It's not a binary. America certainly isn't the utopia of freedom and democracy that many citizens claim it to be - but it's still far, far better than Turkey. In America, questioning the whims of the ruling class probably isn't going to achieve much - but it isn't going to result in your mysteriously disappearing one day either. There have been a number of reports in the last year of that happening in Turkey.
Dumb perhaps, but common practice in apartments - they often don't even have a gas pipe. You need to either deal with the hassle of propane tanks, and lose half the output to ventilation to get rid of the carbon dioxide they produce, or just use an electric heater.
There's already a Red Dawn remake. It's called AmeriGeddon.
The plot involves the US government conspiring with the UN to launch a terrorist attack upon the US to use as a pretext for confiscating all guns, because armed Americans are the only thing that stands in the way of the UN's ambition to create one world government. It's basically a right-wing fantasy. It's awful, but amusingly awful.
No exceptions in the bill, but I can see some great ways to exploit it for profit. You can report porn, then claim $500 for everything not blocked! How hard would it be to write a bot to scour all popular image hosting sites?
Surprisingly enough, it actually was introduced by two Democrats. Didn't expect that. Anti-pornography campaigning is usually associated with Republicans.
Reading the bill - which is remarkably short by legal standards - I wonder if ISPs could be harmed by simply using the bill against them. There's a penalty of $500 for every piece of content reported to them but not blocked, and it wouldn't be that hard for a small team to construct an automatic porn-hound bot to drag up a few million URLs to submit. Or a hundred million. Far more than could possibly be reviewed manually, forcing ISPs to choose between massive fines or rendering their service unusable. Since any consumer can seek damages... hello, ambulance-chasing lawyers. Simply bombard the ISP with a ridiculous number of block requests with a little help from automated searching, wait a week, then demand your $500 for everything not blocked.
Agriculture still needs large numbers of low-skill workers - no-one has made a good fruit-picking robot yet. It's highly seasonal work though. Tends to attract a lot of undocumented labor - farmers get cheaper temporary workers, workers get a job where they can disappear once the harvest season is over.
Don't forget the overheads. No training costs. No HR or legal costs. Predictable performance, uninterrupted by family emergencies or sick days which would otherwise call for rescheduling shifts.
The kitchen of the future will still have humans. Just fewer of them. Possibly a lot fewer.
There have been a few systems for labeling pages uses metadata so that browsers can do the filtering. None really caught on. The one pornographic page I've published I included them in anyway, but also added a really filthy limerick that should trigger any content inspection engine.
It's impossible, anyway. You can't take all the porn off the internet because I, and millions of others like me, will just put it straight back on again.
I think it's a lot of fuss about nothing. If pornography was one-tenth as dangerous as campaigners against it claim, civilization would have collapsed by now. Even if children happen across the really weird fetish stuff, it's not going to traumatise them on sight.
Zero-chance bills get introduced all the time. It's the politicians way of posing - achieves nothing, but lets all the voters see what cause they support and how dedicated they are.
Britain: The age of consent is sixteen, but with two exceptions. - If a position of trust or influence exists between the parties (eg, teacher/student) then the age goes up to eighteen. - We do not have a formal close-in-age exception enshrined in law like some other jurisdictions do, but in there is a published policy from the home office that in such cases prosecution would not generally be considered in the public interest. That is, if a sixteen year old has sex with a fifteen year old, the police will give them a firm telling-off but won't throw them in jail.
When I first got DR DOS, it was on a hand-labeled floppy. Someone had written it as 'Dr. DOS.' It took a long time before I met someone who asked why I was pronouncing it as 'Doctor Dos.'
Because in many jurisdictions there is no legal distinction between the teenager who has sex with their girlfriend* just one year younger than themselves and the thirty-year-old who rapes a toddler. This is something of an injustice.
*Funnily enough it's less likely to prosecute the other way around.
Neither option looks very good for them: 1. Trump worked with Russian intelligence to gain an advantage in the election. or 2. Trump's campaign worked with Russian intelligence, but Trump himself was kept in the dark about what his own campaign was doing.
Trump's response so far has been to divert the issue: He claims that all the evidence against him is fabricated by a conspiracy within the FBI - and not only he he not working with Russia,but Hillary is a Russian secret agent charged with stealing the country's uranium.
Trump ran as a plain populist. Left, right... he takes those as convenience dictates. He's been more right-wing on most issues because that's what it takes to be a Republican, but his message is as simple as can be: "Vote for me, because I promise to make the world a better place for you, even if that means screwing over everyone else."
Aside from top Trump campaign officials being caught meeting a Russian government agent, then denying having met, and when faced with clear evidence one person present admitting that they were there to be given dirt on the opponent - but still insisting it doesn't count because the dirt was poor.
Either poor equipment design, or he modified it in some way. Miners usually have a buck converter inside, those things are awful for noise - they have a high-current square wave, which includes not only the base frequency but every harmonic of it too. There's supposed to be a filter, but if he is running it beyond design power levels that might not be enough.
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It's commonly called "the Restaurant at the end of the universe." It's actually named Milliways.
It's not a binary. America certainly isn't the utopia of freedom and democracy that many citizens claim it to be - but it's still far, far better than Turkey. In America, questioning the whims of the ruling class probably isn't going to achieve much - but it isn't going to result in your mysteriously disappearing one day either. There have been a number of reports in the last year of that happening in Turkey.
