As I just put in another post concerning the "celebration of the human form", the issue at hand is the context in which it was done. To reiterate one point, there wasn't any need for it anyway. If you can find one, please by all means tell me. Secondly, the way it was done was in a sexual manner and that is why everyone is up in arms about it. If a kid saw a breast before that it doesn't make it any more acceptable. Maybe he did grab a Playboy from an older brother or something and when seeing it on tv never thought anything of it but does that make it okay? Are you trying to say one bad thing is made acceptable by another bad thing? Using breastfeeding is a pathetic excuse since that is done while a child is still innocent and not only does he/she not realize what the breast is but obviously does not view it in a sexual manner yet. By publicly doing things like the halftime show we just tell the kids that sexualizing women is okay, especially when done in front of a nationwide audience. Watching National Geographic you can sometimes see women in the Amazon who obviously don't wear clothes and the reason it is shown is because it is in a nonsexual form. It is their natural living environment. In the US the only time people want to show a woman's body is because we want to do it in a sexual way to advertise whatever we want to sell or exhibit. It's all in the context in which it is done and the US always aims for the wrong context. What's worse is that we have younger and younger women getting involved and making younger teenage girls think it is okay to be exploited for your body by dressing with skimpy clothes and kissing other girls.
You are right about the violence in the game however the violence is in an indirect way and not meant to purposely hurt anyone and when it is on purpose we have those things called penalties don't we?
God's list of commandments are not the only rules to live by. There are another 999+ pages to the Bible that could be used to guide you in your life, not just the 30 words that make up the 10 commandments.
The point of my list wasn't to list things legal or illegal but to show just exactly what we do that is never in our best interest but we do them anyway so saying we know what's best for ourselves is a stupid thing to say because if we knew we don't care as evidence of my list.
Maybe if the US was not a bunch of prudes, things would be better. Rather being ashamed of God's Image, we should be celebrating the glory of the human form.
Man was made in God's Image. Who says we are ashamed of Him? We are not and no one said otherwise. Celebrating the human form isn't done by a white kid grabbing the breast of a black woman on network television during the biggest sports event in the US. There are better ways to celebrate the human form as to not sexualize it when we know damn well when the kids are going to be watching and aiming it directly at them to see.
It's George W's fault.
Clear Channel vice-head-honcho Tom Hicks made Dubya a rich man indeed when he bought the Texas Rangers from Bush's ownership group. That freed up Bush to run for Governor, and the rest, as they say, is history (though he was a decent governor, as they go). Short story: Hicks and Bush are buds.
So even though Hicks ponied up the cash it's Bush's fault? Keep dreaming with your convoluted cause and effect aimed at blaming people just b/c you don't like them.
No, we do not act like 12 year olds. *Some* of us act like adults and realize that not all things are considered appropriate for all audiences, like a breast popping out during a time when kids (or even whole families) are watching a football game. There is no reason to have nudity in a football game. We have premium channels for people who need to see that stuff while they are watching football. For others the game itself is sufficient.
Sorry but it isn't up to government bodies to decide what's best for us. We're quite capable of doing that ourselves.
Oh sure, that's the best joke of the year. We're doing such a *great* job of knowing what's best for us by binge drinking, having sex with strangers and contracting diseases, getting drunk and hurting our loved ones, cheating on our spouses, killing people because they stole our tv, killing people because they looked at us the wrong way, having sex and getting pregnant at age 13. The list goes on and on.
Sure, we are batting 1000. The US population as a whole doesn't care about what is best for them. The people just want to have fun and enjoy as much pleasure as they can, no matter who it might hurt or affect. Without the government there would be no laws and murder would be legal (murder of babies in the womb however is still legal for some reason). And by the way, even though they don't do it quite often enough they thankfully agree with the Christian Bible as far as what is considered right and wrong. If you don't believe in that then I guess you have a problem since the majority of the country is religious and are some denomination under Christianity.
I can't wait to get GWB outta office and be done with these Christian Right Wing lunatics. They should all be in jail.
Not every person who is religious is a lunatic. You just like calling us that because you don't like religion to begin with. Just because someone doesn't agree with YOUR view doesn't mean they are a lunatic or irrational. It means they believe in what good is left in the world and would like to keep what is left of it w/o tainting it with immoral acts like murder,stealing, raping, and sex for everyone to see (including our kids). No one calls you a lunatic just because you fight for someting you believe in. Do you call everyone a lunatic that fights for something they believe in or just the people who do it because of their religious beliefs? I say it's because it has to do with their religion and you just hate that and it gives you an easy way of striking them down. You may want to find a better reason for calling them lunatics other than just because they fight for something they believe in which happens to be different than what you believe in.
