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The reverse irks me more. I hear a lot of VB.NET programmers whining that they don't get the same pretty features are C# programmers (no doubt to keep the VB.NET learning curve lower) and that C# should be tossed because "VB was here first." Head, desk, head, desk...
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wait...what? C++ is better for multiplatform programming?
I name Democrats because Democrats were in power for the two major causes for it. I'm not a Republican, and I don't want to vote for McCain; he's not that much better. That said: in 2005, John McCain actually did talk about this and pushed a bill to address the problem; it was shot down, both by Democrats and Republicans. So we've got one Presidential candidate who tried to do something, and one who worked for a law firm exacerbating the problem.
But no, I'm causing dysfunction, right? Since I focused on the root cause of the issue, the fucking CRA and the 1995 amendment, I must be a partisan hack. Guess what, buddy: Democrats owned Congress in '77 and '95, it's their doorstep on which this particular pile of shit rightfully lies. McCain, and those who voted for that bill in 2005, are the only ones not guilty of it.
(I do not recall the senate bill reference offhand; I'll do some digging and post it, although I'd bet someone on Slashdot already knows it.)
Ding ding fuckin' ding. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (thank you, Jimmy Carter, thank you, 95th Congress) began this fucked slide. Clinton continued and encouraged it with the 1995 amendments to the CRA that essentially forced banks into predatory lending practices.
(Oh, and BTW: Obama worked for one of the law firms involved in suing banks who weren't giving out enough high-risk loans to people who couldn't afford it. Fun, huh?)
AIG won't default. AIG has plenty of assets--the problem with AIG right now is liquidity, and that's what this loan is supposed to cover (operating income while the assets are made liquid). If the money's out more than a month or so I'd be outright shocked.
And the federal loan is first on the repayment list.
The gray areas are, to me, far too large. There are excellent, excellent developers working for EA, some of whom release unencumbered games. So I assume you don't pirate those?
I thought MGS4 was actually a lot of fun. It was different from the first three (and I loved the first three, mind you), but it stayed the same in a lot of important ways. The people complaining about cutscenes obviously haven't played...oh...any of the Metal Gear Solid series or something, because they're always long as hell (and done with the kind of panache that makes the length OK, for me at least).
See, I would agree with you, if not for one thing.
It's the honest developers who get screwed by piracy, too. And they get screwed pretty hard. If it's a choice between respecting honest creators and disrespecting dishonest ones--there is no having it both ways here--then why would you not respect honest creators?
Um, no, because Democrats have proposed and extended copyright terms, and they (Clinton) signed the DMCA into law. In the case of the latter phrases, what the Republicans in Congress did has no bearing because they can't sign a bill into law.
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The reverse irks me more. I hear a lot of VB.NET programmers whining that they don't get the same pretty features are C# programmers (no doubt to keep the VB.NET learning curve lower) and that C# should be tossed because "VB was here first." Head, desk, head, desk...
wait...what? C++ is better for multiplatform programming?
How?
I name Democrats because Democrats were in power for the two major causes for it. I'm not a Republican, and I don't want to vote for McCain; he's not that much better. That said: in 2005, John McCain actually did talk about this and pushed a bill to address the problem; it was shot down, both by Democrats and Republicans. So we've got one Presidential candidate who tried to do something, and one who worked for a law firm exacerbating the problem.
But no, I'm causing dysfunction, right? Since I focused on the root cause of the issue, the fucking CRA and the 1995 amendment, I must be a partisan hack. Guess what, buddy: Democrats owned Congress in '77 and '95, it's their doorstep on which this particular pile of shit rightfully lies. McCain, and those who voted for that bill in 2005, are the only ones not guilty of it.
(I do not recall the senate bill reference offhand; I'll do some digging and post it, although I'd bet someone on Slashdot already knows it.)
But government regulation is also at fault here.
Ding ding fuckin' ding. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (thank you, Jimmy Carter, thank you, 95th Congress) began this fucked slide. Clinton continued and encouraged it with the 1995 amendments to the CRA that essentially forced banks into predatory lending practices.
(Oh, and BTW: Obama worked for one of the law firms involved in suing banks who weren't giving out enough high-risk loans to people who couldn't afford it. Fun, huh?)
In other words, it's not "free," because it requires a software (and hardware) dongle.
(Screw the OSS aspect, I'm just talking price...)
Like it or not, computer science is a programming degree in most places, it's not a "science." Whining about it is silly.
Why doesn't it? The WP administration has said that space is not a concern, so what's the harm?
Well said. The problem is not with AIG, here. It's with the entire structure of the market.
Too bad there was no fire. :(
AIG won't default. AIG has plenty of assets--the problem with AIG right now is liquidity, and that's what this loan is supposed to cover (operating income while the assets are made liquid). If the money's out more than a month or so I'd be outright shocked.
And the federal loan is first on the repayment list.
He was pretty awesome in Collateral, too.
The gray areas are, to me, far too large. There are excellent, excellent developers working for EA, some of whom release unencumbered games. So I assume you don't pirate those?
EA is not the craftsman. They're the storefront.
I thought MGS4 was actually a lot of fun. It was different from the first three (and I loved the first three, mind you), but it stayed the same in a lot of important ways. The people complaining about cutscenes obviously haven't played...oh...any of the Metal Gear Solid series or something, because they're always long as hell (and done with the kind of panache that makes the length OK, for me at least).
See, I would agree with you, if not for one thing.
It's the honest developers who get screwed by piracy, too. And they get screwed pretty hard. If it's a choice between respecting honest creators and disrespecting dishonest ones--there is no having it both ways here--then why would you not respect honest creators?
No, actually. I'm twenty years old; used CDs haven't been a very useful way to get music as long as I've been buying it (iTunes, Amazon, etc.).
It's the look of it that pissed me off. Once I installed OldBar, everything was fine.
The Ubuntu Firefox build is not distributed by official channels, though; Ubuntu patches it before release. This is a critical thing to remember.
Netscape gifted everything to Mozilla.
Thank you, sir. Isn't basic English comprehension wonderful? :)
Um, no, because Democrats have proposed and extended copyright terms, and they (Clinton) signed the DMCA into law. In the case of the latter phrases, what the Republicans in Congress did has no bearing because they can't sign a bill into law.
This is not rocket science.
Yes, and that's what he said. The "and" connects two separate clauses here.
It was also [D]emocrats who proposed and extended copyright terms
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signed the DMCA into law.
His point remains correct.
Why? If I play it without buying it, the effect is the same as if I had simply ignored it.
Nonsense. You are gaining utility without compensating the creators, and that's not right.
EA directly owns Maxis, you do know that?
So don't buy it and don't play it.
Sounds more to me like someone who has it down to a science. What have you got?