Well here's the thing: You don't have to show identification, you just go to jail for not doing so. Try refusing to show your papers thinking 'ha, he can't just find another reason to arrest me and throw me in the bin anyway. The police would never do that!'
It's the great work-around governments have used for centuries. The police can't check your car without your permission either, but if you don't let them, who's to say your 'body language' or something of the sort wasn't giving off a bad vibe? The only reason the police need to give to put you in a holding cell is 'suspicion'. Just invoke the old 'oh my God, he's coming right for us!' trick and they can do whatever they want.
It's as easy as using 'abuse' in place of 'torture', y'know, calling POWs 'detainees', or putting a country in a police state without declaring a police state. So the info given in this article was really nothing new. Don't have papers? Go to jail. The only difference is that now they don't need an excuse. Simple as can be, and further confirmation that authority needs not obey authority's rules. Anyone surprised?
A dog that knows english. Damn. Humanity in general still has no clue what animals are thinking; we just make-believe that anything not bent on world-destruction is inferior (we're bent on the whole 'we r have bigger brain so we r smarterer' act). We're still just a bunch of neanderthals with calculators aren't we.
It's really just that stupid people with no understanding can't comprehend what animals are doing. It's more a projection by the ignorant than anything.
Just because you can teach the dog a few tricks doesn't mean that he actually has understanding of what he is doing. Humans are the only species cabable of understanding.
Do you see any reasoning, proof or even a hint of logic here? Neither do I. This fits right up there with 'the world is flat' and 'the sky is on a god's back' because it's a mindless concept based on absolutely nothing, which thinks it can stand up to the mountain of proof debunking it. It simply doesn't compute that some guy with absolutely no sense of logic or reason tries to say that he's the only thing in the world with logic and reason.
I guess it's natural to dislike school when you like learning. They're at two totally different ends of the spectrum. If you like to learn stuff, you can read almost anything off the internet, getting the information from a variety of people as opposed to a single professor who may or may not have the slightest clue what he's talking about. All thanks to the internet, know-it-all people claiming to be experts are debunked every day, and a lot of those sorts are the ones teaching at schools.
I think college is just good for medical studies and engineering, where there's not a whole lot of room for errors. Also for getting 'broken in' to subjects (like C#) which are really hard to teach without interaction. Otherwise you might end up blowing off a year and a small fortune on something you could have looked up from Google.
Nothing says 'oh shit, we're in trouble' like a big high-cost parade to make a system sound safe when it can be owned at the click of a hyperlink. Really, I don't see this doing anything but making it look like they're on their knees begging people not to use the systems that are kicking their butt. Sure, the public's gullibility is wearing off and Microsoft is clearly going downhill, but I think they just hit the accelerator.
Interesting. FCC is definitely cashing in on their new 'we control what you say' regulations. Impressive. Nobody's buying their 'think of the children' act anymore but it really doesn't matter anymore, does it? Control what everyone's aloud to say and hear and make a load of money off it? I want that job.
Are the lame 'war is Hell' stories just getting dumber, or were they always that way? It sounds like if you just add the phrases 'you'll never forget', 'in real life' and 'disturbing as Hell' and you've got everyone eating from the palm of your hand. It's an uncanny phenomenon. Oh and be sure to throw in a 'I've seen it all' here and there, because no attention-scrounging rant is complete without it.
Wahaha, oh it's true it's true. We'll have to face it sooner or later that everyone's yet to defeat Capcom in terms of artwork. They've got all the experienced cell and 3d artists that really know their field, while the kids at Squaresoft have this funny idea that if you just use a whole bunch of 3d artists, that automatically makes everything they do cool, and makes up for crappy gameplay and repetitive storylines.
There are far worse cases than Squaresoft, of course, but they're kind of popular so we can pick on them all we want:)
Yeah that part bothered me too. If someone's cowering in fear from something as basic as javascript then it's another case of PEBKCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard). If the browser sucks, there's a million others you can use.
Yeah. I'm so spoiled now that I've started using OS X. I started using it and was like 'where are the pop-ups and error messages and the ten minutes spent loading startup items?'
Like most people who dumped Windows for OS X, I was lost for a moment, but only because it was too damn easy. Instant connection to the internet? Oh yeah right, there's gotta be some kinda catch. Oh ho! Nope, no errors. Ethernet connecting requires plugging in a cable and that's it. No rebooting or preference changing unless I'm switching between cable and dial-up. Simple, just as it should be. I can have twenty applications open with no errors. The windows have shadows in place of borders (brilliant idea, shadows give the perfect 3d-ish placement, and why the Hell do you need borders?), the dock has pretty icons and not blocks, and there's no navigating the Hell through the Start menu.
