I don't think there are many guys out there, video game addicts or otherwise, who would prefer masturbation to porn over sex with someone they like, trust, and feel comfortable with. The problem is, as Mr. Zimbardo alludes, we don't demystify sex for kids so that it becomes a regular life experience. If you never get anything more than an awkward biological overview of sex from school it will, at least for many boys, remain this mysterious, anxiety-provoking, forbidden fruit. Some magic experience that women zealously keep locked up in the castle. Porn is nothing more than a safe, artificial side-channel outlet for temporary relief of sexual frustration. It's lame but it is also understandable.
tl;dr - Our society sucks when it comes to preparing kids for sexual maturity.
Fair point, I believe you.. I wrote what I did because I have friends on Android and their phones seem to develop all sorts of quirks and slowdowns as time goes on. Almost like they are disposable.
My z10 is now two years old. It runs better than it did when I first bought it. It now runs almost all Android apps without issue. I pretty much only charge it when I notice it running low -- I can't remember the last time it died overnight. The battery lasts at least 24 hours even with regular use. In an hour on the charger it is almost back to full charge. Then there's the security, BlackBerry Blend, the fact that if I lose it or it gets stolen it is a brick to whomever ends up with it.
For the life of me I do not understand all the BlackBerry hate on slashdot.
I respectfully disagree that chomping on meth is a standard practice everywhere. And, honestly, what you're mostly describing is the hedonic treadmill. If you have to take amphetamines just to keep pace then you're likely in some ultra high pressure job. Get out. If it means taking a pay cut and moving to a smaller place then so be it. In the end your children will do better having a healthy father around than they will being shuttled off to violin/dance/soccer/drama class every day while Dad palpitates at work, awaiting his final heart attack.
To say nothing of how the republicans literally fall over themselves to come off as the bigger Israeli boot licker. It was disgusting to see them swarming Netanyahu on the floor of the Congress like a bunch of teenage girls at a Bieber concert. It was simply unseemly and undignified. Now any criticism of Israel is considered absolute heresy in the Republican party.
So let them burn out and crash. It sounds harsh and while I don't wish ill on anyone, we live in a world of consequences. There's no clearer an autonomous act than putting a pill in your mouth and swallowing. If you are so damned desperate to climb the ladder, impress the boss, get the next raise that you're willing to pump yourself full of amphetamines all the time you shouldn't be surprised at all if there are negative repercussions.
Son, we could end obesity if people would just eat less. The system is not corrupt. That would imply it was something else originally. The system is itself an originator of corruption.
No surprise. I kid you not, I was at the gym the other day and the CNN headline was "DRONE TERROR NIGHTMARE." Not the drones firing missiles at people in Pakistan but, you know, your standard quad-copter. The news is so pathetic these days I pretty much don't watch it.
I do enjoy how we tech people less-than-quietly display our scorn of all the varying fields in IT that aren't our own. Because, hah, stupid Javascript developer, couldn't explain northbridge from south! Or what DMA is! He probably doesn't know a single assembly instruction! Clearly an inferior being.
Javascript guy meanwhile regards the C guy as a primitive, bearded man from the hills who labors all day on some stupid library that is ten layers of stack between that mortar and pestle and the awesome browser-art he's creating.
Systems administrators wish everyone would run off and die because they are all irritating, stupid whiners.
DBAs are just smug because nobody else understands their schemas and, hey, this is where it all happens.
Networking would rather be back below the hold, No, the network isn't broken, your app is buggy or the stupid website you're trying to load is just slow..
Help desk guys meanwhile consider themselves the cocks of the walk because, generally, their camaraderie and opportunity to interact with more regular people means their souls haven't been totally crushed.
Is that you, naivete? Yes, there is some degree of experimentation necessary but you clearly didn't RTFA. So many of these projects were dead from the get-go if anyone was paying attention. BUT, you gotta spend that budget or you don't get it back.
Your blind "thank the boys and girls who protect us" is simply facile and ignores the massive corruption and waste in the MIC.
All too often we assume that dealing with trolls is like pissing in the wind but a few crushing responses now and then (being made "famous" and getting fired) is a start. The idiocy of these guys writing stuff like that to a dude who has a wide audience is nothing short of astounding. It's akin to threatening Obama and then being surprised when the Secret Service shows up.
At any rate, screw the scumbags, they deserve their comeuppance.
I mean, there are going to be some areas where we’re going to have different perspectives. That doesn’t bother me at all. One of the reasons why, quite frankly, I believe in doing things like this is that when I do that, I say, “Look, there are no restrictions on questions. You can ask me anything.”
