I don't know what to say about this! [modified]

Ilion

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

The shrinks are as much in the dark as we are...

I would say that in general shrinks are even more in the dark.

Oakman

Dalek Dave wrote:

Not exactly censorship, but Alternate Location.

I just wish we'd stop claiming we are protecting our kid sisters (mine is in her 50's) and admit we are protecting our less sophisticated members.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Shog9 0

dan neely wrote:

We can redesign a persons plumbing

Can't really do that either. It's cosmetic surgery and hormone therapy; more "Pimp My Ride" than "Monster Garage". I can't help but think this will end up in the textbooks right next to ice-pick lobotomies and bloodletting.

Oakman

Pierre Leclercq wrote:

Now, that is censorship.

No, it isn't. Censorship is when the government determines what can and cannot be published or displayed. This website is private property. The rules about what should be posted here are ultimately in the hands of Chris and he can delete any and or all posts made here without doing anything but exercising his right to control his property. He has chosen, for reasons that are good and suffient to him, to delegate some of that power to the members of this site. He has given the members a tool that allows us to vote to make troll-posts and posting-trolls go away. If enough of us vote in favor of deleting someone's message then it disappears into the void. Because Chris wants it that way. So, if you have a problem with deleting messages, take it up with Chris. tell him he's not running his website to your satisfaction - and let me know how that works for you, OK? As to being 1-voted: tell it to the hand.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Oakman

Shog9 wrote:

more "Pimp My Ride"

the number of double entendres you were able to pack into that phrase is impressive.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Pierre Leclercq

Oakman wrote:

Because Chris wants it that way.

Perfectly fine with me.

Oakman wrote:

So, if you have a problem with deleting messages, take it up with Chris. tell him he's not running his website to your satisfaction - and let me know how that works for you, OK?

No I do not. I was just stressing the fact my request to move a thread to the soapbox was rather inocuous, and was no censorship at all. And my point was it was less important than deleting someone's message(s), so thank you for feeding my mill, as you are saying even this is no censorship.

Oakman wrote:

As to being 1-voted: tell it to the hand.

I was just saying people (at least some of them) had expressed copiously their thought about my post. And how about the suggestion of adding a voting button similar to the "Remove this message", but like "Move this thread to the soapbox"?

You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

Pierre Leclercq

Come on! who 1 voted this message? For sure, someone who has absolutely no sense of humour...

You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

Christian Graus · modified on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 11:56 AM

Well, what 16 yo boy DOESN'T think about what it would be like to have, erm, girl parts ?

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Not a clue. I left that hateful country years ago.

Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful

Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation

leckey 0

But if it makes a person feel better about themselves, gives them more confidence, how is that any different than any other elective cosmetic surgery?

Back in the blog beatch! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

Shog9 0

leckey wrote:

But if it makes a person feel better about themselves, gives them more confidence, how is that any different than any other elective cosmetic surgery?

It isn't. That's kinda my point, regardless of how the subjects feel about themselves afterward - it is entirely superfluous, like getting a face lift or dying your hair. Somewhat more destructive of course, but no less pointless. If an adult wants to put themselves through that out of hope for some nebulous sense of self, then whatever; adults do all sorts of bizarre things to themselves trying to find happiness... a few even claim to have actually managed it. But to subject or encourage an adolescent in your care to such an operation... that seems cruel, bordering on malicious. I caught an interview a few weeks back with some guy whose step-mom had him lobotomized when he was 12. Chilling stuff. He doesn't blame her, sounded almost to have blamed himself for being such an unruly child as to have left her with little choice. We have, i believe, an almost limitless ability to justify and encourage the brutal aspects of our nature, shrouding our true motivations in the noblest of words. It is only after time fades these words into quaint anachronisms that we recognize our predecessors' bestial acts for what they were.

Shog9 0

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