Maybe us youth don't WANT our parents to control us. Maybe you're a big fucking idiot and can't make good decisions. I don't want to pay for it. There are no moral absolutes - no one knows what is right for EVERYONE; only for themself.
You may not want your parents controlling you, but the rest of society does. In the end, it's better for you (and everyone else). I used to have the same attitude, and it's a good thing my parents actually controlled me.
I don't have any problems with decision making, thank you. I have exposed myself to plenty of violence in movies and video games, and I'm fine. I would never wield a weapon against another person, nor would I make any attemp to solve a problem through violence. Unfortunately, you do have to suffer for the fact that many people are idiots. Some peole can't handle this exposure. Sucks for everyone.
There are moral absolutes. There are things that aren't absolute. However, there are many things that are for the betterment of society, yet don't infringe on your rights. Problem is, if you are under 18, you don't have as many rights. Your parents have to exercise some of them for you. You can still get your game, as long as your parents have agreed that you can.
Look, the bottom line is that you're right - no one knows what's right for everyone. Like it or not, until you're 18, your parents get to say what's right for you. After that, you can decide for yourself. Teenagers (on the average, some are different) don't make sound decisions, they make emotional decisions.
For starters, I'm sick of having to carry around "papers" and pull the damn thing out to prove I'm old enough to do/see/drink something.
I dunno, I'm 25 and haven't been asked for ID in years. It's not like you're being asked to provide identification for the rest of your life.
Secondly, the ages are absurd. They are so out of line with what kids (rightly) do anyway that it's not even funny--For hell's sake, I was shown R rated movies [imdb.com] in *school* quite a bit before I was 17, and nobody thought anything of it at the time! And don't get me started on drinking...
The movie you linked (Braveheart) is quite different from what is at issue here. It does not glorify violence as a means to be cool or to be a bad ass. It has historical perspective, and, if anything, deters violence. That movie was gruesome to watch.
Thirdly, have you ever considered that letting your kids out of the house unsupervised *is* parental consent? I seriously doubt my parents were ever unaware of my location (at least to the extent of not knowing what other adult was watching me) for the hours(?) it takes to rent a violent game and play it, not to mention getting access to an unwatched game console and TV until I was well old enough for that to be the least of their worries, and it's not like my parents were terribly strict at all... Quite the opposite, the psycho strict parents that actually didn't want their poor sheltered 18 year old kids seeing "bad" things kept quite enough watch on them to pretty much succeed at keeping them from developing any social skills at all.
Nope, I haven't given any consideration to that. I purchased a copy of Doom on my way home from school one day (I walked because I supposedly lived too close to the school to get a bus stop, although it was a 40 minute walk). I installed it on my computer, and tucked the box in the back of my closet. While my parents went out to dinner, or went to Bible Study, or were just in the other room, I played it. They had no concept it was even on the computer, nor could they have found it. I knew far more about the computer than they did. I have no idea whether they would have wanted me to have that game. My mom kept throwing away my Guns-n-Roses CDs, so I wasn't going to let her toss Doom as well.
My parents couldn't have known where I was all the time. Even when they knew I was at home, there I was playing games.
Fourthly, have you considered the effect the "assume no consent unless the parent is present" laws have on the kids' respect for legitimate law?
In what way? Because their parents tell them to ignore it? That's irresponsible parenting. No, I don't think that laws that people don't like teach them to lose respect for other laws. I think that many laws are wrong, but I have no less respect for the law. The drinking age (21) is nuts. You're legally an adult at 18, why can you still not drink? Marijuana is less intoxicating, less addicting, and less physically harmful than alcohol. Why is alcohol legal, and marijuana is not?
I suppose the last one is a lesson, though. It's not enough to teach your children that there are rules to be followed, but also there are rules to be disregarded, as well...
Hopefully, you can teach them the difference between civil disobedience and irreverence. One is a very important tool for us, and the other is the cause of a great many problems.
Look, the point of this law is to put the decision of game content into the hands of the parents. If the parent wants the child to own a Mature rated game, the parent can go with the child to purchase it. Same goes for R rated movies. It's the same damn thing. It's not discrimination, it's not politicians not knowing anything about computers or games or violence. It's the same thing as R rated movies.
The video game industry has finally become large enough to get noticed, and at the same time the content is becoming more realistic - more movie like.
This isn't going to get struck down, people. There's nothing wrong with it. Face the fact that until you're 18, there are some decisions your parents get to make for you. That's always been the case.
