Could either be suspicious or not depending on what said map entails. Given that according to the blog it was just the main streets in town, I don't really find it that suspicious at all, though I realize we're only getting one side of the story.
Arabic stickers on laptop
The Arabic stickers were on the keyboard, which, along with the Arabic phrasebook, would seem to indicate that she was learning the language. I don't know about you, but my guess would be that most people planning to collaborate with Palestinian terrorists would be at least fluent enough in said language not need a phrase book. It's not as if she has a bunch of Arabic stickers denouncing Israel stuck to her computer.
"Fuck Star of David" pic
As per TFA:
a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David
It's not like she had some fancy logo from an Anti-Israel website saved as her background or whatever. She saw some graffiti and took a picture of it, that's it.
passport stamps from Arab countries
So legally entering and exiting these countries makes her dangerous?
various Arab publications
What the hell does this even refer to? All she mentions is an Arabic Phrasebook. You're making it sound like she's reading a signed copy Osama Bin Laden's authorized biography when all she wants to know how to do is order food and ask where the bathroom is.
photos condemning Israeli military action in Gaza
From TFA:
pictures from a photo exhibit about Israel’s January attack of Gaza
You're assuming that the photos were condemning the military action. There's no mention of whether or not they were for, against or simply neutral on the subject.
The bottom line is, the only way shooting the laptop makes any sense is if they believed that there was some kind of explosive hidden within it that needed to be safely discharged away from people and given the context, even that sounds like bullshit given that they saw the computer working. Data pertaining to terrorist attacks, etc, could simply be erased. They could have just impounded the hard drive or laptop if they found something about the information suspicious. No matter how I slice it in my head, I can't figure out why on earth they shot a fucking computer except that 1. it might be really fucking fun or 2. they were hardcore MS fanboys.
You can also elaborate on exactly how trying to make health care/insurance a government mandated "right" doesn't effectively enslave those who provide such services?
Having competent legal representation is also a right in this country. My dad is a public defender and applying your analogy to his situation, that means he's "effectively enslaved" as well. However, he's never thought of himself as a slave, because after passing the bar he took an oath to uphold the Constitution and realizes that in a system where people don't have access to proper legal representation, they effectively lose the right to a fair trial. Similarly, those in the medical profession take an oath in which they pledge to help people. While it might be all well and good to apply the egoist/Objectivist approach to procedures like breast implants and liposuction, when you consider that there are a lot of people (not just those who are irresponsible or lazy) out there with serious illnesses and are unable to afford the treatments they need, the promise to help rings hollow if people in the medical trade are going to cry foul on ideological grounds.
Real adults take care of themselves and don't look to the government for handouts.
Ever go to public school (including public universities)? Ever drive on public roads? Ever call the cops? How about social security? Will you have this opinion when it's time for you to get a check from the gov't each month? My aunt is a psychiatrist. She graduated in the top of her high school and college classes and attended Yale med school. She was recently diagnosed with cancer despite never smoking or drinking and being in good shape (she participated in several triathlons in her youth) and was almost unable to get treatment due to the current medical system in this country. When a productive, intelligent and otherwise healthy person is put in such a predicament, it's pretty clear that the system needs to be changed.
When it comes to health care, even the insured don't "take care of themselves" 100%. Most folks are pretty well dependent on their employer for insurance. If I'm seriously ill and don't like the care I'm getting, I can't take my business elsewhere because I will have a preexisting condition. People stay with jobs they hate so that they can take care of their spouses and children. This sort of "he-man" libertarianism works fine until you end up in the hospital right before you intend to change jobs.
An unsubstantiated personal anecdote and a link to a picture of cows grazing? You have forced me to seriously reconsider my beliefs. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!
Large animals, cattle, hogs, probably feel one brief instance of pain as the are slaughtered, but other than that modern
animal husbandry does not involve inflicting pain.
Citation needed. Sows are kept in gestation crates that do not even allow them to turn around and constantly pumped full of antibiotics due to unsanitary conditions. They are force-fed until their bellies hit the ground. Cows don't fare much, if at all, better.
Chickens and turkeys life in crowded areas, and occasionally stampede each other, but other than that they live
a boring but pain free existence.
