There is a REASON why elections are managed locally. It is much harder to establish a tyranny if you have to hack 174,252 precincts individually than if you could do so from the Federal Level. A problem at one precinct is bad, but contained. problem at the Federal Level means we have Obama or Trump elected for life.
Paper Voting is subject to corrupt officials, but generally hard to hack wide scale. Further, voting irregularities are easier to spot. And verification of vote tallies are easy.
With Electronic hacking, there is no way to verify vote tallies that have been tampered with at the machine level. And since those machines are electronically connected it is much easier for ONE hacker to affect a large range of voting tabulations, perhaps enough to change the outcome of state and national elections.
Paper Ballots are the worst of all voting methods, except all the others.
Well, in California, that is a Catch n Release crime. Since nobody was actually hurt during the robberies, it isn't considered violent, and hence subject to release before trial. Add in the "Bail is too hard on criminals" logic from a number of left wing loons, and you have criminals who know they are free to commit crimes.
Well put. Instead of forcing everyone te be the same we should embrace our differences.
Embracing differences isn't always good.
That wasn't the claim.
The claim was open ended, without reservation.
Sadly, most people don't think we have a functional society.
We are becoming less functional as societal norms go out the window. Everyone want change, but rarely do people ask if the change they are proposing is actually better.
Embracing differences isn't always good. Just saying. Being different can be seriously problematic in a functional society. Unless you think embracing your inner psychopath is good.;)
I don't see that it helps either bolster your argument or weaken mine.
Because it wasn't designed to bolster or weaken any arguments.
Here's a piece: "A new study in the journal of Infant and Child Development says that this preference for gendered toys might not be because he’s watched too much Bob the Builder on Netflix or because everyone likes to remark on what a little “dude” he is. The study found that even babies as young as nine months gravitate toward stereotypically gendered toys."
See this article for more details. I realize that actual science is bigoted.
To me, there are two basic camps. Those that think gender is some sort of CIS Male Patriarchy conspiracy, and those that see the world as it actually is.
So, is Gender a social construct or not? I'm asking because it is clear that the messaging is being garbled by terminology incompatibilities, and mixed messaging by various sub members that are promoting such things.
In other words, you have a subset of people saying one thing, another subset saying something completely different.
On the one hand, the left is telling us there is no such thing as gender, on the next hand, they are telling us of gender inequality. This is nothing short of schizophrenic.
I have no idea what my national origin makeup is. Just another northern European mutt, with hints of Moor and Jewish ancestry (Same method as Warren's native american claim). I am American. That is my culture and my nationality. I might have Irish in me, somewhere, but I make no claim except on St Patty's day, when everyone is Irish, and dresses up like a Leprechaun (and nobody is offended)
"Attacking the press" isn't anti-first amendment. He hasn't stopped them one bit from publishing their tripe.
But I wonder why you didn't complain when it was Obama spying on actual reporters. Because he was your dictator, and now that the other guy is Tweeting about the press, you're offended? Spare me.
But he's a socialist, so that is the only category that ultimately matters to SJW nutjobs.
Conservative Woman vs Socialist Man, they choose the man. Conservative Minority vs white socialist, they choose the white person. Conservative woman and minority vs white socialist man, they'll choose the white man. Gay Minority woman conservative vs white straight male socialist, they'll choose the white straight male.
You're not even close to being right. But the narrative must survive!
There are plenty of studies that clearly show that women are generally not oppressed in the workplace, but rather make different value judgements with regard to careers. There are plenty of studies that show these differences, and how they are not societal constructs, but rather rooted in biological differences.
Men tend to like things. Women tend to like people. It is why boys play with Trucks n balls, and girls play with dolls and social games (tea party). This explains why more women go into nursing and more men engineering.
This isn't to say that ALL women are one way, or ALL men are another, as with most things in life, it all falls along a sliding scale.
But the SJW/Womyn Studies narrative against the patriarchy must go on!
The US Constitution has rights ENUMERATED in it, but those rights exist APART from it. The enumeration part is clarification that the Government jurisdiction with respect to those rights are EXTREMELY limited, requiring additional measures to abrogate or in some cases are absolute.
