Why should a teenager care whether a naked body is treated openly and honestly in a sexual manner? They are going to engage in sex no matter how it is presented so long as they want sex. You think they care about loving a person first? Sounds like easy access to porn is the problem. Fix that and you won't even have to show the meaningful side of sex in order to counterbalance the hedonistic side of it. Then they won't have anything to try to replicate. It doesn't mean they won't have sex but it might mean they won't replicate it since they won't be seeing it.
Have you seen the nudity that is broadcast in a lot of European countries? They show breasts in commercials, do they have a massive teenage pregnancy problem? No they don't.
Do you think that it could be possible that restricting nudity could have the opposite effect in controlling teenage pregnancies?
Is that the only causality you can come up with? I'm sure there are many other factors affecting teen pregnancy other than what is on tv. Is sex ed. taught in schools w/o parental consent or knowledge? Are condoms given out in schools? Do family members talk with each other more about sex? Are parents more willing to get their daughters birth control? Are kids more apt to engage in anal or oral sex rather than intercourse? Life isn't that simple so don't pretend to make it be.
How is it that in the US you can see as many shootings as you want on TV bvut as soon as someone says fuck or bares a breast, the loonies go nuts... I thought seeing people getting killed would harm a kid more than seeing a breast or two.
Any particular reason why anyone who doesn't agree to your low level of standards is a looney? By the way, "because they are" isn't a valid response.
First of all, it ain't up to the state to protect the children from idiot parenting. Otherwise, most of the children in middle class homes would probably taken away from their parents due to neglect.
You can't protect your kids when they go to someone else's house or go to school. Make them stay at home you say? Then how is a child ever to interact with his peers?
Second, censorship is never the right solution. The parents should have the right to control what their children can and can't watch, while still being able to watch things *they're* interested in. Hell, technology can all but do this for them, anyway! It's called locking out channels. It's existed for years (or don't you watch the Simpsons?).
I don't deny that more parents need to care (I've seen many who don't) but responsiblity is a 2 way street and there is no reason why we shouldn't keep the media producers responsible for some of the shit they produce and distribute through mass media outlets. Don't just make the parents responsible. When people die from bad meat we don't tell them to switch brands or tell them to take up eating fish. We go after the company who had bad enough business practices to let bad meat slip into the good meat bins.
Thirdly, even if kids are watching a ton of violence, please, prove to me that it actually matters. I've seen plenty of studies which disprove any link between watching violent materials and commiting violent acts.
Prove to me violence ever HELPS. Then we may have a reason to make sure it doesn't get toned down, otherwise what is the big deal?
Fourthly, even if you want to try and censor violence, how do you define it? What about animated violence? What about live action "violence" where there is no blood? Or where there's only the "suggestion" of violence?
Good point but it isn't impossible to set standards. oops, I said the s word, shame on me.
Fifthly, censorship is a dangerous, slippery slope, with questionable benefit. If we start censoring TV and video games, what next? When will they start censoring "inappropriate" books? Or music? After all, we need to "protect the children", lest we somehow damage society.
So why exactly is no censorship at all such an end all to our problems? You think an anything goes attitude is somehow better? If they wanted to censor the things you are worried about they would have tried by now; let them censor what need to be censored. Your kids will have plenty of time to learn about how to kill and rape eventually; no need to let them learn/see it by age 12 by watching FOX or F/X.
Personally, I'm a little tired of people trotting out the ol' "think of the children!" line every time they want to curb *my* rights.
Personally, I'm a little tired of people trotting out the ol' "but they will want to censor more" and the "tell them to turn off the tv" lines every time they want to tone down the content that is distributed. Your rights aren't being affected at all so quit your complaining. What is being affected is the right of the media producers to make anything they want. The double standard works both ways. You want people to just turn off the tv and I say why when they are paying for the content? They want good content to watch, not to have it go to waste because people have an anything goes attitude to what they include in their tv shows and it doesn't agree with society.
How hard is it to be able to turn the tv on and see some decent television for once? Why should we have to turn it off when we're paying for it? What's wrong with trying to accomodate the biggest audience possible? You still have your PPV and premium movie channels if you don't care about the content you watch. Those channels have all the swearing, nudity, and violence a guy would ever want, right? Garbage in/Garbage out. Some people actually care to watch shows that don't have every other word being the F word and they don't have thrive on nudity in everything they watch either. THen again, we have others, like yourself, who needs things like that and wants everyone else to ignore it.
Unless he said he put it in for his own viewing pleasure his lawyer could instead argue the dvd player was installed for his family (I didn't read the article so maybe he doesn't have a family) and that he wouldn't be watching it. A little lame but he may try it. I really don't think it matters who actually installed it. He had to give authorization for it to be installed so a electronics shop could have installed it for him and either way it would end up in his dash.
At first glance i thought second degree homocide was a little stiff (I would have leaned towards involuntary manslaughter with a more harsh than usual sentencing) but..
2nd degree homicide is a little stiff considering he had no intent to kill. Manslaughter fits the bill here as far as what the law states.The only thing to change it to homicide is if he expressly stated he wanted to watch the dvd while driving in the hopes he would kill someone.
I've had 3 maxtor drives and all 3 had head crashes and none were older than 2 years. I had a 15 gig and a 20 gig that failed within a month of each other. Maxtor I'm sure was suspicious and one of them might have been my fault but either way, they both had head crashes and I had to send both back.
And it's not just limited to name, address and telephone number: criminal records, addresses of residence, education, employers, telephone calls, magazine subscriptions, travel records, television viewing habits (if you have cable), internet downloads, gun ownership and voting records. Yes voting records - they know if you voted and what party you registered under.
Well duh, the question is do they know WHO I voted for?
For homework, your daughter is writing a report on the Middle East, and uses your library card to borrow books on Saudi Arabia.
preliminary FBI records: INTEREST IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES
AFter further investigation they see that your daughter really is writing a school report.
You sell your old car for $7000, and then your motorcycle for $5000.
preliminary FBI records: LARGE CASH DEPOSITS
After further investigation they see that you really did just sell 2 vehicles, just like millions of other people do.
Your wife thinks she might have contracted malaria while overseas, so you look up the symptoms online.
preliminary FBI records: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, RESEARCH INTO BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
After further investigation they see that your wife is doing basic research. Also, in your scenario they shouldn't know that your wife was just overseas since that type of information wouldn't be required in order to do searches for symptoms so you are jumping the gun with them "seeing" overseas travel. However the FBI would find out she is doing that because she was overseas and if they know anything they know that certain countries are not sanitary, etc.
Everything you mentioned is commonplace, meaning thousands and millions of people do those things everyday. Do you really think the FBI will automatically assume 10% of the US population is planning a terrorist attack?
Chalk all this up to political correctness. Certain groups make damn sure that no one ever gets offended from now on otherwise someone might make someone else cry. It's happening in schools with certain games not being allowed anymore because they don't want kids being "left out" or whatever and it's happening clear up to the real life level of going after everyone who could be targeting our country instead of those people who we know could be. The gay lifestyle is being celebrated because certain groups want to make sure that no one is judged and that nothing is ever wrong anymore; everything is "okay" now. PC is affecting everyday life and it's going to kill the country.
I didn't say SETI was NASA but NASA would most likely be the one to implement such a system. Besides, even if they don't, my point still stands: they need to stop spending money on useless stuff "out there" and reallocate to useful things "down here".
Most scientists and many laymen are blind to the fact that there are so many things about our world and universe that it couldn't have happened by accident, only by a master plan by a higher power but they just chalk it up to a whole bunch of coincidences.
I have to wonder if scientists can find bacteria living near volcanic vents on the ocean floor then why can't they find the same bacteria living on Venus since using their mindset, if bacteria can live on earth in temps in hundreds of degrees then why can't they live on another planet where temps are hundreds of degrees? Sounds like their idea of life being able to pop up anywhere and then evolve doesn't hold too much water if the life only appears on earth.
Seriously, has anyone considered the possibility that the only intelligent life-forms in the universe maybe humans in past, present and future form ?
Of course not, you actually think scientists would think that way? A scientists assumes something is true until it can be proven false for one thing. Plus, scientists aren't religious either so since they assume evolution is real then it can occur anywhere and thus life can just appear out of nothing anywhere in the universe. Based on that line of thinking they think it's just a matter of time before they find something. Far be it from the rest of us to say it's a waste of money and we should take care of things on Earth before we spend billions trying to find something that is so far away it's unimaginable.
So, bottom line, this is a cool topic, but are we planning to build a cryogenic Allen array in space in the next two decades?
I think we should, but any predictions really should be based largely on that one issue.
