Well, not a flame but I hope a reasonable response
Lets go thru some of the points:
There are more victims of porn than first meets the eye. First the people being photoed, erotic dancers, whatever, a lot of times they do these things willingly but because they feel they have no other way to make money.
Doing something you hate because you need money... you've just described most tech support jobs. The solution is to go find another job. Fears of recession aside, there is still a pretty good job market out there, no one is forcing these people to do porn. In fact adult film companies turn away quite a few people, so we can assume most of the people in porn want to be there.
As to the women devastated to discover her husband looking at porn, I think she's a tad bit naive to think her husband would never look at porn. This is like being surprised to discover that your husband prefers action movies to romantic comedies.
What about single men? Is it ok for them to look at porn? If not what do you suggest they use when masturbating (because you certainly can't suggest that men don't masturbate)
Finally we victimize ourselves. By looking at porn we buy into an unrealistic fantansy of strange women who show up out of nowhere and have sex with us.
It's called fanaticizing, we do it all the time, not just about sex, but maybe about having a sports car or a really big house.
The solution is simple: if you don't like porn, don't look at it. I happen to enjoy porn so I will continue to look at it. I've never heard of anyone being forced to watch porn against their will.
Actually, most irrigation techniques will result in a buildup of salts in the soil. Even freshwater contains some amount of dissolved salts, these slowly buildup in the soil over time as the some water evaporates from the surface.
Such is probably the fate of all civilizations that utilize heavy irrigation. Some think this may have led to the downfall of some early irrigation dependent civilizations.
Here is my best karma-whoring offering
for the goatse-phobic crowd go to:
http://www.ussl.ars.usda.gov/salinity.htm
What's to stop a pervert from looking at a picture of your child and then fantasizing about your child in a sexual way? Nothing really, people can imagine whatever they please.
We outlaw child pornography because producing it requires the exploitation of children. It's the same reason we don't allow children to work in dangerous factories (well in most of the west this isn't allowed)
I suppose in the case your suggesting you could sue the person for using the image without your permision but the child is not really being exploited.
Just to clarify, the science of physics has been around far longer than 75 years. Einstein's theory of relativity is over 80 years old and I would hardly classify relativity as old physics.
Many of the laws pertaining to gravity and planetary motion where already established by
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
and
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Granted, all the more reason that filmmakers shouldn't be fucking up stuff like this.
Just a reminder, I believe that each voting district uses it's own ballot. The ballot here in Orlando has a broken arrow by each canidate, you simply fill in the line completeing the arrow by your choice. Here is some crappy asci art:
Bush
Gore to chose Gore you fill in the line
Gore I think I would have been to figure out the Palm Beach ballot, but I think some people might have found it confusing, so they should change the ballot for the next election.
I want Gore to win as much as anyone but I think it's too late to go back on this election.
Sure if you're trying to freeze your head until they find a cure for cancer you'll want to be frosen solid I guess. But for space travel aren't we really only concerned about slowing down life functions?
For a 60 year trip, the time it might take for a nuclear impulse rocket to reach the nearest stars, it wouldn't kill the crew if there bodies aged 6 years.
I guess everyone focuses on freezing because they want to come back in a thousand years and fight those damm dirty apes!
For the same reason as every other english speaker,so I don't have to learn another language. Sure, I can argue about english being a business standard and it's prominence as a second language, but when it comes down to it I know that I am functionally illiterate in most languages. Even after years of study, my ability in most other languages is limited to being able to count to ten and asking "where is the bathroom".
Seriously, the language of the future will be some horrible polyglot of mandarin and hindi with a bunch of english and spanish vocabulary. It won't be set up or dictated by any person or group, it will just slowly evolve from people all over the earth communicating with each other.Oh yeah, the esperanto speakers will still be trying to convince everyone to change.
Dammed if IE 5.5 didn't have a fit when I clicked on the link for Netscape, restarted IE same thing again... after 5 minutes of not responding it pops up with one of those install on demand windows that can never actually install what you need. ughhh...
Downloaded Mox 17 logging in to slashdot, found a bug already ughh
A probe to Venus would be very difficult to lift out of Earths gravity well. We'd almost have to build something that heavy in space - where could that take place? Why a space station, of course?
Not to nitpick, but the Soviet Union managed to send several Venera missions just fine without a space station. These probes had very limited lifetimes but I'm sure with todays technolgy we could probably do a lot better (the first one landed in 1970).
Good lord, instead of taking down great sites like Kuro5hin couldn't they take down damm spammer sites instead? It's still would be wrong to do and lame but least they could be semi productive with their vandalism. Need an example, ok this damm site has been spamming for weeks even after repeated emails to the sysadmin to boot them. I'm not saying you should do anything to the site...
After reading this article I decided to make a background tile skin.jpg made from my very own fleshtones, yes you can have a little piece of bytor on your web page. I think sticking enough images like this onto random web pages should keep the censorware occupied a little while.
Yes I find that I tend to carry around the same programming mindset no matter what language I'm writing in. When I use C++ it's mostly just a modification of my C coding, which is really just a modification of my C64 BASIC coding (you'll never need more than 64K...) This works fine for procedural languges but was real hell when I learned LISP, "Where does this program start? Where's main? What do you mean 'cdr error'? there's 70 cdr's in this function! ARGGHH!"
Yes the head is a pretty blatant rip-off. I was shocked at first at how anthropomorphic this thing looked, but once I read that it was going to be controlled thru VR it made sense. You need to keep a familiar arrangement of limbs for the human controller, but the head? All you need for the head is a couple of camera's mounted on a pole to go thru the motions of a normal person's head... the covering may be for shielding the camera's but it still seems a bit much..
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Well, not a flame but I hope a reasonable response
Lets go thru some of the points:
There are more victims of porn than first meets the eye. First the people being photoed, erotic dancers, whatever, a lot of times they do these things willingly but because they feel they have no other way to make money.
Doing something you hate because you need money... you've just described most tech support jobs. The solution is to go find another job. Fears of recession aside, there is still a pretty good job market out there, no one is forcing these people to do porn. In fact adult film companies turn away quite a few people, so we can assume most of the people in porn want to be there.
As to the women devastated to discover her husband looking at porn, I think she's a tad bit naive to think her husband would never look at porn. This is like being surprised to discover that your husband prefers action movies to romantic comedies.
What about single men? Is it ok for them to look at porn? If not what do you suggest they use when masturbating (because you certainly can't suggest that men don't masturbate)
Finally we victimize ourselves. By looking at porn we buy into an unrealistic fantansy of strange women who show up out of nowhere and have sex with us.
It's called fanaticizing, we do it all the time, not just about sex, but maybe about having a sports car or a really big house.
The solution is simple: if you don't like porn, don't look at it. I happen to enjoy porn so I will continue to look at it. I've never heard of anyone being forced to watch porn against their will.
And remember, any time a car gets in a movie gets into an accident there has to be a fireball the size of the trinity blast to accompany it.
Right after plunging off a cliff, of course...
Actually, most irrigation techniques will result in a buildup of salts in the soil. Even freshwater contains some amount of dissolved salts, these slowly buildup in the soil over time as the some water evaporates from the surface.
Such is probably the fate of all civilizations that utilize heavy irrigation. Some think this may have led to the downfall of some early irrigation dependent civilizations.
Here is my best karma-whoring offering
for the goatse-phobic crowd go to:
http://www.ussl.ars.usda.gov/salinity.htm
We outlaw child pornography because producing it requires the exploitation of children. It's the same reason we don't allow children to work in dangerous factories (well in most of the west this isn't allowed)
I suppose in the case your suggesting you could sue the person for using the image without your permision but the child is not really being exploited.