The Christians have done nothing wrong in this country, especially nothing illegal, therefore there is no reason to be put in jail. Contrary to that we have the liberals who think that getting rid of a baby just because it isn't born yet is not murder, even though it has a beating heart that is keeping it alive while in the womb. Pick on a group of people who have actually done something wrong, instead of a group of people that you just don't like because they have something they believe strongly in and will fight to keep it.
At least I can appeal to people's better judgement by saying that ClearChannel is anti-free market, but try talking reason to the crazy religious people who think a nipple is evil.
No one said it was evil. It just doesn't belong in a Super Bowl halftime show when everyone knows kids will be watching it. There are other channels where that type of content belongs..... *sarcasm*like on FX or SpikeTV or something *end sarcasm*.
Religion is simply not rational, its emotional. No offense, but thats a fact. If it was rational it could be proven and there would be no need for faith.
You mean like how some scientific and mathematical theories are so rational but they can't be proven and that's why they are called theories but we still believe they are right until they can be proven wrong? I know some people swear by evolution but, and stop me if I'm wrong, it's still just a theory.
You just consider any moral movement radical or fanatical when it doesn't agree with your own set of morals (if you even have any, I'd be surprised if you did or you wouldn't be making this an issue). Just because someone stands up for something they believe in which doesn't agree with you it doesn't mean they are a fanatic or a radical or irrational. They don't ever call you those things when you fight for something that you believe in. For you it's just an easy way to bash religion.
We really need to get remove censorship powers from the FCC and let the network censors take care of the job. I mean, we have TV ratings now and everything.
The network censors are failing at their job. The TV ratings give them a huge excuse to put anything on tv that they want so long as they warn viewers about what the content will contain. It gives them a cop out. Just like giving condoms to kids gives them an excuse to have sex. Instead of saying they shouldn't have sex we just tell them if they are going to do it make sure they are protected. That isn't how you lower teen pregnancy by condoning it but keeping them safe.
Giving the network censors free rein over what they include in their content and then letting them rate it themselves is like giving the fox the key to the hen house. And in case you haven't noticed, there are movies nowadays that are PG-13 that have the 'f' word in them. We didn't used to have that but the criteria for the ratings system for movies has been lowered and I imagine the TV ratings will also run into the same problem so pretty soon tv shows that are rated suitable for teenagers with no partial nudity will soon include partial nudity but be given the same rating because standards are lowered(by people like you saying everything is okay). At that point the ratings are useless and the networks can still keep putting in whatever content they want so long as they rate it.
Tell that to the legislators removing prayer from schools because it might "offend" those who do not have prayer or religion...neglecting the fact that those who do pray and have a religion are BEING OFFENDED. I guess being offended can only work against the minority in this country and thus they can get their way when they whine enough. This isn't mandatory prayer. Kids who pray on their own are forced to stop. Prayer is not allowed at graduation even when the STUDENTS initiate it. Where is the freedom of religion in that situation? I say throw me in jail if you must but im exercising my freedom of religon any where I want and I don't care if it offends people. I have the right to do both of those.
Please, please, please keep your religion out of our streets, office buildings, schools and government. These are common spaces which we'll have to share with you even if we don't share your religion.
Please keep your atheistic views out of our streets, office buildings, schools and government. These are common spaces which the majority have to share with you even if we don't share your minority views like lack of religion.
Otherwise you're invariably going to end up with false positives, and block perfectly legitimate sites because they contain unfortunate juxtapositions of words.
In times of war innocents (not innocence) get killed.
We gave up free speech on the Internet so that pedophiles would have to find other ways to get kiddie porn,
You gave up your rights? Since when? Until they block other sites b/c they may be "unapproved" you haven't lost anything, unless you are someone who has been or is planning to visit the kiddie porn sites in aforementioned article.
By blocking sites from those who wish to view it and therefore creating a smaller audience for pedophiles to use as a reason for molesting kids in the first place (and recording it in some fashion) you *do* give your kids freedom by lowering their chances of being molested and losing any freedom they might have had by then being scarred for life and not being able to trust another adult.
And I believe in a woman's right to choose, so maybe I should demand my ISP block anti-abortion sites?
Don't forget believing in the baby's right to live when they aren't even capable of defending themselves yet...oh wait, we don't give babies any rights any more in the US. My mistake
Free rein to kill all unborn babies has now been given. The best part is that you can get away with murder and get rid of the problem that you created when you were in the back seat of your SUV all at the same time.
