Surely protecting animals from harm makes perfect sense for someone interested in animal rights. Obviously murder is not justified, but logically if you can save a large number of animals by killing a few of the people who prey on them, and you consider animals and humans to be equals (as her website claims)...
To be clear I'm not defending her, but understanding the logic is useful and in this case as long as you accept the premise that humans and animals have an equal right to life it makes sense.
Japan's space agency JAXA has been working on similar tech in the last decade too.
Reducing the sonic boom is just one idea for bringing back supersonic transport aircraft. Others include designing one that operates better at lower speeds, so that it can get out over the ocean before going supersonic without wasting too much time and fuel.
For a start, unless Apple Care was free then an insurance policy covering the whole fleet would be much, much, much cheaper. Get a policy with new-for-old and some spare units, and it would be faster than waiting for Apple to do the repair too.
And getting the parents to pay for damage? Schools often have expensive equipment for science classes, IT, gym etc. Maybe it's different in the US but it's all insured here. Imagine if a company billed employees for damaged equipment; no one would dare touch the $1M MRI scanner or the industrial deep fat fryer at KFC.
I'm surprised that the parents didn't just argue that the school decided to give their kid this expensive item, knowing that kids break 10-15 of them every week, and that it's not an optional part of their education. I can't imagine any court would hold them liable, when the liability is clearly with the school. But then again, maybe in the US you had them sign up for the liability with some threat if they refused.
One got dropped off down the bus stairs and the screen cracked. Apple replaced the screen under warranty.
That's not a warranty. The warranty only covers defects from manufacturing that cause the item to fail prematurely.
Replacing a screen that the user broke comes under insurance. They might call it an "extended warranty" or AppleCare, but it is actually just a really expensive insurance policy.
kids don't need tablets or laptops. let them learn the old way, first. books, when dropped CAN be fucking repaired!
You should spend some time in an actual school because you clearly have no idea what it's like these days.
Children, being children, get bored easily and need stimulation. At home they have iPads to stimulate them... If you don't want them to spend all day dreaming about what they will do when they get home, you have to compete with that.
But more than that, you have to teach them relevant life skills. Cursive handwriting is less important that keyboard skills now.
The choice of very expensive iPads is a bit odd on the face of it, but Apple got in to the education market with things like central management of student iPads early and so a lot of educational software targets iOS. Android is very good now too, but Apple keeps the education discounts coming and has some powerful ecosystem lock-in. The cost of switching might be significant for relatively small savings.
All that stuff on her web site about degeneracy and sexual deviance is standard alt-right stuff. Degeneracy was a key aspect of far right propaganda in the 1930s, for example, and used as justification for all sorts of stuff. It's become popular again with the modern far right, complaining about "cultural Marxism" and liberalism leading to degeneracy and the fall of white western society.
Check the other channels she links to on her site. They are all either veganism/animal rights or alt-right stuff. The whole "YouTube censors the truth and conservatives" aspect is a standard far right conspiracy too.
In the UK there are rules to prevent criminals profiting from their crimes. That includes things like selling their stories to newspapers or profiting from books about them.
It's likely that if they had not demonetized his videos then an argument would have been made that he was profiting from the publicity.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like it, but it's not a leftist conspiracy at YouTube, it's the long established law brought in by a conservative government.
There's certainly conspiracy theorist nutters out there
I hate to say it, but your post is one of them.
Yes, individually there are some issues there. CountDankula's conviction is ridiculous, but to then cite that as evidence of a vast leftist conspiracy against conservatives is just ridiculous. You conflate his run in with the British legal system, YouTube's inevitable reaction (how could they ignore it?), vague claims about wild accusations and the far left...
I'm not saying it's not bad, just that it's not the conspiracy you make it out to be.
And actually, there are far more popular right wing channels on YouTube than left leaning ones. Sargon, Black Pigeon, Bearing, Teal Deer, The Golden One, Paul Joseph Watson... Even Infowars had difficulty in their YouTube ban speedrun. They make out that the world is against them, but actually they thrive on this fake outrage.
Scary how the text on her web site echos the "YouTube is censoring us!" brigade around here. Same sense of entitlement to being on YouTube and getting promoted too.
You can see how she built up a conspiracy theory to explain her lack of success. The extremely graphic videos she posted got age restricted, which means you have to be logged in to see them and they won't appear on the front page. She took that as evidence of censorship and oppression, calling YouTube a "dictatorship".
This idea that YouTube is part of a government system of oppression and controls the public discourse, and that people not wanting to see extreme stuff is just state censorship rather than personal choice, really seems to have taken hold on some parts of the internet.
She seems to have bought in to all the rubbish about vast conspiracies against conservatives. Her web site is full of the language - degeneracy, censorship and bias.
A lot like that guy who went into a pizza restaurant to rescue children from paedophiles, except me didn't kill himself when he realized his mistake.
In most countries you can't even get a permit unless you have a really, really good reason. Compared to most developed countries even California is relatively permissive, just not relative to the rest of the US.
The government has no reason to know what property I own
No developed country in the world does not register things like land and automobile ownership. In fact car ownership and the right to drive one is quite heavily regulated in most places, and arguably more important in people's lives than gun ownership.
