Just read most of the posts that people have put up as to how they would put such a device to use and you then know exactl;y why stuff like this isn't best in the hands of the populace.
Just because its cool, doesn't mean its harmless, and just because a person is a "geek" doesn't mean they are not malign.
Oh look, and Anonymous poster flaming the host, great one sir, next time have the chutzpah to include your account name.
While as Americans, we like to discard statistics that don't agree with those sunny little post-cards we keep in our heads, there is no denying the stats shepd provided (look, links even) unless you can propose a reason why these stats are not kosher, you need to find some other tree to bark up.
Shepd: I would not say that longitude has much to do with the similarities between Texas and Michigan, and while it seems to be the case that wackos in both of these respective states seem to share a lot in common, declaring they are the same on such details isn't completly valid. The stats cannot be dismissed, but correlation does not prove causation. It could be argued that the base crime rate in Texas would be even higher if there was no "use of deadly force to defend property" law.
Still though, I can give an opinion and my opinion is that you are correct, deadly force does not lower crime rates, just as instating capital punishment does not reduce the instances of so called capital crimes. States that have fliped flopped between having the Death penalty and not having it showed no significant difference in crime before and after the law change.
"Your Majesty! this is the most advanced PDA ever envisioned! it can do everything! and it needs no no I/O, no batteries and it can hold all your data without ever needing to change batteries!"
"Looks like a block of wood to me." said the grand Vizer
"Well you see your majesty" continued the Intel Rep "only the most intelligent people can see the data it contains, because beams the data straight to their minds"
"Well of course I knew that" the empereor quickly replied "I was just schedualing my apointments and playing solitare just now, what a wonderful device, and I love the wooden finish"
Here we go again thinking that hollywood ever had talent. The past looks good because the "Bruckheimers" of the olden days have been filtered out and passed onto obscurity and the worthwhile films are still cherished.
Though I was always bothered by the 3d views in cities, and the copy protection system they used annoyed the hell out of me, but an excellent game well ahead of it's time. You can't blame Icarus for flying to close to the sun.
hmmmm, I would definately say that System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever, and certainly the best horror game made to date. It was spooky as hell, and kept you in the dark just enough to make you aware that you were screwed, but you never knew exactly knew what by. The game that held the title of "scariest ass game" before I played SS2 was the original "Alone in the Dark", the grand daddy of "survival horror" games in their current form.
I would say that horror based games have the greatest potential to get you emotionaly envolved in a story line, at least they have for me. The first Resident Evil (the others never did much for me) Eternal Darkness and The Silent hill series are all great games to sit back with on a dark night with the lights down low.
The first game that actually scared me though was the game "Haunted House" on the Atari (someone else mentioned this game too) In retrosepct its sort of a crappy game, but when I was playing it for the first time at the tender age of 6, I was actually terrified of it. I actually stopped playing it it scared me so much.
Oh yeah, it has something to do with that Radio thingy that someone once told me can play derivative crap that clear channel sends out across the world with transmitter or something. Or was it MTV?
Excellent point, I don't think any old tapes or vinyls came with EULA that you would be ignoring in this.
I guess the question is what are you buying when you buy a cd? the Cd itself with whatever happens to be on it, or the right to listen to the material on the medium. Any legal people able to tell me which it is? Fair use seems to support the later.
Automan, Whiz Kids, Wizards and Warriors, The Phoenix or Otherworld
Amen to that, I remember those shoes, sort of, I was preschool at the time but they were right up there with Galaga and Atari in terms of coolness. I would love to see an "all cancled shows" network, or else a geek network or something that replays them even if they were really bad.
I mean the Sci-Fi Network has no shortage of space for crappy movies and shows nobody cares about, why can't they expand to include some of these lost little nuggets?
While I think that most of this stuff is in pretty poor taste, Porn in general isn't what I would call "artsy", so when somebody creates a website of Pokeporn I am more inclined to roll my eyes and wonder why these people that in some cases actually seem to posses some skill at art, are wasting their time drawing genitals on cartoon animals and whatnot.
As for ruining my childhood, adulthood has done that with extream success, in fact there seems to be little left to ruin. At least old video games are still as good as they were back in the day (god bless emulation)
Sadly, Unreal Tournament seems to have been the high watermark for this paticular franchise. I bought UT2003, and i liked it, but it was the same game, albeit with nicer graphics of course.
