Not to spoil the ending, but the guy eventually goes to a sex addict support group for men, and they all agree that indulging in their fetishes only made the problem worse--made it easier to go one step further. But I wonder if this is more a result of certain people having addictive predispositions. I am sure there are people who engage in many things in moderation. Not all pot smokers are addicts, not all alcohol drinkers are addicts, not all WoW players are addicts, not all people who work out are addicts.
I think there is a group of people out there with impulse control issues. I wonder if they are really outliers. For those personalities, yes, any engagement makes things worse.
What we do know, however, is that pornography's impact on those who view it is considered so detrimental that you can't get randomized, control-group studies approved and that those studies which were randomized and controlled (and led to the conclusion that it was too detrimental to ethically get people to watch porn) found statistically significant connections between exposure to porn and a lower support of women's rights, a declining importance of marriage, and laxer attitude towards rape punishment. You lost me when you got to your last paragraph. This seems very prudish and perhaps the 'ethicist' who objected to any/all studies was a 'theologian'. Any links to these studies?
You are talking about accepting the end result of a democratic process which is entirely different than our primary system being screwed up, which is what I was referring to.
I think the primary should be a long process that allows many states to participate and be heard. I think instead of these lame 30-60 second question debates, there should be debates that last 2 or more hours and are open ended. Lincoln-Douglas style debates with lots of substance on issues. I think if the public was exposed to the complexity of most issues, their decision making might be different than only being exposed to sound-bite politics.
Since you were commenting more on the democratic process in general, your complaints about 48%, 40%, etc are a result of our current candidates (and the nation) being so polarized. It doesn't need to be that way. There is more common ground out there, but sound-bite politics doesn't work with common ground.
This may sound odd in this 'thinkofthechildren' world we claim to live in:
Has anyone considered that allowing someone to 'role play' or 'express' their desires, no matter how taboo, in a virtual world, might lessen real-world activity? Any studies on this?
I mean how many people satisfy themselves with porn rather than engage in risky real life behavior? Maybe these 'sickos' can get their satisfaction on a virtual world?
It seems like a lot of the 'oddballs' are the ones who come from a background of extreme sexual repression. A virtual outlet could eliminate that repression.
This whole fiasco is because of the Primary and Caucus states are in an arms race to maintain their historical place as the 'first'. Iowa always has the first Caucus and New Hampshire the first primary. Other states want to be 'relevant' this cycle and some have moved up their date, causing others to move their dates. The party rules state that no state shall have a primary of caucus before Feb 5, 2008. Florida wants to move theirs earlier which would violate the rule and piss off Iowa and New Hampshire. So as a 'compromise', allowing Florida to move theirs up, but it be non-binding, seems to be the current negotiation.
So much for showing a little leadership? Basically, we will just follow nVidia. I've got 1U Supermicro rackmount servers that have ATI 'Rage MX' chipsets on them and there is not even a solution for these chips other than a very slow unaccelerated driver. They don't even have a working binary driver.
ATI's lack of driver quality and commitment has always been a problem for me. I went from 3dfx to Nvidia and have never personally purchased an ATI product specifically because of their poor Linux support.
Sir, you wont let me search your bag? Did I mention we just got some new CD's in from the band Extraordinary Rendition? Follow me, they are so new that they are still in the back of the store...
To quote the RIAA, think of it as stealing. Basically, in addition to already viewing advertisements, websites want to steal my Intellectual Property. See, there is a value placed on my data by the market, and that data is being collected and securitized without compensating me and in many cases without my permission.
Each of us own the Intellectual Property in our heads. Like the RIAA, we need to stick together and demand either payment or permission for this information.
But the OSI layers are guidelines that help design things, not rigid levels that must be maintained. They are mixed up ALL the time. As a simple example, see Layer-3 switches. To be fair, I never claimed it was a hard rule. In fact, the last sentence of my post was "Its a tradeoff--complexity/speed vs simplicity/maintainability/interoperability."
In some applications, such as a Layer 3 switch, the designers don't adhere to the guidelines per se. However this is more of an implementation detail in order to manage things or get the throughput required for real-time performance.
You are correct that its just a guideline. But it is a guideline that if followed does provide the advantages I mentioned. Reducing complexity, especially in an open source project where many many programmers will need to understand and modify the code, is an important goal.
