This is as close as we have gotten, so far, to Anime on the big screen.
Go rent The Iron Giant. Now. I mean it. Right now. Don't keep reading this -- go watch that movie. Best American animated feature in gopod knows how long. Stands up against anything out of Japan -- and I'm a rabid Japanese anime fan.
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Our company's stupid filtering software won't let me look at an article on 2600, no matter how relevent it
is. I don't suppose someone (from a non BESS-blacklisted site) could mirror it for poor saps like me?
Possibly OT, I have to say how bewildered I am at the way American fans proudly use the term "otaku" in describing their Anime fandom. Do you have any idea of the connotations this word has in Japan?
Using "otaku" in the name of an animation con is like a target-shooting team calling themselves the "Shifty, Dangerous Paranoids Rifle Society."
I know of at least one college anime club that eventually wised up and took "otaku" out of their name, because it was scaring away the Japanese students they had hoped would join.
What you've heard in J-pop probably was the English word "love," which often shows up in Japanese pop culture. I don't know of any Japanese word for "love" that sounds much like the word "love." The most commonly Japanese word work with a sort-of-similar meaning is "suki." --------------------
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Sure, you can go too far. However, I believe that good behavior caused by the lack of possibility of behaving badly is much less valuable than good behavior when temptation and opportunity abound. I would rather that my children would behave well because they know how they are expected to act than they are only acting decently because they have no other option.
Well put.
I think this also goes for more "abstract" moral/ethical behavior (i.e., how one treats oneself and others), and as a result I strongly disagree with people who think that children should be kept away from all ideas involving sexuality, prejudice, etcetera. With no exposure to difficult issues, how can children ever learn to deal wiuth them in a mature way?
I've sometimes used this analogy: If you live on a small island, you can do two things to help keep your children safe from drowning: you can keep them far away from the water, and pretend it doesn't exist. Or, you can teach them to swim. Which is better in the long run?
Me, I'm trying to teach my son to "swim" -- i.e., to make good decisions in a dangerous and complicated world.
If a company is able to arbitrarily go against their posted privacy policy, then consumers should be able to do the same in reverse for any other similar type of contract. IE, I should be able to click on one of Microsoft's "I Agree" buttons on one of their click-through licenses, and then feel free to go against it at a whim. They are both equally valid contracts, [... ]
Incorrect. There is a big fat hairy difference between overt representations and mutually-agreed contracts.
The ad you see in the paper for a hard disk at Fry's is not a contract; the vendor has not entered into a binding agreement to sell you the item at the advertised price.
Good point, but the situation with Toysmart seems to be more complicated than a simple truth-in-advertising case. With Toysmart, people (including me) took affirmative action -- i.e., giving over personal information -- in reliance upon Toysmart's representations about its privacy policy.
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It's distressing, how often this has to be pointed out, but various comments here suggest that it's time to do so again:
The First Amendment has no bearing on dealings between private entities. The First Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, concerns the power of government. A private corporation's actions might be wrong, or illegal, but they simply can't be "unconstitutional."
Citing the First Amendment regarding dealings between private, non-governmental parties is like citing the rules of baseball in a hockey game. They just don't apply.
One is that Jar-Jar is unconciously weilding the force, and is on his own path to becoming a Jedi. This rumor speaks about how Jar-Jar, although clumsy, still seems to win battles despite his clumsiness. This kind of story line could speak to the nature of the force, how it is far reaching, even to the meek.
This could also support the Jar Jar Binks = J. R. "Bob" Dobbs theory.
The dissemination of information is legal. Legally, I can tell you how to build a bomb, commit a murder without being caught, put together the perfect fake ID, etc.
Good points, and I agree with you, but the MP3-linking is made a little more complicated because by the fact that the proscribed "object" in question is information. It makes the line a bit fuzzy.
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As it should -- it's *not* a technical article, or an internet culture article; it's a *legal* article. It's intended to talk about what your options are, with respect to the legal system, once you have decided there is a conflict between your desire and someone else's.
Yes, it's a legal article, but any decent lawyer should, when analyzing a client's situation, consider the question: Is there a satisfactory way this can be resolved without going through formal legal proceedings? (It somethimes seems that far too many lawyers bypass this thought.)
The article seems to recognize this with Option 1, "try to handle the matter amicably and directly with the registrant," and I think that "find another domain name" is also something that should be considered. Choosing a different domain doesn't sound like a very "techie" solution to me; rather, it seems like a possible option that a lawyer should bring to a client's attention.
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Apparantly there is a terrible amount of legislation, along with the wasted expense and time, necessary to make the Internet "kid friendly," so why not just cut the crap and make the smart decision: Ban kids from using the Internet.
And can you imagine the intrusive measures that would be required to ensure no kids were on the net? They'd make the worst of today's governmental restrictions & privacy threats seem like total freedom.
Isn't evidence that is illegally obtained, not valid for use in a court of law?
No, not necessarily. You may be thinking of the exclusionary rule that, in criminal cases, keeps out evidence the government has obtained in violation of the 4th Amendment.
