By that rationale they should do away with the programs where prisoners get to care for animals, do art stuff, attend church and so on. While prison should suck, there is a benefit to society to rehabilitating these people so they don't come back (in addition to deterring). i'd love to see a study to determine if ther are any benefits to gaming. Like learning how to work in a team, to play by rules and be imaginative. The programs where inmates take care of animals show a benefit. If the prisoners misbehave they lose the privilege of the pet. While they have the pet they learn responsibility and what it is like to give and receive affection.
i don't know if there is a benefit to gaming for prisoners. But if they aren't hurting anyone or each other, there's no more harm in them playing GURPS as shooting hoops or lifting weights.
As for prison sucking... there's plenty of research suggesting that kids who experience the criminal justice system early on, keep coming back. Those that get in trouble, but don't go to juvie (for instance) are less likely to get in that kind of trouble again. If prison sucks too much, it just reinforces their disdain for society.
The strangest thing to me, is that we love the idea of making prisons suck and making them bigger and making harsher penalties and all that... but bitch about the cost. All the while ignoring that if we put more money into schools and helping kids with their problems... that they might never go to prison in first place. Instead of locking someone away for 20 years and having to fed and shelter them and pay people to watch them, we could pay a teacher to give them useful skills, teach them about how to deal within society and help them with problems at home. Given that so many prisoners show symptoms of ADD/ADHD, individual attention and treatment might have helped.
Are you trolling me? Or did you not read the post?
An acronym is an abbreviation SPOKEN as if it was a word, as opposed to being spoken letter by letter. If your definition were the case, then there would be no need for two words that mean the same thing. All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms (see square vs. rectangle).
Don't cite wikipedia or some other bastion of ignorance at me. Dictionaries write down every misuse of a word. Then some idiot says "look, it's in the dictionary, LuLz!". This is why moron after moron writes utilize when they mean use, or impact when they mean affect, jealousy when they mean envy. Writing down a lie doesn't make it true. Writing it 100,000,000,000 times doesn't make it true either.
Stop leaning on the minute hand of the Idiocracy Clock.
i like acronyms. i'm a milbrat and a veteran and a geek. i live in a world of abbreviations. i don't like the insistence that EVERYTHING needs an acronym. i'm sorry... IDLtITRNaA.
is more commercialization of our institutions and cultural artifacts. The next step after letting Boeing shuttle our astronauts would be renaming the ISS as "The Tostidos Space Station". Next would be Cape Coca-cola. The Nike rocket would at least be somewhat apropos to the tiny crowd who knows something of aerospace history and mythology.
Can we get some real competition between cellphone providers. AFAICT they are all the same company, offering the same shoddy service for the same insane price. The cheapest plan you can get is $40/mo and 450 minutes. Can we have a plan that doesn't assume i'm a twelve year old girl who must constantly yammer? Most of my calls are less than 5 minutes and i make a call about every two or three days. The pay as you go plans (inaccurately called "pre-paid") are often monthly plans in disguise because you can lose your number if you stop paying. Most of those systems are gimped and cost more per minute than a plan. It's not a real option.
Howabout divorcing hardware and infrastructure? i buy a phone. i connect the phone to my credit card. i dial a number. i select the provider that gives me the best combination of coverage and price. If X network is strong there but charges more than Y, but the call is trivial... i'll go with Y. If the call is important to me i can pick X. The companies would trample each other to provide good AND cheap service.
Howabout making it a utility? There's no real competition in the US, so why pretend there is? i buy a phone. Associate it with a credit card and call/text/surf until my thumbs are tired or my bill gets out of control. With no stockholders to please the prices could stay low. Or hell, just have a public utility option (wink). The state could compete against companies.
Howabout recognizing that companies benefit from people being able to access info and shop. The model works for Google, maybe we can apply it to telecom. Folks that are selling something fund the system that makes those sales possible.
It's primary purpose is to end a threat without killing. Which, oddly enough, is the purpose of weapons for non-evil folk.
