I thought all countries (in the developed world, at the very least) had laws stating in one wording or another that it is illegal for a business to refuse payment in the country's official currency?
If you're running a local e-commerce site that sells only to a single state or county rather than the entire country, let alone to China, blocking China at the gate doesn't really seem that bad of a business move.
If it wasn't for validation servers for strictly offline games, eg. The Sims, this wouldn't be half as bad. It's when people don't get to play an offlline game because a server somewhere is down or messed up that things get ugly.
This isn't very different from the argument on here a few days ago about the three guys who were sharing karaoke songs that were no longer available for purchase anywhere.
The target demographic of this offer are those people who are so poor they will never, EVER be able to afford 'full' internet access - the options boil down to free but walled garden, or no internet at all. There IS no third option for them. There is no market to close because there is no market in the first place.
If I were to drive to the nearest train station from where I live, I pass at least three supermarkets on the way. That train station furthermore doesn't have direct links to the places I usually go.
Most EULAs have a clause stating that they can change the terms in the future; most don't say that these changes will be retro-active.
Imagine if contracts worked like this (hint, EULAs are generally treated like contracts). After years of paying, say, ten dollars a month the contract gets changed retro-actively to 100 dollars a month, and you're stuck owing thousands of dollars.
it would be like the government forcing someone to give up their malware code as a part of a plea deal and then using it to create more security. i dont see anything wrong with this
Blizzard is NOT the government. They are a company, nothing more.
All it takes is one mentally unstable person getting it into his or her head that it's his or her 'duty' to save the world from this evil person PETA is talking about.
Got a weekly Pathfinder game on roll20, voice chat over Discord, and it Just Works.
Hell, just setting up macros for full round attacks involving sneak attacks etc. is good fun all on its own, and the interface gives a really good sense of rolling the dice.
I live really far from any airfields, and several times a year I have military cargo planes flying so low overhead the first several times I thought they were gonna crash. That is NOT an amusing experience by any means.
If a cargo plane is so low you can read the serial number (or whatever that unique letter-and-number code on planes is called) then it is TOO low.
If that was their goal they wouldn't be throwing fits about being put in cities that aren't 'big enough', they would have sold their fancy smartphones to get another family member with them, and they would basically be behaving like people grateful to not live in fear for their lives rather than bratty teenagers that get a BLACK Ferrari instead of a RED one.
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Whoosh, I guess. I did get all his references and turned them back to things in the Star Trek canon.
Oh come now. You can't Shield yourself from appearing McCoy; they'll Book you for it anyway. They know who you are, Zepherus.
Did I play the Obscure References game right?
Greece was not facing a problem that would be fixed within a reasonable if frustrating time frame, such as a determined DDOS attack on the banks.
I thought all countries (in the developed world, at the very least) had laws stating in one wording or another that it is illegal for a business to refuse payment in the country's official currency?
He would if he was hiding behind seven proxies.
Depends on the site.
If you're running a local e-commerce site that sells only to a single state or county rather than the entire country, let alone to China, blocking China at the gate doesn't really seem that bad of a business move.
If it wasn't for validation servers for strictly offline games, eg. The Sims, this wouldn't be half as bad. It's when people don't get to play an offlline game because a server somewhere is down or messed up that things get ugly.
This post doesn't reek of advertisement at all.
This isn't very different from the argument on here a few days ago about the three guys who were sharing karaoke songs that were no longer available for purchase anywhere.
The target demographic of this offer are those people who are so poor they will never, EVER be able to afford 'full' internet access - the options boil down to free but walled garden, or no internet at all. There IS no third option for them. There is no market to close because there is no market in the first place.
Conversely I don't get how autonomous vehicles are 'relatively unpredictable' if they are entirely unable to deviate from the laws of traffic.
Sounds to me like it's the humans that are unpredictable.
Anyone making claims through this will inevitably be referred to as Chubbies.
Pretty much this.
If I were to drive to the nearest train station from where I live, I pass at least three supermarkets on the way. That train station furthermore doesn't have direct links to the places I usually go.
What is the benefit of taking the train for me?
A lot of people only WORK because they really the money, to feed their family.
Consent should be easy: If the prostitute wants to say no but another person is saying yes FOR her, that is not consent.
Most EULAs have a clause stating that they can change the terms in the future; most don't say that these changes will be retro-active.
Imagine if contracts worked like this (hint, EULAs are generally treated like contracts). After years of paying, say, ten dollars a month the contract gets changed retro-actively to 100 dollars a month, and you're stuck owing thousands of dollars.
Well, you have to know what's in SOME of the packets, anyway.
it would be like the government forcing someone to give up their malware code as a part of a plea deal and then using it to create more security. i dont see anything wrong with this
Blizzard is NOT the government. They are a company, nothing more.
All it takes is one mentally unstable person getting it into his or her head that it's his or her 'duty' to save the world from this evil person PETA is talking about.
Maybe people should start saying, "I am -generally- an $ideology but -"?
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I second this.
Got a weekly Pathfinder game on roll20, voice chat over Discord, and it Just Works.
Hell, just setting up macros for full round attacks involving sneak attacks etc. is good fun all on its own, and the interface gives a really good sense of rolling the dice.
If this thing works, how did anyone notice it?
I live really far from any airfields, and several times a year I have military cargo planes flying so low overhead the first several times I thought they were gonna crash. That is NOT an amusing experience by any means.
If a cargo plane is so low you can read the serial number (or whatever that unique letter-and-number code on planes is called) then it is TOO low.
education
Scholarship or bust.
infrastructure
Toll roads, various internet speed/cost issues.
security
Weekly stories of police shooting innocent civilians.
material ... abundance
Jobs being outsourced left and right.
that make you the envy of the rest of the planet
Citation needed. I know large portions of Europe look to America and think, "WTF happened?"
Er, yes.
Am I playing the "List of credible sources" game right?
If that was their goal they wouldn't be throwing fits about being put in cities that aren't 'big enough', they would have sold their fancy smartphones to get another family member with them, and they would basically be behaving like people grateful to not live in fear for their lives rather than bratty teenagers that get a BLACK Ferrari instead of a RED one.