As a side note on your sig, its strange that i don't burst out laughing at everything whenever i smoke up. I know its the stereotype but i personally tend to take things a little more seriously and meaningless things take on greater gravity. But to each his own i suppose, its just a little thing that bothered me whenever i watched movies or tv and it had someone smoking pot.
For anyone who is a fan of animation and Star Wars, i highly suggest taking a look at the Star Wars Clone Wars mini series (directed by Gendy Tartakovski of Sarmurai Jack and Dexter's Lab). Very stylized and very engaging. Sometimes I think Star Wars would have been better off as such a series of cartoons or animations.
Instead of trying to portray ultra realism (and failing) why dont more producers just make the leap along with the audience of suspending disbelief and making a more interesting and entertaining production through animation?
She was what? 16 when she started out in porn. Got her fake id and convinced everyone in the industry for several years that she was infact legal.
When she dislclosed that she was a minor when she made a lot of her movies, it damn near wrecked the porn biz. Hundreds of videos were made illegal overnight, hundreds of guys were guilty of statutory rape.
I am pretty sure she knew exactly what she was doing, when she signed up to do porn. So what now? is it child porn? Was she mature enough to make up her own mind?
So where is the boundary of where child porn is decided? If I'm under 18 and so is my girlfriend and i take a consentual nude picture, I would be guilty of making child porn. I don't think thats right, but at some point a line has to be drawn as to what point a person is still a child sexually. That line seems very broad nowadays.
I2ANAL, But isn't someone supposed to take the offender to court for hate speech? Or do the authorities automatically go after you?
This would make a huge difference as someone would have to get offended (meaning in all likelyhood what the offender wrote was actually hate literature) for the publication to get stopped or taken off the shelves. Otherwise wouldn't the readers or the publication actually read the text and figure out that this author is writing about the rhetoric surrounding hate crimes/speech?
This is a great achievement for open office and especially for sub-saharan africa. I'm from Kenya and although we do speak mostly english in the cities, there are still large numbers of people in rural areas that dont. Now, one may argue that rural people will have no use for computers, but that is besides the point and not entirely true at all. There are many situations where computers and the abiltiy to interact with them using your first language would be greatly appreciated and welcomed. With all the charity organisations setting up computers in hospitals and schools, it would be nice to actually give them the ability to _use_ the software and hardware like its supposed to be used.
On a related note, I hope the creaters of OpenOffice have designed it so that one can easily change the strings in the menus and dialogues and such so that it can be localised and updated even easier. It would be a great thing if we could train people in how to create a "language pack" and leave some local linguists that have computer knowledge to localise it for a particular region / people. That would surely speed up the adoption and spread of open source software and ideas throughout the world and create a much stronger base of users.
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"...4"
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//Dunno if any of you ever remember/watched dexter's lab?
This only shifts the burden of parenting and raising children away from the parents and onto retailers, and in the process inconveniencing everyone else. Whether or not a child sees or plays material that is R rated or NC17 is not nearly as important as the parents letting them know what is wrong and what is right, and making sure that they understand the difference between the fantasy world of games and movies and real life. When they are young, children will take up alot of ideals from their parents, who should always be there letting them know whats right. But by the time they are teens and have to deal with peer pressure in ernest, if the parents have done their job then they won't get out of hand and if they haven't done their job then its a bit too late to do anything about it, especially in that rebelious time. This is just more of parents being lazy and letting someone else do the work for them.
I've always wondered about things like this and how hard one would have to focus to actually get things to happen. I mean if say I'm browsing in a brain controlled system and I happen across a name like Jenna, I would probably think of Jenna Jameson. Now would that cause my favourite Jenna J movie to start playing? I know, as an earlier poster stated that there is limited freedom with the technology as it stands today, but in the future how could a system know whats the 'right' thought? How would it know to keep open my text editor so i can write my term paper (something I don't want to do, but must) and not start my favourite game (something I really want to do and think about all the time, but should not).
While raising the concentration level needed to initiate an action would but a realativly easy fix to the problem, it will then screw up things like multitasking. Meaning I would have to stop what I'm doing, think really hard about some other (and possibly unrelated) thingand then get back to waht I was originally thinking about. Some may be ok with this but I personally can't stand being interupted while thinking.
I think this will be a big obstacle to overcome before brain control technology is ready for the masses; knowing what really is the desired thought/action. And hopefully if they get it right, we won't have a fancier version of Clippy that acts on all the wrong thoughts.
Isn't the recent activity of Mt. St Helens completely normal in a compsite volcano such as Mt. St. Helens?
It is formed after all from many small eruptions, such as this one, that deposit lava onto the sides of the volcano and thereby causing it to grow larger. IANAG (I Am Not A Geologist).
What's the big deal other than its interesting to watch it unfold infront of your eyes, and it probably will keep on doing this for some time to come so now isn't your last chance to see this happen. Granted with all the new technology available to us it can provide us with some valuable insight into the inner workings of the earth, but it seems the geologist know exactly whats going on here.
Other than these few scientific points of interest, there really is not much point in sucking up this story from every single media outlet. Its business as usual for the volcano and time we worried about more important things (at least those we can influence).
And no I don't live on the other side of the world. I'm from just a wee bit North of the border.
I actually like the white on black. It's a helluva a lot easier on the eyes than the black text on white background, which is basically like looking right into a light bulb. I wish more people could take a hint.
I have been playing AA:O for about a year now and you have to submit your training scores so that the servers can know if you are qualified to get your sniper training, and you need the sniper training to be a sniper in the game.
