In that case, the best analogy would be someone who builds a road, then puts a toll booth on it. The owner of the road has no idea how many stolen cars travel on it, but clearly intends to benefit by the traffic regardless of legality.
It wont know all the historical background that well, and if it sees then these banners in real life, it wont just think them bad, but be strongly reminded in the game. In that way their resistance to Nazi Propaganda may grow somewhat less.
Exactly. And for the very same reason, the popular game Doom made a generation of kids want to be ugly, flesh-ripping zombies. That's why we have such a problem with them these days.
See, most people don't realize that kids actually want to identify with the people who are getting the living shit blown out of them throughout the entire game, like the imps and so on in Doom or the Nazis in Wolfenstein.
Yeah and Japan doesn't have the highest teen suicide rate of any country or anything...
And a good thing we've got pr0n, or the suicide rate, largely due to the incredible pressures of the Japanese educational system, would be even higher. I'd hate to see those poor kids without that little bit of mental release.
Its only major advantage was the linux OS (if you even call this an advantage).
Well, to its credit it had one other advantage. The box was intended to have the same recording capability as a TiVO, so they would have been able to aim this at more than one market.
That alone probably wouldn't have saved the system either, but it was another advantage.
Would you support a student who, during school hours stood just off school property and shouted obscenities about the principle?
So do you, in turn, support France for pressuring Yahoo! to drop Nazi-related auctions, even though they aren't in France's jurisdiction, which would be like waving a swastika banner across the road from a synagogue?
Splitting hairs often seems dependant on which hairs you choose...
Technically, you can't do this in Canada either. Under the law (a different law than the "virtual child porn" one), any more than two participants is equivalent to "in public", and therefore illegal.
The court said that while they found the drawings disgusting and that they should be banned, it would be impossible for them to rule that they're illegal because that's one step away from declaring that a person's thoughts are under the control of the law.
The law, however, remains on the books. There is precedent as a result of this case and Eli Langer's problems with the Toronto authorities (Langer was the first person arrested under the law, and it took him two years to get clear), but the fact remains that people can still be arrested on the grounds that they made up and drew a prepubescent couple doing something naughty.
In Canada, under certain circumstances, the age of consent is only 14. And this, in context, is a sensible and rational age to place consent.
But under the laws of Canada, which already disallows virtual "child" porn, it is illegal to depict someone under the age of 18 (or appears so) engaging in an act which is perfectly legal for a real person of that age to do.
I can only hope that the US doesn't follow us down the path our legislators chose in an atmosphere of fear and suspicion. But they probably will, and for mostly the same reasons.
We've had this sort of thing on the books for a long while. I did an article on the subject a couple of years ago, and the situation has changed little.
The upshot here is that in Canada it is illegal to create art of two people having underaged sex, or even who look underaged. And it doesn't matter if it is made clear that the characters are not underage, the only test is that they look underage. So disclaimers mean nothing.
They are angry because it affects *them*, when, if they were truely altruistic, they would be worrying about the truely deprived.
There is a group of people, and it's a pretty big group, known as the working poor. I know, I've been a member of that group for many years. These are people who work just to get by. These are people who have no health benefits, no pension, no vacation, no security. Their wages barely cover necessities, and there is little or nothing left for savings.
These are the sorts of people who frequently work for temp agencies. And these are the sort of people who are abused by a situation like the one Gates, and many others, has been running. Sure, you have a choice not to work for him. But then you'll have a hell of a time finding another assignment and the rent's coming due. Or you'll be given the impression that this "starvation wage" job doing data entry or answering phones will turn permanent and you'll have the sort of paycheque that you've dreamed of. And then you get the rug pulled out from under you.
Don't let yourself be fooled. Sure, they're working. But it doesn't mean they're not needy. And it certainly doesn't mean they can't be abused.
Gaming is not entirely viewed as bad.. Myst was never accused of being violent!
Sure, if you don't count the dozens of gamers who, frustrated at poorly constructed puzzles and slow gameplay, finally snapped and started shooting up suburban MacDonalds franchises until the Federal Marshalls came...
Monkey Punch's original Lupin was a lot less likeable than Miyazaki's take on him. Miyazaki deliberately softened Lupin as he thought that the original was too cruel and would turn audiences off.
But the young have come to believe, with increasing justification, that their elders know much less than they do, and have little worth passing along.
...
Obviously many older people do have useful things to pass along, especially their experiences with life and their accumulated perspectives.
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This chasm first opened on the cultural front, with the evolution of distinctly youth-centered entertainment forms like hip-hop, rock 'n' roll and then Nintendo and Sega; it's widened as gaming has expanded beyond its subculture status.
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The average American child plays videogames forty-nine minutes a day, but games are no longer the province of kids; 61 per cent of videogamers are eighteen or older, and more than a quarter are over thirty-six.
Is there a cheat code that will unlock what the hell Jon's trying to get across here? Which of his mixed messages is he trying to promote, anyhow?
But hopefully this is the end of the issue on Slashdot.
