They really should open a "released sex offender" community, like a trailer park or something. Then they can sit around and f*** each other to their heart's content, and everyone else can stay away.
You'd probably need to separate out the women who graciously slept with 15 year olds from the men who rape and savagely beat 6 year olds, though.
Hmmm, maybe there is a difference and a problem in branding people with the same, idiotically broad brush.
It depends whether the corporation is doing this of their own free will, or because the government is nudge, nudge, wink, wink, twisting their arm.
And in this case, the government is twisting their arm. Now, whether you want to consider shutting a pedophile (other cases, not this one) off MySpace to be censorship, that's another issue. Technically, it would be, but is there another solution? (And don't most of these people have no Internet as a condition of parole, anyway?)
> In an interview with the site, he points out that traditional PC RPG > developers are in danger of permanently losing out to the developers > of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
KoToR II was the last decent one I played. Oblivion sucked -- precisely because it seemed so like an MMORPG to me.
In RPGs, developers can take advantage of the fact that you're the only one in the world -- and can thus bump up your powers to levels far greater than you could ever get in an MMORPG.
In an MMORPG, people dr00l over some stupid piece of armor that boosts strength by 5 -- which, thanks to the massive number of points in strength, amounts to very little. Throw on top of it that they use a curve rather than linear association, and adding 5 means little when adding infinite strength would only add 20% to your damage.
> The London High Court ruled that Hong Kong-based CD-Wow,
"You socialist cowards gave us back to a freakin' communist dictatorship, then seek to sue us in court now?
How ya gonna enforce it...punk? Come on (pushes UK's shoulder). What ya gonna do? When it came time to stand up for freedom, you slunk your tail down and ran away. Oh, what ya gonna do?
Oh, look. He's gonna cry. Come on now, cry. Cry, baby. Cry. Wahhhh! (Pops his nose, making him bleed and cry harder.) Waaaaah!"
> The text of the clone product definition subsections is very cumbersome to read, > but it specifically mentions OpenOffice, Wine, and OpenXchange by name without > asserting that they are necessarily clone products.
Ya gotta love lawyers.
"Clone products that infringe each other's patents shall be considered as not infringing on each other's patents. Such clone products are, for example OpenOffice, Wine, and OpenXchange, which are not clone products if you're going to sue us over patents and try to twist our words around to hurt us in unanticipated ways."
What's the big deal? Realizing the vital importance of it to continued existence of the species, male readers of Slashdot have been attempting this for over ten years.
Ironically, this is a real life thing, rather than a virtual thing. Earning money for actual real life food, in a society that offers precious little else for you.
So the argument these experiments are safe, and that they won't introduce exotic states of matter that cascade out of control with regular matter, converting it, and destroying the Earth, is that far more energetic events occur in our upper atmosphere all the time (e.g. the WOW type particles hitting so hard and fast they mass as much as a bacteria and pack the momentum of a pitched baseball)
Yet they claim this all the time:
> The collider will smash protons together hoping to catch a glimpse of > the subatomic particles that are thought to have last been seen at the Big Bang
So which is it? While I don't believe the experiments are dangerous, this does shoot down their "safety" argument above. Or is their claim really false (e.g. WOW particles would have introduced this via upper atmosphere collisions many times) and just advertising to sell it to politicians and the public?
> This] would be the equivalent of all of the information in all of the university > libraries in the United States seven times over. It would be the equivalent of > 22 Internets, or more than 1,000 Libraries of Congress.
$349,000, though I'm sure you'd get a decent volume discount for a thousand of these.
Oh wait, it won't be needed for a year. Halve that.
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> the BBC broadcast an alarmist Panorama news programme that suggested > wireless networking might be damaging our health.
I assure you, your sedentary livestyle is lopping far more years off the end of your life than this. Hell, more than this and cigarette smoking (direct, to say nothing of passive.)
> Their evidence? Well, they admitted there wasn't any
Hell, Johnny Mnemonic demonstrated this was a possibility! Come on, one of these has gotta "stick"! There's books to be sold, and shows to be talking heads on!
