...regulated rates...
...free market...
That term...I don't think it means what you think it means. To be fair, though, it would be better than what we have now.
How are you going to confront a picture of you running a red light?
That's kind of the point they're trying to make. You can't, despite having a right to do so.
If you were making passage for a ambulance or policy vehicle, there will be witnesses and incident logs.
So you get to take a day off work to go into a court room, demand that the GPS logs of the emergency vehicles in that area be retrieved (assuming they even exist), show that your ticket was at the same time the emergency vehicle was going through, hope that the judge believes you that you really were making room and not just taking advantage of all the stopped traffic, and even if you do get out of the ticket, possibly have to pay court fees. All of which could be avoided if it were a cop on the corner instead of a camera. Sounds like a plan to me!
I haven't played any game since that felt as free and fun to play as WC and Descent. There was some close-to-fun stuff in one of the Startrek space combat games, but trying to use capships as space fighters isn't as fun (it's more strategy "target weapons, engines, etc.") Though I believe it could be done much better, the "StarTrek" name is detrimental since startrek doesn't use fighter craft in combat. (Star Wars on the other hand does, but Star Wars games are so pigeonholed to the "StarWars" universe that you don't get any 6DOF here either.)
Might I recommend Freespace and/or Freespace 2? Sounds like they might be exactly what you're looking for, and with the Freespace 2 Source Code Project the graphics have gotten a very nice upgrade (though both those games still looked good years after their initial release).
It comes down to this: new game came out, you can either buy $200 portable system and pay $40 for the game or buy a $200 iOS device that will get a newer revision three times before the next portable gaming system comes out and download it to your iOS device for $10. Guess what most people will do?
Fixed for accuracy.
The scenario you describe is a little off since it isn't a PSA addressing something illegal like the NBC one was. [...] Overall I think the real issue (as others have stated) is that homeland security is involved in this at all.
My point was more about bias than legality, just because something is illegal doesn't mean we should trust any old person or company to talk about it, especially through our government and without disclosure that there is a conflict of interest. This one may have been fine, but I dislike the fact that it sets a precedent. I find it pretty easy to imagine future ones branding people who are for IP reform, or even removing IP laws altogether, but who respect the law as is, being defamed due to biased PSAs. If the government finds it ok to place seeds of distrust in the general populace toward groups of political activists who happen to want something big media (or big oil or big or small anything for that matter) doesn't...well, we're already too close to that for my comfort. I really don't want to see what things will look like if we go all the way.
But I do agree with your final point. That's a "WTF" that I think everyone can get behind.
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