Bah, TFA not wanting to load for me. What I get from this, though, is that a retailer can be taken to court AFTER a sale for selling a game to a minor and then if the judge decides that the game is indecent and trying to appeal to minors, the store will be punished and the game pulled from shelves?
How is the store to know this before selling the game to be able to be taken to court for it? Is the lousiana state government going to review all games themselves before allowing them to be sold in the state?
I've got to figure out how to get in on this. You guys do something, after you do it I'll tell you if it was legal or not and sue you and throw you in jail if it wasn't. Sound like a good deal?
See, you just explained exactly why Linux is not ready for the public (or the public is not ready for Linux, perhaps). The general public does not want to spend time, researching, learning, trying out a couple different things to see which they prefer, etc. The general public wants to stick a CD in the drive, click next a couple times, and have it just work.
bah, I thought I was going to be all smart and be the first to mention this. I had one of these but it sucked. There's also the spaceorb, which also does all of this as another poster mentioned. I've still got my spaceorb and was pretty good with it once upon a time.
You're right, the things I said were a little further down that nasty slippery slope. More than likely no harm to me or anyone else in any way will come from it. Are you willing to risk that very small percentage of a chance that something bad will come from it and perhaps this is just the first step on an effort that invades privacy, almost certainly costs a ton of money, and probably isn't any more likely to save us from harm than it is to cause harm (beyond the initial invasion of privacy)?
Let's add to this that I have a hard time believing this is actually in any way an attempt to stop terrorism to start with. Do they honestly think people are making phone calls from their home or office land lines or cell phones to anyone who might get them flagged, let alone doing so when they're actually doing something that they could be arrested for?
Not to agree in any way with the jackass you replied to, of course.
The problem with "if it's ok by law then it's ok and if you don't agree with that law, then get it changed" being that we can't possibly make a law against every "wrong" thing that someone could possibly do. Just because there's not a law against it or even that it accidentally slipped into being 'ok' when taken completely literally and not in the spirit of the law due to poor wording, lack of foresight, etc doesn't make it 'ok'.
No, it's not ok at all for the government to double check all my phone calls just in case I was doing something wrong even though I've given them no reason to believe I have been. Why don't I let them check my house every night to make sure I don't have any stolen goods from my neighbor's house in there, too, and perhaps an escort to make sure I really am going to my office every morning and not the local top secret terrorist hideout.
I haven't given them any reason to think that I'm doing those things, but they're at least as likely as me calling terrorists from my house to plan an attack.
Yeah, because adding a TV of any reasonable size or a projector to the console is going to make it cheaper to play games.
It's called buy a second tv (most families have multiple TV's these days anyway) or compromise. Wanting to play a game while someone else wants to watch TV is no different than wanting to watch a different TV show or movie than someone else.
They are a company. Their primary goal is to make as much money as possible. If you know of a company that says "Well, we COULD earn $XXXX dollars, but we really only need half of that to live, so lets drop our prices" please inform me so that I can be sure not to ever buy their stock.
To put it into a slightly different light, do you "need" as much money as your job pays you? Perhaps you do, but I could certainly get by on far less and have, but we accept our pay. Why? Because they are willing to pay us that and we work our jobs to earn as much money as we possibly can (or at least I do), not the warm fuzzy feeling from giving our employers a good deal on our hard work.
really work in the real world.
Here's a fucking idea, lets use something that was meant to teach urban planning instead of a game that was meant for entertainment.
I've had considerably less trouble finding contracts this last year than in the two years prior. It hasn't all been exactly what I was looking for, in fact none of it has, but at least it wasn't the bullshit phone support I couldn't keep contracting firms from offering me in previous years, either (seriously, damn. How many times do you have to say "look at my resume, I've been overqualified for that for the last 5 years"). As of a month or so ago myself and two other guys that were both with me on my last contract ended up on new contracts at a company that seems to actually want to hire us eventually, treats its employees decent, etc.
