I think of it this way: a rich guy buys a top-of-the-line $5000 Digital SLR camera
I just started looking at DSLs, and there's no such thing as a $5000 DSLR - there's a $1k body and 20k worth of glass; give your kid the rebel with a $80 lens - the lens is cheap and the rebel will probably survive.
But yeah, your comparison is invalid - the guy with a $1k slr setup will take better photos because he knows what he's doing. Your rich slob will probably screw up the lighting and maybe the focus too. He's at best annoying - it's not like he's camping photo-op spawns
Copyright law exists to create an incentive for people to make a living by creating art.
No it doesn't. It exists to encourage more art creation by allowing a limited monopoly on distribution. The current terms of the monopoly are arguably too long, as much shorter terms would be as effective, and extending the rights retroactively makes no sense except as a cash grab.
Go! Do it! Just don't use someone else's product in your own.
Herein lies the problem. Art is highly derivative, and companies like disney source a lot of their material from the public domain. Not allowing their works to ever fall into the public domain is at best hypocritical.
The ESRB stuff includes more detail on the reasons for the rating, which should be more useful to a parent. You can't really compare the coverage in a game to that of a movie - games are far more open ended, and the hot coffee category thing is like an extra scene on the dvd (which isn't rated anyway) that never got added to a menu (so you'd have to rip all the parts of the dvd to see it).
Temporary storage is storage, but ram isn't storage. There is no really good analogy for what ram is, beyond the thoughts that bounce around in your head.
You say that, but why should we hold games to a higher standard than movies, which are also voluntary? Lots of places will refuse to sell M rated games to kids. Problem is, the parents will just come back and buy the games for them anyway. Woops.
Crushed? No, zapped. The verbage on the state dept website acknowledges that some passports will be damaged that way, and frankly, only an idiot would travel with an RFID chip in several parts of the world, given the new chip that's in passports. AFAIK, only the US does it, so it's a big flag for those who like to blow up americans, and thanks to our woeful foreign policy, there sure are a lot of them.
As for you, you're speculating wildly.
There's nothing more pitiful than ignorant bravado in the face of almost unlimited power. All it'll buy you is trouble. The more you exhibit, the more trouble you'll get. They don't have legitimate authority, but they do have power. Don't get the two confused.
And if you just knuckle under as your government strips your freedoms away, you deserve to be shot.
meh. It's still an official government document and the picture looks like me. The fact is, I don't like being a bomb magnet if I decide to go to Thailand (diving, dontcha know).
Makes me wonder why these people are so much more smart than the average CIO that only knows how to "deploy" the latest crap that comes from that city in Washington.
Amazon is in the city (they have stuff you want, like cameras and gadgets). MS is in the burbs.
yeah right, like the guys in germany care that your rfid thing isn't working. Or yeah right, like they'll have a failure rate of 0. Hell, the rfid thing is just a convenience - all the required info is on there already.
Most of the illegal aliens are, in fact, Mexicans. This isn't about race. It's about being able to control our borders. Try doing the same thing in Mexico - see how far you get.
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I think of it this way: a rich guy buys a top-of-the-line $5000 Digital SLR camera
I just started looking at DSLs, and there's no such thing as a $5000 DSLR - there's a $1k body and 20k worth of glass; give your kid the rebel with a $80 lens - the lens is cheap and the rebel will probably survive.
But yeah, your comparison is invalid - the guy with a $1k slr setup will take better photos because he knows what he's doing. Your rich slob will probably screw up the lighting and maybe the focus too. He's at best annoying - it's not like he's camping photo-op spawns
For the most part, they use them to get something to show off their "e-peen".
If that's all it is, why not allow players to purchase a literal e-peen. For $20, your night elf has a conspicuous bulge in his/her pants.
unless blizzard notes that all the items being sold were obtained through a particular L70 and handed off. Traffic analysis wins again.
if a rich guy buys a +5 sword of icefarting in WoW, or whatever, who fucking cares
"Are there any Orcs around? Because my dagger is +10 against Orcs."
According to that link, Michael Dell plays WoW - anybody know which server/faction? Only question is do you twink or grief?
Well, you get close to c, but never actually get there. Problem is, how do you pack enough juice to accelerate at 1g for a year?
Copyright law exists to create an incentive for people to make a living by creating art.
No it doesn't. It exists to encourage more art creation by allowing a limited monopoly on distribution. The current terms of the monopoly are arguably too long, as much shorter terms would be as effective, and extending the rights retroactively makes no sense except as a cash grab.
Go! Do it! Just don't use someone else's product in your own.
Herein lies the problem. Art is highly derivative, and companies like disney source a lot of their material from the public domain. Not allowing their works to ever fall into the public domain is at best hypocritical.
I thought that was some sort of slang for two guys texting each other in west hollywood.
Libel isn't a crime. It's a civil tort.
So do they manufacture their disks in country or farm it out to some factory in taiwan that would be willing to make an 'extra' run?
The ESRB stuff includes more detail on the reasons for the rating, which should be more useful to a parent. You can't really compare the coverage in a game to that of a movie - games are far more open ended, and the hot coffee category thing is like an extra scene on the dvd (which isn't rated anyway) that never got added to a menu (so you'd have to rip all the parts of the dvd to see it).
Temporary storage is storage, but ram isn't storage. There is no really good analogy for what ram is, beyond the thoughts that bounce around in your head.
Screw that. The ESRB system is better than the MPAA one and isn't really hard to understand. There's no reason to involve the MPAA in this.
You say that, but why should we hold games to a higher standard than movies, which are also voluntary? Lots of places will refuse to sell M rated games to kids. Problem is, the parents will just come back and buy the games for them anyway. Woops.
Figured it was something like that. Would've linked the original article if I could've found it in the minute or two I spent looking :)
Crushed? No, zapped. The verbage on the state dept website acknowledges that some passports will be damaged that way, and frankly, only an idiot would travel with an RFID chip in several parts of the world, given the new chip that's in passports. AFAIK, only the US does it, so it's a big flag for those who like to blow up americans, and thanks to our woeful foreign policy, there sure are a lot of them.
As for you, you're speculating wildly.
There's nothing more pitiful than ignorant bravado in the face of almost unlimited power. All it'll buy you is trouble. The more you exhibit, the more trouble you'll get. They don't have legitimate authority, but they do have power. Don't get the two confused.
And if you just knuckle under as your government strips your freedoms away, you deserve to be shot.
Did you write that or just copy it from someone else?
meh. It's still an official government document and the picture looks like me. The fact is, I don't like being a bomb magnet if I decide to go to Thailand (diving, dontcha know).
Makes me wonder why these people are so much more smart than the average CIO that only knows how to "deploy" the latest crap that comes from that city in Washington.
Amazon is in the city (they have stuff you want, like cameras and gadgets). MS is in the burbs.
It would be funny to be interviewed by Asia Carrera, especially if you didn't know she was a consumate geek herself.
yeah right, like the guys in germany care that your rfid thing isn't working. Or yeah right, like they'll have a failure rate of 0. Hell, the rfid thing is just a convenience - all the required info is on there already.
Just curious - why are you all hot to track sex offenders? They aren't all that likely to reoffend.
1-2 seconds in the microwave and "huh, guess it's not working"
Hmm, do you suppose that an oil rich nation may sell their gas cheaply on the domestic market?
Most of the illegal aliens are, in fact, Mexicans. This isn't about race. It's about being able to control our borders. Try doing the same thing in Mexico - see how far you get.