I do acknowledge, though, that there is a real problem with today image processing software such as Photoshop. It is possible to edit a photo of a real child so that it is impossible to know its origin - a real photo depicting someone or an original drawing.
If it's that hard to tell, the point of making any original photos is moot. Unless these edited pictures are just a form of encryption, and the pedos then reverse the photoshop filters on their end... but still, that's no different from distributing encrypted CP, so what's the issue?
I see two problems with your analogy. Crashing a car is far more expensive than producing CP, so much so that it would be hard to justify ever doing it intentionally.
I don't know, I imagine all the underworld stuff involved with CP production is pretty expensive.
In addition, people don't make money off car crash photos; they do make money from CP.
But what if people made money off car crash photos, what would you think of the analogy then?
With respect to the supposed implausibility of a car crash fetish.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)
FEAR wasn't scary, really. Overdone, scripted, japanese little girls with super-gore effects just don't phase me, I guess. The ending was well done, but still not scary.
Now STALKER, there's a scary game.
Isn't it strange that some christians pick to believe the "no sex before marriage" thing instead of the "don't eat shellfish" part, though? I guess they must really like prawns.
But then you'll just lose energy (you cant break even, remember?).
A:
1. Put energy in to break bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water to give hydrogen and oxygen
2. Get the same (less, due to inefficiencies) energy out by combusting hydrogen and oxygen forming water.
B:
1. Put energy in to break bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water to give hydrogen and oxygen
2. Get more energy out by combusting the ethane and oxygen, because you're releasing the energy in the ethane bonds which already exists (no need to create them).
Why is this moderated interesting? The moon "weighs" 7.3477x10^22 kilogrammes. There's absolutely no way anything we could do might affect its mass enough to cause a disaster.
In my experience of buying and operating pool tables, pinball machines, foosball tables, videogame cabinets etc in schools and suchlike places, I can tell you the real reason that pinball died is because the machines are so incredibly complicated compared to everything else.
Pool tables and foosball tables have a simple coinmech and a simple ball release mechanism, that and either a wooden pole (cue) or some rotatable plastic men on rails. Videogame cabinets, again, nothing can usually go wrong that you can't fix. Joysticks, buttons, steering wheels, pedals and lightguns are easily replaceable, the screen is easy to replace (just order a spare one), the coinmech is, well, just another coinmech. Inside it's just extrapolated from a games console, or an actual PC in some cases.
But pinball? HUNDREDS of unique mechanical parts, all subject to wear and tear from heavy steel balls, lots of LEDs/bulbs to replace and make sure that all the wires are working, tilt sensors, the list goes on. The maintainance is not cheap.
No, most organisms have difficulty locating the source of high frequency noise. That's why the "emergency, hide" call of blackbirds (and lots of other songbirds) is a single high pitched note; their chicks and other blackbirds can hear it, but the attacker doesn't know where the blackbirds are.
That would require a large network of small pipes all across the painted surfaces of the car to bring the water to the paint. This would be rather complex but not undoable. You would have to consider the possibility of any small dents as well, and ensure that that doesn't ruin the whole network.
In fact, why bother flying them to Earth (or "Teejeeack" as the texts call it) to kill them at all? Why not just fly them into space and depressurise the transports and eject the corpses?
Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide?
What happens when we have the technology to grow babies from a sperm + egg to birth without the use of a female host? Will girls be obsolete then, as well as men?
"Aphrodite is walking the halls - shimmering, like a scalpel... 'Steinman,' she calls, 'Steinman! I have what you're looking for! Just open your eyes!' And when I see her, she cuts into me a thousand beautiful pieces."
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What if someone makes malware to make the phone dial premium-rate telephone numbers? Is this the return of the autodialler-type-virus?
I do acknowledge, though, that there is a real problem with today image processing software such as Photoshop. It is possible to edit a photo of a real child so that it is impossible to know its origin - a real photo depicting someone or an original drawing.
If it's that hard to tell, the point of making any original photos is moot. Unless these edited pictures are just a form of encryption, and the pedos then reverse the photoshop filters on their end... but still, that's no different from distributing encrypted CP, so what's the issue?
