"WoW has that now. Its called the WoW:TCG where if you collect enough points (which costs $) you can redeem them for in game items like a tabard that does nothing."
Banning ports and making you buy business class services should definitely be outlawed. As for spam zombies, it should be a trivial matter to simply disconnect them and forward all traffic to a static page until they are repaired. Smaller ISPs regularly do this.
"And just exactly how is that supposed to happen? How the fuck is the LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD supposed to "keep out of other countries' business"?"
Oh i dunno.. the ron paul platform?
- no tarrifs, especially retaliatory corporatist based ones - stop secretly (or recently overtly) overthrowing other peoples governments (theres about 60 years for you to say sorry for currently) - no sanctions against "misbehavior" (the very fact that americans are so arrogant to think they can tell people how to behave underlines this all. why can't iran have nuclear power again? why cant most countries legalize drugs?) - stop acting like usa corporations write the worlds laws - do not attempt in any way to be the worlds police or to think you know "better" for another country.
Its pretty simple. No ones saying don't trade with people, but speaking as a canadian, learn to trade fucking fairly. The US doesnt even follow its own trade body rulings. You can look up the history of softwood lumber or sugar cane to see the kind of "economy" and "trade" the USA wants.
"Pretending it's possible to "leave them alone" just illustrates how far removed from reality you are."
Pretending that its some how the USA's mission to do, well, anything "missionary" on the world stage pretty much ignores your own constitution.
Nope. Marketing just makes people lazy consumers by using propaganda techniques instead of rational and researched information. It also has a habit of lacing lies into "research" in the most insidious of ways. The marketers that I know think that the perfection of advertising is where you dont know your being advertised to. This is more commonly known as LIES, and just because you build an industry up around it doesn't make it any more moral.
The entire marketing industry are scamers, exploiters and wastes of flesh. Just the other day at a friends house who had TV, I saw a little girl sharing chicken mcnuggets with her tea party of stuffed animals. If that doesnt turn your stomach into a bile sac of vomiting rage, you're probably in marketing.
I was going to say a similar thing, but the difference is that I dont allow anyone else to see my banking information. Its pretty much just used by and for me. Facebook is designed to network whatever you put on there, unlike a bank. I dont think you should have any expectation of privacy on a social networking site. Then again, I really dont understand the need to be in the spotlight or see the usefulness of knowing what some person I went to highschool with is having for dinner.
If you want to broadcast your inane and pointless life to the world, I would think you would be happy to get the stalkers and various other social "benefits" that come with that. Where im from, (the 80s) you dont use your real name online... EVER. That sort of conditioning is whats missing from todays myfaces and reality tubes.
I can't believe that people are *still* protecting the American government (note I'm not talking about their citizens) after all the crap they've pulled during the last two decades. Just because the world media has tuned into the USA in the last five years doesn't mean this story came out of the blue. America has been funding and training terrorist groups and publicly boasting about it for over 40 years now. We've been waiting for their population to overthrow the judeofascist government for years yet that hasn't happened either. Just take a look at the kind of things coming out of their government-controlled media: http://www.cnn.com/
Yes, most Americans dislike their government but no this won't be happening anytime soon. In the meantime, thousands upon thousands of people die every year because of direct funding by the Americans to terrorists. Ironically most of the victims are religious.
If you want to avoid war with America then you should be in favor of diplomatic action to prevent them from using nuclear weapons which could be a pretext for such a war. By preventing economic sanctions from going through you leave the world no choice but turn to the military option. Also it is worth noting that we've held toothless diplomatic talk with America for decades now and that didn't work (if anything, their government got more radical). They need to feel the heat for there to be any change.
If a 2 tonne backhoe can do it im sure a 20,000 tonne freighter can do it better. Whats more, those cables generally have alot of slack so that they can be pulled to the surface for repair. That anchor probably cut through it as a hot knife through butter, if you think about it.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? (Epicurus)
They are going into the store and taking the physical cd? Or were you talking about copying something illegally which is actually copyright infringement and not stealing in any way.