Welcome to the new Amerika. Your possessions and money may be seized at any time via civil asset forfeiture, your communications are under constant surveillance, and now they want to make sure absolutely nothing can be kept private.
But, hey, so long as we're having "dialogue" (you'll do what you want anyways) and we have your permission to ask questions then it's all good.
As someone who gets 2-4 pre-recorded calls a day on his cell phone (that has been registered on DoNotCall) I have nothing but contempt and disdain for the FCC. If you look through their settlements page you'll see that in the rare instance they prosecute a case they invariably settle for whatever profits were made by the criminal. No jail time, no seizing of all personal assets. This is akin to making a thief put back what they stole as punishment. It's no wonder these robo-calling scum keep doing what they do.
What's galling is that the FCC prosecutors have their cases made for them. Hundreds if not thousands of people attest to having received calls from x number on x date promising x services by filing complaints at FCC.gov. It's a slam dunk. Yet the useless fucks are so ineffectual that the crooks have no reason not to keep trying.
Were I in MD I would seriously start calling CPS every single time I saw a child by itself. Put up a public website with a log of reports made, including photo, and whether the CPS responded in time. Seriously, fuck these guys and their power trip. I'm surprised some of them haven't been shot given their intent to take people's children away.
You may well just be a troll (your sig indicates such) but you're without a clue. BlackBerry is "close to death" with $3 billion in cash in the bank and positive cash flow in the last quarter? Yeah, revenue is taking a hit as Chen said it would but the guy is calmly executing on his plan.
Have you even tried a new BB10 phone? If you're more interested in productivity than Angry Birds it is the best phone out there bar none.
I used to file complaints regularly with the FCC when I got bogus pre-recorded calls to my cell phone promising a free cruise or whatever. After years of doing this I've concluded the FCC straight up sucks at enforcement.
I'm sure if you ran an illegal 15 watt FM transmitter they'd spare no expense to find you but as to stopping these robo-calling dirtbags? Seems like they couldn't care less.
Some regions will surely become less hospitable, and some will become more hospitable.
Indeed, let's add most coastal cities to the "less hospitable" (read - "underwater") category. What you also casually ignore is we don't know what sort of feedback loops might engage as CO2 levels continue to soar.
Sure, anyone can get cancer no matter how healthily they live. But modern medicine is so absurdly and willfully blind to the role of nutrition that these conclusions can be largely dismissed by anyone who thinks for themselves.
Oh, hey, trace arsenic cuts breast cancer by FIFTY PERCENT.
What's that? Lithium in drinking water is also associated with a host of benefits? Say it ain't so..
I could go on and on but what would be the point.. supplementation and the like is at best psuedo-science in the eyes of western medicine.. it's much more profitable to engage in "sick care" than to actually equip our bodies with the things it needs at some single percent of the cost.
“There is a real question here about the public’s need for privacy and our need for security. If we come down 100 percent on the side of privacy, which seems to be in vogue in tech right now, we are putting ourselves at very legitimate risk. And to ignore that is foolhardy. I think, by and large, we and the other people who are protecting this software are working to keep people safe.”
Translation - STFU or the big bad terr'sts will come get you. We know what's best.
Same as Obama's mealy-mouthed "we need to balance civil liberties with our security." No, in point of fact, we don't. A whole lot of men died in the Revolutionary War specifically to give us independence and the bill of rights. Now the very same would-be guarantors of our "freedom" (as such) will trot out the "balance" argument to do whatever the fuck they want. And sadly we've become such a nation of distracted pussies we go along with it.
You're absolutely right. The e-ticket thing for airline travel is a great example. Everyone with a paper ticket just breezes by while those with their tickets on their phones usually have to fiddle around with the size of the image before it can be read.
Let's see.. things that won't be digitized anytime soon:
- drivers license
- gym card
- business card
- all those proximity reader entry cards for everything from zipcar to work
- work ID card
- subway / bus card
- discount / membership cards
Not to mention that my wallet never runs out of power or is otherwise rendered inoperable. Nor is my wallet susceptible to malware. As a bonus I can keep a stash of backup meds in my wallet in a little plastic container. It has a pleasant all-natural leather makeup that wears beautifully with time. And frankly it's a lot more dignified to have your amex clatter onto the bill at a fancy restaurant than it is to pull out your phone and beep-boop-beep up some app. As a side bonus at least some part of my life isn't under the NSA's review when I use cash.
