Exactly, no way of telling which person did it. Here's an idea, why not go after people who actually do things to the child, rather than those that just look? You're not a murderer if you have a murder scene on your computer.
But if you pay someone else to go out and commit and film a real life murder, you are some sort of accessory. Even if you're not directly financing them, by providing an audience for child abuse images/videos you are helping perpetuate the business.
Nah. For instance, I will donate to help cloth the poor or disaster assistance but insist none of that donation goes to high dollar salaries of the people running it. That is not a bribe.
The difference is that your wishes will be ignored, while the high value donors' won't be.
There's also a different between people who say CO2 doesn't cause warming or isn't significant and those that think the projected warming won't be catastrophic. I'm not a climate change skeptic, I'm a climate change catastrophe skeptic. Sadly the religion of AGW doesn't allow for categories of "deniers." They all get lumped together as equivalent to evolution deniers.
But if someone says "I agree that the theory of evolution is the best theory to fit reality, but I still think God created Adam and Eve and we're all descended from them" there is a disconnect.
Similarly, if you agree that AGW is happening, and therefore accept the scientific facts and theory behind AGW, you can't logically say "I agree with everything except their conclusions". It just looks like you're putting your fingers in your ears and going la la la.
No one is saying that AGW will completely destroy the planet, simply that it will have a devestating effect on humanity. You can argue that it would actually be good to have a large proportion of the population removed, but that is another topic entirely from pretending there will be little impact.
Burt Rutan is an authority because he's studied global warming for far longer than you or any AGW whiners. Contrary to your child-like views, a person can have more than one expertise.
I bet you can't walk and chew gum at the same time either, huh junior?
I bet he settles most arguments with a roundhouse kick too.
Burt Rutan, the creator of a number of well respected aircraft designs, including the Ansari X Prize winner SpaceShipOne, says that AGW is a crock of shit and that people who believe it are idiots.
When going for the ever popular "appeal to authority" fallacy it's customary to choose someone who is actually an authority in that particular field.
He may also think that Shakespeare was a particularly shitty poet and Mozart a talentless retard with a tin ear, but no one would care about those opinions either.
You need to make up your mind whether the UK is a second rate soon-to-be-third -world embittered ex-imperial power, or one of the architects of the New World Order trampling on the healthy non-fluoridated bodies of the Glorious American People in the attempt to impose capitalist-zionist-socialist-lizard-overlordism on an unsuspecting world.
Since most young people these days (I know, get off my lawn) spend all their waking lives in constant phone/text/messenger/facebook communication with other people I shouldn't think the notion of surveillance bothers them in the slightest.
sleeping patterns, and their academic and semi-academic interactions online.
The year I dropped out was the year a just ended military service had altered my sleeping patterns, and the suicide of one of my COs, which I blamed myself for carelessness of word choices near an already broken man, had started its nagging effect. I increasingly became isolated and incapable of performing even the simplest of tasks.
So yes, I'd say for those students with "traumatic" backgrounds it might be a good self-monitoring service. Although I personally wouldn't have been able do anything about the situation without external support which is not there when you really need it. So, now instead of a becoming a trained MSc computer and information technology engineer with a diploma and 100% employment, I consider cleaning jobs in some local service homes. Now I only have to contend with my increasing paranoia towards the way the society is changing.
That makes a change from the normal slashdot "I dropped out of college because I was so clever I got bored and had to resort to drink/drugs to amuse myself" excuse for working as a lightbulb changer in McDonalds.
If you're at university doing something you're interested in you shouldn't need any more motivation. And if you're not interested you shouldn't be at university in the first place.
Once upon a time, we had advisors and house mothers in college, and it seemed to work better. They did things, you know, like pay attention to when we were studying and if we went to class. But, that was at a time when college was valuable and worth paying for, instead of being another 5 years of babysitting and welfare.
Advisors and house mothers sounds exactly like babysitting to me.
A hundred years ago, college was a chance for wealthy young men to sow a few wild oats in relatively controlled circumstances before taking over their father's business.
If it becomes established then there will probably be penalties for not choosing to. "But why would you decline something that can help you?" says the university administrator as they set the "expel at earliest minor infraction" flag on the students file.
