The point of the page is to show articles that were kept from public attention. If you want a site that bitches endlessly about censorship then there are plenty of places on the web for this. If you want conspiracy theories then just type something into google.
A lot of people here seem pretty disturbed and distraught over the fact that a site listing censored articles doesn't also do things that have nothing to do with listing censored articles.
It's "people TOO stupid". Is somebody with flawed grammar capable of judging articles he's afraid to read in the first place? If said logic holds true then you're wasting everyone's time with self-destructive claims.
So they're supposed to cover every censored article in the world, and then say the US ones don't count as "CENSORED!" because they showed them on the site?
Plus I dunno if trying to use the old Tinfoil Conspiracy Alien Man scarecrow works as well now as it did a few years ago. Maybe a few people will say "omg if I believe the painfully obvious then I'll have a tinfoil hat for some reason!" but it's not much of a ploy anymore.
So, I'm kind of in the dark here. Are you trying to make the censored articles fake? The logic behind "someone made a typo so it's all a scam" seems a tad questionable.
Seems like people will never get it though their heads that nobody benefits when you force people around just to make more cash. Of course, what you're thinking is 'oh, the guys upstairs benefit plenty' but nope, fewer people will want to work for them, those who do will only work the required minimum, and the presidents and managers lose money, gain stress, and of course think "omg this means we need to make life worse for the employees now!"
Yeah it's kinda pointless for me to write about it, but it seems like we've only progressed a few inches from the days when people were forced to work in mines.
Hmm, well, I'm not convinced. Whatever argument you intended to give relied completely on botching and badly rewriting what I clearly said. And I don't know if the logic behind "all these other companies didn't do that, so I think it means THIS company didn't do that" stands up too well.
First, Apple invents the first major GUI but makes some dumb decisions; Microsoft rips it off and makes billions.
This happens over and over for years. Now, Apple invents the first major online music store but makes some stupid decisions (FairPlay); Microsoft rips it off, removes the 'stupid decision' part and probably makes billions. I'd swear Apple is TRYING to give MS the monopoly.
Of all of the freedoms that people in the United States of America enjoy
Yeah, God bless America!
*Hides the hundreds of thousands of files he's not allowed to keep on his own hard drive, checks his identification numbers and removes his anti-Bush bumper sticker so police won't arrest him*
Woo!
Let's start a campaign to to show everyone how free they are compared to lab rats.
..you can't expect the MPAA to do anything without stripping people of more rights, can you? So of course they had to make PG-13 and 'R' and apply the classic law of 'kids are sub-human things that should only watch what we decide they should watch' and put age-restrictions on theaters, just to ensure that kids don't leave their cages.
Oh yay, let's celebrate a great milestone in thought control.
"The corporate video game industry has just suffered a complete shutdown, depriving us of a future flourishing with video games such as 'Bugs Bunny in Marlboro Land' and 'Alien vs Predator vs Captain Crunch'. Strangely, it began at about the time 'Duke Nukem: The Search for Jolt' was released, and escalated ever since. Companies are baffled as to why consumers suddenly had no urge to play the games, but the only people we can blame for this utter loss in profit are software pirates and p2p networks."
I think you're referring to not-so-savvy teenagers (and extending that indefinitely), which doesn't say much at all. I've dealt with a million adult dunces and maybe one or two teenaged ones.
Well it seemed really useful, but of course I followed the directions and installed the programs to run exe files on OS X, installing the necessary X11 package. So I tried all the example exe files and, no dice. All it does is say it can't find the graphic drivers I just installed, something about X Server, then quits.
Heh. Yeah, but then they'd need to make an expansion for the multitude of incidents that didn't escape the Pentagon's info control. Could you imagine how many years the programming would take?
I think people would rather just believe the military is there for security, and not the other 90% of what it does.
"OMG you wear tinfoil hat and are a conspiracy alien terrrorist out to kill us all!"
Heh, sorry. There has to be some nutcase to whip out the tinfoil-hat scarecrow whenever someone points out the painfully obvious. "Oh sure, next you're going to tell us there are 'cameras' watching us downtown. Ha ha! Oh please."
Next: Gaze in wonder as I listen and obey everything the government says, and then call myself a 'skeptic'!
the fact that piracy is immoral and obviously affects profits
See? The justifications you give rely on meaningless condemnations based your own (somewhat twisted) definition of morality. Following? All you've done is make a flagrant display of obedience to a malicious concept with no logic, no reason, and nothing to stand on but its own oxymoronic definitions and mindlessly relative terms.
Unless of course you can point me to a dictionary that defines 'stealing' as "1. Altering data in ways considered immoral by a few CEOs - who would gladly rob you of your house and life savings - on your own computer which you paid for."
I'll just make this as simple as I possibly can: Who does my hard drive belong to? Who owns the 1's and 0's? Who owns my cable connection? Me. Get this through your head, and one day you'll learn that what I've worked long and hard for belongs to me, NOT THEM.
I'm with you there. I've been ripped off far too many times. By this time, I only buy games when they're sequels to games I already like, or by teams I already like (ie a few groups at Capcom). The great thing about downloading is that you can just carelessly browse and get a game without toiling over whether or not it's worth it, or whether or not the propaganda on the box does it justice.
Thing about downloading is that it could take days to get a game that you could just walk to the mall and check out. If you're not short on money, it's simpler just to google some stats on the game and grab it at the store.
Though, the greatest irony about this article is that 'the author' seems to have this idea that screwing customers is going to 'sink the pirates' ship' and bring in more bucks, y'know, instead of disgusting everyone and turning them all toward p2p networking, which will of course be the scapegoat for the dramatic loss in sales. 'The author' bitches about 'the quality of games' dropping as though he weren't the cause of it.
I think, if anything, piracy is showing us who our real friends in the business world are.
REAL, of all companies, is trying to sell their stuff under the domain name 'freedomofmusicchoice.org'
I don't need to rant about how they'd instantly jack up prices and lock down the industry if they got the lead in it. Oops.
Now let's think for a nanosecond: If they were so interested in 'music choice' then wouldn't they have opened the encryption method for iPod a long time ago? Exactly.
Man, I've got a place in my heart for nostalgia-lovers, but holy shit, one would have to live in a cave aligned with 70's cartoon cells from top to bottom to actually go with that.
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The point of the page is to show articles that were kept from public attention. If you want a site that bitches endlessly about censorship then there are plenty of places on the web for this. If you want conspiracy theories then just type something into google.
A lot of people here seem pretty disturbed and distraught over the fact that a site listing censored articles doesn't also do things that have nothing to do with listing censored articles.
It's "people TOO stupid". Is somebody with flawed grammar capable of judging articles he's afraid to read in the first place? If said logic holds true then you're wasting everyone's time with self-destructive claims.
So they're supposed to cover every censored article in the world, and then say the US ones don't count as "CENSORED!" because they showed them on the site?
Plus I dunno if trying to use the old Tinfoil Conspiracy Alien Man scarecrow works as well now as it did a few years ago. Maybe a few people will say "omg if I believe the painfully obvious then I'll have a tinfoil hat for some reason!" but it's not much of a ploy anymore.
So, I'm kind of in the dark here. Are you trying to make the censored articles fake? The logic behind "someone made a typo so it's all a scam" seems a tad questionable.
Seems like people will never get it though their heads that nobody benefits when you force people around just to make more cash. Of course, what you're thinking is 'oh, the guys upstairs benefit plenty' but nope, fewer people will want to work for them, those who do will only work the required minimum, and the presidents and managers lose money, gain stress, and of course think "omg this means we need to make life worse for the employees now!"
Yeah it's kinda pointless for me to write about it, but it seems like we've only progressed a few inches from the days when people were forced to work in mines.
Hmm, well, I'm not convinced. Whatever argument you intended to give relied completely on botching and badly rewriting what I clearly said. And I don't know if the logic behind "all these other companies didn't do that, so I think it means THIS company didn't do that" stands up too well.
If that's your idea of 'major' then I guess there's no helping you.
First, Apple invents the first major GUI but makes some dumb decisions; Microsoft rips it off and makes billions.
This happens over and over for years. Now, Apple invents the first major online music store but makes some stupid decisions (FairPlay); Microsoft rips it off, removes the 'stupid decision' part and probably makes billions. I'd swear Apple is TRYING to give MS the monopoly.
OMG a lot of people are gonna be mad after I've surfed all their picture indexes. Can't believe I didn't of that.
Of all of the freedoms that people in the United States of America enjoy
Yeah, God bless America!
*Hides the hundreds of thousands of files he's not allowed to keep on his own hard drive, checks his identification numbers and removes his anti-Bush bumper sticker so police won't arrest him*
Woo!
Let's start a campaign to to show everyone how free they are compared to lab rats.
..you can't expect the MPAA to do anything without stripping people of more rights, can you? So of course they had to make PG-13 and 'R' and apply the classic law of 'kids are sub-human things that should only watch what we decide they should watch' and put age-restrictions on theaters, just to ensure that kids don't leave their cages.
