Assuming that you're referring to the Bittorrent protocol, that wouldn't work. First, most client use an upload speed of 0 to mean "unlimited". Second, bittorrent works on a quid pro quo basis. You get a few hundred kb of starter data, and if you don't start sharing data with other peers after that, then you *will* receive data...but only at a trickle, since the peers are expecting to get something back from you after sending something to you.
Or you could just not use photographic imagery, and only have renderings of the maps (with the same data they use to super-impose the pictures with road lines anyhow)
I use the images to get a better visualization of the layouts of parking lots and such. Otherwise, there would just be a giant block showing "theater" or "school" or whatever. No idea where parking is, the entrance is, etc.
That was the first anime I ever watched (the first *real* one, I mean). It's always going to be one of my favorites. Just short enough that you can watch a whole season during a long party, and be through the complete story arch, haha
Except that there are things that change and carry forward into new episodes. Mostly character deaths, I guess, but there are also occasional references to things that happened earlier in the series.
Battlestar's is working out well. Babylon 5 ended with the Captain dying, and the destruction of the B5 station during its decommissioning ceremony. I'm sure I could think of more...but those stand out in my mind.
Bad example. Mona Lisa has never been a novel. Doom has been available on (as you mentioned) a number of game consoles. And anyhow, it would make more sense to make an article about games that influenced console game the heaviest, not an article that only includes console games that influence console games.
I actually do this. In college, I shamelessly pirated large amounts of anything that could be expressed in a digital format. Since graduation, I've spent hundreds of dollars on movies, games, and music that I discovered (for free) during college. If I like it, I buy it. If I didn't like it, I deleted it from the computer anyhow.
It's not like Windows does a Mac/Linux-style magic-number lookup to guess at the format of the file. Windows works purely on the file extension (unless they've changed it relatively recently).
It's a troll, and a pretty transparent one at that. I seriously doubt that the poster actually believes what they said...although it's amusing seeing everyone taking it so seriously.
Well, if you want to get technical, Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the same God, they're just in disagreement as to the proper ways to do so.
The action of the individual is their own responsibility. A gun store provides access to potential murder weapons, sure. A gun has significant non-(human)murder uses. A torrent has significant non-infringing uses (backup copy, data recovery, etc). It's the action of the shooter/downloader that causes the infringement, not the provider giving you the tools. I never mentioned anything about crime in my post. I wasn't trying to make any statement about the *use* of the discographies, just that TPB had made provisions for you to acquire them.
Search engines are a convenience to get to information. Torrent trackers are a technical necessity. TPB stores explicit instructions on how to get the material on their own servers. Google tells you which servers have the information stored on them. I'm not arguing that TPB should be liable for the content on it (there's no practical way for them to police everything), but it's also disingenuous to say that they don't provide the means to illegally gain access to media.
The bulk of your post was about whether discrimination was fair, and how that discrimination equates to a loss of freedom. I was stating that although it isn't fair, Microsoft has a certain legal justification in acting the way they did.
I never intended to imply that she was in the wrong, or that either Microsoft or the assholes harassing the girl were in the right. The girl shouldn't have been banned for stating her sexual orientation. The harassers had a right to complain, but not to expect that something would be done about it. You seem to be assuming that hatred has some logical component to it. It's not the impact to them that matters to haters. It's that the other person even exists, and had the "audacity" to bring themselves to light. You can't expect logical behavior from a bunch of half-evolved monkeys.
Keep in mind that humanity's intelligence evolved just enough to allow us to pull ourselves to the top of the food chain. Beyond that, there isn't all that much evolutionary pressure. In the grand scheme of things, we are precisely 1 step above the animals we look down on. We aren't better enough to expect that individuals won't act like animals.
I brought up the norm, because people will react differently depending on what they've become accustomed to. It's relevant to the discussion. I never stated that homosexuality should be offensive. There are some things, especially those involving race or sexuality, that are more likely to be emotionally charged. Any time that there's an emotionally charged issue, there will be someone to take offense at it. I wouldn't expect a British person to take much crap, but I would find it more likely that someone from Iran or Iraq would be targeted. Stronger feelings about an issue -> stronger reaction to the situation.
I take prejudice as a given because, in my experience, *everyone* is prejudiced against some group or another, to varying extents. I've never met someone that was absolutely unprejudiced.
The feelings of the majority don't seem to have mattered in this case. The only voices in the initial decision would have been the assholes harassing the girl, the girl herself, and whatever Microsoft representative swung the ban hammer.
No, I don't actually *picture* it, but it does set up some preconceptions in my mind concerning the nature of your sexuality. It is sexual information, just not *graphic* sexual information.
Microsoft made the wrong decision, but I don't think that's uncommon in situations like this. The company has a LOT of complaints to sort through, and limited numbers of agents to do the sorting. Maybe their agents are under-regulated, which is unfortunate, but common.
They're putting in their spare time to work on this stuff, and you complain. It's a valid point. If their efforts are insufficient to their needs, why don't *you* fix it?
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Assuming that you're referring to the Bittorrent protocol, that wouldn't work. First, most client use an upload speed of 0 to mean "unlimited". Second, bittorrent works on a quid pro quo basis. You get a few hundred kb of starter data, and if you don't start sharing data with other peers after that, then you *will* receive data...but only at a trickle, since the peers are expecting to get something back from you after sending something to you.
