Do an experiment, go online, and check rules on things like apartment complexes, job listings, credit institutions.
You'd be amazed, but as a felon, you can't live in most apartment complexes, some HOA's have rules against felons in neighborhoods, and most trailer parks(at least here in Georgia) won't allow you to live there if you have a record.
So that's all the cheap places to live, let's talk jobs.
You basically won't get a job with a record in today's economy, it was bad enough before states started offering a "Yes/No" response to "Does this person have a record" now, don't even bother applying.
Some credit card companies will turn you down if you are a felon now.
So basically, for an example, say you do something stupid when you are a teenager. That one stupid thing follows you for the erst of your life, after serving your sentence, which supposedly pays your debt to society.
But it never ends. And people wonder why so many criminals turn back to crime after the first time getting caught?
Our society is a "One Strike and you're out" society.
Think about the fact that for example, in many states, you can be arrested for "Felony Speeding" Some states will arrest you for battery or assault for hitting the guy who tried to mug you, or the guy who broke into your house. You can get charged with Animal Cruelty for hitting the dog that bit you to get him to let go(I have a friend who is a felon because of an attack like this, I testified that it was self-defense at his trial, cause he took the bite for me after the dog jumped its fence)
Many states have "Repeat Offender" laws, where things like trespassing(a misdemeanor) can be turned into felony by doing it more than twice in 5(ten in GA) years.
I have known people who committed crimes simply so they could have a place to stay in winter, because they are forced to become homeless after committing a crime as a teenager and being tried as an adult.
And think about this, if you break the law, you are a criminal. Drive Buzzed? Yep. Go one mile an hour over the speed limit? Yep. Cross the street outside of the crosswalk? Yep. Spit on the sidewalk? Yep. Throw your cigarette butt out the window/on the ground? Yep. Cuss in front of children? In many states, yes. Pull up onto an intersection and have your front tires over/on the line? Yep.
Things just about every single person does every day, and it makes them a criminal. After all, the definition of criminal is someone who breaks a law.
The Regular Guys here in Atlanta have lunches each week where they go to different restaurants in the area and eat lunch, while talking with the fans that show up. It's gotten to the point that restaurants call in and offer them stuff to have a lunch there cause the crowd that gathers is so large.
All this TSA crap just means that when I went to buy a new car, I made DAMN sure it had good gas mileage, is comfortable to drive, and isn't a pain in the butt on maintenance.
From here on out, I drive. (actually, already drove a 4487 mile trip last month)
Sadly, this is going to lose them alot of customers, and they will simply blame piracy as the problem anyway, not lack of actual sales due to supreme idiocy on their own part.
Plus, you now know that this game is A: going to be so linear that bad decisions simply will not be possible, because that would make the game truly unplayable from that save point on(if you saved after the bad decision but didn't know it)
and B: that it will hand-hold you through every possible moment, because with only one save, you literally will not be able to do anything but play it like a rail shooter.
and C: There will be no "Rare Unlocks" as you will HAVE to be forcefed every bit of content on your first run through the game, so difficulty of anything will be set for the lowest skilled person on the planet.
seriously? you are that paranoid? i certainly hope you have your wifi either turned completely off, or locked down with WPA2(at least) as well as running the Mac address filtering on your router like a good techie.
now, here in realityland, i can tell you that sitting in my apartment right here i can connect to at least 15 unsecured wireless networks at any given time, and if i were to say, walk around my apartment complex, could easily triple that number.
now, lets say i have my laptop set on the default, ya know, that evil "Connect to any wireless network in range" setting, you know, the setting that the terrorists made them put in laptops so we could wardrive everywhere!!! er, sorry, i mean, that most people have set, which would mean that as you leave one wifi hotspot and enter another, it would automatically connect, does that mean i am doing it with criminal intent?
yes, Google should have had their system set to connect only to either specific wifi hotspots, or via mobile connection such as cell internet or even Satellite(assuming there is a mobile internet option for satellite, i haven't bothered to check)
however, they didn't, and they connected to a bunch of people's wifi, and they collected the information specific to connecting to that particular wifi, which, while a bit annoying, isnt actually criminal in any way, since if you were to go to those wifi spots you could connect yourself since they were unsecured.
now, if they had posted that information for all to see(i haven't seen anything about them doing that) or made the list of information available to the highest bidder(nope, nothin about that either) then yes, they would have done something criminal.
but instead, from what i have understood about this whole situation, they went and publicly said "hey, we screwed up!" and have complied with the law ever since, so umm, where is the criminal part?
and by the way, in your scenario here:
Again, if a policeman pulled a car over, and in the boot was a crobar, a map, and a list of all the houses in the area with unlocked doors.
actually, it's not a false conclusion, nowhere in the article does it assume going from 0 to 100%, as a matter of fact, it simply says "breaking through" and "cross the 10% finish line"
besides, you have the false conclusion of 0 to 100% with your statement that "the original 90% was done by a very, very small group of people having "AH-HA!" moments." by the simple fact that you assume (falsely i might add) that the team of people working at netflix on their system was very small (it wasn't, believe me) or that it was ONLY their team that came up with the entirety of the idea (again, it wasn't, trust me, or do the research :))
but hey, pop another quarter in, and you get 4 more tries!