Dumb perhaps, but common practice in apartments - they often don't even have a gas pipe. You need to either deal with the hassle of propane tanks, and lose half the output to ventilation to get rid of the carbon dioxide they produce, or just use an electric heater.
There's already a Red Dawn remake. It's called AmeriGeddon.
The plot involves the US government conspiring with the UN to launch a terrorist attack upon the US to use as a pretext for confiscating all guns, because armed Americans are the only thing that stands in the way of the UN's ambition to create one world government. It's basically a right-wing fantasy. It's awful, but amusingly awful.
No exceptions in the bill, but I can see some great ways to exploit it for profit. You can report porn, then claim $500 for everything not blocked! How hard would it be to write a bot to scour all popular image hosting sites?
Surprisingly enough, it actually was introduced by two Democrats. Didn't expect that. Anti-pornography campaigning is usually associated with Republicans.
Reading the bill - which is remarkably short by legal standards - I wonder if ISPs could be harmed by simply using the bill against them. There's a penalty of $500 for every piece of content reported to them but not blocked, and it wouldn't be that hard for a small team to construct an automatic porn-hound bot to drag up a few million URLs to submit. Or a hundred million. Far more than could possibly be reviewed manually, forcing ISPs to choose between massive fines or rendering their service unusable. Since any consumer can seek damages... hello, ambulance-chasing lawyers. Simply bombard the ISP with a ridiculous number of block requests with a little help from automated searching, wait a week, then demand your $500 for everything not blocked.
Agriculture still needs large numbers of low-skill workers - no-one has made a good fruit-picking robot yet. It's highly seasonal work though. Tends to attract a lot of undocumented labor - farmers get cheaper temporary workers, workers get a job where they can disappear once the harvest season is over.
Don't forget the overheads. No training costs. No HR or legal costs. Predictable performance, uninterrupted by family emergencies or sick days which would otherwise call for rescheduling shifts.
The kitchen of the future will still have humans. Just fewer of them. Possibly a lot fewer.
It's been seriously proposed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It got about as far as you'd expect.
There have been a few systems for labeling pages uses metadata so that browsers can do the filtering. None really caught on. The one pornographic page I've published I included them in anyway, but also added a really filthy limerick that should trigger any content inspection engine.
It's impossible, anyway. You can't take all the porn off the internet because I, and millions of others like me, will just put it straight back on again.
I think it's a lot of fuss about nothing. If pornography was one-tenth as dangerous as campaigners against it claim, civilization would have collapsed by now. Even if children happen across the really weird fetish stuff, it's not going to traumatise them on sight.
The US used to classify all discussion of contraception as obscene, so anyone trying to even advocate in favor of it risked arrest.
No SJWs on this one. Just plain old-fashioned sex-hating conservatives. Oppressors from the opposite side of the political divide.
Have you read some of the anti-pornography campaigns? They are most amusingly full of errors.
Same way as usual: Demand that ISPs use their magic technology to make it happen, or else face fines.
Zero-chance bills get introduced all the time. It's the politicians way of posing - achieves nothing, but lets all the voters see what cause they support and how dedicated they are.
Britain: The age of consent is sixteen, but with two exceptions.
- If a position of trust or influence exists between the parties (eg, teacher/student) then the age goes up to eighteen.
- We do not have a formal close-in-age exception enshrined in law like some other jurisdictions do, but in there is a published policy from the home office that in such cases prosecution would not generally be considered in the public interest. That is, if a sixteen year old has sex with a fifteen year old, the police will give them a firm telling-off but won't throw them in jail.
You can do that, but you'll get a fraction of the audience. Youtube is more than just a place to store videos - it's also a place people find them.
When I first got DR DOS, it was on a hand-labeled floppy. Someone had written it as 'Dr. DOS.' It took a long time before I met someone who asked why I was pronouncing it as 'Doctor Dos.'
Because in many jurisdictions there is no legal distinction between the teenager who has sex with their girlfriend* just one year younger than themselves and the thirty-year-old who rapes a toddler. This is something of an injustice.
*Funnily enough it's less likely to prosecute the other way around.
Neither option looks very good for them:
1. Trump worked with Russian intelligence to gain an advantage in the election.
or
2. Trump's campaign worked with Russian intelligence, but Trump himself was kept in the dark about what his own campaign was doing.
Trump's response so far has been to divert the issue: He claims that all the evidence against him is fabricated by a conspiracy within the FBI - and not only he he not working with Russia,but Hillary is a Russian secret agent charged with stealing the country's uranium.
Trump ran as a plain populist. Left, right... he takes those as convenience dictates. He's been more right-wing on most issues because that's what it takes to be a Republican, but his message is as simple as can be: "Vote for me, because I promise to make the world a better place for you, even if that means screwing over everyone else."
Aside from top Trump campaign officials being caught meeting a Russian government agent, then denying having met, and when faced with clear evidence one person present admitting that they were there to be given dirt on the opponent - but still insisting it doesn't count because the dirt was poor.
I wasn't thinking big objects. I was thinking the tens of thousands of tiny paint flecks and metal shavings.
Either poor equipment design, or he modified it in some way. Miners usually have a buck converter inside, those things are awful for noise - they have a high-current square wave, which includes not only the base frequency but every harmonic of it too. There's supposed to be a filter, but if he is running it beyond design power levels that might not be enough.