On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Sexting is jargon for sending nude or sexually suggestive text messages. According to a recently released survey by Pew Internet and American Life Project on "sexting" nearly one out of every six teens has received nude or partially nude photographs from someone they knew.
"The survey, released Tuesday, polled 800 people. It found that 15 percent of cell-phone-owning teens from ages 12 to 17 received explicit images by phone. Four percent said they sent out sexually explicit photos or videos.
It also said that older teens were more likely to send out sexting type messages. Also that boys and girls have equally engaged in sending out these messages.
With the rollout of multimedia messaging on the iPhone some parents are now wishing the feature was never available.
Well this is the kind of culture kids are growing up in now a days. Cell phones are important but with it comes other dangers and hazards. Like in the US if you posses a nude photograph of someone below 18 that becomes a felony.
Teens send these messages to partners or potential partners and the real danger lies when these same messages are forwarded to friends and friends of friends. This makes the situation ugly.
"The survey, released Tuesday, polled 800 people. It found that 15 percent of cell-phone-owning teens from ages 12 to 17 received explicit images by phone. Four percent said they sent out sexually explicit photos or videos.
It also said that older teens were more likely to send out sexting type messages. Also that boys and girls have equally engaged in sending out these messages.
With the rollout of multimedia messaging on the iPhone some parents are now wishing the feature was never available.
Well this is the kind of culture kids are growing up in now a days. Cell phones are important but with it comes other dangers and hazards. Like in the US if you posses a nude photograph of someone below 18 that becomes a felony.
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