I think people's gripe is that Rockstar did this to deliberately circumvent the rating system. I.E. they wanted people to find this little hack, maybe someone even said something in passing to someone else, who told his friend's brother's neighbor's dog to write a little script to unlock the content.
My gripe is that Rockstar initially came out saying this was all lies and that Hot Coffee added content to the game. Why couldn't they just walk out and say, "Yeah, they found it."
The lack of any and all corporate, or general integrity irritates me to no end.
Trust me man, jobs that pay well, but suck, aren't worth it.
It spills over into your non-work life, you end up hating getting up every morning. The extra money you have for the evenings and weekends does little to make you less of a miserable jerk. (Not that I'm saying you are, but it comes with having a crappy job, I know)
Decent wages help, but job satisfaction is esential.
The supreme courts finding indicated that Grokster promoted their product for illegal purposes, or something to that effect. I don't know in what media.
Agreed, but, if I remember correctly, this was marketed as a method to download copyrighted and thus non-legal material. That would mean that they are marketing their product as a way to break the law and are therefore responsible.
This isn't the same thing, but an interesting precedent in Rhode Island, by which leasing companies can be held liable for the actions of the equipment that they lease but do not control.
Except that doing bodily harm is in some circumstances, legal. AFAIK, firearm manufacturers aren't marketing their guns to gangs. They create and market their guns to law enforcement, self-defense, and hunting, all of which are legal.
Grokster on the other hand created and promoted their product to do something that is not legal.
If Smith and Wesson started coming promoting their guns as the best way to kill someone and not get caught because of some new technology, I think they might just get taken down for it.
Other than the old super printed cheap mystery type novells, or Dean Koontz/Stephen King books that have made their way from Hardcover, to large paperback, and finally to mass production, books coost 12-15 bucks now for paper backs.
Many of these 'classics' collections included. Granted, I still rather pick and choose books as I go along, because I'd end up not reading half these and thus not getting my money out of it.
I'm not going to hop on the piracy/stealing/whatever arguement. But there is one thing I'd like to point out.
Creation of games/music/movies costs money, and today, it costs a lot of money. The act of copying and using these things without paying, if done enough, will have profound effects on all these industries.
Some people have argued that the RIAA type industry will collapse and then the artists can make all the money for themselves by still selling concerts.
But what about the game industry? It cost over 40 million to create HL2. Don't expect to have games of that calliber if everyone can copy. Granted, they were smart enough to come up with the steam registration, which I know everyone hates, but can you blame them?
This open-source free-love thing isn't going to produce the quality and definately not the quantity of quality games.
Its similar for software, and regardless of the fact that movies have sucked for some time, these things also work for the movie and music industry.
The fact is, there has to be a market to support them, and if people keep hopping on the copy bandwagon, there isn't going to be.
The problem with free trade is that, over time, everything evens out. Everyone eventually gets to the same level. This is good for poor nations, their currencies and living conditions go up. The downside is that the rich countries currencies and living conditions go down, and everyone meets somewhere in the middle.
This means the US is going to come down to the levels of the rest of the world. I firmly believe that there aren't enough high-end jobs to support the entire world. There is a limit to the amount of middle-class jobs and the market for employable people is getting much, much bigger. This means two things; first, the middle-class jobs are going to pay less because there are more people available, second, its going to be much more difficult to get those now lower paying jobs.
We need to keep a protectionist, competitive edge if we want to continue leading these lovely, idylic, American dream lives.
Any defamation etc based on any one of those, including national origin, including French. Bigotry toward French people because they are French people is racist.
The United Nations uses a definition of racist discrimination laid out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and adopted in 1965:...any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
Yes, but anyone with Office 2000 or Office 2003 has serious problems. I had enormous problems just a couple weeks ago trying to open.doc files with excel graphs in them. The line and pagebreak formatting also isn't the same. With problems like these, its a tough sell to non-geeks. Especially non-geeks who sign checks and realize that they will spend more than 500 dollars per client install with OOo when these people have to remake all their docs.
