"Do some research and you'll find that pornography usage is strikingly correlated with serious felonies (domestic abuse, rape, incest, murder...) as well as correlated with the development of many phsycological pathologies."
Correlation != Causation.
Also, those with a healthy attitude towards sex (from BOTH PARTNERS), we would not find these psychosocial issues and "addictions".
Stigmatizing isn't going to give the addicts a healthy sex life as much as prohibition served to eliminate alcoholism. Therapy and raising the children to understand that sex isn't a shameful thing will help to reduce the addict's taboo thrills and give them a greater sexual center.
I've heard of some shady tactics in my time working for a larger PC OEM, but *never* a mention of this. The shipping out of winmodems (and similar components) was done for reasons of cost, not to reduce interoperability.
"The DoD and intelligence sectors do some truly ambitious and cutting edge things with analytical and predictive modeling, and lives are at stake."
And on the other end, you have Project Stargate. I'm generally impressed by the US military, however I can't believe that *any* money is still wasted on remote viewing and "psychic" intelligence. We might as well have a dowsing and alchemy development team.
"OK, it's offtopic, but how can you possibly believe abstinence-only education is a success in combating AIDS, particularly in an information-poor place like Africa?"
Because anyone promoting abstinence as THE ONLY option and not the *best* option is not grounded in reality.
Even in South Miami, where we regularly get pounded by every hurricane that comes by, we have boomboxes, hand-crank radios, or other weather devices. That concern doesn't factor into our mp3 players of choice.
"...Is it just me, or with the addition of a few local scripts, does this sound like a virus-writer's favorite fantasy? They need to make sure there are some very good safeguards on this!"
RTFA, it wouldn't spread under any normal implementation.
It's pretty normal in graphic design and all commercial art as well. My father was a commercial artist for the majority of his life, but eventually tired of spending hours to weeks working on mockups for designers only to find out that they rejected every trained artist in favor of the cheapest possible house-painter.
"in the Government's library you will never find anything written by Marx"
I know it's been said before, but US public and university librarians go out of their way to preserve *all* knowledge, it's the jerk-off-the-street that demands censorship.
"Yeah, they're not like those malnourished, naked independent artists."
While Ani DiFranco and a handful of others can do well as indies, they certainly can't do it alone and without a struggle. It's not for everybody, and it's a much smaller market share.
That considered, they are not "tools of the industry", as much as contractors for the industry. Copy protection is annoying, but does NOT prevent their fans from listening to the CD, and only provides a slightly greater annoyance to those who wish to copy or upload their music to another device.
You don't *have* to admire them, but actively disliking them is certainly a wasted effort here.
"Yes, an example would be the Rolling Stones. I think its obvious from their history in court. All they care about is money and not the fans. I think i'll go listen to bitter sweet symphony."
As much as I like the song, blatant sampling without receiving authorization beforehand is a *very* poor idea.
"Whilst I agree that generally early-teens are asshats, over-generalisation really sucks (memories of having my opinions ignored because, as you say, 'does anyone care what a 14 year old thinks?')."
It's likely the content more than the context.
"Adults say they feel the same person they were as when they were younger, all young people say older people don't pay any attention to them for whatever reason, old people think they can't get jobs because of the young people, young people think they can't get jobs because of experienced people, young-against-old-person arguments are normally sided on the old person'd side. Where the hell is all this justification coming from exactly, since we all feel the same as one another, yet all one another as being completely different?"
Because whereas the young continue to make mistakes, we've (generally) realized the right path from those mistakes and have moved on to making new and exciting mistakes far removed from teenage drama.
"I can't really back this argument up with any evidence because my heads feeling pretty empty right now (and because I'm only 18), but it just seems to me like this whole thing is rather skewed."
Gee, I wonder why.
"Then again, who cares; this 18 year old thinks he's so smart, what would he know, he's only 18. Right?"
There's some insight there in those teenage years, but it's usually misapplied and lacking context. Without a context to root knowledge in, it's pretty difficult to find relevancy.
Teenage "insight" and "new ideas" are usually nothing of the sort. It's good to try for them, but don't expect adults to fawn over you for having ideas. *You've* never had them before, but chances are that it may have occurred to (and been shot down by) someone nearly twice your age.
"when i know i can find the info online, i won't bother. i need some help that an automated system can't provide or wastes too much time trying to get it to recgonize what i'm saying."
If we could find the information online in all cases, we wouldn't need this service.
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Battlefield Earth is another underappreciated source of hilarity.
Certainly. T a lesser extent, so do those who want to criminalize most any consensual activity.
"Do some research and you'll find that pornography usage is strikingly correlated with serious felonies (domestic abuse, rape, incest, murder...) as well as correlated with the development of many phsycological pathologies."
Correlation != Causation.
Also, those with a healthy attitude towards sex (from BOTH PARTNERS), we would not find these psychosocial issues and "addictions".
Stigmatizing isn't going to give the addicts a healthy sex life as much as prohibition served to eliminate alcoholism. Therapy and raising the children to understand that sex isn't a shameful thing will help to reduce the addict's taboo thrills and give them a greater sexual center.
Upgrading a support infrastructure is a much more important use of money than just pumping the money into food (at first).