I see two problems with your analogy. Crashing a car is far more expensive than producing CP, so much so that it would be hard to justify ever doing it intentionally.
I don't know, I imagine all the underworld stuff involved with CP production is pretty expensive.
In addition, people don't make money off car crash photos; they do make money from CP.
But what if people made money off car crash photos, what would you think of the analogy then? With respect to the supposed implausibility of a car crash fetish.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1996_film)
But the law would apply to here, regardless of whether this is the intended target or not.
Holy vintage memes, batman!
FEAR wasn't scary, really. Overdone, scripted, japanese little girls with super-gore effects just don't phase me, I guess. The ending was well done, but still not scary. Now STALKER, there's a scary game.
Isn't it strange that some christians pick to believe the "no sex before marriage" thing instead of the "don't eat shellfish" part, though? I guess they must really like prawns.
The genre was called Action-Strategy. It is dead now, sadly. A remake of Battlezone with modern technology would be pretty cool.
The main problem with this idea, then, is that it is fighting the symptom and not the cause.
That sounds rather like the plot of Darwinia.
But then you'll just lose energy (you cant break even, remember?). A: 1. Put energy in to break bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water to give hydrogen and oxygen 2. Get the same (less, due to inefficiencies) energy out by combusting hydrogen and oxygen forming water. B: 1. Put energy in to break bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water to give hydrogen and oxygen 2. Get more energy out by combusting the ethane and oxygen, because you're releasing the energy in the ethane bonds which already exists (no need to create them).
Why is this moderated interesting? The moon "weighs" 7.3477x10^22 kilogrammes. There's absolutely no way anything we could do might affect its mass enough to cause a disaster.
Unless, say the carjacker had never played GTA IV or indeed any videogame, and neither had any of his associates.
In my experience of buying and operating pool tables, pinball machines, foosball tables, videogame cabinets etc in schools and suchlike places, I can tell you the real reason that pinball died is because the machines are so incredibly complicated compared to everything else. Pool tables and foosball tables have a simple coinmech and a simple ball release mechanism, that and either a wooden pole (cue) or some rotatable plastic men on rails. Videogame cabinets, again, nothing can usually go wrong that you can't fix. Joysticks, buttons, steering wheels, pedals and lightguns are easily replaceable, the screen is easy to replace (just order a spare one), the coinmech is, well, just another coinmech. Inside it's just extrapolated from a games console, or an actual PC in some cases. But pinball? HUNDREDS of unique mechanical parts, all subject to wear and tear from heavy steel balls, lots of LEDs/bulbs to replace and make sure that all the wires are working, tilt sensors, the list goes on. The maintainance is not cheap.
No, most organisms have difficulty locating the source of high frequency noise. That's why the "emergency, hide" call of blackbirds (and lots of other songbirds) is a single high pitched note; their chicks and other blackbirds can hear it, but the attacker doesn't know where the blackbirds are.
That was delicious. God bless USAF inefficiencies.
Moderated +1 reciprocal.
That would require a large network of small pipes all across the painted surfaces of the car to bring the water to the paint. This would be rather complex but not undoable. You would have to consider the possibility of any small dents as well, and ensure that that doesn't ruin the whole network.
In fact, why bother flying them to Earth (or "Teejeeack" as the texts call it) to kill them at all? Why not just fly them into space and depressurise the transports and eject the corpses? Is it wrong that I am thinking of a more practical way to commit interplanetary genocide?
What happens when we have the technology to grow babies from a sperm + egg to birth without the use of a female host? Will girls be obsolete then, as well as men?
So, besides Creationism and Evolution, what other options are there? I would have thought that both of those cover everything.
Can we fit this into the Drake Equation somehow? "Percentage of worlds with intelligent life that develop catgirls".
Well, I certainly trust the power companies not to abuse this feature.
Do the words "billions of years" qualify as an extremely long time?
"Aphrodite is walking the halls - shimmering, like a scalpel... 'Steinman,' she calls, 'Steinman! I have what you're looking for! Just open your eyes!' And when I see her, she cuts into me a thousand beautiful pieces."