"Removing dependance on full-length physical media will do a couple of good things. First it will force the industry and artists to put out more quality tracks instead of relying on a couple radio tracks to sell a disc made mostly of filler. Second, the consumer will no longer get stuck with a lousy disc."
Funny thing, I own approximately one cd from a record company which is a member of the RIAA, while all my others are not. On all of these cds, no songs really stand out as being the best or one that would be played on the radio (if these songs were ever played on the radio) because the cds are filled with great songs. I was gonna make a point about how big name bands tend to put out so much more crap that do smaller, lesser-known bands, in relation to how it seems to me that big name bands get into it for the money more often while most lesser-known bands play because they like to play, and how if big name bands focussed on playing better music maybe they'd start making more money too if that's their goal.
I'm unfortunatly stuck on aol at home (with the parrents), plus i've had my email address there since I was 9, so I still use the account for my mail. For the past couple years, I've always gotten about 15-25 spams per day, and since AOL claimed to have started blocking it, I haven't noticed any decrease in the spam I get. Of course now there are twice as many Mortgage and Loan messages but few if any penis enlargers and porn.
I thought Hockey rinks would be a given for a unit of measuring area. It is Canada, after all. If there were a way to measure area using lumberjacks, I'm sure they'd have used it too.
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I'm going to assume the author of parrent was suggesting non-commercial media (you know, those that aren't influenced by multinational corporations). Here are some suggestions: -Independent Media -Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting -The Nation
I'd rather review games than test them. I have a friend (she's 17) who reviews games for her local newspaper. She gets all of the games that she reviews for free and then gets paid for writing the review. Besides the obvious deadline, it would be a real nice side job to have (Free [commercially produced] games! (that aren't warez!))
A child by your own statement is not a full citizen thus lacks the rights that entails, thus the child in fact does not own any money. All of the child's posessions are owned by the parent, therefore, if the child manages to find the $40 to go and buy the violent video game, the child is spending the parrents' money. I ask you: is it not the parrents' responsibility to know where and how their money is being spent? As it is the parrents' money being spent on the games, they are granting implied consent toward the purchase.
parents have a right to raise their children as they see fit by not letting them play video games
You seem to imply that every parrent in America wishes their children to not be exposed to violent games. I'm not sure how different my upbringing was from that of others, but I will use it as an example. I distinctly remember playing games such as Doom and Duke Nukem 3D with my father when I was rather young (between 9 and 12). My parrents as well as the parrents of friends would watch myself and friends play all sorts of violent video games without ever telling us "There's too much blood in this game, turn it off!"
Let me also point to something that contains as much, if not more violence than many video games, and it is also available to no cost of the child: Televison. If it becomes a crime to sell violent video games to children, should it not also become a crime to broadcast violent material through television? Children have much easier access to this, and it shows real people dying, not a jumble of polygons that looks like a person.
although I thought that asbestos problems had been mostly solved by removing it from all buildings, etc
My High School was built in 1953, and the asbestos in it have never been removed. In fact, a few days ago I went wandering with a stage crew friend and she showed me all the neat places like up above the auditorium ceiling (200 or so feet above the ground, much fun) and there were all sorts of comforting "DANGER: ASBESTOS" signs up there. And its not like this area is shut off from the rest of the school; just walk through a doorway, climb up two ladders and you're there. I know that a couple rooms in this area of the school have been closed off and students told they are definitly not allowed to be there any more due to the asbestos in the air, though. But yeah, asbestos is definitly still a problem, even in public buildings. (and schools!)
If there is no "immediate danger" with the asbestos, they don't go about removing it from buildings. It is left there until they have to remove it, which I think my school is (finally) going to do pretty soon when the start rennovating.
I'm only a high school senior, but I plan to study physics when I get to college, and my goal is to work towards a doctorate. I figure by the time I've learned enough to read through these texts, I'll have a pretty hard time finding copies of them, so I'm downloading them now to stick in my archive of useful stuff for later reading.
$5 for shoe laces? That's crazy! I think I spent about $1.50 on a pair of really nice, two-toned, flat shoe laces that are on their second pair of shoes.
It started off as a BBC radio series, which I've seen mentioned around the thread. It was also made into a television miniseries for the BBC and recently released on DVD. There are five books in the HHGTTG series, the first published in 1979, and the last in 1992. The DVD above pretty accuratly portrays the first two books (if memory serves me), though it's rather old, early 80s, so it looks pretty cheesy nowadays.
If nobody noiced...there is a story in the Science section, only 2 stories down from this one in fact, which states that the Earth is indeed getting fatter. Is it coincidence that this story came out right after that one?
