Additionally, I do not think most wii owners only have one or two games. There are a lot of people who are "gamers", but aren't hard core enough to pay $600 for a system.
But pretty gay of Acer to not even support their own software
Some day, somebody is going to have to explain to me just what being gay has to do with not supporting software.
I believe it is a symptom of high school (for those in the US) disease, the layman term being "immaturity".
One thing hanging over the 'maybe new, maybe not' idea that didn't factor in twenty years ago, is the 'green' factor.
What is the carbon footprint of three songs on a packaged CD versus three songs purchased over the internet? And to bring it into even sharper focus, the CD packaged songs will end up on a player just like the downloads.
Who cares. What is the carbon footprint of determining the carbon footprint of three songs on a packaged CD?
Doesn't that seem like a poor allocation of resources on behalf of the bot net controllers? I mean, how long could a DDOS attack possibly be carried on? A few hours? Maybe a day at most? I can see that, for a retailer, that sort of thing would seriously impact business but if these sites go down for a day, does that really matter?
The DDoS attack performed by a botnet back in May that took out the government of Estonia lasted for exactly 2 weeks. This was spawned by the Estonian government wanting to remove a statue that was put in place by the Russians after WWII. The Russians didn't seem to take too kindly to that idea (there are a few hundred thousand Estonians of Russian heritage) and supposedly the botnet was led by those people (Russia gov't denies involvement including financial). Bottom line: a botnet performing a DDoS can do it for as long as it wants to. There are so many zombie machines out there that some can be dedicated to certain targets. By the way, the Estonian attack made it to the latest issue of Wired but as far as I know it was never discussed on TV during or after it happened.
In addition, implementing a DDOS probably entails some sort of risk. This could be either in terms of having individual machines identified and temporarily disabled or in terms of the risk of getting caught increasing with every illegal act that is committed (although, the risk is probably very small, it's still there).
There is a hierarchical model to botnets, similar to DNS, where you have the zombie machines doing the work to attack the targets. There can be millions of zombie machines. These are controlled by the botnet herders who basically manage the attack. The herders are commanded/financed by the actual attacker which can be an individual, group, even a government. Having individual machines disabled won't make a difference to a botnet that contains millions or even just thousands of zombies. There are so many levels to the organization that the attackers will never be caught no matter how many attacks are carried out.
My coworker switched phone companies and didn't get a chance to try the new phone from home for the three days window they give you (can't remember why but he had a good reason). Guess what, it turns out he didn't have any service in his house, as in zero bars. He wrangled with them for weeks but in the end he had to pay cancellation fees.
Something similar happened to my girlfriend (yes, girlfriend) when she moved a few months ago to take contract job with a local university. It was a research position in a very rural area of WV where there wasn't many cell towers. Verizon happened to be the only company who provided service to the area (and even that isn't great; she loses coverage halfway between work and her apartment) but she currently had CellularOne (recently acquired by AT&T). I called them on her behalf to find out whether she would have to pay cancellation fees and the person told me that if it isn't in her control as to why she doesn't have service then she can cancel and most likely not have to pay cancellation fees. I told her that moving to an area that was not served by them shouldn't be something that is considered to be in her control and therefore force her to pay extra if she doesn't want to use a service that she can't even use in the first place. The person I talked to said she wasn't in the department that makes those decisions so I couldn't get much more from her but I think in the end my girlfriend had to pay cancellation fees.
Anyway, the upshot of this is that because you have to constantly burn charge through the insulator to use the part, eventually you basically burn out the insulator and cause it to leak charge. Once it starts leaking, you lose your stored bits and the part is useless.
How is that an upshot? Losing the use of something I paid for is a good thing?
Gee, aren't we all high and mighty. You know, despite what you may think, science isn't perfect. Even in the face of logic, scientists deny what looks obvious. I seem to recall Einstein's greatest blunder.....
On March 15, 2002, the FBIs National Crime Information Center (NCIC) set a
new record for transactions processed on a single day, with 3,295,587.
