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GTA and Rating of Video Games
Gamer writes "There is an interesting debate on Grand Theft Auto and rating of computer games going on. It started with Lawmeme's Paul Szynol wants 'distribution control so that minors don't get access to inappropriate material'.
Greplaw's Mikael Pawlo has a reply saying 'Computer games are art and should be dealt with accordingly, without any references to the prohibition tactics of the 1980:ies.'
Would the world not be a better place without the violence in GTA? I don't understand Pawlo's art argument, although I love gaming. I agree with Paul Szynol. Kids should not get violent games." I really don't have a problem with regulating violent games- its when the government tries to outlaw them that I have a problem.
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It has come to my attention that there are several instances of the word "fuck" in the kde and mandrake documentation (Im not joking ethier), if you linux zealots ever want to beat microsoft your gonna have to clean up your act!
Solve these:
Use logical laws to show that:
1. A=>(B=>C) is logically equiv to A^B=>C
2. A=>B V C is log equiv to (A=>B) V C
I like sugar, and I like tea
But I don't like niggers... no siree!
There's two known things that'll make me puke
And that's a hog eatin' slop, and a big, black spook!
You know it... cause I show it
Like a barn-yard rooster I crow it!
And the NAACP
Would sure like to get a-hold of nigger-hatin' me!
Roses are red, and violet's are blue
And nigger's are black, you know that's true
But they don't mind, cause what the heck!
You gotta be black to get a welfare check!
And I'm broke... no joke
I ain't got a nickel for a coke!
And I ain't black, you see
So Uncle Sam won't help poor nigger-hatin' me.
Jig-A-Boo, jig-a-boo... where are you?
I's here in the woodpile... watchin' you
Jig-A-Boo, jig-a-boo... come out!
No! Cause I'm scared of the white man's a-way down South
You know it!... cause I show it.
Stick your black head out and I'll blow it!
And the NAACP
Can't keep you away from little old nigger-hatin' me!
Mirror, mirror... on the wall
Who is the blackest of them all?
A man named King, and there ain't no doubt
That he's causin' lots of trouble with his baboon mouth.
Brewin'... he's a doin'
It's caused by the trouble he's a-brewin'
And the NAACP
Can't win if the white men stick with nigger-hatin' me!
Hey! Mr. President! What do you say?
When are we whites gonna have our day?
The nigger's had there's such a long, long time
I'm white, and it's time that I had mine!
You know it... cause I show it!
Stick your black head out and I'll blow it!
And the NAACP
Can't win if the white man sticks with nigger-hatin' me!
Yes, very OT but let the moderators deside that :-).
First, I too smoke a cigar or a pipe every once in a while (although it's been a good 2 months since I have). The problem with enjoying tobacco is that when you go out with friends who smoke at a restaraunt or bar the establishment normally doesn't allow cigars or pipes because of the [good!] smell. So, I found one of the originall cigarette makers, Nat Sherman, who actually makes real cigarette's (eg: just a small cigar, but filtered).
The problem, of course, is that it is a very addictive substance.
As a substance, nicotine is mildly addictive (less so than caffine by some counts). The problem is, many cigarette's contain carefully engineered chemical combinations to enhance the addictive quality of nicotine. This, to me, is outragous - I have never once touched a Phillip Morris cigarette... I think I'd be safer trying marijuana.
Now, combine a person who has an addictive personality with this chemically enhanced drug, and you have a very damaging product.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips