In most states, no you do not need to have another parties consent to record their phone call. In ALL states that have those laws you can record if they say they are going to record.
In ALL states you can record person(s) on your property both video and audio, no restrictions.
So no, they (the police) were wrong on almost every count and can be sued. With a good lawyer, they'll probably get quite a bit of money.
#4 is the only one that is actually legal on the basis of "disturbing the peace" or some bullshit like that. It occasionaly gets held up in local courts but gets thrown out as soon as you move up a court or two. People usually only get them in connection with other charges like this one, but overall they're generally pretty grey laws, nothing that would be upheld in any real court.
Overall it does sound like the area is pretty corrupt, I'd be moving out ASAP. Viva Canada
Your morals clearly conflict with mine, I take the stance that anyone who is afraid of nudity like you seem to be paranoid about is clearly the coward. It's pretty clear those in countries who aren't afraid of the human body seem to grow up just the same as everyone else.
I like how you brought up how a "cultural difference" is lame without any supportive statements whatsoever, especially since you blast on about how hard work and "courage" is needed. No, what you're talking about is FEAR and lies. Put the fear of punishment and "immorality" into your children if you want for looking at porn, but I'll teach mine what goes on in real life thanks.
You can quite easily install a filter onto your network and live on the fringe of reality with the rest of the AOL users.
Here I am detailing my new computer specs and suddenly the next page doesn't load. That's ok, I go back and try to refresh it. I check Slashdot, low and behold, an article linking to Monarch on the first page.
Overall the government has done a poor job of handling things the past DECADE or so. I'm surprised that people are surprised over such a minor lack in incompetancy as this when we've had things such as invisible WOD and politicians blithly flinging money at corporations they have a pretty close tie with.
What I'm MORE surprised at is that people haven't really fought back...like with guns.
You're forgetting something though. These people aren't waving a massive flag around saying "THIS STORE SUCKS" they're saying "this specific product on the shelf is not worth your time, try this one over here". It's the same store, just a single product in the store is being targetted though.
It's much like the same thing big biz does with radio, pay the radio stations big bucks to only play their songs (eerily similar to communist propoganda) and either totally filter out, or only allow mild critisism about those few they do play.
This I believe is one of the reasons why Howard Stern is so crazy popular, because he doesn't blindly follow his sponsers and tends to piss in quite a few people's cups. He states it like it is and allows boths sides of an object to be seen. If more stores/businesses took this into practice, then maybe they would actually learn what the users REALLY want and they wouldn't have to worry about stupid shit like hiring 8 editors to only approve the good little snippets for the companies that pay for their product to be "featured".
Do what you're there to do, sell a product and make money, but for baby Jesus' sake, don't sell out in the process.:)
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I'm curious about how long everyone thinks it will take before people are able to live on Mars. Now that we're pretty sure there's water there, it isn't a far stretch to believe that the planet is more than capable of supporting human life.
Except for, you know...the sub zero temperatures and the lack of oxygen and all...:)
I would've found more entertainment in that diary if it were to include say...how to bang a supermodel or if they tried to roleplay while in bed. I mean, the guy repeatedly states that he's doing this gig to get near hot nerdy chicks, so at least include something about them eh?
I think Mythic has missed the ball here and is trying to make up for not doing it first honestly. It's sheer idiocy to think that the "black market", which has an estimated $300-$800 million dollar market, would just dissappear if you said you didn't like it long enough. You could of course, ban accounts, say it's bad, and continue to put forth 40% of your technical force into solving claims of "missing items", "stolen accounts" and "bugged quests"...
OR you could come into the little world I like to call "reality" and eliminate those problems by offering a service that is so automated and straight forward its a money making MACHINE.
Let's look at the alternatives shall we?
40% technical support put toward account/item stealing asshats that don't really tell you what the problem is...or
Put forth minimal effort after initial work (auction site) is up and running and profit...
The ONLY thing that would effectively stop these so called "black market" auctions would be to have NO trading in your game whatsoever and to not allow a credit card to change on the said account unless there was voice and social security number checking.
I'm sorry, did you just compare selling virtual items to murder? Because here I thought we were on the planet earth, where we could at least make a "close comparison" or use "common sense" in analogies. Maybe you should've thought in your collective addled brain,"Gee, comparing murder to selling virtual items would make me sound like a fucking nutcase."
Next thing you know, kids will be outlawed from being able to speak because some parent heard that *gasp* they sometimes say swear words!
Yes, you heard it right folks, sometimes kids SWEAR. Use evil and bad words such as "for the people" and "majority rules" and "lobying pushes the economy forward".
I second this fact, I mean, how many court cases does it take before people realize that taking down recorded (photo, writing or otherwise) information that they NEVER EVER want someone else to see is a "Bad Idea"?
Isn't the point of protesting to get noticed? I'm pretty sure a GM coming on and telling the protesters to stop destroying their server is a reasonably easy way to tell that you have been noticed.
So why the fuck didn't you log off like they asked? For god's sake, did you expect to march until they fixed the "problem" right then and there? Were you expecting a goddamn midnight blitz of programmers to swarm down upon the server machine and magically make it all better? You made your freaking point, what do you want to do now? Destroy the server because of your class envy? (nearly every other post was about how Rogues were so "uber l33t").
