Hmm... something about this sounds fishy. Outsourcing, PS2 and other suches do not sound like "a loss for this year". Sony should be booming, considering. Perhaps it's a marketing technique? We'll soon see.
Well, considering how minimal I live... Yes. It's shallow, so am I. In a capitalistic society, you need money and having a lot of it means you die comfortably.
I don't mean to be so terse, but... wasn't there something written about this in 1948 by a wonderful man named George Orwell? I can't possibly think of the name for my life...
"So now you have a choice... go deaf early or go insane listening to your coworkers chatter."
Oh noes, I have to choose? Excuse me, but going deaf via good music, as opposed to listening to my wonderful Belarusian computer geek co-workers bicker in Russian? Hah! I think I'll choose music! At least it's in Englisch.
The question is "How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?". The answer is, and I quote my slightly "off" friend next to me: "Get a gun, steal a car and shoot everyone. Then have pixelated sex with an ugly girl, after which you drink coffee!". That's actually a very rational answer, considering the matter at hand...
As for our rights, we can take a realistic stand by signing not internet petitions, but having trucks of signed-on-paper petitions being delivered to various politicians. The only way to stare down the opposition, especially when the opposition is in such power, is to rally against. Similar to a mutiny, except we're not going to have any Governers walking the plank.
Touché. Yet another thing is that the Japanese market is right next door. Or landmass, anyway. The amount of money to be made from the Japanese technology market, and I'm sure Microsoft has tapped into it already (Sure? No. I know). The Japanese have perfected everything, really... I'm shamed to be American in a predominantly Japanese neighbourhood on Cape Cod. You should see the STUFF they have. As for Microsoft, it can only go either down or across for them right now.
Is it possible that Bill Gates' recent lament over the decline of US CS graduates and research spending was merely crocodile tears?"
That's called "marketing". Microsoft cries shortage, geeks raise their hands like an eager student with an answer in class. I sure as hell would take a job from Microsoft if given the opprotunity. I'd surely go to hell for it as well, but fact is... Microsoft is on top, and will be for a long time. With top-rung knowledge and experience, one can definitely sprint to retirement well before 99% of the people that (s)he graduated with from secondary school.
Other thing is, China has a lot of people. And a lot of smart people. Survey says: Cheap labour and lots of it.
No, not a troll. A troll would be less intelligent and more 4Chan. And my stomach is still growling, thus no food was given to me.
As for our bit of talk, I'd still say that the kids were just kids being kids, and their case being dropped is completely appropriate.
For the same reason Ontario law makers passed a ban on pit bulls. Because it's easier to ban and arrest everyone than to restrict, research and enforce.
Bittorrent users being sued to death are like the pit bull owners, in that the government finds it easier to just rid the world of them, rather than fight the problem at the source. Pit bulls aren't naturally violent, they're trained as such. Bittorrent users aren't necessarily downloading because they want to revolt, they're downloading because a $50usd Limited Edition box set of Excel Saga DVD's is outrageously expensive, and it's easier to click than manifest $50usd.
If the war were really about the pirates, then any P2P would be shut down instantly, regardless of their EULA that explains "For educational use, and any copyrighted material shared is not the problem of said program". Soulseek, eMule, Napster/Grokster/Morpheus/Kazaa, WinMX (Is that still around?), anything else, really. The problem is, is I remember at one point (Can't locate) a Slashdot article about a 62kb homebrew P2P that took only around an hour. With P2P sharing programs being that incredibly easy to write, it's impossible to completely end pirating. It's going to happen no matter what. Counterfeit money, blank cassette tapes, blank VHS, MP3 and so on... it's an endless cycle of forging a copy. It will go on forever, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
"The containers your detergents are in" is redundant, and shampoo was originally purely organic (Technically, isn't oil organic as well?...). I use organic shampoo already, not because I'm a hippie, but because I have long hair (See this: Picture). Long hair requires special treatment for men (If they want to do it right, that is). Food additives don't apply for me because I eat locally from purists' crops.
Thing is, the reason oil is still a big factor in our lives is because it's such a big business and so apparently fucking abundant that it's not priority to devise oil-independent alternative methods for making things we, as capitalistic materialistic humans, need.
