Indeeed. They are a monopoly I think mostly due to the pirated copies, though. They claim they have lost billions to piracy, but they have probably benefitted more from piracy than anything. If it was impossible to pirate Windows, people would have migrated away a long time ago, because ultimately people (average people) don't want to pay $300 for the OS for their computer, of which they use maybe 10% of the features, and which they have to upgrade every few years. In a way I can understand that. It'd be like buying a car and then having the saleman tell you you have to buy the steering wheel separate for another $300, but that steering wheel will be obsolete in a few years and you'll have to buy another one.
My Star Trek Frisbee Golf club has some players from a few of the largest corporations in America. You might have heard of them: McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell...
Granted, it's porn...but is it really their--or our--business what people get off with?
It is their business if the majority of the people in this country feel that's the way the laws should read, and the appointed judges don't disagree. It sounds like the majority is slowly moving away from this sort of morality-based thinking, but it is the government's business to do what the people tell it to do, even if that conflicts with your personal beliefs.
Remember this country was founded by heavily religous people and most of the population still is, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that in general our laws are very conservative..
You have to live your life by the rules that the vast majority decide on, whether or not they concur with YOUR beliefs. That's the nature of this country, and the price of living here. Nobody wants to live by other peoples' beliefs, not them by yours and not you by theirs. Everybody is "self-righteous" when it comes to their own beliefs. Why is forcing your belief in some non-morality-based law system on everyone less self-righteous? Neither of you is right nor wrong.
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That shit ain't free, holmes
Are you suggesting that Stephen King wrote the Klez virus?
I just pissed my pants, but for an entirely different reason...
Indeeed. They are a monopoly I think mostly due to the pirated copies, though. They claim they have lost billions to piracy, but they have probably benefitted more from piracy than anything. If it was impossible to pirate Windows, people would have migrated away a long time ago, because ultimately people (average people) don't want to pay $300 for the OS for their computer, of which they use maybe 10% of the features, and which they have to upgrade every few years. In a way I can understand that. It'd be like buying a car and then having the saleman tell you you have to buy the steering wheel separate for another $300, but that steering wheel will be obsolete in a few years and you'll have to buy another one.
Sega who?
My Star Trek Frisbee Golf club has some players from a few of the largest corporations in America. You might have heard of them: McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell...
Pr0n... is there anything it can't do?
Hmm.. it doesn't seem to be able to get me a date. That creepy dude at the dirty video store doesn't count...
Granted, it's porn...but is it really their--or our--business what people get off with?
It is their business if the majority of the people in this country feel that's the way the laws should read, and the appointed judges don't disagree. It sounds like the majority is slowly moving away from this sort of morality-based thinking, but it is the government's business to do what the people tell it to do, even if that conflicts with your personal beliefs. Remember this country was founded by heavily religous people and most of the population still is, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that in general our laws are very conservative..
You have to live your life by the rules that the vast majority decide on, whether or not they concur with YOUR beliefs. That's the nature of this country, and the price of living here. Nobody wants to live by other peoples' beliefs, not them by yours and not you by theirs. Everybody is "self-righteous" when it comes to their own beliefs. Why is forcing your belief in some non-morality-based law system on everyone less self-righteous? Neither of you is right nor wrong.
founded eBay
damn...
Oasys of Korg. Synthesis is fugue-tile.
I'd tend to side with them
Your team might be smarter, but you will get creamed in deathmatch
Screw bones and liver. I just want to print out a BLT at 3am...
people listen
More likely the guy built a $50 webserver also
If you ask me, the word "photo" in that summary should have been a hyperlink...
A pile of dog crap is still a pile of dog crap no matter how many angles you look at it from. Trust me.
Blew Ray?
More like, "Robot games brought to you by Burger King."
or the George Foreman Grilling Machine.
Tough call...
Why does everything have to have a frigging codename nowadays?
300bps? Luxury...
You still win the 2004 award. But from the sounds of it, you will also clinch the 2005 award next year.
You call him Docta Jone!
Whoever read that article line by line and clicked all the links wins the Geek of the Year award for 2004.