I am not sure this matters but my understanding is that sexual predation on children is pretty much split on even lines. Male children are, all else being equal, as likely to be victims as are female children. If anything, offenders with male children victims are likely to have more victims before being caught, because of the prejudice and pressures surrounding reporting Mae victimization.
And no, no I am not some MRA person. This is just the data, as I read it, not all that long ago. As mentioned above, I have a friend who was convicted of a sexual offense and decided to spend some time learning about it.
Trivially related, sex offenders have the second lowest rate of recidivism. The only lower rate is that of murder. They don't actually know why this is, but there are a few ideas. In the case of murder, you already killed the person who needed killing. In the case of a sex-based crime, perhaps there is something similar? They don't really know, but the recidivism rates are amazingly small - but are amplified by publicity. Also, those who offend against children tend to have quite a few victims before they are caught - so anything from offender age to thrill and power may be a cause for the lowered rate of recidivism.
I have a neighbor, whom I count as a real friend, who went to prison for sharing what was classified as child pornography. Specifically, he dated someone who was legally allowed to consent to sex, but images of her nude were illegal.
He went to prison and was then obligated to do a bunch of therapy, lest they return him to prison. What amuses me is that he is still with the same partner and they have kids together. There is, as near as I can tell, zero chance of him having sex with someone who is not legally able to consent.
Again, she was old enough to have sex but the pictures the two of them took together were illegal, as was his sharing of those pictures online - even though she also consented to that. She was either 16 or 17, if you're curious. Legal to sex, illegal to take pics...
Anyhow, CBT was a big part of his therapy. Though, according to him, they aimed more at the grooming stage. You have to convince you, them, and find the opportunity. (Most aren't people snatching kids off the street.) So, they have three, at least, barriers to cross and warning signs for all of them. They concentrated there instead of starting at the point of changing their attractions/deviations.
IIRC, it was headed by a lady who is now deceased but the had consistently lower than average rates of recidivism and there are people continuing her work. I want to say her name was Tracy Morgan- Stanley, but it wasn't my job to remember it, though I did do some research when I first learned that they were an offender.
Curiously, two of the most transphibic people I know of are homosexual and kinda racist. As near as I can tell, they truly hate transfolk. As in, true hate.
Somewhere, we confused the words gender and sex. Sex is, largely, binary. Gender, in the usage here, is an entirely non-scientific term. Your birth certificate, and forms at your health clinic, say sex. Gender is not even a real medical term, it is being bandied about as if it is scientific.
It's not.
And, I know damned well that you know I don't care who is having sex with whom.;-) I really don't care. I do, however, disapprove of unscientific things being presented as factual and I disapprove of basing policy on fantasy.
Sex is nt gender. Gender, as it stands, is about as scientific as fuzzy. Meaning, wholly subjective and rather pointless for policy concerns. I'd suggest attempting to quantify it with evidence but I kinda expect those sorts of studies to be unacceptable.
I admit my biases with regards to the soft sciences.
Slight correction, it can be a fallacy. It is not always fallacious. Just naming a potential fallacy doesn't negate an argument. It still needs to be shown why that specific fallacy discredits/disproves said argument. Why yes, yes I did participate in the debate club, even at the collegiate level.
Sort of related: I am well within the 1% and have no underlying mental health issues that cause difficulty n my life - which is as close as they come to saying that one is sane.
I was a functional opiate addict, for many years. To this day, I am still getting medical treatment by way of Soboxone. In the interest of harm reduction, I may be on it for the rest of my life. Financially, I am able to keep myself inebriated in perpetuity. That is both a blessing and a curse.
Anyhow, if one has questions concerning addiction, from the view of the addict, I'd be happy to answer them. I used IV opiates for most of 30 years and was a high-functioning addict. Addiction knows no financial barriers and addiction doesn't actually require underlying mental health issues, or even strife.
At the end, I was extracting fentanyl for IV use and going through two 100 microgram patches per day. That was, with Duralgesic, 16.8 mg*2/day - enough to kill a dozen non-opioid-tolerant people - every single day. Of course, it took years to build that tolerance up.
But, if you've got questions, I may be able to answer them. It's a fascinating subject, even from the inside looking out.
You could use that same reasoning to suggest we not have laws prohibiting murder.
It isn't that I disagree, it is that you seem to think the intended effect is to actually prohibit something. It really isn't, it is to determine punative responses for violating the social contract. Laws don't really prevent anything, and I believe most people know this. They just set a list of punishments out for when someone commits said act(s).
Why? I have paid university students to do research and then hired the ones that stood out.
You seem to believe that an individual, or company, shouldn't be allowed to do scientific research. I find that concept so bizarre that I'm almost certain that you're trolling, because it would be really difficult to exist while being that stupid.
