Infidelity is a leap yes, not a "major: one, but certainly a leap. What isn't much of a leap however would be if she never told her husband (if she has one) that she is a lesbian, then that would be a CLEAR violation of trust. If you don't tell your partner that you aren't sexually attracted to them, then that is pretty indicative of a serious character flaw in that person.
Last time I told a girlfriend I wasn't sexually attracted to her...well I'll just say she found that to be a serious character flaw in my person, a CLEAR violation of trust.
Really, what did we expect her to do? We really have no knowledge about her situation or how her family and community would react if they discovered this. We don't even know if she is married. Do we have to assume she's evil?
Me too, but without guessing the exact ones, we'll never know which to attach our disembodied brains too with our genetically engineered, brain-payload parasites.
Well I got all my recent furniture interest free till June 2010. I'll make a deal like that with the planet; I'll do what we want now, and later I'll pay for it, K? Earth knows I'm good for it.
Hmmm, true: to google, "the stuff I don't want my boss to know" is blip in a database, but to my boss, it would be a gold mine. There are tons of mundane reasons I don't want people to know things about me.
Here are a couple: My girlfriend raided my Google search history and I never knew the mundane crap that could be deemed offensive, then of course there was that "sex with staplers" search. My particular boss doesn't care if I Google for "sex with staplers" mainly because my company blocks 'offensive' sights, but if I had one that did, and he raided my search history? My uncle flip flops on using email because he is an expert witness, and he informs me that this is due to the fact that his email may be searched by the opposition for various reasons; say there is a debate with me about the flaws of the jury system or his recent class on "How to look intelligent and believable to Texans." Well I just cost his clients a lawsuit when the jury hears some quotes from that.
I just feel uncomfortable that out there in a database, there may be records of everything I wanted to know for the past few years that I can not control access to.
Whoever decided to make Klaudt a lawmaker is armed with weapons-grade stupidity and should be prosecuted as a terrorist.
Actually, it was the accumulation of millions of standard grade stupidity that accumulated in an election, as it does every year, that caused the critical mass that made him a law maker.
What we need is tighter control over total stupidity in the general populace, not how much is possed by any one person, because as Ted Alvin Klaudt will kindly demonstrate for you, it's rather ineffectual when wielded by one person.
the infaliable United States Democracy...those people have their democratic rights MEMORIZED, printed off, laminated, and FRAMED above their mantlepiece
Some of us do, most of congress sure don't. My favorite congressionally ignored right taken from the framed papers on my mantelpiece: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
we've been able to use those browsers for a long time...
Apparently not, the history of settlements seems to imply that you are unable figure out that you can download them onto your computers and set them as your default browser.
Have you noticed that Ubuntu comes pre-installed with Mozilla and doesn't even have a port of IE! Why don't you fine them next?
As for devices working with windows out of the box, that's a myth
I don't need cutting edge hardware, so I have used windows intentionally (I do give a shit about the OS) to discover the hardware I need, sometimes just to copy the settings from the windows device manager into Linux configuration files.
But I would agree with you if you had said software; I recently got a machine with Vista running on it and I now constantly hunt down tutorials on getting my old XP software up and running. I bet windows 7 is even worse.
Ahhhhh, While I agree that voting usually comes down to "who dislike the least"; informally voting is like being with a bunch of friends deciding on where to eat and when asked, you say 'I don't care, anywhere will do'.
Unfortunately in my view if you do that then you surrender your right to complain about how rubbish the meal was later...don't you think?
Not really, if your friends force you to to choose to eat at either Alaskan Specialty Rubbish and Spiced Kenyan Rubbish complaining about how rubbish the meal was later seems reasonable to me, no matter which you chose, even if you went to "your" choice. To me, "I refuse to choose" seems like the most reasonable vote here.
Of course it doesn't really matter, neither restaurant won by one vote and your friends later inform you that due to bureaucratic inconsistency in 1693-F section 14 of the bro code they didn't even listen to your opinion this year.
Or parents could be parents. Don't want you kids looking at something? Act as the filter don't let them buy/play games that expose them to things you don't want 'em to see....
Take some responsibility here folks!
Yeah, that would be nice, but how does an average parent know what is, for example, in second life? They don't have time to play around there all day finding explicit content and then determining what percent of the game contains that. All they can do is read reports like this one and decide whether they will let their kids have access to these games.
Parents can't be there all the time, they work from 8-5 while school goes from 9-3 at some point they have to trust their kids, or content blockers.
Well, I snuck liquor from my mom's liquor cabinets, even though she tried to beat morals into me. Of course my dad gave me whatever I wanted so I never snuck any from his.
