Oh yeah, feel the sleep debt love! I go to Cornell and just took Dr. James Maas's course... a big ditto on everything you said except Maas could whoop Dement any day, should he ever throw down in the area of sleep expert-dom.
Are you dense?!
Just because there are 23 letters in the greek alphabet doesn't mean that X, Y, and Z don't correspond to the greek alphabet. Actually, a lot of letters in greek have NO English counterparts, like theta, which is pronounced as 'th'. The uppercase chi *IS* the uppercase X in English. It is exactly the same letter because the romans took it from the greeks and the english alphabet is derived from the roman. Likewise, rho is the same as P. Moreover, when writen, chi ro and x p in uppercase are both written 'XP' and an observer has absolutely NO way just based on looking to tell whether it is the greek or the english.
You have good morals, but poor reasoning skills. I'll just go through line by line.
Yahoo's decision not to sell porn is a victory for freedom: consumers' freedom to boycott businesses whose moralities they do not share and [by] whose ethics they cannot abide. This is nothing of the sort. First of all, they always had the right to boycott, et cetera, but this, if it were in fact demonstrating your ideals, would be a demonstration of the effectiveness of boycott, not a "victory for freedom." Reserve strong language for strong content.
I succinctly explained... First of all, get over yourself. Second, if I need 5 clicks of my scroll wheel, it's not succinct. The following pertains to the linked comment.
I'd thought that Yahoo learned their lesson with all those French and German lawsuits about Nazi memorabilia. Yes, it is a tragedy that the Nazis massacred a third of the Jewish population in Europe. It is also a tragedy that all the ignorant activists are running around telling people that they are evil for having anything to do with Nazi Germany. While we're out suppressing German history, why don't we ban everything Jesuit (the Jesuits killed several times the number of Jews that the Nazis did) and everything Spanish (they killed the vast majority of an entire continent, including no fewer than three highly advanced and civilized nations). Perhaps you should think about what your "ethics" are actually restricting before you adopt them.
Pornography is indistinguishable from rape. And the receiving of gifts is indistinguishable from theft.
[Pornography] runs women through a blender, converting their bodies into liquified youth. Interesting imagery, but you should stick to saying something that makes sense.
There is no such thing as consent in pornography, because every person involved is there because of dire economic need. Economists consider the current situation of the United States to be complete employment. Any woman can get a job in the worst case scenario at a fast food restaurant. Moreover, women do not turn to pornography because of "dire economic need." They turn to it because of dire economic greed. Anna Nicole Smith, exempli gratia, has in excess of 100 million dollars. 100 million dollars in a regular CD savings account would give, after taxes, 4 million dollars a year for the rest of eternity. Don't tell me 4 million dollars a year is dire economic need.
But we tolerate women's public humiliation and public rape, because men universally crave and devour pornography. Don't use superlatives when you don't mean something superlative. I can name off the top of my head several men (teenagers with rampant hormones, actually) who do not "crave and devour" -- or even choose to look at -- pornography.
How can Yahoo justify profiting from such exploitation? The bulk of the money in the internet comes from porn. Wake up.
Everyone who does not actively oppose this move is complicit in human suffering. Guess what? There are billions of people who are living in poverty or are beaten or are unable to speak freely. Let's weigh the suffering of a child of lower caste in India or Bangladesh against the "suffering" of a whore making money hand over fist for working 3 hours a day for an internet porn site. Perhaps the woman in China who is forced to abort her third child because it's the law will agree with you.
The Ten Commandments tell us, "Thou shalt not rape!" Don't use quotes when it's not a quote. The commandments say nothing of the sort. In "Old Testament" times, women were property. "Rape" was nonexistant, though men often forced themselves on their wives.
If we let Yahoo sell pornography like this, then it's a slippery slope down to having them sell videos of executions. Yeah and we wouldn't want to offend mass murderers and serial rapists, would we?
The free market cannot thrive unless we police it for criminal activity such as this, just as it cannot thrive unless we police the market square for pickpockets. Pornography is legal. The internet community HAS thrived on porn.
There is no victor here, except for the ugly head of capitalism. I see the light! WE must all be free-market communists!..or should we be controlled-economy capitalists? All I know is that there's no such thing as a free-market capitalism!
As to the current post,
if we can unite our voices against the oppressions of racism, pornography, and ablism, such evils as these won't dare raise their heads. Yeah except we cannot do so. Vice will always be marketable. Feel free to rant about giving severely obese persons legal rights to work in physically demanding jobs (as per your comment on ablism).
