"there's a much higher risk of being involved in an accident if you're"
in a car.
In the USA 40,000 people a year are killed by the automobile directly, and thousands more are killed by the side effects of an automobile centric society.
That is more than ten 9/11s.
every. single. year.
How is any of that flushing your 4th amendment rights down the toilet? Show me anywhere the 4th amendment give you the right to drive. Show me anywhere the 4th amendment says that the government cannot restrict what/how/where/when we drive?
Driving is not a right.
The only reason people think so is because we have built our country, our cities, and our system in such a way that makes it very inconvenient to not drive. But if you don't like the licensing requirements, or you don't like the license plates, or you don't like insurance requirements or whatever - you are always completely free to not drive....
Because you see, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. And a car is a 4000lb fist, and I don't want to be hit with it.
How many kids broke the original NES pads ? Not many, those things were tough!
Jesus, I must have gone through 10 of those controllers. I am not sure which ones you are thinking of. And that is not even counting the ones that we damaged intentionally by using a spoon to play "Track & Field".
Today's controller can't survive being thrown/dropped too often, and they wear down quickly during normal use.
We have used our 4 Wii controllers for over a year now, heavy use, often by multiple kids. They have been dropped, sat on, and all sorts of normal use things. They all work and look just as good as day one.
When the NES was released in 1985 there were two "bundles". For $199 you got the NES, Super Mario Bros., and 2 controllers. For $250 you got NES, Duck Hunt, Gyromite, Super Mario Bros., ROB Robot, 2 controllers, and Zapper.
If you adjust that for inflation, the $200 in 1985 is about $375 now, and the $250 in 1985 is about $470 now. (US Dollars, using CPI). The Wii is not all that dfferent in price point even having to "add" extras - than the original NES.
As far as the war, Richardson wants a complete withdrawal with ZERO residual troops by the end of 2007. Richardson on some issues.
As far as Patriot Act:
"It is important, especially now that Congress is evaluating the impact of the Patriot Act,
that we send the message that New Mexico opposes the infringement of civil rights and
liberties," said Governor Bill Richardson. "The United States can fight the war against
terrorism without eroding America's precious freedoms."
Prohibition? I am not sure what you mean there. Do you mean the drug war? Well he signed the Medicinal Marijuana bill in NM, and he has pushed for drug treatment before prosecution. But he has also pushed for minimum sentences for dealers, and supports parts of the war on drugs. So I guess maybe he is in the middle of the road with regards to the drug war.
I am not sure about IP.
This site has a lot of information, although I cannot say if it is to be 100% trusted as I didn't look too hard to see who funds it. On The Issues. It also appears that some of their information is a little out dated.
Bill Richardson is the most qualified and most electable candidate we have at this time. Obama, or Clinton would be disasters.
"precisely zero"
I do not think that means what you think it means.
laptop + broadcom 802.11G adapter != precisely zero
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Unless you live in an apartment, this is not remotely true. Running your own wires is, well, trivial unless you are physically disabled in some significant way.
Uhmm, methinks you have not actually done this much... Or at least not in many houses.
Things like lath&plaster, plumbing, strange placement of studs, lack of crawlspaces, windows, carpet, laminates, tile, doors, fireplaces, and foundations - all sorts of stuff really makes it not, well, trivial.
I just love to hear all the childless slashdotters speculate wildly about parenting. It's a good reminder of how easy it is to imagine solutions to problems you've never addressed yourselves. Hint: not even the best parents can make kids start out with good judgement. The age at which a kid is ready for Mario Kart is not the same age at which he is ready to avoid goatse.
Who says we are all childless?
I have a 6 year old and a Wii.
Kids have to learn judgement, and some of that learning comes through exposure to bad judgement.
Goatse is only really bad because we are conditioned as a society to think it is bad. Kids have very little of that conditioning yet. They usually only apply context to things via the reactions of the ADULTS around them.
If a 5 year old saw goatse - they would probably say something like "that is a butt" and maybe by this time a "gross" or a couple "poop" jokes might come out of the whole experience. And they would forget all about it and go on. They are not really interested in goatse, my kid would just keep browsing looking for the "Cat, I'm a Kitty Cat - and I dance dance dance" video...
But if an adult FREAKS OUT and says that it is BAD - then instantly goatse sticks in the memory. That is how kids learn.
When a toddler falls down and bumps their knee in an empty room when they think no one is watching, they just keep going. But if the look around and see that mom or dad are jumping up to "help" them, they will start crying. They key in to our reactions, emotions, and responses.
Nothing teaches a kid to swear faster than telling them they should not swear, or by covering their ears when others swear. We have NEVER censored ourselves or our friends or our TV or movies, and our child has no problem with swearing at all because he doesn't think that it is anything special. And we have made clear distinctions between what behavior is OK at home vs. at school vs. in a restaurant etc etc etc.