The average response time for these transactions was.1467 second.
Response time is the time it takes for NCIC to receive, process and
respond to the inquiry. The 2002 year-to-date averages have been 2.8
million transactions per day with an average response time of.16 second.
The US also has CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) which is a DNA database for searching. I can't find any stats for that database but if the DNA is indexed then queries shouldn't take too long. Even fingerprint searches using AFIS don't take long. If NCIC can respond as fast as it does with all those queries throughout a single day then CODIS should be able to do a search and provide a response just as fast. Extracting the DNA is still going to be the long pole in the tent but once it is extracted and you are assigned a barcode all they have to do is scan your barcode (on your hand or forehead) and allow that to kick off the query to CODIS. Cancel or Allow?
It's unfortunate many parents don't take advantage of that right. When kids turn 18 they can do whatever they want, believe whatever they want, say whatever they want but until then it is the parents' (or legal guardian) responsibility to teach their kids about life, religion, birds and the bees, morals, values, societal expectations, etc. For some parents their job is pretty easy because they probably don't have any religion, morals, or values and may not even care enough to tell their kids about the birds and the bees (or whose conversation entails "here is a condom, go have some fun"). Kids who think solving their problems must involve a gun and bloodshed are examples of missing those parental talks. At that point it is official that the parents have failed as parents and the child has failed as a useful member of society.
Just because some book gives him power, who should believe some made up book?
This was written by someone who has issues with religion, one who spouts off without knowing anything about religion except that he knows he hates it. He thinks the Bible is some made up book but it seems a pretty tangible object to me. Mine is one of many millions that exist. It doesn't seem very made up in that regard. If he thinks the content of it is made up then I'd have to challenge his opinion on the validity of any book written about the same time period. We seem to trust history books (even those that change history to be politically correct) so why not the Bible? I guess as long as any other book isn't used as a basis for a religion he would trust its validity which again is just a sign he hates religion. I wonder what it ever did to him. Probably just a baseless opinion.
By the way, as someone already pointed out, nothing in the Bible states the Pope has power however, if you wish to challenge his leadership role I think you have about a billion people who you have to convince otherwise.
Whenever I got ripped off by a guy on Ebay, circa 1997, I alerted the post office and eventually it got to the Attorney General of the state where the guy was located. That AG told me that the guy had already ripped off other people (with an investigation already underway). I eventually got word (after about 2-3 years) that he was caught, arrested, and convicted of which one of the charges was mail fraud. Last I heard he is serving his sentence and working in jail to pay back the people he ripped off. I was ripped off about $700 and so far he has only paid me back about $50 (that check came about 4 years ago). I think surfing Ebay is one of the less efficient ways of fighting auction fraud. Maybe just acting quickly on the reports to local law enforcement and post offices would yield better results, at least for the common items that are being put on Ebay. Then again, with law enforcement being involved with the transactions similar to the folks involved in the MSNBC show To Catch a Predator maybe they have something going here. To Catch a Predator seems to be taking down many people who are just too stupid for their own good. Even though fraud quantity is going down I suspected that quality (amount of money being stolen from people) is going up and the end of the article proved me right. The thieves probably think the more they can rip someone off in 1 auction will offset the # of auctions they have to execute and will, in theory, lower the chances of them being caught.
Remind them that Windows went by the name Chicago for a long time. Not quite as weird but still stupid. I think the argument can be made the purpose of the name is the same. Besides, who says you have to tell them the name of the specific version of Ubuntu?
From my cell phone, like I imagine most folks do. Heck, I hardly see anyone my age (late 20's) or younger wearing watches anymore for that same reason.
I also use my digital cable receiver as a time source. Oddly enough the digital cable receiver (TimeWarner) and my cell phone (CellularOne, recently acquired by AT&T) do their DST changes at different times but their day to day synchronization is within a second or 2. If my phone isn't handy (or I'm too lazy to pick it up to see the time) I just glance at the cable receiver.