The reason this distinction is clear and enumerated in the Constitution is because of the abuses Governments are wont to do. It is a trigger point for going to DoI level rebellion against said government.
A bake shop is their own platform. A T-Shirt shot is their own platform.
But in both those cases, "Censorship" was dressed up in other civil liberty arguments.
So, which is it? Free Speech or not? Their platform or not? Why is it "Their platform" when it is something you agree with, but something else when it isn't?
The worst part is that many are okay with compelled speech with government guns backing it up? And they don't even see the actual threat in that.
Why pick 1971? Why not pick 1938 when Min wage was first enacted into national law. That wage was $.25 / hr. Adjusted for Inflation that is just under $5 / hr. Thus proving that cherry picking is fun.
I live in far Northern California (basically north of Sacramento), and coverage maps are hilariously inaccurate for anywhere outside of cities and major road ways (and even then sometimes). I have a good idea of what carriers work in what areas, and there is no way that VZ, ATT, T-Mo or Sprint maps are accurate.
I can even tell you that coverage only works if you have booster and good aftermarket antenna (tuned for certain bands).
Towers come n go, they change the output on them, they count the long range frequencies (lower 700-900mhz) that few phones use, etc. What used to be may or may not be accurate in six months.
I'll give you my "what if" moment, it happened 15 years ago or so, right here on Slashdot.
It happened while I was looking at RIS (Remote Imaging System) a precursor to WDS (Windows Deployment System) and very rudimentary at the time. It was an intriguing idea for a problem we had, but had one serious limitation in our scenario. The limitation was that all of the systems being imaged needed to be of similar construction for the purposes of driver integration, and our systems were as varied as they come, from white box clones to just about every named brand out there.
So, a story pops up on/. about a new service called Driver Packs (http://driverpacks.net/), and how they have drivers for EVERYTHING. And I thought.... "What if" I could get RIS to integrate the Driver Packs into the image. It took some tinkering and eventually I got enough of the Driver packs (Networking and Graphics) built into the deployment that it basically just worked. There were some limitations on the setup, and it had to be done in a particular way to work. We used that system for about 8 or ten years, growing through RIS to WDS and was finally replaced by a different imaging system that had its own limitations.
I could PXE boot any system, have XP clean install (fully patched) on the network ready to go in about an hour (including Office and other apps). The only post install hand task was re-naming the computer.
At one point, someone said "That's impossible", until I showed them. I never really saw anything like it while we were using it. Basically saved my summer that year, and was a great solution that served us well.
And until I actually had that idea, I had no working knowledge of either Driver Packs, RIS or even PXE booting. Just having the idea about "what if" was enough to get started. My boss doesn't complain about my time of/. and Reddit anymore, because there are ideas that come up that solve problems in ways that save a boat load of time and effort.
If you're only good at one thing, then you miss out opportunities to see things from different points of view, creating the creative genius that makes magical leaps of two unrelated fields together.
The fanciful "what if" is the root of pure genius. If you only know one thing, you'll never have a "what if" moment.
Specialization is great, but hyper specialization is even better.
I have a rare condition that has caused me to go out and research it a great deal, reading all sorts of medical journals, reports, and such. My doctor doesn't know anything close to what I know about my condition, because he is a speicalist (medical) that is not specialized enough. Unfortunately for me, I am NOT allowed to treat myself and have to go to a doctor who knows less about my condition than I do. I am not a doctor, nor do I suggest that I am capable of being one. On the other hand, I know more than my doctor, but there is no accounting for that anywhere in our system.
Luckily for me, my doctor understands that I have taken a great deal of time and effort to increase my expertise so that I may fully participate in my treatment, and consults with me on my care options, deferring to my judgement a great deal of the time.
We all have the ability to become experts, often in fields that were normally not available to lay people in previous eras.
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Hell Fucking No!
There is a REASON why elections are managed locally. It is much harder to establish a tyranny if you have to hack 174,252 precincts individually than if you could do so from the Federal Level. A problem at one precinct is bad, but contained. problem at the Federal Level means we have Obama or Trump elected for life.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...
