what does "liberal" or not have to do with anything?
you go back through my comment history to at least 2007 and find one post to claim I'm a hypocrite? For the record my post was about the point in the comment before that which stated, "Doctors, nurses, pharma companies who want a return on the billions they poured into drug research." Being non-profit does not mean you work for free and even if it did I would think that saving lives would be its own reward. And what does getting rich by charing people to heal them have to do with science?
Back to the issue at hand. Where is the mountain of evidence? I've read dozens of videogame violence studies and none of them show "uniform, more than significant," impacts on videogame violence. If you read my comments back to at least 2007 you would probably have seen me commenting on Craig Anderson's work who is the number one videogame violence guy and his work is deeply deeply flawed.
So again, where is the evidence? Show me just one bit of it.
i'm in indiana and currently live in a Chrysler town where people will look dirty at you for buying a "foreign" car but I'm from southern Indiana where they recently opened a Honda factory and there people look at buying Hondas as helping them out.
I just bought a Honda Fit because of it. I had $10,000 in a bank CD that was due to expire in November. I was going to sell my 90 dodge dakota and look for a used vehicle then. Instead I cashed out the cd early for a couple hundred dollar penalty and got the $4500 for the truck that I bought in 2000 for $3600.
The point I'm trying to make by drawing a distinction between genre and medium is that pornography laws apply to whatever medium the pornography is. While I would disagree that "violent videogame" is a genre, the fact remains that the law attempts to single out a single medium for regulation. To do so would require overriding the First Amendment. This would require a mountain of evidence that violent videogames are so terrible that they require special limitations. No such mountain exists.
To be fair this law has been working its way through the legal system for years. Since either 2004 or 5 if I recall correctly. It wouldn't make much sense to just quit because the money situation has changed.
First pornography is a genre and not a medium. A pornographic videogame would be subjected to the same regulations that a pornographic film would be. Under this legislation a violent game would be subjected to different regulations than a violent film.
In the USA no medium has their ratings enforced by the government. Film ratings are NOT enforced by the government. They are just like the videogame industry in that they are self-enforced. If you get carded going to an R-rated film it is because the theater is enforcing the ratings not because the government is making them.
Films have been declared free speech under the First Amendment. To the best of my knowledge videogames have not previously been brought to the Supreme Court and presumably the court would determine weather or not videogames are entitled the same protections as film. Previous videogame laws in Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, and Oaklahoma have all been overturned in court or vetoed by the governor under the grounds that videogames are believed to be entitled to First Amendment protection.
Assuming they are entitled to First Amendment protection then to single out a single medium would require a mountain of evidence that they are damaging to minors. Contrary to Yeland Lee's assertions, no such mountain exists.
Not it isn't. In the USA there are NO laws regulating ratings on films. The film industry just like the videogame industry is self-regulating. If you get carded going to a movie it is because the movie theater is enforcing the ratings not the government.
While I know that South Korea is super wired, I find it unlikely that they are going to require professional Starcraft 2 players in Korea to have internet connections for all the computers in the events. I can't believe that they wouldn't make a LAN-only version for pro gaming.
I've read the book and it is pretty much a load of crap.
Grossman was in the military and that may give him the background to talk about the military but he does nothing to prove that there is any connection between the military and videogames.
The military does use computer generated scenarios but from what I've read and seen they use these "videogames" to teach teamwork and tactics not to encourage people to kill.
If there were any correlation between playing videogames and violence the statistics on youth violence should be going up but they aren't.
Grossman makes a lot about the military's training techniques. The military also forces you to make your bed. That's why I never make mine: I'm afraid that if I do what the military does I'll go crazy and start killing people.
If the military techniques are so good at making people into killers why aren't there tons of ex-military murderers?
If Grossman's thesis that we are "teaching our kids to kill," which I don't believe since holding a controller or mouse and keyboard isn't very much like using a gun, teaching them how to kill is not the same as making them want to kill. I was taught how to diagram sentences but I don't ever get the urge to do so.
This would mean the death of citations. As he writes it he wants to make someone get permission to paraphrase things. Non-fiction writing draws heavilly on quoting and paraphrasing. If I had to get permission for every single thing I paraphrased for my dissertation I wouldn't be able to finish it since some of the things I'm drawing on are decades and decades old and thanks to our copyright laws are still copyrighted even though the authors are long dead. Do you really think some widow(er), child, or grandchild of a college prof really wants to be inundated with requests to paraphrase something?
I think in general it would be a bad idea to show the password by default. However, it would be nice to have an option to show it. I'm sure there's a firefox extension or greasemonkey script for that.
My school started using passphrases and if you didn't it would bug you to change to one every time you logged into the network, or checked your email, or the online courseware, or the library. So I eventually changed to a passphrase that is several words long.
It is really frustrating to get halfway into the sentence and realize you typed a wrong letter and have to start all over again because you can't tell if you typed one character wrong or more than that. But I also often type my passphrase into the computer in front of my students and I'm sure at least one of them would love to get into my account to cause mischief.
