I can't wait until a database entry like 173.15.223.255 is interpreted by a school of drones as "disperse and engage". Maybe if 127.0.0.1 is injected they'll take out the white house. In any case, just put a cigarette-style warning on all new computers and at least no one can be sued.
Disturbing, of course. Have an equally compelling story/lesson. A mother's fear when she loses her child. A warrior's trepidation when he murders his first opponent.
I'm an agnostic and think people pushing bills like these are generally ignorant and full of shit. However, I do think intelligent design is possible, though its products would still be affected by evolution as science currently suggests. If there is a "God" out there designing things, he's just us on steroids. He's what we will hopefully some day become if we don't kill ourselves first.
Ever think it strange that despite all our potential as a species, we still can't get our shit together? The only thing keeping us out of caves is our ability to pass on knowledge by recording it and training the next generation. There's a bizarre dichotomy in us. Our better half is godlike in its ability to dream, create and so on, while the other half is pure beast. Something doesn't quite add up, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if we had a little genetic help along the way from...something.
So while the religious nuts trying to squash science are an embarrassment, there may be an inadvertent grain of truth in their babbling.
because once all cars are driverless there will be no need for speed limits. There may be lateral G limits enforced by each car to minimize wear and tear and driver coffee spills, but no need for speed limits with millisecond reflexes and all-seeing, unblinking eyes.
Oblig 300: When the boy was born, like all Spartans, he was inspected. If he'd been small or puny or sickly or misshapen, he would have been discarded.
Yeah, this from the guy who thinks streaming a 1,073,741,824^2 pixel texture of the entire game world into RAM is a good idea. Put down the pipe, turn around and walk backwards toward the sound of my voice.
A police state is a state policed. We all live in one or more. Of course they'll do all they can to better police their state. It's their job, and we pay and vote for them to do it. Corporations license new technologies to them to do it better. Maybe if all citizens just aspired to be "officers" of the institution they'd be happier. Maybe... Just maybe, one should simply succumb and obey one's master.
A FPS that was truly realistic not only would be impossibly difficult, but players would end up with PTSD or at least horrible nightmares after a few sessions. Shooting, stabbing and blowing people up in real life is pretty rough on the soul. So far the realism of killing in games hasn't even approached Hollywood's slapstick-like efforts.
Just do what I do: Forgo the permits and build whatever you like as you like, shoot anyone who enters your property and bury them in the backyard. Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.
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I can't wait until a database entry like 173.15.223.255 is interpreted by a school of drones as "disperse and engage". Maybe if 127.0.0.1 is injected they'll take out the white house. In any case, just put a cigarette-style warning on all new computers and at least no one can be sued.
Disturbing, of course. Have an equally compelling story/lesson. A mother's fear when she loses her child. A warrior's trepidation when he murders his first opponent.
Someone on /. defending animals and being modded up? Pigs with eyes on their asses are flying.
Controlling the world's food supply through GMO seed patents? Where's Daniel Craig when we need him?
I'm an agnostic and think people pushing bills like these are generally ignorant and full of shit. However, I do think intelligent design is possible, though its products would still be affected by evolution as science currently suggests. If there is a "God" out there designing things, he's just us on steroids. He's what we will hopefully some day become if we don't kill ourselves first. Ever think it strange that despite all our potential as a species, we still can't get our shit together? The only thing keeping us out of caves is our ability to pass on knowledge by recording it and training the next generation. There's a bizarre dichotomy in us. Our better half is godlike in its ability to dream, create and so on, while the other half is pure beast. Something doesn't quite add up, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if we had a little genetic help along the way from...something. So while the religious nuts trying to squash science are an embarrassment, there may be an inadvertent grain of truth in their babbling.
Animals should be sliced and diced at our discretion for pure and possibly applied science. Life--all of it--is cheap.
Sounds great, but using the words g0vernment, ab0lish, repl@ce, all0w, fr3e, pist0ls and ch0ose in one post may get you on a list.
He's that dude with the tire iron, everybody knows that.
because once all cars are driverless there will be no need for speed limits. There may be lateral G limits enforced by each car to minimize wear and tear and driver coffee spills, but no need for speed limits with millisecond reflexes and all-seeing, unblinking eyes.
Where'd you move to? Is there a country where people are both free and responsible?
Or GNOME 3 - oh wait. ;)
All space sim fans know of this horror. The escort mission. WC2 cost me a keyboard for it...
One's already there. Just needs a cell phone and a marine detachment to purge all the damn Nazis.
The good news is that invoking the Darwin meme doesn't make one immune from it.
Take your Shell, roll it into a tube, and stick it up your ass.
Oblig 300: When the boy was born, like all Spartans, he was inspected. If he'd been small or puny or sickly or misshapen, he would have been discarded.
That reminds me of The Long Walk, which if not depressing was certainly disturbing.
Yeah, this from the guy who thinks streaming a 1,073,741,824^2 pixel texture of the entire game world into RAM is a good idea. Put down the pipe, turn around and walk backwards toward the sound of my voice.
It's a tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell. Sadly it doesn't come in blue.
Oooo, ouch and damn. Poor GNOME team. How many eighths have they lost now?
The inverse of "on and off are what computers do" is the point.
A police state is a state policed. We all live in one or more. Of course they'll do all they can to better police their state. It's their job, and we pay and vote for them to do it. Corporations license new technologies to them to do it better. Maybe if all citizens just aspired to be "officers" of the institution they'd be happier. Maybe... Just maybe, one should simply succumb and obey one's master.
A FPS that was truly realistic not only would be impossibly difficult, but players would end up with PTSD or at least horrible nightmares after a few sessions. Shooting, stabbing and blowing people up in real life is pretty rough on the soul. So far the realism of killing in games hasn't even approached Hollywood's slapstick-like efforts.
Or philosophy, even. There are no gods in Ultima games.
Just do what I do: Forgo the permits and build whatever you like as you like, shoot anyone who enters your property and bury them in the backyard. Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.