Busted, Baldino begged for a little yuletide forgiveness.
"I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN and I am once more terribly sorry," Baldino wrote in a statement for police. "Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please!"
Hey, kid...out in the real world, there are real world consequences. Your mom is not there to pick up the pieces.
'under the thumb'? Two independant bodies coming to the same conclusion that.xxx is worse than useless is not a case of one being under the others thumb.
The only real benefit of.xxx is more money for registrars. It serves no other useful purpose.
They earn interest on the money they haven't yet given you back
You buy an item for $100, with a $20 rebate. In effect, you are loaning them $20 for a few weeks/months. Multiply that $20 by a few tens of thousands of people, compund interest for a coupla months and poof, free money. Add to that the people who forget, or are refused for whatever reason, and even more free money.
If Samsung, Inc. called and asked you to loan them $20, obviously you wouldn't do it. They are a billion dollar megacorp, and you are just a poor individual shopper. Wrap it in effective marketing, and people line up for hours begging to loan them $20 each.
Maybe it's me, but that sounds like a retail industry mouthpiece to me.
Yes, it's you. NPD is a well known, very independant, marketing research company. Typically, they do NOT slant their collected data one way or the other.
disclaimer: recently used to work for a competitor of theirs.
Do vacation pics from a topless beach count? Some would say yes, some would say no.
Does extreme bondage, where no skin is actually seen, count? After all...no skin and actual 'sex' is going on.
What differentiates a Victoria's Sectret catalog pic from the opening scenes of a series of porn stills? Move the models hand a couple of inches, and you've crossed the line.
If by 'censorship', you include parents not showing their 7 year old the goat.se guy or tubgirl, then ok...fine. That's 'censorship'.
And how do you think that mental maturity is reached, if not through experience?
So your concept is that anything goes, at any and every age? Let an 8 year old suck down a bottle of Jim Beam, because hey...its the only way he'll gain experience. Or let the two 10 year olds engage in full bondage sex, because that's the only way they'll mature? Better yet...show them how it's done.
Or that every movie and image is appropriate for a child of any age?
C'mon...you don't really believe that, do you? Get back to me when you sit down with your 8 year old and watch a porn video.
Yeah, right. If you rally think that a lot of the stuff online is merely 'slightly objectionable', then you have some serious issues.
Not that I agree with the xxx thing in the least, but you know as well as I do that there are some seriously disturbed individuals online. And ready to display that to the world.
"Mommy? Why is that lady hanging from the ceiling?" "Mommy? Why is that lady pooping on herself?" "Mommy? What's worng with that guys butt?"
What would it acheive? A false sense of security for those would would want to filter based on it. Nothing really requires pornography to belong to a xxx domain.
That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.
What I'm saying is that 99.9% of the population already has access to, and already pays for, basic POTS service. POTS service which can also be used to connect to the internet, if so desired.
These "free" muni wifi services do not provide access vs. non access. They provide extra speed over the basic dialup capability.
Saying that without these "free"(taxpayer supported, govt controlled) services people have no chance to get online is merely silly.
As long as I consider the Library a government responsibility, I have to say the same about internet access.
Everyone already has basic internet access.
The telephone line.
If you mean the ability to d/l the distro of the week, while simultaneously sharing out several gig of mp3's, then you and I differ about what 'government responsibility' is.
more sensible tack would be to build a launch phase system that could be parked near a threat country.
In light of continually shifting politics, would you want one of your primary weapons systems be completely dependant on the good will of another country to let it be based there?
It has always been like that, tho. Drive for more than 5 minutes, and you will have committed some minor infraction. Even just the 'crime' of "your vehicle resembles..." or DWB.
The seatbelt thing is neither relevant nor important.
police can now pull you over for not wearing a seat belt
Only in places where seat belt use is a primary crime. LOTS of states, that isn't the case. They can ticket you, after stopping you for something else, but they can't make the initial stop based soley on non-seatbelt use.
In addition to the other response to this, almost always, a corporate license is viable for downgrading. 'Buy XP, install 2000', be it Windows or Office.p.But really...there is no need to upgrade, if you don't see a real need for it.
Right now I'm more concerned about trying to set up coding standards, so that any developer can jump into any part of a project and be able to figure out what's going on, without wasting a couple hours just to figure out the code.
That is a pipedream. Any project of significant size will require some immersion before a new proj member can get his hands around the particular bit he's trying code/solve.
