🚀 go-pugleaf

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

Nah.  I only worry about semantics when the point's not clear.  If the 
point's clear despite the writer's best efforts to fuck up communication, I 
could care less.

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chainbreaker