which one is big bad, and which one is maybe bad? I'm guessing that since grokster has a large base of users, is probably over 99% illegal, and has a rather foolish name, it's the "big bad". Meanwhile, the completely legal company MGM, whose products don't suck most of the time, could still be evil were there to be a twist in the story, so it comes out to a maybe.
Making companies liable for illegal actions consciously performed by end users of their products is an extremely bad precedent to set. If I play my music too loudly and am fined for breaking city ordinance, I don't think MGM wants to pay the fine because it's the soundtrack to a movie they own. Basically, even if there is a legitimate justification for shutting down p2p, this is a bad way to go about it.
For obvious reasons, the invasion was quickly brought to a bloody close in favor of the defenders when the dinosaurs reashed Tenessee and Texas. Negotiations ensued, in which the surviving states pledged truce with Canada, Kentucky demanding a share of the surrounding territory, and Texas stipulating that a special company of mounties be deployed along the colorado river to "Keep the Californians the hell out of our State". As usual, no one even noticed Rhode Island. The US economy felt a slight lag, but this was quickly compensated for as the Texans began exporting taxidermized dinosaur heads.
Actually, the US does what the people we hired to make such descisions think is the right thing to do. Wether we actually can do it or not has little to do with it... I cite the ridiculous descision to extend social security indefinitely without raising taxes to the communist level as an example.
by which you mean "there's no more of a problem than there's always been". The system is still a poor one, and I wish the government had the guts to just cut it. Replace it? Maybe... if they really feel they must. I intend to not rely on government to support me in old age (after I retire at around 85 years old) in any case.
Social security was, at first, what amounted to a "Widows and orphans" fund.
Then, it was a retirement fund. Do you ever wonder why the retirement age was set at 65?
The average life expectancy at the time the system was instituted was something like 64 for your average worker, with a standard deviation of well under 10 years.
The average life expectancy for a worker is now in the high 70s/low 80s. I think it's time for some retirement time adjustments.
Bias in journalism is like drunk driving among teenagers. Some Conservatives say, let's take away the rules, since "you'll never stop those kids anyway,"
Basically, we had a successful conservative-sponsored scheme to eliminate the rules.
Fox News Network puts paid liars on TV.
nothing that separates this country from China but journalists and voting booths, and some Conservatives are in the process of crossing journalists off the list.
Speaking of bias.... holy shit, man.
I'm going to avoid too directly associating myself with your National Socialist - style railing against those you dislike by not answering any of that directly: I'll just point out that, by strict definition, any attempt to revoke existing controls is a liberal doctrine.
On the subject of moderation, (1) Moderation on Slashdot does censor things, that's the bloody point, and (2) The fact that your post is so much blind, redundant, reactionary tripe and is currently modded +3 insightful pretty much destroys your argument with regards to trolling, and probably also with "bad ideas", though I am somewhat reluctant to label ideas as "bad" in such a blanket fashion as you are.
It's not possible to have an organization that identifies bias and other bad practices. Partly, this is due to human nature, partly due to the nature of groups of humans (organizations) and mostly due to the fact that labelling one form of interpretation "bad" or "biased" is itself a result of bias, and in observing and interpreting that bias the group introduces another bias, and so on in infinite recursion. There's an easy method that an individual can use to identify bias in general, though: You know that something is biased when it comes out of a human's mouth.
I personally suggest that we focus on wether what news organizations report is true, rather than which direction the spin leans. The commentators can spin the information as much as they want, and welcome, so long as the damned facts are in there somewhere for me to find.
"In this modest home we find one Earnest Scribbler: writer of jokes. In several moments, he will have written the funniest joke in the world, and as a result, will DIE laughing...."
The Funniest Joke was written by a lone comedian... they had a team of linguinsts translate it into german one word at a time (one translator saw two words and had to be hospitalized for a week).
It was the Germans that used the mathematicians for their counter-joke, which was "Two peanuts vere valking down da street, unt one was assaulted... peanut! Ho ho ho." Truly an ill omen for the quality of music selected by this bot...
You seem to have developed your own little universe where an "artist" is somehow above the common musician because of some hair-splitting difference in "intent". In order to help you deflate this pretensious tomfoolery, I'm now going to reveal a great secret imparted to me by my 10th grade English instructor.
All great literature was composed for one purpose:
To make money.
So drop the coffee house tone, already. Most of the musicians that "produce a piece of work intended to convey emotion and inspire" in a garage somewhere suck just as much as most of the ones hand-picked by record executives for the size of their breasts. Actually, more, because the hand-picked ones can usually comprehend at least common time.
We've put up with the "gullibility" security hole long enough. I'm sick of these "people are stupid enough to ignore common sense" exploits. Just another effect of the monopoly that God has on biological creation. We should definitely switch to an open-source type of creation, or "eugenics".
