You must be living in a different US than I. I can't help but see WGW constantly advertised on TV. Babyslut clothes in Target. Porn mags at the 7-11. The plethora of porn lovers on/. The non-stop pornification of pretty much everything. What prudishness exactly are you referring to?
"I am not sure whether [President Bush] knows all of the prophecies [about "the apocalypse"] and how deep of a student he has been in God's Word, but I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I've spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it's in his hands."
"Woman tend to be predisposed to spending a large quantity of time trying to improve their appearance at least partly because as animals they want or expect to be judged on their appearance."
I know it's hard to understand, but "women" are not a hive mind.
Kendall's study's conclusion is that 15-19 year old boys with access to the internet were less likely to be convicted of rape. Then it makes the leap that those previously-raping boys are using the internet solely for porn, and rape porn at that.
I don't think porn use causes or prevents rape. I do think it's desensitizing, dehumanizing, etc. I don't think adult porn should be banned but I think the reasons behind its use and the changes it causes in people need to be talked about.
If internet porn causes or reduces rape, we'd see a sharp increase or decline in the rape rate of every internet-connected country beginning in the late 90s. The US and Britain don't exhibit that trend: Britain's rape rate has gone up, and the USA's has gone down.
There are lots of other reasons that could explain Kendall's conclusions. Maybe 15-19 year old girls with access to the 'net are less likely to be raped.
Maybe increased access to feminist and anti-violence resources on the internet led to a decrease in rape. Maybe an increase in access to Slashdot led to a decrease in rape.
Todd Kendall's,report, while popular with the pro-porn crowd, really isn't very good. Correlation is not causation. You might as well say that World of Warcraft prevents rape, since the numbers of WOW users has gone up while rape incidence has gone down. Or maybe global warming prevents rape. Or...
(I'm not sure why that report is so popular with the pro-porn crowd. If you think about it - do you really want to claim that it's more likely you would be out there raping women if you didn't have your porn?)
"There's plenty of empirical evidence that suggests that letting people look at porn diffuses their 'lustful mentality' so that they are not as likely to commit an act of physical abuse."
"It really has to do with what parts of the bible you choose to quote. "
Too true! I want to know why noone is lobbying to have the Sermon on the Mount displayed in courthouses and schools. Why are Old Testament rules so popular with "Christians?"
I think Fundamentalist Christians are really Jews and won't admit it.
I could get behind some Matthew 7 "Judge not lest ye be judged" (although I'm not sure how popular it would be in an Alabama courthouse).
ooh, I forgot Scorched Earth. I'll third that, great times with 7 people sitting around one monitor passing the keyboard around. I found an emulator for OS X, it was kinda buggy but brought back fun memories.
Played all the way through Champions of Norrath on the PS2 with 4 players, pretty fun. Can get into fights about looting while others are fighting.
2 Person Baldurs Gate on the PS2 is pretty fun.
Got bored with X-men Legends on the PS2.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Chaos Bleeds" claims to be 1-4 players but is total crap.
Diablo II on a LAN is good fun. WoW Orcs vs Humans on a LAN is a PiTA (maybe just because my roommate was so much better than I am).
Current WoW with 2 accounts and 2 laptops side by side is great.
"Everyone" doesn't look at porn. According to a Harris poll, only 27% of Americans agreed with the statement "All men look at pornography." (Paul, Pornified, P268)
MOST men don't look at pornography. Perhaps not even MOST men on Slashdot. The ones that say "everyone does it" are the ones that do it themselves.
University of Alabama researchers Zillman and Bryant found that prolonged exposure to pornography leads people to overestimate the incidence of almost all sexual activities - particularly sodomy, group sex, S&M and sexual contact with animals. (Paul, Pornified, P226) It's no wonder that porn addicts assume that "everyone looks at porn." Their world-view is so twisted that they can't imagine someone not being interested in porn.
(BTW, there aren't many current studies of the effects of porn exposure, because of the findings of researchers like Zillman and Bryant. The changes in the way people thought after heavy porn exposure were so extreme that research boards will not approve further porn research on human subjects.)
I also like how video gaming is intentionally gender segregated in the interests of equality.
Ya mean like these titles that are going to bring the women gamers running?
FTFA:
"Desperate Housewives will be joined on video game retailer shelves by Charlotte's Web, Bratz Forever Diamonds, Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses and Lucinda Green's Equestrian Challenge."
omfg...if that doesn't make women give up on gaming permanently as being run by a bunch of clueless condescending idiots, I don't know what will.
I like how the other big acknowledgement of women gamers was Lara Croft's breast reduction. Now, down from boobs as big as her head, she's merely a 44D.
FTFA:
"Sheri Graner Ray, a game designer and author who has been urging game companies to hire women since 1990, said video game females still feature engorged red lips and erect nipples -- while the corresponding male characters don't exhibit similar sexual characteristics."
I think in the interests of equality all male game characters should wear speedos barely covering gigantic erections. That'd bring the women players in droves.
