jeez, please don't invade, us Americans are really afraid of your 62,000 troops ROFLMAO with our tiny 400 billion dollar military compared to your 12 billion.
hahahahaah.... ok sorry, mark me flamebait, i keep getting stupid mod points and i'm tired of it.
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"- It's (to trade kiddie porn) a strong indicator the person is likely to commit a more serious crime later, so let's get them out of society for 20 years once we've figured out they're a sicko insted of waiting until they act on it"
you know this is the same argument they use to try and ban games like GTA, right?
According to your logic the following content should be ban:
-- any movie, picture or video game depicting violence, including murders, rape, etc
-- any movie, picture or video game depicting any crime, since the desire to see this type of contect is "a strong indicator the person is likely to commit a more serious crime later"
-- you may want to consider throwing books on the list that depict the above content since that might give someone an idea to commit crimes.
If you're going to jaywalk or speed 10 mph over the speed limit at all, it doesn't matter what the penalty is. You're a sicko, and sickos don't sit there and thing "Well, I'll do it as long as I won't get more than 10 years." People who commit traffic crimes are sickos, and the punishment is mainly about removing them from society.
We punish traffic violators very hard because:
- It's a strong indicator the person is likely to commit a more serious crime later, so let's get them out of society for 20 years once we've figured out they're a sicko insted of waiting until they act on it
- Kiilling the number of traffic violators is just as important as killing the ability to violate traffic laws.
I found what you said interesting: "- Kiilling the market for kiddie porn is just as important as killing the supply."
if killing the market is as important as killing the supply why are you allow to possess small amounts of pot in some states, or why do they get lessor sentences than drug dealers? Shouldn't are jails be full of teenagers serving 10 yr sentences for being caught with a joint?
possessing something and distributing or dealing something are very different offenses and they should not be treated the same.
"Ha! What do you think the rest of the store (generally excepting drinks, cereal, and snacks) is doing?"
and chips and crackers and cookies and... you know u just named a huge part of the store right? They all have their own asles in most large grocery stores.
"Lasagna noodles? Rotini? etc?"
and how many asles do those have?.... that's what i thought. And I microwave my pastas whenever I can, boils much faster.
""not knowing how to cook, is like not knowing how to fuck." - Robert Rodriguez"
who the hell is rober rodriguez? Some B-rated actor that did a few movies? Why does his opinion count about cooking? Tom Cruise loves Scientology, should I change religions based on his opinion?
course if he was some TV chef i'd simply say he's just a chef with a show that he doesnt want to loose.
apparently it's a lot more than just "some people".
Try walking down the microwaveable TV-dinner asle at your local grocery store sometime, notice how huge it is compared to the... um, oven cooking asle, or whatever it'd be called.
"When I was growing up, we didn't have a microwave and I don't ever plan on buying one for myself."
did u walk 10 miles in the snow uphills both ways to get to school too?
FTFA: "In fact, residents of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. required an average of 170 kilograms of copper per person. Multiply that by overall population estimates of 10 billion people by 2100 and the world will require 1.7 billion metric tons of copper by that date--more than even the most generous estimate of available resources. "
ok... you do realize civilization has been using copper wiring for less than 200 years correct? So why the "gloom and doom" scenario set 100 yrs in the future? As they mentioned we've already got great alternatives like wireless, fiber and PVC, do they really think we're gonna need copper 100 yrs from now as much as we do now?
I predict that long before 2100 we find an alternative, remember 100 years is a very long time when it comes to technology, just look at planes, computers, plastics, glue, etc.
Also they're assuming the entire world will be at the level the average American is now by 2100. Let's not forget there's many people in foreign countries still without electricity or running water, things most Americans had over 100 years ago, so why assume that everyone on the planet will have them 100 years from now?
This has got to be the most absurd "sky is falling" scenario I've ever read, I wouldn't be surprised if it was written by recycling companies or copper lobbyist.
" So your security is at best racist and at least ineffective."
so you'd suggest what, exactly? A secret code only Americans know?
