After America started running headlong towards a police-state, it just wouldn't make sense to go there. In the same way that an American Jew wouldn't have gone to Germany in 1938.
Call it trolling if you want, but it's the truth. There are minorities out there who would consider visiting the US to be too dangerous. It's a country that can arrest and detain without warrant, without charges, without representation and without trial. And it believes in torture. And the death penalty.
The odds of anything happening to me are slim, sure, but seriously, why even take the risk? So I can get mugged in Times Square? Visit the Creationist museum at the Grand Canyon?
"Watching three seasons of House should have taught you that if doctors think it is cancer, then it's not cancer, unless it turns out to actually be cancer."
And then it will be some kind of crazy cancer, like breast cancer in your knee.
There have been plenty of phones on the world market better than the iPhone for some time now. The iPhone wasn't even the best phone in the world when it came out.
Don't panic - everything is going according to plan.
Would this be one of those plans like the one the Cylons allegedly had? But which seems have disappeared up its own plot hole?
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How realistic are they going to make the torture? Will the NPC say, do or admit to *anything* to make it stop? Will the information obtained be inaccurate?
Will the player eventually find out that the character he's spent 4 game hours torturing, was actually the wrong guy all along?
The only things which can cause a government to reduce its level of power are (1) war, or (2) economic collapse -- neither of which are desirable from either perspective (the ruled or the ruler).
You forgot one. A very important one, as it happens: revolution.
I'll grant you, the odds of a population in the UK or USA overthrowing their government in this day and age, seems so unlikely as to be next to impossible. But that sort of appearance of never-ending dominance is usually what dictators presume right up until the final straw that breaks the camel's back. I don't know what the straw in this case is going to look like, but the actions of both the US and the UK governments make such a rebellion in the future (at some indeterminate point) ever more likely, instead of less likely.
What happens if you "forget" the key? Like this: "Your honour, I once experimented with encryption, but could not understand how it worked. The files must be leftovers of that installation. I never used them and they must be empty." How can they prove you are lying, short of breaking the encryption and finding the evidence?
You'll like this. They assume you're lying. Guilty until proven innocent.
It's a complete travesty of justice, and was highlighted by the comedian/activist Mark Thomas when it first became law. He had this idea that people should get illegal porn, encrypt it, send it to Jack Straw M.P. (one of the architects of the law, I believe) and then report him to the police, that he had illegal porn in his possession. The M.P. of course would not know the password of any encrypted data in his possession, and might then realise the stupidity of the law.
And the US media is generally still pretty 'free' and trustworthy all things considered, and if it were believed to be nothing more than a mouthpiece for the state, the population would seek out and beleive foreign reports -- something they can do thanks, in large part, to the internet. Nazi germany had no alternative... either you believed what the media said or you didn't, but there wasn't any other source of news.
Sorry, but the American news media may be free, as in legally unbound, but the people in charge of it do not have the publics' best interests at heart. That is a whole other level of not-free.
As for going to other foreign news reports, again, sorry, not the case. How many Americans even heard of the
The Downing Street Memo?How many war-supporters think the BBC is some sort of biased left-wing communist news service?
Wars like the recent Iraq invasion are generally not reasoned out by the populace based on information which they assess. It is based on emotional triggers, fear-based responses and appeals to nationalism. These things do not give Jo American an incentive to seek out independent corroborating evidence from abroad.
Strangelets created in the LHC. Nuclear conflict. Mutated airborne filovirus Mutated bird-flu like virus. Biological warfare. Monsanto-like genetically engineered "terminator" crops pollute and replace normal food.
Life is sacred 'till you're born. Then you're fair game?
If a gun owner could find a way to shoot a foetus in "self defence", as opposed to having some "librul doctor" perform an operation, I think they'd be fine with it.
Yeah, that's all good and funny until some old person really DOES reach for an inhaler.
Next thing we know, we're standing around wondering why grandpa didn't leave a suicide note, and how we never realised he was so depressed, because we didn't visit him as often as we could have.
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After America started running headlong towards a police-state, it just wouldn't make sense to go there.
In the same way that an American Jew wouldn't have gone to Germany in 1938.
Call it trolling if you want, but it's the truth. There are minorities out there who would consider visiting the US to be too dangerous. It's a country that can arrest and detain without warrant, without charges, without representation and without trial. And it believes in torture. And the death penalty.
The odds of anything happening to me are slim, sure, but seriously, why even take the risk? So I can get mugged in Times Square? Visit the Creationist museum at the Grand Canyon?
