"You are aware you can make XP look like W2k, right?"
Yes, I am, but that's only one of the reasons I won't run XP, the other being the PITA of having to beg for M$'s permission everytime I want to upgrade my computer. Windows 2k does what I need it to, so I see no point in "upgrading" to either XP or Vista. Ever since XP, M$ has been trying to take away more control of our computers from us, and now with the DRM crap in Vista, ain't no way I'm getting that! Hell no!!!
Hell with all that...I'm sticking with my Windows 2000! Best M$ OS I've run yet. More stable than 95 or 98 and w/o all the wastefull eye candy of XP. If it does someday become totally obsolete, I guess I'll have to switch to Linux or whatever, but in the meantime it's 2k all the way!
No, Google has the money and lawyers to fight off a stupid-ass ******* like this. Only you and I and some other poor guy who wants to link to a cool page he saw on the Net will be stopped. Remeber, laws are there to protect the rich and control the poor....nothing else, that's all!
I can't wait til it comes to the USA and guys start getting arrested for public urination and then have to register as sex offenders. Yes, they have to now if they are caught pissing in public, like what the fuck does taking a wizz have to do with sex?
At least he won't have to waste money now playing that crappy game anymore. Blizzard has made it clear many times that it doesn't give a shit about it's customers. Look at how they let Diablo2 go down the toilet by doing nothing about all the dupes and hacks and so forth until it was too late and the game was already beyond repair. Then they started acting like they were concerned by banning people left and right, but the damage had already been done. They were always slow at gettting anything done. Look at how long it took them to fix bugs in the game. Now they are doing the opposite and overreacting to something that was, IMO, not a problem. Using a programmable KB is hardly the same thing as botting, and why did they have to be such hardasses about it and outright ban him? At first they said "we have, unfortunately, had to suspend your World of Warcraft account pending investigation", but after he contacted them, he gets a permanent ban. Seems like they didn't like the idea of him daring to disagree with their decision.
Just another example of how these corporate pigs take our money then they treat us as though they own us. We "buy" a product from them and they tell us that we don't even own it. They still own the software and the money we gave them. My question is, why do we, as consumers, put up with this shit? There is no other product, other than software, that we purchase that the seller claims full ownership to even after we bought it. Not just that, but they also feel they have the right to alter it or make any other changes to the software or the service you are paying for at any time w/o our agreeing to it. Their TOS or EULA is basically a one-sided non-negotiable contract that gives them all the rights and protects them from any responsibility or damage.
Besides, WOW is a POS and he should just buy *Guild Wars instead!:)
" wacko... seriously, we live in a democracy as you're witnessing tonight - not a dictatorship"
First off, this is NOT a democracy, it is a representative republic. When is the last time YOU voted on a new law? If this was in fact a democracy, your vote would decide who is president, not the Electoral College's.
"Paranoia is out there..."
I agree, I guess that's why you posted anonymously!
I have a $50 TV tuner card in my computer hooked up to my cable. I can record any show I want and save it on my HD. Plus the picture is far better on my monitor than on a crappy TV set, so why would I waste my money on TiVo? They can shove it!
"Yeah right, like refusing them the right to buy alcohol under 18 or getting a driver's licence at 13. It's discrimination against a whole group and I want to end this. Lol nice logic."
So, what is your opinion on the fact that an 18 yr old can't buy alcohol but can be drafted (I know, there is no draft in the U.S. at the moment) and die for the military-industrial complex, er...I mean his country?
No one is saying give drugs, alcohol, guns, etc to small children, but for Christ's sake, what harm is a video game going to do to him/her?
I would rather have my kid at home on his/her computer playing some make believe game than out on the street mugging or killing someone cause he/she has alot of pent up hostility and no way to release it. The world today pisses us all off on an almost daily basis and if we don't find a way to vent it, we might just go postal on someone. Video games give you that release, you kill monsters and stuff rather than real people.
"Children have plenty of rigths, at least in most civilised countries where people in general have rights. That's why you have laws against child labour, child abuse etc."
Laws like that don't give children rights anymore than a law forcing you to wear a seatbelt is giving you any rights. It only tries to protect them.
"Children have less rights for the same reason the mentally ill do, to protect them and to protect everyone else."
