Haven't played God of War for the Playstation 2 yet? It has a sex minigame (sex is not shown). It also shows bare breasts in cutscenes and during gameplay.
Oh, and it's also an extremely violent game with heads and limbs being ripped off, just no human-on-human violence.
Regardless, this was more or less a war, that is, the battle between the colonists and the Native Americans.
It wasn't a war, we were dislocating the native population through any means necassary, look at the Trail of Tears. If this happened in modern times we'd call it a crime against humanity. Calling it a mistake is a huge understatement.
Typically claims of judical activism come along because you disagree with a ruling, no one ever sees the problem is they were to agree with the ruling.
If you start removing judges because their rulings aren't in line with the polical winds of the time, then you don't have an independent judicial, which is arguable one of the most important components of a strong democracy.
Actually, the opposite is happening. The titles out last year were very good. GTA SA was an excellent game, with great gameplay and massive amounts of contents. There were also a slew of good titles in the Teen and Everyone rating for people who don't like the more violent titles.
The fact is games are surging in popularity, and are likely to continue to do so. And games that have tried to make just pure violent games, thinking that is what people want, have lost in the market.
Advertising in general has become excessive. I no longer watch live TV, everything get's queued by Tivo so I can blast through commercials. Why? Because they feed me about 20-30 ads an hour, typically for products I don't care about.
Until they learn that less is more I'm going to try and minimize the number of ads I view. I remember back in the day doubleclick was going to be targeting the advertising to my interests, still all I see are online casinos and mortgages, which I'm not in the market for.
Well, most filesystems essential use a database (inodes, indexes etc). Usually when people say Database they mean a DBMS or something analogous.
I think it highlights one of the problems with tech patents is that it would be possible for a lawyer to argue your filesystem was legally just a database. All they need to do is confuse a jury enough, which probably wouldn't be all that hard. Unfortunatly the patent law doesn't say "sorry, database is to vague, your patent application is rejected". The incentive is to use nice vauge terms to make the patent more far reaching.
I hardly buy any CD's anyway, but when I do I expect it to take no more that 10 minutes to get it loaded into iTunes for me to use anyway I want. At least for me the CD is only a data transfer agent.
If it takes me a couple hours/days/weeks of work to use the music, I probably won't bother buying CD's. They are just making the path of least resistance P2P (or none at all), rather than BestBuy.
Or do I need to complain every single time I bother to buy a CD? The problem is they are making a speed-bump to my legitimate use of loading the songs onto my portable player.
Obviously toddler is wrong, but Nintendo has for a long time pitched it as a family friendly system (Mario/Monkey Ball etc) where as the Xbox and PS2 have target more hardcore games like GTA and Halo. Personally I didn't buy a cube because it seemed like it didn't have the kind of games I wanted. I know it has some cool Mature titles (RE4), but the marketing of the device was for playing Mario Golf & Tennis.
Try this as a excercise, go around your house with a plumb line and a level and check the windows, doors and floors. Is everything perfectly in level? No? big suprise there. Windows and doors get hung using shims to balance out the imperfections, allowing builders to have signifigant tolerances when doing construction.
Houses burn down because of bad wiring, roofs collapse, wood rots, foundation crack. Everything has it's problems and we deal with them. When a $20 toaster breaks most people buy a new one without a second thought. Why would you expect $20 in shareware to be flawless?
Difference with the broadcast is who the crack-down would be seen to effect. With P2P and issues like that it only really effects small companies and individuals, basically people removed from the political process. With the broadcast flags it effects all kinds of technology groups (read people with real money and therfore politically significant).
Congress won't be to quick to hurt on major source of cash revenue... ah the politics of money.
Seems like a vast over-generalization. Wouldn't any government service then be communistic? My taxes pay for the community water and sewers. In the Soviet style of communism the research would be directed, not encourged with grants.
It's probably more accurate to call it Socialism. In a pure capatilistic society the goverment wouldn't regulate/fund research, companies would do what seem in their best interest.
Well, the restriction is pretty heavy for most institutitions. Though there is debate now to lift the restrictions somewhat. I think as US biotech begins to slip in relation to other contries with large goverment sponsorship the rules will be changed slightly.
Just look at California, there they are funding research on a state level to try and promote growth in research there.
I thought most embryotic lines came from IV procedures that were never implanted. The work is done on blastocysts, which are only a few days after fertilization.
The ethical debate is that some people believe that once the egg is fertilized it is a human life, regardless if it is ever implanted in a womb.
Not to mention that once the government starts reviewing and approving certain titles for sale/restricted sales it looks an awful lot like text-book case of censorship.
The standard in Illinois will probably be found to vague to be constitutional. I imagine it will end up in court almost immediatly after being signed into law.
The only reason they are doing it is so that all the politicians can run under the family-friendly label in the next election.
The device makers will put up a pretty strong resistance to this. MPAA isn't the only industry group that would be lobbying over this.
The FCC regulations were politically convenient, since the elected officals could distance themselves from it, claim to support or oppose it depending on the direction of the political winds.
