Do you really think that pornographers give a s***t about what the models want? They're entire concern is $$$! If they thought they could get away with it (and make lots of MONEY) they'd be doing snuff flicks. Granted there are a few models who enjoy their work, but there are just as many (if not more) who are somehow (boyfriend/pimp, drugs, violence, psycological abuse, some evil combination of all of the previous) coerced.
She's on the fun/galmorous end of the scale. I'm more concerned with the sex workers I knew. The ones who came into my resturaunt after being beaten by their pimps cause they didn't make enough money. The ones hooked on heroin, crack, coke, whatever by those same "loving" pimps to get them out on the streets. Working in a city I got to meet all kinds of people, the sex trade usually starts out like your friends experience, then something happens, usually they get addicted to something at one of those fun party like sessions, then they find themselves doing strip joints and lap dances, maybe the occasional John on the side, then more Johns than dancing, then...
Yes I am thinking about particular people right now. Be careful of your friend. The crisis point is when her boyfriend leaves, that's when things will start to get ugly for her.
Why do you insist on treating a child as an adult? In this case all you are doing is interfering with the care given by the parents. To insist that a child make an adult decision is child abuse.
Not all of them are in porn because they "choose" to be. Many of them are forced into it by circumstances, or worse, violence.
Of course the military commits evil, that's their job! Doesn't mean it isn't (sadly) necessary. Remember, it's the job of a soldier to KILL PEOPLE AND BREAK THINGS! This is an evil act. It is therfore the moral imperitve of our leaders to make sure that when they unleash this evil on a place, it is because there is no other alternative. Ex-military personnel understand this, they know war is literally (not figuratively) Hell on Earth. Thus they are extremley unwilling to use the military (in general).
Gee I don't know. Maybe the part about infedels being given the choice of accepting Islam or being put to death, unless of course they are people of the book. People of the book (Jews and Christians, no others need apply) get to keep their religion if they accept being spit upon and paying HUGE taxes for their faith. Atheists of course get the death penalty.
You do realize that a lot of what you don't like about Turkey is Islam, don't you? Christian Turks are called Greeks or Armenians.
A good way to set up Linux boxes is to give everyone a seperate account. Keep the computer(s) in a public part of the home. Make everyone log in and out. If someone breaks the rules, delete their account and ground them. Don't give them a new account until you feel they're ready. If they need web access for a school project they can learn to beg their siblings.
Having to depend on their siblings will teach them faster than anything you can do. They may take a hit on their grades though.
Right. Because the law is so much more important than preparing your child for the real world. Let's stick them in a cage until they're 18, then toss them out into the sea and see how well they swim.
Hey! That's how my father taught me how to swim! The millstone he tied around my neck chafed a little.
In reality nobody, or at least nearly nobody, is evil. Evil in the classic movie-villain sense is "I'm bad, and I like it." It's the antagonist dressed in black and torturing, killing, and maiming because he's *evil* and that's *just what he does*.
Actually the truly evil person just wants what s/he wants and doesn't much care about what anyone else feels about it.
If you want to know why pornography is evil then just think about it from the point of view of the photographic objects. Imagine that was you, how degraded would you feel if you were the subject of those pictures. What kind of psycological defences would you have to put up just to get up in the morning? Kind of makes you understand why so many people in the porn industry are addicts doesn't it?
As for Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, they are actually perfect examples of evil men, and Saddam has been known to execute the occasional relative himself, they are selfish, uncaring about others welfare, and malevolent. But then again, so is George W. Bush.
One last thing, every monster in history Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Napolean, Attila the Hun, Gengis Kahn, John Dillinger, Julius Ceaser, all of them, could honestly say that they didn't feel evil. Many of them felt that they were engaged in a noble enterprise. This is called self-delusion.
Speaking as a Greek, Islam IS evil. If you want we have 400 years (well 1300, but who's counting) of horrific experience to share. But don't ask me, ask anyone who is a Christian from a muslim country, they're easy to find because they are fleeing from Islam. If you really want to be educated tell an Armenian that you're a muslim Turk, but be sure to have an ambulance standing by...