Oh and you don't need to fork over a fortune for the complete development environment. It comes with the system. And it has an Apache web server built in. The basic system comes with practically everything (except a painter, which would be nice). Defragmenting and maintenance are practically unnecessary. It all just makes sense.
Macs are expensive, yeah, but let's face it: To get all this functionality and capability from Windows, you'll end up paying thousands of bucks more.
Overall, Apple invented the mouse-and-window GUI, and everyone else has yet to beat them. I'm still interested in trying Linux and a few others, but this is really all I need.
There's an excellent idea. Most others are saying 'let's continue taking it up the rear from them and letting the FCC control what we're allowed to say because they regulate radio waves.' Apparently they think that if you destroy a corrupt monster of an organization, then there's no way to replace it, and everything goes out of control and blows up and the whole world goes to Hell in an apocalyptic 'you can't breath without us' fashion.
The other problem: The government wouldn't want to lose its grip on communications and speech, so you won't get much help from politicians in replacing the FCC, unless you came up with an organization that could take an even more strict control over what people say.
Guess it's just another David-and-Goliath fight that'll continue for years to come.
Heh, now they made it off-subject. Is this great or what? It wasn't flaimbait because everyone else could clearly see the article is useless, and if you think talking about the given topic makes something 'off-topic' then I may as well not bother posting this because you've got preschool in a few minutes.
Looks like I was modded by whoever wrote the article. The score might have been someone else's fault but, let's face it, anyone else would have put more than three neurons of thought into scoring. This doesn't help the credibility of the article at all.
Exchange = trading = sharing = people trading and sharing and exchanging things
There, I fixed it for you. Go get a dictionary or an Idiot's Guide to Logic. Not to call anyone idiot. Can you tell me how a child-pornographer would benefit from a bunch of people exchanging pictures (not paying a cent) as opposed to ducking away for fear of being caught? Exactly.
Y'know, he had some credibility before the 'OMG conspiracy tinfoil aliens are going to kill everyone who doesn't bend over and take it from the government!'
The resistance against pointing out the painfully obvious seems to be getting more pitiful. Good thing the replies give some non-paranoid-nutcase input.
Good God. I've heard some stupid claims before, but this one's just the icing on the cake. I don't even want to acknowledge that I just read an article quoting some complete moron bitching about how anime will lose its hideous industrial manufactured look because other more intelligent companies have realized "wait, you mean there are artists outside of Japan that are at least as good?"
It's a clear ploy, if I ever saw one, to pretend this guy's little company has some sort of place as a pioneer. But here's the painful reality dude: If you stick with the sucky artists you have right now and pretend nobody exists outside your general area, you were doomed from the start, and posing as the holder of a meaningless 20-year tradition of Japanese animation (which was begun by artists using American techniques) is not, by a long-shot, going to save your dead-end company. I bid you a good pre-riddance.
The anti-aging technology, if ever completed will stop the evolution of the species.
Completely untrue to begin with, but then, I thought so too at first. Thing is, the human body completely replaces its own cells every three years or so; you're sort of 'born anew' several times in your life. DNA also changes over that time (it alters more frequently than commonly thought), from what you eat, touch, and so on, so all-in-all, you're constantly evolving with or without death. In fact, the coincidence-reliant method has probably been Slowing evolution down because entities with valuable DNA could die of circumstances, without getting a chance to breed.
The real problem would be the fact that this has to be the single worst planet in the universe to live on - that's my educated guess anyway - and this stuff could be done against one's will. It's bad enough being stuck here as long as we are, but to know that even old age won't free you? With the 'suicide makes you go to Hell and burn and die eternally and is bad' stuff still being preached by cave-dwellers and priests, a number of people could literally end up with indefinite misery. Yeah, I know it's sad that some people continue to want to enforce Hell beliefs, but in undeveloped places it's not that uncommon; some societies will actually tell you the world is flat and some that we exist on the back of a turtle, so like most developments, not everybody's going to welcome this with open arms. Still, y'know, I'm sure more of us know better by the time this stuff is complete. I've got some optimism in it.
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Well here's the thing: You don't have to show identification, you just go to jail for not doing so. Try refusing to show your papers thinking 'ha, he can't just find another reason to arrest me and throw me in the bin anyway. The police would never do that!'
