Sooo... You store your settings locally, they are uploaded silently, then you go to a friend's place, who has a computer with lower hardware specs, and... your save is unplayable, because it never makes it to the config screen?
Just what are these "certain exceptions"? The very fact there are exceptions, even if they aren't related to freedoms now, should be a little worrying, since the exceptions can probably be added to.
Computer generated child porn being legal creates a loophole. Anyone with real child porn can claim it's computer generated. If they change a few things in the photo or video so the light-mapping is wrong, it can even look fake to an analyst. I normally see the world as one big grey mess with no certainty or absolutes. When it comes to pedophilia, in any form, I fail to see any grey. It's all pretty much black and white to me.
I'm under no illusion I am a good person, but pedophiles take pleasure in harming - physically and emotionally - people in no position to defend themselves. Helpless children. I don't mean to redeem anyone's opinion of myself by justifying torture, and I honestly don't care if people don't approve of the way I think. Some people take it upon themselves to grandstand about the environment, some people try to force others to quit smoking. Some people claim video games and rap are tearing down society. At least I have a firm stance on something that matters. I have a firm stance, that everyone will disagree with aloud, but more than a few will silently agree with. I know I come off as a sick bastard when I talk about this, but the only people who'll ever be harmed are myself, from dwelling too much on it, and if I ever finally completely snap, one or two people who've done almost irreparable harm to innocent children. Let me get one thing straight: I have never, and will never harm an innocent person. I would likely kill myself first if my thoughts ever turned to hurting good people.
Someone didn't catch the sarcasm because I wasn't being sarcastic. I sit on the fence with a lot of issues, pedophilia is one of maybe three or four with which I don't. After using too much moderation on everything else, all of that unused certainty is poured into a small number of things. I don't believe there is any punishment too severe for a pedophile. The death penalty is too quick, a jail sentence has them safe from the rest of the world. It is the only case in which I would approve the use of torture - indeed, in it's most sadistic form, since the goal isn't information or confession, just suffering. Obviously everyone who has modded me down thinks kid-fucking is okay. What happens? First we decide computer generated child porn is okay, five years time we're seeing huge support rallies for equal rights for pedophiles?
Pedophiles make me sick. The sooner a law is instated that allows us to slaughter the lot of them, the better. Computer generated child porn is still child porn. Snuff movies are still snuff movies when nobody really dies. It's the idea of it, not the act.
Yeah. Huge innovation in GUI design. Apple had a bar at the top for years, and a trash can. Microsoft put a bar at the bottom, and a recycle bin. I'll be modded down for this, I know, but to me, Windows 95 marked the beginning (or maybe a little later than the beginning) of a long tradition of copying Mac OS. Poorly.
An example of the knowledge of the masses: When I commented to my mother that I spent the day watching flash cartoons, she thought I meant animated porn.
Last time I used it, about two months ago, it didn't show a Youtube video properly. Since that's pretty important to a lot of Flash users, I wouldn't say it's ready yet.
It seems whenever I get mod points, Slashdot gets a whole week of nothing but interesting stories that I want to comment on (as opposed to the interesting stories I don't want to comment on...). I have nine points right now, and there are so many comments I want to mod up, but I commented early in the thread.
How would border guards be able to tell an illegal song on an iPod (i.e. downloaded without buying it in any form), from a song ripped from your private CD collection (which as the RIAA would have us believe, is illegal too), from a song bought from the iTunes store?
Yeah, I always chuckle to myself about that. I can just imagine Cook landing on the fertile east coast, and thinking "I don't know what the Dutch were talking about, this place is GREAT". Then, after the First Fleet, people cross the Great Dividing Range, and find out about 90% of the country is desolate wasteland.
Afterthought: There should probably be a restriction on just how much of the moon a single person or corporation can own though... At least until it's all bought up.
We laugh now, but there's a bigger question at stake here. The moon is a pretty uninspiring ball of rock, but property rights on the moon would set a precedent for property rights on other planets. I figure we should just follow the same model we always have. Take the case of Holland vs England, for Australia. Dirk Hartog, and numerous other Dutch, landed on the west coast, and named the place "New Holland". Then along comes James Cook, to the east coast, and says it's "New South Wales". The dutch didn't do anything about it. In more recent events, America planted a flag on the moon, but they haven't actually colonized it yet. Whoever sets up shop first probably has rights to a reasonable plot of land around his facilities.
The only way Microsoft ever try to embrace anything is like a python. A python's embrace is never comfortable, especially after all of your bones go 'crunch'. That was my thought too. I'm sure they'll make a lot of proprietary ODF extensions, if the license allows for that.
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Sooo... You store your settings locally, they are uploaded silently, then you go to a friend's place, who has a computer with lower hardware specs, and... your save is unplayable, because it never makes it to the config screen?
Just what are these "certain exceptions"? The very fact there are exceptions, even if they aren't related to freedoms now, should be a little worrying, since the exceptions can probably be added to.
