When you you watch a car race and a car pulls off to get the tires changed for the next leg of the race, you say the other divers on the road are better because the driver in the stopped car getting new tires isn't moving? At some point you have to reassess the tools and technology you are using. Yes, NASA could have been better at planning the retirement of the shuttle to not have a hiatus in manned flight missions but was continuing the space shuttle worth the money?
I mean, sure but you are using one unit of measure and saying that is the only thing that matters. Will NASA indefinitely not have that capability? Do you have other measures to determine a good space program?
if someone went out in public and exposed their genitals to you
Not sure if it would be sexual harassment it would depend on the state and city but it would be public indecency for certain. I honestly doubt it would be sexual harassment.
But you missed another problem with the dick pic these days and when we are talking about school kids (high school and younger) the law defines those pictures as child pornography. Even if the recipient wanted to see that pic if the sender was caught and was underage they would be labeled a sex offender proliferating child porn. There have been cases like this where laws meant to protect children are now being used to ruin their lives because of social media and how it is used.
I think the point is, many of us here have learned various lessons online to help us navigate trolls and the like. Kids growing up on the internet do not have that opportunity because attaching your real identity to social media is the norm when it was the exception when I started online. I don't' envy kids in that regard and there are plenty of examples where it goes terribly wrong.
It's still better than nothing. I don't think there will be any solution to that unless you do paid subscriptions that people value. Obviously, the troll values the laughs they get more than the time they put into to annoy someone for said laughs. How can anybody make the amount of time for laughs not worth it? The adage has always been don't feed. It isn't perfect but it does work.
I hope you remember your diatribe of self satisfaction when you realize that people voted for Trump to be a grenade in politics to piss people like you off.
Wow condescending much? I am not going to get into your 'holier than thou' comment except for just one thing. Do you think "the other side" is any better?
Do you think they are not mis/dis-informed who are easily manipulated with outright lies as their capability and willingness to do fact-checking is highly limited? Which is why they're easy prey for all sorts of conspiracy theories like vaccines cause autism and organic/non-gmo is healthier and not as ecologically damaging? Do you think lying from POTUS or congress is new? Oh boy, do I have a bridge to sell you! It's made with organic non-gmo Himalayan pink rock salt.
You are the type of fool that thinks a stereotype == reality. Yes, there are loud jackasses on both sides that make the average look retarded but you are the idiot that thinks the loud jackass is representative.
Here is what I know. Both sides are shit. There are merits to both sides of the augment because both sides can be steeped in truth. For example, Obamacare was designed to fail. Whether that is from the author stating it was a step toward single payer or the GOP bitching about rising costs and it becomes more and more obvious it isn't a long term solution no matter how it makes you feel. If single payer is the way to go, then fine. Why can't the blue states implement that and show the others that it can work at the state level? Why do they have to force it on people that have a different need and want from the federal government?
The left thinks they are good for forcing their idea of 'good' on others'. The right keeps forgetting their position and start pretending to be the left.
You are why people on the right don't listen to media outlets and don't care about being called racist. "look how smart and educated I am in gender studies and communications. I am so much better than you. Now do what I say or else I will call you names!". Why should I or anyone listen to you?
He doesn't have a boss. He was elected and in 4 years he will ask for your vote again. He is the elected boss of the country. You sound very entitled to think of yourself as presidents boss.
What if he had to answer to the public
He does through elections and through the democratically elected congress. After the elections, it's all up in the air. That is why they call them "representative". Every elected official, including POTUS, answer to the public via elections.
by blocking people from a public forum
You can be kicked out of a public town hall meeting with city counsel. What's the difference?
Can they start up a new account to be apart of the conversation? They aren't being stopped by the force of the government.
Can they still see what Trump says? They aren't being withheld from presidents public communications by the force of government.
Just because Trump has a phone doesn't mean you have a right to the phone number to call him up. Just because there is a public town hall meeting doesn't mean you have the right to do anything you want. You can be kicked out of a public town hall meeting.
I think they are also upset by the fact they cannot "reply" to @realDonaldTrump when banned. It's not good enough to see what he says but they want to feel important by replying to his tweets.