Go to Reddit, if you want heavy moderation. You obviously don't understand the culture here, and would be better served elsewhere. It is okay, the culture here isn't for everyone. It is not inclusive. It is not a safe space. It is not heavily moderated, even for off-topic posts.
If it were those things, most of us would leave. If you want it to be those things, you should leave. That's not pejorative, it is just factual. You will be happier elsewhere.
There is also "self-cloud" or similar, where they basically call their servers a self-hosted cloud. So, instead of leasing time on a mainframe, they're paying internal processes to use their owned equipment. That which is old, is new again.
The.50 is going to rip through any book I can think of - that these people might be reasonably expected to own. I straight up don't believe their claim that they tested it on one book and it didn't go all the way through. I'm damned near certain that's a lie, even if it was just suspended and swinging in the breeze. There's a whole lot of energy in a.50 round. Even if it's backed with nothing, I expect the round to easily pass through thousands of pages.
Further investigation indicates that Deigo Gomez was acquitted.
Why would you claim the US forced them to sentence him to 8 years, when your article says nothing of the sort? It was 4 to 8, based on their own laws, and the guy was acquitted.
If we want to win this fight, we're going to have to take the moral high road, and that includes being honest. Dishonesty does nobody any good. If I can just search the name, and find out you've been lying, then it means I can discount everything you say and ignore those you'd claim to be affiliated with.
With some cooperation, the nearest ocean would work. If nothing else, the US has a rather kick-ass navy. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to ensure the threat of the USN kept the sea lanes open for trade and transport of oil.
The gist being that there's not a whole lot of friction to change to a new provider. Chances are that, in most cases, they only use a subset of their more recent pictures, as products get cycled out. It shouldn't be too hard to move/alter a few URLs and intelligent use of find/replace may save them quite a bunch of time.
If it were me, I'd have hosted them myself and made it a point to use a file naming system that made sense and was consistent.
Either way, it seems most probable that the vast majority of folks will be able to move without much difficulty. Though, I imagine that those who do the eBay store type of deal would have more difficulty - as opposed to those who have just a couple dozen auctions that they run constantly. Even then, just find/replace should help quite a bit. With some effort, it might be possible to automate the conversions to a new service provider? I'm not sure if PB has an API, or the likes. They could probably scrape the screen, automate downloading, automate uploading, and then automate changing the source files for their stores or auctions.
I guess emphasis is on "could" for that last sentence. It seems like it'd be fairly trivial, even for large stores and people who auction a lot of stuff. They can probably get somebody to write a script for like five bucks at one of those "hire a third world coder" sites.
That's funny. I just mentioned that I wanted goats, in my other reply. I almost came home with two goats, at the end of the winter. They were Nigerian Pygmy goats.
They are cute little buggers. They didn't like to stand still for pictures, but I got a few pics anyhow. I did not accept the goats. They were "free" goats, 'cause the owner was having financial difficulty and couldn't feed her goats (they don't have much to forage for in Maine's winter), so I just bought 'em some food instead, and she kept her goats.
I have also written off the idea of fainting goats. I've concluded that I can not ethically own fainting goats. So, I'm kinda thinking about Angoras. I want a pair of females - no males and no breeding, 'cause I'm not gonna milk a goat. I really doubt the missus is gonna milk a goat, as well. It just seems pretty unlikely.
I have been pondering getting two female goats. I've plenty of acreage to keep them occupied and can rotate them through. They'll eat all sorts of stuff. In my case, I'd have them clean scrub so that it can be tilled and planted - probably with more trees but with one of the hardy grasses as a base.
I've been retired for a while, but a quick Google seems to indicate that Juniper has products in this niche. If this is correct, I'm not sure why they'd be saying it is a duopoly.
Trivially related: We used a lot of Juniper kit. The feature set was on par with Cisco and the prices were much better. I have no idea how much of that remains true.
This AC is wise. uMatrix is one of the best, if not the best, addon for your browser. He has even ported it to Firefox. uMatrix is like an old-school software firewall, but exclusively for your browser. There is a learning curve but it is not steep. Once you have your more frequently visited sites figured out, you can share the settings/configuration and it becomes faster to add new sites as you progress.
It is probably my favorite extension, ever. I consider it more important than Stylish and GreaseMonkey. With uMatrix, you don't even need a secondary ad-blocking extension. Everyone should take the time to learn to use it effectively and to learn the least-permissions model. It is pretty awesome.
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Stupid tablet.
I am not sure this matters but my understanding is that sexual predation on children is pretty much split on even lines. Male children are, all else being equal, as likely to be victims as are female children. If anything, offenders with male children victims are likely to have more victims before being caught, because of the prejudice and pressures surrounding reporting Mae victimization.
