Re: What the heck?
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Re: What the heck?
I apologize with the grpahicness of my message, but I wasn`t so much worried
about the
fact of children seeing the porn, I was worried about the fact that it was here
period, Regular Porn`s aren`t advertised in public, and I don`t think this
should be either. It`s a waste of 82$ and 4 Dbl A batteries if you ask me.
In a previous article, damienden@aol.com () says:
>I tried to ignore it and just let the group deal with it, but I've changed
>my mind.
>1: I changed the title, as the point about youth reading was a valid one,
>and it didn't help to have that in the subject.
>2: Four hundred plus people have become the lucky, if unwilling
>recipients, of porn-- on a calculator, no less. I don't know if the
>graphics were bad or not; I certainly didn't make any efforts to view it
>or even decode it. But the idea is significantly lacking. We've already
>stretched the usage of these calculators to include heaving gaming; any
>movies at all are a nice advancement. But to have the movie be
>pornography is more disgraceful than anything else. Is this what we have
>to show to our teachers as our newest development? To our parents as
>something new we learned to do on the calculator? I don't know about the
>other four hundred people receiving this, but personally I'd prefer to
>have something I could show people, teachers and parents included.
>Something that isn't illegal (noting that a large portion of the people in
>this group are -very- likely to be underage highschool students), or
>dirty, or anything of the type.
>3: Then again, people have different interests. If someone wanted to take
>the time to program a movie into his/her calculator, I admire his/her(for
>the few females we have with us) abilities. And I encourage the
>development and usage of said abilities. But I don't want it. I don't
>want it in my mailbox, and I'm probably not the only one. I respect your
>programming and wish to disperse copies of the program. To be as fair as
>possible, I request then that future such programs are put on the internet
>somewhere. Tell people where it is and what it is, even throw in a
>counter so you know how many people are getting it!
>But please, consider this (the above) when planning to post such.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Oh, and points for antirush (the*guy*without*a*real*address); I agree: The
>responses to the post didn't have to be at all graphic or explicit,
>especially with the point you're trying to get across.
>
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