Sorry, I was never around before 1962 film. I was also not around before the 1955 book.
Well, hell, neither was I.
I promise to check out the book. My philosophy regarding books and movies is that the original is always better.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far. Look at James Bond, for example, that had a few good movies, but the pulp that Ian Fleming churned out was complete garbage.
I would like to meet someone who really does view the book's Lolita as canonical compared to the current meme.
I don't know what that means. I can tell you, though, that considerably more people have read the book than seen the movie (sold something like 50 million copies, so far).
This is largely arguable, too. For most of the history of humankind, early marriage, and associated sexual life, was the norm.
Sure was. Another example: for most of the history of humankind women were considered either incapable of directing their own lives, or to be property. "Most of the history of humankind" isn't always all that relevant.
This has only changed in late 19th century, and there's good reasons to believe that it has nothing to do with changes in social development as such, and everything with Victorian morals taking over - a legacy which we still bear.
I'm afraid that's not as obvious to me. Also doesn't explain why age of consent is several years past puberty in virtually every country in the world.
If you have two countries, both from the same cultural tradition (Western, European), having age of consent differ by as much as 4-5 years (or >25% in relative measure), what does it tell about its accuracy either way? Can it be seriously claimed that, say, children in Germany or Italy mature faster socially than in U.S.?
It just means that people don't magically mature at a specific age, so when different countries draw the arbitrary line, they choose to err differently.
I was saying that sexual maturity is not enough to proclaim someone an adult in our society, not that age of consent laws are somehow perfect.
"In fact" they are not. Children are scientifically defined as the juvenile *sterile* member of a species. 14 year olds are not sterile..... they have become adults in the biological and natural sense.
Meh, that's just arguing semantics (admittedly, I do that a lot myself). You had to qualify that as "biological" adults, which, indeed, they are. However, socially they are not (and I would venture that most people don't automatically interpret an unqualified "child" in the strictly biological sense).
So, yes, seeing how we have a pretty complex social dynamic going in our species, there exists that period when sexually mature individuals cannot yet be considered fully capable adults. And this will continue to cause no end of problems with no easy solutions.
Still, it is the responsibility of fully fledged adults to exercise a lot of caution in engaging in sexual activities with that particular group. Usually to the point of simply not doing that.
What does #3 for 3rd degree actually mean? Seems like it encompasses all types of coercion that are not "forcible compulsion", and that's a whole range of things, some of which deserve more than "3rd degree", I would think.
It all depends on how this is applied. A 21-year-old sleeping with a 16-year-old is generally pretty skeezy, but the judge should have a fair amount of leeway in sentencing cases like this; automatic jail time for something like this is a bit much. Plus, that part should definitely not fall under "strict liability", some kind of reasonable suspicion benchmark would make sense (for the "under the age of 13" bit, sure, strict liability all the way).
If only it were that simple. What if the "child" that was "raped" is a Lolita-type that deliberately seduces and encourages older men into her bed?
Didn't the parent specifically say that he's talking about actual rape, not statutory rape?
Seems to me they should both be in jail..... or better yet, allow an exception for sex that is consensual, as when Jerry Lee Lewis had sex with a 14 year old (whom he eventually married).
Well, no, see one of them is an adult, adults are supposed to be able to exercise impulse control. "That 14-year-old seduced me!" has never been a valid excuse, and never will be.
Of course it's impossible to draw a strict line at some age to separate children from adults, but the idea that children are not capable of consent to sex with adults is pretty sound. And let's face it, most 14-year-olds are, in fact, children.
Not that I'm saying that the current practical application of this in our justice system isn't all manner of fucked up.
None of them has anything like the prison population the US does, or locks up 18 year olds forever because they had sex with a girl a few months younger than they are (I don't believe that's even mildly illegal in any of the three).
But we do have that prison population, and we do lock up teenagers for sleeping with other, slightly younger, teenagers (maybe not for life, but definitely for decades). So somehow, that comparison isn't making me feel better.
Gods, the number of Wikipedia pages with ridiculously tortured sentences just to work in "neologism" or "portmanteau" - what is the goddamn fascination?
Here's a hint: if you have to provide a link for people to look up the meaning of a word, then it's not a useful word in explaining some other topic.
Here's a typical specimen:
Metrosexual, a portmanteau of metropolitan and sexual, is a neologism of the 2000s one definition of which is a man (especially one living in a post-industrial, capitalist culture) who has a strong concern for his appearance or a lifestyle that displays attributes stereotypically associated with homosexual men.
Yes, awkwardly using obscure words makes this sound extremely professional.
