Another self-important liberal elitist douchebag, I see.
The Constitution is more important than the Bible or the PETA charter or some secular humanist manifesto or whatever load of shit that you've filled your head with.
This living constitution bullshit is a modern invention. The Constitution means what it says. There is a method, a procedure to change the constitution. I'll clue you in, it doesn't involve allowing random liberal douchebags to invent new meanings for it.
You are what Lenin called a useful idiot. You happily, gleefully march down the road to intellectual and actual slavery. It was assholes like you who went all of the way in Milgram's experiments. You have only fluid principles, which is bad enough but you have the audacity to be hostile to others who do not share your ethical fluidity.
yet according to you, this is protected free speech
Especially when there really is a fire.
your problem is that you are a free speech fundamentalist.
Almost... Your problem is that I'm what you call a free speech fundamentalist.
I am principled. I understand how rare that is in today's world. You likely don't encounter people like me very often.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The thing speaks for itself. The supreme law of the land prohibits any abridgment of the freedom of speech. The constitution is crystal clear. You attempt to cloud the issue to separate people from their rights. Your muddied thinking leads free men to slavery. It leads to oppression. Orwell saw you coming long before even your parents were conceived.
You are probably 22 years old. Old enough to have given up on some of the idealism of your youth and still too young to realize how much you do not know.
Blackmail is just a variant of extortion, anyway. Surely nobody would doubt that protection rackets are rightfully criminal. Threatening to hurt somebody financially if money is not paid is only a matter of degree less awful than threatening to kick somebody's ass in exchange for money.
It should only be criminal if the blackmailer threatens to publish false information. Otherwise, it's NO DIFFERENT than when someone settles a civil case out of court and agrees to not speak about it. That's the exact same thing as blackmail. One party pays another party money to keep them from disclosing information.
Only a screwed-up unworkable society could ever have unrestrained free speech. One of the best measures of a free society is the care taken to draw equitable lines between unpermitted speech and free speech.
How Orwellian of you. ALL speech must be protected. End of argument. Once you let the censorship genie out of the bottle, you'll never get it back in. Today the censors may be on your side, eventually they won't be and it'll be your rights being trampled.
There are no dead human babies involved with pig stem cells, those of us who are opposed to embryonic stem cell research have no problem with dead food.
The "Vegetarian Society" remains skeptical... If there can be artificially grown meat, then there are no ethical issues with the consumption of that meat. Their skepticism is about their desire to dictate how other people should live.
for hundreds of years. It's called the cannon. In all seriousness, these pirates are chasing down ships and rapidly boarding them with AKs. These are ragtag groups of pirates. They couldn't compete with a cannon or a simple semi-automatic rifle.
It's ridiculous that all of this effort is necessary. Shoot them.
Restricting emissions that may not heat up the planet, BUT have noticeable problems on health of humans and wildlife.
That's true but it's a separate issue. For example, you tell your children that they should eat all of their vegetables because you want them to be healthy. You don't make up some nonsense that if they don't eat all of their vegetables, the planet is going to die.
People are so worked up because there has been a great deal of lying going on, both sides of the AGW debate are to blame.
Yes because the politicians are to blame for everything.
Not everything, but a lot.
Investor panic
Politicians are innocent there.
irresponsible debt holders,
The so-called bankruptcy reforms encouraged irresponsibility, so yes politicians can take a share of this one.
irresponsible debt givers
The US government required lenders to give mortgages to people who were unable to afford them, so yes they can take a share of that one too.
greedy corporate policy
Corporations exist to make profit, anything less than the limit of the law is unacceptable and a failure of the fiduciary duties of any corporate board of directors. So, if the legal environment permits the behavior, yes the politicians can take a share of the blame.
are but ripples in a pond next to the tsunami of the massive costs of raising the minimum wage
Not quite, the minimum wage increase was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The conspiracy theory is also laughable
It's not a theory, it happened. Look at the events of 2004-2008. Economic reality isn't funny to people who have an understanding of economics.
politicians in general are out of touch buffoons who can barely plan month to month let alone some diabolical plan to destroy the economy to vote in a president.
In general, that may well be the case, but I'm not talking about the average politician. I'm talking about the elites who are in control of one of the US's major parties. The low-level dunces just buy the line that they're given and follow along.
People on minimum wage are like serfs to a feudal lord. I know you probably cringe at the thought of not being able to potentially exploit those in circumstances unfortunate enough to be on minimum wage, but I doubt you are in any position to act as a lord of any sort despite you handle.
Except, of course, if you have any aptitude for any kind of work, you will not make minimum wage for long. My first two jobs were minimum wage jobs. I made $4.25 an hour and it sucked. So, you know what I did? I got a new job, and then another one, and then another one, and then another one. Now, I make a decent living. Why? Because I did what was necessary to improve my economic situation. Don't tell me that other people can't do it, because I did.
No; that was the case for some people and some laws at some times. Don't generalize it inappropriately when it's obviously not true for everyone. I, and nearly everybody I know and can imagine knowing, think that's ridiculous.
Then you must not know any black people. Since the arrival of the first Africans in North America, a certain percentage of their babies were born to black mothers and white fathers. From the very beginning, these bi-racial children were accepted by the black people and ostracized by the whites. For over 400 years, in North America, having any discernible African ancestry has meant that you're black.
Roughly 90% of those whom we call "African Americans", or black people have some measure of non-african ancestry. You're not seriously suggesting that all of a sudden, there are only 3 million truly black people in the US are you?
Obama is no more black than he is white.
Tell yourself that if you need to, but Obama is just as black as Richard Roundtree in Shaft in Africa.
What's amazing to me is that my countrymen are stupid enough to fall for the ploy. The Democrats made the 2006 election about the wars. They were able to use the wars to get a majority in congress. From there, they took actions that were deliberately designed to cause the economy to slump just in time for the 2008 Presidential election. It was obvious, people like me were screaming it from the rooftops, yet most people didn't notice. The Democrats raised the minimum wage in July 2008, EVERY time they raise the minimum wage, 2-3 months later there is a surge in unemployment. The Democrats caused a downturn in the economy right before the election and not only did Bush's advisors not warn him but mainstream economists went along with it and acted surprised.
Now that they control the congress and the White House, Democrats are desperate to blame the Bush administration for their continued failure to reverse the economic slide. Remember you saw it here first, until the economy turns around every administration official is going to remind you that Bush was the President before Obama. It'll be subtle, but clear. They'll use phrases like "During the previous administration..." or "During the previous 8 years..." You'll see it, some of you will pretend that it's not spin, but you'll know.
The last three decades have consisted of taking away pieces of white middle class males cars until now they are riding a used bicycle only very slightly better than everyone else's.
Nonsense. No one is "taking away" anything from white middle class males. The world is changing, middle class white males are now facing competition from more sectors than ever before. Women, black people, immigrants, these groups are no longer denied the educational opportunities that they once were. Now that the artificial barriers are down, middle class white males are forced to compete with people who were kept out of the process in previous eras.
Very soon white males will be a minority in many areas
They've always been outnumbered by white females. It'll be at least 50 years before whites are a minority here in the US.
I was a smoker and I hated working on a heavy smoker's computer for that exact reason. Everything inside the machine was sticky and smelled like stale smoke. Even so, if Apple wanted to exclude smokers they should have put it in writing BEFOREHAND.
Where the real hipocracy is, is when life-time smokers expect expensive treatment to keep them alive for another 5 years.
Smoking isn't a guarantee that you'll get one of those diseases, it's simply a dramatic increase in odds. We all know some smoker who is 90 years old and has been smoking for 75 of them.
Liberty isn't just about money, guns and cars, it's just as much about what kind of life you wanna lead urself.
It certainly is if I want to spend my life making money and buying guns.
The free google service requires you to have an up and running internet connection, while the garmin and Tom Tom products have built in maps to use and require no internet connection.
Everyone who has a recently made cell phone can have internet access.
You are exactly right. I am an example of this, I'm sure that a lot of slashdotters have similar experiences. When I was in second grade, a teacher identified my potential and I was tested for my school's gifted program. I did very well in the gifted program, but in regular classes I was barely passing. I didn't see the point in doing the same math problem 50 different ways once I learned how to do it. My grades suffered because I refused to do pointless busy work. I finished out my public education barely passing. I went to college when I was 18 and the bad habits that I had acquired in high school lead to my failing out.
A few years later, after working a couple of jobs that I hated I went back to community college. My grades were much better. I began to get As and Bs. After a few years at community college, I had two A.S. Degrees and went to a university. Two years there and I had a B.S. degree and I was on the Dean's list.
That "Don't ready ahead until every one else is done." bullshit that they practice in public schools nearly destroyed my passion for learning. Schooling used to be about education for the sake of education. Now it's about turning out fodder for the machines of commerce. I hope to be able to afford to send my children to private school, but if I can't I do plan to supplement their "education" at home. Because there are some things that they don't teach in school anymore. Can you believe that they don't teach civics here anymore? Children are no longer taught what citizenship is, what it means, why it's important or what rights and responsibilities come along with it. It's so bad that I'd almost think that they're dumbing down future generations on purpose.
I'm living proof that this is incorrect. I was exclusively a Mac user from 1990 through 1996. In 1997 I built a Windows PC to play some games. Later that same year, I built my first Linux file server/firewall. For three and a half years, I was primarily a Mac user. By 2000 I was primarily a PC user. I haven't so much as powered up any of my Macs in over a year.
Libellous comment is libellous Threatening comment is threatening Harassing comment is harassing
And a Bullshit comment is still bullshit.
An necessary element of Libel is that it could be believed by a reasonable person, no reasonable person believes anonymous internet postings.
Things that would be threatening in person are laughable on the internet. Certainly, there are things that one can say/do online that are much worse than mere threats but come on now. Don't overreact.
How can anyone harass you online? Most online venues give you the option to ignore people. No one can harass you, if you're ignoring them.
I had to address this same issue recently myself. I'm getting an increasing number of login/passwords. I won't use the same combination on any two sites and I'm in my 30s. I can't remember passwords like I could 10 years ago. For me Password Gorilla was the product that fit all of my needs.
It's Free/OSS, runs on all major platforms, can be run from a flash drive and is compatible with the Password Safe file format.
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Another self-important liberal elitist douchebag, I see.
The Constitution is more important than the Bible or the PETA charter or some secular humanist manifesto or whatever load of shit that you've filled your head with.
This living constitution bullshit is a modern invention. The Constitution means what it says. There is a method, a procedure to change the constitution. I'll clue you in, it doesn't involve allowing random liberal douchebags to invent new meanings for it.
You are what Lenin called a useful idiot. You happily, gleefully march down the road to intellectual and actual slavery. It was assholes like you who went all of the way in Milgram's experiments. You have only fluid principles, which is bad enough but you have the audacity to be hostile to others who do not share your ethical fluidity.
LK
yet according to you, this is protected free speech
Especially when there really is a fire.
your problem is that you are a free speech fundamentalist.
Almost... Your problem is that I'm what you call a free speech fundamentalist.
I am principled. I understand how rare that is in today's world. You likely don't encounter people like me very often.
The thing speaks for itself. The supreme law of the land prohibits any abridgment of the freedom of speech. The constitution is crystal clear. You attempt to cloud the issue to separate people from their rights. Your muddied thinking leads free men to slavery. It leads to oppression. Orwell saw you coming long before even your parents were conceived.
You are probably 22 years old. Old enough to have given up on some of the idealism of your youth and still too young to realize how much you do not know.
Haven't you finished that movie yet?
LK
Blackmail is just a variant of extortion, anyway. Surely nobody would doubt that protection rackets are rightfully criminal. Threatening to hurt somebody financially if money is not paid is only a matter of degree less awful than threatening to kick somebody's ass in exchange for money.
It should only be criminal if the blackmailer threatens to publish false information. Otherwise, it's NO DIFFERENT than when someone settles a civil case out of court and agrees to not speak about it. That's the exact same thing as blackmail. One party pays another party money to keep them from disclosing information.
Only a screwed-up unworkable society could ever have unrestrained free speech. One of the best measures of a free society is the care taken to draw equitable lines between unpermitted speech and free speech.
How Orwellian of you. ALL speech must be protected. End of argument. Once you let the censorship genie out of the bottle, you'll never get it back in. Today the censors may be on your side, eventually they won't be and it'll be your rights being trampled.
LK
There are no dead human babies involved with pig stem cells, those of us who are opposed to embryonic stem cell research have no problem with dead food.
LK
The "Vegetarian Society" remains skeptical... If there can be artificially grown meat, then there are no ethical issues with the consumption of that meat. Their skepticism is about their desire to dictate how other people should live.
LK
for hundreds of years. It's called the cannon. In all seriousness, these pirates are chasing down ships and rapidly boarding them with AKs. These are ragtag groups of pirates. They couldn't compete with a cannon or a simple semi-automatic rifle.