Don't mean to spit on your ideas or anything, but I live in an attic loft with only my clothes (Out of a suitcase, no less), and my computer. I rob my neighbour's unsecured internet connection (He's a geek though, so it makes no sense. His wireless setup is named "All your 802.11 are belong to us", instantly denoting geek. He has no auth key though... the idiot. Free I-net for me.) Oil isn't much of a big deal for me.
Well, for a start, we could follow Iceland in their lead for metro buses. Reykjavík's metro buses (This is only what I've heard from one who lives there. May or not be true) have been replaced with hydrogen fuel-celled buses. Even if every country were to be completely independent of oil, metro buses would be a good start. Maybe taxis as well. The problem is, is that in Iceland, it's cold (Hence the name, maybe?) and pure hard H2O, last time I checked, freezes just as well as any water that you piss or draw from a tap. I'm not saying we need to replace everything with solar and such, but it would be a good idea to at least try. What's there to lose (Besides the lives of billions of people)?
Hey, someone hand me my spray-paint can. I want to help speed up our continuing problem with pollution and mass-habitat destruction. Don't worry about plantlife or animals, they can all die out and we can continue using our greenhouses to grow what we need to eat. It's no big deal because we can just throw another barrel of oil under one of the Bushs' noses and they'll buy it.
At a rate like this, I think we should follow Iceland's lead in their aspiration for being the first modern country to be completely independant of oil. If we relied on synthetic lubricants, cleaner fuels (Like solar or hydrogen), then maybe we could extend that global warming to "never". This is all based on the asumption that we as humans don't populate Mars first. Excuse me.
Last time I checked, whenever there's publicized info on unreleased Microsoft stuffs, people get into trouble. Remember what happened with that bunch of people who posted screenies of Longhorn?
The last time I saw "interweb" was on one of those 4Chan-esque sites. Odd. This is related to the story, however, because the theif is as smart as a 4Channer.
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Hmm... something about this sounds fishy. Outsourcing, PS2 and other suches do not sound like "a loss for this year". Sony should be booming, considering. Perhaps it's a marketing technique? We'll soon see.
Well, considering how minimal I live... Yes. It's shallow, so am I. In a capitalistic society, you need money and having a lot of it means you die comfortably.
I don't mean to be so terse, but... wasn't there something written about this in 1948 by a wonderful man named George Orwell? I can't possibly think of the name for my life...
"So now you have a choice... go deaf early or go insane listening to your coworkers chatter."
Oh noes, I have to choose? Excuse me, but going deaf via good music, as opposed to listening to my wonderful Belarusian computer geek co-workers bicker in Russian? Hah! I think I'll choose music! At least it's in Englisch.
Yet, it was somehow important enough for you to comment on it.
I love your input! Please do it more!
The question is "How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?". The answer is, and I quote my slightly "off" friend next to me: "Get a gun, steal a car and shoot everyone. Then have pixelated sex with an ugly girl, after which you drink coffee!". That's actually a very rational answer, considering the matter at hand...
As for our rights, we can take a realistic stand by signing not internet petitions, but having trucks of signed-on-paper petitions being delivered to various politicians. The only way to stare down the opposition, especially when the opposition is in such power, is to rally against. Similar to a mutiny, except we're not going to have any Governers walking the plank.
Touché. Yet another thing is that the Japanese market is right next door. Or landmass, anyway. The amount of money to be made from the Japanese technology market, and I'm sure Microsoft has tapped into it already (Sure? No. I know). The Japanese have perfected everything, really... I'm shamed to be American in a predominantly Japanese neighbourhood on Cape Cod. You should see the STUFF they have. As for Microsoft, it can only go either down or across for them right now.
I think that companies could definitely make some serious money off of this! It's such a wonderful idea! :O
Is it possible that Bill Gates' recent lament over the decline of US CS graduates and research spending was merely crocodile tears?"
That's called "marketing". Microsoft cries shortage, geeks raise their hands like an eager student with an answer in class. I sure as hell would take a job from Microsoft if given the opprotunity. I'd surely go to hell for it as well, but fact is... Microsoft is on top, and will be for a long time. With top-rung knowledge and experience, one can definitely sprint to retirement well before 99% of the people that (s)he graduated with from secondary school.
Other thing is, China has a lot of people. And a lot of smart people. Survey says: Cheap labour and lots of it.
You're leaving yourself open to so much attack right now.
No, not a troll. A troll would be less intelligent and more 4Chan. And my stomach is still growling, thus no food was given to me. As for our bit of talk, I'd still say that the kids were just kids being kids, and their case being dropped is completely appropriate.
