How they respond to DMCA notices is a pretty minor consideration when they all still fall to their knees in response to "National Security" letters and keep all that nice and secret.
Separation of church and state doesn't give a state arm the right to interfere with the civil rights of students, employees, and faculty. If students or faculty members wish to form religious organizations, they have the same rights as any other student or faculty organization to use campus facilities for their conferences and meetings. Presumably, this conference was organized in that fashion.
Actually, I once worked at a university that had a Satanist student organization. They were mostly a bunch of hipster contrarians who spent 99% of their time complaining about Christianity. And once they didn't get the anticipated rise they wanted out of everyone, they didn't last very long.
No sex rituals that I recall, though. And I'm pretty sure that animal and human sacrifice are outlawed even for religious purposes (along with polygamy, pederasty, and several other traditional religious practices).
And who gets to decide what is and isn't "pseudoscience?" Because I also consider psychology, sociology, environmental "science", and several other fields to be pseudoscience too. For that matter, the whole fucking Liberal Arts isn't even a science at all.
, but it is a major educational institution with several faculty members who in fact will, at least indirectly, be the targets of these ignorant lunatics.
So? Are you saying the faculty are a bunch of weak pussies who can't even handle the criticism of a small group of bible-thumpers?
At a university I expect evidence based studies. NOT opnion.
So, you're going to ban everything except science fields then? And also, who gets to decide what is and isn't a "science"? Is Sociology a science? Anthropology? Archaeology?
Obviously you know fuck-all about college campuses, because every one I've ever been to has had student religious organizations that are allowed to use campus facilities just like any other student organization. So unless you plan on kicking all the Cross-worshipers, Koran-thumpers, and Talmud-thumpers off campus too, you might want to just let these people have their little conference.
Not only that, but most colleges have student religious organizations as well--and they have the same rights as other student organizations to use campus facilities. If you open this can of worms, are you also going to tell the campus Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, etc. groups that they can't use campus facilities to meet or have conferences too?
That may be, but it *is* a protected civil right in the United States. If you fuck with it, other civil rights like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press could easily be fucked with next.
Let them have their conference. It doesn't hurt anyone, and fucking with it will only cause major headaches for everyone. Consider it a religious conference if it makes you feel better.
I'm just glad that we poor people can do our part in giving more money to rich guys so they can create more jobs and such. It's like Jesus said "Given unto the rich so they may beget to the poor."
In my local area, the only Ello users are me, that guy at the bong store, and that guy at the coffee shop who keeps telling everyone that he doesn't even *OWN* a TV.
So because I sometimes want to download a game on steam, while downloading a season of Breaking Bad while watching a 1080p episode of anime and video chat with a friend..... I should spend more money each month to get a faster speed.
Umm, yes. That's how buying services works. When you want a service, you pay for it. If you want or need a better tier of the service, generally that requires that you to pay more.
That also applies to hookers, BTW. $1,000 gets you a beautiful escort. $500 gets you a relatively pretty girl with daddy issues. $100 gets you a not-ugly streetwalker. $50 gets you a pretty hideous meth/crack whore. And $10 gets you Lindsay Lohan.
"Social justice warriors" do everything they can to actively censor anyone they choose to target. They attack, and attack, and attack some more.
I remember reading a little while back that the YouTube "Star Wars Kid" had become a lawyer and was working for some sort of culture ministry in Quebec. I thought "Good for him! He made it through a negative part of his life and now he's doing some good in the world!" But then a Canadian responded to the story and pointed out that "language and culture" in Quebec has a much more ominous meaning than it does in most other places. Essentially, this kid was purportedly working, not to promote arts & culture, but as a legal bully for some Quebec nationalist/separatist types who want to harass anyone not putting their signs in only French and to threaten anyone who didn't put "French culture" ahead of English culture.
That was sad to me. It seemed that the bullied had become the bully. Sometimes you can think you're doing something good. But even if you are pursuing a noble cause at first, you can cross over a line to the point where you start seeing your critics as evil and wanting to silence them by force. When you cross that line, you're no longer pursing a noble cause. Any merit in your cause goes out the window the second you decide to impose it at sword-point. At that point, you're just another asshole in a power struggle.
SJW's may think they're doing good. But to me they're just another bunch of assholes in a power struggle. And I would much rather live in a world where there are some internet trolls than a world where I have to walk on eggshells on the internet and watch everything I say, lest I be booted off for inadvertently offending some new group of victims that I wasn't even aware existed.
He goes first, then follows the controversial poster, then follows the poster who says anything contrary, then goes the poster who doesn't toe the approved line.
Freedom of speech means tolerating some trolls. Better that than to lose that freedom.
if the folks you've trusted enough to grant local admin to are still dumb enough to click ok to a UAC prompt when opening an Office file then there's literally no security system that will help you
It's like my grandpa used to say "Kid, you can't make an idiot not be an idiot--and also never fuck a hooker who's coughing."
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How they respond to DMCA notices is a pretty minor consideration when they all still fall to their knees in response to "National Security" letters and keep all that nice and secret.
Sure, that's done a lot of good so far. Like all of the religious wars around the world.
Most religious wars start with INTOLERANCE, not tolerance.
Separation of church and state doesn't give a state arm the right to interfere with the civil rights of students, employees, and faculty. If students or faculty members wish to form religious organizations, they have the same rights as any other student or faculty organization to use campus facilities for their conferences and meetings. Presumably, this conference was organized in that fashion.
