Comment Re:"FOR ANIME FANS" (Score 2, Funny) 299
In my experience, absolutely not. Quit spreading untrue stereotypes, I mean it.
In my experience, absolutely not. Quit spreading untrue stereotypes, I mean it.
Totally uninformed question (as usual), but what is stopping them from just putting an oxygen mask on and walking away?
The constitution explicitly says that congress can only allow patents to further progress.
So a patent that blocks critical progress in our society would mean that the law that allowed the patent is unconstitutional, no?
Sooo, only patents that can be worked around are constitutional, unless they're worthless, right? After all, society would still run without the "interactive web", you just wouldn't have nice things. I bet that the patent would have stood up in court if it had been enforced much earlier, when it was new and only a few people were using it.
Oh, yeah, that is frigging insightful. +4 already. 'Cause there is nothing more insightful than calling someone else an idiot.
Especially when it is that bloody obvious he's an idiot. Doesn't require much insight at all. Oh wait, you didn't mean that did you?
I bet they called it 'Operation Sandwich'.
The sound of the truth, blowing him away.
Funnily enough, there was a story about this a couple of years ago. Well, sort of about that.
Heh, they could just have a server that by default allows the DRM check to pass, and not have to worry about customer details for the time that the other server is offline. But no, they had to choose the horrible way to do it. Should be thinking twice about buying a game from these jokers, I mean other than the way they already treated their 'customers' up until this point.
As an outsider to the US, may I humbly suggest that as a start, an alternative voting system could be used, such as some sort of single transferable vote system. At least then citizens will not have to worry about wasting their vote.
If there is something wrong with my above statement, I would like to know. And yes, pigs may fly and all that.
Society is in general revolt over the current copyright law terms. The man in the street realizes the media giants have gone too far, but some how congress can't see it yet. Maybe they are just starting to see there is a problem.
In my experience it is completely mixed. A lot of people think that it is the law, so it must be good. The techs where I work first heard about SOPA when I went to a wikipedia page in front of them during the blackout (not deliberately, actually was trying to look something up); they didn't much care, and since I knew about it I believe they thought I used the internet too much. The close relatives I have mentioned it to (once) didn't know what it is either, probably because they are informed by TV news and newspapers, which never mentioned it at all, at least before the blackout. It is not something I would particularly want to talk about face to face, simply because it is not 'cool', and that matters.
Maybe your experience is different.
Couldn't resist.
Ah, a budding eugenicist. You do realise that the traits a child manifests are not necessarily the traits either of their parents manifested. This is high school chemistry class material.
Totally agreed.
I have seen people who base their actions on an idealised (to them) version of what the world should be. The results are disastrous. This can be seen when someone puts up argument around something that sounds good, such as "you shouldn't use or benefit from something that was made from the suffering of others". They don't even think of what effects the abstract construction that they invented actually has if it is used. It sounds good to them so it MUST be right. These people also tend to be very hypocritical and selective about what these rules apply to.
As for doing something because it is the 'right' thing to do, screw that, give me cause and effect.
Note I am not devaluing the value of human life, dignity, non-suffering or anything of the kind, just saying that certain moralities that appear good can have very negative effects.
Put it in the other direction, what if US get successfully invaded, the government replaced, the resistence obliterated, people sent to be tortured in concentration camps and the invaders shit over the corpse of your fathers/friends/whatever, would you be a little outraged? Would be their right to do so? At least the disclosing is not as bad as what was done in Irak.
And misspelling your country's name.
I also have a face, so I claim MyFace. I also have a book about space.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion