child abuse is real. terrorism is real. how much should you be concerned about either? it's obviously low but it's also obviously not zero
It's close enough to zero that it shouldn't be given a second thought. You'ld know if you read my journals that I'm friends with more hookers (not mentioned in the latest journal, it concerns a violent lunatic) than I am a client of. People have a way of telling me things that they wouldn't tell anyone else. I don't know why, but it just is.
At any rate, every single one of these girls was molested as a child or adolescent (before the age of 14). Every single one was molested by a family member or family friend. It was usually the mother's boyfriend who did the molesting.
Are you going to be killed by a terrorist? No. You're more likely to die by tripping over your own shoelaces than to be killed by a terrorist. Again, if you are murdered there is almost a 100% chance it will be by a friend or even more likely a family member.
Worrying about terrorists and online predators distracts from the real dangers we face daily - like that commute to work. 40,000 people die every year on the US highways, while only 3,000 died this entire century from terrorists. I'd like to see some of that homeland security money go to guardrails and other highway safety improvements where it would actually save lives.
People like you with attitudes like youres are a big part of the problem. Shut off that damned TV once in a while.
Your kids are no worse off on the Internet than they are out on the public streets.
Actually they're in far, far more danger from pederasts and other dangers on the streets than they are on the internet. Want to fuck some youngsters? You can get on the internet, or just go to the mall. Preferably dressed in a police uniform, clergy collar, clown suit... or just get a job at a day care center.
I wrote a journal about that last year. It concerns a local man who had been a policeman, clergyman, clown, and day care center worker who was arrested for child pornography and "sex tourism" (travelling to the Phillipines to have sex with litte boys).
Since this is Springfield, it got wierd when he was put in jail. Apparently he died when a fat man sat on his back until his toes turned purple. Yes, the journal has links to the local newspapar to corroborate it. This Springfield is more cartoonish that the 2D Springfiled, and a lot wierder. In the real Springfield, Simpson is alderman!
Well YAY! That means I don't have to RTFA, so I'm still not new here!
But for those who actually did RTFA, if TFA said that then it was written by someone stupid, ignorant, or both. How can you take anything it says seriously? Can anybody point to a FA from a less developmentally disabled author?
But the bullshitters know a salient fact: once bullshit is considered "truth" it might as well be, especially when you're talking about law.
Look at some of the "truths" about marijuana. It causes cancer (no, that is of course not a mainstream link), it isn't addictive (unlike coffee or alcohol it has no physical withdrawal symptoms, although it is habituating, like orange juice), and rather than leading to harder drugs the laws against it lead to harder drugs ("Got any weed, man?" "No it's dry. Want some coke?").
Good luck with that "truth" thing. Ask "Swift Boat" John Kerry how much good "debunking bullshit" is.
Well, it's not really 'news' to most mainstream people--because, frankly, it doesn't really affect them directly.
Unlike Britney Spears, whose drug problems and custody fight does affect them directly?
Were the RIAA to be dissolved in a fit of legal briefs, that might make the business pages--but it would take something fairly spectacular to get into the 'real' news.
RIAA board of directors shot and killed By LINDA DEUTSCHBAG - 2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police report that RIAA President Cary Sherman and the entire RIAA board of directors were gunned down by a distraught Britney Spears, who was tasered and then shot to death by Los Angeles police.
I hate those damned internet jukeboxes. I'm no fan of jukeboxes anyway, and always let some other fool put money in them. But the new internet jukeboxes cost twice as much as a normal old fashioned CD jukebox, and if it has to download a song it takes a whole dollar, and it doesn't sound as good as a CD jukebox. But at least I should be able to hear a song from an album that was in the top 100 for twenty years.
I put my dollar in and searched for Dark Side of the Moon. The only song from the album was "Money". Fitting.
But hey, rationalization is more important than sex. Think not? Every try to go a day without three really juicy rationalizations?;-)
Rationalization is more important than sex in the same way that cigarettes are more important to a butthead than food.
Would the human race exist without sex? Would it exist without rationalization? Methinks you are simply rationalizing about rationalization, when reason should tell you that rationalization is completely unimportant in the bigger picture, except as a detriment to just about any endeavor.
I rationalize about why I'm having such trouble getting laid lately.
-mcgrew (this journal about the lunar eclipse isn't rational, but that's because the people in it are loony)
Here in Springfield there are Ron Paul yard signs all over the place. I haven't seen a single yard sign for anyone else. Judging from yard signs you would think Ron Paul would be the next President.
But judging from yard signs you would have though Tina Jannazzo would be Springfield's alderman for ward 6 where I live; there were Tina Jannazzo yard signs all over, and the only Mark Mahoney (related to Jerry?) sign I saw was in Mahoney's yard.
