Living in a city with a very unnatural selection of Engineers many of my friends lament being pushed towards management positions or watching their skills vanish away from disuse because they spend too much time managing. A good engineer may be able to reason better about the requirements but don't expect them to be able to push the tech edge for the engineers to do their job. Sometimes a stubborn engineer can hinder the progress forward more than someone who can only ask what do you need to do your job.
The girl yesterday was apart from her distribution charges was also charged with possession of child porn. So any child may not have pictures of themselves naked. Hope everyone has burned all their photo albums with the pictures of themselves or children in the tub as infants. Because if you have not, then you are next.
Nope cause anyone above a line supervisor isn't that stupid especially after it is illegal. What you will have is a bunch of verbal orders which your job will hinge on or worse.
http://www.mpaa.org/Ratings_HowRated.asp The major criteria is the content (i.e. language, nudity, etc) the minor criteria is the context. While cannibalism is a concept that is ill suited for 13 year olds, I do think that it could be presented in a way to get a lower rating while at the same time (with Anthony Hopkins' portrayal) being disturbing and creepy even to the level it is in the films. Hence the difficulty many parents have with the MPAA ratings. The ratings tell me generally how much mature or violent content is in the film but not whether the issues involving the plot are appropriate for my child or even palatable to me as an adult.
I think moreso than others comic films will lose a chunk of their audience with an R rating. Their are obvious comics that would fail as anything less than R but comic films by and large are family features that appeal to many different age groups, that means I can take a family or social club to see it with reasonable group acceptance. I can't do it with action, or horror, or romantic comedy, or many regular comedies, or even a lot of animated features. Apart from that if you take something like X-Men or Superman and force it into an R rating I think you are going to be being untrue to the original material because those are mass appeal comics that fall into the same market pressures.
On the other hand, a lot of directors gunning for an R rating use cheap paths to showing us villains are bad. The best directors make a Joker, the worst make a Jigsaw. I just watched Punisher: War Zone Sunday evening for the first and likely last time. A good director can make a villain believable in his targeted rating. In the X-Men franchise, despite the bad acting in most cases you come to both understand and fear Magneto. He is a man who has suffered at the hands of men and will go to any length to stop it from happening again. Just because he isn't a psychopath or less refined doesn't make him a lesser villain.
The penultimate villain of movies: Hannibal Lecter could have been conveyed in a PG-13 movie. R gave the director alot more to work with but the chilling aspect of Dr. Lecter is his normalcy up to the point where he does or says something taboo to our culture.
Following Columbine our school board at some level (local or state) decided that see-through backpacks were needed to keep children safe. No more opaque backpacks, we must be able to see the contents at all time. I was surprised a couple of years ago when we picked up a backpack for my wife's brother because it was a normal backpack. It turns out that the school system which couldn't replace books that were falling apart in the first place didn't consider: mesh backpacks + rain.
Guilt is not inherited, you know...
If only this were true. Everyone needs a scapegoat and if people near your recent ancestors did anything monumentally bad and your ancestors weren't the victim, then you will be forced by society to wear the sins of whatever group it is until the outrage has died down. It doesn't even matter if you are better towards the victim group than most of society in general.
This runs along the lines of why the US attacked Iraq. Iraq was our scapegoat for a notoriously difficult to find perpetrator of a real crime against the US. Not that Saddam was a stand-up guy, but America needed someone to take it out on that they could actually put their hands on.
Far Cry 2(the other mentioned in the article) had 3 million sales by January. It would be interesting to see more detailed statistics on ownership but when you are talking about populations of that size: 0.0000238% is probably going to be FAR below average on convicted murderer occurrences. Murder happened at a rate of 7.6 victims/100,000 people in 2004 worldwide. Seems like you would have more random occurrences that in multiple millions of people especially if it was a root or even largely contributing factor.
Perhaps I misunderstood your point. We are quick to jump on the correlation != causation thing, but there are more glaring issues with school shootings than video games. My point with movies and music was that the two have already fought the battle that video games now face in that any minor link they bear towards violence does not trump the author/director's right to free speech.
Also for a bit of statistics:
In mid-January Far Cry 2 had sold nearly 3 million copies. The most current murder rate I can find for the world puts the average at 7.6 victims out of every 100,000 people. That means that of the people that own Far Cry 2, 228 are likely to be murdered. I find it highly unlikely you can't find a murderer among the owners when you can find 228 victims and when the owning population numbers almost the same as the population of the US.
