I've seen this 'teenagers don't think it is real sex' moral panic a few times before, mostly on religious sites, but I've never seen any hard survey data to back it up.
Have you checked "Behavioral changes due to overpopulation in mice" (Hammock, 1971) though? An attempt to reproduce the Calhoon experiment, and got quite different results. There are repeatability concerns. Like many scientific papers, it ends with a call for more research. I don't know if any further mouse overcrowding experiments have been run since.
Perhaps poor people do nothing but fuck in the absence of other forms of affordable entertainment - but thanks to modern technology and the media industry, even the lowest-income Americans are now drowning in entertainment. More movies, TV and game than they can hope to consume, plus the possibility of an entire social life lived online for almost no cost at all.
The grandparents aren't dead yet! People are living a lot longer than they used to. The grandparents don't drop dead until the youngest generation are in their thirties, and by that time they have spent most of the potential inheritance on their retirement and medical costs.
I'm in my thirties, and still have one living great-grandparent.
No birds see in IR. Many birds see into the UV, but raptors are not among them. Even the kestrel, which was previously thought to be UV-sensitive. What they do have over humans is density: A much higher density of receptor cells, a much higher density of ganglion cells to connect them up. Rubbish for night vision, great for spotting tiny rodents from altitude. All of which still makes me wonder why cellphone cameras always give such awful images.
They can ramp up the pixel count, but the optics are still going to be awful in a camera that size.
I'd like to know how nature solved the problem. Hawk eyes have no problem achieving a very impressive acuity in a package not much bigger. Something to do with the use of a lens with varying index of refraction? It's beyond me.
No, but the support for the movement is almost all religious. Enough.org is an example of 'sciencewashing' - they claim to be non-religious in order to appear more scientific and respectable, but you don't have to dig too far into their site to find things like http://enough.org/recoveringhe... - "People of faith are under constant spiritual attack as the enemy seeks to divide, destroy, and rob generations of their innocence and their youth. Lives are being shattered by gross consumption of sexually explicit content. The church is engaged in constant spiritual warfare as the enemy preys on the temptations of an already hyper-sexualized society; yet, the issues of sexual sin and sexual brokenness are often not brought to light within the church due to ignorance, shame, guilt or embarrassment."
Enough is Enough, who wrote that statement, are also the authors of the pledge he signed.
Read their website and you see why: They repeat a claim many times that pornography is just a gateway that instills the urge to view child abuse somehow - never mind that if that were the case, half the population of the US would be trying to sneak into a playground right now.
Here's one example but you don't have to look far to find others:
------ [EiE President] Hughes says combining the policing of raunchy footage of consenting adults with advocacy against child abuse makes sense, citing what she says are high rates of teens viewing bestiality and group sex, and the potential that viewing hardcore porn could be a steppingstone to further depths.
"Bestiality and anal sex online, that's the new normal," she says. "This entire sex industry is tied together, so it's like fighting the drug war... just completely ignoring the obscenity laws [but combating child porn] would be like saying, 'We've got a war on drugs, but we're only going to concentrate on meth and heroin.' That's not going to do a very good job." ------ http://www.usnews.com/news/art...
"We are dedicated to continue raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography." - Enough.org, main page.
"The two primary Internet dangers today are children's free and easy access to all types of pornography, and sexual predators' easy and anonymous access to children." - Enough.org, 'about us.'
"[Enough is Enough President] Hughes says combining the policing of raunchy footage of consenting adults with advocacy against child abuse makes sense, citing what she says are high rates of teens viewing bestiality and group sex, and the potential that viewing hardcore porn could be a steppingstone to further depths." - http://enough.org/news/2IB385Y...
The pledge is written by Enough is Enough. One of their main tactics is to constantly conflate them - they speak over and over about child abuse imagery and regular adult pornography in the same sentence, as if their were no difference. That way they can harness the outrage over the former and direct it into banning the latter.
They do, but remember that all those reasons to despise Trump apply just as much to Hillary. That's why they despise Trump: On the key issues for evangelicals - abortion, homosexuality, government-sponsored prayer - he is no different from a Democrat. The only position he has that they do agree with is his proposal on kicking Muslims out of the country.
What does he win from that? He might inspire his supporters to riot if he can convince them the election was a fraud, but there is no hope of pulling off a revolution that way. Revolutions are hard.
Pence is there to fill the role that Palin failed to: To ensure the support of the party base for a presidential candidate that doesn't share their values.
The religious right is very important within the republican party - not just for their votes but because they can influence many more voters (priests get a captive audience every week!), campaign on the ground and donate heavily. They'll support Trump regardless because they hate Hillary so much, but the don't view Trump as a 'true Republican.' He doesn't care about abortion, he has no objection to gay marriage, and he's so uninterested in religion he can't even cite the bible properly when he tries to fake it. The VP is a largely symbolic appointment - they wield no real power - but by picking a devoted social conservative he aims to win the full support of an important faction within the Republican party and the campaigning resources they can bring to bear.
There's a converse to that: People aren't getting married because women don't need to any more. We're currently trying what is, in historical terms, an experiment; Women who work. Throughout all of history the one aim of any young woman was to snag a good husband who would keep a roof over her head and food in the larder for her to transfer to table. But now women are expected to get a good education and a reasonably career before they go looking for marriage - which put marriage far lower on their priority ranking.
You're right, of course. They won't. But what about the consumer laptops and PCs? All those people who just get something from PC World made by HP or IBM or Asus?
How many people here first learned linux by installing it on a hand-me-down machine? How many repurpose old PCs as media centers, routers or home servers?
It's quite possible that in ten years, if you want to run linux, you'll have to pay extra for parts intended for a real business server.
Microsoft will use heavy-handed tactics - not on motherboard makers, but on OEMs. Probably starting with laptops. It wouldn't be anything new to them, they've used exactly the same technique to pressure OEMs in the past, including requiring them to include secure boot at all, and to have it enabled by default. It's a very simple technique: There are a list of requirements in order to purchase OEM Windows. As it's practically unthinkable to sell a laptop without Windows preinstalled (goodbuy, mass-market customers), all MS would need to do is make it a requirement that Secure Boot must be mandatory. For security, of course.
Linux with secure boot is a bit of a bodge. Microsoft has generously agreed to sign a first-stage loader that can in turn load GRUB, but they don't use the same key as they use for booting Windows - which is the one and only key you can be sure that all firmware will recognise. So you can boot linux on some SB-enabled mainboards/laptops, but not others, and there's no assurance that MS will continue to be so generous in future - they only did so now to avoid potential legal action.
Corporations might act like monolithic entities much of the time, but they are still composed of many individuals. Sometimes those individuals don't talk to each other. It's quite possible the people responsible for this scene are getting hauled up before the boss right now for a lecture of the importance of using only fictional brands without proper authorisation, followed by a lecture on why, though criminal characters are fine, their crimes should not be presented in a manner which be considered instructional.
I'm waiting for the day when President Trump jokes that he just launched a nuclear strike on Russia.
He'll probably then blame the Russian government for not realising it was a joke. Via the emergency broadcasting system, from his bunker underneath what remains of Washington.
Poe's law in politics. Politicians routinely say things in all seriousness that are so outrageous that when one does make a joke, it's hard to tell if it's really a joke or not. Especially true of Trump, as he has a history of hyperbole and general offensiveness.
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I'm wondering if they linked to the wrong paper.
I've seen this 'teenagers don't think it is real sex' moral panic a few times before, mostly on religious sites, but I've never seen any hard survey data to back it up.
Have you checked "Behavioral changes due to overpopulation in mice" (Hammock, 1971) though? An attempt to reproduce the Calhoon experiment, and got quite different results. There are repeatability concerns. Like many scientific papers, it ends with a call for more research. I don't know if any further mouse overcrowding experiments have been run since.
Perhaps poor people do nothing but fuck in the absence of other forms of affordable entertainment - but thanks to modern technology and the media industry, even the lowest-income Americans are now drowning in entertainment. More movies, TV and game than they can hope to consume, plus the possibility of an entire social life lived online for almost no cost at all.
The grandparents aren't dead yet! People are living a lot longer than they used to. The grandparents don't drop dead until the youngest generation are in their thirties, and by that time they have spent most of the potential inheritance on their retirement and medical costs.
I'm in my thirties, and still have one living great-grandparent.
No birds see in IR. Many birds see into the UV, but raptors are not among them. Even the kestrel, which was previously thought to be UV-sensitive. What they do have over humans is density: A much higher density of receptor cells, a much higher density of ganglion cells to connect them up. Rubbish for night vision, great for spotting tiny rodents from altitude. All of which still makes me wonder why cellphone cameras always give such awful images.
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It's bacteria-laden as well. Falling sick with a viral infection is better than falling sick with a bacterial infection and a viral infection.
They can ramp up the pixel count, but the optics are still going to be awful in a camera that size.
I'd like to know how nature solved the problem. Hawk eyes have no problem achieving a very impressive acuity in a package not much bigger. Something to do with the use of a lens with varying index of refraction? It's beyond me.
No, but the support for the movement is almost all religious. Enough.org is an example of 'sciencewashing' - they claim to be non-religious in order to appear more scientific and respectable, but you don't have to dig too far into their site to find things like http://enough.org/recoveringhe... - "People of faith are under constant spiritual attack as the enemy seeks to divide, destroy, and rob generations of their innocence and their youth. Lives are being shattered by gross consumption of sexually explicit content. The church is engaged in constant spiritual warfare as the enemy preys on the temptations of an already hyper-sexualized society; yet, the issues of sexual sin and sexual brokenness are often not brought to light within the church due to ignorance, shame, guilt or embarrassment."
Enough is Enough, who wrote that statement, are also the authors of the pledge he signed.
Read their website and you see why: They repeat a claim many times that pornography is just a gateway that instills the urge to view child abuse somehow - never mind that if that were the case, half the population of the US would be trying to sneak into a playground right now.
Here's one example but you don't have to look far to find others:
------
[EiE President] Hughes says combining the policing of raunchy footage of consenting adults with advocacy against child abuse makes sense, citing what she says are high rates of teens viewing bestiality and group sex, and the potential that viewing hardcore porn could be a steppingstone to further depths.
