Really? I'd like to think that Ultima 8 was the one that drove the series into the ground, but maybe I just feel betrayed by impossible jumping puzzles.
Damn straight. Save the good psychotropics for the rest of us that actually WANT them.
Seriously though, the world is much smaller than it used to be. Eighty years ago, you'd have found kids largely unaffected (at least knowledgeably) by corrupt politicians, overbearing advertising, and media scares. Nowadays, with the fear that gets put into kids, it's sort of a wonder they aren't filled with more disorders. "Hey kids, SARS is going to KILL you, and if it doesn't, then Avian flu/mad cow/swine flu/zombie flu will! Better come get our vaccine." "We're going to sell you sex, but then 30 seconds later, you'll see a PSA talking about how if you hold hands with a member of the opposite sex, you'll get AIDS and die. Buy Trojan Condoms!" "This stuff must be making you pretty stressed huh? Stay away from drugs, they'll kill you the first time you use them, 100% guaranteed." The kids aren't even presented with the opportunity to be kids and enjoy being oblivious and immersed in their imaginations where they belong due to the fact that they have to be taught at a young age to treat everything with skepticism based on the fact that absolutely everything and everyone is looking to milk money from them. The youth is the cash cow of the media and industry, and with the ubiquity of tv, radio, and in-store advertising, it's impossible to shield them from it. You can always turn your kid into a shut-in, but that causes just as many issues in other ways. I remember growing up and meeting kids like that who were "released into the wild" at the high school age, and they had the social skills of a pile of bricks. Of course, I also remember riding a bike without a helmet, being a kid, and also later sex, occasional drugs, alcohol, and good times.
No, but policy will expand to fit the tolerances of social norm, and he's right: Social norms have changed to have little expectations of privacy. People just don't see the importance in it anymore, which is, in and of itself, terrifying. I am somewhat troubled when I think of what the near future holds.
These euro-centric "scientists" can't see pas their narrow-minded blinders to tap into the millenia of cultural experience embodied in Eastern medical and spiritual traditions.
Yup, right up there with leeching and medicinal tapeworms. Those aren't "eastern", but they were used for years too. Got a headache? We'll drill a gaping, untreated hole in your head to release the "bad spirits"! Thats African, not "eastern", but do you think it's not effective? You must clearly be racist and sexist as well.
The point is, Gingko Baloba has a very potent effect when added to the labels of alternative medical products, causing them to fly off the shelves in exchange for cash.
Yup, it makes yuppies in "Organic" food stores worldwide not listen to reason. I've another shipment of snake oil that's been selling so well I can hardly keep it in stock. Since that's your only proof of effect so far, this stuff must be awesome. I'll get you some dirt cheap if you want. I swear!!!
Western medicine is just jealous and probably racist and sexist against peoples like me.
This statement confuses me such that I'm not quite sure how to comment. I'll try anyway, after a deep breath. Ginkgo Baloba[sic] is a plant. I am sure that by pure virtue of you posting your above comment, you are not a plant, certainly not of the same species as Ginkgo is. I'm fairly certain that you can't rightfully claim any similarity between your gender, whatever it may be, and that of any type of Ginkgo. Why is it that you assume some sort of racial or even sexist slight against you, whomever or whatever you might be, when a study is done involving herbal qualities of a plant and they're found to be equivalent to a placebo?
Oh, unless you thought the whole thing was about Ginkgo Balboa, Rocky's little known Chinese adopted sister.
Horrible when you try to post an overused meme in some attempt to effortlessly score karma and it all goes awry, isn't it? Yes, we know it's 'appropriate'. What you forget is that we've all seen them now. It's like the "Whazzup" thing from so many years ago. It got to the point where someone does it and everyone else in the room just kind of wanted to die.
Australia already holds the view that.com.au domains are for businesses, and that their name should be related to the company's name.
Good for Australia, however, I think that ICANN might not mind quite as much.
