She also supported Michelangelo's David in an earlier episode if memory serves, and has watched "snuggle" films with Homer. The character seems to have an European view of morality. Very much against violence, but rather lax on nudity and sexuality.
You don't happen to be related to a cartoon version of Betty White do you?
Betty White: If you like great PBS programs like "Do Shut Up" and "Shut Your Gob" you'll want to support our pledge drive. If you watch even one second of PBS and don't contribute, you're a theif, a common theif!
PBS Guy: Okay, take it easy, Betty.
Betty: Sorry, but these theives make me so mad. You know who you are.... thieves!
I hope you're not seriously trying to claim the meaning behind your words were somehow different because some other guy used it in a different context. And no, I don't work in advertising. What on Earth would make you even add something short of related to that field?
Actually, I think most people here (minus those who'd abolish copyright altogether) would agree with you. The RIAA and similar companies are bloated and corrupt, no one deserves to make millions of dollars for derivative trash, those who just distribute said trash certainly don't deserve it, copyright does need to be reformed, etc.
Yes, after I posted that, I remembered webcomics which do both of the things you describe, but then I figured in practice art for the sake of art and crowdsourcing investment is already covered in open source.
No there is no right to profit, but what does that have to do with companies who try to make it easier to make a profit not grantee a profit, or what I wrote which is trying to figure out the other ways that content creators can make money?
There's the old(er) way where rich people payed people commission to do a myriad of art. That doesn't help the people (video game makers/novelists/programmers/all of the tv and movie industry) who need/want many people to pay a pittance. There's the make money off concerts (and I guess merchandise) route, which might work for some form of media like music, but doesn't help the aforementioned groups. And of course there's open source which has a few examples of profitability. Have I missed any?
Hmm? From what I've seen as a user of both bittorrent and eMule (the major client that uses KAD), the reason the latter is slow is not because of decentralizing, but because of a different philosophy in data sharing. With bitorrent you only share a file if you're trying to finish a download, or seeding. In eMule one shares dozens or even hundreds of files not related to the thing(s) you're trying to get. Bittorrent only shares data relevant to a persons download relatively quickly, and eMule shares lots of files slowly so one can get a larger variety of files (eventually).
Unfortunately, eMule has become less popular thanks to file sharing sites like rapidshare. Well, at least that's my guess.
What school do they go to? In my neck of the woods (NYC) the only vacation kids will get this month is Columbus Day. Are they getting less days because the school is trying to compensate for being overcrowded or something?
I rather doubt the article calculated after school learning. I can only speak for Japan (and well S. Korea which isn't on the list), but it's pretty much accepted there that in order to succeed parents must send their kids to a myriad of after school programs. These range from just homework help, to advanced material the public school isn't teaching an age group. I've young (10+) cousins who end up coming home around 8pm sometimes even as late as midnight all because they've around 3-4 extra tutoring places they go to each day.
I don't read any shock in IANAAC, just disgust and annoyance. Even when someone is used to the general assholishness of the net, it's still possible to wage a personal war on certain irritants. I for example have attacked people who believe any criticism on a work of art is an attack on the creator and them. It works on occasion as long as you're calm and polite.
Anyway, you kind of miss my point. If we shouldn't be affected by random crass comments (which are also rather cliche), then the inevitable responses shouldn't be a bother either. A short of "get over it" to the guy saying "get over it" I guess heh.
Oh not this again... Yes, the internets are well within their rights to say the couple are ugly, or "Heil Hitler!" for that matter. People are also within their rights to tell such people to not be such jerks.
Uh huh... The disease is assumed to have originated in non-human primates in sub-Sahara Africa, and later jumped species because people ate bush meat. Yea, that country. Not exactly known for it's hospitality towards deviant sexuality.
You are correct. Gay (but not lesbian) sex is the riskiest way to get HIV. But really now heterosexuals make up at least 90% of the population, and having any sex puts you at substantial risk. It's not a gay disease any more than say... being fat is a gaming problem.
Don't be too happy. They're going to have to install some short of anti-cheat software, since most customers will demand it. Considering how far people will go to get ahead the software will have to be an invasive one... But lucky for us it aint gonna be GameGuard! Wee...
...Really now? When I called customer service to inquire about my damaged DS Lite which was out of warranty, the lady was very polite, but she did state that w/o a warranty it would cost around $70 to repair. I find it a bit hard to believe that a company who's consoles are "printing money" would be that generous.
I find the gameplay itself to be rather simplistic, repetitive, and not too much fun. Not to mention the UI is just terrible, though things are getting better. KoL is certainly not a game I'd recommend to most people. Most enjoyment seem to come from the humor (course you need a strong background in American pop culture), and the fact that it's simplistic nature means new content can be added relatively quickly. As for me, I play using KoLMafia, but do new content manually through the browser. Yea, w/o the bot (Don't worry folks! KoL only gives a limited amount of turns per day, so botting is permitted by the creator.), I would have quit years ago.
