You seems to be (or at least act like) the 'flamboyant, rainbow-flag weaving, makeup and skirt wearing fag' type of gay. Would you consider not sinking the whole gay ship with your burning homosexuality?
The real problem is that the expression 'conspiracy theorist' were manipulated to mean batshit crazy tinfoil hat wearing idiots talking all sort of unfounded paranoid nonsense.
I don't think it's incidental. Now anyone who don't believe the official story is labeled a conspiracy theorist (correctly), which means most people discredit him without listening or considering what he actually says.
Others rebuffed your crazy shit already. I'd like to add two more things:
1. The percentage of drone strikes that have hit American citizens is so small as to be negligible The percentage of American citizens hit by terrorists is also negligible. I'm curious if you'd feel the same if the negligible collateral damage included your parents/mate/children.
2. American citizens. So it is OK to kill sovereign nations citizens? Following your logic, AQ is doing the same to the USA: 1. extrajudicial killing 2. of foreign citizens 3. without declaring war 4. using HE weapons 5. disregarding collateral damage
So tell me, what part doesn't match the USA as much as the AQ?
That's why it is called armsrace. Blizzard has constant income from the game. They have the resources to force a change in the cheat programs every few weeks with an update.
The cheat developers have to constantly update their programs. Either they have to work for free, or ask more money from the cheaters that bought their program.
Blizzard's purpose should be to raise the cost of cheat program development/purchase to the point where it's not worth paying it. Few cheaters are willing to pay 20-60$ per week to stay up to date.
You're correct about steam's current policy. You still have to accept the new TOS if you want to log in to your account etc. You can't sell your used games the way you can sell a CD (although you should be able to in the EU)
My point still stands: more and more manufacturers try to pull this "you only license" crap.
My solution to the TV problem: computer, internet, 23" monitor. (maybe someday I'll buy a TV, but will use it only as a dumb screen, and definitely won't allow it near the harsh wilderness of the internet). Programming and net security is one weak aspect of TV, car and (seemingly) smartphone manufacturers, so let's trust this job to a more sophisticated system.
The original 14 years is more then enough to recapture expenses and make a nice profit.
After that, there is no need for government granted monopolies.
And before someone starts to whine about "owning their intellectual property", let me point out, that preventing someone from copying is not a natural right of the creator, and copying is not stealing "expected profits" in any way.
(S)He were pointing out correctly that thanks to Hollywood's creative accounting practices, taxes were evaded, actors and the actual creators of the movie who should have been paid from the net got nothing.
Apparently IRS is not interested in investigating large scale fraud in the billions magnitude when it comes to MPAA members.
This whole"bandwidth hog service or P2P" argument is a red herring.
The end user paid for the bandwidth. The ISP don't have to provide more bandwidth than their users already paid for, no matter if the source is netflix or wikipedia.
You basically arguing, that netflix should pay more, because netflix users use their full bandwidth, while wikipedia users use only a fraction.
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USTR 301 special report
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Just for the record: most gay people aren't like this. They are normal people with different sexual affinity than you or me.
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Re: Re: Pattern recognition skills of a brick
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Re: Re: Re: After downloading gay porn...
Would you consider not sinking the whole gay ship with your burning homosexuality?
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Re: development to what, exactly?
You seem to be in the misconception of intellectual monopolies are needed for innovation.
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I don't think it's incidental. Now anyone who don't believe the official story is labeled a conspiracy theorist (correctly), which means most people discredit him without listening or considering what he actually says.
Look how it turned out in case of the NSA.
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Re: The Cynical Misanthrope in Me
I'd question the premise of these policies. I think they were never seriously intended to curb tehrorism, so they continue.
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Re: Writing for the minority
I'd like to add two more things:
1.
The percentage of drone strikes that have hit American citizens is so small as to be negligible
The percentage of American citizens hit by terrorists is also negligible.
I'm curious if you'd feel the same if the negligible collateral damage included your parents/mate/children.
2.
American citizens. So it is OK to kill sovereign nations citizens? Following your logic, AQ is doing the same to the USA:
1. extrajudicial killing
2. of foreign citizens
3. without declaring war
4. using HE weapons
5. disregarding collateral damage
So tell me, what part doesn't match the USA as much as the AQ?
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Re: Re: Re: Drone Killing Strategy Is Having Zero Impact On Al-Qaeda Attack Numbers
On the post: Blizzard Still Twisting And Distorting Copyright To Go After Cheaters
Re: Re:
Blizzard has constant income from the game. They have the resources to force a change in the cheat programs every few weeks with an update.
The cheat developers have to constantly update their programs. Either they have to work for free, or ask more money from the cheaters that bought their program.
Blizzard's purpose should be to raise the cost of cheat program development/purchase to the point where it's not worth paying it.
Few cheaters are willing to pay 20-60$ per week to stay up to date.
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Licensing my ass
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Pressure that not supposed to exist
So tell me this: why has the executive branch of the US has any influence on the legisative branch?
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Re: Re: You don't own what you buy
My point still stands: more and more manufacturers try to pull this "you only license" crap.
My solution to the TV problem: computer, internet, 23" monitor. (maybe someday I'll buy a TV, but will use it only as a dumb screen, and definitely won't allow it near the harsh wilderness of the internet).
Programming and net security is one weak aspect of TV, car and (seemingly) smartphone manufacturers, so let's trust this job to a more sophisticated system.
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You don't own what you buy
Apparently, you don't buy smart TVs either, you only "license" them. That's why I don't have TV.
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Re: Re:
After that, there is no need for government granted monopolies.
And before someone starts to whine about "owning their intellectual property", let me point out, that preventing someone from copying is not a natural right of the creator, and copying is not stealing "expected profits" in any way.
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Re: No net?
Apparently IRS is not interested in investigating large scale fraud in the billions magnitude when it comes to MPAA members.
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thank you.
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The end user paid for the bandwidth. The ISP don't have to provide more bandwidth than their users already paid for, no matter if the source is netflix or wikipedia.
You basically arguing, that netflix should pay more, because netflix users use their full bandwidth, while wikipedia users use only a fraction.
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Serious set of data
Based on untried accusations by copyright holders.
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Re: Every Government Ever...
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