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michael
on from the sheriff-fights-off-claim-jumpers dept.
bahtama writes: "Yahoo and others are running a story about the Sex.com cyber-squatter who has to pay big bucks to the original owner."MSNBC says the owner plans to make it a *cough* sticky portal.
I hope this doesn't set too much of a trend
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Proteus
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While it's good to see that some justice is being handed out to the worst kind of squatters (those who fraudulently transfer domain names), I hope that this ruling doesn't start a trend that goes further. Namely, I hope this doesn't mean that we will see more of the EToys vs. etoy kind of thing.
If legitimate but similar names start being subject to this kind of monetary damage ($65M, from the article), I fear for the future. Let's hope this stays well in hand.
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Re:What are you talking about?
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Proteus
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I support the ruling, but I hope this kind of ruling stays in the realm of "if you steal domain names, you give them back and pay for lost profits." The trend I hope doesn't start is "hey! your name is too similar to mine, I want it, and I want to you pay me for every hit you got, since it was probably meant for my site!"
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I see your point, but there is a progression. Today it's "you stole from me, give me my domain back, and pay for my lost profits." Tomorrow, it could be "by having a similar domain name to mine, you stole from me: give me your domain, and pay for my lost profits."
See how easy that jump is (for a clueless judge)?
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Interesting how you get modded up for creating your own elaborate straw man, and then knocking it down.
I'm no hardcore Bible-thumper, but you've certainly taken a few passages out of context... read them with the surrounding lines, and you'll get the full picture. 1 Corinthians 7:1-12 in its full context is better understood when one should and should not marry.
More power to you if you can build a strong argument for your case, whatever that might be. I always look forward to intelligent discourse. But you stooped rather low to get your point across.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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So where does this leave NetSol?
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The+Dodger
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Particularly as I'd have thought that NetSol would be negligent in handing a domain over to a fraudster.
D.
Re:So where does this leave NetSol?
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Zocalo
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Negligent seems about right to me as well. Since the fraudster has done the sensible thing from his point of view, namely skipped the country and stashed the cash in off shore accounts, I'd say that leaves NetSol in the position of about to receive a legal document from the plaintiff's lawyer...
What's the bet we all get to pay an extra buck per domain fairly soon to cover any damages and costs they might accrue in the proceedings?:-/
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sue Network Solutions and ICANN too
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peter303
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These companies are pretty lacadasical about changing
name ownership and IP bindings.
Other organzizations names have been stolen too,
but more as short term hacks.
They should *always* send a change notification &
verification to the original address, much like
banks do.
Re:I'm glad it's over, but I doubt he'll ever see
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bjwest
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He was awarded $65 million, so doesn't that mean he owes his lawyer his 40 - 50 percent of that wheather or not he collects?
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Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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sharkey
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The.gov and and.mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the.gov.us and and.gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric
Shouldn't that be ".mil.us"?
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Re:Presidential pardon material here...
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sharkey
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But Bill is already out of the White House.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
They failed to mention that no one has been able to get the guy, since he left the country a while back when all of this started.
Gotta catch him first before anyone gets paid..
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Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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Midnight+Thunder
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I partly agree with this. The.com,.int,.net and.org domains should be left as they are, though should only be given to companies that are ready to place non-geocentric information on the site. A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a.com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the.ca, or.com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
The.gov and and.mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the.gov.us and and.gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
The.int domain should be left as the is used for international treaty organizations such as NATO and the united nations.
Admitedly it will take more than a simple/. posting to change this. I also feel that there is a huge need for internet task forces of various countries to get together to bring some sort of sanity to the current mess.
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What are you talking about?
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mindstrm
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What kind of trend are you referring to?
The guy 100% *stole* the domain, using forged transfer documents... and it took 6 years for the courts to give it back....
what I want to know is why couldn't he get it back way before that?
but it's apples and oranges. I don't see how they are even related... other than having to do with domain names.
That's like saying "I'm glad they punished that mass murderer, but I hope it doesn't lead to punishing innocent schoolchildren because they disobeyed their teachers."
Porn is not immoral, it's just mostly bad quality
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Red+Moose
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While the extremes perpetuated by the pornography industry do serve as prime examples of its undue corrupting influence upon modern society, what I am saying it that pornography as a whole is immoral, even the softcore sex scenes used in some of Hollywood's more blatent exploitation films.
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
Sex is there for the purposes of procreation and between two people married with God's blessing. Pornography is quite simply the antithesis of this idea, in that it encourages promiscuity without responsibility, a dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values.
I don't think you can make grand sweeping statements like this. It's gross generalisation and clearly massive speculation that promiscuity is encouraged by pornography. Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
But aside from that, it is arguable as to whether Catholicism is even really a Christian denomination, given the fact that Catholics do not solely worship God.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Hmmm, but maybe it can be used to do that, to treat sex offenders, etc., . You seem overtly concerned with maintaining a high moral code and never once mentioning the more significant problems, such as abuse, etc., . Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
I won't defend the porn industry, but likewise I think your argument against it was ill-founded and from the wrong point-of-view, as you seemed more concerned with yourself, and your own beliefs, than a far more due concern about the women who feel compelled to work in the industry, by choice or not.
If you lost the high-and-mighty attitude, maybe people would listen to you, as yes, there are thousands of women forced to work in the sex industry; articles are regularly in papers concerning illegal immigrants, etc., and being forced into prostitution.
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Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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mpe
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My ideas lean towards the Canadian system, but somewhat different. A top-down system, from more general to more specific. An important part of my idea is that **ALL** domains should end in the two-character country codes that are already established. A few examples...
Problem is that.ca has already gone the same way of.com,.org,.net, etc and become a.misc...
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence.
This already the way the.us namespace is ment to work. But this namespace is largly ignored.
I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
Plenty of people have though of it, in some parts of the world things were even done that way. However at some point things went seriously wrong, probably the point at which names began to be seen as land/mineral rights rather than addresses/telephone numbers.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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mpe
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I think it should be the other way around. The nature of the internet is global, as you point out initially. I feel psychologically, it would feel less so if I was told where the domain was (.uk,.usa,.canada).
But most DNS names relate to physical entities. Very few commercial entities are even capable of operating globally. Typically they are restricted by geography (or currency). Even supposed abstracts such as books, music, TV and films tend to be made avaliable in a way which follows geography.
There's all sorts of.coms and.orgs etc that are not in the US. That's the whole point of leaving out geographical suffixes.
The problem is that a great many of these might actually be better off with geographical suffixes. If their area of interest is geospecific
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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mpe
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A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a.com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the.ca, or.com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
Also there are plenty of companies, especially in large countries, such as US, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc, who's operations are strictly sub national. Another point is that US cities shouldn't be able to hijack the domain names of other nations, just because they don't like.la.ca.us.
The.gov and and.mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the.gov.us and and.gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
The same reasoning can probably be applied to.edu.
Re:The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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mpe
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Well actually anyone can get a.com,.net or.org domain:P
Which is part of the problem. Also even if a.com is obtained by a commerical entity it need have no relation to the name of the entity.
So if a story we've been tracking ends in a reasonable way, the slashdot editors shouldn't post the resolution? And we shouldn't discuss how wide-reaching that resolution was, or whether it set a reasonable precedent?
This such a straw man: If they have abusive boyfriends, they need to be offered to chance to get away and escape the abuse - just like all the abused women not involved in the porn industry! The fact that they're abused is the crime.
If they have a habit, they need the chance to get rehab. If they weren't doing porn for a fix do you think they'd just quit "cold turkey"? Of course not.
Taking advantage of people in need isn't limited to the porn industry you know.
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
So many faults, so little time:
1. Sodomy is a natural act because it occurs "naturally". For example, most mammals will happily bugger each other. They don't do it because they're too stupid to find the right hole (well, some of them might), they do it because they have a "natural" desire to fqck things (normally other creatures of the same species).
2. Sodomy is not "extremely dangerous" as long as you have an modicum of common sense.
3. Sodomy is not always painful. Lots of people actually like it. Gosh! isn't it an awful world outside!
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
Director D obtains goatse.cx style pictures of actress A1 and actor A2. D blackmails A1 and A2 into doing his next film F. Film F is widely acclaimed as the finest peice of cinema ever made, and even the public love it. All agree that it is a fantastic piece of art. When details of the blackmailing emerge, all are shocked. However, all agree that the artistic merits of the film are unchanged. All apart from Jon Erikson that is, who holds that because of the blackmail, the quality of the film is now lower, and the film is now cr4p.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Mike+Connell
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Good points, kindof. For the first paragraph, it is again some porn. I've seen playboy. Only a idiot (or a rich male model) could read it and honestly think that the models inside would jump on them given half a chance!
