It's not as if Craigslist did anything to make it 'more open' or safer, the worse that could happen is that they'll use some other site to connect to 'clients'.
No, what will happen is that they'll use several other sites, ones that fly under the radar of the state Nannies General. If the state actually does want to police online escort services, their job just became that much harder.
How many fast-food workers get aids? How many people wanting to run for office have to hide their past flipping burgers? How many fast-food workers are killed by customers? How many fast-food workers are dependent on the turnout of the day for their salary? How many fastfood workers do not get sickdays etc etc (in civilized countries).
How many of the conditions you cite are consequences of the act's illegality, and not of the act itself?
The kind who says it is okay his iPod was made with slave labor because else these people would have just starved.
It'll be interesting to see you justify a single assertion in that post without resorting to religious arguments, or without projecting your own personal moral hangups on the rest of humanity as a whole.
The truth is, prostitution is not a particularly dangerous job when it's kept above-board and regulated by health authorities. This move on Craigslist;s part will instead drive the trade farther underground than it already was.
I don't, and as an iPad user, I sincerely wish Apple would allow me to turn the feature off. The stupid paragraph-selection overlay comes on every time I inadvertently "hold it wrong" by resting my finger on the screen.
Trying to cram things like cut-and-paste and printing into iOS is exactly what I thought I was paying Apple to be smart enough not to attempt.
My understanding is that the district most famous as a happy hunting ground for plaintiffs is the Eastern district, located in a small town called Tyler, a couple hundred miles north of Houston.
When an independent competitor sues a large corporation for patent violation, the large corporation wins.
Except that's not how it usually goes. What happens in reality is that the small "competitor," who has never actually produced anything in his life, sues the large corporation in a particular court district in East Bumblefuck, Texas. There, it's apparently easy to convince the local hayseeds on the jury that the most trivial standard techniques are "innovative," and that the Big Evil Megacorp is exploiting the innocent, naive Little Guy.
At some point you'd think the big evil corporations would realize that software patents are a much greater black-swan liability than they could ever be worth as legitimate assets, and buy a Congressman or two to get rid of the problem for everybody. But it never seems to work that way.
No, people who live in the real world will tell you that there's a difference between deliberately harming an embryo that you fully intend to carry to term, and choosing not to carry that embryo to term at all. Nothing wrong with the second option, but the first one risks condemning a human being to a life of misery and utter dependence.
I see nothing on that page that refutes my point. Care to point out specifically where a mother can be prosecuted for assault by drinking during pregnancy?
If companies like yours just somehow gave customers just a FEW DOLLARS a month to recycle then I promise you recycling would increase 10x fold.
That's how it works in the Seattle area (King County). Nobody goes through your trash, but: 1) you get a few dollars back for the value of your recyclables, and 2) the trash can is so small, and the trash collection bill is so high, that if you don't put everything you can in the (much larger) recycling bin, it's like burning cash.
So, bullshit or not, people here tend to follow the King County recycling laws pretty faithfully. They have done a good job with the carrot-and-stick approach in this case.
... like all police radar, will only catch fast drivers, not bad drivers. It will be great at raising revenue but it will have little to no beneficial effect on safety.
In general you can't solve social problems with technological means. Get your government to focus on better driver training, better highway engineering. Possibly try raising fines and penalties for genuinely reckless behavior, and put more cops on the street in problem areas.
The US government has zero authority to force MP3 players or phones to have radios. It simply does not exist in the constitution. (Such a power, if it exists, is reserved to the Member States or the People.)
The economic benefits conferred by a fully software-controlled control loop over a bunch of hacked vacuum plumbing are substantial. Society has collectively decided that the reduction in emissions and the increase in performance is worth the 0.001% additional risk of a crank-position sensor failure.
This sort of reasoning happens a lot, it turns out. And the truth is, cars have never been more reliable than they are now... not even close.
One of the reasons it took 20 years is that for most of that time, you had to be (or pay) both a hardcore software dev guy and a hardcore RF guy to even think about trying. Now, GNU Radio and other low-cost SDR platforms have largely taken care of the RF side. That is something that will remain true no matter what kind of obscure protocols the carriers adopt for their next generation phones.
Put another way, it's now just another software problem, and we all know how much that changes the development picture. Instead of 100 basement hackers around the world with the means to tackle problems like this, there are now 10,000,000.
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It's not as if Craigslist did anything to make it 'more open' or safer, the worse that could happen is that they'll use some other site to connect to 'clients'.
No, what will happen is that they'll use several other sites, ones that fly under the radar of the state Nannies General. If the state actually does want to police online escort services, their job just became that much harder.
Anyway, ask any of the charities working with sex workers and they will tell you that the majority of people don't want to do it
The majority of the prostitutes who have contact with charities don't want to do it.
In other news, water contains high levels of hydrogen. Ric has more at 11.
How many fast-food workers get aids? How many people wanting to run for office have to hide their past flipping burgers? How many fast-food workers are killed by customers? How many fast-food workers are dependent on the turnout of the day for their salary? How many fastfood workers do not get sickdays etc etc (in civilized countries).
How many of the conditions you cite are consequences of the act's illegality, and not of the act itself?
