just because a game developer didnt prevent something doesnt mean that its within the rules. the game developer doesnt play that game. even if s/he/they do, they constitute a near zero percentage of the game's players.
any mmo you play are played by thousands of people. thousands of people create its environment, make it run, keep the machine running (raiding, pvp, crafting, trade, events, everything). they are the world there, and they set the social climate. noone, including the developers, can do shit about this. if developers force any player base into something they do not like, they QUIT. and go to another game. it happened many times, for many games, including some top, up-and-coming, much hyped titles.
therefore, for all those badass/darth maul wannabee morons out there - you wont be able to freely be a badass asshole even in a mmo game - regardless how hard you argue that 'its within the rules', any assholery you commit is going to get added to your reputation, and eventually you'll find yourself changing your realm AND your character's nickname. people doesnt give a shit about what's within the hard rules of the game or not - they have their own opinions and judgments - noone can change that, neither a badass wannabee asshole, or self-righteous developer.
so cut the bullshit about 'its within the rules', and get used to living in a society.
and you probably love being a bigoted, brainwashed neocon dog. 'let businesses be' 'corporations corporations corporations'.
gtfo. your era ended when your church leader alan greenspan confessed to senate that 'he couldnt understand why corporations didnt regulate themselves'
back at the time ? in the last 8 years, microsoft got major fines from regulators and antitrust institutions around the world for anticompetitive practices, including European Union. yet, doj doesnt do any serious shit about microsoft. what gives ?
as someone who played sc back when it came out in the time throuh lan and internet, and as operator of the foremost sc gaming community forum in my country, i say, shove it. if they dont offer people to hold their local tournaments through lan with minimal ping, and instead force people to >100ms pings all over the world through internet, the very factor that made starcraft will go bust - competitive, easy to set up multiplayer matches.
then whichever genius that came up with that idea to remove lan support can do what it would be best used for : shove it up his/her butt.
i aint buying sc2 if it doesnt have lan support. period.
just like they have forced the 'humongous, scary ssl warning error' instead of the previous acceptable and understandable error message. it forced a lot of small businesses who used the certificates they themselves signed to buy 3rd party certificates from vendors. again with this change, all small businesses will have to spend more on web development charges, because most end users will set their firefox to the prevent setting for this new feature. the 'free to do business is usual' bit is bullshit. remember, say the word 'security', and you can even sell wars to people. so dont feed the 'free to do business as usual' bullshit to anyone.
one thing that is most damaging to us open source crowd is being too self righteous and jacobin. it starts to hurt us again as time passes and projects develops. this time its happening with firefox.
get a LOAD of that BULLSHIT. what kind of twisted system is american legal system that, a judge can DENY a legal move by any of the parties. hey ! i have evidence ! but i cant use it - why ? because IT IS DENIED BY APPLICATION OF THE OTHER PARTY.
from separate 'research institutions'. i will time them so that they will come one after another and even make you believe that there is no global warming, despite the ice you stand on in antarctica is melting and you gonna fall into the water in 5 minutes.
citizen journalism is upon us. citizens are filming events LIVE and posting them LIVE as they happen. we dont have to accept what some agent of some paper picks as newsworthy in any given location anymore. we can choose to view and read our own news.
'state secret' 'bush era policy'. we dont give a crap. this thing is not something related to internal affairs or security. its being FORCED on every country. and it affects citizen's individual rights, personal freedoms. if american legal system is SO stupid as to allow a law that no citizen has seen to be forced upon citizens, europe isnt that stupid. it will be sued and obtained in europe, and probably Eu will pull the plug on it.
dont talk if you havent actually encountered the costs of your healthcare system yourself idiot.
one of my clients had to go see a doctor because of some pain in his back, and it took $500 for the doctor to tell him that 'he had something'. it turned out later that it was a kidney infection.
so, you get minor surgery for $1000. in which united states and in what alternate dimension ?
