Remember, for hundreds of years, the greeks and romans knew the world was round and revolved around the sun. Then some group with an agenda came and said otherwise and people stupidly believed them.
Dear Alanis,
This is irony. Zadaz is replying to a story about scientific research done with hemp, which he won't read because of his prejudices. He then sums up with if people want him to changes his prejudices, they should produce some scientific research done with hemp.
Okay, back again. You seem to have not actually read the second amendment. No where in it does it say that anyone anywhere can carry a gun they bought thirty seconds ago at the Kwik-e Mart. In fact, it's the only amendment to use the word "regulated". One man walking down the street is not a militia.
Dude, I was going to go into how I can't stand your points, but I think the thing that bothers me most is the level of your rhetoric. "police" "extreme" "invasive" "utopian liberal fantasy". Tone it down some and you might make some decent points. Currently, you just sound like a Fox News sound bite.
Damn, as much as I tried, I can't stop myself.
By your examples of CA and NY and the "liberal" at the end, you seemed to be under the impression that conservatives don't want to do the exact same thing. Which party is the one that keeps trying to pass laws about what you can and can't do in your bedroom again?
Ahh cigarettes. That was a hard fought battle. Fortunately, public decency won. I currently live in a country where there's no regulation in restaurants. Some do have separate rooms, some have the "invisible wall", others don't even have that. If people want to smoke, have at it. If people want to smoke while I try to eat, I hope they don't mind if I shit on their plate while they try to eat. See, smoking isn't a right, it is a privilege. If you want to buy pre-packaged ready to smoke cigarettes, you pay for it. But you know what? There is no regulations on growing your own.
As to the concealed thing? Let me just say good. It makes me happy to know not just any moron can carry a gun.
Prude much? Or just ignorant of ummm culture? Or just dumb?
It always comes up, this, in discussions about porn. Sex is normal and healthy. What could be wrong about looking at depictions of a couple engaging in this healthy, normal act.
And if that's what porn was about, I'd agree. But a great deal of porn is about transgressive acts, and nasty attitudes.
A great deal of people talking is about transgressive acts and nasty attitudes. Should we ban talking from places? Seriously how is "Pizza's here - open the box to my cock - fucking" worse than two frat boys talking about beating the shit out of someone else or wanting to? Or two girls trash talking another?
Rape fantasies are common. The notion that "no means yes" is common.
define "common". If you mean it to be more than 50% umm, then I'd like to see some citation. 30% isn't common. Even then this needs a big fat [citation needed]
The notion that all women turn into sluts when you scratch the surface.
Wait, I thought porn was about rape? Which is it?
Getting pleasure from spitting, slapping and insulting someone (or I guess from being subjected to that).
People don't need porn for this. People insult other people on a daily basis, if not more. I've seen 5,000 times more slapping on run of the mill TV shows than I have in all the porn I've seen. If you're that offended by spitting, do yourself a favor and never ever go to China. Or hang out near prepubescent boys.
And of course, body parts of abnormal size.
Fuck you and your holier-than-thou attitude on how people should look. So some people like fat porn. Oh, wait, you're talking about 18 inch cocks? So what am I not supposed to go outside anymore? Or are you talking about girls with big fake tits? If so, don't watch any sort of South American TV.
Most adults can tell the difference between fantasy and reality (although, possibly, fewer than you'd hope -- especially when there's the 'gonzo' genre that masquerades as amateur). But children find it more difficult.
You're so right. We need to get on banning Harry Potter before more children think they're wizards. Non-fiction is hereby banned because kidz iz dumbz.
So we have boys growing up with these unpleasant ideas about what it's OK to do to women, and girls growing up with these harmful ideas of what society expects of them.
From porn?! Men beat their wives because they watch PORN?! Girls have weight issues because they watched PORN?! You're dumb and so are the retards that modded you insightful.
(I'm talking about hetero porn, because that's what experience I have).
I have experience with it all and well, I can tell you 95% doesn't have any of the shit you've been spouting in it. Except for that German stuff. Freaky~!
Sure, there *is* porn in which two people are mutually attracted and have mutually enjoyable, considerate sex.
You mean like most of it?
But it's not all that common,
Inconceivable! You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
and consumers tend to shift up to something more interesting (i.e. more extreme and transgressive).
