What the woman says about the relationship is always treated as gospel and men are punished in some form regardless if the accusations are true or not
As a male feminist I can tell you that is complete crap.
The feminist ideal is to have a relationship of equal partners, based on mutual understanding and respect. That's why so much effort has been put into understanding masculinity and how notions of what it means affect men. It's why so much effort has gone into understanding the male role in society.
When you consider all of this, mail order brides, while still a completely disgusting idea, begin to make some amount of sense.
You mean someone who is totally dependent on you for their visa and often their livelihood? Who you can control and dominate because they can't say "no" for fear of being deported or made destitute? And you say feminists are the ones who want to dominate.
1. Closing the door is dangerous. 2. Not closing the door is sexist because it makes her feel less comfortable having an honest discussion. 3. Women are always to be given the benefit of the doubt when they say something happened. 4. Behind a closed door it's impossible, short of secretly recording (which isn't always legal), for a man to have any evidence to defend himself.
You are just being obtuse. When people say "women should be believed", they don't mean that an accusation is always true, they mean that an accusation should not be dismissed as "she was asking for it" or "it must have been consensual". It should be investigated, which is in everyone's interests, especially people who are falsely accused because it will both clear them and punish malicious accusers.
And before you complain that there is no punishment for lying, tell that to the people in jail for lying about sexual assault.
As for men behind closed doors not having any evidence, I can point you to several recent rape cases where men were able to call witnesses who had previously slept with the accuser to testify about their behaviour during consensual sex, which it turns out was similar to when they were with the accused. Often text messages sent after the event are used as evidence that it was consensual.
In fact, it's very often difficult to prove it wasn't consensual. Take the recent Weinstein case, where there was a recording made in a police sting operation of him sexually harassing a young actress and they still didn't move against him.
The rest of your arguments are just anti-feminist crap, not worthy of a response.
When people say that the victim should be believed, what they mean is that the assumption by those responsible for investigating should be that they are not lying and the claims should be checked out. It doesn't mean an assumption of guilt, merely that the claims are worth checking out (with consequences if they are malicious).
All too often victims are told that they must have been "asking for it" or simply fobbed off and then decades later 20 of them come forward with the same story.
Of course it's important for the investigation to be fair. Ideally the accused should remain anonymous initially. Unfortunately this tendency to dismiss potential victims means that eventually one is forced to go public and hope others also come forward, which is bad for everyone involved. If the accused is innocent they suffer reputation damage that an investigation could have avoided, and the lack of investigation often means that they are unable to clear their name definitively.
8k test broadcasts have already started in Japan. They will be broadcasting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 8k, although it sounds like Verizon might down-sample to 720p for you.
Strange that the free market wouldn't provide you with a higher quality stream... But there is always The Pirate Bay for 4k content.
80% is the standard measure of battery lifetime that manufacturers use. Some phone manufacturers will replace your battery if it goes below that level within the warranty period, but I don't know if Samsung is one.
Having said that, how are you managing 1.5 charge cycles a day?! Based on reviews of the S8+ you should be seeing about 10% for an hour of streaming video, or 20% in the fake-HDR ultra-brightness video enhancement mode. Heavy browsing and app use should get you maybe 6 hours of solid use. Maybe you need to adjust your settings, or maybe the phone is faulty, or maybe you have some really crappy apps.
You probably know this but you can view extended battery stats in the settings, including which apps are using the most power.
Or maybe under Tim Cooks leadership the overall quality of Apples software and hardware has noticeably declined.
Under Jobs we got Apple Maps, so bad it could actually kill you. We had numerous testing and quality issues from Apple, like the MacBook 1/4 gallon of thermal paste issue or the classic iPhone 4 antenna "holding it wrong" design flaw.
Even going back to the CRT iMac you had CD-ROM drives with no emergency eject hole, meaning if the disc got trapped you had to disassemble the whole thing (complete with high voltages from the CRT floating around).
Don't mistake the shiny veneer they put on stuff for competence. 16 years later and iTunes is still a turd.
My guess would be a flaw in the logic that handles several failures in a row. Maybe they tried to put some rate limiting in or something like that, but accidentally proceeded with logging in at that account instead.
That would be somewhat similar to their GOTO FAIL bug from a while back. I really hope we get the full story because if it's the same thing again it strongly points to interference.
