A sheep is someone who follows the crowd without thinking about why. A sheep, in this case, would be someone who is on here bitching about Sony even though they barely know who Lik-Sang is. The sheep says, "Ya, Sony sucks! (even though I have no idea who Lik-Sang is, and I am definitely buying a PS3!)"
What you are referring to, is the tendency for consumers to be selfish and intolerant of any kind of discomfort or deprivation, whatsoever. The people exhibiting this trait say, "I hate those Sony bastards!@!#! (but I'm buying a PS3 anyway, because, seriously, how can you expect me to be without the newest next-gen system?!)"
My thoughts on it are this... Bitch all you want. It doesn't make you a sheep or anything. There's nothing wrong with bitching about something that you don't like. However, don't threaten action unless you, A) Know what you're angry about, and B) Actually plan on following through.
It doesn't sound like they're taxing what you have in the game. They're just taxing you if you sell your game assets and make real-world money. This isn't something new. If I sell something for profit, I get taxed on the income, no matter how worthless the item is that I sold.
There are probably other factors involved here. For example, poverty has also been linked to obesity (in America.) And less intelligence can also be linked to poverty.
So does obesity somehow lead to mental decline? Or are people who are less intelligent more likely to let their physical health deteriorate?
Or maybe less intelligence leads to poverty which leads to obesity. Then again, it could be the other way around...
Correlation does not equal causation. If I had to place a bet, I would say that the link between obesity and intelligence isn't biological like the article is inferring. There may be some kind of link there, but I bet that other factors are more influential.
The term "black hat" can cover a lot of ground. In my mind, there's a big difference between someone who got in trouble for snooping around the university's network for the sake of curiosity and someone who attached a keygen trojan to something and put it out on the internet for the purpose of stealing credit card numbers. There's also a difference between someone who DoS'ed their school's webpage in high school and someone who DoS'ed their employer's webpage when they were 25.
Here's another thing to think about too... The only reason to hire a black hat over someone else would be that you know they have some experience in hacking. However, there are many people who have the same experience and never did anything illegal. Basically, you're sacrificing a varying amount of ethics in exchange for a guaranteed amount of skill. Also, in many cases, the skill that a black hat has proven is directly proportional to the ethics that he has disproven. That is, if you know enough of a hacker's exploits to know that he is very skilled, you also know that he has broken the law a sufficient number of times to prove it to you.
In all, I would say that hiring a black hat would be case-by-case for me. Someone who is a black hat because of a harmless, but illegal, mistake may pique my interest because of his proven ability to learn independently. Someone who hacked a private network years ago, but has since proven to be a responsible person, may end up being a skilled employee and worth a second chance. But, to me, someone who committed repeated damaging, malicious acts online is no better than someone who committed repeated damaging, malicious acts in real like, and they would not be worth the risk, regardless of skill.//Would you hire a multiple-time burglar to protect your home?//Sometimes it's best to trust the home-security companies, regardless of whether or not their employees have ever broken into a house.
Who says that they have to get sued? They can always devise a method of allowing copyright-holders to easily remove infringing content. Even though many of the things that I look at on YouTube are copyrighted, a good portion of them are not. As much as I would like YouTube to stay as it is, I would rather see it crippled than dead. Plus, as a business, wouldn't it be good policy to NOT get sued?
There's only one thing we can do... We have to genetically engineer a child with about 800 copies and see what happens. Only then will we know the truth.
They didn't meet up an simply say, "oh, I think we're going to demote Pluto." They made a definition of a planet and Pluto didn't fit it. Why should we have re-learn the planets? We should do it for the sake of accuracy. If you have a problem with the new definition of a planet, argue about that. But don't bitch and moan that some kind of exception should be made for Pluto just because "it's always been that way."
I disagree with you. First of all, this isn't just about the kidnapping. Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel, and Lebanon has done nothing to stop it. Let me make a comparison that may be closer to home.
Say that a Maxican drug cartel took up residence in a border town. For whatever reason, they got pissed at us, kidnapped two border partol officers, and started firing rockets at San Diego. And to top if off, the Mexican government turns a blind eye to it. What do you think the government would do? I sure as hell hope that we would send troops in there to stop it. Unless you want San Diego residents to live in a constant state of fear.
And about the civilian casualties... I do think that Israel needs to be more careful with their bombing. I don't think that they care about the lives of people in the countries around them, and I have a problem with that. However, it would help if Hezbollah didn't put their bases and meeting areas in residential areas. When an enemy base is located in the basement of an apartment building in a large residential area, there aren't many options that completely prevent civilian casualties.
There are many civilization-ending (but not species-ending) things that can happen, but short of a massive meteor strike, I can't see any way that the entire human race could be wiped out in a hundred years.
The point that really got me is #2: Format Wars Don't Sell Players.
I know that when I had to choose between DVD+R and DVD-R, I initially refused to go with either. I finally ended up getting a recorder that could do both, although what I was really waiting for was for nearly all new DVD readers and players to support both.
