you can't push hot button sex topics without pushing the pedophilia button, come on!
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do you have any idea how strong a chimpanzee or a gorilla is? we're not talking about a placid herbivore here, we're talking 100+ pounds of pure muscle, sinew and razor sharp canines. this is not an environment in which any bestiality can possibly occur. i think sex with a shark would be easier, seriously
the whole aids-was-from-sex-with-a-monkey line of thought is pure high school sophomore stupidity. way more 4chan than actual plausible science
bushmeat is what it is: a messy stew of tropical disease waiting to happen, tons of transmission avenues, from open sores on the skin and in the mouth, to the sheer bloodiness of butchery. no one ever said SARS was from sex with a civet cat, or swine flu was from sex with a pig. i really don't think in the entire history of humanity anyone has ever had sex with a living chimpanzee or gorilla just because of the physical impossibility of it all
oh great, now i just launched necrophilic bestiality meme for aids origin
in the case of malaria, it is the host itself which evolves mitigating factors, such as the sickle cell gene, which has evolved 3 different times in 3 different variations in africa, the mediterranean and southeast asia
but yes, with diseases that are not directly transmitted between hosts of the same species, there is no need to dampen fatality. but then the interspecies mode of transmission is a form of dampening in and of itself
the segway is the evolutionary intermediary between getting in your 1 mpg suv to go to the end of the driveway to get your mail, and those ridiculous walmart shopper hovercraft from wall-e
technology is wonderful thing when it is used to enable mankind to do things that weren't possible before
technology is a disgusting pathetic thing when it is used to enable mankind to do less and become gelatinous balls of jelly
it really is some joke how fat americans are. it marks us as aristocracy worthy of overthrow
meaning, this could be an old strain of aids. by "old" i mean it could have been in the human population for a long time
i hypothesize this simply because the woman is still alive (assuming she wasn't infected 2 years ago) and mild disease is a sign of an "old" disease
the fate of all diseases and all parasites is equilibrium with its hosts. it does no good to kill off your host so quickly there's no retransmission. so after an initial sickle swinging period of mass slaughter, the strains of any disease that dominate will be those who tend to be more mild, simply because by killing less faster, they spread wider and therefore survive longer
so most likely its not the stand or 28 days later we're talking here
fat americans driving unnecessary SUVs in unsustainable suburbs are funding islamic fundamentalism, russian neoimperialism, and venezuelan blowhards
this of course is the most important thing about the need to adapt electric cars
but this won't stop some nitpicker on slashdot pointing out minor detraction {xyz}, completely missing the fucking point that minor detraction [xyz] is MINOR, by any measure, in comparison to the fact that when you go to the pump, you fund what's wrong with this world
enjoy your smog and your dead father/ brother/ son in iraq, since electric cars are slightly impractical
not to mention the fact WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF OIL ANYWAYS
some of you need to try to understand what's fucking important here
streaming music on the internet IS radio, in terms of beaming out channels with advertising support. the only difference between streaming music and radio is streaming music has a billion more channels. that's the only difference
you seem to be confused, that taste in music has absolutely anything to do with this. in fact, there seem to be a lot of people who seem confused here, that the death of the music industry will kill pop music and result in some sort of nirvana of quality. on the contrary: there are plenty of gems that never get pop air play, but there's also a much vaster sea of mediocrity out there that doesn't get airplay deservedly so: it sucks. you may say all pop music is crap. yes, there are pop music that derivative and empty, but also plenty that is quite good, according to any objective measure of originality, nevermind all the subjectiveness that obviously comes into play which ultimately renders all such comparisons pointless
which gets us to the larger point: there seems to be a lot of people who derive pride in being counter culture. that they don't listen to pop. this, 20 years after alternative music has become just another category the music industry markets and caters to. no, it is more the truth that anyone who needs to feel better than other people has a character weakness, and a truly well-balanced person likes what they like and doesn't really care or feel a need to feel better than anyone else simply because of that
a poser: i am better than you for arbitrary unsubstantial reasons and i feel a strong insecure need to feel better than other people... which, in a way, makes me even worse than the average secure pop listening person
alien was basically "big bug in space". they had the thing's life cycle thought out in terms of egg->parasite->adult. it was really the first scifi movie where the monster wasn't a one dimensional big baddie, but a whole well-thought out three dimensional (biologically speaking) xenomorph, where the biological cycle itself was truly alien
and yet NOT alien. fear of spiders, snakes, sharks, is innate and natural. and bugs usually elicit some sort of ancient biological horror because of what they represent in terms of threat to survival. heck, the alien's life cycle really is the same as plenty of parasitical insects on earth, like the tse-tse fly. so alien also plugged into this whole ancient psychological hate/ fear of parasites and insects, just like jaws did to great effect when it plugged into fear of big fish in the water (which came out what, 2 years before?). i guess they naturally extended that to big snake with anaconda, arachnophobia, etc, but obviously to not as great success
