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    The ESA (Otherwise known as gaming's RIAA) Asks Govt. for Help Battling Pirates

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    Well, a wii in palestine costs around id say 500$, because of the ship and for the seller to make profit. That is way to much. But on the good side, games cost a quarter, no matter what. I would probably buy a wii here and just wait until those guys release a good hack (i already read the post here about it being hacked). Then go back overseas with it.

     

    In terms of what they are saying about piracy, dont think of the companies, think of the people like you and me who are trying to find a job but cant because instead of the managers getting 1 million, they are only getting 900,00$ (just as an example) so they fire a couple of workers so they can make up for it. Stop yelling at the big people, their are little people you know. You can start complaining when all american based companies move to india or china and games are translated thier (if you get the point im trying to put here).

    American vs Asian Comic Design

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    Their isnt a choice for neither. Both have over exagurated comic figures. On one end, over buffed shemales (is thats how you want to put it) and and the other side, 6 ft, huge eyes with the biggest hooters anyone has ever seen. I like to watch anime dont get me wrong, i also liked watching the justice league , x-men, and all the other western good stuff. But im not a fan of comic books. Hell the last book i have ever read was the cat in the hat book, which i dont think i even finished. I do have my brothers comic books but i dont bother.

    Enough of your useless chatter

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    You fail to see the wider picture here. You're not stealing music from the artist, you're stealing from the freakin music label, which is more or less stealing from the artist anyway. Read that article link I gave you, it should be enlightening. You're too paranoid, there's no conspiracy going on here. No one's insulting your intelligence. It's just his sales pitch, which is a lot more morally gratifying than buying from a major label.

     

    And on a non-personal note, what would your statements make you? "stealing music is wrong" + "...the way I consume music"? What does that smell to you?

     

    I hope his label stays going for a long time, so that other musicians can do what he does, so we fvcking never have to deal with DRM bullsh!t or any other PC-destroying, money-hungering, quality-reducing way to prevent piracy that is generally only good to use as a toilet paper, because it sure as hell isn't worth my money.

    I gotta agree with with Blacknight on this one.

     

    Let me get this straight, Banks, in one way or another take your money through interest, etc. A robber comes in and steals the bank, is it ok to rob from him?? Because from your second sentence, this is what you are saying. Whether you as a consumer dont like his music (or games for that matter) then dont buy it. I dont care if the 'artist' isnt making money and that itunes steals all the money. It is a battle between itunes and the artist, not you and itunes. If you think its too expensive, or the song sucks, that doenst give you the right to download it for free. As a consumer you can complain, but not steal thier work. I can guarantee that if all the sudden one of you made a sweet song (or game) and wanted to sell it and found out that thousands of people downloaded it and play it all the time, it would piss you off. Even if you made 1 mill out of the people that did buy it, it will get to you, you just dont know it.

     

    However, i cant agree with blacknight on that he is shoving his business into it. He is trying to get his point across to the people, yes buy making money out of it. But his point is a little stupid.

     

    Let the artist fight, not the consumer. The artist would rip you off anyways if he could.

    Question for those from non-english speaking countries

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    Songs are kept the same, even sometimes brought with the music video on tv. Ive never listned to the radio while i was thier so i cant say.

     

    Some of the shows try to get mocked in arabic and some are just directly broadcasted. I think the "kids say the darnest things" for bill cosby got turned to an arabic show. Thats the only one i can think of right now. Cartoons on the other hand, usually anime, are translated. Some american cartoons also get translated like timon and pumba and popeye also get translated.

    Well since Blu-Ray has more or less won

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    I can tell you that from first hand experience that external HDDs are risky. I've had a WD 700gb HDD for a little under a year and already it's not being detected by my laptop. Only Vista still detects it now, and I hate Vista. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but if it were a disk, I could just throw it away. Can't do that with a HDD.

    Just as a key note, water on Hard drives isnt good :P . Just playing. It depends on the type you got. I think my brothers is a WD HDD and it lasted him 4 years and still does perfectly on xp and vista. Its true what you said that you can throw away a disc but nothing compares to the amount of space you can carry on HDD (1 TB!!!!) and the small amount of space it needs on your desk. Its soo hard to find a file you want on DVD's unless you put them in alphabetical order in which still, you would need more space. My desk is full of stuff as it is. And the addition of 100 DVD's that i bought is not helping at all!!

    Well since Blu-Ray has more or less won

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    Too bad their durability is pathetic compared to DVD. Writable Blu-Ray is horrendous, they can't put the same coating on the discs as pressed retail.

    People know this, the masses won't adopt as a storage standard until they at least improve durability.

     

    And price? OMFG. Even once things get cheaper, they won't get as cheap as DVD, even blank DVD-Rs never entered the market at prices comparable to Blu-Ray.

    Who would pay $25 for a 25GB Blu-Ray disc that can easily be destroyed and unreadable, when you can buy 25 4.7GB DVD-Rs for $10? Not me!

    more like 100 DVD-Rs for 10$. They still do, some of the places though. Blueray is too much if you ask me. if it has won, it only won the movie war. Not the file storage war, if you want to put it that way. I wont see myself buying blueray discs unless they were the norm and IF i DIDNOT have a hard drive by then. I rather keep it that way. Hard drives are much cheaper and getting cheaper by the day. Hell i saw a 500GB HD for 100$. All i need to do is connect it to my computer or TV (when i get one comapatible with Hard drives) and its smooth sailing all the way.

    Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto assassinated

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    TO the first paragraph, and I'm going to say this without being as insult full as possible because as of this moment I feel offended by your yell of ignorance at my face.

     

    "As for what Davis was saying, you said that all religions are based from the same thing, prophets and what not."

     

    This correct, but an understatement, more people then just prophets form religions, whether or not the goal of original creator was with good intention, it all comes down to one thing, blindly believing you are a lower being then that who has "put" you here on earth, and that doesn't flow with me.

     

    " The bible was written by man, i agree. But not islam."

     

    The only comment I have towards this line, is a big fat "LoL", reason being, you contradict yourself so I'm not even going to attack you for it, you did the job for me.

     

    " Humans wrote the book after they have heard it from prophet muhammed (pbuh) from the angel gabriel from god. If it sounds silly to you, then you have not done your research. "

     

    Do you know why this sounds silly to me? The only people in this world that have seen "angels" are high or drunk and don't realize the angel that's on top of them is really a fat unattractive human being until the next morning when they wake up and realize they have to go to work. Why should I believe in something that only a insane person would say, and if he isn't insane, and this really happen, what makes "pbuh" so special to have been the only guy to experience this? Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if "pbuh" wasn't real in the first place, give me power, and I will personally invite you to a lesson in the ways of "changing history".

     

     

    Now, towards reapers belief of world-peace being true when all of us become athiests? Bullsh!t, human beings will always fight, it's our nature, you fight every day whether or not you want to believe it is up too you. The day we stop fighting is the day we all die.

    First of all, i wasnt yelling.

    Second of all, i did not state any facts about your belief.

    Third, if "you have not done your research" offended you, then you took it seriously. I did not mean that you are ignorant but more that you dont understand the whole idea. Ignorant means you "dont know", not "dont understand" or at least the way i was putting it.

     

    Fourth: In response to your comments

     

    If you are not willing to put yourself below your creator, thats up to you man.

     

    How did i contradict myself. Without looking at your next comment, the difference between the bible and the quran is the bible was a couple people sitting down on a table and writting it, changing stuff and adding to it. While the quran was simply listening and writting. NO changing, NO adding. One book ONLY.

     

    As for your next comment, if you are not willing to believe in anything other than human beings than so be it. I am not pulling or trying to pull your leg. Just trying to explain my point of view. Stating that all books were written by humans, i say that mine wasnt, whether you want to believe it or not. You were taught something and all i want to do is correct what your teacher had told you. The part where you have gone wrong in your research is that my book wasnt written by man (in the way i explained above). PLEASE, attack me, but not with a knife. I want to learn your point of view.

     

    Again sorry you thought i was yelling. Only trying to learn :)

    Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto assassinated

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    There will never be peace without justice. We need to stand on the side of justice whether that is with the Muslims or non-Muslims, believers or unbelievers. We are so busy sweating the details that we often miss the real truth. We know deep down what is right as long as we let Allah be our guide, and once we are at peace with what is right, we need to act. Knowledge is useless unless we use it. We need to get our eye off men and onto Allah because with Allah we have hope, guidance and mercy and with man, our future is futile.

    Now, this is what i called a true religion practiser.

    This is what people need to understand more. So as long as people everywhere dont have justice, we wont have peace. As silly as it might sound to you, if we are not willing to change our own self, Allah (GOD) will not change the country for the better.

     

    As for what Davis was saying, you said that all religions are based from the same thing, prophets and what not. You cant simply state that all religions are wrong without having done your research. When you read a history book, then read one from a different author, they might be wrong in one thing or another. The bible was written by man, i agree. But not islam. Humans wrote the book after they have heard it from prophet muhammed (pbuh) from the angel gabriel from god. If it sounds silly to you, then you have not done your research.

     

    I cant say that athiests are stupid because every other kid that i see cuts himself. In my high school, thats all i see them talk about, cutting themselves or getting high and sleeping with a dozen girls or guys. If this is your definition of a civilized nation, then the hell with it. Id rather be a muslim all my life. BUT, i dont believe that all athiests are like that. Some are just crazy or mest up in the head. If you choose to be close minded, its your life. I cant force you to change your way of life. But i will not sit and watch you bad mouth my religion, or any religion in which you are wrong about (a statement i say not to you but people all over the world).

     

    I used to watch the news and read the newspaper and all i would see is how much the muslims killed. This would make any person believe that our religion is wrong. They here from school or thier preists that we were a violent religion not knowing that priests ordered people to kill innocent men woman and children. Every year there are more muslim men, woman and children that die from bombs in Palestine, Iraq and other countries. But you have never heard of "50 children die from a bomb in west bank". Maybe once or twice but that doesnt click with people. After they heard of the millions of stuff that the muslims supposedly did, or really did, a person would say that hopefully they make a crater out of the middle east.

     

    Sometimes i think to myself that what if all muslims werent muslims. If they were athiests, according to Reaper mans logic. Would it be peaceful. I dont think so. Its not the nature of some people to live in a two story house, married, a car and children. Some people want a whole country to themsleves. Others want the world etc. Its not religion ONLY that starts war. Its power, money, jealousy, and alot more.

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