Sabayon Linux works out of the box with all the hardware on my laptop, INCLUDING a broadcom 4318 wireless adapter. It's the distro, kids, because ubuntu couldn't even bother to use my wireless until I fiddled around for an hour, and even then it wouldn't work for more than 20-30 seconds. Sabayon had it working during the install, so I could wirelessly surf the web from the liveDVD, and it still works flawlessly. Hell, it works better than it did on Windows!
I don't advocate rehabilitation for violent offenders, because they usually have deep-seated issues, such as sociopathy or psychopathy, that prevent them from being able to function normally. And rehabilitation isn't "a therapy session with Dr. Phil" (or Dr. Fuck Phil). And the thing is, prison IS an investment; we are investing in making sure that criminals don't recidivate. In that context, rehabilitation is cheaper, because for every dollar spent on rehabilitation, that is, on average, about $1.30 cents that are NOT spent later on on incarceration, for a total savings of 30 cents per dollar spent on rehabilitation.
The prison 'culture' has been shown to create hardened criminals, and rehabilitation has been shown to lead to lower recidivism rates.
Unfortunately, by focusing on incapacitation and punishment, they breed a culture that is so far from reality that it makes it *more* likely someone will recidivate. The favors, the enforced schedules, the "i don't give a shit" attitude of those who are there to maintain order. All of it makes for a terrible environment to put criminals in, especially for long periods of time; you want to breed more hardened criminals, that's the way to do it.
That wasn't the point. Studies have *shown* that the prison environment is actually *more* destructive to the rehabilitation of criminals. Rather than focus on incapacitation, we should be focusing on rehabilitation, which, dollar for dollar, has a *much* higher rate of return than prison. I'm not saying we should keep murderers out of prison, but unarmed robbery? Please, just help the people actually survive, or, if they do it for the 'thrill' help them with that. It works something like 30% better than prison.
Seriously? o.o Fatal frame on wii would be pretty amazing... amazing enough to make me buy one, because the pirated ps2 copies just don't cut it. The games themselves are wonderful, but the burned discs sputter a lot. If they get semi-hd for those, i'll sell a kidney to get a wii with fatal frame. That's the worst part of the actual game for me, is that it looks grainy on my hdtv.
What the hell? Verizon is doing this now, too. Whenever I type in 'slashdot' in firefox, it just takes me to their useless search page, which is getting REALLY old now. I'm getting pretty disgusted now, and they should get it through their thick heads that if they're gonna charge us money for 'net access, they have NO right to make more money off of us by selling ads instead of allowing our browsers to function as expected.
Exactly. I want simple. Hell, if they sold scummvm for the wii, I would buy it in a heartbeat, as long as I could have stuff on the network or something. I love scumm games.
I think that this has more meaning than just "oh, look, psp games!" I think that the fact that custom firmware is now running on the wii means that it will become the hacker's choice, if you will. It's already a huge success in the modding world, and this will just make things more interesting. I can't wait till they get a simple way to get scummvm running on the wii (yes, there IS a port for it). If they do that, I'll have a wii before the end of the month.
I never said that, I said don't knock it till you've tried it. And the OSS drivers are, at least for ATI, horribly buggy, slow, and barely do 3d. And you're already spending money on a card anyway, so you should get one for performance, not ideology. Learn to be pragmatic.
Dude, seriously. This is getting ridiculous. Admittedly, I've been known to have some... 'strange' urges at times, but I don't act on them. (not pedophilia, just strange urges)
On a side note, do you like Alice in Wonderland or Beyond the Looking Glass? There's evidence that he was a pedophile, and was actually writing both stories about a (young) girl he liked.
What people who don't think that such a thing as a half-decent pedophile exists need to understand is that it truly IS possible to be around children and be attracted without doing anything. One of my friends (who is a pedophile) usually has his 9 year old niece around, because her parents are busy a lot. If anyone picks on her, or his pedophilia possibly making him hurt her, he gets very pissed off, and from the way he talks, it's obvious it's not because he's afraid of getting in trouble. He cares about his niece, and not just like a piece of meat.
I hate it when you people judge a minority by the worst members. Saying that being a pedophile means you will definitely have sex with children is like saying that being a straight male means you will definitely have sex with women. (which, as those on slashdot know, isn't true.)
Things change. If you're not going to try the new drivers (which are very stable and updated about once a month) then don't complain. If you have an older one, and don't want to use compiz and stuff, then just use the open source driver. But don't complain when you get crappy performance, which is MY experience with the OSS drivers.
