The only thing great about this is the fact that this has a better range, but headphones and speakers already have the ability to place sounds in certain places.
My headphones the Grado SR80s can place the sound anywhere all the way around my head, including the inside my head sound.
State of the art speakers can already place sound in different areas, look I dont care if they put ads on these new speakers, I'll have my headphones on and they will be blocked out.
You cannot learn to be good at programming from books, you learn to program by programming, you learn how to research and you can program for specific hardware, and then you branch off of that, once you learn the processs, you apply it to every project you work on.
Yeah but the difference is, a teacher has to be able to communicate and speak good English, Americans have the advantage, with Doctors you have to know how to use more up to date tools, and most doctors are very well educated in our best schools so we have the advantage there, its jobs which dont require education which we always lose on, Like software engineer, or fast food.
Actually its easier to train a software engineer, since most people can pick up a book on C and C++ and learn to code by using Linux and practicing at home.
We'd have a good economy, I mean look at what we do to iraq and other countries at war, but when it comes to education we suck, so of course we dont produce the best workers.
Right now the cost of living in the USA is high, everything here is more expensive.
Globalism can never work unless we all use the same dollar/euro/yen combined into one global dollar.
Whats our option? Move to China or India because our dollar is worth far too much for us to ever get a job. We also have high inflation, we need the cost of living to be as cheap as the cost of living in India, and we need a global dollar.
Companies should not be able to scam the system by paying workers in other countries cheaper and keeping the extra cash for themselves.
Why would the upswing happen in the USA? Theres no real reason to hire an American programmer over a Chinese or Indian programmer, face it, we are in an economic bubble and its about to burst. Programming is not the kinda job thats all that special, theres only about a billion Indians and Chinese in line to take your jobs, lets not forget Africa and South America.
Just like we lost all the factor jobs, and the car industry, we are about to lose the computer industry.
Your jobs are secure for only a few more years, then millions more Chinese and Indians will learn C, C++, VB, etc etc and take your jobs.
Software development is like the Mc Donalds job, anyone can do it, theres no shortage of programmers, people outsource now, and with the internet even small businesses dont have to hire you expensive American programmers.
Face it, the jobs are gone, and as soon as your company is in danger and needs to save some money, you'll be laid off.
Theres laws on this. Look if I hack into thousands of computers and I make them all ping one computer, who goes to jail? Do all these thousands of people get blamed?
You act like its sooo hard to trace back through the barter system but thats even easier!!!!
I mean if you trade porn you have to give to recieve and anyone you give to might just be a cop! considering you created the porn, any porn you give no only is traced back to you, but the crime is recorded and can be used in court.
Who would be that stupid? I think the average person with a kiddie porn fetish would just go to a european porn site and pay for a membership,why? because its legal to view that stuff in europe and the chance of them getting caught is alot lower.
Not only that, widespread distribution makes it easier for pedophiles to get hold of it. They use it to support their fantasies, and to convince themselves that sexual contact between adults and children is "normal" because lots of other people do it too. Once they have convinced themselves that it's normal, they become free to act on their fantasies, thereby injuring yet more children.
You must have never played a video game in your life. Do you want to outlaw quake because it encourages people to have sick thoughts? Do you think Quake players might begin to think its normal to kill people because they do it online in Quake? " I agree with you that Freenet is not responsible for any of this. Freenet is a tool; like any tool, it can be used for good purposes or bad, and lots of in between. I also don't think that we should squash Freenet. It has some genuinely good purposes, like helping enable political speech under repressive regimes like China"
Ah so its ok for the Chinese to break their laws but not us? They can have their culture destroyed by our Mc donalds (remember its mc donalds that makes people fat) and our horrible rap music (the music which created ghettos), or the rock & roll (the music which caused people to use and sell drugs)
Look, you can pass blame on to the pictures, the games, the information, the ideas or the thoughts, but if its ok for us to pass all our bad thoughts to the Chinese culture, why then are you all about censorinng people who like kiddie porn?
You are no better than the Chinese who want to censor us. Have you heard of culture shock? Sociologists know why the Chinese want to censor things, they want to prevent culture shock, they dont want a revolution, they dont want capitalism forced on them, they dont want our way of life forced on them.
