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Because you might realise religion is
unecessary ?
And as America is full raving loony preachers
who exploit the gullible morons who can't
think for themselves, that would mean
less money for these assholes (and their political friends)! *shudder*
"Less money ?!? "
"Enforce testing in all companies now !!"
"Full cavity search ! "
"Sir, Yes, Sir !"
"How is the hacker extermination plan going ?" "As soon as we've rounded up the most desperate and the geediest, we'll suck their brains out and present them to your Filthyness in a cocktail glass with novelty umbrella!" "Good. Proceed."
"Right, saw right throught that ceiling and nail their asses !! Make sure someone signs a receipt before leaving !"
"oooh those live pictures of those free thinkers getting busted had me soil my StayDrys I was so excited!!!"
Piracy is the less well-off's chance of actually
getting any instead of waiting for a crumb to drop off the pigs' table and fighting over it with the other unfortunate bastards.
Love the comment from the old guy selling his 9,500$ engineering software about torching houses.
The 29 year-old kid is in jail for four years
while he would be at great pains to explain how
a few illegal copies deprive him of a living,
since these are sales which would not have been made in the first place !
Is he out of business since the release of the copy ?
No.
Is the old hypocrite still making money with his company ?
Yes.
Is a non-selling software pirate whose copies allow the poor, the young, the students, and others to learn to use out-of-their reach software in jail ?
Yes.
What are THE PEOPLE waiting for to put all those
filthy rich club members (RIAA, MPAA, BSA etc)
UP AGAINST THE WALL ?!?
Bill Gates , pre-"vaccinate the kids,we are the world communications counseling" era :
"It's hard as giving out money as to earn it."
When answering to "Why don't you give out more
of your vast wealth?"
Enough said.
Don't know about the US , but where I come from,
USAGE IS A SOURCE OF LAW.
Meaning that if most people share their paid software/movies/music with their friends, it
becomes , through the ruling of a judge recognising its widespread existence and the futility of prosecution on this matter, force
of new legislation.
Precedent in court becomes law by itself!
No need for Congress thank you... or only
to officialise the reality of court rulings.
Nice to see tight education budgets being raped
by IT losers who decide to buy Macs instead of
what students will really have to use later on.
Even Linux would be better than another expensively designed table-lamp pretending to be a computer.
And artists don't like to compromise their vision.
So Microsoft can buy all of those it can't beat,
but it will never be able to buy the true creators
of games.
They bought Bungie and it got them Halo : a beautiful, soulless, empty shell of a game.
Only sold-out, greedy companies like the one that
produces the Oddcrap world are sick enough to believe that they can make it no matter who they
employ.
Oh sure, MS can buy all the intellectual property they can get their hands on but what's stopping the star authors to move to a different company?
Money. Yes, MS has a lot of that but not
everyone is for sale !
"Mario, do you know who your real father is ?"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
"Good. Now drop those silly pants."
I used to work for a support hotline company
and they also ran a BSA (rat on someone today) hotline.
I remember very well talking to someone from that
side of the office telling me that M$ was paying
the bills for this hotline...
In my country, programmers are the coal-miners
of the XXIst century.
Hard, dirty work and very little to show for it.
The cretinous, pig-headed management without a clue about tech issues, summons an application
and thinks that all tech-heads are really all
easily and cheaply replaceable , like workers
in a factory.
Of course, that doesn't work, so the project hobbles along until it stalls and crashes loudly
to the embarrassment of the pathetic management
who refuses to acknoledge its responsability in the failure.
All that because the lead programmer (for example)
dared to ask for a raise that would have him paid
as much as a director.
Answer from management : "No, we'd have to make you director of something to give you that!"
End of day : lead programmer leaves project.
Six months later, company collapses because said
lead programmer/engineer was the only one to know
how things worked for real...
You americans don't know how good you've got it !
Except that they don't have much of a geek culture
in India , just sloppy engineering school "graduates" that can hack out some form
of code but it just doesn't cut it yet...
I personally know of one dotcom failure that
had to do with the managers thinking they were
real clever and saving lots of money by ordering
a sophisticated piece of software from India.
The business angel decided, after seeing too many pidgin english error messages and no results at all, that he had seen enough seed capital being thrown out the window and let it drop.
Why do you think you don't see any games coming
out of India ?
Oh, and this is not a racist comment, it's a
testimony from real life.
Sure.
That's why I still can't find one single
Amiga emulator on the PC that'll accept 99% of
the games/demos written for it even though the
original stuff ran on a 7 Mhz Motorola 68000...
