Actually, if you really read that article, the money used is from a fund paid for by the prisoners and it is specifically earmarked for prisoner benfits. No taxpayer dollars were used.
It is money from prisoners for prisoners. Why do you care what (legal) items it gets spent on?
This site spends a lot of time talking about how people are locked up needlessly, but then they complain when we let them use their own money to get something that they want?
You know, I had some long reply written out that might have explained all the horrible things that your attitude could result in...but forget it. I hope you're young, and grow out of it. If you ever find yourself in that type of situation again, I just hope you act a little more selflessly than you are sounding right now.
Okay - I just want to get this straight. You are saying that, in the future, you will not report a possible rape because the last time you did, the cop ran you for warrants once you were in his car.
Suck it up, dude.
Yes, the police have spent a lot of time over the past couple of decades showing you that they are anything but your friend. But you can not deny that the real victim in this scenario is the person that (potentially) got raped. And you can also not deny that the best protection that victim has is the police being notified as quickly as possible.
I don't care if you are transporting five pounds of pot, victims of violent crime NEED you to call it in. Report it anonymously. Tell the cops you don't want to get involved. I don't care.
But if you aren't going to report a violent crime just because the cops ran your ID once, I gotta say that you are the one I don't trust.
I want you to step back for a moment and consider the ridiculous amount of legislation and funding that would be required for this. As has been mentioned, you would need to establish a board that actually provides the ratings. This board would then have to view EVERY SCREENSHOT of EVERY GAME on EVERY PLATFORM. (And if you are just going to go by the ESRB ratings, then why is NY doing it in the first place?)This task would be fairly insurmountable, and if it became a requirement for sale within NY, would bring an end to all sales of all video games in the state.
But that is just the beginning!
Then you need education! Every retail/online shop that distributes video games would then need to be taught how to validate ID's. Really not an easy thing to implement when you have 16 year olds working the counter, and a pretty sick level of turnaround every six month or so.
And then there's enforcement...Are you kidding? You're going to pay a cop to stakeout a video game store? In Massachusetts, we are debating how worthless it can be to have a cop stationed at construction sites where tehy might actually hold some value. But staking out a video store? I think NYC might have better things for their cops to be doing.
My opinion on the whole thing? It comes down to parenting. Make all the excuses you want, but if you don't have proper parenting then your kids have a high chance of being a**holes. The real thing of it is, if you have good parenting, violent video games will not harm your children (depending on age, of course).
And with regards to the poster earlier that was saying bad parenting is society's fault...Just because it is society's problem, does not mean it is society's fault. I don't have kids, never will. Don't try and lay that pile of crap on my doorstep.
Hrm. I just built a Duo Core system for my nephew with 4GB RAM, 250GB SATA drive and a couple other little pieces for $400 at MicroCenter. I'll admit that did not include the monitor...
Unfortunately, you can't do any research on building a comparable Mac because, well, Apple won't let you build a Mac yourself, will they?
Now, of course, they shouldn't be using javascript (or java?) on Stealths, nor are the Stealth's chips likely to have the same bugs.
But it was kinda of a double-take inducing sequence of articles...
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Get cellular broadband. Sprint, Verizon, etc all offer some solution. It is actually pretty sweet. Not broadband (or even DSL) fast, but plenty fast enough, and better than dial up or ISDN. You can get a USB modem (desktop) or a PCMCIAA modem (laptop). My company provides us with a Verizon card for when we are on the road, and I encountered some speed issues up in the Saratogoa Springs area (northern NY). Otherwise, it rarely dips below the 300 range.
There is no costly destruction of rooftops nor construction of sheds with magical rooftops.
And, when they want to stroll down to the beach, just pick up the laptop and go.
Simple, inexpensive, and portable solution.
p.s. I hate the freakin cape, but I'll help you with your problem before dissin' it;)
If everyone in the world decided to just sit back and "be thankful", the world would not get anywhere.
It basically sounds like you are just jealous of the guy having a good job and good family, and want to sound off on that as opposed to actually giving him some advise on where he might take his life next.
