At twenty-five, she's a computer geek's fantasy female: androgynous, beautiful, pierced, with comprehensive musical knowledge and a house overrun by pet Maine coons and an iguana. One of her favorite shirts features two cars crashing into each other under the symbol CTRL+Z.
Droolworthy so far... generally geeky, pretty, and my God where did she pick up the Unix shell streak???
"Get it?" she asks excitedly. "It's a car crash, and Control-Z is the command for undo!"
You're using that situation to set up an emotional "Think of the children" response. This in itself is a fallacy but I'll skip over the obvious flaws in your logic
Fallacy, flaws in logic, what? We don't even know what my argument was;)
unlike the contrived, manufactured ones you see on TV--there was a very real danger of an innocent girl being abused
I feel like most of the guys shown on Dateline were up to no good, and would've ended up molesting a kid had it been a real one. How many is "most" is debatable. Obviously, I don't have proof. Perhaps NBC did a good job of pulling wool over my eyes and real kids would never let those guys come over.
If you're trying to say that stopping these few guys puts a dent into the number of pedophiles, or is a deterrent to the ones that are still out there then your naivete is beyond my ability to correct.
I'm far from saying that. I realize it is an ancient problem. My original point was that there must be a staggering number of pedophiles, based on the observation that an obvious and short-lived trap like this netted as many as it did anywhere they set up shop. The major flaw in that point is that if the real lures behave differently, the NBC guys may be doing too good a job in comparison and there still may be very few real molestation cases, albeit many weak-willed guys with a taste for kids.
Ah, the good old days of MUDding my life away... and writing hatemail to root@router_ip where router_ip is the router along the traceroute to the MUD introducing the lag... once I even got an apologetic reply! The guy was very nice about it, I felt bad about being a brat. If you're reading this, sorry:)
They easily got however many guys they did to come over in any locality they staked out. Now think about how many don't get caught. Would you be cool if you found a dude like that at home with your 12yo daughter when you came home? He wouldn't have touched her yet, so it's just thoughtcrime I guess...
Why should I want to offend someone who I'm trying to have a pleasant conversation with? Part of intelligent discourse is to address sensitive issues. If you don't keep your tone soft, you may run into a hard wall when emotional investments in the topic are brought to light.
It's not that you would want to-- but working too hard trying to avoid it results in a cowardly, touchy-feely tone.
Now that I think about it, most of the cases where I observed this phenomenon was in emails between girls (don't ask)... maybe they don't see it the same way:)
I do get the utility of the emoticons, but they irk me when they are either a cop-out that the lazy people use to avoid sharpening their writing, or a way to soften the tone of the communication by people who are too afraid of offending someone.
Nah, Linus is right to be tough. The ability to take a step back, reexamine the reasons why the code is not getting accepted into the kernel, and ultimately improve it is what separates a real kernel developer from a donkey! Now move your ass, yes?
This is getting OT, but Pope Joan, the alleged woman pope, prompted the Vatican to create a chair with an opening. The examining cleric would feel through the opening to make sure the Pope was a man. Talk about a security hole!
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Ah, the good old days of MUDding my life away... and writing hatemail to root@router_ip where router_ip is the router along the traceroute to the MUD introducing the lag... once I even got an apologetic reply! The guy was very nice about it, I felt bad about being a brat. If you're reading this, sorry :)
They easily got however many guys they did to come over in any locality they staked out. Now think about how many don't get caught. Would you be cool if you found a dude like that at home with your 12yo daughter when you came home? He wouldn't have touched her yet, so it's just thoughtcrime I guess...
Guy solicits, guy shows up with condoms and beer, which is black-and-white illegal-- what's the problem?
Well she was a professional actor, if necessary she could impersonate a 14 year old girl, or a boy, or whatever.
Good point, I guess the opposite result would be more surprising-- like if the monkey learned from the newspaper they put in front of it :)
Interesting, I wonder if they could add some sort of shot location module and share the data over a mesh formed by the robots. That would be sweet!
"You have 20 seconds to drop your gun"
:)
Iraqi drops gun.
"19... 18... 17..."
Sorry
I can't get over how you guys pay in pounds. Do you bring a little sack of gold dinars or something? :)
So I suppose as long as it's heavy metal it should be safe from litigation ;)
Actually, yes, you will
It's not that you would want to-- but working too hard trying to avoid it results in a cowardly, touchy-feely tone.
Now that I think about it, most of the cases where I observed this phenomenon was in emails between girls (don't ask)... maybe they don't see it the same way
I do get the utility of the emoticons, but they irk me when they are either a cop-out that the lazy people use to avoid sharpening their writing, or a way to soften the tone of the communication by people who are too afraid of offending someone.
Nah, Linus is right to be tough. The ability to take a step back, reexamine the reasons why the code is not getting accepted into the kernel, and ultimately improve it is what separates a real kernel developer from a donkey! Now move your ass, yes?
This is getting OT, but Pope Joan, the alleged woman pope, prompted the Vatican to create a chair with an opening. The examining cleric would feel through the opening to make sure the Pope was a man. Talk about a security hole!
Vulcan Nerve Pinch, say hello to Vulcan Craniotomy and Vulcan Encephaloextraction
They should hire that old Asian dude from Heroes to play Sulu's dad
is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
Hey, nice to see you out and about. Just wanted to say I enjoyed your and others' Usenet posts on sst.
That's what they want you to think!
The increased U.S. efficiency in handling goods is not worth the price in human lives.
While corporations are profiting from increased handling capacity, our brave young men and women are dying unnecessarily.
Ban forklifts!
...they want their layer 7 switch back!
Hopefully fossils like him will just die off or (even better) get thrown out of office and replaced by people who aren't utterly clueless.
You're new here, aren't you?
Mr. Ego said it best: iPhone vs. E70