I've never used that argument. Peoples privacy wishes SHOULD be respected. At the same time, I think that the more open you are about yourself, the more other people will get to know the real you and trust you.
In a way it's a trade-off. But really, people are talking about blackmail and other paranoid examples of how your private info can be used against you by the police, the government, big business, etc. You know, the "usual suspects." That's more than a bit paranoid.
One of the examples is how you can be discriminated for health insurance coverage if they know your full medical history. This ignores the fact that your policy would be voided if there were pre-existing conditions or other significant risk factors that you didn't declare.
The real way to avoid this problem is to have universal health and drug coverage, the same as many other countries. No need for private medical coverage, so no invasive questions.
Every year, there are fewer and fewer ways to blackmail someone, because so many of the social strictures from a more prudish time are gone. So, even if they have the information, they can't use it to coerce you.
You're free not to operate a store or restaurant if you don't want to serve everyone.
Says who? Which provision of the Constitution grants this authority?
You know that the Constitution isn't the only law you have to obey. There's nothing in the Constitution about speed limits, no parking and handicapped parking zones, social security,
Florida Man Arrested After Wife Calls Police When She Catches Him Having Sex With Family’s Chihuahua
Gonzalez is just one in a growing list of Floridians being caught sexually abusing animals. In 2011, 54-year-old Eugene Hickman was arrested in June after his grandson discovered him naked on top of the family bulldog. In 2004, Ocala resident Randol Mitchell was caught by his girlfriend having sex with her Rottweiler. In 2005, Alan Yoder was charged with animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with his guide dog.
Ironic. A pink sausage-fest. Some of the most misogynistic people I've ever encountered are role players. No lack of racists, either.
There are misogynists everywhere
singling out gamers is most unfair
The same applies to racists too
Watch out or they'll be hating on you
The guv'nor he don't like the gays
Plays up to voters phobic ways
'Cuz signing bigot bills shows his might
It's certainly easier than doing what's right.
Using religion to hate on someone
Is some kind of sick twisted fun
Whether it's ISIS or Christianity
It still reeks of insanity
The guv'nor he sure hates the gays
Wants them to go their separate ways
But if all the gays left his town
Half the bars and clubs would shut down
Come on guv, time to come clean
Your gay phobia is not just mean
You've been in the closet way too long
Next Pride Day get out that thong!
Montreal's better. Lower drinking age (18), great bagels and smoked meat, at least 50 kinds of poutine, michigan hotdogs, pretty much any ethnic restaurant you can imagine, and for free entertainment when not at the convention you can watch the day's protest movement against $INSERT_CAUSE_HERE, just like Paris right down to the riot police.
You're free not to operate a store or restaurant if you don't want to serve everyone.
If you do open such a business, you're not free to run it outside the rules - zoning bylaws, health codes, taxes, building codes, and yes, laws barring discrimination. It would only be slavery if you HAD to open and run such a business whether you wanted to or not.
A sole proprietorship is still a business. When the owner is acting outside his business, on his personal time, he's free to do whatever he wants wrt being a bigot. But not when he's acting as a business.
You're free to move to where there's decent public transit and where everything is within 10-15 km of home. If you can't walk that in a couple of hours you really need to get out more.
One of the grocery stores I use is about 3-4 km away. In the summer, I hitch a folding grocery buggy to my bike. In the winter, in the snow, I walk it. An hour each way is no big deal. It's good exercise, and at 20 below, you'll walk briskly enough to get there fast.
As for biking in winter, plenty of cities now clear bicycle lanes in winter. Not just bike lanes, but bike paths as well, which is nice when you want to take a shortcut through the woods.
So what? What is everyone so paranoid about? Just who is going to use that data against you? The only people who can be blackmailed are those who can be shamed. We have universal health care and drug care up here, so the government knows I've got PTSD and major depressive disorder, that I've had my antidepressant meds changed 4 time in the last year, and that I see a psychiatrist on a regular basis. Nobody can blackmail me with that because I don't care - it's not something to be ashamed of.
They also know that I was diagnosed as trans decades ago. And nobody can blackmail me with that either, because it's not something to be ashamed of.
They also know that I've had serious vision problems which are now more or less under control, but that I'll eventually go blind. So what? Are they going to suspend my drivers license? Too late - I already let it lapse because I don't think that my "right" to drive includes endangering others.
