I would actually go the other way and suggest that it is the forced innocence of children that is doing the harm.
Over the last few decades we have been shoving this innocence thing down children's throats, forcing them to have warped views of themselves, their abilities, and the world, LONG past when nature would have. The end result being a couple generations of people developing coping mechanisms far too late in life since they were not exposed to things in time.
Daylight savings never had anything to do with farmers (popular myth). It was pushed through by department stores who wanted people out and about earlier so there were more chances to see a store and go 'hey, it's early, let's go shopping!'.
Farmers, on the other hand, get up when it's light out and stop working when there is no more light. Any farmer who clock-watches to decide when to do things will likly go under pretty quickly.
I take these announcements with a grain of salt.. ok, an entire salt lick. CCP has a long history of announcing cool stuff and then never following through (or deliving something so watered down that it is almost worthless)
They have been promising walking in stations for years, as well as T3 and the new exploration system. They have also been promising an industry expansion which was originally going to be this summer (but got preempted for Empyrean Age, i.e. combat content), and then rescheduled for this fall but got preempted for blob support (more combat content) and then got rescheduled for march, which it looks like some of it might trickle in so who knows.
T3 is already sounding depressingly lame and not very useful from an industry perspective, so I will not call T3 an industry expansion.
So yeah... I'm not sure how much stock I put in what they promise.
Or more likely, credit card companies that don't like people violating contracts. If a state passed such a law, it would likly be blackballed by a good piece of the banking industry.
I am guessing that the control computers are also the ones that store/process the data coming out of the detector.
Such data usually needs to be stored to some kind of network device and then needs to be network accessable to people who want to actually cook the stuff.
Heh. Given the number of Civ players that have been dissapointed by Civ3 and Civ4, you might be on to something there.
I still know more people who play Civ2 then the newer ones.
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Take a look at EvE. It has quite a few 'limited' resources that there are only X number in the game and the players has to fight over them. Oh, and many of these items, once destroyed, never come back ^_^
Now, many of these items just end up hiding in hi-sec hangers and never see the light of day, but others (like valuable moons or other territorial elements) can not be hidden or moved so they represent a constant target for someone else to come in and grab.
wow... modded troll for daring to even suggest that adam is telling the truth and he simply had his story wrong.. you know, like he himself said?
Ok, I get that we don't trust big companies and esp not banks, but these responses go a little overboard on the paranoia. Just because a bank is involved does not automatically make them evil.
While it is hard to say what the full story is, is it THAT hard to believe that Adam (who, let us face it, can be kinda flakey) simply got his story wrong or got wrapped up in the story-telling?
Though what this piece did NOT go into is the differnce between people who can't commit, people who are monogamous, and people who are poly
Unfortunatly researchers usually don't bother to figure out the differnce between group 1 and group 3, and in fact many who display group 1 behavior are actually group 3 and are QUITE capable of long term commited relationships,.. when the relationships are poly structured rather then mono.
So the problem isn't 'rising above non-commitment', but one of finding out what commitments actually WORK for various people.
In the US, it would be very difficult. You can live off cash, but credit cards are considered a type of ID so you need them for doing things like banking, signing contracts (phone, cable, utilties, etc), and they are critical if you want any kind of loan... or stay at a hotel, or rent a car,.. lots of stuff.
It gets even worse if you want to try to run a buisness.
I wonder how much of this is in response to that episode they did a while back on security systems and showed how easily they could be gotten around (most notably the trivial to subert finger print scanner).
After making those companies look like liers and fools, I can imagine that the credit card companies would not want to risk the bad press too.
These are companies that you can not avoid, and can not fight. No one who wants to function can boycott them, and without SERIOUS fallout no lawmaker can touch them.
Not to mention the public is surprsingly accepting of 'it should be illegal to show how bad a product is!'
Distrust asside, when you do not come from a mystic background it is honestly baffling how anyone could confuse science and pseudoscience. It isn't even that creationism needs to be disproved, it is that it is seen as starting off with the burden of proof just like any other mythology. There doesn't have to be 'anything wrong' with it, but it has completely failed to put forward anything 'right'.
It is an interesting philosophical argument, but we end up confused why people want to teach mythology in biology classes.
To be fair, her full quote states that she will not interfear (or has not in the past), but she personally believes they should both be taught. Hard to say how well she will keep to that seperation though, and how it might effect her views on OTHER bits of science.
Well, for starters she is a creationist (though it sounds like she is promising to keep out of the debate, even though her personal opinion is that both should be taught), which has a definite science angle to it.
So far the only bits of tech policy anyone has mentioned out of her has to do with oil drilling, which she in favor of (married to an oil industry peep and lives in a state that gets stipends from anyone drilling there)
Depends on the social conservatives, since they have a pretty wide range.
If you look at Church of Christ (or other groups like them), who are NOT a minor political force, they are pretty strict about 'No woman can ever have domain over any adult male'. women can't even be teachers if the students might be adult males.
True one can always use jump clones to protect thier implants, but given the 24 hour cool down you basicly have to ask 'how long do I want to fight and thus train slower', then jump back, leave the millitia, train/grind for a while, jump into your cheap clone etc...
And that is assuming they have the standing needed for the jump clone, which many new players do not.. (keep in mind, getting up to 8 is no problem for a heavy player runing L4 missions, but a casual or new player can take months to get up that far in even a single corp)
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I would actually go the other way and suggest that it is the forced innocence of children that is doing the harm.
Over the last few decades we have been shoving this innocence thing down children's throats, forcing them to have warped views of themselves, their abilities, and the world, LONG past when nature would have. The end result being a couple generations of people developing coping mechanisms far too late in life since they were not exposed to things in time.
