The relative degree of physical defenselessness is irrelevant in determining the seriousness of the crime, which should essentially be based on its impact. It is irrelevant how physically capable they may have been of defending themselves from the attack, because the attack has taken place and arguing about how that came to pass is not in itself relevant. If abusing a child does more damage than abusing an adult then it should be considered to be a more serious crime, and if not then not.
But I'd say that whether something is bad or not is subjective, and that that also applies to the degree in which it is bad.
I agree, and I don't think we disagree on that at all, really. perhaps read past each other, but...
In fact, if something is a norm today, it might have been the odd/deviation yesterday. This change all the time. But there are some constants , such as - a man and a woman is needed to create a child - if you look past our ability to create "test tube babies" that is...
These are the basics. This isn't whether the pen is blue or red.
You are a fucking monster., Kill yourself. No really, kill yourself. Just fucking do it. You'll be helping a lot of kids by removing your fucked up ideas of what constitutes a loving relationship from the meme-pool..
Seriously. Fucking do it.
It isn't possible to discuss with your kind. I am replying to you, just to pin your anonymous answer out as a perfect example of the uneducated idiot crowd.
Anything you don't understand - will be answered with "fucking kill yourself", based on something that goes on in your mind, perhaps believing that the person you are having (or trying to have) a discussion with, is a perpetrator that have committed a heinous crime of some implied sort, rather than actually discussing in a sober thoughtful matter. This is - unfortunately why we have wars today.
And in a world where we don't respect human life, people are just bags of meat, and shooting some holes in them is no different then shooting at a side of pork.
Emotions matter, contrary to your faux-high-minded crap. Indeed, it's easy to argue that they're the only thing that matters. You can't rape a child and say, "Heh, she enjoyed it at the time! It's just society, man, that like, poisoned her thoughts, man." Children don't understand sex well enough to consent to it, and that "mental destruction" that you hand-wave away is just as devastating as physical scarring.
The flaw with your reasoning is that you are reading (and writing) too many things into what I wrote, I won't go into detail semantics with you as this is - to me - an early "troll" warning, but ignoring my own troll warnings, against my better judgement, I'll honor your reply with an answer:
It is very obvious that children doesn't really understand sexuality the way adults do, this is basic stuff that most people comprehend. I remember my own sexuality as a child, and have my own experiences with that - which will always be - whether you like it or not - to my liking or not, that's just for you to guess, or ask - if you are curious enough.
The "she enjoyed it at the time" stuff that you write, is taken from where? Out of mid air? Out of your own imagination? It must be - because I have not heard that sentence before, but if we're both into the fantasy area - on which you are now trailing, I could simply follow up by saying or rather asking - how do you tell if "she" enjoyed it?
What is a smile? What is a tear? What is crying?
Most people know these basic things. I know what inner silence is, I know what it means to cry on the inside, I have hurt for years from peoples wrong doings to me, not sexually...mind you...but other things, but that is how I am, my personality and how I handle things based on my own experiences.
Many people need learning. I learn all my life. When I get to be 90 (if I ever do), I'll still learn things instead of pointing fingers at others.
Why pretend? How bad it is is subjective to begin with. I personally find adult rape to be as bad as child rape.
You are correct. This is what a lot of people fail to understand. Rape is rape, no matter how you put it. Underage or old, doesn't matter. Everyone who is defenseless is defenseless regardless.
bad is bad, and it's really not that subjective. If you steal, it's bad, if you hurt, it's bad. It's really not rocket science. But if you add religion and moral to it, then technically anything you don't like - would be bad.
The idea that it is OK to "please" a child sexually is a common one with groups like NAMBLA. It is for the most part utter garbage.
There are two problems with this "pleasing" of a child. The first is the unequal power relationship between a child and any adult, but especially those with some relationship with the child.
I don't know what Nambla is, but you did write "power" and there is where I am going to stop you, I probably shouldn't knowing very well that you did not comprehend, or read - anything I wrote before. Any rape victim - whether a child or an adult are a victim and thus rendered powerless.
So you are trying to justify child molestation.
please go wash yourself with gasoline then have a smoke. fucking pedophile.
