I'm pretty sure that was a deliberate jab at Bush from George Lucas. Now, if were to start proclaiming "I am the senate..." then we've have something to worry about.
In the past--the seventies and eighties--there was a lot of debate about porn, especially in the advent of increased attention on women's rights. However, now we have a completely different context.
Hi, welcome to Earth. You must be new here.
Every generation since time began does things different than their parents did. It is the inexorable process called "change" that makes mankind so interesting.
Genes and mitocondria and all that other crap don't give a whit about the next Picasso. And they have alot more influence on humans than external motivations. Go without food for a week and see how rational you still are.
Many religious people DO wish to impose their moral law on the entire society, however, not all do. It's important that you realize that "religious" people aren't just cookie cutters of everyone else--there are different "religious people".
Agreed. However, standing idly by while people in one's own group do something really ignorant and self-serving is still wrong, though. Laying off the Christians, for example, there are plenty of muslims who wouldn't go as far as blowing anything up, but think that a worldwide islamic theocracy would be pretty keen. No one is their brother's keeper, but they are pricks if they don't act when action is supposed to be taken.
Christianity isn't about making people not "sin", it's about knowing God.
That is true, theoretically. And though my church was actually quite good at giving sermons on the later, I just get the opinion that alot of them (read: bible belt) are more concerned with influencing the congregation than guiding them. Though, that could just be the Great Satan of Media.
As a culture, it is generally understood that children do not have all of the freedoms that we enjoy as adults.
I beleive that is a problem. Our country was founded on the principle that all men are created equal (hopefully they were using the archaic meaning of "humankind). While it is nice and feely-good to say that children are above normal people and deserve special attention, any system that separates people on the basis of who they are and not what they've done is not just.
Don't blame God for the choices that people make when they USE God to support their Goal.
I wasn't doing that at all. One of the great things I did learn from Christianity is that God supposedly only intervenes in our affairs when it suits him. Therefore we cannot count on him to influence people one way or another, and he is quite irrelevant to any debate on "what is right."
I attempted to use one of the those online coupons about a month ago, only to have the checkout refuse to honor it. The chat room help people basically said that I qualified and they couldn't explain why it wasn't working, but they really weren't too into actually doing anything about it. So I kinda forgot about it.
Is ~$600-$800 (US dollars) really a reasonable prince range for this audience, though?
I made $55k, which grants me significant free funds for someone still living at home with his parents. Still, my co-workers aren't even looking at LCD monitors above three or four hundred. For that you can get an okay 21 incher if you're willing to risk your money on the internets.
But twice that for just a PC monitor? That's easily as much as the rest of the system itself. You can watch DVDs on a regular big-screen TV. Granted, that will cost even more (several times, probably), but you can also use it for cable, and video games. I just can't see this stuff being in the range of the typical slashdotter.
Feel free to prove me wrong if y'all are a bunch of Mr. Moneybags', though:)
It won't affect me in my lifetime, nor probably my children, but after that, I have no predictions that are positive with the direction things are going.
This is not rocket science. Without exception, every single society in all of history has followed the exact same pattern: Dark Ages -> Civilization -> Golden Age -> Decline -> Dark Ages. Without exception.
Why would the DoJ not have subpoena powers in this case? They are gathering evidence to argue a case before a court, why in the world would they NOT have the ability to subpoena the information they need to argue their case?
Because there is no evidence that the information is relevant. A citizen can't just bring a case before the court and ask for information on the government just because they beleive it's crucial to the case.
"Your honor, I beleive the confession that will prove my innosense has been sealed in the concrete comprising the Washington Monument. If you wouldn't mind just knocking that ol' thing down so I can retrieve it..."
This was mentioned up the page on another comment, but it needs to be repeated.
The law this information is for is NOT against child pornography. It is against children looking at pornography. This is an excellent use of one of the most common (and sadly, effective) logical fallacies -- straw man.
It's not a seizure of private property. It's a subpeona for information.
This idealogy is made of win and good. I'll be sure to let Microsoft and the RIAA know this next time I pirate some stuff.
