Interesting post. I don't see why it was modded "Troll". Unless someone was horribly offended by your lol'ing and paragraph structure. The information about zinc seems moderately accurate, according to this study. Many other sources are available as well.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what I mean. They have shutdown some other games in a similar fashion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCsoft#End_of_Life_.2F_Closed .
I don't know the stories behind them, but I heard on the forums at Titan that they refused to sell the rights to some of the failures on that list as well.
CoH Community: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,4877.0.html
NCSoft Response: http://us.ncsoft.com/en/news/response-to-city-of-heroes-player-and-fan-suggestions.html
CoH Community: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5467.0.html
The rest is speculation. Considering the history of NCSoft business practices, this seems par for the course though.
I wouldn't say that it should be removed from Google due to an Australian ruling, it should be removed from https://www.google.com.au/. I don't know anything about Australian law, but their laws should not affect our results, and vice versa. I'm sure this is what you meant, but I just wanted to clarify that point, just in case.
Yeah! Those damned Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, etc.. always citing U.S. constitution! Curse you Americans!
While it would definitely suck if these companies took on policies for the sole purpose of promoting the interests of another company, regardless of damages it might inflict on the public. We still have a choice to use another service.
If Google can't find what you're looking for, we'll find another search engine. If Facebook is stopping you from sharing information with your friends, people will find a new medium to share that information over. If banks stop processing payments... pretty sure that is illegal, so after switching to a different bank, and possibly pressing charges against your current bank, that would be resolved as well.
On the upside, when sharing something that *might* be protected by copyright is blocked, at least it won't be a criminal act that will put you or your loved ones behind bars.
A lynching sends a very explicit message from a community regarding some perceived threat.
It is true that lynching sends an explicit message, but mysterious deaths send a message too. Why is an explicit message worse?
What does the method of delivery matter when the end result is that you fear for your life on a daily basis? Communication is obviously occurring here, whether the message is implicit or explicit. However, now the targets of the communication have little support from society, depending on how ambiguous the message really is. The implicit message is just as dangerous, it is the silent and stealthy killer, the one that doesn't get caught, the one who makes you fear the shadows about you.
Both are equally fearsome and wrong in my book.
But these are the same people who think that the purpose of X is having more terminal windows open at the same time -- or their spiritual descendants.
Pfft, there is more to it than that! You can also make them partially transparent so you can read more terminals at once!
Not always true, I worked at a company with a receptionist who originally came from Australia. The first time she gave me some Vegemite, I was in love.. mix it with some Mountain Dew, and you have a recipe for yumminess.
Just checked mspaint in Windows 7 RC1... looks like they added a ribbon interface to it, but it still doesn't antialias when scaling.
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An infraction of ones civil rights?
I'm just guessing here...
In fact its ability to isolate faulting apps is excellent.
I think its ability to isolate faulting apps is a little too excellent. Often times, Vista will report that an app has hung or is not responding and should be closed when it is simply performing a rigorous task. This leads to calls where the user keeps complaining about a crashing app, Photoshop or Quark usually (although Quark truly does crash very often). Often times in my experience, Vista is simply being impatient, and conveying that impatience on the user (who really doesn't need assistance in this aspect). *face palm*
What really sucks is that XP is a just-fine OS as well.. but if you try to config a system on Dell now with XP it is an EXTRA $150 (!!).
It is a secret to no one that Microsoft offers incentives to OEM vendors who comply with their policies. I'm sure no one here, including yourself is surprised about this. If the OEM vendor doesn't comply, they will suffer serious repercussions in their ability to compete with other vendors who do comply. Whether this is a bad thing, or a good thing is completely relative to your perspective.
No... yeah, no... yeah
Agreed, the Internet is an opt in service of interconnected networks. An entity only has power if you recognize them via route configuration and authority. I personally think that the idea of moving ICANN out of the US is a good one. I also don't think that any country should have a voice though. I think that only countries whose current infrastructure policies do not breach a certain code of ethics should be allowed to participate. So a country like China would need to get their policies inline before being allowed to have any voice in the matter.
As for defining the policies that must be adhered to, I will leave that to others more talented than myself. However, I would think that something like the code of ethics on lopsa.org would be a good base to start with.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