"the government will see what is happening in places like China and make sure nobody but the elite of the elite even get internet access"
That's *already* the case.
"Then again, with Genetic Algorithms, perhaps this is the next missing ingredient for cybersentient life...
Ahh, I see, you are a sci-fi nerd, not a computer nerd. This is a discussion involving people who know things about computers. You don't qualify."
Yes, anyone who compares an automated script to skynet's becoming self-aware *really* needs to step a bit closer to reality.
I've heard of some shady tactics in my time working for a larger PC OEM, but *never* a mention of this. The shipping out of winmodems (and similar components) was done for reasons of cost, not to reduce interoperability.
"The DoD and intelligence sectors do some truly ambitious and cutting edge things with analytical and predictive modeling, and lives are at stake."
And on the other end, you have Project Stargate. I'm generally impressed by the US military, however I can't believe that *any* money is still wasted on remote viewing and "psychic" intelligence. We might as well have a dowsing and alchemy development team.
"OK, it's offtopic, but how can you possibly believe abstinence-only education is a success in combating AIDS, particularly in an information-poor place like Africa?"
Because anyone promoting abstinence as THE ONLY option and not the *best* option is not grounded in reality.
Even in South Miami, where we regularly get pounded by every hurricane that comes by, we have boomboxes, hand-crank radios, or other weather devices. That concern doesn't factor into our mp3 players of choice.
"...Is it just me, or with the addition of a few local scripts, does this sound like a virus-writer's favorite fantasy? They need to make sure there are some very good safeguards on this!"
RTFA, it wouldn't spread under any normal implementation.
It's pretty normal in graphic design and all commercial art as well. My father was a commercial artist for the majority of his life, but eventually tired of spending hours to weeks working on mockups for designers only to find out that they rejected every trained artist in favor of the cheapest possible house-painter.
Their hardware division has always made quality products, actually.
"in the Government's library you will never find anything written by Marx"
I know it's been said before, but US public and university librarians go out of their way to preserve *all* knowledge, it's the jerk-off-the-street that demands censorship.
"Yeah, they're not like those malnourished, naked independent artists."
While Ani DiFranco and a handful of others can do well as indies, they certainly can't do it alone and without a struggle. It's not for everybody, and it's a much smaller market share.
That considered, they are not "tools of the industry", as much as contractors for the industry. Copy protection is annoying, but does NOT prevent their fans from listening to the CD, and only provides a slightly greater annoyance to those who wish to copy or upload their music to another device.
You don't *have* to admire them, but actively disliking them is certainly a wasted effort here.
"They copied our description and device except for an ARM processor instead of the 1gHz AMD we used"
Fly away, troll. The GP32 already did all this with ARM, and it's not using any of your AMD architecture.
I don't know how that comment received an "interesting", because it's certainly not grounded in reality.
"Yes, an example would be the Rolling Stones. I think its obvious from their history in court. All they care about is money and not the fans. I think i'll go listen to bitter sweet symphony."
As much as I like the song, blatant sampling without receiving authorization beforehand is a *very* poor idea.
"If they were genuine about being pro-fan, there is a hell of a lot that they could do about the situation."
They're also pro-feeding and clothing themselves. There's not a "hell of a lot" that they can do in the notoriously fickle recording industry.
"Whilst I agree that generally early-teens are asshats, over-generalisation really sucks (memories of having my opinions ignored because, as you say, 'does anyone care what a 14 year old thinks?')."
It's likely the content more than the context.
"Adults say they feel the same person they were as when they were younger, all young people say older people don't pay any attention to them for whatever reason, old people think they can't get jobs because of the young people, young people think they can't get jobs because of experienced people, young-against-old-person arguments are normally sided on the old person'd side. Where the hell is all this justification coming from exactly, since we all feel the same as one another, yet all one another as being completely different?"
Because whereas the young continue to make mistakes, we've (generally) realized the right path from those mistakes and have moved on to making new and exciting mistakes far removed from teenage drama.
"I can't really back this argument up with any evidence because my heads feeling pretty empty right now (and because I'm only 18), but it just seems to me like this whole thing is rather skewed."
Gee, I wonder why.
"Then again, who cares; this 18 year old thinks he's so smart, what would he know, he's only 18. Right?"
There's some insight there in those teenage years, but it's usually misapplied and lacking context. Without a context to root knowledge in, it's pretty difficult to find relevancy.
Teenage "insight" and "new ideas" are usually nothing of the sort. It's good to try for them, but don't expect adults to fawn over you for having ideas. *You've* never had them before, but chances are that it may have occurred to (and been shot down by) someone nearly twice your age.
"when i know i can find the info online, i won't bother. i need some help that an automated system can't provide or wastes too much time trying to get it to recgonize what i'm saying."
If we could find the information online in all cases, we wouldn't need this service.
How about not buying cheap-ass monitors?
"Obvious, but WHY was Halo a launch title for the Xbox?
Because the Monopoly of Bill bought out Bungie."
So what? That's not a monopolistic action.
Let alone the space bar for shooting or jumping.
Someone should send a couple copies to Princeton's "Engineering Anomalies Research" project.
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
I'd enjoy trying it out on some XP workstations, but I'd prefer a no-installer for easier removal.
Is there a package like this?