If the technology is used for bad purposes, are the creators liable for it? Place the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of China.
If I sell a gun to man, *knowing* he's going to go home and kill his wife with it, I'm morally responsible for the crime. I'm probably legally responsible for it as well.
But in the corporate world of moral relativity, it doesn't matter if I sell to a policeman or a terrorist. It only matters that I made a few bucks off the sale.
Yes, the man might have been able to get a gun from someone else. But he wouldn't have gotton it from *me*. And if more corporations/businesses acted with a modicrum of moral responsibility, he wouldn't get it from anyone else.
Pretty much any German, Italian, or Japanese company that's been around since WWII will have done something to support the war effort at the time. Is that a reason to boycott them now? I think not.
Microsoft and Cisco are supporting a murderous regime NOW. That's the point you seem to have missed.
This is because the visible part of the face only makes up the end of the vocal tract, a lot of distinctions between letters occurs without the involvement of the lips, like the difference between F and V, while others, like K, can be pronounced with the face in virtually any position.
There are visual cues for "invisible" sounds, like the nose darkens, the throat turns blue and the dots appear on the cheeks for various sounds. Watch the demo.
It'll take practice to get used to, I'm sure, but no more than it takes to pick up Graffiti on PDAs, I imagine.
A couple years back I had the pleasure of going on a lengthy tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and their cleanup efforts.
I think people would freak out if they realized how careless the gov't has been with nuclear waste.
For instance, the underground tanks they stored certain types of waste in were set up in a series. When tank one fills up, it spills over into tank two. When tank two fills up, it spills over into tank three. When tank four fills up, it spills over into the ground.
Oh, and the tanks were only meant to be used for 20 or so years and they've been used for more than twice that.
Then there's the waste that's being stored in what amounts to coffee cans.
This is all right next to the Columbia River incidently. Want a glass of water?
The Saturday night before Halloween I had a costume party to go to. I remembered this Saturday morning. Or rather, Saturday afternoon since that's when I actually woke up. I had no costume.
But I did have a bunch of crap CDs, some of which were AOL CDs. So I taped them together and went as AOLandfill. Had about strips of 6-7 down each a leg, a sort of vest and a couple on my forearms. Truth be told, it did look like some low-rent Power Ranger battle armour or something, but once I said the name, people thought it was funny.
I also got to use pickup lines like Try me free for 1000 hours for your first month! I'm so easy to use it's no wonder I'm number one!
The terrifying part of the costume may have been how well those lines worked.
Also, I encourage everyone to do what I did: Move to the city and work in the city.
I recently moved to Bellevue and work in Redmond. 10 minute commute each way. 15 minutes if traffic is bad in the evening.
I used to live in Kenmore and my commute was 35-50 minutes each way. It's given back one hour of my life a day at least. I don't think I could ever go back to anything longer than that.
Voters in Washington need to send a message to the elected officials that if they don't solve this issue now, they will vote people who will!
Voters here in Washington(or rather, voters outside King County) have repeatedly cried out that they want their transportation problems to be fixed by the government, be it new roads, mass transits, whatever.
Unfortunately, they've also repeatedly said they're unwilling to actually *pay* for any of it. The most hilarious part is that they're unwilling to spend money to fix a "Puget Sound Problem." Given that Puget Sound has been paying the bills for the rest of the f*cking state's transportation for years, it comes off as a "I've got mine" attitude.
The mainstream media which has been kissing Bush's ass for the past 3 years after spending 8 years trying to tear down Clinton and 2 years tearing into Gore is LIBERAL? What do you think a "conservative media" would look like?
AM radio talk shows
Quick, name three nationally syndicated left-wing AM radio talk show hosts!
ABC, CBS, NBC
I suppose you could argue that a couple anchors are "left-wing".
The weekly policy shows are dominated by conservatives. ie: This Week, Meet the Press. Featured guests and "Experts" tend to be conservative more often than not.
MSNBC, CNN
Both of which are dominated by right-wing hosts.
PBS & NPR
Haven't been watching lately, have you? Again, the policy & news shows are predominantly conservative or business centric.
Newspapers? The vast majority(60-40) endorsed Bush in 2000.
I've noticed that convservatives seem to think anything that's not heavily tilted to the right is "left-wing."
AT&T is moving towards more global standards. But they're still trying to get as much use out of TDMA as they can because, well, it's a waste of resources to just let all that infrastructure go to waste.