We, the world, grasp for causes for these seemingly senseless acts of violence. We should be careful not to bar everyone from the ocean to prevent the 11 fatal shark attacks annually.
So music and movies would be part of the environment as well? In the US, those mediums are protected by freedom of speech. There is no specific reason to think that the medium of video games should be treated any differently than the other two. Nor should specific anecdotal cases like this one be used to undermine the freedoms of many law-abiding people who exercise those freedoms without heavy research based reasons.
I've said before I'm mixed on this one. I worry about abuse but I also wouldn't mind the hospital having my medical history/allergy information if I'm rushed in incapacitated. I also wouldn't mind having to not fill out the same form every time I visit any doctor.
Reasonable enough design except it doesn't come to my door. I saw something like this though, where a low powered motor takes you in your individual pod to a station where it hooks to other cars and is towed to another station where you are let lose to make your final jaunt. Car at the destination ends but train in the middle. Although I would say rent the smaller engine base at the station and only haul the people containers. I'd be on board for such a system especially if renting meant I didn't have to perform standard maintenance on my engines.
For this purpose yes, but I was reading an article yesterday about traffic cams. For red light infractions, a series of human operators analyze the image to see if it was an infraction or not. For the city in the article I was reading the local department gave them a 90% success rate.
My insurance company already hits me with one of those twice a year for my wife's modest car. I can't imagine if she was driving something extravagant. I guess the laws are for motivating low-income people to get insurance.
Yeah, but it is a tax on the nasty lawbreakers right? Especially those nasty minority lawbreakers or those nasty lawbreakers who happen to drive flashy extravagant cars. Everyone needs to be taxed except me.
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And is there some arrangement where pedophiles get a free or reduced cost basement? Maybe that's why they risk the post-conviction homelessness: http://www.justnews.com/news/19031133/detail.html
Living in a city with a very unnatural selection of Engineers many of my friends lament being pushed towards management positions or watching their skills vanish away from disuse because they spend too much time managing. A good engineer may be able to reason better about the requirements but don't expect them to be able to push the tech edge for the engineers to do their job. Sometimes a stubborn engineer can hinder the progress forward more than someone who can only ask what do you need to do your job.
All from a law that is meant to ensure no one screws up a child's entire life before they can make reasonable decisions about their actions...
The girl yesterday was apart from her distribution charges was also charged with possession of child porn. So any child may not have pictures of themselves naked. Hope everyone has burned all their photo albums with the pictures of themselves or children in the tub as infants. Because if you have not, then you are next.
Nope cause anyone above a line supervisor isn't that stupid especially after it is illegal. What you will have is a bunch of verbal orders which your job will hinge on or worse.
That's actually not a bad test. If the subject responds to any /.er's advances then it is obviously either a bot or Chris Hanson.
Or to combine both your and the gp's ideas. A large parabolic mirror on the roof to take care of any bird that dares to fly over your car.
http://www.mpaa.org/Ratings_HowRated.asp The major criteria is the content (i.e. language, nudity, etc) the minor criteria is the context. While cannibalism is a concept that is ill suited for 13 year olds, I do think that it could be presented in a way to get a lower rating while at the same time (with Anthony Hopkins' portrayal) being disturbing and creepy even to the level it is in the films. Hence the difficulty many parents have with the MPAA ratings. The ratings tell me generally how much mature or violent content is in the film but not whether the issues involving the plot are appropriate for my child or even palatable to me as an adult.
I didn't know but good luck with your quest with trying to sway a connotation that is so far from the denotation.
I think moreso than others comic films will lose a chunk of their audience with an R rating. Their are obvious comics that would fail as anything less than R but comic films by and large are family features that appeal to many different age groups, that means I can take a family or social club to see it with reasonable group acceptance. I can't do it with action, or horror, or romantic comedy, or many regular comedies, or even a lot of animated features. Apart from that if you take something like X-Men or Superman and force it into an R rating I think you are going to be being untrue to the original material because those are mass appeal comics that fall into the same market pressures.