Oh yes, like NASA really needs another reason to spend $10 billion on something that really has no ROI. And we thought companies were bad at this, just look at NASA, and NOW we're condoning it. You may want to rethink what you want NASA to do. It would be better to reallocate their budget to something more useful here on EARTH, like education, defense, and medical research. God forbid we work on something that could educate people and save lives, instead we waste money on something that for most people has no ROI or any other advantages or benefits.
One more reality show like "Wife Swapping" and I'm going to kill my TV..
What is wrong with it? It's just another way the media is trivializing the institution of marriage. Give it another 6 months to a year and we'll see gay marriage be the new topic of all these reality shows that deal with weddings.
Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
Does the phrase "a lot" mean anything to you?
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Now, I could be wrong; but my understanding was that the need for IPv6 comes from the scarcity of IP addresses (eg 12.34.56.78) not the scarcity of domain names (eg slashdot.org, slashdot.net, slashdot.jp).
Realize that what you put in italics from the article says "domain addresses" so I think they meant IP addreses, not domain names. You could stretch "domain addresses" to mean IP addresses.
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Only law enforcement and gov't officials can track your car using its registration number. As for IP addresses, there are publicly available tools that anyone could use to start mapping out the Internet into a lot more detail that it is now especially if anyone ever breaks into the database that houses this information and sees any pattern as to how they assign IP addresses to geographic regions.
Installing Software:
In Windows: Double click exe file
In Linux: Unpack source code, run configure, run make, run make install and pray that you have the right versions of various libs. Yeah, debian may have apt and redhat may have rpm, but the setup files that run on windows are universal, and install to ANY version of windows.
In Linux for commercial apps there is actually setup programs to go thru such as the one for StarOffice or OpenOffice. Only for small 3rd party apps would a compilation be required before running the app.
Changing settings for software:
Windows: Open convienent settings dialog, press apply or simply press ok to close the dialog when done, changes are applied.
Linux: Edit cryptic config files, restart app
Many apps in Linux can have their preferences modified by using the Edit or Tools menu. Usually only server side apps would require editing of actual configuration files and in that case you should have an admin competent enough to do that in the first place and it therefore shouldn't be an issue.
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Why should a teenager care whether a naked body is treated openly and honestly in a sexual manner? They are going to engage in sex no matter how it is presented so long as they want sex. You think they care about loving a person first? Sounds like easy access to porn is the problem. Fix that and you won't even have to show the meaningful side of sex in order to counterbalance the hedonistic side of it. Then they won't have anything to try to replicate. It doesn't mean they won't have sex but it might mean they won't replicate it since they won't be seeing it.
Have you seen the nudity that is broadcast in a lot of European countries? They show breasts in commercials, do they have a massive teenage pregnancy problem? No they don't. Do you think that it could be possible that restricting nudity could have the opposite effect in controlling teenage pregnancies?
Is that the only causality you can come up with? I'm sure there are many other factors affecting teen pregnancy other than what is on tv. Is sex ed. taught in schools w/o parental consent or knowledge? Are condoms given out in schools? Do family members talk with each other more about sex? Are parents more willing to get their daughters birth control? Are kids more apt to engage in anal or oral sex rather than intercourse? Life isn't that simple so don't pretend to make it be.
How is it that in the US you can see as many shootings as you want on TV bvut as soon as someone says fuck or bares a breast, the loonies go nuts... I thought seeing people getting killed would harm a kid more than seeing a breast or two.
Any particular reason why anyone who doesn't agree to your low level of standards is a looney? By the way, "because they are" isn't a valid response.
First of all, it ain't up to the state to protect the children from idiot parenting. Otherwise, most of the children in middle class homes would probably taken away from their parents due to neglect.
You can't protect your kids when they go to someone else's house or go to school. Make them stay at home you say? Then how is a child ever to interact with his peers?
Second, censorship is never the right solution. The parents should have the right to control what their children can and can't watch, while still being able to watch things *they're* interested in. Hell, technology can all but do this for them, anyway! It's called locking out channels. It's existed for years (or don't you watch the Simpsons?).
I don't deny that more parents need to care (I've seen many who don't) but responsiblity is a 2 way street and there is no reason why we shouldn't keep the media producers responsible for some of the shit they produce and distribute through mass media outlets. Don't just make the parents responsible. When people die from bad meat we don't tell them to switch brands or tell them to take up eating fish. We go after the company who had bad enough business practices to let bad meat slip into the good meat bins.
Thirdly, even if kids are watching a ton of violence, please, prove to me that it actually matters. I've seen plenty of studies which disprove any link between watching violent materials and commiting violent acts.
