how the FUCK can it be a 'free market' when a distribution is granted to a party by a 'license', which is practically a monopoly ? see, EVEN if you produce your own resources, the monopoly tries to cash you in. IF, you totally cut out your connection to the grid, its highly possible that they would sue you on various shallow excuses to scare off other customers from leaving the grid.
despite all the bullshit advertised to us by every other american, regarding 'free' market and such, i cant see any way anyone can justify this shit.
excuse me. but there is NO other way of putting this. the reason for this shit is precisely american legal system's favoring the rich. got money ? you can outsue everyone even if you are higway bandits like riaa.
i know a lot of you americans will be bullshitting about how good a legal system it is because you people generally dont think a world outside usa-uk-australia axis exists. but, it isnt. actually you are being screwed over because more money means more rights in america. just because you embrace the philosophy with four arms. american dream is full of promises. yet i bet not even 1% of you reading this have 'made' it as to be as rich as any patron of riaa. yet you STILL keep hugging it despite there are people screwing you through it.
there will be no end to this shit. if you allow patenting of abstract concepts, it will eventually end up with base logic processes being patented. nothing other than machines should be patented.
you have been leading and dominating all news since last 100 or so years. AND despite being the bearer of the news that heralded huge changes in the course of human history, now, you yourselves are naively, stupidly trying to withstand the change. we are living in a digital era. we are living in an era where citizen journalists report the news.
entrench yourself against this like this, put yourselves in the camp that opposes THE PEOPLE, and you will lose.
and you ms boys, dont give me any shit - just days ago microsoft pulled another stunt with the open source release move and it turned out they did it to save their ass.
these fucktards didnt only fuck up millions of people's gaming experience regarding one major fantasy world, but TWO.
one would think that after the SHIT they made in the name of 'Star wars galaxies' out of the mega star wars saga, no SANE individual would sell ANY intellectual property's rights to make a game to those humongous losers. but lo ! matrix universe is fucked up forever too now. unbelievable. really unbelievable.
get this into your heads rights holders : SOE FUCKS UP YOUR FANTASY UNIVERSES. DONT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO FUCK YOURS TOO, LIKE THEY DID TO OTHERS.
First, im not an american. i dont give zit about republicans.
Second, i live in a country that is neighboring iran, and having to cope with what shit that country perpetrates. i dont give a zit about astroturfing.
third, you are in desperate need of coming to the realization that not every idea/info/speech that sounds hard&tough, down to earth, or harsh regarding some reality is some conservative lunatic's ranting. there are people with evil intent in life, there are countries that are run by fascists, and there are wars. get to grips with it.
world will not suddenly become a loving place if you become politically correct.
too american, you are. that happens in america, where senators are bought before elected.
in no case where eu fined something, it was allowed to go as it is.
in last stint, they ordered microsoft to rip media player from their os releases. ms didnt comply. eu started fining them 500 k euro a day. suddenly, we found microsoft who is VERY relaxed and unobliging in u.s. swiftly comply with the eu decree.
wait until eu commissions take the matter into their hands when there are enough complaints. they brought microsoft onto the line about browsers. they can straighten up these shit too. jurisdiction issues ? what's wto good for ? i would be happy to see godaddy taught some manners.
iran itself didnt directly attack any other country, but have been perpetrating civil wars in half of the neighboring countries through funding, training extremist groups. they use lebanese hezbollah as a police force in iran even. it has become THAT institutionalized. iran is basically one of the two sides in the lebanese civil war that lasted for around 30 years, through hezbollah. and now, in palestine, they are a party through hamas. in iraq they have been funding and directing shiites. a considerable portion of deaths in iran are due to those. even in turkey they funded terrorist groups, and killed many people.
please, dont SHIT online without knowing enough about what you are going to shit about.
finding other people to interact with to do anything takes time. and its dependent on other people's will.
kids of yesterday are grown up people now, with jobs and families to take care of, or other responsibilities, if not married. they have limited time to to allocate to gaming. usually, maybe 1 to 3 hours in weeknights, and that may not be every night.
therefore, when they come online to do something, they cant afford to spend 30 minutes to find enough people to do something, then lose another 15 minutes because of other people's issues (kid cries,spouse calls, doorbell rings, phone call etcetc), and then try to do that thing they set out to do in remaining 1-1.5 hours. and even then the result is dependent on other people's proper participation. if sufficient number of people in your interaction group cant cope with what you are doing, you all fail. pooof. 3 hours of gaming time gone. half of which gone with waiting.