Daylight savings never had anything to do with farmers (popular myth). It was pushed through by department stores who wanted people out and about earlier so there were more chances to see a store and go 'hey, it's early, let's go shopping!'.
Farmers, on the other hand, get up when it's light out and stop working when there is no more light. Any farmer who clock-watches to decide when to do things will likly go under pretty quickly.
I take these announcements with a grain of salt.. ok, an entire salt lick. CCP has a long history of announcing cool stuff and then never following through (or deliving something so watered down that it is almost worthless)
They have been promising walking in stations for years, as well as T3 and the new exploration system. They have also been promising an industry expansion which was originally going to be this summer (but got preempted for Empyrean Age, i.e. combat content), and then rescheduled for this fall but got preempted for blob support (more combat content) and then got rescheduled for march, which it looks like some of it might trickle in so who knows.
T3 is already sounding depressingly lame and not very useful from an industry perspective, so I will not call T3 an industry expansion.
So yeah... I'm not sure how much stock I put in what they promise.
*shrug* I learned EVE on my own. The UI is a different style then WoW and all of it's clones, but I would not describe it as difficult.
But it did complete in france, so yahoo auctions in france must filter out nazi paraphernalia, which was considered suffient for french interests.
Or more likely, credit card companies that don't like people violating contracts. If a state passed such a law, it would likly be blackballed by a good piece of the banking industry.
I am guessing that the control computers are also the ones that store/process the data coming out of the detector.
Such data usually needs to be stored to some kind of network device and then needs to be network accessable to people who want to actually cook the stuff.
Heh. Given the number of Civ players that have been dissapointed by Civ3 and Civ4, you might be on to something there.
I still know more people who play Civ2 then the newer ones.
Take a look at EvE. It has quite a few 'limited' resources that there are only X number in the game and the players has to fight over them. Oh, and many of these items, once destroyed, never come back ^_^
Now, many of these items just end up hiding in hi-sec hangers and never see the light of day, but others (like valuable moons or other territorial elements) can not be hidden or moved so they represent a constant target for someone else to come in and grab.
Not sure I agree.
While EvE is a bit of a different beast, I usually play it with sound disabled.
It is amazing how uncluttered a game can feel when it is silent.
wow... modded troll for daring to even suggest that adam is telling the truth and he simply had his story wrong.. you know, like he himself said?
Ok, I get that we don't trust big companies and esp not banks, but these responses go a little overboard on the paranoia. Just because a bank is involved does not automatically make them evil.
While it is hard to say what the full story is, is it THAT hard to believe that Adam (who, let us face it, can be kinda flakey) simply got his story wrong or got wrapped up in the story-telling?
Though what this piece did NOT go into is the differnce between people who can't commit, people who are monogamous, and people who are poly
Unfortunatly researchers usually don't bother to figure out the differnce between group 1 and group 3, and in fact many who display group 1 behavior are actually group 3 and are QUITE capable of long term commited relationships,.. when the relationships are poly structured rather then mono.
So the problem isn't 'rising above non-commitment', but one of finding out what commitments actually WORK for various people.
In the US, it would be very difficult. You can live off cash, but credit cards are considered a type of ID so you need them for doing things like banking, signing contracts (phone, cable, utilties, etc), and they are critical if you want any kind of loan... or stay at a hotel, or rent a car,.. lots of stuff.
It gets even worse if you want to try to run a buisness.
I wonder how much of this is in response to that episode they did a while back on security systems and showed how easily they could be gotten around (most notably the trivial to subert finger print scanner).
After making those companies look like liers and fools, I can imagine that the credit card companies would not want to risk the bad press too.
Visa?
Mastercard?
Discover?
These are companies that you can not avoid, and can not fight. No one who wants to function can boycott them, and without SERIOUS fallout no lawmaker can touch them.
Not to mention the public is surprsingly accepting of 'it should be illegal to show how bad a product is!'
*shrug* maybe the group I am familiar with was in that 5%, but they did have some serious issues with women doing much of anything.
Which branch are you from?
The one I am familiar with most certaintly DID have that belief, and it extended beyond 'just in the church'
Distrust asside, when you do not come from a mystic background it is honestly baffling how anyone could confuse science and pseudoscience. It isn't even that creationism needs to be disproved, it is that it is seen as starting off with the burden of proof just like any other mythology. There doesn't have to be 'anything wrong' with it, but it has completely failed to put forward anything 'right'.
It is an interesting philosophical argument, but we end up confused why people want to teach mythology in biology classes.
To be fair, her full quote states that she will not interfear (or has not in the past), but she personally believes they should both be taught. Hard to say how well she will keep to that seperation though, and how it might effect her views on OTHER bits of science.
Well, for starters she is a creationist (though it sounds like she is promising to keep out of the debate, even though her personal opinion is that both should be taught), which has a definite science angle to it.
So far the only bits of tech policy anyone has mentioned out of her has to do with oil drilling, which she in favor of (married to an oil industry peep and lives in a state that gets stipends from anyone drilling there)
Depends on the social conservatives, since they have a pretty wide range.
If you look at Church of Christ (or other groups like them), who are NOT a minor political force, they are pretty strict about 'No woman can ever have domain over any adult male'. women can't even be teachers if the students might be adult males.
Forget decades old.
They also dropped support for OSX 10.3, which is not all that old.
The big question will be if they will nag people on OSes that they dropped support for in FF3.
THAT would be terribly annoying.
True one can always use jump clones to protect thier implants, but given the 24 hour cool down you basicly have to ask 'how long do I want to fight and thus train slower', then jump back, leave the millitia, train/grind for a while, jump into your cheap clone etc...
And that is assuming they have the standing needed for the jump clone, which many new players do not.. (keep in mind, getting up to 8 is no problem for a heavy player runing L4 missions, but a casual or new player can take months to get up that far in even a single corp)