ROM developers are among the worst at documenting how to install their ROMs. The guides - and I've read a bunch - all assume the user is a fellow developer. They read like notes an experienced man wrote to himself so he doesn't forget how to do something. Consider yourself lucky if the author uses capitalization and smooth sentences instead of "textspeak" and run-on sentences. You'll get gems like "Please make sure that gfree_verify returns secu_flag = 0 before following this steps!!!" without bothering to explain what gfree_verify or secu_flag mean, nor how to ensure that the value is 0. Then there are head-scratchers like "If you main software version is higher than the version of the PC10IMG you want to install (in this case 1.19.531.1) you have to change the main version number in the misc partition." Again, assuming the user is an expert just like the writer. Any over-the-air updates would be welcome. My favorite advice from ROM developer: "make sure you are to flash the proper stuff or you will have a brick"
Thanks for - once again - self-centeredly turning any topic on Slashdot, no matter how distant, into America-first navel-gazing. Jeez louise people, it's not all about you. Stop it.
You forgot the part where a Cat 5 hurricane is HUNDREDS of miles wide, whereas a tornado is a hundred feet, if that. A hurricane also lasts for hours while a tornado lasts for a few seconds. Other than that, yeah, it's not nearly on the same scale. The tornado, I mean.
It commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one's own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.
Castro is a national hero. He's the equivalent of Che Guevara and Julian Assange in Western eyes. Have you ever talked to any actual Cubans? I have. The Cuban people democratically voting for a market based economy is viewed as a tragedy and rejection of 60 years of successful progressivism. It's like Americans voting against gay marriage - just plain wrong, no matter how you slice it.
I see we have no conception of how China works. This is very common among people who use Wikipedia (written by Westerners in English) for a reference. It's like quoting the Bible's Song of Solomon to justify pedophilia.
Thus depriving Chinese workers of jobs. Preferring your own nationality to foreigners is called...what exactly? Purely because you're part of that nationality? Go ahead and put whatever label you like on it. It's still bullshit. Why should Chinese suffer while Americans prosper?
Expand your brain. It's what education is supposed to do, eh?
Paying Chinese workers Western wages would result in rampant inflation in China, as well as the closure of thousands of factories and the onshoring of those jobs back to America. "America for Americans" is a KKK slogan. "American products produced by American citizens for American people" is a Tea Party slogan. Are you really on their side? What's your problem with sharing the wealth with the less fortunate?
Are you sure about that? I'm positive that the prevailing protesters intentionally set up their protests as to break the law and draw the attention of police. After all, what kind of story is "peaceful protest held, dissent expressed"? A much better story is "protesters arrested, pigs held responsible" when the protesters intentionally violate the law in order to generate a news story. After years of such stories, told by sympathetic journalists in a slanted and biased fashion, viewpoints such as yours can become common. Think about it: why did OWS intentionally set up their protests in public parks? It certainly wasn't out of any sort of commonality with the contemptible ordinary Americans from flyover territory. It was so that at some point, the police would be forced to come in and clean up all the feces, purely on public health grounds. Seriously, fuck Americans who want to walk their dogs in the park, or have their kids play? We've got something More Important[tm] to do.
There's a simple, proven method of avoiding this: Public meetings. That's something our police are dead-set on preventing.
Again: what country do you live in? Every major American city has public meetings, especially regarding the police. Heck, even those cesspools of corruption, Chicago and Detroit, have such public meetings. If you bother to attend you'll find a lot of people there much like yourself. You could even coordinate with them to attend distant public meetings and disrupt them. Just make sure to bring a journalist who shares your political views (and what journalist doesn't?) and you'll get a pre-made story of "police bad" just like in your hometown newspaper.
"monologist Mike Daisey's controversial two-hour expose of Apple's labor conditions in China."
Oh, my. Where to even start? First, where's the controversy? Who is against Apple's labor conditions in China? Nobody. Popular wisdom has workers jumping to their deaths in order to escape Apple's tyranny. Where is the opposition that this brave monologist is so bravely and controversially standing against?