Not really anyone, other than the 4.5 million in the Atlanta area. Busiest airport in the world. 4th largest city in the US. Nope, no one really lives there.
I'm not sure in what context you used the word 'consultant'. If you mean consultants that offer services from your company to your customers, then it is very important to listen to them. They are the ones who interface the customer and the software. They are the ones who hear what the customers want and don't want. It is your customers that you have to satisfy, not your coders.
The article mentions that the number for the console market ($9.4B) includes hardware, which in the console industry is sold at a loss.
The PC number ($6B) did not include hardware. I have no idea how much hardware was sold, but there are some pieces of hardware that were sold solely for the purpose of gaming (I know you didn't purchase that GeForce 3 Ti 500 to browse the Net). Is it possible that the PC market is actually bigger than the console market? Of course, it would be very difficult to ever nail down PC hardware figures.
I would be very upset if I stopped getting junk mail and dinner time phone calls. If my state did that, I'd probably sue them for the pain and suffering it would cause. You know, those people always have the best products.
This was the point that stuck out the most for me. I had doubts about Mono ever since the announcement, but that is an excellent point.
Here's what he said:
* GNU was based on a proprietary technology.
GNU is a free re-implementations of Unix. Linux is a
re-implementation of the Unix kernel. Before the advent of Linux
and the Berkeley Unix, Unix was a proprietary technology, built by
ATT (which back in the day, was a monopoly).
Still, developers took what was good from Unix, and
reimplemented a free version of it. Down to the Unix programming
language: C (which was also invented at ATT). Even C++ was
invented at ATT.
Think of Mono as following the same process: we are bringing
the best technology out there to our beloved free software
platform. And at the same time it serves to be a magnificent
upgrade on the development platform.
...well, sucked. There was a trailer for it in the Fellowship of the Ring, and it looked lousy. It looked like a teenage love story. That was all the preview showed was Anakin and Amidala acting like teenagers in love. I wanted to scream.
The mind is a very powerful thing. You can convince yourself (intentionally or not) of a great many things. The problem started when he start convincing others of them too. It sounds like the people in the town were just fine until this guy starting convincing them otherwise.
I only have a problem with this guy forcing his problems on others. I have an irrational fear of seeing cinnamon raisin bread. Once, when I was a kid, I was very sick and I watched (and smelled) my mother make some cinnamon raisin bread. Now, the sight or smell of the stuff makes me very sick to my stomach. I know it's all in my head, and I don't go around telling other people that it makes me feel sick and we should put a stop to having cinnamon raisin bread available.
Apparently, you have good tap water. Where I live (Pinellas County, FL), we have no water supply of our own. We have to buy it from other areas, and somehow or another, when it gets here, it tastes like crap. If I chill it down to near freezing, it tastes somewhat okay. Mostly, it just tastes like crap.
Currently I have all of my bills drafted automatically from my account.
Every time I have let a company do this, I've had to close the bank account to make them stop. It drives me nuts. They just don't seem to be able to stop the auto withdrawals.
I believe that depends on the state you live in. Florida (where I live) is an employment at will (instead of a right to work) state, meaning that an employer may terminate you at any time, without notice or reason. In a right to work state, they would be required to document a case for your termination.
I just picked up his Volume 1, I got a couple of sections into it and decided to break out my college math textbooks from the closet for a little refresher.
I'm having the same problem. I bought the book after seeing all the reviews of it back in the Slashdot article about library books. I haven't had any good (Calc, etc) math courses since 1994.
'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church'
Wow, that's catchy. Entirely wrong, but catchy. There are countless individuals with far greater thinking minds than you who attend(ed) church regularly, and are(were) firm believers. Strange. What makes you so much smarter than them?
I know the last part is offtopic, but I'm sick of the unfounded belief that religion and intelligence are exclusive of each other. It is an utterly absurd premise.
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...As opposed to the thousands of vision-impaired people who currently use the braille on drive-up ATM's...
Does your vehicle have a window in the back seat? Mine does. I would guess that other vehicles have them too.
The store owner is screwed no matter what. It's easy to lay in wait for the store owner to leave. Happens all the time. They just come up with creative ways to try to not look like they have a bunch of money on them when they leave their store.
Personally, I wish cash would just go away. I hardly ever use it anymore, and when I have to, it's a pain in the ass because I never have it. It does, however come with the added amusement of watching idiots try to figure out how much change to give.
According to some former NeXT employees, they like the NeXT platform quite well. Of course, that information is likely dated since the platform died a few years back (unless you count OS X).
