Maybe. I think you're being too broad brush. I know happily married people with active social lives who do all sorts of "connected" things, including online gaming.
*MY* problem with these online worlds (the freeform ones like SL) is that they are mirroring the real world too closely. Second Life has space hoarding land barons? Boy, that makes me want to jump right in!:-( Oh, and there's ideological extremists who will harass you? Sign me the fuck up! Furry pr0n! Goody! Politicians setting up shop, and their legions of mindless sycophants following them in? Be still my beating heart! People who will sue me for some imagined slight in a world doesn't exist? Oh joy and rapture!
Well, OK, so maybe furry porn isn't so prevalent in the Real World, but you get my drift.
doesn't mean that you shouldn't be held accountable for your actions.
Why? No one else is. People can enter the country illegally, and legions of people will defend them and want to give them free things (watch someone call me racist for even daring to say such a thing). Rich murderers can get off because they can hire expensive legal teams that will address everything except actual facts. Politicans can ignore the will of the people and override clear, voted upon mandates. Presidents can send our children to war under false pretenses. How many criminals are walking the streets causing new crimes after serving thouroughly inadequate sentences? Corporate executives scam everyone, and then bail out with multimillion dollar golden parachutes. In many cases, the one with the most attorneys wins.
This is a nation with laws? I call bullshit. This is a nation with *lawyers*, which is a very different thing.
I dunno. Even if I got a better job as a result, I think I'd still try a lawsuit just for spite.
That might just be me. There's people who tormented me in grade school whose throats I go for if I ever saw them again. I heavily wired for vendetta.:) Must have been a samauri in a past life, or Celtic.
The GentleMouse II - This next gen mouse will not only click the button and scroll for you, but it will automatically move the mouse pointer for you. You don't even have to touch the mouse. Works with the Honeywell Internal Viteous Eye Sensor (sensor and implantation surgery sold separately). Leaves hands free for interweb pr0n.
The GentleMouse GX - You not only don't have to touch the mouse, you don't have to even be near the computer thanks to the new DARPA MindLink WaveSender Interface (Majestic Ultra DOD security rating required and available separately). Now you fat lazy bastards don't even have to get out of bed!
The GentleMouse EXTREME! - The entire computer is just an neurochemical overlay in your brain. Perfect for coma patients, or people who wish they were in a coma. Your subconscious mind does all the work without any intrustion into conscious awareness. You'll just have to trust us that it's working.
Or I could just sue the motherfucker for unjustified firing and discrimination. I can't believe that this actually happened, or just his tastes in music led to the firing.
If it is true, I can't imagine the paranoid place you work in. My boss knows I once dated a dominatrix (I was her boyfriend, *NOT* a client, mind you) and it doesn't mean a thing to him.
Must every article these days follow the same lines?
1. Reduce group in question to two, robotic types. 2. Toss about simplistic arguments concerning said types. 3. Leave real world situation utterly unanalyzed.
It's like using approximations in physics and mathematics, only less useful.
But then you run into the retarded interview process where someone with 1/10 my hardware design mojo and 1/10 my programming kung-fu asks me how to move a chicken and a fox across a river, and other concepts so important to digital communications.
Or they tell you they are *really* looking for someone with 10 years experience in technology X. Pointing out that technology X has only existed for 6 years evokes nothing but a blank stare.
Changing jobs is a pain in the ass regardless of a person's abilities.
it can be whatever it wants -- a home server, game device, even a computer."
1. Inanimate objects don't want.
2. I just want a fricken game device. I have computers already, and the whole "home server" concept has always seemed like more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
Well, I figger folks here are smart enough so I don't have to say "Get at least a small HDTV, UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING THAT DOES THE SAME THING".
Was there ever a point when you or anyone at Sony releasing a DVD based PS3 *and* a Blu-Ray based DVD instead of ones with different hard drives and other features?
Take them on monthly field trips to the places where uneducated people wind up. Slums. Trailer parks. Skid rows. Jails. The Post Office. Episodes of "Dirty Jobs".
When did this site become "Newspeak for Inummerate Ideologues"?
"Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?" Neal Stephenson
That's because it's not science anymore. It's politics.
And where there's politics you find the absolute worst of the human race.
I admire anyone who stands against the tide, but don't act surprised when humanity shows it's true, filthy, rotten colors. Most people are lower than shit and worth even less.
Then you have to spend your time countering every idiot who slanders you on the forum. Great solution.
I've seen forums like that become nuclear character assassination tools for tightly knit cliques. It's one person against a dozen or even more. In the real world that's actionable harassment.
Ignoring that "censorship" is really a government issue, I have three suggestions:
1. Have a moderator for the forums, and where the line is drawn gets hashed out over time. Seriously, it's not *THAT* fricken hard if it's adults (for law students it should be an illuminating exercise) and "slippery slope" in this case is a logical fallacy.
2. No anonymity. Don't write a check your ass can't back up.
3. Forget the whole thing. Accept that online forums are simply no good for any REAL intellectual exercise and seek other options.
Slashdot Mirror
These goggles, which should become available this summer, will be sold for about $6,000 to the Army.
And sold to consumers at Best Buy for $49.99 ($45.99 at Amazon).
Maybe. I think you're being too broad brush. I know happily married people with active social lives who do all sorts of "connected" things, including online gaming.
:-( Oh, and there's ideological extremists who will harass you? Sign me the fuck up! Furry pr0n! Goody! Politicians setting up shop, and their legions of mindless sycophants following them in? Be still my beating heart! People who will sue me for some imagined slight in a world doesn't exist? Oh joy and rapture!
*MY* problem with these online worlds (the freeform ones like SL) is that they are mirroring the real world too closely. Second Life has space hoarding land barons? Boy, that makes me want to jump right in!
