And what's the reason behind this, now? The ban on child porn is, rightfully so, assumed to protect the kids that are used in the material.
If we disconnect rape from the consumption of media, which is a good idea IMO, and there is no victim in drawn childporn... what reason remains to ban it?
In light of the waterpipe analogy I wanted to say something along those lines, I just didn't know the English word for the ones delivering the water to the people.
Making ISPs police the users and the content is as if they wanted to make BMW and others responsible for all the illegal activities people commit in their cars.
How come it's so hard to differentiate between offering access and being responsible for what people do with it?
Then go make one and use that instead. What keeps you? My longbow is ready to be used at any time, but using it, even in a virtual environment, in my home is not something I particularly want to do.
Good enough by what standards? Mate, they rule the market. What more could they have wanted from a box that actually rakes in cash instead of costing the company hard $?
How many years is the Wii old now? And only now do Sony and Microsoft emerge with their own 'innovative' controller technology. How many billions of dollars is Nintendo ahead of them at this point?
Be glad. If anything, this will push Nintendo to come up with something even better. That can only be good for us gamers, right?
Grim Fandango was boring as hell, in my opinion... then again, it might have been due to the German translation... still I am and remain a faithful MI fanboy.
Oh, that's easy to answer. It's a tag. Makes it easy to spot where people have been bought to push certain agendas and fill pockets. Let me just ask you this: Do you think profit margins on old-school bulbs are a) smaller or b) larger than on more modern alternatives?
Whenever legislation is worded in such a way that it does not encourage competition to reach a certain goal, you can bet your cute fanny that the true goal of said legislation lies not in the stated goal but in the way as to get there.
That's basically why I'm for voting for politicians AFTER they've been in office. The outcome of said vote will decide how much pension the person gets for the work done. If abysmal enough, I'm all for incarceration.
WHO defines what is wrong, then? Obviously its not us as we've ALL decided it's okay to do (that hypothetical thing in this hypothetical scenario). And I highly doubt that any of the desert gods thought of putting things like filesharing into their holy books.
You are taking our way of looking at possession and putting it on the 'this is right'-throne. What about people who believe in sharing everything? How do you know your view on things is better than theirs?
Your argument does not survive without an absolute moral, which in turn does not survive without an absolute and infallible entity. We have no proof of such a thing existing, so in all honesty, I believe your point is moot.
You seem to be under the impression that law enforcement agents are infallible and not susceptible to your average human's woes.
Of course we need law enforcement. Please point out to me who said we didn't. The problem lies in the mechanics that are supposed to make sure that nobody the police is supposed to 'catch' manages to actually become a member of the police.
In my opinion, management, be it of a corporation, a state or law enforcement, is more often than not corrupt. Such laws give these people more power over the people making law enforcement just another tool for the criminals to use.
THIS is the real danger of a police state. They are using our best weapon against us. THIS is what we must be sure to never allow.
The RIAA is a good example of how this whole thing is going wrong. Remember, all our laws are built upon a set of morals. We say it is wrong to kill. Therefore, manslaughter, murder and the like are covered by our laws. Yet quite a few 'modern' societies think its okay to have a death penalty.
In RIAA's case they argue that copying their products and making them available for free is theft. Many people might agree with that sentiment at first glance. Without wanting to get into semantics, the real problem her elies in the fact that an estimated 20% or more of our nations' populations participate in breaking this law.
The question now is thus: Morals are what we feel is right or wrong to do unto each other in our society. 20% or more of us feel its their right to download entertainment content. At what point will moral conform to public opinion? Is something wrong when 100% of the people do it? Is it wrong when 50% do it? 49%? When?
The whole system is fucked up. The system is being abused. That's just a hard fact. We are not against the system, we are against the abuse.
Either you people have crazy hardware prices, or you and me really have very different ideas about skimping... 40 bucks for a PSU is cheap-ass, second grade, fell-off-a-truck stuff in my book.
But I agree. This problem does have only one solution. Gaming costs money, but in case of a PC you at least have a choice about exactly how expensive you want it to get.
Nobody would think to ask how to have two people game a single player game on a XBox 360 either, right? Neither should one try with a PC.