Paper Voting is subject to corrupt officials, but generally hard to hack wide scale. Further, voting irregularities are easier to spot. And verification of vote tallies are easy.
With Electronic hacking, there is no way to verify vote tallies that have been tampered with at the machine level. And since those machines are electronically connected it is much easier for ONE hacker to affect a large range of voting tabulations, perhaps enough to change the outcome of state and national elections.
Paper Ballots are the worst of all voting methods, except all the others.
Well, in California, that is a Catch n Release crime. Since nobody was actually hurt during the robberies, it isn't considered violent, and hence subject to release before trial. Add in the "Bail is too hard on criminals" logic from a number of left wing loons, and you have criminals who know they are free to commit crimes.
Well put. Instead of forcing everyone te be the same we should embrace our differences.
Embracing differences isn't always good.
That wasn't the claim.
The claim was open ended, without reservation.
Sadly, most people don't think we have a functional society.
We are becoming less functional as societal norms go out the window. Everyone want change, but rarely do people ask if the change they are proposing is actually better.
Embracing differences isn't always good. Just saying. Being different can be seriously problematic in a functional society. Unless you think embracing your inner psychopath is good. ;)
I don't see that it helps either bolster your argument or weaken mine.
Because it wasn't designed to bolster or weaken any arguments.
Here's a piece: "A new study in the journal of Infant and Child Development says that this preference for gendered toys might not be because he’s watched too much Bob the Builder on Netflix or because everyone likes to remark on what a little “dude” he is. The study found that even babies as young as nine months gravitate toward stereotypically gendered toys."
See this article for more details. I realize that actual science is bigoted.
https://www.city.ac.uk/news/20...
To me, there are two basic camps. Those that think gender is some sort of CIS Male Patriarchy conspiracy, and those that see the world as it actually is.
So, is Gender a social construct or not? I'm asking because it is clear that the messaging is being garbled by terminology incompatibilities, and mixed messaging by various sub members that are promoting such things.
In other words, you have a subset of people saying one thing, another subset saying something completely different.
This isn't to say that ALL women are one way, or ALL men are another, as with most things in life, it all falls along a sliding scale.
You ignored this. I wonder why.
IF we have no rights, then everything the left is complaining about is moot, and the ultimate result is Darwinist system of survival.
On the one hand, the left is telling us there is no such thing as gender, on the next hand, they are telling us of gender inequality. This is nothing short of schizophrenic.
I have no idea what my national origin makeup is. Just another northern European mutt, with hints of Moor and Jewish ancestry (Same method as Warren's native american claim). I am American. That is my culture and my nationality. I might have Irish in me, somewhere, but I make no claim except on St Patty's day, when everyone is Irish, and dresses up like a Leprechaun (and nobody is offended)
"Attacking the press" isn't anti-first amendment. He hasn't stopped them one bit from publishing their tripe.
But I wonder why you didn't complain when it was Obama spying on actual reporters. Because he was your dictator, and now that the other guy is Tweeting about the press, you're offended? Spare me.
But he's a socialist, so that is the only category that ultimately matters to SJW nutjobs.
Conservative Woman vs Socialist Man, they choose the man.
Conservative Minority vs white socialist, they choose the white person.
Conservative woman and minority vs white socialist man, they'll choose the white man.
Gay Minority woman conservative vs white straight male socialist, they'll choose the white straight male.
You're not even close to being right. But the narrative must survive!
There are plenty of studies that clearly show that women are generally not oppressed in the workplace, but rather make different value judgements with regard to careers. There are plenty of studies that show these differences, and how they are not societal constructs, but rather rooted in biological differences.
Men tend to like things. Women tend to like people. It is why boys play with Trucks n balls, and girls play with dolls and social games (tea party). This explains why more women go into nursing and more men engineering.
This isn't to say that ALL women are one way, or ALL men are another, as with most things in life, it all falls along a sliding scale.
But the SJW/Womyn Studies narrative against the patriarchy must go on!
