and i was thinking that as a CANADIAN company, you might just have slightly higher morals that certain companies to the south. appearently i was wrong. do not expect me to buy from you in the near future.
i'm pretty sure that there have been studies and that aproximately 63% of games are over the age of 20, and something like 14% are over the age of 60.
there're plenty of statistics on this, just that the anti-gaming zealots just omit them from their rants, and almost no one is able to correct them, as they tend to have much more clout in the world of public opinion, due to the fact they seem to be routinely on TV and other such forms of media.
IMO, communism is the best form on government in theory . but in practise, it tends to result in very bad leaders in charge of everything.
and, in essence, Marx's basic idea of communism was that it would come about via the natural evolution of society, and thus, since all previous communist governments were forced upon the people, they weren't true communist government.
not to brag, but Canada is a prime example of a semi-socialist democratic government. we manage (for the most part) to balance democracy, socialism, and capitalism to make everything work (again, most of the time, but i think we get it right more often than the US does)
Porn will be illegal soon? Yeah, you're right... I have been noticing a severe drop in the number of porn sites recently. Online porn is a $3 billion business, which means it has a lot of clout. There is no way a buisiness that brings in that kind of money will let itself be legislated out of existance (Cigarettes are way more harmfull than Porn, but cig corporations are still making a ton of money).
i don't think it will become illegal, but it's likely that what you're looking at will be logged and monitered, what with the "keep it away from children" hystaria in government.
Wow, and last of all you claim that we will soon be shutting down free speech sites? Let me get this straight... the government is going to pass a law that will allow them to shut down free speach websites. Yeah, I'm sure the supreme court will let that shit fly.
they seem to have done just that in the name of "national security" a few times, but as i'm at school (during a spare), i don't have any links handy at the moment, though i think that such info can be found at the EFF site.
They don't sell R-rated movies to a 14 year old. They don't sell "explicit lyrics" records to 14 year old. But they'll sell an M-17 game to the same kid.
could you please inform me as to what store will sell that game to a 14-year old? every store i've been in requries you to show photo ID to buy anything rated M.
well, as far as my watch goes on the US government, it doesn't matter which party is in power, the exact same thing seems to happen (with this kind of issue at least)
This is worrying indeed. Google sued..Google lost stock value (1.9 % out of 5.2% risen this year). This means that by defying the DoJ, they're hurting their stockvalue. A public company has the obligation to maximise value to their stockholders, which means it's directly against Google's interest to defy the DoJ. So ironically while this might be the idealistic course of action for Google, and perhaps the trade-secret aspect can be defended, from a buisness perspective Google will be encouraged not to repeat performance in the future if the trade-secret aspect *can't* be defended.
yes, but i think it would be even more against google's interests as i would think that a good number of the stock holders of google are either geeks (who are likely paying attention to this), or people playing stocks. if they just roll over and give the information, the geeks get pissed at it and sell the stock. stock price drops, then the people playing stocks unload it as its droping and thus begins the cycle.
I figure it will take another Great Depression to cause a shakeup. The good news? It's coming.
correct me if i missed the meaning on something you said, but i doubt that there will be another great depression, barring some massive global catastrophe.. there has already been a greater stock crash in 1987 than there was in 1929. and i also believe that there was a even greater drop in the Dow Jones on September 17, 2001. the whole system is well set up now to prevent such a thing from occurring again.
yes, but if they see revenue dropping (or even think that they aren't making as much as they should), they'll start crying "PIRATES!!!!11!" and demand new legislation to allowing them to use broomsticks in means other than originally intended and stop t3h eb1l p1r4at35.
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just so long as that is the only info it collects, i have no problem with it. i don't mind inteligent advertising, and it makes more sense for the advertiser so send me adds that i'm likely to be interested in. my music preferances is basically already public knowlage and i'll tell pretty much anyone who asks. it's song names, not your SSN.
if i listen to a certain band and they get a new bunch of songs in stock from a band that makes similar music, i wouldn't mind them telling me about it.
that you're not supposed to use wikipedia for "real research"(tm)?
yes, but wikipedia is often a very handy springboard. well-written articles are essays in of themselves, and thus have several referenced sources, ranging from books, to published scientific studies available on the web, and such studies are often very difficult to find using normal search methods (Google, for example), as they're buried deep in various databases, and sometimes aren't indexed by Google due to the robots.txt being configured to prevent that.
and also, even if the study is in the results, the whole "sifting through the crap" in a web search makes it further problematic.
i recently got ahold of an old drive my school was gonna toss out. it was an old 120 meg maxtor drive made in 1991. on a whim, i hooked it up to my computer and it still runs (after monkeying with a bunch of bios settings). all the files seem to be accessable (old excel files containing attendace records)
i personally keep a weekly backup of my important files (music, misc. downloads, "Multimedia" files, school work, etc.)on DVD+/-RW discs. works fine so far.
