True enough. It is a trilogy. And Manhunter was the "original." But it was considered a crappy originial and Harris has already made arrangements to begin filming his prefered version of the 1st Hannibal book "Red Dragon" (featuring serial killer "The Tooth Fairy") to be released sometime in 2002/03. Though, unless Hollywood takes a dump all over the book, you will barely get a glimpse of Hannibal Lecter in this improved re-release of Manhunter.
I wanna see 3D enhanced, kickass theater re-releases of VampireHunterD (supposedly scheduled for U.S. re-release early this year) and Ghost in the Shell. If we get those, we'll have all three of my faves back on the big screen! yay! And yes.. the Akira comic ROCKED!
Have you not noticed the current tone in ad's these days? "Our computer product is so easy that your kids wont even have to show you how to use it!"
These current school age kids, atleast a good portion of them, know more about computers than we did at twice their age.
When I used to work tech support *shudder*, parents would call, asking for help with a certain not-to-be-named (damn NDA's) kid protection program. Time and time again, parents would tell me they were having trouble using or configuring some of the filtering features. Well.. I'd ask.. "When you installed it, did you " and their reply (all to often) was.. "Oh! I didnt install it. My kid did. He knows so much more about that kinda stuff than i do"
Trust me. These kids arent stupid. If even one geek exists in that school, he/sh/it will find a way around this screening and selling if they really get the urge.
It's very gratifying to see my post get so much intelligent discussion!
Unions may not always work, and may not always be a boon to every industry, but the truth of the matter is this: WE... the workers and citizens of the United States, deserve the right to form a union within the workplace if we see fit.
It is corporations that profit from a lack of worker organization, not those of us putting in the long hours, and spending thousands of dollars on educating ourselves just so we can GET these time-consuming, energy-draining but albiet satisfying jobs.
You've all heard of the Teamsters? Well.. they began as a Lawyers Union, in California. Bet ya thought they were all truck-drivers, right?
Who would've thought lawyers needed a union? Who would've ever thought geeks did? Well, if there is this much hoopla.. apparently some geeks need it.
How can anyone NOT support the right of workers to have a voice? Any workers! That's what I'd really like to know.
yes, i realize this is buried waaaaaay at the bottom of the list and no one will ever see it. think that stops me?;)
I had all sorts of Transformers when I was a kid. My fave's were the "Constructacons." Remember? The glow in the dark dump trucks and cranes and bull dozers that transformed? I loved those!
And CmdrTaco.. i woulda shared mine with you. No kid should be without the Transformers!:)
Well I have Quicktime here, but for some reason, it didn't want to work. So, for those who need it, here is the AI movie trailer for RealPlayer
Here are some other related nuggets.
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" - By Brian Aldiss (AI is based on this short story)
"Frog Crisis" - A multi-part animated series, also based on Aldiss' story, by Greg Hyland [Creator of the Lethargic Lad comic]
"Several factors are essential in establishing ethical standards for education-business partnerships and sponsorships. First, the expectations of each partner must be clearly defined before entering the partnership. Second, partnerships should not in any way compromise the goals of public education. Third, the participation of teachers in partnerships must be voluntary. Fourth, neither students nor their families should be exploited as a result of an education-business partnership. Finally, business partners must not promote specific products, determine curricula or influence education policies." [Alberta Teachers Assoc.]
The above, from my research, is a commonly held view amongst most teacher organizations. This WAVE project is a blatant violation of such ethics. It encourages duplicity amongst school children and could lead to greater levels of fear and viciousness in revenge. How often in high school did someone piss you off and you wished you had a way to really get back at them? What better way than to drop an anonymous tip to the Pinkerton run WAVE hotline, which, as Katz stated, is fed to local law enforcement.
As someone who is planning on becoming a public system educator, it disturbs me that North Carolina has provided its students with this new, and potentially damaging, system of paranoia. I greatly hope the ACLU looks into this and files a court action, as this project blatantly violates students civil liberties and exploits the youth in North Carolina.
