Why is it that noone is questioning the "filtering" that has been done since the inception of libraries by the acquisition dept?
Because the libraries should be able to make decisions about what content they provide without interference from the federal government. The community standards should be set by the community, not by Washington D.C..
That's right. It's not our place to prevent anyone from seeing whatever. However...it is also not our requirement to provide a public place for random porn surfing, in a publically funded area (library), where a good percentage of the patrons are children.
If a library refuses to order any books with the letter x in their title or decides that their browsers should only display text, then that is their prerogative. They donâ(TM)t have to make intelligent decisions about what content they choose to provide. But the CIPA pressures ALL libraries that receive federal funding. That is a big difference.
How would you react if the bill stated that libraries must not have any books written by Salman Rushdie or Abbie Hoffman if they are to receive federal funding?
Will you show your (future?) 8 year old sexually explicit images and videos?
I donâ(TM)t plan on spawning, so with any luck, I can minimize the amount time that I am forced to be around eight year old children.
Still I donâ(TM)t think that pornography is necessarily more harmful than any other cinema or magazine genre.
If Joe Idiot wants to surf porn, fine. Let him do it at home.
Agreed, Iâ(TM)m not telling libraries what they should stock, and the federal government shouldnâ(TM)t either.
The 'perfection of the human body' has nothing to do with internet porn. Rape, scat, bestiality videos do. And if you think that it is OK to display those in an area full of (by definition)"psychologically fragile" children, paid for by yours and my dollars....then we must live very, very different lives. Or one of us does not have little kids around the house.
If children want to learn about rape, scat, and bestiality, they can inform themselves the same way I did, by using an unabridged dictionary found in nearly every library.
What catastrophe occurs when young people encounter sexually explicit images? Please tell me, I honestly donâ(TM)t know.
"Daddy...what is that lady doing to that donkey?" is not a question that should come up in the public library.
What does that mean? Do you think that you sexual preferances are superior to others?
Your reply may have been made in jest, but I nonetheless contend that attempts made to censor pornography indicate a puritanical animosity towards pleasure and sex (or rather sex that is not sanctioned by the church).
Do you have any evidence that demonstrates that an image found on goatse.cx can âoeliterally scarâ a person for life, or did you just make that up because you have an irrational fear of the human body?
Does this 'babel' format have any relationship with Babelfish?
"Babel" is comes from two words, "baa" meaning "gate" and "el," meaning "god". It follows that it is "the gate of god." A related word in Hebrew, "balal" means "confusion".
"Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the earth. - Genesis 11.
According to the bible, the entire human species once spoke the same language (a bit like how in fantasy novels a character can speak elfish or orc). Anyway, the bible says that some enterprising humans made an attempt to build a tower high enough to reach heaven. They almost made it there until Yahweh got nervous and decided to destroy the tower and give us incompatible languages so that we might never work collectively on a similar engineering project.
Do you think people would continue to go to work if they no longer received pay?
Do you think students would study diligently if their course had nothing useful or interesting to offer, and academic achievement garnered no prestige?
As for war, well, I concede. It doesn't seem very rational. Even those who decide to wage war usually view it as a last resort. It seems that most wars in recent history have been fought by soldiers who are paid for their efforts or forced into conscription. And you don't have to look too far to find toys, movies, games and literature that glorify war and warriors. Either way, it's the same forces at work- the carrot and the stick.
The two basic objectives that capable organisms have are quiet simple really: Avoid punishment, and pursue reward. I can't think of a rational reason to behave otherwise.
Don't you consider Polio to be an "ill of society"?
Okay, I'll try again. Take your example of hunger. Famine is a threat that menaces hunter-gatherer societies. It is more or less curable by means of agricultural technology combined with transportation technology. Yes famine does still exist, but only in nations that have not yet reached a sophisticated level of technology.
I suspect that someone who has the ability to warp time and sign up for classes in 1980's California will have very little need for remedial math.
Following the above posters advice for fitting in will only elicit questions about whether that creepy old guy is trying to imitate Bill, Ted, or Polly Shore. At best it could evoke sympathy or pity for the hopelessly out of touch.
The location from which a sound is originating is determined in part by pinna cues. The pinna is the visible fleshy outer part of the ear. Higher frequencies may reflect off the pinna before entering the ear canal. This colors the sound, giving clues to its origin. A person who is blindfolded and has her pinna folds filled with clay, will be able to tell if a sound is coming from the left or the right, but will not point to the source with any great accuracy.
Sound waves typically pass through surfaces that are smaller than their wavelength.
Lower frequencies pass through the pinna. Without reflected sound, its origin is ambiguous.
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Why is it that noone is questioning the "filtering" that has been done since the inception of libraries by the acquisition dept?
Because the libraries should be able to make decisions about what content they provide without interference from the federal government. The community standards should be set by the community, not by Washington D.C..
That's right. It's not our place to prevent anyone from seeing whatever. However...it is also not our requirement to provide a public place for random porn surfing, in a publically funded area (library), where a good percentage of the patrons are children.