It's the great work-around governments have used for centuries. The police can't check your car without your permission either, but if you don't let them, who's to say your 'body language' or something of the sort wasn't giving off a bad vibe? The only reason the police need to give to put you in a holding cell is 'suspicion'. Just invoke the old 'oh my God, he's coming right for us!' trick and they can do whatever they want.
It's as easy as using 'abuse' in place of 'torture', y'know, calling POWs 'detainees', or putting a country in a police state without declaring a police state. So the info given in this article was really nothing new. Don't have papers? Go to jail. The only difference is that now they don't need an excuse. Simple as can be, and further confirmation that authority needs not obey authority's rules. Anyone surprised?
You could just say no.
Yeah, it seems like the movie industry would rather you just download it. Doing otherwise is now a bigger waste of money and materials than ever.
A dog that knows english. Damn. Humanity in general still has no clue what animals are thinking; we just make-believe that anything not bent on world-destruction is inferior (we're bent on the whole 'we r have bigger brain so we r smarterer' act). We're still just a bunch of neanderthals with calculators aren't we.
It's really just that stupid people with no understanding can't comprehend what animals are doing. It's more a projection by the ignorant than anything.
Do you see any reasoning, proof or even a hint of logic here? Neither do I. This fits right up there with 'the world is flat' and 'the sky is on a god's back' because it's a mindless concept based on absolutely nothing, which thinks it can stand up to the mountain of proof debunking it. It simply doesn't compute that some guy with absolutely no sense of logic or reason tries to say that he's the only thing in the world with logic and reason.
I guess it's natural to dislike school when you like learning. They're at two totally different ends of the spectrum. If you like to learn stuff, you can read almost anything off the internet, getting the information from a variety of people as opposed to a single professor who may or may not have the slightest clue what he's talking about. All thanks to the internet, know-it-all people claiming to be experts are debunked every day, and a lot of those sorts are the ones teaching at schools.
I think college is just good for medical studies and engineering, where there's not a whole lot of room for errors. Also for getting 'broken in' to subjects (like C#) which are really hard to teach without interaction. Otherwise you might end up blowing off a year and a small fortune on something you could have looked up from Google.
Nothing says 'oh shit, we're in trouble' like a big high-cost parade to make a system sound safe when it can be owned at the click of a hyperlink. Really, I don't see this doing anything but making it look like they're on their knees begging people not to use the systems that are kicking their butt. Sure, the public's gullibility is wearing off and Microsoft is clearly going downhill, but I think they just hit the accelerator.
Heh, maybe there's a dialogue in it where a DJ says a naughty evil bad word, so they weren't allowed to show it to us.
Interesting. FCC is definitely cashing in on their new 'we control what you say' regulations. Impressive. Nobody's buying their 'think of the children' act anymore but it really doesn't matter anymore, does it? Control what everyone's aloud to say and hear and make a load of money off it? I want that job.
Yeah. The gist of the article seems to be 'realism is unrealistic'. Not much sense to it really.
Are the lame 'war is Hell' stories just getting dumber, or were they always that way? It sounds like if you just add the phrases 'you'll never forget', 'in real life' and 'disturbing as Hell' and you've got everyone eating from the palm of your hand. It's an uncanny phenomenon. Oh and be sure to throw in a 'I've seen it all' here and there, because no attention-scrounging rant is complete without it.
Wahaha, oh it's true it's true. We'll have to face it sooner or later that everyone's yet to defeat Capcom in terms of artwork. They've got all the experienced cell and 3d artists that really know their field, while the kids at Squaresoft have this funny idea that if you just use a whole bunch of 3d artists, that automatically makes everything they do cool, and makes up for crappy gameplay and repetitive storylines.
There are far worse cases than Squaresoft, of course, but they're kind of popular so we can pick on them all we want :)
Yeah that part bothered me too. If someone's cowering in fear from something as basic as javascript then it's another case of PEBKCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard). If the browser sucks, there's a million others you can use.
Yeah. I'm so spoiled now that I've started using OS X. I started using it and was like 'where are the pop-ups and error messages and the ten minutes spent loading startup items?'
Like most people who dumped Windows for OS X, I was lost for a moment, but only because it was too damn easy. Instant connection to the internet? Oh yeah right, there's gotta be some kinda catch. Oh ho! Nope, no errors. Ethernet connecting requires plugging in a cable and that's it. No rebooting or preference changing unless I'm switching between cable and dial-up. Simple, just as it should be. I can have twenty applications open with no errors. The windows have shadows in place of borders (brilliant idea, shadows give the perfect 3d-ish placement, and why the Hell do you need borders?), the dock has pretty icons and not blocks, and there's no navigating the Hell through the Start menu.