But nothing sells like Pr0n - so there is no faster way to increase the popularity of the Wii than to brand it a Pr0n machine.:)
And as others have noted. The browser can be turned off, and parental controls can be applied. Easier on the Wii than on the family computer...
"Legend Of Zelda: The Twilight Princess" is actually a GameCube game that was "tweaked" for the Wii.
We will not see anyone really pushing the Wii graphics very hard until Super Mario Galaxy or that timeframe.
But I think that "mature" is a bad word for games.
Because I think that some of the "mature" games are actually immature. (I even own some of them). But all these games that people talk about being "mature" seem to be like fart and dick humor - geared towards teenage or young adult males. Lots of blood and gore is called "mature".
I would argue that a game that has lots of gamelpay, that is immursive, and that appeals to people older than say - 30 - is a "mature" game. Like "Super Monkey Ball" (which is hard as hell on the Wii by the way). It *looks* like a kids game. But most of the kids I know don't like it, and most of the fans of it are adults.
Some of my favorite games (I am in the over 30) would be classified as "kiddy" games by the PS?XBOX/PC crowds. Like Bomberman (Saturn Bomberman was the BEST!), Worms, Super Monkey Ball, Mario Party, and Mario Kart. The Original Sonic games still holds lots of fun and replay value, despite having no hookers or spewing blood. My favorite game of all time, which I still play, is the original "The Legend Of Zelda" with it's terrible graphics and simplistic gameplay.
It seems like Playstations sell to Beavis and Butthead. But that is just my opinion, I may be wrong.
Except many "net nanny" filters block the sites that use the real words. So to be polite and allow people to read the site at work or at the library or wherever they may be that may have filters on - it is normal to use a substitute.
But I find it funny that in a discussion about DRM restricting how people use technology you chose to tell an "author" of a comment how or how not he should write his own comments.
Maybe just let the net be free and see what comes of it? Probably MySpace - but hey - we can't win them all...
How many VW bugs could you line up?
We all know the only two constant forms of measurement in the USA are VW Bugs (classic) and football fields (American).
Oh, and Rhode Island - when you are measuring asteroids or ice shelfs...
Except...
I STILL play the old games, many on my ORIGINAL game systems. (I am 33)
I have many many many, and with things like MAME and other emulators - I have most every game I ever touched as a kid.
Let me touch on just two examples.
1. Zelda
I still have my original gold cartridge for my original NES. I also have the ROM of an emulator, and I have the original Zelda on GameCube disk that came as a bonus for buying the Zelda edition gamecube. I still play this game. In fact I played it just last week, got through five of the dungeons in the first "quest". I can show you on a map where every item is, and I still find enjoyment in playing the game.
2. Paperboy.
I didn't enjoy the game then, and I don't enjoy it now - on one of my "retro" game disks for gamecube. Still sucks.
So yeah, not every game from back then was great - but in order for a game to sell well back then it had to be GREAT!
And I had all sorts of games man, Apple II, Commodore Vic20 and C64, Tandy CoCo II, Nintendo, Atari, Intellevision, ColecoVision, I even had a SEARS clone of one of them, I forget which. I still have most of them. Sega master system. Sega dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, SNES, various game-boys, PCs (man I spent months playing DOOM and before that Kings Quest and before that Wizardry). All have had stinker games, and all have had good games.
But seriously - now the games TEND to focus on graphics more than gameplay. Hey, I appreciate the anatomically correct DOA games as much as anyone.;) But my favorite game system currently is my Nintendo DS because it is so damn fun to play, and easy to play over the net or with friends right there. No config or hacking - just fire it up and play Mario Kart with 8 friends, or 4 on the Net, or all by myself. Feed my nintendogs, Get my butt kicked at Meteos or Tetris... Heck, even the easy multi-player game of monopoly/boggle/battleship/yahtzee is a blast, and it has no graphics whatsoever. Just fun multi-player capability in a small portable package...
Why is Mario Tennis and Mario Golf so fun - compared to the more hyper realistic sim golf and tennis games? Gameplay. Ease of use. Fun!
Sure, it's nitpicking... Right... Thats why he has the lowest approval rating of any president other than Nixon. Because he is doing so well....
You do not have to be "radical" or even a "liberal" to think bush sucks, and will continue to suck.
And this has everything to do with science. Will we get funding for ACTUAL science? Or Junk science - like oil company funded research that claims global warming is not happening?
Will his cleaner domestic energy sources be real - or is he just saying that? Has he lied about things in the past? Should we trust him now?
Is genetic engineering to cure MS wrong? Or is some genetic engineering OK and others wrong? Where is the line?
What constitutes an experiment? Technically - life is an experiment.
