This is exactly like what legislation in Australia tried to do when they banned nude models with A-cup breasts, saying it was promoting pedophilia[1]. Or how regulations around softcore magazines lead to photoshopping out protruding labia minora[2]. Both of these "conditions" are completely natural, and telling women that you can't show the goods if you have small breasts or a "messy vagina" is unforgivable. It lead Australian women to get unnecessary cosmetic surgery to match up to the government mandated acceptable appearance. While this might seem like the exact same thing that's happening without government involvement, women getting force fed an unattainable image of beauty, at least being skinny isn't illegal; which is what these researchers are proposing. So if don't want to let photoshop decide beauty, and you can't legislate a standard without infringing on the rights of others, maybe what we need is a little common sense. We all agree that many of these perfect images are a result of photoshopping, taking models who are human and elevating them to god-like proportions. Perhaps what we should be banning isn't who, but what. Regulate how photoshop can be used specifically on covers and advertising, make it a fine to make a size 4 a size 0. While it won't make anorexia go away, it will at least bring back some attainable standards of beauty.
[1] http://boingboing.net/2010/01/28/australian-censor-bo.html
[2] (nsfw, but in an educational way) http://jezebel.com/5535356/the-labiaplasty-you-never-knew-you-wanted-%5Bnsfw%5D
This plan clearly shows a lack of understanding of the underlying technology - anyone who wanted to communicate in secret could, and easily. Secure proxy and anonymizing services (such as tor) would prevent tracking the websites visited and private messages, while burn phones would still provide reasonable phone security (although there are secure voip services that would do the job as well). Unless the people running the terror cells they want to crack down on are about as competent as Anna Chapman, the only people who could be reliably tracked are average citizens. When will governments learn and get some nerds, er... experts, in to decide how to write IT legislation?
actually, other than the ak-47, Russian tech has been a by-word for "awful hunk of near junk which will kill you before days out." while they have had some elegance, ie giving cosmonauts pencils instead of billion dollar space pens, mostly their efforts are disastrous. Most of their original spacecraft were basically elaborate death traps, their cold war era missile defence systems nearly kicked off ww3, and I don't think they've ever made a decent automobile ever. And the American shuttle program was mostly shut down because NASA wouldn't let anyone strap guns/bombs to one.
In the maintenance guy's defense, the only real difference between an operational Russian rocket factory and one that's been abandoned for 30 years is that most of the lights work in the former and more lazing about is done in latter. He probably didn't realize he was expected to repair fence gaps.
is it just me, or are most of these media companies? As in, the only people to gain anything from shooting down net neutrality? If their petition changes anything, maybe we should let drug companies take over the FDA and Deputize the RIAA as secret police.
In a series of related studies, it was found that teens who send less than 25 txt messages a day have a one in five chance of an internet porn addiction and that senders of less than 5 txt messages a day have a 300% chance of suffering a severe injury from chronic masturbation in their lifetime.
I have come to suspect that most elevator close buttons don't actually work as we want them too and that walk buttons are unlikely to be in use simply for the hell it would place on traffic shaping, but I still hammer on them if I am in a hurry. Why? You never know when you might get some results. We don't need them to work, we need them to keep hope alive.
funnily enough, the political structure of the us was designed to prevent change - The constitution was supposed to be the final word on laws and freedoms. It was thought that only when the super majority of both houses, the executive and judicial branches could all agree (something that rarely happens), could a change be worthy of admission. today, we do seem to be rather quick to give power to rather smaller groups, which allows for some of the hijinks of the past few years.
I hate to say it, but there probably isn't a medical malpractice suit. she was 86, even if the surgery was textbook perfect, its still likely that she would die from an infection during recovery. I would bet that they are going after the girl as an avenue to get some kind of compensation.
I don't see where this is going AT ALL. money from the parents for the accidental death of an 86 year old woman? I want to know what jury would convict a 6 year old girl of anything. I think that the plaintiff should have to explain to the little girl what happened and exactly why she is being sued in front of the court. Maybe the counter-suit for emotional trauma will be enough to send her to a good college.
in the video the interviewee claimed that there was no more radiation than in "a chest x-ray". well, In a chest x-ray I get lead underwear to keep things from going too far, and I don't get x-rayed all that often. what happens when I get constantly chest x-rayed for the rest of my life? nothing good I wager. Use it on trucks going through the border, where you can stop and have the driver wait outside. Use it on checking shipping containers, use it on suspicious, driver-less cars and bags, but for the love of God(gods, Alllah, or lack thereof, etc) don't x-ray my junk indiscriminately.
Osx, linux and windows 7 ultimate come baked in with obvious encryption tools and any windows machine can use the alternative file stream as a steganography tool, albeit not a very effective one. assuming that the order didn't include encryption such as https, I can only conclude that the only computer he is allowed to use is a ti-83 graphing calculator.
The guy was on a motorcycle, he probably wasn't aware that the cops were behind him... the mirrors are below his line of sight, out of his peripheral vision, next to his hands. he was driving recklessly, and I believe I read in the original articles that he didn't contest the ticket. I think the real issue at hand here is that an unmarked car (undercover? the difference is a car with the spotlight and lights vs basically a consumer car) with a plane clothes officer shouldn't be involved with traffic stops unless its part of an obvious police presence. The motorcyclist might have not over reacted to a car blocking him in driven by a gunman, but thats a dangerous situation. if he was licensed to carry, there was ample time for him to get out a gun. or to just run him over with the bike - it really doesn't matter, it could have been dangerous for the officer and the biker. and lets be honest here, I want plain-clothes officer tracking down drug dealers and the like, not slapping a biker on the wrist.
Excellent, now how much longer until they decide that an on duty police officer has no expectation of privacy whatsoever? Because there is word for police with privacy - the Gestapo
are you not a fan of Dr. Nakimats? Creator of the floppy disk and owner of 3000 japanese patents (note: 3000 japanese patents apparently =.5 partially filled in US patents for established products that were discarded along with McDonalds leftovers)? Well, I think that what the whole article is about is her poor word choice. According to her statement, slashdot will be receiving quite the letter for this article when it clearly doesn't violate the trademark. Its amusing, like a someone apparently taking the sentence "the pen is mightier than the sword" literally. I don't think anyone here actually thinks she misunderstands the scope of her trademark, its just amusing that she made such a wide claim when she really meant was "don't use my name for products, I'll get you."
well, you are comparing an intelligent criticism or parody like the dutch cartoons to a group that honestly just wants to get together and get back at a group the best way they can. Since the Taliban doesn't have any respectable skyscrapers, they decided to burn a holy book out of hate. It would be the same as burning bibles every time the Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest funerals and its the same as burning crosses on people's lawns to run them out of town. the hosting company has every right not to host a hate oriented message and that's just what we have here. Anyways, taking the page down has probably created more free press for that church than any church newsletter.
Technically, we didn't displace Islamic extremists, nor a group called the Taliban. What we did was displace a government. Sure, It was lead by a dictator who enjoyed letting off steam by gassing the Kurds every once in a while, and which was restricted to members of the Ba'ath party (8% of the total population), but not the Taliban. They were all around bad guys, I'll give you that, but don't make the mistake of thinking we went an took out the Taliban.
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This is exactly like what legislation in Australia tried to do when they banned nude models with A-cup breasts, saying it was promoting pedophilia[1]. Or how regulations around softcore magazines lead to photoshopping out protruding labia minora[2]. Both of these "conditions" are completely natural, and telling women that you can't show the goods if you have small breasts or a "messy vagina" is unforgivable. It lead Australian women to get unnecessary cosmetic surgery to match up to the government mandated acceptable appearance. While this might seem like the exact same thing that's happening without government involvement, women getting force fed an unattainable image of beauty, at least being skinny isn't illegal; which is what these researchers are proposing. So if don't want to let photoshop decide beauty, and you can't legislate a standard without infringing on the rights of others, maybe what we need is a little common sense. We all agree that many of these perfect images are a result of photoshopping, taking models who are human and elevating them to god-like proportions. Perhaps what we should be banning isn't who, but what. Regulate how photoshop can be used specifically on covers and advertising, make it a fine to make a size 4 a size 0. While it won't make anorexia go away, it will at least bring back some attainable standards of beauty. [1] http://boingboing.net/2010/01/28/australian-censor-bo.html [2] (nsfw, but in an educational way) http://jezebel.com/5535356/the-labiaplasty-you-never-knew-you-wanted-%5Bnsfw%5D
This plan clearly shows a lack of understanding of the underlying technology - anyone who wanted to communicate in secret could, and easily. Secure proxy and anonymizing services (such as tor) would prevent tracking the websites visited and private messages, while burn phones would still provide reasonable phone security (although there are secure voip services that would do the job as well). Unless the people running the terror cells they want to crack down on are about as competent as Anna Chapman, the only people who could be reliably tracked are average citizens. When will governments learn and get some nerds, er... experts, in to decide how to write IT legislation?
actually, other than the ak-47, Russian tech has been a by-word for "awful hunk of near junk which will kill you before days out." while they have had some elegance, ie giving cosmonauts pencils instead of billion dollar space pens, mostly their efforts are disastrous. Most of their original spacecraft were basically elaborate death traps, their cold war era missile defence systems nearly kicked off ww3, and I don't think they've ever made a decent automobile ever. And the American shuttle program was mostly shut down because NASA wouldn't let anyone strap guns/bombs to one.