On a perhaps serious note, yes they exist. They tend to be older Koreans who immigrated to the U.S. my parents would be one example. I think it has something to do with a combination of national pride, plus the belief that anything made by either a US or Chinese company is inferior.
Yep, there is a reason. For the latter books, it has more to do with popularity (similar to Windows) than any decent writing. Check out the reviews for the thenth book "Crossroads of Twilight" link. People absolutely loathed the book. Many wished to give zero star ratings, but couldn't since one star is the lowest Amazon allows. The eleventh book got something like 3.0-3.5 stars if memory serves, but like the other response says, I'm almost positive it's because Jordan was feeling rushed. Which by our standards means he was moving at a normal pace again.
Technically, companies are still trying to compete with each other via this method imo. Only thing is instead of a healthy competition, it more like some biblical battle between God and Satan for souls. Minus the theoretical good guy of course.
Um... no when was the last time you watched TV? Generally speaking showing sex is ok as long as it's missionary position, vaginal, between a man and woman, and shows little besides the mans chest, and perhaps a little side boob. I recommend watching the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" if you have the time. It does only deal with sex in films, but most of it's points also work for television.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need material from the legit (or at least morally ok/grey by my books) homebrew sites in order to play "backup" games?
My younger cousin (7) watches Diary of a Foodie, and now wants to try cocoa leaf ice cream, fermented in it's own tree coconut booze, and live insects. Also, thanks to the kids show "Cyberchase" he thinks hackers are evil incarnate. Ah well.
I've learned about the holocaust in elementary school, and learned that there are millions of children starving and dying around the world. Of course both were mentioned in a rather sanitized manner. Which is how BSG delt with genocide oddly enough. On the other hand, I've never seen a child die let alone murdered in mass media (even childrens books which do deal with death would shy away from murder). I can certainly understand why the parent would be bothered by one but not the other.
Hell, most folks would consider Star Trek to be ok for older kids. That show had genocide/extinction (mostly depending on how you interpret the actions of people who follow the Prime Directive), but no child killing.
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She also supported Michelangelo's David in an earlier episode if memory serves, and has watched "snuggle" films with Homer. The character seems to have an European view of morality. Very much against violence, but rather lax on nudity and sexuality.
Please every bittorrent site I've been to mentions Usenet. You're just way WAY too late my friend.
You don't happen to be related to a cartoon version of Betty White do you?
Betty White: If you like great PBS programs like "Do Shut Up" and "Shut Your Gob" you'll want to support our pledge drive. If you watch even one second of PBS and don't contribute, you're a theif, a common theif! PBS Guy: Okay, take it easy, Betty. Betty: Sorry, but these theives make me so mad. You know who you are.... thieves!
I hope you're not seriously trying to claim the meaning behind your words were somehow different because some other guy used it in a different context. And no, I don't work in advertising. What on Earth would make you even add something short of related to that field?
I said pissy because you wrote "No joke, just kill yourself." How exactly was I supposed to interpret that?
Actually, I think most people here (minus those who'd abolish copyright altogether) would agree with you. The RIAA and similar companies are bloated and corrupt, no one deserves to make millions of dollars for derivative trash, those who just distribute said trash certainly don't deserve it, copyright does need to be reformed, etc.
Yes, after I posted that, I remembered webcomics which do both of the things you describe, but then I figured in practice art for the sake of art and crowdsourcing investment is already covered in open source.
No there is no right to profit, but what does that have to do with companies who try to make it easier to make a profit not grantee a profit, or what I wrote which is trying to figure out the other ways that content creators can make money?
Pray tell, why are you so pissy about this?
...What slip are you referring to?
There's the old(er) way where rich people payed people commission to do a myriad of art. That doesn't help the people (video game makers/novelists/programmers/all of the tv and movie industry) who need/want many people to pay a pittance. There's the make money off concerts (and I guess merchandise) route, which might work for some form of media like music, but doesn't help the aforementioned groups. And of course there's open source which has a few examples of profitability. Have I missed any?
Hmm? From what I've seen as a user of both bittorrent and eMule (the major client that uses KAD), the reason the latter is slow is not because of decentralizing, but because of a different philosophy in data sharing. With bitorrent you only share a file if you're trying to finish a download, or seeding. In eMule one shares dozens or even hundreds of files not related to the thing(s) you're trying to get. Bittorrent only shares data relevant to a persons download relatively quickly, and eMule shares lots of files slowly so one can get a larger variety of files (eventually).
Unfortunately, eMule has become less popular thanks to file sharing sites like rapidshare. Well, at least that's my guess.
