ABBA is very scary, but sweden has an excellent hardcore and punk scene. Check out the Burning Hearts website. Burning Hearts are a swedish label, who brought out many good bands such as Millencolin as well as others. The underground scene is very large with some great emerging punk acts. Check it out!
Yes, you're correct, but you know that code isn't strictly for Contra too, right? It's works on a lot of capcom games, and not all of them are 2 player.
You must understand in my country the general and medical population are quite sceptical of the existence of ADHD, especially when most current research points to the suggestion that higher rates of ADHD correspond with the rates of single parent families and diet. In my opinion, and that of a lot of others, ADHD is a sociological problem, not a physiological one. All i'm saying is a helluva lot more research needs to be done, and I am against treating the symptoms and not the cause.
doctors don't diagnose disorders/prescribe treatments that they are unaware of.
Sorry, I was referring to Ritalin, not the existence of the "illness". All I know is that I worked in a private hospital here for a couple of years, and I can tell you that doctors are heavily pressured to prescribe certain medications and are rewarded with gifts and such from the pharm companies. (I may get myself in trouble here) There is at least one company that rewards doctors with the likes of seminar/junkets and other physical/monetary rewards for prescribing a certain amount of their drug in a year, and I would be very suprised if that was limited to only one kind of drug (of course this is all done under the table through the working relationship between the doctors and the reps). That is what I meant by pressure.(P.S) I don't want to discuss this aspect any further as I have no evidence other than my own experiences with the medical community and don't want to end up in court)
So if we define an illness by a set of symptoms and find treatments that alleviate said symptoms we should not use those treatments...
Again, no, what I'm saying is that the medical fraternity seems to be happy prescribing medication that treats the symptoms, and does not target the illness. If you had a broken leg, could I fix it by keeping you doped up on painkillers? That seems to be an acceptable treatment when treating mental illness, and I fear that more harm may be being done than good.
have difficulty trusting a website that plays music
Music? Sorry, I'm at work and don't have audio, I wasn't aware it was there. I found some of that info with literally 2 minutes of Googling. I also think it's slightly humourous that you'll trust: Any decent doctor will be upfront with you about the disorder and explain that while they don't understand entirely what is happening yet will not accept an alternative opinion based solely on the fact the site plays a midi. So.. you'll believe one party who don't really know what they're doing or why, but you won't even look at the opinion of an alternative view based on the grounds their website plays music? Interesting. Out of interest, have you ever be diagnosed with ADHD or do you take medication for any mental illnesses? (I'm not saying you're crazy,:D I just wanted to know if your perspective was that of somebody who has used these drugs)
I'm sure you're right. I can't help but feel it is yet another chemical cop-out for those with social disorders. Almost no cases of ADHD were diagnosed anywhere else in the world until the big American pharmaceutical companies starting pushing it on doctors. I am not aware of any clear medical evidence that ADHD even exists. As usual, the response is (as you say) to drug the kids, therefore taking responsibility away from those with the problem and putting the responsibility on the drug to "fix" them. Very much in the same way as Prozac and depression. Anyway, if the problem IS real, how is masking the symptoms with drugs actually going to fix the problem? It isn't. Yes, those on drugs such as Ritalin may go through some behavioural changes whilst under the influence of the drug, but where is the research determining the factors that start this hypothetical illness in the first place, and why isn't that the target of treatment?
When you have a look at some of the so-called research into ADHD out there, especially concerning how Ritalin actually works on the human body, look closely and you will notice a lot of ambiguous words used, such as "may" and "could", instead of clearly defined (and met) goals. This is an excerpt from the Clinical Trials listing service regarding FDA approval of the drug. This is thier scientific explanation of how Ritalin works:
Ritalin LA (methylphenidate HCl) is a central nervous system stimulant. The exact mechanism of action in ADHD is unknown. The drug is thought to block the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine into the presynaptic neuron and increase the release of these monoamines into the extraneuronal space.(Emphasis mine)
I don't know about you, but it's a little scary to me that so many people are jumping on the Ritalin bandwagon when there is still so little known about ADHD, or perhaps even more importantly, even less known about the drugs used to treat that particular behaviour.