What's peeved me the most, is I remember playing Unreal 1 and UT for the first time, and being impressed with the array of weapons you had to play with. They were not the typical pistol-shotgun-machinegun-rocket cliches that most every other FPS had accepted as the gospel of arsenals. You had a goofy blade that could bounce off walls, a Snot-Gun, a 6 barrled rocket launcher and so on. You get UT2003 and there is nothing new (the ion-gun doesn't count since it's in only about a quarter of the maps)
The unreal 2 pops up and well the series seems then to be in trouble.
. Believe me, that scenario would have the RIAA shaking in their boots. There would be massive publicity, the RIAA would have been completely trashed before it was over and no one would have cared who won in the end
I doubt it.
The RIAA stance is an easy one to defend in the eyes of the general populace. Here in the Geek-culture we hate them, but no matter what your stance on the property rights of the recording industry vs the users is, you have to admit, it hardly seems that there is much of a legal leg to stand on when you try and convince a jury that file-swapping isn't stealing.
The media, and the general public takes a more or less conservative stand on issues like theft. The RIAA would simply declare that the actions of these 4 is the reason that everyone else has to pay $18 a CD and the public would lap it up the same way they lap up $50 tax cuts and sweat over the $10 of their personal tax contribution that gets speant on welfare and public assistance.
The settlement certainly makes it easier for the RIAA, but it also leaves the door open. They haven't lost their case yet, but they haven't won it either. Lets wait for a case that falls more in the gray before we expect a victory.
I love it when Has-beens pop up and are all of the sudden worried about the misuse of their "images".
I see no resemblence really, unless we want to give full credit to dee-lite for go-go boots and orange dresses. Maybe se should sue the 60's while shes at it. That whole decade ripped off her style.
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Hope thats sarcasm...
Just read most of the posts that people have put up as to how they would put such a device to use and you then know exactl;y why stuff like this isn't best in the hands of the populace.
Just because its cool, doesn't mean its harmless, and just because a person is a "geek" doesn't mean they are not malign.
Oh look, and Anonymous poster flaming the host, great one sir, next time have the chutzpah to include your account name.
While as Americans, we like to discard statistics that don't agree with those sunny little post-cards we keep in our heads, there is no denying the stats shepd provided (look, links even) unless you can propose a reason why these stats are not kosher, you need to find some other tree to bark up.
Shepd: I would not say that longitude has much to do with the similarities between Texas and Michigan, and while it seems to be the case that wackos in both of these respective states seem to share a lot in common, declaring they are the same on such details isn't completly valid. The stats cannot be dismissed, but correlation does not prove causation. It could be argued that the base crime rate in Texas would be even higher if there was no "use of deadly force to defend property" law.
Still though, I can give an opinion and my opinion is that you are correct, deadly force does not lower crime rates, just as instating capital punishment does not reduce the instances of so called capital crimes. States that have fliped flopped between having the Death penalty and not having it showed no significant difference in crime before and after the law change.
"Your Majesty! this is the most advanced PDA ever envisioned! it can do everything! and it needs no no I/O, no batteries and it can hold all your data without ever needing to change batteries!"
"Looks like a block of wood to me." said the grand Vizer
"Well you see your majesty" continued the Intel Rep "only the most intelligent people can see the data it contains, because beams the data straight to their minds"
"Well of course I knew that" the empereor quickly replied "I was just schedualing my apointments and playing solitare just now, what a wonderful device, and I love the wooden finish"
Here we go again thinking that hollywood ever had talent. The past looks good because the "Bruckheimers" of the olden days have been filtered out and passed onto obscurity and the worthwhile films are still cherished.
Hollywood is ass, but it always has been.
Except that in all liklihood, your DSL provider will be owned by the same parent company that owns your local cable company.
You lose in any scenario, because the money is still going into the same pockets.
Indeed a sweet game
Though I was always bothered by the 3d views in cities, and the copy protection system they used annoyed the hell out of me, but an excellent game well ahead of it's time. You can't blame Icarus for flying to close to the sun.
hmmmm, I would definately say that System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever, and certainly the best horror game made to date. It was spooky as hell, and kept you in the dark just enough to make you aware that you were screwed, but you never knew exactly knew what by. The game that held the title of "scariest ass game" before I played SS2 was the original "Alone in the Dark", the grand daddy of "survival horror" games in their current form.
