The library is EXACTLY the place. There are many reasons for looking at "porn" besides getting off. If it was being done in a library, from a book specifically bought in for its value, then the chances are that this "porn" was actually quite historically, culturally or socially important, and that a lot was being learned from it. I for one am very thankful that the library prevailed in this instance.
Who the Hell is modding this funny? The guy has a perfectly good point. For example, how often do we hear the argument that porn is a driving force behind adoption of new technology? The significance of porn in our society is a legitimate area of interest, as works such as Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation have explored.
I haven't read TFA (do people still do that?) and for all I know this story is about some sleaze jacking off in a library, but the parent post makes an excellent point regardless.
Meh, as far as I'm concerned the true Star Wars died when Lucas changed Starkiller's name to "Skywalker". It was all downhill for the franchise after that first bitter betrayal. Who's with me?
Kids, this is why it's so important to properly use your <sarcasm> tags and your emoticons!
Well, when you're communicating with Americans, certainly...
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from BBC's The Young Ones, circa '84
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[Neil is crying softly]
Rick: Shut up, Neil, shut up! What's the matter?
Neil: I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry, Bambi. I'm just remembering, like, that bit when you got lost in the snow, and the rabbit found you, it was so beautiful...
Vyvyan: Yeah, I liked the bit where you shoved the drill in the virgin otter's face.
Neil: That wasn't in "Bambi", Vyvyan!
Vyvyan: It was in the sequel, Neil. "Bambi Goes Crazy Ape Bonkers with His Drill and Set".
Neil: [gravely] Is that true, Bambi? Did you do a Disney nasty?
Bambi: So what if I did? I'm not apologizing. My life collapsed after "Bambi". I was a lovable fawn alright, unusable for anything else. I took the Babycham stuff, sure, thanks to Mike here, but I was finished. When the porn "Bambi" came along, well, I thought, this is where I get something back...If it hadn't been for the chance to present University Challenge and start a new life, I'd be giving executive relief to woodland creatures to this very day.
You mean that god-awful, dragged-out ending to Metal Gear Solid 2 was meant to be a service? To whom? I'd put this one down to a translation error, he probably meant to say "sermon".
Try pbwiki. That's the site that Penny Arcade use for their ELotH:TES thing, not one of those fly-by-night wiki-hosts we hear so much about in the press these days:)
It seems a person's accent has a bigger impact. People with american (midwest, southern, whatever), Brittish, Irish, Kiwi or Aussie accent seem to have an easier time communicating with recruiters and interviewers than someone with a Chinese, Indian, or even Russian accent.
So you don't think the fact that the former group are more likely to have English as their first language is relevant to their fluency then? Just because someone has a thick or unfamiliar accent doesn't automatically make them incomprehensible, but I can see a case for it aggravating underlying difficulties with the language (a maxim which applies as much to Yorkshiremen as Muscovites!)
I appreciate the info about the update, but it's not really worthy of a story posting. I am sure a bunch of games and other software had additions today too.
How can you say that? This isn't just any old update, this is the very first one!
if only their government didn't suck ass, they could be so great. they have immense cultural momentum, a well reasoned and disciplined populace, and a penchant for churning out intelligent people.
You make an excellent point and one I believe many people here would be hard pushed to disagree with. What's your opinion on China?
I like his reference to the Creative Commons and how useful it is in such a situation.
FTFA:
One thing I'll be doing shortly to further protect my show is to acquire a Creative Commons license. This will allow me to secure rights sufficient to fend off podjackers, without scaring people away from making use of my show in a fair and legitimate way. To learn more about this kind of license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/.
Sounds like Mr Podjacked should be the one learning more about Creative Commons, if he thinks that acquiring such a license will help secure his rights and "further protect" his show. Last I heard, CC is about offering additional rights above and beyond the norm, not somehow validating or restricting those rights defined by law.
Since podcasting got really podular, us podestrians have more than enough to worry about podside, what with podvertisments, podspam and press scare stories about podophiles without having to worry about our favourite podcasts being podjacked too.
Nice one. Must reread that sometime... it's a fun book (unlike 1984 which is miserable and harrowing and really unpleasant).
Fun in parts, but not for the characters as I recall. Unless there's a happy-ending version where the Savage and Lenina drive off into the distance under a voice-over from our Ford (i.e. Harrison).
Not to contradict your take, but if I'd been put on record as having participated in an illegal assembly I'd swear blind that it was perfectly legal one too.
Maybe one needs to ask why with 35 fatal shootings in the UK, the state thinks there is enough cause to track 60,000,000 people who are innocent until proven guilty.
