Porn law revives debate over legality of porn industry in U.S.

Quote: LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The call for the "Condoms in Porn" legislation in California Monday has revived the debate on whether the porn industry in the U.S. is legal and whether porn stars should have labor protection.

    The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) led a group of people to gather in front of Larry Flynt's Hustler store Monday in West Hollywood to renew a call for a California "Condoms in Porn" law. The AHF is seeking the introduction of legislation that would mandate the use of condoms for adult video performers as a worker safety provision of California's Labor Code.

    Organizers said the Condoms in Porn law is equal to how the Labor Code currently requires the use of hard hats and other garments and barriers as safety precautions on certain California work sites and locations.
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http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=5&t=6872

Deviant/pundit Levicoff arguing with another internet ghost named Rambo...hell, I thought Rambo was a steroid freak with facial paralysis spreading terror in the jungles of Vietnam...

http/www.straightwalk.com/resources/Resume.doc

Quote:Collapsing like a weeping child in my shower Christ at last became real to me, and I submitted my life to Him.

Quote:I remind you, kimosabe, that you are amongst many on this forum who know biblical theology out the proverbial wazoo. And compared to them, you are a rank amateur. In both senses - you are obviously an amateur, and you're pretty rank

Quote:Although I certainly do NOT claim to be any kind of theological superman, I do have some background. Tell me, how many theological articles have YOU published? Books? At what seminary do you teach at?

Quote:I try to avoid ego games, though if I'm forced into one I generally do quite well.

Quote:Articles? Let's see . . . Christian Education Journal, Evangelical Journal, Christian Counseling Today, and Christian Century are a few that come to mind off the top of my head.

What seminary (did I teach at)?

Quote:[BOOK] Christian counseling and the law

S Levicoff - 1991 - Chicago: Moody Press

[BOOK] The New Song of Shiloh: An Historical, Legal, and Theological Exploration of a Indigenous Prison …

SF Levicoff - 1991 - Union Institute (so-called 'doctoral dissertation)

Quote:Dude, I said you were a rank amateur, and you have proved it. I also noted that you hadn't done your research, and you've more than confirmed it here. You could have found out those things about me with a simple Internet search.

Levicoff unleashed a broadside at some DD newbie blowing smoke about his fundamentalist religious beliefs. (like we need his opinion on who is going to go the Hell and burn for an eternity) The newbie, Damon Rambo, really went after our old friend Jimmy Clifton and blasted anyone else that dared post until Lev showed up. At first I thought that this guy couldn't be serious but apparently he is ... Add him to the list of dicks posting at degreediscussion. Now let's see if he has any balls by coming back at the PhD-turned-trucker Steve Levicoff or will he just take the verbal abuse and STFU?

DD thread

Rambo's bio

http://www.detc.org/theaccrediting.html#act

The former Pacific Western University, now known as California Miramar University, has been accredited by DETC.

Another kick in their shriveled scrotums for Bear and his clones!  The DETC is rapidly rendering the pervert posse and wiki wankers obsolete by accrediting all their age old whipping boys.  Maybe now the sphincter boys will have to start stalking the decadent RA "Gold Standard" universities that don't actually provide educations, instead of trying to force small and startup programs out of the marketplace.

http://www.jordanmaxwell.com/index.html
Jordan Maxwell is a famous 'truther' and researcher in matters of religion etc, at times referred to as 'ufologist'. He appeared in countless books and videos.
Now Maxwell is much better than fringe truthers like Marrs because he doesn't use his informative videos to push Jesus or some other identifiable agenda, and most of what he says I know is true for having learnt it elsewhere in school.
There is no wikipedia article on him.
All one can find is a page referring to a row of deleted articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Maxwell
where a bunch of likely keyboard sociopaths, deviants and other 'funny internet people' consort and commune in order to reach a verdict.
Sounds like a bunch of teenagers on behaviour medications to me, rather than the supreme court.

The usual usernames more attuned to online gaming than else...
read on..
Promoted and demoted ten times to -hear this- as online moderators of Wikipedia...wow...that's the life I wish I had...
Those are the outcasts with facial twitches sitting in the dark in your local pub, the appointed butt of all jokes...but -much like a super hero- they morph into their virtual persona...the sheriff is in town...

No wonder Gollin, Bear and other 'experts' love Wikipedia...[/quote]

George Brown will look into why University of Southern Queensland has dropped its DETC accreditation. That's great news as George is plugged into the Who's Who of Australian higher education especially as it relates to distance education. The bigger question is why George Brown, the preeminent distance education expert in Australia, has to first find out about such big news from a goddam Internet forum? Is this an aberration and an oversight by George or is he not the expert he has held himself out to be?

DD link

http://www.higheredconsulting.com.au/

Speaking of junk pundits at degreeinfo and degreediscussion, see who's here:

LINK

Quote: Mole Ltd. University Louisiana. Created as a joke, and to prove how easy it is to start a university, by entrepreneuer C. Denver Mullican, this school granted exactly two degrees (doctorates, to Mullican's two dogs--whose characters, he claims, were greatly improved by the credentials).  Still, he tells us that he received numerous letters from people offering money for the degrees, including $200 from a man in Malaysia who offered to sell the degrees and cut Mullican in for $100 each.  He sent the money back.  Thus if you run into anyone claiming a degree from this university, and they're not a dog, something fishy is almost certainly going on.