The upside is that you no longer have to figure out ways to persuade your customers to buy the new version of your software, which has become more and more difficult (how many features can you add to a word processing app, anyway?)
I say they starting releasing upgrades that take features out and have all the outstanding bugs fixed. Eventually we will be able to regress back to a version that we enjoyed many many years ago to the point where the application just disappears and we are left with a few shredded bits of its former self.
Your calls with consist of the following:
15% Actual Support issues
60% Stupid Questions like "How do I install winzip" that just take up time and call volume.
25% Non-Supported questions from geeks like "I compiled the newest dev kernel and now it crashes when I press the Q key, what's up with that?"
There are relatively good solutions for these common questions: set up a FAQ, set up a Knowledge Base, and for phone-based support, set up a menu system that allows users to maneuver a menu system for FAQ. It would be up their testing to determine whether they should put "to speak with a human press x" as option 1 or option 9.
But there is plenty of more important hardware on board, such as engine and flight control, navigation, radio, deicing, gear, fire suppression, etc. Imagine losing all power at 40,000 ft at night - you could be falling like a stone and not knowing it... because of that every passenger airplane made in last 50 years carries some batteries, and if they are used then they only feed the flight support group (essential instruments) and only for so many minutes (10-20) because of the current needed.
Gravity tells me otherwise. Increasing acceleration in a downward direction toward earth has that certain uneasy feeling about it when you are falling from 7 miles.
it's a wonder any company can get anything done with Windows.
I realize the submission was about Windows and so is your comment but I'll add to your comment this: it's a wonder any company can get anything done with Windows and Office. Over the past decade of using Office and recently the last couple years working with Office 2003 at work, it has become increasingly annoying. Unfortunately we have to use Office because our project deliverables to the governmen have thus far had to be.doc or.xls files however I hear soon we are going to be required to deliver PDFs. But we still have to create the document in something prior to creating a PDF out of it so I have a feeling we won't get off of Office anytime soon despite Word's lack of performing nicely with hundreds of track change items visible among other things.
So we should avoid something simply because it's pleasureful? Oh, wait, just saw your sig. That explains it. Carry on.
Sure if you are an idiot and don't know how to control yourself. Oh wait, you did respond with a knee jerk reaction to my post. Nevermind. Carry on. Before you go, let me leave you with something. Too much pleasure is a bad thing if it means you are addicted to it (porn, money, etc.) and it affects your life and relationships. Therefore pleasure is good as long as it is received responsibly. Taking pleasure in something that was not meant solely for that (sex) is not a good thing because you devalue it. Endorsing that behavior (watching porn) devalues sex as well and in addition you end up taking pleasure in yourself. It's a little bit akin to vanity in my opinion. We wouldn't want kids to prefer pleasuring themselves over someone else (when watching porn) not to mention the fact that they are abusing the method we were given to procreate in order to accomplish their materalistic goals.
I agree completely. And be sure to cut off the clitoris of any females in your household, we don't want them to accidentally enjoy sex while it is being done to them.
Hmmm, must be something in the water supply because it seems people on here can't distinguish between getting pleasure from porn by yourself and pleasure from sex with a spouse. I never said a person can't enjoy sex. The issue is about enjoying porn anyway but since you brought it up I'll respond by saying that sex is both for procreation and for pleasure but we shouldn't separate the pleasure from that and use sex solely for that reason. Of course, those who don't look at the bigger picture and just want pleasure will say that is a horrible idea and to that I say that if you can't even entertain the idea that sex shouldn't be used solely for pleasure then don't even bother joining in this conversation. Sex is not inherently a materialistic pleasure and thus is not included in my statement that we should teach children to not engage in materalistic pleasures. We treat sex as such but it is not one inherently. Of course, the people who make the porn movies are the epitomy of turning sex into merely a pleasure act. If you think about it, it wouldn't have been very wise of God to allow us to procreate but make it painful to do so. We wouldn't have survived very long.
