How would you like a birth control patch that also doubles as a nicotine patch without your knowledge?
Believe me, you would know. When I tried to quit using nicotine patches, the first thing I noticed was that they irritated my skin. You could tell where the patch had been by the red welt. The other problem I noticed was that, since it delivers a constant dosage of nicotine, I would feel hyper all day and have difficulty sleeping. Finally, if I broke down and had a cigarette anyway, more often than not I would get sick from the added nicotine.
I can't imagine how someone could be wearing a nicotine patch and not know it.
I'll never understand the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The two seem to me to have nothing to do with one another. Evolution is a valid scientific theory based on physical evidence and intelligent design is more of a philosophy that really can't be proven one way or another. Further, they aren't mutually exclusive. If there is a God, why couldn't he/she/it have used evolution as the means to design life? Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it.
ID and evolution are in conflict because of Edwards vs. Aguillard, the US Supreme Court ruling that struck down the teaching of "creation science" in public schools. ID is nothing more than an attempt to re-insert creationism into public school by avoiding any explicitly religious terminology. This was graphically demonstrated in the Dover court case, when it was shown that the publishers of "Of Pandas and People" had simply done a find-and-replace to swap out the term "creation science" for "intelligent design." The definitions used for the two were identical.
I believe it refers to this case from Philadelphia. Charges against seven of the protestors were dropped, and hate crimes charges against the remaining four were thrown out on first amendment grounds. That was the only story I could turn up about Biblical passages leading to hate crimes charges in the U.S. IANAL, but somehow I doubt that Fred Phelps would still be a free man if it were possible to prosecute him under hate-crimes laws.
I don't know that I would qualify "screaming Leviticus 20:13 through a bullhorn to disrupt a gay pride parade" as merely "reading the Bible in public," but that's just me.
There's another unintended message you could get from that game. If there's a limited number of villagers and some will "morph" into terrorists no matter how careful you are with your missiles, the best bet is to massacre them all as fast as possible.
I ended up having to stay awake five days in a row one semester in order to finish up some projects for my finals. I quickly discovered two things: caffeine is counterproductive and it's necessary to add a fourth meal of some description if you're going to be awake for longer than normal in a day. I'd imagine that the same holds true for Uberman's.
Days four and five of not sleeping were not fun. Aside from having muscle spasms and feeling like something was crawling around in my brain, I also hallucinated (nothing really exciting, just swirling pinpoints of light.) I was wobbling on my feet for my last final, and I crashed in my dorm room for a full day afterwards.
Yes, if only there was some sort of standard rating system that video games could use...
http://www.esrb.org/
Maybe somebody at Take2 should just buy their own Congressman.
I'd add that the ESRB ratings do indeed cause developers to exercise some restraint in what kind of content goes into games. At least according to Wikipedia, there's a grand total of 19 AO-rated games in existence (including GTA:SA.) That's 19 titles out of 8,000 or so rated by the ESRB. It seems pretty clear to me that not many publishers want to earn an AO rating and have their game shunned by the major retailers.
You would expect file sharing to grow naturally as more and more people use the internet. The fact that it has merely stagnated suggests that the litigation is succeeding somewhat. My own mother, who doesn't even use a computer, warned me not to file share the other day. She had "heard that people are getting sued".
From what I've read on the eMule forums, I'd suspect that the lack of growth in P2P use has more to do with packet shaping than with the threat of being hauled into court. I'd also question where they're getting their numbers, especially the "870 million illegal songs" figure in the article. My understanding is that the #1 P2P application is currently bittorrent, and that the only hard data on bittorrent use is raw bandwidth consumption. Who's to say how many people are using it, or for what?
It also seems to me that the campaign to equate downloading with theft is something of a double-edged sword. My girlfriend was dubious about the legality of downloading music directly from a band's website; she thought the RIAA might have it up as a form of entrapment. If people assume that all downloading runs the risk of a lawsuit, they may be less inclined to use legal services.
