Homebrew software? You might as well argue that failing to disclose hidden beta code that requires a 3rd party mod to unlock it is enough to get a game re-rated!
OK, so you were desensitised to the violence in the game. Would you say you were desensitised to the idea of actually dropping nukes on actual cities in real life?
Remember, the generation that enjoys extremely violent video games now is the same generation that made Super Mario 3 the highest selling game in history.
I'd like to see the numbers on who's playing Manhunt 2 or whatever. I don't really think there's a huge overlap with former Mario 3 players. I'm prepared to bet that a lot of the players of Manhunt 2 weren't even alive when Mario 3 was first released.
I bought DX2 for similar reasons - I felt obliged to, given how awesome the first one was. DX2 sucked. After a few levels I gave up trying and just played through it with cheats. I never use cheats to get through a game, but I had to with this. It was just shockingly poor and so dull after the first one, but I felt I had to play it one way or another. I mean, it couldn't be that bad, given that the first was such an epic, right?
I know what you're thinking. Did he get a pagerank of six or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is Google, the most powerful search engine in the world, and would find a needle in a haystack, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?
TNT's Ts & Cs suggest that they are only liable for up to £15 per kilo (note 11), or £15,000 per shipment if you pay for enhanced liability cover (note 15). So, even if HMRC did pay for enhanced cover - and somehow I doubt it - any payout from TNT wouldn't come anywhere close to the billions that the data could be worth.
The trouble with "free speech" is that everyone seems to want it for the wrong reasons. People should be using free speech to criticise their government, but instead they're using it to produce puerile violent games and vulgar films. There's nothing wrong with using free speech for those things, but aren't there better things it could be used for? Perhaps that's all part of some elaborate government ploy... get you all so up in arms over some trivial game that they can do what they like without fear of criticism.
Tangentially, I'm inclined to say that the same goes for guns... It'd be nice if they were used for rebelling against a tyrannical government, but instead they're used for crimes and the cute idea of defending yourselves from criminals.
All that being said, I'm in the UK, and we're going to hell in a handcart as well.
I think a better point would be that even if you aren't watching your child 24/7, you're still responsible. If my toddler falls down the stairs while I'm in the other room, it's still my fault. If my hypothetical older child does something dumb, I'm probably still responsible to a greater or lesser extent i.e. if they're out committing crimes, then I better make damn sure I ground them and do whatever I can to stop it happening again. Yes, I grant you that as the child gets older, they take on more responsibility and do more out of sight, but you still have power over certain things e.g. not letting certain games or films into your house, if you so choose.
And just in case I need to qualify myself, I have an 18 month old child. I'm not exactly facing all these things yet, but they're certainly starting to weigh on my mind.
I know, and can translate it (Clockwork Orange was a doddle to read, as nearly all the slang is Anglicised Russian and I learnt Russian for years at school), but I'm just a bit perplexed by what the OP means when he says that the game has plenty of "friends" (droogs). It'd make more sense if he'd said it had plenty of "blood" (krovvy) or "knives" (I can't remember the word off the top of my head).
I'll grant you that the Catholic church is quite well off, but certainly in the UK the Anglican church is running at quite a deficit. Also, the understanding is that the donations are to pay for the ministers and the upkeep of the church, which doesn't really allow for anyone becoming absurdly rich.
In the UK, we have a thing called the Telephone Preference Service. It's basically a list of people that don't want to receive telesales calls and the like, and it's illegal for telesales people to call anyone on that list. They are legally obliged to check that list and are not allowed to call anyone on it without your explicit permission.
As such, in the UK, if you are on that list then it is not only an invasion of privacy but an illegal act for them to call you. We're signed up and we get practically no calls, and any that we do get can be ended very swiftly by asking who they are and why they're calling and informing them that they are committing an illegal act by even calling us.
I think they do a fax service as well, to cut down on junk faxes too...
Big deal. If you sign a contract saying that only members of your household will use the network access you're paying for, then you're in breach of it when you leave your access point open to all and sundry and all and sundry choose to use it. No one is stopping you using the Wi-Fi spectrum in the common arena, what they are objecting to is people in breach of contract because they are letting everyone use the upstream connection to the Internet at large.
Find an ISP that lets you do what you want, or lobby existing ISPs for it. Until then, the ISPs are pretty much right.
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Homebrew software? You might as well argue that failing to disclose hidden beta code that requires a 3rd party mod to unlock it is enough to get a game re-rated!
Wait... hold on...
OK, so you were desensitised to the violence in the game. Would you say you were desensitised to the idea of actually dropping nukes on actual cities in real life?
Remember, the generation that enjoys extremely violent video games now is the same generation that made Super Mario 3 the highest selling game in history.
I'd like to see the numbers on who's playing Manhunt 2 or whatever. I don't really think there's a huge overlap with former Mario 3 players. I'm prepared to bet that a lot of the players of Manhunt 2 weren't even alive when Mario 3 was first released.
