Personally I think parents do a great harm to their children by allowing them to have a TV in their room, or a cell phone just like all the other kids have, or INet Access in their rooms.
I respectfully disagree with you on that last point. I mean, each parent has to make their own decisions, yeah, but at the very least, let them access a whitelist of sites. You know, gnu.org, sourceforge, google's code hosting, their distro's package mirror, etc.
Sure, keep 'em off 4chan, but let them have the opportunity to learn.
Me, I spent most of my early childhood (80's) without access. Had an Apple II, and a few games. 90's came along, I got a PC, with a modem. It wasn't long before I was on every local BBS I could find, downloading code and trying to teach myself as much as possible, as quickly as possible. Eventually I found an ISP, and lo and behold, I got to learn Solaris. (I'd dialed it the same as any BBS, from the DOS prompt). Wasted some time on IRC, but found that there was a whole world of code, freely available on gnu.org, sunsite, eventually listed on freshmeat and/or hosted on sourceforge, thanks to lynx.
Stifling a kid's brain by limiting where they can learn is tantamount to 474f4457494e0a
Not true. Sure, there are a lot of small, obscure open source projects that either get abandoned, or lack developers, or whatever, but most of the major open source projects out there work and work well. Firefox, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu,
Having had to abandon, or at the very least put some open source projects on indefinite hold recently, I'd like to state that this very concept is one of the coolest things about a project being open source. I mean, just because I left off, doesn't mean someone can't fork it and keep the ball rolling.
This is especially true when a project uses a non-restrictive license, like the BSD or (my favorite) WTFPL licenses.:D
Conversely - treating your body like a temple, eating the right things, exercising, staying slim doesn't ensure you will live beyond 50 either. Chances are higher, sure, but it's not a guarantee.
It doesn't give any sort of guarantee, but I must say that, having experienced being both "in shape" and "a fat bastard", the quality of life is much better while being in shape.
I'd suggest that the OP at least start some mild strength training. I know, after a long day, it sucks (I have 11 hour days, myself), but crunches and push ups only take like 10 minutes at the most (: until you actually get in shape, at least). The more lean muscle you put on, the more efficient your body is at burning off calories - even while resting. And after a few weeks of it, maybe a month, you'll really start to feel better, and perhaps feel better about yourself in the bargain.
In some places, you can't even possess porn with someone that looks like a minor. So even if someone is 18 but for whatever reason (makeup, genetics, etc.) looks 13, it'd be illegal to have so much as a nude picture of that person.
Wow, that must suck. And yet (assuming they're not mentally deficient as mentioned above) one can still have sex with them; after all, despite genetics, makeup, etc, they're consenting adults. Just don't take a damn picture. Sort of a twist on the whole, "Officer, they looked old enough!" thing. Laws like that are weird.
"In this case, the point is that she may hold the key to help cure the disease known as aging."
Aging isn't all bad. It is the path by which we mature as human beings - a path Brooke will never go down. Mentally, she is no better than a vegetable - incapable of learning, since her brain does not change. I'd rather get old (and be aware that I'm aging) than never get out of infancy and never become self-aware.
Imagine stopping all chemical changes in the body - you can never, ever again, learn a single new thing. You wouldn't even be able to remember what happened a minute ago. Might as well put a bullet in your head. Even "50 First Dates" allowed for learning and adaptation over a 24-hour period before the clock reset.
Brooke - the Human Chia Pet.
I mean no offense, but I don't think you're quite grasping the concept that they're attempting to convey. They're stating that it might assist research in halting the aging process - not duplicating this particular case's condition.
I mean, it'd be bad to stop the normal growth and development of a child - but someone who's 25? Or hell, even 40? Based on what I read in the article, it doesn't appear that the girl cannot learn (if that were the case, she wouldn't have preferences), it's just that her brain isn't capable of maturing enough to do anything with it. Toddlers are smart little buggers, but try teaching them calculus, and you'll regret it.:D
If she's not suffering, and her family isn't suffering (it's difficult to tell just from an article) there's absolutely no reason why it should be considered "bad" to learn from a condition like this. Hell, it'd be criminal to not take advantage of such an opportunity to learn more about how we live, age, and die.
