It's really quite a stretch to observe that Lanza entered data in a spreadsheet and conclude that videos games are even partially to blame for the mass shooting. The only link between a spreadsheet and a video game is that they are both applications that run on a computer.
Makes you wonder what is really going on here; whose agenda is being furthered by making such a connection and calling it "news."
Anyway, for everyone asking "why do we let judges rule on / lawmakers govern the Internet" -- the Internet is us. We are the Internet. Just because something occurs over TCP/IP packets instead of in an alley, doesn't make it any less a part of 'the real world,' where real laws apply.
Whose laws? The internet extends world-wide. It doesn't matter what some US court or even SCOTUS decides is "the law" to anyone outside the US. In order to have laws governing the internet you need an international organization to first agree on the regulation, then enforce the law. Simple - and all we need for world peace is for everyone to decide to be nice and stop killing each other.
The point of the placebo effect is that it is entirely psychological. It is not clinically real - it is not physiological.
Brains are body parts, just like noses, fingers, and spleens. It's only because the brain is so much more complicated (and therefore less understood) than the other parts that this psychological/physiological dichotomy exists.
As a European I was horrified to see that prescription medicines are routinely and frequently advertised on television in the USA instructing the viewer to ask their doctor to prescribe the medicine.
As an American I am equally horrified. Advertising by big pharma companies is one of the reasons medications are so expensive here. Also, I can't imagine telling a doctor what to prescribe. If he/she doesn't know already, then I'm going to the wrong doctor.
I actually think Aaron would have been acquiited. What he did was very inconsiderate. I think he acted selfishly, and either didn't know or didn't care that by hogging resources he was inconveniencing others. But I can't find anything he did was actually against the law. That's all that should matter to a judge despite the fancy prosecutorial smoke and mirror show they would have undoubtably had to wade through.
"Patriot Act" was a very highly manipulative naming for a very unpatriotic act.
It is DoubleSpeak exactly as described by Orwell in the book 1984. Some people read the book and see cautionary tale of a dystopian future in which an oppresive govenment exerts mind control on its citizens, while others see it as a handy instruction booklet. The former are called "Normal", the latter "Republicans."
Years ago Brian Eno put out an album called "Music for Airports". It's unobtrusive music specifically intended to be part of a "quiet ambience" as opposed to something you'd sit down to listen to. I'm sure I'm doing a poor job of explaining it but you can look it up if you're interested.
I find it relaxing, even play it when meditating.
Can we find ways to make it harder - and costlier - for governments to censor their citizens?
That's kinda the whole point of Freenet, but you'd need an internet connection to the outside world for that to work. If governments and corporations keep interfering with the free flow of ideas over the internet, I'm sure a technical solution will found. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. I wonder if in a few years when wireless networks become ubiquitous if we can abandon large ISPs altogether in favor of many decentralized services or some sort of peer-to-peer network.
The disappointment in the high energy physics community is over what comes next. For many decades, high energy physicists have been building bigger and bigger colliders. Each collider has left some unanswered questions justifying the next giant collider. If the standard model seems to fit all the data and there's no clear question to be answered by the next collider, then what's next for high energy physics? All the "new physics," dark matter and dark energy, is coming from astrophysics these days, and they need telescopes, not colliders.
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If the model used by physicists doesn't agree with what is objectively seen by the astrophysicists with their shiny new telescopes, then there is still work to be done by the physicists.>
There will be some more posturing from both sides, the US will secretly slip some hard currency under the table to KYU, and things will calm down for a few years...
Why would we possibly reward bad behaviour? We are increasing sanctions against NK, not giving them "hard currency under the table".
1. A clueless hobbyist who lost track of his drone or simply wasn't aware of interfering of the possiblility of interfering with a real aircraft. I think we've esablished that some very unusual circumstances would have to come into play for this type of scenerio.
2. A dumb-ass thrill-seeking hobbyist who wanted to see what he could get away with. Possibly we'll see his video footage on YouTube any day now.
3. Some really bad actors out there who are testing their capabilities in preparation for who-knows-what terrorist act.
Did I leave anything out? How would you go about protecting against this sort of attack?
How is this abuse? This sounds to me like copyright holders enforcing legal rights that they actually have.
But, you see, they are attempting to enforce rights they don't have.
