Mr. Thompson may have a valid point in linking video games to violence, but this outright lie undermines his credibility.
He has no valid point. He has only lies. Videogames cause violence, cartoons cause violence, movies cause violence, comix cause violence, etc. If they did, every videogame testing department in the world would be overflowing with blood, wouldn't they?
You know what causes violence? VIOLENCE!
Getting slapped around by your family, by bigger kids at school. Watching daddy beat the snot out of mommy, these things cause violence. But blaming the newest media is much easier than tackling real issues, or admitting they even exist. And please, won't somebody think of the children?
The attraction for androids is only skin deep. Today's androids are just a mass of wires. Getting a robot to walk, shake hands, play chess, etc. is substantially different from a sentient machine. Sentience impresses me, but a mechanical shaking hand does not.
2 words: Sex bot. More words: Buffy bot, Cherry 2000.
You mentioned "skin deep", well we like skin. If you can teach it to shake hands, you can teach it to do other "tasks" as well.
Don't look at me like that, you're all gonna buy one!;-)
robotics, even *with* benign top priority imperatives NOT TO HARM humans
The army doesn't call them robots, they call them "unmanned vehicles", but they are heading towards autonomy, and they are carrying "payloads".
Killer robots aren't a possibility, they are a reality (and besidses, industrial robots have accidently killed humans already).
Naturally, the robot will have a strong need for self preservation.
Naturally. But the robot is not a creation of nature, and so might very well not be endowed with this trait. We might motivate them to be slightly suicidal by engineering a permanent pain in all the diodes down its left side. That way, even if it has a brain the size of a planet, it will never muster up the drive to enslave mankind.
The robots(sic) is a small version of the Honda robot
No, that robot is the Sony robot. A completely different beast. Japan is funding research into humanoid robot devellopment, and so all the big companies are develloping their own.
Honda was the first to get a humanoid walking robot. By now its smaller, runs on batteries and they even programmed it to recognise faces and a few words of japanese. You can instruct it verbally to follow you around, its quite an achievement.
Sony has their doll sized robots who can dance and run around and allmost skate (its not really skating), and it can mimic the movement of a surfer on a mechanised surf board. It impressed me by its ability to keep its balanced when lightly shoved, and to get back up if it falls down.
Toyota has a trumpet playing robot, who was on wheels at first, but they pretty much had to give it legs after the other two did it. And in doing so also made a sort of robot-legged chair, the demo video of which is worth seeing for the look of great fear in its test pilot's eyes, despite his helmet and four point harness.
As far as commercial applications, Honda rents its robot to companies and museums for its coolness factor, and has plans to sell it as a household appliance for the elderly. Its the size of a child and I think they aim to have it able to perform the simple tasks an old person might give a child to do as chores. Pick stuff up, help them out of bed and whatnot. Sony are apparently going for the high-tech doll market, a follow-up to its robot dog product line. Toyota...I dunno, superhuman robot orchestra? They seem to be a "mee too" effort.
Its walking akwardly while wearing wheels on its feet.
Which, to anybody who's learned to skate, is of course remembered fondly as those first steps before you learned why they made you wear those uncomfortable wrist guards.
Its a nice little robotic achievement, but its not skating. Actual skating would involve a phase of sliding along between "steps".
They're not so much coming as they are allready parked in front of my friend's house, much to my amazement and amusement.
Although, I have to wonder, if you can park two of these in one regular parking spot, how will the metermaids handle this? Twice as many parking tickets? Tiny cars paying for large parking spaces at full price?
I think hitting each side where the other would do it was the right way to go.
But, if one side is lying and the other isn't, then endorsing a lie isn't the right thing to do. Whichever side that might be...
After all, what if they had shown Bush/Cheney as lovers and Kerry/Edwards as pawns of Soros, Heinz, and the ABA?
Presenting the right-wing "lets change the constitution so that all men, unless gay, are created equals" as gay lovers? That wouldn't have made any sense. Pawns of Heinz? You think that if they are elected they're gonna start waging a war against terror by invading tomato-producing countries? Again, makes no sense.
