I've seen one indie movie I liked, and it only cost a few thousand bucks to make: Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005). It was funny as hell. I'm sure it scares the bejesus out of the MPAA.
It is the most popular Finnish film of all time, according to wikipedia. But you're right, it will take a while.
What sort of job would you be able to get today if you didn't know how to operate a computer, use the internet, send/receive email, create and print simple documents?
Construction. It pays well too.
Hypothetically, let's say there is a simple implantable device that will give you all of the internet within milliseconds, just by thinking
Superceded by one that requires no implant, then wouldn't you feel dumb? I already have all the misinformation on the internet within milliseconds just by thinking. Thinking operates some very useful computer peripherals, namely my eyes and fingers (input/output devices).
2. Those people would be more productive than the rest of us.
This is a wierd election, I swear I've dropped through a wormhole into Bizarro world. You have Barr, a Republican, running as the Libertarian candidate while a Libertarian, I've already forgotten his name even though I voted for him, running as a Republican (but losing).
I'm only voting for Barr because I know he'll lose. It's a protest vote, a vote against the status quo. If the Libertarians ever become mainstream, expect their stance on victimless crimes to change. This is not a nation of laws, it is a nation of money.
I'd rather have my data going to my brain the old fashioned way - through my eyes, ears, and other senses. I know how computers work, so therefore I don't trust one as far as I could throw a beowolf cluster of ENIACS.
Does your knee hurt from all the jerking? The amphetamines were no more the reason for the violence than than the videogames. Bad genes and a bad environment (shaken baby syndrome perhaps) were the cause. Not sex, seugs, rock and roll or video games like the neocons blame all of society's ills on.
Actually the law doesn't apply to people like them. However, I think you are right and he will go to prison eventually.
This is America, a nation of money, where laws are meaningless and subservient to money because money can buy laws, politicians, and judges. There is absolutely nothing that one cannot buy in America. It is a nation that worships money above all else.
A nation where no rich, powerful man goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful one wants him there.
And Thompson pisses people off. Including richer, more powerful people than him.
Do you realise that you just said that it's wrong to stop Thompson's abuse of the legal system? The "it" the GP referred to was Thompson's abuse of the system. Nobody has said they want to shut him up, and in fact most of us think he's hilarious and does his side far more harm than good.
Remember the days of the SCO lawsuit. Remember how almost everyone was standing behind IBM's and Novell's legal teams almost without question. Remember how almost everyone was vilifying SCO, again without question.
Neither IBM nor Novell were doing the sort of shit that jack Thompson does. OTOH SCO wre, in vact, villians, and their villany was proven. You might as well chastise us for villifying Osama Bin laden or Timothy MvVeigh. Granted, those are extreme examples but there are varying degrees of villany and I think it makes my point succinctly.
Now hold on there, son. Or in the parlance of slashdot
He's old
I'm old, you insensitive clod!
Stern is two years younger than me, and I'm younger than most thirty year olds I know. Granted, Stern LOOKS a hell of a lot older than I do, but most thirty year olds ACT a hell of a lot older than I do.
I have 25 years experience at being 21. I was on a three day bender just a few months ago with a woman half my age. I smoke pot and hang around with hookers. I had a popular Quake site back when Quake was popular. I make five rated comments on slashdot almost daily. Guys in their twenties ask me for help with their computers, or to fix their guitar amplifiers.
I have more fun than most guys half my age, especially now that I'm single again.
You, son, are entirely clueless about life, the universe, and EVERYTHING.
I've never been able to figure out why people seem to think that insulting someone they want something from is going to get them better results
They're not "thinking" per se; they're using the amygdala instead of the prefrontal cortex. People with bipolar disorder do this a lot.
According to a recent study, Jack should start smoking pot. Lots of pot. Seriously. I've known bipolars who said that smoking pot keeps them sane, and from the cited study one can see why.
How do you know? Our only evidence for anything is what our senses tell us. My own life is so weird I often wonder if it's still the late seventies and I'm in a coma after that auto accident, dreaming all this.
What we think of as "life" could be an Asimov Dreamy. You could have paid good money for your futile, doomed existance.
Life could be something akin to a video game and again, you could have paid good money to be here.
Or this particular universe could be a prison you were sentensed to for some horrible crime.
I can think of 38 more things life could really be. Our only sane recourse, of course, it to believe that the universe and our lives are real, what we experience is really real, and act accordingly. But there is no way of knowing.
"I wanted to eat his head... but when I put it into my gaping maw, it tasted like the SHIT that's inside of it." ~ Cthulhu on Jack's Head
Jack Thompson was born February 31, -1337 - January 21, 2045, in South Africa, and is a lawyer/activist/communist for which he is famed for being a joyless blowhard who blames all of the world's problems on radio, video games, and the price of tea in China. Strangely, he is ranked number fourteen out of thousands on Call of Duty 4. He actively campaigns against video game violence and the fact that nobody takes him seriously. He has no friends, has no grasp of logic and reality and as such is completely oblivious to what people in possession of more than five brain cells call factual information. This is why Jack wants to ban video games like Pokémon since he claims it promotes paganism, and Grand Theft Auto, which isn't quite as bad as Pokémon. Everyone hates Jack Thompson, including Jesus and his own mother.
For instance, if you look at Westerns from the 50's and 60's, you will find a lot of underlying commentary regarding civil rights tensions
Examples? I've seen lots and lots of 50s and 60s westerns and never once saw that. In fact, the only westerns I ever saw that I can think of that even hinted at civil rights tensions were Blazing Saddles (1974) and Unforgiven (1992).
Certainly art can be influential in advancing a particular point of view, but it is a stretch even to suggest that the art is what results in a culture's downfall.
Tiy might want to read this. You don't believe that political cartoons influence politics?
restricting artistic expression because you don't like its message is akin to treating the symptoms of a disease rather than the cause.
So if it could be proven to you that art causes the downfall of civilizations you would be for censorship? Note that I don't think art ever has caused a civilization to fall, but that's a bad argument against censorship.
Or, to put it another way, despite all the gloom and doom frenzied hysterics of The Establishment, rock and roll didn't kill us.
It killed Kieth Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and John Lennon.
The Constitution is a "technicality" to most people. "Got off on a technicality" often means "they didn't have a search warrant when they obtained the evidence".
In particular, what if games came with an age group flag when they were installed, and operating system users could also have an age limit specified, so that applications with a "18+" flag would not launch of a user configured as "13."
Most 13 year olds I know are way more computer-savvy than their parents. The thirteen year old would be 20 and the parent would be 13.
Your idea will only work when you have your government-mandated RFID chip inserted at birth. Even then, it's a device, which means that it can be hacked by a smart teenager. I know, I was turning ten dollar transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and selling them for fifty (real ones were twice that much) when I was a teenager.
The self-printing machine is another step to Star Trek's "matter replicator". Society will have some sweeping changes when physical property is as easy and cheap (or beer-free) as intellectual "property" (imaginary property) is to replicate.
Someone in an RIAA/MPAA thread said that since physical property was getting cheaper and cheaper to manufacture and took less and less people to make that we need to stake our future to IP. I say this is hogwash - I may be creative, but most people aren't.The record labels are already quaint anachronisms, and the movie studios will soon follow as the cost and necessary technical expertise drop. It no longer takes lots of gruntwork to make an album; the band and a guy running the studio is all you need now. What will those who have no creativity do for a living?
Heaven on earth is on its way and technology is bringing it here. And the greedy rich are fighting its arrival tooth and nail. Their sense of entitlement and feelings that they are better than the rest of us is sickening.
Watch your fellow drivers on the freeway sometime. They see a cop car, they hit the brakes
I almost never exceed the speed limit on the interstate, as I can't afford the gas. In fact I'll probably have the cruise set to fifty the next time I travel.
When gas prices were less unreasonable than today's I'd set the cruise control to one mph below the limit. I noticed that someone would pass me like I was standing still, followed by me passing them when they saw a cop, followed by them passing me again like I was standing still when the cop was far enough back.
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How would such a society operate?
I have no clue. Someone smarter than me needs to start giving it some thought or there's going to be bloodshed. If I'm lucky I'll be long dead first.
