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GBR6000

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    GBR6000 reacted to Kotobars in Build Plan Thread Recommendations (Please read before posting)   
    you aim for gaming*
    your aim is gaming*
    you're aiming for gaming*
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    GBR6000 reacted to manikyath in Does using a hard drive upside down prevent head crashes?   
    not necessarily true.
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    GBR6000 reacted to Curious Pineapple in Does using a hard drive upside down prevent head crashes?   
    The arms holding the heads are sprung to push towards the platter. A whack in any direction could cause them to crash on either side of the platter
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    GBR6000 reacted to Kiol in Sound Effects Overused!   
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    GBR6000 reacted to MoonlightSylv in [GUIDE] How to truly theme Windows 10 (works with Anniversary update)   
    UXStyle works on Vista, and there's themes for it if that's what you mean.
     
    Do you still run Vista?  
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    GBR6000 reacted to Master Disaster in 14 year old Irish girl is sueing Facebook because a naked picture of her was posted on the site?   
    I've seen them, they're pretty traumatising... 
     

     
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    GBR6000 reacted to Oshino Shinobu in 14 year old Irish girl is sueing Facebook because a naked picture of her was posted on the site?   
    There's an issue of people getting caught up in the moment as well, without really thinking of the consequences. At my first secondary school, a guy in my year frequently bullied in year 7 and 8 (about 11-13 years old). Some people ended up taking a picture of his penis and sending it to most of the girls in our year. Nothing really came of it, but it may be a different story if it happened now. Still, the people doing it definitely think it was a stupid thing to do now, but at that age, you're not thinking of the consequences. 
     
    The thing is, teenagers know about these stories now days, but it simply doesn't stop it from happening. I'd agree that teenagers should be taught more about the sex offenders list and just how much it can affect someone's life. However, there is an issue with equality when it comes to sexual offenders and the attitude towards them. Without wanting to get too much into the gender equality arguments, it is much more likely for a male to be put on the sex offenders list for sending an unsolicited (or solicited, that later got posted as if it was not) than a female is, even if the circumstances are exactly the same, just the roles are reversed. 
     
    By how much the sex offenders list can affect someone's life, I'd personally consider putting a minor on there as wrong. For many other crimes, they would not be considered old enough to be responsible for their actions, so it does seem a little unfair to affect the rest of someone's life due to them not thinking of the consequences (at an age where people are known for not thinking of consequences). Either way, there needs to be more focus on education in most of the world's justice systems. Right now, they seem to be overly focused on the punishment side of things and forget that the vast majority of criminals are going to be going back into society, so should be rehabilitated rather than just punished then sent away. 
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    GBR6000 reacted to Oshino Shinobu in 14 year old Irish girl is sueing Facebook because a naked picture of her was posted on the site?   
    My mistake, I was thinking of the way they are treated, rather than the age which they can be arrested. Over 10 they are accountable for their crimes, but are not punished in the same way. It's normally done in ways that aims to educate the offender and avoid giving them a record other than a young offender record, which is not taken as seriously by employers. Being put right on the sex offenders list at 14 will affect them significantly for the rest of their life. Even moving where they live will be traumatic (or, more so than normal) for something stupid they did as a kid. It's like sending a 14 year old caught shoplifting to adult prison for the full sentence and giving them an adult criminal record. 
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    GBR6000 reacted to Sauron in 14 year old Irish girl is sueing Facebook because a naked picture of her was posted on the site?   
    THANK YOU. She should take this opportunity to learn the concept of responsibility for her own actions. Even at 7 I knew having naked pictures of me was a bad idea.
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    GBR6000 reacted to LinusTech in Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?   
    I plugged a 4 pin floppy connector into a CD aux connector on a sound card when I was quite young. The blue smoke that made the sound card work escaped.
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    GBR6000 reacted to crispy345 in Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?   
    Was helping a friend diagnosing his computer, and managed to plug in the floppy power for the graphics card upside down, you can just say that graphics card and PSU went toast.
    Also, when putting on a cooler on some of my older motherboards, I put on a back plate (metal) without any insulation between that and the MB. Both the processor and the MB died on me.
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