If doctors, scientists, etc 150 years from now can still learn from this case - perhaps personally, as opposed to relying upon another person's observations - all the better, for us as a species.
I understand that people in general don't like to be considered a medical experiment, but if something abnormal is going on, that's exactly what one becomes. One simply has to remember that in the process of trying to understand the abnormality, a doctor is also trying to help you.
(Unless they're an asshole. Then they're wondering if they can write a paper on you so they can buy another yacht. In which case, one should remember that just because they're an asshole, doesn't mean that they can't help you.*)
* Admittedly anecdotal evidence shows that this is the case in most professions.
Yes, but Pixar's stuff was worth watching well before Disney bought them, which brought a lot of cash in, which is why Disney did buy them.
I know they were by no means the first to do awesome films in CGI format (a lot of the best were available for free, on the web) but they really pushed it into the mainstream.
I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it. No point in signing up now though. Shame.
Look at it this way: maybe you'll get lucky, and someone will fork OpenSim to create a clone.
if I was the one buying the Office software I would, why not use Open Office, it's free, support better and more file formats.
Amen to that. The company I work for stopped purchasing Office licenses, for this very reason.
I also have to add that Spicebird, while still in beta, appears far more friendly than any Outlook client I've used - especially budget friendly.
But then, of course, this is the US military we're talking about. In my lifetime, at least, they've never been known for their thriftiness.
Ok, this comment comes up every. single. time. Can we please put it to rest?
Yes, Amazon is a business that can do whatever it likes with its website. That doesn't mean that anything it does is immune to criticism, or must be agreed with.
Exactly. Criticism is important. How else can they know if something they've done might have been a mistake? One might even go so far as to say it's our responsibility to let them know. And to a business, the biggest criticism one can give is a boycott. There are other book sites online, a lot of them with way better prices. Let Amazon know how you feel, starting with your wallet - and thus make them feel it in theirs.
Er, you must've been lucky. My high school had old arse Apple IIe's (which was an upgrade from the Apple IIc they had, years prior, but still) when I had a nice, Win 3.11/DOS box at home.
I find it difficult to believe that this is all just a "big, US gob'ment hoax". While I don't believe everything our news channels and politicians tell us, the words coming out of the mouths of refugees (some of which were turned after/during missions against innocent civilians) who have come from North Korea tell me there's more to this than a simple, black and white, right or wrong perspective. Their leader is a psycho, he's got a brutalized nation under his heel, and yet (for the most part) they love him for it. Imagine, if you will, if instead of a pledge of allegiance every day in school, kids had to pledge and praise one single leader. One who didn't leave after 4 or 8 years, but was considered unassailable. I can haz brainwashing? In North Korea, yes, you most certainly can.
Now, the thought of a man like that launching missiles willy-nilly, that's pretty damn disturbing. While I doubt their intended target is Japan - for the reasons you cited - I also doubt that they were really just launching a satellite. As to what exactly they were up to - ask Jong-il. I'm betting it wasn't just to keep us slashdotters entertained, however.
Concur.
I changed/etc/sshd_config on OSX one day while remote, tried to figure out how to do a service reload (the startup service only understands start/stop), eventually sent a HUP to the daemon with kill. Still got kicked for my trouble, but at least I was able to ssh in again.
Just as a side note, getting kicked doesn't really matter if you run screen. It's saved my bacon (and prevented headaches) so many times now, I don't know if I could work without it.
The screw will turn, my friend, and your party won't always be in power.
That's the point: deterrent. If crimes were committed by the Bush administration then they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to send a strong message to the next Republican administration that the law must be obeyed.
