Anger and jealousy don't transcend all categories and social boundaries. They are, however, aggregation points for those children in adult bodies who never learned how to take responsibility for their own emotions.
Those who let emotions inform their actions do not experience thought. This is why extremists and partisan alike are so dangerous. Instead of thought what you have is a bunch of emotions pulling the levers that should be operated by thoughts.
And anyone who isn't black as midnight and currently chained in the depths of a slave ship is NAZI racist.
Sadly, an illogically accusatory nature is now what is considered left/liberal. It used to be a firm grounding in the matrix of individual liberty, a background in economic theory, superimposed over an encyclopedic knowledge of political science and history was what made a liberal.
These days all you need the ability to call Dr. Martin Luther King a hatemongering sexist homophobe with a straight face and *poof* you're a liberal.
Your understanding and description of sin is decidedly extra-biblical. Either you are very bad at reading and understanding, or you have adsorbed wrongheadedness from others who are.
Sin is between God and man. Saying that Christians should want to have their sinning nature pointed out by other humans is, well, not even wrong. A Christian's directive concerning sin is pointed out specifically in 1st John 1:9. Name or cite it, know that it is not held to your account, and move on. That is the extent of it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Condemning someone for sin is completely against what the Bible says. God doesn't even do that.
Religions are simple things. The best way to view them is a man standing in the street, pointing at the moon, shouting "Moon!
Look at the moon!!!" He is surrounded by a throng of people: amazed, awed, angered, and rapt. Every one of them staring at the end of his finger.
So when the Bible says something about how humans are generally filled with self-doubt, self-recrimination, self-abuse, and negative self talk, and as a result are disoriented to their own value and blocked from experiencing happiness and fulfillment on a daily basis, all you can see is shame, holier than thou arrogance, and hypocrisy.
Staring at the finger all day, never seeing the moon. Railing against some dirt under the finger nail, the color of the skin, how long since his last manicure...completely missing that the finger you are so preoccupied with has absolutely nothing to do with the message.
If, one day, you realize that the man is pointing at the moon, and you finally see the moon, what are you left with? You standing in the street, pointing, shouting "The moon! Look at the moon!!!" and everyone looking at the end of your finger.
It's Martians returning from their relativistically time dilated forays into the universe. They left Mars millions of years ago, but their subjective time means its been like two weeks for them. They head back to Mars and its become a shithole, all their friends are dead, and their world is a cooked-off rust ball.
They check the inner system, see some activity on Earth, and decide to take a look. They get a little glimpse of what Earth has to offer and after dicking with a couple of pilots and checking the local TV stations. Once they realize what has replaced their once great empire there's not much else to do other than aim their ship into the Sun.
"Of course there will only proof beyond reasonable doubt when an actual alien spaceship lands on the Pentagon Lawn and they come out, laughing their asses off at how stupid and primitive we are."
Laughter is the first thing to go when you learn to travel faster than the speed of light. Removing causality makes every punchline predictable and gauche.
Seriously though, if "more intelligent" life than us inhabits this universe it is most likely of a magnitude that would put our ego driven ant-like city-building and resource consumption on the same level as, well, ants. Certainly, if creatures possess both the ability and the desire to control the energies necessary for interstellar travel they would find us and our monstrous, ever-expanding consumption-based society ridiculous. Hopefully. If they looked at us as the seeds of an all-consuming irresponsible shit show, you know like we are, they could decide to flame the planet.
Keep in mind that anything they could project from their own solar system to ours would inadvertently be a weapon capable of sterilizing our entire solar system with just its exhaust. And, having to play your exhaust apertures across inhabited worlds repeatedly to keep the universe free from stupid, irresponsible creatures will also kill your sense of humor as well. Again no laughing aliens. Sorry.
Don't build. Grow your probes. Cast them to the stars like seeds on the wind. Embedded and encoded in each are the parts and pieces necessary to start life as it's creators knew, within a few standard deviations.
Don't look for these kids. They won't be where you thought and by the time you get there they won't act like you either.
