It tells me that their marketing company is way ahead of their Zune design division. Social aspects are all the rage these days - see Time's Person of the Year, for example. Their marketing campaign is actually quite clever, and if I wouldn't know how utterly lame the sharing aspect of the Zune would be, I might actually be tempted to buy one. To me, what's even more surprising is that the XBox360 implemented social features much better than the Zune. I love being able to check out what games my friends are playing, how far they got in them (good gauge on how much they like the game), whether they're online or not, invite them into games, send them messages, invite them to chats.... all kinds of good stuff. The Zune however, is an insult to anybody who wants to communicate or share things. The only reason I can come up with for that is that the Zune was not designed by MS, but by the RIAA.
For that reason alone, I hope the Zune dies a quick and painful death - to teach the RIAA the lesson that people really don't care about their vision of castrated sharing.
As someone who has lived in Russia, what do you make of the systematic intimidation of opponents and critics? Do you think that has had any effect on people?
But how do we know that the Russians want Putin to lead them? Considering all the shenanigans that have happened (apppointed governors, assassinated critics, jailed business men, etc), do we really know what people actually think of Putin? Do 80% of Russians approve of him, or do 80% of Russians fear speaking out against him? Yes, Russia tends to more authoritarian figures (I think a lot of people in the world actually do), but that doesn't mean that we are currently seeing is actually the will of the people. That's the problem here.
"And what's so wrong about a world free of sex predators!?!"
And here is unfortunately the exact problem. Banning online child porn and stopping access by whatever misguided and impossible methods is not going to stop sex predators. Ever. It's nothing but a boondoggle provided by shortsighted politicians who can't come up with anything better to make things safer. Because that would actually require work, insight and study.
Personally, I always found the entire argument for a God of the Gaps (I don't understand it, therefore God did it) as incredibly weak to begin with. You are essentially arguing that your level of ignorance is the closest anyone can get to omniscience - which is ridiculous in the light of 5000 years of science, and in the light of day-to-day occurences.
In my opinion, Hume never had to provide a counter-example to invalidate the Allmighty Designer. We are an ignorant lot, and simply assuming we are not is not a very good foundation from which to argue for the existence of God.
"If you believe something strongly enough, it is really no longer a belief, is it?"
You're kidding me, right? What is it then? Fact? I can believe in purple dragons, flying spaghetti monsters and black helicopters with all the certainty in the world, but that doesn't make any of them reality. Could you please explain how you got to this conclusion? Because this is so far out there that can only think that I misunderstood you.
I had the same problems when I started working with my brand-new iMac. The only other mac system I had worked with is about 10 years old, and I don't even remember the OS name. So I was a complete and utter n00b the first day I switched on my iMac. And everything was HARD. It took me 45 minutes to install an app, because I kept looking for a setup.exe file. I tried to reinstall the same app when I logged in with a different user, and couldn't figure out why the OS told me that it was already there. It took me ages to figure out how to get to the end of a line of text, or to the end of a document. I have just now figured out how to tab between windows of the same app. I actually looked for about 15 minutes for the firefox preferences - until it dawned on me that all app menus are at the top of the desktop. The biggest eye opener though was working with iWeb. I decided to throw together a silly little blog, just to see how it works. I spent probably an hour manually resizing all images I wanted to use, exporting them to a public folder and hand-editing the templates in iWeb. Until I decided that I was gonna test Apple's famed ease of use, and decided to just drag my images from iPhoto onto the pictures in my iWeb template. And - miracles of miracles - the images just appeared in my blog. They automatically got thumbnails, the web page automatically knew where the images were, and the entire process of creating a page for my parents to check out my images took 30 seconds.
That, to me, was the epiphany that there is a Windows way, and there is a Mac way. The windows way requires you to know how Windows stores things internally, and what its design philosophy is. Everything needs to be done manually, especially when it comes moving data between apps. I used to think that the coolest thing in town was to be able to copy text from one remote terminal to another. Now I know better - there is the Mac way, in which I just do what I want to do. If it's something that ought to be common (enable ftp server? tab through apps? move pictures around?), there is a simple way to do it. As in, brain dead simple 1-2 click operation.
The reason you and I - and presumably a lot of other people - were confused is because we tried to use OS X like WinXP. Don't do that. Start to think that there ought to be a simple way to do it, and then just try it. I've found that that solves 90% of my UI issues.