Emulating a dedicated 17 year-old graphic/sound chipset is still a major challenge with machines
that have (on average) 32 Meg of Video RAM and processors that are into the Ghz!
So please go peddle that crap somewhere else.
Looking for a political alternative ?
Maybe we, the "knowledgeable few" should
start acting responsibly, and above all
in a united manner against the corporate
enemies of progress.
By progress I'm talking about the free
exchange of cultural "goods" worldwide
so that even the poorest can - enjoy/learn from -
all these massive resources that come from those
of us who have access to permanent links to the Net.
It doesn't mean that new content will disappear,
it means that those who can afford it, share it!
The middleman has to go and that is why he is
fighting tooth and nail to keep his privileges
through legislation that he is trying to get
passed thanks to money-based lobbying.
I am no commie retard but it is about time
that we, the tech heads, took over some of
the power whose abuses we are always complaining
about!
Of course they wield big bucks and, as they say,
money talks.
The only way around this is to encourage (inform!) artists to refuse any arrangement with the middleman, and make sure they are appropriately rewarded.
Rewards nearly always come in the form of royalties on sales.
What are we waiting for to create an independant paypal-like micro-payment system based on what people actually "consume" ?
You can bet the major pigs are busy trying to make
sure they set it up first and then lock us into it.
Nothing can change if you don't start by BOYCOTTING these companies.
For me, this doesn't mean punishing yourself and
your friends by not going to see the latest movie
in a theatre, but getting more out of what is already spreading through alternative networks
(and which is what you really want, not what some
marketing asshole has decided to let us see).
Not starving the creators of content, but pushing
them to realise their own responsibility in the
current situation.
Digital Rights Management ! HAH !
How many times do I have to pay for something
before I have the right to download a copy of it
in a different format because the medium has
changed ?
It's still the best gaming experience money can buy, and the graphics hold up quite well in the face of PS2 & xbox (with the only regret that Sega never released a proper soccer game).
Shame that these wretches who call themselves game
distributors don't get it and stop taking kids for complete morons with lame games (yes, that's you, Oddcrap) when for a fraction of the price of that 1970's VCR with a green X on it, you can play 4 player Power Stone 2 or Rez or Bangai-O.
Ah, but you have to like games more than ripping people off... tough choice!
Think of the Multiplayer Online games with
access to this kind of database for content
and using it to port parts of it to a game universe...
Better extend those schizo wards now ,
cause it's gonna be rough on some people:)
GIVE IT TO THEM !
Looking for a political alternative ?
Maybe we, the "knowledgeable few" should
start acting responsibly, and above all
in a united manner against the corporate
enemies of progress.
By progress I'm talking about the free
exchange of cultural "goods" worldwide
so that even the poorest can - enjoy/learn from -
all these massive resources that come from those
of us who have access to permanent links to the Net.
It doesn't mean that new content will disappear,
it means that those who can afford it, share it!
The middleman has to go and that is why he is
fighting tooth and nail to keep his privileges
through legislation that he is trying to get
passed thanks to money-based lobbying.
I am no commie retard but it is about time
that we, the tech heads, took over some of
the power whose abuses we are always complaining
about!
Of course they wield big bucks and, as they say,
money talks.
The only way around this is to encourage (inform!) artists to refuse any arrangement with the middleman, and make sure they are appropriately rewarded.
Rewards nearly always come in the form of royalties on sales.
What are we waiting for to create an independant paypal-like micro-payment system based on what people actually "consume" ?
You can bet the major pigs are busy trying to make
sure they set it up first and then lock us into it.
Nothing can change if you don't start by BOYCOTTING these companies.
For me, this doesn't mean punishing yourself and
your friends by not going to see the latest movie
in a theatre, but getting more out of what is already spreading through alternative networks
(and which is what you really want, not what some
marketing asshole has decided to let us see).
Not starving the creators of content, but pushing
them to realise their own responsibility in the
current situation.
Digital Rights Management ! HAH !
How many times do I have to pay for something
before I have the right to download a copy of it
in a different format because the medium has
changed ?
THIS IS WAR AND MEDIA IS ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES
OF THE MINDCONTROL WORLDWIDE PIGGERY IS EXERTING
ON THE MASSES !!!
ANGER IS AN ENERGY ! USE IT !
If most politicians are as unethical and corrupt as it seems , gathering a list of the resources
who want to fight against the Hollywood Mafia
sounds like a census of behalf of them so
that they may know who they have to silence and
make disappear.
What, me, worry about the future ?:)
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Slashdot moderators are dipshits. Period.
