I dunno. I saw one at a second hand store once, for $60, but didn't have the cash with me. It was gone the next day. I'll probably just get an old arcade monitor, or use a Vectrex display from an otherwise dead Vectrex.
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Of course, one gets an analog TV signal out of most DVD players. The difference here is that DVD has discrete pits that represent ones and zeros, whereas LD has pits that are variably and continously sized. Digital audio was tacked onto the LD standard in a couple of different ways, there are two digital audio tracks that can be used and have discrete pits on the disk, and Dolby Digital 5.1 or 6.1 can be modulated onto one of the analog audio tracks and then converted back to digital by a periphial demodulator device.
The problem with that is that the pitchers also know about the machines, and have to adjust their game to compensate. So those figures are not quite what they seem.
Your comment is quite silly. The entire sentence, from the article, is:
At 15,000 degrees Celsius (27,032 degrees Fahrenheit), the plasma valve is about 50 times hotter than room temperature when measured in degrees Kelvin.
Similar situation with Canadian quarters here in Vermont, and in other northern parts of the US. Rather anoying, actually, since most vending machines reject them.
Hardly ranting, I just state that the evidence that I have seen points to there being an inteligent creator of the universe, but that She has not revealed Herself to mankind. I also point out a possible motivation for why a person might want to fraudulently uphold some set of laws as having come from the mouth of God. One can only see this as ranting when looking through the blinders of theistic dogma.
So, "No"...it looks pretty much like you're just a bigot with an axe to grind against religion, like I wrote in the first place...
The difference between you and me is that you think your holy book is word of God, but every other holy book is fraudulent, while I think that they are all fraudulent.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that suffering is good. Suffering came about in the world because humanity decided to reject God, and when they rejected God they rejected all the good things that God had given them. When humanity rejected God, God gave humanity over to our sinful desires.
In my view, the words to which you refer were writen by man, and attributed to God in an attempt to justify repression.
Bah. You are the one saying that something that humans currently do is wrong and should be stopped, you should provide some evidance that porn is bad. You apparantly want me to prove that *no* porn is created by non-consenting people under duress before you accept that porn is ok, you are asking me to prove a negitive. The best I can do is point out some porn that is clearly consentual:
All three of these are examples of porn produced by people who are consenting to the production, and they also promote a realistic body image.
Can you come up with an example of porn that is non-consentual in nature and not so as a result of under-regulation of the industry or over-regulation of consumers?
Y'know, people like you are just as bad as religious bigots. I don't consider myself to be religious, and I don't put much stock in the Bible. But I don't go around pontificating about what a horrid blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Calm down there buster, please note that I stated my *oppinion* on what I think is shameful. Are you saying that I am not alowed to hold that oppinion?
This is a discussion about a bunch of people who believe something about porn. And according to the article, this is their strategy. They share these "activity logs" with each other. They're not pushing it on anyone else. Who are they hurting?
They are hurting their children in at least two ways. One, the children will be forced to use this software, so there goes your whole "choice" argument, and two, they are teaching them that sexuality is something to be ashamed of. Of course, people hurt their children in all kinds of ways. I am not suggesting that we can or should try to fix this with legislation or anything, but I can speak about it, and that doesn't make me a bigot.
Using this as an instance to crack about the Bible only proves (a) you're a bigot with an axe to grind against Christianity
Christians claim that the Bible and the New Testiment contain the devine words of God, Jews claim that the former but not the latter, Muslims replace them with the Koran, Mormans have their Book of Morman. I didn't say that everyone who follows a revealed religion is bad for their beliefs, but the way I see it, if God had given Her word to man in a book, She would have made it obvious which one was the right one. Every sect says that their book is the obvious choice, but I don't see it. I think that none of these books contain Her words. There *is* some wisdom there, especially in the New Testiment, but they are all the words of man, not God.
and (b) you think you're a lot wittier than you are, and you feel compelled to bestow your witticisms upon the rest of us. How's that for coincidence -- you're using intellectual masturbation to defend looking at pornography. What an achievement...
