When you say everything can be automated, I think you overestimate the state of robotics.
By using the word robotics, I'm lead to think you're completely unqualified to make any statement regarding the state of industrial process automation.
Reckless driving is handled differently by most states, but Alaskan law states:
A person who drives a motor vehicle in the state in a manner that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to a person or to property is guilty of reckless driving. A substantial and unjustifiable risk is a risk of such a nature and degree that the conscious disregard of it or a failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.
Well, having conversations, kids, adjusting the AC, none of these things are a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe while driving.
I think the test to get a Driver lisense should be substantially harder.
That's missing the point entirely. Everyone can pass a drivers test eventually, and then it's over with. It doesn't matter how badly you drive after that, as long as you don't get your license taken away, you're still licensed.
I'd say, you've got to pass a drivers test every 10 years, and after you reach a certain age, you're to be tested annually. Otherwise, people are just going to study to pass the test, no matter how tough you make it. In fact, after a certain point, even people who care about driving safely will study only to pass, because they won't be able to pass otherwise.
I think that system is called "patrol cars," and yes, they are underused. They should do something about that as well.
"Intense conversation with a passenger, changing the radio station, fumbling with the A/C controls in a rental car, a crying baby in the back seat..." aren't illegal.
Honestly, it's slashdot. I'm here to get in a stupid arguement over something everyone really agrees with on principle anyway.:P
You should have seen me argue "Babies shouldn't be thrown into meat grinders unless they somehow deserve it". It was beautiful. Somehow the other people became pro throwing babies who don't deserve it into meat grinders.
You may be from an area where the native community is composed of outstanding individuals who are working to raise their race from the muck. Manitoba is filled with gangs, and terrible racism(Lest you accuse me of the same, guess who runs Indian Posse?).
Old and busted: Modding someone informative for providing good information. New hotness: Modding someone informative for providing redundant information .
Yes, if you want to establish proof beyond any reasonable burden of proof, you can't prove anything except that you exist. We seem to be talking about establishing a problem large enough to justify taking away first ammendment rights from game developers, so you'd better goddamned well have a significant, demonstratable problem with video games causing violence among the massive generation who has grown up with them.
Now, here's the kicker which destroys your faulty arguement. DESPITE an entire generation born and bred playing video games, According to the United States Government Department of Justice, violent crime has been cut by half since 1991, when Doom first debued. Folks are chasing paper tigers here.
Wow! We're a generation of sociopaths! Killing and making the country unsafe! Look at that!
It's not a straw man. Group A says that video games make people more violent. Group B plays video games. Simple Aristotelian logic says that if Group B isn't more violent, then Group A is wrong.
Your rant is noted, but TES is one of the worlds I really would have liked to have multi-player as even a hack-ish option in. If the engine is designed right (And I'm positive it is), it probably isn't that tough to implement, comparatively speaking, and the thought of travelling through Morrowind or the imperial province with a friend at my side is pretty nifty.
You seem to be setting up a nice straw man there, but not every poor family is doing that. In fact, I'd guess that most aren't.
Hell, I've lived well below the poverty line, and let me assure you, there were NOT 200 dollar runners in my closet. There were 20 dollar tarp runners I grabbed from Wal-Mart. Granted, it was on my own pitiful dime (about $6000 for the year), but generalizing like that is just asinine.
Tax cuts are a red herring. You guys are just selling your grand kids to China to buy all this anyway by running up 500 billion dollar deficits. Even better, doing so causes inflation which reduces the value of your money by introducing a bunch more. Doesn't it feel great to know you're screwing yourselves AND your grandkids AND you still get to complain about taxes for some reason?
There's an entire generation of gamers out there that aren't going out and killing. That's empirical proof if I've ever seen it. If people saying that video games are this huge problem that cause violence, then there'd be violence in the streets! We'd look like Africa!
If I were to hit bottom, I'd definitely be glad when nobody chose to help me. I'd be so glad there isn't a program that would help me regardless of my perceived value.
You answered your own question. "Liberals" want to get taxed so everyone covers the cost of social programs. "Conservatives" want to be able to choose whether to pay or not.
You know, I'm so glad that people are busy learning pseudo-philosophy like the "conservative" "liberal" distinction. Basic logic skills are highly overrated.
But you know what I love most? By reducing funding for the poor and reducing funding for economic development, socio-economic factors will lead to greater violence in the lower classes.
TRYING TO BAN VIDEO GAMES CAUSES VIOLENCE! I love it.
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Your guess is wrong. In reality, one of the major elements of human evolution was the switch to an omniverous diet. This allowed our digestive systems to become much less efficient, requiring less gut, which is why humans can walk on two legs.
It probably has nothing to do with the RIAA or the artist. It's an internal thing: It's ethical to download something you already own, so he'll do just that.
Give me one good reason why entire communities of gamers, millions and millions of people, who don't go out and kill people aren't the final word on whether video games make people into murderers.
Because all the studies that show there's no causal link between video games and violence are ignored by Jack Thompson, despite the fact that most of them are initiated to support his assertions?
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When you say everything can be automated, I think you overestimate the state of robotics.
By using the word robotics, I'm lead to think you're completely unqualified to make any statement regarding the state of industrial process automation.