Switzerland probably has full automatic rifles in more than 50% of all households. Of course politians don't like that fact very much and are working hard towards changing this.
That's okay. I do, though, so I don't see how it becomes your business whether _I_ carry a gun. Since you, hopefully, are not planning to be a robber/mugger, you don't have anything to fear. Right?
Perhaps it's just me, but I think special effects have gotten worse, not more impressive, over time.
A good example would be the scene where Wolverine is playing with his new adamantium claws in front of a mirror in the latest X-Men movie. You can't miss the fact that they have been added to the movie with a computer.
What gives? In the first movie, I believe, they used props. They looked real enough.
What about the first Hulk movie? I haven't seen the movie, I'll admit. But from the trailer it was obvious the CGI did not fit into the movie at all. Remember Jurassic Park? How fricking old is that movie? How can it be that it looked more realistic than newer movies?
Is this just a matter of using the computer too much? Is it a lack of care or skill? I don't know. I just know that these things didn't jump at me, figuratively speaking, so much five to ten years ago...
I'm running this baby in eSATA mode as a system disk for my mediaserver (windows xp).
What I can say is that it is doing quite nicely. Sometimes I do get application lag (writes to small files, perhaps?) but overall performance is quite good.
I've had to reboot this machine once due to strange behaviour but since then it's been running non-stop. I think actual uptime is more than a month at this point. Perhaps several, even.
If they could get random writes up to par I'd really think about putting one of these in my work machine. Geek factor, you understand;).
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And what's the reason behind this, now? The ban on child porn is, rightfully so, assumed to protect the kids that are used in the material.
If we disconnect rape from the consumption of media, which is a good idea IMO, and there is no victim in drawn childporn... what reason remains to ban it?
In light of the waterpipe analogy I wanted to say something along those lines, I just didn't know the English word for the ones delivering the water to the people.
Making ISPs police the users and the content is as if they wanted to make BMW and others responsible for all the illegal activities people commit in their cars.
How come it's so hard to differentiate between offering access and being responsible for what people do with it?
Then go make one and use that instead. What keeps you? My longbow is ready to be used at any time, but using it, even in a virtual environment, in my home is not something I particularly want to do.
Good enough by what standards? Mate, they rule the market. What more could they have wanted from a box that actually rakes in cash instead of costing the company hard $?
How many years is the Wii old now? And only now do Sony and Microsoft emerge with their own 'innovative' controller technology. How many billions of dollars is Nintendo ahead of them at this point?
Be glad. If anything, this will push Nintendo to come up with something even better. That can only be good for us gamers, right?
Insightful beyond his years, that Mr. Threepwood...
Grim Fandango was boring as hell, in my opinion... then again, it might have been due to the German translation... still I am and remain a faithful MI fanboy.
The new episodes didn't look fun either. But I agree, the remake will get my money. This is one thing I am certainly not going to 'pirate' ;).
Oh, that's easy to answer. It's a tag. Makes it easy to spot where people have been bought to push certain agendas and fill pockets. Let me just ask you this: Do you think profit margins on old-school bulbs are a) smaller or b) larger than on more modern alternatives?
Whenever legislation is worded in such a way that it does not encourage competition to reach a certain goal, you can bet your cute fanny that the true goal of said legislation lies not in the stated goal but in the way as to get there.
That's basically why I'm for voting for politicians AFTER they've been in office. The outcome of said vote will decide how much pension the person gets for the work done. If abysmal enough, I'm all for incarceration.
And what kind of breakthrough would you expect from throwing money at a dead man? Or was that the implied joke?
Oh really?
WHO defines what is wrong, then? Obviously its not us as we've ALL decided it's okay to do (that hypothetical thing in this hypothetical scenario). And I highly doubt that any of the desert gods thought of putting things like filesharing into their holy books.
You are taking our way of looking at possession and putting it on the 'this is right'-throne. What about people who believe in sharing everything? How do you know your view on things is better than theirs?
Your argument does not survive without an absolute moral, which in turn does not survive without an absolute and infallible entity. We have no proof of such a thing existing, so in all honesty, I believe your point is moot.
You seem to be under the impression that law enforcement agents are infallible and not susceptible to your average human's woes.