Looks like a cheap gimick to me. Its like one of those infomercials on late night TV about antiglare sunglasses.
It may be much better but I doubt it would be that dramatic, especially since we would see more colors, not just a brightening of already existing colours.
Exactly, just like Unreal Tournament is more of a show case for the Unreal Engine than anything else. It's a great game, but its made to primarily show off what the engine can do.
Apparently these Best Buy people have never come across poor or less well off people.
Not every one can go out and buy the best of the best, they just don't make enough money to do that AND pay their bills. Also some things are just not worth paying the full everyday retail price, for those things some people wait for the sales.
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As a side note on your sig, its strange that i don't burst out laughing at everything whenever i smoke up. I know its the stereotype but i personally tend to take things a little more seriously and meaningless things take on greater gravity. But to each his own i suppose, its just a little thing that bothered me whenever i watched movies or tv and it had someone smoking pot.
Instead of trying to portray ultra realism (and failing) why dont more producers just make the leap along with the audience of suspending disbelief and making a more interesting and entertaining production through animation?
Drag = create a shortcut
Shitf+Drag = moves a file
And for a second there your actions seemed justified. Oh well, your probably lacking in something else...
She was what? 16 when she started out in porn. Got her fake id and convinced everyone in the industry for several years that she was infact legal.
When she dislclosed that she was a minor when she made a lot of her movies, it damn near wrecked the porn biz. Hundreds of videos were made illegal overnight, hundreds of guys were guilty of statutory rape.
I am pretty sure she knew exactly what she was doing, when she signed up to do porn. So what now? is it child porn? Was she mature enough to make up her own mind?
So where is the boundary of where child porn is decided? If I'm under 18 and so is my girlfriend and i take a consentual nude picture, I would be guilty of making child porn. I don't think thats right, but at some point a line has to be drawn as to what point a person is still a child sexually. That line seems very broad nowadays.
But isn't someone supposed to take the offender to court for hate speech? Or do the authorities automatically go after you?
This would make a huge difference as someone would have to get offended (meaning in all likelyhood what the offender wrote was actually hate literature) for the publication to get stopped or taken off the shelves.
Otherwise wouldn't the readers or the publication actually read the text and figure out that this author is writing about the rhetoric surrounding hate crimes/speech?
Just my thoughts
PWNED indeed.
I am the definition of first post!!
Only old people use RSS.
On a related note, I hope the creaters of OpenOffice have designed it so that one can easily change the strings in the menus and dialogues and such so that it can be localised and updated even easier. It would be a great thing if we could train people in how to create a "language pack" and leave some local linguists that have computer knowledge to localise it for a particular region / people.
That would surely speed up the adoption and spread of open source software and ideas throughout the world and create a much stronger base of users.
"Access Denied."
Omelet Du Fromage!
"Access Denied."
Omelet Du Fromage!!!
"Access Denied: Self destruct mechanism activated...5"
GRRRRRRR!!!! OMELET DU FROMAGE!!
"...4"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!!
"...3"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !!
"...2"
OMELET DU FROMAGE!! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !! OMELETE DU FROMANGE !!
"...1"
KABOOOOOM!!!
Many Linux users view Microsoft as the evil empire.
Me thinks this Ross Wehner has taken some of our fellow slashdotters too seriously
Me thinks this Ross Wehner's
When they are young, children will take up alot of ideals from their parents, who should always be there letting them know whats right. But by the time they are teens and have to deal with peer pressure in ernest, if the parents have done their job then they won't get out of hand and if they haven't done their job then its a bit too late to do anything about it, especially in that rebelious time.
This is just more of parents being lazy and letting someone else do the work for them.
While raising the concentration level needed to initiate an action would but a realativly easy fix to the problem, it will then screw up things like multitasking. Meaning I would have to stop what I'm doing, think really hard about some other (and possibly unrelated) thingand then get back to waht I was originally thinking about. Some may be ok with this but I personally can't stand being interupted while thinking.
I think this will be a big obstacle to overcome before brain control technology is ready for the masses; knowing what really is the desired thought/action. And hopefully if they get it right, we won't have a fancier version of Clippy that acts on all the wrong thoughts.
It is formed after all from many small eruptions, such as this one, that deposit lava onto the sides of the volcano and thereby causing it to grow larger. IANAG (I Am Not A Geologist).
What's the big deal other than its interesting to watch it unfold infront of your eyes, and it probably will keep on doing this for some time to come so now isn't your last chance to see this happen. Granted with all the new technology available to us it can provide us with some valuable insight into the inner workings of the earth, but it seems the geologist know exactly whats going on here.
Other than these few scientific points of interest, there really is not much point in sucking up this story from every single media outlet. Its business as usual for the volcano and time we worried about more important things (at least those we can influence).
And no I don't live on the other side of the world. I'm from just a wee bit North of the border.
I've had pop ups that were way worse than this. (Back in the days of IE ofcourse)
Good thing you posted as AC.
I have been playing AA:O for about a year now and you have to submit your training scores so that the servers can know if you are qualified to get your sniper training, and you need the sniper training to be a sniper in the game.
It may be much better but I doubt it would be that dramatic, especially since we would see more colors, not just a brightening of already existing colours.
Exactly, just like Unreal Tournament is more of a show case for the Unreal Engine than anything else. It's a great game, but its made to primarily show off what the engine can do.
I may still be just an undergrad in engineering. But from what I've seen, respect isn't simply earned by getting good grades.
Not every one can go out and buy the best of the best, they just don't make enough money to do that AND pay their bills. Also some things are just not worth paying the full everyday retail price, for those things some people wait for the sales.