Foe'd. Though I agree, Ban us all, then the traffic can drop in earnest and we can start the brave new world where Slashdot is ghost town that makes no money.
Creating a site with a coherent and congruent purpose for the people using it at least establishes clear compatibility for users going forward. People who agree with the founding principles will want to become involved, and people who don't can GTFO.
And your hyperbolous mythical monsters of bigotry by a majority are extremely unlikely. How many mainstream sites do you know of that are openly racist or misogynist? And I don't mean the sort of soft bigotry of disagreement being pushed as equivalent in academia, I mean hardcore 'minorities are evil' bigotry, since that's what would be predicate to your fantasy scenarios of a white male only power structure.
Exactly, I've pointed the same things out in every survey, to the feedback mail, etc. etc. Almost everything has been ignored/broken for months. Unless we see a real timeline and real results and not just more of the same "we care, but we're not going to do anything" gloss and bullshit, it's going to be a brief period of gnashing followed by exodus.
What do you even know about China? Did you know that it was home to the largest and most advanced city humanity would ever see until 19th century London?
Well, let's see, they invented movable type printing, a calendar that was as accurate as the Gregorian but developed hundreds of years earlier, percussive cap drilling that was capable of the deepest wells in the early 19th century, paper currency, watertight compartments partitioning ships, dental fillings, dominoes, clockwork escapements, forensic entomology, multi-stage rocketry, pontoon bridges, toilet paper, electronic cigarettes, Non-invasive prenatal diagnostic testing for Down's Syndrome, Synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin, and I know it's cliche, but since you arbitrarily set the period at 1500 years I have to include gunpowder.
You're talking about people who invented the compass. Navigation relative to magnetic fields is kind of a big deal. I'll spare you the litany of other things.
Not the best example considering a) the US has the highest drinking age in the world, bar none and b) the fact that special rights are being conferred after the age of legal majority for voting and all sorts of other independent actions is ethically incongruent at a minimum.
You should have picked on something sensible, like not allowing tweens to drive.
I guess they could always move everything back out, then rents could be lower so property owners lose money and unemployment could be higher too, surely that's the great solution these brain-dead leftist idiots want.
Exactly who would fall of the turnip truck and believe that one of the most popular web services in China would be rerouted to another service whose main purpose is to undermine censorship by accident? I'll believe that Freedom Software wasn't complicit, it was probably some lone wolf, but to think this wasn't a deliberate hack is naive beyond words.
As somebody who has detested Ethanol-Fueled since the time when he posted under his actual account before becoming afraid of his bad karma, I thank you AC.
Crime should be illegal. (That's sarcasm.) The specifics of a criminal's threat are essentially meaningless. Somebody who is deranged enough to use violence or the threat of violence to get money will do so regardless of what specific mechanics are available. What's stopping these people from kidnapping loved ones and sending back body parts until the ransom is paid? That's a pretty classic one. Deranged, violent criminals are going to be deranged, violent criminals no matter what. The merits and detriments of a proposal such as this need to be evaluated outside of a context of law breaking, because, unsurprisingly, law breakers don't care about laws. That's kind of what defines them.
What we are talking about here is a violation of the prevailing interpretation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. You know this as well as anybody, but you're just dancing around it. I don't want one cent of my taxes, which I already resent paying at the implied barrel of a gun, going to sponsor any kind of religious nonsense in a school somewhere. That's private business and should be funded privately at a time and place where children aren't forced to attend by law.
I'm as secular as the next atheist, but it's ludicrous to call state-authorized murder on religious grounds as in the "same ballpark" as some allusions to theism in some textbooks. They're both bad things, but to pretend that they're the same degree of bad is delusional to the point where it would make one certifiable.
Well, I don't think anything in the US truly maps to Iran, but Washington is the Japan of the US (if Japan had guns, since WA has one of the oldest concealed carry laws in the US, and one of the highest per capita rates of carry), and I say that being 3rd generation born and raised in WA. CA is like India in that it's full of people who can't seem to run themselves very well. New York is nowhere near Germany. New York would be like our Italy, with entrenched corruption (not to mention more Italians than most of the rest of the country).
Now the real question is, which is more like Canada, Minnesota or Maine?
This is not a mob rule democracy. We have a Constitution for a reason. Minorities do have value in this country, and we should all fight to keep it so, because we are all in one way or another a minority, whether by race, creed, or just in our simple individuality.
A wrong thing believed by most is not made right by its popularity.
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you over the screams of all the Saudi women beheaded for no reason in the last decade. Well, I guess there were reasons, really good ones like, being a witch, or doing things not approved of by their male owners, I mean "husbands" and "fathers". Hell, they're allowed pretty much to do it themselves without repercussion and save the state the time and trouble of a show trial where they can read the Quran to justify to everybody why they should slice women up for attempting to live their lives. How dare they. And America is totally worse than that.
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Foe'd. Though I agree, Ban us all, then the traffic can drop in earnest and we can start the brave new world where Slashdot is ghost town that makes no money.
Shut up Lysander Spooner.
Creating a site with a coherent and congruent purpose for the people using it at least establishes clear compatibility for users going forward. People who agree with the founding principles will want to become involved, and people who don't can GTFO.