Just know that whatever is out there, life, no life, a universe so sterile it isn't even dead....you made a difference in that vast coldness that abhors life. You gave the universe a whole new world, and that world will have a whole new history to be told one day by those who inhabit it. You will have significantly altered the infinite universe for all time.
These are the motivations of the Church of Panspermia. It's not just for aliens anymore. Won't you join today?
One can only hope that the average person is not as willfully ignorant as you are.
Paternity tests don't protect men from paying child support for children that aren't theirs, you ignorant fool. Your unfounded and frankly stupid assertions notwithstanding, the facts are the facts.
It is hard to discuss anything with you due to your inability to deal with what I wrote with out changing what I wrote to mean something it doesn't. You have some talking points you have to shout to get paid for your post, I understand. I would recommend doing it more subtly.
So, lets review, you say that men are lying, that courts do paternity tests, and that will get them off the hook for paying child support for children that aren't theirs. Here are some instantly googled headlines for you to read. I am spoon feeding you. Read up. Go look for more. It's not hard.
There are thousands of headlines like this. You want to tell me all of these men are lying, along with the newspapers who report it, the lawyers, and the judges who say its a travesty? You tell me that the courts are using paternity tests to make sure men aren't paying child support for kids that aren't theirs, and the truth is easily seen to be anything but that. Your ignorance is stunning, in that it is willfully protected. Are you so dedicated to your principles that you don't care if they are predicated on falsehoods and deceit?
Most importantly, you are men that they should be out there spending their spare time canvassing and garnering support for better parental leave? Your argument is that since some men have kids they should all want better leave. You also argue that men's rights groups should fall in line with feminist organizations to make sure that fathers get better leave time. My assertion is that feminist organizations, and many other organizations as well, have that part handled, and criticizing men's rights groups for not spending their time on that is arrogant and wrong.
Why? Because what is falling through the cracks, not being addressed, and not even acknowledged (as you so beautifully illustrate by being incredibly ignorant AND unimaginably offensive in your ignorance) are the men who are paying child support for children that aren't theirs. It's a fact that it happens, and with frequency. Yet, you deny it happens and that men's rights organizations should be doing something else with their very limited time, energy, support, and money.
The Coolidge effect is an interesting phenomena not known to many people. It appears to be an evolutionary advantage in mammals that reduces the refractory period substantially when novel partners are available for mating. If all that is required to get a novel partner is "changing the channel," and the selection of partners is of supermodel quality, I think we all might be surprised at how short the refractory period could be!
That said, I what we are alluding to is an as-yet-undeveloped haptic system that will simulate full body contact paired with immersive VR, rather than the more crude setup of VR googles and masturbation. Yes, care will need to be taken with the apparatus to reduce the incidence of repetitive motion injuries on the more delicate body parts, otherwise the I can see the litigious reflex overcoming the shame reflex resulting in lawsuits flying willy-nilly, like so much ejaculate.
And, just like my conjecture on the inevitability of transhumanism, once the technology provides a better experience than what is naturally available, widespread adoption will be the norm.
As for breeding out of the gene pool, that is what I was referring to with my end of the world joke. If it is easier, more enjoyable, and less energy intensive to plug into your laptop and get off, we could see birth rates in places where the technology is readily available drop to unprecedented low levels. It has been said before that VR immersion could be the reason we don't see any aliens. We might find out the hard way ourselves in the not too distant future.
The aperture of social media through which a human tries to shove themselves is insufficient to encompass true humanity. It is like a semi-permeable membrane, only allowing certain components through, and only in certain concentrations. The result is still a remarkably familiar looking social landscape populated with what you think are real human beings. However, after some time in the realm you realize the interface and the rituals that have sprung up our of its common usage have reduced people to social approbation slot machines.
As for tolerance, I think that even the word "tolerance" is implicit in the problems. It contains and conveys overtones of disdain, superiority, and magnanimous expressions of self-effacing superiority. I have experienced tolerance before. I have been tolerated because of my sex and my skin color. Believe me when I say it felt more like I was spared rather than extended any genuine human consideration.
