So you're saying the European colonials should have bombed their colonies, and it's the white man's fault for not doing that? See? The record never changes, it's the same over and over again with some people.
This is where you are wrong. Because some societies are resilient. Yeah there are crises, but we keep bouncing back. It's a question of character. Mind-set. Getting shit done, instead of wasting time blaming someone else.
You bastands have killed and destroyed locals culture in the name of fucking enlightenment. But...your time is up.
It sounds like you would be more than happy to do exactly the same thing. So er, are we both evil then? Or is it just bad when "I" do it? This is called a double standard and it demonstrates that all your rage and hate is actually founded on pure bullshit. So whatever, dude. Drugs are bad, mm'kay?
Blah blah blah you're falling into the black man's trap. Do not come here and tell me that Germany, which has been completely destroyed and bombed not once but TWICE within 50 years can turn around and become a world power again, but poor old India and poor old Africa, they just can't make it because of evil "whitey". Japan was obliterated in the second world war. Japan has not had many natural resources for hundreds of years now. They have absolutely no oil. Yet somehow they seem to dominate.
So go ahead and keep telling yourself it's other people's fault. That will not change the fact that it's your own society's fault and until you fix those social problems, you will never get ahead.
Exploiting the poor is nothing new. It's pretty much what happens to poor people everywhere. Once could even go as far as to say that exploiting is what poor people are for. Be it for doing the back-breaking manual labor for a pittance or for convincing into putting their pennies into some "scheme" that doesn't exactly do - when you read the fine print - what they think it does, poor people fall for it every time. All over the world. How much did you pay in credit card fees, bank fees and interest penalties this month?
Just different countries have different definitions of "poor". A "poor" person in the US probably has an ancient car. Certainly has a TV. Certainly has some sort of roof over their head, even if it's a single-wide trailer. A poor person in latin america doesn't have a car, he walks or takes the bus. He does have a TV though, and a cell phone. I'm not so sure about India - probably no TV. But wait until the standard of living improves - you are going to sell a butt-load of TV's and cell phones... and exploit the poor. They will have less money, but they will have a cell phone (and a bill to pay) and a TV to watch.
Not always. There have been quite a few Mars orbiter failures. In fact I think the current rate is 50-50 for a Mars mission actually succeeding. Look up the "Mars Curse".
the look, feel, and function of the game is virtually identical to their own.
You mean kind of like when I sit behind the steering wheel of a Toyota, or behind the steering wheel of a Ford, the "look, feel and function" of driving a car is virtually identical? Look and feel has been tried before, and it has failed before.
But on someone else's property, your rights can be limited.
Yeah show me in the law where it says that. In fact properties that are designated to public use like parking lots, restaurants, stadiums etc are the ones that LOSE certain rights under the law, since they are not strictly 100% private property.
Look nit wit
Look fuck-head you certainly don't help your argument at all when you resort to name calling, as you can see for yourself.
Actually they can't restrict your use of the flash. They can ask you nicely to stop if you do it, and if you don't stop they can ask you firmly to leave the premises. However they cannot stop you from using the flash. They cannot "confiscate" your camera. They cannot "assault" you in any way. Now any reasonable person understands that exposing the Mona Lisa to 500 flashes an hour every single day can't be good for the artwork, and having flashes go off during a play is also distracting for the performers and the audience. But tell me how me sending an e-mail during an olympic event affects the olympics again?
Dude copyrighting game rules is a no-no. They are like, functional not creative. I mean like you can copyright the "presentation" of that bunch of rules, but you can't copyright the rules themselves. &tc
The difference here is that you copy pasted, I didn't.
Nah they will throw tons of money at it until Zynga either settles, or until they screw up Zynga's chances of going public enough that the CEO will sell Zynga to EA privately. Because that is what EA does - it buys and destroys game studios.
This is copyright, not patent. Prior art is irrelevant.
Prior art certainly is relevant to show EA is guilty of the very thing they are accusing Zynga of. Or will I suddenly get sued if I write a book involving a young unknown who finds he has mysterious powers and in fact is the son of some very nasty people, gets involved in an epic war and... wait, am I talking about Star Wars or some Greek play? Copyright is just that - you cannot copy the work. Heck if you're a good painter you're more than welcome to paint a very very similar painting to say, the Mona Lisa. You can sell those paintings. You can't claim that they are the Mona Lisa, but you can certainly call them the Mona Laura.