Human minds forget things because they don't consider them important. Computers roget things because of alterations in the ambient magnetic field. I, for one, prefer the human style of unreliablilty.
Um, aren't the rules for most sports games pretty much set in stone anyhow? You can do things like individualizing the stats of players and programming in preset plays, but it's still going to be football, or baseball, or whatever. It's like playing checkers with pure-diamond figurines of various political figures, hand-carved painstakingly by the rare diamond-billed antarctic penguin. It may get flashier, but it's still checkers.
The thing about anime is that there's a lot of it. As with any form of literature where one can basically read or watch indefinitely, there's a shift in what the audience looks for as it becomes more experienced in the literary form:
Stage 1: Novelty-- Audience is interested in the big, flashy things: storyline, effects, character templates.
Stage 2: Basic familiarity-- Audience is familiar with all the general character types, storylines, and effects. They start looking for the real purpose of the work. Message and meaning become important, or at least interesting. A stage 2 scifi watcher might enjoy "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", because it wasn't all that bad a movie despite poor effects.
stage 3: True interest-- Audience actually devotes time to the study of the literary form. They watch slightly obscure things which they can enjoy because they are now familiar enough with the subtleties to "get it". They do things like watching awful dueling movies in search of the perfect swordplay scene.
Stage 4: Boredom-- Viewer knows the entire storyline of a piece within 30 seconds of the first line. He can spin dialogue off the top of his head that's roughly 1000 times better than what actually comes out of the piece. As a result, he disregards all of that and watches or reads things just for something new, anything at all just so long as it's something he doesn't see coming. Alternately, he turns watching into a game, such as laying bets on how many explosions blade 3 will contain.
It appears that you have had the misfortune of accepting the reccommendations of a stage 3 or 4 while you yourself were a stage 1 or 2. You have my condolences.
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which one is big bad, and which one is maybe bad? I'm guessing that since grokster has a large base of users, is probably over 99% illegal, and has a rather foolish name, it's the "big bad". Meanwhile, the completely legal company MGM, whose products don't suck most of the time, could still be evil were there to be a twist in the story, so it comes out to a maybe.
Making companies liable for illegal actions consciously performed by end users of their products is an extremely bad precedent to set. If I play my music too loudly and am fined for breaking city ordinance, I don't think MGM wants to pay the fine because it's the soundtrack to a movie they own. Basically, even if there is a legitimate justification for shutting down p2p, this is a bad way to go about it.
I dunno, looks truncated to me. If it's complete, then it seems our president is much wittier than he is credited for.
The Americans got the British to stop press-ganging our citizens. By our definition, we won.
The British burned some relatively unimportant buildings and marchd around a bunch looking pretty. By their definiton, they won.
Canada did not exist as a sovereign nation. By that definition, they.... I dunno. Lost, I guess.
For obvious reasons, the invasion was quickly brought to a bloody close in favor of the defenders when the dinosaurs reashed Tenessee and Texas. Negotiations ensued, in which the surviving states pledged truce with Canada, Kentucky demanding a share of the surrounding territory, and Texas stipulating that a special company of mounties be deployed along the colorado river to "Keep the Californians the hell out of our State". As usual, no one even noticed Rhode Island. The US economy felt a slight lag, but this was quickly compensated for as the Texans began exporting taxidermized dinosaur heads.
Actually, the US does what the people we hired to make such descisions think is the right thing to do. Wether we actually can do it or not has little to do with it... I cite the ridiculous descision to extend social security indefinitely without raising taxes to the communist level as an example.
Canada has a military?
by which you mean "there's no more of a problem than there's always been". The system is still a poor one, and I wish the government had the guts to just cut it. Replace it? Maybe... if they really feel they must. I intend to not rely on government to support me in old age (after I retire at around 85 years old) in any case.
then why are they retired on my money instead of earning their keep like everyone else?
Social security was, at first, what amounted to a "Widows and orphans" fund.
Then, it was a retirement fund. Do you ever wonder why the retirement age was set at 65?
The average life expectancy at the time the system was instituted was something like 64 for your average worker, with a standard deviation of well under 10 years.
The average life expectancy for a worker is now in the high 70s/low 80s. I think it's time for some retirement time adjustments.
Bias in journalism is like drunk driving among teenagers. Some Conservatives say, let's take away the rules, since "you'll never stop those kids anyway,"
Basically, we had a successful conservative-sponsored scheme to eliminate the rules.
Fox News Network puts paid liars on TV.
nothing that separates this country from China but journalists and voting booths, and some Conservatives are in the process of crossing journalists off the list.
Speaking of bias.... holy shit, man.
I'm going to avoid too directly associating myself with your National Socialist - style railing against those you dislike by not answering any of that directly: I'll just point out that, by strict definition, any attempt to revoke existing controls is a liberal doctrine.