State of the union addresses are simply taxpayer funded campaign speeches.
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YouTube can come down on whatever side they want.
I still block Flash.
You mean that bill failed? Damnit. I wait months watching CSPAN and I get up to go to the bathroom once, and I miss the rainbows and unicorns bill...
"there's a much higher risk of being involved in an accident if you're" in a car. In the USA 40,000 people a year are killed by the automobile directly, and thousands more are killed by the side effects of an automobile centric society. That is more than ten 9/11s. every. single. year.
How is any of that flushing your 4th amendment rights down the toilet? Show me anywhere the 4th amendment give you the right to drive. Show me anywhere the 4th amendment says that the government cannot restrict what/how/where/when we drive?
Driving is not a right.
The only reason people think so is because we have built our country, our cities, and our system in such a way that makes it very inconvenient to not drive. But if you don't like the licensing requirements, or you don't like the license plates, or you don't like insurance requirements or whatever - you are always completely free to not drive....
Because you see, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. And a car is a 4000lb fist, and I don't want to be hit with it.
You do realize that it is the "low level employees" who do most of the work, right?
We have used our 4 Wii controllers for over a year now, heavy use, often by multiple kids. They have been dropped, sat on, and all sorts of normal use things. They all work and look just as good as day one.
When the NES was released in 1985 there were two "bundles". For $199 you got the NES, Super Mario Bros., and 2 controllers. For $250 you got NES, Duck Hunt, Gyromite, Super Mario Bros., ROB Robot, 2 controllers, and Zapper.
If you adjust that for inflation, the $200 in 1985 is about $375 now, and the $250 in 1985 is about $470 now. (US Dollars, using CPI). The Wii is not all that dfferent in price point even having to "add" extras - than the original NES.
And the bonus question: The percentage of the iPod demographic who know what this means, let alone even read /. is?
The Volkswagen New Beetle is one of the roomiest cars I have found, at least in the front seats. :) The TDI gets 45mpg.
Richardson on some issues.
As far as Patriot Act: Governor Bill Richardson and Attorney General Patricia Madrid Oppose U.S. Patriot Act provisions
Prohibition? I am not sure what you mean there. Do you mean the drug war? Well he signed the Medicinal Marijuana bill in NM, and he has pushed for drug treatment before prosecution. But he has also pushed for minimum sentences for dealers, and supports parts of the war on drugs. So I guess maybe he is in the middle of the road with regards to the drug war.
I am not sure about IP.
This site has a lot of information, although I cannot say if it is to be 100% trusted as I didn't look too hard to see who funds it. On The Issues. It also appears that some of their information is a little out dated.
Bill Richardson is the most qualified and most electable candidate we have at this time. Obama, or Clinton would be disasters.
The Humor Bus just ran over your dog.
I want good environmental LED lights dag nabbit.
They are on their way. They are being delivered by flying car.
But it was an embedded system. Maybe the extra code or overhead from calculations was not worth the ability to say it would work in 2100?
"precisely zero"
I do not think that means what you think it means.
laptop + broadcom 802.11G adapter != precisely zero
Uhmm, methinks you have not actually done this much... Or at least not in many houses.
Things like lath&plaster, plumbing, strange placement of studs, lack of crawlspaces, windows, carpet, laminates, tile, doors, fireplaces, and foundations - all sorts of stuff really makes it not, well, trivial.
The new beta, Camino 1.1b. - is really nice and has some new features - like built-in option of FlashBlock, Session restore, and others.
Camino 1.1b. is really really nice.
Camino 1.1b.
Who says we are all childless?
I have a 6 year old and a Wii.
Kids have to learn judgement, and some of that learning comes through exposure to bad judgement.
Goatse is only really bad because we are conditioned as a society to think it is bad. Kids have very little of that conditioning yet. They usually only apply context to things via the reactions of the ADULTS around them.
If a 5 year old saw goatse - they would probably say something like "that is a butt" and maybe by this time a "gross" or a couple "poop" jokes might come out of the whole experience. And they would forget all about it and go on. They are not really interested in goatse, my kid would just keep browsing looking for the "Cat, I'm a Kitty Cat - and I dance dance dance" video...
But if an adult FREAKS OUT and says that it is BAD - then instantly goatse sticks in the memory. That is how kids learn.
When a toddler falls down and bumps their knee in an empty room when they think no one is watching, they just keep going. But if the look around and see that mom or dad are jumping up to "help" them, they will start crying. They key in to our reactions, emotions, and responses.
Nothing teaches a kid to swear faster than telling them they should not swear, or by covering their ears when others swear. We have NEVER censored ourselves or our friends or our TV or movies, and our child has no problem with swearing at all because he doesn't think that it is anything special. And we have made clear distinctions between what behavior is OK at home vs. at school vs. in a restaurant etc etc etc.
