I used to work at Menards (For those of you not in Wisconsin, it's basically like Home Depot) and I had someone come through my register with a huge table saw and they had put a sticker from a $0.99 candle over the code I had to scan. I called him on it and turns out he didn't want the saw after all. We even had a special training tape devoted to this. Stores are obviously aware this kind of thing happens, so having a lawsuit like this is good publicity for them, I think.
What I don't understand is that how the AO and M ratings are all that seperated. M games prevent kids under 17 from buying games and AO prevents kids under 18 from buying games. There's such an obvious change in thinking when someone turns from 17 to 18...
Besides, what's the big deal about nudity and sex? Sex is something that is part of everyone's lives but I doubt all that violence is. Kids can go ahead and buy games to blow eachother up, but once you start being able to dry hump your topless girlfriend (which you have to mod your game to get to, by the way) it's all over? Sounds kinda silly to me.
As long they're going crazy with spending money and funding new projects, they could always send me money. I don't do much but I am kinda hungry and could go for some food. Google Pizza Money (beta), anyone?
The fact that someone owns three iPods sort of answers the article itself, doesn't it? I haven't seen any PDA commercial with a sihouette of U2 or anything like that. It's all about marketing. PDAs are marketed as tools and calanders while iPods are marketed as toys and trendy status symbols.
If the RIAA or whomever wouldn't support musicians that released crappy material, they wouldn't have to worry about trying to sell it. I know I would never go out and buy a CD based on one song. Lately if I'm unsure if I will like an album, I've been downloading an album to see if I like it, and then going out an buying the CD. If I don't like it, I delete it and don't buy it. Really, it's just saving me a step and it exposes me to music I might not buy because I'm not sure if I'd like it.
I feel the same way. I have a Fourth Generation regular iPod, because I didn't care about the looks. I wanted to listen to music, not be fashionable with the Mini or cool with the Nano. My ugly, white MP3 player gets uglier due to scratches and I'm not too upset...
Just to let you all know, the sattelite control dish is in Cuba. Now all you need to do is use the key copier to copy the GoldenEye key and leave the original. Remember: You are licensed to kill.
Didn't one of Eminem's CDs sell like 20 million copies? Even if 10,000 people pirated the entire thing, that's not even a significant loss so I don't know what the RIAA is whining about...
I feel that people should buy CDs to support the band that they like. I only download music that I would never consider buying in the first place.
Also I think if, "Nobody listened to the radio" that there wouldn't be any money in it and then it wouldn't exist.
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I used to work at Menards (For those of you not in Wisconsin, it's basically like Home Depot) and I had someone come through my register with a huge table saw and they had put a sticker from a $0.99 candle over the code I had to scan. I called him on it and turns out he didn't want the saw after all. We even had a special training tape devoted to this. Stores are obviously aware this kind of thing happens, so having a lawsuit like this is good publicity for them, I think.
What I don't understand is that how the AO and M ratings are all that seperated. M games prevent kids under 17 from buying games and AO prevents kids under 18 from buying games. There's such an obvious change in thinking when someone turns from 17 to 18...
Besides, what's the big deal about nudity and sex? Sex is something that is part of everyone's lives but I doubt all that violence is. Kids can go ahead and buy games to blow eachother up, but once you start being able to dry hump your topless girlfriend (which you have to mod your game to get to, by the way) it's all over? Sounds kinda silly to me.
Man, I used to love those Sierra "Q" games. Police Quest was my favorite. Any idea where I could find one of those for old time's sake?
Web comics, you say? I would buy a subscription to any newspaper if they ran Dr. McNinja! http://www.drmcninja.com/
*sniff* *single tear* I love you, Google.
As long they're going crazy with spending money and funding new projects, they could always send me money. I don't do much but I am kinda hungry and could go for some food. Google Pizza Money (beta), anyone?
I was gonna say they should slap Hello Kitty stickers on PDAs and let them market themselves.
The fact that someone owns three iPods sort of answers the article itself, doesn't it? I haven't seen any PDA commercial with a sihouette of U2 or anything like that. It's all about marketing. PDAs are marketed as tools and calanders while iPods are marketed as toys and trendy status symbols.
If the RIAA or whomever wouldn't support musicians that released crappy material, they wouldn't have to worry about trying to sell it. I know I would never go out and buy a CD based on one song. Lately if I'm unsure if I will like an album, I've been downloading an album to see if I like it, and then going out an buying the CD. If I don't like it, I delete it and don't buy it. Really, it's just saving me a step and it exposes me to music I might not buy because I'm not sure if I'd like it.
Exploding drummers weren't included in the final test data.
I feel the same way. I have a Fourth Generation regular iPod, because I didn't care about the looks. I wanted to listen to music, not be fashionable with the Mini or cool with the Nano. My ugly, white MP3 player gets uglier due to scratches and I'm not too upset...
Just to let you all know, the sattelite control dish is in Cuba. Now all you need to do is use the key copier to copy the GoldenEye key and leave the original. Remember: You are licensed to kill.
That sounds like a bargain-bin computer game (possibly featuring the voice of Steven Segal).
Didn't one of Eminem's CDs sell like 20 million copies? Even if 10,000 people pirated the entire thing, that's not even a significant loss so I don't know what the RIAA is whining about... I feel that people should buy CDs to support the band that they like. I only download music that I would never consider buying in the first place. Also I think if, "Nobody listened to the radio" that there wouldn't be any money in it and then it wouldn't exist.