I think what he should have said is that multiple choice tests are a stupid idea (it's okay if one or two questions are a block of multiple choice lines but not the whole test). Let the student explain things with his own words.
Usually it's +1/-1. Also I don't get how he can deduce that most people answered randomly from the passing rate, you need more than 50% of the score to pass any test, random guesses even without penalty for wrong answers would land you at 25%.
Upcoming steps will be an amendment that drops the freedom of speech and removal of some amendments like the fifth amendment (which seems to be invalid at Guantanamo Bay anyway).
Nonsense, open actions like that would be too big of a bump to keep the populace quiet, it would be a large shock that would tell the people who are waiting for an excuse to revolt to do so now. No, quietly circumventing the laws where needed and still keeping the good laws on the books is a better approach. Widen the definition for Treason and keep using stuff like Guantanamo to get the same effect without giving the lazy slobs with guns any excuse to want you out of power.
Only government approved clothes, TV shows and commercials are allowed.
Not happening, the govt may be power hungry but they're too deep in the pockets of the big business to defy them. And hell, why restrict anything when they voluntarily follow you (like those "news" programmes with a strong agenda that just ignore news that don't fit their bias or just distort them).
And in the end there will be only one party - and you must vote for it.
Pfft, why make it obvious that they have no choice when you can have two parties with essentially the same agenda and the same sponsors that they can conveniently group themselves with?
Marriages are going to be arranged by the government by genetic profile.
What for? The people in power like their underlings dumb and lazy since that makes them easy to control and right now only those people really have the time to make many children because all the smart ones are too busy with their jobs to have any kids.
I disagree, having an easy pointing device in the control system is useful for many games. Hell, even action games with autoaim could use the pointer for target selection. The Wiimote is both a pointing device and a gesture input which means it gives you more ways to communicate things to the game in a precise way. PC gamers had that with the mouse but on the console a mouse isn't really useful because you usually don't have a desk to place it on. With the Wii games can require much more precision from the player since the input device is precise enough. Additional processing power improves some parts, precise control others.
EA is actually trying new gameplay ideas, as unbelievable as it sounds. From what I heard the port of the Godfather game to the Wii made good use of the Wiimote, same for Madden Wii. I know many regular and hardcore gamers ignore EA because of the large number of rehashes but strangely EA seems to have adapted seamlessly to the different requirements of the Wii platform. I guess they can innovate if they want, they just didn't want to until now.
At the time of the PS3 launch the Premium got a temporary pricedrop to 300€ here and the 500€ PS3 was never released here so it was 550€ for a 360 and Wii or 600€ for the PS3. Also these days you get at least one free game bundled with a 360 (that was suspended for the 300€ Premium, of course) so the 400€ isn't just for the console itself.
I never finished HL2 so I'm not puying any of the episodes. I think Valve is going to see decreasing sales for each episode as people who didn't buy or finish one episode wouldn't be able to play the next one so the most they can sell is just as much as the previous game and each person that doesn't buy a new game will be lost for the later ones.
Most water is unclean enough to be conducting. Not that it matters, if there's no power source in the water the electronics won't do anything except rust. Since he pulled it out quickly and a toilet isn't large enough for a laptop to submerse quickly the water probably didn't reach the battery before he removed it.
I know people who regularly wash their keyboard like a dish though they do it manually, not with a machine.
Fallout came long before the current "youth protection" laws went into effect, before those the BPjS could index anything it wanted, after the introduction of that law the BPjM (it got renamed in the move) could no longer touch anything the USK has rated (originally the USK was an industry board like the ESRB, with the law it became a government agency whose ratings became legally binding). Prey didn't get indexed AFAIK, not sure if it's censored but I know it had children dying violent deaths in some scenes in the US version. Games with green or purple blood are rare these days.
Communism can happen. If we ever reach a stage where we can create robots to do all jobs humans would do (including the development, production and maintenance of said robots) we can create a self-sustaining economy that does not require any humans. As a result capitalism will become unfeasible as very few humans will have any kind of employment (the remaining ones probably being CEOs and the like) and thus monetary income will be rare. As a result it's either bartering (pointless since the robots can produce anything) or just giving the stuff away for free when a person wants and needs it. Of course the transition won't be fast since at first companies will insist to own parts of the robot economy but as employment falls too low there will be noone to sell stuff to.