I agree, but believe it should send a strong message to any administration.
Then we'll see how much you like all the investigations.
Bring it on. While I strongly believe that Obama is far better than the Republican alternative, I have no love for Obama either. If Obama breaks the law, punish him to the full extent.
Precisely my point. The party itself does not matter. They should all be held accountable. I may have voted for Obama to be in office, but I never voted for him to have a "get out of jail free" card.
The need to run Windows is why KVM (not the hardware) is so very nice. System going funky? Shut it down, rsync from the nas with a clean copy, and you're back up and running.
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Javascript, Smalltalk, or things like microsoft's CLR are not a good comparison for high-level languages' performance these days.
I respectfully disagree.
That's because Vala manages to do everything that the CLR/JVM does, only with performance somewhere between C and C++.
Yes, Vala is quite nice. I've been following its development for quite some time, and it does really have a lot of potential. However, it's still pretty young, as they go; that in and of itself is both a reason for caution, as well as a reason for patting the Vala-devs on their collective backs. It does, after all, execute pretty fast thus far. (:
When Vala hits 1.0 *and* gets a sizable developer community backing it - i.e., those who really use it and find its flaws and gems - then it might have the chance to supersede its predecessors.
This is not to say it's not a great language, or a great effort. Heck, I've been hoping for a while that it might have the chance to invalidate the need for Mono (no offense to the Mono guys, you do good work, too) in developing applications.
But Vala is still 0.5.6. For all we know, a poor design decision could make it terribly slower; I doubt that will happen, but still.
Specifically, I want a Linux distro for my grandmother. She retired about two decades ago, and used the computer all the time.
The catch is that the computer she used was a simple dumb terminal.
There are lots of people out there, parents of baby boomers, who used that, or a DOS menu shell and TUI apps, their last decade of work before retirement. They don't really know how to use a mouse, perhaps their coordination isn't very good. They don't understand that 'pointing' stuff.
You can get that with gentoo pretty easily. Might take a while to compile, but hey, it works.
However, they can type just fine.
So what I've been constantly tempted to do is find a text-based distro, with pine and lynx and some sort of text menu to run them, for her.
Although I'd really like a graphical one that just mimics a text-one, where everything is doable via keystrokes (Which are shown on screen.), and all apps are full screen. (Possibly this would be best done using command line framebuffer programs, like Links.)
+1 for Vulture's Eye. If nothing else, maybe they'll get frustrated and learn C well enough to hack it for cheats. I know that ruins the game play, but hey, anything to get 'em to learn.
Egoboo provides something like Nethack, but in 3d. It's not *pure*, but it's got enough eye candy to nab their attention.
One thing I would suggest to the submitter is that, for those games that are open source, compile a list of those games - with the source code URLs included (since you have to go find the games anyway), and put it on the Desktop (or in "My Documents"). That way, if they're in any way inclined, they can go see what makes them tick. A lot of people I grew up with learned Pascal through hacking together door games for BBS's; it's a lot easier to motivate yourself to learn if it's fun. (:
It takes three rather complex passwords and a USB fob to unlock my computer, and yet every now and then I wake up in the morning to find a bucket load of C on the screen and no idea how it got there.
I've done that a time or two, myself, though I only need two complex passwords (no USB fob). And let me tell you something I've learned: if you still make your deadlines, and the code passes your test suite, don't knock it. It may be that your inner muse is a night owl, but it might also have a temper.
Some people (my wife, and myself included - yes, even before we were married) do not see sex as irresponsible. In fact, many people don't correlate sex and procreation. For proof, one only need to look to those who take birth control pills (if only that were available for men in the US), have their tubes tied or get a vasectomy.
Sex is fun, it's a great way of putting a smile on someone's face (if you're lucky, on your own as well), and it's a nice outlet. Don't believe me? Angry at the world? Go have sex. You'll feel better.
If you don't, that's a good indication that you did it wrong. Practice really does make perfect. Next time, avoid sharp, pointy objects, psychopathic partners, and/or meat grinders.
It isn't always about putting yet another human on this planet. If we're in danger of extinction at this point, it's not from a lack of children. As a species we have the reproduction thing covered. At this point, we should worry more about not killing ourselves (nukes, biological warfare, etc.) than populating an already overcrowded world.
Putting a child into the world without a single iota of care, love, or attention, however, is incredibly irresponsible. I'm pro-choice, but because of the previous statement, I consider abortion to be the last, best choice. Avoiding the issue - wearing a condom, taking the pill, getting surgery if you're certain - and I do mean certain - that you won't change your mind, what have you - is obviously better. But things are often easier categorized and learned from in retrospect.
In short, nobody is perfect. Forcing them to have a kid, after one realizes their they a) aren't ready or b) simply do not want them is far more immoral than preventing the birth itself. Do the world a favor, and let logic win.
I'm not posting as AC, because frankly, somebody might need to read this, and while there are often gems of wisdom to be found when browsing at -1, the signal to noise ratio can be daunting to some.
An image isn't the same as thought. Do you know the difference between playing Unreal and really shooting someone in the face?
Hint: the latter is a hell of a lot messier. We have enough problems in the world. "Thought crime" need not be truly introduced into reality. Congratulations, you've just Orwelled this discussion.
I've done contract programming / web development, and these are things that a lot of novices* have to learn the hard way.
* Note that you can be an expert programmer, and a novice contractor. It's a whole different world when you work for yourself. It can be rewarding, and very informative, but the pitfalls can mean the difference between making your bills or sleeping in your car.
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Personally I think parents do a great harm to their children by allowing them to have a TV in their room, or a cell phone just like all the other kids have, or INet Access in their rooms.
I respectfully disagree with you on that last point. I mean, each parent has to make their own decisions, yeah, but at the very least, let them access a whitelist of sites. You know, gnu.org, sourceforge, google's code hosting, their distro's package mirror, etc.
Sure, keep 'em off 4chan, but let them have the opportunity to learn.
Me, I spent most of my early childhood (80's) without access. Had an Apple II, and a few games. 90's came along, I got a PC, with a modem. It wasn't long before I was on every local BBS I could find, downloading code and trying to teach myself as much as possible, as quickly as possible. Eventually I found an ISP, and lo and behold, I got to learn Solaris. (I'd dialed it the same as any BBS, from the DOS prompt). Wasted some time on IRC, but found that there was a whole world of code, freely available on gnu.org, sunsite, eventually listed on freshmeat and/or hosted on sourceforge, thanks to lynx.
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Not true. Sure, there are a lot of small, obscure open source projects that either get abandoned, or lack developers, or whatever, but most of the major open source projects out there work and work well. Firefox, Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu,
Having had to abandon, or at the very least put some open source projects on indefinite hold recently, I'd like to state that this very concept is one of the coolest things about a project being open source. I mean, just because I left off, doesn't mean someone can't fork it and keep the ball rolling.
This is especially true when a project uses a non-restrictive license, like the BSD or (my favorite) WTFPL licenses. :D
Conversely - treating your body like a temple, eating the right things, exercising, staying slim doesn't ensure you will live beyond 50 either. Chances are higher, sure, but it's not a guarantee.
It doesn't give any sort of guarantee, but I must say that, having experienced being both "in shape" and "a fat bastard", the quality of life is much better while being in shape.
I'd suggest that the OP at least start some mild strength training. I know, after a long day, it sucks (I have 11 hour days, myself), but crunches and push ups only take like 10 minutes at the most (: until you actually get in shape, at least). The more lean muscle you put on, the more efficient your body is at burning off calories - even while resting. And after a few weeks of it, maybe a month, you'll really start to feel better, and perhaps feel better about yourself in the bargain.
YMMV, obviously.
