Never did manage to see the final product though!
And I suppose one could argue that war is often just a manifestation of a desire for sex or power/money as an intermediary to sex.
Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
In Prometheus Rising RAW mentions that the reason monks take a vow of chastity is because it instantly frees them from one of the major hamster-wheels of the human condition.
Of course, I'm not planning to become a monk :) But food for thought...
The legal definition of obscenity requires that a work is meant to be arousing and has patently offensive sexual conduct, in addition to having no redeeming artistic value.
Therefore, adding sex into something offensive makes it more obscene.
http://www.wikisummaries.org/Prometheus_Rising
It fucked my mind when I read it :) It's a bit far out sometimes though, but it's a cool read.
He said that he was confident that DB2 and Oracle could handle the load. They responded that SQL Server was much more capable than he thought and asked him about the workload.
Their response to his answer was "we can't even simulate that, maybe we're not ready".
I assume that they got better.
Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
reviews, 'discreet' dating sites, sugar-daddy match-making sites, etc.
Porn does "social", but only anonymous social, which is naturally handicapped.
If someone created a social network which allowed better privacy controls, the porn sites would love it.