Exactly. I just recently bought an indie game because I thought the demo was very good and it looked like a fun game. Get the serial key and, what's this? You can only install this on one computer.
Treat customers like pirates and you'll find a lot more of them acting like it. I know that, if I find another of that companies games interesting, I'll just pirate it. I mean, if they're gonna treat me like a criminal, why not act like one?
Exactly. All that proves is that the people suing are even stupider than they seem because they're trying to stop something that's already on the internet, and we all know how that goes.
"It's not harassment; it's simply notifying employers that someone they may be hiring is a bad hire."
That's exactly what harassment is, that that's exactly the wrong response. Ruining lives is not justice, and should never be condoned in a civilized society. What you propose is no better than what she did, deliberately and systematically ruining a life.
Ah, but if it's the language, then no one gets the blame. If it's the implimentation, then whoever implemented the system, and their bosses, get the blame. Ergo it is quite important in a politic sense, if useless in a practical sense (and that can be said about 90% of governmental affairs btw)
Don't attribute someone being nice to you (not cutting your pay) to them actually being nice, when it can be explained by them being too incompetent to hurt you.
GP was trying to make a play on Hanlon's Razer, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, by reversing it.
"It may be rare, but countries dig for it where ever they can and it's NATURAL radioactive and controlled."
If you're still refering to plutonium then I am sorry for your lack of education. The first 92 elements are naturally found, the rest are synthetic, and plutonium's number 94 (which is more than 92). And just because something's radioactive doesn't mean it's automatically dangerous. Many smoke detectors contain Americonium, which is radioactive. Better throw out your smoke detector, just in case!
"All drugs are plants, even highly deadly ones."
False. Flat out false. A completely false, easily falsifiable, utterly false statement. You may as well have said that the color red is actually green. Here's a list of a few non-natural drugs, both prescription and illegal, for your perusal. Be aware, however , that this is extremely far from a complete list, and is just a list of synthetic drugs I found with a quick google search (for "Synthetic Drugs" mind you)
Methamphetamine LSD Ecstasy 99% of Prescription drugs (guess what? Those are drugs too! Guess we should ban 'em) Diphenhydramine (the stuff in Tylenol PM that makes it PM)
Note that I'm not really for legalizing drugs. I'm just not against it, and I don't like people who distribute blatant mis-information.
Fine by me. Go dig for plutonium. Have fun. And when you're done, I've got a bridge in Brookland to sell you.
(Here's a hint for the chemistry disabled. Plutonium is not a naturally occurring element, at least in any reasonable amount).
And on a more serious note, I wouldn't care at all if you started digging up Uranium. Now, if you try to use that to harm me, or try to enrich it, then I have a problem, but Uranium isn't a big deal on its own.
Or, more realistically, more force options, to be used properly and improperly as befits human beings who are far less than perfect.
Something abused != Something bad. That is the more tired and idiotic argument of the 'all weapons should be lethal' crowd.
This is going to be an interesting innovation if it works as advertised. Should especially make the more dangerous situations (capture alive and hostage) easier to deal with since the soldiers will have guns that can shoot to kill or injure, allowing them to fire into situations they normally couldn't.
Am I the only one who doesn't get this? Are you trying to imply the article isn't Canadian in origin? What does the 'confusing Canada with England' line mean?
It's not the coding, or at least not the flaws in the coding. Halo 3 has the exact same problem, there's always a tiny bit of lag, and that tiny bit of lag can throw your aim off enough to make you lose.
Well if we're going to use 'speeding at one point' as the definition of speeding then I challenge you to find anyone who drives near the speed limit who doesn't speed. Instantaneous speed is less important (and not measured by either device, mind you) than average.
At which point they'll just ban it entirely. They're already using overkill, what's the differences between a nuclear and a thermonuclear bomb if you don't care about the target's safety?
The best systems are the ones that take advantage of people's laziness to help them. If it required filling out a form in order to give out any information on a customer I bet you'd see far less information being given out. On the other hand, if you can give out the information easily, you're more likely to give it out freely.
The more it costs people (in time) to give out your information, the safer your information is.
"Uh... you are comparing "Zero is a number" etc to "God exists"... axioms in Math and Science are "small"."
