Their universe also tends to shrink, providing less stimulation.
Me, I want to be doing interesting stuff forever, because even forever is too short when there's something new to discover every day, just by taking a walk and observing the world at your feet. There's so much beauty out there free for the taking, and we won't take half an hour a day to re-discover it.
People suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, and long-term depression are already at a high risk of suicide. Life often sucks. Depression kills.
And once you've experienced serious depression, you're more at risk to have repeat bouts.
People who seek help are often in crisis - that they have a higher risk of suicide when they first take a drug to try to get better isn't a surprise (and the increased risk is only for the first few weeks. If the drugs didn't have a positive effect, the risk of suicide would not go down with time).
There's so much stigma and stupidity around mood disorders. People will demand antibiotics for a cold (totally ineffective), but will then tell someone with depression to "just get over it." Biochemically impossible.
Anyone who saw the Big Bang Theory episode with the space toilet that was going to fail in 3... 2... 1... because of a badly designed part will definitely want one of these around before going into orbit - anything that will help keep the "manure from hitting the ventilator" will soon be must-have tech.
Just a question out of curiosity - how were they able to prove "...she was actively using her facebook account day-to-day." I agree that yes, the account was active, but how could they prove that the ex-wife was the person using the account?
I'd think that proving the person behind the curtain was the wizard would require rather more proof than just seeing the shoes beneath the curtain move...
The whole "reasonableness" test. It's a reasonable assumption, based on all the other circumstances. Besides, this is facebook, home to people who suffer from ISD (Infinite Selfie Disorder).
The Fisker Karma is not an "all-electric car." It has an electric drivetrain with a gasoline range extender. The article itself makes this quite clear:
Bad Karma! Bad, bad Karma!!!
Sounds more like some sort of tax credit scam than an actual relaunch, given the current competition.
If legal documents can be sent over Facebook, then shouldn't communications on Facebook be regulated under the FCC telecommunications act?
By extension, shouldn't the FCC regulate the post office, courier services like FedEx, UPS, and DHL, and print newspapers?
Faxing summonses has been common practice for decades. The FCC might regulate the common carrier (the telco), but that doesn't automagically give them jurisdiction over the agency / means used (your individual office's fax machine or computer, your internal office network, you as the user, etc)
Like so many things in life, "it depends." Not just on the country/province/state/territory, but also on the practice of the individual court, which is determined by that courts' procedures and precedents.
So many people try to duck service that the courts are streamlining things in self-defense. Nobody else wants clogged courts, re-re-recalling witneses, etc.
What did this woman in is that they were able to prove that she was actively using her facebook account day-to-day. If it was an account that's been inactive for a year or three, the judge might not have been so ready to innovate.
Doing so in education teaches by action (and thus re-affirms) that somehow women can't compete. And yet, the majority of people graduating degree programs are women.
You can't reduce gender bias by introducing even more gender bias. And since we're talking about education, what better place to practice / teach non-bias?
Time to get some trained falcons (or other predators) on the job. Kind of like the search-and-rescue pigeons (I think it was pigeons) being able to sight a human bobbing in the water a lot better than a human with binoculars can.
1st definition of absurd from google: Ab-surd: (of a person or a person's behavior or actions) foolish; unreasonable.
Going through every post I make in every thread, posting multiple responses (up to 100 posts a day) attacking me based on my gender (including in a thread about sexual harassment) - I think that most people would qualify your behaviour as both foolish and unreasonable.
Getting all bent out of shape when someone exposes your bullying tactics and then tells other people how to do the same to you - both your original bullying and your response when you get it thrown right back at you are foolish, unreasonable, and just plain childish.
Saying I'm stalking you when it's obvious you're the one doing the stalking - foolish, unreasonable, and more than a bit delusional. Oh, and your paranoia is showing.
Thinking that attacking me because I'm transsexual is going to get you anywhere on a tech site, when tech attracts a higher-than-average number of people in the LGBT community, as well as sympathizers, is foolish. Continuing it day after day when it doesn't work is not just unreasonable, it's stupid and/or insane.
