Well, either you managed to turn him from someone who was considering Daesh to be a good thing into someone who is certain it is.
Or, if he's meeting the right people, he might understand that the true meaning of life isn't to blow yourself up and taking infidels with you but to kill people for the money they have.
With prisons you can count on one thing: If you're not a criminal when you get in, you have every opportunity to learn how to become one before you get out.
Hmm... well, let's extrapolate from legal porn. Considering the amount of "amateur porn" sites out there, it is entirely possible that there are also that kind of porn pages, along with "professional" in-for-the-money venues.
It's probably the same way it is in the legal porn circles: Pick your favorite flavor.
That was not the topic, the topic was that outlawing possession and arresting those who do will eliminate demand. And that didn't work AT ALL for alcohol. Quite the opposite, it did actually increase the demand for alcohol.
I wouldn't deem it impossible for child porn to be the same, some people don't give a shit about the act itself but the thrill of the forbidden and illegal is what turns them on.
European systems usually require coalition governments, 40% is actually quite a high turnout for a single party, if you take a look at some current governments, Austria currently has a coalition government of two parties, neither of which has more than 30% itself, only together they reach the 50%.
40% is a wet dream for most contemporary governments that aren't relying on a first-past-the-post system where you only have essentially two parties to choose from. And that's not very different from Germany in the 1930s, only that Germany had even more parties back then than most European countries have today.
Hitler created a coalition government with one of the less significant parties that lifted him above the 50%, then started dismantling the democratic structures one by one, culminating in the Enabling Act, which pretty much established him as a dictator.
But in the end, until that very moment, he did actually (ab)use the democratic system that was in place. What made him possible was disenfranchised people who voted for him, and politicians and parties that considered him the lesser evil.
Heroin is most of all a "get me out of here, no matter the cost" drug. I do not know a SINGLE person who reached for Heroin who wasn't already at the "I don't give a fuck about my life anymore" stage. It's not like people don't know what heroin does to them. You pretty much cannot NOT know what it really means to shoot that crap into your body. The problem is that people fully KNOW what's going on, and they STILL do it.
If you want proof for that, take a look at the drug Crocodile (Desomorphin). Do NOT Google it. Seriously. Do not. The pictures you'll see will stay with you for the rest of your life. That crap makes your body rot. Literally. You rot away alive. And people know that and STILL do it.
If you can keep people from getting to the point where they don't give a fuck about their life anymore, there simply is no longer a market for heroin. Or worse shit.
Build phones with a replaceable battery, with actual keys to type in a phone number or to flip up/down in the phone book, with slots for SD cards and plugs for micro USB.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have that odd feeling that there just MIGHT be a market for something like this.
What is a "gateway drug"? You know why "gateway drugs" are leading to other drugs? Because the only way to get them is at some dealer who wants to sell you stuff that has a bigger cut for him.
MDMA a gateway drug for Heroin. Yeeeah, that makes sense. "Hey, I had this one drug that was allowing me to dance all night and party, why not try something now that makes me extremely drowsy and apathetic, that's exactly what I want."
C'mon. At least make some credible claims. I smoked some MJ and I even had a few Es back when they were still made of good stuff, but why the fuck would I have wanted to shoot some junk into my veins?
If you want to look for "gateways" to heroin, look at society. Society is what pushes people into the arms of drugs like heroin that promise an exit from this world.
There is an odd man out in that list, and that is Hitler. All the others were never really elected. Hitler was. Eventually, he was elected in a rigged election, granted, but he ran in elections before and he did get a sizable portion of the votes.
They'll tell them the same thing our grandparent generation told us when we asked them about Hitler: We were hungry, we were out of a job, and there was someone who offered both. When you're hungry and freezing, you don't give a shit about whether someone else gets a problem.
Some might sugar coat it to feel better about themselves, but that's the naked truth.
The nice thing about having a free press is that they can report just how it is and needn't toe the party line. Unfortunately people equated "can tell the truth" with "do tell the truth".
You can actually see that very well in the development of the former East Bloc. Back in the day of the Iron Curtain, the people in the former East Bloc were pretty good at spotting bullshit news. Why? They knew that most of what they read, hear and see as news IS bullshit. And yes, that ability deteriorated quickly after their media became "free".
The problem is that the same still applies. Most of what is reported as news is bullshit. Fake. Blended with opinion (to the point of being more opinion than information). At the very least distorted by omission. But people never learned to notice that. Because they were used to having "free" media, and they trusted them for the reasons mentioned above: They equated "can say the truth" with "do say the truth".