You really should understand the meaning behind your signature tag: "If you find 'the answer' it's just because you stopped looking". Good luck with that, it should keep you amused for a few years.
No seriously, your mistake is a common fallacy, assuming that the person discussing with you is a perpetrator based on the fact that you may not agree what the person is telling you. In which case, I can't help you with that, sorry - I am not.
Firstly, I'd ask you WHY you'd want him to learn anything in particular, than - everything?
A computer is just ONE part of his life, if you want him to be "computer smart", you know...understand todays technology, just give into his curiosity, it's very dangerous to "force" a kid into anything, it's better to just let them stumble upon anything in their way, and support them there any way you can.
I'm sure it will come naturally. If he's a gamer, let him play with consoles. If he's curious how these things are made, introduce him to a computer with a simple Programming IDE set up for him...like Python and SDL. (Just like we grew up with C64 and basic, you know...)
Yeah yeah...but 4Chan?...drawn Rule 34 stuff? Ok, I'm a nerd...but...people in Slashdot, at least have something interesting to discuss, like world peace, new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
But Drawn pron? Rule 34 Pron? And 4Chan? You know, if I wasn't so intoxicated by a 6-pack of light beer right now, I'd say that this conversation where taking place in a secret place in bizarro world in my head right now;)
This isn't about accepting a new "norm". A norm stands for "normal". Homosexuality still isn't in any way seen as normal, hence it would not be homo - it would be hetero. You cannot conceive a child on homosexuality, it needs a man and a woman to do so. You can adopt, sure, you can even get your egg fertilized (test tube baby) and so on, but it will not really become the "norm" as you say.
Child pornography comes under the "A-sexual" category, and will never become the norm. The norm is why you and I are born.
Anything in this society that has the label "normal" on it, is anything we have voted to become normal, meaning - this is what everyone does, hence it's "normal". Not rocket science, really!
You may not like the answer, but it's very straightforward and logical, some may even call it cynical:
Child porn, as defined, a naked child depicted on a photo, drawing, animation or film in a sexually provoking pose or situation is illegal in most of the world because of religious beliefs, nothing else. And if you imagine that 95% of the population is religious, then you can forget about this becoming legal at any point soon.
You may even think that the picture of a naked child is totally disgusting, immoral, horrible, or the fact that someone out there are "having a good time" imagining or watching an image depicting your or anyone's child, even a fantasy child that doesn't exist, simply because you find it so disgusting. Some think it's the most natural thing in the world, but not for others to see etc.
Fact is: It's a human body, yes, it's young, and vulnerable. And here is where the two world splits and unfortunately combine because of religion and moral to a sort of smorgasbord of "take whatever you feel is right, and so it shall be and make it law", even though it doesn't make any logical sense whatsoever.
Fact is: If you sexually abuse anyone, be it a child, animal or fully grown human - it's abuse. It isn't more or less terrible if it is a defenseless child. You are defenseless if you where raped anyway, why is another human more or less worth than you?
Fact is: If you "please" a child, and the child was not hurt, but enjoyed it - then you have not per see hurt the child. However - the child is in a learning stage of life, and because we see this as immoral and it's against our religious beliefs or otherwise, the child will come to know this when the child grows up, and therefor the risk is there that the child will at a later stage in life - feel abused and dirty, and thus have it's life "mentally" destroyed and disturbed.
So you see, even though this may have felt right for the both of you - at the time - time and moral and religion both can and will make this a crime and destroy lives. So for that reason alone, this is dangerous.
However, in a perfect flawless world where people have the capacity to think for themselves, where love is favored in front of war and hatred, where being nude is as natural as eating food, where masturbation whether mutual or mono is as natural as a kiss or a greeting, then no harm will come of this - it is ALL mental.
Depicting such fantasies, dreams, wishes (to some) or horrors, infidelity, abuse (to some) on pictures, spreading them around the world, is of course dangerous because of this.
In reality, unfortunately - there are a lot of people making child porn for profit, actually abusing kids for real, and we're talking taking kids from poor families, taking pictures of them against their own will, abusing them, and depicting this with REAL kids with REAL suffering, now THAT IS HORRIBLE, and it happens much more than you may want to think.
