What would you do if you found out 50 years from now that beer or Jolt cola had byproducts in them that made you addicted to them, and also destroyed your health... hmm well Mt. Dew is rumored to shrink your nuts, and caffine is fairly addictive, that's proven at least.
Cigarettes didn't come with warnings on them until fairly recently, compared with the amount of time that people have been smoking them... and since the tobacco companies have been tailoring their products to get people as addicted as possible, something needed to be done. People dying from emphasymia (sp?) or lung cancer now most likely didn't know 50 years ago that smokin cigarettes would do this to em.
Cigarettes all come with warnings now, so its fairly obvious, but how many other products are ALLOWED to be sold that kill that high a percentage of the people who use em?
I really don't think the shock-value that these ad campaigns utilize is really necessary... anyone who starts smoking now pretty much realizes you can get addicted to em & that they're not good for you. But if the cigarette corporations went under I wouldn't feel sorry for em at all.
haha I pointed out to someone that the duet-singer guy looked like Sandler, and he agreed with me too... Although Sandler *did* make an appearance right before the halftime show.
"Ordinary" commercials usually annoy people here, but since most companies that air commercials during the superbowl try to make them funny, or at least interesting, (they spend so much fuckin money on em, they better make em good!) some people enjoy watching the commercials as much as the game.
Suffice to say, this years crop of commercials was *definately* not as memorable as last years, or the year before that. The "wassup" commercial became a sudden cultural phenomenon, and the dot-com commercials were fairly good too (40% of the commercials last year were by dot-com companies.) A lot of the dot-com commercials last year were good, mostly because the companies weren't trying to advertise a product, but just get their name recognized.
Half of this year's commercials were advertisements for TV shows on CBS (the network hosting the game) and most of the rest were fairly boring... 4 or 5 memorable ones maybe, the rest I really didn't even like.
I couldn't stand any of the pepsi ads... at least they didn't have the evil little girl on anymore, I would have stabbed myself in the eye after watching that for the millionth time.
That's true, SPR didn't have to be one long flashback of a veteran remiscing over events from 50 years ago. But it definately helps the story have a definate ending... Ryan's promise was that he would live a good life to honor the deaths of the people who rescued him. That kind of sums up all the sacrifices that were made.
Actually this is about real children. This particular case focuses on real children, who are either "artistically" posing nude, or are clothed, but then are "photoshopped" into sexual situations... other forums of virtual images such as drawings or erotic stories are not being ruled on at all.
The CNN article linked a few comments above states that actual images of children were altered to make them appear in sexually explicit scenes. I don't know if this means taking a 12-year old's head and photoshopping it onto some porn star's body, or taking an artistically-done nude photograph of a child and inserting that whole image into a sexually explicit scene. Either way, the legal case in question deals with actual photographs of children put into sexual scenes, and not CGI or anime style pornography.
Even if it had to be that way, even f it was really 'freedom of expression' that were in danger there would be nothing to think twice: the price is TOO HIGH how can you even think about sacrifying one child ???? in those conditions ?? what exactly are you trying to protect ?? this is nonsense !!
It actually *is* freedom of expression that is in danger here. Many many many "regular" producers of pornography have fought the legal system for their rights to publish ordinary porographic magazines and videos which feature nothing but adults.
You miss the point entirely. You write a very nice long essay about your viewpoints, but you take a very disturbing stance. You say any and all forms of child pornography must be banned so we can prevent sexual abuse of just ONE child. Cause the price is TOO HIGH if that one child gets hurt.
Well I've got news for you, you start taking away freedoms like this, and you won't be able to draw the line ever. CG porn harms no one in its making. No child needs to even pose nude for it. All it takes is someone's imagination. Sure, it is very possibly that viewing child porn may cause someone to want to act out those desires on a child, but whose fault is that? You CANNOT blame the CG porn producer. You blame the sick person who actually commits a crime against the child.
This is for the same reason that it is ridiculous to blame a gun-making company if someone who buys their guns uses it for a crime. Because that happens every day. What about cigarettes? Wow, there's an amazingly dangerous product that is well-known to be deadly to anyone who smokes them for a long period of time. Should we make them illegal right now? Alcohol kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, from alcohol poisoning, from drunk driving, from people who go on a drunken rage and can't stop themselves. Should we ban alcohol? The USA tried it once and that was a huge failure.
What about the modern Copyright battles? Wow, lots of software is produced that is *PROVEN* to be used for mostly piracy *cough*Napster*cough* Slashdot defends these freedoms vigilantly. What about DeCSS? It VERY WELL could have been used for DVD piracy. And I bet it was. So hell, we better outlaw it.
CG porn harms absolutely no one in its creation, and there is little research that I've seen to back up the notion that any but a small minority of people who actually act on their pedophile urges. I'm 21, should I be put in the same class of people who rape and steal because I like to sexually fantasize about high-school aged girls? Our entire American culture believes that women are at their peak of sexual attractiveness between the ages of 15 and 25 or so, yet you want to make even the viewing of imaginary images of these young girls totally illegal because i MIGHT act out on my impulses?
Under those conditions, I do not want freedom of expression
Honestly I haven't heard a thing about any of these authors, and right now there's only 5 or 6 of them listed on this webpage, and only 2 or 3 books per author. Have these guys been rejected by major publishing companies and this is their way of getting their names out?
Now if these guys are popular artists and people have heard of them I apologize. But I've worked in some libraries for quite a few years and I can't judge whether or not these guys actually have a popular following yet... maybe this is their way of grabbing 15 minutes of fame =)
Not true, Undernet officials won't do anything to shut down existing warez/hax0r channels, they simply deny them the use of the X/W service bots. This doesn't really matter since any large warez/mp3/hax0r channel tends to already have large amounts of their own bots anyways, to prevent takeovers.
You're going to find that most people's problem with spam isn't the advertisement itself.. I would have no problem if a spam email actually LISTED the read address it came from, and a subject line that indicated it was an advertisement. Most spam used to be this way even a year or two ago. Now nearly every single piece of spam I get comes from a bogus email address, with a phony subject line trying to trick you into thinking it comes from someone you might know, and just reeks of being some kind of scam.
It also annoys me when I have to delete 50-100 spam messages a week, and hope that I don't delete anything important along with it. In the "old days" of advertising, getting your product out required some sort of cost to the advertiser. Now any idiot with an AOL account, a spam program, and a large list of email addresses can spew out junk messages non-stop, with virtually no cost to themselves, and at a high cost of annoyance to the receivers.
I'm probably not the only one to notice that your little editorial (the last link) seems to be very well reasoned and thought out. MUCH better than the usual editorials we get here from Mr. Katz, (as much as it sounds like flamebait, it's what I feel.)
Plus, it's got every popular slashdot element from the last 6 months... hmm we've got Napster, censorship, nazis, history... just throw in a link to Freenet in there somewhere and you're set;)
I visit quite a few web-sites where the webmaster does *not* try and sell a service, but just provide some content to the readers. Take slashdot for example... how the hell would that stay in business? They don't sell anything, but they provide a good service. If/. tried to charge money to post here, it'd be gone in a week.
Most of the regular sites I visit are online comics and humor pages, that the creator wouldn't be able to host if it weren't for ad-networks.
That was the first time I ever heard of em I remember. And after that, the Freshman class in my high-school did a lip-sync during Homecoming to Particle Man, which was a horrible horrible performance... those poor bums.
Ameritech has done something similar to this for their DSL support line. After getting routed through 1 help-menu, you get to listen to a recording telling you the general DSL status in the area you're calling from. It's nice to be able to call in, and hear right away that they're experiencing problems on *their* end, and I didn't even have to speak with anyone to find that out.
Of course, it seems like nearly half the time they haven't updated that recording yet, so I get a message saying everything is just fine, when they've been down for an hour and are getting flooded with angry callers wondering why their DSL doesn't work.
You are an idiot. Back in the days of 2 gig Hard drives, a 8 meg install might be considered huge.. now-a-days though, we've got 20 and 40 gig hard drives, and nothing to fill em up with but mp3s. Why not write larger and more feature-rich programs if we've got the processor speed to handle it? If you've got an older computer, then stick with the old version you have, it'll still work.
pick axe pete was known to induce seizure-like results from me as a result of playing it. I was actually reminiscing about that game over the weekend with my younger sister.
I also remember playing that role-playing game it had, with a gameboard and overlay on the console.. I never figured out the damn point of it though, and just ran around killing lots of spiders.
I did pretty much the same thing working 2nd shift in a shitty factory job one summer... I found a sleeping situation that worked pretty well for me.. after work I would just hang out with some other friends who either worked 2nd shift too, or just "late-night" hours doing stuff like pizza delivery.. typical early-20's work;-)
Usually wound up getting to sleep when the sun was getting up, and waking up at 2 pm gave me plenty of time to wake up, bathe, eat, and catch Transformers before work =)
rx is an abbreviation in the pharmaceutical industry for a Prescription. Alteration of a symbol used in prescriptions (looks like Rx), abbreviation of Latin recipe
That's still not good enough, with the spike on, you can see someone coming around a corner or through a doorway before they can see you..
Now one thing that occured to me right away, was have a size limit on player models. Allow any skin as long as it fits within a 3x1x1 meter box, or something similar.
Yeah that's the PLAN. Of course, *my* plan includes overdosing heavily on drugs once I reach 58, to avoid that "boring" stretch of life over 65 with no meaning. This also means, since I won't be collecting any of that social security money, that it's doing nothing but stealing my money.
Why the fuck does the government need to suck up my money just so it can give it back to me 40 years later?! I'd rather have my money now please, so I can enjoy my young life... I don't wanna have to live on $400 SS checks when I'm old and decrepit.
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What would you do if you found out 50 years from now that beer or Jolt cola had byproducts in them that made you addicted to them, and also destroyed your health... hmm well Mt. Dew is rumored to shrink your nuts, and caffine is fairly addictive, that's proven at least.
Cigarettes didn't come with warnings on them until fairly recently, compared with the amount of time that people have been smoking them... and since the tobacco companies have been tailoring their products to get people as addicted as possible, something needed to be done. People dying from emphasymia (sp?) or lung cancer now most likely didn't know 50 years ago that smokin cigarettes would do this to em.
Cigarettes all come with warnings now, so its fairly obvious, but how many other products are ALLOWED to be sold that kill that high a percentage of the people who use em?
I really don't think the shock-value that these ad campaigns utilize is really necessary... anyone who starts smoking now pretty much realizes you can get addicted to em & that they're not good for you. But if the cigarette corporations went under I wouldn't feel sorry for em at all.
haha I pointed out to someone that the duet-singer guy looked like Sandler, and he agreed with me too... Although Sandler *did* make an appearance right before the halftime show.
"Ordinary" commercials usually annoy people here, but since most companies that air commercials during the superbowl try to make them funny, or at least interesting, (they spend so much fuckin money on em, they better make em good!) some people enjoy watching the commercials as much as the game.
Suffice to say, this years crop of commercials was *definately* not as memorable as last years, or the year before that. The "wassup" commercial became a sudden cultural phenomenon, and the dot-com commercials were fairly good too (40% of the commercials last year were by dot-com companies.) A lot of the dot-com commercials last year were good, mostly because the companies weren't trying to advertise a product, but just get their name recognized.
Half of this year's commercials were advertisements for TV shows on CBS (the network hosting the game) and most of the rest were fairly boring... 4 or 5 memorable ones maybe, the rest I really didn't even like.
I couldn't stand any of the pepsi ads... at least they didn't have the evil little girl on anymore, I would have stabbed myself in the eye after watching that for the millionth time.
That's true, SPR didn't have to be one long flashback of a veteran remiscing over events from 50 years ago. But it definately helps the story have a definate ending... Ryan's promise was that he would live a good life to honor the deaths of the people who rescued him. That kind of sums up all the sacrifices that were made.
