You are wrong - that "tax" does not protect you from music companies. You should check into it before you get sued. They have been much less litigious in Canada but the current government is passing (has passed?) legislation to make it open season on file sharers.
How could anyone prove that the bible contains falsehoods? We don't have pictures, or video evidence. No Christian will accept that acts within the bible are impossible because they have a different word for impossible acts. They call them miracles.
So why was God so interested in the world back then when Angels came down and kicked ass, turned cities to salt, dropped plagues - and now God doesn't seem to give a shit about what's going on? Is God dead? Doesn't care anymore? Trying to cut back on the old long distance plan? Or perhaps some of that stuff in the bible was overstated or didn't happen? We'll never know because that's what faith is for. Don't question - believe. Or the God of mercy and love will send your sorry ass to roast in hell....
In a world where more people are dying in wars than used to exist in 'biblical times', you'd figure God would be down here kicking Hitler's ass or dropping holy H-bombs on irreligious armies.
Fact: A lot of the religion of Christianity was stolen from earlier religions - based on the very religions they called pagan. Do some research. If your book is valid, might not the other history books be valid too? If God created the world - he must have been some pissed that it took civilized humans thousands of years to even start his religion....pretty relaxed about that shit, hey?
I am sure that this will be modded down but it makes me angry when people toss out 'proofs' based on faith. 'Prove God doesn't exist.' - do you understand logic? Prove that God does exist.
Now back to your regularly scheduled argument about MS/LINUX.
What a wacked-out way to annoy many of your brightest citizens. You take away Satellite TV, reduce the internet speeds and start the removal of many popular styles of women's clothing - the country is backsliding to their conservatives...
oops - that's 5 degrees Celcius....hey when the fuck are you 'mericans going to get on the metric bandwagon....it's not just for martian probes anymore - the rest of the world seems to like it too....
I hate having to qualify a comment in translation.
I mean this as a generality....but kids today - they seem a lot softer than previous generations. My children act like they're freezing when it's 5 degrees outside.
Kids today in general are rarely physically disciplined (something that does have it's place in limited fashion IMHO) and aren't subject to doing the same sorts of labour or work that kids in my generation did.
I am not talking about 'uphill in the snow both ways' kind of crap either. It just seems that most parents today shield their little kids from too much - except of course when it comes to TV and violent video games.
Banning 'tag' is right in line with that sort of weaken the humans concept. What'll our grandkids look like?
Dark spot found on PLANET Uranus.....would it be so hard to have put the planet in there to reduce the number of people making the base, utterly stupid jokes that this thread is no doubt full of.
I mean the header as written is total pun-fodder. This at least would have made the jokes even less amusing and therefore would have dissuaded at least some of the more intelligent people from making.....what the fuck am I saying? Anyone making these jokes wouldn't fit into that category anyway.
You didn't read my post closely if you thought I was suggesting that Iran or China would win in a total conflict.
I wasn't implying that - but both countries are developing weapons to address this weakness and eventually may mount a credible threat to the US War Machine.
The current generation isn't likely to pose a sinking risk to an aircraft carrier, especially given the general layered defense of the carrier group but you could lose a lot of escorts to something like this. And don't go into superior doctrine, training, super-advanced weapon systems or any other crap. Captain Cook had a lot of technical advantages, superior training and doctrine - and he was killed by spear-wielding natives.
Some of the patients being moved will be suffering from dementia - how will they react to a robot wrapped human waking them up by lifting them out of bed?
They'd better be armoured a lot better than they are now.....
The lack of knowledge being displayed here is remarkable.
You are all informed by Fox News of how dangerous the "regime" in Iran is. What do you think that they see on their news programs? The same sorts of human rights violations and dictatorial acts by the 'religious zealot' leaders of the US. They have signed the non-proliferation treaty - the world should back off.
Their government is stable and they have as much right to run their country as the US does. If the people rise up and topple their government - fine - but that could just as easily have happened in the US after the 2000 elections. Stop judging Iran based on the news you see and think about that for a while. Oh - one other note - the Iranians are 'aryans' or 'persians', not arabs.
As for NK - they are an unstable regime who'd let huge amounts of their people starve to build weapons and maintain the army....when little dear leader dies, it's coming apart there for sure.
