Lobbying groups and voting groups only have power as a minority unless they have the money to get real attention from Congress. This group won't raise anywhere near what is required to move Congress to act.
But haven't you heard? Minorities are ruling America. I saw it on Fox news so it must be true!
Gamers need a voice the same way that homosexuals need one. After all, much like homosexuality, being a gamer is soon to become a disease for no reason other then political ones. Wouldn't YOU want a voice now, before you get labelled a sick person who better be locked up for his own good?
It bloody well should, unless you're a big fan of Franco, Mussolini, and Stalin.
There must have been a large turnout of fans for those people in this article because many people actually supported the restriction of speech outlined in the article.
I wonder if those same people will turn up in this thread to defend this bill.
As opposed to now where the president has publicly admitted to undertaking impeachable acts, with government agencies regularly breaking laws, and nothing being done about any of it?
Sure we know about it now. That's done a lot. Perhaps we can use those Diebold voting machines, or try to vote in Florida where they deliberately send people away that statistically will vote for the opposition.
Take 10000 ancient babies and 10000 modern babies though, place them in equal situations, and you'll see a pattern of differences between the groups.
Sorry, still don't buy it. Considering the experiment is (unfortunately) impossible, we'll have to go about another way to prove or disprove the role of genetics in our behaviour.
It is a problem. The second we find the causes of certain things in genes, there will be high pressure to eliminate them. Sure Hitler went out of control when he started killing off all the Jews and homosexuals and non-Aryan people, but there are other more humane ways. Such as sterilization. If it's found gene X when configured in manner A increases the likelihood of someone becoming a serial killer to 90%, there aren't many arguments you can come up with to say "we should keep that gene in that configuration in our gene pool."
That's the scary thing. If gene's do affect our behaviour to a large degree, it is difficult to argue for people with those genes being allowed to continue to breed.
Any task requiring something physical I agree with you, anything that is solely mental, I disagree. I believe that every human is equal mentally, and I'll need real scientific proof that shows that this isn't the case because of genetics, rather then because of social and geographical factors.
Then I'd say it isn't a cause, but instead a trigger, with some other cause. Besides which, if there was any glimmer of truth, Japan would have the largest population of ADHD kids.
I also don't have ADD (I have known both kids and adults with it, funnily enough, those that did have it, didn't watch Japanese cartoons. In fact, one of them loves Disney cartoons).
That is not the be all and end all to raising kids. Jesus! I got in a LOT more trouble going outside then I ever did staying inside, and I was just as happy doing either.
Actually I use to watch quite a bit of Japanese cartoons (unknowingly) and I've turned out as non-violent as you can get without being a full blown pacifist. So I'll take that with a healthy grain of salt.
I don't think it's the job of interpretters to deal with bad coding. Imagine if people said "y'know, this C++ compiler is okay, but it takes forever to fix my code so it compiles properly. What sort of idiot made a compiler that works to the standard, instead of all my bad quirks?"
You disagree on that? Then ask the baby girls in China. That is, the ones that survived the gender selection purges going on there at the hands of their murderous parents.
I said human life. Sheeesh.
Kidding. It has had that affect not because it is a problem inherent in population control, but a problem in Chinese society that either wasn't brought to light until after the population control methods went into place, or were ignored. You might not have noticed, but American society is a wee bit different then Chinese society, and I'd need a bit more evidence then "it happened in China" to say it would happen in America.
Jesus! It's been over 1900 years since any educated person actually believed any of that crap. Can we let it go? Please? We have many more beliefs to ridicule that people still believed, such as that some omnipotent being created all life on Earth and that man was created as we appear today, without any evolution.
Actually one scientific theory holds that it is extremely unlikely we're ever to meet any non-terran organisms that are comptabile with our own physiology. So while we might find inhabited planets, even ones that aren't too different from our own at a glance, our biology will be completely incompatible with theirs, so if we tried to eat each other, we'd die from starvation. Makes diseases transmitting extremely unlikely.
Thanks asshole, not everyone has seen the second season of BSG (a single episode has yet to be aired in Australia). Could you put a spoiler warning up next time?
Actually the Sun won't go nova, it isn't the type of stars that do that. Instead it will have a prolonged death, allowing us plenty of time to see the warning signs (and they haven't started just yet) and either die out or skip to the closest star system.
It is a totalitarian means to a partly liberal ends, yes. What I said was factually accurate. Will anyone spouting the liberal line be affected by these hate crime laws? No. Will anyone sprouting conservative values be affected by these hate crime laws? Quite possibly. Therefore, if you don't tow the liberal line, you're wallet is in danger of paying for your viewpoints. That's all I said. If you read something else into it, that wasn't my intention, nor is it my fault.
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Lobbying groups and voting groups only have power as a minority unless they have the money to get real attention from Congress. This group won't raise anywhere near what is required to move Congress to act.
But haven't you heard? Minorities are ruling America. I saw it on Fox news so it must be true!
Gamers need a voice the same way that homosexuals need one. After all, much like homosexuality, being a gamer is soon to become a disease for no reason other then political ones. Wouldn't YOU want a voice now, before you get labelled a sick person who better be locked up for his own good?