As an amplification of your position, I have found vast discrepancies in news stories from different providers, yet each was accurate in what they reported. What was different was the tone of what was reported, what other events were connected to the story by the author, the "framing" of the issue as well as the categorizing of the "approved reactions" to the story, the conjecture about what the story means going forward, and most importantly, what was left out.
If there is a story I am interested in I will read at least a few different news site's stories about it, XOR the facts, discard the bullshit, and potentially form an opinion of my own. Note I said potentially. One of the hardest things to do is to not form an opinion. It is also one of the most valuable tools I have learned.
It took Dennis miller a couple more decades to recapitulate the sentiment, though done much more realistically IMO:
"You know, folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Bark-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, its gonna make crack look like Sanka."
Moving the goalposts is a juvenile tactic. You wear it well. Putting words in your opponent's mouth is also a fool's ploy. You have effectively employed said ploy with such innate skill one can only surmise that you are such. Bravo!
You said "plurality" and then said it was my assertion that it was a plurality. Drop your anti-MRA talking points and put down your third-wave feminist argument flow chart for a moment and read what I wrote.
A point of MRA's that I agree with is that US courts can know for certain that a man was purposely defrauded of child support by a woman who knew he was not the father of a child, and will rule that he must still pay child support in spite of this. That is what is called a miscarriage of justice, and a knowing and willing one at that. Point toward the feminist organization that is standing up for this injustice and offering the services of their attorneys pro bono. I am very interested to learn how this massive injustice is being combated by the established feminist organizations in the US.
Now point to the feminist organizations that are fighting for more maternity and paternity leave. I doubt you have enough fingers to do that, because they all are. So why would a feminist or feminist organization chastise another organization for not repeating the efforts of a massive number of other organizations? Propaganda. Tactics. Outright foolish lies. Distraction. Pick your poison, because that's all it is.
So, if you really care about people, you will let MRA's fight the good fight on their terms for people who are abused by the legal system in this country. And, if you have any dignity in your soul at all, which I doubt, you will do it with good cheer and a hearty "Attaboy! Stick it to the Man!" and for once not mean "all men."
Have a nice life. Try not to think about who you are as a person too much, otherwise it will be very difficult to do so, I fear.
He's exactly what our corporate/government amalgamation wants, namely a cash bag that will vote for and willingly participate in it's own economic destruction.
If berj and our corporate dickwads have their way we will all be wearing FMRI helmets connected to Apple pay wallets. When you think of anything copyrighted your account will be debited for the full cost of the work in question. Your wetware is just another platform, after all. You don't just get to use the work in question on any platform you want, peasant! Pay up or face destruction of the rest of your life through the "justice" system.
"Did you know that reading a book out loud to a classroom full of kids is a public performance of the work, and is technically a violation of copyright law? "
The internet says you are wrong. A lot. Like a whole bunch.
One thing said this: "Unlike academic coursepacks, other copyrighted materials can be used without permission in certain educational circumstances under copyright law or as a fair use. “Fair use” is the right to use portions of copyrighted materials without permission for purposes of education, commentary, or parody."
Another stuff said this thing: "Face-to-face teaching – Section 110(1)
Allows performance or display of protected material in a face-to-face teaching setting.
Must be in a classroom and at a non-profit educational institution.
Does NOT allow copying. This is an exception to the exclusive rights of performance and display, but not the right of reproduction.
Copying may still be allowed by fair use, however.
Performance and display in the classroom must employ a legally obtained copy – no “bootleg” copy is eligible for this exception, but borrowed copies are OK."
It hurts the lawyers who defend and prosecute those cases. It hurts the courts who make fees off of the cases. Piracy has all sorts of negative economic effects. Report a friend today and do your job for society.
"actual men's rights movement would fight for better parental leave for men, not against child support. "
Why the fuck would men paying child support for children that AREN'T THEIRS want better parental leave?
Also, if a group says they are for men's rights, but calls the big bad enemy "the Patriarchy," you know without a doubt exactly what they think of men's rights.
Based on what you have already written, calling you a liar would be a compliment.
One contribution on the possible source of minerals, if I may.
