"I fail to see how posing nude or even having sex in front of a camera is worse for the child."
As one of my favorite stand-up comics (not one you'd know) once said, "Your suck doesn't make my suck not suck."
In other words, the existance of a greater wrong doesn't diminish the wrongness of the concept in question. Just because children die from starvation, an arguably greater harm than involvement in child pornography, the alledged lesser wrong of child pornography remains unacceptable.
In mathematical terms, the number 4 doesn't lose any of its value because the number 10 exists.
One shouldn't equate "normal" with "good." By implication, slavery in the 18th centuty is "good." Anti-semitism in Nazi Germany becomes "good."
"which is deviant from the social norm, totally NOT OK"
I would also reconsider your choice of definition of illegality. Social contracts, libertarian rights theory, and even Kant's categorical imperative have more sound foundations of logic than "deviance." Why is something not commonly considered normal illegal? Your definition makes left-handedness, alternative sexualities, and even xeriscaping your yard illegal.
I agree with the overall argument of your post. Existance of an evil end doesn't make the means evil.
I'll avoid this new product unless I know it's not crippled like their gateways. Their gateways/DSL modems don't even let users turn off the router functionality, which is fundamentally important to certain setups. Also, 2Wire devices feel like rentals from the phone company, wholly tied-in for upgrades and configuration. While an unchangable/automatic configuration is good for most users, I'll stick with devices that let me configure them too. Even the parts of their products that allow configuration seem to center around looks and seeming newbie friendly than efficiency. For example, port forwarding doen't even let the user type the back-end IP address. The selection must be by NETBIOS name from a list you have to pray is complete and unambiguous.
Craig Maloney: People will sooner purchase Macintoshes.
Apple has its users on the fastest upgrade treadmill of all by having them pay more than $100 for point releases. Granted, Apple's releases have improved functionality, but many packages ask for 10.2+, and 10.3 is quickly becoming the new baseline. Also, iLife and.Mac are now either subscription-based or continually improved (for a price).
Besides, I don't get why after voting Democrat for every race, I would have to go to another screen, and reselect Kerry. It doesn't make any sense.
You don't have to reselect Kerry. The software only highlights Bush when you first go to the presidential race; it does not select him as the chosen candidate. For some reason, people think the best way to move down-ballot on these machines is to select candidates, and they're selecting the first highlighted choice.
eSlate highlights Bush because he's first on the ballot. It would highlight a Democrat if he or she were first on the ballot. A better design for such a system would be to place the focus on the chosen candidate (if there is one) upon moving to a different race. That way, straight-ticket voting would never cause this sort of error.
I heard that in Texas there were reports that selecting a straight democrating ticket down the line would still select Bush for president. I wonder how many people "accidently" voted for Bush.
It's not a bug. It's just an easy way to misuse the eSlate tablets. After selecting a straight-ticket, it takes you to the next selection box, which it the presidential race. Ol' Dubya is first on the ballot, so he gets highlighted. Pressing the selection button instead of the "Cast Ballot" button selects him.
I'm familiar with the issue because I work with the Travis County Democratic Party in Austin, Texas, the headquarters of eSlate and a county that exclusively uses eSlate machines.
You can allow your children to learn about things you find unacceptable without implying that you find it acceptable.
The very idea of something being "acceptable" is an idea that must be explored, just as the idea of something being "unacceptable" must be explored. One can only develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the arguments why something is or is not acceptable. Unfortunately, many home-school parents expose their children to a narrow moral construct for society. I'm glad your experience was different.
I figured they were just trying to generate more Democratic voters.
...because people with critical thinking skills are always Republican. Republicans are the ones pushing "Leave No Child Behind," which encourages teaching to tests, not to the individual. Second, your logic that the government just likes sapping public funding for its own sake is unsupported by any logic or references. Such behavior would be the equivalent of IBM enjoying charging $1000 more for a server, only to pay $1000 more to the parts suppliers. There's no rationale.
I bet he'd even opt for the Extended Service Plan.
Make fun of it all you like, but I get free battery replacements (and maybe even the new hardware versions) for my iPod for four years, at a cost of $40. Also, Best Buy employees usually won't opt to fix the problem. They'll usually just give you the lastest new model of equal or greater size. That means my 4G iPod may become a 5G or 6G when I need to get the battery replaced in a year or two.
the XP firewall gives no warning when something kills it
Wrong. The security console, by default, will pop up a warning that the firewall is inactive. I've seen this myself when diabling the firewall for even a single connection. The only way to disable the warning is to turn off firewall status monitoring.
both report the Liveupdate product list is corrupt
I've experienced this problem before, well prior to SP2. The LiveUpdate product list does not have anything to do with web access. It's simply a validated index of installed Symantec/Norton products.
An older laptop with a very quiet hard drive is near-silent but modern laptops usually have fairly high-speed cooling fans and a loud hard drive, because getting good performance out of a disk that small is nigh-impossible to do quietly.
My IBM ThinkPad T40p is nearly silent during normal use. The fan noise becomes recognizable when you start taxing the graphics card and processor at the same time. The HDD (Hitachi 60GB 7200RPM) isn't a problem.
Also, if you can point me to a music device that runs Microsoft's software that does NOT have ANY DRM on it, please provide a link.
How is this relevent? Just because Pocket PC supports DRM media doesn't mean it prevents you from using anything else. The only way to financially support DRM is to buy media that only runs on it.
as far as I know PalmOS is just on PDAs and isn't really a desktop OS ported to other devices
Windows CE is neither a port of Windows 9x nor NT. Microsoft created it from the beginning as a mobile OS. Windows CE does, however, power a wider range of devices than Palm OS. Your confusion is understandable. There's more overlap now than ever before between Windows Embedded (desktop/server based) and Windows CE.
