>If you bought the game three years ago at launch, then I don't see why Valve owes you anything after this much time has passed.
Oh come on. You don't see how they owe you anything? You're a paying customer, who is more likely to buy a half-life 2 game than a previous half-life 2 buyer? treading on your user base is very stupid, no matter how loyal they are. I loved half-life 2 and will buy episode 2 either way, but not all fans like the game as much as I do.
Actually the city recently extended payable parking hours as well as raised the cost of parking by almost double (in the downtown core it's like $4.50/hour), parking tickets are about $35-$42, I doubt they hand out a ticket to 1 in 10 cars every hour.. that seems excessive.
I'd say it just highlights the need/usefulness of cryptography.
People think having a password on their box's login screen means their information is somehow 'safe'. Heavy encryption is the only way to keep your stuff safe.
Not that I support it in any way (I think it's a completely invasive law), but they already do this in Canada, and have been since 1994 on all newborns.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but doesn't it make a lot of sense that Google is actually making their own flavor of linux, which is why they're making linux versions of their apps? I mean hell, how many people really use linux on their desktops?
Sure google might have denied that they're making their own OS.. but they're not under oath and can easily say "no we aren't" until it's been approved by upper management.
Personally, this makes me believe (strongly) that they are working on a flavor of linux.
*sends a letter to everyone that uses thepiratebay.org*
ok, from now on, in order to avoid infringing on copyright, to every movie you upload/download add a 4 second clip of yourself to it saying "this movie was [insert adjectif]", we should all be safe from here on out!
I was recently sent a letter from my local cable co. telling me that my "unlimited" connection is now in fact limited to 100GB/month transfer, despite my already paying $70/month in order to get their only residential 'unlimited' packaged which was signed under a 2 year contract which they can apparently change with 1 months notice (but cannot be nullified without me paying a $200 fine).
It's amazing how customers who are already taking it up the ass by monopolies are powerless to do anything about it. My only alternatives are to go to the only other high speed provider (Bell) which has far worse policies, or pay $100/month and get the Business edition, which is pretty much the exact same connection just labeled as 'Business' and comes with a higher price tag.
I'm all for free market, but when monopolies are obviously abusing their powers, government needs to step in and regulate. There's no reason why these monopolies should be allowed gouge their customers solely in the name of maximizing their profits.
And please don't tell me that I can always opt to not use the internet, this is my line of work and is pretty much a necessity to make a living.
I've had 10MBit cable at $70/month for more than 2 years (unlimited transfer), but a few days ago I got a letter saying that a 100GB/month limit (up/down combined) was going to be applied to everyone's connection and charging $1.50/GB extra.
If internet TV or other high bandwidth medias take off, I have a feeling more ISPs are going to start doing the same, which will kill it real fast.
Forget reusing the paper, you need to pay extra if you distribute the paper to others or post the paper in a public location (this requires written consent on the behalf of the paper manufacturer, you can't after go about displaying their paper materials publicly without permission after all).
In the event that you use a non-authorized pen or pencil, you will be required to pay a penalty fee, which is detailed in the terms of service that you implicitly agreed to when you purchased the paper (if you didn't purchase it, you still agreed to it), despite having never been shown the terms of service.
Failure to comply with these rules is forbidden under federal law, violation can result in a fine up to $250,000 per incident and up to 10 years in prison.
It's not alexa's fault that they're logging in as you and spidering pages that robots.txt says not to spider? Seems to me that it's very much their fault.
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I'm not going to even so much as touch wireless until a better security model is found. Even WPA isn't that hard to crack..
>If you bought the game three years ago at launch, then I don't see why Valve owes you anything after this much time has passed.
Oh come on. You don't see how they owe you anything? You're a paying customer, who is more likely to buy a half-life 2 game than a previous half-life 2 buyer? treading on your user base is very stupid, no matter how loyal they are. I loved half-life 2 and will buy episode 2 either way, but not all fans like the game as much as I do.
*drops pepsi on the ground and tried to stuff the rest of my may-west into my mouth while cursing expletives*
Actually the city recently extended payable parking hours as well as raised the cost of parking by almost double (in the downtown core it's like $4.50/hour), parking tickets are about $35-$42, I doubt they hand out a ticket to 1 in 10 cars every hour.. that seems excessive.
