Every story posted today on Slashdot is either about science, technology, or law as it applies to technology. I'm not seeing where you're getting that.
Or you can make a good video game based on religious themes, mythology, and history, rather than one with religious messages. A lot of religious mythology would make pretty awesome settings for games.
The scarcity of mod points helps a lot with the type of posts that get upvoted. I mean, I just saw a Digg article (well, picture) where the most dugg comment was "Ha Ha! That was pretty hilarious...and true.", in response to some 4chan meme image. The good thing about limited upvoting is that people will usually only upvote comments that are either particularly witty or of substance, not thoughtless drivel that inspires no conversation at all.
I know the government is responsible for the drug issue, and I didn't make any comment on whether porn is harmless or not.
My point was that government regulations designed to protect people from themselves tend to either be ineffective or infringing on rights. The middle ground is apparently very difficult to achieve. I mean, any high school student knows where they could get drugs or who they could ask if they wanted to know where to get them. Doesn't seem like those drug laws are working too well.
Feel free to point out an example of government success in this area, but to my knowledge, government regulation of personal activities is basically ineffective.
That's a messed up attitude to have. In my eyes, it amounts to "You should be willing to do everything publicly and personal privacy is completely worthless."
Maybe "hardly", but we still can. And even if we couldn't, we could show tits in any other medium we wanted.
And on our news outlets... I don't have much to say about them. They do kinda blow.
They aren't banned by the government. Sale and distribution of them would be legal if any publisher wanted to release them. You can buy plenty of creepy Japanese hentai games online in America and that's completely legal. Please, show me one instance of a banned game in America.
America has a codified freedom of speech, which is more than you can say for some Western European countries. You'll never see a game banned from sale or distribution in the United States, for example.
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How about they fix the bloated, slow-to-load youtube.com homepage and replace it with something clean and simple like the Google homepage?
Every story posted today on Slashdot is either about science, technology, or law as it applies to technology. I'm not seeing where you're getting that.
Going to war when necessary to protect your nation's interests isn't rational?
But they're dead humans! I think it would be badass enough to excuse any human rights violations there.
Seriously, giant robots devouring the mangled corpses of our enemies? Yes, please!
Nah, eating junk food is enjoyable.
Digg has tech news? I thought it was all libertarianism and marijuana.
Because Wikipedia is a bastion of excellent writing, right?
What makes Apple special is that they made normal people actually want to buy MP3 players, not that they invented them. http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2008/03/10th-anniversay-of-the-mp3-player.php Look that those things, dammit.
Why is sticking to your beliefs a positive thing?
And they were all killed for being atheists, right? Right?
True, but that's not what I'm referring to.
Or you can make a good video game based on religious themes, mythology, and history, rather than one with religious messages. A lot of religious mythology would make pretty awesome settings for games.
If he wasn't drunk, he probably would have been much more likely to avoid the collision.
It's not the U.S. government doing this, it's huge-ass American corporations.
The scarcity of mod points helps a lot with the type of posts that get upvoted. I mean, I just saw a Digg article (well, picture) where the most dugg comment was "Ha Ha! That was pretty hilarious...and true.", in response to some 4chan meme image. The good thing about limited upvoting is that people will usually only upvote comments that are either particularly witty or of substance, not thoughtless drivel that inspires no conversation at all.
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I know the government is responsible for the drug issue, and I didn't make any comment on whether porn is harmless or not. My point was that government regulations designed to protect people from themselves tend to either be ineffective or infringing on rights. The middle ground is apparently very difficult to achieve. I mean, any high school student knows where they could get drugs or who they could ask if they wanted to know where to get them. Doesn't seem like those drug laws are working too well. Feel free to point out an example of government success in this area, but to my knowledge, government regulation of personal activities is basically ineffective.
Sure, if the parenting help from the government actually worked. Kids can still get a hold of drugs and they can still watch porn.
That's a messed up attitude to have. In my eyes, it amounts to "You should be willing to do everything publicly and personal privacy is completely worthless."
Maybe "hardly", but we still can. And even if we couldn't, we could show tits in any other medium we wanted. And on our news outlets... I don't have much to say about them. They do kinda blow.
They aren't banned by the government. Sale and distribution of them would be legal if any publisher wanted to release them. You can buy plenty of creepy Japanese hentai games online in America and that's completely legal. Please, show me one instance of a banned game in America.
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America has a codified freedom of speech, which is more than you can say for some Western European countries. You'll never see a game banned from sale or distribution in the United States, for example.
Stupid is the inability or lack of desire to learn.