The kind who says it is okay his iPod was made with slave labor because else these people would have just starved.
So who made your iPod?
Slavery is already illegal, and should be.
Illegal immigration is already, well, illegal, and there are various arguments either way on whether it should be.
These are both entirely orthogonal to the question of whether prostitution should be legalized.
It'll be interesting to see you justify a single assertion in that post without resorting to religious arguments, or without projecting your own personal moral hangups on the rest of humanity as a whole.
The truth is, prostitution is not a particularly dangerous job when it's kept above-board and regulated by health authorities. This move on Craigslist;s part will instead drive the trade farther underground than it already was.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes^Wfast-food workers work because they enjoy being prostitutes^Wfast-food workers. Have you?
Can't you dipshits go back to Digg?
I liked the annual September flamefest better when it was Usenet vs AOL.
Why would you want to cut and paste on an iphone?
I don't, and as an iPad user, I sincerely wish Apple would allow me to turn the feature off. The stupid paragraph-selection overlay comes on every time I inadvertently "hold it wrong" by resting my finger on the screen.
Trying to cram things like cut-and-paste and printing into iOS is exactly what I thought I was paying Apple to be smart enough not to attempt.
My understanding is that the district most famous as a happy hunting ground for plaintiffs is the Eastern district, located in a small town called Tyler, a couple hundred miles north of Houston.
When an independent competitor sues a large corporation for patent violation, the large corporation wins.
Except that's not how it usually goes. What happens in reality is that the small "competitor," who has never actually produced anything in his life, sues the large corporation in a particular court district in East Bumblefuck, Texas. There, it's apparently easy to convince the local hayseeds on the jury that the most trivial standard techniques are "innovative," and that the Big Evil Megacorp is exploiting the innocent, naive Little Guy.
At some point you'd think the big evil corporations would realize that software patents are a much greater black-swan liability than they could ever be worth as legitimate assets, and buy a Congressman or two to get rid of the problem for everybody. But it never seems to work that way.
No, people who live in the real world will tell you that there's a difference between deliberately harming an embryo that you fully intend to carry to term, and choosing not to carry that embryo to term at all. Nothing wrong with the second option, but the first one risks condemning a human being to a life of misery and utter dependence.
I see nothing on that page that refutes my point. Care to point out specifically where a mother can be prosecuted for assault by drinking during pregnancy?
Don't astronomers usually use MJD for that very reason?
If you saw a pregnant woman drunk and drinking, would that repulse you? Why, or why not?
Sure! Yet oddly enough, no legal system on planet Earth will charge that woman with assault. Why? Because an embryo isn't a human being with rights.
Treating human life as something that should be nurtured and not harvested is not something that is exclusive to religion.
Embryos are not "human life." If you think they are, then explain why we don't treat miscarriage as manslaughter.
If companies like yours just somehow gave customers just a FEW DOLLARS a month to recycle then I promise you recycling would increase 10x fold.
That's how it works in the Seattle area (King County). Nobody goes through your trash, but: 1) you get a few dollars back for the value of your recyclables, and 2) the trash can is so small, and the trash collection bill is so high, that if you don't put everything you can in the (much larger) recycling bin, it's like burning cash.
So, bullshit or not, people here tend to follow the King County recycling laws pretty faithfully. They have done a good job with the carrot-and-stick approach in this case.
(Shrug) That's just to say that poor highway engineering can bring out antisocial behavior in the best of drivers.
... like all police radar, will only catch fast drivers, not bad drivers. It will be great at raising revenue but it will have little to no beneficial effect on safety.
In general you can't solve social problems with technological means. Get your government to focus on better driver training, better highway engineering. Possibly try raising fines and penalties for genuinely reckless behavior, and put more cops on the street in problem areas.
Yo dawg, we heard you like virtualization, so we virtualized your virtual host so you can virtualize while you virtualize.
and their associated receivers
My point exactly.
The US government has zero authority to force MP3 players or phones to have radios. It simply does not exist in the constitution. (Such a power, if it exists, is reserved to the Member States or the People.)
Pull the other one. It has bells on it!
(Shrug) The statistics say otherwise.
The economic benefits conferred by a fully software-controlled control loop over a bunch of hacked vacuum plumbing are substantial. Society has collectively decided that the reduction in emissions and the increase in performance is worth the 0.001% additional risk of a crank-position sensor failure.
This sort of reasoning happens a lot, it turns out. And the truth is, cars have never been more reliable than they are now... not even close.
What? Use cases are exactly what you start with. They are, literally, what the user wants to do with the software.
Users are not the least bit interested in some random software developer's idea of how they should do their jobs, nor should they be.
One of the reasons it took 20 years is that for most of that time, you had to be (or pay) both a hardcore software dev guy and a hardcore RF guy to even think about trying. Now, GNU Radio and other low-cost SDR platforms have largely taken care of the RF side. That is something that will remain true no matter what kind of obscure protocols the carriers adopt for their next generation phones.
Put another way, it's now just another software problem, and we all know how much that changes the development picture. Instead of 100 basement hackers around the world with the means to tackle problems like this, there are now 10,000,000.