Corporations have to respect the bottom line. We the people sign the bottom line. And we the people put our monies where our.. well you know. There wouldn't be an issue if there weren't a market. There is a market for pornography and there always will.
The Constitution left the power of regulating corporations not with the federal government nor with the state governments but with the people. So the FTC, SEC, and Sherman Antitrust act are all unconstitutional. I see. Which amendment was that? Oh, wait, that was in one of the original articles. Also, only use "nor" with "neither."
More importantly, though, you are trying to impose your morals on others. At the same time, your own morals are in conflict. You like freedom, but want to ban pornography because YOUR BIBLE tells you it is wrong. This country is based on the ideals of life liberty and property (though the last was changed to "pursuit of happiness). You have the right to sell what you want unless it presents a clear and present danger, which porn clearly does not.
I have DSL through Ameritech, which is in some way monopolistically aligned with SBC to give me DSL (dis)service. Although they are morons and accidentally shut off my DSL line because I "didn't call back to schedule my final install date" (the installation was completed in November), they had previously limited my service to 768kbps downstream and 384kbps up. The limiters don't actually work all that well; I have seen speeds as high as 1.1mbps, and though that is nowhere near what it would be without limiters, it is still higher than the supposed 768kbps maximum. If you can avoid it, though, don't deal with Ameritech.
OK, first of all, you people who want the government to force AOL to open their system are communists. They OWN it and can do whatever they want with it. Would you want the government to force other people to share your underpants? What if those people were incontinent? OK, so shut up about how they should be forced to open it... By the way, I'm logged onto that system with TiK right now.
Not so... If each individual key were tapped, there are no wires involved and they are only monitoring his physical movements, not his electronic communication.
I'm not a gaim expert, but it seems to me that TiK works fine. (I know this because I'm using it at this moment.) I'm sure there's a way to fake it, but why bother when you don't need to?
Yes. It actually does matter. If, in fact a female does have the equivalent skill, she may still not be hired/payed the same/whatever. It really depends on the employer. Most computer people being younger, it should be an open field. It has, however been clinically proven that men have higher mathematics skills as well as abstract logic skills (probably why men made all the rules and boundaries)whereas women tend to have better communicative skills (why they tend towards the other fields like law and teaching). Moreover, this tends to decrease the interest in the computer field for women and thus the number of women in the computer field. This would tend to make things more difficult for women. Well that's my opinion anyway...
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zero. The UCLA probably picked up the tab.
What is the date?
Oh yeah, feel the sleep debt love! I go to Cornell and just took Dr. James Maas's course... a big ditto on everything you said except Maas could whoop Dement any day, should he ever throw down in the area of sleep expert-dom.
Are you dense?!
Just because there are 23 letters in the greek alphabet doesn't mean that X, Y, and Z don't correspond to the greek alphabet. Actually, a lot of letters in greek have NO English counterparts, like theta, which is pronounced as 'th'. The uppercase chi *IS* the uppercase X in English. It is exactly the same letter because the romans took it from the greeks and the english alphabet is derived from the roman. Likewise, rho is the same as P. Moreover, when writen, chi ro and x p in uppercase are both written 'XP' and an observer has absolutely NO way just based on looking to tell whether it is the greek or the english.
...that way we might get secure, commercially-available email clients.
- Yahoo's decision not to sell porn is a victory for freedom: consumers' freedom to boycott businesses whose moralities they do not share and [by] whose ethics they cannot abide. This is nothing of the sort. First of all, they always had the right to boycott, et cetera, but this, if it were in fact demonstrating your ideals, would be a demonstration of the effectiveness of boycott, not a "victory for freedom." Reserve strong language for strong content.
- I succinctly explained
... First of all, get over yourself. Second, if I need 5 clicks of my scroll wheel, it's not succinct. The following pertains to the linked comment.
- I'd thought that Yahoo learned their lesson with all those French and German lawsuits about Nazi memorabilia. Yes, it is a tragedy that the Nazis massacred a third of the Jewish population in Europe. It is also a tragedy that all the ignorant activists are running around telling people that they are evil for having anything to do with Nazi Germany. While we're out suppressing German history, why don't we ban everything Jesuit (the Jesuits killed several times the number of Jews that the Nazis did) and everything Spanish (they killed the vast majority of an entire continent, including no fewer than three highly advanced and civilized nations). Perhaps you should think about what your "ethics" are actually restricting before you adopt them.