Umm, you're full of it. I've got over 20+ years of pron watching experience and I'm not into BDSM, skat, snuff, beast, or anything more than guy-meets-girl guy-fucks-girl. Hell, I'm not even fond of anal. People like what they like. They don't start liking shit because they're bored. Again, you are stupid.
I don't know the answer. I'm opposed to censorship. But neither am I dumb enough to say that porn is harmless.
No, you're just dumb. I'm surprised you didn't say anything in there about going blind or hairy hands. The rest of the drivel you spouted sounds just the same.
There seems to be confusion here because the story is a news article and not the direct update from PlayJam. Here's what they told their KS backers
Huge Momentum.
When we started this project we were unsure how successful it would be. Our expectation was that we would do an initial run of a few thousand units and then go from there. What happened next was a whirlwind. We’ve now got 27 retailers around the world engaged and placing orders for our micro-console. We have GameStop in the US and Game in the UK as our lead retail partners, but with over 5,000 stores between them we are in a remarkable position to scale this project.
With your support and backing we have created something that quite literally could help re-shape the games console industry. Quite a feat if we get it right.
Dev units shipped.
Key to making this happen is getting developers behind us and so far over 600 developers have signed up, including many great indies and major studios. We’re working on bringing some great titles to the TV and over the coming months we will make some announcements on some of the awesome exclusive content we have in development. We’ve also signed strategic deals with companies like Amlogic and ARM which will help us promote our network throughout their huge eco-system. To harness this potential we have started shipping out the GameStick DEV units to our developer partners and will ship out the remaining units this week and next. One batch has been held up in customs because of the current issues around the use of air-freight to transport lithium batteries which exist within our controller. Hopefully this batch will be released next week.
Using your feedback on these units we have already begun to make refinements on the final production model. We have adjusted the movement on the shoulder buttons, changed the analog stick assembly, moved the LED configuration, re-designed some of the buttons, changed the texture on the analog stick hats and put a mechanical door on the back of the controller so that when GameStick is being used the slot in the back of the controller is closed. We’re looking forward to getting further feedback from you all.
Main Production Run.
The main production run has gone from a few thousand units to tens of thousands of units. This has meant that we have had to change production methods and move to high volume tooling.
Initially, we planned on demand for around 1,000 units so we were going to use silicon molds, which is what we have used for the GameStick DEV units. These don’t take much time to make, but they also cannot cope with the high volume production that we now need. As a result we have had to move to much higher end tooling which is being made in both China and Germany. To create these tools takes around 3 months and is a huge investment for us – one we can only afford to make once. Whilst this work has been underway for a while we have had to slow things down a bit to ensure we can get the final controller amendments prototyped and tested before the final tools can be finished.
Initially we had hoped to deliver GameStick to you at the end of April. We now expect to complete mechanical tooling about 4 weeks later at the end of May. Then the units are assembled, tested and assuming there are no issues, packed prior to shipping to each territory. We expect to ship around the 10th June. The volumes are now too large for us to be able to afford to air-freight them, which was our plan, so now we are going to have to use sea freight to deliver them. That's going to take around 2 weeks. Then we have fulfillment in territory – which we estimate will take between 1 and 5 days depending on where you are located. This means we think the likely date of arrival of your hand crafted GameStick will be at the last week of June.
Whilst we would have liked to ship earlier, we are, to a large degree, victims of the success we have created toge
As a backer, I can see the updates on KS. Here is what they said:
Initially we had hoped to deliver GameStick to you at the end of April. We now expect to complete mechanical tooling about 4 weeks later at the end of May. Then the units are assembled, tested and assuming there are no issues, packed prior to shipping to each territory. We expect to ship around the 10th June. The volumes are now too large for us to be able to afford to air-freight them, which was our plan, so now we are going to have to use sea freight to deliver them. That's going to take around 2 weeks. Then we have fulfillment in territory – which we estimate will take between 1 and 5 days depending on where you are located. This means we think the likely date of arrival of your hand crafted GameStick will be at the last week of June.
Yeah! Tell him brother! CORPORATE WHORES! You can pry my iOS, no... Windows Mobile, ummm Windows WTF?... errr fuck, what's some mobile platform that doesn't suck on the balls of some fat corp?
At the University of Iowa or any state school? I went to a large state university and worked at the library for four years. Granted, that was ten years ago, but the last time I was there (4 years ago) visiting my old bosses, it was the same. Unless people are chugging beer in the stacks, go in there. All of the university libraries I've been in have had desks in the stacks. My school's library even had private, insulated rooms inside the stacks. Look harder, AC
Buy this and move are the only things people have been suggesting.