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Bah, TFA not wanting to load for me. What I get from this, though, is that a retailer can be taken to court AFTER a sale for selling a game to a minor and then if the judge decides that the game is indecent and trying to appeal to minors, the store will be punished and the game pulled from shelves? How is the store to know this before selling the game to be able to be taken to court for it? Is the lousiana state government going to review all games themselves before allowing them to be sold in the state? I've got to figure out how to get in on this. You guys do something, after you do it I'll tell you if it was legal or not and sue you and throw you in jail if it wasn't. Sound like a good deal?
See, you just explained exactly why Linux is not ready for the public (or the public is not ready for Linux, perhaps). The general public does not want to spend time, researching, learning, trying out a couple different things to see which they prefer, etc. The general public wants to stick a CD in the drive, click next a couple times, and have it just work.
I actually did learn to use mine at one point. It was pretty nice once you got used to it. It's been sitting in a closet since like 2001 now, though.
bah, I thought I was going to be all smart and be the first to mention this. I had one of these but it sucked. There's also the spaceorb, which also does all of this as another poster mentioned. I've still got my spaceorb and was pretty good with it once upon a time.
You're right, the things I said were a little further down that nasty slippery slope. More than likely no harm to me or anyone else in any way will come from it. Are you willing to risk that very small percentage of a chance that something bad will come from it and perhaps this is just the first step on an effort that invades privacy, almost certainly costs a ton of money, and probably isn't any more likely to save us from harm than it is to cause harm (beyond the initial invasion of privacy)? Let's add to this that I have a hard time believing this is actually in any way an attempt to stop terrorism to start with. Do they honestly think people are making phone calls from their home or office land lines or cell phones to anyone who might get them flagged, let alone doing so when they're actually doing something that they could be arrested for?
Not to agree in any way with the jackass you replied to, of course. The problem with "if it's ok by law then it's ok and if you don't agree with that law, then get it changed" being that we can't possibly make a law against every "wrong" thing that someone could possibly do. Just because there's not a law against it or even that it accidentally slipped into being 'ok' when taken completely literally and not in the spirit of the law due to poor wording, lack of foresight, etc doesn't make it 'ok'.
No, it's not ok at all for the government to double check all my phone calls just in case I was doing something wrong even though I've given them no reason to believe I have been. Why don't I let them check my house every night to make sure I don't have any stolen goods from my neighbor's house in there, too, and perhaps an escort to make sure I really am going to my office every morning and not the local top secret terrorist hideout. I haven't given them any reason to think that I'm doing those things, but they're at least as likely as me calling terrorists from my house to plan an attack.
so we need to regulate newspapers and make sure that only adults can see them since they can be modified to show porn, right?
Yeah, because adding a TV of any reasonable size or a projector to the console is going to make it cheaper to play games.
It's called buy a second tv (most families have multiple TV's these days anyway) or compromise. Wanting to play a game while someone else wants to watch TV is no different than wanting to watch a different TV show or movie than someone else.
They are a company. Their primary goal is to make as much money as possible. If you know of a company that says "Well, we COULD earn $XXXX dollars, but we really only need half of that to live, so lets drop our prices" please inform me so that I can be sure not to ever buy their stock. To put it into a slightly different light, do you "need" as much money as your job pays you? Perhaps you do, but I could certainly get by on far less and have, but we accept our pay. Why? Because they are willing to pay us that and we work our jobs to earn as much money as we possibly can (or at least I do), not the warm fuzzy feeling from giving our employers a good deal on our hard work.
really work in the real world. Here's a fucking idea, lets use something that was meant to teach urban planning instead of a game that was meant for entertainment.
I've had considerably less trouble finding contracts this last year than in the two years prior. It hasn't all been exactly what I was looking for, in fact none of it has, but at least it wasn't the bullshit phone support I couldn't keep contracting firms from offering me in previous years, either (seriously, damn. How many times do you have to say "look at my resume, I've been overqualified for that for the last 5 years"). As of a month or so ago myself and two other guys that were both with me on my last contract ended up on new contracts at a company that seems to actually want to hire us eventually, treats its employees decent, etc.