They are paying to spam your mailbox with those CDs. They pay for the CDs and the postage. Thus there is a check on how pervasive it can be. Note that you don't get 40 CDs a day from them.
Seriously. I realize AOL has the deep pockets, but the spammers are the cause of AOL's blocking email from the domain. The spammers, not AOL, are responsible for any monetary damages the plaintiff here suffers. Public policy dictates that AOL should be immune and the spammers who spammed from that address should be liable. Does everyone have the right to send email to AOL addresses? I would say no, although AOL should have to say "hey, when you have an account with us there are people who will be unable to email you."
Keep in mind, california 1) is insane; and 2) is home to Hollywood, where billions of dollars is made each year by selling bad movies to the unwitting public. Which means california, out of all the 50 states, is the only one that truly has a vested interest in getting rid of (yeh right) DeCSS. The law is created by self-interest. Only we peons can say freedom of speech is in our best interest.
the point is, it's not a pit/hole, but rather a physical change (chemical, phase, color--whatever) in the medium (an organic dye). So it's not a function of how deep the hole is, as the theory of "slower burning = deeper hole" so requires.
True, in some games such as simulations (MS Flight Simulator being a good example) it is more acceptable to have many more buttons, but I still think it's excessive on purpose because of the theory that excessive = realistic (the more button/commands means the more realistic it is). An airplane cockpit has thousands of buttons, thus the game should too. I think that's flawed logic and leads to a very unplayable game. As a rule of thumb, if I can't pick up the controller and figure out how to play it within 30 seconds, the game has shitty controls and won't be fun (note: "play" in this case doesn't mean 30 seconds to figure out all the secret moves).
Whether she breaks it or not, she'll be charged with terrorism under the patriot act and tossed in prison for the rest of her life for trying to "hack" into a system to expose dangerous backdoors which will put our precious children in danger.. (permission doesn't matter)
This is all about controls. A good, fun racing game has an acceleration button, a brake button, and left-right steering (ex: Rad Racer from the NES). Maybe one button to shoot something if guns are involved. But nowadays companies compete not by the quality of the games, but by having more active buttons in the game than the competition. It's quite stupid and it really ruins the games. Ever notice that each new generation video game system's controller has about 2-4 more buttons on it than the last generation system? Is it because technology allows for more buttons to be crammed on the joypad? No. A racing game that has one button for shift-up, one button for shift-down, one button for windshield wipers, one button for emergency brake, one button for regular brake, one button to change the brake pads, one button... well you get the idea, it's not fun. It ruins the fun. The inner workings of a video game should be complex (40,000,000 polygons per second) but the controls should be as simple as possible. Just because the controller has 12 buttons on it doesn't mean all of them have to be used for the game to be "realistic" or "have good play control" (quite the opposite). Games on the PC are even worse than console games... stuff like Wing Commander, Mech Warrior, all use practically every button on the qwerty keyboard to do something different during gameplay, and each sequel uses even more buttons. Sorry but I agree with nintendo, when I have to memorize an entire keyboard layout, the programmers have done a shitty job at making this game. It's not that i'm not smart enough to memorize what 40+ buttons do. I don't have the time and I don't care. up down left right a, b. That's all I feel like learning to play a fucking video game. No game should need more than 6 buttons, EVER (and Street Fighter 2 is the ONLY one).
If so, they do a poor job at it. I'd rather attribute this to laziness rather than incompetence. Laziness before incompetence before malice, remember? So, I'd say the answer is no--they do not validate incoming info.
heheh, well I stand corrected. So, I guess we should be glad MS is reading usenet and seeing who is contributing. As long as they're not censoring people who aren't or tracking our DNA, etc... in all honesty I don't see a problem. All this can do is encourage people (even in the slightest bit) to be helpful and volunteer assistance/info on public usenet forums. I don't see any big brother issues here.
Yes, and wealthy Democrats are just as capable of buying themselves another election as wealthy Republicans are. The only difference between a democrat and a republican is the latter believes jesus and government must be united, not divided. Other than that, they're exactly the same. John F. Kerry gets $200 haircuts.
That's only for MS employees, it seems. I mean an award for contributing to usenet, not as a MS employee. Plus, I don't see anything about a shiny award certificate! Only a "non-monetary" award of some software.
If MS were to give me a nice, shiny "valuable contributor" certificate I could hang on my wall, I'd probably be okay with this. Officially being told "I am valuable" by billy G would be the highlight of my life. That is, as long as they don't give one to those assholes who always post spam on usenet. Knowing MS, that's probably what they mean by "contribute."
I think the key to his argument is "destroying the value OF whom?" But that's a straw man argument.
Destroying the value of other people's products is the essense of capitalistic competition through innovation. The car destroyed the value of the horse and buggy. The refrigerator destroyed the value of delivering ice blocks to people's homes. The Xerox machine destroyed the value of being a scrivener. The Internet destroyed the value of selling recorded music. Just read an article in Wired about a machine that produces perfect, flawless diamonds (artificial only in how it was made). That most certainly destroys the value of owning a diamond mine. Poor deBeers? No way. There's nothing wrong with this. Quite the contrary, it's the nature of human progress. The round wheel destroyed the value of the square wheel. Of course today in america, the makers of square wheels would be able to sue circle wheel makers into bankruptcy and have them tossed in jail because round ones are a derivative work that infringes their copyright (A copyright instead of a patent? Sure in america you get your choice, and a copyright costs nothing and lasts forever). This is because we've become a backwards, anti-capitalist corpocracy.
