Obviously these games aren't worth a lot to these companies (except as potential pawns in an IP battle). But the owners won't even sell them for peanuts. You can't get them "legally". So an alternative market pops up to meet the demand (and the price of these games there is 0). Why can't these folks set up a "classic games" page on their sites, and sell these games for peanuts? Just cause it sold for $2, does that mean they lose their IP?
Bell of Infogrames said: "This does not mean that a game becomes part of the public domain; it's intellectual property that remains quite valuable to the publisher."
Quite valuable! That's a laugh. When they're not even selling them? Exactly how are these games valuable, except as pawns in the IP battles?
they're not trying to lock up the content, they're trying to control the only means of access to it, so they can whore it like they do in every other venue
There's a direct correlation between "pollution reduction" and "global warming is coming". See, used to pollute like crazy, and the ice age was coming. So we cut down and cleaned up. Things started warming up. So all we need it to block the sun's rays with a thick fog of pollution. Yeah!
Compulsive worrying about environmentalism is counterproductive
It's part of American culture: we instinctively gravitate towards "save the world" causes, no matter how mindless the cause might get. An interesting study is Redeemer Nation which suggests our foreign policy ("save the world") is derived from 19th century Post-millenialism in American Christianity ("save the world").
Even if we AREN'T damaging things as badly as some say, it cant HURT us to be more eco-friendly.
Example: the health nuts (not the environmentalists) went crazy over asbestos. So asbestos was not able to be used in the WTC, and it melted down pretty quick...some people think asbestos, which is quite inert and harmless until you decide you need to rip it out (or you worked in an asbestos plant, R.I.P.), would have given the buildings more time, because the replacement stuff just doesn't work as well.
You know, most of the stuff we do has a cost and a benefit. We do those things because of some benefit. You just can't _stop_ doing stuff that harms the environment, because everything we do effects it in some way. So you have to do cost + benefit. You can't focus on one to the exclusion of the other. Industrialists will fixate on the benefit, and the environmentalists will fixate on the cost. If either wins, we are screwed.
HEY, I guess the govt is good for something after all;)
Well, no government regulation was needed for me to figure out: don't use PayPal. And the ones that have been burned: pile on to the lawsuit, make 'em pay.
Technology permitted capture of more information about us, our habits, our preferences, our purchases, any activity; and a company or State passed on that opportunity.
You will have to pass a political orthodoxy test to get past the boot screen.
Q: What is the role of the US DOJ? A: A) To promote and smooth the growth of large multinationals; B) To ensure the destruction of subversive whacko religious groups; C)To cuddle up in the Executive's lap and purr contentedly; D) All of the above.
This isn't cultural imperialism, it's a recognition of the fact that we need a shared language - *any* shared language - and English is a good choice for it. It uses a simple alphabet, has simple conjugation rules, and a well-known "international English" subset that's sufficient for most routine interactions.
Additionally, you don't need to master the language to use it. You can absolutely butcher English and get away with it; they'll think, "he's just an American."
A new study found that most people who are alive aren't dead yet. The correlation: alive is not-dead. So the best way to stay alive is to not die. The researchers note however that correlation is not causation!
While Sep. 11th needs to be remembered vividly, people also need to remember that the basis of the American Constitution is that no external threat can strip one of their freedoms.
Right. No external force is ready to occupy the USA. It's the Bloated Zombie of D.C. that's the main threat to our liberty.
Soon, the government will have a record of all the books we've bought, and when the time comes, their firemen will come and torch our houses for owning them.
Okay, maybe that won't actually happen
History shows that no state has a limit to how low it will stoop, eventually, because the people just sit there and take it. So, 100 years ago, you could have said, "Soon, the gov't will take 50% of your income, and few will complain. Okay, maybe that won't actually happen." And you would have been labelled an "optimist" back then, too.
Or untill they stop posting the same, old, boring articles.
We're like a bunch of old geezers sitting around rehashing the same old jokes and stories and ailments, and loving it. We're not happy unless we're complaining about the same old things.
All it takes is 1 person to copy the CD then EVERYONE can get it. Its that simple.
Not so simple. It's like a speed bump or extra Stop signs or traffic lights. It'll slow people down. A few savvy folk know the end-arounds. Sure, you can get Windows XP for free from waReZ sites, but is everyone doing that? Hardly. There are lots and lots of people who still obey they law, because it's not yet opressive.
I went to the Museum of American History, and they have an Information Science section in the basement. I saw a book there that I used as an undergrad: McCracken's _Fortran IV Programming_. Is it too early to relegate that to history, or am I getting old?
is selling out. Wonder how much the networks paid Google to put up a custom Google Banner, to lure us into thinking about the Olympics [tm], and hence, to watch the Olympics [tm] on TV?
By the way, check out these IOC unsanctioned site on the Olympics. Are they coming after Washington state? This is in reference to how the IOC goes after anything remotely associated with "olympic".
