Wow, you're soooo great, you know that arcane "copy and paste" technique that allows you to dodge any discussion or relevant fact. And you know, bolding a part of the sentence when the other one says exactly what it TRULY is for just makes you look like an even bigger idiot. Do you even *understand* that sentence you crtl+v'ed? In short it means we who CAN and DO (not sit in our mom's basement) will keep making art, new and old, IF we have the right to defend our previous works from fucking thieving sharks.
Last, "follow the constitution"? I'm an artist, and I'm european, fuck your "constitution". I mean, what's left of it since you "elected" King George.
K, now to add a few typos so you can exclusively focus on those instead of the facts.
Just because these games are older than you doesn't mean their creator is dead and doesn't need food anymore.
You probably rail all day long about how your boss or superior makes money off your back and how he or she is an asshole for doing so. But how quick are you to defend some fuck whose "work" is basically selling a rom collection.
Please explain how a copyright is a license to print money. I thought the CONTENT made the money.
You ever got actually paid for exhibiting a sculpture in a gallery? I mean, unless you're Rodin, us not-yet-eternally-renowned slobs usually have to BEG galleries for the chance to expose our shit - and often, you have to PAY a monthly fee to get inside, and hope you'll reap customers from the increased exposition. If the gallery owner is VERY nice, and YOU have talent by the buttload, he/she'll take your shit on consignment - only gives you money once he/she's made some.
Would YOU pay to see a sculpture exhibition? Artwork from a still-alive or non-master? Didn't think so. So forget about that magical fairy money, as well.
Wow, you seem to know a LOT about how artists should lead their lives! I'm sure you are one, huh?
>REMEMBER: COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
Well BZZT, wrong, it's to provide at least ONE fighting chance for the artist who doesn't want FREELOADERS to MAKE A PROFIT OFF THEIR FUCKING BACK. That dude was selling thousands of roms with the systems and got burned. He's not an innocent 13-year-old kid who downloaded five britney spears songs on Kazaa. He was making money from various products he cobbled together, but never participated in their design. By what right does he get to make a living with this, and not the thousands of games' creator? "Oh, it's an old game" just doesn't cut it. "It's just a copy and nothing was lost" is wrong in this case.
Don't get me wrong, I pirate shit, and get my own paintings pirated, it's life, try before you buy, and so on. But I don't earn a living by selling pirated shit.
>What don't you like about the enemy autoscaling? "Your purse or yer life, stranger! Gimme those 150 gold, Y'hear me?", said the fully-daedra-equipped street urchin wielding an ebony flame sword of +whatever.
Hmm, I dunno about the "egg on their face" thing... The mainstream media and sports journalist just agree that the olympics are fun. A dictatorship cheating? Never happened before! I bet you don't remember the days when the russian judge would give out a completely different (and biased) score from the american judge's and vice-versa, out of spite and political bullshit.
Plus, China is ugly as HELL. concrete, concrete, concrete - maybe they've got one or two mystical-foggy-mountains-mysterious-beautiful forests left, but the rest of the country isn't worth much. Let them fester.
Yes, now you have to drive all the way to San Remo... About half an hour more, give or take. The main reason our courts chose to attack ebay is because they are *powerless* against EVERY GODDAMN CHINESE RETAILER. Don't believe me? Even my *mom* knows ebay wasn't "safe" for the last two years, and yet she knows chinese websites offer damn near perfect counterfeits. And about the efficacity of french law fighting against counterfeiters, here's a simple story. I'm not the CEO of Chanel, or Christian Dior, I'm just a painter. I'm not even famous or anything, I just get to eat & pay my taxes thanks to my works and the nice tourists who deem my work is good enough to warrant their money. When we got our paintings pirated (now I'm paranoid anytime any Asian person whips out their camera in front of my business), copied down to the fucking signature, and sold, right in front of our noses - the thrift store from across the street was selling cheap giclée paintings *in front* of our artist's studio, where we dish out the originals. We had to bring them down ourselves, bring them to the local police ourselves, called everybody who needs to be called in that situation... The result? "On ne peut rien faire contre les chinois! Si seulement c'étaient des américains..." The only thing we could do was patrol the streets of our own city, visit every fucking art dealer in the region, and ask them nicely to withdraw the counterfeits. So yeah, I can guess where LVMH was headed when they wanted to hit the net's largest retailer. I can certainly understand, even though it will NOT solve the root of the problem.
So here's a message to our politicians : next time someone tells me about how pirating MP3s is evil - give me news from the nice chinese people who are *making money* OFF MY FUCKING BACK! Then I'll listen!
Yeah, how dare they! My video games console only plays video games and that's a SCAM! It should double as a fax machine and a fridge, as well as run unsigned code!
"Bonjour, Mr Tom Pirate! Since we're your ISP, we noticed you were smart enough to download TOR/insert your alternative, then over the next three days, 37 gigabytes of we-don't-know-what were downloaded. We still called the cops, though. TOR = pedophile or terrorist, you know?"
If they *want* to find out - no software will save you.
You said, "Making victimless actions crimes is an authoritarian thing, where you pass on your morals on others without any connection."
I agree with you on the theoretical side. But you cannot turn it into a black-or-white situation. You also have to think about the guy who, once he is arrested, says "hey, I gave them candy, they accepted it freely, and they seemed to love being photographed while they were foolin' around naked!" Why do we care so much about this guy versus overall progress? And, if we remove ourselves even farther away from pure pathos, do we have data about which measure is more efficient? I think even in Yemen they would understand that. And all you can actually *do* to fundamentalists, nut jobs, and so on, is to tell them to do their shit out of your sight. Killing them doesn't make them go away. Having strong laws and happy citizens does. If you were born maybe a few thousand kilometers to the south, what would your "one, true belief" be? Yeah, I'm against stoning people because they like to take things up their bum, or because they're not blond and blue-eyed aryans. But is it a very libertarian thing to do to, oh, I dunno, invade a country run by a dictator? Sure, why not? Given proper circumstances, it worked well. You'll understand that Irak wouldn't be a good example, and I do so hate to gain a godwin point, but...
Look at Germany. Japan. Yes, they have censorship. They also have military restriction. As a pacifist, I can only applaud the limitation of money wasted down the drain of that "killing people" business. Takes us one step closer to everybody being Switzerland. It prevents something bad from happening again, and so far, it's worked. Japan can keep jerking off to weird tentacle porn, germans can still play a vast majority of video games. It's not like we were ever going to ban the *panem et circenses*.
In essence, I'm not a fan of sarko, nor do I like MAM very much, but why is banning pedophilia such an important cause for freedom, again? (no "I said nothing when they took them away", thank you)
As I said, it's free open source, I'm grateful, yadda yadda yadda. BUT! I didn't know pidgin was performing *so well* that adding a games plugin would make the news, whereas "open-source IM prog still can't use a microphone or a webcam" would be considered trolling. Kinda like "still no cure for cancer" science news on fark.
Look, I know it's open-source and they're doing it for free and yadda yadda yadda. But try making a functional prog before adding more plugins we don't care about!
Hear, hear, the man from earth is the BEST talkie I've seen in a looooong time.
Either you do zero budget and make it ALL *interesting* talk, or make it a huge budget flick that contains thirty seconds exposure and NEVER STOPS THE ACTION.
Everything between those extremes is bland and boring shit.
BTW, just saw crystal skull, it was excellent! Shia labeouf isn't as annoying and shitty as he was in transformers. As always, even though lucas did his best to ruin the movie, steven spielberg managed to make it a fun, great romp, with awesome "fuck yeah, yuo da MAN, indy!" stunts throughout.
"Convincing"? I just told the employees this was the "new windows", wrapped a windows skin around it, and stopped worrying about porn sites giving the av server a reason to exist.
Convincing? You can't spell it without "con". And I'm french.
I've just finished reading the whole "civil war" arc (I know, late), and it's in accordance of Iron Man's personality : he fights AGAINST THE GOOD GUYS. Next up, tony stark bulldozes a terrorist orphanage!
I did that first to evacuate the stress. Boy, it works. No waking up at 6AM, commute stress, work stress, deadlines and so on. No more fucking leash. Second, to earn more money. It's harder, but it works. Oddjobs here and there are crucial for your first year, you need to start small. Third, well, because I like painting more than coding, after all.
Hah! I'm sure I'm not the only who was asked to fix the FAX, huh? Anything more complicated than a telephone = call the IT guy. And in smaller companies, it's even worse; I once got a call from a distressed co-worker reading aloud "the $BRAND antivirus cleaned the $VIRUS successfully, press OK to continue, what do I do, there's only one button to press I don't know what to do?!"
But in movies like that, I like to imagine that ALL advanced technology isn't necessarily accessible to the general public. So what if the FBI can blow up a computer with a ping command. What REALLY annoys me is when they computers beep and boop incessantly. And blade runner-like image zooming with today's technology. Graaargh.
Or does the developer's choice only include western games? The only japanese game I see in that list is Mario. (dunno about mass effect and god of war, though.) Chauvinism, anyone?
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Oh awesome, I been baited!
Wow, you're soooo great, you know that arcane "copy and paste" technique that allows you to dodge any discussion or relevant fact.
And you know, bolding a part of the sentence when the other one says exactly what it TRULY is for just makes you look like an even bigger idiot.
Do you even *understand* that sentence you crtl+v'ed? In short it means we who CAN and DO (not sit in our mom's basement) will keep making art, new and old, IF we have the right to defend our previous works from fucking thieving sharks.