Sigh. I was just responding to another post that claimed that porn is bad. I happen to think that sexuality in general is a good thing, and that porn is just an artistic expression of that. Some people like to attach a whole lot of shame to that, and when I say that that's bogus, you say that makes me a bigot? I think you just like to call anyone who disagrees with you a bigot.
Your answer to exploitation in the sex industry is OSHA and a labor union? What's your answer to child abuse? Applying Six Sigma techniques to leather belt manufacturing?
What should be obvious to anyone with half a brain cell, is that one of the many differences between the sex industry and child abuse is that one is an industry who's participants have consented to participate (except where lack of regulation of the industry, or overregulation of the consumers of it's product, have created conditions for abuse) and the other is a crime commited uppon helpless non-consenting children.
First off, there is the standard religious view that lust is bad.
Well, that's one view. Another view is that human sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of. We all have different views on what things are shameful and what things are not, I happen to think that it is shamful to use guilt as a weapon, while only backing it up with a book of words that man put into God's mouth.
One of the best, if not only, ways of dealing with lust is to stop feeding it. The internet makes it very easy to feed lust; this makes it much easier to resist it.
Here you have made the leap from saying that some people think that lust is bad, to stating it as fact, by implying that lust is an addiction that is fed by the internet. I do not agree that lust is bad, nor do I agree that common availability of pron on the internet will typically lead to an unmanagable addiction.
Secondly, take a walk through google sometime and look for the various studies on porn and psychology. Pornography addictions tend to create feelings of unworthiness, self-hatred, "dirtiness," etc.
Feelings of unworthiness, self-hatred, "dirtiness," etc. are, in my view, caused by man attempting to control his fellow man by putting words into God's mouth that God did not say.
I've talked with seveal women who found out that their husbands were using, or even addicted to, pornography. To the person, they felt that they were not attractive enough to please their husbands, that they had done something wrong, that they couldn't trust their spouse... pornography has the potential to do great harm to an otherwise healthy marriage.
Is a marrage healthy if its foundation is based on an insecure body image and Church fostered shame for all things sexual? I agree that such feelings are valid, but disagree on the root cause.
Finally, consider that a great deal of the women invloved in the porn industry have histories of sexual abuse, and the emotioanl problems that entails... do you really want to take advantage of that situation for a few moments of pleasure?
All work is exploitation. I agree that the sex industry contains some of the most horrid working conditions there are, but no more so than any other industry that is as free from regulation. Nothing that better OSHA oversight, and some labor organizing can't fix.
I wonder how the human brain and psyche deals with seeing a different face in the mirror after years of strengthening a connection between the natural face and the "I".
It probably will deal with it better than it dealt with seeing the horribly-disfigured-by-facial-cancer face that the transplant is replacing.
What evidence would be sufficient to convince you of God's existence?
The fact that the universe exists and that we have free will is enough evidence to convince me that there is an intelligent creator, but I see no evidence that this being has revealed itself to mankind.
A far more likely cause for the abundance of contridictory holy books on this planet is that people in power tend to want to design easy ways to keep their subjects under control.
As far as copying the DVD goes, I'd say you would be fine, but I am not a lawyer, so that is not advice. Any suplimental material (such as the audio commentary on the Criterian edition of the film) no doubt enjoys full copyright protection. Of course, if the disk is Macrovision protected, you would have to use a Circumvention Device to copy it and that itself may be illegal. I'm not going to let any of that bother me, though, I'll just find a way to do it. Just the film of course, not the copyrighted commentary.
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But only once!
I dunno. I saw one at a second hand store once, for $60, but didn't have the cash with me. It was gone the next day. I'll probably just get an old arcade monitor, or use a Vectrex display from an otherwise dead Vectrex.
I am aware of that.
If they actually release the vector graphics module that is described on the webpage, I will definately buy one.
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Of course, one gets an analog TV signal out of most DVD players. The difference here is that DVD has discrete pits that represent ones and zeros, whereas LD has pits that are variably and continously sized. Digital audio was tacked onto the LD standard in a couple of different ways, there are two digital audio tracks that can be used and have discrete pits on the disk, and Dolby Digital 5.1 or 6.1 can be modulated onto one of the analog audio tracks and then converted back to digital by a periphial demodulator device.
