Note that I didn't comment on sentencing guidelines. In that respect, I'm with you guys. Filesharing does not constitute an imprisonable crime. Personally, I say financial penalties more than compensate for the offense.
My beef is with those who claim some fictional moral high ground, when in their heart of hearts, they just want to download free tunes and porn on Morpheus. I don't personally give a crap about the filesharers themselves. Go ahead and share Britney songs, doesn't affect me greatly. Just don't tell me you're doing it for some noble cause, and play the martyr when your IP gets plucked.
Cry me a river. Fileswappers make me laugh. You break a copyright, you get sued. It's black and white. YES, music companies charge too much. YES, the MPAA and RIAA act like a bunch of nazi lawyer goons. But you know what? You broke the law.
Big business nothin. Copyrights were made to protect businesses for good reasons, among those reasons are people like you. You have a problem with copyrighting, do something constructive to get rid of the problems (and yes there are many). But don't go crying foul when someone sues you for not paying for services rendered.
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Wow, thanks. I'll be sure and let my Dad know that his 24.5 years of working for the same company were obviously not productive enough.
Isn't it funny how we all become unproductive just before retirement?
F=ing Troll.
The Republicans are fascists.
I get tired of that old line. Look here. Now tell me your precious Dems are wearing unstained white.
For the record, I adhere to neither agenda. They both piss me off these days. I just hate hypocrisy, and seeing as they're all awash in it, I'm pretty sure we're farked no matter who gets the nod.
If Katie T really has anything to do with this fiasco? My money says that the publisher is the ass-hat with the big stick, and they're acting "in the best interest of their client." Never mind that those same actions parrallel the lining of the publisher's pockets.
As if I needed another reason to make the switch...
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Pretty much, yea. But I still can't think of any other game involving religion, aside from that really abyssmal FPS that came out years ago. 'Course that was written by Christians for Christians, but it just BLEW all around.
Well, for any number of Biblical documents, there are actually historical references to go by. Obviously, the bible isn't the only surviving text from that era.
I do agree with the Cowards who've posted saying they think the most intense brainwaves should move the ball forward, but I wonder if we don't run into a measuring problem. Is it indeed more difficult to calm one's brainwaves than to excite them? Reminds me of the game show The Chair from a few years back. It always seemed like it should have been easier to stay relaxed. Granted, the Chair measured heart rate, but the process to control relax either measurement ought to be the same, right?
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I don't wish to get too involved, but just a ferinstance: Sir Isaac Newton was a Christian, and believed that there was no competition between the belief in mathematics and physics and one's faith in a benevolent Creator. This in a time when it was actually en vogue to flaunt one's disdain of religion in favor of scientific explanation of the world. I think we can all agree Sir Newton wasn't exactly a slouch in the IQ.
Not saying anyone's right or wrong, just saying that there are examples on both sides. I get irked by fanatical blindness on either side.
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I think perhaps he was pointing to culture as a whole. The only game reference I can think of off-hand is possibly the religious fanatics of the Fallout series, and that's a stretch.
That said, even if the the reference was to American culture, it doesn't pan out. Christianity is no more ridiculed than any other religion and much less so than most. Ask any - oh, I don't know - Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Bhuddist, Hari Krishna...I could continue.
Not going to get into an arguement over this, but it's worth noting that any serious biblical scholar, be they Christian themselves or not, considers Job to be a fictional story, told to deliver a point.
There never was a Job.
Noah, on the other hand, I have no answer for. I'll leave that to the fundies.
Good Christ! So the only option I have is to roll over, accept constant surveillance, and just become a paranoid twitch, thereby doing BB's work for him?
No thank you. I refuse to believe that's the only way out.
They do this in Arizona already, actually (according to my old roommate). They'll cut everything but the action, and can fit a complete baseball game into a half-hour to an hour's broadcast.
Never having been to Arizona, I can't testify to the truth of this. Anyone wanna chime in?
Not gonna happen. Conflicting networks share a spotlight? Doubtful.
Although, it'd be a perfect way to draw Jeopardy viewers away, considering they both air in the same timeslot...hmm...you may be on to something after all.
our country is basically run by a bunch of Puritans
Seriously, do you even own a TV?? Turn on primetime TV on any given station and tell me that we're a nation of Puritans. Honestly, if you can call a nation that can turn out "Temptation Island" a nation of Puritans, you must throw some wicked parties.
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Note that I didn't comment on sentencing guidelines. In that respect, I'm with you guys. Filesharing does not constitute an imprisonable crime. Personally, I say financial penalties more than compensate for the offense.
