Hey, the only Canadian beer we get down here is pisswater like Molson and Moosehead. I'd put Goose Island, Redhook, Fat Tire, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Yuengling, and any of hundreds of other small, regional American brews up against the souile you export to us any day.
Usually when people say "I suspect an honest poll of real-life ordinary Americans..." they really mean "Because I'm right and everyone else in the country has the same political agenda as me..."
Not trying to knock you for your agenda, mine is very similar, but you should be aware that most of the time, the rest of the country does not have the same agenda as you do. Consulting a recent poll (below), I see that you're right about the war, but wrong about the other two.
Stolen from Polling Report and modified to make it past the lameness filter: CBS News Poll May 16-17, 2006. Sample size is 636 adults nationwide. Margin of error plus or minus 4.
"What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?" Open-ended
Percent War in Iraq -- 28 Economy/Jobs -- 15 Immigration -- 12 Gas/Heating oil crisis -- 6 Terrorism (general) -- 5 Health care -- 4 Defense/Military -- 3 President Bush -- 3 Other -- 20 Unsure -- 4
The problem with enforcing the rating system is that legislating enforcement of this rating system runs afoul of the first amendment as interpreted by the SCOTUS. Thompson's law will most likely run afoul of it as well.
MySpace gets used for a lot of frivolous blogs and teen flirting, but it's silly the way it's being scapegoated. Just as with AOL chat a few years ago, the bogeyman of a Creepy Old Guy wanting to run off with your teenager keeps getting trotted out, but the vast majority of statuatory rape cases are going on in homes, with family members or close friends of the family.
Where's the crack-down on a dad's 40-year old drinking buddy slipping upstairs to visit his daughter during a back-yard BBQ? That's the *real* teen abuse problem.
Your argument here is that, since there are more sexual abuse cases arising from known acquaintances of the victim, that we should ignore the relatively minor threat of myspace. Unfortunatley, this argument is fallacious. It would be like saying "Far more people die of old age than childhood leukemia, so we should stop fighting childhood leukemia and focus on our old age problem." The fallacy here is that both issues are problems, both require solutions, but you cannot focus all effort at one problem to the exlusion of all the rest. Just because one problem is more pressing than another doesn't mean that the less pressing problem can be ignored, and even so, far more is being done right now to catch Father Scumbag than Internet Scumbag.
The truth is, that many teenagers are too ignorant and immature to realize that the things they reveal about themselves can give other people with motive to do so enough information to harm them. This is where parenting comes in -- parents have a responsibility to ensure that their children do not, for example, post sexually provocative pictures of themselves on myspace along with their addresses and phone numbers. Good parents, when finding such material, may decide to ban their children from myspace altogether. But what's to stop the child from accessing the site from a public terminal at school and creating a new account, and putting the material right back up there, and keeping it secret from their parents? This act, in principle, would remove at least this possibility. Even though the child can access the site from friends' houses, internet cafes, or other places, at least school -- the one place a parent can't prevent a child from going to (unless the parents home school)-- is safe.
Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. Before one can be truly free, they must first gain the responsibility which comes with age. Without responsibility, freedom can be deadly.
The funniest thing is what he's doing now. Apparently, he fell in with some tavern owner in Chicago and is now adding his likeness to a microbrew called "Todd's Beer" -- creative, eh? Here's the website
I went shopping for some beer one day at a local liquor store, and there was this bus parked in front. I thought nothing of it, so I went inside. When I went inside, I was instantly accosted by his handlers and shuffled over to a table where he was sitting down signing six packs. I got a meaty "HOWYA DOIN BROTHER?!?!" handshake from him, and a signed six.
He called me a nerd. I laughed. I still have the six pack holder tacked to my wall.
1) There is no way in hell Microsoft would document their API to the level necessary to allow Apple to duplicate it.
2) It's blatantly obvious he doesn't understand precisely what Wine is. Remember: Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's a built-from-scratch implementation of the Windows API.
Japanese consumers preferred giving their money to Japanese companies
This has been proven an incorrect assumption by the success of the iPod. Japanese consumers prefer only the best whiz-bang product on the market, and by 'best', they mean 'what everyone else in Japan is buying'. In the US, Sony and Nintendo have approximately equal market share when it comes to the DS vs PSP, but in Japan it isn't even close -- DS is dominating, because 'everyone else is buying a DS'. It means that only the products that can capture the attention of the market will succeed in Japan. If Microsoft can give their console a foothold in Japan, the PS3 will never sell, just like Sony's mp3 player doesn't sell.
Better yet, with the same processor and memory, why is one computer significantly faster than the other? This makes me wonder if Apple and Adobe have some sort of back room deal to slow down Adobe apps on non-Apple hardware. *dons tinfoil hat*
If you hold cordial discourse and publish papers, those in power will be more inclined to listen to you, especially if those in power have agreed with you in the past. If you arm yourself and demonstrate in the streets, you're branded a nut and hauled off to jail for weapons violations, and noone pays any attention to you.