Clinging to arguments for your HOSTS file that are completely orthogonal to today's reality, and that obviously the vast majority don't care about and don't need because they have found better ways to solve their own problems, is foolish on it's face and unreasonable to those looking on, who use their computers just fine without your "solution."
Going on about how "taking estrogen is rotting your brain", that "you're crazy to have cut your balls off" (btw - I'm not a surgeon, and I don't pretend to be one on the innnertubes), when I'm following expert medical advice that has a proven track record of success, well, that's both foolish and ridiculous.
The problem isn't your hosts file - it's your behaviour, which certainly is absurd, and probably disturbed as well.
That leads to another question - why? What is it about me in particular that sets you off worse than anyone else? Is it me, or do you have a problem with women in general (I seem to recall some attacks you made on other women who have challenged you that would indicate that this may be the case)? Do you think that men are superior to women, and that anyone who willingly "trades in" to become a woman is stupid because you have a low opinion of women?
And that, of course, brings us back on-topic - the "science has a sexual assault problem. You don't seem to be capable of the introspection necessary to realize how absurd your behaviour is. How many other women have you felt it's your right to attack, and still continue years later, about their sex, gender, or sexual identity, just because you disagreed with their opinion on a technical issue of absolutely no import to anyone but you?
"Send in the drones!" Why not fight drones with drones? Cheaper than a stupid "drone shield" that sends you a text, probably without enough time to do anything.
Throw in a few old-tech barrage balloons (even weather balloons will do) trailing netting (even helicopters will avoid that), some really high-powered water and potato cannons, and the odd trebuchet filled with flaming dung or politicians (same diff), and "The Making of Star Wars Episode VII" becomes more than just filler.
You seem to forget that I once worked for the Russians. They taught me a few things, I taught them a few things, fun times.
It's entirely possible to create malware that doesn't use DNS, and it doesn't matter how many entries you put in your hosts file, you're screwed. We investigated this because we had to be ready if someone tried to do this to us, because they could have poisoned a LOT of computers that way. And, of course, because it's always handy to have something special in your bag of tricks:-)
Like I said, it's absurd not to take advantage of the capabilities of modern hardware. Because if you don't some $BAD_PERSON out there will be quite happy to steal all those cpu cycles you "saved."
Your "15 questions" are straw men that take away from the point that you're obsolete, and so is your hosts file "solution", which is why you have a long reputation of being the "hosts file troll".
Come on, Android can change the layout of widgets, as well as the logic behind them, on everything from phones to HD TVs.
Just grab the "settings" app and see the difference in layout between a phone and a tablet. On the phone, selecting an item brings up an overlay screen of options for that selection. On a tablet, the selection list is displayed on the left, the options on the right.
You can make arbitrarily complex layouts to accommodate different needs on different displays. Same as Windows.
It was, but Sun fragmented Java ME (Micro Edition) so they could get millions in licensing fees from all the different variants of the runtime engine since they were pretty closely tied to each phone's hardware for performance reasons.
It's not like today, when we have quad core phones with oodles of ram for under $200, and tablets breaking the $100 barrier, and we can afford to run a generic runtime.
You're such a fool, apk. Stuck in the mid-90s technologically, the '70s socially... transsexual women have the same status in law as genetic women. And in society? We're where gays and lesbians were a generation ago - uber-cool to have at least one as a friend. Jealous much?
All I told people to do is what you've been doing to others for years. You can dish it out (sort of), but you can't take it, because you're a hypocrite, like most narcissists.
As for the "sockpuppet account" charge, you know it's bogus. When I was outed on slashdot in '06, I took a second account that was more gender-appropriate. And no, you didn't "chase me away" in 2012 - my retinas deteriorated to the point where I couldn't use a computer (or read, or sometimes even see). Contrary to expectations, and thanks to a lot of hard work by several teams of specialists, I can see well enough to use a computer, read, do day-to-day tasks (just don't ask me to drive a car, tell the difference between colours, ask me if a picture is straight, or similar stuff). If I still had the old passwords, I would have gone back to using my old accounts.
But keep on going through every post I make, and using proxies to post 100 times a day about how I'm such a weird freak. All you're doing is reinforcing your reputation as a social maladroit and a hater of people like me who put the "T" in LGBT.
Anyone with brains can write a botnet that doesn't use dns. Sure, it will be taken down quicker, but there are ways around that as well. Sheesh, get over it, this is not 1985 any more.
Sometimes referred to as the APK approach (a famous troll) who devoted his life to promoting the hosts file as a cure for everything - more than just a filter - it's a firewall - it's an antivirus - it stops spyware, fixes your car, and makes you look thin! Last I heard *his* hosts files were around the 12MB mark! Hosts files work fine I guess (they certainly keep you busy!) - though they lack the fine grain control (wildcards, selected fileextensions, regular expressions) of AdBlock Plus, protection against cross-site scripting, element hiding, the ability to block flash and java elements - and the reporting ability. And it's easy to write new extensions for it. You could probably import the basis of a host block list from an AdBlock subscription. NoScript combined with AdBlock (they're both in the repositories) allow you to remove the mouse-overs and the embedded (javascript written) ads as well. Host files will only remove some ads, and they can't do squat about floating divs or javascript document writes.
His "solution" is absurd in an era when even cheap laptops have quad cores and oddles of ram to run whatever you want, including browser extensions. And yet, pointing out that he has one heck of a reputation as the "HOSTS file troll" or that his "solution" is so '90s gets the same response. With me, of course, he takes it to an entirely different (and lower) level. Kind of sad, really.
Just since yesterday afternoon, apk (the HOSTS file troll) has posted 100 responses to posts I've made. The ones in this thread were among the tamest...
"you transsexual weirdo"
"I did *NOT* bother "shim"
The others included references and links to a pic from Rocky Horror Picture Show, saying that I was nuts for "cutting off my balls", "He/She", Frank. N. Furter, "you are mentally unhinged by taking estrogen to attempt to upset your body's natural order of things, which yes, includes your mind taking a huge hit. You have mentally unbalanced yourself more than doing something quite insane in a sex change to yourself also."
And a lot more. And this goes on every day...
Sexual harassment in a thread about sexual harassment? This all started because someone asked "What is APK" and I told them.
Now, back on topic, the headline is mislabeled (so what else is new). It says "Science has a sexual assault problem," whereas the actual survey talks about sexual harassment. And a lot of posters seem to have failed to make the distinction.
One (not exhaustive) definition of sexual harassment I would use is words or acts containing references to sex or sexual identity that either make me uncomfortable, or, or, in APK's case, were intended to make me uncomfortable but failed. Sexual assault, on the other hand, is when I'm lying on a hospital gurney in emergency with paper towels stuffed between my legs to stop the bleeding after being attacked. And for the doubters that sexual assault is under-reported, I didn't report that incident - the doctors did. I couldn't tell them. I just wanted the whole world to leave me suffer alone in peace.
Sexual harassment is not a case of "I'll know it when I see it", because too many of the harassers simply don't get it in the first place. Saying so doesn't make me a feminazi - there are plenty of men who do "get it". And there are other parts of the world where it's a heck of a lot worse, due to a culture that treats women as 3rd-class citizens.
The problem with relying for support for separation from the younger generation, as Quebec separatists found out, is that the younger generation gets jobs, gets invested in the status quo, and then think "separatists - they're just young punks who don't know anything about real life."
And the next "younger generation" sees separation as something for old farts. Uncool.
The reality is that there's more people in the RoC (Rest of Canada) who would vote to kick Quebec out than there are Quebecers willing to pull the trigger on separation. You can only make a "knife to the throat" threat so many times before the other party says "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
Actually, experience up here in Kanuckistan seems to indicate that everyone will win (if by "everyone" we mean everyone who isn't a politician or a dyed-in-the-wool separatist).
We've had two referendums, and they proved one thing - change IS possible. The separatist movement here has burned itself out, the generation who were pushing for it being seen as burned-out old farts. Go back to the UK in 40 years and tell me that everyone lost.
Nothing I wrote in any way gives an impression that I support, in any shape, manner or form, a "blame the victim" mentality. However, contributory negligence is a fact of life, and in no way is the same as saying "you deserved to get raped because of how you dressed."
Picking weak, easy-to-guess passwords is contributory negligence. Ask any bank. You're using a service with certain rules, including the responsibility to choose a reasonably secure password. There's no similar rule in our society saying "It's my responsibility to dress a certain way or I'm acting in a contributory negligent way when someone gropes me in the subway." Different "problem domain." Different expectations.
It doesn't make it right, whether it's the groper or the hacker. But pretty much every service has in their TOS a warning about choosing a non-trivial password, and many won't even approve one that's too weak.
So many people have learned the hard way that sharing nude pics or a racy video with just ONE person can lead to the whole world having it. As the beer commercial says, "Ex" says it all...
He always used to say, "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of The New York Times."
It's still good advice today. We're inundated with examples of what can happen. In too many cases, the victim is guilty of contributory negligence, at the very least. Example: "What do you mean, 1-2-3-4-5 isn't a good password?"
Dark Helmet:
1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Banks have already established that your funds aren't covered if you use a stupid, easy-to-guess PIN.
Poor people don't have kids so there's someone to care for them when they get old. That "middle generation" always ends up with more than enough problems just taking care of themselves and their own kids. Plus, given the historically high infant mortality rate in the areas we're talking about, conventional thinking is you need more than "a heir and a spare" to actually HAVE a heir and a spare.
Robot care for the elderly is not a solution when there's not enough resources to FEED everyone, or clean water for everyone - and we're already past any realistic sustainability point.
All the virtual pizzas and hamburgers won't fill a single real-world stomach.
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People tend to die when they retire.
Their universe also tends to shrink, providing less stimulation.
Me, I want to be doing interesting stuff forever, because even forever is too short when there's something new to discover every day, just by taking a walk and observing the world at your feet. There's so much beauty out there free for the taking, and we won't take half an hour a day to re-discover it.
People suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, and long-term depression are already at a high risk of suicide. Life often sucks. Depression kills.
And once you've experienced serious depression, you're more at risk to have repeat bouts.
People who seek help are often in crisis - that they have a higher risk of suicide when they first take a drug to try to get better isn't a surprise (and the increased risk is only for the first few weeks. If the drugs didn't have a positive effect, the risk of suicide would not go down with time).
There's so much stigma and stupidity around mood disorders. People will demand antibiotics for a cold (totally ineffective), but will then tell someone with depression to "just get over it." Biochemically impossible.
Anyone who saw the Big Bang Theory episode with the space toilet that was going to fail in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... because of a badly designed part will definitely want one of these around before going into orbit - anything that will help keep the "manure from hitting the ventilator" will soon be must-have tech.
Just a question out of curiosity - how were they able to prove "...she was actively using her facebook account day-to-day." I agree that yes, the account was active, but how could they prove that the ex-wife was the person using the account?
I'd think that proving the person behind the curtain was the wizard would require rather more proof than just seeing the shoes beneath the curtain move...
The whole "reasonableness" test. It's a reasonable assumption, based on all the other circumstances. Besides, this is facebook, home to people who suffer from ISD (Infinite Selfie Disorder).
I think the name is probably going to help, not hurt.
It's in the long-standing tradition of weird/funny/pun names in *nix. Less is more, unix is kinda like multics, but with the gonads cut off", etc.
As long as nobody starts calling it "GNU/Useless" ... The whole "GNU/Linux" thing is so '90s, and it's just linux to the world.
The Fisker Karma is not an "all-electric car." It has an electric drivetrain with a gasoline range extender. The article itself makes this quite clear:
Bad Karma! Bad, bad Karma!!!
Sounds more like some sort of tax credit scam than an actual relaunch, given the current competition.
If legal documents can be sent over Facebook, then shouldn't communications on Facebook be regulated under the FCC telecommunications act?
By extension, shouldn't the FCC regulate the post office, courier services like FedEx, UPS, and DHL, and print newspapers?
Faxing summonses has been common practice for decades. The FCC might regulate the common carrier (the telco), but that doesn't automagically give them jurisdiction over the agency / means used (your individual office's fax machine or computer, your internal office network, you as the user, etc)
Like so many things in life, "it depends." Not just on the country/province/state/territory, but also on the practice of the individual court, which is determined by that courts' procedures and precedents.
So many people try to duck service that the courts are streamlining things in self-defense. Nobody else wants clogged courts, re-re-recalling witneses, etc.
What did this woman in is that they were able to prove that she was actively using her facebook account day-to-day. If it was an account that's been inactive for a year or three, the judge might not have been so ready to innovate.
It's called reverse discrimination, and it's wrong.
Doing so in education teaches by action (and thus re-affirms) that somehow women can't compete. And yet, the majority of people graduating degree programs are women.
You can't reduce gender bias by introducing even more gender bias. And since we're talking about education, what better place to practice / teach non-bias?
Time to get some trained falcons (or other predators) on the job. Kind of like the search-and-rescue pigeons (I think it was pigeons) being able to sight a human bobbing in the water a lot better than a human with binoculars can.
Well, since you FINALLY asked how you are absurd:
1st definition of absurd from google: Ab-surd: (of a person or a person's behavior or actions) foolish; unreasonable.
Going through every post I make in every thread, posting multiple responses (up to 100 posts a day) attacking me based on my gender (including in a thread about sexual harassment) - I think that most people would qualify your behaviour as both foolish and unreasonable.
Getting all bent out of shape when someone exposes your bullying tactics and then tells other people how to do the same to you - both your original bullying and your response when you get it thrown right back at you are foolish, unreasonable, and just plain childish.
Saying I'm stalking you when it's obvious you're the one doing the stalking - foolish, unreasonable, and more than a bit delusional. Oh, and your paranoia is showing.
Thinking that attacking me because I'm transsexual is going to get you anywhere on a tech site, when tech attracts a higher-than-average number of people in the LGBT community, as well as sympathizers, is foolish. Continuing it day after day when it doesn't work is not just unreasonable, it's stupid and/or insane.
Clinging to arguments for your HOSTS file that are completely orthogonal to today's reality, and that obviously the vast majority don't care about and don't need because they have found better ways to solve their own problems, is foolish on it's face and unreasonable to those looking on, who use their computers just fine without your "solution."
Going on about how "taking estrogen is rotting your brain", that "you're crazy to have cut your balls off" (btw - I'm not a surgeon, and I don't pretend to be one on the innnertubes), when I'm following expert medical advice that has a proven track record of success, well, that's both foolish and ridiculous.
The problem isn't your hosts file - it's your behaviour, which certainly is absurd, and probably disturbed as well.
That leads to another question - why? What is it about me in particular that sets you off worse than anyone else? Is it me, or do you have a problem with women in general (I seem to recall some attacks you made on other women who have challenged you that would indicate that this may be the case)? Do you think that men are superior to women, and that anyone who willingly "trades in" to become a woman is stupid because you have a low opinion of women?
And that, of course, brings us back on-topic - the "science has a sexual assault problem. You don't seem to be capable of the introspection necessary to realize how absurd your behaviour is. How many other women have you felt it's your right to attack, and still continue years later, about their sex, gender, or sexual identity, just because you disagreed with their opinion on a technical issue of absolutely no import to anyone but you?
"Send in the drones!" Why not fight drones with drones? Cheaper than a stupid "drone shield" that sends you a text, probably without enough time to do anything.
Throw in a few old-tech barrage balloons (even weather balloons will do) trailing netting (even helicopters will avoid that), some really high-powered water and potato cannons, and the odd trebuchet filled with flaming dung or politicians (same diff), and "The Making of Star Wars Episode VII" becomes more than just filler.
You seem to forget that I once worked for the Russians. They taught me a few things, I taught them a few things, fun times.
It's entirely possible to create malware that doesn't use DNS, and it doesn't matter how many entries you put in your hosts file, you're screwed. We investigated this because we had to be ready if someone tried to do this to us, because they could have poisoned a LOT of computers that way. And, of course, because it's always handy to have something special in your bag of tricks :-)
Like I said, it's absurd not to take advantage of the capabilities of modern hardware. Because if you don't some $BAD_PERSON out there will be quite happy to steal all those cpu cycles you "saved."
Your "15 questions" are straw men that take away from the point that you're obsolete, and so is your hosts file "solution", which is why you have a long reputation of being the "hosts file troll".
Come on, Android can change the layout of widgets, as well as the logic behind them, on everything from phones to HD TVs.
Just grab the "settings" app and see the difference in layout between a phone and a tablet. On the phone, selecting an item brings up an overlay screen of options for that selection. On a tablet, the selection list is displayed on the left, the options on the right.
You can make arbitrarily complex layouts to accommodate different needs on different displays. Same as Windows.
It was, but Sun fragmented Java ME (Micro Edition) so they could get millions in licensing fees from all the different variants of the runtime engine since they were pretty closely tied to each phone's hardware for performance reasons.
It's not like today, when we have quad core phones with oodles of ram for under $200, and tablets breaking the $100 barrier, and we can afford to run a generic runtime.
You're such a fool, apk. Stuck in the mid-90s technologically, the '70s socially ... transsexual women have the same status in law as genetic women. And in society? We're where gays and lesbians were a generation ago - uber-cool to have at least one as a friend. Jealous much?
All I told people to do is what you've been doing to others for years. You can dish it out (sort of), but you can't take it, because you're a hypocrite, like most narcissists.
As for the "sockpuppet account" charge, you know it's bogus. When I was outed on slashdot in '06, I took a second account that was more gender-appropriate. And no, you didn't "chase me away" in 2012 - my retinas deteriorated to the point where I couldn't use a computer (or read, or sometimes even see). Contrary to expectations, and thanks to a lot of hard work by several teams of specialists, I can see well enough to use a computer, read, do day-to-day tasks (just don't ask me to drive a car, tell the difference between colours, ask me if a picture is straight, or similar stuff). If I still had the old passwords, I would have gone back to using my old accounts.
But keep on going through every post I make, and using proxies to post 100 times a day about how I'm such a weird freak. All you're doing is reinforcing your reputation as a social maladroit and a hater of people like me who put the "T" in LGBT.
Anyone with brains can write a botnet that doesn't use dns. Sure, it will be taken down quicker, but there are ways around that as well. Sheesh, get over it, this is not 1985 any more.
Alexander P. Kowolski, the HOSTS file troll. Just google "apk hosts file troll."
One result, from the Debian mailing lists
Sometimes referred to as the APK approach (a famous troll) who devoted his life to promoting the hosts file as a cure for everything - more than just a filter - it's a firewall - it's an antivirus - it stops spyware, fixes your car, and makes you look thin! Last I heard *his* hosts files were around the 12MB mark! Hosts files work fine I guess (they certainly keep you busy!) - though they lack the fine grain control (wildcards, selected fileextensions, regular expressions) of AdBlock Plus, protection against cross-site scripting, element hiding, the ability to block flash and java elements - and the reporting ability. And it's easy to write new extensions for it. You could probably import the basis of a host block list from an AdBlock subscription. NoScript combined with AdBlock (they're both in the repositories) allow you to remove the mouse-overs and the embedded (javascript written) ads as well. Host files will only remove some ads, and they can't do squat about floating divs or javascript document writes.
His "solution" is absurd in an era when even cheap laptops have quad cores and oddles of ram to run whatever you want, including browser extensions. And yet, pointing out that he has one heck of a reputation as the "HOSTS file troll" or that his "solution" is so '90s gets the same response. With me, of course, he takes it to an entirely different (and lower) level. Kind of sad, really.
"you transsexual weirdo"
"I did *NOT* bother "shim"
The others included references and links to a pic from Rocky Horror Picture Show, saying that I was nuts for "cutting off my balls", "He/She", Frank. N. Furter, "you are mentally unhinged by taking estrogen to attempt to upset your body's natural order of things, which yes, includes your mind taking a huge hit. You have mentally unbalanced yourself more than doing something quite insane in a sex change to yourself also."
