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Comment Re:verified (Score 1) 311

Actually it was. You decried Reddit's decision to throw the scum from their forums as 'censorship'. And given your usual libertard ranting, that's a moral condemnation coming from you.

So, not only do you think that Reddit has no right to keep scum from their own private property, you don't even have the courage of your convictions to say it outright.

Comment Re:verified (Score 1) 311

Sure, it sounds nice and progressive and kum-ba-ya-bullshitty to say that even "real" porn models have a right to control the distribution of their images. In practice, you need a bigger stick than Reddit has to force that genie back in the lamp

But that still does not make it right; and it still makes throwing the posters of such material off your boards the right thing to do.

An appeal to "worse happens elsewhere", or even "If we don't allow bad things here they will move elsewhere anyway" is a shoddy defence. That somehow you don't see the moral bankruptcy of that is rather a reflection on you.

Comment Re:verified (Score 1) 311

Funny, all three of your examples are consensual activities. Posting nudes without permission of the model? Isn't.

So yeah, Reddit is in effect throwing out the abusive idiot who think that being invited to your party thinks it is OK to feel up the girls, and when the host complains defends himself with "But they're asking for it".

I still don't see a downside of this action. I don't think I am merely technically right.

Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 1) 311

"It's okay to ban this kind of speech" is never. Never true.

So, it is perfectly fine to spread lies that you're a paedophile and make you lose your job. No-one has the right to remove those accusations from their forums.

Really, you Free-Speach fundamentalist libertards are the greatest fun. No right can be absolute as long as you have to share public space with other people. Every attempt at exercising an absolute right will sooner or later come into conflict with other peoples' rights.

If you want absolute Freedom of Speech, go live in a cave. Or stay in your mom's basement, which is basically the same thing.

Comment In the words of W.B. Yeats (Score 1) 698

Once more the storm is howling and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory's Wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack and roof-levelling wind,
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of the great gloom that is in my mind.

I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea

[...]

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is heaven's will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.

-- W.B. Yeats, A Prayer for my Daughter

The rest of the poem is a bit dated, in that Yeats is giving advice to his daughter that is rather sexist by modern views, but these three stanzas say it all really.

Comment Re:Just give the option to turn it off... (Score 1) 823

Anybody that has driven a manual shifter knows that engine noise is a useful feedback mechanism to the driver.

I ride a motorcycle. Since the engine is out in the open, you can always hear the engine. And yet I find myself relying more on the throttle response and the tachometer to tell me when to shift. They could be entirely silent and I still would shift at the same points.

In fact, I did my final test on a Suzuki LS650 Savage, which does not have a tacho, and I hated it. I had to shift entirely on intuition.

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