Actually, you could just walk over and win in Myst. The game was horrendously easy if you knew how to play the endgame, it took five minutes. You only have to solve three puzzles to beat the game.
True enough, but taking this as a criticism of MYST is like criticising a novel for having a weak plot, because you could just skip to the last chapter and find out whodunnit. I think MYST has to be viewed as something other than a "game," per se, because part of the enjoyment and artistry lies in the unfolding of the story. We call it a "game' for lack of a better term, but it really did create a new category.
In most of those worlds you could simply go wherever you wanted anyways, another part of the fun was discovering the puzzles and story, none of which was given to you at the beginning of the game. A game like Myst was about exploration, and making that real-time can only improve it.
Yes, indeed. I don't think I'd want to play MYST again with 3D as the only change, buit I'd like to see a 3D MYST-like game as the next step.
I have a big problem with all of these types of games... At the end of the day, they are all very linear. You have to do A before you can do B which in turn allows you to do C. What if I happen to think up a better way which allows me to jump straight to C and go back to A and B later? Tough! Why can't I do C first. God damn it! I wanna do C first!!
Even worse are the situations when you can't ever do Z, even if it is far more obvious and intuitive a solution than the A-B-C sequence. For example:
SPOILER WARNING
There's a place in MYST where the big puzzle consists of turning on lights to shine into a certain room. The puzzle requires a long, complicated sequence of actions to turn on some big-ass light that shines in through an underwater window.
Not far from away in this room is a room with a chest of drawers. In one of the drawers are some candles. Of course, you can't pick up the candles.
The booklet that comes with MYST says something like, "to solve the puzzles, think about what you would do in the situation if you were really there." Funny, but if I were really there, and I needed to see in a dark room, I'd use the friggin' candles!
In this case, the DOSer is restraining lawful free speech, by obstructing the instrument of speech. In the U.S. at least, this violates the constitution and statutes.
No, no, no. Where does this violate the constitution?
The First Amendment -- like the rest of the U.S. Constitution -- defines and limits the power of government. It has no bearing on dealings wholly among private parties.
Citing the First Amendment (or other constitutional provisions) when you're talking about private parties is like citing the rules of hockey in a baseball game.
(Much of the rest of your comment is good, but this one point about the Constitution is a pet peeve -- mainly because so many Americans don't understand it.)
Actually the real problem is that there are too many lawyers without any real jobs. I reckon we should probably limit the number of people getting into law school and shove them into healthcare, or something, where there is a lack of qualified people.
Ah, yes -- let's forcibly determine peoples' careers based upon what the collective requires. That'll help us preserve freedom. Sure!
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This is as close as we have gotten, so far, to Anime on the big screen.
Go rent The Iron Giant. Now. I mean it. Right now. Don't keep reading this -- go watch that movie. Best American animated feature in gopod knows how long. Stands up against anything out of Japan -- and I'm a rabid Japanese anime fan.
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Try www.2600.middle-island.ny.us. Same site, but some filters don't bother blocking it.
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Possibly OT, I have to say how bewildered I am at the way American fans proudly use the term "otaku" in describing their Anime fandom. Do you have any idea of the connotations this word has in Japan?
Using "otaku" in the name of an animation con is like a target-shooting team calling themselves the "Shifty, Dangerous Paranoids Rifle Society."
I know of at least one college anime club that eventually wised up and took "otaku" out of their name, because it was scaring away the Japanese students they had hoped would join.
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What you've heard in J-pop probably was the English word "love," which often shows up in Japanese pop culture. I don't know of any Japanese word for "love" that sounds much like the word "love." The most commonly Japanese word work with a sort-of-similar meaning is "suki."
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He played the football coach-turned-alien-parasite-host in The Faculty.
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Well put.
I think this also goes for more "abstract" moral/ethical behavior (i.e., how one treats oneself and others), and as a result I strongly disagree with people who think that children should be kept away from all ideas involving sexuality, prejudice, etcetera. With no exposure to difficult issues, how can children ever learn to deal wiuth them in a mature way?
I've sometimes used this analogy: If you live on a small island, you can do two things to help keep your children safe from drowning: you can keep them far away from the water, and pretend it doesn't exist. Or, you can teach them to swim. Which is better in the long run?
Me, I'm trying to teach my son to "swim" -- i.e., to make good decisions in a dangerous and complicated world.
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Sounds to me like your brother has an older family member who respects him and spends time with him.
That's probably the most necessary thing for growing up stable and sane. It certainly seems to matter more than what video games a kid plays!
Kudos!
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Lawd, get this Pac some soul, clarify what's what!
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Yep. Me, I'm just a lacto-ovo-carno vegitarian.
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The ad you see in the paper for a hard disk at Fry's is not a contract; the vendor has not entered into a binding agreement to sell you the item at the advertised price.
Good point, but the situation with Toysmart seems to be more complicated than a simple truth-in-advertising case. With Toysmart, people (including me) took affirmative action -- i.e., giving over personal information -- in reliance upon Toysmart's representations about its privacy policy.