So, children are now being equated with the mentally ill. I guess anyone you consider inferior should have their rights stripped from them. Back in the early 19th century a Black man was considered 3/5ths of a White man, so being inferior and all that, he wasn't allowed to vote or have any other rights. I guess that's ok too!
"Only minorities can be discriminated agains?"
Yes...because if you discriminate against a non-minority, i.e. a white heterosexual male, it's ok. That's why we have Affirmitive Action.
That's all it is, a "rule" made up by the motion picture industry. It is NOT a law! It has no legal authority behind it. It is basically discrimination against an entire segment of our society. A store may post a sign saying "We have the right to refuse service to anyone", but that means on an individual basis, not all members of a group of people. You can't say, "We refuse to sell to blacks", etc. That is illegal. So, why do we permit the wholesale discrimination against children in this damn country...or world for that matter? It is their money to spend as they see fit, especially if they worked for it, and paid TAXES for it...of course they still can't vote or anything.
I get so sick of hearing all these damn minorities , and women (who make up 51% of the population and are therefore not a minority) bitching about how they have no rights, when in fact they have more rights than any child will ever have! Children are pretty much the only group in society that have basically no rights whatsoever! Of course, they can commit a crime and be charged as an adult
because they are competent enough to know what they are doing. Oh, and by the way I am an adult myself, not some kid bitching about it. And I don't care if you mod me down on this either.
"However, the law will not allow you to consent to a touching that is likely or certain to cause death."
Really? I guess you have never heard of the barbaric "sport" known as boxing.
The whole point of it is to knock the shit out of your opponent thereby causing brain damage and possibly even death. Both parties sign a waiver beforehand and in the event of the death of either party, no one is going to be convicted of murder!
Remember that women that entered the amateur boxing match a couple years ago and was killed, no one went to jail for that, did they?
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"You are aware you can make XP look like W2k, right?"
Yes, I am, but that's only one of the reasons I won't run XP, the other being the PITA of having to beg for M$'s permission everytime I want to upgrade my computer.
Windows 2k does what I need it to, so I see no point in "upgrading" to either XP or Vista. Ever since XP, M$ has been trying to take away more control of our computers from us, and now with the DRM crap in Vista, ain't no way I'm getting that! Hell no!!!
Hell with all that...I'm sticking with my Windows 2000! Best M$ OS I've run yet. More stable than 95 or 98 and w/o all the wastefull eye candy of XP. If it does someday become totally obsolete, I guess I'll have to switch to Linux or whatever, but in the meantime it's 2k all the way!
I wish I had mod points for that one! LOL
"There's nobody as tolerant as a kid you can lick."
John D. Fitzgerald
Funny, I thought it was Michael Jackson.
No, Google has the money and lawyers to fight off a stupid-ass ******* like this. Only you and I and some other poor guy who wants to link to a cool page he saw on the Net will be stopped. Remeber, laws are there to protect the rich and control the poor....nothing else, that's all!
Nothing but FUD!
I started working at the age of 14. Yes, I was earning my own money and even paying taxes...of course I still wasn't allowed to vote.
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I can't wait til it comes to the USA and guys start getting arrested for public urination and then have to register as sex offenders.
Yes, they have to now if they are caught pissing in public, like what the fuck does taking a wizz have to do with sex?
Damn, I wish I had mod points!
So that explains why children get cancer?
...welcome our new SmartShirt overloads!
At least he won't have to waste money now playing that crappy game anymore. Blizzard has made it clear many times that it doesn't give a shit about it's customers. Look at how they let Diablo2 go down the toilet by doing nothing about all the dupes and hacks and so forth until it was too late and the game was already beyond repair. Then they started acting like they were concerned by banning people left and right, but the damage had already been done. They were always slow at gettting anything done. Look at how long it took them to fix bugs in the game. Now they are doing the opposite and overreacting to something that was, IMO, not a problem. Using a programmable KB is hardly the same thing as botting, and why did they have to be such hardasses about it and outright ban him? At first they said "we have, unfortunately, had to suspend your World of Warcraft account pending investigation", but after he contacted them, he gets a permanent ban. Seems like they didn't like the idea of him daring to disagree with their decision.
