I'm sorry but $60 for something I'm going to spend as much time enjoying as a $14.99 dvd, is a rip off.
I have not ever, nor will I ever, personally, buy a new game, unless it's on clearance. If they come to their senses about pricing maybe. I'm willing to pay $25 for an award winning used console game, that's it. Usually I get them used for around the price of a new dvd ($15). I'd buy new games if they were half the price. I lose nothing by waiting for the game to hit the used game market and save a ton of cash. I'm just not in the "Gotta have it on day one" crowd.
yup. You can't depend on a patient to tell you everything in their chart. You are supposed to read their chart. My cousin is an orthopedic surgeon in a trauma center and we've had this conversation. It's not just for liability, it's for the patients own good, the exception being if they are in critical danger and need immediate attention. Without the chart they can inadvertently kill you simply by picking the wrong meds.
It's true they don't want to be sued but the big danger is accidentally killing you.
I have an old paperback book I bought, which was 21 years old when I bought it in '92, Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, published in 1971 by Penguin, and it's still readable. I just loaned it to my girlfriend last week.
It's now 37 years old and still kicking but the binding is definitely going. I think paperbacks start deteriorating even sooner than hardbound. Magnetic tape would definitely last longer, though the binding will deteriorate and the magnetic oxide would separate from the tape during a read and likely flake off the first time you read it if it's been sitting around for a really long time.
That is a common problem for people digitizing old multitrack tape for re-release. They often only get one shot at it. http://www.dpts.com/datarec03.htm I'm not sure if something similar happens with disk drives though.
Optical media, counter-intuitively, typically deteriorates much faster than tape because the media flakes off of the base. Mfgrs claim they last up to 200 years, but you are lucky if they last 15. I've had cd's with media flaking off of them and pitting as soon as 7 years. http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/faqs/optical.html#issues
It's not uncommon for a 50 year old tape to be readable, even if it's only readable once. The most stable medium is probably acid free parchment. Even if the ink fades you could still get the information off of it.
The problem was that the people with any kind of ability to stop the conditions that led to the current situation were those who profited most from those conditions. Not a good recipe for prevention.
Even those people, in reality, had no ability to stop it.
In fact, I know a mortgage broker that had his own company. He wouldn't lend to people that didn't have a job, source of income, or the independent wealth to cover the loan. He refused to get caught up in the "loan money to anyone that has a pulse" frenzy and required proof beyond stated income (like paystubs and W2's) to show that you could make the payments. They started a class action suit alleging discrimination and the legal costs bankrupted him.
The whole problem was caused when congress passed a bill removing the regulations which kept FDIC insured banks from buying loans from non-FDIC insured banks, effectively removing the rules under which FDIC insured banks could loan money.
If you "did the right thing" you went out of business all together, thanks to class action lawsuits. This one is entirely Washington DC's fault, not the mortgage brokers. The guy is a good friend of mine and incredibly smart. He explained exactly how it happened and my own research confirmed what he was telling me. Congress dropped the ball on this one. They wanted everyone to be able to buy a house, whether or not they could pay for it.
Speeding and recklessness are a function of the level of assholitude. Every single person I know (without exception) that's been arrested for DUI or killed someone while DUI, drove like an utter moron when they were sober too. I'd have been involved in one, but I knew how the guy drove and refused to drive with him even when he was sober. I wouldn't drive to the corner 7-11 with him. My girlfriend's sister was killed by that guy when he got drunk, drove like an F1 racer, lost control and got T-Boned by an oncoming car in the rain.
Thing is they drive the same way while intoxicated, only they don't have the reflexes to handle it like they do when sober. The stupidity starts while sober. I'm not advocating DUI for careful drivers, but you can't blame it totally on the alcohol.
All the more reason to not drive like an ass whether you are sober or not.
Hold a bag of Doritos in front of them. If they can resist, they aren't stoned.
On a serious tip, THC is detectable. They'd need to design a breathalyzer for it. Dogs can also smell it. Alcohol intoxication wasn't measurable, til someone built a device to measure it. Before that it was legal for thousands of years. I doubt marijuana intoxication is any more difficult to measure. Someone just needs to engineer the device. I'm absolutely positive that funding this would cost less than the war on drugs and employ some scientists to boot.
Seriously, there is always a way. Besides that, people will get baked whether it's legal or not, so how would anything change? People get stoned and drive now... How do officers find them.?
Considering the fact that the dialog was only open for *7* days, I doubt enough people heard about it in time to actually vote and make a difference. It's no longer open, as if it ever were. People need to know about it for it to be open.
