Er...Hi :)

Indeed, you have discovered my secret. I'm in possession of as many copies as anyone who's installed the thing on their computer. Woe is me.

 

Children are renewable resources, this is true.

 

And if you crush them up real nice they can make nonrenewable resources.

 

Wait, what. I don't understand your log-

Oh wait, it's Garm.

 

It's a word apparently.

 

Isn't it legal to download things you already own? That's how the pirates get away with it, after all.

 

You're allowed to possess a second back-up copy as well, though. This is pasted all over FBI warnings and End User Agreements. You just have to destroy it when you pass on the original.

It's kind of silly, really. If everybody in the household wants to watch 'The Thing' on a different TV at the same time, we damned well should be able to without buying four or five copies of it. Saying otherwise is just a way of gouging us.

 

It's for the government to show they "care" by telling everybody it is illegal and you will get in trouble and they take it very seriously blah blah, but on a much smaller level they most of the time dont give a damn. Its the same reason I can buy kangaroo rifle targets from my local gun store, even though it is "illegal" to even kill one. Yet everyone does.

 

Actually, if you read the licensing agreement on a good number of newer games (I noticed this on GTA IV), they bar this action entirely, saying that the disk you received in the box is the disk you get. End of story. They completely bar any form of using the disk other than the original which is provided to the end user. I think that, in the next few years, battles about licensing are going to begin to pop up between users, companies, and abusers. I personally dislike GTA IV's licensing scheme, and if they continue it, I'll never buy a game from them again. Same with Spore and such games. It's actually legitimately impossible to uninstall the software that they install on your machine to monitor your usage of their software. You usually have to majorly or minorly break your OS/regedit/hack everything to do so.

 

Ain't my logic. I was just playing with terminology.

Fossil fuels are created by crushed carbon based life forms, and they are technically renewable, but practically nonrenewable.

 

Actually, there's a local company who's managed to create a microbe that produces fossil fuels by consuming wood, yard waste, feces... it'll use just about anything for food. You could literally start with a barrel of shit, and end with a barrel of gas! ^_^

 

You're the only person I know who can smack himself square in the face with a fail and not even know it.

 

I'm just regurgitating what I was told in geography class.

But I also remember some mild debates in science class regarding whether fossil fuels were renewable resources or not. Good times.