Is this the first set of laws that would regulate the legal use of time machines? My amazing powers of prescience foresee the plot of Timecop XI, where the chase is on to hunt down and kill some twelve-year old punk who skipped over the ads broadcasted on his MPAA-approved "funceiver" using the time portal he made for his high-school science project.
Also along more physically probable lines, if I were to accelerate myself to relativistic speeds in order to "fast-foward" (from my perspective) ads, would I be guilty of infringing on the mighty will of the broadcaster, or will this be treated similarly to getting a beer from the fridge (making the sentence merely a public flogging as opposed to death)?
The temporal prime directive is here, and it's labelled HR 4077.
If you skip over a lot of boring parts in a book, you are designated as a sucker who bought a really boring book. The publisher would have made its money from you, with no perceived gain on its part to force you to read the boring parts. (Note of course that it would still be disconcerting for you if this could be construed as illegal)
If however you so much as dared to skip the ads in magazines, you would be in trouble. Embedded chips in the pages would detect your violation of the publisher's intentions. They would signal your internet enabled fridge, which would contact the cops to come beat your sorry ass (because God knows, internet enabled fridges have got to do something right?).
To avoid this coming to pass, be sure to look at paper ads for at least 15 seconds before turning the page (and focus! we track the movement of your iris and your pupil dilation)
Of course this proves that the US is not truly evil. They could let France have their little reactor...
Then in ten years when the next-in-line of the Bush dynasty takes power, France (rogue nation that it is) is "discovered" to be using the reactor in an ongoing WOMD program that threatens the Safety and Liberty of the American People(tm).
In the ensuing chaos, the US "liberates" Canada in a move of characteristic logic.
If the article states that 80% of corporate users still use 95/98, doesn't your figure of 70% suggest that 2000/XP gives proportionately *more* issues? Kind of makes getting customers to upgrade more attractive?;)
Nit-picking perhaps, but wouldn't you be more comfortable with vermin of your own choosing?
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Especially not any filthy money garnered through karma-whoring!
Also along more physically probable lines, if I were to accelerate myself to relativistic speeds in order to "fast-foward" (from my perspective) ads, would I be guilty of infringing on the mighty will of the broadcaster, or will this be treated similarly to getting a beer from the fridge (making the sentence merely a public flogging as opposed to death)?
The temporal prime directive is here, and it's labelled HR 4077.
If however you so much as dared to skip the ads in magazines, you would be in trouble. Embedded chips in the pages would detect your violation of the publisher's intentions. They would signal your internet enabled fridge, which would contact the cops to come beat your sorry ass (because God knows, internet enabled fridges have got to do something right?).
To avoid this coming to pass, be sure to look at paper ads for at least 15 seconds before turning the page (and focus! we track the movement of your iris and your pupil dilation)
Then in ten years when the next-in-line of the Bush dynasty takes power, France (rogue nation that it is) is "discovered" to be using the reactor in an ongoing WOMD program that threatens the Safety and Liberty of the American People(tm).
In the ensuing chaos, the US "liberates" Canada in a move of characteristic logic.
Nit-picking perhaps, but wouldn't you be more comfortable with vermin of your own choosing?
... and if this board game is successful, will they start working on a computer conversion?