That's like saying "You're under investigation, now show us what you did at the time of the crime". Logging after the subpoena is there is pointless since they can just stop violating the law before they start logging (or is not committing a crime now a crime in itself?).
How? Their income isn't from customers willing to open their wallets but companies that were defeated in court. They can't be beaten with that method as they don't do anything so they can't run afoul of any patent. Nothing short of a well placed bullet can end it in a way that doesn't make the troll happy.
I think "don't move or I'll shoot" is still allowed, though. The burglar has two options then, aside from waiting for the police to take him away: Flee or attack, attacking would let the gun holder use self defence (though not with lethal force he could still shoot the burglar in the foot or arm).
Violent crime in Europe is higher than the United States... Europeans just like to pretend that Turkey, Eastern Europe, etc. are somehow not a part of Europe.
Europe is shorthand for the European Union just like America is shorthand for the United Statzes of America in such comparisons, especially since those two entities are what you see in politics, not the continent as a whole. If Europe has to count Turkey and such we should compare it to the whole of North America.
There is a central agency which gives those ratings, and in extreme cases might even ban the game
AFAIK bans can only be invoked by the federal constitutional court by using 18 GG, sale to minors can be blocked easily but for a full ban you have to revoke the publisher's freedom of expression to some degree and the GG spells out quite clearly that only the federal constitutional court can declare such a revokation.
Not many games are actually banned in Germany, only Manhunt and Wolfenstein 3D, Manhunt was deemed to be glorifying violence (part of the anti-fascism laws package) and Wolf3D included swastikas at a time where games were legally considered toys and as such not permitted to display Nazi symbols. Games do get indexed sometimes, that's roughly equivalent of an AO rating in the US if that was legally binding, the game can't be advertised to minors which means selling below the counter or in adult-only stores/departments and usually means noone stocks the game. The XBox 360 is screwed because of this, AFAIK both Dead Rising and Gears of War are on the index.
Some of the restrictions in Germany include no killing of children in video games (which is why many games built for an international audience have no children and games like Fallout removed them) and no killing of anything with red blood (zombies and aliens are good, people bad).
Nonsense, the official testing rules are what's "bad for children below a certain age according to modern knowledge" which in effect means the standards for what's considered violent constantly rise. Doom was indexed back when it was first released because of the large amount of violence, in a recent rerelease it was rated 16 IIRC (or even 12 maybe). Games like Company of Heroes have bloody severed limbs flying everywhere and are rated 16 whereas C&C1 a long time ago had to replace all humans with "cyborgs" to avoid the index. There is no fixed rule "if X is shown the game is indexed".
Also that school shooting in Erfurt was caused more by bad laws (school laws in that state made the shooter essentially unemployable) than any violent media and some politicians even realized that (I recall a statement from a green party guy who said we need to look more at the shooter's social environment). Too bad the idiots are still the majority.
it is illegal to review a game before it is published there
No. I'm not quite sure what you mean with review (consumer reviews or rating reviews) but the USK is generally invoked before the game hits the shelves (if they say it's good then it's good, BPjM review can only happen if the USK refuses to give a rating at which point you can still make changes and resubmit) and there is no law against reporting on unrated games (though reporting on indexed games may land your magazine on the index too and having it only available under the counter is bad for sales).
The specific shooting was caused by the school system, the shooter failed his Abitur and because state law (only state with that law) states that failing your Abitur means having no school degree at all (usually you get the degrees automatically as you go along through the Gymnasium (highest of the three schools)) so he basically had nothing. Not sure if he was out of repetitions or just didn't want to go through another two years of school but he snapped because he ended up as if he had never gone to school, i.e. no chance of employment and no access to higher education (that needs school degrees). Hell, I'm not sure you can even go in training withhout a degree. Basically his life was ruined permanently.
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I think what he should have said is that multiple choice tests are a stupid idea (it's okay if one or two questions are a block of multiple choice lines but not the whole test). Let the student explain things with his own words.
Usually it's +1/-1. Also I don't get how he can deduce that most people answered randomly from the passing rate, you need more than 50% of the score to pass any test, random guesses even without penalty for wrong answers would land you at 25%.