You will either have to concede that some control is a good thing, or that you want anarchy. Some things you want to own or do affect other people, and that's what government is for.
Even California has relatively weak controls compared to most counties and compared to what people are asking for.
Consider that whoever did this is almost certainly mentally ill. One of the common demands of those calling for stricter controls is to not allow people with mental health issues to have guns.
Terms of Service need to be heavily regulated. Ideally there would be a few standard ToS documents and companies would have to pick one, rather than writing their own. Or maybe a kind of build-a-licence system like the Creative Commons one.
Anything they want outside of that, sod off. Products must indicate what licence terms they picked before you buy, e.g. on the box.
China's high speed rail isn't even innovative though. They imported all the technology from Japan, and tried to build their own but it proved too unreliable. They have some domestic models now, but much of the tech is still Japanese and some European, and their trains are not actually any better. They run a little faster than the Japanese ones, but the Japanese ones are only limited to that speed due to noise concerns.
To be fair their did build the Shanghai maglev, which was quite impressive for the time. But for some reason they decided not to go with maglev technology for the nationwide networks, probably cost or reliability concerns. It's actually a little bit sad to ride it now, the cabin is worn and a little neglected it seems.
The rate at which they built the network is incredible, but it's old established tech and really maglev is the only way it's going to get any faster now, which would mean ripping up all the track...
For some definitions of "value", but for people who make serious money off Instagram it matters. And those are the people Instagram needs to remain popular and generate revenue.
Which is all very good news, because it tells us that Instagram must be taking privacy seriously if they are willing to risk some profits over it. We can only hope this is the start of a major shift towards better privacy.
Lots of parts of the process are still based on judgement, but the process provides a framework for making those judgements. It's the same with sentencing, there will be guidelines for what increases the sentence above the base, what kinds of mitigating circumstances might be considered etc. And if challenged the person making the judgement will have to explain themselves.
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Surely protecting animals from harm makes perfect sense for someone interested in animal rights. Obviously murder is not justified, but logically if you can save a large number of animals by killing a few of the people who prey on them, and you consider animals and humans to be equals (as her website claims)...
To be clear I'm not defending her, but understanding the logic is useful and in this case as long as you accept the premise that humans and animals have an equal right to life it makes sense.
Japan's space agency JAXA has been working on similar tech in the last decade too.
Reducing the sonic boom is just one idea for bringing back supersonic transport aircraft. Others include designing one that operates better at lower speeds, so that it can get out over the ocean before going supersonic without wasting too much time and fuel.
It would be weird if some of them didn't belong to foreign spy agencies, as well as private security companies hired to dig up dirt etc.
London and I imagine most capital cities are the same, full of fake cell towers.
Let's be honest, "iOS or Windows 10" is basically "turd burger or shit sandwich".
That's insane.
For a start, unless Apple Care was free then an insurance policy covering the whole fleet would be much, much, much cheaper. Get a policy with new-for-old and some spare units, and it would be faster than waiting for Apple to do the repair too.
And getting the parents to pay for damage? Schools often have expensive equipment for science classes, IT, gym etc. Maybe it's different in the US but it's all insured here. Imagine if a company billed employees for damaged equipment; no one would dare touch the $1M MRI scanner or the industrial deep fat fryer at KFC.
I'm surprised that the parents didn't just argue that the school decided to give their kid this expensive item, knowing that kids break 10-15 of them every week, and that it's not an optional part of their education. I can't imagine any court would hold them liable, when the liability is clearly with the school. But then again, maybe in the US you had them sign up for the liability with some threat if they refused.
One got dropped off down the bus stairs and the screen cracked. Apple replaced the screen under warranty.
That's not a warranty. The warranty only covers defects from manufacturing that cause the item to fail prematurely.
Replacing a screen that the user broke comes under insurance. They might call it an "extended warranty" or AppleCare, but it is actually just a really expensive insurance policy.
kids don't need tablets or laptops. let them learn the old way, first. books, when dropped CAN be fucking repaired!
You should spend some time in an actual school because you clearly have no idea what it's like these days.
Children, being children, get bored easily and need stimulation. At home they have iPads to stimulate them... If you don't want them to spend all day dreaming about what they will do when they get home, you have to compete with that.
But more than that, you have to teach them relevant life skills. Cursive handwriting is less important that keyboard skills now.
The choice of very expensive iPads is a bit odd on the face of it, but Apple got in to the education market with things like central management of student iPads early and so a lot of educational software targets iOS. Android is very good now too, but Apple keeps the education discounts coming and has some powerful ecosystem lock-in. The cost of switching might be significant for relatively small savings.
It's not about population statistics, it's about the fact that blacks are on average massively more criminalized than whites. Per head of population.
Fixed that for you.
The government encourages it too, because aside from the surveillance it also means that people pay sales tax.
All that stuff on her web site about degeneracy and sexual deviance is standard alt-right stuff. Degeneracy was a key aspect of far right propaganda in the 1930s, for example, and used as justification for all sorts of stuff. It's become popular again with the modern far right, complaining about "cultural Marxism" and liberalism leading to degeneracy and the fall of white western society.
Check the other channels she links to on her site. They are all either veganism/animal rights or alt-right stuff. The whole "YouTube censors the truth and conservatives" aspect is a standard far right conspiracy too.
Her site is basically a collection of Reddit conspiracy theories. It's all personal, all a giant conspiracy against you and your ilk.
It's a common narrative even on Slashdot. It seems like the internet breeds this kind of warped, paranoid world view.
In the UK there are rules to prevent criminals profiting from their crimes. That includes things like selling their stories to newspapers or profiting from books about them.
It's likely that if they had not demonetized his videos then an argument would have been made that he was profiting from the publicity.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like it, but it's not a leftist conspiracy at YouTube, it's the long established law brought in by a conservative government.
There's certainly conspiracy theorist nutters out there
I hate to say it, but your post is one of them.
Yes, individually there are some issues there. CountDankula's conviction is ridiculous, but to then cite that as evidence of a vast leftist conspiracy against conservatives is just ridiculous. You conflate his run in with the British legal system, YouTube's inevitable reaction (how could they ignore it?), vague claims about wild accusations and the far left...
I'm not saying it's not bad, just that it's not the conspiracy you make it out to be.
And actually, there are far more popular right wing channels on YouTube than left leaning ones. Sargon, Black Pigeon, Bearing, Teal Deer, The Golden One, Paul Joseph Watson... Even Infowars had difficulty in their YouTube ban speedrun. They make out that the world is against them, but actually they thrive on this fake outrage.
Scary how the text on her web site echos the "YouTube is censoring us!" brigade around here. Same sense of entitlement to being on YouTube and getting promoted too.
You can see how she built up a conspiracy theory to explain her lack of success. The extremely graphic videos she posted got age restricted, which means you have to be logged in to see them and they won't appear on the front page. She took that as evidence of censorship and oppression, calling YouTube a "dictatorship".
This idea that YouTube is part of a government system of oppression and controls the public discourse, and that people not wanting to see extreme stuff is just state censorship rather than personal choice, really seems to have taken hold on some parts of the internet.
She seems to have bought in to all the rubbish about vast conspiracies against conservatives. Her web site is full of the language - degeneracy, censorship and bias.
A lot like that guy who went into a pizza restaurant to rescue children from paedophiles, except me didn't kill himself when he realized his mistake.
The US has a particularly nasty combination of high levels of gun ownership and low levels of mental health treatment.
The US has thee choices.
1. Tighter gun controls.
2. Free, high quality mental healthcare.
3. Regular mass murders.
In most countries you can't even get a permit unless you have a really, really good reason. Compared to most developed countries even California is relatively permissive, just not relative to the rest of the US.
The government has no reason to know what property I own
No developed country in the world does not register things like land and automobile ownership. In fact car ownership and the right to drive one is quite heavily regulated in most places, and arguably more important in people's lives than gun ownership.
You will either have to concede that some control is a good thing, or that you want anarchy. Some things you want to own or do affect other people, and that's what government is for.
"So much less"? Not really.
California: 3.4 gun murders per 100k citizens
Texas: 3.2 gun murders per 100k citizens
California is apparently a lot better at gun safety too. All deaths by gun, including suicide and accidents:
California: 7.89 per 100k citizens
Texas: 10.50 per 100k citizens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Even California has relatively weak controls compared to most counties and compared to what people are asking for.
Consider that whoever did this is almost certainly mentally ill. One of the common demands of those calling for stricter controls is to not allow people with mental health issues to have guns.
Thanks, I figured it was like Iron Man or something.
Terms of Service need to be heavily regulated. Ideally there would be a few standard ToS documents and companies would have to pick one, rather than writing their own. Or maybe a kind of build-a-licence system like the Creative Commons one.
Anything they want outside of that, sod off. Products must indicate what licence terms they picked before you buy, e.g. on the box.
China's high speed rail isn't even innovative though. They imported all the technology from Japan, and tried to build their own but it proved too unreliable. They have some domestic models now, but much of the tech is still Japanese and some European, and their trains are not actually any better. They run a little faster than the Japanese ones, but the Japanese ones are only limited to that speed due to noise concerns.
To be fair their did build the Shanghai maglev, which was quite impressive for the time. But for some reason they decided not to go with maglev technology for the nationwide networks, probably cost or reliability concerns. It's actually a little bit sad to ride it now, the cabin is worn and a little neglected it seems.
The rate at which they built the network is incredible, but it's old established tech and really maglev is the only way it's going to get any faster now, which would mean ripping up all the track...
For some definitions of "value", but for people who make serious money off Instagram it matters. And those are the people Instagram needs to remain popular and generate revenue.
Which is all very good news, because it tells us that Instagram must be taking privacy seriously if they are willing to risk some profits over it. We can only hope this is the start of a major shift towards better privacy.
Lots of parts of the process are still based on judgement, but the process provides a framework for making those judgements. It's the same with sentencing, there will be guidelines for what increases the sentence above the base, what kinds of mitigating circumstances might be considered etc. And if challenged the person making the judgement will have to explain themselves.