And not just PUBG, but most multiplayer online games, period. Pick any multiplayer game and type in it's name followed by "cheats" and/or "hacks" and see how many sites come up. Hell, a lot of them are companies MAKING and SELLING the hacks. It's big business now. I get into arguments on the Overwatch official message board over how much cheating there is going on, only to get told "git gud". I'm not sure if it's because too many people have their heads in the sand over the scope, they just want to troll, and/or they are part of the problem themselves.
And let's not forget that the game makers don't mind because every time they ban an account, the cheater just buys another one, thus increasing their revenue stream. It's getting to where I don't even want to play against humans anymore.
It's not free like they said it will be. It's just that they won't pay for it when you get on. It will be paid for from the taxes collected by the state, which will be going higher to cover the costs. TANSTAAFL.
Because it would never be the US ISPs spamming the FCC with fake emails from spoofed internet addresses. Yep, never could happen. They are as clean as the newly driven snow. |
What does is matter who owns them? If we ever went to war or something like that, it's pretty easy to seize those assets, since they're in the U.S. and so are the people who actually work on them.
Right up until somebody sues and a court puts an injunction on it. And that will happen faster than you can say "BBQ pork, please".
Not only that, but what do you do when the data lines that verify payment capability of the credit/debit/prepaid card is out? Just ask all those people in disaster areas how that worked out for them.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for and laughing at the folks that voted for Trump because of his promises to keep factories open.
From President Obama's Joint Address to Congress, 2009, regarding the SECOND GOVERNMENT BAILOUT of GM:
We will invest fifteen billion dollars in technologies like... more efficient cars and trucks built right here in America. As for auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink. We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk from it.
So I guess the President who facilitated the Second GM Bailout during his presidency doesn't deserve any of the blame for wasting 15 BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer's money?
It's a slip-up and not something intentional. They even mention toward the bottom of the story that this is a civil lawsuit.
Either way, it still puts doubt on their story. If you can't get something like that consistent in your own story, what else have you screwed up in it?
"The Russian Federation has responded to a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee..."
...
"According to an 87-page indictment..."
The DNC is bringing forth this lawsuit, not the state, so it's not a criminal case but a CIVIL lawsuit. It even says so on page one of the documents posted, "Civil Action No. 1:18-cv-0350" and "AMENDED COMPLAINT" (emphasis from the original). Therefore, it can't be and indictment because that is only used in CRIMINAL cases brought forth by the state and not in civil cases. ZDNet therefore got their terminology wrong, either on purpose or accidentally. Either way, it is a basic point of law that even I caught at first glance.
Maybe they need to stop watching so much legal dramas on TV. Heaven knows those get it wrong all the time. If you can't get something this basic right, how can we trust your "legal analysis" on anything else?
No, it's because dead trees and plant matter accumulate because controlled burns aren't allowed, so when a fire does break out, it has all that dry, flammable timber there to feed it.
Your politics can't save you.
No, your politics can't save that argument you made about the fires.
All I can think of is the irony if the Titanic II gets hit by an iceberg and comes to rest at the bottom of the sea right next to the original Titanic.
If Windows is so terribly unusable, then how come it hasn't been supplanted by macOS/Linux?
Well, first of all macOS is even more of a control freak than Windows 10. It's their way or the highway.
Second, Linux? Which distro? Too many of them are not 100% compatible with each other. Something that was written in one distro might not work in another. Businesses are pretty weary of huge problems like that.
Third, Micro$oft has managed to get itself installed on practically every business machine for so long that it's not feasable to switch to something else and have to buy whole new versions of software for the new OS for EVERY FREAKING COMPUTER that the company uses.
They are complaining about Amazon using something that they are giving away for free? Hell, the Wikipedia Foundation doesn't even PAY the people who post and keep articles on Wikipedia. So are they gonna stop living off the free work that those volunteers do and start paying them per article and change?
Remember just two years ago when everybody was accusing Russia of hacking the election? Hell, it was still a thing up to a few months ago. So now you want to let somebody outside the US register fake voters so they can vote over the Internet and/or cellphones (another stupid idea for another article) and definitely influence the elections?
Hell, we have enough problems as it is with both parties stacking the deck with dead people voting. When will people realize that the Internet only makes things more complicated and risky and not the universal savior of all the world's ills?
Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC argued that broadband is not a "telecommunications service" as defined in federal law, and therefore it must be classified as an information service instead.
Oh, so I guess that VOIP doesn't exist any more then?
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Can we get Blizzard split off next, please? Activision is too worried about new characters to fix the problems they have with the game as it is.
And not just PUBG, but most multiplayer online games, period. Pick any multiplayer game and type in it's name followed by "cheats" and/or "hacks" and see how many sites come up. Hell, a lot of them are companies MAKING and SELLING the hacks. It's big business now. I get into arguments on the Overwatch official message board over how much cheating there is going on, only to get told "git gud". I'm not sure if it's because too many people have their heads in the sand over the scope, they just want to troll, and/or they are part of the problem themselves.