therefore, they prefer solo play more and more. it depends on you, you dictate the schedule, you spare the effort, you get the result. natural, since waiting for opportunity to be able to play a game while logged into the game itself is not a proper definition of fun.
and this is what you will be getting. just bought grand ages : rome. now i think maybe i shouldnt have. not too different than first caesar game by impressions 17 years or so ago. all the big distribution companies do this shit. rehash the same shit, sell to idiots. well. we are idiots no more. enjoy your non profits.
and i will type in paypal description 'for NPG case'. hehee. dont make fun of me, i do that all the time. my donations may be small, but at least it can pay some snacks for one of the staff. everything counts.
we can just cut back on the tolkien shit totally, and you can shove up the now never-to-be-made profits you were going to make from your deceased father's creation up your butt. the country you are in is already fucked up regarding copyright laws, dont prove its critics wrong. or, rather, go ahead and prove it.
the judge has corrected a MAJOR malfunction in your logic circuits. next time when you accuse someone of damaging your profits, you will remember to actually prove EVIDENCE to back up your case. that is, unless your leashholders are afraid of being proven wrong about all the shit you have been perpetrating. enjoy.
this is Eu. no senate, no congress. you cant pressurize them through shitty moves like that. it is a body that issued and enforced SO many quality standards, some even despite great reaction from public or interest groups that, they made so far as to make a joke about themselves a few years ago, by putting out a fake 'thickness standards in chicken eggs' document in 1 april.
you cant buy mps or senators there either, eu is too big, too many countries in it and its very people oriented.
all this would result in would be eu issuing stricter standards for software companies (especially os producers) to adhere to, to prevent repetition of such shit in future.
whichever moron came up with the idea among microsoft execs - congrats.
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how the FUCK can it be a 'free market' when a distribution is granted to a party by a 'license', which is practically a monopoly ? see, EVEN if you produce your own resources, the monopoly tries to cash you in. IF, you totally cut out your connection to the grid, its highly possible that they would sue you on various shallow excuses to scare off other customers from leaving the grid.
despite all the bullshit advertised to us by every other american, regarding 'free' market and such, i cant see any way anyone can justify this shit.
excuse me. but there is NO other way of putting this. the reason for this shit is precisely american legal system's favoring the rich. got money ? you can outsue everyone even if you are higway bandits like riaa.
i know a lot of you americans will be bullshitting about how good a legal system it is because you people generally dont think a world outside usa-uk-australia axis exists. but, it isnt. actually you are being screwed over because more money means more rights in america. just because you embrace the philosophy with four arms. american dream is full of promises. yet i bet not even 1% of you reading this have 'made' it as to be as rich as any patron of riaa. yet you STILL keep hugging it despite there are people screwing you through it.
So, they can SELL a product to us, and then, whenever they decide to do so, they can take back the product ? what the fuck ?
tho such kind of legal bullshit seems possible in united states.
there will be no end to this shit. if you allow patenting of abstract concepts, it will eventually end up with base logic processes being patented. nothing other than machines should be patented.
you have been leading and dominating all news since last 100 or so years. AND despite being the bearer of the news that heralded huge changes in the course of human history, now, you yourselves are naively, stupidly trying to withstand the change. we are living in a digital era. we are living in an era where citizen journalists report the news.
entrench yourself against this like this, put yourselves in the camp that opposes THE PEOPLE, and you will lose.
and i can confirm it is the next step in societal evolution.
who cares where you do your work as long as the work is done properly.
and you ms boys, dont give me any shit - just days ago microsoft pulled another stunt with the open source release move and it turned out they did it to save their ass.
the only one who hasnt been arabicized yet, but speedily being arabicized. turkey.
didnt congress create fair use ? how can you let copyright swallow it, to prevent it fro 'swallowing' copyright ?
seems like another sold out judge to me. oh, american legal non-system.
and i dont give a flying fuck about cursive.
these fucktards didnt only fuck up millions of people's gaming experience regarding one major fantasy world, but TWO.
one would think that after the SHIT they made in the name of 'Star wars galaxies' out of the mega star wars saga, no SANE individual would sell ANY intellectual property's rights to make a game to those humongous losers. but lo ! matrix universe is fucked up forever too now. unbelievable. really unbelievable.
get this into your heads rights holders : SOE FUCKS UP YOUR FANTASY UNIVERSES. DONT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO FUCK YOURS TOO, LIKE THEY DID TO OTHERS.
