I was brainwashed from early childhood in the beliefs of Christianity. My mother thought she was doing the right thing, so it is hard to blame her. But what was done to me was wrong!
There is a couple of things... one is that people are weak willed. Games are fun and people want to play them. Even with the DRM restrictions, you at least get to play the game. Appliances aren't fun.
Another thing, and an important one I think many game makers are missing, is that people want to pay for games. Maybe not always the price they are asking, but in principal they want to reward the producer of a game they enjoy. There is also in humans a tendency to feel obligated when somebody does something for them. So what happens is people purchase the game and then also download the crack so they can use it as nature intended. For your appliance example to be comparable to the situation we have with games, people would need to know there is an unrestricted appliance out there that they can just take for free. That there is a pirate ecosystem for PC games is probably the only reason games with restrictive DRM sell well at all.
It should be mandatory that police record every encounter with the public. Why rely on he-said/she-said given that we have the technology? Also, if you are always recording yourself anyway, it is hard to get startled if you notice someone else recording you.
There was a show on PBS that asked a room full of MBA students if they thought executive pay was too high or unfair. None of them thought it was. When asked why not, the answer was because they themselves wanted the opportunity to become a CEO making that kind of money. The selfishness of the human being knows no bounds. It is all about how does this affect me. The good of the many never comes into it.
defn. do-a-dodd
1. exercise the revolving door between congress and industry, 2. destroy the world economy by enacting lax lending standards for banks, 3. just generally be a dumb-ass
Yes, really. "wouldnt cost the US taxpayers 60 billion dollars". How in any way is that "Not, really"? I guess for you not paying for something with tax dollars is the same as paying for it with tax dollars.
And notice from the graphic that the bureaucracy is getting paid much more than minimum wage. As with anything paid for with taxes, there is little incentive to lower costs. Over time it just becomes a huge hierarchy of bureaucrats leeching off of us.
We should take just one election cycle (4 yrs) and say that in that cycle congress can pass no new laws and must instead spend the entire time revisiting and removing old broken laws. This idea probably needs some incentive to get them to actually remove laws (eg. $million to the congress critter that removes the most). But I am not sure what a good incentive is that would get the most accomplished.
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The president carries it with him in a brief case at all times.
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Eventually the system learns and stops asking that... unless you have kids that actually click that button sometimes.
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I was brainwashed from early childhood in the beliefs of Christianity. My mother thought she was doing the right thing, so it is hard to blame her. But what was done to me was wrong!
Re: AVENGERS MADE OVER $1 BILLION! PIRACY IS NOT THE PROBLEM!
But without piracy it would have made $2B or even $100B!
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One boogeyman at a time.
Re: I'll wait for the GoG version.
I prefer the Magog version, personally.
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There is a couple of things... one is that people are weak willed. Games are fun and people want to play them. Even with the DRM restrictions, you at least get to play the game. Appliances aren't fun.
Another thing, and an important one I think many game makers are missing, is that people want to pay for games. Maybe not always the price they are asking, but in principal they want to reward the producer of a game they enjoy. There is also in humans a tendency to feel obligated when somebody does something for them. So what happens is people purchase the game and then also download the crack so they can use it as nature intended. For your appliance example to be comparable to the situation we have with games, people would need to know there is an unrestricted appliance out there that they can just take for free. That there is a pirate ecosystem for PC games is probably the only reason games with restrictive DRM sell well at all.
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If you can tell that was supposed to be sarcastic, you must be the one who wrote it.
recording arrests should be mandatory
It should be mandatory that police record every encounter with the public. Why rely on he-said/she-said given that we have the technology? Also, if you are always recording yourself anyway, it is hard to get startled if you notice someone else recording you.
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There was a show on PBS that asked a room full of MBA students if they thought executive pay was too high or unfair. None of them thought it was. When asked why not, the answer was because they themselves wanted the opportunity to become a CEO making that kind of money. The selfishness of the human being knows no bounds. It is all about how does this affect me. The good of the many never comes into it.
Forgetting Something
This generation's prohibition is still the war on some drugs.
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defn. do-a-dodd
1. exercise the revolving door between congress and industry, 2. destroy the world economy by enacting lax lending standards for banks, 3. just generally be a dumb-ass
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I'd be curious where they got the 100% turnover, too. Half the staff would need to be hiring managers.
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Let me guess. You are from Georgia.
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Yes, really. "wouldnt cost the US taxpayers 60 billion dollars". How in any way is that "Not, really"? I guess for you not paying for something with tax dollars is the same as paying for it with tax dollars.
And notice from the graphic that the bureaucracy is getting paid much more than minimum wage. As with anything paid for with taxes, there is little incentive to lower costs. Over time it just becomes a huge hierarchy of bureaucrats leeching off of us.
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If he hashed it first that would be ok. He could even hash it to some made-up name to make it easier to parse.
Georgia?
Why is this sponsored by mainly Georgians and some of their neighbor Floridians?
Too Many Laws.
We should take just one election cycle (4 yrs) and say that in that cycle congress can pass no new laws and must instead spend the entire time revisiting and removing old broken laws. This idea probably needs some incentive to get them to actually remove laws (eg. $million to the congress critter that removes the most). But I am not sure what a good incentive is that would get the most accomplished.
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The only thing missing from the curriculum is waterboarding class.
What is their agenda?
Why do they keep pushing this? What do they gain? Who would lobby for such labels? I just don't get it.
WARNING: Being elected to congressional office may lead to stupidity.