My parents are lawyers and I remember them telling me when I was growing up that the FBI estimates that 99.8% of the population has committed some crime worthy of jail time.
As always, your duty is not to get caught and remember the "Computer is Your Friend"
All the military applications of this would be a short term advantage, one or two generations, before it is too wide spread to be an issue. After that it is the government that should fear its people. Modifying people for military applications is a sure way to topple a government.
Anyone watching 4400? Creating new sub-cultures with the power to do things others can't, isn't a good method for bringing people together. It is a receipt for ripping societies apart.
Now if they kept the numbers small it wouldn't be a big issue...no different then all the NFL players breeding.
In fact, I'd say the Judiciary really needs to be larger and account for more of the federal budget simply in order to guarantee a speedy trial as the sixth amendment promises while not putting undue strain on the court to shorten previous trials.
Agreed. My parents were lawyers in Houston and I remember my dad telling me about one new Judge. The Judge was holding up the entire process because he was insisting on reading all the cases rather than just listening to the synopsis from his aids or the two opposing attorneys. Outside the office of the judge was stacks and stacks of boxes all the way down the hall....all waiting his review. It was his job to do it, but most of the Judges just relied on their aids or the attorneys....
very similar to how congress works with passing laws....they should read them, but they don't have the time.
In the end, mistakes happen. Bad laws get passed and guilty/innocent victims pay regardless.
Congress has a lot of bark, it just doesn't have the bite it should
Let's see...government of dogs...who'll win?
435 House reps plus 100 Senators...for 535 people. That many voices would be quite loud. They could all yell at once, but there would be a finite limit to how many could bite at once on one victim. Even if they passed around the victim, there wouldn't be enough for everyone. They starve and thus are frequently replaced.
1 president. Loud for the single person he is, but ultimately not very effective either barking or biting. At least when he does bite, he'll have plenty to eat and since he is usually a lone wolf leader, he can sometimes direct the congress wolves where he wants.
9 Supreme Court justices. 9 people can be loud and they have quite the bite. Plenty of food for all....my money is on this group...after all they seem to outlive all the other groups.
Alcohol...I always wondered what pregnant mothers drinking alcohol did to contribute to kids mental abilities.
I mean we hear about how bad it is to drink while pregnant, but in the past, say the middle ages (or dark ages), alcohol was the safest thing to drink.
I wonder how much IQ jumped when it was fashionable to not drink. In particular, say when Victorian women didn't drink (but the men did), how much did that influence the next generation of thinkers....
wow...agreed. God frequently is used by man as a control tool.
In comes a god. This god can see everything and will punish and reward you after your death. It's the perfect control tool. First of all, you don't have to prove anything or punish anyone. They will be judged after death. Death by itself is already scary (nobody enjoys dying), and the big question "what happens afterwards" has troubled people since the dawn of time. Here, you offer a solution and explanation, while at the same time offering punishment or reward depending on how you behave during life.
I've never accepted that hell exists. The concept is foreign to me because if I believed in god, it would be a force for good. The concept of torturing anyone for all eternity is opposite to a benevolent deity. I can't imagine God sitting in heaven being aware of everything and allowing torturing to continue after death forever. The sort of deity that would do that reminds me of the First in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the First was torturing Spike, standing by with no physical presence letting it happen.
Hell might be justice for some, but nothing 'good' can become of it. There's no compassion in it.
I know exactly where my repetitive strain comes from....Stress
I am a firm believer in stress kills. A long, long time ago I had a serious stress problem. I thought I was having ergo problems. I changed everything out to ergo and took breaks, but by the end of the day my hands were claws. I couldn't type. Every morning I was fine, but I driving home at the end of the day with sticks for hands. Then one morning I was fine until I got a stressful phone call and it clicked to me what the problem was...since then I try not to let anything bother me. It isn't worth your life.
Oh and that stress...was caused by one manager who I said I could outlast...I did, but it wasn't worth the price...other employees had health issues too, one had a heartattack and another was put on heart medicine.
To get away from Earth. Some say humanity, in its current form, is doomed to destroy itself. Being on another astronomical body would afford some protection from that, should we Earth-bound folks finally kick the bucket. that and also it would be a good place to store genetic material...
If we are really worried about humans dying off, why not ship off the sperm and eggs that have been donated but are no longer needed?
Someday in the future I can see con artists (politicians, cult leaders, salesmen, etc) using a variety of tools to fleece their very willing flock.
It sounds frightening to me to imagine people going to political rallies and having a spiritual awaking...coming to associate some political parties as more religious simply because that is where they get their fix...
