Ok, and how is being locked in a cage for the rest of your life with Bubba ass-raping you better than being painlessly executed with a lethal injection?
Ever watched soccer in England? Ever seen them riot and burn stuff? Think alcohol might have been involved?
Of course alcohol was involved. So was soccer. Ban soccer and the problem will go away.
Seriously though, the issue here is not English soccer hooligans, which typically would be legal drinking age in the US. The issue is teenagers who drink primarily to rebel. If it isn't rebelling anymore, they're not going to do it.
By the way, rebellion is rarely a motive for murder. I've never heard of someone who murdered somebody to rebel. There have been cases where the murderer killed for sport... these are the most disturbing I've ever heard of, IMO. Still, the illegality of murder was not the motive.
BAH! I'm in high school and I had a lab three months ago in which the class synthesized bacteria resistant both to penicillin and ampicillin! I shit you not!
And you might have spent a couple weeks... my class finished in about two days. After maybe three days learning the prerequisite genetics.
I have doubts that we were really making resistant bacteria, though - who in their right mind would let teenagers make biological weapons? Especially after the Anthrax scare and Columbine...
If you live in the United States, it is your money... tax money of course.
And it's still easy to say, because the government is notorious for throwing ridiculous amounts of money at truly stupid things. IIRC, the government even lost 2 billion dollars. I don't mean their stocks went down or anything. It disappeared. (In retrospect, I guess having the government say that $2 billion disappeared is better than it saying that $2 billion spontaneously appeared, but the point remains.)
Given a choice between simply losing $2 billion, and spending $7 million on a game that I hear is pretty good, I'll take the game any day.
If women are not getting a chance to catch up with men, perhaps we should tone down the outrageously anti-male theme of most humor these days. Did any commercial writer ever stop to think that maybe guys wouldn't appreciate all the "guys are idiots" jokes, and thus acquire a covert hostility towards women?
And don't even tell me there needs to be a chance to create something for kids. There's an entire media conglomerate devoted to the subject named Disney, with four cable TV channels (or was it five?) and a devastatingly efficient crap machine which cranks out three movies that can ONLY be enjoyed by kids a year.
In addition, there are two excuses for any nefarious act the government plans: terrorism and children. ("For the children" being more commonly used for censorship purposes.)
While I dislike FX, I applaud it as the first true Decadent-Filth-Only channel.
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Porn takes away all the pleasure of making love, so I think Google probably should censor pornography as well. It has just as bad an effect on one's life as tobacco and firearms do.
My wife is a pornography addict, always buying a new DVD when we travel and she sees a new shop of adult toys. We don't really make love anymore, it's just sex. There's no tenderness and everything is over so fast that I feel used.
If any of the developers of The Sims are reading this, I have a recommendation.
Let players give their Sims signs.
That way, the people who want to really protest things, can... and I tell you, I'd buy the game just to march around with a sign saying "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."
Yes, All Your Base jokes are overdone, but marching around, chanting, "ALL YOUR BASE! ARE BELONG TO US!" Imagine the possibilities for annoying the shit out of your online buddies!
In all honesty, I've never heard of an actual person who got raped in jail - at all.
Besides, even if there really are that many prison ass-rapers out there, do you think they'd stop ass-raping just because nobody laughed at them for it? Personally, if I do something that I take seriously, and people crack jokes about it, I either get pissed off or stop doing it (depending on the muscle mass of the people cracking jokes).
And, finally, if you don't like what someone has to say, don't fucking listen.
And it's not like I really wanted good karma anyway.
Current technology does not offer a solution to this problem.
Here's why - and remember, IANAL: - Filters don't cut it. The only way - I can think of, anyway - to block actual pr0n (and nothing else) would be a list of pr0n sites to block. Unfortunately, there is far, far too much content that would have to be sifted through to find these sites, and (as has been stated before) pornography is an abstract concept. - Librarians, like all humans, are easily distracted. Even if all the computers are visible from the front desk, normal librarian activities - not to mention diversions from determined porn-hunters - will distract the librarian's attention. (And remember, whoever provides the diversion: Give your pr0n-hunting buddy a floppy disk to save the pics on, so you can see 'em later!) - Kids are smarter than you'd expect. After all, they've gotten away with pr0n at home, and most parents are more zealous at restricting pr0n-viewing than librarians. There's a lot of ways to get past filters, and there are a lot of perfectly clean websites - by nearly anyone's standards - that list those ways. (And remember, pr0n-hunters: Open two windows, one with boring research type stuff, and the other with pr0n, and alt+tab whenever the librarian moves!) - Finally, the government shouldn't be screwing around with local libraries anyway, which I'm told it's not allowed to do. The local population should be telling their libraries what to do. - Besides, who goes to the library to look up pr0n anyway? Even immature teenage boys don't do it anymore - after all, what happens if they get caught?