It is not Microsoft's responsibility to make sure you have installed the latest patches and are exercising proper precautions.
Exactly, you don't contact Trojan when things go wrong do you? At a certain point you have to take responsibility (fat chance in the American society I know).
Integrating the desktop with the hardware is something Windows has been able to (alledgedly) do since '95, and it's about time we had that too! New users certainly need to be able to plug their digicam in and have it "just work",
That can only happen because drivers are provided by manufacturers for new products and included in Windows. For "old" products the drivers are in the OS bundle and you are fine that way. For new products the drivers come on a CD and you use that. The first problem is solved partially by people making OSS drivers and having distributions include them. The latter issue is harder to fix since we have to rely on manufacturers to make drivers for new products.
There are items now that can be just plugged in and they work but for new products we have to rely on manufacturers.
Other resources include MapInfo Streetworks (not too expensive for the level of detail) & ESRI.
Although ESRI has their own maps (the streetmaps are really just extensions to their other products but they are maps nonetheless) they actually get their data from I believe TeleAtlas (if I remember correctly). Because I know how much both the ESRI maps and the TeleAtlas maps cost I can assure you that the ESRI maps are not very feature-full compared to the maps from a company who does nothing but maps (TeleAtlas or NAVTEQ). However they may be sufficient for the original poster.
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They get their data from three companies, TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ and AND.
I believe you mean TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ, and GDT, however TeleAtlas just bought GDT,who is TeleAtlas' biggest competitor.
These maps cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and as you say, contains GBs of data (about 90 actually for the whole U.S.). These companies initially got their data from the gov't as a stepping stone for their own map database. Some companies do have people out in the field who do additional data collecting. With the GDT acquisition TeleAtlas will do the obvious thing and combine their database with the GDT database to make their's even more complete.
From what I've seen and heard, the original poster is almost asking for an impossiblity: wanting cheap/free maps that have a lot of detail in them. Such maps/project might exist however I would be surprised if the amount of detail he is looking for is contained in those cheap/free maps because of the sheer amount of work involved in collecting the data and keeping it up to date.
Take an iPOD, a Laptop with a wireless card in it, and a wireless access point to a retirement home......I'll put dollars to doughnuts you won't find a single resident who can do it. Not because they aren't capable of learning how, but because they really just don't care about that kind of thing anymore.
Or maybe it is because they can't hear anymore so what would be the point?
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It's not that accounting is odd or a black art, it's that you don't understand that every dollar has to be accounted for and properly categorized.
So Enron just had a lot of goodwill, right?
You are right about the violence in the game however the violence is in an indirect way and not meant to purposely hurt anyone and when it is on purpose we have those things called penalties don't we?
God's list of commandments are not the only rules to live by. There are another 999+ pages to the Bible that could be used to guide you in your life, not just the 30 words that make up the 10 commandments.
The point of my list wasn't to list things legal or illegal but to show just exactly what we do that is never in our best interest but we do them anyway so saying we know what's best for ourselves is a stupid thing to say because if we knew we don't care as evidence of my list.
Maybe if the US was not a bunch of prudes, things would be better. Rather being ashamed of God's Image, we should be celebrating the glory of the human form.
Man was made in God's Image. Who says we are ashamed of Him? We are not and no one said otherwise. Celebrating the human form isn't done by a white kid grabbing the breast of a black woman on network television during the biggest sports event in the US. There are better ways to celebrate the human form as to not sexualize it when we know damn well when the kids are going to be watching and aiming it directly at them to see.
It's George W's fault. Clear Channel vice-head-honcho Tom Hicks made Dubya a rich man indeed when he bought the Texas Rangers from Bush's ownership group. That freed up Bush to run for Governor, and the rest, as they say, is history (though he was a decent governor, as they go). Short story: Hicks and Bush are buds.
So even though Hicks ponied up the cash it's Bush's fault? Keep dreaming with your convoluted cause and effect aimed at blaming people just b/c you don't like them.
No, we do not act like 12 year olds. *Some* of us act like adults and realize that not all things are considered appropriate for all audiences, like a breast popping out during a time when kids (or even whole families) are watching a football game. There is no reason to have nudity in a football game. We have premium channels for people who need to see that stuff while they are watching football. For others the game itself is sufficient.
Sorry but it isn't up to government bodies to decide what's best for us. We're quite capable of doing that ourselves.
