At no point during the Bush administration did the Republicans have more than 55 votes, yet they pretty much ran the place however they liked. People forget that GWB was successful in every major initiative he attempted prior to September 11 except for expanding the role of faith-based organizations in providing local charity - with an evenly divided Senate and a nine-vote majority in the House.
If you have some real fetish needs, then I guess you need a search engine. Otherwise? First hit for "porn blog" on Google is Fleshbot, and if you can't find your way from there, well, I'm not sure anything other than bespoke will suit you.
I've had that exact discussion with friends who have children. I'm not a bluenose at all, but I have to say that this is one of the few times in which the old conservative saw "but that's not how it was when we were young..." is actually completely true. That doesn't mean it's going to turn out badly, necessarily, but it's worth thinking about. Most people are comfortable in thinking that Little Johnny isn't going to be hurt by Playboy, or even a little Penthouse/Hustler, but modern porn can give you a whole lot more than that.
I was the porn buyer for my group of friends - I looked a little older, and I knew a store that didn't care. The most exotic thing we ever came across was a woman who could knot her labia minora. (Which was, I must say, impressive. Disturbing, but impressive.) One guy had an older brother who rented a porn from the local store-with-a-back-room-for-adults-only and copied it. That was all the video porn we had - maybe an hour's worth. And that was in 1992, right when today's HS grads were being born. Bukkake? Never heard of it. A2M? Considered extremely exotic. DP? Rare. Fetish porn? There was no Rule 34 back then. You're right, even a ten-year gap in age produced a massive shift.
People still pay for porn on the Internet? There's basically an unlimited quantity available for free. You can spend 15 minutes on a free porn site with downthemall and collect more porn than my buddies and I had combined when we were teenagers 20 years ago. And it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaay dirtier.
I am open-minded and willing to believe that the guy with sleeves and a mullet is not a moron once he proves it, but he's going to have a lot more work than the guy with short hair and a suit.
No, you get flamebait when you post controversially. PopeRatzo and I are diametrically opposed on many, many political topics, but we both share a penchant for saying stuff that's 1) way out there and 2) probably deeply true. Every once in a while some ass that dislikes me gets mod points and wanders around tagging all my posts flamebait, I've got karma to burn and I suspect he does too.
It's worth noting that most of the Founders were very wealthy men. It's easy not to worry about vandalism when your car is garaged and you have $20 million in the bank. It's a lot more of an issue if you're a small business owner who has to worry about losing everything he has to a few vandals.
Mostly oils dripped onto the surface by leaky cars combined with tread rubber that has accumulated from wear. Drive very carefully for the first 5-10 minutes of a rain in the east; in SoCal I'd probably let it wash for an hour or so.
I'm not worried about deterrence. Capital punishment (along with life imprisonment) is an effective cure for recidivism.
Your first link isn't a study, it's an idiot opinion piece ("Harvard and Berkeley studies have shown..." is a pretty good clue to stupidity, since the studies weren't commissioned by the universities themselves.) Your second one talks about homicide and violent crime involving firearms - not shoplifting to eat. You might also consider the possibility that predisposition to criminality leads to low income rather than the other way around.
how many people died of plague in the Dark Ages because the Church's response was "Pray harder!"
In the absence of antibiotics - i.e., until 1940 or so - this was about as good as the advice could get.
How many Muslim girls have had their clitorises chopped off and then forced to live lives as servants?
Ragging on Muslims specifically is a separate post. How many Jewish and Christian boys have had their foreskins sliced off? Why does it matter? As I said, Christianity is not without its problems, but it's a long way from the worst ideology that has ever plagued the earth.
How many Aztecs and Incas died because of the Spaniards' holy drive to conquer and Christianize the heathens?
Not nearly as many as died of the diseases said Spaniards brought over. The Spaniards wanted them as slaves, not corpses.
How many Africans have died of AIDS that would have lived if the Pope hadn't stood in the way of sex education and barrier contraception?
How many have died because of idiotic indigenous beliefs like "fucking a virgin will cure you of AIDS"?
Yeah, it's kinda funny - they could sell access to the beta for $5, offer no technical support at all, and they'd STILL be swimming in money. I would pay $20 for this app when it comes out, and it'd be worth every cent.
I can't help you with the multiple-language problem, but Swype is easy to use with one hand. Grab with the fingers, type with the thumb. I do it all the time.
Communism admitted no gods, but it bumped off somewhere around 100 million human beings in the 20th century. Christianity has a lot of problems, but it's never managed that. Frankly, the religious impulse in humans is powerful, and it will be answered. Organized religions, whatever their faults, have learned to channel that impulse. Just because you don't feel it - and I don't, not at all - doesn't mean others don't, or that it's not real.
