Actually, I don't think that would work. I think that if they knowingly take off *all* editorial, but have full log retention of uploads, and fully comply with law enforcement, then they're fine.
You underestimate how much people rely on *all* of Google's services. He said "Google." Not "Youtube." Blogger, youtube, gmail, the search engine. It. All. Goes. Away. And you know what? I'd love to see it happen. It'd be one of the most fascinating events to happen in my lifetime.
No, the problem is that Youtube is considered television in Italy, because it's a website that serves content on request, rather than a streaming feed that users choose to access based on what's being served. This means attempting to institute infrastructure to classify and rate videos, and then only allow access to videos inside certain hours. That's a pretty disturbing idea. I'm already annoyed at region-locked videos. Time-locked based on content is asinine.
Except there's no proof the systems actually do damage, and the warning is purely a CYA move with absolutely no real-world impact (it's a warning label, rather than modifying the technology, or putting in hard limits on time use) since it relies exclusively on parents actually parenting. Odds of that? My calculations are putting them at slim-to-none.
No, they pulled the Virtual Boy because it was a completely terrible system both in technical and aesthetic aspects. There's no such thing as a Visual Boy, so I don't know what you're talking about, and I doubt you do either.
Pretty sure you're the pathetic moron. Picking one word relevant word in a conversation doesn't mean that he defines himself by that one word. So shut the fuck up before you make yourself look even more stupid.
Well, I'm ready to get modded down myself for calling an idiot an idiot, because awareness doesn't have a fucking thing to do with common sense, and you're an idiot for thinking it does. Awareness is a function of mental alertness and fatigue levels. If you're tired, it takes more effort to focus on your task at hand, leaving you less capacity for awareness of other factors. Further, modern society blasts a person with constant visual and aural input, increasing mental fatigue more quickly than in previous generations. Lastly, the human brain itself is hardwired to disregard any noises that it doesn't deem immediately necessary (in a room with a ticking clock, how many times have you suddenly become aware of the ticking, having paid it no mind previously while you were concentrating?), which can easily include traffic noises if they've been constant for a while.
The only possible role common sense can have in awareness is helping to determine in what direction they should focus whatever mental reserves they have. So, by your own values, and lacking the common sense to see how common sense applies in this case, I'm pretty sure you should go lie down in front of a speeding train.
I'm old, so the class I took in high school was called Typing. We had a 50/50 mix of IBM Selectrics and manual typewriters.
It's probably the most useful class I took in high school. But just because the modern version uses computers doesn't make it Computer Science. They should just keep calling it typing if you ask me.
It blows my mind that apparently a semester-long course is devoted to typing, and is being called "Computer Science." When I was in high school in '98, the 101-equivalent covered proper names of all computer components, how they were connected, an overview of functionality, keyboarding to 40 wpm with 95% accuracy, AND we made a website from scratch, and it had to have at least 6 different pages, and we made it in notepad.
Except she doesn't want the government to have the power, she wants the people to have the power, since the government is supposed to receive power from the people. And this is Canada, we go for security through co-operation and support, rather than intimidation and manipulation.
She's done more than just the Facebook thing. That's really just the most prominent example. And yes, for all of us. She's not concerned with just protecting a certain segment of the population, or even "just Canadians." If she sees an issue that she can try and do something about, she actually tries to do something, and that something is usually in the interests of "the little guy," rather than corporations.
No, many of the wealthy got there by knowing how to game the system, or by inheriting their wealth. Why do you think so many freighters and other resources are registered out of the Bahamas, or Indonesia, or place like that, when their owner is the whitest mofo ever, and with no vested interest in the point of registration? Because it's orders of magnitude cheaper. Same with bank accounts and housing. The reason the rich stay rich is they can afford to spend *some* money up front to find the cheapest way to do something, and save/earn more, even if it's damaging to the economy in the long run.
Patents were originally intended to protect inventors, but companies like IV have provided an evil twist.
The evil twist being that they buy patents from inventors willing to sell their patents to them?
No, the evil twist being that they sit on the patents, not using them, hoping that if someone concurrently develops something similar, they can use any patents of a similar nature to beat the ever-living fuck out of the new guy in court for patent infringement unless he pays them a hefty fee. Thus patents are punishing inventors.
Amazon offers a service which Wikileaks felt was useful, and so Wikileaks purchased that service. I don't really see how that's forcing Amazon to make a decision. Amazon chose to make a decision about what content is allowed on their servers, so I'm pretty sure Amazon themselves just fucked up and guaranteed liability for anything in future found on their servers, rather than being able to go "we simply provide the service to anyone with an account in good standing, what's done with it is not our business," which would have been staying out of it. Instead, they chose to actively go against Wikileaks, showing they are willing and able to discriminate based on content, rather than legality. No Safe Haven for them.
While I agree with your sentiment, Amazon's removal of Wikileaks is hardly blocking their business. It is, at best, Amazon refusing to let Wikileaks use Amazon's business. Wikileaks doesn't have any particular right to use Amazon's service. I do feel Amazon should have something resembling a legitimate reason if they wanted to remove Wikileaks from the Amazon servers, and I don't believe one was supplied, but even then, it's still Amazon's right to refuse to do business with anyone they chose.
Only one of the six definitions lists physicality as a requirement, the others can be satisfied by a verbal attack as well as a physical one. Doing mental harm to an individual can and is just as much violence as physical harm.
Yes. That is what he's saying, and it makes a certain kind of sense, especially if you believe in inalienable human rights. Remember, a democracy only requires a majority opinion. In a yes/no situation, that's 50% +1. In a situation with multiple choices, the majority requirement goes down in a first-past-the-post situation. With 4 options, that's 25% +1. You can see how easily that a "majority opinion" can fail to reflect an opinion of the majority. Further, even in yes/no situations, sometimes, even with an overwhelming majority, common sense and basic human rights dictate that it shouldn't even be allowed. Left handed people make up about 10% of the population. If every right handed person got together and said "All lefties should be forced to use their right hand or go to jail," they'd have a clear majority, but that still wouldn't make it right.
That's why you need human rights and freedoms enshrined and protected from molestation from ANY form of government. IMO, freedoms should only be expanded, never contracted or abridged.
Germany is in a similar position, though they already got a "mature" rating for games. Games deemed "mature" must not be sold to minors, yaddayadda, you know the drill.
Alternatively, there's most other places with a mature rating for games that dictates they can't be sold to minors who still get the mature rated version of games. Just because it happens in Germany doesn't mean it will happen in Australia, especially since Germany has other content laws that usually necessitate censorship any way.
Don't people bitch all the time about patents that do something done before, but just tack on "but with a computer"? It's not like Apple invented the eye tracking tech, or any other part. They just put the pieces together. But with a computer.
I hate to interrupt a well-deserved smackdown, but you'll find any official style guide advocates the switch to numerals for any number over ninety-nine, if it's not a round number. For example, 333, but three hundred. Journalism style guides actually go for any number over ten.
It was marked redundant because it was mentioned further up the page. It's now marked informative now, though, and probably rightfully so, since it's the kind of information that SHOULD be repeated.
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Actually, I don't think that would work. I think that if they knowingly take off *all* editorial, but have full log retention of uploads, and fully comply with law enforcement, then they're fine.
You underestimate how much people rely on *all* of Google's services. He said "Google." Not "Youtube." Blogger, youtube, gmail, the search engine. It. All. Goes. Away. And you know what? I'd love to see it happen. It'd be one of the most fascinating events to happen in my lifetime.
No, the problem is that Youtube is considered television in Italy, because it's a website that serves content on request, rather than a streaming feed that users choose to access based on what's being served. This means attempting to institute infrastructure to classify and rate videos, and then only allow access to videos inside certain hours. That's a pretty disturbing idea. I'm already annoyed at region-locked videos. Time-locked based on content is asinine.
Touché
Except there's no proof the systems actually do damage, and the warning is purely a CYA move with absolutely no real-world impact (it's a warning label, rather than modifying the technology, or putting in hard limits on time use) since it relies exclusively on parents actually parenting. Odds of that? My calculations are putting them at slim-to-none.
No, they pulled the Virtual Boy because it was a completely terrible system both in technical and aesthetic aspects. There's no such thing as a Visual Boy, so I don't know what you're talking about, and I doubt you do either.
Pretty sure you're the pathetic moron. Picking one word relevant word in a conversation doesn't mean that he defines himself by that one word. So shut the fuck up before you make yourself look even more stupid.
I think plumbers get enough literal shit that they probably don't bother in forums.
Well, I'm ready to get modded down myself for calling an idiot an idiot, because awareness doesn't have a fucking thing to do with common sense, and you're an idiot for thinking it does. Awareness is a function of mental alertness and fatigue levels. If you're tired, it takes more effort to focus on your task at hand, leaving you less capacity for awareness of other factors. Further, modern society blasts a person with constant visual and aural input, increasing mental fatigue more quickly than in previous generations. Lastly, the human brain itself is hardwired to disregard any noises that it doesn't deem immediately necessary (in a room with a ticking clock, how many times have you suddenly become aware of the ticking, having paid it no mind previously while you were concentrating?), which can easily include traffic noises if they've been constant for a while.
The only possible role common sense can have in awareness is helping to determine in what direction they should focus whatever mental reserves they have. So, by your own values, and lacking the common sense to see how common sense applies in this case, I'm pretty sure you should go lie down in front of a speeding train.
And trust me, still no one wants to see you naked.
I'm old, so the class I took in high school was called Typing. We had a 50/50 mix of IBM Selectrics and manual typewriters.
