More importantly, we are on the threshhold of turning chickens into eggs, thus make the chicken-egg question one of quantum superposition. The chicken can be, both chicken and egg, and many chickens and many eggs *brian explodes*

So we all agree it isn't theft. Its obviously copyright infringement! The penalties in the US would mark it as 100,000$ per voicemail track downloaded.

Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being. This requires the death of a human being, being the ceasation of life. One cannot commit virtual murder.

Further more, one cannot commit murder against an artificial intelligence or even an alien (at this moment in most countries).

To confuse 'killing' avatars in an MMO with murder is rediculous, at its best, rendering an avatar useless against the law would be property damage.

The photorealistic qualities of games do not change the law, or impart more permanent consequences. Even if a computer peripheral sprays blood on my face after shooting a digital representation of my mom on screen, it doesn't mean I killed her. It may not be great for one's mental health, but neither is entertaining to many realistic daydreams about similar topics.

Page me when I can actually press a button while playing a game, and a handgun mounted on top of thier monitor shoots someone in face.

Hello, my name is ***********, one your constituents.

This is in regards to the tabling of a law regarding warrentless electronic intercepts, links below for refence.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/18/tech-internet-police-bill-intercept-electronic-communications.html

http://www.news1130.com/more.jsp?content=20090617_213536_8084

The bill proposes the ability for police to make warrentless intercepts of electronic information with the aid of ISPs. While I believe in the best efforts of the police and our intelligence communities, and I believe in making their job easier, I do not believe this is the path to take.

This is a fundamental erosion of personal privacy. Warrants for searches are applied for and executed all the time, and justice is well served by the judicial oversight. The point of oversight is to balance the justice of the many against the privacy of the individual. Wholesale disregard for oversight leads to abuse, the police are only human and humans are fallible.

I also call into question, the scale of which these are laws are designed to help the people. Terrorism and child pornography (while abhorrent) are todays boogeymenm, occupying such a fractional percentage of actual crime. The value of the electronic intercepts a law like this would provide would be minimal in cases of drug/organized crime when compared to phone tapping and physical searches (both of which require warrants).

There are ways to fight crime; money for more officers, money for investigations, prosecution and witness protection, and better inter-agency communication. We can reduce poverty, increase education, raise the standard of living to fight crime. Eroding the rights of the innocent populance doesn't fight crime.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

*********

*********

Vancouver, BC

The line between liberty and Hitler is a thin one, located in a small strip between the nose and the upper lip.

What if they could hook a device up to your engine block, and siphon off all the stored heat residing inside and use it to heat thier water? Its useful free energy (not withstanding the energy required to build such a system). And it would provide a valueable service.

It's like a breathalyzer for computers. And we all know how well those work.

A page from the Duke Nukem Forever School of Software Developement.

Article says they are in their friends and family stage, which is essentially just end of alpha, pre beta stage. And they were going to release in June? I'm not sure who laid out milestones and delivery dates, but they seriously miscalculated the ammount of time necessary to bring a game from beta to polish. Good MMOs have taken at least 6 months to a year from a close beta to a successful launch. What the hell were they going to change in 2 months? What if one, or maybe two features needed redesigning? It's a good thing they are delaying it then.

The situation regarding the prosecution of members Bountiful, BC (to which I think you are refering specifically) is a touchy one. As you say, by prosecuting them under bigamy, they risk having the courts define what is and isn't legal under the charter. There is huge room for interpretation.

In the broadest view, any restrictive state definitions of marriage would be discriminatory. In the narrowest it would limit the rights of homosexuals to enjoy monogomous marriages.

I personally can't think they would uphold a bigamy conviction under the charter. The argument that all bigamy is a defacto case of abuse is absurd, there shouldn't be absolutist moral judgements against lifestyle choices codified in our legal system.

In my new script, a idealogical lawmaker teams up with a mad scientist, and they use his time machine to travel back to Germany circa 1938 in an attempt to ban paintballing. It irreversably alters the timeline, causing Germany to surrender to France, Russia to become a Democracy promoting peacekeeper nation, England sinks into the sea, and America becomes a communist regime after a southern revolt.

I knew I shouldn't have had that Vista Capable pacemaker installed... If my heart needs to reboot, my pacemaker better not blue screen.

1. Very few products survive field testing to provide useful data

2. Minions, no matter how disposable, still require a surpising ammount of paperwork.

3. Unlimited R&D budget limited to a list of "approved vendors"

4. You're employers have a license to terminate you, and ensure your body is never found.

5. Women choose men in tuxedos over men in lab coats every time.

I'm curious to see what gets advertised for 6 card board cut outs and 2 manequins I've strategically installed in front of thier billboard.