It is more descriptive which is great (there write up that is, their classification is less), but they seem (on a sample of 1) completly in agreement with ESRB.
Inuyasha: Feudal combat (from heir front page) is: Explicitly Violent Explicitly Prophane and Suggestivly sexual No age judgement In a system that is unclear except for maybe the red (a logo that involved a stop light might make things more clear, but white being none is still hard to squees into the metaphore).
ESRB Teen (13+) Mild Language Suggestive Themes Violence
The only disagreement is in the language, but I would think the use of "damn it!" is mildly prophane. Also, what is graphic prophanity? That just doesn't make sense. It is like they wanted to do a 1,2,3,4 but decided to make it confusing, what they really need is three thermomiters with AO content showing it bursting M being topped and T being middle blah blah. Or a slider in a green to red gradient with a number next to it, so we can at a glance know the context of where this falls in the scheme.
Maybe i is because the DS sells itself AFAIN it still has sold more units and outsells teh PSP. Maybe PSP games/UMDs are far more prophitable for stores, maybe Sony pays stores for adds, and maybe more discs are sold per a PSP, but the DS is doing real well, and is still ignored because "gamers" ignore Nintendo, except for the ones that love them and don't need adds to keep on top of it.
I will start by saying I very sorly wanted Bush to lose that election, and I am not unconvinced there were no problems, but you are stating the SCOTUS's ruling worse than it was (as you are saying other people did).
the SCOTUS simply said (to my understanding) two things: first time (paraphrased) "You [Florida Government] have the right to decide this how you want, but please really make sure you do the right thing, we are not sure that you did."
and then the second time "You [Democrats/Gore] cannot force us to make the state do what it doesn't want with its voting rules, it is not our place"
Never did SCOTUS rule against a third recount, they simply said it is Florida's job to decide and they interpret their [state] constitution as not requiring a third recount, and under the circumstances they do not think it is needed.
The problems with that election were IMO due to a non-consistant deployment of voting machines throughout the state, and idiots approving the butterfly ballot. Some districts with old equipment had 3% vote rejection rates, this is not a big problem if it is consistant (I am not a statistician, but I would think the statistical change from throughinhg out a random 3% of millions of votes is really small), but some districts that were 90% Gore had ~3% lost in the machine count, while other districts that had new machines had far under 1% lost, that couses an undercounting of Gore votes relative.
There were also of course the irregularities caused by the media when they announced a winner while polls were open, forcing the state to keep polls open later than usually in a state of dis-array.
These things are no parties fault. I truly believe it is impossible to know with certainty who won that election, but I do think a lot of idiots voted for Buccanin that did not want to, and it probably would have changed the outcome, sucks for me, but nothing can be done. There are so many ambiguities that would need to be decided in court that it is impossible to know how a hand recount would go.
long rant blah, don't do what you accuse others of doing when you defend SCOTUS.
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Yes, but pistol, shotgun and civil war gun (the lower penetrating power weapons) were the most effective. The stronger more powerful guns were worse.
Of course I would have liked to see a retest of the guns shot vertically, but it was still very suprising to see the bullets literally shatter on impact with the water.
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Where is a good resource that that doubting is falsified?
I tried to find some and the more convincing things bits of no landing evindence were never mentioned (the crosses being obscured, and shadows in the wrong directions. The NASA site mentions some straw man arguments that noone I know even had heard before, which unfortunatly only gives credibility to the doubters, and certainly does not help NASA.
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Even more suprising was that it was especially illegal guns with high calliburs.
You buy gold coins and can spend them to do things that earn you in game money/fun. You can also sell them to other people and buy them from other people with in game money, which means if you are good you can play for free, and if you are rich you can buy expensive clothing.
Anyway, I thought it fit right into the idea of fun unit.
Except if there was a price he was willing to sell the code for rights to use in a closed source app that price would be the damages, no matter how crazy the price was, since it is in a closed source app and he got nothing.
Well, realistic violence is incredimbly disturbing, but most games have very cartoonish violence. I don;t know of any games rated M because of sexual content, but I can imagine it would be mor elikly to be portrayed realistically, thus keeping it further from the realm of un-reality.
OK, I lie, the stupedist, most cartoony sex I have seen portrayed in a while got a game an AO rating, so I am full of shit, but still a system like that would let me make the choice anyway.
I would personally like a way to lock all M game sand then selectivly unlock specific games after reviewing them.
Except good parenting will curb those desires and keep them at least within healthy levels.
And I think you will find that most teens (at least that I knew) sexually experimented far less, and intoxicated themselves far less then they wanted to. Due to a combination of non-oblivious parents, laws, girls not experimenting with them, and a sense of responisbility.
Believe it or not, it is harder for a teen to get an R rated movie than a PG 13 one, and harder to get a beer than a coke. It is moving that way with games too.
There are still front pages and thick pads of information. It is the same problem, newspapers and websites should make retractions/corrections more obvious, but both mediums have limited prominent space, as you allude to on the web.
You are installing "Extra Content". The one big advantage is you can neglect to give the password to children and they can't go on a mad free stuff binge fucking your computer for good.
So, what your saying is one expample per a century or so makes the whole system broken?
The patent system has achieved what it was meant to do from the start, with a few terrible blemishes and more smaller ones.
A great example of someone who was spurred on by the idea of prophitting from patents to do great things is Thomas Eddison, who had many inventions of varying importance, and did it because he could dedicate his time to it full time.
The benifit he had that we don't have now is that all of the breakthroughs that didn't have an application were not patented, so electricity research was able to move along. Currently every breakthrough weather immediatly useful or not is getting patented, precenting others from taking the idea to a marketable point. My understanding is that many of the gene patents work this way, they have no real use yet, but noone can use those genes to find a use without liscensing the patent. The way it should work is that the uses of those genes gets patented and anyone can try to find them.
Fair enough, my impression was that they used to be 17 years and renewable nearly for ever (in some cases), and within the last year or two it was changed to be a set 20 years from original fileing.
One could also say "What a wonderful America the last 30 years of relativly uninterrupted Democratic rule in either the Presidency, Congress, or both has created."
Maybe not quite as long, and not recently, but for a long while it was president one side, congress the other.
Don't they only last 17 years with no renewal now?
I am a little confused as to the rest of your statement with that a the premise that length is shortening.
Part of the problem is that discoveries are being patented (algorythems), and patents exist for vague concepts that don't have any real implementation (I think Dr Phil has one for a computer program that does not exist), and things that are covered by other protections (software), and the recent boom in technology (17 years seems longer).
The last one is most likly cyclic (the turn of last century saw automobile to flight in less then a generation), the others are real problems.
The scientists seem to be running into the problem of things that don't have a useful implementation, they can't build on the rudimentery concept because it is patented, so we need to wait 17 years for the next step to be developed, and then maybe again for something useful. This happened in the aeronoughtics (ugh that is spelt bad) industry in the US and allowed Europe a big advantage as the patents were more or less ignored.
One possible solution is to require institutions receiving public funds to open all research to everybody, but that has the risk of further commercializing universities, as larger public ones already get nearly as much from private grants as public funding. Another is to give pure research not for profit institutions amnesty from patent law and sort out the royalties on the back side. Patents could be built on almost light copyright, where the writer andartist both have a claim to a song, but more complexity is probably not the answer either.
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How is their system so much better?
It is more descriptive which is great (there write up that is, their classification is less), but they seem (on a sample of 1) completly in agreement with ESRB.
Inuyasha: Feudal combat (from heir front page) is:
Explicitly Violent
Explicitly Prophane and
Suggestivly sexual
No age judgement
In a system that is unclear except for maybe the red (a logo that involved a stop light might make things more clear, but white being none is still hard to squees into the metaphore).
