That's my point, 99% of porn websites are NOT bikini models. Why let those 99% get away with it just because some people find more "lite" things offensive?
Get away with what? Also, the whole point here is that you can't come up with one definition for porn, so what's the point?
Now I don't know about you, but I'd say porn makes up a significant chunk of the internet.
The problem here is that cumsluts.com isn't in demand by anyone other than porn sites. Likewise, I can't see ibm.xxx being used for anything, so you aren't freeing up any sort of naming capacity.
Having an XXX domain gives porn purveyors a place to go where no one can complain they "accidentally" stumbled upon them. It will stop all of the "please think of the children" emotive pleas, since anyone concerned can just filter the XXX domain. This is the whole reason the domain system exists.
Yeah, and everything that isn't safe for the kids will be stuck there for the very same reason.
IIRC, Darth choked a man on a different ship while merely speaking with him on the videophone. That's a lot more than ten feet.
Since we're all connected by the Force, all you have to do is locate the other guy. Seeing the guy makes it easy, but with enough skill you can do the the vader trick.
You know, I always thought God was a kick-ass premise for a really far out work of science fiction. Someone should write a book with that premise... oh, wait...
Yeah, somebody already did. I think his name was Bob...
They awarded him a little name plaque attesting to his nice-assedness at Chistmas. Now if the environment were totally PR, or likely if he were a woman, this would have caused problems. However, as a guy he blushed a bit and really didn't seem that bothered. Personally, if it were me being nominated for nice-assedness (or having women ask me to get on a ladder to reach that "missed spot up there") I would take it as more compliment than insult.
That's because you're confident that your position is based primarily on your ability to do the job, not your tight ass. It wasn't so long ago that women were viewed as decoration with no real value in an organization. Some places, that's still true. You'll know that the battle of the sexes is finished when you can say 'nice ass' to a woman in your job and not have to worry about her taking it in a demeaning manner.
You mean different DRM locking, don't you? Do you think the **AA companies will allow DRM free stuff?
My iPod has no DRM on it, just the weird name scrambling on the stored music. I can copy it no problem, it's just not convenient. Other music players lack this drawback, though.
Steve Jobs has said that the point of iTunes is to sell iPods - how is it that he cares about someone else cloning the hardware? Also, interop sould kind of run counter to the stated purpose of apple's music service.
You keep pulling this "straw man" argument up that he was in trouble for lying about a blowjob. He was in trouble for sexual harassing a woman when goverenor of arkasas and lied to protect himself from civil action. You need to consider the context of the lie if you are going to continue to insert the words that it was just a blowjob. A woman claimed to have been sexualy harrased by clinton and then pushed out of government service when it went bad. Thats a serious crime in my opinion and lieing to get out of the respocibility of it is just as serious.
Sure, that's a serious matter, but it isn't impeachment material. You should only impeach someone for something related to their office - taking bribes, wars of aggression, and the like.
More people have medical coverage (still needs to be more). But i guess none of that matters because we hate bush.
We also gutted FEMA, launched a pointless war, spent ourselves into a massive deficit and added a bunch of laws that restrict our civil liberties (free speech zones?) under Bush. Don't forget that, had Congress not blocked the legislation, we would not have national health care at lower cost than we pay now. There are lots of reasons to hate Bush. Most of them stem from his incompetence.
To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse;
especially to charge (a public officer), before a
competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite
before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to
arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
It looks like Impeachment is analogous to an indictment. The fact is, whichever one of us is right, I don't consider it a serious crime to lie about a blowjob. It really has no bearing on the office of the President. If it wasn't for term limits, I'd elect him again - he's much better than the current doofus.
Boxes are cheap. For every week of a programmers time, an employer can buy another box.
And when you have 10,000 boxes with each app running on 500 of them, a 10% improvement can buy 8 months of dev time by your math. Your mantra is trite and worthless without enough context to evaluate the problem - I should know, as we are recovering from a 'hardware is free' mentality that left us with an excess of capacity and a lot of recurring lease costs.
efficiency is unnecessary when you have machines that have 1000x the horsepower needed to run any office application.