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Fuck you, whore.
Maybe us youth don't WANT our parents to control us. Maybe you're a big fucking idiot and can't make good decisions. I don't want to pay for it. There are no moral absolutes - no one knows what is right for EVERYONE; only for themself.
You may not want your parents controlling you, but the rest of society does. In the end, it's better for you (and everyone else). I used to have the same attitude, and it's a good thing my parents actually controlled me.
I don't have any problems with decision making, thank you. I have exposed myself to plenty of violence in movies and video games, and I'm fine. I would never wield a weapon against another person, nor would I make any attemp to solve a problem through violence. Unfortunately, you do have to suffer for the fact that many people are idiots. Some peole can't handle this exposure. Sucks for everyone.
There are moral absolutes. There are things that aren't absolute. However, there are many things that are for the betterment of society, yet don't infringe on your rights. Problem is, if you are under 18, you don't have as many rights. Your parents have to exercise some of them for you. You can still get your game, as long as your parents have agreed that you can.
Look, the bottom line is that you're right - no one knows what's right for everyone. Like it or not, until you're 18, your parents get to say what's right for you. After that, you can decide for yourself. Teenagers (on the average, some are different) don't make sound decisions, they make emotional decisions.
For starters, I'm sick of having to carry around "papers" and pull the damn thing out to prove I'm old enough to do/see/drink something.
I dunno, I'm 25 and haven't been asked for ID in years. It's not like you're being asked to provide identification for the rest of your life.
Secondly, the ages are absurd. They are so out of line with what kids (rightly) do anyway that it's not even funny--For hell's sake, I was shown R rated movies [imdb.com] in *school* quite a bit before I was 17, and nobody thought anything of it at the time! And don't get me started on drinking...
The movie you linked (Braveheart) is quite different from what is at issue here. It does not glorify violence as a means to be cool or to be a bad ass. It has historical perspective, and, if anything, deters violence. That movie was gruesome to watch.
Thirdly, have you ever considered that letting your kids out of the house unsupervised *is* parental consent? I seriously doubt my parents were ever unaware of my location (at least to the extent of not knowing what other adult was watching me) for the hours(?) it takes to rent a violent game and play it, not to mention getting access to an unwatched game console and TV until I was well old enough for that to be the least of their worries, and it's not like my parents were terribly strict at all... Quite the opposite, the psycho strict parents that actually didn't want their poor sheltered 18 year old kids seeing "bad" things kept quite enough watch on them to pretty much succeed at keeping them from developing any social skills at all.
Nope, I haven't given any consideration to that. I purchased a copy of Doom on my way home from school one day (I walked because I supposedly lived too close to the school to get a bus stop, although it was a 40 minute walk). I installed it on my computer, and tucked the box in the back of my closet. While my parents went out to dinner, or went to Bible Study, or were just in the other room, I played it. They had no concept it was even on the computer, nor could they have found it. I knew far more about the computer than they did. I have no idea whether they would have wanted me to have that game. My mom kept throwing away my Guns-n-Roses CDs, so I wasn't going to let her toss Doom as well.
My parents couldn't have known where I was all the time. Even when they knew I was at home, there I was playing games.
Fourthly, have you considered the effect the "assume no consent unless the parent is present" laws have on the kids' respect for legitimate law?
In what way? Because their parents tell them to ignore it? That's irresponsible parenting. No, I don't think that laws that people don't like teach them to lose respect for other laws. I think that many laws are wrong, but I have no less respect for the law. The drinking age (21) is nuts. You're legally an adult at 18, why can you still not drink? Marijuana is less intoxicating, less addicting, and less physically harmful than alcohol. Why is alcohol legal, and marijuana is not?
I suppose the last one is a lesson, though. It's not enough to teach your children that there are rules to be followed, but also there are rules to be disregarded, as well...
Hopefully, you can teach them the difference between civil disobedience and irreverence. One is a very important tool for us, and the other is the cause of a great many problems.
Everyone here throws a fit about everything!
Look, the point of this law is to put the decision of game content into the hands of the parents. If the parent wants the child to own a Mature rated game, the parent can go with the child to purchase it. Same goes for R rated movies. It's the same damn thing. It's not discrimination, it's not politicians not knowing anything about computers or games or violence. It's the same thing as R rated movies.
The video game industry has finally become large enough to get noticed, and at the same time the content is becoming more realistic - more movie like.
This isn't going to get struck down, people. There's nothing wrong with it. Face the fact that until you're 18, there are some decisions your parents get to make for you. That's always been the case.
