why they can't make a device which stimulates the "ultimate need" and simply make people happy. *cough* drugs *cough*
We just don't seem to like it when people get so happy they die of frozen lungs, or starvation, etc. The solution exists, but we as a society do not wish to let those who seek it die or become a burden on others.
Hey guys hold up I have an idea. One that could change the world. Hear me out on this. Your SO is self selecting so because 50% of women or whatever number you pull out of your ass are fucktards, that doesn't mean that YOUR SO is dumb. God you people. If you want a good girlfriend PICK a good girlfriend.
Heh, ppl are gonna mod me down for saying such heresy....and for the part about picking girlfriends....
Perhaps we could have a point system. People could vote on laws in a plebecite of "I like!" or "Nooooo!". The results have no effect on whether the law is passed (except in the usual opinion poll sense). However, if a politician votes on a law that is 50% "I like!" he loses a point. Politicians only get so many points. When they have zero points, then they get executed.:D Fun! Bread, circuses, AND good legislation.
I think the difference is kind of like the problem with DRM. The client has to know stuff (in order to not overburden the server), but it has to keep certain things secret from the player. Sound like CSS anyone?
I didn't mean it was unimportant in terms of survival value and passing on your genes. What I meant was that it is completely unimportant in terms of "Are we better than animals?" and other such intelligent questions that direly need to be answered to satisfy the people who have an ego problem. In reality, I've come to the conclusion that warm fuzzies are the only meaning to life. Everything else is moot. After all, why attempt to find a girlfriend? Warm fuzzies. Why help other people at all if it isn't to your direct benefit? Again warm fuzzies. Why do we want to believe that we are better in some way than animals? Once again (and finally) warm fuzzies.
Of course you can think of rational reasons to justify the warm fuzzies, but you also have to remember that the things that trigger the warm fuzzies are triggers for a reason. They probably help with survival value (and thus passing on your genes*). Anyway, you organized religious folk keep enjoying your fairy tales, just don't kill any more people or waste more of my time. Those two activities really play havoc with my warm fuzzies.
*or the genes of the community as the community might select for some of its members to be self sacrificing to better the rest.
I think we should all sue to make it so that ALL cars must be easily modable into rocket cars, flying cars, etc. Who wants to join the Slashdot Class Action Lawsuit TM?
Why doesn't GIMP have CMYK mode? Is it because it needs to be configured for each kind of printer or something? If not, why isn't it a trivial addition?
Well I think I'm probably in the minority here, but I think that the good use would be exactly what you said you're afraid of: desensitizing kids to sex. Everyone in America seems to think sex is a bad bad thing and if you know about it you're a child of the devil and will burn and only the virgin mary is pure so you should emulate her blah blah blah.
I think it's an unhealthy attitude. As this reasoning would apply to this case, it would decriminalize people showing porn to kids, but the school could still seek administrative punishment for her - hopefully only ifs there was a good reason (which I don't think popups and the other circumstances amount to).
About the pedophiles using porn to desensitize kids, I have to wonder that if we educated the kids properly instead of a nebulous "don't talk to strangers" and the like, then they might know when to go for help - although it wouldn't work for the littlest. In the case of the pedophile, it wouldn't be a crime to show porn to a kid (damn creepy in this case, and I have no objection for a parent to seek a restraining order), but it would still be a crime if the pedo sexually assaulted the child.
In any case, if we stopped being so prude about this stuff, maybe people wouldn't repress their sexual tenancies and we wouldn't have people projecting their surpressed sexual urges onto kids. So, maybe we'd have fewer pedophiles.
Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. I too was going to post a youtube link but I was lazy. Thanks for the link though, I haven't seen that one before (and I've seen most of them).
It's really bad. I recently got into using GIMP to create terribly executed practical jokes on my friends. However, it did teach me about image manipulation a LOT. I was looking at some underwear model ad with my cousin and I started pointing out all the things that were wrong with it. Look, the bags under her eyes cut out suddenly, she's smiling, but her skin doesn't wrinkle around he mouth, if you look at the divider between light and shadow, you'll notice that her color tones get richer in the shadowed section - they probably played with levels/brightness/contrast/etc, the rose makeup on the shadow side is much brighter than on the normal lit side.
I can't walk around without seeing these things in every single advertisement that I see. My friend remarked to me that she wishes that some companies would just use makeup from time to time, at least its a bit more honest. In any case, I'm disgusted with marketeers - where are the ethics? (haha)
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We just don't seem to like it when people get so happy they die of frozen lungs, or starvation, etc. The solution exists, but we as a society do not wish to let those who seek it die or become a burden on others.
I searched for the story on google news, but I couldn't find it. Link please?
Hey guys hold up I have an idea. One that could change the world. Hear me out on this. Your SO is self selecting so because 50% of women or whatever number you pull out of your ass are fucktards, that doesn't mean that YOUR SO is dumb. God you people. If you want a good girlfriend PICK a good girlfriend.
