Where is your study? All of the studies I've read, and I've read all of the ones that I've heard about, use the term "aggression" rather than "violent behavior." The problem with this is that none of the studies I've read have defined "aggression." Craig Anderson is the main "aggression" guy and nearly all of these studies cite him but I've never read him define "aggression." In fact, in one study that he co-authored there is a table that lists a couple examples of "aggression" and one of them is raising your voice. Now I'm not a psychologist but there seems to be a big difference between yelling at someone and taking a gun to a school and shooting people. If both of those count as "aggression" then perhaps these studies are all meaningless because they are all too vague and imprecise.
If I were in the UK I would think that I would be a lot more worried about the constant government surveillance than the once every 6 months or so surveillance of google.
There were probably a dozen different artists throughout the run of Sandman so you are going to have to be more specific on which artist you are talking about. Moreover, because of the printing processes of the time and the simple fact that they were produced by a corporation that is interested in profit some of the issues were printed poorly and/or with rushed artwork. They are currently rereleaseing the series with new coloring and better printing so even the poorest of the art of the series will look better.
I'm a phd student studying media and my dvd recorder has been pretty invaluable in recording things that won't get shown again. I know that there are a few shows that I would love to get copies of for my research that have only aired once because I've searched and searched for them or torrents of them to no avail. I have had some luck emailing the networks and getting a copy by telling them that it is for my research but the dvd recorder has saved me a lot of time and effort.
Ever look at a Best Buy circular? They list one or two on sale pretty much every week. They have them at mostly every store that sells dvd players including Wal-Mart.
I'm sure that people like Thompson who are blindly opposed to videogames would go straight for Hitler and say something like, "Hitler made the trains run on time but that doesn't make his regime a good thing."
It has to do with the legal limits of free speech as in "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater." The constitution doesn't say it but the courts have ruled on limits of free speech and if there was enough evidence then they would not find a law banning it unconstitutional. I am not a lawyer but I am assuming that it would be cited as a Clear and Present Danger.
I"m not quite sure what you mean by "adult." If you mean pornographic, then any pronographic games would be covered by existing laws in most cases since those laws are not medium specific. If you mean adult as in things that are not meant for children like R rated films then in the USA there is no law preventing the sale of R rated or unrated films to minors. Those are exactly like videogame ratings in that they are self regulated and self imposed.
Actually Jack Thompson claims he wants exactly the same thing. He always claims that he just wants it to be illegal to sell the games to minors.
Regardless, what is you reason for wanting such laws? Why should the sale of videogames be regulated when no other medium in the USA has its ratings regulated by the government?
Every time laws about videogames come up someone says that it would be good because it would make them like film ratings. This is incorrect.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by the government. Not the music industry, not the comic book industry, not the internet, not tv, and not the film industry. The MPAA ratings are self-enforced. There is no law against selling a ticket to an R rated or unrated film to anyone. If someone under 17 isn't allowed into an R-rated movie without an adult it is because the movie industry is enforcing those rules, not the government.
There are state and local laws against pornography but to the best of my knowledge there are no state or national laws regulating the sale of violent forms of entertainment.
Numerous laws from places like Indianapolis, St. Louis county, Oklahoma, and Illinois have all been ruled unconstitutional. To single out videogames for regulation would require a mountain of evidence that they are harmful to minors. No such mountain exists.
If they didn't intend to interupt the game of the year award, why did they? What was it they were trying to do? (Besides be attention whores) When they heard "And the game of the year is Bioshock" what did they think was going to happen when they got on stage and talked before the guys who made the game could talk?
Since this is high school the odds are that less than one student a year will go on to have anything to do with this as a career. Therefore, what you are teaching is going to be how to use this stuff in their lives. Therefore, go with the open source stuff. This way they will always be able to download the newest version for free. And it has the benefit of having the students get used to the notion of open source software.
But it isn't and never will be entirely your own. As long as it contains someone else's code it will be yours AND theirs. So they have a say in what is done with their code. If you don't like the terms, find code with a different license.
How is Thompson preventing anyone else from hating videogames? It isn't as if it is a real job that only has one opening or anything. Regardless, it doesn't matter who opposes videogames because there is no solid argument for banning or making laws against videogames in the American legal system. There have been numerous laws passed (Oklahoma, Illinois, St. Louis, Indianapolis just to name a few) and they have all been found unconstitutional.
This is a retitling of the "I, Videogame" series that aired on some of the international Discovery Channels earlier in the year.
It is pretty good as far as videogame docs go.
I"m sure that many of the memory leaks have been fixed. However, they may not be the biggest problem. One of the developers has been making some really interesting posts about Firefox's memory fragmentation problems. http://blog.pavlov.net/ Those have yet to be solved.
Since the domain name is.us I'm guessing that most of the users of that site are in the USA. If only the government would make a registry of numbers that telemarketers weren't allowed to call. Some sort of not calling registry. They might put it at donotcall.gov or something...
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Where is your study?
All of the studies I've read, and I've read all of the ones that I've heard about, use the term "aggression" rather than "violent behavior."
The problem with this is that none of the studies I've read have defined "aggression." Craig Anderson is the main "aggression" guy and nearly all of these studies cite him but I've never read him define "aggression." In fact, in one study that he co-authored there is a table that lists a couple examples of "aggression" and one of them is raising your voice.
