The guy is now claiming "He was a spy" which means he is admitting to espionage.
You are making it sound like he's a liar and did something illegal, which is wrong and wrong again. The CIA admitted that Snowden worked directly for them, and the NSA admitted that he did send "at least one email to superiors" regarding legal concerns over policies and actions. So far he seems to have been honest about everything, unlike certain agency heads and politicians.
I'm not saying that he would not be killed by some of the slime we currently have hiding behind the Government mind you, but that we should be trying to protect the guy because it's our legal obligation.
Given the recent issues with the VA, I don't believe very many soldiers are going to be willing to go on a Snowden mission. Or try to protect him him if/when he comes back to the US. This is not a clear cut issue, and things are getting very messy with those slimy fucks hiding behind politicians. There is hope.
I'm guessing that your numbers are identical to the CDC which was my source for numbers, and those numbers include all fatalities due to Pneumonia.
Since the number one cause of pneumonia is _not_ the influenza virus, my points all remain unchanged. A DNA test being expensive does not excuse fudging numbers.
Not true. I've been following that in the medical journals and in Science. Adamantane and neuraminidase inhibitors turned out to be a bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I think you know this is a straw man argument, and you tossed it out anyway. The majority of influenza patients don't require this level of intervention for treatment. When "rest and liquids" don't work, our ability to treat dehydration today is exceptional. We can also safely medicate for pain, reduce fever, and treat other complications very well.
You probably know as well as I do too, that anti-viral medication is rarely used because of the impact to mutation.
It's also possible that you are confusing (intentional or otherwise) a post regarding generic influenza with a different strain of "flu", but that makes little sense since you seem to fully understand the rest of my post.
BTW, the number of motor vehicle deaths is about 40,000 a year, which is one of the major causes of preventable death, so comparing influenza deaths to automobile deaths is not reassuring.
You either chose not to read or are intentionally confusing my statements, read it again.
I'll answer your legitimate question first, and the criticism second.
To your other post, why shouldn't those that die from secondary infections due to Influenza such as pneumonia be included in death rates from Influenza.
I did not leave out the reason for this, you chose not to read it. The influenza virus is rarely a cause for pneumonia. Pneumonia is primarily caused by upper respiratory infections such as Strep, complications from the common cold, air pollution, etc.. (though not limited to those).
If you don't know how statistics are often skewed to present a false image, you really have not been paying much attention to the world.
Now to your criticism and false accusation.
Way to pick one sentence and skew it out of content to show no evidence that Influenza isn't a disease.
I did not say it was not a disease, in fact I stated very clearly that the person I responded to was technically correct (using the term pedantic so that there should have been no confusion). We don't consider influenza a serious disease, like we do Polio or Measles however so it's generally not discussed as a "disease", but an infection/illness/sickness/ailment.
If you read the complete article from the Mayo Clinic you will see that there was no "pick one sentence and skew it out of content" because they don't use the term "Disease" anywhere in their definition and description of influenza. They repeatedly use the term "Disease" for Polio, Mumps, and Measles because the severity and side effects are, most of the time, much more severe and often permanent.
When attempting to correct someone in the future I'd also suggest that you learn the difference between "context" and "content".
In an extremely pedantic view, sure. As a clinical definition, not so much.
From the May Clinic:
Influenza: Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system — your nose, throat and lungs. Influenza, commonly called the flu, is not the same as the stomach "flu" viruses that cause diarrhea and vomiting.
As I stated previously, your comments don't address the issues with Amazon. Hachette and Bonnier are publishers, Amazon is a distributor. The only thing they do in this case is act as a middle agent for books that are already written, edited, given art, and published.
The "you seem to be over-complicating" line shows you've never worked in publishing. Typesetting is more than picking fonts and dicking about with chapter headings.
The fact that I have worked in and near publishing (not as a publisher but have family in print news), and also have an interest in writing allows me to argue this point. There are countless books which don't do anything but set a font, they use standard line breaks, standard indentation, and occasionally don't even use bold text or enlarged numbers even for chapter headings. I read a lot too, and don't mind books that are really typeset in a more true sense. That however does not make a book a book, it makes a book appealing to the eye.
