Wow. I stand corrected, with the caveat that I've never heard of Lawrence O'Donnell, and don't know who the heck he is. He didn't seem to be the host of whatever that was. I really was curious about what John O'Neill was trying to say; hell, I was curious about what O'Donnell was trying to say, but I couldn't make heads or tails of the whole mess. Ick.
Perhaps I was fuzzy in stating this, but the right seems to have the edge on angry shouters in positions of authority. It looked to me like both of those guys were guests on the show---am I right?
I suppose it's to prevent massive employment of kids in a (presumably) hazardous industry, same reason why under-18s can't be forklift operators. That, and we like to pretend our kids aren't already humping their way 'round town by the age of sixteen and a half. That, and the porn industry pays a lotta cash, and cash is power.
But the whole subject is taboo, and I didn't want to broach it. "Lower the consent age of porn!" is the sort of battle-cry one doesn't yell forth into the public sphere.
But now that you've broached it, I can't think of a particularly good reason.
It's innacurate because a "bomber" is out to kill people. If I leave a bomb under a subway seat and waltz away so that I'm sipping a latte eight blocks away when an explosion decimates a city block, I'm a bomber. I'm a "homicide bomber", I suppose, because I've murdered people with my bombs, but that seems mightily redundant.
"Suicide bomber" implies that the bomber died in the attack. This is tacitly left out of the unwieldy construction "homicide bomber". I'm not sure what agenda it's supposed to be pushing, but the former sounds more intuitive to me. There's no real compelling reason to change it. So why say 'homicide bomber'?
Publishing local news on your blog and working in the White House press pool are different things. The word "journalist" has different connotations in those instances, though it might apply to both. Pretending that getting a human-interest story published in my local community newsletter puts me on par with Wolf Blitzer is... disingenuous.
The proprietor of warblogging.com wasn't flouncing about the White House. Guckert was. Do you really need this stuff spelled out for you?
And more important than Guckert getting into the White House after being about as qualified as, well, me, is his appearing as a plant in the press pool---asking softball questions and delivering mysterious scoops via his agency, "Talon News" that implied he was somehow connected to the administration.
Y'know, if you're going to be defending the shining light of conservative thought against the slings and arrows of outrageous Slashdot, the least you could do would be to try, try to act like you say the Right does.
You know, without resorting to ad hominem attacks or mindless vulgarity.
Come on---if you're going to be defending the honor of the Right, you may as well display some of your own.
I dunno; at least on TV, the right seems to have the edge (*cough* Bill "Shut Up" O'Reilly *cough*) on angry shouters. You can certainly find yammering harridans on both sides of the fence, but I don't remember any major CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN figures screaming at their guests to shut up.
Then again, I don't have TV, and I hear about these things second-hand through blogs.
Just finished Prelude to Foundation (Asimov). Just starting on The Caves of Steel (Asimov). Damn it, I've read thick, tomey books---Le Ton Beau de Marot, Foucault's Pendulum---I'm just not reading them right now. I always feel a bit intimidated when I see what Slashdotters are reading.
For comics, I'm halfway through Sandman Mystery Theatre (Wagner, Seagle, Davis and others); I just finished The Sandman (Gaiman and a whole lotta artists).
Recent works I found and would recommend are Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Down (wonderfully informative work---check out a random page about ballistae) for words and Zero Girl for words-and-pictures---Sam Kieth at his weird best.
Ed Webber got nabbed by the MPAA. He got fined for hella cash. So he put up a beg-page on his site. But he couldn't say "I've gotten a huge judgment against me, please help me pay it off"; nobody would help him out. So instead, he said "I need legal-fee money to keep LokiTorrent up", which got him the money to pay off the recording industry.
Gee, maybe people don't give a shit about copyright, but don't want to get busted? This, then, is the outcome of the RIAA's barrage of suits---they've created the climate of fear they wanted and intimidated a lot of people against scoring music from p2p. But, ah, it seems that this hasn't caused people to flock to throw $10 or $20 an album at them. Rather, they went overseas to import cheap, Russian, MP3s.
The choices, then, were (prior to any lawsuit) (a) buy expensive tunes, legally, at iTMS or the like. (b) Buy cheap tunes, which may not be legal, but don't involve uploading, which means no getting gouged out of your life savings by the RIAA. (c) Download off p2p, which is cheap, but runs the risk of financial ruin if the industry makes an example of you.
What do you mean? The IP belongs to Billarga, which bought the address space from Rackspace or something, and which is located in Australia---New South Wales, to be exact.
So... how is it that it's "clearly not hosted in Australia"?
There are a number of cheap Russian MP3 sites, but AllOfMP3 seemed to be the best one---custom encoding parameters, good-sized catalog (300k+ songs, though lacking in "Mindless Self Indulgence"). And I was going to go legit with my MP3s (but in OGG format), just as soon as I got a job.
And so, today, to-frickin'-day, I get a job (manning phones at a call center, doing Level 1 support, whoopt-de-goddamn-do) and wouldn't you know it, AllOfMP3 is under investigation.
Man, that's ironic. Is it ironic? I keep forgetting. Things in that song aren't actually ironic. Is this?
Well, at least downloading music isn't criminal. (It's the sharing that is.)
Well, the point would be that as opposed to American sites that pretend their models are all over eighteen, Australian sites pretend that their models are all over sixteen. Which---though lightning may strike me for saying so---seems a bit more sensible. Yeah, it should be illegal to employ under-18s in the porn business, but amateur stuff, y'know, shouldn't carry the Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Penitentiary stigma.
Kinda like how it's legal for them (well, in my state the AoC is 16) to shag for free, but they can't do it for money. (In porn, that is.)
Nope. Billarga is in New South Wales, Australia. I guess they're... owned by Rackspace... or something. The bottom of the main page says Australian laws apply. All models are 16 years or older..
What's the age of kiddie-porn in Australia. I ask because I have faint knowledge of sites like "hush-hush.com", and they're based in Australia with TOS specifying that all models, in accordance with Australian law, are sixteen or older, which is at variance with the American standard of eighteen or older.
So this law might have significantly different effect there, considering how many sixteen and seventeen year olds own cheapass webcams.
Damn it, now I sound all creepy. But I really am curious.
Jesus fuck, if that's how you lead off, I'd like a bit of assurance that you don't live within two hundred miles of me. Fuck, what's your attrocity---making cockpuppets from the neighbors' dogs?
I had a subscription to them in college. The third DVD I rented never showed up, and they had no contact information on their website whatsoever. I eventually had to call my credit card company and tell them to cancel the billing.
What a goddamn crock. Most expensive DVD I ever rented.
If Google let objects get looked up by a URI code as simple as say, [A-Za-z0-9]+... just 7 digits would cover each object instance in its database right now, dozens of times over. If Google opened up such a URI protocol to anyone on the Web running such a "DIS" server, just like DNS, they could offload much of the work...
Yeah. I'm going to go register n8y9vtw before anyone else does. 'Cause everyone knows that the entirety of the namespace you mentioned is useful. Uh huh.
You'd think that, since MySQL has been around for a number of years, and because other databases have it, that high reliability would have been contributed or at the very least funded by somebody.
Maybe the performance penalty it incurs is prohibitive---one can run the site reliably, or one can run it fast, but not both. Ugh, what a choice.
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Wow. I stand corrected, with the caveat that I've never heard of Lawrence O'Donnell, and don't know who the heck he is. He didn't seem to be the host of whatever that was. I really was curious about what John O'Neill was trying to say; hell, I was curious about what O'Donnell was trying to say, but I couldn't make heads or tails of the whole mess. Ick.
Perhaps I was fuzzy in stating this, but the right seems to have the edge on angry shouters in positions of authority. It looked to me like both of those guys were guests on the show---am I right?
--grendel drago
I suppose it's to prevent massive employment of kids in a (presumably) hazardous industry, same reason why under-18s can't be forklift operators. That, and we like to pretend our kids aren't already humping their way 'round town by the age of sixteen and a half. That, and the porn industry pays a lotta cash, and cash is power.
But the whole subject is taboo, and I didn't want to broach it. "Lower the consent age of porn!" is the sort of battle-cry one doesn't yell forth into the public sphere.
But now that you've broached it, I can't think of a particularly good reason.
--grendel drago
Wow. 38. That's impressive. That's really impressive.
There's no way I could work up the cash to buy a number that low off eBay.
--grendel drago
It's innacurate because a "bomber" is out to kill people. If I leave a bomb under a subway seat and waltz away so that I'm sipping a latte eight blocks away when an explosion decimates a city block, I'm a bomber. I'm a "homicide bomber", I suppose, because I've murdered people with my bombs, but that seems mightily redundant.
"Suicide bomber" implies that the bomber died in the attack. This is tacitly left out of the unwieldy construction "homicide bomber". I'm not sure what agenda it's supposed to be pushing, but the former sounds more intuitive to me. There's no real compelling reason to change it. So why say 'homicide bomber'?
--grendel drago
Publishing local news on your blog and working in the White House press pool are different things. The word "journalist" has different connotations in those instances, though it might apply to both. Pretending that getting a human-interest story published in my local community newsletter puts me on par with Wolf Blitzer is... disingenuous.
The proprietor of warblogging.com wasn't flouncing about the White House. Guckert was. Do you really need this stuff spelled out for you?
And more important than Guckert getting into the White House after being about as qualified as, well, me, is his appearing as a plant in the press pool---asking softball questions and delivering mysterious scoops via his agency, "Talon News" that implied he was somehow connected to the administration.
--grendel drago
Y'know, if you're going to be defending the shining light of conservative thought against the slings and arrows of outrageous Slashdot, the least you could do would be to try, try to act like you say the Right does.
You know, without resorting to ad hominem attacks or mindless vulgarity.
Come on---if you're going to be defending the honor of the Right, you may as well display some of your own.
--grendel drago
I dunno; at least on TV, the right seems to have the edge (*cough* Bill "Shut Up" O'Reilly *cough*) on angry shouters. You can certainly find yammering harridans on both sides of the fence, but I don't remember any major CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN figures screaming at their guests to shut up.
Then again, I don't have TV, and I hear about these things second-hand through blogs.
--grendel drago
Just finished Prelude to Foundation (Asimov). Just starting on The Caves of Steel (Asimov). Damn it, I've read thick, tomey books---Le Ton Beau de Marot, Foucault's Pendulum---I'm just not reading them right now. I always feel a bit intimidated when I see what Slashdotters are reading.
For comics, I'm halfway through Sandman Mystery Theatre (Wagner, Seagle, Davis and others); I just finished The Sandman (Gaiman and a whole lotta artists).
Recent works I found and would recommend are Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Down (wonderfully informative work---check out a random page about ballistae) for words and Zero Girl for words-and-pictures---Sam Kieth at his weird best.
--grendel drago
Okay, I think I have it figured out here.
Ed Webber got nabbed by the MPAA. He got fined for hella cash. So he put up a beg-page on his site. But he couldn't say "I've gotten a huge judgment against me, please help me pay it off"; nobody would help him out. So instead, he said "I need legal-fee money to keep LokiTorrent up", which got him the money to pay off the recording industry.
Diabolical! Sound plausible to anyone else?
--grendel drago
Budget deficits are only one part of the problem.
What? The complaint is about how the government can't seem to balance its checkbook. Budget deficits, by definition, are the problem!
What the heck are you talking about?
--grendel drago
why would you want to pay except to support the artists?
Fear, silly.
--grendel drago
Gee, maybe people don't give a shit about copyright, but don't want to get busted? This, then, is the outcome of the RIAA's barrage of suits---they've created the climate of fear they wanted and intimidated a lot of people against scoring music from p2p. But, ah, it seems that this hasn't caused people to flock to throw $10 or $20 an album at them. Rather, they went overseas to import cheap, Russian, MP3s.