I"m a grad student at a university that has assistant professors, associate professors, and professors. There is a difference. An assistant professor who calls themself a plain old professor would be like an assistant manager calling themself a manager. If a full professor caught an assistant professor claiming to be a professor there could be quite a fuss.
we have that in the USA too. you call in and someone comes out and plants flags, spray paints the gras where the lines are supposed to be.
I would imagine that Australia having many fewer backhoe incidents than the USA would have something to do with Australia have less than 10% as many people as the USA.
The solution to losing money isn't to find a new way to charge people but to make the product worth paying for.
There is so little in a newspaper that you can't get elsewhere for free and without waiting that there's little reason to buy one. There is more sports coverage than I would ever want on television. There is live news as it happens on television. There are comic strips that are still written by their creators online. There are a million websites with editorials, opinion columns, and reviews. What does that leave? Investigative journalism and sadly it isn't like my local small town newspaper has ever done a much of that.
Until they realize that their product isn't worth paying for they will keep struggling.
A couple years ago here in Indiana there were all sorts of commercials about ethanol but I haven't heard one in a while. I thought they had given up on trying to push it through once the price of gas dropped.
When I first heard about the show I didn't bother to watch it. These were basically my assumptions about the show. I'm not saying that my assumptions were correct but that this is just what I was thinking
1. self-fulfilling prophecy. I figured it would get canceled so I didn't want to start watching a show that wouldn't have a proper ending.
2. no one from the films was involved. Sure the govenator is too busy to be in it but when I saw that no one involved in making the films was in it I wasn't that interested.
3. the scrawny girl from Firefly is supposed to be a Terminator? Just the idea seemed lame and meant to target horny boys.
4. there was a movie coming out that had nothing to do with the show. So it seemed kind of pointless since this tv show didn't seem to "count" as a "real" Terminator product since the new movie didn't have anything to do with it.
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what does "liberal" or not have to do with anything?
you go back through my comment history to at least 2007 and find one post to claim I'm a hypocrite? For the record my post was about the point in the comment before that which stated, "Doctors, nurses, pharma companies who want a return on the billions they poured into drug research." Being non-profit does not mean you work for free and even if it did I would think that saving lives would be its own reward. And what does getting rich by charing people to heal them have to do with science?
Back to the issue at hand. Where is the mountain of evidence? I've read dozens of videogame violence studies and none of them show "uniform, more than significant," impacts on videogame violence. If you read my comments back to at least 2007 you would probably have seen me commenting on Craig Anderson's work who is the number one videogame violence guy and his work is deeply deeply flawed.
So again, where is the evidence? Show me just one bit of it.
i'm in indiana and currently live in a Chrysler town where people will look dirty at you for buying a "foreign" car but I'm from southern Indiana where they recently opened a Honda factory and there people look at buying Hondas as helping them out.
I just bought a Honda Fit because of it. I had $10,000 in a bank CD that was due to expire in November. I was going to sell my 90 dodge dakota and look for a used vehicle then. Instead I cashed out the cd early for a couple hundred dollar penalty and got the $4500 for the truck that I bought in 2000 for $3600.
where's the evidence? Violent crime among teenagers in the USA has gone down consistently since the early 1990s http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/violence_and_videogames
If violent videogames are bad then where is the violence?
The point I'm trying to make by drawing a distinction between genre and medium is that pornography laws apply to whatever medium the pornography is. While I would disagree that "violent videogame" is a genre, the fact remains that the law attempts to single out a single medium for regulation. To do so would require overriding the First Amendment. This would require a mountain of evidence that violent videogames are so terrible that they require special limitations. No such mountain exists.
That's great. Let's also ban airplanes because crazy people have also used those to kill people.
What does the First Amendment have to do with education or information?
To be fair this law has been working its way through the legal system for years. Since either 2004 or 5 if I recall correctly. It wouldn't make much sense to just quit because the money situation has changed.
First pornography is a genre and not a medium. A pornographic videogame would be subjected to the same regulations that a pornographic film would be. Under this legislation a violent game would be subjected to different regulations than a violent film.
In the USA no medium has their ratings enforced by the government. Film ratings are NOT enforced by the government. They are just like the videogame industry in that they are self-enforced. If you get carded going to an R-rated film it is because the theater is enforcing the ratings not because the government is making them.
Films have been declared free speech under the First Amendment. To the best of my knowledge videogames have not previously been brought to the Supreme Court and presumably the court would determine weather or not videogames are entitled the same protections as film. Previous videogame laws in Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana, Utah, and Oaklahoma have all been overturned in court or vetoed by the governor under the grounds that videogames are believed to be entitled to First Amendment protection.
Assuming they are entitled to First Amendment protection then to single out a single medium would require a mountain of evidence that they are damaging to minors. Contrary to Yeland Lee's assertions, no such mountain exists.
Not it isn't. In the USA there are NO laws regulating ratings on films. The film industry just like the videogame industry is self-regulating. If you get carded going to a movie it is because the movie theater is enforcing the ratings not the government.
