Is the earth really slowing down, or is it that our electronic clocks are being affected by something else? If you go back over the centuries, you will notice the speed of light has been measured at different speeds. Hmmmm, I wonder.
And I thought atomic clock servers were suppose to be accurate. I guess I was wrong. I manually used a program to check my computer time against atomic clock servers. Some servers didn't recognize the leap second, and I really thought they were suppose to be accurate.
There's alternative scientific research which hints that the speed of light is variable. Maybe the earth isn't slowing down. Maybe our atomic clocks are just getting faster.
Did anyone notice the atomic clock problems that happened when the leap second occurred? Some atomic clocks were different than others. If I am not mistaken, and I don't believe I am, the leap second occurred at 23:59:60 UTC (yes, I typed that in correctly). I also flipped back and forth between like ABC and NBC, Pacific Time, and notice they were like 3 seconds or so different in their countdown clocks. What is up with that?
I really don't believe customer service can ever really be replaced by intelligent machines. I say this based on my feelings that a machine won't become as intelligent as a human anytime soon. I think a well trained human can do a better customer service job than a machine would be able to do.
Since you mentioned McDonalds, let me use that as an example. Maybe if they can use machines to make the food for customers, so more people can handle orders. Maybe at a grocery store, more employees can be at the checkout lines to handle ringing things up, instead of being in back dealing with the stock or whatever. I think I'm getting too off topic, and it's been too many days since I made my original post to try commenting on what I think I originally intended to say.
I wasn't trolling. (I think someone is misusing their moderation points.) My comment was meant as humour, which I guess I should label next time. I think it's been in the news, or at least online news, that Bush as an earphone in his ear which people will feed him information. Some people say he (or maybe it was Cheney) talks to God.
Yeah, great idea. Create a robot to deal with customer service, one of the real jobs that shouldn't be replaced by robots. Replace the menial jobs that don't matter with robots, i.e. McJobs.
1) I didn't say that. If a game is rated Mature/Adult for ANY REASON, and if a state legislature decides to make it illegal to sell those games, rated Mature/Adult, to minors (parents can buy and give them to children), so be it.
2) I am not sure if a 15 year old is wise enough to start voting yet. However, I will say this. Done at the state level, have the state decide if 15 year olds should be allowed to vote in municipality, county, school district, fire district, etc. elections. However, if that is done, then the state should require public schools to have a required semester class either in 9th or 10th grade dealing with politics and citizenship.
3) Poverty can be eliminated, in my opinion, with some simple steps.
Eliminate wasteful spending.
Eliminate the half trillion they spend on "defense" and such each year.
Semi-free higher education. (Pay the tuition cost of each individual credit class passed at any accredited college. You pay for the class, then you pass, then you get a refund check. You don't pass, you don't get a check. Simple as that.)
Regulate health care or whatever. Prescription drug prices are out of control. Limiting patents to a one time 36 months or so before they expire might make them cheaper. I don't buy the argument that-that much profits are needed for research.
Increase House of Representatives to 1000. Use STV voting to have fairer representation.
Do something like the Alaska Permanent Fund but on a national scale.
Redo tax system. Scrap most income taxes (income tax tobacco, medicines, alcohol, and gambling) then switch to a national sales tax on non-essential new items.
Don't underestimate groups and organizations organizing mass boycotts of games-that-would-be-rated-M-if-they-opted-into-it. I believe peer pressure would force them to label the games, or maybe peer pressure would force a store from stop selling any games that are unrated.
I agree that intellectual property laws are different from shoplifting laws since taking something physically from a store does direct damage while downloading something illegally is more like stealing an idea.
I don't know if your serious about illegally downloading stuff to your computer, but for your protection, you should probably use the word hypothetically if you ever post something like that in the future. There's no way to delete/edit the post on slashdot, and if the music industry really wanted to, I'm sure they can subpena slashdot for the logs.
How is that possible? With television sets I am to assume that unplugging it for 24 hours resets the v-chip. What keeps the v-chip set for gaming consoles and what prevents a kid from tampering with it?
Forgotten passwords have to be reset by some method.
No. What I am saying is make it illegal for businesses, such as Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, to sell material that is rated for Mature/Adult to minors. However, if there is no rating on it, then the law doesn't apply.
Two different hypothetical situations below...
15 year old tries buying a rated M game at Target. This hypothetical law would make it illegal for Target to sell it to someone under 17.
15 year old tries buying a game at Target, that would be rated M if the game manufacturer voluntarily opted into the ESRB ratings sytem. Target would legally be able to sell it to the 15 year old.
I don't think the federal government should get involved with this at all as it's not defined in the Constitution (lest they make it for the 10 mile federal district). Done at the state level.
Hypothetically, let us say the government says any material rated for Mature/Adults cannot be sold to minors. This means it simply cannot be sold to a minor. An adult can still buy it for a minor, but a store cannot sell it to the minor. Whether this be video games, literature, pornography, whatever, if it's rated for Mature/Adults, it wouldn't be legal to sell it to a minor. However, the government has NO right to mandate any rating systems upon our media, literature, video games, etc. It would be completely voluntary if a manufacturers of video games to label a game.