Actually this is about real children. This particular case focuses on real children, who are either "artistically" posing nude, or are clothed, but then are "photoshopped" into sexual situations... other forums of virtual images such as drawings or erotic stories are not being ruled on at all.
The CNN article linked a few comments above states that actual images of children were altered to make them appear in sexually explicit scenes. I don't know if this means taking a 12-year old's head and photoshopping it onto some porn star's body, or taking an artistically-done nude photograph of a child and inserting that whole image into a sexually explicit scene. Either way, the legal case in question deals with actual photographs of children put into sexual scenes, and not CGI or anime style pornography.
I think you've found the best and simplest statement that sums up this entire huge debate as well =)
Woo, they're all the same points!
Then please bring on the thought police!
Even if it had to be that way, even f it was really 'freedom of expression' that were in danger there would be nothing to think twice: the price is TOO HIGH how can you even think about sacrifying one child ???? in those conditions ?? what exactly are you trying to protect ?? this is nonsense !!
It actually *is* freedom of expression that is in danger here. Many many many "regular" producers of pornography have fought the legal system for their rights to publish ordinary porographic magazines and videos which feature nothing but adults.
You miss the point entirely. You write a very nice long essay about your viewpoints, but you take a very disturbing stance. You say any and all forms of child pornography must be banned so we can prevent sexual abuse of just ONE child. Cause the price is TOO HIGH if that one child gets hurt.
Well I've got news for you, you start taking away freedoms like this, and you won't be able to draw the line ever. CG porn harms no one in its making. No child needs to even pose nude for it. All it takes is someone's imagination. Sure, it is very possibly that viewing child porn may cause someone to want to act out those desires on a child, but whose fault is that? You CANNOT blame the CG porn producer. You blame the sick person who actually commits a crime against the child.
This is for the same reason that it is ridiculous to blame a gun-making company if someone who buys their guns uses it for a crime. Because that happens every day. What about cigarettes? Wow, there's an amazingly dangerous product that is well-known to be deadly to anyone who smokes them for a long period of time. Should we make them illegal right now? Alcohol kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, from alcohol poisoning, from drunk driving, from people who go on a drunken rage and can't stop themselves. Should we ban alcohol? The USA tried it once and that was a huge failure.
What about the modern Copyright battles? Wow, lots of software is produced that is *PROVEN* to be used for mostly piracy *cough*Napster*cough* Slashdot defends these freedoms vigilantly. What about DeCSS? It VERY WELL could have been used for DVD piracy. And I bet it was. So hell, we better outlaw it.
CG porn harms absolutely no one in its creation, and there is little research that I've seen to back up the notion that any but a small minority of people who actually act on their pedophile urges. I'm 21, should I be put in the same class of people who rape and steal because I like to sexually fantasize about high-school aged girls? Our entire American culture believes that women are at their peak of sexual attractiveness between the ages of 15 and 25 or so, yet you want to make even the viewing of imaginary images of these young girls totally illegal because i MIGHT act out on my impulses?
Under those conditions, I do not want freedom of expression
I pity your close-mindedness.
Honestly I haven't heard a thing about any of these authors, and right now there's only 5 or 6 of them listed on this webpage, and only 2 or 3 books per author. Have these guys been rejected by major publishing companies and this is their way of getting their names out?
Now if these guys are popular artists and people have heard of them I apologize. But I've worked in some libraries for quite a few years and I can't judge whether or not these guys actually have a popular following yet... maybe this is their way of grabbing 15 minutes of fame =)
Not true, Undernet officials won't do anything to shut down existing warez/hax0r channels, they simply deny them the use of the X/W service bots. This doesn't really matter since any large warez/mp3/hax0r channel tends to already have large amounts of their own bots anyways, to prevent takeovers.
