They don't contain mercury and therefor will not make you ill if a buld breaks. I recently saw a TV report on this. A whole family sick because one CFL bulb dropped in the basement, the child losing its hair, having memory issues and high risk of getting cancer.
Not wanting to be alarmist here, but it might be worth the extra bucks for the LED.
I'd say the Facebook Like-Button qualifies as "confines of its own web site" as you will send a request to it. This is not spooky at all and everyone should know by now that Facebook's attitude about privacy is evil, whether he's Internet literate or not..
Too less news for news imho:(
The authorities do not take it lightly if you "forgot" your ID either, depending on the situation.
Wrong, there is no actual problem with forgetting your ID, as there is no obligation to carry one with you - exception is the driving license when operating a vehicle.
Actually the police may demand you to fetch your ID at home or whereever it may be, and they might demand to bring you there themselves when they think you might flee. But I think that only happens when you're in suspicion for something.
What TFA forgets to mention is, that the ID card remains valid when you kill the RFID chip, as it still allows a person to be identified. Also, the fingerprint is a voluntary information to be stored. Most people won't know or bother and just let them store it anyway, though.
For my fellow citizens: get yourself a new ID card w/o RFID just now (it is only a few Euros more expensive when you "loose" your current ID). If you have to get, for some reasons, an ID card with RFID on it, just put it in the microwave oven for a minute or so. Chaos Computer Club has proven this to kill the chip reliably.
They simply don't miss something they never had. The vast majority of chinese people living in poverty simply won't get to know anything else but the status quo. The Chinese who have the money and influence to change something are satisfied enough with what they have, and don't want risk a live in jail or exil I guess..
No wonder the majority voted to reject it. Shareholders have invested their own money and are therefore rather interested in gaining money than following moral laws.
And China sure is a big market for an IT-company with cheap professionals and lots of potential users. I guess a shareholder wouldn't like to neglect such an opportunity.
> Right, but stupid laws don't override my common sense circuits.
That's no reason for inventing facts. You claimed they're accused of abusing children virtually. And they aren't. Merely the fact that someone was able to watch the scenery is the cause for this upcoming lawsuit.
> Again that's like saying that there's no reason to write a book about a fictional serial murderer, unless you're one yourself.
I don't think so. Someone who's pedophile doesn't necessarily rape children. Someone who has violent phantasies doesn't necessarily kill people.
But I'd say that there's no reason to write a book about a serial murder case except you like or are thrilled by phantasies of violence.
> In your case, even if someone drawing child porn is a pedophile. What then. He should go to jail for being a pedophile? What if he never harmed a kid, and never intends to, and may even have a normal family and three kids he never abused.
I didn't say that. I just think that someone who draws kiddie porn pictures with erotic intends might be considered pedophile. I'm quite sure that someone who has an intension other than pornographic is covered by the freedom of art (german: künstlerische Freiheit).
> You're in charge: do you put this guy in jail for thoughtcrime. Do you fire him from his job, for a thoughtcrime?
> The "child" was a 27 year old woman that clicked "OK" to participate in 3D figure animation in a virtual world. Where's the abused child? What if the "apparent child" was just an adult that looked like a child.. Oh wait, it WAS!
Well I'm gonna tell you once more so that you finally might get it. They are NOT sued for child abuse. They are actually sued for showing sexual practices involving a child. Got it?
> Which are depictions of "virtual" child porn are a sudden exception to all this? Do you even realize why?
Fyi, in another post around here I wrote that I share the disappointment. I just wanted to make clear what they are getting sued for, what's a crime here and what not. I think that it's sick yes, but I'd never put s.o. into jail for drawing a naked child or controlling an childavatar having sex. Though I think that it was Linden Lab's bad to not prohibit it. Those incident draws a very bad light onto Second Life.
> Are you afraid that if you support someone's freedom to *draw* child porn, someone could consider you're a pedophile?
There is no such freedom in germany, cause as said this is prohibited. And I don't see any reason for anyone drawing child porn (= actual sex involving one or more children, so this excepts bare pictures of naked children without any erotic background) other than being a pedophile.
Excuse me for being that harsh, but how the fuck would that in any way compare?
I mean, pedophiles who actually abuse children are exploiting defenseless victims who mostly don't even understand what's going on. Homosexuals both agree in their actions.
Well, I'd definately call pedophiles mentally disordered, yes. But compare that with homosexuality by any time? No.
you seem to forget that pedophiles are mentally disordered people. They get affected by what they see in different ways than you and me. You might compare that to an alcoholic seeing someone drinking at a bar vs. a non-alcoholic watching it.
