we agree to disagree then. here. have a macro and a smile.







am not drawing lines between that and genocide. am drawing lines between abuse of power. the german state was very efficient in overriding legislative constraints to accomplish many things, not just genocide. but i can see why you would focus on just that one thing since that is what history bears out that we remember most.

You = blind. Apparently you need to learn how to read before you comment on what others say. Better yet, you should have TWO hemispheres for your brain as well. I know why Securom is present. It is a copy protection device. It has nothing to do with my thoughts, your thought, or anyone elses thoughts or motives. The Securom controversy lie in how it is introduced and what else it does besides copy protection, which in and of itself is not exactly a legal premise. I am why anarchy will never work? Pshaw. I am why it will work because I would most certainly have any brain dead ignoramus like yourself deported. You are the problem, not the solution because you do not educate yourself or disengage your mouth before you hide behind your pc keyboard and sprout imaginary balls full of self-righteous drivel & falsely inflated ego self stroking. You my dear boy, are a coward that needs to learn how to conjugate a verb before you get all holier than thou. It amazes me that you can wipe your own ass. I think what this boils down to is that anarchy offends you because you're some erectionless right wing nut job.



 

oh dear me, just because i  am not eighty, i am of 'insufficient life experience' and because i disagree with you, you take it personally, intolerantly and make assumptions about my education and social depth. hmm. well lessee, i think your rhetoric belies your immaturity, regardless of your age, you come across as short tempered & cross with those who do not agree. also, i am not a senior citizen, but have a child in college. as for my college, i have 8 years, grad 3 degrees & quite a few professional certifications. i get out plenty because i own my own business & also go on the road occasionally with a band to perform.

i also respect your right to say what you will & act as immature as you want. i also defend your right to the same, but don't make it personal grandpa. this is just community discourse. goodnight and don't forget to smile sometime between here & there.

actually, it's not over the top, but grossly understated. this is no different than minimalizing anything else where personal property is concerned. this is no different than if i bought someone's gas and after the purchase was transacted they subsumed the right to alter my car in some way beneficial to them with out my consent. it is literally the hijacking of my personal property and my use of my personal property. the metaphors, analogies and allegories can go on & on and never quite state strongly enough the beligerant crime involved. it has nothing to do with a hobby, it has everything to do with what is yours and theirs, where lines are drawn and where they are blurred and on spinning public perception & therefor ultimately, policy. ergo, your personal sovereignty extends beyond your body to anything you own & your sovereign use of that, and where a powerful tool such a computer is concerned, it affects safety in grave ways. games are only a litmus & a diversion.




that said, i like your angle, and that you presented this percpetion, but no matter how much fun it is to verbally wrestle, this little girl is tired so i will have to catch the tet a tet laters. yay bed!

that's what they are counting on. nazi germany counted on that too (apathy factor thingie...)




thanks calalily. i already ruled out KAV, it's no more correlated than paint or notepad since we tested it with it running and without, installed and uninstalled. but if it were, it would be because KAV is doing the job it is designed to do by protecting the operating system from illegal rogue malware that is stealthed in and operating under deception. i got my other info from MATY, been there about 2 years (woOt). this is a shop pc, so we have no personal investment as far as experimenting with it. it makes a good test bed. the problem is Securom, yepper. we measured the box against others with torrent clients & there are no ISP probs on them.
cheers!

it'll never happen.

i will have to chime in with my own agreement as well. the dialog i am having at EA has gone full blown ballistic with them putting words in my mouth & claiming utter falsehoods.  they are clumsy at best & very transparent. while that was happening there, offline, i had discovered that my Deluxe DVD did indeed come packed with Securom.

i knew i had to find a no-DVD patch so i could play my game, else the nightmare would return upon factory DVD insertion. oops, there are no no-DVD patches for the Deluxe product.

so natch, i proceeded over to mininova to look for some EP's, this way i could install them & patch those. say Pets, Seasons or OFB for example.
i fired up the newest version of µTorrent, and lo & behold if my pc did not suddenly start to freeze up. i figured perhaps it was Securom doing this, so i used the free version of Trashreg to finger the null reg keys, then used Regdevnull to get rid of them, then Sami Tolvanen's Eraser to get rid of the Securom folder in the docs & sets app folder. this particular Deluxe DVD comes with a version of Securom higher than 7 which does not have the ua7service.exe service, but instead two other services called RX and THUC. they live in the temp folder, not the system32 folder, and are reinstalled everytime they are removed when the DVD is inserted with a handful of DLL's. those are easily removed tho, just clear the c:\temp folder, but disable the nonsense in the services snap-in first so that if and when they come back, they enter your house neutered.

then i went back to mininova to fetch the torrent again. you know, the big one that's about 9 gigs, that way i could what i want and ignore what i already have/ don't want.

it froze again. the freezing was not unlike a hostile take over by a hacker or rogue code where there are no memory buffer overruns, yet plenty of of unfounded cpu clock cycles amping up. when it does this, everything is bitch. simple file browsing is impossible or slow. launching the task manager or any other app killer to terminate the process may never happen, or it may take up to an hour to terminate a process. using a web browser is pointless. right clicking may take half an hour to produce a context menu, that sort of thing. it behaved this way whenever i launched regedit, the command line or a rootkit revealer also, without µTorrent running while Securom was still present.

damn self protecting virii scum.

so i just thought that mayhaps that it be a crappy version of µTorrent, and subsequently downgraded to my previous archived version. nope, that wasn't it. so i went back to the newest µTorrent.

i went back and checked the documentation, and with my older non-crappy version of Zone Alarm, Peer Guardian 2 & Kaspersky AV, the µTorrent product is supposed to play ball nicely. still, i ran µTorrent without these security products in place, and even killed the explorer shell to lighten the load and get rid of other possible hooks.

no. No. NO. no worky. no biscuit for me.

so what started out as Deluxe DVD that failed to load, then would load after the application of some advice, but still was quite alpha-styled buggy, led to more advice that suggested that i apply a more stable EP to the mix to correct the buggy NL code found in Deluxe. and it took me to looking for said EP's via torrent, then a 3 day battle with Securom protecting itself until i removed it (at least i am pretty sure i did. maybe i need to get rid of the game executable too). and i have wound up not being able to do things that i take for granted like launching regedit and a simple command line. since µTorrent was not working, i opened up Opera and tried it's built in torrent client. not as nice, but it works. not this time.

today i spent several hours messing with Bit Tornado and had more luck. i got about 4% of my selected EP cure, but by muckety-muck if it just didn't frig the box before i had to reboot.

i am utterly INCENSED with EA in every regard, and i will be damned if they ever see one of my hard earned pieces of eight AGAIN.

more precisely, I FART IN THEIR GENERAL DIRECTION.

at this point, i do not know if it is Securom or not since i do believe i did successfully remove it, or if the ISP is not jamming things downstream, which is utterly possible, but A) none of these problems existed in any form previous to the Deluxe DVD purchase and B) the ISP jamming i have seen is never this severe.

echo echo echo echo every sentiment. arg, keel-hauling them is mild in comparison to what i have in mind.