"We have a Ford Tempo with plate number "808TRY". The records show it is owned by Mr Biggle who lives on Maple Drive." Later, a squad car pulls up at Mr. Biggle's house on Maple Drive. "Excuse me Mr. Biggle, but is that your Ford Tempo over there?" "Yes it is." "Does anyone else drive it?" "No, I have the only keys." "Can you come down to the station with us please?"
It might be a bit more complicated than that, but it isn't like the police aren't going to go to a person's house because of "Well, gee, shucks guys, this plate on a specific model of car doesn't exactly point to anyone. We'll just have to wait and hope for more evidence."
That's a pretty stupid argument as well. Why not have them smash a window out, or puncture the tire while they are committing other felonies at your instigation?
Hey fust...., I think you are missing an important part of these people's arguments. They don't care about the First Amendment, in cases where people use it to voice opinions they don't agree with. They only support it when it backs up their own beliefs. So your arguments are simply being discarded (not just ignored) as irrelevant to their crusade, even though you are completely correct in your statements.
In other words, if you don't agree with them, they want to shut you up. Even if you are mostly of the same political bent as they are, no distinction in personal choices or public policy is can be permitted.
If it used to have a majority of conservative-libertarian readers, then yes it has changed a lot. I've been reading/posting since 2001 (with a few name changes), but can't remember what the general stance was on these social issues.
Looking back a decade, here is a story that the post mentions differences between men and women playing online games, and I do not see a single word of gender equality in the comments.
No, not everything where men currently dominate. Not mining, not oil rig work, not farming, not anything involving manual or dangerous labour.
There was actually a lawsuit a while ago about a company that wouldn't let women work in the car battery division. Because of the risk of lead getting into the workers' systems, and the effects of lead on a developing fetus, no woman of child-bearing age was allowed to work there, unless she had her tubes tied.
Of course, the job paid more than other areas, because the men and older women who worked there were exposing themselves to lead poisoning every day.
When did I say I ran a fraudulent investment company?
Just because I don't have sympathy for the greedy people doesn't mean I want to degrade myself with the same level of greed.
And for your information, I have worked hard to become an asshole in my own standing. I don't need your misconceptions based on psychological projection to achieve that rank.
I'm glad I added that qualifier in my statement then.:^)
But in all seriousness, that is exactly how many people decide if your point is valid. "It agrees with my opinion, so this person is a great and wise human being", or "It doesn't agree with my opinion, so the person is obviously an idiot."
Even if you are on that person's side in an argument, but have a slightly different view of it, you are just as horrible as a person from the complete opposite viewpoint.
I don't know how long you have been reading this site and others, but you have probably seen/experienced this sort of attack before. It happens often here, and several times a week across various comment boards or news stories.
I think it says I don't have much sympathy for people who are too stupid with greed to step back and think critically about something that is 'too good to be true', as others managed to do.
Do you have any idea what your question says about you?
It's interesting you mention Bernie Madoff. He said one time that the only people who got burned by his scheme were those who were too greedy to not do their homework. After the initial investment period, he didn't ask anyone to join the fund; people were breaking down his door to get in on the action. Several people who wanted to join the fun realized it was too good to be true, and stayed away.
How sorry am I supposed to be for people who are too stupid with greed to give something a second look?
I can stand up in any public square the US and give my opinion of whatever topic I want to. I don't have to provide my name to do so.I don't have to show my papers. I don't have to get permission from overnight billioinaires. I can simply tell people what I am thinking, and call myself Silence Dogood.
I've been reading/. since around 2002, and don't see this article as an outlier with regards to subject.
You would have probably been one of the one who bitched when the articles about the World Trade Center attacks were up. Just as back then, you and your fellow whiners can go read the newest article. Right now that is about Apple music. Wow, that's something new and unexplored here on/. .
For one person, who is used to the wild foods by his house, this is certainly possible. But as even he admits, it's for half the year only. A family of 6 (like mine when I was on the farm) would then need an area 12 times that size, with half the food being stored for the winter.
And really, neither his story or mine would have been that unusual a century ago. If you didn't live in town, you raised or foraged whatever food you ate regularly. If you lived in town, you had a job that paid for food that others raised and foraged*. And we just passed the tipping point where more people live in town rather than on farms.
*Fishermen may be the main exception to that statement, but only partially. They tend to live in town, and catch food, but then sell the food to buy other food, as well as other items.
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My mistake. I thought his family moved here while he was a child.
Then thankfully this bill had to face approval from an Indian.
License plates point to people all the time.
"We have a Ford Tempo with plate number "808TRY". The records show it is owned by Mr Biggle who lives on Maple Drive."
Later, a squad car pulls up at Mr. Biggle's house on Maple Drive.
"Excuse me Mr. Biggle, but is that your Ford Tempo over there?"
"Yes it is."
"Does anyone else drive it?"
"No, I have the only keys."
"Can you come down to the station with us please?"
