...and what have you done to correct this? Your daughter is learning fraud. Of course, at this point it's likely already too late. She'll always use her intelligence to swindle people.
Does anything about her doing this bother you, from a moral or ethical standpoint?
On one hand it seems harmless, but if you, yes you were to spend your hard-earned money on a crappy product and then found that you'd based your buying decision on secretly-incentivized reviews, would you not feel that you'd been mislead, lied to, or deceived?
If my son were to do this, I couldn't help but feel that he wasn't the person I'd hoped he be.
The guy who takes the bribe is one the one legitimizing corruption.
The one who takes the bribe is participating in and completing the corruption, but without the offer there would nothing to participate in.
The first mover in this case is the one who offers, and even if the bribe isn't taken it's still against the law. Why do you suppose that is? It's because it opens the door to the acceptance of the bribe, it begins the criminal action. Without the offer there would be no chance of the crime being committed. And that's why just the offering of a bribe is considered as a criminal act, as it should be.
Offering a bribe is illegal, and I'm glad it is. Otherwise everything would be open to the highest bidder- justice, medical care, and the consequences of criminality. Bribers would be safe to try and subvert the course of justice (for example) without any fear of repercussion.
"You won't take my bribe? Okay- no harm, no foul, have a nice day!"
My, wouldn't that be nice. You could just go judge-shopping until you found one who took your money in exchange for being found innocent. And the same thing goes for police officers or any other public official that might impede your, ummm, "progress" through life. .
For most people, it probably was not obvious that a speaker even had the correct hardware to function as a microphone. I for one had no idea.
It should be apparent if you think about it for a moment. A speaker is a transducer, and almost all transducers work both ways (albeit one mode is usually more efficient than the other). A speaker and a microphone are basically the same thing, just optimized for sound in or sound out.
Stress a piezoelectric chip slightly and you get voltage, apply voltage and it bends slightly. Apply heat to a thermocouple and you get voltage, apply voltage and it heats up. Expose a photosensitive chip to light and you get voltage*, apply voltage and it will emit a small amount of light. Shake a mechanical motion sensor and you get voltage, apply voltage and it will move or expand/contract.
It should really be no surprise to anyone familiar with basic physics that this is the rule, but then they stopped teaching this stuff in public schools back in the 1980s.
Being "suspicious" in somebody's eyes is not a crime, it's not even a misdemeanor.
It may not be a crime, but it's often treated like it's a crime.
Go look at some of the First Amendment audits* on Youtube and let me know if being "suspicious" is treated like it's a crime or not. (SPOILER: It often is.)
* Some channels to try: "News Now Houston", PINAC, "The Battousai", or HONORYOUROATH
We have you to thank for his victory. You are the Trump supporter, not me.
Sounds like projection to me. Especially since I've made no secret of the fact that I voted against him.:)
It's people like YOU that see nothing wrong with offering a bribe who are the kind of actors that legitimize corruption. Trump is your guy, as he would be right there with you defending your rights to subvert the honest flow of commerce, justice, and democracy.
Your mistake is believing that Trump understands how government works.
Oh no, I thinks it's painfully clear that he has no idea how our government works. He apparently thinks it's some sort of dictatorship where he wields unquestioned power to do whatever the hell he wants.
The fact is that he's going to hate being president when he finds out that he's practically powerless to do anything, including all the pie-in-the-sky shit he's promised his gullible followers. He'll have no freedom, practically no privacy, his every utterance and movement will be under an unrelenting microscope of press attention, he'll be criticized publicly for every stupid thing he does, and he's going to hate it.
There will be no wall. Never gonna happen. He's not going to wipe out the ACA on his first day in office, and probably not ever. He's not going to block Muslims from coming to the US. Never gonna happen. He's not going to get a "Muslim Registry". Never gonna happen. He's not going to deport 2 to 3 million people, much less 11 million. Never gonna happen. He's not going to lock up Hillary Clinton. Never gonna happen. He's not going to bring back all (or any) of those jobs to the US. Never gonna happen. He's not going to weaken the libel laws. Never gonna happen.
He'll wind up an embittered old fart, hiding out in Trump Tower, afraid to face the media and the American people. None of his shit plans will succeed and he's not going to "make America great again". It's already great. It's like saying he'll "make the ocean wet again".
Someone needs to tell him that that's not the way it works.
Nothing gets done on the first day except for maybe figuring out how the blinds work and where the bathrooms are.
Legislation is just a little more complicated than that. He couldn't repeal anything on his first day even if the entire country, Congress included, wanted it done. Legislation isn't like a light switch.
So you think that anyone who has the money should be allowed to try and corrupt the system, get special favors, subvert democracy...
They can try.
Now this is just fucked up. Given human nature and needs, people like you will fuck up the world beyond repair if given half a chance. I'll bet you're a libertarian, aren't you?
So you REALLY think it's fair that I should get a job that you're more qualified for or I should get medical care that you need just because I have a little more money in my pocket? You are one fucked up whack job. Thank goodness twats like you don't run the world.