Overall, it sounded like the typical industry PR piece on the subject: "We're winning the war against P2P! DRM is really good for you! Buy our ringtones! etc."
He's talking about one of these things that some people like to stick in their sigs. Believe it or not, some people really do think that they're an evil h4x0r tool.
Alternatively, how would one classify a foot-fetish site that depicted a fully-clothed model with bare feet? Obviously the intent is to "appeal to prurient interests" (at least for people who are into the whole foot thing,) but would that actually qualify as "sexually explicit?"
The anti-porn crusaders want porn banned. Period. It doesn't matter how easy you make it to prevent their kids from seeing it. If we could somehow require all porn sites to be on.xxx, have ISP-level filtering of.xxx enabled by default, and require someone to submit three forms of I.D. proving they're of legal age to view porn before the block is lifted, the anti-porn crowd would still bitch and moan about it.
It's also worth noting that some feminists (see MacKinnon and Dworkin) subscribe to the "OMG Pr0n is teh evil!!11!" hysteria as well.
Would that be short for "adverse gaming experience?"
Seriously, it reminds me of "infotainment," which is neither informative nor entertaining. No marketing buzzword is going to make me see advertising in games as anything other than what it is; an intrusion into my leisure activity in an attempt to sell me something.
I was trying to get it to sound like a prescription label; "impaired vision" was the closest I could think of to "beer goggles" in the couple of minutes I had before I signed out for the night.
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How would you like a birth control patch that also doubles as a nicotine patch without your knowledge?
Believe me, you would know. When I tried to quit using nicotine patches, the first thing I noticed was that they irritated my skin. You could tell where the patch had been by the red welt. The other problem I noticed was that, since it delivers a constant dosage of nicotine, I would feel hyper all day and have difficulty sleeping. Finally, if I broke down and had a cigarette anyway, more often than not I would get sick from the added nicotine.
I can't imagine how someone could be wearing a nicotine patch and not know it.
Accepting evolution does not preclude belief in god, and vice versa. The two are not mutually contradictory.
Evolution and a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis are another story, but that's another argument entirely.
I'm more interested in knowing if the patients were still alive after the procedures.
Successful brain surgery dates back to at least 3,000 BCE, so it wouldn't surprise me.
I'd like to know what (if anything) they were using for fillings.
I'll never understand the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The two seem to me to have nothing to do with one another. Evolution is a valid scientific theory based on physical evidence and intelligent design is more of a philosophy that really can't be proven one way or another. Further, they aren't mutually exclusive. If there is a God, why couldn't he/she/it have used evolution as the means to design life? Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it.
ID and evolution are in conflict because of Edwards vs. Aguillard, the US Supreme Court ruling that struck down the teaching of "creation science" in public schools. ID is nothing more than an attempt to re-insert creationism into public school by avoiding any explicitly religious terminology. This was graphically demonstrated in the Dover court case, when it was shown that the publishers of "Of Pandas and People" had simply done a find-and-replace to swap out the term "creation science" for "intelligent design." The definitions used for the two were identical.
So the human heart is unreal? Interesting hypothesis. So scientists would state, with certainty, that love doesn't exist?
The human heart is a blood pump. If you want a scientific answer for things like altruism and love, neurobiology would seem more applicable.
Fox has some pictures of the model and sketches accompanying their article.
FLAC files take up quite a bit more hard drive real estate; 20-30 Mb each from what I remember.
I believe it refers to this case from Philadelphia. Charges against seven of the protestors were dropped, and hate crimes charges against the remaining four were thrown out on first amendment grounds. That was the only story I could turn up about Biblical passages leading to hate crimes charges in the U.S. IANAL, but somehow I doubt that Fred Phelps would still be a free man if it were possible to prosecute him under hate-crimes laws.
I don't know that I would qualify "screaming Leviticus 20:13 through a bullhorn to disrupt a gay pride parade" as merely "reading the Bible in public," but that's just me.
Be careful what you wish for; someone from an unspecified federal intelligence agency may oblige you.