Oh sure, that's the best joke of the year. We're doing such a *great* job of knowing what's best for us by binge drinking, having sex with strangers and contracting diseases, getting drunk and hurting our loved ones, cheating on our spouses, killing people because they stole our tv, killing people because they looked at us the wrong way, having sex and getting pregnant at age 13. The list goes on and on.
Sure, we are batting 1000. The US population as a whole doesn't care about what is best for them. The people just want to have fun and enjoy as much pleasure as they can, no matter who it might hurt or affect. Without the government there would be no laws and murder would be legal (murder of babies in the womb however is still legal for some reason). And by the way, even though they don't do it quite often enough they thankfully agree with the Christian Bible as far as what is considered right and wrong. If you don't believe in that then I guess you have a problem since the majority of the country is religious and are some denomination under Christianity.
I can't wait to get GWB outta office and be done with these Christian Right Wing lunatics. They should all be in jail.
Not every person who is religious is a lunatic. You just like calling us that because you don't like religion to begin with. Just because someone doesn't agree with YOUR view doesn't mean they are a lunatic or irrational. It means they believe in what good is left in the world and would like to keep what is left of it w/o tainting it with immoral acts like murder,stealing, raping, and sex for everyone to see (including our kids). No one calls you a lunatic just because you fight for someting you believe in. Do you call everyone a lunatic that fights for something they believe in or just the people who do it because of their religious beliefs? I say it's because it has to do with their religion and you just hate that and it gives you an easy way of striking them down. You may want to find a better reason for calling them lunatics other than just because they fight for something they believe in which happens to be different than what you believe in.
The Christians have done nothing wrong in this country, especially nothing illegal, therefore there is no reason to be put in jail. Contrary to that we have the liberals who think that getting rid of a baby just because it isn't born yet is not murder, even though it has a beating heart that is keeping it alive while in the womb. Pick on a group of people who have actually done something wrong, instead of a group of people that you just don't like because they have something they believe strongly in and will fight to keep it.
At least I can appeal to people's better judgement by saying that ClearChannel is anti-free market, but try talking reason to the crazy religious people who think a nipple is evil.
No one said it was evil. It just doesn't belong in a Super Bowl halftime show when everyone knows kids will be watching it. There are other channels where that type of content belongs..... *sarcasm*like on FX or SpikeTV or something *end sarcasm*.
Religion is simply not rational, its emotional. No offense, but thats a fact. If it was rational it could be proven and there would be no need for faith.
You mean like how some scientific and mathematical theories are so rational but they can't be proven and that's why they are called theories but we still believe they are right until they can be proven wrong? I know some people swear by evolution but, and stop me if I'm wrong, it's still just a theory.
You just consider any moral movement radical or fanatical when it doesn't agree with your own set of morals (if you even have any, I'd be surprised if you did or you wouldn't be making this an issue). Just because someone stands up for something they believe in which doesn't agree with you it doesn't mean they are a fanatic or a radical or irrational. They don't ever call you those things when you fight for something that you believe in. For you it's just an easy way to bash religion.
We really need to get remove censorship powers from the FCC and let the network censors take care of the job. I mean, we have TV ratings now and everything.
The network censors are failing at their job. The TV ratings give them a huge excuse to put anything on tv that they want so long as they warn viewers about what the content will contain. It gives them a cop out. Just like giving condoms to kids gives them an excuse to have sex. Instead of saying they shouldn't have sex we just tell them if they are going to do it make sure they are protected. That isn't how you lower teen pregnancy by condoning it but keeping them safe.
Giving the network censors free rein over what they include in their content and then letting them rate it themselves is like giving the fox the key to the hen house. And in case you haven't noticed, there are movies nowadays that are PG-13 that have the 'f' word in them. We didn't used to have that but the criteria for the ratings system for movies has been lowered and I imagine the TV ratings will also run into the same problem so pretty soon tv shows that are rated suitable for teenagers with no partial nudity will soon include partial nudity but be given the same rating because standards are lowered(by people like you saying everything is okay). At that point the ratings are useless and the networks can still keep putting in whatever content they want so long as they rate it.
PNG, GIF and JPEG all have published specs.
GIFs now have licenses you need to purchase to use them as well.
It's only mandatory praying we're opposed to.
Tell that to the legislators removing prayer from schools because it might "offend" those who do not have prayer or religion...neglecting the fact that those who do pray and have a religion are BEING OFFENDED. I guess being offended can only work against the minority in this country and thus they can get their way when they whine enough. This isn't mandatory prayer. Kids who pray on their own are forced to stop. Prayer is not allowed at graduation even when the STUDENTS initiate it. Where is the freedom of religion in that situation? I say throw me in jail if you must but im exercising my freedom of religon any where I want and I don't care if it offends people. I have the right to do both of those.