It has been that way for awhile. Back during the Republican convention for Bush Sr in Houston, the police marched a peaceful AIDS protest into a dead end alley and blocked it off. Then after keeping the protesters trapped (My ex-wife remembers a 60 year old mother of an AIDS victim being prevented from leaving)the police charged in on horseback...right over a die-in (a form of protest where you lay on the ground.) Needless to say people got stepped on...
Ultimately nothing came of it...my ex-wife was the most credible witness because she wrote everything down immediately afterwards and sought medical treatment for where the police baton hit her. She had bone bruises which took months to heal. Oh and btw, she had taken some training on what to say if such an event happened...namely getting hit by police...she was told that she had to verbally say that she was being hurt to the person doing the hitting...guess what...he hit her again...knocked her glasses off making her blind as a bat...
The reason nothing came of it... it was at night and the badge number on the riot gear is in reflective tape....You need a good light source and not really be stressed to see it...
Other people that were more seriously hurt didn't want to testify because they were from out of state....
I was impressed with Sheila Jackson-Lee, who at the time was on Houston City Council. She was one of a few that wanted an inquiry and more details.
Another interesting bit, a couple of Republican friends of my ex-wife were at the convention as attendees and over heard some police officers talking about beating up some queers that night. They didn't think any of their friends would be there, so they didn't tell anyone until afterwards.
To quote Reverend Martin Niemoeller:
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."
anyone who is a fan of any edition should be posting there.
one shouldn't always preach to the choir either. Slashdot gets a lot of hits. I know some D&D players that never go looking for new information about their hobby. They are stuck in a rut with their game. Maybe because they do not pursue the new...maybe because of the cost...who knows. The end result, if you care about the hobby, should be to get gaming news out to the heavy traffic sites.
Sure you can refer them to enworld, like you did, but don't slam the site just because the wording didn't meet your preference. Talk about the subject....I believe it is 4th edition.....
Let me start....One of the changes is the default setting. It use to be Greyhawk. It will now be nothing....the theme will be "Points of light in a dark world". The most interesting rumor about this that Forgotten Realms will be refresh 100+ years into the future with most of the world destroyed.
The next news is that Demons and Devils are having to post for their jobs...with the Succubus being changed to a Devil and Erinyes being merged into the Succubus. Devils look human and Demons don't.
Since alignment is getting stretched in the new addition, some people are waiting to see the finished product before getting upset about the Devils&Demons.
2 classes are getting Axed in 4ed from core.
Wizards when they have cast all their spells will still be at 80% of the power...(sounds like they are merging with the warlock...i.e. getting some weaker constant magic spell...like a blaster spell)
Lots more changes...from what it sounds like they tossed out core D&D concepts and then played...if it didn't feel like D&D they added them back in....
When I was a kid, I learned about computers because I wanted to 'hack' my games. I'm wondering if censorware are going to be the reason for this generation to learn about computers....i.e. I've got to learn enough to get around the blocks.
Back in my day, I hacked Wizardry I's characters with a hexeditor. I created my own notes of where to go to give me x class or x stat or x item...it was wild because I had won the game several times already and using the hexeditor I found items I never saw before....it was great.
Now kids are going to be crafting notes about proxy servers and ways to disable the censorware....
from games to bypassing thought police...weird what happens over time
If all you want in a mate is someone to have sex with, then that is your choice. I believe that God gave me a brain to think with and make intelligent decisions, not allow my loins to drive me
How do you know God didn't want your loins to drive you? Maybe god wanted you to use your brain to get as many women into the sack as possible.
God made both parts...you are just choosing which should be important. They probably are equally important.
What I took from the study is that smart or dumb people find it hard to relate to the average person. Or more likely that the average person has a problem handling the very smart or very dumb.
What I'd like to see is a smart guy with a smart girl & a ton of dumb girls on the side to raise the IQ of their next generation.
Agreed! I have a co-worker that believes that prisons should not exist....because all forms of punishment should be death penalties. He acted like no one innocent every gets convicted...
and we are in Houston where The Thin Blue Line documentary was filmed. The wiki of the film basically describes how the police just wanted a conviction to make it look like they were being tough on the crime. The film is one of the reasons Randall Adams got out of death row....
The question is how many other people are in jail innocent...who didn't have any dna involved in the crime and don't have a documentary helping them....
I know of one....my dad. He was convicted for molesting a 3 year old girl. There was no physical proof. No DNA. My dad was supposedly alone with the child for 5 minutes. It doesn't matter that the girl's 12 year old brother was a sex offender or that her gay divorced dad came over every Wednesday to his ex's to give the girl a bath.