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Re: Canceled my preorder
Anyone can play the games you buy on that console, YOU can play them anywhere(I do this all the time)
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You'd be amazed, but as a felon, you can't live in most apartment complexes, some HOA's have rules against felons in neighborhoods, and most trailer parks(at least here in Georgia) won't allow you to live there if you have a record.
So that's all the cheap places to live, let's talk jobs.
You basically won't get a job with a record in today's economy, it was bad enough before states started offering a "Yes/No" response to "Does this person have a record" now, don't even bother applying.
Some credit card companies will turn you down if you are a felon now.
So basically, for an example, say you do something stupid when you are a teenager. That one stupid thing follows you for the erst of your life, after serving your sentence, which supposedly pays your debt to society.
But it never ends. And people wonder why so many criminals turn back to crime after the first time getting caught?
Our society is a "One Strike and you're out" society.
Think about the fact that for example, in many states, you can be arrested for "Felony Speeding" Some states will arrest you for battery or assault for hitting the guy who tried to mug you, or the guy who broke into your house. You can get charged with Animal Cruelty for hitting the dog that bit you to get him to let go(I have a friend who is a felon because of an attack like this, I testified that it was self-defense at his trial, cause he took the bite for me after the dog jumped its fence)
Many states have "Repeat Offender" laws, where things like trespassing(a misdemeanor) can be turned into felony by doing it more than twice in 5(ten in GA) years.
I have known people who committed crimes simply so they could have a place to stay in winter, because they are forced to become homeless after committing a crime as a teenager and being tried as an adult.
And think about this, if you break the law, you are a criminal. Drive Buzzed? Yep. Go one mile an hour over the speed limit? Yep. Cross the street outside of the crosswalk? Yep. Spit on the sidewalk? Yep. Throw your cigarette butt out the window/on the ground? Yep. Cuss in front of children? In many states, yes. Pull up onto an intersection and have your front tires over/on the line? Yep.
Things just about every single person does every day, and it makes them a criminal. After all, the definition of criminal is someone who breaks a law.
Think.
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Regular Guys
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Re: au contraire
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Just means.....
From here on out, I drive. (actually, already drove a 4487 mile trip last month)
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Sucks to be them
Plus, you now know that this game is A: going to be so linear that bad decisions simply will not be possible, because that would make the game truly unplayable from that save point on(if you saved after the bad decision but didn't know it)
and B: that it will hand-hold you through every possible moment, because with only one save, you literally will not be able to do anything but play it like a rail shooter.
and C: There will be no "Rare Unlocks" as you will HAVE to be forcefed every bit of content on your first run through the game, so difficulty of anything will be set for the lowest skilled person on the planet.
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Re: Cui Bono - Who benefits.
now, here in realityland, i can tell you that sitting in my apartment right here i can connect to at least 15 unsecured wireless networks at any given time, and if i were to say, walk around my apartment complex, could easily triple that number.
now, lets say i have my laptop set on the default, ya know, that evil "Connect to any wireless network in range" setting, you know, the setting that the terrorists made them put in laptops so we could wardrive everywhere!!! er, sorry, i mean, that most people have set, which would mean that as you leave one wifi hotspot and enter another, it would automatically connect, does that mean i am doing it with criminal intent?
yes, Google should have had their system set to connect only to either specific wifi hotspots, or via mobile connection such as cell internet or even Satellite(assuming there is a mobile internet option for satellite, i haven't bothered to check)
however, they didn't, and they connected to a bunch of people's wifi, and they collected the information specific to connecting to that particular wifi, which, while a bit annoying, isnt actually criminal in any way, since if you were to go to those wifi spots you could connect yourself since they were unsecured.
now, if they had posted that information for all to see(i haven't seen anything about them doing that) or made the list of information available to the highest bidder(nope, nothin about that either) then yes, they would have done something criminal.
but instead, from what i have understood about this whole situation, they went and publicly said "hey, we screwed up!" and have complied with the law ever since, so umm, where is the criminal part?
and by the way, in your scenario here:
Again, if a policeman pulled a car over, and in the boot was a crobar, a map, and a list of all the houses in the area with unlocked doors.
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besides, you have the false conclusion of 0 to 100% with your statement that "the original 90% was done by a very, very small group of people having "AH-HA!" moments." by the simple fact that you assume (falsely i might add) that the team of people working at netflix on their system was very small (it wasn't, believe me) or that it was ONLY their team that came up with the entirety of the idea (again, it wasn't, trust me, or do the research :))
but hey, pop another quarter in, and you get 4 more tries!
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