They don't want to take responsibilty for their actions and their lack of parenting.
You're confusing the people who are complaining with the people who are causing the problem. It's not my kids' parents that I'm worried about. It's the crappy parents down the street who worry me.
If GTA3 influences their son to cross some mental line and beat my daughter to death, all the parenting in the world that I did wouldn't have mattered. How do I hold that other parent responsible or force that other parent to keep GTA3 out of their problem-child's hands?
In many voter's eyes, maybe it's just easier to ban the video game totally than to force someone else to be a better parent?
Put another way: I think that it's logical to assume that the people most interested in banning violent video games don't allow their children to have them, so you can hardly say that their looking to excuse their own bad parenting. Instead, their looking to circumvent their neighbor's bad parenting.
Don't get me wrong. I would never agree with such a ban. I'm a libertarian through and through. I don't like anyone telling me what I can say, what I can sell, what drugs I take, whom I can pay to have sex with, where I'm allowed to travel, etc.
However, that doesn't blind me to the fact that critics of games like GTA3 have a legitimate concern. Studies have shown that video games directly influence behavior. I have no doubt that in some case somewhere, some violent video game led to the taking of an innocent life.
We could try to solve the problem by banning the game.
We could try to solve the problem by holding parents responsible for their kids' actions.
We could just accept the problem as the cost of living in a free society and move on.
I think that some combination of the second two makes the most sense, but I understand why the first one seems so attractive to some people.
"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." -George Bush
That's George HW Bush who said that, by the way. I don't have any real reason to belive that GWB feels differently, but I still wouldn't imply that he said it by leaving out the middle initials.
Arguing that the CD is the same as the magazine is akin to saying since my subscription entitles me to all issues of the magazine for a certain period, I am owed the CD because it is no different than the magazine and contains the issues that covers my subscription - something I think NGS would disagree with and point out the Cd is a different beast.
Well, "owed" is a bit strong a term. For example, if you own one copy of a magazine, you're not owed a second copy -- whether or not it's in a different format (on a CD).
It would be an interesting legal question on whether or not you could legally make your own COPY of a friend's CD, if you already own the original print version. I'd like to see NGS try to argue both sides of something like that.
I find the whole protectionist approach to job creation/maintenance to be disgusting. That unionist mentality of being able to keep your same job at some ridiculously high wage long after the job is even useful to anyone or long after others have found ways to do your job more efficiently -- works against our forward progress as a society. Get off your ass and learn a new skill. Learn to do your job more efficiently, or just accept the fact that you don't deserve as much for doing the "same old same old" as you once did.
Besides, any publication that doesn't understand the difference between "alter" and "altar" can't be expected to be of any real quality.
It boggles the mind that someone with access to a computer could draw such ignorant conclusions.
American companies are diverting billions of dollars that are being pumped straight into the Indian economy -- giving jobs, money, and hi-tech experience to tens of millions who would otherwise have had to do with much less in a country that has epitomized "poverty" for the last hundred years.
What resources are being "exhausted"?
I lived in India before the real boom started to happen, and I maintain friends who still live there. Your assessment of the situation couldn't be further from the mark. People I know who weren't able to afford even basic medical care are now looking at sending their kids to college.
I'm sure that you're well meaning with your "anti-imperialistic" bleeding heart rhetoric, and some lame moderator even marked you as "insightful" -- but try to think a bit before you put forth opinions that hurt real people with real problems in other parts of the world that you haven't taken the time to really understand.
90%? That's quite an exaggeration. Speaking from a fairly neutral point of view (I use Macs, MS machines, Linux machines), I think that the open source crowd is still dominant here on slashdot. Yes, there are MS fanatics around, but to put that number at 90%? That's ridiculous.
My eldest is at an age where we let her play at friends' houses. If the friend has a dad who was convicted of inappropriate sexual behavior with a minor, I don't let my daughter go to his house.
