17 year olds cannot go to certain movies. 17 year olds cannot buy Playboy. 17 year olds cannot buy the X-Channel.
We are talking about video games, not porn. 17 year olds can see R movies, there are no govenrment laws prohbiting them. The theatres themselves control all the guidlines. In some R movies, you can get a lot of sexual content and violence.
There is no law forbidding retailers to sell a violent movie to a minor that I know of (IANAL). Why does there need to be one forbidding violent video games? Many stores already refuse to sell M reated games to minors. There is no reason the government has to get its hands into video game regulation and waste my tax dollars on an already self policing idustry.
(Sarcasm Enabled)
Of course, who will think of the children?
Nintendo knows that it won't win the specs war. (Which IMHO is a pointless war. For me it comes down to the games on the system, how well they utilize the technology, and how fun they are. Case in point: Resident Evil 4.)
By pretending that there is no hardware war, Nintendo can't lose it. Instead they are focusing on actually revolutionizing the console instead of just beefing the specs and requiring you to buy a $700 HD-TV to validate the existence of your new 360. Just look at the new controller, I can't wait to see what they do with it. Although, against my better wishes, Nintendo will probably remain the underdog in the console war.
Doom is very quantum. Monsters exist in variable states of dead and not dead until you shoot them. Only then can you deterministicaly say they are dead.
What they didn't tell you is that every time they tried to measure the speed, the chip would break.
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I know I'm secure when I use AOL. The spamblockers mean that I can auto-enter my email adress into every field on the net. Plus I can download anything becuase I know AOL will stop it if it is harmful. I even switched to an admin account because I find it easier to work that way. Hell, I didn't even worry about the WMF exploit because I've got the AOL security center.
But you know what the best part is? After using AOL this way for a month, all I have to do is boot up my computer, and I will be barraged with tons of free porn.
just don't try to write Quake or physics calculation software in it.
It's funny that you mention physics calculations because I'm working in a group doing that very thing. We use python for 3d reconstructions of images formed from background radiation. However, we are looking at writing the math heavy portions of code as C extensions to get better performance.
The original Quake would also probably work in python, but I'm guessing you meant Quake IV.
I am currently building a giant tin-foil hat for my house. They shall never get me. I also have a tin-foil umbrella for when I go outside. You can never be too careful when THEY are watching you.
Everyone knows that they just use a bunch of monkeys in cages that are continually being shown clips. The monkeys then sort the clips into Porn and Not Porn. Optimization studies have concluded that any further sorting is not worth the huge increase in MEMB(Monkey Effort Measured in Bananas).
Quick Dr. Hwang, clone yourself and escape the country! oh wait...
He already did that. He has been vacationing for some time. This whole scandal is just a posterboy for why you shouldn't leave clones in charge of the lab. The copies are never as good as the original.
I must know his secrets. I tried to stop. Really I did. I honestly tried to stop.
I went out, I sought help, but I kept coming back.
I even saw an option for Slashdot Anonymous (Coward), but when I tired using it, instead of getting support, I was laughed at and ridiculed.
Some days, it got so bad that I would browse at -1.
Eventually, my employer shut off web access. But it just go worse. I even tried learning Modemese so I could use old dial up numbers to get Slashdot over the phone.
If it turns out that the book thread gets modded +5 funny, I will have to KILL* you. People's lives are on the line here. This is not a joke.
*(I am currently being fed/. through an intravenous RSS feed so I cannot go far. However, I will use all my mod points to destroy your posts and I will forward all my spam to you.)
...and look up at those mysterious lights in the sky and get that sense of wonder, and of how small and yet how important we really are.
I live in New Mexico so I take weekly trips to Roswell to look for those mysterious lights. I don't feel much wonder though, and the few times THEY have taken me aboard THEIR ships have taught me that I am actually large compared to THEM. I do realise our importance though. THEY are out to get us and our resources as fuel for THEIR intergalactic war effort.
