I was going to add another post to the NASA poll pointing out that if we're going to get anywhere beyond the moon, we should do it with an international project, to spread the risks and improve technological and sociological cooperation generally.
Frankly, there's no more "space race". The job is too big for one country to pay for, and too important to humanity for one country to claim credit for.
Between the costs for regulatory compliance and extra bandwidth, and the demand pressure from porn-addicted users, the price of an average internet connection is bound to be higher than if porn just wasn't an issue.
And then there's the cost of dealing with the malware served up by porn sites. It might live somewhere else, but there aren't many "somewhere else's" that could proliferate like porn does and still get enough traffic to make them a proper honeypot.
No, I referred to the First Amendment because that's the common metaphor for Free Speech, which is a right that exists regardless of its inclusion in the Constitution.
Stop giving corporations a power over you that your government doesn't even have the power to exercise.
The Constitution has rights written into it so the government doesn't even argue over whether they're rights.
They're rights regardless of whether they are in the Constitution.
You are giving a corporation the right to take away your rights just so you can get a few of the many dollars your labor will generate for them. You give them money you earned, and then you give up your right to speak by displaying a picture of your ex-girlfriend on your arm.
Yours is exactly the self-negating attitude I was referring to.
Tattoos are free speech. Free speech is a right, not a privilege.
Forcing your employees to be uniform in appearance just so they can have a job (and in this world it's no longer possible for the vast majority of the population to be self-sustaining without one) is the opposite of protecting their right to speak freely.
UPS and FedEx sure can deliver anything anywhere "in a matter of days", and give you online tracking of it every step of the way, including a picture of the signature of the person receiving it.
They get $20 for it instead of $0.40 because they're Better At It, and they know you'll agree with your wallet even if your mind doesn't externalize it.
Legally a cop can charge you with just about anything.
And legally you can sue him if the charges are egregiously false.
Likewise, you can inform the public that their police officers are wasting enormous amounts of public money charging people falsely. Eventually, that will get the entire police force changed into one that doesn't do that any more.
At least in a democracy. Which this one (and Canada) still is, at least until people start whining about how oppressive the government is instead of participating in it, because it's them oppressing themselves until they do.
Someone's rights(within reason to what they did) are forfeited when they are CONVICTED, there is a HUGE difference there.
No, they forfeited their rights when they committed the crime.
Government can't do anything about enforcing the forfeit until it's proved the crime was committed by that person, but that's not when the forfeiture occurred.
Actually, I'm completely familiar with them, and so is the judiciary, which allows criminals to lose their rights upon conviction, which is merely the government's official recognition of the fact of the crime having been committed. The criminal gave up his rights at the point he committed the crime. Conviction is an order to law enforcement to carry out the sentence for the crime (i.e, by jailing the perp or collecting the fine or starting up the probation rack).
Now, criminals have some rights even after they are convicted, but really, that's a mistake.
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It's that, or "watering" your own keyboard because of the things you see on a website...
Being discharged from a company for being a bigot is a consequence of your speech.
Having to wear long sleeves at work is elimination of your right to speak, no matter what you have to say.
I was going to add another post to the NASA poll pointing out that if we're going to get anywhere beyond the moon, we should do it with an international project, to spread the risks and improve technological and sociological cooperation generally.
Frankly, there's no more "space race". The job is too big for one country to pay for, and too important to humanity for one country to claim credit for.
We're all paying for porn on the Internet.
Between the costs for regulatory compliance and extra bandwidth, and the demand pressure from porn-addicted users, the price of an average internet connection is bound to be higher than if porn just wasn't an issue.
And then there's the cost of dealing with the malware served up by porn sites. It might live somewhere else, but there aren't many "somewhere else's" that could proliferate like porn does and still get enough traffic to make them a proper honeypot.
How much porn is served these days in GIF format?
Flash could disappear in a couple of months with a couple of browser rollouts.
It's wrong for the military to do it, too.
And it's completely wrong for the Supreme Court to pretend the military is somehow different from the government.
No, I referred to the First Amendment because that's the common metaphor for Free Speech, which is a right that exists regardless of its inclusion in the Constitution.
Stop giving corporations a power over you that your government doesn't even have the power to exercise.
The Constitution has rights written into it so the government doesn't even argue over whether they're rights.
They're rights regardless of whether they are in the Constitution.
You are giving a corporation the right to take away your rights just so you can get a few of the many dollars your labor will generate for them. You give them money you earned, and then you give up your right to speak by displaying a picture of your ex-girlfriend on your arm.
Yours is exactly the self-negating attitude I was referring to.
Tattoos are free speech. Free speech is a right, not a privilege.
Forcing your employees to be uniform in appearance just so they can have a job (and in this world it's no longer possible for the vast majority of the population to be self-sustaining without one) is the opposite of protecting their right to speak freely.
It's all speculation at this point. But the best speculation possible is based on reports that
Isn't that what they said just before they tossed six dozen Dunlops into a hopper and pumped them a mile under the ocean as a "junk shot"?
The "no visible tattoo" policy is the antithesis of the 1st Amendment.
Stop giving corporations more power than the government has.
And then he adds: "would you like a line-pass for the Apple store?"
As do all handsets
This is not true. Handsets used to have thest things called "antennae" that stuck out of the body of the unit.
They actually got better reception when held because the human body holding the handset made the other half of a dipole.
In new designs with the "antenna" buried in the phone, the human body just couples ground to itself and becomes a thicker shield.
This is the same thing they said about the EDGE/3G wobble in the Nexus One.
The "update" didn't change a fucking thing.
UPS and FedEx sure can deliver anything anywhere "in a matter of days", and give you online tracking of it every step of the way, including a picture of the signature of the person receiving it.
They get $20 for it instead of $0.40 because they're Better At It, and they know you'll agree with your wallet even if your mind doesn't externalize it.
But who gets to decide? Buddhism: good, Christianity: bad.
The people they don't kill.
And I counter-counter-disagree. Vacuums without objects are more rarified.
Thus explaining generations of New Yorkers who can't spell for shit.
How do you spell Voorwerp backwards, if it isn't already?
It's what's left when you actually have to detonate your Corbomite device...
UPS and FedEx are both better at it. And they're in the same industry, so the USPS's "efficiency" isn't impressive.
It's about time that people realize that the Postal Service monopoly on the delivery of mail to mailboxes is a crime.
Amazon has the resources to start its own delivery service. Or to partner with someone like FedEx to get it done.
It would expand both of them, and kill the famously inefficient USPS system.
Legally a cop can charge you with just about anything.
And legally you can sue him if the charges are egregiously false.
Likewise, you can inform the public that their police officers are wasting enormous amounts of public money charging people falsely. Eventually, that will get the entire police force changed into one that doesn't do that any more.
At least in a democracy. Which this one (and Canada) still is, at least until people start whining about how oppressive the government is instead of participating in it, because it's them oppressing themselves until they do.
Someone's rights(within reason to what they did) are forfeited when they are CONVICTED, there is a HUGE difference there.
No, they forfeited their rights when they committed the crime.
Government can't do anything about enforcing the forfeit until it's proved the crime was committed by that person, but that's not when the forfeiture occurred.
Actually, I'm completely familiar with them, and so is the judiciary, which allows criminals to lose their rights upon conviction, which is merely the government's official recognition of the fact of the crime having been committed. The criminal gave up his rights at the point he committed the crime. Conviction is an order to law enforcement to carry out the sentence for the crime (i.e, by jailing the perp or collecting the fine or starting up the probation rack).
Now, criminals have some rights even after they are convicted, but really, that's a mistake.