For the second, you write if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view, where you mean some men. Now maybe you can claim that porn is so dangerous that the effect it has on these people means it should be made illegal, but that's a whole new arguement. The same one can be made for alcohol (some people get addicted), cars (some people drive badly), and having children (some people are bad parents)...
If they do it just because they want to fqck things, then it is because they're too stupid to tell the difference Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. For the "buggerer", anal sex counts as a fqck as much as vaginal sex. Therefore they can both want to fqck things, and bugger. There is no contradiction.
- they don't make a conscious choice between the two, they just go for it. They don't make a conscious choice at all because they aren't concious.
Lot's of people really like to eat other people, No they don't. Very few people like to eat other people. So, other than being completely wrong, thanks for playing;-)
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Mike+Connell
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Some might think that his bio itself is a troll. After all, if you're not happy with all the liberals in the states, why on earth would you move to the UK? Surely Iran would be much better (I guess it's just a shame there aren't waco fundy christian states to move to).
Regarding the post, I think it's clearly a troll becasuse he states pornography is used for "the gratification of men unable to find themselves a loving wife." implies that anyone "using" porn is unable to find a "loving wife". Given the widespread "usage" of porn, that's clearly flamebait IMO. Also "pornography is nothing more than a perversion of His [gods] vision for us". Stating such contentious beliefs (porn not used by men with a loving partner, the existance of god) as facts can only be a troll; anyone else would have put "I beleive", "IMHO", or somthing else along those lines in there.
As far as exploitation of women in porn goes, I wish people would realise that there are two issues here: exploitation AND porn:
Some people drive too fast in their cars. The cars aren't wrong, it's people driving too fast.
Some people steal because they want to be rich. It isn't wanting to be rich that's wrong, it's stealing.
Some women are exploited in the porn industry. It's not porn that's wrong, it's the people who exploit women.
Given that pornography is designed to help men spill their seed, and that any man with a wife won't have any need to debase themselves in such a way, it therefore follows that pornography is for people who are unable to find themselves a wife.
What a small mind you must have. Perhaps some people like both? Perhaps some people have wives that whilst loving the man, are unwilling or unable to have sex with them (for example after abuse, rape or physical disability)? Perhaps the couple are physically seperated for a period of time? Perhaps the man doesn't have bizarre hangups about it? Perhaps his wife likes it? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
The point is that your premise, that any married man can get as much sexual gratification from his wife as he needs and therefore doesn't need porn is both wrong, and (ironically) disrespectful to women.
Onanism is quite obviously a tool designed by the Devil to turn one's thoughts away from salvation towards more earthly pleasures.
[You get +1 troll point] If I never think of salvation when I'm having sex, does that mean that "obviously" sex must be a tool of the devil designed to turn my thoughts away from salvation? In fact I hardly ever think about salvation, so obviously almost everything is designed by the devil (he should have patented some of it).
Bzzt! Wrong! The porn industry by definition exploits women
I'm wrong;-) How does gay (male) porn exploit women? It doesn't, your statement is (again) false. You might be under the impression that all pornography is of the "18 blokes+ 1 little girl all-out gangbang" type, but you're (fortunately) wrong.
If I was offered $1 million for playgirl style photos of myself, I might or might not do it, but I certainly don't think I'd feel "exploited" if I did. Why do you think women are any different? Perhaps the answer is in this comment "from exploiting women's naivety and greed all the way up to the use of force and drugs to ensure cooperation" You seem incapable of seeing the fact that women, as well as men have minds of their own. Some people will have sex in front of a camera for money. They might be greedy, or they might not share your particular moral code. Being different to you isn't the same as being abused.
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
It occurs in nature, therefore it is a natural act.
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Domain name worth more than the business?
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BobGregg
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To me the most fascinating point revealed here is that the judge's ruling values the damages associated with stealing the domain name to be higher than the total revenues earned by the site. Assuming you believe what the business in question is saying - but let's say for a second that you do. That means that the law figures the value of the domain name itself - alone - is worth more than the actual business behind it.
Hmm... admittedly, for a lot of dot-coms that's actually literally true - or at least they probably *paid* more for the domain than they ever earned back. So hey, sure, why not codify that into case law as well? And what a business plan: "Sure, I'll license you to use the name ThisDomain.com next year - in exchange for 105% of the revenues you earn from it. Sound fair?" What a screwed up system.
Re:Domain name worth more than the business?
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It is a bit weird, but not without precedent in the real world. Think of mom-and-pop stores that happen to own very desirable property. They have every right to continue to operate their small business on very valuable property. The property is indeed "worth" more than the business. Nothing wrong with that.
-b
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Re:Domain name worth more than the business?
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Zeinfeld
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To me the most fascinating point revealed here is that the judge's ruling values the damages associated with stealing the domain name to be higher than the total revenues earned by the site.
That is easy to explain, the damages are $40 million and represent the lost business opportunity. The amount the fraudster made from the domain is not actually very relevant to the calculation of the damages. Kremen could reasonably argue that as a legitimate trader he could have formed aliances with Playboy Enterprises, Hustler and the like to generate additional revenue. These companies would not have dealt with the fraudster.
Furthermore by failing to appear and failling to release records demanded by the court the defendant made a higher award practically inevitable. A judge is almost always going to side with the guy who turns up against a fugitive.
While Kremen is unlikely to get back all the damages he is likely to obtain a significant sum. The guy who stole the domain had registered a bunch of other domains, some of which have significant value and were impounded by the court a few months back.
Another lever Kremen has is that as long as the case is not settled there is an outstanding arrest warrant. My guess is that this will lead to an eventual settlement for a percentage of the damages.
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It's not that hard to find evidence of corecion and exploitationin the porn industry, unless of course, you don't want to see any
As well as in the real estate industry, politics and law enforcement. Exploitation isn't a symptom of pornography, its a symptom of humanity. Pornography just makes a great target due to the bizarre irony in our culture that everyone is either having sex or wanting to have sex, yet sex is taboo. Christ, even kids who haven't learned a damn thing about the world start getting horny and staring at fine members of the opposite sex, or same sex for some. That's the curse we bear for being human. In the words of George Carlin, "There are far worse things that you can to do another person than giving them an orgasm."
To those of you unfortunate enough to grow up in a climate of repression and hate: don't worry, sex won't destroy the world, burn down the rain forests and upset Baby Jeebus(tm); it'll just make you a bit happier and a bit sleepier if you just have the courage to let it.
Users are clueless enough, such a system would be extremely confusing. What if you don't know where a certain company or website is located? You are probably goign to have a heck of a time finding it becase search engines don't help most of the time.
Why base the net on geographic location? I think the original idea of basing TLDs on content is the best way to go. We need to enforce the content restrictions (.com for business,.org for organization etc) and we need to make sure registrants have good security.
Geographically based domains will make finding websites difficult, if not impossible, will make it possible to over tax businesses (as already mentioned) and any possible ways of making money on the web will disappear. I'm not a fan of e-commerce at all but I think that if there weren't any at all that the internet wouldn't be near what it is today (of course we'd probably have intellegent people on it too but that's a different angle:)
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
What kind of 'studying' was this?
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eyez
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With other single-word Web site addresses such as business.com having sold for millions, and studies showing that sex is a major draw for people on the Internet, the sex.com site was seen as potentially one of the most valuable on the World Wide Web.
Nice to see a federal judge treat domain names like real estate. Hopefully this sends a signal to Network Solutions that domains are not "like telephone numbers". I'll see your circuit court judge and raise a US district court judge.
Actually you're as wrong as could be. This recent court decision is a result of the fraud comitted to obtain the domain name, not theft as Kremen originally attempted to use.
The decision that a domain is like a telephone number, and thus is not real estate, and therefore can't be stolen, still stands. However, it is still illegal to commit fraud to get control over it.
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
I don't, but I have seen films that came close to the line. Needless to say, at that point I switched them off.
Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Catholics venerate the saints, and the Virgin Mary. Indeed, in the confessional they place Mary on the same level as the Lord, obviously in direct contradiction with the Ten Commandments. Hence, they are really no more than a cult with Christian pretensions.
Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
Sorry, but your morals dictate what is right. That should be obvious, even to an unbeliever!!!
All of Christianity is a cult. Christianity convinces people to reject and hate outsiders, give their money to other people for no apparent reason, and to talk to invisible beings that live in the sky. If this isn't a cult, I don't know what is.
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
While I don't know about Debbie Does Dallas (haven't seen it, even though it recently passed British film censors), if you try to claim that all porn fall in this category, then you're way out there. Lots of porn is made specifically to appeal to women. And in the current market, most mainstream porn videos are targetted towards couples. Yes, there are porn out there for "sad lonely men", but there's also porn out there for happily married women, couples, and anything in between.
Why? Because there's a market for it, and because the most stereotypical market has long been saturated, and targetting other demographics, like women, gives you access to a much larger, broader market.
It shows that you haven't seen any porn... Try investigating before you make broad, sweeping claims about what is for whom. Maybe you'll even find something you like.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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and a thief has been punished
If you count living in Mexico with the $40,000,000 they can't touch in off shore bank accounts being punished.
It's good to see the legal owner got control of his site back but that was after he was forced to spend three years in court and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. Granted he'll now make tens of millions from the domain name but it's still got to be a bittersweet victory.
goatporn gets the recognition it deserves...
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nick_davison
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The now legal owner of sex.com was quoted as saying in the article: "We're working on a deal (for content on)... sex education, disease prevention, women oriented stuff, stuff that you normally don't see in the (adult) space."
You don't normally see women orientated stuff on sex sites? No wonder all those large-pink-area filters don't work - they shouldn've been scanning for goatporn all along.
Posted early enough for the karma rich first few minutes, mentioning goatporn for a clear demotion under grounds of karmawhoring.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Its a negative feedback loop, and one that some men find very hard to see their way clear from
Actually, it's a positive feedback loop. Negative feedback works to cancel the orignal disturbance while positive feedback reinforces the original disturbance. In your example the subject is led through frustration to do more of what made him frustrated in the first place: positive feedback. This positive feedback will lead to oscillation if the system's loop-gain is greater than 1.
I'm goin to have to update my bookmark. Transition the site to more mainstream content.....sheesh
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Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Oh it's easy for you to assume that just because it doesn't fit in with your wonderful, liberal view of life that it's got to be a troll. Far easier than actually trying to come up with some facts to support your position, right?
Ok, you might want to take a look at this story on sexuality over at Kuro5hin. It's a fascinating read, one of the best things I've seen there in a while. Chock full of hard facts about the intrinsic need for sexual release in human beings.
You're not worth arguing with. You'll just apply the word "liberal" to any evidence to any argument you don't like, just like you have in all three of your posts so far.
Furthermore, your argument seems to be based on a particular pseudo-literalist reading of the Bible, so it's not like the discussion would go anywhere.
Expedited discussion with this troll:
1. I'm going to have a little fun, and quote 1 Corinthians 7:1 "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry", the standard justification for primacy of celibacy over marriage, and tell you that if you really wanted to take the word of God to heart you would forsake all physical pleasure, even with your wife. I'll further support my claim with Luke 14:25-27: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate.... his wife and children,.... --he cannot be my disciple."
2. You're going to writhe and scream and complain and try and explain I'm distorting the passage. You might quote me Shakespeare, and say that "the devil has the power to quote scripture" thinking you have a biblical comeback. You might quote 1 Corinth 7:2-5 as a better retort.
3. Then I'll say Christ makes clear in 7:6-7 that permanent non-marriage is a preferable state.
4. Then you'll invent a new complaint to justify ignoring the passages of the bible you dislike. Of course, by disregarging only one passage, you've kind of shot your argument that we should blindly use the Bible as a set of rules without thinking - if it's wrong there, why isn't it wrong about pornography? (Of course, the bible never mentions pornography, you can borrow the inferential references which conservative theologians find to justify anti-pornographic positions.)
5. I'll be sick of the discussion and won't reply because you will ignore any other facts I introduce into the discussion or attach the word "liberal" to them, as if I should run in terror at being called such a horrible word.
There, we condensed in all down into one post. Wait I think I got a patent idea... Expedited troll conversations via prediction of troller/trollee responses.
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
Natural is not the same as moral or good.
Take, for example, a tiger attacking a deer. It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the animal on the receiving end and causes pain. It is perfectly natural.
So what is a "natural act"? Animals (apes, elephants, rodents) engage in sodomy. Surely that's natural?
Sex is not just for procreation. If it was, we would, like most animals, only have sex when fertile. This is not the case. It is also for bonding.
I see nothing wrong with sodomy, as long as everyone involved is consenting. "Brutal sodomy" with it's implication of non-consent I would definitely count as wrong.
But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Well, first off, I'd recommend calling brutal sodomy "morally reprehensible", as it is arguably a perfectly natural act (though, again, generally held as morally reprehensible.)
There are people out there firmly entrenched in the belief that conservative attitudes about sex are both healthier and morally higher, and that pornography is somehow "deviant" and "unnatural". These same people generally feel perfectly justified in pointing towards the most deviant, reprehensible acts of violent, aberrant behavior as prime examples of what pornography is. This is unfair.
It'd be somewhat akin to me calling Christianity a horrible, disgusting cult which has mercilessly slaughtered countless women and children over centuries in the name of appeasing an unseen deity. I'd be ignoring the fact that some of the world's greatest and most generous groups and individuals have acted out of their love of the Christian god. There is no "so, which is it, then?" It's both. Should we outlaw Christianity or claim that it's the most wonderfullest thing ever? Neither. It has both good and bad elements, people who respect it and people who abuse it.
The same holds true for pornography. While you are quick to point out that having people abused into pornography and tortured in front of a camera is (surprise) bad, the same moral compass cannot be used to denounce, say, a video made willingly (and happily) by a married couple for distribution in adult video stores. What is so unnatural (or rather, morally reprehensible) about that?
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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And I urge you to write every Christian minister you know to put their talents to good use, rather than continuing the vicious cycle of ignorance and hatred.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Last I heard, coercision and exploitation has existed in 'religion' for centuries.
Religion and the concept of God(s) were started thousands of years ago to control people. Think about this. You are a peasant under the service of some king 3000+ years ago. Living conditions are horrible etc... you are not happy and neither are the thousands of other peasants like you. You all outnumber the King and his nobles etc. So as the King and Nobles see this and are scared. How can we control the peasants and make sure they do not revolt. (thinking....) AHA Offer them something that CANNOT be proved. In comes God(s) and religion.
"How would you like to be in Paradise. A Place where you are the happiest you can ever be. You have no worries and you are with God. God loves you and will take care of you after you die. Now here is the catch. God loves you but wants to make sure YOU love him back so there are rules that you must obey while you are alive. You have to conform to the religion and do everything the religios leaders tell you to do (nevermind for thousands of years that religious leaders were appointed by Kings etc). You have to be a good person to society etc. Most of the rules were made to keep society stable. If society is stable and happy (looking forward to living in eternal happiness) the chances of revolts are smaller.
So if you obey these rules and live your life in a good way when you die you will go to heaven etc. This is GENIOUS plan and it WORKED. Give the people something that cannot be proven. You cannot prove heaven. You cannot prove God, and you cannot prove any religion is real or true. So how do we get around this, easy PEOPLE MUSH HAVE FAITH! By showing you have FAITH in God you are showing that you love him(her) and want to go to heaven.
This is beautiful plan, it worked and still continues to work. Religion is the biggest con in the history of humanity. If you ever read and reserach why and how the concept of religion started it will make you think twice about the whole concept.
You're assuming the same people are supporting both standpoints. This is a fatal flaw in the way many people look at communities like Slashdot.
Yes, some standpoints are more popular than others. But that does not give you any reason to claim that there's a double standard unless you find concrete examples that the same people are supporting mutually contradictory standpoints.
As for the case here: Sure there's exploitation in porn. Sure there's exploitation in politics. And there's exploitation practically everywhere else too.
Whether that is relevant in a discussion of whether porn is bad or not, depends on whether you or someone else can show that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and if so that that extra exploitation is an inherent feature of porn, and not of specific companies or persons in the porn business.