Just goes to show that these guys don't take security seriously - that should at least be Boeing 775. This is just common sense, there is no excuse for such sloppiness.
this copying of the node happens after the node goes down?
One of the remaining replicas of each block on the failed node is copied so the total replication count does not go down. The original was perhaps poorly phrased, no need to be a dick about it, though.
Details like that don't matter. Struggling against time, intrigue, and moving the plot along: that's what matters.
Details matter if the writer isn't a lazy hack. If your story is set in the real world, and you can't propel all that intrigue forward in a compelling way, while still observing the constraints of the real world, then you are simply not a very good writer.
Nobody wants these guys show boring technical things in excruciating detail. If it's not interesting, don't show it, find some other way to move your story forward, but don't just make shit up because you can't make reality fit with your plot. It's laziness, pure and simple.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months.
This is an artistic element in a movie about magic, it has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.
The universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller particles. Behind atoms we find electrons, behind electrons we find quarks.
The pedant in me feels the need to point out that quarks are several times more massive than electrons (which I guess is as close to the concept of larger/smaller as you can get here).
Who's talking about civil action? I'm pretty sure the issue is pretty well covered by criminal law.
in the U.S., dioceses are required to turn their info over to police
So, I must have missed where they did that? Instead of, you know, obstructing the police at every step.
Admittedly, I know very little about the judicial workings of the Vatican, nor do I think they are particularly relevant here, what I care about is that the people who commit these crimes are prosecuted in the criminal justice systems of the jurisdictions where the crimes were committed. And the Church's record in cooperating with local authorities in this matter is not exactly encouraging.
You're saying that some obscure bit of administrative terminology is being taken out of context here - fine, sure, that doesn't really do much to improve their overall stance in these matters, though.
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And who gets the patent(s), money etc. for this particular protein?
I guess it's whoever spends the hundreds of millions of dollars to follow up on the infinitesimal chance that this will lead to something useful?
Sorry, I was never around before 1962 film. I was also not around before the 1955 book.
Well, hell, neither was I.
I promise to check out the book. My philosophy regarding books and movies is that the original is always better.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far. Look at James Bond, for example, that had a few good movies, but the pulp that Ian Fleming churned out was complete garbage.
I would like to meet someone who really does view the book's Lolita as canonical compared to the current meme.
I don't know what that means. I can tell you, though, that considerably more people have read the book than seen the movie (sold something like 50 million copies, so far).
This is largely arguable, too. For most of the history of humankind, early marriage, and associated sexual life, was the norm.
Sure was. Another example: for most of the history of humankind women were considered either incapable of directing their own lives, or to be property. "Most of the history of humankind" isn't always all that relevant.
This has only changed in late 19th century, and there's good reasons to believe that it has nothing to do with changes in social development as such, and everything with Victorian morals taking over - a legacy which we still bear.
I'm afraid that's not as obvious to me. Also doesn't explain why age of consent is several years past puberty in virtually every country in the world.
If you have two countries, both from the same cultural tradition (Western, European), having age of consent differ by as much as 4-5 years (or >25% in relative measure), what does it tell about its accuracy either way? Can it be seriously claimed that, say, children in Germany or Italy mature faster socially than in U.S.?
It just means that people don't magically mature at a specific age, so when different countries draw the arbitrary line, they choose to err differently.
I was saying that sexual maturity is not enough to proclaim someone an adult in our society, not that age of consent laws are somehow perfect.
"In fact" they are not. Children are scientifically defined as the juvenile *sterile* member of a species. 14 year olds are not sterile..... they have become adults in the biological and natural sense.
Meh, that's just arguing semantics (admittedly, I do that a lot myself). You had to qualify that as "biological" adults, which, indeed, they are. However, socially they are not (and I would venture that most people don't automatically interpret an unqualified "child" in the strictly biological sense).
So, yes, seeing how we have a pretty complex social dynamic going in our species, there exists that period when sexually mature individuals cannot yet be considered fully capable adults. And this will continue to cause no end of problems with no easy solutions.
Still, it is the responsibility of fully fledged adults to exercise a lot of caution in engaging in sexual activities with that particular group. Usually to the point of simply not doing that.
No, I was just obliquely (perhaps too obliquely) pointing out that the word was pretty well known before the movie.
What does #3 for 3rd degree actually mean? Seems like it encompasses all types of coercion that are not "forcible compulsion", and that's a whole range of things, some of which deserve more than "3rd degree", I would think.
