There's lots and lots of mentally scarring porn out there. Take the goatse man, or tubgirl, as an example.
I'm sorry, but I fail to grasp by which criteria goatse and tubgirl are porn...
I mean, I thought pornography should be, dunno... arousing?
I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who'd jerk off to goatse or tubgirl, but my mind keeps shutting down.
Goatse and tubgirl aren't porn. They're plain disgusting.
Working on one of my teachers' computers in college, a pr0n popup... well, popped up as soon as I opened IE (he refuses to install anything else).
Since it's a work computer and three other people sit behind his back, I shall express my doubts regarding his extensive porn surfing at work, though I may of course be wrong.
Another time, a casino ad popped up, and I've seen that happen way too often although practically nobody I know gambles online (it's just notthat popular in Croatia, I guess).
I did a quick scan of his computer and found out that, besides using exclusively IE and OE, ha has no firewall installed, let alone an antivirus or a spyware scanner/cleaner. And I know from personal experience that an unprotected Windows box gets pwned in as little as 15 minutes (the time it takes to download Firefox, a firewall, an antivirus and Spybot).
All in all, I cannot blame the guy... so he is not that tech-savvy, so what? Of course, we're all of legal age so he cannot be held responsible for anything, and none of us are assholes enough to file a complaint against him on the grounds of sexual harassment or something like that.
Each time I chuckled evilly because his machine is pwned, and my colleagues teased me for "viewing porn" during class.
I really think that this teacher is guilty of nothing except ignorance, and it's not hard to be ignorant when Windows hide everything from you while they're full of gaping holes at the same time.
After all, what could have really happened to the kids even if they did see a boob?
I remember when I went to primary school; we'd actively search for porn, though in our parents' wardrobes, not the Internet. That came a bit later.
It's fairly easy to detect dishonestly in a fairly long survey. Just ask the same question multiple times with slightly different words use. If dissimilar answers are received on these questions, the person clearly can't keep their story straight, and is likely to be giving untruthful answers.
Oh, yes, that's a great way to detect dishonesty.
Not only does it fail to take into account that you can remember answering the same question before, but it also fails to take into account the nuances of meaning if the repeated question asks generally the same thing, but with different wording.
I've noticed in quite a few tests that some questions were almost identical, yet I had to answer them differently.
There is, however, another method, also used quite a lot - a scale of lies (translating from Croatian; I really don't know the proper English term). The test is interspersed with innocent-looking questions to which practically everybody would have to give a "socially unacceptable" answer - e.g. Do you ever lie? or Do you always wash your hands after taking a leak?
If you give "socially acceptable" answers to most of them, you are considered a liar.
Don't worry though, at least you're not married, in which case if you forced her to stop, and she left you, she'd still get half of whatever you had left.
Even then, he'd be better off.
She'd take half his money and leave.
Big deal.
Now she's taking all his money and staying.
The only thing that Kasparov has going for him is fame; maybe he can succeed at politics, but there's no high probability that he will because he's good at chess.
If he were trying to become a GP politician, of course I'd agree with you.
However, this is more of a very specific goal... and he doesn't really need to win; he only has to make sure Putin doesn't win either.
When you look at it that way, it's quite a lot like a chess game.
As far as I can see, it's a major problem of journalism everywhere.
And it's not going away either.
People who want thorough and unbiased articles read the specialized magazine of their choice.
Clueless people read whatever their newspaper of choice serves them. (Several years ago, a Croatian magazine for women[1] printed an article about buying a computer. It said that 256 MHz RAM was... well, whatever.)
And when someone informed reads the crap they printed and decides to react by, say, sending them an angrily-worded e-mail, so much the better.
The lack of quality will never hurt their sales because their primary topics do not lie in the realm of technology, but everyday news and politics.
from a Military perspective it has been a very successful and reasonably casualty free war.
if you say that it has been anything except for successful for the American Military (or that there are a lot of civilian casulaties in this war) you're demonstrating a lack of objectivity in the discussion.
Well then, from a military perspective, the terrorists who brought down the Twins were also very successful and did a reasonably casualty-free job.
If you're saying that it has been anything except for successful for the terrorists (or that there were a lot of civilian casualties), you're demonstrating a lack of objectivity in the discussion.
