If there is a reason porn is so underhanded it is because it is an industry which has historically had potshots taken at it by any and every group who thinks they're taking the moral high ground.
There's nothing wrong with porn, or sex for that matter, that your hypothetical middle schooler needs to be shielded from. What they need to be shielded from are people who push their particular twisted agendas upon them, in the form of porn, religion, or anything else. These *people* produce guilt, pain and alienation.
I've always been curious since the start of my porn-watching career if there was some sort of checklist they ticked off while filming. It seems really peculiar how practically every porn film (read: mixed bag porn, not fetish or "specialized" pron) has exactly 1 girl-girl scene, one girl-girl-guy, guy-guy-girl, one oral cumshot, one "traditional" cumshot, etc.
I'm almost tempted just to put together such a checklist and use it as a movie review. "We saw the usual doggy style, but I was disappointed to see that they missed out on a, b and d obligatory camera angles."
"I'm militantly against (whatever) because they're so militantly against (whatever)."
Bottom line: nobody gets to push their crap on me.
You atheists can quietly disbelieve just as much as the Christians and other religions can quietly believe and leave me the hell out of it. That's *all* I ask. You can tell me what you believe or don't believe and that's okay until I ask you to stop. You can't tell me what I should believe and you will likewise lose points for telling me what other people should believe.
None of us know where we're going, but we'll all find out when we get there so shut up and put on your seat belt.
Dude, I've got 100 GB in my "play" machine and it is very nearly packed. I reserved some space for a Linux install that hasn't happened because it doesn't seem to want to play nice with Windows 2000 no matter whose HOWTO I abide by.
What I'm looking at taking up all that space is a)Games (non-pirated, they're huge these days) and and b)Development software (I'm new to it and still trying out all my options before I pick a favorite).
Between these and assorted detritus that I never have the heart to destroy, nor the temerity to sit through a 60 CD backup session, I'm full up. I can't imagine playing all of my games, etc. *and* being a media producer type (recording my own music, etc.). I'm a freak, but I'm also proof you don't have to pirate to fill up drives.
And in this wonderful CSS controlled realm, I've got a drive that simply spits out any disk that isn't a Region-1 encoded DVD. It used to accept CD's and CD-R and I could even copy a disk from the DVD drive to the CD burner. One day, I guess something happened to the firmware, a reinstall of the drivers or something, and *poof*.
To those of you who just scream "take it back", it was already past the 14 day return limit at Fry's when this weird behaviour began. I've talked to the company's tech support and they've never heard of such a thing.
Dude, you do your thing, we do our thing. If you don't like our clowning, get out of our playground. We don't go on the battlefield and tell you what to do. No one is disrespecting what you do by having a sense of humor about it.
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Perhaps not yet, however I do recall seeing a demonstration of a shell carrying a copper core and a shaped charge to use it to pierce armor. The copper forms a molten liquid point, driven with the force of the shaped charge. It was demonstrated as piercing a good 10 thicknesses of steel plate.
I'd worn my watch for awhile and apparently gotten used to the magic "information from my wrist". It was embarassing because I'd check it for stupid stuff.
"Oh, what show is this? *glance at the watch* man, I'm an idiot"...
"When is that appointment? *glance at the watch* man, I'm an idiot"...
"Where'd I leave the remote? *glance at the watch* man I'm an idiot"...
This is a neat idea in theory, but I think the internet as it exists now might have been opened to the public too young. It's grown up some with bad influences from certain sectors and now I think some of these things are somewhat ingrained.
It doesn't hurt to make suggestions and this one was logical but not real-world workable.
As opposed to the current system where we have , hundreds and/or millions of domains registered to relatively only a handful of people who want them because of squatting and a hilarious but not parti cularly helpful "pay per click, I don't care how you get it" economy on the web?
Let's add a.XXX and a.search (abbreviated however you please) top level domain. Any domain that points to a search engine but doesn't relate somehow to that search engine (i.e. www.pork.com pointing to www.alltheweb.com) but is obvious to a panel of informed judges to be an attempt to catch misclicks and typos gets moved to the new domain.
And we can all tell a porn site when we see one, right? They should all be moved to the.XXX domain for all of our firewalling, browsing and parental control convenience.
In all truth, my understanding of domain names was much similar. i.e. MSN.com shouldn't exist, it should be some sub-domain of microsoft.com, the AOL "family" should all have aol.com on the end of them and Mandrake should have all of it's sites suffixed with Mandrake.com as in club.mandrake.com, experts.mandrake.com, etc.
The smartest way to set up a site under such a system would be that the default www..com would point you to an index or search engine of the rest of the domain. This would probably clean up a lot of the crap on the web if we even remotely enforced the concept of a "domain" in reference to registration. We would possibly put some limit on the number of squatters if there was actually some kinda of tribunal or something that could say "your company/organization is called Spam And Squatters Inc., you get to choose between SpamAndSquatters.com or SpamAndSquatters.net".
Yeah, yeah, yeah, some of you whackos will go nuts over some organization telling you that you can't have 3000 addresses or that you can't buy "3rdGradeStudies.org" and toss death-porn up at the domain but I think that's reasonable. Go lobby for the.XXX domain to be implemented. Register DeathPorn.XXX and then, if and when we decided we WANTED to see such material, we would know where to find you.
It pisses me off to go online and be immediately nuked by some 12 year old who thinks that railgun sniping from a half mile off is the ultimate gaming experience. I never got a chance to be any good at Q3A because as soon as you join, somebody who is already much better than you just nails you.
They almost need a "beginners" server designated for those of us who could use some practice without the frustration of a 1000:1 deaths to kills ratio.
As good as you might be at single player, as soon as you step into the multiplayer game, you're meat. It's just not fun.
Formerly in economics there was a notion of relative worth. When you made an exchange of money and/or goods the perception of both parties was that they were giving up something worth relatively less than the item they were receiving in exchange.
Fast forward to the present and the producers in industry want to have it all. They give up nothing, no rights, no priveleges and no real ownership of the items in question.
A leech is typically not immoral. They are usually amoral.
An immoral leech steals because stealing is wrong
An amoral leech steals because it's convenient.
I'd always been told that Jonestown had been Kool-Aid. I'm not convinced the actual brand name matters in this instance as I think it's fairly widely "known" that they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.
In any case, I think this was a reference to the suicides. By taking a stance for P2P I think she's politically suicided but it might have been for a worthy cause.
What he's saying is that deregulation only gives more power to the people who already have it.
Do you actually propose that we produce legislation blocking such "shell corporations" from existing? Or do we expect the situation to magically disappear by shrinking the government?
Bottom line, youre implying that people should be free to dump toxins into the environment as long as they pay for the clean up. Which is all well and good for existing dump sites, but I would really prefer we didn't dump them to begin with and I think a lot of people would agree with this sentiment.
Likewise, it's the owner of the land who has to make them pay? What if the owner is the government? Probably don't want the government having land holdings, right? Everything should be sold to private interests to be developed into a modern, productive, urban environment worth gads of $$$?
The really frustrating thing about Libertarian's is that they seem to think that everyone else is evil. Not that they're misguided, wrong or unenlightened but that if you believe in some other system of government you are genuinely evil. The root of all evil stems from property "rights" and any form of sharing of resources.
By all means, sure, survival of the fittest is a good method for evolution, but what makes you so sure that you're the fittest? And doesn't enforcing the right of "the fittest" to survive and take up resources infringe on the right of the "less fit" to also take up those same resources?
The system *is* broken, but the way to fix it is not to make the current cheats legal. You would give Microsoft and others like them carte blanche to destroy all smaller competitors by way of their existing resources which have been built up under the currently broken system. If you started everyone back at square one, threw out all the money and the existing goods, capital and market conditions you could restore fair competition and reduce legislation. Short of taking away everyone's property you could never restore a fair market by way of deregulation.
