---How about to support the developers and testers? Perhaps you're unhappy with the publishers - they aren't making it easy to play the game - but is that really a reason to take the labors of all the programmers, artists, testers, and game designers for free? What about the owners of the company that brought all those people together, paid them, and provided the tools and environment to work in?
Not my problem.
I dont rate each of them independently. I rate it as one big blob.. and it has DRM on it.
Like I said, if you respect us, we'll respect you. If not, Ill make sure anybody who wants it for free and no DRM will have it for free and NO drm.
If you push drm, I WANT YOU BANKRUPT. It will just eventually lead to trusted computing and TCPA gunk. Do not want.
And for those that claim that Islam is the "peaceful religion" and all that, go read this.
That place is a picture archive of Mohammed. Evidently, depicting images of Mohammed is yet another 'bad thing'. Now, read the email responses.
Yeah, real enlightened.
May allah throw you in the hell fire. You are the enemy of islam. Your abode would be fire. You are really funny with your democracy you sun of whores fuck you kafir pieces of shit please tell me where you live now and all your adress to me so i can come to your house and make new pictures using your BLOODS!!!!!!!! just wish that all yu gay shits die a veriiii nasssty death fuck your virgin mary, bastards ill see u burn in HELL....promise... ey motherfucker, i'll fuck your generation, if you do not delete this site. just wait and watch one day the 9/11 will be repeated.
Well, there's a sample from the people who follow the enlightened path of Islam. Hatred, intolerance and bigotry. That about sums it up.
For starters, I dont want to encourage any company that uses DRM or other heavy-handed techniques against users. In that regard, I dont care if they go bankrupt tomorrow. In other words, I will download games from companies that use DRM and share it with all who want the game. I wouldnt have bought it, but I'm sure there would be a few who would have.
And yes, I have bought a whole 1 game that wasnt infested with DRM. And no, Sins of a Solar Empire was started with no DRM, but is now encrusted with it. A bait-n-switch.
Most game companies make a repeat of Quake or Unreal. Boring. Yet another FPS with 10 new weapons, or addon of vehicles, or different "classes" dont make the main idea of first person shooter any better. I have plenty of fun with Q3Arena and Unreal Tournament... and they run on every machine including Intel GFX cards.
The interesting games like Spore are intentionally dumbed down and will be released later as "add-on packs". Yep. They're probably already done, but they wait so they can charge yet another 30-50$ for it. Not to mention charging to create content for their setup. And then getting punished for buying it via their DRM.
And in the RTS, we see a new Starcraft.. Purttier graphics. yay. Where's the RTS that can handle armies of 10k units per player with up to 10 players? Where's the one that simulates real war?
In fact, computer game companies have actively killed off computer gaming, with exception to indie, old, and free games. That's what is keeping it going. Game companies want more "rights" to your computer than they should ever have... and they're paying the price. Our computers are NOT thier consoles. Too bad they think it is such.
And when you paid miney for SPORE, you monetarily encouraged and told EA that DRM is perfectly acceptable. That is wrong.
The only thing that any of these big companies understand is LOSS OF MONEY. That's it. When it hits their bottom line is the minute they care. Corporate charter demands only that. Badmouthing them and then buying it just encourages them.
The proper answer to what EA has one: Pirate it, and give it to every friend who indicates that they would like to play it. Hit them in the pocket book.
If it piques my interest (and most games dont), I'll go get a pirate friendly copy. If reviews indicate that you infest DRM or other anti-user techniques in the software, I will NOT buy. I will instead spread the pirate copies that are fixed versions. If I can ruin your business by reducing the money you will make, you MIGHT get the idea. If you dont, too bad. Not my problem.
If you respect the user in the regular copies, I'll make sure that others know about it and encourage them to buy. I'll most likely buy when I get the chance... if it's in reasonable grasp (box stores, your website with a CC) and a good game. Some times, what I think might be a god game, just isn't. They get deleted.
The key here: crackers and piraters here will not stop at anything to "do a challenge". You cannot defeat them. Instead, you can rally support by treating your paying customers honorably and respectfully. Many companies think that since they pay, they deserve crap treatment. Instead, the pirate copy users have less crashes due to drm and overall better user experience.
I've been burnt by crippleware that I couldnt return, nor could I play. I see no reason other than to download and try ON MY TERMS, as your industry has forced that upon us. And once I have the better quality pirate copy, why even buy?
