For example, imagine if the only way you could send letters was the US postal service. Fed Ex and UPS would be illegal.
The USPS is the only way we can send letters. It is illegal to send letters through parcel carriers like FedEx and UPS. This has served us very, very well for over 200 years, until Republicans decided to kill it by passing completely insane "reforms", such as funding pensions to be funded for 75 years into the future. In other words, the USPS is required by law to have pension funds for employees that have not even been born yet.
When you think about it, the ability for anyone in the country to send a letter to anyone else in the country for less than a dollar is really fucking incredible. You won't get that from FedEx and UPS. We need the same kind of guaranteed service from nationwide internet.
This 4th of july I'll be launching an old blackberry curve a couple hundred feet in the air using fireworks simply because it's worth more to me as a disposable video camera than anything else. In 2008 that phone cost $250 with contract.
And then you got another $250 phone with contract, and then another $250 phone with another contract. That's the real reason your BB curve isn't worth much to you. Not because it's not a useful device, but because you were conned into buying a new phone you didn't actually need every time you got a contract.
By the same logic why not do that for the whole country?
Republicans, that's why. Nation wide internet is a great idea for the same reason the interstate system is. But it will never happen as long as private profits are more important than the public good.
Both Windows and Linux accept spaces in passwords. I've never encountered a website that didn't accept spaces, and if I did I'd leave. That's a clear sign of utter incompetence.
Folks, you're too quick to conclude that Republican voters are stupid. I know quite a few old white guys who are actually smart people, and who vote Republican. What they think does make sense, if the premises they believe are true.
The stupid part comes in when you don't actually check your premises against reality to see if they are true. Instead, conservatives use their smarts to argue in favor of their premises, despite any facts. That's stupid.
I'm actually posting this from a 266mhz PII with little trouble. Classic discussion system and noscript do the trick. Though I agree with you, it's really badly implemented. Those steps shouldn't be necessary.
Why do they need to be replaced? If Hollywood can't adapt to the realities of the internet, they need to disappear. The internet has already done far more to improve our lives in the past couple decades than Hollywood has done in a century. If we have to choose, it's no question that the internet is the better choice.
If Hollywood wants to take their ball and go home, then by all means let them do it.
Actually, taking a movie like avatar for example, I've watched it maybe three times on the big screen in the living room, and probably a dozen times on my computer.
What the hell? Was the plot too complex for you to follow the first half dozen times?
I also think it can be used to establish healthy normative behaviors within a community.
No, it can't. Healthy normative behavior is well informed, censorship can only create ignorance.
What happens when the line between entertainment or health curiosity is blurred with the accepted abuse of another gender or race?
You counter it with healthy positive messages. See what's been happening with gay rights recently. You don't need to censor Baptist activists, you just need to expose the nastiness of their message and let nature take its course. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
As for being in prison, my only guess is that you think watching porn makes children rapists or something, because otherwise I don't see how that leads them to prison.
To be fair to the GP post, he was suggesting that I should show porn to my kids. That would result in me going to prison, and presumably since I'm such a terrible parent, that would result in my children being better off, ironically proving the point that porn can be beneficial to children.
It was almost clever and funny, if it weren't so wrong headed.
Note that I never claimed that porn was good for children, nor did I claim that porn was not bad for children. I've simply never seen any evidence that passive exposure to porn, or active curiosity about porn, causes any sort of problem for children of any age. If it's so obvious that porn is bad for kids, there should be plenty of evidence, right? So where is it?
For the record, I have no children, and will never have any children. But if I did, porn would be way, way down on my list of concerns. Exposure to puritanical conservativism would be a much, much bigger concern. But in either case I would not react with censorship, but providing context where needed.
My suspicion is that prohibition without evidence of harm causes far more harm than any of the things that get prohibited. But I don't have any evidence for that.
Ok, then explain it to me. Explain to me why you are a better judge of what I should see than I am. Then explain to me why the same argument doesn't apply with our positions reversed.
I am absolutely unaware of any benefits censorship yields. I have never learned anything and thought, "gee, I wish they would have censored that". The only valid response to information you don't like is to counter it with your own information. Anything else and you are a tyrant.
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LCD's are the only computer related hardware technology I can think of that have gotten worse over time.
As opposed to computer related software technology, that gets worse as a matter of course.
Yes, but we were talking about letters. You do know the difference between letters and packages, don't you?
At least my foaming at the mouth bigotry is well informed. If you bother to look it up, you'll see that I am correct.
For example, imagine if the only way you could send letters was the US postal service. Fed Ex and UPS would be illegal.
