No, no... Googles intentions here are purely economically based.
Gay marriage can save the economy.
And yes, I know this for a fact, as Neil Patrick Harris said it himself.
And when was the last time NPH was wrong?
Every one is interpreting this wrong. I'm sure they were talking about political, not web standards.
And it looks as though the porn industry just got a lot larger.
The information was actually passed onto me via a local D.A. (friends/coworkers with her son).
However, here is the statute for it. GS_14-208.6(4) is the portion of particular interest. They consider contributing to the delinquency of a minor on the same grounds as indecent liberties with a minor. This, brings the charges under the above mentioned statue, therefore making it an offense which would cause one to register.
While, yes I personally believe it to be a bit extreme, it does make sense (to a point at least. It all depends on how broadly the D.A. wants to define an offense against a minor. I'll ask her about it when next I get a chance and see if I can get a specific statute for it.
To be honest, I wasn't aware of the govtrack site until after I submitted the story.(yes, lesson learned.) Had I, yes I would have written the blurb in accordance with the whole story. Honestly speaking, I hate the whole "he said, she said" side of politics and try to look at things as neutrally as possible. Unfortunately, the media doesn't work like that, and every now and again we get fed less-than-fully-honest articles.
And for that, I do offer my apologies. It wasn't my intent to start a smear campaign.
Plus you have to take into account situations as those here in North Carolina. You get registered as a sex offender for buying alcohol and tobacco for minors. While yes, a crime never the less, banned from MySpace because you bought your brother or whoever a 6-pack? that's a little extreme if anything was ever to be.
Granted, but ones 'nerdiness' has little to do with how viable their social skills are. While yes, most introverts are nerds, not all nerds are introverts. In fact, I'd personally guess it to be the minority of them. No more so, than any other niche.
Nerds have this extreme form of anti-social behavior projected on them, and in turn tend to adopt it unto themselves (the age old cycle of stereotyping). But yet in their seclusion they seek out others like themselves, rather it be online or at the local comic store. This in and of itself negates being anti-social. They are interacting socially, albeit with people of near-identical interests and believes.
It's not that nerds are socially inept. We're socially lazy. We tend to not want to admit that there are in fact other things to talk about than the most recent D&D rule set, the global impact of the LHC, or the details of why linux is better than mac, is better than windows.
It's not that you're a nerd that isn't getting you laid. It's you stereotyping yourself. Might I suggest listening to people, and perhaps not adopting the usual "holier than thou art" attitude that most nerds tend to do.
There is no "skill set" needed. All that is needed is for you to actually care to try and interact with a person that does not care about your latest design for a nitrogen cooled laptop. Find other common ground. Who knows, you might just find yourself a girl/woman/whatever that does in fact the occasional bout of Mario. But you'll never know if you carry on with the attitude of "Oh, she could NEVER understand someone as brilliant as I". Give it a try, worse that can happen is she ends up uninterested, in which case you've lost no ground anyways.
Nerds will take a risk by modifying a computer component worth hundreds of dollars to bleed out every possible clock-cycle possible, while running the risk of frying the component. And yet, they won't risk a conversation, in which in a worst case scenario they loss nothing.
And for the record, if you have no interest in social intelligence, you would have no interest in social interaction, and therefore no (genuine)interest in getting laid. They go hand in hand.
First you have the publicly announced intent. This however, is more of a ruse that anything else however.
Secondly, and the primary purpose, is so that caller doesn't hear the mile long string of obscenities and ear shattering crunch when you give your best fast ball and throw your phone at the wall.
Also, blaming it on evolution is only half the answer and a pretty weak one IMHO. Natural selection didn't create skyscrapers and sonnets, societies did.
While I'd be inclined to agree, there's one major flaw in this. Yes society led to skyscrapers.
But what fathered society? Those who were smart/clever enough to manipulate the masses so as that they could steer it in the direction which they desired. The ones that had the foresight and technical know how to put together a solid plan to take control were the ones who ultimately led to the creation of "society" as we know it today.
Never the less though, on the flip side of things, through the above mentioned manipulation, the utilization of the more brutish types became more prominent. And they were bred (as a farmer would mules and oxen) to capitalize on a resource that, with enough half-truths and fancy tricks would carry out your every whim. As number grew, nature kicked in exemplary specimens surfaced, and redirected there brethren, garnering a revolution, and bringing about the next generations manipulations.
Wash, rinse, repeats, and you have the history of the world. A cyclic pattern of brain>brawn>brain>brawn. Our problem today is that we're still stuck in the 'brawn' phase, and are without a 'brain' phase in quite some time. Best thing we could do is to utilize our current resources and try to get the wheel turning again.
The movie "Idiocracy". Admittedly it's not exactly like the movie, however I can see this as going in a much similar fashion (It does explain the current state of things a bit).
It's Natural Selection at it's finest.
The women, while trying to subconsciously pick the best mate, inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot, as Mr. Cage Fighter is packing sickly soldiers, with a mission to degrade the gene pool.
Meanwhile Mr. Physicist is in possession of a load that may one day help save humanity. But alas, it may never be used...
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No, no... Googles intentions here are purely economically based.
Gay marriage can save the economy.
And yes, I know this for a fact, as Neil Patrick Harris said it himself.
And when was the last time NPH was wrong?
Every one is interpreting this wrong. I'm sure they were talking about political, not web standards. And it looks as though the porn industry just got a lot larger.