Genocide - A word invented to describe what the Turks did to the Armenians in 1922.
Must be nice to have your children born at the age of thirty. The rest of us will keep an eye on the little tykes. BTW you can have a computer in your room when it's actually (according to the title deed) your room.
Being a native Greek speaker, and since kodos is the Greek word for short, I always understood why "Shorty the Executioner" killed off half the planet. Did I mention that Dino is my first name?
Monopolies always abuse their position. What good is it to be a monopoly if you can't charge outrageous prices and generally suck the life out of your customers. Especially when Wall Street is telling you that they want a 20% ROI, and they own you.
Uhh, yeah, because breaking up Microsoft would have helped so many people.
Monopoly and antitrust law are intended to protect against control of limited physical resources. Microsoft has a monopoly in something THEY FUCKING DEVELOPED. If they hadn't, it wouldn't exist. They can do whatever they want with it.
People _chose_ to make Microsoft a "monopoly" (and your definition is wrong - a monopoly is when people _must_ use a product _and_ it dominates).
You are very one sided. Tell me what happened to the other MS compatible (run the same binaries as MS) OS's? Please tell me about DR DOS and PC DOS, tell me about OS/2. There was a time when legitamate binary compatible alternatives to MS OS's existed and they ran on EXACTLY the same hardware. You could even upgrade from one companies product to the others. The version numbers even matched, so you could run the same programs on DR DOS 5.0 as MS DOS 5.0 as PC DOS 5.0. What happened to those OS's? Where are their modern incarnations? Microsoft killed them off, that's what happened. They achieved an advantage in the market and used it to lock out the competition. Once they had their API locked up legally so no one could use it in an OS without their permission the game was over. Microsoft became a defacto monopoly.
Oh and by the way, they did not develop DOS or Windows those were developed by others (Digital Research [CP/M aka DOS 1.0] and IBM [OS/2 aka Windows] to be exact) MS did licence them though.
I know this goes against the grain of what most Slashdotters believe, but Microsoft is not a monopoly. A monopoly is a company that gets exclusive market rights from the government. The US Postal Service is a monopoly, because (IIRC) the US government forbids anyone from charging lower postage for first class mail within the US, for example.
A monopoly controls 90% or more of it's market. Microsoft certainly qualifies. In point of fact, according to the US (remember the lawsuit?) government Microsoft is a monopoly. The classic remedy is after the company is found to be a monopoly, it is broken up into two or more pieces. Check legal precedent if you don't believe me. The Bush administration interfered in this process to save Microsoft, jerks.
At this point I am thinking that free software (GNU GPL'd) is the only real answer.
As you may not be aware the law currently prevents such crude goings on in the majority of cases. However our Glorious Leader (Hail Bush!) has a piece of legislation pending, popularly known as Patriot Act II, that will remove such trifiling restraints. In the meantime please rest assured that our Glorious Leader (Hail Bush!) is collecting all the relavent information about those who oppose his glorious rule.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you really think that pornographers give a s***t about what the models want? They're entire concern is $$$! If they thought they could get away with it (and make lots of MONEY) they'd be doing snuff flicks. Granted there are a few models who enjoy their work, but there are just as many (if not more) who are somehow (boyfriend/pimp, drugs, violence, psycological abuse, some evil combination of all of the previous) coerced.
Obviously you didn't actually read the Qur'an.
Yes I am thinking about particular people right now. Be careful of your friend. The crisis point is when her boyfriend leaves, that's when things will start to get ugly for her.
Why do you insist on treating a child as an adult? In this case all you are doing is interfering with the care given by the parents. To insist that a child make an adult decision is child abuse.
Parents do have some power over children you know.
