Enough of the puritanism. It's gotten old. This has nothing to do with sex being good or bad, most care less between consensual adults, but about how we believe women should be portrayed and treated in general.
Honestly if your child spends more time interacting with strippers on TV than with members of the opposite sex, you're a shit parent. People growing up learn by being part of the community, and it's an unwell community that demonises half of its members for the sin of having nipples.
Eh? European authorities don't censor violent media, more than anyone else does at least. Ever watched Braindead? That shit is fucked up, and widely available. As for the prostitutes jab, it's your problem if you associate women who have the sexual morals of men with hookers.
What made you think that images of female nipples had to involve porn or sex? I mean maybe you're being a bit tongue in cheek here but let's face it - by classifying a woman's breast as 'dirty' and something that would 'taint innocence', puritanism has indelibly associated women with porn and lewd behaviour. Ironically the same applies to hardcore feminism, albeit from a different angle.
Funny thing about a lot of parents, at least in the US, is they believe that seeing a woman's nipple does more damage to a child's innocence than any amount of gory body shrapnel.
Indeed, what happened to all the posters insisting it read the blood vessels under the skin instead?
I'll tell you what though, the security of my phone wouldn't be a concern if I was a new iphone owner, it's where my fingerprints might end up that would worry me. And to think that concern might have been tinfoil hattery only a short while ago.
This is one of those problem the free market is meant to solve by itself - people are meant to stop buying iphones in response. Me, I'm perfectly happy with my Samsung Galaxy.
How is this offtopic, it's a mathematical simulation of exactly the event described in the summary transposed onto a fictional game world. RPGs aren't WoW champ.
I ran an RPG where the world was moving through an interstellar dust cloud, complete with its own dark angels, rains of fire from the heavens, red coloured sun, all the trimmings. It rocked.
Speak for yourself, some of us aren't even judeo-christians/muslims. Incidentally I'd like to take this opportunity to wave the flag for Texas, some of the most enlightened and intelligent people I know come from there, and the state has a proud tradition of technological and scientific achievement (see Texas Instruments for starters).
Hint: rich people don't 'sit on their money' like Scrooge McDuck in your comic books. They invest it in the businesses that provide jobs for those poor people.
Not really, no. They usually have a diverse investment portfolio beyond a certain level, some in property, some in stocks and bonds, and the rest in various other investment vehicles. You don't get rich and stay rich by doing anything as risky as actually starting viable businesses (90% failure rate is a sucker's game), even VCs are only in it as long as it takes to pump up the company and sell it on to some starry eyed boob, or at least another VC who thinks they can pump it up even further.
Ah you say, but stocks are investing a company, again not really, at least after the first sale. There's no particular reason they have to buy stocks directly from the company, they could just buy from a previous investor, and the value of the stocks rarely has anything to do with the performance of a company. A positive or negative article in the Financial Times can have more of an impact on the value of a stock than any number of profitable quarters.
If the only way to increase wealth was to directly invest in businesses, then yes you'd have a point. But unfortunately it's not, and is in fact a rather poor approach to investment.
The government enables these kinds of transactions. What, you thought your elected representatives were in it for the sake of their voters and their countries? This is it folks, the real picture. It's all about the money.
There are surprisingly people in other parts of the world than American (IKR!!), but even if you take the global working population that still comes to around $40,000 for every worker per year. So, still calling bullshit.
Couple of things - first you only have their word that's what they're doing, and fuck that. Second it doesn't matter that it's just metadata, as long as the fingerprint scan can be associated with a person it serves the exact same purpose. The algorithm will lead to the exact same result.
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Enough of the puritanism. It's gotten old. This has nothing to do with sex being good or bad, most care less between consensual adults, but about how we believe women should be portrayed and treated in general.
Honestly if your child spends more time interacting with strippers on TV than with members of the opposite sex, you're a shit parent. People growing up learn by being part of the community, and it's an unwell community that demonises half of its members for the sin of having nipples.
And stop the fucking circumcisions you savages.
Eh? European authorities don't censor violent media, more than anyone else does at least. Ever watched Braindead? That shit is fucked up, and widely available. As for the prostitutes jab, it's your problem if you associate women who have the sexual morals of men with hookers.
No, really, it's a problem. Get help.
What made you think that images of female nipples had to involve porn or sex? I mean maybe you're being a bit tongue in cheek here but let's face it - by classifying a woman's breast as 'dirty' and something that would 'taint innocence', puritanism has indelibly associated women with porn and lewd behaviour. Ironically the same applies to hardcore feminism, albeit from a different angle.
Funny thing about a lot of parents, at least in the US, is they believe that seeing a woman's nipple does more damage to a child's innocence than any amount of gory body shrapnel.
Might there not be some potential for migration due to the lack of aerial predators around airports?
Keep on spinning, champ. Mods, my recommendation is to obliviate this shill, government, corporate, it matters not in the slightest.
Why would I bother, fifty people already have. Go argue with them.
The real problem is that they're holding it wrong.
It seems fairly clear that your idea of what the scanner does and what it actually does are at some pretty serious odds, my friend.
Indeed, what happened to all the posters insisting it read the blood vessels under the skin instead?
I'll tell you what though, the security of my phone wouldn't be a concern if I was a new iphone owner, it's where my fingerprints might end up that would worry me. And to think that concern might have been tinfoil hattery only a short while ago.
Strange, I think this must be a US thing. Across the pond they keep feeding you drink as long as you keep paying.
This is one of those problem the free market is meant to solve by itself - people are meant to stop buying iphones in response. Me, I'm perfectly happy with my Samsung Galaxy.
How is this offtopic, it's a mathematical simulation of exactly the event described in the summary transposed onto a fictional game world. RPGs aren't WoW champ.
I ran an RPG where the world was moving through an interstellar dust cloud, complete with its own dark angels, rains of fire from the heavens, red coloured sun, all the trimmings. It rocked.
W00t, GW space marine designs are teh new lewt!
please don't sue me
And they presently lack an effective delivery mechanism.
Except for the 65 odd ICBMs.
China had, at last count, almost two thousand nuclear weapons and climbing.
Also isn't this exactly what Facebook does/did?
Speak for yourself, some of us aren't even judeo-christians/muslims. Incidentally I'd like to take this opportunity to wave the flag for Texas, some of the most enlightened and intelligent people I know come from there, and the state has a proud tradition of technological and scientific achievement (see Texas Instruments for starters).
Hint: rich people don't 'sit on their money' like Scrooge McDuck in your comic books. They invest it in the businesses that provide jobs for those poor people.
Not really, no. They usually have a diverse investment portfolio beyond a certain level, some in property, some in stocks and bonds, and the rest in various other investment vehicles. You don't get rich and stay rich by doing anything as risky as actually starting viable businesses (90% failure rate is a sucker's game), even VCs are only in it as long as it takes to pump up the company and sell it on to some starry eyed boob, or at least another VC who thinks they can pump it up even further.
Ah you say, but stocks are investing a company, again not really, at least after the first sale. There's no particular reason they have to buy stocks directly from the company, they could just buy from a previous investor, and the value of the stocks rarely has anything to do with the performance of a company. A positive or negative article in the Financial Times can have more of an impact on the value of a stock than any number of profitable quarters.
If the only way to increase wealth was to directly invest in businesses, then yes you'd have a point. But unfortunately it's not, and is in fact a rather poor approach to investment.
Mister goatse would feel right at home with this brand of freedom.
The government enables these kinds of transactions. What, you thought your elected representatives were in it for the sake of their voters and their countries? This is it folks, the real picture. It's all about the money.
There are surprisingly people in other parts of the world than American (IKR!!), but even if you take the global working population that still comes to around $40,000 for every worker per year. So, still calling bullshit.
Couple of things - first you only have their word that's what they're doing, and fuck that. Second it doesn't matter that it's just metadata, as long as the fingerprint scan can be associated with a person it serves the exact same purpose. The algorithm will lead to the exact same result.
There's a well oiled system in place for trading clock ins.
I have to say, so what? As long as the work gets done and it doesn't cost anyone anything extra, who cares?