There was also the case of the Metallica album and some bad mixes making it out on Napster prior to release, which was what got them all hot and bothered about infringement - undoubtedly, such material comes from studio hands, etc.
In 10 years, after 2 years of being unmanned, due to lack of funds to get people up there, because of spiraling deficits, and most likely, financial default by the US Government, we'll be chatting on slashdot as they de-orbit the ISS. We'll be like; "WTF?!".
"Who was in office when the DMCA was signed? Bill Clinton. Umm, what party was he a member of again?"
Clinton was basically spineless. A true Democrat should be opposed to DMCA in particular, and globalization, in general. But good luck finding a true Democrat anymore. The party is now facing the awful reality that in order to compete with the Republicans, they have to sell out America's interests just as much.
Well, we've got a little experiment going on out here in California. IF there is a recall, we'll have something like 130 candidates running for governor. Keep your eyes on that one - should be a fun show. I love how Schwartzenegger's got all of the repubs fooled - they think he's a conservative. hell, he's even got HIMSELF fooled into thinking he's a conservative. Basically, he's a liberal who likes guns. And rich friends. Sounds a lot like Bush, doesn't he?
". . . . War on Iraq (where we didn't find Sadaam and are busy ruling it like fuedal lords and expending 150+ billion on what was supposed to be a short and sweet little engagement). . .."
This war was sold as many things, many of those premises were demonstrably false. NOBODY, in my recollection EVER sold this war as "short and sweet". The Bush administration ALWAYS said that it would take a long time, and steep committment. We were NOT misled on that part. Don't distort the facts.
Bush's actions should piss off any fiscal conservative, believer in free markets and capitalism.
Bush has repeatedly handed out cookie after cookie to companies he or members of his adminstration has close ties to. Including lax enforcement of securities laws, huge no-bid contracts, tarrifs, unfettered private access to public resources. In all cases, there's elements of favoritism and nepotism.
These actions are absolutely against the principles of free market economics. In true free market capitalism, the main benefits to society is that companies must compete for their customers. Bush's policies eliminate competition from the equation - making it more of a system of corporate feudalism. It's absolutely anti-capitalist, and unamerican, and should be opposed. It's really no better than Soviet-style economics, where two or three military contractors sat around waiting for their turn for the next lucrative contract. The only difference is that much of the wealth is getting funnelled into a few private hands.
MOST of the benefits from Hybrids comes from Regenerative Breaking - this is why you get obnoxiously high milage in stop and go traffic, and good, but not amazing milage on the highway.
Some people hate the feel of the breaking, to the point of feeling unsafe when they drive.
Hybrids have some of the worst warranties and maintenance records. Partially because it's new technology, and partially, because the manufacturers don't want to pay to replace those expensive-ass batteries.
Similar highway milage can be obtained in a much more cost-effective vehicle. Like a 5 year old Civic.
Even BETTER highway milage can be obtained with a VW Turbo Diesel. (Available in a Jetta, Beelte, or Golf). Diesel is also much cheaper per gallon 'round these parts. ($1.85 compared to $2.19 for 87 octane self-serve name-brand gasoline). Plus, you qualify in some states for an "alternate fuel vehicle" tax break.
The VW TDI engine can also run on biodiesel (unrealistic today, but possibly more available at some point in the future?)
Unfortunately, Diesel exhaust contains very fine particles which are thought to be the main contributing factor in asthma. So, in California, you will not be able to purchase or register a 2004 TDI. However, you can obtain earlier models (1996-2003).
Though VW is among the poorest performer in the industry, as far as customer satisfaction and maintenance problems go. They DO have a good warranty.
For the money, this is the best milage vehicle on the road today. The turbo gives the engine lots of torque (considering it's only 1.9 liters), and there's tons of aftermarket hod-rodding stuff to make it even sportier.
Software patents are bad, so this ruling is bad. Microsoft is bad, so this ruling is good. Innovation is good, so this ruling is bad. Flash is bad, so this ruling is good. Looking at the world in terms of black and white is bad, so this ruling is bad. Lynx is good, so this ruling is good. . .
The main issue to be concerned about, *unfortunately* involves politics.
It's the basic question of: When someone is running a business, and profiting handsomely from it - should they, or should they not, be responsible for the safety of their customers?
It's already been established that Automakers should be responsible for defects in their products which compromise car-owner safety.