I'll throw in my hat for TWiki. We're not a bank, but we produce a lot of IT monitoring software, and hence, are often looked at as experts on how to run IT departments. Well.... let's just say I won't divulge the name of my company, cuz quite frankly, we barely can run ourselves. Specifically documentation is ass. The worst part is not that documentation is not there, it's that no one can find it. Occasionally, there is a drive to document something cool, or somebody just sits down and writes down his/her amassed wisdom. The problem is, those documents then vanish into a multitude of document repositories. There are knowledge bases, shared drives, several different document storage solutions, and a couple of Wikis that all hold various docs, some of which are duplicates, and none of which (with the exception of the Wikis and the knowledge base) can be properly searched. Now we're trying to standardize on a Wiki, but for some reason, the nitwit in charge of it tries to make it into file share with a web interface.
I'd love to know how other people store and access their documentation, because for me, that's problem #1.
Interesting - I haven't heard about distinctions between preferential and situational molesters. As far as I could tell, it was always a combination of the two: it's a lot easier to have power when the other is 3 years old. Can you point me to some sources?
Wow - you managed to accurately quote the FBI, yet managed to completely distort the quote into supporting your argument. Note that he says "correlation", and nothing about "causation". You are merely implying that the two are identical. Nice try.
BTW, I'm quite glad that free speech extends to pornography. For the simple reason that I suspect that your and my ideas of what constitutes pornography are vastly different. I have no desire to foist my definition on you, and I expect the same of you. Now piss off and stop quoting the founding fathers - you have no idea what their intent was if it wasn't written down. And what they wrote directly contradicts your fantasies.
It encourages the direct physical abuse of real children by conditioning the paedophile to consider their lustful and abusive mentality "acceptable" or "normal".
Does it really? Do you have some evidence for that? Or is that just random extrapolation "because it makes sense?" From what I've seen and read, paedophilia is triggered in the vast majority of cases by the abuser having been abused himself. They're merely perpetuating their own experiences. Child porn never caused someone to become a child molester. Besides, are you really arguing that paedophilia has increased since people had more access to child porn?
The potential benefit of a law has to always be weighted against its potential drawbacks. In this case, benefits are imaginary, while the drawbacks will happen immediately. Or are you planning on relying on all artists labeling their art with "child porn here", so that law-enforcement doesn't have to rely on completely arbitrary yardsticks?
... if progress can only be achieved by outlawing thought-crime.
What I'd really love to see is some way to put a cost on creating legislation. Just so that people can't just create legislation for the sake of looking good.
A quick googling reveals the Javan Tiger as well. Some more serious googling will most likely find more large mammals that have gone extinct in the last 50 years due to human interference. Not to mention birds, fish, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and more. I don't know where you got the 500000/year number from, but species extinction is on-going and a decent clip. I sure hope that the lack of news does indicate a decline in the rate of extinction and not simply lack of interest from the media, but I'm not hoping too hard.
Because this extinction can be directly traced to human interference. Because the animal was part of an ecosystem that has now been diminished, and human interference therefore harmed the entire ecosystem. Because diminished ecosystems are less resistant to new predators and diseases. Because diminished ecosystems have a point of no return at which they completely collapse, even if other species are still present.
Most importantly though, because the planet just got a little less interesting and wondrous.
Nice way of dodging the question and bringing up straw men, stoolpigeon. Hunting was (not has been) an integral part of human life for a very long time indeed - but for the sake of survival, not sport. For the sake of survival, this has not been the case for the majority of the people in the US for probably 200 years now. In other places, for even longer - much longer.
Note that I never argued that you ought not to kill. There are plenty of reasons why you need to kill stuff. Wildlife management is part of it, though only a very, very small part. So is feeding your family, self-defense, and a host of other reasons. What I don't understand is the idea of killing as a pastime, as a fun way of killing some time, or bringing home trophies. This, to me, shows a complete disregard for life in general. It means that you are willing to kill for no other reason than that other people have done it before you, or that it brings you pleasure. The fact that you do not understand this is not surprising anymore.... as I said, it explains a whole lot of things.
I guess I'm not tuned into the hunting scene, but what exactly is the point of hunting when all you do is pull the trigger? Hanging out with your buddies? Personally, I don't find this funny. I find it disturbingly scary that pulling a trigger with the sole of purpose of killing something has somehow been elevated to being as part of normal life as shopping for groceries or crossing streets.
Somehow, this entire Iraq debacle makes a lot more sense right now.
