I find the booth babe concept to be stupid and tasteless too. But I'm not going to judge people who participate in a harmless activity.
Feminists don't usually judge the people either, they judge the activity and those who promote it (the companies paying for the booths, and in part those who attend the conferences and are OK with it), much like you just did in your first phrase, implicitly.
The problem is cost; we now have a lot of new toys, but they're often expensive as hell, even in countries with NHSs, and the price of these procedures seems to have barely dropped compared to almost any other are of the tech field.
However, the Russian press is diverse. I wonder what was your rationale for choosing the "Pravda"? (It's not even pro-gov!)
Because it was the only one I had heard of (I usually stick to my national newspapers, the BBC, Al Jazeera and occasionally NPR), so I decided to start from there. I only realized later that it's a different Pravda.
Also, I wonder why would you read the Russian press for the purposes other than getting informed about the local (regional) situation
However, for purposes other than showing off, you would have to learn Russian to be able to read the press.
That's what I thought, but since GP advised reading Russian media, I assumed at least some newspapers would have English versions, since I didn't expect him to essentially be saying, "you should learn a whole new language".
No, nor did I say it did, but that's irrelevant to the question. The US interventionism doesn't magically give them legitimacy either.
And the fact that the US is no beacon of democratic choice either is, again, not a factor of legitimacy for the Syrian government either. There are decent parliamentary systems in the world, but the Syrian one is more a facade than anything else.
Not confused. Where I live, we have both the Communist Party and the Christian Democratic Party - besides three others, more or less in between - in Parliament.
I don't get my news in the US from the tabloids, because I don't get my news in the US at all. In fact, I've never been to the US.
As for considering Pravda a reputable Russian paper, that's your invention. I actually assumed it was a governmental mouthpiece. But since the point was finding a counterpoint to the western media, I thought it would be a good starting place.
That said, I did expect something closer to Avante! (our national Communist Party newspaper) and not a full-on parody of itself.
Regardless of the US interventionism, under what perspective is a parliament which has 68% of the seats reserved for a single party considered "legitimate"?
I'm sorry; I tried to follow your advice by reading the Pravda (English version; I can't read Russian), but I couldn't keep a straight face:
(...) Obama nervously looked over his notes as Putin spoke clearly from his memory and intelligence. At meetings end Obama then went on to try and slap a handshake. It was met with President Putin's stone hand which withered Obama's smile away. Putin's firm grip declared who's top dog in this world.
The US is particularly taxing on emigration, since unlike most countries, you're still liable to pay taxes even if you leave the country but remain a citizen, and if you renounce citizenship, you're liable for an Expatriation Tax.
the words âoepersonâ and âoewhoeverâ include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
Where in your links do they mention the breaking of public safety laws or the contempt for their own employees? "Safety" doesn't even appear in your first two links, and the third only talks about it in an abstract sense, with no real connection to Uber.
So what the fuck value does Uber bring to the table? Very little.
Well, I don't even no why we have competition and consumer liberty. We should just hire you to choose a company for each sector and give them a monopoly.
But that's not *all* they are, they also have some good regulations.
Then cite all the good regulations that Uber is breaking.
Uber wanted to cry "look at the entrenched bully!" while being just as big assholes themselves, with the added benefit of ignoring laws and charging a premium for it all.
Being assholes doesn't make them wrong.
And ignoring laws is a problem, but sometimes (and that's why you need to point to specific laws being broken) it's the law that's wrong, not the law breaker.
After all, the US as a country was founded on breaking the law.
Actually, thanks to relativity, the people who said the Sun moved round the Earth are right.
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Not that I'm a fan of her philosophy*, but if you want to criticize it, you should at least learn a little of it.
To an Objectivist, saying that the government does things well is equivalent to me saying that slavery is a cheap way of building things. If you oppose slavery as a principle, it doesn't matter if I'm right. In the same way, an Objectivist opposed taxes as a matter of principle, therefore it's irrelevant if they're used well or not.
* I have some sympathy for classic liberalism, but I'm certainly not in favor of her advocacy of egoism.
You have no idea what's you're talking about. Google Authenticator is a client application and it doesn't even run on Ubuntu. And interpreters are not inherently less secure than compiled binaries, because a binary is itself just code being interpreted by the CPU, as millions of exploits based on modifying and injecting (shell)code show.
No, all you needed was a dumbphone, a text messaging plan and a subsidy from Google
Some of us have no desire for a smartphone... I hate touch screens... I hate the size of the smartphones themselves...
There's plenty of small feature phones with real keyboards and decent web browsers (it's been basically Nokia's business model for a decade). Anything that can run Opera Mini is more than enough to search Google and get directions.
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I find the booth babe concept to be stupid and tasteless too. But I'm not going to judge people who participate in a harmless activity.
Feminists don't usually judge the people either, they judge the activity and those who promote it (the companies paying for the booths, and in part those who attend the conferences and are OK with it), much like you just did in your first phrase, implicitly.
The problem is cost; we now have a lot of new toys, but they're often expensive as hell, even in countries with NHSs, and the price of these procedures seems to have barely dropped compared to almost any other are of the tech field.