"Bestiality and anal sex online, that's the new normal," she says. "This entire sex industry is tied together, so it's like fighting the drug war ... just completely ignoring the obscenity laws [but combating child porn] would be like saying, 'We've got a war on drugs, but we're only going to concentrate on meth and heroin.' That's not going to do a very good job."
------
http://www.usnews.com/news/art...
"We are dedicated to continue raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography." - Enough.org, main page.
"The two primary Internet dangers today are children's free and easy access to all types of pornography, and sexual predators' easy and anonymous access to children." - Enough.org, 'about us.'
"[Enough is Enough President] Hughes says combining the policing of raunchy footage of consenting adults with advocacy against child abuse makes sense, citing what she says are high rates of teens viewing bestiality and group sex, and the potential that viewing hardcore porn could be a steppingstone to further depths." - http://enough.org/news/2IB385Y...
Yes, they just want to ban child abuse, right?
You're not thinking like an over-religious moral crusader: To most of them, there is no difference. They are both sinful.
The pledge is written by Enough is Enough. One of their main tactics is to constantly conflate them - they speak over and over about child abuse imagery and regular adult pornography in the same sentence, as if their were no difference. That way they can harness the outrage over the former and direct it into banning the latter.
They do, but remember that all those reasons to despise Trump apply just as much to Hillary. That's why they despise Trump: On the key issues for evangelicals - abortion, homosexuality, government-sponsored prayer - he is no different from a Democrat. The only position he has that they do agree with is his proposal on kicking Muslims out of the country.
What does he win from that? He might inspire his supporters to riot if he can convince them the election was a fraud, but there is no hope of pulling off a revolution that way. Revolutions are hard.
Pence is there to fill the role that Palin failed to: To ensure the support of the party base for a presidential candidate that doesn't share their values.
The religious right is very important within the republican party - not just for their votes but because they can influence many more voters (priests get a captive audience every week!), campaign on the ground and donate heavily. They'll support Trump regardless because they hate Hillary so much, but the don't view Trump as a 'true Republican.' He doesn't care about abortion, he has no objection to gay marriage, and he's so uninterested in religion he can't even cite the bible properly when he tries to fake it. The VP is a largely symbolic appointment - they wield no real power - but by picking a devoted social conservative he aims to win the full support of an important faction within the Republican party and the campaigning resources they can bring to bear.
There's a converse to that: People aren't getting married because women don't need to any more. We're currently trying what is, in historical terms, an experiment; Women who work. Throughout all of history the one aim of any young woman was to snag a good husband who would keep a roof over her head and food in the larder for her to transfer to table. But now women are expected to get a good education and a reasonably career before they go looking for marriage - which put marriage far lower on their priority ranking.
Public opinion not only says it's justified, it says you are probably a pedophile for suggesting otherwise.
People need their bogeyman.
You're right, of course. They won't. But what about the consumer laptops and PCs? All those people who just get something from PC World made by HP or IBM or Asus?
How many people here first learned linux by installing it on a hand-me-down machine? How many repurpose old PCs as media centers, routers or home servers?
It's quite possible that in ten years, if you want to run linux, you'll have to pay extra for parts intended for a real business server.
Microsoft will use heavy-handed tactics - not on motherboard makers, but on OEMs. Probably starting with laptops. It wouldn't be anything new to them, they've used exactly the same technique to pressure OEMs in the past, including requiring them to include secure boot at all, and to have it enabled by default. It's a very simple technique: There are a list of requirements in order to purchase OEM Windows. As it's practically unthinkable to sell a laptop without Windows preinstalled (goodbuy, mass-market customers), all MS would need to do is make it a requirement that Secure Boot must be mandatory. For security, of course.
Linux with secure boot is a bit of a bodge. Microsoft has generously agreed to sign a first-stage loader that can in turn load GRUB, but they don't use the same key as they use for booting Windows - which is the one and only key you can be sure that all firmware will recognise. So you can boot linux on some SB-enabled mainboards/laptops, but not others, and there's no assurance that MS will continue to be so generous in future - they only did so now to avoid potential legal action.
One day they will decree that Secure Boot cannot be turned off. It would only be a continuation of an existing trend.
Corporations might act like monolithic entities much of the time, but they are still composed of many individuals. Sometimes those individuals don't talk to each other. It's quite possible the people responsible for this scene are getting hauled up before the boss right now for a lecture of the importance of using only fictional brands without proper authorisation, followed by a lecture on why, though criminal characters are fine, their crimes should not be presented in a manner which be considered instructional.
I'm waiting for the day when President Trump jokes that he just launched a nuclear strike on Russia.
He'll probably then blame the Russian government for not realising it was a joke. Via the emergency broadcasting system, from his bunker underneath what remains of Washington.
Poe's law in politics. Politicians routinely say things in all seriousness that are so outrageous that when one does make a joke, it's hard to tell if it's really a joke or not. Especially true of Trump, as he has a history of hyperbole and general offensiveness.