You're conveniently omitting the part where they cut off the beak of the animal which causes acute and sometimes chronic pain to keep the birds from killing at eating each other due to the cramped and stressful conditions.
I do agree that this is a silly solution; the obvious logical choice is to drastically scale back the consumption of meat to alleviate the dire ethical and ecological consequences of the modern meat industry.
The system is also broken in that there is absolutely no place in it for rehabilitation.
Which is why I've never understood the point of the notifications in the first place. Either the person has been rehabilitated and shown that they can function in society or they have not. Releasing someone from prison and then requiring them to register and put up posters doesn't make kids safer; it just makes parents more afraid. If the justice system has doubts about a person's ability to control themselves, they shouldn't have let him out into the general public, now should they? Sending out notices that Joe Sixpack on 123 Fake St. might molest your kids doesn't do anyone any good. This is just further proof that the system in this country isn't about justice and rehabilitation; it's about retribution. That's how you end up with insanity like a homeless sex offender being threatened with a life sentence since he has no address to register.
Cradle of Filth? Hell, what about Gorgoroth? I was stunned by how much trouble they got in for a gig they did in Poland that violated Polish blasphemy laws, which prohibit "offending religious feelings." This law sounds like it's similar in spirit (ie both countries are Catholic, both justify themselves by saying that they simply oppose bigotry, etc). I think it's an important question to ask what kind of effect this will have on music in Ireland, whether we're talking about black metal, alt rock, or anything else.
First, cops who abuse their power for any reason deserve to be fired.
The people responsible for firing them are also police, and police like most any other group of workers who must rely on eachother in life-death situations... they get close knit.
Indeed, one would assume that it would be pretty easy to get fired from a position that could involve making split-second life-or-death decisions, but as far as I've seen it's basically impossible. Take for example the cop who stole marijuana from an evidence locker, made brownies with it, ate the brownies, freaked out and called 911. If any normal citizen had called 911 fearing that they had a drug overdose (which is basically impossible with marijuana, but I digress), they would be handed over to the authorities after any medical issues they might be having were resolved. So what happened to the cop who not only did this, but stole the marijuana in the first place? Was he charged? At least fired? No. He was allowed to resign; a bullshit slap on the wrist for something that would have been a huge pain in the ass for a normal person. I've never understood why people in positions of authority seem to have less accountability for their actions than normal people. If a normal person was using their office computer on company to post racist remarks, they'd get fired. If a cop does it, there's a big moral dilemma about what to do. If the manager at a fast food place hires underage kids and has sex with them after the place is locked up, he gets canned. If a Catholic priest (who's supposed to be a fucking moral authority for crying out loud) does it, there's a big hue and cry about the bible and forgiveness and "once a priest, always a priest" and nobody gets properly punished for what they've done. Goes to show that some professions are a little too good at looking after their own.
I knew a girl in high school who was a tremendous athlete. She played on the school's basketball team and come senior year all kinds of universities were knocking on her door to get her to play for them. However, the offers dramatically decreased when she blew out her knee and needed to get surgery. She probably got more exercise in one semester of high school than I did the whole four years, but also needed way more expensive medical care than I ever needed. My point is, even though exercise may prevent some health problems (eg problems related to being overweight like diabetes), people who exercise a lot are prone to injuries. Not to knock exercising, though, I'd much rather be an otherwise healthy person with a bad knee than someone who is dependent on insulin just to stay alive, but I'm not sure how effective that strategy would be at saving money.
Indeed. To quote Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, "Basically, by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits." That's how you avoid paying someone who has made you $1 billion.
I'm down as soon as we find an appropriate way to get rid of the waste (sorry, burying it in a mountain and forgetting about it sounds like something Homer Simpson came up with) and an environmentally sound way of mining the uranium needed. Nuclear power does have many advantages in terms of reaching short-term emissions goals, but the cost of over-reliance is IMO too high, not to mention the possibility for accidents like Chernobyl (which is expected to kill 100,000 by cancer after all is said and done).