China is not yet that enemy, and in fact no one is. I don't live in the US and am not exactly a fan of their recent activity - but it's a plain fact that they spend more than anyone and still enjoy technical advantages in many areas.
China spends far less but their money does go a lot further, due to lower working wages, less red tape, potentially less corruption and graft (it still exists but the death penalty reduces the behaviour to those in favour with the government). Their airforce is largely obsolete and their navy isn't really up to going toe to toe with the US either BUT:
They are cleverly spending in other areas. Develop lasers to blind satellites and perhaps even destroy them? That negates some of the US technical advantage....and their missile program is pretty damned impressive, at least for short to mid-range. Hell they did invent rocket technology. Their reach for the stars will likely reap for them the same technical leap it did for the USA.
Even Iran could give the US fits due to a large, dedicated ground force, excellent missiles and high-speed torpedoes....too bad the US doesn't have the stealth destroyer in production yet because aircraft carriers and the current generation of US cruisers and destroyers show up just fine on radar and if you see it, you can kill it.
So - the news is: The US still has the advantage, but are going to start losing it to smaller countries who focus on specific 'asymmetric' development to nullify the overall advantages.
oops...that didn't work. Sorry the reasons didn't appear.
the reasons weren't important anyway - a lot of people run unsecured wireless connections - does that absolve you of guilt in this matter or would it blur it enough to get you cleared?
This is one of the best/. posts I've seen for legal interpretations - a lot of lawyers are explaining things in a manner that is educational for those of us not versed in law.
Kudos to all of you so participating.
I am sure this has come up before but I need to ask:
If the RIAA sues me because my IP address was noted sharing content, is it reasonable to say:
"You can't assume it was me - I have a wireless router running for my laptop and didn't set up encryption because
or
It's likely that a number of other people are using my connection at any given time."
Wouldn't this pretty much make it impossible to flag you as the guilty party then, especially after you received notice that you were being sued and removed all traces of the p2p program and illegal materials from your system?
But we really shouldn't be surprised by this approach, should we?
There is a lot more in the way of precedence and case law nowadays for software companies to cry foul for being cut out of their market by the 800lb gorilla. There'll be lawyers all over the place on this one.
I wonder how much of the growth of the legal profession could be blamed on these large software behemoths and tech companies?
I suppose the people who might buy into this are those with mobile wifi devices who have cash to burn. The whole blackberry-type crowd doesn't need this service and for home users it's too pricey. You can get broadband DSL or cable in Canada for $29 per month. It seems kind of niche to me.
I expressed the same sentiment above and some loser with an excess of moderator points and no clue posted me as 0-offtopic. What a waste of mod points.
This is a recurring event between the two vendors. This card is too expensive for most people. This is not dark matter or cold fusion. While the advances in video card technology are interesting, they just aren't newsworthy.
Why is this considered front page news for Slashdot?
This will repeat in 3-6 months with NVIDIA and then back to ATI.
This isn't surprising or newsworthy at all. Hell we should just set up a recurring story that reverses the vendors.
It is good that there is some serious competition for the 2% of gamers that can afford the very top end. For the rest of us, it doesn't really matter what you pick unless you do care about vendor support for your OS.
If I were a bored FBI agent, I'd be taking names. Your email and nicknames reveal a lot about you unless you are extremely careful and have always been so.
I haven't - there is a lot of information about me in my nickname, and if it were a quiet day at the ol' War on Drugs HQ, I might - just for a laugh - pull some people's names off of Slashdot or other news sites and infringe some personal rights based on written confessions using my old pal Google.
I'd be wiping my cookies right now!! Which, actually sounds kind of disturbing.
Oh - War on Drugs - let's declare war on a plant. Good thinking. Wait - we should outlaw it's precursors, sunlight, water and fertilizer!
Noted that I left out discussing Africa, Australia, NZ and some other places....this isn't an oversight - but in general these regions don't have global impacts. Perhaps that will change, and perhaps it won't. Africa does have some countries that are noteable to the global stage but when the oil runs out - well let's say that this continent is no stranger to war, disease and famine. That's likely to get worse.
Australia may someday become a global power, but if I lived there, I'd spend all of my time on the beach.
As different as things look today as they did from 100 years ago, the world of the next century will be drastically different.
If population growth continues and the predicted economic rise of China and India also continue then the standard of living for most of the rest of the world will decline. We will not be able to continue our lifestyles as we have today.
Meat will be a luxury for rare occasions as global warming reduces arable land and animal to human disease transmission becomes more and more frequent. In fact, meat may be entirely removed from our diet, replaced with a simulated product, or just cut back severely due to the amount of fertile land it takes to grow a cow the old fashioned way.
Oil will become scarce and pollution an order of magnitude worse because we seem to believe that profits and progress are more important than sustainable growth. This will lead to a plateau and then degradation of the life expectancy despite anything medical science can do, though there will be advances made against disease, especially cancer and possibly even heart disease and diabetes.
The rise of Pervasive Development Disorders will lead to a significant portion of our society requiring additional care and structured living conditions. Perhaps progress will be made in understanding why this problem is growing.
No more 20 minute showers, or cruising in your 8 cylinder vehicle. No more fat juicy steaks every Friday. Sadly reality TV will be replaced with something worse and advertising will be even more pervasive and hard to escape from.
North America will still be relatively wealthy if those countries adopt some protectionism and reduce oil consumption. Europe will have less luck with their affluence due to the proximity of poorer nations. South America will probably manage to make economic gains as well given their abundant natural resources providing no wars develop and these countries manage their growing organized crime. The middle east will continue it's magnificent overspending until the wells run dry and then if no work was put into sustainable infrastructure development, the region will become one of the world's poorest. The west and east both will turn their backs on them and remember them as fools. Don't take that the wrong way - they have almost 100 years of prosperity ahead of them and as long as they build on it correctly they can create a sustainable economy. But they depend too heavily on their primary export and have little else in the way of natural resources. There are a few things on the go along those lines but at present there is a huge amount of waste there too. Asia is where things are the most interesting. Russia will probably continue on more or less the same, not as powerful as it once was but still a strong nation. China, India, Korea, Japan and the other powerful members of that region will all be vying for a shrinking amount of petroleum and other natural resources and dealing with intense population pressure. If any of the larger countries suffers enough pressure, war or collapse will result.
It's going to be very interesting.
As for space - we had the momentum in the 60s and early 70s but squandered it. I think, sadly, that humanity has blown it's chance for the solar system, let alone the stars. Perhaps China can get the US back into the game but it's doubtful we'll ever colonize another planet now.
If a major epidemic or war occurs to reduce the population pressure or break the economic model that seems to be forming up, then all bets are off. And of course is a rogue comet comes along, we'll be awfully sorry we let the ball drop.
In any case as someone stated, countries ignoring patents will thrive. Others will begin to suffer. Perhaps a trade war will result - and what will happen when large multinationals lobby powerful governments to crack down on those ignoring their IP rights?
re: the parent post - this seems like a cheap shot. You know you could get a free hit in here because if he retaliates against you, he'd be guilty of exactly the same thing Blizzard is.
Personally I understand Taco's point and also his use of the website he owns/created. It reminds me of the shit I used to go through in the web/gaming clan I created.
People don't want the creators/clan masters/icons of power to be human - they can't seem to handle it and I think to some extent it's ego-derived. All of the users of a website/community/mmorpg are subordinate to the admins and especially the master admin - people don't like symbols of greater power walking around, even in something so trivial as a website.
It would similar to if the Christians had their God or angels walking around taking a personal interest in their lives - they'd hate it - oh look here comes the almighty/or his agents compared to whom I am insignificant. As a symbol of their faith, fine - but a real, live symbol with things to say is a different manner.
I am not comparing Taco or the WOW admin to a God except in the facet where they are masters (or at least admins with some god-like powers) of these online communities.
In the end the mixture of a higher level of expectations (I was not allowed to become angry or take sides in disputes) and sickness with the politics of game clans drove me from my clan. The place where I put almost 2 years of hard work and a lot of my own money was no longer worth the stress. I exiled myself and never went back. It's finally clear to me why it was so hard to be with these people in real life and communicate with them as a person.
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The 'three unknown objects' in his bowel were remnants of the barium used for medical imaging....old news....and over-sensationalized.
He is actually an AMERICAN.
Would you call Michael Jordan an African or specify what country his ancestors came from?
You are wrong - that "tax" does not protect you from music companies. You should check into it before you get sued. They have been much less litigious in Canada but the current government is passing (has passed?) legislation to make it open season on file sharers.
