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  1. Re:Who's space station is it actually? on The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually Solomon only knew who really cared for the baby. There are mothers who don't give a shit about their baby and women who can't have a baby but really want one.
    The important thing is that the woman who cared the most for the baby ended up with it, and it would be the same with the ISS.

  2. Re:Protecting Profit on Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or personally want to change carriers.

  3. Re:Not if unlocked in a year or less on Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they charge to unlock in the States? Here in Canada, they were charging up to $50 to unlock a paid for phone. The law changed last Nov and now they have to do it for free, so it's not much of a problem now.

  4. Re:But where are the diversity success stories? on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Diversity in skills, not accents. Think of how many scientific studies could have benefited from including a statistician.

  5. Re:It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is censorship. From https://www.merriam-webster.co...

    1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring
            They oppose government censorship.
    b : the actions or practices of censors; especially : censorial control exercised repressively
            censorship that has permitted a very limited dispersion of facts —Philip Wylie

    and from https://www.merriam-webster.co...

    : a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as
    a : an official who examines materials (such as publications or films) for objectionable matter
            Government censors deleted all references to the protest.

    and some examples from the same page, which show that a censor doesn't have to be a government official,

    In the novel, Rebecca is murdered by her husband, while in the famous Hitchcock film her death results from an accidental fall—a change made in deference to industry censors, who frowned on a crime going unpunished.

    WSJ, "Five Best: Lily Tuck," 15 Sep. 2017
    But with Trump out to punish and intimidate critics, and many CEOs scared to give offense, a lot of Americans will slowly develop an internal censor.

    slate staff, Slate Magazine, "How Trump Will Change America," 24 Jan. 2017
    Zuckerberg has long maintained the company doesn’t want to play censor, but Facebook has drawn some lines—banning Greece’s Golden Dawn, the ultranationalist party, for example.

    lauren etter, Bloomberg.com, "How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda," 21 Dec. 2017

    Now your example isn't the clearest but changing it to a policy of the homeowner not allowing people to call his wife a whore, you're censoring peoples speech, and it is perfectly legal and could probably be grounds for eviction if it was a tenant.

  6. Re:It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So like restaurants that have a sliding "formal wear" scale based on how important a customer is or how busy they are?

  7. Bochs is probably the only possibility as OS/2 used x86 features that aren't in most emulators. Be interesting to test.

  8. Re:The best machine guns to kill in movie theaters on Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the Constitution get amended? The 1st seems pretty simple.

  9. Which just goes to show that rules of thumb are not hard rules.

  10. By the rule of thumb I mentioned. Of course a rule of thumb is like a guestimate, maybe accurate, maybe not.

  11. Rule of thumb is a ship is a vessel that is big enough that it carries boats. A sub doesn't carry boats, so it is a boat.

  12. And they're possibly sharing the facial recognition data with the Chinese government... AIn't that wonderful.

    I worry more about the American government. China has no extradition treaty and doesn't give a shit about the other side of the world whereas America has shown itself not to give a shit about foreigners rights, including extra-judiciary murders and leveraging extradition treaties.

  13. It was still marketing to change them from the food of the poor, slaves, prisoners and indentured servants. Being nutritious just helped.

  14. "tis a good example of successful marketing. From fertilizer/poor person food to gourmet food, mostly due to being able to ship it somewhere where it was unknown. Another example of successfully marketing a bug that most would never eat is escargot, put them on a menu in a fancy French restaurant and people are willing to pay out of the nose for poor persons food, namely those snails that infest the vineyards.

  15. Sure, there is a continuous stream of new animals moving in to replace the ones that die.

  16. All you are saying is that a government can go rogue and not rule by law. That's true, as might can make right, but it is still a form of tyranny.
    Think of it as a contract, one side can break it, especially if they have more power, but it doesn't make it right when they break it.

  17. True, but it is still a type of tyranny to remove that right.
    There's also the weirdness that here, the courts, acting in the name of the sovereign, can overrule the the elected government, who are governing in the name of the sovereign.

  18. Re: Last DRM free media on Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs (complex.com) · · Score: 1

    Newp. Vinyl has about 12 bits worth of dynamic range, and starts distorting the signal above 5khz. https://hydrogenaud.io/index.p...

    Please refute with actual engineering data/arguments. Otherwise its just placebophile hand-waving bullshit.

    OTOH, vinyl is often engineered to have more dynamic range then CD.
    Personally, I like buying old used CD's for the same reason, to get the dynamic range that CD's are capable off.

