In a country where the constitution was deliberately crafted around the idea of protecting AFFLUENT CAUCASIAN MALE citizens from governmental abuse and seeking to empower the AFFLUENT CAUCASIAN MALE citizens with means to call their government on any and all abuse.
I think you forgot something...
Yes, this shouldn't have happened and was wrong, but I've only got so much outrage to go around. If he can afford to buy a boat, I'm sure he has an attorney. He's a big boy, he'll figure it out.
-Removing harmful pesticides from our food chain -Removing chemicals from our water supply -Remove things like petroleum-derived food coloring and other bullshit from our food -Cut back on the excessive use of processed sugars and grains from our diets -Exercise regularly
Collectively, our immune systems are shitty because we feed ourselves with shitty fuel and then wonder why we're all sick and crazy. A healthy body means a healthy immune system which means less sickness of ALL TYPES.
You want to avoid the flu? Keep your body healthy and wash your hands. Millions of years of evolution are more effective than a buch of vaccines made from questionable materials, under questionable manufacturing circumstances, and being monitored by a government agency that was probably bought and sold to the pharmaceutical industry decades ago.
Our, you know, continue to throw money at big pharma and have another double cheeseburger and a Coke. I'm sure they and their lobbyists have your best interest in mind.
Don't you realize that if an economy were managed in such a way you effectively create huge disincentive for people to become doctors? Some still will, but many will look at Easy Path A compared to Hard Path B, see they achieve the same result, and thus choose A.
Although I agree mostly, I have to say that I feel we'd all be better served if the doctors in our society we more likely to be people interested in healing rather than people who are interested in fancy cars and social prestige.
I think the issue is when you feel that you deserve to work a couple hours a day (or week) and get paid more than other people who work for 10s of hours a week (or day) and be paid the same amount.
I own a business. I'm in the business of selling my labor. Therefore, I'm going to maximize MY profits. That means getting paid as much as I can for as little work as possible. If business owners shouldn't be stigmatized for being greedy assholes, then workers shouldn't be stigmatized for being lazy assholes.
I felt the exact same way until I had to sit through a twenty minute update and DLC install before I could start shooting at my buddies. Consoles seem to be heading in the same direction.
Because of this, I've given up on desktop gaming and only play games on either my laptop or my phone/tablet. If I can't play it on one of those, then I won't be bothered wasting any more of my life on these people who don't appreciate my money anyway.
Yes. Damn lefties! Our colleges will be much better when they close down all these public universities sucking on the government teat and replace them with high quality private institutions like ITT Tech and DeVry. Get the government out of our classrooms!
I disagree. I think most of their arcade games are "shitty" as it is. Plus why should I pay $15 for a title on my xbox when I can get the same game cheaper on four other platforms for less? PLUS, it doesn't cost me $5 a month to take full advantage of my iPad.
A more open and competitively priced market is exactly the thing that would bring me back, but Windows 8 had proven that they have other plans.
You don't have the "right" to make a living off of your artistic endeavors anymore than I have the "right" to make a living from making paper airplanes, having sex with college girls, or selling snowcones. You, like anyone else have the right to make as much money as you can, in any way you like, as long as you don't:
a) break the law b) piss people off enough that they kill you
That's IT.
It's fine to complain about not getting paid appropriately for your work, but this sense of "artistic entitlement" needs to GO. If you can't hack it trying to support yourself doing what you love, either fix it, or suck it up like EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET and do something different.
You are not entitled to make a comfortable living off of your art.
And as for "professionalism" argument, if you call all the bullshit I see on the Grammy's and hear on the radio "professional", then you can keep your professional works and their "150 years after the death of the artist" or whatever ridiculous length has been bought and paid for by the media companies.
You want to fix artists not being compensated appropriately? Band together and get rid of organizations like the MPAA and the RIAA, because they represent "artists" and they're making "artists" look like a bunch of greedy assholes. And why would anyone care if they aren't compensating a bunch of greedy assholes?
Now get of my lawn! I've got to go to WORK. Because not all of us are FORTUNATE enough to be able to feed our kids by farting the tune for "Old McDonald had a Farm" into a cup or selling macaroni portraits of Che Guverra.
We're called "Comcast Subscribers" and we live in the United States of America.:/
"It would be unrealistic and unnecessary to have a constant internet connection the entire time you are using the device."
Not necessarily. Once you hack an Xbox 360, you have to be really particular about when and how you connect it to the network. If you REQUIRE the console to always be connected to the Live network, it limits the amount of ways you can compromise the system and gives MS constant access to the hardware kill switch that I'm almost certain will be implemented.