Bring the bottle closer!
In fact, ESX *is* an operating system, originally based on some sort of Redhat...although I suspect that VMWare has modified it into its own OS.
Or you could just not use photographic imagery, and only have renderings of the maps (with the same data they use to super-impose the pictures with road lines anyhow)
I use the images to get a better visualization of the layouts of parking lots and such. Otherwise, there would just be a giant block showing "theater" or "school" or whatever. No idea where parking is, the entrance is, etc.
Wait....are you talking about the Pentagon, or the towers? Those are *two* major terrorist targets, regardless.
That was the first anime I ever watched (the first *real* one, I mean). It's always going to be one of my favorites. Just short enough that you can watch a whole season during a long party, and be through the complete story arch, haha
Except that there are things that change and carry forward into new episodes. Mostly character deaths, I guess, but there are also occasional references to things that happened earlier in the series.
Battlestar's is working out well. Babylon 5 ended with the Captain dying, and the destruction of the B5 station during its decommissioning ceremony. I'm sure I could think of more...but those stand out in my mind.
Yes, we must expose the Decepticons!....Wait, you guys aren't talking about *that* kind of transformers, are you?
Bad example. Mona Lisa has never been a novel. Doom has been available on (as you mentioned) a number of game consoles. And anyhow, it would make more sense to make an article about games that influenced console game the heaviest, not an article that only includes console games that influence console games.
I actually do this. In college, I shamelessly pirated large amounts of anything that could be expressed in a digital format. Since graduation, I've spent hundreds of dollars on movies, games, and music that I discovered (for free) during college. If I like it, I buy it. If I didn't like it, I deleted it from the computer anyhow.
It's not like Windows does a Mac/Linux-style magic-number lookup to guess at the format of the file. Windows works purely on the file extension (unless they've changed it relatively recently).
Apparently by asking them to marry him within 30 minutes.
No, that's an exception to the meme. Nothing's warm in Russia.
It's a troll, and a pretty transparent one at that. I seriously doubt that the poster actually believes what they said...although it's amusing seeing everyone taking it so seriously.
Well, if you want to get technical, Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the same God, they're just in disagreement as to the proper ways to do so.
I never would've remembered that >_ There are so many 2 line jokes like that in the comic....
The action of the individual is their own responsibility. A gun store provides access to potential murder weapons, sure. A gun has significant non-(human)murder uses. A torrent has significant non-infringing uses (backup copy, data recovery, etc). It's the action of the shooter/downloader that causes the infringement, not the provider giving you the tools. I never mentioned anything about crime in my post. I wasn't trying to make any statement about the *use* of the discographies, just that TPB had made provisions for you to acquire them.
Search engines are a convenience to get to information. Torrent trackers are a technical necessity. TPB stores explicit instructions on how to get the material on their own servers. Google tells you which servers have the information stored on them. I'm not arguing that TPB should be liable for the content on it (there's no practical way for them to police everything), but it's also disingenuous to say that they don't provide the means to illegally gain access to media.
The bulk of your post was about whether discrimination was fair, and how that discrimination equates to a loss of freedom. I was stating that although it isn't fair, Microsoft has a certain legal justification in acting the way they did.
I never intended to imply that she was in the wrong, or that either Microsoft or the assholes harassing the girl were in the right. The girl shouldn't have been banned for stating her sexual orientation. The harassers had a right to complain, but not to expect that something would be done about it. You seem to be assuming that hatred has some logical component to it. It's not the impact to them that matters to haters. It's that the other person even exists, and had the "audacity" to bring themselves to light. You can't expect logical behavior from a bunch of half-evolved monkeys.
Keep in mind that humanity's intelligence evolved just enough to allow us to pull ourselves to the top of the food chain. Beyond that, there isn't all that much evolutionary pressure. In the grand scheme of things, we are precisely 1 step above the animals we look down on. We aren't better enough to expect that individuals won't act like animals.
I brought up the norm, because people will react differently depending on what they've become accustomed to. It's relevant to the discussion. I never stated that homosexuality should be offensive. There are some things, especially those involving race or sexuality, that are more likely to be emotionally charged. Any time that there's an emotionally charged issue, there will be someone to take offense at it. I wouldn't expect a British person to take much crap, but I would find it more likely that someone from Iran or Iraq would be targeted. Stronger feelings about an issue -> stronger reaction to the situation.
I take prejudice as a given because, in my experience, *everyone* is prejudiced against some group or another, to varying extents. I've never met someone that was absolutely unprejudiced.
The feelings of the majority don't seem to have mattered in this case. The only voices in the initial decision would have been the assholes harassing the girl, the girl herself, and whatever Microsoft representative swung the ban hammer.
No, I don't actually *picture* it, but it does set up some preconceptions in my mind concerning the nature of your sexuality. It is sexual information, just not *graphic* sexual information.
Microsoft made the wrong decision, but I don't think that's uncommon in situations like this. The company has a LOT of complaints to sort through, and limited numbers of agents to do the sorting. Maybe their agents are under-regulated, which is unfortunate, but common.
They're putting in their spare time to work on this stuff, and you complain. It's a valid point. If their efforts are insufficient to their needs, why don't *you* fix it?
Seriously, how likely is >open source website x to infect your computer with something? Is it really worth the hassle to be so paranoid all the time?