Back in my day the only way to animate porn was flip the pages real fast. When technology does all the hard work for you, you lose any sense of personal accomplishment.
Sure you don't need a detailed genetic work-up to deny a person health insurance or a job. You can eliminate alot of genetic conditions by running a diagnostic checklist of observable conditions though.
Check those that apply:
( )Are they in a wheel chair
( )Do they need assistance in walking
( )Specific diet or allergies
( )Overweight or Underweight
( )Visible deformaties
( )Near sighted or far Sighted
( )Visible tremors or ticks
( )Extremely tall or short
( )Skin colouration
( )Visible melanomas
Of course it won't show up a genetic predisposition to cancer etc, but it will really narrow down a huge list of things. This is already what your insurers are looking for. Hell you don't even need to be a doctor to identify the presence of these symptoms.
The problem with your for profit health care is these companies have a fudiciary responsibility to thier shareholders to turn a profit. They are denying you insurance for the same reason the bank is denying you a mortgage.
In a capitalist system, where a company is trying to make money, shouldn't they be able to decide who they hire? I mean if it costs more to put in wheel chair access than a potential employee will bring in, should they have to? If the company is offering health care as a benefit, should they risk the potentially crippling costs to support a disease ridden staff?
In Canada, the current definition of a person requires that a fetus must exit the mother alive.
Theoretically, if you were to inseminate an egg, gestate it, and 'birth' a child completely outside of the mother (in some sort of 'iron womb' type gizmo) they would not be a person by legal definition.
I believe the definition of 'person' has similar criteria and a similar loophole in many countries. Sure it's science fiction now, but for how long?
I often forget which John is which. Carmack was a programmer and responsible for the engines. Although the Doom/Quake games always seemed like nothing more than engine showcases.
I can name a few successful designers, but not all of them good.
Sid Meier
Will Wright
John Carmack
John Romero
Richard Garriot
Satoshi Tajiri
Hideo Kojima
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Peter Molyneux (Who I consider the Uwe Boll of gaming)
In terms of brand power and overall sales I'd say Tajiri (Pokemon) and Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts) are perhaps on par. They aren't nearly as 'iconic' though.
I vaguely remember reading about 'early' wind turbines... they were mostly made of wood and dotted the picturesque country side (I hear the Dutch ones were particularly pleasant). I imagine we would have noticed the wholesale avian depopulation in the interveining 800 years of vertical axis wind turbines.
If actors unions push for this the games industry will simply regress. They will go back to the earliest traditions of getting someone already working (artist, programmer, administrative assistant etc.) for the studio to do the voice over work.
Game studios don't belong to any production collective bargaining unions and likely never will. There is just to much bullshit for them to put up with.
Imagine having to have a directors guild director, all your designers in a screen writers guild etc. Not going to happen.
If the man was really a scientist, he would promise a cure for cancer. What you would get is a pushed back release and a pill that sells on media hype alone.
Of course you would fork over $80 for it, and it would be a enjoyable experience. But at the end of the day, your cancer would be unquenched, and you would hate him for getting your hopes up. You hate him so much, you call him the Uwe Boll of video games.
You and your fancy 'board games', back in my day we used to sit around the fire and tell stories, just waiting to die at age 20 from any number of diseases, predators or starvation.
I would question thier methodology for coming up with the '600000' unique computers stat though.
Assuming roughly 1 computer per person, thats around an incidence rate of 0.2% of the American population.
That says either thier definition of child pornography or thier definition of trafficking is loose.
Oddly enough I refuse to believe that Americans are both perverted enough, and technologically savvy enough to have such a widespread apparatus for distrubuting kiddy porn.
You will find the aliens in space when you come to accept the aliens amongst you first. Now, go wash and wax my car, and don't skip on the lather grasshopper.
Could these enhanced algorithms be used to blur the faces of the hideous women I bring home from the bar? If not in real time, I'll accept them being blurred in my memory.
Start digging. Becuase if cartoons have taught me anything, it's that any substantially deep tunnel through the earth's crust will eventually exit out in China.
More importantly, where is the space judge going to hold court? Do you even know the cost involved in getting 12 jurors AND alternates into a near earth orbit? You thought costs for a trial were astronomical on earth...
It is also a system which has led to America having 1% of it's population currently incarcerated. 1 in 100 people are currently in jail, the highest incarceration rate in the world (and that's ahead of China and any number of corrupt regimes worldwide).
