Your argument is compelling. Much of what you say is spot on.
For the purpose of creating an accurate analogy, I will stipulate the age that society has determined to be the cut-off for too young has indeed varied throughout the ages.
Now then, has there still always been an age that was considered off limits?
Hmmm. There are a couple of things I would like to wipe from the collective memory of the earth's people, like that day in the third grade when I stepped on a nail and cried in front of the whole class... I still blame that incident for Jenny Lou not accompanying me to the 5th grade social, rather than my own childish cowardice.
These folks don't want forgiveness so much as they desire redemption. Just remember this: There are orders of magnitude more societies in history that would've stoned a pedophile to death rather than let him serve his time and live again as a free man with some restrictions.
In the US, sex offenders pretty much have to register their address for the rest of their lives, so deleting irrelevant in the eye of the beholder search results will still not get your dot off that map.
...but if a pedophile is fapping to kiddie porn, they're a lot less likely to go rape a child.
Even if I stipulate that your premise is correct and a citation to support your claim exists, there is the argument that allowing kiddie porn to be viewed makes it lucrative... so it continues to get made.
The initial haul was 280 million Dogecoins, with 120 million reportedly recovered.
Since 280 million Dogecoins has a current value of just under $130,000 US, it's neither the crime of the century nor likely the end of times for the vault.
One of the coin's present strengths is it's relative low worth.
I'm not one of those folks who doesn't champion a penchant for the obvious as a marketable skill.
The Newark School District gets more money per pupil than the suburban school districts surrounding it. And its outcomes are far worse. It's not the money.
I too, am adept at processing Bayesian inference, and that leads me to believe you're not blaming an equipment malfunction for this plane crash. Is it a personnel problem?
The amount of money wasted by government is indeed huge, but for perspective, British, American, and Australian governments plausibly waste far less percentage-wise than Haiti and Russia.
If I was riding on the first manned spacecraft to Mars, I would be pleased it was built with government redundancy and cost-overruns.
If I was awaiting a trip to Mars for a spaceship to be built to avoid a global extinction event, the government would still have the best people and the deepest pockets, and I expect they'd grow a sense of urgency.
If, on the other palm and fingers, I were tasked with ensuring a Country had educated citizens a quarter century from now... shit, our government is infiltrated by politicians with a penchant for instant gratification and the attention span of an election cycle.
Indeed we did in the sixties, and many great works have been accomplished with tax money.... no argument there.
But.
In the USA, we have gone from world leader in educating our young to what, 23rd place, despite throwing money with both hands at the problem hoping it will go away.
There are undoubtedly some educators and administrators who could comment on the reason(s) more accurately than I, but there remain some things that cannot be repaired with money.
One of the truly quotable movies of all time. Kilmer was exceptional, a performance I never saw again even though I gave every movie he made a shot because of his brilliance in this one.
IMHO, there were many supporting roles that made this movie great: Powers Booth as Curly Bill, Michael Biehn as Ringo, Thomas Haden Church & Stephen Lang as the Clanton bothers, Dana Delaney (NYPD Blue) as Josephine Marcus, and we haven't even mentioned Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Kurt Russell, or Billy Bob Thornton.
If you think taxpayer-funded governmental programs are rife with waste and inefficiency, you're probably correct.
Imagine that! Giving the same folks more money above and beyond taxes didn't improve things even marginally.
Not to take anything away from what I believe is a magnanimous gesture by Zuck, but perhaps a college scholarship program would better serve the needs of inner city youths.
To keep a secret perfectly safe, your odds of success are best if you are the only one who knows it happened and you tell no one.
If you trust someone else with the secret, you are forced to be realistic about the likelihood it will be spread further, since you, yourself couldn't be trusted with it.
A 19th century survey of 12000 towns would've yielded an even more astonishingly high percentage of citizens with god-belief.
The science is more widely accepted by the folks who have the time to pay attention, but for the most part, it's a propaganda scheme that headlines enough opposition theory to leave the average billpayer some room for doubt.
Funding opposition studies is just a business expense for large companies engaged in controversial industry.
I think this example has less to do with the actual Climate debate, than it does with good, old fashioned, Don't bite the hand that feeds you, company-town loyalty.
FWIW, I grew up in a small town where my father, uncles, and friend's parents worked in a local mill. Three quarters all the jobs in this town were at that mill, in addition to almost all the good paying ones; and hell, they had a softball league and gave us each a turkey at Thanksgiving.
For reference's sake, try to get something in a German schoolbook about pollution by the automobile industry.
Access to truth over accepted wisdom, conventional or otherwise, is a life changing event for the open mind.
There is some elaborate conjecture regarding our intellectual superiority over all the mammals, and this selfsame overcompensation is present regarding the African people in more minds than most folks would be willing to admit.
How could access to the combined knowledge of the human race not help you?
Indeed. And the difference in quality of life between the average Kenyan and poor westerner is so vast that it's difficult to comprehend. Two dollars a day, AKA 174 Kenyan Shillings, is a salary below the level even magnanimous companies can sell any meaningful life-changing technology.
Cellphones, and by that I mean budget portable computers, are plausibly more affordably practical and they are a multi-function device that requires less hard-wire infrastructure.
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Perhaps if you'd consider using eupemisms like climate disruption, there wouldn't be so much confusion when a cold spell sets in.