The Qur'an wasn't originally written but rather recited. Qur'an, after all, means "the recitation." It survived through oral tradition until Uthman, the third Caliph of the Muslims, ordered for a standardized text to be compiled. While it is impressive that the text has survived more or less in its original form, it hasn't saved the Muslim world from having some majors divisions and differences of opinion. "God's will" was sufficiently unclear that a mere 50 years after the death of Muhammad, the Muslim world was so torn apart by questions of succession that The Battle of Karbala erupted and forever cemented the rift between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. Later mysticism would come to influence Islamic religious traditions and Sufi schools would open and promote teachings considered heretical and blasphemous by other Muslims. You've also conveniently forgotten to mention the Hadith, which feature a dizzyingly convoluted system of attribution to "prove" the accuracy of customs and sayings attributed to Muhammad. Oh, and you also forgot the part where this whole thing was revealed to a single person in a cave by an angel that no one else saw. You're free to believe what you like, but don't tell me that your magic book and invisible man are any more "real" or "reasonable" than their Christian equivalents.
You can't be serious about branding them as sex offenders. Sex offenders do truly vile things like text naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends.
The US system is something of an anomaly in that we have a secondary schools that are supposed to cater to EVERYONE. A person earning a high school diploma could be either on their way to MIT or an exciting career at McDonald's, whereas in many other places (like Europe), people are pretty well separated out by the time they hit high school or even middle school. In Germany, for example, the students earn different types of "degrees" from different types of secondary schools and only the hardest one (abitur) will get you into a regular university. It's not expected that everyone "goes to college" like they do here and in many cases people pick special areas of study early on. If you have a classroom full of kids who are planning on becoming engineers, it's a lot easier to push them harder when it comes to math since they know that they need it and thus will be more responsive. By the same token, if you're a teacher used to dealing with kids who don't have much interested in or aptitude for math, you will eventually become good at figuring out ways to get them to be more responsive and try harder. Here everyone is mixed together and teachers have the challenge of having to teach kids with widely varying abilities and plans for the future and many simply give up and point to the university bound students and say "Look, the curriculum and my teacher methods are sound!" while the kids who are not as gifted slip through the cracks.
For the record, I'm 22 and my first programming experience was using MBASIC on a Kaypro II and when I got to high school the introductory programming class was still being taught in QBasic (granted we were the last class ever to use it, after that they ditched it in favor of PLT Scheme via the DrScheme environment). Therefore statements like GOTO and GOSUB came up quite a bit in my early programming days and judging from a discussion in one of my earlier college CS classes (about this famous letter), I'm not alone in having this experience.
So if you want to know why teachers like Mike would cringe when they saw a GOTO, it is because it works fine IF you know what you are doing and how the code will be processed. But with so many learning code the VS way, with everything drag and drop, for many of those GOTO will simply blow up in their faces. Better just to not let them know it exists in the first place.
See, this argument gets applied to all kinds of bad language features. Really, I think that sentence should read "it works fine IF the code is being maintained by one programmer who never has to deal with anyone else, doesn't mind working for at the same place until he dies and will pass the family trade on to his kids so someone will know what the hell is going on after he's dead." I did an internship a few years ago at a company where the billing software was still essentially all written in QBasic. They were paying two contractors $70/hr each for about 2 full months of work to make minor changes to the software because it was so difficult to maintain. GOTO had its day on the sun, but it's over for a good reason.
I disagree. What is considered "rape" can vary greatly by culture and legal definition. A report that came out not too long ago concluded that Sweden was the rape capital of Europe and had 4 times as many rapes as neighboring Denmark and Finland. As the article I linked pointed out, "In Swedish rape law, the word [rape] can be used for acts called assault or bodily harm in other countries." For example, the German word Vergewaltigung basically only means physical force being used to achieve intercourse, much different from the American definition which can include alcohol, etc. Therefore I think it is advised that you take these numbers with a large grain of salt, especially given that the Japanese definitely have their own problems with unwanted sexual advances, like having women-only railcars to cut down on groping. The statistics on Nation Master also show that Canada has more than twice as many rapes per capital than the US, which causes me to be suspicious of the whole thing in the first place.
In reference to people being horrified by rape more than murder/killing, as I pointed out last time there is NOTHING a women could do to justify someone raping her. Killing is generally sugar-coated in video games to include some kind of necessity for the killing. Even in Manhunt you're basically being forced to kill to win your freedom and you're already desensitized to killing in video games in the first place since you're used to war games, where you have to take out the enemy before they take you out, so the idea of killing someone in a game doesn't seem all too foreign. There's no such thing as "justifiable rape", thus it's important not to confuse societal hang-ups about sex (which are often silly and misguided) with disgust at rape (which is there for a good reason).