An example of copyright piracy would be if someone obtained one copy of a protected work and produced 10,000 DVDs with the intent of selling them out of the back of his van. Another example would be if he were to rent a movie theater and charge admisson for people to view the material.
The MAAFIA would like to change to definition of "piracy" to include someone who borrows a copy from his friend to watch in his own living room.
Really, if they were book publishers they would try to outlaw libraries, as anyone can borrow a book for free, thereby depriving them untold gazillions of (non-existant) profits. Don't believe me? Just ask their Hollywood-style accountants.
Baby talk is a great language for certain purposes. But you don't use it in a meeting with your bosses.
You haven't met my boss. Baby talk is by far the most efficient means of communication. I've been known to reward him with lollipops occasionally if and when he behaves himself.
Anyone who has the hubris to use the word "sheeple" is is effect saying "I alone understand the complexities of the world, my view is the correct one, and anyone who thinks differently than me does not deserve my attention."
Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"
It's funny because it's true. As a windows user who wanted to learn how to use linux (15 years ago or so) I had the catch-22 issue of installing and configuring system I knew very little about. So it was crucial for me that the installation "just worked" to get a working machine to learn on. I tried Debian first and got no where, then tried Ubuntu and it "just worked".
Ubunutu is far from perfect, but it works good enough for new users that they can learn what they need to in order to abandon it once they tire of Canonical's shenanigans.
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It's really quite a stretch to observe that Lanza entered data in a spreadsheet and conclude that videos games are even partially to blame for the mass shooting. The only link between a spreadsheet and a video game is that they are both applications that run on a computer.
Makes you wonder what is really going on here; whose agenda is being furthered by making such a connection and calling it "news."
Anyway, for everyone asking "why do we let judges rule on / lawmakers govern the Internet" -- the Internet is us. We are the Internet. Just because something occurs over TCP/IP packets instead of in an alley, doesn't make it any less a part of 'the real world,' where real laws apply.
Whose laws? The internet extends world-wide. It doesn't matter what some US court or even SCOTUS decides is "the law" to anyone outside the US. In order to have laws governing the internet you need an international organization to first agree on the regulation, then enforce the law. Simple - and all we need for world peace is for everyone to decide to be nice and stop killing each other.
The point of the placebo effect is that it is entirely psychological. It is not clinically real - it is not physiological.
Brains are body parts, just like noses, fingers, and spleens. It's only because the brain is so much more complicated (and therefore less understood) than the other parts that this psychological/physiological dichotomy exists.
As a European I was horrified to see that prescription medicines are routinely and frequently advertised on television in the USA instructing the viewer to ask their doctor to prescribe the medicine.
As an American I am equally horrified. Advertising by big pharma companies is one of the reasons medications are so expensive here. Also, I can't imagine telling a doctor what to prescribe. If he/she doesn't know already, then I'm going to the wrong doctor.
Ive met *many* an ion in my life, and not a single one of those bastards was ever civil to me.
Don't take it personally, they're just after your spare electrons.
who talks about women's c*nt sizes? tits, sure, but c*nts?
I think it's Sarah Silverman that has a funny bit about it. I'd post a link but when I Googled "large vagina" I didn't get the results I expected.
Or rather, I got what I expected but not what I was looking for...
I actually think Aaron would have been acquiited. What he did was very inconsiderate. I think he acted selfishly, and either didn't know or didn't care that by hogging resources he was inconveniencing others. But I can't find anything he did was actually against the law. That's all that should matter to a judge despite the fancy prosecutorial smoke and mirror show they would have undoubtably had to wade through.
"Patriot Act" was a very highly manipulative naming for a very unpatriotic act.
It is DoubleSpeak exactly as described by Orwell in the book 1984. Some people read the book and see cautionary tale of a dystopian future in which an oppresive govenment exerts mind control on its citizens, while others see it as a handy instruction booklet. The former are called "Normal", the latter "Republicans."
Years ago Brian Eno put out an album called "Music for Airports". It's unobtrusive music specifically intended to be part of a "quiet ambience" as opposed to something you'd sit down to listen to. I'm sure I'm doing a poor job of explaining it but you can look it up if you're interested. I find it relaxing, even play it when meditating.