The problem with x86 is I/O capability. Virtualizing servers on an x86 box compounds this weakness. Running a database on an x86 VM is sheer stupidity since a database server is an I/O bound process. It's the worst possible way to run a database server. In my shop we use VM's but only where appropriate. Production database server is not such a job.
I don't need to even try it to know this. If someone here suggested we do something like this for a production environment, and was serious, it would definitely throw a bright red flag to my manager and I.
... but if your kid is really in danger from a dangerous person, the perp will probably search them for such a device and throw it in a trash can. If she isn't in danger, then what's the point? Slightly faster to find her? That's a pretty small advantage to gain for the price you'll pay for going Big Brother on her.
In this case she simply got on the wrong bus. Attaching a tracking device to a child will just lead to a broken or lost tracking device and when you really need it it probably won't be working, the battery will be dead, etc.
I think the real problem is trusting a young child to know which bus to get on and where to get off, then again, I am not in your shoes. There's no way in hell I'd let a kid younger than 10 ride a school bus, but that's just me. I drop mine off and pick them up after work. When he hits 10 he'll get a "how to ride the school bus" class along with all the warnings, cautions, and test runs that I deem necessary to feel confident he knows which bus to get on, where his stop is and how to deal with strangers with candy.
I look at it the same way I do leaving them home. In my state it's legal to allow your kid to be by themselves in your house after age 8. Other people do it. He knows how to dial 911. He knows my cell number. He knows what to do in the event of fire (grab phone, run outside, dial 911, then call me). He knows not to drink the stuff under the sink. Am I going to go to the gym for an hour and leave him there alone? HELL NO!!! I live in the city. About all I do is unload the car, and let him fire up the xbox while I park. If it's longer than 5 minutes, he's coming with me. I trust him completely, I just don't trust the rest of the world.
At the end of the day you have to make a decision about convenience vs. safety and do whatever you feel is right. Attaching a device to your child isn't going to solve your safety issues or guarantee anything. Being in control of your child's transportation arrangements will solve this particular risk.
While I emphatically disagree with the practice of slipping a modification for a seperate program in with other updates, rather than being explicitly seperated out and accepted in the clear, your bit about
It's not like the JRE shipped by default with the OS, and the original version didn't include the firefox extension while subsequent updates bring this new functionality.
is misleading.
The plugin offers access to the java api. If you don't update the plugin too, it stops working;) So Sun has the choice of catering to people like you, and having broken java browser plugins all over the place, or updating the plugin with the jre and having it keep working, though admittedly, client side java is pretty broken even when it "works". It's likely that even if they gave you the choice of updating jre separate from the plugin, you wouldn't notice that it was broken due to your simplex mode of excluding everything but core functionality during updates, since a lot of the time, java updates break existing applets anyway.
Admittedly, if I were in charge at Sun, I'd do the same thing. Client side java barely works as it is. You really don't need your browser plugin to be out of sync with the rest of the jvm on zillions of clients and add to the mess.
To use your.pdf support analogy, would you rather that Adobe give you the option to only update Acrobat Reader, if not updating the plugin broke it? This analogy actually works with java, since the Adobe browser plugin is pretty hopelessly sucky too.
>I've never seen athletes stereotyped as bumbling morons.
You've obviously missed Charles Barkley's and Magic's appearances off the court on TV.
My personal favorite is the one where Barkley said he could do anything better than a woman except clean and cook. At which point a camerawoman proceeded to outdo him in a push-up contest.
IANAL but if I'm not mistaken, it's illegal to explicitly visually portray some sex acts in any kind of media or possess it. Snuff, rape, and child molestation are three of them.
If he had a rape film or comic where penetration was explicitly depicted, and got caught with it, he'd get arrested too.
That happens to be the law. If you don't like the law and want possession of explicit depictions of child molestation legalized, write your state and federal congresspeople.
Til then you get prosecuted for it;)
Whether or not you think it's ok doesn't matter.
About ethics... creating a law because you are being paid off by a company who it will benefit is unethical. Creating a law to protect people is ethical, provided you honestly believe it's for the greater good, even if it's because your religion says so. I'm not saying it's right, but it is ethical.
IMHO the guy got what he deserved as far as getting prosecuted, arrested and jailed. He had possession of explicit illustrated child porn and bestiality. If that sort of thing turns you on, feeding the lust isn't going to help the neighbor's kids when you can't stop yourself because you are all turned on from child molestation comics.