Nono, we do. But that's why we "try" them.
The operating word in your reply is "allegedly".
It should be "sysadmin gets fired for leaving the passwords taped to the back of the fucking laptops", not a civil matter nor felony.
For the same reason Ontario law makers passed a ban on pit bulls. Because it's easier to ban and arrest everyone than to restrict, research and enforce.
Bittorrent users being sued to death are like the pit bull owners, in that the government finds it easier to just rid the world of them, rather than fight the problem at the source. Pit bulls aren't naturally violent, they're trained as such. Bittorrent users aren't necessarily downloading because they want to revolt, they're downloading because a $50usd Limited Edition box set of Excel Saga DVD's is outrageously expensive, and it's easier to click than manifest $50usd.
If the war were really about the pirates, then any P2P would be shut down instantly, regardless of their EULA that explains "For educational use, and any copyrighted material shared is not the problem of said program". Soulseek, eMule, Napster/Grokster/Morpheus/Kazaa, WinMX (Is that still around?), anything else, really. The problem is, is I remember at one point (Can't locate) a Slashdot article about a 62kb homebrew P2P that took only around an hour. With P2P sharing programs being that incredibly easy to write, it's impossible to completely end pirating. It's going to happen no matter what. Counterfeit money, blank cassette tapes, blank VHS, MP3 and so on... it's an endless cycle of forging a copy. It will go on forever, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
I don't even know where I was going with this.
East coast?! Why... I live there!
Count me in.
Now that my name will be on Pluto, will Charon Ozbourne notice how much I hate her?
Quite aware that you weren't speaking of me in your rant. Fact is, society is made up of individuals of one I am.
"The containers your detergents are in" is redundant, and shampoo was originally purely organic (Technically, isn't oil organic as well?...). I use organic shampoo already, not because I'm a hippie, but because I have long hair (See this: Picture). Long hair requires special treatment for men (If they want to do it right, that is). Food additives don't apply for me because I eat locally from purists' crops.
Thing is, the reason oil is still a big factor in our lives is because it's such a big business and so apparently fucking abundant that it's not priority to devise oil-independent alternative methods for making things we, as capitalistic materialistic humans, need.
Don't mean to spit on your ideas or anything, but I live in an attic loft with only my clothes (Out of a suitcase, no less), and my computer. I rob my neighbour's unsecured internet connection (He's a geek though, so it makes no sense. His wireless setup is named "All your 802.11 are belong to us", instantly denoting geek. He has no auth key though... the idiot. Free I-net for me.) Oil isn't much of a big deal for me.
Well, for a start, we could follow Iceland in their lead for metro buses. Reykjavík's metro buses (This is only what I've heard from one who lives there. May or not be true) have been replaced with hydrogen fuel-celled buses. Even if every country were to be completely independent of oil, metro buses would be a good start. Maybe taxis as well. The problem is, is that in Iceland, it's cold (Hence the name, maybe?) and pure hard H2O, last time I checked, freezes just as well as any water that you piss or draw from a tap. I'm not saying we need to replace everything with solar and such, but it would be a good idea to at least try. What's there to lose (Besides the lives of billions of people)?
Hey, someone hand me my spray-paint can. I want to help speed up our continuing problem with pollution and mass-habitat destruction. Don't worry about plantlife or animals, they can all die out and we can continue using our greenhouses to grow what we need to eat. It's no big deal because we can just throw another barrel of oil under one of the Bushs' noses and they'll buy it.
At a rate like this, I think we should follow Iceland's lead in their aspiration for being the first modern country to be completely independant of oil. If we relied on synthetic lubricants, cleaner fuels (Like solar or hydrogen), then maybe we could extend that global warming to "never". This is all based on the asumption that we as humans don't populate Mars first. Excuse me.
Last time I checked, whenever there's publicized info on unreleased Microsoft stuffs, people get into trouble. Remember what happened with that bunch of people who posted screenies of Longhorn?
The last time I saw "interweb" was on one of those 4Chan-esque sites. Odd. This is related to the story, however, because the theif is as smart as a 4Channer.
Will it serve a hyper-expensive portion of sloppy joe's sandwiches? I'll take three.
Nay! There IS chicken in those things! Remember the lady who found the head? Delicasy in my area. Chicken heads. Yum.