"I think the Sun CTO's predictions also overlook what it is that people actually do with their computers. He's looking at it from completely the wrong angle: business application, specifically e-commerce. The majority of people use their computers for recreational and creative purposes."
And I think you're completely missing the target audience of the interview: IT people. Note that he says in the summary: "It really is the running of what we think of as IT through the network." Nobody says that everyone's gonna have an internet appliance at home, and store everything in the Googleplex. What he says is that IT services are becoming so cost efficient and the networks so robust that it makes less and less sense to buy your own hardware and train your own specialists.
Again, he is not talking about your own home server network, your photoshop install or your porn collection. He is talking about large-scale IT software. There'll always be a place for your own local storage and software. But large-scale services will become more and more ubiquituous - witness webmail, WoW, network drives, etc.
Placements of commas and semantics are everything in lawsuits. A Canadian telecom was sued/sued someone for 14 million dollars because of two commas in a sentence. Even more so, the contract, done in two languages, was correct in French - but the English one had the misplaced commas, and that's what triggered the lawsuit. The judge sided there with the language sticklers. I expect him to side with the sticklers here too.
It might be cool to think of English as a living and malleable language on Slashdot, but the rest of the world takes these things very seriously. If you don't have a common language, you can't communicate.
I think the mischaracterization comes from RIAA's claim that AOL's letter shows that the defendant not only had an account with AOL, but was downloading copyrighted information with it. The letter shows only the first part - the second part is a separate claim by the RIAA.
Got that number from an NPR program once. However, a quick Google brings up vastly varying statistics of recidivism for paedophiles. Not sure if a more in-depth search will show me where NPR got the number from.
Bingo! Someone mod this guy up. This is EXACTLY why all this claptrap offers merely the illusion of security. The "hijack a plane to fly it into a building" attack plan was obsolete even before the first plan had been fully executed.
I'd say that the terrorists are actually aiming too high with their current plans of toppling buildings. Move 200 people into the US, equip them with suicide vests, and let them loose during Christmas shopping at various malls, local governments, parks and other well trafficked areas. The pandemonium would birth laws that will make the current ones look enlightened.
We're lucky the terrorists haven't figured out yet that the best way to defeat the US is to have it defeat itself.
Woot! Woot! You've identified a very specific group of people after they've announced themselves as being part of that group. Congratulations.
Now tell me - how do you tell a radical Muslim from a just somewhat nutty muslim? How do you tell a radical Muslim from a radical nut? How do you tell a radical Muslim who is planning on bombing you from Joe Zaki down the street?
Profiling is a great idea. However, profiling based on racial characteristics or common choices like meal selection and prayer habits is fucking retarded. There are far too many false positives. And if false positives don't worry you... sorry, I can't help you. You're then just part of the problem. If you want to do it right, do it the hard way: human intelligence, infiltration, psychological profiling and very meticulous bag searches. There is no easy way to be safe. Get over it.
Dude - there are a million reasons why this is a bad idea, and there are indeed some people who are unfairly caught in this. 2 kids in college having sex, where one is under 18, can get you the statutory rape status. However, a family member molesting their children is absolutely on the same scale as the serial child abductor. Why? Because THEY ARE THE SAME. People who molest other kids generally start by molesting their own kids - and then have to move to others because their kids get too old. Not only that, but convicted child molesters have a 98% re-incarceration chance for the same offense.
Let me repeat that - there is no (within 98% probability) paedophile who just happened to molest their kid once, and won't do it again. If they did it once, they are basically guaranteed to do it again. I'm all for making paedophiles second-class citizens. I've seen the damage they can inflict - not only do they damage the people they molest, but they also turn their victims into future offenders.
However, this is neither here nor there in the scope of whether you should track them via their email addresses or MySpace info (which is stupid). I just want to dispel any notion you might have that child molestation can be a relatively minor crime.
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Warning - deviation into Briggs-Myers classification types to expand on a small point parent poster made.
"I don't discuss business or politics or religion with my real friends and family".
This works well for artisans or guardians (SP/SJ) types, but not for rationals or idealists (NT/NF). If you're someone who thrives on abstract thought, by all means, include politics and religion and business or anything else that's abstract. The process for recharching mental batteries differs markedly for the different types of people. Chances are, you know what recharges your batteries. It's just that you haven't set time aside for those things, because you thought other things would let you recharge your batteries as well - like more money, more stuff, more, more, more. If you're stressed, unhappy, burned out, reevaluate your life and see where you're putting your energy into. Chances are, you'll find places that you neglected and that just require an attitude adjustment to reach.
