Theft is bad, but this isn't theft.
To say it is when talking legalities shows a lack of understanding. Just like asserting all free == all illegal when there are plenty of legit free things out there.
No one cares about your personal cause anymore.
It's not 2001. No one gives a shit about irrelevant-to-their every day lives legal wrangling, shit guy.... *snip* And finding a few slashtards to agree with you doesn't mean you're right, it means you've lost perspective.
And flaming people for liking certain stories and trying to speak for everybody (when it is obvious they don't like it) isn't?
You fucking hypocritical nitwit.
There is no 1 cut and dry concept of privacy, and this is something people who justify the idea of CCTV on the lack of privacy ideology miss.
While people can see you, you are under n obligation to say everything about yourself, to let people stalk you just because you are in public. In that sense, there is privacy in public.
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Its terrible when people get layed off- but come on? Who ever fucking uses this thing?
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Ignorant comment of the week anybody?
A lot of people use it, not that you'd understand.
Get rid of captchas, and DON'T use reCAPTCHA by any means - the letter/number combo is incoherent, even getting it right I've gotten error messages.
It sucks, captchas suck.
- One US studio has closed down almost entirely, handing most of its catalog off to another US studio.
- Another studio is grasping at straws, and its viability is in question.
100% due to piracy? Pfft. sure.
Piracy impact, I will not deny that, but nobody buys that which blatantly ignores other possibilities - except the simple minded that is.
Further adding $0.02, just because it is copyrighted doesn't necessarily mean sharing it is a crime. There are a lot of works that are shared - legally, with the creators permission - that are in fact copyrighted. his is a note that I feel NEEDS to be made.
So do the other 89%. When somebody tells me "I have nothing to hide" I list to their face all the ways we "hide" things, from the grasping example of wearing clothing ("hides skin, genitals, other bodily features, etc), to the idea of a private life, to shredding secret documents, etc.
Everybody has something to hide. That's human nature, that's why we have a private life, privacy, and it's ok.
It's still flawed. Compared to other thin pads (other than the ITG pads), the official Konami ones work best.
Foam pads and metal pads in my mind, are always superior, but dismissing the official Konami thin pads off as a FAILURE os a considerable overstatement.
Thats cool, a good thing I put the conditionals in the way I posed it... 'cause honestly I thought it [plot part] was a joke, but I just had to be sure.
When I think of video games, I don't think of DDR. DDR is a plot to get nerds to work out by making them think they're scoring points instead of burning calories. If you are joking, I see where it came from and laugh along. If you are serious, you are an idiot.
[quote] So that an animal doesn't have to die to satisfy my hunger. [/quote]
Not to be a smart-ass, as when stating things like I am about to say it is rather easy, but animals still die for your diet. Millions die in clearing land for, and harvesting food grown on fields/farms. The grey-tailed vole is a species that has seen great population reduction in a large part due to this, and there was a study that suggested that if we were to set off more land for farming/vegetarian food production/etc (tired, as you can tell by my sentence structures), the death toll would rise to something like 1.8 billion/year. If reducing the number of animals killed for your diet is what you hope to achieve, that (to me at least) might make sense, but if you want no animals to die for your diet, then it is but a pipe dream, IMO.
As a LARPer on the campus of SUNY Purchase, I am happy that we have a very tolerant/lax university PD, and as a result had no problems with using boffers and nerf "weapons". They actually are relatively curious, understanding, and as long as we follow campus policies seem to be completely cool with us doing this stuff.
I wish the same could be said for other places though, I mean come on... no nerf guns?
File sharing is illegal when copyrighted works are involved, plain and simple.
If you imply that all sharing of copyrighted works (based on this status) is illegal, then you are mistaken. It isn't "plain and simple" especially in those terms. Last I checked, it wasn't copyrghted VS not-copyrighted, but allowed to share versus not allowed to share. IMO, copyright status is a moot point, and it is all about permissions or lack therefore.
Do people know why you are out in public, where you are going, what your intentions are, or just that you are out and about in public? Isn't that obscurity to some degree, privacy?
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Theft is bad, but this isn't theft. To say it is when talking legalities shows a lack of understanding. Just like asserting all free == all illegal when there are plenty of legit free things out there.
