When I was in my 20's and before Bill got married, him and Melissa came into the restaurant i was working at. As much as I wanted to go up and say, "Hello Mr. Gates, I pirate your software." I didn't.
Now, 20 some years later, I should of. One of the few regrets in my life will be that.
> ppls in US or Sweden or Japan or something don't have to worry
Unless you had consensual sex without a condom in Sweden, which apparently is enough to get you extradited from the UK for questioning. Oh, minor sex-infraction plus you pissed off the US.
Under the new Corporate Law, yes, having sex without buying a condom and using it is against the law. Any time you can buy something from a corporation for anything, you must, or suffer the full effect of the law!!!!!
Because their entire value proposition is helping advertisers in deciding what to sell people.
For example, if somebody is talking a lot about legalizing pot, advertisers will know that they'll have more luck selling Timothy Leary books, Bob Marley or Grateful Dead albums, and Che Guevara T-shirts than they will selling Glenn Beck books, Christian rock albums, and suits and ties.
As a life long stoner I find it offensive that you think I want Timothy Leary books, Bob Marley or Grateful Dead albums, or whatever Che Guevara T-Shirts are.
Seriously, is that what you think of stoners?
It's offensive.
Okay, Bob Marley has good music, but just because we are stoners, we are NOT hippies!!!!
Hippies suck. They had their chance, and they fucked it up so bad, it's not even funny. Alot of those hippies became yuppies and when Reagen said Trickle Down Economy, apparently they were still high when they bought into it. I mean, WTF? Even the name is fucked up, Trickle Down Economy? So the Rich get richer and everyone else gets the scraps. Sounds like a great plan I want to get behind.
Shit, here i am stoned and go carried away. Anyways, stoners are NOT hippies. We are the people that are around you ever day. You're boss? A stoner. That cop? A stoner.
We listen to all types of music, we dress all sorts of ways and we are not just hippies.
Hell, it may occur that Steam gets more subscribers
What exactly is a steam subscriber?...
god, your going to hate this answer, but anyways.
A Steam Subscriber is someone who signs up for Steam. When they are signed up on Steam, they have access to purchase (and get some free games, trials, etc) from the Steam Library. Every game they get, is tied to that Steam account. So if your computer dies, do download all the games you have gotten is as easy as reinstalling Steam, and selecting your games to download!
Subscribing to Steam doesn't cost any money, doesn't require a credit card, and I never leave it running unless I'm playing something.
Also Steam (well, Valve) will do really nice sales all the fucking time. I got Left 4 Dead for $5. If i wasn't a lazy slacker and bothered to check their sales more often, I'd have more games for $5. But i'm lazy and a slacker, so I got what I got.
Anyways, I know your like, but I meant something else, but instead of saying something ask, you wanted to know what a Steam Subscriber was. I keep telling peeps on the internet, we can NOT read minds, so you need to be more clear with your questions if you want better answers. I never "know what you meant", I only know what you typed.
Our Corporate Lobbiest who keep paying our Congress and Senate to pay more attention to Wars for Oil and Wars for Supposed Profit.
Instead of funneling the money back home, to help the people who's money it is actually, they are more concerned with spending money in the Middle East, and on stupid ass crap, like movie and music pirates. Fuck Joe America and his family that is homeless and jobless thanks to the banks, lets kill us some more Terrorist. Oh ya, and we got to get them horrible criminals over here to America so we can try them. Ya, we talking about you rapist and you MR. Mega.
The USA policy is so far from where it should be at, it's not even funny anymore.
Our government has shown it does NOT care about it's people, only about making money. And in case you don't understand the Oil situation, the USA wants to drain rest of the world of it's Oil, so we can then rule the world on our vast reserves.
Be as pedantic as you want, Wine emulates Windows behavior. Whether it does so by reimplementing the libraries is irrelevant; the thing that is accomplished is environment emulation.
Or how that tranny down the hall emulates a woman?
Be as pedantic as you want, Wine emulates Windows behavior. Whether it does so by reimplementing the libraries is irrelevant; the thing that is accomplished is environment emulation.
You mean like how my light bulb above my desk emulates the sun?
Win8 is going to support hardware 3D accel in VMs with modern GPUs and near-future GPUs will support proper context switching and virtualization, which will allow seamless 3D access in VMs....
Says who? MS? Seriously? In the past, they have claimed they are adding all sort of things to their OS that never ever makes it into the OS.
