There are some very legitimate reasons to consider pornography as socially destructive because of the exploitive treatment of women in pornographic media.
There are some very legitimate reasons to consider some forms of pornography as socially destructive.
It isn't just religions with puritanical views, but just about any religion that reviles pornography.
Good for them. Last I checked though, the US had a separation of religion and state.
It is also nearly universally condemmed by women's rights and feminist groups who go as far as to consider it as a violent attack on their psychology and a incitement to rape.
Wow, even the consensual home made amateur porn? Or gay porn? 'Cause that's what could be affected by this new FBI crackdown as well.
A very nice neanderthal knee jerk reaction from somebody who has never actually thought about the issue, indeed...
However those who show continue to show a gruesome interest in the photos 10 months on from the 2 days in which the horrible events took place are more than likely intending to use them for propagnda purposes to present a highly skewed image of American activities overseas.
Nonsense. The images have become important historical documents and should be preserved for future generations. Just like pictures of the atrocities of World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, etc.
The OP didn't make the suggestion, CmdrTaco did. Even so the OP could criticize the current administration and still not be anti-American, just anti-current-administration. So there goes your rant...
Did it ever occur to you that this goes beyond the US or its penal system? Non-US Google users couldn't care less about the racist sexual sadism in US prisons, so why would Google be "trying to keep things in perspective" for them as well?
They've got it all backwards. They're supposed to be working on a way to increase the speed of light. How else are we going to accomplish a practical form of interstellar travel?
I won't say the law isn't ridiculous, but surely Apple bears some responsibility. The law itself didn't force them to claim ownership, it merely provided them with the possibility. The fact that they actually went through with it is just as bad as companies screaming DMCA violation every time someone does something with their products they didn't think of.
But if some of the memos were doctored (they can't all be doctored, considering the volume), Diebold would be suing for libel, not copyright infringement. They could simply hand over backups of the actual memos and e-mails and prove that someone had forged the ones that are now online.
For people who rely on TV to get their news, yes. I'm not saying people SHOULD rely on just television, but if they DID, for whatever reason, they'd still deserve a fair and accurate report from the news media. "Fair" in this case meaning that both the positive AND negative consequences of this war should be allowed to appear on TV.
You've misunderstood the situation -- they have refused to honor the conventions of war, and so we have no obligation to honor the conventions of war with respect to them.
Seems to me you're the one not understanding the Geneva convention. People have basic human rights, no matter how many others they've killed (or the U.S. governement claims they've killed, without showing any evidence). It doesn't matter if they were suspected of killing God himself - they still have the right to fair treatment and fair trial.
Or do you feel that America is somehow above and beyond International Law? That it can do as it pleases now, in the name of 9-11? I suggest you look up the name "Marinus van der Lubbe" in your history book, before you let history repeat itself.
Ah, but there's the beauty of this scheme: by calling it a "war" and getting people to think of it as a "war", the US governement has essentially extended its own legislative powers - indefinitely (since terrorism probably won't go away for the foreseeable future)!
Take the prisoners on Guantanamo Bay for example: many of them were illegally abducted by the US, under the pretext that these people were "terrorists, waging war against the US". I suspect the next step for the U.S. governement will be to extend the definition of terrorists - this will allow them to bypass the judicial system altogether.
It's the same in the Netherlands: no pledging allegiance every morning, no scary brainwashing practices. I always wondered where some Americans got their unyielding conviction that America is somehow better than other first-world countries, but now I've got a pretty good idea...
I see a disturbing trend starting here. Mark my words: you're gonna hear more of this kind of talk from companies in the future. Terms like "anti-capitalist" and "techno-religious" will become buzzwords used by corporate bigwigs to marginalize criticism from people who fully understand the consequences. The ultimate goal will be to get Capitol Hill to think the same way - that such people are fringe groups, conspiracy nuts, unworthy of serious attention.
And yes, you may call me paranoid. Just make sure others don't call YOU that without your consent.
This might just be the most important development in computers since the dawn of the masturbation superhighway. Think about it; this will allow us to archive our pr0n collections like never before. Gone are the headaches of hierarchical filing conflicts. (Should lesbian threesome photoshoots be filed under/threesomes/ or/lesbians/? What if there's toys involved? Which fetish takes precedence?) Gone too, are the ever-deepening directory structures required to keep up with the diversification of smut. (At what point should separate directories be created for American and Japanese bukakke? After how many files/megabytes? Where to put the German variety of bukakke?)
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I believe it was U.S. Senator Pat Moynihan who said that.
Then wouldn't it be "to embricken"?
There are some very legitimate reasons to consider some forms of pornography as socially destructive.
