I don't care about the TOS so much as I worry about the fact that Dropbox doesn't enforce secure passwords.
Seriously. Sharing pics with my older relatives? It'd probably be great. But their password would probably be 12345 or something equally stupid, and Dropbox will actually accept that as a valid password.
And if you were not a total Pee Tardier moron, you'd have learned your history further; to the point, you would have learned that Revere was BLUFFING the Regulars, because there were not 500 men riding to Revere's rescue, or even 500 men who knew where he was likely to be.
The problem with that is that the person put up by the other side is usually ALSO a Friggin' Tard (to quote Captain Hammer).
I mean seriously here. Bush v Gore? There's a reason it came down to recounts and courts.
Bush v Kerry? I voted for Kerry only because the Retardicans were in no way going to lose Congress, and letting one party get hold of everything is just plain stupid (as we can see from history: the worst times we've had were the Carter years, the 1992-1994 of Clinton, the 6 years of Bush, and ironically enough the two years of Bush + Pelosi when it became obvious that Bush was just a fucking pushover who would sign any old thing they put in front of him).
Obama v McCain? Really? The other side controlled Congress, and yet McCain was the best the Republicans could put up? Worse yet, they saddle him with that retarded barbie-doll from Alaska as his running mate?
And seriously now, look at the field from the current Retardican side.
-Mitt Romney. AKA the Evil Mr. Rogers.
-Michele Bachmann. "I'm like John Wayne (Gacy)"... got her start on promoting "pray away the gay therapy" which mostly causes gays forced into it to commit suicide.
-Herman Cain. Can we say "token black guy"? This guy makes JC Watts look like an actual member of the Republicans by contrast.
-Newt "left my cancer-ridden wife in her bed to die while I shacked up" Gingrich. 'Nuff Said.
-Gary Johnson. See also "stealth libertarian." Not a bad thing, just a kook.
-Gary McMillan. aka. "The Rent Is Too Damn High." Hey Gary, don't look now, but it's YOUR party full of assholes who keep raising the rent!
-Roy Moore. aka "Fuck you Supreme Court" guy. Eventually disbarred for refusing to acknowledge that the constitution Fucking Means Something.
-Ron Paul. aka "Crazy Uncle Ron." Wanna smoke weed, he's your guy. See again "stealth libertarian wacko."
-Tim Pawlenty. The fucktard who ran Minnesota's government into the ground and left its budget a smoking wreck. Sure you want to let him do that to the country?
-Rick Santorum. Man who's so anti-gay they named a disgusting bit of the afters of homosexual anal sex after him. Just what we need to run the country, right?
-Fred Karger/Andy Martin/Thad McCotter/Tom Miller/Buddy Roemer/Vern Wuensche - Who The Fuck Are These People Anyways?
I mean, seriously here. These are the best people the Republicans and Pee Tardiers can come up with, and you wonder why I question their collective IQ and sanity?
As a longtime Tbird (and Firefox) user... my question for the Mozilla folks is, For Fuck's Sake Why Do You Keep Breaking Plugins??
Tbird 5 broke Lightning. AGAIN. Pain in the ass for those of us who actually like the (gag, yes I know it looks like outlook) idea of keeping our calendar in the same program we keep our email, since then it's Right There when we get an email about something that needs to be noted in the calendar.
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE Public License.
Version 1.0, November 22, 1718
TERMS AND CONDITIONS 0. Do what you want cause a pirate is free. You Are A Pirate. 1. Yarr Harr Fiddle De Dee. 2. Being a pirate is alright with me. 3...
30 years ago the Republicunts insisting smoking wasn't bad for you (on the pay of Big Tobacco) were playing the same game there. They still are screaming about the "free choice to smoke" in my area as we try to eliminate smoking from public places.
Remember the "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" idea the Republicunts keep screaming about when they want "freedom"? Well, your right to smoke ends when you blow it in my face, asswad.
I'm reminded of when all the government and educational-funded scientists were doing studies that showed smoking tobacco is bad for you and leads to cancer... and the tobacco companies all had their "scientists", many of whom later testified to Congress about the fact that they'd falsified their "studies" to suit those who were paying them.
It's not that spamming is not lucrative. It's that they keep redefining the definition of "spam."
