Since posting on blogs is the furthest I will go into social networking, couldn't someone more savvy nudge the other social/news sites to spread the word?
I'm sure sypathetic folks could be found at Reddit, Fark, and other places.
We urgently need a public conversation in our country among key stakeholders: parents, educators, musicians, policymakers and young people themselves. The dialogue must focus on the ways Rock-and-Roll music influences kids to give up their modesty before they fully understand what love between a husband and wife is and why it's important to all of us. We should also discuss how music can help empower kids to find their voice, find their purpose and potentially enrich artistic culture.
All adults know that the teen years are a critical time for identity exploration the growth of faith. Yet this important developmental phase can be dramatically twisted when obscene music, however melodic, alters one's peceptions to love and its physical expressions for life.
I close my eyes and I can smell the 50s. Oddly it's like TV dinners and irrational social repression.
I were in music, writing, art, etc. a day wouldn't go by where I would be blown away by fans like that.
I totally get that some people are shy, introverted, and find it hard or are not interested in finding ANY way of making that kind of connection with people. On the other hand, look what that connection can do!
As someone who loves books as a physical artifact, I still like and buy ebooks for the reasons you mentioned. I only have so much room for stuff in my house, and I'm pretty sure my wife would smother me in my sleep if I ran out of shelf space in the computer room (I'm about 75% capacity on my 6 ft bookcases) and insisted on being able to start putting books in other rooms of the house just because I think they look impressive on the shelf.
ebooks let me create two tiers of value on books that's helpful in my daily life:
The bibliophile in me can buy the physical copies of the books I genuinely intend to keep because they're great repeat reads, they look pretty, etc.
The reader in me can get ebooks to have easy access to public domain titles, and books I'm willing to pay for to read, but don't want to have to worry about the space taken up by one.more.paperback.
Everyone involved points a finger at each other. A Congressional inquiry will be made where loud voices will be spoken, and more fingers pointed. A mid-high level functionary will be forced to resign into an executive level position with a security or defence company. The government claims immunity from prosecution as the culprit was a terrorist anyway (that they created the terrorist is beside the point), so no restitution is made for the victims.
What Marcus said, then again, you really think that downloading Avatar is worse than murder?
I'm only saying that because if someone is accused of murder, the cops would still need a warrant to search a suspects belongings and property, you know, a process that would make sure that there's a real reason to root through your stuff and your privacy.
If CISPA were the law of the land, such procedures would not be necessary in regard to your digital belongings. The best way this makes sense in my mind is if infringment was worse than murder. A crime so foul that one's rights as a citizen don't matter.
If the activity is clearly unlawful, why are more measures needed? More importantly, why do the measures have to be so broad as to fundamentally affect how valuable technologies work (SOPA and the internet), or outright violate our liberties (CISPA, and the 4th Amendment)?
Perhaps even more importantly, if these measures are the best solutions our lawmakers have to offer, maybe the laws that prohibit these activities are too broad or no longer relevant.
I've always thought that it was just tacky to do it. Isn't it enough that you can fire someone if you tell an employee how work software and hardware uses are allowed, but the employee abuses/misuses it?
Sending a tasteless joke via email can certainly be grounds for dismissal, but unless it's hiding or distributing malware, there no hacking involved at all.
I think it's pretty clear that Facebook would be the type of site that he should have stayed away from, because it covers or is the modern equivalent to the listed banned activities. Then again, since most websites include those functions to some degree a little guidance should be given. Should the fact that Amazon has a forum function make it a disallowed site?
The closest closest thing I can think of is the fight between Ender and Bonzo in the shower*.
Yeah, they're in a public shower, so there's no clothes.
But they were showering.
Then there was a fight.
And Ender accidentally (Or does he?) kills Bonzo.
As is sometimes the case, this claim of obscenity makes me wonder more about the accuser. They simply had to be going out of their way to find something that wasn't there.
*Being that this books is over 20 years old now, I consider the spoilers limitation null and void.
I will say that it's one thing to know it, and another thing to not consider it in the act.
There was interesting article about it in National Geographic a few months ago. Young adults are wired to wieght actions and consequences in a different way then when one is older. Looking before leaping is essentially a part of being young.
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Since posting on blogs is the furthest I will go into social networking, couldn't someone more savvy nudge the other social/news sites to spread the word?
I'm sure sypathetic folks could be found at Reddit, Fark, and other places.
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We urgently need a public conversation in our country among key stakeholders: parents, educators, musicians, policymakers and young people themselves. The dialogue must focus on the ways Rock-and-Roll music influences kids to give up their modesty before they fully understand what love between a husband and wife is and why it's important to all of us. We should also discuss how music can help empower kids to find their voice, find their purpose and potentially enrich artistic culture.
All adults know that the teen years are a critical time for identity exploration the growth of faith. Yet this important developmental phase can be dramatically twisted when obscene music, however melodic, alters one's peceptions to love and its physical expressions for life.
