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Faust, I didn't have time to mention in the last post to you specifically that I think you might find The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.  I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, but it takes place during the Golden Age of Comics.  The main characters follow a similar path that Simon and Schuster did with Superman.  Their lives are affected by the boom of comic books, then the comics code and the congressional hearings, as well as wider world factors like WWII.

Thanks. I'll give that a look, I wonder will it end in a dark and gritty confused and aimless mess like superhero comics are now.

So Christopher gans is to make a film about the Fantômas character. He is basically the first bond villain, first guy to use an overly elaborate death trap and the like.

Nurse is learning well. We should make a noob reading list of freads.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/list.html

Great essay. That should be stored away somewhere incase it gets eaten up by a forum prune.

Doesn't happen in or kill me.

But would you consider it possible that such Anarchist sentiments are just another flavour of idealism that, like you said, has to be enforced with military might?

Yes if you want to make it an actuality as opposed to an ideal.

I mean that to say I am an "Attitudinal Anarchist", in that I have my own understanding of State and what it's good for, but I really couldn't give a hoot what anyone else does, because I've already established my "Anarchist State", which extends about 2 inches from my skin. I feel about other peoples life decisions as a wasp feels about a Human; co-existence until you fuck with my shit.

You think you are an attitudinal anarchist, but in practice you are a narcissist who practices mental masturbation.

There were no windows! Oxygen man! You're fucked without it 

Also,  at Ayn Rand, in any context.

Knowing the Irish rail system, it was carbon monoxide poisoning, and ayn rand is the person you see if you are going to hell.
Having taken the same second hand french trains I'm surprised there was any toilet roll on the train at all and that it didn't fall into a pile of used needles that occupy the bathrooms.

Didn't read enough to get that last bit.  Between seeing him shit on LMNO's stuff and seeing Ayn Rand mentioned, I lost any serious interest.

To be fair, he wasn't dissing LMNO's he was responding directly to the first post of the thread. That is a pretty N00b move, but forgivable.
Ayn rand used as anything other then a curse word is odd though.

There were no windows! Oxygen man! You're fucked without it 

Also,  at Ayn Rand, in any context.

Knowing the Irish rail system, it was carbon monoxide poisoning, and ayn rand is the person you see if you are going to hell.
Having taken the same second hand french trains I'm surprised there was any toilet roll on the train at all and that it didn't fall into a pile of used needles that occupy the bathrooms.

Thats odd, when I read this an alarm bell started blairing in my head. does it give you the phone numbers of the people who do this, and does it not charge them through the nose for those texts?

Well at least they still have their prime minister, is the president a trophy position like the Irish president?

that's not the OP's fault. Alot of the old threads are like that, it has something to do with when we updated software or something.

Yeah, it converted all the characters in the database to unicode and fucked up all punctuation.

[If the goal is the reform of society, well, it might not be the best solution]

his underlying point, perhaps, is that punishment is out of step with the goals of society. Punishment may succeed as a prohibitive factor, but rarely as a re-formative one. If the goal of punishment is emotional satisfaction, it is very functional. If the goal is the reform of society, well, it might not be the best solution...

Sorry to hone in on a sliver of what's being discussed here but I find the concept of legal punishment really complex and overwhelming when what everyone wants from it is different.
The areas that try to reform generally end up with lower crime rates not because they are doing better at reform not because they are doing a good job of it, but because it becomes part of the psyche of the society in the vicinity, the idea of reform of being a better person and all that hooha.
In areas that demand retribution, and well... vengeance for a crime have the opposite effect, the society of the area now reflects a mentality of accepted balance of crime and punishment, it actually becomes socially acceptable to vilify a criminal which on some dark level within us a potential criminal can relate to, being demonised is easier then being viewed as a social failure and thus crime rates increase.

Ever get a feeling when standing on the edge of a roof that some part of you really wants to just jump off. Having a death penalty doesn't prevent more elaborate violent crime, it encourages it, it adds a thrill to the danger and raises the stakes, it gives a death urge.

If this all seems nuts I'll shut up now.

H-town has obviously not been here for that long, then, if he can't even see the introductions thread.

Tis a fine introduction none the less.
Um... welcome aboard.

My response to the blog thread :
Domination and submission are beyond gender, and can be between any combination of of people, male and female, male and male, female and female.

The enjoyment of it is being in control, or out of control.
Its really pathetic to see Feminists having a knee jerk reaction when they see a woman in a position that is not of control.
BSDM is an equal opportunities area, and a woman can be in control as much as she can be treated like a dog or fuckslut.


They have comment moderation on, I don't expect that comment to see the light of day.

Is there anything good coming out this year?

I dunno. Still trying to wrap my head around "Eraser Head."

Its about the dangers of unplanned pregnancy and a vehicle for david lynches depravity. Mystery solved.

I think that movie is more about Despair, and Philadelphia.
I don't really get Depravity from Lynch.

Well Most of film were composed of:
Sexual metaphor and analogues
Fear and the divide between males and females and the difficulty to relate
Fears that many parents towards their newborns, including the slight resentment for the demands placed upon them.
Its overall feel is despair, alienation and failure but the specific metaphor used to drive the film is pretty straightforward sexually related stuff.

Also, our death row has a fair number of innocents, for all their careful justice.

That's why I had my doubts.
I'm completely against the death penalty but its easy for me to say that coming from a country that doesn't have/need it.
The reason I'd be against a first hand victim taking their own corrective measures on someone like this is that I don't think they as victims are getting the justice they deserve, if anything he is now both the victim of a child molester and a victim of his own suffering, allowing his pain to make him a murderer.

But thats less a moral issue and more one of legality.

No mater what the law of the land, rape is rape... but "murder" depends on what the society considers justified and unjustified.

Morality will always be more important then legality in my mind and I hate that there is such a distinction between the two.
I still feel the same, the victim let himself down by killing this guy, I also find it pretty disturbing that so many people here are calling for blood. Ugh...... I was sexually abused as a kid and it messed me up for a long long time, I got through all that. This guy Aaron Vargas has allowed this guy to influence his life even further which is depressing as hell, when he was a kid he lost some of his freedom to this guy, now he's lost even more to him by allowing him to be such a huge influence in his life.

Also, our death row has a fair number of innocents, for all their careful justice.

That's why I had my doubts.
I'm completely against the death penalty but its easy for me to say that coming from a country that doesn't have/need it.
The reason I'd be against a first hand victim taking their own corrective measures on someone like this is that I don't think they as victims are getting the justice they deserve, if anything he is now both the victim of a child molester and a victim of his own suffering, allowing his pain to make him a murderer.