I'm the comment janitor for a Drupal-based web site. Users that don't want to register with the site can post comments anonymously but the anonymous comments sit in an approval queue until I can eyeball them. It's not too time consuming and I'm willing to do it to facilitate 'anonymous' speech.
Needless to say, I get a lot of spam in the queue. I check the contents of the spam to set up filters to detect and autonuke frequently occuring phrases or website addresses.
In the last month, I have noticed a serious rise in spam that is a list of URLs that are hosted on wikis and forums that obviously have nothing to do with the content of the spam (usually it's technical-related wikis and pr0n- and drug-related spam). Here's an edited sample:
I've been notifying admins of the sites being abused when I have time (and when there is a contact address on the site). Some respond and some don't. One interesting response - "I'm surprised at how sophisticated the bot was - it arrived, appeared to look around, tried to edit, failed because it wasn't logged in, created a user, then proceeded to post things. I'll have to set up some kind of CAPTCHA."
Keep an eye on activity on your wikis and forums. And please don't require creating an account to get access to your contact info!
Approximately 4.5 million different people [in the USA] receive emergency food assistance from the A2H system in any given week
42% of clients served by the A2H National Network report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel
35% had to choose between paying for food and paying their rent or mortgage
32% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care
That was a computer programmer testifying (two years ago) that he'd been asked to write vote rigging software for the Ohio elections. What was the outcome of that?
Part of the outcome of that is that the computer programmer (Clint Curtis) left the Republican party, joined the Democrats, and is running for Congress in Florida's 24th district!
"Now a Democrat, I am a former Republican who left that party after a sitting US Republican Representative, Tom Feeney, asked me to build a prototype computer program that could, without detection, flip the votes on an electronic voting machines. That experience changed not only my views, but also changed the course of my life"
That's a really strange torrent of searches. Maybe it's part of someone's chat conversation making its way into the search field? It's like an AM radio station fading in and out at night, scraps of dialogue surfacing in the static.
He opposed a State bill that would have prevented hospitals from refusing to dispense the "morning after" plan B contraceptives for rape victims.
"[i]n Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital"
The New Haven Register, by Gregory B. Hladky on 03/13/2006
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't either. The newspaper I write for already forbids use of Wikipedia for research, as does the college I attend. No threat to any of that!
Cite, please.
You must be living in a different US than I. I can't help but see WGW constantly advertised on TV. Babyslut clothes in Target. Porn mags at the 7-11. The plethora of porn lovers on /. The non-stop pornification of pretty much everything. What prudishness exactly are you referring to?
http://atheism.about.com/blog/a/002295.htm
According to Jack van Impe Ministries:
"I am not sure whether [President Bush] knows all of the prophecies [about "the apocalypse"] and how deep of a student he has been in God's Word, but I was contacted a few weeks ago by the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline. And I've spent hours preparing it. I will release this information to the public in September, but it's in his hands."
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/017276.htm
"Woman tend to be predisposed to spending a large quantity of time trying to improve their appearance at least partly because as animals they want or expect to be judged on their appearance." I know it's hard to understand, but "women" are not a hive mind.
lol
Probably a good idea. You don't want to break your wife/girlfriend/parent's heart.
Are you expecting your wife to murder you?
I don't think porn use causes or prevents rape. I do think it's desensitizing, dehumanizing, etc. I don't think adult porn should be banned but I think the reasons behind its use and the changes it causes in people need to be talked about.
If internet porn causes or reduces rape, we'd see a sharp increase or decline in the rape rate of every internet-connected country beginning in the late 90s. The US and Britain don't exhibit that trend: Britain's rape rate has gone up, and the USA's has gone down.
There are lots of other reasons that could explain Kendall's conclusions. Maybe 15-19 year old girls with access to the 'net are less likely to be raped.
Maybe increased access to feminist and anti-violence resources on the internet led to a decrease in rape. Maybe an increase in access to Slashdot led to a decrease in rape.
There's a good look at the flaws in the methodology used in the report here: http://2x3x7.blogspot.com/2006/10/dont-buy-compute r-but-if-you-do.html
I am happy to draw the line at physically touching those who have not (or due to their youth or mental incapacity are unable to have) given consent.
Well, good, that will probably keep you from going to jail for rape.
(I'm not sure why that report is so popular with the pro-porn crowd. If you think about it - do you really want to claim that it's more likely you would be out there raping women if you didn't have your porn?)
Got any cites for that statement?
Too true! I want to know why noone is lobbying to have the Sermon on the Mount displayed in courthouses and schools. Why are Old Testament rules so popular with "Christians?"
I think Fundamentalist Christians are really Jews and won't admit it.
I could get behind some Matthew 7 "Judge not lest ye be judged" (although I'm not sure how popular it would be in an Alabama courthouse).
ooh, I forgot Scorched Earth. I'll third that, great times with 7 people sitting around one monitor passing the keyboard around. I found an emulator for OS X, it was kinda buggy but brought back fun memories.