That somebody might be happy... would be so bad for you, wouldn't it?
I'll respond to your post since there is more to say and I can reply to yours and the other one at the same time for one of my answers. First, nothing nor no one (such as myself) says a person can't be happy. I only was talking about not getting pleasure from porn. Are you implying that you have no other source of pleasure? I feel bad for you.
As Nietzsche says, Christianity makes the whole of life repulsive.
There are so many other people who have the exact opposite feeling towards religion and Christianity in particular that I'll leave it up to you to realize that Nietzsche doesn't know what he is talking about and more likely has a biased opinion of something he knows nothing about.
I for one, don't think pleasure is at all a bad thing. That meaningful relationships are much more pleasurable than porn means we really don't have to worry about it systematically, unlike your apothecary soul.
Hmm, seems you need to fix your reading comprehension problems. I never said that pleasure in and of itself is bad. I said pleasure from porn is bad. I'll pause for a few seconds while you re-read my post now with that context in place......................back? Ok, good. Now, God gave us sex to not only enjoy but also procreate however those 2 goals are supposed to be done at the same time, not separate. We shouldn't take advantage of the procreation capability to just enjoy meaningless sex. That's where the issue of pleasure comes from. There are millions of things to take pleasure in but taking ONLY pleasure in something like sex is not it's intended purpose. Of course, we humans will mutate anything for our own pleasure (quite relevant in this case). How often we have watched horrific violence time and again because we find it entertaining? This particular topic of porn was in the context of children watching it on the Internet and not adults watching it to enhance their sex lives so with that said why would someone want to watch something alone and get pleasure out of it when they could enjoy it more if they could share it with someone? Again, humans are lazy so we take the easy way out. We'll pleasure ourselves because it is just too time consuming to find someone to enjoy it with. I can't imagine what will happen in 2029.
I do worry, no I pity those who live life in constant repression.
I do too but I also am not that interested in the materliastic aspects of this world to which you think exposure helps someone become unrepressed. They really aren't that great in the whole scheme of things. Sure, if you are a mindless drone you will take part in those things solely for their immediate rewards but more intelligent people will look past the immediate pleasure and see the greater good.
Just look at what you Christians cherish -- pity, guilt, sin -- not to mention guilt through inheritance, which no rational society anymore recognizes.
Talk about blind. If you are not a Christian you have no way of knowing what we cherish. We cherish happiness, pleasure (not hedonistic or materialistic), and many others. The difference is we don't need to have porn nor other things that mindless drones need in order to be happy. I guess this world has to cater to all beings (especially with being politically correct and all) so porn was invented so that people like you who need something more materialistic can be happy and thus pleasured. Oh, and until you become a Christian (fat chance I'm sure) don't tell me what we cherish because you know nothing and you have graciously proven that to me. Thank you.
Last year I was walking through the Home Depot. I needed an item of certain specs for a project, but I didn't know if that item even existed. I asked several employees for help, but if it didn't have a name, the thing didn't exist, as far as they were concerned. I wandered around for a little bit, wondering which isle I might find my mythical device. Then it struck me -- "I'll look it up on google!"
Is this Home Depot actually located in the future of a water world a la Kevin Costner?
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Or they just have bills to pay.
I believe it is a symptom of high school (for those in the US) disease, the layman term being "immaturity".
Who cares. What is the carbon footprint of determining the carbon footprint of three songs on a packaged CD?
The DDoS attack performed by a botnet back in May that took out the government of Estonia lasted for exactly 2 weeks. This was spawned by the Estonian government wanting to remove a statue that was put in place by the Russians after WWII. The Russians didn't seem to take too kindly to that idea (there are a few hundred thousand Estonians of Russian heritage) and supposedly the botnet was led by those people (Russia gov't denies involvement including financial). Bottom line: a botnet performing a DDoS can do it for as long as it wants to. There are so many zombie machines out there that some can be dedicated to certain targets. By the way, the Estonian attack made it to the latest issue of Wired but as far as I know it was never discussed on TV during or after it happened.