I'm assuming that your company has an attorney? This is the point where they need to lean heavily on their social contacts to find someone who specializes in either: a) Patents b) Tech c) Both (preferably)
Otherwise, I'd ask as many competent people that you know/trust to go through their rolodexes for "friends of friends". As a last resort, I guess you could visit some of the places where prominent opensource folk hang out. Hell, amazing things have happened on Reddit, so see if you can get some traction there as well.
Whatever you do, DON'T JUST IGNORE IT. It is my understanding that if you don't show up to defend yourself, you can get a default judgement against you even if the claims are complete bullshit.
This, but also, honestly, I'm tired of being fragmented to death as well, and I'm really afraid of that with the OUYA. You know what's nice?
Humble Bundles that let me pay for a game that I can play on my Linux box... and my Mac... and a Windows machine... and an Android device.
Not quite as nice is me buying a game ONCE in the Play store and then being able to play it on all my Android devices. And possibly the desktop here soon via the Chrome browser or Android X86.
I'm all in for gaming on Android as a general purpose system, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy ANY game more than once ever again. If OUYA could find a way to let me play (even a subset of my) Play store games, then I'm on-board 100%. Otherwise, I'm sicking to my android phone, my MHL adapter, and my SixAxis gamepad.
Gun registration is publicly available. Is "Alarm Registration" data publicly available? If it is, have at it. Otherwise, you're just being childish with an inappropriate comparison.
"However if production companies were offered the amazing windfall profit of free contemporary music"
Are you seriously labeling music from 1956 "contemporary"? That's a stretch. In 1956, my parents weren't even born yeat and my grandmother wasn't allowed to Vote in Mississippi. We hadn't even been to the moon yet.
I understand where you're coming from, but no offense intended: I seriously think you are overvaluing your artistic contributions if you're willing to label something from the late 50's as "contemporary".
They're not talking about scanning random people on the street and taking their guns. They're talking about scanning arrestees instead of frisking them. If you're getting frisked, we're no longer talking about "law abiding citizens".
Granted, they certainly could use this device to scan random people. But that's an unconstitutional search which the Supreme Court would slap the Hell out of. Remember: fear the people, not the tool.
Yes, because only people who break the law get arrested. Also: there are no innocent people in jail, and the police never give a little extra attention to "brown people" and "terrorist types".
Fear the people indeed...
Now I remember why I stopped coming to this site two or three years ago, because of uninformed nonsense posts like that...
"I have no problem with revenge against useless fucks too lazy to do anything to help others."
Ironically, this very attitude is the reason why I wouldn't help someone like you./points-at-you
If you aren't able to control your emotions any better than that, I'm sure you're also one of those people who would sue me for pulling you out of a car wreck. I figure at that point, the only winning strategy is not to play. That means letting you die or whatever.
Good riddance indeed. Next on the list of undesirable are those people spend more time than me playing, are better players than me, and especially the ones that are better at manipulating the AH than I am.
It gives them an unfair advantage, and screws with the game economy, just like botting. Throw them under a buss I say!/spit
I love how everyone's all self righteous about the whole thing. In case you weren't aware, Apple doesn't care about YOU as an individual customer, any more than Pystar, or any other corporation for that matter.
I just can't wait until Apple takes a big chunk out of the hands of the fanbois that feed them. When they find a prettier girl to court, you'll be in the same boat as the submitter...
In plain view means just that, in plain view. Even using your analogy of headlights on a police cruiser, you still can't use headlights to peer into someone's house THROUGH THE WALL or ROOF.
The spirit of the law is that people have the right to do just about whatever they want in their house, behind closed doors/walls without being subject to a "casual inspection" by the police. Sure, it allows some people to do "bad things" without getting caught sometimes, but more importantly, it keeps the government from being able to micromanage your daily life.
Sure, because of "global terror" and a bunch of other scary words, people are more readily giving up their personal rights for "safety", but that doesn't automatically make it a good/smart thing.
Basically, if it isn't grossly obvious that you're doing something illegal, the Police should leave you the hell alone and go find someone who IS breaking the law in public. In my experience, that's not a very difficult thing to find...
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In a country where the constitution was deliberately crafted around the idea of protecting AFFLUENT CAUCASIAN MALE citizens from governmental abuse and seeking to empower the AFFLUENT CAUCASIAN MALE citizens with means to call their government on any and all abuse.
I think you forgot something...
Yes, this shouldn't have happened and was wrong, but I've only got so much outrage to go around. If he can afford to buy a boat, I'm sure he has an attorney. He's a big boy, he'll figure it out.
