...These people are not interested in blocking porn so they don't have to see it. They are interested in making porn illegal so you can't see it....
Advocating for the devil (if only to understand his argument)... if.xxx comes to be, then material that now stays buried under the weight of "public decency" will suddenly have a legitimized place to pitch a tent, which will, one suspects, result in generally wider availability of more of it. (E.g., a red-light district puts more prostitutes on view.)
...the Just Do It type attitude will more often than not lead to an IT disaster and subsequent loss of job scenario. Adding or changing architectures needs to be managed and approved...
That attitude replaces Just-Do-It with Cover-Your-Ass. While there's much to be said for/against each, I'll bet that the one somebody chooses is based mainly on genetics.
IMO, the strongest con-argument is the associated tendency to Just-Do-It Right Now, i.e., without letting yourself --and technically insightful colleagues-- ruminate for hidden snares.
...you could change a person's identity by injecting stem cells into their brain?
Brain cells come and go daily. Moreover, the precise location or composition of your "identity" is still posited as the hardest mystery confronting science. So, I wouldn't worry about the body-snatchers just yet...
...Good for Taiwan. Patent laws should not cause the death of people.
Lots of laws, even property laws, can directly or indirectly result in death. As I see it, we might well be sympathetic to Taiwan in the same way as we often are to the civilly disobedient. But the latter folks are prepared to accept consequences for their law-breaking...in a way thus maintaining respect for the Rule of Law. I'm curious to know what, if any, consequences Taiwan expects to endure...
Shouldn't all "authoritative information" come with a caveat emptor? Wikipedia's flaw may not be quality-shortfall, but merely incorrect product-labeling...inasmuch as it's not academia-vetted scripture. But remember, pharmacological-grade precision isn't always foremost in a user's mind...
What's the practical pickup range for a scanner? If the tags indeed become ubiquitous, and immortal by default... it could spur an unprecented data-mining industry, even without a priori personal data. E,g,, just watching how people move through Grand Central Station, or the Midwest, will be fascinating and exploitable.
According to the VSDA, [a game's violence] is decided] by juries, and different juries could have different opinions on what is defined as 'violent'.
Indeed. Although we routinely use juries to decide matters of actual life or death, using them to judge video-game violence is beyond their competence...
...So she was good at her job. Is that something that we need to vilify?
(No, apart from the fact that everything is something we need to vilify...)
Moreover... who hasn't occasionally lamented that only Politicians seek office? Have you never wished that, say, a President could be "drafted" from a President pool, comprising (like a jury pool) people who are qualified and willing but not seeking? Well, at first glance, this latest Bench-warmer pick may approximate that.
...copious free traffic to three major web advertising presences...
Meanwhile, whenever you see such intriguing ads for (say) a tv movie-of-the-week, you can be pretty sure they've been the project's main creative focus...
Giving preferential treatment to software just because it follows some creed is not the way to choose the best tools for the job and save the tax payers money.
One person's Creed is another's Heuristic. Since it's impossible to evaluate the whole tree of possible near-term outcomes, choosing open-source's long-range advantages and certainties seems common-sensical... a bit like betting on gravity.
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Advocating for the devil (if only to understand his argument)... if .xxx comes to be, then material that now stays buried under the weight of "public decency" will suddenly have a legitimized place to pitch a tent, which will, one suspects, result in generally wider availability of more of it. (E.g., a red-light district puts more prostitutes on view.)
That attitude replaces Just-Do-It with Cover-Your-Ass. While there's much to be said for/against each, I'll bet that the one somebody chooses is based mainly on genetics.
IMO, the strongest con-argument is the associated tendency to Just-Do-It Right Now, i.e., without letting yourself --and technically insightful colleagues-- ruminate for hidden snares.
They might... but, quoting a time-honored philosopher, it will be "easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle..."
Now at bookstores:
Quality-Control In Microbial Manufacturing
Chapter 1: Maintaining a dirty-room enivronment
Chapter 2: Preventing evolution
Brain cells come and go daily. Moreover, the precise location or composition of your "identity" is still posited as the hardest mystery confronting science. So, I wouldn't worry about the body-snatchers just yet...
Lots of laws, even property laws, can directly or indirectly result in death. As I see it, we might well be sympathetic to Taiwan in the same way as we often are to the civilly disobedient. But the latter folks are prepared to accept consequences for their law-breaking ...in a way thus maintaining respect for the Rule of Law. I'm curious to know what, if any, consequences Taiwan expects to endure...
So, web-chatting is a cure. And all this time I thought it was a symptom...
How do you get "reverse engineering" and "momentous" into one paragraph?
Is Estonia an oligarchy? Maybe the "but" should've be a "therefore"...
Shouldn't all "authoritative information" come with a caveat emptor? Wikipedia's flaw may not be quality-shortfall, but merely incorrect product-labeling ...inasmuch as it's not academia-vetted scripture. But remember, pharmacological-grade precision isn't always foremost in a user's mind...
You would've been right!
The anagram, which follows from "Thanks for all the fish" is: worth o' cod (as in "What's the...)
It was either that, or launch a Big F**king Gun assault on the state house...
Maybe the other employees should be able to mod each other's eMails up and down. Hey, wait...
What's the practical pickup range for a scanner? If the tags indeed become ubiquitous, and immortal by default... it could spur an unprecented data-mining industry, even without a priori personal data. E,g,, just watching how people move through Grand Central Station, or the Midwest, will be fascinating and exploitable.
Indeed. Although we routinely use juries to decide matters of actual life or death, using them to judge video-game violence is beyond their competence...
We yearned, yet the Fates took a pass.
No Office, sweet Google? Alas...
AFAIK, Google has always been about understanding how people work...
(No, apart from the fact that everything is something we need to vilify...)
Moreover... who hasn't occasionally lamented that only Politicians seek office? Have you never wished that, say, a President could be "drafted" from a President pool, comprising (like a jury pool) people who are qualified and willing but not seeking? Well, at first glance, this latest Bench-warmer pick may approximate that.
Enjoy those annual endless photo-album recaps of your neighbor's summer vacation? Good news... now they're going real-time...
Time-travel (1 year forward, at a comfortable rate) included at no extra charge...
Moreover, even a Spidey-flick optimist has be curious about what Dunst meant by "though"...
Meanwhile, whenever you see such intriguing ads for (say) a tv movie-of-the-week, you can be pretty sure they've been the project's main creative focus...
One person's Creed is another's Heuristic. Since it's impossible to evaluate the whole tree of possible near-term outcomes, choosing open-source's long-range advantages and certainties seems common-sensical... a bit like betting on gravity.
So you're in trouble if, e.g., you film someone not eating enough roughage...
An ironic side-effect of such crusades is to turn pornographers into white knights. (You can already feel it happening, can't you?)