In addition, implementing a DDOS probably entails some sort of risk. This could be either in terms of having individual machines identified and temporarily disabled or in terms of the risk of getting caught increasing with every illegal act that is committed (although, the risk is probably very small, it's still there).There is a hierarchical model to botnets, similar to DNS, where you have the zombie machines doing the work to attack the targets. There can be millions of zombie machines. These are controlled by the botnet herders who basically manage the attack. The herders are commanded/financed by the actual attacker which can be an individual, group, even a government. Having individual machines disabled won't make a difference to a botnet that contains millions or even just thousands of zombies. There are so many levels to the organization that the attackers will never be caught no matter how many attacks are carried out.
Something similar happened to my girlfriend (yes, girlfriend) when she moved a few months ago to take contract job with a local university. It was a research position in a very rural area of WV where there wasn't many cell towers. Verizon happened to be the only company who provided service to the area (and even that isn't great; she loses coverage halfway between work and her apartment) but she currently had CellularOne (recently acquired by AT&T). I called them on her behalf to find out whether she would have to pay cancellation fees and the person told me that if it isn't in her control as to why she doesn't have service then she can cancel and most likely not have to pay cancellation fees. I told her that moving to an area that was not served by them shouldn't be something that is considered to be in her control and therefore force her to pay extra if she doesn't want to use a service that she can't even use in the first place. The person I talked to said she wasn't in the department that makes those decisions so I couldn't get much more from her but I think in the end my girlfriend had to pay cancellation fees.
What?
How is that an upshot? Losing the use of something I paid for is a good thing?
Gee, aren't we all high and mighty. You know, despite what you may think, science isn't perfect. Even in the face of logic, scientists deny what looks obvious. I seem to recall Einstein's greatest blunder.....
It can come close. From the cache:
On March 15, 2002, the FBIs National Crime Information Center (NCIC) set a new record for transactions processed on a single day, with 3,295,587.
The average response time for these transactions was .1467 second.
Response time is the time it takes for NCIC to receive, process and
respond to the inquiry. The 2002 year-to-date averages have been 2.8
million transactions per day with an average response time of .16 second.
The US also has CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) which is a DNA database for searching. I can't find any stats for that database but if the DNA is indexed then queries shouldn't take too long. Even fingerprint searches using AFIS don't take long. If NCIC can respond as fast as it does with all those queries throughout a single day then CODIS should be able to do a search and provide a response just as fast. Extracting the DNA is still going to be the long pole in the tent but once it is extracted and you are assigned a barcode all they have to do is scan your barcode (on your hand or forehead) and allow that to kick off the query to CODIS. Cancel or Allow?
It's unfortunate many parents don't take advantage of that right. When kids turn 18 they can do whatever they want, believe whatever they want, say whatever they want but until then it is the parents' (or legal guardian) responsibility to teach their kids about life, religion, birds and the bees, morals, values, societal expectations, etc. For some parents their job is pretty easy because they probably don't have any religion, morals, or values and may not even care enough to tell their kids about the birds and the bees (or whose conversation entails "here is a condom, go have some fun"). Kids who think solving their problems must involve a gun and bloodshed are examples of missing those parental talks. At that point it is official that the parents have failed as parents and the child has failed as a useful member of society.
This was written by someone who has issues with religion, one who spouts off without knowing anything about religion except that he knows he hates it. He thinks the Bible is some made up book but it seems a pretty tangible object to me. Mine is one of many millions that exist. It doesn't seem very made up in that regard. If he thinks the content of it is made up then I'd have to challenge his opinion on the validity of any book written about the same time period. We seem to trust history books (even those that change history to be politically correct) so why not the Bible? I guess as long as any other book isn't used as a basis for a religion he would trust its validity which again is just a sign he hates religion. I wonder what it ever did to him. Probably just a baseless opinion.
