Seriously, why would I want to pay basically the price of the original game over again for an expansion pack that generally adds little to things like graphics and the game's core functionality?
Basically the same price? The MSRP of the original game was $60. The MSRP of this game is $35, which means that you could probably find it for $25-$30 (if not less) at many online retailers. So "basically the same price" is actually "a little over half of the price".
Even if I were to consider it theft, which I obviously do not, theft != drug dealing or a bank heist. Both of those activities entail the risk of death and often the actual death of human beings, which is a far cry from "stealing" some pop music song on the internet. It is a false analogy created specifically to create a faulty link between file sharing and murderous activities which are, very rightly, considered to be completely different offenses with completely different penalties under the law.
Where does this idea that it has to 'deprive' someone of something come from?
Maybe from the fact that that has been one of the natural facets of theft for thousands of years? Up until relatively recently, there were few ways that you could actually make a perfect copy of something and give it to someone else. Now that is the only way that content is moved back and forth on the internet and it is certainly not theft, but instead its exact legal definition under the laws of most civilized nations: copyright infringement.
When I copy a song, I am not depriving the person that I copied it from of their song. I am, however, depriving its author of payment. This process comprises only half of what has been the definition of "theft" for thousands of years. Given that it is not exactly the same thing as theft, it should not be called the same thing, either.
Drug Dealing is bad... what is stealing movies and distributing them? How about you go to a bank and rob them, then you give out the money to everyone who asks for it, does that make it right?
Please list some of the names of the poor, unfortunate souls that have died from intellectual property overdose, as well as the others that have died from being shot during a P2P file heist. I'm sure that with tens of millions of Kazaa users, those lists must be very, very long.
As you put it, the payload doesn't do anything but try to infect other hosts -- no syn floods, no ICMP, nothing except sending packets that could infect other servers. That's why I think the DoS was unintentional.
If the DoS was unintentional, then wouldn't the worm have done NOTHING? I doubt that someone would write a worm under the intention that it infect other hosts and do absolutely nothing with that infection. Rather, I think whoever wrote it was just smart enough to realize that they could make the worm smaller and less immediately recognizable by leaving out the DoS commands and just letting the DoS create itself through the propagation of the worm.
Far too many people assume that you either lock your doors and rely on the police or you carry a gun with you everywhere you go. There are many levels of security between those two. For one thing, you can get a better locking system for your door than a dead bolt that's going into nothing but WOOD. Many people have front or back doors like that that you can just bust right through in one or two attempts. On the other hand, if you have a metal doorway for your deadbolt to slip into, someone is going to have to seriously kick their ass to get in that door.
You could also get an alarm system. Any thieves that are intelligent enough to use a lock picking gun will be deterred either by the alarm system sticker/sign near your door or by the sound of the alarm going off when they enter your house.
A tazer is also a possibility. They're legal in many places, some come in baton form so that you can wield them more easily, and any innocent people that you might strike will not be dead or even permanently harmed.
Obviously, I completely agree with Hieronymous Cowherd, even though I was originally just making a joke.
My funniest, I shit you not, is "isecureserver.smsu.edu". Apparently some "I" at Southwest Missouri State University did not secure their server as well as they thought. At first I actually wondered if it was a practical joke.
Imagine if we didn't have firewalls. We'd have to keep our passwords good, our services minimal, and make sure we were running the latest, most secure daemons.
Locks promote softer security.
"Oh, I'm OK because I have locked doors and windows..."
I think door locks make people lazy. Imagine if we didn't have deadbolts, or doors for that matter. We'd have to sit in front of the front door, with a shotgun, never sleeping for more than a few moments.
Is anyone else offended that this user thinks that EVERY server runs MS SQL or even Microsoft Anything?
Who said anything about running MS SQL? He just said that "almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload...". You don't need to be running MS SQL to receive it or to be affected by it. You do, however, need MS SQL to be infected by it, but what the person said has nothing to do with infection.
I'm not even running any kind of server and my firewall is logging quite a bit of this crap. It's already logged more incoming infected packets than it did when Code Red was around, but I am not getting infected because I am not running MS SQL.
You don't understand what they're saying. Nintendo has repeatedly told the kids that read Nintendo Power that emulation, the act of imitating hardware via software to use another piece of software, is categorically illegal. No "if you don't own the rights to it" or "if you didn't buy the game" qualifier, just ILLEGAL. This, of course, is completely contrary to the laws of the country that they were talking about (the United States), which makes their use of emulation pretty hypocritical.