And what's this crap about "I pay for the game I can do whatever I want"? I thought we were out of elementary school, kids, I thought we knew better than to piss off the park ranger and then try to piss ON the park ranger when he told us to stop chopping down the goddamn trees.
You can't honestly expect any type of "fair use" policy to apply here people. You're destroying other people's right to play who may not give a flying fuck about your class yet you expect that you should be treated quite the opposite when it comes to YOUR right to play (i.e. the GMs shouldn't kick you off).
From what I see, your issues have been addressed...so...find another outlet guys:
It's quite obvious someone thought up "Hey, let's make a game where AO meets Neocron meets Planetside and make it our own MMO!"
This concept DOES NOT WORK. You cannot directly (and poorly I might add) rip off other games ideas directly and expect "Profitt?!?!". All you had are poor outdated graphics, badly rendered tracers (doom 1 did better) and people make horribly mutilated movements as if most of their tendons had been severed from their bodies. To boot, it looks like the characters slide across the floor, you have intense lag issues and your polygonal faces are super-glued onto your models.
My suggestion? Don't a release a game 2 years before it's ready...
Have you seen the screenshots and graphics on that game? You realize it's being made in Japan? I'm not sure I WANT that on a Gamecube...perhaps a DS...
But even then, it's oriented more toward asian players which tend to not mind the treadmill so much so I don't think the american playerbase at least will be too interested in the first place (just look at the Lineage games census).
I'll shorten this up since there may have been some confusion as to what I thought would happen.
Currently virtual items have NO legal value. They don't even EXIST in the eyes of the law, not US law at least (check China and Korea). In EITHER case of winning or losing items would suddenly gain value.
If Blizzard LOST the value would be in the hands of the players, much like baseball cards where anyone could sell, trade, give away whatever they wanted.
If Blizzard WON the value would be in the hands of Blizzard who could be liable under certain laws of rental agreements and misc semantics which ramble on and on (cases based on less evidence and lower expectations have been won, don't doubt it:)
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In most states, no you do not need to have another parties consent to record their phone call. In ALL states that have those laws you can record if they say they are going to record. In ALL states you can record person(s) on your property both video and audio, no restrictions. So no, they (the police) were wrong on almost every count and can be sued. With a good lawyer, they'll probably get quite a bit of money.
#4 is the only one that is actually legal on the basis of "disturbing the peace" or some bullshit like that. It occasionaly gets held up in local courts but gets thrown out as soon as you move up a court or two. People usually only get them in connection with other charges like this one, but overall they're generally pretty grey laws, nothing that would be upheld in any real court. Overall it does sound like the area is pretty corrupt, I'd be moving out ASAP. Viva Canada
Fuck you, everyone knows Pirates are better than Ninjas. ;)
Your morals clearly conflict with mine, I take the stance that anyone who is afraid of nudity like you seem to be paranoid about is clearly the coward. It's pretty clear those in countries who aren't afraid of the human body seem to grow up just the same as everyone else. I like how you brought up how a "cultural difference" is lame without any supportive statements whatsoever, especially since you blast on about how hard work and "courage" is needed. No, what you're talking about is FEAR and lies. Put the fear of punishment and "immorality" into your children if you want for looking at porn, but I'll teach mine what goes on in real life thanks. You can quite easily install a filter onto your network and live on the fringe of reality with the rest of the AOL users.
Just a quick question, were you using a media player that could actually play above 128k quality?
I don't play WoW anymore OR use Sony's rootkit.
I'm just crazy like that.
Here I am detailing my new computer specs and suddenly the next page doesn't load. That's ok, I go back and try to refresh it. I check Slashdot, low and behold, an article linking to Monarch on the first page.
R.I.P. Monarch server
Overall the government has done a poor job of handling things the past DECADE or so. I'm surprised that people are surprised over such a minor lack in incompetancy as this when we've had things such as invisible WOD and politicians blithly flinging money at corporations they have a pretty close tie with.
What I'm MORE surprised at is that people haven't really fought back...like with guns.
You're forgetting something though. These people aren't waving a massive flag around saying "THIS STORE SUCKS" they're saying "this specific product on the shelf is not worth your time, try this one over here". It's the same store, just a single product in the store is being targetted though.
:)
It's much like the same thing big biz does with radio, pay the radio stations big bucks to only play their songs (eerily similar to communist propoganda) and either totally filter out, or only allow mild critisism about those few they do play.
This I believe is one of the reasons why Howard Stern is so crazy popular, because he doesn't blindly follow his sponsers and tends to piss in quite a few people's cups. He states it like it is and allows boths sides of an object to be seen. If more stores/businesses took this into practice, then maybe they would actually learn what the users REALLY want and they wouldn't have to worry about stupid shit like hiring 8 editors to only approve the good little snippets for the companies that pay for their product to be "featured".
Do what you're there to do, sell a product and make money, but for baby Jesus' sake, don't sell out in the process.
I'm curious about how long everyone thinks it will take before people are able to live on Mars. Now that we're pretty sure there's water there, it isn't a far stretch to believe that the planet is more than capable of supporting human life.