Why? Because of money!
If this "nude" hysteria wasn't so blown out of proportions that half the planets a-sexual people have to go undercover just to keep their jobs (and no, not with kids) but just to survive in a hostile territory, there would not be such a demand for it, and a picture like that would be worth no money at all, because it was easily available.
So you see, it's very simple. How can something that feels good, and is good be so bad? Read the above, and put it into perspective, then you can easily see how it could be so bad, and how it could be good. Not that complicated really...
...but it's chasing the answer that IS the answer to that question.
I have been asking myself, why am I here every time I get bored, and when these thoughts arise:
- Has everything interesting been invented already? - Why should I do this, it's been done already... - There's too much to learn to invent something revolutionary... - Is this it? I'm getting older, seeing kids make the same mistakes I did, making the mistake of trying to tell them that... - Been there, done that. Yes....I'm old.
But so many has been old before me, so many lives has been lived. What if we accumulated ALL of that knowledge, put it into ONE mind, would we have the answer? 42.... no, I do like his books though, but joking aside, have YOU lived today?
And more importantly, how do YOU chose to live the rest of YOUR life? What do you intend to do?
Why not start with this day, what if this day was your last, what would you do today?
...your average Brit, sitting there sipping his coffee or tea, listening to BBC morning news...
"And we interrupt this program to bring you the following news: A huge lump of sugar is headed towards planet earth, yes...that is where you and I live".
The unassuming average Brit, just sitting there, sipping on his morning coffee when he yet again is interrupted by a voice saying: "More sugar dear?"...you all know where I am going with this.
Sorry kid, your DNA is already patented, your life is a patent infringement.
What is the 1st amendment? What is freedom and how do we define it? I realize you can't just go out there and make a CLEAN direct copy of a product, that would just be stealing, I would even agree to that, but the patent madness has gone too far when it allows to patent basic formulas, words and names, basic functionality and things that are considered - basic.
Thanks to this patent madness, people in 3rd world countries never receive cheap medicines to ail their illnesses, will never be able to make their own equipment to make it on their own, because someone owns a patent somewhere - on a single BASIC part that makes that machine possible.
To me this is MASS suppression of freedom, how long will we stand before this has gone far enough? There was a time when we laughed at the very idea of selling bottled water, now we laugh at the idea of selling bottled air... things change - slowly - in the direction we decide, but it could happen so slowly that you hardly notice that something somewhere changed.
You just said...Meh... who cares about one little patent...and then another one...and then another one, eventually everything will be corporate, corporate owned by a very few privileged families, and WE made it happen - don't blame them later on!
...to: Would you open your house to a homeless person?
I wouldn't even share a hotel room with a total stranger, let alone my entire house. I've given food and money to homeless persons, but there is where my "openness" ends. Letting someone you don't know into your life, 24-hours-a-day, is a HUGE risk, no matter how well educated they are, people are still people...and knowing people as I do, I know most people have at least ONE dark secret, and you may not want that secret to be a part of your life, I know I wouldn't.
People do the weirdest stuff in their privacy, believe me - you don't really want to know, we're talking spitting on the floor, peeing fetiches, shooting boogers here and there, messing around with your stuff, stealing little by little, lying about not having broken stuff, and that's just the Safe-For-Work stuff.
Watch the program "The worlds worst tenants" for some happy inspiration, also - watch caught on the job, and you'll see what people are. These are also the people we consider good, the only tolerable people to have in my home (for me) would be close friends, and family - and yes...they too have these weird habits, admit it...you have at least one too.
Think about that before you open your door, sweet dreams;)
Very cheap, I moved here myself, got an amazing house for 57000$, which is considered INSANELY cheap by my friends in Denmark, Norway, Canada, Usa and Australia. I got a BRICK house, yes a BRICK house for that price, I live in the most amazing nature you can imagine, and we have the train station 10 minutes away from where I live, and that takes me to anywhere in the world...I just traveled to USA about 3 weeks ago, easy peasy. Wonderful country USA, I love you guys, so friendly people, such a nice country.