It's ridiculous that all of this effort is necessary. Shoot them.
LK
Restricting emissions that may not heat up the planet, BUT have noticeable problems on health of humans and wildlife.
That's true but it's a separate issue. For example, you tell your children that they should eat all of their vegetables because you want them to be healthy. You don't make up some nonsense that if they don't eat all of their vegetables, the planet is going to die.
People are so worked up because there has been a great deal of lying going on, both sides of the AGW debate are to blame.
LK
Yes because the politicians are to blame for everything.
Not everything, but a lot.
Investor panic
Politicians are innocent there.
irresponsible debt holders,
The so-called bankruptcy reforms encouraged irresponsibility, so yes politicians can take a share of this one.
irresponsible debt givers
The US government required lenders to give mortgages to people who were unable to afford them, so yes they can take a share of that one too.
greedy corporate policy
Corporations exist to make profit, anything less than the limit of the law is unacceptable and a failure of the fiduciary duties of any corporate board of directors. So, if the legal environment permits the behavior, yes the politicians can take a share of the blame.
are but ripples in a pond next to the tsunami of the massive costs of raising the minimum wage
Not quite, the minimum wage increase was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The conspiracy theory is also laughable
It's not a theory, it happened. Look at the events of 2004-2008. Economic reality isn't funny to people who have an understanding of economics.
politicians in general are out of touch buffoons who can barely plan month to month let alone some diabolical plan to destroy the economy to vote in a president.
In general, that may well be the case, but I'm not talking about the average politician. I'm talking about the elites who are in control of one of the US's major parties. The low-level dunces just buy the line that they're given and follow along.
People on minimum wage are like serfs to a feudal lord. I know you probably cringe at the thought of not being able to potentially exploit those in circumstances unfortunate enough to be on minimum wage, but I doubt you are in any position to act as a lord of any sort despite you handle.
Except, of course, if you have any aptitude for any kind of work, you will not make minimum wage for long. My first two jobs were minimum wage jobs. I made $4.25 an hour and it sucked. So, you know what I did? I got a new job, and then another one, and then another one, and then another one. Now, I make a decent living. Why? Because I did what was necessary to improve my economic situation. Don't tell me that other people can't do it, because I did.
LK
No; that was the case for some people and some laws at some times. Don't generalize it inappropriately when it's obviously not true for everyone. I, and nearly everybody I know and can imagine knowing, think that's ridiculous.
Then you must not know any black people. Since the arrival of the first Africans in North America, a certain percentage of their babies were born to black mothers and white fathers. From the very beginning, these bi-racial children were accepted by the black people and ostracized by the whites. For over 400 years, in North America, having any discernible African ancestry has meant that you're black.
Roughly 90% of those whom we call "African Americans", or black people have some measure of non-african ancestry. You're not seriously suggesting that all of a sudden, there are only 3 million truly black people in the US are you?
Obama is no more black than he is white.
Tell yourself that if you need to, but Obama is just as black as Richard Roundtree in Shaft in Africa.
LK
What's amazing to me is that my countrymen are stupid enough to fall for the ploy. The Democrats made the 2006 election about the wars. They were able to use the wars to get a majority in congress. From there, they took actions that were deliberately designed to cause the economy to slump just in time for the 2008 Presidential election. It was obvious, people like me were screaming it from the rooftops, yet most people didn't notice. The Democrats raised the minimum wage in July 2008, EVERY time they raise the minimum wage, 2-3 months later there is a surge in unemployment. The Democrats caused a downturn in the economy right before the election and not only did Bush's advisors not warn him but mainstream economists went along with it and acted surprised.
Now that they control the congress and the White House, Democrats are desperate to blame the Bush administration for their continued failure to reverse the economic slide. Remember you saw it here first, until the economy turns around every administration official is going to remind you that Bush was the President before Obama. It'll be subtle, but clear. They'll use phrases like "During the previous administration..." or "During the previous 8 years..." You'll see it, some of you will pretend that it's not spin, but you'll know.
LK
LK
Since there have been non-natives on the continent. In the US, 1/16 or above non-white meant non-white.
LK
The last three decades have consisted of taking away pieces of white middle class males cars until now they are riding a used bicycle only very slightly better than everyone else's.