And let's not forget that the game makers don't mind because every time they ban an account, the cheater just buys another one, thus increasing their revenue stream. It's getting to where I don't even want to play against humans anymore.
That sound clip used to be the boot up sound for my Amiga 500 way back when.
Good times. Good times....
It's not free like they said it will be. It's just that they won't pay for it when you get on. It will be paid for from the taxes collected by the state, which will be going higher to cover the costs. TANSTAAFL.
Because it would never be the US ISPs spamming the FCC with fake emails from spoofed internet addresses. Yep, never could happen. They are as clean as the newly driven snow.
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Or is that the newly plowed slush?
What does is matter who owns them? If we ever went to war or something like that, it's pretty easy to seize those assets, since they're in the U.S. and so are the people who actually work on them.
Right up until somebody sues and a court puts an injunction on it. And that will happen faster than you can say "BBQ pork, please".
Not only that, but what do you do when the data lines that verify payment capability of the credit/debit/prepaid card is out? Just ask all those people in disaster areas how that worked out for them.
Answer: It didn't.
That says nothing about refusing it as payment. No law requires anyone to accept payment in a specific form.
Apparently you aren't catching the word ALL there. That means no exceptions. Cash must be accepted when offered as payment.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for and laughing at the folks that voted for Trump because of his promises to keep factories open.
From President Obama's Joint Address to Congress, 2009, regarding the SECOND GOVERNMENT BAILOUT of GM:
We will invest fifteen billion dollars in technologies like ... more efficient cars and trucks built right here in America. As for auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink. We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk from it.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
So I guess the President who facilitated the Second GM Bailout during his presidency doesn't deserve any of the blame for wasting 15 BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer's money?
It's a slip-up and not something intentional. They even mention toward the bottom of the story that this is a civil lawsuit.
Either way, it still puts doubt on their story. If you can't get something like that consistent in your own story, what else have you screwed up in it?
When Sec. of State Hillary Clinton did it, the FBI and the Mainstream Media said it wasn't a crime, so what's the big deal.
...oh, wait, it's the other party and NOW the Media and the Democrats are screaming that it's a crime....
Um, reasons...?
/sarcasm
"The Russian Federation has responded to a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee..."
...
"According to an 87-page indictment..."
The DNC is bringing forth this lawsuit, not the state, so it's not a criminal case but a CIVIL lawsuit. It even says so on page one of the documents posted, "Civil Action No. 1:18-cv-0350" and "AMENDED COMPLAINT" (emphasis from the original). Therefore, it can't be and indictment because that is only used in CRIMINAL cases brought forth by the state and not in civil cases. ZDNet therefore got their terminology wrong, either on purpose or accidentally. Either way, it is a basic point of law that even I caught at first glance.
Maybe they need to stop watching so much legal dramas on TV. Heaven knows those get it wrong all the time. If you can't get something this basic right, how can we trust your "legal analysis" on anything else?
Climate Change is affecting all of us, right now.
No, it's because dead trees and plant matter accumulate because controlled burns aren't allowed, so when a fire does break out, it has all that dry, flammable timber there to feed it.
Your politics can't save you.
No, your politics can't save that argument you made about the fires.
Apple wants to dictate how you can use their devices. Film at 11.
They are trying to fix the RfC problem, but it's been stuck in a RfC thread for a decade now....
It's because those jerks moved on to viruses and malware once they figured out they could make money being a-holes.
https://xkcd.com/225/
All I can think of is the irony if the Titanic II gets hit by an iceberg and comes to rest at the bottom of the sea right next to the original Titanic.
If Windows is so terribly unusable, then how come it hasn't been supplanted by macOS/Linux?
Well, first of all macOS is even more of a control freak than Windows 10. It's their way or the highway.
Second, Linux? Which distro? Too many of them are not 100% compatible with each other. Something that was written in one distro might not work in another. Businesses are pretty weary of huge problems like that.
Third, Micro$oft has managed to get itself installed on practically every business machine for so long that it's not feasable to switch to something else and have to buy whole new versions of software for the new OS for EVERY FREAKING COMPUTER that the company uses.
So, yeah....
You just successfully described the Millennial Mindset in one sentence, minus "plus RGB LEDs".
They are complaining about Amazon using something that they are giving away for free? Hell, the Wikipedia Foundation doesn't even PAY the people who post and keep articles on Wikipedia. So are they gonna stop living off the free work that those volunteers do and start paying them per article and change?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Remember just two years ago when everybody was accusing Russia of hacking the election? Hell, it was still a thing up to a few months ago. So now you want to let somebody outside the US register fake voters so they can vote over the Internet and/or cellphones (another stupid idea for another article) and definitely influence the elections?
Hell, we have enough problems as it is with both parties stacking the deck with dead people voting. When will people realize that the Internet only makes things more complicated and risky and not the universal savior of all the world's ills?
Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC argued that broadband is not a "telecommunications service" as defined in federal law, and therefore it must be classified as an information service instead.
Oh, so I guess that VOIP doesn't exist any more then?
"We're not evil.... Oh, wait, we are now!"