God, whose name is "Yahweh", used to be one of a number of gods in a pantheon (Canaanite, I believe). He had a girlfriend named "Ishtar", who was one of the last god(desses) pared away by the "Yahwhists", the proto-Jews who were forming a monotheism in a game of "my god's tougher than yours" one-upsmanship.
The Genesis story is also leftover from earlier religions, wherein the god slays the great (waters)chaos dragon Leviathan, and splits it in two, with the bottom half forming the Earth, and the upper half forming the vault, a solid barrier. Together they held back "the waters" both above and below. "Leviathan" was stripped out of the Genesis story, although some of the Psalms still accidentally mention Yahweh's battles with it, as well as with a similar chaos beast named Behemoth.
Other references to this cosmology still exist in the story of Noah, where God floods the earth by opening up the windows above (to our modern ears, sounds like a metaphor for rain -- no, it was truly opening up holes in the vault above to let the water from the waters above pour through) as well as "breaking up the fonts below", which is to say, things limiting the water from seeping upwards -- it's true! The 40 days and 40 nights of rain was only part of the source of the flood, even according to the strictest Bible interpretations.
Also these are newer developments. Of course it's easy to re-interpret "in the image of God" to mean merely spiritually or some such. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Every time philosophy, and nowadays science, pushes things, Bible passages just get re-interpreted under the presumption that it must be correct, and therefore something else has to give.
In the extreme case, what gives is the truthfulness of reality -- yes, reality is as it appears (light appears to have been travelling billions of years) but that is a fraud put on by either the Devil to deceive you, or God to test you.
I submit a God who "tests" your belief in the Bible by creating billion year old light or dinosaur bones, then challenges you to see which you believe, is not one deserving of worship.
Ye Philosophers of Olde had severe problems with "deceiver" gods like this -- they couldn't even decide if Adam and Eve had bellybuttons or not. (If they did, it was indication of a past that did not actually occur, and thus God was a deceiver. If they didn't, then they weren't truly in the final human form, hence "made in the image of God" was now suspect.)
Modern religious people seem to have no problem with God being a flat-out liar doing things like making light from stars a billion light years away already be "on the way", and showing events that never actually happened.
Strange. Not only is the Devil testing you by doing things like pre-creating proto versions of Judaism that just look like Judaism derived from it centuries later, in anticipation of God giving the Jews holy writings centuries later. But now you have to deal with God himself deceiving you. And if you are misled by any of it, you get tortured for ever and ever.
>...a mean diameter of 1.1 - 1.4 km. > > If 1950 DA continues on its present orbit, it will approach near to the Earth on March 16, 2880. > A preliminary analysis shows...one trajectory misses the Earth by tens of millions of kilometers, > while the other has an impact probability of 1300.
So it's somewhere between 0 and 1 in 300 chance. Of hitting in 2880.
> The energy released by a collision with an object the size of 1950 DA would cause major effects > on the climate and biosphere which would be devastating to human civilization.
If, by 2880, humanity still isn't advanced enough to brush this away (to say nothing of mostly being not even on Earth at the time) we deserve to be wiped out.
> A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning > > "With a finding that may explain Internet trolls -- or at least building contractors -- U. of > Michigan researchers have discovered that individuals with high levels of testosterone find > an angry face rewarding.
F***! I thought this was gonna be about bodybuilding women with giant clitorises.
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This legislation will never work -- you have to nip the demand instead.
I support legislation to kill people who think watching a camcorded movie is a great experience.
They really should open a "released sex offender" community, like a trailer park or something. Then they can sit around and f*** each other to their heart's content, and everyone else can stay away.
You'd probably need to separate out the women who graciously slept with 15 year olds from the men who rape and savagely beat 6 year olds, though.
Hmmm, maybe there is a difference and a problem in branding people with the same, idiotically broad brush.
The idiot politicians? I heartily agree!
It depends whether the corporation is doing this of their own free will, or because the government is nudge, nudge, wink, wink, twisting their arm.
And in this case, the government is twisting their arm. Now, whether you want to consider shutting a pedophile (other cases, not this one) off MySpace to be censorship, that's another issue. Technically, it would be, but is there another solution? (And don't most of these people have no Internet as a condition of parole, anyway?)
