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Why Public Cloud

The fact is that cloud service providers (CSPs) at any kind of scale have more network engineers, security engineers, compliance experts, and operational personnel than most companies that run their own data centers. 

John Purrier quoted in The Roles Cloud and DevOps Should play in Your Digital Transformation [enterprisersproject.com] on The Enterprisers Project

This will be the single biggest driver in moving to the cloud in the future. Even large enterprises have proved how bad they are at security —looking at you Sony! The big cloud players will be the ones who can bring these services at the most capable, most professional and most cost effective level to all companies from startups to mega multinationals. Why should every company have its own IT Security team?

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Frotteurism

“Frotteurism” is your word of the day.

Among those questioned, 35 percent had a thing for voyeurism (watching someone engaging in intimate or sexual behaviour), 26 percent said they enjoyed fetishism (sexual stimulation from an inanimate object or nonsexual body part), another 26 percent said they liked frotteurism (unconsenting rubbing or groping), and 19 percent got a kick out of masochism (getting sexual gratification from pain or humiliation).

from Abnormal Sexual-Interests are Actually Completely Normal [iflscience.com] on I Fucking Love Science

Moral of this story – Canucks are deviants at heart. I wonder how this survey would pan out in, oh I don’t know, Japan?

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Whips And Chains… ‘Cause Science!

“[it] may be hard to believe, considering how nipple clamps don’t always seem that sane, but you can’t argue with science.”

Zeynep Yenisey in 3 Non-Vanilla Sex Acts That Are Actually Good for You, According to Science [maxim.com] from Maxim
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Prostitution and the Right to Privacy

“Part of me feels that sexual relations between consenting adults, transactional or not, are nobody’s business but their own.”

Richard Branson in The Pros and Cons of Legalized Prostitution [virgin.com]

I agree. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. and so forth so on. As long as people are adult and consenting and no one is being hurt the act itself should not be illegal. Of course this does not change anything related to the illegality of underage prostitution, sexual violence or slavery or human trafficking, as Branson goes on to say in the next sentence:

“At the same time, I am just as appalled as everybody else by the global extent of human trafficking and sexual slavery that continue to be a significant part of the sex trade”

Richard Branson in The Pros and Cons of Legalized Prostitution [virgin.com]

My stance is based on the right to privacy, as I said back in 2006 [confusion.cc]:

I believe that congress should make no laws limiting what consenting adults can do in the privacy of their homes or what they can and cannot do with their bodies. I believe we may need to amend the constitution to enshrine this law

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I think the right to privacy covers not only prostitution (in their own home or a hotel) but also homosexuality and most other things which are banned as “crimes against nature” under archaic laws. Even use of recreational drugs that don’t cause harm — meaning marijuana, we do need to carefully consider the costs to the state, general public and family for “hard” drugs as part of “no one is being hurt”.

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Its A Roller Coaster.

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. 

Anthony Bourdain, quoted in 23 Brilliant Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain [airows.com]