then of course along came aliens, which bucked the odds of the sequel being worse than the original, and it did by basically expanding upon the biological notions in the first movie: well, if alien is just a big bug in space, lets give them a social insect like a hive of wasps or a colony of ants. complete of course with the queen, and her giant alien egg laying apparatus. so again, its totally alien, yet at the same time totally familiar and natural to anyone who has given even a cursory interest in the happenings of social insects, which basically describes human experience in any rural/ suburban community, not to mention probaby hardwired into our psychology as a threat, again, from millions of years of exposure
finally, in aliens, they had the primal biological notion of species versus species vying for survival of its offspring, perhaps the most primal directive besides sex. with alien queen going up against ripley, where both motivations are the same: alien queen enraged at the death of her offspring, ripley protecting her (adopted) human child. complete with the line "get away from her you bitch!": its basically a catfight, something you would see on the serengeti: female lioness versus female hyena
because in nature, as well as human society, no masculine rage can possibly be matched by the female's rage at protecting her offsping. its incredibly primal, incredibly biological, and incredibly powerful as a movie plot device, because its so real
i have an inside track on the ideas they are basing the prequel on, and it harkens back to classic themes in shockingly new and original ways, not at all feeling like some high school sophomore clicked around a bit on wikipedia and retread tired, stale ideas
for example, the story of the alien in the prequel will revolve around important rules that one should never break, which of course get inevitably broken:
1. don't get the alien wet, or it immediately reproduces more of its kind asexually by budding from its back 3. keep the alien away from bright lights... especially sunlight. this will kill it 4. and don't ever feed the alien after midnight
i think this is a brilliant and entirely original idea
furthermore, the movie will start with a crashed ship full of religious pilgrims, a stowaway, a dangerous criminal, etc. the alien hunts them all down relentlessly one by one whenever the planet falls into eclipse and darkness. but the fearless criminal has special surgically altered eyes that allows him to see in pitch black, so he turns the tables and hunts the alien instead
again, a brilliant and entirely original idea from hollywood for the alien prequel!
robert rodriguez is producing a new predator movie, called predators (like alien is to aliens?). perhaps on the predator home planet, again, completely ignoring the whole avp bullshit
additionally, the director will be some hotshot hungarian horror director named nimrod antal. aintitcool had an interveiw with rodriguez about the project:
something dramatically different than technologically that simply fills an rf frequency with white noise or pink noise. it could simply monitor all calls for geolocation by triangulation or gps and time code, overlaid with blueprints. geographically and temporally refined: let it be used outside, but not inside, 2 meters away, along a straight line. allow a phone to be used during lunch time in the cafeteria, but then not during study hall an hour later, all the while the library is completely verboten. etc., etc.
you could even trigger it so the moment someone makes a 911 call, anywhere, for any reason, the entire system shuts down and anyone anywhere can call anyone. since 911 calls are logged and tracked, legally, it wouldn't be a privacy intrusion to identify the culprit of a phony 911 caller. likewise, the whole intelligent jamming system could be designed to have no privacy implications whatsoever, just blocking some phone according to location and time, who knows whose phone. it COULD be used to snoop, but not any more than the current cell phone providers already does. and besides, it would have to work in close cooperation with the cell networks, and so these installations would not be anonymous or unmarked or unknown, allowing for some sort of privacy policy to be enforced
the whole point is, any problem like this is actually a business growth industry waiting to happen, and somebody, perhaps one of us reading this comment will start a company that will be earning 100 million a year in 10 years providing exactly this sort of jamming to movie houses, universities, churches, etc. all that is required is the fcc to open the doors, and the current cell networks can easily see the light here in terms of new revenue sources
currently the policy of cell phones is anyone can use it anywhere. there's no reason in the world why cemetaries shouldn't be allowed to shut that off during funerals, or courthouses during trials, or churches during weddings, all triggered to shut down and allow all traffic the moment anyone hits 911. the tech is already there, just the willpower and the accretion around the idea that traffic shaping for cell network's time has come
if you kill 20 people and plead insanity, you still get a form of punishment: the insane asylum. regardless of WHY someone commits the crime, is the more important priority of society protecting itself from people who engage in criminal behavior. whether because of moral failure, psychological defect, or some other variation on the tired "the devil made me do it" defense
you've been revealed as someone dangerous to society. therefore, some sort of restrictions on your freedom are necessary, regardless of WHY you commit various transgressions
so if he wins based on his defense, he'll still be punished
meaning if you were to instill some sort of draconian anti-pedophiliahysteria at a national level, the hysteria would still go on, regardless
opposing and targeting media and political manipulations is fruitless and won't make the effect go away
our political and media environments are not alien injections, they are nothing more than reflections of ourselves. people are always talking about politicians doing this or that alien evil thing and the media with its own alien agenda, and these complaints are all bullshit
complaining about politics and media is simply misdirected complaints about human nature
why does coverage of sharks garner such dramatic media coverage? why was jaws such a successful movie?
its genetic: large fish in the water freaks us the hell out, as we are hardwired to fear that
i am saying that like that fear of sharks, like our taboo on cannibalism, and like our reaction to pedophilia: yes: these are all genetically hardwired survival-based reactions
now as for overlap of primal instincts based on genetics survival and public policy: i don't think anyone here is defending pedophiles, or cannibals for that matter, but just the hysterical overflow: arresting teenagers for sexting, 19 year olds having sex with 17 year olds, etc.
and i support the arguments here against hysterical overflow of laws attempting to fight pedophilia
but what i want out of slashdot is some recognition that this hysteria is not just political manipulations or media agendas, but a biologically rooted instinct that is not going to go away, ever
age of sexual maturity has always been a hard rule, not in any culture, but in any SPECIES
age of PSYCHOLOGICAL maturity is a more recent development, just as you demonstrate. and i also think, and hope you agree, it is a good development and a sign of progress
does the quote above appear? i've never read a harry potter book, so i didn't know they were in book 1
so the issue is not when a goblin appears, but when their characteristics are fleshed out. in other words, when she wrote the words above, what book are we in? (was jk rowling a relative unknown or a cultural superstar when she described goblins as copyright holders?)
considering the formidable army of ip lawyers team jk rowling has assembled, and their frequent aggressive efforts at maintaining hegemony, jk rowling certainly is no stranger to intellectual property law. if this wasn't conscious parody on her part, then it had to be unconscious. because by the time a goblin appears in the harry potter books, she was firmly entrenched in cultural superstar status and all the ip lawyering that involves
homosexuality is expressed in all sorts of simians, no other monkeys have a problem with it. there's no genetic argument that can be made against homosexuality: no offspring are produced, no damage is done. its all sociological and political
meanwhile, with women, rape is the issue. social status leading to imbalances in power leading to "rape" (where rape is very loosely defined as any power imbalance) is not the same as some yahoo showing up and knocking you down in the bushes to impregnate you. so again, no genetic argument exists, only sociological and political arguments involving women's lower power status traditionally
and minorities: this is tribalism. tribalism has always existed, and has a strong genetic argument: competition for resources. fear of "the other", when "the other" is just another tribe, is a strong ongoing genetic argument. however "the other" is loosely defined in nature. in fact, the tribe next door you are in blood feuds with often look just like you, so there is no genetic basis on skin color, etc. in fact, it is often that in nature young offspring purposefully seek out those who look as radically different than themselves for mating purposes to maximize genetic robustness. so when it comes to minorities, you again are talking about political and sociological issues, not genetic issues
but rape? pedophilia? cannibalism? again, we are talking about issues with a strong genetic component, for good genetic reasons
so you fail when you try to compare pedophilia against persecution of gays, women, and minorities. it is completely inaccurate to portray these issues as issues with a genetic bias. while with pedophilia, a strong genetic bias against this exists
and the media gladly feeds this fear, when there are thousands of greater threats to our lives
"Yet, a hugely-disproportionate amount of time/effort/energy/focus/resources/money is spent on the "pedophile problem" -- each measure more expansive in its scope, and more draconian with respect to its targets -- compared to more pressing issues. Why? Because it's politically productive to do so"
no, you're wrong. if there was no political agenda and no media fear-mongering going on, sharks and pedophiles would still loom larger in our minds than lots of greater threats. simply because our simian minds are hard wired to fear these things greater
and so the problem with the slashdot groupthink is not realizing that we are dealing with a fundamental human truth here. that fear of pedophiles is not some political plot or some media agenda, but simply a hard wired psychological fear: protect your offspring. it makes evolutionary sense. just like the silhouette of a large fish in the water is terrifying in a primal way: it is wiser to react to this fear before higher mental faculties are even involved
so a truly wise approach to pedophilia is to understand that this fear, this hysteria, is nothing that will EVER go away, regardless of whatever is happening in politics or the media, in all existing societies and even all theoretical human societies. unless you change our very genes. that the truly wise approach to pedophilia on slashdot would be: make peace with this reality about simple human nature, because it is never going to go away, ever
