Because, what, it involves tearing people open and was never known to work till this single supposed occasion? Not saying it didn't happen of course, I just haven't seen much confirmation personally. Something that's dramatically worse doesn't qualify as better in my book, even though some assert otherwise. But, then, these 'scientists' would be using rocks to cure paralysis if there were a prominent myth that stem cells didn't exist.
I know I know, it was a frickin' joke. But you can't get away with that on Slashdot!
They'll face penalties for letting kids under the age of 18 access adult games
So, you mean the game is over 18 years of age. Interesting. Looks like their government wants to cash in on the "keep kids in a cage, make them as miserable as possible for less violence" business. The keyword there, of course, is 'penalty', which means 'fine', which means "Nut job conservatives making money by torturing kids."
The problem with teen violence these days is they're just not shooting the right people. You can't expect liberation to just fall into your lap you know.
I happen to have the same eye problem; some obvious lines in my vision which don't go away. It's a genetic thing more than a computer thing. And yeah, I've had quite a bit fewer headaches with an LCD screen; the clarity of it makes life easier. I can program for hours without having problems.
And for color scheme: After making websites and wondering about this here and there, I've found the most comfortable scheme to be a background at around 80-85% luminosity with black type.
True. I'm using one right now. It's been working almost two years and of course, no need for battery change. Plus it doesn't use RFID (or does it?) and has no lag. Maybe it's more an issue of price.
The 'wireless mouse' mentioned in the article looks absolutely useless, but maybe it'll make for a smidge of competition.
This is a nice show of what the internet does to parents. No wonder the kids are so grumpy.
Banning them because they won't go outside and waste their time standing around would prove that you're a moron. Standing over them playing Big Brother proves you're untrustworthy, and that net-surfing should be while your back is turned to prevent you from going psychotic over it. Buying into all the 'net monitor' scams does the same, only with more guarantee of your kids becoming furious with your behavior.
Either way, if you get out of hand and try go off manipulating people, you lose. The stupidest thing you can do in response to unhappy kids is blame something they like and ruin it. Just my two cents.
In related news: Minorities are changing the color of their skin in compliance with the KKK's 'Most Impure Ethnicities' list, Jews are shooting themselves after Nazis released their 'Reasons to Kill Everyone' list, and most of the US has atomic-bombed itself into oblivion after hearing Bin Laden's ''
More 'Ban Video Games, Kill Traitors' lists were on the way - thanks to inspiration from IEMA's heroic cowardice - but other such conservative groups had gotten into arguments, shooting and killing each other before finishing, in debates over which video games the Furor and Bush would have preferred. Final Fantasy was a favored candidate. "We would like to focus practical violence on more constructive activities such as killing Iraqis and bombing abortion clinics." said a spokeswoman during an ESRB meeting.
some of the downsides of a society without government are visible, as the country is divided by warring factions and the roads have gone completely unmaintained."
Awww too bad. Wouldn't wanna point out something that supports life without government control. Maybe if you enjoy torture for some reason; otherwise not. But yipes! Warring factions? Can't they just peacefully join forces and obliterate countries with oil like real nations do?
For cripes sake they need to join another country before they're all spontaneously killed by the lack of murderous politicians like the school system says to believe. Come on, they'll love it. It's freedom; we're all free. I mean except for the whole "everyone's in prison, in psychological torture, funding nuclear doomsday devices with taxes and killing each other" thing, but that's a small price to pay for well-maintained roads.
Also, people with beards are 80% more likely to get a detached retina.
Shouldn't we have learned by now that nonsensical studies aimed at a specific result don't work? You're still giving press to every nut case with a lab for some reason.
Precisely. That's just what I keep telling people who use the 'everything could be a hologram' excuse. If by some chance a spoon is made from 1's and 0's, then so what? It just means spoons are made from 1's and 0's; it's still a spoon. Everything's made of something.
So yeah, if something's abstract then it's still real, because, like all real things, it exists. The fact that it's not made of atoms really doesn't change this.
That's kinda the point, of course. Assuming the government didn't incite 9/11 itself (quite an assumption), the terrorists probably knew the government's reaction ahead of time: Lock down the nation and throw anyone in prison who stands in politicians' ways.
Sorta the old 'butterfly causing a hurricane' effect. Just knock down a building, set back and all the governments will do the rest of the terrorizing for you.
Well at least it's a good time to be a politician. That has to count for something, doesn't it?
Promises of greater technology don't mean much to me either. In fact, holographic storage was supposed to be up and running about a year ago. I'm supposed to have a 30TB 5gig-per-second 1cm storage cube right now, but nearly every project involving this possibility has been tossed aside. So, maybe it could have gone somewhere had the companies kept going. I don't care much. They started it; they can end it whenever they want.
Right now I couldn't give less of a crap how much I can store on a DVD when it's just gonna deteriorate in a decade. Is the priority is in the right place here?
Either way, they can wake me when they've got something on the market.