Yes it is quite illegal for you and I to download/copy the games and play them on an emulator. Why? We don't own the rights to say Super Mario Bros or the NES hardware. Hense any emulation done outside Nintendo is probably illegal.
See, this is the problem. You're talking about the law. We're talking about WHAT THEY SAID. This is why we're saying "hypocritical" instead of "illegal".
The thing is, I'm not saying this isn't newsworthy, but sometimes it isn't responsible to print things like this. Especially when you know you're likely to get a bad (bad for others) reaction from your audience.
This story is like the kindergarten example of the question of responsibility in journalism. Because of Time Magazine, millions of people now know of an excellent rifle to snipe with, a brilliant way to do it from inside the back of a car, and the ratio between sniping range and sniping accuracy. Arguably, anyone that reads Time Magazine or even just watches CNN is now about halfway toward being equipped to kill people from a distance with a sniper rifle. Why is this? Because our lives depended on knowing the exact type of rifle that the DC sniper was using, how much it cost, and where we could get one? Because the ratio between range and accuracy when firing a sniper rifle at a human skull had relevance to our daily lives? Because when we go to the doctor, we might want to have ourselves checked over with a sniper rifle to make sure that we don't have a life-threatening disease? No. It was none of these things. It was just sort of an interesting tidbit of information that some of us felt like knowing because we were curious.
People are bothered by what the/. editors do because they know a lot about the subjects that are being dealt with, like bandwidth costs and trolling. I've noticed, however, that few of them actively complain about the same sort of behavior when it is applied to larger issues. In fact, many of them might even see information on sniper rifles and just think that information wants to be free.
I really don't understand this complaint. The symbols all over nethack aren't words, they're symbols, just like graphics are. As long as the text is still there, as it is in Falcon's Eye, what's the problem? Regardless of whether a dragon is represented by the letter D or a picture of a dragon, it's still a dragon. The only difference is that people can see it and immediately know that it's a dragon just by looking at it, instead of figuring out what the letter means.
If I write a book and make millions of dollars it's perfectly within my rights to tell my family to make their own fortune and put my works in the public domain upon my death or whenever I feel like it.
No, actually, you aren't. If you get your book published anywhere other than your own private printer, you will have to sell the copyrights on your work to the publisher, who will then have the sole power to decide whether or not it will be released into the public domain. Given that it's a smart business decision to keep every piece of intellectual property in your stock in case of a rainy day (a nationally syndicated columnist mentioning "this old book I found" and saying how much he liked it, for instance), that publisher is unlikely to ever release ANYTHING that they have into the public domain.
Prowd owner of an F-3 system with Puzzle Bobble 2 [vaps.org]
Just out of curiosity, why'd you go for the Taito F-3 and not the MVS? Does the Taito F-3 version have more features or does the system have other good games or something? Personally, I've always played the MVS version because of some occasional problems with MAME and the Taito F-3 versions (yes, yes, I'm a heathen emulator user, I know), so I wouldn't know.
"USA PATRIOT" is an acronym in and of itself and thus should not be abbreviated. It means "Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001".
Thank you for making this the first post in this story. Seeing a PC rip-off of a game that has been released on the NeoGeo, Super Nintendo, PS1, Game Boy Advance, and really almost every console and handheld game system released in the last decade referred to as an original game disgusted me.
Is there still the chance for an individual or small team to strike it rich writing a game like this (maybe for cell phones)?
Is there still a chance for an individual or small team to strike it rich by plagiarizing an obscure cult classic and pretending that it's a new idea? I fucking hope not.
I find all of this to be really interesting. I knew that a lot of the people on the official MAME forums were off in their estimates about the system requirements for NeoGeo games because most of them had never tried them on anything less than a 1ghz machine (which almost all of them claim is absolutely required for it), but for some reason, it had never occurred to me that they might be wrong about other games, like Mortal Kombat.
When I get a new gamepad (I killed it in a year... I'm so proud of myself), I'll have to try out MK and see how it works. Thanks a lot.
Im not sure of the specs of the consoles being emulated so I can only make very rough estimates, but 32M of ram would probably be enough.
That is absolutely wrong, but it's a reasonable mistake that most people make when they're talking about MAME. The important thing here is that MAME goes for full, "pure" emulation rather than essentially porting these games to the PC, which is what many other emulators do. Whereas the average PC game is slowly put into RAM as needed, games that are emulated by MAME are decrypted, dumped directly into RAM, and played entirely from there. That means that you either dump all of The King of Fighters 2000 into 256+MB of RAM or you go with anything less and end up waiting five, ten, or fifteen minutes for the game to load because everything is being dumped into VRAM. It's the absolute stupidest way to play the game, but it ensures that the game remains absolutely untouched by its emulation. It suffers no slowdowns, loss of frame rate, or loading times because it is all being loaded at the beginning of the game and not while the game is being played, just like the original Neo-Geo cartridges worked (since cartridges are, for this purpose, like RAM chips with the game permamently loaded into them).
There are versions of MAME that are optimized for specific hardware setups and operating systems, but for things like Neo-Geo emulation in MAME, there really aren't any shortcuts.
Who says they're just emulating 15 year old hardware? A lot of us emulate games from the late '90s, such as the Neo-Geo games like The King of Fighters 2000, Metal Slug 3, or Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Those games require, at minimum, a 400mhz processor and 256MB of RAM. Add a TV-Out card to that and a small form factor and $200-$300 with a gamepad and a custom box is pretty much the minimum price.
Many people use MAME for Neo-Geo games and other such fighting games, which require at least a 400mhz processor and 256MB of RAM. Emulation nowadays is more than just Atari 2600 games and I think Hanaho realizes that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it quite a bit better than that, since a 400mhz processor with 256MB of RAM won't even play Mortal Kombat properly.
"As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change...."
And there we go right back to me feeling superior to them.:)
Democracy is a not a quick thing, like a dictatorship. It is a huge, lumbering beast that makes a lot of noise, but moves very slowly. If the President's approval rating dropped because he didn't instantaneously respond to an issue, it would start hovering around 0% most of the time because the maximum speed of the executive and legislative branches moving together is roughly equal to that of two drunks in a three-legged race. Conversely, if his approval rating went up every time he laid out a solid economic plan, his approval rating would be hovering around 100% most of the time because democracies are filled with far more words than actions. This is why you end up with the way approval ratings currently work. They stay the same until action is taken or something external makes things a lot better or worse than they have been. This system has its flaws, but it's the best we have right now, sort of like representative democracy itself.
As for the rest of your post, I think you adequately summed up why Some Anonymous Jackass That Was Interviewed By The NYT is a total fucking moron. I'm sure he feels very bad about that right now, or at least he will when he gets a job and starts visiting/. during work hours shortly before he is fired. However, I don't see why a sample of one proves that "most Americans" are stupid, nor why you would assume that they are based on some guy that made a nice, stupid quote for a journalist.
In a recent news report covering an anti-US rally in Iraq, one man was shown holding a banner reading "A nation of sheep, owned by pigs, and led by wolves." (or something to that effect). Most Americans would probably find this very offensive unless they consider the facts of the matter, and the truth is that we have let Donald "Let's Rumble" Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush-lynching mob get completely out of control.
Yes, because all Americans happily serve our corporate employers in our wonderfully spacious cubicles without a hint of grumbling or complaining, and cheer on a daily basis as yet another politician gives Big Business a nice, hard bitch slap for the little guy because he's an upstanding, principled American citizen.
This message brought to you by 1940s American sitcoms, whose sponsors remind you to, "Grow up, you ignorant, self-important fuckwit that assumes that everyone else is stupid."
While you're assuming what "most Americans" would do, you may want to look at one of the latest polls, the second most popular source of generalizations about American beliefs (with first place going to the speaker's ass, of course). It paints a pretty unsurprising picture for anyone that doesn't blindly assume that those around them are inferior to themselves. It states that the American people disagree with the Bush Administration in its priorities, believe that its policies favor the rich, believe both that Bush is handling Iraq the wrong way and that that sentiment will be ignored, that the US is not winning the "War On Terror", and that Bush is too quick to involve the military. As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change, because the approval rating for an American president usually only changes when they either do something or are close to an election, and Bush has been dragging his feet for months on the Iraq issue.
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Seriously, why would I want to pay basically the price of the original game over again for an expansion pack that generally adds little to things like graphics and the game's core functionality?
Basically the same price? The MSRP of the original game was $60. The MSRP of this game is $35, which means that you could probably find it for $25-$30 (if not less) at many online retailers. So "basically the same price" is actually "a little over half of the price".