That being said, I would caution the original poster to not take another hobby and ruin it for himself by turning it into a career. Most IT people got into the industry because we enjoy this stuff. If the industry has taken the joy out of this hobby, it could very well happen to the next hobby you try to make money off of...
Fear not! This is NOT a roast on demand.
But it is a system that lets you see the whole process.
Pneumatic tubes connect these storage bins to each other as well as to the micro-roaster and automated grinding-brewing machines. Roasting its beans in an off-the-shelf micro-roaster, it occupies an entire store front. Although all this sounds a bit complicated then the usual in-office coffee vending machine, Javabot too works professionally on demand. When a customer orders the coffee, the beans shoot from the storage bins over to the grinding unit and drop down into the brewing machine
With Apple's history of preventing anyone from building hardware/software without paying licensing fees, is this at all surprising?
They loosened the grip a little bit in the early 90's, but clinched right up once they started to lose a bit more of the market share.
Now they have shown that their locked down system will keep (improve) their share. Why would they change?
Apple and Microsoft really are quite similar in this, the main difference being that Apple actually makes good, innovative products on platforms for which only they can build (sell) the hardware.
Apple keeping a tight reign on licensing is just SOP.
To all those saying that a human is "required" for the trigger, and it could "never" shoot on its own, I would like to remind you of this past October in South Africa:
"It appears as though the gun, which is computerised, jammed before there was some sort of explosion, and then it opened fire uncontrollably, killing and injuring the soldiers."
This was reported here: Wired Danger Room
The most unreal quote from that link is (IMO) this:
But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildly swinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 anti-aircraft twin-barrelled gun. It sprayed hundreds of high-explosive 0,5kg 35mm cannon shells around the five-gun firing position.
By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loader magazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.
The robot was set to reload automatically, as well, and the only reason it stopped firing is because they hadn't provided it with more cartridges.
So, the next logical question to ask would be if it is immoral/illegal to view the comments that are at the bottom of the page. EE did a very blatant job of letting you know that they require fee for the services they are providing, but have effectively left the door unlocked. While we may dislike how they conduct their business, would it not be considered stealing if we were to gleen the answers from them when they ask for payment?
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Actually, if you really read that article, the money used is from a fund paid for by the prisoners and it is specifically earmarked for prisoner benfits. No taxpayer dollars were used. It is money from prisoners for prisoners. Why do you care what (legal) items it gets spent on? This site spends a lot of time talking about how people are locked up needlessly, but then they complain when we let them use their own money to get something that they want?
Ultimately, the government has a trump card on all arguments against the use of this technology.
They are not tracking the location of cars. They are tracking the location of PLATES. Those plates are most definitely owned BY THE STATE.
Good luck trying to tell the government that you don't want them monitoring the location of THEIR property.
(For the record, I'm not exactly a FAN of this routine, but there is NO WAY to get around it.)
You know, I had some long reply written out that might have explained all the horrible things that your attitude could result in...but forget it. I hope you're young, and grow out of it. If you ever find yourself in that type of situation again, I just hope you act a little more selflessly than you are sounding right now.
Okay - I just want to get this straight. You are saying that, in the future, you will not report a possible rape because the last time you did, the cop ran you for warrants once you were in his car.
Suck it up, dude.
Yes, the police have spent a lot of time over the past couple of decades showing you that they are anything but your friend. But you can not deny that the real victim in this scenario is the person that (potentially) got raped. And you can also not deny that the best protection that victim has is the police being notified as quickly as possible.
I don't care if you are transporting five pounds of pot, victims of violent crime NEED you to call it in. Report it anonymously. Tell the cops you don't want to get involved. I don't care.
But if you aren't going to report a violent crime just because the cops ran your ID once, I gotta say that you are the one I don't trust.