I really don't think it was meant to be "security", it's more prevention, and if it didnt work at least part of the time then they wouldnt be doing it.
and when you think about it they're not just weeding out Chinese players, they're weeding out all people with poor grammer skills and that sounds like a great idea to me.
Wouldn't it just be easier to have the computer type the words to a screen? I mean if you have the equipment to carry around a robotic hand I'd imagine a LCD screen would be much cheaper and it could probably print more words to a screen than the hand could sign and do so faster.
guess this is more for the sake of doing rather than being practical
"A big question for me is where can you get hold of an LCD screen that cheap as a single unit? "
good point! 10cm = 4" LCD screen, that alone is a pretty good chunk of change. And he wants to add batteries + lense + other stuff for $25 total? Guessing that's company cost, not what consumers would pay.
"a disposable camera that can be used as a post-card."
and the pics can't be deleted, once you take them they're there forever. It also can't be charged, or new batteries added, "the slide show could be watched a few hundred times and the camera could be taken to a developer to get the photos printed."
How's this any better than the digital camera walgreens already sells for $11? Least photos can be deleted and has a flash, and you simply bring them to walgreens and they print them immediately and you can mail them to whoever you want.
ok his idea removes the need to bring it to walgreens but still, it's double the price, doesnt have a delete button, and when the batteries die it becomes completely worthless, you really do have to trash the entire camera.
The reason walgreen's idea works is because they're hoping to recoup the price of the camera because you have to return it to get your photos and then they can resell it. This guy's idea will never work because he cuts out the middle man and since the batteries can't be replaced it really does become disposable, for the same price it costs to make this camera a company could make a camera with replaceable batteries and sell it.
you know what it'd take to make this work? Make the camera like it is, but when you're done you drop it in a pre-paid envelope that came with a camera with a list of who you want to get photos from it to mail it back to whoever you bought it from, they take it and send prints to whoever you want. That way they get their camera back to resell to someone else and your friends/family still get their "postcards".
good thing he's a industrial designs student cuz he'd make a crappy business man.
sure, but now you gotta consider purchasing a color laser printer (not cheap), color toner (not cheap either), and suffering from a slower print speed, so your 20 days easily just doubled.
you could use inkjets, but at ~$30 to $50 for 500 pages of retail OEM ink I wouldn't recommend it, not to mention the printer wouldn't last 60,000 pages and it'd still print slow.
"All of the really good people in my friends America's Army clan are in their 20s and 30s, and they pwn!"
when did 20s and 30s become too old to play games? Anyone 30 or younger has been playing video games for as long as they can remember assuming they got a system in 1980+, so if I'm 30 and dont remember a life without video games why would I be too "old" to continue playing a video game?
Video games are entertainment, plain and simple. Do people become too old to watch TV? When TV came out were they shocked when 50 yr olds wanted to watch TV?
"I'm 8 years old and playing on xbox live right now screaming at my mom for some chocolate milk "
"mom! you're not in bed yet! get up and get me a glass of milk!... why do i have to get up (from playing games)? you're always doin that mom! that's bull! i dont want mountain dew! i want chocolate milk!
MOM! GET IT! GET IIIIIIITTTT!!! MOM! PLEASE GET IT!.... WHY?! THAT'S BULLSHIT! YOU LIED! YOU SAID YOU'D GET ME A DRINK AND NOW YOU WONT GET ME CHOCOLATE MILK! YOU SAID YOU'D GET ME WHATEVER I WANT AND NOW YOU WON'T GET IT!... WHY?... I WANT SOME MOTHA FUKIN CHOCOLATE MILK!... THAT'S BULLSHIT! THAT'S FUK'D UP..."
wow... that's.... wow.... funniest part is watching the character's mouth moving while he's screaming for chocolate milk while wearing this whole navy seals outfit and holding a M16;)
"If you can make that last say 12 hours--a work day-- and then let it cool down overnight you might never melt it all..."
or, add mineral oil to it and have a Lava Lamp PC, but without the lamp, just the heat from the PC keeps the wax floating around the oil.
course cleaning that wax off would be a pain, it's bad enough to have to clean oil off PC components... which, by the way, did they explain exactly how you do that? Can't exactly throw it in the dishwasher... maybe blowdry the oil off?
