Check out the character QiRia in "The Hydrogen Sonata" by Iain Banks. The character is 10,000 years old and has converted much of his body into additional storage for memories.
There's a great urban legend from University College Dublin about a student that was expelled/reprimanded due to writing a program that installed itself on all the campus computers to perform a distributed processing something-or-other. He was able to, as needed, divert all processing power to a particular problem he was trying to do, some sort of modelling (like Folding at Home). It was noticed when every computer on campus froze up for 4-5 seconds whenever he'd run whatever it was he was doing.
The big question was, as a Comp Sci student, he wasn't immediately given a degree, but was instead punished for his actions.
My version of the analogy is that you walk INTO the bank and are asking the tellers how they go about arranging people's details. They tell you that it's all just in a box in the lobby, and people can search through it to find their own information. When you point out the obvious problem with this, you are expelled from the bank with instructions not to tell anyone that they have a significant flaw in how they store client data.
You make the mistake of splitting your argument into 2 points. They are one and the same thing. Piracy IS the method by which artists can bypass them and go directly to customers.
If they missed the moon, and it instead went straight on out into space to be picked up at random by an alien species. I suspect they want to display a false front.
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But I can unprint the murder weapon, make a plate and cutlery set and dine on the victim's liver with it.
Well, they've managed to demonstrate that Tom Cruise is an insufferable idiot.
That counts for something.
I recently 'met' Tom Cruise. He stayed for hours after a local movie premier meeting fans and signing autographs. He's far from insufferable, and most certainly not an idiot. He may have an over large ego but, given what he does for a living, that's not a major flaw. He has always been genuine to his fans and does a lot of charitable work. That counts for something too.
Police are expected to carry a gun in order to protect themselves from the threats right on our streets - why do you think we should be less armed when we walk down those same streets?
Your average Garda in Ireland doesn't carry a gun. Because s/he doesn't carry one, your average criminal doesn't bother having one. Because your average criminal doesn't have a gun, your average citizen doesn't require a gun.
Yeah, I know it's not scientifically proven, and some may say correlation is not causation, but the point stands. Yes Pandora's Box has been opened, and there's likely going to be no way back (all the Cops hung up their guns? yeah that'll be a laugh) but there is a lesson to be learned. It will be interesting to see the day when a Cop is tazered to death when the criminals adopt the tactics used by police forces.
That's part of what I like to call "The Han Solo Paradox" People try to explain away this line by saying that the faster a ship is the closer it can travel to gravity wells during hyperspace. Thus it can take a shorter route. An even faster ship will be able to take a more direct route. This happens because one of the key premises of this is that flying close to a gravity well simply pulls you out of warp. Han, meanwhile, explains to Luke that you can't simply jump to hyperspace willy-nilly, as "we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova". It depends on whether you want to take into your argument anything in the extended universe.
The way I see it, there are very few, how to put it, "Tools" that are illegal to own. Most things that are illegal to possess (drugs/explosives?) are chemically produced and thus I don't see a way a 3D printer can ever produce something illegal. If you wanted to 3D print an Atom bomb, the 3D printer is not going to help you do things that you can't already do, given that the harder part of making the bomb is not making a casing for it.
I suppose the question is, do you watch people who download an extended magazine blueprint, correlate that to other bits of information about them and determine a risk assessment? We already do this for, say, purchases of bomb components. If your creditcard bill showed purchases of fertiliser, ether, wires and batteries in short order, you should expect a visit from people in dark sunglasses, despite all the components individually being totally legal.
Build (or download) an extended magazine blueprint, pay your subscription to psychopaths monthly, blog about how you think "God has been taken out of our schools and something should be done about it" and perhaps it's fair to say someone should investigate?
That obviously opens up a nasty can of worms about how much we should surveil our own citizens, which I'm hoping not to get into a discussion about.
It should definitely be brought up in court after the fact, just like how internet searches of "how to dispose of teh bodiez" can be used to determine pre-meditation. But we don't ban, like another poster said, bleach and chlorine because it can be made into mustard gas.
Pretty sure the fairy bitch in Newtown had 30 round mags that he just reloaded halfway through.
Clearly a positive effect of playing video games. Everybody knows that pre-loading is a common symptom of gamers. The one exception of this appears to be Borderlands 2 which encourages certain characters (The Mechromancer and Gunzerker) to unload the full magazine.
And no, irony isn't negative. Irony is generally more humorous than anything else.
That really depends on the point of view. Observers think it funny, but the subject of the wisecrack may not. A lot of people mistake irony for hypocrisy. For example: When talking about an anti-alcohol advocate who's found drunk in a bar, the emphasis is on making fun at the expense of the hypercritical advocate.
So the inference is that Nintendo is doing something bad, by apparently not sticking to their morals of being a child-friendly games company, whereas it's irrelevant as you can't expect them to never release 18s+ games.
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Check out the character QiRia in "The Hydrogen Sonata" by Iain Banks. The character is 10,000 years old and has converted much of his body into additional storage for memories.
It's encrypted.
Any chance you'd put tags, or remove spoilers from the summary? You basically told people the entire plot of the game.
I'm tempted now to add a laugh track to the original Star Trek series.
I seriously suspect there is more to this story than is being reported... These professors that knew him voted him out of the school.
Wait, I know it's bad form to RTFA, sometimes even the full summary, but didn't you even catch his name?