Second, Apple doesn't even employ the workers in China. Foxconn does. If you think you can dictate terms to your Chinese contractor regarding worker conditions, you are dead wrong, mister. You can write a contract, you can inspect the factory, you can do anything you like. At the end of the day, it's the Chinese factory's decision regarding how they will conduct their own business. Foreigners dictating terms to Chinese which the Chinese will obey without exception...what's that called again? Oh, right...imperialism.
Thirdly, Foxconn's workers are well-paid and well-treated, by Chinese standards. Remember, China is a socialist state, and workers are represented by officially approved unions. The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is a government-run organization that has been implementing aggressive unionization tactics aimed at foreign companies in China since the middle of 2006. Just think of how the US government intervened to keep the GM unions afloat and you'll get the right idea of how things work in China. The Labor Law of 2008 requires that any employee who completes a 1-year contract, upon renewal of that contract, be employed for life. How is Apple supposed to improve on lifetime employment, exactly? I'm not an Apple fanboi, I hate them as much as anyone who loves innovation and despises walled gardens, but jeez. How, exactly, should Apple dictate terms to Foxconn without recalling the bad old days of unequal treaties and foreign enclaves?
Fourthly, what does monologist Mike Daisey think should be done? Pay Chinese workers Western wages? This would invalidate the entire idea of moving production to China. It would render millions of Chinese people unemployable - in favor of Western people. What's that called again? Oh, right: jingoism. Or protectionism, take your pick. Either word is repugnant.
Again, don't get it. If something is wrong, it's just plain wrong. It doesn't excuse anyone else's use of the same method - unless, and only unless, some sort of double standard is in play. Is this the case?
China has 1.3 billion people, not 1 billion. I realize that to you, it's only a rounding error in a large number, but 0.3 billion people is the entire population of America. Maybe if we spell it out in proper notation, it'll make more sense: 1,300,000,000.
In Chinese culture, there is you (and by extension, your family, your classmates [you have the same school class from kindergarten until graduation], and to a lesser extent your friends), and then there is The Other. You see, when Confucius defined the five major relationships, he forgot to include people you don't know. There is no equivalent to Christianity's "do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself" in China. So, why the hell care what your employer is paying you to do? Even if you get fired, you've still made enough money from bribes to fund your whole family for a generation. What, like Baidu's measly salary demands some sort of loyalty or something? Chinese employees feel about as much loyalty to their employers as welfare recipients feel loyalty to the US government. Sure, you get a tiny amount of cash but you KNOW you're worth much more than that. So, why not play the system for all it's worth? I've been there, done that, got the merit badge.
This problem is especially prevalent with men in China. Women are much less likely to cheat you. Men have to buy an apartment before they can get married, and what, your company's ethical statement that he signed is going to stop him from taking every step he can to achieve that goal? Nah, better to stay single all his life and never marry. Let's see...choice between "keep my word to some fuckwit corporate master" or "buy an apartment and be thought of as a worthy man in the minds of my girlfriend's parents." Hmmm...if you were a Chinese man making $500/month working for Baidu, which one would you choose?
Quoted from Wikipedia, the infallible source of all knowledge:
A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. government as part of that person's official duties." The term only applies to the work of the federal government, including the governments of "non-organized territorial areas" under the jurisdiction of the U.S Government, but not state or local governments. In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law, sometimes referred to as "noncopyright."
So, let's analyze. What happened here? An employee of Scripps posted the video (due to its public domain status) on their own website. Another employee, whose job it is to monitor Youtube for copyright infringement, detected a Scripps video on a public website. That employee sent the takedown notice, and Youtube complied once Youtube employees had been referred to the Scripps page and had seen the exact same video, hence the "evidence" of "infringement".
So, let's examine the logic here. How can INFORMATION flow be improved, by repealing PRODUCT embargoes on Cuba? We already have a free internet. Cuba chooses to censor that internet and deny its citizens potentially harmful thought. Why could this be so? Could it be that Cuba could discover that better systems are available, and that it's totally bogus that their countrymen are imprisoned just because they disobey the authorities?