Total Annihilation, with a patch, allows 5000 units per side. Up to 10 sides.
It is a bit unstable with that amount though, as it was originally made for 200 per side. A recent rewrite by a modder , called TAWP, allows stably 1000 units per side, with many enhancements in the scripting and units in general. It also beefs up the AI script so that it uses all technology equally.
The TAWP mod was made for overall fairness in fighting between each other regardless of side picked (Arm or Core) however choices for each do differ drastically. I've played 9 players and 1 AI in a nice game that lasted 4.5 hours. Damn fun considering the nastiness of each side. And when the spider called the Cyberoth gets out, not even 10 nukes can stop that damned thing. Took me a half an hour to build though..
Im not even talking about mod tools. If you want to though.... 5000+ new units each with unique models, and those are the good ones.
And you have no clue on balance when there's a force 1000 strong against a enemy base. Me and my ally would go against the enemy (and their ally) and would routinely get slaughtered... and they would send their wave on us.
On the modded versions we play, we have mech facilities, extremly long range cannons mounted on expensive vehicles, redesign on every unit to create better balance, and overall more units for general mayhem on each player.
Let me know when a Starcraft game will have 10000 units on the field at once. I've been in games with twice that at maximum.
I was always a Total Annihilation guy. Whenever I played Starcraft, I thought the whole game layout was just dumb.
In TA, if I want to build a hundred rocket kbots, I hold shift and click on it 20 times (shift increments +5). Then I wait a bit, and they're done and hanging around. In Starcraft, nope. You cant. If I want a hundred zerg, I need to babysit the hive they come out of and keep the damned clicking. ANNOYING.
In TA, if I can afford it, I can have 100 nuke facilities each building 10 nukes. No limits on how many I can have, nor is there a limit on how many can be in the build queue. The Humans in SC could only build 1, and using that weak beacon dude was more of a PITA, and then the rush for the dot.. WTF? Antinukes stop nukes, not some "dot disarmer". Should have had protection from the nukes.
The maps in TA are also well laid out, and many have nasty hidden holes in which porcs can camp in, and cut-off points that are nasty as hell. In SC, the maps themselves are a maze to figure out where the resources are. A experienced player using a new map on TA can easily learn it. A new map on SC however, turns out a exercise in futility.
Also the extremely-long cannons make long distance games fun... Dont take out our fusions and you'll be shelled from 20 screens away. There's no such long-distance game in SC.
Air can only be fought back by "special anti-air units". Lame. They should have done it the same way that TA did it: in the config file for units, there was a vs_ground vs_air vs_sea modifiers that could be tailored against a class of units. Even in our military, an AK47 can take down a low-flying helicoptor, but will NEVER touch a 70k feet bomber.
---Voters have 2 viable choices this November. While voting for Mickey Mouse will do your heart good, doing so is just a waste of your time and you're better off just staying in the pub.
You are indeed correct saying that there are 2 viable choices, but they both will do the country worse. I have no preconceived notions that one candidate is somehow better than another. They both suck.. just in different ways.
---The world and economy we have today is the result of 12 years of total republican control. The second Clinton term in which he was made to run in circles dodging Newt's republican fireballs, and 8 years of dubya. The last 2 years of dubya still count as the republican minority has continued to maintain influence and policy over the submissive Dems.
IIRC, the R's did not have a supermajority, and therefore Clinton could have vetoed every bill the R's pass... as long as the D's dont waver.
In the real world, the R's and D's have similar goals: make government bigger and spend more money. They just happen to differ on a few choice issues.
---The damage the Bush crime family have done is extensive. Don't expect miracles overnight. The debt will take years of taxes to pay down to a manageable level. And yes, I have seen Obama's tax proposals. His tax breaks are mostly going to incomes less than $250M. Also, while you are liberally throwing around catchy sound bytes of "European Socialism", what the fuck do you consider Bush's trillion $ bailout of his banker buddies and family members that skimmed 10 billion in bonus's to themselves just before filing for bankruptcy?
I have no issue with European Socialism. However, people need to know what it will do to taxes, and what its implications to our economy and our businesses and our citizens. Many dont realize that many European nations spend 1/4 of their GDP on healthcare per year.
I'm also up for using a interesting law in our constitution against these idiot bankers: Eminent Domain. They want us to bail them out. Well... Why not take control of them if they are THAT critical to our infrastructure?
