Are YOU A Pedophile?

The implications of technology in some settings can lead to some "interesting" things.  (For sufficiently sick definitions of "interesting".)

Settings like Ghost In The Shell and GURPS: Transhuman Space allow for a human consciousness (or ghost) to be placed into a mechanical body of virtually any design.

What about the implications of a legal adult who chooses, for some reason, a 9-year old girl for their new body?

She's a legal adult, so it's conceivably not illegal for her to have sex or to have sex with her.

But does having sex with her make her lover a pedophile?

Is a recording of her having sex child porn?

This matter will be settled law in the world it's part of, but it's speculative in ours.

Expertise

I mentioned it before.

Professionals get paid for it.
Amateurs don't.

Neither state makes one an expert.

Because I don't have a job, I am not a professional anything, yet I am still an expert in several fields.

A professional is also someone doing something as a profession, you know doing it for a living... That implies some sort of monetary compensation.

The thing here is that being paid for something seems to make people think you're an expert when all that means is you've convinced someone with money that you should be paid for what skills you have.

It doesn't actually make you an expert.

It sometimes leads to a situation where someone knows a lot more about it than you and will be unable to explain why your position is false because you're not an expert at all.  If you were, then you'd not need to told you were in error, would you?

I'd have prolly not pointed out the error, except someone following your "expert" advice will get themselves killed.

The truly hilarious part is I've mentioned it repeatedly in post after post and people never seem to register that really is my position on the willfully ignorant.  Ignorance is worse than stupidity because there's a cure for ignorant.

Last Words

On father's day Larry exhorted us to call our estranged fathers and say, "I love you, Dad," and hang up.

Thus, if you never spoke to them again, that would be your last words to them.

I commented that my last words to my father were, "burn in Hell!"

I am sorry for that, Larry, I should not have made such a comment on your post.

I should have kept it here.

There are things I got from my dad which are genuine good.  He introduced me to libertarianism even if it took FuzzyGeff to explain what that introduction meant.  He showed me the evils of unions.  He taught me how to wrench and that has saved me countless thousands of dollars.

There's a lot I learned about being a man that I got from seeing how he did things and then going 180˚ off that.  He led by example, but not an example that should be emulated.  I do not share his opinion on race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marriage, the value of televised professional sports or family.

It was his treatment of women that made me utter those fateful words.

First my mother, then my sister, then his wife and finally MY wife.  Telling him to go to Hell is probably the most I can do legally.  I am content that those are my last words to him.  I would regret it more if I'd left it without telling off.  I don't want him to think, ever, that he is forgiven without earning that forgiveness to the same measure as he's earned the contempt.

His sins against me pale by comparison to those done to my older little brother, his wife and their children.

So, Burn in Hell, Dad!

Chink in the Armor

David Brock used the term "Chink in the Armor" and there's a Chinese player on the team described.

People are all up in arms about how racist it was.

Idiots.

Welcome to English.

Here's an example of one word having different meanings.

Not Safe For Work.  I mean it.  Don't say you weren't warned.  Not Kidding.