The collection of information for court proceedings happens for every case, criminal or civil
Again, what specific crime has been commited that gives the justice department the right to subpoena information? This is nothing more than fishing for crimes. They can't simply say "give me your records so we can see if anything illegal is going on." But if they get the records on the basis of research for defense of a law, and they do find crimes in the data, it would be illegal not to act on it and prosecute. Quite a convenient loophole.
I don't quite understand the US governments crusade against online porn
Religious people don't just want to remove [insert_immoral_action_here] from their own life. They beleive it is their sacred duty to prevent everyone else from doing it as well. Regardless of the law everyone's agreed to live under.
Remember, this is the president who actually beleives god instructs him personally
I was under the impression that for any seiziure of private property for investigation, there had to be a reasonable suspicion that there was a crime commited.
So now "not helping the government" is a crime in and of itself?
My work firewall blocks pretty much any site with *game* in the url, so I'm hard pressed to find screenshots at the moment, but I imagine Oblivion still has cut-scenes, spans of dialogue, and empty walking periods from time to time.
In response to the grandfather post, I was thinking something with the same speed of gameplay as Heretic, only with the grind that appeals so much to fans of eastern RPGs.
Playing the same levels in a doom clone would probably get boring much more quickly than the relaxing ease of FF-esque battles, I think, though. A quick-and-dirty random level generator would work wonders.
Susannah's "Wild Wheelchair" limit break
Jake can ride Oy for extra damage against unmounted foes
Roland would have to naturally be prohibited from learning 2x-strike skill
It'd be pretty interesting if you could steal/win a beam sword from the Calla Wolves boss. Would make the final boss much easier than wielding a 1/1 pencil.
Of course, the Tower itself is perfect for a 100-level bonus dungeon.
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I'm pretty sure that was a deliberate jab at Bush from George Lucas. Now, if were to start proclaiming "I am the senate..." then we've have something to worry about.
Why doesn't BlockBuster offer something like this?
Becuase they are one of the few businesses to realize that selling things you can get on the internet for free is a doomed endeavor.
In the past--the seventies and eighties--there was a lot of debate about porn, especially in the advent of increased attention on women's rights. However, now we have a completely different context.
Hi, welcome to Earth. You must be new here.
Every generation since time began does things different than their parents did. It is the inexorable process called "change" that makes mankind so interesting.
some "quality" time alone in their bedroom once every few nights?
Don't be an underacheiver! You can hit up to four or five times a day, easy.
Genes and mitocondria and all that other crap don't give a whit about the next Picasso. And they have alot more influence on humans than external motivations. Go without food for a week and see how rational you still are.
Men trade love for sex
Women trade sex for love
Really? Wow. It's pretty convenient that they dug up a piece in such an interesting shape :)
(I don't know the first thing about masonry)
Many religious people DO wish to impose their moral law on the entire society, however, not all do. It's important that you realize that "religious" people aren't just cookie cutters of everyone else--there are different "religious people".
Agreed. However, standing idly by while people in one's own group do something really ignorant and self-serving is still wrong, though. Laying off the Christians, for example, there are plenty of muslims who wouldn't go as far as blowing anything up, but think that a worldwide islamic theocracy would be pretty keen. No one is their brother's keeper, but they are pricks if they don't act when action is supposed to be taken.
Christianity isn't about making people not "sin", it's about knowing God.
That is true, theoretically. And though my church was actually quite good at giving sermons on the later, I just get the opinion that alot of them (read: bible belt) are more concerned with influencing the congregation than guiding them. Though, that could just be the Great Satan of Media.
As a culture, it is generally understood that children do not have all of the freedoms that we enjoy as adults.
I beleive that is a problem. Our country was founded on the principle that all men are created equal (hopefully they were using the archaic meaning of "humankind). While it is nice and feely-good to say that children are above normal people and deserve special attention, any system that separates people on the basis of who they are and not what they've done is not just.
Don't blame God for the choices that people make when they USE God to support their Goal.
I wasn't doing that at all. One of the great things I did learn from Christianity is that God supposedly only intervenes in our affairs when it suits him. Therefore we cannot count on him to influence people one way or another, and he is quite irrelevant to any debate on "what is right."
I attempted to use one of the those online coupons about a month ago, only to have the checkout refuse to honor it. The chat room help people basically said that I qualified and they couldn't explain why it wasn't working, but they really weren't too into actually doing anything about it. So I kinda forgot about it.
