Who cares what it costs the end user? The porn industry has figured out what the market is demanding and has switched supply to match that, making profit in the progress. More money is coming in than is going out, where it's coming from doesn't matter.
Oh, the irony of the porn industry being the only part of the moviemaking establishment that happily embraces the new tech. MPAA guys, are you paying attention? Piling on even more DRM and legislation won't solve your problems because we'll just watch more porn instead.;-)
With access to decent cameras, easy distribution, even unpaid the porn industry is becoming far more user-created, why would anyone want to buy porn? People are giving it away for free and loving it.
And, weird as this may sound, some of us find porn where all the participants are visibly enjoying themselves instead of just pretending and staring into the camera longingly more fun to watch.
Teaching practices need to promote the ideal circumstances, and count on the opposite. In the case of sexual education, promote abstinence, explain the array of potential consequences (which can occur despite the use of condoms), and make sure they know what their contraceptive options are, as well as how to go about getting them-- After all, even if they don't take this new found knowledge and immediately go out to copulate, this information will still be useful when they get married.
I agree with you except except for the part on teaching abstinence. I thought this was Slashdot, home of the libertards? Schools should teach facts. You're 12/13/14, there's lots of funky stuff going on in your bodies and you've probably started to notice all sorts of interesting things about the opposite(usually) sex that weren't quite as interesting before. Here's the deal...these are the available methods for contraception, the methods for avoiding STD's and the associated risks and benefits of each of them. This is where you can go if you have more questions or if you need to get tested anonymously. Oh, and just for added flavor, this is a picture of what syphilis does to you after a few years...nothing but cold, hard, facts...
After that you hand it off to the parents and they can wrap it in their local flavor of morality. In the case of my folks that was "think first, then ask questions and if you're still going to shoot you're bloody well going to do it in a piece of latex", accompanied by a pack of rubbers. If you want to tell your daughter that the first guy to lay a finger on her is going to get a shot of 12 gauge in the face, be my guest, but at least she'll have all the facts when she has to make a decision.
Surely no true-blooded slashdotian would advocate actively withholding facts from other people? Information wants to be free right? Even if it might displease the great big invisible guy in the sky?
If you want an exciting life, go skydiving with your prospective girlfriend instead of s3x0r. You will live a lot longer and have a lot more fun.
Uhuh...or just pop down to the local clinic, have some blood and urine samples taken and wait a few days. Tada! Either there's nothing wrong with either of you and hence no reason to avoid s3x0ring except choice, religion or fear of conception or the tests will show up positive for something and you're glad you found before stuff started to fall off/rot your brain/etc.
The numbers don't lie. Trying to pretend teenagers will not have sex does not have sex. Teaching abstinence only and restricting access to birth control methods such as is often seen in fundamentally religious communities leads to more teenage pregnancies, abortions and STD's transmitted, not less.
If I am ever in some sort of dangerous situation as a passenger in a car, I would pick a person with a German drivers license as the best person to be behind the wheel if I had a choice.
The germans have their shit pretty well sorted out, but when it comes to actual driving skill I'd rather be sitting next to a Finn when shit hits the fan.
while this may sound good the actual result is that serious and decisive issues are left unaddressed while the country goes downhill:(
Really? Because at this very moment this is the case in the Netherlands, and the serious, urgent stuff is the only stuff that gets dealt with. Everything else gets labeled "controversial" and will be on the plate of the next cabinet.
Yes, it's inconvenient, but on the other hand, it's a heck of a lot better than the alternative in my opinion.
Btw, from your description of your role of the prime minister I'm inclined to believe you're from the Netherlands as well, which makes me ask what you consider to be those actual issues that need to be dealt with so urgently? Unless it's the kind of stuff Wilders is blathering about, in which case don't bother.
The equivalent of a distribution channel where tens of thousands get movies for free, but then a randomly selected group has to pay a hundred times the cost of the movie in litigation fees.
So kinda like insurance...except the other way around?
Didn't someone start a p2p insurance policy a few years back?
wow really? I'm still up in the air about what the tea party is. I believe they are against socialism and big government. But to make a statement "I think what they are really trying to do is stop a black man from governing as President." really stops any attempt at rational debate. So if I disagree with his health care reform am I a racist as well?
Isn't it obvious? They're people that want to complain and protest. And they're against whatever it is Fox News tells them to be against.
Once you have a group of people that are unhappy about the current state of affairs, the obvious next step is for someone to stand up and point the finger at who said group has to blame for everything they're unhappy about. And the nice thing is...a lot of people completely fail to realize just how good they have it and will therefore complain no matter the current situation.
You may want to upgrade to an SSL connection though if you are worried, the ISP logs will still show you connecting to a usenet provider, but what you are downloading will not be discernible.
Hmm, last time I checked, my ISP *is* a usenet provider. Will SSL still help if i connect to their servers?
Please. So-called "cyber bullying" should be even easier to avoid and/or deal with than anything physical. No one is pushing you up against the computer screen and forcing you to read the demeaning comments left on Facebook. All you have to do is not give your e-mail out to people, make your social networking accounts private, and ignore "mean poopy-face comments" that others tweet. Subcoming to this new brand of ethereal bullying is more about a lack of fortitude from the "victim" than anything.
Uhuh, and then you meet someone who acts friendly, develop a modicum of trust, and get sold out again. So what are you gonna do, recreate all your accounts?
But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily
Daily? The boulangerie was directly across from my place. I'd pop over when I saw the door of the oven open up, 2 or 3 times a day. Carrying them under one's armpit can be difficult when they're still hot though, but that's a disgusting habit anyway;-)
It's $299. And, as you can see, Sony doesn't want you to use Linux on PS3 any more. So your options are to upgrade and stop programming on it, don't upgrade and play only the current games you have, or get another one. Take your pick.
That's right sonny boy. Now why don't you shut up and bend over that barrel, like the good consumer you are? Who's a good corporate bitch? Yes you are, yes you are.
Those were only effective on meters that use a spinning disc. All the new ones are digital and either the magnetism won't do shit or mess them up completely.
Well, yes. It seems the only people that proclaim that facebook is only for children, or only for building up enormous groups of total strangers etc. are the same folks that loudly state they never have and never will use facebook to begin with.
Meanwhile the rest of us realize that by now facebook has sufficient critical mass that it is in many ways an excellent tool to hook up with people you've lost track of 10 years ago or to maintain contact with folks abroad.
You make it sound like intelligence and is somehow the opposite of socializing. It's not. Humans are social creatures. That's not a very intelligent thing to ignore. You live on a planet full of other people, and you depend on those other people for your continued survival.
And apparently this gentleman has found that the only other people he really needs is his mother and whoever he has contact with through non-meatspace methods.
We are not all the same. Spending 1 week on slashdot alone should show you that. And so long as noone is hurting themselves or others...who gives a shit?
Now all we need is for a chinese policeman to shoot a priest in the face when there are camera's present and we're all set for a Chinese invasion of Russia.
Not sure how well Obama would do playing the part of Jack Ryan though. President Palin might have been more suitable for her job, in light of her extensive experience with russia.
Maybe the importation of bad British reality TV shows like American Idol is their way of keeping us occupied until they can figure out how to vote us off the island.
Ehmm, we're trying to figure out how we can get you to *stay* on the island;-) Sorry Canadians, guess you're stuck with them. Let us know if you want to buy a concrete wall to stop all the illegals trying to cross your southern border, I hear the germans are quite proficient at concrete.
The next obvious move for Google is to launch their own satellites and provide free satellite internet access for everyone in the world.
I was going to say that if you really want to piss off China you want to set up a major shop in Taiwan, but apparently Google already has offices there anyway.
I can add 2 counter-anecdotes of my own though. So far the women I've met online and hooked up with in meatspace were the real thing. Not gonna say it's always a success, but it can be fun. And yes, in one case a plane was necessary to get there;-)
Internet axioma: the best way to find is not to search.
Not to mention that around the next corner, there's a husband and wife cowering in fear behind their locked door, and you get to open up *their* wallsafe without so much as a comment, but I believe you can earn some Paragon points by convincing them to make a run for the clinic.
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Who cares what it costs the end user? The porn industry has figured out what the market is demanding and has switched supply to match that, making profit in the progress. More money is coming in than is going out, where it's coming from doesn't matter.
Oh, the irony of the porn industry being the only part of the moviemaking establishment that happily embraces the new tech. MPAA guys, are you paying attention? Piling on even more DRM and legislation won't solve your problems because we'll just watch more porn instead. ;-)
With access to decent cameras, easy distribution, even unpaid the porn industry is becoming far more user-created, why would anyone want to buy porn? People are giving it away for free and loving it.
And, weird as this may sound, some of us find porn where all the participants are visibly enjoying themselves instead of just pretending and staring into the camera longingly more fun to watch.
Teaching practices need to promote the ideal circumstances, and count on the opposite. In the case of sexual education, promote abstinence, explain the array of potential consequences (which can occur despite the use of condoms), and make sure they know what their contraceptive options are, as well as how to go about getting them-- After all, even if they don't take this new found knowledge and immediately go out to copulate, this information will still be useful when they get married.
I agree with you except except for the part on teaching abstinence. I thought this was Slashdot, home of the libertards? Schools should teach facts. You're 12/13/14, there's lots of funky stuff going on in your bodies and you've probably started to notice all sorts of interesting things about the opposite(usually) sex that weren't quite as interesting before. Here's the deal...these are the available methods for contraception, the methods for avoiding STD's and the associated risks and benefits of each of them. This is where you can go if you have more questions or if you need to get tested anonymously. Oh, and just for added flavor, this is a picture of what syphilis does to you after a few years...nothing but cold, hard, facts...
After that you hand it off to the parents and they can wrap it in their local flavor of morality. In the case of my folks that was "think first, then ask questions and if you're still going to shoot you're bloody well going to do it in a piece of latex", accompanied by a pack of rubbers. If you want to tell your daughter that the first guy to lay a finger on her is going to get a shot of 12 gauge in the face, be my guest, but at least she'll have all the facts when she has to make a decision.
Surely no true-blooded slashdotian would advocate actively withholding facts from other people? Information wants to be free right? Even if it might displease the great big invisible guy in the sky?
Good plain abstinence goes along way.
If you want an exciting life, go skydiving with your prospective girlfriend instead of s3x0r. You will live a lot longer and have a lot more fun.
Uhuh...or just pop down to the local clinic, have some blood and urine samples taken and wait a few days. Tada! Either there's nothing wrong with either of you and hence no reason to avoid s3x0ring except choice, religion or fear of conception or the tests will show up positive for something and you're glad you found before stuff started to fall off/rot your brain/etc.
The numbers don't lie. Trying to pretend teenagers will not have sex does not have sex. Teaching abstinence only and restricting access to birth control methods such as is often seen in fundamentally religious communities leads to more teenage pregnancies, abortions and STD's transmitted, not less.
I just hope that the Prius isn't the replacement for the space shuttle.
Hey, I'm sure if you or anyone else can come up with a way for spaceships to brake regeneratively NASA would be very interested ;-)
If I am ever in some sort of dangerous situation as a passenger in a car, I would pick a person with a German drivers license as the best person to be behind the wheel if I had a choice.
The germans have their shit pretty well sorted out, but when it comes to actual driving skill I'd rather be sitting next to a Finn when shit hits the fan.
while this may sound good the actual result is that serious and decisive issues are left unaddressed while the country goes downhill :(
Really? Because at this very moment this is the case in the Netherlands, and the serious, urgent stuff is the only stuff that gets dealt with. Everything else gets labeled "controversial" and will be on the plate of the next cabinet.
Yes, it's inconvenient, but on the other hand, it's a heck of a lot better than the alternative in my opinion.
Btw, from your description of your role of the prime minister I'm inclined to believe you're from the Netherlands as well, which makes me ask what you consider to be those actual issues that need to be dealt with so urgently? Unless it's the kind of stuff Wilders is blathering about, in which case don't bother.
The equivalent of a distribution channel where tens of thousands get movies for free, but then a randomly selected group has to pay a hundred times the cost of the movie in litigation fees.
So kinda like insurance...except the other way around?
Didn't someone start a p2p insurance policy a few years back?
wow really? I'm still up in the air about what the tea party is. I believe they are against socialism and big government. But to make a statement "I think what they are really trying to do is stop a black man from governing as President." really stops any attempt at rational debate. So if I disagree with his health care reform am I a racist as well?
Isn't it obvious? They're people that want to complain and protest. And they're against whatever it is Fox News tells them to be against.
Once you have a group of people that are unhappy about the current state of affairs, the obvious next step is for someone to stand up and point the finger at who said group has to blame for everything they're unhappy about. And the nice thing is...a lot of people completely fail to realize just how good they have it and will therefore complain no matter the current situation.
You may want to upgrade to an SSL connection though if you are worried, the ISP logs will still show you connecting to a usenet provider, but what you are downloading will not be discernible.