Heinrich Hertz: Hertz lived from 1857 to 1894 and was the first to demonstrate experimentally the production and detection of Maxwell's waves. This discovery of course lead directly to radio.[more..]
Guglielmo Marconi: The Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, repeated Hertz's experiments and eventually succeeded in getting secondary sparks over a distance of 30 feet (nine meters).[more..]
Nikola Tesla: Inventions related to radio ( the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla) X-rays, the vacuum tube amplifier.[more..]
Lee De Forest: American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947.[more..]
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson: The engineer whose high-frequency alternator gave America its start in the field of radio communication.[more..]
It seems we can't truly give credit to any ONE inventor. For without all of the above, and countless others, I'm sure, radio and many other innovations would not be where they currently are. Hope these links help.
How distressing. I had just leaped into the 90's (now that its the 00's) when I won a Dreamcast at an xmas party last year. And now Sega is killing it? Great! And I thought I had a tough time finding good games for my Dreamcast before. *sigh* Why can't they just decrease funding for advertising and use the spare change to fund the conversion of some of the best-of Sega games to Dreamcast format for all of those who weren't as lucky as I was, who actually had to shell out a large chunk of change for this contraption.
[Judge Donald Malloy]noted that the Supreme Court in the past has said that child pornography is not protected as free speech because it involves the sexual abuse of children. Although pornographic computer images are "unquestionably morally repugnant," the judge said, they cannot be turned into a crime "when no actual children are involved."
I'm in total agreement with Malloy. The argument from opponents of virtual child porn that it "adds fuel to the underground child pornography industry." and that "This kind of pornography can whet the appetite of pedophiles, prosecutors said, and therefore is dangerous even if no real children are involved." are completely invalid and have little to nothing to do with the current legislation on Child Pornography.
Child porn, despite what right-wingers and censorship-proponents would like us to believe, is not illegal because it is distasteful to the vast majority of Americans, or that it is morally wrong. It is illegal because it involves the exploitation of a segment of the population which is unable to protect itself. Children.
The notion that animé or other forms of digital child porn will encourage pedophiles to go out and rape some poor kid is outlandish. Pedophiles are mentally disturbed individuals. They don't require, on the whole, something as cut-and-dried as porn to "whet their appetites." Such a disturbed person could potentially gain motivation from something as innocuous as a children's show on PBS or reading a book, such as "Lolita," or even by something as simple as a child waving hello to them at a grocery store. I think it is naive for lobbyists and attorneys involved in this matter to think a ban on digital child porn would actually have a statistically noticeable positive effect on anything.
Digitally generated child pornography exploits no children, so therefore, by our own legal standards, as stated by Malloy, is not a crime and cannot become one if we still wish to maintain a society where our laws do not impose morality on our speech.
"In other words, interstellar laser communication is altogether practicable." -Paul Horowitz
We have now been observing for more than 2 years of "production runs",
during which we have made some 17,000 observations of nearly 5,000 separate
target stars.[more...]
What strikes me as the true difficulty in this entire light-show theory, is that if we did encounter a laser-esque communiqué from our little green friends, how would we
a) pick it out amongst all the stellar noise, b) decypher the meaning/purpose/intent/tone of said message, and..
c) respond in a timely fashion (as to not lose our window of opportunity for contact) with a response-beam that relayed a message decypherable by our ET counterparts.
I support SETI, and I always will, as I refuse to believe the scary possibility that humans are the biggest and best thing out there, but it seems like such a vast undertaking, not unlike the audio SETI project, that it will never be of any active or true use.
A good scientific study makes you forget by the end of reading it, that a person actually wrote it. This reads more like a casual coffeehouse chat between X-files fans.
How long ago was 12th grade?
Perhaps now is a good time to re-write that paper for reasons of clarity and personal respect;)
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True enough. It is a trilogy. And Manhunter was the "original." But it was considered a crappy originial and Harris has already made arrangements to begin filming his prefered version of the 1st Hannibal book "Red Dragon" (featuring serial killer "The Tooth Fairy") to be released sometime in 2002/03. Though, unless Hollywood takes a dump all over the book, you will barely get a glimpse of Hannibal Lecter in this improved re-release of Manhunter.