He never admitted to having sex with them; the majority of pedophiles have no 'victims' as they never did anything. Literally. Not "they justified it by claiming the kid 'wanted it'" not "they didn't get caught". They've never done anything, because they know it's wrong. It's people like you, who constantly demonize pedophiles, that make it impossible for any half-decent pedophile to come out and say "I like little girls" without an immediate lynching.
He was saying he doesn't have any desire to actually have sex with them, you fucking jackass. He's honest with people. The flaw in your statement that "straight male" = "male who will probably have sex with one or more women during the course of his life". So, continuing your analogy, "pedophile" = "person who will probably have sex with one or more children during the course of his lifetime" has one fatal flaw: most men only have sex with women able to give proper consent. There are such things as half-decent pedophiles; some of my best friends on the internet fall under this category. You know what the difference between a pedophile and a child molester is? Restraint. Sure, the pedophile might fantasize about that stuff, but the molester MAKES it happen, regardless of the law or the wants and needs of the child. Don't ever think that just because someone is attracted to children that that makes them a scumbag.
Wow, I really commend for having the balls to come out and say that. A bunch of my irc buddies are pedophiles/lolicons, and they would love to see this post.
And, yes, you're right. while there is some intersection between pedophiles and child molesters, it is nowhere near a majority. If you want to see how ridiculous this seems, replace 'pedophile' with 'straight male' and child with 'woman'. You end up with "straight male = sick woman raping motherfucker". Sure, some straight males ARE sick woman raping motherfuckers, but that doesn't mean they all are. It's normal for someone to have strange urges and desires; there's nothing inherently wrong with liking little girls. It's not until you destructively act on those desires that it becomes a problem.
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Sabayon Linux works out of the box with all the hardware on my laptop, INCLUDING a broadcom 4318 wireless adapter. It's the distro, kids, because ubuntu couldn't even bother to use my wireless until I fiddled around for an hour, and even then it wouldn't work for more than 20-30 seconds. Sabayon had it working during the install, so I could wirelessly surf the web from the liveDVD, and it still works flawlessly. Hell, it works better than it did on Windows!
Most small businesses aren't corporations, ergo don't really CEOs...
Making it impossible to manage should something go wrong *is* a sort of damage, albeit intangible.
I don't advocate rehabilitation for violent offenders, because they usually have deep-seated issues, such as sociopathy or psychopathy, that prevent them from being able to function normally. And rehabilitation isn't "a therapy session with Dr. Phil" (or Dr. Fuck Phil). And the thing is, prison IS an investment; we are investing in making sure that criminals don't recidivate. In that context, rehabilitation is cheaper, because for every dollar spent on rehabilitation, that is, on average, about $1.30 cents that are NOT spent later on on incarceration, for a total savings of 30 cents per dollar spent on rehabilitation.
The prison 'culture' has been shown to create hardened criminals, and rehabilitation has been shown to lead to lower recidivism rates.
Unfortunately, by focusing on incapacitation and punishment, they breed a culture that is so far from reality that it makes it *more* likely someone will recidivate. The favors, the enforced schedules, the "i don't give a shit" attitude of those who are there to maintain order. All of it makes for a terrible environment to put criminals in, especially for long periods of time; you want to breed more hardened criminals, that's the way to do it.
That wasn't the point. Studies have *shown* that the prison environment is actually *more* destructive to the rehabilitation of criminals. Rather than focus on incapacitation, we should be focusing on rehabilitation, which, dollar for dollar, has a *much* higher rate of return than prison. I'm not saying we should keep murderers out of prison, but unarmed robbery? Please, just help the people actually survive, or, if they do it for the 'thrill' help them with that. It works something like 30% better than prison.
Go fuck yourself. That 'humor' is irresponsible, reprehensible, and, above all, unfunny.
Yes, because in modern America, we're still responsible for the missteps of our parents. That child had NO reason to be killed.
I believe so. So just get a slightly better logitech one.
Seriously? o.o Fatal frame on wii would be pretty amazing... amazing enough to make me buy one, because the pirated ps2 copies just don't cut it. The games themselves are wonderful, but the burned discs sputter a lot. If they get semi-hd for those, i'll sell a kidney to get a wii with fatal frame. That's the worst part of the actual game for me, is that it looks grainy on my hdtv.
yes, you can. That's exactly what I have going on here. And I tried using OpenDNS and it STILL forwarded to the damn verizon page.
