(November 21, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know, that's something that I've never understood about this, piracy? Who decided to call it that? Were they aware of what pirates did, how they made their living? The term doesn't seem to apply. It's not like I'm trying to sell their own game back to them (or anyone) at a profit........ I just want to know what it is they're trying to extort me with, before I let them part my cheeks.No idea how the term was coined, but I can remember it as far back as the mid-80s... when my friends and I would pirate Commodore 64 games. >.<
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