I think it highlights a weakness of the system that he could spend all that time setting things up and installing and the system is by default *that* insecure.
Perhaps he didn't use a full-featured port scanner, etc. but how many people *are* doing everything possible to secure their home machines in this manner? Especially in a "not quite ready" stage of the install?
I don't think you get to call him a moron for the little trust it takes to believe a vendor isn't going to leave you *completely* open to attack. Even if the vendor is Microsoft, I think most of us still have expectations of not being cracked and infected in the first 10 hours of an install behind a firewall.
I can't see why it would be unknown, our press is all over "Munchhausen's by Proxy" (don't have an umlaut on my keyboard). Better yet we had a movie released about the guy in the 80's.
Ahhh...now perhaps we see a new angle on this issue. Is Linus and the Linux Kernel being targetted only because of its transparency?
Should the patent office then be required to maintain a library of all source code and algorithms ever produced in order to better enforce the rights of patent holders? Certainly no one will ever take MS to court for patent violation because even if they have in fact violated any patents only MS will ever know.
This opens up a whole new can of worms, suddenly source code *must* be visible in order for the law of the land to be properly upheld and for people not to be breaking patents.
Or we could just decide that software patents are weird and non-useful things that only benefit major corporations in their never ending quest for monopoly power over their respective markets.
Development of mechanical systems more or less means some combination of the "simple machines", wheels, pulleys, levers, etc. into a more complex system. The only difference in software production is that we haven't discovered all of the "simple machines" that go into this fairly novel form of engineering.
Now, just imagine if the wheel, pulley, etc. had been patented by some corporation. As patents and copyrights get pulled and twisted out of context and time we'd be seeing practically no innovation whatsoever. Before you cry "but those are so obvious, the patent wouldn't be granted" do keep in mind that at some time it wasn't obvious and it had to be invented.
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If there is a reason porn is so underhanded it is because it is an industry which has historically had potshots taken at it by any and every group who thinks they're taking the moral high ground.
There's nothing wrong with porn, or sex for that matter, that your hypothetical middle schooler needs to be shielded from. What they need to be shielded from are people who push their particular twisted agendas upon them, in the form of porn, religion, or anything else. These *people* produce guilt, pain and alienation.
I've always been curious since the start of my porn-watching career if there was some sort of checklist they ticked off while filming. It seems really peculiar how practically every porn film (read: mixed bag porn, not fetish or "specialized" pron) has exactly 1 girl-girl scene, one girl-girl-guy, guy-guy-girl, one oral cumshot, one "traditional" cumshot, etc.
I'm almost tempted just to put together such a checklist and use it as a movie review. "We saw the usual doggy style, but I was disappointed to see that they missed out on a, b and d obligatory camera angles."
What is wrong with you people?
"I'm militantly against (whatever) because they're so militantly against (whatever)."
Bottom line: nobody gets to push their crap on me. You atheists can quietly disbelieve just as much as the Christians and other religions can quietly believe and leave me the hell out of it. That's *all* I ask. You can tell me what you believe or don't believe and that's okay until I ask you to stop. You can't tell me what I should believe and you will likewise lose points for telling me what other people should believe.
None of us know where we're going, but we'll all find out when we get there so shut up and put on your seat belt.
Dude, I've got 100 GB in my "play" machine and it is very nearly packed. I reserved some space for a Linux install that hasn't happened because it doesn't seem to want to play nice with Windows 2000 no matter whose HOWTO I abide by.
What I'm looking at taking up all that space is a)Games (non-pirated, they're huge these days) and and b)Development software (I'm new to it and still trying out all my options before I pick a favorite).
Between these and assorted detritus that I never have the heart to destroy, nor the temerity to sit through a 60 CD backup session, I'm full up. I can't imagine playing all of my games, etc. *and* being a media producer type (recording my own music, etc.). I'm a freak, but I'm also proof you don't have to pirate to fill up drives.
And in this wonderful CSS controlled realm, I've got a drive that simply spits out any disk that isn't a Region-1 encoded DVD. It used to accept CD's and CD-R and I could even copy a disk from the DVD drive to the CD burner. One day, I guess something happened to the firmware, a reinstall of the drivers or something, and *poof*.
To those of you who just scream "take it back", it was already past the 14 day return limit at Fry's when this weird behaviour began. I've talked to the company's tech support and they've never heard of such a thing.
Dude, you do your thing, we do our thing. If you don't like our clowning, get out of our playground. We don't go on the battlefield and tell you what to do. No one is disrespecting what you do by having a sense of humor about it.
Volt is charge, Coulomb is a number of electrons.
Perhaps not yet, however I do recall seeing a demonstration of a shell carrying a copper core and a shaped charge to use it to pierce armor. The copper forms a molten liquid point, driven with the force of the shaped charge. It was demonstrated as piercing a good 10 thicknesses of steel plate.
I'd worn my watch for awhile and apparently gotten used to the magic "information from my wrist". It was embarassing because I'd check it for stupid stuff.
"Oh, what show is this? *glance at the watch* man, I'm an idiot"...
"When is that appointment? *glance at the watch* man, I'm an idiot"...
"Where'd I leave the remote? *glance at the watch* man I'm an idiot"...
This is a neat idea in theory, but I think the internet as it exists now might have been opened to the public too young. It's grown up some with bad influences from certain sectors and now I think some of these things are somewhat ingrained.
It doesn't hurt to make suggestions and this one was logical but not real-world workable.
As opposed to the current system where we have , hundreds and/or millions of domains registered to relatively only a handful of people who want them because of squatting and a hilarious but not parti cularly helpful "pay per click, I don't care how you get it" economy on the web? .XXX and a .search (abbreviated however you please) top level domain. Any domain that points to a search engine but doesn't relate somehow to that search engine (i.e. www.pork.com pointing to www.alltheweb.com) but is obvious to a panel of informed judges to be an attempt to catch misclicks and typos gets moved to the new domain.
.XXX domain for all of our firewalling, browsing and parental control convenience.
Let's add a
And we can all tell a porn site when we see one, right? They should all be moved to the
In all truth, my understanding of domain names was much similar. i.e. MSN.com shouldn't exist, it should be some sub-domain of microsoft.com, the AOL "family" should all have aol.com on the end of them and Mandrake should have all of it's sites suffixed with Mandrake.com as in club.mandrake.com, experts.mandrake.com, etc. .XXX domain to be implemented. Register DeathPorn.XXX and then, if and when we decided we WANTED to see such material, we would know where to find you.
The smartest way to set up a site under such a system would be that the default www..com would point you to an index or search engine of the rest of the domain. This would probably clean up a lot of the crap on the web if we even remotely enforced the concept of a "domain" in reference to registration. We would possibly put some limit on the number of squatters if there was actually some kinda of tribunal or something that could say "your company/organization is called Spam And Squatters Inc., you get to choose between SpamAndSquatters.com or SpamAndSquatters.net".
Yeah, yeah, yeah, some of you whackos will go nuts over some organization telling you that you can't have 3000 addresses or that you can't buy "3rdGradeStudies.org" and toss death-porn up at the domain but I think that's reasonable. Go lobby for the
It pisses me off to go online and be immediately nuked by some 12 year old who thinks that railgun sniping from a half mile off is the ultimate gaming experience. I never got a chance to be any good at Q3A because as soon as you join, somebody who is already much better than you just nails you.
They almost need a "beginners" server designated for those of us who could use some practice without the frustration of a 1000:1 deaths to kills ratio.
As good as you might be at single player, as soon as you step into the multiplayer game, you're meat. It's just not fun.
Shhhh...we don't want the *AAs to know there are other networks aside from the internet.
Formerly in economics there was a notion of relative worth. When you made an exchange of money and/or goods the perception of both parties was that they were giving up something worth relatively less than the item they were receiving in exchange.
Fast forward to the present and the producers in industry want to have it all. They give up nothing, no rights, no priveleges and no real ownership of the items in question.
A leech is typically not immoral. They are usually amoral.
An immoral leech steals because stealing is wrong
An amoral leech steals because it's convenient.
I'd always been told that Jonestown had been Kool-Aid. I'm not convinced the actual brand name matters in this instance as I think it's fairly widely "known" that they drank poisoned Kool-Aid.
In any case, I think this was a reference to the suicides. By taking a stance for P2P I think she's politically suicided but it might have been for a worthy cause.
What he's saying is that deregulation only gives more power to the people who already have it.
Do you actually propose that we produce legislation blocking such "shell corporations" from existing? Or do we expect the situation to magically disappear by shrinking the government?
Bottom line, youre implying that people should be free to dump toxins into the environment as long as they pay for the clean up. Which is all well and good for existing dump sites, but I would really prefer we didn't dump them to begin with and I think a lot of people would agree with this sentiment.
Likewise, it's the owner of the land who has to make them pay? What if the owner is the government? Probably don't want the government having land holdings, right? Everything should be sold to private interests to be developed into a modern, productive, urban environment worth gads of $$$?
The really frustrating thing about Libertarian's is that they seem to think that everyone else is evil. Not that they're misguided, wrong or unenlightened but that if you believe in some other system of government you are genuinely evil. The root of all evil stems from property "rights" and any form of sharing of resources.
By all means, sure, survival of the fittest is a good method for evolution, but what makes you so sure that you're the fittest? And doesn't enforcing the right of "the fittest" to survive and take up resources infringe on the right of the "less fit" to also take up those same resources?
The system *is* broken, but the way to fix it is not to make the current cheats legal. You would give Microsoft and others like them carte blanche to destroy all smaller competitors by way of their existing resources which have been built up under the currently broken system. If you started everyone back at square one, threw out all the money and the existing goods, capital and market conditions you could restore fair competition and reduce legislation. Short of taking away everyone's property you could never restore a fair market by way of deregulation.
I think it highlights a weakness of the system that he could spend all that time setting things up and installing and the system is by default *that* insecure.
Perhaps he didn't use a full-featured port scanner, etc. but how many people *are* doing everything possible to secure their home machines in this manner? Especially in a "not quite ready" stage of the install?
I don't think you get to call him a moron for the little trust it takes to believe a vendor isn't going to leave you *completely* open to attack. Even if the vendor is Microsoft, I think most of us still have expectations of not being cracked and infected in the first 10 hours of an install behind a firewall.
I can't see why it would be unknown, our press is all over "Munchhausen's by Proxy" (don't have an umlaut on my keyboard). Better yet we had a movie released about the guy in the 80's.
Ahhh...now perhaps we see a new angle on this issue. Is Linus and the Linux Kernel being targetted only because of its transparency?
Should the patent office then be required to maintain a library of all source code and algorithms ever produced in order to better enforce the rights of patent holders? Certainly no one will ever take MS to court for patent violation because even if they have in fact violated any patents only MS will ever know.
This opens up a whole new can of worms, suddenly source code *must* be visible in order for the law of the land to be properly upheld and for people not to be breaking patents.
Or we could just decide that software patents are weird and non-useful things that only benefit major corporations in their never ending quest for monopoly power over their respective markets.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, the "GPL Patent" is nonexistent. The GPL is a license and a patent is another thing altogether.
Development of mechanical systems more or less means some combination of the "simple machines", wheels, pulleys, levers, etc. into a more complex system. The only difference in software production is that we haven't discovered all of the "simple machines" that go into this fairly novel form of engineering.
Now, just imagine if the wheel, pulley, etc. had been patented by some corporation. As patents and copyrights get pulled and twisted out of context and time we'd be seeing practically no innovation whatsoever. Before you cry "but those are so obvious, the patent wouldn't be granted" do keep in mind that at some time it wasn't obvious and it had to be invented.