:)
Just another example of how these corporate pigs take our money then they treat us as though they own us. We "buy" a product from them and they tell us that we don't even own it. They still own the software and the money we gave them. My question is, why do we, as consumers, put up with this shit? There is no other product, other than software, that we purchase that the seller claims full ownership to even after we bought it. Not just that, but they also feel they have the right to alter it or make any other changes to the software or the service you are paying for at any time w/o our agreeing to it. Their TOS or EULA is basically a one-sided non-negotiable contract that gives them all the rights and protects them from any responsibility or damage.
Besides, WOW is a POS and he should just buy *Guild Wars instead!
*no monthly fee!
welcome our new RFID imbedded paper overlords.
" wacko... seriously, we live in a democracy as you're witnessing tonight - not a dictatorship"
First off, this is NOT a democracy, it is a representative republic. When is the last time YOU voted on a new law? If this was in fact a democracy, your vote would decide who is president, not the Electoral College's.
"Paranoia is out there..."
I agree, I guess that's why you posted anonymously!
I have a $50 TV tuner card in my computer hooked up to my cable. I can record any show I want and save it on my HD. Plus the picture is far better on my monitor than on a crappy TV set, so why would I waste my money on TiVo? They can shove it!
welcome our new RFID overlords.
Actually fullerenes can be found in candle soot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene So they have actually been around for thousands of years.
"That isn't the point. The heat being dissipated is, by definition, wasted energy (unless the user is in Siberia or something."
In Soviet Siberia the energy wastes you!
"Yeah right, like refusing them the right to buy alcohol under 18 or getting a driver's licence at 13. It's discrimination against a whole group and I want to end this. Lol nice logic."
So, what is your opinion on the fact that an 18 yr old can't buy alcohol but can be drafted (I know, there is no draft in the U.S. at the moment) and die for the military-industrial complex, er...I mean his country?
No one is saying give drugs, alcohol, guns, etc to small children, but for Christ's sake, what harm is a video game going to do to him/her?
I would rather have my kid at home on his/her computer playing some make believe game than out on the street mugging or killing someone cause he/she has alot of pent up hostility and no way to release it. The world today pisses us all off on an almost daily basis and if we don't find a way to vent it, we might just go postal on someone. Video games give you that release, you kill monsters and stuff rather than real people.
"Children have plenty of rigths, at least in most civilised countries where people in general have rights. That's why you have laws against child labour, child abuse etc."
Laws like that don't give children rights anymore than a law forcing you to wear a seatbelt is giving you any rights. It only tries to protect them.
"Children have less rights for the same reason the mentally ill do, to protect them and to protect everyone else."
So, children are now being equated with the mentally ill. I guess anyone you consider inferior should have their rights stripped from them. Back in the early 19th century a Black man was considered 3/5ths of a White man, so being inferior and all that, he wasn't allowed to vote or have any other rights. I guess that's ok too!
"Only minorities can be discriminated agains?"
Yes...because if you discriminate against a non-minority, i.e. a white heterosexual male, it's ok. That's why we have Affirmitive Action.
That's all it is, a "rule" made up by the motion picture industry. It is NOT a law! It has no legal authority behind it. It is basically discrimination against an entire segment of our society. A store may post a sign saying "We have the right to refuse service to anyone", but that means on an individual basis, not all members of a group of people. You can't say, "We refuse to sell to blacks", etc. That is illegal. So, why do we permit the wholesale discrimination against children in this damn country...or world for that matter? It is their money to spend as they see fit, especially if they worked for it, and paid TAXES for it...of course they still can't vote or anything. I get so sick of hearing all these damn minorities , and women (who make up 51% of the population and are therefore not a minority) bitching about how they have no rights, when in fact they have more rights than any child will ever have! Children are pretty much the only group in society that have basically no rights whatsoever! Of course, they can commit a crime and be charged as an adult because they are competent enough to know what they are doing. Oh, and by the way I am an adult myself, not some kid bitching about it. And I don't care if you mod me down on this either.
I, for one, welcome our new government overlords.
"However, the law will not allow you to consent to a touching that is likely or certain to cause death."
Really? I guess you have never heard of the barbaric "sport" known as boxing.
The whole point of it is to knock the shit out of your opponent thereby causing brain damage and possibly even death. Both parties sign a waiver beforehand and in the event of the death of either party, no one is going to be convicted of murder!
Remember that women that entered the amateur boxing match a couple years ago and was killed, no one went to jail for that, did they?
In the USSR, LINUX had YOU!