If the person knows about an across-the-street webcam he can call the police because that's illegal. Filming random people and publishing the images is illegal without their permission. People may be visible but they have a reasonable expectation that their movements are not permanently recorded anywhere without somebody going to great trouble to do it (following you around and writing it down, probably would violate stalking laws). We don't want the government to do automatic surveillance of us and we don't want corporations to do that either.
A lot of the law is about drawing lines, not going to any logical extremes.
Camera surveillance must be announced to people entering properties covered by cameras. It is illegal to point security cameras at public spaces without special permission. So why should people expect to be filmed at any moment and have those pictures uploaded to the internet for all to see?
I played the SC2 demo and all it contained was some campaign missions, RTS campaigns are rarely worth a damn since the AI is usually set to passive and gives you all the time in the world to tech up and spam units, then crush everything with superior firepower. RTS games don't get really strategic until you're operating on a tight schedule and really have to budget your resources and time. Then you really have to decide what to invest in and when. In a campaign you can just buy everything and attack when you're ready because there's no penalty for being slow and when you have a giant army stomping around it's usually just a matter of attack-moving over everything, no need for tactics because your force is so large nothing can stop it.
Almost seems to be a genre issue because Saints Row 2's PC port was also pretty shoddy. I don't think the system requirements are as bad as you describe there but it still had very steep ones.
GUI related nonsense also comes in games like Borderlands. Doubly aggravating because the developer claims to have optimized the game's GUI for the PC version yet controlling it with the mouse is extremely clunky. Meanwhile something like Section 8 uses the same GUI on PC and console and it works fine on both.
Many Korean MMOs, especially the free to play variety, have horrible translations and I've encountered plenty where message boxes just said [to be translated].
He points at reality as a justification for his opinion. Religion is an easy vector for manipulation (crusades for example have no direct foundation in the Bible but the clergy was able to use their higher status that the religion gave them to make people do their bidding). To close this vector of manipulation people must not believe that any higher being has direct or indirect authority over them because otherwise manipulators can disguise their orders as being authorized by that higher being. Posing as an official of the law gets you arrested, posing as an official of the faith gets you a free pass on "freedom of religion". If that higher being struck down anybody who misrepresented his own claims as those of the higher being we wouldn't need measures like that.
Religion is a vector for manipulation, whether atheism is right or not doesn't matter, it matters that atheism does not postulate that certain people should have power over you.
I think he takes issue with "simple". We're talking about a meme, if you don't eradicate it completely it will regrow. Religious people believe their religion to be good and will try to convert more people to it (especially their children), as long as a few of them remain the religion can regrow. Since religion can be seated pretty deeply in one's worldview it's going to be pretty hard to remove religion from the population without applying brain surgery.
Very few people are exposed to actual facts, all they get is hearsay. Makes it easy to create an impression that the facts show something that's not the case. Obviously wrong facts lead to wrong conclusions.
Generally if an argument includes a "global conspiracy" (like a "global conspiracy to destroy the American economy" or a "global conspiracy to destroy technological advance") we can safely dismiss it. Conspiracies are harder and harder to maintain the bigger the number of involved people becomes and involving 90% of the globe would be impossible. Besides, if the rest of the world wanted to destroy the American economy wouldn't a trade war work better than appealing to the ethics of politicians?
Worked decently, ex-soviet areas indeed have a lower rate of believers than the west. I suppose if they had existed for a few hundred years religion would indeed have vanished in those areas. Well, unless you count extreme political views as a religion.
No, the judge's job is to rule on the evidence and whether something is within the boundaries of the law or not. A judge is not allowed to judge whether a law would be sane if applied, only if it applies.
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That depends, do you have bionic eyes that upload what you see to the internet for the whole world to see?
And that is why geeks don't become politicians.
If the person knows about an across-the-street webcam he can call the police because that's illegal. Filming random people and publishing the images is illegal without their permission. People may be visible but they have a reasonable expectation that their movements are not permanently recorded anywhere without somebody going to great trouble to do it (following you around and writing it down, probably would violate stalking laws). We don't want the government to do automatic surveillance of us and we don't want corporations to do that either.
A lot of the law is about drawing lines, not going to any logical extremes.
Camera surveillance must be announced to people entering properties covered by cameras. It is illegal to point security cameras at public spaces without special permission. So why should people expect to be filmed at any moment and have those pictures uploaded to the internet for all to see?
Depends, I believe it's generally not allowed to photograph other people on a nude beach, no matter how visible they were.
Generally taking a photo of someone and publishing it requires permission from the person photographed.
I played the SC2 demo and all it contained was some campaign missions, RTS campaigns are rarely worth a damn since the AI is usually set to passive and gives you all the time in the world to tech up and spam units, then crush everything with superior firepower. RTS games don't get really strategic until you're operating on a tight schedule and really have to budget your resources and time. Then you really have to decide what to invest in and when. In a campaign you can just buy everything and attack when you're ready because there's no penalty for being slow and when you have a giant army stomping around it's usually just a matter of attack-moving over everything, no need for tactics because your force is so large nothing can stop it.
Even on the console there are some control issues with how the game requires you to press multiple face buttons simultaneously.
It wasn't quite that bad even when I played it with the horrible framerate on my old PC but yeah, fine control over the vehicle was pretty lacking.
Almost seems to be a genre issue because Saints Row 2's PC port was also pretty shoddy. I don't think the system requirements are as bad as you describe there but it still had very steep ones.
GUI related nonsense also comes in games like Borderlands. Doubly aggravating because the developer claims to have optimized the game's GUI for the PC version yet controlling it with the mouse is extremely clunky. Meanwhile something like Section 8 uses the same GUI on PC and console and it works fine on both.
Many Korean MMOs, especially the free to play variety, have horrible translations and I've encountered plenty where message boxes just said [to be translated].
They're free to appear in court and sue Microsoft.
The Soviet Union encompassed more than just Russia. How about East Germany?
Sony is split internally between different divisions, Sony actually sued itself over CD recorders or something.
More importantly the opposite judgment would have really eliminated any possibility of a proper digital economy.
He points at reality as a justification for his opinion. Religion is an easy vector for manipulation (crusades for example have no direct foundation in the Bible but the clergy was able to use their higher status that the religion gave them to make people do their bidding). To close this vector of manipulation people must not believe that any higher being has direct or indirect authority over them because otherwise manipulators can disguise their orders as being authorized by that higher being. Posing as an official of the law gets you arrested, posing as an official of the faith gets you a free pass on "freedom of religion". If that higher being struck down anybody who misrepresented his own claims as those of the higher being we wouldn't need measures like that.
Religion is a vector for manipulation, whether atheism is right or not doesn't matter, it matters that atheism does not postulate that certain people should have power over you.
I think he takes issue with "simple". We're talking about a meme, if you don't eradicate it completely it will regrow. Religious people believe their religion to be good and will try to convert more people to it (especially their children), as long as a few of them remain the religion can regrow. Since religion can be seated pretty deeply in one's worldview it's going to be pretty hard to remove religion from the population without applying brain surgery.
Very few people are exposed to actual facts, all they get is hearsay. Makes it easy to create an impression that the facts show something that's not the case. Obviously wrong facts lead to wrong conclusions.
Generally if an argument includes a "global conspiracy" (like a "global conspiracy to destroy the American economy" or a "global conspiracy to destroy technological advance") we can safely dismiss it. Conspiracies are harder and harder to maintain the bigger the number of involved people becomes and involving 90% of the globe would be impossible. Besides, if the rest of the world wanted to destroy the American economy wouldn't a trade war work better than appealing to the ethics of politicians?
We saw "intelligent" design, we decided it's fucking stupid because its claims are a mixture of baseless and useless. That's a fair assessment.
Worked decently, ex-soviet areas indeed have a lower rate of believers than the west. I suppose if they had existed for a few hundred years religion would indeed have vanished in those areas. Well, unless you count extreme political views as a religion.
No, the judge's job is to rule on the evidence and whether something is within the boundaries of the law or not. A judge is not allowed to judge whether a law would be sane if applied, only if it applies.
Shouldn't the terms of service require the uploader to assure that he has secured all necessary rights and can grant them to Google/YouTube?