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It tells me that their marketing company is way ahead of their Zune design division. Social aspects are all the rage these days - see Time's Person of the Year, for example. Their marketing campaign is actually quite clever, and if I wouldn't know how utterly lame the sharing aspect of the Zune would be, I might actually be tempted to buy one. To me, what's even more surprising is that the XBox360 implemented social features much better than the Zune. I love being able to check out what games my friends are playing, how far they got in them (good gauge on how much they like the game), whether they're online or not, invite them into games, send them messages, invite them to chats.... all kinds of good stuff. The Zune however, is an insult to anybody who wants to communicate or share things. The only reason I can come up with for that is that the Zune was not designed by MS, but by the RIAA.
For that reason alone, I hope the Zune dies a quick and painful death - to teach the RIAA the lesson that people really don't care about their vision of castrated sharing.
As someone who has lived in Russia, what do you make of the systematic intimidation of opponents and critics? Do you think that has had any effect on people?
But how do we know that the Russians want Putin to lead them? Considering all the shenanigans that have happened (apppointed governors, assassinated critics, jailed business men, etc), do we really know what people actually think of Putin? Do 80% of Russians approve of him, or do 80% of Russians fear speaking out against him? Yes, Russia tends to more authoritarian figures (I think a lot of people in the world actually do), but that doesn't mean that we are currently seeing is actually the will of the people. That's the problem here.
"And what's so wrong about a world free of sex predators!?!"
And here is unfortunately the exact problem. Banning online child porn and stopping access by whatever misguided and impossible methods is not going to stop sex predators. Ever. It's nothing but a boondoggle provided by shortsighted politicians who can't come up with anything better to make things safer. Because that would actually require work, insight and study.
Personally, I always found the entire argument for a God of the Gaps (I don't understand it, therefore God did it) as incredibly weak to begin with. You are essentially arguing that your level of ignorance is the closest anyone can get to omniscience - which is ridiculous in the light of 5000 years of science, and in the light of day-to-day occurences.
In my opinion, Hume never had to provide a counter-example to invalidate the Allmighty Designer. We are an ignorant lot, and simply assuming we are not is not a very good foundation from which to argue for the existence of God.
"If you believe something strongly enough, it is really no longer a belief, is it?"
You're kidding me, right? What is it then? Fact? I can believe in purple dragons, flying spaghetti monsters and black helicopters with all the certainty in the world, but that doesn't make any of them reality. Could you please explain how you got to this conclusion? Because this is so far out there that can only think that I misunderstood you.
I had the same problems when I started working with my brand-new iMac. The only other mac system I had worked with is about 10 years old, and I don't even remember the OS name. So I was a complete and utter n00b the first day I switched on my iMac. And everything was HARD. It took me 45 minutes to install an app, because I kept looking for a setup.exe file. I tried to reinstall the same app when I logged in with a different user, and couldn't figure out why the OS told me that it was already there. It took me ages to figure out how to get to the end of a line of text, or to the end of a document. I have just now figured out how to tab between windows of the same app. I actually looked for about 15 minutes for the firefox preferences - until it dawned on me that all app menus are at the top of the desktop. The biggest eye opener though was working with iWeb. I decided to throw together a silly little blog, just to see how it works. I spent probably an hour manually resizing all images I wanted to use, exporting them to a public folder and hand-editing the templates in iWeb. Until I decided that I was gonna test Apple's famed ease of use, and decided to just drag my images from iPhoto onto the pictures in my iWeb template. And - miracles of miracles - the images just appeared in my blog. They automatically got thumbnails, the web page automatically knew where the images were, and the entire process of creating a page for my parents to check out my images took 30 seconds.
That, to me, was the epiphany that there is a Windows way, and there is a Mac way. The windows way requires you to know how Windows stores things internally, and what its design philosophy is. Everything needs to be done manually, especially when it comes moving data between apps. I used to think that the coolest thing in town was to be able to copy text from one remote terminal to another. Now I know better - there is the Mac way, in which I just do what I want to do. If it's something that ought to be common (enable ftp server? tab through apps? move pictures around?), there is a simple way to do it. As in, brain dead simple 1-2 click operation.