It is also too easy to say that "she's a drug addict, so she must be exploited since she's working in porn". That is making the assumption that because someone is working in porn, and has a problem, they must automatically have been exploited. In reality there's also other possibilities:
It might be easier for someone with problems to get work in porn, since the porn business is used to stigma, and may look more favorably on other people that are stigmatised than mainstream businesses. It may be that the person doesn't have any moral objections to working in porn.
Unless you claim that hiring someone with drug problems or other problems is inherently exploitation, then making the assumption that it is inherently exploitation if they're hired to do porn require more arguments to back it up.
If someone presents evidence that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and that is a result of porn in itself and not specific players in the porn business, then yes, porn might be bad.
So far I haven't seen anyone even trying to address that question, however - the focus is normally on equating porn with exploitation without looking at who is exploiting and why, to try to find out whether the exploitation is an inherent problem with porn or with specific companies or people.
If the case is that the exploitation is a result of specific players in the business, then go after those players - force them to comply with the appropriate laws - instead of whine about the product.
So what do you value more? Intelligence and strength of character, or mindless insect pleasure? It's entirely possible to balance the two, but if you go toward either extreme, you must give up some of the other.
I value intelligence and strength of character and freely chosen pleasure most. And I see it as a clear sign of intelligence and strength of character to have broken free from religious dogma, which is basically what I said in the post you replied to.
You said yourself: "As intelligent beings, we are naturally predisposed to be biased towards anything that gives us pleasure"
However, this I disagree with. Most beings, intelligent or otherwise, seek pleasure. That is one of the primary reasons sexual acts for instance typically bring pleasure: we are more likely to reproduce if the immediate act of reproduction produces a benefit for us.
Intelligent beings, on the other hand, explicitly plan their lives to increase pleasure, and to create situations and stimuli that create pleasure - such as porn.
If anything, porn is tool created specifically to give pleasure.
The weakness lie in those who accept outside pressure to let their lives be controlled, instead of choosing to live their own lives and seek pleasure.
To put it short: I value those who break with religion, and lead their lives in a way that give them pleasure and fulfilment, whether sexual or spiritual, provided they don't step on other peoples chances of the same by doing so.
Sex is there for the purposes of procreation and between two people married with God's blessing. Pornography is quite simply the antithesis of this idea, in that it encourages promiscuity without responsibility, a dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values.
This argument assumes whoever you're arguing with believe in the christian God, and care about the silly procreation argument.
It also assumes that there exists no pornography depicting the joys of procreation in a marriage.
The first is a belief that certainly has no proof, and which a great deal of humanity simply rejects.
The argument that sex is only for procreation assigns a purpose to nature, which either implies that nature is sentient, or implies a creator, which brings us back to the first argument - it's just as disputed, and certainly not proven in any way. For those of us who prefer evolution, sex is there because it works as a driving force to get living beings to procreate. And it gives pleasure because that makes it more likely that we'll procreate. But neither assigns any purpose to it. Unless you believe in a deity, sex is just a process, and have no more purpose than the oceans or the stars.
If you want to argue that since sex allows us to procreate, then procreation is it's purpose, even if it wasn't conceived by someone who assigned for a purpose, then you can just as well argue that since sex give us pleasure, then pleasure is also one of the purposes of sex. Seeings as sex is a driving force behind much of the work of man, it can even be said to be a very important purpose.
This argument can just as well be applied in the case of the existence of a "God" as well: If this God fellow didn't intend for people to have sex for fun he must be a complete idiot for making it so much fun. If sex has procreation as its purpose because procreation is one of its functions, then sex can just as well have pleasure as a purpose because pleasure is one of its functions.
You also assume that promiscuous behaviour is "dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values". But that is simply wrong. It may be dangerous for a society that wishes to hold iself to any kind of christian moral values, but you are making the assumption that anyone else will share your view of what "any kind of moral values" is.
You go on to criticize even porn made willingly and happly by a married couple:
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Again you're assuming everyone else share your views about what is moral. You are not explaining what is unnatural or morally reprehensible, as the previous poster asks you to, instead you're just giving the blanked response that it's bad because it violates your morals.
Assuming that we agree with you that people who like porn are "weaker people" (weaker than who? The couple making the video? Presumably if they're happily making porn they like porn themselves), that still leaves us with the question of why it is bad to "willingly (and happlily)" (to quote the previous poster) do something to satiate the urges of those "weaker people"?
Unless you claim that seeing people have sex is somehow harmful?
But back to the "weaker people" part. Presumable this comes from some illution that people who watch porn are lost souls who don't believe in God.
In my eyes, if they've "lost" their faith, that makes them stronger, not weaker: They've managed to break free from the indoctrination of dogma, and to stop relying on a book of mutually inconsistent and ridiculous stories to find meaning in their lives.
Thus, that argument too breaks down if people don't agree with you from the start.
If you want to convince anyone who doesn't already share your beliefs, you better try some arguments that doesn't depend on conservative christian beliefs from the outset...
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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What happens is that if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view of sex and women, which can cause two things. First he will treat women that do allow him to become close to them in ways that are (for many women) highly inappropriate, which is abuse of those women, and damaging to an otherwise good relationship. And secondly he will be approaching all women with this distorted view, which will cause him to find it more difficult to form relationships with women, and lead back, via frustration, to yet more porn. Its a negative feedback loop, and one that some men find very hard to see their way clear from. This is potentially harmful and dangerous to these men and the women around them.
Can you please point us to ANY credible research that shows that this is the case, please?
This is an old argument, and I have yet to see any evidence for it. Several researches have concluded the opposite: That pornography serve as a healthy way of getting fantasies "out of your system", to prevent them from affecting your daily life.
Note also one of the classic mistakes made in much of the research of this issue: Many reports have described high usage of porn by rapists, and equate that with porn causing or contributing to the rape.
But those numbers are also consistent with the suggestion above that pornography serve as a way of getting fantasies out - if that is correct, then it would be natural to also find a high consumption of pornography by people who have used it to try to stay under control, but that have failed.
For a study to present credible evidence on any connection as mentioned above, the very least they would have to do would be to find a random sample of people that do use porn and a random sample of people who dont use porn, and let parts of the group that does use porn stop using it, and parts of the group that does not use porn start using it, and follow the resulting four groups over a prolonged period of time to see whether members of any of the groups are more or less likely to get abusive or to get problems handling relationships.
This page presents some research (mostly supportive of porn). If you have any specifics criticism of the research presented there, or any
credible research showing different results, I'd like to see references to it, to take a look at it.
You are also making the typical mistake and assuming that porn is only consumed by men, when the major market for mainstream porn videos is couples, and videos for use by couples are typically chosen and bought by the woman.
The major reasons couples cite for watching porn together? To inject fantasies and excitement into their relationship, and to explore sides of each other they do not yet know well. In other words: To get closer. How that is detrimental to a relationship, I fail to see. I can however agree that that some couples choose to do so does not mean it's right for everyone.
The whole DNS system should be redesigned
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SEX.COM . . . Just yet another in the long and never-ending list of disputed domain names due to copyright, trademark, previous ownership, domain-squatting, and other disputes that are becoming more common every day. Most of these problems are, of course, based on USA laws.
After several years of thought on how this whole issue could be addressed, I now have a few ideas.
First, we need to do away with all *.com, *.org, *.net, *.gov, *.mil and *.gov. These are all US-centric, and since the internet is global, are inappropriate.
My ideas lean towards the Canadian system, but somewhat different. A top-down system, from more general to more specific. An important part of my idea is that **ALL** domains should end in the two-character country codes that are already established. A few examples...
Coca-Cola (A US based corporation)
cocacola.com.us
coke.com.us
--And since they have a presence in many other countries,
coke.com.au cocacola.com.au
coke.com.uk cocacola.com.uk
coke.com.jp cocacola.com.jp (Which should be in Japanese, with links to other languages, as all should be.)
English Parliament
parliament.gov.uk
Bob's Lemonade Stand, Atlanta Georgia, USA
bobslemonade.com.atlanta.ga.us
Of course there are some holes in my argument here... I typed this up quickly to get my point across. But this will allow domains to be controlled by the laws of the country, or even locality, in which the laws are relevant. As exmaples, domains under:
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence. I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
I remember Network Solutions was also sued first, but Kremen lost his case there.
Personally I think Network Solutions should be paying some money out to Kremen also. Why? Because these bastards have been the source of a bunch of dns mess-ups. They don't give a shit about your registration. If they lose it or gives it to someone else, oh well... that's that. NetSol needs to be slapped hard to teach them a lesson well overdue.
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Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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And this is a troll how? The guy states an opinion based on his convictions (read his user bio) and it's a troll. Looks like we found another sacred cow for/.ers. Hey, don't diss the porn, man.
As far as all of the posts touting the benefits of porn go, don't be so naive as to think that it's all willing women happily gulping jizz. Yep, some, maybe even most, are willing, but if you think coercion and exploitation don't happen in the porn industry, you must just be another Kansas farm boy who believes everything they read in Playboy. Take them rose colored condoms off and wipe the cream off your monitor.
Re:A blow for pornographers and thieves
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Remember something.
No one is forcing any of these women to be involved in pornography. They do it of their own free will.
No one forces you to look at pornography either.
The word SEX is synonomous with pornography on the internet. That is what makes that domain name so valuable. Would you urge "right thinking" slashdotters to email the webmaster of www.bigdicks.com urging him to put the site to good use?
Of course. And none of them are forced into this kind of degrading behaviour by abusive boyfriends or drug habits at all are they? I think you're being far too naive about the depths to which the porn business will sink to obtain its multi-billion dollar revenues.
I truly cannot feel sorry anything a person does to support their drug/gambling/goatsex habits. Once again that is something they started themselves.
And I don't. But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Nothing natural about it at all. But there isn't anything "Natural" about driving a car, having a job, or reading slashdot. Calling something unnatural doesn't really mean anything at all. (I actually do disagree with anal sex for biblical reasons myself, but that is MY CHOICE, and it is not my right to enforce my choices or my morality on others).
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If legitimate but similar names start being subject to this kind of monetary damage ($65M, from the article), I fear for the future. Let's hope this stays well in hand.
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I support the ruling, but I hope this kind of ruling stays in the realm of "if you steal domain names, you give them back and pay for lost profits." The trend I hope doesn't start is "hey! your name is too similar to mine, I want it, and I want to you pay me for every hit you got, since it was probably meant for my site!"
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See how easy that jump is (for a clueless judge)?
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I'm no hardcore Bible-thumper, but you've certainly taken a few passages out of context... read them with the surrounding lines, and you'll get the full picture. 1 Corinthians 7:1-12 in its full context is better understood when one should and should not marry.
More power to you if you can build a strong argument for your case, whatever that might be. I always look forward to intelligent discourse. But you stooped rather low to get your point across.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
These companies are pretty lacadasical about changing
name ownership and IP bindings.
Other organzizations names have been stolen too,
but more as short term hacks.
They should *always* send a change notification &
verification to the original address, much like
banks do.
He was awarded $65 million, so doesn't that mean he owes his lawyer his 40 - 50 percent of that wheather or not he collects?
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The .gov and and .mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the .gov.us and and .gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric
Shouldn't that be ".mil.us"?
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They failed to mention that no one has been able to get the guy, since he left the country a while back when all of this started.
Gotta catch him first before anyone gets paid..
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I partly agree with this. The .com, .int, .net and .org domains should be left as they are, though should only be given to companies that are ready to place non-geocentric information on the site. A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a .com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the .ca, or .com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
.gov and and .mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the .gov.us and and .gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
.int domain should be left as the is used for international treaty organizations such as NATO and the united nations.
/. posting to change this. I also feel that there is a huge need for internet task forces of various countries to get together to bring some sort of sanity to the current mess.
The
The
Admitedly it will take more than a simple
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
What kind of trend are you referring to?
The guy 100% *stole* the domain, using forged transfer documents... and it took 6 years for the courts to give it back....
what I want to know is why couldn't he get it back way before that?
Previous ownership? It was outright STOLEN from him using forged transfer documents; that's not anything at all like 'squatting' or anything else.
but it's apples and oranges. I don't see how they are even related... other than having to do with domain names.
That's like saying "I'm glad they punished that mass murderer, but I hope it doesn't lead to punishing innocent schoolchildren because they disobeyed their teachers."
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
Sex is there for the purposes of procreation and between two people married with God's blessing. Pornography is quite simply the antithesis of this idea, in that it encourages promiscuity without responsibility, a dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values.
I don't think you can make grand sweeping statements like this. It's gross generalisation and clearly massive speculation that promiscuity is encouraged by pornography. Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
But aside from that, it is arguable as to whether Catholicism is even really a Christian denomination, given the fact that Catholics do not solely worship God.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Hmmm, but maybe it can be used to do that, to treat sex offenders, etc., . You seem overtly concerned with maintaining a high moral code and never once mentioning the more significant problems, such as abuse, etc., . Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
I won't defend the porn industry, but likewise I think your argument against it was ill-founded and from the wrong point-of-view, as you seemed more concerned with yourself, and your own beliefs, than a far more due concern about the women who feel compelled to work in the industry, by choice or not.
If you lost the high-and-mighty attitude, maybe people would listen to you, as yes, there are thousands of women forced to work in the sex industry; articles are regularly in papers concerning illegal immigrants, etc., and being forced into prostitution.
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
My ideas lean towards the Canadian system, but somewhat different. A top-down system, from more general to more specific. An important part of my idea is that **ALL** domains should end in the two-character country codes that are already established. A few examples...
.ca has already gone the same way of .com, .org, .net, etc and become a .misc...
.us namespace is ment to work. But this namespace is largly ignored.
Problem is that
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence.
This already the way the
I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
Plenty of people have though of it, in some parts of the world things were even done that way. However at some point things went seriously wrong, probably the point at which names began to be seen as land/mineral rights rather than addresses/telephone numbers.
I think it should be the other way around. The nature of the internet is global, as you point out initially. I feel psychologically, it would feel less so if I was told where the domain was (.uk, .usa, .canada).
But most DNS names relate to physical entities. Very few commercial entities are even capable of operating globally. Typically they are restricted by geography (or currency).
Even supposed abstracts such as books, music, TV and films tend to be made avaliable in a way which follows geography.
There's all sorts of .coms and .orgs etc that are not in the US. That's the whole point of leaving out geographical suffixes.
The problem is that a great many of these might actually be better off with geographical suffixes. If their area of interest is geospecific
A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a .com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the .ca, or .com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
.la.ca.us.
.gov and and .mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the .gov.us and and .gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
.edu.
Also there are plenty of companies, especially in large countries, such as US, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc, who's operations are strictly sub national.
Another point is that US cities shouldn't be able to hijack the domain names of other nations, just because they don't like
The
The same reasoning can probably be applied to
Well actually anyone can get a .com, .net or .org domain :P
.com is obtained by a commerical entity it need have no relation to the name of the entity.
Which is part of the problem. Also even if a
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Julian Jaynes has an interesting take on the creation of religion in his book, The Origins of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
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This such a straw man: If they have abusive boyfriends, they need to be offered to chance to get away and escape the abuse - just like all the abused women not involved in the porn industry! The fact that they're abused is the crime.
If they have a habit, they need the chance to get rehab. If they weren't doing porn for a fix do you think they'd just quit "cold turkey"? Of course not.
Taking advantage of people in need isn't limited to the porn industry you know.
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How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
So many faults, so little time:
1. Sodomy is a natural act because it occurs "naturally". For example, most mammals will happily bugger each other. They don't do it because they're too stupid to find the right hole (well, some of them might), they do it because they have a "natural" desire to fqck things (normally other creatures of the same species).
2. Sodomy is not "extremely dangerous" as long as you have an modicum of common sense.
3. Sodomy is not always painful. Lots of people actually like it. Gosh! isn't it an awful world outside!
Any more fundy illusions you want shattered?
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No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
Director D obtains goatse.cx style pictures of actress A1 and actor A2. D blackmails A1 and A2 into doing his next film F. Film F is widely acclaimed as the finest peice of cinema ever made, and even the public love it. All agree that it is a fantastic piece of art. When details of the blackmailing emerge, all are shocked. However, all agree that the artistic merits of the film are unchanged. All apart from Jon Erikson that is, who holds that because of the blackmail, the quality of the film is now lower, and the film is now cr4p.
Move over logic, here comes the revisionism!
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Good points, kindof. For the first paragraph, it is again some porn. I've seen playboy. Only a idiot (or a rich male model) could read it and honestly think that the models inside would jump on them given half a chance!
For the second, you write if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view, where you mean some men. Now maybe you can claim that porn is so dangerous that the effect it has on these people means it should be made illegal, but that's a whole new arguement. The same one can be made for alcohol (some people get addicted), cars (some people drive badly), and having children (some people are bad parents)...
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If they do it just because they want to fqck things, then it is because they're too stupid to tell the difference
;-)
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. For the "buggerer", anal sex counts as a fqck as much as vaginal sex. Therefore they can both want to fqck things, and bugger. There is no contradiction.
- they don't make a conscious choice between the two, they just go for it.
They don't make a conscious choice at all because they aren't concious.
Lot's of people really like to eat other people,
No they don't. Very few people like to eat other people. So, other than being completely wrong, thanks for playing
Tales from behind the Lagom Curtain
Some might think that his bio itself is a troll. After all, if you're not happy with all the liberals in the states, why on earth would you move to the UK? Surely Iran would be much better (I guess it's just a shame there aren't waco fundy christian states to move to).
Regarding the post, I think it's clearly a troll becasuse he states pornography is used for "the gratification of men unable to find themselves a loving wife." implies that anyone "using" porn is unable to find a "loving wife". Given the widespread "usage" of porn, that's clearly flamebait IMO. Also "pornography is nothing more than a perversion of His [gods] vision for us". Stating such contentious beliefs (porn not used by men with a loving partner, the existance of god) as facts can only be a troll; anyone else would have put "I beleive", "IMHO", or somthing else along those lines in there.
As far as exploitation of women in porn goes, I wish people would realise that there are two issues here: exploitation AND porn:
Some people drive too fast in their cars. The cars aren't wrong, it's people driving too fast.
Some people steal because they want to be rich. It isn't wanting to be rich that's wrong, it's stealing.
Some women are exploited in the porn industry. It's not porn that's wrong, it's the people who exploit women.
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Tales from behind the Lagom Curtain
Given that pornography is designed to help men spill their seed, and that any man with a wife won't have any need to debase themselves in such a way, it therefore follows that pornography is for people who are unable to find themselves a wife.
;-) How does gay (male) porn exploit women? It doesn't, your statement is (again) false. You might be under the impression that all pornography is of the "18 blokes+ 1 little girl all-out gangbang" type, but you're (fortunately) wrong.
What a small mind you must have. Perhaps some people like both? Perhaps some people have wives that whilst loving the man, are unwilling or unable to have sex with them (for example after abuse, rape or physical disability)? Perhaps the couple are physically seperated for a period of time? Perhaps the man doesn't have bizarre hangups about it? Perhaps his wife likes it? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
The point is that your premise, that any married man can get as much sexual gratification from his wife as he needs and therefore doesn't need porn is both wrong, and (ironically) disrespectful to women.
Onanism is quite obviously a tool designed by the Devil to turn one's thoughts away from salvation towards more earthly pleasures.
[You get +1 troll point] If I never think of salvation when I'm having sex, does that mean that "obviously" sex must be a tool of the devil designed to turn my thoughts away from salvation? In fact I hardly ever think about salvation, so obviously almost everything is designed by the devil (he should have patented some of it).
Bzzt! Wrong! The porn industry by definition exploits women
I'm wrong
If I was offered $1 million for playgirl style photos of myself, I might or might not do it, but I certainly don't think I'd feel "exploited" if I did. Why do you think women are any different? Perhaps the answer is in this comment "from exploiting women's naivety and greed all the way up to the use of force and drugs to ensure cooperation" You seem incapable of seeing the fact that women, as well as men have minds of their own. Some people will have sex in front of a camera for money. They might be greedy, or they might not share your particular moral code. Being different to you isn't the same as being abused.
Tales from behind the Lagom Curtain
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
It occurs in nature, therefore it is a natural act.
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Hmm... admittedly, for a lot of dot-coms that's actually literally true - or at least they probably *paid* more for the domain than they ever earned back. So hey, sure, why not codify that into case law as well? And what a business plan: "Sure, I'll license you to use the name ThisDomain.com next year - in exchange for 105% of the revenues you earn from it. Sound fair?" What a screwed up system.
It's not that hard to find evidence of corecion and exploitationin the porn industry, unless of course, you don't want to see any
As well as in the real estate industry, politics and law enforcement. Exploitation isn't a symptom of pornography, its a symptom of humanity. Pornography just makes a great target due to the bizarre irony in our culture that everyone is either having sex or wanting to have sex, yet sex is taboo. Christ, even kids who haven't learned a damn thing about the world start getting horny and staring at fine members of the opposite sex, or same sex for some. That's the curse we bear for being human. In the words of George Carlin, "There are far worse things that you can to do another person than giving them an orgasm."
To those of you unfortunate enough to grow up in a climate of repression and hate: don't worry, sex won't destroy the world, burn down the rain forests and upset Baby Jeebus(tm); it'll just make you a bit happier and a bit sleepier if you just have the courage to let it.
Deosyne
Why base the net on geographic location? I think the original idea of basing TLDs on content is the best way to go. We need to enforce the content restrictions (.com for business, .org for organization etc) and we need to make sure registrants have good security.
Geographically based domains will make finding websites difficult, if not impossible, will make it possible to over tax businesses (as already mentioned) and any possible ways of making money on the web will disappear. I'm not a fan of e-commerce at all but I think that if there weren't any at all that the internet wouldn't be near what it is today (of course we'd probably have intellegent people on it too but that's a different angle :)
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
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in other news, the Micro-Soft Insect Pillow Co. has won back the right to the microsoft.com domain which they originally registered in 1990.
/. censor-trolls would prefer to keep this under wraps.
Obviously the
Corollary to Moore's Law: The IQ of new computer owners is declining.
Now the sex.com domain can be used as was intended, and not as some evil porn site.
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They have to have a STUDY tell them that?
get 0wned. irc.w30wnzj00.com
Upon entering the site, without a warning I might add, I was greated by naked women, and an offer to "Cum inside Latin virgins"
Oh, did I mention that this dosn't attempt to disuade minors from entering?
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Nice to see a federal judge treat domain names like real estate. Hopefully this sends a signal to Network Solutions that domains are not "like telephone numbers". I'll see your circuit court judge and raise a US district court judge.
I thought you didn't watch porn (you said in your earlier response) - or are you going to use the old "it was part of the movie" line?
I don't, but I have seen films that came close to the line. Needless to say, at that point I switched them off.
Throughout history pornography was more of an art form to celebrate the beauty of god's creation ; it's merely with advanced technology that it's become what it is today, which is different.
No. Michaelangelo's David is art celebrating the beauty of God's creation, Debbie Does Dallas is just immoral smut designed to appeal to the pruriant tastes of sad lonely men. There can be no artistic merit in films made with exploitation and abuse.
Now this is a very bad comment to make. It's arguable whether you know what Christianity actually is, after reading this statement. Are you saying Catholics, as opposed to Protestants, worship multiple gods? Elaborate......
Catholics venerate the saints, and the Virgin Mary. Indeed, in the confessional they place Mary on the same level as the Lord, obviously in direct contradiction with the Ten Commandments. Hence, they are really no more than a cult with Christian pretensions.
Above all, remember that you should never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right.
Sorry, but your morals dictate what is right. That should be obvious, even to an unbeliever!!!
Jon Erikson, IT guru
If you count living in Mexico with the $40,000,000 they can't touch in off shore bank accounts being punished.
It's good to see the legal owner got control of his site back but that was after he was forced to spend three years in court and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. Granted he'll now make tens of millions from the domain name but it's still got to be a bittersweet victory.
"We're working on a deal (for content on)
You don't normally see women orientated stuff on sex sites? No wonder all those large-pink-area filters don't work - they shouldn've been scanning for goatporn all along.
Posted early enough for the karma rich first few minutes, mentioning goatporn for a clear demotion under grounds of karmawhoring.
Actually, it's a positive feedback loop. Negative feedback works to cancel the orignal disturbance while positive feedback reinforces the original disturbance. In your example the subject is led through frustration to do more of what made him frustrated in the first place: positive feedback. This positive feedback will lead to oscillation if the system's loop-gain is greater than 1.
I find the domain name sex.org to be considerably more amusing.