And no, no I am not some MRA person. This is just the data, as I read it, not all that long ago. As mentioned above, I have a friend who was convicted of a sexual offense and decided to spend some time learning about it.
Trivially related, sex offenders have the second lowest rate of recidivism. The only lower rate is that of murder. They don't actually know why this is, but there are a few ideas. In the case of murder, you already killed the person who needed killing. In the case of a sex-based crime, perhaps there is something similar? They don't really know, but the recidivism rates are amazingly small - but are amplified by publicity. Also, those who offend against children tend to have quite a few victims before they are caught - so anything from offender age to thrill and power may be a cause for the lowered rate of recidivism.
I have a neighbor, whom I count as a real friend, who went to prison for sharing what was classified as child pornography. Specifically, he dated someone who was legally allowed to consent to sex, but images of her nude were illegal.
He went to prison and was then obligated to do a bunch of therapy, lest they return him to prison. What amuses me is that he is still with the same partner and they have kids together. There is, as near as I can tell, zero chance of him having sex with someone who is not legally able to consent.
Again, she was old enough to have sex but the pictures the two of them took together were illegal, as was his sharing of those pictures online - even though she also consented to that. She was either 16 or 17, if you're curious. Legal to sex, illegal to take pics...
Anyhow, CBT was a big part of his therapy. Though, according to him, they aimed more at the grooming stage. You have to convince you, them, and find the opportunity. (Most aren't people snatching kids off the street.) So, they have three, at least, barriers to cross and warning signs for all of them. They concentrated there instead of starting at the point of changing their attractions/deviations.
IIRC, it was headed by a lady who is now deceased but the had consistently lower than average rates of recidivism and there are people continuing her work. I want to say her name was Tracy Morgan- Stanley, but it wasn't my job to remember it, though I did do some research when I first learned that they were an offender.
Curiously, two of the most transphibic people I know of are homosexual and kinda racist. As near as I can tell, they truly hate transfolk. As in, true hate.
Somewhere, we confused the words gender and sex. Sex is, largely, binary. Gender, in the usage here, is an entirely non-scientific term. Your birth certificate, and forms at your health clinic, say sex. Gender is not even a real medical term, it is being bandied about as if it is scientific.
It's not.
And, I know damned well that you know I don't care who is having sex with whom. ;-) I really don't care. I do, however, disapprove of unscientific things being presented as factual and I disapprove of basing policy on fantasy.
Sex is nt gender. Gender, as it stands, is about as scientific as fuzzy. Meaning, wholly subjective and rather pointless for policy concerns. I'd suggest attempting to quantify it with evidence but I kinda expect those sorts of studies to be unacceptable.
I admit my biases with regards to the soft sciences.
Slight correction, it can be a fallacy. It is not always fallacious. Just naming a potential fallacy doesn't negate an argument. It still needs to be shown why that specific fallacy discredits/disproves said argument. Why yes, yes I did participate in the debate club, even at the collegiate level.
There are worse beers than Budweiser. It is trendy to be a beer snob, but we've all consumed worse beers than Budweiser.
Sort of related: I am well within the 1% and have no underlying mental health issues that cause difficulty n my life - which is as close as they come to saying that one is sane.
I was a functional opiate addict, for many years. To this day, I am still getting medical treatment by way of Soboxone. In the interest of harm reduction, I may be on it for the rest of my life. Financially, I am able to keep myself inebriated in perpetuity. That is both a blessing and a curse.
Anyhow, if one has questions concerning addiction, from the view of the addict, I'd be happy to answer them. I used IV opiates for most of 30 years and was a high-functioning addict. Addiction knows no financial barriers and addiction doesn't actually require underlying mental health issues, or even strife.
At the end, I was extracting fentanyl for IV use and going through two 100 microgram patches per day. That was, with Duralgesic, 16.8 mg*2/day - enough to kill a dozen non-opioid-tolerant people - every single day. Of course, it took years to build that tolerance up.
But, if you've got questions, I may be able to answer them. It's a fascinating subject, even from the inside looking out.
I laughed so hard that I am now a little horse...
Yeah, I am still gonna submit this reply.
You could use that same reasoning to suggest we not have laws prohibiting murder.
It isn't that I disagree, it is that you seem to think the intended effect is to actually prohibit something. It really isn't, it is to determine punative responses for violating the social contract. Laws don't really prevent anything, and I believe most people know this. They just set a list of punishments out for when someone commits said act(s).
The US isn't even remotely in the top ten list of countries that base their legislation on thinking of the children.
Why? I have paid university students to do research and then hired the ones that stood out.
You seem to believe that an individual, or company, shouldn't be allowed to do scientific research. I find that concept so bizarre that I'm almost certain that you're trolling, because it would be really difficult to exist while being that stupid.
