We should be glad it'll take more than two years. Can you imagine the piece of dreck they'd shovel out if they were trying to time it for the release of Abrams' Trek?
I swear, Starfleet IT must have wanted to kill Kirk seven times over, and worriedly wondered when he was going to inadvertantly cause Enterprise's computer to go 'Foom.'
Ehn. Gene R. was an oldtime Air Force zoomie, and from what he once said, his belief matched that of the Air Force as far as space missions went: Officers only aboard spacecraft. Unfortnately, he mixed it with naval ranks and called his Wagontrain-to-the-stars military organization' StarFLEET' (and gave them maritime ranks, natch) instead of, say, 'Star Force' or something more Army/Air Force, so it confuses the heck out of people.
Over time the powers-that-be have altered things a bit. You start to see enlisted personnel (like Crewman Dax in ST6, Chief O'Brien, etc.), and you start to see ranks other than maritime ones (Colonel what's-his-face in ST6, as well, the one and only hint that Starfleet has a naval infantry component.) And of course in 'fanon' there's a whole enlisted rank structure.
So don't worry, it's confused a heck of a lot of people over time, and Gene's comment about 'officers only aboard spacecraft' is not only obscure but also increasingly obsolete. We'll probably start seeing more enlisted personnel in Abrams' ST reboot.
The issue isn't about what lessons WoW is teaching. Basically, it's about a social sickness that pervades the game.
That's probably a little harsh. I played the game for a bit and it was pretty fun going through the very absorbing storyline-like quests. Like most people, once I hit 60 it was a pretty emty field. There was nothing mre besides Battlegrounds and 40-man raids. My guild wasn't large enough to do that (and we kept loosing players to "big-name" guilds which were more often than not the haven of assholes and jerks, but who did Molten Core and Zul'Gurab weekly) so we tried to settle for Dire Maul runs and pickup Battlegrounds fights. (You can tell that those went really well.)
The social sickness comes in, in that WoW fosters an insanely intense us-vs-them philosophy, and not only between the two factions -- that's a given, though I wish it could have been handled better. It's that even within a faction, there is intense rivalry, bickering, and TEH DRAMA!!!1! which turns otherwise rational people into frothing Greater Internet F*ckwads. It can make a person sick at times. Oh, and God forbid you disagree with someone. Forget about reasonable, rational dialogue. 'Cry more, noob.' 'It's fine, learn 2 play.' Yeah. Lots of good dialogue going on there, The old saying was that if assholes were airplanes, battle.net would be an airport. WoW very much lives up to that. See this article for an excellent discussion about this and related issues.
So, what to do? Kowtow and beg guys like Pals 4 Life or Banana Boyz to take you in and hope that they'll deign to let you do an MC or Onyxia run, after leaving a small guild of folks whom you've played with for months and been good friends with? Level up another character to 60... and lather, rinse, repeat? 'Learn 2 play?' Nah. There are better things to do with your time. If you can deal with the culture of immaturity in WoW, and if you can pump 40+ hours a week into it... more power to you. Just don't start whining when you fail to develop decent communication skills. It's fine, learn 2 live.
...but I don't believe Google is going to back down. Their pledge of "Do No Evil" is coming hard up against realpolitik, and they're discovering that they're going to have to make compromises. They want that lucrative Chinese market. They've already started filtering their search engine, disallowing searchhes of words that the Chinese government finds objectionable. (Such as "Tiananmen Square." Nothing at ALL happened there, nope, nothing at all, citizen....)
Taiwan is an independant nation. It established itself in the chaos following the Communist Revolution and has stedfastly maintained independance. I do not believe that Google, however, will acknowledge that, since it's trying really hard to break into the Chinese market. It's really pretty sad and disgusting if you think about it, but I'm not going to be holding my breath. The days of Google being the scrappy and ethical underdog are passing by the wayside.
Of course I'll eat my words if I'm happily surprised and Google does "the right thing."
The easy and short answer is to not rely on any middleware: use printed word. If you pack any sort of digital media, it will either degrade or it will not be able to be read. If you pack, say, a PDA, or even a laptop. there's no garauntee that the storage media will survive the decades, either, or that the same electrical power setup will exist then.
On the other hand, a written message on non-acidic paper (probably some kind of vellum,) properly cared for, can last for a long, long time. And you don't need to run it on a computer to read the message. All you need is at least one Mk.0 Eyeball. Of course then you run into the problem of having someone to translate it... but it seems to me that this is a much easier task than trying to find decades-old hardware and trying to reconstruct magnetic bits which may or may not be in the right order.
the article, "Under the Print Library Project, Google is scanning millions of copyright books from libraries at Harvard, Michigan and Stanford along with out-of-copyright materials there and at two other libraries."
Hmm, I missed that part. That changes things slightly. I wonder how Google managed to wrangle that?
I don't know why you'd want to read on a laptop when there are plenty of good tiny PDAs that fit the bill and are smaller than books.
Well, for me (and most of the world,) it's that I can't afford a PDA. =D The few times I've used a PDA or an e-book to read a book, I'll admit that it was more convenient than a dead tree book. When an entire generation on this planet starts by reading electronically, then yes, there really is going to be trouble for book publishers. It might be a ways away, but by then some publishers will have evolved, and some wouldn't and would expire.
A bookseller who's worried that making books that are in the public domain available on the net will hurt his revenues.
The initial reaction I have is, 'Cry me a river.' These are books in the public domain and are meant to be freely available to everyone. Google's just making it easier.
My second reaction is that he might have a point, and he's deserving of some sympathy. But then I realize that he's a university bookseller. The books people pay for college and university classes are overpriced as it is, ($80 for my USED calculus text, and that was ten years ago; I can only imagine how much it is now.) Somehow I don't think that a university bookstore is going to be hurting all THAT much. So this is just another case of someone whose industry needs to 'evolve or die.' Though he really only has to worry if the textbook publishers 'evolve' before he does.
Besides, the printed word isn't going out of style anytime soon. There are plenty of books I prefer to have in dead tree form, to hold and read and carry with me on trips when I don't have or don't WANT to have my laptop with me. And what a lot of us on slashdot seem to forget is that not everyone in the world has a laptop or a PDA with e-book software on it.
Microsoft Exchange/Outlook is useful only because it centralizes more than just the email. Scheduling and the ability to look up people in your company are both important features.
In theory, these are huge things and can be really important to a company, especially one that relies on communication. You can check someone's schedule, send an e-mail to make an appointment (which is done virtually automaticaly, the recipient gets a message and can click a button to schedule you for your requested time, or reschedule your meeting with them,) get e-mail notifications about your calendar and daily schedule, check to see if someone is going to be or is already on vacation and what the alternate contact information/person is... pretty much any combination of scheduling, calendar, contact, and e-mail function you can think of. The networked, pro version of Outlook is extremely powerful.
The trouble is, it's TOO powerful. For any small-to-medium company, it's using a nuke to swat a fly. It's faster and cheaper to just check with the guy down the hall if he has a moment, or to just call out into the bullpen if anyone knows if ($random_employee) is on vacation or not. Maybe a medium-sized company can make the most of Outlook and Exchange. I know that the users at the nursing home I used to work at were simply overwhelmed with the functions of Outlook/Exchange... and proceded to not use it at all. (And yes, I knew at the time that it was kind of overkill for the site. They couldn't even use it for external e-mail. But they wanted all MS products, the poor sods, and so they got 'em.)
I'm pretty sure that Exchange takes all that calendar and contact information and puts what you make 'sharable' into a central database, which is a bit more than just filesharing, but you're right, it's not that huge a paradigm shift. I'd like to know why others haven't come up with that idea, or at least made a product that does what Outlook and Exchange do.
Agreed about LN, though. cc:Mail wasn't much better. One bad mail day and entire server imploded and created an alternate Dimension of Pain where our workday suddenly extended to thirteen hours. Strange, that....
I really have no trouble seeing how an over-exposure to pornography can have effects on someone's personality over the long term. It might affect people in different ways, but there are generally effects.
That being said, I don't think that one should be so damning of pornography as this book apparently is. There are plenty of other things that will alter someone's personality in like ways. Alcohol for example. Exposure to/participation in highly competitive sports. "Extreme" games. (Who the hell came up with bungee jumping, anyway? And more importantly WHY?!) The problem is not that pornography is a "gateway drug" or "enabling behavior" but rather that there's a lot of OTHER things that are also "gateway behaviors" that are nowhere close to causing so much of a brouhaha. (Why is the arrogant, hypercompetitive date-raping jock looked upon with approval while the guy with a T1 delivering porn non-stop is reviled to the point of stereotyping? (I mean, besides hygeine.))
I tend to agree with some of the other posters here: some European countries have a much more liberal attitude towards human sexuality. The Puritan attitudes towards sex and women in the US tend to make pornography "filthy" and "degenerate," which is just more emotional baggage that's laid onto people who simply enjoy sex. We've made sex into some sort of taboo subject. ObGameRef: Look at the ruckus raised over GTA:San Andreas. The shooting and violence is relatively fine, but add some Hot Coffee and suddenly it's so very very not "all right." So we give off a wierd sense of schizophrenia in which our culture decries the prevailance of sex and porn, and at the same time appears obsessed with sex.
Porn is not the problem. It changes personalities no more than, and causes far fewer problems, than alcoholism and hypercompetitiveness. The problem is that we as a culture have skewed imperatives, and stupid ideas of what's wrong with ourselves as a whole.
Genuine question, here. I hadn't heard anything about PDF being an open format. Granted, a lot of apps can export to PDF but when you get right down to it, isn't that ability licensed from Adobe? Probably not, but can someone explain how PDF is an open format and DOC isn't?
Very true. My parents had a German shepherd/Doberman mix. Purebred German sheps are notorious for severe hip problems, they've been bred to have these 'leaping' or 'sprinting' hind legs. A purebred German shep has distinctive hips, and a propensity for hip displacement and similar depressingly terminal problems. Purebred Dobermans also have their own issues. Add in the fact that purebred tends to mean INbred -- I think we've all seen how happy but inarguably DUMB most golden retrievers are. The mutt my parents got was bright, smart, happy, energetic, and showed absolutely no physical defects. It was a total heartbreak when she developed something terminal and she had to be put to sleep. The house was never really the same again.
Anyway, I agree with the parent: get a mutt if you're looking for a dog. You'll have a dog who's on average brighter and healthier -- and thus happier -- than most purebreeds.
One thing is for sure: It's time to start gearing up for an expensive Christmas.
Um... no.
Call my cynical, call me utopianist (just don't call me late for dinner) but this Christmas for me isn't going to be about getting or giving an XBOX 360, or XBOX360 games. There are better things to do with money than throw it at another console. I don't know about other slashdotters but I'm not going to be budgeting for XBOX 360. There's still plenty of PS2 games to get through, and why should I shell out bucks for what MS says is the Next Big Thing?
Don't buy or ask for an XBOX 360 just because it's new and shiny and has OMZod forty beelyun polys!!!11!ichi! or such. Sure it may be good hardware... but do you really need it now? the moment, the instant it's released?
Wait a few months. You'll not be hurting anyone by holding off on buying an XBOX 360 until, say, March or April. If you even end up wanting one at all.
The men and women of the Armed Forces have, and always have had, my highest respect, since it is they -- and by extension, you --who put themselves in harm's way when the chips are down.
What you describe, unfortunately, is exactly reflective of most (sensible) peoles' concerns over this weapon. I can definitely see the utility in an anti-insurgency operation. Not sure where the snipers are? Microwave 'em. In a few moments you'll have a pack of screaming guys rolling on the floor (and maybe one will have the solenoids of his improvised explosive device cook off -- sucks to be him) who, a few moments ago, were trying to kill you. Round them up and lock them away and they better be damn grateful that they're still alive, if a bit cooked. (The actions of certain members of the Abu Gharib staff notwithstanding, I consider most all of the military personnel over there to be reasonably compassionate people at heart who would rather incapacitate their enemy than kill outright.)
Unfortunately, this weapon is not being billed as an anti-insurgency weapon (though it will doubtless be used as one.) It is being developed to counter riots and rowdy protests (before they turn into riots.) This is what has most posters here up in arms. it isn't about the potential military/anti-insurgency used of this weapon; it's about the eventual domestic use of it on protesters. To many people, it's just a few steps between using this... and tanks rolling in Tianmien Square.
Think that kind of response to protests can't happen in the US? Well... it can happen, period (it DID happen) and thus it CAN happen, even here. I like to think that the citizens of the US are proud enough that they won't let it ever get to that point, but that faith is being eroded away bit by bit. Things liek this ray-gun, which are intended to be used domestically, are part of that erosion.
If it will help you do your job on the ground better, and help to bring home our troops, and allow you to continue to perform your jobs honorably, I'm totally for it. But as I said, this is being developed for use domestically. that same device that saved your platoon, sitting atop the cupola of an Hummer... will be on the turret of a riot control truck attached to your local police department when you get home.
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We should be glad it'll take more than two years. Can you imagine the piece of dreck they'd shovel out if they were trying to time it for the release of Abrams' Trek?
"Oh, Captain. I speak jive...."
Planet Killer train to zone!
And the holodeck is the other half....
Don't forget make computers blow up with illogic.
I swear, Starfleet IT must have wanted to kill Kirk seven times over, and worriedly wondered when he was going to inadvertantly cause Enterprise's computer to go 'Foom.'
Ehn. Gene R. was an oldtime Air Force zoomie, and from what he once said, his belief matched that of the Air Force as far as space missions went: Officers only aboard spacecraft. Unfortnately, he mixed it with naval ranks and called his Wagontrain-to-the-stars military organization' StarFLEET' (and gave them maritime ranks, natch) instead of, say, 'Star Force' or something more Army/Air Force, so it confuses the heck out of people.
Over time the powers-that-be have altered things a bit. You start to see enlisted personnel (like Crewman Dax in ST6, Chief O'Brien, etc.), and you start to see ranks other than maritime ones (Colonel what's-his-face in ST6, as well, the one and only hint that Starfleet has a naval infantry component.) And of course in 'fanon' there's a whole enlisted rank structure.
So don't worry, it's confused a heck of a lot of people over time, and Gene's comment about 'officers only aboard spacecraft' is not only obscure but also increasingly obsolete. We'll probably start seeing more enlisted personnel in Abrams' ST reboot.
And I suppose that for some people, the illegality of egg collecting gives it something of a 'thrill' value.
The issue isn't about what lessons WoW is teaching. Basically, it's about a social sickness that pervades the game.
That's probably a little harsh. I played the game for a bit and it was pretty fun going through the very absorbing storyline-like quests. Like most people, once I hit 60 it was a pretty emty field. There was nothing mre besides Battlegrounds and 40-man raids. My guild wasn't large enough to do that (and we kept loosing players to "big-name" guilds which were more often than not the haven of assholes and jerks, but who did Molten Core and Zul'Gurab weekly) so we tried to settle for Dire Maul runs and pickup Battlegrounds fights. (You can tell that those went really well.)
The social sickness comes in, in that WoW fosters an insanely intense us-vs-them philosophy, and not only between the two factions -- that's a given, though I wish it could have been handled better. It's that even within a faction, there is intense rivalry, bickering, and TEH DRAMA!!!1! which turns otherwise rational people into frothing Greater Internet F*ckwads. It can make a person sick at times. Oh, and God forbid you disagree with someone. Forget about reasonable, rational dialogue. 'Cry more, noob.' 'It's fine, learn 2 play.' Yeah. Lots of good dialogue going on there, The old saying was that if assholes were airplanes, battle.net would be an airport. WoW very much lives up to that. See this article for an excellent discussion about this and related issues.
So, what to do? Kowtow and beg guys like Pals 4 Life or Banana Boyz to take you in and hope that they'll deign to let you do an MC or Onyxia run, after leaving a small guild of folks whom you've played with for months and been good friends with? Level up another character to 60... and lather, rinse, repeat? 'Learn 2 play?' Nah. There are better things to do with your time. If you can deal with the culture of immaturity in WoW, and if you can pump 40+ hours a week into it... more power to you. Just don't start whining when you fail to develop decent communication skills. It's fine, learn 2 live.
...but I don't believe Google is going to back down. Their pledge of "Do No Evil" is coming hard up against realpolitik, and they're discovering that they're going to have to make compromises. They want that lucrative Chinese market. They've already started filtering their search engine, disallowing searchhes of words that the Chinese government finds objectionable. (Such as "Tiananmen Square." Nothing at ALL happened there, nope, nothing at all, citizen....)
Taiwan is an independant nation. It established itself in the chaos following the Communist Revolution and has stedfastly maintained independance. I do not believe that Google, however, will acknowledge that, since it's trying really hard to break into the Chinese market. It's really pretty sad and disgusting if you think about it, but I'm not going to be holding my breath. The days of Google being the scrappy and ethical underdog are passing by the wayside.
Of course I'll eat my words if I'm happily surprised and Google does "the right thing."
Scary, or sad?
Both?
NO SHIT?!
He'll have to do with the current batch of sharks with frickin'... aw, you know.
The easy and short answer is to not rely on any middleware: use printed word. If you pack any sort of digital media, it will either degrade or it will not be able to be read. If you pack, say, a PDA, or even a laptop. there's no garauntee that the storage media will survive the decades, either, or that the same electrical power setup will exist then.
On the other hand, a written message on non-acidic paper (probably some kind of vellum,) properly cared for, can last for a long, long time. And you don't need to run it on a computer to read the message. All you need is at least one Mk.0 Eyeball. Of course then you run into the problem of having someone to translate it... but it seems to me that this is a much easier task than trying to find decades-old hardware and trying to reconstruct magnetic bits which may or may not be in the right order.
Well, for me (and most of the world,) it's that I can't afford a PDA. =D The few times I've used a PDA or an e-book to read a book, I'll admit that it was more convenient than a dead tree book. When an entire generation on this planet starts by reading electronically, then yes, there really is going to be trouble for book publishers. It might be a ways away, but by then some publishers will have evolved, and some wouldn't and would expire.
A bookseller who's worried that making books that are in the public domain available on the net will hurt his revenues.
The initial reaction I have is, 'Cry me a river.' These are books in the public domain and are meant to be freely available to everyone. Google's just making it easier.
My second reaction is that he might have a point, and he's deserving of some sympathy. But then I realize that he's a university bookseller. The books people pay for college and university classes are overpriced as it is, ($80 for my USED calculus text, and that was ten years ago; I can only imagine how much it is now.) Somehow I don't think that a university bookstore is going to be hurting all THAT much. So this is just another case of someone whose industry needs to 'evolve or die.' Though he really only has to worry if the textbook publishers 'evolve' before he does.
Besides, the printed word isn't going out of style anytime soon. There are plenty of books I prefer to have in dead tree form, to hold and read and carry with me on trips when I don't have or don't WANT to have my laptop with me. And what a lot of us on slashdot seem to forget is that not everyone in the world has a laptop or a PDA with e-book software on it.
The trouble is, it's TOO powerful. For any small-to-medium company, it's using a nuke to swat a fly. It's faster and cheaper to just check with the guy down the hall if he has a moment, or to just call out into the bullpen if anyone knows if ($random_employee) is on vacation or not. Maybe a medium-sized company can make the most of Outlook and Exchange. I know that the users at the nursing home I used to work at were simply overwhelmed with the functions of Outlook/Exchange... and proceded to not use it at all. (And yes, I knew at the time that it was kind of overkill for the site. They couldn't even use it for external e-mail. But they wanted all MS products, the poor sods, and so they got 'em.)
I'm pretty sure that Exchange takes all that calendar and contact information and puts what you make 'sharable' into a central database, which is a bit more than just filesharing, but you're right, it's not that huge a paradigm shift. I'd like to know why others haven't come up with that idea, or at least made a product that does what Outlook and Exchange do.
Agreed about LN, though. cc:Mail wasn't much better. One bad mail day and entire server imploded and created an alternate Dimension of Pain where our workday suddenly extended to thirteen hours. Strange, that....
I really have no trouble seeing how an over-exposure to pornography can have effects on someone's personality over the long term. It might affect people in different ways, but there are generally effects.
That being said, I don't think that one should be so damning of pornography as this book apparently is. There are plenty of other things that will alter someone's personality in like ways. Alcohol for example. Exposure to/participation in highly competitive sports. "Extreme" games. (Who the hell came up with bungee jumping, anyway? And more importantly WHY?!) The problem is not that pornography is a "gateway drug" or "enabling behavior" but rather that there's a lot of OTHER things that are also "gateway behaviors" that are nowhere close to causing so much of a brouhaha. (Why is the arrogant, hypercompetitive date-raping jock looked upon with approval while the guy with a T1 delivering porn non-stop is reviled to the point of stereotyping? (I mean, besides hygeine.))
