Excuse me, Mr. Citizen? Would you mind not giving my child ready access to content he is not emotionally mature enough to handle? Thanks, I appreciate it.
It is a parent's job to prepare their children to handle such things. It is impossible to prevent a child access to sex, drugs, rock-n-roll or video games but you can prepare them for the eventuallity of exposure to them.
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As cool as it is, it's been done before, with a retired NASCAR and Dayton USA arcade game: force feedback in the steering wheel and seat, but with an arcade monitor mounted where the windshield would be.
People are interpreting the Turing Test way too liberally. Turing believed that if a human conversed in writing for 5 minutes with a computer without recognizing it as a computer, the computer was demonstrating intelligence. (the computer only has to fool 7 out of 10 humans to pass the test)
I don't see a clear analogy between a computer recognizing patterns that a handicapped human is unable to recognize. A computer demonstrating an ability that a human cannot do is not proof of intelligence.
Film used to break regularly when I was a kid and even now, interuptions by technical problems happen. It doesn't help to attribute pre-existing problems to Microsoft, just because they're Microsoft.
I wanted to switch. I tried. I read books, I installed, I participated on linux newsgroups, I tweaked, updated, etc, etc and I kept having to do it. The most frustrating part of using Linux is that you have to learn from geeks and geeks suck at teaching. It's like trying to learn guitar from a self taught musician. They can't teach what they know by instinct. My computer became about putzing with Linux instead of doing anything fun, so I gave up and installed XP. Now I can play games, all of my hardware works and I don't have an operating system for a hobby. Linux is for geeks and should stay for geeks.
Unlike most games, my daughter and I could sit down and play this together; both of us enjoying it. It wasn't too difficult for a 5 year old (or a 30 year old;) either.
I wanted to watch Andromeda, I was psyched when the series started, but I missed episodes frequently because of work. When I did have an opportunity to watch, the damn show didn't make any sense.
Call me dumb if you feel better, but the show just has shitty writing. Babylon 5, SG-1 both had deep stories, but you could enjoy and understand each individual episode (and learn something about the characters) with having seen the previous episodes.
As far as Enterprise is concerned, the acting and storyline are leaps and bounds ahead of the first season of STTNG.
A quick Google search found a NASA article concerning hydrogen powered aircraft vs. JP powered aircraft, I know the article is old but...
To sum it up: The JP fueled aircraft was 1/2 as long, but had 40% greater mass; 60% of the mass of the JP fueled aircraft was fuel, opposed hydrogen consuming 1/3 the mass of the hydrogen powered aircraft. The JP powered aircraft had 3/5 the range of the hydrogen powered aircraft.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-440 4/ ch6-7.htm
At this point, the last thing you need to do is shove more ads into people's faces trying to get them to buy your product. Instead of trying to force people to buy what you make, you should be making what people want to buy.
Often it's not the advertising departments fault. The brass screams "DO SOMETHING!" and they have to do something, even if it's the wrong thing, to keep their jobs intact. It starts at the top and rolls downhill.
If you want to play a game of us against them, then go right ahead. It just won't win any arguments against those with reasoning skills.
It isn't me who is setting law enforcement up as them. It isn't me talking victims out of pressing charges in the face of clear evidence, or pulling people over without just cause, or suggesting bribes, or sleeping instead of patrolling... If police want to stop being them, they need to realize who they really work for.
Cite specifically where I was bigotted.
See original post. Your comment suggests that law enforcement and/or people from smaller cities and towns are less sophisticated and more prone to racial predudice. Let me give you another definition, since you are fond of them:
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One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
If you want to see police officers who have performed selfless acts, I can easily top your list of anecdotel evidence. Go look up the thousand of police officers who have given their lives in the line of work.
I don't want to look it up. I want to see a police officer committing an act of selflessness, not with their lives of course (i.e. helping a little old lady across the street, giving a child a boost up to a water fountain, giving a stranded motorist a ride, anything) I've seen police officers with opportunities to do these things and I've seen them in every case, not do it.
You don't think it's selfless having to say goodbye to your family each morning, realizing that it's quite possible that you won't be returning at night? Do you think it's selfless to do this, knowing that people will view you as a fat pig?
