I'm glad John Perry Barlow had the balls to be a dissenting voice in that echo chamber, but equally disappointed that Cory Doctorow thought that his inattendance was some kind of principled stand. We need more dissenting voices in the middle of regulatory circle jerks like these.
While there might be a few adults blind since birth that would opt out for such reasons, you can wager that blind children of seeing parents would get it rather quick, on the parents' authority as legal guardians. The fact that they would be adapting in early childhood means they would likely be almost, if not completely, normal by adulthood. So those blind persons who might think the detriments outweigh the benefits would be categorized as niche that would only diminish over time.
Ditto sentiment here. I violated my 'no Steam ever' policy for Civ V. Never again. Patches are involuntary, and I once was told by the Steam software that I couldn't run my own damn bought and paid for game. Luckily it was just a fluke error and it worked when I tried again a few minutes later, but it puts things into perspective. Any time Valve wants to yank your ability to run something, they can, for virtually any reason, and you're left holding your dick.
There so many of games from indie developers and from non-DRM sources like gog.com that I will, never, ever again buy anything that requires Steam or any similar service that makes you some distributor's bitch serf.
I'd be very surprised if "slower yields to faster" is actually written ANYWHERE in the US Highway Code.
The Uniform Vehicle Code in section 11-301 says in part that "Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic [...]", but in the end almost all traffic laws are handled at a state level. In my home State of Washington, it is illegal to go under the speed limit if there are more than 5 cars behind you and none in front. That driver must pull off the road and let the cars pass. (RCW 46.61.427) While not so much enforced in the urban areas, on the rural highways it's rather a big deal. There is a fair amount of state-by-state info here: State 'keep right' laws.
In the first place, there is nothing wrong with prostitution inherently. There are better and worse ways of approaching it as an institution/industry, but dismissing it out of hand reflexively is neither rational nor considered.
In the second place, while there are numerous instances of the sexual abuse of minors in Thailand and that is deplorable, 'ladyboys' despite the name are more frequently adults. I rather expect you are too ignorant of the subject to be moralizing about it.
That is actually what the founders intended. The Militia Act of 1792 set up a system very much like the Swiss, requiring that every citizen of military age be armed and meet regularly to train together. However we Americans were ultimately too lazy to keep that up, and we're all the weaker for it.
If forced to choose, I would much rather have a dietary restriction than an inferior and restrictive curriculum. Jiddu Krishnamurti and those who have worked to continue his legacy believed consumption of animals to be immoral. Being private persons, their setting up a school that doesn't serve meat is no different than opening a restaurant that doesn't serve meat. It is not 'openness' to make private persons violate their conscience to suit the needs of people who are present of their own free will. People are free to patronize restaurants and schools as they please, and if they don't like how things are done, they can leave.
Choice is funny that way, everybody wants it, but when they start bumping into other people's choices that they feel are antithetical to their goals or tastes, suddenly choice is bad, and the choices of others are recast as a kind of tyranny. Sorry, but I don't buy it, and never will. I think vegetarianism is stupid and the moral argument for it hollow and irrational, but as long as it is a private decision, whether it is made by a person or organization is irrelevant.
History is by nature a sequence of events. If you don't have a correct knowledge of the sequence of events, you cannot intelligibly ask deeper questions about the events themselves. History is not a morality play, you can't just pick a convenient vignette and attempt to analyze it in a vacuum with any productivity.
In science, if the facts fit the model, then the model is probably true.
Trolling aside, K-12 history is about knowledge more than analysis (that's for college), but to say that it's spun this way or that is to be spinning it oneself. The right looks at education as a left wing conspiracy and the left looks at it as a right wing conspiracy, but in the end if all you're teaching is Napolean did X and his opponents did Y, those are facts. You can spin what facts mean, or what motivated people to do what they did, but facts remain facts.
History is important not for what one does on the job, but for what one does in the voting booth. It is not possible to call oneself a responsible and informed citizen deserving of suffrage if the only thing one bases one's vote upon is the word of whichever talking heads are in play at the time. Unless one can look back sequentially at how human events have shaped the present, they should have no say in shaping the future.
Then there's the other extreme, I worked in a company where nobody gave a shit when I came or went, as long as I don't wear a shirt and a tie 'cause nobody takes a techie serious in a suit. I guess it was the first and only time I was asked to change my attire TO ThinkGeek t-shirts and jeans. There was no project management reports, no time schedule, no 2-hour-meetings, nothing that could remotely record progress on projects.
Organization levels were, oddly, also higher in this company. Don't ask me why, but we accomplished feats that I'd deem impossible in the company I work for now.
Holy shit, you worked for Penny Arcade Inc?
I'm only half kidding. For those that haven't seen it, Penny Arcade: The Series on PATV is a real eye-opener on how ruthlessly efficient and motivated a company can be even in an incredibly open and informal environment.
That is not, however, an effective criticism of homeschooling by itself. My own parents homeschooled me because they were Biblical literalist nutjobs, yes, but I still received a better education than what is provided by public schools, both in my subjective opinion and by that of standardized testing. In the end I still figured out that the Bible was full of shit.
