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• I betcha' that thingy serves media nice and hot... it will serve me well when I overthrow the MATRIX with my personal DEATH STAR... In reply to: "Crave giveaway of the week: HP MediaSmart Server LX195"

  July 10, 2009

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• Natural Selection
  I am sick an tired of this "what about the children" nonsense. I can only quote George Carlin when I say "f**k the children!"
  
  I am sorry, I know that this might sound brutal and harsh, but does anybody actually look at these issues rationally? How many changes do we need to make to "protect the children" and where does it end?
  
  Children need to be taught that there are dangers out there and that they need to behave in certain ways to avoid them. Period. After that there needs to be something like natural selection. You don't see many children touching a hot stove twice, right? Yes, you may say that a confrontation with a homicidal sexual predator rarely gives you a second chance (like a stove would), but then, that is where parental education, the child's intelligence and common sense should come into play.
  
  I think this demand to childproof this and to pad that and to re-code yadda and to always check something else just to "protect the children" is simply one thing: A refusal of parents to recognize the responsibility for their own child. It is so easy to expect everybody else to protect your child while you are out working two jobs just to pay for your McMansion and you 9 miles per gallon SUV fleet which you only own to impress the neighbors.
  
  Stop consuming, stop shifting responsibility for your child's safety to others (like web site operators). You are the parent, you are in control. And if you are not, then it is YOU who is doing something wrong, not the web site operator.

  July 17, 2006

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