And not quantity. Basically something that has a bit more longevity and preferably less moving parts. Or in case the moving parts break, you could just replace them while keeping the "pieces" that store the actual data.
It's like dodgeball, except one of the teams isn't allowed to hit the other one.
They're only winners because of artifical limitations put on the humans by other humans not because of any innate superiority.
Reminds of the whole "OF" fiasco. I have english as my second language, so i'm bound to make other kinds of mistake instead, but damn i don't replace "have" with "of" when i write.
("He would of won", "They could of given me the keys to their house")
To make it worse, this seems to be getting more and more popular, and it makes me cringe every time i read it.
Read gp again. What he said was basically that artists don't get any of the money from settlements because it's not in their contracts. They get money for sold CDs and for concerts, but not for settlements.
You have a point, and that point is that many artist WANT to see their stuff spread around even if they don't get paid for it.
HOWEVER. And this point is VERY important. Not many artists would like to see OTHER PEOPLE selling their stuff without their permission and making money off of it.
It's a win-win scenario for politicians. Banning non-realistic drawings/animations of minors has two advantages: 1: It is nearly impossible to argue in defense of the material without looking like a pedophile supporter 2: It makes something harmless into another crime for which you can arrest people randomly.
Thomas Bodström (the swedish minister of justice who was behind the Piratebay raid fiasco) recently proposed a law here in Sweden that would allow the police to spy on people's surfing habits and install trojans on their computers. If anything criminal was found it would be valid evidence against the target in question. Combine this with the above law and you could essentially jail anyone with a reasonably sized hentai collection at will. If they don't have hentai, then they have mp3s, or something else. Bestiality, necrophilia. Perhaps some snuff. Then again, cartoon child porn is worse than snuff, yeah right.
There is only one way to accidentally sumble upon child porn and that's by link surfing. Following a link from one porn site to another porn site to another porn site until you stumble upon it.
That, or visiting usenet and/or some questionable p2p networks.
Once it's been proven that you were innocent. Kill some cops. Preferably one of those who raided you: Murdering is a lot cooler than child porn so you'll get treated a lot better in prison. Your kids will probably brag about it in school. And you'll get a nice headline. Remember, murdering is always better than downloading child porn.
"I'm OK with DRM staying around, if it's what the free market decides it can live with."
The free market can't make a decision on the quality of a product when they're not INFORMED about the product in question. One excellent example is region coding. It doesn't affect many, but some people are affected by it. Nearly no one except those who are affected by it even know what it IS. This is because the movie companies have no interest in informing their customers about this fact. The free market stops working when there is little to no information for the potential customer to judge the product.
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And not quantity. Basically something that has a bit more longevity and preferably less moving parts. Or in case the moving parts break, you could just replace them while keeping the "pieces" that store the actual data.
It's like dodgeball, except one of the teams isn't allowed to hit the other one. They're only winners because of artifical limitations put on the humans by other humans not because of any innate superiority.
What if they pick up programming?
Reminds of the whole "OF" fiasco. I have english as my second language, so i'm bound to make other kinds of mistake instead, but damn i don't replace "have" with "of" when i write. ("He would of won", "They could of given me the keys to their house") To make it worse, this seems to be getting more and more popular, and it makes me cringe every time i read it.
Is "pinko" slang for homosexual or smth?
What about at gunpoint? USA is the land of weapons, isn't it? I think they should be used for something good.
Read gp again. What he said was basically that artists don't get any of the money from settlements because it's not in their contracts. They get money for sold CDs and for concerts, but not for settlements.
That's ALMOST as bad as when people use "of" instead of "have". Ie: "I would of been rich by now if i hadn't..."
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Like Jennifer Government...
Worse yet is when people use OF instead of HAVE.
"He would of won"
"We should of seen it coming"
etc. etc.
You have a point, and that point is that many artist WANT to see their stuff spread around even if they don't get paid for it.
HOWEVER. And this point is VERY important. Not many artists would like to see OTHER PEOPLE selling their stuff without their permission and making money off of it.
It's Rokku that must be stopped!
I pick honest piracy over leeches any day.
Not if the seller is operating from a country where production is legal.
It's a win-win scenario for politicians. Banning non-realistic drawings/animations of minors has two advantages:
1: It is nearly impossible to argue in defense of the material without looking like a pedophile supporter
2: It makes something harmless into another crime for which you can arrest people randomly.
Thomas Bodström (the swedish minister of justice who was behind the Piratebay raid fiasco) recently proposed a law here in Sweden that would allow the police to spy on people's surfing habits and install trojans on their computers. If anything criminal was found it would be valid evidence against the target in question. Combine this with the above law and you could essentially jail anyone with a reasonably sized hentai collection at will. If they don't have hentai, then they have mp3s, or something else. Bestiality, necrophilia. Perhaps some snuff. Then again, cartoon child porn is worse than snuff, yeah right.
System Shock 2 is pure gold. Too bad that the last level was a bit boring, everything else was excellent...
Engineering deck still haunts me.
And with that... You would illegalize almost all hentai every created.
There is only one way to accidentally sumble upon child porn and that's by link surfing. Following a link from one porn site to another porn site to another porn site until you stumble upon it.
That, or visiting usenet and/or some questionable p2p networks.
Once it's been proven that you were innocent. Kill some cops. Preferably one of those who raided you:
Murdering is a lot cooler than child porn so you'll get treated a lot better in prison. Your kids will probably brag about it in school.
And you'll get a nice headline. Remember, murdering is always better than downloading child porn.
If people are less mature then we must obviously protect them by raising age of consent. What should we decide on this time? 25? 30?
Think of the children!
"I'm OK with DRM staying around, if it's what the free market decides it can live with."
The free market can't make a decision on the quality of a product when they're not INFORMED about the product in question. One excellent example is region coding. It doesn't affect many, but some people are affected by it. Nearly no one except those who are affected by it even know what it IS. This is because the movie companies have no interest in informing their customers about this fact. The free market stops working when there is little to no information for the potential customer to judge the product.
Ah yes. We can THREAT to nuke an entire country (i accept that as a perfectly valid form of warfare), but should be actually DO it?
Oh. Good point. I didn't think of that, but you're right. Arrows can only insta-kill in stealth mode.
In both Thief and Thief 2 and arrow is enough to kill any enemy with a well aimed shot. Exceptions are Burricks and those metal beasts in Thief 2.