That's just Bill's attempt at a hostike takeover.
Please, please, please keep your religion out of our streets, office buildings, schools and government. These are common spaces which we'll have to share with you even if we don't share your religion.
Please keep your atheistic views out of our streets, office buildings, schools and government. These are common spaces which the majority have to share with you even if we don't share your minority views like lack of religion.
Otherwise you're invariably going to end up with false positives, and block perfectly legitimate sites because they contain unfortunate juxtapositions of words.
In times of war innocents (not innocence) get killed.
Deal with it
We gave up free speech on the Internet so that pedophiles would have to find other ways to get kiddie porn,
You gave up your rights? Since when? Until they block other sites b/c they may be "unapproved" you haven't lost anything, unless you are someone who has been or is planning to visit the kiddie porn sites in aforementioned article.
By blocking sites from those who wish to view it and therefore creating a smaller audience for pedophiles to use as a reason for molesting kids in the first place (and recording it in some fashion) you *do* give your kids freedom by lowering their chances of being molested and losing any freedom they might have had by then being scarred for life and not being able to trust another adult.
And I believe in a woman's right to choose, so maybe I should demand my ISP block anti-abortion sites?
Don't forget believing in the baby's right to live when they aren't even capable of defending themselves yet...oh wait, we don't give babies any rights any more in the US. My mistake
Free rein to kill all unborn babies has now been given. The best part is that you can get away with murder and get rid of the problem that you created when you were in the back seat of your SUV all at the same time.
It is not Microsoft's responsibility to make sure you have installed the latest patches and are exercising proper precautions.
Exactly, you don't contact Trojan when things go wrong do you? At a certain point you have to take responsibility (fat chance in the American society I know).
Integrating the desktop with the hardware is something Windows has been able to (alledgedly) do since '95, and it's about time we had that too! New users certainly need to be able to plug their digicam in and have it "just work",
That can only happen because drivers are provided by manufacturers for new products and included in Windows. For "old" products the drivers are in the OS bundle and you are fine that way. For new products the drivers come on a CD and you use that. The first problem is solved partially by people making OSS drivers and having distributions include them. The latter issue is harder to fix since we have to rely on manufacturers to make drivers for new products.
There are items now that can be just plugged in and they work but for new products we have to rely on manufacturers.
but I, for one, have never had to use any hack to get an external drive to work. Just plug it in and mount it.
All right, enough with the sex talk.
Usually the xray emissions from the black hole are detected.
Other resources include MapInfo Streetworks (not too expensive for the level of detail) & ESRI.
Although ESRI has their own maps (the streetmaps are really just extensions to their other products but they are maps nonetheless) they actually get their data from I believe TeleAtlas (if I remember correctly). Because I know how much both the ESRI maps and the TeleAtlas maps cost I can assure you that the ESRI maps are not very feature-full compared to the maps from a company who does nothing but maps (TeleAtlas or NAVTEQ). However they may be sufficient for the original poster.
They get their data from three companies, TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ and AND.
I believe you mean TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ, and GDT, however TeleAtlas just bought GDT,who is TeleAtlas' biggest competitor.
These maps cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and as you say, contains GBs of data (about 90 actually for the whole U.S.). These companies initially got their data from the gov't as a stepping stone for their own map database. Some companies do have people out in the field who do additional data collecting. With the GDT acquisition TeleAtlas will do the obvious thing and combine their database with the GDT database to make their's even more complete.
From what I've seen and heard, the original poster is almost asking for an impossiblity: wanting cheap/free maps that have a lot of detail in them. Such maps/project might exist however I would be surprised if the amount of detail he is looking for is contained in those cheap/free maps because of the sheer amount of work involved in collecting the data and keeping it up to date.
A yummy bottle of Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. The sad part is that if I had killed him I would be considered the criminal.....
It's better than a nice new shiny quarter
And what do yo use to actually *delete* the files so that no one could scan the drive for leftover fragments of files for reconstruction?
Take an iPOD, a Laptop with a wireless card in it, and a wireless access point to a retirement home......I'll put dollars to doughnuts you won't find a single resident who can do it. Not because they aren't capable of learning how, but because they really just don't care about that kind of thing anymore.
Or maybe it is because they can't hear anymore so what would be the point?