The fact that you were able to put most advice into two broad categories doesn't magically invalidate it. Pretending that it does makes you a liar.
I never said they were invalid. Spending money on things when there is a perfectly good free option available is a waste. Also, I didn't lump all the advice into two broad categories. If you took the time to read my second sentence, it specifically mentions something that is neither one of those. Who's the dishonest one here?
GO TO THE F-ING LIBRARY!
This falls into the "move" category. So not only are you a liar, you're a hypocrite as well.
When I said "move" it wasn't the meaning of "motion" but as in people were suggesting he put all of his belonging into boxes, find a new room and relocate all of his stuff to it. I understand perfectly well that you're just trolling me because you're trying to prove that I lumped all the solutions into two broad categories (though I didn't and at the time of my posting, aside from the somatic processing advice that's all there was: different suggestions for voice canceling headphones and people telling him to pack up and relocate).
You will now inadvertently prove me correct by further displaying your dishonesty. No other course of action from you is possible.
Your trolling aside, it still doesn't invalidate my point that the easiest, cheapest and simplest solution is for him to take advantage of living on campus and use the resources already available to him. Go to the library.
Buy this and move are the only things people have been suggesting. One guy did have interesting advice about the somatic voice processing center of the brain, but I can't believe not a single person has suggested that you leave your room, walk across campus and go to the freaking library. Need a computer? There are computer labs everywhere, too. Seriously, I thought this was one of the worst ask slasdots and expected half the answers to be "Go to the f-ing library". But no one?! let me say it then.
I only reply because there are mods as clueless as you.
[The one-child policy] restricts urban couples to only one child, while allowing additional children in several cases, including twins, rural couples, ethnic minorities, and couples who are both only children themselves. In 2007, according to a spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy, approximately 35.9% of China's population was subject to a one-child restriction.(wikipedia)
Granted, when the population is in the billions, 35.9% is a lot of people, but still it's not as far reaching as you are thinking. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if 35.9% didn't equate to the number of one (or no) child households in western countries.
There's a tort called vexatious litigation. It's common law.
That's nice and might have baring were this a law of the land and not law of a company.
There is also a possible penalty under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 11, for signing your name to a legal declaration that you have not investigated and, thus, do not have good reason to believe that it is true. The judge, essentially, gets to make up any penalty they think is appropriate (within reason).
What judge? What Federal Rules? Those don't matter in the slightest here. This is about a private entity making up misguided rules when they should be dumb pipes.
You and the story poster really really really need to go back to school and beef up on your reading comprehension. Card's personal views are evident all over the place. Empire was painfully filled with them. Everything in the Bean series. All of his non-SF is littered with it.
If you want to read a very well written and thought out argument as to why Ender's Game is one of the worst books for adolescents to read, check out John Kessel's thesis. He's not like one of those that says Card didn:t even write Ender's Game
11 years ago, I bought a mac because of iTunes. It was the only software out there that did these things:
Automatically organize my music in folders following a Main > Artist > Album >song.mp3 structure
Allow me to easily store album artwork and notes with the file
Give my OCD new heights by introducing me to automatic play counts
I spent many hours organizing my files and making playlists so I could listen to an album (I like filler TYVM). The iPod for me was "Hey! It works with iTunes!" more than anything.
Or, without bothering with all of that, you can spend $11 on this and you don't have to worry about any of that crap. Plus, your kiddies and BFFs can see what you felt and what you were like not just what you did. And as an added bonus, if you get what I linked to, it comes with cute butterflies!
You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Okay. List them. "Serious psychological disorders"? Go ahead and list them out of the DSMIV or whatever you can find. I'd be curious because GMail and GChat have made my life a thousand times better with their impeccable recording and recall abilities. "Remember when I suggested The Naked and Famous to you like three years ago? Oh, you don't? That's funny, this e-mail says otherwise."
Thank you for proving the OP's post. It seems you suffer from self-righteous assholism. I would look into counseling.
That's where you're wrong or it's impossible to prove that no one will ever want to see it. I would absolutely love to see the world through my grandfather's eyes.
One time I went to a thrift store and they had random family effects. One of them was this ancient black leather flip book with about 50 black and white plate photographs in it and as I flipped through them I saw settlers on the plains. Standing next to Native Americans. Standing next to mud huts that they had cut with sod. Standing next to oxen tied to a manual plow. On and on they went. [...]... but it was something unique and interesting to me.