And the parents who tried to watch their kids harder? Well we knew we could only see them when they escaped out their bedroom windows in the middle of the night to share their ill gotten liquor. My point is, you have to learn to trust your kids at some point, because if they are Xphiles, they'll stay in line and if they are me, they'll will find ways to get into trouble anyway no matter how much effort is spent watching them.
I'm pretty much the only Erik Trimble on the Internet
The solutions people proposed above seem relevant to you: Get a few stock images of dudes, then go make Myspace accounts with them, each one taking blame for an embarrassing part of your life. Also make sure to name your kid Mohammed, its the most common name.
If he makes a new site with his name, it will be google result #1642461, while he says this thing managed to claim Google result "like the first thing". People searching for him will never find his decoy and trampy adventures.
Canada...18...20...you are an adult...This was clearly not a "You've been a bad boy Johnny" If the feds were involved
Yes, in the US you get charged as an adult at 18 too, or any age when you really ticked someone off.
I nearly lost my scholarship and had to drop out my first semester of college since my parents were no longer there busting my ass. I also got into similar trouble (I have a feeling I will soon get 1+ calls: "Did you post that question on/.?"). After that, I shaped up, got amazing grades to erase the semester and reigned in computer security experiments once I realized I was now responsible for myself.
That is why I would completely understand if I had to interview the guy and found one tiny incident that happened while he was first finding his footing in the world without adults telling him what he can and can not do.
Or you could bury it with so much similar BAD stuff so that none of it is believable.
Noise up, signal down.
Nice. I like it, you can also hide in the fact that there are probably 100+ people with your name easily findable on the internet. Blame them if you have to.
Speaking of noise, this file is not really a concern unless you can type your name into Google and that event turns up in the first few pages. From the question, it does not seem that way. Your future employer would have to search ridiculously hard to find an urban legend with your name in the middle of it on some site (textfiles.com) that I never heard of.
Sure, you're using sarcasm, but I think your sarcasm actually reflects the opinion of a large amount of the populace. Why should we hire a sex offender applicant when hey, 99% of our applicants are not sex offenders? Why should we hire Bob hacker, when 60% of our applicants have nothing bad turn up when we Google them? We really don't need those guilty people!
Besides that if you do stretch out your hand and hire Bob Hacker, the Feds just might need access to your email servers to keep tabs on him; theres just no room in the world for guilty people.
Yeah, it's a tax on those who can least bear it. I can't stop myself from pointing out that however great a money generator the lottery is, it's still the government tricking people out of their money.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED, NAY REQUIRED TO QUESTION SCIENCE in order for it to prosper
Yeah, I know, but really how can I question scientists? Take climate science for example, I barely grasp fluid mechanics and yet (other lay) people continue to tell me to make my own models and test the validity of climate scientists. Uh, no, besides not having the education required to do that I don't have the time or the supercomputers to crunch the numbers. Same thing for all the other sciences, I have time to skim their results and determine if they sound credible, but thats about it.
BTW NFN_NLN: I know you did not advocate going so far as to make my own models, but take the early snow this year, all I hear from relatives and friends, is: "aha, global warming is a myth!" Or, being an accepter of the evidence for global climate change I am often presented with half ass models like averaging the tempatures of Venus and Mars or showing that only the reflectivity of nitrogen should be taken into effect as it has more mass in our atmosphere than CO2. Well now present my own model? I can't like I said, I barely understand fluid dynamics.
I don't think anyone but political pundits and extremists will pay this much attention. I know the lay person certainly isn't going to run out and read all of these e-mails.
Yes, and that is a problem. Those who read the emails, send out snippets to the layperson proclaiming the emails support their side and (like every other shred of evidence they've found) ends the debate in favor of their side. Then the laypeople around the water cooler repeat what the readers have said and try to decide what to vote for in that small sliver of time they have to devote to skimming the evidence pundits and extremists have screened for them.
Slashdot Mirror
Infidelity is a leap yes, not a "major: one, but certainly a leap. What isn't much of a leap however would be if she never told her husband (if she has one) that she is a lesbian, then that would be a CLEAR violation of trust. If you don't tell your partner that you aren't sexually attracted to them, then that is pretty indicative of a serious character flaw in that person.
Last time I told a girlfriend I wasn't sexually attracted to her...well I'll just say she found that to be a serious character flaw in my person, a CLEAR violation of trust.
Really, what did we expect her to do? We really have no knowledge about her situation or how her family and community would react if they discovered this. We don't even know if she is married. Do we have to assume she's evil?