Additionally, they are not sued for abusing children. They shared material showing child abusing. This also includes animated child abuse. US law isn't quite different at this point, or why would you think that nude games are rated only for adults? No real sex here too.
Hello.
I can see your (you = you people living in other parts of the world) point, and why you are disappointed with that. I share most of your opinions about this being ridiculous. But I can tell that most users of one of the largest german news sites (heise.de) shared your opinion in their forums. And I think it's rather sad to instantly see something like "no wonder it starts in germany"-statements. We're past the nazi-era.
I'd like to note that those players aren't actually sued for kiddie-abusing. They are sued for sharing rl-kiddieporn pictures. Additionally, german law says that any pornographic material, may it be written, as pictures or sounds are prohibited including material closely resembling actual childabusing which translates into these avatar-sex involving one clearly looking like a minor being illegal, same is for hentai showing kiddie porn etc.
This news show is also famous for being sensationally bad in research and populist. They claimed the female player who controlled the child avatar was actually 13 years old.
Wonder if they are going to prohibit sexual practices where the woman dresses as schoolgirl next...
Jesus Christ SHUT UP! Every single science/astronomy news bit has to have this "This X discovery will help us understand more about Y." I know I'm not the only starting to get sick of this.
Yeah...
And I've seen enough of those flame-to-have-flamed-posts. Not everything's worth to complain about. What else should be the point for investing such a fscking big amount of money than solving or getting information about a problem that is directly related to us? People do science and research always because of that.
Think about it.
I mean..
If you have the latest generations of high-end electronic gadgets, you have like 2 devices with a camera, 3 with the ability to play videos and mp3s, and all of them except one, that is specialized for it, can do most things not very good, tends to be the same with the things they were build for.
E.g. a cellphone that has a too large display for convenient phoning, or a mp3player that fills my pocket and has a low battery lifetime.
And they're expensive as hell, too:( What we need is either cheap pocket pcs, or the good ole' times, when a cellphone was there for phoning, and a music player for listening music, instead of a 2megapixel camera and a colourful display for a barely good use.
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They don't contain mercury and therefor will not make you ill if a buld breaks. I recently saw a TV report on this. A whole family sick because one CFL bulb dropped in the basement, the child losing its hair, having memory issues and high risk of getting cancer.
Not wanting to be alarmist here, but it might be worth the extra bucks for the LED.
I'd say the Facebook Like-Button qualifies as "confines of its own web site" as you will send a request to it. This is not spooky at all and everyone should know by now that Facebook's attitude about privacy is evil, whether he's Internet literate or not.. Too less news for news imho :(
The authorities do not take it lightly if you "forgot" your ID either, depending on the situation.
Wrong, there is no actual problem with forgetting your ID, as there is no obligation to carry one with you - exception is the driving license when operating a vehicle. Actually the police may demand you to fetch your ID at home or whereever it may be, and they might demand to bring you there themselves when they think you might flee. But I think that only happens when you're in suspicion for something.
What TFA forgets to mention is, that the ID card remains valid when you kill the RFID chip, as it still allows a person to be identified. Also, the fingerprint is a voluntary information to be stored. Most people won't know or bother and just let them store it anyway, though. For my fellow citizens: get yourself a new ID card w/o RFID just now (it is only a few Euros more expensive when you "loose" your current ID). If you have to get, for some reasons, an ID card with RFID on it, just put it in the microwave oven for a minute or so. Chaos Computer Club has proven this to kill the chip reliably.
They simply don't miss something they never had. The vast majority of chinese people living in poverty simply won't get to know anything else but the status quo. The Chinese who have the money and influence to change something are satisfied enough with what they have, and don't want risk a live in jail or exil I guess..
No wonder the majority voted to reject it. Shareholders have invested their own money and are therefore rather interested in gaining money than following moral laws.
And China sure is a big market for an IT-company with cheap professionals and lots of potential users. I guess a shareholder wouldn't like to neglect such an opportunity.
Shit isn't of any higher value by calling it gold.
> Right, but stupid laws don't override my common sense circuits.
That's no reason for inventing facts. You claimed they're accused of abusing children virtually. And they aren't. Merely the fact that someone was able to watch the scenery is the cause for this upcoming lawsuit.
> Again that's like saying that there's no reason to write a book about a fictional serial murderer, unless you're one yourself.
I don't think so. Someone who's pedophile doesn't necessarily rape children. Someone who has violent phantasies doesn't necessarily kill people.
