Word: virtualization
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...lines find the right side of a standard that makes sense to most people: if an individual is harmed, then it's abuse. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court adopted that standard in a 6-to-3 decision on child pornography. The court rejected a 1996 congressional ban on "virtual" child porn--pictures that use young-looking adults or computer-generated images to simulate children. "These images do not involve, let alone harm, any children in the production process," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy...
SPFX B.C.: Special effects were mostly mechanical toys and puppets. A.D.: Computers made movies "virtual...
...with any music, appreciating the thriving state of hip hop is only a matter of digging through the filler. This time, it’s the independently inclined with the advantage, as two underground heroes, virtual unknowns among the airwaves, have unleashed their definitive statements onto the world...
...wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan oil output, which then declined to a virtual standstill when workers at the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, went on strike...
Constitutionally, the court made the right decision. Real child pornography is a fundamental violation of a child’s human rights and is rightfully illegal. Virtual child pornography, on the other hand, is victimless and is merely, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “the visual depiction of an idea.” The Supreme Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct...