Rubbish, our need to be polite and sensitive about matters like this only serves the interests of power. When we wake up in the dystopian world of our fathers contemporary lit. future no one will be wishing we were more civil about these issues.
Point one, no what they are doing is not in anyway unexpected.
Point two, it is perfectly legal and within their rights the same way if you found a tax loophole and exploited it or something similar is perfectly legal and within your rights.
Point three, corporations don't give a fuck about ethics so stop trying to convince them they need to because they never will.
Point four, if you honestly are opposed to this then grow a spine and oppose capitalism and copyrights completely.
Point five, why should we be having (slashdotters of course not the mystified quote... "masses") any issues in this regard anyway? Apparently geeks/hackers/nerds have horrible taste in music.
Here is the offer I always make. You like a specific genre or a couple different ones, message me, e-mail me, use a pigeon with a note and I'll try and give you as much decent independent music that borders on or is within that genre so you can stop listening to the beasts tunes and start listening to real human beings who don't want to charge $40 to sit three kilometers away from them and be turned deaf.
Translation: Are you white dude!? If so America rocks. Just waste the best years of your life in meaningless shit jobs until your soul will feel right at home, post-college, within a rigid corporate or government bureaucracy. You may get to own a home, FUCKING FILLING! (cue guitar solo) The best part though is that not only do you get the home... BUT YOU GET TO PUT SHIT IN IT! And a wife with big titties you can fuck every night. If she isn't with it... well you can rape the bitch!
Oh, took a little too far there huh, had you going and then you give up because I point out how much marital rape goes on. You don't want to hear about that, you are a "nice" and "good" guy who isn't into this nonsense materialism, but you probably just 'happen to like a girl with nice breasts' and the rape scenario bothered you. You would never do that. You may value your as a sexual play thing to make yours but you would never force her to have sex with you. I only control my women and categorize them as a material possessions in my head but NO MEANS NO!
Do you get it? Are you listening? Do you need a bullet with the point written on it shot into your frontal lobe? You are socialized to compete against everyone and everything around you as well as socialized to view all other things in your world as material possesions. This makes the path described above one of alienation from the whole planet, the big titty wife, the compensatory penile enlargement, the car... I agree with the above poster, work a high number of shitty jobs so in the future you can work one shitty job doing absolutely nothing meaningful.
Lost you again. He thinks Lawyers and Doctors and Scientists are useless.
If I do this intentionally every day to you... where I construct my own arguments and then taint them would this have an effect? What if I were part of an advertising division. What if I could get even more clever. What if I could test market these ads and find out which is most effective without even an understanding of why it is? A tragedy really, most of us in the US will die alienated, burdened with regret but with a veritable bounty of meaningless shit that distracted us every single moment with a never ending conveyer belt of ephemerally masturbatory fractured flashes of the real moments that are lives could have been comprised of.
He's a hypocrite, he lives in the states. He owns things. Sorry, no trick, you just committed a logical fallacy. Fat men can recommend really good diets and I can live a life that is opposite of my ideas about a good life. Guess what, the diet is still good and my life plan is still good as well. Oh yeah and I don't do that anyway, so to hell with you all.
Have any of you ever read a history book? Socialism and if we measure this not, even in definitions or the writings of the most important and well known socialist ever to live, is not the hyper consumer-commodity culture of Europe and Japan but with the added bonus of that shit you can't get in America: a free education and free health care.
Socialism is transitionary stage of a political system governing a nation state (social/economic) in which the government of that nation state owns all property, with the main goal of this government being to lay the ground work for the eventual withering away of the state which once complete will leave us with a communist political system and no government at all.
Capitalism with some nice benefits is still capitalism. So stop pretending you live in anything that radically different from the states. You don't. Your country just realized that you can do health care more efficiently by making it partially democraticly controlled where as us childish Americans don't want even a smidgen of democratic control over our hospitals because we have been socialized into believing that the countries with those systems leave the majority people to die on waiting lists. Funny, you would think if that were true France would be loaded with mostly young people and the death rate would be unbelievably high. Oh that's right... it isn't.
When we look back on this pitiful fuck up, all we will say is... well we were too lazy to move three feet to the information box and ask the question, shucks. The point is no one gets it if they don't live in the states because they don't understand how well thought is controlled here and that people actually prefer essential services to be run by groups who have no accountability except to their stock holders because they are manipulated into believing that what to most of the planet is a simple truth is in fact a lie.
When you socialize people to be sheep since the beginning of time and then this fresh new empire comes along and figures out how to do it so spectacularly well that no other country can claim the %'s of people capable of the most absurd levels of cognitive dissonance what kind of country do you expect us to be?
Iraq war necessary|Reason: WMD Iraq war necessary|Reason: Democracy
All well and good until and this is another thing people from other places may not know, but this thought control is also a history eraser. Not just a manipulation but an actual fogging of history.
Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: WMD Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: Oil Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: Theocracy
Oh wait here come a couple more contradictory ideas we are some how able to believe at the same time.
Iraq war necessary|Reason: Al Queda Ties
Al Queda is a wahabist group|Aims: Sharia rooted Islamic Theocracies across the Middle East.
Isn't it amazing!?
Logic:
Premise: Al Queda is a theocratic facist group Premise: We have to have Saddam take over Iran because he is committed to secularism and runs a secular government. Conclusion: Saddam has close ties to Al Queda and is a supporter of their movement.
It's actually past sad and has moved into the realm of comedy, yes earth in case you were wondering if all those sneaking suspecions were true... they are we are the dumbest country on the planet and we get tricked every morning noon and night by tactics that a three year old in Europe could like see through.
Another fun fact, you think british propaganda about the Iraq war and the arguments made by Tony Blair in defense of the war or his effort during Question Time to dispel his critics were used? Nope. In America you really don't even have to try. We just used the cowboy's tough talk. Doubtful there was even a fall back plan to at least the statements leaving Tony Blairs mouth, which although obviously I believe are wrong at least have a couple premises and then a conclusion which naturally follows from those.
To sum it up, I as an American can proudly say that my country men and women are capable of only remembering the past week with any clarity and can feel no discontent walking around places believing that 2 + 2 = 4 and that 2 + 2 = 5.
A note. I love France, absolutely love that country but your point is ridiculous, most of europe's phone system was no where near as reliable as ours and the incentive for new infrastructure has always been great throughout europe for this reason. This is one of the reasons why broadband is more widely adopted and also why your cellular networks are superior.
An excellent film and an excellent show.
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I'll be brief about the movie, it's excellent and much more so if you have watched the show.
With that out of the way I figured I would comment on this constant Whedon people versus non-Whedon fans. If you don't like anything he has done and think he is a hack, fine. I don't really care. What troubles me is not people who dislike Whedon or don't think that this movie going experience can compare to a late 50's Goddard film. What troubles me is that it seems a lot of those who continually put down his work don't follow up with what they feel is superb in the realm of cinema or TV and when they do it is usually the most testosterone driven, mindless drivel. I know it's a crime to say this but Star Wars is terrible. I am not just talking about Episode 1: Jar Jar's hijinx, I am talking about all of them. I have begun to think that what really gets to people on sites like this and AICN is the gender role reversals that regularly pop up in Whedon's work as this type of hegelian master/slave status switching makes this movie (as well as the show) an impossible vehicle for all of our masturbatory jingoist fantasies.
So, if you dislike Whedon but actually a brain resting inside your cranium then I salute you with the whole of my heart.
On the other hand if you enjoy all the forms of art that encourage passive participation and little to no critical analysis or thinking then please go back to watching some tits bounce around your TV screen.
You want to know the easiest and fastest way to gain the experience necessary to do this?
Sign up with no-ip to get yourself a (yourserver.no-ip.org) domain.
Install whichever linux your research leans you toward (I recommend FreeBSD) on this machine.
Now set up a workstation, with whatever distro your research leans you towards.
Now pretend to be the user and the admin for a while. Given enough time you should be able to master this small set up and do a fairly decent job administering it.
"Indymedia is sometimes considered by its supporters to be a competitor to the large international media networks, such as CNN, News Corporation, ABC-USA or the BBC. However, it would be more accurate to say that Indymedia is an example of an open publishing news network/community. Because of its open organizing structure and its internal rules (e.g., copyleft) that no Indymedia center can become a commercial or for-profit organization, it would be impossible for an entity to buy it in a take-over bid."
Let me capitalize the, NO INDYMEDIA CENTER CAN BECOME A COMMERCIAL OR FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, part.
I know it is hard to wrap your head around it, but yes indymedia collectives don't function like businesses. In a world were everyone is socialized to think that traditional capitalist methods of organization are the only ways of getting things done there are some who are trying to prove that wrong.
Thanks for partial quoting. I assume that including the part about "through local autonomous groups" might make your statement make less sense.
I know this may be another wild concept but TV stations and Reuters/AP are businesses.
