This is an official mouthpiece of the DPKR. Read some stories on the site. It's some kind of bizarro world in which The DKPR is an embattled champion of freedom, and a really great place for the whole family!
Why would the west need to bother? The DKPR does the job for us.
I was thinking the same. I'd assume they'd keep the dimensions low and apply filters to make it appear more realistic. Some of the still pictures are pretty realistic, which I'd imagine was the main calling card used.
I think you're quibbling over definition of "sex bot", because to me a "CG girl that appears to show up on a webcam" with the intention of eliciting sexual solicitations is a type of sex bot.
You're technically right, only because you've defined a slightly esoteric phrase to mean what you want it to mean. That's not a very useful for of being right. I consider a sex bot to be a mechanical contrivance with which a man can empty his nuts in to a well greased brass receptacle. For the same reasons you're right, I'm also right in saying that "Sweetie" is not a sex bot.
And messaging a bot transmitting a computer generated image isn't soliciting an underage girl, is it?
Is soliciting an undercover policewoman not a crime unless she's a real hooker? It's not quite the same situation, and I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be a crime in itself in most places. What I'd hope is that plod goes and looks a bit deeper to see if there are grounds for investigating these people.
The condition itself is pretty rare. On top of this, you'd be talking about an adult who has a rare condition for which they've not sought the available treatment, preferring instead to spend their money on a computer and a webcam.
If this defence was in any way not batshit crazy, it'd be used quite often when paedophiles get caught with their photos of kids in the nip.
Exactly. Also 'entrapment' (seducing people into committing a crime) is illegal in Holland. So the pedophiles found in the Netherlands in this way will likely not be prosecuted. However, I get the feeling that this was not the intention of the project. I think they just wanted to show how widespread this issue is, and get attention for it. So that 'legal' (whatever that is in your country) measures can be taken to stop this.
I'm not seeing how this case would be entrapment in any sense. Entrapment seems to require more than the passive approach used by the researchers. I don't see solicitation or any inducement to criminal behaviour. It doesn't seem the researchers had robololita join a chat room and begin offering nude pictures for cash. If I stand in a subway, late at night, with the intention of making myself a potential victim, would this be illegal? It's pretty similar in principle, and perfectly legal. It'd be a different matter if I were yelling at passers by - daring them to take a pop at me. Even if I were goading people, would my attacker have magical immunity from prosecution due to entrapment? Fuck no. It'd be a different matter if it were a police officer doing the goading.
The police were not involved in the operation. I'll grant that the existing evidence may not be useable, yet how would this mean no prosecution. Wouldn't a search warrant be in order and entirely justifiable when a person is strongly suspected to be soliciting sex acts from minors? This is similar to the situation that'd arise if a burglar were to discover a coke factory in your basement, and had alerted the police. The police can't necessarily wheel you off to court on that alone, but wouldn't they have decent grounds for a warrant that would then lead to a prosecution?
Such a defence would be incredibly difficult to pull off outside of very compelling contexts. E.g. the wrongcock was browsing a website where it was reasonable to expect they would be chatting with robochild.
It's up there with fighting a speeding ticket with the claim that the perfectly normal speed limit sign looked kind of fake.
I fly around the US a few times a year and honestly have had no experiences with particularly dumb. They've been polite and move things along. I can't speak for their effectiveness, as I'm not a terrorist.
Immigration is worse. I've encounter some right bastards, who if not "welcoming guests" would be some small town mall cop replete with mirror shades and a burning need to exercise authority.
Overall though, nothing in the US is as bad as Heathrow. Great airport if you take away the security staff. CDG security is okay, but the airport as a whole is fucking shit - poor connections between terminals and run with the "I'll do it tomorrow" attitude.
I am a foreign immigrant in Japan - and I am being treated very well. Furthermore - I completed my studies in Japan - both undergrad and graduate - and all of it was funded by Japanese government, including the airline tickets. And all of it was without any strings attached, and without the need to return the money I have been given (and you can make a nice living only on the scholarship...)... People are treating me, and my friends, really nice. Guess it might depend - if you are from some country that is trying to be a world policeman - you might get a different experience...
I agree. The Maryland police officers and the DHS people need to be prosecuted. This isn't a minor procedural snafu - this is an intentional illegal act.
Yeah, the "click to endorse" endorsements are LinkedIn's equivalent to a Facebook "like"; largely pointless. I get plenty of endorsements from people who know me from previous jobs, or work with me now but really don't know much about my proficiency in the skills for which they endorsed me. I'm a little more conservative in my endorsements. i.e. if I knew you as a trainer then I'm not going to endorse your project management skills if I have no first hand experience of your project management abilities.
Written endorsements are more valuable, and it's interesting to note the networks they have. i.e. I'm going to take a profile as an IBM sales engineer more seriously if I can see they have connections that'd suggest they are well connected in this field. A network consisting of every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to confuse matters.
I've not done recruiting in some time now, so I'd be very interested in knowing if recruiters consider the points I made?
Seems to me that in those circumstances, spying is even more important. After all, just because Germany or France say they support us in something doesn't mean they actually do. They have their own agendas and interests. As the French president used to say: countries don't have friends, they only have interests. The reason the Europeans are making such a fuss about this is because their formerly great and powerful spy agencies can't keep up anymore.
That does play in to this a bit, but it's not the main reason. A good reason to make a fuss is that there is popular public opposition to having the NSA and GCHQ hoovering up our data. It's political capital for opposition politicians, and a massive pain in the arse for the leaders who know their own security services are not much better. The UK government, in its long-running role as the poodle of the US, is way to deeply involved to be able to decry any NSA activities. This is why Cameron's sops to concerns around NSA activities will always be couched in vehement criticism of Snowden. To use an analogy, Cameron accepts that some people may be worried by the brutal stabbing that took place in the prison exercise yard, but he's way more bothered by the "snitch" who disclosed the name of the attacker.
And have the case immediately dismissed because the defendant was charged for something so irrelevant to what they did, the prosecutor could just as well have prosecuted a charge of bigamy.
Sorry, what I meant in the last line is that a warrant for guns is easier to obtain than a warrant to seize hand written notes of possibly confidential information.
I'm guessing they could have stopped to look at the documents. It's not as if they took away a skip full of papers. A quick browse, and only seize if they have grounds to suspect the documents could be tied to illegal gun ownership.
If all the had was a warrant for guns, then seizure of her notes is pretty plainly overreaching. Call me paranoid, but doesn't this warrant seem like a pretty good pretense to go confiscate documents that would be easily justified by a warrant?
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There's absolutely no need for the west to fabricate these bizarre claims. Are you at all familiar with the KCNA?
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2012/201211/news29/20121129-20ee.html
This is an official mouthpiece of the DPKR. Read some stories on the site. It's some kind of bizarro world in which The DKPR is an embattled champion of freedom, and a really great place for the whole family!
Why would the west need to bother? The DKPR does the job for us.
Well, we'd better institute martial law if we want to be certain these buggers are caught.
I was thinking the same. I'd assume they'd keep the dimensions low and apply filters to make it appear more realistic. Some of the still pictures are pretty realistic, which I'd imagine was the main calling card used.
I think you're quibbling over definition of "sex bot", because to me a "CG girl that appears to show up on a webcam" with the intention of eliciting sexual solicitations is a type of sex bot.
You're technically right, only because you've defined a slightly esoteric phrase to mean what you want it to mean. That's not a very useful for of being right. I consider a sex bot to be a mechanical contrivance with which a man can empty his nuts in to a well greased brass receptacle. For the same reasons you're right, I'm also right in saying that "Sweetie" is not a sex bot.
And messaging a bot transmitting a computer generated image isn't soliciting an underage girl, is it?
Is soliciting an undercover policewoman not a crime unless she's a real hooker? It's not quite the same situation, and I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be a crime in itself in most places. What I'd hope is that plod goes and looks a bit deeper to see if there are grounds for investigating these people.
It's most likely a growth hormone condition.
The condition itself is pretty rare. On top of this, you'd be talking about an adult who has a rare condition for which they've not sought the available treatment, preferring instead to spend their money on a computer and a webcam.
If this defence was in any way not batshit crazy, it'd be used quite often when paedophiles get caught with their photos of kids in the nip.
Exactly. Also 'entrapment' (seducing people into committing a crime) is illegal in Holland. So the pedophiles found in the Netherlands in this way will likely not be prosecuted. However, I get the feeling that this was not the intention of the project. I think they just wanted to show how widespread this issue is, and get attention for it. So that 'legal' (whatever that is in your country) measures can be taken to stop this.
I'm not seeing how this case would be entrapment in any sense. Entrapment seems to require more than the passive approach used by the researchers. I don't see solicitation or any inducement to criminal behaviour. It doesn't seem the researchers had robololita join a chat room and begin offering nude pictures for cash. If I stand in a subway, late at night, with the intention of making myself a potential victim, would this be illegal? It's pretty similar in principle, and perfectly legal. It'd be a different matter if I were yelling at passers by - daring them to take a pop at me. Even if I were goading people, would my attacker have magical immunity from prosecution due to entrapment? Fuck no. It'd be a different matter if it were a police officer doing the goading.