For a few versions of Android now, the first time an app tries to use the camera the user is prompted to give permission. On older versions camera access is listed in the permissions granted on installation, before you install.
For enhanced privacy and ad-blocking, I recommend DNS66.
Force stopping an application is insufficient. Android uses a system that allows apps to hook in to various events, such as the arrival of a new message, a given time or even a change of location. Android will re-start the app to let it process these events.
If you are that concerned, try installing F-Droid and only using free, open source apps.
People seem to forget how crap search was before Google. Android is where most of the innovation in the mobile arena happens these days. Waymo's self driving cars are years ahead of anything else it seems. Google Fibre is the only reason some parts of the US don't have really shitty internet. Gmail finally took us beyond 2MB free mailboxes and pretty much solved spam within a year or two.
There are a lot of things to dislike about Google, but lack of innovation is not one of them.
What would something better than Facebook even look like?
How would it be funded? Usenet is pay-to-access, Facebook is paid for by selling your personal data and ads. The former dooms you to obscurity, the latter is evil.
How would you handle spam and the inevitable barrage of copyright claims? How would you handle people posting revenge porn or child pornography?
And how would you tempt people away from Facebook?
By the time you have solved all these problems you end up looking a lot like Facebook anyway.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with Japan, nor is it interesting in "settling" any issue at all with Japan.
That's not correct. Japan has been discussing the issue of kidnappings for decades, and NK has made some quite considerable concessions. There is also a small population of NK citizens living in Japan, with a school and some NGOs based in Tokyo.
Japan is one of the major routes in to NK for visitors too. NK likes to host international sporting events like the Pyongyang marathon, with Japanese athletes competing and Japan acting as a gateway for travel.
They can certain detect what you are using aux power, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons for that. You might have a powered cooler in the boot, an air compressor, a heater, a ceramic cooking hob...
One of the main uses for hybrid aircraft engines is reducing noise and pollution at airports. Air quality is a real problem in those areas and aircraft use a lot of power getting up to speed and off the ground. Many places charge them for this to prevent them simply externalizing the cost onto people living and working in the area.
Sending a PDF is a good sanity check for the company. If the hiring manager can't understand why you wouldn't send a.docx, or company policy requires Word documents, you know that you don't want to work there anyway and they saved you some hassle.
I always send my CV in PDF form. As well as almost always displaying correctly on a variety of systems, it prevents information leakage. Last thing you want is for the prospective employer to hit ctrl-Z a few times and see what edits you made.
The only people who have demanded Word documents have been recruiters. If they do, run. The only reasons they want the Word document are so that they can copy/paste the contents into a portfolio more easily, or so that they can edit it themselves.
Due to the form factor of a phone and the limited options available, everyone uses the same Sony sensors in their high end phones. Lens technology peaked years ago.
Most manufacturers use optical image stabilization, while Google uses digital. Results seem about the same for photos and for video digital is clearly superior, so some are starting to add digital to their optical systems when in video mode.
Photo quality wise it's all about software processing, since everyone has basically identical hardware. Some phones now have two cameras that combine images, but none produce results as good as Google's single camera+software. Google's HDR performance in particular is way ahead of anyone else, especially at night. Night shots are probably Apple's biggest weakness.
The other use for dual cameras "portrait mode", where the background is automatically blurred. Again, Google does it entirely in software and it seems to be better than any dual camera solution. Most of them, including Apple, struggle to find the edges of your head. It's a hard task, especially given the variety of hair and how thin/transparent it can get at the margins. Google claims to use AI, presumably Tensorflow.
Most countries have forced the companies owning the last mile infrastructure to open it up on fair terms to competitors.
For example, in the UK it's BT that owns the shitty copper cable running into your house. You have to pay them rent for that, but at least you can choose which ISP you want to deliver your data. And BT can't charge that ISP more than it charges its own ISP, BT Internet.
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I wasn't actually responding to that post.
What the woman says about the relationship is always treated as gospel and men are punished in some form regardless if the accusations are true or not
As a male feminist I can tell you that is complete crap.
The feminist ideal is to have a relationship of equal partners, based on mutual understanding and respect. That's why so much effort has been put into understanding masculinity and how notions of what it means affect men. It's why so much effort has gone into understanding the male role in society.