But if you want a cheap retreat, not too bad weather, come to South of Sweden, you'll have any luxury you want, super shopping malls, 1-2 hours by train to any BIG city, 1-2 hours to any BIG airport to anywhere in the world...and less than 100.000$ for your house here...and clean drinking water right out of the tap...I can guarantee you...you WILL be in heaven. Super fast Internet pretty much anywhere.
Even if 80% of the teachers lack knowledge, with this gear, at least the kids stand a chance of growing up with technology, and can get online somehow, and get access to vast amounts of information, the young minds so heartily crave.
Sure, a bunch of them will be sold off by poor families, and a lot will not know what to do with them, but it's a start. This is VERY forward thinking from the Thai gov. and very promising, never mind the votes, this will be great for their people. This will give the kids a taste of technology, and who knows? Maybe that's exactly what's needed to get just ONE kid off to become that great engineer in the future, if so - it's already a success.
There are TWO problems with today's 3D technology on TV sets.
1) The biggest problem - lack of 3D films, especially within a reasonable price range. And lack of 3D compatible games.
2) The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D. In other words, just yesteryear's "oh that was fun" fad...
The most interesting 3D set I've ever seen, was produced by some German company I can't remember, it was a Plasma screen that didn't need glasses, was OpenGL compatible, and you could move from SIDE to SIDE and look around! Awesome TV...wanted it, but it cost over 100.000 DKK (danish currency, at the 3D festival where it was shown) back then...pity...it would have rocked our world.
But Ballmer obviously hopes for that. Best case scenario is that Cook won't cook up anything, and probably just repeat what has been done before, with higher resolutions, more ram, faster CPU & Com. Nothing new under the sky.
Someone completely different will come up with something new, but it wont be the "big two"...
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The relative degree of physical defenselessness is irrelevant in determining the seriousness of the crime, which should essentially be based on its impact. It is irrelevant how physically capable they may have been of defending themselves from the attack, because the attack has taken place and arguing about how that came to pass is not in itself relevant. If abusing a child does more damage than abusing an adult then it should be considered to be a more serious crime, and if not then not.
I agree. Especially on the last part.
But I'd say that whether something is bad or not is subjective, and that that also applies to the degree in which it is bad.
I agree, and I don't think we disagree on that at all, really. perhaps read past each other, but ...
In fact, if something is a norm today, it might have been the odd/deviation yesterday. This change all the time. But there are some constants , such as - a man and a woman is needed to create a child - if you look past our ability to create "test tube babies" that is...
These are the basics. This isn't whether the pen is blue or red.
You are a fucking monster., Kill yourself. No really, kill yourself. Just fucking do it. You'll be helping a lot of kids by removing your fucked up ideas of what constitutes a loving relationship from the meme-pool..
Seriously. Fucking do it.
It isn't possible to discuss with your kind. I am replying to you, just to pin your anonymous answer out as a perfect example of the uneducated idiot crowd.
Anything you don't understand - will be answered with "fucking kill yourself", based on something that goes on in your mind, perhaps believing that the person you are having (or trying to have) a discussion with, is a perpetrator that have committed a heinous crime of some implied sort, rather than actually discussing in a sober thoughtful matter. This is - unfortunately why we have wars today.
And in a world where we don't respect human life, people are just bags of meat, and shooting some holes in them is no different then shooting at a side of pork.
Emotions matter, contrary to your faux-high-minded crap. Indeed, it's easy to argue that they're the only thing that matters. You can't rape a child and say, "Heh, she enjoyed it at the time! It's just society, man, that like, poisoned her thoughts, man." Children don't understand sex well enough to consent to it, and that "mental destruction" that you hand-wave away is just as devastating as physical scarring.
The flaw with your reasoning is that you are reading (and writing) too many things into what I wrote, I won't go into detail semantics with you as this is - to me - an early "troll" warning, but ignoring my own troll warnings, against my better judgement, I'll honor your reply with an answer:
It is very obvious that children doesn't really understand sexuality the way adults do, this is basic stuff that most people comprehend. I remember my own sexuality as a child, and have my own experiences with that - which will always be - whether you like it or not - to my liking or not, that's just for you to guess, or ask - if you are curious enough.