Such a stereotype! I'm 16, and I can say my parrents are fairly intelligent, from experience more so than actually being geek-ishly smart people. Of course they are also irrational and quick to anger...
On the subject of the story...While my parrents aren't all too smart (I don't think either of them ever passed an Algebra course.), a genius;) (Hey, I'm not boasting, that's what the IQ test said.), getting straight A's in all the advanced classes. (Hell, I could sleep through most of Pre-Calc and still get an A.) And it's kind of ironic, as my parrents always tell me that I obviously don't get it from them.
I watched the sky this morning from my backyard in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I suppose there is moderate light pollution. Fortunately the sky was perfectly clear. In my first outing, between 7:15-7:45 UTC, I observed a total of 10 meteors in that half hour. I later returned for what was supposed to be peak time around here and watched for 50 minutes from 10:00-10:50 UTC. During that time, I observed 220 meteors. There were quite a few very bright fireballs, and at several times I observed two or three meteors flying across the sky at the same time.
IMO, some popups have already gotten to the point of annoyance. Granted, small popups that come up once when you visit a site are fine, and I can easily close them. But there were some forums somewhere (can't remember where off hand, kinda stopped going there) where every single new page you loaded brought with it a full screen popup. If you tell me that isn't annoying, then you must be crazy.
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I'm not going to defend the accuracy of the facts in this story, but I'm sure something happened. I have a friend who lives in Clinton Township, and after I read this, I contacted him. He knew exactly who I was talking about after I described just a bit of it to him. He didn't know a lot, just what happened and some rumours about it, though.
Users can then access Usen's portal site where you can download games and Karaoke songs.
I understand the games, but Karaoke songs? Is it really that big in Japan? (Makes me think of some funny scenes from the movies.)
Great point there, some games don't need plots. Pong didn't have a lot of depth, though (not that it needed it, it was a great game nonetheless), so it didn't need much explaining. But if I'm going to be running around blowing heads off of aliens and rescuing hostages and whatnot, I'd like to have some idea of why I'm doing it.
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"Removing dependance on full-length physical media will do a couple of good things. First it will force the industry and artists to put out more quality tracks instead of relying on a couple radio tracks to sell a disc made mostly of filler. Second, the consumer will no longer get stuck with a lousy disc."
Funny thing, I own approximately one cd from a record company which is a member of the RIAA, while all my others are not. On all of these cds, no songs really stand out as being the best or one that would be played on the radio (if these songs were ever played on the radio) because the cds are filled with great songs. I was gonna make a point about how big name bands tend to put out so much more crap that do smaller, lesser-known bands, in relation to how it seems to me that big name bands get into it for the money more often while most lesser-known bands play because they like to play, and how if big name bands focussed on playing better music maybe they'd start making more money too if that's their goal.
how come this guy is only a moralist when he's not running for national office?
I'm pretty sure Lieberman is one of the however many democrats campaigning right now to take on Bush next year...
I'm unfortunatly stuck on aol at home (with the parrents), plus i've had my email address there since I was 9, so I still use the account for my mail. For the past couple years, I've always gotten about 15-25 spams per day, and since AOL claimed to have started blocking it, I haven't noticed any decrease in the spam I get. Of course now there are twice as many Mortgage and Loan messages but few if any penis enlargers and porn.
I thought Hockey rinks would be a given for a unit of measuring area. It is Canada, after all. If there were a way to measure area using lumberjacks, I'm sure they'd have used it too.
I'm going to assume the author of parrent was suggesting non-commercial media (you know, those that aren't influenced by multinational corporations). Here are some suggestions:
-Independent Media
-Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
-The Nation
I'd rather review games than test them. I have a friend (she's 17) who reviews games for her local newspaper. She gets all of the games that she reviews for free and then gets paid for writing the review. Besides the obvious deadline, it would be a real nice side job to have (Free [commercially produced] games! (that aren't warez!))
That might happen....When pigs fly!!!!1!11
A child by your own statement is not a full citizen thus lacks the rights that entails, thus the child in fact does not own any money. All of the child's posessions are owned by the parent, therefore, if the child manages to find the $40 to go and buy the violent video game, the child is spending the parrents' money. I ask you: is it not the parrents' responsibility to know where and how their money is being spent? As it is the parrents' money being spent on the games, they are granting implied consent toward the purchase.
parents have a right to raise their children as they see fit by not letting them play video games
You seem to imply that every parrent in America wishes their children to not be exposed to violent games. I'm not sure how different my upbringing was from that of others, but I will use it as an example. I distinctly remember playing games such as Doom and Duke Nukem 3D with my father when I was rather young (between 9 and 12). My parrents as well as the parrents of friends would watch myself and friends play all sorts of violent video games without ever telling us "There's too much blood in this game, turn it off!"
