Its not just the availabilty of a book, but also the availability of good teachers, and simple effective teaching material.
Imagine if you had to set up a interenet service that let, say impoverished afghani students (or farmers), who had access to only 1 internet enabled computer, how would you come up with a system to help them? In a country like India, there are millions of children who don't get an education, quite often because there isn't even a teacher available. Can a system be devised to enable mothers to teach their own children?
What studies/fields would you prioritise? Basic first aid/health ? Basic access to weather information ? Improved crop growth? How to operate a computer 101? English 101?
More importantly, WHO would you focus on? Im terrible at putting thoughts across, so bear with me- In many 3rd world countries, education is critical to long term growth and stability. But spending the money on text books and schools is not effective if there are not enough teachers, or if the schools are too far for students to reach. The most useful technique though, is empowering women. A mother is more likely to spend the money she earns on her children and family. Statistically Men are more likely to spend money on themselves. - What, in my twisted way I'm trying to say is - maybe its not about helping people in general but just the people who want to help themselves, and have the best chance of helping people on their way.
Materials that teach basic literacy, and computing concepts would probably be the most efficient.
Sorry,
I have gamed at what passes for national level in my country, (misreably as it is) and I have learnt so much about teamwork, leadership, focus, strategy, dedication, that I had to respond.
Nethack,morrowind,god of war - yes these games probably don't teach any of those things. But if you have ever tried, or even watched competition level gamers, you would never type those sentences.
Teamwork, Leadership (cannot overemphasize that), strategy, dedication, practice for nearly 10 hours a day, these are required in abundances to be a top player or team for Counter Strike, Starcraft and Warcraft.
I Garauntee, from personal experience, that playing a team oriented video game very quickly teaches you - what else? - to play in a team. It's so effective that it has been used by corproations to teach their employees! (Sorry I don't have the link and cant be bothered to find it right now.)
If you read the article, you'd know that those players definitely have what it takes when it comes to commitment. They dedicate more hours than most people could stay awake, performing an incredibly taxing task.
On Getting laid, if your a top player in korea, apparently you will get laid.
If your a top player almost anywhere else then yes, your going to have to either get lucky or dedicate yourself to learning how.
My personal opinion is that its not the game, as much as it is the player. I learnt from video games, as that is the arena I am able to apply myself in. Yours has been physical sports. There are other people who have not learnt all the same lessons from gaming as I have. Just as everyone has not learnt the same lessons from playing sports as you have.
I got a chance to lead teams because I was good enough in other peopls eyes that they may have deigned to listen to me. But after that, people would listen because I was good at knowing what to do.
I would never have gotten that chance if I took up a sport. Being bigger and having more muscles counts more than being fast and agile mentally. (not that its not as important in sports)I may be a brilliant leader- but who in their right mind is going to give you a chance to prove it if you cant even throw a ball properly?
Anyone who competes at a high level has to learn those things, anyone who has a chance to compete has a chance to learn them. It dosent matter whether its a physical sport, or a virtual one.
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I haven't had a chance to be there for a wii demo so can someone who has, shed some light on this - will using the wii-mote tire you out? how long can you expect to slash a sword without your arm getting tired?
It's a painful experience you describe. For children who don't have any support, (like what your mum gave you) its unelievably hard to overcome; often they are left with scars and behaviours that plague them their entire life.
What you say is likely, technology being the great enhancer, it is possible that the number of isolated children may go up overall.
Yet at the same time, it's quite possible that a child who had trouble making friends in person, may be able to interact with other people who share similar tastes online.(gaming, interest groups)
Course - the people who would be popular before, are probably going to become tremendously networked by being able to use any number of social sites.
-It seems like a question of degrees, will there be more isolated kids, or will there actually be a chance for them to find people they can interact with.
Does anyone have any hard data/studies/statistics?
Bullshit.
Just paying dues dosent make an association a union. And putting associations in quotes wont make it so.
Associations recognise that a Dr or a lawyer has a right to be accredited by, and only by, a panel of his peers and superiors.
They are regulatory bodies which are the only ones capable of understanding the cases of its members.
I wouldnt want a suit or government functionary deciding whether or not an intricate decision or action by a lawyer is right or not. Just the same way you wouldn't want someone who hasn't studied law being a judge and judging my case.
Unions are intended to create leverage for workers who could easily be replaced and didnt have any individual power to protect their jobs.
Their purpose is to ensure job security by combining the threat of a group of people not working for a factory. The only possible way they have of dealing with an unscrupulous/unfair owner.
