Orogun01

They already use robots to disarm IEDs, plus AI research is decades away from anything concrete that can actually be applied and seeing as is the Japanese that are at the forefront we may see sexbots before warbots. Make love and not war, peace out

Old news, it was actually even on TV before the government went all paranoid and started cancelling all the shows related to next gen military technology. You should check on the Future Force Warrior project.

How does physics explain entangled photons? The university of Vienna has investigated the phenomena for years, trying to discover what makes one photon "communicate" effects to it's twin faster than light. The general consensus is that the don't, they appear to be because of relativity. Maybe i'm wrong, I will need to check up on my quantum physics but I think it has something to do with the uncertainty principle. Edit:btw Oblarg, I think that is accelerations beyond FTL that don't exist. FTL could be achieved by bending space.

Thanks a lot, Amazon didn't have the albums I was looking for but then again that was a while ago. The Blackest Album FTW

Cheap Trick-Surrender

God I hope the Russians don't find out.

Where I believe that aliens may indeed exists but there is no conclusive evidence to support it. Actually, I'm sort partial to the life on earth came from another planet theories.

Since we touched the subject of Industrial , do you know where I could buy Razed in Black albums?

Exactly how is it that harming everyone for a few is acceptable for a loss that's it's not severe? Despite views on piracy most would agree that anti-piracy attempts hurts us all, Internet is about freedom and apparently some people take that to heart. There is simply no way to stop this, companies should do what its always been done ever since hacking began: change the model. They should try reaching out to the pirates and work on an mutually beneficial model, even if all do not respond all that they need is someone with the perspective to bring forth a new form of distribution. How do you think Steam was born?

First, I know humans can reproduce at 14. Humans can reproduce at 12... and 11. My point is that children... and these are children... becoming pregnant can ruin their lives, and potentially damage their health. And yes, bad effects can come from the act itself. As I've pointed out, females experience the sexual act much differently than males, both physicially and emotionally. Second, I've raised both children and stepchildren and I'm here to tell you that yes, stepparents do indeed feel that attached to the child they have raised, just as adoptive parents do. What the officer did was a lapse in judgement caused by his own fear and anger over what could potentially have happened to his very young daughter. Nothing more. They are not children, they are teenagers as soon as 14. They should be educated about sex and life in general, being prepared to face challenges and start working on who they are going to be for the rest of their lives. This is the first point at life where you are allowed serious responsibility and your first duties, they are going to make a lot of mistakes. Parents give a lot of sermons because they know this, they want to protect them, but it is inevitable that they will do this eventually. There is no magic that suddenly when you turn 18 you know right from wrong about sex. We learn by experience; point is that they did nothing wrong and the stepfather reacted very poorly.

Humans are fully capable to reproduce at fourteen, complications may ensue from childbearing but no bad effects come from the act itself. All that you describe is part of growing up, it's called making mistakes. I'm not saying that the father was wrong to feel as he did but the actions he took are close to criminal, plus it's the stepdaughter he shouldn't feel that attached. He could have taken the charade a lot further that is why he should be penalized, because he abused the trust we place on our legal system and it's representatives.

That's not a valid argument, and you know it. It's not valid to point out the opposite end of the parenting spectrum? I'll be honest, I'm a bit surprised that everyone here is willing to end the guy's career. Do any of you have children? It isn't an on and off switch, it is a permanent change of consciousness. Ask your parents. No since it's the parent that's acting like a hysteric teen. I understand that watching your kid growing up is hard and all, specially if its a girl having relations with a boy. That doesn't means he can act like an **** on a power trip and put the guy in prison. I willing to give the benefit of doubt since I don't know the circumstances but depending on how far this guy was willing to abuse his power he should be penalized. He may be a father but he is also a cop and they have to be upstanding and trustworthy. I can't trust someone that flies off the handle like that.

That doesn't seem a bit young to you guys? I get that he was close to the same age. Again, he wasn't formally charged or anything, well, not until his parents filled out a report. The officer didn't actually take him downtown and book him. He put on handcuffs, yelled, lectured, and then let him go. Not really, that seems like the proper age to start a sexual life. But then again the age of consent was 16 back in my country.

