I do hope you're not this aggressive when debating in person - it tends to have the opposite effect to what you desire in that people only remember your anger, not the point you're making.
I undertand what you're saying and it's a laudable idea. The only problem is that while you're sticking to "A man's word is his bond" the corporate lawyers feel free to be a bunch of slimy two-faced weasels and wriggle around the letter of agreements whilst violating its spirit. A non-compete without relevant and appropriate compensation is _wrong_ and should be regarded as unenforcable - just like Click-wrap licences and EULAs that are designed so you have to accept the contract before you can read it. Just because something is legal does not make it ethical or moral - this is why Law is a constantly evolving thing.
Oh right - I see. They can open themselves up to a Harrasment and Constructive Dismissal lawsuit and then you'll leave and not get another job for months cos' you'll be too busy suing their asses off.
Even worse, if you manage to prove that God exists then the fact you have proof will preclude having faith. Since deities exist on faith God will cease to exist in a puff of logic.
It's not funny. One of my friends in high school had a complete collection of the Star Trek RPG books - he'd had to give up AD&D cos' of the whole religionutter thing from his parents the year before. Someone told his parents - I sh1t you not - that the telepathy that some races have in ST "May as well be magic". So they decided that the only way to save his soul was to put all his ST stuff in a metal dustbin, pour on petrol and burn it all...
Oh, and of course to ban him fron associating with the evil roleplayers who were his only friends - after trying to get him to give them our addresses so they could write letters to our parents warning them of the danger to our souls.
I hated the Auto Level Balance. It meant that the staple of Elder Scrolls games through the ages - "Ok this area's too hard for me, better go away and level a bit" was gone. It also meant that when you reached level 30-odd pretty much every bandit was carrying 10,000 odd gold in rare or magical equipment. If these guys had such treasures, why didn't they retire and live well off the proceeds of selling them? A better idea would have been that mobs had a base level and then advanced slower than you - say 1/4th of your extra levels. Or, let players set the advancement rate at the start - 1 in 10 being easy, 1 to 1 being insanely hard (as that means mobs will always be their starting level above you...)
At least I only got stuck on the scenery a half-a-dozen times all told - earlier games it was so frequent that a basic levitate spell was a downright necessity as soon as you could afford it.
In the first 3 months we had a 360, the g/f and I managed to rack up about 350 hours on Oblivion between us... It's really interesting to watch someone else's play style - I'm a "Throw in a huge spell, summon a Daedra and charge" type and she's a "Sneak in, throw in a large AOE DOT, go back invisible and backstab the screaming burning victims" type.
What they're asking you to do is at the least immoral, possibly even illegal. Your employer doesn't have the right to ask you to place yourself in legal jeopardy in this way, and if the sh1t hits the fan do you really think that someone that came up with this scheme will balk at placing all the blame on you. Someone really needs to have a little chat with your boss about ethics...
So... if you break up with someone and they use the house key you forgot you gave them the time that you needed them to water your plants to break in and cut the crotch out of all your clothes and pour bleach in all your plant pots you'd be fine with that. Cos' you know, you gave them that key - so you gave them implicit permission to leave a fresh steming turd under your pillow...
The guy in this story forgot 1 basic rule - if you break up with someone, no matter how amicable it is, change _all_ your passwords. Amicable is all well and good but drunk lonely people do stupid things at 3am.
Realistically, the only rights you have are the ones you can defend.
Or those that someone else is prepared to defend for you. Humans are social animals and we do not exist in isolation. It is therefore necessary for us to build social structures and as we advance both as a species and technologically it becomes more essential that those social structures are based more around "Greatest good for the greatest number" than "Ug biggest so Ug gets the best furs."
Uh... isn't that going to contravene the DMCA? Oh I see - it's gonna work like :
1) Sell DRM'd tracks to unsuspecting customers.
2) Switch off servers forcing customers to violate the DMCA to use what they've paid for.
3) Sue the infringing bastards.
4) PROFIT!!!
There really needs to be a robust system to punish people/companies that file obvious "nuisance lawsuits". The current system simply doesn't work at all.
I download films to see if they're any good. If they are I buy a copy to watch on a decent TV instead of my monitor, if they're not I save the £10 or so for something worth it. File sharing prevents me wasting my money on something I'm gonna regret buying later.
i wouldn't have thought that Sony or the movie studios would waste money and resources to provide each BD release with an ever-changing online video stream
How's about as a way to provide updated adverts to _every_ BD title you play. Sony are always looking to new ways to cram their new releases down our throats...