Of course the military commits evil, that's their job! Doesn't mean it isn't (sadly) necessary. Remember, it's the job of a soldier to KILL PEOPLE AND BREAK THINGS! This is an evil act. It is therfore the moral imperitve of our leaders to make sure that when they unleash this evil on a place, it is because there is no other alternative. Ex-military personnel understand this, they know war is literally (not figuratively) Hell on Earth. Thus they are extremley unwilling to use the military (in general).
You do realize that a lot of what you don't like about Turkey is Islam, don't you? Christian Turks are called Greeks or Armenians.
It's self delusion. Some of the guys I mentioned did win. So what?
He's 13. Shut Up.
Having to depend on their siblings will teach them faster than anything you can do. They may take a hit on their grades though.
En touto nika. (By this sign conquer.)
Hey! That's how my father taught me how to swim! The millstone he tied around my neck chafed a little.
Actually the truly evil person just wants what s/he wants and doesn't much care about what anyone else feels about it.
If you want to know why pornography is evil then just think about it from the point of view of the photographic objects. Imagine that was you, how degraded would you feel if you were the subject of those pictures. What kind of psycological defences would you have to put up just to get up in the morning? Kind of makes you understand why so many people in the porn industry are addicts doesn't it?
As for Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, they are actually perfect examples of evil men, and Saddam has been known to execute the occasional relative himself, they are selfish, uncaring about others welfare, and malevolent. But then again, so is George W. Bush.
One last thing, every monster in history Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Napolean, Attila the Hun, Gengis Kahn, John Dillinger, Julius Ceaser, all of them, could honestly say that they didn't feel evil. Many of them felt that they were engaged in a noble enterprise. This is called self-delusion.
Genocide - A word invented to describe what the Turks did to the Armenians in 1922.
Mom: What did I tell you.
Child: You told me not to do that.
Mom: Then why did you do that?
Child: I don't know.
Being a native Greek speaker, and since kodos is the Greek word for short, I always understood why "Shorty the Executioner" killed off half the planet. Did I mention that Dino is my first name?
I'm happy again! Can't wait for next Thursday.
Monopolies always abuse their position. What good is it to be a monopoly if you can't charge outrageous prices and generally suck the life out of your customers. Especially when Wall Street is telling you that they want a 20% ROI, and they own you.
You are very one sided. Tell me what happened to the other MS compatible (run the same binaries as MS) OS's? Please tell me about DR DOS and PC DOS, tell me about OS/2. There was a time when legitamate binary compatible alternatives to MS OS's existed and they ran on EXACTLY the same hardware. You could even upgrade from one companies product to the others. The version numbers even matched, so you could run the same programs on DR DOS 5.0 as MS DOS 5.0 as PC DOS 5.0. What happened to those OS's? Where are their modern incarnations? Microsoft killed them off, that's what happened. They achieved an advantage in the market and used it to lock out the competition. Once they had their API locked up legally so no one could use it in an OS without their permission the game was over. Microsoft became a defacto monopoly.
Oh and by the way, they did not develop DOS or Windows those were developed by others (Digital Research [CP/M aka DOS 1.0] and IBM [OS/2 aka Windows] to be exact) MS did licence them though.
A computer without Windows is like a fish without a bicycle.
The above was written using Mozilla on a Linux box.
A monopoly controls 90% or more of it's market. Microsoft certainly qualifies. In point of fact, according to the US (remember the lawsuit?) government Microsoft is a monopoly. The classic remedy is after the company is found to be a monopoly, it is broken up into two or more pieces. Check legal precedent if you don't believe me. The Bush administration interfered in this process to save Microsoft, jerks.
At this point I am thinking that free software (GNU GPL'd) is the only real answer.
Drn spel cheker!
Windows XP detected
Remove Virus?
YES NO
I want to know if Linux runs slower under VirtualPC.
As you may not be aware the law currently prevents such crude goings on in the majority of cases. However our Glorious Leader (Hail Bush!) has a piece of legislation pending, popularly known as Patriot Act II, that will remove such trifiling restraints. In the meantime please rest assured that our Glorious Leader (Hail Bush!) is collecting all the relavent information about those who oppose his glorious rule.
Sincerely,
Asshole