That's not actually true. Sex and violence (among other things) are both restricted in the United States, with tiers of censorship. For instance, similarly to most other nations, the MPAA group gives ratings, where certain movies are not recommended for children, only allow children in with an adult, or just don't allow children. The ratings do in fact take violence into account, and (for example) PG-13 movies or lower can't show bloodshed.
Cartoonish violence and suggestive clothing are allowed on TV at any time, while graphic violence and explicit sex are not allowed on public broadcasts.
And while I strongly disagree with this verdict, "making love" isn't what those videos were about.
Good thing I don't need to kill animals for food then, imagaine how much damage that would do to the psyche as opposed to the detatchment we get from buying meat vaccuum sealed at the supermarket.
Yeah, but bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.
Figuring out the sales tax would be trivial. A small child could program that, and Amazon already calculates shipping costs based on zip codes and multiple methods of delivery. Anyway, even if collecting taxes wasn't trivial, it's still the responsibility of the business.
There's legitimate reasons to not have Internet sales tax, but the intense difficulty for Amazon to create a look-up table just isn't one of them.
Between the realities of just how poorly the transition has gone, and the rabid fan base Linux has, it would be impossible for an honest blog to not have an element of trolling to it.
Jesus Christ, you suggest to someone that something is horribly wrong with their penis and you can't believe they get offended by it? This is especially true as you seem to be very insistent and also mentally unbalanced.
I am circumcised. I enjoy sex plenty. Maybe too much. I can save time washing and caring for a foreskin, I guess. I haven't made any plans, but yeah, if I have a son I'll probably get him circumcised, why not?
Comparing Male Circumcision to Female Circumcision is ignorant of just how terrible female circumcision is.
Wha? The Roman, Persian, and English legal systems all permitted slavery and had class privileges built into their framework. There is no way to reconcile "allowed slavery" with "good degree of freedom and equality."
No...for some reason I don't quite understand, it's become standard operating procedure for Asian bootleg DVDs to have the Blue-Ray insignia on the (flattened) box. This is even true for cam recordings you find on the street. However the actual disks are DVD-5, and only DVD 5. DVD 9s (which are much less common, because they cost $1.50 instead of $.75) will usually come in plastic cases with higher-quality box art and no Blue-Ray insignias.
Blue Ray players are very difficult to find in East Asia, while those "Blue Ray" bootlegs are *everywhere*...
Of course, those in the know are just downloading off emule or youku.com anyway, why waste $.75?
The civil war was fought not over the right to own slaves, but rather for the right for states to make laws that were not explicitly federal laws.
The Southern States withdrew from the Union specifically because Lincoln was elected, and Lincoln was regarded as an antislavery candidate, being of a political party that was basically a single-issue anti-slavery party.
The Civil War started as a natural response to the Southern withdrawal. On the most basic level, Civil Wars don't start as a result of states making laws that aren't explicitly Federal, how does that even make sense?
The majority of Americans have no education or respect for human life[blah blah blah...]
How old are you, how much experience do you have living in a foreign country? Your statements are ridiculous and show a complete lack of perspective. Really, libraries are free, you have an Internet connection, it doesn't cost anything for you to educate yourself a little better, that's probably a better use of your time than long crazy posts to Slashdot...
Perhaps an author who doesn't suck? Seriously, if you've ever tried to read Mr. Doctorow's works, he's completely talentless as an author. He has fans only because the open-source-as-a-cause people like it that he's also made open source a cause.
I mean even you don't go on an on about what wonderful books he's written, but about what a wonderful license he's put the book under.
I'll file that one alongside Bill Gates saying 640K would be enough for anyone, or people eating 20 spiders every year - kind of funny, but a quick Googling indicates that it's not true - http://www.bookscape.co.uk/short_stories/computer_hoaxes.php , for one. Most interesting would be, the source for the whole story is apparently an April Fool's joke.
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind rather than the reflexes.
I just have to ask, how can you possibly think turn based strategy games work the mind?
For what it's worth, the story is pure fantasy. The large majority of cell phones in China use keyboards for entry. Once you know what you're doing, it's quicker than writing out the characters. Just like English, it has predictive writing. Really, even though I am a native English speaker, I still find it faster to SMS in Chinese than in English.
Secondly, the iPhone hasn't even been released in China, but is still a huge status symbol, and the upper-end electronics areas will prominently show iPhones for sale. When it does get released in China, it's sure to have Chinese-language writing support.