And a lot more. And this goes on every day ...
Sexual harassment in a thread about sexual harassment? This all started because someone asked "What is APK" and I told them.
Now, back on topic, the headline is mislabeled (so what else is new). It says "Science has a sexual assault problem," whereas the actual survey talks about sexual harassment. And a lot of posters seem to have failed to make the distinction.
One (not exhaustive) definition of sexual harassment I would use is words or acts containing references to sex or sexual identity that either make me uncomfortable, or, or, in APK's case, were intended to make me uncomfortable but failed. Sexual assault, on the other hand, is when I'm lying on a hospital gurney in emergency with paper towels stuffed between my legs to stop the bleeding after being attacked. And for the doubters that sexual assault is under-reported, I didn't report that incident - the doctors did. I couldn't tell them. I just wanted the whole world to leave me suffer alone in peace.
Sexual harassment is not a case of "I'll know it when I see it", because too many of the harassers simply don't get it in the first place. Saying so doesn't make me a feminazi - there are plenty of men who do "get it". And there are other parts of the world where it's a heck of a lot worse, due to a culture that treats women as 3rd-class citizens.
Plus, I can't tell for sure but it appears that she's not wearing a bra in that video - sending mixed signals maybe?
Seriously? I mean, seriously?
The problem with relying for support for separation from the younger generation, as Quebec separatists found out, is that the younger generation gets jobs, gets invested in the status quo, and then think "separatists - they're just young punks who don't know anything about real life."
And the next "younger generation" sees separation as something for old farts. Uncool.
The reality is that there's more people in the RoC (Rest of Canada) who would vote to kick Quebec out than there are Quebecers willing to pull the trigger on separation. You can only make a "knife to the throat" threat so many times before the other party says "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
Actually, experience up here in Kanuckistan seems to indicate that everyone will win (if by "everyone" we mean everyone who isn't a politician or a dyed-in-the-wool separatist).
We've had two referendums, and they proved one thing - change IS possible. The separatist movement here has burned itself out, the generation who were pushing for it being seen as burned-out old farts. Go back to the UK in 40 years and tell me that everyone lost.
Nothing I wrote in any way gives an impression that I support, in any shape, manner or form, a "blame the victim" mentality. However, contributory negligence is a fact of life, and in no way is the same as saying "you deserved to get raped because of how you dressed."
Picking weak, easy-to-guess passwords is contributory negligence. Ask any bank. You're using a service with certain rules, including the responsibility to choose a reasonably secure password. There's no similar rule in our society saying "It's my responsibility to dress a certain way or I'm acting in a contributory negligent way when someone gropes me in the subway." Different "problem domain." Different expectations.
It doesn't make it right, whether it's the groper or the hacker. But pretty much every service has in their TOS a warning about choosing a non-trivial password, and many won't even approve one that's too weak.
So many people have learned the hard way that sharing nude pics or a racy video with just ONE person can lead to the whole world having it. As the beer commercial says, "Ex" says it all ...
Quote from a 1950 movie, Born Yesterday:
He always used to say, "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of The New York Times."
It's still good advice today. We're inundated with examples of what can happen. In too many cases, the victim is guilty of contributory negligence, at the very least. Example: "What do you mean, 1-2-3-4-5 isn't a good password?"
Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Banks have already established that your funds aren't covered if you use a stupid, easy-to-guess PIN.
Poor people don't have kids so there's someone to care for them when they get old. That "middle generation" always ends up with more than enough problems just taking care of themselves and their own kids. Plus, given the historically high infant mortality rate in the areas we're talking about, conventional thinking is you need more than "a heir and a spare" to actually HAVE a heir and a spare.
Robot care for the elderly is not a solution when there's not enough resources to FEED everyone, or clean water for everyone - and we're already past any realistic sustainability point.
All the virtual pizzas and hamburgers won't fill a single real-world stomach.