03 Jul 09 Isn’t Porn Free Speech?
I thought that porn was protected under free speech. I could be wrong, and I’m too lazy to look it up right now, but did this Idiocy…yah, I know! My favorite quote out of the article is: “These prison sentences affirm the need to continue to protect the public from obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy material, the production of which degrades all of us.”
Wait, what? Could someone define for me what obscene is? Last I checked that was kind of subjective, and I’m not sure I trust judges to make clear and universally accepted (as far as the society goes) distinctions on what is and is not obscene. I don’t find porn to be obscene, not even the really weird stuff. Why? Because I understand some people aren’t going to be into what I’m into, and I have the wherewithal to accept that. The courts never cease to amaze me.
Yah, I’m also pissed off about Jammie Thomas too. The fines the RIAA gets to impose or has imposed on their behalf is just fucking retarded, if you don’t mind my saying so. Just….=-(
10 Jun 09 Shhh, I Have a Secret
Don’t tell anyone, but when mechanics work on your car, they look through your stuff. Also, when computer techs work on your PC, they copy your neat porn and all of your music as well; and, they look at that folder that says “Super Secret Documents-Do Not Open”. You know why? Because we’re curious individuals. As a by-product of this curiosity you should not ever put anything on your PC that you are not prepared to have someone look at when they work on your computer.
I work on computers (haha I bet you didn’t know that!) and generally stay out of people’s personal files. That includes the folders on your desktop that say “DO NOT OPEN”. You know why? Because I don’t get paid to do that, so I don’t. Also, I do not want to make it my responsibility to become embroiled in a lawsuit.
“Lawsuit?” you ask. Yes little cherubs lawsuit. I’m against spying on my fellow man, even if it might stop some sleazy behavior. I don’t like the idea of a police state, but I am against horrendous actions. I just feel I shouldn’t take the place of a police investigator just because I have the ability to do so. What prompted me to talk about this was the following article concerning the Supreme Court declining to hear a man’s case involving child pornography and Circuit City.
If you want to read the article, you have to click the picture. =-P
Tags: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, Computing, Government, Media
01 Jun 09 NOM, Or People That Hate Change
Change makes people fearful. It also makes them irrational sometimes. Conservatives are liars. So are Liberals. Most people are liberal about some things and conservative about others. I am conservative about military usage in my country, but I am liberal about the freedoms we should have as a people. Most people are this way, (my specifics excluded) regardless of how much they say otherwise. Some people are conservative about gay marriage (and I’ll explain what exactly is wrong with that statement in a moment) and liberal about military usage. It’s a pendulum of balance I’d say. Anyhow, to my point.
NOM, is a ‘conservative’ group. That is to say, they oppose gay marriage (this is that whole…conservative about gay marriage bit). Apparently, it’s wrong to be gay and it’s also wrong to be gay and get married. I’ve never really understood this double-standard. When is the last time anyone chose to be heterosexual? Yah, exactly. So what is wrong with gay marriage? I mean besides all the things that are problematic with marriage in and of itself? NOM apparently believes that it hurts children (OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!), as if there is something psychologically damaging because OMG there are gay people.
Yes, there are gay couples, they (should) get married. The world isn’t going to fall apart over it. Get over your hate. Or at least place it on something that’s relevant to our society, like hating fuel prices. If you don’t drive, hate smog! That’s worth gettin’ upset about.
Ummm....Bunny!? Mmm...Corm.
Tags: Christianity, Freedom, Lolicon
29 May 09 The Salem Witch Trials
If you can’t see the irony, you need better glasses. Much like the word terrorist, paedophile (thanks Grant, for turning me in hahaha…..bastard) pedophile has the same reactionary response. So does the phrase child porn. It’s really amazing what little things will set people off into having completely idiotic opinions about something. I read manga. I read a lot of it actually, and although I don’t make a habit of reading things that involve too much tentacle sex someone was arrested for collecting lolicon. Seriously? Seriously. He was also charged, and struck a plea bargain. Seriously.
America is scary in the way it works sometimes. If you believed even half of the things the politicians are saying about protecting your children from predators along with the sensationalism that the media drums up with their paedophile busts you’d never let your kids out of the house or online. Now, it seems that it’s okay to dictate what is obscene for the populace. I don’t think that’s normal. It sounds a little Orwellian to me. I feel cheap using the word, but since I think this is only the second or third time I’ve used it…you’re gonna have to deal. Have a look-see at this article and tell me that’s normal, it reminds me of the big deal with porn way back when. Interestingly, it seems that now manga (or comic books in general) aren’t “real” works of art and have no value other than to demean a target audience? How does that work exactly?
Need I say more?
Tags: Anime, Freedom, Government, Manga, Media
28 May 09 The Unfortunate Defeat of the LTTE
Unfortunate, you say? Yes, unfortunate. I’d say from their perspective it was/is quite unfortunate. What is also unfortunate, that because the LTTE did some really unpleasant things, amongst them child soldiering and bombing some civilian areas, everyone ignored and continues to ignore what political issues involved. In particular I’ve been quite concerned for some time about the genocide that systematically took place in Sri Lanka against the Tamil people.
The words terrorist organization, or terrorist all by its lonesome tends to make people wig out and label them evil right off the bat. I think that’s a mistake, and it can have dire consequences. For the nay-sayers out there I’d remind you that the US was created via terrorist actions, and regardless of how the history books tell it it would be rather ignorant to think that the British did not label the revolutionaries as terrorists and guerilla fighters. Our history books call them freedom fighters though. That’s important to understand, because it’s a perspective issue. The Tamil people suffered and likely will continue to suffer a real discrimination from the Sinhalese majority in government. I find that mildly disturbing since discrimination is something that can be difficult to peg on a chart of “definitely discriminate” and “just someone being an asshole”.
I happened to come across this article, which highlights certain things like indiscriminate shelling of civilians and then using the excuse of “they were being used as human shields”. Both sides were known for being not entirely truthful in reports so as to appear to be completely on the moral high ground; however, I for one am not quite that dumb. Another article discusses the shelling of a hospital (if you don’t like CNN) that was labeled and advertised as a safe zone for civilians. That kind of indiscretion makes me concerned for what other sorts of atrocities were committed both before and after the conflict sparked up again. Ah well. I’m sad for the Tamil people, very sad. Now who is going to protect them from atrocities on the other side of the fence? I highly doubt we will see any sudden wellspring of wealth emerge from the Tamil people to be a true force of change within the government for equality; I could be wrong though.
Tags: Sri Lanka, United Nations, War
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