And lastly... Bush Crime Family? Sheesh. Lose the loaded language. Last I recall, the recent president who was founded of crimes and impeached (over Perjury, a high crime) was Clinton. I care not for his sexual preference, but what would happen if YOU were to lie to a judge in a high court? Nothing good, I presume.
---Weighing all factors, the future is indeed grim. But I prefer to hold out for hope that one day we will elect some individual that is a smart person, and willing to work for the country and not for Haliburton's and Exxon's profit margins.
Damn straight it's grim. I'm 26 years old, facing loan cutbacks, paying in Social Security and will likely see nothing of it, and paying excessive taxes without the benefit that our European brethren. I pay so damn much in taxes... gas taxes, AMT, phone taxes, taxes on taxes, taxes on tax returns.. How much do WE actually pay in taxes, and what do we get back from it?
---I have to hold out for hope, I'm not quite ready for the prospect of Mad Max and cannibalism.
Well.. the way McCain is talking about Russia and Iran, it's almost as if he's already preparing to shift troops to Georgia and/or Iran. Yum... Draft. I dont know of any other ways that they can raise troop levels.
I didnt understand why Gnome (currently on Ibex) used standard mounts via FUSE but made desktop links that didnt work with 90% of the apps out there (non-gnome). However, it seems that others grumbled about this very problem too, and it has been solved....reloads package update for todays Ibex update... Yep. more updates for Nautilus.
---Actually, the GVFS devs went out of their way to support non-gnome apps, through the use of FUSE. Any app can access.gvfs shares. Just because the directory is hidden doesn't mean you can't use it from non-gvfs apps. Just make a symlink if the hidden directory bothers you so much!
Well, obviously! After looking at mtab, I found out what they did. I can easily make a symlink. That's NOT my issue.
Gnome creates a link on the desktop. This link is some Gnome-only link that non-gnome apps CAN NOT USE. If instead, it created a link to ~/.gvfs/$share , then all applications could use that link.
As of now, I have to patch around Gnomish ways that Just Dont Work.
You know what? Basic SMB mounting doesnt even work right in Ubuntu. Instead, it mounts crap via ~/.gvfs and fake handles for Gnome-only apps.
Instead, if Ubuntu used standard mounting techniques, it would mount as something sane like ~/mnt/$computer/$share_name/ so that all programs could use it easily.
Most likely, this ZFS setup uses the same non-standard techniques that make the features ONLY for gnome programs.
Thanks to bi-party cooperation, third party candidates will not be considered as viable, regardless of evidence otherwise.
George Bush and Dukakis (sp?) made sure of that during the '88 elections, in which they perpetrated a fraud by scamming all presidential debates from then on.
Even though, I agree with many libertarian ideas, they will not get in. People have been trained to go only R and D.
We have X "issues". Abortion, Iraq, Bank Bailout, et cetera. They key is we have more than 1 issue.
1 issue is pro or con. Yes or no. 1 or 0. 2^1 2 issues is 2^2 and so on.
Now, let us say that we have 10 hot issues (though this is not the case, as these change due to major happenings). This represents 2^10 or 1024 possible combinations. Each candidate has issue set equal to some number on either agree or disagree. Since the R and D are different, they are both unique to their answer set.
Because of that, many people who do vote based upon issues must be binary in their decision. It's either D for Yes on abortion or R for...whatever they stand for now. There is no in-between for those who have liberal social views and conservative monetary views.
But cheap and good enough DID win. Upscaled DVD.
Sales records indicate that not many are buying BluRay.
---How about to support the developers and testers? Perhaps you're unhappy with the publishers - they aren't making it easy to play the game - but is that really a reason to take the labors of all the programmers, artists, testers, and game designers for free? What about the owners of the company that brought all those people together, paid them, and provided the tools and environment to work in?
Not my problem.
I dont rate each of them independently. I rate it as one big blob.. and it has DRM on it.
Like I said, if you respect us, we'll respect you. If not, Ill make sure anybody who wants it for free and no DRM will have it for free and NO drm.
If you push drm, I WANT YOU BANKRUPT. It will just eventually lead to trusted computing and TCPA gunk. Do not want.
And for those that claim that Islam is the "peaceful religion" and all that, go read this.
That place is a picture archive of Mohammed. Evidently, depicting images of Mohammed is yet another 'bad thing'. Now, read the email responses.
Yeah, real enlightened.
May allah throw you in the hell fire. ....promise...
You are the enemy of islam. Your abode would be fire.
You are really funny with your democracy you sun of whores
fuck you kafir pieces of shit
please tell me where you live now and all your adress to me so i can come to your house and make new pictures using your BLOODS!!!!!!!!
just wish that all yu gay shits die a veriiii nasssty death
fuck your virgin mary, bastards
ill see u burn in HELL
ey motherfucker, i'll fuck your generation, if you do not delete this site.
just wait and watch one day the 9/11 will be repeated.
Well, there's a sample from the people who follow the enlightened path of Islam. Hatred, intolerance and bigotry. That about sums it up.
I forget who exactly said this, but one of their upper figures said they will not rest until Washington DC is under Sharia.
Do you know what we call a "Prophet" whomarries a 6 year old?
A pedophile.
For starters, I dont want to encourage any company that uses DRM or other heavy-handed techniques against users. In that regard, I dont care if they go bankrupt tomorrow. In other words, I will download games from companies that use DRM and share it with all who want the game. I wouldnt have bought it, but I'm sure there would be a few who would have.
And yes, I have bought a whole 1 game that wasnt infested with DRM. And no, Sins of a Solar Empire was started with no DRM, but is now encrusted with it. A bait-n-switch.
Most game companies make a repeat of Quake or Unreal. Boring. Yet another FPS with 10 new weapons, or addon of vehicles, or different "classes" dont make the main idea of first person shooter any better. I have plenty of fun with Q3Arena and Unreal Tournament... and they run on every machine including Intel GFX cards.
The interesting games like Spore are intentionally dumbed down and will be released later as "add-on packs". Yep. They're probably already done, but they wait so they can charge yet another 30-50$ for it. Not to mention charging to create content for their setup. And then getting punished for buying it via their DRM.
And in the RTS, we see a new Starcraft.. Purttier graphics. yay. Where's the RTS that can handle armies of 10k units per player with up to 10 players? Where's the one that simulates real war?
In fact, computer game companies have actively killed off computer gaming, with exception to indie, old, and free games. That's what is keeping it going. Game companies want more "rights" to your computer than they should ever have... and they're paying the price. Our computers are NOT thier consoles. Too bad they think it is such.
I already have a DRM Bill of Rights.
It's called Thepiratebay. No DRM. Working cracks and good serials. No anti-user crap.
Why pay to get punished when pirating works better?
Here's a beta of TAWP.H
TAWP's website is currently offline, so I cant get the TAWP.G release.
What?! You paid for that DRM encrusted pile of shit? Feeling taken advantage of?
Take matters into your own hands. Here's a Free Download of Spore, minus the DRM and other nasties.
Next time, check Piratebay BEFORE you buy.
And when you paid miney for SPORE, you monetarily encouraged and told EA that DRM is perfectly acceptable. That is wrong.
The only thing that any of these big companies understand is LOSS OF MONEY. That's it. When it hits their bottom line is the minute they care. Corporate charter demands only that. Badmouthing them and then buying it just encourages them.
The proper answer to what EA has one: Pirate it, and give it to every friend who indicates that they would like to play it. Hit them in the pocket book.
My rule:
If it piques my interest (and most games dont), I'll go get a pirate friendly copy.
If reviews indicate that you infest DRM or other anti-user techniques in the software, I will NOT buy. I will instead spread the pirate copies that are fixed versions.
If I can ruin your business by reducing the money you will make, you MIGHT get the idea. If you dont, too bad. Not my problem.
If you respect the user in the regular copies, I'll make sure that others know about it and encourage them to buy. I'll most likely buy when I get the chance... if it's in reasonable grasp (box stores, your website with a CC) and a good game. Some times, what I think might be a god game, just isn't. They get deleted.
The key here: crackers and piraters here will not stop at anything to "do a challenge". You cannot defeat them. Instead, you can rally support by treating your paying customers honorably and respectfully. Many companies think that since they pay, they deserve crap treatment. Instead, the pirate copy users have less crashes due to drm and overall better user experience.
I've been burnt by crippleware that I couldnt return, nor could I play. I see no reason other than to download and try ON MY TERMS, as your industry has forced that upon us. And once I have the better quality pirate copy, why even buy?
Total Annihilation, with a patch, allows 5000 units per side. Up to 10 sides.
