Yep, remember when the US Government assassinated Daniel Ellsberg? And that firing squad that took out Carl Bernstein? And who can forget poor Bob Woodward, taken out by a CIA hit squad in broad daylight.
"Assange as fairly unstable and paranoid, the events do seem believable. "
He IS unstable and paranoid. That doesn't necessarily mean he's not doing something worthwhile, or he has no value as a human being, but let's be honest here, he has mental issues.
"...character assassination!? Piping hot character assassination? Get em while they're hot! You Sir? Some nice hot character assassination for the little lady?"
No thanks, I'm all full from that piping hot uncritical hero worship fanaticism I had for breakfast.
Nixon, Clinton, and Kennedy definitely had tremendous self control; if you look over their lives they were each working on a long-term plan to obtain the presidency. The fact that once they reached the goal they let themselves do what they want doesn't mean they lack self control, but rather once they had achieved their goal, why not enjoy the power it brought.
I definitely agree....with so many other things that are important....including economic/social issues...this should be the least of everyone's worries.
It probably is, but just like a 10,000 person police force does not assign all 10,000 officers to solving the current most heinous unsolved crime, Congress can multitask.
What you'd need to show is that a "peaceful" population, when subject to "violent" video games, has a higher rate of people switching from "peaceful" to "violent" than a population that is not subject to "violent" video games.
Why so abstract? Real life is messier than that, the video games are not being sold just to "peaceful" populations. Why set up such an arbitrary definition?
I personally fall into the camp that sees video games and other media not as a cause of violent behavior, but merely a catalyst: media is likely to take already existing tendencies and magnify them. If those tendencies don't exist, the games (or movies or television shows or music or books) will do nothing.
Sounds like a good justification for warning labels then.
Uhhhh....huh? The left wing has been furiously attacking Obama since he took office. Just like they had no problem attacking Clinton on a range of issues, including welfare reform and DADT. I've noticed that it's the right wing who tends to switch their views around depending on whether they're in power or not, not the left.
Are we sure that this is a result of the "cognitive elite" being more in demand, or high school dropouts' demand plummeting slightly faster than bachelor's degree holders? From what I've seen education and skills are less important than luck--you know the right people, you managed to pick a major that's temporarily in demand, etc.
Many of them have learned it's a sucker's game since they're being asked to pay dues that previous generations did not have to. Why kill themselves working 80 hours a week for a few years when they know the company will likely just boot them out after they get burnt out? It used to be graduating with a bachelors almost assured you of a white collar job somewhere. Now, chances are good you're going straight to retail.
Televisions seems to be doing just fine in my opinion. It's putting out a poorer and poorer product and making money hand over fist. Advertisers wouldn't be shelling out the kind of money if people we're watching.
Outside reality TV shows, television has been getting better and better over the past decade. The shows they had from the 1950's-1990's tended to be 99% unwatchable garbage. Even if 90% of TV is unwatchable garbage now that is still nearly tenfold increase in quality shows.
I would guess most TV stations are small outfits that often won't even have any lawyers in-house. If you mean TV networks, I think you're probably overstating things.
I'm guessing you are a fellow American. We tend to underestimate the longevity of a grudge in the rest of the world. The beginning of the US seems like a long time ago to us, but to the rest of the world, we are still kids.
The US, as far as political entities go, is far older than most countries. In fact, you'll note that the countries that tend to hold these grudges the most tend to be fairly new ones.
Yup, starting salary for small-scale insurance defense and personal injury is around 35k-40k, and even those places are inundated with graduates from top law schools.
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Yep, remember when the US Government assassinated Daniel Ellsberg? And that firing squad that took out Carl Bernstein? And who can forget poor Bob Woodward, taken out by a CIA hit squad in broad daylight.
"Assange as fairly unstable and paranoid, the events do seem believable. "
He IS unstable and paranoid. That doesn't necessarily mean he's not doing something worthwhile, or he has no value as a human being, but let's be honest here, he has mental issues.
"...character assassination!? Piping hot character assassination? Get em while they're hot! You Sir? Some nice hot character assassination for the little lady?"
