I believe dog's emotions are easier to read than cats. Ask any dog owner and I'm sure they'll tell you dogs can feel guilty. If dogs can, I'm pretty certain cats can too.
Humans just like to feel like we are special. (Yes, our emotions are far more complex, but animals do have emotions).
No, I can't back any of that up with evidence, yes, I know that makes my post meaningless, but I'm sure you know what I mean if you've ever seen a dog do something wrong.
Am I the only one who thinks the article title is odd. I mean 'IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs'. I would have expected '13,000 IBM workers to lose their jobs'. *shrug*
Dunno if its really the people's LIVES that are the problem. I mean, if the shuttle blows up, thats a lot of money. The people dying would be tragic, but they are the ones with balls and do it for the good of all others. However, I can't see many situations where the crew will die and the shuttle will survive:)
Of course, NASA will always says its about saving lives, because of PR, because PR affects their budget.
By "PG-13 sounds really lame" I mean that sounds like a movie made for little children, like our "PG" rating is. However, you're PG-13 is actually more like our M, which sounds about right. Didn't mean the country is lame. (As for outlawing porn, its completely ignored afaik. Most video stores have an 'X' section.)
Except, as other people have pointed out, you can't use bi-polar transistors in CPUs. Well, you can, but they use way too much power (and give off too much heat). Hence, these won't be used in CPUs (well, unlikely). They've got lots of other applications though
Stole this from a site: "RC Refused Classification. This refers to works which have been submitted for classification to the OFLC, and then banned. It is a crime to sell, exhibit in public or distribute RC works, or unclassified works which if submitted for classification would likely be rated RC, although it is not in general a crime to possess or manufacture them (although some classes of RC works, e.g. child pornography, are illegal to possess.) Customs can confiscate RC classified on import, and can hold unclassified works pending classification. RC material varies from material encouraging drug use and crime at one extreme, through sadomasochistic, fetishistic or violent pornography, to child pornography at the other end. Some movies widely available in other countries, e.g. Baise-Moi and Romance (1999 movie) have been classified RC in Australia."
So yeah, I guess the idea is to prevent the mentioned things from getting through, but I think the system is pretty fucked up. And no, it would be pretty inefficient for blocking political stuff.
System needs changing, yes, but I don't think its a huge issue.
(And incase you were wondering, our media isn't much like the US:P)
I don't think our cities are any where near as dense as European cities (dunno about US cities though). I didn't realise we had high standards in low light pollution. Unless you were being sarcastic...
Might as well start at some point though. If we keep putting it off, we'll never be able to colonize space.
Yeah, you might then say 'that money could better be spent on making the earth better'. Sounds great, but thats not where money diverted from space research goes.
Plus, fixing earth won't help if a Bad Thing (tm) happens to earth that we can't help.
But yeah, I we governments would take cleaning up the earth seriously though. At the rate we're screwing up earth I doubt we'll have a self sustaining environment ready in time.
Interesting thing is in the US its not actually the law afaik. Its just set by the MPAA. Movie-makers just choose to get their movies rated by MPAA, because thats the way it works out now. Self-regulating industry I guess you'd call it. (Found that out here at link below) http://www.movie-ratings.net/movieratings_us.shtml
Ok, first off, I'm an Aussie. To me "PG-13" sounds really really lame. When I read that I thought it had been brought -down- to PG-13. I'm a bit confused, here in Australia we have:
G - Suitable for all PG - Parental guidance recommended for kids under 15 M - Mature, recommended for people over 15. (not a legal restriction) MA - Mature Accompanied, illegal for people under 15 aren't to see it unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. R - Legally restricted to adults X - Generally sexually explicit, technically illegal in all AU states except capital territory, but authorities turn a blind eye. E - No rating, like, educational shows. RC - Refused Classification, banned.
And each of those ratings is normally accompanied by a few words saying what sort of stuff gives it that rating. Eg, 'contains strong violence and coarse language' 'contains nudity' 'contains sex scenes' 'contains goatse' etc. Although for TV shows they often say 'contains material that may be offensive to some viewers', without saying what it is, and suddenly naked men are on the screen:(.
Anyway, could someone who knows explain quickly what this 'PG-13' is equivalent of. It sounds like our PG, but other star wars seemed more M to me. (I found jar-jar really offensive)
I live at a college (in Australia), and I hate the way steam has to download stuff all the time. The problem is that it doesn't allow for any easy, simple, logical way of getting updates some other way. It would be great if it downloaded a single file for each update automagically, then installed it. That way, you could grab the updated off someone else without having to DL it off the net.
Why is this a problem? Well, I might have a very fast connection to the net, but I can only download about 300MB, then my connection is cut off and I have to put more money onto my account. I get free -local- traffic, but steam doesn't use mirrors so that doens't help.
No, this isn't really exciting. Sony just have the -idea- for it, haven't made a working model, or, afaik, even conducted any experiments. Just patenting the idea to make money from it in the future if its possible.. (Didn't think that was possible)
Or put explosives in it. With a good 'pilot' at the controls I think your idea could be incredibly effective for taking out commanders etc.
Something smaller would be even better though.
If the online databases are incomplete, why are the paper-based archives being destroyed? Mismanagement? The article doesn't get into the details, so I'm left to ponder the stupidity of it.
Maybe its something similar to the last US elections, switching over to a computerised system just for the sake of it being computerised?
Or rather, "hey, wouldn't it be far more efficient if we do it all on computers? Yeah, lets do that!" Then the people who made the decision move on and leave the small people to make it work.
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I believe dog's emotions are easier to read than cats. Ask any dog owner and I'm sure they'll tell you dogs can feel guilty. If dogs can, I'm pretty certain cats can too.