Upcoming steps will be an amendment that drops the freedom of speech and removal of some amendments like the fifth amendment (which seems to be invalid at Guantanamo Bay anyway).
Nonsense, open actions like that would be too big of a bump to keep the populace quiet, it would be a large shock that would tell the people who are waiting for an excuse to revolt to do so now. No, quietly circumventing the laws where needed and still keeping the good laws on the books is a better approach. Widen the definition for Treason and keep using stuff like Guantanamo to get the same effect without giving the lazy slobs with guns any excuse to want you out of power.
Only government approved clothes, TV shows and commercials are allowed.
Not happening, the govt may be power hungry but they're too deep in the pockets of the big business to defy them. And hell, why restrict anything when they voluntarily follow you (like those "news" programmes with a strong agenda that just ignore news that don't fit their bias or just distort them).
And in the end there will be only one party - and you must vote for it.
Pfft, why make it obvious that they have no choice when you can have two parties with essentially the same agenda and the same sponsors that they can conveniently group themselves with?
Marriages are going to be arranged by the government by genetic profile.
What for? The people in power like their underlings dumb and lazy since that makes them easy to control and right now only those people really have the time to make many children because all the smart ones are too busy with their jobs to have any kids.
Ministry of State Security is the GDR.
I've seen them used by pizza delivery businesses (not exactly innovative or dynamic), I suppose the easier parking does help with that too.
Those are fairly low acceptance rates for all parties, it's shocking that more than 10% of any such group would deny evolution.
I disagree, having an easy pointing device in the control system is useful for many games. Hell, even action games with autoaim could use the pointer for target selection. The Wiimote is both a pointing device and a gesture input which means it gives you more ways to communicate things to the game in a precise way. PC gamers had that with the mouse but on the console a mouse isn't really useful because you usually don't have a desk to place it on. With the Wii games can require much more precision from the player since the input device is precise enough. Additional processing power improves some parts, precise control others.
EA is actually trying new gameplay ideas, as unbelievable as it sounds. From what I heard the port of the Godfather game to the Wii made good use of the Wiimote, same for Madden Wii. I know many regular and hardcore gamers ignore EA because of the large number of rehashes but strangely EA seems to have adapted seamlessly to the different requirements of the Wii platform. I guess they can innovate if they want, they just didn't want to until now.
At the time of the PS3 launch the Premium got a temporary pricedrop to 300€ here and the 500€ PS3 was never released here so it was 550€ for a 360 and Wii or 600€ for the PS3. Also these days you get at least one free game bundled with a 360 (that was suspended for the 300€ Premium, of course) so the 400€ isn't just for the console itself.
I never finished HL2 so I'm not puying any of the episodes. I think Valve is going to see decreasing sales for each episode as people who didn't buy or finish one episode wouldn't be able to play the next one so the most they can sell is just as much as the previous game and each person that doesn't buy a new game will be lost for the later ones.
Most water is unclean enough to be conducting. Not that it matters, if there's no power source in the water the electronics won't do anything except rust. Since he pulled it out quickly and a toilet isn't large enough for a laptop to submerse quickly the water probably didn't reach the battery before he removed it.
I know people who regularly wash their keyboard like a dish though they do it manually, not with a machine.
Fallout came long before the current "youth protection" laws went into effect, before those the BPjS could index anything it wanted, after the introduction of that law the BPjM (it got renamed in the move) could no longer touch anything the USK has rated (originally the USK was an industry board like the ESRB, with the law it became a government agency whose ratings became legally binding). Prey didn't get indexed AFAIK, not sure if it's censored but I know it had children dying violent deaths in some scenes in the US version. Games with green or purple blood are rare these days.
Communism can happen. If we ever reach a stage where we can create robots to do all jobs humans would do (including the development, production and maintenance of said robots) we can create a self-sustaining economy that does not require any humans. As a result capitalism will become unfeasible as very few humans will have any kind of employment (the remaining ones probably being CEOs and the like) and thus monetary income will be rare. As a result it's either bartering (pointless since the robots can produce anything) or just giving the stuff away for free when a person wants and needs it. Of course the transition won't be fast since at first companies will insist to own parts of the robot economy but as employment falls too low there will be noone to sell stuff to.