And you're assuming that the assumption that Zero is a number is a small matter. It's really not, zero seems pretty common to us but it's an odd concept when you get down and think about it, and there are a lot of things you can't do with Zero that you can do with just about any other number (factorials, without the additional 0! = 1 definition, division, etc) which would seem to call into question Zero's role as a number.
And that's just the axioms for Peanos's Arithmatic, it ignores hundreds of others ones relating to the more complex fields, the more complex numbers, negative numbers, and many others.
Also, just something of interest here, I note that the word successor wasn't defined in those axioms. Seems like a fairly simply definition, but what if I wanted to define successor(a) = rand()? That wouldn't be 'illegal' according to those axioms, but would break the fourth (and perhaps the third) ones. Obviously it's assuming a definition of successor that's reversible, but that's another assumption that should be added to the axioms somewhere.
Dumbstuck? Have you never been in a classroom before? That is probably the most common situation in classrooms during a test. Someone always finishes far faster than the others.
I'm just glad that College teachers are smart enough (most of the time) to just put the tests at the end of class and let people leave when they finish. That way the fast kids can go do something else, instead of just having to sit there for half and hour.
Finals at my high school were awful because of this. I tend to take tests fast, not necessarily correct (I'm in the High-B, Low-A range, but I get that while working really fast) but extremely fast. In High School I took a Final once (Physics) which was pretty easy, and mostly Multiple Choice and One-Sentance Answer. We were alloted over 2 hours to take the test, I was done in 20 minutes (counting looking over the test twice to check my answers). School policy (not teacher policy, she would have gladly let me leave given the chance I'm sure) was that students couldn't leave the classroom until the final was over. I ended up sitting there for over and hour, twidling my thumbs, before everyone else finished and the teacher let us have some fun.
Exactly. Chernobyl is already getting to habitable levels again, plants are growing, tours are being given, it's still far from safe enough to live in constantly, but it's getting closer.
Same goes for Trinity site, which has only a small amount more radiation than background, and is only left unoccupied because it's on a missile test site.
But, will it then unblacklist everything, as a result of the blacklisting software being unable to reach the blacklisting site? Oh, that would make for an interesting paradox...
Yes, that's pretty much it. But on the flip side of things, should we expect to be able to run torrents 24/7-365? Or at what point is excessive bandwidth "excessive?" Ethicly (not legally, that's a lot more muddled...which is sad) I'd say that excessive bandwidth is anything over what the ISP told you they'd give you. If you want to run torrents 24/7 365, but you keep your per second bandwidth use under what the ISP told you they'd sell you, then I'd say you're not using excessive bandwidth.
When it comes to bandwidth the total amount really doesn't matter (despite what the ISPs would have you believe). It's the amount per second, or, more reasonably, minute, that is the real determining factor. If I use 300 Gigs of bandwidth, but do so in 10 gigs a night, at the times when every normal person is asleep, over the course of the entire month that's going to have far less of an impact on my neighbors than if I used 30 Gigs on the first of the month during the waking hours.
Hmm...anyone else getting visions of power company like pricing? You pay per gig (or something) a reasonable fee (such that the average person pays the same then as now), but if you use it during off hours you pay less. It's probably been thought of before but it might help, those torrents would be a lot cheaper to run during off hours, making normal usage faster during on hours.
"But to stretch your argument until it breaks, if you buy a gun then it's yours, but you still aren't allowed to modify it in such a way that it is illegal"
No you're not, but it's not because you don't own the gun. Rather it's because owning a modified gun is illegal.
In other words, to get really nitpicky, it's not the modification of the gun that is illegal, it's the modified gun itself (and the parts in many areas). As long as I don't modify my gun in a way to make it illegal, I can keep on modding it all week (ever seen the picture of the sniper rifle with a cupholder on it?)
Hang on a second, either you mispoke, or were just to vague. I don't think any legal system would have it be illegal to copy any copyrighted work, but then allow "reproduc[ing] the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords". Maybe it's just two different definitions of the word copy?
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Exactly. I just recently bought an indie game because I thought the demo was very good and it looked like a fun game. Get the serial key and, what's this? You can only install this on one computer.