Calling it "manga" doesn't change the subject matter, which is illegal to possess or produce in the US.
The real issue is whether or not possession of such stuff warrants branding someone as a sex offender. I can rationalize them getting prosecuted and sent to jail for possession of the stuff, but they haven't engaged in sex with a minor, and aren't in possession of photographs of real kids getting abused, so it is a victimless crime at that point. That's what really needs to be looked at. No one was harmed by some perv drawing his sicko comic.
Should they be treated and branded the same way as someone who actually fondles the neighbor's 9yo daughter?
My opinion is I don't think so. I think the law needs to be examined. But like I said, my opinion doesn't matter and frankly I don't really care what happens to people who like and collect child porn (manga or otherwise). There is definitely something wrong with them and they are probably dangerous. I'm not about to stick up for them and join a crusade to get them off the sex offender list.
And... For the record, vim has syntax highlighting and to get to a line number you type 237gg to go to line 237. How is that slower than scrolling with a mouse?
You can automate repetitive bash operations with a bash script.
Your efficiency is directly related to your knowledge of your editor and tools.
It is more efficient for you, but saying it's more efficient, period, is said without consideration for everyone's experience.
With a single GPU it's not about your CPU speed, within reason. You only need the latest and greatest processors to be able to push the frame rates high enough to feed multiple GPU's frames to render.
If you have a single GPU card you can get away with a less than top of the line latest greatest CPU. If you had a 3870 X2 the bottleneck *might* move to your CPU.
Remember that CPUs push the stuff to the GPU to be rendered. If you over spec CPU or GPU, you see very little benefit. For best bang for the buck, you should match the CPU's capability to push the frames to your GPU's capability to render them.
It sounds like you are in "the zone" with your box. If you buy a latest gen video card or one with 2 GPU's, or add a couple you may run into a CPU bottleneck but maybe not.
I definitely agree though. It's kind of stupid to pay for a top of the line intel chip, especially if you are only running one GPU. It does very little for you since if you buy a recent CPU, the bottleneck will almost always be the single GPU card.
You are more or less wasting your money in this case by buying Intel's latest quad core.
You CANNOT solve an addicts problem for them. They have to do it. I know because I've been there with 3 different friends and my brother.
All you can do is alternate between sadness, frustration, anger, and pity for them.
Sorry but you are wrong. "Abandoning" them is the best thing you can do. It gets them that much closer to rock bottom, which is where they need to be to start getting better. Until they feel some pain, and experience loss because of their behavior, they won't have any reason to fix the problem.
If you give them money, food or free rent you are an enabler and make it worse. If you hang out with them and try to be their friend, they will end up screwing you and damage your relationship beyond repair.
The game didn't do that to them, neither did a disease, they did it to themselves.
You make your own reality and are 100% responsible for it.
While we are waxing philosophical, the real problem with society is that everyone refuses to take responsibility for themselves and blames their problems on everything but the person in the mirror. With some rare exceptions that's always who caused the situation.
He's gone Jim... The only thing that will work is for him to fail out, move back in with his parents so they can babysit him, and go to community college.
Seen it happen several times... I could understand WoW, or Eve, but PoTBS?
Failing that, once he's living under a bridge, the mmo addiction will probably stop.
You can also make gasoline and diesel fuel out of it a lot more efficiently than you can with corn, using no petroleum based fertilizer.
The government of this country has it's collective head up it's ass when it comes to energy independence and being green, despite the propaganda and party line. If they really wanted to solve the problem it'd be easy. You can't fight wars over your own resources so it will never happen.
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I'm sorry but $60 for something I'm going to spend as much time enjoying as a $14.99 dvd, is a rip off.
I have not ever, nor will I ever, personally, buy a new game, unless it's on clearance. If they come to their senses about pricing maybe. I'm willing to pay $25 for an award winning used console game, that's it. Usually I get them used for around the price of a new dvd ($15). I'd buy new games if they were half the price. I lose nothing by waiting for the game to hit the used game market and save a ton of cash. I'm just not in the "Gotta have it on day one" crowd.
-Viz
yup. You can't depend on a patient to tell you everything in their chart. You are supposed to read their chart. My cousin is an orthopedic surgeon in a trauma center and we've had this conversation. It's not just for liability, it's for the patients own good, the exception being if they are in critical danger and need immediate attention. Without the chart they can inadvertently kill you simply by picking the wrong meds.
It's true they don't want to be sued but the big danger is accidentally killing you.