Wow, who would have thought having strong women roles would make women more interested in those shows?
I think it's something of a sad commentary on us all that the strength of character displayed by all three female role models cited in the article has to be matched by a physical strength for them to be recognised as such.
Tangentially related to your main point, I'm absolutely convinced that there was a male extra in the background of several scenes in the first series of ST:TNG who wore one of those minidress-style uniforms. Can anyone confirm this for me?
There was a gay CO? I must have missed that one...
Or is that a jab at Picard?
A lazy jab at Picard, I'm sorry to say.
Look, it was either that or the old "How come he's French but speaks with an English accent" one that we've all heard a thousand times before. Or I suppose I could have composed a considered, thoughtful response after reading the f'ing article, but then this is Slashdot!
Katheryn Janeway was human, didn't wear a skirt and was a captain.
She also had an unbelievably irritating voice like a bluebottle buzzing right in your ear and a girl's name "Janeway" in case we started thinking of her as a character in her own right, rather than as a representative of her gender;)
"whereas in Star Trek, all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts."
Or were starship captains for a full 7 season run. At least give them points for trying, OK?
Points for trying? Even in "the future" roughly half the human population are female, but the Equal Opportunities Captaincy Scheme only gave us a woman commanding officer after the presumably less culturally-terrifying gay and black ones:D
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal'. Which is all well and good, but why the fuck can't I hook my PSP up to the TV? It's a God-damn simple concept! I just keep asking myself how long is it going to take for someone to crack this shizzle, you knizzle?"
If you look at the spreadfirefox.org website you will see this statement "This site is not connected to the Mozilla Foundation" So... your point is? The cracking of this website that is in not connected to the Mozilla Foundation proves what????
Just FYI, the hacked site under discussion is www.spreadfirefox.com which is "the official Mozilla site for Spreading Firefox". The.org you quoted looks to be someone's unaffiliated contribution to the spreading effort.
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The library is EXACTLY the place. There are many reasons for looking at "porn" besides getting off. If it was being done in a library, from a book specifically bought in for its value, then the chances are that this "porn" was actually quite historically, culturally or socially important, and that a lot was being learned from it. I for one am very thankful that the library prevailed in this instance.
Who the Hell is modding this funny? The guy has a perfectly good point. For example, how often do we hear the argument that porn is a driving force behind adoption of new technology? The significance of porn in our society is a legitimate area of interest, as works such as Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation have explored.
I haven't read TFA (do people still do that?) and for all I know this story is about some sleaze jacking off in a library, but the parent post makes an excellent point regardless.
Meh, as far as I'm concerned the true Star Wars died when Lucas changed Starkiller's name to "Skywalker". It was all downhill for the franchise after that first bitter betrayal. Who's with me?
Guys?
G-guys?
Kids, this is why it's so important to properly use your <sarcasm> tags and your emoticons!
Well, when you're communicating with Americans, certainly...
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[Neil is crying softly]
Rick: Shut up, Neil, shut up! What's the matter?
Neil: I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry, Bambi. I'm just remembering, like, that bit when you got lost in the snow, and the rabbit found you, it was so beautiful...
Vyvyan: Yeah, I liked the bit where you shoved the drill in the virgin otter's face.
Neil: That wasn't in "Bambi", Vyvyan!
Vyvyan: It was in the sequel, Neil. "Bambi Goes Crazy Ape Bonkers with His Drill and Set".
Neil: [gravely] Is that true, Bambi? Did you do a Disney nasty?
Bambi: So what if I did? I'm not apologizing. My life collapsed after "Bambi". I was a lovable fawn alright, unusable for anything else. I took the Babycham stuff, sure, thanks to Mike here, but I was finished. When the porn "Bambi" came along, well, I thought, this is where I get something back...If it hadn't been for the chance to present University Challenge and start a new life, I'd be giving executive relief to woodland creatures to this very day.
c&p source
It's something of a service. It's not art.
You mean that god-awful, dragged-out ending to Metal Gear Solid 2 was meant to be a service? To whom? I'd put this one down to a translation error, he probably meant to say "sermon".
Try pbwiki. That's the site that Penny Arcade use for their ELotH:TES thing, not one of those fly-by-night wiki-hosts we hear so much about in the press these days :)
It seems a person's accent has a bigger impact. People with american (midwest, southern, whatever), Brittish, Irish, Kiwi or Aussie accent seem to have an easier time communicating with recruiters and interviewers than someone with a Chinese, Indian, or even Russian accent.
