there is no justification for theft (unless it's for food or medicine for a starving or dying/endangered person).
Oh cool. So after spending 45% of my income on rent, another 45% on various taxes, utilities, transportation and other unavoidable costs of living in a Western society, and 10% on food and clothing, I can steal for entertainment purposes?
thanks! Because I have friends that are skinny because they can't afford food. £35 on a computer game? That's a week's income for one of them, and she's working for a living.
Clearly you've decided you actually want the game and will derive some enjoyment from it. Therefore it has a value to you
Maybe he had to download it to play it before he knew whether it had value to him?
Or haven't you seen the studies that correlate high rates of piracy with high rates of expenditure?
Except that of course, the person you're replying to has already told you that he's pirating games because their publishers have already tried to fuck him over, and so he owes them a good kicking. Piracy is his form of protest.
You may not agree with him, but at least acknowledge his reasons instead of using spurious and ungrounded arguments to push your own unreasonable beliefs.
So don't buy it? And if the main game isn't worth the money, don't buy that either.
Which is why I'm buying 3 year old games in their super-discounted "Includes all DLC ever released" incarnations after their genuine sequels are already available - with even more DLC.
Added bonus: They're really really pretty on my year old laptop.
Anyway, just wtf is the issue with someone owning, wearing and liking expensive jewellery? Maybe he's saved up his income for two decades to buy that? Maybe he inherited it. Maybe it was an unsolicited gift from someone that wanted to recognise the great work he does.
Just because some people can't afford a watch like that doesn't make it implicitly bad for others to wear one.
(Of course, my personal belief is that as a senior religious figure he's probably acquired the watch via corrupt and/or exploitative means, because I don't trust anybody that peddles myths for a living)
Or do you REALLY think it's safe to go off on your own and start soliciting secrets from, say, North Korea, Russia or the still-somewhat-in-power Assad regime in Syria? And then publishing what you find on the internet?
Sure. If anybody in those countries would like to contact me and share state secrets, I'll stick 'em on a website.
I'm not American. I'm not in America. I'm using an American hosted website and that means the US would argue they could extradite me for the words I write on here, but I've already told my MP that's a bullshit situation and we need to change the law.
If I go to the US and commit a crime there, sure, prosecute me. Right now I'm sat at home in the UK and I refuse to obey any country's laws except those of the UK.
It's a bullshit metric anyway. I've installed the games on my phone and registered the Steam keys on Windows, is my purchase price counted as Android, Linux or Windows?
Readable, but the icons are bloody hard to select and drag - right at the limits of "fat finger on small touch screen" hard.
Same with Uplink. Readable (about the same font size I use in SSH on the Galaxy Nexus) but not easily clickable.
However, I'd played none of the bundle games before and will be buying a Transformer Pad Infinity when it's released in the UK, and they should be quite nice on that:)
Most people would probably figure they got more than $500 worth and move on with life.
Instead of calculating the discounted NPV of, say, $120/year + inflation for the rest of their lives, and claiming for that as the cost of this company seeking to negate its commitments?
If I invest I'll earn around 3% p.a. but inflation tends to be around 4%. So $120p.a. for the rest of my life, assuming I live longer than my father is going to be somewhere around is somewhere over $13k. That sounds like a reasonable sum to claim as compensation.
Some companies offer specialised "Low mileage" policies. They're usually targeted at owners of classic cars and may need more evidence than normal of mileage, but it may prove a cheaper option for you.
Of course, there's a mileage level below which it's just cheaper to take a taxi everywhere and not own a car. That's a surprisingly high number of miles in the UK.
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Maybe in your corrupt backward country that's a problem but most of the judges in mine are thoughtful balanced capable individuals.
They're also not elected.
But.. the US already have them!
Look, give me a call, I'll take you out in the Pink district in Manchester and we'll find you a nice boy of your own.
It's legal here, you don't have to hide it.
I love the way you managed to get the International Olympic Committee into this conversation.
This would be the Bradley Manning that still hasn't been found guilty of anything?
Good to see you're a shining example of American justice in action.
Hang on? You think it's right to _vote_ for who should be a judge?
I'd rather have intelligent trained professionals that have demonstrated their ability and fitness for the job than fucking politicians.
Wait, you're upset because someone else now owns the shitty beer?
I just had a couple of bottles of Hobgoblin ale. That's proper beer.
Were that the case, they wouldn't feel the need to publicly comment on their recognition of a law being used to thwart them.
(and yes, it is being used to thwart them even if they don't recognise it. Because other countries do)
there is no justification for theft (unless it's for food or medicine for a starving or dying/endangered person).
Oh cool. So after spending 45% of my income on rent, another 45% on various taxes, utilities, transportation and other unavoidable costs of living in a Western society, and 10% on food and clothing, I can steal for entertainment purposes?
thanks! Because I have friends that are skinny because they can't afford food. £35 on a computer game? That's a week's income for one of them, and she's working for a living.