Hey, here's an idea, why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux instead of studios that treat it like a red-headed stepchild? Just a thought.
Care to list them? I can think of exactly... two.
I mean, if you're going to be a whore to studios who clearly have no intention of supporting Linux
Define "being a whore" in this scenario. They make a good game. We wish to play it. We hate Windows. Dilemma. Nothing about being a whore in there.
Define "good game"?
Diablo III is anything but a good game.
Diablo II was a good game.
Diablo III is what happens when you put out a good game 10 years earlier and your "new" boss (activision) decide they want to capitalize on that "Good Game" name, and make some money.
Diablo III is a medicore game, mostly famous because it's previous version was very very popular.
In fact, Blizzard just fuck all you linux users over that bought the game and are now saying, fuck you, buy a new game if you want to play it.
You get it? Blizzard is an asshole, and Diabo III just proves it.
It s not that Facebook is cool, it's that social networking is cool, and there is no other realistic alternative. If I (collective I, I personally don't use facebook) have something to share to a group, Facebook is the simplest and the widest audience.
You seem to still think that this was about prosecuting Kim Dotcom. It wasn't.
MegaUpload is done and dusted. There doesn't need to be a prosecution; It's Mission Accompllished. Dozens of similar sites shut their doors based upon these actions out of fear and intimidation, and that's what it was all about. "We're bigger than you, and we don't like what you're doing. We're going to beat seven shades of shit out of you in public, nobody is going to do a damn thing about it, and at the worst we'll get a strongly worded letter, which we'll use as toilet paper."
ya, but if he gets his money back, what is to stop him from doing the same business over?
he's all ready doing a new music service thingy, and with all the publicity, i think any ventures he goes on will probably be successful just from the attention he's received.
In Denmark the age of consent is 15. Suppose a 15-year-old US citizen travels to Denmark on holiday with his or her family and ends up having sex with a 15-year-old in Denmark.
Should the 15-year-old be charged and marked for being a sex offender (statutory rape), travelling to engage in such etc., upon returning to the US?
...
Are you stupid?
A 15 year old can have sex with a 15 year old in the USA. It's not statutory rape. And it doesn't matter where they have sex at. It's okay. In fact, 15 year old are allowed to have sex with 13 year olds. omg, omg, what?
Now, if a 18 year old had sex with the 15 year old in America, yes, that is statutory rape.
while I agree Facebook, Apple, MS and others are just about making money, Google isn't.
Google has been about making products for people. some have been miss, and others have been a great hit. Sure, they make money from Advertising, yet before them, search engines sucked.
They made a phone OS that is a big success, yet they aren't charging phone manufactures a tax to use their OS or another phones OS. Can you say the same about MS?
Look, I might get labled a Google fanboy, but all of the companies listed in this article, they are the only one who seems to actually care about their customers and the products they are working on.
They Digitally Edited Out the likeness of Bush? An apology is one thing, but why the fuck does anyone need to remaster post-release films which contain accidental heads?
Well, about sex... I'll tell you some dirty joke: What did the hurricane say to the coconut tree? "Hold onto your nuts! This ain't gonna be no ordinary blowjob."
It is my understanding that Stuxnet got in on a USB stick: nothing at all to do with the Internet ! (True the actual controllers were networked to the compromised Windows PCs, but still not the "internet".)
Much like everything our government does, Facts do not matter, just the propaganda (They call it PR these days).
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When I was in my 20's and before Bill got married, him and Melissa came into the restaurant i was working at. As much as I wanted to go up and say, "Hello Mr. Gates, I pirate your software." I didn't.
Now, 20 some years later, I should of. One of the few regrets in my life will be that.
> ppls in US or Sweden or Japan or something don't have to worry
Unless you had consensual sex without a condom in Sweden, which apparently is enough to get you extradited from the UK for questioning. Oh, minor sex-infraction plus you pissed off the US.
Under the new Corporate Law, yes, having sex without buying a condom and using it is against the law. Any time you can buy something from a corporation for anything, you must, or suffer the full effect of the law!!!!!
Because their entire value proposition is helping advertisers in deciding what to sell people.
For example, if somebody is talking a lot about legalizing pot, advertisers will know that they'll have more luck selling Timothy Leary books, Bob Marley or Grateful Dead albums, and Che Guevara T-shirts than they will selling Glenn Beck books, Christian rock albums, and suits and ties.
