Part of parenting is knowing what is and is not appropriate for your own child. The best person in the world to judge that is a good parent. Not society, not a game company, not Congress, and not some random person on the internet (yes, I've had people tell me what is and is not appropriate for my son, here and elsewhere). Some children have no problem viewing "graphic" content like GTA. I was one of those. However, some--a minority in my opinion--are not emotionally capable of seperating fantasy imagery from real life. It's not that they don't know the difference between GTA and the real world, it's that they think that they can apply what they see in GTA to the real world.
I've seen kids whose parents tried very hard to teach them that TV and video games aren't real continue to attempt to carry out what they saw there...and more than once it resulted in physical injury. Parents are supposed to filter the world for their kids. Getting hit with the full reality of how things are at age 6 is a bit much for most kids.
wonderful... finally something that deserves to be modded up and my points expired yesterday...
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you might know exactly what you're doing, but without a certification, most employers won't know that and you have no proof.
and plus the whole thing prevents you from having to risk getting a criminal record during your "practise".
Obviously you're a little deluded as to the 'democracy' of a bi-partisan republic.
I'm gonna have to agree with this guy. between the democrats and the republicans there is not a whole hell of a lot of difference. most of them seem to have the exact same things in mind (most of the legislation that gets dragged through the mud (deceivingly) around here are bi-partisan).
for a democracy to work with any kind of real representation of the people, you need more than 2 major parties. up here in canada, we have 4 seat-holding parties, and things seem to work pretty well up here,
40 years from now they'll be wondering why senior citizens are playing videogames
they already are. you'd be amazed how many senior citizens you find playing MMORPGs. makes perfect sense to me as they tend to have adequate money for such luxuries along with large quantities of spare time.
simply, i would love to get eBooks, as often, the books that i read are rather large and don't fit too well into my pockets, rather limiting my reading time, and rather happen to like reading good books whenever i have some free time.
a "PADD-like" device would be absolutely perfect, especially if i could, say, wander over to the library (or goto the library website) and download-borrow a book which then i can have on the device until i finish reading it, then it wipes itself from the device (minimalistic DRM, which is fine), though allowing me to "reborrow" the book if i want to. this sounds perfectly feasable to me. if they publishers really wanted, they could have the libraries charge a "membership fee" of about $5 bucks a month to borrow ebooks. i wouldn't have any problems with it.
with recent developments in screens (flexible screens, OLED, etc.) , memory (always getting bigger and you don't need all that much space to store text. a single compactflash card could store dozens, if not hundreds, of books), and batteries (still a bit of a problem, but with such minimalistic hardware, it shouldn't require much power), it could be quite feasable within a couple years, if not now.
now just to yank publishes out of the past, as IMO, that's the whole reason why this haven't ever gotten anywhere yet.
yes, but the way that the government seems today, those "temporary" restrictions on freedom are looking to become permenant in a hurry.
and largely, not to flame, but the US basically created its own damn mess back in the 80s. the whole mess with iraq and bin laden and afganistan was the US's fault almost entirely and if you would like specifics, just ask.
and what exactly makes you think that we will fall under "terrorist rule" if we retain our rights??
and for the matter, i really don't see that all the BS that the US government is putting in place will do anything at all to stop any kind of major organization, like al-quida that wants to make things blow up or fall down.
i believe that the parent poster was referring to the fact that corporations seem to need to have laws created so that they can become large. not that laws automatically make them large. a company will grow as large as is feasible and expand into as many markets as possible if there is no control mechanism in place (either a moral guy in total control or (enforced) legal constraints)
It's when corporations are so big that they're not really controlled by a single individual that their true amorality becomes obvious. Everyone has a very slightly different idea of what is right and wrong, so unless you have one person who is in a position to pull the plug and say "no, that's wrong -- stop," it will basically do anything that's profitable. Unless the action is so grievously immoral that everyone involved in the company's operation can agree that it's wrong. But that rarely happens.
this simply hits the nail on the head! i seriously wish i had some mod points handy.
yes, but it often goes to the claiment in this type of case, almost irregardless of how frivilous the claim is.
and even if they don't win, they can often foot drag enough to cost you a fair lot in legal fees, which if you're a tiny mom&pop store, can drive you out of bussiness.
i like to think i am better than that. but you have a good point. google is in that situation to an extent and they are still fairly good. i recently read an artice about how the founders gave up a good way to make even more money becuase it 'didnt feel right'.
this is mostly the reason why google makes my short list of "non-evil" corperations that i know of.
but one has to wonder how long such morality will last now that they have gone public. people who invest in a company by-and-large did so so they can make money and they usually don't give a flying **** what the company does to make that money, so long as they get some of it.
or, better yet, just set up shop in some minor, peaceful country that doesn't have any extradition treaties with anyone. problems solved!