well, to be frank, the RBMK-1000 reactors that were used at Chernobyl was a pretty poor design. the thing was designed to be built cheap and run cheap. it was cheap to build, as it used normal light water for coolant and graphite for a moderater, and it used natural uranium as fuel, though this made it unstable.
the remaining reactors of that type have been made much safer by using more enriched uranium which makes them more stable and also used a differant design of the control rods (which was one of the major contributers to the chernobyl acident).
there are much better reactor designs, such as the CANDU. which also runs on natural uranium, but it pricy to build due to the inital investment in a large quanity of pure heavy water, but is very safe. or if you like, an even safer one called a pebble bed reactor, which will not cause an explosion even in the event that all support machinary is destoryed and all coolant flow is cut. (this isn't just theory. they have tested this using a reactor in germany. the tempature hits a certain point (well below a critical level) and then just stays there until you can repair things and get power flowing again.)
i'm pretty sure that canada wasn't a penal colony at any point. there were some people sent here (can't remember the term at the moment) that weren't the top of society, but that wasn't for crimes committed per se. it was usually done by the old, rich families of britian and paid those undesirables to leave the country.
We can already legally record onto VCRs and rip CD's, no?
well, as i understand TFA, they're working on guantenteeing those rights, whereas in the US, if said CD is copy-protected, it's illegal under the DMCA and they're working on the VCR bit.
Kids don't "discover their own faith", they're indoctrinated into whatever supertition their parents force-feed them. Raising kids to believe in mythology is child abuse.
well, to play the devil's advocate here, teaching of certain versions of mythology ("anyone who does not believe as you do is evil and must die", for example) could be constituted as "corruption of children" (which is believe is an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada), and i personally wouldn't put it past some (not all, some) of the religious wingnuts out there to be teaching something similar to this.
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i personally say go back to original 7 year term, with a one-time extention option for another 7 years. 14 years maximum sounds about right to me.
and i was thinking that as a CANADIAN company, you might just have slightly higher morals that certain companies to the south. appearently i was wrong. do not expect me to buy from you in the near future.
no, they seem to be going more broadly by trying to ban just about all mature games as "only kids play games", or so say certain zealots.
i'm pretty sure that there have been studies and that aproximately 63% of games are over the age of 20, and something like 14% are over the age of 60.
there're plenty of statistics on this, just that the anti-gaming zealots just omit them from their rants, and almost no one is able to correct them, as they tend to have much more clout in the world of public opinion, due to the fact they seem to be routinely on TV and other such forms of media.
IMO, communism is the best form on government in theory . but in practise, it tends to result in very bad leaders in charge of everything.
and, in essence, Marx's basic idea of communism was that it would come about via the natural evolution of society, and thus, since all previous communist governments were forced upon the people, they weren't true communist government.
not to brag, but Canada is a prime example of a semi-socialist democratic government. we manage (for the most part) to balance democracy, socialism, and capitalism to make everything work (again, most of the time, but i think we get it right more often than the US does)
Porn will be illegal soon? Yeah, you're right... I have been noticing a severe drop in the number of porn sites recently. Online porn is a $3 billion business, which means it has a lot of clout. There is no way a buisiness that brings in that kind of money will let itself be legislated out of existance (Cigarettes are way more harmfull than Porn, but cig corporations are still making a ton of money).
i don't think it will become illegal, but it's likely that what you're looking at will be logged and monitered, what with the "keep it away from children" hystaria in government.
Wow, and last of all you claim that we will soon be shutting down free speech sites? Let me get this straight... the government is going to pass a law that will allow them to shut down free speach websites. Yeah, I'm sure the supreme court will let that shit fly.
they seem to have done just that in the name of "national security" a few times, but as i'm at school (during a spare), i don't have any links handy at the moment, though i think that such info can be found at the EFF site.
They don't sell R-rated movies to a 14 year old. They don't sell "explicit lyrics" records to 14 year old. But they'll sell an M-17 game to the same kid.
could you please inform me as to what store will sell that game to a 14-year old? every store i've been in requries you to show photo ID to buy anything rated M.
well, as far as my watch goes on the US government, it doesn't matter which party is in power, the exact same thing seems to happen (with this kind of issue at least)
does this sounds peculiarly like Jack Thompson tactics?
This is the recording industry. "Distributing the money fairly" isn't a huge concern of theirs.
it is when the money is going to them.