Facial gestures can violate a NDA. If you signed a NDA to watch an alien autopsy and agreed not to tell anyone what the aliens looked like and I came up to you and said "were they Grays? Just not your head up and down if yes"... you would violate the NDA if you nodded your head. Disclosure --> any communication (verbal or otherwise) that discloses the info you agreed not to disclose.
I'm all for it. Stick a big faraday cage around movie theaters so no signals can get in or out. That way people will not be able to use their cellphones/etc during the show. It's about courteousness and silence, not about censorship IMO. Talking on cellphones and clicking away at text messagers during a film is antisocial behavior. By all means, once you get out of the theater tell everyone how godawful the movie was.
And don't give me any "but people need cellphones to call 911" crap. There are phones in the lobby, get off your ass if there's an emergency. I understand there are some movie theaters in Canada where they already do this.
Frankly if you were sitting next to me at the theater, I'd want you to sit still and quit playing with your watch (which hopefully doesn't beep every time you touch it). When you get out of the movie, by all means, tell everyone how fucking horrible it was. But sit still and stay quiet during the movie, especially if you're sitting next to me.
I'm all fucking for it. If you pay $10 to see a movie you should not be yapping on or typing on your cellphone; you should be quiet and watch the damn movie. Let them complain about you ragging on the movie AFTER you leave the theater. I really want to hear them complain about that, as that would be funnier.
"By accepting the terms of this license to watch the following movie, you agree to not say anything bad about the movie. If you cannot accept the terms of this license, please leave the theater now and ask for (but don't expect to receive) a full refund of your ticket price."
First the music industry decides to sell us justin timberlake dogshit, the economy goes sour and their sales go down and they sue us. Then the movie industry decides lesbian jennifer lopez mafia hitwoman movies with ben affleck are what the people want, the economy goes sour and their sales go down... can we expect any less from jack valenti?
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They are paying to spam your mailbox with those CDs. They pay for the CDs and the postage. Thus there is a check on how pervasive it can be. Note that you don't get 40 CDs a day from them.
Seriously. I realize AOL has the deep pockets, but the spammers are the cause of AOL's blocking email from the domain. The spammers, not AOL, are responsible for any monetary damages the plaintiff here suffers. Public policy dictates that AOL should be immune and the spammers who spammed from that address should be liable. Does everyone have the right to send email to AOL addresses? I would say no, although AOL should have to say "hey, when you have an account with us there are people who will be unable to email you."
Keep in mind, california 1) is insane; and 2) is home to Hollywood, where billions of dollars is made each year by selling bad movies to the unwitting public. Which means california, out of all the 50 states, is the only one that truly has a vested interest in getting rid of (yeh right) DeCSS. The law is created by self-interest. Only we peons can say freedom of speech is in our best interest.
the point is, it's not a pit/hole, but rather a physical change (chemical, phase, color--whatever) in the medium (an organic dye). So it's not a function of how deep the hole is, as the theory of "slower burning = deeper hole" so requires.
troll? I wish this were so insane as to be a troll post. watch it happen
True, in some games such as simulations (MS Flight Simulator being a good example) it is more acceptable to have many more buttons, but I still think it's excessive on purpose because of the theory that excessive = realistic (the more button/commands means the more realistic it is). An airplane cockpit has thousands of buttons, thus the game should too. I think that's flawed logic and leads to a very unplayable game. As a rule of thumb, if I can't pick up the controller and figure out how to play it within 30 seconds, the game has shitty controls and won't be fun (note: "play" in this case doesn't mean 30 seconds to figure out all the secret moves).
Whether she breaks it or not, she'll be charged with terrorism under the patriot act and tossed in prison for the rest of her life for trying to "hack" into a system to expose dangerous backdoors which will put our precious children in danger.. (permission doesn't matter)
This is all about controls. A good, fun racing game has an acceleration button, a brake button, and left-right steering (ex: Rad Racer from the NES). Maybe one button to shoot something if guns are involved. But nowadays companies compete not by the quality of the games, but by having more active buttons in the game than the competition. It's quite stupid and it really ruins the games. Ever notice that each new generation video game system's controller has about 2-4 more buttons on it than the last generation system? Is it because technology allows for more buttons to be crammed on the joypad? No. A racing game that has one button for shift-up, one button for shift-down, one button for windshield wipers, one button for emergency brake, one button for regular brake, one button to change the brake pads, one button... well you get the idea, it's not fun. It ruins the fun. The inner workings of a video game should be complex (40,000,000 polygons per second) but the controls should be as simple as possible. Just because the controller has 12 buttons on it doesn't mean all of them have to be used for the game to be "realistic" or "have good play control" (quite the opposite). Games on the PC are even worse than console games... stuff like Wing Commander, Mech Warrior, all use practically every button on the qwerty keyboard to do something different during gameplay, and each sequel uses even more buttons. Sorry but I agree with nintendo, when I have to memorize an entire keyboard layout, the programmers have done a shitty job at making this game. It's not that i'm not smart enough to memorize what 40+ buttons do. I don't have the time and I don't care. up down left right a, b. That's all I feel like learning to play a fucking video game. No game should need more than 6 buttons, EVER (and Street Fighter 2 is the ONLY one).