Played all the way through Champions of Norrath on the PS2 with 4 players, pretty fun. Can get into fights about looting while others are fighting. 2 Person Baldurs Gate on the PS2 is pretty fun. Got bored with X-men Legends on the PS2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Chaos Bleeds" claims to be 1-4 players but is total crap. Diablo II on a LAN is good fun. WoW Orcs vs Humans on a LAN is a PiTA (maybe just because my roommate was so much better than I am). Current WoW with 2 accounts and 2 laptops side by side is great.
Men have (and lose) innocence too, not just women. Porn erodes the innocence of everyone involved.
MOST men don't look at pornography. Perhaps not even MOST men on Slashdot. The ones that say "everyone does it" are the ones that do it themselves.
University of Alabama researchers Zillman and Bryant found that prolonged exposure to pornography leads people to overestimate the incidence of almost all sexual activities - particularly sodomy, group sex, S&M and sexual contact with animals. (Paul, Pornified, P226) It's no wonder that porn addicts assume that "everyone looks at porn." Their world-view is so twisted that they can't imagine someone not being interested in porn.
(BTW, there aren't many current studies of the effects of porn exposure, because of the findings of researchers like Zillman and Bryant. The changes in the way people thought after heavy porn exposure were so extreme that research boards will not approve further porn research on human subjects.)
Ya mean like these titles that are going to bring the women gamers running?
FTFA:
"Desperate Housewives will be joined on video game retailer shelves by Charlotte's Web, Bratz Forever Diamonds, Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses and Lucinda Green's Equestrian Challenge."
omfg...if that doesn't make women give up on gaming permanently as being run by a bunch of clueless condescending idiots, I don't know what will.
I like how the other big acknowledgement of women gamers was Lara Croft's breast reduction. Now, down from boobs as big as her head, she's merely a 44D.
FTFA:
"Sheri Graner Ray, a game designer and author who has been urging game companies to hire women since 1990, said video game females still feature engorged red lips and erect nipples -- while the corresponding male characters don't exhibit similar sexual characteristics."
I think in the interests of equality all male game characters should wear speedos barely covering gigantic erections. That'd bring the women players in droves.
Needless to say, I get a lot of spam in the queue. I check the contents of the spam to set up filters to detect and autonuke frequently occuring phrases or website addresses.
In the last month, I have noticed a serious rise in spam that is a list of URLs that are hosted on wikis and forums that obviously have nothing to do with the content of the spam (usually it's technical-related wikis and pr0n- and drug-related spam). Here's an edited sample:
http://example.com/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=120&h= 120&media=8-somedumbchick-nude.html
I've been notifying admins of the sites being abused when I have time (and when there is a contact address on the site). Some respond and some don't. One interesting response - "I'm surprised at how sophisticated the bot was - it arrived, appeared to look around, tried to edit, failed because it wasn't logged in, created a user, then proceeded to post things. I'll have to set up some kind of CAPTCHA."
Keep an eye on activity on your wikis and forums. And please don't require creating an account to get access to your contact info!
The latest version of Symantec Antivirus finds and deletes at least one of those commercial products (Spy Recon)
www.textbookrevolution.org is just a bunch of links to other places, like about.com [which is mostly a bunch of links to other places...]
Approximately 4.5 million different people [in the USA] receive emergency food assistance from the A2H system in any given week
42% of clients served by the A2H National Network report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel
35% had to choose between paying for food and paying their rent or mortgage
32% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care
http://www.secondharvest.org/learn_about_hunger/po verty_stats.html
http://www.hungerinamerica.org/key_findings/
Part of the outcome of that is that the computer programmer (Clint Curtis) left the Republican party, joined the Democrats, and is running for Congress in Florida's 24th district!
"Now a Democrat, I am a former Republican who left that party after a sitting US Republican Representative, Tom Feeney, asked me to build a prototype computer program that could, without detection, flip the votes on an electronic voting machines. That experience changed not only my views, but also changed the course of my life"
http://www.clintcurtis.com/
Ameilia Earhart by Dennis Brindell Fradin (OK, she's not a scientist exactly but can't leave her out)
Charles Fort: prophet of the unexplained, by Damon Francis Knight
To Space and Back by Sally Ride
Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry
Maria Goeppert Mayer: Physicist by Joseph P. Ferry, Chelsea House Publishers, Jill Sideman
Sadly there is no biography I can find on France Anne Córdova but there is biographical info on her online.
That's a really strange torrent of searches. Maybe it's part of someone's chat conversation making its way into the search field? It's like an AM radio station fading in and out at night, scraps of dialogue surfacing in the static.
The New Haven Register, by Gregory B. Hladky on 03/13/2006
Sided with Congress to force prolonging Terri Schiavo's life, against her and her husband's wishes.5 5.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/27/2139
Voted for Attorney General Gonzalez, who thinks the Geneva Conventions are "quaint" and supports torturing detainees who are held indefinitely without trial or access to attorneysp ?vote_id=3452
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_keyvote_member.ph
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4000679.stm
Voted to stop debate/prevent filibuster so Alito could be added to the Supreme Courti sts/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2& vote=00001
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_l