The problem with wanting to put your political enemies up against the wall with a cigarette and a blindfold is that there's a good chance that you yourself will either be joining them or that it'll be they who are the ones making up the firing squad.
Obviously it was a joke- I wouldn't really suggest anyone be executed for voting for Trump, or helping him get elected.
Maybe I'm cynical... but I wouldn't be surprised if this was done on purpose to get people talking about the movie that otherwise no one would have heard of.
UK citizens should be happy about brexit now. If they can stay out of the EU they may be able to retain their Freedom of Speech if they ever had it.
You can find holes in "free speech" for any country or countries (including the US). Nowhere really has "free" speech.
Sadly, the UK is less free than many when it comes to free speech. I don't think any of us would disagree that racism is a bad thing- but in Britain if you say something racist in public you can be arrested for it. I want racism to die- but I don't approve of arresting people for simply saying something bad- it comes down to a very subjective "what is racist?"
If you're rich, you can block the nations press from reporting certain embarrassing stories on you. You can ask for a super-injunction which prevents the press from being allowed to report on a story AND they're not even allowed to say you have asked for the super-injunction. A lot of embarrassing news about the royal family that might be published overseas is blocked in the UK.
TV, video games, etc, are regulary censored. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had to be released under the name Teenage Mutant "Hero" turtles in the UK because "Ninja" was considered too violent a term for UK children. Songs with explicit lyrics are often blocked from UK airways. Certain pron, such as face-sitting is considered indecent in the UK and is not allowed.
UK might actually have more freedom of speech had they remained in the EU.
Fhat's the reaction a lot of us had in the 70s when it first became fashionable to wear clothing with branding prominently displayed. What kind of fool turns himself into a billboard for a clothing manufacturer?
It turns out, the answer was a commonplace fool.
I avoid clothing that has big brand marks on it and I wasn't around buying clothes in the 70's. Nothing looks more ridiculous to me than a shirt with "Under armour" or "Nike" written in big letters across it. A small logo is the most I can tolerate.
There are find my car apps for your phone which you say I parked here. Then when you go where is my car it will show you where to go. These apps are free. And all bumper stickers do is annoy other people.
Indeed. I'm failing to see the benefit of this device. There are already trackers on the market for much less you can place on your car. I don't see the advantage of having an e-ink license plate. Why have something fragile on the back of my car when I can have a $2 piece of metal on the back.
I'd want to receive compensation each month for having one on my car in exchange for them doubtlessly tracking and storing data on where I go. If they're not paying me heavily for that, I'm not going to have that plate and let them have that information.
I'm naturally an insomniac, although becoming less of one as I age. My kids now have the same problem, other people in my family have had the same problem. Insomnia runs in the family. When I was a teenager going through my early 30's I would live on a three day cycle. Night 1: no sleep and not feel tired the next day; night 2: 1 or 2 hours sleep max, but I do feel tired in the morning; night 3: sleep like a log- body reset.
It was an endless cycle of those three days. In my 30's I started drinking more coffee- and found I started sleeping more often- my 3 day cycle became a 2 day cycle... and then sleeping most nights; these days there is probably only on average one night a week I don't sleep at all. Usually when I don't sleep it's on a night I don't have coffee before I go to bed.
Mentioned it on the phone to my mother one evening and she said that she had the same reaction to coffee. She doesn't sleep unless she has her coffee. I think there is some genetic link there somehow. Caffeine effects some of us differently with the opposite reaction.
To be fair... yeah, they all track everything you do with those devices. I find Google's to be more invasive though.
If you adjust ANY privacy settings in your google profile to not track you then the Google Home won't work. You have to completely open yourself up to google and have wide-open inadvisable permissions in your google account just to use the Google Home. Because I told Google not to track certain aspects of my web browser google home won't work.
And while we are on the topic, why are most habitual coffee drinkers also smokers? Does this study then conclude that smoking is also healthy too?
I'd like to see your data on this. I know lots of people who drink a lot of coffee- I hardly know anyone that smokes anymore. There may or may not be a correlation of smokers also being coffee drinkers- but I'd be very surprised if most coffee drinkers also smoke. This is 2018, almost no-one smokes these days.
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction.
Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Not everyone is addicted to caffeine. I also wonder how much of the impact of caffeine is psychological. (you expect coffee to wake you up, so it does).
I love coffee, I dink a lot, but I find myself most unaffected by caffeine. It doesn't wake me up or give me energy- nor do I have any withdrawal symptoms, I sometimes go a week without coffee if I run out and can't find a good deal somewhere...
I love to drink coffee right before bed, it's warm and calms me and helps me sleep.
The only symptom I get from drinking coffee (besides yellowing teeth) is it makes me poop; that's probably not the caffeine though but something else in the coffee. Nothing gets me running to the bathroom in the morning like a cup of coffee. If I drink my coffee late, I poop late. If I drink it early, I poop early.
The result showing decaf might have a similar effect is possibly the most interesting point in the study. It suggests that the effect is from something other than caffeine, which would mean there's more interesting chemicals in coffee.
Coffee is extremely complex chemically. There is a lot to coffee besides just the caffeine.
I created an account and started posting stuff (not spam). After recieving zero views/clicks/comments for a long time, I contacted the support, and it eventually turned out that they had silently put me inside a "bubble", not because of anything I posted, but immediately after creating the account because I was using a VPN. Same thing happened on Hacker News.
Forget anonymity -- they require you to use your uniquely identifying home IP address to post anything that will be seen by anyone other than yourself. They do not believe in anonymity and I don't blame them, because it has countless problems associated with it, but the point here is that they are not being honest, and I can't stand that.
Any service that employs these underhanded, disgusting tactics such as "putting you in a bubble", showing fake error messages, etc., are absolutely vile and I want nothing to do with them.
It's a shame for you that they mistakenly put you in a bubble; but in many ways it's a clever technique. You put a troll in a bubble and he posts away and doesn't cause trouble. You ban a troll and he starts a new account. You presumably got labeled a troll incorrectly, so they have problems, but the idea behind what they were doing is sound and designed to protect the users.
I use my real name here, and on Reddit. It's a credibility thing. I did get sued for $3 Million for something I wrote on my personal blog. That person ended up swearing a $300,000 bond for my defense, which should be a warning to others.
The fact that you won the case is immaterial. You still got attacked from something you wrote online. If you were anonymous that likely wouldn't have been an issue. Your life was made more difficult BECAUSE of not being anonymous.
As a poster to Slashdot, I don't care if your name is Bruce, Bob, or Betty. It's nice that you have a name (as opposed to being an anonymous coward) so that I can perhaps remember you from previous comments and it gives meaning if I can put a comment in perspective to other comments you may have made- but, no offense, I really don't care what your real life name is, nor anyone else's. As a slashdotter, I really don't care about anything anyone does outside Slashdot. No one's real life name means a thing to me.
I certainly don't want anyone knowing my real name or anything about my life outside Slashdot.
I am fine with identities, I just want more than one.
A long time ago I used to use the same user name on every forum and site I signed in for. It was my childhood nickname, which whilst not my real name, was fairly unique.
I was stalked by an individual who searched for my username and tracked me back to every forum I had ever used at that point (even ones I hadn't been active on in over a year). They then tried to use my comments and information against me; and, generally tried trolling me all across the internet. I now use a completely different user id on every forum I go to. I have a half dozen e-mail address and pick one at random to sign up to things so not all on the same account.
It makes life slightly more complicated but it is worth it to not be trackable across the internet. I really don't understand people that link things to their facebook or google accounts and use facebook to log into somewhere. They're making it easier for some future harasser to harass them.
Well there was that time the FBI was "CERTAIN" that the Kingsmen were encoding a communist agenda into "Louie Louie" (No, I'm not kidding!).
Yes, I remember reading about that. Another theory was that the song was lewd and immoral. There was a study to see if the song was subversive and after weeks of study the end report was that the song was unintelligible. I wonder how much was spent to determine that.
You can stream anything you like on the internet. Unlike the FM spectrum, there is an unlimited amount of "channels" available. No risk of getting punished. 20 years ago, pirate radio was a desperate way to be heard - or make some money. But now you can do it risk free on the net. So why pirate radio?
Anything you do on the internet is recorded and logged in perpetuity. I'm not sure how Uncle Sam will use your music choice against you. Maybe blackmail you and threaten to tell your SO you listen to nickel back if you don't do as they say.
Best play it safe and listen to pirate radio. Uncle Sam can't log what you listen to over the airwaves. Listen to Nickel Back without fear of repurcussions.
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The problem with wanting to put your political enemies up against the wall with a cigarette and a blindfold is that there's a good chance that you yourself will either be joining them or that it'll be they who are the ones making up the firing squad.
Obviously it was a joke- I wouldn't really suggest anyone be executed for voting for Trump, or helping him get elected.
"One can dream of a scenario where Hillary, Trump and Zuckerberg all share a cell together"
Which one still be the bitch?
Zuckerberg is probably the most feminine, with the most delicate features of the three- so probably him.
Maybe I'm cynical... but I wouldn't be surprised if this was done on purpose to get people talking about the movie that otherwise no one would have heard of.
UK citizens should be happy about brexit now. If they can stay out of the EU they may be able to retain their Freedom of Speech if they ever had it.
You can find holes in "free speech" for any country or countries (including the US). Nowhere really has "free" speech.
Sadly, the UK is less free than many when it comes to free speech. I don't think any of us would disagree that racism is a bad thing- but in Britain if you say something racist in public you can be arrested for it. I want racism to die- but I don't approve of arresting people for simply saying something bad- it comes down to a very subjective "what is racist?"
If you're rich, you can block the nations press from reporting certain embarrassing stories on you. You can ask for a super-injunction which prevents the press from being allowed to report on a story AND they're not even allowed to say you have asked for the super-injunction. A lot of embarrassing news about the royal family that might be published overseas is blocked in the UK.
TV, video games, etc, are regulary censored. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had to be released under the name Teenage Mutant "Hero" turtles in the UK because "Ninja" was considered too violent a term for UK children. Songs with explicit lyrics are often blocked from UK airways. Certain pron, such as face-sitting is considered indecent in the UK and is not allowed.
UK might actually have more freedom of speech had they remained in the EU.
So what exactly is the crime? They helped Trump get elected?
That should be reason enough to reinstate the death penalty.
I don't believe anyone should be untouchable; nor do I believe anyone IS untouchable if the crime is popular enough with those prosecuting.
One can dream of a scenario where Hillary, Trump and Zuckerberg all share a cell together.
Not surprising that it works in those other browsers since they are all pretty much Chrome clones.
Regardless, I'm sure all 10 people who use Brave are worried about this development.
Fhat's the reaction a lot of us had in the 70s when it first became fashionable to wear clothing with branding prominently displayed. What kind of fool turns himself into a billboard for a clothing manufacturer?
It turns out, the answer was a commonplace fool.
I avoid clothing that has big brand marks on it and I wasn't around buying clothes in the 70's. Nothing looks more ridiculous to me than a shirt with "Under armour" or "Nike" written in big letters across it. A small logo is the most I can tolerate.
There are find my car apps for your phone which you say I parked here. Then when you go where is my car it will show you where to go. These apps are free.
And all bumper stickers do is annoy other people.
Indeed. I'm failing to see the benefit of this device. There are already trackers on the market for much less you can place on your car. I don't see the advantage of having an e-ink license plate. Why have something fragile on the back of my car when I can have a $2 piece of metal on the back.
I'd want to receive compensation each month for having one on my car in exchange for them doubtlessly tracking and storing data on where I go. If they're not paying me heavily for that, I'm not going to have that plate and let them have that information.
http://www.health.com/health/g...
I'm naturally an insomniac, although becoming less of one as I age. My kids now have the same problem, other people in my family have had the same problem. Insomnia runs in the family. When I was a teenager going through my early 30's I would live on a three day cycle. Night 1: no sleep and not feel tired the next day; night 2: 1 or 2 hours sleep max, but I do feel tired in the morning; night 3: sleep like a log- body reset.
It was an endless cycle of those three days. In my 30's I started drinking more coffee- and found I started sleeping more often- my 3 day cycle became a 2 day cycle... and then sleeping most nights; these days there is probably only on average one night a week I don't sleep at all. Usually when I don't sleep it's on a night I don't have coffee before I go to bed.
Mentioned it on the phone to my mother one evening and she said that she had the same reaction to coffee. She doesn't sleep unless she has her coffee. I think there is some genetic link there somehow. Caffeine effects some of us differently with the opposite reaction.
Stimulants can have a calming effect on people with ADHD.
I've never been diagnosed but I have long suspected that I have ADHD.
To be fair... yeah, they all track everything you do with those devices. I find Google's to be more invasive though.
If you adjust ANY privacy settings in your google profile to not track you then the Google Home won't work. You have to completely open yourself up to google and have wide-open inadvisable permissions in your google account just to use the Google Home. Because I told Google not to track certain aspects of my web browser google home won't work.
And while we are on the topic, why are most habitual coffee drinkers also smokers? Does this study then conclude that smoking is also healthy too?
I'd like to see your data on this. I know lots of people who drink a lot of coffee- I hardly know anyone that smokes anymore. There may or may not be a correlation of smokers also being coffee drinkers- but I'd be very surprised if most coffee drinkers also smoke. This is 2018, almost no-one smokes these days.
Even though caffeine is a fairly weak drug, this shows the power of addiction.
Caffeine addicts need that morning cup 'o joe so badly that they'll tell the Grim Reaper to bugger off and wait until they've had their coffee. Apparently it works!
Not everyone is addicted to caffeine. I also wonder how much of the impact of caffeine is psychological. (you expect coffee to wake you up, so it does).
I love coffee, I dink a lot, but I find myself most unaffected by caffeine. It doesn't wake me up or give me energy- nor do I have any withdrawal symptoms, I sometimes go a week without coffee if I run out and can't find a good deal somewhere...
I love to drink coffee right before bed, it's warm and calms me and helps me sleep.
The only symptom I get from drinking coffee (besides yellowing teeth) is it makes me poop; that's probably not the caffeine though but something else in the coffee. Nothing gets me running to the bathroom in the morning like a cup of coffee. If I drink my coffee late, I poop late. If I drink it early, I poop early.
I should be immortal.
Well, if you haven't died yet- perhaps you are.
The result showing decaf might have a similar effect is possibly the most interesting point in the study. It suggests that the effect is from something other than caffeine, which would mean there's more interesting chemicals in coffee.
Coffee is extremely complex chemically. There is a lot to coffee besides just the caffeine.
"We found that people who drank two to three cups per day had about a 12 percent lower risk of death compared to non-coffee drinkers"
Nope. I think you'll find if you run the study long enough that everyone has a 100% risk of death no matter what they drink.
That's how it works.
Unless it replaces diet soda, as in my case.
Diet soda is even more unhealthy than regular soda though- so replacing diet soda is still a net positive in terms of health.
I created an account and started posting stuff (not spam). After recieving zero views/clicks/comments for a long time, I contacted the support, and it eventually turned out that they had silently put me inside a "bubble", not because of anything I posted, but immediately after creating the account because I was using a VPN. Same thing happened on Hacker News.
Forget anonymity -- they require you to use your uniquely identifying home IP address to post anything that will be seen by anyone other than yourself. They do not believe in anonymity and I don't blame them, because it has countless problems associated with it, but the point here is that they are not being honest, and I can't stand that.
Any service that employs these underhanded, disgusting tactics such as "putting you in a bubble", showing fake error messages, etc., are absolutely vile and I want nothing to do with them.
It's a shame for you that they mistakenly put you in a bubble; but in many ways it's a clever technique. You put a troll in a bubble and he posts away and doesn't cause trouble. You ban a troll and he starts a new account. You presumably got labeled a troll incorrectly, so they have problems, but the idea behind what they were doing is sound and designed to protect the users.
I use my real name here, and on Reddit. It's a credibility thing. I did get sued for $3 Million for something I wrote on my personal blog. That person ended up swearing a $300,000 bond for my defense, which should be a warning to others.
The fact that you won the case is immaterial. You still got attacked from something you wrote online. If you were anonymous that likely wouldn't have been an issue. Your life was made more difficult BECAUSE of not being anonymous.
As a poster to Slashdot, I don't care if your name is Bruce, Bob, or Betty. It's nice that you have a name (as opposed to being an anonymous coward) so that I can perhaps remember you from previous comments and it gives meaning if I can put a comment in perspective to other comments you may have made- but, no offense, I really don't care what your real life name is, nor anyone else's. As a slashdotter, I really don't care about anything anyone does outside Slashdot. No one's real life name means a thing to me.
I certainly don't want anyone knowing my real name or anything about my life outside Slashdot.
I am fine with identities, I just want more than one.
A long time ago I used to use the same user name on every forum and site I signed in for. It was my childhood nickname, which whilst not my real name, was fairly unique.
I was stalked by an individual who searched for my username and tracked me back to every forum I had ever used at that point (even ones I hadn't been active on in over a year). They then tried to use my comments and information against me; and, generally tried trolling me all across the internet. I now use a completely different user id on every forum I go to. I have a half dozen e-mail address and pick one at random to sign up to things so not all on the same account.
It makes life slightly more complicated but it is worth it to not be trackable across the internet. I really don't understand people that link things to their facebook or google accounts and use facebook to log into somewhere. They're making it easier for some future harasser to harass them.
Well there was that time the FBI was "CERTAIN" that the Kingsmen were encoding a communist agenda into "Louie Louie" (No, I'm not kidding!).
Yes, I remember reading about that. Another theory was that the song was lewd and immoral. There was a study to see if the song was subversive and after weeks of study the end report was that the song was unintelligible. I wonder how much was spent to determine that.
Why bother with pirate radio these days?
You can stream anything you like on the internet. Unlike the FM spectrum, there is an unlimited amount of "channels" available. No risk of getting punished. 20 years ago, pirate radio was a desperate way to be heard - or make some money. But now you can do it risk free on the net. So why pirate radio?
Anything you do on the internet is recorded and logged in perpetuity. I'm not sure how Uncle Sam will use your music choice against you. Maybe blackmail you and threaten to tell your SO you listen to nickel back if you don't do as they say.
Best play it safe and listen to pirate radio. Uncle Sam can't log what you listen to over the airwaves. Listen to Nickel Back without fear of repurcussions.
The correct term for them is "undocumented radio stations".
We need to wall up these stations and make the Mexicans pay for it.