Of course we need law enforcement. Please point out to me who said we didn't. The problem lies in the mechanics that are supposed to make sure that nobody the police is supposed to 'catch' manages to actually become a member of the police.
In my opinion, management, be it of a corporation, a state or law enforcement, is more often than not corrupt. Such laws give these people more power over the people making law enforcement just another tool for the criminals to use.
THIS is the real danger of a police state. They are using our best weapon against us. THIS is what we must be sure to never allow.
The RIAA is a good example of how this whole thing is going wrong. Remember, all our laws are built upon a set of morals. We say it is wrong to kill. Therefore, manslaughter, murder and the like are covered by our laws. Yet quite a few 'modern' societies think its okay to have a death penalty.
In RIAA's case they argue that copying their products and making them available for free is theft. Many people might agree with that sentiment at first glance. Without wanting to get into semantics, the real problem her elies in the fact that an estimated 20% or more of our nations' populations participate in breaking this law.
The question now is thus: Morals are what we feel is right or wrong to do unto each other in our society. 20% or more of us feel its their right to download entertainment content. At what point will moral conform to public opinion? Is something wrong when 100% of the people do it? Is it wrong when 50% do it? 49%? When?
The whole system is fucked up. The system is being abused. That's just a hard fact. We are not against the system, we are against the abuse.
I AM running Windows 7 on a Core 2 machine (1.8 GHz-ish) with 2 gigs of RAM. So far, everything works surprisingly well.
Perhaps I am missing something, but Civ III just MUST be older than the parent's 4-5 year spectrum.
But communism DIDN'T work. And in a few years we'll realize that democracy doesn't work either.
*points* there's the exit, please hand in your geek membership card and the free t-shirt before you leave.
Either you people have crazy hardware prices, or you and me really have very different ideas about skimping... 40 bucks for a PSU is cheap-ass, second grade, fell-off-a-truck stuff in my book.
But I agree. This problem does have only one solution. Gaming costs money, but in case of a PC you at least have a choice about exactly how expensive you want it to get.
Nobody would think to ask how to have two people game a single player game on a XBox 360 either, right? Neither should one try with a PC.
Heck, if a superior white male applicant between 25 and 35 gets hired over anything that doesn't fit that description, some people call foul already.
That is not only racist but also sexist and a whole damn lot of other '-ist's as well. Somehow, nobody gives a damn about it.
So what IS good DSL hardware, then? I've had the problem with both privately acquired hardware and trhe standard router issued by my provider.
Switzerland probably has full automatic rifles in more than 50% of all households. Of course politians don't like that fact very much and are working hard towards changing this.
That's okay. I do, though, so I don't see how it becomes your business whether _I_ carry a gun. Since you, hopefully, are not planning to be a robber/mugger, you don't have anything to fear. Right?
Perhaps it's just me, but I think special effects have gotten worse, not more impressive, over time.
A good example would be the scene where Wolverine is playing with his new adamantium claws in front of a mirror in the latest X-Men movie. You can't miss the fact that they have been added to the movie with a computer.
What gives? In the first movie, I believe, they used props. They looked real enough.
What about the first Hulk movie? I haven't seen the movie, I'll admit. But from the trailer it was obvious the CGI did not fit into the movie at all. Remember Jurassic Park? How fricking old is that movie? How can it be that it looked more realistic than newer movies?
Is this just a matter of using the computer too much? Is it a lack of care or skill? I don't know. I just know that these things didn't jump at me, figuratively speaking, so much five to ten years ago...
So... what about all those people who have been found guilty after being tested with those devices? What happens to them?
Of course not, the pagefile resides on the storage array (if you dare call it that), which consists of good old magnetic SATA disks.
I'm running this baby in eSATA mode as a system disk for my mediaserver (windows xp).
What I can say is that it is doing quite nicely. Sometimes I do get application lag (writes to small files, perhaps?) but overall performance is quite good.
I've had to reboot this machine once due to strange behaviour but since then it's been running non-stop. I think actual uptime is more than a month at this point. Perhaps several, even.
If they could get random writes up to par I'd really think about putting one of these in my work machine. Geek factor, you understand ;).