My dad got 30 years....
We've exhausted all the appeals...because appeals have to be errors in law....so now we have to wait for the kids to grow up and hope that an 18 year old will be able to know what did or did not happen when they were 3. Even then we have to hope the court agrees...you don't get out of jail just because a witness changes her story. So we are waiting...until 2013...the first chance to get my dad out...he'll be 72.
I have one. Chevron recommends them to their employees. Personally I like it; however I have to be very careful with it or the edge of my hand will rest on the table as I move the mouse around. I do not have very big hands and I suspect that people that do would have a problem. Basically it needs to be a little taller
I'm thinking they already have the business case for how long it will take the target market to switch to the online format. I assume that we'll be hearing a lot more about Gleemax....most likely in the form of free official content as a sampler.
plus I bet there will be content that you can subscribe to for $. All it takes is one player in the group constantly bugging the DM to include the content and groups will convert.
Fallout came out in 1997 and Fallout 2 came out in 1998. Looks like fallout 3 is coming out for the 10th anniversary of Fallout 2. Who is the target market? 20 somethings that still have time to do solo gaming?
Looks great and I would love to play it.
I just do not have the time for solo games any more. The only time I have for myself is reading in the bathroom or on the bus. Maybe I could play it if it was on a handheld like a psp. Also, bonding with other would also help me justify the time, so co-op or multiplayer would be good too. My fiance and I love playing shades of gray type games...what better than Fallout!
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My parents are lawyers and I remember them telling me when I was growing up that the FBI estimates that 99.8% of the population has committed some crime worthy of jail time.
As always, your duty is not to get caught and remember the "Computer is Your Friend"
All the military applications of this would be a short term advantage, one or two generations, before it is too wide spread to be an issue. After that it is the government that should fear its people. Modifying people for military applications is a sure way to topple a government.
Anyone watching 4400? Creating new sub-cultures with the power to do things others can't, isn't a good method for bringing people together. It is a receipt for ripping societies apart.
Now if they kept the numbers small it wouldn't be a big issue...no different then all the NFL players breeding.
In fact, I'd say the Judiciary really needs to be larger and account for more of the federal budget simply in order to guarantee a speedy trial as the sixth amendment promises while not putting undue strain on the court to shorten previous trials.
Agreed. My parents were lawyers in Houston and I remember my dad telling me about one new Judge. The Judge was holding up the entire process because he was insisting on reading all the cases rather than just listening to the synopsis from his aids or the two opposing attorneys. Outside the office of the judge was stacks and stacks of boxes all the way down the hall....all waiting his review. It was his job to do it, but most of the Judges just relied on their aids or the attorneys....
very similar to how congress works with passing laws....they should read them, but they don't have the time.
In the end, mistakes happen. Bad laws get passed and guilty/innocent victims pay regardless.
Congress has a lot of bark, it just doesn't have the bite it should
Let's see...government of dogs...who'll win?
435 House reps plus 100 Senators...for 535 people. That many voices would be quite loud. They could all yell at once, but there would be a finite limit to how many could bite at once on one victim. Even if they passed around the victim, there wouldn't be enough for everyone. They starve and thus are frequently replaced.
1 president. Loud for the single person he is, but ultimately not very effective either barking or biting. At least when he does bite, he'll have plenty to eat and since he is usually a lone wolf leader, he can sometimes direct the congress wolves where he wants.
9 Supreme Court justices. 9 people can be loud and they have quite the bite. Plenty of food for all....my money is on this group...after all they seem to outlive all the other groups.
Global warming. It's getting too hot to commit crime.
Actually I'd be more afraid of this one...
If you didn't know, more murders happen at 92 degrees. At 93 it is too hot to kill and at 91, people apparently think twice, but 92, look out!
Alcohol...I always wondered what pregnant mothers drinking alcohol did to contribute to kids mental abilities.
I mean we hear about how bad it is to drink while pregnant, but in the past, say the middle ages (or dark ages), alcohol was the safest thing to drink.
I wonder how much IQ jumped when it was fashionable to not drink. In particular, say when Victorian women didn't drink (but the men did), how much did that influence the next generation of thinkers....
wow...agreed. God frequently is used by man as a control tool.
In comes a god. This god can see everything and will punish and reward you after your death. It's the perfect control tool. First of all, you don't have to prove anything or punish anyone. They will be judged after death. Death by itself is already scary (nobody enjoys dying), and the big question "what happens afterwards" has troubled people since the dawn of time. Here, you offer a solution and explanation, while at the same time offering punishment or reward depending on how you behave during life.
