And soon to get much cheaper as the US dollar falls apart...
I'm sorry.. but I say this.. "It stinks."
'I don't always know the truth; but I know when I'm being lied to..' It feels like there is a truth somewhere and we get about 2% of what is the real truth.
No, nothing more at the Federal level. America was originally set up to be mostly run at the state level and the central government shat all over the Constitution to make itself more powerful.
States get to decide how their votes are counted. If Alaska wants to do it one way with their set number of votes and Texas wants to do it another way, LET THEM.
Don't give anything more to the Federal Government. They pretty much manage to fuck up everything they touch.
In the mmo Shadowbane (currently free) that emphasized pvp, gvg and total player city control, the map changed significantly. Though, some cities stayed for years.. Others last mere days.
Here's my reasons why I do not buy most games - and why I go out of my way to buy some..
1. Copy protection - There should be nothing in a game preventing me from making a copy. There should be nothing in a game that installs 3rd party bullshit on my computer. I would rather not even enter a unique code. Face it, no matter how great of anti-piracy software there is, if I buy the game it inconveniences me - while the pirated version that is easily downloadable on the Internet will not have those inconveniences. If I want to loan the game to a friend, and let him play it a few days, LET ME FUCKING DO IT. I BOUGHT THE DAMN GAME.
- THINK ABOUT THIS: Anti-piracy efforts typically only affect the people that bought and paid for the game. They are always an inconvenience. In all circumstances, the pirated version on the Internet (and it will exist no matter what game, no matter what copy protection), has most of those inconveniences removed - though the game may be missing material, have new bugs due to anti-anti-piracy, and generally have less value to the opinion of the game.
2. Pricing - Every damn PC game comes out at a ridiculous price - $60, $65, even $75.. and every damn PC game is $19.99 bargain bin after 3 months. How about make the price somewhere in the middle and keep it there. I'll buy games on release date if I knew the price wasn't gonna fall by 2/3 in a month. I think $25-30 pricing for games makes it almost more convenient to buy it - provided my other points are considered.
3. Community support - Let the community mod the games - and support them! Nothing is better than a game being released and the community taking over and creating unlimited amounts of new maps/levels.. unless the developer puts some of their own resources back into the community.
4. Pirates buy games - Yes, many pirates also buy games. When I actually had time to play PC games, I pirated many and bought many - and I definitely bought more games that the average person. Consider that. I don't like being called nasty names when I feel perfectly fine with my reasons for pirating - usually too much copy protection.
5. Don't make me have to insert a damn CD when I play the game!!! I bought the game. The pirated version doesn't make me insert a CD, why should the bought-and-paid-for version? My cd player is in my computer on the floor at the corner of my desk - and I'm a lazy gamer that doesn't want to have to open my book of cds, find the right one, and insert it! oh wait.. my cd is scratched. fuck me.
6. Stop being so goddamn confusing with the patches! I have 'pirated' games I bought just because installing the original cds, downloading the patches, installing them in order were so annoying and time-consuming. Here's how you do it. Release a game. It is version 1.0. Patch it. It is called patch 1. Now the version is 1.1. Every new patch should not require the older patch. There should never be a game version like "Awesome Game 1.01.07.0003 p004 with Nvidia enhanced drivers". WTF is that.. That makes me wanna turn my brain off and play Xbox.
7. Offer refunds. Yes, risky.. BUT DO IT. I bought X3 Reunion and was not able to play it for a long-ass time because I only had an external cd burner due to their fucked up copy protection. I posted on their forums. I was told everything was my fault and nothing was their fault. Think I'm ever gonna buy an Egosoft game again? Fuck no. Note: You would most likely have to offer 1/10 as many refunds if the game did not have copy protection. And, 'this game sucks' is not a valid refund request. The reviews are everywhere. If someone buys a game rated at 44%, they deserve to be out the money.
8. Bump up the minimum requirements. Don't say the game will run on a P3 1ghz with 128mb ram if it needs a Core 2 duo at 2.6ghz with a Radeon 4850 just to look decent! Why? Because Joe-dumbass will buy the game and try to run it on his son's shitty laptop with Intel integrated graphics. After doing that once or twice, guarantee he will becom
You have just assured complete ignorance to all of your ideals. If no one ever knows that you like to be left alone - and that you do not support this draconian copyright bullshit, it will surely not go your way. If things are so bad that the government puts you on their list, and tries to ruin your life, why even care about your piddling existence? Do something.
If the engineer that has control over our nation's nuclear football decides to change the codes so only he knows them - because he fears corruption in the White House, would we give him the benefit of the doubt? Considering.. he has access to our nuclear arsenal..