Nobody can make you buy something, so all these "big data marketing" plays are wasted if you understand that and are willing to exert a certain level of autonomy. Same with who your friends are. Heck, pay me enough and I'll carry around a bodycam all day - but you WILL be bored.
People need to take a deep breathe and realize that knowledge, in this case, is NOT power over you unless you let it be.
Don't do anything that you don't want to see as the lead item in the evening news or on the front page of tomorrow's paper, and you'll be fine.
The other issue is that the OS and disk cache will buffer those one-byte writes, whereas they went out of the way to use the worst code possible for in-memory operations. Appending 1 byte a million times creates and destroys 1 million instances. If they had just created an array and written each byte at the appropriate offset, there's only one instance. A lot faster.
I just don't care because really, if people want to follow me around, they can't have much of a life. It's not like I have any secrets, so let them waste their time on me. If it uses up resources that would otherwise be directed at someone else, you should be happy that's my attitude.
Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.
Of course, but it's better to stand up and be counted than to be on your knees in shame. Otherwise, you've given your tacit approval to being mistreated. Act like you're ashamed of who or what you are, and people will use that against you, same as in a schoolyard where the kids always know who's the easiest one to pick on.
Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11
Here it's been pretty muted, except for some idiots who think that anyone who isn't white and doesn't follow their views is a non-person.
One reason I can think of for wanting to know all those details about a complete stranger could be so that I can break into their house and steal stuff.
You can already get that from their twitter feed or facebook page, and it's much more dependable.
It's also defeated if they own a big dog - the burglar will go elsewhere.
Gee, where DOES one start? In meetings, my opinion is not solicited nearly as much as a woman, and when it is, it doesn't have nearly as much weight. That's very frustrating, especially when I'm the one with the most experience. This is a common situation for us.
And then there's the jokes. As a guy, you're supposed to, if not contribute to them, at least not rain on the party. Going along so that nobody finds out my "secret" made me feel like a traitor to who I really was. Trying to rein the guys in never gets much of a result, even when other women were so upset that they moved their desk over to my section just to physically get away from the worst of it. Now, I can name and shame such behavior, but unfortunately it's wrongfully "understood" by the men that it's okay when women aren't around, or don't speak up. Not speaking up against it is interpreted as tacit acceptance.
On the plus side of being a woman, it was nice when I was still driving, to have men let me cut in in parking lots and traffic, and I no longer have to struggle with heavy bulky stuff (estrogen takes away a LOT of your upper body strength). And it's a lot easier to share what's going on in each other's lives with other women than with men (men sometimes get a bit creeped out about discussing "woman's stuff."), so the social interactions are much more in a spirit of openness and sharing. I know, sounds corny, but as a guy, you get the message pretty early on to hide certain emotional responses - no wonder men die of heart attacks earlier.
Hospital visits are also so much easier, because there's almost always a few other women to talk to. The men, on the other hand, tend to isolate themselves, look at their feet, look at the floor - anything but the people around them. It's like they're playing the urinal game. And when they do speak, it's to complain about the wait times. It's sad, but I remember what that was like, and I wouldn't want to go back to that sort of "keep the world at a certain distance to show how strong you are" behavior.
And of course, there's much less need to be defensive if I make a mistake. No need to make up a bs explanation to justify it, which guys do a LOT. Sad, really. There's much more, but maybe I'll write about it in my journal when I have more time.
You still need the license plate reader to catch the people without valid license plates. Sending a notice to their (probably former) address won't do anything.
Maybe we should re-examine our assumption of "potential damage from privacy concerns." What damage, really? Most people get so worried that their darkest secrets will be revealed. In an age when alcoholic crack-smoking politicians get re-elected (Rob Ford comes to mind), nobody really cares what you do, as long as you're not hurting yourself.
Case in point - a decade ago one of our federal politicians was asked if she smoked weed. Her answer? "Hell, yes. And I inhaled." Nobody cares. It's getting VERY hard to blackmail someone. They're gay or lesbian or trans? BFD. They're doing drugs? BFD. They're having sex with someone outside of marriage? BFD. They've got a mental illness such as PTSD or major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? BFD.
No they can't. I take public transit, bicycle, and walk (you know - BMW - bus, metro, walk). Anyone who doesn't want to be tracked can do the same, and it will be good for the environment, their waistline, and their budget as well.