> In an interview with the site, he points out that traditional PC RPG
> developers are in danger of permanently losing out to the developers
> of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
KoToR II was the last decent one I played. Oblivion sucked -- precisely because it seemed so like an MMORPG to me.
In RPGs, developers can take advantage of the fact that you're the only one in the world -- and can thus bump up your powers to levels far greater than you could ever get in an MMORPG.
In an MMORPG, people dr00l over some stupid piece of armor that boosts strength by 5 -- which, thanks to the massive number of points in strength, amounts to very little. Throw on top of it that they use a curve rather than linear association, and adding 5 means little when adding infinite strength would only add 20% to your damage.
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> The London High Court ruled that Hong Kong-based CD-Wow,
"You socialist cowards gave us back to a freakin' communist dictatorship , then seek to sue us in court now?
How ya gonna enforce it...punk? Come on (pushes UK's shoulder). What ya gonna do? When it came time to stand up for freedom, you slunk your tail down and ran away. Oh, what ya gonna do?
Oh, look. He's gonna cry. Come on now, cry. Cry, baby. Cry. Wahhhh! (Pops his nose, making him bleed and cry harder.) Waaaaah!"
> The text of the clone product definition subsections is very cumbersome to read,
> but it specifically mentions OpenOffice, Wine, and OpenXchange by name without
> asserting that they are necessarily clone products.
Ya gotta love lawyers.
"Clone products that infringe each other's patents shall be considered as not infringing on each other's patents. Such clone products are, for example OpenOffice, Wine, and OpenXchange, which are not clone products if you're going to sue us over patents and try to twist our words around to hurt us in unanticipated ways."
> Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone
What's the big deal? Realizing the vital importance of it to continued existence of the species, male readers of Slashdot have been attempting this for over ten years.
Ironically, this is a real life thing, rather than a virtual thing. Earning money for actual real life food, in a society that offers precious little else for you.
Not to mention seduced beautiful women who wanted you.
> Never! You'll have to take away the binary prefixes from me from
> my stiff, cold, dead fingers.
While you could count in binary using your fingers, most people actually use their fingers to count in unary.
So the argument these experiments are safe, and that they won't introduce exotic states of matter that cascade out of control with regular matter, converting it, and destroying the Earth, is that far more energetic events occur in our upper atmosphere all the time (e.g. the WOW type particles hitting so hard and fast they mass as much as a bacteria and pack the momentum of a pitched baseball)
Yet they claim this all the time:
> The collider will smash protons together hoping to catch a glimpse of
> the subatomic particles that are thought to have last been seen at the Big Bang
So which is it? While I don't believe the experiments are dangerous, this does shoot down their "safety" argument above. Or is their claim really false (e.g. WOW particles would have introduced this via upper atmosphere collisions many times) and just advertising to sell it to politicians and the public?
> This] would be the equivalent of all of the information in all of the university
> libraries in the United States seven times over. It would be the equivalent of
> 22 Internets, or more than 1,000 Libraries of Congress.
$349,000, though I'm sure you'd get a decent volume discount for a thousand of these.
Oh wait, it won't be needed for a year. Halve that.
> the BBC broadcast an alarmist Panorama news programme that suggested
> wireless networking might be damaging our health.
I assure you, your sedentary livestyle is lopping far more years off the end of your life than this. Hell, more than this and cigarette smoking (direct, to say nothing of passive.)
> Their evidence? Well, they admitted there wasn't any
Hell, Johnny Mnemonic demonstrated this was a possibility! Come on, one of these has gotta "stick"! There's books to be sold, and shows to be talking heads on!
I always wondered -- is there a similar site that lists people who sued then "settled out of court"?
Yes, because, to government, there are only two states of being legal:
1. Government pays you to do it
2. Government rides on your back like a bloodsucking leach sow, weighing you down as you try to survive
To those who would say, "Well, you have to have roads and fire departments", well, sure, and how's the War in Iraq going? Ever read "Dune"?
> Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money,
> its a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
This is a parent being neglectful. There are separate laws for that.
> When people cant think properly because they've taken too many drugs
Yes, that is "victimless" in the sense that the only person they're hurting is themselves.
"Hurting yourself isn't a sin -- it's just stupid." Robert A. Heinlein
> or can't afford what they a mentally or physically dependant on, and
> rob/kill others for drug money, its a victimless crime.