Well, OK, so maybe furry porn isn't so prevalent in the Real World, but you get my drift.
doesn't mean that you shouldn't be held accountable for your actions.
Why? No one else is. People can enter the country illegally, and legions of people will defend them and want to give them free things (watch someone call me racist for even daring to say such a thing). Rich murderers can get off because they can hire expensive legal teams that will address everything except actual facts. Politicans can ignore the will of the people and override clear, voted upon mandates. Presidents can send our children to war under false pretenses. How many criminals are walking the streets causing new crimes after serving thouroughly inadequate sentences? Corporate executives scam everyone, and then bail out with multimillion dollar golden parachutes. In many cases, the one with the most attorneys wins.
This is a nation with laws? I call bullshit. This is a nation with *lawyers*, which is a very different thing.
I dunno. Even if I got a better job as a result, I think I'd still try a lawsuit just for spite.
:) Must have been a samauri in a past life, or Celtic.
That might just be me. There's people who tormented me in grade school whose throats I go for if I ever saw them again. I heavily wired for vendetta.
The GentleMouse II - This next gen mouse will not only click the button and scroll for you, but it will automatically move the mouse pointer for you. You don't even have to touch the mouse. Works with the Honeywell Internal Viteous Eye Sensor (sensor and implantation surgery sold separately). Leaves hands free for interweb pr0n.
The GentleMouse GX - You not only don't have to touch the mouse, you don't have to even be near the computer thanks to the new DARPA MindLink WaveSender Interface (Majestic Ultra DOD security rating required and available separately). Now you fat lazy bastards don't even have to get out of bed!
The GentleMouse EXTREME! - The entire computer is just an neurochemical overlay in your brain. Perfect for coma patients, or people who wish they were in a coma. Your subconscious mind does all the work without any intrustion into conscious awareness. You'll just have to trust us that it's working.
Or I could just sue the motherfucker for unjustified firing and discrimination. I can't believe that this actually happened, or just his tastes in music led to the firing.
If it is true, I can't imagine the paranoid place you work in. My boss knows I once dated a dominatrix (I was her boyfriend, *NOT* a client, mind you) and it doesn't mean a thing to him.
Must every article these days follow the same lines?
1. Reduce group in question to two, robotic types.
2. Toss about simplistic arguments concerning said types.
3. Leave real world situation utterly unanalyzed.
It's like using approximations in physics and mathematics, only less useful.
With a name like "MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films LLC" they can;t possibly be a bit full of themselves, could they?
Someday we will evolve beyond the mind cancer known as politics.
But then you run into the retarded interview process where someone with 1/10 my hardware design mojo and 1/10 my programming kung-fu asks me how to move a chicken and a fox across a river, and other concepts so important to digital communications.
Or they tell you they are *really* looking for someone with 10 years experience in technology X. Pointing out that technology X has only existed for 6 years evokes nothing but a blank stare.
Changing jobs is a pain in the ass regardless of a person's abilities.
it can be whatever it wants -- a home server, game device, even a computer."
1. Inanimate objects don't want.
2. I just want a fricken game device. I have computers already, and the whole "home server" concept has always seemed like more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
Well, I figger folks here are smart enough so I don't have to say "Get at least a small HDTV, UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING THAT DOES THE SAME THING".
Yeah, that *was* the intended reference.
managing geeks is hard
I am not a geek! I am a human being! :-P
At least get a small HD set. The wider screen aspect is great for things like Oblivion and other first person stuff.
Was there ever a point when you or anyone at Sony releasing a DVD based PS3 *and* a Blu-Ray based DVD instead of ones with different hard drives and other features?
...remind me to move more investments overseas.
Take them on monthly field trips to the places where uneducated people wind up. Slums. Trailer parks. Skid rows. Jails. The Post Office. Episodes of "Dirty Jobs".
Being disabled isn't evidence of innocence,
Gosh, then I guess it's a good thing that innocence doesn't require evidence. Only guilt does.
ELIZA online. Why, I think I corrected at least two neuroses today!
For you Scientologists, that would be "engrams".
When did this site become "Newspeak for Inummerate Ideologues"?
"Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to
add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet
steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be
bullshit'?"
Neal Stephenson
nobody gives a fuck about Apple outside the US...
You won't come home with it. Someone will stab you in the head and take it.
Typical PC user. Always contradicting themselves.
I tease.
Dude. Decaff. Seriously.
Just rich jackasses siccing their lawyers on one another. Frak the whole lot of them. Just never buy a CD or DVD again. What more can you do?
Oh Noes! I said frak! Does I violates someones copyrightness? Oh, woe am I!
It has got really nasty and personal.
That's because it's not science anymore. It's politics.
And where there's politics you find the absolute worst of the human race.
I admire anyone who stands against the tide, but don't act surprised when humanity shows it's true, filthy, rotten colors. Most people are lower than shit and worth even less.
Then you have to spend your time countering every idiot who slanders you on the forum. Great solution.
I've seen forums like that become nuclear character assassination tools for tightly knit cliques. It's one person against a dozen or even more. In the real world that's actionable harassment.
Ignoring that "censorship" is really a government issue, I have three suggestions:
1. Have a moderator for the forums, and where the line is drawn gets hashed out over time. Seriously, it's not *THAT* fricken hard if it's adults (for law students it should be an illuminating exercise) and "slippery slope" in this case is a logical fallacy.
2. No anonymity. Don't write a check your ass can't back up.
3. Forget the whole thing. Accept that online forums are simply no good for any REAL intellectual exercise and seek other options.
But moon dust could also lodge in astronauts' lungs, possibly triggering long-term health effects.
Well, then it's good that there's no air on the Moon, so they'll asphyxiate long before the dust can cause any problems. :)