it is not political, it is not media, it is not sociological... it's psychological. and psychological as in nature, not nurture. its genetic: protect your offspring, especially on sexual matters, because if you don't, choice is removed from your offspring's reproductive horizon, damaging the survival of your own genes as well. its self-preservation, to freak out about pedophiles. pedophiles threaten your genes by usurping your offspring's ability to choose the most robust genes in their environment on their own
you might ask: why is their a weird taboo about cannibalism? why is there a strong reaction to rape? certainly, they involve political notions about freedom of choice and medical notions about pathogens. but deep down, they are also hard wired, genetic taboos, because our genes figured out things like cannibalism, rape, and pedophilia were threats to genetic diversity and genetic health millions of years before we even became human
any impulse involving the protection of your offspring gets an automatic promote in the human mind in terms of importance, no matter how irrational. because, genetically speaking, its actually highly rational: protect the survival of your genes by letting your offspring reach sexual and psychological maturity before they become sexually intertwined with someone else. if someone else pushes sexual involvement on a psychologically and sexually immature individual, they are forcing weak genes onto your offspring, and are therefore jeopardizing your own gene's survival. therefore, genetically speaking, the simians who develop a harsh and strong taboo against pedophilia maintain a more robust and a stronger gene pool, and otucompete those simians who don't have a problem with pedophilia, because such simians develop weaker genes. you maximize the health of genes in any population of animals by maximizing the choice both males and females have in mates. any reduction in this freedom of choice amongst mates carries an automatic penalty: it decreases gene robustness and therefore health
so a truly wise person would make peace with the "hysteria" over pedophilia and understand that NOTHING will ever change on this matter. in the year 1009, in the year 3009, in any political or social arrangement you can imagine: the human mind will freak out about pedophilia. the idea of sexual advances onto their sexually and psychologically immature offspring will make the human mind overreact. just like the image of a snake in the
for most industries (consumer electronics), it should be an unregulated or lightly regulated free-for-all. this maximizes consumer value
but there are certain industries where a regulated monopoly makes sense (electricity grids) and competition actually decreases consumer value
and then there is a third category: certain industries where a regulated OLIGOPOLY makes sense (cable) and competition beyond a select few actually decreases consumer value, and at the same time dominance by one player decreases consumer value as well
and i would say that domain names falls into the oligopoly category: there should only be a few domain registrars. choice should be maintained, with all the free market benefits that come with that, but not at the cost of a deluge of seedy anonymous players
you do realize that some of you sound more hysterical than the "won't somebody think of the children" tired meme you are supposedly skewering, right?
let's put it this way: underneath all of the teenagers emailing each other naked pictures, there actually exists actual pedophiles who actually harm children, and society has every logical and moral reason to do something about them. btw, they are also highly recidivist: you murder once for certain reasons, then you may never murder again, but once a pedophile, always a pedophile
so here's a clue for the whole lot of the slashdot high holy indignation brigade: you figure out a better way to deal with pedophiles. until then, criticizing without proposing a superior alternative means nothing will change. and no, i'm sorry, doing nothing is not a viable alternative
because, believe it or not, there are parents out there who aren't sex-phobic social conservatives who are genuinely and rightfully worried about their children's exposure to actual, real pedophiles who prey on prepubescent kids. yes, you heard it here first (apparently): believe it or not, pedophiles aren't made up bogeymen, pedophiles actually exist, and are actually a danger to children in their communities
you may now say they are few and rare, that exposure to sex with an adult is harmless, etc., etc.
and completely miss the point of my comment
and therefore continue to exist in the same useless hysterical population of people you are supposedly standing against
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you can't push hot button sex topics without pushing the pedophilia button, come on!
