I take it you don't have kids. As a parent if your kid is smarter than you in a given area, you tell them what you want, watch them implement it, and then watch for signs that they may have put a back door in for themselves (and if so tell them to disable it and watch them do that). Any resistance is to be met with reduction of privileges, as is the case with any exertion of parental authoritah.
That said, personally I think if the kids are smarter than their parents they should be able to run whatever they want. Anything else is naught much more than ageism. I for one don't believe that kids need to be insulated from much of anything. Maturity happens from experience, and understanding cannot occur without knowledge.
Although I haven't tried and do not have the time/resources/inclination to verify it one way or the other, I highly doubt that Fallout 3 is playable without being wholly installed w/ modifications made to the registry. Most cracked software is designed just to get around CD detection, not registry integration.
Really? You don't think economic pressures alter the content and destroy the artistic integrity of creative minds? Do you have any idea how much gets ripped out of movies and games to achieve 'desired ratings'? It may not be de jure censorship, but it is de facto censorship.
That series is priceless. Buy all the DVDs while you still can... I can't help but imagine that some day some fascists will ban them for being so baldly insightful about the true nature of political machinations.
Yeah, everybody is just clamoring to play seven year old games. What's next, Quake? Doom? Wolfenstein 3D?! Kids today want to play current games, they're not going to be looking for half dozen+ years old abandonware.
I am raising a child, and no, it doesn't take a village. I know that damn well as I'm thousands of miles from all of my family and it's a pain in the ass to not have anybody who would watch them for free. Making it illegal to purchase certain games without parental consent solves nothing. Kids will just play those games over at their friends' houses whose parents do buy them for their kids. If you don't do actual parenting and investigate the environments and people that your kids are hanging around, things you might rather not happen can do so easily.
I for one don't believe that kids need to be insulated from much of anything. Maturity happens from experience, and understanding cannot occur without knowledge.
Just give your kids limited access accounts on whatever computers they use such that they cannot install programs without a parent's credentials. All the big name games are so in love with the Windows registry that there is no way to run them without the permissions to install them. (Giving kids limited accounts is a good idea in any case, especially if they're dumb enough to execute random files from the intarwebs.)
The kind of people who still use Yahoo do things really slowly... they're the kind of people who always get in front of you when you're late and drive ten miles per hour slower than the speed limit. So, yes, in a way 'user minutes' is a garbage metric because if a site attracts fast users that will make it seem less popular/useful (or whatever qualitative conclusion one is supposed to correlate to the metric) even it isn't, and vice versa a site that attracts slower users will seem more popular/useful when that isn't the case.
I think the 'everybody draw Muhammed day' was a good indicator the that Western society at large is pretty willing to stand up and flip off the Islamic world. It's really just incorporated entities of various stripes that are afraid of consequences in terms of liability. I think they are more afraid of a 'wrongful death' or similar civil suit because somebody was killed and some family members might then want to level the finger at that entity and say that they could have done something to prevent it. Step 3: Profit!
I don't, by and large, support the destruction of any books, even ones I despise, but I do support the freedom of expression. What events like this accomplish is the unveiling of the stark contrast of those people who support freedom of expression (who more likely than not support many different forms of freedom, though not in this case) vs. those who would gladly throw it under the bus for their agenda, whether that agenda is a global caliphate or multiculturalism is irrelevant and immaterial. I oppose all those who would stifle any expression which is in and of itself harmless.
I was thinking the same thing... find every religious text you can and burn them all, and watch how it's just the Muslims who riot. Islam is the petulant child of religions, they can dish it but they can't take it. Fuck `em. I'm glad a few people like Christopher Hitchens and Thunderf00t still have balls enough not to knuckle under to all the PC cries of 'bigot!' just because they still have eyes with which to see.
Mods need a dose of the clue-by-four... this is not flamebait, people in the UAE get jailed for just kissing in public. You can also be thrown in prison for years for being gay and forced to take hormone injections. (Granted the Brits did that to Turing as recently as the 50s, so I guess that means the UAE is only a few decades behind the moral development of the West...)
Apparently you didn't look at the links in the post I referenced. The third world has been improving over the last century, but if people admitted that then they couldn't have hero complexes like yours.
Also, population is not growing exponentially. That is a lie based on a clear oversimplification of growth trends. You'll note that frequently when the 'exponential growth of population' is discussed it is noted that the assessment depends on growth remaining the same, but as I earlier demonstrated, growth is not remaining the same, it has been decreasing in 90%+ of nations on earth for half a century, including all of the most populous (which also include several of those 3rd world countries you're whining about like India and Indonesia).
You clearly want to get all emotional about this so that you can feel morally superior about being compassionate and caring and indict the coldhearted fat cats, but sorry, there are real, factual numbers that indicate that your basic assumptions are built on misinformation. The world doesn't need saving as badly as you want to think it does.
