But if you are going to legalize prostitution, how are you going to keep 'survival sex' illegal? Because I don't believe society should put people into a position where they only consent to sex to survive.
But "society" does that now.
Outlawing prostitution does nothing to stop it.
But legalizing it would end a whole set of associated abuses. Protection for the people involved would be the biggest one. When a girl is beaten up, or robbed, or simply not paid for her services, she can't currently go to the police. Regulations requiring the house to provide regular medical checkups for their employees would eliminate a lot of spread of disease.
Tons of other problems would be solved as well.
How about the ability of a woman to refuse service to some people without worrying about her pimp cutting her up to make an example for the others?
Not having to hide would let them have a specific place to work without having to get into a car with an unknown man and being driven off never to be seen again.
If you're truly concerned about the prostitutes themselves, the best thing to do for them would be to legalize and regulate the industry.
The biggest reason to keep it illegal seems less a concern for those involved and more of a fear of seeming to condone it.
As for being forced into it due to economic circumstances, that's what happens in *any* profession. (I wouldn't be an engineer if I could keep my current standard of living as a writer.) There are lots of people to whom sex simply isn't a big deal, and would rather work 10 hours a week on their back than 50 hours on their feet.
Very cool. I didn't know how to mark a range like that before.
And, while we're having fun with search and replace, ^ will match the beginning of a line, so if you mark as above, and then change the command to::'a,'bs/^/#/
you will have commented out a section of your code without having to insert a comment character independently on each line. Reverse it with::'a,'bs/^#//
to remove the comments.
Also, you don't have to use the / command as a separator. Anything typed after s will become the separator, so if you want to, say, change all your Windows paths to Unix paths, instead of starting with::%s/\\/\//g
which, while undeniably cool, can be more easily written as::%s;\\;/;g
which is a little easier to read.
Two other interesting bits:
u all by itself will undo the last command. Handy when you're testing your commands before posting them to Slashdot.
Also, Slashdot's editor will remove the newlines before any line that starts with a : In my examples, I put each command on it's own line, but Slashdot keeps appending them to the previous line. Weird.
CTRL-v CTRL-m will match Windows-style newline characters.
This is useful when you have a file created on a Windows machine and transferred to Unix, so::%s/CTRL-v CTRL-m//g will strip out all the Windows newlines.
Hell, it only took him about 15 minutes to convince me.
It was when he was in Eugene and answered a question by a member of a local Socialist group by explaining why their ideas, while good-hearted, were wrong, unworkable, and would never be practical as a national economic policy.
Mind you, what got me is not that he stated this, but that he actually took time out of his prepared speech to explain why he believes in capitalism.
Well, that and his abortion stand. I've always considered it the one issue where no common ground could be found, but he's managed to find it.
Finally, a candidate who would make a better president than I would. For the first time in my life, I don't feel like I'm voting for the lesser of two evils.
Well, the tax thing doesn't bother me - as much as I'd've like to, I've never quite got up to $250,000 per year as income.
Weaker economy, though, that scares me. Obama's going to harm this wonderful economy we've got going right now? Oh, no! I wish someone could have told me that before I voted for him!
I also wish someone had mentioned that he has terrorists friends, and that he's secretly a Muslim, and that he committed widespread vote caging, and that he was actually friendly with Hillary Clinton, and that he hates white people, wants to outlaw Christianity, and that his middle name is Hussein. I did hear something about him claiming to have invented the Internet, though, I think...
I agree! Let's get some News back in the news! Who cares about the economy, or the wars, or human rights abuses? Let's get back to discussing who Brittney Spears is going to be marrying next!
...we've now reached the point where I could not buy food for my family if I was not willing to act without civility, because I would never exit the supermarket, having waited in line eternally for people to stop cutting in front of me. And I'm only slightly exaggerating. It would literally cost me hours at the supermarket to do this...
Fascinating. A post just a few above this one points out that people have a remarkable ability to justify their lack of civility and here we have a perfect example. It's a fairly minor aspect of life, but this person has actually managed to somehow convince themselves that it's not only OK, but actually necessary for them to cut in lines at supermarkets.
And "Everybody else does it" is probably just about the most common justification people use for their lack of ethics in the first place.
And if you think that the U.S. government is getting everything it wants in Iraq, you haven't been paying much attention.
They don't have to kill all Americans to win, and they don't have to take over the country. They know what all guerrilla movements for the last couple thousand years (including our own founding fathers, by the way) have known: all you have to do is make exploiting you too expensive and more troublesome than it's worth, and eventually they'll go away. Yeah, it's not that easy, obviously, but that's the crux of it.
(which you'd have to effectively retarded to spend $40-50/month for access to a paltry 1-2GB per month; you might as well use dial-up)
If you've got dialup, you need to have a land-line running as well.