If a library refuses to order any books with the letter x in their title or decides that their browsers should only display text, then that is their prerogative. They donâ(TM)t have to make intelligent decisions about what content they choose to provide. But the CIPA pressures ALL libraries that receive federal funding. That is a big difference.
How would you react if the bill stated that libraries must not have any books written by Salman Rushdie or Abbie Hoffman if they are to receive federal funding?
Will you show your (future?) 8 year old sexually explicit images and videos?
I donâ(TM)t plan on spawning, so with any luck, I can minimize the amount time that I am forced to be around eight year old children.
Still I donâ(TM)t think that pornography is necessarily more harmful than any other cinema or magazine genre.
If Joe Idiot wants to surf porn, fine. Let him do it at home.
Agreed, Iâ(TM)m not telling libraries what they should stock, and the federal government shouldnâ(TM)t either.
The 'perfection of the human body' has nothing to do with internet porn.
Rape, scat, bestiality videos do. And if you think that it is OK to display those in an area full of (by definition)"psychologically fragile" children, paid for by yours and my dollars....then we must live very, very different lives. Or one of us does not have little kids around the house.
If children want to learn about rape, scat, and bestiality, they can inform themselves the same way I did, by using an unabridged dictionary found in nearly every library.
What catastrophe occurs when young people encounter sexually explicit images? Please tell me, I honestly donâ(TM)t know.
"Daddy...what is that lady doing to that donkey?" is not a question that should come up in the public library.
What does that mean? Do you think that you sexual preferances are superior to others?
You must psychologically fragile
There are a lot of things on the internet that I donâ(TM)t like, but I donâ(TM)t feel itâ(TM)s my place to stop people from seeing them.
Your reply may have been made in jest, but I nonetheless contend that attempts made to censor pornography indicate a puritanical animosity towards pleasure and sex (or rather sex that is not sanctioned by the church).
Do you have any evidence that demonstrates that an image found on goatse.cx can âoeliterally scarâ a person for life, or did you just make that up because you have an irrational fear of the human body?
Snopes has something to say about that.
Turns out that the skirts are just doctored photos.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/skirts.asp
Does this 'babel' format have any relationship with Babelfish?
"Babel" is comes from two words, "baa" meaning "gate" and "el," meaning "god". It follows that it is "the gate of god." A related word in Hebrew, "balal" means "confusion".
"Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the earth. - Genesis 11.
No, they are referring to the tower of Babel.
According to the bible, the entire human species once spoke the same language (a bit like how in fantasy novels a character can speak elfish or orc). Anyway, the bible says that some enterprising humans made an attempt to build a tower high enough to reach heaven. They almost made it there until Yahweh got nervous and decided to destroy the tower and give us incompatible languages so that we might never work collectively on a similar engineering project.
Classifying atheism as a type of religion is like classifying health as a type of disease.
Here is an old clip documenting the hippie movement in Torono that shows a young William Gibson.
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I am sorry to say that is in WMV format.
The file can also be found here: http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives/English/hippie
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Do you think people would continue to go to work if they no longer received pay?
Do you think students would study diligently if their course had nothing useful or interesting to offer, and academic achievement garnered no prestige?
As for war, well, I concede. It doesn't seem very rational. Even those who decide to wage war usually view it as a last resort. It seems that most wars in recent history have been fought by soldiers who are paid for their efforts or forced into conscription. And you don't have to look too far to find toys, movies, games and literature that glorify war and warriors. Either way, it's the same forces at work- the carrot and the stick.
The two basic objectives that capable organisms have are quiet simple really: Avoid punishment, and pursue reward. I can't think of a rational reason to behave otherwise.
Don't you consider Polio to be an "ill of society"?
Okay, I'll try again. Take your example of hunger. Famine is a threat that menaces hunter-gatherer societies. It is more or less curable by means of agricultural technology combined with transportation technology. Yes famine does still exist, but only in nations that have not yet reached a sophisticated level of technology.
Yes, Technology has cured polio.
Anyone who is interested in this topic should check out http://www.transhumanism.com/
http://davedina.apestaart.org/
I suspect that someone who has the ability to warp time and sign up for classes in 1980's California will have very little need for remedial math. Following the above posters advice for fitting in will only elicit questions about whether that creepy old guy is trying to imitate Bill, Ted, or Polly Shore. At best it could evoke sympathy or pity for the hopelessly out of touch.
The location from which a sound is originating is determined in part by pinna cues. The pinna is the visible fleshy outer part of the ear. Higher frequencies may reflect off the pinna before entering the ear canal. This colors the sound, giving clues to its origin. A person who is blindfolded and has her pinna folds filled with clay, will be able to tell if a sound is coming from the left or the right, but will not point to the source with any great accuracy. Sound waves typically pass through surfaces that are smaller than their wavelength. Lower frequencies pass through the pinna. Without reflected sound, its origin is ambiguous.