This is the thing that I don't understand about/. People complain about the NY Times (or in this case, the LA Times) requiring registration, yet they don't have a problem registering with/. You're giving a news organization your e-mail in either case, so what's the difference?
Besides, you can always just wait 5 minutes after the story's been posted, and someone will have posted the text modded +4, Informative.:P
What's really funny is that the U.S. occupation force after WWII had a law enacted that banned any performance in Japan of this story (in kabuki or movie form, etc).
Actually, most cigarettes (or, at least the print ads) bear the warning "Smoking during pregnancy greatly increases the risk of birth defects." It's a loophole in the system, where the tobacco companies get to imply that if you're male or not pregnant, smoking is ok, while still obeying the letter of the law.
I just thought I'd point out that, here in Japan, the GBA-SP comes in 3 colors: silver, cobalt, and black. The U.S. version will only come in the first two. (IMO, this sucks, as black is the coolest.)
Early in 2000 she got a chance to test her perceptions by getting 12 Oberlin undergrads to live for three weeks in a big house in Seattle (á la "Big Brother"). She told them their job was to think up a business plan for a new company, but all she cared about was the way they used technology to communicate with each other as they cooked up dot-com schemes.
I'm an Oberlin graduate (class of last year). I spent a fair amount of time in the computer lab my senior year, and I got to know some of the regulars. Feelings for Microsoft were not warm-and-fuzzy, although I did know some people who wanted to intern there for the benefit of their resumes. This tactic of using Obies in an anthropological experiment really gets me, though. Were they told afterwards what the real aim of the project was? Or were they just financially compensated human test subjects? I would think any NDA they would have signed would have had to be written pretty craftily to a) avoid setting off any red flags, and b) give Microsoft exclusive rights to any software arising from behavioral observations.
Everyone who voted for Nader in our last presidential election placed their vote in the trash
I was registered to vote during the 2000 election in Indiana, a state whose electors have not voted Democrat in many decades. In my case, a vote for Gore would have been a trash vote (given this history, as well as polling data). However, a vote for Nader would have added to the chances the Green party would get the magical 4% they needed for federal matching funds. So there's an example where it's better to vote for teh third party candidate than the "lesser of two evils."
Umm...I live in Japan. I've seen the new Zelda game. It looks like the graphics were designed by an 8-year old. Not that the Zelda francise has ever had realistic graphics, but I really prefer my games not to look like they were colored with magic marker. Also, I thought Link was supposed to be at least in his teens. Instead, he also looks like an 8-year old (maybe it's a Mary Sue by the graphics designer)...
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So what is the essence of being human?
I wrote a paper on this in college, or, more specifically, on Shirow Masamune's answer to this question, as presented in Ghost in the Shell . In fact, a lot of the posts relating to this story pertain to GitS. Direct-to-brain data ports, "ghost" hacking, the nature of humanity... Granted, I'm shamelessly plugging here, but I think the manga is something every/.er should read.
Just about the only thing you WON'T see as comics in Japan are scholarly works -- i.e. things which are meant to be totally informative rather than entertaining...
Check out Japan, Inc. (Japanese title: Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon) It's a textbook about economics and business in Japan, in manga form.
The first is variety. There is manga about everything: Sports (pick your favorite), vampires, giant robots piloted by 14-year olds, biker gangs, romance, religious themes, (and, yes, porn)...the list goes on and on. It's true that US comics aren't just superheroes, but American comics don't exist in the variety of genres that manga does.
The second is literacy. People like to claim that Japan has a huge literacy rate; I don't have any figures on how true this is. However, most books are damn hard to read, especially if you're interested in something likely to have uncommon kanji like sci-fi. (I recently brought a copy of the Japanese translation of the Heinlein book _The Door Into Summer_ to the school I work at, and many of the teachers had trouble with it.) On the other hand, manga is very easy to read. A lot of the time, you don't even have to worry about the kanji, since it's accompanied by furigana. The fact that the story is a combination of pictures and text makes reading a lot less mental effort (which is good, because it's likely you're already mentally exhausted from school or work). In America, there doesn't seem to be a functional difference in the level of literacy required between a comic and a novel, so there's not as much reason to shell out $2 or $3 for a 20-page comic (with advertisements) when you could get a paperback for twice or thrice as much.
