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Indeed. Weren't you talking about "cheap votes" in some other thread, though? The way the EC works, democracy plays a very small role. And they have done away with separation of powers, too, with an executive organ that has, for all intents and purposes, the attributes of a judicial authority. I see your point - the European directives and legislation promoting empowerment of the local government, coupled with the siphoning of sovereignty off national governments and to the Euro institutions, are an obvious effort to promote political integration and strengthen Euro power at the cost of national sovereignty. Is that good or bad? Maybe you'd be better off with the CW... but would they want you?

You crazy man, crazy! I spent a good 15 minutes browsing that list. Thanks Purkake.

Well, giving away what he can sell wouldn't make him progressive or even coherent... it would make him stupid. That's not what he's talking about, I think. Has he actually sued anyone for illegally copying his book? Yeah it looks like ignoring the concept of intellectual property altogether saves the Chinese the hassle of actually being innovative themselves.

...wow. An Ottoman jingoist? Now I've seen everything.

Hey man how does the war at large affect the Pacific theatre in this game? Do they go for a fully historical timeline or...? edit: the AAR style's cool. The embedded YT vids and WWII-era pics are great for setting the mood. Looks like you're going to spend more time writing this thing up than actually playing the game...

that's what i misinterpreted. you have earned a cookie for the day! Hey, no fair! Where did the posts disappear to? In my opinion as a certified attorney-at-lol, I'd say a law can work as designed, and still fail to accomplish what the lawmakers intended for it.

Okay, taks. You need to read the article, too! edit: by "he", I meant the copyright lawyer the article talks about.

He's actually supporting what taks always goes on about... that big businesses tend to game the system in their favour. He's arguing for less state intervention: You need to read the whole article, not just the first ten lines.

Neat looking little site. Do you think adding a comment feature would be too much work?

The European Commission is in on it. What did you expect? **** won't fly, btw.

Heh, that's a pretty bold claim to make. Further, the math in Bell's is correct, too, but according to Christian, the flaw therein isn't in the math. Again, I'm waiting until I see it published in a peer-reviewed source. If the man is right, any publication would kill to be the one that publishes the epitaph to Bell's theorem. I need to do a bit of research on FQXi 2009 which Christian attended and see how things went. You still have to come up with something better than QT to sustain a deterministic universe, even if we accept that Christian is right. Possibly. Judging by the author's work, it's not the math in Bell's paper that he's attacking, but the way he chose to interpret the topology in EPR's paradox. By using Clifford's he's re-written the topology and found a counterexample to Bell's. Err...

More like moderation. re dictator: yeah, supporting a local tyrant has the advantage that in a few years you can come back and kick his butt if you're feeling like it - all in the name of FREEDOM. - A martyr for FREEDOM dilligently serving American interests *salutes*

Fine. For you, purchasing a game you haven't played, relying on hearsay and marketing to form an opinion isn't making a blind purchase. For me, it is. Maybe you have heaps of cash to spare and wasting $50 is no biggie. Say. Would you guys buy your running shoes without trying them on first, just asking the salesman if they are any good? Would you purchase your shirts just by the impression you first get when seeing them on the coat hanger? A perfume? A car? Etc.

We've been over this. We don't know and discussing it further is pointless. Were you following the discussion? Aside from the cost issue, the impossibility to know whether a watermelon will be good beforehand is why the example is so absurd. You cannot demo a watermelon without making it unfit for sale but that is not the case with a game. Comprende?

You brought entertainment in general to a discussion of DA in particular. When talking about DA, your only options are to purchase without knowing or not purchasing. Please outline any other options that apply to DA, that I haven't listed. As far as DA is concerned, it is. A Watermelon costs a fraction of what a game costs and there is no way of knowing beforehand if it's going to be good or not. You are actually supposed to substantiate your claims, not just repeat them. Does that usually work in court? How am I supposed to research my purchase? Using your own example, that's like asking the grocer whether I'm going to like the watermelon. Too easy, Grom!

I'm going to throw this post right in your face next time you accuse me of going off on a tangent about semantics, Grommy. The watermelon comparison is silly, even for you. Especially considering that if you want you can sample the fruit before buying it! So drop the "force" from the arguments. You are still left only with those two options. I was just following in on the idiocy of comparing a Broadway play to a videogame. You figure out the rest man, I don't share your enthusiasm for the absurd.

Yeah, but what if the good Afghans want you to up and leave? Because if that isn't the case now, it'll be soon enough.

That's nice because I remember one particularly unpleasant experience I had with hash. That must have been the second time I ever did it, and my last. The point with MDMA isn't that's deadly in the sense coke can be, but rather that it's a psychoactive substance that acts directly on the neurotransmitter receptors, and anything that ****s with your neurons like that can't be good in the long run. If it were a substance intended for therapeutical use, it would have been thoroughly researched and put through standarized criteria before being approved.

^^I hope you're not condemning abortion!

Purkake, that's the Magical Volo you're trying to reason with.

Never had a bad trip? Pot is cool and all... but MDMA is no joking matter.

And I don't think you have thought that through. Oblivion is the same whether you play 2 hours or 200, the game doesn't change and you get what's advertised - you get bored, but nothing the developers can do can change that. A good demo gives you a good feel of how the game plays. This is 100% subjective and no review can substitute that. What the hell man? Isn't that what I said? The options you are left with are to purchase blindly, or not purchase at all. I'm not saying that automatically grants the right to download the game, or that EA is putting a gun to anyone's head. You are forced into that in the sense that no other options exist. Also, when they make 80-hour long plays, I'll demand they make a demo, too.

I bet Brezhnev is laughing pretty hard from his tomb.

You mean you have other options outside of those two? So what are they?