There seems to be a bias because they present absurd stuff about the dems with the same context as legit stuff about the reps. Pretty much saying "the Halliburton, blood for oil thing is to taken as seriously as the Kerry-Edwards gay love jokes". I thought people seeing a right-wing leaning in the "this land" cartoon were being paranoid, but this one is pretty obvious.
I thought it was very left leaning. It made some clearly false accusations about Kerry (gay? Bin Laden supports? Right!) but pulls a few punches about Bush and Co going staying in Iraq purely for money, which is not so clearly false.
So, putting something totally made up next to something at least partly true, and presenting them as equals. Does that make the made up stuff more believable or the true stuff less so? Would you say that they presented the current administration's apparent money-driven policies as a joke that shouldn't be taken any more seriously than the possibility that Kerry and Edwards are gay lovers, or that they presented the notion that Kerry is endorsed by terrorist as being as truthfull as the link between Cheney and Halliburton?
Either way Bush & co. come out on top. Hence, the context makes it lean to the right.
The Tonight Show definatly has a pro-Bush feel to it. They make efforts to retain the viewership of as many people as they can, but they bash Kerry with more enthousiasm.
Also, Kerry was on Letterman the other day, and Leno went into a heavy Kerry-bashing stint for a little while.
bullshit [...] You guys go ahead and rag the US [...] But its much more fun to just bash the US, using conjecture and assumptions, without getting the facts.
I was talking about Haiti, you retarded troll. See the title?
But its much more fun just to bash people, using conjecture and assumptions, without getting the facts, huh?
They are digging their own graves. This is not a troll, this is reality.
Saddly, I think they need someone to step in and do some nation building in their place. Its really sad, Haiti was founded by rebellious slaves who overthrew their masters, quite noble that, but evidently, it didn't devellop well. There must be a way to get them to admit they need help, its quite a big blow to a nation's collective ego, but, dammit, people are dying.
And it's aaallllllll USAs fault!!! EVERY BIT of it. USA is to blame!!!!
Actually, its partly their own fault, sadly. They've been deforesting pretty hard over there for a long time, for cooking and building wood. Well, with all the trees gone, there was nothing to hold all that dirt there, hence the giant deadly mudslides.
That country is perpetually fucked up, they just have one crazy corrupt dictator after another. Can't really blame the people for their short sighted want for fire wood, but the leaders were too incompetant/corrupt to take actions to stop the deforestation. Now: hell.
If you think Florida had it bad, they don't even know how many thousands of people died in Haiti yet, they'll have to dig through the mud to find the bodies. Once they get food that is... The estimates are one or two thousand dead these days.
...we really need to address is the corruption in the White House and in Congress...
The democrats say that too. And the republicans. It's easy for a party who is outside the system to say that, but what is the plan for doing it?
Well, electing people who aren't allready corrupt might be a good start. If you just keep moving the same groups of corrupted officials in and out every 4 to 8 years, you can't really weed them out.
*cough*Haliburton*cough*
We should be especially cautious if we start to see candidates crossing from Democrat or Republican parties into the Green party. It might fill-up with the same corrupt politicians who are running the other two main parties.
Good point.
criminals who illegally tresspassed, dodged or lied to border police, and/or forged identities to get here. They are criminals and should be sent home. There are people who wait patiently for work visas for years to get into the US.
And there are some who don't have the luxury of waiting around in comfort before moving. Do or die is sometimes a litteral saying. You have a point, but its not always as black and white as you make it out to be.
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Mr. Thompson may have a valid point in linking video games to violence, but this outright lie undermines his credibility.
He has no valid point. He has only lies.
Videogames cause violence, cartoons cause violence, movies cause violence, comix cause violence, etc. If they did, every videogame testing department in the world would be overflowing with blood, wouldn't they?
You know what causes violence? VIOLENCE!
Getting slapped around by your family, by bigger kids at school. Watching daddy beat the snot out of mommy, these things cause violence. But blaming the newest media is much easier than tackling real issues, or admitting they even exist.
And please, won't somebody think of the children?
...or outlaw printers.
Last time I checked a very large proportion of the population was born in some way.
I'm pretty sure my ex girlfriend wasn't so much "born" as she was "spawned"...