It's sad but it seems commonplace that IT gets lots of requests to 'lock themselves out' once everything is configured. It is very hard to hand things over and lock yourself out when you're turning things over to a bunch of incompetent or corrupt people.
The more mainstream the web becomes, the more bullshit we have to sort through... the more useless it becomes. There used to be a banner ad. Now there's a banner, links on the left, links on the right, popups, flash over the actual text, sound, video, and 10x as many pages all with the same shit to click through just to get the same content. And, we're already hearing about ISPs adding their own shit to our shitty internet experience.
It doesn't make any fucking sense that an article that could be entirely scrolled through takes 27 clicks to read.. It doesn't make any fucking sense that clicking 'yes' one time on the wrong thing can allow malicious software to install itself (that is your fault, microsoft). It doesn't make any fucking sense that our own damn web clients allow the developer to disable right-click on a page. It doesn't make any fucking sense that I have to watch a 30-second advertisement to watch a 10-second video clip.
The web is quickly turning into television - a bunch of stupid avertisements created by stupid people geared for stupid consumers. The web is still way better than anything else we got.
When I was in college, I had lots of classes where we needed multiple $100+ textbooks - more than the cost of the course! I had a class once (business law) where the professor wrote 3 of the five books we needed and charged $90 for each book (paperback) and he required all five books. As far as I saw, we never even used two of the books out of the five!
College textbooks are completely ridiculous - and the material is not changing enough to warrant the insanely high costs. So, I say - good for the students that pirate them.
Us lazy Americans work the highest average hours per week and have the highest productivity per worker in the world. Us lazy Americans pay taxes for our bloated government - for roads.. and medical care..
Illegal immigrants do NOT pay taxes - certainly at least not like we do - and they are getting free infrastructure and medical care that us lazy Americans are paying for.. For a lot of Americans, if you took the $taxes away from the $Peanuts + $taxes they get paid, they'd be left with the same $Peanuts or fewer than illegal immigrants get paid..
Further, you are implying that merely by working hard and getting paid little, us lazy Americans get our welfare checks paid for by illegal immigrants? What the hell do you have against forcing illegals to become citizens like the rest of us? If we document them, we can tax them too.
The 'little guy' in America is made smaller because illegal immigrants undercut wages with their 'no tax' advantage.
Hrm.. Pakistan, Lebanon, Thailand, Algeria, Chechnya.. none of those are my back yard. Let them do as they please - we need to leave them alone. They'll fight it out.
And, the 'tiny' amount of muslims in the US still amount to millions - and they're pretty damn peaceful here. I don't see anything wrong with them.
At what point do we stop using the events on 9/11 as a blanket excuse for government to drive itself all over the backs of the American people? Yes, we should be reasonably vigilant against terrorism - but we should never give up a single bit of our rights!
We, the people, have to pay over $1trillion for the 'war on terrorism' using the 9/11 excuse.. Yet, there's little to no progress made for combating illegal immigration - while illegal immigrants are killing more Americans than died on 9/11 every year..
This is a sick fucked up system.. where our companies that directly benefit from wars also run our media.. who build up our screwed-up politicians.. who systematically screw America into oblivion. It's time we quit believing every goddamn 'trrrist' story and start seeing through the bullshit. Am I afraid of a terrorist coming after me or my family? fuck no.. Am I afraid of our out-of-control government? absolutely - look at history
This is just more made-up generalized bullshit to get the easily-influenced people to go with more government spending on counteracting the nonexistent problem of terrorism. When was the last time terrorism was in your back yard? When did it affect you personally? How often is it happening?
And.. if it did affect you, chances are that your back yard is in Iraq..
The government keeps pushing 'Our enemy is huge, organized, centralized, and powerful' but we are seeing more and more than 'Our enemy is a disorganized populace tired of what the US is doing.'
It's like we're building a tank to try to destroy a wasp.. while the wasp keeps stinging everyone because we're sitting by its nest.
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Where do I go to get a script that searches for it and removes it?
I'm sure I have coworkers that need this removed from their computers at work..
And soon to get much cheaper as the US dollar falls apart...
I'm sorry.. but I say this.. "It stinks."
'I don't always know the truth; but I know when I'm being lied to..' It feels like there is a truth somewhere and we get about 2% of what is the real truth.
How the hell are we supposed to know what that means?! I would've named it Beer.
So do I really only need 640k of physical memory if I have a modern system?
No, nothing more at the Federal level. America was originally set up to be mostly run at the state level and the central government shat all over the Constitution to make itself more powerful.
States get to decide how their votes are counted. If Alaska wants to do it one way with their set number of votes and Texas wants to do it another way, LET THEM.
