Yeah but how many people actually listen to psychologists? Hell they've (I'd say we because I haven't even done grad school or gotten approval from the APA) already proven that video game violence does not link directly to real life violence. To be more exact, there is an effect (small inrease in violent tendencies) however the effect does not last long. So things like Columbine can't be attributed to video game violence. Not unless the kid played videogames then ran to school directly after that with a loaded gun. And even then you'd have to question the kid's mental stability to begin with because there are thousands of people that probably play videogames before going to class. Yet politicans still like to argue that videogame violence is an issue. Then you got that whole recent Mel Gibson racism thing. Whether he is publicy a racist I don't know, but he said the statements when he was drunk. In other words there were no inhibitors, nothing controlling his mind (probably unconsciousness). And everyone makes a big stink about it, yet psychologists again have already proven that racism is inherit no matter what you do, what you teach. What should matter is how we control it when we have control. Heck our brain is programmed for self-defense, the moment you see something that's not familar your first thing is to regard it as a threat before you classify it as anything else.
Maybe the world would be better if everyone was required to listen to a psychologist, but the results of the experiments, studies, and all that knowledge that psychologists have discovered rarely will be absorbed by the mass majority. And if they are, media will portray them in the wrong way. The divorce gene article for example. They portrayed it as a gene that can determine your chance of divorce. When in reality it was actually several different genes (none of them actually a divorce gene but instead personality traits) that when combined together with a certain environment can predict how likely it is to divorce.
They have an interesting history. While they don't have blood on their hands they have black marks from the way they dealt with the entire situation of WWII and all.. (Wikipedia has information about it).
Heh I'm in a similar situation. Although we know what each other likes (and often we give hints..yes guys can play this game too). We often just wind up giving cash to each other. Which turns out better cause she might see something she wants later on and ditch the idea of the first present. I'm similar because I monitor technology and if something better for a similar price comes out I'll get that instead.
As my girlfriend says "the best gift is the gift that keeps on giving".
Well my parents are more intelligent then the average computer person. Though they don't known anything about Linux besides that it's an OS. But my grand plan wasn't meant for my parents. It was meant for my future children. Hopefully by using Linux they would be more computer smart (not running strange commands or opening random files)..
Though actually it might be better to use Windows if my goal is to force them to learn from their experiences.
Just curious..but what would happen if that ISP you asked said no? My mind isn't working correctly right now (updating some site code) but when I read your post it sounded like you got permission to use your ISP's pipes to create a wifi/landline service. And then they would pay you (or whoever has it now) which then pays the ISP.
Am I reading into that correctly?
If so, doesn't that still mean the ISP is the only one in town? Considering that you built it off their pipes so they have overall control?
That's fine, but also teach the kids about it. Hell give them a drink once in a while if they want it at home. Just don't tell the kid "it's bad" and then send them off. Teach them why it's bad or some of the things that can happen (for a girl this is especially true). Lastly if you can't stop them from drinking at least help them control how much. Moderation is the key, don't drink till you wind up in the hospital or you collaspe in the street, bed, or some stranger's home.
And if they do drink also teach them not to drive or get into a car with a drunk person. At least you limit deaths that way.
Chances are some of those Linux users that are fed up with the situation pirated Windows, then pirated the game to play on Windows..
So its pretty much a moot point. You'll always have people that do that.
Why even bother with tech support. They should just go with the assumption that if you use Linux your smarter then the average computer user and you know how to go to forums, etc..etc..
Plus they could always say they already did enough work bringing the game to Linux.
I love though, how these kids will probably find a way around it. My experience growing up is probably drastically different from what most kids face. (I grew up in the typical/stereotypical strict asian parent thing).
Whenever there was an obstacle to what I wanted. I tore it down or found a way around it. Internet blocks? Bypassed. School internet blocks? Bypassed. It was kinda moronic the methods my parents took to also try to restrict me. I was a big James Bond fan and my dad had all the books. But he'd staple the pages where Bond would be having sex with the lady. You can probably guess how I got around that. Oh and then there's that point where they'd stop me from playing violent games and listening to the music with those "parent advisory" labels. When puberty hit I started getting urges to look at naked women on the internet. Parents yelled at me, I got smarter, deleted cookies. Dad found out again, I got even smarter, deleted history. I think he ran out of methods then to track me from what he knew. That or he just gave up.
Eventually my parents gave up on the total restrictions route and just decided to educate me instead. Giving me more freedom in the process. Ironically, that's when I started to act like the model Chinese son again. (I use to act like that back in my first couple years of elementary school before I realized that things were blocking me from what I wanted to learn about). But the barriers were laughable to begin with. Because as with everything else in the world. Anything you create or put up for a reason will be destroyed or taken down. We see this with wars ("I got a better weapon", "oh yeah, I got an even better weapon", "*builds better weapon, now I got the better weapon". And copyright protection (businesses release one, hackers crack that forcing businesses to release another).
