The feel good, eco-nonsense pap that gets bandied about by the main characters in MGS and MGS2 caused bleeding in my ears. Thank God I could hit the x button repeatedly to skip the majority of it, otherwise it might have started to make sense. In other words, I might have turned into a Japanese person.
"...but I somehow doubt even the most technical of safety systems is ever going to change the driving habits of some of the brain-dead, tail-gating idiots I often have to share the roads with..."
I'm sick of you slowboat assholes lambasting brave souls like me and my fellow tailgaters, who selflessy put ourselves in danger every day to eliminate the wasted space you "safies" use to create those awful traffic jams. We're heros, and we know it, quit oppressing us.
Even better idea, get rid of all government identification. That'll make it nigh impossible for private businesses to track your purchases without your permission
The problem with intellectual property is that it is a fallacy. Property is derived from scarcity, but an idea is scarce only so long as no one else knows it.
Furthermore, I can learn an idea from you, but I am not "taking" anything from you the same way as I would with real property. You still retain the original idea.
Copyrights and patents are restraints on society's advancement, not aids.
This guy ain't no troll, he hit it spot on. Stop pretending that cartoons for five year olds are legitimate entertainment and go stock up on your Clavell collection right now.
Would you want 7 year olds being able to buy movie tickets to NC-17 movies?
No, but the responsibility lies with parents using social pressure on local movie theatres to voluntarily age restrict and watching their kids, rather than the all powerful hand of government using a hammer to fix a screw.
"...most Chinese game players like fashionable heroes and heroines in games more than picture quality and game plots, the strong point of South Korean and Japanese game developers."
Ohhhh....so that's why so many asian games are total crap and not at all fun to play. Jiminy Chrismas, why don't you just say you like buying music Cd's for the cover art, or a car based on the factory installed radio.
God my head hurts so much right now from reading that. I need an aspirin.
Yeah, I know about the gun maker lawsuits. I was trying to make the connection in some/. minds and maybe subliminally make them more gun friendly. Thank goodness the lawsuits have been (mostly) relegated to the scrap heap. Probably only a matter of time before they pop up again, though.
Of course guns are for killing, what else would I have them for?
Just because I don't want to ever kill someone doesn't mean that I'm not prepared to defend my family, property and country from foes without and within.
And as far as what's legal, I'm pretty sure if an 18-yr old jarhead can operate it, I can probably figure it out, too.
Let's round up not just P2P companies, but the gun makers as well, not to mention knife makers (stabbing), shoe makers (for jaywalking), God (for making rocks that other people used to beat heads in), and pretty much everyone who ever created a product that was ever used in a crime, ever.
Idiots.
...welcome our new robot overlords. I'd like to remind them as a college student, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground silicon caves."
Well, due to much more sensible laws that have to do with waste disposal, it actually is in their best interests to upgrade to cleaner, more efficient plants. Oooooohhhhh, like magic, now look at the pretty birds, hippy.
Okay, here's a quick example, page F-44 of Dynegy Holdings, Inc. 2002 10-k. It refers to litigation by the EPA over violations of The Clean Air Act at Dynegy's Baldwin Station. See, the Clean Air Act makes it illegal for you to do piecemeal upgrades and maintenance on your plants without installing outrageously expensive cleaning equipment, so most plants just don't do the maintenance because it's not economical, thereby keeping them just as dirty as they've been for several years. In fact, there's pretty much no way to obey EPA law, it's just a convenient legal forum for environmentalists to take a crap on hard working people who have real jobs trying to supply the country with energy. Thank you EPA and Clinton!
This Article.
The only reason that coal plants spew acid rain is because your precious liberal idiot farms like the EPA, Greenpeace, and Sierra Club have consistently prevented old plants from upgrading to cleaner equipment and from building new coal plants that are just as clean as NatGas plants. Look at the 10-k of any major energy company to find pages of litigatory idiocy.
Thanks a lot, hippies. I hope you all die.
I would think that many publishers already have a great deal of their works completely digitized at this point.
As an aside, PDF would be just fine for a project like this, in fact pdf might even be overkill. And as far as how much trouble upgrading in 10 years will be, that's bollocks if the system is done right.
Seriously, how much storage would you need for the Library of Congress? If I can fit the human genome on my Ipod right now, what size hard drive do I need for a gajillion books?
Yeah, oil is sooooo "tyrannical." Just like how onerous it is when I can drive to Vegas on $25, that's awful. Or how I brough my lunch in a plastic container today, how oppressive. The hydraulics in the cranes that built the city I live in are simply tools of The Man built to keep me down.
This will not only "head off" piracy, it will only increase it as the increased expense of compliance will only encourage alternative means of distribution.
There is no such thing as intellectual property, because an idea is not a scarce object. For a much better analysis, go
Translation of this guy's soundbite after being run through the BS machine:
"I don't actually know anything about computers, but I thought I knew how to be a belligerent mercantilist. Now I realize I don't have a chance in hell of winning anything, especially since this kid is a college student with no money, so instead I'm going to try to spin it so me and my stupid company don't look like total asses. I'll be going back to my job now as a slave for the RIAA and their associated goons. Have a nice day!"