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and superior performance + equal or lower price - FUD = rising market share
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AFAIK, the newest AMD chips support everything that the latest Intel chips do (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64, and likely a couple more i forget) , and then some, as IIRC, the AMD implementation of x86-64 has one or two more commands, which Intel ignored in their standard.
i have no idea on what the answer for any of the questions you posed is. i fully accept that i have no idea on the answer and i am confident that we will eventually figure it all out, somehow.
well, a possible idea for enforcement would be that they would be questioned on important aspects of the law to determine if they have heard it/read it. if they can't answer, they have to read it again.
it would certainly cut down the complexity and number of (frivilous/lopsided) laws that are being passed, often without the representives of the people knowing what the hell the law is about.
and unless i'm greatly mistaken, think that such a custom (i don't think its actually a written law) that any law going into the house of commons (in Canada) has to be read by all MPs in entirety before it can be voted on, which is why it often takes a couple weeks to pass a bill up here.
i think the analogy is off (provided this isn't merely a troll)
a more apt analogy would be several tornadoes going through a trailer park one after another and eventually assembling something of some level of complexity.
the way we are occurred by chance. one random change long ago could have resulted in us being far different that we are today, as if that tornado idea assembled a helicopter rather than an airplane for example.
and no, the "occurred by chance" thing does not eliminate the possibility of there being (a) god(s). something had to start everything. IMO, its entirely likely that he/she/it/whatever simply went "let there be light", "let there be stuff", then just sat back down in his chair and watched things happen.
i belive that feet are already a commonly used method of computer using among those without usable hands, but granted, this would have a significantly shorter learning curve than learning to use a keyboard with your toes, for those who suddenly lose the use of their hands.
Godwin's law cannot be applied to this situation and the referance to Nazis is a justifiable compairison, being as nazi-ism is a censored subject in germany and this story is discusing an attempt at censorship
*back on topic*
and futhermore, i agree. free speech is an all-or-nothing type of thing.
uhhh. that's not "censorship" that's "ignoring him". YOU control YOUR foe list. no one else is affected by your foe list, unless they get the idea that TMM is evil because you foe'd him and thus foe him, resulting in paracitical foe'ing resulting in no one reading his insightful postings, but that's still not censorship, that's merely human stupidity at work.
Someday we will have a law holding Congressmen criminally responsible for their votes. Sometimes their legislation is so outrageous. We can call it the "Protect America from Cretinous Lawmakers Act". Any Congressman who votes against this should go to prison.:-)
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Part of parenting is knowing what is and is not appropriate for your own child. The best person in the world to judge that is a good parent. Not society, not a game company, not Congress, and not some random person on the internet (yes, I've had people tell me what is and is not appropriate for my son, here and elsewhere). Some children have no problem viewing "graphic" content like GTA. I was one of those. However, some--a minority in my opinion--are not emotionally capable of seperating fantasy imagery from real life. It's not that they don't know the difference between GTA and the real world, it's that they think that they can apply what they see in GTA to the real world.
I've seen kids whose parents tried very hard to teach them that TV and video games aren't real continue to attempt to carry out what they saw there...and more than once it resulted in physical injury. Parents are supposed to filter the world for their kids. Getting hit with the full reality of how things are at age 6 is a bit much for most kids.
wonderful... finally something that deserves to be modded up and my points expired yesterday...
you might know exactly what you're doing, but without a certification, most employers won't know that and you have no proof.
and plus the whole thing prevents you from having to risk getting a criminal record during your "practise".
that would depend on whats in the burrito. at some point, the temperature would be hot enough to catch fire and burn.
whether his tolerance for heat would be below that point is the question...
"the purpose of any scientific study is to prove what everyone already knows"
Obviously you're a little deluded as to the 'democracy' of a bi-partisan republic.
I'm gonna have to agree with this guy. between the democrats and the republicans there is not a whole hell of a lot of difference. most of them seem to have the exact same things in mind (most of the legislation that gets dragged through the mud (deceivingly) around here are bi-partisan).
for a democracy to work with any kind of real representation of the people, you need more than 2 major parties. up here in canada, we have 4 seat-holding parties, and things seem to work pretty well up here,
40 years from now they'll be wondering why senior citizens are playing videogames
they already are. you'd be amazed how many senior citizens you find playing MMORPGs. makes perfect sense to me as they tend to have adequate money for such luxuries along with large quantities of spare time.
IFN (Independent Film Network) has them on 24/7 (starchoice channel 634, i think, dunno about any other services.)
pro bono actually more-or-less translates to "for the good" and the full term is "pro bono publico" which is "for the public good".
and yes, i know this is likely a troll, so don't bother with a YHBT reply.
well, for me, it would be "all of the above"
simply, i would love to get eBooks, as often, the books that i read are rather large and don't fit too well into my pockets, rather limiting my reading time, and rather happen to like reading good books whenever i have some free time.
a "PADD-like" device would be absolutely perfect, especially if i could, say, wander over to the library (or goto the library website) and download-borrow a book which then i can have on the device until i finish reading it, then it wipes itself from the device (minimalistic DRM, which is fine), though allowing me to "reborrow" the book if i want to. this sounds perfectly feasable to me. if they publishers really wanted, they could have the libraries charge a "membership fee" of about $5 bucks a month to borrow ebooks. i wouldn't have any problems with it.