I'm not impressed. We all leave loved ones every day. Police officers may be at higher risk than most, but they are not the only ones. I don't believe they do it out of selflessness, I believe they do it because they are controlling individuals who enjoy the power.
I don't mean to generalize and put all police officers in the same bag. I have met some who simply did their job, were polite and courteous and even respectful, but not many.
I'd also like to address the disgusting stereotype of police I have been reading around here.
Perhaps I'll change my view when I witness a police officer doing a selfless act.
I have witnessed:
Police officers hiding behind our office building sleeping at night
Police officers talking a woman out of pressing charges against a purse snatcher, even though there were witnesses, the license plate of the snatcher was recorded and the actual theft was captured on video camera.
Police officers regularly following me while I was riding my motorcycle (I once circled the same city block half a dozen times just to see how long the city police would follow)
Police officer pulling me over without reason
Police officers in plain clothes, without badges displayed, in unmarked cars, surrounding my house with guns drawn; scaring the hell out of my mother and me (I was about 14 at the time). Spending two hours at our house questioning us while the house down the street was robbed (furniture included). The police had transposed the house numbers.
Police officer once pulled me over and threatened to arrest me for attempted breaking and entering (I stopped to use a pay phone), public drunkeness (at the payphone) and driving while intoxicated (which was true, I was younger and dumber then) unless I wanted to hand over the 4 cases of beer sitting in the back seat (I'd make that trade any day). He then allowed me to go about my business. It was probably the most positive experience I've had with a cop.
Police department lost the report of my motorcycle being stolen (figures) and then harassing me after I commented, "I guess the thieves were never in danger of being caught." (It was an issue because the insurance company wouldn't pay since there was no police report) The investigating officer filed a new report and back-dated it so that I could collect my insurance.
I know that there are many good cops, I've just yet to meet one.
Only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of police harbor any racism or abuse their power, most of which residing in towns that only recently obtained indoor plumbing.
You defend police departments with your own bigotry openly displayed. I'm sure you get along great with your local police force.
Cops choose to do their job knowing that their lives are in danger every day. If this makes it easier for them to do their job, without worrying about some asshole posting a recording of their actions on the Internet without their permission, than I'm for it.
Just remember, you're not one of them. You may think my stories are extraordinary, or perhaps that I made them up or exaggerated them, but it could happen to you. Don't allow the checks and balances to be put aside in the name of public saftey.
Maybe I can patent the idea of extracting heavy metals from planetary or solar bodies, thus insuring my grandchildren a fat royalty payment when Mars is strip mined.
They should be disbanded and all the people should go off and get other jobs, which wouldn't be too hard (especially for the marketroids- yiiii). This would produce a wild flurry of venture capital and startups, and IT would get interesting again,
It would be the equivalent of being bombed back to the stone age. What direction would the innovation go? Apple is too stupid to port their OS to the PC, so the only viable alternative OS's would be Linux/Be/QNX based. Would you want to inflict Ma & Pa internet surfer with that?
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As cool as it is, it's been done before, with a retired NASCAR and Dayton USA arcade game: force feedback in the steering wheel and seat, but with an arcade monitor mounted where the windshield would be.
People are interpreting the Turing Test way too liberally. Turing believed that if a human conversed in writing for 5 minutes with a computer without recognizing it as a computer, the computer was demonstrating intelligence.
(the computer only has to fool 7 out of 10 humans to pass the test)
I don't see a clear analogy between a computer recognizing patterns that a handicapped human is unable to recognize. A computer demonstrating an ability that a human cannot do is not proof of intelligence.
Film used to break regularly when I was a kid and even now, interuptions by technical problems happen. It doesn't help to attribute pre-existing problems to Microsoft, just because they're Microsoft.
I wanted to switch. I tried. I read books, I installed, I participated on linux newsgroups, I tweaked, updated, etc, etc and I kept having to do it. The most frustrating part of using Linux is that you have to learn from geeks and geeks suck at teaching. It's like trying to learn guitar from a self taught musician. They can't teach what they know by instinct. My computer became about putzing with Linux instead of doing anything fun, so I gave up and installed XP. Now I can play games, all of my hardware works and I don't have an operating system for a hobby. Linux is for geeks and should stay for geeks.