You forgot lesson 5: live a life of total paranoia, convinced that a device that lets law enforcement easily analyze computers is proof positive that a fascist government is out to get you, and that your choice in OS will be used in court to convict you and send you to jail for at least 15 years. Sell your house and build a cabin in Montana. Actually live in a cave on a hill nearby, where you can keep a watch on the cabin and make sure the Feds aren't moving in.
Do you have a digital camera? Perhaps a high-end one? Turn off all the lights in your house and try to take a recognizable photograph of a person, without a flash. It's totally impossible, unless you use a tripod and the person is posing for the photograph. There's no way a USB video-camera could stream video that does any better.
For what it's worth, Clarke wasn't the first science fiction writer to briefly outline the idea of geostationary satellites - Herman Potonik did so, much earlier. The realized version was much different than his scheme of large manned outer-space outposts. Additionally, the creators of geostationary satellites did not reference Clarke's outline, nor were they even aware of it. Clarke was merely in a position to effectively self-promote his half-similar sci-fi concepts.
The prototypical mosque will mix round domes with tall spires - so obviously (well, to any Freudian, at least) there's some mixing of the Masculine and the Feminine. And "oil" is not a concept taken from Islamic religion, just it's generally associated with Arabs.
The so-called "Irish Music" dispute concerns the portion of US copyright law that lets restaurants and shops play broadcast music without compensating the copyright holders. As previous coverage of this issue shows, Europe takes a fairly hard-line stance on these payments; a UK car repair chain was even targeted by collecting societies because its mechanics played their radios loud enough that customers could hear them.
I don't own an American restaurant, but in Slashdot's constant whining about the RIAA, one of the whines I hear is that restaurants have to pay copyright holders to play music at their radio, and how the RIAA even pays people to go to restaurants and mark down whether or not their is RIAA music being played. I know that music venues with live bands covering RIAA music are responsible. So I doubt this example is even true.
And as far as Havana Club goes - I agree the US is in the wrong, and furthermore I'm not a resident of the US and think the Havana Club 7 is about as good as rum gets. However a further issue is that in the US, the copyright was granted to the family that owned the rum, before the Cuban government nationalized the factory and the family fleed to the US. Let me repeat: it was a family business that was stolen by the government. So I think it's reasonable that the family should be able to hold on to (and eventually sell) their rights to the name - or at least, I can sympathize.
The author of he article doesn't do himself any favors with his tone, rather than an impartial reporter he comes across as a whiny teenager. I guess samzenpus is new, and already I'm rooting for him to go the way of michael and timothy.
Any video game that's remotely clever or interesting regularly fails to sell well, while any bland FPS shitfest with zero plot simply can't be put on shelves fast enough. Remember when LucasArts used to make witty adventure games with engaging plots? Remember the fantastic voice acting in Grim Fandango? Of course you don't, you're a brainless dullard who hoots and gibbers while mashing the button to skip the plot cutscene. - Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad.
I don't mean *you* specifically, of course, that's just how the quote is phrased. Still, I agree that most popular games are about conveying "pretty flashing lights and electronic beeps," and if people wanted "themes, genres, plot," et. al, they'd read a fucking book.
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That's not actually true. Sex and violence (among other things) are both restricted in the United States, with tiers of censorship. For instance, similarly to most other nations, the MPAA group gives ratings, where certain movies are not recommended for children, only allow children in with an adult, or just don't allow children. The ratings do in fact take violence into account, and (for example) PG-13 movies or lower can't show bloodshed.
Cartoonish violence and suggestive clothing are allowed on TV at any time, while graphic violence and explicit sex are not allowed on public broadcasts.
And while I strongly disagree with this verdict, "making love" isn't what those videos were about.
It gets you free hype on games.slashdot.com.
Get out while you still can. I can't imagine a worse career path.
Yeah, but bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.
There's legitimate reasons to not have Internet sales tax, but the intense difficulty for Amazon to create a look-up table just isn't one of them.
So how did Linus Torvalds pay you to post that?
Between the realities of just how poorly the transition has gone, and the rabid fan base Linux has, it would be impossible for an honest blog to not have an element of trolling to it.
I am circumcised. I enjoy sex plenty. Maybe too much. I can save time washing and caring for a foreskin, I guess. I haven't made any plans, but yeah, if I have a son I'll probably get him circumcised, why not?
Comparing Male Circumcision to Female Circumcision is ignorant of just how terrible female circumcision is.