If I live next door to a convicted sexual predator, I instruct my daughter to avoid the "bad person" next door, never talk to him and scream if he comes near.
There are tons of precautions I could think of off the top of my head, and I bet I could come up with a lot more if the situation actually occurred. Have a couple of young daughters who are the most important parts of your life, and you'll find out just how creative you can be to protect them.
In a sense. In the obvious sense intended, it's emphasizing part of what has become a cliched term whose parts are now greater than the whole, so worth breaking down. You didn't need to use highschool debating club tactics when all you needed to do was think a second to see why I stated things as I did. +2 points for using a debating term, -5 points for not understanding simple prose.
minority are "lucky" enough not to be on the receiving end of wholesale slaughter by violent leaders for their accused indiscretions.
Yeah, well, I like to think that 6-year-old boys and girls should be lucky enough to not be sodomized by some guy living on their street and messed up for the rest of their lives. Side with the criminal if you like, but the slippery slopes on the side of not dealing effectively with criminals are much worse than the one you mention.
All crimes are disturbing to me. Not necessarily "crimes" that a legislator decides are bad things for me, but what are crimes in my opinion. Violence, theft, rape, etc. I find true sexual crimes (rape, pedophilia, etc. But not mooning someone for christs sake.) very disturbing.
Yes, yes, the obligatory "I'm no racist, but..." style comment that rings just as hollow. Whose side are you on? The criminal's? Or the victim's? When the victim is a helpless child, I'm on the victim's in no uncertain terms. The criminals in these cases can rot and die. Let me guess -- you're the type that will happily munch down on a hamburger, but would never kill an animal with your own two hands because it's "disgusting". Or better yet... you're a vegetarian who is proud that what you eat isn't slaughtered while blithely ignoring the thousands of rodents that are slaughtered on your behalf every day while your veggies are harvested. In either case, I see you as a person who is happier closing his eyes and pointing fingers than actually getting his hands dirty dealing with reality head on.
However, I feel your violent suggestions and opinion just as sickening.
That's because you're a little lamb who's incapable of making the tough decisions required in a brutal world. You're happy to sit on the fence of moral relativism, never punishing the destroyers of society because you're too weak to be decisive and protect what's important.
If you are one who has never been on the receiving end of sexual misconduct, or have never been on the receiving end of true violence
It's because I HAVE dealt with the results of true violence that I feel so strongly about stopping it. Mealy-mouthed weasels protecting the aggressors who destroy the lives of innocents are disgusting and crime-enablers, from my perspective.
I hope you realize, sexual misconduct stems from violent and aggressive tendencies, the same thing you would use to "solve the problem". That which you wish to solve you are a part of my friend.
It's one of those little facts of nature that violent brutal behavior needs to be confronted in a like manner, or the wolves will overrun the sheep. Just be thankful that not everyone is incapable of making the tough decisions like yourself, our your precious indignation would be destroyed by those who would take everything you have from you.
But there is absolutely no reason for this information to be available to the public.
Bullshit. Sexual predators are just that, predators. I vote that I get to know if a proven danger to my children is living next door. Looks like most of the rest of America votes the same way. Hooray for a democratic form of government. Fuck the child molesters and rapists. If I were in charge, they'd be dead on the first offense, so they're getting off easy in that respect.
The offender has served their time according to the law
Part of "their time" has been deemed to be the ten years or so after being released from prison during which time, they're listed in a database that's publicly accessible. Tough shit, don't commit the crime next time.
I just paid for a Redhat Network update license a couple of months ago when I installed RH9. I don't want the enterprise version of their software. I don't want to upgrade. I want the update service that I paid for to continue.
You can be assured that as the machines in my IT department are upgraded/replaced, they won't be running any version of Redhat.
Cutting off the low end is just stupid stupid stupid. It's a huge mistake that is going to open the door wide for a new distribution that will grow off the low end and then give RH serious problems on the high end as well. RH will find itself wedged between Microsoft, Novell, Sun, and whatever upstarts fill in the low end markets and creep upward. They're fucked.