I don't know whether violent video games can cause violence in youth, even if it's an increase statistically speaking. It is totally up to the parents to raise their children right. Other things such as poverty need to be addressed by the government. Poverty needs to be stamped out. Better educational funding and health care needs to be provided. If anything, if those three things, elimination of poverty, better education, and health care, are met, that will most likely stop a lot of crime in America.
You misread what I said. I'm talking about banning the sale of stuff, rated M or Adult, to those who are under age 17. So a 16 year old wouldn't be able to purchase that game. However, an adult can come buy and purchase that game for that child if he or she wishes.
I don't know the law on video game ratings, but I have this to say. Putting a rating on the video game should be completely voluntary. I don't want the government deciding if a manufacturer has to put it on the game or not.
I think the only fair way would do the following...
Scrap property tax. (Enjoy no income tax and the lack of red tape that comes with it.) Increase sales tax. Stop wasteful spending. Problem solved, right? Also, I don't know how many states have different sales tax rates for different stuff. Like maybe purchasing an item in a hotel will have a higher sales tax percentage than buying the same item elsewhere, I think.
Maybe they should stop trying to censor what children can purchase and just create a law banning the sale of video games, marked rated M or Adult, from being sold.
More importantly, parents need to know what kind of games their children are playing, and there is nothing the government can legislate to do about it. (I'm in my 20s, and I can say, there are some games I see on t.v. that are so sickening, and am I correct to say that the U.S. army actually helped make it or am I mistaken?
Although that seems like it has nothing to do with the article at hand (let alone the fact the article seems moot since I pay my local sales tax when I buy online if I am not mistaken, as it should be), I have this to say.
The only way a national sales tax will work is if it's progressive. The only way to make it progressive is to tax non-essential new items only. Essential items wouldn't be taxed. Used items wouldn't be taxed. Medical supplies wouldn't be taxed. Government institutions, such as schools, wouldn't have to pay any sales tax either because it would loop back.
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Ummm, okay. I guess you're entitled to your opinion.
Is the earth really slowing down, or is it that our electronic clocks are being affected by something else? If you go back over the centuries, you will notice the speed of light has been measured at different speeds. Hmmmm, I wonder.
And I thought atomic clock servers were suppose to be accurate. I guess I was wrong. I manually used a program to check my computer time against atomic clock servers. Some servers didn't recognize the leap second, and I really thought they were suppose to be accurate.
There's alternative scientific research which hints that the speed of light is variable. Maybe the earth isn't slowing down. Maybe our atomic clocks are just getting faster.
Did anyone notice the atomic clock problems that happened when the leap second occurred? Some atomic clocks were different than others. If I am not mistaken, and I don't believe I am, the leap second occurred at 23:59:60 UTC (yes, I typed that in correctly). I also flipped back and forth between like ABC and NBC, Pacific Time, and notice they were like 3 seconds or so different in their countdown clocks. What is up with that?
I didn't mention McDonalds. I mentioned McJobs.
I really don't believe customer service can ever really be replaced by intelligent machines. I say this based on my feelings that a machine won't become as intelligent as a human anytime soon. I think a well trained human can do a better customer service job than a machine would be able to do.
Since you mentioned McDonalds, let me use that as an example. Maybe if they can use machines to make the food for customers, so more people can handle orders. Maybe at a grocery store, more employees can be at the checkout lines to handle ringing things up, instead of being in back dealing with the stock or whatever. I think I'm getting too off topic, and it's been too many days since I made my original post to try commenting on what I think I originally intended to say.
I wasn't trolling. (I think someone is misusing their moderation points.) My comment was meant as humour, which I guess I should label next time. I think it's been in the news, or at least online news, that Bush as an earphone in his ear which people will feed him information. Some people say he (or maybe it was Cheney) talks to God.
or risk losing his hearing from that headphone he wears in his ear.
Yeah, great idea. Create a robot to deal with customer service, one of the real jobs that shouldn't be replaced by robots. Replace the menial jobs that don't matter with robots, i.e. McJobs.
I wonder how much of that "9,631,418 sq km" for America includes the "Indian" nations, since those are suppose to be separate, correct?
1) I didn't say that. If a game is rated Mature/Adult for ANY REASON, and if a state legislature decides to make it illegal to sell those games, rated Mature/Adult, to minors (parents can buy and give them to children), so be it.
2) I am not sure if a 15 year old is wise enough to start voting yet. However, I will say this. Done at the state level, have the state decide if 15 year olds should be allowed to vote in municipality, county, school district, fire district, etc. elections. However, if that is done, then the state should require public schools to have a required semester class either in 9th or 10th grade dealing with politics and citizenship.
3) Poverty can be eliminated, in my opinion, with some simple steps.
Eliminate wasteful spending.
Eliminate the half trillion they spend on "defense" and such each year.