And make some plans for what you will do for food in 2012.
I've made my plans; they involve some fava beans and a nice chianti.
There's another unintended message you could get from that game. If there's a limited number of villagers and some will "morph" into terrorists no matter how careful you are with your missiles, the best bet is to massacre them all as fast as possible.
I ended up having to stay awake five days in a row one semester in order to finish up some projects for my finals. I quickly discovered two things: caffeine is counterproductive and it's necessary to add a fourth meal of some description if you're going to be awake for longer than normal in a day. I'd imagine that the same holds true for Uberman's.
Days four and five of not sleeping were not fun. Aside from having muscle spasms and feeling like something was crawling around in my brain, I also hallucinated (nothing really exciting, just swirling pinpoints of light.) I was wobbling on my feet for my last final, and I crashed in my dorm room for a full day afterwards.
It also has something to do with the fact that the Kazaa experience goes kind of like this:
(download file)
"Crap, it's corrupted."
(download another file)
"Crap, it's five minutes of Madonna cursing at me in Yiddish."
(download yet another file)
"Crap, it's mislabeled Vanilla Ice."
(download still another file)
"Crap, it's 32 kbps and it's got pops and skips everywhere. The hell with this, I'll just buy it on iTunes."
From what I've read on the eMule forums, I'd suspect that the lack of growth in P2P use has more to do with packet shaping than with the threat of being hauled into court. I'd also question where they're getting their numbers, especially the "870 million illegal songs" figure in the article. My understanding is that the #1 P2P application is currently bittorrent, and that the only hard data on bittorrent use is raw bandwidth consumption. Who's to say how many people are using it, or for what?
It also seems to me that the campaign to equate downloading with theft is something of a double-edged sword. My girlfriend was dubious about the legality of downloading music directly from a band's website; she thought the RIAA might have it up as a form of entrapment. If people assume that all downloading runs the risk of a lawsuit, they may be less inclined to use legal services.
Overall, it sounded like the typical industry PR piece on the subject: "We're winning the war against P2P! DRM is really good for you! Buy our ringtones! etc."
Even if you could patent one, it wouldn't matter. Someone else would just go back in time, file first, and steal the fruits of your labor.
Enclose some psilocybin mushrooms with all distros. Then those penguins will fly.
But then my wallpaper melts....
According to wikipedia it seems that this isn't exactly a recent problem, penguins have been flightless for over 40 million years...
That was my reaction, too, when I saw the headline. "Flight of the penguin? I thought they swam...."
He's talking about one of these things that some people like to stick in their sigs. Believe it or not, some people really do think that they're an evil h4x0r tool.
I predict dynamite phishing.
Alternatively, how would one classify a foot-fetish site that depicted a fully-clothed model with bare feet? Obviously the intent is to "appeal to prurient interests" (at least for people who are into the whole foot thing,) but would that actually qualify as "sexually explicit?"
The anti-porn crusaders want porn banned. Period. It doesn't matter how easy you make it to prevent their kids from seeing it. If we could somehow require all porn sites to be on .xxx, have ISP-level filtering of .xxx enabled by default, and require someone to submit three forms of I.D. proving they're of legal age to view porn before the block is lifted, the anti-porn crowd would still bitch and moan about it.
It's also worth noting that some feminists (see MacKinnon and Dworkin) subscribe to the "OMG Pr0n is teh evil!!11!" hysteria as well.
Would that be short for "adverse gaming experience?"
Seriously, it reminds me of "infotainment," which is neither informative nor entertaining. No marketing buzzword is going to make me see advertising in games as anything other than what it is; an intrusion into my leisure activity in an attempt to sell me something.
Was strict SafeSearch on? I just tried it and it seems to make a big difference with Google image results, even on searches like "Jenna Jameson."
I was trying to get it to sound like a prescription label; "impaired vision" was the closest I could think of to "beer goggles" in the couple of minutes I had before I signed out for the night.