Pedophilia is a sexual orientation that is as "natural" as any other sexual orientation, and pedophiles should have the same legal rights as anyone else unless they molest children
An extremely dangerous and foolhardy position to take. Easy to state online, but if you physically go up to any parent (ideally a father) and try to argue said position, YOU... WILL... DIE.
It's a completely indefensible position, and everyone who values their self-preservation knows it.
Try to ignore some of the negative responses you get for this post. I agree with you - Stallman is extremely bad at communicating his position sometimes and lacks the necessary 'tact' which geeks can sometimes deal with but most others can't. The whole business of him saying how he was glad Steve Jobs was gone went down in flames, because no matter what underlying message he was trying to present, the lack of understand of how people interpret his words meant most people's reactions to his comment were "that dude's fucked in the head."
Even trying to make a discussion in public about "voluntary pedophilia" is guaranteed to cause immense problems for the speaker, and it's not worth the repercussions by even bringing it up. Stallman has no fear because he's already considered a stubborn idiot by most, which is why he types what he does. But no-one in power or who's in a position to make change is going to be influenced by him.
See, this is why I don't debate on Slashdot (and keep making new accounts when things get out of hand). Evidently I'm not good enough at it to get highly modded like some people are.:)
(3) some other reason, which you should specify if you choose this option?
(3) You say that the federal government is supposed to represent the people. To be honest, I think our Government has genuinely forgotten about this ideal, not because of a conscious decision to go against it, but because almost all other Governments in the western world serve special interest groups and they've forgotten what it was like to not do so.
In other words, keeping the meetings is closed probably because they don't see any need to waste time and effort dealing with the plebs. It's more efficient to keep the parties closed.
Any reasonable, sane individual would not have a problem with said pic. Anyone who'd suggest banning it because someone might find it "sexually suggestive" would be considered unreasonable and a bit whack.
When I mention the types we get around here, I'm referring instead to the people who've taken Stallman's message of freedom and openness to the extreme, where nothing should be censored and everything should be available, even if society has deemed it undesirable to have such things available for public consumption.
Agreed, and we both know the anti-piracy laws they'll try to pass are probably going to be unfair, pro-corp and anti-consumer. I'm just saying it's probably less to do with restricting free speech in this particularly case, and probably just what it looks like.
Dick Smith Electronics was once a store where you could go in and buy capacitors, electronics kits (pre-arduino days) and just about anything else you need. Now days they sell phone plans, Norton AV and overpriced HDMI cables.
DSE still sells electronics (at least the stores I've visited). At some DSEs you can still purchase the Funway 1 component sets, just not the bulk kits. Point is they still sell electronics - they just don't move units as much because it's a niche market anyway, so they clearly had to expand (at least as far as Woolworths is concerned with how to run a business).
How can they fucking not see it? So. god. damned. stupid.
The only justification I can see is that the media executives are simply just power hungry for control. Even though giving people what they want is likely to result in higher levels of profitability and (dare I say it) loyalty for treating your customers right (I don't like using the word "consumer", it feels too corporate and impersonal for some reason), they'd much rather make less potential money in exchange for a greater level of control, or at least as far as their concerned.
The lust for control and power itself is greater sometimes than profits it would see to these suits.
Where your phone would last a week on stand-by and you wouldn't have to hang around the single power socket in the airport departure lounge with all the other smartphone junkies waiting to charge your phone.
Aha, but you're making the classic mistake of assuming that thing you stick in your trousers is a phone. It's not - it's a portable computer which just so happens to bundle a phone app. Modern "phones" do so much more than the old dumbphones it's no wonder battery technology hasn't kept up with electronics.
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Try to ignore some of the negative responses you get for this post. I agree with you - Stallman is extremely bad at communicating his position sometimes and lacks the necessary 'tact' which geeks can sometimes deal with but most others can't. The whole business of him saying how he was glad Steve Jobs was gone went down in flames, because no matter what underlying message he was trying to present, the lack of understand of how people interpret his words meant most people's reactions to his comment were "that dude's fucked in the head."
Even trying to make a discussion in public about "voluntary pedophilia" is guaranteed to cause immense problems for the speaker, and it's not worth the repercussions by even bringing it up. Stallman has no fear because he's already considered a stubborn idiot by most, which is why he types what he does. But no-one in power or who's in a position to make change is going to be influenced by him.
See, this is why I don't debate on Slashdot (and keep making new accounts when things get out of hand). Evidently I'm not good enough at it to get highly modded like some people are. :)
(3) You say that the federal government is supposed to represent the people. To be honest, I think our Government has genuinely forgotten about this ideal, not because of a conscious decision to go against it, but because almost all other Governments in the western world serve special interest groups and they've forgotten what it was like to not do so.
In other words, keeping the meetings is closed probably because they don't see any need to waste time and effort dealing with the plebs. It's more efficient to keep the parties closed.
Any reasonable, sane individual would not have a problem with said pic. Anyone who'd suggest banning it because someone might find it "sexually suggestive" would be considered unreasonable and a bit whack.
When I mention the types we get around here, I'm referring instead to the people who've taken Stallman's message of freedom and openness to the extreme, where nothing should be censored and everything should be available, even if society has deemed it undesirable to have such things available for public consumption.
Agreed, and we both know the anti-piracy laws they'll try to pass are probably going to be unfair, pro-corp and anti-consumer. I'm just saying it's probably less to do with restricting free speech in this particularly case, and probably just what it looks like.
Or perhaps... it's to work out how to handle Internet piracy.
Without additional information, there's no reason to think of it any different.
Agreed. I guess that's just the types we get around here.
DSE still sells electronics (at least the stores I've visited). At some DSEs you can still purchase the Funway 1 component sets, just not the bulk kits. Point is they still sell electronics - they just don't move units as much because it's a niche market anyway, so they clearly had to expand (at least as far as Woolworths is concerned with how to run a business).
The only justification I can see is that the media executives are simply just power hungry for control. Even though giving people what they want is likely to result in higher levels of profitability and (dare I say it) loyalty for treating your customers right (I don't like using the word "consumer", it feels too corporate and impersonal for some reason), they'd much rather make less potential money in exchange for a greater level of control, or at least as far as their concerned.
The lust for control and power itself is greater sometimes than profits it would see to these suits.
Aha, but you're making the classic mistake of assuming that thing you stick in your trousers is a phone. It's not - it's a portable computer which just so happens to bundle a phone app. Modern "phones" do so much more than the old dumbphones it's no wonder battery technology hasn't kept up with electronics.