Murder is illegal even if the person being murdered consents. The logic is fine.
Sorry, I don't see how that makes the example fit the discussion. Comparing something where both parties have to consent to one where they don't doesn't work. The issue is that a transaction is legal for one party, and not for the other. The legality of murder is irrelevant to the person being murdered unless they consent. If they do consent, it is illegal for both parties. There is no point where it is legal for one and illegal for the other. Being murdered doesn't require making a choice or taking action.
I would gladly accept an example where a legal action of one party requires the illegal action of another party.
Your logic is flawed.
What you're saying is akin to, "murder must be legal, since being murdered is legal, and for somebody to be murdered, somebody must be doing the murdering".
It isn't really the same. Being murdered makes you a victim. You aren't being victimised by downloading or uploading, you are participating. You might have an actual point if the person being murdered chose to participate.
Just because they enjoy stuff like this during their time off doesn't prevent them from working towards world peace at the U.N. from 9 to 5.
Exactly. People getting riled up about baseball isn't saving the world, but it is engaging for people who enjoy the sport. Whether it is going out on the town with your friends, sitting on the couch, or playing video games - it is FREE time be used freely and with as much enthusiasm as you feel appropriate. What is the point of working towards a better world if all we are gonna do is work towards a better world?
Anyway, it is a big deal when people who are passionate about something find out there may be cheating going on by someone in a position of power.
I didn't want to walk into the street, the iPod MADE me do it. Honestly, I don't see the point in laws that protect me from my own stupidity. I prefer laws that protect others from my own stupidity.
Nah, I am a hick from America. I may have missed the humour in it I guess, probably because I get blinded by rage ever since some whore in a Mercedes talkin' on her cellphone while driving hit me on my bike, then drove off without checking to see if I was ok. The image of her head turning around to look back, cellphone clutched at her ear is burned into my brain. The thought of a douche texting away was more than I could take. My apologies.
We're supposed to thank Canada for the outsourcing of the movie industry?
I don't think the point was that we, the consumer, should thank Canada. I do believe the poster meant that the movie industry should thank Canada since they are making movies for less. Hollywood could find a way to make movies for free and the price wouldn't change for us. In short, we are gonna get hosed either way.
According to the home page they're "a bunch of professional game developers from around the Boston area". I know of no game development companies from Boston (and I live next to it!)
Umm, I didn't say I was a poor driver while typing. And obviously, you need to pull over as you can't spell favor;););) 1. favour = british spelling of favor - duh
2. I am sure you think you are an excellent driver while typing, assuming this AC is actually the parent poster. I hope you don't kill someone finding out otherwise.
This group in particular was downloading our version of the Lineage II software from our servers, costing us close to a million dollars in realized bandwidth costs during the period it was operational.
Maybe I am clueless, but that seems a little high... Even if the claimed 500k registered L2Extreme users downloaded the client each 1 time, that would mean it costs them close to $2 to upload the file each time.
How is Howard different from any political or social talkshow? Expressing your opinion is not the same as telling people what to think. You might as well crawl into a hole and don't forget your earplugs. I wouldn't want your beliefs polluted with someone elses opinion. And why are you on Slashdot?? Almost every post is someone trying to tell you what to think or believe, including this one as well as your own. It is called discussion.
If you want to be mad at someone over people blindly listening to celebrities/religious leaders/politicians, blame the sheep that actually follow blindly without thinking.
As for Howard, personal preference. I really like it, and not just for the naughty bits. I enjoy their conversations with each other. It is like listening to a dysfunctional, opinionated family who thinks they are the bee's knees. I have to laugh at how full of themselves they can be, but I enjoy the show. Either way, every service that provides entertainment is gonna have some crap that is childish, annoying and offensive - Sirius, XM, cable tv, you name it.
It may be that there is only 1 EVE server, as opposed to a bunch of US servers and a bunch of Euro servers etc... for other MMORPG's. You probably see more non-Americans because they are not all playing on a different server. Gamers, like many other types of nerds, seem to transcend the differences in nationality. We are all just junkies lookin for that next fix, that shit is universal.
Well, maya runs on linux so 3dmax is a bad example, not to mention Blender. I don't think Gimp is as good as photoshop, but it exists. Music production software is a good example though, Rosegarden is a long way from competing with even the cheapest version of cubase/cakewalk/etc, and there is still alot of hardware that doesn't have drivers (like my Midex 8). I don't know jack about CAD, but I do know that Macs, Windows, and *nix all have apps that do what they do better than anyone else. Listing the ones you like & use while ignoring the big picture makes you a fucktard, IMHO. As for the gp, it is true that for alot of people, like me, the Windows box is a gaming box. YMMV.
Oh, and I like the "10 other professional grade apps", solid argument - being specific & accurate is for noobs. Color me impressed. Why the fuck am I responding to an AC...