[...]
So, I think you're wrong. And I think that those handful of black and white photos have expanded to stacks of color photos and now long videos of family gatherings from VHS to CCD. Is it really that absurd to think that someday your offspring will wonder what life is like? Or 200 years from now any random person just curious about life was like in our time?
The only problem is, those videos will be just as revealing as those photos were. Just because something moves doesn't mean you'll glean insight. something like this is so much better, and the best thing is, you can find something like that in the time period in which you're interested.
Why isn't this modded up? Why the obsession with video recording? A video doesn't show what you were like, it shows what you did. A cheap $50 video camera is good enough for that. Open it up and start recording random bits of your day and then write about it. That will show whoever so much more than a 8,760 hour loop of jerky footage that has no meaning.
Dude, that's not racism. Second, Japanese people input by a) Hiragana (if it's a cell phone) or by using b) romaji (if it's a smartphone using ATOK or a PC). They don't input by "sounds". They input letters. Or maybe me and my near native Japanese fluency is wrong. Emoji are just fucking doodles in mails.
But all this has a cost.
You need to pay a small tax in every empty CD, DVD, HDD, SSD and now on memory sticks as well. It is about 15 euros from HDD what is bigger than 750GB
About a 15 cent on empty DVD and about 10 cent on empty CD.
This is where the law COMPLETELY falls apart. This is absolutely and completely unacceptable. Who decides the breakdown of this collected tax? What about artists not in the golden tax guild, how do they get their share? How do we know it's going to the copyright holders period?
Damn right people are mad about it. I'd be pissed, too. America had that tax on blank tapes, too. There are special "music" blank cds that are more expensive because they have that tax as well, but in all frankness, fuck them if they want to tax my HDDs and SD cards because the might store backups of music I paid for.
We've let RIA* groups distort the conversation so much it almost physically hurts me. We should be debating how much jail time some dumbass gets for downloading some shit song that will be forgotten in two years, we should be debating how many years we need to shorten copyright to reign it back in to sane levels. Make copyright reasonable, say less than 15 years, hell make it single digit, and I'll join the line demanding infringers to serve time. While it's in the three digits, fuck off with your $15 tax so I can "share with my family". Song recorded before I was born will still be under copyright when I'm dead.
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Where exactly on that page? I didn't see anything related to that at all
Remember, for hundreds of years, the greeks and romans knew the world was round and revolved around the sun. Then some group with an agenda came and said otherwise and people stupidly believed them.
Almost every antidote has an opposite.
Dear Alanis,
This is irony. Zadaz is replying to a story about scientific research done with hemp, which he won't read because of his prejudices. He then sums up with if people want him to changes his prejudices, they should produce some scientific research done with hemp.
Okay, back again. You seem to have not actually read the second amendment. No where in it does it say that anyone anywhere can carry a gun they bought thirty seconds ago at the Kwik-e Mart. In fact, it's the only amendment to use the word "regulated". One man walking down the street is not a militia.
Dude, I was going to go into how I can't stand your points, but I think the thing that bothers me most is the level of your rhetoric. "police" "extreme" "invasive" "utopian liberal fantasy". Tone it down some and you might make some decent points. Currently, you just sound like a Fox News sound bite.
Damn, as much as I tried, I can't stop myself.
By your examples of CA and NY and the "liberal" at the end, you seemed to be under the impression that conservatives don't want to do the exact same thing. Which party is the one that keeps trying to pass laws about what you can and can't do in your bedroom again?
Ahh cigarettes. That was a hard fought battle. Fortunately, public decency won. I currently live in a country where there's no regulation in restaurants. Some do have separate rooms, some have the "invisible wall", others don't even have that. If people want to smoke, have at it. If people want to smoke while I try to eat, I hope they don't mind if I shit on their plate while they try to eat. See, smoking isn't a right, it is a privilege. If you want to buy pre-packaged ready to smoke cigarettes, you pay for it. But you know what? There is no regulations on growing your own.
As to the concealed thing? Let me just say good. It makes me happy to know not just any moron can carry a gun.
It always comes up, this, in discussions about porn. Sex is normal and healthy. What could be wrong about looking at depictions of a couple engaging in this healthy, normal act.
And if that's what porn was about, I'd agree. But a great deal of porn is about transgressive acts, and nasty attitudes.
A great deal of people talking is about transgressive acts and nasty attitudes. Should we ban talking from places? Seriously how is "Pizza's here - open the box to my cock - fucking" worse than two frat boys talking about beating the shit out of someone else or wanting to? Or two girls trash talking another?
Rape fantasies are common. The notion that "no means yes" is common.
define "common". If you mean it to be more than 50% umm, then I'd like to see some citation. 30% isn't common. Even then this needs a big fat [citation needed]
The notion that all women turn into sluts when you scratch the surface.
Wait, I thought porn was about rape? Which is it?
Getting pleasure from spitting, slapping and insulting someone (or I guess from being subjected to that).
People don't need porn for this. People insult other people on a daily basis, if not more. I've seen 5,000 times more slapping on run of the mill TV shows than I have in all the porn I've seen. If you're that offended by spitting, do yourself a favor and never ever go to China. Or hang out near prepubescent boys.
And of course, body parts of abnormal size.
Fuck you and your holier-than-thou attitude on how people should look. So some people like fat porn. Oh, wait, you're talking about 18 inch cocks? So what am I not supposed to go outside anymore? Or are you talking about girls with big fake tits? If so, don't watch any sort of South American TV.
Most adults can tell the difference between fantasy and reality (although, possibly, fewer than you'd hope -- especially when there's the 'gonzo' genre that masquerades as amateur). But children find it more difficult.
You're so right. We need to get on banning Harry Potter before more children think they're wizards. Non-fiction is hereby banned because kidz iz dumbz.
So we have boys growing up with these unpleasant ideas about what it's OK to do to women, and girls growing up with these harmful ideas of what society expects of them.
From porn?! Men beat their wives because they watch PORN?! Girls have weight issues because they watched PORN?! You're dumb and so are the retards that modded you insightful.
(I'm talking about hetero porn, because that's what experience I have).
I have experience with it all and well, I can tell you 95% doesn't have any of the shit you've been spouting in it. Except for that German stuff. Freaky~!
Sure, there *is* porn in which two people are mutually attracted and have mutually enjoyable, considerate sex.
You mean like most of it?
But it's not all that common,
Inconceivable! You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
and consumers tend to shift up to something more interesting (i.e. more extreme and transgressive).
Umm, you're full of it. I've got over 20+ years of pron watching experience and I'm not into BDSM, skat, snuff, beast, or anything more than guy-meets-girl guy-fucks-girl. Hell, I'm not even fond of anal. People like what they like. They don't start liking shit because they're bored. Again, you are stupid.
I don't know the answer. I'm opposed to censorship. But neither am I dumb enough to say that porn is harmless.
No, you're just dumb. I'm surprised you didn't say anything in there about going blind or hairy hands. The rest of the drivel you spouted sounds just the same.
Were any of those explosions at a huge international event where tens of thousands of people were gathered?
Huge Momentum.
When we started this project we were unsure how successful it would be. Our expectation was that we would do an initial run of a few thousand units and then go from there. What happened next was a whirlwind. We’ve now got 27 retailers around the world engaged and placing orders for our micro-console. We have GameStop in the US and Game in the UK as our lead retail partners, but with over 5,000 stores between them we are in a remarkable position to scale this project.
With your support and backing we have created something that quite literally could help re-shape the games console industry. Quite a feat if we get it right.
Dev units shipped.
Key to making this happen is getting developers behind us and so far over 600 developers have signed up, including many great indies and major studios. We’re working on bringing some great titles to the TV and over the coming months we will make some announcements on some of the awesome exclusive content we have in development. We’ve also signed strategic deals with companies like Amlogic and ARM which will help us promote our network throughout their huge eco-system. To harness this potential we have started shipping out the GameStick DEV units to our developer partners and will ship out the remaining units this week and next. One batch has been held up in customs because of the current issues around the use of air-freight to transport lithium batteries which exist within our controller. Hopefully this batch will be released next week.
Using your feedback on these units we have already begun to make refinements on the final production model. We have adjusted the movement on the shoulder buttons, changed the analog stick assembly, moved the LED configuration, re-designed some of the buttons, changed the texture on the analog stick hats and put a mechanical door on the back of the controller so that when GameStick is being used the slot in the back of the controller is closed. We’re looking forward to getting further feedback from you all.
Main Production Run.
The main production run has gone from a few thousand units to tens of thousands of units. This has meant that we have had to change production methods and move to high volume tooling.
