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'Dangers of the Internet' Resolution Passed By Senate
destinyland writes "Apparently June is national 'Internet is Dangerous' month. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging Americans to 'learn more about the dangers of the Internet.' And what counts as a danger? Disabling censorware, or making friends online if you ever plan to meet them in real life. Its extreme negativity is disappointing. But remember — it passed unanimously. From the tech blorge article: 'It's not just a resolution. A few corporations are actually trying to cash in on this misguided disinformation campaign, including BSafe Online, a Tennessee company which markets a PC filtering software. (I wonder if it's one of the ones that can be disabled by 31% of America's teenagers...) Their CEO has an encouraging message for parents about safety on the internet. "This is a battle they must fight everyday with their children in order to keep pornographers, sexual predators and cyber-bullies at bay." And keeping those pornographers and sexual predators away will cost you a mere $70 a year...'"
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It's dangerous to everyone.
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One way those who want corruption in government achieve their goals is finding ways to prevent intelligent people from being elected, and helping un-intelligent people be elected.
We are seeing now the effects of years of effort by the forces of corruption. The people who are supposed to be leading our country are ignorant and mentally weak, and don't even hire smart people.
This resolution says, "We in the senate are stupid, and we think you are even more stupid, because we think we can manipulate you to get votes."
Judging by the way a lot of those products are released, it appears they are being designed and marketed by bad parents as well
Living With a Nerd
The "Three Rules of the Internet"
... some dude. ... some dude ... an FBI agent
1) Every guy is
2) Everyone claiming to be a woman is
3) Everyone claiming to be a small child is
I tried to tell The Internet to stop, but it kept beating on my best friend Jake. He was beaten to a pulp, Jake's blood ran down the streets of the Information Superhighway like water down Niagra Falls. Just when I thought the beating was over, The Internet pulled out a 9mm Glock and fired two shots into the head of my best friend. The Internet dropped the gun on the floor and walked out Michael Corleone-style. On that day I swore revenge.
But Bush recently came out and said it was sad that the Democrats are using fear for political purposes. Im so glad we have such a level headed commander who tells it like it is.
Won't somebody please think of the profit margins?
So, this one day, I'm just chillin on my laptop, like usual, and I open up some new fangled thing called a bloog? a blorg? Whatever. Anyway, so I open up this bloogleborg, and TUBES LEPT OUT OF MY COMPUTER AND SODOMIZED ME .
This is serious business people. I had a friend get his house robbed by an Internet that one of his friends sent him. The dangers of the internet are no laughing matter, I know from experience!
The above may have actually been a quote from the debate (if there was any) leading up to this senseless resolution. It kind of shows what happens when you let a bunch of people who formed their ideas about how the world works under the Eisenhower administration run everything 50 years later, and it's damn depressing. The outcome is the same as it would be if you let your grandma's nursing home bridge group make InnerTubes (tm) policy for the country. Of course, it's also the natural outcome of letting a government become so large and expansive that it's willing to make vast pronouncements from on high about things that it knows absolutely nothing about, because, well, it's FOR THE CHIRREN!!!!
Are there dangers associated with the Internet? Of course there are. Life is dangerous. You go outside, you can be hit by a car. You stay inside, a meteor could come crashing down on you. Eat some food, could be poison! There are always risks. The way to NOT get screwed by cars/meteors/poison/interwebz is not to scream about how the things themselves are dangerous, because that's silly. Cars and houses and sidewalks and computers and guns (that's right, guns) are all things that will cause no harm when you a.) know how to use them, and b.) aren't stupid about it. Yes, you should not let your children go to www.wantsomecandylittleboy.com . You should also not step on the accelerator in the middle of a traffic jam.
I don't even know why I need to explain this. Is this the end time?
That's almost as much as I spend on pornography!
I quit!
How much for the opposite?
Hey some of us are a little wierd. We LIKE sexual predators after us, and funneling all that porno to my machine makes life easier.
now to make sure the wife doesntknow I am saying this... I'll post Anon...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Equally important, June is "Accordian awareness" month.
I met my wife online and my wallet has been terrorized ever since!
10 PRINT "You are a good parent."
20 GOTO 10
What d'ya reckon?
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I love how this reads like an extortion racket. Who's to say that these pornographers aren't the same people creating the filtering software? After all, they would know exactly how to filter out what they sell.
"Hey lady, those are some nice kids you got there. T'would be a shame if they happened to see porn, wouldn't it?"
You forgot something:
30 PROFIT
Sorry I can't make it, but I'll delete some e-books if that will help. Just email them to me.
Once upon a time, back in my cowboy days, I was riding the virtual light with my Ono-Sendai cyberdeck, trying to crack the Greater Metropolitan Fission Authority, when I came across some real nasty Black Ice. The 'trodes on my forehead starting to tingle as my wetware started to sizzle. Dixie Flatline bailed me out, though, and that's how I became the only street samurai to survive braindeath.
I came back with a Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Chinese Icebreaker.
Er, you mean they'll never make any? ;)
You can't get to PROFIT before you actually do the job you're supposed to be doing! What are you trying to pull?
You damn kids. In my day we did it with tape drives! (granted, those were very early days even for me, but still!) Nothing beats waiting half an hour for a 5k program to load.
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