The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

I don't know, I'm not not looking for adventurous traveling but I generally go out of my way to avoid air travel. It has become a particularly obnoxious way to travel, even without the environmental cost.

I sympathise. So I did something about it and stopped flying. One 72 hour coach trip (there and back) to Morocco soon cured me of that

On the other hand I fly rarely, I don't drive and I off-set my carbon so I try.

[Ed Anger]

The only way to air travel:

[mongers]

I don't know, I'm not not looking for adventurous traveling but I generally go out of my way to avoid air travel. It has become a particularly obnoxious way to travel, even without the environmental cost.

I sympathise. So I did something about it and stopped flying. One 72 hour coach trip (there and back) to Morocco soon cured me of that

On the other hand I fly rarely, I don't drive and I off-set my carbon so I try.

Well done.

But you don't off-set your carbon, you just bought into an accountancy trick/financial scam.

[Admiral Yi]

How is it a trick/scam mongers?

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting article in The Brain's Favorite Magazine about teen sexting.

Exec sum:  lots and lots of girls do it, it's typically voluntary (though not always), and law enforcement doesn't know what the hell to do.

[CountDeMoney]

Interesting article in The Brain's Favorite Magazine about teen sexting.

The editors of Radiation Safety Today are broadening their horizons.   

Exec sum:  lots and lots of girls do it, it's typically voluntary (though not always), and law enforcement doesn't know what the hell to do.

Cops will figure out what to do, just in time for the technology to change to another medium.

[Admiral Yi]

The issue is not so much catching people as in figuring out what the hell to charge them with, if anything.

[CountDeMoney]

I know Maryland was trying to include it as an aspect of cyberbullying in legislation, as opposed to child porn, but I haven't heard much beyond that.

[Tonitrus]

There was a story on this on NPR last week (here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/10/15/356393531/why-kids-sext-describes-nude-photos-as-social-currency-among-teens ) in a fairly small town.

The police dilemma was that according to the law, everyone doing it should be guilty of breaking child pornography laws (against themselves), but then if you do that, do you really want to make most of the female school population become registered sex offenders?

[CountDeMoney]

but then if you do that, do you really want to make most of the female school population become registered sex offenders?

Oh, fuck that double standard.  If I can get charged having them, so can they.   

[DGuller]

There was a story on this on NPR last week (here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/10/15/356393531/why-kids-sext-describes-nude-photos-as-social-currency-among-teens ) in a fairly small town.

The police dilemma was that according to the law, everyone doing it should be guilty of breaking child pornography laws (against themselves), but then if you do that, do you really want to make most of the female school population become registered sex offenders?

[Beeb]Sure  .[/Beeb]

[CountDeMoney]

Here's the link to the big Atlantic piece, as opposed to your standard "sprawling New Yorker shit"*

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/

Pretty fascinating stuff.  I'm glad I have a cat, and she can't use the iHipster for WAIT FOR IT any kitty porn.





*bonus CdM points of no cash value for the reference.

[jimmy olsen]

Interesting article in The Brain's Favorite Magazine about teen sexting.

Which is what?

[Eddie Teach]

Ebony

[Josquius]

WTF happened to BBC news?
The presenters are holding iPads and standing in front of giant touch screens which they keep turning to in order to access new pictures.
So obsessed with cost cutting that they've got rid of the guy who used to do that for them?