Yeah, see, telling a non-sports-loving, non-American nerd (me) that Lebron James is the basketball equivalent of Peyton Manning doesn't help, because then my next question inevitably is: Who the hell is Peyton Manning?
I suppose neither one of these guys has managed to have dozen mistresses at once, because I sure do know who Tiger Woods is.
You gotta hand it to the CIA. When they attack something like Wikileaks, they really take the long view.
Well, I don't see anything in the article as being particularly discrediting to Julian Assange. It appears that he has a secret past involving nomadic life and computer hacking. I don't know about the rest of you, but considering his current career pretty much consists of being constantly on the move and publish classified documents online I find that amazingly non-shocking.
Not that the CIA might not be involved in this, they might, what do I know? But if they are, they are either taking the long, long, infinity-can-be-seen-on-a-good-day-long view or are just really inept.
I understand the motivation for blocking interactive sites for paedophiles to exchange their revolting material, but a static public information service?
Epic fail.
I'm always skeptical when a relatively harmless activity gets banned in order to "prevent" another, more dangerous one. Child pornography is illegal, and rightfully so. But restricting an entire nation's access to the internet in order to make things more difficult for pedophiles? I don't see the benefits myself, but then I am neither a computer genius (understatement!) nor from Australia, so perhaps I'm missing something.
Personally, I'd rather see increased effort in tracking down the bastards and throwing them in jail.
I remember growing up, it was common advice... Don't use your real name online. From then till now people's perception of the risks, yet the risks remain the same.
Not just the risks! The whole online world is changing and evolving annoyingly quickly. And although it makes me feel depressingly old, I'm SO glad my party-like-a-rockstar days were over before youtube and camera phones were everywhere. Kids today grow up with a very different view of sharing personal info, photos, videos and the like than before.
Twenty years from now we'll probably be suspicious of a politician who doesn't have a sex tape. And if it doesn't involve at least one member of each sex besides her/him, latex and a pineapple, (s)he'll probably never get elected anyway.
"Better safe than sorry" really means "I would prefer to satisfy my irrationality rather than admit I'm wrong/learn about something"
(No offense to your mom, she's hardly unique in this respect)
None taken! Although, to be just, I think she really means "I would prefer to satisfy my irrationality rather than admit I'm wrong *to my child*". It's not so much an unreasonable pride thing as it is an unreasonable parent thing.
Just so we're clear on how exactly we're insulting my mother!
do you live in sebastopol?
Uh...no...?
In my defense I only made the original comment to be funny - the point wasn't to "pull false authority" or any shit like that. Sorry if it came off like that, not intended at all.
My mother always shuts down her wireless network at night because she worries about the "radiation" from it.
*sigh*
My PhD in physics is absolutely worthless in the face of her "better safe than sorry"
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa
