18 is the age of becoming a legal adult, 18 should be the age for everything, games, drinking, voting. An 18 year old can pay taxes, get married, die in war, but can't play a video game or drink? Puhleeese.
Actually I don't think it's such a bad idea. Parents refuse to take responsibility for what their kids do because it's inconvenient. If you make it where it is more inconvenient for the parent to get the game for the kid, than it is for them to monitor their kid, you get the same result. You keep the games out of the hands of kids. I personally am tired of my gaming experience being tamed down or ruined because kids might play the game. If you make it where instead of sending Johnny in to Gamestop with $40 to grab a game while sitting in the car and make it where the parent has to get out of the car and go in themself to buy the game, then little Johnny doesn't get the game, and game developers can truly cater to their customers.
I won't have a problem with this. In fact, I think it's about time as a lot of things that were called Extras were actually needed items so this will be a good thing. The once CD idea rocks too.
A "state of" emergency has ever been the excuse for taking away people's liberties. GWB thinks 9/11 gives him the right to do whatever he pleases, constitution be damned.
I think you meant never and I also think you are forgetting the Japanese internment camps we had during World War II. Just because our country doesn't do it often, doesn't mean it can't be done.
Finally, if you are a law abiding American citzen or law abiding resident then you should have nothing to worry about. However if you skirt the law, are a criminal, and in this country illegally then I say tough shit to you. The constitution is for protecting the citizens, not every joe blow who crosses the border.
Using what you said, if I get pulled over in my vehicle and I don't hand my ID over to the police and then when they ask me to exit the vehicle, as long as I never make a violent move and just sit there limply and passively then there's nothing that can be done.
Science has shown that the earth is billions of years old. We have been able to find data for the climate conditions for only a few thousand years, we have only been able to measure temprature for 300 years, and measure CO2 levels for maybe 100 and getting some speculated data from ice cores for the last 4000-10000 years. And remember, thats 10,000 out of billions. We can't possibly have a big enough sample of data.
Seems to me that this would be like calling a Republican victory after only asking 1 voter how he voted.
The truth is, that we don't and can't possibly know all the cycles this planet has gone through in its existance, and when you find out that there are natural contributors of greenhouse gases that contribute more in a single event than humans have contributed since they appeared on the face of the planet, it seems more like junk science to me.
I am not saying we should no reduce pollution, but to say we have any control over the climate seems a bit egotistical with as little evidence as we really have.
I have to run now, 2 people gave me a dime each in a span of 30 seconds, and based on this data, I will have been given $17,280 30 days from now.
I am not grasping why the fact that it's a commodity makes a difference. It is still a product that can be withheld from consumers in particular areas if the business or businesses decide to not sell in that area. Perhaps you can enlighten me on why you think the fact that it's a commodity would make a difference.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/commodity
commodity (k-md-t)
n. pl. commodities
1. Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage: "Left-handed, power-hitting third basemen are a rare commodity in the big leagues" Steve Guiremand.
2. An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product that can be processed and resold.
3. Advantage; benefit.
4. Obsolete A quantity of goods.
Wait until the Oil companies refuse to sell oil to anyone in California. I know that it will be interesting to hear about a tie up on the 105 and realize they are talking about a hitching post for horse and buggies and not a traffic jam.
Well I tried to patent it, but the application got lost in the mail, someone stole the check and forged a higher amount on it, my computer containing the originals crashed and the backups were no good.
So far all the replies have been technical in nature, but let us not forget we live in a very legalistic society. I don't think you can legally stream broadcast radio over the internet withouth re-broadcast rights etc.. So before going through all this hassle to set this up, how about checking the legal ramifications first.
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18 is the age of becoming a legal adult, 18 should be the age for everything, games, drinking, voting. An 18 year old can pay taxes, get married, die in war, but can't play a video game or drink? Puhleeese.
Actually I don't think it's such a bad idea. Parents refuse to take responsibility for what their kids do because it's inconvenient. If you make it where it is more inconvenient for the parent to get the game for the kid, than it is for them to monitor their kid, you get the same result. You keep the games out of the hands of kids. I personally am tired of my gaming experience being tamed down or ruined because kids might play the game. If you make it where instead of sending Johnny in to Gamestop with $40 to grab a game while sitting in the car and make it where the parent has to get out of the car and go in themself to buy the game, then little Johnny doesn't get the game, and game developers can truly cater to their customers.