Pirates are crooks - I was just reading an article about how a bunch of them stole a ship with 20-odd T72's on board. That's definate crook behaviour to me.
The legal status of Intellectual Property infringers on the other hand is more dubious, and more relevant to the discussion at hand.
I suspect if anyone were to rely on it for business decisions, they'd be fired.
AFAICR there have been several cases of people using sections lifted from Wikipedia in materials produced for their work - they generally ended up losing their jobs...
Good luck with that. Who's gonna stand up to America - Labour? The Tories? Maybe the Lib Dems? The Green party would, but there's no hope of them getting anywhere.
The Labour party is shafted anyway. Gordon Brown's desperate clinging to power is exacerbating the mess left in the wake of Tony B.Liar. The Tories are at the highest popularity since Maggie's heyday and Labour are too busy fighting each other to do anything about it.
So we end up being at the mercy of EU bureaucrats who just rubber stamp anything to make their lives easier and wonder how we got in this mess.
There is a reason there called anonymous... that's because they'll never be found. Sarah Palin is a lair and her methods are no different from the rest of the republicans. Democrats do it too but they only are ever after sex, the republicans greedy ways will be there downfall.
You don't wanna know about the scary mental images that that gave me...
Well yes - that's what 8 years of voters have chosen.
I mean seriously, people. Giving him a SECOND term? Even if he did have to steal the last few votes...
Sure, why not. I mean it might start to smell after a bit but go for it.
In fact why not make that a condition of office - when you leave office your head gets chopped off, tarred and mounted on a pike for posterity. Would draw the line between those who really wanted to make a difference and those who just wanted access to the White House Blow'n'Hookers fund...
65%? That's gotta be bull. Or a misleading interpretation of the actual statistics - such as most of these being people who had a knife waved under their nose by somebody and _then_ started carrying so that the next time somebody pulled a knife on them they had something to defend themselves with.
Not a WOW player myself, but of my friends who do play WOW I'd say about 2/5th are women. Gamer girlies are not as rare as you think - my other half's managed to rack up about 150 hours in Oblivion and it's only that low cos' I want time on the 360 too...
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I do hope you're not this aggressive when debating in person - it tends to have the opposite effect to what you desire in that people only remember your anger, not the point you're making.
I undertand what you're saying and it's a laudable idea. The only problem is that while you're sticking to "A man's word is his bond" the corporate lawyers feel free to be a bunch of slimy two-faced weasels and wriggle around the letter of agreements whilst violating its spirit. A non-compete without relevant and appropriate compensation is _wrong_ and should be regarded as unenforcable - just like Click-wrap licences and EULAs that are designed so you have to accept the contract before you can read it. Just because something is legal does not make it ethical or moral - this is why Law is a constantly evolving thing.
Oh right - I see. They can open themselves up to a Harrasment and Constructive Dismissal lawsuit and then you'll leave and not get another job for months cos' you'll be too busy suing their asses off.
Even worse, if you manage to prove that God exists then the fact you have proof will preclude having faith. Since deities exist on faith God will cease to exist in a puff of logic.
It's not funny. One of my friends in high school had a complete collection of the Star Trek RPG books - he'd had to give up AD&D cos' of the whole religionutter thing from his parents the year before. Someone told his parents - I sh1t you not - that the telepathy that some races have in ST "May as well be magic". So they decided that the only way to save his soul was to put all his ST stuff in a metal dustbin, pour on petrol and burn it all...
Oh, and of course to ban him fron associating with the evil roleplayers who were his only friends - after trying to get him to give them our addresses so they could write letters to our parents warning them of the danger to our souls.
I hated the Auto Level Balance. It meant that the staple of Elder Scrolls games through the ages - "Ok this area's too hard for me, better go away and level a bit" was gone. It also meant that when you reached level 30-odd pretty much every bandit was carrying 10,000 odd gold in rare or magical equipment. If these guys had such treasures, why didn't they retire and live well off the proceeds of selling them? A better idea would have been that mobs had a base level and then advanced slower than you - say 1/4th of your extra levels. Or, let players set the advancement rate at the start - 1 in 10 being easy, 1 to 1 being insanely hard (as that means mobs will always be their starting level above you...)
At least I only got stuck on the scenery a half-a-dozen times all told - earlier games it was so frequent that a basic levitate spell was a downright necessity as soon as you could afford it.