This is worrying indeed. Google sued..Google lost stock value (1.9 % out of 5.2% risen this year). This means that by defying the DoJ, they're hurting their stockvalue. A public company has the obligation to maximise value to their stockholders, which means it's directly against Google's interest to defy the DoJ. So ironically while this might be the idealistic course of action for Google, and perhaps the trade-secret aspect can be defended, from a buisness perspective Google will be encouraged not to repeat performance in the future if the trade-secret aspect *can't* be defended.
yes, but i think it would be even more against google's interests as i would think that a good number of the stock holders of google are either geeks (who are likely paying attention to this), or people playing stocks. if they just roll over and give the information, the geeks get pissed at it and sell the stock. stock price drops, then the people playing stocks unload it as its droping and thus begins the cycle.
this is quite likely the best comment i have seen in this discussion.
If you explicitly forbid it, it becomes more and more interesting.
too many people seem to forget this hard and fast rule. this is a basic thing about humans in general.
I figure it will take another Great Depression to cause a shakeup. The good news? It's coming.
correct me if i missed the meaning on something you said, but i doubt that there will be another great depression, barring some massive global catastrophe.. there has already been a greater stock crash in 1987 than there was in 1929. and i also believe that there was a even greater drop in the Dow Jones on September 17, 2001. the whole system is well set up now to prevent such a thing from occurring again.
yes, but if they see revenue dropping (or even think that they aren't making as much as they should), they'll start crying "PIRATES!!!!11!" and demand new legislation to allowing them to use broomsticks in means other than originally intended and stop t3h eb1l p1r4at35.
just so long as that is the only info it collects, i have no problem with it. i don't mind inteligent advertising, and it makes more sense for the advertiser so send me adds that i'm likely to be interested in. my music preferances is basically already public knowlage and i'll tell pretty much anyone who asks. it's song names, not your SSN.
if i listen to a certain band and they get a new bunch of songs in stock from a band that makes similar music, i wouldn't mind them telling me about it.
that you're not supposed to use wikipedia for "real research"(tm)?
yes, but wikipedia is often a very handy springboard. well-written articles are essays in of themselves, and thus have several referenced sources, ranging from books, to published scientific studies available on the web, and such studies are often very difficult to find using normal search methods (Google, for example), as they're buried deep in various databases, and sometimes aren't indexed by Google due to the robots.txt being configured to prevent that.
and also, even if the study is in the results, the whole "sifting through the crap" in a web search makes it further problematic.
i recently got ahold of an old drive my school was gonna toss out. it was an old 120 meg maxtor drive made in 1991. on a whim, i hooked it up to my computer and it still runs (after monkeying with a bunch of bios settings). all the files seem to be accessable (old excel files containing attendace records)
i personally keep a weekly backup of my important files (music, misc. downloads, "Multimedia" files, school work, etc.)on DVD+/-RW discs. works fine so far.
well, to be frank, the RBMK-1000 reactors that were used at Chernobyl was a pretty poor design. the thing was designed to be built cheap and run cheap. it was cheap to build, as it used normal light water for coolant and graphite for a moderater, and it used natural uranium as fuel, though this made it unstable.
the remaining reactors of that type have been made much safer by using more enriched uranium which makes them more stable and also used a differant design of the control rods (which was one of the major contributers to the chernobyl acident).
there are much better reactor designs, such as the CANDU. which also runs on natural uranium, but it pricy to build due to the inital investment in a large quanity of pure heavy water, but is very safe. or if you like, an even safer one called a pebble bed reactor, which will not cause an explosion even in the event that all support machinary is destoryed and all coolant flow is cut. (this isn't just theory. they have tested this using a reactor in germany. the tempature hits a certain point (well below a critical level) and then just stays there until you can repair things and get power flowing again.)
an even better recourse is make some noise. call up the company and mention the "L" word (either "Lawyer" or "Lawsuit" either one will work)
shine the spotlight on this stuff!
i'm pretty sure that canada wasn't a penal colony at any point. there were some people sent here (can't remember the term at the moment) that weren't the top of society, but that wasn't for crimes committed per se. it was usually done by the old, rich families of britian and paid those undesirables to leave the country.
it's a 0.11 kilogramer.
We can already legally record onto VCRs and rip CD's, no?
well, as i understand TFA, they're working on guantenteeing those rights, whereas in the US, if said CD is copy-protected, it's illegal under the DMCA and they're working on the VCR bit.
How are they making a profit today?
creative accounting and earnings management, of course!
well, TMK, the top 15 fastest typists in the world use DVORAK keyboards, but whether that's just coinsidance i dunno.
the statisitcs on the keyboard say that faster typing is possible on a DVORAK than a QWERTY, but in that instance the human factor comes in
Kids don't "discover their own faith", they're indoctrinated into whatever supertition their parents force-feed them.
Raising kids to believe in mythology is child abuse.
well, to play the devil's advocate here, teaching of certain versions of mythology ("anyone who does not believe as you do is evil and must die", for example) could be constituted as "corruption of children" (which is believe is an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada), and i personally wouldn't put it past some (not all, some) of the religious wingnuts out there to be teaching something similar to this.