Humans just like to feel like we are special. (Yes, our emotions are far more complex, but animals do have emotions).
No, I can't back any of that up with evidence, yes, I know that makes my post meaningless, but I'm sure you know what I mean if you've ever seen a dog do something wrong.
Don't forget the number of anti-spam products sold. Why educate people if that would stop the flow of spam, you'd ruin the anti-spam industry! :)
Am I the only one who thinks the article title is odd. I mean 'IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs'. I would have expected '13,000 IBM workers to lose their jobs'. *shrug*
I take it thats using the word 'just' to mean 'barely'. Eg, "I just made it to the bus on time", "graphics -just- works".
Dunno if its really the people's LIVES that are the problem. I mean, if the shuttle blows up, thats a lot of money. The people dying would be tragic, but they are the ones with balls and do it for the good of all others. However, I can't see many situations where the crew will die and the shuttle will survive :)
Of course, NASA will always says its about saving lives, because of PR, because PR affects their budget.
Shore were!
By "PG-13 sounds really lame" I mean that sounds like a movie made for little children, like our "PG" rating is. However, you're PG-13 is actually more like our M, which sounds about right. Didn't mean the country is lame. (As for outlawing porn, its completely ignored afaik. Most video stores have an 'X' section.)
Except, as other people have pointed out, you can't use bi-polar transistors in CPUs. Well, you can, but they use way too much power (and give off too much heat). Hence, these won't be used in CPUs (well, unlikely). They've got lots of other applications though
Stole this from a site:
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:P)
"RC Refused Classification. This refers to works which have been submitted for classification to the OFLC, and then banned. It is a crime to sell, exhibit in public or distribute RC works, or unclassified works which if submitted for classification would likely be rated RC, although it is not in general a crime to possess or manufacture them (although some classes of RC works, e.g. child pornography, are illegal to possess.) Customs can confiscate RC classified on import, and can hold unclassified works pending classification. RC material varies from material encouraging drug use and crime at one extreme, through sadomasochistic, fetishistic or violent pornography, to child pornography at the other end. Some movies widely available in other countries, e.g. Baise-Moi and Romance (1999 movie) have been classified RC in Australia."
So yeah, I guess the idea is to prevent the mentioned things from getting through, but I think the system is pretty fucked up. And no, it would be pretty inefficient for blocking political stuff
System needs changing, yes, but I don't think its a huge issue.
(And incase you were wondering, our media isn't much like the US
I don't think our cities are any where near as dense as European cities (dunno about US cities though). I didn't realise we had high standards in low light pollution. Unless you were being sarcastic...
Might as well start at some point though. If we keep putting it off, we'll never be able to colonize space.
Yeah, you might then say 'that money could better be spent on making the earth better'. Sounds great, but thats not where money diverted from space research goes.
Plus, fixing earth won't help if a Bad Thing (tm) happens to earth that we can't help.
But yeah, I we governments would take cleaning up the earth seriously though. At the rate we're screwing up earth I doubt we'll have a self sustaining environment ready in time.
Yeah, thanks, but I'd already searched the net. I was looking more for: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=145667&cid=121 99686
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Interesting thing is in the US its not actually the law afaik. Its just set by the MPAA. Movie-makers just choose to get their movies rated by MPAA, because thats the way it works out now. Self-regulating industry I guess you'd call it. (Found that out here at link below)
http://www.movie-ratings.net/movieratings_us.shtm
Thanks AC, thats the exactly answer I was looking for.
Ok, first off, I'm an Aussie. To me "PG-13" sounds really really lame. When I read that I thought it had been brought -down- to PG-13. I'm a bit confused, here in Australia we have:
:(.
G - Suitable for all
PG - Parental guidance recommended for kids under 15
M - Mature, recommended for people over 15. (not a legal restriction)
MA - Mature Accompanied, illegal for people under 15 aren't to see it unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
R - Legally restricted to adults
X - Generally sexually explicit, technically illegal in all AU states except capital territory, but authorities turn a blind eye.
E - No rating, like, educational shows.
RC - Refused Classification, banned.
And each of those ratings is normally accompanied by a few words saying what sort of stuff gives it that rating. Eg, 'contains strong violence and coarse language' 'contains nudity' 'contains sex scenes' 'contains goatse' etc. Although for TV shows they often say 'contains material that may be offensive to some viewers', without saying what it is, and suddenly naked men are on the screen
Anyway, could someone who knows explain quickly what this 'PG-13' is equivalent of. It sounds like our PG, but other star wars seemed more M to me. (I found jar-jar really offensive)
I live at a college (in Australia), and I hate the way steam has to download stuff all the time. The problem is that it doesn't allow for any easy, simple, logical way of getting updates some other way. It would be great if it downloaded a single file for each update automagically, then installed it. That way, you could grab the updated off someone else without having to DL it off the net.
Why is this a problem? Well, I might have a very fast connection to the net, but I can only download about 300MB, then my connection is cut off and I have to put more money onto my account. I get free -local- traffic, but steam doesn't use mirrors so that doens't help.
No, this isn't really exciting. Sony just have the -idea- for it, haven't made a working model, or, afaik, even conducted any experiments. Just patenting the idea to make money from it in the future if its possible.. (Didn't think that was possible)
Or put explosives in it. With a good 'pilot' at the controls I think your idea could be incredibly effective for taking out commanders etc.
Something smaller would be even better though.
Ok, now I'm worried. If they hold up their end of their bargain and start running out of money, they might start killing people!
WTF? The censor wikipedia? Explain...
US having slow ADSL? Man, here in Western Australia our broadband options are limited. Fastest ADSL is 1.5Mbit, and thats really expensive.