I like the way you say "several parents sued the makers of the games" and overlook the result of trial. There is no correlation between video games and violence any more than there is a correlation between gun ownership and shooting people.
Japan has the most kids shooting computer sprites and has one of the lowest rates of gun relating killing. Almost everyone in Switzerland has a gun but they have an even lower rate of gun related killings. The issue is far too deep for some dumb law to deal with.
Is the violence in these games really any worse than Tom and Jerry? We all grew up with violence and although I agree it has a place in the reasons for violence becoming more common I do not think games and cartoons are the real reasons. Children can tell games/cartoons from reality but they see a lot of really violent reality and I believe that has far more of an effect. Do you watch the live police chases? With real people getting hurt... Do you watch the news? With real people getting shot... Yet you think it is games that effect the children...
The reverse would not be true if it were the US that had weak copyright rules as in Europe it is where the act of copying took place that matters. i.e. the crime is copying not possesion. If the copying took place legally then there is no crime.
Isn't US copyright law about copying ??? i.e. if you get something in Europe that was provided legaly by someone in Europe it was NOT copied in the US and therefore is not an infringement of US copyright laws.
It does not matter how interesting you make a lecture, some students feel that they should get the qualification just for attending and therefore do not expect to actually work. Unlike school, college students are not forced to attend (except by their parents) and if they are being disruptive I ask them to leave.
Most students that do not want to work simply do not turn up but there are some that come to lectures and workshops that do not have any wish or intention to work.
There is also the other point that some subject are practically impossible to make interesting. As the lowest of the low amongst the academics I used to get the worst courses to deliver. For example I had to teach "an introduction to computers" to first years. When the degree course was put together most students had not used a computer but now they all have their own laptop. They did not want to hear about Word or Excel but I had to try to make it as interesting as I could. I often failed and I accpet that it was up to me to make the course better but luckily the university dropped that module:)
Wrong, International English is not anything. It certainly is not English. I agree that US English is simply a dialect, as is Australian English and Canadian English. The problem is that many OSs and software releases offer US English as the only English and sometimes refer to it as "English" which is an insult to those that speak English and do not like spell checkers that tell them that they are spelling "colour" wrong. 'z's and 's's are often transposed as well.
I do not see that you learnt anything... Did you try RH 6.2 without ftp and web server? If not you were really comparing a machine with file sharing on and no firewall with several without file sharing (regardless of OS) and some of them with rudimentary firewalls. Anyone could have told you what would happen. Try turning the file sharing off on the RH 6.2 and on on the Windows boxes and turn off the baby firewall on the Windows boxes and see the comparison... Then tell us what you think of RH 6.2. Follow that with an up to date RH install with firewall and no file sharing. You may learn why some people prefer Linux.
When America bombed Japan, Japan had already lost the war. They could not fight. They had no oil and their navy was out of fuel. America knew this. Yes, Japan would have put up a fight in the event of a beach assault but they would have soon starved if America had laid seige.
America had a new bomb and they wanted to test it while they still had a reason. If America had let the war end any other way they could not have tested the new bomb on "real" people.
A virgin target was chosen, one which served no military significance and had therefore never been bombed before. The results would be only the results of this new bomb.
Soon after dropping it the Americans had enough plutonium to make a new bomb... they had to really rush to drop this one so they could test it on some other real people and again they chose a virgin target...
Forget the spin, it is boring. The nuke programme was about killing innocent people and although I have no reason to believe this Port Chicago story I do believe that America is capable of such an act. I know that real soldiers where lied to and used in the tests and you do not have to look far to find out that joint research with the UK still uses civilian areas for such tests (depleated uranium shells were tested in SW Scotland to find out the effects)...
A geiger counter is not sensitive enough to detect anything at such a site. The difference between any fallout and background radiation would not be significant. You cannot detect anything unusual at Hiroshima with one so why would you expect to detect anything at Port Chicago? Despite all that is said here you could not expect to find any evidence now even at ground zero. This is not like Chernobyl . It is not "claimed" (I am not defending the proposal) to be a leak but a blast. The fallout would fade rapidly and just like in Japan it would be a safe place to live now (if it was not a dockyard).
You mean like in Hiroshima? Hiroshima is a city again with lots of people living there and little radiation. You get more radiation on holiday in Cornwall. A nuclear bomb is the conversion of matter to energy and unlike an accident at a nuclear power plant, does not lead to lots of long term residual radiation. Einstins theory E=mc2 was about matter being energy and the bomb was the proof of that. Unlike a conventional chemical explosion the matter (uranium, plutonium or whatever) is converted into energy rather than converted into another matter in a process that produces energy.
When I think of my reasons for leaving Microsoft, Word and Outlook are right up there at the top just under reliability. Reliability has always been one thing that Microsoft could never deliver and that is something they have gained and I can agree with them all the way on this. Where do most of the problem virii come from though? Word or Outlook with the occasional one on Excel. I know that you can try to lock them out but you never really succeed.