I, for one, can definitely tell the difference between 480p and 1080i. I would love to get my hands on a "better" format. However, I don't plan on buying either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray until one format comes out as the clear winner or both formats are almost fully supported on all new readers.
I'm not necessarily a fan of what the Pirate Party represents. But, sometimes, overkill on the other side of the problem may work to balance the mess out. I just hope that we can eventually find a happy medium.
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Based on Amir's Ebay record, I'm going to guess that he's a slimy crook.
just in case anyone is interested...
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I wouldn't call this crippled. All you have to do is turn it on. I guess that my copy of Civilization 4 is crippled too, because I had to install it.
Seriously, though... blocking incoming traffic is more than half that battle. It is my understanding that blocking outgoing traffic is mainly useful after your system has been compromised.
This is why I have always felt that any extra powers given to the government to fight terrorism should be limited to prosecuting terrorism-related charges. For example, if the police would use powers given by the Patriot act to gather evidence on a large meth lab, all that evidence should be thrown out in the same way that it would be thrown out if they ran in without a warrant. I think it would give them the tools they need to keep an eye on in-country terrorists without screwing everything else up.
I don't see how this relates to terrorism at all, and my guess is that is doesn't relate. The government has always flagged large, unusual transactions of money. Mainly, they want to keep on the lookout for illegal income (drugs, etc,) and they also want to make sure that you paid taxes on any unexpected income. If someone who is has been collecting unemployment for the last 6 months suddenly pays off a $15000 debt or buys a new car with cash up front, chances are something illegal is going on. And if you happen to win $15000 on a trip to Vegas and you come home and put it in the bank, the government wants to make sure that you pay taxes on it.
Like I said, I doubt that this is really terrorism-related. It's more likely that this is another example of the government using their extended terrorism-fighting powers to fight regular crime instead.
Exactly. I used it for SNES emulation a lot, and when I was trying to walk right, I would go down in many cases. That == broken AFAIC.
you can't copyright historical "facts" can you?
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However, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" is listed as fiction IIRC.
Doesn't this mean that he will have to admit that the content of his book is completely fictional in order to sue Dan Brown for violoating his copyright?
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A sheep is someone who follows the crowd without thinking about why. A sheep, in this case, would be someone who is on here bitching about Sony even though they barely know who Lik-Sang is. The sheep says, "Ya, Sony sucks! (even though I have no idea who Lik-Sang is, and I am definitely buying a PS3!)"
What you are referring to, is the tendency for consumers to be selfish and intolerant of any kind of discomfort or deprivation, whatsoever. The people exhibiting this trait say, "I hate those Sony bastards!@!#! (but I'm buying a PS3 anyway, because, seriously, how can you expect me to be without the newest next-gen system?!)"
My thoughts on it are this... Bitch all you want. It doesn't make you a sheep or anything. There's nothing wrong with bitching about something that you don't like. However, don't threaten action unless you, A) Know what you're angry about, and B) Actually plan on following through.
When I only have about 30 minutes to play, I'll usually hop in a battleground.
It doesn't sound like they're taxing what you have in the game. They're just taxing you if you sell your game assets and make real-world money. This isn't something new. If I sell something for profit, I get taxed on the income, no matter how worthless the item is that I sold.
There are probably other factors involved here. For example, poverty has also been linked to obesity (in America.) And less intelligence can also be linked to poverty.
So does obesity somehow lead to mental decline? Or are people who are less intelligent more likely to let their physical health deteriorate?
Or maybe less intelligence leads to poverty which leads to obesity. Then again, it could be the other way around...
Correlation does not equal causation. If I had to place a bet, I would say that the link between obesity and intelligence isn't biological like the article is inferring. There may be some kind of link there, but I bet that other factors are more influential.
The term "black hat" can cover a lot of ground. In my mind, there's a big difference between someone who got in trouble for snooping around the university's network for the sake of curiosity and someone who attached a keygen trojan to something and put it out on the internet for the purpose of stealing credit card numbers. There's also a difference between someone who DoS'ed their school's webpage in high school and someone who DoS'ed their employer's webpage when they were 25.
//Would you hire a multiple-time burglar to protect your home? //Sometimes it's best to trust the home-security companies, regardless of whether or not their employees have ever broken into a house.
Here's another thing to think about too... The only reason to hire a black hat over someone else would be that you know they have some experience in hacking. However, there are many people who have the same experience and never did anything illegal. Basically, you're sacrificing a varying amount of ethics in exchange for a guaranteed amount of skill. Also, in many cases, the skill that a black hat has proven is directly proportional to the ethics that he has disproven. That is, if you know enough of a hacker's exploits to know that he is very skilled, you also know that he has broken the law a sufficient number of times to prove it to you.