The "she enjoyed it at the time" stuff that you write, is taken from where? Out of mid air? Out of your own imagination? It must be - because I have not heard that sentence before, but if we're both into the fantasy area - on which you are now trailing, I could simply follow up by saying or rather asking - how do you tell if "she" enjoyed it?
What is a smile?
What is a tear?
What is crying?
Most people know these basic things.
I know what inner silence is, I know what it means to cry on the inside, I have hurt for years from peoples wrong doings to me, not sexually...mind you...but other things, but that is how I am, my personality and how I handle things based on my own experiences.
Many people need learning. I learn all my life. When I get to be 90 (if I ever do), I'll still learn things instead of pointing fingers at others.
Why pretend? How bad it is is subjective to begin with. I personally find adult rape to be as bad as child rape.
You are correct. This is what a lot of people fail to understand. Rape is rape, no matter how you put it. Underage or old, doesn't matter. Everyone who is defenseless is defenseless regardless.
bad is bad, and it's really not that subjective. If you steal, it's bad, if you hurt, it's bad. It's really not rocket science. But if you add religion and moral to it, then technically anything you don't like - would be bad.
The idea that it is OK to "please" a child sexually is a common one with groups like NAMBLA. It is for the most part utter garbage.
There are two problems with this "pleasing" of a child. The first is the unequal power relationship between a child and any adult, but especially those with some relationship with the child.
I don't know what Nambla is, but you did write "power" and there is where I am going to stop you, I probably shouldn't knowing very well that you did not comprehend, or read - anything I wrote before. Any rape victim - whether a child or an adult are a victim and thus rendered powerless.
So you are trying to justify child molestation.
please go wash yourself with gasoline then have a smoke. fucking pedophile.
You really should understand the meaning behind your signature tag: "If you find 'the answer' it's just because you stopped looking".
Good luck with that, it should keep you amused for a few years.
No seriously, your mistake is a common fallacy, assuming that the person discussing with you is a perpetrator based on the fact that you may not agree what the person is telling you. In which case, I can't help you with that, sorry - I am not.
Here's a mind cookie for you.
What if that child was me. Would that make me a bad person?
Firstly, I'd ask you WHY you'd want him to learn anything in particular, than - everything?
A computer is just ONE part of his life, if you want him to be "computer smart", you know...understand todays technology, just give into his curiosity, it's very dangerous to "force" a kid into anything, it's better to just let them stumble upon anything in their way, and support them there any way you can.
I'm sure it will come naturally. If he's a gamer, let him play with consoles.
If he's curious how these things are made, introduce him to a computer with a simple Programming IDE set up for him...like Python and SDL. (Just like we grew up with C64 and basic, you know...)
etc..
Yeah yeah...but 4Chan? ...drawn Rule 34 stuff?
Ok, I'm a nerd...but...people in Slashdot, at least have something interesting to discuss, like world peace, new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
But Drawn pron? Rule 34 Pron? And 4Chan? You know, if I wasn't so intoxicated by a 6-pack of light beer right now, I'd say that this conversation where taking place in a secret place in bizarro world in my head right now ;)
You got to love it when 4Chan makes a headline here on Slashdot...
I never saw that coming, seriously...I didn't.
This isn't about accepting a new "norm". A norm stands for "normal". Homosexuality still isn't in any way seen as normal, hence it would not be homo - it would be hetero. You cannot conceive a child on homosexuality, it needs a man and a woman to do so. You can adopt, sure, you can even get your egg fertilized (test tube baby) and so on, but it will not really become the "norm" as you say.
Child pornography comes under the "A-sexual" category, and will never become the norm. The norm is why you and I are born.
Anything in this society that has the label "normal" on it, is anything we have voted to become normal, meaning - this is what everyone does, hence it's "normal".
Not rocket science, really!
You may not like the answer, but it's very straightforward and logical, some may even call it cynical:
Child porn, as defined, a naked child depicted on a photo, drawing, animation or film in a sexually provoking pose or situation is illegal in most of the world because of religious beliefs, nothing else. And if you imagine that 95% of the population is religious, then you can forget about this becoming legal at any point soon.
