Because the times have changed. In the "roaring 50s" you could be a single-earner household and support the spouse and two kids, and live in a nice house and drive a nice car.
That was never true for everyone just like
Parents cannot be full-time in this economy.
is not true for everyone now. And how much of this has to do with wanting to work outside the house or your perceptions or what really qualifies as "nice?"
Let's discuss those problems rather than having a knee-jerk "regulation is bad! It'll cause the end of the world as we know it!" reaction.
Would you accept an argument that regulation is bad because even though it won't end the world as we know it, it's just one more small step the wrong way that we don't need to take?
Cripple the internet for all! This nonsense is the reason I can't get my daughter an email address without lying on some form somewhere, which itself is probably considered "hacking" or something similarly crazy
Plenty of the same folks up in arms about drink and smoking are also up in arms about other rights. Unfortunately too few. People have a real problem separating "I don't think you should do that." from "I'm going to force you not to do that." I don't smoke, and I don't have any interest is using marijuana. And, frankly, I think you're better off not participating in either of those vices either*. But if you want to do that or allow people to do that at your restaurant, that is none of my business. I'll save my parenting for my actual kids. In Washington sometimes I win (legalized marijuana), but more often I lose (no smoking in publicly accessible private places).
* I'm speaking to the majority case here. I know perfectly well that for some people doing either can be a rational choice. The point is that it's your choice, good or bad, and not mine.
You seem to think that to be Orwellian a policy must purport to do something when it actually aims to do the opposite. While that is a feature of ingsoc in 1984, the term Orwellian is more general, referring to rule through misinformation, pervasive interference in daily life, propaganda, policing of thought and speech, etc. So yes, the bill matches its title. But it also is clearly an attempt to control speech in an attempt to mold thought. That's Orwellian. I understand you think it's also a noble purpose. Great for you, internet secret police. That execrable point of view does not erase the fact that the bill's purpose is Orwellian.
I can think of no context in which a furniture designer engineer, no matter how agile or standards-conforming would have as similarly viable alternatives a former Russian space station and an animated sycophant.
The Judge asked Apple's lawyers, "Can stay the new case while the first one goes up on Appeal?" The only question they heard was "Do you want more or fewer billable hours?"
Football is certainly a popular sport in Texas both for players and spectators. Where I lived it was definitely thought of as culturally important to a decent number of students, but that of course varied widely across the student body. And it was well funded with a nice field, good equipment, etc. On the other hand other activities didn't seem to suffer from lack of funding. I was in Academic Decathlon, the chess club, debate, and the tennis team. We had art classes, theater, band, orchestra, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, and pretty much everything else (except model U.N. I do not recall that). I just visited the schools web site and it list 56 clubs/extracurriculars, 12 sports, and 8 arts programs. So I'd have to say plenty of oxygen to go around. I did live in suburban Dallas though, whereas Friday Night Lights is depicting rural Texas about which I have no experience to judge.
The DHS is exempt from state regulation. The state can't prevent them from asking for the information. It's the carriers who are being barred from providing it.
During the Manhattan Project, "tickling the dragon's tail" was the nickname they gave to experiments where they brought fissile material up to just below their critical mass. It's particularly dangerous to tickle the dragon's tail with a screwdriver.
The problem is that people really love to control other people, and they're willing to enlist the biggest bully on the block, government, to make people behave as they think they should. It would be lovely if we could flip a magic switch and everyone just decides mind their own business, but that's not reality. In the meanwhile you push back against the symptoms of unwelcome and unjust interference wherever you reasonably can.
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Because the times have changed. In the "roaring 50s" you could be a single-earner household and support the spouse and two kids, and live in a nice house and drive a nice car.
That was never true for everyone just like
Parents cannot be full-time in this economy.
is not true for everyone now. And how much of this has to do with wanting to work outside the house or your perceptions or what really qualifies as "nice?"
Let's discuss those problems rather than having a knee-jerk "regulation is bad! It'll cause the end of the world as we know it!" reaction.
Would you accept an argument that regulation is bad because even though it won't end the world as we know it, it's just one more small step the wrong way that we don't need to take?
Hmmm, interesting. I guess we're morons for electing people for treating us like morons.
Cripple the internet for all! This nonsense is the reason I can't get my daughter an email address without lying on some form somewhere, which itself is probably considered "hacking" or something similarly crazy
Plenty of the same folks up in arms about drink and smoking are also up in arms about other rights. Unfortunately too few. People have a real problem separating "I don't think you should do that." from "I'm going to force you not to do that." I don't smoke, and I don't have any interest is using marijuana. And, frankly, I think you're better off not participating in either of those vices either*. But if you want to do that or allow people to do that at your restaurant, that is none of my business. I'll save my parenting for my actual kids. In Washington sometimes I win (legalized marijuana), but more often I lose (no smoking in publicly accessible private places).
* I'm speaking to the majority case here. I know perfectly well that for some people doing either can be a rational choice. The point is that it's your choice, good or bad, and not mine.
You seem to think that to be Orwellian a policy must purport to do something when it actually aims to do the opposite. While that is a feature of ingsoc in 1984, the term Orwellian is more general, referring to rule through misinformation, pervasive interference in daily life, propaganda, policing of thought and speech, etc. So yes, the bill matches its title. But it also is clearly an attempt to control speech in an attempt to mold thought. That's Orwellian. I understand you think it's also a noble purpose. Great for you, internet secret police. That execrable point of view does not erase the fact that the bill's purpose is Orwellian.
What makes you think that the acronym you think is the right one is the one I even intended?
Because in context "National Institutes of Health" wouldn't make sense?
I can think of no context in which a furniture designer engineer, no matter how agile or standards-conforming would have as similarly viable alternatives a former Russian space station and an animated sycophant.
The Hitchhiker's trilogy is inaccurately named, sadly no longer increasingly so.
The Judge asked Apple's lawyers, "Can stay the new case while the first one goes up on Appeal?" The only question they heard was "Do you want more or fewer billable hours?"
If you keep your extra battery under your stetson it's easier to balance.
Football is certainly a popular sport in Texas both for players and spectators. Where I lived it was definitely thought of as culturally important to a decent number of students, but that of course varied widely across the student body. And it was well funded with a nice field, good equipment, etc. On the other hand other activities didn't seem to suffer from lack of funding. I was in Academic Decathlon, the chess club, debate, and the tennis team. We had art classes, theater, band, orchestra, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, and pretty much everything else (except model U.N. I do not recall that). I just visited the schools web site and it list 56 clubs/extracurriculars, 12 sports, and 8 arts programs. So I'd have to say plenty of oxygen to go around. I did live in suburban Dallas though, whereas Friday Night Lights is depicting rural Texas about which I have no experience to judge.
He didn't say "illegal."
If you're in the US there probably haven't been any takers because that would be illegal.
Hey now. "The Prisoner" isn't garbage.
I miss Dallas.
The DHS is exempt from state regulation. The state can't prevent them from asking for the information. It's the carriers who are being barred from providing it.
Wow. I'm speechless. A post on Slashdot with which I agree 100%. If only I had the mod points.
Distrust of government? That's fairly traditional conservatism.
During the Manhattan Project, "tickling the dragon's tail" was the nickname they gave to experiments where they brought fissile material up to just below their critical mass. It's particularly dangerous to tickle the dragon's tail with a screwdriver.
The problem is that people really love to control other people, and they're willing to enlist the biggest bully on the block, government, to make people behave as they think they should. It would be lovely if we could flip a magic switch and everyone just decides mind their own business, but that's not reality. In the meanwhile you push back against the symptoms of unwelcome and unjust interference wherever you reasonably can.
You never tickle a dragon's tail.
The people making the micropayments are voting too. They're just voting the opposite way from you.
I certainly know Battletoads. But Terra Tubes? I thought Battletoads only had three levels.
Volume isn't reserved for the system. My e book app uses it to turn pages.
Come to think of it, I've pressed volume up on my phone about fifteen thousand times in the last year. I wonder what the mean presses to failure is.
You could just wait a few years for seventh grade.