This is a solution to please all the tree hugging hippies who are too stoned to actually know what really goes on in the world.
*cough* flamebait *cough*
It is quite clear that we are in a throw away society if something breaks we throw it out and get something newer and more sparkley.
What a glorious observation. Please don't stop...
Which takes me to my tree hugger mode and I have to ask, which is easier to recycle, small pieces of paper and biros, or all this tech? At the end of the day which is the more eco-friendly solution? The paper or the tech?
Are you actually attempting to use your cerebral cortex here? Good for you kiddo! Can he keep it up...
I'm not a tree hugger or eco minded so I'll leave it to the reader to go and find out.
...alas, you let us down again. We were really looking forward to your conclusion.
Please read the parent(AC) dustinbarbour was responding to. That AC comment said something about c.pr0n and dustin was simply calling the Anonymous Coward out on it.
The new Star Wars spin-off is already on air. It takes place a long time in the future, in a galaxy very, very far away from the original. It's about a descendent of Luke, and how the "force" is still very much alive in him.
Definitely scared - maybe I'm a pessimist, but I think that this will be just more commercialization.
It's not so much the commercialization I'm afraid of as much as the look. Can you imagine how expensive each episode would cost!? Using the last 2 episodes in film as a reference, the sheer amount of CG characters is going to be impossible to replicate in a weekly format.
So my prediction is to be afraid, because either the CG characters are going to look pretty sub-par, OR, there will be just primarliy human actors in costume. But then that would totally defeat the purpose of watching a Star Wars story.
I disagree. Your argument revolves around on "how" components would be categorized which would obviously be tricky, but not insurmountable. Of course, just like the MPAA rating system, you don't make everyone happy.
discord5, I agree with the gist of most of your arguments, but this statement:
We as humans are supposed to be evolved beyond animals.
Where did you get this idea? By every definition and concept, humans ARE animals.
If any creature in this universe were to evolve beyond animals that would mean that the entity leaves the realm of biological structures.
Surely you recoginize that we are biological creatures (animals), so what could you possibly mean?
My view on the matter:
I believe this child pornography issue is just one example of a myriad of human behavioral characteristics that in this age of information is making itself more visible.
As many people have argued in this thread, there are horrible things that some humans have always done, are currently doing, and will always do. As long as we are humans, we have choice, and the simple fact of the matter is that some people will make (consciously or not) the wrong choices.
This is what being human means, making choices. The thing that scares me, is this idea that in the name of making everything perfect, clean, and desirable, we must take all "choice" out of the equation. The reason I find that scary is that by taking away all "choice" you dehumanize everyone. The point of attempting to stop child pornography is to stop the dehumanization of a comparitvely small percentage of children. That is a noble cause. However, the wrong way to approach it is by chipping away at our humanity by taking away freedom and choices. The fact is, the only way to battle child pornography is the old fashioned way: investigating, going to court, and locking away the people that made the wrong choice.
I wonder if you could legally view child pornography if you classified it as part of the belief of a religion.
Well, if you get enough people to believe in it, then apparently YES. Check out Colorado City on the Arizona/Utah border. It may not be child pornograhy per se, but it's the next best/worst thing.
Why Troll? The poster was just pointing out the courts apparent priorities. Oh wait, or was the poster being serious? Now I'm conufsed. Troll indeed! No, wait, yes....
objectionable sites start to fall into the category of No. 3. Sites with possibly legitimate non-pornographic, but offensive, content get strongarmed into dooming themselves to the "XXX" label or getting the axe.
For those kinds of situations wouldn't it make sense to have something like an.RRR site, kind of like the rating system. And while we're at it, how about a.VVV site for ALL sites with violent content. I mean, what's more messed up for a 5 year old kid to see, some people having sex, or a video of terroists cutting some guy's head off?
The BEST part of this system (and it's variants) is that there is effectively no censorship, it's just the Web, but, categorized.
LOL I didn't catch the metaphor until the second paragraph. I was thinking twin exhausts was code for dual cpu's or something...I was all 'dang this guy uses some serious industry jargon'.
"...military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations..."
Why would the military have the need to be monitoring toxic gas levels with robots that use flies as an energy source? Well...
If there is a major chemical weapons attack on a major population center there will be a lot of dead people. Where there are lots of dead people there are flies. Hence, the need for a robot that can sustain it's power needs with a fuel source available both day and night...Nothing to see here. Move along.