However, the Russian press is diverse. I wonder what was your rationale for choosing the "Pravda"? (It's not even pro-gov!)
Because it was the only one I had heard of (I usually stick to my national newspapers, the BBC, Al Jazeera and occasionally NPR), so I decided to start from there. I only realized later that it's a different Pravda.
Also, I wonder why would you read the Russian press for the purposes other than getting informed about the local (regional) situation
Because as I said, I was following GP's advice.
However, for purposes other than showing off, you would have to learn Russian to be able to read the press.
That's what I thought, but since GP advised reading Russian media, I assumed at least some newspapers would have English versions, since I didn't expect him to essentially be saying, "you should learn a whole new language".
No, nor did I say it did, but that's irrelevant to the question. The US interventionism doesn't magically give them legitimacy either.
And the fact that the US is no beacon of democratic choice either is, again, not a factor of legitimacy for the Syrian government either. There are decent parliamentary systems in the world, but the Syrian one is more a facade than anything else.
Not confused. Where I live, we have both the Communist Party and the Christian Democratic Party - besides three others, more or less in between - in Parliament.
Because I'm not from the US?
I don't get my news in the US from the tabloids, because I don't get my news in the US at all. In fact, I've never been to the US.
As for considering Pravda a reputable Russian paper, that's your invention. I actually assumed it was a governmental mouthpiece. But since the point was finding a counterpoint to the western media, I thought it would be a good starting place.
That said, I did expect something closer to Avante! (our national Communist Party newspaper) and not a full-on parody of itself.
Regardless of the US interventionism, under what perspective is a parliament which has 68% of the seats reserved for a single party considered "legitimate"?
Yeah, and Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore vegetarians are genocidal maniacs!
I'm sorry; I tried to follow your advice by reading the Pravda (English version; I can't read Russian), but I couldn't keep a straight face:
(...) Obama nervously looked over his notes as Putin spoke clearly from his memory and intelligence. At meetings end Obama then went on to try and slap a handshake. It was met with President Putin's stone hand which withered Obama's smile away. Putin's firm grip declared who's top dog in this world.
And this wasn't in the Opinions section!
Oh, I'm not an American, I just happen to know about those laws.
Many Lords and other members of the aristocracy didn't need to directly force people to give them money either; they did so as a class.
The US is particularly taxing on emigration, since unlike most countries, you're still liable to pay taxes even if you leave the country but remain a citizen, and if you renounce citizenship, you're liable for an Expatriation Tax.
Sure it doesn't, that's in the law:
the words âoepersonâ and âoewhoeverâ include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
(1 U.S.C. Â1)
How exactly does the First Amendment protect that?
Erdogan, supporting Israel? You have no idea what you're talking about.
Uhm, the last link is a story from the AFP; it doesn't get more mainstream press than that, along with Reuters and AP.
I'm not sure if Facebook is an Italian company, but it is registered in Ireland, so all of the EU directives apply to them (codified in Irish law).
Where in your links do they mention the breaking of public safety laws or the contempt for their own employees? "Safety" doesn't even appear in your first two links, and the third only talks about it in an abstract sense, with no real connection to Uber.
So what the fuck value does Uber bring to the table? Very little.
Well, I don't even no why we have competition and consumer liberty. We should just hire you to choose a company for each sector and give them a monopoly.
But that's not *all* they are, they also have some good regulations.
Then cite all the good regulations that Uber is breaking.
Uber wanted to cry "look at the entrenched bully!" while being just as big assholes themselves, with the added benefit of ignoring laws and charging a premium for it all.
Being assholes doesn't make them wrong.
And ignoring laws is a problem, but sometimes (and that's why you need to point to specific laws being broken) it's the law that's wrong, not the law breaker.
After all, the US as a country was founded on breaking the law.
The roaches as a species did, even though no single individual developed an aversion.
Well, after Smith's and Ricardo's Labor Theory of Value, we now have Charliemopps' Misery Theory of Value.
By the way, what makes you so sure you'll live to retirement age?
Actually, thanks to relativity, the people who said the Sun moved round the Earth are right.
Not that I'm a fan of her philosophy*, but if you want to criticize it, you should at least learn a little of it.
To an Objectivist, saying that the government does things well is equivalent to me saying that slavery is a cheap way of building things. If you oppose slavery as a principle, it doesn't matter if I'm right. In the same way, an Objectivist opposed taxes as a matter of principle, therefore it's irrelevant if they're used well or not.
* I have some sympathy for classic liberalism, but I'm certainly not in favor of her advocacy of egoism.
You have no idea what's you're talking about. Google Authenticator is a client application and it doesn't even run on Ubuntu. And interpreters are not inherently less secure than compiled binaries, because a binary is itself just code being interpreted by the CPU, as millions of exploits based on modifying and injecting (shell)code show.
No, all you needed was a dumbphone, a text messaging plan and a subsidy from Google
Some of us have no desire for a smartphone... I hate touch screens... I hate the size of the smartphones themselves...
There's plenty of small feature phones with real keyboards and decent web browsers (it's been basically Nokia's business model for a decade). Anything that can run Opera Mini is more than enough to search Google and get directions.