If you see a girl on the street flashing her goods, you think "hey, she's easy".
See a shrink about your projection problems.
I'm reminded of the TV advert where American boys are on a beach saying in an awed voice that in Europe women go topless on the beach, ``it's practically a law,'' then some Italian(?) boys are watching in horrer as a fat middle aged woman walks past topless and one says in the same dreamy, envious tone ``in America the women can't go topless on the beach... it's the law!''
I don't think it was the nipple as much as the context of it.
Adipose tissue?:-)
To have Janet Jackson go through her simulated sex show with justin timberlake which ended with him ripping off her top isn't exactly the behavior parents want children to see, since children have a tendancy to repeat whatever they see.
You mean they might be tempted to mime badly and dance worse?
If your daughter went to school the next day and had her top ripped off, what would you say then?
And how many incidents of that type were actually reported?
I'm sure everyone understands that if one permits head scarves to be banned today, then banning nude statues is really only one election away.
The banning of religious expression from state schools arises from the same enlightenment policy of separation of church and state as is expressed in the US constitution.
That the US has basicly thrown that idea away is to the US's shame not that of France.
Mind you, I don't agree with this particular expression of it in France, which I think is silly, but at least they don't have their kids chanting `one nation under god'.
Did I miss the bit where the prince was arrested and locked up? There are rules in Germany about swastikas, but I think they date from when the Allies were in charge, so Americans can hardly complain about them.
and illegal to wear a Muslim head covering to school.
Er, no. It's just against school rules in French state schools. School uniforms are hardly unusual.
``Is good art suppressed more by rules of public decency (even when applied with a heavy hand) or by the barbarism of a culture whose sensibilities have become so debauched by constant exposure to the scabrous and the vile as to have become incapable of any discrimination, or of any due appreciation of subtlety or craft?''
Obviously the former, since the latter, as described, would have no effect on the production of good art, only on it's apreciation in it's own time.
Of course, the whole thing is based on laughable assumptions about what is `the scabrous and the vile'. If the adolescent posturing of rock bands are the worst thing he can describe, he sinks his whole case at the start.
I mean, why were these guys so obsessed with sculpting wieners?
If you sculpt a naked man and don't put one in how many people will be able to look at your masterpiece without laughing? They did tend to make the genitals as small as reasonably possible.
If you think of it, the weird obsession is the modern one which creates supposedly macho soldier dolls for kids to play with, with guns and grenades and so on but no equipment of a more important kind. Are they supposed to be over-compensating for a tragic childhood accident?
I stated the rule. There are reasonable exceptions for the sake of preserving life and health.
so, basicly this rule is to be obeyed until it becomes inconvinient. Got to love that religious hypocracy.
Mind you, you have to wonder at a concept of a god who designed bodies which must be hidden by some kind of religious NDA. OK, the male equipment, especially in it's normal state, isn't exactly sleek and elegant, but some kind of flap or maintenance hatch arangement would have solved that.
Now, most people reading this are probably just laughing their heads off, but there is a serious issue here. This kind of attitude kills. When it was more prevalent, it was a significant contribution to the high death rate from things like breast cancer, since it raises the bar on when someone suffering from it would take a minor query to their doctor, delaying diagnosis. It's still more prevalent in men (though not generally for religious reasons) so that, dispite the fact that men generally don't have to be persuaded to do the occasionaly bit of (ahem) self examination, they still often don't report anomolies to their doctor early enough.
I have two young children and I absolutely WILL NOT put up with them being shown any nudity without my permission.
I presume you put blindfolds on them when they shower in case they should happen to look down without asking first?
I think the outraged reaction to the Janet Jackson things was funnier. After all, the primary purpose of breasts is to be presented to young children. How is someone who spent much of the most delicate period of their post-birth brain development with a breast the size of their head shoved in their face going to be adversely affected by a glipse of nipple?
Many have theorized that the robots would rebel against us, while others have portrayed a future in which humans and robots/AIs can co-exist.
But that is not the point. In such a society humans and robots would create shared cultural forms. Iain Banks does this kind of thing best IMO.
Consider the difference between the evolution of the blues into a form where we are unsupprised by seeing white blues musicians vs. the tradition of blacked-up minstrel shows. Or imagine there was suddenly a fashon for white Australians to pretend to be tasmanians.
Or Americans pretending to be Irish or scottish... hang on, that does happen and is creepy:-).
Of course, in the real world article, we aren't talking about robots, in the sense inherited from RUR, but puppets. The idea of japanese puppets doing japanese dance isn't creepy at all. It's the use of the world robot, which then brings to mind the idea of intelligent, independent agents, rather than progarmmable tools.