-Viz
I have an old paperback book I bought, which was 21 years old when I bought it in '92, Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, published in 1971 by Penguin, and it's still readable. I just loaned it to my girlfriend last week.
It's now 37 years old and still kicking but the binding is definitely going. I think paperbacks start deteriorating even sooner than hardbound. Magnetic tape would definitely last longer, though the binding will deteriorate and the magnetic oxide would separate from the tape during a read and likely flake off the first time you read it if it's been sitting around for a really long time.
That is a common problem for people digitizing old multitrack tape for re-release. They often only get one shot at it. http://www.dpts.com/datarec03.htm I'm not sure if something similar happens with disk drives though.
Optical media, counter-intuitively, typically deteriorates much faster than tape because the media flakes off of the base. Mfgrs claim they last up to 200 years, but you are lucky if they last 15. I've had cd's with media flaking off of them and pitting as soon as 7 years. http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/faqs/optical.html#issues
It's not uncommon for a 50 year old tape to be readable, even if it's only readable once. The most stable medium is probably acid free parchment. Even if the ink fades you could still get the information off of it.
-Viz
The problem was that the people with any kind of ability to stop the conditions that led to the current situation were those who profited most from those conditions. Not a good recipe for prevention.
Even those people, in reality, had no ability to stop it.
In fact, I know a mortgage broker that had his own company. He wouldn't lend to people that didn't have a job, source of income, or the independent wealth to cover the loan. He refused to get caught up in the "loan money to anyone that has a pulse" frenzy and required proof beyond stated income (like paystubs and W2's) to show that you could make the payments. They started a class action suit alleging discrimination and the legal costs bankrupted him.
The whole problem was caused when congress passed a bill removing the regulations which kept FDIC insured banks from buying loans from non-FDIC insured banks, effectively removing the rules under which FDIC insured banks could loan money.
If you "did the right thing" you went out of business all together, thanks to class action lawsuits. This one is entirely Washington DC's fault, not the mortgage brokers. The guy is a good friend of mine and incredibly smart. He explained exactly how it happened and my own research confirmed what he was telling me. Congress dropped the ball on this one. They wanted everyone to be able to buy a house, whether or not they could pay for it.
-Viz
Speeding and recklessness are a function of the level of assholitude. Every single person I know (without exception) that's been arrested for DUI or killed someone while DUI, drove like an utter moron when they were sober too. I'd have been involved in one, but I knew how the guy drove and refused to drive with him even when he was sober. I wouldn't drive to the corner 7-11 with him. My girlfriend's sister was killed by that guy when he got drunk, drove like an F1 racer, lost control and got T-Boned by an oncoming car in the rain.
Thing is they drive the same way while intoxicated, only they don't have the reflexes to handle it like they do when sober. The stupidity starts while sober. I'm not advocating DUI for careful drivers, but you can't blame it totally on the alcohol.
All the more reason to not drive like an ass whether you are sober or not.
-Viz
Hold a bag of Doritos in front of them. If they can resist, they aren't stoned.
On a serious tip, THC is detectable. They'd need to design a breathalyzer for it. Dogs can also smell it. Alcohol intoxication wasn't measurable, til someone built a device to measure it. Before that it was legal for thousands of years. I doubt marijuana intoxication is any more difficult to measure. Someone just needs to engineer the device. I'm absolutely positive that funding this would cost less than the war on drugs and employ some scientists to boot.
Seriously, there is always a way. Besides that, people will get baked whether it's legal or not, so how would anything change? People get stoned and drive now... How do officers find them.?
-Viz
Considering the fact that the dialog was only open for *7* days, I doubt enough people heard about it in time to actually vote and make a difference. It's no longer open, as if it ever were. People need to know about it for it to be open.
Why on earth should we assume that they've all suddenly found the light and will never sin again?
Because they are being paid to? I agree with Sampson, know thy enemy (or hire people that do).
-Viz
The problem with x86 is I/O capability. Virtualizing servers on an x86 box compounds this weakness. Running a database on an x86 VM is sheer stupidity since a database server is an I/O bound process. It's the worst possible way to run a database server. In my shop we use VM's but only where appropriate. Production database server is not such a job.
I don't need to even try it to know this. If someone here suggested we do something like this for a production environment, and was serious, it would definitely throw a bright red flag to my manager and I.
-Viz
... but if your kid is really in danger from a dangerous person, the perp will probably search them for such a device and throw it in a trash can. If she isn't in danger, then what's the point? Slightly faster to find her? That's a pretty small advantage to gain for the price you'll pay for going Big Brother on her.
