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Comment Re:give it up (Score 1) 84

We could also just as accurately say that Goldman Sachs stole the Greek economy among many other things.
I suppose it could always be argued that the Greek government didn't have to follow their advice, and that "sharp practice" is the American way that they should have been wary of - but it isn't what is supposed to be the American way is it?
It's the same with proposing to jail a copyright infringer for longer than a rapist or armed robber - something to be ashamed of. Just because Goldman Sachs execs like to act and think like the English nobility of the 1700s and splash money around to get mere elected representatives to do their bidding is no reason to treat those they see as their enemies as worse than the enemies of society that actually deserve to be locked up (murderers etc).

Comment It does show the full image for me as number 4 (Score 1) 628

Incorrect. Image number 4 for me in a search for "lena soderberg" was this:
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://std3.ru/57/a9/1382360119-57a9226b58e2e1baa311e9f0f6fa0728.jpg&imgrefurl=http://imgarcade.com/1/lena-soderberg-original/&h=700&w=384&tbnid=sHNdiBO8gK9_6M:&zoom=1&docid=G3OImPX1TScqOM&ei=g8VFVbHPAYTsmAXfoICwBA&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CB8QMygDMAM

Don't bother with the long URL just do the search yourself.
So a fuckup by the teacher. Maybe an irrelevant storm in a teacup but the image does come up.

Comment Kids today! (Score 1) 628

I got a good laugh out of your "grow up" post in response to a teacher's obvious fuckup in telling kids slightly younger than yourself to do a classroom google search for something that's likely to lead to Playboy magazine. It's pretty good advice kid, but you should try following it yourself before unleashing such a torrent of shit on someone who's just posting about an amusing classroom fuckup.

You're not a kid? Why haven't you grown up mentally then? Why are you picking on little girls?

Comment Re:Dumb stuff (Score 1) 628

If it was Runaway1956's "girl on beach" in the same pose etc and you'd managed to get it in a gallery they'd have no problems bringing school groups into the gallery.
Since it's a Playboy centrefold that brings in extra baggage and implied support of that baggage, which in a school setting just sends the kids off into Bevis and Butthead mode.
The only fuckup was getting the kids to search for the image instead of supplying it.
The "they don't like their own bodies" is way off the planet since the whole discussion is about some kid finding it funny that his homework is from a centrefold.

Comment Not the face (Score 1) 628

Looks like people aren't even bothering to read the summary before posting "with certainty" these days.
A teacher fucked up and told them to search. They didn't just get the "face", they got the info that it was a centrefold and suddenly all the baggage that comes with that became an issue. Storm in a teacup but even if taken seriously it's still very different to "That any classroom that has a woman's face in it is a hostile work environment" deliberate idiocy.

Comment Come on guys stop acting stupid (Score 1) 628

It was cute for the first hundred posts pretending to be stupid, but then it just got old.
Of course the entire point is it's from a Playboy centrefold and the kids googled for it, then went into Bevis and Butthead mode.
The "if your precious snowflake cant handle the image of a beautiful womans face wearing a hat" tripe is missing the point by so far it may as well be on the moon.

Comment Re:She has a point. (Score 1) 628

There's no contradiction there. Bare boobs is a historical drama or art gallery don't come with the same baggage as bare boobs in Playboy or a strip club and your Nun would have been very aware of that. She probably didn't see anything wrong with breast feeding in public either. There's "conservative" and there's the far side of crazy that wants to protect children from the merest hint of a nipple in any context.

Comment Re:She has a point. (Score 1) 628

I'm seeing the context of the "Lena" image as being a standard test for image processing.

Not if the kids get it off the net as a Playboy centrefold.
If the teacher had just provided the students with the image, even the full body one, instead of getting them to search for it there would be no story here. It's just a fuckup of breaching school policies due to a lack of preparation.

Comment Re:She has a point. (Score 1) 628

Here is the fuckup in question:

"My artificial intelligence teacher told our class to search Google for Lena Soderberg"

Hence more than the face which is what they would have if the teacher had provided the image. While many worse things happen in schools it's still a fuckup and against the policy of just about every high school on the planet.
So while it's probably not any more exposure to nudity than a school trip to an art gallery it's still a fuckup, even if it's only at the level where the teacher's Principal or Supervisor punishes the guy by simply telling him not to do something so stupid again.

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