There's a great urban legend from University College Dublin about a student that was expelled/reprimanded due to writing a program that installed itself on all the campus computers to perform a distributed processing something-or-other. He was able to, as needed, divert all processing power to a particular problem he was trying to do, some sort of modelling (like Folding at Home). It was noticed when every computer on campus froze up for 4-5 seconds whenever he'd run whatever it was he was doing.
The big question was, as a Comp Sci student, he wasn't immediately given a degree, but was instead punished for his actions.
My version of the analogy is that you walk INTO the bank and are asking the tellers how they go about arranging people's details. They tell you that it's all just in a box in the lobby, and people can search through it to find their own information. When you point out the obvious problem with this, you are expelled from the bank with instructions not to tell anyone that they have a significant flaw in how they store client data.
You make the mistake of splitting your argument into 2 points. They are one and the same thing. Piracy IS the method by which artists can bypass them and go directly to customers.
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If they missed the moon, and it instead went straight on out into space to be picked up at random by an alien species. I suspect they want to display a false front.
But I can unprint the murder weapon, make a plate and cutlery set and dine on the victim's liver with it.
My thoughts exactly. The first thing to receive this pill, will be the patent itself.
Naboo surely?
Well, they've managed to demonstrate that Tom Cruise is an insufferable idiot.
That counts for something.
I recently 'met' Tom Cruise. He stayed for hours after a local movie premier meeting fans and signing autographs. He's far from insufferable, and most certainly not an idiot. He may have an over large ego but, given what he does for a living, that's not a major flaw. He has always been genuine to his fans and does a lot of charitable work. That counts for something too.
When can we put Bruce Willis into storage?
Police are expected to carry a gun in order to protect themselves from the threats right on our streets - why do you think we should be less armed when we walk down those same streets?
Your average Garda in Ireland doesn't carry a gun. Because s/he doesn't carry one, your average criminal doesn't bother having one. Because your average criminal doesn't have a gun, your average citizen doesn't require a gun.
Yeah, I know it's not scientifically proven, and some may say correlation is not causation, but the point stands. Yes Pandora's Box has been opened, and there's likely going to be no way back (all the Cops hung up their guns? yeah that'll be a laugh) but there is a lesson to be learned. It will be interesting to see the day when a Cop is tazered to death when the criminals adopt the tactics used by police forces.
typo 1/6, not 1/3
If you are going ~1/3 the speed of light a red light at a traffic intersection would appear green.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/14/
That's part of what I like to call "The Han Solo Paradox" People try to explain away this line by saying that the faster a ship is the closer it can travel to gravity wells during hyperspace. Thus it can take a shorter route. An even faster ship will be able to take a more direct route. This happens because one of the key premises of this is that flying close to a gravity well simply pulls you out of warp. Han, meanwhile, explains to Luke that you can't simply jump to hyperspace willy-nilly, as "we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova". It depends on whether you want to take into your argument anything in the extended universe.
The way I see it, there are very few, how to put it, "Tools" that are illegal to own. Most things that are illegal to possess (drugs/explosives?) are chemically produced and thus I don't see a way a 3D printer can ever produce something illegal. If you wanted to 3D print an Atom bomb, the 3D printer is not going to help you do things that you can't already do, given that the harder part of making the bomb is not making a casing for it.
I suppose the question is, do you watch people who download an extended magazine blueprint, correlate that to other bits of information about them and determine a risk assessment? We already do this for, say, purchases of bomb components. If your creditcard bill showed purchases of fertiliser, ether, wires and batteries in short order, you should expect a visit from people in dark sunglasses, despite all the components individually being totally legal.
Build (or download) an extended magazine blueprint, pay your subscription to psychopaths monthly, blog about how you think "God has been taken out of our schools and something should be done about it" and perhaps it's fair to say someone should investigate?
That obviously opens up a nasty can of worms about how much we should surveil our own citizens, which I'm hoping not to get into a discussion about.
It should definitely be brought up in court after the fact, just like how internet searches of "how to dispose of teh bodiez" can be used to determine pre-meditation. But we don't ban, like another poster said, bleach and chlorine because it can be made into mustard gas.
Pretty sure the fairy bitch in Newtown had 30 round mags that he just reloaded halfway through.
Clearly a positive effect of playing video games. Everybody knows that pre-loading is a common symptom of gamers. The one exception of this appears to be Borderlands 2 which encourages certain characters (The Mechromancer and Gunzerker) to unload the full magazine.
"Ready to work."
"Work, work."
"Whaat?"
"Why not?"
"Me busy, leave me alone."
"No time for play."
"Me not that kind of Orc!"
Any expert on homeopathy will tell you that when it reaches 1-2 parts per trillion, it becomes extremely potent.
And no, irony isn't negative. Irony is generally more humorous than anything else.
That really depends on the point of view. Observers think it funny, but the subject of the wisecrack may not. A lot of people mistake irony for hypocrisy. For example: When talking about an anti-alcohol advocate who's found drunk in a bar, the emphasis is on making fun at the expense of the hypercritical advocate.
So the inference is that Nintendo is doing something bad, by apparently not sticking to their morals of being a child-friendly games company, whereas it's irrelevant as you can't expect them to never release 18s+ games.
That's all.
Are we going to get to see Thrawn?