Republicans would probably find it hard to increase the amount of regulation on high-tech industries. Not saying it's impossible, but it's hardly going to zip right on through. Unlike the DMCA which was generally pro-business this bill pits several intrests against one another. If the bill directly attacked consumers it would pass in a hearbeat:)
How do you plan to keep score? Typically badly designed or weak offspring are unable to survive long enough to reproduce. Outcompeting becomes irrelevent at some point.
If we really want to save energy, why not make school and work weeks only 4 days? Then people wouldn't need to travel on Friday (just leisure travel). Sure, normal work day becomes 10-hours for most people, but you get a 3-day weekend.
A company I worked for did it for summer hours, allowed people to do it if they wanted to, and I wanted to:)
But don't you also need to ask if the publication ban is being used to shield the government from damaging news? The article indicates the government is using the time under the ban to force elections before the news can get out.
The are obviously using the ban in this case to avoid the political fallout, or at least do some major damage control.
Do the media bans only come into effect with high-profile crimes? Or does every crime go unreported until after the trial of the accused? I imagine it doesn't.
Well, in the case of Eolas, there is no possible retaliation, since they don't make anything.
Simple reform would be that if you are granted a patent you have to produce a product using that patent. Gets rid of submarine patents and the like.
I also think they patent lifecycle should be very short on software. Maybe 2 years or so, just enough for you to get a running start in the market with your invention.
Technically it is an embryo, it's a scientific term. You aren't labeled a "baby" until after birth. That's just they way the terminology works. The word embryo wasn't introduced at some later date to make their destruction insignificant. The fact that it's an embryo, a zygot or a fetus shouldn't make a diference in your argument. Be honest, are you simplifing for us, or trying to make a stronger ethical argument?
Well, states usually invest in research in order to fuel growth of a given industry. In the 70s/80s/90s silicon dominated and made California rich. Biotech is a promising field, and I imagine a strong investment would lead to a good growth in the industry, and good economic benefits to the hosting state. If California doesn't gain the lead somebody else will (like the EU)
The orignial ariticle only said that federally funding was restricted to the exsisting line. Which in a true statement. Sounds like political quibbling over which thesaurus word to use.
Is there a way to mention the limitation on funding that would not be considered biased? I don't think I could right an article summary that satisified supporters of the provision.
Call things what they are, it's a restriction plain and simple. Conservatives should be happy to call it a restriction, since it supports their moral viewpoint. If you are embarrassed of the public policy and criticism of it makes you squirm than that's your problem, not the posters.
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Haven't played God of War for the Playstation 2 yet? It has a sex minigame (sex is not shown). It also shows bare breasts in cutscenes and during gameplay.
Oh, and it's also an extremely violent game with heads and limbs being ripped off, just no human-on-human violence.
Regardless, this was more or less a war, that is, the battle between the colonists and the Native Americans.
It wasn't a war, we were dislocating the native population through any means necassary, look at the Trail of Tears. If this happened in modern times we'd call it a crime against humanity. Calling it a mistake is a huge understatement.
Typically claims of judical activism come along because you disagree with a ruling, no one ever sees the problem is they were to agree with the ruling.
If you start removing judges because their rulings aren't in line with the polical winds of the time, then you don't have an independent judicial, which is arguable one of the most important components of a strong democracy.
Actually, the opposite is happening. The titles out last year were very good. GTA SA was an excellent game, with great gameplay and massive amounts of contents. There were also a slew of good titles in the Teen and Everyone rating for people who don't like the more violent titles.
The fact is games are surging in popularity, and are likely to continue to do so. And games that have tried to make just pure violent games, thinking that is what people want, have lost in the market.
Advertising in general has become excessive. I no longer watch live TV, everything get's queued by Tivo so I can blast through commercials. Why? Because they feed me about 20-30 ads an hour, typically for products I don't care about.
Until they learn that less is more I'm going to try and minimize the number of ads I view. I remember back in the day doubleclick was going to be targeting the advertising to my interests, still all I see are online casinos and mortgages, which I'm not in the market for.
Well, most filesystems essential use a database (inodes, indexes etc). Usually when people say Database they mean a DBMS or something analogous.
I think it highlights one of the problems with tech patents is that it would be possible for a lawyer to argue your filesystem was legally just a database. All they need to do is confuse a jury enough, which probably wouldn't be all that hard. Unfortunatly the patent law doesn't say "sorry, database is to vague, your patent application is rejected". The incentive is to use nice vauge terms to make the patent more far reaching.
I hardly buy any CD's anyway, but when I do I expect it to take no more that 10 minutes to get it loaded into iTunes for me to use anyway I want. At least for me the CD is only a data transfer agent.
If it takes me a couple hours/days/weeks of work to use the music, I probably won't bother buying CD's. They are just making the path of least resistance P2P (or none at all), rather than BestBuy.
Or do I need to complain every single time I bother to buy a CD? The problem is they are making a speed-bump to my legitimate use of loading the songs onto my portable player.
Obviously toddler is wrong, but Nintendo has for a long time pitched it as a family friendly system (Mario/Monkey Ball etc) where as the Xbox and PS2 have target more hardcore games like GTA and Halo. Personally I didn't buy a cube because it seemed like it didn't have the kind of games I wanted. I know it has some cool Mature titles (RE4), but the marketing of the device was for playing Mario Golf & Tennis.