By the way, as someone already pointed out, nothing in the Bible states the Pope has power however, if you wish to challenge his leadership role I think you have about a billion people who you have to convince otherwise.
Whenever I got ripped off by a guy on Ebay, circa 1997, I alerted the post office and eventually it got to the Attorney General of the state where the guy was located. That AG told me that the guy had already ripped off other people (with an investigation already underway). I eventually got word (after about 2-3 years) that he was caught, arrested, and convicted of which one of the charges was mail fraud. Last I heard he is serving his sentence and working in jail to pay back the people he ripped off. I was ripped off about $700 and so far he has only paid me back about $50 (that check came about 4 years ago). I think surfing Ebay is one of the less efficient ways of fighting auction fraud. Maybe just acting quickly on the reports to local law enforcement and post offices would yield better results, at least for the common items that are being put on Ebay. Then again, with law enforcement being involved with the transactions similar to the folks involved in the MSNBC show To Catch a Predator maybe they have something going here. To Catch a Predator seems to be taking down many people who are just too stupid for their own good. Even though fraud quantity is going down I suspected that quality (amount of money being stolen from people) is going up and the end of the article proved me right. The thieves probably think the more they can rip someone off in 1 auction will offset the # of auctions they have to execute and will, in theory, lower the chances of them being caught.
We used to have the World's Fair Scheduler but it seems it eventually died out a few decades ago. We still have various State Fair Schedulers though.
Little kids can also be "Perverted Justice" employees.
Remind them that Windows went by the name Chicago for a long time. Not quite as weird but still stupid. I think the argument can be made the purpose of the name is the same. Besides, who says you have to tell them the name of the specific version of Ubuntu?
I also use my digital cable receiver as a time source. Oddly enough the digital cable receiver (TimeWarner) and my cell phone (CellularOne, recently acquired by AT&T) do their DST changes at different times but their day to day synchronization is within a second or 2. If my phone isn't handy (or I'm too lazy to pick it up to see the time) I just glance at the cable receiver.
I say they starting releasing upgrades that take features out and have all the outstanding bugs fixed. Eventually we will be able to regress back to a version that we enjoyed many many years ago to the point where the application just disappears and we are left with a few shredded bits of its former self.
Your calls with consist of the following:
15% Actual Support issues
60% Stupid Questions like "How do I install winzip" that just take up time and call volume.
25% Non-Supported questions from geeks like "I compiled the newest dev kernel and now it crashes when I press the Q key, what's up with that?"
There are relatively good solutions for these common questions: set up a FAQ, set up a Knowledge Base, and for phone-based support, set up a menu system that allows users to maneuver a menu system for FAQ. It would be up their testing to determine whether they should put "to speak with a human press x" as option 1 or option 9.
It is called supersymmetry.
Gravity tells me otherwise. Increasing acceleration in a downward direction toward earth has that certain uneasy feeling about it when you are falling from 7 miles.
I realize the submission was about Windows and so is your comment but I'll add to your comment this: it's a wonder any company can get anything done with Windows and Office. Over the past decade of using Office and recently the last couple years working with Office 2003 at work, it has become increasingly annoying. Unfortunately we have to use Office because our project deliverables to the governmen have thus far had to be .doc or .xls files however I hear soon we are going to be required to deliver PDFs. But we still have to create the document in something prior to creating a PDF out of it so I have a feeling we won't get off of Office anytime soon despite Word's lack of performing nicely with hundreds of track change items visible among other things.
Sure if you are an idiot and don't know how to control yourself. Oh wait, you did respond with a knee jerk reaction to my post. Nevermind. Carry on. Before you go, let me leave you with something. Too much pleasure is a bad thing if it means you are addicted to it (porn, money, etc.) and it affects your life and relationships. Therefore pleasure is good as long as it is received responsibly. Taking pleasure in something that was not meant solely for that (sex) is not a good thing because you devalue it. Endorsing that behavior (watching porn) devalues sex as well and in addition you end up taking pleasure in yourself. It's a little bit akin to vanity in my opinion. We wouldn't want kids to prefer pleasuring themselves over someone else (when watching porn) not to mention the fact that they are abusing the method we were given to procreate in order to accomplish their materalistic goals.
