I suspect this has alot more to do with PG-13 ratings than it does with it being "okay" to kill someone - the most extreme scene I can think of is when Obi-Wan dismembers that giant mantis-thing. Everything else is very bloodless and clean - even the decapitation of Jango, which should have been messy and horrible even with the "clean" cuts lightsabers are supposed to make.
They are? All of them? Bullshit. If you want to participate in a discussion about the definition of terrorism, leave your propaganda fed CNN news briefs at home.
Soldiers kill civilians all the time. As mentioned above, it's "collateral damage". Soldiers (yes, American ones too) are notorious for raping and looting. The difference between a terrorist and a partisan is that a) partisan attacks are primarily (not totally) toward targets of military value, while terrorists primarily (not totally) attack targets of social value. b) Partisan attacks are generally part of an ongoing military campaign, whereas terrorist attacks are generally single events, with no greater context.
There is, obviously, a huge grey line. Which was the parents point.
Even that's totally untrue. Dicators get a bad rap in our education system (on reason we hate Castro so much, see above posts) but it's not neccesarily any more or less benign than any other form of centralized government.
It doesn't matter if God exists or not. What matters is if, and how, you will worship him/Him/her/it/whatever. I, personally, wouldn't worship God even given 100% positive proof that he exists. The god described in the Bible and by the Christian Church isn't worth my respect, much less my love and adoration. People simply assume that if God exists, you should worship him - but I think that debating God's existence is beside the point.
Language is defined by the people who use it, not the people who study it. This is something that a great many academics have trouble dealing with. Also you, apparently. Do you know what I mean when I say "beg the question"? Do MOST people know what I mean? Are most American English speakers going to agree with MY definition that yours? If so, then I'm right, not you. Deal.
That aside, you are correct that there doesn't seem to be any hacking, under any common definition of the word.
My cable IP address is in the DUL, and it's moderatly annoying, especially since other IPs in the same pool are not. In any case, isn't the point of the DUL to stop people from using throwaway accounts? It's not nearly as trivial to get a working cable or DSL account as it is to sign up with Yet Another Dialup Provider with Yet Another Credit Card. So what exactly is the rational for blocking these addresses?
That is because Cingular doesn't sell content. They sell access. There also is no conract with a retailer, whereas you do have one with Cingular. Althought cell agreements are almost as bad as EULAs as far as your rights go, and I wish companies would actually compete on that issue. Except that nobody actually cares and a company that does attempt to guarantee access would probably go bankrupt. *sigh*
In other news, SprintPCS has determined that overweight black women make calls that last much longer than other people, and have instituted a policy where all overweight black women cannot make calls longer than 2 minutes during peak hours. Certain blindered fuckwits on the internet applauded the decision, saying "If I used a cell phone, which I don't, I'd want these fat black women to only make short calls so circuits are free for me. They shouldn't make long calls on cell phones anyway, they should do it from thier home where it's meant to be done. Afterall, Sprint pays for it's circuits, and if fat black women are tying these up, they should be kicked off".
All you people defending cingular because you think this is about bandwidth need a fucking clue. Porn doesn't take any more bandwidth than anything else. If they don't want people clogging the networking and dragging down service, they need to implement rate caps and other measures - blocking porn won't do it. As far as I'm concerned, I am the only important Cingular customer. QOS for other customers is not my problem. Cingular is free to implement QOS controls, but content filters are NOT QOS controls, and they better make them clear up front.
Here's the difference: When an airplane overbooks a flight, they say "We fucked up and overbooked, so anyone who wants to can skip this flight in return for some additional compensation". If they did it the way ISPs like to, they'd instead pick fat people at near random and kick them off first (yes, strained, but close).
yes, I favor parents' rights to supervise what their kids see and do on the net.
The key word here is "their". You have every right to tell your kid what they can and cannot do in the internet. I don't think very many people would dispute that. However, you don't have any right whatsoever to tell MY kid what he can or can't see on the internet.
I'd imagine that drives with really big buffers, like the new western digital ones, will see a performance boost, especially in writing. At least as long as you keep your data nice and sequential.
You're misunderstaning his point - sure, if you hook a 200watt feed up to your soundcard, it will fry. This is because you are submitting it to an extreme physical environment outside the engineering parameters. Now, how would you feel about a digital amp that turned crashed and fried if you play a certain sequence of notes? I'd say the majority of the blame lies on the makers of the CD - they intentionally release a product that can damage your property when used in a normal fashion. Warnings that it "won't play" in a mac are insufficent. But Apple should repair these under warranty because, as the poster above says, this is a SOFTWARE glitch causing the problem. There is no excuse for a CD to be able to fry the firmware like that - if it can, it's a bug, full stop.
courts have a way of considering almost anything to be commercial when they want it to be - even the hint of the intent to make money off of it sometime in future seems to work.
On another note, there seems to be some sort of contradiction - if you're offering it for sale over the internet, then you, must be using either a credit card or an online pay service such as paypal. In either case, whoever is getting your porn therefore hase submitted to some sort of identity check.
Therefore, they will either a) not accept good faith defenses or b) prosecute sites that offer "free" porn or c) both.
I can only imagine that this is either a troll or that you totally lack any sense of reality, and, therefore, should not be playing video games.
a) As others have mentioned, it's not illegal for a minor to see R or NC-17 movies (see that 17 in in MC-17? 17 year olds are minors). It's a standard that the industry imposes upon itself.
b) Far more graphic than any move made in the past few years? I don't know what movies you've been watching, but it's obviously not the famous ones that everyone else in the world watches, like Saving Private Ryan.
c) This legislation doesn't make parents responsible. It makes store owners responsible. Now, you can argue about whether or not it's ethical for store owners to sell GTA3 to any 9 year old with a couple 20s (where did they get those 20s?), but legislation of morality is a hideous abomination that should be stomped on.
d) I don't have a problem with stores choosing to card people. I have a huge problem with them being FORCED to card people.
Flightcrank! Everyone must check out Flightcrank! Use the 50 free downloads (used to be 100, guess they're hurting a bit for money) to check out Flightcrank!
Important: They don't actually get money up front, and living expenses aren't covered - it's all a loan, and it's all taken out of their (small)share of the profits. Basically, unless you manage to impress someone at the record companies enough that they will actively promote you (and not just half-assed promote you), you WILL NOT make money by signing with a label. Period. If you DO get heavy promotion, you still have only even odds, because you end up paying for all this promotion. If it weren't for that fact that all the promotion paths are covered by the industry, artists could (theoretically) get bank loans or whatever, on much better terms, and do everything themselves, or with independent managment, but because theres such a tightly held, vertically integrated cartel, there's little or no chance for anyone.
It's not just dialup - my cable modem IP (at least one of them anyway, it's dynamic) is in the DUL list. It was a minor pain in the ass, but sending outgoing mail via my own machines is a convenience, not a neccesity.
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I suspect this has alot more to do with PG-13 ratings than it does with it being "okay" to kill someone - the most extreme scene I can think of is when Obi-Wan dismembers that giant mantis-thing. Everything else is very bloodless and clean - even the decapitation of Jango, which should have been messy and horrible even with the "clean" cuts lightsabers are supposed to make.
Soldiers kill civilians all the time. As mentioned above, it's "collateral damage". Soldiers (yes, American ones too) are notorious for raping and looting. The difference between a terrorist and a partisan is that a) partisan attacks are primarily (not totally) toward targets of military value, while terrorists primarily (not totally) attack targets of social value. b) Partisan attacks are generally part of an ongoing military campaign, whereas terrorist attacks are generally single events, with no greater context.
There is, obviously, a huge grey line. Which was the parents point.
Even that's totally untrue. Dicators get a bad rap in our education system (on reason we hate Castro so much, see above posts) but it's not neccesarily any more or less benign than any other form of centralized government.
Please give me a definition of justice as opposed to vengeance that includes "Killing people outside the views and laws of common society."
It doesn't matter if God exists or not. What matters is if, and how, you will worship him/Him/her/it/whatever. I, personally, wouldn't worship God even given 100% positive proof that he exists. The god described in the Bible and by the Christian Church isn't worth my respect, much less my love and adoration. People simply assume that if God exists, you should worship him - but I think that debating God's existence is beside the point.
That aside, you are correct that there doesn't seem to be any hacking, under any common definition of the word.
I spent 15 or 20 minutes before posting on google and didn't find even 1 reference. Got a link?
Know Thyself, yeah, but I think you're smoking the pot about To Thine Own Self Be True.
They don't sell stuff off of trucks in the city. Too crowded. Usually it's a guy with a table or some milk crates.
My cable IP address is in the DUL, and it's moderatly annoying, especially since other IPs in the same pool are not. In any case, isn't the point of the DUL to stop people from using throwaway accounts? It's not nearly as trivial to get a working cable or DSL account as it is to sign up with Yet Another Dialup Provider with Yet Another Credit Card. So what exactly is the rational for blocking these addresses?