Nice little sidebars and graphics to keep the user interested?
As with above you are not describing all books. I have books on Celtic history which have some shoddy pictures included, some technical books with flow charts, but the majority of books I read don't have nifty side bars and graphics. Books are words, and function very well when they are just words, and I prefer them to be just words.
I am not arguing, nor have I argued, that publishers, editors, or authors are getting over paid or not worth the money. I am arguing that Amazon is causing harm to those people at the expense of consumers to turn a buck in extortionist fashion. If you continue to distract from that point I'll assume that you are just a shill from Amazon attempting to divert the topic.
Why are you putting influenza, which is an illness, in the same category as a "disease"? And you report various numbers for influenza 5 times in your list of 11 items!
Seriously, this is one of many reason that a debate on vaccines becomes impossible. Influenza is an illness which mutates rapidly. The "influenza" vaccine boasts the lowest rate of success for any vaccine, and one of the highest rate of reported negative side effects. Influenza is also very treatable even in severe cases. Considering that the CDC fluffs flu death numbers by including all cases of pneumonia in their results, we don't know how many people the influenza virus actually kills each year. The total number of deaths for all strains of influenza AND pneumonia is around 20,000. So you are at least 4 times more likely to die driving to work than by catching influenza, and since most cases of pneumonia are caused by a URI I'm guessing it's more in line with death by bee sting.
I say this as a person who's grandfather died in the 1940s due to complications from influenza, so I have an interest on many levels. The "Flu" vaccine is still of very questionable benefit. That's not a claim that they are "bad", or "evil" or any of the other conspiracy nonsense people talk about. It's a rational decision based on numbers provided by medical professionals, CDC, and HHS. I also happen to be a veteran who has received many more vaccines than the average person, and for mission theaters (EU/South American/Asia, yeah I got lucky and was in all 3) I received more vaccines than a lot of other veterans and soldiers.
You can choose your fate as easy as I can, and I take no issues with you choosing to get any vaccine possible. I would never make a false claim that Polio is the same thing as influenza, and I hope you realize that what you are implying is incorrect (and perhaps unintentional).
Not created for that purpose, but surely get taken over and used for that purpose. Most people creating "News" sites do so for altruistic reasons (not all obviously). But like all other forms of power, get vacuumed up because certain people want it all.
It is impossible to rationally debate a policy for technology that far in advance, stick with SciFi. If you are confused by that, see my comment regarding discussing military power above. Bye bye
While you do a fine job of explaining process of writing a book, the process is not in question. What is in question Amazon's role and seeming abuse of the system to gain additional profits with little visible regard to consumers and artists.
Also, you seem to be over complicating a few things. The advent of digital scanners has made digital conversions of art covers, maps, etc.. an extremely simple process. Typesetting has also become an easier process with the advent of fonts. Still processes, but not nearly as expensive as it was even 10 years ago.
Science fiction is great for entertainment. Science fiction is not very good for passing laws, creating policies, or holding rational dialogues.
If you are comparing driving safety of teenagers to self driving cars, or a self driving cars awareness to human awareness, how can you do that with fantasized/fabricated information? That would be like me comparing US Military Aircraft to Russian Military Aircraft and claiming "Good grief, them Russian pilots are gonna whip our pilots asses! because they got new planes and training from them Aliens".
That debate would make just as much sense in the context of a _different future event that _also never happened.
I agree with most of your points, but take issue with this statement. "Amazon books are usually cheaper than in many other stores so from a consumer level, this seems like a win for the capitalist philosophy.".
The cheapest price for a consumer is not "Capitalist Philosophy". Capitalist Philosophy, according to Adam Smith requires evaluating the economy as a whole. Consumers and regulators need to remove bad players from the system and diminishing those too large, or Capitalism will fail just like Mercantilism he warns. (We would probably agree that Amazon at least has too much power).