Using the industries language changes the debate into one that is inherently biased.
"Like much geek humor, it seems that all the humor in the use of the tag on this article come from mindless repetition, and the joke has officially been beaten into the ground."
After a while vista got to a point where it would only boot 1 out of every 10 times the PC was rebooted. Not a big deal because I never reboot the machine. The other 9 times it would bluescreen. Now, on the XP cd, if something like core windows files were corrupted, you could just repair. Not vista. They have removed many of the tools from vista and replaced them with a "automagically fix all" button. Unsurprisingly this doesnt do anything. If I remember correctly, you cannot even reinstall over top, a tried and true troubleshooting technique all the way back to win95. So I had a broken vista for months, and anytime it was restarted it would bluescreen 9 times and then the 10th time boot up flawlessly. I suspected a bad driver or failed software install (both being in abundance on this platform) but I was never able to track down exactly what was going on.
I have since reinstalled, but its a PITA to get all the stupid little vista tweaks re applied. Just so I can for instance, copy files from one drive to another without horrible lag. After using vista for aprox 1 year, my opinion is its still not ready for the desktop.
I guess your going for some kind of libertarian slant. Why ban alcohol in the car even right? Lines of coke off the dash?
Perhaps you dont live in the suburbs, but every time someones driving too slow, breaking irrationally and generally not paying attention, ill pull up beside them and they are on a cel phone. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME. If i can tell that your using a cel phone by your driving behavior, then it definitely effects YOUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR. Using a cel phone in a car should get the death penalty.
"He mentions "There is no reason people in NYC need guns" and "people of the most densely populated cities" which couldn't make my argument better that there has crept into the thinking, of city dwellers at least, that individual liberty is fundamentally incompatible with cities"
Im not american, so maybe you can explain to me how having a firearm makes you more "free". Liberty comes from always being in fear of attack?, necessitating a constant "security blanket" protection from that fear? - i just dont get it. But maybe you chose to ignore the fear, and redefine weaponry as giving you a better control over the situation? That may be true, but freedom is a lack of control and it seems to me like a weapon is a tool for gaining control. Wouldn't it just become the ones with the most powerful weapons are the ones who are the most free?
Lets not even go into the fact that if the government wants you in chains, a hundred guns wont stop them.
I actually would love to own a firearm in canada, because they probably do make you feel more safe and in control, but I dont get how they make you more free. Can you explain this elementary reasoning that non americans might not see as so elementary?
"Grand Theft Auto at the next-door neighbor's house at the age of 10, I'm going to have a stern talk with the parent."
Why? You do know that video games are not real right? They arent actually stealing real cars... My girlfriends 5 year old loves just driving around in GTA, because he sees me driving around IRL and wants to imitate it. Its more about spending time with the kids then the content of the game. Racing games where you can both drive around together teaches sportsmanship and gives the kid a sense of self confidence (if you let him win sometimes:). Im actually surprised how well he can control the cars, turning into curves and not hitting the sides (like me).
"I'd just show them my International Game Developers' Association card - they knew I knew better than them. w0rd. Then I'd show them the master's degree I earned in media studies."
See kids, this is what we call an egotistical self important asshole who, lacking real world experience or any evidence to back up his point, has fallen back on a little piece of paper (or two) that he claims allows him to dictate morality, and also apparently sound parenting advice (they teach that in media studies? who knew!). Please dont grow up to be like this man.
"There are 10 million people willing to pay to play a game they already payed once for?"
Im no wow fan, but its a service. Your comment is kind of stupid. Im sure you pay your cel phone bill every month even though you already payed once for the cel phone. You are familiar with such things as recurring charges billed for services rendered on a regular basis, are you not? Its a large portion of the new economy so you'd best get used to it.
"And I thought I was odd for selling fish to a raccoon to pay off my virtual house in bells"
Some people dont like playing with themselves on a 3 inch screen. Gets kinda boring.
EA: HACK ATTEMPT DETECTED!!! all EA games on your computer have now been rendered inactive. Please pay a one time $40 "im sorry" fee to re-enable the content.