Nonsense. No one is "taking away" anything from white middle class males. The world is changing, middle class white males are now facing competition from more sectors than ever before. Women, black people, immigrants, these groups are no longer denied the educational opportunities that they once were. Now that the artificial barriers are down, middle class white males are forced to compete with people who were kept out of the process in previous eras.
Very soon white males will be a minority in many areas
They've always been outnumbered by white females. It'll be at least 50 years before whites are a minority here in the US.
LK
How is this offtopic? TFA is about a Porn "Star" in a play.
LK
But the world looks utopian if you're a middle class white guy doing Sasha Grey.
Yes, because we all know how hard it is for middle class white men in western society.
LK
I've never seen any of her films, so I can't comment on whether or not it's "loser porn", but someone who sucks dick for money is certainly a skank.
LK
I was a smoker and I hated working on a heavy smoker's computer for that exact reason. Everything inside the machine was sticky and smelled like stale smoke. Even so, if Apple wanted to exclude smokers they should have put it in writing BEFOREHAND.
LK
Where the real hipocracy is, is when life-time smokers expect expensive treatment to keep them alive for another 5 years.
Smoking isn't a guarantee that you'll get one of those diseases, it's simply a dramatic increase in odds. We all know some smoker who is 90 years old and has been smoking for 75 of them.
Liberty isn't just about money, guns and cars, it's just as much about what kind of life you wanna lead urself.
It certainly is if I want to spend my life making money and buying guns.
LK
The free google service requires you to have an up and running internet connection, while the garmin and Tom Tom products have built in maps to use and require no internet connection.
Everyone who has a recently made cell phone can have internet access.
LK
I worked for an Apple dealer at the time of OS X's launch. I tried it, but was unimpressed. I haven't looked back since.
LK
You are exactly right. I am an example of this, I'm sure that a lot of slashdotters have similar experiences. When I was in second grade, a teacher identified my potential and I was tested for my school's gifted program. I did very well in the gifted program, but in regular classes I was barely passing. I didn't see the point in doing the same math problem 50 different ways once I learned how to do it. My grades suffered because I refused to do pointless busy work. I finished out my public education barely passing. I went to college when I was 18 and the bad habits that I had acquired in high school lead to my failing out.
A few years later, after working a couple of jobs that I hated I went back to community college. My grades were much better. I began to get As and Bs. After a few years at community college, I had two A.S. Degrees and went to a university. Two years there and I had a B.S. degree and I was on the Dean's list.
That "Don't ready ahead until every one else is done." bullshit that they practice in public schools nearly destroyed my passion for learning. Schooling used to be about education for the sake of education. Now it's about turning out fodder for the machines of commerce. I hope to be able to afford to send my children to private school, but if I can't I do plan to supplement their "education" at home. Because there are some things that they don't teach in school anymore. Can you believe that they don't teach civics here anymore? Children are no longer taught what citizenship is, what it means, why it's important or what rights and responsibilities come along with it. It's so bad that I'd almost think that they're dumbing down future generations on purpose.
LK
Once you've had Mac, you can't go back!
I'm living proof that this is incorrect. I was exclusively a Mac user from 1990 through 1996. In 1997 I built a Windows PC to play some games. Later that same year, I built my first Linux file server/firewall. For three and a half years, I was primarily a Mac user. By 2000 I was primarily a PC user. I haven't so much as powered up any of my Macs in over a year.
LK
Libellous comment is libellous
Threatening comment is threatening
Harassing comment is harassing
And a Bullshit comment is still bullshit.
An necessary element of Libel is that it could be believed by a reasonable person, no reasonable person believes anonymous internet postings.
Things that would be threatening in person are laughable on the internet. Certainly, there are things that one can say/do online that are much worse than mere threats but come on now. Don't overreact.
How can anyone harass you online? Most online venues give you the option to ignore people. No one can harass you, if you're ignoring them.
LK
Lazy ass. Even President Skroob used one more digit.
LK
I had to address this same issue recently myself. I'm getting an increasing number of login/passwords. I won't use the same combination on any two sites and I'm in my 30s. I can't remember passwords like I could 10 years ago. For me Password Gorilla was the product that fit all of my needs.
It's Free/OSS, runs on all major platforms, can be run from a flash drive and is compatible with the Password Safe file format.
LK
Exactly. And since everyone can make hardware that runs mac os AND not pay a license fee, who do you think will loose money?
We call that the free market.
Wishes - no, license - yes.
So, if Psystar was including a sealed copy of the OS without installing it, would you take their side?
LK