Adam Smith was very clear that monopolies were detrimental to any economy, including Capitalism. He also stated that large companies would require extensive regulation or could easily turn into predatory monopolies. Lastly, he stated that if the Government fails to act on these monopolies it was up to consumers to boycott and remove their power by removing their revenue. He credits the failure of mercantilism, and it's predecessors, primarily to unchecked monopolization.
I highly recommend that people curious about Economics read Adam Smith's complete works, followed by Milton Friedman (just don't purchase them from Amazon:P ).
Did you mean to say "Amazon's zeal for maximizing profits, even when it pisses off consumers costing them bottom line and is of questionable legality"?
The price fixing game on ebooks has been crazy, and with the advent of "e-books" we would assume that the costs of books goes down because distribution is so cheap. At least that's what we would think if the economy was working normally.
Instead, we have a few E-book vendors charging people the same money for an ebook as for the hardback in many cases. I can usually find paperbacks cheaper than ebooks, and I'm not shopping at the 2nd hand book store.
This stuff should have been fixed long ago in court, and instead publishers were slapped down because.. you know.. tech company monopolies are valuable (look at Microsoft's history for that one). Heaven forbid we punish Apple, Google, and Amazon for admitted price fixing.. *gah!*, I won't continue on that rant.
The solution is obviously for consumers to boycott and spend their money elsewhere. I personally prefer a physical book over an ebook, and see ebooks as beneficial only when traveling. If you really need an ebook though (my mom does due to her eyes going bad) then buy it from a different service. And the next time you go to buy a book, remember that Amazon intentionally delayed shipments and removed products from their web site without informing anyone. They did this for profits and didn't care about what you paid for or wanted.
I really wish more consumers had long term memory on these types of things, because that's the safety net in a Capitalist economy.
You are looking at a potential future automatic driving cars, not the reality we have.
A current Google car will not race you to a Hospital. If you are having a heart attack currently in an automatic car you have a help button not unlike On-Star.
The Utopian vision is interesting for sure, but as I stated previously: For privacy reasons how much data are you willing to give an automatic driving car? Utopia never seems to work, because Utopia requires a change in human nature.
Nope, not even close. I won't even bother to link the generic Wiki page for each groups roles, because your fingers should have no trouble finding them. The original role of the NSA was counter intelligence, not "spying on everyone". If the Military got a signal they could not break, they sent to the NSA who deciphered and sent back the decrypted data.
Similarly, gathering data on foreign soil was supposed to be the role of the CIA. Who like the military could hand what they did not understand to the NSA to decipher. These were things like code breaking KBG documents and communications.
Now, who knows what the fuck these people are doing. Executive orders and secret panels have the CIA running drugs and fronting companies that generate propaganda and launder money for terrorist groups. The NSA has been turned into a Spy agency, it's all very questionable as "Legal", which is why everything about these groups is "Top Secret" including their legal roles.
At this point, how can a new release not be compared to some other game? If it's a first person shooter people will always compare it to UT, Quake, Doom, or Wolfenstein. If it's got cars it's like GTA or Twisted Metal, if it's a MMO it's like DAOC or World of Warcraft, RPG it's like Final Fantasy or D&D, etc...
Reading the story line, it sounds more like DeusEx than GTA to me. That said, the story line is different than DeusEx and has some environment components not available in DeusEx. I have not played it, but I don't buy in to TFA's claim that it's all stolen game play. If portions play like GTA, how many different camera angles can a game have, and how many different controller configurations can a developer use? I'm pretty sure we have seen them all at this point.
In fairness, I doubt I'll play the game but my kid may and then I'll let you know. Until then, it sounds interesting in story.
They have, were caught, and sued for doing it. I'm sure that other companies thought of doing it, but realize that it's not in their best interests. Unless of course they wanted to go out of business.
I'm pretty sure another company did the same thing a few months back with a "free" download version. It was done with disclosure, so did not result in a lawsuit. I can't find that article however.
If a person has sexually explicit love letters that they maintain from an ex, is it that different from keeping adult photos? We are not talking about the generic picture of you 2 on a roller coaster, the court ruling was on adult photos.