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Obviously these games aren't worth a lot to these companies (except as potential pawns in an IP battle). But the owners won't even sell them for peanuts. You can't get them "legally". So an alternative market pops up to meet the demand (and the price of these games there is 0). Why can't these folks set up a "classic games" page on their sites, and sell these games for peanuts? Just cause it sold for $2, does that mean they lose their IP?
Quite valuable! That's a laugh. When they're not even selling them? Exactly how are these games valuable, except as pawns in the IP battles?
And most of us just keep on lapping it up...
Just be glad you're not in jail for knowing that and telling them.
If this is true, can we take up a collection and pay someone in Arizona to rent a backhoe? And dig up this guy's cable and phone lines?
Rather, "What can Sun do _to_ us?"
There's a direct correlation between "pollution reduction" and "global warming is coming". See, used to pollute like crazy, and the ice age was coming. So we cut down and cleaned up. Things started warming up. So all we need it to block the sun's rays with a thick fog of pollution. Yeah!
That's a repugnant attitude to take.
Most maintainers of dogma do that kind of stuff. There's a lot at stake for them.
It's part of American culture: we instinctively gravitate towards "save the world" causes, no matter how mindless the cause might get. An interesting study is Redeemer Nation which suggests our foreign policy ("save the world") is derived from 19th century Post-millenialism in American Christianity ("save the world").
Example: the health nuts (not the environmentalists) went crazy over asbestos. So asbestos was not able to be used in the WTC, and it melted down pretty quick...some people think asbestos, which is quite inert and harmless until you decide you need to rip it out (or you worked in an asbestos plant, R.I.P.), would have given the buildings more time, because the replacement stuff just doesn't work as well.
You know, most of the stuff we do has a cost and a benefit. We do those things because of some benefit. You just can't _stop_ doing stuff that harms the environment, because everything we do effects it in some way. So you have to do cost + benefit. You can't focus on one to the exclusion of the other. Industrialists will fixate on the benefit, and the environmentalists will fixate on the cost. If either wins, we are screwed.
Help me out here. What privileges? That if you totally screw up, the State will bail you out with taxpayer money?
Well, no government regulation was needed for me to figure out: don't use PayPal. And the ones that have been burned: pile on to the lawsuit, make 'em pay.
Somebody, give me one example where:
Technology permitted capture of more information about us, our habits, our preferences, our purchases, any activity; and a company or State passed on that opportunity.
You will have to pass a political orthodoxy test to get past the boot screen.
Q: What is the role of the US DOJ?
A: A) To promote and smooth the growth of large multinationals; B) To ensure the destruction of subversive whacko religious groups; C)To cuddle up in the Executive's lap and purr contentedly; D) All of the above.
It's all monolithic in the US anyway. They're all Statists. They just breathlessly regurgitate all the White House and Pentagon press releases.
Additionally, you don't need to master the language to use it. You can absolutely butcher English and get away with it; they'll think, "he's just an American."
A new study found that most people who are alive aren't dead yet. The correlation: alive is not-dead. So the best way to stay alive is to not die. The researchers note however that correlation is not causation!
Right. No external force is ready to occupy the USA. It's the Bloated Zombie of D.C. that's the main threat to our liberty.
Okay, maybe that won't actually happen
History shows that no state has a limit to how low it will stoop, eventually, because the people just sit there and take it. So, 100 years ago, you could have said, "Soon, the gov't will take 50% of your income, and few will complain. Okay, maybe that won't actually happen." And you would have been labelled an "optimist" back then, too.
The cure for 1984 is 1776.
Oh wait, that's me!
Are you making any concrete suggestions? Remember: there is NO HOPE in the Proles.
I'm sorry but the crime rates are out of control, terrorism is out of control, something must be done.
And the State is out of control. The State being out of control is the story of the 20th Century. Got any ideas?
We're like a bunch of old geezers sitting around rehashing the same old jokes and stories and ailments, and loving it. We're not happy unless we're complaining about the same old things.
Not so simple. It's like a speed bump or extra Stop signs or traffic lights. It'll slow people down. A few savvy folk know the end-arounds. Sure, you can get Windows XP for free from waReZ sites, but is everyone doing that? Hardly. There are lots and lots of people who still obey they law, because it's not yet opressive.
I went to the Museum of American History, and they have an Information Science section in the basement. I saw a book there that I used as an undergrad: McCracken's _Fortran IV Programming_. Is it too early to relegate that to history, or am I getting old?
is selling out. Wonder how much the networks paid Google to put up a custom Google Banner, to lure us into thinking about the Olympics [tm], and hence, to watch the Olympics [tm] on TV?
By the way, check out these IOC unsanctioned site on the Olympics. Are they coming after Washington state? This is in reference to how the IOC goes after anything remotely associated with "olympic".