Prove to me violence ever HELPS. Then we may have a reason to make sure it doesn't get toned down, otherwise what is the big deal?
Fourthly, even if you want to try and censor violence, how do you define it? What about animated violence? What about live action "violence" where there is no blood? Or where there's only the "suggestion" of violence?
Good point but it isn't impossible to set standards. oops, I said the s word, shame on me.
Fifthly, censorship is a dangerous, slippery slope, with questionable benefit. If we start censoring TV and video games, what next? When will they start censoring "inappropriate" books? Or music? After all, we need to "protect the children", lest we somehow damage society.
So why exactly is no censorship at all such an end all to our problems? You think an anything goes attitude is somehow better? If they wanted to censor the things you are worried about they would have tried by now; let them censor what need to be censored. Your kids will have plenty of time to learn about how to kill and rape eventually; no need to let them learn/see it by age 12 by watching FOX or F/X.
Personally, I'm a little tired of people trotting out the ol' "think of the children!" line every time they want to curb *my* rights.
Personally, I'm a little tired of people trotting out the ol' "but they will want to censor more" and the "tell them to turn off the tv" lines every time they want to tone down the content that is distributed. Your rights aren't being affected at all so quit your complaining. What is being affected is the right of the media producers to make anything they want. The double standard works both ways. You want people to just turn off the tv and I say why when they are paying for the content? They want good content to watch, not to have it go to waste because people have an anything goes attitude to what they include in their tv shows and it doesn't agree with society.
How hard is it to be able to turn the tv on and see some decent television for once? Why should we have to turn it off when we're paying for it? What's wrong with trying to accomodate the biggest audience possible? You still have your PPV and premium movie channels if you don't care about the content you watch. Those channels have all the swearing, nudity, and violence a guy would ever want, right? Garbage in/Garbage out. Some people actually care to watch shows that don't have every other word being the F word and they don't have thrive on nudity in everything they watch either. THen again, we have others, like yourself, who needs things like that and wants everyone else to ignore it.
Unless he said he put it in for his own viewing pleasure his lawyer could instead argue the dvd player was installed for his family (I didn't read the article so maybe he doesn't have a family) and that he wouldn't be watching it. A little lame but he may try it. I really don't think it matters who actually installed it. He had to give authorization for it to be installed so a electronics shop could have installed it for him and either way it would end up in his dash.
At first glance i thought second degree homocide was a little stiff (I would have leaned towards involuntary manslaughter with a more harsh than usual sentencing) but..
2nd degree homicide is a little stiff considering he had no intent to kill. Manslaughter fits the bill here as far as what the law states.The only thing to change it to homicide is if he expressly stated he wanted to watch the dvd while driving in the hopes he would kill someone.
Yeah, right. We're supposed to believe that? You, on slashdot, with a fiance? hah
I've had 3 maxtor drives and all 3 had head crashes and none were older than 2 years. I had a 15 gig and a 20 gig that failed within a month of each other. Maxtor I'm sure was suspicious and one of them might have been my fault but either way, they both had head crashes and I had to send both back.
and a stock 2003 Honda Odessy minivan.
That must be a vehicle that hasn't made it to the states yet.
Tell that to the police who don't like you using certain color neon lights on your vehicle or neon lights at all in some states.
And it's not just limited to name, address and telephone number: criminal records, addresses of residence, education, employers, telephone calls, magazine subscriptions, travel records, television viewing habits (if you have cable), internet downloads, gun ownership and voting records. Yes voting records - they know if you voted and what party you registered under.
Well duh, the question is do they know WHO I voted for?
All bold emphasis is mine.
For homework, your daughter is writing a report on the Middle East, and uses your library card to borrow books on Saudi Arabia. preliminary FBI records: INTEREST IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES
AFter further investigation they see that your daughter really is writing a school report.
You sell your old car for $7000, and then your motorcycle for $5000. preliminary FBI records: LARGE CASH DEPOSITS
After further investigation they see that you really did just sell 2 vehicles, just like millions of other people do.
Your wife thinks she might have contracted malaria while overseas, so you look up the symptoms online. preliminary FBI records: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, RESEARCH INTO BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
After further investigation they see that your wife is doing basic research. Also, in your scenario they shouldn't know that your wife was just overseas since that type of information wouldn't be required in order to do searches for symptoms so you are jumping the gun with them "seeing" overseas travel. However the FBI would find out she is doing that because she was overseas and if they know anything they know that certain countries are not sanitary, etc.