This has to change. "Filtering" fake news at some higher level will not work. Because the fakers will just cry censorship and find enough idiots to fight their fight. You need an informed population that is able and willing to invest the time necessary to tell fake from real themselves.
And no, I don't think either that this is possible. At best you can do it for yourself and at least keep yourself from falling for the next news item that belongs into Weekly World News rather than some reputable news outlet.
Absolutely. Since it doesn't really matter anymore what party you vote, since they're all just out to screw you over now, you can at least pick the most entertaining one.
Pretty much everything any large corporation touches turns to shit. Think EA and the various studios and franchises it bought and squeezed the last drop out of. Westwood, Maxis, Bullfrog... how many more.
As soon as something is big enough to raise the interest of a large corporation, it will be bought and rest assured that it will not survive this for long. Anything that exists only because there are modders and plugin writers that contribute for free will not survive the takeover by a corporation that wants to replace those free mods with for-pay DLC.
Because the people who flock to those things are there exactly because those things are modable, hackable and tweakable.
But the market standard, by the very laws of supply and demand, was, is, and will always be man/men doing stuff with woman/women. Because that's simply what most people are into. Just because it's possible or allowed, people won't suddenly go "hey, I always wanted to see fat guys with beards in sailor moon outfits and diapers fist each other with turnips". That's not gonna happen. It's not going to become something people really want to see.
Ok. SOME people would probably want to see that. But this is hardly anything that will affect the market for porn, simply because it is a... let's say fringe interest.
It's the same fallacy as with drugs. Imagine heroin would suddenly become as easy to buy as any over the counter medicine. Would you really start thinking "hey, why not inject that crap into my vein, sure, it's hellish addictive and the withdrawal could kill me, but let's try that, I always wanted to feel like crap"?
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Trump?
Well, either you managed to turn him from someone who was considering Daesh to be a good thing into someone who is certain it is.
Or, if he's meeting the right people, he might understand that the true meaning of life isn't to blow yourself up and taking infidels with you but to kill people for the money they have.
With prisons you can count on one thing: If you're not a criminal when you get in, you have every opportunity to learn how to become one before you get out.
We have one of those laws where the judge can tell what is porn (aka "I know porn when I see it").
In other words, if the judge gets a hard on from your kids' pics, you're going to jail.
Hmm... well, let's extrapolate from legal porn. Considering the amount of "amateur porn" sites out there, it is entirely possible that there are also that kind of porn pages, along with "professional" in-for-the-money venues.
It's probably the same way it is in the legal porn circles: Pick your favorite flavor.
That was not the topic, the topic was that outlawing possession and arresting those who do will eliminate demand. And that didn't work AT ALL for alcohol. Quite the opposite, it did actually increase the demand for alcohol.
I wouldn't deem it impossible for child porn to be the same, some people don't give a shit about the act itself but the thrill of the forbidden and illegal is what turns them on.
"Only Trump made that extra second for Americans possible!"
or
"A typical smear campaign by Trump supporters!"
Pick your side.
European systems usually require coalition governments, 40% is actually quite a high turnout for a single party, if you take a look at some current governments, Austria currently has a coalition government of two parties, neither of which has more than 30% itself, only together they reach the 50%.
40% is a wet dream for most contemporary governments that aren't relying on a first-past-the-post system where you only have essentially two parties to choose from. And that's not very different from Germany in the 1930s, only that Germany had even more parties back then than most European countries have today.
Hitler created a coalition government with one of the less significant parties that lifted him above the 50%, then started dismantling the democratic structures one by one, culminating in the Enabling Act, which pretty much established him as a dictator.
But in the end, until that very moment, he did actually (ab)use the democratic system that was in place. What made him possible was disenfranchised people who voted for him, and politicians and parties that considered him the lesser evil.
Sounds kinda familiar, if you think about it...
Why'd I want to switch from K to H?
Heroin is most of all a "get me out of here, no matter the cost" drug. I do not know a SINGLE person who reached for Heroin who wasn't already at the "I don't give a fuck about my life anymore" stage. It's not like people don't know what heroin does to them. You pretty much cannot NOT know what it really means to shoot that crap into your body. The problem is that people fully KNOW what's going on, and they STILL do it.
If you want proof for that, take a look at the drug Crocodile (Desomorphin). Do NOT Google it. Seriously. Do not. The pictures you'll see will stay with you for the rest of your life. That crap makes your body rot. Literally. You rot away alive. And people know that and STILL do it.
If you can keep people from getting to the point where they don't give a fuck about their life anymore, there simply is no longer a market for heroin. Or worse shit.
Build phones with a replaceable battery, with actual keys to type in a phone number or to flip up/down in the phone book, with slots for SD cards and plugs for micro USB.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have that odd feeling that there just MIGHT be a market for something like this.
Just chase your mom back to her room and you'll be fine.
What is a "gateway drug"? You know why "gateway drugs" are leading to other drugs? Because the only way to get them is at some dealer who wants to sell you stuff that has a bigger cut for him.
MDMA a gateway drug for Heroin. Yeeeah, that makes sense. "Hey, I had this one drug that was allowing me to dance all night and party, why not try something now that makes me extremely drowsy and apathetic, that's exactly what I want."
C'mon. At least make some credible claims. I smoked some MJ and I even had a few Es back when they were still made of good stuff, but why the fuck would I have wanted to shoot some junk into my veins?
If you want to look for "gateways" to heroin, look at society. Society is what pushes people into the arms of drugs like heroin that promise an exit from this world.
There is an odd man out in that list, and that is Hitler. All the others were never really elected. Hitler was. Eventually, he was elected in a rigged election, granted, but he ran in elections before and he did get a sizable portion of the votes.
None of the rest were ever elected in any way.
They'll tell them the same thing our grandparent generation told us when we asked them about Hitler: We were hungry, we were out of a job, and there was someone who offered both. When you're hungry and freezing, you don't give a shit about whether someone else gets a problem.
Some might sugar coat it to feel better about themselves, but that's the naked truth.
Wake me when they make one with a replaceable battery.
At least not directly. You can kill people by proxy, though.
The nice thing about having a free press is that they can report just how it is and needn't toe the party line. Unfortunately people equated "can tell the truth" with "do tell the truth".
You can actually see that very well in the development of the former East Bloc. Back in the day of the Iron Curtain, the people in the former East Bloc were pretty good at spotting bullshit news. Why? They knew that most of what they read, hear and see as news IS bullshit. And yes, that ability deteriorated quickly after their media became "free".
The problem is that the same still applies. Most of what is reported as news is bullshit. Fake. Blended with opinion (to the point of being more opinion than information). At the very least distorted by omission. But people never learned to notice that. Because they were used to having "free" media, and they trusted them for the reasons mentioned above: They equated "can say the truth" with "do say the truth".
This has to change. "Filtering" fake news at some higher level will not work. Because the fakers will just cry censorship and find enough idiots to fight their fight. You need an informed population that is able and willing to invest the time necessary to tell fake from real themselves.
And no, I don't think either that this is possible. At best you can do it for yourself and at least keep yourself from falling for the next news item that belongs into Weekly World News rather than some reputable news outlet.
Absolutely. Since it doesn't really matter anymore what party you vote, since they're all just out to screw you over now, you can at least pick the most entertaining one.
Careful where you order that. A "Latte" is a wooden beam in Germany. And you just might get it. To the neck.
Probably for the same reason the people crying for bread didn't just eat cake instead.
It doesn't feel as good as when Thatcher and Reagan bit the dust.
Yeah, but that's true for pretty much everything out there today, and this turd is at least without ads.
Pretty much everything any large corporation touches turns to shit. Think EA and the various studios and franchises it bought and squeezed the last drop out of. Westwood, Maxis, Bullfrog... how many more.
As soon as something is big enough to raise the interest of a large corporation, it will be bought and rest assured that it will not survive this for long. Anything that exists only because there are modders and plugin writers that contribute for free will not survive the takeover by a corporation that wants to replace those free mods with for-pay DLC.
Because the people who flock to those things are there exactly because those things are modable, hackable and tweakable.
Breitbart is now news without pesky ads?
Looks like I should finally take a look at that site...
More nutsy than nazi. Most of what doubles as nazi in the US would have been subject to T4 in Nazi Germany.
But the market standard, by the very laws of supply and demand, was, is, and will always be man/men doing stuff with woman/women. Because that's simply what most people are into. Just because it's possible or allowed, people won't suddenly go "hey, I always wanted to see fat guys with beards in sailor moon outfits and diapers fist each other with turnips". That's not gonna happen. It's not going to become something people really want to see.
Ok. SOME people would probably want to see that. But this is hardly anything that will affect the market for porn, simply because it is a ... let's say fringe interest.
It's the same fallacy as with drugs. Imagine heroin would suddenly become as easy to buy as any over the counter medicine. Would you really start thinking "hey, why not inject that crap into my vein, sure, it's hellish addictive and the withdrawal could kill me, but let's try that, I always wanted to feel like crap"?
No?
Then why do you think others would?