I sent an email to sales@steam.com that bounced back and then I forwarded to webmaster@steam.com
I told them that I would not give up my rights as an american to have a jury of my peers, and since I notified them of that I would then accept the altered terms of the EULA based on that statement.
They did not respond before I clicked it.
I don't think they should be able to steal my money if I do not agree (by not allowing me to play the games I purchase if I do not agree) so I figure in the unlikely event that this EULA would ever matter, I could at least hope for a sympathetic judge when I explained how drunk I was when I came up with this plan.//toddles off to get another beer.
I started boycotting several manufacturers over the games that required a constant online connection. I can't wait to tell my buddy that thinks that the boycott is stupid how his system is rooted (again)!
Actually, cops are my friend. They took care of rather terrible neighbors across the street, they provide escorts for me when I'm on a run with a rather popular motorcycle club that fights the westboro baptist church, and I get thanked and a hand shake quite often.
It's all a matter of who you are and what you do. Law abiding citizens that work to help the community have nothing to fear from Uncle Leo.
Our global society would be set back to 300 years ago, except no one has any experience living as a fucking pioneer; we're all air-conditioned and supermarket-fed. So everyone that doesn't have TEOTWAWKI preparations would die. And then most of the survivors would die of looters and starvation, and the looters would die of cholera and previously preventable illnesses.
So I find your opinion ignorant at best, sociopathic and homicidal at worst.
Heh. I have ammo, know how to hunt and skin, know how to preserve food, actually love the taste of squirrel, do my own garden and keep seeds up, understand how to make and maintain a well. Can rebuild old cars - ones without fancy electronical thingies.
And I'm a geek that earns a living as a programmer.
Granted, only a first generation American - but my parents and grandparents taught me how to not rely on supermarkets and stuff.
If the world fell apart, I'm mean enough to stick around for a long time.
If you do not have the skills to walk into a small office and dazzle them, then you really need to have a good vacuum connection to you managers needs retain your corporate gig.
If you really can actually code and provide solutions quickly then finding a small office that needs a "guru" is an option. I found myself in a situation where not only did I need to run from a flaming trainwreck and find a new resource I had to also learn how to run a server that I had to set up from rock bottom that ran a website, media site, kb, and an email solution.
It's all about work ethic, the ability to walk into a workforce and provide solutions, and just being solid in what you tell others you can provide. You also have to be ready to step up and make the hard things seem easy.
Heh, One experience I had illustrates the fresh developer vs seasoned. I was hired in to help a couple of younger guys that wrote an application so I could help speed it up.
One of the better guys was struggling to find out why his queries for data wasn't pulling back what he thought he should be getting. He'd been staring at his stuff for the better part of an hour before he asked me.It took him 2 minutes to explain his problem to me, and it took me two minutes and a whiteboard to scope out why he was thinking wrong.
He was pretty well taken aback and asked me "How the fuck did you figure it out that fast?"
I replied "Cause I had the same issue a long time ago and asked someone who knew what they were doing."
Maybe this will indeed be the 'tipping point' for Linux. With those games coming to Linux, a gaming machine will become a lot cheaper. And they'll run faster too! (no antivirus or trialware running in the background)
As soon as gaming arrives in a major way to Linux, I will say goodbye to windows. The lack of games kept me away from Mac and Linux.
A lot of comments here are about incompetence at not finding a phone with a map and location etched in X.
I think they were standing next to the guy who had the I-phone, and that guy was cowering and frantically trying to hand over the phone to the officers, but the officers hate the chief who was misusing them to find his snotty cry baby son's phone and stood there asking each other if they could see anything that looked like a phone.
I kept comparing them to win 2k and win xp and just said "I don't need any of that".
It really sucks when a corporation wants to "Shape" an OS instead of just making it a jack of all trades so that people who have been quite happy without an app store, don't need a "metro" interface and just want a gaming machine or a programming machine are ignored.
It's even worse because they have the ability to stop supporting the Operating systems that are useful. I don't need a shiny new interface. Just let me keep playing my games and earning a living.Don't hop up on that idiotic "oohhhhh my phone will winzors the world" cause there's a bunch of folks like me, and even more that are retiring and have diminished eyesight and won't be able to use the smart phone platform.
I guess I am the only person on the planet who never got a facebook account, and as such will not be impacted in some way when a firm that took all of your personal information and sold it to others fails.
If it takes 15 minutes to charge up - exactly how big would a charging stop have to be to replace a gas station? I can fuel up, pay and be gone in less than 4 minutes in a busy gas station with 12 pumps. If I had to wait for people to charge up when the pumps took almost 4 times as long, there would be a long line in front and behind me.
How many people here comparing Gimp to Photoshop have....Actually PAID for the licenses for all the version of photoshop they used?
I'm just happy there's a free alternative to photo editing out there. No, it may not be as slick as photoshop - but you don't have to steal gimp to use it.
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But what story have you read that resonates years later because of some insight about human nature or society that's basically cynical or pessimistic?
All news articles about man made global warming
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that's not my problem.
They don't give me options to change the eula, I don't care if they aren't at the email they should be.
Beer!
I sent an email to sales@steam.com that bounced back and then I forwarded to webmaster@steam.com
I told them that I would not give up my rights as an american to have a jury of my peers, and since I notified them of that I would then accept the altered terms of the EULA based on that statement.
They did not respond before I clicked it.
I don't think they should be able to steal my money if I do not agree (by not allowing me to play the games I purchase if I do not agree) so I figure in the unlikely event that this EULA would ever matter, I could at least hope for a sympathetic judge when I explained how drunk I was when I came up with this plan. //toddles off to get another beer.
I still play MOO and Xcom. I have more than enough games to keep me happy.