On those grounds the publishers of Doom should sue every other first person shooter that has a barrel that explodes. I believe such a lawsuit was even attempted. I can't remember if it was thrown out of court or not.
Exactly. So long as they didn't decompile the binaries for "The Sims" and recompile them in their own box, or somehow get their hands on "The Sims" source code and copy-pasted it, they should be good to go. Otherwise hey, checkers manufacturers should start suing chess manufacturers since they look pretty similar, played on a board made of 64 squares of one color or the other.
This protects the quality of the "official" WiFi service
You mean, the one operating on the PUBLIC spectrum and infringing on everyone else's rights in order to make a profit? That "official" service? No, this is a complete sham. If they felt so strongly about it technology now exists to jam wifi devices. No, but that would take effort, and eat into profits. Much easier to round people up and bully them for, well, not breaking any law at all.
What's next, owners of private property shooting down aircraft and satellites for trespassing over "their" property? No. You own the property, you do not own the electromagnetic spectrum. And you will have a very hard time claiming rights to the rain that falls on that property, too. The public spectrum is public wherever it is.
According to TFA the charges are "terrorizing" and "theft of property". With criminal mischief thrown in for good measure. Surely if he was waving a gun around there would be far more serious charges like assault on police officer(s), attempted murder, yada yada yada (I am not a prosecutor). I dunno maybe that's all covered under "terrorizing". What exactly is terrorizing anyway? Oh I get it, it means whatever they want it to mean...
So the Olympic committee and BT can get together and prevent YOU from using the FREE portion of the spectrum that is allocated for public use, which is why everyone can use wifi routers in the first place? Nice. How can I do that? I have a price in mind for air.
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Perhaps the violence he's talking about will happen because of the climate change extrapolations?
Not only that but looking at his graph he seems to have completely missed the second world war. Or was 50 million dead not violent enough to qualify?
So you're saying the European colonials should have bombed their colonies, and it's the white man's fault for not doing that? See? The record never changes, it's the same over and over again with some people.
Your time is over you bloody idiot
This is where you are wrong. Because some societies are resilient. Yeah there are crises, but we keep bouncing back. It's a question of character. Mind-set. Getting shit done, instead of wasting time blaming someone else.
You bastands have killed and destroyed locals culture in the name of fucking enlightenment. But ...your time is up.
It sounds like you would be more than happy to do exactly the same thing. So er, are we both evil then? Or is it just bad when "I" do it? This is called a double standard and it demonstrates that all your rage and hate is actually founded on pure bullshit. So whatever, dude. Drugs are bad, mm'kay?
Blah blah blah you're falling into the black man's trap. Do not come here and tell me that Germany, which has been completely destroyed and bombed not once but TWICE within 50 years can turn around and become a world power again, but poor old India and poor old Africa, they just can't make it because of evil "whitey". Japan was obliterated in the second world war. Japan has not had many natural resources for hundreds of years now. They have absolutely no oil. Yet somehow they seem to dominate.
So go ahead and keep telling yourself it's other people's fault. That will not change the fact that it's your own society's fault and until you fix those social problems, you will never get ahead.
Exploiting the poor is nothing new. It's pretty much what happens to poor people everywhere. Once could even go as far as to say that exploiting is what poor people are for. Be it for doing the back-breaking manual labor for a pittance or for convincing into putting their pennies into some "scheme" that doesn't exactly do - when you read the fine print - what they think it does, poor people fall for it every time. All over the world. How much did you pay in credit card fees, bank fees and interest penalties this month?
Just different countries have different definitions of "poor". A "poor" person in the US probably has an ancient car. Certainly has a TV. Certainly has some sort of roof over their head, even if it's a single-wide trailer. A poor person in latin america doesn't have a car, he walks or takes the bus. He does have a TV though, and a cell phone. I'm not so sure about India - probably no TV. But wait until the standard of living improves - you are going to sell a butt-load of TV's and cell phones... and exploit the poor. They will have less money, but they will have a cell phone (and a bill to pay) and a TV to watch.
A call center. Holding 8 minutes every sentence is going to be a pain...
