Of some 100 MILLION web Sites out there, only 5% of these are related to Warez or Porn.
However as Sky News in the UK showed last night, the rest of the world is more than happy to blame the internet.
Graphics from the Trench Coat Mafia's web site were shown and then a lengthly explanation of how it linked into porn etc continued.
Sky News then went on to portray the Internet as Evil and a vile cess pit of corruption and social disease proving how easy it was to buy guns, find out how to build bombs etc.

In 4 years of living my life on the internet, I have never been so insulted. I don't yearn the knowledge of bomb building - why - I found out at school, before the internet entered my life.

I know how to make napalm (SP?) but do you see me in my garage with a vat making the stuff - no.

If someone want to know how to build a bomb, they can find out. The Internet does list this material, but they dont have to be connected.

I am quite sick of the internet being portrayed as a breeding ground for loonies. By example, everyone here are upstanding, honest people who enjoy company. I mean that.
Are we the only good place out there? No - the are hundreds - no - thousands of sites or areas like this where nice people hang out.
Does the press ever say -
"Hey - I was on this forum the other day and this really nice guy gave me some great advice which changed my life!"
No - because that does not make news. But it does happen.

Welcome to the net - satan's child.

Fuming StationMaster

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There are people (like my housemate) who habitually worry about everything and won't walk home after 10.30, but for the vast majority of people, this feeling is very reassuring.

If you people in the states want guns, have them, but like I said, the ownership would have to be screened a lot more stringently to try to prevent something like the school shootings from happening again.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Nice, eh?

Well, I was bi-sexual all my life, and she should have recognized that when I started looking at porno magazines LONG before we had the net. As for the Wiccan stuff, I learned about it IRL, and it's not my fault if the best free resources are on the 'net.

We are not a bunch of loonies and crazies out here. I have met a good deal of very decent people, this community being a small bit of them. The problem is, as always, no one wants to print the good stuff about anything .. they only want to print the bad stuff.

*SIGH*

Sure, of course they blame the internet, because when they hear of whackos wearing trenchcoats and sporting "counter-culture"-like clothing, they think of today's youth, and today's youth are mostly some way involved into the Internet.

Then when they think of the internet they think of their versions of hackers. You know, the image the media puts into their heads. And everybody knows that hackers are satan's children, that gather into hordes in the streets to deal drugs, etc. *sarcastic tone*

I to know how to make a variety of various weapons. So what? It is a skill that I picked up. Big whoop, like I'm crazy enough to use it on innocent people for bitter revenge.

As for Jubilee's problem with parents...
They always look for the new things that are "controversial." Yes, mother, the internet has poisoned my mind, yet I seem to be doing well in school and staying out of trouble.

56k is the devil!!
Phones are the devil!
Oh no.. *hands on cheeks*..books spread truth, they must tell people to believe in free will, burn them! :P

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'Sir, you've been ordered not to take Polermo'

'Ring General HQ, ask them if they want me to give it back'.

Then again, half MY family is evangelical fundamental Church-of something-or-other, or the more radical type of Mormons, or... yadda-yadda-yadda... makes it almost impossible for me to go to family functions, as I have to hold my tongue while some cousin or another spouts loudly off some inanity, for fear of causing everybody else "discomfort" and embarassing my mom.

You know I had one guy say that evolution was false because the speed of light was slowing down, causing the galaxies' apparent redshift?

Now, besides the fact that the two concepts aren't at all related, there are logic holes in that statement you could toss Jupiter through.
F'r instance, at the rate he claimed, everything would have redshifted so far so fast our eyes couldn't keep up with it, plus he obviously forgot the fact that light is only one little bit of the electromagnetic spectrum, and what does for light would do for everything else, and things that rely on electromagnetism would stop working (like microwaves, radios, X-rays, etc.)

But simple logic never stops raging faith.

On one end we place Jubilee McGann.

On the other end, we place...a duck!

If she weighs the same as a duck, ashe is indeed a witch, and should be BURNNNNEEDD!

First: Eh? I've never heard of Redshift. And how the hell does it apply to evolution. Or is that person you're talking about just very very strange?

Oh, and Liam .... I garuntee I weigh aLOT more than a duck ... but if I did, you wouldn't burn me anyways. I mean, come on ... get rid of something THIS gorgeous?

However, for global terrorism, the Internet is a tremendous advantage. Has anyone else here seen that page on how to build the nuclear warhead for only a few hundred thousand? Scary.