No one cares about your personal cause anymore. It's not 2001. No one gives a shit about irrelevant-to-their every day lives legal wrangling, shit guy.... *snip* And finding a few slashtards to agree with you doesn't mean you're right, it means you've lost perspective.
And flaming people for liking certain stories and trying to speak for everybody (when it is obvious they don't like it) isn't? You fucking hypocritical nitwit.
There is no 1 cut and dry concept of privacy, and this is something people who justify the idea of CCTV on the lack of privacy ideology miss. While people can see you, you are under n obligation to say everything about yourself, to let people stalk you just because you are in public. In that sense, there is privacy in public.
Thank god I don't use 'em.
Neither will a game with no real timing/accuracy and no keysounded music (the thing that, IMO, makes the Japanese music rhythm games superior).
It may be the way you explained it, but this sounds terrible - more stressful for humans to complete, an unnecessary waste of CPU cycles.
[quote[ Its terrible when people get layed off- but come on? Who ever fucking uses this thing? [/quote] Ignorant comment of the week anybody? A lot of people use it, not that you'd understand.
It has the potential to be just as, if not more broken than the DMCA complaint form - which essentially allows the same thing.
Get rid of captchas, and DON'T use reCAPTCHA by any means - the letter/number combo is incoherent, even getting it right I've gotten error messages. It sucks, captchas suck.
- One US studio has closed down almost entirely, handing most of its catalog off to another US studio. - Another studio is grasping at straws, and its viability is in question.
100% due to piracy? Pfft. sure. Piracy impact, I will not deny that, but nobody buys that which blatantly ignores other possibilities - except the simple minded that is.
Immoral searches don't count as a reason? The rest is hyperbolic and nonsensical.
Why the fuck is this the government's business?
And further, that downloading is only forbidden if the copyright holder does't allow it, not jut because a file is/isn't copyrighted. :)
Further adding $0.02, just because it is copyrighted doesn't necessarily mean sharing it is a crime. There are a lot of works that are shared - legally, with the creators permission - that are in fact copyrighted. his is a note that I feel NEEDS to be made.
That beggs the question, what makes you think the other 89% don't have something to hide too?
So do the other 89%. When somebody tells me "I have nothing to hide" I list to their face all the ways we "hide" things, from the grasping example of wearing clothing ("hides skin, genitals, other bodily features, etc), to the idea of a private life, to shredding secret documents, etc. Everybody has something to hide. That's human nature, that's why we have a private life, privacy, and it's ok.
It's still flawed. Compared to other thin pads (other than the ITG pads), the official Konami ones work best. Foam pads and metal pads in my mind, are always superior, but dismissing the official Konami thin pads off as a FAILURE os a considerable overstatement.
Forget the ?
Thats cool, a good thing I put the conditionals in the way I posed it... 'cause honestly I thought it [plot part] was a joke, but I just had to be sure.
I guess it is a good thing I got back into my hour-a-day of playing DDR then.
So that an animal doesn't have to die to satisfy my hunger.
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Not to be a smart-ass, as when stating things like I am about to say it is rather easy, but animals still die for your diet. Millions die in clearing land for, and harvesting food grown on fields/farms. The grey-tailed vole is a species that has seen great population reduction in a large part due to this, and there was a study that suggested that if we were to set off more land for farming/vegetarian food production/etc (tired, as you can tell by my sentence structures), the death toll would rise to something like 1.8 billion/year. If reducing the number of animals killed for your diet is what you hope to achieve, that (to me at least) might make sense, but if you want no animals to die for your diet, then it is but a pipe dream, IMO.
As a LARPer on the campus of SUNY Purchase, I am happy that we have a very tolerant/lax university PD, and as a result had no problems with using boffers and nerf "weapons". They actually are relatively curious, understanding, and as long as we follow campus policies seem to be completely cool with us doing this stuff.
I wish the same could be said for other places though, I mean come on... no nerf guns?
If you imply that all sharing of copyrighted works (based on this status) is illegal, then you are mistaken. It isn't "plain and simple" especially in those terms. Last I checked, it wasn't copyrghted VS not-copyrighted, but allowed to share versus not allowed to share. IMO, copyright status is a moot point, and it is all about permissions or lack therefore.
Do people know why you are out in public, where you are going, what your intentions are, or just that you are out and about in public? Isn't that obscurity to some degree, privacy?