When you consider all of this, mail order brides, while still a completely disgusting idea, begin to make some amount of sense.
You mean someone who is totally dependent on you for their visa and often their livelihood? Who you can control and dominate because they can't say "no" for fear of being deported or made destitute? And you say feminists are the ones who want to dominate.
1. Closing the door is dangerous.
2. Not closing the door is sexist because it makes her feel less comfortable having an honest discussion.
3. Women are always to be given the benefit of the doubt when they say something happened.
4. Behind a closed door it's impossible, short of secretly recording (which isn't always legal), for a man to have any evidence to defend himself.
You are just being obtuse. When people say "women should be believed", they don't mean that an accusation is always true, they mean that an accusation should not be dismissed as "she was asking for it" or "it must have been consensual". It should be investigated, which is in everyone's interests, especially people who are falsely accused because it will both clear them and punish malicious accusers.
And before you complain that there is no punishment for lying, tell that to the people in jail for lying about sexual assault.
As for men behind closed doors not having any evidence, I can point you to several recent rape cases where men were able to call witnesses who had previously slept with the accuser to testify about their behaviour during consensual sex, which it turns out was similar to when they were with the accused. Often text messages sent after the event are used as evidence that it was consensual.
In fact, it's very often difficult to prove it wasn't consensual. Take the recent Weinstein case, where there was a recording made in a police sting operation of him sexually harassing a young actress and they still didn't move against him.
The rest of your arguments are just anti-feminist crap, not worthy of a response.
Can we just talk about this issue please?
When people say that the victim should be believed, what they mean is that the assumption by those responsible for investigating should be that they are not lying and the claims should be checked out. It doesn't mean an assumption of guilt, merely that the claims are worth checking out (with consequences if they are malicious).
All too often victims are told that they must have been "asking for it" or simply fobbed off and then decades later 20 of them come forward with the same story.
Of course it's important for the investigation to be fair. Ideally the accused should remain anonymous initially. Unfortunately this tendency to dismiss potential victims means that eventually one is forced to go public and hope others also come forward, which is bad for everyone involved. If the accused is innocent they suffer reputation damage that an investigation could have avoided, and the lack of investigation often means that they are unable to clear their name definitively.
To be fair TFA does make it sound like Android is pretty secure. No-one can get into these phones.
Considering the response I get from Slashdot these days, I must be the world's greatest optimist.
8k test broadcasts have already started in Japan. They will be broadcasting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 8k, although it sounds like Verizon might down-sample to 720p for you.
Strange that the free market wouldn't provide you with a higher quality stream... But there is always The Pirate Bay for 4k content.
80% is the standard measure of battery lifetime that manufacturers use. Some phone manufacturers will replace your battery if it goes below that level within the warranty period, but I don't know if Samsung is one.
Having said that, how are you managing 1.5 charge cycles a day?! Based on reviews of the S8+ you should be seeing about 10% for an hour of streaming video, or 20% in the fake-HDR ultra-brightness video enhancement mode. Heavy browsing and app use should get you maybe 6 hours of solid use. Maybe you need to adjust your settings, or maybe the phone is faulty, or maybe you have some really crappy apps.
You probably know this but you can view extended battery stats in the settings, including which apps are using the most power.
Or maybe under Tim Cooks leadership the overall quality of Apples software and hardware has noticeably declined.
Under Jobs we got Apple Maps, so bad it could actually kill you. We had numerous testing and quality issues from Apple, like the MacBook 1/4 gallon of thermal paste issue or the classic iPhone 4 antenna "holding it wrong" design flaw.
Even going back to the CRT iMac you had CD-ROM drives with no emergency eject hole, meaning if the disc got trapped you had to disassemble the whole thing (complete with high voltages from the CRT floating around).
Don't mistake the shiny veneer they put on stuff for competence. 16 years later and iTunes is still a turd.
My guess would be a flaw in the logic that handles several failures in a row. Maybe they tried to put some rate limiting in or something like that, but accidentally proceeded with logging in at that account instead.
That would be somewhat similar to their GOTO FAIL bug from a while back. I really hope we get the full story because if it's the same thing again it strongly points to interference.
For a few versions of Android now, the first time an app tries to use the camera the user is prompted to give permission. On older versions camera access is listed in the permissions granted on installation, before you install.
For enhanced privacy and ad-blocking, I recommend DNS66.