The USPS is the only way we can send letters. It is illegal to send letters through parcel carriers like FedEx and UPS. This has served us very, very well for over 200 years, until Republicans decided to kill it by passing completely insane "reforms", such as funding pensions to be funded for 75 years into the future. In other words, the USPS is required by law to have pension funds for employees that have not even been born yet.
When you think about it, the ability for anyone in the country to send a letter to anyone else in the country for less than a dollar is really fucking incredible. You won't get that from FedEx and UPS. We need the same kind of guaranteed service from nationwide internet.
Somehow it seems that school administrators are even harder to educate than their charges.
What is the difference between "infographics" and graphical information written on a blackboard, anyway?
Public utilities == communism. This is what Republicans actually believe.
Will there be a video game?
This 4th of july I'll be launching an old blackberry curve a couple hundred feet in the air using fireworks simply because it's worth more to me as a disposable video camera than anything else. In 2008 that phone cost $250 with contract.
And then you got another $250 phone with contract, and then another $250 phone with another contract. That's the real reason your BB curve isn't worth much to you. Not because it's not a useful device, but because you were conned into buying a new phone you didn't actually need every time you got a contract.
By the same logic why not do that for the whole country?
Republicans, that's why. Nation wide internet is a great idea for the same reason the interstate system is. But it will never happen as long as private profits are more important than the public good.
You MAY want to mandate that individual apartments not have dish antennas sticking out their windows.
This is actually a violation of federal law.
Both Windows and Linux accept spaces in passwords. I've never encountered a website that didn't accept spaces, and if I did I'd leave. That's a clear sign of utter incompetence.
Folks, you're too quick to conclude that Republican voters are stupid. I know quite a few old white guys who are actually smart people, and who vote Republican. What they think does make sense, if the premises they believe are true.
The stupid part comes in when you don't actually check your premises against reality to see if they are true. Instead, conservatives use their smarts to argue in favor of their premises, despite any facts. That's stupid.
The real prefix is ******.
Why no spaces? Spaces and punctuation increase the search space.
I'm actually posting this from a 266mhz PII with little trouble. Classic discussion system and noscript do the trick. Though I agree with you, it's really badly implemented. Those steps shouldn't be necessary.
If you're looking for smugglers, people with obscured license plates are going to be high priority targets.
What is the advantage to changing one's SSID?
You could slashdot with it.
Why do they need to be replaced? If Hollywood can't adapt to the realities of the internet, they need to disappear. The internet has already done far more to improve our lives in the past couple decades than Hollywood has done in a century. If we have to choose, it's no question that the internet is the better choice.
If Hollywood wants to take their ball and go home, then by all means let them do it.
Actually, taking a movie like avatar for example, I've watched it maybe three times on the big screen in the living room, and probably a dozen times on my computer.
What the hell? Was the plot too complex for you to follow the first half dozen times?
Is there a good sprite editor for Linux? Or do people just zoom way in with Gimp and use a 1x1 pen tool?
Right on.
I also think it can be used to establish healthy normative behaviors within a community.
No, it can't. Healthy normative behavior is well informed, censorship can only create ignorance.
What happens when the line between entertainment or health curiosity is blurred with the accepted abuse of another gender or race?
You counter it with healthy positive messages. See what's been happening with gay rights recently. You don't need to censor Baptist activists, you just need to expose the nastiness of their message and let nature take its course. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
As for being in prison, my only guess is that you think watching porn makes children rapists or something, because otherwise I don't see how that leads them to prison.
To be fair to the GP post, he was suggesting that I should show porn to my kids. That would result in me going to prison, and presumably since I'm such a terrible parent, that would result in my children being better off, ironically proving the point that porn can be beneficial to children.
It was almost clever and funny, if it weren't so wrong headed.
Note that I never claimed that porn was good for children, nor did I claim that porn was not bad for children. I've simply never seen any evidence that passive exposure to porn, or active curiosity about porn, causes any sort of problem for children of any age. If it's so obvious that porn is bad for kids, there should be plenty of evidence, right? So where is it?
For the record, I have no children, and will never have any children. But if I did, porn would be way, way down on my list of concerns. Exposure to puritanical conservativism would be a much, much bigger concern. But in either case I would not react with censorship, but providing context where needed.
My suspicion is that prohibition without evidence of harm causes far more harm than any of the things that get prohibited. But I don't have any evidence for that.
Ok, then explain it to me. Explain to me why you are a better judge of what I should see than I am. Then explain to me why the same argument doesn't apply with our positions reversed.
I am absolutely unaware of any benefits censorship yields. I have never learned anything and thought, "gee, I wish they would have censored that". The only valid response to information you don't like is to counter it with your own information. Anything else and you are a tyrant.