It might be a bit more complicated than that, but it isn't like the police aren't going to go to a person's house because of "Well, gee, shucks guys, this plate on a specific model of car doesn't exactly point to anyone. We'll just have to wait and hope for more evidence."
That's a pretty stupid argument as well. Why not have them smash a window out, or puncture the tire while they are committing other felonies at your instigation?
Hey fust...., I think you are missing an important part of these people's arguments. They don't care about the First Amendment, in cases where people use it to voice opinions they don't agree with. They only support it when it backs up their own beliefs. So your arguments are simply being discarded (not just ignored) as irrelevant to their crusade, even though you are completely correct in your statements.
In other words, if you don't agree with them, they want to shut you up. Even if you are mostly of the same political bent as they are, no distinction in personal choices or public policy is can be permitted.
If it used to have a majority of conservative-libertarian readers, then yes it has changed a lot. I've been reading/posting since 2001 (with a few name changes), but can't remember what the general stance was on these social issues.
Looking back a decade, here is a story that the post mentions differences between men and women playing online games, and I do not see a single word of gender equality in the comments.
http://games.slashdot.org/stor...
That was the entire point of my previous post.
And your first post was very clear about what point you were making. Some people just have to read with their own considerations first.
Offtopic????
Some stupid fuck didn't read the article, and has no clue what the OP here is doing.
[Nelson voice] Ha Ha! [/Nelson voice]
No, not everything where men currently dominate. Not mining, not oil rig work, not farming, not anything involving manual or dangerous labour.
There was actually a lawsuit a while ago about a company that wouldn't let women work in the car battery division. Because of the risk of lead getting into the workers' systems, and the effects of lead on a developing fetus, no woman of child-bearing age was allowed to work there, unless she had her tubes tied.
Of course, the job paid more than other areas, because the men and older women who worked there were exposing themselves to lead poisoning every day.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03...
other stories of it: https://www.google.com/webhp?c...
When did I say I ran a fraudulent investment company?
Just because I don't have sympathy for the greedy people doesn't mean I want to degrade myself with the same level of greed.
And for your information, I have worked hard to become an asshole in my own standing. I don't need your misconceptions based on psychological projection to achieve that rank.
I'm glad I added that qualifier in my statement then. :^)
But in all seriousness, that is exactly how many people decide if your point is valid. "It agrees with my opinion, so this person is a great and wise human being", or "It doesn't agree with my opinion, so the person is obviously an idiot."
Even if you are on that person's side in an argument, but have a slightly different view of it, you are just as horrible as a person from the complete opposite viewpoint.
I don't know how long you have been reading this site and others, but you have probably seen/experienced this sort of attack before. It happens often here, and several times a week across various comment boards or news stories.
Are the words of Bernie Madoff credible?
When backed by others who saw through the hype and avoided losing their money.
I think it says I don't have much sympathy for people who are too stupid with greed to step back and think critically about something that is 'too good to be true', as others managed to do.
Do you have any idea what your question says about you?
I believe that was Stalin's plan. Maybe you can achieve similar results among those who don't agree with you.
It's interesting you mention Bernie Madoff. He said one time that the only people who got burned by his scheme were those who were too greedy to not do their homework. After the initial investment period, he didn't ask anyone to join the fund; people were breaking down his door to get in on the action. Several people who wanted to join the fun realized it was too good to be true, and stayed away.
How sorry am I supposed to be for people who are too stupid with greed to give something a second look?
No, of course individuals don't have the right to choose their own course. What are you, a commie?
Your opinion (apparently) differs from his.
Eeew! Do you know how long it takes to clean the shit out of a politician? It's just not worth it.
I prefer to eat statisticians. I can't tell you how much better that makes the world.
I can stand up in any public square the US and give my opinion of whatever topic I want to. I don't have to provide my name to do so.I don't have to show my papers. I don't have to get permission from overnight billioinaires. I can simply tell people what I am thinking, and call myself Silence Dogood.
I've been reading /. since around 2002, and don't see this article as an outlier with regards to subject.
You would have probably been one of the one who bitched when the articles about the World Trade Center attacks were up. Just as back then, you and your fellow whiners can go read the newest article. Right now that is about Apple music. Wow, that's something new and unexplored here on /. .
Good way to send the riff-raff packing. Kudos to you ScentCone.
For one person, who is used to the wild foods by his house, this is certainly possible. But as even he admits, it's for half the year only. A family of 6 (like mine when I was on the farm) would then need an area 12 times that size, with half the food being stored for the winter.
And really, neither his story or mine would have been that unusual a century ago. If you didn't live in town, you raised or foraged whatever food you ate regularly. If you lived in town, you had a job that paid for food that others raised and foraged*. And we just passed the tipping point where more people live in town rather than on farms.
*Fishermen may be the main exception to that statement, but only partially. They tend to live in town, and catch food, but then sell the food to buy other food, as well as other items.
Well, I did say it was an old joke.