Jacko was my first thought when I read this. Thompson is from Florida too. Must be something in the water down there...
While I know that South Korea is super wired, I find it unlikely that they are going to require professional Starcraft 2 players in Korea to have internet connections for all the computers in the events. I can't believe that they wouldn't make a LAN-only version for pro gaming.
From reading his blog post on the matter http://dmyersloyola.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/im-finishing-up-city-of-heroes-today/ he didn't get irb approval. His dismissal of the need for it in the comments makes it seem like he doesn't know much about the ethics of ethnographic research.
I'm also less than impressed with his responses. It doesn't come off as very professional.
I've read the book and it is pretty much a load of crap. Grossman was in the military and that may give him the background to talk about the military but he does nothing to prove that there is any connection between the military and videogames.
The military does use computer generated scenarios but from what I've read and seen they use these "videogames" to teach teamwork and tactics not to encourage people to kill.
If there were any correlation between playing videogames and violence the statistics on youth violence should be going up but they aren't.
Grossman makes a lot about the military's training techniques. The military also forces you to make your bed. That's why I never make mine: I'm afraid that if I do what the military does I'll go crazy and start killing people.
If the military techniques are so good at making people into killers why aren't there tons of ex-military murderers?
If Grossman's thesis that we are "teaching our kids to kill," which I don't believe since holding a controller or mouse and keyboard isn't very much like using a gun, teaching them how to kill is not the same as making them want to kill. I was taught how to diagram sentences but I don't ever get the urge to do so.
His post makes the assumption that older people often make but younger people make much less often: newspapers are worth saving.
This would mean the death of citations. As he writes it he wants to make someone get permission to paraphrase things. Non-fiction writing draws heavilly on quoting and paraphrasing. If I had to get permission for every single thing I paraphrased for my dissertation I wouldn't be able to finish it since some of the things I'm drawing on are decades and decades old and thanks to our copyright laws are still copyrighted even though the authors are long dead. Do you really think some widow(er), child, or grandchild of a college prof really wants to be inundated with requests to paraphrase something?
I think in general it would be a bad idea to show the password by default. However, it would be nice to have an option to show it. I'm sure there's a firefox extension or greasemonkey script for that.
My school started using passphrases and if you didn't it would bug you to change to one every time you logged into the network, or checked your email, or the online courseware, or the library. So I eventually changed to a passphrase that is several words long.
It is really frustrating to get halfway into the sentence and realize you typed a wrong letter and have to start all over again because you can't tell if you typed one character wrong or more than that. But I also often type my passphrase into the computer in front of my students and I'm sure at least one of them would love to get into my account to cause mischief.
Bradbury wrote some really good stories but that doesn't prevent him from exhibiting old man syndrome. He probably wants the kids off his yard too...
I"m a grad student at a university that has assistant professors, associate professors, and professors. There is a difference. An assistant professor who calls themself a plain old professor would be like an assistant manager calling themself a manager. If a full professor caught an assistant professor claiming to be a professor there could be quite a fuss.
And I don't mean The Endnote The....
Endnote is a horrible program. Unintuitive, no error messages when you do something wrong.
It is just painful to use. Zotero isn't perfect but it is so much better than Endnote.
we have that in the USA too. you call in and someone comes out and plants flags, spray paints the gras where the lines are supposed to be. I would imagine that Australia having many fewer backhoe incidents than the USA would have something to do with Australia have less than 10% as many people as the USA.
The solution to losing money isn't to find a new way to charge people but to make the product worth paying for.
There is so little in a newspaper that you can't get elsewhere for free and without waiting that there's little reason to buy one. There is more sports coverage than I would ever want on television. There is live news as it happens on television. There are comic strips that are still written by their creators online. There are a million websites with editorials, opinion columns, and reviews. What does that leave? Investigative journalism and sadly it isn't like my local small town newspaper has ever done a much of that.
Until they realize that their product isn't worth paying for they will keep struggling.
A couple years ago here in Indiana there were all sorts of commercials about ethanol but I haven't heard one in a while. I thought they had given up on trying to push it through once the price of gas dropped.
When I first heard about the show I didn't bother to watch it. These were basically my assumptions about the show. I'm not saying that my assumptions were correct but that this is just what I was thinking
1. self-fulfilling prophecy. I figured it would get canceled so I didn't want to start watching a show that wouldn't have a proper ending.
2. no one from the films was involved. Sure the govenator is too busy to be in it but when I saw that no one involved in making the films was in it I wasn't that interested.
3. the scrawny girl from Firefly is supposed to be a Terminator? Just the idea seemed lame and meant to target horny boys.
4. there was a movie coming out that had nothing to do with the show. So it seemed kind of pointless since this tv show didn't seem to "count" as a "real" Terminator product since the new movie didn't have anything to do with it.
Illinois passed a video game law that got ruled unconstitutional and then they had to pay the Entertainment Software Association's lawyer bills