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I love the smell of Karma in the morning
Oh it's easy for you to assume that just because it doesn't fit in with your wonderful, liberal view of life that it's got to be a troll. Far easier than actually trying to come up with some facts to support your position, right?
.... his wife and children, .... --he cannot be my disciple."
Ok, you might want to take a look at this story on sexuality over at Kuro5hin. It's a fascinating read, one of the best things I've seen there in a while. Chock full of hard facts about the intrinsic need for sexual release in human beings.
You're not worth arguing with. You'll just apply the word "liberal" to any evidence to any argument you don't like, just like you have in all three of your posts so far.
Furthermore, your argument seems to be based on a particular pseudo-literalist reading of the Bible, so it's not like the discussion would go anywhere.
Expedited discussion with this troll:
1. I'm going to have a little fun, and quote 1 Corinthians 7:1 "Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry", the standard justification for primacy of celibacy over marriage, and tell you that if you really wanted to take the word of God to heart you would forsake all physical pleasure, even with your wife. I'll further support my claim with Luke 14:25-27: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate
2. You're going to writhe and scream and complain and try and explain I'm distorting the passage. You might quote me Shakespeare, and say that "the devil has the power to quote scripture" thinking you have a biblical comeback. You might quote 1 Corinth 7:2-5 as a better retort.
3. Then I'll say Christ makes clear in 7:6-7 that permanent non-marriage is a preferable state.
4. Then you'll invent a new complaint to justify ignoring the passages of the bible you dislike. Of course, by disregarging only one passage, you've kind of shot your argument that we should blindly use the Bible as a set of rules without thinking - if it's wrong there, why isn't it wrong about pornography? (Of course, the bible never mentions pornography, you can borrow the inferential references which conservative theologians find to justify anti-pornographic positions.)
5. I'll be sick of the discussion and won't reply because you will ignore any other facts I introduce into the discussion or attach the word "liberal" to them, as if I should run in terror at being called such a horrible word.
There, we condensed in all down into one post. Wait I think I got a patent idea... Expedited troll conversations via prediction of troller/trollee responses.
Natural is not the same as moral or good.
Take, for example, a tiger attacking a deer. It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the animal on the receiving end and causes pain. It is perfectly natural.
So what is a "natural act"? Animals (apes, elephants, rodents) engage in sodomy. Surely that's natural?
Sex is not just for procreation. If it was, we would, like most animals, only have sex when fertile. This is not the case. It is also for bonding.
I see nothing wrong with sodomy, as long as everyone involved is consenting. "Brutal sodomy" with it's implication of non-consent I would definitely count as wrong.
But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Well, first off, I'd recommend calling brutal sodomy "morally reprehensible", as it is arguably a perfectly natural act (though, again, generally held as morally reprehensible.)
There are people out there firmly entrenched in the belief that conservative attitudes about sex are both healthier and morally higher, and that pornography is somehow "deviant" and "unnatural". These same people generally feel perfectly justified in pointing towards the most deviant, reprehensible acts of violent, aberrant behavior as prime examples of what pornography is. This is unfair.
It'd be somewhat akin to me calling Christianity a horrible, disgusting cult which has mercilessly slaughtered countless women and children over centuries in the name of appeasing an unseen deity. I'd be ignoring the fact that some of the world's greatest and most generous groups and individuals have acted out of their love of the Christian god. There is no "so, which is it, then?" It's both. Should we outlaw Christianity or claim that it's the most wonderfullest thing ever? Neither. It has both good and bad elements, people who respect it and people who abuse it.
The same holds true for pornography. While you are quick to point out that having people abused into pornography and tortured in front of a camera is (surprise) bad, the same moral compass cannot be used to denounce, say, a video made willingly (and happily) by a married couple for distribution in adult video stores. What is so unnatural (or rather, morally reprehensible) about that?
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And I urge you to write every Christian minister you know to put their talents to good use, rather than continuing the vicious cycle of ignorance and hatred.
Last I heard, coercision and exploitation has existed in 'religion' for centuries.
When will they return the slashdot domain to those people that posted interesting stories ?
Would you like a lesson in Religion? Ok here...
Religion and the concept of God(s) were started thousands of years ago to control people. Think about this. You are a peasant under the service of some king 3000+ years ago. Living conditions are horrible etc... you are not happy and neither are the thousands of other peasants like you. You all outnumber the King and his nobles etc. So as the King and Nobles see this and are scared. How can we control the peasants and make sure they do not revolt. (thinking....) AHA Offer them something that CANNOT be proved. In comes God(s) and religion.
"How would you like to be in Paradise. A Place where you are the happiest you can ever be. You have no worries and you are with God. God loves you and will take care of you after you die. Now here is the catch. God loves you but wants to make sure YOU love him back so there are rules that you must obey while you are alive. You have to conform to the religion and do everything the religios leaders tell you to do (nevermind for thousands of years that religious leaders were appointed by Kings etc). You have to be a good person to society etc. Most of the rules were made to keep society stable. If society is stable and happy (looking forward to living in eternal happiness) the chances of revolts are smaller.
So if you obey these rules and live your life in a good way when you die you will go to heaven etc. This is GENIOUS plan and it WORKED. Give the people something that cannot be proven. You cannot prove heaven. You cannot prove God, and you cannot prove any religion is real or true. So how do we get around this, easy PEOPLE MUSH HAVE FAITH! By showing you have FAITH in God you are showing that you love him(her) and want to go to heaven.
This is beautiful plan, it worked and still continues to work. Religion is the biggest con in the history of humanity. If you ever read and reserach why and how the concept of religion started it will make you think twice about the whole concept.
Arathres
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the register's story
Only if he was a complete idiot when signing the contract with the lawyer.
Yes, some standpoints are more popular than others. But that does not give you any reason to claim that there's a double standard unless you find concrete examples that the same people are supporting mutually contradictory standpoints.
As for the case here: Sure there's exploitation in porn. Sure there's exploitation in politics. And there's exploitation practically everywhere else too.
Whether that is relevant in a discussion of whether porn is bad or not, depends on whether you or someone else can show that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and if so that that extra exploitation is an inherent feature of porn, and not of specific companies or persons in the porn business.
It is also too easy to say that "she's a drug addict, so she must be exploited since she's working in porn". That is making the assumption that because someone is working in porn, and has a problem, they must automatically have been exploited. In reality there's also other possibilities:
It might be easier for someone with problems to get work in porn, since the porn business is used to stigma, and may look more favorably on other people that are stigmatised than mainstream businesses. It may be that the person doesn't have any moral objections to working in porn.
Unless you claim that hiring someone with drug problems or other problems is inherently exploitation, then making the assumption that it is inherently exploitation if they're hired to do porn require more arguments to back it up.
If someone presents evidence that there's more exploitation in porn than elsewhere, and that is a result of porn in itself and not specific players in the porn business, then yes, porn might be bad.
So far I haven't seen anyone even trying to address that question, however - the focus is normally on equating porn with exploitation without looking at who is exploiting and why, to try to find out whether the exploitation is an inherent problem with porn or with specific companies or people.
If the case is that the exploitation is a result of specific players in the business, then go after those players - force them to comply with the appropriate laws - instead of whine about the product.
So what do you value more? Intelligence and strength of character, or mindless insect pleasure? It's entirely possible to balance the two, but if you go toward either extreme, you must give up some of the other.
I value intelligence and strength of character and freely chosen pleasure most. And I see it as a clear sign of intelligence and strength of character to have broken free from religious dogma, which is basically what I said in the post you replied to.
You said yourself: "As intelligent beings, we are naturally predisposed to be biased towards anything that gives us pleasure"
However, this I disagree with. Most beings, intelligent or otherwise, seek pleasure. That is one of the primary reasons sexual acts for instance typically bring pleasure: we are more likely to reproduce if the immediate act of reproduction produces a benefit for us.
Intelligent beings, on the other hand, explicitly plan their lives to increase pleasure, and to create situations and stimuli that create pleasure - such as porn.
If anything, porn is tool created specifically to give pleasure.
The weakness lie in those who accept outside pressure to let their lives be controlled, instead of choosing to live their own lives and seek pleasure.
To put it short: I value those who break with religion, and lead their lives in a way that give them pleasure and fulfilment, whether sexual or spiritual, provided they don't step on other peoples chances of the same by doing so.
Religion is oppression.
This argument assumes whoever you're arguing with believe in the christian God, and care about the silly procreation argument.
