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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="56" id="2577598"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 55 Zehdon, flogging a dead horse would have worked if it had been your first post here, but it wasn't. Saying your piece and then trying to silence others afterwards, makes you hypocrite. Actually Nesrie, it works because it wasn't Splitshadow's first post on the issue of definition, which has been covered numerous times before by many other people on this very forum in far greater detail

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[quote who="DariasDruss" reply="54" id="2577523"] A library is a huge pirating centre. You don't pay for books but you read them and return them and the author gets nothing for his work or creativity. If it is a good story he gets exposure which helps him sell more copies of his books hopefully in the future. [/quote] While copyright holders fought libraries and the idea of renting in general, this is not entirely true. Libraries typically have legal copies of the products t

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Piracy is stealing. Piracy, however, is not a lost a sale and therefore does not equate to exact dollars lost that some companies try to say it does. Copyright laws does not just exist to give copyright holders a bunch of rights and consumers none. It is a balancing act between the rights of the copyright holders and rights of the consumers. Because the courts are slow working with outdated material and copyright holders have more lobbyist and deeper pockets, plus that pos DMCA exists, t

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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="43" id="2576057"] Unfortunately, there's little public debate on the matter. So long as it doesn't affect their day-to-day life, people don't seem to care about copyright policy, so the factors driving it are generally lobbyists for big corporations. Anyone who tries to take middle-ground and argue for a change to the laws (towards the more liberal, that is) ends up being branded a pirate. [/quote] Yep, just like in this thread.<

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EA already did something like this before... Spore Creature Creator anyone?

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[quote who="SIN-Imperium" reply="28" id="2572183"]A little political sarcasm and its a fact. And stating a fact isn't "bias". [/quote] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="105" id="2571689"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 104 Well there were what, 92 banks that went down, some very large ones actually. More than a handful of retailers. Several developers have closed shop. Blockbuster and Palm are likely out the door. There is a elephant's graveyard of software developers that bite the dust EVERY year. Borders is teetering too. Monte Cristo isn't looking so great either. The point is, which you seem unwilling to

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="103" id="2571669"] Quoting Aractain, reply 102 At no point is anyone or anything safe, from failure. True as a general statement. Arguable relevance to successful companies. Unless you can point me out some high profile recent examples of failure that I don't know about. [/quote] Well there were what, 92 banks that went down, some very large ones actually. More than a handful of retaile

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="99" id="2571427"]Why would any of these companies die? They have millions of loyal followers and a steady stream of revenue. They'd have to do something extraordinarily stupid to go out of business. [/quote] To big to fail. Hmmm, where have i heard that before... Hmmm...

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[quote who="SIN-Imperium" reply="25" id="2570913"]Do note though: No one can by law compel you to answer census questions. You are completely free to refuse to answer any questions you find intrusive...while forcing you to purchase health care coverage on the other hand seems perfectly acceptable. Go figure. [/quote] Way to throw in a completely unrelated biased opinion that has nothing to do with the census into the mix.

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[quote who="imbiginjapan" reply="97" id="2570963"] Quoting Itharus, reply 93 If anything is going to kill PC gaming, it's STEAM and their ilk; every piece of shit greedy corporate stooge that doesn't trust or appreciate their customers. I'm still not worried though, I think that once we hear the death rattle of the huge gaming conglomerates as their DRM chokes them to death for not being logged into the system, then we will have a new group of publishers who

Reply to Munchkins on the net? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

It doesn't really matter which company makes it big first. Just look at Apple, they were the underdogs for awhile, whining a lot about Microsoft practices and then what do they do when they begin to dominate two industries... the exact same thing. It doesn't matter how "good" management is, corporation just naturally lean towards monopoly type tactics when they can.

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[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="8" id="2570558"]some times google doesn't give you the best sites that you need, anyways i will still have the old computers for the 32bit stuff, thanks for links so far. [/quote] I've not had a lot of issues with 32 bits outside some utilities, not many.

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Some of Steam's fans pretty much foam at the mouth if you ever mention anything bad about Steam or mention something positive about a competitor. Hell, I am not such a huge fan of Impulse that I only tell people about the positivesm and still I get tackled by these guys. I don't know about munchkins, but Valve can pretty much stop pumping money into marketing; steam fans are aggressive enough as it is. And yes, it does remind me about some Apple fans.

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My response was mostly geared towards SivCorp. I wouldn't dismiss someone's life experience regardless of what race he or she is. My experience is when someone says race doesn't matter, race shouldn't matter, or people spend too much time on race, it's usually coming from the mouth of a white man, here in America that is. Racial issues manifest themselves in a variety of way such as in Japan which is still a lot more subtle and easily missed if you aren't aware of the problem.&nbsp

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I wouldn't think race was important either... if i was white. Since I am not, I get fairly frequent reminders how important it is. You'd have to have blinders on to think the only people who obsess about race is in one political party.

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[quote who="Wintersong" reply="27" id="2568144"](using IE 8) the Gorgon, reply #27: https://forums.elementalgame.com/378327/page/2 Why does people insist using other than Notepad(++) to write their stuff before posting? Or why does Microsoft use such bad code in their stuff? Edit: taking a look into the source code, seems that reply #28 also has "sutff". [/quote] I was using Word for a spellcheck and a quick grammar check, plus since t

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[quote who="SIN-Imperium" reply="3" id="2568119"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 2 I say fill out the questions you are comfortable with and not any you are not. I don't mind answering some of the others, but a few I won't be filling out either. It's a free country. The main thing is people get physically accounted for--do you live here? That affects the states ina serious way....repreesentation in Congress being one, federal funds another

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I say fill out the questions you are comfortable with and not any you are not. I don't mind answering some of the others, but a few I won't be filling out either.

Reply to Carding Full Grown Adults for Mature Games in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I should start list of things Target Scans ID for, next on the list, canned air. I can't wait for Air Wick and Lysol to join the ranks. Soon we'll have our ID's scanned for romance novels, junks food, and anything else we need to be saved from. http://consumerist.com/2010/03/target-wants-to-see-id-for-canned-air.html

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="37" id="2567225"] Yes, I was. Yes, they are. For now. If the ESRB and merchants were not doing anything to keep public opinion up, some would most likely pass. I don't know or really care what Target does, since I don't shop there. [/quote] That's a pretty self-centric philosophy you have going there.

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="30" id="2566691"] Tell that to the government. They're already fighting the entertainment industry in several states over this, and if the stores hadn't done anything they'd already be in our faces. Unless you really want things to get worse this isn't an issue worth getting angry about. [/quote] If you were actually paying attention to those laws and cases, you would know that even the ones thare are being passed ar

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[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="17" id="2565844"] You're an idiot if you think you only "show" Target your ID. If you read my next line, you'll note that I split my argument into two parts. Scanning is out of line. Showing is not. No matter how old he appears to be. [/quote] I made the assumption you knew about Target's policy before siding with it. They don't just want to look at your ID, they scan it, and they tell they are r

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[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="14" id="2565768"]Anyone who gets huffy over being asked to show ID is an idiot. [/quote] You're an idiot if you think you only "show" Target your ID. Target scans your ID pulling a lot more information than your birthdate. Like I said, you don't have to show your ID if you are 99 for alcohol, pretty ridiculous to require it for mature games. I am not talking 20, or even 30 here, this gentleman is well over 50, there is no question that he is n

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I'vc got a few TB of data on my PCs... let's see how much does Miscrosoft want for the privilege of upgrading the the HDD myself. Consoles do one thing very well, play games, and a few things they do pretty well, okay or just piss poorly. They are not PC replacements.