Because you might realise religion is unecessary ? And as America is full raving loony preachers who exploit the gullible morons who can't think for themselves, that would mean less money for these assholes (and their political friends)! *shudder* "Less money ?!? " "Enforce testing in all companies now !!" "Full cavity search ! " "Sir, Yes, Sir !"
Remember MAC people, to take out the vibrating iDildo before leaving your home or writing to someone!
The future of the MacOS : o
"How is the hacker extermination plan going ?"
"As soon as we've rounded up the most desperate
and the geediest, we'll suck their brains out
and present them to your Filthyness in a cocktail
glass with novelty umbrella!"
"Good. Proceed."
"Right, saw right throught that ceiling and
nail their asses !!
Make sure someone signs a receipt before leaving !"
"oooh those live pictures of those free
thinkers getting busted had me soil my
StayDrys I was so excited!!!"
Piracy is the less well-off's chance of actually getting any instead of waiting for a crumb to drop off the pigs' table and fighting over it with the other unfortunate bastards. Love the comment from the old guy selling his 9,500$ engineering software about torching houses. The 29 year-old kid is in jail for four years while he would be at great pains to explain how a few illegal copies deprive him of a living, since these are sales which would not have been made in the first place ! Is he out of business since the release of the copy ? No. Is the old hypocrite still making money with his company ? Yes. Is a non-selling software pirate whose copies allow the poor, the young, the students, and others to learn to use out-of-their reach software in jail ? Yes. What are THE PEOPLE waiting for to put all those filthy rich club members (RIAA, MPAA, BSA etc) UP AGAINST THE WALL ?!?
Bill Gates , pre-"vaccinate the kids,we are the world communications counseling" era : "It's hard as giving out money as to earn it ."
When answering to "Why don't you give out more
of your vast wealth?"
Enough said.
Don't know about the US , but where I come from, USAGE IS A SOURCE OF LAW. Meaning that if most people share their paid software/movies/music with their friends, it becomes , through the ruling of a judge recognising its widespread existence and the futility of prosecution on this matter, force of new legislation. Precedent in court becomes law by itself! No need for Congress thank you ... or only
to officialise the reality of court rulings.
Nice to see tight education budgets being raped by IT losers who decide to buy Macs instead of what students will really have to use later on. Even Linux would be better than another expensively designed table-lamp pretending to be a computer.
Check out C#. Check out how MS got the creators of it into MS. Start praying with your back to the wall.
And artists don't like to compromise their vision. So Microsoft can buy all of those it can't beat, but it will never be able to buy the true creators of games. They bought Bungie and it got them Halo : a beautiful, soulless, empty shell of a game. Only sold-out, greedy companies like the one that produces the Oddcrap world are sick enough to believe that they can make it no matter who they employ. Oh sure, MS can buy all the intellectual property they can get their hands on but what's stopping the star authors to move to a different company? Money. Yes, MS has a lot of that but not everyone is for sale ! "Mario, do you know who your real father is ?" "Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!" "Good. Now drop those silly pants."
I used to work for a support hotline company and they also ran a BSA (rat on someone today) hotline. I remember very well talking to someone from that side of the office telling me that M$ was paying the bills for this hotline...
In my country, programmers are the coal-miners of the XXIst century. Hard, dirty work and very little to show for it. The cretinous, pig-headed management without a clue about tech issues, summons an application and thinks that all tech-heads are really all easily and cheaply replaceable , like workers in a factory. Of course, that doesn't work, so the project hobbles along until it stalls and crashes loudly to the embarrassment of the pathetic management who refuses to acknoledge its responsability in the failure. All that because the lead programmer (for example) dared to ask for a raise that would have him paid as much as a director. Answer from management : "No, we'd have to make you director of something to give you that!" End of day : lead programmer leaves project. Six months later, company collapses because said lead programmer/engineer was the only one to know how things worked for real... You americans don't know how good you've got it !
Except that they don't have much of a geek culture in India , just sloppy engineering school "graduates" that can hack out some form of code but it just doesn't cut it yet... I personally know of one dotcom failure that had to do with the managers thinking they were real clever and saving lots of money by ordering a sophisticated piece of software from India. The business angel decided, after seeing too many pidgin english error messages and no results at all, that he had seen enough seed capital being thrown out the window and let it drop. Why do you think you don't see any games coming out of India ? Oh, and this is not a racist comment, it's a testimony from real life.
Sure. That's why I still can't find one single Amiga emulator on the PC that'll accept 99% of the games/demos written for it even though the original stuff ran on a 7 Mhz Motorola 68000 ...
Emulating a dedicated 17 year-old graphic/sound chipset is still a major challenge with machines
that have (on average) 32 Meg of Video RAM and processors that are into the Ghz!