Now would you keep around sexually explicit letters after a relationship is over? I'd question your mental health if you did, at least after the normal grieving phase is over. Those letters are likely to harm your next relationship, just like the adult photo's would. Harder to use as a revenge tool, but still why on earth would you want to keep them?
It's not denigrating sexual encounters, it's having respect for your current relationship. You think your new lover is going to be ready to let you break out the camera after seeing those? Possible, but not probable.
Despise my exes? Hell no, I have very good memories. Would I keep an adult photo of an Ex? Again, hell no! What impact would that have on a current relationship?
I think you are confusing normal every day pictures without adult pictures. They are not the same, society does not treat them the same, and your new relationships may be damaged by you keeping _adult_ photo's of ex lovers.
Yeah, I guess some people would take no issue because they don't see themselves in the ex pile. After they think about that dilemma for a bit, those adult photos of the ex may not get a laugh and could cause extreme discomfort.
You said that education and critical thinking have nothing to do with it, did you not. I gave a very easy example of how education and critical thinking do make a difference.
I agree it was a bad term, but one often used when discussing things like Facebook and Twitter. It was not my intent to confuse, but explain how people are being educated to look at distractions and not the world around them.
You didn't mention the workplace either, which is where the majority of us still use PCs. I don't see tablets taking over the roles of PCs for many of us that use them daily in our work.
Tablets are fine for small stuff, but for work? In my opinion the screens are too small, and typing on them is horrible, wireless is slower than hard wire and less secure, and storage is much smaller than an internal HDD/SDD. Obviously you can buy extra devices for your tablet to give it most of those things, but you are not saving anything when doing so.
Sales guys may benefit from some of the tablets assuming they can lug around the extras. Most of us at a desk are better with a docked laptop or desktop still.
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The guy is now claiming "He was a spy" which means he is admitting to espionage.
You are making it sound like he's a liar and did something illegal, which is wrong and wrong again. The CIA admitted that Snowden worked directly for them, and the NSA admitted that he did send "at least one email to superiors" regarding legal concerns over policies and actions. So far he seems to have been honest about everything, unlike certain agency heads and politicians.
I'm not saying that he would not be killed by some of the slime we currently have hiding behind the Government mind you, but that we should be trying to protect the guy because it's our legal obligation.
Given the recent issues with the VA, I don't believe very many soldiers are going to be willing to go on a Snowden mission. Or try to protect him him if/when he comes back to the US. This is not a clear cut issue, and things are getting very messy with those slimy fucks hiding behind politicians. There is hope.
Now that is a funneh!!
I'm guessing that your numbers are identical to the CDC which was my source for numbers, and those numbers include all fatalities due to Pneumonia.
Since the number one cause of pneumonia is _not_ the influenza virus, my points all remain unchanged. A DNA test being expensive does not excuse fudging numbers.
Not true. I've been following that in the medical journals and in Science. Adamantane and neuraminidase inhibitors turned out to be a bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I think you know this is a straw man argument, and you tossed it out anyway. The majority of influenza patients don't require this level of intervention for treatment. When "rest and liquids" don't work, our ability to treat dehydration today is exceptional. We can also safely medicate for pain, reduce fever, and treat other complications very well.
You probably know as well as I do too, that anti-viral medication is rarely used because of the impact to mutation.
It's also possible that you are confusing (intentional or otherwise) a post regarding generic influenza with a different strain of "flu", but that makes little sense since you seem to fully understand the rest of my post.
BTW, the number of motor vehicle deaths is about 40,000 a year, which is one of the major causes of preventable death, so comparing influenza deaths to automobile deaths is not reassuring.
You either chose not to read or are intentionally confusing my statements, read it again.
I'll answer your legitimate question first, and the criticism second.
To your other post, why shouldn't those that die from secondary infections due to Influenza such as pneumonia be included in death rates from Influenza.
