Arthmoor

Well that's not cool. Not cool at all. Safe Harbor has saved the hides of plenty of providers over the years, and it's utterly ridiculous to hold site owners responsible for the content their users post. I don't normally care about legislation like this because 99% of the time only the pirates are complaining, but that one paragraph alone is cause for serious concern for the internet in general.

One thing to keep in mind though. If you adjust this via your monitor's controls, only YOU get the effect from it. NPCs and creatures will still behave as though they're bathed in sunlight or overbright nights and act accordingly.

The day PC Gaming goes 100% digital is the day I quit gaming. Pretty simple, and I know I'm not alone in this.

Bethesda's DLC policy makes it best to just avoid going down that road. You're better off with a custom mesh.

So.... I see links to "Download With Manager" yet no announcement of what that's for? :P

There is hope yet when more folks begin to realize this truth and start having the guts to stand up and say something about it.

I only did two small mods for Morrowind, but I remember early on with Oblivion that the new CS was overwhelming because it had so much new stuff. It didn't take long to figure things out though and come to the conclusion that the OB CS was way better. I imagine the GECK was even better still, but I was never able to wrap my brain around the navmesh system so I never did anything more than the one FO3 mod. I'm hoping that the CK will be an even bigger improvement and if they insist on keeping navmeshes that they make working with them easier to figure out.

Right, ok. Saw a very useful tidbit in the "I can't log in" thread that helped - no special chars allowed in passwords on the file sites. Slightly maddening, but all fixed now.

Due to issues with Firefox not saving my passwords properly, I had to reset my password here. However, the file portals are not allowing the new password to log in. The forums took it just fine obviously. When the sites present a lost password recovery link, it comes back here, and thus I'm not able to get back in to the main sites at all now. Has the integration between the sites and the forum been lost somehow?

The spoiler tags in file postings are not working properly: http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/1460/spoilerss.jpg I think this changed during the update to the new layout.

Exactly. Trademark law is a nasty business where you have to actively defend it or lose it entirely. It's not like copyright where you can blissfully ignore most issues and still sue down the road if someone steps over the line. There is of course a risk in suing and losing, but that's just how the game is played.

Fortunately your opinion isn't what sets the standard. Currently that honor belongs to the president, who right now happens to lean in your direction. Bush did not, and common sense should tell you why. Getting wet doesn't do you any lasting harm. Getting your face smashed in does. Having your toenails yanked out with pliers does. Being pumped full of addictive psychotropic drugs does. Having the knuckles on your hands broken with hammers does. THESE methods are torture, and I'm sure I could probably come up with other equally gruesome methods of extracting information from someone. Playing loud music? Losing a bit of sleep? Being in a room that's uncomfortably warm/cold (note: not the extremes mentioned by Bush)? Doesn't even register. I've seen and experienced hazing rituals in school that are far worse that what some of you are labeling as torture.

And the only one in this particular list that rises to actual torture is beatings, and I'm sorry, but there is no evidence that such things have taken place at Gitmo. It didn't get the nickname "Club Gitmo" for nothing.

They're also not going to like us more if we're dripping with niceness either. It's a fundamental difference in ideology that a whole bunch of people just don't get.

And therein lies your problem. These people hate us. The sooner folks realize that, the sooner people will realize why certain harsh methods of interrogation are necessary to get the info they don't want to tell us. Something we've been quite successful at doing without the use of torture btw.

And he's provided sufficient counter-examples, even from your own links, to demonstrate that Canada does not believe he was. Therefore it's not hard to conclude based on available treaty law that there is insufficient evidence to bring a case outside of sovereign Canadian jurisdiction.

Case dismissed, as in there isn't enough to even arrest the guy, let alone drag him off to be tried (guy being Bush btw).

Nice try, but he was deported to Syria legitimately. Not held at Guantanamo and certainly not subjected to torture by our hand. Though even Amnesty International was forced to call it "presumed torture". So there's not even evidence enough to convince them? They certainly don't use the same burden of proof standards the civilized world does, so that seems awfully telling to me.

Canada has no jurisdiction in this matter regardless. There was no torture, let alone torture of a Canadian citizen. Therefore there isn't even legal standing for such an arrest. Nevermind the fact that if Canada did so, it would open the door for other not so nice nations to abuse this to no end. Like, oh, I dunno, the Iranians? Imagine if they decided to start arresting foreign dignitaries on trumped up charges of war crimes. Again, I would hope for nothing less. No foreign power should have any jurisdiction over the criminal fate of another nation's citizens unelss those crimes are committed on that nation's soil, or against that nation's citizens. In accordance with treaties we have with Canada, Bush is exempt from prosecution of actions taken while in office short of those that would violate our own Constitution. Believe me, the Democrats tried very hard and made a lot of noise about filing impeachment charges and having him removed from office to then be prosecuted for war crimes. There wasn't even enough evidence to get an Impeachment proceeding started. Now, if Canada supports arresting someone on bogus charges without evidence, how would that make them any better than Iran or North Korea?

And since the alledged action took place while he was in office, diplomatic immunity would have protected it. Nevermind that no "torture" ever took place. The definition of the term seems to have lost its meaning mysteriously after Bush took office. As it should be. The US is a sovereign nation that has no obligation to answer to a non-existent "world authority". Neither does any other sovereign nation.

Not if I bought a physical product. I would NEVER buy something that was only available as a Steam download. No matter who produced it or how good it might be. So no, I'm comparing physical purchase to physical purchase and that COPY is mine. This whole "software is licensed" thing falls apart badly under those conditions. Valve also has the option to simply remove the product with the botched transaction from the user's account. Seriously, how hard could that be for them to do that? If it's just a one-time thing, no problem. The user and the company are still happy campers. If you get someone with a demonstrated pattern of fraudulent activity and repeated abuse of the system, that's another matter entirely. Valve could then turn that person over to collections and screw over their credit in the same way someone pulling refund scams with physical products would be. Or turned over to the proper authorities for investigation of criminal activity. Also, factual information about how Valve operates is not hate.

Right, because obviously our air force is so barbaric that we'd seek these targets out and destroy them.... Last I checked, this description of US military action is nowhere near accurate and is usually spread by left wing anti-war activists who think talking terrorist nations to death actually works. It doesn't. You cannot negotiate with crazy people.

Statements like that have a tendency to attract attention from the Secret Service. Probably not a good idea. Edited for everyone's sake. -mm

It may not even need to be a US war. The Saudis are pissed enough at Iran they may do something on their own. It was their ambassador they tried to kill after all. Not that we don't have ground to strike back ourselves since it would have involved blowing up a target on our soil.

When my Visa card suspects fraud, they don't come to my house and seize everything I purchased on that card prior to the suspicious transaction. When Steam suspects fraud, that's precisely what they do - seize everything you paid for even if it was 100% legally obtained. Where I come from, that's theft, and in the case of some peoples' libraries, it would qualify as grand larceny were it anything other than computer software. I see. So Steam became the magical good witch sometime .... after 2010? I don't for one second buy that. Nope, because when I buy hardware from an online retailer, they don't have the legal right to demand I return everything I ever bought from them if one transaction happens to bounce. To which I say too damn bad. That's part of the risk of operating in the modern world. Not just with online transactions either. They'll have to absorb a chargeback if I buy something in a brick & mortar store. Honestly, I don't get why people seem so willing to defend a practice that in ANY OTHER SECTOR would get people arrested for robbery. Even music and movie purchases. Computer software isn't exempt from property rights laws no matter what that EULA says.