I don't post on slashdot because the system is abused... You people suck at modding.
That's one possibility.
For the purpose of creating an accurate analogy, I will stipulate the age that society has determined to be the cut-off for too young has indeed varied throughout the ages.
Now then, has there still always been an age that was considered off limits?
Hmmm. There are a couple of things I would like to wipe from the collective memory of the earth's people, like that day in the third grade when I stepped on a nail and cried in front of the whole class... I still blame that incident for Jenny Lou not accompanying me to the 5th grade social, rather than my own childish cowardice.
These folks don't want forgiveness so much as they desire redemption. Just remember this: There are orders of magnitude more societies in history that would've stoned a pedophile to death rather than let him serve his time and live again as a free man with some restrictions.
In the US, sex offenders pretty much have to register their address for the rest of their lives, so deleting irrelevant in the eye of the beholder search results will still not get your dot off that map.
Even if I stipulate that your premise is correct and a citation to support your claim exists, there is the argument that allowing kiddie porn to be viewed makes it lucrative... so it continues to get made.
Encouraging the exploitation of more children.
Since 280 million Dogecoins has a current value of just under $130,000 US, it's neither the crime of the century nor likely the end of times for the vault.
One of the coin's present strengths is it's relative low worth.
I'm not one of those folks who doesn't champion a penchant for the obvious as a marketable skill.
The Newark School District gets more money per pupil than the suburban school districts surrounding it. And its outcomes are far worse. It's not the money.
I too, am adept at processing Bayesian inference, and that leads me to believe you're not blaming an equipment malfunction for this plane crash. Is it a personnel problem?
Whether that makes me naive, stupid, or patriotic is unclear, which is fitting, since I think that's right where Edward is presently.
If I was riding on the first manned spacecraft to Mars, I would be pleased it was built with government redundancy and cost-overruns.
If I was awaiting a trip to Mars for a spaceship to be built to avoid a global extinction event, the government would still have the best people and the deepest pockets, and I expect they'd grow a sense of urgency.
If, on the other palm and fingers, I were tasked with ensuring a Country had educated citizens a quarter century from now... shit, our government is infiltrated by politicians with a penchant for instant gratification and the attention span of an election cycle.
But.
In the USA, we have gone from world leader in educating our young to what, 23rd place, despite throwing money with both hands at the problem hoping it will go away.
There are undoubtedly some educators and administrators who could comment on the reason(s) more accurately than I, but there remain some things that cannot be repaired with money.
One of the truly quotable movies of all time. Kilmer was exceptional, a performance I never saw again even though I gave every movie he made a shot because of his brilliance in this one.
IMHO, there were many supporting roles that made this movie great: Powers Booth as Curly Bill, Michael Biehn as Ringo, Thomas Haden Church & Stephen Lang as the Clanton bothers, Dana Delaney (NYPD Blue) as Josephine Marcus, and we haven't even mentioned Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Kurt Russell, or Billy Bob Thornton.
I abhor ugliness.
Does this mean we're not friends any more?
Imagine that! Giving the same folks more money above and beyond taxes didn't improve things even marginally.
Not to take anything away from what I believe is a magnanimous gesture by Zuck, but perhaps a college scholarship program would better serve the needs of inner city youths.
Signed, Epstein's mother's veterinarian.
Is the day after maternal appreciation ceremonies too soon?
By leaking disinformation?
If you trust someone else with the secret, you are forced to be realistic about the likelihood it will be spread further, since you, yourself couldn't be trusted with it.
We don' want none of yer pedagogical freakshow in our classrooms, son.
The science is more widely accepted by the folks who have the time to pay attention, but for the most part, it's a propaganda scheme that headlines enough opposition theory to leave the average billpayer some room for doubt.
Funding opposition studies is just a business expense for large companies engaged in controversial industry.
FWIW, I grew up in a small town where my father, uncles, and friend's parents worked in a local mill. Three quarters all the jobs in this town were at that mill, in addition to almost all the good paying ones; and hell, they had a softball league and gave us each a turkey at Thanksgiving.
For reference's sake, try to get something in a German schoolbook about pollution by the automobile industry.
Access to truth over accepted wisdom, conventional or otherwise, is a life changing event for the open mind.
There is some elaborate conjecture regarding our intellectual superiority over all the mammals, and this selfsame overcompensation is present regarding the African people in more minds than most folks would be willing to admit.
How could access to the combined knowledge of the human race not help you?
it stands to reason,
always is off-limits, too.
Indeed. And the difference in quality of life between the average Kenyan and poor westerner is so vast that it's difficult to comprehend. Two dollars a day, AKA 174 Kenyan Shillings, is a salary below the level even magnanimous companies can sell any meaningful life-changing technology.
Cellphones, and by that I mean budget portable computers, are plausibly more affordably practical and they are a multi-function device that requires less hard-wire infrastructure.
He actually deserves some bug bounty money.
It's not clear why a physician had a personally owned system connected to the network, or why he was attempting to deactivate it.
Of course it is. It was more convenient for him/her personally, despite putting sensitive patient data at risk in a venue beyond the doctor's ken.
It's a commons tragedy (the Bizzaro-World Spock-doctrine): better for one at the expense of the many.