Also, from the description of it (work's independent thought filter is active) I believe that if the general public can't tell that it is satirical, then we as a species have bigger problems going on. "Fake Stephen Conroy"? Seems pretty obvious to me.
I've never understood the commonly held implementation of censorship of profanity. "F*&%" is somehow better than "Fuck", though you can immediately tell what word I intended to use there, and lets face it, if it's a "protect the children" thing, your children have already heard that word and probably worse at school, on TV, or even just in passing in a public area.
Besides, there are things far more disturbing that a few simple profanities. Look at "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk.
If you read TFA, you will see that while he was promised that the job would be exactly the same as before, he was voicing that the amount of on-call work he was expected to do was not pleasant. This sort of indicates to me that what was expected of him did not stay exactly the same. Here is the source of his frustration. By all accounts, it appears the promises made to him by management were not accurate, and, being naive and wanting continued employment, he agreed to it without getting it in writing. Last time something like that came up with me, I walked out and had a better job lined up within a month. I would recommend he do the same.
I seem to remember most of Prototype was running around killing/eating innocent people, who would shriek and occasionally beg as you ate them, also the player (Alex Mercer) was a bioterrorist who killed millions... where was the moral outrage there?
Yeah, it's a shame the game was buggy as hell. The problem with this is that it isn't believable. The average person's ability to cope with violence only exists in as so far as it is possible to believe it could be real. You might almost say that violence itself isn't really so horrible as the credible threat and expectation of violence. Terrorists attacking an airport could be something that you might hear about in the news, so it's BAD.*
* BAD as defined by the journalistic moral police of America. Bad in the sense that it is bad for their business. They seem to believe they're the only ones with carte blanche to fabricate horror for personal profit.
Yeah, lets get rid of those dirty capitalists. We'll only get our news direct from the government. Speaking of which, how has the war with Eastasia been going lately? It isn't going to impact chocolate rations again is it?
Exaggeration aside, I hate the system as much as you, but your proposal lacks forward thinking.
Violence in video games is fantastic. Games are the last place that have not entirely started catering to 10-14 year olds yet.
Parents: Rating Systems are there for a reason. Stop buying $50 babysitting devices, start parenting.
Those of the "media": Not everything has to be completely sensationalized. By bringing attention to it, you cause more harm than good. You cause enough damage to public opinion to things that matter, stop trying to hurt the things that don't.
Your concepts of right and wrong and belief that morality should be legislated cause me fear and anxiety. My lawyer will be contacting you shortly. Hope you like working at gas stations.
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I'm glad someone else didn't not point out what I wasn't thinking about not posting about. It didn't save me the lack of difficulty in not coming up with a clever way of saying anything about it. Not.
De Morgan's Rules: They were meant to be used in one direction. You went the wrong way.
I completely agree that the technology can be used for awesome and amazing things. I just have a feeling that most of the things it's going to be used for are things that aren't going to benefit humanity in such lofty ways.
Why is it that multibillion dollar companies are constantly researching exciting new tech that makes it more and more impossible for us to remain annonymous? Just once, I want to see IBM or somebody backing Tor or Freenet or something similar.
Treat all traffic leaving your machine as if it is on a public network. Otherwise, any vulnerable computer on your lan makes all the rest of the computers vulnerable as well.
He's unemployed. Every computer on his LAN is his computer.
I wonder how this is going to impact censorship? With any luck, the tides are (finally) changing against the Puritan 3% in this country, and we'll be able to get our wholesome drugs and child killing back in Fallout 3.
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Really? I'd like to think that Ultima 8 was the one that drove the series into the ground, but maybe I just feel betrayed by impossible jumping puzzles.
Damn straight. Save the good psychotropics for the rest of us that actually WANT them.
Seriously though, the world is much smaller than it used to be. Eighty years ago, you'd have found kids largely unaffected (at least knowledgeably) by corrupt politicians, overbearing advertising, and media scares. Nowadays, with the fear that gets put into kids, it's sort of a wonder they aren't filled with more disorders. "Hey kids, SARS is going to KILL you, and if it doesn't, then Avian flu/mad cow/swine flu/zombie flu will! Better come get our vaccine." "We're going to sell you sex, but then 30 seconds later, you'll see a PSA talking about how if you hold hands with a member of the opposite sex, you'll get AIDS and die. Buy Trojan Condoms!" "This stuff must be making you pretty stressed huh? Stay away from drugs, they'll kill you the first time you use them, 100% guaranteed." The kids aren't even presented with the opportunity to be kids and enjoy being oblivious and immersed in their imaginations where they belong due to the fact that they have to be taught at a young age to treat everything with skepticism based on the fact that absolutely everything and everyone is looking to milk money from them. The youth is the cash cow of the media and industry, and with the ubiquity of tv, radio, and in-store advertising, it's impossible to shield them from it. You can always turn your kid into a shut-in, but that causes just as many issues in other ways. I remember growing up and meeting kids like that who were "released into the wild" at the high school age, and they had the social skills of a pile of bricks. Of course, I also remember riding a bike without a helmet, being a kid, and also later sex, occasional drugs, alcohol, and good times.
No, but policy will expand to fit the tolerances of social norm, and he's right: Social norms have changed to have little expectations of privacy. People just don't see the importance in it anymore, which is, in and of itself, terrifying. I am somewhat troubled when I think of what the near future holds.
Sigh.
Sounnndds like a plllan to meeeee..
At first I thought so too, but then I looked at For a Free Internet's previous posts. Definitely paranoid sociopath material there.
These euro-centric "scientists" can't see pas their narrow-minded blinders to tap into the millenia of cultural experience embodied in Eastern medical and spiritual traditions.
Yup, right up there with leeching and medicinal tapeworms. Those aren't "eastern", but they were used for years too. Got a headache? We'll drill a gaping, untreated hole in your head to release the "bad spirits"! Thats African, not "eastern", but do you think it's not effective? You must clearly be racist and sexist as well.
The point is, Gingko Baloba has a very potent effect when added to the labels of alternative medical products, causing them to fly off the shelves in exchange for cash.
Yup, it makes yuppies in "Organic" food stores worldwide not listen to reason. I've another shipment of snake oil that's been selling so well I can hardly keep it in stock. Since that's your only proof of effect so far, this stuff must be awesome. I'll get you some dirt cheap if you want. I swear!!!
Western medicine is just jealous and probably racist and sexist against peoples like me.
This statement confuses me such that I'm not quite sure how to comment. I'll try anyway, after a deep breath. Ginkgo Baloba[sic] is a plant. I am sure that by pure virtue of you posting your above comment, you are not a plant, certainly not of the same species as Ginkgo is. I'm fairly certain that you can't rightfully claim any similarity between your gender, whatever it may be, and that of any type of Ginkgo. Why is it that you assume some sort of racial or even sexist slight against you, whomever or whatever you might be, when a study is done involving herbal qualities of a plant and they're found to be equivalent to a placebo?
Oh, unless you thought the whole thing was about Ginkgo Balboa, Rocky's little known Chinese adopted sister.
What is the sound of an annonymously posting-modernist philosopher posting?
Horrible when you try to post an overused meme in some attempt to effortlessly score karma and it all goes awry, isn't it? Yes, we know it's 'appropriate'. What you forget is that we've all seen them now. It's like the "Whazzup" thing from so many years ago. It got to the point where someone does it and everyone else in the room just kind of wanted to die.
What are you talking about? I poorly emulate mathematicians all the time!!!
Australia already holds the view that .com.au domains are for businesses, and that their name should be related to the company's name.
Good for Australia, however, I think that ICANN might not mind quite as much.
Also, from the description of it (work's independent thought filter is active) I believe that if the general public can't tell that it is satirical, then we as a species have bigger problems going on. "Fake Stephen Conroy"? Seems pretty obvious to me.
Actually, deary, it's sexist, not racist. I swear it's not making me take you less seriously though.
I've never understood the commonly held implementation of censorship of profanity. "F*&%" is somehow better than "Fuck", though you can immediately tell what word I intended to use there, and lets face it, if it's a "protect the children" thing, your children have already heard that word and probably worse at school, on TV, or even just in passing in a public area.
Besides, there are things far more disturbing that a few simple profanities. Look at "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk.
If you read TFA, you will see that while he was promised that the job would be exactly the same as before, he was voicing that the amount of on-call work he was expected to do was not pleasant. This sort of indicates to me that what was expected of him did not stay exactly the same. Here is the source of his frustration. By all accounts, it appears the promises made to him by management were not accurate, and, being naive and wanting continued employment, he agreed to it without getting it in writing. Last time something like that came up with me, I walked out and had a better job lined up within a month. I would recommend he do the same.
Say what you will about Australia's broadband situation, but I think it won't actually be that-
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I seem to remember most of Prototype was running around killing/eating innocent people, who would shriek and occasionally beg as you ate them, also the player (Alex Mercer) was a bioterrorist who killed millions... where was the moral outrage there?
Yeah, it's a shame the game was buggy as hell. The problem with this is that it isn't believable. The average person's ability to cope with violence only exists in as so far as it is possible to believe it could be real. You might almost say that violence itself isn't really so horrible as the credible threat and expectation of violence. Terrorists attacking an airport could be something that you might hear about in the news, so it's BAD.*
* BAD as defined by the journalistic moral police of America. Bad in the sense that it is bad for their business. They seem to believe they're the only ones with carte blanche to fabricate horror for personal profit.
Yeah, lets get rid of those dirty capitalists. We'll only get our news direct from the government. Speaking of which, how has the war with Eastasia been going lately? It isn't going to impact chocolate rations again is it?
Exaggeration aside, I hate the system as much as you, but your proposal lacks forward thinking.
Yeah, exactly, greater good: Reducing airport waiting times.
Violence in video games is fantastic. Games are the last place that have not entirely started catering to 10-14 year olds yet.
Parents: Rating Systems are there for a reason. Stop buying $50 babysitting devices, start parenting.
Those of the "media": Not everything has to be completely sensationalized. By bringing attention to it, you cause more harm than good. You cause enough damage to public opinion to things that matter, stop trying to hurt the things that don't.
Your concepts of right and wrong and belief that morality should be legislated cause me fear and anxiety. My lawyer will be contacting you shortly. Hope you like working at gas stations.
Standard disclaimer because this story reaffirms that the world is full of dangerous fuckwits: The above post should be used for entertainment purposes only. Any amount of emotion felt as a result of this post is purely coincidental and does not reflect the beliefs or opinions of dyingtolive. Your choice of a lawyer should not be based upon advertisement alone.
I'm glad someone else didn't not point out what I wasn't thinking about not posting about. It didn't save me the lack of difficulty in not coming up with a clever way of saying anything about it. Not.
De Morgan's Rules: They were meant to be used in one direction. You went the wrong way.
I completely agree that the technology can be used for awesome and amazing things. I just have a feeling that most of the things it's going to be used for are things that aren't going to benefit humanity in such lofty ways.
Why is it that multibillion dollar companies are constantly researching exciting new tech that makes it more and more impossible for us to remain annonymous? Just once, I want to see IBM or somebody backing Tor or Freenet or something similar.
Treat all traffic leaving your machine as if it is on a public network. Otherwise, any vulnerable computer on your lan makes all the rest of the computers vulnerable as well.
He's unemployed. Every computer on his LAN is his computer.
This just in, angry crackpot won't piss off and die already. Next!
I wonder how this is going to impact censorship? With any luck, the tides are (finally) changing against the Puritan 3% in this country, and we'll be able to get our wholesome drugs and child killing back in Fallout 3.