Jupiter is *the* gravitational trash compactor for the whole solar system. Earth collects around 50 tons of space dust a day, and that doesn't include the significant larger chunks of stuff that fall intermittently. We're in the kiddy pool version of gravitationally stretched space, at least compared to the Mariana Trench that that is Jupiter. I would imagine a commensurately greater amount of crap is swirling in the region of Jupiter and as a result, frequently transecting the orbit of Europa.
With plate tectonics occurring on Europa's ice surface, everything with a density greater than water which lands on the surface will eventually end up on the ocean floor. All that interstellar detritus, raining down from melting ice-magma above like marine snow, collecting in undersea crevices and crannies: a chemocline forming undersea primordial pools of concentrated space junk.
Agreed on the energy gradient. I haven't looked into estimates on the amount of tidal heating needed to maintain a squishy middle layer sandwiched between outer ice and rocky core. It may or may not be enough to create an analogous structure to our own incredibly convenient hydrothermal vents.
Restatement is a literary device. Thank you for the critique.
There is no curtain. Just a bunch of people pushing ideological agendas that don't benefit them or society. Tantamount to ideologically working for the man.
Are you, perchance, one of the partisan? Methinks thou doth protest too much.
If you are a Republican you trust corporations more than government. If you are a Democrat you trust government more than corporations.
If you aren't an idiot you don't trust either of them. You realize the people who occupy the high positions in both are part of the same class. Nor do you trust those people who are partisan, as they are obviously deeply flawed and compromised in their ability to dispassionately observe reality.
The system that works best is when The People know the dangers of government and corporations getting in bed together, and understand the closer government and corporations get, the more closely the collective system resembles fascism. The historical kind of fascism mind you, not the hysterical kind of fascism.
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Anger and jealousy don't transcend all categories and social boundaries. They are, however, aggregation points for those children in adult bodies who never learned how to take responsibility for their own emotions.
Those who let emotions inform their actions do not experience thought. This is why extremists and partisan alike are so dangerous. Instead of thought what you have is a bunch of emotions pulling the levers that should be operated by thoughts.
Your post seems to equate nationalism and NAZI-ism. Care to elaborate?
And anyone who isn't black as midnight and currently chained in the depths of a slave ship is NAZI racist.
Sadly, an illogically accusatory nature is now what is considered left/liberal. It used to be a firm grounding in the matrix of individual liberty, a background in economic theory, superimposed over an encyclopedic knowledge of political science and history was what made a liberal.
These days all you need the ability to call Dr. Martin Luther King a hatemongering sexist homophobe with a straight face and *poof* you're a liberal.
Your understanding and description of sin is decidedly extra-biblical. Either you are very bad at reading and understanding, or you have adsorbed wrongheadedness from others who are.
Sin is between God and man. Saying that Christians should want to have their sinning nature pointed out by other humans is, well, not even wrong. A Christian's directive concerning sin is pointed out specifically in 1st John 1:9. Name or cite it, know that it is not held to your account, and move on. That is the extent of it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Condemning someone for sin is completely against what the Bible says. God doesn't even do that.
Religions are simple things. The best way to view them is a man standing in the street, pointing at the moon, shouting "Moon!
Look at the moon!!!" He is surrounded by a throng of people: amazed, awed, angered, and rapt. Every one of them staring at the end of his finger.
So when the Bible says something about how humans are generally filled with self-doubt, self-recrimination, self-abuse, and negative self talk, and as a result are disoriented to their own value and blocked from experiencing happiness and fulfillment on a daily basis, all you can see is shame, holier than thou arrogance, and hypocrisy.
Staring at the finger all day, never seeing the moon. Railing against some dirt under the finger nail, the color of the skin, how long since his last manicure...completely missing that the finger you are so preoccupied with has absolutely nothing to do with the message.
If, one day, you realize that the man is pointing at the moon, and you finally see the moon, what are you left with? You standing in the street, pointing, shouting "The moon! Look at the moon!!!" and everyone looking at the end of your finger.
"And the very last thing I could think of in that moment is how offended I could possibly be ..."
You would make a horrible progressive.
Don't let atheists hear you say that.
