a) It's not "anyone" but typically a very small subset of "anyone",
It only takes one person to hear your secret. And then it's not a secret anymore.
b) you're wrong when there are applicable laws!...
Laws don't affect your basic rights. Such as free speech and recording data. Laws that attempt to limit such basic rights are oppressive. This is why I repeatedly refer to authoritarianism.
Easy -- because we elected politicians that actually implemented our expectations of such rights. Yes, the electoral process works every now and then!;)
Sure, it works by giving the state an extra cudgel it can use against it's citizens. Such laws make it that much harder for an individual to record wrongdoing by government agents. It's not hard to see why the state would go along with it, as long as they can still do their own surveillance of course.
It is another way of appropriating resources, but not just another way. Looked at over the course of history, science gives the best return on the dollar of any investment. And those benefits accrue to society as a whole, even the poorest. It's hard to complain about misappropriation of resources to science when science is the only reason we're able to support the number of people we have on this planet. If you want to avoid the malthusian catastrophe, we have to invest in this kind of research.
Yes there is a right to privacy. But when you take your private activities into a public space, you are choosing not to exercise that right. If you have decided that your privacy means so little to you that you are going to flaunt your activities where anyone can see them, why should the state protect this right when you won't take even the most basic steps to secure your own privacy?
Also, don't think for a second I don't value my privacy. My privacy is extremely important to me. That's why I do my private activities in private. Behind closed doors.
People who really value their privacy take actions to make sure that their private info never becomes public. They don't throw that private info all around the public space and then hope the government cares enough to keep their secrets for them.
The only difference between one person seeing you on the street, and having that data searchable on the internet is to what extent that person exercises his free speech rights. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with free speech. Your position is blatantly authoritarian.
If you have a secret you want to keep, don't tell anyone. Once the secret is out, you can't stop other people from telling it without violating their rights.
This is good news for Nebraska. The western side of the state is very sparsely populated, and getting more so as kids leave small towns for the city. More than half the state's population live in the two cities of Omaha and Lincoln. Getting development and jobs out there will help keep small town life alive for longer.
The troubling part is that western Nebraska is over the Ogallala aquifer that supplies water to much of the plains states. I shudder to think what would happen if it got contaminated with rare-earths.
The problem isn't the smart meters. They're a good idea. The question is, who pays and who realizes the benefits? Are they going to lower prices now that their costs are lower due to the smart meters?
You have no privacy in public. You can't legislate around the simple fact that other people can see your face. If you really need your privacy on public streets, wear a mask. Restricting the ability of photographers to engage in their craft in public spaces because you can't apply a little common sense is needlessly authoritarian.
I detest that a modern western country still hasn't understood that the minute a government takes religion into account for citizenship your living in an undeclared theocracy. Alas.
Not just citizenship. Any secular state should be completely blind to religion. It's just another form of voluntary human organization. It should have no recognition by the state whatsoever.
Wow, AC gets it. There's nothing more frustrating than sitting down at a computer, figuring out some way to make it easier to use, and then have absolutely no way of implementing it. Very common experience on Windows or OS X.
But your co-workers in the 80s were correct. The GUI thing is unnecessary, ans inferior to the CLI. The best use of a GUI is simply to manage multiple CLIs.
Except for those things that get in your way, and are impossible to disable. For instance, the trash can. When I say delete, I mean delete. Not "move to a temporary area and continue using drive space". Why would I delete something if I idn't need the space? And no, shift-delete is not a solution. I have too many years of muscle memory. Just fucking delete it.
I still use XFCE, but use emelfm2 on the rare occasions when I need a graphical file manager.
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is very likely that Kelly Thomas didn't follow police instructions so they had to use force.
Oh, so it's all his fault he was brutally murdered by a pack of thugs. Gotcha.
For the most part they are decent and honorable people who don't fuck around with peoples' rights.
At least, that's what they tell you.
No no you have this all wrong. He doesn't have that right at all when he's on the job. There is no trade off.
But what about the public employee's right to privacy?
a) It's not "anyone" but typically a very small subset of "anyone",
It only takes one person to hear your secret. And then it's not a secret anymore.
b) you're wrong when there are applicable laws! ...