"Healthcare Industry" = Bloodsucking industry in your country, united states. what does it take to understand that something does NOT work ? eternal damnation ?
haaa then. poor americans run to canada, and GET treatment, rich canadians run to america. VERY rich people all around the world run to switzerland, because they have the best of a lot of things. so therefore switzerland totally outdoes america ? i think you got the point.
what you said does not prove what you are trying to falteringly defend.
rich people will always find the best treatment options, wherever they want, period. its the masses that matter. and that means 95% of world population.
there are lots of problems with EVERYthing that mankind has today. EVERY single thing.
what matters is using the LEAST problematic ones. like democracy. it has a LOT of problems, but it is the best we CURRENTLY have. until we discover something better, we will use it, and keep patching its issues.
does he also note down that google's adwords and adsense programs provided millions of individuals and small businesses with their breaks, because they were the first programs implemented by a major internet player to take small businesses, small webmasters and publishers seriously ?
before adwords and adsense, big players were treating small site owners and businesses like dirt. they didnt care zit about them, they were the pariah of the internet practically. you wouldnt get accepted into their advertising programs, you wouldnt advertise your site in their publishing organs and so on. we never existed. we were 'infeasible'.
google gave people a huge break with adsense and adwords. i myself saw a lot of small sites became noticeable publishers and startup, one man show businesses become small businesses with my own eyes. (im a web developer). same goes for amazon, they took small people seriously and provided various apis and syndication options right before anyone cared. a lot of people are making a living out of them now.
finally i would like to note that as someone who lived through the period and knows which corporations brought innovation and competition and which stifled it, i dont give a flying fuck about Cory Doctorow's opinions and woes. less Doctorows, the better in my opinion.
Canada. Biggest trade partner of canada is u.s. u.s. senators try to push ALL laws they pass in usa to canada. like acta etc.
britain. another country which has u.s. as one of its biggest trade partners, not only that, but also adopts many political lines of u.s. internationally, leave aside a lot of domestic stuff.
BOTH fail in regard to socialized healthcare.
yet france, denmark, scandinavia etc A LOT OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES manage to pull it off VERY well.
so its not the failure of the system then. maybe its a failure of dickheads who are yelling 'socialism boooo ! it will suck our souls dry'.
there are NO systems on the face of earth that just delivers what is expected by itself. for anything to succeed, YOU NEED TO PROPERLY RUN IT. that includes your water closet and even your butt, leave aside social mechanisms.
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just because a game developer didnt prevent something doesnt mean that its within the rules. the game developer doesnt play that game. even if s/he/they do, they constitute a near zero percentage of the game's players.
any mmo you play are played by thousands of people. thousands of people create its environment, make it run, keep the machine running (raiding, pvp, crafting, trade, events, everything). they are the world there, and they set the social climate. noone, including the developers, can do shit about this. if developers force any player base into something they do not like, they QUIT. and go to another game. it happened many times, for many games, including some top, up-and-coming, much hyped titles.
therefore, for all those badass/darth maul wannabee morons out there - you wont be able to freely be a badass asshole even in a mmo game - regardless how hard you argue that 'its within the rules', any assholery you commit is going to get added to your reputation, and eventually you'll find yourself changing your realm AND your character's nickname. people doesnt give a shit about what's within the hard rules of the game or not - they have their own opinions and judgments - noone can change that, neither a badass wannabee asshole, or self-righteous developer.
so cut the bullshit about 'its within the rules', and get used to living in a society.
so ?
and you probably love being a bigoted, brainwashed neocon dog. 'let businesses be' 'corporations corporations corporations'.
gtfo. your era ended when your church leader alan greenspan confessed to senate that 'he couldnt understand why corporations didnt regulate themselves'
after all, theirs was the longest lasting ever republic, lasting more than 1000 years. no surpise that some of the spirit still remains.
and some morons were saying 'too much fuss was made about microsoft'. now lets see them say the same thing about this one.
this is a motion that was put underway during last vestiges of bush admn. who were very chummy with microsoft.
back at the time ? in the last 8 years, microsoft got major fines from regulators and antitrust institutions around the world for anticompetitive practices, including European Union. yet, doj doesnt do any serious shit about microsoft. what gives ?
you mean 'spent' in a violent crime. someone threatening and holding up people does not necessarily need to fire.
as someone who played sc back when it came out in the time throuh lan and internet, and as operator of the foremost sc gaming community forum in my country, i say, shove it. if they dont offer people to hold their local tournaments through lan with minimal ping, and instead force people to >100ms pings all over the world through internet, the very factor that made starcraft will go bust - competitive, easy to set up multiplayer matches.
then whichever genius that came up with that idea to remove lan support can do what it would be best used for : shove it up his/her butt.
i aint buying sc2 if it doesnt have lan support. period.
guns are also capable of non lethal, non criminal uses. but close to 90% of the violent crimes involve a gun.
so ?
