Although the word "nazi" is now accepted to mean "a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc." this is etymologically inaccurate. Outside of playful uses (such as "grammar nazi" or a TV serial's "soup nazi") the word "nazi" should be synonymous with "a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party," and we ought to come up with some intermediary term (like "asshole" if you feel like you require a more abusive term) to refer to this kind of pedantic overbearing we've found ourselves saddled with.
Word definitions and connotations have a tendency to move around quite a bit. The word "stink" for example, was once a neutral term to describe something giving off a scent, and now has decidedly negative connotation, if not being outright denotative of giving off a bad odor. Similarly, nazi once meant the members of the political party that established a murderous and expansionist totalitarian regime in Germany. Now it used to describe someone who likes to pick on people's misuse of its vs. it's.
After all, not one of the 9/11 hijackers had validly issued ID in their own names. Right?
Yeah. Maybe the next president will do something to fix the utterly idiotic "security" games the TSA insists on playing with airline travel. I'm not putting money on it, though.
This phone isn't being marketed to you! Turns out, not everyone on earth has your life, lifestyle, or priorities!
Also, I hit my 30s and started a family - and I'm likely to get one. Turns out not even all the people in your rough age and social cohort have the same priorities as you!
The rumor is (and we'll know for sure this afternoon) that Snow Leopard will be a bug fix/performance release, targeted for early next year, possibly involving the elimination of support for PowerPC, among other things.
Really, it's not that hard. You need to make sure your children get enough balanced protein, and adequate quantities of iron, B vitamins, and a couple other things. You just have to pay attention.
Unfortunately, a lot of people never think to pay attention to what they (or their children) eat. It's something you hear from people who become vegans/vegetarians: I got fat, I lost muscle mass, etc. etc. You got fat because you ate nothing but pasta and cheese, you lost muscle mass because you didn't consume enough protein. Eat some spinach and have some tofu. Morons.
Rehabilitation was not the original purpose of prison in the United States--pointed to by the fact that we _used_ to say that a criminal was released "when they had repaid their debt to society."
You fail at history. Please, go look into the first prisons in the US, in particular those established in PA by the Quakers (who originated the modern practice of solitary confinement). Rehabilitation was the PRIMARY goal of prisons in the US when they were first established, both for the good of society and for the good of the prisoner's soul.
And saying that I'm "smoking the liberal weed" and supporting your point about the purpose of prisons with an unsourced cliche? Classic debating tactics. Quality stuff.
On a side note, whats with those extremely long terms in prison? Anyone going in for 25 years will never be able to get back into society - I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order
That used to be the purpose of prison. But then America decided that that was namby-pamby liberal bullshit and that the purpose of prison was to make the prisoner's life as miserable and awful as possible, even if the end result is someone who can't handle society outside and is likely to become a repeat offender. Really, you'll find it difficult to make the argument with most Americans that prison ought to provide rehabilitation rather than the harshest possible punishment.
As an aside, there's nothing about raising your child as a vegan which necessarily constitutes mistreatment. Being a dipshit about nutritional requirements, though, is a different issue. I know several pairs of vegan parents who have raised their children as vegans, and the kids are quite healthy and normal - the parents are merely educated about properly balancing diets and nutrition for children.
The problem that many Chinese speakers have is in distinguishing between phonemes [l] and [r] in English. That's because their own language doesn't contain such a phonemic distinction between those two liquid consonants, despite the fact that they might well produce sounds which sound more or less the same as those in English.
Rather than speaking from your ass, you could do a little research on your own.
Ah, but I didn't make any assertions, I merely challenged someone who was making assertions to back them up.
Of course, there is a causation/correlation argument that could be made here, but to someone with tendencies already, this may push them over the edge whereas they may have lived a normal life without it.
Or, to put it another way, this study doesn't in any establish a causal link between pornographic exposure and child molestation, nor does even hint at your suggestion that a lack of exposure to child pornography might prevent a person from acting on their sexual desires for child.
There does seem to be a link between viewing child porn and abusing children. Now that leaves open the question is do child molesters like child porn or does porn encourage it.
Ok, if there seems to be a link, support that assertion with something besides what comes out of your ass.
But then I also know people that are 80 and smoked a pack of cigs a day since they where 12 and I know a few people that survived combat without a scratch. I doubt that anybody would say those where both harmless.
I agree, I wouldn't say those are harmless. However, I also wouldn't say that those examples are comparable to the kiddie porn/child molestation link.
If you couldn't find the actual victims or any other evidence that the producer had abused a child in making the images, maybe you shouldn't be prosecuting them.
The justification for child porn laws is that real children are harmed in making it. The justification for arresting purchasers is that they create the market for it. It doesn't matter whether they buy CG or real porn, they still encourage the crimes against children
What? That conclusion doesn't follow from the premises you gave.
The justification for making the production of child porn illegal is that it harms children. The justification for making owning child porn illegal is that it encourages producing child porn (and thus encouraging more harming of children).
CG child porn doesn't harm children in its production, because its production doesn't actually involve children. And following the analogy, consumption of CG child porn would encourage the production of more child porn, but given the fact that you can produce it without running afoul of the law, you'd get more CG than real child porn produced.
How does producing images that look like child porn without actually abusing children encourage crimes against children?
For example, implementing proprietary features on top of open source utilities to provide a low-cost computer-controlled product ("smart box"), and distributing a program on hardware that blocks execution of modified software, have proven to be contentious issues. Running commercial Web services using open source software without releasing source code has also caused consternation in some quarters.
That right there should tell you what you need to know about the guy's understanding of 1) the technical issues related to GPL software, and 2) the actual legal requirements of the GPL.