As a life long stoner I find it offensive that you think I want Timothy Leary books, Bob Marley or Grateful Dead albums, or whatever Che Guevara T-Shirts are.
Seriously, is that what you think of stoners?
It's offensive.
Okay, Bob Marley has good music, but just because we are stoners, we are NOT hippies!!!!
Hippies suck. They had their chance, and they fucked it up so bad, it's not even funny. Alot of those hippies became yuppies and when Reagen said Trickle Down Economy, apparently they were still high when they bought into it. I mean, WTF? Even the name is fucked up, Trickle Down Economy? So the Rich get richer and everyone else gets the scraps. Sounds like a great plan I want to get behind.
Shit, here i am stoned and go carried away. Anyways, stoners are NOT hippies. We are the people that are around you ever day. You're boss? A stoner. That cop? A stoner.
We listen to all types of music, we dress all sorts of ways and we are not just hippies.
Stereotypes hurt.
Hell, it may occur that Steam gets more subscribers
What exactly is a steam subscriber? ...
god, your going to hate this answer, but anyways.
A Steam Subscriber is someone who signs up for Steam. When they are signed up on Steam, they have access to purchase (and get some free games, trials, etc) from the Steam Library. Every game they get, is tied to that Steam account. So if your computer dies, do download all the games you have gotten is as easy as reinstalling Steam, and selecting your games to download!
Subscribing to Steam doesn't cost any money, doesn't require a credit card, and I never leave it running unless I'm playing something.
Also Steam (well, Valve) will do really nice sales all the fucking time. I got Left 4 Dead for $5. If i wasn't a lazy slacker and bothered to check their sales more often, I'd have more games for $5. But i'm lazy and a slacker, so I got what I got.
Anyways, I know your like, but I meant something else, but instead of saying something ask, you wanted to know what a Steam Subscriber was. I keep telling peeps on the internet, we can NOT read minds, so you need to be more clear with your questions if you want better answers. I never "know what you meant", I only know what you typed.
According to the experts on 60 minutes, the stuxnet code can be modified to strike back at the US, and their experts thought it was likely to happen.
Did it?
People still watch 60 minutes?
Our Corporate Lobbiest who keep paying our Congress and Senate to pay more attention to Wars for Oil and Wars for Supposed Profit.
Instead of funneling the money back home, to help the people who's money it is actually, they are more concerned with spending money in the Middle East, and on stupid ass crap, like movie and music pirates. Fuck Joe America and his family that is homeless and jobless thanks to the banks, lets kill us some more Terrorist. Oh ya, and we got to get them horrible criminals over here to America so we can try them. Ya, we talking about you rapist and you MR. Mega.
The USA policy is so far from where it should be at, it's not even funny anymore.
Our government has shown it does NOT care about it's people, only about making money. And in case you don't understand the Oil situation, the USA wants to drain rest of the world of it's Oil, so we can then rule the world on our vast reserves.
Wine isn't emulating anything. It's a wrapper library. There's a significant difference.
Sort of like how we had Glide to DX wrappers back in the day.
We didn't emulate that we had a 3DFX card, we just had a wrapper to redirect the Glide calls to something DX understood.
3DFX ftw!
Be as pedantic as you want, Wine emulates Windows behavior. Whether it does so by reimplementing the libraries is irrelevant; the thing that is accomplished is environment emulation.
Or how that tranny down the hall emulates a woman?
Be as pedantic as you want, Wine emulates Windows behavior. Whether it does so by reimplementing the libraries is irrelevant; the thing that is accomplished is environment emulation.
You mean like how my light bulb above my desk emulates the sun?
Win8 is going to support hardware 3D accel in VMs with modern GPUs and near-future GPUs will support proper context switching and virtualization, which will allow seamless 3D access in VMs. ...
Says who? MS? Seriously? In the past, they have claimed they are adding all sort of things to their OS that never ever makes it into the OS.
I call FUD until I see it released.
... Maybe in a couple of years when the AMD FOSS drivers become mature ....
More likely an asteroid will hit our planet, then AMD FOSS drivers becoming mature.
Hey, here's an idea, why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux instead of studios that treat it like a red-headed stepchild? Just a thought.
Care to list them? I can think of exactly ... two.
I mean, if you're going to be a whore to studios who clearly have no intention of supporting Linux
Define "being a whore" in this scenario. They make a good game. We wish to play it. We hate Windows. Dilemma. Nothing about being a whore in there.