I won't have a problem with this. In fact, I think it's about time as a lot of things that were called Extras were actually needed items so this will be a good thing. The once CD idea rocks too.
A "state of" emergency has ever been the excuse for taking away people's liberties. GWB thinks 9/11 gives him the right to do whatever he pleases, constitution be damned.
I think you meant never and I also think you are forgetting the Japanese internment camps we had during World War II. Just because our country doesn't do it often, doesn't mean it can't be done.
Finally, if you are a law abiding American citzen or law abiding resident then you should have nothing to worry about. However if you skirt the law, are a criminal, and in this country illegally then I say tough shit to you. The constitution is for protecting the citizens, not every joe blow who crosses the border.
Slashdotter writes eBook giving opinion of eBooks.
Too bad a spell checker wasn't on the list of innovations.
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2006/produ
Can barely choose between two political candidates, and people think offering more choices in software is somehow a good thing?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/15/ 1334241
Will he get his account reinstated?
I call bullshit on you.
Using what you said, if I get pulled over in my vehicle and I don't hand my ID over to the police and then when they ask me to exit the vehicle, as long as I never make a violent move and just sit there limply and passively then there's nothing that can be done.
BS
Science has shown that the earth is billions of years old. We have been able to find data for the climate conditions for only a few thousand years, we have only been able to measure temprature for 300 years, and measure CO2 levels for maybe 100 and getting some speculated data from ice cores for the last 4000-10000 years. And remember, thats 10,000 out of billions. We can't possibly have a big enough sample of data.
Seems to me that this would be like calling a Republican victory after only asking 1 voter how he voted.
The truth is, that we don't and can't possibly know all the cycles this planet has gone through in its existance, and when you find out that there are natural contributors of greenhouse gases that contribute more in a single event than humans have contributed since they appeared on the face of the planet, it seems more like junk science to me.
I am not saying we should no reduce pollution, but to say we have any control over the climate seems a bit egotistical with as little evidence as we really have.
I have to run now, 2 people gave me a dime each in a span of 30 seconds, and based on this data, I will have been given $17,280 30 days from now.
I am not grasping why the fact that it's a commodity makes a difference. It is still a product that can be withheld from consumers in particular areas if the business or businesses decide to not sell in that area. Perhaps you can enlighten me on why you think the fact that it's a commodity would make a difference. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/commodity commodity (k-md-t) n. pl. commodities 1. Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage: "Left-handed, power-hitting third basemen are a rare commodity in the big leagues" Steve Guiremand. 2. An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product that can be processed and resold. 3. Advantage; benefit. 4. Obsolete A quantity of goods.
Wait until the Oil companies refuse to sell oil to anyone in California. I know that it will be interesting to hear about a tie up on the 105 and realize they are talking about a hitching post for horse and buggies and not a traffic jam.
Are they talking realtime or CPU time? 5 minutes real time could just be 1 or 2 seconds of CPU time.
Oh my, you talk about storing porn on this? If one of the images took up the entire drive would it be called a petafile?
Microsoft Corp. will spend $120 million a year on an advertising campaign to fight its image as "a huge American company."
:)
Because they aren't just an American company. They are a huge company in every country they are in.
:) I am pretty sure I saw those on star trek.
I really want to know.
Well I tried to patent it, but the application got lost in the mail, someone stole the check and forged a higher amount on it, my computer containing the originals crashed and the backups were no good.
It doesn't make this any less of a duplicate.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05
Even if it was just gamepads it skips Colecovision, and Intellivision controllers.
He only signed it, he didn't come up with it, if anyone sux is the morons in senate that came up with the bill in the first place.
So far all the replies have been technical in nature, but let us not forget we live in a very legalistic society. I don't think you can legally stream broadcast radio over the internet withouth re-broadcast rights etc.. So before going through all this hassle to set this up, how about checking the legal ramifications first.
Just a thought.
If you don't have to pay highway taxes, vehicle registration, licensing permits, emissions testing, or anything else, then stay off the highways.
...I heard the audible crosswalk signal (for the deaf)...
I am pretty sure those are for the blind.
If the game is being played, the gas pedal controls the game, not the engine.