I would say that horror based games have the greatest potential to get you emotionaly envolved in a story line, at least they have for me. The first Resident Evil (the others never did much for me) Eternal Darkness and The Silent hill series are all great games to sit back with on a dark night with the lights down low.
The first game that actually scared me though was the game "Haunted House" on the Atari (someone else mentioned this game too) In retrosepct its sort of a crappy game, but when I was playing it for the first time at the tender age of 6, I was actually terrified of it. I actually stopped playing it it scared me so much.
Im rambling, i shut up now
Im not sure I should admit this, but that was funny as hell
What is FM radio again?
Oh yeah, it has something to do with that Radio thingy that someone once told me can play derivative crap that clear channel sends out across the world with transmitter or something. Or was it MTV?
Excellent point, I don't think any old tapes or vinyls came with EULA that you would be ignoring in this.
I guess the question is what are you buying when you buy a cd? the Cd itself with whatever happens to be on it, or the right to listen to the material on the medium. Any legal people able to tell me which it is? Fair use seems to support the later.
Automan, Whiz Kids, Wizards and Warriors, The Phoenix or Otherworld
Amen to that, I remember those shoes, sort of, I was preschool at the time but they were right up there with Galaga and Atari in terms of coolness. I would love to see an "all cancled shows" network, or else a geek network or something that replays them even if they were really bad.
I mean the Sci-Fi Network has no shortage of space for crappy movies and shows nobody cares about, why can't they expand to include some of these lost little nuggets?
While I think that most of this stuff is in pretty poor taste, Porn in general isn't what I would call "artsy", so when somebody creates a website of Pokeporn I am more inclined to roll my eyes and wonder why these people that in some cases actually seem to posses some skill at art, are wasting their time drawing genitals on cartoon animals and whatnot.
As for ruining my childhood, adulthood has done that with extream success, in fact there seems to be little left to ruin. At least old video games are still as good as they were back in the day (god bless emulation)
It's about time some robots start getting the respect they deserve.
I vote for Tom Servo (what a cool guy)
We should let whoever pays for the research name it.
mmmmm Half life
Whenever some little puke tries to sell me on the whole "HALO IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!" I just laugh.
Halo is nothing to Half Life.
Sadly, Unreal Tournament seems to have been the high watermark for this paticular franchise. I bought UT2003, and i liked it, but it was the same game, albeit with nicer graphics of course.
What's peeved me the most, is I remember playing Unreal 1 and UT for the first time, and being impressed with the array of weapons you had to play with. They were not the typical pistol-shotgun-machinegun-rocket cliches that most every other FPS had accepted as the gospel of arsenals. You had a goofy blade that could bounce off walls, a Snot-Gun, a 6 barrled rocket launcher and so on. You get UT2003 and there is nothing new (the ion-gun doesn't count since it's in only about a quarter of the maps)
The unreal 2 pops up and well the series seems then to be in trouble.
shhhhhhhhhh! Nobody tell this guy that StarTrek has been from it's inception, LIBERAL in it's presentation.
. Believe me, that scenario would have the RIAA shaking in their boots. There would be massive publicity, the RIAA would have been completely trashed before it was over and no one would have cared who won in the end I doubt it. The RIAA stance is an easy one to defend in the eyes of the general populace. Here in the Geek-culture we hate them, but no matter what your stance on the property rights of the recording industry vs the users is, you have to admit, it hardly seems that there is much of a legal leg to stand on when you try and convince a jury that file-swapping isn't stealing. The media, and the general public takes a more or less conservative stand on issues like theft. The RIAA would simply declare that the actions of these 4 is the reason that everyone else has to pay $18 a CD and the public would lap it up the same way they lap up $50 tax cuts and sweat over the $10 of their personal tax contribution that gets speant on welfare and public assistance. The settlement certainly makes it easier for the RIAA, but it also leaves the door open. They haven't lost their case yet, but they haven't won it either. Lets wait for a case that falls more in the gray before we expect a victory.
I love it when Has-beens pop up and are all of the sudden worried about the misuse of their "images". I see no resemblence really, unless we want to give full credit to dee-lite for go-go boots and orange dresses. Maybe se should sue the 60's while shes at it. That whole decade ripped off her style.