Adn let's not forget that PG-13 came into being because of Lucas and Speilberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Here's a history of the ratings system from Answers.com.
Here's another one that should be interesting to the Slashdot crowd. NPR's Marketplace ran this story yesterday afternoon:
We're about to step back into a time before PDA's and laptops, to an age when the word 'computer' meant something entirely different. No, we're not talking about primitive Commodore desktops. Or even those old vacuum-tubed Univacs that would fill up whole rooms. We're going back to a period nearly everyone seems to have forgotten. A time when computers were - human. David Grier teaches technology policy at George Washington University. He's now written the first in-depth account of a career that no longer exists. Grier describes 'human computers' as people who did the blue collar work of the mind.
It's not news, it's lazy pseudojournalistic exploitation for ratings, and fame for the prosecutors. Take it from an old guy: CNN et al have tanked and turned into tabloid horsecrap. The golden age of news in the U.S. is over for now.
Tell me about it. This weekend saw a never ending onslaught of "news" folk speculating over a missing Georgia bride-to-be. On CNN, Nancy Grace was hopping up and down insisting that "this is not a case of cold feet".
All we seem to be doing nowadays is thinking up new forms of punishment. Why not address the problems at the source? Why not try teaching people a little self-restraint?
As a society, we loathe expressions of sexuality, but almost all of our entertainment and marketing focus on it. American capitalism can't stand a consumer that knows how to resist a primal urge, so it pushes the philosophy of instant gratification so firmly into our psyche, that many folks just give up and say "I couldn't resist".
Yes. As horrible as this case is, it is basically about one individual that could not tell himself "No".
What's sick is that the damage caused by his lack of control is so horrific that it defies logical discussion. We say to ourselves, "This bastard was evil. Period," and we stop thinking beyond what creative means we should use to punish him. Don't get me wrong, this guy deserves punishment (and he'll get it, once he hits general population - cons hate child-killers), but shouldn't we at least consider trying to find and deal with the cause of his madness? We spend an endless amount of time, energy, and money dreaming up creative new ways of punishment, all of which is reactive defense. How about a little more time, energy and money on proactive defense?
Until we spend more on education, instead of incarceration, we're doomed to see the cycle of violence repeat. Until we can learn to control our urge to consume selfishly, we'll continue to see stories like this. Before too long, we may barely be able to stand looking at ourselves in the mirror.
It may very well be the RAM because you got it used. Perhaps the seller cannibalised the factory RAM and replaced it with off market stuff. I can't tell you how many donated computers we get at our non-profit that come in with chips way different from what Gateway or Dell says they were supposed to have.
After all, how would you like it if it came out that you had a confidential illness because a medical transcriptionist hit 'Send' after Word crashed while mail-merging your test results?
Or worse, having their insurance cancelled after that same document finds its way to their insurance company via a Microsoft "data affiliate" program?
Granted, this is little more than pure paranoia now, but then again, just look at how badly some folks want to collect such data. If the demand for collection is this high, just how high is the demand for access? How soon before this information becomes a commodity?
Or maybe closer to the pocket book, didn't we just see something in the news about some outsourcing thing in India playing around with people's bank accounts in New York?
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Everybody knows its rooms full of cash that count.
Wouldn't have much of a military if it was rated NC-17.
Adn let's not forget that PG-13 came into being because of Lucas and Speilberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Here's a history of the ratings system from Answers.com.
Makes you look less geeky.
Hell, Tigers have a longer history with the term, and I'd hate to meet their lawyer in court...
"Ooooh! Quick honey, look at this really cool instrument panel screensaver that some nice man named "4@X0r-4-d3@th" sent us from Thailand!"
"I can't really look right now sweetie, I'm trying to merge...Hey! That's wicked cool!
Next, cover both with hot grits . . .
Decision should be easy after that.
Here's another one that should be interesting to the Slashdot crowd. NPR's Marketplace ran this story yesterday afternoon:
OK. So this is funny how?
Yeah, I know.
There's a saying I like, "Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. Those who study history are doomed to know its repeating."
Maybe its part of the natural evolution of a society to consume itself under a blanket of moral contradictions.
Yeah, yeah! I remember that!
That was the time we got rid of the first "ownership" society!
Tell me about it. This weekend saw a never ending onslaught of "news" folk speculating over a missing Georgia bride-to-be. On CNN, Nancy Grace was hopping up and down insisting that "this is not a case of cold feet".
It was.
In the meantime, these Georgia children are still missing.
And none of them have merited even a passing mention on even the local news stations.
All we seem to be doing nowadays is thinking up new forms of punishment. Why not address the problems at the source? Why not try teaching people a little self-restraint?
As a society, we loathe expressions of sexuality, but almost all of our entertainment and marketing focus on it. American capitalism can't stand a consumer that knows how to resist a primal urge, so it pushes the philosophy of instant gratification so firmly into our psyche, that many folks just give up and say "I couldn't resist".
Yes. As horrible as this case is, it is basically about one individual that could not tell himself "No".
What's sick is that the damage caused by his lack of control is so horrific that it defies logical discussion. We say to ourselves, "This bastard was evil. Period," and we stop thinking beyond what creative means we should use to punish him. Don't get me wrong, this guy deserves punishment (and he'll get it, once he hits general population - cons hate child-killers), but shouldn't we at least consider trying to find and deal with the cause of his madness? We spend an endless amount of time, energy, and money dreaming up creative new ways of punishment, all of which is reactive defense. How about a little more time, energy and money on proactive defense?
Until we spend more on education, instead of incarceration, we're doomed to see the cycle of violence repeat. Until we can learn to control our urge to consume selfishly, we'll continue to see stories like this. Before too long, we may barely be able to stand looking at ourselves in the mirror.
. . . gone.
It may very well be the RAM because you got it used. Perhaps the seller cannibalised the factory RAM and replaced it with off market stuff. I can't tell you how many donated computers we get at our non-profit that come in with chips way different from what Gateway or Dell says they were supposed to have.
I wonder why the soil is caking on the wheels? I would think that even ultra fine sand wouldn't do that unless there was some form of moisture.
Yes, but with this law in effect, the revolution won't be televised.
First, it was cell phones causing brain tumors. Now this?!? I feel soooo much safer about calling. . .
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Well . . . they were Mac-compatible, so that's saying something . . .
Great.
So basically, the species is continued by its most selfish and cowardly members. This explains a lot actually . . .
I am George W. Bush, and I approved this message...
Granted, this is little more than pure paranoia now, but then again, just look at how badly some folks want to collect such data. If the demand for collection is this high, just how high is the demand for access? How soon before this information becomes a commodity?
Come on now . . . let's not give our corporate culture that much credit . . .
;-)