Go to Reddit, if you want heavy moderation. You obviously don't understand the culture here, and would be better served elsewhere. It is okay, the culture here isn't for everyone. It is not inclusive. It is not a safe space. It is not heavily moderated, even for off-topic posts.
If it were those things, most of us would leave. If you want it to be those things, you should leave. That's not pejorative, it is just factual. You will be happier elsewhere.
There is also "self-cloud" or similar, where they basically call their servers a self-hosted cloud. So, instead of leasing time on a mainframe, they're paying internal processes to use their owned equipment. That which is old, is new again.
The .50 is going to rip through any book I can think of - that these people might be reasonably expected to own. I straight up don't believe their claim that they tested it on one book and it didn't go all the way through. I'm damned near certain that's a lie, even if it was just suspended and swinging in the breeze. There's a whole lot of energy in a .50 round. Even if it's backed with nothing, I expect the round to easily pass through thousands of pages.
Further investigation indicates that Deigo Gomez was acquitted.
Why would you claim the US forced them to sentence him to 8 years, when your article says nothing of the sort? It was 4 to 8, based on their own laws, and the guy was acquitted.
If we want to win this fight, we're going to have to take the moral high road, and that includes being honest. Dishonesty does nobody any good. If I can just search the name, and find out you've been lying, then it means I can discount everything you say and ignore those you'd claim to be affiliated with.
Lies don't help.
With some cooperation, the nearest ocean would work. If nothing else, the US has a rather kick-ass navy. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to ensure the threat of the USN kept the sea lanes open for trade and transport of oil.
The gist being that there's not a whole lot of friction to change to a new provider. Chances are that, in most cases, they only use a subset of their more recent pictures, as products get cycled out. It shouldn't be too hard to move/alter a few URLs and intelligent use of find/replace may save them quite a bunch of time.
If it were me, I'd have hosted them myself and made it a point to use a file naming system that made sense and was consistent.
Either way, it seems most probable that the vast majority of folks will be able to move without much difficulty. Though, I imagine that those who do the eBay store type of deal would have more difficulty - as opposed to those who have just a couple dozen auctions that they run constantly. Even then, just find/replace should help quite a bit. With some effort, it might be possible to automate the conversions to a new service provider? I'm not sure if PB has an API, or the likes. They could probably scrape the screen, automate downloading, automate uploading, and then automate changing the source files for their stores or auctions.
I guess emphasis is on "could" for that last sentence. It seems like it'd be fairly trivial, even for large stores and people who auction a lot of stuff. They can probably get somebody to write a script for like five bucks at one of those "hire a third world coder" sites.
That's funny. I just mentioned that I wanted goats, in my other reply. I almost came home with two goats, at the end of the winter. They were Nigerian Pygmy goats.
They are cute little buggers. They didn't like to stand still for pictures, but I got a few pics anyhow. I did not accept the goats. They were "free" goats, 'cause the owner was having financial difficulty and couldn't feed her goats (they don't have much to forage for in Maine's winter), so I just bought 'em some food instead, and she kept her goats.
I have also written off the idea of fainting goats. I've concluded that I can not ethically own fainting goats. So, I'm kinda thinking about Angoras. I want a pair of females - no males and no breeding, 'cause I'm not gonna milk a goat. I really doubt the missus is gonna milk a goat, as well. It just seems pretty unlikely.
I have been pondering getting two female goats. I've plenty of acreage to keep them occupied and can rotate them through. They'll eat all sorts of stuff. In my case, I'd have them clean scrub so that it can be tilled and planted - probably with more trees but with one of the hardy grasses as a base.
I've been retired for a while, but a quick Google seems to indicate that Juniper has products in this niche. If this is correct, I'm not sure why they'd be saying it is a duopoly.
Trivially related: We used a lot of Juniper kit. The feature set was on par with Cisco and the prices were much better. I have no idea how much of that remains true.
Asking absurd hypotheticals is what tepples do best.
Yeah? Well, what if they wanted to do this on hardware from 2008?
It's kinda what he does, pretty much always. Meh... Sometimes they are legit questions.
It says Bixby right in the summary. It even says it twice...
[citation needed]
This AC is wise. uMatrix is one of the best, if not the best, addon for your browser. He has even ported it to Firefox. uMatrix is like an old-school software firewall, but exclusively for your browser. There is a learning curve but it is not steep. Once you have your more frequently visited sites figured out, you can share the settings/configuration and it becomes faster to add new sites as you progress.
It is probably my favorite extension, ever. I consider it more important than Stylish and GreaseMonkey. With uMatrix, you don't even need a secondary ad-blocking extension. Everyone should take the time to learn to use it effectively and to learn the least-permissions model. It is pretty awesome.