collectivist

The concept is quite simple. Raw, clean fresh vegetables cost a lot to buy because they are easily perishable and don't do well in transport over large scale distributional distance. That and you need to have a massive supplier, but commercial entities who have such facilities want to turn a profit, so milking the government that takes it's money in corporate taxes is, to the large scale producers, almost business karma, but ironically, the raw stock grain ingredients used in processed 'known value items' such as ketchup, pizza and long lasting foods are massively subsidised to be incredibly cheap by the government and with that, the food producers bulk out the base vegetable with preservatives, grain derivatives and other such things which makes long term storage possible, but as a side effect, the chemical dilutants destroy the actual nutrition of the vegetables. All the government is doing is trying to classify the adulterated items as if they were the raw product in an attempt to make use of the industry they have helped fund to socially manipulate the average national into thinking they're getting more healthy than they actually are, which will only harm kids as more and more artificial chemicals enter the average kid's food consumption and the huge intake of high grain derivatives will only deepen an already rising average national waistband. What to do about it? Well...

These things simply have to be understood. If you take a picture on your device (say, phone) and put it directly on to your computer, then you delete it, then no. That won't be recorded over the internet. However deleting something doesn't delete it per se, it simply (for windows) renames the first character of the file name as the hexadecimal value of E5 which the OS knows is the sign of an old deleted file that can be overwritten. This can be recovered with many free tools but the possibility degrades over time as new data may overwrite parts of the file... But if you ever... EVER... contribute to any website, you lose control of that data and surrender it to the owner of the site and there is a quite a large chance that, if the site is important, your contribution will be archived by other data storage centers. The more important the site, the longer it will be kept, and by contribution, I include all of the expected, such as photos, comments, files etc. but much more the simple act of visiting. Ever been to a site that your friend told you to go to? Ever wanted to check out something that's controvertial? That's your IP logged. However, with the rapid advancements in OS UIs and integrated internet, how many day-to-day people actually dig down into the hardware to get a deep understanding of what's actually happening to their data? (*Points to the edited by line below* SEE!)

Well, like I said. It's a double edged blade. The social networking sites in themselves aren't bad. They're equivelant to open public spaces like parks and kids gather at parks... and weirdos do too... As you say, they only need to add their friends and family, but they do need to be taught how to set their privacy settings so they don't share everything with everyone and even more, you have to make them understand that interacting with friends and family on the net has concequential differences in that everything they do and say will be recorded. It may not be public, but it will be tied to them. I myself laugh at the irony as this site will log my ip as I post this. So teach them how to use it and how to stay safe, but denying access will only lead to rebellion. Epecially if it's hypocritical denial. It's not really fair to ban your kids from a facebook account if you yourself have one. Wow... You're a hell of a lot open than me. You can only find me by my e-mail address. Only my friends can see and post what I write on. Only friends can see what pictures I'm tagged in even if they're not my photo and friends of friends certainly can't see me. Facebook is a viral digital city. Stay as anonymous as you can. Nah, me neither... How about I give you odds of 100:1?

It's a bit of a double sided blade for me. If you let your kids wander social networkng sites and the wider net freely, then, just like walking in the street, they're likely to run into some kind of trouble that they don't know how to handle. But in the same stride, try to hide the "outside world" from them and they will simply rebel and "run into the streets" while you aren't looking (If you're following the dual analogy). There is the one solution that has been true since the dawn of time... Watch... Your... Kids... Just like walking down a street, you need to be side by side to your child to know what they're doing so that when they do inevitably walk into a problem, you are (like the good parent you should be) there for them to show them a responsible and effective way of handling the problem. In stern agreement with Cryos, too many parents are simly focused on their life and their social network that they forget exactly how much of their childs' development is constructed from the actions that they take, so when a kid sees his mum ignoring him because she's on facebook, then when he's on facebook, he ignores her. This digital age may have raptured the populace of the world, but I still remember that communication, by any means, is how we all learn, so I don't jeer Facebook, but I do wonder why people see it as someone's safehouse instead of the city that it is. Seeing it like a city is quite a good guiding principle being that: 1: you wouldn't put pics of your "assets" all over the city. 2: when someone offers you something, you're skeptical, giving you time to judge trustworthyness. 3: you wouldn't leave your kids to roam around the city alone unless you felt they were fit to do so. But keep in mind, advancements in our "digital city" create new problems. 1: When you moan, people "hear" it long after you've moaned and your moan will probably circle round to the person you're moaning about. 2: Now, the "ice cream shop" (any untrustworthy site) is linked with your "market" (facebook), so every time you visit your market, it keeps offering you icecream. 3: The shops NEVER forget who you are, what you bought, when you bought it and what else you were looking at when you were browsing. These are not complete in any way, shape or form and it would be quite amusing to get people pondering all the ways in which the internet is just as public a place as the highstreet, but we'd be here forever. The simple fact is, watch your kids and teach them how to walk. They're being thrown in this face first while we've all had time to adjust to this second world and just like real life, we know how to avoid danger, they don't, watch your kids.... (Btw, thanks for starting this topic. It's refreshing to find high brow intellectual debate alongside power-gaming.)

Hi. I play on F|A ET server 2 a lot so the least I could do is visit the forums... So here I am. Nice place. Nice servers. Thanks for the games.