But I'd say that there's no reason to write a book about a serial murder case except you like or are thrilled by phantasies of violence.
> In your case, even if someone drawing child porn is a pedophile. What then. He should go to jail for being a pedophile? What if he never harmed a kid, and never intends to, and may even have a normal family and three kids he never abused.
I didn't say that. I just think that someone who draws kiddie porn pictures with erotic intends might be considered pedophile. I'm quite sure that someone who has an intension other than pornographic is covered by the freedom of art (german: künstlerische Freiheit).
> You're in charge: do you put this guy in jail for thoughtcrime. Do you fire him from his job, for a thoughtcrime?
No.
> The "child" was a 27 year old woman that clicked "OK" to participate in 3D figure animation in a virtual world. Where's the abused child? What if the "apparent child" was just an adult that looked like a child.. Oh wait, it WAS!
Well I'm gonna tell you once more so that you finally might get it. They are NOT sued for child abuse. They are actually sued for showing sexual practices involving a child. Got it?
> Which are depictions of "virtual" child porn are a sudden exception to all this? Do you even realize why?
Fyi, in another post around here I wrote that I share the disappointment. I just wanted to make clear what they are getting sued for, what's a crime here and what not. I think that it's sick yes, but I'd never put s.o. into jail for drawing a naked child or controlling an childavatar having sex. Though I think that it was Linden Lab's bad to not prohibit it. Those incident draws a very bad light onto Second Life.
> Are you afraid that if you support someone's freedom to *draw* child porn, someone could consider you're a pedophile?
There is no such freedom in germany, cause as said this is prohibited. And I don't see any reason for anyone drawing child porn (= actual sex involving one or more children, so this excepts bare pictures of naked children without any erotic background) other than being a pedophile.
Excuse me for being that harsh, but how the fuck would that in any way compare?
I mean, pedophiles who actually abuse children are exploiting defenseless victims who mostly don't even understand what's going on. Homosexuals both agree in their actions.
Well, I'd definately call pedophiles mentally disordered, yes. But compare that with homosexuality by any time? No.
Hello,
you seem to forget that pedophiles are mentally disordered people. They get affected by what they see in different ways than you and me. You might compare that to an alcoholic seeing someone drinking at a bar vs. a non-alcoholic watching it.
Additionally, they are not sued for abusing children. They shared material showing child abusing. This also includes animated child abuse. US law isn't quite different at this point, or why would you think that nude games are rated only for adults? No real sex here too.
Hello. I can see your (you = you people living in other parts of the world) point, and why you are disappointed with that. I share most of your opinions about this being ridiculous. But I can tell that most users of one of the largest german news sites (heise.de) shared your opinion in their forums. And I think it's rather sad to instantly see something like "no wonder it starts in germany"-statements. We're past the nazi-era. I'd like to note that those players aren't actually sued for kiddie-abusing. They are sued for sharing rl-kiddieporn pictures. Additionally, german law says that any pornographic material, may it be written, as pictures or sounds are prohibited including material closely resembling actual childabusing which translates into these avatar-sex involving one clearly looking like a minor being illegal, same is for hentai showing kiddie porn etc. This news show is also famous for being sensationally bad in research and populist. They claimed the female player who controlled the child avatar was actually 13 years old. Wonder if they are going to prohibit sexual practices where the woman dresses as schoolgirl next...
Jesus Christ SHUT UP! Every single science/astronomy news bit has to have this "This X discovery will help us understand more about Y." I know I'm not the only starting to get sick of this. Yeah... And I've seen enough of those flame-to-have-flamed-posts. Not everything's worth to complain about. What else should be the point for investing such a fscking big amount of money than solving or getting information about a problem that is directly related to us? People do science and research always because of that. Think about it.
I mean.. If you have the latest generations of high-end electronic gadgets, you have like 2 devices with a camera, 3 with the ability to play videos and mp3s, and all of them except one, that is specialized for it, can do most things not very good, tends to be the same with the things they were build for. E.g. a cellphone that has a too large display for convenient phoning, or a mp3player that fills my pocket and has a low battery lifetime. And they're expensive as hell, too :( What we need is either cheap pocket pcs, or the good ole' times, when a cellphone was there for phoning, and a music player for listening music, instead of a 2megapixel camera and a colourful display for a barely good use.
..in Serious Sam and various other games, the developers included themselves as models with huge heads. How arrogant.
Mine is on 230V and doing fine. German screens apparently rock!