he isnt talking about tits but he is using the metaphor for it. so, 'sucks tit' being a negative statement in america is one of the most appalling things about america in my perspective in the first place.
No. Maybe the geek community won't "trust" MS, but then again that is not news (though plenty geeks use MS products regularly). Businesses will use WIndows 7 without any questions. Their only concern is the money spent.
they didnt use vista without any questions. in fact, many of them didnt use it at all.
back in dos4, me days, computers were not this entrenched in daily lives of everyone, and every business. and it was not this kind of hassle to upgrade them, for there werent many stuff running on them already. most of the info processing and database processing stuff were running on old terminals like as400 and whatnot.
boy, i cant understand why and how you americans use 'suck tit' as a swear word.
i mean, if you dont want to suck tits, im ALL up for it, outsource it to me. in fact, i can cater to all the tit suckin needs of entire world, if its needed.
how many tits you have sucked lately that you are despising the 'tit sucking' process ?
it would take a butt the size of mount everest for any company to take the plunge and trust anything from microsoft again, after the stunt they pulled with vista.
and what happens to the poor sods who DID trust microsoft and upgraded their entire office to vista, again ?
you shouldnt have started it in the first place. if you are a person that can actually utter "your assertions are stupid" to someone you are debating with, next time you see a debate, shut the hell up, and dont embarrass yourself or waste others' time.
this kind of stupidity and shit, is not even found in here, despite our distorted and skewed legal system.
courts routinely order blocking and unblocking of youtube, but this is related to cases filed in regard to copyright infringements. when some people complained that they were not able to use youtube, prime minister replied 'i dont know about you, but i can use it', hinting the use of web proxies.
granted, the same islamist prime minister's party gets a lot of sexual content, political content sites blocked through the 'national filter', yet everyone knows about proxies. the blocking is more saving face than an actual filtering.
but even here, blocking an ENTIRE protocol, has never been even mentioned or thought.
prisoners have individual personalities indeed, BUT, no prisoner starts to immediately exhibit their personal traits within days, even months of their arrest, and incarceration.
if, they feel they are in immediate danger of their lives, they even may not exhibit those traits for years to come at all.
dogs and horses are pets. they are of the breeds that are accustomed to being with man. most of them are already offspring of other pets, and born within the care of humans, or live near them. they do not see them as an immediate threat.
YET, even any dog, cat that has been born stray, or has been stray for a long time does not immediately start to exhibit his/her personal traits right away, when you take them into your home and even feed them, until they feel they are safe.
they all will move online. cut their costs to ridiculous amounts. the only issue is to sort out the fee they were charging while selling paper newspapers to customers. they can figure that out in an acceptable manner too i believe.
please, read with your eyes next time, instead of your butt. if you actually take a second run, and use your eyes this time, you'll see that i dont feel the need to have them anymore.
please, get real. previews.....
do you think that a preview is an actual reflection of a game ? pal. if you actually do, i have a bridge to sell you. previews are marketing tools. what you are given in any preview, falls little short of lying to you, if you are in the target demographic.
'there's great music out there !!' -> but there isnt 'huge time' in here. i dont have the time to navigate around like bedouin, searching and seeking 'greatest' indie music groups, or indie games. of course, if you employ me part time, but pay full time, that can change.
pal, terror, despite being termed recently, has long been around. how do you think mongols conquered entire asia except india into the east europe ? read. horrible history.
if you had known any good amount of recent world history, you would shove that sarcastic code of yours in your butt, and cry over the shit that has been perpetrated around the world because of the republican administrations of last 50 years.
hell, even al kaeda and rising islamism is their gift to the world, in which they screwed everything in 80s, perpetrating islamism against soviets and arming and funding islamist groups all around the world.
'things are expensive' does NOT solely mean beer, food, tshirts, whores and whatnot.
EVERYTHING counts. ranges from healthcare costs you pay to the gas station, to prices of houses and whatnot.
moreover, it is also related to average purchasing power of the people and its distribution.
a shoe may be sold from $10 in u.s. and $20 in finland. but what matters is, HOW expensive in regard to average person's purchasing power is that 10 or 20. if the corporation is selling it from 10 in u.s., despite avg purchasing power is,say, $100 a month in u.s., but selling it from $20 in finland despite avg. purchasing power is $300, that means they are selling it more expensive in u.s.