On the subject of moderation, (1) Moderation on Slashdot does censor things, that's the bloody point, and (2) The fact that your post is so much blind, redundant, reactionary tripe and is currently modded +3 insightful pretty much destroys your argument with regards to trolling, and probably also with "bad ideas", though I am somewhat reluctant to label ideas as "bad" in such a blanket fashion as you are.
It's not possible to have an organization that identifies bias and other bad practices. Partly, this is due to human nature, partly due to the nature of groups of humans (organizations) and mostly due to the fact that labelling one form of interpretation "bad" or "biased" is itself a result of bias, and in observing and interpreting that bias the group introduces another bias, and so on in infinite recursion. There's an easy method that an individual can use to identify bias in general, though: You know that something is biased when it comes out of a human's mouth.
I personally suggest that we focus on wether what news organizations report is true, rather than which direction the spin leans. The commentators can spin the information as much as they want, and welcome, so long as the damned facts are in there somewhere for me to find.
You've gotta have the passion and the drive to get it out, as well as the desire to explore your creativity.
You forgot acqured technical ability stemming from extensive education or massive quantities of experimentation.
"If you can tell me subjectively why I like one particular song versus another, please do."
Social training. What do I win?
No, no, no.
"In this modest home we find one Earnest Scribbler: writer of jokes. In several moments, he will have written the funniest joke in the world, and as a result, will DIE laughing...."
The Funniest Joke was written by a lone comedian... they had a team of linguinsts translate it into german one word at a time (one translator saw two words and had to be hospitalized for a week).
It was the Germans that used the mathematicians for their counter-joke, which was "Two peanuts vere valking down da street, unt one was assaulted... peanut! Ho ho ho." Truly an ill omen for the quality of music selected by this bot...
You seem to have developed your own little universe where an "artist" is somehow above the common musician because of some hair-splitting difference in "intent". In order to help you deflate this pretensious tomfoolery, I'm now going to reveal a great secret imparted to me by my 10th grade English instructor.
All great literature was composed for one purpose:
To make money.
So drop the coffee house tone, already. Most of the musicians that "produce a piece of work intended to convey emotion and inspire" in a garage somewhere suck just as much as most of the ones hand-picked by record executives for the size of their breasts. Actually, more, because the hand-picked ones can usually comprehend at least common time.
Plus, Windows XP hides file extensions by default. One of the many things I had to waste time fixing when I installed the system.
We've put up with the "gullibility" security hole long enough. I'm sick of these "people are stupid enough to ignore common sense" exploits. Just another effect of the monopoly that God has on biological creation. We should definitely switch to an open-source type of creation, or "eugenics".
bah, stupid html rendering thingy not allowing a "less than" symbol.
If A*B*C X
Human minds forget things because they don't consider them important. Computers roget things because of alterations in the ambient magnetic field. I, for one, prefer the human style of unreliablilty.
Nintendo's "Blades of Steel". Like pong with hockey players. So very awesome.
Um, aren't the rules for most sports games pretty much set in stone anyhow? You can do things like individualizing the stats of players and programming in preset plays, but it's still going to be football, or baseball, or whatever. It's like playing checkers with pure-diamond figurines of various political figures, hand-carved painstakingly by the rare diamond-billed antarctic penguin. It may get flashier, but it's still checkers.
Yeah, I just hate them for buying out Westwood. I wanted a sequel to NOX, dammit.
The thing about anime is that there's a lot of it. As with any form of literature where one can basically read or watch indefinitely, there's a shift in what the audience looks for as it becomes more experienced in the literary form:
Stage 1: Novelty-- Audience is interested in the big, flashy things: storyline, effects, character templates.
Stage 2: Basic familiarity-- Audience is familiar with all the general character types, storylines, and effects. They start looking for the real purpose of the work. Message and meaning become important, or at least interesting. A stage 2 scifi watcher might enjoy "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", because it wasn't all that bad a movie despite poor effects.
stage 3: True interest-- Audience actually devotes time to the study of the literary form. They watch slightly obscure things which they can enjoy because they are now familiar enough with the subtleties to "get it". They do things like watching awful dueling movies in search of the perfect swordplay scene.
Stage 4: Boredom-- Viewer knows the entire storyline of a piece within 30 seconds of the first line. He can spin dialogue off the top of his head that's roughly 1000 times better than what actually comes out of the piece. As a result, he disregards all of that and watches or reads things just for something new, anything at all just so long as it's something he doesn't see coming. Alternately, he turns watching into a game, such as laying bets on how many explosions blade 3 will contain.
It appears that you have had the misfortune of accepting the reccommendations of a stage 3 or 4 while you yourself were a stage 1 or 2. You have my condolences.