Everybody started that way. Mosaic was sort like Noah and the Ark.
Netscape had been giving away their browser for free, as well
Let's just rewrite history shall we... There were a few exceptions, but Netscape was not technically free.
Unlike most games, my daughter and I could sit down and play this together; both of us enjoying it. It wasn't too difficult for a 5 year old (or a 30 year old ;) either.
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I wanted to watch Andromeda, I was psyched when the series started, but I missed episodes frequently because of work. When I did have an opportunity to watch, the damn show didn't make any sense.
Call me dumb if you feel better, but the show just has shitty writing. Babylon 5, SG-1 both had deep stories, but you could enjoy and understand each individual episode (and learn something about the characters) with having seen the previous episodes.
As far as Enterprise is concerned, the acting and storyline are leaps and bounds ahead of the first season of STTNG.
A quick Google search found a NASA article concerning hydrogen powered aircraft vs. JP powered aircraft, I know the article is old but...
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To sum it up: The JP fueled aircraft was 1/2 as long, but had 40% greater mass; 60% of the mass of the JP fueled aircraft was fuel, opposed hydrogen consuming 1/3 the mass of the hydrogen powered aircraft. The JP powered aircraft had 3/5 the range of the hydrogen powered aircraft.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-44
They stole Capt. Kirks words. Major lameness. What was Berman thinking, is he that desperate to make ST his own?
Often it's not the advertising departments fault. The brass screams "DO SOMETHING!" and they have to do something, even if it's the wrong thing, to keep their jobs intact. It starts at the top and rolls downhill.
It isn't me who is setting law enforcement up as them. It isn't me talking victims out of pressing charges in the face of clear evidence, or pulling people over without just cause, or suggesting bribes, or sleeping instead of patrolling... If police want to stop being them, they need to realize who they really work for.
Cite specifically where I was bigotted.
See original post. Your comment suggests that law enforcement and/or people from smaller cities and towns are less sophisticated and more prone to racial predudice. Let me give you another definition, since you are fond of them:
If you want to see police officers who have performed selfless acts, I can easily top your list of anecdotel evidence. Go look up the thousand of police officers who have given their lives in the line of work.I don't want to look it up. I want to see a police officer committing an act of selflessness, not with their lives of course (i.e. helping a little old lady across the street, giving a child a boost up to a water fountain, giving a stranded motorist a ride, anything) I've seen police officers with opportunities to do these things and I've seen them in every case, not do it.
You don't think it's selfless having to say goodbye to your family each morning, realizing that it's quite possible that you won't be returning at night? Do you think it's selfless to do this, knowing that people will view you as a fat pig?
I'm not impressed. We all leave loved ones every day. Police officers may be at higher risk than most, but they are not the only ones. I don't believe they do it out of selflessness, I believe they do it because they are controlling individuals who enjoy the power.
I don't mean to generalize and put all police officers in the same bag. I have met some who simply did their job, were polite and courteous and even respectful, but not many.
Perhaps I'll change my view when I witness a police officer doing a selfless act.
I have witnessed:
I know that there are many good cops, I've just yet to meet one.
Only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of police harbor any racism or abuse their power, most of which residing in towns that only recently obtained indoor plumbing.
You defend police departments with your own bigotry openly displayed. I'm sure you get along great with your local police force.
Cops choose to do their job knowing that their lives are in danger every day. If this makes it easier for them to do their job, without worrying about some asshole posting a recording of their actions on the Internet without their permission, than I'm for it.
Just remember, you're not one of them. You may think my stories are extraordinary, or perhaps that I made them up or exaggerated them, but it could happen to you. Don't allow the checks and balances to be put aside in the name of public saftey.
Maybe I can patent the idea of extracting heavy metals from planetary or solar bodies, thus insuring my grandchildren a fat royalty payment when Mars is strip mined.
They should be disbanded and all the people should go off and get other jobs, which wouldn't be too hard (especially for the marketroids- yiiii). This would produce a wild flurry of venture capital and startups, and IT would get interesting again,
It would be the equivalent of being bombed back to the stone age. What direction would the innovation go? Apple is too stupid to port their OS to the PC, so the only viable alternative OS's would be Linux/Be/QNX based. Would you want to inflict Ma & Pa internet surfer with that?
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