You may even think that the picture of a naked child is totally disgusting, immoral, horrible, or the fact that someone out there are "having a good time" imagining or watching an image depicting your or anyone's child, even a fantasy child that doesn't exist, simply because you find it so disgusting. Some think it's the most natural thing in the world, but not for others to see etc.
Fact is: It's a human body, yes, it's young, and vulnerable. And here is where the two world splits and unfortunately combine because of religion and moral to a sort of smorgasbord of "take whatever you feel is right, and so it shall be and make it law", even though it doesn't make any logical sense whatsoever.
Fact is: If you sexually abuse anyone, be it a child, animal or fully grown human - it's abuse. It isn't more or less terrible if it is a defenseless child. You are defenseless if you where raped anyway, why is another human more or less worth than you?
Fact is: If you "please" a child, and the child was not hurt, but enjoyed it - then you have not per see hurt the child. However - the child is in a learning stage of life, and because we see this as immoral and it's against our religious beliefs or otherwise, the child will come to know this when the child grows up, and therefor the risk is there that the child will at a later stage in life - feel abused and dirty, and thus have it's life "mentally" destroyed and disturbed.
So you see, even though this may have felt right for the both of you - at the time - time and moral and religion both can and will make this a crime and destroy lives. So for that reason alone, this is dangerous.
However, in a perfect flawless world where people have the capacity to think for themselves, where love is favored in front of war and hatred, where being nude is as natural as eating food, where masturbation whether mutual or mono is as natural as a kiss or a greeting, then no harm will come of this - it is ALL mental.
Depicting such fantasies, dreams, wishes (to some) or horrors, infidelity, abuse (to some) on pictures, spreading them around the world, is of course dangerous because of this.
In reality, unfortunately - there are a lot of people making child porn for profit, actually abusing kids for real, and we're talking taking kids from poor families, taking pictures of them against their own will, abusing them, and depicting this with REAL kids with REAL suffering, now THAT IS HORRIBLE, and it happens much more than you may want to think.
Why? Because of money!
If this "nude" hysteria wasn't so blown out of proportions that half the planets a-sexual people have to go undercover just to keep their jobs (and no, not with kids) but just to survive in a hostile territory, there would not be such a demand for it, and a picture like that would be worth no money at all, because it was easily available.
So you see, it's very simple. How can something that feels good, and is good be so bad? Read the above, and put it into perspective, then you can easily see how it could be so bad, and how it could be good. Not that complicated really...
...but it's chasing the answer that IS the answer to that question.
I have been asking myself, why am I here every time I get bored, and when these thoughts arise:
- Has everything interesting been invented already?
- Why should I do this, it's been done already...
- There's too much to learn to invent something revolutionary...
- Is this it? I'm getting older, seeing kids make the same mistakes I did, making the mistake of trying to tell them that...
- Been there, done that. Yes....I'm old.
But so many has been old before me, so many lives has been lived. What if we accumulated ALL of that knowledge, put it into ONE mind, would we have the answer? 42.... no, I do like his books though, but joking aside, have YOU lived today?
And more importantly, how do YOU chose to live the rest of YOUR life? What do you intend to do?
Why not start with this day, what if this day was your last, what would you do today?
As if we didn't have enough golf-club-gold-member yacht owning dentists in this world.
Imagine vampires turning people into more vampires, now...dentists will give birth to even more dentists...
...your average Brit, sitting there sipping his coffee or tea, listening to BBC morning news...
"And we interrupt this program to bring you the following news: A huge lump of sugar is headed towards planet earth, yes...that is where you and I live".
The unassuming average Brit, just sitting there, sipping on his morning coffee when he yet again is interrupted by a voice saying: "More sugar dear?" ...you all know where I am going with this.
Sorry kid, your DNA is already patented, your life is a patent infringement.
What is the 1st amendment? What is freedom and how do we define it?
I realize you can't just go out there and make a CLEAN direct copy of a product, that would just be stealing, I would even agree to that, but the patent madness has gone too far when it allows to patent basic formulas, words and names, basic functionality and things that are considered - basic.