do you have any idea how strong a chimpanzee or a gorilla is? we're not talking about a placid herbivore here, we're talking 100+ pounds of pure muscle, sinew and razor sharp canines. this is not an environment in which any bestiality can possibly occur. i think sex with a shark would be easier, seriously
the whole aids-was-from-sex-with-a-monkey line of thought is pure high school sophomore stupidity. way more 4chan than actual plausible science
bushmeat is what it is: a messy stew of tropical disease waiting to happen, tons of transmission avenues, from open sores on the skin and in the mouth, to the sheer bloodiness of butchery. no one ever said SARS was from sex with a civet cat, or swine flu was from sex with a pig. i really don't think in the entire history of humanity anyone has ever had sex with a living chimpanzee or gorilla just because of the physical impossibility of it all
oh great, now i just launched necrophilic bestiality meme for aids origin
in the case of malaria, it is the host itself which evolves mitigating factors, such as the sickle cell gene, which has evolved 3 different times in 3 different variations in africa, the mediterranean and southeast asia
but yes, with diseases that are not directly transmitted between hosts of the same species, there is no need to dampen fatality. but then the interspecies mode of transmission is a form of dampening in and of itself
the segway is the evolutionary intermediary between getting in your 1 mpg suv to go to the end of the driveway to get your mail, and those ridiculous walmart shopper hovercraft from wall-e
technology is wonderful thing when it is used to enable mankind to do things that weren't possible before
technology is a disgusting pathetic thing when it is used to enable mankind to do less and become gelatinous balls of jelly
it really is some joke how fat americans are. it marks us as aristocracy worthy of overthrow
segway hate is a healthy, hopeful instinct
the woman was 62 when she was diagnosed in 2004
meaning, this could be an old strain of aids. by "old" i mean it could have been in the human population for a long time
i hypothesize this simply because the woman is still alive (assuming she wasn't infected 2 years ago) and mild disease is a sign of an "old" disease
the fate of all diseases and all parasites is equilibrium with its hosts. it does no good to kill off your host so quickly there's no retransmission. so after an initial sickle swinging period of mass slaughter, the strains of any disease that dominate will be those who tend to be more mild, simply because by killing less faster, they spread wider and therefore survive longer
so most likely its not the stand or 28 days later we're talking here
fat americans driving unnecessary SUVs in unsustainable suburbs are funding islamic fundamentalism, russian neoimperialism, and venezuelan blowhards
this of course is the most important thing about the need to adapt electric cars
but this won't stop some nitpicker on slashdot pointing out minor detraction {xyz}, completely missing the fucking point that minor detraction [xyz] is MINOR, by any measure, in comparison to the fact that when you go to the pump, you fund what's wrong with this world
enjoy your smog and your dead father/ brother/ son in iraq, since electric cars are slightly impractical
not to mention the fact WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF OIL ANYWAYS
some of you need to try to understand what's fucking important here
streaming music on the internet IS radio, in terms of beaming out channels with advertising support. the only difference between streaming music and radio is streaming music has a billion more channels. that's the only difference
you seem to be confused, that taste in music has absolutely anything to do with this. in fact, there seem to be a lot of people who seem confused here, that the death of the music industry will kill pop music and result in some sort of nirvana of quality. on the contrary: there are plenty of gems that never get pop air play, but there's also a much vaster sea of mediocrity out there that doesn't get airplay deservedly so: it sucks. you may say all pop music is crap. yes, there are pop music that derivative and empty, but also plenty that is quite good, according to any objective measure of originality, nevermind all the subjectiveness that obviously comes into play which ultimately renders all such comparisons pointless
which gets us to the larger point: there seems to be a lot of people who derive pride in being counter culture. that they don't listen to pop. this, 20 years after alternative music has become just another category the music industry markets and caters to. no, it is more the truth that anyone who needs to feel better than other people has a character weakness, and a truly well-balanced person likes what they like and doesn't really care or feel a need to feel better than anyone else simply because of that
a poser: i am better than you for arbitrary unsubstantial reasons and i feel a strong insecure need to feel better than other people... which, in a way, makes me even worse than the average secure pop listening person
alien was basically "big bug in space". they had the thing's life cycle thought out in terms of egg->parasite->adult. it was really the first scifi movie where the monster wasn't a one dimensional big baddie, but a whole well-thought out three dimensional (biologically speaking) xenomorph, where the biological cycle itself was truly alien
and yet NOT alien. fear of spiders, snakes, sharks, is innate and natural. and bugs usually elicit some sort of ancient biological horror because of what they represent in terms of threat to survival. heck, the alien's life cycle really is the same as plenty of parasitical insects on earth, like the tse-tse fly. so alien also plugged into this whole ancient psychological hate/ fear of parasites and insects, just like jaws did to great effect when it plugged into fear of big fish in the water (which came out what, 2 years before?). i guess they naturally extended that to big snake with anaconda, arachnophobia, etc, but obviously to not as great success
then of course along came aliens, which bucked the odds of the sequel being worse than the original, and it did by basically expanding upon the biological notions in the first movie: well, if alien is just a big bug in space, lets give them a social insect like a hive of wasps or a colony of ants. complete of course with the queen, and her giant alien egg laying apparatus. so again, its totally alien, yet at the same time totally familiar and natural to anyone who has given even a cursory interest in the happenings of social insects, which basically describes human experience in any rural/ suburban community, not to mention probaby hardwired into our psychology as a threat, again, from millions of years of exposure