Can we find ways to make it harder - and costlier - for governments to censor their citizens?
That's kinda the whole point of Freenet, but you'd need an internet connection to the outside world for that to work. If governments and corporations keep interfering with the free flow of ideas over the internet, I'm sure a technical solution will found. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. I wonder if in a few years when wireless networks become ubiquitous if we can abandon large ISPs altogether in favor of many decentralized services or some sort of peer-to-peer network.
Blow jobs have nothing to do with virginity or sex. The best law Bill Clinton ever introduced to mankind.
Well, it's not exactly a law, but it is one of the few positions that has wide bi-partisan support amongst politicians.
The disappointment in the high energy physics community is over what comes next. For many decades, high energy physicists have been building bigger and bigger colliders. Each collider has left some unanswered questions justifying the next giant collider. If the standard model seems to fit all the data and there's no clear question to be answered by the next collider, then what's next for high energy physics? All the "new physics," dark matter and dark energy, is coming from astrophysics these days, and they need telescopes, not colliders.
/p>
If the model used by physicists doesn't agree with what is objectively seen by the astrophysicists with their shiny new telescopes, then there is still work to be done by the physicists.>
They US will also be doing Navel exercises around NK.
Navel exercises? You mean like belly-dancing? That actually sounds kinda fun.
There will be some more posturing from both sides, the US will secretly slip some hard currency under the table to KYU, and things will calm down for a few years ...
Why would we possibly reward bad behaviour? We are increasing sanctions against NK, not giving them "hard currency under the table".
Maybe if we tow slogan banners we can get the out under the First Amendment?
Hell, put "Shop at Wally-Mart" on the banner and someone will pay you to do it
What are the possiblilities then?
1. A clueless hobbyist who lost track of his drone or simply wasn't aware of interfering of the possiblility of interfering with a real aircraft. I think we've esablished that some very unusual circumstances would have to come into play for this type of scenerio.
2. A dumb-ass thrill-seeking hobbyist who wanted to see what he could get away with. Possibly we'll see his video footage on YouTube any day now.
3. Some really bad actors out there who are testing their capabilities in preparation for who-knows-what terrorist act.
Did I leave anything out? How would you go about protecting against this sort of attack?
How is this abuse? This sounds to me like copyright holders enforcing legal rights that they actually have.
But, you see, they are attempting to enforce rights they don't have.
An example of copyright piracy would be if someone obtained one copy of a protected work and produced 10,000 DVDs with the intent of selling them out of the back of his van. Another example would be if he were to rent a movie theater and charge admisson for people to view the material.
The MAAFIA would like to change to definition of "piracy" to include someone who borrows a copy from his friend to watch in his own living room.
Really, if they were book publishers they would try to outlaw libraries, as anyone can borrow a book for free, thereby depriving them untold gazillions of (non-existant) profits. Don't believe me? Just ask their Hollywood-style accountants.
I shutter to think what copyrighted crap would look like...
Do you own a TV? Turn it on.
You are correct sir, and I am a bad judge of time. I stand corrected.
exactly how many girlfriends does this most honest of dudes have?
I'll plead the fifth on that.
Baby talk is a great language for certain purposes. But you don't use it in a meeting with your bosses.
You haven't met my boss. Baby talk is by far the most efficient means of communication. I've been known to reward him with lollipops occasionally if and when he behaves himself.
Quite rightly, sir.
Anyone who has the hubris to use the word "sheeple" is is effect saying "I alone understand the complexities of the world, my view is the correct one, and anyone who thinks differently than me does not deserve my attention."
Isn't this the same law firm that is facing allegations of fraud and identity theft? Why yes, yes it is. And that case is scheduled for next week...
It'd be awesome if they got the same judge in both cases...
Prepare to lose. Badly.
I am actually looking forward to seeing this guy get his ass handed to him. This has great entertainment potential.
Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"
It's funny because it's true. As a windows user who wanted to learn how to use linux (15 years ago or so) I had the catch-22 issue of installing and configuring system I knew very little about. So it was crucial for me that the installation "just worked" to get a working machine to learn on. I tried Debian first and got no where, then tried Ubuntu and it "just worked".
Ubunutu is far from perfect, but it works good enough for new users that they can learn what they need to in order to abandon it once they tire of Canonical's shenanigans.