Computer generated child porn being legal creates a loophole. Anyone with real child porn can claim it's computer generated. If they change a few things in the photo or video so the light-mapping is wrong, it can even look fake to an analyst. I normally see the world as one big grey mess with no certainty or absolutes. When it comes to pedophilia, in any form, I fail to see any grey. It's all pretty much black and white to me.
I'm under no illusion I am a good person, but pedophiles take pleasure in harming - physically and emotionally - people in no position to defend themselves. Helpless children. I don't mean to redeem anyone's opinion of myself by justifying torture, and I honestly don't care if people don't approve of the way I think. Some people take it upon themselves to grandstand about the environment, some people try to force others to quit smoking. Some people claim video games and rap are tearing down society. At least I have a firm stance on something that matters. I have a firm stance, that everyone will disagree with aloud, but more than a few will silently agree with. I know I come off as a sick bastard when I talk about this, but the only people who'll ever be harmed are myself, from dwelling too much on it, and if I ever finally completely snap, one or two people who've done almost irreparable harm to innocent children. Let me get one thing straight: I have never, and will never harm an innocent person. I would likely kill myself first if my thoughts ever turned to hurting good people.
Someone didn't catch the sarcasm because I wasn't being sarcastic. I sit on the fence with a lot of issues, pedophilia is one of maybe three or four with which I don't. After using too much moderation on everything else, all of that unused certainty is poured into a small number of things. I don't believe there is any punishment too severe for a pedophile. The death penalty is too quick, a jail sentence has them safe from the rest of the world. It is the only case in which I would approve the use of torture - indeed, in it's most sadistic form, since the goal isn't information or confession, just suffering. Obviously everyone who has modded me down thinks kid-fucking is okay. What happens? First we decide computer generated child porn is okay, five years time we're seeing huge support rallies for equal rights for pedophiles?
Pedophiles make me sick. The sooner a law is instated that allows us to slaughter the lot of them, the better. Computer generated child porn is still child porn. Snuff movies are still snuff movies when nobody really dies. It's the idea of it, not the act.
Yeah. Huge innovation in GUI design. Apple had a bar at the top for years, and a trash can. Microsoft put a bar at the bottom, and a recycle bin. I'll be modded down for this, I know, but to me, Windows 95 marked the beginning (or maybe a little later than the beginning) of a long tradition of copying Mac OS. Poorly.
How has this post been modded Offtopic? All he did was say Windows 2000 is a high point.
There was no smoking. Bill stole Steve's Ritalin.
I didn't know the CVS version worked properly. I might have to look into that.
That's completely beside the point :P
An example of the knowledge of the masses: When I commented to my mother that I spent the day watching flash cartoons, she thought I meant animated porn.
Last time I used it, about two months ago, it didn't show a Youtube video properly. Since that's pretty important to a lot of Flash users, I wouldn't say it's ready yet.
What's totally unlike the PRC is that we've heard about it.
It seems whenever I get mod points, Slashdot gets a whole week of nothing but interesting stories that I want to comment on (as opposed to the interesting stories I don't want to comment on...). I have nine points right now, and there are so many comments I want to mod up, but I commented early in the thread.
So now we're meant to pay ten cents for the right to imagine we have imaginary property?
How would border guards be able to tell an illegal song on an iPod (i.e. downloaded without buying it in any form), from a song ripped from your private CD collection (which as the RIAA would have us believe, is illegal too), from a song bought from the iTunes store?
Sepia rocks and dirt? Sounds like a recent "realistic" game, to me!
Even worse, if J&J had won, every game would have to be re-released with re-branded medkits! /sarcasm
It was obviously just rushed through the Firehose since everyone would have just gone "COLD FUSION!?! WOW!", and modded it up.
I thought Congress recently slashed funding for the Mars rovers. I could be wrong, though.
Yeah, I always chuckle to myself about that. I can just imagine Cook landing on the fertile east coast, and thinking "I don't know what the Dutch were talking about, this place is GREAT". Then, after the First Fleet, people cross the Great Dividing Range, and find out about 90% of the country is desolate wasteland.
Afterthought: There should probably be a restriction on just how much of the moon a single person or corporation can own though... At least until it's all bought up.
We laugh now, but there's a bigger question at stake here. The moon is a pretty uninspiring ball of rock, but property rights on the moon would set a precedent for property rights on other planets. I figure we should just follow the same model we always have. Take the case of Holland vs England, for Australia. Dirk Hartog, and numerous other Dutch, landed on the west coast, and named the place "New Holland". Then along comes James Cook, to the east coast, and says it's "New South Wales". The dutch didn't do anything about it. In more recent events, America planted a flag on the moon, but they haven't actually colonized it yet. Whoever sets up shop first probably has rights to a reasonable plot of land around his facilities.
The only way Microsoft ever try to embrace anything is like a python. A python's embrace is never comfortable, especially after all of your bones go 'crunch'. That was my thought too. I'm sure they'll make a lot of proprietary ODF extensions, if the license allows for that.