Just because he's good a chess doesn't mean that he is good at general purpose strategy.
Well, he's extremely good at chess.
While he needn't be any good in general purpose strategy, I should think a mind like that could adapt to real world problems as well.
There are rules in chess, but you make it sound civilised. Chess is an incredibly aggressive game when you get to championship level.
What people seem to ignore is the fact that both chess and Go are wargames.
Yes, there are rules to the game. There are rules as to how certain pieces can move.
Just like there are "rules" as to when you can launch some aircrafts or when you can just bring on the artillery.
However, Putin does no respect the rules of the political game. The rules are essentially basic human rights, the Russian laws, and the spirit and the letter of the Russian constitution.
Actually, that's what you think the rules are.
I think Kasparov knows very well that the rules are substantially different from the official ones.
Besides, in politics as well as in other things, it's not cheating if you don't get caught.
Kasparov is no fool. We'll just have to see if he knows the game well enough.
Strategic games like Go and Chess are great exercises for the mind, but outside the benefits in reason and patience you receive from practice, I don't see them helping calculate the odds of a political statement reaching an audience. In terms I know we'll understand: programming skills != social skills, just as chess skills != political foresight.
Of course not.
However, I do believe he knows his strategy... in this kind of games, without strategy, you're nothing.
I should know; I play rarely, have no strategy whatsoever and suck colossally.
So no, he won't be able to calculate the odds of a single political statement or whatever, but he should be able to plan an interesting strategy... although what should be the real life equivalent of sacrificing chess pieces, I really don't want to know.
2. I know what the actual Japanese definition of Otaku is. However, I believe the term has been adopted into the American lexicon, albeit with an alternate definition. Essentially, it's an Americanized bastardized version of the word. Some disagree with this, but I much prefer it to calling myself an American anime fan. Otaku is just much faster and, generally, the point is understood.
This kind of bastardized borrowing is very common and very interesting...
For instance, the English word friend was borrowed into Croatian, but the meaning has changed - it means someone more than an acquaintance, but much less than a true friend; say, someone you know and associate with, but nothing more than that.
Do you know of any more borrowed words like that in English? Especially from Japanese...
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That's religion you'd be teaching them.
I'd love to see someone get prosecuted for that; by analogy, all the other religions would have to be banned.
I'd pay money to see that happen.
I'm sorry, but I fail to grasp by which criteria goatse and tubgirl are porn...
I mean, I thought pornography should be, dunno... arousing?
I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who'd jerk off to goatse or tubgirl, but my mind keeps shutting down.
Goatse and tubgirl aren't porn. They're plain disgusting.
Working on one of my teachers' computers in college, a pr0n popup... well, popped up as soon as I opened IE (he refuses to install anything else).
Since it's a work computer and three other people sit behind his back, I shall express my doubts regarding his extensive porn surfing at work, though I may of course be wrong.
Another time, a casino ad popped up, and I've seen that happen way too often although practically nobody I know gambles online (it's just notthat popular in Croatia, I guess).
I did a quick scan of his computer and found out that, besides using exclusively IE and OE, ha has no firewall installed, let alone an antivirus or a spyware scanner/cleaner. And I know from personal experience that an unprotected Windows box gets pwned in as little as 15 minutes (the time it takes to download Firefox, a firewall, an antivirus and Spybot).
All in all, I cannot blame the guy... so he is not that tech-savvy, so what? Of course, we're all of legal age so he cannot be held responsible for anything, and none of us are assholes enough to file a complaint against him on the grounds of sexual harassment or something like that.
Each time I chuckled evilly because his machine is pwned, and my colleagues teased me for "viewing porn" during class.
I really think that this teacher is guilty of nothing except ignorance, and it's not hard to be ignorant when Windows hide everything from you while they're full of gaping holes at the same time.
After all, what could have really happened to the kids even if they did see a boob?
I remember when I went to primary school; we'd actively search for porn, though in our parents' wardrobes, not the Internet. That came a bit later.
Hey, if Google uses pigeons...
Oh, yes, that's a great way to detect dishonesty.
Not only does it fail to take into account that you can remember answering the same question before, but it also fails to take into account the nuances of meaning if the repeated question asks generally the same thing, but with different wording.