Clearly you've decided you actually want the game and will derive some enjoyment from it. Therefore it has a value to you
Maybe he had to download it to play it before he knew whether it had value to him?
Or haven't you seen the studies that correlate high rates of piracy with high rates of expenditure?
Except that of course, the person you're replying to has already told you that he's pirating games because their publishers have already tried to fuck him over, and so he owes them a good kicking. Piracy is his form of protest.
You may not agree with him, but at least acknowledge his reasons instead of using spurious and ungrounded arguments to push your own unreasonable beliefs.
i don't think anyone ever released a pirate version of Minerva.
Your Google skills need a little training.
They don't do any bullshit DLC
Erm. You can use real money to buy in-game content in TF2.
Although as that's free to play and you don't have to pay money, I guess it may not be "bullshit".
So don't buy it?
And if the main game isn't worth the money, don't buy that either.
Which is why I'm buying 3 year old games in their super-discounted "Includes all DLC ever released" incarnations after their genuine sequels are already available - with even more DLC.
Added bonus: They're really really pretty on my year old laptop.
Rolex or Breguet?
Anyway, just wtf is the issue with someone owning, wearing and liking expensive jewellery? Maybe he's saved up his income for two decades to buy that? Maybe he inherited it. Maybe it was an unsolicited gift from someone that wanted to recognise the great work he does.
Just because some people can't afford a watch like that doesn't make it implicitly bad for others to wear one.
(Of course, my personal belief is that as a senior religious figure he's probably acquired the watch via corrupt and/or exploitative means, because I don't trust anybody that peddles myths for a living)
Or do you REALLY think it's safe to go off on your own and start soliciting secrets from, say, North Korea, Russia or the still-somewhat-in-power Assad regime in Syria? And then publishing what you find on the internet?
Sure. If anybody in those countries would like to contact me and share state secrets, I'll stick 'em on a website.
I'm not American. I'm not in America. I'm using an American hosted website and that means the US would argue they could extradite me for the words I write on here, but I've already told my MP that's a bullshit situation and we need to change the law.
If I go to the US and commit a crime there, sure, prosecute me. Right now I'm sat at home in the UK and I refuse to obey any country's laws except those of the UK.
the Foreign Office has not said whether or not May intends to exercise her powers to allow for any potential future extradition to the US.
If my life ever relies on Theresa May making the right decision instead of the politically expedient one, I can only hope I get her first.
if you want to create a properly sandboxed viewer capable of executing embedded JS
That would be the problem. Just don't support embedded JS.
Exactly. Nobody needs Adobe Reader installed and everybody should avoid it.
Sadly at work I have Adobe Acrobat installed. Not my choice.
It's a bullshit metric anyway. I've installed the games on my phone and registered the Steam keys on Windows, is my purchase price counted as Android, Linux or Windows?
Readable, but the icons are bloody hard to select and drag - right at the limits of "fat finger on small touch screen" hard.
Same with Uplink. Readable (about the same font size I use in SSH on the Galaxy Nexus) but not easily clickable.
However, I'd played none of the bundle games before and will be buying a Transformer Pad Infinity when it's released in the UK, and they should be quite nice on that :)
$500 six years ago is worth more than $500 now. Lifetime hosting is worth a fuck of a lot more than a subset of $500 now.
Breaking a contract can indeed cost more than the initial price of a contract.
Most people would probably figure they got more than $500 worth and move on with life.
Instead of calculating the discounted NPV of, say, $120/year + inflation for the rest of their lives, and claiming for that as the cost of this company seeking to negate its commitments?
If I invest I'll earn around 3% p.a. but inflation tends to be around 4%. So $120p.a. for the rest of my life, assuming I live longer than my father is going to be somewhere around is somewhere over $13k. That sounds like a reasonable sum to claim as compensation.
as long as creation is also treated as a theory.
I think you'll find most scientists would back you completely, and vote overwhelming for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be taught in schools.
It's ideal evidence of the need for critical thinking - which is, in itself, just more overwhelming proof of the power of his noodly appendage.
t does seem that much of our culture has adopted two ideas very hostile to religion and Christiantiy.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
The first is that religion should only be practiced in private.
I understand your discomfort with this. Religion shouldn't be practiced at all.
The second is that religious acts are ok so long as you don't really believe it -
Oh, excellent, you agree on this one too: religious acts are not ok.
Abandon your superstitious belief in sky fairies and stop trying to impose those beliefs on others. Particularly stop lying to children.
we won't respect your right to believe.
Hey, you want to believe in made up shit, go right ahead. Just stop poisoning the minds of others, you naive gullible manipulative cunt.
Some companies offer specialised "Low mileage" policies. They're usually targeted at owners of classic cars and may need more evidence than normal of mileage, but it may prove a cheaper option for you.
Of course, there's a mileage level below which it's just cheaper to take a taxi everywhere and not own a car. That's a surprisingly high number of miles in the UK.