Yeah right. Inefficient code means you have to buy more boxes, so there's a balance to be struck between scale and code efficiency: the more scale you need, the more efficient you need to be.
The corporations that form the basis of our free-market economy are compelled BY LAW to reduce costs as much as possible, in order to increase margins and enhance shareholder value.
Bullshit. They do it to increase their bonuses. Absent blatant corruption or theft, there's very little the shareholders can do but sue, which they'll do no matter what the officers do.
As a programmer, I've tried to do some improvised web filters, and it's a ROYAL PAIN IN THE BACK. Blocking.xxx sites would be a walk in the park compared with all that content-based filtering madness.
What makes you think all porn will be in.xxx? Some people get offended by any naked breasts, so you'll have to possibly block anything about breast cancer or nude beaches, and there's also the matter of erotic literature - is it porn because it describes sex? Porn isn't cut and dried at all.
Now, I'm not some kind of porn fiend, but I dislike your implication that people who sell porn are more likely to do something unethical to your credit card.
Well I am one, and due to the consolidation of payment processors, Porn is safer than technogadgets - you generally deal with 2 or 3 companies total for whichever sites you go to, and they have pretty decent online tools, so it's not like you'll get burned, whereas every joe blow computer shop does their own payments and the goods are easier to screw up (site login vs. hardware).
Of course, it doesn't help when your bank uses multiple site addresses, seemingly at random. The simplest, most effective tactic (which Paypal of all people uses) is to only have one domain name and use that everywhere.
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It's just a shame Linus doesn't understand this.
Or perhaps he just disagrees with this approach.
That's my point, 99% of porn websites are NOT bikini models. Why let those 99% get away with it just because some people find more "lite" things offensive?
Get away with what? Also, the whole point here is that you can't come up with one definition for porn, so what's the point?
org (is a government an organization, what about businesses?)
Org is for individuals and non-profits. Governments have their own tld, as do businesses.
Now I don't know about you, but I'd say porn makes up a significant chunk of the internet.
The problem here is that cumsluts.com isn't in demand by anyone other than porn sites. Likewise, I can't see ibm.xxx being used for anything, so you aren't freeing up any sort of naming capacity.
Having an XXX domain gives porn purveyors a place to go where no one can complain they "accidentally" stumbled upon them. It will stop all of the "please think of the children" emotive pleas, since anyone concerned can just filter the XXX domain. This is the whole reason the domain system exists.
Yeah, and everything that isn't safe for the kids will be stuck there for the very same reason.
What's a porn site? How will you identify them? If it's opt-in, I can't really see a large adoption rate.
IIRC, Darth choked a man on a different ship while merely speaking with him on the videophone. That's a lot more than ten feet.
Since we're all connected by the Force, all you have to do is locate the other guy. Seeing the guy makes it easy, but with enough skill you can do the the vader trick.
You know, I always thought God was a kick-ass premise for a really far out work of science fiction. Someone should write a book with that premise... oh, wait...
Yeah, somebody already did. I think his name was Bob...
Duh. I'd bring back Tasha Yar from the dead! And have sex with her!
And then kill her in Las Vegas so she could do a crime investigation crossover, right?
Your wife is having sex with your best friend.
Here's $100,000, suck it up you whiner.
I live in a community property state, you insensitive bastard!
They awarded him a little name plaque attesting to his nice-assedness at Chistmas. Now if the environment were totally PR, or likely if he were a woman, this would have caused problems. However, as a guy he blushed a bit and really didn't seem that bothered. Personally, if it were me being nominated for nice-assedness (or having women ask me to get on a ladder to reach that "missed spot up there") I would take it as more compliment than insult.
That's because you're confident that your position is based primarily on your ability to do the job, not your tight ass. It wasn't so long ago that women were viewed as decoration with no real value in an organization. Some places, that's still true. You'll know that the battle of the sexes is finished when you can say 'nice ass' to a woman in your job and not have to worry about her taking it in a demeaning manner.
You mean different DRM locking, don't you? Do you think the **AA companies will allow DRM free stuff?
My iPod has no DRM on it, just the weird name scrambling on the stored music. I can copy it no problem, it's just not convenient. Other music players lack this drawback, though.