"Spam" back in the day? People trying to sell things. Sometimes legit, sometimes not. That kind of crap IS starting to die down now, though not as much as you might think. But to be legit you have to run your own servers, have your own IPs, and so you can be shut down rather quickly.
The new "Spam" is adding people to every fucking mailing list they can buy, and scraping for email addresses everywhere. "Business Papers: ERP, CRM, Phone Systems", and so on and so forth keep popping up. Advertising crap for various places trying to make a vacation destination of themselves. A lot of it filtering through linkfarms and pay-per-click referral sites that actually go to legit businesses.
And then there's the political crap, mostly from right-wing shit-for-brains groups like the Tea Tardiers, spamming out screeds about how "if you don't think what we think and hate those brownskinned people then Yer Not A Real Amurrikkan!" Stuff that doesn't look like the traditional "hey I'm selling viagra" spam, but still annoys the crap out of people who don't want it.
And then there's all the phishing crap, which they're not defining as "spam." That stuff runs on botnets.
Nonsense. Moving a pawn less than the full two on a first move serves only to give up tempo. Likewise the suicidal trapping of a knight by moving it to a place where it has no chance to even threaten the center properly within three moves.
I should have used the word "pieces" rather than "moves", but my point remains: anything but a center pawn start is essentially giving up the game, as the last 500 years of play and analysis have already shown.
First off: would it kill you to learn some basic HTML? Hard to separate out your comments when you're too lame to even italicize.
I know a lot of competitors and they don't want people who beat them banned. Idle speculation and ad homs help nothing.
Empanel the losers from the competition on a witch hunt against the winner. Sounds like a dick move to me. Definitely doesn't pass the smell test.
They could get a third party to analyze and compare.
Why, precisely, should the Rybka team have to pay for that? It's the ICGA that should have been the ones doing this. FIRST.
And there are striking similarities in behavior.
You can walk into any chess tournament and see "striking similarities in behavior" between members of the same chess club/team, or between players of equal skill. Chess is a logical game, relying on logical formulations. Eventually, like Checkers and Othello were, it'll be solved. The closer the programs get to solving it, the more moves alike they'll make. "Similarities in behavior" of mathematical problem-solving prove nothing. If anything, the fact that his program beat - rather than drew to - the other programs ought to prove that he was NOT using their source code.
by your argument, opening moves in chess would have been the same for hundreds of years.
Funny you should mention that. There are a grand total of 10 logical chess opening moves (8 pawns, 2 knights). Opening with knights has been derided as downright silly for centuries; the only "variation" there comes when it's immediately followed by a pawn push alongside, putting it back into "standard" opening land of a Kingside or Queenside gambit. Openings that begin with the A,H,B,G pawns are rightly derided as virtually useless. Even opening with the C and F pawns is viewed as akin to suicide, since it allows the opponent to open straight into the middle virtually uncontested.
Queen's Gambit openings, of various sorts, have dominated the arena since the early 1400's. The Italian opening was the favorite kingside method for over 300 years, until the Ruy Lopez opening passed it up in popularity. The entirety of "Black Openings" in modern chess for the past 500 years have been attempts to devise responses to these three methods of attack.
So now that I've given you a lesson, run back to your checkers board. The grownups are discussing things.
To come to this rather epic and libelous conclusion, the ICGA assembled a 34-person panel of programmers who have competed in past championships to analyze Rybka. Unfortunately, Rybka’s source code has never been available, so reverse engineering and straight-up move-evaluation comparison was used to analyze the originality of Rajlich’s chess engine. The panel unanimously agreed that newer versions of Rybka are based on Fruit — and worse, that the early beta versions were based on Crafty, another open-source chess engine.
So in other words: - They empaneled as the "jury" a bunch of assholes who were predisposed to want Rajlich banned from competition (he kept beating them, four competitions in a row). - They based their decision on "move evaluation", a decidedly touchy subject given that in any Chess situation, it should be theoretically possible to find an optimal move and the more optimal the engines, the more optimal moves they'll make.
So, people with a motive to try to force Rajlich into a no-win situation got a chance to... hey look, a no-win situation!
