I'm the kind of person who has empathy for real people, who are living real life problems. Not to stories made up by people on the Internet in order to try to push some agenda. Like your post. None of your examples are actually real, just some hypothetical situations you came up with to try and show that you are compassionate while others aren't. In the end, you're the guy who's trying to profit from people's emotions, which you use to trap them. Congratulations on hypocrisy of your post, you have become what you try to denounce.
This guy's story is just an anecdote. He doesn't provide any true details. In the end, you take it for what it is. There's no empathy to be felt, it's a generic story about some generic person who might or might not exist and who might or might not have lived these events. I'm sorry for the state of humans nowadays, that we must try to exploit others using pain and misery, be it through abuse or through forced empathy.
So you're basically agreeing with him. Like you said, and like he said, the fact that she was pressured into it doesn't absolve her of her own responsability. The fact that the pressure might have been too much, and in the end she might not have consented with full rationnal understanding doesn't change the fact that she is ultimately responsable for what happened to her. Exactly like the shooter in the analogy, that doesn't say anything about other's responsability in this. Like everyone you disagreed with here said, she is responsable for what happened to her and the consequences are hers to live with.
You do have to admit your story is very stereotypical. We've all heard it dozens of times before. Naive country girl from a small hometown moves into LA to get into acting and along the way, flirts with drugs/alcool/porn because of peer pressure and gets in over her head. If you really expected empathy for this kind of story, which is posted all over the Internet all the time, then tough because if I had to stop and feel empathy and compassion for every SOB story ever posted on the Internet I'd probably have slit my wrists by now.
The facts remain, the crime you describe here is not Porn itself, it's not the distribution of said Porn, nor is it the production of the porn. If your story (and every other story about those poor naive country girls) is true, then the crime here is rape. There's a very big difference between your story and the sentence being discussed here, and in no way does your story say anything about the porn industry, only some individual's abuse of naive country girls.
And we come full circle back to your comment that porn that is degrading degrades all women. This is patently false. First what is degrading to you or this naive country girl might not be to someone else. Who are you to decide what is degrading to others ? Your generalisation that came from an anecdote makes your post sound more trollish than someone that actually wants to discuss the state of the porn industry, its consumers and its actors.
They fed her drugs with the intent to impair her judgement, which is illegal; they obtained bogus consent when she was unable to provide informed consent, which is illegal.
So why is it illegal for me to feed a chick booze until she passes out, then fuck her? Same shit, slightly different setting.
You're not seeing this right. All these things you say render her consent null and void and thus would mean that she should head to a Police station and file for rape charges. Not some kind of "distribution of obscene" material charges. Do you get it now ? If like you say she was forced into it, by being forced fed drugs and alcool AGAINST her consent, then the movies that were shot are not the crime itself, the rape is. Since you've changed the story around so much since people have started to call you on it (started out as a stereotypical girl from a rural area gets into the city and into porn) I'm inclined to think you're just full of shit and trying to play Devil's advocate here.
Bullshit. Now we all get to live with the consequences. We're all on this planet together.
Really ? Because I haven't had any consequences of her drinking and going into porn. That's the point. She made dumb choices, now she lives with the consequences. Legislation should not restrict everyone's freedoms based wrong choices an individual might make that only affects him/her. No where in your story do you attribute any of her downfall to anything but peer pressure. That's too bad for her that she was weak willed and couldn't see what she was getting into until it was too late, and even then, she couldn't get out before it got worse (the modeling with titties should have clued her in if that's not what she wanted to do).
It's funny, Ubuntu only offers these options when you choose Advanced mode for partitionning instead of "Let the installer do everything" mode. And then again, EXT3 is the default choice for a FS, so unless the user willingly tries to change it, he doesn't have to choose a FS. So no, he was a troll, you are a troll and the only reason Linux is failing hard on the desktop is because it's not Windows and people refuse to change their habits.
The advantage of using DIVs and CSS to format your page into columns is that you won't have a shit-ton of copy/pasting and code rearranging to do if you ever want to swap your columns around, or switch out some content from the right to the left. You just change a few lines in the CSS. If you can't see the enormous benefits this brings over Table based formatting, you have not made many changes to existing websites.
And from your CSS example, it shows. You do know about inline styles right ? You don't need to use the <style> tag at all. You can just do <span style="your CSS stuff here...">. But then again, why do it like that at all ? Even XHTML 1.0 Strict has support for the B and I tags for Bold Text and Italic Text. You can check the DTD yourself : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Strict
It might have been easy, but the privilege is afforded by the Copyright Act, so it's just false. The law is what it is, if you don't like it, change it.