Hmmm, must be something in the water supply because it seems people on here can't distinguish between getting pleasure from porn by yourself and pleasure from sex with a spouse. I never said a person can't enjoy sex. The issue is about enjoying porn anyway but since you brought it up I'll respond by saying that sex is both for procreation and for pleasure but we shouldn't separate the pleasure from that and use sex solely for that reason. Of course, those who don't look at the bigger picture and just want pleasure will say that is a horrible idea and to that I say that if you can't even entertain the idea that sex shouldn't be used solely for pleasure then don't even bother joining in this conversation. Sex is not inherently a materialistic pleasure and thus is not included in my statement that we should teach children to not engage in materalistic pleasures. We treat sex as such but it is not one inherently. Of course, the people who make the porn movies are the epitomy of turning sex into merely a pleasure act. If you think about it, it wouldn't have been very wise of God to allow us to procreate but make it painful to do so. We wouldn't have survived very long.
I'll respond to your post since there is more to say and I can reply to yours and the other one at the same time for one of my answers. First, nothing nor no one (such as myself) says a person can't be happy. I only was talking about not getting pleasure from porn. Are you implying that you have no other source of pleasure? I feel bad for you.
As Nietzsche says, Christianity makes the whole of life repulsive.There are so many other people who have the exact opposite feeling towards religion and Christianity in particular that I'll leave it up to you to realize that Nietzsche doesn't know what he is talking about and more likely has a biased opinion of something he knows nothing about.
I for one, don't think pleasure is at all a bad thing. That meaningful relationships are much more pleasurable than porn means we really don't have to worry about it systematically, unlike your apothecary soul.Hmm, seems you need to fix your reading comprehension problems. I never said that pleasure in and of itself is bad. I said pleasure from porn is bad. I'll pause for a few seconds while you re-read my post now with that context in place......................back? Ok, good. Now, God gave us sex to not only enjoy but also procreate however those 2 goals are supposed to be done at the same time, not separate. We shouldn't take advantage of the procreation capability to just enjoy meaningless sex. That's where the issue of pleasure comes from. There are millions of things to take pleasure in but taking ONLY pleasure in something like sex is not it's intended purpose. Of course, we humans will mutate anything for our own pleasure (quite relevant in this case). How often we have watched horrific violence time and again because we find it entertaining? This particular topic of porn was in the context of children watching it on the Internet and not adults watching it to enhance their sex lives so with that said why would someone want to watch something alone and get pleasure out of it when they could enjoy it more if they could share it with someone? Again, humans are lazy so we take the easy way out. We'll pleasure ourselves because it is just too time consuming to find someone to enjoy it with. I can't imagine what will happen in 2029.
I do worry, no I pity those who live life in constant repression.I do too but I also am not that interested in the materliastic aspects of this world to which you think exposure helps someone become unrepressed. They really aren't that great in the whole scheme of things. Sure, if you are a mindless drone you will take part in those things solely for their immediate rewards but more intelligent people will look past the immediate pleasure and see the greater good.
Just look at what you Christians cherish -- pity, guilt, sin -- not to mention guilt through inheritance, which no rational society anymore recognizes.Talk about blind. If you are not a Christian you have no way of knowing what we cherish. We cherish happiness, pleasure (not hedonistic or materialistic), and many others. The difference is we don't need to have porn nor other things that mindless drones need in order to be happy. I guess this world has to cater to all beings (especially with being politically correct and all) so porn was invented so that people like you who need something more materialistic can be happy and thus pleasured. Oh, and until you become a Christian (fat chance I'm sure) don't tell me what we cherish because you know nothing and you have graciously proven that to me. Thank you.
Is this Home Depot actually located in the future of a water world a la Kevin Costner?