It is a bit unstable with that amount though, as it was originally made for 200 per side. A recent rewrite by a modder , called TAWP, allows stably 1000 units per side, with many enhancements in the scripting and units in general. It also beefs up the AI script so that it uses all technology equally.
The TAWP mod was made for overall fairness in fighting between each other regardless of side picked (Arm or Core) however choices for each do differ drastically. I've played 9 players and 1 AI in a nice game that lasted 4.5 hours. Damn fun considering the nastiness of each side. And when the spider called the Cyberoth gets out, not even 10 nukes can stop that damned thing. Took me a half an hour to build though..
Im not even talking about mod tools. If you want to though.... 5000+ new units each with unique models, and those are the good ones.
And you have no clue on balance when there's a force 1000 strong against a enemy base. Me and my ally would go against the enemy (and their ally) and would routinely get slaughtered... and they would send their wave on us.
On the modded versions we play, we have mech facilities, extremly long range cannons mounted on expensive vehicles, redesign on every unit to create better balance, and overall more units for general mayhem on each player.
Let me know when a Starcraft game will have 10000 units on the field at once. I've been in games with twice that at maximum.
I was always a Total Annihilation guy. Whenever I played Starcraft, I thought the whole game layout was just dumb.
In TA, if I want to build a hundred rocket kbots, I hold shift and click on it 20 times (shift increments +5). Then I wait a bit, and they're done and hanging around. In Starcraft, nope. You cant. If I want a hundred zerg, I need to babysit the hive they come out of and keep the damned clicking. ANNOYING.
In TA, if I can afford it, I can have 100 nuke facilities each building 10 nukes. No limits on how many I can have, nor is there a limit on how many can be in the build queue. The Humans in SC could only build 1, and using that weak beacon dude was more of a PITA, and then the rush for the dot.. WTF? Antinukes stop nukes, not some "dot disarmer". Should have had protection from the nukes.
The maps in TA are also well laid out, and many have nasty hidden holes in which porcs can camp in, and cut-off points that are nasty as hell. In SC, the maps themselves are a maze to figure out where the resources are. A experienced player using a new map on TA can easily learn it. A new map on SC however, turns out a exercise in futility.
Also the extremely-long cannons make long distance games fun... Dont take out our fusions and you'll be shelled from 20 screens away. There's no such long-distance game in SC.
Air can only be fought back by "special anti-air units". Lame. They should have done it the same way that TA did it: in the config file for units, there was a vs_ground vs_air vs_sea modifiers that could be tailored against a class of units. Even in our military, an AK47 can take down a low-flying helicoptor, but will NEVER touch a 70k feet bomber.
SC paled in comparison to TA.
And I wont play it because it's yet another site to demand a login to a game.
No reason why it cant be anon in exception to those that want to brag.
---Voters have 2 viable choices this November. While voting for Mickey Mouse will do your heart good, doing so is just a waste of your time and you're better off just staying in the pub.
You are indeed correct saying that there are 2 viable choices, but they both will do the country worse. I have no preconceived notions that one candidate is somehow better than another. They both suck.. just in different ways.
---The world and economy we have today is the result of 12 years of total republican control. The second Clinton term in which he was made to run in circles dodging Newt's republican fireballs, and 8 years of dubya. The last 2 years of dubya still count as the republican minority has continued to maintain influence and policy over the submissive Dems.
IIRC, the R's did not have a supermajority, and therefore Clinton could have vetoed every bill the R's pass... as long as the D's dont waver.
In the real world, the R's and D's have similar goals: make government bigger and spend more money. They just happen to differ on a few choice issues.
---The damage the Bush crime family have done is extensive. Don't expect miracles overnight. The debt will take years of taxes to pay down to a manageable level. And yes, I have seen Obama's tax proposals. His tax breaks are mostly going to incomes less than $250M. Also, while you are liberally throwing around catchy sound bytes of "European Socialism", what the fuck do you consider Bush's trillion $ bailout of his banker buddies and family members that skimmed 10 billion in bonus's to themselves just before filing for bankruptcy?
I have no issue with European Socialism. However, people need to know what it will do to taxes, and what its implications to our economy and our businesses and our citizens. Many dont realize that many European nations spend 1/4 of their GDP on healthcare per year.
I'm also up for using a interesting law in our constitution against these idiot bankers: Eminent Domain. They want us to bail them out. Well... Why not take control of them if they are THAT critical to our infrastructure?