So please go peddle that crap somewhere else.
And when it realises it has a brain the size
... (low level formatting sound on your PC)
of a planet and you're using it to hold your
front door open, what's going to happen ?
"Here I am, (...) *moan* bastard *moan* "
thunk thunk
Better discover electronic Prozac first !
Looking for a political alternative ? Maybe we, the "knowledgeable few" should start acting responsibly, and above all in a united manner against the corporate enemies of progress. By progress I'm talking about the free exchange of cultural "goods" worldwide so that even the poorest can - enjoy/learn from - all these massive resources that come from those of us who have access to permanent links to the Net. It doesn't mean that new content will disappear, it means that those who can afford it, share it! The middleman has to go and that is why he is fighting tooth and nail to keep his privileges through legislation that he is trying to get passed thanks to money-based lobbying. I am no commie retard but it is about time that we, the tech heads, took over some of the power whose abuses we are always complaining about! Of course they wield big bucks and, as they say, money talks. The only way around this is to encourage (inform!) artists to refuse any arrangement with the middleman, and make sure they are appropriately rewarded. Rewards nearly always come in the form of royalties on sales. What are we waiting for to create an independant paypal-like micro-payment system based on what people actually "consume" ? You can bet the major pigs are busy trying to make sure they set it up first and then lock us into it. Nothing can change if you don't start by BOYCOTTING these companies. For me, this doesn't mean punishing yourself and your friends by not going to see the latest movie in a theatre, but getting more out of what is already spreading through alternative networks (and which is what you really want, not what some marketing asshole has decided to let us see). Not starving the creators of content, but pushing them to realise their own responsibility in the current situation. Digital Rights Management ! HAH ! How many times do I have to pay for something before I have the right to download a copy of it in a different format because the medium has changed ?
CD-ROM too slow ? Get a DVD-ROM. DVD burners are getting cheaper every day. Shut up.
It's still the best gaming experience money can buy, and the graphics hold up quite well in the face of PS2 & xbox (with the only regret that Sega never released a proper soccer game). Shame that these wretches who call themselves game distributors don't get it and stop taking kids for complete morons with lame games (yes, that's you, Oddcrap) when for a fraction of the price of that 1970's VCR with a green X on it, you can play 4 player Power Stone 2 or Rez or Bangai-O. Ah, but you have to like games more than ripping people off... tough choice!
Think of the Multiplayer Online games with access to this kind of database for content and using it to port parts of it to a game universe... Better extend those schizo wards now , cause it's gonna be rough on some people :)
how much is the Captain Nemo pipe organ option ?
shouldn't it be the FCC ?
GIVE IT TO THEM ! Looking for a political alternative ? Maybe we, the "knowledgeable few" should start acting responsibly, and above all in a united manner against the corporate enemies of progress. By progress I'm talking about the free exchange of cultural "goods" worldwide so that even the poorest can - enjoy/learn from - all these massive resources that come from those of us who have access to permanent links to the Net. It doesn't mean that new content will disappear, it means that those who can afford it, share it! The middleman has to go and that is why he is fighting tooth and nail to keep his privileges through legislation that he is trying to get passed thanks to money-based lobbying. I am no commie retard but it is about time that we, the tech heads, took over some of the power whose abuses we are always complaining about! Of course they wield big bucks and, as they say, money talks. The only way around this is to encourage (inform!) artists to refuse any arrangement with the middleman, and make sure they are appropriately rewarded. Rewards nearly always come in the form of royalties on sales. What are we waiting for to create an independant paypal-like micro-payment system based on what people actually "consume" ? You can bet the major pigs are busy trying to make sure they set it up first and then lock us into it. Nothing can change if you don't start by BOYCOTTING these companies. For me, this doesn't mean punishing yourself and your friends by not going to see the latest movie in a theatre, but getting more out of what is already spreading through alternative networks (and which is what you really want, not what some marketing asshole has decided to let us see). Not starving the creators of content, but pushing them to realise their own responsibility in the current situation. Digital Rights Management ! HAH ! How many times do I have to pay for something before I have the right to download a copy of it in a different format because the medium has changed ? THIS IS WAR AND MEDIA IS ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF THE MINDCONTROL WORLDWIDE PIGGERY IS EXERTING ON THE MASSES !!! ANGER IS AN ENERGY ! USE IT !
If most politicians are as unethical and corrupt as it seems , gathering a list of the resources who want to fight against the Hollywood Mafia sounds like a census of behalf of them so that they may know who they have to silence and make disappear. What, me, worry about the future ? :)