And that's not what these laws are about. Enslaving people has been illegal everywhere for a long time, no new laws needed.
These laws target consensual prostitution.
Because the reality is the modern so-called "left" is a bunch of blue-haired wannabe church ladies. Who get fainting spells if they suspect they somewhere, someone might be having fun.
The Conservatives are the "modern so-called 'left'"?
Final thought: If it were possible to legislate away the sex trafficking game, it would've been accomplished generations ago.
It's quite possible to mostly legislate the sex trafficking away. Has to be done like how it was done with the bootleggers, legalize and reasonably regulate. Just like most people like getting alcohol from a regulated source for a reasonable price, I'd assume most sex buyers would like similar. I know that if I was in the market to pay for sex, I'd prefer someone vetted as being clean and honest to buy it from.
https://soylentnews.org/ an interesting fork of the old slashcode with some weird users. Interesting changes include Unicode support, more ways to moderate including the disagree and touche mods that don't affect the score or karma. Being able to mod in discussions that you've commented in, with some exceptions, so you can mod someone and then tell them why and I'm sure some other interesting changes.
Doesn't work, whichever 3rd party that replaces one of the main stream ones will just have all the members of the main stream one move to the new party.
and it's not uncommon that I will vote some of each on the same ballot.
Wonder how many Americans actually do that? Seems it is one problem with the American system, having one election for everything. Here, I have 3 elections, of which 2 are just voting for one representative, often with different parties at the Provincial and Federal levels and at the municipal level, there are no parties, at least in most municipalities.
You should look up the Pinkerton Detective Agency and how big they were in the 19th century, and then consider that they were only one of the multiple private police forces that existed.
By capitalist states, I'd assume the poster meant the west where we're supposed to have the rule of law and respect for rights. In the various authoritarian states, it is natural to expect heavy handed police actions.
I don't know. I have a couple of plugs where the plug is a big triangle with the wire coming out at about a 45 degree angle. These will block at least one extra plug or more depending on the socket it is plugged into. Ones a power bar so perhaps they didn't realize that my plug has 2 different circuits and they're discouraging plugging in too many devices, but I think it is just some designer trying to be different.
Don't be stupid, we're talking NASA. They adjusted the seasons. Think about it, they have space craft up there, they use them to adjust the orbital tilt of the Earth and get thousands of extra dollars in funding, some even say the funding dollars are even higher, and they all come out of your taxes.
I'm not the one calling people jerks for reporting the Provincial law, including the fact that I've known people to get caught without their sticker. Perhaps you shouldn't stare in the mirror so much.
$500 into the Provincial coffers, gotta keep the taxes low. Besides it's a lot easier to spot the wrong coloured sticker, or at least it was before the automatic plate readers.
Here the tag covers both insurance and registration, I believe the fine is mostly for lack of insurance. They've become harsher over the years, forgetting your license used to mean showing up at the cop shop and showing it within a week, now it's a few hundred dollar fine.
Where was your Big Mac purchased? Makes a difference whether in New York or some rural area. Anyways, I was tired so didn't post the link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Some interesting info, takes an average of 10.7 minutes to earn a Big Mac in the US vs 172.6 minutes in Kenya or 54.7 minutes in Kiev. The Big Mac index by itself has problems, but it is representative of buying power and as you point out, the price has increased faster then wages in the US, then thinking of the minimum wage, probably about $3 in '78 and about $10 in 2017, so a minimum wage earner has gone from earning 4 Big Macs an hour to 2, varying on location.
Well the automation in the 1800's put a lot of people out of work for 3 generations. Things weren't so bad in the new world as the government was busy stealing land and giving it to other people, called it homesteading and as they were only stealing from savages... The early 1900's were interesting, government was busy breaking up the biggest businesses, which created competition, bosses were educated enough that they read up on the science about how workers weren't very productive after about 8 hours of work. They also agreed about shrinking the work force with things like child labour laws, a push for the stay at home Mom and retirement, which drastically shrunk the labour force. They were also smart enough to see the possibility of a Socialist revolution and raised wages enough that a man could support his family. Since the 70's, things seem to have been going down hill for the average worker, though welfare was good for a while, then, in America, a couple of percent of the working age people were incarcerated, which helped. Disability has also gone up, further shrinking the workforce. Then there are the homeless, lots of people living on the street, which used to be rare, and a lot of people reduced to couch surfing, living in their cars and such. It's been a long time since the labour particiapation rate has been close to 100% of the population like it was before the industrial revolution and at times after. Everyone used to start working at about 5 years old and work till death.
The ONLY people that have not done well are poor people in rich countries, who are still mostly in the top 20% income quintile globally.
Really you have to use something like the Big Mac cost to compare income. Those poor people in rich countries have less buying power now then 40 years ago and less buying power then if they lived in a poor country and I wouldn't be surprised if it is similar in the poorest countries. Having your income quintuple to $5 a day doesn't help if the cost of living went up to 6 times the previous.
$500 fine here if you don't have the sticker on the plate. Doesn't matter if you have it with you, once the expiry date passes, you better hope for a nice cop who lets you put it on right then.
Depends on whether you're hoping to troll up some responses by name calling or whether it is just your opinion. Lots of people think troll means someone who lives under the bridge and hates goats rather then a means of fishing.
Slashdot Mirror
and look how much better the slashdot comments used to be. Used to find gold here. I don't know what this is here now, but it is not gold.
The first post is about politics, though more civil then now, much the same.
It was amazing the amount of hatred and number of threats directed at the flunkies working in that restaurant in Ontario.
Wouldn't that have been balanced out by all the women who died in child birth?