"Fast forward to the 21st century, and piracy has apparently somehow become a political struggle, a fight against greedy corporations and evil copy protection, and in some cases, I've even seen some people refer to the rise of piracy as a 'revolution.' What an absolute farce.... Piracy is the result of human nature: when faced with the option of getting something for free or paying for it, and in the absence of any significant risks, you don't need complex economic studies to show you that most people will opt for the free route.
and political struggles and revolutions are EXACTLY that.
an unglorified movement of 'rabble', at least at the start, which developes into a formatted, defined ideological struggle.
if you had seen french revolutionaries in 1789, you would want to spray them with insecticide. it was a total stampede of barbarians. but then, in 2-3 years' time, it has become the very thing that awarded your sorry ass with the modern social guidelines about human rights, civil conduct we know today.
piracy is exactly like that. just like it was back in 17th century, in which mercantilism was the order of the day. smugglers and pirates and traders ignored royal laws and edicts and traded with the nations they were barred from trading. the nations who were prevented from trading turned to piracy. no armada was able to stop piracy up until end of 16th century, when countries eased mercantilist laws and started trading with each other. then piracy waned like an extinguishing candle.
same goes with software/music/movie piracy. IF, you are not providing a product that justifies it cost with EVERY aspect of itself, people WILL pirate and even out the thing. even if it takes more hassle to actually find a good, acceptable, virus free, quality copy of the game, movie, music, and even if it takes days to download and set up to watch (those horrible codecs and filters), even if it is missing on features.... AS LONG AS the hassle justifies the thing, they will do it.
now imagine something different. imagine that, im able to acquire a game i need for $10. imagine that i can acquire it online at any time, directly download it to my computer in just half an hour. imagine it works regardless of where i put it, without any installation, shitty copy protection, problems, anything. do you think, unless im really in need of cash, AND i have the means to pay that company online through internet without any security/privacy issues, i still would go through the hassle that is pirating ?
i wouldnt. and i dont. and IF i was in desperate need of $10, you wouldnt take my money regardless of the laws or enforcements you might have put out. thats a segment of society that is never going to be able to pay for those, so get charging them out of your mind already.
an excellent example is spore. there was too much hype about the game, and the premise looked good. so, i go, buy it, shelling out $30, thinking it was a game worthy of my cash. i come home, i install the thing, only to discover that it is shitting with my computer, trying to install stuff i do not want on it. i go get a crack for the exe so it wont be disturbing MY property in a way i dont want. i actually, had to, CRACK a game i have PAID for. this is an irony that can kill people.
6 hours of gameplay, another 3 hours of forced gameplay on the weekend, another 4 hours more on sunday, and i decide game wasnt worth either my 30 bucks, or the hassle i went through for the cracking. now i think, if i had known that it was going to be like that beforehand, i wouldnt even take the hassle of pirating and acquiring it through the internet even.
too few are the games im going paying and buying boxed. and they generally happen to be the same software houses' stuff. you know, bioware, blizzard and so on. the companies who actually at least TRY to continue the pre-1995 (advent of the cd) era of innovative, entertaining game developme
unbridled capitalism is an extremism. it is basically a chaotic, lawless premise. both nature, and its extension social life leans towards order with time. any chaotic environment that is let be, is brought to some kind of order by the strongest factors.
we humans invented democracy so that it would be the people, all of them, who decides how the order would be.
in unbridled capitalism, you basically take out the will of the people, instead leave it to the biggest cartel of biggest corporations. which works out to the detriment of everyone apart from those corporations - which are in fact nothing but individual subsets in the big set of 'the people'.
yes. another form of extremism. similar to communism, fundamentalism and any other extremism - instead of the most influential religious or political leader controlling everything like in fundamentalist or communist societies, in capitalism, the strongest and most influential corporations control everything. and just as iran maintains a 'parliament' as a facade to make everything look like the will of the people, whereas instead everything is in fact decided beforehand by the religious order and how communist countries maintain a party in which everyone can become a member and a parliament that anyone can run for to maintain facade, whereas everything is decided by the most influential political elite of the time, in american capitalism a congress and a senate is maintained, which are heavily under the control of big corporations, which effectively buy congressmen, senators, and outright laws in order to have their way. the fact that there are more lobbyists than the number of congressmen (to the 3x amount or so actually), the bills that passed in the recent 20 years, who are to the detriment of people, and even the 'competition' they much yelp about, are proof of how things are going wrong. i wont even mention about judiciary there - its basically whomever has the most money wins.
extremism. capitalism is in the same basket with communism, fundamentalism, fascism. they are all products of the same century (last 100 years), and lived out their usability in the same century.
now we are in the tech age, in the age of balance, at the start of the age of direct democracy and unbounded freedoms. everyone should adapt accordingly.
everything ranging from a measly meal to healthcare is so expensive that, any kind of rare labor becomes exponentially expensive. because, people need multiples of pay to make any advance in their standard of living due to cost of living.
in u.s., due to the ease you let mega corporations run rampant because they yelp and wank 'hands off business', you people are paying a fortune for almost anything that is sold for much cheaper in any other country. even, the SAME corporations are selling same products for much cheaper in europe, whereas they are giving you the shaft on the price of the same product in u.s.
