If there's twice as many of us as there are of you, why shouldn't we stop you from doing things that we think are yucky? You shouldn't want to do them anyway, because we don't.
Thank you, you wrote exactly what I would have if I wasn't being ironic.:)
And frankly, I can handle Christian-based laws (to an extent). It's things like Sharia law that really scare me. I'm not keen on things like my wife being legally stoned to death for marrying a non-Muslim.
By analogy, it's also acceptable for a cartoonist to draw 13-year-old girls being strip searched as long as it's for a living and not for their own gratification.
I agree with your conclusion, don't get me wrong - but I can't help thinking that your argument boils down to "if a decision is going to screw a subset of the population, don't let them in on the decision-making process".
It does seem like they need to focus the law to deal with the sexualisation of minors in artwork, but you do have to wonder about the motives of some of the people pushing to have this overturned.
Um, why do they need to deal with *anything* in artwork? I firmly believe that harm minimisation should be the basis of all laws, which leads me to think that while child abuse should be dealt with in the harshest possible manner, if some pedophile is sitting in his back room drawing kiddy rape scenes while NOT hanging out at the local playground or trying to lure kids into his car with candy, then he's not doing anyone any harm.
Hell, he could be getting it out of his system that way, and (if I've read correctly) pedophilia is a genuine paraphilia, in that a true pedophile can't "choose" to find mature adults attractive any more than a straight male could choose to find another straight male (or a child) attractive. That leaves the options of repression (doesn't work, witness the Catholic church's endemic child abuse), death, or finding an alternate outlet (such as paraerotic artwork).
There are only two reasons that I can think of to target completely fabricated representations of child abuse, and they are (a) the theory that such material will lead to more actual children being molested, or (b) that it's 'icky' and 'they shouldn't even be allowed to draw that'. Given the lack of evidence connecting viewing of child porn and perpetrating child abuse (other than that 'people who like abusing children probably like child porn'), I'm banking on (b).
It's amazing people still think the big oil companies killed the electric car and not the inherent difficulties of making a car run on electricity and still have an acceptable range.
No, the preconception that you HAVE to be able to travel for 600+ kilometers without refuelling, and then refuel in 5 minutes, even though 90% of your trips are most likely less than 30 miles... THAT is what killed the electric car.
Sure, for people that regularly do long trips, an electric is not _yet_ the ideal solution for an only car. But there're an awful lot of households that need a commuter that's capable of doing maybe 50 miles per day, tops, and already have a fuel car for longer or 'family' trips. Even a DC drive / lead acid battery-electric car can cover that easily, let alone one of these newfangled nano-lithium ones.
This is why a car pool wins big vs. PT. You can't really "train pool"... it's already pooled. A 4-person carpool from Redwood City to SF would cost $2/person if they split the gas.
Exactly. I don't have any experience with U.S. public transport but in Australia it seems to be priced to make it roughly competitive, if very slightly cheaper, than driving (assuming you are going to own a car anyway, if you don't own a car full stop then obviously you're going to save more money). The moment you throw a passenger into the mix, public transport rapidly becomes more expensive.
That's gonna be fun when mum's driving and dad reaches over to give her a kiss and the RFID tag on his keys gets close enough to the sensor for it to think he's driving... and it suddenly pulls the seat right back and starts cranking death metal on the radio and switches to 'performance' shocks and throttle response and disables antilock brakes and mum panics and all you can hear is the screeching and the screaming and then there's a terrible thump and it's burning and pain and the world's spinning and it's all dark and
I'm so glad I've got my car. It's an '89 Supra, and was made just before Toyota stopped putting big f**koff rubber bumpers on all their cars. It's survived a ~30km/h frontal collision with nothing worse than some flaked paint.
Exactly. That's my beef with things like this (the dash computers some cars have these days that let you flip between multiple trip meters and gauges qualify too) - that they require the user to remember too much state when they should be concentrating on the road. Any distraction at ALL is enough to noticeably impact even experienced drivers' ability to not weave all over the damn shop.
Also, a twisty knob is the simplest, easiest, most intuitive interface I've ever come across. I loved my old microwave - it had a 'duration' dial that also controlled the power. A simple 30 degree twist and the microwave was on for 3 minutes. 90 degree turn and it's on for 20 minutes. When the time was up, the dial'd returned to 0 and it turned off. Now all you can get are microwaves where you have to repeatedly press a button to add 30-second increments (at best) or press "timecook", "75%", "1", "4", "5", "go", instead of just going "twist".
Gamers using WASD? They should be using EDSF instead for more available keybinds (I tried to get used to this but WASD was already too ingrained), but that's another issue.