It’s a tricky situation, though: with Rybka now outlawed from the WCCC, and with the ICGA asking other tournaments to block its entry, the only real way Rajlich and the rest of the Rybka team can clear their names is to show their source code — a financially untenable move. In short, Rybka is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
ICGA fucked up royally. What they SHOULD have done is demanded a closed-doors, clean-room evaluation of the Rybka source code. Instead, they're playing the "burn him at the stake" card, banning him from ever competing again and demanding he "come clean" when for all they know, his source is original and just plays better chess than the other, also-highly-optimized (and likely to make the same "optimal moves" on basic chess theory for the most part) competitors.
If we had competent courts rather than a mockery of a court system run by corrupt "lawyers" and bribed/senile judges, those provisions would long ago have been declared unconscionable and therefore unenforceable anyways, much like "non-compete clauses" have routinely been found unconscionable.
Clarence "Just Bribe My Wife" Thomas's points were as disgustingly intellectually dishonest as I've ever seen from him.
Parental responsibility is just that: PARENTAL. It doesn't mean kids need to have a signed fucking permission slip to go into a store to buy a comic book, bubble gum, or even a video game. It means it is the responsibility of the PARENT to manage what money their kids are given, what they are allowed to do with it, and to punish the kid appropriately when the kid decides to "go behind their parents' backs and..."
If you as a parent don't want your kid to buy a certain game, or a certain action figure, or a toy cap gun, or a certain book, or a magazine, or any one of a gazillion other things that uptight cult-brainwashed puritan moron parents seem to think are "bad" for their kids, then YOU TALK TO YOUR KID ABOUT IT. It is the responsibility of the PARENT to keep tabs on what their kid is doing/buying.
The ruling, rightly stated, points out that it is NOT the right of the parent to demand that every fucking shopkeeper in the state has to be a fucking prick about selling harmless things and checking ID merely because of the 1 in a million chance that the parents of the kid in front of him might be the sort of fucking gap-toothed asshole who insists that the only books in the house be "Da Bible" and the gun cleaning manual hanging next to the rack of roadkill waiting to be gutted and spit-roasted for dinner.
Arizona's Clean Elections law got stomped on despite creating more speech in giving out more money.
Mostly because of Clarence Thomas. If he hadn't stopped this law, his wife's paymasters might not have had such an unfair advantage in rigging elections by dumping hoards of cash everywhere.
The Clean Elections law was the last gasp of common sense from the Arizona legislature before the Tea Tardiers took over. Sad to see it go, but unsurprising - the under-the-table illegal bribes scheme cooked up by the Republicans and given sanction by the USSC in Citizens United would have been far less effective if there were laws preventing their robber baron masters from simply overwhelming any candidate by, say, buying up the airwaves at a 50-to-1 ratio.
Minors can buy violent video games, even though historically Minors haven't had full rights and parents are the ones who have had the authority to regulate their children.
Minors "can" buy violent video games. Also comic books. Also cap guns. Also any dozens of other things.
Most stupid was Clarence Dumbfuck Thomas's statement again, too: "The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that “the freedom of speech,” as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors’ parents or guardians." Bullshit. If I stand on a street corner and shout - which is my legal right of free expression - I am communicating with anyone in range of my voice, minor or not. If I publish a pamphlet and give it away for free, I implicitly give it away to anyone into whose hands it falls, minor or not. The "right" of the parents to silence me goes only so far as to take their little hellspawn away from the area, or clap their hands over the poor, shut-in, abused child's ears.
PETA wrote this law. The fact that it's San Francisco thinking of adopting it tells you how many nutjobs on the SF city council PETA has bought off over the years. They've been trying to peddle this same crap all over the US and the only city gay enough to adopt it is... well... SF.
#1 - the San Francisco law as written would outlaw animal shelters (what you call "rehoming centres") from collecting an adoption fee to rehome animals. That would put all the shelters into a drastic kill-down mode, or else cause a need to raise taxes by crazy amounts in order to handle all the animals needing to be kept in the shelters.
#2 - Outlawing the selling of aquarium fish? Lizards? Please.
#3 - PETA needs to get over themselves and learn to breed humans with humans rather than abusing the animals "their way."
Capcom is one of few publishers that regularly turns out anything interesting that *isn't* just FPS Version+1.
Bullshit.
Gamecube/PS2/XBox generation, they turned out Resident Evil 4, the Resident Evil remake (which was of remarkable quality, given its remake status), the Viewtiful Joe series, and Killer 7
I'd like to discuss something within the last 10 years thanks.
