"Blizzard own copyright over things like Quest Text, art design, textures, logos, map designs, and sound/music independently of the game."
Yeah, and I'd bet nearly all of that is baked into the client. Quest text is the only thing I'd suspect could be server-side, and that's a simple change if it's found to be infringing.
Blizzard sold people the client. These people are just offering a server.
Where's the infringement on which specific copyright elements?
If you multiply 6 by an even number, the answer will end with the same digit. The number in the tens place will be half of the number in the ones place.
With up to half a million installations there's a lot of women to spread around every country and still have lots of pregnancies within the reported effective rates.
So, you'd expect that if at least 3700 women used it....Ignoring every other aspect of why it's stupid to count on this if you didn't want to get pregnant, anyway.
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What's your point?
Nobody's distributing graphic assets.
The end-users got the assets from Blizzard when they paid money for the game.
The unofficial servers don't distribute any of that.
I think it's kinda funny how people justify their lack of justification for these private servers....
"people should be free to take the game and run it themselves however they like"
Yes, exactly.
People bought the game.
It's theirs now.
If they want to point it towards a non-Blizzard server, why can't they?
"Blizzard own copyright over things like Quest Text, art design, textures, logos, map designs, and sound/music independently of the game."
Yeah, and I'd bet nearly all of that is baked into the client. Quest text is the only thing I'd suspect could be server-side, and that's a simple change if it's found to be infringing.
Blizzard sold people the client. These people are just offering a server.
Where's the infringement on which specific copyright elements?
Any time.
I suppose my main point was "who needs tricks for single digit multiplication"?
Were any of those useful tricks, or they just resulted in cool number patterns?
Obviously the bullet will never reach him.
Damn Greeks.
Do you only have a single question on the test?
If McSmarty gets every question on the test wrong, then yeah, he should probably fail.
Copying from the first trick on that page:
Multiplying by 6
If you multiply 6 by an even number, the answer will end with the same digit. The number in the tens place will be half of the number in the ones place.
6 * 10 = ??
I never did watch the final 3 episodes of the new BSG, but I've been repeatedly and emphatically told that this is for the best.
"The lower rates are intended to equalize the gender ratio, not 'discriminate against men'."
Do you honestly not see that as the same thing?
They want to discriminate against men to equalize the gender ratio.
I'm not even saying it's a bad thing, but that's exactly what they're doing.
What if you're operating without a lack of regard for something?
I'm pretty sure the last time this came up the consensus was that it was "sorta, kinda good", but wouldn't be fooling any courts of law any time soon.
You should probably let them know that they forgot those things.
Do it quick, before they leave without them.
But is it really because they're not fashionable enough, or is that just the spin put on it?
Maybe it's just not cost-effective to ship our used clothes over there.
Maybe they've finally got some manufacturing of their own going on.
Maybe our crappy secondhand clothes are manufactured so poorly that they disintegrate too quickly if exposed to the elements.
Maybe they started getting "YOLO" shirts and decided they'd rather just go naked.
"If they're hungry, why aren't they eating all of these old clothes?"
"And mixes, which are most clothes today, are often hard to recycle."
Leviticus tried to warn us.
And you're arguing... what, exactly?
With up to half a million installations there's a lot of women to spread around every country and still have lots of pregnancies within the reported effective rates.
From other posts, the install base is over half a million.
Half a million women having unprotected sex is going to lead to a lot of oopsies.
So, you'd expect that if at least 3700 women used it. ...Ignoring every other aspect of why it's stupid to count on this if you didn't want to get pregnant, anyway.
"Mission accomplished, guys, we made Private Johnson crap himself."
"The credit card companies got laws passed which prohibit merchants even from requiring ID"
They didn't get laws passed, they wrote it into the contract you're required to sign when you want to start accepting credit card payments.
They could have just as easily required all merchants to wear purple hats before accepting a charge as long as everybody was willing to sign it.
Speaking as a Canadian, credit card transactions always require a PIN unless they're small enough to go through with just the tap.
If the Earth is flat, then why do I live near a hill?
Do you honestly believe that if everybody doesn't get an 18 gallon shower every day that we're all going to die?
There's absolutely no water savings to be had below 19 gallons?
I totes agree.