" I own an acre on the moon."
u sell off advertising space on each sq ft, companies can paint their logos or whatever else they want to put on it. Sure u wont make a million bucks but you'll make $435,600, and retarded news sites would actually believe you're doing it too and give you free publicity.
"Yes, he made a significant amount of money in a short time..."
my question is, why do people believe these stories at face value?
Reminds me of that one chick that said she needed 20 grand to pay off expensive shopping sprees and then claimed the money poured in, that savekaryn website a few years back.
Somehow I doubt her (or this million dollar webpage) made any money until they claimed they made a bunch of money and then told newspapers who then spread the word and then sites started paying for advertising (or in karyn's case, just sending money).
You'd think lights being turned on & off over the internet would be the easiest to verify, but it didnt stop everyone and their mother from reporting it as 100% true. Makes you wonder how much of the news is true and how much is a hoax?
So there you have it, there are internet hoaxes and fakes and the online news media reports every little story as 100% true without doing any fact-checking to verify it's true. Therefore I call this million dollar homepage mythbusted!
my theory: about half the pixels are stuff he just threw up there for nothing, linking to mom-and-pop shops who will be happy to get any hits at all. Now that he's getting a ~750 million hits a day he's able to charge real money.
"This kid isn't a genius, after all:...I've only just passed my driving test..."
Isn't he in england? Their public transit system is far better over there, perhaps he just hasnt needed a license all these years because he can walk, take the bus or subway everywhere.
"Now, if there was only a refrigerator that took advantage of the fact that there is all knds of free air outside that is below 40 degrees most of the time for 5 months of the year, I'd be a lot better off. "
I moved into a new house a month ago and havent bought a fridge yet, i just keep the food on a shelf outside the door leading to the garage. It's cold enough that nothing goes bad and i could probably keep doing this for at least another month before worrying about it getting too warm.
FTFA:
"It's a major issue for the studio. Brandon is extremely well-endowed and they don't want it up on the big screen."
ok even if it's true, who says a guy is "extremely well-endowed" unless they're fucking him (or want to be) and bragging about it or they're talking about a pornstar?
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did u even read the article??
"for a fee that Warner says will be similar to the cost of a DVD"
that sure sounds like pricing to me...
Do you plan to invade with all 62,000 troops compared to America's 1.4 million?
jeez, please don't invade, us Americans are really afraid of your 62,000 troops ROFLMAO with our tiny 400 billion dollar military compared to your 12 billion.
hahahahaah.... ok sorry, mark me flamebait, i keep getting stupid mod points and i'm tired of it.
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you know this is the same argument they use to try and ban games like GTA, right?
According to your logic the following content should be ban:
-- any movie, picture or video game depicting violence, including murders, rape, etc
-- any movie, picture or video game depicting any crime, since the desire to see this type of contect is "a strong indicator the person is likely to commit a more serious crime later"
-- you may want to consider throwing books on the list that depict the above content since that might give someone an idea to commit crimes.
If you're going to jaywalk or speed 10 mph over the speed limit at all, it doesn't matter what the penalty is. You're a sicko, and sickos don't sit there and thing "Well, I'll do it as long as I won't get more than 10 years." People who commit traffic crimes are sickos, and the punishment is mainly about removing them from society.
We punish traffic violators very hard because:
- It's a strong indicator the person is likely to commit a more serious crime later, so let's get them out of society for 20 years once we've figured out they're a sicko insted of waiting until they act on it
- Kiilling the number of traffic violators is just as important as killing the ability to violate traffic laws.
I found what you said interesting:
"- Kiilling the market for kiddie porn is just as important as killing the supply."
is that why it's it's legal to possess up to a certain amount of pot in some states?
if killing the market is as important as killing the supply why are you allow to possess small amounts of pot in some states, or why do they get lessor sentences than drug dealers? Shouldn't are jails be full of teenagers serving 10 yr sentences for being caught with a joint?
possessing something and distributing or dealing something are very different offenses and they should not be treated the same.
GOOD POINT!
