I'm leaning towards the opposite approach. I figure if you wallpaper your infants room with screen-caps of extreme fetish porn, he/she will probably grow up to be a priest/nun.
The fact that it is a delayed trauma does not make it non-traumatic, except perhaps to people who die fairly quickly after the abuse happened, before their sub-conscious or conscious mind reacts to it.
Maybe so, but the fact that the trauma is being experienced by an adult would tend to suggest that the action that caused it can't be considered "child abuse". If this kind of abuse has no effect on the child, then we seriously need to reconsider whether it's a crime deserving of a 20 year sentence and a lifetime of stigmatization.
Notice that I said "if". I'm not actually convinced that child sexual exploitation isn't harmful - I'd have to see a lot more data before I accepted that premise - but IF that premise is correct, THEN the current laws don't make sense.
It sounds like you didn't completely submit to authority. Shame on you, terrorist!
I have no problem with authority - I was in the cadet program starting in my early teens and I joined the army reserves before I finished highschool - but authority needs to have a purpose and a reason, and they need to be ones that make sense to the individual. Authority for the sake of authority is just a dictatorship. Blind obedience to unreasonable authority is one of the greatest failings of our species.
You're joking right? Those students who do this are already truants. They have little interest in actually responding properly to authority and I'd be absolutely and utterly shocked if, in a decade when they're adults, if they have any more respect for the laws of society.
Yes, because kids who are bored at school will naturally become thiefs, rapiststs, and murderers. Truancy is a gateway drug!
Please. I think my grade 9 year was the last time I bothered going to classes on anything approaching a regular basis. In my final year I had just under 300 unexcused absences. For my computer class that year, I missed every single lesson; I only showed up to hand in projects, and write the tests and the exam, and still managed to get a 97% (A+) average for the course. By your reasoning, I should be a serial killer by now.
I know it's unfashionable to read the article, but even a quick scroll through the summary would have made it obvious that the Aussie government wants longer retention periods, and the US is telling them that anything over a year is excessive.
Scientists would do everyone a favor if they dropped the formula "we used to think, but now we know".
Kinda hard to drop something that's never been used.
I could have dismissed this as the reporting being at fault, but the abstract ends with "Knowing the rotational velocities, we can derive the central black-hole masses more accurately; they are two to ten times smaller than has been estimated previously."
Emphasis added. Hope that helps with your parsing problem.
Even in those cases, the laws allow a return if the item is not as advertised. i.e. "This mower is sold as is," and the mower does not work, and there was no opportunity to try it before hand, then the Seller is required to refund the money or else face jailtime. That is the law.
The same should be true with movies, even if it's just store credit towards future purchases
The same is true for movies: if the movie doesn't work, you can return it for an exchange or store credit. If it works and you just don't like it, well, too bad.
Not that I disagree with you on the larger point, but you're mixing up your analogies pretty horribly.
It's not just college students - I was in my early highschool years back when I ran an ftp drop site. My part-time job was enough to pay $40 every month for the connection... OR for 1 movie and 1 CD.
No, only 2.5% self-identify as atheist. Big difference. The number of "Nones" is somewhere around 15%. Of course, the number is even higher if you ignore thrid-world nations and oppressive theocracies. Limit yourself to only the first world nations and you'll end up with 30%+. Take the US out of the equation and the number goes up even higher. In most European countries, the number of non-believers is higher than the number of believers. Ditto for parts of Asia (eg. Korea, Japan).
and the most religious advanced nation in the world, with 83% claiming some religion, the USA, has the most scientific output on the planet.
While this is true, it's entirely due to the economic power of the US, and it's been changing for a while now. More than 30% of US scientists are foreign born. They come to America because of it's reputation, and for the opportunities it provides - not because they're looking to surround themselves with theists. The fact of the matter is that the US educational system is doing a horrible job of encouraging future generations to go into the sciences. When half of your population thinks that a massive conspiracy of scientists is making up this âoeevolutionâ thing in order to suppress their religious beliefs, it's no wonder they're not interested in getting involved.
you can lie, you can deceive, you can screw customers, you can fraud, you can scam, but still in the end you can come up right, because they are allowed in the system - you just need to arrange your ToSes, legal clauses properly, and have a good legal team that the unwashed masses wont be able to buy.
Well, of course. As long as customers are willing to put up with your antics, why WOULDN'T you do such things?
The problem isn't capitalism; the problem is consumerism. People can bleat about the Big Bad Companies all they want, but as long as you keep buying those Miley Cyrus CD's and that Titanic Super Extreme Directors Cut Blueray Collectors Edition With 23 Bonus Seconds of DeCaprio Drowning, you ARE the problem.
