For instance, in Muslim countries women aren't leered at and treated as sex objects...
Absolutely correct. They're wrapped up, head to toe, and treated as property.
Anyone who says otherwise is only doing so because they enjoy violence and sex so much.
Maybe it's wanting the best of both worlds: yes I enjoy violent games, but the last thing I want to do is shoot someone or be shot. I don't think they are mutually exclusive.
How comforting that must be when you're cutting that $5 billion check.
"It's a lot of money, but at least you're not the primary scapegoat. Sure you aren't to blame, but hey, that's the cost of deep pockets..."
Personally, I think the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of whoever commits the act. But even putting aside some personal feelings, once the parents and the gun dealer(s) are found at fault, what blame is left? The plaintiffs in this case are either emotionally stressed (understandably), greedy, or under the spell of a bastard of a trial lawyer. Or a combination.
What if they dig up an email from a friend telling the kid to update his drivers to get [game name here] up and running? Is that friend then responsible as well? Where does it stop? No money, hence no "responsibility?"
So then...remove the tax on tabacco and alcohol? They're not as harmful as cocaine and the like. Anyway, if it's legalized/decriminalized, no one is going to be going to the store to buy pot when they can just grow it themselves.
And to think, you could have had it for only 375 acres of undeveloped (and presumably unzoned) land. The fiber-optic cable alone in that place would have covered it. Would have made a nice/. story before it was "sold".
I think someone's still trying to sell off a few of the NIKE missile silos.
Strangely similar to Dave Lister in "Waiting for God."
The properly attributed text is thus: LISTER: What do you believe in, then? Do you believe in God?
RIMMER: God? Certainly not! What a preposterous thought! I believe in
aliens, Lister.
LISTER: Oh, right, fine. Something sensible at last.
RIMMER: Aliens, Lister, with technology so far in advance of our own we
can't even begin to imagine.
LISTER: Well, that's not difficult. Mankind hasn't even got the
technology to create a toupee that doesn't get big laughs.
RTFA. It says: There is a two-CD set, "The Music of Cosmos -- Collector's Edition," featuring old and new music by Vangelis, composer of the "Cosmos" theme.
Agreed. Plus, until Dell/CDW/[corporate vendor here] sells it, most people don't even know it's out. Besides, no one buys you beers after a day of "everything running smoothly on the Linux server." But after a day of "getting that NT box back up," it's kegarooni time...
Hey! Doesn't the U.S. government have a name for things like this? Like, entrapment? The kid was more or less bribed into the act and then hung out to dry!
We call that "bribery," actually. Or perhaps soliciting criminal activity.
Entrapment is generally reserved for law enforcement or their informants.
Getting the.tv country TLD hooked this country up. Not only are they getting paid, they can afford their UN dues, upgrade infrastructure, import much needed food, and cut their reliance on offshore 900 phone sex numbers for income. Not a perfect solution, but closer to teaching someone to fish than handing them a trout.
...try to bring them through the industrial revolution first...As the west moves towards an increasingly service based economy, there are opportunities for countries such as Ghana to grab onto our coattails and provide our manufacturing capabilty, before moving up to join us.
So you're saying they have to slog through fossil fuel dependency and be our manufacturing bitches until they are worthy to have access to our vaunted technonogy? What condescending crap. Saying that since only.1% of the population is currently online they won't benefit from increased access is like saying since only.1% of them can read (just an example, not a fact) they won't need books or schools.
What? Come on. That's insanity. Why not have the car towed to the junkyard and have it crushed? Nearly anything falls under the "could be used to commit a crime" blanket. Your left femur could be used to commit a murder. I have no right to remove it, good of the society or not.
Have a good evening, Senator.
Whoops, posted anon.
Funny enough, I have a car with the front door handles broken. It's my winter car, so I don't worry about it too much. I have to leave a back door unlocked (no keyholes on the back) to get in. So yeah, leave my car the hell alone.
Besides, what happens to the do-gooder who opens my car to turn off the lights and sees a few CDs under the seat? Or a fifty in the ashtray? Regardless of what they do, I have a right to be very protective and very suspicious. Give utopia and I'll give you a kinder reaction.
I have passed a number of cars with lights on, doors unlocked. I felt bad that they will most likely come out to a dead battery, but I will never go in there (unless I know the owner) because (1)it is criminal tresspass and (2) I have no idea who the hell they are or what the hell they have in there. Same with someone's house. The same it should be with someone's system.
Black hats are entirely too proud of their blackhat status and will flaunt it at every opportunity -- calling themselves a white hat would be counter to their mission in life of instilling fear.
Those are just the dumbass ones. Like someone who robs a bank and buys drinks for everyone at the local bar the next night, bragging about their big score. Those are probably the ones to be the least concerned about. They are at the low end with the ones you never hear from at the top.
Given how far the electronic medium has come in less than a hundred years, that gap is going to be erased quickly.
It already is. After those few thosand years, books still don't have ads making up at least 30% of their content. Hell, all they can muster are mail-in order forms for "books by the same author." Without the product placement and input from hundreds of marketing experts, how can books possibly have any content worthwile at all? I mean they just sit there.
Disclosure: I'm a hard-core gamer who has opted for a fat DSL over cable television. I don't have the benifit of Discovery or History channels and have to rely on the books and the internet to get my infomation. All I get on my TV (no remote, manual dials for UHF) are 2 PBS stations, the 4 networks, Korean and Polish channels, and some cell phone calls. Thus I may be lacking the aquired "smarts" that comes from cable and may not even be qualified to comment at all.