Indymedia is not. Businesses have a single giant goal which always trumps everything else, this goal being profit. Indymedia does not share that same goal.
Perhaps you could quote this post partially and then refute it! Good luck!
Rarely has such ignorance spurred me to post a comment but thanks to you Reaperducer, I feel inclined.
Indymedia as I am sure the wikipedia link provided above points out is a collaborative effort to organize independent media resources at a global level (through local autonomous groups).
Subversive? Absolutely! In fact in case you haven't noticed a lot of indymedia groups throughout the states and globally are filled with anarchists. The articles, radio and political discussions reflect this.
I don't even know what you mean by "alternative means." So because corporate news sources use print, radio and websites we should throw away the written word and spoken word for all communications in opposition to that? Did you think Indymedia was going to invent a new form of communication that isn't written, spoken or seen to spread their news?
I don't feel like going any further but if you want to stereotype you would be better off going with the 19 year old white college kid wearing tight jeans some quasi-indie/political shirt listening to any number of anarchist bands (1905/Severed Head of State, whatever).
I am sorry my comment was hastily posted (at work) but indeed, they need to be combined and to speak on what someone else replied with, without corporate control. This (802.11s) still is seemingly to me a pointless evolutionary leap when a revolutionary leap is possible. Why do we take baby steps on stuff like this when we have the ability to take giant leaps?
WiMax and other technologies like it will still be much more important because, do we really want a grid of short range networks that will ultimately cause divisions between different parts of the networks if one node goes down or would we prefer enourmously large networks that overlap each other (the different nodes) once or twice or thrice?
Step 1: Divert topic to meta analysis of american politics.
Step 2: Discuss failure of the "average American".
Step 3: Talk shit about George Bush.
Step 4: Talk some more shit about the "average American".
Step 5: Talk some more shit about GWB.
Step 6: NEVER WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT THOSE IN POWER ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE DESIRE WAR AND GREED AND ARE PART OF THE REASON THE "average American" IS SOCIALIZED TO BE A FUCKING MORON.
When a group of pro-war capitalists control a nation, why is it surprising that the entire nation is socialized to be absolute morons?
And more to the point and to be less US-centric when a group of pro-hierachy oligarchs/autocrats (I'm looking at you non-industrialized countries) control a nation, why is it surprising that the entire nation is socialized to be absolute morons?
How are any of you on/. superior to anyone who voted for GWB? Just because you broke the rightest/christian dogma and resocialized yourself you actually think you are better? Well good work, you traded one shit bag of backward logic for another shitbag of backward logic, except your new shitbag looks prettier.
This entire argument is based on the premise that capitalism is the only economic system capable of producing entertainment for people as well as the basics to survive.
Just because every "communist" revolution led to state-run capitalism does not mean that any non-capitalist economic system will fail and more importantly capitalism currently is failing to produce and fairly distribute enough of the basics to keep the world well-fed, well-housed and well-clothed.
So although these cut throat decisions create some jobs or retain some jobs or aid the creation of some jobs in the future how can this be anything worth merit when you have no idea the number of jobs a different economic system could produce under the same bloody circumstances?
Just because an economic system does something, instead of nothing does not merit it's existence. It should regularly prove it provides the most freedom as well as the most equality for people in comparison to others and in this regard capitalism fails every single time.
Of course EA is acting like a business. I am upset about people getting fired in all positions when their company is making profits not because this doesn't benefit the hierarchy within the corporation, this is logical for those at the top who value strength in the stock market as well as long term profits for themselves.
What sickens me is that we live in a world with an economic system where the most logical thing to do when your profits are up is to fire workers.
Just because something is logical for those doing it, does not inherently make it "normal" in the sense that human beings are naturally inclined to do it, nor does it make ethical.
Can we get a non-corporate gpl'ed version of something like this going, please? Nothing and I mean nothing could please me more then locking my box and walking away knowing I'm hitting those fuckers with all the bandwidth I've got.
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Not to be annoying, but... it may be time to take a small trip to Logic 101.
I claim this act is wrong!
You fool, these other similar acts are going on today and are in my view worse!
Sorry, but that doesn't discredit the initial claim. It does discredit your ability to argue effectively though *ZING*.
Rubbish, our need to be polite and sensitive about matters like this only serves the interests of power. When we wake up in the dystopian world of our fathers contemporary lit. future no one will be wishing we were more civil about these issues.
I always do the exact same thing.
Point one, no what they are doing is not in anyway unexpected.
