I was expecting to have to hunt down drivers, but Windows had drivers for everything right out of the gate… even the webcam worked with no additional software needed.

And as an added bonus, I now don’t have any of the OEM software bogging my system down.

AIG received $170,000,000,000 dollars from the US government.

AIG gave out $165,000,000 in bonuses.

That’s .1% of the bailout money.

Yes, that’s right: For every $100 that the feds gave AIG, they gave out TEN CENTS in bonuses.

And they’re receiving death threats for this?

Here’s what I find interesting. People just assume that the conservative attitude towards sex and sexuality in media is prudish. They’re vocal about this, too - to the point of being insulting.

But what’s not being said in popular culture about sex? Have you ever thought about why this moral taboo exists? If you look at the moral foundation of Western civilization, you’ll see that every major moral principle is there for a reason. We defy those principles at our peril. The taboo toward public displays of sexuality and nudity is one such example.

Sex is everywhere: the supermarket checkout counter, advertising on TV, music videos, and it’s becoming an increasingly relevant component in video game design.

Children are immensly affected by what they see. Boys and girls both imitate what they see on television, and they form their attitudes about life partly based on these images.

Boys are being trained that women are primarily receptacles for their sexual desires. Girls are being trained that their primary value is as a sex object. As a result, teenagers and young adults don’t even see the opposite sex as people. Boys see girls as ambulatory sex toys. Girls see themselves primary in light of their sexual desirability, hence the need to conform to some idealized physical shape.

I’m not proposing a Puritannical attitude toward sex and nudity. Compeletely supressing it has the same affect as over-emphasizing it. People become obcessed with what they can’t have.

But is it too much to ask that media treats sex with respect instead of using it as a product? Can’t we live in a world where a woman’s personality and mind, rather than her bra size, is her defining characteristic? Despite this supposedly being an enlightened era, I have to say – the entertainment and advertising industries must never have gotten the memo.

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