That is because Cingular doesn't sell content. They sell access. There also is no conract with a retailer, whereas you do have one with Cingular. Althought cell agreements are almost as bad as EULAs as far as your rights go, and I wish companies would actually compete on that issue. Except that nobody actually cares and a company that does attempt to guarantee access would probably go bankrupt. *sigh*
In other news, SprintPCS has determined that overweight black women make calls that last much longer than other people, and have instituted a policy where all overweight black women cannot make calls longer than 2 minutes during peak hours. Certain blindered fuckwits on the internet applauded the decision, saying "If I used a cell phone, which I don't, I'd want these fat black women to only make short calls so circuits are free for me. They shouldn't make long calls on cell phones anyway, they should do it from thier home where it's meant to be done. Afterall, Sprint pays for it's circuits, and if fat black women are tying these up, they should be kicked off".
All you people defending cingular because you think this is about bandwidth need a fucking clue. Porn doesn't take any more bandwidth than anything else. If they don't want people clogging the networking and dragging down service, they need to implement rate caps and other measures - blocking porn won't do it. As far as I'm concerned, I am the only important Cingular customer. QOS for other customers is not my problem. Cingular is free to implement QOS controls, but content filters are NOT QOS controls, and they better make them clear up front.
Here's the difference: When an airplane overbooks a flight, they say "We fucked up and overbooked, so anyone who wants to can skip this flight in return for some additional compensation". If they did it the way ISPs like to, they'd instead pick fat people at near random and kick them off first (yes, strained, but close).
yes, I favor parents' rights to supervise what their kids see and do on the net.
The key word here is "their". You have every right to tell your kid what they can and cannot do in the internet. I don't think very many people would dispute that. However, you don't have any right whatsoever to tell MY kid what he can or can't see on the internet.I'd imagine that drives with really big buffers, like the new western digital ones, will see a performance boost, especially in writing. At least as long as you keep your data nice and sequential.
You're misunderstaning his point - sure, if you hook a 200watt feed up to your soundcard, it will fry. This is because you are submitting it to an extreme physical environment outside the engineering parameters. Now, how would you feel about a digital amp that turned crashed and fried if you play a certain sequence of notes? I'd say the majority of the blame lies on the makers of the CD - they intentionally release a product that can damage your property when used in a normal fashion. Warnings that it "won't play" in a mac are insufficent. But Apple should repair these under warranty because, as the poster above says, this is a SOFTWARE glitch causing the problem. There is no excuse for a CD to be able to fry the firmware like that - if it can, it's a bug, full stop.
"community standards" is often code for "what the judge in the case likes"
On another note, there seems to be some sort of contradiction - if you're offering it for sale over the internet, then you, must be using either a credit card or an online pay service such as paypal. In either case, whoever is getting your porn therefore hase submitted to some sort of identity check.
Therefore, they will either a) not accept good faith defenses or b) prosecute sites that offer "free" porn or c) both.
Yeah, because I have this pressurised N2 atmosphere sitting over here in my basement...
Yeah, I did that myself, but alot of places will drop your mail if you're in DUL blocks, like my cable network is.
a) As others have mentioned, it's not illegal for a minor to see R or NC-17 movies (see that 17 in in MC-17? 17 year olds are minors). It's a standard that the industry imposes upon itself.
b) Far more graphic than any move made in the past few years? I don't know what movies you've been watching, but it's obviously not the famous ones that everyone else in the world watches, like Saving Private Ryan.
c) This legislation doesn't make parents responsible. It makes store owners responsible. Now, you can argue about whether or not it's ethical for store owners to sell GTA3 to any 9 year old with a couple 20s (where did they get those 20s?), but legislation of morality is a hideous abomination that should be stomped on.
d) I don't have a problem with stores choosing to card people. I have a huge problem with them being FORCED to card people.
Flightcrank! Everyone must check out Flightcrank! Use the 50 free downloads (used to be 100, guess they're hurting a bit for money) to check out Flightcrank!
Important: They don't actually get money up front, and living expenses aren't covered - it's all a loan, and it's all taken out of their (small)share of the profits. Basically, unless you manage to impress someone at the record companies enough that they will actively promote you (and not just half-assed promote you), you WILL NOT make money by signing with a label. Period. If you DO get heavy promotion, you still have only even odds, because you end up paying for all this promotion. If it weren't for that fact that all the promotion paths are covered by the industry, artists could (theoretically) get bank loans or whatever, on much better terms, and do everything themselves, or with independent managment, but because theres such a tightly held, vertically integrated cartel, there's little or no chance for anyone.
It's not just dialup - my cable modem IP (at least one of them anyway, it's dynamic) is in the DUL list. It was a minor pain in the ass, but sending outgoing mail via my own machines is a convenience, not a neccesity.