ESRB
Teen (13+)
Mild Language
Suggestive Themes
Violence
The only disagreement is in the language, but I would think the use of "damn it!" is mildly prophane. Also, what is graphic prophanity? That just doesn't make sense. It is like they wanted to do a 1,2,3,4 but decided to make it confusing, what they really need is three thermomiters with AO content showing it bursting M being topped and T being middle blah blah. Or a slider in a green to red gradient with a number next to it, so we can at a glance know the context of where this falls in the scheme.
Maybe i is because the DS sells itself AFAIN it still has sold more units and outsells teh PSP. Maybe PSP games/UMDs are far more prophitable for stores, maybe Sony pays stores for adds, and maybe more discs are sold per a PSP, but the DS is doing real well, and is still ignored because "gamers" ignore Nintendo, except for the ones that love them and don't need adds to keep on top of it.
I will start by saying I very sorly wanted Bush to lose that election, and I am not unconvinced there were no problems, but you are stating the SCOTUS's ruling worse than it was (as you are saying other people did).
the SCOTUS simply said (to my understanding) two things:
first time (paraphrased) "You [Florida Government] have the right to decide this how you want, but please really make sure you do the right thing, we are not sure that you did."
and then the second time "You [Democrats/Gore] cannot force us to make the state do what it doesn't want with its voting rules, it is not our place"
Never did SCOTUS rule against a third recount, they simply said it is Florida's job to decide and they interpret their [state] constitution as not requiring a third recount, and under the circumstances they do not think it is needed.
The problems with that election were IMO due to a non-consistant deployment of voting machines throughout the state, and idiots approving the butterfly ballot. Some districts with old equipment had 3% vote rejection rates, this is not a big problem if it is consistant (I am not a statistician, but I would think the statistical change from throughinhg out a random 3% of millions of votes is really small), but some districts that were 90% Gore had ~3% lost in the machine count, while other districts that had new machines had far under 1% lost, that couses an undercounting of Gore votes relative.
There were also of course the irregularities caused by the media when they announced a winner while polls were open, forcing the state to keep polls open later than usually in a state of dis-array.
These things are no parties fault. I truly believe it is impossible to know with certainty who won that election, but I do think a lot of idiots voted for Buccanin that did not want to, and it probably would have changed the outcome, sucks for me, but nothing can be done. There are so many ambiguities that would need to be decided in court that it is impossible to know how a hand recount would go.
long rant blah, don't do what you accuse others of doing when you defend SCOTUS.
Yes, but pistol, shotgun and civil war gun (the lower penetrating power weapons) were the most effective. The stronger more powerful guns were worse.
Of course I would have liked to see a retest of the guns shot vertically, but it was still very suprising to see the bullets literally shatter on impact with the water.
Where is a good resource that that doubting is falsified?
I tried to find some and the more convincing things bits of no landing evindence were never mentioned (the crosses being obscured, and shadows in the wrong directions. The NASA site mentions some straw man arguments that noone I know even had heard before, which unfortunatly only gives credibility to the doubters, and certainly does not help NASA.
Even more suprising was that it was especially illegal guns with high calliburs.
Puzzle Pirates works that way.
You buy gold coins and can spend them to do things that earn you in game money/fun. You can also sell them to other people and buy them from other people with in game money, which means if you are good you can play for free, and if you are rich you can buy expensive clothing.
Anyway, I thought it fit right into the idea of fun unit.
Well they don't need to tell us. We already know that Pentium technology "makes the internet faster". It would be redundant to tell us again.
does Broken Saints count as a comic?
It's awsome.
I was named Turok you insensitive clod!
Except if there was a price he was willing to sell the code for rights to use in a closed source app that price would be the damages, no matter how crazy the price was, since it is in a closed source app and he got nothing.
Sony violated the (L)GPL just as much. It is the distribution that breaks the GPL ans Sony distributed many many copies.
Well, realistic violence is incredimbly disturbing, but most games have very cartoonish violence. I don;t know of any games rated M because of sexual content, but I can imagine it would be mor elikly to be portrayed realistically, thus keeping it further from the realm of un-reality.