Try this as a excercise, go around your house with a plumb line and a level and check the windows, doors and floors. Is everything perfectly in level? No? big suprise there. Windows and doors get hung using shims to balance out the imperfections, allowing builders to have signifigant tolerances when doing construction.
Houses burn down because of bad wiring, roofs collapse, wood rots, foundation crack. Everything has it's problems and we deal with them. When a $20 toaster breaks most people buy a new one without a second thought. Why would you expect $20 in shareware to be flawless?
Difference with the broadcast is who the crack-down would be seen to effect. With P2P and issues like that it only really effects small companies and individuals, basically people removed from the political process. With the broadcast flags it effects all kinds of technology groups (read people with real money and therfore politically significant).
Congress won't be to quick to hurt on major source of cash revenue... ah the politics of money.
Not to mention you get get a small HDTV for around $300-$400 now. And since that has integrated speakers, you can run on that just fine.
Seems like a vast over-generalization. Wouldn't any government service then be communistic? My taxes pay for the community water and sewers. In the Soviet style of communism the research would be directed, not encourged with grants.
It's probably more accurate to call it Socialism. In a pure capatilistic society the goverment wouldn't regulate/fund research, companies would do what seem in their best interest.
Well, the restriction is pretty heavy for most institutitions. Though there is debate now to lift the restrictions somewhat. I think as US biotech begins to slip in relation to other contries with large goverment sponsorship the rules will be changed slightly.
Just look at California, there they are funding research on a state level to try and promote growth in research there.
I thought most embryotic lines came from IV procedures that were never implanted. The work is done on blastocysts, which are only a few days after fertilization.
The ethical debate is that some people believe that once the egg is fertilized it is a human life, regardless if it is ever implanted in a womb.
Not to mention that once the government starts reviewing and approving certain titles for sale/restricted sales it looks an awful lot like text-book case of censorship.
The standard in Illinois will probably be found to vague to be constitutional. I imagine it will end up in court almost immediatly after being signed into law.
The only reason they are doing it is so that all the politicians can run under the family-friendly label in the next election.
The device makers will put up a pretty strong resistance to this. MPAA isn't the only industry group that would be lobbying over this.
:)
The FCC regulations were politically convenient, since the elected officals could distance themselves from it, claim to support or oppose it depending on the direction of the political winds.
Republicans would probably find it hard to increase the amount of regulation on high-tech industries. Not saying it's impossible, but it's hardly going to zip right on through. Unlike the DMCA which was generally pro-business this bill pits several intrests against one another. If the bill directly attacked consumers it would pass in a hearbeat
How do you plan to keep score? Typically badly designed or weak offspring are unable to survive long enough to reproduce. Outcompeting becomes irrelevent at some point.
If we really want to save energy, why not make school and work weeks only 4 days? Then people wouldn't need to travel on Friday (just leisure travel). Sure, normal work day becomes 10-hours for most people, but you get a 3-day weekend.
:)
A company I worked for did it for summer hours, allowed people to do it if they wanted to, and I wanted to
But don't you also need to ask if the publication ban is being used to shield the government from damaging news? The article indicates the government is using the time under the ban to force elections before the news can get out.
The are obviously using the ban in this case to avoid the political fallout, or at least do some major damage control.
Do the media bans only come into effect with high-profile crimes? Or does every crime go unreported until after the trial of the accused? I imagine it doesn't.
Well, in the case of Eolas, there is no possible retaliation, since they don't make anything.
Simple reform would be that if you are granted a patent you have to produce a product using that patent. Gets rid of submarine patents and the like.
I also think they patent lifecycle should be very short on software. Maybe 2 years or so, just enough for you to get a running start in the market with your invention.
Technically it is an embryo, it's a scientific term. You aren't labeled a "baby" until after birth. That's just they way the terminology works. The word embryo wasn't introduced at some later date to make their destruction insignificant. The fact that it's an embryo, a zygot or a fetus shouldn't make a diference in your argument. Be honest, are you simplifing for us, or trying to make a stronger ethical argument?
Well, states usually invest in research in order to fuel growth of a given industry. In the 70s/80s/90s silicon dominated and made California rich. Biotech is a promising field, and I imagine a strong investment would lead to a good growth in the industry, and good economic benefits to the hosting state. If California doesn't gain the lead somebody else will (like the EU)
That's why I say "baby." It's a matter of simplicity of language.
Didn't you mean to say Newspeak? Don't try to simplfy, we can handle the big concepts...
The orignial ariticle only said that federally funding was restricted to the exsisting line. Which in a true statement. Sounds like political quibbling over which thesaurus word to use.
Is there a way to mention the limitation on funding that would not be considered biased? I don't think I could right an article summary that satisified supporters of the provision.
Call things what they are, it's a restriction plain and simple. Conservatives should be happy to call it a restriction, since it supports their moral viewpoint. If you are embarrassed of the public policy and criticism of it makes you squirm than that's your problem, not the posters.