Actually, I once worked at a university that had a Satanist student organization. They were mostly a bunch of hipster contrarians who spent 99% of their time complaining about Christianity. And once they didn't get the anticipated rise they wanted out of everyone, they didn't last very long.
No sex rituals that I recall, though. And I'm pretty sure that animal and human sacrifice are outlawed even for religious purposes (along with polygamy, pederasty, and several other traditional religious practices).
And who gets to decide what is and isn't "pseudoscience?" Because I also consider psychology, sociology, environmental "science", and several other fields to be pseudoscience too. For that matter, the whole fucking Liberal Arts isn't even a science at all.
, but it is a major educational institution with several faculty members who in fact will, at least indirectly, be the targets of these ignorant lunatics.
So? Are you saying the faculty are a bunch of weak pussies who can't even handle the criticism of a small group of bible-thumpers?
At a university I expect evidence based studies. NOT opnion.
So, you're going to ban everything except science fields then? And also, who gets to decide what is and isn't a "science"? Is Sociology a science? Anthropology? Archaeology?
Michigan State is an arm of the government. They take both state and federal money.
Duh, they're the guys who made all those Beatles albums.
Neither can the cross-worshipping-sex-haters.
Obviously you know fuck-all about college campuses, because every one I've ever been to has had student religious organizations that are allowed to use campus facilities just like any other student organization. So unless you plan on kicking all the Cross-worshipers, Koran-thumpers, and Talmud-thumpers off campus too, you might want to just let these people have their little conference.
Not only that, but most colleges have student religious organizations as well--and they have the same rights as other student organizations to use campus facilities. If you open this can of worms, are you also going to tell the campus Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, etc. groups that they can't use campus facilities to meet or have conferences too?
In other words: religion is not an opinion.
That may be, but it *is* a protected civil right in the United States. If you fuck with it, other civil rights like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press could easily be fucked with next.
Let them have their conference. It doesn't hurt anyone, and fucking with it will only cause major headaches for everyone. Consider it a religious conference if it makes you feel better.
And when the few women who persevere through to get a degree are happy and productive
The FEW women? Have you been to a college campus lately? Women are now the MAJORITY.
Our government demonizes the rich when in fact its government who approves these loopholes in the first place.
And who do you think OWNS the government?
I'm just glad that we poor people can do our part in giving more money to rich guys so they can create more jobs and such. It's like Jesus said "Given unto the rich so they may beget to the poor."
In my local area, the only Ello users are me, that guy at the bong store, and that guy at the coffee shop who keeps telling everyone that he doesn't even *OWN* a TV.
Monospaced fonts have a warm and rich sound that you just can't get out of a CD or digital file.
Basically, you want to shut your eyes and be offensive without caring about the trail of damage you leave behind you?
No, I want an internet where assholes like you don't get to define what is and isn't "offensive."
So because I sometimes want to download a game on steam, while downloading a season of Breaking Bad while watching a 1080p episode of anime and video chat with a friend..... I should spend more money each month to get a faster speed.
Umm, yes. That's how buying services works. When you want a service, you pay for it. If you want or need a better tier of the service, generally that requires that you to pay more.
That also applies to hookers, BTW. $1,000 gets you a beautiful escort. $500 gets you a relatively pretty girl with daddy issues. $100 gets you a not-ugly streetwalker. $50 gets you a pretty hideous meth/crack whore. And $10 gets you Lindsay Lohan.
"Social justice warriors" do everything they can to actively censor anyone they choose to target. They attack, and attack, and attack some more.
I remember reading a little while back that the YouTube "Star Wars Kid" had become a lawyer and was working for some sort of culture ministry in Quebec. I thought "Good for him! He made it through a negative part of his life and now he's doing some good in the world!" But then a Canadian responded to the story and pointed out that "language and culture" in Quebec has a much more ominous meaning than it does in most other places. Essentially, this kid was purportedly working, not to promote arts & culture, but as a legal bully for some Quebec nationalist/separatist types who want to harass anyone not putting their signs in only French and to threaten anyone who didn't put "French culture" ahead of English culture.
That was sad to me. It seemed that the bullied had become the bully. Sometimes you can think you're doing something good. But even if you are pursuing a noble cause at first, you can cross over a line to the point where you start seeing your critics as evil and wanting to silence them by force. When you cross that line, you're no longer pursing a noble cause. Any merit in your cause goes out the window the second you decide to impose it at sword-point. At that point, you're just another asshole in a power struggle.
SJW's may think they're doing good. But to me they're just another bunch of assholes in a power struggle. And I would much rather live in a world where there are some internet trolls than a world where I have to walk on eggshells on the internet and watch everything I say, lest I be booted off for inadvertently offending some new group of victims that I wasn't even aware existed.
He goes first, then follows the controversial poster, then follows the poster who says anything contrary, then goes the poster who doesn't toe the approved line.
Freedom of speech means tolerating some trolls. Better that than to lose that freedom.
ive rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint,
Run!!!!!!
if the folks you've trusted enough to grant local admin to are still dumb enough to click ok to a UAC prompt when opening an Office file then there's literally no security system that will help you
It's like my grandpa used to say "Kid, you can't make an idiot not be an idiot--and also never fuck a hooker who's coughing."
It's like my grandpa always used to say "Kid, if it ain't broke, don't fix it--and also don't ever trust Japs or Krauts."