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I don't think there are many guys out there, video game addicts or otherwise, who would prefer masturbation to porn over sex with someone they like, trust, and feel comfortable with. The problem is, as Mr. Zimbardo alludes, we don't demystify sex for kids so that it becomes a regular life experience. If you never get anything more than an awkward biological overview of sex from school it will, at least for many boys, remain this mysterious, anxiety-provoking, forbidden fruit. Some magic experience that women zealously keep locked up in the castle. Porn is nothing more than a safe, artificial side-channel outlet for temporary relief of sexual frustration. It's lame but it is also understandable.
tl;dr - Our society sucks when it comes to preparing kids for sexual maturity.
Oh, and what you don't have is the BlackBerry Hub. It is hands-down the best messaging interface out there.
Fair point, I believe you.. I wrote what I did because I have friends on Android and their phones seem to develop all sorts of quirks and slowdowns as time goes on. Almost like they are disposable.
My z10 is now two years old. It runs better than it did when I first bought it. It now runs almost all Android apps without issue. I pretty much only charge it when I notice it running low -- I can't remember the last time it died overnight. The battery lasts at least 24 hours even with regular use. In an hour on the charger it is almost back to full charge. Then there's the security, BlackBerry Blend, the fact that if I lose it or it gets stolen it is a brick to whomever ends up with it.
For the life of me I do not understand all the BlackBerry hate on slashdot.
I respectfully disagree that chomping on meth is a standard practice everywhere. And, honestly, what you're mostly describing is the hedonic treadmill. If you have to take amphetamines just to keep pace then you're likely in some ultra high pressure job. Get out. If it means taking a pay cut and moving to a smaller place then so be it. In the end your children will do better having a healthy father around than they will being shuttled off to violin/dance/soccer/drama class every day while Dad palpitates at work, awaiting his final heart attack.
To say nothing of how the republicans literally fall over themselves to come off as the bigger Israeli boot licker. It was disgusting to see them swarming Netanyahu on the floor of the Congress like a bunch of teenage girls at a Bieber concert. It was simply unseemly and undignified. Now any criticism of Israel is considered absolute heresy in the Republican party.
Small government, personal liberty, Constitutional adherence.. and hypocritical jackasses.
So let them burn out and crash. It sounds harsh and while I don't wish ill on anyone, we live in a world of consequences. There's no clearer an autonomous act than putting a pill in your mouth and swallowing. If you are so damned desperate to climb the ladder, impress the boss, get the next raise that you're willing to pump yourself full of amphetamines all the time you shouldn't be surprised at all if there are negative repercussions.
Son, we could end obesity if people would just eat less. The system is not corrupt. That would imply it was something else originally. The system is itself an originator of corruption.
No surprise. I kid you not, I was at the gym the other day and the CNN headline was "DRONE TERROR NIGHTMARE." Not the drones firing missiles at people in Pakistan but, you know, your standard quad-copter. The news is so pathetic these days I pretty much don't watch it.
I do enjoy how we tech people less-than-quietly display our scorn of all the varying fields in IT that aren't our own. Because, hah, stupid Javascript developer, couldn't explain northbridge from south! Or what DMA is! He probably doesn't know a single assembly instruction! Clearly an inferior being.
Javascript guy meanwhile regards the C guy as a primitive, bearded man from the hills who labors all day on some stupid library that is ten layers of stack between that mortar and pestle and the awesome browser-art he's creating.
Systems administrators wish everyone would run off and die because they are all irritating, stupid whiners.
DBAs are just smug because nobody else understands their schemas and, hey, this is where it all happens.
Networking would rather be back below the hold, No, the network isn't broken, your app is buggy or the stupid website you're trying to load is just slow..
Help desk guys meanwhile consider themselves the cocks of the walk because, generally, their camaraderie and opportunity to interact with more regular people means their souls haven't been totally crushed.
Is that you, naivete? Yes, there is some degree of experimentation necessary but you clearly didn't RTFA. So many of these projects were dead from the get-go if anyone was paying attention. BUT, you gotta spend that budget or you don't get it back.
Your blind "thank the boys and girls who protect us" is simply facile and ignores the massive corruption and waste in the MIC.
All too often we assume that dealing with trolls is like pissing in the wind but a few crushing responses now and then (being made "famous" and getting fired) is a start. The idiocy of these guys writing stuff like that to a dude who has a wide audience is nothing short of astounding. It's akin to threatening Obama and then being surprised when the Secret Service shows up.
At any rate, screw the scumbags, they deserve their comeuppance.
I mean, there are going to be some areas where we’re going to have different perspectives. That doesn’t bother me at all. One of the reasons why, quite frankly, I believe in doing things like this is that when I do that, I say, “Look, there are no restrictions on questions. You can ask me anything.”