My beef is with those who claim some fictional moral high ground, when in their heart of hearts, they just want to download free tunes and porn on Morpheus. I don't personally give a crap about the filesharers themselves. Go ahead and share Britney songs, doesn't affect me greatly. Just don't tell me you're doing it for some noble cause, and play the martyr when your IP gets plucked.
Cry me a river. Fileswappers make me laugh. You break a copyright, you get sued. It's black and white. YES, music companies charge too much. YES, the MPAA and RIAA act like a bunch of nazi lawyer goons. But you know what? You broke the law.
Big business nothin. Copyrights were made to protect businesses for good reasons, among those reasons are people like you. You have a problem with copyrighting, do something constructive to get rid of the problems (and yes there are many). But don't go crying foul when someone sues you for not paying for services rendered.
Wow, thanks. I'll be sure and let my Dad know that his 24.5 years of working for the same company were obviously not productive enough. Isn't it funny how we all become unproductive just before retirement? F=ing Troll.
...or come finals time, you'll never get a moment's rest. And that is a serious suggestion.
The Republicans are fascists. I get tired of that old line. Look here. Now tell me your precious Dems are wearing unstained white. For the record, I adhere to neither agenda. They both piss me off these days. I just hate hypocrisy, and seeing as they're all awash in it, I'm pretty sure we're farked no matter who gets the nod.
Guess I'll just be taking that car I've seen you driving around. I mean, since it's not really yours and all...
Um...what?
...and an n50, incidentally...
Both of these models will actually output text in normal applications already, no modding required (running XP).
Maybe all that needs to be done to make this usable in a windows environment is to whip up a profile via the included customizing software
If Katie T really has anything to do with this fiasco? My money says that the publisher is the ass-hat with the big stick, and they're acting "in the best interest of their client." Never mind that those same actions parrallel the lining of the publisher's pockets.
BonziBuddy doesn't run on it
As if I needed another reason to make the switch...
Pretty much, yea. But I still can't think of any other game involving religion, aside from that really abyssmal FPS that came out years ago. 'Course that was written by Christians for Christians, but it just BLEW all around.
Well, for any number of Biblical documents, there are actually historical references to go by. Obviously, the bible isn't the only surviving text from that era.
I do agree with the Cowards who've posted saying they think the most intense brainwaves should move the ball forward, but I wonder if we don't run into a measuring problem. Is it indeed more difficult to calm one's brainwaves than to excite them? Reminds me of the game show The Chair from a few years back. It always seemed like it should have been easier to stay relaxed. Granted, the Chair measured heart rate, but the process to control relax either measurement ought to be the same, right?
WTF is an Ashley Judd comment?
Good man.
I don't wish to get too involved, but just a ferinstance: Sir Isaac Newton was a Christian, and believed that there was no competition between the belief in mathematics and physics and one's faith in a benevolent Creator. This in a time when it was actually en vogue to flaunt one's disdain of religion in favor of scientific explanation of the world. I think we can all agree Sir Newton wasn't exactly a slouch in the IQ. Not saying anyone's right or wrong, just saying that there are examples on both sides. I get irked by fanatical blindness on either side.
I think perhaps he was pointing to culture as a whole. The only game reference I can think of off-hand is possibly the religious fanatics of the Fallout series, and that's a stretch. That said, even if the the reference was to American culture, it doesn't pan out. Christianity is no more ridiculed than any other religion and much less so than most. Ask any - oh, I don't know - Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Bhuddist, Hari Krishna...I could continue.
Not going to get into an arguement over this, but it's worth noting that any serious biblical scholar, be they Christian themselves or not, considers Job to be a fictional story, told to deliver a point.
There never was a Job.
Noah, on the other hand, I have no answer for. I'll leave that to the fundies.
Good Christ! So the only option I have is to roll over, accept constant surveillance, and just become a paranoid twitch, thereby doing BB's work for him? No thank you. I refuse to believe that's the only way out.
Haven't watched baseball regularly since George Brett retired. Maybe being a Royals fan did it to me...
They do this in Arizona already, actually (according to my old roommate). They'll cut everything but the action, and can fit a complete baseball game into a half-hour to an hour's broadcast. Never having been to Arizona, I can't testify to the truth of this. Anyone wanna chime in?
Not gonna happen. Conflicting networks share a spotlight? Doubtful. Although, it'd be a perfect way to draw Jeopardy viewers away, considering they both air in the same timeslot...hmm...you may be on to something after all.
http://www.reuniting.info/GBscience.htm
Some facts to back him up.
UCLA != ACLU
UCLA is a school. ACLU is not. Tada!
our country is basically run by a bunch of Puritans
Seriously, do you even own a TV?? Turn on primetime TV on any given station and tell me that we're a nation of Puritans. Honestly, if you can call a nation that can turn out "Temptation Island" a nation of Puritans, you must throw some wicked parties.