Whenever I'm talking with some gamers, and I bring up Rare, the general consensus is that Rare is some kind of development god. I disagree.
Rare's greatest achievement (in my opinion) was GoldenEye. GoldenEye is basically the best N64 game of all time. (The only thing keeping GoldenEye from perfection was the lack of multiplayer bots.) People will try to tell me that Perfect Dark is better than GoldenEye, but the graphics were worse, and the gameplay was like GoldenEye's, but just different enough to annoy me and make me want to go play GoldenEye again.
I liked Blast Corps and Star Fox 64, but GoldenEye is the crown jewel. Why is MS off its rocker, you ask? Because the team at Rare that was responsible for GoldenEye broke off and became Free Radical, who made TimeSplitters (and now TimeSplitters 2). TimeSplitters is, gameplay-wise, GoldenEye with bots and a level editor. Sadly for MS, TimeSplitters was released on PS2 as well, and TimeSplitters 2 is coming out for GameCube.
All the millions Microsoft paid are basically buying Perfect Dark 2, which is more or less the code for Perfect Dark with a few additions. Rare also has its undeserved reputation as a great development house.
Too bad MS wanted Rare's "legacy" all to itself, and paid $375,000,000 for it - and the true heir of GoldenEye is coming out for all three big consoles.
The point? Microsoft just doesn't care about the XBox. Its controller sucks, its games are subpar, and now MS is shelling out monstrous amounts of cash - that could have been paid to put another bug in Windows, mind you! - to acquire a paperweight of a development house.
I don't care about the law, the First Amendment, artist's rights, or any of that!
After seeing so many classmates waste their childhoods under overprotective parents, I'm sick and tired of them, and I want to whack them all over the head with a clue-stick! I mean, who'd want to watch Eyes Wide Shut with all the sex scenes cut out anyway? It'd be, what, a half-hour long, and damn boring!
"I'm sorry, our daughter isn't allowed to date. She's too young..." Eat this! (WHACK!)
Instead of trying to go for the UT-type play, why not work with Capcom on a Resident Evil kind of game? Since Capcom's busily catching the Gamecube up to the PS2 for RE, I'm sure they'd be happy to do a game for PS2.
Zerg can be freakier than zombies (maybe I read the manual wrong, but don't Hydralisks open their chests and shoot spikes out of their ribs?), and the Protoss aren't exactly cuddly, either.
And whenever Blizzard chooses to make StarCraft II, they'll have to do it right - almost every RTS these days is compared to either Age of Empires II, or StarCraft. In fact, I feel sorry for Blizzard, because StarCraft II will probably have to be perfect to live up to most gamers' expectations.
That's odd, all the P2P clients I've ever used told me the quality in number of hosts. Most P2P users don't intentionally host crap.
"the download times are optimised," And P2P clients also tell you the connection speed of a host. To optimize the download time, get the file from that guy with the T1.
"What's the business model of Kazaa or Morpheus? How will they make money to support being around long term if the idea is to steal it and give it away for free?"
The business model is to take cash from spyware vendors in exchange for sneaking their spyware into the client. Of course, for an open-source client like Gnucleus, the point is to make music available, not to make money, which renders his argument moot.
And that is why P2P will outlast paid music: As long as there's open-source authors who want a P2P
client, they will get it.
It'd have to be pretty big to show much data, and you'd have to write some specialized software for it.
It's most useful application would be monitoring the system; anything beyond that looks like a convenience issue.
What's a.sig?
Hey. Anti-anime freak. People use S-VHS who are not in the know, and they are talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch TV again, or some other American production that employs even more tired racial stereotypes?
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Ok, and how is being locked in a cage for the rest of your life with Bubba ass-raping you better than being painlessly executed with a lethal injection?
In some cases, that's the point.
Filth?!
Are you implying that the human body, a work of God, is Filth?! God created that beautiful thing known as the female body! And you call it Filth!
I will not tolerate this blasphemy!
Ever watched soccer in England? Ever seen them riot and burn stuff? Think alcohol might have been involved?
Of course alcohol was involved. So was soccer. Ban soccer and the problem will go away.
