Well at least in the UK under 13s can't legally consent, even if they make the film themselves. OTOH they're legal at 16 here.
What would, alas, probably happen is the boy would be charged with rape (since the girl can't legally consent), put on the child protection register and if not jailed sent into care. The girl would get counselling.
If they avoided releasing the film until later the result would be the same, except the newspapers would be free to print 'CHILD KIDDIE PORN RING BUSTED!' with pictures of the male, and a mostly made up story about how he was a serial paedphile.
'intent to look at pictures of children' (is that really illegal in America?).
Yes. Or effectively it is.
When CP is involved law and due process just go out of the window. The Jury is just there to say 'Guilty' at the appropriate moment.
If you really want to finish someone off and get them out of the way, plant some CP on their machine and call the cops. Even in the *extremely* unlikely circumstance that they get off their life will be over.. they'll be hounded out of the state.
Plus any of the firefox plugins that do prefetch would have triggered it. Being convicted because your *browser* clicked on a link - now that's novel, even for the US!
Mercury in small amounts *is* safe - your body already knows how to deal with it an remove it.
I used to regularly break thermometers as a child and play with the mercury. Never hurt me at all.
As for children not eating tuna.. WTF? Is that an american thing? It's positively encouraged here because fish are extremely good for childs development.
2 year incandescents? Where the heck do you get them?
Most I've ever seen a cheap incandescent last is about 6 months. Average is about 2-3 months for the cheap ones (the *really* cheap ones you'd be replacing them every couple of weeks).. That's why before Low Energy bulbs I used to buy better quality bulbs.
Of course now I can get LE bulbs for less than I was paying for the quality incandescents, and they last a good 9 months or so.
All the ones I've seen are in boxes. I think you'd have to hit them pretty hard to break them.. I've dropped a box onto a concrete floor before now without cracking it. Groceries aren't going to do it.
Nearly all nokia phones can be flashed with the generic Nokia firmware which enables all the features.
The worst you'll have to do is change the product ID. Nokia even fix phones thus modified under guarantee (as they are running official Nokia firmware) as long as you didn't break it by fucking up the upgrade.
Of course you'll lose the T Mobile branding.. but you didn't want that did you?
Not so sure.. a penis isn't a muscle... it expands due to blood pressure not due to muscular action. An expanding material just isn't going to have the same strength.
73 percent of American adults believe in miracles.
Define miracle. I'd say it was something that wasn't explainable using the available information, or which contradicts what would normally happen. Some would just define it as something unexpectedly good.
eg. A relative recovers from cancer after the doctors said they were terminal. It happens... Aren't the relatives going to call that a miracle? An MD who specialises in cancer care could probably say why, but those people don't have that knowledge - they know the doctor (who is generally treated with reverence even today) said one thing, and another happend.
Religion and Science clash when they try to do each others' jobs. If there's a question to which current science doesn't have an answer, and we let religion answer it for us, then once science does figure out the answer, the religious should reinterpret their worldview to embrace it.
There fixed that for you. Of course that's not true of all... unfortunately the ones that won't reinterpret are the ones who often the make the most noise (particularly in the US for some reason... you have people who will boldly state the world is 6000 years old despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary).
Science should be wide open to all curiosity, humble enough to know its limitations, and bold enough to say what it knows.
So should religion. And when done right it does.
If both science and religion behave this way life would be a lot better for everyone. Of course human nature being what it is neither will... and there will be these periodic arguments on slashdot to show for it..
My first job was coding for it. I wrote a fruit machine program that was supposed to be educational (you added up the values of the reels to win or something like that). As it was too ambitious for the platform (as a noob I didn't at that time know how to 'manage' managements's expectations) it ended up in raw 6502 and loaded up different bits of itself as it was running, just to fit in the memory. Was quite proud of it actually.. I still wonder what happened to it. (For historys sake that was GSN Software that became 3T productions that then got bought out by Research Machines and presumably vanished after that).
SP1 hugely improves the memory footprint it seems... whereas on the old one it'd be in swap half the time on a 2gb laptop the new one is a lot better.
It's *almost* at the point where I'd be prepared to support it if a friend/relative installed it, but Vista is banned by corporate policy at work and I sure as hell aren't going to cripple my perfectly functional mbp with it, so maybe not.