Got a better idea, bozo?
I do actually. Try this:
-Removing harmful pesticides from our food chain
-Removing chemicals from our water supply
-Remove things like petroleum-derived food coloring and other bullshit from our food
-Cut back on the excessive use of processed sugars and grains from our diets
-Exercise regularly
Collectively, our immune systems are shitty because we feed ourselves with shitty fuel and then wonder why we're all sick and crazy. A healthy body means a healthy immune system which means less sickness of ALL TYPES.
You want to avoid the flu? Keep your body healthy and wash your hands. Millions of years of evolution are more effective than a buch of vaccines made from questionable materials, under questionable manufacturing circumstances, and being monitored by a government agency that was probably bought and sold to the pharmaceutical industry decades ago.
Our, you know, continue to throw money at big pharma and have another double cheeseburger and a Coke. I'm sure they and their lobbyists have your best interest in mind.
For example?
Don't you realize that if an economy were managed in such a way you effectively create huge disincentive for people to become doctors? Some still will, but many will look at Easy Path A compared to Hard Path B, see they achieve the same result, and thus choose A.
Although I agree mostly, I have to say that I feel we'd all be better served if the doctors in our society we more likely to be people interested in healing rather than people who are interested in fancy cars and social prestige.
I think the issue is when you feel that you deserve to work a couple hours a day (or week) and get paid more than other people who work for 10s of hours a week (or day) and be paid the same amount.
I own a business. I'm in the business of selling my labor. Therefore, I'm going to maximize MY profits. That means getting paid as much as I can for as little work as possible. If business owners shouldn't be stigmatized for being greedy assholes, then workers shouldn't be stigmatized for being lazy assholes.
This double standard has to go.
I felt the exact same way until I had to sit through a twenty minute update and DLC install before I could start shooting at my buddies. Consoles seem to be heading in the same direction.
Because of this, I've given up on desktop gaming and only play games on either my laptop or my phone/tablet. If I can't play it on one of those, then I won't be bothered wasting any more of my life on these people who don't appreciate my money anyway.
Here's the closest thing I've seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bHpUljLVrc
It's a bunch of benchmark videos saved into one long youtube video. Boring to sit through, but interesting to jump around in.
Yes. Damn lefties! Our colleges will be much better when they close down all these public universities sucking on the government teat and replace them with high quality private institutions like ITT Tech and DeVry. Get the government out of our classrooms!
I disagree. I think most of their arcade games are "shitty" as it is. Plus why should I pay $15 for a title on my xbox when I can get the same game cheaper on four other platforms for less? PLUS, it doesn't cost me $5 a month to take full advantage of my iPad.
A more open and competitively priced market is exactly the thing that would bring me back, but Windows 8 had proven that they have other plans.
Bullshit.
You don't have the "right" to make a living off of your artistic endeavors anymore than I have the "right" to make a living from making paper airplanes, having sex with college girls, or selling snowcones. You, like anyone else have the right to make as much money as you can, in any way you like, as long as you don't:
a) break the law
b) piss people off enough that they kill you
That's IT.
It's fine to complain about not getting paid appropriately for your work, but this sense of "artistic entitlement" needs to GO. If you can't hack it trying to support yourself doing what you love, either fix it, or suck it up like EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET and do something different.
You are not entitled to make a comfortable living off of your art.
And as for "professionalism" argument, if you call all the bullshit I see on the Grammy's and hear on the radio "professional", then you can keep your professional works and their "150 years after the death of the artist" or whatever ridiculous length has been bought and paid for by the media companies.
You want to fix artists not being compensated appropriately? Band together and get rid of organizations like the MPAA and the RIAA, because they represent "artists" and they're making "artists" look like a bunch of greedy assholes. And why would anyone care if they aren't compensating a bunch of greedy assholes?
Now get of my lawn! I've got to go to WORK. Because not all of us are FORTUNATE enough to be able to feed our kids by farting the tune for "Old McDonald had a Farm" into a cup or selling macaroni portraits of Che Guverra.
"who are these people without reliable internet"
We're called "Comcast Subscribers" and we live in the United States of America. :/
"It would be unrealistic and unnecessary to have a constant internet connection the entire time you are using the device."
Not necessarily. Once you hack an Xbox 360, you have to be really particular about when and how you connect it to the network. If you REQUIRE the console to always be connected to the Live network, it limits the amount of ways you can compromise the system and gives MS constant access to the hardware kill switch that I'm almost certain will be implemented.
