This begs the question: If a drug has no pain for indulgence, and you can turn off the effect almost immediately with a counter-acting dose... Does it matter if you're addicted to it? Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
If someone can use an intoxicant and still manage their life in a way that is satisfactory to them...
Yeah... Those aren't the ones with a problem. It is the ones who can't manage their life, or relations ships, or raise their kids, or... There are MMORPG players so into it they forget to eat, and actually die.
One of the things that cause people to curb their drinking is that morning after hangover. With no pain for indulgence, this could be much more addictive than alcohol, which is already very addictive.
No doubt there is a provision buried in Law somewhere that says that any attempt to subvert the surveillance system, obscure your identity, or obscure your location, shall constitution obstruction of police powers and land you in jail.
When it is criminal to use airplane mode, only criminals will have airplane mode.
One situation where this is undoubtedly the case is people with a second offense of DWI. Start with those, and even a computer controlled wreck or two will be an improvement.
What I do know is that Google's Sat Nav sometimes tells me to drive off the side of a bridge onto the highway that runs underneath it. All the other Sat Navs I've tested such as Tom Tom and Garmin have the same problem.
Which is why so many of the people surveyed said they would watch scenery go by... Screaming all the way.
At the most extreme disjoint of the two sets, that means that 50% of people believe that letting a car drive their children to school would put them at higher risk, and yet they'd do it anyway for money.
Have you not seen what parents will do to get on reality TV? This is no surprise at all.
Nor is it clear why nearby oil fields that have also been injected with CO2 have not experienced similar seismic activity.
Until you figure out why CO2 injection causes problems at one oilfield, and not its neighbors, even though all of them have had similar amounts of CO2 injected, it seems rather more likely than not that the CO2 injection had nothing to do with the tremors.
And it couldn't be the Texas drought for the past three years... I mean what would drought have to do with land settling?
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
And after doing this a few times, wouldn't a reasonable and intelegent person just skip the first step that they knew would only cause frustration?
You totally missed every little bit of my point. (And no, it has nothing to do with you not understand terms like theft vs infringement.)
The entire fucking point of DRM is to prevent piracy. It prevented it not at all. The pirated copy is out before the legal copy for much of the world. However, it did massively inconvenience many paying customers. People pirate for lots of reasons; It is free, it is not supporting "the man," it is "l337!" But there is one other big reason now; The pirated version is a superior product! I know lots of people who buy a game, has trouble installing, and then get the pirated version so they can play. It doesn't take much of that before they just skip the painful step of bothering with the legal copy...
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This begs the question: If a drug has no pain for indulgence, and you can turn off the effect almost immediately with a counter-acting dose... Does it matter if you're addicted to it? Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
It is that last line that is the problem... Addiction does have a negative impact. That is the defining characteristic. Some examples here... http://listverse.com/2010/11/07/top-10-cases-of-extreme-game-addiction/
If someone can use an intoxicant and still manage their life in a way that is satisfactory to them...
Yeah... Those aren't the ones with a problem. It is the ones who can't manage their life, or relations ships, or raise their kids, or... There are MMORPG players so into it they forget to eat, and actually die.
Psychological addiction is all in your head.
So is PTSD, schizophrenia, and delusions of grandeur. All of those are no big deal right?
One of the things that cause people to curb their drinking is that morning after hangover. With no pain for indulgence, this could be much more addictive than alcohol, which is already very addictive.
If I were a Brazilian, I'd be soooo relieved to know that now the data would be in the hands not only of Google, but the state.
If you have a Brazilian, you have nothing to hide. I mean, if you ARE a Brazilian... Sorry about that.
Actually, it was more like "No problem. As soon as we get those drives back from the NSA we will ship them right to you."
'..And in the meantime, the criminals will just leave their electronic devices at home. - at least the smart ones. The terrorists will have none..'
already being found in a public place without a mobile phone is regarded as suspicious behaviour in certain quarters..
But a dead battery is perfectly normal...
This is more trouble than many are willing to take. It would be nice if you could blacklist ESSIDs and never touch them.
No doubt there is a provision buried in Law somewhere that says that any attempt to subvert the surveillance system, obscure your identity, or obscure your location, shall constitution obstruction of police powers and land you in jail.
When it is criminal to use airplane mode, only criminals will have airplane mode.
What the FUCK is going on with this country?
As much as we let them get away with.
Yep. Today's NSA makes J. Edger look like an amateur.
So, in your universe, science is something that always gives 100% certain answers?
So in your world, gravity works, "mostly sometimes" but not 100%?
Fuck that. I know what enterprise software looks like. I will stick to driving my own car.
Just wait for the first service pack.
One situation where this is undoubtedly the case is people with a second offense of DWI. Start with those, and even a computer controlled wreck or two will be an improvement.
What I do know is that Google's Sat Nav sometimes tells me to drive off the side of a bridge onto the highway that runs underneath it. All the other Sat Navs I've tested such as Tom Tom and Garmin have the same problem.
Which is why so many of the people surveyed said they would watch scenery go by... Screaming all the way.
At the most extreme disjoint of the two sets, that means that 50% of people believe that letting a car drive their children to school would put them at higher risk, and yet they'd do it anyway for money.
Have you not seen what parents will do to get on reality TV? This is no surprise at all.
Yeah but a car that could self evacuate from a cyclone would certainly lower premiums by a lot more than 80%.
As your are walking to it to evacuate yourself... I think the liability lawsuits might be worse...
If car auto-pilot is like auto-correct, we're all going to die in really funny ways. No matter what the results of this survey say.
Or if it is navigated by Apple Maps. Lots of potential for error here.
You've pumped oil out from under the ground. That leaves a big ass hole. Perhaps the hole is changing shape because it is no longer supported?
That is the purpose of pumping gas back in to the big ass-hole
Of course, no one is pumping any gas back into the empty aquafers... I wonder if that could be related?
Until you figure out why CO2 injection causes problems at one oilfield, and not its neighbors, even though all of them have had similar amounts of CO2 injected, it seems rather more likely than not that the CO2 injection had nothing to do with the tremors.
And it couldn't be the Texas drought for the past three years... I mean what would drought have to do with land settling?
If you bought a copy, found iout ater it had huge problems and a pirate copy is the only way to get a usable product, then go for it. You bought it and can do what you want. But that's totally different than pirating it from the get go simply because it has DRM and you don't like that.
And after doing this a few times, wouldn't a reasonable and intelegent person just skip the first step that they knew would only cause frustration?
They didn't pull out of Steam over any sort of philosophical disagreement, they did it because they wanted all of the pie.
But I don't like shit pie...
If you really feel this way, demand a refund. They will only care if enough people do. But if all they do is bitch, but keep buying, guess what?
You totally missed every little bit of my point. (And no, it has nothing to do with you not understand terms like theft vs infringement.)
The entire fucking point of DRM is to prevent piracy. It prevented it not at all. The pirated copy is out before the legal copy for much of the world. However, it did massively inconvenience many paying customers. People pirate for lots of reasons; It is free, it is not supporting "the man," it is "l337!" But there is one other big reason now; The pirated version is a superior product! I know lots of people who buy a game, has trouble installing, and then get the pirated version so they can play. It doesn't take much of that before they just skip the painful step of bothering with the legal copy...
Sorry... That was the first patch. The game is here... http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9114398/Battlefield_4-RELOADED
How is that DRM supposed to work again?