OK, I lie, the stupedist, most cartoony sex I have seen portrayed in a while got a game an AO rating, so I am full of shit, but still a system like that would let me make the choice anyway.
I would personally like a way to lock all M game sand then selectivly unlock specific games after reviewing them.
If we are talking about x86 there is a signifigant improvement from 32 to 64 bit.
It has to do with the fact that the 64 bit instructions clean up a lot of the mess (including removing the 16 bit ones) and add extra pipelines.
Except good parenting will curb those desires and keep them at least within healthy levels.
And I think you will find that most teens (at least that I knew) sexually experimented far less, and intoxicated themselves far less then they wanted to. Due to a combination of non-oblivious parents, laws, girls not experimenting with them, and a sense of responisbility.
Believe it or not, it is harder for a teen to get an R rated movie than a PG 13 one, and harder to get a beer than a coke. It is moving that way with games too.
Do you mean the problem is you can't use it in stealth rootkits because everyone would be warned or the distributer is comitting copyright violation?
To me this appears to be a case that the LGPL is doing its job well.
The irony of things is that every CD distributed with help prevent infringement software is in itself a copyright violation.
First, they bent over. Then they reached in their ass. Lastly they published it as fact.
There are still front pages and thick pads of information. It is the same problem, newspapers and websites should make retractions/corrections more obvious, but both mediums have limited prominent space, as you allude to on the web.
You're not just installing putting in a CD.
You are installing "Extra Content". The one big advantage is you can neglect to give the password to children and they can't go on a mad free stuff binge fucking your computer for good.
So, what your saying is one expample per a century or so makes the whole system broken?
The patent system has achieved what it was meant to do from the start, with a few terrible blemishes and more smaller ones.
A great example of someone who was spurred on by the idea of prophitting from patents to do great things is Thomas Eddison, who had many inventions of varying importance, and did it because he could dedicate his time to it full time.
The benifit he had that we don't have now is that all of the breakthroughs that didn't have an application were not patented, so electricity research was able to move along. Currently every breakthrough weather immediatly useful or not is getting patented, precenting others from taking the idea to a marketable point. My understanding is that many of the gene patents work this way, they have no real use yet, but noone can use those genes to find a use without liscensing the patent. The way it should work is that the uses of those genes gets patented and anyone can try to find them.
Fair enough, my impression was that they used to be 17 years and renewable nearly for ever (in some cases), and within the last year or two it was changed to be a set 20 years from original fileing.
I agree.
Everybody hate lawyers 'till there doctor accidently amputates their penis, and then a drunk driver leaves them paralyzed.
One could also say "What a wonderful America the last 30 years of relativly uninterrupted Democratic rule in either the Presidency, Congress, or both has created."
Maybe not quite as long, and not recently, but for a long while it was president one side, congress the other.
Don't they only last 17 years with no renewal now?
I am a little confused as to the rest of your statement with that a the premise that length is shortening.
Part of the problem is that discoveries are being patented (algorythems), and patents exist for vague concepts that don't have any real implementation (I think Dr Phil has one for a computer program that does not exist), and things that are covered by other protections (software), and the recent boom in technology (17 years seems longer).
The last one is most likly cyclic (the turn of last century saw automobile to flight in less then a generation), the others are real problems.
The scientists seem to be running into the problem of things that don't have a useful implementation, they can't build on the rudimentery concept because it is patented, so we need to wait 17 years for the next step to be developed, and then maybe again for something useful. This happened in the aeronoughtics (ugh that is spelt bad) industry in the US and allowed Europe a big advantage as the patents were more or less ignored.
One possible solution is to require institutions receiving public funds to open all research to everybody, but that has the risk of further commercializing universities, as larger public ones already get nearly as much from private grants as public funding. Another is to give pure research not for profit institutions amnesty from patent law and sort out the royalties on the back side. Patents could be built on almost light copyright, where the writer andartist both have a claim to a song, but more complexity is probably not the answer either.
There is a reason RedHat is mainly a server distro.
Wow, times have changed.