I did not leave out the reason for this, you chose not to read it. The influenza virus is rarely a cause for pneumonia. Pneumonia is primarily caused by upper respiratory infections such as Strep, complications from the common cold, air pollution, etc.. (though not limited to those).
If you don't know how statistics are often skewed to present a false image, you really have not been paying much attention to the world.
Now to your criticism and false accusation.
Way to pick one sentence and skew it out of content to show no evidence that Influenza isn't a disease.
I did not say it was not a disease, in fact I stated very clearly that the person I responded to was technically correct (using the term pedantic so that there should have been no confusion). We don't consider influenza a serious disease, like we do Polio or Measles however so it's generally not discussed as a "disease", but an infection/illness/sickness/ailment.
If you read the complete article from the Mayo Clinic you will see that there was no "pick one sentence and skew it out of content" because they don't use the term "Disease" anywhere in their definition and description of influenza. They repeatedly use the term "Disease" for Polio, Mumps, and Measles because the severity and side effects are, most of the time, much more severe and often permanent.
When attempting to correct someone in the future I'd also suggest that you learn the difference between "context" and "content".
In an extremely pedantic view, sure. As a clinical definition, not so much.
From the May Clinic:
Influenza: Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system — your nose, throat and lungs. Influenza, commonly called the flu, is not the same as the stomach "flu" viruses that cause diarrhea and vomiting.
As I stated previously, your comments don't address the issues with Amazon. Hachette and Bonnier are publishers, Amazon is a distributor. The only thing they do in this case is act as a middle agent for books that are already written, edited, given art, and published.
The "you seem to be over-complicating" line shows you've never worked in publishing. Typesetting is more than picking fonts and dicking about with chapter headings.
The fact that I have worked in and near publishing (not as a publisher but have family in print news), and also have an interest in writing allows me to argue this point. There are countless books which don't do anything but set a font, they use standard line breaks, standard indentation, and occasionally don't even use bold text or enlarged numbers even for chapter headings. I read a lot too, and don't mind books that are really typeset in a more true sense. That however does not make a book a book, it makes a book appealing to the eye.
Nice little sidebars and graphics to keep the user interested?
As with above you are not describing all books. I have books on Celtic history which have some shoddy pictures included, some technical books with flow charts, but the majority of books I read don't have nifty side bars and graphics. Books are words, and function very well when they are just words, and I prefer them to be just words.
I am not arguing, nor have I argued, that publishers, editors, or authors are getting over paid or not worth the money. I am arguing that Amazon is causing harm to those people at the expense of consumers to turn a buck in extortionist fashion. If you continue to distract from that point I'll assume that you are just a shill from Amazon attempting to divert the topic.
Why are you putting influenza, which is an illness, in the same category as a "disease"? And you report various numbers for influenza 5 times in your list of 11 items!
Seriously, this is one of many reason that a debate on vaccines becomes impossible. Influenza is an illness which mutates rapidly. The "influenza" vaccine boasts the lowest rate of success for any vaccine, and one of the highest rate of reported negative side effects. Influenza is also very treatable even in severe cases. Considering that the CDC fluffs flu death numbers by including all cases of pneumonia in their results, we don't know how many people the influenza virus actually kills each year. The total number of deaths for all strains of influenza AND pneumonia is around 20,000. So you are at least 4 times more likely to die driving to work than by catching influenza, and since most cases of pneumonia are caused by a URI I'm guessing it's more in line with death by bee sting.
I say this as a person who's grandfather died in the 1940s due to complications from influenza, so I have an interest on many levels. The "Flu" vaccine is still of very questionable benefit. That's not a claim that they are "bad", or "evil" or any of the other conspiracy nonsense people talk about. It's a rational decision based on numbers provided by medical professionals, CDC, and HHS. I also happen to be a veteran who has received many more vaccines than the average person, and for mission theaters (EU/South American/Asia, yeah I got lucky and was in all 3) I received more vaccines than a lot of other veterans and soldiers.
You can choose your fate as easy as I can, and I take no issues with you choosing to get any vaccine possible. I would never make a false claim that Polio is the same thing as influenza, and I hope you realize that what you are implying is incorrect (and perhaps unintentional).