I've seen one indie movie I liked, and it only cost a few thousand bucks to make: Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005). It was funny as hell. I'm sure it scares the bejesus out of the MPAA.
It is the most popular Finnish film of all time, according to wikipedia. But you're right, it will take a while.
Food is already self-replicating.
Legally speaking, how is a printed book different from a web page in regards to the 1st amendment?
What sort of job would you be able to get today if you didn't know how to operate a computer, use the internet, send/receive email, create and print simple documents?
Construction. It pays well too.
Hypothetically, let's say there is a simple implantable device that will give you all of the internet within milliseconds, just by thinking
Superceded by one that requires no implant, then wouldn't you feel dumb? I already have all the misinformation on the internet within milliseconds just by thinking. Thinking operates some very useful computer peripherals, namely my eyes and fingers (input/output devices).
2. Those people would be more productive than the rest of us.
Unproven.
This is a wierd election, I swear I've dropped through a wormhole into Bizarro world. You have Barr, a Republican, running as the Libertarian candidate while a Libertarian, I've already forgotten his name even though I voted for him, running as a Republican (but losing).
I'm only voting for Barr because I know he'll lose. It's a protest vote, a vote against the status quo. If the Libertarians ever become mainstream, expect their stance on victimless crimes to change. This is not a nation of laws, it is a nation of money.
I'd rather have my data going to my brain the old fashioned way - through my eyes, ears, and other senses. I know how computers work, so therefore I don't trust one as far as I could throw a beowolf cluster of ENIACS.
Nobody likes Jack Thompson.
Wikipedia is your friend.
So is uncyclopedia.
Does your knee hurt from all the jerking? The amphetamines were no more the reason for the violence than than the videogames. Bad genes and a bad environment (shaken baby syndrome perhaps) were the cause. Not sex, seugs, rock and roll or video games like the neocons blame all of society's ills on.
Actually the law doesn't apply to people like them. However, I think you are right and he will go to prison eventually.
This is America, a nation of money, where laws are meaningless and subservient to money because money can buy laws, politicians, and judges. There is absolutely nothing that one cannot buy in America. It is a nation that worships money above all else.
A nation where no rich, powerful man goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful one wants him there.
And Thompson pisses people off. Including richer, more powerful people than him.
Do you realise that you just said that it's wrong to stop Thompson's abuse of the legal system? The "it" the GP referred to was Thompson's abuse of the system. Nobody has said they want to shut him up, and in fact most of us think he's hilarious and does his side far more harm than good.
Remember the days of the SCO lawsuit. Remember how almost everyone was standing behind IBM's and Novell's legal teams almost without question. Remember how almost everyone was vilifying SCO, again without question.
Neither IBM nor Novell were doing the sort of shit that jack Thompson does. OTOH SCO wre, in vact, villians, and their villany was proven. You might as well chastise us for villifying Osama Bin laden or Timothy MvVeigh. Granted, those are extreme examples but there are varying degrees of villany and I think it makes my point succinctly.
Now hold on there, son. Or in the parlance of slashdot
He's old
I'm old, you insensitive clod!
Stern is two years younger than me, and I'm younger than most thirty year olds I know. Granted, Stern LOOKS a hell of a lot older than I do, but most thirty year olds ACT a hell of a lot older than I do.
I have 25 years experience at being 21. I was on a three day bender just a few months ago with a woman half my age. I smoke pot and hang around with hookers. I had a popular Quake site back when Quake was popular. I make five rated comments on slashdot almost daily. Guys in their twenties ask me for help with their computers, or to fix their guitar amplifiers.
I have more fun than most guys half my age, especially now that I'm single again.
You, son, are entirely clueless about life, the universe, and EVERYTHING.
-mcgrew
I've never been able to figure out why people seem to think that insulting someone they want something from is going to get them better results
They're not "thinking" per se; they're using the amygdala instead of the prefrontal cortex. People with bipolar disorder do this a lot.
According to a recent study, Jack should start smoking pot. Lots of pot. Seriously. I've known bipolars who said that smoking pot keeps them sane, and from the cited study one can see why.