This IS not the case with a Dr or a lawyer.
Association != Unions.
I Play WoW, and used to play War3 on a tournament level. I play GW as well.
Quite frankly playing gw and war3 has improved me as a person, and taught me a LOT about winning.
WoW has, on the other hand, taught me about the lowest common denominator.
First and foremost, all mammals learn through play. Heck we learn more when we play than if we forced ourselves to study.
Simcity, strategy games, FPS, squad level games, all teach the user something. ALLways.
And all these games have simple rules. Simple understandable rules.
Some rules are dumb, and some have loopholes, but they have no person enforcing them.
Now as a nod to everyone whos thinking, its just a game you play for fun,
you learn a LOT when you play. You may not be conciously aware of it, but your brain IS adapting to the rule set. It IS evaluating its choices based on what it sees as its best options. Your brain does this all the time.
WoW has a lot of dumb rules and loopholes.
THE game is not consistent with itself.
It gives you the promise of "world to explore" and the feeling of a free environment, but then begins to put arbitrary limits to prevent people from gaming the environment.
But WORST of all, allmost EVERY quest, must see the DEATH of some creature, which will MAGICALLY spawn again.
You can depopulate ENTIRE regions, and have more to kill!
The solution to almost EVERY quest is "Kill 30 coyotes! 10 parakeets! On the way kill 5 lions" why? Oh i couldnt be bothere to kill 1 and get their fur or pluck their feathers.
The game IS GREAT as a gambling simulator and an enhanced barbie doll dress up simulation.
But man, if your kids is going to play this, hes going to have to "kill" some million creatures.
Blizzard was smart enough to make the exp bar huge so even small increases in exp are visible; smart enough to break the quests down so that they become manageable.
But the game still tells you to "Kill 30 badland coyotes" or "Avenge us by killing 30 alliance scouts"
Your subconcious IS picking this up.
I agree, this is the end result of free market economics.
Competition will always whittle our margins, if it didn't then you would have an inefficient market.
I dont get it, is he complaining against efficient competitive markets?
You know whats really hurting the children? OTHER children! It's not so much as our parenting, as it is the parenting of OTHERS that is influencing our children! This is wrong! We should be able to protect our own without having our work, our CHILDREN(!) influenced by the work of others!
Yet the problems we are facing today, the interweb, the violence TV, all of these were there in different forms before! Yes! We are having the same problems all parents before us have had! How do I know this?? Why its simple! If there ever was a time when it was good to raise kids, and there werent bad people and things happening around us, well, we would have had PERFECT kids then! Then those children would have become perfect parents, raised perfect children and today we would have NO problems!
Imagine! World war 2 wouldn't have happened! Everyone would be polite and well mannered! Each and everyone of us, would be so much better than what we are now! No one would have been mean or hurt us, no children would be taken advantage of. There would be no pervs, NOTHING! Can you imagine!?
But it DIDN'T HAPPEN! That means its never been possible to do so!
We need to change this. I say we need to put controls on the internet so our children can be safe. But will that stop it?
NO! People will find a way around it! YES! The deviants will! WE NEED to control the deviants too! We need to find EVERYONE who has the least chance of being a deviant, ANY KIND of deviant, and ISOLATE them. Economically, emotionally, in evey which way possible! GET RID OF the deviants!
But no, this is not enough either! Some deviants will always escape! Some may get born in further generations!
WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERYTHING! You cant just try controlling the internet, the point is to PROTECT our children. To keep them SAFE from harm. And hard can come in MANY forms! WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERYTHING! LETS SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Control EVERYTHING.
WE need to make sure everyone follows the SAME path, EVERYDAY. Only state sponsored holidays on BIOLOGICALLY suitable days. WORK on those days that people are most productive, those days that you cant you can take a break! And you can go to something GOOD for you! Maybe a state sponsored gym class! Maybe the opera. AND DEFINITELY NO MORE CIGARETTE BREAKS! Just like that, no more trouble! You go when we tell you, where we tell you and how we tell you. No more unhealthy past times. No more unhealthy food. No more rude children. WIth everyone being shining examples all our children will grow up to be well adjusted and capable of contributing to society.
Yet, even this my friends, is an utopia. Yes, even this little dream is not to be. Because we cling too hard to moderate steps. IF we want to protect the children we must protect them from EVERYTHING. EVEN OURSELVES.
I say this is not enough. Deviants can form even in that utopia! I say we must do MORE. MUCH MUCH MORE! And today , we have the tools to do so.
