for what its worth, just canceled paypal account.
Maybe mass cancellations will make other companies think twice before bending over to usa.

if you put something on the net, you have given up control of it.
That is the practical situation right now, laws are just lagging (badly) behind.

..of a good time travel token to meet a long dead hero. Travel back further and you could meet said hero alive.

you could fuck a chiropractor tho, just to be safe

The music industry has profited immensely from the basic human need to share with others.
Targeting teenagers who have no defense at all is the basic business model, turning them into sales representatives for the label on a massive scale.
It worked extremely well when copies were poor quality, basically acting as a teaser, produced at no cost to the label.

Now they have this terrible dilemma, how to exploit the same weakness when copies are bit perfect?
Well you cant, not without perverting the internet itself. A free internet is not compatible with that business model.

So if you find yourself tearing up over the plight of the music "industry", you should support packet inspection, 3 strikes, censorship etc.
You better have a copyright lawyer on standby, because there are countless ways you can infringe, without even knowing!

If on the other hand you think the internet is too important to twist to serve 1 slimy group of people (I guess it shines through where I stand), then you should not let the music lobby affect the internet or anything you do. Do not give them more money!

There have been music for quite a few centuries now, I doubt there will be silence, maybe a few less billionaire musicians.

If you want to shut down a somewhat controversial organization, the best way is actually to help it.
Nudge it slowly in the controversial direction, in a while it crashes into the limit of public understanding and is gone.

Might be hard with wikileaks tho, Assange is smart and wary.

I agree mostly but one point is that lucas didnt make movies alone, he had some percentage of influence on the original movies.
When you watch the latest triple crapulence you realize that original percentage was probably not very big.

So the lesson is credit where credit is due; scale your expectations according to the percentage of original team involved, instead of a single person or aspect.

sure, pqs are a good idea, but never had a chance because ALL the pve inherited the crapiness of the underlying, shallow crap-layer combat system.

I remember when entering the game first time, getting the "go forth and kill 10 sprites" thing, I thought it was a joke, a cheeky parody on earlier lesser games.
Then after some more quests I got that sinking feeling...

To be fair tho, the rvr was pretty fun and I did spend quite alot of time in game.

It is obvious tho that the producer failed at many points;
- massive pvp advertised and key part of design, but noone bothered to check if the system could actually handle that: it couldnt, not even close
- decent if simple 3d engine, but with plastered on effects (by mythic?) that looked like example templates from some microsoft dev pack, and performed absolutely horribly, bringing top end rigs to knees
- no music
- oddly inconsistent art and animation quality, from good to complete crap
- overall design seems to have changed during development, miniature terrain, buildings and class details suggest a "meta" design where each character represent an army, but quests and later patches seems to have forgotten that. Incoherent mess.
- amateurs at every level, I dont think there was ANY feature that worked quite right, Ive never seen anything like it. Even bugfixes went out bugged!

So I think ealouse is quite right in blasting the producer, but I dont think any part of the team should be terribly proud here.

Id really hate if the industry concludes from WAR failure that theres no market for this kind of game, people had fun with it despite all the flaws, but the flaws were massive and many and as people started to realize there was no intention of fixing it, they left.

is any environment that lets you run eclipse or open office etc. also has firefox 1 click away and hence slashdot or facehook or whatever your particular weakness is.

Boot to a pure shell and theres atleast some temporal insulation from the howling winds of distraction.

He secured his place in history a long time ago and is STILL at it, and most impressive, still relevant.

..Jon Honeyball was hired to create buzz..

I think Ive been patient enough, you are starting to bore me now.
While I dont like to, I will put my foot down now;

The following commandments should be chiseled in stone, engraved by laser in a meteorite, embedded in the standard neck-chip or other method suitable for your preferred epoch:

NO TRADEMARKS
No string of characters, numbers or symbols may be claimed as property.
Products may be labeled with, in addition to name, manufacturers address, which it is a sin to falsify.

NO PATENTS
If you are first with an idea, you may use that to your advantage or not.

NO COPYRIGHT
No restraints may be put on sharing of information and ideas.

This would seem to be the first step in enforcing borders on the net; expect other countries (france) to follow soon.
Blocking internet trade will be a powerful whip when a country refuses to sign ACTA.

disclaimer: im not an oracle tho I did win the 2019 crystal ball award.

Im currently availing myself, since appropriate, of my middle digit facility.