Now I'm not a psychologist but there seems to be a big difference between yelling at someone and taking a gun to a school and shooting people. If both of those count as "aggression" then perhaps these studies are all meaningless because they are all too vague and imprecise.
That's fine but again, none of that has anything to do with intelligent design.
The problem is that none of that is an argument FOR intelligent design.
If I were in the UK I would think that I would be a lot more worried about the constant government surveillance than the once every 6 months or so surveillance of google.
There were probably a dozen different artists throughout the run of Sandman so you are going to have to be more specific on which artist you are talking about.
Moreover, because of the printing processes of the time and the simple fact that they were produced by a corporation that is interested in profit some of the issues were printed poorly and/or with rushed artwork. They are currently rereleaseing the series with new coloring and better printing so even the poorest of the art of the series will look better.
I'm a phd student studying media and my dvd recorder has been pretty invaluable in recording things that won't get shown again. I know that there are a few shows that I would love to get copies of for my research that have only aired once because I've searched and searched for them or torrents of them to no avail. I have had some luck emailing the networks and getting a copy by telling them that it is for my research but the dvd recorder has saved me a lot of time and effort.
Ever look at a Best Buy circular? They list one or two on sale pretty much every week. They have them at mostly every store that sells dvd players including Wal-Mart.
I'm sure that people like Thompson who are blindly opposed to videogames would go straight for Hitler and say something like, "Hitler made the trains run on time but that doesn't make his regime a good thing."
It has to do with the legal limits of free speech as in "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater." The constitution doesn't say it but the courts have ruled on limits of free speech and if there was enough evidence then they would not find a law banning it unconstitutional. I am not a lawyer but I am assuming that it would be cited as a Clear and Present Danger.
Germany has different laws than the USA. In the USA such laws have repeatedly been found to be unconstitutional.
I"m not quite sure what you mean by "adult." If you mean pornographic, then any pronographic games would be covered by existing laws in most cases since those laws are not medium specific. If you mean adult as in things that are not meant for children like R rated films then in the USA there is no law preventing the sale of R rated or unrated films to minors. Those are exactly like videogame ratings in that they are self regulated and self imposed.
I do believe that the MPAA will threaten to fine or withhold new films from theaters that do allow minors into R rated films.
Actually Jack Thompson claims he wants exactly the same thing. He always claims that he just wants it to be illegal to sell the games to minors.
Regardless, what is you reason for wanting such laws? Why should the sale of videogames be regulated when no other medium in the USA has its ratings regulated by the government?
Every time laws about videogames come up someone says that it would be good because it would make them like film ratings. This is incorrect.
In the USA no other medium has its ratings enforced by the government. Not the music industry, not the comic book industry, not the internet, not tv, and not the film industry. The MPAA ratings are self-enforced. There is no law against selling a ticket to an R rated or unrated film to anyone. If someone under 17 isn't allowed into an R-rated movie without an adult it is because the movie industry is enforcing those rules, not the government.
There are state and local laws against pornography but to the best of my knowledge there are no state or national laws regulating the sale of violent forms of entertainment.
Numerous laws from places like Indianapolis, St. Louis county, Oklahoma, and Illinois have all been ruled unconstitutional. To single out videogames for regulation would require a mountain of evidence that they are harmful to minors. No such mountain exists.
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If they didn't intend to interupt the game of the year award, why did they? What was it they were trying to do? (Besides be attention whores) When they heard "And the game of the year is Bioshock" what did they think was going to happen when they got on stage and talked before the guys who made the game could talk?
Since this is high school the odds are that less than one student a year will go on to have anything to do with this as a career. Therefore, what you are teaching is going to be how to use this stuff in their lives. Therefore, go with the open source stuff. This way they will always be able to download the newest version for free. And it has the benefit of having the students get used to the notion of open source software.
Do any of the tags mean anything? After all none of them are real.
But it isn't and never will be entirely your own. As long as it contains someone else's code it will be yours AND theirs. So they have a say in what is done with their code. If you don't like the terms, find code with a different license.
How is Thompson preventing anyone else from hating videogames? It isn't as if it is a real job that only has one opening or anything.
Regardless, it doesn't matter who opposes videogames because there is no solid argument for banning or making laws against videogames in the American legal system. There have been numerous laws passed (Oklahoma, Illinois, St. Louis, Indianapolis just to name a few) and they have all been found unconstitutional.
This is a retitling of the "I, Videogame" series that aired on some of the international Discovery Channels earlier in the year. It is pretty good as far as videogame docs go.
Tonight Starz is also showing a show called, "Hollywood Goes Gaming."
However the blurb for it implies that the movie 300 was based on the videogame so I'm not too optimistic about its quality...
It seems that cable channels are becoming just as timid as network stations (who of course own nearly all of them). Could MST3K get on the air today?
I"m sure that many of the memory leaks have been fixed. However, they may not be the biggest problem. One of the developers has been making some really interesting posts about Firefox's memory fragmentation problems. http://blog.pavlov.net/
Those have yet to be solved.
Since the domain name is .us I'm guessing that most of the users of that site are in the USA. If only the government would make a registry of numbers that telemarketers weren't allowed to call. Some sort of not calling registry. They might put it at donotcall.gov or something...
I haven't rented 900 movies from netflix but in my entire life I've certainly seen a lot more than 900 movies in my 30+ years.