're playing some other game you pirated instead of getting theirs.
Since I work in SEO I have a good quite understanding how people use search engines. Almost everyone understands how they work and enter good search keywords, just like geeks. On the other hand, sometimes it's just easier to form the keywords as question rather than trying to extract them yourself, and this has the added benefit of similar forum questions coming up first if other people have asked similar questions. It works better with certain kind of queries, so don't label people as "stupid" if they use why, where or what in search queries. I have sometimes needed to research with those words because I couldn't find the information I wanted with keywords, and because of my job I'm quite good at forming them.
The other problem is the whole personal feel. Google is deliberately taking that away with their star trek computer-like interface. I don't even have iPhone, but Apple's Siri seems much more personal. They've made it a character, your friend. Their advertising, features and everything goes along that line. What Google is doing is basically saying "look, we have the technology too!" and forgetting that technology alone isn't enough.
HE DID. Along others, there's lots of Thai and German companies working on projects, and they even have joint companies doing business outside North Korea. They just don't like to deal with US companies because of the hostile attitude and trade embargoes, you know.
Ah, true American ignorance. It's been talked over countless of times here on Slashdot too, and even Chinese slashdotters agree that it is the current situation, even if they don't agree with it. But majority of people want it to stay the way it is there.
After you saying "Only idiots accept relativism", it certainly is relevant. I'm pointing out that U.S. is, relatively speaking, backwards country and a shithole compared to other countries. On the other hand, some things in those countries can be worse than elsewhere. This means there's no absolute truth on how to run a good country. Humans have tried for thousands of years, and haven't figured it out.
Dictators can be good. There have been many great dictators in the history, just like there have been bad ones. Not everyone deserves to state their views because frankly, they are just too stupid or uneducated for that privilege. You are a good example of one.
Majority of Chinese nationals think government should restrict free speech. Why do you want to force them to change their views? Doesn't that sound to you a little bit like dictatorship?
Compare to health care between U.S. and EU. Even most people in the U.S. think European style healthcare (paid by everyone in taxes) is better than what you guys have in the U.S.
This just proves that you actually didn't know anything at all about making such a drastic change, and your posts in this whole conversation are just crap.
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So what are you saying exactly? That one should not make positive comments about MS products and dislike Google's datamining? Should we censor people who do so? Freedom of speech for those who think like me and so on, right?
Nice, you actually agreed with me ;-)
What is the good use for handguns? In any way you look at it, they're intended for killing people. They aren't good for hunting, and you can't really craft anything by shooting it. Their only purpose is to kill other people.
It was just somewhat related illustration on how your intent does count in court. Blubster, MP2P and Piolet are much more neutral names than one that directly advocates piracy.
Which also makes TPB's name choice "The Pirate Bay" stupid. It would be like naming your kindergarten "The Rapists Playground" and then jabbering how people need to have privacy there. It's obvious what happens on the site and what it is intended for, and therefore makes the owners liable too. They should had used some more neutral name. Of course, they wouldn't had grown so big and make millions otherwise.
If you want to try to correct someone, at least make sure you're right. It's spelled meters everywhere I've been (no I haven't been to UK).
I never said it would be so black and white or tried to argue that every pirater doing it counts as lost sale to competitor. The exact percentage is unknown, but that effect certainly exists.
What? Most known open source games are just ports of the best closed source games like Civilization, SimCity, Quake or Theme Hospital. On top of having sucky graphics, open source games are way too repetitive and all the open source shooters try to mimic Quake. Which is boring in 2011. Where is just as much fun open source multiplayer game than Team Fortress 2 is? Or Battlefield 3/Modern Warfare 3 online? Grand Theft Auto? Assassins Creed? Deus Ex? Portal? Left4Dead? Skyrim? The list goes on and on... Hell, they could even make a simple tower defense game. But Defense Grid beats them in that too.
There will be more than 0 sales because people will be ordering it from other countries. And EA will probably modify their version so that it passes censors.
It's not completely victimless. It's lost opportunity to other game developers since you're playing some other game you pirated instead of getting theirs.
It's no opportunity lost, as it's not an either/or situation. You could still get the other game developers game (if you were inclined to do so in the first place) as well as pirating the one that you are unable to acquire legitimately.
This would be true if everyone had infinite amount of time and endless interest in playing games. But we don't, and the pirated game is decreasing the time and interest you have to play other games. It's not really complicated.
What the hell? Google has no interest in gifting money to Firefox or anyone. They're both doing business.
Yes, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as back-end. Which kind of makes the usual slashdot "bing sucks ass" posts kind of funny, especially when the same people are telling how good DuckDuckGo is :)
Note that it's not a free game, you're just pirating it. If there's a free game that is just as good and more wanted by you then it's all good, but by pirating game it's unfair comparison.
It's not completely victimless. It's lost opportunity to other game developers since you're playing some other game you pirated instead of getting theirs.
Since I work in SEO I have a good quite understanding how people use search engines. Almost everyone understands how they work and enter good search keywords, just like geeks. On the other hand, sometimes it's just easier to form the keywords as question rather than trying to extract them yourself, and this has the added benefit of similar forum questions coming up first if other people have asked similar questions. It works better with certain kind of queries, so don't label people as "stupid" if they use why, where or what in search queries. I have sometimes needed to research with those words because I couldn't find the information I wanted with keywords, and because of my job I'm quite good at forming them.
The other problem is the whole personal feel. Google is deliberately taking that away with their star trek computer-like interface. I don't even have iPhone, but Apple's Siri seems much more personal. They've made it a character, your friend. Their advertising, features and everything goes along that line. What Google is doing is basically saying "look, we have the technology too!" and forgetting that technology alone isn't enough.
HE DID. Along others, there's lots of Thai and German companies working on projects, and they even have joint companies doing business outside North Korea. They just don't like to deal with US companies because of the hostile attitude and trade embargoes, you know.
Ah, true American ignorance. It's been talked over countless of times here on Slashdot too, and even Chinese slashdotters agree that it is the current situation, even if they don't agree with it. But majority of people want it to stay the way it is there.
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After you saying "Only idiots accept relativism", it certainly is relevant. I'm pointing out that U.S. is, relatively speaking, backwards country and a shithole compared to other countries. On the other hand, some things in those countries can be worse than elsewhere. This means there's no absolute truth on how to run a good country. Humans have tried for thousands of years, and haven't figured it out.
Dictators can be good. There have been many great dictators in the history, just like there have been bad ones. Not everyone deserves to state their views because frankly, they are just too stupid or uneducated for that privilege. You are a good example of one.
Majority of Chinese nationals think government should restrict free speech. Why do you want to force them to change their views? Doesn't that sound to you a little bit like dictatorship?
Compare to health care between U.S. and EU. Even most people in the U.S. think European style healthcare (paid by everyone in taxes) is better than what you guys have in the U.S.
Aha, so you accept that free speech can be forbidden when it suits your views. Got that.
If I'm not allowed to say that we should forbid free speech, was there any free speech to begin with?
This just proves that you actually didn't know anything at all about making such a drastic change, and your posts in this whole conversation are just crap.