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As one of my favorite stand-up comics (not one you'd know) once said, "Your suck doesn't make my suck not suck."
In other words, the existance of a greater wrong doesn't diminish the wrongness of the concept in question. Just because children die from starvation, an arguably greater harm than involvement in child pornography, the alledged lesser wrong of child pornography remains unacceptable.
In mathematical terms, the number 4 doesn't lose any of its value because the number 10 exists.
One shouldn't equate "normal" with "good." By implication, slavery in the 18th centuty is "good." Anti-semitism in Nazi Germany becomes "good."
"which is deviant from the social norm, totally NOT OK"
I would also reconsider your choice of definition of illegality. Social contracts, libertarian rights theory, and even Kant's categorical imperative have more sound foundations of logic than "deviance." Why is something not commonly considered normal illegal? Your definition makes left-handedness, alternative sexualities, and even xeriscaping your yard illegal.
I agree with the overall argument of your post. Existance of an evil end doesn't make the means evil.
Maybe the one I worked with uses a weird firmware, but that option isn't there.
A good quiet, black or silver, brushed aluminum case looks pretty slick.
I'm a big fan of this one. I've built a few computers with it.
I'll avoid this new product unless I know it's not crippled like their gateways. Their gateways/DSL modems don't even let users turn off the router functionality, which is fundamentally important to certain setups. Also, 2Wire devices feel like rentals from the phone company, wholly tied-in for upgrades and configuration. While an unchangable/automatic configuration is good for most users, I'll stick with devices that let me configure them too. Even the parts of their products that allow configuration seem to center around looks and seeming newbie friendly than efficiency. For example, port forwarding doen't even let the user type the back-end IP address. The selection must be by NETBIOS name from a list you have to pray is complete and unambiguous.
Apple has its users on the fastest upgrade treadmill of all by having them pay more than $100 for point releases. Granted, Apple's releases have improved functionality, but many packages ask for 10.2+, and 10.3 is quickly becoming the new baseline. Also, iLife and .Mac are now either subscription-based or continually improved (for a price).
Incorrect. You only need Windows Server 2003 to use HTTP remote access (versus VPN) and some web compression options.
He's chosen as the candidate, but the UI focus doesn't default to him upon moving to the presidential race.
You don't have to reselect Kerry. The software only highlights Bush when you first go to the presidential race; it does not select him as the chosen candidate. For some reason, people think the best way to move down-ballot on these machines is to select candidates, and they're selecting the first highlighted choice.
eSlate highlights Bush because he's first on the ballot. It would highlight a Democrat if he or she were first on the ballot. A better design for such a system would be to place the focus on the chosen candidate (if there is one) upon moving to a different race. That way, straight-ticket voting would never cause this sort of error.
It's not a bug. It's just an easy way to misuse the eSlate tablets. After selecting a straight-ticket, it takes you to the next selection box, which it the presidential race. Ol' Dubya is first on the ballot, so he gets highlighted. Pressing the selection button instead of the "Cast Ballot" button selects him.
I'm familiar with the issue because I work with the Travis County Democratic Party in Austin, Texas, the headquarters of eSlate and a county that exclusively uses eSlate machines.
Oh, I do love shar-odds.
You need to back this crazy assertion up with something.
Aliases are easier to set up and check.
I guess the Word and Excel attachments I got today via Outlook are figments of my imagination.
The very idea of something being "acceptable" is an idea that must be explored, just as the idea of something being "unacceptable" must be explored. One can only develop critical thinking skills by evaluating the arguments why something is or is not acceptable. Unfortunately, many home-school parents expose their children to a narrow moral construct for society. I'm glad your experience was different.
These values are inconsistant.
...because people with critical thinking skills are always Republican. Republicans are the ones pushing "Leave No Child Behind," which encourages teaching to tests, not to the individual. Second, your logic that the government just likes sapping public funding for its own sake is unsupported by any logic or references. Such behavior would be the equivalent of IBM enjoying charging $1000 more for a server, only to pay $1000 more to the parts suppliers. There's no rationale.
Who's the dim-witted one?
Make fun of it all you like, but I get free battery replacements (and maybe even the new hardware versions) for my iPod for four years, at a cost of $40. Also, Best Buy employees usually won't opt to fix the problem. They'll usually just give you the lastest new model of equal or greater size. That means my 4G iPod may become a 5G or 6G when I need to get the battery replaced in a year or two.
They're gone now. See Lawrence v. Texas. Not that they weren't ever there...
Wrong. The security console, by default, will pop up a warning that the firewall is inactive. I've seen this myself when diabling the firewall for even a single connection. The only way to disable the warning is to turn off firewall status monitoring.
I've experienced this problem before, well prior to SP2. The LiveUpdate product list does not have anything to do with web access. It's simply a validated index of installed Symantec/Norton products.
My IBM ThinkPad T40p is nearly silent during normal use. The fan noise becomes recognizable when you start taxing the graphics card and processor at the same time. The HDD (Hitachi 60GB 7200RPM) isn't a problem.
How is this relevent? Just because Pocket PC supports DRM media doesn't mean it prevents you from using anything else. The only way to financially support DRM is to buy media that only runs on it.
Windows CE is neither a port of Windows 9x nor NT. Microsoft created it from the beginning as a mobile OS. Windows CE does, however, power a wider range of devices than Palm OS. Your confusion is understandable. There's more overlap now than ever before between Windows Embedded (desktop/server based) and Windows CE.