Outside the freedom of speech arguement, this would fall instead presumably under section 7 not section 2. Section 2 lays out very speciffically those freedoms (religion, thought, assembly etc) as they come across as so major yet so often (historically) impeded.
Section 7 talks about the "right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." This section includes references to the necessity of due process, that laws not be arbitrary and a void for vagueness clause.
In this day and age, it isn't unthinkable that internet access is a necessity of daily life, not much unlike a telephone. It's has become a necessity to pursue one's life freely, one which can not be removed with due process of law.
Although there isn't any official documentation as to this proposed bill, it still faces a number of monumental challenges, notably, the void if vague bit, due process, civil/criminal matter, "fair use" / current copyright laws.
However this is a county specific law supplimenting the already existing laws of the California Penal Code sec 653w. This isn't changing what is/isn't legal in regards to copyright infringement, it's merely enacting ordinance related the properties these goods are manufactures or distrubuted on.
It basically allows them to take the same steps against copyright infringers as property owners who allow thier properties to be used as crack houses.
When confronted by a stun gun wielding member of your local constabulary just scream the following: "Don't tase me bro, I'm in a state of excited delirium!"
Works pretty well, its like screaming "Don't stab me! I'm a hemophiliac!" You would not believe the stabbings I've gotten out of that way.
In other news, gun manufacturers are arguing to have 'gun violence' reclassified into 'high velocity, projectile related trauma'.
You can argue that your 44oz cup is always full. It's just a matter of what it is full with (save a vacuum). They could argue that you just got extra carbonation and it's floating on top.
ie. You give me permission to take your television, it's not theft. You give me permission to have sex with you, it's not rape. You give me permission to dress you up like a nun and spank you, it's not... whatever they would they would charge you with.
Having permission, from someone legally and mentally capable of giving it, removes the criminallity from the act. There are exceptions, one cannot consent to murder for example.
To compare your (parent post) interpretation, there would be no boxing, no martial arts, or other contact sports (think Jackass like events) as they would subsequently be all be guilty of assualt. Consent negates this.
It's a beginning for censorship. Who decides extreme? It goes back to the old buggery laws, where half the Lords were doing it and the other half couldn't fathom it. Could you say... Religious practice is fine, but we're banning possession of the Bible, Talmud etc. Doesn't work that way, unless of course your looking for a slippery slope.
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Alternatively, I don't want to make a overwieght, short, slovenly, acne prone, bad breathed male avatar because he doesn't look cool in armour.
I want my hero tall, broad shouldered, muscular, with long hair so he looks cool siloetted against the moon, standing on top of a heap of corpses, while brandishing an absurdly long sword.
Do I choose these avatars because somehow, deep down inside, its a representation of my perfect self? No, not really. Most of it has to do with the artistic value. Do I play a lithe buxom woman becuase I want to be one? Or do it play her because she looks both hot and is a ninja?
I', sure there is some value to the study in specific and rare circumstances. But there is a lot of reading into it what they wanted.
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Back in my day the only way to animate porn was flip the pages real fast. When technology does all the hard work for you, you lose any sense of personal accomplishment.
Check those that apply:
( )Are they in a wheel chair
( )Do they need assistance in walking
( )Specific diet or allergies
( )Overweight or Underweight
( )Visible deformaties
( )Near sighted or far Sighted
( )Visible tremors or ticks
( )Extremely tall or short
( )Skin colouration
( )Visible melanomas
Of course it won't show up a genetic predisposition to cancer etc, but it will really narrow down a huge list of things. This is already what your insurers are looking for. Hell you don't even need to be a doctor to identify the presence of these symptoms.
The problem with your for profit health care is these companies have a fudiciary responsibility to thier shareholders to turn a profit. They are denying you insurance for the same reason the bank is denying you a mortgage.
In a capitalist system, where a company is trying to make money, shouldn't they be able to decide who they hire? I mean if it costs more to put in wheel chair access than a potential employee will bring in, should they have to? If the company is offering health care as a benefit, should they risk the potentially crippling costs to support a disease ridden staff?
Theoretically, if you were to inseminate an egg, gestate it, and 'birth' a child completely outside of the mother (in some sort of 'iron womb' type gizmo) they would not be a person by legal definition.
I believe the definition of 'person' has similar criteria and a similar loophole in many countries. Sure it's science fiction now, but for how long?
I often forget which John is which. Carmack was a programmer and responsible for the engines. Although the Doom/Quake games always seemed like nothing more than engine showcases.
Sid Meier
Will Wright
John Carmack
John Romero
Richard Garriot
Satoshi Tajiri
Hideo Kojima
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Peter Molyneux (Who I consider the Uwe Boll of gaming)
In terms of brand power and overall sales I'd say Tajiri (Pokemon) and Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts) are perhaps on par. They aren't nearly as 'iconic' though.
I vaguely remember reading about 'early' wind turbines... they were mostly made of wood and dotted the picturesque country side (I hear the Dutch ones were particularly pleasant). I imagine we would have noticed the wholesale avian depopulation in the interveining 800 years of vertical axis wind turbines.
Game studios don't belong to any production collective bargaining unions and likely never will. There is just to much bullshit for them to put up with.
Imagine having to have a directors guild director, all your designers in a screen writers guild etc. Not going to happen.
Of course you would fork over $80 for it, and it would be a enjoyable experience. But at the end of the day, your cancer would be unquenched, and you would hate him for getting your hopes up. You hate him so much, you call him the Uwe Boll of video games.
You and your fancy 'board games', back in my day we used to sit around the fire and tell stories, just waiting to die at age 20 from any number of diseases, predators or starvation.
Assuming roughly 1 computer per person, thats around an incidence rate of 0.2% of the American population.
That says either thier definition of child pornography or thier definition of trafficking is loose.
Oddly enough I refuse to believe that Americans are both perverted enough, and technologically savvy enough to have such a widespread apparatus for distrubuting kiddy porn.
If they build a hub, do they not then need at least a hubcap for protection?
You will find the aliens in space when you come to accept the aliens amongst you first. Now, go wash and wax my car, and don't skip on the lather grasshopper.
Could these enhanced algorithms be used to blur the faces of the hideous women I bring home from the bar? If not in real time, I'll accept them being blurred in my memory.
Start digging. Becuase if cartoons have taught me anything, it's that any substantially deep tunnel through the earth's crust will eventually exit out in China.
More importantly, where is the space judge going to hold court? Do you even know the cost involved in getting 12 jurors AND alternates into a near earth orbit? You thought costs for a trial were astronomical on earth...
It is also a system which has led to America having 1% of it's population currently incarcerated. 1 in 100 people are currently in jail, the highest incarceration rate in the world (and that's ahead of China and any number of corrupt regimes worldwide).
Section 7 talks about the "right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." This section includes references to the necessity of due process, that laws not be arbitrary and a void for vagueness clause.
In this day and age, it isn't unthinkable that internet access is a necessity of daily life, not much unlike a telephone. It's has become a necessity to pursue one's life freely, one which can not be removed with due process of law.
Although there isn't any official documentation as to this proposed bill, it still faces a number of monumental challenges, notably, the void if vague bit, due process, civil/criminal matter, "fair use" / current copyright laws.
It basically allows them to take the same steps against copyright infringers as property owners who allow thier properties to be used as crack houses.
Works pretty well, its like screaming "Don't stab me! I'm a hemophiliac!" You would not believe the stabbings I've gotten out of that way.
In other news, gun manufacturers are arguing to have 'gun violence' reclassified into 'high velocity, projectile related trauma'.
You can argue that your 44oz cup is always full. It's just a matter of what it is full with (save a vacuum). They could argue that you just got extra carbonation and it's floating on top.
ie. You give me permission to take your television, it's not theft. You give me permission to have sex with you, it's not rape. You give me permission to dress you up like a nun and spank you, it's not... whatever they would they would charge you with.
Having permission, from someone legally and mentally capable of giving it, removes the criminallity from the act. There are exceptions, one cannot consent to murder for example.
To compare your (parent post) interpretation, there would be no boxing, no martial arts, or other contact sports (think Jackass like events) as they would subsequently be all be guilty of assualt. Consent negates this.
It's a beginning for censorship. Who decides extreme? It goes back to the old buggery laws, where half the Lords were doing it and the other half couldn't fathom it. Could you say... Religious practice is fine, but we're banning possession of the Bible, Talmud etc. Doesn't work that way, unless of course your looking for a slippery slope.
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I want my hero tall, broad shouldered, muscular, with long hair so he looks cool siloetted against the moon, standing on top of a heap of corpses, while brandishing an absurdly long sword.
Do I choose these avatars because somehow, deep down inside, its a representation of my perfect self? No, not really. Most of it has to do with the artistic value. Do I play a lithe buxom woman becuase I want to be one? Or do it play her because she looks both hot and is a ninja?
I', sure there is some value to the study in specific and rare circumstances. But there is a lot of reading into it what they wanted.