I'm assuming that your company has an attorney? This is the point where they need to lean heavily on their social contacts to find someone who specializes in either:
a) Patents
b) Tech
c) Both (preferably)
Otherwise, I'd ask as many competent people that you know/trust to go through their rolodexes for "friends of friends". As a last resort, I guess you could visit some of the places where prominent opensource folk hang out. Hell, amazing things have happened on Reddit, so see if you can get some traction there as well.
Whatever you do, DON'T JUST IGNORE IT. It is my understanding that if you don't show up to defend yourself, you can get a default judgement against you even if the claims are complete bullshit.
Good luck!
This, but also, honestly, I'm tired of being fragmented to death as well, and I'm really afraid of that with the OUYA. You know what's nice?
Humble Bundles that let me pay for a game that I can play on my Linux box...
and my Mac...
and a Windows machine...
and an Android device.
Not quite as nice is me buying a game ONCE in the Play store and then being able to play it on all my Android devices. And possibly the desktop here soon via the Chrome browser or Android X86.
I'm all in for gaming on Android as a general purpose system, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy ANY game more than once ever again. If OUYA could find a way to let me play (even a subset of my) Play store games, then I'm on-board 100%. Otherwise, I'm sicking to my android phone, my MHL adapter, and my SixAxis gamepad.
Gun registration is publicly available. Is "Alarm Registration" data publicly available? If it is, have at it. Otherwise, you're just being childish with an inappropriate comparison.
It's been my personal experience that "criminals" and "protectors" all come from, and live in, the same cloudy moral grey area.
As far as I know, wine users are detected as "wine3d" as their OS, or something like that.
"However if production companies were offered the amazing windfall profit of free contemporary music"
Are you seriously labeling music from 1956 "contemporary"? That's a stretch. In 1956, my parents weren't even born yeat and my grandmother wasn't allowed to Vote in Mississippi. We hadn't even been to the moon yet.
I understand where you're coming from, but no offense intended: I seriously think you are overvaluing your artistic contributions if you're willing to label something from the late 50's as "contemporary".
They're not talking about scanning random people on the street and taking their guns. They're talking about scanning arrestees instead of frisking them. If you're getting frisked, we're no longer talking about "law abiding citizens".
Granted, they certainly could use this device to scan random people. But that's an unconstitutional search which the Supreme Court would slap the Hell out of. Remember: fear the people, not the tool.
Yes, because only people who break the law get arrested. Also: there are no innocent people in jail, and the police never give a little extra attention to "brown people" and "terrorist types". Fear the people indeed... Now I remember why I stopped coming to this site two or three years ago, because of uninformed nonsense posts like that...
What kind of salmon?
"I have no problem with revenge against useless fucks too lazy to do anything to help others."
Ironically, this very attitude is the reason why I wouldn't help someone like you. /points-at-you
If you aren't able to control your emotions any better than that, I'm sure you're also one of those people who would sue me for pulling you out of a car wreck. I figure at that point, the only winning strategy is not to play. That means letting you die or whatever.
Sorry bub...
Maybe before they knew about it, it wasn't, but it sure as hell is now:
"I'm not a Nazi, my buddies had that tattooed on me while I was drunk and I decided to just leave it there."
Uh huh...
Good riddance indeed. Next on the list of undesirable are those people spend more time than me playing, are better players than me, and especially the ones that are better at manipulating the AH than I am.
It gives them an unfair advantage, and screws with the game economy, just like botting. Throw them under a buss I say! /spit
I love how everyone's all self righteous about the whole thing. In case you weren't aware, Apple doesn't care about YOU as an individual customer, any more than Pystar, or any other corporation for that matter.
I just can't wait until Apple takes a big chunk out of the hands of the fanbois that feed them. When they find a prettier girl to court, you'll be in the same boat as the submitter...
In plain view means just that, in plain view. Even using your analogy of headlights on a police cruiser, you still can't use headlights to peer into someone's house THROUGH THE WALL or ROOF.
The spirit of the law is that people have the right to do just about whatever they want in their house, behind closed doors/walls without being subject to a "casual inspection" by the police. Sure, it allows some people to do "bad things" without getting caught sometimes, but more importantly, it keeps the government from being able to micromanage your daily life.
Sure, because of "global terror" and a bunch of other scary words, people are more readily giving up their personal rights for "safety", but that doesn't automatically make it a good/smart thing.
Basically, if it isn't grossly obvious that you're doing something illegal, the Police should leave you the hell alone and go find someone who IS breaking the law in public. In my experience, that's not a very difficult thing to find...
ColdWetDog? "come back to BITE you"? LOL. Oh, you're TOO MUCH!