Laws don't affect your basic rights. Such as free speech and recording data. Laws that attempt to limit such basic rights are oppressive. This is why I repeatedly refer to authoritarianism.
Easy -- because we elected politicians that actually implemented our expectations of such rights. Yes, the electoral process works every now and then! ;)
Sure, it works by giving the state an extra cudgel it can use against it's citizens. Such laws make it that much harder for an individual to record wrongdoing by government agents. It's not hard to see why the state would go along with it, as long as they can still do their own surveillance of course.
LOL. Guilty as charged!
It is another way of appropriating resources, but not just another way. Looked at over the course of history, science gives the best return on the dollar of any investment. And those benefits accrue to society as a whole, even the poorest. It's hard to complain about misappropriation of resources to science when science is the only reason we're able to support the number of people we have on this planet. If you want to avoid the malthusian catastrophe, we have to invest in this kind of research.
If you don't vote third party -- I don't care who -- you're part of the problem. No exceptions. Any vote for D or R is a vote for corruption.
Yes there is a right to privacy. But when you take your private activities into a public space, you are choosing not to exercise that right. If you have decided that your privacy means so little to you that you are going to flaunt your activities where anyone can see them, why should the state protect this right when you won't take even the most basic steps to secure your own privacy?
Also, don't think for a second I don't value my privacy. My privacy is extremely important to me. That's why I do my private activities in private. Behind closed doors.
People who really value their privacy take actions to make sure that their private info never becomes public. They don't throw that private info all around the public space and then hope the government cares enough to keep their secrets for them.
The only difference between one person seeing you on the street, and having that data searchable on the internet is to what extent that person exercises his free speech rights. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with free speech. Your position is blatantly authoritarian.
If you have a secret you want to keep, don't tell anyone. Once the secret is out, you can't stop other people from telling it without violating their rights.
This is good news for Nebraska. The western side of the state is very sparsely populated, and getting more so as kids leave small towns for the city. More than half the state's population live in the two cities of Omaha and Lincoln. Getting development and jobs out there will help keep small town life alive for longer.
The troubling part is that western Nebraska is over the Ogallala aquifer that supplies water to much of the plains states. I shudder to think what would happen if it got contaminated with rare-earths.
The problem isn't the smart meters. They're a good idea. The question is, who pays and who realizes the benefits? Are they going to lower prices now that their costs are lower due to the smart meters?
You have no privacy in public. You can't legislate around the simple fact that other people can see your face. If you really need your privacy on public streets, wear a mask. Restricting the ability of photographers to engage in their craft in public spaces because you can't apply a little common sense is needlessly authoritarian.
Just don't use the GUI network managers, then everything works the same way no matter what interface you choose.
Imagine that, restrictive laws in Germany. You'd think they would have learned something about authoritarianism, but no.
If the government violates your privacy, you don't have privacy.
I detest that a modern western country still hasn't understood that the minute a government takes religion into account for citizenship your living in an undeclared theocracy. Alas.
Not just citizenship. Any secular state should be completely blind to religion. It's just another form of voluntary human organization. It should have no recognition by the state whatsoever.
Wow, AC gets it. There's nothing more frustrating than sitting down at a computer, figuring out some way to make it easier to use, and then have absolutely no way of implementing it. Very common experience on Windows or OS X.
But your co-workers in the 80s were correct. The GUI thing is unnecessary, ans inferior to the CLI. The best use of a GUI is simply to manage multiple CLIs.
Yes. Try loading 40k tracks into sqlite, and you'll appreciate the need for a real database.
Except for those things that get in your way, and are impossible to disable. For instance, the trash can. When I say delete, I mean delete. Not "move to a temporary area and continue using drive space". Why would I delete something if I idn't need the space? And no, shift-delete is not a solution. I have too many years of muscle memory. Just fucking delete it.
I still use XFCE, but use emelfm2 on the rare occasions when I need a graphical file manager.
It doesn't. You can manage your network all you want with ifup/ifdown and rc scripts.
Any text processing tool that requires you to use the mouse is overcomplicating things.
More than I'd like to, that's for sure.