All it takes is that one person who knows the weakness and the attempt/restriction is pretty much gone provided the kid with the parental restrictions isn't a complete outcast. So I guess parents should start finding a method of how to block that kid from talking to their kid. Or block all websitees online. This isn't a real solution to the problem. It's a bandaid at most. Though I wouldn't even call it that. The problem still lies with the parents and it'll forever lie with the parents as they continue to pursue a method where they can get away with the least parenting
But that's why I blame them. Some of the worst things happen in our world (like WWII) because of gullibility and willingness to follow like sheep. And it seems like they never learn.
True. It seems that the young (which is kinda strange cause I might be considered part of it) is caught up with the ever changing advances in affordable technology. I guess the only reason why I can see it is..
My parents made it a point to never argue politics or religion with any friend or family. Because it never ends well. And that when I was in high school I was part of this special program (that's actually now a magnet program at the school) called Global Ecology. So it made me pay attention to the environment, activism, and involvement of helping others.
Though it depresses me that my vote doesn't do anything while I relatively predict each consequence of each new bill or law that's passed because of protection for someone (or a group of people) or fighting a war on terror. Even sadder is people continue to willingly give them up. It'll be even sadder if we wind up in a World War because I'm a major peace advocate (though realistically I know there won't be peace because of humanity's nature and the tendency to take things to the extreme instead of balance). I'd probably wind up refusing to fight because I know whatever path I take it's going wind up in a bad situation each way. Hell if it does go nuclear then I guess there really wouldn't be a point in fighting cause there's nothing the government could do to me if it ceases to exist.
And with that whatever remains of humanity (if any) will realize.. "damn we really are stupid" but it'll be to late as the Earth is full of radiation so nothing sentient (or the word for intelligence) survives. What a grim situation. Even sadder is the next species that will eventually inhabit that earth if sentient will probably repeat the same mistakes.
Because in politics if you go against something "for the children" then you get painted as someone who doesn't care about the children. So go with the flow or lose whatever power you have. It's sad, it sucks, but till the next revolution it'll remain the same. Then we'll have a brief stint of freedom. Then we'll repeat the same mistake all over again.
I seriously wonder how aliens (if they exist) overcame this issue and mankind's issues in general. They must know something we don't that got them out of this stupid loop.
That's because it's not really a matter of the old generation holding onto their ways (no insult at all). It's that people continue to teach children, friends, etc.. misguided views. And then some of those people turn into politicans. So we see the same old shit every 4 years.
As I read somewhere as a politican joke. The only two basis of politics are that Democrats have no new ideas. And Republicans just have bad ideas. Nothing ever changes.
I don't know whether to agree with you or not on the watching TV makes them more violent. Yes, watching violence (real life, TV, movies, comic book, whatever) makes you slightly more violent. Psychologists have proven that with dozens of studies and experiments. But psychologists have also proven that the effect of that stimulus doesn't stay/last over long periods of time. So it's not like watching a violent show or playing a violent game is the direct cause of your kid being beaten up in school. Even if a kid played a violent videogame before going to school it wouldn't correlate. Recently experiments have been done on the differences in violence tendencies in playing different violent videogames. I haven't checked up on thos results yet because I don't have access to the journals off campus.
The fact remains however, it is up to the parent to teach their kids that violence is wrong. Not the government. Frankly I don't care if the government takes over rating of games. I don't think it'll help but it doesn't effect me. If they ban games then I might have a problem though.
But uh..parenting is required when you are a parent. Psychologists and probably now Sociologists have been saying that for a while now.. Otherwise you just concieved another human being and are just feeding it till you can kick it out of your house. Which is remarkably similar to what some species do on Earth.
That reasoning never explains why the big cities in the US don't have them though. I understand it'd apply for rural areas but not so much for the big cities.
It all falls back to the bloody telco companies.
I had a relatively easy solution to that. Well at least to my family (at least in the future, my parents don't suffer from that cause we got extended family that work in the IT world). I will force them all to use Linux. And after they get somewhat computer savvy I'll let them use whatever OS they want.
Hopefully the Linux experience wouldn't make them so tech dumb. Forcing them to learn how to solve their own problems, etc...