Nevermind what he says. Apple makes money selling iPods. Apple breaks even, at best, with iTunes.
That tends to back up my point - iTunes drives iPod sales. I have no idea why this simple assertion got modded into the ground.
Steve Jobs has said that the point of iTunes is to sell iPods - how is it that he cares about someone else cloning the hardware? Also, interop sould kind of run counter to the stated purpose of apple's music service.
No matter how this information is transferred (digital media, dead trees, FTP) it's going to be a lot of info and expensive.
Too bad you can't print them out and ship them in a couple (dozen) trucks.
Your honor, I beleive the confession that will prove my innosense has been sealed in the concrete comprising the Washington Monument.
Son, the Washington Monument is made of marble.
You keep pulling this "straw man" argument up that he was in trouble for lying about a blowjob. He was in trouble for sexual harassing a woman when goverenor of arkasas and lied to protect himself from civil action. You need to consider the context of the lie if you are going to continue to insert the words that it was just a blowjob. A woman claimed to have been sexualy harrased by clinton and then pushed out of government service when it went bad. Thats a serious crime in my opinion and lieing to get out of the respocibility of it is just as serious.
Sure, that's a serious matter, but it isn't impeachment material. You should only impeach someone for something related to their office - taking bribes, wars of aggression, and the like.
More people have medical coverage (still needs to be more). But i guess none of that matters because we hate bush.
We also gutted FEMA, launched a pointless war, spent ourselves into a massive deficit and added a bunch of laws that restrict our civil liberties (free speech zones?) under Bush. Don't forget that, had Congress not blocked the legislation, we would not have national health care at lower cost than we pay now. There are lots of reasons to hate Bush. Most of them stem from his incompetence.
Like I'm going to log into that site... They used to do it right, but I guess marketing beats actually having good practices.
Hereis what I got from some online dictionary:
To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
It looks like Impeachment is analogous to an indictment. The fact is, whichever one of us is right, I don't consider it a serious crime to lie about a blowjob. It really has no bearing on the office of the President. If it wasn't for term limits, I'd elect him again - he's much better than the current doofus.
Boxes are cheap. For every week of a programmers time, an employer can buy another box.
And when you have 10,000 boxes with each app running on 500 of them, a 10% improvement can buy 8 months of dev time by your math. Your mantra is trite and worthless without enough context to evaluate the problem - I should know, as we are recovering from a 'hardware is free' mentality that left us with an excess of capacity and a lot of recurring lease costs.
efficiency is unnecessary when you have machines that have 1000x the horsepower needed to run any office application.
Yeah right. Inefficient code means you have to buy more boxes, so there's a balance to be struck between scale and code efficiency: the more scale you need, the more efficient you need to be.
The corporations that form the basis of our free-market economy are compelled BY LAW to reduce costs as much as possible, in order to increase margins and enhance shareholder value.
Bullshit. They do it to increase their bonuses. Absent blatant corruption or theft, there's very little the shareholders can do but sue, which they'll do no matter what the officers do.
I am for the regulation of pornography because I don't want kids to be able to access it.
Okay, but first you have to get everyone to agree on what porn is. That'll only take 10 years and spark a few isolated armed conflicts.
As a programmer, I've tried to do some improvised web filters, and it's a ROYAL PAIN IN THE BACK. Blocking .xxx sites would be a walk in the park compared with all that content-based filtering madness.
What makes you think all porn will be in .xxx? Some people get offended by any naked breasts, so you'll have to possibly block anything about breast cancer or nude beaches, and there's also the matter of erotic literature - is it porn because it describes sex? Porn isn't cut and dried at all.
Now, I'm not some kind of porn fiend, but I dislike your implication that people who sell porn are more likely to do something unethical to your credit card.
Well I am one, and due to the consolidation of payment processors, Porn is safer than technogadgets - you generally deal with 2 or 3 companies total for whichever sites you go to, and they have pretty decent online tools, so it's not like you'll get burned, whereas every joe blow computer shop does their own payments and the goods are easier to screw up (site login vs. hardware).
Of course, it doesn't help when your bank uses multiple site addresses, seemingly at random. The simplest, most effective tactic (which Paypal of all people uses) is to only have one domain name and use that everywhere.