The problem with that is that the pitchers also know about the machines, and have to adjust their game to compensate. So those figures are not quite what they seem.
Well, uh, don't let it happen again! ;-)
Your comment is quite silly. The entire sentence, from the article, is:
At 15,000 degrees Celsius (27,032 degrees Fahrenheit), the plasma valve is about 50 times hotter than room temperature when measured in degrees Kelvin.
Is it your position that an employer should have the right to extort any contract agreement from an employee whatsoever, nomatter how unresonable?
Similar situation with Canadian quarters here in Vermont, and in other northern parts of the US. Rather anoying, actually, since most vending machines reject them.
Well, you respond, and continue ranting about religion -- including a number of flawed "factual" assertations.
Which are?
And then I check out your "posting history," and find another couple of comments (of similar tenor) about religion, in unrelated threads.
There is exactly one relivant comment in my "posting history" other than the ones within this article, and it is here:
RE: Christians LIKE sex!
Hardly ranting, I just state that the evidence that I have seen points to there being an inteligent creator of the universe, but that She has not revealed Herself to mankind. I also point out a possible motivation for why a person might want to fraudulently uphold some set of laws as having come from the mouth of God. One can only see this as ranting when looking through the blinders of theistic dogma.
So, "No"...it looks pretty much like you're just a bigot with an axe to grind against religion, like I wrote in the first place...
The difference between you and me is that you think your holy book is word of God, but every other holy book is fraudulent, while I think that they are all fraudulent.
Try Cambodia where sexual slavery still occurs.
Do you eat chocolate?
Do you wear sneakers?
Slavery is bad. But it is not relivant to a debate about the sex industry.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that suffering is good. Suffering came about in the world because humanity decided to reject God, and when they rejected God they rejected all the good things that God had given them. When humanity rejected God, God gave humanity over to our sinful desires.
In my view, the words to which you refer were writen by man, and attributed to God in an attempt to justify repression.
Bah. You are the one saying that something that humans currently do is wrong and should be stopped, you should provide some evidance that porn is bad. You apparantly want me to prove that *no* porn is created by non-consenting people under duress before you accept that porn is ok, you are asking me to prove a negitive. The best I can do is point out some porn that is clearly consentual:
Good Vibrations
Nerve
That Strange Girl
All three of these are examples of porn produced by people who are consenting to the production, and they also promote a realistic body image.
Can you come up with an example of porn that is non-consentual in nature and not so as a result of under-regulation of the industry or over-regulation of consumers?
Y'know, people like you are just as bad as religious bigots. I don't consider myself to be religious, and I don't put much stock in the Bible. But I don't go around pontificating about what a horrid blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Calm down there buster, please note that I stated my *oppinion* on what I think is shameful. Are you saying that I am not alowed to hold that oppinion?
This is a discussion about a bunch of people who believe something about porn. And according to the article, this is their strategy. They share these "activity logs" with each other. They're not pushing it on anyone else. Who are they hurting?
They are hurting their children in at least two ways. One, the children will be forced to use this software, so there goes your whole "choice" argument, and two, they are teaching them that sexuality is something to be ashamed of. Of course, people hurt their children in all kinds of ways. I am not suggesting that we can or should try to fix this with legislation or anything, but I can speak about it, and that doesn't make me a bigot.
Using this as an instance to crack about the Bible only proves (a) you're a bigot with an axe to grind against Christianity
Christians claim that the Bible and the New Testiment contain the devine words of God, Jews claim that the former but not the latter, Muslims replace them with the Koran, Mormans have their Book of Morman. I didn't say that everyone who follows a revealed religion is bad for their beliefs, but the way I see it, if God had given Her word to man in a book, She would have made it obvious which one was the right one. Every sect says that their book is the obvious choice, but I don't see it. I think that none of these books contain Her words. There *is* some wisdom there, especially in the New Testiment, but they are all the words of man, not God.
and (b) you think you're a lot wittier than you are, and you feel compelled to bestow your witticisms upon the rest of us. How's that for coincidence -- you're using intellectual masturbation to defend looking at pornography. What an achievement...
