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Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:40:50 GMT, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Pedro wrote: 
>
>>"Magnulus" wrote
>>>    PC Gamer Dude, you got it all backwards.   Piracy is not really
>>> caused by pirates.  Well, it is, but it isn't that simple.  You can
>>> have Yul Brenner get on TV and say "Please don't smoke", and the same
>>> thing is true of piracy.  It's only going to work so far, though.  In
>>> the end the PC and its games are a tempting target for pirates.  Why?
>>> Weak copy protection, very little DRM.   Unfortunately the only things
>>> you suggest is badmouthing Steam, Starforce, and any other DRM scheme
>>> out there.
>>
>>Correct.
>>
>>> So basicly you are saying you want to have your cake and
>>> eat it too.  It doesn't work that way, though.  There is no free lunch.
>>
>>Sorry to be pedantic. But you *can* 'have your cake and eat it'.
>>
>>Here's how:
>>
>>1) You have your cake.
>>2) You eat it.
>>
>>See? Complicated, but possible.
>>
>>What you probably meant was: 'You can't eat your cake and have it'.
>>
>Yeah, it's shorthand for "You can't eat your cake, and still have it after
>you've finished."

Not even shorthand, he left off the last word "too" which makes all the
difference in the meaning of the quote.

>Same problem as "I need that like a hole in the head." 
>
>Properly it should be, "I need that like *another* hole in the head" as without
>a hole in the head you couldn't breath and you would suffocate.

Perhaps, but mouth, nostrils, etc are named openings, not a random hole.

>Semantics is fun. Does it bug you when someone says, "I could care less?" <G>

Not really, since I just add the following (or some variant) to it.
"...but I'd really have to work at it."

Actively "not caring" as opposed to passively.

IE I don't care about a game that's being talked about.
Actively not caring is when I kill-filter all mention of it, instead of
just not caring about it.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr