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Whats in the enhanced edition, is it worth paying a third more if you could get the euro version cheap.

Yes, but wasn't his problem prostitution and drug selling on the street corners, as opposed to gangland shootings threatening civilians.

Apparently I'm in the middle of a gang war, if I'm to take the papers seriously. The local Hells Angels are shooting it out with various 'immigrant mafia' types for control of the illegal drugs market. There have been a few shootings in broad daylight, and now of course it's the cause de jour for any self respecting politician is to be tougher than everyone else on these gang elements. Along with the usual cries to throw them out of the country, that would be the immigrants, who always pay out good political capital when you kick them in the shin, are calls for more 'visible police' on the street. Now here is my question, why does anyone think that it's at all feasible to have the police act as bodyguards for the entire city by driving around in the streets, as opposed to working cases. Policing is 99% after the fact, the protection they provide is one of deterrence, unless they are lucky enough to have advance notice, as in a large demonstration or footie match. Does anyone really buy this stuff, are people really that stupid.

Somehow I don't think either would make especially good presidents. Anyway when are the last bunch coming

Boooooooooooooooooooorrring

It's got a really faint taste and smell to it that is just indescribably disgusting, unless you start drinking it, then you cease to notice it and it becomes yummy. A bit like smokes I guess. I drink at least a liter a day. Good way to get calcium, as long as it's not the very fatty milk.

Yes, it's very easy to debate somebody else's point when you take fragments of what they say out of context, and then misrepresent This is what everyone, without exception, does in a forum discussion. A good rule of thumb is that your most valid points will go unanswered and your weakest will be attacked mercilessly

Chinese Google. I wonder what it comes up with if you type in Dalai Lama. Probably a Belgian maple syrup or something. Yes by all means make the guilty disappear. Did you know this isn't even the first time this has happened. Although before the milk powder just had no nutritional value so the babies would starve to death.

I think he meant the guns the other guys have. But I guess if everyone knows private security firms are a joke that makes it safer on everyone. Criminals and security alike. One job that really is dangerous is doorman at a club. Of all the angry drugged up people that have to be rejected in a night, odds are pretty good a few of them are going to go at the doormen, whether to impress their friends or because they just aren't wired right.

Snobby McSnobpants.

Hey while you are here Hurlshot, what was the name of that games subscription site with a limited free content. I had to do a reinstall after my older comp bit the dust.

Well how about that. I never actually tried it, but that's because I like rooting through shelves in stores. That way I get exposed to stuff I wouldn't otherwise.

I used to work 12 hour shifts 3 times a week. I'd be totally wasted when I got home. Now it's the other opposite, 5 hrs a day all week and saturday or sunday, but I can chose freely between the early and late shift. I much prefer it, there's time and energy left over to do other stuff every day of the week.

Without DRM wouldn't the music industry just be saving people the trouble of ripping their CDs. I think you are being a mite too idealistic here. The protections they have now don't amount to much, this is true, but even if it's all smoke and mirrors it still beats begging people to pay you. On one hand you could reach a much larger audience, and on the other you might end up selling just one copy and have that dispersed through the file sharing networks. There have been idealistic attempts, but large scale complete removal of DRM, never going to happen.

A couple of geeks I know are good enough that they can speak Latin with one another. I mean, I suppose it's grammatically interesting, but learning a dead language instead of a living one, seems like an odd choice. Anyway, I signed up for the last part of my Japanese course today, exams are in three months, I'm going to be busy, not half as good at it as most of the people on that course.

How is it? Great. At first I thought it was not gong to be up to par, but once I got into the game my opinion quickly changed. Is it worth reinstalling to play clear sky if you have only recently finished STALKER. Are there new areas, or just a few new missions

I like Stardock's approach, but I wonder if that works with games that don't have a heavy multiplayer element. It works much like an MMO, the real protection is in the online account and online key, which are different from the install keys. I take DRM to mean digital rights management in a broad sense, when steam loads a bunch of drivers, and verifies online before you can even begin to play that might even be considered to be in the draconian end of the scale. Image size is the only valid argument, but it has no relation whatsoever to DRM. I didn't say it did Either way, selling something that is crippled, or doesn't even work 'out of the box' is a piss poor idea.

Steam is DRM surely, what else would you call it.

You mean to say that the vast majority of purchases through I tunes don't have some kind of 'per device' protection.

Um, no, they can't. Blocking the game from connecting to the Internet is as simple as Zonealarm. And they can't bring any lawsuits against you if it's not illegal in your jurisdiction to download games (and, in many jurisdictions outside the US, it's not). Not only that, but the little fish are just too many and too insignificant to go after. Not having broadband has nothing to do with this, as in any case, you wouldn't be able to download it, regardless of anti-copy. If the best argument you can think of for companies still using DRM is "well, they must have a reason, they can't be THAT stupid, right?", then I'll simply refer you to the reason behind it. As one of the fundamental characteristics of the universe, it's not something to be taken lightly. As I said, only those with active consciences pay for games. And, as for SecuROM not being "all that draconian", I guess I just have a very low tolerance for bull****. Spoofing means creating false pirate downloads as well as posting messages that such and such torrent file, crack, application doesn't work, on the major file sharing networks. It is usually not very effective. It's got nothing to do with a game connecting to the internet. Anyway, taken together, fear of lawsuits, spoofs, and the sheer size of dvd disk images all have an effect on the availability of pirated games. If you can't download a game you would have to order one instead. You get me. It's not a battle the companies are winning mind you, but if they gave up control completely they would lose more money. It's not like there is an alternative to trying to protect their work anyway, so inertia in relation to what. The music industry is starting to make money off downloads because they finally understood that impulse buys have to be easy, and the price has to be good. Of course any kind of pay per download scheme would be impossible without DRM.

You don't trust cello players ....

I don't see why, I'm pretty sure men on the whole are genetically coded to be physically stronger, while women live longer.

I played on a while after Barcelona and eventually forgot what I was supposed to be doing. There was some shtick about a chosen one and a prophecy but the difficulty decided to jump from challenging to impossible and I eventually just gave up.

He's Ex KGB, I bet he knows a Vulcan submission move or two

That's fundamentally different from the current scenario of rampant piracy how? You only pay for games if you feel morally obliged to. Companies can control access by actively spoofing pirated copies, and bringing lawsuits against repeat offenders. Also not everyone has the internet connection to download 4-6 gb disk images that often. Obviously these things have an effect on availability or they wouldn't do it. It's not a free for all, especially if you live on campus, or at your parent's, and could get in serious trouble as a result of one of those warning letters.