Not created for that purpose, but surely get taken over and used for that purpose. Most people creating "News" sites do so for altruistic reasons (not all obviously). But like all other forms of power, get vacuumed up because certain people want it all.
It is impossible to rationally debate a policy for technology that far in advance, stick with SciFi. If you are confused by that, see my comment regarding discussing military power above. Bye bye
While you do a fine job of explaining process of writing a book, the process is not in question. What is in question Amazon's role and seeming abuse of the system to gain additional profits with little visible regard to consumers and artists.
Also, you seem to be over complicating a few things. The advent of digital scanners has made digital conversions of art covers, maps, etc.. an extremely simple process. Typesetting has also become an easier process with the advent of fonts. Still processes, but not nearly as expensive as it was even 10 years ago.
TFA and every comment I see (and have made) is regarding the logical merits of a policy.
Science fiction is great for entertainment. Science fiction is not very good for passing laws, creating policies, or holding rational dialogues.
If you are comparing driving safety of teenagers to self driving cars, or a self driving cars awareness to human awareness, how can you do that with fantasized/fabricated information? That would be like me comparing US Military Aircraft to Russian Military Aircraft and claiming "Good grief, them Russian pilots are gonna whip our pilots asses! because they got new planes and training from them Aliens".
That debate would make just as much sense in the context of a _different future event that _also never happened.
I agree with most of your points, but take issue with this statement. "Amazon books are usually cheaper than in many other stores so from a consumer level, this seems like a win for the capitalist philosophy.".
The cheapest price for a consumer is not "Capitalist Philosophy". Capitalist Philosophy, according to Adam Smith requires evaluating the economy as a whole. Consumers and regulators need to remove bad players from the system and diminishing those too large, or Capitalism will fail just like Mercantilism he warns. (We would probably agree that Amazon at least has too much power).
Adam Smith was very clear that monopolies were detrimental to any economy, including Capitalism. He also stated that large companies would require extensive regulation or could easily turn into predatory monopolies. Lastly, he stated that if the Government fails to act on these monopolies it was up to consumers to boycott and remove their power by removing their revenue. He credits the failure of mercantilism, and it's predecessors, primarily to unchecked monopolization.
I highly recommend that people curious about Economics read Adam Smith's complete works, followed by Milton Friedman (just don't purchase them from Amazon :P ).
I can't saute that fungible and put it in an omelet? *cries*
Did you mean to say "Amazon's zeal for maximizing profits, even when it pisses off consumers costing them bottom line and is of questionable legality"?
The price fixing game on ebooks has been crazy, and with the advent of "e-books" we would assume that the costs of books goes down because distribution is so cheap. At least that's what we would think if the economy was working normally.
Instead, we have a few E-book vendors charging people the same money for an ebook as for the hardback in many cases. I can usually find paperbacks cheaper than ebooks, and I'm not shopping at the 2nd hand book store.
This stuff should have been fixed long ago in court, and instead publishers were slapped down because.. you know.. tech company monopolies are valuable (look at Microsoft's history for that one). Heaven forbid we punish Apple, Google, and Amazon for admitted price fixing.. *gah!*, I won't continue on that rant.
The solution is obviously for consumers to boycott and spend their money elsewhere. I personally prefer a physical book over an ebook, and see ebooks as beneficial only when traveling. If you really need an ebook though (my mom does due to her eyes going bad) then buy it from a different service. And the next time you go to buy a book, remember that Amazon intentionally delayed shipments and removed products from their web site without informing anyone. They did this for profits and didn't care about what you paid for or wanted.
I really wish more consumers had long term memory on these types of things, because that's the safety net in a Capitalist economy.
They left the old source code lying around just to get a cut of the original vendors paycheck.
FTFY!
Neither TFA nor myself were referring to a utopian vision for self driving cars, both were based on current technology and limitations.
You are looking at a potential future automatic driving cars, not the reality we have.
