Concerns about the new EULA
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Posted on: 2011-09-11 04:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Several episodes of the animated series had Uhura saving the day, she even had command of the ship at one point. It took several seasons of TNG before a woman was put in charge of the Enterprise. The show was goofy but it pushed boundaries just like original Trek.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
My favorite episode was the Slaver Weapon one. If you watch it now as a jaded adult, its kind of simplistic. But if you're watching it as a not-so-jaded seven year old (I think that's how old I was when I first saw it) Spock's speech at the end makes you go "oh...OHHH!"
UHURA: We can't let them have that weapon. SPOCK: They are not about to get it, Lieutenant. UHURA: Why not? SPOCK: Assume you are a Slaver war computer. You've been turned off. You do not know for how long. But when you were turned off, there was a war on. Now you are awakened by aliens you never saw before. They do not know any of the military passwords. They ask you so many questions it is obvious they know little about you. Your owner is nowhere about. What would you think? UHURA: I'd think I'd been captured by the enemy. Or an enemy, at least. SULU: And when they ask you how to find your most powerful weapon setting, what would you give them? |
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Originally Posted by Justice Blues
Yeah, but it also means you don't have to use Sauder furniture any more either. Might be worth it.
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Anyway, the manager decided that since i was so good with computers and hardware the logical thing to do was promote me to Furniture Lead. Y'know, since selling, assembling, and doing inventory of mostly particle
board office furniture was the logical step up from working with computers.
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The Slaver Weapon was written by Larry Niven. Introducing the Kzinti to the ST universe. They were then taken and seriously warped in Star Fleet Battles. The designers kept insisting that the animated stuff wasn't canon in their universe but never did explain how they got to use the Kzinti without including The Slaver Weapon. I believe my geek is showing. Excuse me. 
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Yes, "scream and leap" at first contact would certainly have been a different reaction than humanity got from the Vulcans. Especially since it would have been repeated at 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and later encounters, until the Puppeteers finally got their "reasonable" Kziniti. Might have made humanity a bit less trusting of Vulcans, Andorians, etc. |
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i like Niven's Known Space stories, but always felt that the Kzinti and the Slavers weren't really an ideal fit for the Star Trek universe. In my opinion properly handled Kzinti would have huge effects on the character and direction of the Federation.
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Reminds me of the EULA Adobe Photoshop has. It says you can't say 'That image was photoshopped! I can see the pixels.' You have to say "That image was enhanced with Adobe Registered Trademark Photoshop Registered Trademark, I can see the pixels."|
Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Oh and talking about extreme EULA's I just read this morning that Sony added a clause to their online games stating. "You can't file a class action lawsuit against them." Apparently in an attempt to head off class action lawsuits over the hacking incident they had.
That said the same article mentioned that yes it is a legal clause but it is doubtful it could actually be enforced. Ie it wouldn't stop you from filing a class action lawsuit but then they probably could legally terminate your account if you did. ::shrug:: |
And yes, according to that info, you have to include 'Registered Trademark' in the sentence.
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Ah but then if I don't use photoshop I clearly am free to use the word photoshopped without the TM. |
Originally Posted by KianaZero
Reminds me of the EULA Adobe Photoshop has. It says you can't say 'That image was photoshopped! I can see the pixels.' You have to say "That image was enhanced with Adobe Registered Trademark Photoshop Registered Trademark, I can see the pixels."
And yes, according to that info, you have to include 'Registered Trademark' in the sentence. |
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I love the show *because* its part awesome, part wacky. Then again, I like the movie Xanadu.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Don't get me wrong, the show did have its moments of awesome. Some of the stories were very good. It was also rather wacky.
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Heh. ST:TAS was awesome if only for yet another episode of Harry Mudd.
Even as a kid, though, I started to raise an eyebrow at how often the answer to the problem of accelerated aging, accelerated youth, turning into a plant, growing six heads, whatever, was "The transporter remembers our patterns. Jump into it!"
On an almost entirely unrelated tangent - I once was fortunate (or not) to witness an episode of the home shopping network that featured Deforest Kelly maybe a year or two before he died. He had a career in Westerns in his younger days, and they were selling all kinds of trek memorabilia and talking about his career as a whole. He seemed a little dubious about being there, and not entirely focused on the task at hand (which was selling Trek). The hostess would be extolling the virtues of some piece of Trek merchandise and Deforest would pick it up and look it over while the camera was supposed to be showing it. heh.
Anyway, some woman called in and started going on and on about some old western, and gushing about how she loved his performance in that film. He said, politely, "I wasn't in that film." The woman got flustered and started arguing with him about it. "Are you sure? I was certain...", etc... He remained polite, albeit somewhat peeved, and the hostess called for a short commercial break. When the show came back, Deforest was gone and he didn't come back again. heh.