I wanna see 3D enhanced, kickass theater re-releases of VampireHunterD (supposedly scheduled for U.S. re-release early this year) and Ghost in the Shell. If we get those, we'll have all three of my faves back on the big screen! yay! And yes.. the Akira comic ROCKED!
Have you not noticed the current tone in ad's these days? "Our computer product is so easy that your kids wont even have to show you how to use it!"
These current school age kids, atleast a good portion of them, know more about computers than we did at twice their age.
When I used to work tech support *shudder*, parents would call, asking for help with a certain not-to-be-named (damn NDA's) kid protection program. Time and time again, parents would tell me they were having trouble using or configuring some of the filtering features. Well.. I'd ask.. "When you installed it, did you " and their reply (all to often) was.. "Oh! I didnt install it. My kid did. He knows so much more about that kinda stuff than i do"
Trust me. These kids arent stupid. If even one geek exists in that school, he/sh/it will find a way around this screening and selling if they really get the urge.
Yep! it sure does. amazing people don't check it more often when looking for information on something :P
It's very gratifying to see my post get so much intelligent discussion!
;)
Unions may not always work, and may not always be a boon to every industry, but the truth of the matter is this: WE... the workers and citizens of the United States, deserve the right to form a union within the workplace if we see fit.
It is corporations that profit from a lack of worker organization, not those of us putting in the long hours, and spending thousands of dollars on educating ourselves just so we can GET these time-consuming, energy-draining but albiet satisfying jobs.
You've all heard of the Teamsters? Well.. they began as a Lawyers Union, in California. Bet ya thought they were all truck-drivers, right? Who would've thought lawyers needed a union? Who would've ever thought geeks did? Well, if there is this much hoopla.. apparently some geeks need it.
How can anyone NOT support the right of workers to have a voice? Any workers! That's what I'd really like to know.
yes, i realize this is buried waaaaaay at the bottom of the list and no one will ever see it. think that stops me?
I had all sorts of Transformers when I was a kid. My fave's were the "Constructacons." Remember? The glow in the dark dump trucks and cranes and bull dozers that transformed? I loved those! :)
And CmdrTaco.. i woulda shared mine with you. No kid should be without the Transformers!
Okayyyy... you could look at it that way, or you could look at the research ;)
Here are some resources I found. Hope they help.
*Real Consulting Rates Survey: 01/15/01 - 01/21/00
*ERi Salary Trend Wizard for US/CAN
*MIS & IT Comprehensive Salary Report - [.pdf version] - [.rtf version]
*Fill out the computerjobs.com 2001 salary survey to help other consultants or read the 2000 Survey Results.
*Other resources
Well I have Quicktime here, but for some reason, it didn't want to work. So, for those who need it, here is the AI movie trailer for RealPlayer
Here are some other related nuggets.
"Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" - By Brian Aldiss (AI is based on this short story)
"Frog Crisis" - A multi-part animated series, also based on Aldiss' story, by Greg Hyland [Creator of the Lethargic Lad comic]
"Several factors are essential in establishing ethical standards for education-business partnerships and sponsorships. First, the expectations of each partner must be clearly defined before entering the partnership. Second, partnerships should not in any way compromise the goals of public education. Third, the participation of teachers in partnerships must be voluntary. Fourth, neither students nor their families should be exploited as a result of an education-business partnership. Finally, business partners must not promote specific products, determine curricula or influence education policies." [Alberta Teachers Assoc.]
The above, from my research, is a commonly held view amongst most teacher organizations. This WAVE project is a blatant violation of such ethics. It encourages duplicity amongst school children and could lead to greater levels of fear and viciousness in revenge. How often in high school did someone piss you off and you wished you had a way to really get back at them? What better way than to drop an anonymous tip to the Pinkerton run WAVE hotline, which, as Katz stated, is fed to local law enforcement.