The attraction for androids is only skin deep. Today's androids are just a mass of wires. Getting a robot to walk, shake hands, play chess, etc. is substantially different from a sentient machine.
;-)
Sentience impresses me, but a mechanical shaking hand does not.
2 words: Sex bot.
More words: Buffy bot, Cherry 2000.
You mentioned "skin deep", well we like skin. If you can teach it to shake hands, you can teach it to do other "tasks" as well.
Don't look at me like that, you're all gonna buy one!
robotics, even *with* benign top priority imperatives NOT TO HARM humans
The army doesn't call them robots, they call them "unmanned vehicles", but they are heading towards autonomy, and they are carrying "payloads".
Killer robots aren't a possibility, they are a reality (and besidses, industrial robots have accidently killed humans already).
Naturally, the robot will have a strong need for self preservation.
Naturally.
But the robot is not a creation of nature, and so might very well not be endowed with this trait. We might motivate them to be slightly suicidal by engineering a permanent pain in all the diodes down its left side. That way, even if it has a brain the size of a planet, it will never muster up the drive to enslave mankind.
The robots(sic) is a small version of the Honda robot
No, that robot is the Sony robot. A completely different beast.
Japan is funding research into humanoid robot devellopment, and so all the big companies are develloping their own.
Honda was the first to get a humanoid walking robot. By now its smaller, runs on batteries and they even programmed it to recognise faces and a few words of japanese. You can instruct it verbally to follow you around, its quite an achievement.
Sony has their doll sized robots who can dance and run around and allmost skate (its not really skating), and it can mimic the movement of a surfer on a mechanised surf board. It impressed me by its ability to keep its balanced when lightly shoved, and to get back up if it falls down.
Toyota has a trumpet playing robot, who was on wheels at first, but they pretty much had to give it legs after the other two did it. And in doing so also made a sort of robot-legged chair, the demo video of which is worth seeing for the look of great fear in its test pilot's eyes, despite his helmet and four point harness.
As far as commercial applications, Honda rents its robot to companies and museums for its coolness factor, and has plans to sell it as a household appliance for the elderly. Its the size of a child and I think they aim to have it able to perform the simple tasks an old person might give a child to do as chores. Pick stuff up, help them out of bed and whatnot.
Sony are apparently going for the high-tech doll market, a follow-up to its robot dog product line.
Toyota...I dunno, superhuman robot orchestra? They seem to be a "mee too" effort.
Its walking akwardly while wearing wheels on its feet.
Which, to anybody who's learned to skate, is of course remembered fondly as those first steps before you learned why they made you wear those uncomfortable wrist guards.
Its a nice little robotic achievement, but its not skating.
Actual skating would involve a phase of sliding along between "steps".
Which was quite common in his time period
And astrology is quite common nowadays.
That's not an excuse.
If he had paper, wouldn't he have had to bring it up to the podium?
No.
Paper was provided.
They're not so much coming as they are allready parked in front of my friend's house, much to my amazement and amusement.
Although, I have to wonder, if you can park two of these in one regular parking spot, how will the metermaids handle this? Twice as many parking tickets? Tiny cars paying for large parking spaces at full price?
it also stinks of a half-assed job by jibjab
Sure does.
The last one was too sucessfull, they HAD to make a sequel, wether they had anything good to do it with or not.
I think hitting each side where the other would do it was the right way to go.
But, if one side is lying and the other isn't, then endorsing a lie isn't the right thing to do.
Whichever side that might be...
After all, what if they had shown Bush/Cheney as lovers and Kerry/Edwards as pawns of Soros, Heinz, and the ABA?
Presenting the right-wing "lets change the constitution so that all men, unless gay, are created equals" as gay lovers? That wouldn't have made any sense. Pawns of Heinz? You think that if they are elected they're gonna start waging a war against terror by invading tomato-producing countries? Again, makes no sense.
There seems to be a bias because they present absurd stuff about the dems with the same context as legit stuff about the reps. Pretty much saying "the Halliburton, blood for oil thing is to taken as seriously as the Kerry-Edwards gay love jokes". I thought people seeing a right-wing leaning in the "this land" cartoon were being paranoid, but this one is pretty obvious.