The important thing with this story here is that we have a significant victory. We, the DMCA opposing people of the country, have succeeded in convincing an organization with considerable influence with those who disagree with us that we're right. Now, this gives our lobbiests, such as the EFF and FSF, some significant ammuntion when trying to convince congress that the DMCA is a bad thing. Maybe there's some hope after all.
Buy a shredder. I shred every credit card offer and transfer check my current credit card company sends me. It's ridiculous the crap they send me. One of these days, a thief is going to raid my mailbox before I get home and get a credit card in my name. Oh well. At least I get to play Enron Executive with my niece.
Don't take it personal, man. I was just trying to crack a joke.
In all honesty, I used to game all weekend every weekend, and as much on the weeknights as possible -- until I found a serious girlfriend. Now I game maybe for an hour or two a day while on the train, and maybe three to four hours over a weekend. I find that my girl takes up far more of my time than video games ever did. It made me realize my gaming habit was not the result of my single status, but my gaming habit was the direct cause of my not having a girlfriend.
By my experience, when I spent that much time gaming, I didn't have time for a relationship with an actual girl on more than a superficial level. If you judge your mental and social health on your personal relationships, then 13 hour gaming sessions are indeed unhealthy, simply because of the opportunity cost; since you're not interacting on a personal level while you game (and no, MMO's aren't the same as interpersonal communication face-to-face), you're not relating to anyone but yourself. You're not meeting people, interacting with them on a personal level and forming deeper bonds with them. This is why gaming habits are unhealthy.
All I've said here is merely conjecture. I'm no Psy.D, nor am I qualified to make a definitive statement on your mental health. All I can do is relate my personal experience in the attempt to dust off the past and recycle it for more than it's worth. Take my advice for what it's worth, which isn't much.
As I understand it from a reliable source (and by "reliable source" I mean my own backside), breeder reactors generate weapons-grade material, and run afoul of various treaties governing it (not that treaties have stopped the neo-cons from doing anything -- missile shield anyone?), not to mention security concerns in having a bunch of weapons grade stuff around....
[Lt. Steven Hauk uses Army jargon to refer to a press conference to be given by former Vice-President Nixon] Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
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Or, you live in California.
Hey, the only Canadian beer we get down here is pisswater like Molson and Moosehead. I'd put Goose Island, Redhook, Fat Tire, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Yuengling, and any of hundreds of other small, regional American brews up against the souile you export to us any day.
Usually when people say "I suspect an honest poll of real-life ordinary Americans..." they really mean "Because I'm right and everyone else in the country has the same political agenda as me..."
Not trying to knock you for your agenda, mine is very similar, but you should be aware that most of the time, the rest of the country does not have the same agenda as you do. Consulting a recent poll (below), I see that you're right about the war, but wrong about the other two.
Stolen from Polling Report and modified to make it past the lameness filter:
CBS News Poll May 16-17, 2006. Sample size is 636 adults nationwide. Margin of error plus or minus 4.
"What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?" Open-ended
Percent
War in Iraq -- 28
Economy/Jobs -- 15
Immigration -- 12
Gas/Heating oil crisis -- 6
Terrorism (general) -- 5
Health care -- 4
Defense/Military -- 3
President Bush -- 3
Other -- 20
Unsure -- 4
The problem with enforcing the rating system is that legislating enforcement of this rating system runs afoul of the first amendment as interpreted by the SCOTUS. Thompson's law will most likely run afoul of it as well.
Well, that sucks, but at least you could make a fortune in the porn industry!
Your pieces of marshmallow Easter candy buy video game systems? Those must be some talented sugar morsels.
Your argument here is that, since there are more sexual abuse cases arising from known acquaintances of the victim, that we should ignore the relatively minor threat of myspace. Unfortunatley, this argument is fallacious. It would be like saying "Far more people die of old age than childhood leukemia, so we should stop fighting childhood leukemia and focus on our old age problem." The fallacy here is that both issues are problems, both require solutions, but you cannot focus all effort at one problem to the exlusion of all the rest. Just because one problem is more pressing than another doesn't mean that the less pressing problem can be ignored, and even so, far more is being done right now to catch Father Scumbag than Internet Scumbag.
The truth is, that many teenagers are too ignorant and immature to realize that the things they reveal about themselves can give other people with motive to do so enough information to harm them. This is where parenting comes in -- parents have a responsibility to ensure that their children do not, for example, post sexually provocative pictures of themselves on myspace along with their addresses and phone numbers. Good parents, when finding such material, may decide to ban their children from myspace altogether. But what's to stop the child from accessing the site from a public terminal at school and creating a new account, and putting the material right back up there, and keeping it secret from their parents? This act, in principle, would remove at least this possibility. Even though the child can access the site from friends' houses, internet cafes, or other places, at least school -- the one place a parent can't prevent a child from going to (unless the parents home school)-- is safe.
Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. Before one can be truly free, they must first gain the responsibility which comes with age. Without responsibility, freedom can be deadly.
The funniest thing is what he's doing now. Apparently, he fell in with some tavern owner in Chicago and is now adding his likeness to a microbrew called "Todd's Beer" -- creative, eh? Here's the website
I went shopping for some beer one day at a local liquor store, and there was this bus parked in front. I thought nothing of it, so I went inside. When I went inside, I was instantly accosted by his handlers and shuffled over to a table where he was sitting down signing six packs. I got a meaty "HOWYA DOIN BROTHER?!?!" handshake from him, and a signed six.
He called me a nerd. I laughed. I still have the six pack holder tacked to my wall.
Cringely is out of his mind.
1) There is no way in hell Microsoft would document their API to the level necessary to allow Apple to duplicate it.
2) It's blatantly obvious he doesn't understand precisely what Wine is. Remember: Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's a built-from-scratch implementation of the Windows API.
Idiot.
This has been proven an incorrect assumption by the success of the iPod. Japanese consumers prefer only the best whiz-bang product on the market, and by 'best', they mean 'what everyone else in Japan is buying'. In the US, Sony and Nintendo have approximately equal market share when it comes to the DS vs PSP, but in Japan it isn't even close -- DS is dominating, because 'everyone else is buying a DS'. It means that only the products that can capture the attention of the market will succeed in Japan. If Microsoft can give their console a foothold in Japan, the PS3 will never sell, just like Sony's mp3 player doesn't sell.
Better yet, with the same processor and memory, why is one computer significantly faster than the other? This makes me wonder if Apple and Adobe have some sort of back room deal to slow down Adobe apps on non-Apple hardware.
*dons tinfoil hat*
And I see we're all starting our sentences with conjunctions now.
And I see you have no sense of humor.
I didn't know they were sending recruiters to religious training!
Come to think of it, that would explain the amount of BS I hear from recruiters on a regular basis...
If you hold cordial discourse and publish papers, those in power will be more inclined to listen to you, especially if those in power have agreed with you in the past. If you arm yourself and demonstrate in the streets, you're branded a nut and hauled off to jail for weapons violations, and noone pays any attention to you.
The important thing with this story here is that we have a significant victory. We, the DMCA opposing people of the country, have succeeded in convincing an organization with considerable influence with those who disagree with us that we're right. Now, this gives our lobbiests, such as the EFF and FSF, some significant ammuntion when trying to convince congress that the DMCA is a bad thing. Maybe there's some hope after all.
Buy a shredder. I shred every credit card offer and transfer check my current credit card company sends me. It's ridiculous the crap they send me. One of these days, a thief is going to raid my mailbox before I get home and get a credit card in my name. Oh well. At least I get to play Enron Executive with my niece.
Don't you really mean the 5 people who've managed to actually find and buy a 360?
It appears you've been heard. Help is on the way in Q4 '06.
Don't take it personal, man. I was just trying to crack a joke.
In all honesty, I used to game all weekend every weekend, and as much on the weeknights as possible -- until I found a serious girlfriend. Now I game maybe for an hour or two a day while on the train, and maybe three to four hours over a weekend. I find that my girl takes up far more of my time than video games ever did. It made me realize my gaming habit was not the result of my single status, but my gaming habit was the direct cause of my not having a girlfriend.
By my experience, when I spent that much time gaming, I didn't have time for a relationship with an actual girl on more than a superficial level. If you judge your mental and social health on your personal relationships, then 13 hour gaming sessions are indeed unhealthy, simply because of the opportunity cost; since you're not interacting on a personal level while you game (and no, MMO's aren't the same as interpersonal communication face-to-face), you're not relating to anyone but yourself. You're not meeting people, interacting with them on a personal level and forming deeper bonds with them. This is why gaming habits are unhealthy.
All I've said here is merely conjecture. I'm no Psy.D, nor am I qualified to make a definitive statement on your mental health. All I can do is relate my personal experience in the attempt to dust off the past and recycle it for more than it's worth. Take my advice for what it's worth, which isn't much.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Heh... What he didn't say was that the only thing he needs to migrate is Hello World.
As I understand it from a reliable source (and by "reliable source" I mean my own backside), breeder reactors generate weapons-grade material, and run afoul of various treaties governing it (not that treaties have stopped the neo-cons from doing anything -- missile shield anyone?), not to mention security concerns in having a bunch of weapons grade stuff around....