This is irrelevant. It's still theft.
Even if I were to consider it theft, which I obviously do not, theft != drug dealing or a bank heist. Both of those activities entail the risk of death and often the actual death of human beings, which is a far cry from "stealing" some pop music song on the internet. It is a false analogy created specifically to create a faulty link between file sharing and murderous activities which are, very rightly, considered to be completely different offenses with completely different penalties under the law.
Where does this idea that it has to 'deprive' someone of something come from?
Maybe from the fact that that has been one of the natural facets of theft for thousands of years? Up until relatively recently, there were few ways that you could actually make a perfect copy of something and give it to someone else. Now that is the only way that content is moved back and forth on the internet and it is certainly not theft, but instead its exact legal definition under the laws of most civilized nations: copyright infringement.
When I copy a song, I am not depriving the person that I copied it from of their song. I am, however, depriving its author of payment. This process comprises only half of what has been the definition of "theft" for thousands of years. Given that it is not exactly the same thing as theft, it should not be called the same thing, either.
Drug Dealing is bad ... what is stealing movies and distributing them? How about you go to a bank and rob them, then you give out the money to everyone who asks for it, does that make it right?
Please list some of the names of the poor, unfortunate souls that have died from intellectual property overdose, as well as the others that have died from being shot during a P2P file heist. I'm sure that with tens of millions of Kazaa users, those lists must be very, very long.
As you put it, the payload doesn't do anything but try to infect other hosts -- no syn floods, no ICMP, nothing except sending packets that could infect other servers. That's why I think the DoS was unintentional.
If the DoS was unintentional, then wouldn't the worm have done NOTHING? I doubt that someone would write a worm under the intention that it infect other hosts and do absolutely nothing with that infection. Rather, I think whoever wrote it was just smart enough to realize that they could make the worm smaller and less immediately recognizable by leaving out the DoS commands and just letting the DoS create itself through the propagation of the worm.
Far too many people assume that you either lock your doors and rely on the police or you carry a gun with you everywhere you go. There are many levels of security between those two. For one thing, you can get a better locking system for your door than a dead bolt that's going into nothing but WOOD. Many people have front or back doors like that that you can just bust right through in one or two attempts. On the other hand, if you have a metal doorway for your deadbolt to slip into, someone is going to have to seriously kick their ass to get in that door.
You could also get an alarm system. Any thieves that are intelligent enough to use a lock picking gun will be deterred either by the alarm system sticker/sign near your door or by the sound of the alarm going off when they enter your house.
A tazer is also a possibility. They're legal in many places, some come in baton form so that you can wield them more easily, and any innocent people that you might strike will not be dead or even permanently harmed.
Obviously, I completely agree with Hieronymous Cowherd, even though I was originally just making a joke.
My funniest, I shit you not, is "isecureserver.smsu.edu". Apparently some "I" at Southwest Missouri State University did not secure their server as well as they thought. At first I actually wondered if it was a practical joke.
Imagine if we didn't have firewalls. We'd have to keep our passwords good, our services minimal, and make sure we were running the latest, most secure daemons.
Locks promote softer security.
"Oh, I'm OK because I have locked doors and windows..."
I think door locks make people lazy. Imagine if we didn't have deadbolts, or doors for that matter. We'd have to sit in front of the front door, with a shotgun, never sleeping for more than a few moments.
More today than yesterday.
Is anyone else offended that this user thinks that EVERY server runs MS SQL or even Microsoft Anything?
Who said anything about running MS SQL? He just said that "almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload...". You don't need to be running MS SQL to receive it or to be affected by it. You do, however, need MS SQL to be infected by it, but what the person said has nothing to do with infection.
I'm not even running any kind of server and my firewall is logging quite a bit of this crap. It's already logged more incoming infected packets than it did when Code Red was around, but I am not getting infected because I am not running MS SQL.
You don't understand what they're saying. Nintendo has repeatedly told the kids that read Nintendo Power that emulation, the act of imitating hardware via software to use another piece of software, is categorically illegal. No "if you don't own the rights to it" or "if you didn't buy the game" qualifier, just ILLEGAL. This, of course, is completely contrary to the laws of the country that they were talking about (the United States), which makes their use of emulation pretty hypocritical.