"members of the public use the reply function to respond to the president and his aides and exchange views with one another"
The @realDonaldTrump account is a kind of digital town hall in which the president and his aides use the tweet function to communicate news and information to the public, and members of the public use the reply function to respond to the president and his aides and exchange views with one another
Shouldn't they be arguing that Twitter is the "digital town hall" and @realDonaldTrump is a corner where Trump stands on his soap box to make their analogy more fitting? Just because I am on Twitter (I'm not) doesn't mean I am listening to Trump.
"Twitter is a kind of digital town hall in which people use the tweet function to communicate news and information to each other and use the reply function to respond to each other and exchange views with one another"
If that is the case they are more arguing that Twitter should be impartial like other public accommodations. It isn't hard to translate the above to use the same justification for the impartiality of phone lines/companies.
"AT&T is a kind of digital town hall in which people use the phone to communicate news and information to each other and use the phone to respond to each other and exchange views with one another"
AT&T can't ban you for *wrong thing* but Twitter can. If your first reaction is "use a different Twitter". How many other Twitters host nearly every elected official of government?
I agree with you but how is the laymen supposed to figure out good academics between bad academics when reports like this, the reproducible problem, and the pushing of politically driven ideology in science (feminist glaciology) are fairly common now?
It isn't hard to see why so many view and distrust many of our long standing institutions. An individual an only do so much until their opinion is warped by example after example of malice, incompetence, and greed.
Slashdot Mirror
When you you watch a car race and a car pulls off to get the tires changed for the next leg of the race, you say the other divers on the road are better because the driver in the stopped car getting new tires isn't moving? At some point you have to reassess the tools and technology you are using. Yes, NASA could have been better at planning the retirement of the shuttle to not have a hiatus in manned flight missions but was continuing the space shuttle worth the money?
I mean, sure but you are using one unit of measure and saying that is the only thing that matters. Will NASA indefinitely not have that capability? Do you have other measures to determine a good space program?
Spell check is part of the capitalist patriarchy.
Did you just sexually harass me?
if someone went out in public and exposed their genitals to you
Not sure if it would be sexual harassment it would depend on the state and city but it would be public indecency for certain. I honestly doubt it would be sexual harassment.
But you missed another problem with the dick pic these days and when we are talking about school kids (high school and younger) the law defines those pictures as child pornography. Even if the recipient wanted to see that pic if the sender was caught and was underage they would be labeled a sex offender proliferating child porn. There have been cases like this where laws meant to protect children are now being used to ruin their lives because of social media and how it is used.
I think the point is, many of us here have learned various lessons online to help us navigate trolls and the like. Kids growing up on the internet do not have that opportunity because attaching your real identity to social media is the norm when it was the exception when I started online. I don't' envy kids in that regard and there are plenty of examples where it goes terribly wrong.
It's still better than nothing. I don't think there will be any solution to that unless you do paid subscriptions that people value. Obviously, the troll values the laughs they get more than the time they put into to annoy someone for said laughs. How can anybody make the amount of time for laughs not worth it? The adage has always been don't feed. It isn't perfect but it does work.
I don't understand why parents beat their children when psychological damage lasts so much longer.
Here, I started a patreon so you can recover from your PTSD. Shine on you brave soul!
I corrected you without harassing you.
Is that even possible? I think you just proved to everyone here that you are a shitlord bent on harassing the poor spelling-impaired minority.
Yea, doesn't feel too good when you're receiving it, huh? That'll teach you to correct anyone's spelling and grammar!
How do you defend yourself from some asshole sending your family letters through snail mail accusing you of being a sex offender?
Why would she need to lie about it when the witch hunt about 'ze russians haxx0rz' didn't start yet?
I hope you remember your diatribe of self satisfaction when you realize that people voted for Trump to be a grenade in politics to piss people like you off.
Wow condescending much? I am not going to get into your 'holier than thou' comment except for just one thing. Do you think "the other side" is any better?
Do you think they are not mis/dis-informed who are easily manipulated with outright lies as their capability and willingness to do fact-checking is highly limited? Which is why they're easy prey for all sorts of conspiracy theories like vaccines cause autism and organic/non-gmo is healthier and not as ecologically damaging? Do you think lying from POTUS or congress is new? Oh boy, do I have a bridge to sell you! It's made with organic non-gmo Himalayan pink rock salt.
