The U.S. really needs to have a single system for rating all media for age appropriateness and content, and enforce it at the distribution level. Movies have a rating, TV shows have a rating with a code for content (FV for fantasy violence, D for dialog, etc.), games have their own rating, but magazines and music, to my knowledge, do not. The only one that can't really be controlled is the internet.
Ideally, parents would know what their children are doing 24/7, and be able to determine for themselves what is appropriate for their children. We all know that no parent can actually do that. It's simlply impossible. That's why these ratings need to be enforced. Selling or distributing these things needs to be enforced like the ban on selling alcohol or cigarettes to minors is enforced. Sure, the enforcement isn't 100% effective, as kids still smoke cigarette butts off the street, sneak into their parents' liquor cabinet, or get their older siblings to purchase them for them. But the ban and enforcement is, for the most part, effective enough. The major difference, however, needs to be that enforcement ends with the sale or distribution of this media, and does not actually outlaw the act of kids playing these games or watching these movies (like alcohol and cigarettes are). That should be up to the parents to decide.
It's also a country known for establishing colonies, then angering with their overbearing government, to the point of inducing rebellion and the formation of a new superpower.
Weed out the paranoid crazies through whole-house asphyxiation? Brilliant! At least they will keep their stockpiled food fresh for mutant-me to break in and eat.
You don't even have to know the law to be sure - a child could tell you that it's unethical and wrong.
Call me cynical, but law doesn't often follow ethics. There are so many instances where something is "wrong," but not illegal, for me to even begin citing them. Okay, I'll give you one. Adultery. Sure, there are some places where it is outlawed, but what percentage of instances does it fall into the realm of the illegal? At any time, if I were to have improper relations with a neighbor, I would not be breaking a law. It would be about as unethical as any civilized society could imagine, but not illegal.
Back on the topic at hand, yes, it was unethical for Gizmodo to do this. Did they know it was illegal? Possibly, but not necessarily. Even if they did know, I'm sure they did a cost/benefit analysis, and determined that the benefit outweighed the punitive damages. What a wicked world we live in, where someone weighs the cost of doing something unethical, against the gains for doing it.
Seriously, of all the body parts for scientists to figure out how to grow, the head has to be the least important one. When the head is gone, you just harvest the organs for others people to use. If a person needs a new head, then you really need a person. If you can figure out how to grow extremities or organs, then you're onto something!
Better yet, grow me a whole new body, sans brain, and transplant mine. That'd be awesome!
In 1963, a group of scientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio,[3] led by Robert J. White, a neurosurgeon and a professor of neurological surgery who was inspired by the work of Vladimir Demikhov, performed a highly controversial operation to transplant the head of one monkey onto another's body. The procedure was a success to some extent, with the animal being able to smell, taste, hear, and see the world around it. The operation involved cauterizing arteries and veins carefully while the head was being severed to prevent hypovolemia. Because the nerves were left entirely intact, connecting the brain to a blood supply kept it chemically alive. The animal survived for some time after the operation, even at times attempting to bite some of the staff.[4] In 2001, Dr. White successfully repeated the operation on a monkey.[5]
Now that I think about it more, it may have even been the body of one monkey, and the head of another. It's been at least ten years since I saw the documentary, so I could be very wrong about that part. And yes, there was lots of video footage showing the monkey during the whole procedure, from preparation to death.
It's not the same, but I saw a documentary about a decapitated monkey. The researches removed the head from the monkey, and attached a whole set of tubes from the head to the body for blood flow, but the airways and nervous system was 'disconnected.' The body was on artificial life support systems. The monkey was kept alive for a significant period of time. It was at least half a day, maybe several days (I can't recall), before they decided to kill it. The monkey would look around, follow objects with its eyes, and kept opening and closing its mouth like it was trying to gasp for air or 'speak.' This kind of research was soon considered unethical, so no further research was done.
Now, if there were a way to reattach the nervous system, and not have the various head tissues be rejected by the body, then full head transplants would be potentially doable. At least it has been shown that a head can be kept alive, separate from the body, long enough to do a transplant, and with negligible, if any, brain damage. For monkeys, at least.
The charge doesn't make sense to me. I read the article, and I don't understand what the charge means. I would think that "falsely reporting an incident" would be something like calling 911 when you don't have an emergency. Or perhaps it would be reporting to police that you were mugged by someone, when you were not actually mugged at all. He made a joke post on craiglist about selling his kids, and he gets hit with a charge of "falsely reporting an incident?"
