Namely, school. Think about it, these students are answering based on what they have been taught to believe as their rights.
"Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories."
Lets take this apart bit by bit. First off, students aren't granted religeous freedom. Trust me on this, i've ALWAYS had at least 3 shades of hell to get even the time i took off for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana etc) taken off my attendance records as "unexcused absences". Ever other minority student i've talked to has had the same problem with their holidays. So theres your answer as to where that view came from.
Next up we've got the newspaper issue. I've got two words for you:
School. Newspaper.
School newspapers are not allowed to publish without being put through a censorship process that would make the orwell proud.
*PFWSH* WHOAH! there goes poland... someone better let denmark know its time to start smuggling GNU's into sweden.... okay, it was terrible i admit. but someone had to break godwins law.
should read: "The Illinois Retail Merchants Association blasted the governor's proposal as a way for stores to become "the violence and sensitivity retailers for the police state of Illinois."
we apologize for the inconvenience.... no, wait. we don't.
Thats all it is. new mascots are coming out, it just takes time thats all.
And besides, there are still names that automatically command a certain amount of respect. Sonic and Mario among them. Nowadays dropping Masterchief or Freeman automatically brings a certain amount of awe and hero worship into the mix, and mentioning the golden oldies like Sonic and Mario do still invoke a reaction.
the problem is that now gaming isnt such a niche market anymore, there isn't any 1 mascot that fits an entire culture of gaming.
Back when the genesis was the latest and greatest, and the snes still wasnt able to hold a candle to it, Sonic represented gaming on the whole. Everyone who was anyone had a genesis and the plethora of sonic games.
Now there are so many different little niches in the gaming world that there just isn't a single mascot to cover them all. The closest we've come to that is Gordan Freeman, and even then its still not complete.
i guess if you really wan't a 1 size fits all mascot that represents all of gaming, it would have to be a AOL cd jacket. after all, we ALL agree on how useless those things are.
uh hello, you completely ignored the "fact" that with our current technology the undertaking would require us essentially ripping off chunks of the moon, bringing it back to earth, mining it for helium, and then discarding it. and explain to me how LOWERING its mass would stabilize the orbit? it would make the moon more likely to fling away because of its being lighter.
is the effect the moon has on earth, what happens when we change the mass of the moon by taking all the helium3 off of it, and probably a great deal of moondirt with it?
I suppose my first question is, how do they intend to do this and not fuck around with the moons affect on earth's gravity. after that i would have to wonder why the hell they dont just build a better spacecraft, and then lastly why not just use the technology to, as opposed to building an elevator, build a series of magnetic rings between the moon and the earth that would act as transportation.
you get up to the atmosphere with an x-prize plane and get into the tube, you get sucked at ridiculous velocities to the moon, slowed down by the same tube, and then land.
its under YRO because of their new program.
Anyone remember the Adminmod fiasco back when lots of admins were using the client exec capability to trash peaples HDD's?
theres nothing to worry about. Chances are everytime its about to shoot a little window pops up on its moniter saying "error: shotgun has performed an illegal operation and must be terminated"
either that or it hits a pebble and tips over.
Micro$oft: "Ja, zee process iz non-mandatory und anonymous. Of course all zose who do not pass zee test must vear zis little gold penguin sewn on all clothing"
QUICK! CALL AN OLD PRIEST AND A YOUNG PRIEST!
-this is just because the damned lameness filter doesnt realise that YES! I KNOW IM YELLING! im SHOUTING at the TOP OF MY LUNGS!-
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Well its quite simple really, your brain stores knowledge chemically. thats why when you sleep or pass out or even have a near death experience you still remember stuff (mostly).
Rats have some of the best reflexes of all creatures in the world, they've adapted to surviving in essentially the same conditions on the ground (ever had a car go past you REALLY fast? magnifiy that to include the scale of rats vs cars).
therefore its a simple step for rat brain cells (which have no concept of self afawk) to control an airplane in conditions similar to what they used to control their rat body in.
because it has no concept of self (again afawk) theres no problem of it thinking its still a rat, or thinking at all for that matter. therefore you can program them to do whatever you want.
our brains are essentially super-complex computers. we have billions upon billions upon billions of 1/0 switches in our brains that allow us not only to follow "computor logic" (think like a computor does) but also to use inductive and deductive reasoning. A rat cant use inductive and deductive reasoning, or at least not nearly to the level we can. Mostly they go by computor logic, a simple matter of goals and obstacles.
therefore what your doing with a rat brain is pretty much the same thing, you just put it into 1/0 properly and the cells do the rest. the program has all the info they need and they handle the computing.
add enough cells and eventually you reach the critical point where the mass is able to use deductive and inductive reasoning and sensory input to figure out "hey, i exist. so what am i and why am i here?" as opposed to ">need:foodget:food"
"Ladies and gentlemen we will be ready for takeoff as soon as the copilot scrapes out Captain back into his dish"
Explains why my flight in the other day was rougher than usual.