I intend to homeschool my own daughter (who arrives at that age next year), not to shield her from anything, but instead to assure that all of the hours she must necessarily spend learning are maximized to that effect.
Yeah, sorry, but this has not been my experience or that of any other refugees from public education of those I've heard. When I was in first grade and first exposed to math my response was roughly "woo! math!" and I went and did about 25% of the entire textbook (correctly) in one sitting. For this I was *punished* and given stern warning to not do that again. That is not only training but also, in fact, discouragement of education. Ironically this was from the same teacher who would later privately tell my mom that I would be better served in a more advanced program and that the mainstream system would do me more harm than good.
Most schools, public and private, are about inculcation, not education. They inculcate order first, "self-esteem" (even for doing nothing) second, and some knowledge third. Education, by which I mean real learning, can only occur when an environment is open. I recommend you read Jiddu Krishnamurti's Education and the Significance of Life. He actually founded several schools, all of which are producing students of a quality unimaginable by most other institutions. The average SAT score of students from the Oak Grove School in Ohai, CA is around 1300, and that without the conformism you seem to think is so necessary. I would send my own daughter there except I don't believe in their insistence on Vegetarianism.
The thing is that any contract that contravenes law is automatically invalid where it does so. If South Korea has laws that require a different form/method of disclosure/consent than the way Google implemented, TOS regardless they may have violated RSK law. IANAL, Korean or otherwise.
I think you might want to reexamine the history of high-profile robberies. People like Bonnie and Clyde or D. B. Cooper are romanticized, aggrandized, and sometimes in some circles elevated even to folk heroes. So long as it doesn't personally affect them, people frequently think that daring acts, even crimes, are admirable. Human nature can take some interesting twists.
Actually in many (all?) states in the US it's illegal to work full time hours and not take a lunch. My wife is the sort who would rather skip lunch and has had several managers get worked up about it.
John Q. Public doesn't get requests for logs, he gets a boot to the neck after a SWAT team busts through every door of his residence simultaneously. The whole system has oriented itself to a model of 'arrest first, ask questions later'.
Every individual is now assumed to be a dangerous criminal for 'officer safety'.
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Hopefully that will generate a Streissand Effect.
I'm glad John Perry Barlow had the balls to be a dissenting voice in that echo chamber, but equally disappointed that Cory Doctorow thought that his inattendance was some kind of principled stand. We need more dissenting voices in the middle of regulatory circle jerks like these.
I'm running Linux Mint on my main desktop and have been for years.
Your tales of Steam porting only work if your account still does, which doesn't mean shit.
I can have virtual machines of older operating systems, so I can run anything on anything, basically forever. Guess I'm nobody's bitch.
While there might be a few adults blind since birth that would opt out for such reasons, you can wager that blind children of seeing parents would get it rather quick, on the parents' authority as legal guardians. The fact that they would be adapting in early childhood means they would likely be almost, if not completely, normal by adulthood. So those blind persons who might think the detriments outweigh the benefits would be categorized as niche that would only diminish over time.
Ditto sentiment here. I violated my 'no Steam ever' policy for Civ V. Never again. Patches are involuntary, and I once was told by the Steam software that I couldn't run my own damn bought and paid for game. Luckily it was just a fluke error and it worked when I tried again a few minutes later, but it puts things into perspective. Any time Valve wants to yank your ability to run something, they can, for virtually any reason, and you're left holding your dick.
There so many of games from indie developers and from non-DRM sources like gog.com that I will, never, ever again buy anything that requires Steam or any similar service that makes you some distributor's bitch serf.
That quote was from the Civil Society statement, not from the French president.
I'd be very surprised if "slower yields to faster" is actually written ANYWHERE in the US Highway Code.
The Uniform Vehicle Code in section 11-301 says in part that "Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic [...]", but in the end almost all traffic laws are handled at a state level. In my home State of Washington, it is illegal to go under the speed limit if there are more than 5 cars behind you and none in front. That driver must pull off the road and let the cars pass. (RCW 46.61.427) While not so much enforced in the urban areas, on the rural highways it's rather a big deal. There is a fair amount of state-by-state info here: State 'keep right' laws.
Wow, you knew a guy who sold all of Thailand? That must have been epic. Who bought it?
That too.
In the first place, there is nothing wrong with prostitution inherently. There are better and worse ways of approaching it as an institution/industry, but dismissing it out of hand reflexively is neither rational nor considered.
In the second place, while there are numerous instances of the sexual abuse of minors in Thailand and that is deplorable, 'ladyboys' despite the name are more frequently adults. I rather expect you are too ignorant of the subject to be moralizing about it.
Some people aren't afraid of what others think of their tastes. These people give me some hope for the future of human society.
That is actually what the founders intended. The Militia Act of 1792 set up a system very much like the Swiss, requiring that every citizen of military age be armed and meet regularly to train together. However we Americans were ultimately too lazy to keep that up, and we're all the weaker for it.