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That is illogical. I'm old, but not that old. Bribery was made illegal long before I was born.
Bribery was made illegal long before you were born because dickheads like you have existed since long before you were born.
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The good news is that you're gonna love our new president!
Wrong. I do not care for him at all. He did not get my vote. On the other hand I have to wait to see what he does after he takes office.
Bullshit, he's exactly your kind of guy- a liar, a crooked cheater, a fan of bribery, and an incest-admiring crank.
Fucking hell- after interacting with you I feel like I need to go wash my hands. Echh.
Do you still maintain that offering a bribe isn't illegal?
Illegal it is, but unjustly so.
So you think that anyone who has the money should be allowed to try and corrupt the system, get special favors, subvert democracy, or escape the consequences of their actions. Nice.
The bad news is that people like you, yes YOU are the reason that attempted bribery is illegal.
The good news is that you're gonna love our new president!
Do you still maintain that offering a bribe isn't illegal?
Try and bribe a judge or a police officer sometime and let me know what happens. You can argue it was "consensual" all you want, but it won't be a accepted as a viable defense at your prosecution.
Not where I live. I can drive less than a mile and walk into a state-licensed weed store and buy 50 different kinds of marijuana buds, candies, extracts, etc etc.
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Attempted bribery is a bullshit charge
Then attempted murder must be a bullshit charge too, eh?
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...and what have you done to correct this? Your daughter is learning fraud.
Of course, at this point it's likely already too late. She'll always use her intelligence to swindle people.
Congrats on making the world that much shittier.
Well said, and I agree completely.
(I rate your post a 5 out of 5! ) ;)
Does anything about her doing this bother you, from a moral or ethical standpoint?
On one hand it seems harmless, but if you, yes you were to spend your hard-earned money on a crappy product and then found that you'd based your buying decision on secretly-incentivized reviews, would you not feel that you'd been mislead, lied to, or deceived?
If my son were to do this, I couldn't help but feel that he wasn't the person I'd hoped he be.
Which dino(saur)? T-Rex?
I think it may have been a Speakersaurus.
The guy who takes the bribe is one the one legitimizing corruption.
The one who takes the bribe is participating in and completing the corruption, but without the offer there would nothing to participate in.
The first mover in this case is the one who offers, and even if the bribe isn't taken it's still against the law. Why do you suppose that is? It's because it opens the door to the acceptance of the bribe, it begins the criminal action. Without the offer there would be no chance of the crime being committed. And that's why just the offering of a bribe is considered as a criminal act, as it should be.
Offering a bribe is illegal, and I'm glad it is. Otherwise everything would be open to the highest bidder- justice, medical care, and the consequences of criminality. Bribers would be safe to try and subvert the course of justice (for example) without any fear of repercussion.
"You won't take my bribe? Okay- no harm, no foul, have a nice day!"
My, wouldn't that be nice. You could just go judge-shopping until you found one who took your money in exchange for being found innocent. And the same thing goes for police officers or any other public official that might impede your, ummm, "progress" through life. .
every woman gets 100% satisfied sexually
What color is the sky on your planet?
Seriously, your statement is the kind of thing that's said by someone who's never actually had sex, but who watches a lot of porn.
It seems like any plugin speaker with its own amplifier would mitigate this problem. Am I correct in making this assumption?
Generally speaking, yes.
For most people, it probably was not obvious that a speaker even had the correct hardware to function as a microphone. I for one had no idea.
It should be apparent if you think about it for a moment. A speaker is a transducer, and almost all transducers work both ways (albeit one mode is usually more efficient than the other). A speaker and a microphone are basically the same thing, just optimized for sound in or sound out.
Stress a piezoelectric chip slightly and you get voltage, apply voltage and it bends slightly.
Apply heat to a thermocouple and you get voltage, apply voltage and it heats up.
Expose a photosensitive chip to light and you get voltage*, apply voltage and it will emit a small amount of light.
Shake a mechanical motion sensor and you get voltage, apply voltage and it will move or expand/contract.
It should really be no surprise to anyone familiar with basic physics that this is the rule, but then they stopped teaching this stuff in public schools back in the 1980s.
his is nothing new I was using speakers as microphones when I was a teenager back in the 80's (God I feel old)
The first time I did this and heard it work, I was so surprised I fell off my dinosaur.
Being "suspicious" in somebody's eyes is not a crime, it's not even a misdemeanor.
It may not be a crime, but it's often treated like it's a crime.
Go look at some of the First Amendment audits* on Youtube and let me know if being "suspicious" is treated like it's a crime or not. (SPOILER: It often is.)
* Some channels to try: "News Now Houston", PINAC, "The Battousai", or HONORYOUROATH
We have you to thank for his victory. You are the Trump supporter, not me.
Sounds like projection to me. Especially since I've made no secret of the fact that I voted against him. :)
It's people like YOU that see nothing wrong with offering a bribe who are the kind of actors that legitimize corruption. Trump is your guy, as he would be right there with you defending your rights to subvert the honest flow of commerce, justice, and democracy.
