I felt so physically ill at the thought of combing C.S. Lewis's master piece with Rowling's ilk that I was actually relieved to find out it was a Harry Potter rip off written with the intent of bashing the Narnia series.
"They're buying the name in hopes of turning it into a legit operation. Umm.. good luck with that."
Actually, I'm sort of cheering for them. I don't hold out much hope, but I'm cheering all the same. Go ahead, ask me "WHY?" Well, since you asked, I'll tell you!
Bit Torrent is nothing more, and nothing less, than a protocol. It shouldn't have a legal status, or an illegal status, any more than verbally enunciating ideas should have a legal status. No form of communication should be make illegal.
If these people can actually make torrents work for a legal, reputable company, then we have less to fear from ISP's throttling or even stopping torrents. We, the WWW of internet users, NEED someone to adopt this technological protocol to lend it credibility. More generally, P2P needs to be recognized as an acceptable means of communications. As things stand right now, if you and your family & freinds are amateur photographers, and you have extensive libraries that you like to share between your households, the ISP can claim that you are all pirates, and shut you down.
Yes, we need this.
World of Wacrarft already uses bitorrent to handle updates. No ISP would block it outright so long as that's the case.
I learned that by watching the subbed episodes of Ranma 1/2 years ago.
I learend that watching the dubbed version,the writers at the time being smart enough to realize that they only needed to translate the parts that were in Japanese,
Kind of like a crack or heroin dealer...they want you to keep playing.
The solution, clearly, is to switch to crack or heroin. Then, if it's taking up too much of your time or money you can go to rehab, and the game wont matter quite as much, because life will become a very interesting game where you'll gain lot of XP and have to deal with real world consequences if you screw up!!
Our "game" has a slammin hip-hop soundtrack and plenty of excessive violence; choose the "North Philadelphia" campaign for you newcomers, you'll get into to the action fast that way!
That only works until you realise how awesome the game is when your high.
Girlfriend? Where does that drop? I bet its off one of the 25-man hard modes, but I've never even seen one. A guildmate of mine said he heard it's going to be added in the raid after Icecrown Citadel in what will be the most evil raid instance of all, The Outside.
Girlfirends are an rare epic world drop. Most people don't bother given the low drop rate on our server.
I knew ultima online was still around but I had no idea they were still putting out expansions.
Even EA can't kill this greatness, of course it weas cooler when Origin still existed and owned it.
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What if the EULA stated they had the right to harvest your kidneys? Do you think that make it legal? It's still an issue for the courts to decide if that clause is legal and therefore enforceable or not.
It's called a donor card and yes it's legal if you agreed to it.
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I felt so physically ill at the thought of combing C.S. Lewis's master piece with Rowling's ilk that I was actually relieved to find out it was a Harry Potter rip off written with the intent of bashing the Narnia series.
It's not true love if you recover from it.
instead take notice when a bunch of turbines suddenly go offline.
The only problem with that plan is that a warning is supposed to come before something bad happens.
Information wants to be free. There's no such thing as plagiarism. ;)
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
Wow! A real life time-traveler! Well, allow me to be the first to welcome you to 2008. You may find it strange, here- a lot has changed since 1806!
1806 changed quite a bit if their sending time travelers.
How's steam powered robtic Napoleon doing?
If they overbook your flight they give your money back. If ISPs paid back w/e % you had taken away we'd see less complaints.
or they book you first class on the next flight.
World of Wacrarft already uses bitorrent to handle updates. No ISP would block it outright so long as that's the case.
And yet Comcast did exactly that...
I sorry what I ment to say was no isp would admit to blocking bittorrent.
I assumed it was a way of shutting down TPB by buying it.
That's not the intention but it is the result,
"They're buying the name in hopes of turning it into a legit operation. Umm.. good luck with that."
Actually, I'm sort of cheering for them. I don't hold out much hope, but I'm cheering all the same. Go ahead, ask me "WHY?" Well, since you asked, I'll tell you!
Bit Torrent is nothing more, and nothing less, than a protocol. It shouldn't have a legal status, or an illegal status, any more than verbally enunciating ideas should have a legal status. No form of communication should be make illegal.
If these people can actually make torrents work for a legal, reputable company, then we have less to fear from ISP's throttling or even stopping torrents. We, the WWW of internet users, NEED someone to adopt this technological protocol to lend it credibility. More generally, P2P needs to be recognized as an acceptable means of communications. As things stand right now, if you and your family & freinds are amateur photographers, and you have extensive libraries that you like to share between your households, the ISP can claim that you are all pirates, and shut you down.
Yes, we need this.
World of Wacrarft already uses bitorrent to handle updates. No ISP would block it outright so long as that's the case.
I learned that by watching the subbed episodes of Ranma 1/2 years ago.
I learend that watching the dubbed version,the writers at the time being smart enough to realize that they only needed to translate the parts that were in Japanese,
Kind of like a crack or heroin dealer...they want you to keep playing.
The solution, clearly, is to switch to crack or heroin. Then, if it's taking up too much of your time or money you can go to rehab, and the game wont matter quite as much, because life will become a very interesting game where you'll gain lot of XP and have to deal with real world consequences if you screw up!!
Our "game" has a slammin hip-hop soundtrack and plenty of excessive violence; choose the "North Philadelphia" campaign for you newcomers, you'll get into to the action fast that way!
That only works until you realise how awesome the game is when your high.
Have you tried a girlfriend?
Girlfriend? Where does that drop? I bet its off one of the 25-man hard modes, but I've never even seen one. A guildmate of mine said he heard it's going to be added in the raid after Icecrown Citadel in what will be the most evil raid instance of all, The Outside.
Girlfirends are an rare epic world drop. Most people don't bother given the low drop rate on our server.
And had he said Carrot Top was who authored them, you'd have said "It makes sense. It was cheesy and retarded all in the same breath"
Carrot Top did write the script just like he did for the Matrix Sequels.
Ever since they began taking a percentage of my transactions, I stopped using Paypal whatsoever for the freelance work I do.
Paypal was nice when it began, but the more time passes the more annoyinng it becomes.
What do you do now?
I also do freelance work and I'm looking for a cheaper way of receiving payment.
I guess we can assume there won't be a PC version of Fable 2 then....
I name computers after girls I've fucked.
Well yes you can techincally name them al localhost. In fact they all have that name by default.
This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame).
If you have to tell Slashdotters who the Wachowski brothers are, then they haven't achieved "sci-fi stardom", have they?
We all know who they are. It's just good to remind everyone that they made one good movie before moving on to make Speed Racer
I roll up 100 dollar bills to snort up other 100 dollar bills. Its a vicious circle.
How do you snort your last 100 dollar bill?
So it's like a 21st Century equivalent of Lotus Notes?
Exactly.
The U.S. Republican Party. Is that enough for you?
He said funny joke. Politics is just a cruel game that people took too far.
I knew ultima online was still around but I had no idea they were still putting out expansions.
Even EA can't kill this greatness, of course it weas cooler when Origin still existed and owned it. .
Queue the Nightman references.
So maybe there really *is* a reason that Japanese Anime is drawn with such large eyes.
Yes it's because Disney did it first when they made Bambi.
Technically, they don't have enough currency on hand to cover their deposits.
If you have less than $250000 in a US bank the government insures it.
What if the EULA stated they had the right to harvest your kidneys? Do you think that make it legal? It's still an issue for the courts to decide if that clause is legal and therefore enforceable or not.
It's called a donor card and yes it's legal if you agreed to it.