What good is a quantum computer for besides breaking encryption? It seems like that's the only problem-solving ability of quantum computers that is ever mentioned.
RTFA. The suit is in Northern CA, according to the article.
California, and "ENLIGHTENED" state? Bleah. I lived there for quite some time. For such an enlightened state, they sure can't manage to keep the lights (power) on. I'd call California a randomly enlightened, but mostly frenetic shooting-itself-in-the-foot state.
While I agree that what she did was without thought, not thinking shouldn't be a reasonable excuse for being a victim of fraud.
Why as a society should we consider those complicit who innocently leave their doors unlocked or their keys in the ignition? Our full venom should be directed toward people who illegally take advantage of others, not people who are naive and trusting.
How many of these digital paper technologies are going to be announced before we actually see them in use in the market?
I realize that digital paper isn't a total hoax, but it sure feels like one.
It seems as though the last-mile technical barriers must be really high. Maybe they're having trouble making these things last or making them in quantity?
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I'd also demand that their ability to contribute to the human gene pool be removed too. But that might be harder to do.
I'm with you on that one.
So could Roseanne Barr.
Next you're going to tell me that Rosanne Barr should be legal. Where does the madness end?
You're confusing the people who are complaining with the people who are causing the problem. It's not my kids' parents that I'm worried about. It's the crappy parents down the street who worry me.
If GTA3 influences their son to cross some mental line and beat my daughter to death, all the parenting in the world that I did wouldn't have mattered. How do I hold that other parent responsible or force that other parent to keep GTA3 out of their problem-child's hands?
In many voter's eyes, maybe it's just easier to ban the video game totally than to force someone else to be a better parent?
Put another way: I think that it's logical to assume that the people most interested in banning violent video games don't allow their children to have them, so you can hardly say that their looking to excuse their own bad parenting. Instead, their looking to circumvent their neighbor's bad parenting.
Don't get me wrong. I would never agree with such a ban. I'm a libertarian through and through. I don't like anyone telling me what I can say, what I can sell, what drugs I take, whom I can pay to have sex with, where I'm allowed to travel, etc.
However, that doesn't blind me to the fact that critics of games like GTA3 have a legitimate concern. Studies have shown that video games directly influence behavior. I have no doubt that in some case somewhere, some violent video game led to the taking of an innocent life.
- We could try to solve the problem by banning the game.
- We could try to solve the problem by holding parents responsible for their kids' actions.
- We could just accept the problem as the cost of living in a free society and move on.
I think that some combination of the second two makes the most sense, but I understand why the first one seems so attractive to some people."I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." -George Bush
That's George HW Bush who said that, by the way. I don't have any real reason to belive that GWB feels differently, but I still wouldn't imply that he said it by leaving out the middle initials.
There's this really cool news aggregation web site called Slashdot.
I heard that it even has an article about how there are yet more competing standards for the next generation of DVD.
Arguing that the CD is the same as the magazine is akin to saying since my subscription entitles me to all issues of the magazine for a certain period, I am owed the CD because it is no different than the magazine and contains the issues that covers my subscription - something I think NGS would disagree with and point out the Cd is a different beast.
Well, "owed" is a bit strong a term. For example, if you own one copy of a magazine, you're not owed a second copy -- whether or not it's in a different format (on a CD).
It would be an interesting legal question on whether or not you could legally make your own COPY of a friend's CD, if you already own the original print version. I'd like to see NGS try to argue both sides of something like that.
Everyone who works a good 8 hours deserves a good wage.
Wow, as an unqualified statement, I think that pretty much says it all for your point of view.
For 8 hours a day, I have decided to surf porn on the Internet. You, I deem as my employer. You now ow me a "good wage".
Much appreciated, please send all of my check care of Cowboy Neal.