In this case she simply got on the wrong bus. Attaching a tracking device to a child will just lead to a broken or lost tracking device and when you really need it it probably won't be working, the battery will be dead, etc.
I think the real problem is trusting a young child to know which bus to get on and where to get off, then again, I am not in your shoes. There's no way in hell I'd let a kid younger than 10 ride a school bus, but that's just me. I drop mine off and pick them up after work. When he hits 10 he'll get a "how to ride the school bus" class along with all the warnings, cautions, and test runs that I deem necessary to feel confident he knows which bus to get on, where his stop is and how to deal with strangers with candy.
I look at it the same way I do leaving them home. In my state it's legal to allow your kid to be by themselves in your house after age 8. Other people do it. He knows how to dial 911. He knows my cell number. He knows what to do in the event of fire (grab phone, run outside, dial 911, then call me). He knows not to drink the stuff under the sink. Am I going to go to the gym for an hour and leave him there alone? HELL NO!!! I live in the city. About all I do is unload the car, and let him fire up the xbox while I park. If it's longer than 5 minutes, he's coming with me. I trust him completely, I just don't trust the rest of the world.
At the end of the day you have to make a decision about convenience vs. safety and do whatever you feel is right. Attaching a device to your child isn't going to solve your safety issues or guarantee anything. Being in control of your child's transportation arrangements will solve this particular risk.
-Viz
While I emphatically disagree with the practice of slipping a modification for a seperate program in with other updates, rather than being explicitly seperated out and accepted in the clear, your bit about
It's not like the JRE shipped by default with the OS, and the original version didn't include the firefox extension while subsequent updates bring this new functionality.
is misleading.
The plugin offers access to the java api. If you don't update the plugin too, it stops working ;) So Sun has the choice of catering to people like you, and having broken java browser plugins all over the place, or updating the plugin with the jre and having it keep working, though admittedly, client side java is pretty broken even when it "works". It's likely that even if they gave you the choice of updating jre separate from the plugin, you wouldn't notice that it was broken due to your simplex mode of excluding everything but core functionality during updates, since a lot of the time, java updates break existing applets anyway.
Admittedly, if I were in charge at Sun, I'd do the same thing. Client side java barely works as it is. You really don't need your browser plugin to be out of sync with the rest of the jvm on zillions of clients and add to the mess.
To use your .pdf support analogy, would you rather that Adobe give you the option to only update Acrobat Reader, if not updating the plugin broke it? This analogy actually works with java, since the Adobe browser plugin is pretty hopelessly sucky too.
-Viz
just quietly disabled it.
>I've never seen athletes stereotyped as bumbling morons.
You've obviously missed Charles Barkley's and Magic's appearances off the court on TV.
My personal favorite is the one where Barkley said he could do anything better than a woman except clean and cook. At which point a camerawoman proceeded to outdo him in a push-up contest.
http://ballhype.com/story/video_charles_barkley_loses_to_woman_in_push_up/
Except the republicratic party is really one party with two heads, so it's more like "us vs. us".
-Viz
IANAL but if I'm not mistaken, it's illegal to explicitly visually portray some sex acts in any kind of media or possess it. Snuff, rape, and child molestation are three of them.
If he had a rape film or comic where penetration was explicitly depicted, and got caught with it, he'd get arrested too.
That happens to be the law. If you don't like the law and want possession of explicit depictions of child molestation legalized, write your state and federal congresspeople.
Til then you get prosecuted for it ;)
Whether or not you think it's ok doesn't matter.
About ethics... creating a law because you are being paid off by a company who it will benefit is unethical. Creating a law to protect people is ethical, provided you honestly believe it's for the greater good, even if it's because your religion says so. I'm not saying it's right, but it is ethical.
IMHO the guy got what he deserved as far as getting prosecuted, arrested and jailed. He had possession of explicit illustrated child porn and bestiality. If that sort of thing turns you on, feeding the lust isn't going to help the neighbor's kids when you can't stop yourself because you are all turned on from child molestation comics.
Calling it "manga" doesn't change the subject matter, which is illegal to possess or produce in the US.
The real issue is whether or not possession of such stuff warrants branding someone as a sex offender. I can rationalize them getting prosecuted and sent to jail for possession of the stuff, but they haven't engaged in sex with a minor, and aren't in possession of photographs of real kids getting abused, so it is a victimless crime at that point. That's what really needs to be looked at. No one was harmed by some perv drawing his sicko comic.