Sigh. I was just responding to another post that claimed that porn is bad. I happen to think that sexuality in general is a good thing, and that porn is just an artistic expression of that. Some people like to attach a whole lot of shame to that, and when I say that that's bogus, you say that makes me a bigot? I think you just like to call anyone who disagrees with you a bigot.
God is the One that decides the parameters of the contract...
And you would presume to speak for God?
Your answer to exploitation in the sex industry is OSHA and a labor union? What's your answer to child abuse? Applying Six Sigma techniques to leather belt manufacturing?
What should be obvious to anyone with half a brain cell, is that one of the many differences between the sex industry and child abuse is that one is an industry who's participants have consented to participate (except where lack of regulation of the industry, or overregulation of the consumers of it's product, have created conditions for abuse) and the other is a crime commited uppon helpless non-consenting children.
First off, there is the standard religious view that lust is bad.
Well, that's one view. Another view is that human sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of. We all have different views on what things are shameful and what things are not, I happen to think that it is shamful to use guilt as a weapon, while only backing it up with a book of words that man put into God's mouth.
One of the best, if not only, ways of dealing with lust is to stop feeding it. The internet makes it very easy to feed lust; this makes it much easier to resist it.
Here you have made the leap from saying that some people think that lust is bad, to stating it as fact, by implying that lust is an addiction that is fed by the internet. I do not agree that lust is bad, nor do I agree that common availability of pron on the internet will typically lead to an unmanagable addiction.
Secondly, take a walk through google sometime and look for the various studies on porn and psychology. Pornography addictions tend to create feelings of unworthiness, self-hatred, "dirtiness," etc.
Feelings of unworthiness, self-hatred, "dirtiness," etc. are, in my view, caused by man attempting to control his fellow man by putting words into God's mouth that God did not say.
I've talked with seveal women who found out that their husbands were using, or even addicted to, pornography. To the person, they felt that they were not attractive enough to please their husbands, that they had done something wrong, that they couldn't trust their spouse... pornography has the potential to do great harm to an otherwise healthy marriage.
Is a marrage healthy if its foundation is based on an insecure body image and Church fostered shame for all things sexual? I agree that such feelings are valid, but disagree on the root cause.
Finally, consider that a great deal of the women invloved in the porn industry have histories of sexual abuse, and the emotioanl problems that entails... do you really want to take advantage of that situation for a few moments of pleasure?
All work is exploitation. I agree that the sex industry contains some of the most horrid working conditions there are, but no more so than any other industry that is as free from regulation. Nothing that better OSHA oversight, and some labor organizing can't fix.
I wonder how the human brain and psyche deals with seeing a different face in the mirror after years of strengthening a connection between the natural face and the "I".
It probably will deal with it better than it dealt with seeing the horribly-disfigured-by-facial-cancer face that the transplant is replacing.
What evidence would be sufficient to convince you of God's existence?
The fact that the universe exists and that we have free will is enough evidence to convince me that there is an intelligent creator, but I see no evidence that this being has revealed itself to mankind.
A far more likely cause for the abundance of contridictory holy books on this planet is that people in power tend to want to design easy ways to keep their subjects under control.
I believe there's another episode where they mention that their terraforming projects won't touch a world if it has so much as a bacterium on it.
You're forgetting General Order twenty four.
Or maybe he's just an asshole.
Or maybe you're just an asshole bigot.
Are you going to cite any specific examples of UL being unreliable, or are you going to continue talking out of your ass?
This page lists Charade as being PD:
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As far as copying the DVD goes, I'd say you would be fine, but I am not a lawyer, so that is not advice. Any suplimental material (such as the audio commentary on the Criterian edition of the film) no doubt enjoys full copyright protection. Of course, if the disk is Macrovision protected, you would have to use a Circumvention Device to copy it and that itself may be illegal. I'm not going to let any of that bother me, though, I'll just find a way to do it. Just the film of course, not the copyrighted commentary.