What about Benadryl? Also ugly and painful. One of my best friends in HS killed himself on that stuff after doing something really stupid (kissing the newlywed wife of another friend). Vomitting, convulsions, and other nastiness, eventually leading to his heart stopping. I don't doubt that there are certain questions surrounding the circumstances of this man's death, but ugly and painful suicides happen quite often.
its not as if the guy picked up the ball with his hand and threw it, he sliced it while playing golf. He is not Tiger Woods, he can't hit the guy with the ball at will, it was an accident, and EVERY single golf player expects as normal part of the game that they might be hit by a ball
Read the article. They were in the middle of Seattle, late at night, drunk from bar hopping, hitting a foam ball around in the streets. Actually, they were hitting the ball from bar to bar, drinking at each stop. They then went on to mock the guy who got hit. I don't walk around a city at night, heading home from a movie theatre, expecting to get hit in the face/head by a foam ball. I might expect to be gunned down and my kid growing up to be a rich insomniac vigilante.
If I were on a 'public' golf course, in the middle of the day, then no, I wouldn't be surprised if I got hit by a golf ball, though I would expect to hear 'fore' before getting hit.
I'm glad that he went after the SPD, and didn't back down until he exposed their deceipt.
Additionally, he and his companions should have been arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, but not for refusing to ID himself. Oh, and the one that hit the other guy in the face with the foam ball should have been arrested for assault. They were all a bunch of hooligans, and a public nuisance.
I used Numara Track-It! for a few years while doing desktop/server admin. There are some nice auditing tools in there which grab all the hardware and software info automatically. It is highly configurable too. I'm sure there are better solutions out there, but that is what I used.
X-COM was, and still is, the greatest game ever created. Even with the horrendous graphics, by today's standards, it's an awesome game. I break it out every couple of years. If the game simply ran natively on today's hardware, and had higher resolution graphics (no 3D, just hi-res sprites), I would be absolutely giddy (and I don't get giddy. Ever).
[...]When you download games from Steam you don't get the manual either.[...]
That's one of the (several) reasons I don't download games from Steam. I buy games, with packaging, and expect a physical manual, even if it is rather worthless. To me, they're a part of the whole package that I buy (not pay for a license). I still have my first PC game CD, with the box and manual. It was Age of Empires. Yeah, I'm a latecomer, I know. Those are the sort of things you don't throw away. They're a bit of nostalgia that remind you of the fun times in life; like photographs from your favorite vacation, 20+ years ago.
I spent many hours, and many dollars on Battletech, during my HS years. The only way I could describe it to an outsider was to say "it's like chess, but 100x better." The problem was knowing all the rules, because a single turn could take 15 minutes, easily. Depending on how many mechs, vehicles, and troops were in play, a single turn could take well over an hour. Now, if all that could be streamlined into a turn-based computer version, then I would be in nerdvana. Or an MMO version of MechWarrior... [drool]. I remember beta testing one some time ago, where you had to engage in 15 minute FPS mech battles to earn credits and rating. When you earned enough of both, you could purchase newer, heavier mechs, and better weapon tech. Too bad the game folded before leaving beta. 8^(
I'm guessing it's the latter. They probably fall into the category of dietary supplements. They are not proven to be effective, but that doesn't mean they can't hint (strongly) at some benefit. X-Ray glasses are just a toy, and an e-meter is just a religious artifact.
On average, PhD.s have much healthier brains than most people, even in their 90s or older. They have less incidence of dementia, alzheimers(sp?), and other forms of mental illness. Studies have shown that taking courses at community college, or learning a new language, can help sustain one's mental health in retirement.
I've always found that the "brain training" games are like memorizing multiplication tables, whereas true learning is like understanding that multiplication is a form of addition. Once I know how to learn, I can figure out whatever I need to. Once I learned that multiplication is a form of addition, I could multiply just about any number without having to memorize tables. I'd rather have understanding, which is slower but more robust and flexible, than memorization, which is faster but limited to the details that are memorized.
Documentum works well, but requires user login. It's got all the features you're asking for, but it does cost quite a bit, and support is rather slim. Actually, I am having a hard time imagining why you wouldn't want a user to log in. If you don't, then anyone can get access to whatever they want.
It was probably her imagination, not reality, that did it. Imagination is based in a person's brain, and snuck into her consciousness. Definitely not reality, though. Reality is actually scarier than her imagination.
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The U.S. really needs to have a single system for rating all media for age appropriateness and content, and enforce it at the distribution level. Movies have a rating, TV shows have a rating with a code for content (FV for fantasy violence, D for dialog, etc.), games have their own rating, but magazines and music, to my knowledge, do not. The only one that can't really be controlled is the internet.