In the maintenance guy's defense, the only real difference between an operational Russian rocket factory and one that's been abandoned for 30 years is that most of the lights work in the former and more lazing about is done in latter. He probably didn't realize he was expected to repair fence gaps.
is it just me, or are most of these media companies? As in, the only people to gain anything from shooting down net neutrality? If their petition changes anything, maybe we should let drug companies take over the FDA and Deputize the RIAA as secret police.
In a series of related studies, it was found that teens who send less than 25 txt messages a day have a one in five chance of an internet porn addiction and that senders of less than 5 txt messages a day have a 300% chance of suffering a severe injury from chronic masturbation in their lifetime.
I have come to suspect that most elevator close buttons don't actually work as we want them too and that walk buttons are unlikely to be in use simply for the hell it would place on traffic shaping, but I still hammer on them if I am in a hurry. Why? You never know when you might get some results. We don't need them to work, we need them to keep hope alive.
funnily enough, the political structure of the us was designed to prevent change - The constitution was supposed to be the final word on laws and freedoms. It was thought that only when the super majority of both houses, the executive and judicial branches could all agree (something that rarely happens), could a change be worthy of admission. today, we do seem to be rather quick to give power to rather smaller groups, which allows for some of the hijinks of the past few years.
I hate to say it, but there probably isn't a medical malpractice suit. she was 86, even if the surgery was textbook perfect, its still likely that she would die from an infection during recovery. I would bet that they are going after the girl as an avenue to get some kind of compensation.
I don't see where this is going AT ALL. money from the parents for the accidental death of an 86 year old woman? I want to know what jury would convict a 6 year old girl of anything. I think that the plaintiff should have to explain to the little girl what happened and exactly why she is being sued in front of the court. Maybe the counter-suit for emotional trauma will be enough to send her to a good college.
in the video the interviewee claimed that there was no more radiation than in "a chest x-ray". well, In a chest x-ray I get lead underwear to keep things from going too far, and I don't get x-rayed all that often. what happens when I get constantly chest x-rayed for the rest of my life? nothing good I wager. Use it on trucks going through the border, where you can stop and have the driver wait outside. Use it on checking shipping containers, use it on suspicious, driver-less cars and bags, but for the love of God(gods, Alllah, or lack thereof, etc) don't x-ray my junk indiscriminately.
Osx, linux and windows 7 ultimate come baked in with obvious encryption tools and any windows machine can use the alternative file stream as a steganography tool, albeit not a very effective one. assuming that the order didn't include encryption such as https, I can only conclude that the only computer he is allowed to use is a ti-83 graphing calculator.
The guy was on a motorcycle, he probably wasn't aware that the cops were behind him ... the mirrors are below his line of sight, out of his peripheral vision, next to his hands. he was driving recklessly, and I believe I read in the original articles that he didn't contest the ticket. I think the real issue at hand here is that an unmarked car (undercover? the difference is a car with the spotlight and lights vs basically a consumer car) with a plane clothes officer shouldn't be involved with traffic stops unless its part of an obvious police presence. The motorcyclist might have not over reacted to a car blocking him in driven by a gunman, but thats a dangerous situation. if he was licensed to carry, there was ample time for him to get out a gun. or to just run him over with the bike - it really doesn't matter, it could have been dangerous for the officer and the biker. and lets be honest here, I want plain-clothes officer tracking down drug dealers and the like, not slapping a biker on the wrist.
Excellent, now how much longer until they decide that an on duty police officer has no expectation of privacy whatsoever? Because there is word for police with privacy - the Gestapo
are you not a fan of Dr. Nakimats? Creator of the floppy disk and owner of 3000 japanese patents (note: 3000 japanese patents apparently = .5 partially filled in US patents for established products that were discarded along with McDonalds leftovers)? Well, I think that what the whole article is about is her poor word choice. According to her statement, slashdot will be receiving quite the letter for this article when it clearly doesn't violate the trademark. Its amusing, like a someone apparently taking the sentence "the pen is mightier than the sword" literally. I don't think anyone here actually thinks she misunderstands the scope of her trademark, its just amusing that she made such a wide claim when she really meant was "don't use my name for products, I'll get you."
well, you are comparing an intelligent criticism or parody like the dutch cartoons to a group that honestly just wants to get together and get back at a group the best way they can. Since the Taliban doesn't have any respectable skyscrapers, they decided to burn a holy book out of hate. It would be the same as burning bibles every time the Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest funerals and its the same as burning crosses on people's lawns to run them out of town. the hosting company has every right not to host a hate oriented message and that's just what we have here. Anyways, taking the page down has probably created more free press for that church than any church newsletter.
Technically, we didn't displace Islamic extremists, nor a group called the Taliban. What we did was displace a government. Sure, It was lead by a dictator who enjoyed letting off steam by gassing the Kurds every once in a while, and which was restricted to members of the Ba'ath party (8% of the total population), but not the Taliban. They were all around bad guys, I'll give you that, but don't make the mistake of thinking we went an took out the Taliban.