Sounds great, but it looks a bit rushed. The East would bring back slavery and bomb the West for fear of WMDs, everyone going to Nader's Hawaii would forget their boats, and Badnarik's Alaska would be overtaken by Canada after three days.
Yes I'm afraid the site gives intelligent conclusions, which creates a horrible slant away from Bushies and neaderthals and all the sort, as the facts are very offensive to their standpoint. One solution involves select readers no longer being dumb, the other is for dumb people to get their news from Fox or some check-out line magazine where their ideas are fully supported and those dreadful facts no longer their face.
Haha! Yep! First they accidentally tortured a bunch of people, then somehow information on it gets wiped out! Haha, that silly Bush administration, always making funny mistakes.
Y'know, critics of wasteful military spending can go find a million things money is wasted on, but research? Obviously there are a lot of kids out there wanting to believe "I saw teleporting in a video game, so moving instantly from one place to another r impossible!" and most ironically, they're using computers to say this.
This is the first worthwhile military study I've heard of in years, what with all the usual variations of atomic bomb design, and honestly, where would they be if they listened to every clueless nut job who couldn't comprehend the number of sides on a triangle? There are quite a few countries out there who, unlike the dumb hicks we're surrounded by here, aren't told that nothing exists outside their local mall and supermarket. If we just concentrated on blowing more things up from helicopters, what do we get? More useless deaths by soldiers with no clue what their cameras are looking at, while someone in a more intelligent foreign military or even a group of thugs could go straight to our leaders and take them out.
But I guess, over here, we're just supposed to think everything under the sun is a big fake conspiracy lie unless some company has been advertising and selling it for many years. It's not a written law or anything; just something upheld by a few raving lunatics. But, should we really tend to a bunch of idiots who want to claim 'instant movement is impossible because I can't comprehend physics!' I really don't know. Thing is, those idiots are technically paying for it, but then the military is there for security. I mean if we were to wrap military standards around the 'nothing exists!!' ideas of a few... not-so-intelligent people, then what about the rest? The people who aren't a bunch of uneducated sheep would be in danger because of the thought-free ideas of just a few.
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"Guess I'll have to go back to shooting real people."
Thanks conservative nut jobs.
You need to go find out what sort of moron would believe the facts you make up.
Because, what, it involves tearing people open and was never known to work till this single supposed occasion? Not saying it didn't happen of course, I just haven't seen much confirmation personally. Something that's dramatically worse doesn't qualify as better in my book, even though some assert otherwise. But, then, these 'scientists' would be using rocks to cure paralysis if there were a prominent myth that stem cells didn't exist.
I know I know, it was a frickin' joke. But you can't get away with that on Slashdot!
They'll face penalties for letting kids under the age of 18 access adult games
So, you mean the game is over 18 years of age. Interesting. Looks like their government wants to cash in on the "keep kids in a cage, make them as miserable as possible for less violence" business. The keyword there, of course, is 'penalty', which means 'fine', which means "Nut job conservatives making money by torturing kids."
The problem with teen violence these days is they're just not shooting the right people. You can't expect liberation to just fall into your lap you know.
I happen to have the same eye problem; some obvious lines in my vision which don't go away. It's a genetic thing more than a computer thing. And yeah, I've had quite a bit fewer headaches with an LCD screen; the clarity of it makes life easier. I can program for hours without having problems.
And for color scheme: After making websites and wondering about this here and there, I've found the most comfortable scheme to be a background at around 80-85% luminosity with black type.
True. I'm using one right now. It's been working almost two years and of course, no need for battery change. Plus it doesn't use RFID (or does it?) and has no lag. Maybe it's more an issue of price.
The 'wireless mouse' mentioned in the article looks absolutely useless, but maybe it'll make for a smidge of competition.
This is a nice show of what the internet does to parents. No wonder the kids are so grumpy.
Banning them because they won't go outside and waste their time standing around would prove that you're a moron. Standing over them playing Big Brother proves you're untrustworthy, and that net-surfing should be while your back is turned to prevent you from going psychotic over it. Buying into all the 'net monitor' scams does the same, only with more guarantee of your kids becoming furious with your behavior.
Either way, if you get out of hand and try go off manipulating people, you lose. The stupidest thing you can do in response to unhappy kids is blame something they like and ruin it. Just my two cents.
In related news: Minorities are changing the color of their skin in compliance with the KKK's 'Most Impure Ethnicities' list, Jews are shooting themselves after Nazis released their 'Reasons to Kill Everyone' list, and most of the US has atomic-bombed itself into oblivion after hearing Bin Laden's ''
More 'Ban Video Games, Kill Traitors' lists were on the way - thanks to inspiration from IEMA's heroic cowardice - but other such conservative groups had gotten into arguments, shooting and killing each other before finishing, in debates over which video games the Furor and Bush would have preferred. Final Fantasy was a favored candidate. "We would like to focus practical violence on more constructive activities such as killing Iraqis and bombing abortion clinics." said a spokeswoman during an ESRB meeting.
some of the downsides of a society without government are visible, as the country is divided by warring factions and the roads have gone completely unmaintained."
Awww too bad. Wouldn't wanna point out something that supports life without government control. Maybe if you enjoy torture for some reason; otherwise not. But yipes! Warring factions? Can't they just peacefully join forces and obliterate countries with oil like real nations do?
For cripes sake they need to join another country before they're all spontaneously killed by the lack of murderous politicians like the school system says to believe. Come on, they'll love it. It's freedom; we're all free. I mean except for the whole "everyone's in prison, in psychological torture, funding nuclear doomsday devices with taxes and killing each other" thing, but that's a small price to pay for well-maintained roads.
Also, people with beards are 80% more likely to get a detached retina.
Shouldn't we have learned by now that nonsensical studies aimed at a specific result don't work? You're still giving press to every nut case with a lab for some reason.
Precisely. That's just what I keep telling people who use the 'everything could be a hologram' excuse. If by some chance a spoon is made from 1's and 0's, then so what? It just means spoons are made from 1's and 0's; it's still a spoon. Everything's made of something.
So yeah, if something's abstract then it's still real, because, like all real things, it exists. The fact that it's not made of atoms really doesn't change this.
That's kinda the point, of course. Assuming the government didn't incite 9/11 itself (quite an assumption), the terrorists probably knew the government's reaction ahead of time: Lock down the nation and throw anyone in prison who stands in politicians' ways.
Sorta the old 'butterfly causing a hurricane' effect. Just knock down a building, set back and all the governments will do the rest of the terrorizing for you.
Well at least it's a good time to be a politician. That has to count for something, doesn't it?
Promises of greater technology don't mean much to me either. In fact, holographic storage was supposed to be up and running about a year ago. I'm supposed to have a 30TB 5gig-per-second 1cm storage cube right now, but nearly every project involving this possibility has been tossed aside. So, maybe it could have gone somewhere had the companies kept going. I don't care much. They started it; they can end it whenever they want.
Right now I couldn't give less of a crap how much I can store on a DVD when it's just gonna deteriorate in a decade. Is the priority is in the right place here?
Either way, they can wake me when they've got something on the market.
Politics for nerds. Your vote means you're the biggest sucker in the world and wouldn't know freedom if it were shoved up your ass.
Don't bitch about the system if you're the one giving it fuel.
Sounds great, but it looks a bit rushed. The East would bring back slavery and bomb the West for fear of WMDs, everyone going to Nader's Hawaii would forget their boats, and Badnarik's Alaska would be overtaken by Canada after three days.
Hmm..
Heheh. Yeah it's like they say: "Always consider the source."
he claims that it's the popularity and market share of Microsoft's products that are responsible
People have been hacking Windows with absolutely no problem from day one. Nice try.
Bingo
Woohoo! I guess Microsoft has finally found something it's good at.
Ouch, my karma.
Yes I'm afraid the site gives intelligent conclusions, which creates a horrible slant away from Bushies and neaderthals and all the sort, as the facts are very offensive to their standpoint. One solution involves select readers no longer being dumb, the other is for dumb people to get their news from Fox or some check-out line magazine where their ideas are fully supported and those dreadful facts no longer their face.
Haha! Yep! First they accidentally tortured a bunch of people, then somehow information on it gets wiped out! Haha, that silly Bush administration, always making funny mistakes.
Funny how the word 'bias' has come to mean "not tending to the ideas of idiots."
Gyahahaha!
I just dedicated a post to laughing...
Wow, that's like, paranoia on a whole new level. They must have just graduated from Windows.
Then we won't have to worry about it!
Y'know, critics of wasteful military spending can go find a million things money is wasted on, but research? Obviously there are a lot of kids out there wanting to believe "I saw teleporting in a video game, so moving instantly from one place to another r impossible!" and most ironically, they're using computers to say this.
This is the first worthwhile military study I've heard of in years, what with all the usual variations of atomic bomb design, and honestly, where would they be if they listened to every clueless nut job who couldn't comprehend the number of sides on a triangle? There are quite a few countries out there who, unlike the dumb hicks we're surrounded by here, aren't told that nothing exists outside their local mall and supermarket. If we just concentrated on blowing more things up from helicopters, what do we get? More useless deaths by soldiers with no clue what their cameras are looking at, while someone in a more intelligent foreign military or even a group of thugs could go straight to our leaders and take them out.
But I guess, over here, we're just supposed to think everything under the sun is a big fake conspiracy lie unless some company has been advertising and selling it for many years. It's not a written law or anything; just something upheld by a few raving lunatics. But, should we really tend to a bunch of idiots who want to claim 'instant movement is impossible because I can't comprehend physics!' I really don't know. Thing is, those idiots are technically paying for it, but then the military is there for security. I mean if we were to wrap military standards around the 'nothing exists!!' ideas of a few... not-so-intelligent people, then what about the rest? The people who aren't a bunch of uneducated sheep would be in danger because of the thought-free ideas of just a few.