But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
You're putting every civilian into the same category as an enemy combatant. Civilians far outnumber soldiers, as everyone who isn't fighting is essentially a civilian. They can't be held responsible for the actions of a small section of soldiers that are disguised as civilians to trick the enemy, and thus they can't take the blame for "breaking the rules intended to protect them." If I'm an unarmed civilian walking home from the grocery store with a bag of food and some soldier invading my country shoots me because he thinks I have a bomb in my bag, you're saying it's my fault because I broke the rules? No, somebody else from my country did, and now the soldiers have itchy trigger fingers. That doesn't mean that they're above the law or above morality.
Cops are put into this situation all the time. They are never up against soldiers dressed in uniform and are always up against civilians who may or may not be armed and dangerous. Their rule book says that they can't shoot until they're being shot at for the exact same reasons as stated above. Civilians aren't soldiers until they show the weapon.
How does having the age limit at 16 protect the children? You think they start training once they turn 16 and then enter the olympics at that age? No, they're raised to be Olympians, and have been working as hard at that age as they have since they were probably 6 years old. If you want to protect the children, make training be illegal until they're 16 years old; But then it would probably be a pretty crappy Olympics.
Please keep stuff like this without substance off the front page.
Better yet, keep it on Digg. Remember when Digg was a tech site trying to compete with Slashdot? Well this is how it started its downward spiral. First you get a completely unnecessary story on the front page, then you have 3 a day, then that's your whole site because it's a lot easier to just put in the chaff instead of separating the wheat from it.
Modern day Indiana Jones, if there ever was one... His dinosaur laboratory is located across the street from the site of Chicago Pile 1, where the first controlled release of atomic energy occurred
So did he survive the atomic blast in a refrigerator?
Why put 2 links to different pages of the interview? Just link to the first page of the interview and that's it. We'll find out that he talks about why he rejects focus testing while reading TFA.
let's just get rid of September 11th, so we could always remember, and instead go straight from September 10th to the 12th. That way nothing of importance can ever happen on September 11th.
Wow, I didn't think anyone could be such a big MacGuyver nerd, so I had to look this up and lo and behold:
Episode 88. Second Chance First aired: 10/16/1989 Production Code: 88
In China, MacGyver and his old friend Jesse Colton help with a Phoenix Foundation funded hospital for sick children. While there, they discover a gang stealing supplies (including a dialysis machine vital to the survival of a girl name Susie) from the hospital, and something even more surprising: an Amerasian boy who is the son of Jesse Colton.
I was in Shanghai China a few months ago. All of the restaurants in China if they had English translations were named "Big Luck Dragon" or "King Garden Restaurant" or whatever... basically, the same weird names you find in Chinese food places in America. I asked my host why the restaurants are named that, and if that's what the translation was for the restaurants that didn't have English translations. He told me they're named that way because the Chinese think it will attract Westerners. So, does it matter if you go to a restaurant in China named "Green Dragon Chinese" or "Translate Server Error?" Either way, the Chinese restaurants are doing it for your benefit.
I think you're overestimating the abilities of 3d printing. You're not going to be able to print a working pillow, but a solid plastic version of a pillow. You could print as many chairs as you want, but with each part being hard plastic, you're not gonna get much use out of them. It will also take a substantially greater amount of money to print a life-size chair then it would to buy a working chair at Staples.
If you change "chair" to "toy," then you might be on to something. If I get the design of the latest Batman toy and print it, is it considered stealing? No, but it's definitely considered copyright infringement. I would think it's the same for any type of recognizable design.
I guess that depends on how much expectation you have for your $50 game. You might expect an hour and a half in a movie, but there's no guarantee that it's gonna be a good movie. My decision on whether my $12 was well spent is based on whether the movie was good, even if it's 75 minutes and not the 90 I was expecting. On the other hand, if a movie is a 3 hour bore, then I'll still feel ripped off and my time was wasted, even though I got 3 hours of "entertainment" from the movie. The same goes for a game. For $50 I reasonably expect at least (($50/$12)*1.5) hours of entertainment. If it's less, then it better be a good game to compensate and I'll be happy. If it's longer but it's a crap game, then my money was still wasted. Yes, I have a very low expectation on game length. For those who didn't do the math, I want 6.25 hours of gameplay for $50. This is how much I pay for entertainment. The length of the game is fairly meaningless to me, as I don't have an infinite of time to spend on games like I did when I was 12 years old. The quality of the game is the most important thing. Gamers I think have an unreasonable expectation for how much gameplay they could get from a game, especially considering the complexity and budgets of games today. For a gamer, 20 hours of gameplay is a short game. 20 hours comes out to $2.50/hour of entertainment. For today's gamer, that's too high of a price to pay for a game, whereas they will easily pay over $6/hour for a movie ($10/hour if you consider a DVD purchase, which is more equivalent to a game purchase since you own the disk). Why is this?