In some places, you can't even possess porn with someone that looks like a minor. So even if someone is 18 but for whatever reason (makeup, genetics, etc.) looks 13, it'd be illegal to have so much as a nude picture of that person.
Wow, that must suck. And yet (assuming they're not mentally deficient as mentioned above) one can still have sex with them; after all, despite genetics, makeup, etc, they're consenting adults. Just don't take a damn picture. Sort of a twist on the whole, "Officer, they looked old enough!" thing. Laws like that are weird.
Yeah, this has gone way off topic. Sort of. :D
"In this case, the point is that she may hold the key to help cure the disease known as aging."
Aging isn't all bad. It is the path by which we mature as human beings - a path Brooke will never go down. Mentally, she is no better than a vegetable - incapable of learning, since her brain does not change. I'd rather get old (and be aware that I'm aging) than never get out of infancy and never become self-aware.
Imagine stopping all chemical changes in the body - you can never, ever again, learn a single new thing. You wouldn't even be able to remember what happened a minute ago. Might as well put a bullet in your head. Even "50 First Dates" allowed for learning and adaptation over a 24-hour period before the clock reset.
Brooke - the Human Chia Pet.
I mean no offense, but I don't think you're quite grasping the concept that they're attempting to convey. They're stating that it might assist research in halting the aging process - not duplicating this particular case's condition.
I mean, it'd be bad to stop the normal growth and development of a child - but someone who's 25? Or hell, even 40? Based on what I read in the article, it doesn't appear that the girl cannot learn (if that were the case, she wouldn't have preferences), it's just that her brain isn't capable of maturing enough to do anything with it. Toddlers are smart little buggers, but try teaching them calculus, and you'll regret it. :D
If she's not suffering, and her family isn't suffering (it's difficult to tell just from an article) there's absolutely no reason why it should be considered "bad" to learn from a condition like this. Hell, it'd be criminal to not take advantage of such an opportunity to learn more about how we live, age, and die.
If doctors, scientists, etc 150 years from now can still learn from this case - perhaps personally, as opposed to relying upon another person's observations - all the better, for us as a species.
I understand that people in general don't like to be considered a medical experiment, but if something abnormal is going on, that's exactly what one becomes. One simply has to remember that in the process of trying to understand the abnormality, a doctor is also trying to help you.
(Unless they're an asshole. Then they're wondering if they can write a paper on you so they can buy another yacht. In which case, one should remember that just because they're an asshole, doesn't mean that they can't help you.*)
* Admittedly anecdotal evidence shows that this is the case in most professions.
but can there editors be used from within the web browser embedded into a site so that it can be modified from any computer the owner is working at?
Sure. Just use Javascript + *Pick/build your favorite CMS app*, and voila. HTML 5, while having more capability, is still HTML.
Yes, but Pixar's stuff was worth watching well before Disney bought them, which brought a lot of cash in, which is why Disney did buy them. I know they were by no means the first to do awesome films in CGI format (a lot of the best were available for free, on the web) but they really pushed it into the mainstream.
I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it. No point in signing up now though. Shame.
Look at it this way: maybe you'll get lucky, and someone will fork OpenSim to create a clone.
We can rebuild it. We have the technology.
if I was the one buying the Office software I would, why not use Open Office, it's free, support better and more file formats.
Amen to that. The company I work for stopped purchasing Office licenses, for this very reason. I also have to add that Spicebird, while still in beta, appears far more friendly than any Outlook client I've used - especially budget friendly. But then, of course, this is the US military we're talking about. In my lifetime, at least, they've never been known for their thriftiness.
Ok, this comment comes up every. single. time. Can we please put it to rest? Yes, Amazon is a business that can do whatever it likes with its website. That doesn't mean that anything it does is immune to criticism, or must be agreed with.
Exactly. Criticism is important. How else can they know if something they've done might have been a mistake? One might even go so far as to say it's our responsibility to let them know. And to a business, the biggest criticism one can give is a boycott. There are other book sites online, a lot of them with way better prices. Let Amazon know how you feel, starting with your wallet - and thus make them feel it in theirs.