For your second sentence, it's the false equivalency so beloved these days. If Party A does something bad, and Party B does something bad, then Party A's evil is totally excused by Party B's actions.
Dictator in the 50s?!? Khomeni instituted the Islamic revolution with the full backing of Jimmy Carter...otherwise it would never have happened. See, Carter had this human rights program that demanded that the Shah step down. William Sulivan, Carter's ambassador to Iran, said, "Khomeini is a Ghandi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill said that Khomeini is not a fundamentalist Muslim who meant exactly what he said, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty." "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint," said Andrew Young, Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Oops! Pretending that Iran would be some sort of paradise without foreign intervention - bah! Iran would have easily joined the Axis powers during World War II. Look it up.
Carter was no more guilty than Reagan - the same President that supported the Taliban during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan 1979-1989. There's a reason the USA calls the Islamic Republic of Iran (its proper name) "the Great Satan" - to generate fear in the populace and to justify more military spending.
What we see here is a typical product of journalism, circa 2012. Either you play video games or you die trying. How many people actually died playing games in South Korea? Just look at the writer's pathetic point of view. It's like he's never heard of video games before. "He was a conqueror -- a general who controlled sci-fi armies and determined the fate of civilization." What the FUCK? We're still hearing this garbage? This is the same crap that journalists wrote about Galaga in 1982. "One is a dead ringer for Dr. Bunsen, Beaker's sidekick on "The Muppet Show." WTF? Beaker is Dr. Bunsen's sidekick. How can we trust anyone who doesn't even bother to get basic pop culture facts right? What does that say about the rest of the "facts" in this article...about pop culture? After setting up a base in the northeast corner of the map, "MarineKing sent foot soldiers to root out his opponent's headquarters -- a glowing blue pyramid spitting out blue termites -- and blew the whole thing up before the 10-minute mark." Here we have a serious, accredited journalist - who writes for CNN - and he doesn't even know the difference between Terrans and Protoss? Come ON! Would an editor send a reporter to cover an event where he doesn't even know the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Between socialists and fascists? Between OWS and jackbooted thugs? But, as soon as the weird, incomprehensible world of "those scary video games" is entered, the reporter needs to advertise his outsider status - where in other topics being an outsider is considered a badge of ignorance and provincialism.
Over lunch his dad, who has become well-versed enough in "StarCraft" strategy to engage in lengthy conversations about troop movements, attack formations and character choices, tried to help MarineKing with his strategy against MVP.
Putting Starcraft in scare quotes? WTF? Who does that? And mixed case? It's just plain Starcraft. Yeah, I know, Blizzard calls it StarCraft, but again the reporter is advertising his outsider status. "I'm not one of these video game freakazoids," he seems to be saying. "I'm just here to report and confirm what geeks the rest of us already know that they are. They are The Other, and worthy of "
The entire article purports to show us the extremes...that's called yellow journalism, eh? And yet for all its bluster, it mentions but two deaths. How many people died in Chicago this last weekend?
It's totally obvious that this "journalist" had his article written before he even got off the plane in Seoul Incheon (renowned as being one of the world's most sleep-friendly airports, and true to its reputation). He treats his subjects as if they were among the groups CNN treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (for example: devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans).
Violin playing is ageless art. It was here hundreds of years ago and will be alive hundreds of years hence. Playing Starcraft is an already-obsolete computer game. It runs at 640*480 with no support for widescreen monitors. The only reason Starcraft mania even exists is because South Korea is a non-multicultural, uniracial nation - an unforgivable sin in this day and age. When you have these problems, the whole nation can be considered a unified entity with similar interests. The South Koreans have collectively decided that Starcraft is the perfect computer game, and thus a guaranteed audience is there for advertisers to market to. Contrast this to proper multicultural countries that don't even share a common language, much less agree on what constitutes entertainment.
