No, a "Katrina-like" space storm is not brewing, because for a storm to remotely resemble an Atlantic Hurricane, it would need to occur inside of a frikkin' atmosphere.
Bad journalism should be painful to the perpetrator.
US Born Muslims have been terrorists less frequently than Michigan rednecks. They're a middle class immigrant group very similar to Indians and Koreans. The only thing they're fanatical about is sending Ali Jr. to an Ivy and getting a Benz.
And this is also, coincidentally, the solution to terrorism. If we lifted the sanctions on Palestine and ended the prison-like occupation of the state, it would take 15 years tops for them to start caring more about cars and TVs than God and Jews. Has anyone heard from the IRA since the Irish GDP shot up?
Terrorism is for bored poor third worlders. Fix the third world and we fix terrorism.
Or we could just keep killing people and maybe they'll get less desperate and angry.
My point was: it is entirely legitimate for someone who is not fully grown to be using the internet without supervision (or else my own adolescence was more or less completely illegitimate). Predators exist and they are sophisticated, far more sophisticated than children, even children whose parents have done the right thing and explained the way the world works. Kids rebel and go against their parents wishes. Most of the time it is harmless, but they're young and don't know what they're doing, they can put themselves in a lot of danger by doing something that to a 14 year old seems harmless.
There are criminals victimizing children online, and the law has not only the authority to step in and do something about it, but the duty to do so.
It is true that you can be labeled a "sex offender" for stupid minor BS, and it does happen. But the majority of registered sex offenders are rapists. Just like people who are arrested for violent crimes do not have the right to legally own a handgun, convicted rapists and predators do not have the right to private communication with strangers online.
The problem with this law is who gets called a sex offender. The problem is not that real sex offenders (who exist in large numbers) have to have their online communication scrutinized.
All you can do is educate your child and help them make the right choices, but we live in a nation of laws so that we are not entirely at the mercy of our personal preparation vs. the cunning of criminals. The state can do a bit more to keep your children safe. And it is possible to monitor crime without infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens.
I can promise you that as your child grows up there's going to be a long gulf of time between when you lose control of their time and activity and when you actually trust them to make adult decisions.
This law is probably a bit busted, as "sex offender" means a few too many people who've done things a little too minor for this kind of invasion of privacy, but there are definitely convicted criminals out there who can't be trusted online.
Ok, let's be honest here. "Parents should know what they're kids are doing online" is the go-to answer we have to respond to bogus "think of the children." charges.
It isn't easy. I sure know I was going around behind my parents back back when I was thirteen and I figured out what usenet was for.
Now it's one thing for kids to be looking at age-inappropriate entertainment while Mom and Dad are at work, it's quite another thing for them to be in contact with sexual predators. This is very much the domain of law enforcement.
Parental concerns may be a headache for childless internet citizens, but we should remember that it is a serious and legitimate problem, even if the steps people take to solve it aren't always well taken.
Are you sure it wasn't Zelda 2? The first issue of NP was a preview of Mario 2, which came out after the original Legend of Zelda (which was released in Japan for a system that preceded the NES).
I could check all this, but I'm at work and researching old issues of Nintendo Power could easily destroy my day.
Oh and remember how they previewed Final Fantasy every issue for like six months before it came out? I have never anticipated a game so much since.
Ok but what about other consumer devices that aren't meant to have a limited shelf-life? I think that's really the issue here. You could very well say "oh yeah, well what about transistors?" but that wouldn't be very relevant.
It's like recommending a home security system to both someone who lives in the suburbs and someone who lives in Compton.
I've been using OS X for four years now as my primary OS and I do all the wrong things. I download warez and porn, I wait to install patches sometimes a month at a time, I don't have any virus protection installed and so on and so forth. I scanned for viruses about a month ago and there were none.
Use Windows for a similar amount of time in a similar behavior with no anti-virus software and the result will be different. There could be a sea-change and this could all stop becoming true, but right now the vulnerability of the two operating systems isn't really comparable.
All that said, the security system for the house in the 'burbs is still an OK buy.
There's an old way of using the term that refers to a way of making GUI desktop apps in an object-oriented language. There's a newer use of the term, or a synonym that describes a broadly similar way of structuring applications that is different in many key technical ways, but similar enough that a variety of people have felt comfortable applying the term.
I think this is a clear case of computer science and software engineering (without going into Dijkstra's assessment of that term) being different beasts.
Both the theoretical and immediately practical implementation of software are interesting and important, but they're studied in different ways by different people and trying to mash the two together tends to create more conflict than interdisciplinary synergy.
The most popular game of all time is going to get written about. I don't care either, but I'm not bitching that the news isn't exactly tailored to my interests.
Also: 60s pop music was a lot more than the 50 or so songs that have been endlessly repeated on your local classic rock station and in movie soundtracks.
We think we have a memory of decades from before we were born, but we just have some editor's sleezy commercial take on the time. Really getting something approximating a feel for another time takes actual work and research.
Seems like you could get in on the rush being born in the late 70s or early 80s. A low ID means you're probably not in generation facebook, but not much more than that.
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In answer to the ridiculous summary:
No, a "Katrina-like" space storm is not brewing, because for a storm to remotely resemble an Atlantic Hurricane, it would need to occur inside of a frikkin' atmosphere.
Bad journalism should be painful to the perpetrator.
You can't send a corporation to jail.
What other justice would you offer? Or should business be above the law?
This is a US born family.
US Born Muslims have been terrorists less frequently than Michigan rednecks. They're a middle class immigrant group very similar to Indians and Koreans. The only thing they're fanatical about is sending Ali Jr. to an Ivy and getting a Benz.
