Including lawyers you say? I wonder what percentage of that 80 mil will go to them...
In the meantime, if you want to take drastic actions to save Star Trek, there's only one thing you can do: Snuff out Rick Berman. He's the talentless hack in charge, Star Trek will keep on sucking as long as he's involved.
It needs to spread for the survival of the human race! There is no more important goal in the history humanity than to establish itself on other planets. For all we know, if we don't get off of Earth. life itself may vanish throughout the universe.
Boy are you gonna be pissed when Mars crashes into the Earth!;-)
If you're not in the USA the RIAA probably won't care.
They care, they just can't sue you directly. They can, however, exert pressure on local authorities, or found and fund a similar organisation that will do so at their bidding.
The question or comments he asked was a cry for help. He got help.
Who got help? The guy who wrote in to ask for help got brought to the attention of the police, who enjoy locking people up and showing them to judges and lawyers. I don't see how that helps him.
Maybe the hypothetical victim got pre-emptive help, but that's a tad more metaphysical than I would expect from this thread.
Ann the paper's advice columnist? I guess she got the police to help with her "pervert writing her creepy letters" problem.
doing nothing instead of stomping on a pedal in an emergency is counter-intuitive.
I have been in quite a few emergency situations, and let me tell you: doing nothing is what comes naturally to most people.
Anyway, that doesn't apply to the post you replied to, because in the sitation described there the correct response to an emergency situation would be to take your foot off the pedal, not "do nothing". It's the same first step as in the current "take your foot off the pedal and press it on the other pedal", but the robot car of the not-so-distant future takes care of step #2 for you.
Just make sure you wait until they release version 1.1 of the car's software before you ever get back on the road once such a system is deployed though...
That could actually work... have a car that is normally trying to be still, unless you put it in drive and press on the accelerator. Let go of the accelerator and the car stops safely. Have a few radar systems to round off the rough edges of "safely", and you've got an iCar.
My younger brother was sexually assualted many years ago, and honestly if I found the guy that did it, I would probably take his life.
Would your brother want you to? Shouldn't it be his demon to kill? Things aren't always black and white, some people would rather forget and move on than get revenge.
Then again, I understand how you feel... it's awfull when someone harms soeone you care about and there's nothing you can do to make it better.
If any crime deserves the death penalty, sexual abuse of children is it. (Yeah, I take it personally. I have a nine-year old daughter. If you'd seen what these bastards do with kids, you'd scratch their names on a few bullets, too.)
The trouble with a death penalty is when you go "oops".
"11-year-old girl stabbed 12 times and then sexually assaulted" sounds like a capital-punishment offense to me. Too bad you can't trust the cops to do their damn jobs. Nor the lawyers, judges, juries.
The privacy of that poor little girl is much more important than catching the guy that did this to her.
Some people have the attitude that punishing the criminal is what is important. I see your point of view is that protecting the innocent is more important. I agree.
I guess I can never stay at the Orleans now, because all I would be able to think about was if my room was one one where this took place. Ugh.
Try not to think too much about the fact that since they were around for hundreds of millions of years, and quite large, all of the earth's water was probably pissed by a dinosaur at some point. Yup, you've been drinking giant lizard urine.
Now apply that to all public places you've been, think of all the unwashed hands that have touched what you are touching... what had they been scratching moments before? See these people leaving the public toilets without washing their hands? I woner if they'll be handling paper money anytime soon...
And now, the psychic taint that lewd sexual encounters between abusers and their underaged victims might have laid upon the rented rooms you're staying in are added to the vague conjectures about the possible contagious ailments the previous occupant might have had. How long can chlamedia stay alive in sheets?
Oh, and by the way, Batman is not super-normal. He is just highly trained, highly motivated, and very rich 'ordinary bloke'. No radioactive spider bites, not from another planet, nothing. (Sorry, bit of a pet peeve of mine, this calling Batman a superhero.)
He has a superhuman detective mind. Just saying. And he can bring down the Kryptonian if need be... he's more than a hero: He's a superhero.
Ann Landers (her daughter) had that same dilemna- someone wrote in asking about urges for a child. She turned that person into the police. That person hadn't abused anyone. But recognizing a deviate behavior and 'correcting' it before irreparable harm comes to a child is more important than fixing it after the fact. (and even then, can you really fix it?)
Attention molesters, the message is clear: If you have impure thoughts about a minor, do not look for help before it's too late. No, just go ahead and act on these impulses, because you're gonna get punished wether you do them or not. So if you're gonna do the time anyway, might as well do the crime.
Making the assumption that the child porn makers do it for profit (no idea if it's true), they need to charge for the material to make money. P2P directly competes with whatever black market channels they use to sell their smut.
