But a court could find almost anything likely to "incite". A court could find a Big Mac likely to "incite" obesity. Where the hell is personal responsibility?
Freedom of speech does not equal freedom from the consequences of your speech. Don't mix them up. Just because the government won't stop you doesn't mean somebody else won't kick your teeth in. The important thing here is that people are free to use their own judgment and common sense to determine what is and isn't appropriate to say.
How do you define "words that incite hatred". How do you enforce that, exactly? Should it be illegal for anybody to say a bad word lest it cause offense?... because once you start down that track, that's where it leads. If I'm not mistaken, in the UK there were/are several "politeness" laws on the books.
I have the right to say "death to [group/country/people/religion]" or "killing abortion doctors is good". You are responsible for your own choices if you decide to ask on my words, not me. In US law, anything is protected speech unless it is an *immediate* threat of violence (i.e. inciting a riot when you are actually in the riot). If you want to defeat bad ideas, fight them with good ones in the open commerce of ideas. Suppressing speech only treats the symptom and not the root cause of the problem, which is fear and misunderstanding... something that can *only* be dealt with by open and honest dialogue.
Mark my words. In time, you will hear *horrible* stories out of these places in China. The boot camps in the states were bad enough to inspire congressional hearings... I can hardly imagine what these kids will have to go through and I guarantee it won't be what they advertise.
Incarcerating people without due process and brainwashing, yes, brainwashing them into thinking and behaving in a different manner is NEVER beneficial in any country in any form, ever. It's rape of the mind and until you've experienced it, you'll never know quite how painful it is when you realize what they did. Even if you "behave" better afterward, it's not really you. If you want to help people, *convince* them to change or choose other paths of their own volition but don't force them. In the long run it never works.
Bingo. People do hard drugs because they are miserable, not the other way around. If you treat the cause and help people get their lives on track, help find new activities, the'll quit drugs on their own as their lives won't be so miserable and they won't need something to dull the pain. It's why I tell anybody considering drinking or using drugs for the first time: "NEVER use substances to dull pain."
It is, but it's done with informed consent. They advertise that they break people down and build them up and people agree to have that done to them. That's the only reason it's even slightly permissible.
So basically your definition of addiction is a an activity another person enjoys on a regular basis that you do not approve of. And before you judge me, no, I have only played WoW once and didn't like it at all (seemed kind of repetitive)... not that it's relevant.
Sometimes kids do get sent to boot camp for not going to the gym, or for being gay, or for in *any* reason not turning out the way their parents desire. They are property, essentially, and they can be incarcerated for any reason or no reason at all without due process. That's the reality and it happens a lot.
Depression from loss or trauma is very similar to withdrawal symptoms (Stanton Peele, Ph.D). If you find it so unnecessary to distinguish between hobby, habit, and addiction, perhaps you are unable to. What is the difference? The only difference I see is the approval of the majority over the actions of the minority and that holds true with your judgement over other peoples *choices* of social interaction. Who are you to judge whether or not a friendship is valid or whether a social interaction is deep enough. In some ways, it could be argued that the lack of physical interaction decreases social inhibition and increases the possibilities in which people can get to know each other intellectually and emotionally. Sometimes when a person is blind, they are more attuned to other senses. You could say that while online interactions lack in some areas, they excel in others. What the fuck is wrong with slashdot that you get modded insightful.
Why is parent modded troll? This is very similar to an argument made by Jeffery Schaler Ph.D that "addiction" (not a medical term) is overused to label all sorts of *choices* enjoyed by the minority but frowned on by the majority. Addiction, as it is known as a concept in US society today, is a concept handed down by a cult like group, AA, which has no basis whatsoever in science or common sense.
You're reversing cause and effect. Depression or stress causes people to do whatever they need to to cope with it, including habitual behavior mislabeled as "addiction" which is not a medical term. It's not the other way around. Addiction does not cause depression. Depression causes the illusion of addiction.
Law enforcement have no expectation of privacy. I have recorded incidents with the police in the past covertly and would encourage anybody else to do the same, especially when protesting or otherwise doing something that is likely to go against the local law enforcement grain.
The method they are using would not work with a moving cow (unless it was multiple video cameras synched up). In that respect, there is already video conferencing software that generates a real-time 3d model using 2 webcams.
no. Bit depth is a big limitation, as is resolution. Plus. You'll end up with an extremely heavy mesh if you want to keep all the details (though you could use two different resolution meshes to generate a difference resulting in a low res mesh and a normal map). If it's only going to be seen from one side, you might as well not convert to a mesh and use parallax normal mapping (illusion of 3d geometry on a flat surface basically, much more realistic than normal mapping).
I have been overseas for the past year in a half. When I came back to the states, I found my car in a state of disarray. Since it hand't been used, the battery was completely dead and wouldn't charge, birds had nested in the wheels, the tires were nearly too flat to drive to re-inflate and something had died in the air conditioning system. In retrospect, I wish I had loaned the car to a friend. Sometimes even sharing physical objects has benefits.
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But a court could find almost anything likely to "incite". A court could find a Big Mac likely to "incite" obesity. Where the hell is personal responsibility?
Freedom of speech does not equal freedom from the consequences of your speech. Don't mix them up. Just because the government won't stop you doesn't mean somebody else won't kick your teeth in. The important thing here is that people are free to use their own judgment and common sense to determine what is and isn't appropriate to say.
How do you define "words that incite hatred". How do you enforce that, exactly? Should it be illegal for anybody to say a bad word lest it cause offense?... because once you start down that track, that's where it leads. If I'm not mistaken, in the UK there were/are several "politeness" laws on the books.