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Although the word "nazi" is now accepted to mean "a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc." this is etymologically inaccurate. Outside of playful uses (such as "grammar nazi" or a TV serial's "soup nazi") the word "nazi" should be synonymous with "a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party," and we ought to come up with some intermediary term (like "asshole" if you feel like you require a more abusive term) to refer to this kind of pedantic overbearing we've found ourselves saddled with.
Word definitions and connotations have a tendency to move around quite a bit. The word "stink" for example, was once a neutral term to describe something giving off a scent, and now has decidedly negative connotation, if not being outright denotative of giving off a bad odor. Similarly, nazi once meant the members of the political party that established a murderous and expansionist totalitarian regime in Germany. Now it used to describe someone who likes to pick on people's misuse of its vs. it's.
After all, not one of the 9/11 hijackers had validly issued ID in their own names. Right?
Yeah. Maybe the next president will do something to fix the utterly idiotic "security" games the TSA insists on playing with airline travel. I'm not putting money on it, though.
This phone isn't being marketed to you! Turns out, not everyone on earth has your life, lifestyle, or priorities!
Also, I hit my 30s and started a family - and I'm likely to get one. Turns out not even all the people in your rough age and social cohort have the same priorities as you!
The rumor is (and we'll know for sure this afternoon) that Snow Leopard will be a bug fix/performance release, targeted for early next year, possibly involving the elimination of support for PowerPC, among other things.
Out of curiosity, when you started consuming dairy again, did you also start eating eggs?
Really, it's not that hard. You need to make sure your children get enough balanced protein, and adequate quantities of iron, B vitamins, and a couple other things. You just have to pay attention.
Unfortunately, a lot of people never think to pay attention to what they (or their children) eat. It's something you hear from people who become vegans/vegetarians: I got fat, I lost muscle mass, etc. etc. You got fat because you ate nothing but pasta and cheese, you lost muscle mass because you didn't consume enough protein. Eat some spinach and have some tofu. Morons.
Rehabilitation was not the original purpose of prison in the United States--pointed to by the fact that we _used_ to say that a criminal was released "when they had repaid their debt to society."
You fail at history. Please, go look into the first prisons in the US, in particular those established in PA by the Quakers (who originated the modern practice of solitary confinement). Rehabilitation was the PRIMARY goal of prisons in the US when they were first established, both for the good of society and for the good of the prisoner's soul.
And saying that I'm "smoking the liberal weed" and supporting your point about the purpose of prisons with an unsourced cliche? Classic debating tactics. Quality stuff.
On a side note, whats with those extremely long terms in prison? Anyone going in for 25 years will never be able to get back into society - I thought the point of prison was to punish and correct the guilty and get them back into working order
That used to be the purpose of prison. But then America decided that that was namby-pamby liberal bullshit and that the purpose of prison was to make the prisoner's life as miserable and awful as possible, even if the end result is someone who can't handle society outside and is likely to become a repeat offender. Really, you'll find it difficult to make the argument with most Americans that prison ought to provide rehabilitation rather than the harshest possible punishment.
As an aside, there's nothing about raising your child as a vegan which necessarily constitutes mistreatment. Being a dipshit about nutritional requirements, though, is a different issue. I know several pairs of vegan parents who have raised their children as vegans, and the kids are quite healthy and normal - the parents are merely educated about properly balancing diets and nutrition for children.
Nope; the AC comment on my last post wasn't made by me. I've got no problem telling people they suck it with my real UID.
And you suck it.
Yeah, that's great.
You still suck it.
Shut the fuck up you worthless cum guzzling sack of fuck. I hope you bleed to death while getting fucked with a spiked dildo.
Asshole.
Also, you're doing it wrong.
No, that would be ALAX.
The problem that many Chinese speakers have is in distinguishing between phonemes [l] and [r] in English. That's because their own language doesn't contain such a phonemic distinction between those two liquid consonants, despite the fact that they might well produce sounds which sound more or less the same as those in English.
Fascinating, no?
Cause it's worth the $8,000 if I can send it to meetings and it can ignore all the shit I don't care about for me.
Ah, why can't it be both?
Ah, but I didn't make any assertions, I merely challenged someone who was making assertions to back them up.
Or, to put it another way, this study doesn't in any establish a causal link between pornographic exposure and child molestation, nor does even hint at your suggestion that a lack of exposure to child pornography might prevent a person from acting on their sexual desires for child.
You sound like a terrorist, you know. A child molesting terrorist.
Ok, if there seems to be a link, support that assertion with something besides what comes out of your ass.
I agree, I wouldn't say those are harmless. However, I also wouldn't say that those examples are comparable to the kiddie porn/child molestation link.
If you couldn't find the actual victims or any other evidence that the producer had abused a child in making the images, maybe you shouldn't be prosecuting them.
What? That conclusion doesn't follow from the premises you gave.
The justification for making the production of child porn illegal is that it harms children. The justification for making owning child porn illegal is that it encourages producing child porn (and thus encouraging more harming of children).
CG child porn doesn't harm children in its production, because its production doesn't actually involve children. And following the analogy, consumption of CG child porn would encourage the production of more child porn, but given the fact that you can produce it without running afoul of the law, you'd get more CG than real child porn produced.
How does producing images that look like child porn without actually abusing children encourage crimes against children?
Except that it's not a new release. It's speculation about the possible announcement of a new version of the OS.
I'll go read mac rumor sites when I want to see that kind of stuff.
Yeah, and it's a replacement ID for an older one which was user 10,000
Come on, how bout some actual news for nerds and stuff that matters?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong supporter of second amendment rights, but that's not the topic here.
Don't talk about Fight Club.
That right there should tell you what you need to know about the guy's understanding of 1) the technical issues related to GPL software, and 2) the actual legal requirements of the GPL.