Reckless driving is handled differently by most states, but Alaskan law states:
A person who drives a motor vehicle in the state in a manner that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to a person or to property is guilty of reckless driving. A substantial and unjustifiable risk is a risk of such a nature and degree that the conscious disregard of it or a failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.
Well, having conversations, kids, adjusting the AC, none of these things are a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe while driving.
Silly rabbit, laws are for lawyers.
I suppose you want to ban gay sex in cars too you fucking elitist conservative prick.
I think the test to get a Driver lisense should be substantially harder.
That's missing the point entirely. Everyone can pass a drivers test eventually, and then it's over with. It doesn't matter how badly you drive after that, as long as you don't get your license taken away, you're still licensed.
I'd say, you've got to pass a drivers test every 10 years, and after you reach a certain age, you're to be tested annually. Otherwise, people are just going to study to pass the test, no matter how tough you make it. In fact, after a certain point, even people who care about driving safely will study only to pass, because they won't be able to pass otherwise.
I think that system is called "patrol cars," and yes, they are underused. They should do something about that as well.
"Intense conversation with a passenger, changing the radio station, fumbling with the A/C controls in a rental car, a crying baby in the back seat..." aren't illegal.
I won't believe it. I think these were probably the same painfully obvious scams that I get every day.
Actually, "company". MTS is probably the only company with service out there. Winnipeg has (poor) Rogers service, but that's pretty much it.
Honestly, it's slashdot. I'm here to get in a stupid arguement over something everyone really agrees with on principle anyway. :P
You should have seen me argue "Babies shouldn't be thrown into meat grinders unless they somehow deserve it". It was beautiful. Somehow the other people became pro throwing babies who don't deserve it into meat grinders.
You may be from an area where the native community is composed of outstanding individuals who are working to raise their race from the muck. Manitoba is filled with gangs, and terrible racism(Lest you accuse me of the same, guess who runs Indian Posse?).
Old and busted: Modding someone informative for providing good information.
New hotness: Modding someone informative for providing redundant information .
Yes, if you want to establish proof beyond any reasonable burden of proof, you can't prove anything except that you exist. We seem to be talking about establishing a problem large enough to justify taking away first ammendment rights from game developers, so you'd better goddamned well have a significant, demonstratable problem with video games causing violence among the massive generation who has grown up with them.
Now, here's the kicker which destroys your faulty arguement. DESPITE an entire generation born and bred playing video games, According to the United States Government Department of Justice, violent crime has been cut by half since 1991, when Doom first debued. Folks are chasing paper tigers here.
Wow! We're a generation of sociopaths! Killing and making the country unsafe! Look at that!
It's not a straw man. Group A says that video games make people more violent. Group B plays video games. Simple Aristotelian logic says that if Group B isn't more violent, then Group A is wrong.
Your rant is noted, but TES is one of the worlds I really would have liked to have multi-player as even a hack-ish option in. If the engine is designed right (And I'm positive it is), it probably isn't that tough to implement, comparatively speaking, and the thought of travelling through Morrowind or the imperial province with a friend at my side is pretty nifty.
Most people who I've met who reach rock bottom have long depleted the goodwill of friends and family.
You seem to be setting up a nice straw man there, but not every poor family is doing that. In fact, I'd guess that most aren't.
Hell, I've lived well below the poverty line, and let me assure you, there were NOT 200 dollar runners in my closet. There were 20 dollar tarp runners I grabbed from Wal-Mart. Granted, it was on my own pitiful dime (about $6000 for the year), but generalizing like that is just asinine.
Just what the world needs -- more business majors(The perennial major for people with no real dreams).
Tax cuts are a red herring. You guys are just selling your grand kids to China to buy all this anyway by running up 500 billion dollar deficits. Even better, doing so causes inflation which reduces the value of your money by introducing a bunch more. Doesn't it feel great to know you're screwing yourselves AND your grandkids AND you still get to complain about taxes for some reason?
Empirical proof trumps rhetoric.
There's an entire generation of gamers out there that aren't going out and killing. That's empirical proof if I've ever seen it. If people saying that video games are this huge problem that cause violence, then there'd be violence in the streets! We'd look like Africa!
Oh, will you look at that, we don't.
If I were to hit bottom, I'd definitely be glad when nobody chose to help me. I'd be so glad there isn't a program that would help me regardless of my perceived value.
You answered your own question. "Liberals" want to get taxed so everyone covers the cost of social programs. "Conservatives" want to be able to choose whether to pay or not.
You know, I'm so glad that people are busy learning pseudo-philosophy like the "conservative" "liberal" distinction. Basic logic skills are highly overrated.
You're right.
But you know what I love most? By reducing funding for the poor and reducing funding for economic development, socio-economic factors will lead to greater violence in the lower classes.
TRYING TO BAN VIDEO GAMES CAUSES VIOLENCE! I love it.
Your guess is wrong. In reality, one of the major elements of human evolution was the switch to an omniverous diet. This allowed our digestive systems to become much less efficient, requiring less gut, which is why humans can walk on two legs.
It probably has nothing to do with the RIAA or the artist. It's an internal thing: It's ethical to download something you already own, so he'll do just that.
Give me one good reason why entire communities of gamers, millions and millions of people, who don't go out and kill people aren't the final word on whether video games make people into murderers.
Because all the studies that show there's no causal link between video games and violence are ignored by Jack Thompson, despite the fact that most of them are initiated to support his assertions?