The airlines, of course, have dodged responsibility for the lax security they provided which enabled 9/11. Instead of a slap on the wrist, they were rewarded with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in bailouts - and union-busting government arbitration - and, eventually, bankruptcy protection. Wow. I wish I had a business that the government was that generous to. But I guess Alaska Air has been getting slapped around for negligent maintenance.
Now, if you spend $10,000 on a Microsoft server to protect your data, and it falls prey to a security glitch, we all know that Microsoft can't be held responsible.
Who's held responsible?
In the Old West - banks were often robbed. And stagecoach deliveries of funds. People were afraid to put their money into banks because if the bank was robbed, their savings would be lost with no recourse. Banks didn't take the responsibility of hiring enough security to prevent robberies. It would have made their business much less profitable. Then the US Government created the FDIC insurace act, which insured bank deposits, and made bank robbery a federal crime, so robbers couldn't simply cross state lines to escape justice.
It was *not* a constutional duty of the government to do so - unless you check the preamble, and read the phrase ". ..to (sic) promote the general welfare. . . " because the result of this act was to reduce the bank robbery, increase the public's faith in the banking system, making more funds available for the economic development of the American West. Which had incredibly huge benefits for all Americans.
The question here is - would government be overstepping it's constitutional boundries by going in and protecting our personal data in the hands of corporations? That's a matter of opinion.
Would the government be overstepping it's constitutional boundries by mandating that companies, in posession of citizens' personal data, be responsible for taking appropriate measures to secure that data? Possibly - but in today's political climate, it would definately NOT be a Republican to suggest such.
What problem would be solved? Citizens would be protected - that's a nice thing. And falls right in line with "...provide for the common defense..." Public faith in ecommerce would arise, which might stimulate the economy - which wouldn't be a bad thing.
A solution is out there. But there are right ways to do this, and wrong ways. I'm certain that the wrong thing to do would be the neoconservative lassez-faire approach. And that's probably the approach our current set of (s)elected officials will choose.
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Well, for that matter, with a savings account of half a mil - financed by the sale of my home, could I not live like a king in India - straight off the savings, in theory, for 500 years, without working?
That sounds like a better opportunity than living in America, and working two jobs to keep up my $2000/mo house payments. . .
Today, the Department of Homeland Security, following up on last week's ban on airline passengers carrying a vintage civil war officer's cutlass, has now decided that the Scottish claymore is also a potentially dangerous weapon, and could be used to hijack and aircraft. Security Researchers at DOHS are also investigating the potential of a.38 special revolver loaded with.357 magnum ammo as a threat to airline security.
Hammers that pound in nails, AND crush skulls of puppies.
People are building tools. Weapons can be tools for deterrance, or they can be weapons of agression.
Whose fault is it if some psychotic leader gets his or her slimy hands on the football? Not the scientist. The voters are at fault for listening to the lying pandering sociopath. And the psycho is guilty of whatever mass murder he commits.
If you take away the weapons of mass destruction, he'll just use old fashioned methods of killing, like tarrifs, or interdiction, or cutting funding. Ban those?
The cure for bad leadership decisions, is to get rid of bad leaders. That's done by VOTING. In this country, anyway.
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No. Kennedy sent us to the moon. Kennedy was assassinated. Since the Moon, mankind has not achieved anything significant, new, revolutionary, or inspiring in space. Except, perhaps, Hubble.
If you believe the Single-Bullet theory, then his killer was captured, case solved.
Those of us who believe something else was going on there know, that those who are in power today, are interested in space only as a tool to control and dominate those of us on the surface. It's called "The High Ground" by Rumsfeld and his chums. And they will not take us to Mars, or the stars.
And that hope was dashed away when the man who sent us to the moon was killed by an assassin's bullet, and the men who planned the assassination not only went unpunished, but are now running the country, and essentially, the world.
It's now all about politics and profit. There's no profit in the stars. The profit is in keeping a captive population enslaved for as long as possible, then disposing them when they're no longer needed.
I think that's why X-Files became the popular Science Fiction of the 1990's. And now, we don't dare to dream anymore.
And with that attitude, the caveat emptor attitude, the pundits wonder why people aren't investing in the market.
Banks in the Western US had a similar problem in the latter half of the 19th century. People would put their money in, then someone would come along and rob them.