Genetic engineering. WE must remove the genes for creativity and intelligence. ALL PEOPLE WITH AN IQ ABOVE 80 MUST BE REMOVED From the gene pool! That way, there will NEVER be any technological change that will allow deviants to spy and PERVERT our children! Remove the need for dominance! Make it so that EVERYONE born LOOKS EXACTLY the same! No skin color differences, no hieght, no body shape, NOTHING. No one will EVER be insecure about their looks again! Remove the gene for violence all together! EVERYONE WILL BE DOCILE! NO ONE WILL feel the urge to go out and hit someone ever! But then how will we eat? WIll we be able to defend ourselves? YES! We can make robots whose ONLY duty is to kill all the predators. KILL EVERY BEAR, TIGER, HYENA, LION! EVERY predator which may prey on us. While we are at it, lets kill ALL the mosquitos as well. matter of fact, all land insects should die. Sharks too. That way our docile herds of children will be safe.
Small point, but lawyers with more IP experience would help defend pro-business laws equally well. Possibly better than say, pro-bono work for something which dosen't even have a human face and no political pay-off? ( course, I feel im wrong about the pay-off part, meh, Im going to get bitten for it anyway.)
From the article, hes saying that cable operators are using the analogy "pipes" to explain the net.
He is suggesting that to fight this we have to use the analogy "place" when we discuss the interne.
It's odd, that when someone is suggesting that the internet may end up having centralized control over whats being transmitted, Comments with the highest karma rating refute points which are not directly related to the article, and are the majority.
I don't love this though,
"It will make little or no difference... "
Still vote.
If you despair and dont, things will not get better.
PS: completely understand where it comes from.
"Cut into buying across the industry" ? Huh? Is it just me or isn't there some terrible assumption here?
Since when has "cutting into buying" been something to worry about???
Do we complain about Ipods "cutting into buying across the industry" ??
Did I miss the sign which says "donate to EA"?
Real fear? They're scared? That people wont buy their game? Why? Because your game is NOT as good as WoW? Is the industry admitting that their products are not competitive?
And this fear, is being reported as "helping or hurting the industry"? Wow, it sounds like I'm reading the painful part of an Ann Rand novel. ?
Is it just me, or is this being reported in the same tone and style used to report "threats"?
A real fear we might bungle up laying gas pipes. A real fear that WoW will cut into buying across the industry.
Yes and no.
yes they will get bored.
No they havent learned the lesson.
School is as much about practice as it is about learning. Eg: I understand multiplication, it takes me 3 minutes to complete it.
The more practice I get, the denser, more efficient that section of my mind becomes, thats just the way neurons in the brain work.
We NEED to practice. There is no way to make the grunt work of getting smart easier. But it can be made more or less enjoyable.
Spin 1: people make their own choices.
Spin 2: Games of a violent nature make it more likely that people will act violently after playing it.
Choose your poison:)
Do forgive me, but I hate this.
Every time any pure science/tech project gets into the news, someone will enevitably say:
"Wow, why not save the sick/poor/starving people/pandas/tigers instead with all that money?!"
Reasons why that is daft -
Give a man a fish, or teach him how to fish.
In this case, extends a valuably knowledge base and creates a unique resource which is unavailable elsewhere.
Pride in your achievements.
Life is just not about feeding all your starving people. Plus the non trivial political bonus.
Money and resources
The funds for the starving poor have already been allocated. Throwing more money at it will NOT solve it.
Competition and advancement
If we spent all our free money on feeding the poor instead of satellites, we would have lost the edge that makes a country competitive.
Cultural growth
Technological advances and scientific understanding are the instigators of cultural growth and maturity.
It is in the best interest of any nation to dilligently endeavour in enriching itself.
I could understand criticism if a despotic ruler hijacked his country and then blew the national treasury on whims and fancies. But when a nationally funded institution, launches a sattelite with both a commerical and defensive value, at a higher return per Rupee I cannot see how this is a bad thing.
Sorry, first time poster on slashdot. Don't crisp me please.
No one is going to do that, seriously. This is not cynicism (ok maybe a wee bit) but
People have not started using, or are aware of, the explicit category DRMed material, vs the categories Books/CDs/DVDs.
Buying a CD is viewed as buying Music, not as buying a program, or a device to 'restrict' the usage of the data on it.
People currently believe they are buying "A song", "A book", "An album". Their buying habits reflect this reality. The average consumer is NOT worried or aware about DRM.
They have far more pressing problems than DRM.
Consumers are not aware of the difference between a CD and a DRM enabled data storage device. People are unaware, or confused about, the difference between the two.
