>I can see a child sheltered all his life have his first girlfriend dump him and lose his mind.
I was definately NOT sheltered as a child and this nearly happened to me. It can be a traumatic experience for a young man(or boy), I don't think that females understand this. Girlfriends support each other emotionally in a way that male friends do not.
>It is unfortunate that expressing a pro-restriction POV is likely to attract flames from the ultra-liberal section of the Slashdot readership.
I'm on the far right, and I criticized his POV. It's not just liberal who are againstunfounded restriction.
>Is there anything anywhere which says all geeks have to be libertarians, totally opposed to all forms of restriction?
Geeks, by nature, are free thinkers. Restriction and free thinking do not go together.
>FWIW, I agree with you on the movie ratings thing. I use them as a guideline myself; I skip anything with a 15 or 18 rating and wait for the edited-for-TV version.
Great, that works for you. I prefer to see the artists original vision of what their work should look like.
If I decide that the artistic and historical significance of movies like Schindler's List and Amistad are more important than the detriment of a few seconds of jiggling boobs , and I want my children to see them, then it's MY decision to make.
>When I went to see Southpark I saw loads of 7 and 8 year olds, which I thought was pretty bad
Why is it bad? Do you think 7 and 8 year olds don't hear profanity anywhere else?
>those kids should not really have been watching it.
That's not for you to decide. It's for their parents to decide.
>the thing has got to be to make sure that it isn't made unavailable to those old enough (and mature enough) to see it.
Who decided maturity? If maturity is soley predicated upon age would it be OK for a 30 year old mentally handicapped person to see the movie?
How about a 10 year old genius?
No organization outside of each individual's house should make that decision. My parents allowed my to watch Porky's When I was about 8, naked women, fake penises and all. I cracked up, I loved it. I don't see why you or anyone other then a kid's parent/guardian should be able to decide what a kid should or should not see?
My father was a union man, My grandfather is a union man, My stepfather was a union man until he started his own construction business.
Unions are great for protecting the people from assholes in management, however when they end up doing is protecting asshole IN labor.
My grandfather works with a guy who caused an accident because he smoked crack before work and the union SAVED HIS JOB!
Unions also reward seniority over ability. If I've got twice the ability of someone who has been there 15 years longer than I have, I get fscked.
Unions get contracts written is such a way as to benefit those who've been there the longest. The new guys have to "pay their dues" in order for the union to represent them fully.
Unions have contributed to their own downfall. I'm from Pittsburgh, and I watched the Steel Industry die here because the unions were too demanding.
At the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) a guy fell asleep at his station and when his boss sent him home the other union guys WALKED OUT!
Because some cretin fell asleep at his station the union shut WABCO down for a day.
During the 70's the union men at the steel mills would break the windows out of foreign cars that they found parked in their lots.
Unions can be good under certain circumstances, but let's not delude ourselves, they have just as much potential to go bad.
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What you think of me personally is of no consequence. Deal with the issues at hand if you can. You ad hominem doesn't address the issues.
LK
>I can see a child sheltered all his life have his first girlfriend dump him and lose his mind.
I was definately NOT sheltered as a child and this nearly happened to me. It can be a traumatic experience for a young man(or boy), I don't think that females understand this. Girlfriends support each other emotionally in a way that male friends do not.
LK
>It is unfortunate that expressing a pro-restriction POV is likely to attract flames from the ultra-liberal section of the Slashdot readership.
I'm on the far right, and I criticized his POV. It's not just liberal who are againstunfounded restriction.
>Is there anything anywhere which says all geeks have to be libertarians, totally opposed to all forms of restriction?
Geeks, by nature, are free thinkers. Restriction and free thinking do not go together.
>FWIW, I agree with you on the movie ratings thing. I use them as a guideline myself; I skip anything with a 15 or 18 rating and wait for the edited-for-TV version.
Great, that works for you. I prefer to see the artists original vision of what their work should look like.
If I decide that the artistic and historical significance of movies like Schindler's List and Amistad are more important than the detriment of a few seconds of jiggling boobs , and I want my children to see them, then it's MY decision to make.
LK
>When I went to see Southpark I saw loads of 7 and 8 year olds, which I thought was pretty bad
Why is it bad? Do you think 7 and 8 year olds don't hear profanity anywhere else?
>those kids should not really have been watching it.
That's not for you to decide. It's for their parents to decide.
>the thing has got to be to make sure that it isn't made unavailable to those old enough (and mature enough) to see it.
Who decided maturity? If maturity is soley predicated upon age would it be OK for a 30 year old mentally handicapped person to see the movie?
How about a 10 year old genius?
No organization outside of each individual's house should make that decision. My parents allowed my to watch Porky's When I was about 8, naked women, fake penises and all. I cracked up, I loved it. I don't see why you or anyone other then a kid's parent/guardian should be able to decide what a kid should or should not see?
LK
My father was a union man, My grandfather is a union man, My stepfather was a union man until he started his own construction business.
Unions are great for protecting the people from assholes in management, however when they end up doing is protecting asshole IN labor.
My grandfather works with a guy who caused an accident because he smoked crack before work and the union SAVED HIS JOB!
Unions also reward seniority over ability. If I've got twice the ability of someone who has been there 15 years longer than I have, I get fscked.
Unions get contracts written is such a way as to benefit those who've been there the longest. The new guys have to "pay their dues" in order for the union to represent them fully.
Unions have contributed to their own downfall. I'm from Pittsburgh, and I watched the Steel Industry die here because the unions were too demanding.
At the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) a guy fell asleep at his station and when his boss sent him home the other union guys WALKED OUT!
Because some cretin fell asleep at his station the union shut WABCO down for a day.
During the 70's the union men at the steel mills would break the windows out of foreign cars that they found parked in their lots.
Unions can be good under certain circumstances, but let's not delude ourselves, they have just as much potential to go bad.
LK