Trying to disarm the populace and turn us into a nation of impotent pussies. Haven't they ever watched the documentary Red Dawn? The laugh it that they'll be first against the wall when the TerroCommies come for us.
Oh, sure, if you apply a selective reading of the Bible, you can ignore whatever 95% of it that you don't like. Good luck getting anyone else to agree with you on which 5% constitutes "Christianity" though.
[Anti-gay Christians] base this on a selective reading of the Old Testament
Gen 19:5-8: "and they called to Lot and said to him, 'Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.' But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said, 'Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.'"
Lev 18:22-23: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Lev 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death."
Cor 6:9: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals"
Tim 1:9-10: "realizing the fact that (civil) law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers"
Rom 1:26-27: "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error."
Now, I fully agree with you that the majority of anti-gay Christians are anti-gays who use the above passages to justify their bigotry, but hey, it's called bigotry for a reason.
However, I'll have to challenge you to select other passages from the bible that contradict or refute the ones quoted above. Sure, that filthy hippy Jesus waffled some peacenik tree hugging propaganda about loving and forgiving sinners, but I don't recall him saying that it wasn't a sin.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that [the robber-barons in our Country Club are just as good as any ennobled British lord or monarch]."
Fixed that for them. That is precisely what they meant, after all: that any rich white man was as worthy as any noble white man, not some laughably ridiculous notion that blacks or women had any worth.
Well, if you want to get technically correct - the best kind of correct - then the title should be "First Confirmation of Direct Photo of Alien Planet", not "First Direct Photo of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed", since it most certainly is not the first direct photograph of an alien planet.
We photographed many, many alien planets before this one: every time anyone pointed a camera at the sky, in fact. We've just not spotted any planets in those other images (yet).
The Metropolitan Police will be funding the bar bill for your first year at university. If you keep taking pictures of these... constables... then you might be able to get them to fund you all the way through to graduation.
The value of their trademark is being diluted. If these ports crash, or contain rootkits, or brick your handset, that harms Sony. They enjoy the right to be protected from that possibility.
They also enjoy the right to bring their own ports to those platforms at a time of their choosing. What makes you think they're not "planning" to do so?
The punitive damages in this case don't have to be huge, they just need to be large enough to punish the wilful infringement that's occurred here.
For once, I'm entirely with Sony. They've been quite restrained in their actions, but if they choose to bitch slap the developer into the poor house, I'll cheer them on, and anyone who produces (or "plans" to produce) anything themselves should too.
Doom is a common word. So is quake, and civilisation. Half life is a common scientific phrase.
But when they are used as the name of a computer game, they become distinctive in the context of computer games.
Do you really think you could release computer games called Doom, Quake, Civilisation, and Half Life, without being accused (correctly) of trying to "pass off" your work as being related to the original, simply because the words are common? Really? Trademarks Do Not Work That Way.
Word to the wise: your first words to SCEE should be "Sorry", followed by "Thank you".
It sounds like you think you didn't really do anything wrong. Uh, no. No, sir. You are guilty as original sin.
SCEE could have bitch-slapped you from here to breakfast, and they really should have done so in order to protect their trademark. Sure, all you have to do is to change the name and the graphics slightly to be fine, but you chose not to do so. As they noted, you chose wilfully to infringe on their trademarks (name, distinctive images) and their copyrights (the EGA graphics).
Don't get me wrong: as hobbyist game developer myself, I admire what you've done and I wish you the best of luck in getting it licensed. But as an ex-professional game developer, I can assure you that I won't view SCEE as being in the least bit evil for defending their rights.
My experience has been that you have to pick one trackball, and stick with it to get the benefit. Even switching from a (sadly missed) Microsoft Trackball Explorer to a superficially similar Logitech Trackman threw me off.
But once you get your muscle memory keyed in, the benefits of being able to use all your fingers and thumb at once start to ramp up. It's really one of these things where you won't believe it until you experience it. I don't know why I'm trying to convince you, to be honest.
Storage is getting bigger and cheaper, you say? Unpossible, sir! I simply must purchase a dozen of these Slashvertised products forthwith, before this inconceivable trend reverses itself and leaves me flummoxed.
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Fixed that for you. I have never, ever been asked to provide evidence of any qualification or previous employment.
Perhaps "they" don't. After all, if Steve says it's not a problem, then it cannot be one. What are they going to believe: the evidence of their own eyes, or the Word of Steve?
And in this case, it seems that Apple could resolve the issues by posting out a 2" strip of electrical tape.