Please ignore parent. His easy, obvious solutions kinda kill the debate.
I too will be technically participating in the boycott, by never playing these games.
Me too, but without guessing the exact ones, we'll never know which to attach our disembodied brains too with our genetically engineered, brain-payload parasites.
Well I got all my recent furniture interest free till June 2010. I'll make a deal like that with the planet; I'll do what we want now, and later I'll pay for it, K? Earth knows I'm good for it.
contrary to popular belief, the telephone was actually invented BEFORE the internet
How did people check their email on their phones if there was no internet? I got you there!
Ever drove a bit faster than the limits? (traffic regulations)
Nope.
Ever realized the cashier gave extra change and neglected to give it back? (theft)
No.
Ever tried to log into some computer which you don't have access to? (attempted hacking)
Of course not.
Or used a friend's account when he forgot to log off? (there's gotta be some computer crime here)
Oh jeez no.
Got into a fight with a friend? (assault)
Never.
How about the thousands if not millions of obscure laws and regulations which were enacted and forgotten, which nobody knows of yet exists?
You will see repeatedly in my google search history: "How never to break an obscure law in anywhere or otherwise offend anyone in the least".
/. account.
And if anyone ever doubts I'm completely innocent I've got this post tied to my
Hmmm, true: to google, "the stuff I don't want my boss to know" is blip in a database, but to my boss, it would be a gold mine. There are tons of mundane reasons I don't want people to know things about me.
Here are a couple:
My girlfriend raided my Google search history and I never knew the mundane crap that could be deemed offensive, then of course there was that "sex with staplers" search. My particular boss doesn't care if I Google for "sex with staplers" mainly because my company blocks 'offensive' sights, but if I had one that did, and he raided my search history?
My uncle flip flops on using email because he is an expert witness, and he informs me that this is due to the fact that his email may be searched by the opposition for various reasons; say there is a debate with me about the flaws of the jury system or his recent class on "How to look intelligent and believable to Texans." Well I just cost his clients a lawsuit when the jury hears some quotes from that.
I just feel uncomfortable that out there in a database, there may be records of everything I wanted to know for the past few years that I can not control access to.
Where did this poor fool get his law training?
Probably from his peers while he was in the house of representatives.
Whoever decided to make Klaudt a lawmaker is armed with weapons-grade stupidity and should be prosecuted as a terrorist.
Actually, it was the accumulation of millions of standard grade stupidity that accumulated in an election, as it does every year, that caused the critical mass that made him a law maker.
What we need is tighter control over total stupidity in the general populace, not how much is possed by any one person, because as Ted Alvin Klaudt will kindly demonstrate for you, it's rather ineffectual when wielded by one person.
the infaliable United States Democracy...those people have their democratic rights MEMORIZED, printed off, laminated, and FRAMED above their mantlepiece
Some of us do, most of congress sure don't. My favorite congressionally ignored right taken from the framed papers on my mantelpiece: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
blue pill
I think it's a euphemism for Ctrl-w. I have to pop that one on a lot of interesting but depressing stories.
we've been able to use those browsers for a long time...
Apparently not, the history of settlements seems to imply that you are unable figure out that you can download them onto your computers and set them as your default browser.
Have you noticed that Ubuntu comes pre-installed with Mozilla and doesn't even have a port of IE! Why don't you fine them next?
As for devices working with windows out of the box, that's a myth
I don't need cutting edge hardware, so I have used windows intentionally (I do give a shit about the OS) to discover the hardware I need, sometimes just to copy the settings from the windows device manager into Linux configuration files.
But I would agree with you if you had said software; I recently got a machine with Vista running on it and I now constantly hunt down tutorials on getting my old XP software up and running. I bet windows 7 is even worse.
Ahhhhh, While I agree that voting usually comes down to "who dislike the least"; informally voting is like being with a bunch of friends deciding on where to eat and when asked, you say 'I don't care, anywhere will do'. Unfortunately in my view if you do that then you surrender your right to complain about how rubbish the meal was later...don't you think?
Not really, if your friends force you to to choose to eat at either Alaskan Specialty Rubbish and Spiced Kenyan Rubbish complaining about how rubbish the meal was later seems reasonable to me, no matter which you chose, even if you went to "your" choice. To me, "I refuse to choose" seems like the most reasonable vote here.
Of course it doesn't really matter, neither restaurant won by one vote and your friends later inform you that due to bureaucratic inconsistency in 1693-F section 14 of the bro code they didn't even listen to your opinion this year.