The poverty line for a single person is $10,830. That doesn't allow for luxuries but it does mean that you can afford to eat, so stop with the Jean Valjean justifications. Most poor people are not criminals and never would be. Thieves are a despicable section of humanity, regardless of how much money they make, and I'd happily have them executed if I could be certain they were guilty. I have a strong practical opposition to the death penalty, but morally I have no qualms about it.
They finally left without even excusing themselves for disturbing me.
This is the problem.
I've had the cops called on me once. I had a man show up at the gate of my patio wearing a ski mask in 50-degree weather. I greeted him with a handgun. Turns out it was my elderly and somewhat demented neighbor, and when the police officer arrived, he asked what happened. I told him. He wished me a good night and left. That's both good police work and good public relations.
If you're going to toss someone's house, a simple "We're sorry to have bothered you, but we do have to check these things" costs only about five seconds' time and really does go a long way toward making someone feel better about the fact that gang of armed men just forced their way into his house and tore the place apart.
I'm just rather amazed that considering the options people have, that people voting with their dollar hasn't had a bigger impact on the cell carriers.
There are too many factors that go into selecting a wireless carrier for that to work. Sprint doesn't have 3G service in my area at all, while AT&T and T-mobile have zero service at my workplace, and so I could choose among Verizon, the prepaids, and a local carrier. I picked Verizon so that I could get a phone that wasn't hopelessly out of date. The fact is that VZW are jerks - but they're jerks with a great network and good phones, and I'm willing to pay for good coverage.
My photography - I've probably taken 5 really good shots in my life - isn't worth much. 20% of a pittance is a great deal to me. It would be a crap deal for my sister, who's a pro and can produce really great stuff, but she's not the target audience for this deal.
Gresham's Law only applies when you can't easily tell good quality from bad. Not the case here. This is "good enough" replacing "expensive, but the cheapest we can get".
Teenagers aren't, as a category, stupid. They're just not able to think things through all the way, because they lack the experience to judge when things will go bad, and how. Unfortunately, the only solution is time.
I'm no "smarter" at 35 than I was at 15. I am, however, a lot more imaginative about the number of ways in which you can die horribly.
Your "uncontrolled capitalism" bit was three threads deep. Again: which is in the better economic situation: Frankfurt right now, or Dresden 20 years ago?
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At no point during the Bush administration did the Republicans have more than 55 votes, yet they pretty much ran the place however they liked. People forget that GWB was successful in every major initiative he attempted prior to September 11 except for expanding the role of faith-based organizations in providing local charity - with an evenly divided Senate and a nine-vote majority in the House.
If you have some real fetish needs, then I guess you need a search engine. Otherwise? First hit for "porn blog" on Google is Fleshbot, and if you can't find your way from there, well, I'm not sure anything other than bespoke will suit you.
I've had that exact discussion with friends who have children. I'm not a bluenose at all, but I have to say that this is one of the few times in which the old conservative saw "but that's not how it was when we were young..." is actually completely true. That doesn't mean it's going to turn out badly, necessarily, but it's worth thinking about. Most people are comfortable in thinking that Little Johnny isn't going to be hurt by Playboy, or even a little Penthouse/Hustler, but modern porn can give you a whole lot more than that.
I was the porn buyer for my group of friends - I looked a little older, and I knew a store that didn't care. The most exotic thing we ever came across was a woman who could knot her labia minora. (Which was, I must say, impressive. Disturbing, but impressive.) One guy had an older brother who rented a porn from the local store-with-a-back-room-for-adults-only and copied it. That was all the video porn we had - maybe an hour's worth. And that was in 1992, right when today's HS grads were being born. Bukkake? Never heard of it. A2M? Considered extremely exotic. DP? Rare. Fetish porn? There was no Rule 34 back then. You're right, even a ten-year gap in age produced a massive shift.
People still pay for porn on the Internet? There's basically an unlimited quantity available for free. You can spend 15 minutes on a free porn site with downthemall and collect more porn than my buddies and I had combined when we were teenagers 20 years ago. And it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaay dirtier.
Better that that than a double helix
Yeah, most people I've seen with a tramp stamp get plenty of DNA dropped on the spot.
I am open-minded and willing to believe that the guy with sleeves and a mullet is not a moron once he proves it, but he's going to have a lot more work than the guy with short hair and a suit.
No, you get flamebait when you post controversially. PopeRatzo and I are diametrically opposed on many, many political topics, but we both share a penchant for saying stuff that's 1) way out there and 2) probably deeply true. Every once in a while some ass that dislikes me gets mod points and wanders around tagging all my posts flamebait, I've got karma to burn and I suspect he does too.
It's worth noting that most of the Founders were very wealthy men. It's easy not to worry about vandalism when your car is garaged and you have $20 million in the bank. It's a lot more of an issue if you're a small business owner who has to worry about losing everything he has to a few vandals.