Everything you mentioned is commonplace, meaning thousands and millions of people do those things everyday. Do you really think the FBI will automatically assume 10% of the US population is planning a terrorist attack?
Chalk all this up to political correctness. Certain groups make damn sure that no one ever gets offended from now on otherwise someone might make someone else cry. It's happening in schools with certain games not being allowed anymore because they don't want kids being "left out" or whatever and it's happening clear up to the real life level of going after everyone who could be targeting our country instead of those people who we know could be. The gay lifestyle is being celebrated because certain groups want to make sure that no one is judged and that nothing is ever wrong anymore; everything is "okay" now. PC is affecting everyday life and it's going to kill the country.
Actually I do read it a lot which is why the original comment didn't surprise me one bit.
I didn't say SETI was NASA but NASA would most likely be the one to implement such a system. Besides, even if they don't, my point still stands: they need to stop spending money on useless stuff "out there" and reallocate to useful things "down here".
Most scientists and many laymen are blind to the fact that there are so many things about our world and universe that it couldn't have happened by accident, only by a master plan by a higher power but they just chalk it up to a whole bunch of coincidences.
I have to wonder if scientists can find bacteria living near volcanic vents on the ocean floor then why can't they find the same bacteria living on Venus since using their mindset, if bacteria can live on earth in temps in hundreds of degrees then why can't they live on another planet where temps are hundreds of degrees? Sounds like their idea of life being able to pop up anywhere and then evolve doesn't hold too much water if the life only appears on earth.
Seriously, has anyone considered the possibility that the only intelligent life-forms in the universe maybe humans in past, present and future form ?
Of course not, you actually think scientists would think that way? A scientists assumes something is true until it can be proven false for one thing. Plus, scientists aren't religious either so since they assume evolution is real then it can occur anywhere and thus life can just appear out of nothing anywhere in the universe. Based on that line of thinking they think it's just a matter of time before they find something. Far be it from the rest of us to say it's a waste of money and we should take care of things on Earth before we spend billions trying to find something that is so far away it's unimaginable.
They never have walked erect. Don't confuse your species.
So, bottom line, this is a cool topic, but are we planning to build a cryogenic Allen array in space in the next two decades? I think we should, but any predictions really should be based largely on that one issue.
Oh yes, like NASA really needs another reason to spend $10 billion on something that really has no ROI. And we thought companies were bad at this, just look at NASA, and NOW we're condoning it. You may want to rethink what you want NASA to do. It would be better to reallocate their budget to something more useful here on EARTH, like education, defense, and medical research. God forbid we work on something that could educate people and save lives, instead we waste money on something that for most people has no ROI or any other advantages or benefits.
One more reality show like "Wife Swapping" and I'm going to kill my TV..
What is wrong with it? It's just another way the media is trivializing the institution of marriage. Give it another 6 months to a year and we'll see gay marriage be the new topic of all these reality shows that deal with weddings.
Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
Does the phrase "a lot" mean anything to you?
Now, I could be wrong; but my understanding was that the need for IPv6 comes from the scarcity of IP addresses (eg 12.34.56.78) not the scarcity of domain names (eg slashdot.org, slashdot.net, slashdot.jp).
Realize that what you put in italics from the article says "domain addresses" so I think they meant IP addreses, not domain names. You could stretch "domain addresses" to mean IP addresses.
Only law enforcement and gov't officials can track your car using its registration number. As for IP addresses, there are publicly available tools that anyone could use to start mapping out the Internet into a lot more detail that it is now especially if anyone ever breaks into the database that houses this information and sees any pattern as to how they assign IP addresses to geographic regions.
Installing Software: In Windows: Double click exe file In Linux: Unpack source code, run configure, run make, run make install and pray that you have the right versions of various libs. Yeah, debian may have apt and redhat may have rpm, but the setup files that run on windows are universal, and install to ANY version of windows.
In Linux for commercial apps there is actually setup programs to go thru such as the one for StarOffice or OpenOffice. Only for small 3rd party apps would a compilation be required before running the app.
Changing settings for software: Windows: Open convienent settings dialog, press apply or simply press ok to close the dialog when done, changes are applied. Linux: Edit cryptic config files, restart app
Many apps in Linux can have their preferences modified by using the Edit or Tools menu. Usually only server side apps would require editing of actual configuration files and in that case you should have an admin competent enough to do that in the first place and it therefore shouldn't be an issue.