The thing is, there ARE organised producers and distributors of child pornography. Organised crime makes a buck wherever there is something illegal people are willing to buy. These people are in serious need of incarceration, obviously, but I guess there's also quite a lot of perverted uncles/neighbours swapping their amateur abuse clips. Clips of things they were already doing, would do even if they weren't in possession of a camera. They are also in need of some legal-smackdown, but they aren't doing it for money.
I've been having arguments with people over the fact that they feel that downloading kiddy porn increases the demand for the creation of child porn and therefore leads to more kids being abused. I see a giant, gaping hole of logic in that position (they assume it's a 100% commercial venture), but hoping for a rational argument when child porn is mentioned is pretty pointless.
On the other hand, using photoshop to edit out the victims from the documented evidence of their abuse and using the "cleaned" backgrounds to find out where it happened is a rare case of clever policework that isn't creepy or brutal... jolly good work.
You clearly have never been the subject of the traditional rants of the written science fiction community about how they do not write "sci-fi" or "skiffy", which is the domain of bad '50s monster movies. They write "science fiction" or "speculative fiction", which is SF if you must shorten the term.
Funny, as I read it it all comes out as sci-fi. They must be doing it wrong...
To understand, think "Linux" vs. "GNU/Linux".
More like "trekkie VS trekker". They sound like the poseurs who, rather than simply be called artists, want to be called artistes. "Oh no! People might get the impression that I write cheesy stories about space monsters, how will I get them to take my epic love story in dragonworld seriously? I know, I'll call it speculative fiction instead of sci-fi, that'll give it that edge of respectability."
I don't care who's a snob about sci-fi, I'm calling the duck a duck, and if they're not happy, I'll call it scientifiction and pretend it's the 20's.
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The biggest problem with SGA is all the aliens speak perfect english
That and every show has the same ending: They blow something up, everything is back to normal.
the movie "Serenity" coming out in... September and then buy lots of posters and tshirts and lunchpails and mini-jayne plastic figurines!
;-)
I dunno about the Jayne action figures... but I would be willing to pay for a life-sized Kaylee or Inara doll
I'd buy both, and play "house" with them all night long.
Including lawyers you say? I wonder what percentage of that 80 mil will go to them...
In the meantime, if you want to take drastic actions to save Star Trek, there's only one thing you can do: Snuff out Rick Berman. He's the talentless hack in charge, Star Trek will keep on sucking as long as he's involved.
if I read the original Grimm's Fairy Tales to my kids?
If you get caught by Disney's patrolls you will...
It needs to spread for the survival of the human race! There is no more important goal in the history humanity than to establish itself on other planets. For all we know, if we don't get off of Earth. life itself may vanish throughout the universe.
;-)
Boy are you gonna be pissed when Mars crashes into the Earth!
If you're not in the USA the RIAA probably won't care.
They care, they just can't sue you directly.
They can, however, exert pressure on local authorities, or found and fund a similar organisation that will do so at their bidding.
The question or comments he asked was a cry for help. He got help.
Who got help? The guy who wrote in to ask for help got brought to the attention of the police, who enjoy locking people up and showing them to judges and lawyers. I don't see how that helps him.
Maybe the hypothetical victim got pre-emptive help, but that's a tad more metaphysical than I would expect from this thread.
Ann the paper's advice columnist? I guess she got the police to help with her "pervert writing her creepy letters" problem.
but having a seperate pedal I can stand on in an emergency makes me feel better.
I just said a one-pedal car was possible, I don't claim that it's a reassuring thought!
He got help. I have no idea if he was charged or what the outcome was, but verbalization is a call for assistance.
You have a very loose and broad definition of "help".
doing nothing instead of stomping on a pedal in an emergency is counter-intuitive.
I have been in quite a few emergency situations, and let me tell you: doing nothing is what comes naturally to most people.
Anyway, that doesn't apply to the post you replied to, because in the sitation described there the correct response to an emergency situation would be to take your foot off the pedal, not "do nothing". It's the same first step as in the current "take your foot off the pedal and press it on the other pedal", but the robot car of the not-so-distant future takes care of step #2 for you.
Just make sure you wait until they release version 1.1 of the car's software before you ever get back on the road once such a system is deployed though...
One pedal
That could actually work... have a car that is normally trying to be still, unless you put it in drive and press on the accelerator.
Let go of the accelerator and the car stops safely.
Have a few radar systems to round off the rough edges of "safely", and you've got an iCar.
You watch Monk a lot don't you?
No, but I've been carefull about doorknobs and shared keyboards forever. And the money thing really worries me...
My younger brother was sexually assualted many years ago, and honestly if I found the guy that did it, I would probably take his life.
Would your brother want you to?
Shouldn't it be his demon to kill?
Things aren't always black and white, some people would rather forget and move on than get revenge.
Then again, I understand how you feel... it's awfull when someone harms soeone you care about and there's nothing you can do to make it better.
If any crime deserves the death penalty, sexual abuse of children is it.
(Yeah, I take it personally. I have a nine-year old daughter. If you'd seen what these bastards do with kids, you'd scratch their names on a few bullets, too.)
The trouble with a death penalty is when you go "oops".
"11-year-old girl stabbed 12 times and then sexually assaulted" sounds like a capital-punishment offense to me. Too bad you can't trust the cops to do their damn jobs. Nor the lawyers, judges, juries.
The privacy of that poor little girl is much more important than catching the guy that did this to her.
Some people have the attitude that punishing the criminal is what is important.
I see your point of view is that protecting the innocent is more important. I agree.
I guess I can never stay at the Orleans now, because all I would be able to think about was if my room was one one where this took place. Ugh.
Try not to think too much about the fact that since they were around for hundreds of millions of years, and quite large, all of the earth's water was probably pissed by a dinosaur at some point.
Yup, you've been drinking giant lizard urine.
Now apply that to all public places you've been, think of all the unwashed hands that have touched what you are touching... what had they been scratching moments before? See these people leaving the public toilets without washing their hands? I woner if they'll be handling paper money anytime soon...
And now, the psychic taint that lewd sexual encounters between abusers and their underaged victims might have laid upon the rented rooms you're staying in are added to the vague conjectures about the possible contagious ailments the previous occupant might have had.
How long can chlamedia stay alive in sheets?
Oh, and by the way, Batman is not super-normal. He is just highly trained, highly motivated, and very rich 'ordinary bloke'. No radioactive spider bites, not from another planet, nothing. (Sorry, bit of a pet peeve of mine, this calling Batman a superhero.)
He has a superhuman detective mind. Just saying.
And he can bring down the Kryptonian if need be... he's more than a hero: He's a superhero.
Ann Landers (her daughter) had that same dilemna- someone wrote in asking about urges for a child.
She turned that person into the police.
That person hadn't abused anyone. But recognizing a deviate behavior and 'correcting' it before irreparable harm comes to a child is more important than fixing it after the fact. (and even then, can you really fix it?)
Attention molesters, the message is clear:
If you have impure thoughts about a minor, do not look for help before it's too late. No, just go ahead and act on these impulses, because you're gonna get punished wether you do them or not. So if you're gonna do the time anyway, might as well do the crime.
Making the assumption that the child porn makers do it for profit (no idea if it's true), they need to charge for the material to make money. P2P directly competes with whatever black market channels they use to sell their smut.
The thing is, there ARE organised producers and distributors of child pornography. Organised crime makes a buck wherever there is something illegal people are willing to buy. These people are in serious need of incarceration, obviously, but I guess there's also quite a lot of perverted uncles/neighbours swapping their amateur abuse clips. Clips of things they were already doing, would do even if they weren't in possession of a camera. They are also in need of some legal-smackdown, but they aren't doing it for money.
I've been having arguments with people over the fact that they feel that downloading kiddy porn increases the demand for the creation of child porn and therefore leads to more kids being abused.
I see a giant, gaping hole of logic in that position (they assume it's a 100% commercial venture), but hoping for a rational argument when child porn is mentioned is pretty pointless.
On the other hand, using photoshop to edit out the victims from the documented evidence of their abuse and using the "cleaned" backgrounds to find out where it happened is a rare case of clever policework that isn't creepy or brutal... jolly good work.
I seriously doubt that those who put children through this kind of abuse worry about composition, light or colours.
I don't think that technical proficiency in picture composition renders a person immune to this sexual deviance.
You clearly have never been the subject of the traditional rants of the written science fiction community about how they do not write "sci-fi" or "skiffy", which is the domain of bad '50s monster movies. They write "science fiction" or "speculative fiction", which is SF if you must shorten the term.
Funny, as I read it it all comes out as sci-fi.
They must be doing it wrong...
To understand, think "Linux" vs. "GNU/Linux".
More like "trekkie VS trekker".
They sound like the poseurs who, rather than simply be called artists, want to be called artistes. "Oh no! People might get the impression that I write cheesy stories about space monsters, how will I get them to take my epic love story in dragonworld seriously? I know, I'll call it speculative fiction instead of sci-fi, that'll give it that edge of respectability."
I don't care who's a snob about sci-fi, I'm calling the duck a duck, and if they're not happy, I'll call it scientifiction and pretend it's the 20's.
This proves what I've been saying for months. RIAA will kill you if you share more than 700 songs on a P2P application.
If that is in RIAA numbers, it means that anyone actually sharing over 120 songs is a target!
I'd just like to say that this is, what, the 4th /. article mentioning the launch of this thing and I have yet to go look at it.
Should we expect to see these popping up until you have reached a set number of click-throughs?
Note: 17% length of equator through Brazil was pulled out of my ass...
Ouch! That must have hurt.
The Arctic ocean around the north pole is international "waters"
Not by Canada.