The issue is that 1) One of the largest retailers, Wal-Mart, will not sell an AO rated game. So even if MS, Sony and Nintendo allowed AO games to be licensed, you'd sell like 10 copies. 2) But on the other hand, they will sell unrated (ie, no ESRB involvement whatsoever) PC games. 3) You have to try REALLY REALLY hard to even get an AO rating from the ESRB. 4) So if you're making a game that you know for sure is going to be AO from the start, you might as well just make it for PC/Mac and sell it online anyway. However, I still do agree that a ratings system is kind of pointless when the "worst" rating isn't even usable.

They can't stop you from making a homebrew porn Kinect game. They don't have to sign your code with their private licensee-only key though to let you sell it to unmodded 360s, on the other hand.

PBS has -always- had ads. They just had fewer back then. I vastly prefer the calmly narrated ads for Sears and so on that air on PBS versus the loud obnoxious INSERT BAD SONG COVER AND GRAPHICS. Strangely, I can remember more PBS ads than I do mainstream ads..

I'd throw in a bunch of money to support that AC. Unfortunately, it seems people that are usually "i hate region restrictions!" and "open source everything!" all just live with GlovePIE for some silly reason.

Weren't they talking about restricting it to their customers though (I believe 4.1.1.x is owned by Level3). Or did they change their mind on that?

Not license their music to Apple?

A silly reply is the only thing that fits a silly question.

The rib thing is already wrong, because it insinuates that women can be created from men, when it's been proven that the natural default gender of a human is female, and you become male later.

The passage is mostly used to 'justify' that women are 'inferior' to men.

An accurate Bible would state that Adam was created from Eve's rib, since she would have all the genes needed. Adam would not have the genes to create Eve.

Enjoyed watching him as a kid and into adulthood. He never talked down to the viewer and just had that genuine interest in astronomy that made you want to go out and look at the sky (as best you could inside heavy city light pollution)

I thought the whole point of the iMac is that you're buying a small form factor, which will inherently always be behind a tower in terms of power:cost.

It's essentially a unportable laptop.

Then fix it by increasing the jail time for the actual crime of rape or immediately lock them up in the loony bin. Don't pull the unconstitutional bullshit of basically punishing someone AGAIN after serving their time. Having the registry just proves the fact that we don't even trust our jail system to rehabilitate people, but we'll never be able to fix it because someone that does is "soft on crime"

On the other hand, it'll be easier to block the known spammers because fewer of them will be able to afford the hardware/sweatshop/botnet setups once the computational brute force needed increases.

Just because the copyright expired doesn't mean you could no longer make money off selling the book to people that waited. You can continue selling your version of the book. Slap "Official Version" on it. You could make sequels to the book that would be newly copyrighted.

This is why I don't understand Disney sometimes. They can keep Mickey as a trademark, but they're spending $texas to protect Steamboat Willy. As far as I know, Steamboat Willy is probably a misplaced smudge somewhere in their accounting books.

They don't have to provide a clean copy of Steamboat Willy. People will be able to dissect, study, and show Steamboat Willy to future generations so that we can actually see the history of American animation evolve over time. They'll just have to get it out of existing sources.

They also have the ability to make NEW Mickey cartoons which will have full copyright protection! Cartoons that would bring in much more money than SW does.

I mean, it's not like our copyright laws are stopping China and Taiwan from making Disney knockoff merchandise. People know they are fake. If you are truly putting out the best version of your product, people will know that it's the "real" version. Instead of going after daycares that paint Mickey on their outside wall, you can make money selling your official stencils so that he's on-model. Instead of keeping Steamboat under key, how about you create and sell a curriculum centered around studying it for animation students that you can sell to colleges.

Oh wait, that would require actually getting up off your ass and making new material centered around your IP instead of just sitting on it.

Having worked at a public library, people don't actually want to FUND the libraries. We had times where there were subjects you could not check books out on at my branch because we had none left and no money to replace them.

It's possible, it's just not a good use of money to just stick ads whereever.

Do you think they just stick billboards up next to a highway because they like to? Those ads you see on highway billboards were bought because the company that paid for them had data on the local population, like income level/political leaning/religion/language and so on.

If you can't tell a company who is coming to your site, they're less likely to buy ads if they do at all.

Definitely need some controls over tracking, though.