You'll find that monitoring is quite a different thing than blocking. China blocks and monitors, the US just monitors, so no, they are not in the same class. I don't defend either practice, but they are not the same degree of evil.
Those are nice hypotheticals, but they are not observed phenomena. It remains a fact that each generation of women is having fewer children per woman, and this has been going on uninterrupted for five decades. Just as growth cannot continue forever, neither can a reduction. At some point it will only be natural for the trend to reverse, and unless you're keen on extinction, it is also right that eventually that trend should reverse.
Either way, the population disaster is still bunk.;-p
Even taking the non-violent approach and simply starting a massive add campaign to get people to sign up voluntarily runs into the problem that pretty soon your entire audience will be made up people who's parents for one reason or another were unwilling to sign up and are so less likely to sign up themselves.
This is actually exactly what happened to the Quakers.
Also the 'population disaster' is bunk, has been for the last few decades, and becomes moreso all the time.
Aside from a few Scandinavian countries, there really isn't anybody else I would trust with the internet. Hell, even Australia is doing censorship and filtering, so really the US if not the best possible nation to control the internet is in the top 10 in terms of keeping it free. If it were to come under UN or other significantly multilateral control, all the backward moralists would use their clout to create some international censorship and filtering scheme. Just look at the UN resolutions about blasphemy and whatnot to appease religious whackjobs. If the UN could apply shit like that to the internet it would. The US is not the perfect keeper of the internet, but it is better than almost any other likely alternative.
It's funny that you direct me back to your article for 'some theories on why they didn't do it' one of which (number 4) was, in fact, that 'they weren't smart enough to think "what if we made these bigger"'.
In any case, all of those were pure speculation with no anthropological or archeological evidence given to support any of them, and they are primarily based on other deficiencies whether in terms of social constructs ('wheels are evil! hur dur!'), poverty of ingenuity ('ball bearings? lolwut?'), or a failure to improve other technologies (do your roads suck? Maybe you should try making better ones). No matter how you slice it, the root is deficiency.
There would be indeed. The CCP has done irredeemable harms to Chinese academia, but that sort of phenomenon is hardly new to Chinese culture historically.
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I take it you don't have kids. As a parent if your kid is smarter than you in a given area, you tell them what you want, watch them implement it, and then watch for signs that they may have put a back door in for themselves (and if so tell them to disable it and watch them do that). Any resistance is to be met with reduction of privileges, as is the case with any exertion of parental authoritah.
That said, personally I think if the kids are smarter than their parents they should be able to run whatever they want. Anything else is naught much more than ageism. I for one don't believe that kids need to be insulated from much of anything. Maturity happens from experience, and understanding cannot occur without knowledge.
Although I haven't tried and do not have the time/resources/inclination to verify it one way or the other, I highly doubt that Fallout 3 is playable without being wholly installed w/ modifications made to the registry. Most cracked software is designed just to get around CD detection, not registry integration.
Really? You don't think economic pressures alter the content and destroy the artistic integrity of creative minds? Do you have any idea how much gets ripped out of movies and games to achieve 'desired ratings'? It may not be de jure censorship, but it is de facto censorship.
That series is priceless. Buy all the DVDs while you still can... I can't help but imagine that some day some fascists will ban them for being so baldly insightful about the true nature of political machinations.
Yeah, everybody is just clamoring to play seven year old games. What's next, Quake? Doom? Wolfenstein 3D?! Kids today want to play current games, they're not going to be looking for half dozen+ years old abandonware.
So violence is ok so long as it isn't sexual? Double standard much? How is killing better than rough lay?
I am raising a child, and no, it doesn't take a village. I know that damn well as I'm thousands of miles from all of my family and it's a pain in the ass to not have anybody who would watch them for free. Making it illegal to purchase certain games without parental consent solves nothing. Kids will just play those games over at their friends' houses whose parents do buy them for their kids. If you don't do actual parenting and investigate the environments and people that your kids are hanging around, things you might rather not happen can do so easily.
I for one don't believe that kids need to be insulated from much of anything. Maturity happens from experience, and understanding cannot occur without knowledge.
Just give your kids limited access accounts on whatever computers they use such that they cannot install programs without a parent's credentials. All the big name games are so in love with the Windows registry that there is no way to run them without the permissions to install them. (Giving kids limited accounts is a good idea in any case, especially if they're dumb enough to execute random files from the intarwebs.)
The kind of people who still use Yahoo do things really slowly... they're the kind of people who always get in front of you when you're late and drive ten miles per hour slower than the speed limit. So, yes, in a way 'user minutes' is a garbage metric because if a site attracts fast users that will make it seem less popular/useful (or whatever qualitative conclusion one is supposed to correlate to the metric) even it isn't, and vice versa a site that attracts slower users will seem more popular/useful when that isn't the case.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
I think the 'everybody draw Muhammed day' was a good indicator the that Western society at large is pretty willing to stand up and flip off the Islamic world. It's really just incorporated entities of various stripes that are afraid of consequences in terms of liability. I think they are more afraid of a 'wrongful death' or similar civil suit because somebody was killed and some family members might then want to level the finger at that entity and say that they could have done something to prevent it. Step 3: Profit!
