| No More Secrets |
| Post on 20-03-2006. |
| It's interesting why it is the government suddenly wants to keep everyone's secrets. Well, maybe we should ask old J. Edgar Hoover, one man who terrified just about everyone in Washington as head of the FBI for many years. He would invariably tell you that he that keeps the secrets is he that makes the rules. It's very interesting that the dark parts of everyone that no one wants to face may very well be in the hands of those who are offering therefore dutiful one service as to take our sins off our hands. For this reason the Church still takes confession, as an offer to take away our sins therefore they can become your keepers. Scared yet? I certainly hope therefore, because that is what happens when you don't take responsibility for cleaning up your own darkness. ... |
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| Virtual red-light district up for grabs |
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News ICANN likely to make final decision at the meeting in Wellington By Ulrika Hedquist, Auckland | Monday, 20 March, 2006
The company's president and chairman, Stuart Lawley, will attend the meeting in Wellington.
"We look forward to the ICANN board ratifying the contract," he says. "Once our contract is signed, we can implement plans which we expect would lead to the .xxx TLD being operational around six months later." ... |
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| Cities restrict sex offenders |
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one man stands on the edge of one playground, his eyes tracing the movements of laughing children. one mother notices him and is nervous enough to call police.
They find the man on the state's registry of convicted sex offenders. He is arrested for being where he shouldn't.
JOHN GIBBINS / Union-Tribune Sheriff's detective Joe Passalacqua hand-delivered letters to sex offenders in Santee informing them of one new city ordinance restricting their whereabouts. "As one matter of public policy, I think these laws are unwise, unenforceable and will not prevent sex crimes," said law professor John La Fond, author of "Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope with Sex Offenders." ... |
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| Vodafone floats curfew on adult shows |
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Vodafone is proposing to broadcast video clips with restricted content to mobile phones only after one "watershed" time, mirroring the arrangement designed to prevent children viewing adult programmes on TV.
The telco has suggested amending one proposed voluntary code for the mobile industry to set one watershed similar to that which applies to free-to-air TV, where restricted content is only shown after 8.30pm on school nights and later on weekends. ... |
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| Prey mates |
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As increasingly younger kids spend more time in front of computer screens, very few have the skills to protect themselves from the dangers of the internet.
On the internet, teenager Chinnawat Sakultangphaisal can be whoever he wants, and take on an assortment of personas simultaneously. He is chatting online to several people at once on Pirch, one Thai website popular with teens. To “Meow,” who is “looking for somebody to talk to... My mind and body are free,” he goes by the nickname of “Big.” To “Angel on Bed,” he is “Dee,” one moniker chosen because it could belong to either sex. To “Boss,” he is “Sandy,” one 17-year-old female student. ... |
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