Initially, we planned on demand for around 1,000 units so we were going to use silicon molds, which is what we have used for the GameStick DEV units. These don’t take much time to make, but they also cannot cope with the high volume production that we now need. As a result we have had to move to much higher end tooling which is being made in both China and Germany. To create these tools takes around 3 months and is a huge investment for us – one we can only afford to make once. Whilst this work has been underway for a while we have had to slow things down a bit to ensure we can get the final controller amendments prototyped and tested before the final tools can be finished.
Initially we had hoped to deliver GameStick to you at the end of April. We now expect to complete mechanical tooling about 4 weeks later at the end of May. Then the units are assembled, tested and assuming there are no issues, packed prior to shipping to each territory. We expect to ship around the 10th June. The volumes are now too large for us to be able to afford to air-freight them, which was our plan, so now we are going to have to use sea freight to deliver them. That's going to take around 2 weeks. Then we have fulfillment in territory – which we estimate will take between 1 and 5 days depending on where you are located. This means we think the likely date of arrival of your hand crafted GameStick will be at the last week of June.
Whilst we would have liked to ship earlier, we are, to a large degree, victims of the success we have created toge
Initially we had hoped to deliver GameStick to you at the end of April. We now expect to complete mechanical tooling about 4 weeks later at the end of May. Then the units are assembled, tested and assuming there are no issues, packed prior to shipping to each territory. We expect to ship around the 10th June. The volumes are now too large for us to be able to afford to air-freight them, which was our plan, so now we are going to have to use sea freight to deliver them. That's going to take around 2 weeks. Then we have fulfillment in territory – which we estimate will take between 1 and 5 days depending on where you are located. This means we think the likely date of arrival of your hand crafted GameStick will be at the last week of June.
Yeah! Tell him brother! CORPORATE WHORES! You can pry my iOS, no... Windows Mobile, ummm Windows WTF?... errr fuck, what's some mobile platform that doesn't suck on the balls of some fat corp?
Sue Lowden is that you?!
At the University of Iowa or any state school? I went to a large state university and worked at the library for four years. Granted, that was ten years ago, but the last time I was there (4 years ago) visiting my old bosses, it was the same. Unless people are chugging beer in the stacks, go in there. All of the university libraries I've been in have had desks in the stacks. My school's library even had private, insulated rooms inside the stacks. Look harder, AC
The fact that you were able to put most advice into two broad categories doesn't magically invalidate it. Pretending that it does makes you a liar.
I never said they were invalid. Spending money on things when there is a perfectly good free option available is a waste. Also, I didn't lump all the advice into two broad categories. If you took the time to read my second sentence, it specifically mentions something that is neither one of those. Who's the dishonest one here?
This falls into the "move" category. So not only are you a liar, you're a hypocrite as well.
When I said "move" it wasn't the meaning of "motion" but as in people were suggesting he put all of his belonging into boxes, find a new room and relocate all of his stuff to it. I understand perfectly well that you're just trolling me because you're trying to prove that I lumped all the solutions into two broad categories (though I didn't and at the time of my posting, aside from the somatic processing advice that's all there was: different suggestions for voice canceling headphones and people telling him to pack up and relocate).
You will now inadvertently prove me correct by further displaying your dishonesty. No other course of action from you is possible.
Your trolling aside, it still doesn't invalidate my point that the easiest, cheapest and simplest solution is for him to take advantage of living on campus and use the resources already available to him. Go to the library.
Buy this and move are the only things people have been suggesting. One guy did have interesting advice about the somatic voice processing center of the brain, but I can't believe not a single person has suggested that you leave your room, walk across campus and go to the freaking library. Need a computer? There are computer labs everywhere, too. Seriously, I thought this was one of the worst ask slasdots and expected half the answers to be "Go to the f-ing library". But no one?! let me say it then.
GO TO THE F-ING LIBRARY!
I'm surprised they didn't try to blame it on Japan again.
[The one-child policy] restricts urban couples to only one child, while allowing additional children in several cases, including twins, rural couples, ethnic minorities, and couples who are both only children themselves. In 2007, according to a spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy, approximately 35.9% of China's population was subject to a one-child restriction.(wikipedia)
Granted, when the population is in the billions, 35.9% is a lot of people, but still it's not as far reaching as you are thinking. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if 35.9% didn't equate to the number of one (or no) child households in western countries.
There's a tort called vexatious litigation. It's common law.