So banks could not attract the capital that would be necessary to fund the economic expansion that everyone was waiting for.
So the government established the FDIC. And that made bank robbery a federal crime. Which had a dampening effect on the bank robbery industry, and a fertilizing effect on almost every OTHER industry.
This is an argument IN FAVOR of government regulation and involvement. History proves it was not only successful, but WILDLY so.
Wealthy, influential people like to bitch and moan about all those rules and regulations that get in the way. Because the spoiled brats usually get their way. But usually, a broader group of people can benefit from some level of regulation. Even the wealthy, influential ones. Some little brats don't know whats for their own good.
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(whose only book I even started reading ended up in the trash can)
Funny how, among those who have read his books, I usually hear one or the other reactions of extremes, like this. Very few middle-of-the-road appraisals.
Now, I'm not a member of the Gor cult, and my involvement with BDSM is definately aligned to the Safe, Sane, and Consensual contingent (Norman's fantasies violate those tenents), but I was easily able to look past my revulsion towards the whole chauvanism thing Norman's books are chock-full of, to read, and enjoy what are actually some rather excellent fantasy and science fiction books (especially Priest-Kings of Gor). Sure I was offended. I was also offended by a lot of Heinlein's perversions as well. But I'm not one who's opposed to having my dogma challenged. I don't think I would have enjoyed even a small fraction of the many books I've read, if I had a problem with that. In fact, I think that's what draws me to Science Fiction and Fantasy books more than anything else. Yet, among a lot of sci-fi fan and Con-going friends, you ask about the Gor books, and it's "oh, that's just a bunch of teenage fantasy trash" - they never even READ the books! The irony is - here's a group of people who consider themselves defined by their open mindedness, and they're just as closed-minded and hypocritical as any group of Christian Fundamentalists. Brainwashed by the militant feminist movement of the 70's.
If a woman does find happiness and self-worth as a sex slave, and can't any other way, despite years and tens of thousands of dollars worth of councelling and medication - is that a bad thing? According to the militant feminists it is - because HER personal choice in life, according to them, degrades ALL women. And the other extreme. . . the Gorean extreme, that all women, regardless of actual capability, or desire - need to be enslaved, and should be - well, that's just plain wrong too. That does not mean that one can not read these books, and see past Norman's proselytizing, and enjoy his writing.
My point is - Heinlein's stories contained a lot of sexual promiscuity. Yet some of my acquaintences were anything but promiscuous. (and none of this particular group of 5 are happily married, except for the one I married - who shares my utter distaste for Stranger in a Strange Land). 10 years later. Go figure. And I don't think a single one of these women would not burn the first Gor book they read, halfway through the first chapter. Horrors!
Honestly, as far as Heinlein goes, I really liked Starship Troopers, and I hated Stranger, my favorite was Job. Though I never read Moon, and I intend to. It's actually Anthony whom I have a distaste for. My wife loves his books, bless her heart.
Authors I really like are guys like, Vonnegut, Greg Bear and Orson Scott Card. And in my youth, Clarke, and Asimov. I've even been a Juanita Coulson fan. And I'm having a real hard time trying to find anything redeeming about Neal Stephanson. I have a persistent friend who's trying to hook me on Lem. Talk about sexisim!
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I think you're being overly harsh, the post to which you were responding was written during the SEXUAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION. (currently in progress, started about 1982 when HIV was discovered).
I make no judgements either way. Both "movements" went too far in their respective directions. Both have their zealots, who really ought to be shot.
Funny thing is, back in college, there was this group of people I hung with, and these girls were like all googly over Heinlein, and how great his books were, and said that they based their lives off of "Stranger in a Strange Land" - etc. I read the book, and thought, wow, I'm freinds with these girls, they like this book, we party together all the time, yet none of them ever get naked. ..
(it's the chicks who are into Gor books who will get naked).
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There was also the case of the Metallica album and some bad mixes making it out on Napster prior to release, which was what got them all hot and bothered about infringement - undoubtedly, such material comes from studio hands, etc.
In 10 years, after 2 years of being unmanned, due to lack of funds to get people up there, because of spiraling deficits, and most likely, financial default by the US Government, we'll be chatting on slashdot as they de-orbit the ISS. We'll be like; "WTF?!".