Layers are both easier to code, to understand, and to test. Layers/boundaries between software are your friend. To some degree that is why the Internet, based upon a layered network model (TCP on top of IP on top of Ethernet) is so diverse.
Layering is what keeps things manageable. One you start getting your software tentacles into several layers you make a mess of things for both yourself and others. Its a tradeoff--complexity/speed vs simplicity/maintainability/interoperability.
Could you imagine being the IT manager who has to tell upper management that the big expense you added to the budget two years ago, which was supposed to last five years before being incrementally replaced, now has to be completely trashed and replaced in one go because the encryption turned out to not be safe? Except WEP has been known to be broken since 2001. Also your IT manager example is putting profit above the safeguard of customer information such as their credit cards. Didn't Ford Motor company balk at the expense of adding an $11 fuel bladder to prevent the Ford Pinto from exploding? They figured they would just pay whatever damages, but when they were punished by a jury, the damages for a single death totaled more than their entire estimate. The damages were so high partly because the jury was made aware that Ford actually made a thought process like your IT manager that they understood the risks, but didn't want to spend money on the problem.
If there are older devices that only support WEP, those can be moved to a separate router and firewalled/VLAN/etc.
I wonder how much money the 'Credit Monitoring' services make out with all these breeches?
It seems to me the only solution to this is to pass strong data ownership protections for consumers. Right now, the companies place very little value on the data (except for marketing/advertising purposes), but this needs to change somehow.
WEP is seriously flawed. What hasn't it been recalled and all router manufacturers forced to replace the hardware (or firmware)? In most industries if you ship such a flawed product, the manufacturer has some liability. They are still selling them today too.
Of course shame on TJ Max and the whole handling of this fiasco. Not that I ever did previously, but I would never shop there.
Frankly I think a lot of people are going to scoff at RICO being relevant here because "respectable" corporations like Microsoft and Best Buy should not be accountable to a law meant for Italians. I thought Rico Suave was some type of Spanglish Rapper? He was an Italian? Who knew! I learn something everyday here on/.
Dude, the real nonsense is your first sentence, which makes no sense because you mistook homophones. First, stop with the homo insults. Thirdly, no wonder your name is 'myopic'; if mistaking their for they're was so confusing for you, perhaps you can't see the forest for the trees.
"ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case."
It is not Hans Reiser confessing to eight other killings, it is an EX LOVER of the wife who is confessing to eight other killings. Problem is that the summary is written so poorly, I was confused too. I thought they were saying the ex-lover accused Hans of killing eight people and he confessed. Ultimately after some flowcharting, I figured it out, but it's not at all clear from the summary.
Seriously, are we all suddenly a bunch of pussies? Sir, you just virtually raped me. Your sexual words, images and suggestions on the internet is preying on my mental and emotional state in a sexual way.
Someone lures you into a private room at a party and then forcibly rapes and violates you. You try to cover yourself enough to escape the party afterward, go home and sit in a shower and bleed while inspecting the bruises that were left on your body and then when you go back to your group of friends, you feel compelled to pretend that nothing ever happened and even be civil to that person around them, because you somehow feel guilty for what they did to you and you spend the rest of your life being affected by the physical attack and it impacts your every thought and action - especially with the opposite sex - for the next forty years. On a more serious note, what it during the virtual rape, I break a fingernail on the keyboard. I dont mean a small chip, but one that pulls a hangnail and is really really painful. See the similarity now?
You sure thats not called a conscience? I would think removing the 'personal' factor and dehumanizing your enemy, you might reduce some combat stress and guilt that you just killed another human being. I wonder if this recommendation is more for mental health reasons or perhaps for both.
I kinda have a 'sixth sense' that someone is staring at this post right now.
You do know that in addition to sunlight, Fatty fish and Fish Oils, a staple of Inuit diet, is a significant source of Vitamin D? Seems to me that they adapted to get their Vitamin D by an alternative source.
I missed the debate and want to watch it. My first stop was C-SPAN and was surprised that it was not archived there. After finding out it was NBC, I went to MSNBC website. But when I try to 'view the video' I just get a screen that looks like some Flash based Windows Media Player and it does nothing. Buttons dont work or anything.
I tried it on a Windows box under Firefox and it didnt work either. Looks like some type of IE-only crap or some type of gymnastics are needed.
Thanks MSNBC. How about turn it over to some other people who can cater to a wider audience?
So explain again why storing all your data on some company's servers is a good idea? Because using a company like Google who has an unlimited data retention policy there is no chance your data will be lost.
covenantspice.com You are kidding me? You run a website/store dedicated to 'sex toys' for Christians? I'm pretty sure I heard one of the Right-wing Baptist 'spokepersons' on TV the other day, proclaiming that Christians have strayed from sex for procreation and that is the cause of all evil today.
"We believe God created marriage to be a lifelong passionate romance. From bedroom toys to Christian sex manuals, from body toppings to romantic games, we have everything you need to keep the sparks flying in and out of the bedroom." The whole reason I bring this up is because this is a 'censorship issue.' Do you sell your toys in all 50 states? Do you know that its illegal for you promote sex toys that look like sex organs in several states? Georgia, Mississippi and Texas all have laws against this. I'd say the 'pleasure sleeve' on your website violates this.
The truth will come out. Bush will probably be out of office before it does, but we will know the truth.
This story is much deeper... Despite the Ohio website being hosted by the same company hosting the RNC, there are screenshots of the website available that show errors in the numbers that were 'fixed' later in the evening (can you guess where those 'fixed' votes went to?). A website that was hosted on official government servers was redirected to a group of servers that hosts the RNC (they same that hosts Karl Roves 'secret' email accounts we are learning about). Who the hell knows who had access to logins on those servers and what was manipulated...
Also, there is an ongoing investigation in Ohio that is uncovering problems with the machines, votes that don't add up, and no one can explain why the exit polls which are historically accurate do not match. Some lame 'values voters' arguments try to brush away the statistical anomaly. And when they didn't match, the pollsters went back and fit their data to the potentially erroneous results (garbage in-garbage out).
People who have claimed there was fraud are moving from the 'tin foil' crowd to the 'its plausible' crowd as evidence grows.
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I think there is a group of people out there with impulse control issues. I wonder if they are really outliers. For those personalities, yes, any engagement makes things worse.
You are talking about accepting the end result of a democratic process which is entirely different than our primary system being screwed up, which is what I was referring to.
I think the primary should be a long process that allows many states to participate and be heard. I think instead of these lame 30-60 second question debates, there should be debates that last 2 or more hours and are open ended. Lincoln-Douglas style debates with lots of substance on issues. I think if the public was exposed to the complexity of most issues, their decision making might be different than only being exposed to sound-bite politics.
Since you were commenting more on the democratic process in general, your complaints about 48%, 40%, etc are a result of our current candidates (and the nation) being so polarized. It doesn't need to be that way. There is more common ground out there, but sound-bite politics doesn't work with common ground.
This may sound odd in this 'thinkofthechildren' world we claim to live in:
Has anyone considered that allowing someone to 'role play' or 'express' their desires, no matter how taboo, in a virtual world, might lessen real-world activity? Any studies on this?
I mean how many people satisfy themselves with porn rather than engage in risky real life behavior?
Maybe these 'sickos' can get their satisfaction on a virtual world?
It seems like a lot of the 'oddballs' are the ones who come from a background of extreme sexual repression. A virtual outlet could eliminate that repression.
This whole fiasco is because of the Primary and Caucus states are in an arms race to maintain their historical place as the 'first'. Iowa always has the first Caucus and New Hampshire the first primary. Other states want to be 'relevant' this cycle and some have moved up their date, causing others to move their dates. The party rules state that no state shall have a primary of caucus before Feb 5, 2008. Florida wants to move theirs earlier which would violate the rule and piss off Iowa and New Hampshire. So as a 'compromise', allowing Florida to move theirs up, but it be non-binding, seems to be the current negotiation.
The whole system is screwed up in my opinion...
So much for showing a little leadership? Basically, we will just follow nVidia. I've got 1U Supermicro rackmount servers that have ATI 'Rage MX' chipsets on them and there is not even a solution for these chips other than a very slow unaccelerated driver. They don't even have a working binary driver.
ATI's lack of driver quality and commitment has always been a problem for me. I went from 3dfx to Nvidia and have never personally purchased an ATI product specifically because of their poor Linux support.
Sir, you wont let me search your bag? Did I mention we just got some new CD's in from the band Extraordinary Rendition? Follow me, they are so new that they are still in the back of the store...
