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Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past"
Google's Eric Schmidt says that people's private lives are so well documented now that the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Schmidt says: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time." A fresh start from the stupid things you did as a kid seems like a good thing. Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album.
Flaming farts? Star Wars Kid?
Sex offenders... not so much.
Drawn and quartered would be a better punishment for some of them.
But on the whole, I wouldn't hire the guy who somehow thinks throwing in your neighbors windows is "acceptable" no matter your age.
Gosh, I expected an example like a kid caught skipping school, or listening to some really bad music or being drunk. Not serious crime.
Oh, I set an orphanage on fire at 16, but that is just kids being kids.
Somewhere there is a level between stuff you shouldn't have done but you grew out of it AND serious warning signs that this person has trouble separating right from wrong. And the OP crossed.
What he wants is the "no consequences" society. Where nothing is ever your fault and you should never be made to face the consequences of your actions. The kind of world Amnesty International wants were not a single criminal would ever do time because it is just to hard on them.
Sorry, but the majority says NO.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. And the time is the rest of your fucking life. On behalf of everyone who did NOT throw in their neighbors windows. GET STUFFED.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
So you're saying that people who've been victims of sex crimes would be better off if they committed suicide?
If you can't connect the dots at this point, it's because the dots are too f***ing close together.
Yeah, it'd be better if they just killed their victims.?
So you're saying that people who've been victims of sex crimes would be better off if they committed suicide?
If the person that did the sex crime killed them self? Of course that would be preferred!
Or are you just purposely redefining 'they' to be a different person, to somehow relate murder and suicide?
the sentiment is entirely true.
What a great way to argue. Bring up facts that are false, pretend they are true; when challenged, say that maybe the facts aren't really true, but I know that's what they are *really* thinking.
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I am a Christian. My beliefs are pretty strict regarding sex (it is for marriage. actually pretty simple).
Humans are a LOT of things by nature. Biblical Christianity is very clear that things that come naturally to humanity are not necessarily right... I would say they probably usually aren't right.
A lot of bad things come naturally, to. Like ... responses to adversity. Violence, even self-inflicted. I guess we shouldn't tell children that they shouldn't cut themselves. Afterall, it came naturally to them. Humans are by NATURE violent beings.
Too bad this is an entitlement generation who don't feel they should face any consequences for their actions.
Don't worry, that's going to go away with the next major economic disaster.
The next major economic disaster IS entitlement, and the hijacking of police guns to take money out of productive people's pocket to put into nonproductive pockets. Don't believe it's a police/lethal force issue? See who actually physically removes you from your home and what force is used to back up that eviction if you refuse to pay your taxes and your house is seized.
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
Now that we've allowed this n00b to deliver the coup de grace to our already beleaguered economy, can we please move on past letting every policy decision we make be dictated by liberal white guilt regarding slavery?