What school do they go to? In my neck of the woods (NYC) the only vacation kids will get this month is Columbus Day. Are they getting less days because the school is trying to compensate for being overcrowded or something?
I rather doubt the article calculated after school learning. I can only speak for Japan (and well S. Korea which isn't on the list), but it's pretty much accepted there that in order to succeed parents must send their kids to a myriad of after school programs. These range from just homework help, to advanced material the public school isn't teaching an age group. I've young (10+) cousins who end up coming home around 8pm sometimes even as late as midnight all because they've around 3-4 extra tutoring places they go to each day.
I don't read any shock in IANAAC, just disgust and annoyance. Even when someone is used to the general assholishness of the net, it's still possible to wage a personal war on certain irritants. I for example have attacked people who believe any criticism on a work of art is an attack on the creator and them. It works on occasion as long as you're calm and polite.
Anyway, you kind of miss my point. If we shouldn't be affected by random crass comments (which are also rather cliche), then the inevitable responses shouldn't be a bother either. A short of "get over it" to the guy saying "get over it" I guess heh.
Oh not this again... Yes, the internets are well within their rights to say the couple are ugly, or "Heil Hitler!" for that matter. People are also within their rights to tell such people to not be such jerks.
Uh huh... The disease is assumed to have originated in non-human primates in sub-Sahara Africa, and later jumped species because people ate bush meat. Yea, that country. Not exactly known for it's hospitality towards deviant sexuality.
You are correct. Gay (but not lesbian) sex is the riskiest way to get HIV. But really now heterosexuals make up at least 90% of the population, and having any sex puts you at substantial risk. It's not a gay disease any more than say... being fat is a gaming problem.
Don't be too happy. They're going to have to install some short of anti-cheat software, since most customers will demand it. Considering how far people will go to get ahead the software will have to be an invasive one... But lucky for us it aint gonna be GameGuard! Wee...
...Really now? When I called customer service to inquire about my damaged DS Lite which was out of warranty, the lady was very polite, but she did state that w/o a warranty it would cost around $70 to repair. I find it a bit hard to believe that a company who's consoles are "printing money" would be that generous.
I find the gameplay itself to be rather simplistic, repetitive, and not too much fun. Not to mention the UI is just terrible, though things are getting better. KoL is certainly not a game I'd recommend to most people. Most enjoyment seem to come from the humor (course you need a strong background in American pop culture), and the fact that it's simplistic nature means new content can be added relatively quickly. As for me, I play using KoLMafia, but do new content manually through the browser. Yea, w/o the bot (Don't worry folks! KoL only gives a limited amount of turns per day, so botting is permitted by the creator.), I would have quit years ago.
On a perhaps serious note, yes they exist. They tend to be older Koreans who immigrated to the U.S. my parents would be one example. I think it has something to do with a combination of national pride, plus the belief that anything made by either a US or Chinese company is inferior.
Yep, there is a reason. For the latter books, it has more to do with popularity (similar to Windows) than any decent writing. Check out the reviews for the thenth book "Crossroads of Twilight" link. People absolutely loathed the book. Many wished to give zero star ratings, but couldn't since one star is the lowest Amazon allows. The eleventh book got something like 3.0-3.5 stars if memory serves, but like the other response says, I'm almost positive it's because Jordan was feeling rushed. Which by our standards means he was moving at a normal pace again.
Technically, companies are still trying to compete with each other via this method imo. Only thing is instead of a healthy competition, it more like some biblical battle between God and Satan for souls. Minus the theoretical good guy of course.
Um... no when was the last time you watched TV? Generally speaking showing sex is ok as long as it's missionary position, vaginal, between a man and woman, and shows little besides the mans chest, and perhaps a little side boob. I recommend watching the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" if you have the time. It does only deal with sex in films, but most of it's points also work for television.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need material from the legit (or at least morally ok/grey by my books) homebrew sites in order to play "backup" games?
My younger cousin (7) watches Diary of a Foodie, and now wants to try cocoa leaf ice cream, fermented in it's own tree coconut booze, and live insects. Also, thanks to the kids show "Cyberchase" he thinks hackers are evil incarnate. Ah well.
I've learned about the holocaust in elementary school, and learned that there are millions of children starving and dying around the world. Of course both were mentioned in a rather sanitized manner. Which is how BSG delt with genocide oddly enough. On the other hand, I've never seen a child die let alone murdered in mass media (even childrens books which do deal with death would shy away from murder). I can certainly understand why the parent would be bothered by one but not the other.
Hell, most folks would consider Star Trek to be ok for older kids. That show had genocide/extinction (mostly depending on how you interpret the actions of people who follow the Prime Directive), but no child killing.
I'll still need the brain chip to remind me where the hell I put that damn thing.