What the hell? Verizon is doing this now, too. Whenever I type in 'slashdot' in firefox, it just takes me to their useless search page, which is getting REALLY old now. I'm getting pretty disgusted now, and they should get it through their thick heads that if they're gonna charge us money for 'net access, they have NO right to make more money off of us by selling ads instead of allowing our browsers to function as expected.
Interesting point, although I really think they would view this more as a time/cost/boredom saver.
Oh you're fucking kidding me, right? That's all I can do, as there's no way in hell I can be home for election day.
Exactly. I want simple. Hell, if they sold scummvm for the wii, I would buy it in a heartbeat, as long as I could have stuff on the network or something. I love scumm games.
Because the intel card sucks on performance.
I think that this has more meaning than just "oh, look, psp games!" I think that the fact that custom firmware is now running on the wii means that it will become the hacker's choice, if you will. It's already a huge success in the modding world, and this will just make things more interesting. I can't wait till they get a simple way to get scummvm running on the wii (yes, there IS a port for it). If they do that, I'll have a wii before the end of the month.
Er... the radio? Good music? Where do you live, and do you live in the same dimension as the rest of us?
I never said that, I said don't knock it till you've tried it. And the OSS drivers are, at least for ATI, horribly buggy, slow, and barely do 3d. And you're already spending money on a card anyway, so you should get one for performance, not ideology. Learn to be pragmatic.
Dude, seriously. This is getting ridiculous. Admittedly, I've been known to have some... 'strange' urges at times, but I don't act on them. (not pedophilia, just strange urges)
On a side note, do you like Alice in Wonderland or Beyond the Looking Glass? There's evidence that he was a pedophile, and was actually writing both stories about a (young) girl he liked.
What people who don't think that such a thing as a half-decent pedophile exists need to understand is that it truly IS possible to be around children and be attracted without doing anything. One of my friends (who is a pedophile) usually has his 9 year old niece around, because her parents are busy a lot. If anyone picks on her, or his pedophilia possibly making him hurt her, he gets very pissed off, and from the way he talks, it's obvious it's not because he's afraid of getting in trouble. He cares about his niece, and not just like a piece of meat.
I hate it when you people judge a minority by the worst members. Saying that being a pedophile means you will definitely have sex with children is like saying that being a straight male means you will definitely have sex with women. (which, as those on slashdot know, isn't true.)
Things change. If you're not going to try the new drivers (which are very stable and updated about once a month) then don't complain. If you have an older one, and don't want to use compiz and stuff, then just use the open source driver. But don't complain when you get crappy performance, which is MY experience with the OSS drivers.
If you haven't tried the new ati linux driver (yes, it's a binary blob, waaah) then you should. Ever since AMD took over, it's gotten a lot better.
He never admitted to having sex with them; the majority of pedophiles have no 'victims' as they never did anything. Literally. Not "they justified it by claiming the kid 'wanted it'" not "they didn't get caught". They've never done anything, because they know it's wrong. It's people like you, who constantly demonize pedophiles, that make it impossible for any half-decent pedophile to come out and say "I like little girls" without an immediate lynching.
He was saying he doesn't have any desire to actually have sex with them, you fucking jackass. He's honest with people. The flaw in your statement that "straight male" = "male who will probably have sex with one or more women during the course of his life". So, continuing your analogy, "pedophile" = "person who will probably have sex with one or more children during the course of his lifetime" has one fatal flaw: most men only have sex with women able to give proper consent. There are such things as half-decent pedophiles; some of my best friends on the internet fall under this category. You know what the difference between a pedophile and a child molester is? Restraint. Sure, the pedophile might fantasize about that stuff, but the molester MAKES it happen, regardless of the law or the wants and needs of the child. Don't ever think that just because someone is attracted to children that that makes them a scumbag.
Wow, I really commend for having the balls to come out and say that. A bunch of my irc buddies are pedophiles/lolicons, and they would love to see this post.
And, yes, you're right. while there is some intersection between pedophiles and child molesters, it is nowhere near a majority. If you want to see how ridiculous this seems, replace 'pedophile' with 'straight male' and child with 'woman'. You end up with "straight male = sick woman raping motherfucker". Sure, some straight males ARE sick woman raping motherfuckers, but that doesn't mean they all are. It's normal for someone to have strange urges and desires; there's nothing inherently wrong with liking little girls. It's not until you destructively act on those desires that it becomes a problem.