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Another reason not to invoke the First Amendment:
It's distressing, how often this has to be pointed out, but various comments here suggest that it's time to do so again:
The First Amendment has no bearing on dealings between private entities. The First Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, concerns the power of government. A private corporation's actions might be wrong, or illegal, but they simply can't be "unconstitutional."
Citing the First Amendment regarding dealings between private, non-governmental parties is like citing the rules of baseball in a hockey game. They just don't apply.
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This could also support the Jar Jar Binks = J. R. "Bob" Dobbs theory.
Watch that Luck Plane slant, man!
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Good points, and I agree with you, but the MP3-linking is made a little more complicated because by the fact that the proscribed "object" in question is information. It makes the line a bit fuzzy.
(But I believe there is a line, and that you've got a good sense of where it is.)
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Yes, it's a legal article, but any decent lawyer should, when analyzing a client's situation, consider the question: Is there a satisfactory way this can be resolved without going through formal legal proceedings? (It somethimes seems that far too many lawyers bypass this thought.)
The article seems to recognize this with Option 1, "try to handle the matter amicably and directly with the registrant," and I think that "find another domain name" is also something that should be considered. Choosing a different domain doesn't sound like a very "techie" solution to me; rather, it seems like a possible option that a lawyer should bring to a client's attention.
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Apparantly there is a terrible amount of legislation, along with the wasted expense and time, necessary to make the Internet "kid friendly," so why not just cut the crap and make the smart decision: Ban kids from using the Internet.
And can you imagine the intrusive measures that would be required to ensure no kids were on the net? They'd make the worst of today's governmental restrictions & privacy threats seem like total freedom.
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But I am really interested, what is the Gibson dream that we are moving towards?
C'mon, you know. The one where we all get to be security guards and hang out with stylish Japanese academics and cute bike messengers with tight bods.
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A new mantra for Linux missionaries?
WWWD?
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Seymour Cray is there, and so is William Burroughs! No, not *that* William Burroughs. (-;
The two Burroughs are related -- tha inventor is the great-grandfather (or is it grandfather?) of the writer.
For some reason, the world made more sense to me when I learned that.
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Isn't evidence that is illegally obtained, not valid for use in a court of law?
No, not necessarily. You may be thinking of the exclusionary rule that, in criminal cases, keeps out evidence the government has obtained in violation of the 4th Amendment.
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Actually, you could just walk over and win in Myst. The game was horrendously easy if you knew how to play the endgame, it took five minutes. You only have to solve three puzzles to beat the game.
True enough, but taking this as a criticism of MYST is like criticising a novel for having a weak plot, because you could just skip to the last chapter and find out whodunnit. I think MYST has to be viewed as something other than a "game," per se, because part of the enjoyment and artistry lies in the unfolding of the story. We call it a "game' for lack of a better term, but it really did create a new category.
In most of those worlds you could simply go wherever you wanted anyways, another part of the fun was discovering the puzzles and story, none of which was given to you at the beginning of the game. A game like Myst was about exploration, and making that real-time can only improve it.
Yes, indeed. I don't think I'd want to play MYST again with 3D as the only change, buit I'd like to see a 3D MYST-like game as the next step.
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Even worse are the situations when you can't ever do Z, even if it is far more obvious and intuitive a solution than the A-B-C sequence. For example:
SPOILER WARNING
There's a place in MYST where the big puzzle consists of turning on lights to shine into a certain room. The puzzle requires a long, complicated sequence of actions to turn on some big-ass light that shines in through an underwater window.
Not far from away in this room is a room with a chest of drawers. In one of the drawers are some candles. Of course, you can't pick up the candles.
The booklet that comes with MYST says something like, "to solve the puzzles, think about what you would do in the situation if you were really there." Funny, but if I were really there, and I needed to see in a dark room, I'd use the friggin' candles!
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Please excuse the ignorance ... but what was their major malfunction?
Early on, Wired magazine plugged them as the Next Big Thing. That's a sure-fire technology killer.
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Now, if we could just combine this technology with Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation, we'd really see some world-savin' Super Hero action!
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In this case, the DOSer is restraining lawful free speech, by obstructing the instrument of speech. In the U.S. at least, this violates the constitution and statutes.
No, no, no. Where does this violate the constitution?
The First Amendment -- like the rest of the U.S. Constitution -- defines and limits the power of government. It has no bearing on dealings wholly among private parties.
Citing the First Amendment (or other constitutional provisions) when you're talking about private parties is like citing the rules of hockey in a baseball game.
(Much of the rest of your comment is good, but this one point about the Constitution is a pet peeve -- mainly because so many Americans don't understand it.)
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Actually the real problem is that there are too many lawyers without any real jobs. I reckon we should probably limit the number of people getting into law school and shove them into healthcare, or something, where there is a lack of qualified people.
Ah, yes -- let's forcibly determine peoples' careers based upon what the collective requires. That'll help us preserve freedom. Sure!
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