Pyramids were entwined in the religious fabric of ancient Egypt. You could loosely compare them to cathederals - some of which took generations too build. The benefits to the builders were clear.
The NHS if horrifically inneficient, at every level. Just like a government agency in fact.
It gets cheaper healthcare, sure, but there's nothing to crow about. It's just tight budgeting. It's not 'better'. The staff are demoralised, the patients are lucky to get 5 minutes with a doctor these days (they're on quotas and must get through as many as possible) and because of this the standard response has become 'take these antibiotics and go away' - leading to other problems - not only rampant misdiagnosis, but the growth of antibiotic resistant diseases.
Case in point - prescriptions. A consultant puts you on a long term drug, but he can't issue it. That has to be done by a GP. For this they require written notice (no email, web, or phone allowed and they don't open weekends of evenings so you have to take time off work to do it). Having received this request it takes them 3-4 days to sign a little piece of paper, which you then have to take more time off work to collect, and manually walk 20 feet to the chemist next door to have it dispensed (which typically takes over an hour). This has to be repeated every month. I know, I go through the whole charade repeatedly.
The amount of waste in just that simple process is horrendous. There's also the lost work time, which doesn't get counted in the cost of the NHS but is a cost nontheless.
It's not just at the patient level - I have friends in the NHS and they talk about the stupid rules where something 1 person could do very quickly but because of the beaurocracy takes days and has to go through multiple people.
We like to think the NHS is the best in the world, but that's just the propoganda. I'd rather be treated in a 3rd world country than some of the hospitals I've seen.
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Well at least in the UK under 13s can't legally consent, even if they make the film themselves. OTOH they're legal at 16 here.
What would, alas, probably happen is the boy would be charged with rape (since the girl can't legally consent), put on the child protection register and if not jailed sent into care. The girl would get counselling.
If they avoided releasing the film until later the result would be the same, except the newspapers would be free to print 'CHILD KIDDIE PORN RING BUSTED!' with pictures of the male, and a mostly made up story about how he was a serial paedphile.
I wish I was joking, too.
constituted the thought to commit a crime
Now read that back.
1984 is upon us... just a little too late.
Vosburgh told authorities that the computer had been destroyed earlier to get rid of a virus.
I'd heard Norton could destroy computers... but Literally? Wow.
then arrest anyone who takes advantage of it, however innocently.
Walk past target area with iphone.. iphone decides to check mail... you go to jail?
Scarily enough I can imagine them doing it.
'intent to look at pictures of children' (is that really illegal in America?).
Yes. Or effectively it is.
When CP is involved law and due process just go out of the window. The Jury is just there to say 'Guilty' at the appropriate moment.
If you really want to finish someone off and get them out of the way, plant some CP on their machine and call the cops. Even in the *extremely* unlikely circumstance that they get off their life will be over.. they'll be hounded out of the state.
Plus any of the firefox plugins that do prefetch would have triggered it. Being convicted because your *browser* clicked on a link - now that's novel, even for the US!
Mercury in small amounts *is* safe - your body already knows how to deal with it an remove it.
I used to regularly break thermometers as a child and play with the mercury. Never hurt me at all.
As for children not eating tuna.. WTF? Is that an american thing? It's positively encouraged here because fish are extremely good for childs development.
2 year incandescents? Where the heck do you get them?
Most I've ever seen a cheap incandescent last is about 6 months. Average is about 2-3 months for the cheap ones (the *really* cheap ones you'd be replacing them every couple of weeks).. That's why before Low Energy bulbs I used to buy better quality bulbs.
Of course now I can get LE bulbs for less than I was paying for the quality incandescents, and they last a good 9 months or so.
All the ones I've seen are in boxes. I think you'd have to hit them pretty hard to break them.. I've dropped a box onto a concrete floor before now without cracking it. Groceries aren't going to do it.
Nearly all nokia phones can be flashed with the generic Nokia firmware which enables all the features.
The worst you'll have to do is change the product ID. Nokia even fix phones thus modified under guarantee (as they are running official Nokia firmware) as long as you didn't break it by fucking up the upgrade.
Of course you'll lose the T Mobile branding.. but you didn't want that did you?
... and they have a self healing artifical penis that expands to up to 100 times its original size.
Not so sure.. a penis isn't a muscle... it expands due to blood pressure not due to muscular action. An expanding material just isn't going to have the same strength.
Stick SP1 on (just before upgrading to XP probably, but it's worth a try). It collapses the memory usage to 'only' about 700mb on an empty machine.
73 percent of American adults believe in miracles.
Define miracle. I'd say it was something that wasn't explainable using the available information, or which contradicts what would normally happen. Some would just define it as something unexpectedly good.
eg. A relative recovers from cancer after the doctors said they were terminal. It happens... Aren't the relatives going to call that a miracle? An MD who specialises in cancer care could probably say why, but those people don't have that knowledge - they know the doctor (who is generally treated with reverence even today) said one thing, and another happend.
Religion and Science clash when they try to do each others' jobs. If there's a question to which current science doesn't have an answer, and we let religion answer it for us, then once science does figure out the answer, the religious should reinterpret their worldview to embrace it.
There fixed that for you. Of course that's not true of all... unfortunately the ones that won't reinterpret are the ones who often the make the most noise (particularly in the US for some reason... you have people who will boldly state the world is 6000 years old despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary).
Science should be wide open to all curiosity, humble enough to know its limitations, and bold enough to say what it knows.
So should religion. And when done right it does.
If both science and religion behave this way life would be a lot better for everyone. Of course human nature being what it is neither will... and there will be these periodic arguments on slashdot to show for it..
OMG the Acorn Atom. That's something I'd completely forgotten about. Didn't see many of those in circulation, though.
My first job was coding for it. I wrote a fruit machine program that was supposed to be educational (you added up the values of the reels to win or something like that). As it was too ambitious for the platform (as a noob I didn't at that time know how to 'manage' managements's expectations) it ended up in raw 6502 and loaded up different bits of itself as it was running, just to fit in the memory. Was quite proud of it actually.. I still wonder what happened to it. (For historys sake that was GSN Software that became 3T productions that then got bought out by Research Machines and presumably vanished after that).
We had 'Frak!' on the BBC at school.
:p
It was the closest we could get to swearing being teenagers in the pre-internet days
SP1 hugely improves the memory footprint it seems... whereas on the old one it'd be in swap half the time on a 2gb laptop the new one is a lot better.
It's *almost* at the point where I'd be prepared to support it if a friend/relative installed it, but Vista is banned by corporate policy at work and I sure as hell aren't going to cripple my perfectly functional mbp with it, so maybe not.
Apple already answered the 1/0 question. The answer is zero (try it on an iphone).
Pyramids were entwined in the religious fabric of ancient Egypt. You could loosely compare them to cathederals - some of which took generations too build. The benefits to the builders were clear.
reminds me of Reefer Madness
:p
The british gov. knows all about that - it's pretty much the basis of their current anti-drugs campaign
Going to the moon achieved nothing except giving a few politicians a hardon. We could have sent a robot for much less money and got the same results.
Once the ego was satisfied we sat on our arses for 50 years. Great motivation, that was.
The NHS if horrifically inneficient, at every level. Just like a government agency in fact.
It gets cheaper healthcare, sure, but there's nothing to crow about. It's just tight budgeting. It's not 'better'. The staff are demoralised, the patients are lucky to get 5 minutes with a doctor these days (they're on quotas and must get through as many as possible) and because of this the standard response has become 'take these antibiotics and go away' - leading to other problems - not only rampant misdiagnosis, but the growth of antibiotic resistant diseases.
Case in point - prescriptions. A consultant puts you on a long term drug, but he can't issue it. That has to be done by a GP. For this they require written notice (no email, web, or phone allowed and they don't open weekends of evenings so you have to take time off work to do it). Having received this request it takes them 3-4 days to sign a little piece of paper, which you then have to take more time off work to collect, and manually walk 20 feet to the chemist next door to have it dispensed (which typically takes over an hour). This has to be repeated every month. I know, I go through the whole charade repeatedly.
The amount of waste in just that simple process is horrendous. There's also the lost work time, which doesn't get counted in the cost of the NHS but is a cost nontheless.
It's not just at the patient level - I have friends in the NHS and they talk about the stupid rules where something 1 person could do very quickly but because of the beaurocracy takes days and has to go through multiple people.
We like to think the NHS is the best in the world, but that's just the propoganda. I'd rather be treated in a 3rd world country than some of the hospitals I've seen.