You're absolutely right, games released on DVDs in the 80s and early 90s were so expensive I can't even find records of the prices!
Reality check: The medium for the games has changed. The only real comparison to be made is "What does one game cost?", maybe with some fancy math involving the average amount of hours of gameplay you get for your money.
How do you know the encrypted data is related to the case?
How do you know the encrypted data is not something that is, at least to the 19 year old suspect, even worse?
What if he's secretly gay, his entire family are raging homophobes, and he KNOWS beyond the shadow of doubt that revealing his encryption password will get him disowned?
The way I'm understanding this it's the LACK of regulation that's taking away your liberty to freely pick a small ISP -and- get ESPN3 at the same time.
Actually I do get it, that was my exact point. If someone's making a threat it doesn't really matter whether it's coercion or extortion as you have no way of knowing if they're going to follow through with the threat.
And how, pray tell, do you know in advance whether the guy casually dropping a baseball bat into his hand is going to follow through on his threat or not?
No matter how clever your comments on Slashdot or how powerful your work ethic is, you'll never get all the money in the world. There are (technically, due to the ability to print more) infinitely many, so you may as well stop trying to get some of them.
This isn't meant to be a funny post, because that is exactly what's going to happen. Vigilantes heading off to show anyone on the list what it feels like to be abused - even if the only abuse was that the dog had fleas.
Hmm, come to think of it, there hasn't been ANY new scandals about CitiBank for the past half decade. I guess they cleaned up their act, so they're probably safe to bank with now.
We only know what we know because it's something we see mentioned over and over again. Stop talking about it, and people will think things changed - or worse, new players in the game (ie. teenagers growing up) won't know there's a problem.
Which part of that has anything to do with global warming?
Why is it suddenly NASA's job to monitor global warming? Why not create an agency with that job, instead of re-allocating something that has for many decades been all about space exploration?
Technically no, I don't play. I quit after getting a hunter to level 70. Your assumptions fail.
I still think it's ridiculous to pay more and more and MORE to play a game I, in my mind, own, but I'm probably just an old fogey like that, so get the f*** off my lawn.
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This is related to the way chocolate tastes good, strawberry jam tastes good, and a good steak tastes good - but you'd never, EVER mix the three.
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He lived his life in the fast lane.
Now he rests next to it."
You're absolutely right, games released on DVDs in the 80s and early 90s were so expensive I can't even find records of the prices!
Reality check: The medium for the games has changed. The only real comparison to be made is "What does one game cost?", maybe with some fancy math involving the average amount of hours of gameplay you get for your money.
Wait, I thought the US of A were fighting -for- royalties?
How do you know the encrypted data is related to the case?
How do you know the encrypted data is not something that is, at least to the 19 year old suspect, even worse?
What if he's secretly gay, his entire family are raging homophobes, and he KNOWS beyond the shadow of doubt that revealing his encryption password will get him disowned?
If this was you, would YOU reveal the password?
BINGO! What do I win?
The way I'm understanding this it's the LACK of regulation that's taking away your liberty to freely pick a small ISP -and- get ESPN3 at the same time.
Actually I do get it, that was my exact point. If someone's making a threat it doesn't really matter whether it's coercion or extortion as you have no way of knowing if they're going to follow through with the threat.
And how, pray tell, do you know in advance whether the guy casually dropping a baseball bat into his hand is going to follow through on his threat or not?
Because people are just going to LOVE being tracked like this.
Also, first non-tracked post.
Hardware vendors aren't likely to be as concious(sic), at least until this incident, of the need to maintain proper security around their singing keys
Damn those karaoke bars streaming live to the net!
I feel your pain. There's only one other person in my country with my exact name, so a coin flip is all it'd take.
Add to that a ~20 year difference and I'm easily recognized as the one likely to be playing WoW.
Because this isn't about questioning government per se.
It's about questioning why America doesn't allow the church to create laws.
4 inches is approximately 10 cm. What's so hard about that?
*whoosh*
Yes it is.
It's a heavy element, even.
That's no moon.
No matter how clever your comments on Slashdot or how powerful your work ethic is, you'll never get all the money in the world. There are (technically, due to the ability to print more) infinitely many, so you may as well stop trying to get some of them.
And now, with this new registry, YOU CAN!
This isn't meant to be a funny post, because that is exactly what's going to happen. Vigilantes heading off to show anyone on the list what it feels like to be abused - even if the only abuse was that the dog had fleas.
FIVE YEARS LATER:
Hmm, come to think of it, there hasn't been ANY new scandals about CitiBank for the past half decade. I guess they cleaned up their act, so they're probably safe to bank with now.
We only know what we know because it's something we see mentioned over and over again. Stop talking about it, and people will think things changed - or worse, new players in the game (ie. teenagers growing up) won't know there's a problem.
Well, that's just a shitty thing to do.
Which part of that has anything to do with global warming?
Why is it suddenly NASA's job to monitor global warming? Why not create an agency with that job, instead of re-allocating something that has for many decades been all about space exploration?
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Probably because the vote action happened when you logged in.
Technically no, I don't play. I quit after getting a hunter to level 70. Your assumptions fail.
I still think it's ridiculous to pay more and more and MORE to play a game I, in my mind, own, but I'm probably just an old fogey like that, so get the f*** off my lawn.