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Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images 325

innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"

Comment Re:oh god (Score 1) 262

i don't disagree, but your point really doesn't have anything to do with mine.

i'm pretty sure "let's call it the internet" and "we could use it to share stupid memes" weren't uttered in the same breath.

i'm also pretty sure karl benz first thought after inventing the modern automobile wasn't "you know what, i'd really like to get shitfaced drunk and give this baby a crash test" either.

Comment What the fuck (Score 5, Insightful) 170

Your number one priority in a Tiger Park is... to maintain the tiger population. How the fuck do you let 24 tigers die in 36 months? Am I the only one that thinks that maybe after the first 12 months someone should have said, "wait a minute, we've got less tigers now than 12 months ago" and tried to figure out what the fuck was going wrong? How the fuck do you not notice anything is wrong in three years? Surely 24 tigers did not die in the past few months, right?

Maybe I'm assuming too much; I was sick the day they taught tiger maintenance at tiger school.

Comment Does it really fucking matter? (Score 2, Insightful) 135

Honestly, does it really fucking matter?

It doesn't matter if 100 used games are traded each year or 100 million. GAME COMPANIES GOT THEIR CUT WHEN THEY FUCKING SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I don't give a shit if it takes 5% or 95% of their 'potential revenue' away - JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE ENTITLED TO IT.

In the puntastic words of someone funnier than me, it's not rocket surgery. Geez.

Comment The clue (Score 1) 457

You know what your first clue was?

The name.

Pocky gets its name from the sound the snack makes when you bite it and it snaps... "Pocky! It's one of the many onomatopoeic phrases that the Japanese use. But I digress. When a snack's most prominent feature is the way it SOUNDS, you know you're in trouble when it comes to flavor.

Another example of the Japanese obsession with a food's non-flavor-related traits: Konyaku. A completely bland gelatin-like food praised almost entirely for its texture rather than taste.

Comment Re:Not convinced (Score 1) 152

Here's a novel idea:

For every example you gave, I don't see one that could not be achieved with more accuracy and less hassle than having a mouse in each hand with a different colored cursor. Except for maybe public access, which let's face it is served very well with current touch technology already.

But selling people another $5 mouse just wouldn't be as cool, hypeworthy or anywhere nearly as marketable now, would it?

Comment My two cents (Score 1) 78

My two cents.

Great game. Totally got me hooked after trying the demo. However:

- Way too easy. Or should I say, way too short. I finished the full game in just over 4 hours. And 1 of those hours was when I got stuck trying to force the intended solution for one level, finally got angry and came up with my own solution (One of the rocket levels, ended up not using the rocket). - No, I was right the first time; way too easy. Once you find out you can pin stuff and lift the ball just using small 'lifts', it ends up being pretty easy and you don't need to conform to a lot of the preset layouts. Hell, a lot of the solutions don't require any of the preset 'furniture'.

- SPOILER ALERT - Last level is disappointing, simple and short. Was expecting it to go out with a bang but all I got was a whimper.

Overall, definitely worth the money but really needs to be tweaked a little.

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