Now one thing is certain for me: The US is slipping into a totalitarian state at a rate I wouldn't have believed a couple of weeks ago. Even the revelations and proof that the US government is stashing all the data it can get on its own citizens in spite of the constitution and the law only triggers anger over the dude that revealed it all.
People, this guy should be a national hero by now, not a fugitive.
So, totalitarian it will be and the US population is gently coming along apparently.
Sex is the tool, not the motive for rape. Sure, for most rapes there is a string sexual component. But there is no place more intimate for a woman the the interior of her vagina, and this is why beating up a woman isn't merely as humiliating as raping her. You can even kill her, her kids and all of her family, it will hurt her bad. But it won't humiliate her like a rape will.
ALL rapes are about SEX
even those done by woman? Even those done through objects and not the rapist's dick?
Otherwise I agree with you, most rapes are strongly sexually linked. But at the heart, rape is about showing the male dominance over his partner. In order to rape a woman, you first have to associate no value to the woman you're about to rape, and this is this lack of humanity toward this other human being that liberate you and will make you a rapist. Not your lust or sex drive. Otherwise all men would be rapists.
Citation will be utterly useless as I'm sure you can find a documents on the interwebs defending both viewpoints. So i'll give you a meta-link in the form of a wikipedia page, where you can get 68 links from the reference section - probably more than you asked for, but then you asked;-)
I'm not posting this AC because I'm right. She shouldn't just shut up, she should hand the evidence over to the police and cooperate as best as she can. If there is insufficient evidence to convict, or even charge, that sucks, but men have rights as well as women. Ruining a person's life over allegations like this outside of the courtroom is ever bit as evil as what she's accusing him of.
Unless he's guilty you mean, in which case it's just a consequence of HIS stupidity
She's attempting to ruin his career and take everything that he has. If you can't see that, then you're blind. We have a court system so as to minimize the number of lives ruined in such fashion.
Rape is quite special in this case: It is in the vast majority of the cases impossible to prove. I mean, really, it is a judgment on intent: was she willing or not. Nothing else. From the outside, it might not be any different than consentual sex.
It's also worth noting, that she may believe that he was trying to rape her, and that she might well be mentally ill. I don't know, but it is a possibility that you seem to have ignored. She might also be trying to destroy his career for some other reason.
Have you also considered the possibility that her story may be 100% true? You're trying to judge her but you don't know the facts, she does.
I wasn't there, but none of this evidence is particularly compelling. All we have is her version of events to go on.
Then let me ask you one thing: You are a woman in your hotel room, someone knocks, you open, he slaps you hard and you slap him back, but he's stronger than you. Then he forces you to lie down on your bed and put a piece of cloth in your mouth so you can't scream. He then rapes you for three hours. Then he leaves.
What do you do? Remember: the only evidence you have is that you both got minor bruises on your face. His semen doesn't count unless you're able to prove you weren't consenting of course.
Your insight is blindfully bright, master. Now I suggest you try and do some reading instead of spewing your 7-second carefully crafted thought as a universal truth.
Huh? Can you clarify your point on that one? Men can be raped too, and women can perpetrate rape. This is not a B/W situation, even though 99% of the victims are women and 99% of the perpetrators are men. But in all cases, it is a way of shaming the other person.
Are you saying that any woman that is assaulted by someone that is smart enough to not leave hard evidence should just shut the fuck up? Really? You're posting this not even as an AC?
Because there is no proof and there will never be? Sometimes, that's just the way it is. Maybe she prefers going public to shame him, since it is the only way she can actually get to him. Makes sense to me. Shows a lot of courage on her part, seeing how rape victims are treated by the public opinion.
I can tether and talk on my iPhone just fine, all on a non rooted iPhone. And I don't pay any fee for it. I guess it sucks living in a country where the only carriers that don't suck... well... do suck as well.
Waitwhat? Do you think Facebook communicates on all break-ins and hacks that happens? That's assuming they discover them all which is pretty unlikely IMO.
No, what we see in the news (such as today's news) is just the tip of the iceberg. How deep does the iceberg really goes, nobody will ever know. Look at Stuxnet!
I happen to use an iPhone 3GS on iOS6 and no, it is does not crawl at all. iOS4 was a clear mistake on that front, iOS5 was much better and iOS6 runs just fine.
Of course iOS is fragmented, but the point Apple is making is that it is MUCH less fragmented than Android.
Again, as I said, if you want to bash Apple, at least choose an area where they're lagging behind the competition. There are plenty of those. Platform fragmentation isn't one of them. Old devices support neither.
When you see the message 'Requires iOS...' the purchased isn't being charged to your credit card, so you haven't bought it. But I guess you knew it. And here I am feeding the trolls again.
iPhone 3s don't exist. I'll assume you mean the 3rd generation iPhone, meaning the iPhone 3GS. Too bad for you, it runs iOS6 just fine. It is 4 years old now. How many Android phones can claim to run the latest Android OS a full 4 years after their release? Can you enlighten us on that?
Are you kidding? iOS6 runs on every iPhone down to the iPhone 3GS released in June 8, 2009. That's more than 4 years ago. Do you want to compare that to Android average upgrade path across all manufacturers? How many Android phones actually *can* run the latest OS after 4 years of service?
Easy to bash Apple, but on some points they do hold their ground much better than 90% of Android manufacturers. Try not to bash them on those points, will you?
You make a few assumptions that are completely ass-backward over here:
1. Are you talking about quality in technical terms or artistic terms? Because in artistic terms I prefer 1000 times the movies from the 50s (with a tiny budget) to OMG! SUPERMAN RETURNS AGAIN (2). This is utter crap in all sense of the word. But true, it is graphically stunning. 2. Where did you get the assumption that they would make no money? Why would the investments stop returning "the adequate returns necessary"? Typical modern-world denial position. The music industry is making shitloads of money through iTunes and other channels, enough to prove that their business model is completely sustainable without bullshit DRM. Actually, if anything, it proves their business model is sustainable because of the lack of DRM.
Be careful what you ask for
We don't ask for anything. We merely predict something that is inevitable. If i tell you "it's going to rain", I don't ask for rain. I don't hope for rain. I merely state the fact that I think it's going to rain.
Individuals and studios are risking "everything" to make huge movies for our entertainment
Bullshit. Movies studios have never had more guarantees on a ROI than today. Because, precisely, no artists are involved in a movie anymore. It's all about special effects, business models and marketing.
So if the US were to pass a law forbidding you to breathe oxygen from the atmosphere but to buy it from bottles from Coca Cola you will obey blindly?
There are some things you cannot go against, even with a pile of law. The majority be damned, there are things that CANNOT be stopped.
Your fantasy futuristic free-content utopian vision
It is merely what I think will happen, not something I fantasize on or even hope. The law is powerless against personal communication and you bloody know it. I can bring an USB key to my neighbor in the pricavy of my home. Those laws have become UNENFORCEABLE. Too bad for the people relying on it, but that's a fact, not an opinion or a fantasy.
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As such, it's a stupid addition to web standards. It's pointless.
DRMs are pointless. Their addition to anything can only be pointless.
DRM is pointless. It makes things complicated for the legit users and it doesn't deter one bit the pirates. Why have it? It serves no purpose at all.
Think about it in another way then: What do you think could push you to commit rape?
A) A particularly high sex drive that day
B) A total disrepect for the woman at hand
Or another way again: That day, you want to have sex and she doesn't, why don't you rape her?
A) Because you don't want sex hard enough?
B) Because you don't want to hurt her?
If both your answers are B, then you proved that for you, rape would be about power/respect, not about sex.
Now one thing is certain for me: The US is slipping into a totalitarian state at a rate I wouldn't have believed a couple of weeks ago. Even the revelations and proof that the US government is stashing all the data it can get on its own citizens in spite of the constitution and the law only triggers anger over the dude that revealed it all.
People, this guy should be a national hero by now, not a fugitive.
So, totalitarian it will be and the US population is gently coming along apparently.
Sex is the tool, not the motive for rape. Sure, for most rapes there is a string sexual component. But there is no place more intimate for a woman the the interior of her vagina, and this is why beating up a woman isn't merely as humiliating as raping her. You can even kill her, her kids and all of her family, it will hurt her bad. But it won't humiliate her like a rape will.
ALL rapes are about SEX
even those done by woman? Even those done through objects and not the rapist's dick?
Otherwise I agree with you, most rapes are strongly sexually linked. But at the heart, rape is about showing the male dominance over his partner. In order to rape a woman, you first have to associate no value to the woman you're about to rape, and this is this lack of humanity toward this other human being that liberate you and will make you a rapist. Not your lust or sex drive. Otherwise all men would be rapists.
Citation will be utterly useless as I'm sure you can find a documents on the interwebs defending both viewpoints. So i'll give you a meta-link in the form of a wikipedia page, where you can get 68 links from the reference section - probably more than you asked for, but then you asked ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_sexual_violence
Sex is the means through which rape is done. It's the tool, not the motive.
I'm not posting this AC because I'm right. She shouldn't just shut up, she should hand the evidence over to the police and cooperate as best as she can. If there is insufficient evidence to convict, or even charge, that sucks, but men have rights as well as women. Ruining a person's life over allegations like this outside of the courtroom is ever bit as evil as what she's accusing him of.
Unless he's guilty you mean, in which case it's just a consequence of HIS stupidity
She's attempting to ruin his career and take everything that he has. If you can't see that, then you're blind. We have a court system so as to minimize the number of lives ruined in such fashion.
Rape is quite special in this case: It is in the vast majority of the cases impossible to prove. I mean, really, it is a judgment on intent: was she willing or not. Nothing else. From the outside, it might not be any different than consentual sex.
It's also worth noting, that she may believe that he was trying to rape her, and that she might well be mentally ill. I don't know, but it is a possibility that you seem to have ignored. She might also be trying to destroy his career for some other reason.
Have you also considered the possibility that her story may be 100% true? You're trying to judge her but you don't know the facts, she does.
I wasn't there, but none of this evidence is particularly compelling. All we have is her version of events to go on.