Hmm, last time I checked, my ISP *is* a usenet provider. Will SSL still help if i connect to their servers?
Please. So-called "cyber bullying" should be even easier to avoid and/or deal with than anything physical. No one is pushing you up against the computer screen and forcing you to read the demeaning comments left on Facebook. All you have to do is not give your e-mail out to people, make your social networking accounts private, and ignore "mean poopy-face comments" that others tweet. Subcoming to this new brand of ethereal bullying is more about a lack of fortitude from the "victim" than anything.
Uhuh, and then you meet someone who acts friendly, develop a modicum of trust, and get sold out again. So what are you gonna do, recreate all your accounts?
Nice try at blaming the victim though.
But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily
Daily? The boulangerie was directly across from my place. I'd pop over when I saw the door of the oven open up, 2 or 3 times a day. Carrying them under one's armpit can be difficult when they're still hot though, but that's a disgusting habit anyway ;-)
It's $299. And, as you can see, Sony doesn't want you to use Linux on PS3 any more. So your options are to upgrade and stop programming on it, don't upgrade and play only the current games you have, or get another one. Take your pick.
That's right sonny boy. Now why don't you shut up and bend over that barrel, like the good consumer you are? Who's a good corporate bitch? Yes you are, yes you are.
Those were only effective on meters that use a spinning disc. All the new ones are digital and either the magnetism won't do shit or mess them up completely.
Well, yes. It seems the only people that proclaim that facebook is only for children, or only for building up enormous groups of total strangers etc. are the same folks that loudly state they never have and never will use facebook to begin with.
Meanwhile the rest of us realize that by now facebook has sufficient critical mass that it is in many ways an excellent tool to hook up with people you've lost track of 10 years ago or to maintain contact with folks abroad.
You make it sound like intelligence and is somehow the opposite of socializing. It's not. Humans are social creatures. That's not a very intelligent thing to ignore. You live on a planet full of other people, and you depend on those other people for your continued survival.
And apparently this gentleman has found that the only other people he really needs is his mother and whoever he has contact with through non-meatspace methods.
We are not all the same. Spending 1 week on slashdot alone should show you that. And so long as noone is hurting themselves or others...who gives a shit?
Let's live and let live, shall we?
Now all we need is for a chinese policeman to shoot a priest in the face when there are camera's present and we're all set for a Chinese invasion of Russia.
Not sure how well Obama would do playing the part of Jack Ryan though. President Palin might have been more suitable for her job, in light of her extensive experience with russia.
But from European cities, I'd rather have Amsterdam on it.
All the trolley trams and cyclists would make speeding around town...somewhat challenging i expect.
On the other hand, we dutchmen are well known for our fondness of...coffee. ;-)
Like Anna Kournikova she should have been a model rather than enter sports. (IMHO)
Why? Female athletes look like actual women, albeit very fit ones, with muscles and breasts and maybe even a tiny layer of fat.
Models look like a rack of ribs without the honey.
Maybe the importation of bad British reality TV shows like American Idol is their way of keeping us occupied until they can figure out how to vote us off the island.
Ehmm, we're trying to figure out how we can get you to *stay* on the island ;-) Sorry Canadians, guess you're stuck with them. Let us know if you want to buy a concrete wall to stop all the illegals trying to cross your southern border, I hear the germans are quite proficient at concrete.
Hey, we only yell about how correlation != causation when the article doesn't tell us what we want to hear, hmkay?
The next obvious move for Google is to launch their own satellites and provide free satellite internet access for everyone in the world.
I was going to say that if you really want to piss off China you want to set up a major shop in Taiwan, but apparently Google already has offices there anyway.
Aye, those things happen.
I can add 2 counter-anecdotes of my own though. So far the women I've met online and hooked up with in meatspace were the real thing. Not gonna say it's always a success, but it can be fun. And yes, in one case a plane was necessary to get there ;-)
Internet axioma: the best way to find is not to search.
Not to mention that around the next corner, there's a husband and wife cowering in fear behind their locked door, and you get to open up *their* wallsafe without so much as a comment, but I believe you can earn some Paragon points by convincing them to make a run for the clinic.
Maybe they could hook it into the new browser selection screen for Windows the EU mandated?
Having each browser choice come with an "estimated time till you get wtfpwn'd" statistic might be a useful addition ;-)