Seriously though, the issue here is not English soccer hooligans, which typically would be legal drinking age in the US. The issue is teenagers who drink primarily to rebel. If it isn't rebelling anymore, they're not going to do it.
By the way, rebellion is rarely a motive for murder. I've never heard of someone who murdered somebody to rebel. There have been cases where the murderer killed for sport... these are the most disturbing I've ever heard of, IMO. Still, the illegality of murder was not the motive.
Aside from the various problems people have listed, there is one big advantage: the cold void is probably a great heatsink.
You study(ied) in college? You fool!
There are more important things to do in college... like girls!
Only if AOL makes the CD-RWs themselves, they have to come from somewhere, don't they?
BAH! I'm in high school and I had a lab three months ago in which the class synthesized bacteria resistant both to penicillin and ampicillin! I shit you not!
And you might have spent a couple weeks... my class finished in about two days. After maybe three days learning the prerequisite genetics.
I have doubts that we were really making resistant bacteria, though - who in their right mind would let teenagers make biological weapons? Especially after the Anthrax scare and Columbine...
If you live in the United States, it is your money... tax money of course.
And it's still easy to say, because the government is notorious for throwing ridiculous amounts of money at truly stupid things. IIRC, the government even lost 2 billion dollars. I don't mean their stocks went down or anything. It disappeared. (In retrospect, I guess having the government say that $2 billion disappeared is better than it saying that $2 billion spontaneously appeared, but the point remains.)
Given a choice between simply losing $2 billion, and spending $7 million on a game that I hear is pretty good, I'll take the game any day.
If women are not getting a chance to catch up with men, perhaps we should tone down the outrageously anti-male theme of most humor these days. Did any commercial writer ever stop to think that maybe guys wouldn't appreciate all the "guys are idiots" jokes, and thus acquire a covert hostility towards women?
And don't even tell me there needs to be a chance to create something for kids. There's an entire media conglomerate devoted to the subject named Disney, with four cable TV channels (or was it five?) and a devastatingly efficient crap machine which cranks out three movies that can ONLY be enjoyed by kids a year.
In addition, there are two excuses for any nefarious act the government plans: terrorism and children. ("For the children" being more commonly used for censorship purposes.)
While I dislike FX, I applaud it as the first true Decadent-Filth-Only channel.
Porn takes away all the pleasure of making love, so I think Google probably should censor pornography as well. It has just as bad an effect on one's life as tobacco and firearms do.
My wife is a pornography addict, always buying a new DVD when we travel and she sees a new shop of adult toys. We don't really make love anymore, it's just sex. There's no tenderness and everything is over so fast that I feel used.
Are you being sarcastic?
If any of the developers of The Sims are reading this, I have a recommendation.
Let players give their Sims signs.
That way, the people who want to really protest things, can... and I tell you, I'd buy the game just to march around with a sign saying "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." Yes, All Your Base jokes are overdone, but marching around, chanting, "ALL YOUR BASE! ARE BELONG TO US!" Imagine the possibilities for annoying the shit out of your online buddies!
In all honesty, I've never heard of an actual person who got raped in jail - at all.
Besides, even if there really are that many prison ass-rapers out there, do you think they'd stop ass-raping just because nobody laughed at them for it? Personally, if I do something that I take seriously, and people crack jokes about it, I either get pissed off or stop doing it (depending on the muscle mass of the people cracking jokes).
And, finally, if you don't like what someone has to say, don't fucking listen.
And it's not like I really wanted good karma anyway.
Current technology does not offer a solution to this problem.
Here's why - and remember, IANAL:
- Filters don't cut it. The only way - I can think of, anyway - to block actual pr0n (and nothing else) would be a list of pr0n sites to block. Unfortunately, there is far, far too much content that would have to be sifted through to find these sites, and (as has been stated before) pornography is an abstract concept.
- Librarians, like all humans, are easily distracted. Even if all the computers are visible from the front desk, normal librarian activities - not to mention diversions from determined porn-hunters - will distract the librarian's attention.
(And remember, whoever provides the diversion: Give your pr0n-hunting buddy a floppy disk to save the pics on, so you can see 'em later!)
- Kids are smarter than you'd expect. After all, they've gotten away with pr0n at home, and most parents are more zealous at restricting pr0n-viewing than librarians. There's a lot of ways to get past filters, and there are a lot of perfectly clean websites - by nearly anyone's standards - that list those ways.
(And remember, pr0n-hunters: Open two windows, one with boring research type stuff, and the other with pr0n, and alt+tab whenever the librarian moves!)