I close my eyes and I can smell the 50s. Oddly it's like TV dinners and irrational social repression.
Re: Parking Today?
I paraphrase George Carlin from his Jammin in New York show:
Any activity engaged by more than four people has got a magazine *!%&@ devoted to it
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In Futurama they call it "the Stupid Ages". As a member of that era, I'm hurt a little, but it seems applicable.
The value of fans
I were in music, writing, art, etc. a day wouldn't go by where I would be blown away by fans like that.
I totally get that some people are shy, introverted, and find it hard or are not interested in finding ANY way of making that kind of connection with people. On the other hand, look what that connection can do!
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As someone who loves books as a physical artifact, I still like and buy ebooks for the reasons you mentioned. I only have so much room for stuff in my house, and I'm pretty sure my wife would smother me in my sleep if I ran out of shelf space in the computer room (I'm about 75% capacity on my 6 ft bookcases) and insisted on being able to start putting books in other rooms of the house just because I think they look impressive on the shelf.
ebooks let me create two tiers of value on books that's helpful in my daily life:
The bibliophile in me can buy the physical copies of the books I genuinely intend to keep because they're great repeat reads, they look pretty, etc.
The reader in me can get ebooks to have easy access to public domain titles, and books I'm willing to pay for to read, but don't want to have to worry about the space taken up by one.more.paperback.
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Then what?
Most likely scenario:
Everyone involved points a finger at each other. A Congressional inquiry will be made where loud voices will be spoken, and more fingers pointed. A mid-high level functionary will be forced to resign into an executive level position with a security or defence company. The government claims immunity from prosecution as the culprit was a terrorist anyway (that they created the terrorist is beside the point), so no restitution is made for the victims.
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Is that why I have this terrible urge to conquer Australia?
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What Marcus said, then again, you really think that downloading Avatar is worse than murder?
I'm only saying that because if someone is accused of murder, the cops would still need a warrant to search a suspects belongings and property, you know, a process that would make sure that there's a real reason to root through your stuff and your privacy.
If CISPA were the law of the land, such procedures would not be necessary in regard to your digital belongings. The best way this makes sense in my mind is if infringment was worse than murder. A crime so foul that one's rights as a citizen don't matter.
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I wonder if they've registered at Target yet?
I tried to be a little more thoughtful and sent them my digital copy of an 1871 book about Russian Embroidery. The MPAA notified Homeland Security, and now I'm serving 30 to life.
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If the activity is clearly unlawful, why are more measures needed? More importantly, why do the measures have to be so broad as to fundamentally affect how valuable technologies work (SOPA and the internet), or outright violate our liberties (CISPA, and the 4th Amendment)?
Perhaps even more importantly, if these measures are the best solutions our lawmakers have to offer, maybe the laws that prohibit these activities are too broad or no longer relevant.
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- You're looking at now sir. Everything that's happening now is happening now.
- What happened to then?
- We passed then.
- When?
- Just now.
I seriously think that scene ranks with "Who's on First", which is timeless in its hilarity, as comedic dialog. Whoever wrote it deserves a medal.
Salting the Wound
I've always thought that it was just tacky to do it. Isn't it enough that you can fire someone if you tell an employee how work software and hardware uses are allowed, but the employee abuses/misuses it?
Sending a tasteless joke via email can certainly be grounds for dismissal, but unless it's hiding or distributing malware, there no hacking involved at all.
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We construe criminal statutes narrowly so that Congress will not unintentionally turn ordinary citizens into criminals.
Ahh, so that's why Congress is now writing criminal statutes so broadly. I see now!
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I think it's pretty clear that Facebook would be the type of site that he should have stayed away from, because it covers or is the modern equivalent to the listed banned activities. Then again, since most websites include those functions to some degree a little guidance should be given. Should the fact that Amazon has a forum function make it a disallowed site?
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Hey, I'm from ND!
There's no doubt we're more modern than Arizona.
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Huh, this must why I feel like I've seen more horror/thriller movie trailers with "Based on True Events" statements tacked on them.
I for one buy it. I'm pretty sure a young lady spending the night alone in an older house has happened at least once.
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"The real estate website is to the realtor as the VCR was to the movie industry as the Boston Strangler was to the woman at home alone!"
- Von Palmer
Re: Wtf???
The closest closest thing I can think of is the fight between Ender and Bonzo in the shower*.
Yeah, they're in a public shower, so there's no clothes.
But they were showering.
Then there was a fight.
And Ender accidentally (Or does he?) kills Bonzo.
As is sometimes the case, this claim of obscenity makes me wonder more about the accuser. They simply had to be going out of their way to find something that wasn't there.
*Being that this books is over 20 years old now, I consider the spoilers limitation null and void.
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I will say that it's one thing to know it, and another thing to not consider it in the act.
There was interesting article about it in National Geographic a few months ago. Young adults are wired to wieght actions and consequences in a different way then when one is older. Looking before leaping is essentially a part of being young.