I knew i used my oven for something rather than storage.
and chips and crackers and cookies and... you know u just named a huge part of the store right? They all have their own asles in most large grocery stores.
"Lasagna noodles? Rotini? etc?"
and how many asles do those have? .... that's what i thought. And I microwave my pastas whenever I can, boils much faster.
""not knowing how to cook, is like not knowing how to fuck." - Robert Rodriguez"
who the hell is rober rodriguez? Some B-rated actor that did a few movies? Why does his opinion count about cooking? Tom Cruise loves Scientology, should I change religions based on his opinion?
course if he was some TV chef i'd simply say he's just a chef with a show that he doesnt want to loose.
you cook your cereal and crackers in the oven? how strange...
i second Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The original really was the best in the series, an amazing game.
apparently it's a lot more than just "some people".
Try walking down the microwaveable TV-dinner asle at your local grocery store sometime, notice how huge it is compared to the... um, oven cooking asle, or whatever it'd be called.
"When I was growing up, we didn't have a microwave and I don't ever plan on buying one for myself."
did u walk 10 miles in the snow uphills both ways to get to school too?
"In fact, residents of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. required an average of 170 kilograms of copper per person. Multiply that by overall population estimates of 10 billion people by 2100 and the world will require 1.7 billion metric tons of copper by that date--more than even the most generous estimate of available resources. "
ok... you do realize civilization has been using copper wiring for less than 200 years correct? So why the "gloom and doom" scenario set 100 yrs in the future ? As they mentioned we've already got great alternatives like wireless, fiber and PVC, do they really think we're gonna need copper 100 yrs from now as much as we do now?
I predict that long before 2100 we find an alternative, remember 100 years is a very long time when it comes to technology, just look at planes, computers, plastics, glue, etc.
Also they're assuming the entire world will be at the level the average American is now by 2100. Let's not forget there's many people in foreign countries still without electricity or running water, things most Americans had over 100 years ago, so why assume that everyone on the planet will have them 100 years from now?
This has got to be the most absurd "sky is falling" scenario I've ever read, I wouldn't be surprised if it was written by recycling companies or copper lobbyist.
so you'd suggest what, exactly? A secret code only Americans know?
I really don't think it was meant to be "security", it's more prevention, and if it didnt work at least part of the time then they wouldnt be doing it.
and when you think about it they're not just weeding out Chinese players, they're weeding out all people with poor grammer skills and that sounds like a great idea to me.
guess this is more for the sake of doing rather than being practical
Not only is it RFID-proof it's getting-laid proof too!
good point! 10cm = 4" LCD screen, that alone is a pretty good chunk of change. And he wants to add batteries + lense + other stuff for $25 total? Guessing that's company cost, not what consumers would pay.
and the pics can't be deleted, once you take them they're there forever. It also can't be charged, or new batteries added, "the slide show could be watched a few hundred times and the camera could be taken to a developer to get the photos printed."
How's this any better than the digital camera walgreens already sells for $11? Least photos can be deleted and has a flash, and you simply bring them to walgreens and they print them immediately and you can mail them to whoever you want.
ok his idea removes the need to bring it to walgreens but still, it's double the price, doesnt have a delete button, and when the batteries die it becomes completely worthless, you really do have to trash the entire camera.
The reason walgreen's idea works is because they're hoping to recoup the price of the camera because you have to return it to get your photos and then they can resell it. This guy's idea will never work because he cuts out the middle man and since the batteries can't be replaced it really does become disposable, for the same price it costs to make this camera a company could make a camera with replaceable batteries and sell it.
you know what it'd take to make this work? Make the camera like it is, but when you're done you drop it in a pre-paid envelope that came with a camera with a list of who you want to get photos from it to mail it back to whoever you bought it from, they take it and send prints to whoever you want. That way they get their camera back to resell to someone else and your friends/family still get their "postcards".
good thing he's a industrial designs student cuz he'd make a crappy business man.
sure, but now you gotta consider purchasing a color laser printer (not cheap), color toner (not cheap either), and suffering from a slower print speed, so your 20 days easily just doubled.
you could use inkjets, but at ~$30 to $50 for 500 pages of retail OEM ink I wouldn't recommend it, not to mention the printer wouldn't last 60,000 pages and it'd still print slow.