Everyone is busy-with-their-life and have other things to worry about.
But people ARE bothered by being told what they can or cannot do.
People DO NOT respond well to being or feeling cheated.
If you want people to vote with their feet, make the difference abundantly clear and direct them to/create an alternative.
My two cents.
(If i have missed anything or got something wrong, do let me know.)
If you RTFA, you'll find that the simulations assumed a doubling in the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nowhere in the article did anybody claim this was really going to happen. It's just examining the worst case they could think of, to see how bad things could possibly get if everything went wrong.
If you RTFA you will notice a small qualifier - "Each PC runs a slightly different computer simulation examining what happens to the global climate if levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere double from pre-industrial levels"
Ice-core samplings show that atmospheric co2 HAS doubled since pre-industrial times.
Now onto "alarmist" journalism. American and British media follow a simple rule. Get an opinion from someone who disagrees. Except that there is scientific consensus on global warming. 1) It IS happening. No 2 ways about it. ITs happening 2) Human Beings ARE contributing to it.
Now this is a problem for the News media. You MUST have an opposing opinion:
THe people who say "it is not happening" have oddly - Not been climatoligists by proffesion. Have been funded indirectly by people with vested intersts - (big money) Of course - THe EXACT same statements have been leveled at the global warming camps. confused?
The *.AAs are working to stop illegal (yes I KNOW it is, see I say so) distribution of their material, a laudable and even respectable aim. But you do have a point, we really should spend our money and do the following- for good reason. (do not take any of this personally, if you take any of this personally please remember that it isn't directed at you.) --------- Which movie would you buy with that 5$ u may have donated?
How about "Useless Paff 3, The Revenge of The Copied Clones"! YEAH!!!!! Who DOSEN'T want to see product placements in our movies?? WOW! I mean whats better than ARAGORN DRINKING COKE!!! *noises of me spasming with joy*
So what if the movie sucks like a black hole ? At least it is better than going and downloading a movie like those copy-wrong pirates! Those Idiots. They don't know what they are missing! It is SOOO much better to watch it in theaters where u can get oodles of that yummy popcorn. And enjoy quality time with other families and their crying babies.
I mean I feel these movie studios guys aren't making enough money man, even after making their movies long commericials, that must be coz - Some movies (many of them maybe), STINK LIKE A ROTTING CORPSE!!!
-Lol, just kidding!
No, they are losing money because people are pirating their movies! YES! They are losing revenue because movies are being pirated!!! When that happens, they have to find other ways to make us support them don't they? I mean, like, come on! People's lives DEPEND upon that bad movie doing well! THEY NEED YOU TO GO WATCH THOSE MOVIES!
There are talented (actors,singers, Smart Marketing people) people out there who need to survive in this industry AND WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM. They need your help, then need you. Then need you to spend.
You NEED to give these people your money by buying their DVDs and watching their movies as well as buying the soundtrack.
Hey, your DUTY is to spend. That is how you make the "NEW IMPROVED Economy!!" work, drone!
Don't support this site, which will force them to find some other way to figure out how to make money! Dammit man don't you have feelings?? Think about what this is doing to the Artistes!
Besides - These Loki site guys just ABSOLUTELY UTTERLY DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE FRAUDS!!! Dude their name is like "Loki" man! Come on! Lolz. They are , like , TELLING you they are up to mischief man. Dude loki is like that Voodoo god from India man!Like he is Evil dude!
Plus man, these guys are not as good as suprnova dude, so why are they fighting man? I mean look, if there was anything to fight for it would be fought for wouldn't it? I mean in general people want to stick to the *.AAs but, man, we don't want these guys to do it!
Besides I want Superman to fight for me, (hey can I use his name? I'm being serious, coz I might be diluting his brand worth, you know, like Xerox)
Come on ! You are SLASHDOT man! THINK! Dude, it isn't like something we stand for is on the line is it? Like pron right?
Obvious point -
STOP PAYING THEM SO MUCH.
Isn't bit torrent helping to achieve exactly that.
Imo, use torrents, maybe we will get better quality movies in the end.
Slashdot Mirror
Come on, the other story is still on the front page!
"A taser is not a motivational tool" - sums up the situation nicely.
Its not just the availabilty of a book, but also the availability of good teachers, and simple effective teaching material.
Imagine if you had to set up a interenet service that let, say impoverished afghani students (or farmers), who had access to only 1 internet enabled computer, how would you come up with a system to help them? In a country like India, there are millions of children who don't get an education, quite often because there isn't even a teacher available. Can a system be devised to enable mothers to teach their own children?