Ideally, parents would know what their children are doing 24/7, and be able to determine for themselves what is appropriate for their children. We all know that no parent can actually do that. It's simlply impossible. That's why these ratings need to be enforced. Selling or distributing these things needs to be enforced like the ban on selling alcohol or cigarettes to minors is enforced. Sure, the enforcement isn't 100% effective, as kids still smoke cigarette butts off the street, sneak into their parents' liquor cabinet, or get their older siblings to purchase them for them. But the ban and enforcement is, for the most part, effective enough. The major difference, however, needs to be that enforcement ends with the sale or distribution of this media, and does not actually outlaw the act of kids playing these games or watching these movies (like alcohol and cigarettes are). That should be up to the parents to decide.
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
/. Where you get modded -1 Overrated for simply having a positive karma. 8^P
It's also a country known for establishing colonies, then angering with their overbearing government, to the point of inducing rebellion and the formation of a new superpower.
Weed out the paranoid crazies through whole-house asphyxiation? Brilliant! At least they will keep their stockpiled food fresh for mutant-me to break in and eat.
You don't even have to know the law to be sure - a child could tell you that it's unethical and wrong.
Call me cynical, but law doesn't often follow ethics. There are so many instances where something is "wrong," but not illegal, for me to even begin citing them. Okay, I'll give you one. Adultery. Sure, there are some places where it is outlawed, but what percentage of instances does it fall into the realm of the illegal? At any time, if I were to have improper relations with a neighbor, I would not be breaking a law. It would be about as unethical as any civilized society could imagine, but not illegal.
Back on the topic at hand, yes, it was unethical for Gizmodo to do this. Did they know it was illegal? Possibly, but not necessarily. Even if they did know, I'm sure they did a cost/benefit analysis, and determined that the benefit outweighed the punitive damages. What a wicked world we live in, where someone weighs the cost of doing something unethical, against the gains for doing it.
Seriously, of all the body parts for scientists to figure out how to grow, the head has to be the least important one. When the head is gone, you just harvest the organs for others people to use. If a person needs a new head, then you really need a person. If you can figure out how to grow extremities or organs, then you're onto something!
Better yet, grow me a whole new body, sans brain, and transplant mine. That'd be awesome!
Here we go. From Wikipedia:
In 1963, a group of scientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio,[3] led by Robert J. White, a neurosurgeon and a professor of neurological surgery who was inspired by the work of Vladimir Demikhov, performed a highly controversial operation to transplant the head of one monkey onto another's body. The procedure was a success to some extent, with the animal being able to smell, taste, hear, and see the world around it. The operation involved cauterizing arteries and veins carefully while the head was being severed to prevent hypovolemia. Because the nerves were left entirely intact, connecting the brain to a blood supply kept it chemically alive. The animal survived for some time after the operation, even at times attempting to bite some of the staff.[4] In 2001, Dr. White successfully repeated the operation on a monkey.[5]
Now that I think about it more, it may have even been the body of one monkey, and the head of another. It's been at least ten years since I saw the documentary, so I could be very wrong about that part. And yes, there was lots of video footage showing the monkey during the whole procedure, from preparation to death.
It's not the same, but I saw a documentary about a decapitated monkey. The researches removed the head from the monkey, and attached a whole set of tubes from the head to the body for blood flow, but the airways and nervous system was 'disconnected.' The body was on artificial life support systems. The monkey was kept alive for a significant period of time. It was at least half a day, maybe several days (I can't recall), before they decided to kill it. The monkey would look around, follow objects with its eyes, and kept opening and closing its mouth like it was trying to gasp for air or 'speak.' This kind of research was soon considered unethical, so no further research was done.
Now, if there were a way to reattach the nervous system, and not have the various head tissues be rejected by the body, then full head transplants would be potentially doable. At least it has been shown that a head can be kept alive, separate from the body, long enough to do a transplant, and with negligible, if any, brain damage. For monkeys, at least.
The charge doesn't make sense to me. I read the article, and I don't understand what the charge means. I would think that "falsely reporting an incident" would be something like calling 911 when you don't have an emergency. Or perhaps it would be reporting to police that you were mugged by someone, when you were not actually mugged at all. He made a joke post on craiglist about selling his kids, and he gets hit with a charge of "falsely reporting an incident?"