As someone who is planning on becoming a public system educator, it disturbs me that North Carolina has provided its students with this new, and potentially damaging, system of paranoia. I greatly hope the ACLU looks into this and files a court action, as this project blatantly violates students civil liberties and exploits the youth in North Carolina.
Heinrich Hertz: Hertz lived from 1857 to 1894 and was the first to demonstrate experimentally the production and detection of Maxwell's waves. This discovery of course lead directly to radio. [more..]
Guglielmo Marconi: The Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi, repeated Hertz's experiments and eventually succeeded in getting secondary sparks over a distance of 30 feet (nine meters). [more..]
Nikola Tesla: Inventions related to radio ( the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla) X-rays, the vacuum tube amplifier. [more..]
Lee De Forest: American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. [more..]
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson: The engineer whose high-frequency alternator gave America its start in the field of radio communication. [more..]
It seems we can't truly give credit to any ONE inventor. For without all of the above, and countless others, I'm sure, radio and many other innovations would not be where they currently are. Hope these links help.
How distressing. I had just leaped into the 90's (now that its the 00's) when I won a Dreamcast at an xmas party last year. And now Sega is killing it? Great! And I thought I had a tough time finding good games for my Dreamcast before. *sigh* Why can't they just decrease funding for advertising and use the spare change to fund the conversion of some of the best-of Sega games to Dreamcast format for all of those who weren't as lucky as I was, who actually had to shell out a large chunk of change for this contraption.
[Judge Donald Malloy]noted that the Supreme Court in the past has said that child pornography is not protected as free speech because it involves the sexual abuse of children. Although pornographic computer images are "unquestionably morally repugnant," the judge said, they cannot be turned into a crime "when no actual children are involved."
I'm in total agreement with Malloy. The argument from opponents of virtual child porn that it "adds fuel to the underground child pornography industry." and that "This kind of pornography can whet the appetite of pedophiles, prosecutors said, and therefore is dangerous even if no real children are involved." are completely invalid and have little to nothing to do with the current legislation on Child Pornography.
Child porn, despite what right-wingers and censorship-proponents would like us to believe, is not illegal because it is distasteful to the vast majority of Americans, or that it is morally wrong. It is illegal because it involves the exploitation of a segment of the population which is unable to protect itself. Children.
The notion that animé or other forms of digital child porn will encourage pedophiles to go out and rape some poor kid is outlandish. Pedophiles are mentally disturbed individuals. They don't require, on the whole, something as cut-and-dried as porn to "whet their appetites." Such a disturbed person could potentially gain motivation from something as innocuous as a children's show on PBS or reading a book, such as "Lolita," or even by something as simple as a child waving hello to them at a grocery store. I think it is naive for lobbyists and attorneys involved in this matter to think a ban on digital child porn would actually have a statistically noticeable positive effect on anything.
Digitally generated child pornography exploits no children, so therefore, by our own legal standards, as stated by Malloy, is not a crime and cannot become one if we still wish to maintain a society where our laws do not impose morality on our speech.
"In other words, interstellar laser communication is altogether practicable." -Paul Horowitz
We have now been observing for more than 2 years of "production runs", during which we have made some 17,000 observations of nearly 5,000 separate target stars. [more...]
What strikes me as the true difficulty in this entire light-show theory, is that if we did encounter a laser-esque communiqué from our little green friends, how would we
a) pick it out amongst all the stellar noise,
b) decypher the meaning/purpose/intent/tone of said message, and..
c) respond in a timely fashion (as to not lose our window of opportunity for contact) with a response-beam that relayed a message decypherable by our ET counterparts.
I support SETI, and I always will, as I refuse to believe the scary possibility that humans are the biggest and best thing out there, but it seems like such a vast undertaking, not unlike the audio SETI project, that it will never be of any active or true use.
*cringes at the use of personifying questions*
;)
A good scientific study makes you forget by the end of reading it, that a person actually wrote it. This reads more like a casual coffeehouse chat between X-files fans.
How long ago was 12th grade?
Perhaps now is a good time to re-write that paper for reasons of clarity and personal respect