Now excuse me while I go clean my shotgun and polish my tin foil hat. Afterwards I'm going to go add another layer of concrete to my bunker. I don't want to hear your whining when the lights come for you and you aren't ready.
Knowing MySpace's history,
(Yes I just linked a page to itself. Devious isn't it?)
and their rules against blocking adds on your profile via HTML, I would bet that they would delete you into oblivion.
Actually Douglas Adams has a great essay where he discusses the possibility that man has created God in a sense.
In there, he lights upon Feng Shui. He admits that he doesn't know much about Feung Shui, but states that humans can perform complex tasks without knowing the underlying calculations.
For instance(and this is my own presentation of an argument originally presented by Adams), if you throw a ball at me I can whip out physics 101, perform some calculations, and in a minute, tell you where the ball is going to go. However, not needing a minute, I can judge where the ball is going to go and put my hand exactely in that spot(Ok, I can't do this, but normal people can). Feng Shui has some of these principles that humans instinctevly know how to make a good living space without complex architectural formulas.
I'm not endorsing all crack-pot solutions, nor am I even endorsing Feng Shui. Also, I cannot say that all the mehtods in a discipline are budding bits of human psyche. (For instance, I think that even if humans had a rudimentary "water sense", forked sticks would not amplify it. I think the sticks are half show, half superstition, and I don't relly believe in dowsing to begin with). Still, don't just blow off the unscientific methods, even though the scientific method is more reliable.
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17 year olds cannot go to certain movies. 17 year olds cannot buy Playboy. 17 year olds cannot buy the X-Channel.
We are talking about video games, not porn. 17 year olds can see R movies, there are no govenrment laws prohbiting them. The theatres themselves control all the guidlines. In some R movies, you can get a lot of sexual content and violence.
There is no law forbidding retailers to sell a violent movie to a minor that I know of (IANAL). Why does there need to be one forbidding violent video games? Many stores already refuse to sell M reated games to minors. There is no reason the government has to get its hands into video game regulation and waste my tax dollars on an already self policing idustry.
(Sarcasm Enabled) Of course, who will think of the children?
Nintendo knows that it won't win the specs war. (Which IMHO is a pointless war. For me it comes down to the games on the system, how well they utilize the technology, and how fun they are. Case in point: Resident Evil 4.)
By pretending that there is no hardware war, Nintendo can't lose it. Instead they are focusing on actually revolutionizing the console instead of just beefing the specs and requiring you to buy a $700 HD-TV to validate the existence of your new 360. Just look at the new controller, I can't wait to see what they do with it. Although, against my better wishes, Nintendo will probably remain the underdog in the console war.
This sort of light-hearted humor is what promotes irresponsible drinking.
People, for your own sakes, check that what you are drinking isn't the ruler of a planet or something. Drink responsibly.
Wait, someone wants to pay you to use cutting edge technology?
Is there some sort of catch I'm not getting, like you have to run only Windows?
...Jar-Jar's Dating Sim...
I will be having a suicide party Dec 31, 2009. Everyone is welcome.
I have coated everything on my computer desk with foam. My head thanks me.
DWI: Debugging While Intoxicated
They should have been more specific. I think they meant that Windows was the largest cause of stress.
Doom is very quantum. Monsters exist in variable states of dead and not dead until you shoot them. Only then can you deterministicaly say they are dead.
What they didn't tell you is that every time they tried to measure the speed, the chip would break.
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I know I'm secure when I use AOL. The spamblockers mean that I can auto-enter my email adress into every field on the net. Plus I can download anything becuase I know AOL will stop it if it is harmful. I even switched to an admin account because I find it easier to work that way. Hell, I didn't even worry about the WMF exploit because I've got the AOL security center.
But you know what the best part is? After using AOL this way for a month, all I have to do is boot up my computer, and I will be barraged with tons of free porn.
just don't try to write Quake or physics calculation software in it.
It's funny that you mention physics calculations because I'm working in a group doing that very thing. We use python for 3d reconstructions of images formed from background radiation. However, we are looking at writing the math heavy portions of code as C extensions to get better performance.