What about Benadryl? Also ugly and painful. One of my best friends in HS killed himself on that stuff after doing something really stupid (kissing the newlywed wife of another friend). Vomitting, convulsions, and other nastiness, eventually leading to his heart stopping. I don't doubt that there are certain questions surrounding the circumstances of this man's death, but ugly and painful suicides happen quite often.
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its not as if the guy picked up the ball with his hand and threw it, he sliced it while playing golf. He is not Tiger Woods, he can't hit the guy with the ball at will, it was an accident, and EVERY single golf player expects as normal part of the game that they might be hit by a ball
Read the article. They were in the middle of Seattle, late at night, drunk from bar hopping, hitting a foam ball around in the streets. Actually, they were hitting the ball from bar to bar, drinking at each stop. They then went on to mock the guy who got hit. I don't walk around a city at night, heading home from a movie theatre, expecting to get hit in the face/head by a foam ball. I might expect to be gunned down and my kid growing up to be a rich insomniac vigilante.
If I were on a 'public' golf course, in the middle of the day, then no, I wouldn't be surprised if I got hit by a golf ball, though I would expect to hear 'fore' before getting hit.
I'm glad that he went after the SPD, and didn't back down until he exposed their deceipt.
Additionally, he and his companions should have been arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, but not for refusing to ID himself. Oh, and the one that hit the other guy in the face with the foam ball should have been arrested for assault. They were all a bunch of hooligans, and a public nuisance.
I used Numara Track-It! for a few years while doing desktop/server admin. There are some nice auditing tools in there which grab all the hardware and software info automatically. It is highly configurable too. I'm sure there are better solutions out there, but that is what I used.
X-COM was, and still is, the greatest game ever created. Even with the horrendous graphics, by today's standards, it's an awesome game. I break it out every couple of years. If the game simply ran natively on today's hardware, and had higher resolution graphics (no 3D, just hi-res sprites), I would be absolutely giddy (and I don't get giddy. Ever).
[...]When you download games from Steam you don't get the manual either.[...]
That's one of the (several) reasons I don't download games from Steam. I buy games, with packaging, and expect a physical manual, even if it is rather worthless. To me, they're a part of the whole package that I buy (not pay for a license). I still have my first PC game CD, with the box and manual. It was Age of Empires. Yeah, I'm a latecomer, I know. Those are the sort of things you don't throw away. They're a bit of nostalgia that remind you of the fun times in life; like photographs from your favorite vacation, 20+ years ago.
I spent many hours, and many dollars on Battletech, during my HS years. The only way I could describe it to an outsider was to say "it's like chess, but 100x better." The problem was knowing all the rules, because a single turn could take 15 minutes, easily. Depending on how many mechs, vehicles, and troops were in play, a single turn could take well over an hour. Now, if all that could be streamlined into a turn-based computer version, then I would be in nerdvana. Or an MMO version of MechWarrior... [drool]. I remember beta testing one some time ago, where you had to engage in 15 minute FPS mech battles to earn credits and rating. When you earned enough of both, you could purchase newer, heavier mechs, and better weapon tech. Too bad the game folded before leaving beta. 8^(
I'm guessing it's the latter. They probably fall into the category of dietary supplements. They are not proven to be effective, but that doesn't mean they can't hint (strongly) at some benefit. X-Ray glasses are just a toy, and an e-meter is just a religious artifact.
On average, PhD.s have much healthier brains than most people, even in their 90s or older. They have less incidence of dementia, alzheimers(sp?), and other forms of mental illness. Studies have shown that taking courses at community college, or learning a new language, can help sustain one's mental health in retirement.
I've always found that the "brain training" games are like memorizing multiplication tables, whereas true learning is like understanding that multiplication is a form of addition. Once I know how to learn, I can figure out whatever I need to. Once I learned that multiplication is a form of addition, I could multiply just about any number without having to memorize tables. I'd rather have understanding, which is slower but more robust and flexible, than memorization, which is faster but limited to the details that are memorized.
Documentum works well, but requires user login. It's got all the features you're asking for, but it does cost quite a bit, and support is rather slim. Actually, I am having a hard time imagining why you wouldn't want a user to log in. If you don't, then anyone can get access to whatever they want.
Catholicism != Christianity. Catholicism is based on Christianity, but is far more "Roman Empire" than Christian.
It was probably her imagination, not reality, that did it. Imagination is based in a person's brain, and snuck into her consciousness. Definitely not reality, though. Reality is actually scarier than her imagination.
Except that KKK is not Christian any more than I am the King of England. Just because I say I am, doesn't make it so.