"Who was in office when the DMCA was signed? Bill Clinton. Umm, what party was he a member of again?"
Clinton was basically spineless. A true Democrat should be opposed to DMCA in particular, and globalization, in general. But good luck finding a true Democrat anymore. The party is now facing the awful reality that in order to compete with the Republicans, they have to sell out America's interests just as much.
Well, we've got a little experiment going on out here in California. IF there is a recall, we'll have something like 130 candidates running for governor. Keep your eyes on that one - should be a fun show. I love how Schwartzenegger's got all of the repubs fooled - they think he's a conservative. hell, he's even got HIMSELF fooled into thinking he's a conservative. Basically, he's a liberal who likes guns. And rich friends. Sounds a lot like Bush, doesn't he?
". . . . War on Iraq (where we didn't find Sadaam and are busy ruling it like fuedal lords and expending 150+ billion on what was supposed to be a short and sweet little engagement). . . ."
This war was sold as many things, many of those premises were demonstrably false.
NOBODY, in my recollection EVER sold this war as "short and sweet". The Bush administration ALWAYS said that it would take a long time, and steep committment. We were NOT misled on that part. Don't distort the facts.
"You didn't see any of that in the liberal media, however..."
not true.
Actually, I read about that in Drudge Report. Do you consider Matt Drudge "liberal media"?
Bush's actions should piss off any fiscal conservative, believer in free markets and capitalism.
Bush has repeatedly handed out cookie after cookie to companies he or members of his adminstration has close ties to. Including lax enforcement of securities laws, huge no-bid contracts, tarrifs, unfettered private access to public resources. In all cases, there's elements of favoritism and nepotism.
These actions are absolutely against the principles of free market economics. In true free market capitalism, the main benefits to society is that companies must compete for their customers. Bush's policies eliminate competition from the equation - making it more of a system of corporate feudalism. It's absolutely anti-capitalist, and unamerican, and should be opposed. It's really no better than Soviet-style economics, where two or three military contractors sat around waiting for their turn for the next lucrative contract. The only difference is that much of the wealth is getting funnelled into a few private hands.
. . . more likely an oil slick from a Harley.
MOST of the benefits from Hybrids comes from Regenerative Breaking - this is why you get obnoxiously high milage in stop and go traffic, and good, but not amazing milage on the highway.
Some people hate the feel of the breaking, to the point of feeling unsafe when they drive.
Hybrids have some of the worst warranties and maintenance records. Partially because it's new technology, and partially, because the manufacturers don't want to pay to replace those expensive-ass batteries.
Similar highway milage can be obtained in a much more cost-effective vehicle. Like a 5 year old Civic.
Even BETTER highway milage can be obtained with a VW Turbo Diesel. (Available in a Jetta, Beelte, or Golf). Diesel is also much cheaper per gallon 'round these parts. ($1.85 compared to $2.19 for 87 octane self-serve name-brand gasoline). Plus, you qualify in some states for an "alternate fuel vehicle" tax break.
The VW TDI engine can also run on biodiesel (unrealistic today, but possibly more available at some point in the future?)
Unfortunately, Diesel exhaust contains very fine particles which are thought to be the main contributing factor in asthma. So, in California, you will not be able to purchase or register a 2004 TDI. However, you can obtain earlier models (1996-2003).
Though VW is among the poorest performer in the industry, as far as customer satisfaction and maintenance problems go. They DO have a good warranty.
For the money, this is the best milage vehicle on the road today.
The turbo gives the engine lots of torque (considering it's only 1.9 liters), and there's tons of aftermarket hod-rodding stuff to make it even sportier.
Software patents are bad, so this ruling is bad.
Microsoft is bad, so this ruling is good.
Innovation is good, so this ruling is bad.
Flash is bad, so this ruling is good.
Looking at the world in terms of black and white is bad, so this ruling is bad.
Lynx is good, so this ruling is good. . .
The main issue to be concerned about, *unfortunately* involves politics.
.to (sic) promote the general welfare. . . " because the result of this act was to reduce the bank robbery, increase the public's faith in the banking system, making more funds available for the economic development of the American West. Which had incredibly huge benefits for all Americans.
It's the basic question of:
When someone is running a business, and profiting handsomely from it - should they, or should they not, be responsible for the safety of their customers?
It's already been established that Automakers should be responsible for defects in their products which compromise car-owner safety.
The airlines, of course, have dodged responsibility for the lax security they provided which enabled 9/11. Instead of a slap on the wrist, they were rewarded with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in bailouts - and union-busting government arbitration - and, eventually, bankruptcy protection. Wow. I wish I had a business that the government was that generous to.
But I guess Alaska Air has been getting slapped around for negligent maintenance.
Now, if you spend $10,000 on a Microsoft server to protect your data, and it falls prey to a security glitch, we all know that Microsoft can't be held responsible.
Who's held responsible?
In the Old West - banks were often robbed. And stagecoach deliveries of funds. People were afraid to put their money into banks because if the bank was robbed, their savings would be lost with no recourse. Banks didn't take the responsibility of hiring enough security to prevent robberies. It would have made their business much less profitable.
Then the US Government created the FDIC insurace act, which insured bank deposits, and made bank robbery a federal crime, so robbers couldn't simply cross state lines to escape justice.
It was *not* a constutional duty of the government to do so - unless you check the preamble, and read the phrase ". .
The question here is - would government be overstepping it's constitutional boundries by going in and protecting our personal data in the hands of corporations?
That's a matter of opinion.
Would the government be overstepping it's constitutional boundries by mandating that companies, in posession of citizens' personal data, be responsible for taking appropriate measures to secure that data?
Possibly - but in today's political climate, it would definately NOT be a Republican to suggest such.
What problem would be solved?
Citizens would be protected - that's a nice thing. And falls right in line with "...provide for the common defense..."
Public faith in ecommerce would arise, which might stimulate the economy - which wouldn't be a bad thing.
A solution is out there. But there are right ways to do this, and wrong ways. I'm certain that the wrong thing to do would be the neoconservative lassez-faire approach. And that's probably the approach our current set of (s)elected officials will choose.
Well, for that matter, with a savings account of half a mil - financed by the sale of my home, could I not live like a king in India - straight off the savings, in theory, for 500 years, without working?
That sounds like a better opportunity than living in America, and working two jobs to keep up my $2000/mo house payments. . .
Today, the Department of Homeland Security, following up on last week's ban on airline passengers carrying a vintage civil war officer's cutlass, has now decided that the Scottish claymore is also a potentially dangerous weapon, and could be used to hijack and aircraft. .38 special revolver loaded with .357 magnum ammo as a threat to airline security.
Security Researchers at DOHS are also investigating the potential of a
I'm so glad that download stalled 1/4 of the way through.
Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?
Oh, I guess they are. . .
Hammers that pound in nails, AND crush skulls of puppies.
People are building tools. Weapons can be tools for deterrance, or they can be weapons of agression.
Whose fault is it if some psychotic leader gets his or her slimy hands on the football? Not the scientist. The voters are at fault for listening to the lying pandering sociopath. And the psycho is guilty of whatever mass murder he commits.
If you take away the weapons of mass destruction, he'll just use old fashioned methods of killing, like tarrifs, or interdiction, or cutting funding. Ban those?
The cure for bad leadership decisions, is to get rid of bad leaders. That's done by VOTING. In this country, anyway.
I'm guessing that they're *saying* it's going to be cheaper. But I bet as soon as it becomes a standard, prices will be at least double what normal RAM is.
Detecting cancer before it starts is not profitable.
Allowing patients to get cancer, and subjecting them to millions of dollars worth of surgery, chemicals, and radiation therapy ARE profitable.
Which solution do you think the big pharmaceutical companies are going to fund research for?
No.
Kennedy sent us to the moon.
Kennedy was assassinated.
Since the Moon, mankind has not achieved anything significant, new, revolutionary, or inspiring in space. Except, perhaps, Hubble.
If you believe the Single-Bullet theory, then his killer was captured, case solved.
Those of us who believe something else was going on there know, that those who are in power today, are interested in space only as a tool to control and dominate those of us on the surface. It's called "The High Ground" by Rumsfeld and his chums.
And they will not take us to Mars, or the stars.
If you're travelling faster than the speed of sound, no matter how loud your sonic boom is, your enemy will not hear you coming.
And that hope was dashed away when the man who sent us to the moon was killed by an assassin's bullet, and the men who planned the assassination not only went unpunished, but are now running the country, and essentially, the world.