Last, "follow the constitution"? I'm an artist, and I'm european, fuck your "constitution". I mean, what's left of it since you "elected" King George.
K, now to add a few typos so you can exclusively focus on those instead of the facts.
Just because these games are older than you doesn't mean their creator is dead and doesn't need food anymore.
You probably rail all day long about how your boss or superior makes money off your back and how he or she is an asshole for doing so. But how quick are you to defend some fuck whose "work" is basically selling a rom collection.
Please explain how a copyright is a license to print money. I thought the CONTENT made the money.
You ever got actually paid for exhibiting a sculpture in a gallery? I mean, unless you're Rodin, us not-yet-eternally-renowned slobs usually have to BEG galleries for the chance to expose our shit - and often, you have to PAY a monthly fee to get inside, and hope you'll reap customers from the increased exposition.
If the gallery owner is VERY nice, and YOU have talent by the buttload, he/she'll take your shit on consignment - only gives you money once he/she's made some.
Would YOU pay to see a sculpture exhibition? Artwork from a still-alive or non-master? Didn't think so. So forget about that magical fairy money, as well.
Wow, you seem to know a LOT about how artists should lead their lives! I'm sure you are one, huh?
>REMEMBER: COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
Well BZZT, wrong, it's to provide at least ONE fighting chance for the artist who doesn't want FREELOADERS to MAKE A PROFIT OFF THEIR FUCKING BACK.
That dude was selling thousands of roms with the systems and got burned. He's not an innocent 13-year-old kid who downloaded five britney spears songs on Kazaa. He was making money from various products he cobbled together, but never participated in their design. By what right does he get to make a living with this, and not the thousands of games' creator? "Oh, it's an old game" just doesn't cut it. "It's just a copy and nothing was lost" is wrong in this case.
Don't get me wrong, I pirate shit, and get my own paintings pirated, it's life, try before you buy, and so on. But I don't earn a living by selling pirated shit.
>What don't you like about the enemy autoscaling?
"Your purse or yer life, stranger! Gimme those 150 gold, Y'hear me?", said the fully-daedra-equipped street urchin wielding an ebony flame sword of +whatever.
Hmm, I dunno about the "egg on their face" thing... The mainstream media and sports journalist just agree that the olympics are fun. A dictatorship cheating? Never happened before! I bet you don't remember the days when the russian judge would give out a completely different (and biased) score from the american judge's and vice-versa, out of spite and political bullshit.
Plus, China is ugly as HELL. concrete, concrete, concrete - maybe they've got one or two mystical-foggy-mountains-mysterious-beautiful forests left, but the rest of the country isn't worth much. Let them fester.
Yes, now you have to drive all the way to San Remo... About half an hour more, give or take.
The main reason our courts chose to attack ebay is because they are *powerless* against EVERY GODDAMN CHINESE RETAILER.
Don't believe me? Even my *mom* knows ebay wasn't "safe" for the last two years, and yet she knows chinese websites offer damn near perfect counterfeits.
And about the efficacity of french law fighting against counterfeiters, here's a simple story. I'm not the CEO of Chanel, or Christian Dior, I'm just a painter. I'm not even famous or anything, I just get to eat & pay my taxes thanks to my works and the nice tourists who deem my work is good enough to warrant their money.
When we got our paintings pirated (now I'm paranoid anytime any Asian person whips out their camera in front of my business), copied down to the fucking signature, and sold, right in front of our noses - the thrift store from across the street was selling cheap giclée paintings *in front* of our artist's studio, where we dish out the originals. We had to bring them down ourselves, bring them to the local police ourselves, called everybody who needs to be called in that situation... The result? "On ne peut rien faire contre les chinois! Si seulement c'étaient des américains..." The only thing we could do was patrol the streets of our own city, visit every fucking art dealer in the region, and ask them nicely to withdraw the counterfeits. So yeah, I can guess where LVMH was headed when they wanted to hit the net's largest retailer. I can certainly understand, even though it will NOT solve the root of the problem.
So here's a message to our politicians : next time someone tells me about how pirating MP3s is evil - give me news from the nice chinese people who are *making money* OFF MY FUCKING BACK! Then I'll listen!
Masturbating in the toilet is stealing money from the prostitutes you would otherwise have hired.
Yeah, how dare they! My video games console only plays video games and that's a SCAM! It should double as a fax machine and a fridge, as well as run unsigned code!
Hmm, even with technological acumen...
"Bonjour, Mr Tom Pirate! Since we're your ISP, we noticed you were smart enough to download TOR/insert your alternative, then over the next three days, 37 gigabytes of we-don't-know-what were downloaded. We still called the cops, though. TOR = pedophile or terrorist, you know?"
