Decriminalization keeps the product illegal, but removes all criminal punishment for possessing and using the substance, with the exception of possession with intent to sell, and other such trafficking charges.
Legalization allows companies to make it into a sellable product.
The government can't regulate decriminalized pot, because it is still illegal.
Games are getting larger: Textures, maps, skins, models, animations, physics, everything. They are growing bigger and bigger, and expect them to only accelerate in size. If you want a game to look better and have more feature, you can expect it to take more room on your hard disk.
What planet do you come from? Its been a very long time since you've been in elementary school, hasn't it? Violence is a natural thing in children, adults, old people, animals, and motile plants!
I asked you to do one thing. I asked you three times to do it. And still you didn't.
One the one hand, we have personal responsibility, and on the other we have media that closesly resembles military style conditioning.
There is some required reading on the subject.
Please, read the above before you respond.
No, read it, fucker.
So, given that violence is not not a natural thing in children, or other age groups for that matter, there has to be something that is causing our society to so degrade. It's not all gaming, it includes family breakdown, news media, Cops, Schwarzenegger, gun proliferation, etcetera.
It's also interesting to look at the drop in instances of post traumatic stress disorder between the world wars, where there was no conditioning to make soldiers kill easier, and vietnam, where we were 6 times better at it through the training. I don't have the numbers off hand right now, and I remember it was a pian to google them up, but there is a huge drop, which would seem to suggest that not only does the training these soldiers recieve make them more able to shoot people (by turning it from action to reaction), but it makes them more able to just pass it off as something normal. That, in my mind, is a great horror.
And what relevance does that have to games? Look at how soldiers were trained for Vietnam. Instead of shooting at targets, they waited in anticipation for the target to pop up, then they shot it. It conditioned them to react immediately, taught them that there was no time to think, no time to do anything but aim and shoot and kill. How is it different than GTA or any first person shooter?
I'm not saying that people are absolved from their responsibilities, but looking at that responsibility and the conditioning recieved... they are not mutually exclusive. Both an be at fault, and I think both are.
There are lots of appropriately modded posts on why this is such a stupid idea: Laziness, noise, smell, etcetera.
I have another reason.
The best part of surfing is... the surfer chicks. At least, it is in Tofino. All those beautiful hippy babes, in skin tight wetsuits, walking barefoot across the sand on a cloudy day, with the smell of the ocean and the roar of the surf as a great background.
Now compare that with how it will be if these things ever take off:
All those chubby women, in roll-tight wetsuits, leaving 8 inch deep craters in the sand as they stumble to the water, with the smell of sweat and Macdonalds and exhaust and the high pitch whine of a two stroke engine in the background.
If I see these on the beach, I will kick someone's teeth out.
Not that I ever used it, and not that I know a single person who does, but if I did use it, I would stop, which would cause people who use Yahoo IM to switch to whatever I use in order to maintain contact with me.
The first option, electroejaculation, uses a priapic rectal probe to send electricity pulsing through the animal's nether regions. "All the normal excitatory signals that stimulate ejaculation, like touch, sight, sound and smell, can be replaced with the current from the probe," says Trish Berger, professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis. "It's fascinating. Of course, this is a woman talking."
Porn and lube is so yesterday! Time for electroejactulation and opiates!
This sentence isn't too short. Incarceration simply does not work. I am not aware of the rehabilitation programs in Australia, nor the general crime situation.
But I can tell you how horrible of a mistake the "tough on crime" initiative in the US has been. It was founded on the studies of just one man (the name eludes me, I'm sure you could look it up if the topic interests you). That was in the early 1970's, and it sounded good to certain people, so longer sentences were instituted. They've been in place ever since, and since then the perecentage of Americans in the jail system has more then doubled (tripled?), and the crime rate, especially violent crimes, has been skyrocketing - very often from past inmates. Recidivism is far higher now than it was before Tough On Crime.
What's more amusing is that one guy who was so actively supporting the move to this, in just a few years had a complete turnaround, denounced the Tough On Crime initiative, but no one listened.
Summary: Long sentences do not work. The only effective way to "fix" someone is long, mandatory rehabilitation programs. Simply sticking somone in jail for a lot of years does nothing but make them dependent on the crime system.
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Decriminalization keeps the product illegal, but removes all criminal punishment for possessing and using the substance, with the exception of possession with intent to sell, and other such trafficking charges.
Legalization allows companies to make it into a sellable product.
The government can't regulate decriminalized pot, because it is still illegal.
Grishnakh! Haven't seen you on EGT in a while.
Drop by the new forum Viracocha and two other guys set up: Consr.us
You didn't answer his question. What makes your country so great to live in?
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This is way worse than that pussy hurricane.
No, there isn't more efficient ways.
Games are getting larger: Textures, maps, skins, models, animations, physics, everything. They are growing bigger and bigger, and expect them to only accelerate in size. If you want a game to look better and have more feature, you can expect it to take more room on your hard disk.