They're more likely to catch you going to a drug dealer or prostitute by keeping a watch on them than on you. The Obama and Bush Jr had drug problems - nobody cares. And Clinton - well, in the end nobody cared about Lewinsky and everyone else either.
You won't get far blackmailing someone with no power. And blackmailing someone with power just provides them with a photo op and you with jail time. Opinions have changed in the 21st century.
I pointed out that the councilors exact home address was already public record, so there was no need to get an approximate address by going through millions of records, and that your claim that they got the officers plate was not backed up by the text (summary) that you referred to - you made an unwarranted assumption.
So now you change the goalposts. Okay - why would you even want information about someone who you don't even know who they are, where they are, where they live or work, or what? How would you know you're getting the right person? Your current example is so contrived it doesn't make any sense.
As for "telling you where someone has been recently", since all this data is entered into spreadsheets for analysis, the time delay won't tell you where someone was earlier today, or last night, or yesterday morning, or the day before,
It also won't tell you where someone's been who takes public transit, rides a bicycle, rollerblades, or walks. That's a good chunk of the population that is totally off the radar to this.
I would ask you the same - did YOU read the text above - it says that they were able to figure out the home address of a city councilor - not exactly private information, and someone who was parked at a bar near a police station and in a residential area - probably a bar employee. No mention whatsoever of tracking a cops plates
If you own a home, pay municipal taxes, are on a voting list, sued or gotten sued, have gotten married or divorced recently, your name and address are publicly available. Please loosen the tinfoil hat:-)
If you have a drivers license, the cops already have your address - they don't need to guess. There are still too many people driving around with expired plates and no insurance.
Sorry, but I'm never going back, and there are plenty of reasons. First off, some things cannot be reversed, so that's a non-starter. Second, it's the right thing for me. Sure, there's the "loss of male privilege" (which I really don't miss), but there are "compensations." Third, I can see both sides of questions like this.
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I've never used that argument. Peoples privacy wishes SHOULD be respected. At the same time, I think that the more open you are about yourself, the more other people will get to know the real you and trust you.
In a way it's a trade-off. But really, people are talking about blackmail and other paranoid examples of how your private info can be used against you by the police, the government, big business, etc. You know, the "usual suspects." That's more than a bit paranoid.
One of the examples is how you can be discriminated for health insurance coverage if they know your full medical history. This ignores the fact that your policy would be voided if there were pre-existing conditions or other significant risk factors that you didn't declare.
The real way to avoid this problem is to have universal health and drug coverage, the same as many other countries. No need for private medical coverage, so no invasive questions.
Every year, there are fewer and fewer ways to blackmail someone, because so many of the social strictures from a more prudish time are gone. So, even if they have the information, they can't use it to coerce you.
You're free not to operate a store or restaurant if you don't want to serve everyone.
Says who? Which provision of the Constitution grants this authority?
You know that the Constitution isn't the only law you have to obey. There's nothing in the Constitution about speed limits, no parking and handicapped parking zones, social security,
A better example might be paying a prostitute to fuck a dog. Few takers then, I bet.)
Never send a woman to do a man's job
Florida Man Arrested After Wife Calls Police When She Catches Him Having Sex With Family’s Chihuahua
Gonzalez is just one in a growing list of Floridians being caught sexually abusing animals. In 2011, 54-year-old Eugene Hickman was arrested in June after his grandson discovered him naked on top of the family bulldog. In 2004, Ocala resident Randol Mitchell was caught by his girlfriend having sex with her Rottweiler. In 2005, Alan Yoder was charged with animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with his guide dog.
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Ironic. A pink sausage-fest. Some of the most misogynistic people I've ever encountered are role players. No lack of racists, either.
There are misogynists everywhere
singling out gamers is most unfair
The same applies to racists too
Watch out or they'll be hating on you
The guv'nor he don't like the gays
Plays up to voters phobic ways
'Cuz signing bigot bills shows his might
It's certainly easier than doing what's right.
Using religion to hate on someone
Is some kind of sick twisted fun
Whether it's ISIS or Christianity
It still reeks of insanity
The guv'nor he sure hates the gays
Wants them to go their separate ways
But if all the gays left his town
Half the bars and clubs would shut down
Come on guv, time to come clean
Your gay phobia is not just mean
You've been in the closet way too long
Next Pride Day get out that thong!
