based on judgement? It seems to me that all the patent office does is check to see if the patent doesnt break any rules. So say someone were to patent breathing and it was leagal somehow, they wouldnt be able to deny it based on the fact that it is wrong? If anyone knows how this works I would be glad to find out.
You always hear the RIAA saying that napster intended to br used to make illegal copies of music. Uh, no. Napster is intended to be used to make free copies of music. They just happen to be illegal. Though i have been hearing that they arent...
In the article they talked about submarines doing tests. My father was the navigator on one of the subs that did the testing, the Puffer. I think it in 94 or 95. Some people on the surface of the ice carved a huge target on the surface of the ice.The sub could see the target through a camera of some sort, I dont think it was the periscope. The sub would then break through the ice, trying to hit the center of the target. I have some tapes of it, its very interesting.
That is NOT the solution. The easy was out is to censor what we dont like. But we all know that that in no real way works. So teach them that porn is not what they should be looking up. Admit to them that porn is out there. Admit to them that they can reach it. Then tell them that they shouldnt go to it. Sure, not everyone will listen, but the ones that spend thier study time getting off instead of studying will be the ones with the bad grades, they will learn. But that takes real, human effort unlike censorship programs. Neither is totaly effective, or even remotly effective. But you need to ask yourself why are you censoring porn? Because it is expected of you. All the parents with thier librarys of porn videos and mountans of Hustler will cry bloody murder. So ask yourself just who are you doing this for. Examine your goals. As for all the what ifs, what if someone knew that 1984 would cause distrust for the gov'it so they censored it. Then we all wouldnt be so paranoid about censorship.
We just couldnt allow our children to look at the porn that is ONLY appropriate for us adults. So porn is out. And everyone knows that violence in the media is the single cause for all real violence these days so no violent material. There are always thoses sites that teach you how to make bombs, none of those. And if we let use napster at school they wont use the computer for anything else, so no mp3 related sites. We wouldnt want our children using dirty words so no sites with profanity. Ooops, I just banned/. My, that was just a little to easy....
People continue to think of life as carbon based because it is possible to imagine carbon based life forms. After all, all life I have ever seen is carbon based. I think your statement that there could be life out there totaly diffrent than anything we know is valid, but we cannot take the idea farther that that without coming across it. You can think up anything you want but it is almost definatly not accurate. So we look for what we know. Then at least we know what we're looking for.
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based on judgement? It seems to me that all the patent office does is check to see if the patent doesnt break any rules. So say someone were to patent breathing and it was leagal somehow, they wouldnt be able to deny it based on the fact that it is wrong? If anyone knows how this works I would be glad to find out.
You always hear the RIAA saying that napster intended to br used to make illegal copies of music. Uh, no. Napster is intended to be used to make free copies of music. They just happen to be illegal. Though i have been hearing that they arent...
In the article they talked about submarines doing tests. My father was the navigator on one of the subs that did the testing, the Puffer. I think it in 94 or 95. Some people on the surface of the ice carved a huge target on the surface of the ice.The sub could see the target through a camera of some sort, I dont think it was the periscope. The sub would then break through the ice, trying to hit the center of the target. I have some tapes of it, its very interesting.
That is NOT the solution. The easy was out is to censor what we dont like. But we all know that that in no real way works. So teach them that porn is not what they should be looking up. Admit to them that porn is out there. Admit to them that they can reach it. Then tell them that they shouldnt go to it. Sure, not everyone will listen, but the ones that spend thier study time getting off instead of studying will be the ones with the bad grades, they will learn. But that takes real, human effort unlike censorship programs. Neither is totaly effective, or even remotly effective. But you need to ask yourself why are you censoring porn? Because it is expected of you. All the parents with thier librarys of porn videos and mountans of Hustler will cry bloody murder. So ask yourself just who are you doing this for. Examine your goals. As for all the what ifs, what if someone knew that 1984 would cause distrust for the gov'it so they censored it. Then we all wouldnt be so paranoid about censorship.
We just couldnt allow our children to look at the porn that is ONLY appropriate for us adults. So porn is out. And everyone knows that violence in the media is the single cause for all real violence these days so no violent material. There are always thoses sites that teach you how to make bombs, none of those. And if we let use napster at school they wont use the computer for anything else, so no mp3 related sites. We wouldnt want our children using dirty words so no sites with profanity. Ooops, I just banned /. My, that was just a little to easy....
People continue to think of life as carbon based because it is possible to imagine carbon based life forms. After all, all life I have ever seen is carbon based. I think your statement that there could be life out there totaly diffrent than anything we know is valid, but we cannot take the idea farther that that without coming across it. You can think up anything you want but it is almost definatly not accurate. So we look for what we know. Then at least we know what we're looking for.