This, at least, explains/.'s refusal to run valid stories that connect to the Canadian federal election, such as the Canadian Alliance's attempts to shut down parody pages. The Americans have becomed tired of it, so everyone else is expected to forget about politics as well.
Parke Godwin's "Waiting for the Galactic Bus," a book that is a bit like "Stranger in a Strange Land" crossed with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Except weirder.
I'd recommend, as a good companion piece, Stephen Brust's To Reign In Hell. Not as wacky as Godwin's work, but a really, really interesting take on the same creation myth.
The Puppet Masters was pretty good, as were some of his early novels like Farmer in the Sky and Double Star. The man was brilliant at just telling a ripping yarn, but he did show cracks when he tried to do too much social commentary in one sitting.>/p>
In his later stuff, yes, but read the short stories and "A Scanner Darkly" and "The Man In The High Castle". Oh, brother...
Can't the same be said of Heinlein? His later stuff tended to suck (see The Cat Who Walks Through Walls), but some of his early stuff and short stories like "By His Bootstraps", "And He Built a Crooked House" and "All You Zombies" were excellent. Even "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants" is an amazing piece of work, steeped in Americana though it is.
Okay - in Star Ship Troopers - the only people allowed to vote are veterans. Anyone can join up and do federal service.
IIRC, it was federal service in general, and not just military service, that conferred the ability to vote. The main character's father was actually against him choosing the military branch.
Unfortunately, I forget the source (Expanded Universe I think, but I'm not sure), but I recall Heinlein himself being quoted as saying his real point was to present a society where the right to vote is not automatic, but requires some sort of qualification. The military service aspect was an afterthought.
It makes a lot of sense to adapt existing systems to our purposes rather than designing everything from scratch. You can bet that prototypes would be a lot further away than a year without this synthesis of man and Nature.
So what you're saying is that Nature is Open Source.
I'm not sure how that relates to what I said. The freedom you refer to is a function of speech, not of a system of monarchy. There are aspects where the US and other "democracies"/republics supress certain free speech as well, yet that isn't attributed to the style of government.
In Tonga's case, it seems clear that the problem lies in widespread corruption, rather than the fact that it's a monarchy.
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In that case, the best analogy would be someone who builds a road, then puts a toll booth on it. The owner of the road has no idea how many stolen cars travel on it, but clearly intends to benefit by the traffic regardless of legality.
It wont know all the historical background that well, and if it sees then these banners in real life, it wont just think them bad, but be strongly reminded in the game. In that way their resistance to Nazi Propaganda may grow somewhat less.
Exactly. And for the very same reason, the popular game Doom made a generation of kids want to be ugly, flesh-ripping zombies. That's why we have such a problem with them these days.
See, most people don't realize that kids actually want to identify with the people who are getting the living shit blown out of them throughout the entire game, like the imps and so on in Doom or the Nazis in Wolfenstein.
Yeah and Japan doesn't have the highest teen suicide rate of any country or anything...
And a good thing we've got pr0n, or the suicide rate, largely due to the incredible pressures of the Japanese educational system, would be even higher. I'd hate to see those poor kids without that little bit of mental release.
Its only major advantage was the linux OS (if you even call this an advantage).
Well, to its credit it had one other advantage. The box was intended to have the same recording capability as a TiVO, so they would have been able to aim this at more than one market.
That alone probably wouldn't have saved the system either, but it was another advantage.
For a good breakdown of the costs of the publishing business, and a good economic argument for doing it outside of a major publishing house, look here
Would you support a student who, during school hours stood just off school property and shouted obscenities about the principle?
So do you, in turn, support France for pressuring Yahoo! to drop Nazi-related auctions, even though they aren't in France's jurisdiction, which would be like waving a swastika banner across the road from a synagogue?
Splitting hairs often seems dependant on which hairs you choose...
Matthew, Chapter 5:
28: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Cool!
Sounds like an excellent time-saver.
Technically, you can't do this in Canada either. Under the law (a different law than the "virtual child porn" one), any more than two participants is equivalent to "in public", and therefore illegal.
I'm puzzled how they'd enforce it, though.
The court said that while they found the drawings disgusting and that they should be banned, it would be impossible for them to rule that they're illegal because that's one step away from declaring that a person's thoughts are under the control of the law.
The law, however, remains on the books. There is precedent as a result of this case and Eli Langer's problems with the Toronto authorities (Langer was the first person arrested under the law, and it took him two years to get clear), but the fact remains that people can still be arrested on the grounds that they made up and drew a prepubescent couple doing something naughty.
In japan, the age of consent is only 14.
In Canada, under certain circumstances, the age of consent is only 14. And this, in context, is a sensible and rational age to place consent.
But under the laws of Canada, which already disallows virtual "child" porn, it is illegal to depict someone under the age of 18 (or appears so) engaging in an act which is perfectly legal for a real person of that age to do.
I can only hope that the US doesn't follow us down the path our legislators chose in an atmosphere of fear and suspicion. But they probably will, and for mostly the same reasons.
We've had this sort of thing on the books for a long while. I did an article on the subject a couple of years ago, and the situation has changed little.