And that's not what these laws are about. Enslaving people has been illegal everywhere for a long time, no new laws needed.
These laws target consensual prostitution.
Because the reality is the modern so-called "left" is a bunch of blue-haired wannabe church ladies. Who get fainting spells if they suspect they somewhere, someone might be having fun.
The Conservatives are the "modern so-called 'left'"?
Final thought: If it were possible to legislate away the sex trafficking game, it would've been accomplished generations ago.
It's quite possible to mostly legislate the sex trafficking away. Has to be done like how it was done with the bootleggers, legalize and reasonably regulate. Just like most people like getting alcohol from a regulated source for a reasonable price, I'd assume most sex buyers would like similar. I know that if I was in the market to pay for sex, I'd prefer someone vetted as being clean and honest to buy it from.
https://soylentnews.org/ an interesting fork of the old slashcode with some weird users.
Interesting changes include Unicode support, more ways to moderate including the disagree and touche mods that don't affect the score or karma. Being able to mod in discussions that you've commented in, with some exceptions, so you can mod someone and then tell them why and I'm sure some other interesting changes.
I think it was Americans taking July the 4th off, which was a Wednesday this year. Most countries don't have that as a holiday.
Doesn't work, whichever 3rd party that replaces one of the main stream ones will just have all the members of the main stream one move to the new party.
and it's not uncommon that I will vote some of each on the same ballot.
Wonder how many Americans actually do that?
Seems it is one problem with the American system, having one election for everything.
Here, I have 3 elections, of which 2 are just voting for one representative, often with different parties at the Provincial and Federal levels and at the municipal level, there are no parties, at least in most municipalities.
Different countries have different holidays.
You should look up the Pinkerton Detective Agency and how big they were in the 19th century, and then consider that they were only one of the multiple private police forces that existed.
By capitalist states, I'd assume the poster meant the west where we're supposed to have the rule of law and respect for rights. In the various authoritarian states, it is natural to expect heavy handed police actions.
The holiday was Monday.
I don't know. I have a couple of plugs where the plug is a big triangle with the wire coming out at about a 45 degree angle. These will block at least one extra plug or more depending on the socket it is plugged into.
Ones a power bar so perhaps they didn't realize that my plug has 2 different circuits and they're discouraging plugging in too many devices, but I think it is just some designer trying to be different.
I'd lay the blame on companies like Exxon for funding those hippies.
Don't be stupid, we're talking NASA. They adjusted the seasons. Think about it, they have space craft up there, they use them to adjust the orbital tilt of the Earth and get thousands of extra dollars in funding, some even say the funding dollars are even higher, and they all come out of your taxes.
Really? You must be a total jerk.
I'm not the one calling people jerks for reporting the Provincial law, including the fact that I've known people to get caught without their sticker. Perhaps you shouldn't stare in the mirror so much.
$500 into the Provincial coffers, gotta keep the taxes low. Besides it's a lot easier to spot the wrong coloured sticker, or at least it was before the automatic plate readers.
Executing the wrong person doesn't slow down the actual criminal but it does look good on the DA's resume.
Good point. I'd hate to be a Judge.
Here the tag covers both insurance and registration, I believe the fine is mostly for lack of insurance.
They've become harsher over the years, forgetting your license used to mean showing up at the cop shop and showing it within a week, now it's a few hundred dollar fine.
Where was your Big Mac purchased? Makes a difference whether in New York or some rural area.
Anyways, I was tired so didn't post the link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Some interesting info,
takes an average of 10.7 minutes to earn a Big Mac in the US vs 172.6 minutes in Kenya or 54.7 minutes in Kiev.
The Big Mac index by itself has problems, but it is representative of buying power and as you point out, the price has increased faster then wages in the US, then thinking of the minimum wage, probably about $3 in '78 and about $10 in 2017, so a minimum wage earner has gone from earning 4 Big Macs an hour to 2, varying on location.
Well the automation in the 1800's put a lot of people out of work for 3 generations. Things weren't so bad in the new world as the government was busy stealing land and giving it to other people, called it homesteading and as they were only stealing from savages...
The early 1900's were interesting, government was busy breaking up the biggest businesses, which created competition, bosses were educated enough that they read up on the science about how workers weren't very productive after about 8 hours of work. They also agreed about shrinking the work force with things like child labour laws, a push for the stay at home Mom and retirement, which drastically shrunk the labour force. They were also smart enough to see the possibility of a Socialist revolution and raised wages enough that a man could support his family.
Since the 70's, things seem to have been going down hill for the average worker, though welfare was good for a while, then, in America, a couple of percent of the working age people were incarcerated, which helped. Disability has also gone up, further shrinking the workforce. Then there are the homeless, lots of people living on the street, which used to be rare, and a lot of people reduced to couch surfing, living in their cars and such.
It's been a long time since the labour particiapation rate has been close to 100% of the population like it was before the industrial revolution and at times after. Everyone used to start working at about 5 years old and work till death.
The ONLY people that have not done well are poor people in rich countries, who are still mostly in the top 20% income quintile globally.
Really you have to use something like the Big Mac cost to compare income. Those poor people in rich countries have less buying power now then 40 years ago and less buying power then if they lived in a poor country and I wouldn't be surprised if it is similar in the poorest countries.
Having your income quintuple to $5 a day doesn't help if the cost of living went up to 6 times the previous.
$500 fine here if you don't have the sticker on the plate. Doesn't matter if you have it with you, once the expiry date passes, you better hope for a nice cop who lets you put it on right then.
Depends on whether you're hoping to troll up some responses by name calling or whether it is just your opinion.
Lots of people think troll means someone who lives under the bridge and hates goats rather then a means of fishing.