'hands off business' was supposed to 'create jobs', 'increase standard of living' and so on.
did it ? what we see currently is totally to the opposite.
the wealth did not 'trickle down' (and why the hell should it anyway), you're losing jobs whilst cost of living almost stays the same (after all, corporations have to make profits, so that they can provide jobs arent they - but where are the jobs), spiral goes deeper and deeper.
i blame this on one thing alone - extremism.
extremism is bad at EVERYthing. every aspect of life, social or personal, without any exception.
when you go extreme on something, you break some other things to the extent that it becomes a disaster. just make a list of such stuff you experienced in your life, and you'll see.
business, economy are just features of social life, and they are no exceptions. if you go to extreme to ANY side, be it extreme 'freedom' or extreme regulation, it breaks down.
america went to the extreme lawless end in the last 30 years. it cost entire world a crisis. n. korea went extreme control in the last 50 years, it cost their people a poverty.
balance is the answer, balance is the key. take europe as an example. with all its faults, the system seems to be working exceptionally well. a lot of petite european countries which should not have any significance at all because of their lack of natural resources and manpower, are producing and creating much more compared to u.s. in a ratio scale. not only that, but the life standard of their people is much, much higher.
learn to read first. its not about offshoring. its about losing market power.
when your corporations are going down due to costs and unproductivitiy, the overseas corporations will get better and better hold of the market and your corporations wont be able to pay you anymore, due to need for downsizing - because they will be able to operate in only local market from then on.
on another approach, it is much harder to find valuable, indispensable employees. and many businesses would rather get one and pay him/her higher, than try to go out to market to get one periodically.
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he isnt talking about tits but he is using the metaphor for it. so, 'sucks tit' being a negative statement in america is one of the most appalling things about america in my perspective in the first place.
No. Maybe the geek community won't "trust" MS, but then again that is not news (though plenty geeks use MS products regularly). Businesses will use WIndows 7 without any questions. Their only concern is the money spent.
they didnt use vista without any questions. in fact, many of them didnt use it at all.
back in dos4, me days, computers were not this entrenched in daily lives of everyone, and every business. and it was not this kind of hassle to upgrade them, for there werent many stuff running on them already. most of the info processing and database processing stuff were running on old terminals like as400 and whatnot.
today its a huge deal. you cant just forget.
boy, i cant understand why and how you americans use 'suck tit' as a swear word.
i mean, if you dont want to suck tits, im ALL up for it, outsource it to me. in fact, i can cater to all the tit suckin needs of entire world, if its needed.
how many tits you have sucked lately that you are despising the 'tit sucking' process ?
unbelievable.
it would take a butt the size of mount everest for any company to take the plunge and trust anything from microsoft again, after the stunt they pulled with vista.
and what happens to the poor sods who DID trust microsoft and upgraded their entire office to vista, again ?
if you do that, it will probably be dominating online gaming scene in at most 3 years, with countless servers and communities around the world.
you shouldnt have started it in the first place. if you are a person that can actually utter "your assertions are stupid" to someone you are debating with, next time you see a debate, shut the hell up, and dont embarrass yourself or waste others' time.
this kind of stupidity and shit, is not even found in here, despite our distorted and skewed legal system.
courts routinely order blocking and unblocking of youtube, but this is related to cases filed in regard to copyright infringements. when some people complained that they were not able to use youtube, prime minister replied 'i dont know about you, but i can use it', hinting the use of web proxies.
granted, the same islamist prime minister's party gets a lot of sexual content, political content sites blocked through the 'national filter', yet everyone knows about proxies. the blocking is more saving face than an actual filtering.
but even here, blocking an ENTIRE protocol, has never been even mentioned or thought.
prisoners have individual personalities indeed, BUT, no prisoner starts to immediately exhibit their personal traits within days, even months of their arrest, and incarceration.
if, they feel they are in immediate danger of their lives, they even may not exhibit those traits for years to come at all.
dogs and horses are pets. they are of the breeds that are accustomed to being with man. most of them are already offspring of other pets, and born within the care of humans, or live near them. they do not see them as an immediate threat.
YET, even any dog, cat that has been born stray, or has been stray for a long time does not immediately start to exhibit his/her personal traits right away, when you take them into your home and even feed them, until they feel they are safe.
that they are held captive, in probable danger of life, confined in various containers ?
do people exhibit their personalities and normal behaviour when thrown to jail temporarily ?
they all will move online. cut their costs to ridiculous amounts. the only issue is to sort out the fee they were charging while selling paper newspapers to customers. they can figure that out in an acceptable manner too i believe.
sarcastic tho may be, your words still may be containing a great measure of truth.
please, read with your eyes next time, instead of your butt. if you actually take a second run, and use your eyes this time, you'll see that i dont feel the need to have them anymore.
.....
please, get real. previews
do you think that a preview is an actual reflection of a game ? pal. if you actually do, i have a bridge to sell you. previews are marketing tools. what you are given in any preview, falls little short of lying to you, if you are in the target demographic.
'there's great music out there !!' -> but there isnt 'huge time' in here. i dont have the time to navigate around like bedouin, searching and seeking 'greatest' indie music groups, or indie games. of course, if you employ me part time, but pay full time, that can change.
pal, terror, despite being termed recently, has long been around. how do you think mongols conquered entire asia except india into the east europe ? read. horrible history.
so, nazism has an even worse history. does that exonerate islam ? why should islam exonerate republican crap ?
if you had known any good amount of recent world history, you would shove that sarcastic code of yours in your butt, and cry over the shit that has been perpetrated around the world because of the republican administrations of last 50 years.
hell, even al kaeda and rising islamism is their gift to the world, in which they screwed everything in 80s, perpetrating islamism against soviets and arming and funding islamist groups all around the world.
the stuff which YOU are paying for today.
he helped uncover one of the biggest shit that was pulled in entire world history. thanks.
'things are expensive' does NOT solely mean beer, food, tshirts, whores and whatnot.
,say, $100 a month in u.s., but selling it from $20 in finland despite avg. purchasing power is $300, that means they are selling it more expensive in u.s.
EVERYTHING counts. ranges from healthcare costs you pay to the gas station, to prices of houses and whatnot.
moreover, it is also related to average purchasing power of the people and its distribution.
a shoe may be sold from $10 in u.s. and $20 in finland. but what matters is, HOW expensive in regard to average person's purchasing power is that 10 or 20. if the corporation is selling it from 10 in u.s., despite avg purchasing power is
get a clueeeeeeeee
"Fast forward to the 21st century, and piracy has apparently somehow become a political struggle, a fight against greedy corporations and evil copy protection, and in some cases, I've even seen some people refer to the rise of piracy as a 'revolution.' What an absolute farce. ... Piracy is the result of human nature: when faced with the option of getting something for free or paying for it, and in the absence of any significant risks, you don't need complex economic studies to show you that most people will opt for the free route.
and political struggles and revolutions are EXACTLY that.
.... AS LONG AS the hassle justifies the thing, they will do it.
an unglorified movement of 'rabble', at least at the start, which developes into a formatted, defined ideological struggle.
if you had seen french revolutionaries in 1789, you would want to spray them with insecticide. it was a total stampede of barbarians. but then, in 2-3 years' time, it has become the very thing that awarded your sorry ass with the modern social guidelines about human rights, civil conduct we know today.
piracy is exactly like that. just like it was back in 17th century, in which mercantilism was the order of the day. smugglers and pirates and traders ignored royal laws and edicts and traded with the nations they were barred from trading. the nations who were prevented from trading turned to piracy. no armada was able to stop piracy up until end of 16th century, when countries eased mercantilist laws and started trading with each other. then piracy waned like an extinguishing candle.
same goes with software/music/movie piracy. IF, you are not providing a product that justifies it cost with EVERY aspect of itself, people WILL pirate and even out the thing. even if it takes more hassle to actually find a good, acceptable, virus free, quality copy of the game, movie, music, and even if it takes days to download and set up to watch (those horrible codecs and filters), even if it is missing on features
now imagine something different. imagine that, im able to acquire a game i need for $10. imagine that i can acquire it online at any time, directly download it to my computer in just half an hour. imagine it works regardless of where i put it, without any installation, shitty copy protection, problems, anything. do you think, unless im really in need of cash, AND i have the means to pay that company online through internet without any security/privacy issues, i still would go through the hassle that is pirating ?
i wouldnt. and i dont. and IF i was in desperate need of $10, you wouldnt take my money regardless of the laws or enforcements you might have put out. thats a segment of society that is never going to be able to pay for those, so get charging them out of your mind already.
an excellent example is spore. there was too much hype about the game, and the premise looked good. so, i go, buy it, shelling out $30, thinking it was a game worthy of my cash. i come home, i install the thing, only to discover that it is shitting with my computer, trying to install stuff i do not want on it. i go get a crack for the exe so it wont be disturbing MY property in a way i dont want. i actually, had to, CRACK a game i have PAID for. this is an irony that can kill people.
6 hours of gameplay, another 3 hours of forced gameplay on the weekend, another 4 hours more on sunday, and i decide game wasnt worth either my 30 bucks, or the hassle i went through for the cracking. now i think, if i had known that it was going to be like that beforehand, i wouldnt even take the hassle of pirating and acquiring it through the internet even.
too few are the games im going paying and buying boxed. and they generally happen to be the same software houses' stuff. you know, bioware, blizzard and so on. the companies who actually at least TRY to continue the pre-1995 (advent of the cd) era of innovative, entertaining game developme
unbridled capitalism is an extremism. it is basically a chaotic, lawless premise. both nature, and its extension social life leans towards order with time. any chaotic environment that is let be, is brought to some kind of order by the strongest factors.
we humans invented democracy so that it would be the people, all of them, who decides how the order would be.
in unbridled capitalism, you basically take out the will of the people, instead leave it to the biggest cartel of biggest corporations. which works out to the detriment of everyone apart from those corporations - which are in fact nothing but individual subsets in the big set of 'the people'.
yes. another form of extremism. similar to communism, fundamentalism and any other extremism - instead of the most influential religious or political leader controlling everything like in fundamentalist or communist societies, in capitalism, the strongest and most influential corporations control everything. and just as iran maintains a 'parliament' as a facade to make everything look like the will of the people, whereas instead everything is in fact decided beforehand by the religious order and how communist countries maintain a party in which everyone can become a member and a parliament that anyone can run for to maintain facade, whereas everything is decided by the most influential political elite of the time, in american capitalism a congress and a senate is maintained, which are heavily under the control of big corporations, which effectively buy congressmen, senators, and outright laws in order to have their way. the fact that there are more lobbyists than the number of congressmen (to the 3x amount or so actually), the bills that passed in the recent 20 years, who are to the detriment of people, and even the 'competition' they much yelp about, are proof of how things are going wrong. i wont even mention about judiciary there - its basically whomever has the most money wins.
extremism. capitalism is in the same basket with communism, fundamentalism, fascism. they are all products of the same century (last 100 years), and lived out their usability in the same century.
now we are in the tech age, in the age of balance, at the start of the age of direct democracy and unbounded freedoms. everyone should adapt accordingly.
everything ranging from a measly meal to healthcare is so expensive that, any kind of rare labor becomes exponentially expensive. because, people need multiples of pay to make any advance in their standard of living due to cost of living.
in u.s., due to the ease you let mega corporations run rampant because they yelp and wank 'hands off business', you people are paying a fortune for almost anything that is sold for much cheaper in any other country. even, the SAME corporations are selling same products for much cheaper in europe, whereas they are giving you the shaft on the price of the same product in u.s.
'hands off business' was supposed to 'create jobs', 'increase standard of living' and so on.
did it ? what we see currently is totally to the opposite.
the wealth did not 'trickle down' (and why the hell should it anyway), you're losing jobs whilst cost of living almost stays the same (after all, corporations have to make profits, so that they can provide jobs arent they - but where are the jobs), spiral goes deeper and deeper.
i blame this on one thing alone - extremism.
extremism is bad at EVERYthing. every aspect of life, social or personal, without any exception.
when you go extreme on something, you break some other things to the extent that it becomes a disaster. just make a list of such stuff you experienced in your life, and you'll see.
business, economy are just features of social life, and they are no exceptions. if you go to extreme to ANY side, be it extreme 'freedom' or extreme regulation, it breaks down.
america went to the extreme lawless end in the last 30 years. it cost entire world a crisis. n. korea went extreme control in the last 50 years, it cost their people a poverty.
balance is the answer, balance is the key. take europe as an example. with all its faults, the system seems to be working exceptionally well. a lot of petite european countries which should not have any significance at all because of their lack of natural resources and manpower, are producing and creating much more compared to u.s. in a ratio scale. not only that, but the life standard of their people is much, much higher.
one word; balance.
less nukes on the world to worry about. great news.
2 years later, and we will be able to saddle a graphics card and fly with it in skies.
learn to read first. its not about offshoring. its about losing market power.
when your corporations are going down due to costs and unproductivitiy, the overseas corporations will get better and better hold of the market and your corporations wont be able to pay you anymore, due to need for downsizing - because they will be able to operate in only local market from then on.
on another approach, it is much harder to find valuable, indispensable employees. and many businesses would rather get one and pay him/her higher, than try to go out to market to get one periodically.