I like your sig and think it works well with this thread. Increase the fines, but not necessarily enforcement (or vice versa). There's probably a break even point where they can make a good revenue stream for the behavior. I mean, if the citizens won't change their behavior, then make their stubbornness useful for addressing other issues.
The whores are trying to make sure that the attendees don't find prostitutes without their "help". I wouldn't be surprised if there was a small cadre of professionals lined up ahead of time to service the summit members. Making recommendations about certain policies can be much easier when given by a naked power point presenter while getting serviced by your assigned "assistant".
I'm afraid we may be headed toward a world where some devices will be free or really cheap, but when you use them you'll be bombarded by ads—or pay a premium to escape them.
Wait, what? How's this different than what's out there now? Pay full price up front or a reduced price in exchange for ads, contract/product lock-in or whatever else they cook up. Nothing new here, move along >.>
I really liked the part where the guy championing the Newton slapped KO'd his opponent with a link. She had previously written an article citing "The iPhone is the worst phone in the world".
Hmm, the update to/. summary is interesting. The picture got pulled by the blogger and a bi-lingual apology was posted. The Chinese characters are the simplified text, so the person is probably from mainland China. Assuming it's not faked, then things get more interesting.
Has that person ever lived in the US?
How would they be familiar with our cultural ethnic sensitivities?
Do we disparage them for being crude or praise them for freedom of speech under their current (Assumed communist) government?
You're absolutely right, but fail to take in to consideration that Americans don't like the idea of censorship in general. Various groups will have their exceptions to that, such as pornography, but the principle of anti-censorship pretty much stands, government or not.
Are we actually sure that Google did ANYTHING here? They might have marked the image offensive, which would [I assume, I know nothing of google's search results rankings] hide it from people with strict safesearch on, and severely downrank it on moderate and no safesearch results.
Good point. Deserves a point or two from anybody slinging them around, AC or not.
Monkey jokes aside, why ban it? Why not just file the picture under the normal, changeable, filter? There's still freedom of speech and I can easily google the KKK website. Unpleasant for some, yes, but that's the flip side of avoiding censorship (as opposed to user enacted filtering).
I think most/. types think this is something the parents should be involved with rather than a different organization. Make the parents read the information accessible and then have them help their own kids.
As for the cyber bullying, it's still just bullying. Adding the term "cyber" just makes it cool to talk about. Dealing with it still requires the same involvement from the parents of the kid and whoever else is appropriate for what's happening. If anything, it can be easier to deal with cyber bullies. There's actual proof of what's happened and not every bully is bright enough to set up mock accounts to do this with. On the other hand, it can be easier to be framed for such by doing so. Reverse-bully tactics can be employed to pose as somebody else to attack at least two targets, the original target and the person you're posing as.
Perhaps some of the coddling stems from the fact that some people can't say "No" to their kids. As such, they like things like this that push the responsibility of dealing with bad things on other people. Working at a store, I see it all the time. Parents who can't get the kids to behave, probably because they have no power as authority figures, point to me and say "you better stop or that man is going to get mad at you".
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Maybe they're anorexic, you insensitive clod!
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In this context, maybe Samzenpus being praised?
Only if you're willing to cut the cheese.
I like your sig and think it works well with this thread. Increase the fines, but not necessarily enforcement (or vice versa). There's probably a break even point where they can make a good revenue stream for the behavior. I mean, if the citizens won't change their behavior, then make their stubbornness useful for addressing other issues.
Soylent green is made from... squirrels?
You all know you're dying to find out.
Staving off death is one thing (and good); making life after injury worth living is another.
Worth repeating.
It's a short hop over. Sidetrips are always fun.
The whores are trying to make sure that the attendees don't find prostitutes without their "help". I wouldn't be surprised if there was a small cadre of professionals lined up ahead of time to service the summit members. Making recommendations about certain policies can be much easier when given by a naked power point presenter while getting serviced by your assigned "assistant".
Get me one of those postcards and a flight to Amsterdam. I'll do some research for you.
They wanted the entire sum in ones and fives.
That, or he thinks we should pay full price, get full lock in and have all the ads. Did I mention shoddier service that comes from monopolies?
I'm afraid we may be headed toward a world where some devices will be free or really cheap, but when you use them you'll be bombarded by ads—or pay a premium to escape them.
Wait, what? How's this different than what's out there now? Pay full price up front or a reduced price in exchange for ads, contract/product lock-in or whatever else they cook up. Nothing new here, move along >.>
I was thinking eBay, but yeah. Of course, I'd be more curious about the killer that accepted paypal.
Or, preferably, just don't do "these sorts of things". *rolleyes*
So, hire a pro rather than DIY?
I really liked the part where the guy championing the Newton slapped KO'd his opponent with a link. She had previously written an article citing "The iPhone is the worst phone in the world".
I'm sure they had great make up sex later on.
Hmm, the update to /. summary is interesting. The picture got pulled by the blogger and a bi-lingual apology was posted. The Chinese characters are the simplified text, so the person is probably from mainland China. Assuming it's not faked, then things get more interesting.
Has that person ever lived in the US?
How would they be familiar with our cultural ethnic sensitivities?
Do we disparage them for being crude or praise them for freedom of speech under their current (Assumed communist) government?
You're absolutely right, but fail to take in to consideration that Americans don't like the idea of censorship in general. Various groups will have their exceptions to that, such as pornography, but the principle of anti-censorship pretty much stands, government or not.
Are we actually sure that Google did ANYTHING here? They might have marked the image offensive, which would [I assume, I know nothing of google's search results rankings] hide it from people with strict safesearch on, and severely downrank it on moderate and no safesearch results.
Good point. Deserves a point or two from anybody slinging them around, AC or not.
Monkey jokes aside, why ban it? Why not just file the picture under the normal, changeable, filter? There's still freedom of speech and I can easily google the KKK website. Unpleasant for some, yes, but that's the flip side of avoiding censorship (as opposed to user enacted filtering).
I know a few monkeys that did.
I think most /. types think this is something the parents should be involved with rather than a different organization. Make the parents read the information accessible and then have them help their own kids.
As for the cyber bullying, it's still just bullying. Adding the term "cyber" just makes it cool to talk about. Dealing with it still requires the same involvement from the parents of the kid and whoever else is appropriate for what's happening. If anything, it can be easier to deal with cyber bullies. There's actual proof of what's happened and not every bully is bright enough to set up mock accounts to do this with. On the other hand, it can be easier to be framed for such by doing so. Reverse-bully tactics can be employed to pose as somebody else to attack at least two targets, the original target and the person you're posing as.
S.O.S., just a bigger audience for the drama.
Perhaps some of the coddling stems from the fact that some people can't say "No" to their kids. As such, they like things like this that push the responsibility of dealing with bad things on other people. Working at a store, I see it all the time. Parents who can't get the kids to behave, probably because they have no power as authority figures, point to me and say "you better stop or that man is going to get mad at you".
I should charge for that.
True. Somehow, though, I think two lawyers could swing the appropriate funds.
Indoor plumbing, outdoor plumbing. It's just another reason to make the new recruits go out and dig a ditch ;)