Oh yay, let's celebrate a great milestone in thought control.
our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-
And also 'stealing' and 'transferring', 'interrogation' and 'torture', and 'his ass' from 'a hole in the ground'.
nobody ever clicks through the [yes, I'm over 18] button unless they really are 18+, right??
Right; they of course click the 'Take me to the US Movement for Thought Control' button and immediately pray to Zues for forgiveness.
"The corporate video game industry has just suffered a complete shutdown, depriving us of a future flourishing with video games such as 'Bugs Bunny in Marlboro Land' and 'Alien vs Predator vs Captain Crunch'. Strangely, it began at about the time 'Duke Nukem: The Search for Jolt' was released, and escalated ever since. Companies are baffled as to why consumers suddenly had no urge to play the games, but the only people we can blame for this utter loss in profit are software pirates and p2p networks."
Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc
Future headline: "Unfortunately, the project was closed after the MPAA sued Optware for all they've got."
I think you're referring to not-so-savvy teenagers (and extending that indefinitely), which doesn't say much at all. I've dealt with a million adult dunces and maybe one or two teenaged ones.
Well it seemed really useful, but of course I followed the directions and installed the programs to run exe files on OS X, installing the necessary X11 package. So I tried all the example exe files and, no dice. All it does is say it can't find the graphic drivers I just installed, something about X Server, then quits.
I'm just gonna check back when it actually works.
Heh. Yeah, but then they'd need to make an expansion for the multitude of incidents that didn't escape the Pentagon's info control. Could you imagine how many years the programming would take?
I think people would rather just believe the military is there for security, and not the other 90% of what it does.
If the database of terrorists had any accuracy at all, MOST senators - and the Bush administration - would be smack dab at the top of the list.
Hey, someone had to say it.
"OMG you wear tinfoil hat and are a conspiracy alien terrrorist out to kill us all!"
Heh, sorry. There has to be some nutcase to whip out the tinfoil-hat scarecrow whenever someone points out the painfully obvious. "Oh sure, next you're going to tell us there are 'cameras' watching us downtown. Ha ha! Oh please."
Next: Gaze in wonder as I listen and obey everything the government says, and then call myself a 'skeptic'!
Wow. I was just talking about the Breath of Fire and Megaman series, but I guess that rule goes out the window with the others.
the fact that piracy is immoral and obviously affects profits
See? The justifications you give rely on meaningless condemnations based your own (somewhat twisted) definition of morality. Following? All you've done is make a flagrant display of obedience to a malicious concept with no logic, no reason, and nothing to stand on but its own oxymoronic definitions and mindlessly relative terms.
Unless of course you can point me to a dictionary that defines 'stealing' as "1. Altering data in ways considered immoral by a few CEOs - who would gladly rob you of your house and life savings - on your own computer which you paid for."
I'll just make this as simple as I possibly can: Who does my hard drive belong to? Who owns the 1's and 0's? Who owns my cable connection? Me. Get this through your head, and one day you'll learn that what I've worked long and hard for belongs to me, NOT THEM.
I'm with you there. I've been ripped off far too many times. By this time, I only buy games when they're sequels to games I already like, or by teams I already like (ie a few groups at Capcom). The great thing about downloading is that you can just carelessly browse and get a game without toiling over whether or not it's worth it, or whether or not the propaganda on the box does it justice.
Thing about downloading is that it could take days to get a game that you could just walk to the mall and check out. If you're not short on money, it's simpler just to google some stats on the game and grab it at the store.
Though, the greatest irony about this article is that 'the author' seems to have this idea that screwing customers is going to 'sink the pirates' ship' and bring in more bucks, y'know, instead of disgusting everyone and turning them all toward p2p networking, which will of course be the scapegoat for the dramatic loss in sales. 'The author' bitches about 'the quality of games' dropping as though he weren't the cause of it.
I think, if anything, piracy is showing us who our real friends in the business world are.
REAL, of all companies, is trying to sell their stuff under the domain name 'freedomofmusicchoice.org'
I don't need to rant about how they'd instantly jack up prices and lock down the industry if they got the lead in it. Oops.
Now let's think for a nanosecond: If they were so interested in 'music choice' then wouldn't they have opened the encryption method for iPod a long time ago? Exactly.
the bastard child of Gundam not shown in Japan
Man, I've got a place in my heart for nostalgia-lovers, but holy shit, one would have to live in a cave aligned with 70's cartoon cells from top to bottom to actually go with that.