These codes are just suggestions. Journalist aren't professionals, who have a body that regulates their behaviour (like doctors, lawyers, etc). Engineers actually have to take an ethics exam to get their professional status, and can have it revoked if they are unethical. I don't think any other profession has this.
You have no idea what it is like to deal with people who harass you and argue and fight and lie and scam every second. Go for a ride-along to a domestic, or break up a bar fight that has spilled on the street. They have a ridiculously hard job that tests their patience dozens of times a day. Most deal with it in a responsible manner. That this video shows an example of police brutality is a joke.
If you think this is "beating" you are crazy. It is reasonable to calmly grab your kids if they are out of control. I have done it many times. No one would mistake it for "beating".
No! It is governments that need to be banned off the internet, not businesses. Hollywood wouldn't have any power if it weren't for government granted monopolies for hundreds of years. This has to stop.
Then you know the sh!t cops have to put up with day-in and day-out. Cops have to control situations with idiots buzzing around them. It is reasonable to be aggressive to get control of a situation.
Grown adults freely entering into contracts. You are against this? Why? Because you know better? You feel we have to protect those "vulnerable adults" from their own decisions?
The reality is if interns had to pay for the skills and experience they were learning out of their salaries, they'd be in the red.
I guess you don't have Kijiji wherever you are. I get (and sell) most of my used games there. Way better prices than GameStop, and have been doing it for years. GameStop is for kids who's parents don't know any better.
How can you lose your mind when it comes to games? Everything else can be resold, but not games? If I had a Settlers of Catan board game, I should be able to sell it but not a Settlers of Catan video game? In what world does that make sense.
The irony is a robust used game market supports a new game market. When they eliminate used games, the new game market will collapse and they will have to lower prices, thus lowering revenue. This developers/publishers are retarded.
It doesn't matter if surveillance would have prevented 9/11. Locking up all the mentally ill may have prevented Sandy Hook, but that doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Policy can only be determined by looking at the benefits of a policy (reduced terrorist attacks) and the risks/downsides (increased surveillance). Hindsight is useful _only_ for quantifying the benefits and risks.
I disagree with the moral grounding. Everything flows from empathy. Teach kids to empathize with people, and you will get moral adults. For example, show a picture of a kid getting picked on, and ask them how he feels.
The problem with just telling kids "murder is bad" is that is abstract. Dawkins, in one of his books, tells of Israeli school children who though genocide (the Battle of Jericho) was okay. When the same story had a Chinese setting, the kids realized it was horrific.
Empathy training is much more effective than abstract commandments. If you kid steals, have him think about how he'd feel if the roles were reversed, don't tell him God is mad at him.
The solution isn't to make more laws, like make it "illegal to have a government that is funded by" industry. The solution is to reduce the size of government and let industry survive by themselves. No more bailouts. No more government enforced monopolies.
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Enough of this "owned it" talk. He's not going to jail, and the reason is patent law is screwed up. The solution is to kill patents, not to try and layer on more convoluted nonsense about who owns an expression.
The reality is successful ideas are built on hundreds of almost successful ideas, not one unique special-snowflake of an idea. As a mechanical engineer, I have never once seen a unique idea appear without a precedent.
Even more interesting, is piracy is the Broken Window Fallacy in reverse.
Just like a broken window reduces society's wealth, but does slightly increase the wealth of glaziers, copying INCREASES society's wealth, but does slightly decrease the wealth of content creators. The problem is content creators vastly overvalue their content, and therefore think they are losing more value than they are. Not to mention there are way more content creators than glaziers, so each creator loses very little.
Nuclear is already one of the safest power sources around. Humans just can't judge risk properly. For heaven's sakes, people think "pipelines" are a real problem. That is like saying roads are responsible for too many cars and too many accidents.
Reducing energy consumption won't work; it never has. Other people just consume the cheaper fossil fuels. And unless you want to go to war to enforce your opinion, it is a losing battle.
Green energy is waiting for battery technology. The best we have is lithium ion, and that took a quarter century to develop.
One solution to global warming is to move fully to nuclear and wean off coal. (Oil and gas don't really affect climate change compared to coal.) Of course, another solution is to just deal with the consequences, like migrating farms and relocating coastal cities.
There are many people like you. I love horror movies, but I can't watch a knee surgery on TV without gagging. I love violent movies, but have never got into a fight in my life. I'm horrified when I see real violence.
There will always be people who can't distinguish fantasy from reality (schizophrenics) and there will always be people who like violence (psychopaths). Violent video games and movies have nothing to do with either.
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This article is beyond ridiculous.
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Of course there were
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The reality is if interns had to pay for the skills and experience they were learning out of their salaries, they'd be in the red.
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The irony is a robust used game market supports a new game market. When they eliminate used games, the new game market will collapse and they will have to lower prices, thus lowering revenue. This developers/publishers are retarded.
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Hindsight doesn't matter
Policy can only be determined by looking at the benefits of a policy (reduced terrorist attacks) and the risks/downsides (increased surveillance). Hindsight is useful _only_ for quantifying the benefits and risks.
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Name one worker-run company where this is true.
Hey, if you don't like a CEO's salary, don't do business with that company.
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The problem with just telling kids "murder is bad" is that is abstract. Dawkins, in one of his books, tells of Israeli school children who though genocide (the Battle of Jericho) was okay. When the same story had a Chinese setting, the kids realized it was horrific.
Empathy training is much more effective than abstract commandments. If you kid steals, have him think about how he'd feel if the roles were reversed, don't tell him God is mad at him.
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Re: Chris Crawford should be charged with criminal fraud
The reality is successful ideas are built on hundreds of almost successful ideas, not one unique special-snowflake of an idea. As a mechanical engineer, I have never once seen a unique idea appear without a precedent.
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Just like a broken window reduces society's wealth, but does slightly increase the wealth of glaziers, copying INCREASES society's wealth, but does slightly decrease the wealth of content creators. The problem is content creators vastly overvalue their content, and therefore think they are losing more value than they are. Not to mention there are way more content creators than glaziers, so each creator loses very little.
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Reducing energy consumption won't work; it never has. Other people just consume the cheaper fossil fuels. And unless you want to go to war to enforce your opinion, it is a losing battle.
Green energy is waiting for battery technology. The best we have is lithium ion, and that took a quarter century to develop.
One solution to global warming is to move fully to nuclear and wean off coal. (Oil and gas don't really affect climate change compared to coal.) Of course, another solution is to just deal with the consequences, like migrating farms and relocating coastal cities.
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There will always be people who can't distinguish fantasy from reality (schizophrenics) and there will always be people who like violence (psychopaths). Violent video games and movies have nothing to do with either.
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