Yes it is quite illegal for you and I to download/copy the games and play them on an emulator. Why? We don't own the rights to say Super Mario Bros or the NES hardware. Hense any emulation done outside Nintendo is probably illegal.
See, this is the problem. You're talking about the law. We're talking about WHAT THEY SAID. This is why we're saying "hypocritical" instead of "illegal".
The thing is, I'm not saying this isn't newsworthy, but sometimes it isn't responsible to print things like this. Especially when you know you're likely to get a bad (bad for others) reaction from your audience.
/. editors do because they know a lot about the subjects that are being dealt with, like bandwidth costs and trolling. I've noticed, however, that few of them actively complain about the same sort of behavior when it is applied to larger issues. In fact, many of them might even see information on sniper rifles and just think that information wants to be free.
This story is like the kindergarten example of the question of responsibility in journalism. Because of Time Magazine, millions of people now know of an excellent rifle to snipe with, a brilliant way to do it from inside the back of a car, and the ratio between sniping range and sniping accuracy. Arguably, anyone that reads Time Magazine or even just watches CNN is now about halfway toward being equipped to kill people from a distance with a sniper rifle. Why is this? Because our lives depended on knowing the exact type of rifle that the DC sniper was using, how much it cost, and where we could get one? Because the ratio between range and accuracy when firing a sniper rifle at a human skull had relevance to our daily lives? Because when we go to the doctor, we might want to have ourselves checked over with a sniper rifle to make sure that we don't have a life-threatening disease? No. It was none of these things. It was just sort of an interesting tidbit of information that some of us felt like knowing because we were curious.
People are bothered by what the
I really don't understand this complaint. The symbols all over nethack aren't words, they're symbols, just like graphics are. As long as the text is still there, as it is in Falcon's Eye, what's the problem? Regardless of whether a dragon is represented by the letter D or a picture of a dragon, it's still a dragon. The only difference is that people can see it and immediately know that it's a dragon just by looking at it, instead of figuring out what the letter means.
seeing as it took Slashdot 35 seconds to serve me up this comments.pl?op-Reply page, yes, i think we are supposed to be impressed.
I think that you must be having a problem on your end, since it loaded in under two seconds for someone else and loaded instantaneously for me.
If I write a book and make millions of dollars it's perfectly within my rights to tell my family to make their own fortune and put my works in the public domain upon my death or whenever I feel like it.
No, actually, you aren't. If you get your book published anywhere other than your own private printer, you will have to sell the copyrights on your work to the publisher, who will then have the sole power to decide whether or not it will be released into the public domain. Given that it's a smart business decision to keep every piece of intellectual property in your stock in case of a rainy day (a nationally syndicated columnist mentioning "this old book I found" and saying how much he liked it, for instance), that publisher is unlikely to ever release ANYTHING that they have into the public domain.
Prowd owner of an F-3 system with Puzzle Bobble 2 [vaps.org]
Just out of curiosity, why'd you go for the Taito F-3 and not the MVS? Does the Taito F-3 version have more features or does the system have other good games or something? Personally, I've always played the MVS version because of some occasional problems with MAME and the Taito F-3 versions (yes, yes, I'm a heathen emulator user, I know), so I wouldn't know.
and Patriotism (USPA).
"USA PATRIOT" is an acronym in and of itself and thus should not be abbreviated. It means "Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001".
Thank you for making this the first post in this story. Seeing a PC rip-off of a game that has been released on the NeoGeo, Super Nintendo, PS1, Game Boy Advance, and really almost every console and handheld game system released in the last decade referred to as an original game disgusted me.
Is there still the chance for an individual or small team to strike it rich writing a game like this (maybe for cell phones)?
Is there still a chance for an individual or small team to strike it rich by plagiarizing an obscure cult classic and pretending that it's a new idea? I fucking hope not.
I find all of this to be really interesting. I knew that a lot of the people on the official MAME forums were off in their estimates about the system requirements for NeoGeo games because most of them had never tried them on anything less than a 1ghz machine (which almost all of them claim is absolutely required for it), but for some reason, it had never occurred to me that they might be wrong about other games, like Mortal Kombat.
When I get a new gamepad (I killed it in a year... I'm so proud of myself), I'll have to try out MK and see how it works. Thanks a lot.
I like pr0n as much as the next guy, but do I really want/need the ability to access gigabytes of it no matter where I travel?
Yes.
Im not sure of the specs of the consoles being emulated so I can only make very rough estimates, but 32M of ram would probably be enough.
