I was in danger. You see in your example, we (you and I), and your gun and your intent to use it to harm me, all existed. The child is fictional, and fictional people don't have rights or protection under the law.
You're using that situation to set up an emotional "Think of the children" response. This in itself is a fallacy but I'll skip over the obvious flaws in your logic and say that in your situation--unlike the contrived, manufactured ones you see on TV--there was a very real danger of an innocent girl being abused, and as such it warrants a response from law enforcement (and probably my handgun). If you're trying to say that stopping these few guys puts a dent into the number of pedophiles, or is a deterrent to the ones that are still out there then your naiveté is beyond my ability to correct.
WHAT MINOR!? There never was an underage girl, it was an actress and a fake AIM screen name. It was a group who has the self righteous arrogance to put the word "Justice" in their name tricking men who obviously have very serious mental problems into incriminating themselves.
And where is the victim? And no fair saying something like if we didn't catch him here he'd do it again with a real underage girl. That's BS and you know it. We have a justice system based on punishing people AFTER they commit a crime not before
I hate their To Catch A Predatory series. The questionable legality should be obvious to anyone. I don't like being in a position where I'm defending alleged pedophiles, but the law is there to protect everyone, even the accused (who sometimes need extra protection because of their vulnerable position). Never at any point was there an actual child who was in danger, no actual crime was committed. It's staged from end to end and yet they completely gloss over that part when their over dramatized edited version of what happens gets aired. This sort of vigilantism is not helpful to society. NBC are the real pornographers here, and sadly it seems people can't get enough of it.
Yeah I tried that and the results never quite were the same. Some letters had problems displaying correctly with misaligned or superfluous pixels that I just couldn't stop ignoring. Maybe I'm a pedant but it really irked me. I settled on default Ubuntu fonts lowered to size 8 (default was 10 and looked way too big for my liking) with the option Subpixel Smoothing and Full hinting. I also installed the msttcorefonts package and websites render pretty good now, not the same as windows obviously but still clear enough that it doesn't bug me.
I look over at my windows machine and still wish I could get things to work exactly the same across both, but at least I've found a solution that is acceptable.
The windows ones look the best to me. I prefer that to the AA fonts that always looked too blurry to me. I wish there was a way to replicate that look, exactly as it is in Windows with Linux (Merely turning off AA is NOT a solution, the results are horrid and nothing like what they look like in Windows, even when using the exact same font files). That's one of the things I miss about windows is how clear and crisp the fonts were rendered.
With the Simpsons ending, perhaps a successful release of these DVDs will help get the series back into full production. It was really far too brilliant to end after only 4 (3 production) seasons. I've been so angry with Fox ever since they canceled it and allowed the mind numbingly stupid show Family Guy back. Futurama is so much more deserving than that show. But it's never too late to start making good decisions.
I can't imagine how difficult that all must be. I've pretty much been the same size all my adult life (already posted my height/weight). I've never done anything special diet or exercise wise and it's just stayed the same. So I don't know what to say, I guess genes have a lot to with it. Good luck with you, you seem like you have the will to keep at it.
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Also, the USA is not the world, and we don't own the internet. I think there's a lot of politicians that don't understand how the internet works (Big surprise that Mr. Stevens' name comes up in the article. Tubes, etc), that it's a global network and that's how you get inane laws like this proposed. How about we have some personal responsibility and expect parents to monitor their own children's online behavior, and not rely on the government to do that for us because I'm and adult, I don't need MY internet to be filtered at all.
Thirty-three THOUSAND? I barely eat 2000 calories a day*. I can't imagine eating half a months food supply in one meal. That's truly insane. I doubt he woke up one day and decided he wanted to eat himself to death, these sort of behaviors are learned from your childhood experience with food. Which makes me wonder, how much his parents had a hand in his condition. I hate the idea of the state stepping in and dictating parts of people's lives, especially something as private and personal as how you raise your kids but where are the mechanisms to keep this sort of thing from happening? It should qualify as some sort of child abuse.
*granted, I am pretty small, only about 130lb (~59kg) at 5'9" (~176cm)
It's always been like that. It's just that when you look back, even a few years you don't remember all the shit that came out along with the good stuff you remember.
I only have 12 friends on facebook because...I only have twelve friends that USE facebook. I don't just add random people because they're from the same school/region, and I don't accept request from the same.
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I was in danger. You see in your example, we (you and I), and your gun and your intent to use it to harm me, all existed. The child is fictional, and fictional people don't have rights or protection under the law.
You're using that situation to set up an emotional "Think of the children" response. This in itself is a fallacy but I'll skip over the obvious flaws in your logic and say that in your situation--unlike the contrived, manufactured ones you see on TV--there was a very real danger of an innocent girl being abused, and as such it warrants a response from law enforcement (and probably my handgun). If you're trying to say that stopping these few guys puts a dent into the number of pedophiles, or is a deterrent to the ones that are still out there then your naiveté is beyond my ability to correct.