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Montreal's better. Lower drinking age (18), great bagels and smoked meat, at least 50 kinds of poutine, michigan hotdogs, pretty much any ethnic restaurant you can imagine, and for free entertainment when not at the convention you can watch the day's protest movement against $INSERT_CAUSE_HERE, just like Paris right down to the riot police.
You're free not to operate a store or restaurant if you don't want to serve everyone.
If you do open such a business, you're not free to run it outside the rules - zoning bylaws, health codes, taxes, building codes, and yes, laws barring discrimination. It would only be slavery if you HAD to open and run such a business whether you wanted to or not.
A sole proprietorship is still a business. When the owner is acting outside his business, on his personal time, he's free to do whatever he wants wrt being a bigot. But not when he's acting as a business.
tl;dr - your arguments are nonsense.
You're free to move to where there's decent public transit and where everything is within 10-15 km of home. If you can't walk that in a couple of hours you really need to get out more.
One of the grocery stores I use is about 3-4 km away. In the summer, I hitch a folding grocery buggy to my bike. In the winter, in the snow, I walk it. An hour each way is no big deal. It's good exercise, and at 20 below, you'll walk briskly enough to get there fast.
As for biking in winter, plenty of cities now clear bicycle lanes in winter. Not just bike lanes, but bike paths as well, which is nice when you want to take a shortcut through the woods.
I've never had it tested. You?
So what? What is everyone so paranoid about? Just who is going to use that data against you? The only people who can be blackmailed are those who can be shamed. We have universal health care and drug care up here, so the government knows I've got PTSD and major depressive disorder, that I've had my antidepressant meds changed 4 time in the last year, and that I see a psychiatrist on a regular basis. Nobody can blackmail me with that because I don't care - it's not something to be ashamed of.
They also know that I was diagnosed as trans decades ago. And nobody can blackmail me with that either, because it's not something to be ashamed of.
They also know that I've had serious vision problems which are now more or less under control, but that I'll eventually go blind. So what? Are they going to suspend my drivers license? Too late - I already let it lapse because I don't think that my "right" to drive includes endangering others.
Nobody can make you buy something, so all these "big data marketing" plays are wasted if you understand that and are willing to exert a certain level of autonomy. Same with who your friends are. Heck, pay me enough and I'll carry around a bodycam all day - but you WILL be bored.
People need to take a deep breathe and realize that knowledge, in this case, is NOT power over you unless you let it be.
Don't do anything that you don't want to see as the lead item in the evening news or on the front page of tomorrow's paper, and you'll be fine.
And that's why we have laws to prevent misuse. And why we'll pass more laws as more problems arise. Other countries manage to do it.
Besides, if someone doesn't want to hire me because of who I am, I don't want to work there.
Now think about the future when "everybody kan kode!" Your 16-core 4ghz cpus will choke.
The other issue is that the OS and disk cache will buffer those one-byte writes, whereas they went out of the way to use the worst code possible for in-memory operations. Appending 1 byte a million times creates and destroys 1 million instances. If they had just created an array and written each byte at the appropriate offset, there's only one instance. A lot faster.
Anyone with any brains would have pre-allocated an array, then written into it at the appropriate offsets. These people are idiots.
We just mixed a little vinegar in to get the last of the bottle and slop it on our french fries.
I just don't care because really, if people want to follow me around, they can't have much of a life. It's not like I have any secrets, so let them waste their time on me. If it uses up resources that would otherwise be directed at someone else, you should be happy that's my attitude.
Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.
Of course, but it's better to stand up and be counted than to be on your knees in shame. Otherwise, you've given your tacit approval to being mistreated. Act like you're ashamed of who or what you are, and people will use that against you, same as in a schoolyard where the kids always know who's the easiest one to pick on.
Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11
Here it's been pretty muted, except for some idiots who think that anyone who isn't white and doesn't follow their views is a non-person.
One reason I can think of for wanting to know all those details about a complete stranger could be so that I can break into their house and steal stuff.
You can already get that from their twitter feed or facebook page, and it's much more dependable.
It's also defeated if they own a big dog - the burglar will go elsewhere.
Gee, where DOES one start? In meetings, my opinion is not solicited nearly as much as a woman, and when it is, it doesn't have nearly as much weight. That's very frustrating, especially when I'm the one with the most experience. This is a common situation for us.