Open Office is a great office environment that meets all my needs and I have yet to meet someone that genuinely *NEEDS* anything that Word has, that OO does not (I have met some that claim they do but it always turns out that they really mean that once in the past 2 years they once had a situation that would have been easier with Word). I use Evolution instead of Outlook and it is even as good at eye candy. It does every thing and more that I was using Outlook for. The only think Outlook does better is spread virii.
What do you mean "should it turn out to be total fiction" ? I think many people, including myself, have done some research and found no evidence to support this article. I think that, along with a reasonable amount of understanding of Sony and Nintendo, make me certain that this is a hoax. We would have heard about such a court case long before a finding.
Maybe they were daft enough to check their facts with the US Secret Service who for some obscure reason list protecting the President & Vice President as their first task. I realise that anyone dumb enough to think that the Secret Service knows more about what they do than you, deserves ridicule but hey, that's good old American arrogance for you.
I do not like having to wait even longer but I believe they are working hard on a project that deserves my support. If Linux users like myself, do not wait and buy it when it comes out then they will get no reward for their effort and may decide not to bother with any future Linux ports. The only way to get people like Boiware to support Linux is to buy their products when they do release them so that they see it as worthwhile.
This action does not in any way extend legal powers beyong anyones boundaries. There is no mention of any enforcement action taking place in a foreign country. That said I would sugest that known porno hosts avoid holidays in Saudi Arabia as they could be prosecuted for distribution across the internet. Then again, does anyone go to Saudi for a holiday? Oh look, another sand dune... and over there you can see an oil pipeline... etc.
Do you mean the way that most of these oil tankers that break in half spilling their load are registered in places like Liberia so as to avoid damages? I think I could make a good case for companies becoming globally liable.
Not quite, a company, i.e. a newspaper can be libelous but peoples letters in the letters page are considered opinion rather than fact. I think that comments here would remain opinion but if the article made a statement that could be considered libel. People in general should think about what they say so I do not think it would be a bad thing, I would think huge punitive damages against individuals bad if all they said was someones breath stinks.
and as this action only pertains to Australia he could simultaniously start action in all other countries. Australian law is based on British law (as is most law) so the basis for the decision and the relevant arguements would be the same elsewhere.
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I like the way you say "several parents sued the makers of the games" and overlook the result of trial. There is no correlation between video games and violence any more than there is a correlation between gun ownership and shooting people.
Japan has the most kids shooting computer sprites and has one of the lowest rates of gun relating killing. Almost everyone in Switzerland has a gun but they have an even lower rate of gun related killings. The issue is far too deep for some dumb law to deal with.
Is the violence in these games really any worse than Tom and Jerry? We all grew up with violence and although I agree it has a place in the reasons for violence becoming more common I do not think games and cartoons are the real reasons. Children can tell games/cartoons from reality but they see a lot of really violent reality and I believe that has far more of an effect. Do you watch the live police chases? With real people getting hurt... Do you watch the news? With real people getting shot... Yet you think it is games that effect the children...
The reverse would not be true if it were the US that had weak copyright rules as in Europe it is where the act of copying took place that matters. i.e. the crime is copying not possesion. If the copying took place legally then there is no crime.
Isn't US copyright law about copying ??? i.e. if you get something in Europe that was provided legaly by someone in Europe it was NOT copied in the US and therefore is not an infringement of US copyright laws.
It does not matter how interesting you make a lecture, some students feel that they should get the qualification just for attending and therefore do not expect to actually work. Unlike school, college students are not forced to attend (except by their parents) and if they are being disruptive I ask them to leave.
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Most students that do not want to work simply do not turn up but there are some that come to lectures and workshops that do not have any wish or intention to work.
There is also the other point that some subject are practically impossible to make interesting. As the lowest of the low amongst the academics I used to get the worst courses to deliver. For example I had to teach "an introduction to computers" to first years. When the degree course was put together most students had not used a computer but now they all have their own laptop. They did not want to hear about Word or Excel but I had to try to make it as interesting as I could. I often failed and I accpet that it was up to me to make the course better but luckily the university dropped that module
Great idea. dd comes as standard with Linux, do you happen to know the name of the util that comes with Windows that can do what dd can do?
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P.S. good troll
Wrong, International English is not anything. It certainly is not English. I agree that US English is simply a dialect, as is Australian English and Canadian English. The problem is that many OSs and software releases offer US English as the only English and sometimes refer to it as "English" which is an insult to those that speak English and do not like spell checkers that tell them that they are spelling "colour" wrong. 'z's and 's's are often transposed as well.
I do not see that you learnt anything... Did you try RH 6.2 without ftp and web server? If not you were really comparing a machine with file sharing on and no firewall with several without file sharing (regardless of OS) and some of them with rudimentary firewalls. Anyone could have told you what would happen. Try turning the file sharing off on the RH 6.2 and on on the Windows boxes and turn off the baby firewall on the Windows boxes and see the comparison... Then tell us what you think of RH 6.2. Follow that with an up to date RH install with firewall and no file sharing. You may learn why some people prefer Linux.
