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As compared to the ones that are such a persistent jackass the poor workers do what they want just to get them to go the hell away. Works an annoyingly large amount of times, from what I've observed, but so much more effort when politeness can get the same thing done in half or less the time and a terribly small fraction of the energy.

It is intensely embarrassing to be family of someone like that when they decide to use that tactic. You just... you just want to go up to the poor worker and say, "I am so very, very sorry." Which I've done once or twice, I think. Doesn't come up very often, fortunately.

Eh? You can't enchant artifacts, including randarts.

Right? That wasn't changed or something? Iirc it pretty explicitly states in the item's description you can't do that. It probably only showed up while cursed to let you burn an enchant scroll to uncurse it.

What is a robot?

Wikipedia answers many questions.

Vista wasn't too hard to work around... after I turned off everything that made it vista and used it as a somewhat gimped XP system. Before that, it was so close to nonfunctioning it made no nevermind

Never again. Honestly, I don't even want to "upgrade" to seven when I get my next computer, but it's hard to find a new comp being sold with XP. Bleh.

I’ll make technologists a deal, I’ll give up my song copyrights if you give up your software patents.  Software patents are even less unique than your typical song.   So this should be easy right?

Is called FOSS, free open-source software, and it's various permutations. Is working pretty well from what I've seen, albeit not necessarily from the 'feed my children on creative efforts alone' front.

I'm not sure if it's a fair thing to say typical software code is less unique than typical song -- actual coding is a hell of a lot more involved than a lot of music playing, from what I've seen. 'tis an aside, though, heh.

However I think there could be an internet solution involving having free listening/previews with paid downloads for personal copies instead of mass-media advertising influencing which artists are known to the public.

Bandcamp? Bandcamp. Pretty sure there's a few others doing the same/similar. Your solution is a thing done, so we're already collecting data points on how effective it is.

As for the more general discussion, I'm of the opinion that copyright should be doing what it was actually intended to do -- which isn't protect the creator's right to copy, that's just how copyright goes about doing what it means to do. That is to say, incentivise the creation of new creative works. Which roughly translates to a much freaking shorter time limit, say ten to twenty years at most, for profitization of a particular creative work, after which the work becomes public.

None of this riding a single success for lifetime silliness -- copyright duration that gives a creator no incentive to succeed more than once or twice is as (or at least nearly as) damaging to creative content creation as no copyright whatsoever, imo.

... paint didn't have crop before win7?

What... what's cropping, again? I might be getting confused, I guess.

Yeah, DG's planned for fixing, though, I think. Which the elves aren't, s'far as I know. Though if they are, cool.

And yeah, SE is one of the best TM races, but that's strictly because of apts which... isn't mechanically interesting. They learn faster, not better, nor do they do anything with transmutation or unarmed besides learn them faster. DE sorta' gets away with it by being squishy, but even that feels kinda' like a copout, y'know? Better could be done!

It's just kinda' blaring when everything nonhuman but elves (and demigods, but fixing!) have some kind of oddity beyond strict statistics, y'ken?

And yeah, vamp dagger, at least if it won't starve you. Which... kobold. Yeah.