I think they should have been granted assylum, but it would have probably been too much of a diplomatic faux pas for anybody to consider.
They should never have handed over identifying information on their users without a subpoena valid to the US.
I have the right to say "death to [group/country/people/religion]" or "killing abortion doctors is good". You are responsible for your own choices if you decide to ask on my words, not me. In US law, anything is protected speech unless it is an *immediate* threat of violence (i.e. inciting a riot when you are actually in the riot). If you want to defeat bad ideas, fight them with good ones in the open commerce of ideas. Suppressing speech only treats the symptom and not the root cause of the problem, which is fear and misunderstanding... something that can *only* be dealt with by open and honest dialogue.
I agree. Something doesn't smell right.
Mark my words. In time, you will hear *horrible* stories out of these places in China. The boot camps in the states were bad enough to inspire congressional hearings... I can hardly imagine what these kids will have to go through and I guarantee it won't be what they advertise.
Incarcerating people without due process and brainwashing, yes, brainwashing them into thinking and behaving in a different manner is NEVER beneficial in any country in any form, ever. It's rape of the mind and until you've experienced it, you'll never know quite how painful it is when you realize what they did. Even if you "behave" better afterward, it's not really you. If you want to help people, *convince* them to change or choose other paths of their own volition but don't force them. In the long run it never works.
Bingo. People do hard drugs because they are miserable, not the other way around. If you treat the cause and help people get their lives on track, help find new activities, the'll quit drugs on their own as their lives won't be so miserable and they won't need something to dull the pain. It's why I tell anybody considering drinking or using drugs for the first time: "NEVER use substances to dull pain."
It is, but it's done with informed consent. They advertise that they break people down and build them up and people agree to have that done to them. That's the only reason it's even slightly permissible.
So basically your definition of addiction is a an activity another person enjoys on a regular basis that you do not approve of. And before you judge me, no, I have only played WoW once and didn't like it at all (seemed kind of repetitive)... not that it's relevant.
Sometimes kids do get sent to boot camp for not going to the gym, or for being gay, or for in *any* reason not turning out the way their parents desire. They are property, essentially, and they can be incarcerated for any reason or no reason at all without due process. That's the reality and it happens a lot.
Depression from loss or trauma is very similar to withdrawal symptoms (Stanton Peele, Ph.D). If you find it so unnecessary to distinguish between hobby, habit, and addiction, perhaps you are unable to. What is the difference? The only difference I see is the approval of the majority over the actions of the minority and that holds true with your judgement over other peoples *choices* of social interaction. Who are you to judge whether or not a friendship is valid or whether a social interaction is deep enough. In some ways, it could be argued that the lack of physical interaction decreases social inhibition and increases the possibilities in which people can get to know each other intellectually and emotionally. Sometimes when a person is blind, they are more attuned to other senses. You could say that while online interactions lack in some areas, they excel in others. What the fuck is wrong with slashdot that you get modded insightful.
Why is parent modded troll? This is very similar to an argument made by Jeffery Schaler Ph.D that "addiction" (not a medical term) is overused to label all sorts of *choices* enjoyed by the minority but frowned on by the majority. Addiction, as it is known as a concept in US society today, is a concept handed down by a cult like group, AA, which has no basis whatsoever in science or common sense.
You're reversing cause and effect. Depression or stress causes people to do whatever they need to to cope with it, including habitual behavior mislabeled as "addiction" which is not a medical term. It's not the other way around. Addiction does not cause depression. Depression causes the illusion of addiction.
Yeah. Their behavior is their choice, not a disease. They need self discipline. That's the responsibility of the parent, not the state.
Go google Stanley Milgram.
I.E. it's up to the citizens, not the govt, to make sure their public servants are behaving.
Law enforcement have no expectation of privacy. I have recorded incidents with the police in the past covertly and would encourage anybody else to do the same, especially when protesting or otherwise doing something that is likely to go against the local law enforcement grain.
The method they are using would not work with a moving cow (unless it was multiple video cameras synched up). In that respect, there is already video conferencing software that generates a real-time 3d model using 2 webcams.
no. Bit depth is a big limitation, as is resolution. Plus. You'll end up with an extremely heavy mesh if you want to keep all the details (though you could use two different resolution meshes to generate a difference resulting in a low res mesh and a normal map). If it's only going to be seen from one side, you might as well not convert to a mesh and use parallax normal mapping (illusion of 3d geometry on a flat surface basically, much more realistic than normal mapping).
Try OSX for a few weeks. "animated" features like exposé might seem useless at first but after a while you'll find you can't live without the feature. With a screen-corner gesture you can display all windows, all windows a given type and/or even drag them between virtual desktops by adding another screen-corner gesture. After a while you never "lose" any windows and moving them around becomes a very intuitive and physical experience, like moving pieces of paper. Anything you don't like you can generally turn off anyway. Critics of OSX often point and say "that's a gimmick" without actually bothering to use the feature. And don't bother claiming it eats CPU cycles. The fancy stuff is done on the GPU.
Scroll down on that link. "Photoshop CS4 crashing when opening complex PSD files" and the other user's comments hardly indicates usable software.
I have been overseas for the past year in a half. When I came back to the states, I found my car in a state of disarray. Since it hand't been used, the battery was completely dead and wouldn't charge, birds had nested in the wheels, the tires were nearly too flat to drive to re-inflate and something had died in the air conditioning system. In retrospect, I wish I had loaned the car to a friend. Sometimes even sharing physical objects has benefits.