Define "good game"?
Diablo III is anything but a good game.
Diablo II was a good game.
Diablo III is what happens when you put out a good game 10 years earlier and your "new" boss (activision) decide they want to capitalize on that "Good Game" name, and make some money.
Diablo III is a medicore game, mostly famous because it's previous version was very very popular.
In fact, Blizzard just fuck all you linux users over that bought the game and are now saying, fuck you, buy a new game if you want to play it.
You get it? Blizzard is an asshole, and Diabo III just proves it.
It s not that Facebook is cool, it's that social networking is cool, and there is no other realistic alternative. If I (collective I, I personally don't use facebook) have something to share to a group, Facebook is the simplest and the widest audience.
Social Networking isn't cool.
Facebook's programmers have made one mistake after another..... Does Facebook hire monkeys to do their coding?
They probably hire SoE programmers.
SoE is Sony Online Entertainment.
Where are the 7000 year old cavewomen?!
They were vacationing in the South part of Spain.
You seem to still think that this was about prosecuting Kim Dotcom. It wasn't.
MegaUpload is done and dusted. There doesn't need to be a prosecution; It's Mission Accompllished. Dozens of similar sites shut their doors based upon these actions out of fear and intimidation, and that's what it was all about. "We're bigger than you, and we don't like what you're doing. We're going to beat seven shades of shit out of you in public, nobody is going to do a damn thing about it, and at the worst we'll get a strongly worded letter, which we'll use as toilet paper."
ya, but if he gets his money back, what is to stop him from doing the same business over?
he's all ready doing a new music service thingy, and with all the publicity, i think any ventures he goes on will probably be successful just from the attention he's received.
...
In Denmark the age of consent is 15. Suppose a 15-year-old US citizen travels to Denmark on holiday with his or her family and ends up having sex with a 15-year-old in Denmark.
Should the 15-year-old be charged and marked for being a sex offender (statutory rape), travelling to engage in such etc., upon returning to the US?
...
Are you stupid?
A 15 year old can have sex with a 15 year old in the USA. It's not statutory rape. And it doesn't matter where they have sex at. It's okay. In fact, 15 year old are allowed to have sex with 13 year olds. omg, omg, what?
Now, if a 18 year old had sex with the 15 year old in America, yes, that is statutory rape.
Do you feel stupid now?
It means what you want to do is wrong, and you shouldn't do it.
It's not necessarily wrong because it's against the law. There is such a thing as a bad law.
yes, but the police and fbi shouldn't be breaking laws because it gets in the way of whomever is paying them to do whatever.
If anyone should be following the Law, it is the Police and the FBI (and DEA, and TSA and any other fucking letters that have arresting authority)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ataris-greatest-hits/id422966028?mt=8
Free Atari Games today only, got an email about it.
For iPhones and iPads only.
while I agree Facebook, Apple, MS and others are just about making money, Google isn't.
Google has been about making products for people. some have been miss, and others have been a great hit. Sure, they make money from Advertising, yet before them, search engines sucked.
They made a phone OS that is a big success, yet they aren't charging phone manufactures a tax to use their OS or another phones OS. Can you say the same about MS?
Look, I might get labled a Google fanboy, but all of the companies listed in this article, they are the only one who seems to actually care about their customers and the products they are working on.
Dude isn't involved, he just won't say who's in charge of thepiratebay now.
Since he won't say, they are saying he's involved.
typical lame government shit.
They Digitally Edited Out the likeness of Bush? An apology is one thing, but why the fuck does anyone need to remaster post-release films which contain accidental heads?
or vagina.
Do you have sex with a toaster?
Well, about sex... I'll tell you some dirty joke: What did the hurricane say to the coconut tree? "Hold onto your nuts! This ain't gonna be no ordinary blowjob."
Google is wanting to you to be technical and MS only cares about how well you can talk.
Which only goes to show that Google cares about the tech stuff, and MS just cares to make money.
Not saying that Google doesn't want money, but it doesn't seem to be all that matters to them.
MS on the other hand, that is all that matters to them.
It is my understanding that Stuxnet got in on a USB stick: nothing at all to do with the Internet !
(True the actual controllers were networked to the compromised Windows PCs, but still not the "internet".)
Much like everything our government does, Facts do not matter, just the propaganda (They call it PR these days).