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AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by a PC virus by AP: Yahoo! Tech (-)

  • Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

  • Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer — and might not realize it until police knock at your door.


    An Associated Press investigation found cases in which innocent people have been branded as pedophiles after their co-workers or loved ones stumbled upon child porn placed on a PC through a virus. It can cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove their innocence.

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Don't Feed the Animals: Evolution and Our Thought Process (-)

Incorrect: "Feature X evolved to suit Y needs." Correct: "Species that evolved with feature X were able to take advantage of Y opportunities, thus survive while others died out."

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evolution analogy

  • species go extinct just as they survive; through the adaptations that either succeed or fail to prepare them for their ever-changing environment.
  • Can organisms without self-awareness or technology evolve in directions that they intend? Is there intelligence or choice involved in the existence of the species that are alive today, or is this all a function of circumstance? Its easy to look back at history and say, "Everything that has happened thus far was necessary for this very moment to occur." This is true and it depends on your belief in whether an invisible guiding hand exists or not to answer the questions.
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07 Nov 09

No one said freedom was pretty (-)

  • Technically, Thursday's GOP-sponsored rally at the Capitol was a "press conference" (a Capitol Police spokeswoman explained that the lawmakers didn't have a permit for a demonstration). The speakers took no questions at this news conference, instead calling, at least a dozen times, for the Pelosi bill's death.
  • By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care.

Muslims at Fort Voice Outrage and Ask Questions - NYTimes.com (-)

  • “When a white guy shoots up a post office, they call that going postal,” said Victor Benjamin II, 30, a former member of the Army. “But when a Muslim does it, they call it jihad.
  • “Ultimately it was Brother Nidal’s doing, but the command should be held accountable,” Mr. Benjamin said. “G.I.’s are like any equipment in the Army. When it breaks, those who were in charge of keeping it fit should be held responsible for it.”
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Joe Medicine Crow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Medicine Crow completed all four tasks required to become a war chief. He touched a living enemy soldier (1) and disarmed an enemy (2)
  • He also led a successful war party (3) and stole an enemy horse (4)
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Big Content: Using "moral panics" to change copyright law - Ars Technica (-)

  • Patry has written one of two definitive accounts of US copyright law (all 5,500 pages of Patry on Copyright can be yours for the low, low price of only $1,589).
  • "Corporate copyright owners live in fear, especially fear of their own consumers. Those consumers are young, tech savvy, and have wrested control over corporations' physical product from them, an unthinkable act 10 years ago. The result is a classical moral panic against youth... The Copyright Wars are a fight against our own children and it is a fight that says everything about the adults and very little about the children."
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More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder | The Onion - America's Finest News Source (-)

  • outhful Tendency Disorder (YTD), a poorly understood neurological condition that afflicts an estimated 20 million U.S. children, is characterized by a variety of senseless, unproductive physical and mental exercises, often lasting hours at a time. In the thrall of YTD, sufferers run, jump, climb, twirl, shout, dance, do cartwheels, and enter unreal, unexplainable states of "make-believe."
  • "The Youthful child has a kind of love/hate relationship with reality," said Johns Hopkins University YTD expert Dr. Avi Gwertzman. "Unfit to join the adult world, they struggle to learn its mores and rules in a process that can take the entirety of their childhood. In the meantime, their emotional and perceptive problems cause them to act out in unpredictable and extremely juvenile ways. It's as though they can only take so much reality; they have to 'check out,' to go Youthful for a while."
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If I'm So Crazy, Then Why Do People Keep Having Sex With Me? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source (-)

  • how do you explain the men practically lined up around the block to hook up with me when I'm wearing next to nothing and dancing on a barroom pool table at three o'clock in the morning?



    You're trying to tell me they would approach a complete lunatic?

  • If my behavior is so out of the ordinary, don't you think a guy would turn tail and run after I unexpectedly start crying when we're making out, and then moments later turn around and ask him to take me to the backseat of his car?
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