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Please don't slander the noble dicebag by associating it with the scum who ruined Slashdot and Sourceforge.

Even if it's your own child, you can't do anything you want to them. If you suddenly decided that your little girl would look nice in earings, fine, not many people will care if you get her ears pierced. If you suddenly decide that she would look better without ears, then you have a problem. The law doesn't allow for you to just go and cut them off.

Oh really? It may surprise you but worse things happen to babies. Read, I know this is /. and people don't read, this "Ms Mag" article "Making the Cut... It's a girl!... Or is it? When there's doubt why are surgeons calling the shots?" It's about how docs perform surgery on babes because those babies have ambiguous sex organs. They are called intersexuals and come in different varieties. Some even have both male and female sex organs.

Falcon

I was going to ask if it was St Jude, but I think even St Jude says SCO is doomed now.

The whole "hand in horns" sign ISN'T a rock-and-roll thing, ISN'T about Satanism (although Xtian extremists simply love to blame everything on so-called "Satanic Forces", and quasi/pseudo-satanic (as opposed to the Church of Satan folks) types love to pillage anything and everything that's remotely metaphysical or occult-related as "their own" to make it "evil"-er. Even the cops tend to regurgitate the same stupidities spouted forth by the masss media.

The Mano Cornuta is an ancient occultic symbol that's commonly (although incorrectly) attributed to Italians. It's used to ward off "The Evil Eye", not to invoke 'Ol Split-Hoof. The "Why" and "How" of heavy-metal artist's starting to use an ancient occultic symbol should be self-evident as the industry (still) clings to half-truths and misconceptions of "evil-ness" as part of it's "charm" and "allure" to impressionable minds.

Well, the symbolism should be obvious, and it was a lot better than the old tradition of giving them animal sex organs. If you think roses don't look very good in a vase after a week...

Just in case you don't think the poster is serious: he's dead serious.

Won't somebody think of the children^W butterflies^W raccoons?!

Something tells me... ...that the winner is just going to have a really hot, photogenic girlfriend ;)

You mean, perhaps like Mick Jagger and former "Page 3 girl" Jeri Hall?

I was going to find a link, but I'm at work, so I can't really search for the appropriate picture. However, Jeri Hall is said to have been wooed by a peculiar Texas custom (link probably suitable for work). I was in Oklahoma during high school, so I guess that's why I'd never heard of this ritual.

Actually that story was not about Robert Johnson but rather about a different Johnson, though the two may have known each other, and the legend has deeper roots than that. Go check it out at luckymojo.com

By far the biggest event of my adolescence was buying my own computer. It took me a year or two of lawn mowing, but it was for me what I suspect what getting a car was to my parents generation - freedom. Before that, we had a single family computer with a modem. Being far more technically savvy than my parents, I of course got into all sorts of things I shouldn't have, including (but not limited to) violent video games, porn and hacking. Getting my own computer meant that I could pursue these interests in private without having to go through all the effort of hiding them.

Before you write off my opinion, let me say that I have given up video games for over a year now, my fascination with hacking has largely worn off, and, well, I have largely stopped using online porn. In spite of this, I don't regret what I did, although my parents would certainly have heart attack if they knew the half of it.

I think I discovered porn when I was in the 6th grade, which would mean I was 12. I was by far the most sexually educated kid I knew growing up, because my desire for porn was about half sexual fascination and about half intellectual fascination with forbidden knowledge. Perhaps the best thing I ever found was the Alt.Sex FAQ . Some people might be horrified at the thought of a 15 year old reading this, but I think it went a long way towards making me the most sexually knowledgeable and educated kid I knew. When other kids were having sex, I was afraid of getting gonorrhea. When I finally did, I knew much more about a woman's body and how to treat it than I would have otherwise. For all the raunchy "degrading" porn I watched, I read well written story romances.

My point is basically this - that if you attempt to force a morality upon your kids, they *might* obey it, but they will only do so because of fear of punishment from you. If you let them see what's out there, make their own mistakes and learn the hard way, they will come to their own morality in time, and it will be one that they will follow because they believe in it. This make take time and what they arrive at may not be exactly what you are starting with, but I am a strong believer that what matters is the thought behind the action.

I got myself into a good deal of trouble along the way with the things I dabbled in, and my parents reaction was always that you are responsible for your actions. In time, I decided that my actions weren't worth the risks. I would never have reached this had they simply forbade me or cut me off. This isn't to say that they didn't try - I knew I was breaking the rules, and I was smart enough to get away with it for the most part.

Since you are reading /., we can assume that you are somewhat more sophisticated than my parents were, and thus that your ability to enforce your rules is also greater, so that your kids might not be able to get away with what I got away with. Putting myself in your position, I would give them freedom to do what they like, but I would set up a monitor on their activity, so that if something truly threatening were to take place (agreeing to meet a stranger they met in a chat room), I could intervene. That would be the exception though - the point is that they should learn about consequences when they are young and the consequences are not all that serious, rather than when they are older and the consequences are life consequences. As humiliating as it was to tell my parents why we'd gotten kicked off our ISP, I would rather relive that a hundred times than wind up in jail for hacking today.

I realize it would be hard as a parent to know that your 12 year old son watches donkey porn twice a week, but I think with patience, education, and a few tough learning experiences your kids will come to their own understanding of right and wrong.

Foxbat

The number 19 also had some other signifigance to the Japanese but the reason escapes me at the moment.

The number 19 has attracted a large following, for a number. Maybe not as much as 7 or 13 or 666 but still respectable.

Nineteen squared equals 361, one degree more than a full circle

WAHD or ONE = NINETEEN

IT is the number of light.

Spherical Geometry & 19.5 Degrees throughout the solar system

19 is a prime number.

QURAN'S MATHEMATICAL CODE

Nineteen names of God (Bahá'í Calendar)

In Japan, 19 is a sign carrying misfortune because it is said JUKU, which means also "sorrows repeated"