By the way, I don't see how programming this robot to repeat the motion-capture of a dancer does any better a job at preserving the dance than filming him/her would
It is probably easier for somoene to learn a complex movement by repeatedy watching it being done than from a video, which only allows one POV.
You could also simplify the motion for initial learning (eg start with hands not doing anything interesting) and then slowly add in more complexities as the learner gets up to speed.
Obviously you could do that with lots of video shots, but with motion capture you could do this kind of thing tailored to the individual learner's progress and idisyncratic difficulties, without having to guess everything you might want when doing the initial recording.
Unless you buy an online subscription, the news on the web is just headlines with little in depth material.
The obvious counter-example is the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/. A ressonable amount of background and analysis. Mind you, I can imagine them being pressured to cut of non-UK access to the main news portal, but the world service should be safe.
However, replacing SYSV style inits with something else is not, on the face of it, a bad idea.
You might want to have a peek at the FBSD5 init setup. They took the useful bit of the SysV init (modularity, and the ability when push comes to shove to do as much work as necessary to get reliable startup etc because you have the ability to write any old script), removed the evil of run levels, added in dependencies and the existing FBSD sanity of having all the enable/disable settings and parameters (eg what port to run the service on) in one easy to find and easy to change file.
I haven't butted heads with it too much, so I haven't found the inevitable problems and idiocies (everything has problems and idiocies), but I did smile when I first saw it, thinking someone was on my side for once.
Do you really think the music industry is going to sue a half million people who are using a service that claims to be legal,
No, but I wouldn't be supprised to see them get a pet congresscritter to put through a law allowing them to reclaim whatever they decide is what you owe them and pass the lists onto debt collection agencies. Really good way to fuck up your credit rating.
It didn't fall of the back of the truck, it's not theft, it's copyright infingement.
Robbery, burglary, theft, copyright infringement, just different trucks.
In many instances in Europe a smaller proportion of the population goes to church than the USA.
FAR smaller. But that isn't recent. The bulk of the US population has always been heavily religious. I suspect partially because many religious groups decamped from Europe to the US, and partially because many poor groups did.
Some of it, though, is probably just pure apathy or laziness.
Very little. Fundamentally Europe, and especially Britain, has far less religious belief. A largish proportion of people will identify as christian on a form, but if pushed know bugger all about christianity (a good test question is `which is the most important christian festival'), and care less.
Until the Russian government wants a favour from one or more of the big media conglomerates and in return leans on the operators of allofmp3 to hand over the payment details of every customer they ever had.
File sharers only get sued if they are still sharing, these guys have your card details and so effectively everything anyone might ever want to know to jump on you froma great height.
a full CD would still be between 1 and 2 dollars American
Stuff which falls off the back of a lorry is always cheap, but sensible people who want to deal with crooks do so only in cash.
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See a shrink about your projection problems.
I'm reminded of the TV advert where American boys are on a beach saying in an awed voice that in Europe women go topless on the beach, ``it's practically a law,'' then some Italian(?) boys are watching in horrer as a fat middle aged woman walks past topless and one says in the same dreamy, envious tone ``in America the women can't go topless on the beach... it's the law!''
Adipose tissue?:-)
To have Janet Jackson go through her simulated sex show with justin timberlake which ended with him ripping off her top isn't exactly the behavior parents want children to see, since children have a tendancy to repeat whatever they see.
You mean they might be tempted to mime badly and dance worse?
If your daughter went to school the next day and had her top ripped off, what would you say then?
And how many incidents of that type were actually reported?
To put that into context for the discussion, that is roghly the same number (not proportion, absolute number) as France.
The banning of religious expression from state schools arises from the same enlightenment policy of separation of church and state as is expressed in the US constitution.
That the US has basicly thrown that idea away is to the US's shame not that of France.
Mind you, I don't agree with this particular expression of it in France, which I think is silly, but at least they don't have their kids chanting `one nation under god'.
Did I miss the bit where the prince was arrested and locked up? There are rules in Germany about swastikas, but I think they date from when the Allies were in charge, so Americans can hardly complain about them.
and illegal to wear a Muslim head covering to school.
Er, no. It's just against school rules in French state schools. School uniforms are hardly unusual.
Well, he showed great forsight then didn't he!
Obviously the former, since the latter, as described, would have no effect on the production of good art, only on it's apreciation in it's own time.
Of course, the whole thing is based on laughable assumptions about what is `the scabrous and the vile'. If the adolescent posturing of rock bands are the worst thing he can describe, he sinks his whole case at the start.
If you sculpt a naked man and don't put one in how many people will be able to look at your masterpiece without laughing? They did tend to make the genitals as small as reasonably possible.
If you think of it, the weird obsession is the modern one which creates supposedly macho soldier dolls for kids to play with, with guns and grenades and so on but no equipment of a more important kind. Are they supposed to be over-compensating for a tragic childhood accident?