What studies/fields would you prioritise?
Basic first aid/health ? Basic access to weather information ? Improved crop growth? How to operate a computer 101? English 101?
More importantly, WHO would you focus on? Im terrible at putting thoughts across, so bear with me-
In many 3rd world countries, education is critical to long term growth and stability.
But spending the money on text books and schools is not effective if there are not enough teachers, or if the schools are too far for students to reach.
The most useful technique though, is empowering women. A mother is more likely to spend the money she earns on her children and family. Statistically Men are more likely to spend money on themselves.
- What, in my twisted way I'm trying to say is - maybe its not about helping people in general but just the people who want to help themselves, and have the best chance of helping people on their way.
Materials that teach basic literacy, and computing concepts would probably be the most efficient.
Sorry, I have gamed at what passes for national level in my country, (misreably as it is) and I have learnt so much about teamwork, leadership, focus, strategy, dedication, that I had to respond. Nethack,morrowind,god of war - yes these games probably don't teach any of those things. But if you have ever tried, or even watched competition level gamers, you would never type those sentences. Teamwork, Leadership (cannot overemphasize that), strategy, dedication, practice for nearly 10 hours a day, these are required in abundances to be a top player or team for Counter Strike, Starcraft and Warcraft. I Garauntee, from personal experience, that playing a team oriented video game very quickly teaches you - what else? - to play in a team. It's so effective that it has been used by corproations to teach their employees! (Sorry I don't have the link and cant be bothered to find it right now.) If you read the article, you'd know that those players definitely have what it takes when it comes to commitment. They dedicate more hours than most people could stay awake, performing an incredibly taxing task. On Getting laid, if your a top player in korea, apparently you will get laid. If your a top player almost anywhere else then yes, your going to have to either get lucky or dedicate yourself to learning how. My personal opinion is that its not the game, as much as it is the player. I learnt from video games, as that is the arena I am able to apply myself in. Yours has been physical sports. There are other people who have not learnt all the same lessons from gaming as I have. Just as everyone has not learnt the same lessons from playing sports as you have. I got a chance to lead teams because I was good enough in other peopls eyes that they may have deigned to listen to me. But after that, people would listen because I was good at knowing what to do. I would never have gotten that chance if I took up a sport. Being bigger and having more muscles counts more than being fast and agile mentally. (not that its not as important in sports)I may be a brilliant leader- but who in their right mind is going to give you a chance to prove it if you cant even throw a ball properly? Anyone who competes at a high level has to learn those things, anyone who has a chance to compete has a chance to learn them. It dosent matter whether its a physical sport, or a virtual one.
I haven't had a chance to be there for a wii demo so can someone who has, shed some light on this - will using the wii-mote tire you out? how long can you expect to slash a sword without your arm getting tired?
It's a painful experience you describe. For children who don't have any support, (like what your mum gave you) its unelievably hard to overcome; often they are left with scars and behaviours that plague them their entire life. What you say is likely, technology being the great enhancer, it is possible that the number of isolated children may go up overall. Yet at the same time, it's quite possible that a child who had trouble making friends in person, may be able to interact with other people who share similar tastes online.(gaming, interest groups) Course - the people who would be popular before, are probably going to become tremendously networked by being able to use any number of social sites. -It seems like a question of degrees, will there be more isolated kids, or will there actually be a chance for them to find people they can interact with. Does anyone have any hard data/studies/statistics?
... The life I used to have. (coudnt resist adding that )
You don't NEED epic gear. heh heh, ok even I'm laughing after I wrote that.
Bullshit. Just paying dues dosent make an association a union. And putting associations in quotes wont make it so. Associations recognise that a Dr or a lawyer has a right to be accredited by, and only by, a panel of his peers and superiors. They are regulatory bodies which are the only ones capable of understanding the cases of its members. I wouldnt want a suit or government functionary deciding whether or not an intricate decision or action by a lawyer is right or not. Just the same way you wouldn't want someone who hasn't studied law being a judge and judging my case. Unions are intended to create leverage for workers who could easily be replaced and didnt have any individual power to protect their jobs. Their purpose is to ensure job security by combining the threat of a group of people not working for a factory. The only possible way they have of dealing with an unscrupulous/unfair owner. This IS not the case with a Dr or a lawyer. Association != Unions.