And lastly... Bush Crime Family? Sheesh. Lose the loaded language. Last I recall, the recent president who was founded of crimes and impeached (over Perjury, a high crime) was Clinton. I care not for his sexual preference, but what would happen if YOU were to lie to a judge in a high court? Nothing good, I presume.
---Weighing all factors, the future is indeed grim. But I prefer to hold out for hope that one day we will elect some individual that is a smart person, and willing to work for the country and not for Haliburton's and Exxon's profit margins.
Damn straight it's grim. I'm 26 years old, facing loan cutbacks, paying in Social Security and will likely see nothing of it, and paying excessive taxes without the benefit that our European brethren. I pay so damn much in taxes... gas taxes, AMT, phone taxes, taxes on taxes, taxes on tax returns.. How much do WE actually pay in taxes, and what do we get back from it?
---I have to hold out for hope, I'm not quite ready for the prospect of Mad Max and cannibalism.
Well.. the way McCain is talking about Russia and Iran, it's almost as if he's already preparing to shift troops to Georgia and/or Iran. Yum... Draft. I dont know of any other ways that they can raise troop levels.
Finally someone who understands.
I didnt understand why Gnome (currently on Ibex) used standard mounts via FUSE but made desktop links that didnt work with 90% of the apps out there (non-gnome). However, it seems that others grumbled about this very problem too, and it has been solved. ...reloads package update for todays Ibex update... Yep. more updates for Nautilus.
Did you NOT read what I typed???
My issue is with the link that Gnome creates on the desktop. Evidently, it points towards a "x-nautilus-desktop:///name_of_share on server.volume"
They could have made a symlink to ~/.gvfs/server/share/ instead. This would have kept compatibility with non-gnome programs.
Instead, they used some gnome handler.
Like I said...FAIL
---Actually, the GVFS devs went out of their way to support non-gnome apps, through the use of FUSE. Any app can access .gvfs shares. Just because the directory is hidden doesn't mean you can't use it from non-gvfs apps. Just make a symlink if the hidden directory bothers you so much!
Well, obviously! After looking at mtab, I found out what they did. I can easily make a symlink. That's NOT my issue.
Gnome creates a link on the desktop. This link is some Gnome-only link that non-gnome apps CAN NOT USE. If instead, it created a link to ~/.gvfs/$share , then all applications could use that link.
As of now, I have to patch around Gnomish ways that Just Dont Work.
So what it gets integration with OpenSolaris.
You know what? Basic SMB mounting doesnt even work right in Ubuntu. Instead, it mounts crap via ~/.gvfs and fake handles for Gnome-only apps.
Instead, if Ubuntu used standard mounting techniques, it would mount as something sane like ~/mnt/$computer/$share_name/ so that all programs could use it easily.
Most likely, this ZFS setup uses the same non-standard techniques that make the features ONLY for gnome programs.
FAIL.
Thanks to bi-party cooperation, third party candidates will not be considered as viable, regardless of evidence otherwise.
George Bush and Dukakis (sp?) made sure of that during the '88 elections, in which they perpetrated a fraud by scamming all presidential debates from then on.
Even though, I agree with many libertarian ideas, they will not get in. People have been trained to go only R and D.
What exactly makes you think that Obama is any better?
His voting record is public record, and it does not bode well for him. His claims of no more tax for under 250K seem false based upon prior record.
McCain: Just the same as the last 8 years.
Obama: European Socialism taxes with less benefits than Europe.
Citation needed? Try thinking.
We have X "issues". Abortion, Iraq, Bank Bailout, et cetera. They key is we have more than 1 issue.
1 issue is pro or con. Yes or no. 1 or 0. 2^1
2 issues is 2^2 and so on.
Now, let us say that we have 10 hot issues (though this is not the case, as these change due to major happenings). This represents 2^10 or 1024 possible combinations. Each candidate has issue set equal to some number on either agree or disagree. Since the R and D are different, they are both unique to their answer set.
Because of that, many people who do vote based upon issues must be binary in their decision. It's either D for Yes on abortion or R for ...whatever they stand for now. There is no in-between for those who have liberal social views and conservative monetary views.
I mean, who cares?
Data is saved when you go to a website!! Dont proxy caches do the same thing, then there's bridging proxies and nobody bitches about them.
All this is a bitching session about Flash. Ill just say this: You're a moron if you dont use some soft of Flash-delayer or blocker and a whitelist.