He read it in the brochure. Comes between "not machine washable" and "contains no user servicable parts".
so, basicly this rule is to be obeyed until it becomes inconvinient. Got to love that religious hypocracy.
Mind you, you have to wonder at a concept of a god who designed bodies which must be hidden by some kind of religious NDA. OK, the male equipment, especially in it's normal state, isn't exactly sleek and elegant, but some kind of flap or maintenance hatch arangement would have solved that.
Now, most people reading this are probably just laughing their heads off, but there is a serious issue here. This kind of attitude kills. When it was more prevalent, it was a significant contribution to the high death rate from things like breast cancer, since it raises the bar on when someone suffering from it would take a minor query to their doctor, delaying diagnosis. It's still more prevalent in men (though not generally for religious reasons) so that, dispite the fact that men generally don't have to be persuaded to do the occasionaly bit of (ahem) self examination, they still often don't report anomolies to their doctor early enough.
I hope you married a surgeon.
I presume you put blindfolds on them when they shower in case they should happen to look down without asking first?
I think the outraged reaction to the Janet Jackson things was funnier. After all, the primary purpose of breasts is to be presented to young children. How is someone who spent much of the most delicate period of their post-birth brain development with a breast the size of their head shoved in their face going to be adversely affected by a glipse of nipple?
My cellphone doesn't depend on a subscription with one particular supplier. If the network I'm on went belly up I could just switch to another.
``Home laundering is killing dry cleaning''
But that is not the point. In such a society humans and robots would create shared cultural forms. Iain Banks does this kind of thing best IMO.
Consider the difference between the evolution of the blues into a form where we are unsupprised by seeing white blues musicians vs. the tradition of blacked-up minstrel shows. Or imagine there was suddenly a fashon for white Australians to pretend to be tasmanians.
Or Americans pretending to be Irish or scottish... hang on, that does happen and is creepy:-).
Of course, in the real world article, we aren't talking about robots, in the sense inherited from RUR, but puppets. The idea of japanese puppets doing japanese dance isn't creepy at all. It's the use of the world robot, which then brings to mind the idea of intelligent, independent agents, rather than progarmmable tools.
It is probably easier for somoene to learn a complex movement by repeatedy watching it being done than from a video, which only allows one POV.
You could also simplify the motion for initial learning (eg start with hands not doing anything interesting) and then slowly add in more complexities as the learner gets up to speed.
Obviously you could do that with lots of video shots, but with motion capture you could do this kind of thing tailored to the individual learner's progress and idisyncratic difficulties, without having to guess everything you might want when doing the initial recording.
You don't actually have to give them any true information about yourself you know.
And you registered with /. so you can't object too much.
The obvious counter-example is the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/. A ressonable amount of background and analysis. Mind you, I can imagine them being pressured to cut of non-UK access to the main news portal, but the world service should be safe.
You might want to have a peek at the FBSD5 init setup. They took the useful bit of the SysV init (modularity, and the ability when push comes to shove to do as much work as necessary to get reliable startup etc because you have the ability to write any old script), removed the evil of run levels, added in dependencies and the existing FBSD sanity of having all the enable/disable settings and parameters (eg what port to run the service on) in one easy to find and easy to change file.
I haven't butted heads with it too much, so I haven't found the inevitable problems and idiocies (everything has problems and idiocies), but I did smile when I first saw it, thinking someone was on my side for once.
Clue: the word different usually does not indicate equality.
No, but I wouldn't be supprised to see them get a pet congresscritter to put through a law allowing them to reclaim whatever they decide is what you owe them and pass the lists onto debt collection agencies. Really good way to fuck up your credit rating.
It didn't fall of the back of the truck, it's not theft, it's copyright infingement.
Robbery, burglary, theft, copyright infringement, just different trucks.
FAR smaller. But that isn't recent. The bulk of the US population has always been heavily religious. I suspect partially because many religious groups decamped from Europe to the US, and partially because many poor groups did.
Some of it, though, is probably just pure apathy or laziness.
Very little. Fundamentally Europe, and especially Britain, has far less religious belief. A largish proportion of people will identify as christian on a form, but if pushed know bugger all about christianity (a good test question is `which is the most important christian festival'), and care less.
Until the Russian government wants a favour from one or more of the big media conglomerates and in return leans on the operators of allofmp3 to hand over the payment details of every customer they ever had.
File sharers only get sued if they are still sharing, these guys have your card details and so effectively everything anyone might ever want to know to jump on you froma great height.
a full CD would still be between 1 and 2 dollars American
Stuff which falls off the back of a lorry is always cheap, but sensible people who want to deal with crooks do so only in cash.
What is the correct ettiquete for returning an unwanted present?
They'd need to add in "rising far-right politics"...