Capitalism at it's finest. :D
Er, you must've been lucky. My high school had old arse Apple IIe's (which was an upgrade from the Apple IIc they had, years prior, but still) when I had a nice, Win 3.11/DOS box at home.
I find it difficult to believe that this is all just a "big, US gob'ment hoax". While I don't believe everything our news channels and politicians tell us, the words coming out of the mouths of refugees (some of which were turned after/during missions against innocent civilians) who have come from North Korea tell me there's more to this than a simple, black and white, right or wrong perspective. Their leader is a psycho, he's got a brutalized nation under his heel, and yet (for the most part) they love him for it. Imagine, if you will, if instead of a pledge of allegiance every day in school, kids had to pledge and praise one single leader. One who didn't leave after 4 or 8 years, but was considered unassailable. I can haz brainwashing? In North Korea, yes, you most certainly can.
Now, the thought of a man like that launching missiles willy-nilly, that's pretty damn disturbing. While I doubt their intended target is Japan - for the reasons you cited - I also doubt that they were really just launching a satellite. As to what exactly they were up to - ask Jong-il. I'm betting it wasn't just to keep us slashdotters entertained, however.
Just sayin.
Try using Django. kthxbai
To be fair, that's more MTV. It still rocks, though.
I find the BSD userland rather primitive.
Concur. I changed /etc/sshd_config on OSX one day while remote, tried to figure out how to do a service reload (the startup service only understands start/stop), eventually sent a HUP to the daemon with kill. Still got kicked for my trouble, but at least I was able to ssh in again.
Just as a side note, getting kicked doesn't really matter if you run screen. It's saved my bacon (and prevented headaches) so many times now, I don't know if I could work without it.
The screw will turn, my friend, and your party won't always be in power.
That's the point: deterrent. If crimes were committed by the Bush administration then they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to send a strong message to the next Republican administration that the law must be obeyed.
I agree, but believe it should send a strong message to any administration.
Then we'll see how much you like all the investigations.
Bring it on. While I strongly believe that Obama is far better than the Republican alternative, I have no love for Obama either. If Obama breaks the law, punish him to the full extent.
Precisely my point. The party itself does not matter. They should all be held accountable. I may have voted for Obama to be in office, but I never voted for him to have a "get out of jail free" card.
Kind of ironic that they're doing the trial in China - now the test subjects can have their very own drunken immortal. :D
The need to run Windows is why KVM (not the hardware) is so very nice. System going funky? Shut it down, rsync from the nas with a clean copy, and you're back up and running.
Javascript, Smalltalk, or things like microsoft's CLR are not a good comparison for high-level languages' performance these days.
I respectfully disagree.
That's because Vala manages to do everything that the CLR/JVM does, only with performance somewhere between C and C++.
Yes, Vala is quite nice. I've been following its development for quite some time, and it does really have a lot of potential. However, it's still pretty young, as they go; that in and of itself is both a reason for caution, as well as a reason for patting the Vala-devs on their collective backs. It does, after all, execute pretty fast thus far. (:
When Vala hits 1.0 *and* gets a sizable developer community backing it - i.e., those who really use it and find its flaws and gems - then it might have the chance to supersede its predecessors.
This is not to say it's not a great language, or a great effort. Heck, I've been hoping for a while that it might have the chance to invalidate the need for Mono (no offense to the Mono guys, you do good work, too) in developing applications.
But Vala is still 0.5.6. For all we know, a poor design decision could make it terribly slower; I doubt that will happen, but still.
You know what I'd like. The opposite.
Specifically, I want a Linux distro for my grandmother. She retired about two decades ago, and used the computer all the time.
The catch is that the computer she used was a simple dumb terminal.
