So murder would be OK? No, just becuase the human race is still here despite child molestation, does not mean that child molestation has had no negative impact. Perhaps the species would be in a better place had there been a removal of all child molestation - who knows? Maybe it's not an impact at all.
But people do recover from a lot of nasty things, but that doesn't mean the nasty things are OK. I *really* hate the 'think of the children' argument that gets trotted out, but I do think that if there's something concrete that can be done to lower the occurance of child molestation, then as long as it's legal, go for it.
This does not mean trampling other rights though. Yours was a fair question, and I answered from a similar position as you are/were in.
The best thing a parent can do is bring them up with ethics and morals
And if they do that properly, then the kids are not going to turn out as killers. However, fail as a parent to instill the ability to tell right from wrong, then you're liable as I understand it.
"There are duties and obligations you must meet before driving or keeping a vehicle on the road. You must also tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of any changes to your personal or vehicle details."
So if you change address, you must advise the DVLA if you hold a licence.
Sucks that nasty things happened, but you really should have changed the address on your licence else not relied on it as a form of ID.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
You're part of a declining set of people who have time to sip coffee and read newspapers in the morning. I do not have that luxury and I'm of the opinion that more and more people also have less time to themselves until they retire.
I get local news from the radio, national news from the TV, and international news from the BBC website. (I'm a Brit ex-pat living in Canada). Having grown up with UK TV news programmes, I don't feel comfortable with North American broadcast media. It's sloppy and sensatinalist, which is not what you want in a news programme. Even the stock reports are almost useless ("XXX stock went up a dollar" - gee, was that from a penny or from a hundred dollars?), and bias is transparent to someone used to balanced reporting ("Annual growth is the best since 2004!" Wow, so it went down for a SINGLE YEAR in 2005? How is that a trend?)
It pisses me off that news media gets away with this sort of thing, and it pisses off my wife that I get pissed off. She's a native of North America, so can't see the point in making sure that journalists do their job properly.
Maybe it's because I recently turned 40, maybe it's because I'm an ex-pat Brit, or maybe it's because I'm a nerd, but it pains me to see millions of people fed half-truth spin AND NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT IT.
We were doing this 10 years ago on CIX. Ameol* had an addon to "decrypt" acronyms, and worked from a text file which was updated with each new release. When the addon became stable enough to not need future releases, the acronym list became stale. I was the first person to maintain the Ameol acronym list after the addon author handed-off, but now that I no longer work for CIX, that job has been passed to another poor soul.
The hardest part of the job was to come up with family-friendly versions for the F word. "Read The Friendly Manual" is all well and good, but "Friendly Off And Die" doesn't really work:)
*Ameol itself is "A Most Excellent OffLine reader"
I use a similar analogy, but refer to a library full of books (your files) on shelves (your HDD). The computer takes out the books and arranges them on a table (your RAM) and works on them. If the table isn't big enough it has to prop open books on a shelf (page file) which takes a little longer to reference. When all is done, the computer puts the books back on the shelf but not always in the same order. It's stupid enough that often it will rip a book in half to place it in the gaps on the shelf, rather than reshuffle the books to make a space large enough. Of course this makes it take longer to get the info again when you have to open those files. (Fragmentation). You can set the computer to rearrange the bookshelves and glue the ripped books back together, though it can take a while (Defragmentation).
I'd guess because most of the BBC website users run Microsoft software. Much of the multimedia content is already "accessible" but there are some streams and downloads which require user-installed software that is not on most BBC website users' computers. It's this that the BBC are working to fix in the first instance I assume.
I disagree with your reasoning. While a corporation can "do" things, it is not an entity that in reality "decides" things (though legally this may be true). People decide things, even if the corporation is the body that enacts those decisions. Someone, or a collection of someones, decided that this was a good idea. There are people behind this decision, and it was a human who inked the signature on the memo, or pressed the enter key to make this a policy.
Take the thinking, feeling people out of a company, and you're left with bricks and paper, which last time I checked have never made a decision to fire anyone.
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I have no problem with this, assuming it's warm enough. Do you?
s/child molestation/murder/g
So murder would be OK? No, just becuase the human race is still here despite child molestation, does not mean that child molestation has had no negative impact. Perhaps the species would be in a better place had there been a removal of all child molestation - who knows? Maybe it's not an impact at all.
But people do recover from a lot of nasty things, but that doesn't mean the nasty things are OK. I *really* hate the 'think of the children' argument that gets trotted out, but I do think that if there's something concrete that can be done to lower the occurance of child molestation, then as long as it's legal, go for it.
This does not mean trampling other rights though. Yours was a fair question, and I answered from a similar position as you are/were in.
Seems they are now the Gang of Twelve, as the population increase has tripled.
According to Wikipedia, anyway.
The best thing a parent can do is bring them up with ethics and morals
And if they do that properly, then the kids are not going to turn out as killers. However, fail as a parent to instill the ability to tell right from wrong, then you're liable as I understand it.
The DVLA website says:
"There are duties and obligations you must meet before driving or keeping a vehicle on the road. You must also tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of any changes to your personal or vehicle details."
So if you change address, you must advise the DVLA if you hold a licence.
Sucks that nasty things happened, but you really should have changed the address on your licence else not relied on it as a form of ID.
Still waiting for the downside to your argument :)
Have some virtual mod points :)
Nice analogy, but it falls down on the fact that the US imports more than it exports. So by your argument, that 25% is looking a little low.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
(Thanks, Rummy!)
You're part of a declining set of people who have time to sip coffee and read newspapers in the morning. I do not have that luxury and I'm of the opinion that more and more people also have less time to themselves until they retire.
I get local news from the radio, national news from the TV, and international news from the BBC website. (I'm a Brit ex-pat living in Canada). Having grown up with UK TV news programmes, I don't feel comfortable with North American broadcast media. It's sloppy and sensatinalist, which is not what you want in a news programme. Even the stock reports are almost useless ("XXX stock went up a dollar" - gee, was that from a penny or from a hundred dollars?), and bias is transparent to someone used to balanced reporting ("Annual growth is the best since 2004!" Wow, so it went down for a SINGLE YEAR in 2005? How is that a trend?)
It pisses me off that news media gets away with this sort of thing, and it pisses off my wife that I get pissed off. She's a native of North America, so can't see the point in making sure that journalists do their job properly.
Maybe it's because I recently turned 40, maybe it's because I'm an ex-pat Brit, or maybe it's because I'm a nerd, but it pains me to see millions of people fed half-truth spin AND NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT IT.
We were doing this 10 years ago on CIX. Ameol* had an addon to "decrypt" acronyms, and worked from a text file which was updated with each new release. When the addon became stable enough to not need future releases, the acronym list became stale. I was the first person to maintain the Ameol acronym list after the addon author handed-off, but now that I no longer work for CIX, that job has been passed to another poor soul.
:)
The hardest part of the job was to come up with family-friendly versions for the F word. "Read The Friendly Manual" is all well and good, but "Friendly Off And Die" doesn't really work
*Ameol itself is "A Most Excellent OffLine reader"
Besides that, I've never met someone with a PVR anyway
I bet you have. Sky+ is 5 years old, has about a million subscribers, and can even be programmed remotely by SMS.
I use a similar analogy, but refer to a library full of books (your files) on shelves (your HDD). The computer takes out the books and arranges them on a table (your RAM) and works on them. If the table isn't big enough it has to prop open books on a shelf (page file) which takes a little longer to reference. When all is done, the computer puts the books back on the shelf but not always in the same order. It's stupid enough that often it will rip a book in half to place it in the gaps on the shelf, rather than reshuffle the books to make a space large enough. Of course this makes it take longer to get the info again when you have to open those files. (Fragmentation). You can set the computer to rearrange the bookshelves and glue the ripped books back together, though it can take a while (Defragmentation).
My brother had one of those. He caught a cold, and his ashes are scattered over the southern part of 5th Avenue now.
Great, but whatever you fling up there will arrive as pizza.
I'd guess because most of the BBC website users run Microsoft software. Much of the multimedia content is already "accessible" but there are some streams and downloads which require user-installed software that is not on most BBC website users' computers. It's this that the BBC are working to fix in the first instance I assume.
After that - all things to all people.
Hmm, what would I bring?
Something made of nickel, copper or iron, probably.
Now though, I'd just show my wedding ring.
What would other people bring, I wonder?
I'm building such a list, starting now. What's yours?
I disagree with your reasoning. While a corporation can "do" things, it is not an entity that in reality "decides" things (though legally this may be true). People decide things, even if the corporation is the body that enacts those decisions. Someone, or a collection of someones, decided that this was a good idea. There are people behind this decision, and it was a human who inked the signature on the memo, or pressed the enter key to make this a policy.
Take the thinking, feeling people out of a company, and you're left with bricks and paper, which last time I checked have never made a decision to fire anyone.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I do not play golf.
WoW raid, anyone?
In the remake, the shark doesn't bite first.
A cylinder lock is the equivalent of using ROT13 to secure a password file. It'll stop someone who's not trying to get in, but that's about it.
So if I use two cylinder locks, is that like using ROT13 twice?
I can't think of anything that needs to be carried in pockets, if you're living in a sufficiently advanced society.
One has to wonder then, if it's only now that such an experience/lesson has been learned, how the CTO rose to that position in the first place.
While you're at it, get the computer to do something to prevent people from entering the same information twice.
/. editors first.
Test it out on the