It's probably the most useful class I took in high school. But just because the modern version uses computers doesn't make it Computer Science. They should just keep calling it typing if you ask me.
It blows my mind that apparently a semester-long course is devoted to typing, and is being called "Computer Science." When I was in high school in '98, the 101-equivalent covered proper names of all computer components, how they were connected, an overview of functionality, keyboarding to 40 wpm with 95% accuracy, AND we made a website from scratch, and it had to have at least 6 different pages, and we made it in notepad.
Except she doesn't want the government to have the power, she wants the people to have the power, since the government is supposed to receive power from the people. And this is Canada, we go for security through co-operation and support, rather than intimidation and manipulation.
She's done more than just the Facebook thing. That's really just the most prominent example. And yes, for all of us. She's not concerned with just protecting a certain segment of the population, or even "just Canadians." If she sees an issue that she can try and do something about, she actually tries to do something, and that something is usually in the interests of "the little guy," rather than corporations.
Sure it's easy, just make sure you're behind seven proxies!
No, many of the wealthy got there by knowing how to game the system, or by inheriting their wealth. Why do you think so many freighters and other resources are registered out of the Bahamas, or Indonesia, or place like that, when their owner is the whitest mofo ever, and with no vested interest in the point of registration? Because it's orders of magnitude cheaper. Same with bank accounts and housing. The reason the rich stay rich is they can afford to spend *some* money up front to find the cheapest way to do something, and save/earn more, even if it's damaging to the economy in the long run.
The evil twist being that they buy patents from inventors willing to sell their patents to them?
No, the evil twist being that they sit on the patents, not using them, hoping that if someone concurrently develops something similar, they can use any patents of a similar nature to beat the ever-living fuck out of the new guy in court for patent infringement unless he pays them a hefty fee. Thus patents are punishing inventors.
You're kinda dumb, aren't you?
Close, but it's actually: "Have an ice day, eh?"
Amazon offers a service which Wikileaks felt was useful, and so Wikileaks purchased that service. I don't really see how that's forcing Amazon to make a decision. Amazon chose to make a decision about what content is allowed on their servers, so I'm pretty sure Amazon themselves just fucked up and guaranteed liability for anything in future found on their servers, rather than being able to go "we simply provide the service to anyone with an account in good standing, what's done with it is not our business," which would have been staying out of it. Instead, they chose to actively go against Wikileaks, showing they are willing and able to discriminate based on content, rather than legality. No Safe Haven for them.
While I agree with your sentiment, Amazon's removal of Wikileaks is hardly blocking their business. It is, at best, Amazon refusing to let Wikileaks use Amazon's business. Wikileaks doesn't have any particular right to use Amazon's service. I do feel Amazon should have something resembling a legitimate reason if they wanted to remove Wikileaks from the Amazon servers, and I don't believe one was supplied, but even then, it's still Amazon's right to refuse to do business with anyone they chose.
A verbal attack isn't violence.
Yes it is. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/violence
Only one of the six definitions lists physicality as a requirement, the others can be satisfied by a verbal attack as well as a physical one. Doing mental harm to an individual can and is just as much violence as physical harm.
Yes. That is what he's saying, and it makes a certain kind of sense, especially if you believe in inalienable human rights. Remember, a democracy only requires a majority opinion. In a yes/no situation, that's 50% +1. In a situation with multiple choices, the majority requirement goes down in a first-past-the-post situation. With 4 options, that's 25% +1. You can see how easily that a "majority opinion" can fail to reflect an opinion of the majority. Further, even in yes/no situations, sometimes, even with an overwhelming majority, common sense and basic human rights dictate that it shouldn't even be allowed. Left handed people make up about 10% of the population. If every right handed person got together and said "All lefties should be forced to use their right hand or go to jail," they'd have a clear majority, but that still wouldn't make it right.
That's why you need human rights and freedoms enshrined and protected from molestation from ANY form of government. IMO, freedoms should only be expanded, never contracted or abridged.
Think again.
Germany is in a similar position, though they already got a "mature" rating for games. Games deemed "mature" must not be sold to minors, yaddayadda, you know the drill.
Alternatively, there's most other places with a mature rating for games that dictates they can't be sold to minors who still get the mature rated version of games. Just because it happens in Germany doesn't mean it will happen in Australia, especially since Germany has other content laws that usually necessitate censorship any way.
Don't people bitch all the time about patents that do something done before, but just tack on "but with a computer"? It's not like Apple invented the eye tracking tech, or any other part. They just put the pieces together. But with a computer.
I hate to interrupt a well-deserved smackdown, but you'll find any official style guide advocates the switch to numerals for any number over ninety-nine, if it's not a round number. For example, 333, but three hundred. Journalism style guides actually go for any number over ten.
It was marked redundant because it was mentioned further up the page. It's now marked informative now, though, and probably rightfully so, since it's the kind of information that SHOULD be repeated.