You are the type of fool that thinks a stereotype == reality. Yes, there are loud jackasses on both sides that make the average look retarded but you are the idiot that thinks the loud jackass is representative.
Here is what I know. Both sides are shit. There are merits to both sides of the augment because both sides can be steeped in truth. For example, Obamacare was designed to fail. Whether that is from the author stating it was a step toward single payer or the GOP bitching about rising costs and it becomes more and more obvious it isn't a long term solution no matter how it makes you feel. If single payer is the way to go, then fine. Why can't the blue states implement that and show the others that it can work at the state level? Why do they have to force it on people that have a different need and want from the federal government?
The left thinks they are good for forcing their idea of 'good' on others'. The right keeps forgetting their position and start pretending to be the left.
You are why people on the right don't listen to media outlets and don't care about being called racist. "look how smart and educated I am in gender studies and communications. I am so much better than you. Now do what I say or else I will call you names!". Why should I or anyone listen to you?
Well. There's that too.
ignore his boss?
He doesn't have a boss. He was elected and in 4 years he will ask for your vote again. He is the elected boss of the country. You sound very entitled to think of yourself as presidents boss.
What if he had to answer to the public
He does through elections and through the democratically elected congress. After the elections, it's all up in the air. That is why they call them "representative". Every elected official, including POTUS, answer to the public via elections.
by blocking people from a public forum
You can be kicked out of a public town hall meeting with city counsel. What's the difference?
Can they start up a new account to be apart of the conversation? They aren't being stopped by the force of the government.
Can they still see what Trump says? They aren't being withheld from presidents public communications by the force of government.
Just because Trump has a phone doesn't mean you have a right to the phone number to call him up. Just because there is a public town hall meeting doesn't mean you have the right to do anything you want. You can be kicked out of a public town hall meeting.
why haven't they created new accounts with a different user name?
They don't even need to do that. Incognito mode will do just fine for anyone to see his feed.
I think they are also upset by the fact they cannot "reply" to @realDonaldTrump when banned. It's not good enough to see what he says but they want to feel important by replying to his tweets.
"members of the public use the reply function to respond to the president and his aides and exchange views with one another"
I'm sorry what? I wasn't listening.
The @realDonaldTrump account is a kind of digital town hall in which the president and his aides use the tweet function to communicate news and information to the public, and members of the public use the reply function to respond to the president and his aides and exchange views with one another
Shouldn't they be arguing that Twitter is the "digital town hall" and @realDonaldTrump is a corner where Trump stands on his soap box to make their analogy more fitting? Just because I am on Twitter (I'm not) doesn't mean I am listening to Trump.
"Twitter is a kind of digital town hall in which people use the tweet function to communicate news and information to each other and use the reply function to respond to each other and exchange views with one another"
If that is the case they are more arguing that Twitter should be impartial like other public accommodations. It isn't hard to translate the above to use the same justification for the impartiality of phone lines/companies.
"AT&T is a kind of digital town hall in which people use the phone to communicate news and information to each other and use the phone to respond to each other and exchange views with one another"
AT&T can't ban you for *wrong thing* but Twitter can. If your first reaction is "use a different Twitter". How many other Twitters host nearly every elected official of government?
I agree with you but how is the laymen supposed to figure out good academics between bad academics when reports like this, the reproducible problem, and the pushing of politically driven ideology in science (feminist glaciology) are fairly common now?
It isn't hard to see why so many view and distrust many of our long standing institutions. An individual an only do so much until their opinion is warped by example after example of malice, incompetence, and greed.
Not all internet traffic is created equal
You what? I'll have you know my cat video packets are just as important as your tele-surgery packets. Everything for everyone!
You're gonna have a bad time.
Especially, when there were examples when the uh, suicide booth failed and the "clone" survived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I would have my reservations too knowing that and having real examples of what could go wrong. "Safer than a shuttle", yea? For who.
I personally like to educate myself with a box of crayons. Check mate atheists.
I think I can speak for everyone when I say "not soon enough".
Somebody get this guy some pants! It's horrifying.