As an atheist, I'd say a legitimate religion is one where the leaders also believe in that religion, and where the leaders believe that their religion benefits their followers.
We're talking about different uses of the phrase, apparently. I'm sure that witch-doctors honestly believe that sacrificing a goat, pouring it's blood in a circle, and shaking some rattles will cure a guy dying from dysentery, but I wouldn't consider them to be legitimate medical professionals. You can say that the individual is legitimately expressing his beliefs - not that the beliefs themselves are legitimate.
Also there are many religious people who are really nice, educated and intelligent - who I genuinely admire. They are honest in their beliefs - I disagree with them, but I respect that they are genuine.
I don't personally give a damn about procreation (and my wife and I are well past our optimum time for that in any case), but zero-G sex sounds like great fun to me.
I'm guessing you've never tried skydiving, let alone been for a ride on the Vomit Comet. Sex in free-fall would require the use of restraints, or would consist of 5 seconds of docking for every 5 minutes of maneuvering. I guess the former would be a turn-on for some people... but if you're picturing you and the missus floating gently in the center of the cabin in the throes of ecstasy, you really don't understand the mechanics involved.
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I'm leaning towards the opposite approach. I figure if you wallpaper your infants room with screen-caps of extreme fetish porn, he/she will probably grow up to be a priest/nun.
I'd rather leave him alone and punish the government for being so incompetent
Absolutely. She was ASKING for it! She had on a tight dress!
While the existence of God is the subject of debate, no right-thinking adult on earth actually believes Santa Claus exists.
AFAIC, no right-thinking adult on earth actually believes gods exist.
What a terrible world that would be! Imagine, a place where people posses the unrestricted right to free expression. The horror!
The fact that it is a delayed trauma does not make it non-traumatic, except perhaps to people who die fairly quickly after the abuse happened, before their sub-conscious or conscious mind reacts to it.
Maybe so, but the fact that the trauma is being experienced by an adult would tend to suggest that the action that caused it can't be considered "child abuse". If this kind of abuse has no effect on the child, then we seriously need to reconsider whether it's a crime deserving of a 20 year sentence and a lifetime of stigmatization.
Notice that I said "if". I'm not actually convinced that child sexual exploitation isn't harmful - I'd have to see a lot more data before I accepted that premise - but IF that premise is correct, THEN the current laws don't make sense.
It sounds like you didn't completely submit to authority. Shame on you, terrorist!
I have no problem with authority - I was in the cadet program starting in my early teens and I joined the army reserves before I finished highschool - but authority needs to have a purpose and a reason, and they need to be ones that make sense to the individual. Authority for the sake of authority is just a dictatorship. Blind obedience to unreasonable authority is one of the greatest failings of our species.
You're joking right? Those students who do this are already truants. They have little interest in actually responding properly to authority and I'd be absolutely and utterly shocked if, in a decade when they're adults, if they have any more respect for the laws of society.
Yes, because kids who are bored at school will naturally become thiefs, rapiststs, and murderers. Truancy is a gateway drug!
Please. I think my grade 9 year was the last time I bothered going to classes on anything approaching a regular basis. In my final year I had just under 300 unexcused absences. For my computer class that year, I missed every single lesson; I only showed up to hand in projects, and write the tests and the exam, and still managed to get a 97% (A+) average for the course. By your reasoning, I should be a serial killer by now.
I know it's unfashionable to read the article, but even a quick scroll through the summary would have made it obvious that the Aussie government wants longer retention periods, and the US is telling them that anything over a year is excessive.
Sounds like a wicked opportunity for a flash-mob. You'd end up with some REALLY 'interesting' walkways.
Really? People constantly do what they're told; whether it's their boss, their better half, their parents, hormones or past traumas.
Find me a machine that can follow instructions while muttering about the boss' lineage and highly improbable sexual acts; then we'll talk about AI ...
Scientists would do everyone a favor if they dropped the formula "we used to think, but now we know".
Kinda hard to drop something that's never been used.
I could have dismissed this as the reporting being at fault, but the abstract ends with "Knowing the rotational velocities, we can derive the central black-hole masses more accurately; they are two to ten times smaller than has been estimated previously."
Emphasis added. Hope that helps with your parsing problem.
Yeah, but my pillar suddenly seems between 2 and 10 times bigger than before!
Heh. Considering how badly you fucked up that response, anything I add would just be redundant.