Why would a business want to treat its customers so badly?
That's the real issue, not MRA-fuelled paranoia about feminazis monitoring your wanking hours.
Engineering jobs at the upper end pay well, have good working conditions and you can select your employer. Of course, they tend to require actual skills and talent.
That is true of any field. But, just like not everyone can be a world famous brain surgeon or concert pianist, so not everyone can be a superstar engineer. Or do you think that most people deliberately choose to work for poor employers with bad pay?
The point is that, once you do have a facebook account, you're not really increasing the likelihood of anything bad happening by re-using it as a generic login.
Whatever SmallNewssite.com does with your facebook information is trivial compared to what facebook itself does. Same with gmail, whatever the few remaining google fanboys here might think.
The only people I can see overlooking the bias and obvious agenda of Chomsky are going to be people looking for confirmation of a position they already hold.
FTFY
And of course eveybody else in the world has no bias and no agenda at all.
Hmm... Careful rereading of my posts doesn't reveal them. Care to educate me?
I don't think I've ever called you an idiot before. Well, there's a first time for most anything. Idiot.
Seriously, we take terrorism pretty damned serious these days - regardless of the source. Also, what's 1288 mean?
In the UK the "most" would be "almost" , but maybe it's just a normal colloquialism in the US? However, "serious" should definitely be "seriously". And I'm not sure you can abbreviate "what does" to "what's".
Slashdot Mirror
Also, not everyone considers consensual sex to be rape just because one of the consenters is young.
Yes, those people are called paedophiles.
Exactly, no way of telling which person did it. Here's an idea, why not go after people who actually do things to the child, rather than those that just look? You're not a murderer if you have a murder scene on your computer.
But if you pay someone else to go out and commit and film a real life murder, you are some sort of accessory. Even if you're not directly financing them, by providing an audience for child abuse images/videos you are helping perpetuate the business.
why would anyone NOT want to report it?
Blackmail for one.
I think they meant a good reason.
Presumably if you're a paedophile you'd not report a fellow baby raper, that doesn't make it a legitimate reason.
The catch is that the lesser minds will do little for society whereas the sharper minds can do a great deal for all of us.
Being clever does not in itself make you a good or useful person. Most successful investment bankers and CEOs are extremely bright people.
I've never heard of Mercury One, and I don't support churches in any form.
Nah. For instance, I will donate to help cloth the poor or disaster assistance but insist none of that donation goes to high dollar salaries of the people running it. That is not a bribe.
The difference is that your wishes will be ignored, while the high value donors' won't be.
And Slashdot looks nicer [ducks].
Soylent News looks like slashdot from the early 2000s, which I suppose some people think is cool.
There's also a different between people who say CO2 doesn't cause warming or isn't significant and those that think the projected warming won't be catastrophic. I'm not a climate change skeptic, I'm a climate change catastrophe skeptic. Sadly the religion of AGW doesn't allow for categories of "deniers." They all get lumped together as equivalent to evolution deniers.
But if someone says "I agree that the theory of evolution is the best theory to fit reality, but I still think God created Adam and Eve and we're all descended from them" there is a disconnect.
Similarly, if you agree that AGW is happening, and therefore accept the scientific facts and theory behind AGW, you can't logically say "I agree with everything except their conclusions". It just looks like you're putting your fingers in your ears and going la la la.
No one is saying that AGW will completely destroy the planet, simply that it will have a devestating effect on humanity. You can argue that it would actually be good to have a large proportion of the population removed, but that is another topic entirely from pretending there will be little impact.
Burt Rutan is an authority because he's studied global warming for far longer than you or any AGW whiners. Contrary to your child-like views, a person can have more than one expertise.
I bet you can't walk and chew gum at the same time either, huh junior?
I bet he settles most arguments with a roundhouse kick too.
Burt Rutan, the creator of a number of well respected aircraft designs, including the Ansari X Prize winner SpaceShipOne, says that AGW is a crock of shit and that people who believe it are idiots.
When going for the ever popular "appeal to authority" fallacy it's customary to choose someone who is actually an authority in that particular field.