In all, I would say that hiring a black hat would be case-by-case for me. Someone who is a black hat because of a harmless, but illegal, mistake may pique my interest because of his proven ability to learn independently. Someone who hacked a private network years ago, but has since proven to be a responsible person, may end up being a skilled employee and worth a second chance. But, to me, someone who committed repeated damaging, malicious acts online is no better than someone who committed repeated damaging, malicious acts in real like, and they would not be worth the risk, regardless of skill.
Who says that they have to get sued? They can always devise a method of allowing copyright-holders to easily remove infringing content. Even though many of the things that I look at on YouTube are copyrighted, a good portion of them are not. As much as I would like YouTube to stay as it is, I would rather see it crippled than dead. Plus, as a business, wouldn't it be good policy to NOT get sued?
There's only one thing we can do... We have to genetically engineer a child with about 800 copies and see what happens. Only then will we know the truth.
They didn't meet up an simply say, "oh, I think we're going to demote Pluto." They made a definition of a planet and Pluto didn't fit it. Why should we have re-learn the planets? We should do it for the sake of accuracy. If you have a problem with the new definition of a planet, argue about that. But don't bitch and moan that some kind of exception should be made for Pluto just because "it's always been that way."
Someone who wants to see if it's posted on the internet somewhere.
I don't think that I would destroy any old property, but it wouldn't be completely out of line to destroy the mosquito would it?
I disagree with you. First of all, this isn't just about the kidnapping. Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel, and Lebanon has done nothing to stop it. Let me make a comparison that may be closer to home.
Say that a Maxican drug cartel took up residence in a border town. For whatever reason, they got pissed at us, kidnapped two border partol officers, and started firing rockets at San Diego. And to top if off, the Mexican government turns a blind eye to it. What do you think the government would do? I sure as hell hope that we would send troops in there to stop it. Unless you want San Diego residents to live in a constant state of fear.
And about the civilian casualties... I do think that Israel needs to be more careful with their bombing. I don't think that they care about the lives of people in the countries around them, and I have a problem with that. However, it would help if Hezbollah didn't put their bases and meeting areas in residential areas. When an enemy base is located in the basement of an apartment building in a large residential area, there aren't many options that completely prevent civilian casualties.
There are many civilization-ending (but not species-ending) things that can happen, but short of a massive meteor strike, I can't see any way that the entire human race could be wiped out in a hundred years.
The point that really got me is #2: Format Wars Don't Sell Players.
I know that when I had to choose between DVD+R and DVD-R, I initially refused to go with either. I finally ended up getting a recorder that could do both, although what I was really waiting for was for nearly all new DVD readers and players to support both.
I, for one, can definitely tell the difference between 480p and 1080i. I would love to get my hands on a "better" format. However, I don't plan on buying either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray until one format comes out as the clear winner or both formats are almost fully supported on all new readers.
I'm not necessarily a fan of what the Pirate Party represents. But, sometimes, overkill on the other side of the problem may work to balance the mess out. I just hope that we can eventually find a happy medium.
Based on Amir's Ebay record, I'm going to guess that he's a slimy crook.
Here's a link to the finished auction.
I wouldn't call this crippled. All you have to do is turn it on. I guess that my copy of Civilization 4 is crippled too, because I had to install it.
Seriously, though... blocking incoming traffic is more than half that battle. It is my understanding that blocking outgoing traffic is mainly useful after your system has been compromised.
*cough* border patrol *cough*
I don't think that the CATO institute is really right-wing. They are more libertarian.
And, I would like to add...
This is why I have always felt that any extra powers given to the government to fight terrorism should be limited to prosecuting terrorism-related charges. For example, if the police would use powers given by the Patriot act to gather evidence on a large meth lab, all that evidence should be thrown out in the same way that it would be thrown out if they ran in without a warrant. I think it would give them the tools they need to keep an eye on in-country terrorists without screwing everything else up.
I don't see how this relates to terrorism at all, and my guess is that is doesn't relate. The government has always flagged large, unusual transactions of money. Mainly, they want to keep on the lookout for illegal income (drugs, etc,) and they also want to make sure that you paid taxes on any unexpected income. If someone who is has been collecting unemployment for the last 6 months suddenly pays off a $15000 debt or buys a new car with cash up front, chances are something illegal is going on. And if you happen to win $15000 on a trip to Vegas and you come home and put it in the bank, the government wants to make sure that you pay taxes on it.
Like I said, I doubt that this is really terrorism-related. It's more likely that this is another example of the government using their extended terrorism-fighting powers to fight regular crime instead.
Controlling the backbones will make the "internet" a lot easier for them to censor.
Exactly. I used it for SNES emulation a lot, and when I was trying to walk right, I would go down in many cases. That == broken AFAIC.
However, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" is listed as fiction IIRC.
Doesn't this mean that he will have to admit that the content of his book is completely fictional in order to sue Dan Brown for violoating his copyright?
It was just like a PS1 controller... Only it always broke! I went through 3 of them.