No you didnt fix it
Yes, I did.
For someone who claims not to be American you sure seem to always have a rational point of view.
FTFY
Yes. I tried running a home server. And all I got was this lousy service cancellation.
Even in those cases, the laws allow a return if the item is not as advertised. i.e. "This mower is sold as is," and the mower does not work, and there was no opportunity to try it before hand, then the Seller is required to refund the money or else face jailtime. That is the law.
The same should be true with movies, even if it's just store credit towards future purchases
The same is true for movies: if the movie doesn't work, you can return it for an exchange or store credit. If it works and you just don't like it, well, too bad.
Not that I disagree with you on the larger point, but you're mixing up your analogies pretty horribly.
It's not just college students - I was in my early highschool years back when I ran an ftp drop site. My part-time job was enough to pay $40 every month for the connection ... OR for 1 movie and 1 CD.
It wasn't exactly a tough decision ...
Anonymous may or may not be a bunch of schmucks, but at least in the case of supporting wikileaks they ARE on the side of propaganda
FTFY.
and open democracy which hopefully we can all agree is a good idea
As soon as you post your CC number, address, phone number, and SIN, I'll stop thinking of you as a hypocriote.
It holds that God is One, but that three distinct "persons" constitute the one God
...
Therefore the pope and I are one.
They certainly do not believe that the devil and angels are gods by any stretch of the imagination.
Pft.
Best. Comment. EVER!
Only 2.5% percent of the modern world is Atheist
No, only 2.5% self-identify as atheist. Big difference. The number of "Nones" is somewhere around 15%. Of course, the number is even higher if you ignore thrid-world nations and oppressive theocracies. Limit yourself to only the first world nations and you'll end up with 30%+. Take the US out of the equation and the number goes up even higher. In most European countries, the number of non-believers is higher than the number of believers. Ditto for parts of Asia (eg. Korea, Japan).
and the most religious advanced nation in the world, with 83% claiming some religion, the USA, has the most scientific output on the planet.
While this is true, it's entirely due to the economic power of the US, and it's been changing for a while now. More than 30% of US scientists are foreign born. They come to America because of it's reputation, and for the opportunities it provides - not because they're looking to surround themselves with theists. The fact of the matter is that the US educational system is doing a horrible job of encouraging future generations to go into the sciences. When half of your population thinks that a massive conspiracy of scientists is making up this âoeevolutionâ thing in order to suppress their religious beliefs, it's no wonder they're not interested in getting involved.
Yeah, religion holds back science.
Yes, it certainly does.
you can lie, you can deceive, you can screw customers, you can fraud, you can scam, but still in the end you can come up right, because they are allowed in the system - you just need to arrange your ToSes, legal clauses properly, and have a good legal team that the unwashed masses wont be able to buy.
Well, of course. As long as customers are willing to put up with your antics, why WOULDN'T you do such things?
The problem isn't capitalism; the problem is consumerism. People can bleat about the Big Bad Companies all they want, but as long as you keep buying those Miley Cyrus CD's and that Titanic Super Extreme Directors Cut Blueray Collectors Edition With 23 Bonus Seconds of DeCaprio Drowning, you ARE the problem.
As an atheist, I'd say a legitimate religion is one where the leaders also believe in that religion, and where the leaders believe that their religion benefits their followers.
We're talking about different uses of the phrase, apparently. I'm sure that witch-doctors honestly believe that sacrificing a goat, pouring it's blood in a circle, and shaking some rattles will cure a guy dying from dysentery, but I wouldn't consider them to be legitimate medical professionals. You can say that the individual is legitimately expressing his beliefs - not that the beliefs themselves are legitimate.
Also there are many religious people who are really nice, educated and intelligent - who I genuinely admire. They are honest in their beliefs - I disagree with them, but I respect that they are genuine.
Ditto, but that's rather irrelevant.
It's always been a mystery to me how an organization that is so clearly a cult managed to get status in the United States as a legitimate religion.
I've always wondered how people can use the phrase "legitimate religion" with a straight face.
I don't personally give a damn about procreation (and my wife and I are well past our optimum time for that in any case), but zero-G sex sounds like great fun to me.
I'm guessing you've never tried skydiving, let alone been for a ride on the Vomit Comet. Sex in free-fall would require the use of restraints, or would consist of 5 seconds of docking for every 5 minutes of maneuvering. I guess the former would be a turn-on for some people ... but if you're picturing you and the missus floating gently in the center of the cabin in the throes of ecstasy, you really don't understand the mechanics involved.