This is no game though
How do you know? Our only evidence for anything is what our senses tell us. My own life is so weird I often wonder if it's still the late seventies and I'm in a coma after that auto accident, dreaming all this.
What we think of as "life" could be an Asimov Dreamy. You could have paid good money for your futile, doomed existance.
Life could be something akin to a video game and again, you could have paid good money to be here.
Or this particular universe could be a prison you were sentensed to for some horrible crime.
I can think of 38 more things life could really be. Our only sane recourse, of course, it to believe that the universe and our lives are real, what we experience is really real, and act accordingly. But there is no way of knowing.
I'm a Christian, and I agree with you. He is not only a wolf in sheep's clothing, but like Pat Robertson he's a wolf in shepherd's clothing.
Nothing of what Phelps preaches bears any resemblance whatever to what Jesus taught. Phelps does Satan's work for him by corrupting Christ's message.
His Uncyclopedia page is a lot funnier.
For instance, if you look at Westerns from the 50's and 60's, you will find a lot of underlying commentary regarding civil rights tensions
Examples? I've seen lots and lots of 50s and 60s westerns and never once saw that. In fact, the only westerns I ever saw that I can think of that even hinted at civil rights tensions were Blazing Saddles (1974) and Unforgiven (1992).
Certainly art can be influential in advancing a particular point of view, but it is a stretch even to suggest that the art is what results in a culture's downfall.
Tiy might want to read this. You don't believe that political cartoons influence politics?
restricting artistic expression because you don't like its message is akin to treating the symptoms of a disease rather than the cause.
So if it could be proven to you that art causes the downfall of civilizations you would be for censorship? Note that I don't think art ever has caused a civilization to fall, but that's a bad argument against censorship.
Or, to put it another way, despite all the gloom and doom frenzied hysterics of The Establishment, rock and roll didn't kill us.
It killed Kieth Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and John Lennon.
The Constitution is a "technicality" to most people. "Got off on a technicality" often means "they didn't have a search warrant when they obtained the evidence".
It is, however, likely that hell just go play at a friends anyway.
True. I know hell plays at my friends!
In particular, what if games came with an age group flag when they were installed, and operating system users could also have an age limit specified, so that applications with a "18+" flag would not launch of a user configured as "13."
Most 13 year olds I know are way more computer-savvy than their parents. The thirteen year old would be 20 and the parent would be 13.
Your idea will only work when you have your government-mandated RFID chip inserted at birth. Even then, it's a device, which means that it can be hacked by a smart teenager. I know, I was turning ten dollar transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and selling them for fifty (real ones were twice that much) when I was a teenager.
It's humoroid surgery. JT's a big pain in the ass and the judge is now in trouble for performing humoroid surgery without a license!.
No one mentions the amount of work you have to do with a razor to make it look right.
You could say the same thing about womens' legs.
The self-printing machine is another step to Star Trek's "matter replicator". Society will have some sweeping changes when physical property is as easy and cheap (or beer-free) as intellectual "property" (imaginary property) is to replicate.
Someone in an RIAA/MPAA thread said that since physical property was getting cheaper and cheaper to manufacture and took less and less people to make that we need to stake our future to IP. I say this is hogwash - I may be creative, but most people aren't.The record labels are already quaint anachronisms, and the movie studios will soon follow as the cost and necessary technical expertise drop. It no longer takes lots of gruntwork to make an album; the band and a guy running the studio is all you need now. What will those who have no creativity do for a living?
Heaven on earth is on its way and technology is bringing it here. And the greedy rich are fighting its arrival tooth and nail. Their sense of entitlement and feelings that they are better than the rest of us is sickening.
Watch your fellow drivers on the freeway sometime. They see a cop car, they hit the brakes
I almost never exceed the speed limit on the interstate, as I can't afford the gas. In fact I'll probably have the cruise set to fifty the next time I travel.
When gas prices were less unreasonable than today's I'd set the cruise control to one mph below the limit. I noticed that someone would pass me like I was standing still, followed by me passing them when they saw a cop, followed by them passing me again like I was standing still when the cop was far enough back.