I tend to agree with some of the other posters here: some European countries have a much more liberal attitude towards human sexuality. The Puritan attitudes towards sex and women in the US tend to make pornography "filthy" and "degenerate," which is just more emotional baggage that's laid onto people who simply enjoy sex. We've made sex into some sort of taboo subject. ObGameRef: Look at the ruckus raised over GTA:San Andreas. The shooting and violence is relatively fine, but add some Hot Coffee and suddenly it's so very very not "all right." So we give off a wierd sense of schizophrenia in which our culture decries the prevailance of sex and porn, and at the same time appears obsessed with sex.
Porn is not the problem. It changes personalities no more than, and causes far fewer problems, than alcoholism and hypercompetitiveness. The problem is that we as a culture have skewed imperatives, and stupid ideas of what's wrong with ourselves as a whole.
Genuine question, here. I hadn't heard anything about PDF being an open format. Granted, a lot of apps can export to PDF but when you get right down to it, isn't that ability licensed from Adobe? Probably not, but can someone explain how PDF is an open format and DOC isn't?
Very true. My parents had a German shepherd/Doberman mix. Purebred German sheps are notorious for severe hip problems, they've been bred to have these 'leaping' or 'sprinting' hind legs. A purebred German shep has distinctive hips, and a propensity for hip displacement and similar depressingly terminal problems. Purebred Dobermans also have their own issues. Add in the fact that purebred tends to mean INbred -- I think we've all seen how happy but inarguably DUMB most golden retrievers are. The mutt my parents got was bright, smart, happy, energetic, and showed absolutely no physical defects. It was a total heartbreak when she developed something terminal and she had to be put to sleep. The house was never really the same again.
Anyway, I agree with the parent: get a mutt if you're looking for a dog. You'll have a dog who's on average brighter and healthier -- and thus happier -- than most purebreeds.
Call my cynical, call me utopianist (just don't call me late for dinner) but this Christmas for me isn't going to be about getting or giving an XBOX 360, or XBOX360 games. There are better things to do with money than throw it at another console. I don't know about other slashdotters but I'm not going to be budgeting for XBOX 360. There's still plenty of PS2 games to get through, and why should I shell out bucks for what MS says is the Next Big Thing?
Don't buy or ask for an XBOX 360 just because it's new and shiny and has OMZod forty beelyun polys!!!11!ichi! or such. Sure it may be good hardware... but do you really need it now? the moment, the instant it's released?
Wait a few months. You'll not be hurting anyone by holding off on buying an XBOX 360 until, say, March or April. If you even end up wanting one at all.
Are you sure that's only in Soviet Russia?
The men and women of the Armed Forces have, and always have had, my highest respect, since it is they -- and by extension, you --who put themselves in harm's way when the chips are down.
What you describe, unfortunately, is exactly reflective of most (sensible) peoles' concerns over this weapon. I can definitely see the utility in an anti-insurgency operation. Not sure where the snipers are? Microwave 'em. In a few moments you'll have a pack of screaming guys rolling on the floor (and maybe one will have the solenoids of his improvised explosive device cook off -- sucks to be him) who, a few moments ago, were trying to kill you. Round them up and lock them away and they better be damn grateful that they're still alive, if a bit cooked. (The actions of certain members of the Abu Gharib staff notwithstanding, I consider most all of the military personnel over there to be reasonably compassionate people at heart who would rather incapacitate their enemy than kill outright.)
Unfortunately, this weapon is not being billed as an anti-insurgency weapon (though it will doubtless be used as one.) It is being developed to counter riots and rowdy protests (before they turn into riots.) This is what has most posters here up in arms. it isn't about the potential military/anti-insurgency used of this weapon; it's about the eventual domestic use of it on protesters. To many people, it's just a few steps between using this... and tanks rolling in Tianmien Square.
Think that kind of response to protests can't happen in the US? Well... it can happen, period (it DID happen) and thus it CAN happen, even here. I like to think that the citizens of the US are proud enough that they won't let it ever get to that point, but that faith is being eroded away bit by bit. Things liek this ray-gun, which are intended to be used domestically, are part of that erosion.
If it will help you do your job on the ground better, and help to bring home our troops, and allow you to continue to perform your jobs honorably, I'm totally for it. But as I said, this is being developed for use domestically. that same device that saved your platoon, sitting atop the cupola of an Hummer... will be on the turret of a riot control truck attached to your local police department when you get home.
Almost by definition, Internet pr0n never gets out of hand....
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