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Could either be suspicious or not depending on what said map entails. Given that according to the blog it was just the main streets in town, I don't really find it that suspicious at all, though I realize we're only getting one side of the story.
The Arabic stickers were on the keyboard, which, along with the Arabic phrasebook, would seem to indicate that she was learning the language. I don't know about you, but my guess would be that most people planning to collaborate with Palestinian terrorists would be at least fluent enough in said language not need a phrase book. It's not as if she has a bunch of Arabic stickers denouncing Israel stuck to her computer.
As per TFA:
It's not like she had some fancy logo from an Anti-Israel website saved as her background or whatever. She saw some graffiti and took a picture of it, that's it.
So legally entering and exiting these countries makes her dangerous?
What the hell does this even refer to? All she mentions is an Arabic Phrasebook. You're making it sound like she's reading a signed copy Osama Bin Laden's authorized biography when all she wants to know how to do is order food and ask where the bathroom is.
From TFA:
You're assuming that the photos were condemning the military action. There's no mention of whether or not they were for, against or simply neutral on the subject.
The bottom line is, the only way shooting the laptop makes any sense is if they believed that there was some kind of explosive hidden within it that needed to be safely discharged away from people and given the context, even that sounds like bullshit given that they saw the computer working. Data pertaining to terrorist attacks, etc, could simply be erased. They could have just impounded the hard drive or laptop if they found something about the information suspicious. No matter how I slice it in my head, I can't figure out why on earth they shot a fucking computer except that 1. it might be really fucking fun or 2. they were hardcore MS fanboys.
And as we all know, since correlation != causation, these two events can't possibly have anything to do with one another.
You can also elaborate on exactly how trying to make health care/insurance a government mandated "right" doesn't effectively enslave those who provide such services?
Having competent legal representation is also a right in this country. My dad is a public defender and applying your analogy to his situation, that means he's "effectively enslaved" as well. However, he's never thought of himself as a slave, because after passing the bar he took an oath to uphold the Constitution and realizes that in a system where people don't have access to proper legal representation, they effectively lose the right to a fair trial. Similarly, those in the medical profession take an oath in which they pledge to help people. While it might be all well and good to apply the egoist/Objectivist approach to procedures like breast implants and liposuction, when you consider that there are a lot of people (not just those who are irresponsible or lazy) out there with serious illnesses and are unable to afford the treatments they need, the promise to help rings hollow if people in the medical trade are going to cry foul on ideological grounds.
Real adults take care of themselves and don't look to the government for handouts.
Ever go to public school (including public universities)? Ever drive on public roads? Ever call the cops? How about social security? Will you have this opinion when it's time for you to get a check from the gov't each month? My aunt is a psychiatrist. She graduated in the top of her high school and college classes and attended Yale med school. She was recently diagnosed with cancer despite never smoking or drinking and being in good shape (she participated in several triathlons in her youth) and was almost unable to get treatment due to the current medical system in this country. When a productive, intelligent and otherwise healthy person is put in such a predicament, it's pretty clear that the system needs to be changed.
When it comes to health care, even the insured don't "take care of themselves" 100%. Most folks are pretty well dependent on their employer for insurance. If I'm seriously ill and don't like the care I'm getting, I can't take my business elsewhere because I will have a preexisting condition. People stay with jobs they hate so that they can take care of their spouses and children. This sort of "he-man" libertarianism works fine until you end up in the hospital right before you intend to change jobs.
Because we saw how well that campaign worked...
An unsubstantiated personal anecdote and a link to a picture of cows grazing? You have forced me to seriously reconsider my beliefs. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!
Large animals, cattle, hogs, probably feel one brief instance of pain as the are slaughtered, but other than that modern animal husbandry does not involve inflicting pain.
Citation needed. Sows are kept in gestation crates that do not even allow them to turn around and constantly pumped full of antibiotics due to unsanitary conditions. They are force-fed until their bellies hit the ground. Cows don't fare much, if at all, better.
Chickens and turkeys life in crowded areas, and occasionally stampede each other, but other than that they live a boring but pain free existence.