First, im not an american. i dont give zit about republicans.
Second, i live in a country that is neighboring iran, and having to cope with what shit that country perpetrates. i dont give a zit about astroturfing.
third, you are in desperate need of coming to the realization that not every idea/info/speech that sounds hard&tough, down to earth, or harsh regarding some reality is some conservative lunatic's ranting. there are people with evil intent in life, there are countries that are run by fascists, and there are wars. get to grips with it.
world will not suddenly become a loving place if you become politically correct.
too american, you are. that happens in america, where senators are bought before elected.
in no case where eu fined something, it was allowed to go as it is.
in last stint, they ordered microsoft to rip media player from their os releases. ms didnt comply. eu started fining them 500 k euro a day. suddenly, we found microsoft who is VERY relaxed and unobliging in u.s. swiftly comply with the eu decree.
this is how eu "rolls in the shire" baby.
network anyways ? these should be off any kind of grid, and only be launchable manually.
another $5 is flying to eff from me. my donations may be small, but at least frequent and im doing what i can.
wait until eu commissions take the matter into their hands when there are enough complaints. they brought microsoft onto the line about browsers. they can straighten up these shit too. jurisdiction issues ? what's wto good for ? i would be happy to see godaddy taught some manners.
iran itself didnt directly attack any other country, but have been perpetrating civil wars in half of the neighboring countries through funding, training extremist groups. they use lebanese hezbollah as a police force in iran even. it has become THAT institutionalized. iran is basically one of the two sides in the lebanese civil war that lasted for around 30 years, through hezbollah. and now, in palestine, they are a party through hamas. in iraq they have been funding and directing shiites. a considerable portion of deaths in iran are due to those. even in turkey they funded terrorist groups, and killed many people.
please, dont SHIT online without knowing enough about what you are going to shit about.
in its and bits. i would have no issues donating 5-10 frequently to a game title i was enthusiastically waiting for.
that too.
finding other people to interact with to do anything takes time. and its dependent on other people's will.
kids of yesterday are grown up people now, with jobs and families to take care of, or other responsibilities, if not married. they have limited time to to allocate to gaming. usually, maybe 1 to 3 hours in weeknights, and that may not be every night.
therefore, when they come online to do something, they cant afford to spend 30 minutes to find enough people to do something, then lose another 15 minutes because of other people's issues (kid cries,spouse calls, doorbell rings, phone call etcetc), and then try to do that thing they set out to do in remaining 1-1.5 hours. and even then the result is dependent on other people's proper participation. if sufficient number of people in your interaction group cant cope with what you are doing, you all fail. pooof. 3 hours of gaming time gone. half of which gone with waiting.
therefore, they prefer solo play more and more. it depends on you, you dictate the schedule, you spare the effort, you get the result. natural, since waiting for opportunity to be able to play a game while logged into the game itself is not a proper definition of fun.
and this is what you will be getting. just bought grand ages : rome. now i think maybe i shouldnt have. not too different than first caesar game by impressions 17 years or so ago. all the big distribution companies do this shit. rehash the same shit, sell to idiots. well. we are idiots no more. enjoy your non profits.
and i will type in paypal description 'for NPG case'. hehee. dont make fun of me, i do that all the time. my donations may be small, but at least it can pay some snacks for one of the staff. everything counts.
we can just cut back on the tolkien shit totally, and you can shove up the now never-to-be-made profits you were going to make from your deceased father's creation up your butt. the country you are in is already fucked up regarding copyright laws, dont prove its critics wrong. or, rather, go ahead and prove it.
the judge has corrected a MAJOR malfunction in your logic circuits. next time when you accuse someone of damaging your profits, you will remember to actually prove EVIDENCE to back up your case. that is, unless your leashholders are afraid of being proven wrong about all the shit you have been perpetrating. enjoy.
this is Eu. no senate, no congress. you cant pressurize them through shitty moves like that. it is a body that issued and enforced SO many quality standards, some even despite great reaction from public or interest groups that, they made so far as to make a joke about themselves a few years ago, by putting out a fake 'thickness standards in chicken eggs' document in 1 april.
you cant buy mps or senators there either, eu is too big, too many countries in it and its very people oriented.
all this would result in would be eu issuing stricter standards for software companies (especially os producers) to adhere to, to prevent repetition of such shit in future.
whichever moron came up with the idea among microsoft execs - congrats.