Don't give anything more to the Federal Government. They pretty much manage to fuck up everything they touch.
In the mmo Shadowbane (currently free) that emphasized pvp, gvg and total player city control, the map changed significantly. Though, some cities stayed for years.. Others last mere days.
Here's my reasons why I do not buy most games - and why I go out of my way to buy some..
1. Copy protection - There should be nothing in a game preventing me from making a copy. There should be nothing in a game that installs 3rd party bullshit on my computer. I would rather not even enter a unique code. Face it, no matter how great of anti-piracy software there is, if I buy the game it inconveniences me - while the pirated version that is easily downloadable on the Internet will not have those inconveniences. If I want to loan the game to a friend, and let him play it a few days, LET ME FUCKING DO IT. I BOUGHT THE DAMN GAME.
- THINK ABOUT THIS: Anti-piracy efforts typically only affect the people that bought and paid for the game. They are always an inconvenience. In all circumstances, the pirated version on the Internet (and it will exist no matter what game, no matter what copy protection), has most of those inconveniences removed - though the game may be missing material, have new bugs due to anti-anti-piracy, and generally have less value to the opinion of the game.
2. Pricing - Every damn PC game comes out at a ridiculous price - $60, $65, even $75.. and every damn PC game is $19.99 bargain bin after 3 months. How about make the price somewhere in the middle and keep it there. I'll buy games on release date if I knew the price wasn't gonna fall by 2/3 in a month. I think $25-30 pricing for games makes it almost more convenient to buy it - provided my other points are considered.
3. Community support - Let the community mod the games - and support them! Nothing is better than a game being released and the community taking over and creating unlimited amounts of new maps/levels.. unless the developer puts some of their own resources back into the community.
4. Pirates buy games - Yes, many pirates also buy games. When I actually had time to play PC games, I pirated many and bought many - and I definitely bought more games that the average person. Consider that. I don't like being called nasty names when I feel perfectly fine with my reasons for pirating - usually too much copy protection.
5. Don't make me have to insert a damn CD when I play the game!!! I bought the game. The pirated version doesn't make me insert a CD, why should the bought-and-paid-for version? My cd player is in my computer on the floor at the corner of my desk - and I'm a lazy gamer that doesn't want to have to open my book of cds, find the right one, and insert it! oh wait.. my cd is scratched. fuck me.
6. Stop being so goddamn confusing with the patches! I have 'pirated' games I bought just because installing the original cds, downloading the patches, installing them in order were so annoying and time-consuming. Here's how you do it. Release a game. It is version 1.0. Patch it. It is called patch 1. Now the version is 1.1. Every new patch should not require the older patch. There should never be a game version like "Awesome Game 1.01.07.0003 p004 with Nvidia enhanced drivers". WTF is that.. That makes me wanna turn my brain off and play Xbox.
7. Offer refunds. Yes, risky.. BUT DO IT. I bought X3 Reunion and was not able to play it for a long-ass time because I only had an external cd burner due to their fucked up copy protection. I posted on their forums. I was told everything was my fault and nothing was their fault. Think I'm ever gonna buy an Egosoft game again? Fuck no. Note: You would most likely have to offer 1/10 as many refunds if the game did not have copy protection. And, 'this game sucks' is not a valid refund request. The reviews are everywhere. If someone buys a game rated at 44%, they deserve to be out the money.
8. Bump up the minimum requirements. Don't say the game will run on a P3 1ghz with 128mb ram if it needs a Core 2 duo at 2.6ghz with a Radeon 4850 just to look decent! Why? Because Joe-dumbass will buy the game and try to run it on his son's shitty laptop with Intel integrated graphics. After doing that once or twice, guarantee he will becom
New Cold War?
I know.. I know.. It's bad. Sorry.
Ya, seriously.. Honesty!! In this post-911 day and age, we have honesty!
I'm gonna go buy something from Amazon.com now.
Or.. maybe you should start finding out why 'this is a serious problem'
Maybe the cops have become more annoying to parts of society than the criminals.
Don't snitch.. online.
As if RIAA and MPAA weren't enough, now this NOAA: Who's come next, AAA?
That's why I'm in AA.
I patented dirt.. Want to apply for a license? Without my dirt license, you can grow no trees.
Coward..
You have just assured complete ignorance to all of your ideals. If no one ever knows that you like to be left alone - and that you do not support this draconian copyright bullshit, it will surely not go your way. If things are so bad that the government puts you on their list, and tries to ruin your life, why even care about your piddling existence? Do something.
I'm gonna have to agree with this one..