The choices, then, were (prior to any lawsuit) (a) buy expensive tunes, legally, at iTMS or the like. (b) Buy cheap tunes, which may not be legal, but don't involve uploading, which means no getting gouged out of your life savings by the RIAA. (c) Download off p2p, which is cheap, but runs the risk of financial ruin if the industry makes an example of you.
Make more sense now?
--grendel drago
What do you mean? The IP belongs to Billarga, which bought the address space from Rackspace or something, and which is located in Australia---New South Wales, to be exact.
So... how is it that it's "clearly not hosted in Australia"?
--grendel drago
Amateur pornstars get money? News to me. I suppose Amazon wishlists kinda count, maybe, but I wasn't thinking of that.
Imagine, if you will, a vast economy, in which boobies are traded for "Bon Jovi" CDs. This is the beginning of the Camwhore Cycle...
--grendel drago
There are a number of cheap Russian MP3 sites, but AllOfMP3 seemed to be the best one---custom encoding parameters, good-sized catalog (300k+ songs, though lacking in "Mindless Self Indulgence"). And I was going to go legit with my MP3s (but in OGG format), just as soon as I got a job.
And so, today, to-frickin'-day, I get a job (manning phones at a call center, doing Level 1 support, whoopt-de-goddamn-do) and wouldn't you know it, AllOfMP3 is under investigation.
Man, that's ironic. Is it ironic? I keep forgetting. Things in that song aren't actually ironic. Is this?
Well, at least downloading music isn't criminal. (It's the sharing that is.)
--grendel drago
Oh, please tell me there's an MP3 of that. It's almost as good as Once More With Hobbits.
--grendel drago
Well, the point would be that as opposed to American sites that pretend their models are all over eighteen, Australian sites pretend that their models are all over sixteen. Which---though lightning may strike me for saying so---seems a bit more sensible. Yeah, it should be illegal to employ under-18s in the porn business, but amateur stuff, y'know, shouldn't carry the Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Penitentiary stigma.
Kinda like how it's legal for them (well, in my state the AoC is 16) to shag for free, but they can't do it for money. (In porn, that is.)
--grendel drago
naked pictures of Oprah Winfrey
You know, her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
--grendel drago
Nope. Billarga is in New South Wales, Australia. I guess they're... owned by Rackspace... or something. The bottom of the main page says Australian laws apply. All models are 16 years or older..
--grendel drago
What's the age of kiddie-porn in Australia. I ask because I have faint knowledge of sites like "hush-hush.com", and they're based in Australia with TOS specifying that all models, in accordance with Australian law, are sixteen or older, which is at variance with the American standard of eighteen or older.
So this law might have significantly different effect there, considering how many sixteen and seventeen year olds own cheapass webcams.
Damn it, now I sound all creepy. But I really am curious.
--grendel drago
Everybody commits attrocities.
Jesus fuck, if that's how you lead off, I'd like a bit of assurance that you don't live within two hundred miles of me. Fuck, what's your attrocity---making cockpuppets from the neighbors' dogs?
--grendel drago
I had a subscription to them in college. The third DVD I rented never showed up, and they had no contact information on their website whatsoever. I eventually had to call my credit card company and tell them to cancel the billing.
What a goddamn crock. Most expensive DVD I ever rented.
--grendel drago
Clearly, someone set up you the bomb.
--grendel drago
If Google let objects get looked up by a URI code as simple as say, [A-Za-z0-9]+ ... just 7 digits would cover each object instance in its database right now, dozens of times over. If Google opened up such a URI protocol to anyone on the Web running such a "DIS" server, just like DNS, they could offload much of the work...
Yeah. I'm going to go register n8y9vtw before anyone else does. 'Cause everyone knows that the entirety of the namespace you mentioned is useful. Uh huh.
--grendel drago
You'd think that, since MySQL has been around for a number of years, and because other databases have it, that high reliability would have been contributed or at the very least funded by somebody.
Maybe the performance penalty it incurs is prohibitive---one can run the site reliably, or one can run it fast, but not both. Ugh, what a choice.
--grendel drago