IAAV (I am a vegetarian) and I have no problem with leather, for exactly the reason you state. No point letting it rot if the cow's dead anyway... then again I find furs repulsive because generally fur animals are useless for food anyway, so there's no reason to kill them other than for their skins. That, and it's just icky.:P
You'll never be a car salesman.
$29,990 "drive away" for the car.*
$4,995 for the 'luxury' pack that includes the DVD player and upgraded stereo.
$7,499 for the 'sports performance' pack that supplies traction control, factory alloys and a flimsy crappy spoiler.
$995 for the 'options' pack that upgrades your car from 2 to 4 cupholders.
"Instant" finance at 15% per annum compounded hourly.
* (Of course, you're 'waiting on dealer delivery' for the basic model because it doesn't actually exist).
There's an 'on' switch that can only be worked by someone with the key (whether that be a piece of metal in the right shape, or a private RSA key matching the public key stored by the car, or whatever else).
Didn't the Roadster have a 2-speed transmission? Electric drives have a much wider torque band than petrol engines but single-speed cars still tend to top out around 80-100mph.
Exactly - the big danger with electric cars is that they can suddenly, unpredictably, and pretty much instantly go to *full power* (not full throttle as an automatic petrol car would if the accelerator went to full while in drive, but 100% torque - which is a scary thing if the car's remotely good performance.) This is one reason that AC drives are so much better than the cheaper DC drives - a DC motor controller can become a short when it fails (connecting the battery directly with the motor), whereas even if an AC controller shorts, the motor simply locks up and overheats rather than accelerating the car at full power.
Actually, the idea that Apple sees itself as some kind of BDSM dungeonmaster and that Apple freaks love the punishment that's dished out to them... kinda makes sense when you think about it.
"It just crashed and took your day's work with it, added to that you have RSI because the mouse was designed by an idiot!"
"...yeah... but... it felt SO GOOOD!"
Are you insane? O.o if I wholesale a shirt to K-Mart, they sell it and the customer brings it back, I'll refund them what they paid me. There's no way in hell they get their retail price (double or more the wholesale price) out of me though!
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/. because all the lowest UIDs would already have died from lack of reproducing... :P
Moties would never have the equivalent of
If there's twice as many of us as there are of you, why shouldn't we stop you from doing things that we think are yucky? You shouldn't want to do them anyway, because we don't.
Thank you, you wrote exactly what I would have if I wasn't being ironic. :)
And frankly, I can handle Christian-based laws (to an extent). It's things like Sharia law that really scare me. I'm not keen on things like my wife being legally stoned to death for marrying a non-Muslim.
Um... Jedi?
By analogy, it's also acceptable for a cartoonist to draw 13-year-old girls being strip searched as long as it's for a living and not for their own gratification.
I agree with your conclusion, don't get me wrong - but I can't help thinking that your argument boils down to "if a decision is going to screw a subset of the population, don't let them in on the decision-making process".
No, of course it isn't. They'd never abuse a law like that, not when it's only there to protect the children!
It's yucky and I don't like it personally so you shouldn't be allowed to do it. Decent people (like me) all agree.
It does seem like they need to focus the law to deal with the sexualisation of minors in artwork, but you do have to wonder about the motives of some of the people pushing to have this overturned.
Um, why do they need to deal with *anything* in artwork? I firmly believe that harm minimisation should be the basis of all laws, which leads me to think that while child abuse should be dealt with in the harshest possible manner, if some pedophile is sitting in his back room drawing kiddy rape scenes while NOT hanging out at the local playground or trying to lure kids into his car with candy, then he's not doing anyone any harm.
Hell, he could be getting it out of his system that way, and (if I've read correctly) pedophilia is a genuine paraphilia, in that a true pedophile can't "choose" to find mature adults attractive any more than a straight male could choose to find another straight male (or a child) attractive. That leaves the options of repression (doesn't work, witness the Catholic church's endemic child abuse), death, or finding an alternate outlet (such as paraerotic artwork).
There are only two reasons that I can think of to target completely fabricated representations of child abuse, and they are (a) the theory that such material will lead to more actual children being molested, or (b) that it's 'icky' and 'they shouldn't even be allowed to draw that'. Given the lack of evidence connecting viewing of child porn and perpetrating child abuse (other than that 'people who like abusing children probably like child porn'), I'm banking on (b).
It's amazing people still think the big oil companies killed the electric car and not the inherent difficulties of making a car run on electricity and still have an acceptable range.
No, the preconception that you HAVE to be able to travel for 600+ kilometers without refuelling, and then refuel in 5 minutes, even though 90% of your trips are most likely less than 30 miles... THAT is what killed the electric car.