That's like saying "You're under investigation, now show us what you did at the time of the crime". Logging after the subpoena is there is pointless since they can just stop violating the law before they start logging (or is not committing a crime now a crime in itself?).
Taking a page from N.I.C.E. I'd suggest "I'd hit it".
How? Their income isn't from customers willing to open their wallets but companies that were defeated in court. They can't be beaten with that method as they don't do anything so they can't run afoul of any patent. Nothing short of a well placed bullet can end it in a way that doesn't make the troll happy.
Silicon implants only seem bad until you realize how many transistors you can fit into them.
But what if you took away all the guns and for some reason your country was invaded by another or some militant group?
Then a: the military would still fight and b: international treaties would make some other countries come to Switzerland's help.
I think "don't move or I'll shoot" is still allowed, though. The burglar has two options then, aside from waiting for the police to take him away: Flee or attack, attacking would let the gun holder use self defence (though not with lethal force he could still shoot the burglar in the foot or arm).
Violent crime in Europe is higher than the United States... Europeans just like to pretend that Turkey, Eastern Europe, etc. are somehow not a part of Europe.
Europe is shorthand for the European Union just like America is shorthand for the United Statzes of America in such comparisons, especially since those two entities are what you see in politics, not the continent as a whole. If Europe has to count Turkey and such we should compare it to the whole of North America.
There is a central agency which gives those ratings, and in extreme cases might even ban the game
AFAIK bans can only be invoked by the federal constitutional court by using 18 GG, sale to minors can be blocked easily but for a full ban you have to revoke the publisher's freedom of expression to some degree and the GG spells out quite clearly that only the federal constitutional court can declare such a revokation.
Not many games are actually banned in Germany, only Manhunt and Wolfenstein 3D, Manhunt was deemed to be glorifying violence (part of the anti-fascism laws package) and Wolf3D included swastikas at a time where games were legally considered toys and as such not permitted to display Nazi symbols. Games do get indexed sometimes, that's roughly equivalent of an AO rating in the US if that was legally binding, the game can't be advertised to minors which means selling below the counter or in adult-only stores/departments and usually means noone stocks the game. The XBox 360 is screwed because of this, AFAIK both Dead Rising and Gears of War are on the index.
Some of the restrictions in Germany include no killing of children in video games (which is why many games built for an international audience have no children and games like Fallout removed them) and no killing of anything with red blood (zombies and aliens are good, people bad).
Nonsense, the official testing rules are what's "bad for children below a certain age according to modern knowledge" which in effect means the standards for what's considered violent constantly rise. Doom was indexed back when it was first released because of the large amount of violence, in a recent rerelease it was rated 16 IIRC (or even 12 maybe). Games like Company of Heroes have bloody severed limbs flying everywhere and are rated 16 whereas C&C1 a long time ago had to replace all humans with "cyborgs" to avoid the index. There is no fixed rule "if X is shown the game is indexed".
Also that school shooting in Erfurt was caused more by bad laws (school laws in that state made the shooter essentially unemployable) than any violent media and some politicians even realized that (I recall a statement from a green party guy who said we need to look more at the shooter's social environment). Too bad the idiots are still the majority.
it is illegal to review a game before it is published there
No. I'm not quite sure what you mean with review (consumer reviews or rating reviews) but the USK is generally invoked before the game hits the shelves (if they say it's good then it's good, BPjM review can only happen if the USK refuses to give a rating at which point you can still make changes and resubmit) and there is no law against reporting on unrated games (though reporting on indexed games may land your magazine on the index too and having it only available under the counter is bad for sales).
Well, that's where the term comes from, postal workers flipping out and killing people. Maybe we should have banned snail mail back then.
The specific shooting was caused by the school system, the shooter failed his Abitur and because state law (only state with that law) states that failing your Abitur means having no school degree at all (usually you get the degrees automatically as you go along through the Gymnasium (highest of the three schools)) so he basically had nothing. Not sure if he was out of repetitions or just didn't want to go through another two years of school but he snapped because he ended up as if he had never gone to school, i.e. no chance of employment and no access to higher education (that needs school degrees). Hell, I'm not sure you can even go in training withhout a degree. Basically his life was ruined permanently.