(steam can already do this, albeit with no fee to reactivate)
EA is taking 2 steps that I completely disagree with: -Ripping off other games and making weaker versions of something that has already been successful for another company.
I dont think thats a step in another direction for EA as much as it's their entire business model.
"Without root, malware is annoying, but not difficult to get rid of."
Maybe im just an expert on windows malware, but pretty much all of them install as root and they are for the most part not difficult to get rid of. You just have to learn where things can hook into, and have some common tools by your side. For joe user, I would argue that its just as difficult to delouse a PC or a mac. What about a polymorphic spyware that drops copies of itself everywhere, renaming itself randomly to mimic user created files? or if it zips up all your document files with a password? Joe user wouldn't have a clue if it was self replicating, spawned by some background process.
Thats nice, but the parent was talking about ipods. Try even ordering a replacement battery for a 3 year old ipod. You will be redirected to the apple store and told to buy a whole new ipod.
Apple is crap for long term reliability. And if you say something stupid like "you should have bought the extended waranty with the cutsey wootsey carebare name" ill punch you in the face. Apple makes people into suckers. Always have, always will.
""A Mercedes costs more than a Honda, but people still buy them. You pay more and you get more. The same applies to this product.""
Yeah im sure you'll appreciate it costing more for parts when it breaks down. And as a bit of anecdotal evidence, I know several people who own mercedes and unless you continue leasing a new model every two or 3 years it will break down, just like any other car.
50 year loans? Are you nuts? Pretty much everyone alive will be dead in 50 years, doubbley so if you count the people old enough to take out a loan (20+).
I cant believe such a thing exists. Can you imagine its 2058 and you just finished paying off your 2007 silverado!
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Banning ports and making you buy business class services should definitely be outlawed. As for spam zombies, it should be a trivial matter to simply disconnect them and forward all traffic to a static page until they are repaired. Smaller ISPs regularly do this.
- no tarrifs, especially retaliatory corporatist based ones
- stop secretly (or recently overtly) overthrowing other peoples governments (theres about 60 years for you to say sorry for currently)
- no sanctions against "misbehavior" (the very fact that americans are so arrogant to think they can tell people how to behave underlines this all. why can't iran have nuclear power again? why cant most countries legalize drugs?)
- stop acting like usa corporations write the worlds laws
- do not attempt in any way to be the worlds police or to think you know "better" for another country.
Its pretty simple. No ones saying don't trade with people, but speaking as a canadian, learn to trade fucking fairly. The US doesnt even follow its own trade body rulings. You can look up the history of softwood lumber or sugar cane to see the kind of "economy" and "trade" the USA wants. Pretending that its some how the USA's mission to do, well, anything "missionary" on the world stage pretty much ignores your own constitution.
Nope. Marketing just makes people lazy consumers by using propaganda techniques instead of rational and researched information. It also has a habit of lacing lies into "research" in the most insidious of ways. The marketers that I know think that the perfection of advertising is where you dont know your being advertised to. This is more commonly known as LIES, and just because you build an industry up around it doesn't make it any more moral.
The entire marketing industry are scamers, exploiters and wastes of flesh. Just the other day at a friends house who had TV, I saw a little girl sharing chicken mcnuggets with her tea party of stuffed animals. If that doesnt turn your stomach into a bile sac of vomiting rage, you're probably in marketing.
kill yourself.
I was going to say a similar thing, but the difference is that I dont allow anyone else to see my banking information. Its pretty much just used by and for me. Facebook is designed to network whatever you put on there, unlike a bank. I dont think you should have any expectation of privacy on a social networking site. Then again, I really dont understand the need to be in the spotlight or see the usefulness of knowing what some person I went to highschool with is having for dinner.
If you want to broadcast your inane and pointless life to the world, I would think you would be happy to get the stalkers and various other social "benefits" that come with that. Where im from, (the 80s) you dont use your real name online... EVER. That sort of conditioning is whats missing from todays myfaces and reality tubes.
