Not necessarily, I agree that Reveille should have the rights to make you take down the video etc..., I would fully disagree, if lets say your video did add something to it, in the case of a lets play etc... there is almost always some of it's own content (IE the player commenting on the game, giving advice, etc..., at the very least there is the players playing of the game, the choices he made within the game, etc...). Now lets say someone made a video of the office, added in his own voice commentary etc... Lets say he MST3Ked it, or maybe he opens the video with a 2 minute speach on why he likes the show, and then Reveille used that video in the DVD extra features of their next release. Ignoring the very blurry line of where fair use begins and piracy begins, Reveille should have the rights to shut down the video, determining that the protected content is the only thing of worth in the video. However they also counter that claim if they then use that clip for themselves.

Lets take it a step further, and do what anti piracy advocates try to do... and compare it to physical objects, but instead of a car, I'm going to keep it half digital with a phone. Lets say someone jailbreaks an iphone, and creates their own super awesome app for it. Now lets say the silly laws that outlaw jailbreaking passed, and apple obtained the right to shut down the phones, fine they followed the law however corrupt and stupid of one it is... Now apple then ceases the code, takes the app, and integrates it into their next iphone, giving no credit or compensation to it's creator". Does "well the code was worthless without the phone, and it is illegal for him to use it". Give apple the right to call the code their own?

This is a good measure for high tech solutions, but why not also take it further. create new honeywords... put them on post it notes under people's keyboards etc...

I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.

So essentially it sounds to me like the Quadro QRS 250G "Detector" device sold a few decades back http://skepdic.com/quadro.html . Of which even after they were proven to be just an antenna, hooked to a box filled with dead ants. Many schools found it worth it to keep them for detecting drugs because the security theatre aspect, if the students think a machine can detect drugs... they will be afraid to bring drugs.

While I agree quite a few games with older graphics are often better games. People don't tend to spend the luxury price for an alienware PC to play world of goo. That being said I do believe if valve can manage to push things foward with the "steambox" idea, we could wind up with an unprecidented future generation of games with linux compatibility.

True, but in my opinion they are doing the oposite of what is intended there... prevention to keep rates from increasing:

Tell people they are sending out authorities to crack down on it (whether you actually are or not is irrelevant, if the purpose is to discourage attemts)

Ways to get people into trouble if possible, without lowering the rates of people trying

announce that you are not going to get people in trouble, but then do so anyway

Fully agreed there, There is absolutely no justification for torturing someone period, but there isn't even logic for any kind of punishment AFTER the option to change your ways is gone. Many christians describe hell as god punishing his children, he doesn't want to do it any more than a parent wants to put their child in time out, or spank them etc... But this explanation of course completely ignores the detail of which, a parent does it so that the child learns it is OK and can do it right the next time. Christian theology does not have re-incarnation, there is no next time... just meaningless torture. In the event that the god of the bible existed... and I got to heaven, and due to some loophole I was given a choice... I would chose hell over an eternity worshiping a monster like the christian god. Personally if evidence were presented of his existance... I would be wanting a team to figure out how to kill it. If the bible is accurate, he is not truely omnipotent, He lost a battle over a technological disadvantage (Judges 1:19), and according to many beliefs, Satan stood along gods side, knew all of his abilities, capabilities etc... and still considered it worth a shot to attempt to overtake heaven. Again pretending to believe most of the stories as true... If I were a great evil powerful being, and I wanted all of the world subserviant to me... I would claim there are no limits to my power, that I have no weakness, etc.... Heck look at North Korea's leadership, it's exactly what they do as well.

Umm... a threat I got from my cable company saying a report from HBO puts one strike on my account... leads me to believe the opposite. They almost certainly do have a team sniffing torrents and issuing complaints with internet service providers.

lol yeah I remember reading it. Revelation is one of the reasons there's 30k denominations or so. Most agree a good portion of it is symbolic, but endless discussion on what parts are representative of things etc...

All men and virgins... heh... well if there are any remaining today you came to the right place to look for em. I'm actually trying to remember the christian explanation for it. Or at least the denomination I was a part of. I believe the majority of evangelicals who actually study and pay attention to their works (Most christians don't even know what they believe at all), they are the ones who were saved after the rapture, but before the end of the world. I think jehova's witnesses believe them to be the only ones who do make it to true heaven, while the remainder are placed on a "heaven on earth", which is a comperable but not quite as good as heaven place.

More specifically, cherry-picked parts of the old and new testament as well. Jesus specifically spoke out against divorce (Mat 19:8), Eh minor thing there. Jesus specifically stated all of old testament law still applied (Mat 5:18). Somehow they consider all of irrelevant, except randomly pick the one verse on homosexuality in there as valid, yet ignore everything it is clumped in with (no shellfish, no touching the skin of a pig, no mixed fabrics, don't go near women on their periods etc...). I don't get the selection process that many Fundamentalist Christians use to determine what is supposed to be opposed.

Oh... and as far as a good scientific debate on the accuracy of Genesis, a pretty scientifically sound argument, that is 3 words long. "Snakes can't talk".

Depends where you live, where you go etc... pages it depends on, but there certainly are no shortage of religious people causing problems, Sometimes they are infringing on peoples rights, IE gay marriage etc... Sometimes it's the direct attacks, vandalism etc... on atheist groups non-attacking advertisements. Things like billboards saying "Don't believe in a god, you are not alone" gets publicly criticized as horribly offensive, meanwhile down the road is "Why do atheists hate america" is just par for the course. No shortage of preachers blaming natural disasters on gays.

Here's an interesting experiment to do, ask random preachers what their opinion is on cross religion marriages etc... You will find that a good portion of southern fundamentalist preachers will go out of their way to say "a relationship not based on god, is doomed to failure", of course ignoring the fact that the more fundamentalist christian churches, have the highest divorce rates of any religion currently.

I certainly agree with this, I am a deconverted christian, but I don't tell my parents this detail because I know the turmoil that goes through to them for it. Now admitted the fact that this situation is possible, is to me the nail in the coffin that severed my belief in their system. 1. There is no sadness in heaven, 2. My parents love me very much. 3. Per their beliefs, they will go to heaven, I will be tormented for eternity.

In the event that their belief system were true, either A. That wouldn't be my parents in heaven (whiping out the memories that shape a person, makes it no longer the same person per my definitions) or B. Christians really are heartless people putting on a guise... no rational caring being could calmly sit by while 2/3rds of the worlds population is tortured for all of eternity... if they can they are monsters.

I disagree, future events will not be free of this, they just have a more solid "uhh duh.. you are clearly breaking the rules" portion to it. I mean it was already implied in their code of conduct. They specifically stated "Disturbances should only be reported to our staff, who have a staff badge and tag, or you may send an e-mail to ___" in the code of conduct, but ignoring that... it is just common sense, shaming is a great tool in the event that you go to authorities, and they ignore you. So far there is no indication that she made any effort to solve the problem without twitter.

I don't applaud her for saying something... at least not the way she did. Within the channels of a convention... they have staff to deal with things if they are disruptive. They have numbers, places etc... Numerous ways she could have reported it. Instead she opted to public shaming via twitter. In that step, she selected her battlefield, and of course once you select the open internet as your battlefield... 4chan is going to pick a side and attack.