The very act of downloading implies interest and creates a "market" irrespective of presence or type of remuneration. This drives the creation of even more; either by continued victimization or the generation of new ones.
Fetish play by consenting adults is one thing. Victimization of children is something entirely different, no matter the form or revenue.
Actually part of his contribution involved his own family members. This experience totally reshaped my view about those involved in kiddie porn so fuck you and your ignorant generalizations and FUCK YOU to your claim of bullshit.
Neither me nor my family was directly involved but this was such a close friend we might as well have been.
Learn something about the subject before you respond in your kneejerk quasi-libertarian fashion. This is real life with real consequences, not philosophical masturbation.
Mere possession is a problem in that it propagates the victimization whether or not money changes hands. A childhood friend of mine who was as much my sibling as my own flesh and blood (and a very early Slashdot member) was recently convicted of trafficking in child pornography. He was somewhat peripheral in terms of content but was actively contributory in establishing the distribution.
This rocked me to my core.
There is no case of possession of child pornography that does not merit thorough investigation and very few that do not merit prosecution.
No That is a large and most likely incorrect assumption. The wire used for phone runs in most homes, especially older homes, is unsuitable for ethernet. The runs are also daisy chained and terminate at your outside MPOE. The amount of work required to convert would be greater than making brand new appropriate runs.
Nothing I can link to right now, and don't care to dig. But I have personally handled home loan documentation for hundreds of folks in my local area who used fake Social Security numbers to get jobs which paid for the loans. Paystubs from these folks indicated the same withholding taxes you and I pay.
Fake SSANs are why the IRS created the "EZ Verify" or whatever it's called. Not every employer uses it and most of the people I saw had been employed for years.
BTW: I'm an IT guy not a mortgage broker so don't get your panties in a twist over that with me.
Sorry Charlie, but clients with classified data are physically separated from the public internet. USB ports and other sneakernet outlets are 9should be) disabled. The folks that take care of the important stuff aren't stupid and are highly paranoid.
Illegal immigrants comprise less than 5% of the US population. Taxes are withheld from the wages of the vast majority of them for services they'll never receive but are available to citizens (social security, etc.). Compare the $millions "lost" to these folks versus the $millions truly lost in prevention or detection schemes which fail to do anything but erode the privacy rights of citizens.
I grant your point but those were just a few of the REAL WORLD, _tangible_, marks I could roll of my head. The last two are the most important but also the most difficult to show which is why the first four were listed.
But it is clearly easier to crack "American Psycho" jokes so fire away...
Bzzzt! Price != quality. Spend some time actually trying a wide variety of crafted wine (there's more than just "red"/"white"/"pink") as opposed to swilling sweetened alcohol and get back to me.
The irony of your pretentiousness is overwhelming.
Very nifty. Thanks for the link. Of course, there is also the dysarthria issue. What speech I have left is semi-intelligible when standing next to me. Add compression and static and it gets undecipherable.
Slashdot Mirror
The very act of downloading implies interest and creates a "market" irrespective of presence or type of remuneration. This drives the creation of even more; either by continued victimization or the generation of new ones.
Fetish play by consenting adults is one thing. Victimization of children is something entirely different, no matter the form or revenue.
Actually part of his contribution involved his own family members. This experience totally reshaped my view about those involved in kiddie porn so fuck you and your ignorant generalizations and FUCK YOU to your claim of bullshit.
Neither me nor my family was directly involved but this was such a close friend we might as well have been.
Learn something about the subject before you respond in your kneejerk quasi-libertarian fashion. This is real life with real consequences, not philosophical masturbation.
I wish I had mod points for you Chris Hansen...
Mere possession is a problem in that it propagates the victimization whether or not money changes hands. A childhood friend of mine who was as much my sibling as my own flesh and blood (and a very early Slashdot member) was recently convicted of trafficking in child pornography. He was somewhat peripheral in terms of content but was actively contributory in establishing the distribution.
This rocked me to my core.
There is no case of possession of child pornography that does not merit thorough investigation and very few that do not merit prosecution.
Soon you will have no sense of taste.
... I call them freckles. If a sunspot moves or grows the dermatologist deals with it.
This constellation ain't big enough for two nebulae!
Shocking is the whole point...
I prefer PM radio.
No That is a large and most likely incorrect assumption. The wire used for phone runs in most homes, especially older homes, is unsuitable for ethernet. The runs are also daisy chained and terminate at your outside MPOE. The amount of work required to convert would be greater than making brand new appropriate runs.
Sorry, that argument gets filed next to "Welfare Queens", in the same drawer as unicorns and leprechauns.
Nope. I am well aware of the difference. See my reply above.
Nothing I can link to right now, and don't care to dig. But I have personally handled home loan documentation for hundreds of folks in my local area who used fake Social Security numbers to get jobs which paid for the loans. Paystubs from these folks indicated the same withholding taxes you and I pay.
Fake SSANs are why the IRS created the "EZ Verify" or whatever it's called. Not every employer uses it and most of the people I saw had been employed for years.
BTW: I'm an IT guy not a mortgage broker so don't get your panties in a twist over that with me.
Sorry Charlie, but clients with classified data are physically separated from the public internet. USB ports and other sneakernet outlets are 9should be) disabled. The folks that take care of the important stuff aren't stupid and are highly paranoid.
Bzzzt.
Illegal immigrants comprise less than 5% of the US population. Taxes are withheld from the wages of the vast majority of them for services they'll never receive but are available to citizens (social security, etc.). Compare the $millions "lost" to these folks versus the $millions truly lost in prevention or detection schemes which fail to do anything but erode the privacy rights of citizens.
I hear the surfing in Cuba is good and uncrowded...
Now I can project even more realistic UFOs on low clouds near the airport!
I grant your point but those were just a few of the REAL WORLD, _tangible_, marks I could roll of my head. The last two are the most important but also the most difficult to show which is why the first four were listed.
But it is clearly easier to crack "American Psycho" jokes so fire away...
Bzzzt! Price != quality. Spend some time actually trying a wide variety of crafted wine (there's more than just "red"/"white"/"pink") as opposed to swilling sweetened alcohol and get back to me.
The irony of your pretentiousness is overwhelming.
The size and location of my house
The emblem on my car
The labels on my wine collection
The title on my business card
The loyalty of my friends
And most important
The number of times per day I make my wife smile.
Video games simply don't enter that equation no matter how much I may enjoy them.
No points for a Sluggy Freelance reference? This place HAS gone downhill...
Very nifty. Thanks for the link. Of course, there is also the dysarthria issue. What speech I have left is semi-intelligible when standing next to me. Add compression and static and it gets undecipherable.
ALS is a true bitch.
It's hard to operate a Ham when you're quadriplegic... :-( Prior to this reality I spent my non-geek and non-family time surfing (waves not web0.
I am ashamed that I understand your post. My wife forces me to watch that show.
Well-snarked.
What I meant was central public communication, as seen by the terminus of the last mile. Temporary outtage should be expected and absorbed.