The other side of the story is that these used games are then bought by other gamers. This "deprives" the industry of cash that gamers would have otherwise paid for full-price products. Unlike other products such as used cars, used games are perfectly fine as they do not degrade (ignoring dogeared manuals, missing maps, DLC, and scratched DVDs for now). Not trying to defend a greedy industry, just presenting the other half of the argument that the self-serving retailer seems to have left out.
If it's wrong when someone does something, it's also wrong when someone else does the same thing. How is this so hard to understand? Why do all standards fly out the window as soon as 'America' is mentioned?
Don't project your national consciousness on others. It shows a provincialism and a narrowness of cultural awareness. Judging other cultures by the standards of your own - what's the word for that again?
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No, because the stock ROM drains the battery in a day and is slow as hell.
ROM developers are among the worst at documenting how to install their ROMs. The guides - and I've read a bunch - all assume the user is a fellow developer. They read like notes an experienced man wrote to himself so he doesn't forget how to do something. Consider yourself lucky if the author uses capitalization and smooth sentences instead of "textspeak" and run-on sentences. You'll get gems like "Please make sure that gfree_verify returns secu_flag = 0 before following this steps!!!" without bothering to explain what gfree_verify or secu_flag mean, nor how to ensure that the value is 0. Then there are head-scratchers like "If you main software version is higher than the version of the PC10IMG you want to install (in this case 1.19.531.1) you have to change the main version number in the misc partition." Again, assuming the user is an expert just like the writer. Any over-the-air updates would be welcome. My favorite advice from ROM developer: "make sure you are to flash the proper stuff or you will have a brick"
Thanks for - once again - self-centeredly turning any topic on Slashdot, no matter how distant, into America-first navel-gazing. Jeez louise people, it's not all about you. Stop it.
You forgot the part where a Cat 5 hurricane is HUNDREDS of miles wide, whereas a tornado is a hundred feet, if that. A hurricane also lasts for hours while a tornado lasts for a few seconds. Other than that, yeah, it's not nearly on the same scale. The tornado, I mean.
It commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one's own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.
-- Vaclav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless"
Three guesses what ideology he was talking about.
Castro is a national hero. He's the equivalent of Che Guevara and Julian Assange in Western eyes. Have you ever talked to any actual Cubans? I have. The Cuban people democratically voting for a market based economy is viewed as a tragedy and rejection of 60 years of successful progressivism. It's like Americans voting against gay marriage - just plain wrong, no matter how you slice it.
Over 50% of the economy is directly owned by the State. The State owning the means of production is called...what?
I see we have no conception of how China works. This is very common among people who use Wikipedia (written by Westerners in English) for a reference. It's like quoting the Bible's Song of Solomon to justify pedophilia.
Thus depriving Chinese workers of jobs. Preferring your own nationality to foreigners is called...what exactly? Purely because you're part of that nationality? Go ahead and put whatever label you like on it. It's still bullshit. Why should Chinese suffer while Americans prosper?
Expand your brain. It's what education is supposed to do, eh?
Paying Chinese workers Western wages would result in rampant inflation in China, as well as the closure of thousands of factories and the onshoring of those jobs back to America. "America for Americans" is a KKK slogan. "American products produced by American citizens for American people" is a Tea Party slogan. Are you really on their side? What's your problem with sharing the wealth with the less fortunate?
Yeah, typical. Express inconvenient truth, get modded down to -1 flamebait. Sigh.
Are you sure about that? I'm positive that the prevailing protesters intentionally set up their protests as to break the law and draw the attention of police. After all, what kind of story is "peaceful protest held, dissent expressed"? A much better story is "protesters arrested, pigs held responsible" when the protesters intentionally violate the law in order to generate a news story. After years of such stories, told by sympathetic journalists in a slanted and biased fashion, viewpoints such as yours can become common. Think about it: why did OWS intentionally set up their protests in public parks? It certainly wasn't out of any sort of commonality with the contemptible ordinary Americans from flyover territory. It was so that at some point, the police would be forced to come in and clean up all the feces, purely on public health grounds. Seriously, fuck Americans who want to walk their dogs in the park, or have their kids play? We've got something More Important[tm] to do.