In the first 3 months we had a 360, the g/f and I managed to rack up about 350 hours on Oblivion between us...
It's really interesting to watch someone else's play style - I'm a "Throw in a huge spell, summon a Daedra and charge" type and she's a "Sneak in, throw in a large AOE DOT, go back invisible and backstab the screaming burning victims" type.
They so should have give him a huge redguard-style afro.
"Hi babe, I'm Raminus Polus. Bam-chik-a-waw-waw..."
What they're asking you to do is at the least immoral, possibly even illegal. Your employer doesn't have the right to ask you to place yourself in legal jeopardy in this way, and if the sh1t hits the fan do you really think that someone that came up with this scheme will balk at placing all the blame on you. Someone really needs to have a little chat with your boss about ethics...
So... if you break up with someone and they use the house key you forgot you gave them the time that you needed them to water your plants to break in and cut the crotch out of all your clothes and pour bleach in all your plant pots you'd be fine with that. Cos' you know, you gave them that key - so you gave them implicit permission to leave a fresh steming turd under your pillow...
The guy in this story forgot 1 basic rule - if you break up with someone, no matter how amicable it is, change _all_ your passwords. Amicable is all well and good but drunk lonely people do stupid things at 3am.
Damn my lack of real mod points atm - here have a (virtual) +1 (Insightful).
Realistically, the only rights you have are the ones you can defend.
Or those that someone else is prepared to defend for you. Humans are social animals and we do not exist in isolation. It is therefore necessary for us to build social structures and as we advance both as a species and technologically it becomes more essential that those social structures are based more around "Greatest good for the greatest number" than "Ug biggest so Ug gets the best furs."
Uh... isn't that going to contravene the DMCA? Oh I see - it's gonna work like :
1) Sell DRM'd tracks to unsuspecting customers.
2) Switch off servers forcing customers to violate the DMCA to use what they've paid for.
3) Sue the infringing bastards.
4) PROFIT!!!
Re-tagged as : Business as usual in the U$A
There really needs to be a robust system to punish people/companies that file obvious "nuisance lawsuits". The current system simply doesn't work at all.
I download films to see if they're any good. If they are I buy a copy to watch on a decent TV instead of my monitor, if they're not I save the £10 or so for something worth it. File sharing prevents me wasting my money on something I'm gonna regret buying later.
How's about as a way to provide updated adverts to _every_ BD title you play. Sony are always looking to new ways to cram their new releases down our throats...
Pirates are crooks - I was just reading an article about how a bunch of them stole a ship with 20-odd T72's on board. That's definate crook behaviour to me.
The legal status of Intellectual Property infringers on the other hand is more dubious, and more relevant to the discussion at hand.
AFAICR there have been several cases of people using sections lifted from Wikipedia in materials produced for their work - they generally ended up losing their jobs...
Good luck with that. Who's gonna stand up to America - Labour? The Tories? Maybe the Lib Dems? The Green party would, but there's no hope of them getting anywhere.
The Labour party is shafted anyway. Gordon Brown's desperate clinging to power is exacerbating the mess left in the wake of Tony B.Liar. The Tories are at the highest popularity since Maggie's heyday and Labour are too busy fighting each other to do anything about it.
So we end up being at the mercy of EU bureaucrats who just rubber stamp anything to make their lives easier and wonder how we got in this mess.
There is a reason there called anonymous... that's because they'll never be found. Sarah Palin is a lair and her methods are no different from the rest of the republicans. Democrats do it too but they only are ever after sex, the republicans greedy ways will be there downfall.
You don't wanna know about the scary mental images that that gave me...
There - fixed that for ya.
Well yes - that's what 8 years of voters have chosen.
I mean seriously, people. Giving him a SECOND term? Even if he did have to steal the last few votes...
Sure, why not. I mean it might start to smell after a bit but go for it.
In fact why not make that a condition of office - when you leave office your head gets chopped off, tarred and mounted on a pike for posterity. Would draw the line between those who really wanted to make a difference and those who just wanted access to the White House Blow'n'Hookers fund...
65%? That's gotta be bull. Or a misleading interpretation of the actual statistics - such as most of these being people who had a knife waved under their nose by somebody and _then_ started carrying so that the next time somebody pulled a knife on them they had something to defend themselves with.
Not a WOW player myself, but of my friends who do play WOW I'd say about 2/5th are women. Gamer girlies are not as rare as you think - my other half's managed to rack up about 150 hours in Oblivion and it's only that low cos' I want time on the 360 too...