The original Quake would also probably work in python, but I'm guessing you meant Quake IV.
Does this mean I might have to pick my last thoughts carefully in the future?
Depending on the situation, I'd like to stick to the classical ones:
"Oh shit."
"Finally..."
or
"I wonder if I left the oven on?"
I am currently building a giant tin-foil hat for my house. They shall never get me. I also have a tin-foil umbrella for when I go outside. You can never be too careful when THEY are watching you.
As John Maynard Keynes once said:
'In the long-run we are all dead'
Everyone knows that they just use a bunch of monkeys in cages that are continually being shown clips. The monkeys then sort the clips into Porn and Not Porn. Optimization studies have concluded that any further sorting is not worth the huge increase in MEMB(Monkey Effort Measured in Bananas).
Quick Dr. Hwang, clone yourself and escape the country! oh wait...
He already did that. He has been vacationing for some time. This whole scandal is just a posterboy for why you shouldn't leave clones in charge of the lab. The copies are never as good as the original.
Luckily for me, I was just able to get several patents pertaining to the reforming of patent laws. Now I just need to ???? and profit.
What intrigues me most is how people have resisted the pun in these shocking new discoveries. Damnit, looks like I broke the trend.
If you must charge me with capital punishment for such a bad pun, might I suggest the electric chair?
I must know his secrets. I tried to stop. Really I did. I honestly tried to stop.
/. through an intravenous RSS feed so I cannot go far. However, I will use all my mod points to destroy your posts and I will forward all my spam to you.)
I went out, I sought help, but I kept coming back.
I even saw an option for Slashdot Anonymous (Coward), but when I tired using it, instead of getting support, I was laughed at and ridiculed.
Some days, it got so bad that I would browse at -1.
Eventually, my employer shut off web access. But it just go worse. I even tried learning Modemese so I could use old dial up numbers to get Slashdot over the phone.
If it turns out that the book thread gets modded +5 funny, I will have to KILL* you. People's lives are on the line here. This is not a joke.
*(I am currently being fed
...and look up at those mysterious lights in the sky and get that sense of wonder, and of how small and yet how important we really are.
I live in New Mexico so I take weekly trips to Roswell to look for those mysterious lights. I don't feel much wonder though, and the few times THEY have taken me aboard THEIR ships have taught me that I am actually large compared to THEM. I do realise our importance though. THEY are out to get us and our resources as fuel for THEIR intergalactic war effort.
Now excuse me while I go clean my shotgun and polish my tin foil hat. Afterwards I'm going to go add another layer of concrete to my bunker. I don't want to hear your whining when the lights come for you and you aren't ready.
Is this the reason they are changing their slogan from "Intel Inside"? :-P
Knowing MySpace's history, (Yes I just linked a page to itself. Devious isn't it?) and their rules against blocking adds on your profile via HTML, I would bet that they would delete you into oblivion.
Actually Douglas Adams has a great essay where he discusses the possibility that man has created God in a sense.
In there, he lights upon Feng Shui. He admits that he doesn't know much about Feung Shui, but states that humans can perform complex tasks without knowing the underlying calculations.
For instance(and this is my own presentation of an argument originally presented by Adams), if you throw a ball at me I can whip out physics 101, perform some calculations, and in a minute, tell you where the ball is going to go. However, not needing a minute, I can judge where the ball is going to go and put my hand exactely in that spot(Ok, I can't do this, but normal people can). Feng Shui has some of these principles that humans instinctevly know how to make a good living space without complex architectural formulas.
I'm not endorsing all crack-pot solutions, nor am I even endorsing Feng Shui. Also, I cannot say that all the mehtods in a discipline are budding bits of human psyche. (For instance, I think that even if humans had a rudimentary "water sense", forked sticks would not amplify it. I think the sticks are half show, half superstition, and I don't relly believe in dowsing to begin with). Still, don't just blow off the unscientific methods, even though the scientific method is more reliable.