I think that part of point with their work was in showing the rate of reproduction of these RNA molecules. I don't remember the exact numbers, and I'm not just going to make them up, but over a four day period the rate of replication was extremely high: a single molecule replicates to beyond trillions, at least.
The idea is that over the vast timespans posited by evolution, this rapid process could well have one instance where life could evolve.
It was Tipper Gore who invented that little label, and it was invented for political gain - and from this article and the behaviour of other politicians in the recent past, seems like it always will be a tool for easy political gain. I totally agree that it's just a marketing tool: it's even been slapped onto wholly instrumental albums.
I'm a teacher, I also see what really does affect children and make them behave in certain ways, and for kids without behavioural problems like Aspergers or autism etc I believe it's 90-99% related to their home life and environment and the ways in which their parents behave and interact with the family. Kids playing a game still know that it's a game, and that behaviour which is sanctioned in the game is not necessarily sanctioned in the real world. Kids know this because they have been role playing games since long before TV was invented, let alone vid/comp games.
I don't think 6-year-old should be playing GTA or anything, but I don't think it's going to make them violent (or bad drivers, or unethical prostitutional punters, for that matter) and until that link is proven its at least disingenuous and at most dangerously misleading to put this warning onto games.
I think you're beating a non-existent issue in this case,from reading the article on this. I'm not very sure how much GTA had to do with anything here: within minutes of the kid getting picked up by the cops, his dad was issued with a charge of criminal negligence due to a previous court order which ordered him not to leave the kid alone, and the kid stole the car to get to school and get some food.
That seems to say that there are previous, serious home issues here, not something that can be explained away by a stupid knee-jerk, blame-the-game reaction.
Not sure which version of GTA he may have had access to, but mine didn't show me how to turn the key while pushing the gas pedal down with the car in park.
Besides, the kid stole the car to get to school so that he could get some food, which is incredibly sad. It's guessed that, as he is not tall for his age, he was standing on the pedals, and at some points he was exceeding 70 MPH.
The only inference I can see to GTA is his drivintg style: speeding, overtaking, too, and an attempt at a pass on a double solid while traffic was oncoming led to him losing control and smacking the pole.
But my argument still is: someBODY actually taught him to drive- not some game.
Totally true. In the three years that I spent in Taiwan recently, I hardly ever could see even 1 star in the sky because of the light pollution- to say nothing of the other types of pollution there. And being a rather small island, you can't get away from it.
We're not just talking streetlights, either: the streets are festooned with more neon than I thought possible, and all the billboards use massive spotlights to light themselves with. Plus local developers tend to use full-on air raid searchlights to advertize the place of their next gated community.
Streetlights are an enemy, but advertizing is much more so.
Not just Chinese medicine: in GuangZho (Canton itself)I've had more than one feast over Chinese New Year that included bloodworms and water crickets that looked like cockroaches.
The restaurant itself sells (live) crocodiles as big as me, and snakes etc. It also backs onto the zoo. Coincidence? I think not...
Seriously, that seems about right to me. The person who really should get the full benefit of copyright is the person with the inspiration, and who did most of the hard work in writing the piece. Without them, we would very likely not have that piece of art.
The rest, however, have had their ride (and 50 years seems like a very long ride anyway, given the performance cash generated by a lot of classic tracks): if they weren't at the right place at the right time, the inspired creator would have found someone else to do that bit, and we would still have the artwork.
Music should be like any other industry, which does not normally grant people an income-in-perpetuity for doing one thing well.
Ah, but how do we know what they like? I read (in a fairly dubious source, an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader) that Great Whites can be persuaded to mate in captivity through listening to "My heart will go on" by Celine Dion. The Titanic version.
Apparently, no other song or version will do the trick. SO, if they like that, they may actually like this crap, in which case there's finally a point to the whole industry.
Games seem to be running towards short-and-crappy on consoles. Desktops do seem to be struggling all round, off the top of my head I can only think of 2 major releases to exclusively use this hardware: Spore, which sucked, and the WoW expansion, which isn't really a new game.
But then I prefer older games on my PC, which have stood the test of time and have been shown to be winners. I like to battle the game itself, and not some foul-mouthed 12 year old who kicks my butt by default 'cos his mom uses the Xbox as a babysitter and he can run through every level backwards due to the amount of free time he has to sit in them.
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Ah, but how could they be sure it wasn't a scam?
Nice one on finding that article. Now if you can just find the article that the first poster was alluding to, THAT would be something...
I think that part of point with their work was in showing the rate of reproduction of these RNA molecules. I don't remember the exact numbers, and I'm not just going to make them up, but over a four day period the rate of replication was extremely high: a single molecule replicates to beyond trillions, at least.
The idea is that over the vast timespans posited by evolution, this rapid process could well have one instance where life could evolve.
I'd actually have preferred it if you had just said " First post" and left it at that.
I think you got that backwards: cannabis often leads to video game use.
It was Tipper Gore who invented that little label, and it was invented for political gain - and from this article and the behaviour of other politicians in the recent past, seems like it always will be a tool for easy political gain. I totally agree that it's just a marketing tool: it's even been slapped onto wholly instrumental albums.
I'm a teacher, I also see what really does affect children and make them behave in certain ways, and for kids without behavioural problems like Aspergers or autism etc I believe it's 90-99% related to their home life and environment and the ways in which their parents behave and interact with the family. Kids playing a game still know that it's a game, and that behaviour which is sanctioned in the game is not necessarily sanctioned in the real world. Kids know this because they have been role playing games since long before TV was invented, let alone vid/comp games.
I don't think 6-year-old should be playing GTA or anything, but I don't think it's going to make them violent (or bad drivers, or unethical prostitutional punters, for that matter) and until that link is proven its at least disingenuous and at most dangerously misleading to put this warning onto games.
I think you're beating a non-existent issue in this case,from reading the article on this. I'm not very sure how much GTA had to do with anything here: within minutes of the kid getting picked up by the cops, his dad was issued with a charge of criminal negligence due to a previous court order which ordered him not to leave the kid alone, and the kid stole the car to get to school and get some food.
That seems to say that there are previous, serious home issues here, not something that can be explained away by a stupid knee-jerk, blame-the-game reaction.
Not sure which version of GTA he may have had access to, but mine didn't show me how to turn the key while pushing the gas pedal down with the car in park.
Besides, the kid stole the car to get to school so that he could get some food, which is incredibly sad. It's guessed that, as he is not tall for his age, he was standing on the pedals, and at some points he was exceeding 70 MPH.
The only inference I can see to GTA is his drivintg style: speeding, overtaking, too, and an attempt at a pass on a double solid while traffic was oncoming led to him losing control and smacking the pole.
But my argument still is: someBODY actually taught him to drive- not some game.
Totally true. In the three years that I spent in Taiwan recently, I hardly ever could see even 1 star in the sky because of the light pollution- to say nothing of the other types of pollution there. And being a rather small island, you can't get away from it.
We're not just talking streetlights, either: the streets are festooned with more neon than I thought possible, and all the billboards use massive spotlights to light themselves with. Plus local developers tend to use full-on air raid searchlights to advertize the place of their next gated community.
Streetlights are an enemy, but advertizing is much more so.
Not just Chinese medicine: in GuangZho (Canton itself)I've had more than one feast over Chinese New Year that included bloodworms and water crickets that looked like cockroaches.
The restaurant itself sells (live) crocodiles as big as me, and snakes etc. It also backs onto the zoo. Coincidence? I think not...
Seriously, that seems about right to me. The person who really should get the full benefit of copyright is the person with the inspiration, and who did most of the hard work in writing the piece. Without them, we would very likely not have that piece of art.
The rest, however, have had their ride (and 50 years seems like a very long ride anyway, given the performance cash generated by a lot of classic tracks): if they weren't at the right place at the right time, the inspired creator would have found someone else to do that bit, and we would still have the artwork.
Music should be like any other industry, which does not normally grant people an income-in-perpetuity for doing one thing well.
Ah, but how do we know what they like? I read (in a fairly dubious source, an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader) that Great Whites can be persuaded to mate in captivity through listening to "My heart will go on" by Celine Dion. The Titanic version.
Apparently, no other song or version will do the trick. SO, if they like that, they may actually like this crap, in which case there's finally a point to the whole industry.
Games seem to be running towards short-and-crappy on consoles. Desktops do seem to be struggling all round, off the top of my head I can only think of 2 major releases to exclusively use this hardware: Spore, which sucked, and the WoW expansion, which isn't really a new game.
But then I prefer older games on my PC, which have stood the test of time and have been shown to be winners. I like to battle the game itself, and not some foul-mouthed 12 year old who kicks my butt by default 'cos his mom uses the Xbox as a babysitter and he can run through every level backwards due to the amount of free time he has to sit in them.
Not bitter about it, though.