You are aware this is an argument for legalization, not for illegalization, don't you?
> People dealing drugs to others, even when the others haven't been shown
> how dangerous the drugs are, is a victimless crime.
So you would support mandatory pamphlets be handed out with the drugs beforehand to make sure the buyer is aware of the risks? Sounds good to me.
And, for the record, I've taken less drugs than Bill Clinton even publicly admits to.
God, whose name is "Yahweh", used to be one of a number of gods in a pantheon (Canaanite, I believe). He had a girlfriend named "Ishtar", who was one of the last god(desses) pared away by the "Yahwhists", the proto-Jews who were forming a monotheism in a game of "my god's tougher than yours" one-upsmanship.
The Genesis story is also leftover from earlier religions, wherein the god slays the great (waters)chaos dragon Leviathan, and splits it in two, with the bottom half forming the Earth, and the upper half forming the vault, a solid barrier. Together they held back "the waters" both above and below. "Leviathan" was stripped out of the Genesis story, although some of the Psalms still accidentally mention Yahweh's battles with it, as well as with a similar chaos beast named Behemoth.
Other references to this cosmology still exist in the story of Noah, where God floods the earth by opening up the windows above (to our modern ears, sounds like a metaphor for rain -- no, it was truly opening up holes in the vault above to let the water from the waters above pour through) as well as "breaking up the fonts below", which is to say, things limiting the water from seeping upwards -- it's true! The 40 days and 40 nights of rain was only part of the source of the flood, even according to the strictest Bible interpretations.
It would provide an answer to those damned skeptics who keep asking, "Well, who created God then?"
God had a momma and daddy! Stupid skeptics! >:(
That may be the most unjustified conclusion I have ever heard!
Also these are newer developments. Of course it's easy to re-interpret "in the image of God" to mean merely spiritually or some such. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Every time philosophy, and nowadays science, pushes things, Bible passages just get re-interpreted under the presumption that it must be correct, and therefore something else has to give.
In the extreme case, what gives is the truthfulness of reality -- yes, reality is as it appears (light appears to have been travelling billions of years) but that is a fraud put on by either the Devil to deceive you, or God to test you.
I submit a God who "tests" your belief in the Bible by creating billion year old light or dinosaur bones, then challenges you to see which you believe, is not one deserving of worship.
Ye Philosophers of Olde had severe problems with "deceiver" gods like this -- they couldn't even decide if Adam and Eve had bellybuttons or not. (If they did, it was indication of a past that did not actually occur, and thus God was a deceiver. If they didn't, then they weren't truly in the final human form, hence "made in the image of God" was now suspect.)
Modern religious people seem to have no problem with God being a flat-out liar doing things like making light from stars a billion light years away already be "on the way", and showing events that never actually happened.
Strange. Not only is the Devil testing you by doing things like pre-creating proto versions of Judaism that just look like Judaism derived from it centuries later, in anticipation of God giving the Jews holy writings centuries later. But now you have to deal with God himself deceiving you. And if you are misled by any of it, you get tortured for ever and ever.
Laugh while you can.
Any decent robot of even simple comic book capacity should be able to disassemble "fast" Spiderman before he can blink an eye.
No you don't.
...a mean diameter of 1.1 - 1.4 km.
>
>
> If 1950 DA continues on its present orbit, it will approach near to the Earth on March 16, 2880.
> A preliminary analysis shows...one trajectory misses the Earth by tens of millions of kilometers,
> while the other has an impact probability of 1300.
So it's somewhere between 0 and 1 in 300 chance. Of hitting in 2880.
> The energy released by a collision with an object the size of 1950 DA would cause major effects
> on the climate and biosphere which would be devastating to human civilization.
If, by 2880, humanity still isn't advanced enough to brush this away (to say nothing of mostly being not even on Earth at the time) we deserve to be wiped out.
> A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning
>
> "With a finding that may explain Internet trolls -- or at least building contractors -- U. of
> Michigan researchers have discovered that individuals with high levels of testosterone find
> an angry face rewarding.
F***! I thought this was gonna be about bodybuilding women with giant clitorises.