Try running Windows with Black Ice and see how many attempts are made on your machine each hour you are online...
When America bombed Japan, Japan had already lost the war. They could not fight. They had no oil and their navy was out of fuel. America knew this. Yes, Japan would have put up a fight in the event of a beach assault but they would have soon starved if America had laid seige.
America had a new bomb and they wanted to test it while they still had a reason. If America had let the war end any other way they could not have tested the new bomb on "real" people.
A virgin target was chosen, one which served no military significance and had therefore never been bombed before. The results would be only the results of this new bomb.
Soon after dropping it the Americans had enough plutonium to make a new bomb... they had to really rush to drop this one so they could test it on some other real people and again they chose a virgin target...
Forget the spin, it is boring. The nuke programme was about killing innocent people and although I have no reason to believe this Port Chicago story I do believe that America is capable of such an act. I know that real soldiers where lied to and used in the tests and you do not have to look far to find out that joint research with the UK still uses civilian areas for such tests (depleated uranium shells were tested in SW Scotland to find out the effects)...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1420916.stm
A geiger counter is not sensitive enough to detect anything at such a site. The difference between any fallout and background radiation would not be significant. You cannot detect anything unusual at Hiroshima with one so why would you expect to detect anything at Port Chicago? Despite all that is said here you could not expect to find any evidence now even at ground zero. This is not like Chernobyl . It is not "claimed" (I am not defending the proposal) to be a leak but a blast. The fallout would fade rapidly and just like in Japan it would be a safe place to live now (if it was not a dockyard).
You mean like in Hiroshima? Hiroshima is a city again with lots of people living there and little radiation. You get more radiation on holiday in Cornwall. A nuclear bomb is the conversion of matter to energy and unlike an accident at a nuclear power plant, does not lead to lots of long term residual radiation. Einstins theory E=mc2 was about matter being energy and the bomb was the proof of that. Unlike a conventional chemical explosion the matter (uranium, plutonium or whatever) is converted into energy rather than converted into another matter in a process that produces energy.
When I think of my reasons for leaving Microsoft, Word and Outlook are right up there at the top just under reliability. Reliability has always been one thing that Microsoft could never deliver and that is something they have gained and I can agree with them all the way on this. Where do most of the problem virii come from though? Word or Outlook with the occasional one on Excel. I know that you can try to lock them out but you never really succeed.
Open Office is a great office environment that meets all my needs and I have yet to meet someone that genuinely *NEEDS* anything that Word has, that OO does not (I have met some that claim they do but it always turns out that they really mean that once in the past 2 years they once had a situation that would have been easier with Word). I use Evolution instead of Outlook and it is even as good at eye candy. It does every thing and more that I was using Outlook for. The only think Outlook does better is spread virii.
Evolution does it for Linux but it cannot handle virii as well as Outlook.
What do you mean "should it turn out to be total fiction" ? I think many people, including myself, have done some research and found no evidence to support this article. I think that, along with a reasonable amount of understanding of Sony and Nintendo, make me certain that this is a hoax. We would have heard about such a court case long before a finding.
Maybe they were daft enough to check their facts with the US Secret Service who for some obscure reason list protecting the President & Vice President as their first task. I realise that anyone dumb enough to think that the Secret Service knows more about what they do than you, deserves ridicule but hey, that's good old American arrogance for you.
I do not like having to wait even longer but I believe they are working hard on a project that deserves my support. If Linux users like myself, do not wait and buy it when it comes out then they will get no reward for their effort and may decide not to bother with any future Linux ports. The only way to get people like Boiware to support Linux is to buy their products when they do release them so that they see it as worthwhile.
have a look at the signatories, 99% of them are "false entry voided"...
This action does not in any way extend legal powers beyong anyones boundaries. There is no mention of any enforcement action taking place in a foreign country. That said I would sugest that known porno hosts avoid holidays in Saudi Arabia as they could be prosecuted for distribution across the internet. Then again, does anyone go to Saudi for a holiday? Oh look, another sand dune... and over there you can see an oil pipeline... etc.
Do you mean the way that most of these oil tankers that break in half spilling their load are registered in places like Liberia so as to avoid damages? I think I could make a good case for companies becoming globally liable.
Not quite, a company, i.e. a newspaper can be libelous but peoples letters in the letters page are considered opinion rather than fact. I think that comments here would remain opinion but if the article made a statement that could be considered libel. People in general should think about what they say so I do not think it would be a bad thing, I would think huge punitive damages against individuals bad if all they said was someones breath stinks.
and as this action only pertains to Australia he could simultaniously start action in all other countries. Australian law is based on British law (as is most law) so the basis for the decision and the relevant arguements would be the same elsewhere.
I know George Bush is keen on killing but I did not know he had brought in the death penalty in civil cases...
and as most countries do not recognise terms of use as being able top remove your rights the US would become the only place to NOT try the case...
That's right... and there CD ROM drives take up the tower case.