Fuck you, Denver.
http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showpost.ph...ostcount=4

Hey dickless, did you know you post on a forum operated by a gay boy pornographer?  Do you like looking at pictures of men having sex with boys?  Do you like having your ISP and personal information in the possession of someone who does?

Some things to consider the next time you log in to a "discussion" board that is owned and operated by a gay boy pornographer.  Could your computer be compromised by malicious code to conduct illegal activity?

Quote:FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.

Sometime on Tuesday, more than 15,000 Web sites connected to San Jose, Calif., based Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net) went dark. 3FN's sites were disconnected after a Northern California district court judge approved an FTC request to have the company's upstream Internet providers stop routing traffic for the provider.

In its civil complaint, the FTC names 3FN and its various monikers, including Pricewert LLC -- the business entity named on the 3fn.net Web site registration records. The FTC alleges that Pricewert/3FN operates as a "'rogue' or 'black hat' Internet service provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious, and harmful content," including botnet control servers, child pornography and rogue antivirus products. 3FN also operates by the names APS Telecom and APX Telecom.

In an interview with Security Fix, FTC Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz said the agency's action targets one of the Web's worst actors.

"Anything bad on the Internet, they were involved in it," Leibowitz said. "We're very proud, because in one fell swoop we've gone after a big facilitator of some of the utterly worst conduct."

The FTC chairman confirmed that this was the first time the agency had sought and been granted an order to shut down an Internet service provider.

Efforts to contact 3FN via phone, instant message and e-mail were unsuccessful. I will update this post in the event I hear back from them.

The FTC alleges that even though Pricewert officially is registered in Oregon, its principals and staff are located outside of the United States.

"Pricewert markets its services to domestic and overseas criminals by placing ads in the darkest corners of the Internet, including forums set up to facilitate communication between criminals," the FTC complaint said. (The image on the right is a screen shot of an ad for 3FN's services I found running on verified.ru, one of the busiest Russian online forums dedicated to identity theft and the sale of stolen identities).

"Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest," the FTC said.

The FTC also said that not only was 3FN hosting sites promoting illegal activities, but that its owners and operators were directly facilitating and brokering those businesses. The commission references several Internet chat logs in which the head of programming for Pricewert/3FN is observed directly participating in the creation and configuration of a botnet.

"The customer informs Pricewert that he controls 200,000 bots and needs assistance configuring the botnet. The head of Pricewert's Programming Department agrees to assist, but complains upon learning of the size of the botnet that it will require a lot of work," the FTC's complaint alleges.

Botnet experts I have spoken with over the past eight months have found that 3FN housed many of the command and control networks for "Cutwail," one of the world's largest spam botnets. As late as mid-April, Joe Stewart, a botnet expert and director of malware research at SecureWorks, tracked nearly a dozen Cutwail control networks hosted at 3FN.

Indeed, in February, Security Fix began tracking malware samples from Cutwail and its cousin Pushdo that traced back to 3FN, dating back to at least October 2008. These reports were listed at ThreatExpert.com. A copy of that record -- with citations from malware analysis reports is available at this link here (Microsoft Excel document) or in HTML format. The Internet addresses colored yellow in those charts belong to 3FN.

Among the most popular sites on 3FN's hosting servers was botmaster.net, the home of an extremely popular service and software product used to blast out massive amounts of blog comment spam.

Mark Rasch, a former cyber crime prosecutor for the Justice Department and a principal at the Arlington, Va., based Internet Law Group, said the FTC's authority gives it the power to shut down companies that appear to be engaged in unfair and deceptive practices, whereas criminal law enforcement agencies have a much higher standard for proving wrongdoing in order to convince a court to shut down an ISP.

"It could be that other law enforcement organizations are using the FTC as a front in order to obtain evidence for later criminal prosecutions," Rasch said. "What's interesting about that approach is that in order for these guys to get out from under this court order, they're going to have to show that they've taken steps to clean up their act. But if there is a criminal investigation ongoing against 3FN, then anything their operators say in trying to convince a court to lift the order can and will be used against them later."

The FTC's Leibowitz declined to say whether other law enforcement agencies were investigating 3FN, but said his agency was assisted by several organizations, including: cyber investigators at NASA; Spamhaus; The Shadowserver Foundation; the University of Alabama at Birmingham; The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and Symantec Corp.,

Interestingly, the Russian blogosphere is beginning to light up about 3FN's closure. This blog post notes that large numbers of 3FN customers were forced to move their sites to other providers. Meanwhile, the 3FN operators are telling customers that they will be back online in another location within hours or days.

Christopher Barton, lead research scientist at McAfee, said a number of 3FN domain name servers already have popped up at new locations online.

"The rats are running," Barton said.

Leibowitz said his agency would continue to pursue other ISPs that "provide a haven for Internet criminals."

"This is a signal that we're going to go after you, and you're not going to be able to hide behind the shroud of the Internet and be immune from enforcement action," Leibowitz said.

A signed copy of the FTC's complaint is available here (PDF).

John Bear has been keeping everyone posted on the status of the legislation to restore the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. Only Peter French, an Aussie, seems to have any interest in this issue that Bear believes in so strongly. Too bad, I really wonder what the likes of Gus Sainz, Bill Huffman, Contreras, Poimen, Jack Tracey, Steve Foerster, Levicoff, Tenured Prof, Gollin and the others think about this arcane DL issue?

If Uncle J were still around, you know that he would have offered his opinion (along with some of that self-serving Carpathian drivel he was famous for) and moved the thread along.




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