I thought it was very left leaning. It made some clearly false accusations about Kerry (gay? Bin Laden supports? Right!) but pulls a few punches about Bush and Co going staying in Iraq purely for money, which is not so clearly false.
So, putting something totally made up next to something at least partly true, and presenting them as equals.
Does that make the made up stuff more believable or the true stuff less so?
Would you say that they presented the current administration's apparent money-driven policies as a joke that shouldn't be taken any more seriously than the possibility that Kerry and Edwards are gay lovers, or that they presented the notion that Kerry is endorsed by terrorist as being as truthfull as the link between Cheney and Halliburton?
Either way Bush & co. come out on top. Hence, the context makes it lean to the right.
This one seems VERY Right leaning.
Wow! You got mod-bombed into oblivion there.
I guess some people didn't want to hear it huh?
The Tonight Show definatly has a pro-Bush feel to it.
They make efforts to retain the viewership of as many people as they can, but they bash Kerry with more enthousiasm.
Also, Kerry was on Letterman the other day, and Leno went into a heavy Kerry-bashing stint for a little while.
I watch too much late night TV...damn insomnia.
Cute, I guess I set myself up for that one. FWIW, I'm married to a Asian :)
I Recently broke up with an asian slut.
And I'm not just saying that 'cause we broke up...
from my experience, culturally Asians seem to be a lot less promiscuous
;-)
Being turned down by asian chicks doesn't mean asian cultures are less promiscuous
when we let Saddam off the hook in '91, one of the conditions was that he would have to prove that he had no weapons.
How do you prove that something doesn't exist?
I guess I need some more, I could have sworn I've seen this subject matter mentioned in a slashdot article no more than a few days ago...
That would never happen! I must need more cafeine.
P.S. My last thought before sleep last night was "yay!, when I wake up I get to drink some cofee", its something to look forwards to.
bullshit [...] You guys go ahead and rag the US [...] But its much more fun to just bash the US, using conjecture and assumptions, without getting the facts.
I was talking about Haiti, you retarded troll. See the title?
But its much more fun just to bash people, using conjecture and assumptions, without getting the facts, huh?
They are digging their own graves. This is not a troll, this is reality.
Saddly, I think they need someone to step in and do some nation building in their place. Its really sad, Haiti was founded by rebellious slaves who overthrew their masters, quite noble that, but evidently, it didn't devellop well. There must be a way to get them to admit they need help, its quite a big blow to a nation's collective ego, but, dammit, people are dying.
And it's aaallllllll USAs fault!!! EVERY BIT of it. USA is to blame!!!!
Actually, its partly their own fault, sadly.
They've been deforesting pretty hard over there for a long time, for cooking and building wood. Well, with all the trees gone, there was nothing to hold all that dirt there, hence the giant deadly mudslides.
That country is perpetually fucked up, they just have one crazy corrupt dictator after another. Can't really blame the people for their short sighted want for fire wood, but the leaders were too incompetant/corrupt to take actions to stop the deforestation. Now: hell.
If you think Florida had it bad, they don't even know how many thousands of people died in Haiti yet, they'll have to dig through the mud to find the bodies. Once they get food that is...
The estimates are one or two thousand dead these days.
The democrats say that too. And the republicans. It's easy for a party who is outside the system to say that, but what is the plan for doing it?
Well, electing people who aren't allready corrupt might be a good start.
If you just keep moving the same groups of corrupted officials in and out every 4 to 8 years, you can't really weed them out.
*cough*Haliburton*cough*
We should be especially cautious if we start to see candidates crossing from Democrat or Republican parties into the Green party. It might fill-up with the same corrupt politicians who are running the other two main parties.
Good point.
criminals who illegally tresspassed, dodged or lied to border police, and/or forged identities to get here. They are criminals and should be sent home. There are people who wait patiently for work visas for years to get into the US.
And there are some who don't have the luxury of waiting around in comfort before moving. Do or die is sometimes a litteral saying.
You have a point, but its not always as black and white as you make it out to be.
and flapping heads so full of lies!