"Watching three seasons of House should have taught you that if doctors think it is cancer, then it's not cancer, unless it turns out to actually be cancer."
And then it will be some kind of crazy cancer, like breast cancer in your knee.
Autoimmune disease?
Like Lupus?
No, it's never Lupus.
Or finds the game too difficult?
I don't want to come home and find my Wii browsing for tech-porn.
There have been plenty of phones on the world market better than the iPhone for some time now.
The iPhone wasn't even the best phone in the world when it came out.
The Planck time allows for only around 1.86x10^43 fps, which is nowhere even close to infinity.
Holy frak. What sort of high-spec machine is our universe running on then?
Family models for the hookers? That is sick.
Would you still kill them afterwards to get your money back?
She's dead Jim, but she's still warm.
Want to flip a coin?
Considering games like Manhunt 2 are possible in this day and age, it's not an unreasonable question.
You can't 'lose' a copyright.
I know it's GETTING there, but unless Disney have bought another law for Christmas, I don't think copyright is eternal yet.
Don't panic - everything is going according to plan.
Would this be one of those plans like the one the Cylons allegedly had? But which seems have disappeared up its own plot hole?
How realistic are they going to make the torture?
Will the NPC say, do or admit to *anything* to make it stop?
Will the information obtained be inaccurate?
Will the player eventually find out that the character he's spent 4 game hours torturing, was actually the wrong guy all along?
The only things which can cause a government to reduce its level of power are (1) war, or (2) economic collapse -- neither of which are desirable from either perspective (the ruled or the ruler).
You forgot one. A very important one, as it happens: revolution.
I'll grant you, the odds of a population in the UK or USA overthrowing their government in this day and age, seems so unlikely as to be next to impossible. But that sort of appearance of never-ending dominance is usually what dictators presume right up until the final straw that breaks the camel's back. I don't know what the straw in this case is going to look like, but the actions of both the US and the UK governments make such a rebellion in the future (at some indeterminate point) ever more likely, instead of less likely.
In any case, I doubt a direct mind-to-picture system would in itself be enough to make anyone an artist.
Maybe not, but celebrity porn and blackmail sure would become a whole lot easier.
Bad console players! You're not allowed access to the console! Bad, BAD players!
Now you deserve a spanking! And then the oral sex! (Oblig. Python)
What happens if you "forget" the key? Like this: "Your honour, I once experimented with encryption, but could not understand how it worked. The files must be leftovers of that installation. I never used them and they must be empty." How can they prove you are lying, short of breaking the encryption and finding the evidence?
You'll like this. They assume you're lying. Guilty until proven innocent.
It's a complete travesty of justice, and was highlighted by the comedian/activist Mark Thomas when it first became law. He had this idea that people should get illegal porn, encrypt it, send it to Jack Straw M.P. (one of the architects of the law, I believe) and then report him to the police, that he had illegal porn in his possession. The M.P. of course would not know the password of any encrypted data in his possession, and might then realise the stupidity of the law.
Didn't work. The law stands.
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He's Japanese and he didn't design her to look like a teenage school-girl.
I'm confused.
and they're afraid to say what it is that they're afraid of.
Interesting.
I'm sure it has something to do with the Pyramids and geo-caching. :)
It doesn't require an actual viable "working" scenario.
I was simply making the point that it was more likely than the alien invasion scenario.
Sorry, but the American news media may be free, as in legally unbound, but the people in charge of it do not have the publics' best interests at heart. That is a whole other level of not-free.
As for going to other foreign news reports, again, sorry, not the case. How many Americans even heard of the The Downing Street Memo?How many war-supporters think the BBC is some sort of biased left-wing communist news service? Wars like the recent Iraq invasion are generally not reasoned out by the populace based on information which they assess. It is based on emotional triggers, fear-based responses and appeals to nationalism. These things do not give Jo American an incentive to seek out independent corroborating evidence from abroad.
Strangelets created in the LHC.
Nuclear conflict.
Mutated airborne filovirus
Mutated bird-flu like virus.
Biological warfare.
Monsanto-like genetically engineered "terminator" crops pollute and replace normal food.
So that means if they shoot someone, it would be a medicinal homicide?
I think it would be medical malpractice.
Life is sacred 'till you're born. Then you're fair game?
If a gun owner could find a way to shoot a foetus in "self defence", as opposed to having some "librul doctor" perform an operation, I think they'd be fine with it.
Yeah, that's all good and funny until some old person really DOES reach for an inhaler.
Next thing we know, we're standing around wondering why grandpa didn't leave a suicide note, and how we never realised he was so depressed, because we didn't visit him as often as we could have.