I understand you've probably seen this before, but if you haven't, this is pretty important. BUSTED - The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
I've only had two encounters with police officers... but both of them sort of leave me thinking less of them.
I was lost while looking for where to pick up my nephew from his babysitter, so I pulled over and walked up to a house and asked for directions. My car was a pretty old car, in a reasonably nice neighborhood. When I came back to my car, a person was walking around it, looking in each of the windows. I asked him why, he said, "I'm a cop, I'm supposed to".
Around two in the morning, I had to go home from campus (Lan Party =)). A police officer pulled me over on the way out. Her stated reason, "It's suspicious for someone to be getting their car out of the parking lot this late at night."
The traditional image of police is protectors, but to be honest, they are just paid to arrest people. There is a very big difference. A highly visible police patrolling the ghetto does us more good than a traffic trap. One actually lowers crime, the other gets arrests.
The Hot Coffee mod is a mod created for the personal computer port of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA, 2004/2005, Rockstar North). When installed, it unlocks a hidden part of the game which involves having sex (featuring oral sex with an "invisible" penis and dry humping) with the main character's girlfriend to try to improve the relationship between the two.
This is the post concerning the court order that started all this.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/13 32207
As a note, this whole thing seems a bit trite. The government doesn't need "a broad range of material from its[Google's] closely guarded databases", to make the case for some porn law. But on the other hand, releasing information about anonymous porn searches doesn't really seem to be violating anyone's rights.
Is it really fair to compare CG movies with 'real' movies?
It's an animated movie.. and if anything that makes it a different medium altogether... or at least part of a very clique genre of movies.
If anything, I suppose you could say that moving from real life is replacing acting with artistry (I know, acting's a form of artistry...).
Personally, I would look foreward too seeing more entertainment using artificial voices. The things artists do with computer graphics is amazing. I'd like to think we can do beautiful things with sound too.
I have to say that I like the idea of this a lot. Laws seem either too big, and stop legitimite services, or are too little, leaving some hole through which the con jobs may continue. It seems that reputation protects consumers from unethical behavior more than simply illegal behavior, which is probably better for the consumer.
I am still unsure how you could keep track of the validity of positive/negative comments on a person's reputation. If reputation really grows -that- important, then a kiddie could ruin a legitimate business. At first, I would think you could just give each person a second reputation, to determine the legitimacy of their comments, but that's really more complicated than it seems. I mean, how would you really cope with say, a worm that spreads and tries to post complaints about your company?
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I was lost while looking for where to pick up my nephew from his babysitter, so I pulled over and walked up to a house and asked for directions. My car was a pretty old car, in a reasonably nice neighborhood. When I came back to my car, a person was walking around it, looking in each of the windows. I asked him why, he said, "I'm a cop, I'm supposed to".
Around two in the morning, I had to go home from campus (Lan Party =)). A police officer pulled me over on the way out. Her stated reason, "It's suspicious for someone to be getting their car out of the parking lot this late at night." The traditional image of police is protectors, but to be honest, they are just paid to arrest people. There is a very big difference. A highly visible police patrolling the ghetto does us more good than a traffic trap. One actually lowers crime, the other gets arrests.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_coffee
The Hot Coffee mod is a mod created for the personal computer port of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA, 2004/2005, Rockstar North). When installed, it unlocks a hidden part of the game which involves having sex (featuring oral sex with an "invisible" penis and dry humping) with the main character's girlfriend to try to improve the relationship between the two.
This is the post concerning the court order that started all this. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/13 32207
As a note, this whole thing seems a bit trite. The government doesn't need "a broad range of material from its[Google's] closely guarded databases", to make the case for some porn law. But on the other hand, releasing information about anonymous porn searches doesn't really seem to be violating anyone's rights.
Female Model + Computers.... Double Slashdotted!
Is it really fair to compare CG movies with 'real' movies? It's an animated movie.. and if anything that makes it a different medium altogether... or at least part of a very clique genre of movies. If anything, I suppose you could say that moving from real life is replacing acting with artistry (I know, acting's a form of artistry...). Personally, I would look foreward too seeing more entertainment using artificial voices. The things artists do with computer graphics is amazing. I'd like to think we can do beautiful things with sound too.
I have to say that I like the idea of this a lot. Laws seem either too big, and stop legitimite services, or are too little, leaving some hole through which the con jobs may continue. It seems that reputation protects consumers from unethical behavior more than simply illegal behavior, which is probably better for the consumer. I am still unsure how you could keep track of the validity of positive/negative comments on a person's reputation. If reputation really grows -that- important, then a kiddie could ruin a legitimate business. At first, I would think you could just give each person a second reputation, to determine the legitimacy of their comments, but that's really more complicated than it seems. I mean, how would you really cope with say, a worm that spreads and tries to post complaints about your company?