I have a friend that since waaay back in December of 2003 has been saying and reminding me: "Just you watch, right before the election if the Army doesn't catch Osama Bin Laden, they will keep coming 'very close' to catching him. There might even be a few 'tense moments' where Osama 'might be caught any day now'..."
You know, even if Diebold was competent, it wouldn't matter:
"Meanwhile, William A. Arbaugh, an assistant computer science professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and part of the team, easily sneaked his way into the state's computers by way of his modem. Once in, he had access to change votes from actual precincts - because he knew how to exploit holes in the Microsoft software."
I don't know about you guys, but when the sh!t goes down, I want cool, calm, logical Spock at the helm! Not the horny toad, hump-all-alien-life-as-we-know-it-Kirk making...all those...long pause...decisions...Fire!!!
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Please read the parent(AC) dustinbarbour was responding to. That AC comment said something about c.pr0n and dustin was simply calling the Anonymous Coward out on it.
The new Star Wars spin-off is already on air. It takes place a long time in the future, in a galaxy very, very far away from the original. It's about a descendent of Luke, and how the "force" is still very much alive in him.
It's called "Joey".
So my prediction is to be afraid, because either the CG characters are going to look pretty sub-par, OR, there will be just primarliy human actors in costume. But then that would totally defeat the purpose of watching a Star Wars story.
I disagree. Your argument revolves around on "how" components would be categorized which would obviously be tricky, but not insurmountable. Of course, just like the MPAA rating system, you don't make everyone happy.
If any creature in this universe were to evolve beyond animals that would mean that the entity leaves the realm of biological structures.
Surely you recoginize that we are biological creatures (animals), so what could you possibly mean?
My view on the matter:
I believe this child pornography issue is just one example of a myriad of human behavioral characteristics that in this age of information is making itself more visible.
As many people have argued in this thread, there are horrible things that some humans have always done, are currently doing, and will always do. As long as we are humans, we have choice, and the simple fact of the matter is that some people will make (consciously or not) the wrong choices.
This is what being human means, making choices. The thing that scares me, is this idea that in the name of making everything perfect, clean, and desirable, we must take all "choice" out of the equation. The reason I find that scary is that by taking away all "choice" you dehumanize everyone. The point of attempting to stop child pornography is to stop the dehumanization of a comparitvely small percentage of children. That is a noble cause. However, the wrong way to approach it is by chipping away at our humanity by taking away freedom and choices. The fact is, the only way to battle child pornography is the old fashioned way: investigating, going to court, and locking away the people that made the wrong choice.
Why Troll? The poster was just pointing out the courts apparent priorities. Oh wait, or was the poster being serious? Now I'm conufsed. Troll indeed! No, wait, yes....
Don't even try to distinguish between these two on semantics.
The BEST part of this system (and it's variants) is that there is effectively no censorship, it's just the Web, but, categorized.
I work at the NSA, and we just put Post-It notes next the USB ports that say, "No need, Bush is up in the Polls."
(If I may add):
10. Pen and paper.
11. Voice to digital recorder.
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LOL I didn't catch the metaphor until the second paragraph. I was thinking twin exhausts was code for dual cpu's or something...I was all 'dang this guy uses some serious industry jargon'.
Hey, it was a long day at work people!
I filed for an FOIA for the latest satellite images of Hurricane Ivan. This is what they gave me.
The US Gov't has finally realized the long chased after technology of "Nipple Resolution" from space.
The Gov't doesn't want to share it's pr0n!
Either that or they should call this technology for what it really is: Digital Zoom-Zoom
Cool, so now I can solve crimes with my HDTV!
Everyone come over to my house and we can zoom in on the bullets to see which direction they really came from during the JFK/Zapruder films.
If there is a major chemical weapons attack on a major population center there will be a lot of dead people. Where there are lots of dead people there are flies. Hence, the need for a robot that can sustain it's power needs with a fuel source available both day and night...Nothing to see here. Move along.
I have a friend that since waaay back in December of 2003 has been saying and reminding me: "Just you watch, right before the election if the Army doesn't catch Osama Bin Laden, they will keep coming 'very close' to catching him. There might even be a few 'tense moments' where Osama 'might be caught any day now'..."
Stay tuned...
Hacking democracy
Another way to tell when a vendor is lying...
Th-th-th-th-the MEMOS
I don't know about you guys, but when the sh!t goes down, I want cool, calm, logical Spock at the helm! Not the horny toad, hump-all-alien-life-as-we-know-it-Kirk making...all those...long pause...decisions...Fire!!!
props to you...shame on me. I'll take my foot out of my mouth and my head out of my ass now...