A current Google car will not race you to a Hospital. If you are having a heart attack currently in an automatic car you have a help button not unlike On-Star.
The Utopian vision is interesting for sure, but as I stated previously: For privacy reasons how much data are you willing to give an automatic driving car? Utopia never seems to work, because Utopia requires a change in human nature.
Nope, not even close. I won't even bother to link the generic Wiki page for each groups roles, because your fingers should have no trouble finding them. The original role of the NSA was counter intelligence, not "spying on everyone". If the Military got a signal they could not break, they sent to the NSA who deciphered and sent back the decrypted data.
Similarly, gathering data on foreign soil was supposed to be the role of the CIA. Who like the military could hand what they did not understand to the NSA to decipher. These were things like code breaking KBG documents and communications.
Now, who knows what the fuck these people are doing. Executive orders and secret panels have the CIA running drugs and fronting companies that generate propaganda and launder money for terrorist groups. The NSA has been turned into a Spy agency, it's all very questionable as "Legal", which is why everything about these groups is "Top Secret" including their legal roles.
At this point, how can a new release not be compared to some other game? If it's a first person shooter people will always compare it to UT, Quake, Doom, or Wolfenstein. If it's got cars it's like GTA or Twisted Metal, if it's a MMO it's like DAOC or World of Warcraft, RPG it's like Final Fantasy or D&D, etc...
Reading the story line, it sounds more like DeusEx than GTA to me. That said, the story line is different than DeusEx and has some environment components not available in DeusEx. I have not played it, but I don't buy in to TFA's claim that it's all stolen game play. If portions play like GTA, how many different camera angles can a game have, and how many different controller configurations can a developer use? I'm pretty sure we have seen them all at this point.
In fairness, I doubt I'll play the game but my kid may and then I'll let you know. Until then, it sounds interesting in story.
They have, were caught, and sued for doing it. I'm sure that other companies thought of doing it, but realize that it's not in their best interests. Unless of course they wanted to go out of business.
I'm pretty sure another company did the same thing a few months back with a "free" download version. It was done with disclosure, so did not result in a lawsuit. I can't find that article however.
If a person has sexually explicit love letters that they maintain from an ex, is it that different from keeping adult photos? We are not talking about the generic picture of you 2 on a roller coaster, the court ruling was on adult photos.
Now would you keep around sexually explicit letters after a relationship is over? I'd question your mental health if you did, at least after the normal grieving phase is over. Those letters are likely to harm your next relationship, just like the adult photo's would. Harder to use as a revenge tool, but still why on earth would you want to keep them?
It's not denigrating sexual encounters, it's having respect for your current relationship. You think your new lover is going to be ready to let you break out the camera after seeing those? Possible, but not probable.
Despise my exes? Hell no, I have very good memories. Would I keep an adult photo of an Ex? Again, hell no! What impact would that have on a current relationship?
I think you are confusing normal every day pictures without adult pictures. They are not the same, society does not treat them the same, and your new relationships may be damaged by you keeping _adult_ photo's of ex lovers.
Yeah, I guess some people would take no issue because they don't see themselves in the ex pile. After they think about that dilemma for a bit, those adult photos of the ex may not get a laugh and could cause extreme discomfort.
You said that education and critical thinking have nothing to do with it, did you not. I gave a very easy example of how education and critical thinking do make a difference.
I agree it was a bad term, but one often used when discussing things like Facebook and Twitter. It was not my intent to confuse, but explain how people are being educated to look at distractions and not the world around them.
You didn't mention the workplace either, which is where the majority of us still use PCs. I don't see tablets taking over the roles of PCs for many of us that use them daily in our work.
Tablets are fine for small stuff, but for work? In my opinion the screens are too small, and typing on them is horrible, wireless is slower than hard wire and less secure, and storage is much smaller than an internal HDD/SDD. Obviously you can buy extra devices for your tablet to give it most of those things, but you are not saving anything when doing so.
Sales guys may benefit from some of the tablets assuming they can lug around the extras. Most of us at a desk are better with a docked laptop or desktop still.