To be fair, much of the lack of longer plot arcs was Paramount's meddling. The best and prime example being the start of the 5th(?) season with the war with the Klingons. What was supposed to be a 10 episode long arc got crushed to a single episode thanks to the suits at Paramount.
Fandom will have to come up with a story about how Ramona and K9 got out of N-space and got back together with the doctor again (with a possible regeneration if a different actress plays Ramona).
Both of them got out of it a long time ago in the New Adventures books. She was President of Gallifrey for a while too.
Can't get to www.libraries.ex? Ask the librarian to unblock it.
That would have a chilling effect on people seeking out "legitimate" information. As the AC mentioned, if you're looking for information on anal warts, are you going to ask a librarian to unlock that site for you?
Despite what the ALA and ACLU say, porn is not information. Nor is it "art" or "speech".
Define porn in clear terms for us all, okay?
Current software filters out porn... along with health sites, human sexuality sites, democratic party websites, anyone else that the right-wingers running the filtering company have an axe to grind with...
But it's not irresponsible to let your child go to the library.
It's irreesponsible to expect the library to babysit your kid. If you've raised them right, it generally won't be an issue.
How do we know that she didn't do this on purpose? Maybe she was in need of money so she poured it on herself.
Let's look at this profit making scheme of your's.
1. Intentionally spill scalding hot coffee on yourself. 2. Suffer third degree burns over your pelvis and legs. 3. Spend a couple weeks in intensive care. 4. Rack up hospital bills and lost wages. 5. Offer to settle for just the cost of hospital bills and lost wages, $20,000. 6. ????? 7. Profit!
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With the porn industry with estimated $11 billion in annual sales (besting the video game industry by $1.6 billion), where's the Porn University?
I believe they're called "Fraternities & Sororities."
If the technology is used for bad purposes, are the creators liable for it? Place the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of China.
If I sell a gun to man, *knowing* he's going to go home and kill his wife with it, I'm morally responsible for the crime. I'm probably legally responsible for it as well.
But in the corporate world of moral relativity, it doesn't matter if I sell to a policeman or a terrorist. It only matters that I made a few bucks off the sale.
Yes, the man might have been able to get a gun from someone else. But he wouldn't have gotton it from *me*. And if more corporations/businesses acted with a modicrum of moral responsibility, he wouldn't get it from anyone else.
Pretty much any German, Italian, or Japanese company that's been around since WWII will have done something to support the war effort at the time. Is that a reason to boycott them now? I think not.
Microsoft and Cisco are supporting a murderous regime NOW. That's the point you seem to have missed.
This is because the visible part of the face only makes up the end of the vocal tract, a lot of distinctions between letters occurs without the involvement of the lips, like the difference between F and V, while others, like K, can be pronounced with the face in virtually any position.
There are visual cues for "invisible" sounds, like the nose darkens, the throat turns blue and the dots appear on the cheeks for various sounds. Watch the demo.
It'll take practice to get used to, I'm sure, but no more than it takes to pick up Graffiti on PDAs, I imagine.
What does that stand for?
"Free Registration Required, Yo Yo Yo"?
Hrm, we'd need a new drug-reference analogy to replace the likes of "Evercrack".
Simijuana?
A couple years back I had the pleasure of going on a lengthy tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and their cleanup efforts.
I think people would freak out if they realized how careless the gov't has been with nuclear waste.
For instance, the underground tanks they stored certain types of waste in were set up in a series. When tank one fills up, it spills over into tank two. When tank two fills up, it spills over into tank three. When tank four fills up, it spills over into the ground.
Oh, and the tanks were only meant to be used for 20 or so years and they've been used for more than twice that.
Then there's the waste that's being stored in what amounts to coffee cans.
This is all right next to the Columbia River incidently. Want a glass of water?
The Saturday night before Halloween I had a costume party to go to. I remembered this Saturday morning. Or rather, Saturday afternoon since that's when I actually woke up. I had no costume.
But I did have a bunch of crap CDs, some of which were AOL CDs. So I taped them together and went as AOLandfill. Had about strips of 6-7 down each a leg, a sort of vest and a couple on my forearms. Truth be told, it did look like some low-rent Power Ranger battle armour or something, but once I said the name, people thought it was funny.
I also got to use pickup lines like
Try me free for 1000 hours for your first month!
I'm so easy to use it's no wonder I'm number one!
The terrifying part of the costume may have been how well those lines worked.
I look forward to seeing your brilliant yet reasonably priced alternative.
Also, I encourage everyone to do what I did: Move to the city and work in the city.