Just like you dont want kiddie porn forced on you. So you censor it so you dont have to see it, and you want to censor it so no one else can see it either. I'm sure the Chinese government is thinking the SAME thing.
I mean after all they wouldnt want the Chinese people to see our crazy sick ideas, their people would then be remote controlled puppets controlled by our movies, our culture, etc etc, right? It would incite riots, millions of Chinese would die, right?
I'm guessing you believe all porn should be outlawed?
You talk BS lol, I never see people as "things" but to pretend people dont use one another, you must have never had casual sex, never watched a porn movie, never done business with anyone, never went to a bank and spoke to a nameless face, etc.
Also, if what you say is true you should work for the FBI, and join these so called kiddie porn rings, trade porn with them, get their IPs and arrest them all..
It cant be that easy or else we'd hear of more arrests.
According to you, the more a person indulges in a fantasy, the more likely they are to act it out.
This is not proven, sociologists who study people have never come to the conclusion that say, Violent games such as quake directly cause murder, or that porn causes rape.
If you can directly link this with pure statistics not only will you have an arguement for your kiddie porn opinion, but you'll have a strong arguement against freedom of speech and for censorship. Joe Lieberman would agree that its the violent games, the nasty porn, and the rap music that causes people to do crazy shit.
I say blame the people, not the games, not the porn images, not the rap music. If you indulge in kiddie porn but you never harm anyone, fine, but if you rape someone you should go to jail, period.
If you play doom, quake or whatever and want to imagine killing your boss, fine, but if you actually kill your boss you should go to jail.
And if you listen to rap music and you imagine you are shooting and robbing people, fine, but if you actually go and do it, you should go to jail.
I dont believe people should be arrested for having bad thoughts, thats just wrong, people should be able to indulge in whatever fantasies they want and you or I have no right to call them sick.
Honestly I think its sick to imagine killing people, but people do that when they play quake, some of these people are my friends, they havent killed anyone, perhaps Quake has the opposite effect and actually calms them down.
Now if people can play quake when pissed off and they dont kill their boss for real, and if people can safely release anger this way, why cant people who like kiddie porn indulge in whatever sick fantasies they have? As long as they never act it out, its their mind and they should be able to think about what they want.
I dont agree with the pictures being made, what I'm saying is if the picture is already made and on the net, no one who views it should go to jail just for viewing it or distributing it, The only one who should go to jail for distributing it should be the first person who put it on the net, the publisher, not the people who pass it around because the publisher is the only one who was directly involved, the others are just a bunch of people who saw it and may think about it but the publisher actually did it.
You should put people in jail for what they do not what they think, next you will outlaw Mc Donalds because it makes people fat, its the Mc Donalds fault not the fat persons fault for being fat.
Most child porn which can be stopped is profitable, Child porn which abusers create to trade will never be stopped EVER in a million years and theres no point in even trying. Thats not trying to stop "stealing" you cant.
"Distributing it is just as bad as creating it yourself. If you distribute child porn, you are helping pedophiles indulge in their sick fantasies, which have a nasty way of becoming a horrible reality once they work themselves up to act on the fantasy. If you distribute it, you are contributing to the future suffering of yet more children."
Not everyone viewing it is a pedophile, you assume this. Sure the fantasy is sick to most people, but they have a right to have sick fantasies, thats not illegal, theres alot of other fantasies just as sick, scat, necrophillia, and so on, who are you to tell them what they can and cannot think about?
"Which have a nasty way of becoming a horrible reality once they work themselves up to act on the fantasy. If you distribute it, you are contributing to the future suffering of yet more children."
Yes so Quake and Doom must be outlawed, its the games fault for columbine, the game helped them indulge in their sick fantasies and work their way up to the real thing, right? WRONG! Those kids were CRAZY!!! Crazy people do crazy things regardless of if they indulge in it or not, they dont have self control and would rape and kill even if they never saw a child porn movie.
Just like serial killers killed before quake existed, they still kill now, should we outlaw quake because some sickos actually want to act out their sick fantasies? No Quake is legal. Why should we outlaw child porn distribution? Just looking at it doesnt mean you are a pedophile or that you are a rapist. Yes you might have some weird fantasies but not everyone acts them out in real life, some people know the difference between real and fantasy, in fact I'd say most sane people do, what you are telling me is, child porn should not be distributed because a few "crazy" people might obey the power of the image and do what they see.
Someone whos that crazy would rape and kill even if they never saw a child porn or played quake, because its in their NATURE to do so.
Think I'm wrong? We all look at porn, all of us, I'm not a rapist, you arent a rapist, but I'm sure we both look at porn with women having sex with guys. If its ok to believe you or I can look at porn as ordinary people and not act out our fantasies, why should the person with the kiddie porn fetish somehow have a different standard?
IF you truely believe what you just said, ALL porn should be outlawed because hey, people do whatever they see and if they see people having sex it will cause so many innocent people to be raped.
"The only legitimate reason to view child porn is to use it to look for clues as to where it was made so you can find the criminal who made it and stop him (or her, for that matter). Anything else -- distributing it, viewing it -- makes you complicit in the acts that were done to create it."
Thats bullshit, how the hell can I walk into a blockbuster and buy faces of death, (Far more sick than any kiddie porn movie) where people are getting killed for real, and thats legal and fine, but somehow child porn has a different standard?
How can someone buy a Book like Hitlers books, which can cause a person with a weak mind to hate, and this is perfectly legal?
How can you buy games like Quake,Doom etc? What about rock & roll, rap music, etc? Do you blame rap music for creating Ghettos? Do you blame rock & roll for drug use?
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The only thing great about this is the fact that this has a better range, but headphones and speakers already have the ability to place sounds in certain places.
My headphones the Grado SR80s can place the sound anywhere all the way around my head, including the inside my head sound.
State of the art speakers can already place sound in different areas, look I dont care if they put ads on these new speakers, I'll have my headphones on and they will be blocked out.
These headphones can do that, this is not new at all.
Try a good enough pair of headphones and you'll swear the sound is in your head.
To become a good programmer, you practice.
You cannot learn to be good at programming from books, you learn to program by programming, you learn how to research and you can program for specific hardware, and then you branch off of that, once you learn the processs, you apply it to every project you work on.
You act like theres no colleges outside of the USA!
programmers arent getting $30 an hour, they'd be rich as hell if that were the case. No, they dont even get $10 an hour.
We cant accept lower pay, our cost of living doesnt allow us to live off $15 a week.
Yeah but the difference is, a teacher has to be able to communicate and speak good English, Americans have the advantage, with Doctors you have to know how to use more up to date tools, and most doctors are very well educated in our best schools so we have the advantage there, its jobs which dont require education which we always lose on, Like software engineer, or fast food.
Actually its easier to train a software engineer, since most people can pick up a book on C and C++ and learn to code by using Linux and practicing at home.
We'd have a good economy, I mean look at what we do to iraq and other countries at war, but when it comes to education we suck, so of course we dont produce the best workers.
Working hard has nothing to do with working well.
Right now the cost of living in the USA is high, everything here is more expensive.
Globalism can never work unless we all use the same dollar/euro/yen combined into one global dollar.
Whats our option? Move to China or India because our dollar is worth far too much for us to ever get a job. We also have high inflation, we need the cost of living to be as cheap as the cost of living in India, and we need a global dollar.
Companies should not be able to scam the system by paying workers in other countries cheaper and keeping the extra cash for themselves.
Why would the upswing happen in the USA? Theres no real reason to hire an American programmer over a Chinese or Indian programmer, face it, we are in an economic bubble and its about to burst. Programming is not the kinda job thats all that special, theres only about a billion Indians and Chinese in line to take your jobs, lets not forget Africa and South America.
Just like we lost all the factor jobs, and the car industry, we are about to lose the computer industry.
Your jobs are secure for only a few more years, then millions more Chinese and Indians will learn C, C++, VB, etc etc and take your jobs.
Software development is like the Mc Donalds job, anyone can do it, theres no shortage of programmers, people outsource now, and with the internet even small businesses dont have to hire you expensive American programmers.
Face it, the jobs are gone, and as soon as your company is in danger and needs to save some money, you'll be laid off.
no, it should be illegal for banner ad companies to form a business contract with you.
Thats called the insanity defense.
Theres laws on this. Look if I hack into thousands of computers and I make them all ping one computer, who goes to jail? Do all these thousands of people get blamed?
Oh really? So we should distribute Microsoft Windows, Warez, Music, and Movies because it will lead so much more to be created!!
Where the hell do you get your logic? Its against all economic theory! Back up your statement with valid facts or theory at least.
Legal to view does not mean legal to sell. When you sell it the police should run and arrest you.
yeah so i could just create the kiddie porn virus and then everyone will be pedophiles? Thats such bullshit.
You act like its sooo hard to trace back through the barter system but thats even easier!!!!
I mean if you trade porn you have to give to recieve and anyone you give to might just be a cop! considering you created the porn, any porn you give no only is traced back to you, but the crime is recorded and can be used in court.
Who would be that stupid? I think the average person with a kiddie porn fetish would just go to a european porn site and pay for a membership,why? because its legal to view that stuff in europe and the chance of them getting caught is alot lower.
Not only that, widespread distribution makes it easier for pedophiles to get hold of it. They use it to support their fantasies, and to convince themselves that sexual contact between adults and children is "normal" because lots of other people do it too. Once they have convinced themselves that it's normal, they become free to act on their fantasies, thereby injuring yet more children.
You must have never played a video game in your life. Do you want to outlaw quake because it encourages people to have sick thoughts? Do you think Quake players might begin to think its normal to kill people because they do it online in Quake?
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I agree with you that Freenet is not responsible for any of this. Freenet is a tool; like any tool, it can be used for good purposes or bad, and lots of in between. I also don't think that we should squash Freenet. It has some genuinely good purposes, like helping enable political speech under repressive regimes like China"
Ah so its ok for the Chinese to break their laws but not us? They can have their culture destroyed by our Mc donalds (remember its mc donalds that makes people fat) and our horrible rap music (the music which created ghettos), or the rock & roll (the music which caused people to use and sell drugs)
Look, you can pass blame on to the pictures, the games, the information, the ideas or the thoughts, but if its ok for us to pass all our bad thoughts to the Chinese culture, why then are you all about censorinng people who like kiddie porn?
You are no better than the Chinese who want to censor us. Have you heard of culture shock? Sociologists know why the Chinese want to censor things, they want to prevent culture shock, they dont want a revolution, they dont want capitalism forced on them, they dont want our way of life forced on them.
Just like you dont want kiddie porn forced on you. So you censor it so you dont have to see it, and you want to censor it so no one else can see it either. I'm sure the Chinese government is thinking the SAME thing.
I mean after all they wouldnt want the Chinese people to see our crazy sick ideas, their people would then be remote controlled puppets controlled by our movies, our culture, etc etc, right? It would incite riots, millions of Chinese would die, right?
I'm guessing you believe all porn should be outlawed?
You talk BS lol, I never see people as "things" but to pretend people dont use one another, you must have never had casual sex, never watched a porn movie, never done business with anyone, never went to a bank and spoke to a nameless face, etc.
The world is not a very personal place.
Also, if what you say is true you should work for the FBI, and join these so called kiddie porn rings, trade porn with them, get their IPs and arrest them all..
It cant be that easy or else we'd hear of more arrests.
"Last time I checked, the "Gee officer, that can't possibly be my porn/drugs because they're not mine" defense was a real case winner."
OJ Simpson Quote: "The Glove doesnt fit"
OJ got away with murder because the glove didnt fit, if you can bring reasonable doubt, you can win.
If you have a good lawyer, you will win.
But aside from the laws which we both know, the debate is, whats more important, freedom of speech or censorship?
According to you, the more a person indulges in a fantasy, the more likely they are to act it out.
This is not proven, sociologists who study people have never come to the conclusion that say, Violent games such as quake directly cause murder, or that porn causes rape.
If you can directly link this with pure statistics not only will you have an arguement for your kiddie porn opinion, but you'll have a strong arguement against freedom of speech and for censorship. Joe Lieberman would agree that its the violent games, the nasty porn, and the rap music that causes people to do crazy shit.
I say blame the people, not the games, not the porn images, not the rap music. If you indulge in kiddie porn but you never harm anyone, fine, but if you rape someone you should go to jail, period.
If you play doom, quake or whatever and want to imagine killing your boss, fine, but if you actually kill your boss you should go to jail.
And if you listen to rap music and you imagine you are shooting and robbing people, fine, but if you actually go and do it, you should go to jail.
