Well, I think the people of Europe are finally waking up to the scam of "free trade" that's been foisted upon us since the Regan/Thatcher era. A bunch of stateless corporations and weasel bankers with zero accountability ran the economies of entire countries into the ground (Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Estonia, the US) for short term profit.

People are seeing this kind of heavy handed, corporatist Theft by legislation for what it is and saying "no".

Not that it'll matter. The scum will still get it signed into law via international trade agreement and start subverting the courts and legislative bodies to continue the theft.

bogaty

Free Trade is one thing, but international treaties being negotiated in secret, going out of their way to ignore consumer groups and public criticism can only be bad news. In the U.S., I think it's really just an end-around the Fourth Amendment.

The ratification of ACTA means kissing Due Process good bye.

Despite the public support of President Obama, ACTA is running into bad press throughout the world. The European Parliament last week even managed topass a strong resolution of displeasure with the ACTA process, which passed 633-13.(story)

For those of you unaware of what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is, I strongly recommend you all become familiar with it, like yesterday.

http://www.eff.org/issues/acta

I've been away from console gaming for nearly three years while my X360 rots in storage. I can't believe this is only becoming a possibility now. Out with the proprietary, and in with actual modern technical standards, who knew? Better late than never MS.

Gosh, next thing you know wireless adapters won't be $100 anymore.

I'm no tech expert but I would think it would be a bit faster than reading the game off an optical disc.

Playing fully installed games on the XB360is the only way to go in my honest opinion. I'll be curious to see how this pans out.

Grammaton-Cleric

That's because it is faster.;)

But does Piracy really affects the Industry. Are there any Positive effects of Piracy in the Industry? And I mean both ways, not just one party.

NerubianWeaver

If the damages are incalculable, then I guess we'll never know if Big Content ever reakky gets hurt.

[QUOTE="MarcusAntonius"]

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"] Every single president in recent memory has done similar organizing. Yes, this is absolutely a fake scandal.



Edit: And a sure fire way to know whether someone is really not part of the right/left paradigm is watching how they refer to the President's name. If they call him "Barry" or feel the need to say his full name Barack HUSSEIN Obama it is a dead give away.nocoolnamejim

Any other unsubstantiated claims you'd like to make?

My claim is an opinion on the matter and doesn't need to be substantiated. You're clearly losing the focus of the discussion. You gave links to private organizations. You claimed that this matter is a common thing with presidents, I'm still waiting for the proof. I'm talking about a presidenital administration doing this. The same administration that may have violated the law by working directly with the NEA in promoting the Obama agenda.

As for the rest of your post, whatever. If you're having difficulty taking on the post without taking on the poster, perhaps you should just agree to disagree and be done with it.

[QUOTE="MarcusAntonius"]

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]Indeed. Freedom Works would NEVER result to giving people examples and tools to help them get involved. :P Neither would The Republican National Committee. I nominate this as the fake scandal of the day. nocoolnamejim

Among the mamy reasons I checked out out the right/left paradigm years ago. Still, for a President to resort to this, and that sting from that flag@whitehouse.gov flap is still hanging about.

I wouldn't call it a fake scandal necessarily.

Any other unsubstantiated claims you'd like to make?

*'This estimate is therefore preliminary, pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal'...

[QUOTE="MarcusAntonius"]

[QUOTE="xaos"] I would; "Organize" is right there in the name, after all.xaos

Yes, it's named that way for Barry's days as an "organizer." Again, I still say there's a world of difference between private organizations and groups doing this, and a Presidential administration doing it.

There is a place for a political agenda, it's called Congress. If the President wants face time, all they need to do is call a press conference, the networks drop what they're doing to cut away for coverage. Didn't Obama just hold a summit over this? But to see a presidential administration resorting to spamming newspapers with fake "Letters" is unseemly and heavily partisan especially from a government website. It's a line that just shouldn't be crossed.