Sure, for people that regularly do long trips, an electric is not _yet_ the ideal solution for an only car. But there're an awful lot of households that need a commuter that's capable of doing maybe 50 miles per day, tops, and already have a fuel car for longer or 'family' trips. Even a DC drive / lead acid battery-electric car can cover that easily, let alone one of these newfangled nano-lithium ones.
This is why a car pool wins big vs. PT. You can't really "train pool"... it's already pooled. A 4-person carpool from Redwood City to SF would cost $2/person if they split the gas.
Exactly. I don't have any experience with U.S. public transport but in Australia it seems to be priced to make it roughly competitive, if very slightly cheaper, than driving (assuming you are going to own a car anyway, if you don't own a car full stop then obviously you're going to save more money). The moment you throw a passenger into the mix, public transport rapidly becomes more expensive.
That's gonna be fun when mum's driving and dad reaches over to give her a kiss and the RFID tag on his keys gets close enough to the sensor for it to think he's driving... and it suddenly pulls the seat right back and starts cranking death metal on the radio and switches to 'performance' shocks and throttle response and disables antilock brakes and mum panics and all you can hear is the screeching and the screaming and then there's a terrible thump and it's burning and pain and the world's spinning and it's all dark and
I'm so glad I've got my car. It's an '89 Supra, and was made just before Toyota stopped putting big f**koff rubber bumpers on all their cars. It's survived a ~30km/h frontal collision with nothing worse than some flaked paint.
Exactly. That's my beef with things like this (the dash computers some cars have these days that let you flip between multiple trip meters and gauges qualify too) - that they require the user to remember too much state when they should be concentrating on the road. Any distraction at ALL is enough to noticeably impact even experienced drivers' ability to not weave all over the damn shop.
Also, a twisty knob is the simplest, easiest, most intuitive interface I've ever come across. I loved my old microwave - it had a 'duration' dial that also controlled the power. A simple 30 degree twist and the microwave was on for 3 minutes. 90 degree turn and it's on for 20 minutes. When the time was up, the dial'd returned to 0 and it turned off. Now all you can get are microwaves where you have to repeatedly press a button to add 30-second increments (at best) or press "timecook", "75%", "1", "4", "5", "go", instead of just going "twist".
Gamers using WASD? They should be using EDSF instead for more available keybinds (I tried to get used to this but WASD was already too ingrained), but that's another issue.
IAAV (I am a vegetarian) and I have no problem with leather, for exactly the reason you state. No point letting it rot if the cow's dead anyway... then again I find furs repulsive because generally fur animals are useless for food anyway, so there's no reason to kill them other than for their skins. That, and it's just icky. :P
You'll never be a car salesman.
$29,990 "drive away" for the car.*
$4,995 for the 'luxury' pack that includes the DVD player and upgraded stereo.
$7,499 for the 'sports performance' pack that supplies traction control, factory alloys and a flimsy crappy spoiler.
$995 for the 'options' pack that upgrades your car from 2 to 4 cupholders.
"Instant" finance at 15% per annum compounded hourly.
* (Of course, you're 'waiting on dealer delivery' for the basic model because it doesn't actually exist).
That's why, generally bundled with you car policy, there is another policy that cover defense and expert costs.
Let me get this straight, you need to buy insurance, from your insurer, to insure you against your insurer suing you for claiming on insurance?
F**k that, I'll just pay the mafia $100 a month. It's probably safer anyway.
There's an 'on' switch that can only be worked by someone with the key (whether that be a piece of metal in the right shape, or a private RSA key matching the public key stored by the car, or whatever else).
Didn't the Roadster have a 2-speed transmission? Electric drives have a much wider torque band than petrol engines but single-speed cars still tend to top out around 80-100mph.
Exactly - the big danger with electric cars is that they can suddenly, unpredictably, and pretty much instantly go to *full power* (not full throttle as an automatic petrol car would if the accelerator went to full while in drive, but 100% torque - which is a scary thing if the car's remotely good performance.) This is one reason that AC drives are so much better than the cheaper DC drives - a DC motor controller can become a short when it fails (connecting the battery directly with the motor), whereas even if an AC controller shorts, the motor simply locks up and overheats rather than accelerating the car at full power.
Actually, the idea that Apple sees itself as some kind of BDSM dungeonmaster and that Apple freaks love the punishment that's dished out to them... kinda makes sense when you think about it.
"It just crashed and took your day's work with it, added to that you have RSI because the mouse was designed by an idiot!"
"...yeah... but... it felt SO GOOOD!"
Well, it lets us decide whether they're devious or just stupid...
I wish I hadn't already posted, because you'd be getting a ++insightful.
Are you insane? O.o if I wholesale a shirt to K-Mart, they sell it and the customer brings it back, I'll refund them what they paid me. There's no way in hell they get their retail price (double or more the wholesale price) out of me though!