I want you to step back for a moment and consider the ridiculous amount of legislation and funding that would be required for this. As has been mentioned, you would need to establish a board that actually provides the ratings. This board would then have to view EVERY SCREENSHOT of EVERY GAME on EVERY PLATFORM. (And if you are just going to go by the ESRB ratings, then why is NY doing it in the first place?)This task would be fairly insurmountable, and if it became a requirement for sale within NY, would bring an end to all sales of all video games in the state.
But that is just the beginning!
Then you need education! Every retail/online shop that distributes video games would then need to be taught how to validate ID's. Really not an easy thing to implement when you have 16 year olds working the counter, and a pretty sick level of turnaround every six month or so.
And then there's enforcement...Are you kidding? You're going to pay a cop to stakeout a video game store? In Massachusetts, we are debating how worthless it can be to have a cop stationed at construction sites where tehy might actually hold some value. But staking out a video store? I think NYC might have better things for their cops to be doing.
My opinion on the whole thing? It comes down to parenting. Make all the excuses you want, but if you don't have proper parenting then your kids have a high chance of being a**holes. The real thing of it is, if you have good parenting, violent video games will not harm your children (depending on age, of course). And with regards to the poster earlier that was saying bad parenting is society's fault...Just because it is society's problem, does not mean it is society's fault. I don't have kids, never will. Don't try and lay that pile of crap on my doorstep.
Hrm. I just built a Duo Core system for my nephew with 4GB RAM, 250GB SATA drive and a couple other little pieces for $400 at MicroCenter. I'll admit that did not include the monitor...
Unfortunately, you can't do any research on building a comparable Mac because, well, Apple won't let you build a Mac yourself, will they?
Am I the only one that happened to read the /. write up on the Stealths being upgraded to Pentiums immediately before reading this article?
Now, of course, they shouldn't be using javascript (or java?) on Stealths, nor are the Stealth's chips likely to have the same bugs.
But it was kinda of a double-take inducing sequence of articles...
Get cellular broadband. Sprint, Verizon, etc all offer some solution. It is actually pretty sweet. Not broadband (or even DSL) fast, but plenty fast enough, and better than dial up or ISDN. You can get a USB modem (desktop) or a PCMCIAA modem (laptop). My company provides us with a Verizon card for when we are on the road, and I encountered some speed issues up in the Saratogoa Springs area (northern NY). Otherwise, it rarely dips below the 300 range.
;)
There is no costly destruction of rooftops nor construction of sheds with magical rooftops.
And, when they want to stroll down to the beach, just pick up the laptop and go.
Simple, inexpensive, and portable solution.
p.s. I hate the freakin cape, but I'll help you with your problem before dissin' it
If everyone in the world decided to just sit back and "be thankful", the world would not get anywhere.
It basically sounds like you are just jealous of the guy having a good job and good family, and want to sound off on that as opposed to actually giving him some advise on where he might take his life next.
That being said, I would caution the original poster to not take another hobby and ruin it for himself by turning it into a career. Most IT people got into the industry because we enjoy this stuff. If the industry has taken the joy out of this hobby, it could very well happen to the next hobby you try to make money off of...
And can it be considered a world record if it takes place outside of Earth's atmosphere?
The perfect opportunity to play Blurn Ball!
Can they make this into a cubicle version?
Picture a new aspect of configuring your office's network being that you have to lay out tubing for all of the cubicle coffee dispensers...
With Apple's history of preventing anyone from building hardware/software without paying licensing fees, is this at all surprising? They loosened the grip a little bit in the early 90's, but clinched right up once they started to lose a bit more of the market share. Now they have shown that their locked down system will keep (improve) their share. Why would they change? Apple and Microsoft really are quite similar in this, the main difference being that Apple actually makes good, innovative products on platforms for which only they can build (sell) the hardware. Apple keeping a tight reign on licensing is just SOP.
So, the next logical question to ask would be if it is immoral/illegal to view the comments that are at the bottom of the page. EE did a very blatant job of letting you know that they require fee for the services they are providing, but have effectively left the door unlocked. While we may dislike how they conduct their business, would it not be considered stealing if we were to gleen the answers from them when they ask for payment?