I dont believe people should be arrested for having bad thoughts, thats just wrong, people should be able to indulge in whatever fantasies they want and you or I have no right to call them sick.
Honestly I think its sick to imagine killing people, but people do that when they play quake, some of these people are my friends, they havent killed anyone, perhaps Quake has the opposite effect and actually calms them down.
Now if people can play quake when pissed off and they dont kill their boss for real, and if people can safely release anger this way, why cant people who like kiddie porn indulge in whatever sick fantasies they have? As long as they never act it out, its their mind and they should be able to think about what they want.
I dont agree with the pictures being made, what I'm saying is if the picture is already made and on the net, no one who views it should go to jail just for viewing it or distributing it, The only one who should go to jail for distributing it should be the first person who put it on the net, the publisher, not the people who pass it around because the publisher is the only one who was directly involved, the others are just a bunch of people who saw it and may think about it but the publisher actually did it.
You should put people in jail for what they do not what they think, next you will outlaw Mc Donalds because it makes people fat, its the Mc Donalds fault not the fat persons fault for being fat.
Most child porn which can be stopped is profitable, Child porn which abusers create to trade will never be stopped EVER in a million years and theres no point in even trying. Thats not trying to stop "stealing" you cant.
"Distributing it is just as bad as creating it yourself. If you distribute child porn, you are helping pedophiles indulge in their sick fantasies, which have a nasty way of becoming a horrible reality once they work themselves up to act on the fantasy. If you distribute it, you are contributing to the future suffering of yet more children."
Not everyone viewing it is a pedophile, you assume this. Sure the fantasy is sick to most people, but they have a right to have sick fantasies, thats not illegal, theres alot of other fantasies just as sick, scat, necrophillia, and so on, who are you to tell them what they can and cannot think about?
"Which have a nasty way of becoming a horrible reality once they work themselves up to act on the fantasy. If you distribute it, you are contributing to the future suffering of yet more children."
Yes so Quake and Doom must be outlawed, its the games fault for columbine, the game helped them indulge in their sick fantasies and work their way up to the real thing, right? WRONG! Those kids were CRAZY!!! Crazy people do crazy things regardless of if they indulge in it or not, they dont have self control and would rape and kill even if they never saw a child porn movie.
Just like serial killers killed before quake existed, they still kill now, should we outlaw quake because some sickos actually want to act out their sick fantasies? No Quake is legal.
Why should we outlaw child porn distribution? Just looking at it doesnt mean you are a pedophile or that you are a rapist. Yes you might have some weird fantasies but not everyone acts them out in real life, some people know the difference between real and fantasy, in fact I'd say most sane people do, what you are telling me is, child porn should not be distributed because a few "crazy" people might obey the power of the image and do what they see.
Someone whos that crazy would rape and kill even if they never saw a child porn or played quake, because its in their NATURE to do so.
Think I'm wrong? We all look at porn, all of us, I'm not a rapist, you arent a rapist, but I'm sure we both look at porn with women having sex with guys. If its ok to believe you or I can look at porn as ordinary people and not act out our fantasies, why should the person with the kiddie porn fetish somehow have a different standard?
IF you truely believe what you just said, ALL porn should be outlawed because hey, people do whatever they see and if they see people having sex it will cause so many innocent people to be raped.
"The only legitimate reason to view child porn is to use it to look for clues as to where it was made so you can find the criminal who made it and stop him (or her, for that matter). Anything else -- distributing it, viewing it -- makes you complicit in the acts that were done to create it."
Thats bullshit, how the hell can I walk into a blockbuster and buy faces of death, (Far more sick than any kiddie porn movie) where people are getting killed for real, and thats legal and fine, but somehow child porn has a different standard?
How can someone buy a Book like Hitlers books, which can cause a person with a weak mind to hate, and this is perfectly legal?
How can you buy games like Quake,Doom etc? What about rock & roll, rap music, etc? Do you blame rap music for creating Ghettos? Do you blame rock & roll for drug use?
You are really this simple minded?
annonymous you can blame quake for all school shootings, or you can blame the shooters.
You can blame the images for the rapes, or you can blame the rapists.
I dont believe some game, or some image can remote control you and make you do something thats not in your nature.