And then there's the jokes. As a guy, you're supposed to, if not contribute to them, at least not rain on the party. Going along so that nobody finds out my "secret" made me feel like a traitor to who I really was. Trying to rein the guys in never gets much of a result, even when other women were so upset that they moved their desk over to my section just to physically get away from the worst of it. Now, I can name and shame such behavior, but unfortunately it's wrongfully "understood" by the men that it's okay when women aren't around, or don't speak up. Not speaking up against it is interpreted as tacit acceptance.
On the plus side of being a woman, it was nice when I was still driving, to have men let me cut in in parking lots and traffic, and I no longer have to struggle with heavy bulky stuff (estrogen takes away a LOT of your upper body strength). And it's a lot easier to share what's going on in each other's lives with other women than with men (men sometimes get a bit creeped out about discussing "woman's stuff."), so the social interactions are much more in a spirit of openness and sharing. I know, sounds corny, but as a guy, you get the message pretty early on to hide certain emotional responses - no wonder men die of heart attacks earlier.
Hospital visits are also so much easier, because there's almost always a few other women to talk to. The men, on the other hand, tend to isolate themselves, look at their feet, look at the floor - anything but the people around them. It's like they're playing the urinal game. And when they do speak, it's to complain about the wait times. It's sad, but I remember what that was like, and I wouldn't want to go back to that sort of "keep the world at a certain distance to show how strong you are" behavior.
And of course, there's much less need to be defensive if I make a mistake. No need to make up a bs explanation to justify it, which guys do a LOT. Sad, really. There's much more, but maybe I'll write about it in my journal when I have more time.
BTW, thanks for asking.
You still need the license plate reader to catch the people without valid license plates. Sending a notice to their (probably former) address won't do anything.
Maybe we should re-examine our assumption of "potential damage from privacy concerns." What damage, really? Most people get so worried that their darkest secrets will be revealed. In an age when alcoholic crack-smoking politicians get re-elected (Rob Ford comes to mind), nobody really cares what you do, as long as you're not hurting yourself.
Case in point - a decade ago one of our federal politicians was asked if she smoked weed. Her answer? "Hell, yes. And I inhaled." Nobody cares. It's getting VERY hard to blackmail someone. They're gay or lesbian or trans? BFD. They're doing drugs? BFD. They're having sex with someone outside of marriage? BFD. They've got a mental illness such as PTSD or major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? BFD.
Joe McCarthy is long dead.
No they can't. I take public transit, bicycle, and walk (you know - BMW - bus, metro, walk). Anyone who doesn't want to be tracked can do the same, and it will be good for the environment, their waistline, and their budget as well.
They're more likely to catch you going to a drug dealer or prostitute by keeping a watch on them than on you. The Obama and Bush Jr had drug problems - nobody cares. And Clinton - well, in the end nobody cared about Lewinsky and everyone else either.
You won't get far blackmailing someone with no power. And blackmailing someone with power just provides them with a photo op and you with jail time. Opinions have changed in the 21st century.
I pointed out that the councilors exact home address was already public record, so there was no need to get an approximate address by going through millions of records, and that your claim that they got the officers plate was not backed up by the text (summary) that you referred to - you made an unwarranted assumption.
So now you change the goalposts. Okay - why would you even want information about someone who you don't even know who they are, where they are, where they live or work, or what? How would you know you're getting the right person? Your current example is so contrived it doesn't make any sense.
As for "telling you where someone has been recently", since all this data is entered into spreadsheets for analysis, the time delay won't tell you where someone was earlier today, or last night, or yesterday morning, or the day before,
It also won't tell you where someone's been who takes public transit, rides a bicycle, rollerblades, or walks. That's a good chunk of the population that is totally off the radar to this.
I would ask you the same - did YOU read the text above - it says that they were able to figure out the home address of a city councilor - not exactly private information, and someone who was parked at a bar near a police station and in a residential area - probably a bar employee. No mention whatsoever of tracking a cops plates
If you own a home, pay municipal taxes, are on a voting list, sued or gotten sued, have gotten married or divorced recently, your name and address are publicly available. Please loosen the tinfoil hat :-)
If you have a drivers license, the cops already have your address - they don't need to guess. There are still too many people driving around with expired plates and no insurance.
Sorry, but I'm never going back, and there are plenty of reasons. First off, some things cannot be reversed, so that's a non-starter. Second, it's the right thing for me. Sure, there's the "loss of male privilege" (which I really don't miss), but there are "compensations." Third, I can see both sides of questions like this.