That has to be the most inane excuse I've heard in a long time. Nobody is forced into pirating anything by anything other than their own greed and lack of morals. Lets cut it out in simple words: You... Don't... Need... It... It's even better, it's single syllable words. To hard to grasp for the mewling filth wallowing around in their own feces on the floor, ranting about evil overlords ripping them off etc. but the truth, as much as it hurts the delusional mind is, there is no music/software/movie/book whatever that anybody *Need* The solution is very simple, do not like, not know well enough, simply leave it where it is. Anything else is hypocrasy, plain and simple. The feeble attempts at justifying it just make people who steal out of convenience look even more pathetic than they already are. You don't need it but you want to give it a try. There isn't a medium for the promotion of underground music or games that is both legal and convenient, piracy offers them one. Aside from that you are absolutely right they don't need it but it takes way too much money to have all these books, albums, software, games. It sort of when demand exceeds the means to acquire it. These industries have grown to the point where we cannot keep up with them, it's hard to be an avid consumer of any product and buy them indiscriminately. I for one buy games like screening a prospective date, find out everything about it, weight pro's and con's, and hope that all the time I will spend on it will be rewarding. Because I simply don't have the means to afford all these games and wouldn't like to waste money on something that isn't going to please me. Same for books and comics. Plus if it was going to be pirated, it wasn't going to be bought.

No, it's really not. Is someone supposed to buy an album on a leap of faith? Christ, it would take several hundred dollars just to stumble upon a band you enjoy. I don't know about you, but I only buy music from bands that I already know and enjoy (exception for debut albums, of course). If you were to deny people the means of discovering obscure music, which these days is mainly piracy, obscure music would die. There are quite a few avenues to legitimately sample music. I have a hard time believing this obscure music you are talking about is only available via illegal methods. Other than youtube (which is **** quality and inconvenient), no, there really isn't. One word: Pandora

My bad, I get those old ones confused.

Freaking 'A' I'm not European. Then what are you?Asian?

Ah yes, the faceless, greedy corporations argument. The author might not get a large chunk of the price of his copyrighted work, but the last time I looked, it was still more than they got for the Pirate Bay version. I know a lot of one-man record companies (in fact, a large chunk of my whole music collection comes from these). Do these already count as faceless? Or is it just enough to operate as an LLC to qualify for the facelessness? I mean, I've always assumed that people like get paid for their work, so obviously they are by definition greedy... It sort of renders the argument useless if they aren't actually suffering from it. In the end the one man companies end up being consolidated into the the mega-corporations; if their product is popular enough and become part of the same faceless industry. If everyone actually pirated every game and songs these industries would have no revenue and collapse. They haven't. Unfortunately for those who enjoy being obnoxiously self-righteous, the morality of piracy is far from black and white. Most underground music scenes would be dead were it not for the massive exposure boost given by piracy. The error people often make is in the assumptions that pirates don't buy any music and that the music that they pirate would have otherwise been purchased. These are both false. This is the other side of the coin, piracy is a riskless investment for the consumer that wouldn't have been exposed to it had it not given it a chance. E.G. person that doesn't enjoy a particular genre of music/games hears a lot hype and decides to jump on the wagon. But he doesn't want to spend his money on a investment that will not return so he takes the less risk with piracy and whether they like it or not, they now know. The problem is with the economic models that force someone to piracy. We have simply gone from burning or doing a tape recording of a friend's album, to having a whole lot of people offering it to you. The problem was already there before it has just now grown.

This is a peacemaker, the gun that replaced the Colt Army model (the one that Aram owns)

Ahh, that brings me back to my childhood.

Copyright is NOT property rights. ****, I would've thought the more Libertarian-leaning people on this board would be the most astute ones on this matter. Guess not. Libertarians respect property rights, it's one of the cornerstones of libertarianism. The copyright / property right argument is also false. You are freely creating something that you would otherwise buy and depriving the creator of the legitimate profit of his or her labour. It's theft, however much semantic loop-the-looping you want to undertake. Yeah, heavens forbid that we keep the publisher from the profit of the creator's labor. Piracy somehow operates on the same principle of supply and demand, you won't see the peer ratio rise on a product that nobody wants. There is still the fact that as widespread as piracy is its still just a small percentage of sales lost. I find it hard to empathize with a faceless, greedy corporation that wants to put bucks on their pocket but lack the proper product and blame it on piracy.

And if this passes it also sets precedent for the entire world to follow suit. I hardly think that we are the only country with anti-game activists, plus it also hurts all game developers outside of the states that won't be able to move their product inside the US. More than likely they would make their games to fit the same standard just to keep a consumer.

Dear God Please smite down all **** trying to stop piracy. Ubisoft DMR finds it's way up the corporate ladder, and i'm sure that it will also end in disaster.

Maybe that was the point, to be humorous rather than sensual. After all if the Witchers weren't banging as many chicks they would had prbly killed themselves by now.

Depends on context. The WItcher didn't need them. Other places they might be fine. I beg to differ, The Witcher needs something to counterbalance it's depressing atmosphere. What better than naked chicks?