This generation they've released RE5, which wasn't anything groundbreaking but was still of fairly high quality and most certainly enjoyable, and a new Street Fighter that I haven't played but has received plenty of positive reviews.
RE5 aka Rails Shooter Umpteen Zillion... uh ok. Street Fighter IV... aka Street Fighter Tekkencrap.
They haven't given us insidious DRM or abusive DLC
Perhaps you missed the "experiment" with Bionic Commando 2 where every paying customer lost access to the game when PSN went down? Perhaps you missed the "We left half the characters off of Marvel vs Capcom 3 so we could sell them as DLC... oh nobody's buying... well guess all you people who did buy it and who did want the rest of the roster are fucked" plan.
they haven't resorted to pumping out a new Version+1 game every year,
Devil May Crap. 2,3,4,5,6.... Street Fighter IV. Then Super Street Fighter IV. Then Super Street Fighter IV DLC. Now Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. Next will be SSF4: "Championship Edition." Just wait and see.
Oh and don't forget what they did to Megaman. Battle Network, aka "Pokemon Edition", while they let the ZX series die on the vine.
they generally release fairly solid games
Again, what are you smoking?
I don't know what you're bitching about. This is the first news of a Capcom fuckup that I've heard, and while it seems pretty stupid, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they start making a habit of doing stupid things
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I don't care about the TOS so much as I worry about the fact that Dropbox doesn't enforce secure passwords.
Seriously. Sharing pics with my older relatives? It'd probably be great. But their password would probably be 12345 or something equally stupid, and Dropbox will actually accept that as a valid password.
And if you were not a total Pee Tardier moron, you'd have learned your history further; to the point, you would have learned that Revere was BLUFFING the Regulars, because there were not 500 men riding to Revere's rescue, or even 500 men who knew where he was likely to be.
Typical retardican. Ignoring your racists, hatemongers, and worse because "oh don't worry they're just a few."
Everybody sane has left your party. What's left are KKK, anti-gay bigots, and racists.
I also didn't mention Altairian Dollars (recently collapsed), Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu either. What's your point?
The problem with that is that the person put up by the other side is usually ALSO a Friggin' Tard (to quote Captain Hammer).
I mean seriously here. Bush v Gore? There's a reason it came down to recounts and courts.
Bush v Kerry? I voted for Kerry only because the Retardicans were in no way going to lose Congress, and letting one party get hold of everything is just plain stupid (as we can see from history: the worst times we've had were the Carter years, the 1992-1994 of Clinton, the 6 years of Bush, and ironically enough the two years of Bush + Pelosi when it became obvious that Bush was just a fucking pushover who would sign any old thing they put in front of him).
Obama v McCain? Really? The other side controlled Congress, and yet McCain was the best the Republicans could put up? Worse yet, they saddle him with that retarded barbie-doll from Alaska as his running mate?
And seriously now, look at the field from the current Retardican side.
-Mitt Romney. AKA the Evil Mr. Rogers.
-Michele Bachmann. "I'm like John Wayne (Gacy)"... got her start on promoting "pray away the gay therapy" which mostly causes gays forced into it to commit suicide.
-Herman Cain. Can we say "token black guy"? This guy makes JC Watts look like an actual member of the Republicans by contrast.
-Newt "left my cancer-ridden wife in her bed to die while I shacked up" Gingrich. 'Nuff Said.
-Gary Johnson. See also "stealth libertarian." Not a bad thing, just a kook.
-Gary McMillan. aka. "The Rent Is Too Damn High." Hey Gary, don't look now, but it's YOUR party full of assholes who keep raising the rent!
-Roy Moore. aka "Fuck you Supreme Court" guy. Eventually disbarred for refusing to acknowledge that the constitution Fucking Means Something.
-Ron Paul. aka "Crazy Uncle Ron." Wanna smoke weed, he's your guy. See again "stealth libertarian wacko."
-Tim Pawlenty. The fucktard who ran Minnesota's government into the ground and left its budget a smoking wreck. Sure you want to let him do that to the country?
-Rick Santorum. Man who's so anti-gay they named a disgusting bit of the afters of homosexual anal sex after him. Just what we need to run the country, right?
-Fred Karger/Andy Martin/Thad McCotter/Tom Miller/Buddy Roemer/Vern Wuensche - Who The Fuck Are These People Anyways?
