Those answers are way too serious. People aren't likely to debate if you get too serious. Ask if you can watch them poop, and if they say no, point out that there's obviously a line somewhere. Then you can discuss where that line should be.
It's nearly impossible to change somebody's mind if you're talking about absolutes. Give rid of the absolutes first and then discuss the topic.
Possessing child porn is a harmless, victimless crime. Encouraging people to create live action child porn, whether by paying for it, trading it, thanking people for providing it, etc can be extremely harmful.
If someone gets some cp on the internet, and nobody knows they got it, they aren't hurting anyone.
They probably aren't gone. BayImg is just coded very poorly.
Animated GIFs and very tall images (and probably others) don't get uploaded properly. The images and thumbnails aren't found on the server, but the images are still listed and tagged.
For a while, every image just showed up as something like "This image hasn't been rated. Enable offensive material to view." but it wouldn't remember your settings to enable offensive material, so you couldn't view anything!
The thumbnail pages for tags (http://bayimg.com/tag/foo) often don't show the links to view the other thumbnails of images with that tag. That's probably what's affecting you. BTW, they're not even real links. They use JavaScript to load the thumbnails with Ajax, so e.g. if you try to open the 2nd page of thumbnails for tag "foo", it'll just load the thumbnails for the first page.
I wouldn't be surprised if the music and movie giants are more than willing to fund their movie and music purchases, along with a few cars and electronics and maybe a new room or two. Assuming Swedish politicians are anything like many others.
So censorship is only related to freedom of speech when it's censorship of something you find morally correct, but if it's something you consider immoral, censoring it has nothing to do with freedom of speech? When did freedom of speech become limited to what you consider moral?
Perhaps you'd like to censor pro-choice media, because you think abortion is immoral? Would you consider such censorship unrelated to freedom of speech? Where do you draw the line?
If a 17-year-old gets punished for having sex with a 15-year-old, it's a gross injustice, but when adults look at images of naked 15-year-olds they're loathsome basement rock spiders that need therapy? That is a completely absurd double standard!
Even "real" pedophiles (attracted to pre-pubescent children) aren't harming anyone just by looking at child porn. They are only encouraging the creation of cp if they pay for it or trade. You can tell yourself that they just need some therapy, but you'd be lying, because therapy often does absolutely nothing! Pedophiles have a horrible problem that's a huge burden for them, and child porn is a harmless victimless way to deal with their feelings. Pedophilia should be treated more like cancer or autism, not murder!
Did you know that even simulated cp, including drawings, is currently illegal in the United States despite the Supreme Court already deciding twice that such laws are unconstitutional? Does that not sound like irrational hatred to you?! It's not going to help anyone to call pedos sickos and freaks and say they need harsher punishments and more therapy.
I rout my tracker connection through Tor, because my university seems to by trying to block it. P2P is still done directly (with encryption). Tracker communication only puts a very small strain on Tor.
Still wrong! I can't remember the details, but there was a case where something was videotaped from multiple angles and the cops made some completely absurd claim like the videos were wrong.
A mouth with enough dexterity would be more efficient How would sticking dirty tools in your mouth all the time possibly be a good idea?
If they're advanced enough, they could just modify themselves to communicate with robots. We humans are already getting pretty close to that using chip implants. It would allow beings to control everything without having to touch anything.
In which case, you wouldn't meet anyone stupid or ugly. You're assuming everybody would want to be smart. I would be surprised if there weren't several people who wanted to be dumb, perhaps even seeking treatment to make them dumber. There's already people acting dumb who try to never think very much about anything e.g. Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson.
I would love for millions of Windows XP users to run "Vista only" games under Wine. I would find that immensely enjoyable. It would be epic if open source did Windows better than Windows.
I'm also saddened to see that apart from HIV, there is hardly any research going on to find cures for infectious diseases I've never understand how some people can get upset that researchers are looking into one medical problem instead of another. It seems hypocritical if they're also not doing anything to fix whatever problem they're complaining about. (Not specifically you, just people in general.)
"How dare you work on diabetes when there are children dying of malaria!" says the programmer who is working or neither diabetes nor malaria. "We can give a man an erection, but we can't cure cancer?!" says the office worker who has never in his life put any effort towards curing cancer.
Can I bring my own 4 gallon container and fill it up with shower gel? NO. Why not? Because nobody else wants to do that. It wouldn't be cost effective.
Id like to see a 30cent discount on a shampoo bottle if I bring back the old one. A plastic shampoo bottle is not going to cost anywhere near 30 cents.
Also, release builds of Konqueror have been passing this test for months, so saying it "will be the first browser to fully support the CSS selector test" is also completely wrong.
Weekly builds of a proprietary closed source program is about to catch up to stable releases of a free/libre open source program. Why is this on Slashdot?
Viewing child porn is not the same as taking advantage of small children. I've unintentionally run across cp sometimes while viewing/b/ on 4chan or when downloading mislabeled stuff on freenet, and you know what? It didn't make me rape any children or hurt anyone.
You are claiming that allowing complete freedom of media is equivalent to allowing complete freedom of actions, but that is absolutely absurd. Do you really not realize how ridiculous that is? It may lead to some unpleasant stuff being freely available, but media can't jump out and hurt people.
I am entirely in favor of complete and total freedom of information and media.
In billions of years, intelligence may have increased enough to move to and/or create parallel universes. Or to pull black holes apart and control the position and velocity of all the matter in the universe, and easily convert between mass and energy.