For allowing the use of cellphones, FM and AM radio, wireless telephones and hey! How about power lines, too?
Additionally, let this serve as a wake-up call to us, that manned space exploration is a common goal and desire that we all share
That or the weaponization of space is a goal all countries share.
What planet do you come from? Its been a very long time since you've been in elementary school, hasn't it? Violence is a natural thing in children, adults, old people, animals, and motile plants!
I asked you to do one thing. I asked you three times to do it. And still you didn't.
READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.
But if it didn't mention that bars face immense fines (thousands of dollars) for giving alcohol to minors, then it should have.
That is the justification for swiping licenses. Tracking is very overboard, though.
Damn, forgot the article. Me smart.
One the one hand, we have personal responsibility, and on the other we have media that closesly resembles military style conditioning.
There is some required reading on the subject.
Please, read the above before you respond.
No, read it, fucker.
So, given that violence is not not a natural thing in children, or other age groups for that matter, there has to be something that is causing our society to so degrade. It's not all gaming, it includes family breakdown, news media, Cops, Schwarzenegger, gun proliferation, etcetera.
It's also interesting to look at the drop in instances of post traumatic stress disorder between the world wars, where there was no conditioning to make soldiers kill easier, and vietnam, where we were 6 times better at it through the training. I don't have the numbers off hand right now, and I remember it was a pian to google them up, but there is a huge drop, which would seem to suggest that not only does the training these soldiers recieve make them more able to shoot people (by turning it from action to reaction), but it makes them more able to just pass it off as something normal. That, in my mind, is a great horror.
And what relevance does that have to games? Look at how soldiers were trained for Vietnam. Instead of shooting at targets, they waited in anticipation for the target to pop up, then they shot it. It conditioned them to react immediately, taught them that there was no time to think, no time to do anything but aim and shoot and kill. How is it different than GTA or any first person shooter?
I'm not saying that people are absolved from their responsibilities, but looking at that responsibility and the conditioning recieved... they are not mutually exclusive. Both an be at fault, and I think both are.
That's only alittle funny :-/
I don't live in Tofino, I live in Parksville or Victoria. I spent most of most weekends this summer in Tofino though.
There are lots of appropriately modded posts on why this is such a stupid idea: Laziness, noise, smell, etcetera.
I have another reason.
The best part of surfing is... the surfer chicks. At least, it is in Tofino. All those beautiful hippy babes, in skin tight wetsuits, walking barefoot across the sand on a cloudy day, with the smell of the ocean and the roar of the surf as a great background.
Now compare that with how it will be if these things ever take off:
All those chubby women, in roll-tight wetsuits, leaving 8 inch deep craters in the sand as they stumble to the water, with the smell of sweat and Macdonalds and exhaust and the high pitch whine of a two stroke engine in the background.
If I see these on the beach, I will kick someone's teeth out.
Oh, and the smart fabric is washable too.
Are you saying that us slashdotters would pursue technological godliness even if it meant we had to be stinky and sweaty all the time?
For the ten seconds it took me to write that lame flame, I think I could handle it.
Wow, you're a fucking goofball.
Go think for a bit, you obviously need some 'alone time' with what little of your mind is left after a childhood of South Park and GTA.
Good stuff, now maybe that dolt Bush will have a reason to get up there again.
That's it, lets invade those breadbasket motherfuckers.
Not that I ever used it, and not that I know a single person who does, but if I did use it, I would stop, which would cause people who use Yahoo IM to switch to whatever I use in order to maintain contact with me.
Time for an open IM network.
What are these "dates" you speak of? Is this a reference to an earlier slashdot article?
Suddenly all those jokes about gas guzzling speed cars making up for an inadequate penis seem so much more obvious.
The first option, electroejaculation, uses a priapic rectal probe to send electricity pulsing through the animal's nether regions. "All the normal excitatory signals that stimulate ejaculation, like touch, sight, sound and smell, can be replaced with the current from the probe," says Trish Berger, professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis. "It's fascinating. Of course, this is a woman talking."
Porn and lube is so yesterday! Time for electroejactulation and opiates!
This sentence isn't too short. Incarceration simply does not work. I am not aware of the rehabilitation programs in Australia, nor the general crime situation.
But I can tell you how horrible of a mistake the "tough on crime" initiative in the US has been. It was founded on the studies of just one man (the name eludes me, I'm sure you could look it up if the topic interests you). That was in the early 1970's, and it sounded good to certain people, so longer sentences were instituted. They've been in place ever since, and since then the perecentage of Americans in the jail system has more then doubled (tripled?), and the crime rate, especially violent crimes, has been skyrocketing - very often from past inmates. Recidivism is far higher now than it was before Tough On Crime.
What's more amusing is that one guy who was so actively supporting the move to this, in just a few years had a complete turnaround, denounced the Tough On Crime initiative, but no one listened.
Summary: Long sentences do not work. The only effective way to "fix" someone is long, mandatory rehabilitation programs. Simply sticking somone in jail for a lot of years does nothing but make them dependent on the crime system.