We've got an Open Source project called Gemsites, a standards-compliant slashcode clone. It's not church, but we really need people!! I will write pre-dated recommendation letters for a small fee!:-)
"Again, most of the acid will end up in the oceans."
I just saw Nemo with the family recently. Doesn't this statement distrub you a little?
Think of the reefs, the fish, the entire ocean ecosystem. Maybe in 50 years it's okay, but by that time, we could have many layers of this embedded in dumps, landfills and the like.
The solution has always been to eliminate emissions altogether with technology such as energy fueled vehicles with zero emisions.
I meant that when you have 5600 layers of this shit all over every city, are we looking at a serious problem? Yeah one layer works, but nobody knows what the long term effect of this will be, except us cynics, right?:-)
Sure this sounds like great news. Here comes the science...
What happens when the paint is saturated? Sure it works to a point, but will additional coats of paint over revitalize production, or are we looking at a long term problem when the paint fails and begins soaking up noxious chemicals that could leak and cause a really nasty effect on the environment? Furthermore, did anyone read this sentence in the article and become slightly shocked? "The acid is then either washed away in rain, or neutralised by the alkaline calcium carbonate particles, producing harmless quantities of carbon dioxide, water and calcium nitrate, which will also wash away."
So it either causes acid rain, or it cleans the environment?:-)
... does anyone know how to authenticate a user *without* email? We get users from hotmail all the time saying they could not register because they never got the email.
How will this affect websites sending their users emails from requested sources?
Like I'm the programmer of Gemsites, a Slashdot clone. When we register a user, we shoot them an email. So are we going to have to pay money to do that?
Because that would be totally stupid, and it would possibly put an end to discussion websites that require logons to validate users, unless there was a method to bypass the charge for sending email.
The way Microsoft will turn it, would be that we all *should* be paying per email, because of this reason or that reason. Bottom line is Billy Goat Gates on his mountain of cash, trying to pile up more of it.
If darl's email addy was targeted with mydoom. We had a catchall running on our site a little while ago while we switched hosts, and the bulk of email coming in was directed at people's first names.
Wouldn't it be funny if darl@sco.com was sent mydoom and he installed it? So like he'd be attacking SCO.
That would be priceless.
Although it's very sad to see anyone in the Open Source community stoop this low. I think we would all agree (bitterly) that this is the wrong way to deal with the legal agressor that is SCO. But I guess if you piss enough people off, something like this is bound to happen.
There is no evidence to support this theory that playing games reinforces any behaviour. Like the other AC that replied to this, I will point out that games are used by many for a distraction from the norm. What video games are becoming, with strict standardizations, is a collective reinforcement of the norm.
If you suggest that Vice City ought to be shut down because it offends or because the content portrays criminal behaviour, or because of some out of context racial misunderstanding, then you have missed the point entirely.
Games are not held to normal moral standards and they should not be, because they are not real events. Law should be made to enforce total freedom of video game making, as a hope that it will be a void we can shed our evil into.
Society is about going to work, paying bills, feeding the kids, taking care of our own and the ones we love. That is society. Crime is what deteriorates society. If the video games give someone a break from society so they don't feel like they have to go on a real rampage, what's the problem with that? Let the video games be anarchy and let us have good wholesome laws in the land.
We have a chance to really try anarchy in a medium, without consequence, so why hold back? It's either that or we can try it on Earth!
Make a video game where a teen can date. Give them pointers on it, and show them what it feels like to have sex. Let them play that game every fucking day until they are old enough to know how to be responsible sexually. Think about it! They wouldn't have to find out about pregnancy by bringing an unwanted baby into the world. They wouldn't have to find out the hard way by getting AIDS (unless someone who had it used the controller).
How many crimes occur based on the normal person saying "WHAT IF?". "What would it be like to rob someone?" So they do it in RL. "What would it be like to rape someone?" So they do it in real life. "What would it be like to kill someone?"
The video games show them what it's like, a little. But most video games are for entertainment, so the person playing the game is supposed to realize that the crimes committed are not really the way it would happen. There are so many senses left out of the loop, like smell and emotions and true fear. These things occur in real life and they are why many people who commit these crimes are ashamed they did them, and would not do them again.
Habitual criminals will be habitual criminals no matter what they do. Normal people sometimes become twisted into the wrong side of the law, and good video games could prevent these kinds of tragedies.
Do you think the video games have lowered or increased the number of murders? Have they had an impact at all?
To me games are about having fun. Subject matter is in context and can not be viewed out of context very well at all. That said, I think that if many sexual predators played rape games, they might not need to rape: they might expunge the need to do so from their systems, if it was realistic enough, and that might spare the children and women plagued by these misfits and miscreants!!
You may find fewer crimes in general as a result. Especially if it's a good game, then everyone's playing it anyway and they aren't out doing crimes. They are stuck to the game, attached to the game pads, twitching! So then everyone wins.
What would be even extra cool is if they would integrate the sign-reading technology into this product. I poked around to try and find some links to that old story but came up empty.
