Most modern wireless routers can be set to block internet automatically at a certain time of night for select devices in the house based on either IP address or MAC address. No reason to fight about it every night with the kids - set an automatic policy and communicate the policy. Simple.
But just remember, "prone to violence" or not, they are still far more likely to commit a violent crime while boozed up. These stats don't lie, no matter which direction you view them from.
Nearly every state changed their drinking age in the 1980's due to The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 which withheld federal highway funds from states that did not set their drinking age at 21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age#Americas.
Does it really matter? Drunks young men are more prone to violence. Violent young men get drunk more often and commit violent crimes. They also cause a much higher percentage of fatal car wrecks and emergency room trauma visits. Either way it's an enormous cost to society.
Legal drinking age, rate of alcohol consumption, and crime statistics have been widely studied, and the correlation is very clear. Here is one article of many, many which support this point: http://people.ucsc.edu/~cdobkin/Papers/Alcohol_Crime.htm.
In fact, young men (age 17-24) play a lot of video games, and at the same time young men (age 17-24) have ALWAYS committed most of the violent acts in a society. It's a function of testosterone fueled aggressive emotions, and in Western culture it is particularly exacerbated by high levels of alcohol and drug abuse. Take away the booze and drugs from younger men, and you will find that the video games and heavy metal music and gore movies and other factors probably wouldn't have much effect at all. And keep in mind, in Western culture prescription drugs are also abused with tremendous frequency (in some cases even more frequently than popular illegal drugs), and those can have a profound effect on inciting violence. So we aren't just talking about abuse of illegal drugs.
We also know that increasing the drinking age is a big factor. Most violent crimes are committed by young males aged 17-25, and a huge percentage of violent crimes are associated with alcohol use. Alcohol + high-testosterone is obviously a recipe for a fight in many cases. If you recall, the drinking ages started increasing rapidly from 18 years old to 21 in the early 1980's as part of a nationwide reform.
Simply responded to the statement in TFS that violent crime is increasing in the US. In fact, violent crime, property crime, and homicide have all dramatically decreased since they peaked in America in the 70's. Us fraud examiners pay attention to criminology stats.
Folks might want to check the crime stats before making blanket statements about "increasing" levels of violent crime due to video games or access to computers. The Internet era has turned into the safest era since violent crimes shot up in the mid-70's, and rates of homicides and property crimes are at their lowest point since the 60's.
They will die eventually. So, someday, your story will be true: "They followed Google Maps... and later (years, decades - who cares?) they died". Good enough for a news headline?
Hasn't Apple already murdered tons of people people in the Australian desert simply by sticking "Mildura" in the wrong spot? I'm sure of it. Either that or those Maps "victims" were awfully inconvenienced, probably missing their favorite reality TV shows, which is nearly as bad.
was for sure going to be the year of Desktop Linux. Instead it's going to be the year of internet murders? Don't tell me we have to wait until Enlightenment 0.18 is fully baked?
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Most modern wireless routers can be set to block internet automatically at a certain time of night for select devices in the house based on either IP address or MAC address. No reason to fight about it every night with the kids - set an automatic policy and communicate the policy. Simple.
No one else could possibly get past 9 molecules.
Hilarious. Beats the hell out of "Ghostbuster".
for Kinky Friedman's next campaign for Texas Governor. Or go to any Willie Nelson concert. You'll see crap that will make your head spin.
Or more super computers for New Mexico. Apparently they don't have nearly enough of them.
you haven't been to Austin recently.
Bunch of cowboy hippies with shotguns would tear up the Capitol lawn in their Prius's.
...how quickly iTunes would load on this sucker!!
errp...
waiting...
still waiting...
Interesting!
But just remember, "prone to violence" or not, they are still far more likely to commit a violent crime while boozed up. These stats don't lie, no matter which direction you view them from.
I'm sure it will break at any moment, since it's not supported by a big, expensive company like Apple or Adobe. Think I will see smoke first?
Nearly every state changed their drinking age in the 1980's due to The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 which withheld federal highway funds from states that did not set their drinking age at 21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age#Americas.
Does it really matter? Drunks young men are more prone to violence. Violent young men get drunk more often and commit violent crimes. They also cause a much higher percentage of fatal car wrecks and emergency room trauma visits. Either way it's an enormous cost to society.
He'll sleep all day and stop coding. Problem solved. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-06-19/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC
That's what I've observed in my own neighborhood.
Alcohol use is involved in about half of all violent crimes. Do you see the correlation?
Legal drinking age, rate of alcohol consumption, and crime statistics have been widely studied, and the correlation is very clear. Here is one article of many, many which support this point: http://people.ucsc.edu/~cdobkin/Papers/Alcohol_Crime.htm.
In fact, young men (age 17-24) play a lot of video games, and at the same time young men (age 17-24) have ALWAYS committed most of the violent acts in a society. It's a function of testosterone fueled aggressive emotions, and in Western culture it is particularly exacerbated by high levels of alcohol and drug abuse. Take away the booze and drugs from younger men, and you will find that the video games and heavy metal music and gore movies and other factors probably wouldn't have much effect at all. And keep in mind, in Western culture prescription drugs are also abused with tremendous frequency (in some cases even more frequently than popular illegal drugs), and those can have a profound effect on inciting violence. So we aren't just talking about abuse of illegal drugs.
...2013 will be the year of Ubuntu Phone??
We also know that increasing the drinking age is a big factor. Most violent crimes are committed by young males aged 17-25, and a huge percentage of violent crimes are associated with alcohol use. Alcohol + high-testosterone is obviously a recipe for a fight in many cases. If you recall, the drinking ages started increasing rapidly from 18 years old to 21 in the early 1980's as part of a nationwide reform.
Simply responded to the statement in TFS that violent crime is increasing in the US. In fact, violent crime, property crime, and homicide have all dramatically decreased since they peaked in America in the 70's. Us fraud examiners pay attention to criminology stats.
Violent crime is sharply down-down-down in the US since it peaked in 1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Crime_over_time
Folks might want to check the crime stats before making blanket statements about "increasing" levels of violent crime due to video games or access to computers. The Internet era has turned into the safest era since violent crimes shot up in the mid-70's, and rates of homicides and property crimes are at their lowest point since the 60's.
They will die eventually. So, someday, your story will be true: "They followed Google Maps ... and later (years, decades - who cares?) they died". Good enough for a news headline?
Hasn't Apple already murdered tons of people people in the Australian desert simply by sticking "Mildura" in the wrong spot? I'm sure of it. Either that or those Maps "victims" were awfully inconvenienced, probably missing their favorite reality TV shows, which is nearly as bad.
was for sure going to be the year of Desktop Linux. Instead it's going to be the year of internet murders? Don't tell me we have to wait until Enlightenment 0.18 is fully baked?