If they *want* to find out - no software will save you.
You said, "Making victimless actions crimes is an authoritarian thing, where you pass on your morals on others without any connection."
I agree with you on the theoretical side. But you cannot turn it into a black-or-white situation. You also have to think about the guy who, once he is arrested, says "hey, I gave them candy, they accepted it freely, and they seemed to love being photographed while they were foolin' around naked!" Why do we care so much about this guy versus overall progress? And, if we remove ourselves even farther away from pure pathos, do we have data about which measure is more efficient? I think even in Yemen they would understand that. And all you can actually *do* to fundamentalists, nut jobs, and so on, is to tell them to do their shit out of your sight. Killing them doesn't make them go away. Having strong laws and happy citizens does. If you were born maybe a few thousand kilometers to the south, what would your "one, true belief" be? Yeah, I'm against stoning people because they like to take things up their bum, or because they're not blond and blue-eyed aryans. But is it a very libertarian thing to do to, oh, I dunno, invade a country run by a dictator? Sure, why not? Given proper circumstances, it worked well. You'll understand that Irak wouldn't be a good example, and I do so hate to gain a godwin point, but...
Look at Germany. Japan. Yes, they have censorship. They also have military restriction. As a pacifist, I can only applaud the limitation of money wasted down the drain of that "killing people" business. Takes us one step closer to everybody being Switzerland. It prevents something bad from happening again, and so far, it's worked. Japan can keep jerking off to weird tentacle porn, germans can still play a vast majority of video games. It's not like we were ever going to ban the *panem et circenses*.
In essence, I'm not a fan of sarko, nor do I like MAM very much, but why is banning pedophilia such an important cause for freedom, again? (no "I said nothing when they took them away", thank you)
I feel for you, and share your thoughts on that whole "capitalism" thing, but *any* step backwards and it's back to hunting for us guys!
As I said, it's free open source, I'm grateful, yadda yadda yadda.
BUT! I didn't know pidgin was performing *so well* that adding a games plugin would make the news, whereas "open-source IM prog still can't use a microphone or a webcam" would be considered trolling. Kinda like "still no cure for cancer" science news on fark.
Aw, to heck with it. I'm switching to kopete.
Look, I know it's open-source and they're doing it for free and yadda yadda yadda.
But try making a functional prog before adding more plugins we don't care about!
Hear, hear, the man from earth is the BEST talkie I've seen in a looooong time.
Either you do zero budget and make it ALL *interesting* talk, or make it a huge budget flick that contains thirty seconds exposure and NEVER STOPS THE ACTION.
Everything between those extremes is bland and boring shit.
BTW, just saw crystal skull, it was excellent! Shia labeouf isn't as annoying and shitty as he was in transformers.
As always, even though lucas did his best to ruin the movie, steven spielberg managed to make it a fun, great romp, with awesome "fuck yeah, yuo da MAN, indy!" stunts throughout.
"Convincing"?
I just told the employees this was the "new windows", wrapped a windows skin around it, and stopped worrying about porn sites giving the av server a reason to exist.
Convincing? You can't spell it without "con". And I'm french.
I've just finished reading the whole "civil war" arc (I know, late), and it's in accordance of Iron Man's personality : he fights AGAINST THE GOOD GUYS.
Next up, tony stark bulldozes a terrorist orphanage!
I did that first to evacuate the stress. Boy, it works. No waking up at 6AM, commute stress, work stress, deadlines and so on. No more fucking leash.
Second, to earn more money. It's harder, but it works. Oddjobs here and there are crucial for your first year, you need to start small.
Third, well, because I like painting more than coding, after all.
Hah! I'm sure I'm not the only who was asked to fix the FAX, huh?
Anything more complicated than a telephone = call the IT guy.
And in smaller companies, it's even worse; I once got a call from a distressed co-worker reading aloud "the $BRAND antivirus cleaned the $VIRUS successfully, press OK to continue, what do I do, there's only one button to press I don't know what to do?!"
Riiiiight, Mr Garaudy. You're "oppressed".
But in movies like that, I like to imagine that ALL advanced technology isn't necessarily accessible to the general public. So what if the FBI can blow up a computer with a ping command. What REALLY annoys me is when they computers beep and boop incessantly.
And blade runner-like image zooming with today's technology. Graaargh.
Wow, way to flame an honest post, dude. Not cool. Then you wonder why the rest of the world sees America as an island only aware of itself.
Or does the developer's choice only include western games? The only japanese game I see in that list is Mario. (dunno about mass effect and god of war, though.)
Chauvinism, anyone?
You trust PEOPLE more than machines?
Hand over your geek card!
If you get THIS shitfaced, I say it's your own goddamn fault. Who pees in the middle of the street, apart from dogs?
CONSEQUENCES, PEOPLE!