Is ~$600-$800 (US dollars) really a reasonable prince range for this audience, though?
:)
I made $55k, which grants me significant free funds for someone still living at home with his parents. Still, my co-workers aren't even looking at LCD monitors above three or four hundred. For that you can get an okay 21 incher if you're willing to risk your money on the internets.
But twice that for just a PC monitor? That's easily as much as the rest of the system itself. You can watch DVDs on a regular big-screen TV. Granted, that will cost even more (several times, probably), but you can also use it for cable, and video games. I just can't see this stuff being in the range of the typical slashdotter.
Feel free to prove me wrong if y'all are a bunch of Mr. Moneybags', though
I agree. My arguement is indeed flawed :(
It won't affect me in my lifetime, nor probably my children, but after that, I have no predictions that are positive with the direction things are going.
This is not rocket science. Without exception, every single society in all of history has followed the exact same pattern: Dark Ages -> Civilization -> Golden Age -> Decline -> Dark Ages. Without exception.
Why would the DoJ not have subpoena powers in this case? They are gathering evidence to argue a case before a court, why in the world would they NOT have the ability to subpoena the information they need to argue their case?
Because there is no evidence that the information is relevant. A citizen can't just bring a case before the court and ask for information on the government just because they beleive it's crucial to the case.
"Your honor, I beleive the confession that will prove my innosense has been sealed in the concrete comprising the Washington Monument. If you wouldn't mind just knocking that ol' thing down so I can retrieve it..."
This was mentioned up the page on another comment, but it needs to be repeated.
The law this information is for is NOT against child pornography. It is against children looking at pornography. This is an excellent use of one of the most common (and sadly, effective) logical fallacies -- straw man.
It's not a seizure of private property. It's a subpeona for information.
This idealogy is made of win and good. I'll be sure to let Microsoft and the RIAA know this next time I pirate some stuff.
The collection of information for court proceedings happens for every case, criminal or civil
Again, what specific crime has been commited that gives the justice department the right to subpoena information? This is nothing more than fishing for crimes. They can't simply say "give me your records so we can see if anything illegal is going on." But if they get the records on the basis of research for defense of a law, and they do find crimes in the data, it would be illegal not to act on it and prosecute. Quite a convenient loophole.
I don't quite understand the US governments crusade against online porn
Religious people don't just want to remove [insert_immoral_action_here] from their own life. They beleive it is their sacred duty to prevent everyone else from doing it as well. Regardless of the law everyone's agreed to live under.
Remember, this is the president who actually beleives god instructs him personally
I was under the impression that for any seiziure of private property for investigation, there had to be a reasonable suspicion that there was a crime commited.
So now "not helping the government" is a crime in and of itself?
My work firewall blocks pretty much any site with *game* in the url, so I'm hard pressed to find screenshots at the moment, but I imagine Oblivion still has cut-scenes, spans of dialogue, and empty walking periods from time to time.
In response to the grandfather post, I was thinking something with the same speed of gameplay as Heretic, only with the grind that appeals so much to fans of eastern RPGs. Playing the same levels in a doom clone would probably get boring much more quickly than the relaxing ease of FF-esque battles, I think, though. A quick-and-dirty random level generator would work wonders.
Susannah's "Wild Wheelchair" limit break
Jake can ride Oy for extra damage against unmounted foes
Roland would have to naturally be prohibited from learning 2x-strike skill
It'd be pretty interesting if you could steal/win a beam sword from the Calla Wolves boss. Would make the final boss much easier than wielding a 1/1 pencil.
Of course, the Tower itself is perfect for a 100-level bonus dungeon.
We need to see The Dark Tower RPG...
"A lobstrosity appears! Command?"
An FPS with oldschool-style RPG plot, levelling, and equipment would be quite interesting.
The guy was sick
Whatever happened to being just plain evil?
You say that when you've been on Slashdot as long as Brooks has. That's institutionalized...
You are a visionary.
:(
Though, I'd really only really go for it if they let us bring booze and a bong with us. But you know that'd never happen
Nothing quite like watching Star Wars and hearing "It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!" seemingly coming out of Natalie Portman's mouth.
//come to think of it, that would've been a much better plot :)