  19. Re:This is why I use a credit union on Wells Fargo Hit With 'Unprecedented' Punishment Over Fake Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a very 2 dimensional viewpoint. Libertarian-ism and authoritarian-ism are just as much real things and have little to do with capitalism and socialism. Then there is the free market, which both capitalism and socialism can be against. (Capitalism strives to remove the free market and socialism often doesn't want to compete in a free market)

  20. I'd argue that enforcement is more important then high penalties. You can have the death penalty for jay walking but if charges are seldom or never laid, it won't affect the numbers of jaywalkers.
    Police states usually have low crime as once a police state is implemented for political reasons, it can also be used for plain crime. The Soviet Union had low crime, even Iraq was a fairly safe place and Cuba is perhaps the safest place in Latin America, ignoring political crimes in all cases.
    Singapore is fairly authoritarian, small with a large police force, a culture (or cultures) of subservience to authority and enforces its laws. There's $1000 fines for littering where I am but it isn't enforced and there is tons of littering. Same with vandalism. Those German students may have been just as discouraged from being repeat offenders by serving one month in jail, and knowing that if they repeat the offence, they will be caught.
    Singapore also has a fairly good safety net combined with very high employment, which reduces the desperate type of criminal as you seem to recognize.

  21. Re:This is why I use a credit union on Wells Fargo Hit With 'Unprecedented' Punishment Over Fake Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're thinking of State Socialism, which is one type of socialism. To quote the blurb at the beginning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Libertarian socialism (or socialist libertarianism)[1] is a group of anti-authoritarian[2] political philosophies inside the socialist movement that rejects socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy.[3]

    Libertarian socialism also rejects the state itself,[4] is close to and overlaps with left-libertarianism[5][6] and criticizes wage labour relationships within the workplace,[7] instead emphasizing workers' self-management of the workplace[4] and decentralized structures of political organization.[8][9][10] It asserts that a society based on freedom and justice can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.[11] Libertarian socialists advocate for decentralized structures based on direct democracy and federal or confederal associations such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions and workers' councils.[12][13]

    All of this is generally done within a general call for libertarian[14][15] and voluntary human relationships[16] through the identification, criticism and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of human life.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] As such libertarian socialism, within the larger socialist movement, seeks to distinguish itself both from Leninism/Bolshevism and from social democracy.[25][26]

    Like all ism's, it is probably impractical due to human nature but does have some good ideas.

  22. Re:This is why I use a credit union on Wells Fargo Hit With 'Unprecedented' Punishment Over Fake Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Basically socialism is the workers owning the means of production, with lots of branches including running the means of production in a democratic way, one worker, one vote. Companies with stocks work by one share, one vote.
    There are also branches of socialism that are about small or no government. Anarchism being the extreme, libertarian-ism also was originally a socialist ideal.
    Unluckily, given human nature, libertarian-ism just leads to a power vacuum which the (usually corrupt) totalitarians move into, whether in the form of Stalinist-ism or fascist-ism.

  23. Re:This is why I use a credit union on Wells Fargo Hit With 'Unprecedented' Punishment Over Fake Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So socialist capitalism, or is it capitalist socialism. It's like co-ops and worker owned businesses, socialist constructs working in a capitalist world.

  24. Re:Why only when there is a death? on Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Around here (BC), emergency vehicles are supposed to only go through a red light if safe, which in practice means they pretty well come to a stop at a red light, make sure the intersection is clear, then go through the intersection.
    Cops are also supposed to stop giving chase if it is dangerous due to high speeds etc and I can think of at least one case where a cop was convicted of dangerous driving causing death IIRC for driving stupidly with his siren on and killing someone.

  25. Re: Bad Precident? on Family of 'Swat' Victim Sues Kansas Police, Lawmakers Propose 40-Year Jail Terms (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    'tis true. Look at other countries with strict sentencing. America for example executes people or puts them away for very long periods in horrible prisons and has one of the lowest murder rates in the free world. Same with illegal drugs, those harsh penalties mean almost no illegal drug use. Meanwhile there is the various Scandinavian countries with very light sentencing plus coddling prisoners, very high crime rates.
    One thing that won't affect crime rates is culture. Having a culture of getting along and deference to authority won't make any difference. Another is economics, when stealing a loaf of bread in Great Britain meant being hung, along with most other crimes, people just sat down and starved rather then turning to crime and the crime rate was almost non-existent.