No thanks, I'm all full from that piping hot uncritical hero worship fanaticism I had for breakfast.
Nixon, Clinton, and Kennedy definitely had tremendous self control; if you look over their lives they were each working on a long-term plan to obtain the presidency. The fact that once they reached the goal they let themselves do what they want doesn't mean they lack self control, but rather once they had achieved their goal, why not enjoy the power it brought.
It's a lot easier to chant "correlation doesn't mean causation" than actually think critically.
I definitely agree....with so many other things that are important....including economic/social issues...this should be the least of everyone's worries.
It probably is, but just like a 10,000 person police force does not assign all 10,000 officers to solving the current most heinous unsolved crime, Congress can multitask.
What you'd need to show is that a "peaceful" population, when subject to "violent" video games, has a higher rate of people switching from "peaceful" to "violent" than a population that is not subject to "violent" video games.
Why so abstract? Real life is messier than that, the video games are not being sold just to "peaceful" populations. Why set up such an arbitrary definition?
I personally fall into the camp that sees video games and other media not as a cause of violent behavior, but merely a catalyst: media is likely to take already existing tendencies and magnify them. If those tendencies don't exist, the games (or movies or television shows or music or books) will do nothing.
Sounds like a good justification for warning labels then.
The first one wasn't that great either. Don't believe me? Go re-watch it.
http://www.physorg.com/news166208581.html
A friend of mine who dropped out of college chemistry became a better coder in 6 months than many of my classmates did in 4 years.
Maybe, but could he have become a better chemist?
Yeah, it did what it promised to do; gave you a photoshop key. And it didn't say it WOULDN'T steal your passwords, right?
I've never gotten a fake or malware-infected file; oh wait, I actually pay for the software, music, and movies that I want to watch. Maybe that's why.
Uhhhh....huh? The left wing has been furiously attacking Obama since he took office. Just like they had no problem attacking Clinton on a range of issues, including welfare reform and DADT. I've noticed that it's the right wing who tends to switch their views around depending on whether they're in power or not, not the left.
Sadly skills on paper are worth far more than skills in practice.
Don't underestimate skills on paper; a good education can teach you in 4 years what it would take 40 years of trial and error to learn on your own.
A lot of it also comes down to just plain luck. I think a lot of people would be shocked how much career success is attributable to luck.
Are we sure that this is a result of the "cognitive elite" being more in demand, or high school dropouts' demand plummeting slightly faster than bachelor's degree holders? From what I've seen education and skills are less important than luck--you know the right people, you managed to pick a major that's temporarily in demand, etc.
Many of them have learned it's a sucker's game since they're being asked to pay dues that previous generations did not have to. Why kill themselves working 80 hours a week for a few years when they know the company will likely just boot them out after they get burnt out? It used to be graduating with a bachelors almost assured you of a white collar job somewhere. Now, chances are good you're going straight to retail.
Televisions seems to be doing just fine in my opinion. It's putting out a poorer and poorer product and making money hand over fist. Advertisers wouldn't be shelling out the kind of money if people we're watching.
Outside reality TV shows, television has been getting better and better over the past decade. The shows they had from the 1950's-1990's tended to be 99% unwatchable garbage. Even if 90% of TV is unwatchable garbage now that is still nearly tenfold increase in quality shows.
I would guess most TV stations are small outfits that often won't even have any lawyers in-house. If you mean TV networks, I think you're probably overstating things.
You are making the factual assertion that most TV companies are run by lawyers? Do you have any backup for this remarkable assertion?
Well, "culture" is something else; you follow any culture back through its predecessors and they're all old.
Karma is meaningless. I've had max karma years before you even heard of slashdot. It doesn't mean people take you seriously.
I'm guessing you are a fellow American. We tend to underestimate the longevity of a grudge in the rest of the world. The beginning of the US seems like a long time ago to us, but to the rest of the world, we are still kids.
The US, as far as political entities go, is far older than most countries. In fact, you'll note that the countries that tend to hold these grudges the most tend to be fairly new ones.
Yup, starting salary for small-scale insurance defense and personal injury is around 35k-40k, and even those places are inundated with graduates from top law schools.
And that's why people don't take you seriously.