Most TV lovers that I know who are willing to spend money on improving their TV watching experience actually DONT accept ads. Through TiVO or other DVRs they avoid them altogether whenever possible.
My parents, for example, will wait until 20 minutes into a show they REALLY want to watch before sitting down to it just to cut the commercials.
the bill defines a video game
"Video game" would be defined in the bills to mean a computer or other device or computer program that stores or receives data or instructions generated by a person who used it, and, by processing that data or instruction, creates an interactive game capable of
being played, viewed, or otherwise experienced by an individual."
So the "Video game" need not be a game, it only needs to process data or instructions, and it doesn't need to be on a computer or console, but can be on an "other device."
I know this is stretching a bit, but by this definition, an e-Book could be restricted. It responds to commands (e.g. turn the page) and if deemed inappropriate could by this law be restricted. By gum, so could an IM client or an e-mail service.
While i am actually in favor of the spirit of the bill (i.e. keep violent games out of unsupervised children's hands) the wording is so vague that it could be stretched to cover almost anything.
But maybe i just dont have enough faith in the American Justice system. Yeah, that must be it.
-Squirrely
So if NASA is touting this new material as a boon to travel outside the Earth's magnetic fields, that implies that we didn't have much to do that in the past. But we went to the moon.
Have i seen one too many Conspiracy Specials or does this sound like NASA genuinely didn't have enough radiation sheilding for manned missions to leave orbit before?
-Squirrel
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Most TV lovers that I know who are willing to spend money on improving their TV watching experience actually DONT accept ads. Through TiVO or other DVRs they avoid them altogether whenever possible. My parents, for example, will wait until 20 minutes into a show they REALLY want to watch before sitting down to it just to cut the commercials.
the bill defines a video game "Video game" would be defined in the bills to mean a computer or other device or computer program that stores or receives data or instructions generated by a person who used it, and, by processing that data or instruction, creates an interactive game capable of being played, viewed, or otherwise experienced by an individual." So the "Video game" need not be a game, it only needs to process data or instructions, and it doesn't need to be on a computer or console, but can be on an "other device." I know this is stretching a bit, but by this definition, an e-Book could be restricted. It responds to commands (e.g. turn the page) and if deemed inappropriate could by this law be restricted. By gum, so could an IM client or an e-mail service. While i am actually in favor of the spirit of the bill (i.e. keep violent games out of unsupervised children's hands) the wording is so vague that it could be stretched to cover almost anything. But maybe i just dont have enough faith in the American Justice system. Yeah, that must be it. -Squirrely
So if NASA is touting this new material as a boon to travel outside the Earth's magnetic fields, that implies that we didn't have much to do that in the past. But we went to the moon. Have i seen one too many Conspiracy Specials or does this sound like NASA genuinely didn't have enough radiation sheilding for manned missions to leave orbit before? -Squirrel