Should they be treated and branded the same way as someone who actually fondles the neighbor's 9yo daughter?
My opinion is I don't think so. I think the law needs to be examined. But like I said, my opinion doesn't matter and frankly I don't really care what happens to people who like and collect child porn (manga or otherwise). There is definitely something wrong with them and they are probably dangerous. I'm not about to stick up for them and join a crusade to get them off the sex offender list.
Neither will you ;)
And it will be the first production software release ever, which is actually production quality.
Most software's actual beta cycle starts with the production release and what most call beta is actually a slightly cleaned up alpha.
And...
For the record, vim has syntax highlighting and to get to a line number you type 237gg to go to line 237. How is that slower than scrolling with a mouse?
You can automate repetitive bash operations with a bash script.
Your efficiency is directly related to your knowledge of your editor and tools.
It is more efficient for you, but saying it's more efficient, period, is said without consideration for everyone's experience.
Just playing devil's advocate...
-Viz
Of course, now that this method is public knowledge the communications channel is no longer concealed.
Security by obscurity never works because the truth can be probed out by an astute attacker. In this case it's no longer even obscure.
-Viz
With a single GPU it's not about your CPU speed, within reason. You only need the latest and greatest processors to be able to push the frame rates high enough to feed multiple GPU's frames to render.
If you have a single GPU card you can get away with a less than top of the line latest greatest CPU. If you had a 3870 X2 the bottleneck *might* move to your CPU.
Remember that CPUs push the stuff to the GPU to be rendered. If you over spec CPU or GPU, you see very little benefit. For best bang for the buck, you should match the CPU's capability to push the frames to your GPU's capability to render them.
It sounds like you are in "the zone" with your box. If you buy a latest gen video card or one with 2 GPU's, or add a couple you may run into a CPU bottleneck but maybe not.
I definitely agree though. It's kind of stupid to pay for a top of the line intel chip, especially if you are only running one GPU. It does very little for you since if you buy a recent CPU, the bottleneck will almost always be the single GPU card.
You are more or less wasting your money in this case by buying Intel's latest quad core.
-Viz
Ethanol drag cars are specifically tuned and built to use ethanol. If you tune for "pure" gasoline and use 10% ethanol it's going to slow you down.
His friends need to tune for 10% ethanol and probably adjust their compression ratios, which is a little expensive.
He's right about them losing time at the track but swearing off fuel you are mandated to use is not an option. You need to adapt and overcome ;)
Sometimes you are too busy pumping the bilge to plug the leak in the hull.
Been there...
-Viz
Now, if they could only put QoS and uptime guarantees on the real highway...
You CANNOT solve an addicts problem for them. They have to do it. I know because I've been there with 3 different friends and my brother.
All you can do is alternate between sadness, frustration, anger, and pity for them.
Sorry but you are wrong. "Abandoning" them is the best thing you can do. It gets them that much closer to rock bottom, which is where they need to be to start getting better. Until they feel some pain, and experience loss because of their behavior, they won't have any reason to fix the problem.
If you give them money, food or free rent you are an enabler and make it worse. If you hang out with them and try to be their friend, they will end up screwing you and damage your relationship beyond repair.
The game didn't do that to them, neither did a disease, they did it to themselves.
You make your own reality and are 100% responsible for it.
While we are waxing philosophical, the real problem with society is that everyone refuses to take responsibility for themselves and blames their problems on everything but the person in the mirror. With some rare exceptions that's always who caused the situation.
-viz
He's gone Jim... The only thing that will work is for him to fail out, move back in with his parents so they can babysit him, and go to community college.
Seen it happen several times... I could understand WoW, or Eve, but PoTBS?
Failing that, once he's living under a bridge, the mmo addiction will probably stop.
-Viz
... and knowledge of how to turn hemp seed oil into plastic has been around since the 1930's
http://books.google.com/books?id=PKDrpeRRY94C&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=convert+hemp+oil+to+plastic&source=bl&ots=8CrIve8q4F&sig=pAYC_wFiWLAo1yVg-5qXFUTmCqU&hl=en&ei=zugWSqvMLqDKtgf7i8n-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
You can also make gasoline and diesel fuel out of it a lot more efficiently than you can with corn, using no petroleum based fertilizer.
The government of this country has it's collective head up it's ass when it comes to energy independence and being green, despite the propaganda and party line. If they really wanted to solve the problem it'd be easy. You can't fight wars over your own resources so it will never happen.
-Viz