Okay, I am willing to accept the possibility for the sake of argument. However, what evidence is there? Who did the studies and what were the methods? Based on your personal experience, have you watched/seen porn? More than once? Do you feel less intelligent for having done so? (Not counting just feeling silly) I can say that I have seen my fair share and do not feel less intelligent for having done so.
Is the MPAA buying up/. accounts these days or what?
With that said, in general I've found downloading movies to be silly and a waste of time. But, that's more because DVD's don't really cost that much and in the cases where the extras are worth it I'll buy them.
For TV shows, that I missed, there is nothing better than BT.
If it would only be a couple of years, I'd tend to agree with you. If it would get Hydrogen or something of that calibur moving. However, I don't think it would only be a couple of years of lower growth if they did as you said. I think you'd see the economy collapse.
I presume you live in "The City", whichever that happens to be, and like it. Having been there, done that, I don't. Living in a place with so much sky glare that you can hardly see a star in the night sky? That the only large patch of grass is in a park somewhere? Do you propose that everyone crams into the cities? What are you going to do with all those people living in the country?
Pornography is no different than any other form of entertainment. If a person cannot/will not come to grips with the fact it is not real, that is purely a personal problem and not one for the state. Surely, you didn't think that a woman would cum as soon as you got within five feet of her, or that every time she did she'd scream like a banshee?
I fail to see how a person can have their basic view on reality changed by such things without already being easily influenced to an unnatural degree. I first saw porn when I was very young, and saw it from time to time thereafter. I know full well that it does not reflect reality in any but the most basic contexts. Men and Women have sex... that's about the end of the similarity. If you get a boner at work, your hot female boss is not going to come up and offer to "relieve that" for you. Sorry, not going to happen. Neither do the vast majority of women enjoy cum in their face. (As an aside, "money shots" suck. Stop doing them!)
You talk about a dangerous road, it doesn't get much worse than censorship.
And why is it that people expect a very complicated and flexible piece of equipment to require no knowledge or skill on their part to use? The reason your toaster is so easy to use is that it does one thing, and only one thing. Computers will never be that easy to use, which is what you seem to want, until they do one thing and one thing only. That's why PS2s are so easy to use. They can't do anything but play games. Is that what you really want? Do you really think that most people want a machine that can write email and browse the web, and that's it?
I've known people who said that's all they want. And within twenty minutes of having something that can only do those things, they'd be pitching a fit. Why can't it play music? Why can't it burn CDs? Why can't it edit graphics? Why can't it do this, that, or the other?!?!?! Flexibility and some complexity are linked hand in hand.
And I get sick of the comments from people that to do anything in Linux/BSD/Unix/Not-windows or MacOS you have to spend all your time at the CLI. I jump to the CLI to do things because for me it's faster. However, on any of the modern distros, that's a rare requirement these days. What are these things you have to do at the CLI these days?
And if you misled people into automatically thinking that it is sooooo much harder than Mac or Windows, no one would even give it a try.
My mom, yes Aunt Tillie, uses Gentoo on her machine. Does she sometimes have problems she calls me to solve? Yes. Did she with Windows? Yes. The people you seem to be referring to would have issues with any OS. At least with Linux/BSD they don't have to worry about the ultimate in user-unfriendlyness: Viruses, spyware, adware, 0wned within 15 minutes of coming online.
There might be a learning curve involved, but at least they are safe and secure while they do it.
Once I was asked to build a server for someone using FreeBSD. They were insistent on this so I did not argue. After I booted the install CD, it promptly lost the CD-ROM.
Let me say that again: It could not find the very media that it just booted from.
And that is one of the reasons I prefer not to deal with the BSDs. (Admittedly that was FreeBSD, and neither of the others. And it could have been an isolated incident. But, still.)
I hate to sound like a broken record, but you're really, truely, saying that sex with a 16 year old is the same thing as having sex with a 3 year old!?!?!
Are you seriously trying to put an act with a young woman, 16 years of age and greater, and an act with a baby in the same category? Surely, you jest. Hopefully, I'm misunderstanding. As was said earlier, if you have never in your adult life seen a woman/girl (allowing you to pick your own term) who was under the legal age where you are, and found her highly attractive, there is something wrong. And we're not talking ten or twelve year olds here. We're talking freshman in highschool and older. I know I've seen sixteen year old girls that were damned hot. I can at least admit it. Is there something magic about the age of eighteen in your world?
The thing to keep in mind is this: The Iraq War, and it's somewhat related "War on Terror", are the perfect war for this kind of thing. It never has to end, and unlike the "War on Drugs", it's a shooting war. So they can use it to really scare the people. After all, at what point have you won the war on terror?
As the subject says, CUPS is great. I have a Lexmark Optra RN+ laser printer. Setting it up in cups was as easy as knowing how it was connected (network) and what kind it was (looked at the label). It was instantly shared and available to every other cups speaking machine on the network. My friend booted up one day, and there was a new printer for him to use. No setup was needed on his part.
I just read a post from a guy who said he has been a Unix admin for 20 years, and it took him a week to get this setup. You've been an admin for 20 years and you couldn't figure out cups?!?!?! Is cups perfect? No. Do I think it could be improved? Of course. Is there anything out there better? Not a chance.