I mean, seriously here. These are the best people the Republicans and Pee Tardiers can come up with, and you wonder why I question their collective IQ and sanity?
Goddamned American public in recent years has acted like it has never read a newspaper or history book.
Been to a Pee Tardier rally lately?
None of them have. Durr Paul Revere Rode and Rang Dem Bells to Tell Da British Dey Cant Take Ur Gunz Derp...
It's kinda like a NuYen. Or a DoubleDollar. Or a Spacebuck.
And of course those are all meaningless because as Ron Paul says, we need to go back to the Gold-Pressed Latinum Standard to fight inflation!
Now get me my teabag-infused tritanium cap. I have a tea party rally to get to!
I was looking to get the major pack of Crysis in order to play Mechwarrior: Living Legends.
Then I saw the crapass DRM that floats around with Crysis, even via Steam.
Nope. Not going to infect my system.
As a longtime Tbird (and Firefox) user... my question for the Mozilla folks is, For Fuck's Sake Why Do You Keep Breaking Plugins??
Tbird 5 broke Lightning. AGAIN. Pain in the ass for those of us who actually like the (gag, yes I know it looks like outlook) idea of keeping our calendar in the same program we keep our email, since then it's Right There when we get an email about something that needs to be noted in the calendar.
And when they start collating everything you do by IP address collision? IPv6 or MAC address?
Things you did as Mr. Herp Derp suddenly pop up on your profile for all to see anyways?
The days of "Don't Be Evil" are long gone. Google are fucking evil.
Kill 'em in the air, or let 'em hit and die in a splat. Which is more inhumane?
No, the "price" we've paid is that freedom of speech is meaningless when a few hyperwealthy individuals can control the airwaves completely.
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE Public License.
Version 1.0, November 22, 1718
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
0. Do what you want cause a pirate is free. You Are A Pirate.
1. Yarr Harr Fiddle De Dee.
2. Being a pirate is alright with me.
3...
30 years ago the Republicunts insisting smoking wasn't bad for you (on the pay of Big Tobacco) were playing the same game there. They still are screaming about the "free choice to smoke" in my area as we try to eliminate smoking from public places.
Remember the "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" idea the Republicunts keep screaming about when they want "freedom"? Well, your right to smoke ends when you blow it in my face, asswad.
I'm reminded of when all the government and educational-funded scientists were doing studies that showed smoking tobacco is bad for you and leads to cancer... and the tobacco companies all had their "scientists", many of whom later testified to Congress about the fact that they'd falsified their "studies" to suit those who were paying them.
Eerily familiar isn't it?
It's not that spamming is not lucrative. It's that they keep redefining the definition of "spam."
"Spam" back in the day? People trying to sell things. Sometimes legit, sometimes not. That kind of crap IS starting to die down now, though not as much as you might think. But to be legit you have to run your own servers, have your own IPs, and so you can be shut down rather quickly.
The new "Spam" is adding people to every fucking mailing list they can buy, and scraping for email addresses everywhere. "Business Papers: ERP, CRM, Phone Systems", and so on and so forth keep popping up. Advertising crap for various places trying to make a vacation destination of themselves. A lot of it filtering through linkfarms and pay-per-click referral sites that actually go to legit businesses.
And then there's the political crap, mostly from right-wing shit-for-brains groups like the Tea Tardiers, spamming out screeds about how "if you don't think what we think and hate those brownskinned people then Yer Not A Real Amurrikkan!" Stuff that doesn't look like the traditional "hey I'm selling viagra" spam, but still annoys the crap out of people who don't want it.
And then there's all the phishing crap, which they're not defining as "spam." That stuff runs on botnets.
Nonsense. Moving a pawn less than the full two on a first move serves only to give up tempo. Likewise the suicidal trapping of a knight by moving it to a place where it has no chance to even threaten the center properly within three moves.
I should have used the word "pieces" rather than "moves", but my point remains: anything but a center pawn start is essentially giving up the game, as the last 500 years of play and analysis have already shown.
First off: would it kill you to learn some basic HTML? Hard to separate out your comments when you're too lame to even italicize.
I know a lot of competitors and they don't want people who beat them banned.
Idle speculation and ad homs help nothing.