I Play WoW, and used to play War3 on a tournament level. I play GW as well. Quite frankly playing gw and war3 has improved me as a person, and taught me a LOT about winning. WoW has, on the other hand, taught me about the lowest common denominator. First and foremost, all mammals learn through play. Heck we learn more when we play than if we forced ourselves to study. Simcity, strategy games, FPS, squad level games, all teach the user something. ALLways. And all these games have simple rules. Simple understandable rules. Some rules are dumb, and some have loopholes, but they have no person enforcing them. Now as a nod to everyone whos thinking, its just a game you play for fun, you learn a LOT when you play. You may not be conciously aware of it, but your brain IS adapting to the rule set. It IS evaluating its choices based on what it sees as its best options. Your brain does this all the time. WoW has a lot of dumb rules and loopholes. THE game is not consistent with itself. It gives you the promise of "world to explore" and the feeling of a free environment, but then begins to put arbitrary limits to prevent people from gaming the environment. But WORST of all, allmost EVERY quest, must see the DEATH of some creature, which will MAGICALLY spawn again. You can depopulate ENTIRE regions, and have more to kill! The solution to almost EVERY quest is "Kill 30 coyotes! 10 parakeets! On the way kill 5 lions" why? Oh i couldnt be bothere to kill 1 and get their fur or pluck their feathers. The game IS GREAT as a gambling simulator and an enhanced barbie doll dress up simulation. But man, if your kids is going to play this, hes going to have to "kill" some million creatures. Blizzard was smart enough to make the exp bar huge so even small increases in exp are visible; smart enough to break the quests down so that they become manageable. But the game still tells you to "Kill 30 badland coyotes" or "Avenge us by killing 30 alliance scouts" Your subconcious IS picking this up.
I agree, this is the end result of free market economics. Competition will always whittle our margins, if it didn't then you would have an inefficient market. I dont get it, is he complaining against efficient competitive markets?
Lets save the children.
You know whats really hurting the children?
OTHER children! It's not so much as our parenting, as it is the parenting of OTHERS that is influencing our children! This is wrong!
We should be able to protect our own without having our work, our CHILDREN(!) influenced by the work of others!
Yet the problems we are facing today, the interweb, the violence TV, all of these were there in different forms before!
Yes! We are having the same problems all parents before us have had! How do I know this??
Why its simple!
If there ever was a time when it was good to raise kids, and there werent bad people and things happening around us, well, we would have had PERFECT kids then! Then those children would have become perfect parents, raised perfect children and today we would have NO problems!
Imagine!
World war 2 wouldn't have happened!
Everyone would be polite and well mannered!
Each and everyone of us, would be so much better than what we are now! No one would have been mean or hurt us, no children would be taken advantage of. There would be no pervs, NOTHING! Can you imagine!?
But it DIDN'T HAPPEN! That means its never been possible to do so!
We need to change this. I say we need to put controls on the internet so our children can be safe. But will that stop it?
NO!
People will find a way around it! YES! The deviants will! WE NEED to control the deviants too! We need to find EVERYONE who has the least chance of being a deviant, ANY KIND of deviant, and ISOLATE them. Economically, emotionally, in evey which way possible! GET RID OF the deviants!
But no, this is not enough either! Some deviants will always escape!
Some may get born in further generations!
WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!
You cant just try controlling the internet, the point is to PROTECT our children. To keep them SAFE from harm. And hard can come in MANY forms! WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERYTHING! LETS SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Control EVERYTHING.
WE need to make sure everyone follows the SAME path, EVERYDAY. Only state sponsored holidays on BIOLOGICALLY suitable days. WORK on those days that people are most productive, those days that you cant you can take a break! And you can go to something GOOD for you! Maybe a state sponsored gym class! Maybe the opera. AND DEFINITELY NO MORE CIGARETTE BREAKS!
Just like that, no more trouble! You go when we tell you, where we tell you and how we tell you. No more unhealthy past times. No more unhealthy food. No more rude children. WIth everyone being shining examples all our children will grow up to be well adjusted and capable of contributing to society.
Yet, even this my friends, is an utopia.
Yes, even this little dream is not to be. Because we cling too hard to moderate steps. IF we want to protect the children we must protect them from EVERYTHING. EVEN OURSELVES.
I say this is not enough. Deviants can form even in that utopia! I say we must do MORE. MUCH MUCH MORE! And today , we have the tools to do so.
Genetic engineering. WE must remove the genes for creativity and intelligence. ALL PEOPLE WITH AN IQ ABOVE 80 MUST BE REMOVED From the gene pool! That way, there will NEVER be any technological change that will allow deviants to spy and PERVERT our children!