The incumbent Mahoney kicked her ass two to one in the election.
As to Obama in the slashdot election, well, I don't put much stock in a poll that Cowboy Neal is running in, let alone one where he actually gets votes.
Who said nerds were mainstream? We may have a bit more respect than we had when I was in high school, but we're still on the margins. We only bring servers down becaise 1) we're all over the planet; there are six billion people here and some of us are nerds, and 2) we all go to RTFA at the same time, bringing down servers.
When we bring down the New York Times or CNN website then maybe you can say we're mainstream.
Funny how things change like that. Republicans used to be both fiscally and socially conservative. It used to be that Democrats brought war and prosperity while Republicans brought peace and economic depression.
Now you have a choice between tax and spend Democrats and borrow and spend Republicans. They have become two wings of the same party, arguing about nonsense that shouldn't matter to anyone, like gay "marriage" or whether copyright should be extended another thousand years or simply left at "eternity" while agreeing that marijuana should be illegal and bribery should be legal so long as you call it a "campaign contribution."
I'm trying to decide who to vote for in the general election. I voted Ron Paul in the primary, just as a protest, but I'll either vote Green or Libertarian in the general election.
It doesn't matter, the next State of the Union Address will be from President McCain anyway. Whenever you have a moderate running against a far right winger or a far left winger, the moderate wins. No Republican will vote for Obama or Clinton, but quite a few Democrats will vote McCain.
-mcgrew (don't read the latest journal, it's full of RIAA music and other violence and besides, it's completely offtopic)
...if only this would get more mainstream coverage.
Don't hold your breath. The mainstream media are 100% owned by the corporate interests. The corporations have you and me on a very tight intellectual leash. They own the newspapers, thay own TV, they own radio, they own the magazines.
They own the legislators. They're not about to report on that salient fact, however.
The corporate view will always prevail in the mainstream media. Any story you see in the mainstream will always treat file sharers as evil criminals and the RIAA as industry's (and by extension, America's) saviors.
All we have is the internet. On a more positive note, if we'd had the internet back in the 1970s maybe marijuana would be legal.
Thank you slashdot.
-mcgrew
PS- I have to confess that the RIAA got one of my dollars last Wednesday. It and the attempted murder of a friend are chronicled in the latest journal posted yesterday.
I understand Grandpa brewed his own during prohibition, and though he heard rumors that the police were polluting some brewer's beer with Wii, he said tey never got hold of his brew.
Can you Wii while you're leaping? I mean, without getting wet?
OK it would have been on topic a few days ago. The Un-news has an article about Microsoft. Ok, it's almost on topic. Oh fuck go ahead and mod me down, as if I'm not depressed enough as it is.
Microsoft promises to feign interoperability better MORDOR, Washington, Friday (UnGadget) -- Microsoft today announced carefully-phrased promises to appear more open about its business practices and technologies, so as to expand its reach through developers, partners, customers and competitors' wallets.
The interoperability principles and promises are an apparent, lengthy, reluctant, and necessary step for Microsoft's sudden efforts to fulfill the obligations outlined in the September 2007 judgment of the European Court of First Instance (CFI). And to have half a chance of getting OOXML through ISO.
"These pronouncements appear to be an important change in how we share information about our products and technologies and a significant expansion in apparent transparency," said Microsoft CEO Heave Stallmore. "While we've promised considerable progress over the past several years, today's announcement takes our virtual commitment to a new level.
"For the past thirty years, we have carefully shared misinformation with thousands of now-bankrupt partners around the world. By promoting greater interoperability, opportunity and choice, we hope to share even more of their information to our benefit."
Microsoft has already embraced and extended the open source paradigm to its users' personal files, which can be accessed freely by hundreds of thousands of Web sites providing self-installing keyloggers, adware, rootkits and botnets. Work is under way on a graphic markup language for more powerful commands, such as embedding an individual letter "t" with a directive to send the last ten recorded fingerprints from the user's touchpad to a Nigerian Web server.
There's more, but I'm just too depressed to copy and paste it, not only having lost the sight in my left eye but what's worse, I ran across this robot who says his name's Marvin...
OK, in the previous story about lessig I slammed his content-free "change congress" site, so what does he do? Makes it even lamer and more free of content! All that is there is a spam trap, and by that I mean a form where you can sign up for spam and nothing else. I'm wondering why the spam trap was even linked.
"On why I'm not running has a flash video. Does the esteemed Mr. Lessig think we're all illiterate? I don't have flash on this computer, making both the links in the summary a complete and total waste of time.