As people who can make a difference, if you don't want to see this spread, you should make some program which will be REALLY EASY to use and get, that would block Ads in the games. If WE do this fast enought, their "project" won't work, and it will be abandonned. We should really start a big offensive on every kind of ads. Or at least, on the really intrusive one. It IS our duty. When Ads will swarm games, don't come complaning.
The reason gamers and hackers and all the rest of us computer folk keep getting pushed around and frankly, assfucked without lube, is because we look like (and are) easy targets.
If we all get some form of common backing and whatnot like peaple have in real life (religeon or nationality etc) then we wont have to deal with this shit anymore.
In the mean time i say we do everything we can to blow these fucks right off the face of the internet. To hell with this legality shit, i paid $60+ for hl2... i REFUSE to tolerate popups ingame (matrix bastardized anyone?"
I pay, on average, $50 to $60 for my games (i get them new, its worth it for the manual+unused cdkey) and i will NOT tolerate having spam shoved into my face during a game that i payed money for.
either i start paying under $10 for MORE THAN ONE game, or they keep their ads the fuck away from me.
this CANT be legal.
Nothing big this time, but doesnt it make sense that while censorship should be banned from the internet, that some things still would be given the GTFO? i mean come on man, in the big picture does alowing the KKK to proliferate on the web actually do anything other than allow the fucks to promote racism more?
Kicking some peaple off the web is like arresting some peaple in public, you wouldnt want someone walking around and force-feeding everyone nazi pamphlets and shouting sieg heil, nor would you want the asshole strutting around on the web doing the same.
Theres really no difference between the two.
Like i said, these are the guys that try to land with the parking brake on.
All joking aside i seriously hope we DONT get antimatter weapons, because just imagine an anti-gram of the stuff getting into a suicide bombers hands, just ONE would prolly be enough to wipe DC right off the face of the earth.
interesting new brand of terrorism >.
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nothing worse than trying to sound multilingual and failing, its spelled Oy, not Oi.
Namely, school. Think about it, these students are answering based on what they have been taught to believe as their rights. "Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories." Lets take this apart bit by bit. First off, students aren't granted religeous freedom. Trust me on this, i've ALWAYS had at least 3 shades of hell to get even the time i took off for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana etc) taken off my attendance records as "unexcused absences". Ever other minority student i've talked to has had the same problem with their holidays. So theres your answer as to where that view came from. Next up we've got the newspaper issue. I've got two words for you: School. Newspaper. School newspapers are not allowed to publish without being put through a censorship process that would make the orwell proud.
I just take the damn thing with me wherever i go (note: hard drive, not the actual comp)
And i quote: "Kill them all, god will know his own"
I'm sure youve all met at least one. They run up and scrub your windshield before you can tell them not to and then demand money.
*PFWSH* WHOAH! there goes poland... someone better let denmark know its time to start smuggling GNU's into sweden.... okay, it was terrible i admit. but someone had to break godwins law.
Now whenever i get a call from someone who thinks his cupholder is broken, i can just get child services to take the poor thing to a better home.
should read: "The Illinois Retail Merchants Association blasted the governor's proposal as a way for stores to become "the violence and sensitivity retailers for the police state of Illinois." we apologize for the inconvenience.... no, wait. we don't.
Thats all it is. new mascots are coming out, it just takes time thats all. And besides, there are still names that automatically command a certain amount of respect. Sonic and Mario among them. Nowadays dropping Masterchief or Freeman automatically brings a certain amount of awe and hero worship into the mix, and mentioning the golden oldies like Sonic and Mario do still invoke a reaction. the problem is that now gaming isnt such a niche market anymore, there isn't any 1 mascot that fits an entire culture of gaming. Back when the genesis was the latest and greatest, and the snes still wasnt able to hold a candle to it, Sonic represented gaming on the whole. Everyone who was anyone had a genesis and the plethora of sonic games. Now there are so many different little niches in the gaming world that there just isn't a single mascot to cover them all. The closest we've come to that is Gordan Freeman, and even then its still not complete. i guess if you really wan't a 1 size fits all mascot that represents all of gaming, it would have to be a AOL cd jacket. after all, we ALL agree on how useless those things are.
uh hello, you completely ignored the "fact" that with our current technology the undertaking would require us essentially ripping off chunks of the moon, bringing it back to earth, mining it for helium, and then discarding it. and explain to me how LOWERING its mass would stabilize the orbit? it would make the moon more likely to fling away because of its being lighter.
is the effect the moon has on earth, what happens when we change the mass of the moon by taking all the helium3 off of it, and probably a great deal of moondirt with it?
