I have just returned from 1977, having gone back to fix your error. Turns out that if Yakov does not leave Soviet Russia, he becomes next Stalin, and CCCP wins Cold War.
Right. By that logic, any law is enslavement at gunpoint. Guess you must be some sort of anarchist. I'll be over to collect your stuff, since you won't call the police on principle.
Now we can divert some of the resources from the Global War On Terror (GWOT) and fight the Global War Against Spam, Terror, & Erectile Dysfunction (GWASTED).
This is, of course, the Lori Drew who worked hard online to bully and demoralize a teenage girl to the point where she committed suicide.
The question is, since no laws exist which would allow her successful prosecution for her actual offense, why prosecute her for a violation of a site's TOS, which would establish a dangerous precedent for many users who simply don't want a site to have their private information?
This case belongs in civil court, not criminal. Let the dead girl's parents sue Lori Drew, prove their case, if possible, and collect monetary damages.
I have been providing my rationale. Either refute it or accept it. Actually, the poster has additional rights, to respond any way they choose. You don't define the limits of discussion.
From reading the short article, it looks like a method to take images the brain filters out as unimportant, and bring them up to the conscious level.
Problem: if you do this, wouldn't this clutter your view with unimportant images, or alternatively cause cognitive confusion? A person with this device attached literally couldn't trust their eyes anymore.
Much of television is lies in one form or another. My son is a young adult now, and not too much of a cynic. He enjoys life. He has an optimistic viewpoint.
But I really wouldn't try to deceive him. He'll call you out right in front of everyone.
It aids in the understanding of different world views - but primarily I have it in there not as an aid in logical thinking, but as a useful tool to cope with the world, which is polyglot.
My son learned to trust people who told the truth, and had a firm ethical foundation. He learned to distrust people who dissembled, lied, cheated, or constantly manipulated others.
This is embarrassing, but two years ago I had surgery on my butt. One of these days, I'm going to learn at what exact point to stop reading a particular post.
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I think it's time for the Boy Scouts of America to file suit and get their acronym back.
Hey, the World Wide Fund for Nature did it...
I have just returned from 1977, having gone back to fix your error. Turns out that if Yakov does not leave Soviet Russia, he becomes next Stalin, and CCCP wins Cold War.
How about requiring new accounts to not have the precise IP of another account?
Oh, btw, please add me to your list of opponents.
Ballmer only gives the BMWs to Twitter list members.
Taxation is theft at gun point.
Right. By that logic, any law is enslavement at gunpoint.
Guess you must be some sort of anarchist.
I'll be over to collect your stuff, since you won't call the police on principle.
I'm still holding out for isolinear chips.
"Never mistake Success for Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush, private diary, November 8th, 2006.
This gives me a new hope.
Now we can divert some of the resources from the Global War On Terror (GWOT) and fight the Global War Against Spam, Terror, & Erectile Dysfunction (GWASTED).
It would be nice if we could mod things simply on a -1 or +1 basis, and then use tags to decribe why.
I think a '+1 Peer-Supported Blather' mod would be very funny.
I will mod you up as soon as I'm done baking some cookies.
I'd rather be an astronaut than a lumberjack.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK.
Does this mean I should stop crucifying Microsoft's policies?
"...hard cases make bad law." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We really don't want the consequences of a successful prosecution on this basis, in my opinion.
This is, of course, the Lori Drew who worked hard online to bully and demoralize a teenage girl to the point where she committed suicide.
The question is, since no laws exist which would allow her successful prosecution for her actual offense, why prosecute her for a violation of a site's TOS, which would establish a dangerous precedent for many users who simply don't want a site to have their private information?
This case belongs in civil court, not criminal. Let the dead girl's parents sue Lori Drew, prove their case, if possible, and collect monetary damages.
The economics analysis group 'Queen' did what I consider to be the definitive analysis of the 'long tail' in their seminal work, Fat Bottomed Girls.
From reading the short article, it looks like a method to take images the brain filters out as unimportant, and bring them up to the conscious level.
Problem: if you do this, wouldn't this clutter your view with unimportant images, or alternatively cause cognitive confusion? A person with this device attached literally couldn't trust their eyes anymore.
Sounds like Mescaline.
Much of television is lies in one form or another. My son is a young adult now, and not too much of a cynic. He enjoys life. He has an optimistic viewpoint.
But I really wouldn't try to deceive him. He'll call you out right in front of everyone.
It aids in the understanding of different world views - but primarily I have it in there not as an aid in logical thinking, but as a useful tool to cope with the world, which is polyglot.
You must be Werner Heisenberg. :P
Obviously, reports of your death were BS.
At 19, he only conforms to the rules he understands to be just and fair - not always including mine... : )
My son learned to trust people who told the truth, and had a firm ethical foundation.
He learned to distrust people who dissembled, lied, cheated, or constantly manipulated others.
He seems to be doing well as a young adult...
In general, teach your children to think. Give them tools they can use later in life.
I didn't let my kid watch television until he was old enough to talk to.
Then I sat down with him, told him the rules for watching it, and emphasized one point:
"This is fun to watch, but remember - people lie."
At every level of life, when he was exposed to school, encountered any institution, or group, I would ask him, "How do you know this is true?"
I introduced him to the concepts of logic while playing games, and we made our own puzzles based on these concepts.
He is grown now, and has one awesome built-in BS detector.
Don't Google 'gerbil' - no, really. Not unless you have SafeSearch set.