With nge, the "uber godmode" players, the powerplayers, Item sellers, sith wannabees (and they were a many of them) have lost their 'godly' status, as the grind was almost halted.
The hologrind fucked the game up beyond repair, but saying that the NGE is better... the gameplay sucks IMHO. The game was in its best state right before the holo's hit the scene. Having an uberclass in a MMORPG was a bad idea from the start, again IMHO. I don't know if I will play the emu if it ever gets released, but I will say that the best gaming experience I have ever had was SWG before the hologrind killed it. NGE is the worst mmorpg I have ever played, bar none.
I sometimes wished I had joined a pve server. Especially for the grind from 50-60. I realized at that point that I prefer an environment where I can PVP when I want to, and get away from it when I want to. It was exciting at first, but got old after awhile.
I wouldn't mind if PVP servers had safe zones that went all the way to 60, with most of the good content still in PVP zones. Yeah, I know I could have leveled up in instances with a group, but I would usually rather kick myself in the balls than run an instance. Guess I am a bit of a carebear after all, even though I spent 90% of my time in WoW in battlegrounds or lookin for world pvp.
As for Hillsbrad, I don't think I finished half the quests I started there because of the ganking, but I did have some good times there defending lowbies.
What's up with the obsession with basements lately?
I know. It is clearly the IT guys in the attic that we need to worry about. And the ones in the closet, don't even get me fucking started... closet nerds piss me off somethin' fierce.
"Since when is Boston the same city as Cambridge?"
Cambridge is definitely in Boston. Greater Boston & Boston City are 2 different things. I think most people mean Greater Boston or Metro Boston when they say Boston. If I can get drunk in downtown Boston, anywhere I can stumble to is still Boston. My opinion, Cambridge is one of the nicer parts of Boston. I would live there if it wasn't so cramped, had better parking, and if I could afford it. It is also a great place to work, but BU's porn mag is way better than Harvard's porn mag. Cambridge isn't always better than Boston.
IMHO, Cambridge would not be Cambridge if it wasn't right next to the city of Boston. It is pretty dependent on the entire area, just as any other city or area in/near Boston is. This is all beside the point though. The real point is that anyone in Cambridge, Boston, Brookline, Dorchester, you name any city near Boston, are all watching & reading the same news. If there is an alcohol related death, or changes in policy at MIT, we are all as likely to hear about it. You pointing out that he is technically not in the same city does not discredit his opinion on the past and/or present alcohol & drug problem at MIT.
"that fucking fucktard fucked my fucking fuckrifle"
Although I have never seen a fuckrifle, I think each use of fuck in that sentence is appropriate.
My favorite swear is "Jesus fucking fuck", ever since I heard it on a Retarded Animal Babies episode.
"The only reason there's a market for gold is that the farmers are mostly from China or third-world countries and value their time much less than American WoW players; they're happy to get $1 for an hour's worth of gold grinding. There's free-trade economics for ya!"
How they "value" their time has nothing to do with it, it is how the $1 can do alot more there than it can here. Maybe I am just being oversensitive, but that sentence seems a little arrogant. Imagine how many of these American WoW players who would do it if they could make minimum wage doing it...
They told him to take the images he swiped off their site off the website.
Wrong, from the cease and desist letter:
"We hearby request that you immediately take action to disable public access to www.walmart-foundation.org."
That is not asking them to take the images off, but to shut down the site. I think the site is parody, although as has been said in other posts: Most of us are not lawyers. For me, the bottom line is that parody should be able to take parts from the entire thing being parodied. The sites creator is cool in my book for standing up for our right to do so. Also, even if case law says that I am wrong (which I haven't seen hard evidence of), there is no shame in speaking about how we think it should be. Laws get changed for a reason.
I think the SWT from the eclipse/ibm peoples is the way to go. Swing will probably always look like ass. I don't know why Sun doesn't get that. My guess is that they don't like that you can compile to native with SWT & gcc while you are bound to the JVM with Swing.
This has been discussed before. Some objections were that it takes alot of work to make sure the systems actually work and the enormous variety of the hardware makes it very complicated. I do think it could be done on a small scale.
Because they can't; AFP doesn't own (all) the servers Google is taking AFP content from.
AFP provides content to newspapers; the newspapers that buy the content are happy to allow Google to scrape content from their entire sites because that drives pageviews.
Wouldn't that be an issue for AFP and the newspapers that they deal with to work out? If these newspapers are redistributing that content, they are the ones who AFP should be telling to adjust their policies on. There issues with Google should only be an issue concerning information taken from the actual AFP site. Either way, I think that AFP is SOL.
You can't get the whole story from news.google.com. You have to follow the link to
the news site to get that. You can get the same info from searching for articles in any search engine. If google was using the full stories, this would have some merit. If google was using password protected content, this would have some merit.