However, I'm trying to find a bright spot - even if you ride the short bus to school, you can still grow up to be a rich lawyer.
I'm disgusted. Someone please write an Uncyclopedia article about him? Thanks!
Microsoft should have merged with Enron, I believe their sign also spelled "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig" after it collapsed. Enron I mean, not the sign.
The Bush administration's sign reads "YOUR PAPERSS, PLEASS!!"
You commented kind of on what I was thinking. When is someone going to get hit with a suit for abusing copyright? After all, we can outwait patents, which only last 20 years. Copyrights are forever, or as close to forever as can matter to anyone still breathing.
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child abuse is real. terrorism is real. how much should you be concerned about either? it's obviously low but it's also obviously not zero
It's close enough to zero that it shouldn't be given a second thought. You'ld know if you read my journals that I'm friends with more hookers (not mentioned in the latest journal, it concerns a violent lunatic) than I am a client of. People have a way of telling me things that they wouldn't tell anyone else. I don't know why, but it just is.
At any rate, every single one of these girls was molested as a child or adolescent (before the age of 14). Every single one was molested by a family member or family friend. It was usually the mother's boyfriend who did the molesting.
Are you going to be killed by a terrorist? No. You're more likely to die by tripping over your own shoelaces than to be killed by a terrorist. Again, if you are murdered there is almost a 100% chance it will be by a friend or even more likely a family member.
Worrying about terrorists and online predators distracts from the real dangers we face daily - like that commute to work. 40,000 people die every year on the US highways, while only 3,000 died this entire century from terrorists. I'd like to see some of that homeland security money go to guardrails and other highway safety improvements where it would actually save lives.
People like you with attitudes like youres are a big part of the problem. Shut off that damned TV once in a while.
It's enough to make a guy avoid any and all children when in public.
Mr. Fields? I thought you were dead?
Your kids are no worse off on the Internet than they are out on the public streets.
Actually they're in far, far more danger from pederasts and other dangers on the streets than they are on the internet. Want to fuck some youngsters? You can get on the internet, or just go to the mall. Preferably dressed in a police uniform, clergy collar, clown suit... or just get a job at a day care center.
I wrote a journal about that last year. It concerns a local man who had been a policeman, clergyman, clown, and day care center worker who was arrested for child pornography and "sex tourism" (travelling to the Phillipines to have sex with litte boys).
Since this is Springfield, it got wierd when he was put in jail. Apparently he died when a fat man sat on his back until his toes turned purple. Yes, the journal has links to the local newspapar to corroborate it. This Springfield is more cartoonish that the 2D Springfiled, and a lot wierder. In the real Springfield, Simpson is alderman!
Well YAY! That means I don't have to RTFA, so I'm still not new here!
But for those who actually did RTFA, if TFA said that then it was written by someone stupid, ignorant, or both. How can you take anything it says seriously? Can anybody point to a FA from a less developmentally disabled author?
I thought it was "Recording Industry Ass of America? That's how it's usually spelled out.
I'm sorry, this is abuse. You want 12a, down the hall.
Stupid git!
Will copyright terms be lowered to a reasonable length? Don't hold your breath.
Ever hear of Jacob Nielson? Neither have Lessig's web designers, apparently.
But the bullshitters know a salient fact: once bullshit is considered "truth" it might as well be, especially when you're talking about law.
Look at some of the "truths" about marijuana. It causes cancer (no, that is of course not a mainstream link), it isn't addictive (unlike coffee or alcohol it has no physical withdrawal symptoms, although it is habituating, like orange juice), and rather than leading to harder drugs the laws against it lead to harder drugs ("Got any weed, man?" "No it's dry. Want some coke?").
Good luck with that "truth" thing. Ask "Swift Boat" John Kerry how much good "debunking bullshit" is.
Unlike Britney Spears, whose drug problems and custody fight does affect them directly?
Were the RIAA to be dissolved in a fit of legal briefs, that might make the business pages--but it would take something fairly spectacular to get into the 'real' news.
-mcgrew
But hey, rationalization is more important than sex. Think not? Every try to go a day without three really juicy rationalizations? ;-)
Rationalization is more important than sex in the same way that cigarettes are more important to a butthead than food.
Would the human race exist without sex? Would it exist without rationalization? Methinks you are simply rationalizing about rationalization, when reason should tell you that rationalization is completely unimportant in the bigger picture, except as a detriment to just about any endeavor.
I rationalize about why I'm having such trouble getting laid lately.