Oh and you don't need to fork over a fortune for the complete development environment. It comes with the system. And it has an Apache web server built in. The basic system comes with practically everything (except a painter, which would be nice). Defragmenting and maintenance are practically unnecessary. It all just makes sense.
Macs are expensive, yeah, but let's face it: To get all this functionality and capability from Windows, you'll end up paying thousands of bucks more.
Overall, Apple invented the mouse-and-window GUI, and everyone else has yet to beat them. I'm still interested in trying Linux and a few others, but this is really all I need.
There's an excellent idea. Most others are saying 'let's continue taking it up the rear from them and letting the FCC control what we're allowed to say because they regulate radio waves.' Apparently they think that if you destroy a corrupt monster of an organization, then there's no way to replace it, and everything goes out of control and blows up and the whole world goes to Hell in an apocalyptic 'you can't breath without us' fashion.
The other problem: The government wouldn't want to lose its grip on communications and speech, so you won't get much help from politicians in replacing the FCC, unless you came up with an organization that could take an even more strict control over what people say.
Guess it's just another David-and-Goliath fight that'll continue for years to come.
Heh, now they made it off-subject. Is this great or what? It wasn't flaimbait because everyone else could clearly see the article is useless, and if you think talking about the given topic makes something 'off-topic' then I may as well not bother posting this because you've got preschool in a few minutes.
Looks like I was modded by whoever wrote the article. The score might have been someone else's fault but, let's face it, anyone else would have put more than three neurons of thought into scoring. This doesn't help the credibility of the article at all.
Clearly none of it's news. The writer just wants some attention. Kind of a lame way to get it, really.
When I start up a Windows computer, I want to see a desktop that's not shrouded with spyware and pop-ups and errors. Do I see that? Nope.
I think this pareidolia stuff is all in your head.
So who's your enemy here, mp3 traders or photo traders? It seems with this sort of logic that one has to be bad and the other not-so-bad.
I don't see why I'd have to tell you how kids might benefit from it; that was your idea.
There, I fixed it for you. Go get a dictionary or an Idiot's Guide to Logic. Not to call anyone idiot. Can you tell me how a child-pornographer would benefit from a bunch of people exchanging pictures (not paying a cent) as opposed to ducking away for fear of being caught? Exactly.
Y'know, he had some credibility before the 'OMG conspiracy tinfoil aliens are going to kill everyone who doesn't bend over and take it from the government!'
The resistance against pointing out the painfully obvious seems to be getting more pitiful. Good thing the replies give some non-paranoid-nutcase input.
Good God. I've heard some stupid claims before, but this one's just the icing on the cake. I don't even want to acknowledge that I just read an article quoting some complete moron bitching about how anime will lose its hideous industrial manufactured look because other more intelligent companies have realized "wait, you mean there are artists outside of Japan that are at least as good?"
It's a clear ploy, if I ever saw one, to pretend this guy's little company has some sort of place as a pioneer. But here's the painful reality dude: If you stick with the sucky artists you have right now and pretend nobody exists outside your general area, you were doomed from the start, and posing as the holder of a meaningless 20-year tradition of Japanese animation (which was begun by artists using American techniques) is not, by a long-shot, going to save your dead-end company. I bid you a good pre-riddance.
Completely untrue to begin with, but then, I thought so too at first. Thing is, the human body completely replaces its own cells every three years or so; you're sort of 'born anew' several times in your life. DNA also changes over that time (it alters more frequently than commonly thought), from what you eat, touch, and so on, so all-in-all, you're constantly evolving with or without death. In fact, the coincidence-reliant method has probably been Slowing evolution down because entities with valuable DNA could die of circumstances, without getting a chance to breed.
The real problem would be the fact that this has to be the single worst planet in the universe to live on - that's my educated guess anyway - and this stuff could be done against one's will. It's bad enough being stuck here as long as we are, but to know that even old age won't free you? With the 'suicide makes you go to Hell and burn and die eternally and is bad' stuff still being preached by cave-dwellers and priests, a number of people could literally end up with indefinite misery. Yeah, I know it's sad that some people continue to want to enforce Hell beliefs, but in undeveloped places it's not that uncommon; some societies will actually tell you the world is flat and some that we exist on the back of a turtle, so like most developments, not everybody's going to welcome this with open arms. Still, y'know, I'm sure more of us know better by the time this stuff is complete. I've got some optimism in it.