Point two, it is perfectly legal and within their rights the same way if you found a tax loophole and exploited it or something similar is perfectly legal and within your rights.
Point three, corporations don't give a fuck about ethics so stop trying to convince them they need to because they never will.
Point four, if you honestly are opposed to this then grow a spine and oppose capitalism and copyrights completely.
Point five, why should we be having (slashdotters of course not the mystified quote... "masses") any issues in this regard anyway? Apparently geeks/hackers/nerds have horrible taste in music.
Here is the offer I always make. You like a specific genre or a couple different ones, message me, e-mail me, use a pigeon with a note and I'll try and give you as much decent independent music that borders on or is within that genre so you can stop listening to the beasts tunes and start listening to real human beings who don't want to charge $40 to sit three kilometers away from them and be turned deaf.
Translation: Are you white dude!? If so America rocks. Just waste the best years of your life in meaningless shit jobs until your soul will feel right at home, post-college, within a rigid corporate or government bureaucracy. You may get to own a home, FUCKING FILLING! (cue guitar solo) The best part though is that not only do you get the home... BUT YOU GET TO PUT SHIT IN IT! And a wife with big titties you can fuck every night. If she isn't with it... well you can rape the bitch!
Oh, took a little too far there huh, had you going and then you give up because I point out how much marital rape goes on. You don't want to hear about that, you are a "nice" and "good" guy who isn't into this nonsense materialism, but you probably just 'happen to like a girl with nice breasts' and the rape scenario bothered you. You would never do that. You may value your as a sexual play thing to make yours but you would never force her to have sex with you. I only control my women and categorize them as a material possessions in my head but NO MEANS NO!
Do you get it? Are you listening? Do you need a bullet with the point written on it shot into your frontal lobe? You are socialized to compete against everyone and everything around you as well as socialized to view all other things in your world as material possesions. This makes the path described above one of alienation from the whole planet, the big titty wife, the compensatory penile enlargement, the car... I agree with the above poster, work a high number of shitty jobs so in the future you can work one shitty job doing absolutely nothing meaningful.
Lost you again. He thinks Lawyers and Doctors and Scientists are useless.
If I do this intentionally every day to you... where I construct my own arguments and then taint them would this have an effect? What if I were part of an advertising division. What if I could get even more clever. What if I could test market these ads and find out which is most effective without even an understanding of why it is? A tragedy really, most of us in the US will die alienated, burdened with regret but with a veritable bounty of meaningless shit that distracted us every single moment with a never ending conveyer belt of ephemerally masturbatory fractured flashes of the real moments that are lives could have been comprised of.
He's a hypocrite, he lives in the states. He owns things. Sorry, no trick, you just committed a logical fallacy. Fat men can recommend really good diets and I can live a life that is opposite of my ideas about a good life. Guess what, the diet is still good and my life plan is still good as well. Oh yeah and I don't do that anyway, so to hell with you all.
Have any of you ever read a history book? Socialism and if we measure this not, even in definitions or the writings of the most important and well known socialist ever to live, is not the hyper consumer-commodity culture of Europe and Japan but with the added bonus of that shit you can't get in America: a free education and free health care.
Socialism is transitionary stage of a political system governing a nation state (social/economic) in which the government of that nation state owns all property, with the main goal of this government being to lay the ground work for the eventual withering away of the state which once complete will leave us with a communist political system and no government at all.
Capitalism with some nice benefits is still capitalism. So stop pretending you live in anything that radically different from the states. You don't. Your country just realized that you can do health care more efficiently by making it partially democraticly controlled where as us childish Americans don't want even a smidgen of democratic control over our hospitals because we have been socialized into believing that the countries with those systems leave the majority people to die on waiting lists. Funny, you would think if that were true France would be loaded with mostly young people and the death rate would be unbelievably high. Oh that's right... it isn't.
When we look back on this pitiful fuck up, all we will say is... well we were too lazy to move three feet to the information box and ask the question, shucks. The point is no one gets it if they don't live in the states because they don't understand how well thought is controlled here and that people actually prefer essential services to be run by groups who have no accountability except to their stock holders because they are manipulated into believing that what to most of the planet is a simple truth is in fact a lie.
When you socialize people to be sheep since the beginning of time and then this fresh new empire comes along and figures out how to do it so spectacularly well that no other country can claim the %'s of people capable of the most absurd levels of cognitive dissonance what kind of country do you expect us to be?