Some reading that doesn't give ADHD and Ritalin the glowing report it recieves from the pharm industry:
So you're saying that out of Nintendo's complete game list of released titles there are only 7 good games? That's the answer the 1:30 ratio gives you... And I challenge that.
I consider myself a game freak but I am not happy playing all the drivel that comes out anymore. I just don't have time to play everything, so I only go for high quality shit. Not to demean anyone else's standards, but I am the sort of person who picks apart a game as I play it. There are a few titles that stand out as impressive, though.
Hehe, I'm in the very same boat. I own and play pretty much every console from the Vectrex onwards, but generally, I've always found Nintendo titles offer greater depth and variation in gameplay to their competitors. The gamecube is no exception.
I got a copy for free for my gamecube, and I wasn't expecting much at all. I must say, I was pleasantly suprised. Yes, it was still the usual formulaic 3rd-person action game that we've seen a million times over, but after a while you master the controls and the game becomes a lot more fun to play. It just pisses me off that after you've finished it you don't get the option to play through without the cutscenes, which makes the loading times excruciating.
Me too. I've been replacing a lot of my cartoons and movies on DVD and getting rid of the DivX;) versions on my hard drive. There's just something nice about having the original box sets, with cover art and extras. I also have ripped all my 2000 or so cd's to my box, but keep the originals in the cupboard, so if I want the cover for any reason it's available to me. I guess, like your wife, I couldn't stand not having the original artwork for some of the more obscure CD's, and lets face it, some cover art is absolutely beautiful. Much better looking than a soft plastic sleeve, anyway.
So if I buy a DVD from Best Buy, I'm stealing? Afterall, even though I gave them cash in exchange for the purchase of the DVD, I'm still depriving Best Buy the use of said property.
That is incorrect. Best Buy transfer ownership to you upon purchase. It's that fucking simple. There is no theft, you are not trading the DVD for cash, after which they give up their rights to ownership. The analogy was faulty to begin with.
Now if you would just stop whining...
Nice try, but you obviously need to brush up on your reading comprehension. I'm not one of the group trying to justify their warez by arguing semantics, while you on the other hand...
Ashamed? Not quite. Your post was specifically about how other forms of copying may or may not deprive the artist of money (and whether that constitutes theft), and then used bad analogies to identify other types of copying as not being theft.
What about taking a picture of a painting? Is that theft? Humming a tune instead of buying a CD? Listening to the radio? Your theft definition falls apart pretty quickly, holmes. They all look and read like hypothetical alternatives to copying in a more abstract sense... Which is exactly the subject in question, whether or not file trading (in this case gamecube ISO's) constitute an illegal practice and what exactly is "copying".
I hope you used cans! I knocked off some from the hospital i used to work at and tried the same thing with some mates and a six-pack of bottled beer, and the results were not so promising. They went pop! (Yes, that is my scientific explanation of the experiment)
Bullshit. There are plenty of bands that put there entire album up for download, sometimes on their web site, sometimes through file sharing.
That is a diversionary argument. It is the band's decision, not yours. If they want to put their own property up to share, fine, it's totally within their rights as the copyright holder. When you take tracks from an album meant for sale and trade them freely, that is copyright infringement. Don't try and spin it as something else.
Your kidding, right? How is that even mathematically possible with the thousands upon thousands of PS games out there, the majority of which fade into obscurity because they are so bad? I agree it's really out of Nintendo and Sony, but as somebody else stated above there are something like 4500 PS games and I doubt how many of them are quality games. But even if 250 of those PS games are top-notch (and thats exaggerating in a massive way) we're still talking only 1 in 18 games being any good, Nintendo however, may have a lot less releases, but the games they do release are mostly excellent. Out of the 212 games released so far for Gamecube, even if half of them are shit (again, exaggerating massively) that's still 1 in 2 titles being of a high quality. Compare that signal-to-noise ratio, if you will. HAH! I guess it's down to taste though, and all I know is I only own about 30 games for my PS2 and only 6-8 of those are any good, while the 20 or so I have for my GCN are mostly top quality titles. To each his own, I guess...