Generally, even crooks don't want to kill people, they just want to deter you from interfering with their crime. Some bad guys revel in killing, but that's why we dedicate a segment of our society to dealing with them: police and military. It's unfortunate, but the bad guys don't give a shit about what is fair or the resources wasted on deterring, persuing, trying and imprisoning. They are inconsiderate dicks. So we either have to submit to them or resist them. Sometimes the don't stop being mean because "it's wrong" or when we ask them politely. Sometimes resisting them means causing them pain or death. The option of: "live on a planet without bad guys" is not available yet. i think someday it could be.
This system is designed to make non-hardcore but still potentially dangerous folk to drop their molotovs and go away. There are less than lethal systems that seem less destructive than this. However, a blast from this is more survivable than a blast from an AR 15 or AK 47. The US military has rules for escalation of force in dealing with civilians*. If they use sticks and rocks, our soldiers can respond with non-lethal force. If they bring lethal weapons to the party, they become (unlawful) combatants and it's "open fire". i'd like for our soldiers to come home without having shot and killed civilians who got out of hand. i'd like for any place we occupy to have as few civilian deaths as possible, so i think working on systems like this is a good thing.
This particular system needs work. It might be useful only on ships.
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Space diamonds... ...she'll pretty much have to.
By that rationale they should do away with the programs where prisoners get to care for animals, do art stuff, attend church and so on. While prison should suck, there is a benefit to society to rehabilitating these people so they don't come back (in addition to deterring). i'd love to see a study to determine if ther are any benefits to gaming. Like learning how to work in a team, to play by rules and be imaginative. The programs where inmates take care of animals show a benefit. If the prisoners misbehave they lose the privilege of the pet. While they have the pet they learn responsibility and what it is like to give and receive affection.
i don't know if there is a benefit to gaming for prisoners. But if they aren't hurting anyone or each other, there's no more harm in them playing GURPS as shooting hoops or lifting weights.
As for prison sucking... there's plenty of research suggesting that kids who experience the criminal justice system early on, keep coming back. Those that get in trouble, but don't go to juvie (for instance) are less likely to get in that kind of trouble again. If prison sucks too much, it just reinforces their disdain for society.
The strangest thing to me, is that we love the idea of making prisons suck and making them bigger and making harsher penalties and all that... but bitch about the cost. All the while ignoring that if we put more money into schools and helping kids with their problems... that they might never go to prison in first place. Instead of locking someone away for 20 years and having to fed and shelter them and pay people to watch them, we could pay a teacher to give them useful skills, teach them about how to deal within society and help them with problems at home. Given that so many prisoners show symptoms of ADD/ADHD, individual attention and treatment might have helped.
Bevets? Is that you?
No.
Are you trolling me? Or did you not read the post?
An acronym is an abbreviation SPOKEN as if it was a word, as opposed to being spoken letter by letter. If your definition were the case, then there would be no need for two words that mean the same thing. All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms (see square vs. rectangle).
Don't cite wikipedia or some other bastion of ignorance at me. Dictionaries write down every misuse of a word. Then some idiot says "look, it's in the dictionary, LuLz!". This is why moron after moron writes utilize when they mean use, or impact when they mean affect, jealousy when they mean envy. Writing down a lie doesn't make it true. Writing it 100,000,000,000 times doesn't make it true either.
Stop leaning on the minute hand of the Idiocracy Clock.
Initialism sounds the same as abbreviation. Is there a substantive difference or did someone dislike the word abbreviation and renamed it?
Heh. You're one of the ten people who have any idea what an initialism is. i'm not one of them.
i like acronyms. i'm a milbrat and a veteran and a geek. i live in a world of abbreviations. i don't like the insistence that EVERYTHING needs an acronym. i'm sorry... IDLtITRNaA.
Clever using Accidentally on Purpose to describe whether someone watched it accidentally or on purpose. i'll throw you some karma elsewhere.
Companies selling products (all companies) need to fire Nielsen. The smart folk are ditching cable and going to Hulu and the like.
It's not pronounceable so it's not an acronym.
Acronyms are to abbreviations as squares are to rectangles.
Why does everything have to have an abbreviation? i'd like to see companies, institutions, protocols and the like with... NAMES. Just give it a name!
