The prosecutor in that case had stated a year or so before the trial that he didn't think they were breaking any laws and couldn't prosecute. A few calls to the minister of justice later and suddenly the prosecutor had changed his mind. That's how I know the legal ground is all but clear
I listened to most of the trial and read the final judgement and what is striking is that the plaintiffs and the prosecutor failed to implicate any of the TPB-crew in any specific instance of being an accessory to copyright infringement. And you normally can't convict someone on the grounds that they may have done something between so and so dates.
So not only do they need control of your computer or at least two different servers but they also need physical access to your home or your person? Yeah, that's a likely scenario that is well worth protecting against. If you're that compromised or interesting keeping the password in your head won't be enough.
My friends that were in a 80 klick radius could connect to the server and had a low ping normally (20-50) but complained of lag when the horde arrived. I'm guessing that it was due to CPU issues rather than bandwidth.
Most third party players dropped between lobby and loading of the game.
I'm not sure whether you ran a dedicated or a listen server on that Pentium Mobile but I was talking about running a listen server. Being able to run a dedicated server shouldn't be a problem with older machines.
In Left 4 Dead even if the upstream is adequate (1024kbps) the CPU-strain on an older (AMD X2 4800) computer will cause severe lag. And if the CPU suffices you can bet that half of the people will drop due to routing issues. In what world can most of the gaming population handle their own routers and firewalls? I thought I had all STEAM relevant ports open and routed but some people still drop.
He didn't get shocked because he was not the most convenient (or rather inconvenient enough that not much if any current passed through him) path to ground. The knife either shorted the line with neutral or ground with little or none of the current going through him. If he had been the only path to ground the circuit breaker wouldn't have tripped unless he took all of the amps the breaker could supply in which case he would be dead or have serious injuries.
You mean the Sweden in which the social democrats privatized or deregulated most of the previously state owned companies like: the telephone monopoly, the postal office, public transportation, the electricity monopoly and so on?
Have you any empirical support that anti drug information is effective?
All I've read points in the direction that any information positive or negative has a slight positive correlation with an increase in drug use. I.e. the school that gives any drug information will get a slightly higher amount of drug usage than a school that gives no information all other things equal of course.
The reason we don't see much book piracy is that comparatively few people read and even fewer people read on the computer or own a book reader. I got a Sony PRS100 almost two years ago and every last book on there is pirated. Before that I downloaded books and read them on the computer but apparently I'm fairly special in that way because reading on a computer screen doesn't bother me that much. When book readers are common if they get common we might start seeing widespread piracy. I wouldn't bet on it though.
I'd also say that it's easier to scan and OCR a book than it is to crack a game.
Your hands hurt when you are learning touch typing because you are straining to keep your fingers and hands in the correct posture. I taught myself (with the help of typing programs) typing at age 22 or so and after a one hour session my hands were cramping up. But I kept at it and then it didn't hurt after a while. In fact it's probably less tiring to type now than it was with my old method. I'd say you're drawing far reaching conclusions from worthless anecdotal data. An analogy would be using muscle soreness to say that exercise is bad for you.
If you really want to feel hand pain try typing on a mechanical typewriter. You'll actually be sore for a few days if you start with a long session. And that's from someone who at that time had worked as a carpenter for about six months so I was not totally devoid of muscle and tendons. I think it was a Hermes 3000 but I'm to lazy to check. I probably had it at it's softest setting too.
I also tried switching to dvorak and went a few months or so with most of my typing done in dvorak but I got tired of that when I was unable to reach my former qwerty speed and having to deal with all the interface problems. Interestingly my hands once again started hurting when I tried dvorak as I was again forcing my hands consciously but again that pain went away. I do still remember dvorak quite well and can switch instantly from qwerty to dvorak and less instantly from dvorak to qwerty. Of course it requires a few minutes of warmup before it feels comfortable. I usually switch to dvorak every other month to see if I still remember it and to keep that muscle memory alive. Even if I don't use it I'll be damned if I'm going to forget what I so painstakingly learned.
The severity, as in number of people killed, is lower. The frequency, as in the number of wars, is lower.
If you really doubt this I could probably dig up the stats but since you haven't even read any stats and still have an opinion, I doubt you would read those.
Please define the term tendency.
Could you name 100 monopolies that didn't have any special legal support?
When you've failed to do that please explain how you reached the conclusion that capitalism "tends" towards monopoly.
Yes, interstate is a perfectly cromulent word used by all English speaking people in all countries. Not using it is a certain indicator of insufficient google skills.
Have you ever seen a doctor that's addicted to opiates? Neither have I because it's not the drug itself that harms you in any spectacular way. The junkie you saw is an excellent argument against street junkie life but not against opiate abuse.
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The prosecutor in that case had stated a year or so before the trial that he didn't think they were breaking any laws and couldn't prosecute. A few calls to the minister of justice later and suddenly the prosecutor had changed his mind. That's how I know the legal ground is all but clear
I listened to most of the trial and read the final judgement and what is striking is that the plaintiffs and the prosecutor failed to implicate any of the TPB-crew in any specific instance of being an accessory to copyright infringement. And you normally can't convict someone on the grounds that they may have done something between so and so dates.
