Witness the failure of any NATO nation other than the US and Great Britain to actually *fight* the Taliban
I know of 116 people from my country who would disagree with your arrogant assertion. They were among the many NATO members who stayed in Afghanistan, avenging the terror attacks on your soil, after most of your guys left to go after the man threatening the status of your country's "petrodollar".
When a high ranking public servant says something this monumentally stupid, it should be grounds for an immediate investigation into his ability to properly carry out his duties.
The fact that idiots like this get into positions of power is bad enough; what's worse is that people keep the idiots in power after they outed themselves.
This is one of those rare posts that requires a +6 Insightful moderation. You said a lot of things that needed to be said, political correctness be damned.
There are two other things that should be part of copyright law:
1. Copyright ceases when the work is no longer sold. Might want to add "in a physical form" and/or "at a reasonable price" to keep companies from abusing this (e.g. Buy Windows 3.1 online for $999,999.99!"
2. The copyright holder is responsible for ensuring the work remains available to enter public domain after the copyright term expires. This means a DRM-free, non-"activation needing" copy of the entire work must be maintained at the copyright holder's expense for the duration of the copyright term. Failure to do so results in total forfeiture of earnings made by sale of the work and/or jail time.
These two ideas alone would do wonders for fixing the pile of shit that copyright law is today.
In almost all cases -- software, books, movies, music, etc. -- five years sounds about right. Maybe add an option to extend it by five more years at the cost of paying the gov't 10% of gross sales from the first five years and the (extended) second five years.
Decent TTS in a widely-used device will basically kill the audiobook market, and authors should be compensated in some way for the revenue lost there.
Decent self-driving carriages will kill the buggy whip market, and buggy whip manufacturers should be compensated in some way for the revenue lost there.
Funny how the same sentiment is never expressed against the strawman arguments that flow endlessly in the other direction regarding the belief in an "invisible sky fairy".
The debugger would cost half a million dollar per seat (gdb is free). There would be an entire industry dedicated to analyzing your source code and doing all kinds of proofs, coverage, what-if analysis and other stuff that require Ph.Ds to understand the results.
The industry I'm referring to is the chip industry.
Man, those guys at Old Dutch sound pretty hardcore.
So, resetting from the beginning of a "chapter" after a mistake is somehow a better way to go through a story? I'm glad movies and books don't work that way -- why should games?
While watching a movie...
"What did that guy say?"
<DVD automatically rewinds back ten minutes to the beginning of the chapter>
"Dammit"
Starting over from the beginning of a level is a cheap way to add consequences for failure into a game. It's usually a sign of a developer wanting to artificially increase the length of a game.
When I read this story my knee jerk reaction was "please be gentle." And thankfully the first +5 post on this story is informative and helpful and relatively kind.
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I know of 116 people from my country who would disagree with your arrogant assertion. They were among the many NATO members who stayed in Afghanistan, avenging the terror attacks on your soil, after most of your guys left to go after the man threatening the status of your country's "petrodollar".
Is it such an accomplishment to be able to drive 100 meters in India without having some sort of collision?
My cousin is a mechanic and he used to drive a Yugo. He actually owned two because, invariably, one was always in need of repair.
There's that fag talk we talked about.
It ends when the nation collapses in on itself from internal corruption, bloat, and rot.
The fact that idiots like this get into positions of power is bad enough; what's worse is that people keep the idiots in power after they outed themselves.
Damn right! If "the people" want to own the things that they buy, then they should just move to Soviet Russia!
You mean, like, "yesterday"?
Actually, there is. IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (of star trek episodes).
We're in this for the long haul whether we like it or not, boys and girls.
This is one of those rare posts that requires a +6 Insightful moderation. You said a lot of things that needed to be said, political correctness be damned.
There are two other things that should be part of copyright law:
1. Copyright ceases when the work is no longer sold. Might want to add "in a physical form" and/or "at a reasonable price" to keep companies from abusing this (e.g. Buy Windows 3.1 online for $999,999.99!"
2. The copyright holder is responsible for ensuring the work remains available to enter public domain after the copyright term expires. This means a DRM-free, non-"activation needing" copy of the entire work must be maintained at the copyright holder's expense for the duration of the copyright term. Failure to do so results in total forfeiture of earnings made by sale of the work and/or jail time.
These two ideas alone would do wonders for fixing the pile of shit that copyright law is today.
In almost all cases -- software, books, movies, music, etc. -- five years sounds about right. Maybe add an option to extend it by five more years at the cost of paying the gov't 10% of gross sales from the first five years and the (extended) second five years.
Plus, "Automatons of Misery" would make for a kick-ass band name. Way to go, T.J.!
Decent self-driving carriages will kill the buggy whip market, and buggy whip manufacturers should be compensated in some way for the revenue lost there.
Funny how the same sentiment is never expressed against the strawman arguments that flow endlessly in the other direction regarding the belief in an "invisible sky fairy".
There's a word for that: hypocrisy.
But, if we get rid of Homeland Security, the tourists win.
Man, those guys at Old Dutch sound pretty hardcore.
Actually he didn't...but you did.
The OP's post doesn't presume anything to the effect of being partisan. That you think it does shows that you are the one with partisan presumptions.
X-COM needs a proper remake.
So, resetting from the beginning of a "chapter" after a mistake is somehow a better way to go through a story? I'm glad movies and books don't work that way -- why should games?
While watching a movie...
"What did that guy say?"
<DVD automatically rewinds back ten minutes to the beginning of the chapter>
"Dammit"
Starting over from the beginning of a level is a cheap way to add consequences for failure into a game. It's usually a sign of a developer wanting to artificially increase the length of a game.
I guess that just goes to show how overvalued lawyers are in our society, and how our legal system is little more than a litigation industry.
Every couple of minutes or so.
Finally? Don't you understand, grasshopper? You were 1337 all along!
What should happen is the code gets released into the public domain as part of the deal that is "copyright".
It's a Christmas miracle!