Also I thought that cell phones don't give off enough radiation to cause cancer. Although I guess they are saying that cancer is caused by everything these days.
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Also I thought that cell phones don't give off enough radiation to cause cancer. Although I guess they are saying that cancer is caused by everything these days.
Oh hey Hiring Activity 3 came through.
I'm not gonna lie; I could really use this job. I'm very worried about money for the next year.
Congrats!! Does that mean you have the job, or that you have progressed further through the hiring process?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
Just progressed further. Apparently, if I pass this phase I might actually get an interview!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
Seriously, this process is so long. But it's a good job, so I will jump through your silly hoops.
Yay. I hope you get the job. Your current position sounds like a nightmare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
I dunno, man, I think it's a mistake to weigh the importance of possessions for other people. It's very well possible that I care more about my electronics being stolen than my nude pictures being posted online, and it's very well possible that some of these women don't mind having sexual images out there, but it doesn't change the crime of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
That's what I meant when I mention criticism of modesty earlier. We assume carelessness on their part because we consider it their responsibility to protect their modesty. As has been invoked by previous posts, we are careless to various degrees about a number of our sensitive data and it's because of creature habits and modern day convenience. Yet it just seems to me that people get extra "well, duh" about it when it comes to these sexual pictures surfacing. I have written really private things on iMessage and emails and those get uploaded to the cloud, too, you know? But if those get exploited I can't in good faith think that people will talk about my predicament as if I should've been more cautious about what I say in emails. That seems ridiculous.
It's the I-told-you-so nature of steering the conversation into what the victim should or shouldn't do to be more secure that rubs me the wrong way.
Eh, you're changing my argument a bit. I'm not concerned about modesty in the least bit. This isn't about modesty, it's about a person's valuation of their property and the security of said property, since we are dealing with theft. If a man or woman isn't bothered by his/her naked pictures hitting the web, his/her level of victimhood is reduced. The act is still a crime and should be punishable, but in those cases, the person wouldn't mind (to use your words) and thus securing those photos/videos wasn't an issue. I was speaking only of those people whose lives would be severely affected by the sharing of that data.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
I'm about spent arguing my point here, because I'm just repeating myself with different analogies and we aren't seeing eye to eye. My last analogy is this: say you have something very important to you, something you consider extremely valuable and important, and you decide to keep it in a safe deposit box to reduce the chance of it being stolen from you. If you then took that item to a bank in which, in the last five or so years, robberies had occurred and safe deposit boxes had been compromised, rather than a bank in which no robberies had ever occurred, and you did this without much thought because the first bank was faster and easier to get to, that would have been poor judgment and you would be blaming yourself for the loss of that item as well as placing blame on the person who stole it from you. Obviously the thief is far more to blame than yourself, but not paying attention to the history of that bank and its ability to protect your possession was your own error. If you have something extremely precious to you, precious enough to have it stolen would seriously affect your life, you protect that item to the best of your abilities.
Like it or not we live in a world in which this type of material is a commodity and the theft of it is a real danger, and if you care about its theft and release to the public, it needs to be protected better than simply having it uploaded to cloud storage.
It's really weird to see legitimate news sources use the word 'Fappening'. I'm not really comfortable with it myself.
I can't imagine why. It only redirects the focus from the crimes commited against these women to the pleasure men are experiencing as a result of these crimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
Mallory Ortberg tweeted:
And it's making me weirdly happy to imagine everyone's faces melting off.Quote:
man if we've learned anything from "le fappening" it's exactly who would have died at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark
That's giving Jennifer Lawrence's ladybits pretty high status. But amusing nonetheless.
This is really unsettling: http://womannotwife.blogspot.co.uk/2...-i-am.html?m=1
The comments are even worse :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by ledfloyd
Jaw-droppingly cruel.Quote:
Originally Posted by bac0n
Ugh. I hadn't looked.Quote:
Originally Posted by bac0n
:frustrated:
Fucking hell.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/02/mckayl...er-porn-sites/
The plot thickens. That sure looks a lot like Dave Franco in the photos and him and Alison Brie were (are?) an item for awhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by ledfloyd
And people wonder why I'm so misanthropic. Shit like this just validates my feelings.Quote:
Originally Posted by bac0n
Good luck! Making the move to a new job is hard to do but it sounds like it will be way better for you in the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
I have no problem with any of the photo stuff, but I have pondered over a few things.
I guess when I send off photos, I don't typically save them to my phone. So Lawrence is saving that to her phone, whereas Kate Upton probably got sent that photo from Verlander.
Also, why just the nudes that were released? Seems like there'd be a lot of crazier shit to post.
Maybe someone can help me understand something. I'm genuinely curious.
When celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian had their sex tapes leaked, the general consensus I remember was something along the lines of "fuck those talentless twats." People don't like them, and so people were like "Yeah! Serves them right!"
But with this thing, with a bunch of celebrities that people really like, everyone seems to be feeling sorry for the women (rightly so), and wanting justice against the perps.
Why is that? What's different about this situation?
I don't know, but I have a couple theories.
First of all, I'd like to think that the level of discussion and discourse has been raised over the last few years, especially on the internet level. The way we talk about women's bodies and sexuality is becoming a little more socially conscious. Slowly.
Secondly, whether it was true or not I remember there being a lot of rumors that those women leaked their sex tapes on purpose for attention. I think that rumor was more prevalent with Kardashian. Upon reflection, that seems like something that internet people choose to believe in order to justify their own bad behavior.
I didn't watch them, for the record.
No face-melting for me, thank you very much.
Another thing that's interesting:
http://www.wired.com/2009/01/kids/
Kids who have taken nude pictures of themselves while underage, and then emailed them have been charge with creating and distributing child porn.
I think at least a couple of the girls involved in the leak were also underage. Will they be charged with the creation and distribution (uploading to iCloud) of child porn, or with their celebrity status make them immune to the same charges that we normals are prone to?
Or will this make people realize how absolutely silly some of our cp and sex-based laws are? LOL! Yeah right. It'll probably get worse.