Not always. There have been quite a few Mars orbiter failures. In fact I think the current rate is 50-50 for a Mars mission actually succeeding. Look up the "Mars Curse".
Perhaps because NASA employees refuse to work for $2 a day?
Bloody protestants...
the look, feel, and function of the game is virtually identical to their own.
You mean kind of like when I sit behind the steering wheel of a Toyota, or behind the steering wheel of a Ford, the "look, feel and function" of driving a car is virtually identical? Look and feel has been tried before, and it has failed before.
Sorry I'm not into Korean men...
But on someone else's property, your rights can be limited.
Yeah show me in the law where it says that. In fact properties that are designated to public use like parking lots, restaurants, stadiums etc are the ones that LOSE certain rights under the law, since they are not strictly 100% private property.
Look nit wit
Look fuck-head you certainly don't help your argument at all when you resort to name calling, as you can see for yourself.
Actually they can't restrict your use of the flash. They can ask you nicely to stop if you do it, and if you don't stop they can ask you firmly to leave the premises. However they cannot stop you from using the flash. They cannot "confiscate" your camera. They cannot "assault" you in any way. Now any reasonable person understands that exposing the Mona Lisa to 500 flashes an hour every single day can't be good for the artwork, and having flashes go off during a play is also distracting for the performers and the audience. But tell me how me sending an e-mail during an olympic event affects the olympics again?
Dude copyrighting game rules is a no-no. They are like, functional not creative. I mean like you can copyright the "presentation" of that bunch of rules, but you can't copyright the rules themselves. &tc
The difference here is that you copy pasted, I didn't.
Nah they will throw tons of money at it until Zynga either settles, or until they screw up Zynga's chances of going public enough that the CEO will sell Zynga to EA privately. Because that is what EA does - it buys and destroys game studios.
It's only a sin if you consented to it. Just delete your cache and do 5 backups of your hard drive and you'll be absolved.
This is copyright, not patent. Prior art is irrelevant.
Prior art certainly is relevant to show EA is guilty of the very thing they are accusing Zynga of. Or will I suddenly get sued if I write a book involving a young unknown who finds he has mysterious powers and in fact is the son of some very nasty people, gets involved in an epic war and... wait, am I talking about Star Wars or some Greek play? Copyright is just that - you cannot copy the work. Heck if you're a good painter you're more than welcome to paint a very very similar painting to say, the Mona Lisa. You can sell those paintings. You can't claim that they are the Mona Lisa, but you can certainly call them the Mona Laura.
Nah he doesn't get invited to parties. But then again, neither do you.
On those grounds the publishers of Doom should sue every other first person shooter that has a barrel that explodes. I believe such a lawsuit was even attempted. I can't remember if it was thrown out of court or not.
Exactly. So long as they didn't decompile the binaries for "The Sims" and recompile them in their own box, or somehow get their hands on "The Sims" source code and copy-pasted it, they should be good to go. Otherwise hey, checkers manufacturers should start suing chess manufacturers since they look pretty similar, played on a board made of 64 squares of one color or the other.
This protects the quality of the "official" WiFi service
You mean, the one operating on the PUBLIC spectrum and infringing on everyone else's rights in order to make a profit? That "official" service? No, this is a complete sham. If they felt so strongly about it technology now exists to jam wifi devices. No, but that would take effort, and eat into profits. Much easier to round people up and bully them for, well, not breaking any law at all.
What's next, owners of private property shooting down aircraft and satellites for trespassing over "their" property? No. You own the property, you do not own the electromagnetic spectrum. And you will have a very hard time claiming rights to the rain that falls on that property, too. The public spectrum is public wherever it is.
According to TFA the charges are "terrorizing" and "theft of property". With criminal mischief thrown in for good measure. Surely if he was waving a gun around there would be far more serious charges like assault on police officer(s), attempted murder, yada yada yada (I am not a prosecutor). I dunno maybe that's all covered under "terrorizing". What exactly is terrorizing anyway? Oh I get it, it means whatever they want it to mean...
So the Olympic committee and BT can get together and prevent YOU from using the FREE portion of the spectrum that is allocated for public use, which is why everyone can use wifi routers in the first place? Nice. How can I do that? I have a price in mind for air.