Our understanding of what is and isn't possible is changing way too quickly to say that something isn't possible just because it currently doesn't seem to be possible.
all that means is that once water gets in, it never comes out. From the article linked to by the post you replied to:
Excavators found water halfway up the car's fenders and evidence that water could have been to the top of the vault at some time, said Couch. Interesting story about the lights though. Bad suppliers are the stuff of nightmares.
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Wow, it's really amazing how incredibly wrong you are about capitalism, even after several decades of history that prove the exact opposite.
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Those answers are way too serious. People aren't likely to debate if you get too serious. Ask if you can watch them poop, and if they say no, point out that there's obviously a line somewhere. Then you can discuss where that line should be.
It's nearly impossible to change somebody's mind if you're talking about absolutes. Give rid of the absolutes first and then discuss the topic.
Possessing child porn is a harmless, victimless crime. Encouraging people to create live action child porn, whether by paying for it, trading it, thanking people for providing it, etc can be extremely harmful.
If someone gets some cp on the internet, and nobody knows they got it, they aren't hurting anyone.
They probably aren't gone. BayImg is just coded very poorly.
Animated GIFs and very tall images (and probably others) don't get uploaded properly. The images and thumbnails aren't found on the server, but the images are still listed and tagged.
For a while, every image just showed up as something like "This image hasn't been rated. Enable offensive material to view." but it wouldn't remember your settings to enable offensive material, so you couldn't view anything!
The thumbnail pages for tags (http://bayimg.com/tag/foo) often don't show the links to view the other thumbnails of images with that tag. That's probably what's affecting you. BTW, they're not even real links. They use JavaScript to load the thumbnails with Ajax, so e.g. if you try to open the 2nd page of thumbnails for tag "foo", it'll just load the thumbnails for the first page.
I wouldn't be surprised if the music and movie giants are more than willing to fund their movie and music purchases, along with a few cars and electronics and maybe a new room or two. Assuming Swedish politicians are anything like many others.
So censorship is only related to freedom of speech when it's censorship of something you find morally correct, but if it's something you consider immoral, censoring it has nothing to do with freedom of speech? When did freedom of speech become limited to what you consider moral?
Perhaps you'd like to censor pro-choice media, because you think abortion is immoral? Would you consider such censorship unrelated to freedom of speech? Where do you draw the line?
If a 17-year-old gets punished for having sex with a 15-year-old, it's a gross injustice, but when adults look at images of naked 15-year-olds they're loathsome basement rock spiders that need therapy? That is a completely absurd double standard!
Even "real" pedophiles (attracted to pre-pubescent children) aren't harming anyone just by looking at child porn. They are only encouraging the creation of cp if they pay for it or trade. You can tell yourself that they just need some therapy, but you'd be lying, because therapy often does absolutely nothing! Pedophiles have a horrible problem that's a huge burden for them, and child porn is a harmless victimless way to deal with their feelings. Pedophilia should be treated more like cancer or autism, not murder!
Did you know that even simulated cp, including drawings, is currently illegal in the United States despite the Supreme Court already deciding twice that such laws are unconstitutional? Does that not sound like irrational hatred to you?! It's not going to help anyone to call pedos sickos and freaks and say they need harsher punishments and more therapy.
I rout my tracker connection through Tor, because my university seems to by trying to block it. P2P is still done directly (with encryption). Tracker communication only puts a very small strain on Tor.
We have to give up our freedom to preserve our freedom! Why don't you understand that?! It makes total sense!
I'm gay and I have no clue what you're talking about.
BTW, I hate Macs, and Apple in general.
Still wrong! I can't remember the details, but there was a case where something was videotaped from multiple angles and the cops made some completely absurd claim like the videos were wrong.
If they're advanced enough, they could just modify themselves to communicate with robots. We humans are already getting pretty close to that using chip implants. It would allow beings to control everything without having to touch anything.
Just drag the cart. It's not that hard.
I would love for millions of Windows XP users to run "Vista only" games under Wine. I would find that immensely enjoyable. It would be epic if open source did Windows better than Windows.
"How dare you work on diabetes when there are children dying of malaria!" says the programmer who is working or neither diabetes nor malaria.
"We can give a man an erection, but we can't cure cancer?!" says the office worker who has never in his life put any effort towards curing cancer.
Also, release builds of Konqueror have been passing this test for months, so saying it "will be the first browser to fully support the CSS selector test" is also completely wrong.
Weekly builds of a proprietary closed source program is about to catch up to stable releases of a free/libre open source program. Why is this on Slashdot?
Viewing child porn is not the same as taking advantage of small children. I've unintentionally run across cp sometimes while viewing /b/ on 4chan or when downloading mislabeled stuff on freenet, and you know what? It didn't make me rape any children or hurt anyone.
You are claiming that allowing complete freedom of media is equivalent to allowing complete freedom of actions, but that is absolutely absurd. Do you really not realize how ridiculous that is? It may lead to some unpleasant stuff being freely available, but media can't jump out and hurt people.
I am entirely in favor of complete and total freedom of information and media.
In billions of years, intelligence may have increased enough to move to and/or create parallel universes. Or to pull black holes apart and control the position and velocity of all the matter in the universe, and easily convert between mass and energy.
Our understanding of what is and isn't possible is changing way too quickly to say that something isn't possible just because it currently doesn't seem to be possible.
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) are not compatible with the GPL.
What's wrong is that many don't use it. That means all the GPLv2 only code is completely walled off from all the GPLv3 code.