I recently moved to Bellevue and work in Redmond. 10 minute commute each way. 15 minutes if traffic is bad in the evening.
I used to live in Kenmore and my commute was 35-50 minutes each way. It's given back one hour of my life a day at least. I don't think I could ever go back to anything longer than that.
Voters in Washington need to send a message to the elected officials that if they don't solve this issue now, they will vote people who will!
Voters here in Washington(or rather, voters outside King County) have repeatedly cried out that they want their transportation problems to be fixed by the government, be it new roads, mass transits, whatever.
Unfortunately, they've also repeatedly said they're unwilling to actually *pay* for any of it. The most hilarious part is that they're unwilling to spend money to fix a "Puget Sound Problem." Given that Puget Sound has been paying the bills for the rest of the f*cking state's transportation for years, it comes off as a "I've got mine" attitude.
The mainstream media which has been kissing Bush's ass for the past 3 years after spending 8 years trying to tear down Clinton and 2 years tearing into Gore is LIBERAL? What do you think a "conservative media" would look like?
AM radio talk shows
Quick, name three nationally syndicated left-wing AM radio talk show hosts!
ABC, CBS, NBC
I suppose you could argue that a couple anchors are "left-wing".
The weekly policy shows are dominated by conservatives. ie: This Week, Meet the Press. Featured guests and "Experts" tend to be conservative more often than not.
MSNBC, CNN
Both of which are dominated by right-wing hosts.
PBS & NPR
Haven't been watching lately, have you? Again, the policy & news shows are predominantly conservative or business centric.
Newspapers? The vast majority(60-40) endorsed Bush in 2000.
I've noticed that convservatives seem to think anything that's not heavily tilted to the right is "left-wing."
But the real nail in the coffin is their far-left reporting/editorial.
Because god knows there aren't any outlets for conservatives anywhere else in the media.
If the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms, then obviously getting rid of them will solve the problem.
Nintendo is not growing with the gaming industry, and I don't think that bodes well for their future.
Are there *any* portable gaming units on the horizon?
He would probably rate them:
.... One. Troll.
-1 : Troll
Wouldn't it be:
Minus!
AT&T is moving towards more global standards. But they're still trying to get as much use out of TDMA as they can because, well, it's a waste of resources to just let all that infrastructure go to waste.
To be fair, much of the lack of longer plot arcs was Paramount's meddling. The best and prime example being the start of the 5th(?) season with the war with the Klingons. What was supposed to be a 10 episode long arc got crushed to a single episode thanks to the suits at Paramount.
Pierce Brosnan is currently playing the latest incarnation of well-known Time Lord James Bond.
We just need a Doctor Who/James Bond crossover to explain all this.
Fandom will have to come up with a story about how Ramona and K9 got out of N-space and got back together with the doctor again (with a possible regeneration if a different actress plays Ramona).
Both of them got out of it a long time ago in the New Adventures books. She was President of Gallifrey for a while too.
Increased competition through consolidation!
Lower costs through higher prices!
Join us in the new world!
Understandable, but when was the last time Joe home-user could download Direct3D by itself?
When was the last time Joe Home-User *needed* to download DirectX?
These days, when Joe wants to play a computer game, it'll install DirectX for him if he doesn't have the required version.
Can't get to www.libraries.ex? Ask the librarian to unblock it.
That would have a chilling effect on people seeking out "legitimate" information. As the AC mentioned, if you're looking for information on anal warts, are you going to ask a librarian to unlock that site for you?
Despite what the ALA and ACLU say, porn is not information. Nor is it "art" or "speech".
Define porn in clear terms for us all, okay?
Current software filters out porn... along with health sites, human sexuality sites, democratic party websites, anyone else that the right-wingers running the filtering company have an axe to grind with...
But it's not irresponsible to let your child go to the library.
It's irreesponsible to expect the library to babysit your kid. If you've raised them right, it generally won't be an issue.
How do we know that she didn't do this on purpose? Maybe she was in need of money so she poured it on herself.
Let's look at this profit making scheme of your's.
1. Intentionally spill scalding hot coffee on yourself.
2. Suffer third degree burns over your pelvis and legs.
3. Spend a couple weeks in intensive care.
4. Rack up hospital bills and lost wages.
5. Offer to settle for just the cost of hospital bills and lost wages, $20,000.
6. ?????
7. Profit!
your sister Hilary siding with the RIAA? Are you disappointed she's chosen to use her powers for evil and not good?