The entire internet is a collection of links. I don't see how people can try to use a lawsuit to restrict what you can link to if the information is from a freely available source. If they don't want that information to be linked by bots, they should use a robots.txt to block the bots and stipulate that those who pay to use their FULL news stories must do the same. That would solve their problem without adding to the lawsuit frenzy that the world is in.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, I need some more. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Don't ask what for!
No, Bush is intelligent. That does make him "smart" as a leader, atleast in the opinion of a good percentage of the world population. Hell, even I do well on standardized tests.
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Sorry, I don't see how that makes the example fit the discussion. Comparing something where both parties have to consent to one where they don't doesn't work. The issue is that a transaction is legal for one party, and not for the other. The legality of murder is irrelevant to the person being murdered unless they consent. If they do consent, it is illegal for both parties. There is no point where it is legal for one and illegal for the other. Being murdered doesn't require making a choice or taking action.
I would gladly accept an example where a legal action of one party requires the illegal action of another party.
It isn't really the same. Being murdered makes you a victim. You aren't being victimised by downloading or uploading, you are participating. You might have an actual point if the person being murdered chose to participate.
Your logic is flawed.
And the reality tv shows that they do have show boobs!!
Just because they enjoy stuff like this during their time off doesn't prevent them from working towards world peace at the U.N. from 9 to 5.
Exactly. People getting riled up about baseball isn't saving the world, but it is engaging for people who enjoy the sport. Whether it is going out on the town with your friends, sitting on the couch, or playing video games - it is FREE time be used freely and with as much enthusiasm as you feel appropriate. What is the point of working towards a better world if all we are gonna do is work towards a better world?
Anyway, it is a big deal when people who are passionate about something find out there may be cheating going on by someone in a position of power.
I didn't want to walk into the street, the iPod MADE me do it. Honestly, I don't see the point in laws that protect me from my own stupidity. I prefer laws that protect others from my own stupidity.
Not true. I heard a great one this morning. A terrorist, A scientologist, and a donkey walk into a bar.... Oh snap... I suck at remembering jokes.
Nah, I am a hick from America. I may have missed the humour in it I guess, probably because I get blinded by rage ever since some whore in a Mercedes talkin' on her cellphone while driving hit me on my bike, then drove off without checking to see if I was ok. The image of her head turning around to look back, cellphone clutched at her ear is burned into my brain. The thought of a douche texting away was more than I could take. My apologies.
We're supposed to thank Canada for the outsourcing of the movie industry?
I don't think the point was that we, the consumer, should thank Canada. I do believe the poster meant that the movie industry should thank Canada since they are making movies for less. Hollywood could find a way to make movies for free and the price wouldn't change for us. In short, we are gonna get hosed either way.
According to the home page they're "a bunch of professional game developers from around the Boston area". I know of no game development companies from Boston (and I live next to it!)
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Does this help? http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/bostongamedev.htm
2. I am sure you think you are an excellent driver while typing, assuming this AC is actually the parent poster. I hope you don't kill someone finding out otherwise.
Maybe I am clueless, but that seems a little high... Even if the claimed 500k registered L2Extreme users downloaded the client each 1 time, that would mean it costs them close to $2 to upload the file each time.
How is Howard different from any political or social talkshow? Expressing your opinion is not the same as telling people what to think. You might as well crawl into a hole and don't forget your earplugs. I wouldn't want your beliefs polluted with someone elses opinion. And why are you on Slashdot?? Almost every post is someone trying to tell you what to think or believe, including this one as well as your own. It is called discussion.
If you want to be mad at someone over people blindly listening to celebrities/religious leaders/politicians, blame the sheep that actually follow blindly without thinking.
As for Howard, personal preference. I really like it, and not just for the naughty bits. I enjoy their conversations with each other. It is like listening to a dysfunctional, opinionated family who thinks they are the bee's knees. I have to laugh at how full of themselves they can be, but I enjoy the show. Either way, every service that provides entertainment is gonna have some crap that is childish, annoying and offensive - Sirius, XM, cable tv, you name it.
It may be that there is only 1 EVE server, as opposed to a bunch of US servers and a bunch of Euro servers etc... for other MMORPG's. You probably see more non-Americans because they are not all playing on a different server. Gamers, like many other types of nerds, seem to transcend the differences in nationality. We are all just junkies lookin for that next fix, that shit is universal.
Oh, and I like the "10 other professional grade apps", solid argument - being specific & accurate is for noobs. Color me impressed. Why the fuck am I responding to an AC...
With nge, the "uber godmode" players, the powerplayers, Item sellers, sith wannabees (and they were a many of them) have lost their 'godly' status, as the grind was almost halted.
The hologrind fucked the game up beyond repair, but saying that the NGE is better... the gameplay sucks IMHO. The game was in its best state right before the holo's hit the scene. Having an uberclass in a MMORPG was a bad idea from the start, again IMHO. I don't know if I will play the emu if it ever gets released, but I will say that the best gaming experience I have ever had was SWG before the hologrind killed it. NGE is the worst mmorpg I have ever played, bar none.
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I sometimes wished I had joined a pve server. Especially for the grind from 50-60. I realized at that point that I prefer an environment where I can PVP when I want to, and get away from it when I want to. It was exciting at first, but got old after awhile. I wouldn't mind if PVP servers had safe zones that went all the way to 60, with most of the good content still in PVP zones. Yeah, I know I could have leveled up in instances with a group, but I would usually rather kick myself in the balls than run an instance. Guess I am a bit of a carebear after all, even though I spent 90% of my time in WoW in battlegrounds or lookin for world pvp.
As for Hillsbrad, I don't think I finished half the quests I started there because of the ganking, but I did have some good times there defending lowbies.
I know. It is clearly the IT guys in the attic that we need to worry about. And the ones in the closet, don't even get me fucking started... closet nerds piss me off somethin' fierce.
Cambridge is definitely in Boston. Greater Boston & Boston City are 2 different things. I think most people mean Greater Boston or Metro Boston when they say Boston. If I can get drunk in downtown Boston, anywhere I can stumble to is still Boston. My opinion, Cambridge is one of the nicer parts of Boston. I would live there if it wasn't so cramped, had better parking, and if I could afford it. It is also a great place to work, but BU's porn mag is way better than Harvard's porn mag. Cambridge isn't always better than Boston.
IMHO, Cambridge would not be Cambridge if it wasn't right next to the city of Boston. It is pretty dependent on the entire area, just as any other city or area in/near Boston is. This is all beside the point though. The real point is that anyone in Cambridge, Boston, Brookline, Dorchester, you name any city near Boston, are all watching & reading the same news. If there is an alcohol related death, or changes in policy at MIT, we are all as likely to hear about it. You pointing out that he is technically not in the same city does not discredit his opinion on the past and/or present alcohol & drug problem at MIT.
Although I have never seen a fuckrifle, I think each use of fuck in that sentence is appropriate. My favorite swear is "Jesus fucking fuck", ever since I heard it on a Retarded Animal Babies episode.
"The only reason there's a market for gold is that the farmers are mostly from China or third-world countries and value their time much less than American WoW players; they're happy to get $1 for an hour's worth of gold grinding. There's free-trade economics for ya!"
How they "value" their time has nothing to do with it, it is how the $1 can do alot more there than it can here. Maybe I am just being oversensitive, but that sentence seems a little arrogant. Imagine how many of these American WoW players who would do it if they could make minimum wage doing it...
They told him to take the images he swiped off their site off the website.
Wrong, from the cease and desist letter:
"We hearby request that you immediately take action to disable public access to www.walmart-foundation.org."
That is not asking them to take the images off, but to shut down the site. I think the site is parody, although as has been said in other posts: Most of us are not lawyers. For me, the bottom line is that parody should be able to take parts from the entire thing being parodied. The sites creator is cool in my book for standing up for our right to do so. Also, even if case law says that I am wrong (which I haven't seen hard evidence of), there is no shame in speaking about how we think it should be. Laws get changed for a reason.
I think the SWT from the eclipse/ibm peoples is the way to go. Swing will probably always look like ass. I don't know why Sun doesn't get that. My guess is that they don't like that you can compile to native with SWT & gcc while you are bound to the JVM with Swing.
This has been discussed before. Some objections were that it takes alot of work to make sure the systems actually work and the enormous variety of the hardware makes it very complicated. I do think it could be done on a small scale.
Because they can't; AFP doesn't own (all) the servers Google is taking AFP content from. AFP provides content to newspapers; the newspapers that buy the content are happy to allow Google to scrape content from their entire sites because that drives pageviews.
Wouldn't that be an issue for AFP and the newspapers that they deal with to work out? If these newspapers are redistributing that content, they are the ones who AFP should be telling to adjust their policies on. There issues with Google should only be an issue concerning information taken from the actual AFP site. Either way, I think that AFP is SOL.
You can't get the whole story from news.google.com. You have to follow the link to the news site to get that. You can get the same info from searching for articles in any search engine. If google was using the full stories, this would have some merit. If google was using password protected content, this would have some merit.
The entire internet is a collection of links. I don't see how people can try to use a lawsuit to restrict what you can link to if the information is from a freely available source. If they don't want that information to be linked by bots, they should use a robots.txt to block the bots and stipulate that those who pay to use their FULL news stories must do the same. That would solve their problem without adding to the lawsuit frenzy that the world is in.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, I need some more. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Don't ask what for!
No, Bush is intelligent. That does make him "smart" as a leader, atleast in the opinion of a good percentage of the world population. Hell, even I do well on standardized tests.