WHAT MINOR!? There never was an underage girl, it was an actress and a fake AIM screen name. It was a group who has the self righteous arrogance to put the word "Justice" in their name tricking men who obviously have very serious mental problems into incriminating themselves.
And where is the victim? And no fair saying something like if we didn't catch him here he'd do it again with a real underage girl. That's BS and you know it. We have a justice system based on punishing people AFTER they commit a crime not before
Thoughtcrime, right?
I hate their To Catch A Predatory series. The questionable legality should be obvious to anyone. I don't like being in a position where I'm defending alleged pedophiles, but the law is there to protect everyone, even the accused (who sometimes need extra protection because of their vulnerable position). Never at any point was there an actual child who was in danger, no actual crime was committed. It's staged from end to end and yet they completely gloss over that part when their over dramatized edited version of what happens gets aired. This sort of vigilantism is not helpful to society. NBC are the real pornographers here, and sadly it seems people can't get enough of it.
Yeah I tried that and the results never quite were the same. Some letters had problems displaying correctly with misaligned or superfluous pixels that I just couldn't stop ignoring. Maybe I'm a pedant but it really irked me. I settled on default Ubuntu fonts lowered to size 8 (default was 10 and looked way too big for my liking) with the option Subpixel Smoothing and Full hinting. I also installed the msttcorefonts package and websites render pretty good now, not the same as windows obviously but still clear enough that it doesn't bug me.
I look over at my windows machine and still wish I could get things to work exactly the same across both, but at least I've found a solution that is acceptable.
The windows ones look the best to me. I prefer that to the AA fonts that always looked too blurry to me. I wish there was a way to replicate that look, exactly as it is in Windows with Linux (Merely turning off AA is NOT a solution, the results are horrid and nothing like what they look like in Windows, even when using the exact same font files). That's one of the things I miss about windows is how clear and crisp the fonts were rendered.
Informative? Informative!?
Yes, waiter, another glass of kool-aid please.
(captcha: ravening)
With the Simpsons ending, perhaps a successful release of these DVDs will help get the series back into full production. It was really far too brilliant to end after only 4 (3 production) seasons. I've been so angry with Fox ever since they canceled it and allowed the mind numbingly stupid show Family Guy back. Futurama is so much more deserving than that show. But it's never too late to start making good decisions.
Fragments? You'd get your very own team of FBI cryptographers working to make sure that every piece of recovered data was incriminating!
I think your .sig conflicts with your assessment of Asian women. But I dunno, my lunesta is kicking in and I'm starting to hallucinate.
DFC
Hey, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
I can't imagine how difficult that all must be. I've pretty much been the same size all my adult life (already posted my height/weight). I've never done anything special diet or exercise wise and it's just stayed the same. So I don't know what to say, I guess genes have a lot to with it. Good luck with you, you seem like you have the will to keep at it.
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Also, the USA is not the world, and we don't own the internet. I think there's a lot of politicians that don't understand how the internet works (Big surprise that Mr. Stevens' name comes up in the article. Tubes, etc), that it's a global network and that's how you get inane laws like this proposed. How about we have some personal responsibility and expect parents to monitor their own children's online behavior, and not rely on the government to do that for us because I'm and adult, I don't need MY internet to be filtered at all.
Thirty-three THOUSAND? I barely eat 2000 calories a day*. I can't imagine eating half a months food supply in one meal. That's truly insane. I doubt he woke up one day and decided he wanted to eat himself to death, these sort of behaviors are learned from your childhood experience with food. Which makes me wonder, how much his parents had a hand in his condition. I hate the idea of the state stepping in and dictating parts of people's lives, especially something as private and personal as how you raise your kids but where are the mechanisms to keep this sort of thing from happening? It should qualify as some sort of child abuse.
*granted, I am pretty small, only about 130lb (~59kg) at 5'9" (~176cm)
Luckily, I dodge that bullet by not having a relationship in the first place.
Loli schoolgirls? Jeeze, have you seen the opening? Just because it's not your cup of tea, doesn't mean it isn't fanservice for someone.
It's always been like that. It's just that when you look back, even a few years you don't remember all the shit that came out along with the good stuff you remember.
You should spend less time on /d/
I do think they should rename it, if for no other reason than to eliminate it as a point of criticism.
Although, it's entirely possible they could pick a name that's worse.
Too fucking true.
I only have 12 friends on facebook because...I only have twelve friends that USE facebook. I don't just add random people because they're from the same school/region, and I don't accept request from the same.
So you're saying 50 friends should be enough for anyone? ...I'm so sorry
A BB gun or a magnifying glass can already do most of those.
We're way past reform, the system needs to be scrapped and replaced by something valid for today's realities.