Quote - Samhal

Parents responsibility? Maybe to a degree. What about the story recently of a highschool girl taking a picture of herself (her genitals I believe) with her cell phone and sending it to other students?

The way I remember the article, they got her on child porn charges (on herself?!) and plan on bringing similar charges on everyone that recieved the picure. To me this is a system getting out of whack.

I heard of one of those stories.  The feds I think went to the girl's house and the parents said to them "what's the big deal?"  I don't think the system is out of whack so much because there are good reasons for having some laws to protect against child pornography.  However I will concied that their could be a gray area if someone forwarded the picture to a bunch of friends and not all of them wanted to see it.

Some would argue that there is a certain amount of objectification going on and anyone at that age who just takes a picture of themselves and sends it to the class needs help.

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She wears clothes onstage that shows more, and both her AND her father decided to freak out about it, but only after they were scrutinized by the public.

Emphasis mine.  I think I see the problem here.  They pretty much agreed with you Jen until the poop hit the ceiling fan and then got all freaked out about it because they feel like they had to.

BTW, camera phones are getting cheap.  I had to upgrade mine earlier this year and it only cost about 40 dollars with a plan.  It's the service plan which costs the most and how the cell phone companies make their money. 

Now if you go with one of the better phones, that'll cost you some money.   And I have a theory why parents buy them: it's easier than putting up with a teenager whining at you for several years about not having a cell phone.

All I heard about the first shoot is she had a sheet draped over her.  I heard she had been doing more questionable things but at that point I figured she is going to be the next Britney Spears/Lindesy Lohan.  Disney should cancel her contract and toss her away to another company that is willing to deal with an implosion waiting to happen and parents should start steering their kids away from her.

I agree that parents really need to take responsiblility for their kids, but it isn't happening with this generation.  Easy web access plus a smutty society plus a teen craving attention is a bad combo.  They haven't morally matured and they are looking to have fun so putting a camera in their hands is one of the worst things you can do for them.  At the least get the cell phones with text and cameras out of kids hands.

This is one of the few things I'm actually a little conflicted on.  I totally believe that it is the parent's responsibility to raise a kid, not the government's.  However there are a ton of parents that are dropping the ball these days and frankly I don't think the schools are helping the situation at all.  So we can't count on parents and we can't count on the government yet if we don't want our society to implode as the aforementioned actresses, someone is going to have to do something and do it well.  However if we leave it up to the parents or the government, I really think that implosion is going to happen in a generation or two.

Interesting point samhal.  When I heard that hanna montana chick did a "artful" nude shoot even though she was only 15, I was like 'what on Earth is happening here, she's just a kid'.

Maybe we could make this issue go away if we just banned cameras of all types.  You might think I'm joking, but I have a feeling if teens keep snapping nude pictures of themselves and sending them to their friends or putting them on the net, at the least we are going to have a minimum age of 18 to own and operate a camera in the US.

Quote - Speaking of mindless, purposeless discourse: Have any of you written your legislators yet?

On this issue, no.  On others, yes.

Congrats Acadia.  Sometimes all you need is patients and time to get things done and a little hope and faith to keep you going in the meantime.

One thing to do is make a copy of the body suit texture, add the emblem to the copy, and load that new texture into poser.

Funny how they would go down after renderotica did.

Quote - He puts his genitals right on your desktop!

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I don't want to know.  I don't want to know.  I don't want to know.

Geoegress, I can't find a good source to back myself up, so the point is retracted unless I can find something soild. 

Yes Drudge is a right winger, but I can't stand the left-wing media anymore.  IMO they are fully behind Obama yet some of them keep claiming to be fair journalists.   I mean if McCain fought as hard as Obama did to keep the votes in two states from counting, do you think the traditional media sources would have allowed us to forget it?  If McCain gave 800,000 from his campaign to a group that is being investigated for voter fraud in at least 11 states, don't you think it would have gotten a little more attention?  These two things are important issues, yet they seem to be swept under the rug.  Speaking of Obama attempting to ban florida's vote, if anyone from my state votes for him, in my opinion they will lose any right to complain about their votes not counting in the future.  The fact that McCain doesn't have the balls to swift-boat Obama on that issue down here and up in michigan just shows me how he'll be nearly as bad as Obama.

Frankly, I don't want either one to win but I'm forced to pick between someone who doesn't really want the presidency and someone who wants it too much and will abuse it a lot.

dorkmcgork, you mention one side empowering discussion but I don't really see it.  The right side says things like life begins at conception and refuses to budge from that.  The left side says there is man-made global warming and we are all going to die from it in 20 years and that the discussion is over.

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All the person needs to do once they know your email address that you use for PayPal is figure out your Password, and even 13 digit mixed passwords are no longer very secure, and mine had a combination of small, caps and numbers mixed into it. 

I took a computer security course last year and during one of the classes, the instructor showed us a video of how she used a tool from download.com to hack an excel password in under a second.  I forget the exact number, but a modern computer can easily do 1 million or more password tries a second.

I read once that in japan, there are a few anime/manga makers who just like to push the boundries of sex and violence to see what they can get away with.  In other words, it's sex, violence, and rape all for the sake of producing sex, violence, and rape.  I think the answer is that it exists because it can exist.

So it's sort of like what South Park would be like if they didn't have the FCC to hold them back.

BTW, not all people who do anime and manga push the boundries, some are family friendly.

Depends on your luck really.  If you are lucky you are pushing paper in the midwest (and why would you need a buzzcut for that), if you aren't right out of bootcamp you are shipped out to some blistering desert and put on a one-man suicide mission as your first job.

Even if the chances of getting killed are low, I'd rather not join the military.  I respect people who do it but it's not for me.

Don, some librarys in the US have banned the Bible because of some "content".  The states and congress are doing everything they can to keep kids from buying an M rated game because they think pixelated violence causes crime.  Some people blame rap music for some of the problems of black youth here in the US.  On drudge a few months ago, I saw a story about someone killing others based on a scene they saw in a movie.  So banning child-rape drawings are in line with what's going on.

That's one of the reasons why I didn't go into the military aside from the potential to get shot, having to get up early in the morning, and that sort of thing.  Having some people cut off their hair is like the now bald Ricky Williams; it just isn't right.

Quote - Kids these days call everyone Dude no matter what their gender is!

Not just kids do it dude.  Since you don't know who's on the other side in the internet, you're going to have to guess.