Or it'll backfire as they open attachments that don't affect them and then they'll switch to Windows (perhaps) and then open it and find it affects them.:(
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Yeah but how many people actually listen to psychologists? Hell they've (I'd say we because I haven't even done grad school or gotten approval from the APA) already proven that video game violence does not link directly to real life violence. To be more exact, there is an effect (small inrease in violent tendencies) however the effect does not last long. So things like Columbine can't be attributed to video game violence. Not unless the kid played videogames then ran to school directly after that with a loaded gun. And even then you'd have to question the kid's mental stability to begin with because there are thousands of people that probably play videogames before going to class. Yet politicans still like to argue that videogame violence is an issue. Then you got that whole recent Mel Gibson racism thing. Whether he is publicy a racist I don't know, but he said the statements when he was drunk. In other words there were no inhibitors, nothing controlling his mind (probably unconsciousness). And everyone makes a big stink about it, yet psychologists again have already proven that racism is inherit no matter what you do, what you teach. What should matter is how we control it when we have control. Heck our brain is programmed for self-defense, the moment you see something that's not familar your first thing is to regard it as a threat before you classify it as anything else.
Maybe the world would be better if everyone was required to listen to a psychologist, but the results of the experiments, studies, and all that knowledge that psychologists have discovered rarely will be absorbed by the mass majority. And if they are, media will portray them in the wrong way. The divorce gene article for example. They portrayed it as a gene that can determine your chance of divorce. When in reality it was actually several different genes (none of them actually a divorce gene but instead personality traits) that when combined together with a certain environment can predict how likely it is to divorce.
They have an interesting history. While they don't have blood on their hands they have black marks from the way they dealt with the entire situation of WWII and all.. (Wikipedia has information about it).
Yep. Just another strange quirk of humanity that you can thank psychologists for finding out. -_-. Now if there was only a way to fix it..
Heh I'm in a similar situation. Although we know what each other likes (and often we give hints..yes guys can play this game too). We often just wind up giving cash to each other. Which turns out better cause she might see something she wants later on and ditch the idea of the first present. I'm similar because I monitor technology and if something better for a similar price comes out I'll get that instead. As my girlfriend says "the best gift is the gift that keeps on giving".
Well my parents are more intelligent then the average computer person. Though they don't known anything about Linux besides that it's an OS. But my grand plan wasn't meant for my parents. It was meant for my future children. Hopefully by using Linux they would be more computer smart (not running strange commands or opening random files).. Though actually it might be better to use Windows if my goal is to force them to learn from their experiences.
Nah, they would try to elect Blinky. (cookie for whoever can guess what webcomic I got that from).
Just curious..but what would happen if that ISP you asked said no? My mind isn't working correctly right now (updating some site code) but when I read your post it sounded like you got permission to use your ISP's pipes to create a wifi/landline service. And then they would pay you (or whoever has it now) which then pays the ISP. Am I reading into that correctly? If so, doesn't that still mean the ISP is the only one in town? Considering that you built it off their pipes so they have overall control?
That's fine, but also teach the kids about it. Hell give them a drink once in a while if they want it at home. Just don't tell the kid "it's bad" and then send them off. Teach them why it's bad or some of the things that can happen (for a girl this is especially true). Lastly if you can't stop them from drinking at least help them control how much. Moderation is the key, don't drink till you wind up in the hospital or you collaspe in the street, bed, or some stranger's home.
And if they do drink also teach them not to drive or get into a car with a drunk person. At least you limit deaths that way.
And if the parent decided to restrict Johnny, Johnny would make a new friend and get the game from an "anonymous" source.
Chances are some of those Linux users that are fed up with the situation pirated Windows, then pirated the game to play on Windows.. So its pretty much a moot point. You'll always have people that do that.
Why even bother with tech support. They should just go with the assumption that if you use Linux your smarter then the average computer user and you know how to go to forums, etc..etc.. Plus they could always say they already did enough work bringing the game to Linux.
*takes out lightsaber* Wait, if I have a lightsaber I wouldn't be in that situation. *puts lightsabaer away*
I love though, how these kids will probably find a way around it. My experience growing up is probably drastically different from what most kids face. (I grew up in the typical/stereotypical strict asian parent thing).
Whenever there was an obstacle to what I wanted. I tore it down or found a way around it. Internet blocks? Bypassed. School internet blocks? Bypassed. It was kinda moronic the methods my parents took to also try to restrict me. I was a big James Bond fan and my dad had all the books. But he'd staple the pages where Bond would be having sex with the lady. You can probably guess how I got around that. Oh and then there's that point where they'd stop me from playing violent games and listening to the music with those "parent advisory" labels. When puberty hit I started getting urges to look at naked women on the internet. Parents yelled at me, I got smarter, deleted cookies. Dad found out again, I got even smarter, deleted history. I think he ran out of methods then to track me from what he knew. That or he just gave up.
Eventually my parents gave up on the total restrictions route and just decided to educate me instead. Giving me more freedom in the process. Ironically, that's when I started to act like the model Chinese son again. (I use to act like that back in my first couple years of elementary school before I realized that things were blocking me from what I wanted to learn about). But the barriers were laughable to begin with. Because as with everything else in the world. Anything you create or put up for a reason will be destroyed or taken down. We see this with wars ("I got a better weapon", "oh yeah, I got an even better weapon", "*builds better weapon, now I got the better weapon". And copyright protection (businesses release one, hackers crack that forcing businesses to release another).