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It's called "substantial non-infringing use." The question is whether the courts will buy that argument.
Besides, you can always just wait 5 minutes after the story's been posted, and someone will have posted the text modded +4, Informative. :P
Ok, I'm a putz to reply to myself, but you can also get By His Bootstraps
I felt the same way, so I did some looking on Google.
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants ($15, Featuring Harlan Ellison)!! The same group also has some other Heinlein in post-production, they say.
"Dimension X" and "X Minus 1" were two NBC radio anthologies from the 1950s featuring Heinlein stories. CDs are available at www.oldtimeradiovault.com
That's what I could uncover from about 20 minutes of searching google. Hope you find it helpful!
What's really funny is that the U.S. occupation force after WWII had a law enacted that banned any performance in Japan of this story (in kabuki or movie form, etc).
I just thought I'd point out that, here in Japan, the GBA-SP comes in 3 colors: silver, cobalt, and black. The U.S. version will only come in the first two. (IMO, this sucks, as black is the coolest.)
I'm an Oberlin graduate (class of last year). I spent a fair amount of time in the computer lab my senior year, and I got to know some of the regulars. Feelings for Microsoft were not warm-and-fuzzy, although I did know some people who wanted to intern there for the benefit of their resumes. This tactic of using Obies in an anthropological experiment really gets me, though. Were they told afterwards what the real aim of the project was? Or were they just financially compensated human test subjects? I would think any NDA they would have signed would have had to be written pretty craftily to a) avoid setting off any red flags, and b) give Microsoft exclusive rights to any software arising from behavioral observations.
Umm...you're getting all that from a 30-sec preview? Have you read the script? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
I was registered to vote during the 2000 election in Indiana, a state whose electors have not voted Democrat in many decades. In my case, a vote for Gore would have been a trash vote (given this history, as well as polling data). However, a vote for Nader would have added to the chances the Green party would get the magical 4% they needed for federal matching funds. So there's an example where it's better to vote for teh third party candidate than the "lesser of two evils."
IP/nick/account banning.
virtual sex
New to the internet, are we? :)
Actually, having never played an MMORPG, I wonder if this still goes on. When I used to MUD, there was sex between characters all the time....
Actually, the article doesn't state what he's been charged with. The article is short on a lot of details, actually...
Umm...I live in Japan. I've seen the new Zelda game. It looks like the graphics were designed by an 8-year old. Not that the Zelda francise has ever had realistic graphics, but I really prefer my games not to look like they were colored with magic marker. Also, I thought Link was supposed to be at least in his teens. Instead, he also looks like an 8-year old (maybe it's a Mary Sue by the graphics designer)...
I wrote a paper on this in college, or, more specifically, on Shirow Masamune's answer to this question, as presented in Ghost in the Shell . In fact, a lot of the posts relating to this story pertain to GitS. Direct-to-brain data ports, "ghost" hacking, the nature of humanity... Granted, I'm shamelessly plugging here, but I think the manga is something every /.er should read.
Check out Japan, Inc. (Japanese title: Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon) It's a textbook about economics and business in Japan, in manga form.
The first is variety. There is manga about everything: Sports (pick your favorite), vampires, giant robots piloted by 14-year olds, biker gangs, romance, religious themes, (and, yes, porn)...the list goes on and on. It's true that US comics aren't just superheroes, but American comics don't exist in the variety of genres that manga does.
The second is literacy. People like to claim that Japan has a huge literacy rate; I don't have any figures on how true this is. However, most books are damn hard to read, especially if you're interested in something likely to have uncommon kanji like sci-fi. (I recently brought a copy of the Japanese translation of the Heinlein book _The Door Into Summer_ to the school I work at, and many of the teachers had trouble with it.) On the other hand, manga is very easy to read. A lot of the time, you don't even have to worry about the kanji, since it's accompanied by furigana. The fact that the story is a combination of pictures and text makes reading a lot less mental effort (which is good, because it's likely you're already mentally exhausted from school or work). In America, there doesn't seem to be a functional difference in the level of literacy required between a comic and a novel, so there's not as much reason to shell out $2 or $3 for a 20-page comic (with advertisements) when you could get a paperback for twice or thrice as much.