I'll spend the extra money on beer instead.
I started boycotting several manufacturers over the games that required a constant online connection. I can't wait to tell my buddy that thinks that the boycott is stupid how his system is rooted (again)!
I musta missed the last few years then, when was it a middle Carboniferous era after 1998?
Actually, cops are my friend. They took care of rather terrible neighbors across the street, they provide escorts for me when I'm on a run with a rather popular motorcycle club that fights the westboro baptist church, and I get thanked and a hand shake quite often.
It's all a matter of who you are and what you do. Law abiding citizens that work to help the community have nothing to fear from Uncle Leo.
I knew my large beard would come in handy!
I can rob a bank then just shave it off!
And yes, I really do have a magnificent beard. a few more years and I'll be ready to join ZZ Top! Facial hair for the obfuscation!
Ahh, but you are wrong.
They had what was called a "Warp Sled" which allowed the shuttles to be propelled at warp speeds.
Cheesy? Yes.
But this is one of the many reasons that even numbered Star Trek Movies did not suck.
Umm, there will be millions of cars with gas in the tank that aren't running.
cause their electrical thingamabobs are fried by the emp.
so sayeth the idiot...
The hardest step for you will be finding your way out of the basement first.
The house I own does not have a basement.
So yes, If I was in a basement, it would be an issue.
Yes, because a lot of people would die.
Our global society would be set back to 300 years ago, except no one has any experience living as a fucking pioneer; we're all air-conditioned and supermarket-fed. So everyone that doesn't have TEOTWAWKI preparations would die. And then most of the survivors would die of looters and starvation, and the looters would die of cholera and previously preventable illnesses.
So I find your opinion ignorant at best, sociopathic and homicidal at worst.
Heh. I have ammo, know how to hunt and skin, know how to preserve food, actually love the taste of squirrel, do my own garden and keep seeds up, understand how to make and maintain a well. Can rebuild old cars - ones without fancy electronical thingies.
And I'm a geek that earns a living as a programmer.
Granted, only a first generation American - but my parents and grandparents taught me how to not rely on supermarkets and stuff.
If the world fell apart, I'm mean enough to stick around for a long time.
If you aren't talented, suck up and suck dry.
If you do not have the skills to walk into a small office and dazzle them, then you really need to have a good vacuum connection to you managers needs retain your corporate gig.
If you really can actually code and provide solutions quickly then finding a small office that needs a "guru" is an option. I found myself in a situation where not only did I need to run from a flaming trainwreck and find a new resource I had to also learn how to run a server that I had to set up from rock bottom that ran a website, media site, kb, and an email solution.
It's all about work ethic, the ability to walk into a workforce and provide solutions, and just being solid in what you tell others you can provide. You also have to be ready to step up and make the hard things seem easy.
Make it into a MMOG, with groups of players forming "governments" to run specified countries in the game, that'll be even more fun
www.nationstates.net
My little chunk is in
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=lemmingcus_meenicus
Heh, One experience I had illustrates the fresh developer vs seasoned. I was hired in to help a couple of younger guys that wrote an application so I could help speed it up.
One of the better guys was struggling to find out why his queries for data wasn't pulling back what he thought he should be getting. He'd been staring at his stuff for the better part of an hour before he asked me.It took him 2 minutes to explain his problem to me, and it took me two minutes and a whiteboard to scope out why he was thinking wrong.
He was pretty well taken aback and asked me "How the fuck did you figure it out that fast?"
I replied "Cause I had the same issue a long time ago and asked someone who knew what they were doing."
Maybe this will indeed be the 'tipping point' for Linux. With those games coming to Linux, a gaming machine will become a lot cheaper. And they'll run faster too! (no antivirus or trialware running in the background)
As soon as gaming arrives in a major way to Linux, I will say goodbye to windows. The lack of games kept me away from Mac and Linux.
A lot of comments here are about incompetence at not finding a phone with a map and location etched in X.
I think they were standing next to the guy who had the I-phone, and that guy was cowering and frantically trying to hand over the phone to the officers, but the officers hate the chief who was misusing them to find his snotty cry baby son's phone and stood there asking each other if they could see anything that looked like a phone.
I kept comparing them to win 2k and win xp and just said "I don't need any of that".
It really sucks when a corporation wants to "Shape" an OS instead of just making it a jack of all trades so that people who have been quite happy without an app store, don't need a "metro" interface and just want a gaming machine or a programming machine are ignored.
It's even worse because they have the ability to stop supporting the Operating systems that are useful. I don't need a shiny new interface. Just let me keep playing my games and earning a living.Don't hop up on that idiotic "oohhhhh my phone will winzors the world" cause there's a bunch of folks like me, and even more that are retiring and have diminished eyesight and won't be able to use the smart phone platform.
How is this offtopic? This patent applies to killing a song someone paid to listen to?
Does the person who's song got voted down get a refund? They paid money to listen to it.
I guess I am the only person on the planet who never got a facebook account, and as such will not be impacted in some way when a firm that took all of your personal information and sold it to others fails.
Yay me!
What do you have against lemmings? Be nice or I'll Steve Austin your ass back into the stone age!
If it takes 15 minutes to charge up - exactly how big would a charging stop have to be to replace a gas station? I can fuel up, pay and be gone in less than 4 minutes in a busy gas station with 12 pumps. If I had to wait for people to charge up when the pumps took almost 4 times as long, there would be a long line in front and behind me.
How many people here comparing Gimp to Photoshop have....Actually PAID for the licenses for all the version of photoshop they used?
I'm just happy there's a free alternative to photo editing out there. No, it may not be as slick as photoshop - but you don't have to steal gimp to use it.