The upshot here is that in Canada it is illegal to create art of two people having underaged sex, or even who look underaged. And it doesn't matter if it is made clear that the characters are not underage, the only test is that they look underage. So disclaimers mean nothing.
They are angry because it affects *them*, when, if they were truely altruistic, they would be worrying about the truely deprived.
There is a group of people, and it's a pretty big group, known as the working poor. I know, I've been a member of that group for many years. These are people who work just to get by. These are people who have no health benefits, no pension, no vacation, no security. Their wages barely cover necessities, and there is little or nothing left for savings.
These are the sorts of people who frequently work for temp agencies. And these are the sort of people who are abused by a situation like the one Gates, and many others, has been running. Sure, you have a choice not to work for him. But then you'll have a hell of a time finding another assignment and the rent's coming due. Or you'll be given the impression that this "starvation wage" job doing data entry or answering phones will turn permanent and you'll have the sort of paycheque that you've dreamed of. And then you get the rug pulled out from under you.
Don't let yourself be fooled. Sure, they're working. But it doesn't mean they're not needy. And it certainly doesn't mean they can't be abused.
Gaming is not entirely viewed as bad.. Myst was never accused of being violent!
Sure, if you don't count the dozens of gamers who, frustrated at poorly constructed puzzles and slow gameplay, finally snapped and started shooting up suburban MacDonalds franchises until the Federal Marshalls came...
you would think that by now all console manufacturers would notice that just about all gamers want BROADBAND and not modems.
At least one manufacturer is thinking that way. The Indrema will ship with a 100 Mbps Ethernet Port as standard equipment.
Monkey Punch's original Lupin was a lot less likeable than Miyazaki's take on him. Miyazaki deliberately softened Lupin as he thought that the original was too cruel and would turn audiences off.
Taking that into account, Carey makes more sense.
But the young have come to believe, with increasing justification, that their elders know much less than they do, and have little worth passing along.
...
Obviously many older people do have useful things to pass along, especially their experiences with life and their accumulated perspectives.
...
This chasm first opened on the cultural front, with the evolution of distinctly youth-centered entertainment forms like hip-hop, rock 'n' roll and then Nintendo and Sega; it's widened as gaming has expanded beyond its subculture status.
...
The average American child plays videogames forty-nine minutes a day, but games are no longer the province of kids; 61 per cent of videogamers are eighteen or older, and more than a quarter are over thirty-six.
Is there a cheat code that will unlock what the hell Jon's trying to get across here? Which of his mixed messages is he trying to promote, anyhow?
At last! Uncontrovertable proof that Darwin is useless and we should all avoid Evolution in favour of the superior Creation.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: created by the same man (Hiyao Miazaki [sp?]) a Lupin III
Lupin III was actually created by Monkey Punch. Castle Cagliostro and the TV series were done by Miyazaki based on Monkey Punch's original designs.
As an interesting aside, wouldn't it be interesting to see Jim Carey play a live-action version of Lupin III?
But hopefully this is the end of the issue on Slashdot.
This, at least, explains /.'s refusal to run valid stories that connect to the Canadian federal election, such as the Canadian Alliance's attempts to shut down parody pages. The Americans have becomed tired of it, so everyone else is expected to forget about politics as well.
Parke Godwin's "Waiting for the Galactic Bus," a book that is a bit like "Stranger in a Strange Land" crossed with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Except weirder.
I'd recommend, as a good companion piece, Stephen Brust's To Reign In Hell. Not as wacky as Godwin's work, but a really, really interesting take on the same creation myth.
The Puppet Masters was pretty good, as were some of his early novels like Farmer in the Sky and Double Star. The man was brilliant at just telling a ripping yarn, but he did show cracks when he tried to do too much social commentary in one sitting.>/p>
In his later stuff, yes, but read the short stories and "A Scanner Darkly" and "The Man In The High Castle". Oh, brother...
Can't the same be said of Heinlein? His later stuff tended to suck (see The Cat Who Walks Through Walls), but some of his early stuff and short stories like "By His Bootstraps", "And He Built a Crooked House" and "All You Zombies" were excellent. Even "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants" is an amazing piece of work, steeped in Americana though it is.
Okay - in Star Ship Troopers - the only people allowed to vote are veterans. Anyone can join up and do federal service.
IIRC, it was federal service in general, and not just military service, that conferred the ability to vote. The main character's father was actually against him choosing the military branch.
Unfortunately, I forget the source (Expanded Universe I think, but I'm not sure), but I recall Heinlein himself being quoted as saying his real point was to present a society where the right to vote is not automatic, but requires some sort of qualification. The military service aspect was an afterthought.
It makes a lot of sense to adapt existing systems to our purposes rather than designing everything from scratch. You can bet that prototypes would be a lot further away than a year without this synthesis of man and Nature.
So what you're saying is that Nature is Open Source.
I like it.
I'm not sure how that relates to what I said. The freedom you refer to is a function of speech, not of a system of monarchy. There are aspects where the US and other "democracies"/republics supress certain free speech as well, yet that isn't attributed to the style of government.
In Tonga's case, it seems clear that the problem lies in widespread corruption, rather than the fact that it's a monarchy.