Force stopping an application is insufficient. Android uses a system that allows apps to hook in to various events, such as the arrival of a new message, a given time or even a change of location. Android will re-start the app to let it process these events.
If you are that concerned, try installing F-Droid and only using free, open source apps.
The money is spent on advertising and desperately trying to find a way to make money from disappearing photos.
Google doesn't innovate? Really?
People seem to forget how crap search was before Google. Android is where most of the innovation in the mobile arena happens these days. Waymo's self driving cars are years ahead of anything else it seems. Google Fibre is the only reason some parts of the US don't have really shitty internet. Gmail finally took us beyond 2MB free mailboxes and pretty much solved spam within a year or two.
There are a lot of things to dislike about Google, but lack of innovation is not one of them.
What would something better than Facebook even look like?
How would it be funded? Usenet is pay-to-access, Facebook is paid for by selling your personal data and ads. The former dooms you to obscurity, the latter is evil.
How would you handle spam and the inevitable barrage of copyright claims? How would you handle people posting revenge porn or child pornography?
And how would you tempt people away from Facebook?
By the time you have solved all these problems you end up looking a lot like Facebook anyway.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with Japan, nor is it interesting in "settling" any issue at all with Japan.
That's not correct. Japan has been discussing the issue of kidnappings for decades, and NK has made some quite considerable concessions. There is also a small population of NK citizens living in Japan, with a school and some NGOs based in Tokyo.
Japan is one of the major routes in to NK for visitors too. NK likes to host international sporting events like the Pyongyang marathon, with Japanese athletes competing and Japan acting as a gateway for travel.
People regularly sell BTC for that kind of money. Often it's small fractions of a BTC, say 0.1 BTC for $1000, but there are big transactions as well.
Most people don't use ATMs, they use online services that shuffle money electronically.
They can certain detect what you are using aux power, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons for that. You might have a powered cooler in the boot, an air compressor, a heater, a ceramic cooking hob...
One of the main uses for hybrid aircraft engines is reducing noise and pollution at airports. Air quality is a real problem in those areas and aircraft use a lot of power getting up to speed and off the ground. Many places charge them for this to prevent them simply externalizing the cost onto people living and working in the area.
More like multiple desktops, which I thought Windows 10 was supposed to support anyway. Every free desktop certainly does.
Multiple desktops sounds better than this in every way. Just needs some updates to better support multiple monitors and it would be perfect.
You could be right. I underestimated just how fucked up the US is, especially the cops.
Sending a PDF is a good sanity check for the company. If the hiring manager can't understand why you wouldn't send a .docx, or company policy requires Word documents, you know that you don't want to work there anyway and they saved you some hassle.
I always send my CV in PDF form. As well as almost always displaying correctly on a variety of systems, it prevents information leakage. Last thing you want is for the prospective employer to hit ctrl-Z a few times and see what edits you made.
The only people who have demanded Word documents have been recruiters. If they do, run. The only reasons they want the Word document are so that they can copy/paste the contents into a portfolio more easily, or so that they can edit it themselves.
Due to the form factor of a phone and the limited options available, everyone uses the same Sony sensors in their high end phones. Lens technology peaked years ago.
Most manufacturers use optical image stabilization, while Google uses digital. Results seem about the same for photos and for video digital is clearly superior, so some are starting to add digital to their optical systems when in video mode.
Photo quality wise it's all about software processing, since everyone has basically identical hardware. Some phones now have two cameras that combine images, but none produce results as good as Google's single camera+software. Google's HDR performance in particular is way ahead of anyone else, especially at night. Night shots are probably Apple's biggest weakness.
The other use for dual cameras "portrait mode", where the background is automatically blurred. Again, Google does it entirely in software and it seems to be better than any dual camera solution. Most of them, including Apple, struggle to find the edges of your head. It's a hard task, especially given the variety of hair and how thin/transparent it can get at the margins. Google claims to use AI, presumably Tensorflow.
The only down side to this is that we are seeing more product placement.
Most countries have forced the companies owning the last mile infrastructure to open it up on fair terms to competitors.
For example, in the UK it's BT that owns the shitty copper cable running into your house. You have to pay them rent for that, but at least you can choose which ISP you want to deliver your data. And BT can't charge that ISP more than it charges its own ISP, BT Internet.