It also assumes that there exists no pornography depicting the joys of procreation in a marriage.
The first is a belief that certainly has no proof, and which a great deal of humanity simply rejects.
The argument that sex is only for procreation assigns a purpose to nature, which either implies that nature is sentient, or implies a creator, which brings us back to the first argument - it's just as disputed, and certainly not proven in any way. For those of us who prefer evolution, sex is there because it works as a driving force to get living beings to procreate. And it gives pleasure because that makes it more likely that we'll procreate. But neither assigns any purpose to it. Unless you believe in a deity, sex is just a process, and have no more purpose than the oceans or the stars.
If you want to argue that since sex allows us to procreate, then procreation is it's purpose, even if it wasn't conceived by someone who assigned for a purpose, then you can just as well argue that since sex give us pleasure, then pleasure is also one of the purposes of sex. Seeings as sex is a driving force behind much of the work of man, it can even be said to be a very important purpose.
This argument can just as well be applied in the case of the existence of a "God" as well: If this God fellow didn't intend for people to have sex for fun he must be a complete idiot for making it so much fun. If sex has procreation as its purpose because procreation is one of its functions, then sex can just as well have pleasure as a purpose because pleasure is one of its functions.
You also assume that promiscuous behaviour is "dangerous idea for any society that wishes to hold itself to any kind of moral values". But that is simply wrong. It may be dangerous for a society that wishes to hold iself to any kind of christian moral values, but you are making the assumption that anyone else will share your view of what "any kind of moral values" is.
You go on to criticize even porn made willingly and happly by a married couple:
Because sex is not something to be used to satiate the urges of weaker people. That is pure and simply immoral.
Again you're assuming everyone else share your views about what is moral. You are not explaining what is unnatural or morally reprehensible, as the previous poster asks you to, instead you're just giving the blanked response that it's bad because it violates your morals.
Assuming that we agree with you that people who like porn are "weaker people" (weaker than who? The couple making the video? Presumably if they're happily making porn they like porn themselves), that still leaves us with the question of why it is bad to "willingly (and happlily)" (to quote the previous poster) do something to satiate the urges of those "weaker people"?
Unless you claim that seeing people have sex is somehow harmful?
But back to the "weaker people" part. Presumable this comes from some illution that people who watch porn are lost souls who don't believe in God.
In my eyes, if they've "lost" their faith, that makes them stronger, not weaker: They've managed to break free from the indoctrination of dogma, and to stop relying on a book of mutually inconsistent and ridiculous stories to find meaning in their lives.
Thus, that argument too breaks down if people don't agree with you from the start.
If you want to convince anyone who doesn't already share your beliefs, you better try some arguments that doesn't depend on conservative christian beliefs from the outset...
What happens is that if a man views porn regularly, he gets a very distorted view of sex and women, which can cause two things. First he will treat women that do allow him to become close to them in ways that are (for many women) highly inappropriate, which is abuse of those women, and damaging to an otherwise good relationship. And secondly he will be approaching all women with this distorted view, which will cause him to find it more difficult to form relationships with women, and lead back, via frustration, to yet more porn. Its a negative feedback loop, and one that some men find very hard to see their way clear from. This is potentially harmful and dangerous to these men and the women around them.
Can you please point us to ANY credible research that shows that this is the case, please?
This is an old argument, and I have yet to see any evidence for it. Several researches have concluded the opposite: That pornography serve as a healthy way of getting fantasies "out of your system", to prevent them from affecting your daily life.
Note also one of the classic mistakes made in much of the research of this issue: Many reports have described high usage of porn by rapists, and equate that with porn causing or contributing to the rape.
But those numbers are also consistent with the suggestion above that pornography serve as a way of getting fantasies out - if that is correct, then it would be natural to also find a high consumption of pornography by people who have used it to try to stay under control, but that have failed.
For a study to present credible evidence on any connection as mentioned above, the very least they would have to do would be to find a random sample of people that do use porn and a random sample of people who dont use porn, and let parts of the group that does use porn stop using it, and parts of the group that does not use porn start using it, and follow the resulting four groups over a prolonged period of time to see whether members of any of the groups are more or less likely to get abusive or to get problems handling relationships.
This page presents some research (mostly supportive of porn). If you have any specifics criticism of the research presented there, or any credible research showing different results, I'd like to see references to it, to take a look at it.
You are also making the typical mistake and assuming that porn is only consumed by men, when the major market for mainstream porn videos is couples, and videos for use by couples are typically chosen and bought by the woman.
The major reasons couples cite for watching porn together? To inject fantasies and excitement into their relationship, and to explore sides of each other they do not yet know well. In other words: To get closer. How that is detrimental to a relationship, I fail to see. I can however agree that that some couples choose to do so does not mean it's right for everyone.
SEX.COM . . . Just yet another in the long and never-ending list of disputed domain names due to copyright, trademark, previous ownership, domain-squatting, and other disputes that are becoming more common every day. Most of these problems are, of course, based on USA laws.
After several years of thought on how this whole issue could be addressed, I now have a few ideas.
First, we need to do away with all *.com, *.org, *.net, *.gov, *.mil and *.gov. These are all US-centric, and since the internet is global, are inappropriate.
My ideas lean towards the Canadian system, but somewhat different. A top-down system, from more general to more specific. An important part of my idea is that **ALL** domains should end in the two-character country codes that are already established. A few examples...
Coca-Cola (A US based corporation)
cocacola.com.us
coke.com.us
--And since they have a presence in many other countries,
coke.com.au cocacola.com.au
coke.com.uk cocacola.com.uk
coke.com.jp cocacola.com.jp (Which should be in Japanese, with links to other languages, as all should be.)
English Parliament
parliament.gov.uk
Bob's Lemonade Stand, Atlanta Georgia, USA
bobslemonade.com.atlanta.ga.us
Of course there are some holes in my argument here... I typed this up quickly to get my point across. But this will allow domains to be controlled by the laws of the country, or even locality, in which the laws are relevant. As exmaples, domains under:
*.ky.us -- Would first be under state law of Kentucky, then under Fedral law of USA.
*.melbourne.au -- First under local Melbourne law, then under national law of Australia.
*.atlanta.ga.us -- First under Atlanta city law, then under Georgia state law, then under US Federal.
I simply can't think of a better system to use to allow for local laws and regulations to be enforced, and yet allow for national corporations to have a world-wide presence. I beileve this is the type of system that should have been implemented from he beginning, but at the time no one had the foresight to see that the internet and the web would become what it has today...
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I remember Network Solutions was also sued first, but Kremen lost his case there.
Personally I think Network Solutions should be paying some money out to Kremen also. Why? Because these bastards have been the source of a bunch of dns mess-ups. They don't give a shit about your registration. If they lose it or gives it to someone else, oh well... that's that. NetSol needs to be slapped hard to teach them a lesson well overdue.
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eTrade SUCKS
And this is a troll how? The guy states an opinion based on his convictions (read his user bio) and it's a troll. Looks like we found another sacred cow for /.ers. Hey, don't diss the porn, man.
As far as all of the posts touting the benefits of porn go, don't be so naive as to think that it's all willing women happily gulping jizz. Yep, some, maybe even most, are willing, but if you think coercion and exploitation don't happen in the porn industry, you must just be another Kansas farm boy who believes everything they read in Playboy. Take them rose colored condoms off and wipe the cream off your monitor.
Remember something.
No one is forcing any of these women to be involved in pornography. They do it of their own free will.
No one forces you to look at pornography either.
The word SEX is synonomous with pornography on the internet. That is what makes that domain name so valuable. Would you urge "right thinking" slashdotters to email the webmaster of www.bigdicks.com urging him to put the site to good use?
Of course. And none of them are forced into this kind of degrading behaviour by abusive boyfriends or drug habits at all are they? I think you're being far too naive about the depths to which the porn business will sink to obtain its multi-billion dollar revenues.
I truly cannot feel sorry anything a person does to support their drug/gambling/goatsex habits. Once again that is something they started themselves.
And I don't. But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Nothing natural about it at all. But there isn't anything "Natural" about driving a car, having a job, or reading slashdot. Calling something unnatural doesn't really mean anything at all.
(I actually do disagree with anal sex for biblical reasons myself, but that is MY CHOICE, and it is not my right to enforce my choices or my morality on others).