I find the whole protectionist approach to job creation/maintenance to be disgusting. That unionist mentality of being able to keep your same job at some ridiculously high wage long after the job is even useful to anyone or long after others have found ways to do your job more efficiently -- works against our forward progress as a society. Get off your ass and learn a new skill. Learn to do your job more efficiently, or just accept the fact that you don't deserve as much for doing the "same old same old" as you once did.
Besides, any publication that doesn't understand the difference between "alter" and "altar" can't be expected to be of any real quality.
It boggles the mind that someone with access to a computer could draw such ignorant conclusions.
American companies are diverting billions of dollars that are being pumped straight into the Indian economy -- giving jobs, money, and hi-tech experience to tens of millions who would otherwise have had to do with much less in a country that has epitomized "poverty" for the last hundred years.
What resources are being "exhausted"?
I lived in India before the real boom started to happen, and I maintain friends who still live there. Your assessment of the situation couldn't be further from the mark. People I know who weren't able to afford even basic medical care are now looking at sending their kids to college.
I'm sure that you're well meaning with your "anti-imperialistic" bleeding heart rhetoric, and some lame moderator even marked you as "insightful" -- but try to think a bit before you put forth opinions that hurt real people with real problems in other parts of the world that you haven't taken the time to really understand.
To be honest, the CGI didn't bother me nearly as much as the "trying to take a shit" look that Bruce Banner wore during most of the film.
Yes, yes, you're very angry... very very angry. Now unpinch your fucking face and do a little real acting.
Joel Sposky writes a review-like article on the last book of Eric S. Raymond
I hadn't heard that he died. My condolences to his friends and family. He will be sorely missed.
90%? That's quite an exaggeration. Speaking from a fairly neutral point of view (I use Macs, MS machines, Linux machines), I think that the open source crowd is still dominant here on slashdot. Yes, there are MS fanatics around, but to put that number at 90%? That's ridiculous.
You don't really see Bangalore as being the Capital of Open Source, I would have thought a more appropriate place would be Finland.
Hey, nothing like a little elitism, stereotyping, and close-mindednesses in an "inclusive" movement. Kudos to the mod who marked it as "insightful".
Duh?
My eldest is at an age where we let her play at friends' houses. If the friend has a dad who was convicted of inappropriate sexual behavior with a minor, I don't let my daughter go to his house.
If I live next door to a convicted sexual predator, I instruct my daughter to avoid the "bad person" next door, never talk to him and scream if he comes near.
There are tons of precautions I could think of off the top of my head, and I bet I could come up with a lot more if the situation actually occurred. Have a couple of young daughters who are the most important parts of your life, and you'll find out just how creative you can be to protect them.
That's begging the question.
In a sense. In the obvious sense intended, it's emphasizing part of what has become a cliched term whose parts are now greater than the whole, so worth breaking down. You didn't need to use highschool debating club tactics when all you needed to do was think a second to see why I stated things as I did. +2 points for using a debating term, -5 points for not understanding simple prose.
minority are "lucky" enough not to be on the receiving end of wholesale slaughter by violent leaders for their accused indiscretions.
Yeah, well, I like to think that 6-year-old boys and girls should be lucky enough to not be sodomized by some guy living on their street and messed up for the rest of their lives. Side with the criminal if you like, but the slippery slopes on the side of not dealing effectively with criminals are much worse than the one you mention.
All crimes are disturbing to me. Not necessarily "crimes" that a legislator decides are bad things for me, but what are crimes in my opinion. Violence, theft, rape, etc. I find true sexual crimes (rape, pedophilia, etc. But not mooning someone for christs sake.) very disturbing.