- Pornography is indistinguishable from rape. And the receiving of gifts is indistinguishable from theft.
- [Pornography] runs women through a blender, converting their bodies into liquified youth. Interesting imagery, but you should stick to saying something that makes sense.
- There is no such thing as consent in pornography, because every person involved is there because of dire economic need. Economists consider the current situation of the United States to be complete employment. Any woman can get a job in the worst case scenario at a fast food restaurant. Moreover, women do not turn to pornography because of "dire economic need." They turn to it because of dire economic greed. Anna Nicole Smith, exempli gratia, has in excess of 100 million dollars. 100 million dollars in a regular CD savings account would give, after taxes, 4 million dollars a year for the rest of eternity. Don't tell me 4 million dollars a year is dire economic need.
- But we tolerate women's public humiliation and public rape, because men universally crave and devour pornography. Don't use superlatives when you don't mean something superlative. I can name off the top of my head several men (teenagers with rampant hormones, actually) who do not "crave and devour" -- or even choose to look at -- pornography.
- How can Yahoo justify profiting from such exploitation? The bulk of the money in the internet comes from porn. Wake up.
- Everyone who does not actively oppose this move is complicit in human suffering. Guess what? There are billions of people who are living in poverty or are beaten or are unable to speak freely. Let's weigh the suffering of a child of lower caste in India or Bangladesh against the "suffering" of a whore making money hand over fist for working 3 hours a day for an internet porn site. Perhaps the woman in China who is forced to abort her third child because it's the law will agree with you.
- The Ten Commandments tell us, "Thou shalt not rape!" Don't use quotes when it's not a quote. The commandments say nothing of the sort. In "Old Testament" times, women were property. "Rape" was nonexistant, though men often forced themselves on their wives.
- If we let Yahoo sell pornography like this, then it's a slippery slope down to having them sell videos of executions. Yeah and we wouldn't want to offend mass murderers and serial rapists, would we?
- The free market cannot thrive unless we police it for criminal activity such as this, just as it cannot thrive unless we police the market square for pickpockets. Pornography is legal. The internet community HAS thrived on porn.
- There is no victor here, except for the ugly head of capitalism. I see the light! WE must all be free-market communists!
..or should we be controlled-economy capitalists? All I know is that there's no such thing as a free-market capitalism!
As to the current post,More importantly, though, you are trying to impose your morals on others. At the same time, your own morals are in conflict. You like freedom, but want to ban pornography because YOUR BIBLE tells you it is wrong. This country is based on the ideals of life liberty and property (though the last was changed to "pursuit of happiness). You have the right to sell what you want unless it presents a clear and present danger, which porn clearly does not.
Sorry about the long post, but ignorance irks me.
Criterion is the singular of criteria. Hence, one has either a criterion or some criteria. Sorry about the off-topic post, but grammar is important.
I have DSL through Ameritech, which is in some way monopolistically aligned with SBC to give me DSL (dis)service. Although they are morons and accidentally shut off my DSL line because I "didn't call back to schedule my final install date" (the installation was completed in November), they had previously limited my service to 768kbps downstream and 384kbps up. The limiters don't actually work all that well; I have seen speeds as high as 1.1mbps, and though that is nowhere near what it would be without limiters, it is still higher than the supposed 768kbps maximum. If you can avoid it, though, don't deal with Ameritech.
I wonder how long before someone finds a way around this. 24 hours at most
OK, first of all, you people who want the government to force AOL to open their system are communists. They OWN it and can do whatever they want with it. Would you want the government to force other people to share your underpants? What if those people were incontinent? OK, so shut up about how they should be forced to open it... By the way, I'm logged onto that system with TiK right now.
Not so... If each individual key were tapped, there are no wires involved and they are only monitoring his physical movements, not his electronic communication.
I'm not a gaim expert, but it seems to me that TiK works fine. (I know this because I'm using it at this moment.) I'm sure there's a way to fake it, but why bother when you don't need to?
Yes. It actually does matter. If, in fact a female does have the equivalent skill, she may still not be hired/payed the same/whatever. It really depends on the employer. Most computer people being younger, it should be an open field. It has, however been clinically proven that men have higher mathematics skills as well as abstract logic skills (probably why men made all the rules and boundaries)whereas women tend to have better communicative skills (why they tend towards the other fields like law and teaching). Moreover, this tends to decrease the interest in the computer field for women and thus the number of women in the computer field. This would tend to make things more difficult for women. Well that's my opinion anyway...