I disagree. Most users that get the OEM installed OS don't want to bother with an installable CD. That means they actually might have to install something sometime. I don't know about all brands, but Compaqs come with a small partition with the OS disc image and a program that allows Compaq customer support to login and edit the registry, change settings, and if necessary, reformat the other partition. I think vendors would actually lose a lot by dumping MSOS because of customer perceptions. Not that it's right, but imagine having to tell the average user they don't get Windows. This might change but more like 6 years than 6 months.
Besides, anytime margins shrink, the most commone solution isn't "Hey, let's give more value to the consumer AND save money (at the risk breaking from industry standards)!" It's more like, "Hey, lets decrease the value to cut costs AND raise the price!"
And only about 1 tenth of that is about the immediate colapse of Microsoft. Maybe the title of this should have been "ESR: Assorted Ramblings and Crystal Ball Insanity."
Slashdot Mirror
Let's not.
How about those that make them un-playable. Say Win2000? Do they get some kind of civic award? Or maybe that's why only Doom gets mentioned?
Absolutely correct. They're wrapped up, head to toe, and treated as property.
Anyone who says otherwise is only doing so because they enjoy violence and sex so much.
Maybe it's wanting the best of both worlds: yes I enjoy violent games, but the last thing I want to do is shoot someone or be shot. I don't think they are mutually exclusive.
"It's a lot of money, but at least you're not the primary scapegoat. Sure you aren't to blame, but hey, that's the cost of deep pockets..."
Personally, I think the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of whoever commits the act. But even putting aside some personal feelings, once the parents and the gun dealer(s) are found at fault, what blame is left? The plaintiffs in this case are either emotionally stressed (understandably), greedy, or under the spell of a bastard of a trial lawyer. Or a combination.
What if they dig up an email from a friend telling the kid to update his drivers to get [game name here] up and running? Is that friend then responsible as well? Where does it stop? No money, hence no "responsibility?"
I think someone's still trying to sell off a few of the NIKE missile silos.
The properly attributed text is thus:
LISTER: What do you believe in, then? Do you believe in God?
RIMMER: God? Certainly not! What a preposterous thought! I believe in aliens, Lister.
LISTER: Oh, right, fine. Something sensible at last.
RIMMER: Aliens, Lister, with technology so far in advance of our own we can't even begin to imagine.
LISTER: Well, that's not difficult. Mankind hasn't even got the technology to create a toupee that doesn't get big laughs.
(Red Dwarf Scripts are here )
There is a two-CD set, "The Music of Cosmos -- Collector's Edition," featuring old and new music by Vangelis, composer of the "Cosmos" theme.
We call that "bribery," actually. Or perhaps soliciting criminal activity.
Entrapment is generally reserved for law enforcement or their informants.
So you're saying they have to slog through fossil fuel dependency and be our manufacturing bitches until they are worthy to have access to our vaunted technonogy? What condescending crap. Saying that since only .1% of the population is currently online they won't benefit from increased access is like saying since only .1% of them can read (just an example, not a fact) they won't need books or schools.
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20 December 2000: Add source and date of Kopel report.
19 December 2000: Add Congressional Record excerpts on Senate debate and text of Amendment 4366 to H.R. 46.
19 December 2000. Thanks to B.
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15 December 2000
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Have a good evening, Senator.
Funny enough, I have a car with the front door handles broken. It's my winter car, so I don't worry about it too much. I have to leave a back door unlocked (no keyholes on the back) to get in. So yeah, leave my car the hell alone.
Besides, what happens to the do-gooder who opens my car to turn off the lights and sees a few CDs under the seat? Or a fifty in the ashtray? Regardless of what they do, I have a right to be very protective and very suspicious. Give utopia and I'll give you a kinder reaction.
I have passed a number of cars with lights on, doors unlocked. I felt bad that they will most likely come out to a dead battery, but I will never go in there (unless I know the owner) because (1)it is criminal tresspass and (2) I have no idea who the hell they are or what the hell they have in there. Same with someone's house. The same it should be with someone's system.
Those are just the dumbass ones. Like someone who robs a bank and buys drinks for everyone at the local bar the next night, bragging about their big score. Those are probably the ones to be the least concerned about. They are at the low end with the ones you never hear from at the top.
It already is. After those few thosand years, books still don't have ads making up at least 30% of their content. Hell, all they can muster are mail-in order forms for "books by the same author." Without the product placement and input from hundreds of marketing experts, how can books possibly have any content worthwile at all? I mean they just sit there.
Disclosure: I'm a hard-core gamer who has opted for a fat DSL over cable television. I don't have the benifit of Discovery or History channels and have to rely on the books and the internet to get my infomation. All I get on my TV (no remote, manual dials for UHF) are 2 PBS stations, the 4 networks, Korean and Polish channels, and some cell phone calls. Thus I may be lacking the aquired "smarts" that comes from cable and may not even be qualified to comment at all.
Besides, anytime margins shrink, the most commone solution isn't "Hey, let's give more value to the consumer AND save money (at the risk breaking from industry standards)!" It's more like, "Hey, lets decrease the value to cut costs AND raise the price!"
Should be:
As for the other point:
fandom != fandom
fandom == fan domination
HTML ate the angled brackets I prefer to use...
As for the other point:
fandom fandom
fandom == fan domination
BTW, .tv isn't a TLD like .com or .net. It is a country TLD for Tuvalu that was bought by some Canadian company to be sold as a business TLD.