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and many MANY others...
I can't believe that people are *still* protecting the American government (note I'm not talking about their citizens) after all the crap they've pulled during the last two decades. Just because the world media has tuned into the USA in the last five years doesn't mean this story came out of the blue. America has been funding and training terrorist groups and publicly boasting about it for over 40 years now. We've been waiting for their population to overthrow the judeofascist government for years yet that hasn't happened either. Just take a look at the kind of things coming out of their government-controlled media: http://www.cnn.com/
Yes, most Americans dislike their government but no this won't be happening anytime soon. In the meantime, thousands upon thousands of people die every year because of direct funding by the Americans to terrorists. Ironically most of the victims are religious.
If you want to avoid war with America then you should be in favor of diplomatic action to prevent them from using nuclear weapons which could be a pretext for such a war. By preventing economic sanctions from going through you leave the world no choice but turn to the military option. Also it is worth noting that we've held toothless diplomatic talk with America for decades now and that didn't work (if anything, their government got more radical). They need to feel the heat for there to be any change.
If a 2 tonne backhoe can do it im sure a 20,000 tonne freighter can do it better. Whats more, those cables generally have alot of slack so that they can be pulled to the surface for repair. That anchor probably cut through it as a hot knife through butter, if you think about it.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? (Epicurus)
Using the industries language changes the debate into one that is inherently biased.
After a while vista got to a point where it would only boot 1 out of every 10 times the PC was rebooted. Not a big deal because I never reboot the machine. The other 9 times it would bluescreen. Now, on the XP cd, if something like core windows files were corrupted, you could just repair. Not vista. They have removed many of the tools from vista and replaced them with a "automagically fix all" button. Unsurprisingly this doesnt do anything. If I remember correctly, you cannot even reinstall over top, a tried and true troubleshooting technique all the way back to win95. So I had a broken vista for months, and anytime it was restarted it would bluescreen 9 times and then the 10th time boot up flawlessly. I suspected a bad driver or failed software install (both being in abundance on this platform) but I was never able to track down exactly what was going on.
I have since reinstalled, but its a PITA to get all the stupid little vista tweaks re applied. Just so I can for instance, copy files from one drive to another without horrible lag. After using vista for aprox 1 year, my opinion is its still not ready for the desktop.
I guess your going for some kind of libertarian slant. Why ban alcohol in the car even right? Lines of coke off the dash?
Perhaps you dont live in the suburbs, but every time someones driving too slow, breaking irrationally and generally not paying attention, ill pull up beside them and they are on a cel phone. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME. If i can tell that your using a cel phone by your driving behavior, then it definitely effects YOUR DRIVING BEHAVIOR. Using a cel phone in a car should get the death penalty.
Lets not even go into the fact that if the government wants you in chains, a hundred guns wont stop them.
I actually would love to own a firearm in canada, because they probably do make you feel more safe and in control, but I dont get how they make you more free. Can you explain this elementary reasoning that non americans might not see as so elementary?
Some people dont like playing with themselves on a 3 inch screen. Gets kinda boring.
A few of those would be and are solved by disabling HTML in emails. The backgrounds, the fonts, siggys..
EA: HACK ATTEMPT DETECTED!!! all EA games on your computer have now been rendered inactive. Please pay a one time $40 "im sorry" fee to re-enable the content.
(steam can already do this, albeit with no fee to reactivate)
2008, year of the malmacware?
Thats nice, but the parent was talking about ipods. Try even ordering a replacement battery for a 3 year old ipod. You will be redirected to the apple store and told to buy a whole new ipod.
Apple is crap for long term reliability. And if you say something stupid like "you should have bought the extended waranty with the cutsey wootsey carebare name" ill punch you in the face. Apple makes people into suckers. Always have, always will.
50 year loans? Are you nuts? Pretty much everyone alive will be dead in 50 years, doubbley so if you count the people old enough to take out a loan (20+).
I cant believe such a thing exists. Can you imagine its 2058 and you just finished paying off your 2007 silverado!