Recent content by Charley

Nintendo should sue him too. The tragic thing is that this nonsense has turned a basement-dweller with a silly nickname into a celebrity and martyr for the wannabe-hacker masses. ...and I can't quote for some reason, but to the guy 2 post above me, you can agree to a contract by taking a...

I really really really hope he loses. This is a bad combination of tedious and layered with a self-important hax0r "freedom fighter". He's caused all these problems just to do, frankly, infantile rubbish like play games on the wrong console (probably a contravention of their EULA - and I always...

So by extension, it'd be okay for me to make a key to your house, then pass copies around saying "you -could- open this guy's house with this, but I'm not promoting that."? Yes, it's a slightly silly example, but the ethics behind it are the same. GeoHot and co. know fine well what they've...

A friend of mine made an interesting point, saying this PS3 case is perfectly acceptable is very similar to saying it's okay to take a key and cut it to open the door to someone else's house. It's not what it was made to do, but you own the key so you can tinker with it however you like -...

For the record, I agree that it's not a great question. It seems inappropriate to change it now, since that would mean that the present answers don't apply to the question they're attributed to. The reason I posed the question that way is that people will drop straight to the term "sexist"...

Ignoring the rest of your post, how is that implicitly stated? That's what your background has led you to take from it - almost everyone here that's said it's not sexist has also said that it's proper conduct/chivalrous/gentlemanly rather than because men are superior or anything of the sort...

I agree, but they're open to the scrutiny of whether or not they're discriminatory these days. The more I think about it, I've not been in a situation with a woman where I've thought "I'd hit you now if I didn't think it was wrong". It's like a built-in predisposition about an issue that's never...

Just for clarification, we're talking about sexism in the common (i.e. negative "bad thing") sense. That may or may not make a difference to the conversation, but that's where we're at.

Added to a point I threw in earlier - mainly as a point for thought, because I don't expect many/any answers to this one; If you've ever hit the guy who your girlfriend cheated on you with, did you hit her too? Why/why not? If the situation warranted punching him, and she was equally...

It's interesting that it hovers around the 50-50 mark (right now I think 'yes' is in the lead) but the fact that the arguments are around chivalry vs. being considering equal/equal rights to be hit is curious, in my opinion. Whilst, like I said, I'm not about to change my own mind, it's...

No seriously - I actually did want to know why you thought it was the case and that's totally fair game, everyone's entitled to their opinion. One thing that I do think is particularly interesting is that people would rather not discourage (different from encourage) men from hitting women in...

The self-defense point has cropped up a few times, and I don't dispute the logic of hitting a woman from whom you were under threat. Maybe an edit to the question - is it worse to hit a woman in anger than to hit a man in anger for the same reason. This one is a hypothetical question - I'm...

Can we have the long answer that includes your reason, please? That's the point of this thread - there's clearly a divide here, and just throwing in a 'yes' or 'no' isn't helping the discussion a great deal. Thank

Long-winded two cents are a good thing. These last couple of posts are interesting. From my perspective, I don't believe I'm making a value judgement on the qualities of a woman by believing I shouldn't hit her, at least I'm not doing so deliberately, outside of being taught that it wasn't...

So (no judgements here) are we saying that if someone was actively sexually discriminating -not- to hit someone that would be a bad thing? Would the same apply if you chose not to hit a child or an elderly person (from an age perspective)?