That's nice and might have baring were this a law of the land and not law of a company.
There is also a possible penalty under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 11, for signing your name to a legal declaration that you have not investigated and, thus, do not have good reason to believe that it is true. The judge, essentially, gets to make up any penalty they think is appropriate (within reason).
What judge? What Federal Rules? Those don't matter in the slightest here. This is about a private entity making up misguided rules when they should be dumb pipes.
Dude, you obviously didn't read the Homecoming series and it's batshit insane fifth book.
You and the story poster really really really need to go back to school and beef up on your reading comprehension. Card's personal views are evident all over the place. Empire was painfully filled with them. Everything in the Bean series. All of his non-SF is littered with it.
If you want to read a very well written and thought out argument as to why Ender's Game is one of the worst books for adolescents to read, check out John Kessel's thesis. He's not like one of those that says Card didn:t even write Ender's Game
I spent many hours organizing my files and making playlists so I could listen to an album (I like filler TYVM). The iPod for me was "Hey! It works with iTunes!" more than anything.
Or, without bothering with all of that, you can spend $11 on this and you don't have to worry about any of that crap. Plus, your kiddies and BFFs can see what you felt and what you were like not just what you did. And as an added bonus, if you get what I linked to, it comes with cute butterflies!
You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Okay. List them. "Serious psychological disorders"? Go ahead and list them out of the DSMIV or whatever you can find. I'd be curious because GMail and GChat have made my life a thousand times better with their impeccable recording and recall abilities. "Remember when I suggested The Naked and Famous to you like three years ago? Oh, you don't? That's funny, this e-mail says otherwise."
Thank you for proving the OP's post. It seems you suffer from self-righteous assholism. I would look into counseling.
That's where you're wrong or it's impossible to prove that no one will ever want to see it. I would absolutely love to see the world through my grandfather's eyes. One time I went to a thrift store and they had random family effects. One of them was this ancient black leather flip book with about 50 black and white plate photographs in it and as I flipped through them I saw settlers on the plains. Standing next to Native Americans. Standing next to mud huts that they had cut with sod. Standing next to oxen tied to a manual plow. On and on they went. [...] ... but it was something unique and interesting to me.
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So, I think you're wrong. And I think that those handful of black and white photos have expanded to stacks of color photos and now long videos of family gatherings from VHS to CCD. Is it really that absurd to think that someday your offspring will wonder what life is like? Or 200 years from now any random person just curious about life was like in our time?
The only problem is, those videos will be just as revealing as those photos were. Just because something moves doesn't mean you'll glean insight. something like this is so much better, and the best thing is, you can find something like that in the time period in which you're interested.
Why isn't this modded up? Why the obsession with video recording? A video doesn't show what you were like, it shows what you did. A cheap $50 video camera is good enough for that. Open it up and start recording random bits of your day and then write about it. That will show whoever so much more than a 8,760 hour loop of jerky footage that has no meaning.
Dude, that's not racism. Second, Japanese people input by a) Hiragana (if it's a cell phone) or by using b) romaji (if it's a smartphone using ATOK or a PC). They don't input by "sounds". They input letters. Or maybe me and my near native Japanese fluency is wrong. Emoji are just fucking doodles in mails.
But all this has a cost.
You need to pay a small tax in every empty CD, DVD, HDD, SSD and now on memory sticks as well. It is about 15 euros from HDD what is bigger than 750GB About a 15 cent on empty DVD and about 10 cent on empty CD.
This is where the law COMPLETELY falls apart. This is absolutely and completely unacceptable. Who decides the breakdown of this collected tax? What about artists not in the golden tax guild, how do they get their share? How do we know it's going to the copyright holders period?
Damn right people are mad about it. I'd be pissed, too. America had that tax on blank tapes, too. There are special "music" blank cds that are more expensive because they have that tax as well, but in all frankness, fuck them if they want to tax my HDDs and SD cards because the might store backups of music I paid for.
We've let RIA* groups distort the conversation so much it almost physically hurts me. We should be debating how much jail time some dumbass gets for downloading some shit song that will be forgotten in two years, we should be debating how many years we need to shorten copyright to reign it back in to sane levels. Make copyright reasonable, say less than 15 years, hell make it single digit, and I'll join the line demanding infringers to serve time. While it's in the three digits, fuck off with your $15 tax so I can "share with my family". Song recorded before I was born will still be under copyright when I'm dead.