So you don't think the fact that the former group are more likely to have English as their first language is relevant to their fluency then? Just because someone has a thick or unfamiliar accent doesn't automatically make them incomprehensible, but I can see a case for it aggravating underlying difficulties with the language (a maxim which applies as much to Yorkshiremen as Muscovites!)
Subject line says it all.
There's no uncontrovertible evidence for the existence of any god at all.
It's weird. I woke up this morning and I swear my boobs felt bigger. Do they look bigger to you?
I appreciate the info about the update, but it's not really worthy of a story posting. I am sure a bunch of games and other software had additions today too.
How can you say that? This isn't just any old update, this is the very first one!
</breathless fanboyisms>
if only their government didn't suck ass, they could be so great. they have immense cultural momentum, a well reasoned and disciplined populace, and a penchant for churning out intelligent people.
You make an excellent point and one I believe many people here would be hard pushed to disagree with. What's your opinion on China?
Parent post:
I like his reference to the Creative Commons and how useful it is in such a situation.
FTFA:
One thing I'll be doing shortly to further protect my show is to acquire a Creative Commons license. This will allow me to secure rights sufficient to fend off podjackers, without scaring people away from making use of my show in a fair and legitimate way. To learn more about this kind of license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/.
Sounds like Mr Podjacked should be the one learning more about Creative Commons, if he thinks that acquiring such a license will help secure his rights and "further protect" his show. Last I heard, CC is about offering additional rights above and beyond the norm, not somehow validating or restricting those rights defined by law.
I can sometimes see artifacts if I pause the movie and look for them but how many times do people watch movies one frame at a time?
;)
Every time they look at the screen?
As a matter of fact a lot of people do!
...Pod help me, I can't stop!
Since podcasting got really podular, us podestrians have more than enough to worry about podside, what with podvertisments, podspam and press scare stories about podophiles without having to worry about our favourite podcasts being podjacked too.
...the entire U.S. Internet.
;)
Geez, I thought all that ICANN DNS business was settled amicably. No need to go rubbing other nation's faces in it
Officially Official!
http://www.mozilla.com/
Nice one. Must reread that sometime... it's a fun book (unlike 1984 which is miserable and harrowing and really unpleasant).
Fun in parts, but not for the characters as I recall. Unless there's a happy-ending version where the Savage and Lenina drive off into the distance under a voice-over from our Ford (i.e. Harrison).
Not to contradict your take, but if I'd been put on record as having participated in an illegal assembly I'd swear blind that it was perfectly legal one too.
Maybe one needs to ask why with 35 fatal shootings in the UK, the state thinks there is enough cause to track 60,000,000 people who are innocent until proven guilty.
:(
Why else? Taxes
Wow, who would have thought having strong women roles would make women more interested in those shows?
I think it's something of a sad commentary on us all that the strength of character displayed by all three female role models cited in the article has to be matched by a physical strength for them to be recognised as such.
Tangentially related to your main point, I'm absolutely convinced that there was a male extra in the background of several scenes in the first series of ST:TNG who wore one of those minidress-style uniforms. Can anyone confirm this for me?
There was a gay CO? I must have missed that one... Or is that a jab at Picard?
A lazy jab at Picard, I'm sorry to say.
Look, it was either that or the old "How come he's French but speaks with an English accent" one that we've all heard a thousand times before. Or I suppose I could have composed a considered, thoughtful response after reading the f'ing article, but then this is Slashdot!
Katheryn Janeway was human, didn't wear a skirt and was a captain.
She also had an unbelievably irritating voice like a bluebottle buzzing right in your ear and a girl's name "Janeway" in case we started thinking of her as a character in her own right, rather than as a representative of her gender"whereas in Star Trek, all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts."
:D
Or were starship captains for a full 7 season run. At least give them points for trying, OK?
Points for trying? Even in "the future" roughly half the human population are female, but the Equal Opportunities Captaincy Scheme only gave us a woman commanding officer after the presumably less culturally-terrifying gay and black ones
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal'. Which is all well and good, but why the fuck can't I hook my PSP up to the TV? It's a God-damn simple concept! I just keep asking myself how long is it going to take for someone to crack this shizzle, you knizzle?"
- Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863
If you look at the spreadfirefox.org website you will see this statement "This site is not connected to the Mozilla Foundation"
.org you quoted looks to be someone's unaffiliated contribution to the spreading effort.
So... your point is? The cracking of this website that is in not connected to the Mozilla Foundation proves what????
Just FYI, the hacked site under discussion is www.spreadfirefox.com which is "the official Mozilla site for Spreading Firefox". The