The reason you and I - and presumably a lot of other people - were confused is because we tried to use OS X like WinXP. Don't do that. Start to think that there ought to be a simple way to do it, and then just try it. I've found that that solves 90% of my UI issues.
I'll throw in my hat for TWiki. We're not a bank, but we produce a lot of IT monitoring software, and hence, are often looked at as experts on how to run IT departments. Well.... let's just say I won't divulge the name of my company, cuz quite frankly, we barely can run ourselves. Specifically documentation is ass. The worst part is not that documentation is not there, it's that no one can find it. Occasionally, there is a drive to document something cool, or somebody just sits down and writes down his/her amassed wisdom. The problem is, those documents then vanish into a multitude of document repositories. There are knowledge bases, shared drives, several different document storage solutions, and a couple of Wikis that all hold various docs, some of which are duplicates, and none of which (with the exception of the Wikis and the knowledge base) can be properly searched. Now we're trying to standardize on a Wiki, but for some reason, the nitwit in charge of it tries to make it into file share with a web interface. I'd love to know how other people store and access their documentation, because for me, that's problem #1.
Interesting - I haven't heard about distinctions between preferential and situational molesters. As far as I could tell, it was always a combination of the two: it's a lot easier to have power when the other is 3 years old. Can you point me to some sources?
Wow - you managed to accurately quote the FBI, yet managed to completely distort the quote into supporting your argument. Note that he says "correlation", and nothing about "causation". You are merely implying that the two are identical. Nice try.
BTW, I'm quite glad that free speech extends to pornography. For the simple reason that I suspect that your and my ideas of what constitutes pornography are vastly different. I have no desire to foist my definition on you, and I expect the same of you. Now piss off and stop quoting the founding fathers - you have no idea what their intent was if it wasn't written down. And what they wrote directly contradicts your fantasies.
The potential benefit of a law has to always be weighted against its potential drawbacks. In this case, benefits are imaginary, while the drawbacks will happen immediately. Or are you planning on relying on all artists labeling their art with "child porn here", so that law-enforcement doesn't have to rely on completely arbitrary yardsticks?
... if progress can only be achieved by outlawing thought-crime.
What I'd really love to see is some way to put a cost on creating legislation. Just so that people can't just create legislation for the sake of looking good.
So if I hit you with a rock and kill you, can I claim that this is just natural selection at work? Can I? Can I? Please??
A quick googling reveals the Javan Tiger as well. Some more serious googling will most likely find more large mammals that have gone extinct in the last 50 years due to human interference. Not to mention birds, fish, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and more. I don't know where you got the 500000/year number from, but species extinction is on-going and a decent clip. I sure hope that the lack of news does indicate a decline in the rate of extinction and not simply lack of interest from the media, but I'm not hoping too hard.
Because this extinction can be directly traced to human interference. Because the animal was part of an ecosystem that has now been diminished, and human interference therefore harmed the entire ecosystem. Because diminished ecosystems are less resistant to new predators and diseases. Because diminished ecosystems have a point of no return at which they completely collapse, even if other species are still present.
Most importantly though, because the planet just got a little less interesting and wondrous.
Nice way of dodging the question and bringing up straw men, stoolpigeon. Hunting was (not has been) an integral part of human life for a very long time indeed - but for the sake of survival, not sport. For the sake of survival, this has not been the case for the majority of the people in the US for probably 200 years now. In other places, for even longer - much longer.
Note that I never argued that you ought not to kill. There are plenty of reasons why you need to kill stuff. Wildlife management is part of it, though only a very, very small part. So is feeding your family, self-defense, and a host of other reasons. What I don't understand is the idea of killing as a pastime, as a fun way of killing some time, or bringing home trophies. This, to me, shows a complete disregard for life in general. It means that you are willing to kill for no other reason than that other people have done it before you, or that it brings you pleasure. The fact that you do not understand this is not surprising anymore.... as I said, it explains a whole lot of things.
I guess I'm not tuned into the hunting scene, but what exactly is the point of hunting when all you do is pull the trigger? Hanging out with your buddies? Personally, I don't find this funny. I find it disturbingly scary that pulling a trigger with the sole of purpose of killing something has somehow been elevated to being as part of normal life as shopping for groceries or crossing streets.
Somehow, this entire Iraq debacle makes a lot more sense right now.
"I think the Sun CTO's predictions also overlook what it is that people actually do with their computers. He's looking at it from completely the wrong angle: business application, specifically e-commerce. The majority of people use their computers for recreational and creative purposes."