just like they have forced the 'humongous, scary ssl warning error' instead of the previous acceptable and understandable error message. it forced a lot of small businesses who used the certificates they themselves signed to buy 3rd party certificates from vendors. again with this change, all small businesses will have to spend more on web development charges, because most end users will set their firefox to the prevent setting for this new feature. the 'free to do business is usual' bit is bullshit. remember, say the word 'security', and you can even sell wars to people. so dont feed the 'free to do business as usual' bullshit to anyone.
one thing that is most damaging to us open source crowd is being too self righteous and jacobin. it starts to hurt us again as time passes and projects develops. this time its happening with firefox.
without any javascript or whatsoever. just some plain formatted html coming from the 3rd party. thats the deal.
get a LOAD of that BULLSHIT. what kind of twisted system is american legal system that, a judge can DENY a legal move by any of the parties. hey ! i have evidence ! but i cant use it - why ? because IT IS DENIED BY APPLICATION OF THE OTHER PARTY.
yes yes ! an oscillation in an ongoing trend really DOES mean that the trend has reversed !!
from separate 'research institutions'. i will time them so that they will come one after another and even make you believe that there is no global warming, despite the ice you stand on in antarctica is melting and you gonna fall into the water in 5 minutes.
"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lieeees"
citizen journalism is upon us. citizens are filming events LIVE and posting them LIVE as they happen. we dont have to accept what some agent of some paper picks as newsworthy in any given location anymore. we can choose to view and read our own news.
'state secret' 'bush era policy'. we dont give a crap. this thing is not something related to internal affairs or security. its being FORCED on every country. and it affects citizen's individual rights, personal freedoms. if american legal system is SO stupid as to allow a law that no citizen has seen to be forced upon citizens, europe isnt that stupid. it will be sued and obtained in europe, and probably Eu will pull the plug on it.
and your medieval healthcare system practically KILLS poor by neglect, or treatment that arrives somehow too late ?
dont talk if you havent actually encountered the costs of your healthcare system yourself idiot.
one of my clients had to go see a doctor because of some pain in his back, and it took $500 for the doctor to tell him that 'he had something'. it turned out later that it was a kidney infection.
so, you get minor surgery for $1000. in which united states and in what alternate dimension ?
"Healthcare Industry" = Bloodsucking industry in your country, united states. what does it take to understand that something does NOT work ? eternal damnation ?
haaa then. poor americans run to canada, and GET treatment, rich canadians run to america. VERY rich people all around the world run to switzerland, because they have the best of a lot of things. so therefore switzerland totally outdoes america ? i think you got the point.
what you said does not prove what you are trying to falteringly defend.
rich people will always find the best treatment options, wherever they want, period. its the masses that matter. and that means 95% of world population.
there are lots of problems with EVERYthing that mankind has today. EVERY single thing.
what matters is using the LEAST problematic ones. like democracy. it has a LOT of problems, but it is the best we CURRENTLY have. until we discover something better, we will use it, and keep patching its issues.
same goes for socialized healthcare and sweden.
does he also note down that google's adwords and adsense programs provided millions of individuals and small businesses with their breaks, because they were the first programs implemented by a major internet player to take small businesses, small webmasters and publishers seriously ?
before adwords and adsense, big players were treating small site owners and businesses like dirt. they didnt care zit about them, they were the pariah of the internet practically. you wouldnt get accepted into their advertising programs, you wouldnt advertise your site in their publishing organs and so on. we never existed. we were 'infeasible'.
google gave people a huge break with adsense and adwords. i myself saw a lot of small sites became noticeable publishers and startup, one man show businesses become small businesses with my own eyes. (im a web developer). same goes for amazon, they took small people seriously and provided various apis and syndication options right before anyone cared. a lot of people are making a living out of them now.
finally i would like to note that as someone who lived through the period and knows which corporations brought innovation and competition and which stifled it, i dont give a flying fuck about Cory Doctorow's opinions and woes. less Doctorows, the better in my opinion.
Canada. Biggest trade partner of canada is u.s. u.s. senators try to push ALL laws they pass in usa to canada. like acta etc.
britain. another country which has u.s. as one of its biggest trade partners, not only that, but also adopts many political lines of u.s. internationally, leave aside a lot of domestic stuff.
BOTH fail in regard to socialized healthcare.
yet france, denmark, scandinavia etc A LOT OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES manage to pull it off VERY well.
so its not the failure of the system then. maybe its a failure of dickheads who are yelling 'socialism boooo ! it will suck our souls dry'.
there are NO systems on the face of earth that just delivers what is expected by itself. for anything to succeed, YOU NEED TO PROPERLY RUN IT. that includes your water closet and even your butt, leave aside social mechanisms.