For Chrissake, I can just imagine this crap 60 years ago, with people going on and on about "automobile geeks".
Automobile geek is someone who spends their entire life taking their cars apart, rebuilding them and swapping parts from one car to another, etc. Just driving them doesn't qualify as a automobile geek. Same thing with computers, if you know how to start the computer and load Word then you're not a computer geek. You have to do more.
what good is profanity? What possible purpose does it serve?
What good will come out of locking up your children in a dream world where everyone is happy and no one ever says something bad or something that criticizes the standard. I'll tell you (since this is a rhetorical question).. nothing. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
What good does it do when TV/movie characters unleash a torrent of obscenity in front of children?
When I hear the *beeep* I always try to figure out what they really said (which is not so hard most of the time, which is partly due to that they put the beep in at strange times.. someone says 'f..*beeeeeep*.k' and with not so advanced lipreading you can get the middle part). Had they just said the word I wouldn't have noticed it equally much. I don't live in USA so I can hear 'bad' words on tv so I know this. Kids aren't dumb, even if people like you seem to think so "if we don't let them see/hear this, they'll never know what it means!", they'll notice that it's something special with theses words, and especially when the adults around them look really scared and worried when they utter them. And almost all kids will do exactly what you tell them not to do.
I think that this 'ban all the nasty words' crusade has failed and only created more of them. A part of the success for South Park is that they use language not seen in other shows, and that the kids are evil (why are always kids portrayed good? Everyone who's visited/attended an elementary school the last decade knows better. Well except in "Kids" but that's on the same theme). Not saying that SP is bad, but I don't think it would have been as successful if there was alot of other shows similar to it in content.
ps. what's so radical about getting pregnant? All mothers have...
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I think if browsers allow a "short-cut" domain to be typed in, then it should be *configurable* !
Some (good) browsers does this, like opera.
Isn't this like saying that we don't need protected mode as long as all we run is good programed real mode programs that isn't written by morons.
Programs will go nuts and so will the coders, but the network shouldn't.
There are two good ways to protect from beeing taken over (no i don't count bots).
:)
1) Have a really boring channel so you don't really care if you get taken over or not.
2) When you get taken over, make no effort whatsoever to get it back, just move to another channel and continue there.
Worked great for #ZiF (which happends to be both)
For Chrissake, I can just imagine this crap 60 years ago, with people going on and on about "automobile geeks".
Automobile geek is someone who spends their entire life taking their cars apart, rebuilding them and swapping parts from one car to another, etc. Just driving them doesn't qualify as a automobile geek.
Same thing with computers, if you know how to start the computer and load Word then you're not a computer geek. You have to do more.
No, there is plenty of information on the internet besides porn.
:)
yeah, links to and "free" offers for porn
95% of the web is porn links, the rest is actually porn.
what good is profanity? What possible purpose does it serve?
What good will come out of locking up your children in a dream world where everyone is happy and no one ever says something bad or something that criticizes the standard. I'll tell you (since this is a rhetorical question).. nothing. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
What good does it do when TV/movie characters unleash a torrent of obscenity in front of children?
When I hear the *beeep* I always try to figure out what they really said (which is not so hard most of the time, which is partly due to that they put the beep in at strange times.. someone says 'f..*beeeeeep*.k' and with not so advanced lipreading you can get the middle part). Had they just said the word I wouldn't have noticed it equally much.
I don't live in USA so I can hear 'bad' words on tv so I know this.
Kids aren't dumb, even if people like you seem to think so "if we don't let them see/hear this, they'll never know what it means!", they'll notice that it's something special with theses words, and especially when the adults around them look really scared and worried when they utter them. And almost all kids will do exactly what you tell them not to do.
I think that this 'ban all the nasty words' crusade has failed and only created more of them.
A part of the success for South Park is that they use language not seen in other shows, and that the kids are evil (why are always kids portrayed good? Everyone who's visited/attended an elementary school the last decade knows better. Well except in "Kids" but that's on the same theme). Not saying that SP is bad, but I don't think it would have been as successful if there was alot of other shows similar to it in content.
ps. what's so radical about getting pregnant? All mothers have...
Doesn't have to be that hard. Configure X and xdm and similar program to work flawlessly and don't give them the root password. :)
Problem solved.