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You can't cherry pick your porn though by comparing consensual porn to all video games. 120 Days of Sodom has a scene where a monk has a seven-year-old girl urinate in his mouth and then he ejaculates on her face – and she’s fine with it. It has a scene where a 15-year-old is flayed alive, her genitals mutilated, and her intestines torn out while a man masturbates at the sight. The only thing that’s this disturbing in games would be… pornographic games. You're wrong. Minors can't give consent (and aren't allowed to participate in pornography for this reason) so that's really no consensual porn and would be illegal in Australia (and America and Europe?). At best that movie touches on a massive grey area and is a really poor exampe to back up your argument.

You have a weird idea of Brazil. You don't get diseased by travelling there. You don't even get diseased by living there.

Huh? Internet censorship in countries like China and Iran can easily be bypassed with VPN (Virtual Private Network) services which often cost less than $15 per month or even free (with Ads, of course). There are a number of American, Aussie and maybe Kiwi businesses specializing providing VPN to foreign individuals. They and their employees all earn a living from Internet censorship, same for IT persons on the ground in China or Iran who help users setting up the network and payment subscriptions. Really I see no harm done by Internet censorship in China, Iran or anywhere. Its like a government ran welfare for thousands of formerly jobless youth now employed as human monitors, plus a scholarship fund for IT students know their trade good enough to set up VPN for others. This has got to be a troll?

Holy **** that's horrible.

You're a disturbed individual.

Only two did, and they were unable to retrieve the email bodies. Still, China's espionage is worrying. Google seems to be fed up and so to does the US Government, since they've officially asked the Chinese government to explain itself over the state-sponsored cybercrime. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135105.htm Google has now moved all gmail accounts to HTTPS by default. This should prevent things like MITM attacks and this move is likely a direct result of the compromised email accounts of the Chinese human rights activists.

That's the point. She didn't have a ****ing clue. She didn't even care - only bothering to try and figure it because you risked looking like even more of a moron if her opponent brought it up and she got it wrong.

I tried it, it works. ****ing hilarious. And very sad.

You agreed with yourself that it was stupid, sure. You said: "The point being that 100% CGI rarely works out." When all 10 of the movies you've ever made have profit ratios of between 4:1 and 10:1 on their budgets, all score rave reviews on their quality, originality and enjoyability, and are all CGI movies, it becomes evident that something is seriously wrong with your statement, Gorgon. Every single Pixar film was both high-quality AND successful. And they're not all cute and cuddly. Go see The Incredibles, Finding Nemo or Wall-E (OK, so Wall-E was half cute and cuddly, but in a pretty unique way). EDIT: And their upcoming movie is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm - so I don't think 'cute and cuddly' will be an apt description for it. EDIT 2: on second thought, was Toy Story really all that cute and cuddly?

Years? Google entered China mid-2006, pending the changes in the censorship laws. The censorship laws got worse, and the Chinese government launched cybercrime attacks to root out information on Chinese human rights activists. End result: Google gets pissed. It's funny how for people like you think companies can only be either good or bad... or perhaps just bad. Google has always shown that they care as much about civil and human rights as they do about profit (and I'll not deny they care about profit). You don't need too dig far to discover that - first-hand accounts from employees and ex-employees, histories on their executives, Google's own consistent actions over their 10 years of existence - these aren't greedy sociopaths out to rip everyone off and watch the world burn in the process.

My concern is that unfortunately this will just empower Baidu, which is controlled by China's government. Any semblance of freedom in the Chinese search market is now forfeit, just like their news media sector (try reading Xinhua one day - uhg). Of course, strategically and economically it's a smart business decision for Google, and there's no questioning the human rights aspect of it. But it won't improve the freedom situation in China any except perhaps through the coverage and pressure the issue generates.

Didn't say it did. It is, however, another example of corportions refusing to let the Chinese government dictate how they should do things. Rio Tinto gets a more lucrative offer from BHP (one which doesn't involve them selling controlling stakes to their biggest customer) as well as significantly improved market conditions and decides to dump the deal (which is perfectly legal) and you call that dirty stuff? Dream on. The market doesn't run on hurt feelings. Corportions don't even have feelings, Tigranes. Arresting a company's executives on trumped up charges because you didn't get your way is not how a civilised society acts. Also, people in Australia were right to be concerned - unlike all other investors in Australia's resources sectors (e.g. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Britain), the Chinese companies were all state-owned and controlled. China doesn't play fair with this stuff - look at thier actions in the tungsten and niobium markets, or their hypocritcal foreign investment policy, which espouses that foreign countries should open up their markets to foreign investment more, whilst simultaneously severely restricting any foreign investment into China.

Because Pixar is filing for bankruptcy, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_films Oh wait, no, they're the most successful movie studio of all time, and all their films are CGI. You are dead to me, Gorgon. Dead!

Also, Australian and Brazilian mining megacorporations have decided to shun China (their biggest customer) and suggest against their executives visiting there, and negotiate mineral price contracts with Japan instead - with China having the option of accepting the Japanese deal or having no minerals to fuel their growth with. This move comes after the Chinese government arrested the top executives of some of these mining companies for "stealing government secrets" because they wouldn't give them cheaper ore prices last year. It became a diplomatic issue between China and Australia. For reference, iron ore prices are now double the price China ended up unofficially accepting (again, the price negotiated with Japan and South Korea) - and China had wanted to milk a further 33% price cut on that already low price. Pathetic. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/artic...xnyJn8EmHFzQTaw http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/deb991bc-ff1b-11...144feab49a.html

May as well resurrect the thread for a real reason rather than to help a spambot advertise. Check it out: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1926079

Well they basically are. Censensual porn is completely harmless, whereas some violent computer games can send a very very small number of disturbed individuals in the world the wrong ideas about reality. So in conclusion, both computer games and porn are pretty much harmless. Yay!

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B5RV20100113 Well done Google. I doubt Yahoo or Microsoft will have the balls or scruples to do similar. EDIT: Here is Google's very public blog entry on the matter: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new...h-to-china.html

Something about this felt off, since Pixar is a brand that says to me "awesome" so I just checked their movies to confirm. Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E. I'm pretty certain now that you are being sarcastic. :D

Thanks, I know I can safely ignore all your opinions on movies from now on.

Hahahaha that's epic. Bush was a skilled domestic politician. I haven't seen any of the qualities that Bush possessed in Palin. I'm not a fan of Bush, I just don't think he was a terrible president. When we look back on his terms in 20 years, I think he will be decidedly average. From a foreign policy perspective, he was very weak, so I can see where you are coming from though. Yeah, that's how it'll go down. And to be honest, I guess it's appropriate. He ****ed up royally a lot, and America is better off without him, but he wasn't all bad.

The BBC and the ABC (British and Australian public broadcasters) are the least biased news agencies I know of in both countries. Not only are they less likely to take sides politically, but are also able to avoid falling into the vapid pitfalls of commercialism due to public funding. In America, it'd probably be the Voice of America. Which I just discovered is also publically funded by America. Hah.

Something about your amazing horse.

April 'cause it's my birthday.

Uhg, Bioware? Really? Not a respectable company like Blizzard or Valve?

Rawwwrr!