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  • On the post: EA: Banned From Forums? Can't Play Single-Player Game Either

    Chargone ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2011 @ 12:27pm

    Re: Re: Stopped buying EA a long time ago.

    for an example of a publisher that does not suck in this way, check out Paradox Interactive.

    of course it helps that they are not actually a corporation. (nor american/multi-national.)

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Nuclear Power Plants 101

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 07:19pm

    Re: Re: Worst Case

    hence, tidal generators, wind turbines, solar power (focused light gives you heat for the typical steam turbine reaction, not reactive chemical cells) who's 'worst case' is more along the lines of 'wow, that takes up a fair amount of space' combined with 'aaand... now it's broken. no power until we fix that.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Nuclear Power Plants 101

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 07:14pm

    Re: Re:

    of course, equating 'official word' with 'truth' is always suspect in any context. (suspect != automatically wrong, of course)

  • On the post: No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:40pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Piracy violates creators' rights. It gives money to pirate websites that have no rights. What else is there?

    given that, in threaded view, it is a responce to you, and makes sense in the context of a reply to your statements, i'm betting on yes.

  • On the post: No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:39pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Piracy violates creators' rights. It gives money to pirate websites that have no rights. What else is there?

    or less, if reality is included in the calculation.

  • On the post: No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:36pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Piracy violates creators' rights. It gives money to pirate websites that have no rights. What else is there?

    this argument right here?
    old.
    stupid.
    refuted repeatedly.
    please go find a bridge.

  • On the post: No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:28pm

    Re: Re: Re: Well, then

    region locking is a big one. (in that NZ and australia are in the same region but NZ's ratings board equivilant is a lot less restrictive)

    and the issolation is from Current stuff. i'd say that months long (sometimes years long) delays on stuff shown on tv and 'sorry, this (freely available at no cost) material is not available in your country' type internet pages are more significant.

    of course, Sometimes we get stuff delayed here because it actually makes sense to only make one shipment to Australasia rather than two... which means that when there's a dedicated australian release of something we get that (as opposed to the usual practice of giving us american PC stuff and european console stuff)... which would be fine except that such releases are usually months delayed.

    i got well off topic there.

  • On the post: Copyright Boss Thinks It's Possible To 'Starve' Infringement Sites

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:13pm

    Re: Re:

    it's either missing a 'not' or it's 'only when this is fixed will piracy go away'.

    i find the first more likely.

  • On the post: Copyright Boss Thinks It's Possible To 'Starve' Infringement Sites

    Chargone ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2011 @ 04:11pm

    Re: Re:

    on the other hand, EA's dumb enough to keep using sony's products when it does nothing but drive customers away, so...

  • On the post: HP And RIM Produce Similar Device… Don't Freak Out

    Chargone ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 10:28pm

    Re:

    only if your computer's cooling systems are failing.

    otherwise you're only seeing it, and it's only a non-story if you fail to consider the amount of stupid that usually goes on when these kinds of things crop up...

    which, if you read the actual article properly, you'll notice Mike spending most of the last paragraph on addressing exactly this claim.

    started well, that comment. weak end though.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Chargone ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2011 @ 10:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    no, no, decimated is one tenth of it destroyed.

    i believe it was decamated... (that is, ten of it was destroyed). or was it eight? whatever, there were attempts to claim losses greater than the sum total of all money in existance, anyway.

  • On the post: State Department Spokesperson Says Bradley Manning Is Being Mistreated

    Chargone ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2011 @ 02:31pm

    Re: When is our day of rage?

    ya know, technically conservatism is supposed to be about slow and pragmatic change only when necessary, as opposed to progressivism which is about change entirely because the thing being changed to is 'new' and thus 'better', and reactionism (reactionaryism? is there even a word for this in this form?) which is about change back to how things 'used to be'(usualy they weren't actually like that exactly, but who cares?) because that was somehow 'better'.

    lots of people like to forget that.

    and it amuses me how utterly most americans miss that their entire political spectrum is massively right-shifted compaired to the rest of the world, economically speaking.

  • On the post: State Department Spokesperson Says Bradley Manning Is Being Mistreated

    Chargone ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2011 @ 02:27pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    whatever the hell an obama sell out is...

    an awful lot of people seem to forget that the only true difference between democrats and republicans, is entirely who they pick to blame for all the country's problems.

    (on a random unrelated note, someone seems to have broken firefox's spell check. it doesn't even recognize 'only' as a word at the moment)

  • On the post: Live By IP, Die By IP: Sony PS3s Seized By EU Customs For Violating Patents

    Chargone ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2011 @ 02:22pm

    Re:

    because ignorance is less insulting than stupidity, and it is polite to give people the benefit of the doubt when there is no significant evidence to the contrary on a given issue.

  • On the post: US Proposals For Secret TPP 'Son Of ACTA' Treaty Leaked; Chock Full Of Awful Ideas

    Chargone ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2011 @ 02:47pm

    Re: Re: The music & movie thieves don't want to be caught

    ... we need a way to hit 'insightful' or at least 'THIS!' repeatedly ...

  • On the post: The Secret Contagious Mojo That Makes People Value Stuff Connected To Famous People

    Chargone ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2011 @ 02:33pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    active rather than passive stupid, i guess.

  • On the post: Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question

    Chargone ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2011 @ 07:52pm

    Re: Re: Really?

    and by 'lost' of course we mean 'never existed in the first place', but that's neither here nor there, surely?

    ...yeah.

  • On the post: Just Because A Population Isn't Politically Active Now, Doesn't Mean They Can't Become Politically Active Quickly

    Chargone ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2011 @ 07:29pm

    Re: Re: Re: Instantaneous vs. average

    that's my biggest pet hate with representative democracy really. most of the time it changes Nothing, no matter who's theoretically in power... but it gives the general public a perpetual illusion that it will. meaning they never get active enough to actually cause necessary change.

    exceptions exist, naturally, but representative democracy's big thing is not actually, liberty, justice, the people having a say, th ewill of the people, or anything of the sort. the one and only thing it does well is stability. which is fine as longa s everything works...b ut the moment something breaks it just makes it massively harder to fix again.

  • On the post: Zynga Tries To Trademark 'Ville'

    Chargone ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2011 @ 04:39pm

    Re: Ville

    ... heck, we've got townships (think villages that don't necessarily actually contain anything but a hub intersection for the local farming area and maybe a church, school, shop, and/or petrol station, which except for the last, may all be on different side roads out of sight of the main one. in some cases the only noticeable indication the place exists is the sign) here in NZ... some of their names end in 'ville' as in 'village'. (a township is basically anything too small to be labeled a town that none the less does function as if it were one. villages are included.)

  • On the post: Zynga Tries To Trademark 'Ville'

    Chargone ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2011 @ 04:36pm

    Re: Re: from the there-go-my-plans-for-faceville dept

    myiMonsterNorthFaceVillebook?

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