And this is also, coincidentally, the solution to terrorism. If we lifted the sanctions on Palestine and ended the prison-like occupation of the state, it would take 15 years tops for them to start caring more about cars and TVs than God and Jews. Has anyone heard from the IRA since the Irish GDP shot up?
Terrorism is for bored poor third worlders. Fix the third world and we fix terrorism.
Or we could just keep killing people and maybe they'll get less desperate and angry.
My point was: it is entirely legitimate for someone who is not fully grown to be using the internet without supervision (or else my own adolescence was more or less completely illegitimate). Predators exist and they are sophisticated, far more sophisticated than children, even children whose parents have done the right thing and explained the way the world works. Kids rebel and go against their parents wishes. Most of the time it is harmless, but they're young and don't know what they're doing, they can put themselves in a lot of danger by doing something that to a 14 year old seems harmless.
There are criminals victimizing children online, and the law has not only the authority to step in and do something about it, but the duty to do so.
It is true that you can be labeled a "sex offender" for stupid minor BS, and it does happen. But the majority of registered sex offenders are rapists. Just like people who are arrested for violent crimes do not have the right to legally own a handgun, convicted rapists and predators do not have the right to private communication with strangers online.
The problem with this law is who gets called a sex offender. The problem is not that real sex offenders (who exist in large numbers) have to have their online communication scrutinized.
All you can do is educate your child and help them make the right choices, but we live in a nation of laws so that we are not entirely at the mercy of our personal preparation vs. the cunning of criminals. The state can do a bit more to keep your children safe. And it is possible to monitor crime without infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens.
Ok but there's a big difference between 4 and 14.
I can promise you that as your child grows up there's going to be a long gulf of time between when you lose control of their time and activity and when you actually trust them to make adult decisions.
This law is probably a bit busted, as "sex offender" means a few too many people who've done things a little too minor for this kind of invasion of privacy, but there are definitely convicted criminals out there who can't be trusted online.
Ok, let's be honest here. "Parents should know what they're kids are doing online" is the go-to answer we have to respond to bogus "think of the children." charges.
It isn't easy. I sure know I was going around behind my parents back back when I was thirteen and I figured out what usenet was for.
Now it's one thing for kids to be looking at age-inappropriate entertainment while Mom and Dad are at work, it's quite another thing for them to be in contact with sexual predators. This is very much the domain of law enforcement.
Parental concerns may be a headache for childless internet citizens, but we should remember that it is a serious and legitimate problem, even if the steps people take to solve it aren't always well taken.
Now I'm from Georgia and I have to say my response to this is:
Sixteen frikkin' thousand!?
Yeah, but it's still a lot of adults who have "being entertained by toys" as a top hobby.
*ducks and runs*
Are you sure it wasn't Zelda 2? The first issue of NP was a preview of Mario 2, which came out after the original Legend of Zelda (which was released in Japan for a system that preceded the NES).
I could check all this, but I'm at work and researching old issues of Nintendo Power could easily destroy my day.
Oh and remember how they previewed Final Fantasy every issue for like six months before it came out? I have never anticipated a game so much since.
Naga, please.
I work for a three man shop, and we're just now getting to the point where we can fire bad clients.
It makes a world of difference.
Ok but what about other consumer devices that aren't meant to have a limited shelf-life? I think that's really the issue here. You could very well say "oh yeah, well what about transistors?" but that wouldn't be very relevant.
There are certainly others, but not too many.
It's like recommending a home security system to both someone who lives in the suburbs and someone who lives in Compton.
I've been using OS X for four years now as my primary OS and I do all the wrong things. I download warez and porn, I wait to install patches sometimes a month at a time, I don't have any virus protection installed and so on and so forth. I scanned for viruses about a month ago and there were none.
Use Windows for a similar amount of time in a similar behavior with no anti-virus software and the result will be different. There could be a sea-change and this could all stop becoming true, but right now the vulnerability of the two operating systems isn't really comparable.
All that said, the security system for the house in the 'burbs is still an OK buy.
There's an old way of using the term that refers to a way of making GUI desktop apps in an object-oriented language. There's a newer use of the term, or a synonym that describes a broadly similar way of structuring applications that is different in many key technical ways, but similar enough that a variety of people have felt comfortable applying the term.
I think this is a clear case of computer science and software engineering (without going into Dijkstra's assessment of that term) being different beasts.
Both the theoretical and immediately practical implementation of software are interesting and important, but they're studied in different ways by different people and trying to mash the two together tends to create more conflict than interdisciplinary synergy.
You're reducing his argument to a tautology in order to defend it. I don't think you want to do that.
Maybe you shouldn't only be looking to market economics for your ideals.
The most popular game of all time is going to get written about. I don't care either, but I'm not bitching that the news isn't exactly tailored to my interests.
Hahah, eat it, 3DO.
Also: 60s pop music was a lot more than the 50 or so songs that have been endlessly repeated on your local classic rock station and in movie soundtracks.
We think we have a memory of decades from before we were born, but we just have some editor's sleezy commercial take on the time. Really getting something approximating a feel for another time takes actual work and research.
Yes, if there's another successful nation on the planet, we're dooooooomed.
Talk about insecure.
Seems like you could get in on the rush being born in the late 70s or early 80s. A low ID means you're probably not in generation facebook, but not much more than that.
anus that pluralizes to ani is "ring" and is what you're thinking.
anus that pluralizes to anus is "old woman" which is kind of funny.
latin!
I registered in 1999 and mine isn't that low. So it was probably '98.
Unfortunately his presidency will either be incomplete or inconsistent.
And then there are leaders out there like Castro, who doesn't seem to halt.