I think of it as taking a magazine and ripping out the ads, then reading it.
I've never heard anyone ever call that immoral before.
I'd say it just highlights the need/usefulness of cryptography.
People think having a password on their box's login screen means their information is somehow 'safe'. Heavy encryption is the only way to keep your stuff safe.
Does that option tell you that it's going to check even if the phone is "off"? (asking because i don't have an iphone)
*shrug*
My sister's a doctor and has worked quite a bit in the maternity ward, she's the one that passed that tidbit onto me..
Not that I support it in any way (I think it's a completely invasive law), but they already do this in Canada, and have been since 1994 on all newborns.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but doesn't it make a lot of sense that Google is actually making their own flavor of linux, which is why they're making linux versions of their apps? I mean hell, how many people really use linux on their desktops?
Sure google might have denied that they're making their own OS.. but they're not under oath and can easily say "no we aren't" until it's been approved by upper management.
Personally, this makes me believe (strongly) that they are working on a flavor of linux.
She's so bad, I wouldn't even user an autographed poster of hers as firepaper.
*sends a letter to everyone that uses thepiratebay.org*
ok, from now on, in order to avoid infringing on copyright, to every movie you upload/download add a 4 second clip of yourself to it saying "this movie was [insert adjectif]", we should all be safe from here on out!
These are all the arguments for Dumb Terminals, but computers moved away from that years ago for good reason..
I was recently sent a letter from my local cable co. telling me that my "unlimited" connection is now in fact limited to 100GB/month transfer, despite my already paying $70/month in order to get their only residential 'unlimited' packaged which was signed under a 2 year contract which they can apparently change with 1 months notice (but cannot be nullified without me paying a $200 fine).
It's amazing how customers who are already taking it up the ass by monopolies are powerless to do anything about it. My only alternatives are to go to the only other high speed provider (Bell) which has far worse policies, or pay $100/month and get the Business edition, which is pretty much the exact same connection just labeled as 'Business' and comes with a higher price tag.
I'm all for free market, but when monopolies are obviously abusing their powers, government needs to step in and regulate. There's no reason why these monopolies should be allowed gouge their customers solely in the name of maximizing their profits.
And please don't tell me that I can always opt to not use the internet, this is my line of work and is pretty much a necessity to make a living.
Maybe not google, but others have been that stupid.
I've had 10MBit cable at $70/month for more than 2 years (unlimited transfer), but a few days ago I got a letter saying that a 100GB/month limit (up/down combined) was going to be applied to everyone's connection and charging $1.50/GB extra.
If internet TV or other high bandwidth medias take off, I have a feeling more ISPs are going to start doing the same, which will kill it real fast.
I'm a little lost, why would fox want to steal code for a site like fark.. it's not exactly what you could call a complicated site or anything..
I'm still not totally clear on how ISP's can throttle your bandwidth if you encrypt what you're sending..
Heh, ever try whipping out a camera in a strip club?
Not a bad idea if you want to learn how to fly (bouncers can throw far).
No, but more importantly.. have you ever noticed how Rove and the Devil are never in the same room at the same time?
Yeah..
Why wasn't the oval office raided when plame was outted?
right, only second class citizens get their homes raided, not the king of america.
Nah, that was just for G.W.
Forget reusing the paper, you need to pay extra if you distribute the paper to others or post the paper in a public location (this requires written consent on the behalf of the paper manufacturer, you can't after go about displaying their paper materials publicly without permission after all).
In the event that you use a non-authorized pen or pencil, you will be required to pay a penalty fee, which is detailed in the terms of service that you implicitly agreed to when you purchased the paper (if you didn't purchase it, you still agreed to it), despite having never been shown the terms of service.
Failure to comply with these rules is forbidden under federal law, violation can result in a fine up to $250,000 per incident and up to 10 years in prison.
Whatever. Let them come up with their insane schemes.
I stopped buying DVDs and CDs years ago once they made their intentions clear.
Anyone wonder why the thepiratebay.org makes $9,000,000 a year even though they don't sell anything?
The idiots who control the media would probably make us pay per eyeball per frame of video if they could.
Fuck them, I'm not going to support their lobby by funding them in any way.
It's not alexa's fault that they're logging in as you and spidering pages that robots.txt says not to spider? Seems to me that it's very much their fault.