Just to clarify, the science of physics has been around far longer than 75 years. Einstein's theory of relativity is over 80 years old and I would hardly classify relativity as old physics.
Many of the laws pertaining to gravity and planetary motion where already established by
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
and
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Granted, all the more reason that filmmakers shouldn't be fucking up stuff like this.
Ok I suck, my bad HTML screwed up the illustration. here is my crappy ascii art:
Bush {== ==
Gore {==--==
please pretend that {== == is an arrow
Just a reminder, I believe that each voting district uses it's own ballot. The ballot here in Orlando has a broken arrow by each canidate, you simply fill in the line completeing the arrow by your choice. Here is some crappy asci art:
Bush Gore to chose Gore you fill in the line
Gore I think I would have been to figure out the Palm Beach ballot, but I think some people might have found it confusing, so they should change the ballot for the next election.
I want Gore to win as much as anyone but I think it's too late to go back on this election.
Sure if you're trying to freeze your head until they find a cure for cancer you'll want to be frosen solid I guess. But for space travel aren't we really only concerned about slowing down life functions?
For a 60 year trip, the time it might take for a nuclear impulse rocket to reach the nearest stars, it wouldn't kill the crew if there bodies aged 6 years.
I guess everyone focuses on freezing because they want to come back in a thousand years and fight those damm dirty apes!
For the same reason as every other english speaker,so I don't have to learn another language. Sure, I can argue about english being a business standard and it's prominence as a second language, but when it comes down to it I know that I am functionally illiterate in most languages. Even after years of study, my ability in most other languages is limited to being able to count to ten and asking "where is the bathroom".
Seriously, the language of the future will be some horrible polyglot of mandarin and hindi with a bunch of english and spanish vocabulary. It won't be set up or dictated by any person or group, it will just slowly evolve from people all over the earth communicating with each other.Oh yeah, the esperanto speakers will still be trying to convince everyone to change.
No, no. I translated it... User Friendly is a cookbook... A cookbook!
Dammed if IE 5.5 didn't have a fit when I clicked on the link for Netscape, restarted IE same thing again... after 5 minutes of not responding it pops up with one of those install on demand windows that can never actually install what you need. ughhh... Downloaded Mox 17 logging in to slashdot, found a bug already ughh
A probe to Venus would be very difficult to lift out of Earths gravity well. We'd almost have to build something that heavy in space - where could that take place? Why a space station, of course?
Not to nitpick, but the Soviet Union managed to send several Venera missions just fine without a space station. These probes had very limited lifetimes but I'm sure with todays technolgy we could probably do a lot better (the first one landed in 1970).
Good lord, instead of taking down great sites like Kuro5hin couldn't they take down damm spammer sites instead? It's still would be wrong to do and lame but least they could be semi productive with their vandalism. Need an example, ok this damm site has been spamming for weeks even after repeated emails to the sysadmin to boot them. I'm not saying you should do anything to the site...
After reading this article I decided to make a background tile skin.jpg made from my very own fleshtones, yes you can have a little piece of bytor on your web page. I think sticking enough images like this onto random web pages should keep the censorware occupied a little while.
Yes I find that I tend to carry around the same programming mindset no matter what language I'm writing in. When I use C++ it's mostly just a modification of my C coding, which is really just a modification of my C64 BASIC coding (you'll never need more than 64K...) This works fine for procedural languges but was real hell when I learned LISP, "Where does this program start? Where's main? What do you mean 'cdr error'? there's 70 cdr's in this function! ARGGHH!"
Yes the head is a pretty blatant rip-off. I was shocked at first at how anthropomorphic this thing looked, but once I read that it was going to be controlled thru VR it made sense. You need to keep a familiar arrangement of limbs for the human controller, but the head? All you need for the head is a couple of camera's mounted on a pole to go thru the motions of a normal person's head... the covering may be for shielding the camera's but it still seems a bit much..