All it takes is that one person who knows the weakness and the attempt/restriction is pretty much gone provided the kid with the parental restrictions isn't a complete outcast. So I guess parents should start finding a method of how to block that kid from talking to their kid. Or block all websitees online. This isn't a real solution to the problem. It's a bandaid at most. Though I wouldn't even call it that. The problem still lies with the parents and it'll forever lie with the parents as they continue to pursue a method where they can get away with the least parenting
But that's why I blame them. Some of the worst things happen in our world (like WWII) because of gullibility and willingness to follow like sheep. And it seems like they never learn.
True. It seems that the young (which is kinda strange cause I might be considered part of it) is caught up with the ever changing advances in affordable technology. I guess the only reason why I can see it is..
My parents made it a point to never argue politics or religion with any friend or family. Because it never ends well. And that when I was in high school I was part of this special program (that's actually now a magnet program at the school) called Global Ecology. So it made me pay attention to the environment, activism, and involvement of helping others.
Though it depresses me that my vote doesn't do anything while I relatively predict each consequence of each new bill or law that's passed because of protection for someone (or a group of people) or fighting a war on terror. Even sadder is people continue to willingly give them up. It'll be even sadder if we wind up in a World War because I'm a major peace advocate (though realistically I know there won't be peace because of humanity's nature and the tendency to take things to the extreme instead of balance). I'd probably wind up refusing to fight because I know whatever path I take it's going wind up in a bad situation each way. Hell if it does go nuclear then I guess there really wouldn't be a point in fighting cause there's nothing the government could do to me if it ceases to exist.
And with that whatever remains of humanity (if any) will realize.. "damn we really are stupid" but it'll be to late as the Earth is full of radiation so nothing sentient (or the word for intelligence) survives. What a grim situation. Even sadder is the next species that will eventually inhabit that earth if sentient will probably repeat the same mistakes.
Because in politics if you go against something "for the children" then you get painted as someone who doesn't care about the children. So go with the flow or lose whatever power you have. It's sad, it sucks, but till the next revolution it'll remain the same. Then we'll have a brief stint of freedom. Then we'll repeat the same mistake all over again. I seriously wonder how aliens (if they exist) overcame this issue and mankind's issues in general. They must know something we don't that got them out of this stupid loop.
That's because it's not really a matter of the old generation holding onto their ways (no insult at all). It's that people continue to teach children, friends, etc.. misguided views. And then some of those people turn into politicans. So we see the same old shit every 4 years. As I read somewhere as a politican joke. The only two basis of politics are that Democrats have no new ideas. And Republicans just have bad ideas. Nothing ever changes.
I don't know whether to agree with you or not on the watching TV makes them more violent. Yes, watching violence (real life, TV, movies, comic book, whatever) makes you slightly more violent. Psychologists have proven that with dozens of studies and experiments. But psychologists have also proven that the effect of that stimulus doesn't stay/last over long periods of time. So it's not like watching a violent show or playing a violent game is the direct cause of your kid being beaten up in school. Even if a kid played a violent videogame before going to school it wouldn't correlate. Recently experiments have been done on the differences in violence tendencies in playing different violent videogames. I haven't checked up on thos results yet because I don't have access to the journals off campus.
The fact remains however, it is up to the parent to teach their kids that violence is wrong. Not the government. Frankly I don't care if the government takes over rating of games. I don't think it'll help but it doesn't effect me. If they ban games then I might have a problem though.
But uh..parenting is required when you are a parent. Psychologists and probably now Sociologists have been saying that for a while now.. Otherwise you just concieved another human being and are just feeding it till you can kick it out of your house. Which is remarkably similar to what some species do on Earth.
It shall be called.. A Private server.. speaking of those, I thought you could play WoW on a private server by now?
Isn't Vista going be 64 bit though? I know there's a 64 bit XP though there's not that much software for it.
That's my evil plan for when I have a family. I'll make them all use Linux till they're tech smart, then I'll let them use whatever OS they want.
But if it were to exist, having 8 cores and RHT would certinaly give an advantage still. :)
That reasoning never explains why the big cities in the US don't have them though. I understand it'd apply for rural areas but not so much for the big cities. It all falls back to the bloody telco companies.
I had a relatively easy solution to that. Well at least to my family (at least in the future, my parents don't suffer from that cause we got extended family that work in the IT world). I will force them all to use Linux. And after they get somewhat computer savvy I'll let them use whatever OS they want. Hopefully the Linux experience wouldn't make them so tech dumb. Forcing them to learn how to solve their own problems, etc... Or it'll backfire as they open attachments that don't affect them and then they'll switch to Windows (perhaps) and then open it and find it affects them. :(
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