It's Martians returning from their relativistically time dilated forays into the universe. They left Mars millions of years ago, but their subjective time means its been like two weeks for them. They head back to Mars and its become a shithole, all their friends are dead, and their world is a cooked-off rust ball.
They check the inner system, see some activity on Earth, and decide to take a look. They get a little glimpse of what Earth has to offer and after dicking with a couple of pilots and checking the local TV stations. Once they realize what has replaced their once great empire there's not much else to do other than aim their ship into the Sun.
"Of course there will only proof beyond reasonable doubt when an actual alien spaceship lands on the Pentagon Lawn and they come out, laughing their asses off at how stupid and primitive we are."
Laughter is the first thing to go when you learn to travel faster than the speed of light. Removing causality makes every punchline predictable and gauche.
Seriously though, if "more intelligent" life than us inhabits this universe it is most likely of a magnitude that would put our ego driven ant-like city-building and resource consumption on the same level as, well, ants. Certainly, if creatures possess both the ability and the desire to control the energies necessary for interstellar travel they would find us and our monstrous, ever-expanding consumption-based society ridiculous. Hopefully. If they looked at us as the seeds of an all-consuming irresponsible shit show, you know like we are, they could decide to flame the planet.
Keep in mind that anything they could project from their own solar system to ours would inadvertently be a weapon capable of sterilizing our entire solar system with just its exhaust. And, having to play your exhaust apertures across inhabited worlds repeatedly to keep the universe free from stupid, irresponsible creatures will also kill your sense of humor as well. Again no laughing aliens. Sorry.
"Free" as in Linux, and "Free" as in socialism are two totally different versions of "free."
If you think socialism is "free", try doing it with a tax rate of 0%.
Facebook is a public company, not a private company.
You shouldn't be left alone.
You could choke on a straw, or a spoon, or some rocks. I worry, you know.
Don't build. Grow your probes. Cast them to the stars like seeds on the wind. Embedded and encoded in each are the parts and pieces necessary to start life as it's creators knew, within a few standard deviations.
Don't look for these kids. They won't be where you thought and by the time you get there they won't act like you either.
Just know that whatever is out there, life, no life, a universe so sterile it isn't even dead....you made a difference in that vast coldness that abhors life. You gave the universe a whole new world, and that world will have a whole new history to be told one day by those who inhabit it. You will have significantly altered the infinite universe for all time.
These are the motivations of the Church of Panspermia. It's not just for aliens anymore. Won't you join today?
One can only hope that the average person is not as willfully ignorant as you are.
Paternity tests don't protect men from paying child support for children that aren't theirs, you ignorant fool. Your unfounded and frankly stupid assertions notwithstanding, the facts are the facts.
It is hard to discuss anything with you due to your inability to deal with what I wrote with out changing what I wrote to mean something it doesn't. You have some talking points you have to shout to get paid for your post, I understand. I would recommend doing it more subtly.
So, lets review, you say that men are lying, that courts do paternity tests, and that will get them off the hook for paying child support for children that aren't theirs. Here are some instantly googled headlines for you to read. I am spoon feeding you. Read up. Go look for more. It's not hard.
https://www.abc15.com/news/nat...
http://www.chron.com/news/hous...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
There are thousands of headlines like this. You want to tell me all of these men are lying, along with the newspapers who report it, the lawyers, and the judges who say its a travesty? You tell me that the courts are using paternity tests to make sure men aren't paying child support for kids that aren't theirs, and the truth is easily seen to be anything but that. Your ignorance is stunning, in that it is willfully protected. Are you so dedicated to your principles that you don't care if they are predicated on falsehoods and deceit?
Most importantly, you are men that they should be out there spending their spare time canvassing and garnering support for better parental leave? Your argument is that since some men have kids they should all want better leave. You also argue that men's rights groups should fall in line with feminist organizations to make sure that fathers get better leave time. My assertion is that feminist organizations, and many other organizations as well, have that part handled, and criticizing men's rights groups for not spending their time on that is arrogant and wrong.