The US Constitution has rights ENUMERATED in it, but those rights exist APART from it. The enumeration part is clarification that the Government jurisdiction with respect to those rights are EXTREMELY limited, requiring additional measures to abrogate or in some cases are absolute.
The reason this distinction is clear and enumerated in the Constitution is because of the abuses Governments are wont to do. It is a trigger point for going to DoI level rebellion against said government.
I don't think you understand my post. I think we're on the same side.
A bake shop is their own platform.
A T-Shirt shot is their own platform.
But in both those cases, "Censorship" was dressed up in other civil liberty arguments.
So, which is it? Free Speech or not? Their platform or not? Why is it "Their platform" when it is something you agree with, but something else when it isn't?
The worst part is that many are okay with compelled speech with government guns backing it up? And they don't even see the actual threat in that.
Its "Napster" but with Blockchain. I think.
But then again, I'm old and remember when Napster was a thing.
Why pick 1971? Why not pick 1938 when Min wage was first enacted into national law. That wage was $.25 / hr. Adjusted for Inflation that is just under $5 / hr. Thus proving that cherry picking is fun.
I live in far Northern California (basically north of Sacramento), and coverage maps are hilariously inaccurate for anywhere outside of cities and major road ways (and even then sometimes). I have a good idea of what carriers work in what areas, and there is no way that VZ, ATT, T-Mo or Sprint maps are accurate.
I can even tell you that coverage only works if you have booster and good aftermarket antenna (tuned for certain bands).
Towers come n go, they change the output on them, they count the long range frequencies (lower 700-900mhz) that few phones use, etc. What used to be may or may not be accurate in six months.
I'll give you my "what if" moment, it happened 15 years ago or so, right here on Slashdot.
It happened while I was looking at RIS (Remote Imaging System) a precursor to WDS (Windows Deployment System) and very rudimentary at the time. It was an intriguing idea for a problem we had, but had one serious limitation in our scenario. The limitation was that all of the systems being imaged needed to be of similar construction for the purposes of driver integration, and our systems were as varied as they come, from white box clones to just about every named brand out there.
So, a story pops up on /. about a new service called Driver Packs (http://driverpacks.net/), and how they have drivers for EVERYTHING. And I thought .... "What if" I could get RIS to integrate the Driver Packs into the image. It took some tinkering and eventually I got enough of the Driver packs (Networking and Graphics) built into the deployment that it basically just worked. There were some limitations on the setup, and it had to be done in a particular way to work. We used that system for about 8 or ten years, growing through RIS to WDS and was finally replaced by a different imaging system that had its own limitations.
I could PXE boot any system, have XP clean install (fully patched) on the network ready to go in about an hour (including Office and other apps). The only post install hand task was re-naming the computer.
At one point, someone said "That's impossible", until I showed them. I never really saw anything like it while we were using it. Basically saved my summer that year, and was a great solution that served us well.
And until I actually had that idea, I had no working knowledge of either Driver Packs, RIS or even PXE booting. Just having the idea about "what if" was enough to get started. My boss doesn't complain about my time of /. and Reddit anymore, because there are ideas that come up that solve problems in ways that save a boat load of time and effort.
If you're only good at one thing, then you miss out opportunities to see things from different points of view, creating the creative genius that makes magical leaps of two unrelated fields together.
The fanciful "what if" is the root of pure genius. If you only know one thing, you'll never have a "what if" moment.
Specialization is great, but hyper specialization is even better.
I have a rare condition that has caused me to go out and research it a great deal, reading all sorts of medical journals, reports, and such. My doctor doesn't know anything close to what I know about my condition, because he is a speicalist (medical) that is not specialized enough. Unfortunately for me, I am NOT allowed to treat myself and have to go to a doctor who knows less about my condition than I do. I am not a doctor, nor do I suggest that I am capable of being one. On the other hand, I know more than my doctor, but there is no accounting for that anywhere in our system.
Luckily for me, my doctor understands that I have taken a great deal of time and effort to increase my expertise so that I may fully participate in my treatment, and consults with me on my care options, deferring to my judgement a great deal of the time.
We all have the ability to become experts, often in fields that were normally not available to lay people in previous eras.