Not really anyone, other than the 4.5 million in the Atlanta area. Busiest airport in the world. 4th largest city in the US. Nope, no one really lives there.
How about one that is shaped like a breast, and does wireless?
Had one since November. Can't figure out how I watched TV without one. You'll love it.
Lucky you, my wife wants everything she sees!
I'm not sure in what context you used the word 'consultant'. If you mean consultants that offer services from your company to your customers, then it is very important to listen to them. They are the ones who interface the customer and the software. They are the ones who hear what the customers want and don't want. It is your customers that you have to satisfy, not your coders.
The article mentions that the number for the console market ($9.4B) includes hardware, which in the console industry is sold at a loss.
The PC number ($6B) did not include hardware. I have no idea how much hardware was sold, but there are some pieces of hardware that were sold solely for the purpose of gaming (I know you didn't purchase that GeForce 3 Ti 500 to browse the Net). Is it possible that the PC market is actually bigger than the console market? Of course, it would be very difficult to ever nail down PC hardware figures.
I would be very upset if I stopped getting junk mail and dinner time phone calls. If my state did that, I'd probably sue them for the pain and suffering it would cause. You know, those people always have the best products.
Here's what he said:
The GeForce 4 MX is the standard option, you can upgrade to the GeForce 4 Ti. The poster said it was an option, and it is.
...well, sucked. There was a trailer for it in the Fellowship of the Ring, and it looked lousy. It looked like a teenage love story. That was all the preview showed was Anakin and Amidala acting like teenagers in love. I wanted to scream.
The mind is a very powerful thing. You can convince yourself (intentionally or not) of a great many things. The problem started when he start convincing others of them too. It sounds like the people in the town were just fine until this guy starting convincing them otherwise.
I only have a problem with this guy forcing his problems on others. I have an irrational fear of seeing cinnamon raisin bread. Once, when I was a kid, I was very sick and I watched (and smelled) my mother make some cinnamon raisin bread. Now, the sight or smell of the stuff makes me very sick to my stomach. I know it's all in my head, and I don't go around telling other people that it makes me feel sick and we should put a stop to having cinnamon raisin bread available.
prefer bottled water to tap water
Apparently, you have good tap water. Where I live (Pinellas County, FL), we have no water supply of our own. We have to buy it from other areas, and somehow or another, when it gets here, it tastes like crap. If I chill it down to near freezing, it tastes somewhat okay. Mostly, it just tastes like crap.
I'm using a MS Intellimouse on my PowerBook right now. What's your point?
Currently I have all of my bills drafted automatically from my account.
Every time I have let a company do this, I've had to close the bank account to make them stop. It drives me nuts. They just don't seem to be able to stop the auto withdrawals.
(I am not a lawyer)
I believe that depends on the state you live in. Florida (where I live) is an employment at will (instead of a right to work) state, meaning that an employer may terminate you at any time, without notice or reason. In a right to work state, they would be required to document a case for your termination.
I just picked up his Volume 1, I got a couple of sections into it and decided to break out my college math textbooks from the closet for a little refresher.
I'm having the same problem. I bought the book after seeing all the reviews of it back in the Slashdot article about library books. I haven't had any good (Calc, etc) math courses since 1994.
'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church'
Wow, that's catchy. Entirely wrong, but catchy. There are countless individuals with far greater thinking minds than you who attend(ed) church regularly, and are(were) firm believers. Strange. What makes you so much smarter than them?
I know the last part is offtopic, but I'm sick of the unfounded belief that religion and intelligence are exclusive of each other. It is an utterly absurd premise.
...As opposed to the thousands of vision-impaired people who currently use the braille on drive-up ATM's...
Does your vehicle have a window in the back seat? Mine does. I would guess that other vehicles have them too.
The store owner is screwed no matter what. It's easy to lay in wait for the store owner to leave. Happens all the time. They just come up with creative ways to try to not look like they have a bunch of money on them when they leave their store.
Personally, I wish cash would just go away. I hardly ever use it anymore, and when I have to, it's a pain in the ass because I never have it. It does, however come with the added amusement of watching idiots try to figure out how much change to give.
According to some former NeXT employees, they like the NeXT platform quite well. Of course, that information is likely dated since the platform died a few years back (unless you count OS X).
Unless the range was kept small.
Yes, and the 'T' in 10BaseT stands for 'T'wisted Pair.
Yes, for only $299. How nice. I bought 9 days too early. It would be nice if they would announce that stuff.