Semi-free higher education. (Pay the tuition cost of each individual credit class passed at any accredited college. You pay for the class, then you pass, then you get a refund check. You don't pass, you don't get a check. Simple as that.)
Regulate health care or whatever. Prescription drug prices are out of control. Limiting patents to a one time 36 months or so before they expire might make them cheaper. I don't buy the argument that-that much profits are needed for research.
Increase House of Representatives to 1000. Use STV voting to have fairer representation.
Do something like the Alaska Permanent Fund but on a national scale.
Redo tax system. Scrap most income taxes (income tax tobacco, medicines, alcohol, and gambling) then switch to a national sales tax on non-essential new items.
Don't underestimate groups and organizations organizing mass boycotts of games-that-would-be-rated-M-if-they-opted-into-it. I believe peer pressure would force them to label the games, or maybe peer pressure would force a store from stop selling any games that are unrated.
I agree that intellectual property laws are different from shoplifting laws since taking something physically from a store does direct damage while downloading something illegally is more like stealing an idea.
I don't know if your serious about illegally downloading stuff to your computer, but for your protection, you should probably use the word hypothetically if you ever post something like that in the future. There's no way to delete/edit the post on slashdot, and if the music industry really wanted to, I'm sure they can subpena slashdot for the logs.
How is that possible? With television sets I am to assume that unplugging it for 24 hours resets the v-chip. What keeps the v-chip set for gaming consoles and what prevents a kid from tampering with it?
Forgotten passwords have to be reset by some method.
No. What I am saying is make it illegal for businesses, such as Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, to sell material that is rated for Mature/Adult to minors. However, if there is no rating on it, then the law doesn't apply.
Two different hypothetical situations below...
15 year old tries buying a rated M game at Target. This hypothetical law would make it illegal for Target to sell it to someone under 17.
15 year old tries buying a game at Target, that would be rated M if the game manufacturer voluntarily opted into the ESRB ratings sytem. Target would legally be able to sell it to the 15 year old.
Educational endeavours do not deserve to be disbanded provided it's not wasteful.
I'm going to try expanding what I meant.
I don't think the federal government should get involved with this at all as it's not defined in the Constitution (lest they make it for the 10 mile federal district). Done at the state level.
Hypothetically, let us say the government says any material rated for Mature/Adults cannot be sold to minors. This means it simply cannot be sold to a minor. An adult can still buy it for a minor, but a store cannot sell it to the minor. Whether this be video games, literature, pornography, whatever, if it's rated for Mature/Adults, it wouldn't be legal to sell it to a minor. However, the government has NO right to mandate any rating systems upon our media, literature, video games, etc. It would be completely voluntary if a manufacturers of video games to label a game.
I don't know whether violent video games can cause violence in youth, even if it's an increase statistically speaking. It is totally up to the parents to raise their children right. Other things such as poverty need to be addressed by the government. Poverty needs to be stamped out. Better educational funding and health care needs to be provided. If anything, if those three things, elimination of poverty, better education, and health care, are met, that will most likely stop a lot of crime in America.
You misread what I said. I'm talking about banning the sale of stuff, rated M or Adult, to those who are under age 17. So a 16 year old wouldn't be able to purchase that game. However, an adult can come buy and purchase that game for that child if he or she wishes.
I don't know the law on video game ratings, but I have this to say. Putting a rating on the video game should be completely voluntary. I don't want the government deciding if a manufacturer has to put it on the game or not.
I think the only fair way would do the following...
Scrap property tax. (Enjoy no income tax and the lack of red tape that comes with it.) Increase sales tax. Stop wasteful spending. Problem solved, right? Also, I don't know how many states have different sales tax rates for different stuff. Like maybe purchasing an item in a hotel will have a higher sales tax percentage than buying the same item elsewhere, I think.
Maybe they should stop trying to censor what children can purchase and just create a law banning the sale of video games, marked rated M or Adult, from being sold.
More importantly, parents need to know what kind of games their children are playing, and there is nothing the government can legislate to do about it. (I'm in my 20s, and I can say, there are some games I see on t.v. that are so sickening, and am I correct to say that the U.S. army actually helped make it or am I mistaken?
Duplicate articles deserve to be in the Slashback section if anywhere, right?
It's a duplicate, same URL as before. I know because I saved the page from a few days ago.
I should have read it all before replying to someone else's comment.
I'm also wondering why they said that in the article. It seems out of context. (After reading the reply, I shall note this. I am a heterosexual male.)
(I'm going to take it that Filipina is referring to nationality as opposed to ethnicity.)
Although that seems like it has nothing to do with the article at hand (let alone the fact the article seems moot since I pay my local sales tax when I buy online if I am not mistaken, as it should be), I have this to say.
The only way a national sales tax will work is if it's progressive. The only way to make it progressive is to tax non-essential new items only. Essential items wouldn't be taxed. Used items wouldn't be taxed. Medical supplies wouldn't be taxed. Government institutions, such as schools, wouldn't have to pay any sales tax either because it would loop back.