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The Paradox of Choice
sproketboy writes "Psychology professor Barry Schwartz has written a book which is a must read by those wanting to get Linux on the Desktop.
Dr. Schwartz examines the problem of too much choice in our society. Maybe Microsoft has it right after all?
Here's a video interview with Dr. Schwartz,
a review of the book from the New Yorker and
more info from PBS." Of course, the choice issue applies to far more than desktop computers, but is still instructive in that area. Thanks to Stefan Hudson for a SciAm story that has more information.
Read more link goes to some site, and on this page my userinfo box is aligned to the left. wtf
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Perhaps the crime most feared and most under reported is that of male on male rape, says Rob Malda in his new book Male on Male Rape: The CmdrTaco syndrome.
Like most efforts in the incipient victim's rights movement, the book and CmdrTaco's own career as coordinator of Slashdot's Rape Education and Prevention Program got their genesis in someone's own victimization and transformation as a male rape survivor. For CmdrTaco, the events leading up to and surrounding his and many other male rapes are rooted in homosexuality--the sexuality of choice for Slashdot authors.
It started for CmdrTaco in the fall of 1989 when he and his friend Hemos began their sophomore year at the Slashdot school for the sexually impaired, sharing a dormitory room at Bradly Hall and serving as President and Vice President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
As campus gay leaders they raised questions and initiated dialogue on issues about which many men on the campus felt uncomfortable, including all the men on the third floor of Bradly Hall. As a result, they received anal penetrations, reach arounds, offers to write for Slashdot, and a daily dirty sanchez from the other men on their floor. To escape the hostility, Hemos headed home for the weekend and CmdrTaco visited a gay bar. CmdrTaco meets a man there who hours later would in CmdrTaco's dormitory room would rape him. He describes dramatically how he could not call for help because he loved it too much.
"A culture that encourages and condones sexual violence wielded as a tool for the control and subordination of those with less power in our society." Basically, CmdrTaco states that he, and other flaming homosexuals use male rape as the leverage to gain control of Slashdot's readers. Slashdot has always been pro-gay, but CmdrTaco has turned the once "queers are people to" website into a man-sauce guzzling festival of uninvited anal penetration and reach arounds.
What we actually know about male rape is very little. It is, as JonKatz describes it, "something like a stack of delicious, shit crusted pancakes that I can't wait to stick my tongue into!"
His is not the first book on the subject however. Cowboy Neal, also of Slashdot fame wrote the first book in 1990, Male Rape: Breaking the Silence on my Favorite Pastime.
CmdrTaco though traverses the 20 studies that have been conducted in the past 30 years. These are the only studies that have examined the issue in a non-institutionalized setting, such as Slashdot. Here is what we do know, from the shards of information CmdrTaco expertly and exclusively narrates.
* Male rapes constitute about five to 10 percent of all rapes.
* Male rapes account for 100% of all rapes in the Slashdot community.
* Most perpetrators self-identify as "uber geeks".
* Most offenders refer to themselves as a "CmdrTaco."
* Most offenders are Slashdot readers.
* Most offenders rape out of lust or passion or sexual desire.
* Most victims state that they are only trying to "root" a victim's "box."
* When documented at all, Slashdot authors had no
Truly an Internet icon. God bless
When its hot outside and your hemmoroids are even hotter,
just look to the cool relief of Preparation-H to get
you on your way.
See what choice gets you!
and look! even YOU get to choose whether this is insightful or funny or iformative or redundant or flamebait or troll or you could even choose not to moderate or respond in any way.. you can choose to post anonymously or as your slashdot id...!
You could click your another browser button right now you could just hold your breath until your pass out!
Only *you* can choose to prevent forest fires!...or CREATE them! Do you take the one ring or destroy it!
I choose to stop now..
does it pain anyone else out there that mark has become a sellout? mister jingles should be his new name.
The social conservatives have seen this problem for years, which is why they want to undo Roe v Wade.
Yeah, off topic - I know. Whatever.
Sorry, but I do believe that Depeche Mode and Collective Sould could both be considered "pop music". Unless you're referring to Britney Spears and N*Sync as pop music, in which ignore me. Surprised you didn't get modded down for supporting RIAA artists.