Why? Because what is falling through the cracks, not being addressed, and not even acknowledged (as you so beautifully illustrate by being incredibly ignorant AND unimaginably offensive in your ignorance) are the men who are paying child support for children that aren't theirs. It's a fact that it happens, and with frequency. Yet, you deny it happens and that men's rights organizations should be doing something else with their very limited time, energy, support, and money.
Don't you see the problem with that?
The Coolidge effect is an interesting phenomena not known to many people. It appears to be an evolutionary advantage in mammals that reduces the refractory period substantially when novel partners are available for mating. If all that is required to get a novel partner is "changing the channel," and the selection of partners is of supermodel quality, I think we all might be surprised at how short the refractory period could be!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That said, I what we are alluding to is an as-yet-undeveloped haptic system that will simulate full body contact paired with immersive VR, rather than the more crude setup of VR googles and masturbation. Yes, care will need to be taken with the apparatus to reduce the incidence of repetitive motion injuries on the more delicate body parts, otherwise the I can see the litigious reflex overcoming the shame reflex resulting in lawsuits flying willy-nilly, like so much ejaculate.
And, just like my conjecture on the inevitability of transhumanism, once the technology provides a better experience than what is naturally available, widespread adoption will be the norm.
As for breeding out of the gene pool, that is what I was referring to with my end of the world joke. If it is easier, more enjoyable, and less energy intensive to plug into your laptop and get off, we could see birth rates in places where the technology is readily available drop to unprecedented low levels. It has been said before that VR immersion could be the reason we don't see any aliens. We might find out the hard way ourselves in the not too distant future.
The aperture of social media through which a human tries to shove themselves is insufficient to encompass true humanity. It is like a semi-permeable membrane, only allowing certain components through, and only in certain concentrations. The result is still a remarkably familiar looking social landscape populated with what you think are real human beings. However, after some time in the realm you realize the interface and the rituals that have sprung up our of its common usage have reduced people to social approbation slot machines.
As for tolerance, I think that even the word "tolerance" is implicit in the problems. It contains and conveys overtones of disdain, superiority, and magnanimous expressions of self-effacing superiority. I have experienced tolerance before. I have been tolerated because of my sex and my skin color. Believe me when I say it felt more like I was spared rather than extended any genuine human consideration.
As an amplification of your position, I have found vast discrepancies in news stories from different providers, yet each was accurate in what they reported. What was different was the tone of what was reported, what other events were connected to the story by the author, the "framing" of the issue as well as the categorizing of the "approved reactions" to the story, the conjecture about what the story means going forward, and most importantly, what was left out.
If there is a story I am interested in I will read at least a few different news site's stories about it, XOR the facts, discard the bullshit, and potentially form an opinion of my own. Note I said potentially. One of the hardest things to do is to not form an opinion. It is also one of the most valuable tools I have learned.
It took Dennis miller a couple more decades to recapitulate the sentiment, though done much more realistically IMO:
"You know, folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Bark-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, its gonna make crack look like Sanka."
This is how the world ends. With a bang.
You're so cute when you are propagandizing!
Moving the goalposts is a juvenile tactic. You wear it well. Putting words in your opponent's mouth is also a fool's ploy. You have effectively employed said ploy with such innate skill one can only surmise that you are such. Bravo!
You said "plurality" and then said it was my assertion that it was a plurality. Drop your anti-MRA talking points and put down your third-wave feminist argument flow chart for a moment and read what I wrote.
A point of MRA's that I agree with is that US courts can know for certain that a man was purposely defrauded of child support by a woman who knew he was not the father of a child, and will rule that he must still pay child support in spite of this. That is what is called a miscarriage of justice, and a knowing and willing one at that. Point toward the feminist organization that is standing up for this injustice and offering the services of their attorneys pro bono. I am very interested to learn how this massive injustice is being combated by the established feminist organizations in the US.
Now point to the feminist organizations that are fighting for more maternity and paternity leave. I doubt you have enough fingers to do that, because they all are. So why would a feminist or feminist organization chastise another organization for not repeating the efforts of a massive number of other organizations? Propaganda. Tactics. Outright foolish lies. Distraction. Pick your poison, because that's all it is.
