I might not argue that it's a bad thing, but I could easily argue that it's pointless. If anything movies have shown that generations of kids will be able to circumvent the ratings system, and seeing the R rated movies anyway hasn't exactly led to the downfall of society...
Why should one form of entertainment be different from another? If a state is going to place age restrictions on movies, they should do the same for games, music, concerts, theatres, sporting events....
I mean if something is too violent or sexual it is too violent or sexual, no matter the medium.
Not that I agree with that. Government has no place being a critic.
I remember an article a while back that offered an idea to 'modularize' legalese into known entities that could be engineered up into the final document. Should something like that come to be, making a parser for the known patterns would be much easier.
God probably doesn't exist, and the Pope most certainly does. Further, I would wager an omnipotent, omniscient being such as the Christian God is likely to make better decisions than a man.
The main differentiator between Catholics and Protestants [the rest] is the Pope. As an agnostic, I doubt that God will come down and order a Protestant President to throw me in jail. The Pope though could easily tell a Catholic President to throw my heathen ass in jail, causing the President a religious vs secular quandry.
Not that I think that Kerry or Kenedy before him would put the Pope above his duty, the distinction isn't trivial.
Unfortunately, most Libertarians who are open and outspoken [including Mr Badnarik from the interviews I've seen of him] tend to come off as Anarchists rather than people who would like to focus the government on protecting individual rights.
Not exactly. Their system would still get infected, and if any of these virus/trojan/worm writers actually felt like using a malicious payload, totally fubar their data even if permissions protect the rest of the system.
Personally, I think that you should add flight plans to that. Leaving debris in space, or having the posibility of mid-space collision is something worth preventing via an intermediary.
I also think that simple litigation would be incentive enough for #1...
Unfortunately, most libertarians seem to be anarchists rather than libertarians. The libertarian view of government should not be one of no-government, but one of government focused on protecting the life and liberty of its citizens.
Anti-competative practices directly effect the ability of citizens' freedom to choose.
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And no offense, but if your machine is exploitable enough for someone to remotely patch it, a broken dvd player is the least of your worries.
Over time, the American Government has created many commisions, departments, and branches beyond the scope of its original intent. Which areas do you think have gone beyond what government should handle, and which areas do you think provide a valuable public service and should be made as a more formal addition to the original intent?
No, I simply do not find 5 minutes of nothing intersperced with 5 seconds of action enjoyable. Give me q1tf or tribes or q3a, or even some bombing run any day of the week.
My point exactly. It is hard to play multiplayer games, let alone have a decent selection of options, without playerbase. Playerbase hasn't existed for years given people moving to MMORPGS and CS.
I for one will be trilled when Counterstrike dies. Given that everyone plays it to the exclusion of everything else [175,000 to 5,000 any given evening from statistics I've seen] the FPS genre has been CS or nothing for pretty much 4 years. And since I can barely stand the game...
Or one can make the *huge* leap to determine that policemen coming into classrooms to talk about drugs is a relatively recent occurance, which would put me in about a 10 year window.
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I might not argue that it's a bad thing, but I could easily argue that it's pointless. If anything movies have shown that generations of kids will be able to circumvent the ratings system, and seeing the R rated movies anyway hasn't exactly led to the downfall of society...
Why should one form of entertainment be different from another? If a state is going to place age restrictions on movies, they should do the same for games, music, concerts, theatres, sporting events....
I mean if something is too violent or sexual it is too violent or sexual, no matter the medium.
Not that I agree with that. Government has no place being a critic.
I remember an article a while back that offered an idea to 'modularize' legalese into known entities that could be engineered up into the final document. Should something like that come to be, making a parser for the known patterns would be much easier.
God probably doesn't exist, and the Pope most certainly does. Further, I would wager an omnipotent, omniscient being such as the Christian God is likely to make better decisions than a man.
Actually, I do care.
The main differentiator between Catholics and Protestants [the rest] is the Pope. As an agnostic, I doubt that God will come down and order a Protestant President to throw me in jail. The Pope though could easily tell a Catholic President to throw my heathen ass in jail, causing the President a religious vs secular quandry.
Not that I think that Kerry or Kenedy before him would put the Pope above his duty, the distinction isn't trivial.
Unfortunately, most Libertarians who are open and outspoken [including Mr Badnarik from the interviews I've seen of him] tend to come off as Anarchists rather than people who would like to focus the government on protecting individual rights.
Not exactly. Their system would still get infected, and if any of these virus/trojan/worm writers actually felt like using a malicious payload, totally fubar their data even if permissions protect the rest of the system.
Or at least I wouldn't feel any worse than being required to carry around picture ID in the first place.
Personally, I think that you should add flight plans to that. Leaving debris in space, or having the posibility of mid-space collision is something worth preventing via an intermediary.
I also think that simple litigation would be incentive enough for #1...
Acursed metric system! You win again!
[heh, thanks though. I had forgotten]
space shuttle tanks?
Come on, everyone knows that the standard units for explosive power are pounds of TNT and "times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima"
Hrm.
That is a fine point.
Star wars seems as though it is ill-suited for TV status. Giant space operas don't mix with 1 hour [plus commercial] slots.
Hell, I'd rather see the afore mentioned Spaceballs sequel made into a TV series.
IIRC the speaking lines are cut. He's one of the kids running with a ball through the trailer park right at the beginning of the movie.
Would I hire some kiddie who managed to modify someone else's worm code? No.
Would I spend 1 programmer year salary to get my company's name plastered on the news across the world? Yeah, I'd wager that's a great deal.
At this point, I doubt many people care how Half Life 2 gets to them, just so long as it actually arrives.
I personally recommend a few hundred rar files (and one or two with checksum errors of course) on a few hundred floppies.
What's that? Into the ground? C'mon George, we don't need an interview to see that
Unfortunately, most libertarians seem to be anarchists rather than libertarians. The libertarian view of government should not be one of no-government, but one of government focused on protecting the life and liberty of its citizens.
Anti-competative practices directly effect the ability of citizens' freedom to choose.
And no offense, but if your machine is exploitable enough for someone to remotely patch it, a broken dvd player is the least of your worries.
Over time, the American Government has created many commisions, departments, and branches beyond the scope of its original intent. Which areas do you think have gone beyond what government should handle, and which areas do you think provide a valuable public service and should be made as a more formal addition to the original intent?
Except for the rampant cheating in the game...
No, I simply do not find 5 minutes of nothing intersperced with 5 seconds of action enjoyable. Give me q1tf or tribes or q3a, or even some bombing run any day of the week.
"but not a lot of players."
My point exactly. It is hard to play multiplayer games, let alone have a decent selection of options, without playerbase. Playerbase hasn't existed for years given people moving to MMORPGS and CS.
Indeed, but it's hard to play multiplayer games without y'know... multiple players.
I for one will be trilled when Counterstrike dies. Given that everyone plays it to the exclusion of everything else [175,000 to 5,000 any given evening from statistics I've seen] the FPS genre has been CS or nothing for pretty much 4 years. And since I can barely stand the game...
Or one can make the *huge* leap to determine that policemen coming into classrooms to talk about drugs is a relatively recent occurance, which would put me in about a 10 year window.
But no, I guess you wouldn't...