. . . you will only see me connecting to random servers all around the world exchanging what seems to be random noise.
Oh yeah, that's not suspicious at all. No sireee, not one bit.
"Sir, he's connecting to random servers all around the world exchanging what seems to be random noise."
"Well that seems totally innocent to me. Everyone connects to random servers all around the world and exchanges random noise."
Let me know when you want to understand the difference between offering and accepting.
Let me know when you understand that offering a bribe is illegal.
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It's pretty huge.
Definitely a Trump supporter, but you forgot the words "tremendous" and "disaster".
Your mistake is believing that Trump understands how government works.
Oh no, I thinks it's painfully clear that he has no idea how our government works. He apparently thinks it's some sort of dictatorship where he wields unquestioned power to do whatever the hell he wants.
The fact is that he's going to hate being president when he finds out that he's practically powerless to do anything, including all the pie-in-the-sky shit he's promised his gullible followers. He'll have no freedom, practically no privacy, his every utterance and movement will be under an unrelenting microscope of press attention, he'll be criticized publicly for every stupid thing he does, and he's going to hate it.
There will be no wall. Never gonna happen.
He's not going to wipe out the ACA on his first day in office, and probably not ever.
He's not going to block Muslims from coming to the US. Never gonna happen.
He's not going to get a "Muslim Registry". Never gonna happen.
He's not going to deport 2 to 3 million people, much less 11 million. Never gonna happen.
He's not going to lock up Hillary Clinton. Never gonna happen.
He's not going to bring back all (or any) of those jobs to the US. Never gonna happen.
He's not going to weaken the libel laws. Never gonna happen.
He'll wind up an embittered old fart, hiding out in Trump Tower, afraid to face the media and the American people. None of his shit plans will succeed and he's not going to "make America great again". It's already great. It's like saying he'll "make the ocean wet again".
Your little tirade has become tiresome...
The truth hurts when people follow your addle-brained bullshit to its logical conclusions, doesn't it? :)
So, you're a quasi-libertarian Trump supporter who thinks offering bribes is okay....lovely.
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Bingo.
Between Adblock and Noscript I almost never get to "enjoy" any of this wonderful "please spy on me" functionality.
Someone needs to tell him that that's not the way it works.
Nothing gets done on the first day except for maybe figuring out how the blinds work and where the bathrooms are.
Legislation is just a little more complicated than that. He couldn't repeal anything on his first day even if the entire country, Congress included, wanted it done. Legislation isn't like a light switch.
So you think that anyone who has the money should be allowed to try and corrupt the system, get special favors, subvert democracy...
They can try.
Now this is just fucked up. Given human nature and needs, people like you will fuck up the world beyond repair if given half a chance. I'll bet you're a libertarian, aren't you?
So you REALLY think it's fair that I should get a job that you're more qualified for or I should get medical care that you need just because I have a little more money in my pocket? You are one fucked up whack job. Thank goodness twats like you don't run the world.
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That is illogical. I'm old, but not that old. Bribery was made illegal long before I was born.
Bribery was made illegal long before you were born because dickheads like you have existed since long before you were born.
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The good news is that you're gonna love our new president!
Wrong. I do not care for him at all. He did not get my vote. On the other hand I have to wait to see what he does after he takes office.
Bullshit, he's exactly your kind of guy- a liar, a crooked cheater, a fan of bribery, and an incest-admiring crank.
Fucking hell- after interacting with you I feel like I need to go wash my hands. Echh.
Congratulations, you just invented Snapchat.
Smell the innovation, baby!
"Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team"
I see nothing that could possibly go wrong for the American people here.
Do you still maintain that offering a bribe isn't illegal?
Illegal it is, but unjustly so.
So you think that anyone who has the money should be allowed to try and corrupt the system, get special favors, subvert democracy, or escape the consequences of their actions. Nice.
The bad news is that people like you, yes YOU are the reason that attempted bribery is illegal.
The good news is that you're gonna love our new president!
Do you still maintain that offering a bribe isn't illegal?
Try and bribe a judge or a police officer sometime and let me know what happens. You can argue it was "consensual" all you want, but it won't be a accepted as a viable defense at your prosecution.
That, sir, is a mistake, even if it does sell, which it does,
I rest my case.
Marijuana is illegal too.
Not where I live. I can drive less than a mile and walk into a state-licensed weed store and buy 50 different kinds of marijuana buds, candies, extracts, etc etc.
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Attempted bribery is a bullshit charge
Then attempted murder must be a bullshit charge too, eh?
Without the love of money, the lobbyists have no power at all.
And without hunger, food has no power at all.
I don't know why you keep going on about the "For the love of money" quote, since I never mentioned it at or made reference to it.
I simply pointed out that super-pacs throw hundreds of millions of dollars into elections, and they wouldn't do that if they didn't think it mattered.
Attempted bribery that is rejected in nothing. It is meaningless.
You're an idiot if you think that's true. Go offer a bribe to a police officer and see what happens.
"But judge, I only offered a bribe to the officer, he didn't accept it!"