To quote the RIAA, think of it as stealing. Basically, in addition to already viewing advertisements, websites want to steal my Intellectual Property. See, there is a value placed on my data by the market, and that data is being collected and securitized without compensating me and in many cases without my permission.
Each of us own the Intellectual Property in our heads. Like the RIAA, we need to stick together and demand either payment or permission for this information.
In some applications, such as a Layer 3 switch, the designers don't adhere to the guidelines per se. However this is more of an implementation detail in order to manage things or get the throughput required for real-time performance.
You are correct that its just a guideline. But it is a guideline that if followed does provide the advantages I mentioned. Reducing complexity, especially in an open source project where many many programmers will need to understand and modify the code, is an important goal.
Layers are both easier to code, to understand, and to test. Layers/boundaries between software are your friend. To some degree that is why the Internet, based upon a layered network model (TCP on top of IP on top of Ethernet) is so diverse.
Layering is what keeps things manageable. One you start getting your software tentacles into several layers you make a mess of things for both yourself and others. Its a tradeoff--complexity/speed vs simplicity/maintainability/interoperability.
If there are older devices that only support WEP, those can be moved to a separate router and firewalled/VLAN/etc.
I wonder how much money the 'Credit Monitoring' services make out with all these breeches?
It seems to me the only solution to this is to pass strong data ownership protections for consumers. Right now, the companies place very little value on the data (except for marketing/advertising purposes), but this needs to change somehow.
WEP is seriously flawed. What hasn't it been recalled and all router manufacturers forced to replace the hardware (or firmware)?
In most industries if you ship such a flawed product, the manufacturer has some liability. They are still selling them today too.
Of course shame on TJ Max and the whole handling of this fiasco. Not that I ever did previously, but I would never shop there.
That should clear things up.
"ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case."
It is not Hans Reiser confessing to eight other killings, it is an EX LOVER of the wife who is confessing to eight other killings. Problem is that the summary is written so poorly, I was confused too. I thought they were saying the ex-lover accused Hans of killing eight people and he confessed. Ultimately after some flowcharting, I figured it out, but it's not at all clear from the summary.
If they had named it Liberation Cove or Freedom Files I'm sure their would be none of this nonsense.
Personally, I think FSIAS would have been better...File Sharing Industry Association of Sweden.
Ahh the slippery slope of legislating morality.
You sure thats not called a conscience? I would think removing the 'personal' factor and dehumanizing your enemy, you might reduce some combat stress and guilt that you just killed another human being. I wonder if this recommendation is more for mental health reasons or perhaps for both.
I kinda have a 'sixth sense' that someone is staring at this post right now.
You do know that in addition to sunlight, Fatty fish and Fish Oils, a staple of Inuit diet, is a significant source of Vitamin D? Seems to me that they adapted to get their Vitamin D by an alternative source.
I missed the debate and want to watch it. My first stop was C-SPAN and was surprised that it was not archived there. After finding out it was NBC, I went to MSNBC website. But when I
try to 'view the video' I just get a screen that looks like some Flash based Windows Media Player and it does nothing. Buttons dont work or anything.
I tried it on a Windows box under Firefox and it didnt work either. Looks like some type of IE-only crap or some type of gymnastics are needed.
Thanks MSNBC. How about turn it over to some other people who can cater to a wider audience?
Oh wait...
The truth will come out. Bush will probably be out of office before it does, but we will know the truth.
This story is much deeper... Despite the Ohio website being hosted by the same company hosting the RNC, there are screenshots of the website available that
show errors in the numbers that were 'fixed' later in the evening (can you guess where those 'fixed' votes went to?). A website that was hosted on official government servers was redirected
to a group of servers that hosts the RNC (they same that hosts Karl Roves 'secret' email accounts we are learning about). Who the hell knows who had access to logins on those servers and what was manipulated...
Also, there is an ongoing investigation in Ohio that is uncovering problems with the machines, votes that don't add up, and no one can explain why the
exit polls which are historically accurate do not match. Some lame 'values voters' arguments try to brush away the statistical anomaly. And when they didn't match, the pollsters went back and fit their data to the potentially erroneous results (garbage in-garbage out).
People who have claimed there was fraud are moving from the 'tin foil' crowd to the 'its plausible' crowd as evidence grows.
Exactly, my correction of a misspelling with a mispeling was supposed to be funny. Oh well.