Posts by Jack 5 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Feb 2009
If cops, ISP's and so on protected us from all the bad people, in the world. Now, back to reality: they never have and they never will. Whether on the 'net or off, each of us is responsible for our own safety.
My advice, to Berners-Lee or anyone else who'd prefer not to be "ripped off", is: do your "due diligence"; assuming everything is what it appears to be, on the 'net or off, isn't too bright and can be dangerous.
Oh yah, and if you don't like receiving "spam", use a web-based service, such as G-mail, with filters and forwarding, employ temporary re-directors, such as TrashMail, and, if you must post a permanent e-mail address, do so in such a way as it's not "machine readable".
Prostitution was around long before Craigslist appeared and it's a safe bet prostitution will be around long after Craigslist disappears.
It's unlikely Craigslist has any effect on the level of activity, in this area.
If anything, Craigslist would be a benefit to the sheriff, enabling him to, more easily, identify the "perps".
I suspect the sheriff is either a moron, seeking publicity or, my best guess, the number of posts, on Craigslist, shows what a piss poor job he's doing.
Like the "war on drugs", "war on terrorism", "war in Iraq", "war in Afghanistan" and Viet Nam war, a "war on prostitution" is doomed to failure.
As Anonymous Coward observed: "the best way of doing this is to legalise and regulate like they do in the civilised world"...Canada, for instance. 8-þ
If the sheriff were to devote the time he spends persecuting girls who are, for the most part, just doing what they believe they have to or guys who choose to pay for consensual sex, rather than raping a girl, and making an ass of himself to putting the pimps and those who traffic in girls or involve children, IMNSHO, he'd be earning his salary. As it is, again IMNSHO, he's a waste of the taxpayers' money and an embarrassment to law enforcement, Chicago and the United States...none of which need any more damage to their reputations.
tells us we ought not: "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". Having witnessed the administrations of Bush and Blair or Dumb and Dumber, as they're known in some circles, I've come to the conclusion malice and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.
Dame Stella Rimington, at 73; an age when diminished mental capacity would be expected, appears to have a, vastly, superior understanding of the situation than Britain's employment minister, Mr. McNutty.
Mr. McNutty's statement: "...I think on this she is totally and utterly wrong", when it's obvious to anyone "with the brains God gave geese" that she is totally and utterly right, suggests he suffers a high degree of cognitive disfunction.
Likewise his statement: "Wrong to suggest that had all the things we planned been passed we'd have been a police state, and wrong to suggest we have somehow stumbled towards a police state"...unless Mr. McNutty means Dame Rimington is wrong to suggest "we'd have been a police state" as "we", already, are and wrong to suggest "we have somehow stumbled towards a police state" as "we", intentionally, became a police state, as expeditiously as "we" were able.
McNutty referring to Dame Rimington's use of language as "loose" and suggesting her statement "plays into the hands of our enemies" is worthy of Monty Python and this from a man who uses the phrase "abject nonsense". I imagine anyone with an elementary command of the English language would realize Dame Rimington's statements were an articulate expression of her, obviously, coherent thoughts, on the matter. I, also, imagine anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of fascism would recognize Mr. McNutty's "plays into the hands of our enemies" as a tactic employed by fascist regimes, for centuries.
Dame Rimington's understanding of the situation, also, appears vastly superior to Britain's transport Secretary, Geoff Goon. Mr. Goon's statement: "blocking the plans on civil liberties grounds would grant terrorists a licence to kill" is ridiculous. I expect most schoolchildren are aware that killing people, without just cause, is illegal under existing legislation, preventing the British government from stripping the British people of their legal and human rights would not exempt terrorists from that legislation and, given terrorists almost invariably kill by way of a suicide attack, no legislation is likely to deter them.
It seems to me, the only conclusion we can come to, here, is: Mr. McNutty and Mr. Goon are either stupid or malicious and, possibly, both. You people need to give your heads a shake and remove them from your colons, before it's too late, assuming it's not already.
A couple of pages you may find interesting: http://www.whale.to/b/in_their_own_words_q.html and http://www.rense.com/general27/bushnaz.htm
"Risk creating a police state". Good one!
For those unfamiliar with the situation in Britain, it's been a police state for years. Passing a cemetery, there, one hears a "whirring" sound. I understand it's caused by veterans, who died fighting fascism, spinning in their graves.
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