Standards can be good, but they're not magical. Unless you're trying to generate a group of little robots, everyone has a slightly different style.
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"I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN and I am once more terribly sorry," Baldino wrote in a statement for police. "Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I'm only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please!"
Hey, kid...out in the real world, there are real world consequences. Your mom is not there to pick up the pieces.
I think Ted Kennedy was on the pilot program for this.
God Bless America.
Maybe so, but this article refers to Canada.
Far from 'clear'. For instance, evidently many other countries had a problem with it as well.
The only real benefit of .xxx is more money for registrars. It serves no other useful purpose.
You buy an item for $100, with a $20 rebate. In effect, you are loaning them $20 for a few weeks/months. Multiply that $20 by a few tens of thousands of people, compund interest for a coupla months and poof, free money. Add to that the people who forget, or are refused for whatever reason, and even more free money.
If Samsung, Inc. called and asked you to loan them $20, obviously you wouldn't do it. They are a billion dollar megacorp, and you are just a poor individual shopper. Wrap it in effective marketing, and people line up for hours begging to loan them $20 each.
Yes, it's you. NPD is a well known, very independant, marketing research company. Typically, they do NOT slant their collected data one way or the other.
disclaimer: recently used to work for a competitor of theirs.
I'm presuming you've forgotten about that little drive across the countryside that the German army took a few decades ago?
Does extreme bondage, where no skin is actually seen, count? After all...no skin and actual 'sex' is going on.
What differentiates a Victoria's Sectret catalog pic from the opening scenes of a series of porn stills? Move the models hand a couple of inches, and you've crossed the line.
"Explicit sexual acts" is far too limiting.
And how do you think that mental maturity is reached, if not through experience?
So your concept is that anything goes, at any and every age? Let an 8 year old suck down a bottle of Jim Beam, because hey...its the only way he'll gain experience.
Or let the two 10 year olds engage in full bondage sex, because that's the only way they'll mature? Better yet...show them how it's done.
Or that every movie and image is appropriate for a child of any age?
C'mon...you don't really believe that, do you? Get back to me when you sit down with your 8 year old and watch a porn video.
If you haven't noticed, there is a huge, wide range of maturity between 0 and 18. Maybe when you have children of your own, you'll realize this.
Right. and www.spankmyass.com is going to voluntarily give it up to become www.spankmyass.xxx? Please...
Not that I agree with the xxx thing in the least, but you know as well as I do that there are some seriously disturbed individuals online. And ready to display that to the world.
"Mommy? Why is that lady hanging from the ceiling?"
"Mommy? Why is that lady pooping on herself?"
"Mommy? What's worng with that guys butt?"
Are you ready to explain that to a 6 year old?
That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.
What I'm saying is that 99.9% of the population already has access to, and already pays for, basic POTS service. POTS service which can also be used to connect to the internet, if so desired.
These "free" muni wifi services do not provide access vs. non access. They provide extra speed over the basic dialup capability.
Saying that without these "free"(taxpayer supported, govt controlled) services people have no chance to get online is merely silly.
Everyone already has basic internet access.
The telephone line.
If you mean the ability to d/l the distro of the week, while simultaneously sharing out several gig of mp3's, then you and I differ about what 'government responsibility' is.
In light of continually shifting politics, would you want one of your primary weapons systems be completely dependant on the good will of another country to let it be based there?
One day we will. Unfortunately, not anytime soon.
Maybe he just wanted to see how high in the rankings it was?
Sure. You are free to use a different company. Using a different government is not always possible.
The seatbelt thing is neither relevant nor important.
Only in places where seat belt use is a primary crime. LOTS of states, that isn't the case. They can ticket you, after stopping you for something else, but they can't make the initial stop based soley on non-seatbelt use.
In addition to the other response to this, almost always, a corporate license is viable for downgrading. 'Buy XP, install 2000', be it Windows or Office.p.But really...there is no need to upgrade, if you don't see a real need for it.
That is a pipedream. Any project of significant size will require some immersion before a new proj member can get his hands around the particular bit he's trying code/solve.
Standards can be good, but they're not magical. Unless you're trying to generate a group of little robots, everyone has a slightly different style.
and here.
SecDef is absolutely in the chain of command.
POTUS - SecDef - unified commanders - everyone else.
The Joint Chiefs are on the side, as advisors.
Now...does SecDef have the 'authority' to order a private around? Technically, yes. Obviously, no, that doesn't happen.
Venus.