A lot of good OnStar did that time, as the guy was mincemeat. OnStar just plays on the fear of being in an accident. While in many cases it would give you a bit of an edge to have OnStar, in most cases the traffic deaths are binary; you either live or you die. OnStar makes all their money on giving people a false sense of security. What would be a better investment, would be to give everyone on the road free driving lessons from really qualified people. Oh and idiot tests!
... you take yourself too seriously. Games are not meant to be about life. That's the thing... they are meant to be fun, and poke fun at the hard stuff.
Video Games are like comedy; they are there to relieve stress.
"He is of course welcome to sue, but he'll have to explain these facts in court." I for one am sad to say it'll never happen. I'd LOVE to see him explain these tax evasions in court. That would be funny. And the judge would be like, "so do you have that new appointment for me?... oh case dismissed!"
Agreed. I think the satire aspect of the site is that they are making fun of the Paulmartintimes.ca website, by using it to mock the new PM and his message. I think it's really quite cunning of these guys to do it, and I applaud them. Let's face it, for anyone on the left to beat out the right wing guys, they have to have some serious creativity on their side because we all know they haven't got the money.
"She didn't authorize those adverts; as soon as she became aware of them, she ordered that they be pulled off the air."
I bet that a Liberal spy arranged for the Tory ads that made fun of Jean Chretien's face, for the sole intent to unveil them to the public and make the Tories look like assholes (which isn't that hard, anyway). Furthermore, the recent Ontario elections had, ironically, a similar situation! (duh) Dalton being a Kitten eater. My best guess is that this was done by Liberal spies to garner the same response as the 1993 ads, or at least it was blown up by Liberals to the extent it was.
Half the problem is that party in power controls the media in Canada, so whenever an election is on, it's usually quite biased.
If your riding is going NDP, you should vote NDP! At least that way the Tories won't get it...
Martin is not very popular with Canada, but time will tell if he is elected or not. He is popular with George Bush, however.
Jack Layton has a chance to be the next Prime Minister if enough people vote with their heart, and not with political ads and fake promises (like the Red Book).
Ed Broadbent has it in him to make this a really tough race if enough old NDPers stop voting Liberal and start voting with their hearts.
We have to do something about this war on terror, too. It's eating away the resolutions of our United Nations. This kind of "kill 'em all" attitude is what destroyed Rome and it will do the same to North America if it isn't metered with reason and patience.
Slashdot Mirror
We've got an Open Source project called Gemsites, a standards-compliant slashcode clone. It's not church, but we really need people!! I will write pre-dated recommendation letters for a small fee! :-)
This CEO of Nissan. :-)
Well at least the CEO of Nissan can't drive this into anyone. :-)
"Again, most of the acid will end up in the oceans."
I just saw Nemo with the family recently. Doesn't this statement distrub you a little?
Think of the reefs, the fish, the entire ocean ecosystem. Maybe in 50 years it's okay, but by that time, we could have many layers of this embedded in dumps, landfills and the like.
The solution has always been to eliminate emissions altogether with technology such as energy fueled vehicles with zero emisions.
We can't keep placating the environment.
I meant that when you have 5600 layers of this shit all over every city, are we looking at a serious problem? Yeah one layer works, but nobody knows what the long term effect of this will be, except us cynics, right? :-)
Sure this sounds like great news. Here comes the science...
:-)
What happens when the paint is saturated? Sure it works to a point, but will additional coats of paint over revitalize production, or are we looking at a long term problem when the paint fails and begins soaking up noxious chemicals that could leak and cause a really nasty effect on the environment? Furthermore, did anyone read this sentence in the article and become slightly shocked? "The acid is then either washed away in rain, or neutralised by the alkaline calcium carbonate particles, producing harmless quantities of carbon dioxide, water and calcium nitrate, which will also wash away."
So it either causes acid rain, or it cleans the environment?
... does anyone know how to authenticate a user *without* email? We get users from hotmail all the time saying they could not register because they never got the email.
How will this affect websites sending their users emails from requested sources?
Like I'm the programmer of Gemsites, a Slashdot clone. When we register a user, we shoot them an email. So are we going to have to pay money to do that?
Because that would be totally stupid, and it would possibly put an end to discussion websites that require logons to validate users, unless there was a method to bypass the charge for sending email.
The way Microsoft will turn it, would be that we all *should* be paying per email, because of this reason or that reason. Bottom line is Billy Goat Gates on his mountain of cash, trying to pile up more of it.
If darl's email addy was targeted with mydoom. We had a catchall running on our site a little while ago while we switched hosts, and the bulk of email coming in was directed at people's first names.
Wouldn't it be funny if darl@sco.com was sent mydoom and he installed it? So like he'd be attacking SCO.
That would be priceless.
Although it's very sad to see anyone in the Open Source community stoop this low. I think we would all agree (bitterly) that this is the wrong way to deal with the legal agressor that is SCO. But I guess if you piss enough people off, something like this is bound to happen.
My Master of Orion is better than your Master of Orion!
Canada is much bigger than the states, but with far less people. The cost of having towers running is a nobrainer.
That's one way to get revenge for /. not being chosen news site of 2003!
Photoshop comes in boxes? I thought it came over kazaa...