There are lots of people out there, parents of baby boomers, who used that, or a DOS menu shell and TUI apps, their last decade of work before retirement. They don't really know how to use a mouse, perhaps their coordination isn't very good. They don't understand that 'pointing' stuff.
You can get that with gentoo pretty easily. Might take a while to compile, but hey, it works.
However, they can type just fine.
So what I've been constantly tempted to do is find a text-based distro, with pine and lynx and some sort of text menu to run them, for her.
Although I'd really like a graphical one that just mimics a text-one, where everything is doable via keystrokes (Which are shown on screen.), and all apps are full screen. (Possibly this would be best done using command line framebuffer programs, like Links.)
http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ Or just teach them how to use screen. :D
+1 for Vulture's Eye. If nothing else, maybe they'll get frustrated and learn C well enough to hack it for cheats. I know that ruins the game play, but hey, anything to get 'em to learn.
Egoboo provides something like Nethack, but in 3d. It's not *pure*, but it's got enough eye candy to nab their attention.
One thing I would suggest to the submitter is that, for those games that are open source, compile a list of those games - with the source code URLs included (since you have to go find the games anyway), and put it on the Desktop (or in "My Documents"). That way, if they're in any way inclined, they can go see what makes them tick. A lot of people I grew up with learned Pascal through hacking together door games for BBS's; it's a lot easier to motivate yourself to learn if it's fun. (:
It takes three rather complex passwords and a USB fob to unlock my computer, and yet every now and then I wake up in the morning to find a bucket load of C on the screen and no idea how it got there.
I've done that a time or two, myself, though I only need two complex passwords (no USB fob). And let me tell you something I've learned: if you still make your deadlines, and the code passes your test suite, don't knock it. It may be that your inner muse is a night owl, but it might also have a temper.
Some people (my wife, and myself included - yes, even before we were married) do not see sex as irresponsible. In fact, many people don't correlate sex and procreation. For proof, one only need to look to those who take birth control pills (if only that were available for men in the US), have their tubes tied or get a vasectomy.
Sex is fun, it's a great way of putting a smile on someone's face (if you're lucky, on your own as well), and it's a nice outlet. Don't believe me? Angry at the world? Go have sex. You'll feel better.
If you don't, that's a good indication that you did it wrong. Practice really does make perfect. Next time, avoid sharp, pointy objects, psychopathic partners, and/or meat grinders.
It isn't always about putting yet another human on this planet. If we're in danger of extinction at this point, it's not from a lack of children. As a species we have the reproduction thing covered. At this point, we should worry more about not killing ourselves (nukes, biological warfare, etc.) than populating an already overcrowded world.
Putting a child into the world without a single iota of care, love, or attention, however, is incredibly irresponsible. I'm pro-choice, but because of the previous statement, I consider abortion to be the last, best choice. Avoiding the issue - wearing a condom, taking the pill, getting surgery if you're certain - and I do mean certain - that you won't change your mind, what have you - is obviously better. But things are often easier categorized and learned from in retrospect.
In short, nobody is perfect. Forcing them to have a kid, after one realizes their they a) aren't ready or b) simply do not want them is far more immoral than preventing the birth itself. Do the world a favor, and let logic win.
I'm not posting as AC, because frankly, somebody might need to read this, and while there are often gems of wisdom to be found when browsing at -1, the signal to noise ratio can be daunting to some.
Checking for terrorism
An image isn't the same as thought. Do you know the difference between playing Unreal and really shooting someone in the face?
Hint: the latter is a hell of a lot messier. We have enough problems in the world. "Thought crime" need not be truly introduced into reality. Congratulations, you've just Orwelled this discussion.
Mod parent up.
I've done contract programming / web development, and these are things that a lot of novices* have to learn the hard way.
* Note that you can be an expert programmer, and a novice contractor. It's a whole different world when you work for yourself. It can be rewarding, and very informative, but the pitfalls can mean the difference between making your bills or sleeping in your car.