And I think you're completely missing the target audience of the interview: IT people. Note that he says in the summary: "It really is the running of what we think of as IT through the network." Nobody says that everyone's gonna have an internet appliance at home, and store everything in the Googleplex. What he says is that IT services are becoming so cost efficient and the networks so robust that it makes less and less sense to buy your own hardware and train your own specialists.
Again, he is not talking about your own home server network, your photoshop install or your porn collection. He is talking about large-scale IT software. There'll always be a place for your own local storage and software. But large-scale services will become more and more ubiquituous - witness webmail, WoW, network drives, etc.
Placements of commas and semantics are everything in lawsuits. A Canadian telecom was sued/sued someone for 14 million dollars because of two commas in a sentence. Even more so, the contract, done in two languages, was correct in French - but the English one had the misplaced commas, and that's what triggered the lawsuit. The judge sided there with the language sticklers. I expect him to side with the sticklers here too.
It might be cool to think of English as a living and malleable language on Slashdot, but the rest of the world takes these things very seriously. If you don't have a common language, you can't communicate.
I think the mischaracterization comes from RIAA's claim that AOL's letter shows that the defendant not only had an account with AOL, but was downloading copyrighted information with it. The letter shows only the first part - the second part is a separate claim by the RIAA.
Got that number from an NPR program once. However, a quick Google brings up vastly varying statistics of recidivism for paedophiles. Not sure if a more in-depth search will show me where NPR got the number from.
Bingo! Someone mod this guy up. This is EXACTLY why all this claptrap offers merely the illusion of security. The "hijack a plane to fly it into a building" attack plan was obsolete even before the first plan had been fully executed.
I'd say that the terrorists are actually aiming too high with their current plans of toppling buildings. Move 200 people into the US, equip them with suicide vests, and let them loose during Christmas shopping at various malls, local governments, parks and other well trafficked areas. The pandemonium would birth laws that will make the current ones look enlightened.
We're lucky the terrorists haven't figured out yet that the best way to defeat the US is to have it defeat itself.
Woot! Woot! You've identified a very specific group of people after they've announced themselves as being part of that group. Congratulations.
Now tell me - how do you tell a radical Muslim from a just somewhat nutty muslim? How do you tell a radical Muslim from a radical nut? How do you tell a radical Muslim who is planning on bombing you from Joe Zaki down the street?
Profiling is a great idea. However, profiling based on racial characteristics or common choices like meal selection and prayer habits is fucking retarded. There are far too many false positives. And if false positives don't worry you... sorry, I can't help you. You're then just part of the problem. If you want to do it right, do it the hard way: human intelligence, infiltration, psychological profiling and very meticulous bag searches. There is no easy way to be safe. Get over it.
Dude - there are a million reasons why this is a bad idea, and there are indeed some people who are unfairly caught in this. 2 kids in college having sex, where one is under 18, can get you the statutory rape status. However, a family member molesting their children is absolutely on the same scale as the serial child abductor. Why? Because THEY ARE THE SAME. People who molest other kids generally start by molesting their own kids - and then have to move to others because their kids get too old. Not only that, but convicted child molesters have a 98% re-incarceration chance for the same offense.
Let me repeat that - there is no (within 98% probability) paedophile who just happened to molest their kid once, and won't do it again. If they did it once, they are basically guaranteed to do it again. I'm all for making paedophiles second-class citizens. I've seen the damage they can inflict - not only do they damage the people they molest, but they also turn their victims into future offenders.
However, this is neither here nor there in the scope of whether you should track them via their email addresses or MySpace info (which is stupid). I just want to dispel any notion you might have that child molestation can be a relatively minor crime.
Warning - deviation into Briggs-Myers classification types to expand on a small point parent poster made.
"I don't discuss business or politics or religion with my real friends and family".
This works well for artisans or guardians (SP/SJ) types, but not for rationals or idealists (NT/NF). If you're someone who thrives on abstract thought, by all means, include politics and religion and business or anything else that's abstract. The process for recharching mental batteries differs markedly for the different types of people. Chances are, you know what recharges your batteries. It's just that you haven't set time aside for those things, because you thought other things would let you recharge your batteries as well - like more money, more stuff, more, more, more. If you're stressed, unhappy, burned out, reevaluate your life and see where you're putting your energy into. Chances are, you'll find places that you neglected and that just require an attitude adjustment to reach.