Heh, ppl are gonna mod me down for saying such heresy....and for the part about picking girlfriends....
How much? My supply ran out while I was working on this phyiscs problem....
I would mod you funny if I had mod points.
Perhaps we could have a point system. People could vote on laws in a plebecite of "I like!" or "Nooooo!". The results have no effect on whether the law is passed (except in the usual opinion poll sense). However, if a politician votes on a law that is 50% "I like!" he loses a point. Politicians only get so many points. When they have zero points, then they get executed. :D Fun! Bread, circuses, AND good legislation.
When I saw the headline, I thought: "Which kind of virus?"
I think the difference is kind of like the problem with DRM. The client has to know stuff (in order to not overburden the server), but it has to keep certain things secret from the player. Sound like CSS anyone?
My printer has been working for years I don't know what planet you live on. However, I do agree, the Ink is CRAZY.
I didn't mean it was unimportant in terms of survival value and passing on your genes. What I meant was that it is completely unimportant in terms of "Are we better than animals?" and other such intelligent questions that direly need to be answered to satisfy the people who have an ego problem. In reality, I've come to the conclusion that warm fuzzies are the only meaning to life. Everything else is moot. After all, why attempt to find a girlfriend? Warm fuzzies. Why help other people at all if it isn't to your direct benefit? Again warm fuzzies. Why do we want to believe that we are better in some way than animals? Once again (and finally) warm fuzzies.
Of course you can think of rational reasons to justify the warm fuzzies, but you also have to remember that the things that trigger the warm fuzzies are triggers for a reason. They probably help with survival value (and thus passing on your genes*). Anyway, you organized religious folk keep enjoying your fairy tales, just don't kill any more people or waste more of my time. Those two activities really play havoc with my warm fuzzies.
*or the genes of the community as the community might select for some of its members to be self sacrificing to better the rest.
So... the ability to abstract is important why? Because it generates the warm fuzzies we all die for?
I think we should all sue to make it so that ALL cars must be easily modable into rocket cars, flying cars, etc. Who wants to join the Slashdot Class Action Lawsuit TM?
I believe the G stands for government.
So in other words, to circumvent the legal barrier, the GIMP team has to rewrite their engine so that the colors are natively in CMYK colorspace?
Peeps be trippin.
Thank you that clears up a question I've had for a long time.
Why doesn't GIMP have CMYK mode? Is it because it needs to be configured for each kind of printer or something? If not, why isn't it a trivial addition?
Well I think I'm probably in the minority here, but I think that the good use would be exactly what you said you're afraid of: desensitizing kids to sex. Everyone in America seems to think sex is a bad bad thing and if you know about it you're a child of the devil and will burn and only the virgin mary is pure so you should emulate her blah blah blah.
I think it's an unhealthy attitude. As this reasoning would apply to this case, it would decriminalize people showing porn to kids, but the school could still seek administrative punishment for her - hopefully only ifs there was a good reason (which I don't think popups and the other circumstances amount to).
About the pedophiles using porn to desensitize kids, I have to wonder that if we educated the kids properly instead of a nebulous "don't talk to strangers" and the like, then they might know when to go for help - although it wouldn't work for the littlest. In the case of the pedophile, it wouldn't be a crime to show porn to a kid (damn creepy in this case, and I have no objection for a parent to seek a restraining order), but it would still be a crime if the pedo sexually assaulted the child.
In any case, if we stopped being so prude about this stuff, maybe people wouldn't repress their sexual tenancies and we wouldn't have people projecting their surpressed sexual urges onto kids. So, maybe we'd have fewer pedophiles.
Better question, why is this a crime?
Lol, he might be a troll but he has a point. Perhaps we need stories that are a little less along the lines of "obvious". Please Eds? Thanks
Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. I too was going to post a youtube link but I was lazy. Thanks for the link though, I haven't seen that one before (and I've seen most of them).
It's really bad. I recently got into using GIMP to create terribly executed practical jokes on my friends. However, it did teach me about image manipulation a LOT. I was looking at some underwear model ad with my cousin and I started pointing out all the things that were wrong with it. Look, the bags under her eyes cut out suddenly, she's smiling, but her skin doesn't wrinkle around he mouth, if you look at the divider between light and shadow, you'll notice that her color tones get richer in the shadowed section - they probably played with levels/brightness/contrast/etc, the rose makeup on the shadow side is much brighter than on the normal lit side.
I can't walk around without seeing these things in every single advertisement that I see. My friend remarked to me that she wishes that some companies would just use makeup from time to time, at least its a bit more honest. In any case, I'm disgusted with marketeers - where are the ethics? (haha)
Oops :P, sry about that then.
WTF?! Are you astroturfing for BBC and doing a really bad job of it? Jesus, I'm giving up mod privileges for this.
If demand for these services is so high, I'm guessing there might be something wrong with the game :P