It was pretty easy, especially considering that many of us had access through a 2400 bps modem (we called them 2400 baud, but I think they were 600 baud technically). Most of what you needed to find over Gopher was text files, which made things like troff/nroff very handy for formatting text files very nicely on terminals.
Is the new technology more powerful and flexible? Without a doubt. On the other hand I didn't need an ad blocker back in those days. And people weren't remote exploiting my out-of-date gopher client, or running bitcoin mining tasks in the background on 286. One valid point about nostolgia is that sometimes the old days were simpler and safer, if harder.
It's probably racist to support illegal immigration in any form. What that means is support of a de facto form of second class citizenship by tolerating businesses employing undocumented workers and frequently taking unfair advantage of them. Anything we outright ban turns into a black market. Regulation is the key to having a system that isn't totally off the rails.
Legal immigration, perhaps with reforms to streamline the process of non-resident aliens. Or completely open borders are many of the libertarians would like. (I'm in that camp. In addition as a US citizen I do not feel that I should have to register for a REAL ID in order to travel in my own country)
Even when all I had was a set of physical encyclopedias and no internet access, it was not unusual for me to pass the time by flipping a volume open and seeing if I could find something interesting to read.
Yeah, I don't see them going after any school kids that lost or destroyed these cards. Flushing it in the toilet, microwaving it, lighting it on fire, etc. You know, typical kid stuff.
This is very much a case of the law being applied on a technicality in order to intimidate one person. When so many other cases where the technically applies are ignored.
Yea, I'm really looking forward to renewing my driver's license into a REAL ID card. Just so I have permission to travel within the borders of my own country (USA).
You mean, that's how society fails. Someone decides that some behavior is bad, and then they devise an excessive law for it, and then they ruin your life because it's their job and if they don't, someone will ruin their life.
"Someone", a committee, a duly elected representative, a pure democracy of your peers. These are mechanism for defining laws, and the basis of the social contract. If the laws are unjust, society breaks down. A parody of society can be rigged together with the use of force against people, as we have seen throughout history. But eventually some of the enforcers defect, control slips from the grasp of the dictatorship, and change occurs. Because societies built on injustice and use of force against the general populace are not stable long term. (in my opinion)
Not being able to fly or use a train for a year might ruin your life, I think it's unlikely to but it *might*. And it might be a just punishment, or it might be unjustly applied to the innocent, we don't know. Hypothetically let's say China only ever punishes people who are guilty (ha! I know). If that were true, then would you have a problem with it? "Ruining" a person's life over something they did wrong. Is that different than taking a driver's license away from a drunk driver. Or freezing bank accounts of an embezzler? Or towing an illegally parked car?
I seriously wonder how much of this shit the Chinese people will put up with before there's a Civil War over it.
There was a civil war already. People banded together to end the rule of warlords (little military dictatorships). Then those people didn't agree on what kind of government to have so Nationalists and Communists duked it out for decades, with multiple atrocities and millions dead.
As long as people are fed and you can get entertainment in the form of television or smartphones, I doubt there is going to be a civil war over the injustices done against the people. Much like how it is in the US.
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Marijuana is illegal throughout the United State, unlike firearms..
Delivered twice as week and hardly ever any listeria in your unfrigerated and unpasteurized milk.
It was pretty easy, especially considering that many of us had access through a 2400 bps modem (we called them 2400 baud, but I think they were 600 baud technically). Most of what you needed to find over Gopher was text files, which made things like troff/nroff very handy for formatting text files very nicely on terminals.
Is the new technology more powerful and flexible? Without a doubt. On the other hand I didn't need an ad blocker back in those days. And people weren't remote exploiting my out-of-date gopher client, or running bitcoin mining tasks in the background on 286. One valid point about nostolgia is that sometimes the old days were simpler and safer, if harder.
It's probably racist to support illegal immigration in any form. What that means is support of a de facto form of second class citizenship by tolerating businesses employing undocumented workers and frequently taking unfair advantage of them. Anything we outright ban turns into a black market. Regulation is the key to having a system that isn't totally off the rails.
Legal immigration, perhaps with reforms to streamline the process of non-resident aliens. Or completely open borders are many of the libertarians would like. (I'm in that camp. In addition as a US citizen I do not feel that I should have to register for a REAL ID in order to travel in my own country)
This has nothing to do with gender inequality. There is nothing unequal about the situation.
The first statement may be true, but the second doesn't follow. We can have unequal and unfair circumstances, even if a particular example is fair.
Seems like they're kind of late for that. there are some decent options out there like TOX and many others.
The number referring to the particular sequence of pi is going to be, on average, larger than the sequence itself.
"Somebody's poisoned the waterhole!" -- Sheriff Woody
So I shouldn't let people have access to my computer?
Yup, death penalty for jaywalking. That sounds about how a fucking monster thinks.
We'd have to teach too many ignorant people about science before we'd be allowed to apply it.
Even when all I had was a set of physical encyclopedias and no internet access, it was not unusual for me to pass the time by flipping a volume open and seeing if I could find something interesting to read.
Ignoring Stalin, some atheists are good people.
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Donald Trump would make a great king, him being a stable genius and all.
Or maybe they just happen to be jerks.
Government service attracts officious bureaucrats like flies to shit.
Yeah, I don't see them going after any school kids that lost or destroyed these cards. Flushing it in the toilet, microwaving it, lighting it on fire, etc. You know, typical kid stuff.
This is very much a case of the law being applied on a technicality in order to intimidate one person. When so many other cases where the technically applies are ignored.
Stop attempting to use logic, this is a court room sir!
Yea, I'm really looking forward to renewing my driver's license into a REAL ID card.
Just so I have permission to travel within the borders of my own country (USA).
Ah so it's like our US no fly list for "terrorists", or rather people with names similar to aliases used by terrorists (including inactive ones)
Looking at your post history you're quite the snide little shit.
You mean, that's how society fails. Someone decides that some behavior is bad, and then they devise an excessive law for it, and then they ruin your life because it's their job and if they don't, someone will ruin their life.
"Someone", a committee, a duly elected representative, a pure democracy of your peers. These are mechanism for defining laws, and the basis of the social contract. If the laws are unjust, society breaks down. A parody of society can be rigged together with the use of force against people, as we have seen throughout history. But eventually some of the enforcers defect, control slips from the grasp of the dictatorship, and change occurs. Because societies built on injustice and use of force against the general populace are not stable long term. (in my opinion)
Not being able to fly or use a train for a year might ruin your life, I think it's unlikely to but it *might*. And it might be a just punishment, or it might be unjustly applied to the innocent, we don't know. Hypothetically let's say China only ever punishes people who are guilty (ha! I know). If that were true, then would you have a problem with it? "Ruining" a person's life over something they did wrong. Is that different than taking a driver's license away from a drunk driver. Or freezing bank accounts of an embezzler? Or towing an illegally parked car?
I seriously wonder how much of this shit the Chinese people will put up with before there's a Civil War over it.
There was a civil war already. People banded together to end the rule of warlords (little military dictatorships). Then those people didn't agree on what kind of government to have so Nationalists and Communists duked it out for decades, with multiple atrocities and millions dead.
As long as people are fed and you can get entertainment in the form of television or smartphones, I doubt there is going to be a civil war over the injustices done against the people. Much like how it is in the US.
Even atheists can believe some really dumb shit.
And in sane states, red light cameras are banned precisely because they don't allow you to confront your accuser in court.
It's certainly the choice of those states to do so, for whatever reasons they choose to assert. But it's not[ currently] a Constitutional issue.