That is absolutely wrong, but it's a reasonable mistake that most people make when they're talking about MAME. The important thing here is that MAME goes for full, "pure" emulation rather than essentially porting these games to the PC, which is what many other emulators do. Whereas the average PC game is slowly put into RAM as needed, games that are emulated by MAME are decrypted, dumped directly into RAM, and played entirely from there. That means that you either dump all of The King of Fighters 2000 into 256+MB of RAM or you go with anything less and end up waiting five, ten, or fifteen minutes for the game to load because everything is being dumped into VRAM. It's the absolute stupidest way to play the game, but it ensures that the game remains absolutely untouched by its emulation. It suffers no slowdowns, loss of frame rate, or loading times because it is all being loaded at the beginning of the game and not while the game is being played, just like the original Neo-Geo cartridges worked (since cartridges are, for this purpose, like RAM chips with the game permamently loaded into them).
There are versions of MAME that are optimized for specific hardware setups and operating systems, but for things like Neo-Geo emulation in MAME, there really aren't any shortcuts.
Who says they're just emulating 15 year old hardware? A lot of us emulate games from the late '90s, such as the Neo-Geo games like The King of Fighters 2000, Metal Slug 3, or Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Those games require, at minimum, a 400mhz processor and 256MB of RAM. Add a TV-Out card to that and a small form factor and $200-$300 with a gamepad and a custom box is pretty much the minimum price.
Many people use MAME for Neo-Geo games and other such fighting games, which require at least a 400mhz processor and 256MB of RAM. Emulation nowadays is more than just Atari 2600 games and I think Hanaho realizes that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it quite a bit better than that, since a 400mhz processor with 256MB of RAM won't even play Mortal Kombat properly.
"As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change...."
:)
/. during work hours shortly before he is fired. However, I don't see why a sample of one proves that "most Americans" are stupid, nor why you would assume that they are based on some guy that made a nice, stupid quote for a journalist.
And there we go right back to me feeling superior to them.
Democracy is a not a quick thing, like a dictatorship. It is a huge, lumbering beast that makes a lot of noise, but moves very slowly. If the President's approval rating dropped because he didn't instantaneously respond to an issue, it would start hovering around 0% most of the time because the maximum speed of the executive and legislative branches moving together is roughly equal to that of two drunks in a three-legged race. Conversely, if his approval rating went up every time he laid out a solid economic plan, his approval rating would be hovering around 100% most of the time because democracies are filled with far more words than actions. This is why you end up with the way approval ratings currently work. They stay the same until action is taken or something external makes things a lot better or worse than they have been. This system has its flaws, but it's the best we have right now, sort of like representative democracy itself.
As for the rest of your post, I think you adequately summed up why Some Anonymous Jackass That Was Interviewed By The NYT is a total fucking moron. I'm sure he feels very bad about that right now, or at least he will when he gets a job and starts visiting
In a recent news report covering an anti-US rally in Iraq, one man was shown holding a banner reading "A nation of sheep, owned by pigs, and led by wolves." (or something to that effect). Most Americans would probably find this very offensive unless they consider the facts of the matter, and the truth is that we have let Donald "Let's Rumble" Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush-lynching mob get completely out of control.
Yes, because all Americans happily serve our corporate employers in our wonderfully spacious cubicles without a hint of grumbling or complaining, and cheer on a daily basis as yet another politician gives Big Business a nice, hard bitch slap for the little guy because he's an upstanding, principled American citizen.
This message brought to you by 1940s American sitcoms, whose sponsors remind you to, "Grow up, you ignorant, self-important fuckwit that assumes that everyone else is stupid."
While you're assuming what "most Americans" would do, you may want to look at one of the latest polls, the second most popular source of generalizations about American beliefs (with first place going to the speaker's ass, of course). It paints a pretty unsurprising picture for anyone that doesn't blindly assume that those around them are inferior to themselves. It states that the American people disagree with the Bush Administration in its priorities, believe that its policies favor the rich, believe both that Bush is handling Iraq the wrong way and that that sentiment will be ignored, that the US is not winning the "War On Terror", and that Bush is too quick to involve the military. As always, though, the President's approval rating remains unchanged even as American attitudes slowly change, because the approval rating for an American president usually only changes when they either do something or are close to an election, and Bush has been dragging his feet for months on the Iraq issue.