The information was actually passed onto me via a local D.A. (friends/coworkers with her son).
However, here is the statute for it. GS_14-208.6(4) is the portion of particular interest. They consider contributing to the delinquency of a minor on the same grounds as indecent liberties with a minor. This, brings the charges under the above mentioned statue, therefore making it an offense which would cause one to register.
While, yes I personally believe it to be a bit extreme, it does make sense (to a point at least. It all depends on how broadly the D.A. wants to define an offense against a minor. I'll ask her about it when next I get a chance and see if I can get a specific statute for it.
To be honest, I wasn't aware of the govtrack site until after I submitted the story.(yes, lesson learned.) Had I, yes I would have written the blurb in accordance with the whole story. Honestly speaking, I hate the whole "he said, she said" side of politics and try to look at things as neutrally as possible. Unfortunately, the media doesn't work like that, and every now and again we get fed less-than-fully-honest articles.
And for that, I do offer my apologies. It wasn't my intent to start a smear campaign.
Plus you have to take into account situations as those here in North Carolina. You get registered as a sex offender for buying alcohol and tobacco for minors. While yes, a crime never the less, banned from MySpace because you bought your brother or whoever a 6-pack? that's a little extreme if anything was ever to be.
So now we have to worry about securing our lamps? Great, just what the world needed.
At the same time however, should be interesting about the time the hackers get into DoL attacks.
I'd be totally interested in a web-accessible (and controllable) vacuum however.
Granted, but ones 'nerdiness' has little to do with how viable their social skills are. While yes, most introverts are nerds, not all nerds are introverts. In fact, I'd personally guess it to be the minority of them. No more so, than any other niche.
Nerds have this extreme form of anti-social behavior projected on them, and in turn tend to adopt it unto themselves (the age old cycle of stereotyping). But yet in their seclusion they seek out others like themselves, rather it be online or at the local comic store. This in and of itself negates being anti-social. They are interacting socially, albeit with people of near-identical interests and believes.
It's not that nerds are socially inept. We're socially lazy. We tend to not want to admit that there are in fact other things to talk about than the most recent D&D rule set, the global impact of the LHC, or the details of why linux is better than mac, is better than windows.
It's not that you're a nerd that isn't getting you laid. It's you stereotyping yourself. Might I suggest listening to people, and perhaps not adopting the usual "holier than thou art" attitude that most nerds tend to do.
There is no "skill set" needed. All that is needed is for you to actually care to try and interact with a person that does not care about your latest design for a nitrogen cooled laptop. Find other common ground. Who knows, you might just find yourself a girl/woman/whatever that does in fact the occasional bout of Mario. But you'll never know if you carry on with the attitude of "Oh, she could NEVER understand someone as brilliant as I". Give it a try, worse that can happen is she ends up uninterested, in which case you've lost no ground anyways.
Nerds will take a risk by modifying a computer component worth hundreds of dollars to bleed out every possible clock-cycle possible, while running the risk of frying the component. And yet, they won't risk a conversation, in which in a worst case scenario they loss nothing.
And for the record, if you have no interest in social intelligence, you would have no interest in social interaction, and therefore no (genuine)interest in getting laid. They go hand in hand.
You see, the purpose behind this is two-fold.
First you have the publicly announced intent. This however, is more of a ruse that anything else however.
Secondly, and the primary purpose, is so that caller doesn't hear the mile long string of obscenities and ear shattering crunch when you give your best fast ball and throw your phone at the wall.
It all makes sense now...
Welcome to the voter pool.
Also, blaming it on evolution is only half the answer and a pretty weak one IMHO. Natural selection didn't create skyscrapers and sonnets, societies did.
While I'd be inclined to agree, there's one major flaw in this. Yes society led to skyscrapers.
But what fathered society? Those who were smart/clever enough to manipulate the masses so as that they could steer it in the direction which they desired. The ones that had the foresight and technical know how to put together a solid plan to take control were the ones who ultimately led to the creation of "society" as we know it today.
Never the less though, on the flip side of things, through the above mentioned manipulation, the utilization of the more brutish types became more prominent. And they were bred (as a farmer would mules and oxen) to capitalize on a resource that, with enough half-truths and fancy tricks would carry out your every whim. As number grew, nature kicked in exemplary specimens surfaced, and redirected there brethren, garnering a revolution, and bringing about the next generations manipulations.
Wash, rinse, repeats, and you have the history of the world. A cyclic pattern of brain>brawn>brain>brawn. Our problem today is that we're still stuck in the 'brawn' phase, and are without a 'brain' phase in quite some time. Best thing we could do is to utilize our current resources and try to get the wheel turning again.
The movie "Idiocracy". Admittedly it's not exactly like the movie, however I can see this as going in a much similar fashion (It does explain the current state of things a bit).
It's Natural Selection at it's finest.
The women, while trying to subconsciously pick the best mate, inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot, as Mr. Cage Fighter is packing sickly soldiers, with a mission to degrade the gene pool.
Meanwhile Mr. Physicist is in possession of a load that may one day help save humanity. But alas, it may never be used...
Oh, Irony.
That's the Bush administrations answer to everything though, isn't it? "Just add another zero... let the next guy figure it out..."
They probably over looked it figuring, what with it being Windows and all, that it wasn't going to work properly anyways.