Iraq war necessary|Reason: WMD
Iraq war necessary|Reason: Democracy
All well and good until and this is another thing people from other places may not know, but this thought control is also a history eraser. Not just a manipulation but an actual fogging of history.
Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: WMD
Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: Oil
Iraq taking over Iran necessary|Reason: Theocracy
Oh wait here come a couple more contradictory ideas we are some how able to believe at the same time.
Iraq war necessary|Reason: Al Queda Ties
Al Queda is a wahabist group|Aims: Sharia rooted Islamic Theocracies across the Middle East.
Isn't it amazing!?
Logic:
Premise: Al Queda is a theocratic facist group
Premise: We have to have Saddam take over Iran because he is committed to secularism and runs a secular government.
Conclusion: Saddam has close ties to Al Queda and is a supporter of their movement.
It's actually past sad and has moved into the realm of comedy, yes earth in case you were wondering if all those sneaking suspecions were true... they are we are the dumbest country on the planet and we get tricked every morning noon and night by tactics that a three year old in Europe could like see through.
Another fun fact, you think british propaganda about the Iraq war and the arguments made by Tony Blair in defense of the war or his effort during Question Time to dispel his critics were used? Nope. In America you really don't even have to try. We just used the cowboy's tough talk. Doubtful there was even a fall back plan to at least the statements leaving Tony Blairs mouth, which although obviously I believe are wrong at least have a couple premises and then a conclusion which naturally follows from those.
To sum it up, I as an American can proudly say that my country men and women are capable of only remembering the past week with any clarity and can feel no discontent walking around places believing that 2 + 2 = 4 and that 2 + 2 = 5.
A note. I love France, absolutely love that country but your point is ridiculous, most of europe's phone system was no where near as reliable as ours and the incentive for new infrastructure has always been great throughout europe for this reason. This is one of the reasons why broadband is more widely adopted and also why your cellular networks are superior.
I'll be brief about the movie, it's excellent and much more so if you have watched the show.
With that out of the way I figured I would comment on this constant Whedon people versus non-Whedon fans. If you don't like anything he has done and think he is a hack, fine. I don't really care. What troubles me is not people who dislike Whedon or don't think that this movie going experience can compare to a late 50's Goddard film. What troubles me is that it seems a lot of those who continually put down his work don't follow up with what they feel is superb in the realm of cinema or TV and when they do it is usually the most testosterone driven, mindless drivel. I know it's a crime to say this but Star Wars is terrible. I am not just talking about Episode 1: Jar Jar's hijinx, I am talking about all of them. I have begun to think that what really gets to people on sites like this and AICN is the gender role reversals that regularly pop up in Whedon's work as this type of hegelian master/slave status switching makes this movie (as well as the show) an impossible vehicle for all of our masturbatory jingoist fantasies.
So, if you dislike Whedon but actually a brain resting inside your cranium then I salute you with the whole of my heart.
On the other hand if you enjoy all the forms of art that encourage passive participation and little to no critical analysis or thinking then please go back to watching some tits bounce around your TV screen.
I admit to not reading the article, but I am vegan and think this is brilliant! Perhaps we could do the same with other species' corpses?
You want to know the easiest and fastest way to gain the experience necessary to do this?
Sign up with no-ip to get yourself a (yourserver.no-ip.org) domain.
Install whichever linux your research leans you toward (I recommend FreeBSD) on this machine.
Now set up a workstation, with whatever distro your research leans you towards.
Now pretend to be the user and the admin for a while. Given enough time you should be able to master this small set up and do a fairly decent job administering it.
Nope, sorry. We would still have roads and likely militia's (no not the right wing slaughter you for meth kind... - joke).
Here is a quote from the wikipedia link.
"Indymedia is sometimes considered by its supporters to be a competitor to the large international media networks, such as CNN, News Corporation, ABC-USA or the BBC. However, it would be more accurate to say that Indymedia is an example of an open publishing news network/community. Because of its open organizing structure and its internal rules (e.g., copyleft) that no Indymedia center can become a commercial or for-profit organization, it would be impossible for an entity to buy it in a take-over bid."
Let me capitalize the, NO INDYMEDIA CENTER CAN BECOME A COMMERCIAL OR FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, part.
I know it is hard to wrap your head around it, but yes indymedia collectives don't function like businesses. In a world were everyone is socialized to think that traditional capitalist methods of organization are the only ways of getting things done there are some who are trying to prove that wrong.
Thanks for partial quoting. I assume that including the part about "through local autonomous groups" might make your statement make less sense.