So, if you really care about people, you will let MRA's fight the good fight on their terms for people who are abused by the legal system in this country. And, if you have any dignity in your soul at all, which I doubt, you will do it with good cheer and a hearty "Attaboy! Stick it to the Man!" and for once not mean "all men."
Have a nice life. Try not to think about who you are as a person too much, otherwise it will be very difficult to do so, I fear.
He's exactly what our corporate/government amalgamation wants, namely a cash bag that will vote for and willingly participate in it's own economic destruction.
If berj and our corporate dickwads have their way we will all be wearing FMRI helmets connected to Apple pay wallets. When you think of anything copyrighted your account will be debited for the full cost of the work in question. Your wetware is just another platform, after all. You don't just get to use the work in question on any platform you want, peasant! Pay up or face destruction of the rest of your life through the "justice" system.
"Did you know that reading a book out loud to a classroom full of kids is a public performance of the work, and is technically a violation of copyright law? "
The internet says you are wrong. A lot. Like a whole bunch.
One thing said this:
"Unlike academic coursepacks, other copyrighted materials can be used without permission in certain educational circumstances under copyright law or as a fair use. “Fair use” is the right to use portions of copyrighted materials without permission for purposes of education, commentary, or parody."
Another stuff said this thing:
"Face-to-face teaching – Section 110(1)
Allows performance or display of protected material in a face-to-face teaching setting.
Must be in a classroom and at a non-profit educational institution.
Does NOT allow copying. This is an exception to the exclusive rights of performance and display, but not the right of reproduction.
Copying may still be allowed by fair use, however.
Performance and display in the classroom must employ a legally obtained copy – no “bootleg” copy is eligible for this exception, but borrowed copies are OK."
There's lots more them things and stuffs.
It hurts the lawyers who defend and prosecute those cases. It hurts the courts who make fees off of the cases. Piracy has all sorts of negative economic effects. Report a friend today and do your job for society.
"actual men's rights movement would fight for better parental leave for men, not against child support. "
Why the fuck would men paying child support for children that AREN'T THEIRS want better parental leave?
Also, if a group says they are for men's rights, but calls the big bad enemy "the Patriarchy," you know without a doubt exactly what they think of men's rights.
Based on what you have already written, calling you a liar would be a compliment.
One contribution on the possible source of minerals, if I may.
Jupiter is *the* gravitational trash compactor for the whole solar system. Earth collects around 50 tons of space dust a day, and that doesn't include the significant larger chunks of stuff that fall intermittently. We're in the kiddy pool version of gravitationally stretched space, at least compared to the Mariana Trench that that is Jupiter. I would imagine a commensurately greater amount of crap is swirling in the region of Jupiter and as a result, frequently transecting the orbit of Europa.
With plate tectonics occurring on Europa's ice surface, everything with a density greater than water which lands on the surface will eventually end up on the ocean floor. All that interstellar detritus, raining down from melting ice-magma above like marine snow, collecting in undersea crevices and crannies: a chemocline forming undersea primordial pools of concentrated space junk.
Agreed on the energy gradient. I haven't looked into estimates on the amount of tidal heating needed to maintain a squishy middle layer sandwiched between outer ice and rocky core. It may or may not be enough to create an analogous structure to our own incredibly convenient hydrothermal vents.
So minerals maybe; gradient still questionable.
Thanks for the thoughts.
Restatement is a literary device. Thank you for the critique.
There is no curtain. Just a bunch of people pushing ideological agendas that don't benefit them or society. Tantamount to ideologically working for the man.
Are you, perchance, one of the partisan? Methinks thou doth protest too much.
If you are a Republican you trust corporations more than government. If you are a Democrat you trust government more than corporations.
If you aren't an idiot you don't trust either of them. You realize the people who occupy the high positions in both are part of the same class. Nor do you trust those people who are partisan, as they are obviously deeply flawed and compromised in their ability to dispassionately observe reality.
The system that works best is when The People know the dangers of government and corporations getting in bed together, and understand the closer government and corporations get, the more closely the collective system resembles fascism. The historical kind of fascism mind you, not the hysterical kind of fascism.