Oh please.
How could anyone prove that the bible contains falsehoods? We don't have pictures, or video evidence. No Christian will accept that acts within the bible are impossible because they have a different word for impossible acts. They call them miracles.
So why was God so interested in the world back then when Angels came down and kicked ass, turned cities to salt, dropped plagues - and now God doesn't seem to give a shit about what's going on? Is God dead? Doesn't care anymore? Trying to cut back on the old long distance plan? Or perhaps some of that stuff in the bible was overstated or didn't happen? We'll never know because that's what faith is for. Don't question - believe. Or the God of mercy and love will send your sorry ass to roast in hell....
In a world where more people are dying in wars than used to exist in 'biblical times', you'd figure God would be down here kicking Hitler's ass or dropping holy H-bombs on irreligious armies.
Fact: A lot of the religion of Christianity was stolen from earlier religions - based on the very religions they called pagan. Do some research. If your book is valid, might not the other history books be valid too? If God created the world - he must have been some pissed that it took civilized humans thousands of years to even start his religion....pretty relaxed about that shit, hey?
I am sure that this will be modded down but it makes me angry when people toss out 'proofs' based on faith. 'Prove God doesn't exist.' - do you understand logic? Prove that God does exist.
Now back to your regularly scheduled argument about MS/LINUX.
What a wacked-out way to annoy many of your brightest citizens. You take away Satellite TV, reduce the internet speeds and start the removal of many popular styles of women's clothing - the country is backsliding to their conservatives...
Next they'll be banning violent video games...
oops - that's 5 degrees Celcius....hey when the fuck are you 'mericans going to get on the metric bandwagon....it's not just for martian probes anymore - the rest of the world seems to like it too....
I hate having to qualify a comment in translation.
I mean this as a generality....but kids today - they seem a lot softer than previous generations. My children act like they're freezing when it's 5 degrees outside.
Kids today in general are rarely physically disciplined (something that does have it's place in limited fashion IMHO) and aren't subject to doing the same sorts of labour or work that kids in my generation did.
I am not talking about 'uphill in the snow both ways' kind of crap either. It just seems that most parents today shield their little kids from too much - except of course when it comes to TV and violent video games.
Banning 'tag' is right in line with that sort of weaken the humans concept. What'll our grandkids look like?
Dark spot found on PLANET Uranus.....would it be so hard to have put the planet in there to reduce the number of people making the base, utterly stupid jokes that this thread is no doubt full of.
I mean the header as written is total pun-fodder. This at least would have made the jokes even less amusing and therefore would have dissuaded at least some of the more intelligent people from making.....what the fuck am I saying? Anyone making these jokes wouldn't fit into that category anyway.
Nothing to see here....
You didn't read my post closely if you thought I was suggesting that Iran or China would win in a total conflict.
I wasn't implying that - but both countries are developing weapons to address this weakness and eventually may mount a credible threat to the US War Machine.
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_(missile)
The current generation isn't likely to pose a sinking risk to an aircraft carrier, especially given the general layered defense of the carrier group but you could lose a lot of escorts to something like this. And don't go into superior doctrine, training, super-advanced weapon systems or any other crap. Captain Cook had a lot of technical advantages, superior training and doctrine - and he was killed by spear-wielding natives.
Some of the patients being moved will be suffering from dementia - how will they react to a robot wrapped human waking them up by lifting them out of bed?
They'd better be armoured a lot better than they are now.....
"AAAGH the aliens are back....wack wack wack"
Paper Mario was a huge game - with a lot of play time. My kids got me hooked on it...how come none of you have mentioned it?
The lack of knowledge being displayed here is remarkable.
You are all informed by Fox News of how dangerous the "regime" in Iran is. What do you think that they see on their news programs? The same sorts of human rights violations and dictatorial acts by the 'religious zealot' leaders of the US. They have signed the non-proliferation treaty - the world should back off.
Their government is stable and they have as much right to run their country as the US does. If the people rise up and topple their government - fine - but that could just as easily have happened in the US after the 2000 elections. Stop judging Iran based on the news you see and think about that for a while. Oh - one other note - the Iranians are 'aryans' or 'persians', not arabs.
As for NK - they are an unstable regime who'd let huge amounts of their people starve to build weapons and maintain the army....when little dear leader dies, it's coming apart there for sure.