Remove the need for dominance! Make it so that EVERYONE born LOOKS EXACTLY the same! No skin color differences, no hieght, no body shape, NOTHING. No one will EVER be insecure about their looks again!
Remove the gene for violence all together! EVERYONE WILL BE DOCILE! NO ONE WILL feel the urge to go out and hit someone ever!
But then how will we eat? WIll we be able to defend ourselves? YES! We can make robots whose ONLY duty is to kill all the predators.
KILL EVERY BEAR, TIGER, HYENA, LION! EVERY predator which may prey on us. While we are at it, lets kill ALL the mosquitos as well. matter of fact, all land insects should die. Sharks too. That way our docile herds of children will be safe.
At this point food bec
Small point, but lawyers with more IP experience would help defend pro-business laws equally well. Possibly better than say, pro-bono work for something which dosen't even have a human face and no political pay-off? ( course, I feel im wrong about the pay-off part, meh, Im going to get bitten for it anyway.) From the article, hes saying that cable operators are using the analogy "pipes" to explain the net. He is suggesting that to fight this we have to use the analogy "place" when we discuss the interne. It's odd, that when someone is suggesting that the internet may end up having centralized control over whats being transmitted, Comments with the highest karma rating refute points which are not directly related to the article, and are the majority.
I don't love this though, "It will make little or no difference... " Still vote. If you despair and dont, things will not get better. PS: completely understand where it comes from.
"Cut into buying across the industry" ?
Huh?
Is it just me or isn't there some terrible assumption here?
Since when has "cutting into buying" been something to worry about???
Do we complain about Ipods "cutting into buying across the industry" ??
Did I miss the sign which says "donate to EA"?
Real fear? They're scared? That people wont buy their game? Why? Because your game is NOT as good as WoW?
Is the industry admitting that their products are not competitive?
And this fear, is being reported as "helping or hurting the industry"?
Wow, it sounds like I'm reading the painful part of an Ann Rand novel. ?
Is it just me, or is this being reported in the same tone and style used to report "threats"?
A real fear we might bungle up laying gas pipes.
A real fear that WoW will cut into buying across the industry.
How are we tolerating such reporting?!
Yes and no. yes they will get bored. No they havent learned the lesson. School is as much about practice as it is about learning. Eg: I understand multiplication, it takes me 3 minutes to complete it. The more practice I get, the denser, more efficient that section of my mind becomes, thats just the way neurons in the brain work. We NEED to practice. There is no way to make the grunt work of getting smart easier. But it can be made more or less enjoyable.
Sounds like an excellent place to start on with that stasis field research.
Spin 1: people make their own choices. Spin 2: Games of a violent nature make it more likely that people will act violently after playing it. Choose your poison :)
Do forgive me, but I hate this. Every time any pure science/tech project gets into the news, someone will enevitably say: "Wow, why not save the sick/poor/starving people/pandas/tigers instead with all that money?!" Reasons why that is daft - Give a man a fish, or teach him how to fish. In this case, extends a valuably knowledge base and creates a unique resource which is unavailable elsewhere. Pride in your achievements. Life is just not about feeding all your starving people. Plus the non trivial political bonus. Money and resources The funds for the starving poor have already been allocated. Throwing more money at it will NOT solve it. Competition and advancement If we spent all our free money on feeding the poor instead of satellites, we would have lost the edge that makes a country competitive. Cultural growth Technological advances and scientific understanding are the instigators of cultural growth and maturity. It is in the best interest of any nation to dilligently endeavour in enriching itself. I could understand criticism if a despotic ruler hijacked his country and then blew the national treasury on whims and fancies. But when a nationally funded institution, launches a sattelite with both a commerical and defensive value, at a higher return per Rupee I cannot see how this is a bad thing.
Sorry, first time poster on slashdot. Don't crisp me please.
No one is going to do that, seriously.
This is not cynicism (ok maybe a wee bit) but
People have not started using, or are aware of, the explicit category DRMed material, vs the categories Books/CDs/DVDs.
Buying a CD is viewed as buying Music, not as buying a program, or a device to 'restrict' the usage of the data on it.
People currently believe they are buying "A song", "A book", "An album". Their buying habits reflect this reality.
The average consumer is NOT worried or aware about DRM.
They have far more pressing problems than DRM.
Consumers are not aware of the difference between a CD and a DRM enabled data storage device.
People are unaware, or confused about, the difference between the two.
Everyone is busy-with-their-life and have other things to worry about.