finally, in aliens, they had the primal biological notion of species versus species vying for survival of its offspring, perhaps the most primal directive besides sex. with alien queen going up against ripley, where both motivations are the same: alien queen enraged at the death of her offspring, ripley protecting her (adopted) human child. complete with the line "get away from her you bitch!": its basically a catfight, something you would see on the serengeti: female lioness versus female hyena
because in nature, as well as human society, no masculine rage can possibly be matched by the female's rage at protecting her offsping. its incredibly primal, incredibly biological, and incredibly powerful as a movie plot device, because its so real
is a comment like this modded as insightful rather than funny
i love to swim, but any large deep body of water i find myself in the middle of, and that jaws opening sequence fills my head
like you, i saw it at an age i really shouldn't have
although, fear of large fish is pretty primal, so i don't know how much of my reaction is the innate, or psychological damage from the movie
i have an inside track on the ideas they are basing the prequel on, and it harkens back to classic themes in shockingly new and original ways, not at all feeling like some high school sophomore clicked around a bit on wikipedia and retread tired, stale ideas
for example, the story of the alien in the prequel will revolve around important rules that one should never break, which of course get inevitably broken:
1. don't get the alien wet, or it immediately reproduces more of its kind asexually by budding from its back
3. keep the alien away from bright lights... especially sunlight. this will kill it
4. and don't ever feed the alien after midnight
i think this is a brilliant and entirely original idea
furthermore, the movie will start with a crashed ship full of religious pilgrims, a stowaway, a dangerous criminal, etc. the alien hunts them all down relentlessly one by one whenever the planet falls into eclipse and darkness. but the fearless criminal has special surgically altered eyes that allows him to see in pitch black, so he turns the tables and hunts the alien instead
again, a brilliant and entirely original idea from hollywood for the alien prequel!
to find a dog, you merely open the closest door, and it will inevitably smack and disturb a sleeping dog
robert rodriguez is producing a new predator movie, called predators (like alien is to aliens?). perhaps on the predator home planet, again, completely ignoring the whole avp bullshit
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40865
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40879
additionally, the director will be some hotshot hungarian horror director named nimrod antal. aintitcool had an interveiw with rodriguez about the project:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41590
not jamming, but traffic shaping
something dramatically different than technologically that simply fills an rf frequency with white noise or pink noise. it could simply monitor all calls for geolocation by triangulation or gps and time code, overlaid with blueprints. geographically and temporally refined: let it be used outside, but not inside, 2 meters away, along a straight line. allow a phone to be used during lunch time in the cafeteria, but then not during study hall an hour later, all the while the library is completely verboten. etc., etc.
you could even trigger it so the moment someone makes a 911 call, anywhere, for any reason, the entire system shuts down and anyone anywhere can call anyone. since 911 calls are logged and tracked, legally, it wouldn't be a privacy intrusion to identify the culprit of a phony 911 caller. likewise, the whole intelligent jamming system could be designed to have no privacy implications whatsoever, just blocking some phone according to location and time, who knows whose phone. it COULD be used to snoop, but not any more than the current cell phone providers already does. and besides, it would have to work in close cooperation with the cell networks, and so these installations would not be anonymous or unmarked or unknown, allowing for some sort of privacy policy to be enforced
the whole point is, any problem like this is actually a business growth industry waiting to happen, and somebody, perhaps one of us reading this comment will start a company that will be earning 100 million a year in 10 years providing exactly this sort of jamming to movie houses, universities, churches, etc. all that is required is the fcc to open the doors, and the current cell networks can easily see the light here in terms of new revenue sources
currently the policy of cell phones is anyone can use it anywhere. there's no reason in the world why cemetaries shouldn't be allowed to shut that off during funerals, or courthouses during trials, or churches during weddings, all triggered to shut down and allow all traffic the moment anyone hits 911. the tech is already there, just the willpower and the accretion around the idea that traffic shaping for cell network's time has come
i don't understand why this gets him off the hook
if you kill 20 people and plead insanity, you still get a form of punishment: the insane asylum. regardless of WHY someone commits the crime, is the more important priority of society protecting itself from people who engage in criminal behavior. whether because of moral failure, psychological defect, or some other variation on the tired "the devil made me do it" defense
you've been revealed as someone dangerous to society. therefore, some sort of restrictions on your freedom are necessary, regardless of WHY you commit various transgressions
so if he wins based on his defense, he'll still be punished
meaning if you were to instill some sort of draconian anti-pedophiliahysteria at a national level, the hysteria would still go on, regardless
opposing and targeting media and political manipulations is fruitless and won't make the effect go away
our political and media environments are not alien injections, they are nothing more than reflections of ourselves. people are always talking about politicians doing this or that alien evil thing and the media with its own alien agenda, and these complaints are all bullshit
complaining about politics and media is simply misdirected complaints about human nature
why does coverage of sharks garner such dramatic media coverage? why was jaws such a successful movie?
its genetic: large fish in the water freaks us the hell out, as we are hardwired to fear that
i am saying that like that fear of sharks, like our taboo on cannibalism, and like our reaction to pedophilia: yes: these are all genetically hardwired survival-based reactions
now as for overlap of primal instincts based on genetics survival and public policy: i don't think anyone here is defending pedophiles, or cannibals for that matter, but just the hysterical overflow: arresting teenagers for sexting, 19 year olds having sex with 17 year olds, etc.
and i support the arguments here against hysterical overflow of laws attempting to fight pedophilia
but what i want out of slashdot is some recognition that this hysteria is not just political manipulations or media agendas, but a biologically rooted instinct that is not going to go away, ever
age of sexual maturity has always been a hard rule, not in any culture, but in any SPECIES
age of PSYCHOLOGICAL maturity is a more recent development, just as you demonstrate. and i also think, and hope you agree, it is a good development and a sign of progress
does the quote above appear? i've never read a harry potter book, so i didn't know they were in book 1
so the issue is not when a goblin appears, but when their characteristics are fleshed out. in other words, when she wrote the words above, what book are we in? (was jk rowling a relative unknown or a cultural superstar when she described goblins as copyright holders?)
that quote is hilarious
considering the formidable army of ip lawyers team jk rowling has assembled, and their frequent aggressive efforts at maintaining hegemony, jk rowling certainly is no stranger to intellectual property law. if this wasn't conscious parody on her part, then it had to be unconscious. because by the time a goblin appears in the harry potter books, she was firmly entrenched in cultural superstar status and all the ip lawyering that involves
there are no primal fears pointed against them
homosexuality is expressed in all sorts of simians, no other monkeys have a problem with it. there's no genetic argument that can be made against homosexuality: no offspring are produced, no damage is done. its all sociological and political
meanwhile, with women, rape is the issue. social status leading to imbalances in power leading to "rape" (where rape is very loosely defined as any power imbalance) is not the same as some yahoo showing up and knocking you down in the bushes to impregnate you. so again, no genetic argument exists, only sociological and political arguments involving women's lower power status traditionally
and minorities: this is tribalism. tribalism has always existed, and has a strong genetic argument: competition for resources. fear of "the other", when "the other" is just another tribe, is a strong ongoing genetic argument. however "the other" is loosely defined in nature. in fact, the tribe next door you are in blood feuds with often look just like you, so there is no genetic basis on skin color, etc. in fact, it is often that in nature young offspring purposefully seek out those who look as radically different than themselves for mating purposes to maximize genetic robustness. so when it comes to minorities, you again are talking about political and sociological issues, not genetic issues
but rape? pedophilia? cannibalism? again, we are talking about issues with a strong genetic component, for good genetic reasons
so you fail when you try to compare pedophilia against persecution of gays, women, and minorities. it is completely inaccurate to portray these issues as issues with a genetic bias. while with pedophilia, a strong genetic bias against this exists
and the media gladly feeds this fear, when there are thousands of greater threats to our lives
"Yet, a hugely-disproportionate amount of time/effort/energy/focus/resources/money is spent on the "pedophile problem" -- each measure more expansive in its scope, and more draconian with respect to its targets -- compared to more pressing issues. Why? Because it's politically productive to do so"
no, you're wrong. if there was no political agenda and no media fear-mongering going on, sharks and pedophiles would still loom larger in our minds than lots of greater threats. simply because our simian minds are hard wired to fear these things greater
and so the problem with the slashdot groupthink is not realizing that we are dealing with a fundamental human truth here. that fear of pedophiles is not some political plot or some media agenda, but simply a hard wired psychological fear: protect your offspring. it makes evolutionary sense. just like the silhouette of a large fish in the water is terrifying in a primal way: it is wiser to react to this fear before higher mental faculties are even involved
so a truly wise approach to pedophilia is to understand that this fear, this hysteria, is nothing that will EVER go away, regardless of whatever is happening in politics or the media, in all existing societies and even all theoretical human societies. unless you change our very genes. that the truly wise approach to pedophilia on slashdot would be: make peace with this reality about simple human nature, because it is never going to go away, ever