And your hyperbolous mythical monsters of bigotry by a majority are extremely unlikely. How many mainstream sites do you know of that are openly racist or misogynist? And I don't mean the sort of soft bigotry of disagreement being pushed as equivalent in academia, I mean hardcore 'minorities are evil' bigotry, since that's what would be predicate to your fantasy scenarios of a white male only power structure.
Exactly, I've pointed the same things out in every survey, to the feedback mail, etc. etc. Almost everything has been ignored/broken for months. Unless we see a real timeline and real results and not just more of the same "we care, but we're not going to do anything" gloss and bullshit, it's going to be a brief period of gnashing followed by exodus.
So you're saying it's about developers? Developers, developers, developers?
Your rhetoric smells of lamp-wicks, Demosthenes.
I would venture to note that the great classical rhetoricians had equal if not more respect for those who mastered the extemporaneous mode.
Brought peace?
;-P
What do you even know about China? Did you know that it was home to the largest and most advanced city humanity would ever see until 19th century London?
It's not just China, East Asia as whole loves to anthropomorphosize things. Jesus... have you seen all the x-tans that come out of Japan?
Well, let's see, they invented movable type printing, a calendar that was as accurate as the Gregorian but developed hundreds of years earlier, percussive cap drilling that was capable of the deepest wells in the early 19th century, paper currency, watertight compartments partitioning ships, dental fillings, dominoes, clockwork escapements, forensic entomology, multi-stage rocketry, pontoon bridges, toilet paper, electronic cigarettes, Non-invasive prenatal diagnostic testing for Down's Syndrome, Synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin, and I know it's cliche, but since you arbitrarily set the period at 1500 years I have to include gunpowder.
You're talking about people who invented the compass. Navigation relative to magnetic fields is kind of a big deal. I'll spare you the litany of other things.
WOOSH.
Not the best example considering a) the US has the highest drinking age in the world, bar none and b) the fact that special rights are being conferred after the age of legal majority for voting and all sorts of other independent actions is ethically incongruent at a minimum.
You should have picked on something sensible, like not allowing tweens to drive.
Now, now Ethanol-fueled, we've been over this before. When you go into a room with a mirror, that's not a different person that you are "meeting".
I guess they could always move everything back out, then rents could be lower so property owners lose money and unemployment could be higher too, surely that's the great solution these brain-dead leftist idiots want.
Exactly who would fall of the turnip truck and believe that one of the most popular web services in China would be rerouted to another service whose main purpose is to undermine censorship by accident? I'll believe that Freedom Software wasn't complicit, it was probably some lone wolf, but to think this wasn't a deliberate hack is naive beyond words.
As somebody who has detested Ethanol-Fueled since the time when he posted under his actual account before becoming afraid of his bad karma, I thank you AC.
Crime should be illegal. (That's sarcasm.) The specifics of a criminal's threat are essentially meaningless. Somebody who is deranged enough to use violence or the threat of violence to get money will do so regardless of what specific mechanics are available. What's stopping these people from kidnapping loved ones and sending back body parts until the ransom is paid? That's a pretty classic one. Deranged, violent criminals are going to be deranged, violent criminals no matter what. The merits and detriments of a proposal such as this need to be evaluated outside of a context of law breaking, because, unsurprisingly, law breakers don't care about laws. That's kind of what defines them.
What we are talking about here is a violation of the prevailing interpretation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. You know this as well as anybody, but you're just dancing around it. I don't want one cent of my taxes, which I already resent paying at the implied barrel of a gun, going to sponsor any kind of religious nonsense in a school somewhere. That's private business and should be funded privately at a time and place where children aren't forced to attend by law.
I'm as secular as the next atheist, but it's ludicrous to call state-authorized murder on religious grounds as in the "same ballpark" as some allusions to theism in some textbooks. They're both bad things, but to pretend that they're the same degree of bad is delusional to the point where it would make one certifiable.
Well, I don't think anything in the US truly maps to Iran, but Washington is the Japan of the US (if Japan had guns, since WA has one of the oldest concealed carry laws in the US, and one of the highest per capita rates of carry), and I say that being 3rd generation born and raised in WA. CA is like India in that it's full of people who can't seem to run themselves very well. New York is nowhere near Germany. New York would be like our Italy, with entrenched corruption (not to mention more Italians than most of the rest of the country).
Now the real question is, which is more like Canada, Minnesota or Maine?
Replace him with Danica McKellar and we'd have an awesome system. :-p
What kind of government have you given us?
A republic, sir, if you can keep it.
This is not a mob rule democracy. We have a Constitution for a reason. Minorities do have value in this country, and we should all fight to keep it so, because we are all in one way or another a minority, whether by race, creed, or just in our simple individuality.
A wrong thing believed by most is not made right by its popularity.
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you over the screams of all the Saudi women beheaded for no reason in the last decade. Well, I guess there were reasons, really good ones like, being a witch, or doing things not approved of by their male owners, I mean "husbands" and "fathers". Hell, they're allowed pretty much to do it themselves without repercussion and save the state the time and trouble of a show trial where they can read the Quran to justify to everybody why they should slice women up for attempting to live their lives. How dare they. And America is totally worse than that.
You're a delusional asswipe.
Nowhere even in the same universe.
But thanks for the blind, knee-jerk anti-Americanism, it was clearly good for some cheap moddings-up.
State control is not a solution to negligence.