the dumb jocks in high school figured it out! They got a news station (Fox News) and are using it to dumb down america. If they make everyone as dumb as them then they will not be dumb! What a dumb idea! Brilliant!
I would say that I am in the industry. But, I am no lawyer and dont know everything that is going on with this specific issue. One case like this and the dynamics of the flow of money for art changes. Some people would be either out of a job or get paid more.
you can copyright the representation of a physical shape I would say. As in a painting, your version of that shape is yours. Though with this issue I think the problem is whether toyota straight out owns the right to anything that looks like their car? I dunno sounds dumb. To me a 3d model is the same as a painting. It is just a representation of something. Its not like toyota is suing for someone building copies of their car and selling them, competing with the auto industry!
i think the problem might be that us geeks think we have surpassed the need to be wild animals and find this type of reasoning for being attracted to people illogical.
"i can control him so he'll stick around and help with the baby" hmmm. The back of my hand can answer that one.
Also more generally instead of going into genetics and stuff women like guys who are confident and can take charge of situations. It's an attractive quality. This quality isn't found very often in "nice guys". Most nice guys are too afraid to cross any lines with others. From my experience girls really want nice guys but confidence takes priority and confidence is found easily in jerkfaces.
It's not like these rappers have mind control or anything like that. Uh.. I'm a rapper who includes a mind control mod, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, everyone seems to be trying to remove anything that influences kids. Kids are influenced by things heavily. This is a fact that can't be changed. What can be changed is parents can start giving a shit about their kids. My parents gave a shit and did the work and raised me well. A lot of parents that I am personally encountering aren't doing a quarter of the good stuff my parents did with and for me. They just throw their kids into the school system and think that is enough. And when their kids do something bad they ask why? wtf!
Paper airplanes, coat it with plastic. I wonder if it could be used in a composite material like carbon fiber or fiberglass. Like if you could make sheets that are easy to layup. Possibly making car body parts from this! Maybe could be lighter than CF.
well we have to look at actual real data. Are these crimes against children mostly taken place as a result of the filming of these videos? Are the people involved in production of child pornography the bulk of these crimes? Or are more people committing these crimes outside of the child porn realm?
If it is the producers of the videos then going completely CG would remove the bulk of these crimes doing a lot more good that focusing on the smaller group of criminals. Believing you can stamp out a problem 100% is naive. Removing the largest producers of a problem is the best route to go usually. The rest might just follow.
Especially with all these issues going around most studies just show correlations and people actually let themselves take correlations as facts. Searching for blame is a waste of time. Solving the problem is the right way to solve a problem.
Also, in the title you say swords have two edges. I say, only double edged swords do. The Japanese katana for example is a single edged blade. Though it is equally deadly.
"Porn addiction" is by definition not an addiction as when you are denied porn after being "addicted" you do not go into physical withdrawal. Alcohol causes a physical withdrawal and can possibly kill a heavy using addict.
Taken to excess, certain people basically can't get what they need anymore in real life and start living in a porn-fueled fantasy world that real life can never live up to, and that makes it very difficult to form real attachments.
These people probably have other issues and might not have noticed their lack of ability to carry on a meaningful relationship anyway. Porn is just a scapegoat here to detract attention from real issues like past experiences and family issues.
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I think apple has a patent on that pinching/unpinching motion.
oh, you think we still have a free market system?
Everyone complains about GUI this CLI that. Why cant we just always have both? it will make life work for everyone!
I dunno man, I was in a fraternity in college and I didnt drink that much alcohol at all and rarely get drunk when I do drink.
I guess promotion is going to cost, though.
No it's not, just post a few /. articles or something.
God still exists?!
what happened to the customer is always right etc?
In America there are no longer any customers, only consumers. We must pay fealty to our corporate overlords.
the dumb jocks in high school figured it out! They got a news station (Fox News) and are using it to dumb down america. If they make everyone as dumb as them then they will not be dumb! What a dumb idea! Brilliant!
I would say that I am in the industry. But, I am no lawyer and dont know everything that is going on with this specific issue. One case like this and the dynamics of the flow of money for art changes. Some people would be either out of a job or get paid more.
you can copyright the representation of a physical shape I would say. As in a painting, your version of that shape is yours. Though with this issue I think the problem is whether toyota straight out owns the right to anything that looks like their car? I dunno sounds dumb. To me a 3d model is the same as a painting. It is just a representation of something. Its not like toyota is suing for someone building copies of their car and selling them, competing with the auto industry!
money can buy history.
i think the problem might be that us geeks think we have surpassed the need to be wild animals and find this type of reasoning for being attracted to people illogical.
Also more generally instead of going into genetics and stuff women like guys who are confident and can take charge of situations. It's an attractive quality. This quality isn't found very often in "nice guys". Most nice guys are too afraid to cross any lines with others. From my experience girls really want nice guys but confidence takes priority and confidence is found easily in jerkfaces.
I cant believe I had to scroll this far down the comments to see this joke! Shame on you /.
dont let the RIAA suits catch wind of this! They will start camping in pirate bay's server rooms. 2 days at a time rotating people.
this would solve the software patent problem...
Maybe it is just one overlord. Our universe could just be formed when some dude dropped a hard deuce.
Seriously though, everyone seems to be trying to remove anything that influences kids. Kids are influenced by things heavily. This is a fact that can't be changed. What can be changed is parents can start giving a shit about their kids. My parents gave a shit and did the work and raised me well. A lot of parents that I am personally encountering aren't doing a quarter of the good stuff my parents did with and for me. They just throw their kids into the school system and think that is enough. And when their kids do something bad they ask why? wtf!
the problem isn't authors being able to enforce copyright. It's them being able to enforce it for essentially forever and even in the grave!
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well we have to look at actual real data. Are these crimes against children mostly taken place as a result of the filming of these videos? Are the people involved in production of child pornography the bulk of these crimes? Or are more people committing these crimes outside of the child porn realm?
If it is the producers of the videos then going completely CG would remove the bulk of these crimes doing a lot more good that focusing on the smaller group of criminals. Believing you can stamp out a problem 100% is naive. Removing the largest producers of a problem is the best route to go usually. The rest might just follow.
Especially with all these issues going around most studies just show correlations and people actually let themselves take correlations as facts. Searching for blame is a waste of time. Solving the problem is the right way to solve a problem.
Also, in the title you say swords have two edges. I say, only double edged swords do. The Japanese katana for example is a single edged blade. Though it is equally deadly.