:)
Except for, you know...the sub zero temperatures and the lack of oxygen and all...
My sysadmin blocks gaming and p0rn sites. What thanks do I have to give them? :p
Extensions aren't the security threat, users who download everything they see without minimal research pose security threats :P
I would've found more entertainment in that diary if it were to include say...how to bang a supermodel or if they tried to roleplay while in bed. I mean, the guy repeatedly states that he's doing this gig to get near hot nerdy chicks, so at least include something about them eh?
I tried this thing out all this week and got nothing for results.
ZERO.ZERO
Apparently this tool doesn't help with cable modems or T1 lines at all. Anyone else get the same experience?
The subscriber charts clearly state "M-O-N-E-Y", I'm pretty sure that's as far away from D-O-O-M as you can get.
I think Mythic has missed the ball here and is trying to make up for not doing it first honestly. It's sheer idiocy to think that the "black market", which has an estimated $300-$800 million dollar market, would just dissappear if you said you didn't like it long enough. You could of course, ban accounts, say it's bad, and continue to put forth 40% of your technical force into solving claims of "missing items", "stolen accounts" and "bugged quests"...
OR you could come into the little world I like to call "reality" and eliminate those problems by offering a service that is so automated and straight forward its a money making MACHINE.
Let's look at the alternatives shall we?
40% technical support put toward account/item stealing asshats that don't really tell you what the problem is...or
Put forth minimal effort after initial work (auction site) is up and running and profit...
The ONLY thing that would effectively stop these so called "black market" auctions would be to have NO trading in your game whatsoever and to not allow a credit card to change on the said account unless there was voice and social security number checking.
It was inevitable one way or the other.
I'm sorry, did you just compare selling virtual items to murder? Because here I thought we were on the planet earth, where we could at least make a "close comparison" or use "common sense" in analogies. Maybe you should've thought in your collective addled brain,"Gee, comparing murder to selling virtual items would make me sound like a fucking nutcase."
Use the preview button, it's your friend.
Another study shows that 100% of customers that don't know anything about computers think programmers pull code out of their ass on command.
Next thing you know, kids will be outlawed from being able to speak because some parent heard that *gasp* they sometimes say swear words!
Yes, you heard it right folks, sometimes kids SWEAR. Use evil and bad words such as "for the people" and "majority rules" and "lobying pushes the economy forward".
I second this fact, I mean, how many court cases does it take before people realize that taking down recorded (photo, writing or otherwise) information that they NEVER EVER want someone else to see is a "Bad Idea"?
Isn't the point of protesting to get noticed? I'm pretty sure a GM coming on and telling the protesters to stop destroying their server is a reasonably easy way to tell that you have been noticed.
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So why the fuck didn't you log off like they asked? For god's sake, did you expect to march until they fixed the "problem" right then and there? Were you expecting a goddamn midnight blitz of programmers to swarm down upon the server machine and magically make it all better? You made your freaking point, what do you want to do now? Destroy the server because of your class envy? (nearly every other post was about how Rogues were so "uber l33t").
And what's this crap about "I pay for the game I can do whatever I want"? I thought we were out of elementary school, kids, I thought we knew better than to piss off the park ranger and then try to piss ON the park ranger when he told us to stop chopping down the goddamn trees.
You can't honestly expect any type of "fair use" policy to apply here people. You're destroying other people's right to play who may not give a flying fuck about your class yet you expect that you should be treated quite the opposite when it comes to YOUR right to play (i.e. the GMs shouldn't kick you off).
From what I see, your issues have been addressed...so...find another outlet guys:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=
It's quite obvious someone thought up "Hey, let's make a game where AO meets Neocron meets Planetside and make it our own MMO!"
This concept DOES NOT WORK. You cannot directly (and poorly I might add) rip off other games ideas directly and expect "Profitt?!?!". All you had are poor outdated graphics, badly rendered tracers (doom 1 did better) and people make horribly mutilated movements as if most of their tendons had been severed from their bodies. To boot, it looks like the characters slide across the floor, you have intense lag issues and your polygonal faces are super-glued onto your models.
My suggestion? Don't a release a game 2 years before it's ready...
Good point, Marvel comics and Vin Diesel movies are good examples.
Have you seen the screenshots and graphics on that game? You realize it's being made in Japan? I'm not sure I WANT that on a Gamecube...perhaps a DS...
But even then, it's oriented more toward asian players which tend to not mind the treadmill so much so I don't think the american playerbase at least will be too interested in the first place (just look at the Lineage games census).
I'll shorten this up since there may have been some confusion as to what I thought would happen.
:)
Currently virtual items have NO legal value. They don't even EXIST in the eyes of the law, not US law at least (check China and Korea). In EITHER case of winning or losing items would suddenly gain value.
If Blizzard LOST the value would be in the hands of the players, much like baseball cards where anyone could sell, trade, give away whatever they wanted.
If Blizzard WON the value would be in the hands of Blizzard who could be liable under certain laws of rental agreements and misc semantics which ramble on and on (cases based on less evidence and lower expectations have been won, don't doubt it:)
That's it in a nutshell