-mcgrew
(this journal about the lunar eclipse isn't rational, but that's because the people in it are loony)
Here in Springfield there are Ron Paul yard signs all over the place. I haven't seen a single yard sign for anyone else. Judging from yard signs you would think Ron Paul would be the next President.
But judging from yard signs you would have though Tina Jannazzo would be Springfield's alderman for ward 6 where I live; there were Tina Jannazzo yard signs all over, and the only Mark Mahoney (related to Jerry?) sign I saw was in Mahoney's yard.
The incumbent Mahoney kicked her ass two to one in the election.
As to Obama in the slashdot election, well, I don't put much stock in a poll that Cowboy Neal is running in, let alone one where he actually gets votes.
-mcgrew
Who said nerds were mainstream? We may have a bit more respect than we had when I was in high school, but we're still on the margins. We only bring servers down becaise 1) we're all over the planet; there are six billion people here and some of us are nerds, and 2) we all go to RTFA at the same time, bringing down servers.
When we bring down the New York Times or CNN website then maybe you can say we're mainstream.
-mcgrew
Funny how things change like that. Republicans used to be both fiscally and socially conservative. It used to be that Democrats brought war and prosperity while Republicans brought peace and economic depression.
Now you have a choice between tax and spend Democrats and borrow and spend Republicans. They have become two wings of the same party, arguing about nonsense that shouldn't matter to anyone, like gay "marriage" or whether copyright should be extended another thousand years or simply left at "eternity" while agreeing that marijuana should be illegal and bribery should be legal so long as you call it a "campaign contribution."
I'm trying to decide who to vote for in the general election. I voted Ron Paul in the primary, just as a protest, but I'll either vote Green or Libertarian in the general election.
It doesn't matter, the next State of the Union Address will be from President McCain anyway. Whenever you have a moderate running against a far right winger or a far left winger, the moderate wins. No Republican will vote for Obama or Clinton, but quite a few Democrats will vote McCain.
-mcgrew
(don't read the latest journal, it's full of RIAA music and other violence and besides, it's completely offtopic)
...if only this would get more mainstream coverage.
Don't hold your breath. The mainstream media are 100% owned by the corporate interests. The corporations have you and me on a very tight intellectual leash. They own the newspapers, thay own TV, they own radio, they own the magazines.
They own the legislators. They're not about to report on that salient fact, however.
The corporate view will always prevail in the mainstream media. Any story you see in the mainstream will always treat file sharers as evil criminals and the RIAA as industry's (and by extension, America's) saviors.
All we have is the internet. On a more positive note, if we'd had the internet back in the 1970s maybe marijuana would be legal.
Thank you slashdot.
-mcgrew
PS- I have to confess that the RIAA got one of my dollars last Wednesday. It and the attempted murder of a friend are chronicled in the latest journal posted yesterday.
Late last year a company affiliated with the French RIAA hijacked the Shareaza.com domain name from the original
The French "Recording Industry Association of America? WTF?
Kdawson, please have some more coffee before you "edit" the next story, ok?
Oh hell I made first post. What's worse, it makes reference to... I can't beer to say it...
I understand Grandpa brewed his own during prohibition, and though he heard rumors that the police were polluting some brewer's beer with Wii, he said tey never got hold of his brew.
Can you Wii while you're leaping? I mean, without getting wet?
OK, in the previous story about lessig I slammed his content-free "change congress" site, so what does he do? Makes it even lamer and more free of content! All that is there is a spam trap, and by that I mean a form where you can sign up for spam and nothing else. I'm wondering why the spam trap was even linked.
"On why I'm not running has a flash video. Does the esteemed Mr. Lessig think we're all illiterate? I don't have flash on this computer, making both the links in the summary a complete and total waste of time.
However, I'm trying to find a bright spot - even if you ride the short bus to school, you can still grow up to be a rich lawyer.
I'm disgusted. Someone please write an Uncyclopedia article about him? Thanks!
-mcgrew
Oh, wait, I mean the other thing - flamebait.
Microsoft should have merged with Enron, I believe their sign also spelled "Go Stick Your Head In A Pig" after it collapsed. Enron I mean, not the sign.
The Bush administration's sign reads "YOUR PAPERSS, PLEASS!!"
Me make fun of illiterate editors
That's not Quake. That's Quake II.
Ssh, none of these kids will know the difference. And dammit you're right, the ax was my favorite weapon!
But I liked the chain saw in DOOM better.
Somebody's going to frag that mod for that "offtopic" moderation when the metamods get hold of him.
You commented kind of on what I was thinking. When is someone going to get hit with a suit for abusing copyright? After all, we can outwait patents, which only last 20 years. Copyrights are forever, or as close to forever as can matter to anyone still breathing.