I've never accepted that hell exists. The concept is foreign to me because if I believed in god, it would be a force for good. The concept of torturing anyone for all eternity is opposite to a benevolent deity. I can't imagine God sitting in heaven being aware of everything and allowing torturing to continue after death forever. The sort of deity that would do that reminds me of the First in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the First was torturing Spike, standing by with no physical presence letting it happen.
Hell might be justice for some, but nothing 'good' can become of it. There's no compassion in it.
I wish there was a database that I could compare the crime time with...
I'd love to know if the time they will be serving will be equal to 1 gram of crack or cocaine.
lucky for them they are in federal prison.
I know exactly where my repetitive strain comes from....Stress
I am a firm believer in stress kills. A long, long time ago I had a serious stress problem. I thought I was having ergo problems. I changed everything out to ergo and took breaks, but by the end of the day my hands were claws. I couldn't type. Every morning I was fine, but I driving home at the end of the day with sticks for hands. Then one morning I was fine until I got a stressful phone call and it clicked to me what the problem was...since then I try not to let anything bother me. It isn't worth your life.
Oh and that stress...was caused by one manager who I said I could outlast...I did, but it wasn't worth the price...other employees had health issues too, one had a heartattack and another was put on heart medicine.
To get away from Earth. Some say humanity, in its current form, is doomed to destroy itself. Being on another astronomical body would afford some protection from that, should we Earth-bound folks finally kick the bucket.
that and also it would be a good place to store genetic material...
If we are really worried about humans dying off, why not ship off the sperm and eggs that have been donated but are no longer needed?
Someday in the future I can see con artists (politicians, cult leaders, salesmen, etc) using a variety of tools to fleece their very willing flock.
It sounds frightening to me to imagine people going to political rallies and having a spiritual awaking...coming to associate some political parties as more religious simply because that is where they get their fix...
so we're talking about an object which has passed within 2 moon-lengths from us during observation.
If it comes that close again, we should land something on it.
It has been that way for awhile. Back during the Republican convention for Bush Sr in Houston, the police marched a peaceful AIDS protest into a dead end alley and blocked it off. Then after keeping the protesters trapped (My ex-wife remembers a 60 year old mother of an AIDS victim being prevented from leaving)the police charged in on horseback...right over a die-in (a form of protest where you lay on the ground.) Needless to say people got stepped on...
Ultimately nothing came of it...my ex-wife was the most credible witness because she wrote everything down immediately afterwards and sought medical treatment for where the police baton hit her. She had bone bruises which took months to heal. Oh and btw, she had taken some training on what to say if such an event happened...namely getting hit by police...she was told that she had to verbally say that she was being hurt to the person doing the hitting...guess what...he hit her again...knocked her glasses off making her blind as a bat...
The reason nothing came of it... it was at night and the badge number on the riot gear is in reflective tape....You need a good light source and not really be stressed to see it...
Other people that were more seriously hurt didn't want to testify because they were from out of state....
I was impressed with Sheila Jackson-Lee, who at the time was on Houston City Council. She was one of a few that wanted an inquiry and more details.
Another interesting bit, a couple of Republican friends of my ex-wife were at the convention as attendees and over heard some police officers talking about beating up some queers that night. They didn't think any of their friends would be there, so they didn't tell anyone until afterwards.
To quote Reverend Martin Niemoeller:
All that sounds like is the need for a good gui....I mean I can modify thousands of files with the click of a mouse...
thousands of encrypted transmissions......
sounds like all they have to do is just collect the data
anyone who is a fan of any edition should be posting there.
one shouldn't always preach to the choir either. Slashdot gets a lot of hits. I know some D&D players that never go looking for new information about their hobby. They are stuck in a rut with their game. Maybe because they do not pursue the new...maybe because of the cost...who knows. The end result, if you care about the hobby, should be to get gaming news out to the heavy traffic sites.
Sure you can refer them to enworld, like you did, but don't slam the site just because the wording didn't meet your preference. Talk about the subject....I believe it is 4th edition.....
Let me start....One of the changes is the default setting. It use to be Greyhawk. It will now be nothing....the theme will be "Points of light in a dark world". The most interesting rumor about this that Forgotten Realms will be refresh 100+ years into the future with most of the world destroyed.
The next news is that Demons and Devils are having to post for their jobs...with the Succubus being changed to a Devil and Erinyes being merged into the Succubus. Devils look human and Demons don't.
Since alignment is getting stretched in the new addition, some people are waiting to see the finished product before getting upset about the Devils&Demons.
2 classes are getting Axed in 4ed from core.
Wizards when they have cast all their spells will still be at 80% of the power...(sounds like they are merging with the warlock...i.e. getting some weaker constant magic spell...like a blaster spell)
Lots more changes...from what it sounds like they tossed out core D&D concepts and then played...if it didn't feel like D&D they added them back in....
When I was a kid, I learned about computers because I wanted to 'hack' my games. I'm wondering if censorware are going to be the reason for this generation to learn about computers....i.e. I've got to learn enough to get around the blocks.
Back in my day, I hacked Wizardry I's characters with a hexeditor. I created my own notes of where to go to give me x class or x stat or x item...it was wild because I had won the game several times already and using the hexeditor I found items I never saw before....it was great.
Now kids are going to be crafting notes about proxy servers and ways to disable the censorware....
from games to bypassing thought police...weird what happens over time
Dang it...I need to record some audio books of the bible or the dead sea scrolls...heck even Scientology....
I'll make a ton as the same 'customers' buy it again and again...
I better include a sony rootkit just to make sure....
If all you want in a mate is someone to have sex with, then that is your choice. I believe that God gave me a brain to think with and make intelligent decisions, not allow my loins to drive me
How do you know God didn't want your loins to drive you? Maybe god wanted you to use your brain to get as many women into the sack as possible.
God made both parts...you are just choosing which should be important. They probably are equally important.
What I took from the study is that smart or dumb people find it hard to relate to the average person. Or more likely that the average person has a problem handling the very smart or very dumb.
What I'd like to see is a smart guy with a smart girl & a ton of dumb girls on the side to raise the IQ of their next generation.
GIMP is great. Admittedly I only use it for modifying Dilbert comics to match work politics before sending them out to co-workers. ;)
Since I've gotten a few emails....
If anyone wants to contact my dad....here's his address
John Keener
Allred Unit
2101 FM 369 North
Iowa Park, Texas 76367-6568
SPN 890475 7H-46B
Agreed! I have a co-worker that believes that prisons should not exist....because all forms of punishment should be death penalties. He acted like no one innocent every gets convicted...
and we are in Houston where The Thin Blue Line documentary was filmed. The wiki of the film basically describes how the police just wanted a conviction to make it look like they were being tough on the crime. The film is one of the reasons Randall Adams got out of death row....
The question is how many other people are in jail innocent...who didn't have any dna involved in the crime and don't have a documentary helping them....
I know of one....my dad. He was convicted for molesting a 3 year old girl. There was no physical proof. No DNA. My dad was supposedly alone with the child for 5 minutes. It doesn't matter that the girl's 12 year old brother was a sex offender or that her gay divorced dad came over every Wednesday to his ex's to give the girl a bath.
My dad got 30 years....
We've exhausted all the appeals...because appeals have to be errors in law....so now we have to wait for the kids to grow up and hope that an 18 year old will be able to know what did or did not happen when they were 3. Even then we have to hope the court agrees...you don't get out of jail just because a witness changes her story. So we are waiting...until 2013...the first chance to get my dad out...he'll be 72.
I have one. Chevron recommends them to their employees. Personally I like it; however I have to be very careful with it or the edge of my hand will rest on the table as I move the mouse around. I do not have very big hands and I suspect that people that do would have a problem. Basically it needs to be a little taller
I'm thinking they already have the business case for how long it will take the target market to switch to the online format. I assume that we'll be hearing a lot more about Gleemax....most likely in the form of free official content as a sampler.
plus I bet there will be content that you can subscribe to for $. All it takes is one player in the group constantly bugging the DM to include the content and groups will convert.
Get a different job. I'm 27 and my Xbox Live gamerscore is over 11000
and I am 35 with 2 kids and a fiance.
When I was 25 and Fallout 1 was out, I had time. I could have had a good xbox live score.
Now I have to juggle family and work.....so for me the 10th anniversary issue of Fallout should have a multi-player option or work on a handheld.
Fallout came out in 1997 and Fallout 2 came out in 1998. Looks like fallout 3 is coming out for the 10th anniversary of Fallout 2. Who is the target market? 20 somethings that still have time to do solo gaming?
Looks great and I would love to play it.
I just do not have the time for solo games any more. The only time I have for myself is reading in the bathroom or on the bus. Maybe I could play it if it was on a handheld like a psp. Also, bonding with other would also help me justify the time, so co-op or multiplayer would be good too. My fiance and I love playing shades of gray type games...what better than Fallout!