Yes, yes, the obligatory "I'm no racist, but..." style comment that rings just as hollow. Whose side are you on? The criminal's? Or the victim's? When the victim is a helpless child, I'm on the victim's in no uncertain terms. The criminals in these cases can rot and die. Let me guess -- you're the type that will happily munch down on a hamburger, but would never kill an animal with your own two hands because it's "disgusting". Or better yet... you're a vegetarian who is proud that what you eat isn't slaughtered while blithely ignoring the thousands of rodents that are slaughtered on your behalf every day while your veggies are harvested. In either case, I see you as a person who is happier closing his eyes and pointing fingers than actually getting his hands dirty dealing with reality head on.
However, I feel your violent suggestions and opinion just as sickening.
That's because you're a little lamb who's incapable of making the tough decisions required in a brutal world. You're happy to sit on the fence of moral relativism, never punishing the destroyers of society because you're too weak to be decisive and protect what's important.
If you are one who has never been on the receiving end of sexual misconduct, or have never been on the receiving end of true violence
It's because I HAVE dealt with the results of true violence that I feel so strongly about stopping it. Mealy-mouthed weasels protecting the aggressors who destroy the lives of innocents are disgusting and crime-enablers, from my perspective.
I hope you realize, sexual misconduct stems from violent and aggressive tendencies, the same thing you would use to "solve the problem". That which you wish to solve you are a part of my friend.
It's one of those little facts of nature that violent brutal behavior needs to be confronted in a like manner, or the wolves will overrun the sheep. Just be thankful that not everyone is incapable of making the tough decisions like yourself, our your precious indignation would be destroyed by those who would take everything you have from you.
But there is absolutely no reason for this information to be available to the public.
Bullshit. Sexual predators are just that, predators. I vote that I get to know if a proven danger to my children is living next door. Looks like most of the rest of America votes the same way. Hooray for a democratic form of government. Fuck the child molesters and rapists. If I were in charge, they'd be dead on the first offense, so they're getting off easy in that respect.
The offender has served their time according to the law
Part of "their time" has been deemed to be the ten years or so after being released from prison during which time, they're listed in a database that's publicly accessible. Tough shit, don't commit the crime next time.
I just paid for a Redhat Network update license a couple of months ago when I installed RH9. I don't want the enterprise version of their software. I don't want to upgrade. I want the update service that I paid for to continue.
You can be assured that as the machines in my IT department are upgraded/replaced, they won't be running any version of Redhat.
Cutting off the low end is just stupid stupid stupid. It's a huge mistake that is going to open the door wide for a new distribution that will grow off the low end and then give RH serious problems on the high end as well. RH will find itself wedged between Microsoft, Novell, Sun, and whatever upstarts fill in the low end markets and creep upward. They're fucked.
That unit sounds pretty sweet, but I really want PVR to be an integral part of the next system that I buy/put together.
Additionally, it wastes more of their time/resources, since their server will sit there spinning for the connection to time out.
What good is a quantum computer for besides breaking encryption? It seems like that's the only problem-solving ability of quantum computers that is ever mentioned.
Why does this announcement sound like an advertisement? Coming out of MIT, you'd think it would sound like research in need of being peer-reviewed.
RTFA. The suit is in Northern CA, according to the article.
California, and "ENLIGHTENED" state? Bleah. I lived there for quite some time. For such an enlightened state, they sure can't manage to keep the lights (power) on. I'd call California a randomly enlightened, but mostly frenetic shooting-itself-in-the-foot state.
While I agree that what she did was without thought, not thinking shouldn't be a reasonable excuse for being a victim of fraud.
Why as a society should we consider those complicit who innocently leave their doors unlocked or their keys in the ignition? Our full venom should be directed toward people who illegally take advantage of others, not people who are naive and trusting.
How many of these digital paper technologies are going to be announced before we actually see them in use in the market?
I realize that digital paper isn't a total hoax, but it sure feels like one.
It seems as though the last-mile technical barriers must be really high. Maybe they're having trouble making these things last or making them in quantity?
If feelings don't matter, you can by replaced by a computer.
How is this in any real way true?
More articles, less whimsical opinionated fluff.
I must have missed a meeting. When did quotes from The Rock become obligatory?