They do lose credability which isn't to bad in the eyes of the general public. They also lose time and money pursuing something so completely absurd. They could be spending their time much more productively suing people.
I really don't think they have much of a threat there. I still don't get streaming movies, and pulling the subscription music service from my current provider (Comcast) would be worse for the music industry than for the ISP. I don't see that they have much of a threat. Which is why I wonder if they have something else.
It appears that the ISP's get nothing from this. The music industry might give them amnesty from lawsuits because they facilitate infringement, but so far ISP's have been in the clear. It appears the ISP gain nothing, at all.
IANAL, but it looks like they might even pick up a ton of liability signing on to something like this. What if they accidently didn't shut down a file sharing server, or do any number of things in their lovely new contract? Does this give the music industry a new avenue for lawsuits?
The only way I can see any ISP signing this is if there is some threat made by the music industry, be it lawsuits, publicity, something. Otherwise, it seems entirely farfetched.
Its worth keeping an eye on though. I can't believe they'd put something this blatantly outlandish together unless they thought they could do something with it.
I'm not criticizing the people who are trying to save Star Trek.
Trying to justify not giving aid by saying it could hurt these people is absurd. Saying certain groups could be making people dependent is valid. But there is nowhere near enough money being given to the poorer countries in the world to stop easily curable diseases. There is nowhere near enough money to educate these people. Endeavors like those WILL give these people things necessary to advance themselves. Things they would never be able to get themselves.
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Don't take the job if you don't want the baggage that goes along with it. no one forced you to sign that contract.
I think people's gripe is that Rockstar did this to deliberately circumvent the rating system. I.E. they wanted people to find this little hack, maybe someone even said something in passing to someone else, who told his friend's brother's neighbor's dog to write a little script to unlock the content.
My gripe is that Rockstar initially came out saying this was all lies and that Hot Coffee added content to the game. Why couldn't they just walk out and say, "Yeah, they found it."
The lack of any and all corporate, or general integrity irritates me to no end.
Trust me man, jobs that pay well, but suck, aren't worth it.
It spills over into your non-work life, you end up hating getting up every morning. The extra money you have for the evenings and weekends does little to make you less of a miserable jerk. (Not that I'm saying you are, but it comes with having a crappy job, I know)
Decent wages help, but job satisfaction is esential.
The supreme courts finding indicated that Grokster promoted their product for illegal purposes, or something to that effect. I don't know in what media.
Agreed, but, if I remember correctly, this was marketed as a method to download copyrighted and thus non-legal material. That would mean that they are marketing their product as a way to break the law and are therefore responsible.
This isn't the same thing, but an interesting precedent in Rhode Island, by which leasing companies can be held liable for the actions of the equipment that they lease but do not control.
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http://www.detnews.com/2003/insiders/0305/27/auto
I love our litigious society...
Except that doing bodily harm is in some circumstances, legal. AFAIK, firearm manufacturers aren't marketing their guns to gangs. They create and market their guns to law enforcement, self-defense, and hunting, all of which are legal. Grokster on the other hand created and promoted their product to do something that is not legal. If Smith and Wesson started coming promoting their guns as the best way to kill someone and not get caught because of some new technology, I think they might just get taken down for it.
Other than the old super printed cheap mystery type novells, or Dean Koontz/Stephen King books that have made their way from Hardcover, to large paperback, and finally to mass production, books coost 12-15 bucks now for paper backs. Many of these 'classics' collections included. Granted, I still rather pick and choose books as I go along, because I'd end up not reading half these and thus not getting my money out of it.
Depends on the intent of the definition. But I conceed given lack of that intent.
I'm not going to hop on the piracy/stealing/whatever arguement. But there is one thing I'd like to point out. Creation of games/music/movies costs money, and today, it costs a lot of money. The act of copying and using these things without paying, if done enough, will have profound effects on all these industries. Some people have argued that the RIAA type industry will collapse and then the artists can make all the money for themselves by still selling concerts. But what about the game industry? It cost over 40 million to create HL2. Don't expect to have games of that calliber if everyone can copy. Granted, they were smart enough to come up with the steam registration, which I know everyone hates, but can you blame them? This open-source free-love thing isn't going to produce the quality and definately not the quantity of quality games. Its similar for software, and regardless of the fact that movies have sucked for some time, these things also work for the movie and music industry. The fact is, there has to be a market to support them, and if people keep hopping on the copy bandwagon, there isn't going to be.
I believe the part in that that says
"The appropriation and reproduction of an invention or work of another for one's own profit"
negates the definition. I think that definition refers to someone copying and selling the copy, but not to someone copying and using.
The problem with free trade is that, over time, everything evens out. Everyone eventually gets to the same level. This is good for poor nations, their currencies and living conditions go up. The downside is that the rich countries currencies and living conditions go down, and everyone meets somewhere in the middle.
This means the US is going to come down to the levels of the rest of the world. I firmly believe that there aren't enough high-end jobs to support the entire world. There is a limit to the amount of middle-class jobs and the market for employable people is getting much, much bigger. This means two things; first, the middle-class jobs are going to pay less because there are more people available, second, its going to be much more difficult to get those now lower paying jobs.
We need to keep a protectionist, competitive edge if we want to continue leading these lovely, idylic, American dream lives.
Any defamation etc based on any one of those, including national origin, including French. Bigotry toward French people because they are French people is racist.
From Wikipedia, from the UN:
...any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
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The United Nations uses a definition of racist discrimination laid out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and adopted in 1965:
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I think your apps weren't comprehensive enough.
Yes. Precisely.
Yes, but anyone with Office 2000 or Office 2003 has serious problems. I had enormous problems just a couple weeks ago trying to open .doc files with excel graphs in them. The line and pagebreak formatting also isn't the same. With problems like these, its a tough sell to non-geeks. Especially non-geeks who sign checks and realize that they will spend more than 500 dollars per client install with OOo when these people have to remake all their docs.
It may have changed, but I thought part of Comcast's user agreement said you can't have servers? At least it did some time ago...
They do lose credability which isn't to bad in the eyes of the general public. They also lose time and money pursuing something so completely absurd. They could be spending their time much more productively suing people.
I really don't think they have much of a threat there. I still don't get streaming movies, and pulling the subscription music service from my current provider (Comcast) would be worse for the music industry than for the ISP. I don't see that they have much of a threat. Which is why I wonder if they have something else.
This is obvious, which is why my second point is the more worriesome part. What do they have up their sleeve that they think they can pull this off?
It appears that the ISP's get nothing from this. The music industry might give them amnesty from lawsuits because they facilitate infringement, but so far ISP's have been in the clear. It appears the ISP gain nothing, at all.
IANAL, but it looks like they might even pick up a ton of liability signing on to something like this. What if they accidently didn't shut down a file sharing server, or do any number of things in their lovely new contract? Does this give the music industry a new avenue for lawsuits?
The only way I can see any ISP signing this is if there is some threat made by the music industry, be it lawsuits, publicity, something. Otherwise, it seems entirely farfetched.
Its worth keeping an eye on though. I can't believe they'd put something this blatantly outlandish together unless they thought they could do something with it.
I know :P
We do... http://www02.clf.navy.mil/enterprise/
Wouldn't the sugar from the Sprite lock those things up worse than whatever he rinsed off?
I'm not criticizing the people who are trying to save Star Trek.
Trying to justify not giving aid by saying it could hurt these people is absurd. Saying certain groups could be making people dependent is valid. But there is nowhere near enough money being given to the poorer countries in the world to stop easily curable diseases. There is nowhere near enough money to educate these people. Endeavors like those WILL give these people things necessary to advance themselves. Things they would never be able to get themselves.