How is the man in the middle going to learn my identity and why would he be interested in my identity?
So not only do they need control of your computer or at least two different servers but they also need physical access to your home or your person? Yeah, that's a likely scenario that is well worth protecting against. If you're that compromised or interesting keeping the password in your head won't be enough.
My friends that were in a 80 klick radius could connect to the server and had a low ping normally (20-50) but complained of lag when the horde arrived. I'm guessing that it was due to CPU issues rather than bandwidth.
Most third party players dropped between lobby and loading of the game.
I'm not sure whether you ran a dedicated or a listen server on that Pentium Mobile but I was talking about running a listen server. Being able to run a dedicated server shouldn't be a problem with older machines.
I'm not getting lag, the clients are.
In Left 4 Dead even if the upstream is adequate (1024kbps) the CPU-strain on an older (AMD X2 4800) computer will cause severe lag. And if the CPU suffices you can bet that half of the people will drop due to routing issues. In what world can most of the gaming population handle their own routers and firewalls? I thought I had all STEAM relevant ports open and routed but some people still drop.
He didn't get shocked because he was not the most convenient (or rather inconvenient enough that not much if any current passed through him) path to ground. The knife either shorted the line with neutral or ground with little or none of the current going through him. If he had been the only path to ground the circuit breaker wouldn't have tripped unless he took all of the amps the breaker could supply in which case he would be dead or have serious injuries.
You seem to have misplaced your argument. Have you tried looking under the table for it?
You mean the Sweden in which the social democrats privatized or deregulated most of the previously state owned companies like: the telephone monopoly, the postal office, public transportation, the electricity monopoly and so on?
Have you any empirical support that anti drug information is effective?
All I've read points in the direction that any information positive or negative has a slight positive correlation with an increase in drug use. I.e. the school that gives any drug information will get a slightly higher amount of drug usage than a school that gives no information all other things equal of course.
The reason we don't see much book piracy is that comparatively few people read and even fewer people read on the computer or own a book reader. I got a Sony PRS100 almost two years ago and every last book on there is pirated. Before that I downloaded books and read them on the computer but apparently I'm fairly special in that way because reading on a computer screen doesn't bother me that much. When book readers are common if they get common we might start seeing widespread piracy. I wouldn't bet on it though.
I'd also say that it's easier to scan and OCR a book than it is to crack a game.
They sun will go out eventually. The universe will reach maximum entropy. Nothing is sustainable.
If we had to do things the old way we'd be a lot more thankful that machines make us so efficient it's unbelievable.
Yes, I did fail spectacularly at reading. I also failed at funny.
Don't you mean negative air pressure, you fucking retard?
Your hands hurt when you are learning touch typing because you are straining to keep your fingers and hands in the correct posture. I taught myself (with the help of typing programs) typing at age 22 or so and after a one hour session my hands were cramping up. But I kept at it and then it didn't hurt after a while. In fact it's probably less tiring to type now than it was with my old method. I'd say you're drawing far reaching conclusions from worthless anecdotal data. An analogy would be using muscle soreness to say that exercise is bad for you.
If you really want to feel hand pain try typing on a mechanical typewriter. You'll actually be sore for a few days if you start with a long session. And that's from someone who at that time had worked as a carpenter for about six months so I was not totally devoid of muscle and tendons. I think it was a Hermes 3000 but I'm to lazy to check. I probably had it at it's softest setting too.
I also tried switching to dvorak and went a few months or so with most of my typing done in dvorak but I got tired of that when I was unable to reach my former qwerty speed and having to deal with all the interface problems. Interestingly my hands once again started hurting when I tried dvorak as I was again forcing my hands consciously but again that pain went away. I do still remember dvorak quite well and can switch instantly from qwerty to dvorak and less instantly from dvorak to qwerty. Of course it requires a few minutes of warmup before it feels comfortable. I usually switch to dvorak every other month to see if I still remember it and to keep that muscle memory alive. Even if I don't use it I'll be damned if I'm going to forget what I so painstakingly learned.
No, censorship is when you are required to submit your material beforehand so they can edit it.
Since when has anyone needed to "economically support" wars? We had wars when the average person was happy if he wasn't starving.
I do agree that nukes are probably a big reason but I don't think that's all of it.
The severity, as in number of people killed, is lower. The frequency, as in the number of wars, is lower.
If you really doubt this I could probably dig up the stats but since you haven't even read any stats and still have an opinion, I doubt you would read those.
Then why is the frequency and severity of wars lower today than they were historically?
What toxins?
Please define the term tendency.
Could you name 100 monopolies that didn't have any special legal support?
When you've failed to do that please explain how you reached the conclusion that capitalism "tends" towards monopoly.
How few regulations are there in the financial markets?
Do you or do you not have a central bank that sets the interest rates?
Yes, interstate is a perfectly cromulent word used by all English speaking people in all countries. Not using it is a certain indicator of insufficient google skills.
Have you ever seen a doctor that's addicted to opiates? Neither have I because it's not the drug itself that harms you in any spectacular way. The junkie you saw is an excellent argument against street junkie life but not against opiate abuse.
Bioshock itself is a simplified and prettied up sequel to the the sequel of the original (System Shock).
Oh god how I wished Bioshock was more like systemshock 2.