$50 for something that turns into a plastic coaster whenever EA wants seems just a tad excessive.
Then you must hate going to the movies and paying $12 bucks for not even a coaster. I don't know about you but I judge the cost of entertainment based on, well, the entertainment aspect of it. For $50, you're not getting a cd, you're getting a certain amount of entertainment. I'm probably gonna be modded down as a DRM apologist, but Spore is probably the most anticipated game of this year and it's been in production for around 6 or 7 years. As such, it will also be the most pirated. The DRM will of course be cracked eventually, and probably pretty quickly, but I don't see anything wrong with trying to delay the piraters so they might actually go out and purchase the game.
To some (like you), having the DRM on their disk will be inconvenient enough that they will wait for the crack. To others, not having a crack for the game immediately will be inconvenient enough for them to purchase it. Since regular people still don't even know what DRM is, I'm betting that the latter outnumbers the former, and that Microsoft made the most logical move.
C'mon, if you got stuck on a portal level for more than 20 min, then I pity you. Portal is a 4 hour game, and not for lack of content, but because the "puzzles" weren't very difficult.
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"Albert Einstein was a scientist who JASON MAYNOR SUCKS COCK [Citaton Needed] developed one of the most important theories..."
Fixed that for you.
Funny you should mention that, they're working on Masturbation Hero.
I've been beta testing that one for years.
seeing as how you and corsec67 posted the same response at the same time, I for one welcome our comedic slashdot posting robotic overlords
or maybe it will be like a Twilight Zone twist ending where we drop it in to kill the aggressors and it kills us, the real aggressors.
While it could take five years to commercialise the patented technology
Yeah, I'd license her patented technology and use it to give energy to the poor, if you know what I mean.... ...
Sex. I'd have sex with her.
But if the civilians break the rules intended to protect them, they can't complain if they're no longer protected by those rules.
You're putting every civilian into the same category as an enemy combatant. Civilians far outnumber soldiers, as everyone who isn't fighting is essentially a civilian. They can't be held responsible for the actions of a small section of soldiers that are disguised as civilians to trick the enemy, and thus they can't take the blame for "breaking the rules intended to protect them." If I'm an unarmed civilian walking home from the grocery store with a bag of food and some soldier invading my country shoots me because he thinks I have a bomb in my bag, you're saying it's my fault because I broke the rules? No, somebody else from my country did, and now the soldiers have itchy trigger fingers. That doesn't mean that they're above the law or above morality.
Cops are put into this situation all the time. They are never up against soldiers dressed in uniform and are always up against civilians who may or may not be armed and dangerous. Their rule book says that they can't shoot until they're being shot at for the exact same reasons as stated above. Civilians aren't soldiers until they show the weapon.
So you work at Initech, then?
Thankfully, you can hide Idle. Customize > Sections, set Idle to the left-most radiobutton option, click the button in the bottom and.. ahhh, bliss.
it's obviously not working since you're still posting in Idle.
How does having the age limit at 16 protect the children? You think they start training once they turn 16 and then enter the olympics at that age? No, they're raised to be Olympians, and have been working as hard at that age as they have since they were probably 6 years old. If you want to protect the children, make training be illegal until they're 16 years old; But then it would probably be a pretty crappy Olympics.
Please keep stuff like this without substance off the front page.
Better yet, keep it on Digg. Remember when Digg was a tech site trying to compete with Slashdot? Well this is how it started its downward spiral. First you get a completely unnecessary story on the front page, then you have 3 a day, then that's your whole site because it's a lot easier to just put in the chaff instead of separating the wheat from it.
Chimps have hands. What have they done?
Modern day Indiana Jones, if there ever was one... His dinosaur laboratory is located across the street from the site of Chicago Pile 1, where the first controlled release of atomic energy occurred
So did he survive the atomic blast in a refrigerator?
Why put 2 links to different pages of the interview? Just link to the first page of the interview and that's it. We'll find out that he talks about why he rejects focus testing while reading TFA.