Trying to disarm the populace and turn us into a nation of impotent pussies. Haven't they ever watched the documentary Red Dawn? The laugh it that they'll be first against the wall when the TerroCommies come for us.
To be fair, they did (eventually) concede that "the string itself is not a machinegun", so they're not totally batshit insane.
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See? He is an honest politician - he stays bought.
Oh, sure, if you apply a selective reading of the Bible, you can ignore whatever 95% of it that you don't like. Good luck getting anyone else to agree with you on which 5% constitutes "Christianity" though.
Which just makes my point stronger, since the GP restricted his specious argument to the Old Testament.
[Anti-gay Christians] base this on a selective reading of the Old Testament
Now, I fully agree with you that the majority of anti-gay Christians are anti-gays who use the above passages to justify their bigotry, but hey, it's called bigotry for a reason.
However, I'll have to challenge you to select other passages from the bible that contradict or refute the ones quoted above. Sure, that filthy hippy Jesus waffled some peacenik tree hugging propaganda about loving and forgiving sinners, but I don't recall him saying that it wasn't a sin.
Fixed that for them. That is precisely what they meant, after all: that any rich white man was as worthy as any noble white man, not some laughably ridiculous notion that blacks or women had any worth.
You know we can see these shelves, right?
Fixed that for you.
Once they start producing their own generic clones, the price will go through the floor.
Well, if you want to get technically correct - the best kind of correct - then the title should be "First Confirmation of Direct Photo of Alien Planet", not "First Direct Photo of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed", since it most certainly is not the first direct photograph of an alien planet.
We photographed many, many alien planets before this one: every time anyone pointed a camera at the sky, in fact. We've just not spotted any planets in those other images (yet).
The Metropolitan Police will be funding the bar bill for your first year at university. If you keep taking pictures of these... constables... then you might be able to get them to fund you all the way through to graduation.
The value of their trademark is being diluted. If these ports crash, or contain rootkits, or brick your handset, that harms Sony. They enjoy the right to be protected from that possibility.
They also enjoy the right to bring their own ports to those platforms at a time of their choosing. What makes you think they're not "planning" to do so?
The punitive damages in this case don't have to be huge, they just need to be large enough to punish the wilful infringement that's occurred here.
For once, I'm entirely with Sony. They've been quite restrained in their actions, but if they choose to bitch slap the developer into the poor house, I'll cheer them on, and anyone who produces (or "plans" to produce) anything themselves should too.
Doom is a common word. So is quake, and civilisation. Half life is a common scientific phrase.
But when they are used as the name of a computer game, they become distinctive in the context of computer games.
Do you really think you could release computer games called Doom, Quake, Civilisation, and Half Life, without being accused (correctly) of trying to "pass off" your work as being related to the original, simply because the words are common? Really? Trademarks Do Not Work That Way.
Word to the wise: your first words to SCEE should be "Sorry", followed by "Thank you".
It sounds like you think you didn't really do anything wrong. Uh, no. No, sir. You are guilty as original sin.
SCEE could have bitch-slapped you from here to breakfast, and they really should have done so in order to protect their trademark. Sure, all you have to do is to change the name and the graphics slightly to be fine, but you chose not to do so. As they noted, you chose wilfully to infringe on their trademarks (name, distinctive images) and their copyrights (the EGA graphics).
Don't get me wrong: as hobbyist game developer myself, I admire what you've done and I wish you the best of luck in getting it licensed. But as an ex-professional game developer, I can assure you that I won't view SCEE as being in the least bit evil for defending their rights.
My experience has been that you have to pick one trackball, and stick with it to get the benefit. Even switching from a (sadly missed) Microsoft Trackball Explorer to a superficially similar Logitech Trackman threw me off.
But once you get your muscle memory keyed in, the benefits of being able to use all your fingers and thumb at once start to ramp up. It's really one of these things where you won't believe it until you experience it. I don't know why I'm trying to convince you, to be honest.
To actually sell this system, you'd have to hide it inside a big beige box and slap a $400,000 sticker on it. This is, sadly, not a joke.
Storage is getting bigger and cheaper, you say? Unpossible, sir! I simply must purchase a dozen of these Slashvertised products forthwith, before this inconceivable trend reverses itself and leaves me flummoxed.
I was rather hoping you'd title it "INCREAS UR PENNIS SIZEE 4 INCHAS OVERNITE!!!!" so that we can identify it as the spam that it's rapidly becomnig.
Y'all going to cut-and-paste this exact same copyright violation into every UK or economics article from now on?
CO2 cleanup money grows on trees.