I'd stick with b&w laser.
when did 20s and 30s become too old to play games? Anyone 30 or younger has been playing video games for as long as they can remember assuming they got a system in 1980+, so if I'm 30 and dont remember a life without video games why would I be too "old" to continue playing a video game?
Video games are entertainment, plain and simple. Do people become too old to watch TV? When TV came out were they shocked when 50 yr olds wanted to watch TV?
"mom! you're not in bed yet! get up and get me a glass of milk!... why do i have to get up (from playing games)? you're always doin that mom! that's bull! i dont want mountain dew! i want chocolate milk!
MOM! GET IT! GET IIIIIIITTTT!!! MOM! PLEASE GET IT! .... WHY?! THAT'S BULLSHIT! YOU LIED! YOU SAID YOU'D GET ME A DRINK AND NOW YOU WONT GET ME CHOCOLATE MILK! YOU SAID YOU'D GET ME WHATEVER I WANT AND NOW YOU WON'T GET IT!... WHY?... I WANT SOME MOTHA FUKIN CHOCOLATE MILK!... THAT'S BULLSHIT! THAT'S FUK'D UP..."
wow... that's.... wow.... funniest part is watching the character's mouth moving while he's screaming for chocolate milk while wearing this whole navy seals outfit and holding a M16 ;)
or, add mineral oil to it and have a Lava Lamp PC, but without the lamp, just the heat from the PC keeps the wax floating around the oil.
course cleaning that wax off would be a pain, it's bad enough to have to clean oil off PC components... which, by the way, did they explain exactly how you do that? Can't exactly throw it in the dishwasher... maybe blowdry the oil off?
" I own an acre on the moon." u sell off advertising space on each sq ft, companies can paint their logos or whatever else they want to put on it. Sure u wont make a million bucks but you'll make $435,600, and retarded news sites would actually believe you're doing it too and give you free publicity.
my question is, why do people believe these stories at face value?
Reminds me of that one chick that said she needed 20 grand to pay off expensive shopping sprees and then claimed the money poured in, that savekaryn website a few years back.
Somehow I doubt her (or this million dollar webpage) made any money until they claimed they made a bunch of money and then told newspapers who then spread the word and then sites started paying for advertising (or in karyn's case, just sending money).
And for those of you thinking "naw, internet hoaxs dont happen, the newspapers are surely checking their bank accounts, etc", think again: this guy claimed this christmas lights were being turned off and on by visitors to his website and it turned out to be a hoax. Dozens of major online news sites reported the lights as real, it wasnt until a reporter showed up unannounced and called a friend online and told them to turned the lights off & on and it didnt work that they finally figured out the hoax.
You'd think lights being turned on & off over the internet would be the easiest to verify, but it didnt stop everyone and their mother from reporting it as 100% true. Makes you wonder how much of the news is true and how much is a hoax?
So there you have it, there are internet hoaxes and fakes and the online news media reports every little story as 100% true without doing any fact-checking to verify it's true. Therefore I call this million dollar homepage mythbusted!
my theory: about half the pixels are stuff he just threw up there for nothing, linking to mom-and-pop shops who will be happy to get any hits at all. Now that he's getting a ~750 million hits a day he's able to charge real money.
Isn't he in england? Their public transit system is far better over there, perhaps he just hasnt needed a license all these years because he can walk, take the bus or subway everywhere.
so does that $2,700+ price tag
think i'll stick with my sub-$50 500w power supplies thank u very much
I moved into a new house a month ago and havent bought a fridge yet, i just keep the food on a shelf outside the door leading to the garage. It's cold enough that nothing goes bad and i could probably keep doing this for at least another month before worrying about it getting too warm.
"It's a major issue for the studio. Brandon is extremely well-endowed and they don't want it up on the big screen."
ok even if it's true, who says a guy is " extremely well-endowed" unless they're fucking him (or want to be) and bragging about it or they're talking about a pornstar?
sounds like BS to me