On the other hand, a lot of directors gunning for an R rating use cheap paths to showing us villains are bad. The best directors make a Joker, the worst make a Jigsaw. I just watched Punisher: War Zone Sunday evening for the first and likely last time. A good director can make a villain believable in his targeted rating. In the X-Men franchise, despite the bad acting in most cases you come to both understand and fear Magneto. He is a man who has suffered at the hands of men and will go to any length to stop it from happening again. Just because he isn't a psychopath or less refined doesn't make him a lesser villain.
The penultimate villain of movies: Hannibal Lecter could have been conveyed in a PG-13 movie. R gave the director alot more to work with but the chilling aspect of Dr. Lecter is his normalcy up to the point where he does or says something taboo to our culture.
Following Columbine our school board at some level (local or state) decided that see-through backpacks were needed to keep children safe. No more opaque backpacks, we must be able to see the contents at all time. I was surprised a couple of years ago when we picked up a backpack for my wife's brother because it was a normal backpack. It turns out that the school system which couldn't replace books that were falling apart in the first place didn't consider: mesh backpacks + rain.
Guilt is not inherited, you know...
If only this were true. Everyone needs a scapegoat and if people near your recent ancestors did anything monumentally bad and your ancestors weren't the victim, then you will be forced by society to wear the sins of whatever group it is until the outrage has died down. It doesn't even matter if you are better towards the victim group than most of society in general.
This runs along the lines of why the US attacked Iraq. Iraq was our scapegoat for a notoriously difficult to find perpetrator of a real crime against the US. Not that Saddam was a stand-up guy, but America needed someone to take it out on that they could actually put their hands on.
Far Cry 2(the other mentioned in the article) had 3 million sales by January. It would be interesting to see more detailed statistics on ownership but when you are talking about populations of that size: 0.0000238% is probably going to be FAR below average on convicted murderer occurrences. Murder happened at a rate of 7.6 victims/100,000 people in 2004 worldwide. Seems like you would have more random occurrences that in multiple millions of people especially if it was a root or even largely contributing factor.
Exactly. On the internet everyone will give you legal advice as fact, unless they are a lawyer.
Perhaps I misunderstood your point. We are quick to jump on the correlation != causation thing, but there are more glaring issues with school shootings than video games. My point with movies and music was that the two have already fought the battle that video games now face in that any minor link they bear towards violence does not trump the author/director's right to free speech.
Also for a bit of statistics:
In mid-January Far Cry 2 had sold nearly 3 million copies. The most current murder rate I can find for the world puts the average at 7.6 victims out of every 100,000 people. That means that of the people that own Far Cry 2, 228 are likely to be murdered. I find it highly unlikely you can't find a murderer among the owners when you can find 228 victims and when the owning population numbers almost the same as the population of the US.
We, the world, grasp for causes for these seemingly senseless acts of violence. We should be careful not to bar everyone from the ocean to prevent the 11 fatal shark attacks annually.
So music and movies would be part of the environment as well? In the US, those mediums are protected by freedom of speech. There is no specific reason to think that the medium of video games should be treated any differently than the other two. Nor should specific anecdotal cases like this one be used to undermine the freedoms of many law-abiding people who exercise those freedoms without heavy research based reasons.
I've said before I'm mixed on this one. I worry about abuse but I also wouldn't mind the hospital having my medical history/allergy information if I'm rushed in incapacitated. I also wouldn't mind having to not fill out the same form every time I visit any doctor.
Reasonable enough design except it doesn't come to my door. I saw something like this though, where a low powered motor takes you in your individual pod to a station where it hooks to other cars and is towed to another station where you are let lose to make your final jaunt. Car at the destination ends but train in the middle. Although I would say rent the smaller engine base at the station and only haul the people containers. I'd be on board for such a system especially if renting meant I didn't have to perform standard maintenance on my engines.
and summary... but a geek can dream.
For this purpose yes, but I was reading an article yesterday about traffic cams. For red light infractions, a series of human operators analyze the image to see if it was an infraction or not. For the city in the article I was reading the local department gave them a 90% success rate.
My insurance company already hits me with one of those twice a year for my wife's modest car. I can't imagine if she was driving something extravagant. I guess the laws are for motivating low-income people to get insurance.
Yeah, but it is a tax on the nasty lawbreakers right? Especially those nasty minority lawbreakers or those nasty lawbreakers who happen to drive flashy extravagant cars. Everyone needs to be taxed except me.
Who are you? What are you talking about? And have you seen my glasses?
My question (which was never answered) was how fake does a wrestling federation have to be to end up on SciFi in the first place.