- Finally, the government shouldn't be screwing around with local libraries anyway, which I'm told it's not allowed to do. The local population should be telling their libraries what to do.
- Besides, who goes to the library to look up pr0n anyway? Even immature teenage boys don't do it anymore - after all, what happens if they get caught?
Whenever I'm talking with some gamers, and I bring up Rare, the general consensus is that Rare is some kind of development god. I disagree.
Rare's greatest achievement (in my opinion) was GoldenEye. GoldenEye is basically the best N64 game of all time. (The only thing keeping GoldenEye from perfection was the lack of multiplayer bots.) People will try to tell me that Perfect Dark is better than GoldenEye, but the graphics were worse, and the gameplay was like GoldenEye's, but just different enough to annoy me and make me want to go play GoldenEye again.
I liked Blast Corps and Star Fox 64, but GoldenEye is the crown jewel. Why is MS off its rocker, you ask? Because the team at Rare that was responsible for GoldenEye broke off and became Free Radical, who made TimeSplitters (and now TimeSplitters 2). TimeSplitters is, gameplay-wise, GoldenEye with bots and a level editor. Sadly for MS, TimeSplitters was released on PS2 as well, and TimeSplitters 2 is coming out for GameCube.
All the millions Microsoft paid are basically buying Perfect Dark 2, which is more or less the code for Perfect Dark with a few additions. Rare also has its undeserved reputation as a great development house.
Too bad MS wanted Rare's "legacy" all to itself, and paid $375,000,000 for it - and the true heir of GoldenEye is coming out for all three big consoles.
The point? Microsoft just doesn't care about the XBox. Its controller sucks, its games are subpar, and now MS is shelling out monstrous amounts of cash - that could have been paid to put another bug in Windows, mind you! - to acquire a paperweight of a development house.
Yippee.
I don't care about the law, the First Amendment, artist's rights, or any of that!
After seeing so many classmates waste their childhoods under overprotective parents, I'm sick and tired of them, and I want to whack them all over the head with a clue-stick! I mean, who'd want to watch Eyes Wide Shut with all the sex scenes cut out anyway? It'd be, what, a half-hour long, and damn boring!
"I'm sorry, our daughter isn't allowed to date. She's too young..."
Eat this! (WHACK!)
Instead of trying to go for the UT-type play, why not work with Capcom on a Resident Evil kind of game? Since Capcom's busily catching the Gamecube up to the PS2 for RE, I'm sure they'd be happy to do a game for PS2.
Zerg can be freakier than zombies (maybe I read the manual wrong, but don't Hydralisks open their chests and shoot spikes out of their ribs?), and the Protoss aren't exactly cuddly, either.
And whenever Blizzard chooses to make StarCraft II, they'll have to do it right - almost every RTS these days is compared to either Age of Empires II, or StarCraft. In fact, I feel sorry for Blizzard, because StarCraft II will probably have to be perfect to live up to most gamers' expectations.
This guy obviously doesn't know his enemy.
"the file quality is guaranteed,"
That's odd, all the P2P clients I've ever used told me the quality in number of hosts. Most P2P users don't intentionally host crap.
"the download times are optimised,"
And P2P clients also tell you the connection speed of a host. To optimize the download time, get the file from that guy with the T1.
"What's the business model of Kazaa or Morpheus? How will they make money to support being around long term if the idea is to steal it and give it away for free?"
The business model is to take cash from spyware vendors in exchange for sneaking their spyware into the client.
Of course, for an open-source client like Gnucleus, the point is to make music available, not to make money, which renders his argument moot.
And that is why P2P will outlast paid music: As long as there's open-source authors who want a P2P client, they will get it.
Sure, the government has information on us all. For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has your Social Security number?
Plus, when I tried to leave the site, it hit me with a popup. (I'd forgotten to turn my filter back on.) Stupid.
I'm inclined to dislike anything with "Popular" in the title. News for Me. Stuff that matters.
Then again, a stockbroker might find it handy too.
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It'd have to be pretty big to show much data, and you'd have to write some specialized software for it. It's most useful application would be monitoring the system; anything beyond that looks like a convenience issue. What's a .sig?
Hey. Anti-anime freak. People use S-VHS who are not in the know, and they are talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch TV again, or some other American production that employs even more tired racial stereotypes?
Typically, jocks don't get sore at the school and throw bombs at the office from the basketball hoops.
This translates into geeks hacking into the school server from the computer lab.
Why bother? Install anything and say that it's a filter! Most parents will fall for it hook, line and sinker!
And that's the fact, Jack! -Catnapster