I've seen people struggle for days and days getting a printer to work on Windows. Cups, no problem. This may sound elitist of me, but if you can't figure out cups as installed by some distro, then you have issues. When ESR went off on that rant he lost major points with many people, myself included.
Now that I've said that, I would improve certain things on the dialogs that are used to install printers in cups. This is for kprint, so it might not apply to others.
In the first real step of the kprinter wizard, I would change it from "Backend Selection" to "How is your printer connected?"
If possible, gather model information from network printers. This is already done for those directly connected.
That's pretty much it. Otherwise, CUPS is nearly as good as it can get.
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Okay, I am willing to accept the possibility for the sake of argument. However, what evidence is there? Who did the studies and what were the methods? Based on your personal experience, have you watched/seen porn? More than once? Do you feel less intelligent for having done so? (Not counting just feeling silly) I can say that I have seen my fair share and do not feel less intelligent for having done so.
Are you seriously trying to say that being exposed to porn makes you dumb??
You suck. :)
With that said, in general I've found downloading movies to be silly and a waste of time. But, that's more because DVD's don't really cost that much and in the cases where the extras are worth it I'll buy them.
For TV shows, that I missed, there is nothing better than BT.
If it would only be a couple of years, I'd tend to agree with you. If it would get Hydrogen or something of that calibur moving. However, I don't think it would only be a couple of years of lower growth if they did as you said. I think you'd see the economy collapse.
I presume you live in "The City", whichever that happens to be, and like it. Having been there, done that, I don't. Living in a place with so much sky glare that you can hardly see a star in the night sky? That the only large patch of grass is in a park somewhere? Do you propose that everyone crams into the cities? What are you going to do with all those people living in the country?
So... you wouldn't mind if the US economy collapsed and dragged the rest of the world with it? I take it you don't have to drive much.
Even at $3USD or so a gallon, I'd still rather live more or less in the country than jammed into a city any day. You can keep "The City", thank you.
Does no one write their own summary anymore? Seems everyone just copies the first paragraph from the article...
Where do you work?? :)
I fail to see how a person can have their basic view on reality changed by such things without already being easily influenced to an unnatural degree. I first saw porn when I was very young, and saw it from time to time thereafter. I know full well that it does not reflect reality in any but the most basic contexts. Men and Women have sex... that's about the end of the similarity. If you get a boner at work, your hot female boss is not going to come up and offer to "relieve that" for you. Sorry, not going to happen. Neither do the vast majority of women enjoy cum in their face. (As an aside, "money shots" suck. Stop doing them!)
You talk about a dangerous road, it doesn't get much worse than censorship.
Thank you :)
I've known people who said that's all they want. And within twenty minutes of having something that can only do those things, they'd be pitching a fit. Why can't it play music? Why can't it burn CDs? Why can't it edit graphics? Why can't it do this, that, or the other?!?!?! Flexibility and some complexity are linked hand in hand.
And if you misled people into automatically thinking that it is sooooo much harder than Mac or Windows, no one would even give it a try.
My mom, yes Aunt Tillie, uses Gentoo on her machine. Does she sometimes have problems she calls me to solve? Yes. Did she with Windows? Yes. The people you seem to be referring to would have issues with any OS. At least with Linux/BSD they don't have to worry about the ultimate in user-unfriendlyness: Viruses, spyware, adware, 0wned within 15 minutes of coming online.
There might be a learning curve involved, but at least they are safe and secure while they do it.
Let me say that again: It could not find the very media that it just booted from.
And that is one of the reasons I prefer not to deal with the BSDs. (Admittedly that was FreeBSD, and neither of the others. And it could have been an isolated incident. But, still.)
I hate to sound like a broken record, but you're really, truely, saying that sex with a 16 year old is the same thing as having sex with a 3 year old!?!?!
Define kid, please.
I think it was said best here
The thing to keep in mind is this: The Iraq War, and it's somewhat related "War on Terror", are the perfect war for this kind of thing. It never has to end, and unlike the "War on Drugs", it's a shooting war. So they can use it to really scare the people. After all, at what point have you won the war on terror?
Nuts, I knew I forgot the sarcasm flag... :)
Have you never used k3b?
Please, be kind and pass some of what you're smoking around. You did bring enough for everyone, right?
I just read a post from a guy who said he has been a Unix admin for 20 years, and it took him a week to get this setup. You've been an admin for 20 years and you couldn't figure out cups?!?!?! Is cups perfect? No. Do I think it could be improved? Of course. Is there anything out there better? Not a chance.
I've seen people struggle for days and days getting a printer to work on Windows. Cups, no problem. This may sound elitist of me, but if you can't figure out cups as installed by some distro, then you have issues. When ESR went off on that rant he lost major points with many people, myself included.
Now that I've said that, I would improve certain things on the dialogs that are used to install printers in cups. This is for kprint, so it might not apply to others.
That's pretty much it. Otherwise, CUPS is nearly as good as it can get.
Will wonders never cease? :)
As it is, if you're looking for x86 hardware in the US Fed Gov sector, it's Dell or nothing. Yay single-sourcing!