If forced to choose, I would much rather have a dietary restriction than an inferior and restrictive curriculum. Jiddu Krishnamurti and those who have worked to continue his legacy believed consumption of animals to be immoral. Being private persons, their setting up a school that doesn't serve meat is no different than opening a restaurant that doesn't serve meat. It is not 'openness' to make private persons violate their conscience to suit the needs of people who are present of their own free will. People are free to patronize restaurants and schools as they please, and if they don't like how things are done, they can leave.
Choice is funny that way, everybody wants it, but when they start bumping into other people's choices that they feel are antithetical to their goals or tastes, suddenly choice is bad, and the choices of others are recast as a kind of tyranny. Sorry, but I don't buy it, and never will. I think vegetarianism is stupid and the moral argument for it hollow and irrational, but as long as it is a private decision, whether it is made by a person or organization is irrelevant.
History is by nature a sequence of events. If you don't have a correct knowledge of the sequence of events, you cannot intelligibly ask deeper questions about the events themselves. History is not a morality play, you can't just pick a convenient vignette and attempt to analyze it in a vacuum with any productivity.
In science, if the facts fit the model, then the model is probably true.
Trolling aside, K-12 history is about knowledge more than analysis (that's for college), but to say that it's spun this way or that is to be spinning it oneself. The right looks at education as a left wing conspiracy and the left looks at it as a right wing conspiracy, but in the end if all you're teaching is Napolean did X and his opponents did Y, those are facts. You can spin what facts mean, or what motivated people to do what they did, but facts remain facts.
History is important not for what one does on the job, but for what one does in the voting booth. It is not possible to call oneself a responsible and informed citizen deserving of suffrage if the only thing one bases one's vote upon is the word of whichever talking heads are in play at the time. Unless one can look back sequentially at how human events have shaped the present, they should have no say in shaping the future.
Then there's the other extreme, I worked in a company where nobody gave a shit when I came or went, as long as I don't wear a shirt and a tie 'cause nobody takes a techie serious in a suit. I guess it was the first and only time I was asked to change my attire TO ThinkGeek t-shirts and jeans. There was no project management reports, no time schedule, no 2-hour-meetings, nothing that could remotely record progress on projects.
Organization levels were, oddly, also higher in this company. Don't ask me why, but we accomplished feats that I'd deem impossible in the company I work for now.
Holy shit, you worked for Penny Arcade Inc?
I'm only half kidding. For those that haven't seen it, Penny Arcade: The Series on PATV is a real eye-opener on how ruthlessly efficient and motivated a company can be even in an incredibly open and informal environment.
That is not, however, an effective criticism of homeschooling by itself. My own parents homeschooled me because they were Biblical literalist nutjobs, yes, but I still received a better education than what is provided by public schools, both in my subjective opinion and by that of standardized testing. In the end I still figured out that the Bible was full of shit.
I intend to homeschool my own daughter (who arrives at that age next year), not to shield her from anything, but instead to assure that all of the hours she must necessarily spend learning are maximized to that effect.
Personal anecdote, I choose you!
Yeah, sorry, but this has not been my experience or that of any other refugees from public education of those I've heard. When I was in first grade and first exposed to math my response was roughly "woo! math!" and I went and did about 25% of the entire textbook (correctly) in one sitting. For this I was *punished* and given stern warning to not do that again. That is not only training but also, in fact, discouragement of education. Ironically this was from the same teacher who would later privately tell my mom that I would be better served in a more advanced program and that the mainstream system would do me more harm than good.
Most schools, public and private, are about inculcation, not education. They inculcate order first, "self-esteem" (even for doing nothing) second, and some knowledge third. Education, by which I mean real learning, can only occur when an environment is open. I recommend you read Jiddu Krishnamurti's Education and the Significance of Life. He actually founded several schools, all of which are producing students of a quality unimaginable by most other institutions. The average SAT score of students from the Oak Grove School in Ohai, CA is around 1300, and that without the conformism you seem to think is so necessary. I would send my own daughter there except I don't believe in their insistence on Vegetarianism.
I would imagine there is a lot of goat porn.
The thing is that any contract that contravenes law is automatically invalid where it does so. If South Korea has laws that require a different form/method of disclosure/consent than the way Google implemented, TOS regardless they may have violated RSK law. IANAL, Korean or otherwise.
I think you might want to reexamine the history of high-profile robberies. People like Bonnie and Clyde or D. B. Cooper are romanticized, aggrandized, and sometimes in some circles elevated even to folk heroes. So long as it doesn't personally affect them, people frequently think that daring acts, even crimes, are admirable. Human nature can take some interesting twists.
Hi there Pot, please allow me to introduce you to Kettle.
Actually in many (all?) states in the US it's illegal to work full time hours and not take a lunch. My wife is the sort who would rather skip lunch and has had several managers get worked up about it.
John Q. Public doesn't get requests for logs, he gets a boot to the neck after a SWAT team busts through every door of his residence simultaneously. The whole system has oriented itself to a model of 'arrest first, ask questions later'.
Every individual is now assumed to be a dangerous criminal for 'officer safety'.