Treat customers like pirates and you'll find a lot more of them acting like it. I know that, if I find another of that companies games interesting, I'll just pirate it. I mean, if they're gonna treat me like a criminal, why not act like one?
Exactly. All that proves is that the people suing are even stupider than they seem because they're trying to stop something that's already on the internet, and we all know how that goes.
And if what she did isn't against the law you can't punish her for it. Your argument defeats itself.
"It's not harassment; it's simply notifying employers that someone they may be hiring is a bad hire."
That's exactly what harassment is, that that's exactly the wrong response. Ruining lives is not justice, and should never be condoned in a civilized society. What you propose is no better than what she did, deliberately and systematically ruining a life.
Ah, but if it's the language, then no one gets the blame. If it's the implimentation, then whoever implemented the system, and their bosses, get the blame. Ergo it is quite important in a politic sense, if useless in a practical sense (and that can be said about 90% of governmental affairs btw)
Don't attribute someone being nice to you (not cutting your pay) to them actually being nice, when it can be explained by them being too incompetent to hurt you.
GP was trying to make a play on Hanlon's Razer, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, by reversing it.
Actually it was hidden content, that was the entire problem.
"For kids, school should be akin to their 9-5 job."
And what a horrible job it is. Would any rational person go to school as a job?
http://blog.shlang.com/post/38977434/would-you-work-with-micromanaging-boss-no-salary-and
"It may be rare, but countries dig for it where ever they can and it's NATURAL radioactive and controlled."
If you're still refering to plutonium then I am sorry for your lack of education. The first 92 elements are naturally found, the rest are synthetic, and plutonium's number 94 (which is more than 92). And just because something's radioactive doesn't mean it's automatically dangerous. Many smoke detectors contain Americonium, which is radioactive. Better throw out your smoke detector, just in case!
"All drugs are plants, even highly deadly ones."
False. Flat out false. A completely false, easily falsifiable, utterly false statement. You may as well have said that the color red is actually green. Here's a list of a few non-natural drugs, both prescription and illegal, for your perusal. Be aware, however , that this is extremely far from a complete list, and is just a list of synthetic drugs I found with a quick google search (for "Synthetic Drugs" mind you)
Methamphetamine
LSD
Ecstasy
99% of Prescription drugs (guess what? Those are drugs too! Guess we should ban 'em)
Diphenhydramine (the stuff in Tylenol PM that makes it PM)
Note that I'm not really for legalizing drugs. I'm just not against it, and I don't like people who distribute blatant mis-information.
Fine by me. Go dig for plutonium. Have fun. And when you're done, I've got a bridge in Brookland to sell you.
(Here's a hint for the chemistry disabled. Plutonium is not a naturally occurring element, at least in any reasonable amount).
And on a more serious note, I wouldn't care at all if you started digging up Uranium. Now, if you try to use that to harm me, or try to enrich it, then I have a problem, but Uranium isn't a big deal on its own.
Quick! Put the strap on so they can't get it even out of your cold dead hands!
Or, more realistically, more force options, to be used properly and improperly as befits human beings who are far less than perfect.
Something abused != Something bad. That is the more tired and idiotic argument of the 'all weapons should be lethal' crowd.
This is going to be an interesting innovation if it works as advertised. Should especially make the more dangerous situations (capture alive and hostage) easier to deal with since the soldiers will have guns that can shoot to kill or injure, allowing them to fire into situations they normally couldn't.
Am I the only one who doesn't get this? Are you trying to imply the article isn't Canadian in origin? What does the 'confusing Canada with England' line mean?
It's not the coding, or at least not the flaws in the coding. Halo 3 has the exact same problem, there's always a tiny bit of lag, and that tiny bit of lag can throw your aim off enough to make you lose.
Well if we're going to use 'speeding at one point' as the definition of speeding then I challenge you to find anyone who drives near the speed limit who doesn't speed. Instantaneous speed is less important (and not measured by either device, mind you) than average.
At which point they'll just ban it entirely. They're already using overkill, what's the differences between a nuclear and a thermonuclear bomb if you don't care about the target's safety?
The best systems are the ones that take advantage of people's laziness to help them. If it required filling out a form in order to give out any information on a customer I bet you'd see far less information being given out. On the other hand, if you can give out the information easily, you're more likely to give it out freely.
The more it costs people (in time) to give out your information, the safer your information is.
"Uh... you are comparing "Zero is a number" etc to "God exists"... axioms in Math and Science are "small"."
And you're assuming that the assumption that Zero is a number is a small matter. It's really not, zero seems pretty common to us but it's an odd concept when you get down and think about it, and there are a lot of things you can't do with Zero that you can do with just about any other number (factorials, without the additional 0! = 1 definition, division, etc) which would seem to call into question Zero's role as a number.
And that's just the axioms for Peanos's Arithmatic, it ignores hundreds of others ones relating to the more complex fields, the more complex numbers, negative numbers, and many others.
Also, just something of interest here, I note that the word successor wasn't defined in those axioms. Seems like a fairly simply definition, but what if I wanted to define successor(a) = rand()? That wouldn't be 'illegal' according to those axioms, but would break the fourth (and perhaps the third) ones. Obviously it's assuming a definition of successor that's reversible, but that's another assumption that should be added to the axioms somewhere.
Dumbstuck? Have you never been in a classroom before? That is probably the most common situation in classrooms during a test. Someone always finishes far faster than the others.
I'm just glad that College teachers are smart enough (most of the time) to just put the tests at the end of class and let people leave when they finish. That way the fast kids can go do something else, instead of just having to sit there for half and hour.
Finals at my high school were awful because of this. I tend to take tests fast, not necessarily correct (I'm in the High-B, Low-A range, but I get that while working really fast) but extremely fast. In High School I took a Final once (Physics) which was pretty easy, and mostly Multiple Choice and One-Sentance Answer. We were alloted over 2 hours to take the test, I was done in 20 minutes (counting looking over the test twice to check my answers). School policy (not teacher policy, she would have gladly let me leave given the chance I'm sure) was that students couldn't leave the classroom until the final was over. I ended up sitting there for over and hour, twidling my thumbs, before everyone else finished and the teacher let us have some fun.
Exactly. Chernobyl is already getting to habitable levels again, plants are growing, tours are being given, it's still far from safe enough to live in constantly, but it's getting closer.
Same goes for Trinity site, which has only a small amount more radiation than background, and is only left unoccupied because it's on a missile test site.
But, will it then unblacklist everything, as a result of the blacklisting software being unable to reach the blacklisting site? Oh, that would make for an interesting paradox...
When it comes to bandwidth the total amount really doesn't matter (despite what the ISPs would have you believe). It's the amount per second, or, more reasonably, minute, that is the real determining factor. If I use 300 Gigs of bandwidth, but do so in 10 gigs a night, at the times when every normal person is asleep, over the course of the entire month that's going to have far less of an impact on my neighbors than if I used 30 Gigs on the first of the month during the waking hours.
Hmm...anyone else getting visions of power company like pricing? You pay per gig (or something) a reasonable fee (such that the average person pays the same then as now), but if you use it during off hours you pay less. It's probably been thought of before but it might help, those torrents would be a lot cheaper to run during off hours, making normal usage faster during on hours.
"...you filthy customer. The most concise phrase I have yet heard to describe how I feel dealing with Canadian Telcos and ISPs."
...you filthy customer. The most concise phrase I have yet heard to describe how I feel dealing with any big company.
More like:
"But to stretch your argument until it breaks, if you buy a gun then it's yours, but you still aren't allowed to modify it in such a way that it is illegal"
No you're not, but it's not because you don't own the gun. Rather it's because owning a modified gun is illegal.
In other words, to get really nitpicky, it's not the modification of the gun that is illegal, it's the modified gun itself (and the parts in many areas). As long as I don't modify my gun in a way to make it illegal, I can keep on modding it all week (ever seen the picture of the sniper rifle with a cupholder on it?)
Hang on a second, either you mispoke, or were just to vague. I don't think any legal system would have it be illegal to copy any copyrighted work, but then allow "reproduc[ing] the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords". Maybe it's just two different definitions of the word copy?