There's a simple, proven method of avoiding this: Public meetings. That's something our police are dead-set on preventing.
Again: what country do you live in? Every major American city has public meetings, especially regarding the police. Heck, even those cesspools of corruption, Chicago and Detroit, have such public meetings. If you bother to attend you'll find a lot of people there much like yourself. You could even coordinate with them to attend distant public meetings and disrupt them. Just make sure to bring a journalist who shares your political views (and what journalist doesn't?) and you'll get a pre-made story of "police bad" just like in your hometown newspaper.
"monologist Mike Daisey's controversial two-hour expose of Apple's labor conditions in China."
Oh, my. Where to even start? First, where's the controversy? Who is against Apple's labor conditions in China? Nobody. Popular wisdom has workers jumping to their deaths in order to escape Apple's tyranny. Where is the opposition that this brave monologist is so bravely and controversially standing against?
Second, Apple doesn't even employ the workers in China. Foxconn does. If you think you can dictate terms to your Chinese contractor regarding worker conditions, you are dead wrong, mister. You can write a contract, you can inspect the factory, you can do anything you like. At the end of the day, it's the Chinese factory's decision regarding how they will conduct their own business. Foreigners dictating terms to Chinese which the Chinese will obey without exception...what's that called again? Oh, right...imperialism.
Thirdly, Foxconn's workers are well-paid and well-treated, by Chinese standards. Remember, China is a socialist state, and workers are represented by officially approved unions. The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is a government-run organization that has been implementing aggressive unionization tactics aimed at foreign companies in China since the middle of 2006. Just think of how the US government intervened to keep the GM unions afloat and you'll get the right idea of how things work in China. The Labor Law of 2008 requires that any employee who completes a 1-year contract, upon renewal of that contract, be employed for life. How is Apple supposed to improve on lifetime employment, exactly? I'm not an Apple fanboi, I hate them as much as anyone who loves innovation and despises walled gardens, but jeez. How, exactly, should Apple dictate terms to Foxconn without recalling the bad old days of unequal treaties and foreign enclaves?
Fourthly, what does monologist Mike Daisey think should be done? Pay Chinese workers Western wages? This would invalidate the entire idea of moving production to China. It would render millions of Chinese people unemployable - in favor of Western people. What's that called again? Oh, right: jingoism. Or protectionism, take your pick. Either word is repugnant.
Again, don't get it. If something is wrong, it's just plain wrong. It doesn't excuse anyone else's use of the same method - unless, and only unless, some sort of double standard is in play. Is this the case?
China has 1.3 billion people, not 1 billion. I realize that to you, it's only a rounding error in a large number, but 0.3 billion people is the entire population of America. Maybe if we spell it out in proper notation, it'll make more sense: 1,300,000,000.
In Chinese culture, there is you (and by extension, your family, your classmates [you have the same school class from kindergarten until graduation], and to a lesser extent your friends), and then there is The Other. You see, when Confucius defined the five major relationships, he forgot to include people you don't know. There is no equivalent to Christianity's "do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself" in China. So, why the hell care what your employer is paying you to do? Even if you get fired, you've still made enough money from bribes to fund your whole family for a generation. What, like Baidu's measly salary demands some sort of loyalty or something? Chinese employees feel about as much loyalty to their employers as welfare recipients feel loyalty to the US government. Sure, you get a tiny amount of cash but you KNOW you're worth much more than that. So, why not play the system for all it's worth? I've been there, done that, got the merit badge.
This problem is especially prevalent with men in China. Women are much less likely to cheat you. Men have to buy an apartment before they can get married, and what, your company's ethical statement that he signed is going to stop him from taking every step he can to achieve that goal? Nah, better to stay single all his life and never marry. Let's see...choice between "keep my word to some fuckwit corporate master" or "buy an apartment and be thought of as a worthy man in the minds of my girlfriend's parents." Hmmm...if you were a Chinese man making $500/month working for Baidu, which one would you choose?