There is no evidence to support this theory that playing games reinforces any behaviour. Like the other AC that replied to this, I will point out that games are used by many for a distraction from the norm. What video games are becoming, with strict standardizations, is a collective reinforcement of the norm.
If you suggest that Vice City ought to be shut down because it offends or because the content portrays criminal behaviour, or because of some out of context racial misunderstanding, then you have missed the point entirely.
Games are not held to normal moral standards and they should not be, because they are not real events. Law should be made to enforce total freedom of video game making, as a hope that it will be a void we can shed our evil into.
Society is about going to work, paying bills, feeding the kids, taking care of our own and the ones we love. That is society. Crime is what deteriorates society. If the video games give someone a break from society so they don't feel like they have to go on a real rampage, what's the problem with that? Let the video games be anarchy and let us have good wholesome laws in the land.
We have a chance to really try anarchy in a medium, without consequence, so why hold back? It's either that or we can try it on Earth!
Make a video game where a teen can date. Give them pointers on it, and show them what it feels like to have sex. Let them play that game every fucking day until they are old enough to know how to be responsible sexually. Think about it! They wouldn't have to find out about pregnancy by bringing an unwanted baby into the world. They wouldn't have to find out the hard way by getting AIDS (unless someone who had it used the controller).
How many crimes occur based on the normal person saying "WHAT IF?". "What would it be like to rob someone?" So they do it in RL. "What would it be like to rape someone?" So they do it in real life. "What would it be like to kill someone?"
The video games show them what it's like, a little. But most video games are for entertainment, so the person playing the game is supposed to realize that the crimes committed are not really the way it would happen. There are so many senses left out of the loop, like smell and emotions and true fear. These things occur in real life and they are why many people who commit these crimes are ashamed they did them, and would not do them again.
Habitual criminals will be habitual criminals no matter what they do. Normal people sometimes become twisted into the wrong side of the law, and good video games could prevent these kinds of tragedies.
Do you think the video games have lowered or increased the number of murders? Have they had an impact at all?
To me games are about having fun. Subject matter is in context and can not be viewed out of context very well at all. That said, I think that if many sexual predators played rape games, they might not need to rape: they might expunge the need to do so from their systems, if it was realistic enough, and that might spare the children and women plagued by these misfits and miscreants!!
You may find fewer crimes in general as a result. Especially if it's a good game, then everyone's playing it anyway and they aren't out doing crimes. They are stuck to the game, attached to the game pads, twitching! So then everyone wins.
2004 is going to be a good year. :)
What would be even extra cool is if they would integrate the sign-reading technology into this product. I poked around to try and find some links to that old story but came up empty.
A lot of good OnStar did that time, as the guy was mincemeat. OnStar just plays on the fear of being in an accident. While in many cases it would give you a bit of an edge to have OnStar, in most cases the traffic deaths are binary; you either live or you die. OnStar makes all their money on giving people a false sense of security. What would be a better investment, would be to give everyone on the road free driving lessons from really qualified people. Oh and idiot tests!
Shuttles also now equipped with new space-aged stress relief.
... you take yourself too seriously. Games are not meant to be about life. That's the thing... they are meant to be fun, and poke fun at the hard stuff.
Video Games are like comedy; they are there to relieve stress.
"He is of course welcome to sue, but he'll have to explain these facts in court."
I for one am sad to say it'll never happen. I'd LOVE to see him explain these tax evasions in court. That would be funny. And the judge would be like, "so do you have that new appointment for me?... oh case dismissed!"
Agreed. I think the satire aspect of the site is that they are making fun of the Paulmartintimes.ca website, by using it to mock the new PM and his message. I think it's really quite cunning of these guys to do it, and I applaud them. Let's face it, for anyone on the left to beat out the right wing guys, they have to have some serious creativity on their side because we all know they haven't got the money.
If everyone voted for the smart guy, Howard Hampton, the province would be better off. Hampton won the debate, so he should have won the election.
Dalton, where's my pony?
"She didn't authorize those adverts; as soon as she became aware of them, she ordered that they be pulled off the air."
I bet that a Liberal spy arranged for the Tory ads that made fun of Jean Chretien's face, for the sole intent to unveil them to the public and make the Tories look like assholes (which isn't that hard, anyway). Furthermore, the recent Ontario elections had, ironically, a similar situation! (duh) Dalton being a Kitten eater. My best guess is that this was done by Liberal spies to garner the same response as the 1993 ads, or at least it was blown up by Liberals to the extent it was.
Half the problem is that party in power controls the media in Canada, so whenever an election is on, it's usually quite biased.
If your riding is going NDP, you should vote NDP! At least that way the Tories won't get it...
Martin is not very popular with Canada, but time will tell if he is elected or not. He is popular with George Bush, however.
Jack Layton has a chance to be the next Prime Minister if enough people vote with their heart, and not with political ads and fake promises (like the Red Book).
Ed Broadbent has it in him to make this a really tough race if enough old NDPers stop voting Liberal and start voting with their hearts.
We have to do something about this war on terror, too. It's eating away the resolutions of our United Nations. This kind of "kill 'em all" attitude is what destroyed Rome and it will do the same to North America if it isn't metered with reason and patience.