I have seen these at our local Supermarket for about the last 6 months, but only last week my roommate and I bought one. The size was definitely easier to handle (you can just halve it and scoop out the flesh like a grapefruit) and no seeds was nice, but frankly, I didn't think the taste was up to par. My parents have a normal watermelon and the flesh is very sweet with a sugary consistency, but this was quite bland with a stiffer consistency in your mouth. I guess we'll just get used to the sub-par flavour from these in the same way as the tomatoes and bananas we get from the large supermarket chains.
No, because those songs are the property of the original artist, and are given out free by their own choice. If you were to download a song you don't own off Shareza/Kazaa/whatever and use that, it would be an infringement.
Obviously not,as you have PAID to have BestBuy transfer ownership of said media to you. Why is it that the WORST FUCKING ANALOGIES creep out of the woodwork every time this subject comes up? Oh, that's right, it is the whiny sound of a million 733T jerk-offs trying to justify their 20 gig of copyright infringement.
Congratulations. I've seen some fucking bad analogies on Slashdot, but these are by far, the biggest stretches i've seen here. Well done, fine sir.
The same could be said for building a bookshelf I should have bought. No, it would be like if only one person in the world invented, then made a bookshelf and you took one of them, copied it and gave them away.
The same could be said for taking a picture of a scene that O'Keefe painted. No it couldn't, because the photo would be NOTHING like the original photo in any way. Yes, the image may be similar, but it would have no other properties in common with the original work.
Listening to the radio? Again, terrible analogy. Radio stations purchase certain rights that allow them to freely play the songs over the airwaves (under certain conditions), which means that the cost is covered by the station, not the end user.
It's got nothing to do with balls. Fuck, I'd be very suprised if any of us here had no tunes on their box, but to try and justify that copyright infringement by playing semantic word games is just a cop out. It's wrong, and we know it. Just some of us chose to break those rules. Don't pretend there is nothing wrong with ingringement though, because you are only kidding yourself.
That's exceptionally sly, and I haven't noticed that before. I'll have to keep an eye out for it, as I also get the odd "call missed" message that I can't follow up successfully. I wonder where the law stands on that kind of behaviour?
Yes you are right, but the problem is (for me, anyway) that this service provides the anonymity I require and leaves no paper trail. In the same way that anybody can have a (relatively anonymous) hotmail account but has to deal with the mountains of spam there, I can't help but feel it is the pre-paid, untraceable customers who cop the most SMS spam from vodafone.
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Fuck. Sorry! Burning Hearts
ABBA is very scary, but sweden has an excellent hardcore and punk scene. Check out the Burning Hearts website. Burning Hearts are a swedish label, who brought out many good bands such as Millencolin as well as others. The underground scene is very large with some great emerging punk acts. Check it out!
Yes, you're correct, but you know that code isn't strictly for Contra too, right? It's works on a lot of capcom games, and not all of them are 2 player.
You must understand in my country the general and medical population are quite sceptical of the existence of ADHD, especially when most current research points to the suggestion that higher rates of ADHD correspond with the rates of single parent families and diet. In my opinion, and that of a lot of others, ADHD is a sociological problem, not a physiological one. All i'm saying is a helluva lot more research needs to be done, and I am against treating the symptoms and not the cause.
Sorry, I was referring to Ritalin, not the existence of the "illness". All I know is that I worked in a private hospital here for a couple of years, and I can tell you that doctors are heavily pressured to prescribe certain medications and are rewarded with gifts and such from the pharm companies. (I may get myself in trouble here) There is at least one company that rewards doctors with the likes of seminar/junkets and other physical/monetary rewards for prescribing a certain amount of their drug in a year, and I would be very suprised if that was limited to only one kind of drug (of course this is all done under the table through the working relationship between the doctors and the reps). That is what I meant by pressure.(P.S) I don't want to discuss this aspect any further as I have no evidence other than my own experiences with the medical community and don't want to end up in court)
So if we define an illness by a set of symptoms and find treatments that alleviate said symptoms we should not use those treatments ...