Sure, a few business packages only exist for Windows. That's not what we're talking about here. For what people do at home as hobbyist or even professionally, alternatives are out there. You ignore them out of lazyness or just so you can claim you're stuck on Windows. So yes, either you are lazy or malicious.
And people wonder why the French population hates the English so much. Did it ever occur to you that we like our French employment rules because... geez... we're French ? I don't want to have to hold meetings in English because one guy refuses to learn the language of the land. When you move to Quebec, you make a conscious decision to live in a French environment. The fact that so many English insist on living here while refusing to ever learn French is mind boggling. What's so wrong with Toronto if what you want is a big Canadian city with an English environment ?
Don't pack yet. He's lying through his teeth. The entire Canadian West are basically the ones who put the conservatives in power. You can see Alberta's results here : http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/2008-ALTA.html
We'd like nothing more than to seperate from you square head idiots. But your liberal government had to spend millions and cheat us by buying votes at the last referendum. Next time, just butt out of our seperation campaign, and you'll get your wish.
I think a better question would be who's been Moonwalking after MJ popularized it. Face it, aside from the quick joke at a trophy ceremony, the Moonwalk is best left in the past, forgotten by all.
Wait, when was the last time copyright resulted in physical violence and death on living beings ? Because I think violent racism did that quite a few times in the history of the world. Are you really equating selling Blu-ray discs of Iron Man with linching a man because of the color of his skin ?
Google in good faiths removes search results when it is asked. This has been a topic of controversy on Slashdot before. Cell phone carriers have been given common carrier status because of what you refer too, usage in criminal activities. There wouldn't be a FTC statute about common carrier if there never had been a discussion about the liability of the phone providers in the first place, so your argument is really, really weak.
How does that make it spot on ? We have an example of a person using a PS3 as a Blu-ray player. The fact that you don't doesn't change the fact that there are people that do and to not count them invalidates the results in the article.
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Let the market decide. Too bad we've already been down that road and it wasn't pretty at all...
I'm the kind of person who has empathy for real people, who are living real life problems. Not to stories made up by people on the Internet in order to try to push some agenda. Like your post. None of your examples are actually real, just some hypothetical situations you came up with to try and show that you are compassionate while others aren't. In the end, you're the guy who's trying to profit from people's emotions, which you use to trap them. Congratulations on hypocrisy of your post, you have become what you try to denounce.
This guy's story is just an anecdote. He doesn't provide any true details. In the end, you take it for what it is. There's no empathy to be felt, it's a generic story about some generic person who might or might not exist and who might or might not have lived these events. I'm sorry for the state of humans nowadays, that we must try to exploit others using pain and misery, be it through abuse or through forced empathy.
So you're basically agreeing with him. Like you said, and like he said, the fact that she was pressured into it doesn't absolve her of her own responsability. The fact that the pressure might have been too much, and in the end she might not have consented with full rationnal understanding doesn't change the fact that she is ultimately responsable for what happened to her. Exactly like the shooter in the analogy, that doesn't say anything about other's responsability in this. Like everyone you disagreed with here said, she is responsable for what happened to her and the consequences are hers to live with.
You do have to admit your story is very stereotypical. We've all heard it dozens of times before. Naive country girl from a small hometown moves into LA to get into acting and along the way, flirts with drugs/alcool/porn because of peer pressure and gets in over her head. If you really expected empathy for this kind of story, which is posted all over the Internet all the time, then tough because if I had to stop and feel empathy and compassion for every SOB story ever posted on the Internet I'd probably have slit my wrists by now.
The facts remain, the crime you describe here is not Porn itself, it's not the distribution of said Porn, nor is it the production of the porn. If your story (and every other story about those poor naive country girls) is true, then the crime here is rape. There's a very big difference between your story and the sentence being discussed here, and in no way does your story say anything about the porn industry, only some individual's abuse of naive country girls.
And we come full circle back to your comment that porn that is degrading degrades all women. This is patently false. First what is degrading to you or this naive country girl might not be to someone else. Who are you to decide what is degrading to others ? Your generalisation that came from an anecdote makes your post sound more trollish than someone that actually wants to discuss the state of the porn industry, its consumers and its actors.
They fed her drugs with the intent to impair her judgement, which is illegal; they obtained bogus consent when she was unable to provide informed consent, which is illegal. So why is it illegal for me to feed a chick booze until she passes out, then fuck her? Same shit, slightly different setting.
You're not seeing this right. All these things you say render her consent null and void and thus would mean that she should head to a Police station and file for rape charges. Not some kind of "distribution of obscene" material charges. Do you get it now ? If like you say she was forced into it, by being forced fed drugs and alcool AGAINST her consent, then the movies that were shot are not the crime itself, the rape is. Since you've changed the story around so much since people have started to call you on it (started out as a stereotypical girl from a rural area gets into the city and into porn) I'm inclined to think you're just full of shit and trying to play Devil's advocate here.
Bullshit. Now we all get to live with the consequences. We're all on this planet together.
Really ? Because I haven't had any consequences of her drinking and going into porn. That's the point. She made dumb choices, now she lives with the consequences. Legislation should not restrict everyone's freedoms based wrong choices an individual might make that only affects him/her. No where in your story do you attribute any of her downfall to anything but peer pressure. That's too bad for her that she was weak willed and couldn't see what she was getting into until it was too late, and even then, she couldn't get out before it got worse (the modeling with titties should have clued her in if that's not what she wanted to do).
That was a good movie idea when it was called Deep Impact.
It's funny, Ubuntu only offers these options when you choose Advanced mode for partitionning instead of "Let the installer do everything" mode. And then again, EXT3 is the default choice for a FS, so unless the user willingly tries to change it, he doesn't have to choose a FS. So no, he was a troll, you are a troll and the only reason Linux is failing hard on the desktop is because it's not Windows and people refuse to change their habits.
The advantage of using DIVs and CSS to format your page into columns is that you won't have a shit-ton of copy/pasting and code rearranging to do if you ever want to swap your columns around, or switch out some content from the right to the left. You just change a few lines in the CSS. If you can't see the enormous benefits this brings over Table based formatting, you have not made many changes to existing websites.
And from your CSS example, it shows. You do know about inline styles right ? You don't need to use the <style> tag at all. You can just do <span style="your CSS stuff here...">. But then again, why do it like that at all ? Even XHTML 1.0 Strict has support for the B and I tags for Bold Text and Italic Text. You can check the DTD yourself : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML-1.0-Strict
It might have been easy, but the privilege is afforded by the Copyright Act, so it's just false. The law is what it is, if you don't like it, change it.
Sure, a few business packages only exist for Windows. That's not what we're talking about here. For what people do at home as hobbyist or even professionally, alternatives are out there. You ignore them out of lazyness or just so you can claim you're stuck on Windows. So yes, either you are lazy or malicious.
Fortunatly, that argument is mostly trite that gets repeated through sheer ignorance or malice.
And people wonder why the French population hates the English so much. Did it ever occur to you that we like our French employment rules because... geez... we're French ? I don't want to have to hold meetings in English because one guy refuses to learn the language of the land. When you move to Quebec, you make a conscious decision to live in a French environment. The fact that so many English insist on living here while refusing to ever learn French is mind boggling. What's so wrong with Toronto if what you want is a big Canadian city with an English environment ?
Don't pack yet. He's lying through his teeth. The entire Canadian West are basically the ones who put the conservatives in power. You can see Alberta's results here : http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/2008-ALTA.html
We'd like nothing more than to seperate from you square head idiots. But your liberal government had to spend millions and cheat us by buying votes at the last referendum. Next time, just butt out of our seperation campaign, and you'll get your wish.
Yes! I think I'll go sell some BusyBox binaries now without ever providing anyone with the source code. Thank you for teaching the way!
I think a better question would be who's been Moonwalking after MJ popularized it. Face it, aside from the quick joke at a trophy ceremony, the Moonwalk is best left in the past, forgotten by all.
Wait, when was the last time copyright resulted in physical violence and death on living beings ? Because I think violent racism did that quite a few times in the history of the world. Are you really equating selling Blu-ray discs of Iron Man with linching a man because of the color of his skin ?
Speeding is a criminal offense ? News to me.
Google in good faiths removes search results when it is asked. This has been a topic of controversy on Slashdot before. Cell phone carriers have been given common carrier status because of what you refer too, usage in criminal activities. There wouldn't be a FTC statute about common carrier if there never had been a discussion about the liability of the phone providers in the first place, so your argument is really, really weak.
Except the behavior you describe is already illegal. Facilitating a crime is a crime.
So wait, the fact that a juge is against drugs biases him against you having or not having drugs how exactly ?
Wait, the Old Land of Isreal ? It's what now, 50 years old ?
How does that make it spot on ? We have an example of a person using a PS3 as a Blu-ray player. The fact that you don't doesn't change the fact that there are people that do and to not count them invalidates the results in the article.
Wait, how do you remove the iPhone's battery again ?