I've noticed in quite a few tests that some questions were almost identical, yet I had to answer them differently.
There is, however, another method, also used quite a lot - a scale of lies (translating from Croatian; I really don't know the proper English term). The test is interspersed with innocent-looking questions to which practically everybody would have to give a "socially unacceptable" answer - e.g. Do you ever lie? or Do you always wash your hands after taking a leak?
If you give "socially acceptable" answers to most of them, you are considered a liar.
Frankly, I don't trust either of these methods.
Here, fixed that for you.
Even then, he'd be better off.
She'd take half his money and leave.
Big deal.
Now she's taking all his money and staying.
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Great?
All the Internet kiosks I've seen in Croatia run under WinXP.
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
Most of the time they're unusable; I swear I've seen them with a BSOD more often than with a user in front of them.
Of course, the browser is, from what I could see, some tabbed & skinned version of IE6, so that accounts for at least a part of it...
To me, it sounds like you missed his sig.
If he were trying to become a GP politician, of course I'd agree with you.
However, this is more of a very specific goal... and he doesn't really need to win; he only has to make sure Putin doesn't win either.
When you look at it that way, it's quite a lot like a chess game.
Yes, we have to think of the children.
Please, do not mention Tor anywhere you think pedophiles might be reading.
A.k.a. the least common denominator.
As far as I can see, it's a major problem of journalism everywhere.
And it's not going away either.
People who want thorough and unbiased articles read the specialized magazine of their choice.
Clueless people read whatever their newspaper of choice serves them. (Several years ago, a Croatian magazine for women[1] printed an article about buying a computer. It said that 256 MHz RAM was... well, whatever.)
And when someone informed reads the crap they printed and decides to react by, say, sending them an angrily-worded e-mail, so much the better.
The lack of quality will never hurt their sales because their primary topics do not lie in the realm of technology, but everyday news and politics.
[1] Housewives, actually.
Just as long as we understand each other.
Cheers.
(I'm not American either. And the only reason I posted that was to switch the rhetoric.)
Well then, from a military perspective, the terrorists who brought down the Twins were also very successful and did a reasonably casualty-free job.
If you're saying that it has been anything except for successful for the terrorists (or that there were a lot of civilian casualties), you're demonstrating a lack of objectivity in the discussion.
Oops. You are, of course, quite correct.
Well, he's extremely good at chess.
While he needn't be any good in general purpose strategy, I should think a mind like that could adapt to real world problems as well.
It's not that much of a leap.
What people seem to ignore is the fact that both chess and Go are wargames.
Yes, there are rules to the game. There are rules as to how certain pieces can move.
Just like there are "rules" as to when you can launch some aircrafts or when you can just bring on the artillery.
Pick your analogies wisely.
Actually, that's what you think the rules are.
I think Kasparov knows very well that the rules are substantially different from the official ones.
Besides, in politics as well as in other things, it's not cheating if you don't get caught.
Kasparov is no fool. We'll just have to see if he knows the game well enough.
Down the Internets?
Sorry, I just had to...
Of course not.
However, I do believe he knows his strategy... in this kind of games, without strategy, you're nothing.
I should know; I play rarely, have no strategy whatsoever and suck colossally.
So no, he won't be able to calculate the odds of a single political statement or whatever, but he should be able to plan an interesting strategy... although what should be the real life equivalent of sacrificing chess pieces, I really don't want to know.
Actually, it's midichlorian.
I thought everyone knew that by now.
Ever since I read Bill Gates was a rather good Go player, it explained a lot to me about his business strategy.
A brilliant chess player like Mr Kasparov should not only be able to calculate the odds, but also devise some ways to alter them.
If he's really getting ready to battle Putin, he really should apply his best tactics to politics.
Which he might do, too.
Let's see what happens...
Whether the rabid feminists like it or not, the male gender is still the generic one in... well, all Indo-European languages I can think of right now.
Political corectness is violence against mind and against language. So all politically correct persons can kiss my... what? donkey?
This kind of bastardized borrowing is very common and very interesting...
For instance, the English word friend was borrowed into Croatian, but the meaning has changed - it means someone more than an acquaintance, but much less than a true friend; say, someone you know and associate with, but nothing more than that.
Do you know of any more borrowed words like that in English? Especially from Japanese...