Let me also point to something that contains as much, if not more violence than many video games, and it is also available to no cost of the child: Televison. If it becomes a crime to sell violent video games to children, should it not also become a crime to broadcast violent material through television? Children have much easier access to this, and it shows real people dying, not a jumble of polygons that looks like a person.
although I thought that asbestos problems had been mostly solved by removing it from all buildings, etc
My High School was built in 1953, and the asbestos in it have never been removed. In fact, a few days ago I went wandering with a stage crew friend and she showed me all the neat places like up above the auditorium ceiling (200 or so feet above the ground, much fun) and there were all sorts of comforting "DANGER: ASBESTOS" signs up there. And its not like this area is shut off from the rest of the school; just walk through a doorway, climb up two ladders and you're there. I know that a couple rooms in this area of the school have been closed off and students told they are definitly not allowed to be there any more due to the asbestos in the air, though. But yeah, asbestos is definitly still a problem, even in public buildings. (and schools!)
If there is no "immediate danger" with the asbestos, they don't go about removing it from buildings. It is left there until they have to remove it, which I think my school is (finally) going to do pretty soon when the start rennovating.
I'm only a high school senior, but I plan to study physics when I get to college, and my goal is to work towards a doctorate. I figure by the time I've learned enough to read through these texts, I'll have a pretty hard time finding copies of them, so I'm downloading them now to stick in my archive of useful stuff for later reading.
$5 for shoe laces? That's crazy! I think I spent about $1.50 on a pair of really nice, two-toned, flat shoe laces that are on their second pair of shoes.
Too bad Mary Ann won't be in it.
It started off as a BBC radio series, which I've seen mentioned around the thread. It was also made into a television miniseries for the BBC and recently released on DVD. There are five books in the HHGTTG series, the first published in 1979, and the last in 1992. The DVD above pretty accuratly portrays the first two books (if memory serves me), though it's rather old, early 80s, so it looks pretty cheesy nowadays.
fp!
Ok, when I loaded that the first time, I swear it showed exactly 10 other words that I may have wanted to spell, but failed to. Drat.
If you look it up at dictionary.com, the word doesn't even exist in the english language!
I love when people try to sound smart, but make total fools of themselves. (*knock on wood* I'm probably doing it right now.)
...perhaps one day they will be able to develop one that will allow politicians to talk to normal folks and be understood.
I don't think there's that much problem understanding what politicians say; it's just a lot of times they aren't very "accurate" with what they say.
How hard could it be for them to launch something that will crash into something else?
If nobody noiced...there is a story in the Science section, only 2 stories down from this one in fact, which states that the Earth is indeed getting fatter. Is it coincidence that this story came out right after that one?
Such a stereotype! I'm 16, and I can say my parrents are fairly intelligent, from experience more so than actually being geek-ishly smart people. Of course they are also irrational and quick to anger...
;) (Hey, I'm not boasting, that's what the IQ test said.), getting straight A's in all the advanced classes. (Hell, I could sleep through most of Pre-Calc and still get an A.) And it's kind of ironic, as my parrents always tell me that I obviously don't get it from them.
On the subject of the story...While my parrents aren't all too smart (I don't think either of them ever passed an Algebra course.), a genius
I watched the sky this morning from my backyard in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I suppose there is moderate light pollution. Fortunately the sky was perfectly clear. In my first outing, between 7:15-7:45 UTC, I observed a total of 10 meteors in that half hour. I later returned for what was supposed to be peak time around here and watched for 50 minutes from 10:00-10:50 UTC. During that time, I observed 220 meteors. There were quite a few very bright fireballs, and at several times I observed two or three meteors flying across the sky at the same time.
IMO, some popups have already gotten to the point of annoyance. Granted, small popups that come up once when you visit a site are fine, and I can easily close them. But there were some forums somewhere (can't remember where off hand, kinda stopped going there) where every single new page you loaded brought with it a full screen popup. If you tell me that isn't annoying, then you must be crazy.
I'm not going to defend the accuracy of the facts in this story, but I'm sure something happened. I have a friend who lives in Clinton Township, and after I read this, I contacted him. He knew exactly who I was talking about after I described just a bit of it to him. He didn't know a lot, just what happened and some rumours about it, though.
Users can then access Usen's portal site where you can download games and Karaoke songs. I understand the games, but Karaoke songs? Is it really that big in Japan? (Makes me think of some funny scenes from the movies.)
Great point there, some games don't need plots. Pong didn't have a lot of depth, though (not that it needed it, it was a great game nonetheless), so it didn't need much explaining. But if I'm going to be running around blowing heads off of aliens and rescuing hostages and whatnot, I'd like to have some idea of why I'm doing it.