But nothing sells like Pr0n - so there is no faster way to increase the popularity of the Wii than to brand it a Pr0n machine.
And as others have noted. The browser can be turned off, and parental controls can be applied. Easier on the Wii than on the family computer...
"Legend Of Zelda: The Twilight Princess" is actually a GameCube game that was "tweaked" for the Wii.
We will not see anyone really pushing the Wii graphics very hard until Super Mario Galaxy or that timeframe.
But I think that "mature" is a bad word for games.
Because I think that some of the "mature" games are actually immature. (I even own some of them). But all these games that people talk about being "mature" seem to be like fart and dick humor - geared towards teenage or young adult males. Lots of blood and gore is called "mature".
I would argue that a game that has lots of gamelpay, that is immursive, and that appeals to people older than say - 30 - is a "mature" game. Like "Super Monkey Ball" (which is hard as hell on the Wii by the way). It *looks* like a kids game. But most of the kids I know don't like it, and most of the fans of it are adults.
Some of my favorite games (I am in the over 30) would be classified as "kiddy" games by the PS?XBOX/PC crowds. Like Bomberman (Saturn Bomberman was the BEST!), Worms, Super Monkey Ball, Mario Party, and Mario Kart. The Original Sonic games still holds lots of fun and replay value, despite having no hookers or spewing blood. My favorite game of all time, which I still play, is the original "The Legend Of Zelda" with it's terrible graphics and simplistic gameplay.
It seems like Playstations sell to Beavis and Butthead. But that is just my opinion, I may be wrong.
Am I going to have to separate you two?
Except many "net nanny" filters block the sites that use the real words. So to be polite and allow people to read the site at work or at the library or wherever they may be that may have filters on - it is normal to use a substitute. But I find it funny that in a discussion about DRM restricting how people use technology you chose to tell an "author" of a comment how or how not he should write his own comments. Maybe just let the net be free and see what comes of it? Probably MySpace - but hey - we can't win them all...
How many VW bugs could you line up? We all know the only two constant forms of measurement in the USA are VW Bugs (classic) and football fields (American). Oh, and Rhode Island - when you are measuring asteroids or ice shelfs...
Except... I STILL play the old games, many on my ORIGINAL game systems. (I am 33) I have many many many, and with things like MAME and other emulators - I have most every game I ever touched as a kid. Let me touch on just two examples. 1. Zelda I still have my original gold cartridge for my original NES. I also have the ROM of an emulator, and I have the original Zelda on GameCube disk that came as a bonus for buying the Zelda edition gamecube. I still play this game. In fact I played it just last week, got through five of the dungeons in the first "quest". I can show you on a map where every item is, and I still find enjoyment in playing the game. 2. Paperboy. I didn't enjoy the game then, and I don't enjoy it now - on one of my "retro" game disks for gamecube. Still sucks. So yeah, not every game from back then was great - but in order for a game to sell well back then it had to be GREAT! And I had all sorts of games man, Apple II, Commodore Vic20 and C64, Tandy CoCo II, Nintendo, Atari, Intellevision, ColecoVision, I even had a SEARS clone of one of them, I forget which. I still have most of them. Sega master system. Sega dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, SNES, various game-boys, PCs (man I spent months playing DOOM and before that Kings Quest and before that Wizardry). All have had stinker games, and all have had good games. But seriously - now the games TEND to focus on graphics more than gameplay. Hey, I appreciate the anatomically correct DOA games as much as anyone. ;) But my favorite game system currently is my Nintendo DS because it is so damn fun to play, and easy to play over the net or with friends right there. No config or hacking - just fire it up and play Mario Kart with 8 friends, or 4 on the Net, or all by myself. Feed my nintendogs, Get my butt kicked at Meteos or Tetris... Heck, even the easy multi-player game of monopoly/boggle/battleship/yahtzee is a blast, and it has no graphics whatsoever. Just fun multi-player capability in a small portable package...
Why is Mario Tennis and Mario Golf so fun - compared to the more hyper realistic sim golf and tennis games? Gameplay. Ease of use. Fun!
Sure, it's nitpicking... Right... Thats why he has the lowest approval rating of any president other than Nixon. Because he is doing so well.... You do not have to be "radical" or even a "liberal" to think bush sucks, and will continue to suck. And this has everything to do with science. Will we get funding for ACTUAL science? Or Junk science - like oil company funded research that claims global warming is not happening? Will his cleaner domestic energy sources be real - or is he just saying that? Has he lied about things in the past? Should we trust him now? Is genetic engineering to cure MS wrong? Or is some genetic engineering OK and others wrong? Where is the line? What constitutes an experiment? Technically - life is an experiment. State of the union addresses are simply taxpayer funded campaign speeches.