for those who don't even live in the US, it's even worse: the US is meddlesome and might actually mess with you for acting suspicious... i don't know if they've ever sent the CIA or FBI for a case of "illegal interests", but it sure wouldn't surprise me. al-queda, on the other hand, doesn't have any reason to bother me. i don't even live anywhere nearby any spots big enough for a good ole' terrorist bombing.
so for me, the needle is almost sure to land on the US government.
hmm.. i've been a computer geek all my life (that's more literal that i'd like to admit) and i don't have that much problems remembering names and numbers. faces, now that's a problem. but i still remember any telephone number or password i had to use more than once. i could also still list the names of most of my classmates.
now, i'm only 20 years old so it's not -that- strange, but it still disproves your point. slightly, at least.
.. i think it was a reference to tux ("our aquatic, flightless and mostly cold-loving friend"), living on the cpu, in the mini-fridge. ha-ha, i'd say, but... naw.
now... if we're putting fridges in our computers, we might as well grab a beer and start running unix. i mean, who cares what you're trying to run when you're drunk?
yes, and one day we'll have a giant generator with the withered corpse of this taleyarkhan guy embedded in the middle to keep it all going. it'll be dedicated to running the world's largest supercomputer, which in turn would be used solely for running windows 47, codenamed "fuzzball", on bootcamp. it'll be grand!
... didn't anyone even think for a moment that the first poster meant to call the police "oppressive", not the parents?
i mean, he mentioned counter-measures. there weren't any counter-measures mentioned against being tracked by parents, only for faulty speed control.
other than that, of course your kids aren't complaining if this lack of privacy is what they've been used to all their lives! you can't miss what you don't know about, can you now?
even worse: if this works out, they might try applying this to sexual preferences too. to "give big girls a chance" or "raise awareness of alternate lifestyles". in other words, we're gonna have a quota of fucking everything 'cept the kind we like.
yay.
no, really. can you honestly say this -won't- happen?
yeah! you take a ping-pong table, a drunken bear, two chipmunks.. and a big baseball bat each. it's fun, but we've still gotta figure out what the chipmunks are for.
the "think of the children" crowd is one of the biggest supporters of the taboo on public nudity. in doing so, they're supporting the porn and prostitution industries... brilliant!
in this example of yours, i can't build a house because someone else already has and he's got the right to destroy mine because it's built similar to his.
that one doesn't have the kind of bang i was going for. how about this one? i think of a new design. i'm happy, and start thinking of ways to implement it. after a little bit of browsing, i find out that someone else has already thought of it too, and just about half a year before i did. so, i wasn't allowed to come up with that design because someone else already did. that's just ridiculous, isn't it?
pentagrams around electronics.. yup.. they were right, any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. i guess, to the ants, a computer would come close to "sufficiently advanced"
they've proven that at least some things aren't immune to observation. who says the rest are? it's harder to prove that something can't be observed or altered or whatever, than it is to prove that it can be.
there's no empirical evidence that proves that he's wrong. and as long as there isn't, he's free to believe what he wants.
i don't live in america, so i can't help you guys. but i know that i wouldn't want to do this in the netherlands, where i live, either, since the whole government's made up of soulless idiots with no conscience to speak of. the only ones who get a spot are the ones who keep to the old rules and the ones who make a fuss and attract the racists.
but they've started being more blatant about it. sure, people have always been spied upon, but never as easily as now, with taps installed in every single line. they don't even need to do anything anymore, just tell the phone or internet companies that they want the logs of someone specific, and they'll get them.
kinda makes me think of minority report. true, it's a lot like thoughtcrime as well, but the dangers are more similar to MR. what if a computer's absolutely certain you're gonna go on a rampage, and sends a whole fbi squad to your front door? are you just gonna say "oh, no, i wasn't planning on any rampaging today! your billion-dollar computer must be wrong!".. ya right. if they actually spend cash on analyzing these things, they won't want to admit a little mistake or two. i mean, what's a human life to the government, eh?:P
naw. preprogrammed AI would have hard-coded safeguards against insulting the judge. you'd need a neural network to simulate this, and those would soon get smarter than these bozos. you'd have to reset it daily to keep it this stupid.
oh my god. beowulf cluster of riaa lawyers o_O
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and what if it is? the ps3 and xbox 360 are already perfectly capable of rendering almost movie-like quality scenes in realtime. would it really be that big a leap to make an interactive movie? it'd be a nice experiment in AI and storytelling, for sure.
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noooo! dey be taking mah shrubbery! .. forgive me, oh spaghetti monster, for i have sinned..
true, but some selection -does- happen already, so the same principles apply. but yeah, maybe you're right.
for those who don't even live in the US, it's even worse: the US is meddlesome and might actually mess with you for acting suspicious... i don't know if they've ever sent the CIA or FBI for a case of "illegal interests", but it sure wouldn't surprise me. al-queda, on the other hand, doesn't have any reason to bother me. i don't even live anywhere nearby any spots big enough for a good ole' terrorist bombing.
so for me, the needle is almost sure to land on the US government.
hmm.. i've been a computer geek all my life (that's more literal that i'd like to admit) and i don't have that much problems remembering names and numbers. faces, now that's a problem. but i still remember any telephone number or password i had to use more than once. i could also still list the names of most of my classmates.
now, i'm only 20 years old so it's not -that- strange, but it still disproves your point. slightly, at least.
.. i think it was a reference to tux ("our aquatic, flightless and mostly cold-loving friend"), living on the cpu, in the mini-fridge.
ha-ha, i'd say, but... naw.
now... if we're putting fridges in our computers, we might as well grab a beer and start running unix. i mean, who cares what you're trying to run when you're drunk?
dude.. you added stun to the list, but you forgot to mention kill. we need that information, how does it rank to massacre and terminate?
thÃt, or he hasn't switched to digital storage yet and he's just forcing those poor elves to memorize it all!
yes, and one day we'll have a giant generator with the withered corpse of this taleyarkhan guy embedded in the middle to keep it all going. it'll be dedicated to running the world's largest supercomputer, which in turn would be used solely for running windows 47, codenamed "fuzzball", on bootcamp. it'll be grand!
so just use the british spelling :)
it's how english began, after all, so why not?
if anyone comments on peculiarities in my grammar, i just tell them i'm a coder and it's how i write. it works, ya know?
... didn't anyone even think for a moment that the first poster meant to call the police "oppressive", not the parents?
i mean, he mentioned counter-measures. there weren't any counter-measures mentioned against being tracked by parents, only for faulty speed control.
other than that, of course your kids aren't complaining if this lack of privacy is what they've been used to all their lives! you can't miss what you don't know about, can you now?
i'd vote for you
even worse: if this works out, they might try applying this to sexual preferences too. to "give big girls a chance" or "raise awareness of alternate lifestyles". in other words, we're gonna have a quota of fucking everything 'cept the kind we like.
yay.
no, really. can you honestly say this -won't- happen?
yeah! you take a ping-pong table, a drunken bear, two chipmunks.. and a big baseball bat each. it's fun, but we've still gotta figure out what the chipmunks are for.
you mentioned an e-mail from hell, sent by zombies to warn you of an astral phenomenon, and you didn't even go two years back in time to check?!
geez... those people today..
hehe, oh the irony!
the "think of the children" crowd is one of the biggest supporters of the taboo on public nudity. in doing so, they're supporting the porn and prostitution industries... brilliant!
i love this one, i truly do...
in this example of yours, i can't build a house because someone else already has and he's got the right to destroy mine because it's built similar to his.
that one doesn't have the kind of bang i was going for. how about this one?
i think of a new design. i'm happy, and start thinking of ways to implement it. after a little bit of browsing, i find out that someone else has already thought of it too, and just about half a year before i did. so, i wasn't allowed to come up with that design because someone else already did.
that's just ridiculous, isn't it?
pentagrams around electronics..
yup..
they were right, any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. i guess, to the ants, a computer would come close to "sufficiently advanced"
they've proven that at least some things aren't immune to observation. who says the rest are? it's harder to prove that something can't be observed or altered or whatever, than it is to prove that it can be.
there's no empirical evidence that proves that he's wrong. and as long as there isn't, he's free to believe what he wants.
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*hopes for the "shortest-insightful-post-ever-award*
i don't live in america, so i can't help you guys. but i know that i wouldn't want to do this in the netherlands, where i live, either, since the whole government's made up of soulless idiots with no conscience to speak of. the only ones who get a spot are the ones who keep to the old rules and the ones who make a fuss and attract the racists.
but they've started being more blatant about it. sure, people have always been spied upon, but never as easily as now, with taps installed in every single line. they don't even need to do anything anymore, just tell the phone or internet companies that they want the logs of someone specific, and they'll get them.
kinda makes me think of minority report. true, it's a lot like thoughtcrime as well, but the dangers are more similar to MR. what if a computer's absolutely certain you're gonna go on a rampage, and sends a whole fbi squad to your front door? are you just gonna say "oh, no, i wasn't planning on any rampaging today! your billion-dollar computer must be wrong!" .. ya right. if they actually spend cash on analyzing these things, they won't want to admit a little mistake or two. i mean, what's a human life to the government, eh? :P
naw. preprogrammed AI would have hard-coded safeguards against insulting the judge. you'd need a neural network to simulate this, and those would soon get smarter than these bozos. you'd have to reset it daily to keep it this stupid.
oh my god. beowulf cluster of riaa lawyers o_O
and what if it is? the ps3 and xbox 360 are already perfectly capable of rendering almost movie-like quality scenes in realtime. would it really be that big a leap to make an interactive movie? it'd be a nice experiment in AI and storytelling, for sure.
you'd give him five bucks?
... then again, that electro-gun from gta2 sounds like more fun >:D
i'd give him two, and skip the session. grab a shotgun, BLAM!