Empanel the losers from the competition on a witch hunt against the winner. Sounds like a dick move to me. Definitely doesn't pass the smell test.
They could get a third party to analyze and compare.
Why, precisely, should the Rybka team have to pay for that? It's the ICGA that should have been the ones doing this. FIRST.
And there are striking similarities in behavior.
You can walk into any chess tournament and see "striking similarities in behavior" between members of the same chess club/team, or between players of equal skill. Chess is a logical game, relying on logical formulations. Eventually, like Checkers and Othello were, it'll be solved. The closer the programs get to solving it, the more moves alike they'll make. "Similarities in behavior" of mathematical problem-solving prove nothing. If anything, the fact that his program beat - rather than drew to - the other programs ought to prove that he was NOT using their source code.
by your argument, opening moves in chess would have been the same for hundreds of years.
Funny you should mention that.
There are a grand total of 10 logical chess opening moves (8 pawns, 2 knights). Opening with knights has been derided as downright silly for centuries; the only "variation" there comes when it's immediately followed by a pawn push alongside, putting it back into "standard" opening land of a Kingside or Queenside gambit. Openings that begin with the A,H,B,G pawns are rightly derided as virtually useless. Even opening with the C and F pawns is viewed as akin to suicide, since it allows the opponent to open straight into the middle virtually uncontested.
Queen's Gambit openings, of various sorts, have dominated the arena since the early 1400's. The Italian opening was the favorite kingside method for over 300 years, until the Ruy Lopez opening passed it up in popularity. The entirety of "Black Openings" in modern chess for the past 500 years have been attempts to devise responses to these three methods of attack.
So now that I've given you a lesson, run back to your checkers board. The grownups are discussing things.
FTFA:
To come to this rather epic and libelous conclusion, the ICGA assembled a 34-person panel of programmers who have competed in past championships to analyze Rybka. Unfortunately, Rybka’s source code has never been available, so reverse engineering and straight-up move-evaluation comparison was used to analyze the originality of Rajlich’s chess engine. The panel unanimously agreed that newer versions of Rybka are based on Fruit — and worse, that the early beta versions were based on Crafty, another open-source chess engine.
So in other words:
- They empaneled as the "jury" a bunch of assholes who were predisposed to want Rajlich banned from competition (he kept beating them, four competitions in a row).
- They based their decision on "move evaluation", a decidedly touchy subject given that in any Chess situation, it should be theoretically possible to find an optimal move and the more optimal the engines, the more optimal moves they'll make.
So, people with a motive to try to force Rajlich into a no-win situation got a chance to... hey look, a no-win situation!
It’s a tricky situation, though: with Rybka now outlawed from the WCCC, and with the ICGA asking other tournaments to block its entry, the only real way Rajlich and the rest of the Rybka team can clear their names is to show their source code — a financially untenable move. In short, Rybka is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
ICGA fucked up royally. What they SHOULD have done is demanded a closed-doors, clean-room evaluation of the Rybka source code. Instead, they're playing the "burn him at the stake" card, banning him from ever competing again and demanding he "come clean" when for all they know, his source is original and just plays better chess than the other, also-highly-optimized (and likely to make the same "optimal moves" on basic chess theory for the most part) competitors.
If we had competent courts rather than a mockery of a court system run by corrupt "lawyers" and bribed/senile judges, those provisions would long ago have been declared unconscionable and therefore unenforceable anyways, much like "non-compete clauses" have routinely been found unconscionable.
Oh fuck you.
Clarence "Just Bribe My Wife" Thomas's points were as disgustingly intellectually dishonest as I've ever seen from him.
Parental responsibility is just that: PARENTAL. It doesn't mean kids need to have a signed fucking permission slip to go into a store to buy a comic book, bubble gum, or even a video game. It means it is the responsibility of the PARENT to manage what money their kids are given, what they are allowed to do with it, and to punish the kid appropriately when the kid decides to "go behind their parents' backs and..."
If you as a parent don't want your kid to buy a certain game, or a certain action figure, or a toy cap gun, or a certain book, or a magazine, or any one of a gazillion other things that uptight cult-brainwashed puritan moron parents seem to think are "bad" for their kids, then YOU TALK TO YOUR KID ABOUT IT. It is the responsibility of the PARENT to keep tabs on what their kid is doing/buying.