The police were not involved in the operation. I'll grant that the existing evidence may not be useable, yet how would this mean no prosecution. Wouldn't a search warrant be in order and entirely justifiable when a person is strongly suspected to be soliciting sex acts from minors? This is similar to the situation that'd arise if a burglar were to discover a coke factory in your basement, and had alerted the police. The police can't necessarily wheel you off to court on that alone, but wouldn't they have decent grounds for a warrant that would then lead to a prosecution?
Such a defence would be incredibly difficult to pull off outside of very compelling contexts. E.g. the wrongcock was browsing a website where it was reasonable to expect they would be chatting with robochild.
It's up there with fighting a speeding ticket with the claim that the perfectly normal speed limit sign looked kind of fake.
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I fly around the US a few times a year and honestly have had no experiences with particularly dumb. They've been polite and move things along. I can't speak for their effectiveness, as I'm not a terrorist.
Immigration is worse. I've encounter some right bastards, who if not "welcoming guests" would be some small town mall cop replete with mirror shades and a burning need to exercise authority.
Overall though, nothing in the US is as bad as Heathrow. Great airport if you take away the security staff. CDG security is okay, but the airport as a whole is fucking shit - poor connections between terminals and run with the "I'll do it tomorrow" attitude.
Yeah, a real non event. Coming up later, Congress hosts the first "bring your butler to work" day.
Explains why TSA agents were groping around my ankles.
It's a good metaphor, but really not sufficient. I want to know how the kittens of deferred tax liabilities will be weaned?
Can't tell if serious.
I am a foreign immigrant in Japan - and I am being treated very well.
Furthermore - I completed my studies in Japan - both undergrad and graduate - and all of it was funded by Japanese government, including the airline tickets. And all of it was without any strings attached, and without the need to return the money I have been given (and you can make a nice living only on the scholarship...)...
People are treating me, and my friends, really nice. Guess it might depend - if you are from some country that is trying to be a world policeman - you might get a different experience...
Seems legit.
Same here. Why's Cuba so bad?
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Seems legit.
I agree. The Maryland police officers and the DHS people need to be prosecuted. This isn't a minor procedural snafu - this is an intentional illegal act.
Yeah, the "click to endorse" endorsements are LinkedIn's equivalent to a Facebook "like"; largely pointless. I get plenty of endorsements from people who know me from previous jobs, or work with me now but really don't know much about my proficiency in the skills for which they endorsed me. I'm a little more conservative in my endorsements. i.e. if I knew you as a trainer then I'm not going to endorse your project management skills if I have no first hand experience of your project management abilities.
Written endorsements are more valuable, and it's interesting to note the networks they have. i.e. I'm going to take a profile as an IBM sales engineer more seriously if I can see they have connections that'd suggest they are well connected in this field. A network consisting of every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to confuse matters.
I've not done recruiting in some time now, so I'd be very interested in knowing if recruiters consider the points I made?
Cuba was crushed? Did you have the courtesy to inform them of this?
Seems to me that in those circumstances, spying is even more important. After all, just because Germany or France say they support us in something doesn't mean they actually do. They have their own agendas and interests. As the French president used to say: countries don't have friends, they only have interests. The reason the Europeans are making such a fuss about this is because their formerly great and powerful spy agencies can't keep up anymore.
That does play in to this a bit, but it's not the main reason. A good reason to make a fuss is that there is popular public opposition to having the NSA and GCHQ hoovering up our data. It's political capital for opposition politicians, and a massive pain in the arse for the leaders who know their own security services are not much better. The UK government, in its long-running role as the poodle of the US, is way to deeply involved to be able to decry any NSA activities. This is why Cameron's sops to concerns around NSA activities will always be couched in vehement criticism of Snowden. To use an analogy, Cameron accepts that some people may be worried by the brutal stabbing that took place in the prison exercise yard, but he's way more bothered by the "snitch" who disclosed the name of the attacker.
I agree - it's not clear, which us why I qualified this later by avoiding stating it as a fact.
And have the case immediately dismissed because the defendant was charged for something so irrelevant to what they did, the prosecutor could just as well have prosecuted a charge of bigamy.
Sorry, what I meant in the last line is that a warrant for guns is easier to obtain than a warrant to seize hand written notes of possibly confidential information.
I'm guessing they could have stopped to look at the documents. It's not as if they took away a skip full of papers. A quick browse, and only seize if they have grounds to suspect the documents could be tied to illegal gun ownership.
If all the had was a warrant for guns, then seizure of her notes is pretty plainly overreaching. Call me paranoid, but doesn't this warrant seem like a pretty good pretense to go confiscate documents that would be easily justified by a warrant?