Mostly oils dripped onto the surface by leaky cars combined with tread rubber that has accumulated from wear. Drive very carefully for the first 5-10 minutes of a rain in the east; in SoCal I'd probably let it wash for an hour or so.
I'm not worried about deterrence. Capital punishment (along with life imprisonment) is an effective cure for recidivism.
Your first link isn't a study, it's an idiot opinion piece ("Harvard and Berkeley studies have shown..." is a pretty good clue to stupidity, since the studies weren't commissioned by the universities themselves.) Your second one talks about homicide and violent crime involving firearms - not shoplifting to eat. You might also consider the possibility that predisposition to criminality leads to low income rather than the other way around.
how many people died of plague in the Dark Ages because the Church's response was "Pray harder!"
In the absence of antibiotics - i.e., until 1940 or so - this was about as good as the advice could get.
How many Muslim girls have had their clitorises chopped off and then forced to live lives as servants?
Ragging on Muslims specifically is a separate post. How many Jewish and Christian boys have had their foreskins sliced off? Why does it matter? As I said, Christianity is not without its problems, but it's a long way from the worst ideology that has ever plagued the earth.
How many Aztecs and Incas died because of the Spaniards' holy drive to conquer and Christianize the heathens?
Not nearly as many as died of the diseases said Spaniards brought over. The Spaniards wanted them as slaves, not corpses.
How many Africans have died of AIDS that would have lived if the Pope hadn't stood in the way of sex education and barrier contraception?
How many have died because of idiotic indigenous beliefs like "fucking a virgin will cure you of AIDS"?
Yeah, it's kinda funny - they could sell access to the beta for $5, offer no technical support at all, and they'd STILL be swimming in money. I would pay $20 for this app when it comes out, and it'd be worth every cent.
I can't help you with the multiple-language problem, but Swype is easy to use with one hand. Grab with the fingers, type with the thumb. I do it all the time.
Or perhaps he doesn't carry it everywhere. If I were doing something shady I certainly wouldn't.
Communism admitted no gods, but it bumped off somewhere around 100 million human beings in the 20th century. Christianity has a lot of problems, but it's never managed that. Frankly, the religious impulse in humans is powerful, and it will be answered. Organized religions, whatever their faults, have learned to channel that impulse. Just because you don't feel it - and I don't, not at all - doesn't mean others don't, or that it's not real.
The poverty line for a single person is $10,830. That doesn't allow for luxuries but it does mean that you can afford to eat, so stop with the Jean Valjean justifications. Most poor people are not criminals and never would be. Thieves are a despicable section of humanity, regardless of how much money they make, and I'd happily have them executed if I could be certain they were guilty. I have a strong practical opposition to the death penalty, but morally I have no qualms about it.
They finally left without even excusing themselves for disturbing me.
This is the problem.
I've had the cops called on me once. I had a man show up at the gate of my patio wearing a ski mask in 50-degree weather. I greeted him with a handgun. Turns out it was my elderly and somewhat demented neighbor, and when the police officer arrived, he asked what happened. I told him. He wished me a good night and left. That's both good police work and good public relations.
If you're going to toss someone's house, a simple "We're sorry to have bothered you, but we do have to check these things" costs only about five seconds' time and really does go a long way toward making someone feel better about the fact that gang of armed men just forced their way into his house and tore the place apart.
The people who have been using Swype probably knew about this days ago. I certainly did.
I'm just rather amazed that considering the options people have, that people voting with their dollar hasn't had a bigger impact on the cell carriers.
There are too many factors that go into selecting a wireless carrier for that to work. Sprint doesn't have 3G service in my area at all, while AT&T and T-mobile have zero service at my workplace, and so I could choose among Verizon, the prepaids, and a local carrier. I picked Verizon so that I could get a phone that wasn't hopelessly out of date. The fact is that VZW are jerks - but they're jerks with a great network and good phones, and I'm willing to pay for good coverage.
My photography - I've probably taken 5 really good shots in my life - isn't worth much. 20% of a pittance is a great deal to me. It would be a crap deal for my sister, who's a pro and can produce really great stuff, but she's not the target audience for this deal.
Gresham's Law only applies when you can't easily tell good quality from bad. Not the case here. This is "good enough" replacing "expensive, but the cheapest we can get".
I don't think anybody's interested in paying for amateur gay porn. Assuming it's anything like straight porn, it's available everywhere for free.
The distinction is that, so long as there are more regular people than trolls, trolls will disproportionately receive downmods.
Teenagers aren't, as a category, stupid. They're just not able to think things through all the way, because they lack the experience to judge when things will go bad, and how. Unfortunately, the only solution is time.
I'm no "smarter" at 35 than I was at 15. I am, however, a lot more imaginative about the number of ways in which you can die horribly.
Your "uncontrolled capitalism" bit was three threads deep. Again: which is in the better economic situation: Frankfurt right now, or Dresden 20 years ago?