China is not yet that enemy, and in fact no one is. I don't live in the US and am not exactly a fan of their recent activity - but it's a plain fact that they spend more than anyone and still enjoy technical advantages in many areas.
China spends far less but their money does go a lot further, due to lower working wages, less red tape, potentially less corruption and graft (it still exists but the death penalty reduces the behaviour to those in favour with the government). Their airforce is largely obsolete and their navy isn't really up to going toe to toe with the US either BUT:
They are cleverly spending in other areas. Develop lasers to blind satellites and perhaps even destroy them? That negates some of the US technical advantage....and their missile program is pretty damned impressive, at least for short to mid-range. Hell they did invent rocket technology. Their reach for the stars will likely reap for them the same technical leap it did for the USA.
Even Iran could give the US fits due to a large, dedicated ground force, excellent missiles and high-speed torpedoes....too bad the US doesn't have the stealth destroyer in production yet because aircraft carriers and the current generation of US cruisers and destroyers show up just fine on radar and if you see it, you can kill it.
So - the news is: The US still has the advantage, but are going to start losing it to smaller countries who focus on specific 'asymmetric' development to nullify the overall advantages.
oops...that didn't work. Sorry the reasons didn't appear.
the reasons weren't important anyway - a lot of people run unsecured wireless connections - does that absolve you of guilt in this matter or would it blur it enough to get you cleared?
This is one of the best /. posts I've seen for legal interpretations - a lot of lawyers are explaining things in a manner that is educational for those of us not versed in law.
Kudos to all of you so participating.
I am sure this has come up before but I need to ask:
If the RIAA sues me because my IP address was noted sharing content, is it reasonable to say:
"You can't assume it was me - I have a wireless router running for my laptop and didn't set up encryption because
or
It's likely that a number of other people are using my connection at any given time."
Wouldn't this pretty much make it impossible to flag you as the guilty party then, especially after you received notice that you were being sued and removed all traces of the p2p program and illegal materials from your system?
But we really shouldn't be surprised by this approach, should we?
There is a lot more in the way of precedence and case law nowadays for software companies to cry foul for being cut out of their market by the 800lb gorilla. There'll be lawyers all over the place on this one.
I wonder how much of the growth of the legal profession could be blamed on these large software behemoths and tech companies?
Ban Captain Underpants? What sort of social meme is at risk by this series of books? My son enjoys them and even I get a kick out of them.
Since when is cartoon violence a problem in the US? What the hell are these people thinking?
I suppose the people who might buy into this are those with mobile wifi devices who have cash to burn. The whole blackberry-type crowd doesn't need this service and for home users it's too pricey. You can get broadband DSL or cable in Canada for $29 per month. It seems kind of niche to me.
I expressed the same sentiment above and some loser with an excess of moderator points and no clue posted me as 0-offtopic. What a waste of mod points.
This is a recurring event between the two vendors. This card is too expensive for most people. This is not dark matter or cold fusion. While the advances in video card technology are interesting, they just aren't newsworthy.
Why is this considered front page news for Slashdot?
This will repeat in 3-6 months with NVIDIA and then back to ATI.
This isn't surprising or newsworthy at all. Hell we should just set up a recurring story that reverses the vendors.
It is good that there is some serious competition for the 2% of gamers that can afford the very top end. For the rest of us, it doesn't really matter what you pick unless you do care about vendor support for your OS.
If I were a bored FBI agent, I'd be taking names. Your email and nicknames reveal a lot about you unless you are extremely careful and have always been so.
I haven't - there is a lot of information about me in my nickname, and if it were a quiet day at the ol' War on Drugs HQ, I might - just for a laugh - pull some people's names off of Slashdot or other news sites and infringe some personal rights based on written confessions using my old pal Google.
I'd be wiping my cookies right now!! Which, actually sounds kind of disturbing.
Oh - War on Drugs - let's declare war on a plant. Good thinking. Wait - we should outlaw it's precursors, sunlight, water and fertilizer!
Noted that I left out discussing Africa, Australia, NZ and some other places....this isn't an oversight - but in general these regions don't have global impacts. Perhaps that will change, and perhaps it won't. Africa does have some countries that are noteable to the global stage but when the oil runs out - well let's say that this continent is no stranger to war, disease and famine. That's likely to get worse.