Or parents could be parents. Don't want you kids looking at something? Act as the filter don't let them buy/play games that expose them to things you don't want 'em to see....
Take some responsibility here folks!
Yeah, that would be nice, but how does an average parent know what is, for example, in second life? They don't have time to play around there all day finding explicit content and then determining what percent of the game contains that. All they can do is read reports like this one and decide whether they will let their kids have access to these games.
Parents can't be there all the time, they work from 8-5 while school goes from 9-3 at some point they have to trust their kids, or content blockers.
Well, I snuck liquor from my mom's liquor cabinets, even though she tried to beat morals into me. Of course my dad gave me whatever I wanted so I never snuck any from his.
And the parents who tried to watch their kids harder? Well we knew we could only see them when they escaped out their bedroom windows in the middle of the night to share their ill gotten liquor. My point is, you have to learn to trust your kids at some point, because if they are Xphiles, they'll stay in line and if they are me, they'll will find ways to get into trouble anyway no matter how much effort is spent watching them.
I'm pretty much the only Erik Trimble on the Internet
The solutions people proposed above seem relevant to you: Get a few stock images of dudes, then go make Myspace accounts with them, each one taking blame for an embarrassing part of your life. Also make sure to name your kid Mohammed, its the most common name.
If he makes a new site with his name, it will be google result #1642461, while he says this thing managed to claim Google result "like the first thing". People searching for him will never find his decoy and trampy adventures.
Canada...18...20...you are an adult...This was clearly not a "You've been a bad boy Johnny" If the feds were involved
Yes, in the US you get charged as an adult at 18 too, or any age when you really ticked someone off.
/.?"). After that, I shaped up, got amazing grades to erase the semester and reigned in computer security experiments once I realized I was now responsible for myself.
I nearly lost my scholarship and had to drop out my first semester of college since my parents were no longer there busting my ass. I also got into similar trouble (I have a feeling I will soon get 1+ calls: "Did you post that question on
That is why I would completely understand if I had to interview the guy and found one tiny incident that happened while he was first finding his footing in the world without adults telling him what he can and can not do.
Or you could bury it with so much similar BAD stuff so that none of it is believable.
Noise up, signal down.
Nice. I like it, you can also hide in the fact that there are probably 100+ people with your name easily findable on the internet. Blame them if you have to.
Speaking of noise, this file is not really a concern unless you can type your name into Google and that event turns up in the first few pages. From the question, it does not seem that way. Your future employer would have to search ridiculously hard to find an urban legend with your name in the middle of it on some site (textfiles.com) that I never heard of.
Sure, you're using sarcasm, but I think your sarcasm actually reflects the opinion of a large amount of the populace. Why should we hire a sex offender applicant when hey, 99% of our applicants are not sex offenders? Why should we hire Bob hacker, when 60% of our applicants have nothing bad turn up when we Google them? We really don't need those guilty people!
Besides that if you do stretch out your hand and hire Bob Hacker, the Feds just might need access to your email servers to keep tabs on him; theres just no room in the world for guilty people.
Yeah, it's a tax on those who can least bear it. I can't stop myself from pointing out that however great a money generator the lottery is, it's still the government tricking people out of their money.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED, NAY REQUIRED TO QUESTION SCIENCE in order for it to prosper
Yeah, I know, but really how can I question scientists? Take climate science for example, I barely grasp fluid mechanics and yet (other lay) people continue to tell me to make my own models and test the validity of climate scientists. Uh, no, besides not having the education required to do that I don't have the time or the supercomputers to crunch the numbers. Same thing for all the other sciences, I have time to skim their results and determine if they sound credible, but thats about it.
BTW NFN_NLN: I know you did not advocate going so far as to make my own models, but take the early snow this year, all I hear from relatives and friends, is: "aha, global warming is a myth!" Or, being an accepter of the evidence for global climate change I am often presented with half ass models like averaging the tempatures of Venus and Mars or showing that only the reflectivity of nitrogen should be taken into effect as it has more mass in our atmosphere than CO2. Well now present my own model? I can't like I said, I barely understand fluid dynamics.
I don't think anyone but political pundits and extremists will pay this much attention. I know the lay person certainly isn't going to run out and read all of these e-mails.
Yes, and that is a problem. Those who read the emails, send out snippets to the layperson proclaiming the emails support their side and (like every other shred of evidence they've found) ends the debate in favor of their side. Then the laypeople around the water cooler repeat what the readers have said and try to decide what to vote for in that small sliver of time they have to devote to skimming the evidence pundits and extremists have screened for them.