Again, no, what I'm saying is that the medical fraternity seems to be happy prescribing medication that treats the symptoms, and does not target the illness. If you had a broken leg, could I fix it by keeping you doped up on painkillers? That seems to be an acceptable treatment when treating mental illness, and I fear that more harm may be being done than good.
have difficulty trusting a website that plays music
Music? Sorry, I'm at work and don't have audio, I wasn't aware it was there. I found some of that info with literally 2 minutes of Googling. I also think it's slightly humourous that you'll trust: Any decent doctor will be upfront with you about the disorder and explain that while they don't understand entirely what is happening yet will not accept an alternative opinion based solely on the fact the site plays a midi. So.. you'll believe one party who don't really know what they're doing or why, but you won't even look at the opinion of an alternative view based on the grounds their website plays music? Interesting. Out of interest, have you ever be diagnosed with ADHD or do you take medication for any mental illnesses? (I'm not saying you're crazy, :D I just wanted to know if your perspective was that of somebody who has used these drugs)
When you have a look at some of the so-called research into ADHD out there, especially concerning how Ritalin actually works on the human body, look closely and you will notice a lot of ambiguous words used, such as "may" and "could", instead of clearly defined (and met) goals. This is an excerpt from the Clinical Trials listing service regarding FDA approval of the drug. This is thier scientific explanation of how Ritalin works:
I don't know about you, but it's a little scary to me that so many people are jumping on the Ritalin bandwagon when there is still so little known about ADHD, or perhaps even more importantly, even less known about the drugs used to treat that particular behaviour.
Some reading that doesn't give ADHD and Ritalin the glowing report it recieves from the pharm industry:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
And again, as always, Google is your friend.
I consider myself a game freak but I am not happy playing all the drivel that comes out anymore. I just don't have time to play everything, so I only go for high quality shit. Not to demean anyone else's standards, but I am the sort of person who picks apart a game as I play it. There are a few titles that stand out as impressive, though.
Hehe, I'm in the very same boat. I own and play pretty much every console from the Vectrex onwards, but generally, I've always found Nintendo titles offer greater depth and variation in gameplay to their competitors. The gamecube is no exception.
I got a copy for free for my gamecube, and I wasn't expecting much at all. I must say, I was pleasantly suprised. Yes, it was still the usual formulaic 3rd-person action game that we've seen a million times over, but after a while you master the controls and the game becomes a lot more fun to play. It just pisses me off that after you've finished it you don't get the option to play through without the cutscenes, which makes the loading times excruciating.
Did you know that the Select is redundant? You dont really need to enter it to make the code work. Go check it out!
Me too. I've been replacing a lot of my cartoons and movies on DVD and getting rid of the DivX;) versions on my hard drive. There's just something nice about having the original box sets, with cover art and extras. I also have ripped all my 2000 or so cd's to my box, but keep the originals in the cupboard, so if I want the cover for any reason it's available to me. I guess, like your wife, I couldn't stand not having the original artwork for some of the more obscure CD's, and lets face it, some cover art is absolutely beautiful. Much better looking than a soft plastic sleeve, anyway.
So if I buy a DVD from Best Buy, I'm stealing? Afterall, even though I gave them cash in exchange for the purchase of the DVD, I'm still depriving Best Buy the use of said property.
That is incorrect. Best Buy transfer ownership to you upon purchase. It's that fucking simple. There is no theft, you are not trading the DVD for cash, after which they give up their rights to ownership. The analogy was faulty to begin with.
Now if you would just stop whining...
Nice try, but you obviously need to brush up on your reading comprehension. I'm not one of the group trying to justify their warez by arguing semantics, while you on the other hand...
What about taking a picture of a painting? Is that theft? Humming a tune instead of buying a CD? Listening to the radio? Your theft definition falls apart pretty quickly, holmes.
They all look and read like hypothetical alternatives to copying in a more abstract sense... Which is exactly the subject in question, whether or not file trading (in this case gamecube ISO's) constitute an illegal practice and what exactly is "copying".