Wha? The Roman, Persian, and English legal systems all permitted slavery and had class privileges built into their framework. There is no way to reconcile "allowed slavery" with "good degree of freedom and equality."
Blue Ray players are very difficult to find in East Asia, while those "Blue Ray" bootlegs are *everywhere*...
Of course, those in the know are just downloading off emule or youku.com anyway, why waste $.75?
The Southern States withdrew from the Union specifically because Lincoln was elected, and Lincoln was regarded as an antislavery candidate, being of a political party that was basically a single-issue anti-slavery party.
The Civil War started as a natural response to the Southern withdrawal. On the most basic level, Civil Wars don't start as a result of states making laws that aren't explicitly Federal, how does that even make sense?
The majority of Americans have no education or respect for human life[blah blah blah...]
How old are you, how much experience do you have living in a foreign country? Your statements are ridiculous and show a complete lack of perspective. Really, libraries are free, you have an Internet connection, it doesn't cost anything for you to educate yourself a little better, that's probably a better use of your time than long crazy posts to Slashdot...
I mean even you don't go on an on about what wonderful books he's written, but about what a wonderful license he's put the book under.
I'll file that one alongside Bill Gates saying 640K would be enough for anyone, or people eating 20 spiders every year - kind of funny, but a quick Googling indicates that it's not true - http://www.bookscape.co.uk/short_stories/computer_hoaxes.php , for one. Most interesting would be, the source for the whole story is apparently an April Fool's joke.
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind rather than the reflexes. I just have to ask, how can you possibly think turn based strategy games work the mind?
It's really too bad that there's no way to turn off these idle.slashdot posts.
Secondly, the iPhone hasn't even been released in China, but is still a huge status symbol, and the upper-end electronics areas will prominently show iPhones for sale. When it does get released in China, it's sure to have Chinese-language writing support.
If this was a Japanese-language message board, insisting that people use the correct Japanese words would actually make a lot of sense.
You forgot lesson 5: live a life of total paranoia, convinced that a device that lets law enforcement easily analyze computers is proof positive that a fascist government is out to get you, and that your choice in OS will be used in court to convict you and send you to jail for at least 15 years. Sell your house and build a cabin in Montana. Actually live in a cave on a hill nearby, where you can keep a watch on the cabin and make sure the Feds aren't moving in.
Do you have a digital camera? Perhaps a high-end one? Turn off all the lights in your house and try to take a recognizable photograph of a person, without a flash. It's totally impossible, unless you use a tripod and the person is posing for the photograph. There's no way a USB video-camera could stream video that does any better.
For what it's worth, Clarke wasn't the first science fiction writer to briefly outline the idea of geostationary satellites - Herman Potonik did so, much earlier. The realized version was much different than his scheme of large manned outer-space outposts. Additionally, the creators of geostationary satellites did not reference Clarke's outline, nor were they even aware of it. Clarke was merely in a position to effectively self-promote his half-similar sci-fi concepts.
I can see Comic books and open source uniting, working together to keep geeks around the world from getting laid.
The prototypical mosque will mix round domes with tall spires - so obviously (well, to any Freudian, at least) there's some mixing of the Masculine and the Feminine. And "oil" is not a concept taken from Islamic religion, just it's generally associated with Arabs.
I don't own an American restaurant, but in Slashdot's constant whining about the RIAA, one of the whines I hear is that restaurants have to pay copyright holders to play music at their radio, and how the RIAA even pays people to go to restaurants and mark down whether or not their is RIAA music being played. I know that music venues with live bands covering RIAA music are responsible. So I doubt this example is even true.
And as far as Havana Club goes - I agree the US is in the wrong, and furthermore I'm not a resident of the US and think the Havana Club 7 is about as good as rum gets. However a further issue is that in the US, the copyright was granted to the family that owned the rum, before the Cuban government nationalized the factory and the family fleed to the US. Let me repeat: it was a family business that was stolen by the government. So I think it's reasonable that the family should be able to hold on to (and eventually sell) their rights to the name - or at least, I can sympathize.
The author of he article doesn't do himself any favors with his tone, rather than an impartial reporter he comes across as a whiny teenager. I guess samzenpus is new, and already I'm rooting for him to go the way of michael and timothy.
I don't mean *you* specifically, of course, that's just how the quote is phrased. Still, I agree that most popular games are about conveying "pretty flashing lights and electronic beeps," and if people wanted "themes, genres, plot," et. al, they'd read a fucking book.
This is old news, a high-technology firm has already released one of these stereo-cameras.