I don't, by and large, support the destruction of any books, even ones I despise, but I do support the freedom of expression. What events like this accomplish is the unveiling of the stark contrast of those people who support freedom of expression (who more likely than not support many different forms of freedom, though not in this case) vs. those who would gladly throw it under the bus for their agenda, whether that agenda is a global caliphate or multiculturalism is irrelevant and immaterial. I oppose all those who would stifle any expression which is in and of itself harmless.
I was thinking the same thing... find every religious text you can and burn them all, and watch how it's just the Muslims who riot. Islam is the petulant child of religions, they can dish it but they can't take it. Fuck `em. I'm glad a few people like Christopher Hitchens and Thunderf00t still have balls enough not to knuckle under to all the PC cries of 'bigot!' just because they still have eyes with which to see.
The only real Viking left is Sig Hansen ;-p ... but I'm probably biased being from a Seattle-based ethnic Norse family too.
Mods need a dose of the clue-by-four... this is not flamebait, people in the UAE get jailed for just kissing in public. You can also be thrown in prison for years for being gay and forced to take hormone injections. (Granted the Brits did that to Turing as recently as the 50s, so I guess that means the UAE is only a few decades behind the moral development of the West...)
I have even better resources for Pascal's wager here and here. It's too bad I doubt sheph will think about his own wager.
Apparently you didn't look at the links in the post I referenced. The third world has been improving over the last century, but if people admitted that then they couldn't have hero complexes like yours.
Also, population is not growing exponentially. That is a lie based on a clear oversimplification of growth trends. You'll note that frequently when the 'exponential growth of population' is discussed it is noted that the assessment depends on growth remaining the same, but as I earlier demonstrated, growth is not remaining the same, it has been decreasing in 90%+ of nations on earth for half a century, including all of the most populous (which also include several of those 3rd world countries you're whining about like India and Indonesia).
You clearly want to get all emotional about this so that you can feel morally superior about being compassionate and caring and indict the coldhearted fat cats, but sorry, there are real, factual numbers that indicate that your basic assumptions are built on misinformation. The world doesn't need saving as badly as you want to think it does.
You'll find that monitoring is quite a different thing than blocking. China blocks and monitors, the US just monitors, so no, they are not in the same class. I don't defend either practice, but they are not the same degree of evil.
Ah, yes, I was confusing them.
Those are nice hypotheticals, but they are not observed phenomena. It remains a fact that each generation of women is having fewer children per woman, and this has been going on uninterrupted for five decades. Just as growth cannot continue forever, neither can a reduction. At some point it will only be natural for the trend to reverse, and unless you're keen on extinction, it is also right that eventually that trend should reverse.
;-p
Either way, the population disaster is still bunk.
Even taking the non-violent approach and simply starting a massive add campaign to get people to sign up voluntarily runs into the problem that pretty soon your entire audience will be made up people who's parents for one reason or another were unwilling to sign up and are so less likely to sign up themselves.
This is actually exactly what happened to the Quakers.
Also the 'population disaster' is bunk, has been for the last few decades, and becomes moreso all the time.
Aside from a few Scandinavian countries, there really isn't anybody else I would trust with the internet. Hell, even Australia is doing censorship and filtering, so really the US if not the best possible nation to control the internet is in the top 10 in terms of keeping it free. If it were to come under UN or other significantly multilateral control, all the backward moralists would use their clout to create some international censorship and filtering scheme. Just look at the UN resolutions about blasphemy and whatnot to appease religious whackjobs. If the UN could apply shit like that to the internet it would. The US is not the perfect keeper of the internet, but it is better than almost any other likely alternative.
It's funny that you direct me back to your article for 'some theories on why they didn't do it' one of which (number 4) was, in fact, that 'they weren't smart enough to think "what if we made these bigger"'.
In any case, all of those were pure speculation with no anthropological or archeological evidence given to support any of them, and they are primarily based on other deficiencies whether in terms of social constructs ('wheels are evil! hur dur!'), poverty of ingenuity ('ball bearings? lolwut?'), or a failure to improve other technologies (do your roads suck? Maybe you should try making better ones). No matter how you slice it, the root is deficiency.
There would be indeed. The CCP has done irredeemable harms to Chinese academia, but that sort of phenomenon is hardly new to Chinese culture historically.
Agreed. In fact, the closest analogue to Japanese imperialism in American history was Manifest Destiny. Was that a product of boredom too?
My wife is a more open minded geek, and she wouldn't mind, and that's why I married her.