You're conveniently omitting the part where they cut off the beak of the animal which causes acute and sometimes chronic pain to keep the birds from killing at eating each other due to the cramped and stressful conditions. I do agree that this is a silly solution; the obvious logical choice is to drastically scale back the consumption of meat to alleviate the dire ethical and ecological consequences of the modern meat industry.
They're not, but it's understandable that you'd make that mistake. Miley Cyrus made a similar error.
Which is why I've never understood the point of the notifications in the first place. Either the person has been rehabilitated and shown that they can function in society or they have not. Releasing someone from prison and then requiring them to register and put up posters doesn't make kids safer; it just makes parents more afraid. If the justice system has doubts about a person's ability to control themselves, they shouldn't have let him out into the general public, now should they? Sending out notices that Joe Sixpack on 123 Fake St. might molest your kids doesn't do anyone any good. This is just further proof that the system in this country isn't about justice and rehabilitation; it's about retribution. That's how you end up with insanity like a homeless sex offender being threatened with a life sentence since he has no address to register.
that this was news of some sort of new Doom game with a soundtrack by Megadeth. Oh well, a man can dream, can't he!
Cradle of Filth? Hell, what about Gorgoroth? I was stunned by how much trouble they got in for a gig they did in Poland that violated Polish blasphemy laws, which prohibit "offending religious feelings." This law sounds like it's similar in spirit (ie both countries are Catholic, both justify themselves by saying that they simply oppose bigotry, etc). I think it's an important question to ask what kind of effect this will have on music in Ireland, whether we're talking about black metal, alt rock, or anything else.
First, cops who abuse their power for any reason deserve to be fired.
The people responsible for firing them are also police, and police like most any other group of workers who must rely on eachother in life-death situations... they get close knit.
Indeed, one would assume that it would be pretty easy to get fired from a position that could involve making split-second life-or-death decisions, but as far as I've seen it's basically impossible. Take for example the cop who stole marijuana from an evidence locker, made brownies with it, ate the brownies, freaked out and called 911. If any normal citizen had called 911 fearing that they had a drug overdose (which is basically impossible with marijuana, but I digress), they would be handed over to the authorities after any medical issues they might be having were resolved. So what happened to the cop who not only did this, but stole the marijuana in the first place? Was he charged? At least fired? No. He was allowed to resign; a bullshit slap on the wrist for something that would have been a huge pain in the ass for a normal person. I've never understood why people in positions of authority seem to have less accountability for their actions than normal people. If a normal person was using their office computer on company to post racist remarks, they'd get fired. If a cop does it, there's a big moral dilemma about what to do. If the manager at a fast food place hires underage kids and has sex with them after the place is locked up, he gets canned. If a Catholic priest (who's supposed to be a fucking moral authority for crying out loud) does it, there's a big hue and cry about the bible and forgiveness and "once a priest, always a priest" and nobody gets properly punished for what they've done. Goes to show that some professions are a little too good at looking after their own.
I knew a girl in high school who was a tremendous athlete. She played on the school's basketball team and come senior year all kinds of universities were knocking on her door to get her to play for them. However, the offers dramatically decreased when she blew out her knee and needed to get surgery. She probably got more exercise in one semester of high school than I did the whole four years, but also needed way more expensive medical care than I ever needed. My point is, even though exercise may prevent some health problems (eg problems related to being overweight like diabetes), people who exercise a lot are prone to injuries. Not to knock exercising, though, I'd much rather be an otherwise healthy person with a bad knee than someone who is dependent on insulin just to stay alive, but I'm not sure how effective that strategy would be at saving money.
Indeed. To quote Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, "Basically, by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits." That's how you avoid paying someone who has made you $1 billion.
Now if only Apple could realize that...
This bodes ill for us men.... :p
I'm down as soon as we find an appropriate way to get rid of the waste (sorry, burying it in a mountain and forgetting about it sounds like something Homer Simpson came up with) and an environmentally sound way of mining the uranium needed. Nuclear power does have many advantages in terms of reaching short-term emissions goals, but the cost of over-reliance is IMO too high, not to mention the possibility for accidents like Chernobyl (which is expected to kill 100,000 by cancer after all is said and done).
