"Hey Bob, I'm cold. Do you mind turning off the tv so I can turn up the heat a bit?" "Ask Steve. He's been using the oven for an hour already." "Fuck you Bob. I'm making pizzas, I won't turn my oven off." "You're a dick. Why don't you stop eating pizzas? You fat bastard." "Shut the hell up Bob. Turn off your ass dildo and you'll have power for the heat."
Honestly, I wish a large "sit-out" could be organized among all file-sharers. I would love to see a majority of those who do download music without consent from the copyright owner put a hault to it for say a month or two. Then I would like to see the rationalization for why album sales are still down.
Taking into account they create the data from thin air, after such a sitout they could perfectly say: "Sales have improved 154% that month. Which finally proves that we were right".
But this is education, because the software engineers will be honing their skills, and providing a literature (code) base for future generations. Training accountants or lawyers, on the other hand, is probably a dead loss.
I was referring to a better public elementary education, but I agree with you on the need of carefully planning public investment in higher education.
I'm not saying addictive substances should be illegal.
I just worry that if too many people start using the "The game made me do it" defense, the government might consider controlling games even without any proof of addictive effects, as there's no clear definition of what is addictive and what isn't.
As far as I know, such arguments have no legal bearing. A planned murder is first degree murder, even if you took away the crackhead's stash. Such issues might be considered during sentencing.
Yes, but a large number of crimes of that kind also suggest the possibility of a prohibition on crack.
Would this murder have happened if it would have been harder for the kid the get hold of a gun?
Why? Do you think it would be very hard for you to kill someone who really (really) doesn't expect you to kill him, with a knife? Or a fork? Or even a chair?
Surprise is a great advantage. I think that even unarmed, I could kill almost any person without professional fighting training if they thought I was directly related to them and had known me for a long time.
If he had a caffeine addiction and his parents took away his Coke would that mean that it was the fault of the Coke that he murdered them?
What if he had a cocaine addiction and his parents took away his cocaine?
What if he was an alcoholic and his parents took away his booze?
It's just a matter of defining clearly what constitutes a deranged mind and what is conscious murder intention and/or idiocy. With no regard to the cause of the derangment, nor whether it's chemical or not.
That clear definition is quite harder to produce than it might seem.
Simply establishing the idea that a source code base is like physical infrastructure will benefit open source projects even more than the actual investment.
Having that reality as a frame of reference would make it much easier to push for the growth of that source code infrastructure.
"Children are solicited every day online," Mr. Blumenthal said. "Some fall prey, and the results are tragic. That harsh reality defies the statistical academic research underlying the report."
He could use that disgusting sentence in a nice anti-intellectualism banner.
It won't help much, but it would be a step in the right direction to offer the comodity of having all games in a single cartidge (or simply to a static internal memory).
Maye a system like Steam that downloads any game you own to your DS from any computer with internet access.
Bricks could never provide the same level of radiation shielding and meteorite protection as tens of meters of lunar regolith. Tunneling is the best option.
And what are you doing with the material you get from tunneling?
Bricks!
Or maybe really ugly figurines to sell to the tourists.
Aluminium is present in the moons crust, but some big nuclear reactors are going to be needed. First for aluminium production, then for the brick making.
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People should do the same.
"Hey Bob, I'm cold. Do you mind turning off the tv so I can turn up the heat a bit?"
"Ask Steve. He's been using the oven for an hour already."
"Fuck you Bob. I'm making pizzas, I won't turn my oven off."
"You're a dick. Why don't you stop eating pizzas? You fat bastard."
"Shut the hell up Bob. Turn off your ass dildo and you'll have power for the heat."
That's what a terrorists would say to deflect suspicion. Or a pedophile.
And if you get really bored in your new space habitat, you can make sexy underwear to keep your colony's population rising. :)
It doesn't matter how much silk underwear you use, you still won't reproduce with a silkworm.
If you can find a way to properly polymerise their silk
With that and some way of growing a plant that can use meteorites as nutrients and that can feed silkworms:
- Astronaut grows plants on ship.
- Astronaut mines meteorite for plant nutrients.
- Silkworm eats plants
- Astronauts eats silkworm.
- Astronaut uses polymerised silk to build Death Star.
Honestly, I wish a large "sit-out" could be organized among all file-sharers. I would love to see a majority of those who do download music without consent from the copyright owner put a hault to it for say a month or two. Then I would like to see the rationalization for why album sales are still down.
Taking into account they create the data from thin air, after such a sitout they could perfectly say: "Sales have improved 154% that month. Which finally proves that we were right".
I am superman (Yes I am) (Yes, I tell you, I am) (I am superman) (Yes, I am) ...
No, doesn't seem to become true even after saying it many times. Does it work for you?
But this is education, because the software engineers will be honing their skills, and providing a literature (code) base for future generations. Training accountants or lawyers, on the other hand, is probably a dead loss.
I was referring to a better public elementary education, but I agree with you on the need of carefully planning public investment in higher education.
Well, aparently the kid did plan the murder to look like a murder-suicide.
I do admit that convincing the judge about the supposed murder suicide being committed with a fork, would be a bit of a stretch.
I'm not saying addictive substances should be illegal.
I just worry that if too many people start using the "The game made me do it" defense, the government might consider controlling games even without any proof of addictive effects, as there's no clear definition of what is addictive and what isn't.
As far as I know, such arguments have no legal bearing. A planned murder is first degree murder, even if you took away the crackhead's stash. Such issues might be considered during sentencing.
Yes, but a large number of crimes of that kind also suggest the possibility of a prohibition on crack.
I was not aware of the fact that Microsoft also makes guns. Or did he shot his parents dead with the Xbox controller?...
Maybe not xbox's, but I would not be surprised to learn there's been homicides by wii controller.
Would this murder have happened if it would have been harder for the kid the get hold of a gun?
Why? Do you think it would be very hard for you to kill someone who really (really) doesn't expect you to kill him, with a knife? Or a fork? Or even a chair?
Surprise is a great advantage. I think that even unarmed, I could kill almost any person without professional fighting training if they thought I was directly related to them and had known me for a long time.
You know it's flamebaiting to speak about people respawning millenia ago.
If he had a caffeine addiction and his parents took away his Coke would that mean that it was the fault of the Coke that he murdered them?
What if he had a cocaine addiction and his parents took away his cocaine?
What if he was an alcoholic and his parents took away his booze?
It's just a matter of defining clearly what constitutes a deranged mind and what is conscious murder intention and/or idiocy. With no regard to the cause of the derangment, nor whether it's chemical or not.
That clear definition is quite harder to produce than it might seem.
Also, is ANYTHING still useful in 80 years?
Investments in education.
Simply establishing the idea that a source code base is like physical infrastructure will benefit open source projects even more than the actual investment.
Having that reality as a frame of reference would make it much easier to push for the growth of that source code infrastructure.
"Children are solicited every day online," Mr. Blumenthal said. "Some fall prey, and the results are tragic. That harsh reality defies the statistical academic research underlying the report."
He could use that disgusting sentence in a nice anti-intellectualism banner.
Humanity is hopelessly lost when it comes to common sense.
"Common sense" must the most wrongly named concept in history.
Ok, "democracy" is quite funny too.
It won't help much, but it would be a step in the right direction to offer the comodity of having all games in a single cartidge (or simply to a static internal memory).
Maye a system like Steam that downloads any game you own to your DS from any computer with internet access.
Just an idea.
Color chaning clothes!
The invisibility cloak is finally on it's way.
That's almost as bad as how somehow "worser" got into my spell-check dictionary and now I can type it without complaint!
Almost as bad? I'd say that's quite badder.
A red header! My eyes! My eyes! - Typical slashdotter
A loud header! My ears! My ears! - Atypical Synestetic slashdotter.
And the aluminium can be made into the big mirror needed for the aluminium smelting furnace.
Made of lunar bricks, of course.
Bricks could never provide the same level of radiation shielding and meteorite protection as tens of meters of lunar regolith. Tunneling is the best option.
And what are you doing with the material you get from tunneling?
Bricks!
Or maybe really ugly figurines to sell to the tourists.
Aluminium is present in the moons crust, but some big nuclear reactors are going to be needed.
First for aluminium production, then for the brick making.
Also useful for the big nuclear reactor making.