The ruling, rightly stated, points out that it is NOT the right of the parent to demand that every fucking shopkeeper in the state has to be a fucking prick about selling harmless things and checking ID merely because of the 1 in a million chance that the parents of the kid in front of him might be the sort of fucking gap-toothed asshole who insists that the only books in the house be "Da Bible" and the gun cleaning manual hanging next to the rack of roadkill waiting to be gutted and spit-roasted for dinner.
Arizona's Clean Elections law got stomped on despite creating more speech in giving out more money.
Mostly because of Clarence Thomas. If he hadn't stopped this law, his wife's paymasters might not have had such an unfair advantage in rigging elections by dumping hoards of cash everywhere.
The Clean Elections law was the last gasp of common sense from the Arizona legislature before the Tea Tardiers took over. Sad to see it go, but unsurprising - the under-the-table illegal bribes scheme cooked up by the Republicans and given sanction by the USSC in Citizens United would have been far less effective if there were laws preventing their robber baron masters from simply overwhelming any candidate by, say, buying up the airwaves at a 50-to-1 ratio.
Minors can buy violent video games, even though historically Minors haven't had full rights and parents are the ones who have had the authority to regulate their children.
Minors "can" buy violent video games. Also comic books. Also cap guns. Also any dozens of other things.
Most stupid was Clarence Dumbfuck Thomas's statement again, too: "The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that “the freedom of speech,” as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors’ parents or guardians." Bullshit. If I stand on a street corner and shout - which is my legal right of free expression - I am communicating with anyone in range of my voice, minor or not. If I publish a pamphlet and give it away for free, I implicitly give it away to anyone into whose hands it falls, minor or not. The "right" of the parents to silence me goes only so far as to take their little hellspawn away from the area, or clap their hands over the poor, shut-in, abused child's ears.
PETA wrote this law. The fact that it's San Francisco thinking of adopting it tells you how many nutjobs on the SF city council PETA has bought off over the years. They've been trying to peddle this same crap all over the US and the only city gay enough to adopt it is... well... SF.
Things you miss:
#1 - the San Francisco law as written would outlaw animal shelters (what you call "rehoming centres") from collecting an adoption fee to rehome animals. That would put all the shelters into a drastic kill-down mode, or else cause a need to raise taxes by crazy amounts in order to handle all the animals needing to be kept in the shelters.
#2 - Outlawing the selling of aquarium fish? Lizards? Please.
#3 - PETA needs to get over themselves and learn to breed humans with humans rather than abusing the animals "their way."
What the fuck are you talking about?
What the fuck are you smoking?
Capcom is one of few publishers that regularly turns out anything interesting that *isn't* just FPS Version+1.
Bullshit.
Gamecube/PS2/XBox generation, they turned out Resident Evil 4, the Resident Evil remake (which was of remarkable quality, given its remake status), the Viewtiful Joe series, and Killer 7
I'd like to discuss something within the last 10 years thanks.
This generation they've released RE5, which wasn't anything groundbreaking but was still of fairly high quality and most certainly enjoyable, and a new Street Fighter that I haven't played but has received plenty of positive reviews.
RE5 aka Rails Shooter Umpteen Zillion... uh ok.
Street Fighter IV... aka Street Fighter Tekkencrap.
They haven't given us insidious DRM or abusive DLC
Perhaps you missed the "experiment" with Bionic Commando 2 where every paying customer lost access to the game when PSN went down?
Perhaps you missed the "We left half the characters off of Marvel vs Capcom 3 so we could sell them as DLC... oh nobody's buying... well guess all you people who did buy it and who did want the rest of the roster are fucked" plan.
they haven't resorted to pumping out a new Version+1 game every year,
Devil May Crap. 2,3,4,5,6....
Street Fighter IV. Then Super Street Fighter IV. Then Super Street Fighter IV DLC. Now Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition.
Next will be SSF4: "Championship Edition." Just wait and see.
Oh and don't forget what they did to Megaman. Battle Network, aka "Pokemon Edition", while they let the ZX series die on the vine.
they generally release fairly solid games
Again, what are you smoking?
I don't know what you're bitching about. This is the first news of a Capcom fuckup that I've heard, and while it seems pretty stupid, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they start making a habit of doing stupid things
Then you haven't been paying attention.