I was in the pool!!!!
But you don't get an award for being jaded.
Sure we do... it's made of jade.
let's just get rid of September 11th, so we could always remember, and instead go straight from September 10th to the 12th. That way nothing of importance can ever happen on September 11th.
Wow, I didn't think anyone could be such a big MacGuyver nerd, so I had to look this up and lo and behold:
Episode 88. Second Chance
First aired: 10/16/1989 Production Code: 88
In China, MacGyver and his old friend Jesse Colton help with a Phoenix Foundation funded hospital for sick children. While there, they discover a gang stealing supplies (including a dialysis machine vital to the survival of a girl name Susie) from the hospital, and something even more surprising: an Amerasian boy who is the son of Jesse Colton.
link
Slashdot has the 2 sections you described. The first with the discussions can be found here and the other is here
I was in Shanghai China a few months ago. All of the restaurants in China if they had English translations were named "Big Luck Dragon" or "King Garden Restaurant" or whatever... basically, the same weird names you find in Chinese food places in America. I asked my host why the restaurants are named that, and if that's what the translation was for the restaurants that didn't have English translations. He told me they're named that way because the Chinese think it will attract Westerners. So, does it matter if you go to a restaurant in China named "Green Dragon Chinese" or "Translate Server Error?" Either way, the Chinese restaurants are doing it for your benefit.
Sure, be all high and mighty with your law following.... pfft
I think you're overestimating the abilities of 3d printing. You're not going to be able to print a working pillow, but a solid plastic version of a pillow. You could print as many chairs as you want, but with each part being hard plastic, you're not gonna get much use out of them. It will also take a substantially greater amount of money to print a life-size chair then it would to buy a working chair at Staples.
If you change "chair" to "toy," then you might be on to something. If I get the design of the latest Batman toy and print it, is it considered stealing? No, but it's definitely considered copyright infringement. I would think it's the same for any type of recognizable design.
I guess that depends on how much expectation you have for your $50 game. You might expect an hour and a half in a movie, but there's no guarantee that it's gonna be a good movie. My decision on whether my $12 was well spent is based on whether the movie was good, even if it's 75 minutes and not the 90 I was expecting. On the other hand, if a movie is a 3 hour bore, then I'll still feel ripped off and my time was wasted, even though I got 3 hours of "entertainment" from the movie. The same goes for a game. For $50 I reasonably expect at least (($50/$12)*1.5) hours of entertainment. If it's less, then it better be a good game to compensate and I'll be happy. If it's longer but it's a crap game, then my money was still wasted. Yes, I have a very low expectation on game length. For those who didn't do the math, I want 6.25 hours of gameplay for $50. This is how much I pay for entertainment. The length of the game is fairly meaningless to me, as I don't have an infinite of time to spend on games like I did when I was 12 years old. The quality of the game is the most important thing. Gamers I think have an unreasonable expectation for how much gameplay they could get from a game, especially considering the complexity and budgets of games today. For a gamer, 20 hours of gameplay is a short game. 20 hours comes out to $2.50/hour of entertainment. For today's gamer, that's too high of a price to pay for a game, whereas they will easily pay over $6/hour for a movie ($10/hour if you consider a DVD purchase, which is more equivalent to a game purchase since you own the disk). Why is this?
$50 for something that turns into a plastic coaster whenever EA wants seems just a tad excessive.
Then you must hate going to the movies and paying $12 bucks for not even a coaster. I don't know about you but I judge the cost of entertainment based on, well, the entertainment aspect of it. For $50, you're not getting a cd, you're getting a certain amount of entertainment. I'm probably gonna be modded down as a DRM apologist, but Spore is probably the most anticipated game of this year and it's been in production for around 6 or 7 years. As such, it will also be the most pirated. The DRM will of course be cracked eventually, and probably pretty quickly, but I don't see anything wrong with trying to delay the piraters so they might actually go out and purchase the game.
To some (like you), having the DRM on their disk will be inconvenient enough that they will wait for the crack. To others, not having a crack for the game immediately will be inconvenient enough for them to purchase it. Since regular people still don't even know what DRM is, I'm betting that the latter outnumbers the former, and that Microsoft made the most logical move.
C'mon, if you got stuck on a portal level for more than 20 min, then I pity you. Portal is a 4 hour game, and not for lack of content, but because the "puzzles" weren't very difficult.
He might be a jerk but you can't argue with the results.