I know this may be another wild concept but TV stations and Reuters/AP are businesses.
Indymedia is not. Businesses have a single giant goal which always trumps everything else, this goal being profit. Indymedia does not share that same goal.
Perhaps you could quote this post partially and then refute it! Good luck!
Nice troll by the way... I will bite.
Rarely has such ignorance spurred me to post a comment but thanks to you Reaperducer, I feel inclined.
Indymedia as I am sure the wikipedia link provided above points out is a collaborative effort to organize independent media resources at a global level (through local autonomous groups).
Subversive? Absolutely! In fact in case you haven't noticed a lot of indymedia groups throughout the states and globally are filled with anarchists. The articles, radio and political discussions reflect this.
I don't even know what you mean by "alternative means." So because corporate news sources use print, radio and websites we should throw away the written word and spoken word for all communications in opposition to that? Did you think Indymedia was going to invent a new form of communication that isn't written, spoken or seen to spread their news?
I don't feel like going any further but if you want to stereotype you would be better off going with the 19 year old white college kid wearing tight jeans some quasi-indie/political shirt listening to any number of anarchist bands (1905/Severed Head of State, whatever).
I am sorry my comment was hastily posted (at work) but indeed, they need to be combined and to speak on what someone else replied with, without corporate control. This (802.11s) still is seemingly to me a pointless evolutionary leap when a revolutionary leap is possible. Why do we take baby steps on stuff like this when we have the ability to take giant leaps?
WiMax and other technologies like it will still be much more important because, do we really want a grid of short range networks that will ultimately cause divisions between different parts of the networks if one node goes down or would we prefer enourmously large networks that overlap each other (the different nodes) once or twice or thrice?
Step 1: Divert topic to meta analysis of american politics.
/. superior to anyone who voted for GWB? Just because you broke the rightest/christian dogma and resocialized yourself you actually think you are better? Well good work, you traded one shit bag of backward logic for another shitbag of backward logic, except your new shitbag looks prettier.
Step 2: Discuss failure of the "average American".
Step 3: Talk shit about George Bush.
Step 4: Talk some more shit about the "average American".
Step 5: Talk some more shit about GWB.
Step 6: NEVER WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT THOSE IN POWER ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE DESIRE WAR AND GREED AND ARE PART OF THE REASON THE "average American" IS SOCIALIZED TO BE A FUCKING MORON.
When a group of pro-war capitalists control a nation, why is it surprising that the entire nation is socialized to be absolute morons?
And more to the point and to be less US-centric when a group of pro-hierachy oligarchs/autocrats (I'm looking at you non-industrialized countries) control a nation, why is it surprising that the entire nation is socialized to be absolute morons?
How are any of you on
That will only happen if they also happen to find Berman and Braga in the dark matter as well.
Sigh, one-step logic seems to prevail as usual on slashdot. If capitalism can create games, no other economic system can! Huzzah!
This entire argument is based on the premise that capitalism is the only economic system capable of producing entertainment for people as well as the basics to survive.
Just because every "communist" revolution led to state-run capitalism does not mean that any non-capitalist economic system will fail and more importantly capitalism currently is failing to produce and fairly distribute enough of the basics to keep the world well-fed, well-housed and well-clothed.
So although these cut throat decisions create some jobs or retain some jobs or aid the creation of some jobs in the future how can this be anything worth merit when you have no idea the number of jobs a different economic system could produce under the same bloody circumstances?
Just because an economic system does something, instead of nothing does not merit it's existence. It should regularly prove it provides the most freedom as well as the most equality for people in comparison to others and in this regard capitalism fails every single time.
This is such childish logic.
Of course EA is acting like a business. I am upset about people getting fired in all positions when their company is making profits not because this doesn't benefit the hierarchy within the corporation, this is logical for those at the top who value strength in the stock market as well as long term profits for themselves.
What sickens me is that we live in a world with an economic system where the most logical thing to do when your profits are up is to fire workers.
Just because something is logical for those doing it, does not inherently make it "normal" in the sense that human beings are naturally inclined to do it, nor does it make ethical.
Can we get a non-corporate gpl'ed version of something like this going, please? Nothing and I mean nothing could please me more then locking my box and walking away knowing I'm hitting those fuckers with all the bandwidth I've got.
The real question is, are we going to get Final Fantasy on the bloody thing and if so is it going to be a crappy one or something on par with FF4/6/7?
I'm going to commit crimes just to spite him.
F=MA think sex.
This guy reads from a cawrd!