Welcome to the new Amerika. Your possessions and money may be seized at any time via civil asset forfeiture, your communications are under constant surveillance, and now they want to make sure absolutely nothing can be kept private.
But, hey, so long as we're having "dialogue" (you'll do what you want anyways) and we have your permission to ask questions then it's all good.
Who really won the cold war?
As someone who gets 2-4 pre-recorded calls a day on his cell phone (that has been registered on DoNotCall) I have nothing but contempt and disdain for the FCC. If you look through their settlements page you'll see that in the rare instance they prosecute a case they invariably settle for whatever profits were made by the criminal. No jail time, no seizing of all personal assets. This is akin to making a thief put back what they stole as punishment. It's no wonder these robo-calling scum keep doing what they do.
What's galling is that the FCC prosecutors have their cases made for them. Hundreds if not thousands of people attest to having received calls from x number on x date promising x services by filing complaints at FCC.gov. It's a slam dunk. Yet the useless fucks are so ineffectual that the crooks have no reason not to keep trying.
Were I in MD I would seriously start calling CPS every single time I saw a child by itself. Put up a public website with a log of reports made, including photo, and whether the CPS responded in time. Seriously, fuck these guys and their power trip. I'm surprised some of them haven't been shot given their intent to take people's children away.
Something's up with your phone.. I have a z10 as well and it runs like butter.
You may well just be a troll (your sig indicates such) but you're without a clue. BlackBerry is "close to death" with $3 billion in cash in the bank and positive cash flow in the last quarter? Yeah, revenue is taking a hit as Chen said it would but the guy is calmly executing on his plan.
Have you even tried a new BB10 phone? If you're more interested in productivity than Angry Birds it is the best phone out there bar none.
I used to file complaints regularly with the FCC when I got bogus pre-recorded calls to my cell phone promising a free cruise or whatever. After years of doing this I've concluded the FCC straight up sucks at enforcement.
I'm sure if you ran an illegal 15 watt FM transmitter they'd spare no expense to find you but as to stopping these robo-calling dirtbags? Seems like they couldn't care less.
What's your take on where things will be in 50 years? If you haven't already, do you plan to have children?
Some regions will surely become less hospitable, and some will become more hospitable.
Indeed, let's add most coastal cities to the "less hospitable" (read - "underwater") category. What you also casually ignore is we don't know what sort of feedback loops might engage as CO2 levels continue to soar.
Sure, anyone can get cancer no matter how healthily they live. But modern medicine is so absurdly and willfully blind to the role of nutrition that these conclusions can be largely dismissed by anyone who thinks for themselves.
Oh, hey, trace arsenic cuts breast cancer by FIFTY PERCENT.
What's that? Lithium in drinking water is also associated with a host of benefits? Say it ain't so..
Gee, getting some sunshine / vitamin D can lower risk of pancreatic cancer??
I could go on and on but what would be the point.. supplementation and the like is at best psuedo-science in the eyes of western medicine.. it's much more profitable to engage in "sick care" than to actually equip our bodies with the things it needs at some single percent of the cost.
“There is a real question here about the public’s need for privacy and our need for security. If we come down 100 percent on the side of privacy, which seems to be in vogue in tech right now, we are putting ourselves at very legitimate risk. And to ignore that is foolhardy. I think, by and large, we and the other people who are protecting this software are working to keep people safe.”
Translation - STFU or the big bad terr'sts will come get you. We know what's best.
Same as Obama's mealy-mouthed "we need to balance civil liberties with our security." No, in point of fact, we don't. A whole lot of men died in the Revolutionary War specifically to give us independence and the bill of rights. Now the very same would-be guarantors of our "freedom" (as such) will trot out the "balance" argument to do whatever the fuck they want. And sadly we've become such a nation of distracted pussies we go along with it.
You're absolutely right. The e-ticket thing for airline travel is a great example. Everyone with a paper ticket just breezes by while those with their tickets on their phones usually have to fiddle around with the size of the image before it can be read.
Let's see.. things that won't be digitized anytime soon:
- drivers license
- gym card
- business card
- all those proximity reader entry cards for everything from zipcar to work
- work ID card
- subway / bus card
- discount / membership cards
Not to mention that my wallet never runs out of power or is otherwise rendered inoperable. Nor is my wallet susceptible to malware. As a bonus I can keep a stash of backup meds in my wallet in a little plastic container. It has a pleasant all-natural leather makeup that wears beautifully with time. And frankly it's a lot more dignified to have your amex clatter onto the bill at a fancy restaurant than it is to pull out your phone and beep-boop-beep up some app. As a side bonus at least some part of my life isn't under the NSA's review when I use cash.