The Qur'an wasn't originally written but rather recited. Qur'an, after all, means "the recitation." It survived through oral tradition until Uthman, the third Caliph of the Muslims, ordered for a standardized text to be compiled. While it is impressive that the text has survived more or less in its original form, it hasn't saved the Muslim world from having some majors divisions and differences of opinion. "God's will" was sufficiently unclear that a mere 50 years after the death of Muhammad, the Muslim world was so torn apart by questions of succession that The Battle of Karbala erupted and forever cemented the rift between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. Later mysticism would come to influence Islamic religious traditions and Sufi schools would open and promote teachings considered heretical and blasphemous by other Muslims. You've also conveniently forgotten to mention the Hadith, which feature a dizzyingly convoluted system of attribution to "prove" the accuracy of customs and sayings attributed to Muhammad. Oh, and you also forgot the part where this whole thing was revealed to a single person in a cave by an angel that no one else saw. You're free to believe what you like, but don't tell me that your magic book and invisible man are any more "real" or "reasonable" than their Christian equivalents.
Really? I could have sworn that there was something in there about what people had for lunch back in the day...
You can't be serious about branding them as sex offenders. Sex offenders do truly vile things like text naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends.
Awww crap, there goes my joke about people knowing binary...
The US system is something of an anomaly in that we have a secondary schools that are supposed to cater to EVERYONE. A person earning a high school diploma could be either on their way to MIT or an exciting career at McDonald's, whereas in many other places (like Europe), people are pretty well separated out by the time they hit high school or even middle school. In Germany, for example, the students earn different types of "degrees" from different types of secondary schools and only the hardest one (abitur) will get you into a regular university. It's not expected that everyone "goes to college" like they do here and in many cases people pick special areas of study early on. If you have a classroom full of kids who are planning on becoming engineers, it's a lot easier to push them harder when it comes to math since they know that they need it and thus will be more responsive. By the same token, if you're a teacher used to dealing with kids who don't have much interested in or aptitude for math, you will eventually become good at figuring out ways to get them to be more responsive and try harder. Here everyone is mixed together and teachers have the challenge of having to teach kids with widely varying abilities and plans for the future and many simply give up and point to the university bound students and say "Look, the curriculum and my teacher methods are sound!" while the kids who are not as gifted slip through the cracks.
Of course, it's the only way to ensure a good harvest!
See, this argument gets applied to all kinds of bad language features. Really, I think that sentence should read "it works fine IF the code is being maintained by one programmer who never has to deal with anyone else, doesn't mind working for at the same place until he dies and will pass the family trade on to his kids so someone will know what the hell is going on after he's dead." I did an internship a few years ago at a company where the billing software was still essentially all written in QBasic. They were paying two contractors $70/hr each for about 2 full months of work to make minor changes to the software because it was so difficult to maintain. GOTO had its day on the sun, but it's over for a good reason.
I disagree. What is considered "rape" can vary greatly by culture and legal definition. A report that came out not too long ago concluded that Sweden was the rape capital of Europe and had 4 times as many rapes as neighboring Denmark and Finland. As the article I linked pointed out, "In Swedish rape law, the word [rape] can be used for acts called assault or bodily harm in other countries." For example, the German word Vergewaltigung basically only means physical force being used to achieve intercourse, much different from the American definition which can include alcohol, etc. Therefore I think it is advised that you take these numbers with a large grain of salt, especially given that the Japanese definitely have their own problems with unwanted sexual advances, like having women-only railcars to cut down on groping. The statistics on Nation Master also show that Canada has more than twice as many rapes per capital than the US, which causes me to be suspicious of the whole thing in the first place.
In reference to people being horrified by rape more than murder/killing, as I pointed out last time there is NOTHING a women could do to justify someone raping her. Killing is generally sugar-coated in video games to include some kind of necessity for the killing. Even in Manhunt you're basically being forced to kill to win your freedom and you're already desensitized to killing in video games in the first place since you're used to war games, where you have to take out the enemy before they take you out, so the idea of killing someone in a game doesn't seem all too foreign. There's no such thing as "justifiable rape", thus it's important not to confuse societal hang-ups about sex (which are often silly and misguided) with disgust at rape (which is there for a good reason).
Indeed, we all know that no true Slashdotter would trumpet such fascism.