Supporters of the various hate speech laws and are quick to point out the freedom of speech has its limits. I think it is also safe to assume that these very same people are probably in general agreement with OWS.
Yet they don't seem to think that Freedom of Assembly is subject to the same kind of reasonable limits...such a not creating a public nuisance or health hazards.
I started to say that you had a good point and that I changed my mind.
But, the registration system provides ample opportunity to hide your real identity. So if someone did have information to post, but didn't want to be identified, they can simple create a new ID with false credentials...at least until Homeland Security outlaws that.
Then there is the not so obvious advantages to written communication:
1. Most people will proof what they just write. If they are any good at all, they will end up revising it for greater clarity and accuracy. 2. Most people will copy their managers, colleagues, an d/or subordinates when the information is necessary for the team to complete the job. 3. The information is readily available in the future for reference or revision. 4. As the AC mentioned, you can use it to later see what you did right and what you did wrong.
All interesting solutions. To bad all we get from the AGW community is carbon taxes and plant closings. seems that they are really only interested in bitching about it.
So they keep accumulating more and more and more and then what? They want a carbon tax? Sure, that will solve it all.
The best thing AGW folks could do is to start press hard for Nuclear energy. It's here, and it's non-CO2. If they stopped trying to tax people and enforce austerity measures and instead said, hey let's go nuclear, then they would get what they want (low CO2 emissions) and the other side would get what they want (no higher taxes or energy cutbacks). Further, the West could go tell the middle east to go fuck themselves.
If indeed AGW is such a threat, such a dire situation, then everyone should be more than willing to set aside their anti-nuke bias and ignorance and embrace it as the one way we can solve this problem.
But if instead they object, then we will all know they've been blowing smoke up our asses.
Well, I am honored you deigned to respond to my post. I'll let Obama do the bowing for me.
Unfortunately, your response is just as pathetic as your original post.
You ignore the obvious and documented bias of the mentioned organizations (Google it yourself)
You again completely ignore the past disrespectful behavior towards Bush.
You again fail to mention OWS.
In short, you simply regurgitated your previous post, reworded it and simply added some sycophant statements on Jon Stewart.
It's a good bet that you do listen and agree with the left wing loons, though images of Bush and other republicans a Hitler or of their likeness being burned or hanged and you've probably been to an OWS protest. We can only hope you didn't expose yourself to some kid in the process.
Ahem, the Republican Congress of 1994 drug Clinton kicking and screaming into Entitlement reform and a "balanced" budget. Clinton and the Dems get credit for watching.
Sure...reform SSI and Medicare and they can remain solvent. What part didn't you understand about the need for them to be reformed?
1. We are not a "Democracy". 2. We are Republic, which was designed to protect the minority from the tyranny of the Majority. 3. You are an idiot.
I am not in the 1%. But I have every intention of being so. If you should try to rip anything out my hands, you will surely lose yours.
Slashdot Mirror
Supporters of the various hate speech laws and are quick to point out the freedom of speech has its limits. I think it is also safe to assume that these very same people are probably in general agreement with OWS.
Yet they don't seem to think that Freedom of Assembly is subject to the same kind of reasonable limits...such a not creating a public nuisance or health hazards.
+1 funny because it seems like a silly sarcastic jab at OWS or -1 because this guy actually believes what he's spouting?
Yeah...they tried that whole yacht thing before...guess what happened?
The "1%" went elsewhere and the yacht builders lost their jobs.
OWS seems to be doing a great job of that.
Number one reason....there is always something that is a greater threat than whatever the current threat is.
I started to say that you had a good point and that I changed my mind.
But, the registration system provides ample opportunity to hide your real identity. So if someone did have information to post, but didn't want to be identified, they can simple create a new ID with false credentials...at least until Homeland Security outlaws that.
Thankfully, /. doesn't mod down for typos.
Eventually any contradictory points that I might have been exposed to are safely locked away and I am never challenged.
You mean as if they had been modded -1 one by people who disagree?
Perhaps one thing that would help is to ditch the anonymous nature of moderation. It's easy to call someone a troll from the cloak of anonymity.
Something else, ditch AC posts altogether, which would probably eliminate the majority of the need to moderating in the first place.
Why yes, yes I did. Where were you at 9:03 this morning?
True...it can be a mess.
I see that as a failure of the email client software, not necessarily of the email paradigm.
Laptops are called such simply because you could hold them on your lap.
I suspect that the number of people who regularly work with them actually sitting in their lap is miniscule given the piss poor ergonomics involved.
Then there is the not so obvious advantages to written communication:
1. Most people will proof what they just write. If they are any good at all, they will end up revising it for greater clarity and accuracy.
2. Most people will copy their managers, colleagues, an d/or subordinates when the information is necessary for the team to complete the job.
3. The information is readily available in the future for reference or revision.
4. As the AC mentioned, you can use it to later see what you did right and what you did wrong.
Of course there is the whole CYA aspect too.
It's a "Hold my beer and watch this" moment for an entire state.
Oh...wait...they haven't banned those degrees yet.
Just a job.
All interesting solutions. To bad all we get from the AGW community is carbon taxes and plant closings. seems that they are really only interested in bitching about it.
"Help" peak load, not replace it.
By all means go ahead and develop renewable. But you have to accept and embrace the fact that nuclear is our fastest path to carbon free energy.
At least I'll die trying. Unlike you, who will probably die in the gutter asking someone for a dime bag of crack.
Renewables are like Fusion, except they are only 5 years away...perpetually.
Repeat after me: Base load requirements.
Solar and wind no can do.
You need to get your record fixed.
And it doubles to what end?
So they keep accumulating more and more and more and then what? They want a carbon tax? Sure, that will solve it all.
The best thing AGW folks could do is to start press hard for Nuclear energy. It's here, and it's non-CO2. If they stopped trying to tax people and enforce austerity measures and instead said, hey let's go nuclear, then they would get what they want (low CO2 emissions) and the other side would get what they want (no higher taxes or energy cutbacks). Further, the West could go tell the middle east to go fuck themselves.
If indeed AGW is such a threat, such a dire situation, then everyone should be more than willing to set aside their anti-nuke bias and ignorance and embrace it as the one way we can solve this problem.
But if instead they object, then we will all know they've been blowing smoke up our asses.
Well, I am honored you deigned to respond to my post. I'll let Obama do the bowing for me.
Unfortunately, your response is just as pathetic as your original post.
You ignore the obvious and documented bias of the mentioned organizations (Google it yourself)
You again completely ignore the past disrespectful behavior towards Bush.
You again fail to mention OWS.
In short, you simply regurgitated your previous post, reworded it and simply added some sycophant statements on Jon Stewart.
It's a good bet that you do listen and agree with the left wing loons, though images of Bush and other republicans a Hitler or of their likeness being burned or hanged and you've probably been to an OWS protest. We can only hope you didn't expose yourself to some kid in the process.
Ahem, the Republican Congress of 1994 drug Clinton kicking and screaming into Entitlement reform and a "balanced" budget. Clinton and the Dems get credit for watching.
Sure...reform SSI and Medicare and they can remain solvent. What part didn't you understand about the need for them to be reformed?
1. We are not a "Democracy".
2. We are Republic, which was designed to protect the minority from the tyranny of the Majority.
3. You are an idiot.
I am not in the 1%. But I have every intention of being so. If you should try to rip anything out my hands, you will surely lose yours.