It's now all about politics and profit. There's no profit in the stars. The profit is in keeping a captive population enslaved for as long as possible, then disposing them when they're no longer needed.
I think that's why X-Files became the popular Science Fiction of the 1990's. And now, we don't dare to dream anymore.
Welcome to the harsh world of reality. Do or Die.
And with that attitude, the caveat emptor attitude, the pundits wonder why people aren't investing in the market.
Banks in the Western US had a similar problem in the latter half of the 19th century. People would put their money in, then someone would come along and rob them.
So banks could not attract the capital that would be necessary to fund the economic expansion that everyone was waiting for.
So the government established the FDIC. And that made bank robbery a federal crime. Which had a dampening effect on the bank robbery industry, and a fertilizing effect on almost every OTHER industry.
This is an argument IN FAVOR of government regulation and involvement. History proves it was not only successful, but WILDLY so.
Wealthy, influential people like to bitch and moan about all those rules and regulations that get in the way. Because the spoiled brats usually get their way. But usually, a broader group of people can benefit from some level of regulation. Even the wealthy, influential ones. Some little brats don't know whats for their own good.
(whose only book I even started reading ended up in the trash can)
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Funny how, among those who have read his books, I usually hear one or the other reactions of extremes, like this. Very few middle-of-the-road appraisals.
Now, I'm not a member of the Gor cult, and my involvement with BDSM is definately aligned to the Safe, Sane, and Consensual contingent (Norman's fantasies violate those tenents), but I was easily able to look past my revulsion towards the whole chauvanism thing Norman's books are chock-full of, to read, and enjoy what are actually some rather excellent fantasy and science fiction books (especially Priest-Kings of Gor). Sure I was offended. I was also offended by a lot of Heinlein's perversions as well. But I'm not one who's opposed to having my dogma challenged. I don't think I would have enjoyed even a small fraction of the many books I've read, if I had a problem with that. In fact, I think that's what draws me to Science Fiction and Fantasy books more than anything else.
Yet, among a lot of sci-fi fan and Con-going friends, you ask about the Gor books, and it's "oh, that's just a bunch of teenage fantasy trash" - they never even READ the books! The irony is - here's a group of people who consider themselves defined by their open mindedness, and they're just as closed-minded and hypocritical as any group of Christian Fundamentalists. Brainwashed by the militant feminist movement of the 70's.
If a woman does find happiness and self-worth as a sex slave, and can't any other way, despite years and tens of thousands of dollars worth of councelling and medication - is that a bad thing? According to the militant feminists it is - because HER personal choice in life, according to them, degrades ALL women. And the other extreme. . . the Gorean extreme, that all women, regardless of actual capability, or desire - need to be enslaved, and should be - well, that's just plain wrong too. That does not mean that one can not read these books, and see past Norman's proselytizing, and enjoy his writing.
My point is - Heinlein's stories contained a lot of sexual promiscuity. Yet some of my acquaintences were anything but promiscuous. (and none of this particular group of 5 are happily married, except for the one I married - who shares my utter distaste for Stranger in a Strange Land). 10 years later. Go figure. And I don't think a single one of these women would not burn the first Gor book they read, halfway through the first chapter. Horrors!
Honestly, as far as Heinlein goes, I really liked Starship Troopers, and I hated Stranger, my favorite was Job. Though I never read Moon, and I intend to. It's actually Anthony whom I have a distaste for. My wife loves his books, bless her heart.
Authors I really like are guys like, Vonnegut, Greg Bear and Orson Scott Card. And in my youth, Clarke, and Asimov. I've even been a Juanita Coulson fan. And I'm having a real hard time trying to find anything redeeming about Neal Stephanson. I have a persistent friend who's trying to hook me on Lem. Talk about sexisim!
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I think you're being overly harsh, the post to which you were responding was written during the SEXUAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION. (currently in progress, started about 1982 when HIV was discovered).
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I make no judgements either way. Both "movements" went too far in their respective directions. Both have their zealots, who really ought to be shot.
Funny thing is, back in college, there was this group of people I hung with, and these girls were like all googly over Heinlein, and how great his books were, and said that they based their lives off of "Stranger in a Strange Land" - etc. I read the book, and thought, wow, I'm freinds with these girls, they like this book, we party together all the time, yet none of them ever get naked. .
(it's the chicks who are into Gor books who will get naked).