You only have a basic, if any, knowledge of what patents are, and how they are enforced.
IMO that is who should be running the patent office.
It bloody well should, unless you're a big fan of Franco, Mussolini, and Stalin.
There must have been a large turnout of fans for those people in this article because many people actually supported the restriction of speech outlined in the article.
I wonder if those same people will turn up in this thread to defend this bill.
As opposed to now where the president has publicly admitted to undertaking impeachable acts, with government agencies regularly breaking laws, and nothing being done about any of it?
Sure we know about it now. That's done a lot. Perhaps we can use those Diebold voting machines, or try to vote in Florida where they deliberately send people away that statistically will vote for the opposition.
To be honest, you get what you pay for.
Take 10000 ancient babies and 10000 modern babies though, place them in equal situations, and you'll see a pattern of differences between the groups.
Sorry, still don't buy it. Considering the experiment is (unfortunately) impossible, we'll have to go about another way to prove or disprove the role of genetics in our behaviour.
It is a problem. The second we find the causes of certain things in genes, there will be high pressure to eliminate them. Sure Hitler went out of control when he started killing off all the Jews and homosexuals and non-Aryan people, but there are other more humane ways. Such as sterilization. If it's found gene X when configured in manner A increases the likelihood of someone becoming a serial killer to 90%, there aren't many arguments you can come up with to say "we should keep that gene in that configuration in our gene pool."
That's the scary thing. If gene's do affect our behaviour to a large degree, it is difficult to argue for people with those genes being allowed to continue to breed.
Any task requiring something physical I agree with you, anything that is solely mental, I disagree. I believe that every human is equal mentally, and I'll need real scientific proof that shows that this isn't the case because of genetics, rather then because of social and geographical factors.
Then I'd say it isn't a cause, but instead a trigger, with some other cause. Besides which, if there was any glimmer of truth, Japan would have the largest population of ADHD kids.
I also don't have ADD (I have known both kids and adults with it, funnily enough, those that did have it, didn't watch Japanese cartoons. In fact, one of them loves Disney cartoons).
How about encouraging the "patient" to go outside
That is not the be all and end all to raising kids. Jesus! I got in a LOT more trouble going outside then I ever did staying inside, and I was just as happy doing either.
Actually I use to watch quite a bit of Japanese cartoons (unknowingly) and I've turned out as non-violent as you can get without being a full blown pacifist. So I'll take that with a healthy grain of salt.
I don't think it's the job of interpretters to deal with bad coding. Imagine if people said "y'know, this C++ compiler is okay, but it takes forever to fix my code so it compiles properly. What sort of idiot made a compiler that works to the standard, instead of all my bad quirks?"
Heck, I didn't even see anybody post a *BSD is Dying troll.
That's because it is already dead.
You disagree on that? Then ask the baby girls in China. That is, the ones that survived the gender selection purges going on there at the hands of their murderous parents.
I said human life. Sheeesh.
Kidding. It has had that affect not because it is a problem inherent in population control, but a problem in Chinese society that either wasn't brought to light until after the population control methods went into place, or were ignored. You might not have noticed, but American society is a wee bit different then Chinese society, and I'd need a bit more evidence then "it happened in China" to say it would happen in America.
Don't worry, it won't happen over night. And if it does, I'll pay you all the money I have in the bank.
Overcrowded cities are dens of crime and black holes for opportunity.
Which will happen regardless of population control. You made it sound like that the population control would lower the value placed on human life.
You will fall off the edge of the world.
Jesus! It's been over 1900 years since any educated person actually believed any of that crap. Can we let it go? Please? We have many more beliefs to ridicule that people still believed, such as that some omnipotent being created all life on Earth and that man was created as we appear today, without any evolution.
Actually one scientific theory holds that it is extremely unlikely we're ever to meet any non-terran organisms that are comptabile with our own physiology. So while we might find inhabited planets, even ones that aren't too different from our own at a glance, our biology will be completely incompatible with theirs, so if we tried to eat each other, we'd die from starvation. Makes diseases transmitting extremely unlikely.
Thanks asshole, not everyone has seen the second season of BSG (a single episode has yet to be aired in Australia). Could you put a spoiler warning up next time?
It can be when the resources are limited and the solutions expensive.
Actually the Sun won't go nova, it isn't the type of stars that do that. Instead it will have a prolonged death, allowing us plenty of time to see the warning signs (and they haven't started just yet) and either die out or skip to the closest star system.
I think it'd be easier to just kill anyone who makes such predictions.
It is a totalitarian means to a partly liberal ends, yes. What I said was factually accurate. Will anyone spouting the liberal line be affected by these hate crime laws? No. Will anyone sprouting conservative values be affected by these hate crime laws? Quite possibly. Therefore, if you don't tow the liberal line, you're wallet is in danger of paying for your viewpoints. That's all I said. If you read something else into it, that wasn't my intention, nor is it my fault.
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As a liberal, I felt the need to point that out