You're going to find that most people's problem with spam isn't the advertisement itself.. I would have no problem if a spam email actually LISTED the read address it came from, and a subject line that indicated it was an advertisement. Most spam used to be this way even a year or two ago. Now nearly every single piece of spam I get comes from a bogus email address, with a phony subject line trying to trick you into thinking it comes from someone you might know, and just reeks of being some kind of scam.
It also annoys me when I have to delete 50-100 spam messages a week, and hope that I don't delete anything important along with it. In the "old days" of advertising, getting your product out required some sort of cost to the advertiser. Now any idiot with an AOL account, a spam program, and a large list of email addresses can spew out junk messages non-stop, with virtually no cost to themselves, and at a high cost of annoyance to the receivers.
I'm probably not the only one to notice that your little editorial (the last link) seems to be very well reasoned and thought out. MUCH better than the usual editorials we get here from Mr. Katz, (as much as it sounds like flamebait, it's what I feel.)
;)
Plus, it's got every popular slashdot element from the last 6 months... hmm we've got Napster, censorship, nazis, history... just throw in a link to Freenet in there somewhere and you're set
I visit quite a few web-sites where the webmaster does *not* try and sell a service, but just provide some content to the readers. Take slashdot for example... how the hell would that stay in business? They don't sell anything, but they provide a good service. If /. tried to charge money to post here, it'd be gone in a week.
Most of the regular sites I visit are online comics and humor pages, that the creator wouldn't be able to host if it weren't for ad-networks.
Excellent movie you made there.. I noticed the signs of a "next episode"... when's that coming out?
That was the first time I ever heard of em I remember. And after that, the Freshman class in my high-school did a lip-sync during Homecoming to Particle Man, which was a horrible horrible performance... those poor bums.
Ameritech has done something similar to this for their DSL support line. After getting routed through 1 help-menu, you get to listen to a recording telling you the general DSL status in the area you're calling from. It's nice to be able to call in, and hear right away that they're experiencing problems on *their* end, and I didn't even have to speak with anyone to find that out.
Of course, it seems like nearly half the time they haven't updated that recording yet, so I get a message saying everything is just fine, when they've been down for an hour and are getting flooded with angry callers wondering why their DSL doesn't work.
You are an idiot. Back in the days of 2 gig Hard drives, a 8 meg install might be considered huge.. now-a-days though, we've got 20 and 40 gig hard drives, and nothing to fill em up with but mp3s. Why not write larger and more feature-rich programs if we've got the processor speed to handle it? If you've got an older computer, then stick with the old version you have, it'll still work.
pick axe pete was known to induce seizure-like results from me as a result of playing it. I was actually reminiscing about that game over the weekend with my younger sister.
I also remember playing that role-playing game it had, with a gameboard and overlay on the console.. I never figured out the damn point of it though, and just ran around killing lots of spiders.
I did pretty much the same thing working 2nd shift in a shitty factory job one summer... I found a sleeping situation that worked pretty well for me.. after work I would just hang out with some other friends who either worked 2nd shift too, or just "late-night" hours doing stuff like pizza delivery.. typical early-20's work ;-)
Usually wound up getting to sleep when the sun was getting up, and waking up at 2 pm gave me plenty of time to wake up, bathe, eat, and catch Transformers before work =)
rx is an abbreviation in the pharmaceutical industry for a Prescription. Alteration of a symbol used in prescriptions (looks like Rx), abbreviation of Latin recipe
That's still not good enough, with the spike on, you can see someone coming around a corner or through a doorway before they can see you..
Now one thing that occured to me right away, was have a size limit on player models. Allow any skin as long as it fits within a 3x1x1 meter box, or something similar.
Yeah that's the PLAN. Of course, *my* plan includes overdosing heavily on drugs once I reach 58, to avoid that "boring" stretch of life over 65 with no meaning. This also means, since I won't be collecting any of that social security money, that it's doing nothing but stealing my money.
Why the fuck does the government need to suck up my money just so it can give it back to me 40 years later?! I'd rather have my money now please, so I can enjoy my young life... I don't wanna have to live on $400 SS checks when I'm old and decrepit.