But people ARE bothered by being told what they can or cannot do.
People DO NOT respond well to being or feeling cheated.
If you want people to vote with their feet,
make the difference abundantly clear and direct them to/create an alternative.
My two cents.
(If i have missed anything or got something wrong, do let me know.)
mig
If you RTFA, you'll find that the simulations assumed a doubling in the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nowhere in the article did anybody claim this was really going to happen. It's just examining the worst case they could think of, to see how bad things could possibly get if everything went wrong.
If you RTFA you will notice a small qualifier -
"Each PC runs a slightly different computer simulation examining what happens to the global climate if levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere double from pre-industrial levels"
Ice-core samplings show that atmospheric co2 HAS doubled since pre-industrial times.
Now onto "alarmist" journalism.
American and British media follow a simple rule. Get an opinion from someone who disagrees.
Except that there is scientific consensus on global warming.
1) It IS happening. No 2 ways about it. ITs happening
2) Human Beings ARE contributing to it.
Now this is a problem for the News media. You MUST have an opposing opinion:
THe people who say "it is not happening" have oddly -
Not been climatoligists by proffesion.
Have been funded indirectly by people with vested intersts - (big money)
Of course -
THe EXACT same statements have been leveled at the global warming camps.
confused?
It should also be noted, that since this IS India,
1 or more of the following WILL happen -
1)The final speed will be 1 bps, which will be described as amazing since villagers can now access bloomberg.
2)Several officials will get bribed, (DEFINITELY going to happen)
3)It will get delayed,
4)It will cost FAR more than expected.
5)The government will then arbitrarily reduce connection speeds,
6)It will then be followed up by legislation to ensure the lesser common good.
Jai Hind!
Yes, let us not pay these people.
The *.AAs are working to stop illegal (yes I KNOW it is, see I say so) distribution of their material, a laudable and even respectable aim. But you do have a point, we really should spend our money and do the following- for good reason.
(do not take any of this personally, if you take any of this personally please remember that it isn't directed at you.)
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Which movie would you buy with that 5$ u may have donated?
How about "Useless Paff 3, The Revenge of The Copied Clones"! YEAH!!!!!
Who DOSEN'T want to see product placements in our movies?? WOW! I mean whats better than ARAGORN DRINKING COKE!!! *noises of me spasming with joy*
So what if the movie sucks like a black hole ?
At least it is better than going and downloading a movie like those copy-wrong pirates!
Those Idiots. They don't know what they are missing!
It is SOOO much better to watch it in theaters where u can get oodles of that yummy popcorn. And enjoy quality time with other families and their crying babies.
I mean I feel these movie studios guys aren't making enough money man, even after making their movies long commericials, that must be coz -
Some movies (many of them maybe), STINK LIKE A ROTTING CORPSE!!!
-Lol, just kidding!
No, they are losing money because people are pirating their movies! YES! They are losing revenue because movies are being pirated!!!
When that happens, they have to find other ways to make us support them don't they?
I mean, like, come on! People's lives DEPEND upon that bad movie doing well!
THEY NEED YOU TO GO WATCH THOSE MOVIES!
There are talented (actors,singers, Smart Marketing people) people out there who need to survive in this industry AND WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM.
They need your help, then need you. Then need you to spend.
You NEED to give these people your money by buying their DVDs and watching their movies as well as buying the soundtrack.
Hey, your DUTY is to spend.
That is how you make the "NEW IMPROVED Economy!!" work, drone!
Don't support this site, which will force them to find some other way to figure out how to make money!
Dammit man don't you have feelings?? Think about what this is doing to the Artistes!
Besides -
These Loki site guys just ABSOLUTELY UTTERLY DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE FRAUDS!!!
Dude their name is like "Loki" man! Come on! Lolz. They are , like , TELLING you they are up to mischief man.
Dude loki is like that Voodoo god from India man!Like he is Evil dude!
Plus man, these guys are not as good as suprnova dude, so why are they fighting man?
I mean look, if there was anything to fight for it would be fought for wouldn't it?
I mean in general people want to stick to the *.AAs but, man, we don't want these guys to do it!
Besides I want Superman to fight for me, (hey can I use his name? I'm being serious, coz I might be diluting his brand worth, you know, like Xerox)
Come on ! You are SLASHDOT man! THINK!
Dude, it isn't like something we stand for is on the line is it? Like pron right?
Obvious point - STOP PAYING THEM SO MUCH. Isn't bit torrent helping to achieve exactly that. Imo, use torrents, maybe we will get better quality movies in the end.