I hope you used cans! I knocked off some from the hospital i used to work at and tried the same thing with some mates and a six-pack of bottled beer, and the results were not so promising. They went pop! (Yes, that is my scientific explanation of the experiment)
That is a diversionary argument. It is the band's decision, not yours. If they want to put their own property up to share, fine, it's totally within their rights as the copyright holder. When you take tracks from an album meant for sale and trade them freely, that is copyright infringement. Don't try and spin it as something else.
Your kidding, right? How is that even mathematically possible with the thousands upon thousands of PS games out there, the majority of which fade into obscurity because they are so bad? I agree it's really out of Nintendo and Sony, but as somebody else stated above there are something like 4500 PS games and I doubt how many of them are quality games. But even if 250 of those PS games are top-notch (and thats exaggerating in a massive way) we're still talking only 1 in 18 games being any good, Nintendo however, may have a lot less releases, but the games they do release are mostly excellent. Out of the 212 games released so far for Gamecube, even if half of them are shit (again, exaggerating massively) that's still 1 in 2 titles being of a high quality. Compare that signal-to-noise ratio, if you will. HAH! I guess it's down to taste though, and all I know is I only own about 30 games for my PS2 and only 6-8 of those are any good, while the 20 or so I have for my GCN are mostly top quality titles. To each his own, I guess...
I have seen these at our local Supermarket for about the last 6 months, but only last week my roommate and I bought one. The size was definitely easier to handle (you can just halve it and scoop out the flesh like a grapefruit) and no seeds was nice, but frankly, I didn't think the taste was up to par. My parents have a normal watermelon and the flesh is very sweet with a sugary consistency, but this was quite bland with a stiffer consistency in your mouth. I guess we'll just get used to the sub-par flavour from these in the same way as the tomatoes and bananas we get from the large supermarket chains.
I always thought that paper beats rock? Wait, but scissors beats paper. Kiff, we have a conundrum!
Just the thing to get the dried out coke and cigarette ash off my keyboard. I just hope it's powerful enough!
No, because those songs are the property of the original artist, and are given out free by their own choice. If you were to download a song you don't own off Shareza/Kazaa/whatever and use that, it would be an infringement.
Obviously not,as you have PAID to have BestBuy transfer ownership of said media to you. Why is it that the WORST FUCKING ANALOGIES creep out of the woodwork every time this subject comes up? Oh, that's right, it is the whiny sound of a million 733T jerk-offs trying to justify their 20 gig of copyright infringement.
The same could be said for building a bookshelf I should have bought.
No, it would be like if only one person in the world invented, then made a bookshelf and you took one of them, copied it and gave them away.
The same could be said for taking a picture of a scene that O'Keefe painted.
No it couldn't, because the photo would be NOTHING like the original photo in any way. Yes, the image may be similar, but it would have no other properties in common with the original work.
Listening to the radio?
Again, terrible analogy. Radio stations purchase certain rights that allow them to freely play the songs over the airwaves (under certain conditions), which means that the cost is covered by the station, not the end user.
It's got nothing to do with balls. Fuck, I'd be very suprised if any of us here had no tunes on their box, but to try and justify that copyright infringement by playing semantic word games is just a cop out. It's wrong, and we know it. Just some of us chose to break those rules. Don't pretend there is nothing wrong with ingringement though, because you are only kidding yourself.
Yeah, but how many albums does Slim Dusty have out? Does that make HIM the "poppa bear" of music? Quantity and quality are two very different things.
That's exceptionally sly, and I haven't noticed that before. I'll have to keep an eye out for it, as I also get the odd "call missed" message that I can't follow up successfully. I wonder where the law stands on that kind of behaviour?
Yes you are right, but the problem is (for me, anyway) that this service provides the anonymity I require and leaves no paper trail. In the same way that anybody can have a (relatively anonymous) hotmail account but has to deal with the mountains of spam there, I can't help but feel it is the pre-paid, untraceable customers who cop the most SMS spam from vodafone.
That's just a cover story. PJ really wants to be able to play Simcity 4 at a decent speed.