No, he had no counter-argument.

Child pornography is universally morally abhorrent. The definition of 'child' and the age of legal sexual consent differs from state to state to country, but the first worlders have it pretty much set at about 16+ years (Japan being a strange exception with some provinces at 13). Google does filter child pornography (http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/familysafety/faq/). Did I read you right? Did you say they didn't? But are they right to do this? Yes. No thought required, the automatic affirmative is the correct answer. It's not a slippery slope of censorship, but it is Google policing the flow of information and it is the minimum essential moral obligation a global corporation like Google can do in a world where there is no globally held morality.

Finding links to download the latest hollywood blockbuster on Google isn't even a far distant cry to filtering for child pornography - the two are not even comparable and the distinction is false.

Emanual should be mortally ashamed for even thinking policing child pornography and policing links to torrents equate.

Such a pathetic attitude. Shoot this parent.

viva la France!

At least they don't have Freedom Fries and designated Free Speech Zones. You need to lighten up and realise your government has you bent over the bench just as much.

"-U Quicktime" is good enough.

The GPL and it's rules cultivates your idea of 'freedom'. If there were no GPL and only the BSD free software as we know it would have stagnated and died before it ever reached critical mass. The GPL isn't going away and talking about it in the past tense won't hurry it on it's way either. Everything has it's place and the GPL was and will continue to be a necessary component in providing a cradle in which our 'freedom' to create, persists.

Buddhism still has one kneeling and bowing before icons. Once upon a time it might have been a philosphy, now it's practically teeming with supernatural bit and pieces. There is a good book by Stephen Batchelor, an agnostic and former hardcore buddhist, called "Buddhism without Beliefs" where he re-presents buddhism stripped of a lot of it's historical cruft. It's a small book but it offers up some very practical knowledge.

The Booq Boa could be what you are looking for: Booq Boa Flow XL Digital SLR/17" Laptop Backpack I have a regular laptop bag made by Booq and it's perhaps the nicest thing I own. I was blown away by the quality of it when it arrived. I also paid through the nose for it, but it was worth every penny. Rushfaster, the site I just linked to, also have an excellent website and excellent customer service. Not a shill, just a regular, satisfied customer :) Hope it helps.

Thanks for that link - I was quite impressed (and that's a bit hard to do these days). On the strength of that I donated and and am downloading it in it's entirety.

I hope they make their 40K goal.

I would have paid for a second ME.

I would have forgiven the bad dialogue, lame voice acting and completely unbelievable situations the protagonist found herself in ... I would have even overlooked the empty world she seemed to inhabit, devoid of pedestrians, cars (or anything really) If they could have just taken what they had and improved all of those things above just a little bit. I would have bought a second ME then.

ME was something of a racing and adventure game, I hated being chased and I hated the gazillion quick-saves I had to do. Even if they had gotten rid of the ridiculous plot and had me running bags around rooftops, it would have made ME a better game. No silly conspiracy theories, no armoured evil versions of yourself chasing you ... just find satchel, deliver satchel. It could have been sweet, because It was a beautiful looking game after all, I just wish my beast had a physics card.

Did you mean Redneck Rampage?

oblig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Rampage

The curt dolphin was courteous.

This sounds an awful lot like RFID and NFC (Near Field Communications). The purpose of these is to have inventory that can identify itself when 'pinged' (books, pallets, passports ...). This entails all kinds of things, like shelves that can inventory themselves, tracking an item from manufacturer through shipping, distribution and ultimately to the item in your hands.

Ghostbusters! They have proven experience taking care of slimers ...

He has a website here: http://www.drkarl.com/ and you can listen to him on the ABC website here: http://abc.gov.au/science/drkarl/

gawd. It's "straight" not "strait".