IQ is also woefully inaccurate in cases like this, because of the cultural bias of the tests.
You must need that for your job that requires 10 years experience of C#.
Sounds familiar... I remember people going to similar lengths to get XP to run like some sort of version of 2000 SP5.
Meanwhile, the grown ups will be playing the follow up to Mario Galaxy.
Never mind the Zune guy, how about the chap who spent a year getting Albus "Homo" Dumbledore tattooed on his back.
I bought DX2 for similar reasons - I felt obliged to, given how awesome the first one was. DX2 sucked. After a few levels I gave up trying and just played through it with cheats. I never use cheats to get through a game, but I had to with this. It was just shockingly poor and so dull after the first one, but I felt I had to play it one way or another. I mean, it couldn't be that bad, given that the first was such an epic, right?
I know what you're thinking. Did he get a pagerank of six or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is Google, the most powerful search engine in the world, and would find a needle in a haystack, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?
(With apologies, and lost karma.)
This ain't Fark, you know.
an 800x600 eInk display really (such as the one Kimble uses)
I would have that thought that Kimble had more important things to do than read e-books.
TNT's Ts & Cs suggest that they are only liable for up to £15 per kilo (note 11), or £15,000 per shipment if you pay for enhanced liability cover (note 15). So, even if HMRC did pay for enhanced cover - and somehow I doubt it - any payout from TNT wouldn't come anywhere close to the billions that the data could be worth.
Apparently HMRC have been taking a leaf out of Linus' book:
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds.
Substitute the public ftp server for sending out CDs willy nilly, and you're practically there.
The trouble with "free speech" is that everyone seems to want it for the wrong reasons. People should be using free speech to criticise their government, but instead they're using it to produce puerile violent games and vulgar films. There's nothing wrong with using free speech for those things, but aren't there better things it could be used for? Perhaps that's all part of some elaborate government ploy... get you all so up in arms over some trivial game that they can do what they like without fear of criticism.
Tangentially, I'm inclined to say that the same goes for guns... It'd be nice if they were used for rebelling against a tyrannical government, but instead they're used for crimes and the cute idea of defending yourselves from criminals.
All that being said, I'm in the UK, and we're going to hell in a handcart as well.
I think a better point would be that even if you aren't watching your child 24/7, you're still responsible. If my toddler falls down the stairs while I'm in the other room, it's still my fault. If my hypothetical older child does something dumb, I'm probably still responsible to a greater or lesser extent i.e. if they're out committing crimes, then I better make damn sure I ground them and do whatever I can to stop it happening again. Yes, I grant you that as the child gets older, they take on more responsibility and do more out of sight, but you still have power over certain things e.g. not letting certain games or films into your house, if you so choose.
And just in case I need to qualify myself, I have an 18 month old child. I'm not exactly facing all these things yet, but they're certainly starting to weigh on my mind.
I know, and can translate it (Clockwork Orange was a doddle to read, as nearly all the slang is Anglicised Russian and I learnt Russian for years at school), but I'm just a bit perplexed by what the OP means when he says that the game has plenty of "friends" (droogs). It'd make more sense if he'd said it had plenty of "blood" (krovvy) or "knives" (I can't remember the word off the top of my head).
I'll grant you that the Catholic church is quite well off, but certainly in the UK the Anglican church is running at quite a deficit. Also, the understanding is that the donations are to pay for the ministers and the upkeep of the church, which doesn't really allow for anyone becoming absurdly rich.
(Tithing Christian)
In the UK, we have a thing called the Telephone Preference Service. It's basically a list of people that don't want to receive telesales calls and the like, and it's illegal for telesales people to call anyone on that list. They are legally obliged to check that list and are not allowed to call anyone on it without your explicit permission.
As such, in the UK, if you are on that list then it is not only an invasion of privacy but an illegal act for them to call you. We're signed up and we get practically no calls, and any that we do get can be ended very swiftly by asking who they are and why they're calling and informing them that they are committing an illegal act by even calling us.
I think they do a fax service as well, to cut down on junk faxes too...
Big deal. If you sign a contract saying that only members of your household will use the network access you're paying for, then you're in breach of it when you leave your access point open to all and sundry and all and sundry choose to use it. No one is stopping you using the Wi-Fi spectrum in the common arena, what they are objecting to is people in breach of contract because they are letting everyone use the upstream connection to the Internet at large.
Find an ISP that lets you do what you want, or lobby existing ISPs for it. Until then, the ISPs are pretty much right.
Or "Getoffmylawn".
Except they didn't make a copy, they deprived the owner of that item.
Unless the cat's "eat mouse reflex" doesn't go off because the mouse isn't running about scared...
Oh, I don't know, troll might fit as well.
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