Quoted from Wikipedia, the infallible source of all knowledge:
So, let's analyze. What happened here? An employee of Scripps posted the video (due to its public domain status) on their own website. Another employee, whose job it is to monitor Youtube for copyright infringement, detected a Scripps video on a public website. That employee sent the takedown notice, and Youtube complied once Youtube employees had been referred to the Scripps page and had seen the exact same video, hence the "evidence" of "infringement".
So, let's examine the logic here. How can INFORMATION flow be improved, by repealing PRODUCT embargoes on Cuba? We already have a free internet. Cuba chooses to censor that internet and deny its citizens potentially harmful thought. Why could this be so? Could it be that Cuba could discover that better systems are available, and that it's totally bogus that their countrymen are imprisoned just because they disobey the authorities?
For your second sentence, it's the false equivalency so beloved these days. If Party A does something bad, and Party B does something bad, then Party A's evil is totally excused by Party B's actions.
Dictator in the 50s?!? Khomeni instituted the Islamic revolution with the full backing of Jimmy Carter...otherwise it would never have happened. See, Carter had this human rights program that demanded that the Shah step down. William Sulivan, Carter's ambassador to Iran, said, "Khomeini is a Ghandi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill said that Khomeini is not a fundamentalist Muslim who meant exactly what he said, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty." "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint," said Andrew Young, Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Oops! Pretending that Iran would be some sort of paradise without foreign intervention - bah! Iran would have easily joined the Axis powers during World War II. Look it up.
Carter was no more guilty than Reagan - the same President that supported the Taliban during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan 1979-1989. There's a reason the USA calls the Islamic Republic of Iran (its proper name) "the Great Satan" - to generate fear in the populace and to justify more military spending.
Over lunch his dad, who has become well-versed enough in "StarCraft" strategy to engage in lengthy conversations about troop movements, attack formations and character choices, tried to help MarineKing with his strategy against MVP.
Putting Starcraft in scare quotes? WTF? Who does that? And mixed case? It's just plain Starcraft. Yeah, I know, Blizzard calls it StarCraft, but again the reporter is advertising his outsider status. "I'm not one of these video game freakazoids," he seems to be saying. "I'm just here to report and confirm what geeks the rest of us already know that they are. They are The Other, and worthy of "
The entire article purports to show us the extremes...that's called yellow journalism, eh? And yet for all its bluster, it mentions but two deaths. How many people died in Chicago this last weekend?
It's totally obvious that this "journalist" had his article written before he even got off the plane in Seoul Incheon (renowned as being one of the world's most sleep-friendly airports, and true to its reputation). He treats his subjects as if they were among the groups CNN treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (for example: devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans).
Violin playing is ageless art. It was here hundreds of years ago and will be alive hundreds of years hence. Playing Starcraft is an already-obsolete computer game. It runs at 640*480 with no support for widescreen monitors. The only reason Starcraft mania even exists is because South Korea is a non-multicultural, uniracial nation - an unforgivable sin in this day and age. When you have these problems, the whole nation can be considered a unified entity with similar interests. The South Koreans have collectively decided that Starcraft is the perfect computer game, and thus a guaranteed audience is there for advertisers to market to. Contrast this to proper multicultural countries that don't even share a common language, much less agree on what constitutes entertainment.
The other side of the story is that these used games are then bought by other gamers. This "deprives" the industry of cash that gamers would have otherwise paid for full-price products. Unlike other products such as used cars, used games are perfectly fine as they do not degrade (ignoring dogeared manuals, missing maps, DLC, and scratched DVDs for now). Not trying to defend a greedy industry, just presenting the other half of the argument that the self-serving retailer seems to have left out.
If it's wrong when someone does something, it's also wrong when someone else does the same thing. How is this so hard to understand? Why do all standards fly out the window as soon as 'America' is mentioned?
Well, if that's the kind of argument you're going to respond with to make your point, such as it is, then so be it.
Don't project your national consciousness on others. It shows a provincialism and a narrowness of cultural awareness. Judging other cultures by the standards of your own - what's the word for that again?