If the engineer that has control over our nation's nuclear football decides to change the codes so only he knows them - because he fears corruption in the White House, would we give him the benefit of the doubt? Considering.. he has access to our nuclear arsenal..
It's sad but it seems commonplace that IT gets lots of requests to 'lock themselves out' once everything is configured. It is very hard to hand things over and lock yourself out when you're turning things over to a bunch of incompetent or corrupt people.
You can be assured of one thing... When processors get to 2gb of L2 cache, whatever Windows version is out then will need more.
The more mainstream the web becomes, the more bullshit we have to sort through... the more useless it becomes. There used to be a banner ad. Now there's a banner, links on the left, links on the right, popups, flash over the actual text, sound, video, and 10x as many pages all with the same shit to click through just to get the same content. And, we're already hearing about ISPs adding their own shit to our shitty internet experience.
It doesn't make any fucking sense that an article that could be entirely scrolled through takes 27 clicks to read.. It doesn't make any fucking sense that clicking 'yes' one time on the wrong thing can allow malicious software to install itself (that is your fault, microsoft). It doesn't make any fucking sense that our own damn web clients allow the developer to disable right-click on a page. It doesn't make any fucking sense that I have to watch a 30-second advertisement to watch a 10-second video clip.
The web is quickly turning into television - a bunch of stupid avertisements created by stupid people geared for stupid consumers. The web is still way better than anything else we got.
When I was in college, I had lots of classes where we needed multiple $100+ textbooks - more than the cost of the course! I had a class once (business law) where the professor wrote 3 of the five books we needed and charged $90 for each book (paperback) and he required all five books. As far as I saw, we never even used two of the books out of the five!
College textbooks are completely ridiculous - and the material is not changing enough to warrant the insanely high costs. So, I say - good for the students that pirate them.
The law works like this: If YOU break it, you BROKE it. If EVERYONE breaks it, it is BROKEN. If the GOVERNMENT breaks it, the government is BROKEN.
Just because the law has been broken for a long time does not mean it should be ignored now. Fix the government..
Start with voting against every single incumbent - except for the libertarian-leaning and third-party outsiders..
Us lazy Americans work the highest average hours per week and have the highest productivity per worker in the world. Us lazy Americans pay taxes for our bloated government - for roads.. and medical care..
Illegal immigrants do NOT pay taxes - certainly at least not like we do - and they are getting free infrastructure and medical care that us lazy Americans are paying for.. For a lot of Americans, if you took the $taxes away from the $Peanuts + $taxes they get paid, they'd be left with the same $Peanuts or fewer than illegal immigrants get paid..
Further, you are implying that merely by working hard and getting paid little, us lazy Americans get our welfare checks paid for by illegal immigrants? What the hell do you have against forcing illegals to become citizens like the rest of us? If we document them, we can tax them too.
The 'little guy' in America is made smaller because illegal immigrants undercut wages with their 'no tax' advantage.
Hrm.. Pakistan, Lebanon, Thailand, Algeria, Chechnya.. none of those are my back yard. Let them do as they please - we need to leave them alone. They'll fight it out.
And, the 'tiny' amount of muslims in the US still amount to millions - and they're pretty damn peaceful here. I don't see anything wrong with them.
9/11 was 7 years, two clusterfuck wars, and $1trillion ago.. And it still was not in my back yard.
At what point do we stop using the events on 9/11 as a blanket excuse for government to drive itself all over the backs of the American people? Yes, we should be reasonably vigilant against terrorism - but we should never give up a single bit of our rights!
We, the people, have to pay over $1trillion for the 'war on terrorism' using the 9/11 excuse.. Yet, there's little to no progress made for combating illegal immigration - while illegal immigrants are killing more Americans than died on 9/11 every year..
This is a sick fucked up system.. where our companies that directly benefit from wars also run our media.. who build up our screwed-up politicians.. who systematically screw America into oblivion. It's time we quit believing every goddamn 'trrrist' story and start seeing through the bullshit. Am I afraid of a terrorist coming after me or my family? fuck no.. Am I afraid of our out-of-control government? absolutely - look at history
This is just more made-up generalized bullshit to get the easily-influenced people to go with more government spending on counteracting the nonexistent problem of terrorism. When was the last time terrorism was in your back yard? When did it affect you personally? How often is it happening?
And.. if it did affect you, chances are that your back yard is in Iraq..
The government keeps pushing 'Our enemy is huge, organized, centralized, and powerful' but we are seeing more and more than 'Our enemy is a disorganized populace tired of what the US is doing.'
It's like we're building a tank to try to destroy a wasp.. while the wasp keeps stinging everyone because we're sitting by its nest.
fuck you America
signed, America