It wont, but it'll do wonders for Mandelson's retirement funds... Labour need to seriously fuck off...
Posts by D3ads
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there's a video of the debate on the bbc site.
I'm watching some of this (damned if I'm going to watch all 4 hours of it!), it's very clear from this that as I said before... none of these people are in-touch users of the Internet and probably only ever use it rarely if at all..!
I still want them to say what would be a "suspicious" amount of data before someone gets a letter through their door...
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I don't think anyone in congress has a decent grasp of the Internet, except maybe Cameron...
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I think you read too much into that Campaignjunkie...
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This is something that will affect a lot of UK users, I've never heard of it before and I wonder if some of the other UKers here have either, so here we go. Obviously if you live outside the UK then this isn't a concern for you.
Basically the UK Government are bringing a new set of laws in regarding the "digital economy", designed to combat piracy.
Sadly the bill is basically designed to criminalize anyone who uses a large amount of bandwidth - if you download a large amount of data (regardless of legitimacy) your internet connection will be either cut off entirely or reduced in speed. If you want it restored, then you will have to go through the lengthy and costly procedure of contacting your ISP to justify your bandwidth usage.
Furthermore, the Government are planning to block various websites; and private netspace for hosting files will be banned. This latter point especially irks me, since it's extremely important to modding teams.
Providers of publically available internet connections have indicated that they will be withdrawing from service, such is their fear of litigation once the bill comes into effect.
The official position of the Government is that the bill will be made law, without any public debate.
More information on the bill can be found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/ma ... onomy-bill
If this doesn't sound particularly cool to you, write to your local MP to petition for a debate. If the bill gets an open debate, then the law can be postponed - and ultimately hopefully disappear altogether. The campaign group 38degrees has a pre-worded document you can copypasta to your local MP http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speako ... einternetl
My thoughts;
Anyone who uses Steam to buy and download a 20gb game is going to be fucked... what the Hell? This is even worse than America's anti-digital crusade.. and there was me thinking that we were better off than most places...
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to purchase webspace sufficient enough to host files, many people rely on sites like megaupload and rapidshare to distibute files for media and modding purposes as aforementioned as it's quick, easy and free to all involved.
The people behind this are probably a bunch of retards who probably hate video games and the Internet anyway... it's all a fucking fix! I don't know if cba to write any emails/letters to MPs though, it seems pointless to bother since this is a fixed backdoor agreement that lots of people will never hear about...
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Looking good! I'd keep the lack of mouth and make them into some freak Japanese horror entity
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QuoteCommentsThis wasn't a real story, it was an April Fools Day joke.
Posted by: countrydarts | April 05, 2010 at 08:34 AM
heh.
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Finally got to play this on my friend's PS3... my God the visuals are fantastic.. they're not perfect but they are stunning. The gameplay is pretty neatly done, lots of different choices to make about what actions you take or don't do that effect the outcome of the game. Came across a major glitch though, where Ethan's wife's neck twisted around in some kind of japanese horror-take off and just stood there frozen.. really quite creepy lol! Couldn't progress from here for some reason, his kids just carried on playing instead of triggering the next scene, so we had to skip ahead...
Someone tell me why
Quoteyou must make Ethan shower but Madison's is optional.. what's up with that?
Oh and I completely sucked balls during
QuoteMadison's dream, she'd be so dead if that was for real
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I like brainless actionmovies
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I want to scream in the face of the people who keep paying to see these abominations, they really are massively terrible films.
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Quote from DaanO
Deads, i've been too busy the last couple of days and it seems i'll be busy today, have you taken a look at the movie Furyo suggested?
It's on my "To watch list", having watched Green Zone, Syriana and Rendition I'm a little tired of Iraq movies atm
Don't worry about time, I'm not in a rush or anything it's just something I need at somepoint, I'll let you know when I get desperate.
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Clash Of The Titans 2010 is not worth your money..
Waaaaay too rushed, it's over in 90 minutes, the original was 2 hours long. Perseus was so 2-dimensional, I really didn't care if he lived or died, the "love interest" in Lo was boring and lacked any kind of spark,
QuoteMedusa
's scene was over way too quick, no taunting Perseus like the original storyline. They screwed up the Scorpions,
Quotethey form from Medusa's blood dripping on the sound, not the hybrid thing.
...and to rub salt into the already many wounds,
QuoteThe Krakan is on screen for a grand total of 5 minutes...!
I felt cheated. I barely noticed the film was in 3D either...
Best thing about the film... Gemma Arterton, I'd almost watch the film again just for her...
4/10
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Another excuse to use those damned car props that get used everywhere :roll: Looks pretty cool... is that OB engine or yet another extra enhanced Source engine?
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http://www.fileplanet.com/210966/210000/…er-Demo?r=5Haha, this has to be the best.
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