Conversely: If you can't find your car in the parking lot you know exactly how fast it's moving.
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This is piracy:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJBxI1FsXSOylzXL8Ituzrin4Hmg
Are`al
Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).
Inclose is a word too. Huh.
Yellow Mold is CR6 and pretty dangerous stuff. If it escaped the dungeon it could wipe out the village.
is more commercialization of our institutions and cultural artifacts. The next step after letting Boeing shuttle our astronauts would be renaming the ISS as "The Tostidos Space Station". Next would be Cape Coca-cola. The Nike rocket would at least be somewhat apropos to the tiny crowd who knows something of aerospace history and mythology.
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My dad owned a Pong system.
Pong later appeared as a reference in the Cyberpunk 2020 game i played on the C64.
In college i made an animated gif of a pong game.
It's a classic.
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I'm going to the store and thEn the gas station. It's better thAn nothing.
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At the gazebo!
i modded you informative in another thread. Thanks for the info. Interesting how these things happen.
Loved that game.
i think some of its trouble was due to using the HL2 code that was leaked. They had to change a bunch of stuff at the last minute. Or so i heard.
i didn't notice any game breaking bugs. Just some quirky movement stuff that was the same as the quirks in most FPSes.
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Can we get some real competition between cellphone providers. AFAICT they are all the same company, offering the same shoddy service for the same insane price. The cheapest plan you can get is $40/mo and 450 minutes. Can we have a plan that doesn't assume i'm a twelve year old girl who must constantly yammer? Most of my calls are less than 5 minutes and i make a call about every two or three days. The pay as you go plans (inaccurately called "pre-paid") are often monthly plans in disguise because you can lose your number if you stop paying. Most of those systems are gimped and cost more per minute than a plan. It's not a real option.
Howabout divorcing hardware and infrastructure? i buy a phone. i connect the phone to my credit card. i dial a number. i select the provider that gives me the best combination of coverage and price. If X network is strong there but charges more than Y, but the call is trivial... i'll go with Y. If the call is important to me i can pick X. The companies would trample each other to provide good AND cheap service.
Howabout making it a utility? There's no real competition in the US, so why pretend there is? i buy a phone. Associate it with a credit card and call/text/surf until my thumbs are tired or my bill gets out of control. With no stockholders to please the prices could stay low. Or hell, just have a public utility option (wink). The state could compete against companies.
Howabout recognizing that companies benefit from people being able to access info and shop. The model works for Google, maybe we can apply it to telecom. Folks that are selling something fund the system that makes those sales possible.
^But W is all powerful and presidente for life! That or Obama will turn to the dark side. Because the worst is inevitable. ^
Or so the thinking goes.
Sorry for not using sarcastrophes in my previous post.
It's primary purpose is to end a threat without killing. Which, oddly enough, is the purpose of weapons for non-evil folk.
Generally, even crooks don't want to kill people, they just want to deter you from interfering with their crime. Some bad guys revel in killing, but that's why we dedicate a segment of our society to dealing with them: police and military. It's unfortunate, but the bad guys don't give a shit about what is fair or the resources wasted on deterring, persuing, trying and imprisoning. They are inconsiderate dicks. So we either have to submit to them or resist them. Sometimes the don't stop being mean because "it's wrong" or when we ask them politely. Sometimes resisting them means causing them pain or death. The option of: "live on a planet without bad guys" is not available yet. i think someday it could be.
This system is designed to make non-hardcore but still potentially dangerous folk to drop their molotovs and go away. There are less than lethal systems that seem less destructive than this. However, a blast from this is more survivable than a blast from an AR 15 or AK 47. The US military has rules for escalation of force in dealing with civilians*. If they use sticks and rocks, our soldiers can respond with non-lethal force. If they bring lethal weapons to the party, they become (unlawful) combatants and it's "open fire". i'd like for our soldiers to come home without having shot and killed civilians who got out of hand. i'd like for any place we occupy to have as few civilian deaths as possible, so i think working on systems like this is a good thing.
This particular system needs work. It might be useful only on ships.
* Civilian != innocent
It's news because /. will rail against this tech as being a tool of oppression that Bush will use on peaceful protesters.