Australia may someday become a global power, but if I lived there, I'd spend all of my time on the beach.
Humanity will survive.
As different as things look today as they did from 100 years ago, the world of the next century will be drastically different.
If population growth continues and the predicted economic rise of China and India also continue then the standard of living for most of the rest of the world will decline. We will not be able to continue our lifestyles as we have today.
Meat will be a luxury for rare occasions as global warming reduces arable land and animal to human disease transmission becomes more and more frequent. In fact, meat may be entirely removed from our diet, replaced with a simulated product, or just cut back severely due to the amount of fertile land it takes to grow a cow the old fashioned way.
Oil will become scarce and pollution an order of magnitude worse because we seem to believe that profits and progress are more important than sustainable growth. This will lead to a plateau and then degradation of the life expectancy despite anything medical science can do, though there will be advances made against disease, especially cancer and possibly even heart disease and diabetes.
The rise of Pervasive Development Disorders will lead to a significant portion of our society requiring additional care and structured living conditions. Perhaps progress will be made in understanding why this problem is growing.
No more 20 minute showers, or cruising in your 8 cylinder vehicle. No more fat juicy steaks every Friday. Sadly reality TV will be replaced with something worse and advertising will be even more pervasive and hard to escape from.
North America will still be relatively wealthy if those countries adopt some protectionism and reduce oil consumption. Europe will have less luck with their affluence due to the proximity of poorer nations. South America will probably manage to make economic gains as well given their abundant natural resources providing no wars develop and these countries manage their growing organized crime. The middle east will continue it's magnificent overspending until the wells run dry and then if no work was put into sustainable infrastructure development, the region will become one of the world's poorest. The west and east both will turn their backs on them and remember them as fools. Don't take that the wrong way - they have almost 100 years of prosperity ahead of them and as long as they build on it correctly they can create a sustainable economy. But they depend too heavily on their primary export and have little else in the way of natural resources. There are a few things on the go along those lines but at present there is a huge amount of waste there too. Asia is where things are the most interesting. Russia will probably continue on more or less the same, not as powerful as it once was but still a strong nation. China, India, Korea, Japan and the other powerful members of that region will all be vying for a shrinking amount of petroleum and other natural resources and dealing with intense population pressure. If any of the larger countries suffers enough pressure, war or collapse will result.
It's going to be very interesting.
As for space - we had the momentum in the 60s and early 70s but squandered it. I think, sadly, that humanity has blown it's chance for the solar system, let alone the stars. Perhaps China can get the US back into the game but it's doubtful we'll ever colonize another planet now.
If a major epidemic or war occurs to reduce the population pressure or break the economic model that seems to be forming up, then all bets are off. And of course is a rogue comet comes along, we'll be awfully sorry we let the ball drop.
Baaa. I think it was supposed to be sheer.
In any case as someone stated, countries ignoring patents will thrive. Others will begin to suffer. Perhaps a trade war will result - and what will happen when large multinationals lobby powerful governments to crack down on those ignoring their IP rights?
re: the parent post - this seems like a cheap shot. You know you could get a free hit in here because if he retaliates against you, he'd be guilty of exactly the same thing Blizzard is.
Personally I understand Taco's point and also his use of the website he owns/created. It reminds me of the shit I used to go through in the web/gaming clan I created.
People don't want the creators/clan masters/icons of power to be human - they can't seem to handle it and I think to some extent it's ego-derived. All of the users of a website/community/mmorpg are subordinate to the admins and especially the master admin - people don't like symbols of greater power walking around, even in something so trivial as a website.
It would similar to if the Christians had their God or angels walking around taking a personal interest in their lives - they'd hate it - oh look here comes the almighty/or his agents compared to whom I am insignificant. As a symbol of their faith, fine - but a real, live symbol with things to say is a different manner.
I am not comparing Taco or the WOW admin to a God except in the facet where they are masters (or at least admins with some god-like powers) of these online communities.
In the end the mixture of a higher level of expectations (I was not allowed to become angry or take sides in disputes) and sickness with the politics of game clans drove me from my clan. The place where I put almost 2 years of hard work and a lot of my own money was no longer worth the stress. I exiled myself and never went back. It's finally clear to me why it was so hard to be with these people in real life and communicate with them as a person.