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The feel good, eco-nonsense pap that gets bandied about by the main characters in MGS and MGS2 caused bleeding in my ears. Thank God I could hit the x button repeatedly to skip the majority of it, otherwise it might have started to make sense. In other words, I might have turned into a Japanese person.
"...but I somehow doubt even the most technical of safety systems is ever going to change the driving habits of some of the brain-dead, tail-gating idiots I often have to share the roads with..."
I'm sick of you slowboat assholes lambasting brave souls like me and my fellow tailgaters, who selflessy put ourselves in danger every day to eliminate the wasted space you "safies" use to create those awful traffic jams. We're heros, and we know it, quit oppressing us.
Good interview, but talk about spacy. That kid is way out in the ether.
Even better idea, get rid of all government identification. That'll make it nigh impossible for private businesses to track your purchases without your permission
The problem with intellectual property is that it is a fallacy. Property is derived from scarcity, but an idea is scarce only so long as no one else knows it.
Furthermore, I can learn an idea from you, but I am not "taking" anything from you the same way as I would with real property. You still retain the original idea.
Copyrights and patents are restraints on society's advancement, not aids.
Yeah, the solution to ANY problem is to put more jack booted thugs on it.
No, just the bloodlines.
Hey, motherfucker, leave the Irish out of this or I'll beat your ass.
This guy ain't no troll, he hit it spot on. Stop pretending that cartoons for five year olds are legitimate entertainment and go stock up on your Clavell collection right now.
Would you want 7 year olds being able to buy movie tickets to NC-17 movies?
No, but the responsibility lies with parents using social pressure on local movie theatres to voluntarily age restrict and watching their kids, rather than the all powerful hand of government using a hammer to fix a screw.
"...most Chinese game players like fashionable heroes and heroines in games more than picture quality and game plots, the strong point of South Korean and Japanese game developers."
Ohhhh....so that's why so many asian games are total crap and not at all fun to play. Jiminy Chrismas, why don't you just say you like buying music Cd's for the cover art, or a car based on the factory installed radio.
God my head hurts so much right now from reading that. I need an aspirin.
Yeah, I know about the gun maker lawsuits. I was trying to make the connection in some /. minds and maybe subliminally make them more gun friendly. Thank goodness the lawsuits have been (mostly) relegated to the scrap heap. Probably only a matter of time before they pop up again, though.
Of course guns are for killing, what else would I have them for? Just because I don't want to ever kill someone doesn't mean that I'm not prepared to defend my family, property and country from foes without and within. And as far as what's legal, I'm pretty sure if an 18-yr old jarhead can operate it, I can probably figure it out, too.
Let's round up not just P2P companies, but the gun makers as well, not to mention knife makers (stabbing), shoe makers (for jaywalking), God (for making rocks that other people used to beat heads in), and pretty much everyone who ever created a product that was ever used in a crime, ever. Idiots.
...welcome our new robot overlords. I'd like to remind them as a college student, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground silicon caves."
Well, due to much more sensible laws that have to do with waste disposal, it actually is in their best interests to upgrade to cleaner, more efficient plants. Oooooohhhhh, like magic, now look at the pretty birds, hippy.
Actually, that's exactly what Dynegy did and now they're in trouble for it. Whoops, look who's the idiot now.
Okay, here's a quick example, page F-44 of Dynegy Holdings, Inc. 2002 10-k. It refers to litigation by the EPA over violations of The Clean Air Act at Dynegy's Baldwin Station. See, the Clean Air Act makes it illegal for you to do piecemeal upgrades and maintenance on your plants without installing outrageously expensive cleaning equipment, so most plants just don't do the maintenance because it's not economical, thereby keeping them just as dirty as they've been for several years. In fact, there's pretty much no way to obey EPA law, it's just a convenient legal forum for environmentalists to take a crap on hard working people who have real jobs trying to supply the country with energy. Thank you EPA and Clinton!
This Article. The only reason that coal plants spew acid rain is because your precious liberal idiot farms like the EPA, Greenpeace, and Sierra Club have consistently prevented old plants from upgrading to cleaner equipment and from building new coal plants that are just as clean as NatGas plants. Look at the 10-k of any major energy company to find pages of litigatory idiocy. Thanks a lot, hippies. I hope you all die.
This is fine with me. One standard will just make it easier to defeat. And it will be defeated.
I would think that many publishers already have a great deal of their works completely digitized at this point. As an aside, PDF would be just fine for a project like this, in fact pdf might even be overkill. And as far as how much trouble upgrading in 10 years will be, that's bollocks if the system is done right.
Seriously, how much storage would you need for the Library of Congress? If I can fit the human genome on my Ipod right now, what size hard drive do I need for a gajillion books?
Yeah, oil is sooooo "tyrannical." Just like how onerous it is when I can drive to Vegas on $25, that's awful. Or how I brough my lunch in a plastic container today, how oppressive. The hydraulics in the cranes that built the city I live in are simply tools of The Man built to keep me down.
Translation of this guy's soundbite after being run through the BS machine: "I don't actually know anything about computers, but I thought I knew how to be a belligerent mercantilist. Now I realize I don't have a chance in hell of winning anything, especially since this kid is a college student with no money, so instead I'm going to try to spin it so me and my stupid company don't look like total asses. I'll be going back to my job now as a slave for the RIAA and their associated goons. Have a nice day!"