The same way you can drink too much alcohol--by not stopping when you should.
If so, they do a poor job at it. I'd rather attribute this to laziness rather than incompetence. Laziness before incompetence before malice, remember? So, I'd say the answer is no--they do not validate incoming info.
heheh, well I stand corrected. So, I guess we should be glad MS is reading usenet and seeing who is contributing. As long as they're not censoring people who aren't or tracking our DNA, etc... in all honesty I don't see a problem. All this can do is encourage people (even in the slightest bit) to be helpful and volunteer assistance/info on public usenet forums. I don't see any big brother issues here.
Yes, and wealthy Democrats are just as capable of buying themselves another election as wealthy Republicans are. The only difference between a democrat and a republican is the latter believes jesus and government must be united, not divided. Other than that, they're exactly the same. John F. Kerry gets $200 haircuts.
That's only for MS employees, it seems. I mean an award for contributing to usenet, not as a MS employee. Plus, I don't see anything about a shiny award certificate! Only a "non-monetary" award of some software.
If MS were to give me a nice, shiny "valuable contributor" certificate I could hang on my wall, I'd probably be okay with this. Officially being told "I am valuable" by billy G would be the highlight of my life. That is, as long as they don't give one to those assholes who always post spam on usenet. Knowing MS, that's probably what they mean by "contribute."
I think the key to his argument is "destroying the value OF whom?" But that's a straw man argument.
Destroying the value of other people's products is the essense of capitalistic competition through innovation. The car destroyed the value of the horse and buggy. The refrigerator destroyed the value of delivering ice blocks to people's homes. The Xerox machine destroyed the value of being a scrivener. The Internet destroyed the value of selling recorded music. Just read an article in Wired about a machine that produces perfect, flawless diamonds (artificial only in how it was made). That most certainly destroys the value of owning a diamond mine. Poor deBeers? No way. There's nothing wrong with this. Quite the contrary, it's the nature of human progress. The round wheel destroyed the value of the square wheel. Of course today in america, the makers of square wheels would be able to sue circle wheel makers into bankruptcy and have them tossed in jail because round ones are a derivative work that infringes their copyright (A copyright instead of a patent? Sure in america you get your choice, and a copyright costs nothing and lasts forever). This is because we've become a backwards, anti-capitalist corpocracy.
I'd vote for banning that from theaters, too. But that makes theaters (lots of) money, whereas cellphones don't... so it's unlikely to happen.
Don't forget, the public owns stock, so they're one in the same :)
Facial gestures can violate a NDA. If you signed a NDA to watch an alien autopsy and agreed not to tell anyone what the aliens looked like and I came up to you and said "were they Grays? Just not your head up and down if yes" ... you would violate the NDA if you nodded your head. Disclosure --> any communication (verbal or otherwise) that discloses the info you agreed not to disclose.
I'm all for it. Stick a big faraday cage around movie theaters so no signals can get in or out. That way people will not be able to use their cellphones/etc during the show. It's about courteousness and silence, not about censorship IMO. Talking on cellphones and clicking away at text messagers during a film is antisocial behavior. By all means, once you get out of the theater tell everyone how godawful the movie was.
And don't give me any "but people need cellphones to call 911" crap. There are phones in the lobby, get off your ass if there's an emergency. I understand there are some movie theaters in Canada where they already do this.
Hopefully they'll be fair and balanced (tm) about it.
Frankly if you were sitting next to me at the theater, I'd want you to sit still and quit playing with your watch (which hopefully doesn't beep every time you touch it). When you get out of the movie, by all means, tell everyone how fucking horrible it was. But sit still and stay quiet during the movie, especially if you're sitting next to me.
TIA returns in yet another form.
I'm all fucking for it. If you pay $10 to see a movie you should not be yapping on or typing on your cellphone; you should be quiet and watch the damn movie. Let them complain about you ragging on the movie AFTER you leave the theater. I really want to hear them complain about that, as that would be funnier.
"By accepting the terms of this license to watch the following movie, you agree to not say anything bad about the movie. If you cannot accept the terms of this license, please leave the theater now and ask for (but don't expect to receive) a full refund of your ticket price."
First the music industry decides to sell us justin timberlake dogshit, the economy goes sour and their sales go down and they sue us. Then the movie industry decides lesbian jennifer lopez mafia hitwoman movies with ben affleck are what the people want, the economy goes sour and their sales go down... can we expect any less from jack valenti?
"Killing people" isn't something "to the guys who..." Killing them may work. We do it here in texas all the time.