It all depends on how this is applied. A 21-year-old sleeping with a 16-year-old is generally pretty skeezy, but the judge should have a fair amount of leeway in sentencing cases like this; automatic jail time for something like this is a bit much. Plus, that part should definitely not fall under "strict liability", some kind of reasonable suspicion benchmark would make sense (for the "under the age of 13" bit, sure, strict liability all the way).
If only it were that simple. What if the "child" that was "raped" is a Lolita-type that deliberately seduces and encourages older men into her bed?
Didn't the parent specifically say that he's talking about actual rape, not statutory rape?
Seems to me they should both be in jail..... or better yet, allow an exception for sex that is consensual, as when Jerry Lee Lewis had sex with a 14 year old (whom he eventually married).
Well, no, see one of them is an adult, adults are supposed to be able to exercise impulse control. "That 14-year-old seduced me!" has never been a valid excuse, and never will be.
Of course it's impossible to draw a strict line at some age to separate children from adults, but the idea that children are not capable of consent to sex with adults is pretty sound. And let's face it, most 14-year-olds are, in fact, children.
Not that I'm saying that the current practical application of this in our justice system isn't all manner of fucked up.
The movie from whence the term "Lolita" came
Wait, are you serious? I think you are serious.
None of them has anything like the prison population the US does, or locks up 18 year olds forever because they had sex with a girl a few months younger than they are (I don't believe that's even mildly illegal in any of the three).
But we do have that prison population, and we do lock up teenagers for sleeping with other, slightly younger, teenagers (maybe not for life, but definitely for decades). So somehow, that comparison isn't making me feel better.
Why can't our cool futuristic stuff look cool and futuristic?
I like it! Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikador
Here's a hint: if you have to provide a link for people to look up the meaning of a word, then it's not a useful word in explaining some other topic.
Here's a typical specimen:
Yes, awkwardly using obscure words makes this sound extremely professional.
The F-15 launched ASM-135 ASAT - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT [wikipedia.org] - could go up to 350 miles.
Galaxy 15 is at 22,230 miles
So that just means you need 64 of them, right?
Come on, "editors", would it kill you to edit every once in a while?
The 777 uses it for the control software - http://www.adaic.org/atwork/boeing.html [adaic.org]
Just goes to show that these guys don't take security seriously - that should at least be Boeing 775. This is just common sense, there is no excuse for such sloppiness.
i tried to consider what 9.6 billion light years was like in terms of distance
Not that hard to conceptualize - it's about 10% of Everything (if the current numbers for the Observable Universe are to be believed).
Thank you for the detailed explanation of why we can't fix a malfunctioning satellite by capping it with a 100 ton steel funnel.
this copying of the node happens after the node goes down?
One of the remaining replicas of each block on the failed node is copied so the total replication count does not go down. The original was perhaps poorly phrased, no need to be a dick about it, though.
This may come as a shock, but Linux has more useful applications than "dicking around on youtube".
Isn't that particular accomplishment not all that impressive these days? You can easily see people from space on Google Maps.
Why not test "knowledge of subject matter" to check attendance?
I know most undergrad students still act like children, but the whole point of university is that that's where you start treating them like adults.
Details like that don't matter. Struggling against time, intrigue, and moving the plot along: that's what matters.
Details matter if the writer isn't a lazy hack. If your story is set in the real world, and you can't propel all that intrigue forward in a compelling way, while still observing the constraints of the real world, then you are simply not a very good writer.
Nobody wants these guys show boring technical things in excruciating detail. If it's not interesting, don't show it, find some other way to move your story forward, but don't just make shit up because you can't make reality fit with your plot. It's laziness, pure and simple.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months.
This is an artistic element in a movie about magic, it has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.
The universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller particles. Behind atoms we find electrons, behind electrons we find quarks.
The pedant in me feels the need to point out that quarks are several times more massive than electrons (which I guess is as close to the concept of larger/smaller as you can get here).
Human brains have a low clock speed, and each processor (neuron) is quite small, but there are a lot of them working at once.
Human brains have nothing whatsoever in common with modern computers, and making facile comparisons is counter-productive.
Who's talking about civil action? I'm pretty sure the issue is pretty well covered by criminal law.
in the U.S., dioceses are required to turn their info over to police
So, I must have missed where they did that? Instead of, you know, obstructing the police at every step.
Admittedly, I know very little about the judicial workings of the Vatican, nor do I think they are particularly relevant here, what I care about is that the people who commit these crimes are prosecuted in the criminal justice systems of the jurisdictions where the crimes were committed. And the Church's record in cooperating with local authorities in this matter is not exactly encouraging.
You're saying that some obscure bit of administrative terminology is being taken out of context here - fine, sure, that doesn't really do much to improve their overall stance in these matters, though.