Betweeen dialup ISP and landline, you're still paying $40-$50/month. Might as well get broadband and at least save the hassle of having to keep connecting.
My guess is that the answer to that will be obvious if someone can answer:
1. Who approved this in the first place.
2. Who is profiting from the manufacture of these new passports.
3. How much money #2's lobbyists gave to #1.
In 1958, a computer that could fit into the back of a station wagon wasn't enormous. Hell, if two people could lift the entire thing, including the display, that was practically a microcomputer.
Obnostalgia: My first computer was a Tektronix 4051, from around 1975ish. The marketing brochure billed it as a "portable graphics computer" and had a picture of two people putting it in the trunk of a buick. It could actually be lifted and carried by one, weighing only about 40 pounds or so...
1. Forging the card is easy. You don't need access to the original, you just need to know what it's supposed to look like. They all look the same, and the info you need is on the chip. Convenient, huh?
2. I didn't get a foil sleeve with my new RFID passport. Nor did either of the other two people in my household who got theirs at about the same time.
3. "Lurking around border crossings" is perfectly safe, and not suspicious. I've crossed lots of borders and one thing they all have in common is large numbers of people standing around.
And that's a great argument for fully privatized health care, as long as you: 1. Remain 23 for the rest of your life. 2. Never get injured in an accident. 3. Never develop a disease requiring more than a few days off of work. 4. Are completely unaware that getting an appointment to get antibiotics in the U.S. will also take about three weeks if you don't already have an established relationship with a doctor in the town you are in when you decide you need them. 5. Make sure that all emergency rooms check for insurance or get cash up front before administrating care. (Otherwise you're subsidizing the care of all those bastards who went in to get treatment they couldn't afford.) 6. Always are employed by a large company that can subsidize your health care costs as they go up, and never get laid off, change jobs after developing a health issue, work for a company without a group health care plan, or start your own business. 7. Never look up the phrases "preventative care" or "economy of scale".
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Simpler, perhaps, but not nearly as much fun!
But "society" does that now.
Outlawing prostitution does nothing to stop it.
But legalizing it would end a whole set of associated abuses. Protection for the people involved would be the biggest one. When a girl is beaten up, or robbed, or simply not paid for her services, she can't currently go to the police. Regulations requiring the house to provide regular medical checkups for their employees would eliminate a lot of spread of disease.
Tons of other problems would be solved as well.
How about the ability of a woman to refuse service to some people without worrying about her pimp cutting her up to make an example for the others?
Not having to hide would let them have a specific place to work without having to get into a car with an unknown man and being driven off never to be seen again.
If you're truly concerned about the prostitutes themselves, the best thing to do for them would be to legalize and regulate the industry.
The biggest reason to keep it illegal seems less a concern for those involved and more of a fear of seeming to condone it.
As for being forced into it due to economic circumstances, that's what happens in *any* profession. (I wouldn't be an engineer if I could keep my current standard of living as a writer.) There are lots of people to whom sex simply isn't a big deal, and would rather work 10 hours a week on their back than 50 hours on their feet.
Very cool. I didn't know how to mark a range like that before.
And, while we're having fun with search and replace, ^ will match the beginning of a line, so if you mark as above, and then change the command to: :'a,'bs/^/#/
you will have commented out a section of your code without having to insert a comment character independently on each line. :'a,'bs/^#//
Reverse it with:
to remove the comments.
Also, you don't have to use the / command as a separator. Anything typed after s will become the separator, so if you want to, say, change all your Windows paths to Unix paths, instead of starting with: :%s/\\/\//g
which, while undeniably cool, can be more easily written as: :%s;\\;/;g
which is a little easier to read.
Two other interesting bits:
u all by itself will undo the last command. Handy when you're testing your commands before posting them to Slashdot.
Also, Slashdot's editor will remove the newlines before any line that starts with a :
In my examples, I put each command on it's own line, but Slashdot keeps appending them to the previous line. Weird.
CTRL-v CTRL-m will match Windows-style newline characters.
This is useful when you have a file created on a Windows machine and transferred to Unix, so: :%s/CTRL-v CTRL-m//g will strip out all the Windows newlines.
To match a Unix newline, use $ instead.
You have a very persuasive argument.
That is, it's persuasive if you have no idea how taxes work.
Here's a hint: taxes are assessed on your profits, not on your total gross income.
Hell, it only took him about 15 minutes to convince me.
It was when he was in Eugene and answered a question by a member of a local Socialist group by explaining why their ideas, while good-hearted, were wrong, unworkable, and would never be practical as a national economic policy.
Mind you, what got me is not that he stated this, but that he actually took time out of his prepared speech to explain why he believes in capitalism.
Well, that and his abortion stand. I've always considered it the one issue where no common ground could be found, but he's managed to find it.
Finally, a candidate who would make a better president than I would. For the first time in my life, I don't feel like I'm voting for the lesser of two evils.
Raised taxes and a weaker economy?
Well, the tax thing doesn't bother me - as much as I'd've like to, I've never quite got up to $250,000 per year as income.
Weaker economy, though, that scares me. Obama's going to harm this wonderful economy we've got going right now? Oh, no! I wish someone could have told me that before I voted for him!
I also wish someone had mentioned that he has terrorists friends, and that he's secretly a Muslim, and that he committed widespread vote caging, and that he was actually friendly with Hillary Clinton, and that he hates white people, wants to outlaw Christianity, and that his middle name is Hussein. I did hear something about him claiming to have invented the Internet, though, I think...
I agree!
Let's get some News back in the news!
Who cares about the economy, or the wars, or human rights abuses?
Let's get back to discussing who Brittney Spears is going to be marrying next!
Fascinating. A post just a few above this one points out that people have a remarkable ability to justify their lack of civility and here we have a perfect example. It's a fairly minor aspect of life, but this person has actually managed to somehow convince themselves that it's not only OK, but actually necessary for them to cut in lines at supermarkets.
And "Everybody else does it" is probably just about the most common justification people use for their lack of ethics in the first place.
People who complain or criticize the current state of affairs are whiners. 'Real Americans' are people who agree with me that things aren't so bad.
Exactly!
Or, to quote one of my former co-workers in St. Louis: "Where would we be today if the founding fathers had had such disrespect for their leaders?"
Really?
We finished up liberating the people and went home since 2005?
Cool. Guess I should stop reading Daily Kos, cuz it thinks there's still fighting going on over there.
Silly liberals.
No, they also have improvised explosives.
And if you think that the U.S. government is getting everything it wants in Iraq, you haven't been paying much attention.
They don't have to kill all Americans to win, and they don't have to take over the country. They know what all guerrilla movements for the last couple thousand years (including our own founding fathers, by the way) have known: all you have to do is make exploiting you too expensive and more troublesome than it's worth, and eventually they'll go away. Yeah, it's not that easy, obviously, but that's the crux of it.
If you've got dialup, you need to have a land-line running as well.
Betweeen dialup ISP and landline, you're still paying $40-$50/month. Might as well get broadband and at least save the hassle of having to keep connecting.
My guess is that the answer to that will be obvious if someone can answer:
1. Who approved this in the first place.
2. Who is profiting from the manufacture of these new passports.
3. How much money #2's lobbyists gave to #1.
In 1958, a computer that could fit into the back of a station wagon wasn't enormous. Hell, if two people could lift the entire thing, including the display, that was practically a microcomputer.
Obnostalgia:
My first computer was a Tektronix 4051, from around 1975ish. The marketing brochure billed it as a "portable graphics computer" and had a picture of two people putting it in the trunk of a buick. It could actually be lifted and carried by one, weighing only about 40 pounds or so...
1. Forging the card is easy. You don't need access to the original, you just need to know what it's supposed to look like. They all look the same, and the info you need is on the chip. Convenient, huh?
2. I didn't get a foil sleeve with my new RFID passport. Nor did either of the other two people in my household who got theirs at about the same time.
3. "Lurking around border crossings" is perfectly safe, and not suspicious. I've crossed lots of borders and one thing they all have in common is large numbers of people standing around.
So it only works on Democrats?
We still have those?
Heh, I hadn't heard of that one!
I love all the reactions from the people posting (usually the most humorous part of freerepublic!)
Certainly, a religious message has no place in stores in America!
(For those wondering, it is, obviously, not true: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/dolltalk.asp)
It is worth exploring.
And there are quite a few people dedicated to getting it set up that way.
I don't see it ever happening though.
It would, as you pointed out, break the power of the two major parties.
The same two major parties who have all the power to decide if it comes into existence.
And in an election year, too! Gee, what a coincidence!
Damn! It must work even better than he thought!
Hey! No cracks about The Book!
You wouldn't need to rely on upper body strength alone if you also have the stuff on your feet. That lets you use your leg muscles as well.
Even with the proportional strength of a spider, Mr. Parker usually uses his feet when wall-crawling.
And that's a great argument for fully privatized health care, as long as you:
1. Remain 23 for the rest of your life.
2. Never get injured in an accident.
3. Never develop a disease requiring more than a few days off of work.
4. Are completely unaware that getting an appointment to get antibiotics in the U.S. will also take about three weeks if you don't already have an established relationship with a doctor in the town you are in when you decide you need them.
5. Make sure that all emergency rooms check for insurance or get cash up front before administrating care. (Otherwise you're subsidizing the care of all those bastards who went in to get treatment they couldn't afford.)
6. Always are employed by a large company that can subsidize your health care costs as they go up, and never get laid off, change jobs after developing a health issue, work for a company without a group health care plan, or start your own business.
7. Never look up the phrases "preventative care" or "economy of scale".