He may also think that Shakespeare was a particularly shitty poet and Mozart a talentless retard with a tin ear, but no one would care about those opinions either.
Who chewed you out? Some random slashdotter? LOL.
Most random slashdotters can only dream of chewing someone out.
You need to make up your mind whether the UK is a second rate soon-to-be-third -world embittered ex-imperial power, or one of the architects of the New World Order trampling on the healthy non-fluoridated bodies of the Glorious American People in the attempt to impose capitalist-zionist-socialist-lizard-overlordism on an unsuspecting world.
Since most young people these days (I know, get off my lawn) spend all their waking lives in constant phone/text/messenger/facebook communication with other people I shouldn't think the notion of surveillance bothers them in the slightest.
sleeping patterns, and their academic and semi-academic interactions online.
The year I dropped out was the year a just ended military service had altered my sleeping patterns, and the suicide of one of my COs, which I blamed myself for carelessness of word choices near an already broken man, had started its nagging effect. I increasingly became isolated and incapable of performing even the simplest of tasks. So yes, I'd say for those students with "traumatic" backgrounds it might be a good self-monitoring service. Although I personally wouldn't have been able do anything about the situation without external support which is not there when you really need it. So, now instead of a becoming a trained MSc computer and information technology engineer with a diploma and 100% employment, I consider cleaning jobs in some local service homes. Now I only have to contend with my increasing paranoia towards the way the society is changing.
That makes a change from the normal slashdot "I dropped out of college because I was so clever I got bored and had to resort to drink/drugs to amuse myself" excuse for working as a lightbulb changer in McDonalds.
You're confusing "motivated" with "smart".
If you're at university doing something you're interested in you shouldn't need any more motivation. And if you're not interested you shouldn't be at university in the first place.
Man that must be a bummer, being treated like you're a failure on your first day!
On the contrary, it's good training for the world of work, which is apparently what university is all about now anyway.
Once upon a time, we had advisors and house mothers in college, and it seemed to work better. They did things, you know, like pay attention to when we were studying and if we went to class. But, that was at a time when college was valuable and worth paying for, instead of being another 5 years of babysitting and welfare.
Advisors and house mothers sounds exactly like babysitting to me.
A hundred years ago, college was a chance for wealthy young men to sow a few wild oats in relatively controlled circumstances before taking over their father's business.
...if they choose.
If it becomes established then there will probably be penalties for not choosing to. "But why would you decline something that can help you?" says the university administrator as they set the "expel at earliest minor infraction" flag on the students file.
Why would a business want to treat its customers so badly?
That's the real issue, not MRA-fuelled paranoia about feminazis monitoring your wanking hours.
Engineering jobs at the upper end pay well, have good working conditions and you can select your employer. Of course, they tend to require actual skills and talent.
That is true of any field. But, just like not everyone can be a world famous brain surgeon or concert pianist, so not everyone can be a superstar engineer. Or do you think that most people deliberately choose to work for poor employers with bad pay?
Whatever SmallNewssite.com does with your facebook information is trivial compared to what facebook itself does. Same with gmail, whatever the few remaining google fanboys here might think.
base password: My5trongB4seP@ssw0rd
I'm almost sure you're not supposed to publish your password on the interwebs.
The only people I can see overlooking the bias and obvious agenda of Chomsky are going to be people looking for confirmation of a position they already hold. FTFY
And of course eveybody else in the world has no bias and no agenda at all.
disgruntled (that is probably one of the funniest words in the English language, btw)
"I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." (PG Wodehouse)
I did not know that Tentacle Porn even existed... so i did a google search ...
Enjoy your new nightmares.
Hmm... Careful rereading of my posts doesn't reveal them. Care to educate me?
I don't think I've ever called you an idiot before. Well, there's a first time for most anything. Idiot. Seriously, we take terrorism pretty damned serious these days - regardless of the source. Also, what's 1288 mean?
In the UK the "most" would be "almost" , but maybe it's just a normal colloquialism in the US? However, "serious" should definitely be "seriously". And I'm not sure you can abbreviate "what does" to "what's".