it is not political, it is not media, it is not sociological... it's psychological. and psychological as in nature, not nurture. its genetic: protect your offspring, especially on sexual matters, because if you don't, choice is removed from your offspring's reproductive horizon, damaging the survival of your own genes as well. its self-preservation, to freak out about pedophiles. pedophiles threaten your genes by usurping your offspring's ability to choose the most robust genes in their environment on their own
you might ask: why is their a weird taboo about cannibalism? why is there a strong reaction to rape? certainly, they involve political notions about freedom of choice and medical notions about pathogens. but deep down, they are also hard wired, genetic taboos, because our genes figured out things like cannibalism, rape, and pedophilia were threats to genetic diversity and genetic health millions of years before we even became human
any impulse involving the protection of your offspring gets an automatic promote in the human mind in terms of importance, no matter how irrational. because, genetically speaking, its actually highly rational: protect the survival of your genes by letting your offspring reach sexual and psychological maturity before they become sexually intertwined with someone else. if someone else pushes sexual involvement on a psychologically and sexually immature individual, they are forcing weak genes onto your offspring, and are therefore jeopardizing your own gene's survival. therefore, genetically speaking, the simians who develop a harsh and strong taboo against pedophilia maintain a more robust and a stronger gene pool, and otucompete those simians who don't have a problem with pedophilia, because such simians develop weaker genes. you maximize the health of genes in any population of animals by maximizing the choice both males and females have in mates. any reduction in this freedom of choice amongst mates carries an automatic penalty: it decreases gene robustness and therefore health
so a truly wise person would make peace with the "hysteria" over pedophilia and understand that NOTHING will ever change on this matter. in the year 1009, in the year 3009, in any political or social arrangement you can imagine: the human mind will freak out about pedophilia. the idea of sexual advances onto their sexually and psychologically immature offspring will make the human mind overreact. just like the image of a snake in the
i am not, nor have i ever said, anything anti Islamic
could you please stop smearing me with your retarded stereotypes?
the world is slightly more complicated than you think, and my viewpoint is slightly more complicated than your simplistic attitude
read what i actually say, and stop trying to pigeonhole me in the moronic categories you think people fit into
in other words, try THINKING for once, and stop smearing people and describing them in ways that have NOTHING to do with what they actually say
for most industries (consumer electronics), it should be an unregulated or lightly regulated free-for-all. this maximizes consumer value
but there are certain industries where a regulated monopoly makes sense (electricity grids) and competition actually decreases consumer value
and then there is a third category: certain industries where a regulated OLIGOPOLY makes sense (cable) and competition beyond a select few actually decreases consumer value, and at the same time dominance by one player decreases consumer value as well
and i would say that domain names falls into the oligopoly category: there should only be a few domain registrars. choice should be maintained, with all the free market benefits that come with that, but not at the cost of a deluge of seedy anonymous players
you do realize that some of you sound more hysterical than the "won't somebody think of the children" tired meme you are supposedly skewering, right?
let's put it this way: underneath all of the teenagers emailing each other naked pictures, there actually exists actual pedophiles who actually harm children, and society has every logical and moral reason to do something about them. btw, they are also highly recidivist: you murder once for certain reasons, then you may never murder again, but once a pedophile, always a pedophile
so here's a clue for the whole lot of the slashdot high holy indignation brigade: you figure out a better way to deal with pedophiles. until then, criticizing without proposing a superior alternative means nothing will change. and no, i'm sorry, doing nothing is not a viable alternative
because, believe it or not, there are parents out there who aren't sex-phobic social conservatives who are genuinely and rightfully worried about their children's exposure to actual, real pedophiles who prey on prepubescent kids. yes, you heard it here first (apparently): believe it or not, pedophiles aren't made up bogeymen, pedophiles actually exist, and are actually a danger to children in their communities
you may now say they are few and rare, that exposure to sex with an adult is harmless, etc., etc.
and completely miss the point of my comment
and therefore continue to exist in the same useless hysterical population of people you are supposedly standing against