Good for them. Last I checked though, the US had a separation of religion and state.
Wow, even the consensual home made amateur porn? Or gay porn? 'Cause that's what could be affected by this new FBI crackdown as well.
A very nice neanderthal knee jerk reaction from somebody who has never actually thought about the issue, indeed...
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How are these complaints not valid?
1. If you burn a lossy music file to a CD and then re-rip it to another lossy format, you lose a lot of sound quality.
2. But iPod can't play a completely open format like Vorbis.
3. True, but you can't buy an CD worth of individually selected songs for $9.99.
4. And how does MP3 being the standard invalidate the complaint that Apple doesn't support Vorbis?
Wob, wob... That's brilliant! Quick, somebody create a definition for it on Wikipedia!
The OP didn't make the suggestion, CmdrTaco did. Even so the OP could criticize the current administration and still not be anti-American, just anti-current-administration. So there goes your rant...
Did it ever occur to you that this goes beyond the US or its penal system? Non-US Google users couldn't care less about the racist sexual sadism in US prisons, so why would Google be "trying to keep things in perspective" for them as well?
There were plenty of pictures where the prisoners were not identifyable. Also, your theory doesn't account for the absence of Lynndie's pictures.
They've got it all backwards. They're supposed to be working on a way to increase the speed of light. How else are we going to accomplish a practical form of interstellar travel?
I won't say the law isn't ridiculous, but surely Apple bears some responsibility. The law itself didn't force them to claim ownership, it merely provided them with the possibility. The fact that they actually went through with it is just as bad as companies screaming DMCA violation every time someone does something with their products they didn't think of.
But if some of the memos were doctored (they can't all be doctored, considering the volume), Diebold would be suing for libel, not copyright infringement. They could simply hand over backups of the actual memos and e-mails and prove that someone had forged the ones that are now online.
For people who rely on TV to get their news, yes. I'm not saying people SHOULD rely on just television, but if they DID, for whatever reason, they'd still deserve a fair and accurate report from the news media. "Fair" in this case meaning that both the positive AND negative consequences of this war should be allowed to appear on TV.
Seems to me you're the one not understanding the Geneva convention. People have basic human rights, no matter how many others they've killed (or the U.S. governement claims they've killed, without showing any evidence). It doesn't matter if they were suspected of killing God himself - they still have the right to fair treatment and fair trial.
Or do you feel that America is somehow above and beyond International Law? That it can do as it pleases now, in the name of 9-11? I suggest you look up the name "Marinus van der Lubbe" in your history book, before you let history repeat itself.
Ah, but there's the beauty of this scheme: by calling it a "war" and getting people to think of it as a "war", the US governement has essentially extended its own legislative powers - indefinitely (since terrorism probably won't go away for the foreseeable future)! Take the prisoners on Guantanamo Bay for example: many of them were illegally abducted by the US, under the pretext that these people were "terrorists, waging war against the US". I suspect the next step for the U.S. governement will be to extend the definition of terrorists - this will allow them to bypass the judicial system altogether.
Hear, hear.
It's the same in the Netherlands: no pledging allegiance every morning, no scary brainwashing practices. I always wondered where some Americans got their unyielding conviction that America is somehow better than other first-world countries, but now I've got a pretty good idea...
Can't be oral sex. I would have gotten some by now. Wait, maybe when combined with the alt-key? Hmmm...
In your dreams, maybe. Both Europe and Asia/Pacific region have about as much Internet users as Canada and the USA combined.
I see a disturbing trend starting here. Mark my words: you're gonna hear more of this kind of talk from companies in the future. Terms like "anti-capitalist" and "techno-religious" will become buzzwords used by corporate bigwigs to marginalize criticism from people who fully understand the consequences. The ultimate goal will be to get Capitol Hill to think the same way - that such people are fringe groups, conspiracy nuts, unworthy of serious attention. And yes, you may call me paranoid. Just make sure others don't call YOU that without your consent.
Because he's dead sexy. Dammit, just thinking about that masculine jaw of his makes me want to touch myself. And I don't even swing that way.
This might just be the most important development in computers since the dawn of the masturbation superhighway. Think about it; this will allow us to archive our pr0n collections like never before. Gone are the headaches of hierarchical filing conflicts. (Should lesbian threesome photoshoots be filed under /threesomes/ or /lesbians/? What if there's toys involved? Which fetish takes precedence?) Gone too, are the ever-deepening directory structures required to keep up with the diversification of smut. (At what point should separate directories be created for American and Japanese bukakke? After how many files/megabytes? Where to put the German variety of bukakke?)
My friends, we are entering a new golden sho^H^H^H age.