with recent developments in screens (flexible screens, OLED, etc.) , memory (always getting bigger and you don't need all that much space to store text. a single compactflash card could store dozens, if not hundreds, of books), and batteries (still a bit of a problem, but with such minimalistic hardware, it shouldn't require much power), it could be quite feasable within a couple years, if not now.
now just to yank publishes out of the past, as IMO, that's the whole reason why this haven't ever gotten anywhere yet.
yes, but the way that the government seems today, those "temporary" restrictions on freedom are looking to become permenant in a hurry.
and largely, not to flame, but the US basically created its own damn mess back in the 80s. the whole mess with iraq and bin laden and afganistan was the US's fault almost entirely and if you would like specifics, just ask.
and what exactly makes you think that we will fall under "terrorist rule" if we retain our rights??
and for the matter, i really don't see that all the BS that the US government is putting in place will do anything at all to stop any kind of major organization, like al-quida that wants to make things blow up or fall down.
i would say there is likely one somewhere on the planet. likely a tiny little tropical island country that no one pays any attention to.
i believe that the parent poster was referring to the fact that corporations seem to need to have laws created so that they can become large. not that laws automatically make them large. a company will grow as large as is feasible and expand into as many markets as possible if there is no control mechanism in place (either a moral guy in total control or (enforced) legal constraints)
It's when corporations are so big that they're not really controlled by a single individual that their true amorality becomes obvious. Everyone has a very slightly different idea of what is right and wrong, so unless you have one person who is in a position to pull the plug and say "no, that's wrong -- stop," it will basically do anything that's profitable. Unless the action is so grievously immoral that everyone involved in the company's operation can agree that it's wrong. But that rarely happens.
this simply hits the nail on the head! i seriously wish i had some mod points handy.
yes, but it often goes to the claiment in this type of case, almost irregardless of how frivilous the claim is.
and even if they don't win, they can often foot drag enough to cost you a fair lot in legal fees, which if you're a tiny mom&pop store, can drive you out of bussiness.
i like to think i am better than that. but you have a good point. google is in that situation to an extent and they are still fairly good. i recently read an artice about how the founders gave up a good way to make even more money becuase it 'didnt feel right'.
this is mostly the reason why google makes my short list of "non-evil" corperations that i know of.
but one has to wonder how long such morality will last now that they have gone public. people who invest in a company by-and-large did so so they can make money and they usually don't give a flying **** what the company does to make that money, so long as they get some of it.
or, better yet, just set up shop in some minor, peaceful country that doesn't have any extradition treaties with anyone. problems solved!
and superior performance + equal or lower price - FUD = rising market share
AFAIK, the newest AMD chips support everything that the latest Intel chips do (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64, and likely a couple more i forget) , and then some, as IIRC, the AMD implementation of x86-64 has one or two more commands, which Intel ignored in their standard.
i have no idea on what the answer for any of the questions you posed is. i fully accept that i have no idea on the answer and i am confident that we will eventually figure it all out, somehow.
well, a possible idea for enforcement would be that they would be questioned on important aspects of the law to determine if they have heard it/read it. if they can't answer, they have to read it again.
it would certainly cut down the complexity and number of (frivilous/lopsided) laws that are being passed, often without the representives of the people knowing what the hell the law is about.
and unless i'm greatly mistaken, think that such a custom (i don't think its actually a written law) that any law going into the house of commons (in Canada) has to be read by all MPs in entirety before it can be voted on, which is why it often takes a couple weeks to pass a bill up here.
i think the analogy is off (provided this isn't merely a troll)
a more apt analogy would be several tornadoes going through a trailer park one after another and eventually assembling something of some level of complexity.
the way we are occurred by chance. one random change long ago could have resulted in us being far different that we are today, as if that tornado idea assembled a helicopter rather than an airplane for example.
and no, the "occurred by chance" thing does not eliminate the possibility of there being (a) god(s). something had to start everything. IMO, its entirely likely that he/she/it/whatever simply went "let there be light", "let there be stuff", then just sat back down in his chair and watched things happen.
i belive that feet are already a commonly used method of computer using among those without usable hands, but granted, this would have a significantly shorter learning curve than learning to use a keyboard with your toes, for those who suddenly lose the use of their hands.
*dragging thread off topic*
Godwin's law cannot be applied to this situation and the referance to Nazis is a justifiable compairison, being as nazi-ism is a censored subject in germany and this story is discusing an attempt at censorship
*back on topic*
and futhermore, i agree. free speech is an all-or-nothing type of thing.
uhhh. that's not "censorship" that's "ignoring him". YOU control YOUR foe list. no one else is affected by your foe list, unless they get the idea that TMM is evil because you foe'd him and thus foe him, resulting in paracitical foe'ing resulting in no one reading his insightful postings, but that's still not censorship, that's merely human stupidity at work.
Someday we will have a law holding Congressmen criminally responsible for their votes. Sometimes their legislation is so outrageous. We can call it the "Protect America from Cretinous Lawmakers Act". Any Congressman who votes against this should go to prison. :-)
i would settle for the Read The Bill Act (http://www.downsizedc.org/read_the_laws.shtml)