If I become aware they are selling something, it is because they have approached me on the street. That puts them in the same category as spammers and telemarketers: aggressively annoying.
Or just ignore them and walk by without a word. That might piss them off enough to justify calling the cops on them, which at least gets them a warm night and a meal. It's for their own good.
Or maybe they'd go; Gee whiz, we really are hiring mostly males for these positions. Perhaps we can take a closer look at these ladies to see what they're offering.
Then they'd be accused of soliciting prostitution.
As opposed to serial psychopathy, where parents believe their children should never have adult supervision of any kind, and are just turned loose on society as wild animals to be put down when they get caught?
Maybe in addition, but around here, boob jobs are ubiquitous, always have been, always will be. This is the land where natural blondes dye their eyebrows brunette to look like bleached blonde bimbos.
If it's like the Ford model that had a similar feature a few years ago, it's controlled by which key you use - regular key, valet key, teenager key. Yeah, most teens could easily swap keys with Mummy or Daddy, but then Mummy and Daddy will start getting warnings when they speed or play the radio too loud.
You've clearly never lived among The Beautiful People of southern California, where a lot of kids would literally murder their parents in their sleep if they didn't get a brand new car for their 16th birthday.
It's only freedom if both parties are equal in the negotiations. That is rarely the case in employment contracts. Since a free market is, almost inherently, impossible, it is a choice between being regulated by the more powerful of the two parties, or by an outside third party.
Only one side of the contract would agree with you.
If Survivor had happy endings, it would be an infinitely better show. So would Survivor: Turkish Prison, where every week, a contestant gets voted in front of the firing squad.
As to Mars, anybody who believed for one moment that NASA was going to participate in sending people to another planet to die is a moron.
I suspect it's more that the app on your phone is a deadman switch. It goes off when it stops detecting the wallet. Which means that when the batteries in the wallet go dead, your phone makes annoying noise.
I can't help but wonder if they're smart enough to have a way to simply turn the app off and leave it off when you're away from the charger. (I cannot, of course, be bothered to read the article to find out.)
You've obviously never driven in Atlanta, where every other street is Peachtree something-or-other. Peachtree Street, Peachtree Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Blvd, Peachtree Way, Peachtree Up Your Butt. The locals think it's funny.
(Also the only city I've ever been to where I saw a uniformed motorcycle cop pick up a hooker on his department bike, but that's another story.)
The first couple of episodes of Scorpion were so bad they were hysterically funny. This show started as an episode of the regular CSI, and it was so bad it was just bad. It surprises me when script writers an even spell the word "computer" correctly. They certainly never get anything else right.
You're confusing copyright with privacy rights, which are very, very different. He's a newsworthy figure. They were not. He chose to be newsworthy. They did not. He's not in the same position as the women he extorted.
Your sincere desire to be able to do whatever you want without fear of consequences does not change the fact that the internet is a public place, and inherently so. It cannot be made otherwise.
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If I become aware they are selling something, it is because they have approached me on the street. That puts them in the same category as spammers and telemarketers: aggressively annoying.
Or just ignore them and walk by without a word. That might piss them off enough to justify calling the cops on them, which at least gets them a warm night and a meal. It's for their own good.
"Are now"? Heh. They've never mattered.
Or maybe they'd go; Gee whiz, we really are hiring mostly males for these positions. Perhaps we can take a closer look at these ladies to see what they're offering.
Then they'd be accused of soliciting prostitution.
As opposed to serial psychopathy, where parents believe their children should never have adult supervision of any kind, and are just turned loose on society as wild animals to be put down when they get caught?
Maybe in addition, but around here, boob jobs are ubiquitous, always have been, always will be. This is the land where natural blondes dye their eyebrows brunette to look like bleached blonde bimbos.
And let's not go in to give your 16 year old a boob job for her birthday, eh?
You clearly have a better class of 20something on your planet than we have here on earth.
If it's like the Ford model that had a similar feature a few years ago, it's controlled by which key you use - regular key, valet key, teenager key. Yeah, most teens could easily swap keys with Mummy or Daddy, but then Mummy and Daddy will start getting warnings when they speed or play the radio too loud.
You've clearly never lived among The Beautiful People of southern California, where a lot of kids would literally murder their parents in their sleep if they didn't get a brand new car for their 16th birthday.
Because then you'll have shithead 20somethings on the road instead, with no parental supervision whatsoever.
The only way to learn to drive is to drive.
If you don't like the terms offered — walk away.
And find out that everyone else has agreed (secretly) to require the same terms. "Agree to our terms, or go hungry" is not a free market.
It's only freedom if both parties are equal in the negotiations. That is rarely the case in employment contracts. Since a free market is, almost inherently, impossible, it is a choice between being regulated by the more powerful of the two parties, or by an outside third party.
Only one side of the contract would agree with you.
So you're suggesting the government should legalize identity theft and the selling of other people's bank login information?
I've seen worse on paperbacks. Baen is famous for their bad covers, though the non-US ones are far, far worse. This, for instance.
Then how about Survivor: Baffin Island. Let's see those bikinis now, bitch.
Except that nobody that has rockets is going to give the Mars One assholes one of them.
Give, no. But the Russians will cheerfully sell one to anyone with enough money.
The reason they are assholes
I think you misspelled "con artists."
If Survivor had happy endings, it would be an infinitely better show. So would Survivor: Turkish Prison, where every week, a contestant gets voted in front of the firing squad.
As to Mars, anybody who believed for one moment that NASA was going to participate in sending people to another planet to die is a moron.
I suspect it's more that the app on your phone is a deadman switch. It goes off when it stops detecting the wallet. Which means that when the batteries in the wallet go dead, your phone makes annoying noise.
I can't help but wonder if they're smart enough to have a way to simply turn the app off and leave it off when you're away from the charger. (I cannot, of course, be bothered to read the article to find out.)
Yeah, it was really foolish to send all those Apollo astronauts to the moon when they kept dying on the way, huh?
Better than having no sense.
You've obviously never driven in Atlanta, where every other street is Peachtree something-or-other. Peachtree Street, Peachtree Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Blvd, Peachtree Way, Peachtree Up Your Butt. The locals think it's funny.
(Also the only city I've ever been to where I saw a uniformed motorcycle cop pick up a hooker on his department bike, but that's another story.)
The first couple of episodes of Scorpion were so bad they were hysterically funny. This show started as an episode of the regular CSI, and it was so bad it was just bad. It surprises me when script writers an even spell the word "computer" correctly. They certainly never get anything else right.
You're confusing copyright with privacy rights, which are very, very different. He's a newsworthy figure. They were not. He chose to be newsworthy. They did not. He's not in the same position as the women he extorted.
Frankly, the guy belongs in prison for extortion.
Your sincere desire to be able to do whatever you want without fear of consequences does not change the fact that the internet is a public place, and inherently so. It cannot be made otherwise.