I suppose my first question is, how do they intend to do this and not fuck around with the moons affect on earth's gravity. after that i would have to wonder why the hell they dont just build a better spacecraft, and then lastly why not just use the technology to, as opposed to building an elevator, build a series of magnetic rings between the moon and the earth that would act as transportation. you get up to the atmosphere with an x-prize plane and get into the tube, you get sucked at ridiculous velocities to the moon, slowed down by the same tube, and then land.
its under YRO because of their new program. Anyone remember the Adminmod fiasco back when lots of admins were using the client exec capability to trash peaples HDD's?
theres nothing to worry about. Chances are everytime its about to shoot a little window pops up on its moniter saying "error: shotgun has performed an illegal operation and must be terminated" either that or it hits a pebble and tips over.
Micro$oft: "Ja, zee process iz non-mandatory und anonymous. Of course all zose who do not pass zee test must vear zis little gold penguin sewn on all clothing"
Didn't they do the same thing in Matrix with only about 5 cameras and some good programming?
QUICK! CALL AN OLD PRIEST AND A YOUNG PRIEST! -this is just because the damned lameness filter doesnt realise that YES! I KNOW IM YELLING! im SHOUTING at the TOP OF MY LUNGS!-
Well its quite simple really, your brain stores knowledge chemically. thats why when you sleep or pass out or even have a near death experience you still remember stuff (mostly). Rats have some of the best reflexes of all creatures in the world, they've adapted to surviving in essentially the same conditions on the ground (ever had a car go past you REALLY fast? magnifiy that to include the scale of rats vs cars). therefore its a simple step for rat brain cells (which have no concept of self afawk) to control an airplane in conditions similar to what they used to control their rat body in. because it has no concept of self (again afawk) theres no problem of it thinking its still a rat, or thinking at all for that matter. therefore you can program them to do whatever you want. our brains are essentially super-complex computers. we have billions upon billions upon billions of 1/0 switches in our brains that allow us not only to follow "computor logic" (think like a computor does) but also to use inductive and deductive reasoning. A rat cant use inductive and deductive reasoning, or at least not nearly to the level we can. Mostly they go by computor logic, a simple matter of goals and obstacles. therefore what your doing with a rat brain is pretty much the same thing, you just put it into 1/0 properly and the cells do the rest. the program has all the info they need and they handle the computing. add enough cells and eventually you reach the critical point where the mass is able to use deductive and inductive reasoning and sensory input to figure out "hey, i exist. so what am i and why am i here?" as opposed to ">need:foodget:food"
"Ladies and gentlemen we will be ready for takeoff as soon as the copilot scrapes out Captain back into his dish" Explains why my flight in the other day was rougher than usual.
i can see it now: "OMFG H4X!!!1111"
As people who can make a difference, if you don't want to see this spread, you should make some program which will be REALLY EASY to use and get, that would block Ads in the games. If WE do this fast enought, their "project" won't work, and it will be abandonned.
We should really start a big offensive on every kind of ads. Or at least, on the really intrusive one.
It IS our duty.
When Ads will swarm games, don't come complaning.
The reason gamers and hackers and all the rest of us computer folk keep getting pushed around and frankly, assfucked without lube, is because we look like (and are) easy targets.
If we all get some form of common backing and whatnot like peaple have in real life (religeon or nationality etc) then we wont have to deal with this shit anymore.
In the mean time i say we do everything we can to blow these fucks right off the face of the internet. To hell with this legality shit, i paid $60+ for hl2... i REFUSE to tolerate popups ingame (matrix bastardized anyone?"
I pay, on average, $50 to $60 for my games (i get them new, its worth it for the manual+unused cdkey) and i will NOT tolerate having spam shoved into my face during a game that i payed money for. either i start paying under $10 for MORE THAN ONE game, or they keep their ads the fuck away from me. this CANT be legal.
Shadowe Stubs Toe SHIT! lost 15hp on that one...
Nothing big this time, but doesnt it make sense that while censorship should be banned from the internet, that some things still would be given the GTFO? i mean come on man, in the big picture does alowing the KKK to proliferate on the web actually do anything other than allow the fucks to promote racism more? Kicking some peaple off the web is like arresting some peaple in public, you wouldnt want someone walking around and force-feeding everyone nazi pamphlets and shouting sieg heil, nor would you want the asshole strutting around on the web doing the same. Theres really no difference between the two.
Like i said, these are the guys that try to land with the parking brake on. All joking aside i seriously hope we DONT get antimatter weapons, because just imagine an anti-gram of the stuff getting into a suicide bombers hands, just ONE would prolly be enough to wipe DC right off the face of the earth. interesting new brand of terrorism >.