Thanks to this patent madness, people in 3rd world countries never receive cheap medicines to ail their illnesses, will never be able to make their own equipment to make it on their own, because someone owns a patent somewhere - on a single BASIC part that makes that machine possible.
To me this is MASS suppression of freedom, how long will we stand before this has gone far enough? There was a time when we laughed at the very idea of selling bottled water, now we laugh at the idea of selling bottled air... things change - slowly - in the direction we decide, but it could happen so slowly that you hardly notice that something somewhere changed.
You just said...Meh... who cares about one little patent...and then another one...and then another one, eventually everything will be corporate, corporate owned by a very few privileged families, and WE made it happen - don't blame them later on!
...to: Would you open your house to a homeless person?
I wouldn't even share a hotel room with a total stranger, let alone my entire house. I've given food and money to homeless persons, but there is where my "openness" ends. Letting someone you don't know into your life, 24-hours-a-day, is a HUGE risk, no matter how well educated they are, people are still people...and knowing people as I do, I know most people have at least ONE dark secret, and you may not want that secret to be a part of your life, I know I wouldn't.
People do the weirdest stuff in their privacy, believe me - you don't really want to know, we're talking spitting on the floor, peeing fetiches, shooting boogers here and there, messing around with your stuff, stealing little by little, lying about not having broken stuff, and that's just the Safe-For-Work stuff.
Watch the program "The worlds worst tenants" for some happy inspiration, also - watch caught on the job, and you'll see what people are. These are also the people we consider good, the only tolerable people to have in my home (for me) would be close friends, and family - and yes...they too have these weird habits, admit it...you have at least one too.
Think about that before you open your door, sweet dreams ;)
Very cheap, I moved here myself, got an amazing house for 57000$, which is considered INSANELY cheap by my friends in Denmark, Norway, Canada, Usa and Australia. I got a BRICK house, yes a BRICK house for that price, I live in the most amazing nature you can imagine, and we have the train station 10 minutes away from where I live, and that takes me to anywhere in the world...I just traveled to USA about 3 weeks ago, easy peasy. Wonderful country USA, I love you guys, so friendly people, such a nice country.
But if you want a cheap retreat, not too bad weather, come to South of Sweden, you'll have any luxury you want, super shopping malls, 1-2 hours by train to any BIG city, 1-2 hours to any BIG airport to anywhere in the world...and less than 100.000$ for your house here...and clean drinking water right out of the tap...I can guarantee you...you WILL be in heaven. Super fast Internet pretty much anywhere.
If I had a banhammer, I'd ban you into hell and beyond.
...cost 10 times the printer itself.
for humanity.
Even if 80% of the teachers lack knowledge, with this gear, at least the kids stand a chance of growing up with technology, and can get online somehow, and get access to vast amounts of information, the young minds so heartily crave.
Sure, a bunch of them will be sold off by poor families, and a lot will not know what to do with them, but it's a start. This is VERY forward thinking from the Thai gov. and very promising, never mind the votes, this will be great for their people. This will give the kids a taste of technology, and who knows? Maybe that's exactly what's needed to get just ONE kid off to become that great engineer in the future, if so - it's already a success.
So you'd try to hold your head 100% perfectly still during the entire game? ;) ...dude, you're SO not a gamer.
There are TWO problems with today's 3D technology on TV sets.
1) The biggest problem - lack of 3D films, especially within a reasonable price range. And lack of 3D compatible games.
2) The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D. In other words, just yesteryear's "oh that was fun" fad...
The most interesting 3D set I've ever seen, was produced by some German company I can't remember, it was a Plasma screen that didn't need glasses, was OpenGL compatible, and you could move from SIDE to SIDE and look around! Awesome TV...wanted it, but it cost over 100.000 DKK (danish currency, at the 3D festival where it was shown) back then...pity...it would have rocked our world.
...won't breathe life into Microsoft.
But Ballmer obviously hopes for that. Best case scenario is that Cook won't cook up anything, and probably just repeat what has been done before, with higher resolutions, more ram, faster CPU & Com. Nothing new under the sky.
Someone completely different will come up with something new, but it wont be the "big two"...