Then let me ask you one thing: You are a woman in your hotel room, someone knocks, you open, he slaps you hard and you slap him back, but he's stronger than you. Then he forces you to lie down on your bed and put a piece of cloth in your mouth so you can't scream. He then rapes you for three hours. Then he leaves.
What do you do? Remember: the only evidence you have is that you both got minor bruises on your face. His semen doesn't count unless you're able to prove you weren't consenting of course.
So, what's next for you in that scenario?
Your insight is blindfully bright, master. Now I suggest you try and do some reading instead of spewing your 7-second carefully crafted thought as a universal truth.
The structure of your society prevents rape???!!!??? Really? Which unknown pacific island are you living on?
Huh? Can you clarify your point on that one? Men can be raped too, and women can perpetrate rape. This is not a B/W situation, even though 99% of the victims are women and 99% of the perpetrators are men. But in all cases, it is a way of shaming the other person.
When a woman is raped with a baseball bat you really think it's about sex? Or by another woman?
No, sex is the tool. Humiliation and/or power assertion is the motive.
Are you saying that any woman that is assaulted by someone that is smart enough to not leave hard evidence should just shut the fuck up? Really? You're posting this not even as an AC?
Because there is no proof and there will never be? Sometimes, that's just the way it is. Maybe she prefers going public to shame him, since it is the only way she can actually get to him. Makes sense to me. Shows a lot of courage on her part, seeing how rape victims are treated by the public opinion.
Rape isn't about sex. It's about power and humiliation.
I can tether and talk on my iPhone just fine, all on a non rooted iPhone. And I don't pay any fee for it. I guess it sucks living in a country where the only carriers that don't suck ... well ... do suck as well.
Waitwhat? Do you think Facebook communicates on all break-ins and hacks that happens? That's assuming they discover them all which is pretty unlikely IMO.
No, what we see in the news (such as today's news) is just the tip of the iceberg. How deep does the iceberg really goes, nobody will ever know. Look at Stuxnet!
If you think you can keep something of the magnitude of facebook up 24/7 with no test cases you've not been in software development very long.
I happen to use an iPhone 3GS on iOS6 and no, it is does not crawl at all. iOS4 was a clear mistake on that front, iOS5 was much better and iOS6 runs just fine.
Of course iOS is fragmented, but the point Apple is making is that it is MUCH less fragmented than Android.
Again, as I said, if you want to bash Apple, at least choose an area where they're lagging behind the competition. There are plenty of those. Platform fragmentation isn't one of them. Old devices support neither.
When you see the message 'Requires iOS ...' the purchased isn't being charged to your credit card, so you haven't bought it. But I guess you knew it. And here I am feeding the trolls again.
iPhone 3s don't exist. I'll assume you mean the 3rd generation iPhone, meaning the iPhone 3GS. Too bad for you, it runs iOS6 just fine. It is 4 years old now. How many Android phones can claim to run the latest Android OS a full 4 years after their release? Can you enlighten us on that?
Are you kidding? iOS6 runs on every iPhone down to the iPhone 3GS released in June 8, 2009. That's more than 4 years ago. Do you want to compare that to Android average upgrade path across all manufacturers? How many Android phones actually *can* run the latest OS after 4 years of service?
Easy to bash Apple, but on some points they do hold their ground much better than 90% of Android manufacturers. Try not to bash them on those points, will you?
Ascendent compatibility. Ever heard of it?
I guess the US government isn't going to blame them publicly... good timing.
You make a few assumptions that are completely ass-backward over here:
1. Are you talking about quality in technical terms or artistic terms? Because in artistic terms I prefer 1000 times the movies from the 50s (with a tiny budget) to OMG! SUPERMAN RETURNS AGAIN (2). This is utter crap in all sense of the word. But true, it is graphically stunning.
2. Where did you get the assumption that they would make no money? Why would the investments stop returning "the adequate returns necessary"? Typical modern-world denial position. The music industry is making shitloads of money through iTunes and other channels, enough to prove that their business model is completely sustainable without bullshit DRM. Actually, if anything, it proves their business model is sustainable because of the lack of DRM.
Be careful what you ask for
We don't ask for anything. We merely predict something that is inevitable. If i tell you "it's going to rain", I don't ask for rain. I don't hope for rain. I merely state the fact that I think it's going to rain.
Individuals and studios are risking "everything" to make huge movies for our entertainment
Bullshit. Movies studios have never had more guarantees on a ROI than today. Because, precisely, no artists are involved in a movie anymore. It's all about special effects, business models and marketing.
So if the US were to pass a law forbidding you to breathe oxygen from the atmosphere but to buy it from bottles from Coca Cola you will obey blindly?
There are some things you cannot go against, even with a pile of law. The majority be damned, there are things that CANNOT be stopped.
Your fantasy futuristic free-content utopian vision
It is merely what I think will happen, not something I fantasize on or even hope. The law is powerless against personal communication and you bloody know it. I can bring an USB key to my neighbor in the pricavy of my home. Those laws have become UNENFORCEABLE. Too bad for the people relying on it, but that's a fact, not an opinion or a fantasy.