Not really. Slashdot has become a disgustingly safe haven for wannabe trolls with grotesque messaging. Can I get a penis bird at least? Some hot grits? A page widening? Something other than "NIGGER" "GAY"? That post wasn't offensive, it was cliche. Keep up the good work, dipshits.
Residents in the South African city of Cape Town are trying to reduce crime by staring at suspected criminals such as prostitutes and drug dealers. Yellow Bibs members stare at suspects for up to 15 minutes
Three nights a week a group of up to 30 people from Sea Point go out, stand on the pavement and give wrongdoers "the evil eye".
Sea Point is notorious for crime and has a sleazy reputation, where groups of drug dealers can be seen lurking in alleyways and girls stand on street corners in miniskirts waiting for business.
The Yellow Bibs, as the neighbourhood group is known because of the uniforms they wear, say it only takes about 15 minutes before the people they watch start to feel uncomfortable and leave.
Shops re-open
The initiative was the brainchild of a local city councillor, JP Smith.
He is convinced that the presence of the residents has made a difference to the area since they started four months ago.
He says about 50 shops and local businesses have re-opened and criminal gangs have moved out of the area.
The prostitutes... got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV City Councillor JP Smith "We've drastically affected their core business, by reclaiming the streets for the residents," he says.
He hopes that more people will join the group so they can watch would be criminals every night of the week.
You might think the Yellow Bibs would be putting themselves in extreme danger, but they have a police escort and even a private security firm with them so they say they feel safe.
Unnerved
"No one has ever been physically abused although we have suffered verbal abuse from the prostitutes who have a very flowery vocabulary," says Mr Smith.
He explains how the residents' icy stares unnerved one group of sex workers recently.
"The prostitutes told me I couldn't stand there all the time," he recalls.
"I said of course, I could. They got irritated and left, but we followed them. They tried to sneak back, until they couldn't stand it anymore, so they got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV."
As well as cracking down on ladies of the night, the Yellow Bibs are also keeping a careful eye out for kerb-crawlers.
"We send the customer a picture of his car and a community service notice saying the car was seen in an area plagued by prostitution," says Mr Smith.
"If the guy's wife opens the envelope, it's not our fault!"
Also, why do people bitch when I don't wash my hands after taking a leak? I'm not pissing on myself and I bathe regularly. My penis is clean, and my penis sheath goes to the cleaners at least once a month. What gives?
Thousands of innocents are dying around the world from causes you can prevent. Instead, you sit on your asses and stare at a radiation machine. Way to go, America.
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.
What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed.
If you could travel back in a time machine, one thing would be true no matter where you went: you'd have to watch what you said. Opinions we consider harmless could have gotten you in big trouble. I've already said at least one thing that would have gotten me in big trouble in most of Europe in the seventeenth century, and did get Galileo in big trouble when he said it-- that the earth moves. [1]
Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them.
It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.
Is our time any different? To anyone who has read any amount of history, the answer is almost certainly no. It would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right.
It's tantalizing to think we believe things that people in the future will find ridiculous. What would someone coming back to visit us in a time machine have to be careful not to say? That's what I want to study here. But I want to do more than just shock everyone with the heresy du jour. I want to find general recipes for discovering what you can't say, in any era.
The Conformist Test
Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?
If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.
The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence.
Like every other era in history, our moral map almost certainly contains a few mistakes. And anyone who makes the same mistakes probably didn't do it by accident. It would be like someone claiming they had independently decided in 1972 that bell-bottom jeans were a good idea.
If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
Back in the era of terms like "well-adjusted," the idea seemed to be that there was something wrong with you if you thought things you didn't dare say out loud. This seems backward. Almost certainly, there is something wrong with you if you don't think things you don't dare say out loud.
Trouble
What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for. [2]
Of course, we're not just looking for things we can't say. We're looking for things we can't say that are true, or at least have enough chance of being true that the question should remain open. But ma
George W. Bush is the closest we'll ever get to our recently fallen hero. A vote for him in '04 is a vote for Ronnie's legacy to live on! Also, put Ronnie on the 10 dollar bill. Thank you, have a goodnight, and a pleasant tomorrow. =)
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You know, that was quite exhilirating, to say the least. In other news, you can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.
Skull and Bones. Look it up.
I'm still alive. And my penis is divine.
We're only gonna die for our arrogance.
My penis shrunk 2 inches today. That leaves me with 2 inches total. How sad.
Not really. Slashdot has become a disgustingly safe haven for wannabe trolls with grotesque messaging. Can I get a penis bird at least? Some hot grits? A page widening? Something other than "NIGGER" "GAY"? That post wasn't offensive, it was cliche. Keep up the good work, dipshits.
My penis has become engorged with blood at the sight of the new TrimSpa Anna Nicole commercials. That is all.
Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Residents in the South African city of Cape Town are trying to reduce crime by staring at suspected criminals such as prostitutes and drug dealers.
Yellow Bibs members stare at suspects for up to 15 minutes
Three nights a week a group of up to 30 people from Sea Point go out, stand on the pavement and give wrongdoers "the evil eye".
Sea Point is notorious for crime and has a sleazy reputation, where groups of drug dealers can be seen lurking in alleyways and girls stand on street corners in miniskirts waiting for business.
The Yellow Bibs, as the neighbourhood group is known because of the uniforms they wear, say it only takes about 15 minutes before the people they watch start to feel uncomfortable and leave.
Shops re-open
The initiative was the brainchild of a local city councillor, JP Smith.
He is convinced that the presence of the residents has made a difference to the area since they started four months ago.
He says about 50 shops and local businesses have re-opened and criminal gangs have moved out of the area.
The prostitutes... got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV
City Councillor JP Smith
"We've drastically affected their core business, by reclaiming the streets for the residents," he says.
He hopes that more people will join the group so they can watch would be criminals every night of the week.
You might think the Yellow Bibs would be putting themselves in extreme danger, but they have a police escort and even a private security firm with them so they say they feel safe.
Unnerved
"No one has ever been physically abused although we have suffered verbal abuse from the prostitutes who have a very flowery vocabulary," says Mr Smith.
He explains how the residents' icy stares unnerved one group of sex workers recently.
"The prostitutes told me I couldn't stand there all the time," he recalls.
"I said of course, I could. They got irritated and left, but we followed them. They tried to sneak back, until they couldn't stand it anymore, so they got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV."
As well as cracking down on ladies of the night, the Yellow Bibs are also keeping a careful eye out for kerb-crawlers.
"We send the customer a picture of his car and a community service notice saying the car was seen in an area plagued by prostitution," says Mr Smith.
"If the guy's wife opens the envelope, it's not our fault!"
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Is there a reason for this?
Also, why do people bitch when I don't wash my hands after taking a leak? I'm not pissing on myself and I bathe regularly. My penis is clean, and my penis sheath goes to the cleaners at least once a month. What gives?
Thousands of innocents are dying around the world from causes you can prevent. Instead, you sit on your asses and stare at a radiation machine. Way to go, America.
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.
What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed.
If you could travel back in a time machine, one thing would be true no matter where you went: you'd have to watch what you said. Opinions we consider harmless could have gotten you in big trouble. I've already said at least one thing that would have gotten me in big trouble in most of Europe in the seventeenth century, and did get Galileo in big trouble when he said it-- that the earth moves. [1]
Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them.
It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.
Is our time any different? To anyone who has read any amount of history, the answer is almost certainly no. It would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right.
It's tantalizing to think we believe things that people in the future will find ridiculous. What would someone coming back to visit us in a time machine have to be careful not to say? That's what I want to study here. But I want to do more than just shock everyone with the heresy du jour. I want to find general recipes for discovering what you can't say, in any era.
The Conformist Test
Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?
If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.
The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence.
Like every other era in history, our moral map almost certainly contains a few mistakes. And anyone who makes the same mistakes probably didn't do it by accident. It would be like someone claiming they had independently decided in 1972 that bell-bottom jeans were a good idea.
If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
Back in the era of terms like "well-adjusted," the idea seemed to be that there was something wrong with you if you thought things you didn't dare say out loud. This seems backward. Almost certainly, there is something wrong with you if you don't think things you don't dare say out loud.
Trouble
What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for. [2]
Of course, we're not just looking for things we can't say. We're looking for things we can't say that are true, or at least have enough chance of being true that the question should remain open. But ma
keep recuiting minorities
fake going nuts to scam infirmary drugs
send in the clowns!
Just wanted to let you know I'm not dead. Also, I'm voting for Nader.
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I'm premature this month because of my excitement over this first post!!
It's called Windows XP.
YOU'LL NEVER FIND OUR WMD AND WE WILL KILL YOU.
i hope gnaa gets hit first.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
The commission investigating the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US has found no "credible evidence" that Iraq helped al-Qaeda carry them out.
Didn't see that one coming...
Oh yeah, sony r00lz.
George W. Bush is the closest we'll ever get to our recently fallen hero. A vote for him in '04 is a vote for Ronnie's legacy to live on! Also, put Ronnie on the 10 dollar bill. Thank you, have a goodnight, and a pleasant tomorrow. =)
I'm sure this will have a huge impact on society.
Terrorist sympathyzer.
Osama bin Laden devotee.
'nuff said.
And you give a SHIT about MS? This entire website makes me sick.
I've found you a woman
Software is one of the most valuable technologies of the Information Age, running everything from PCs to the Internet. Unfortunately, because software is so valuable, and because computers make it easy to create an exact copy of a program in seconds, software piracy is widespread. From individual computer users to professionals who deal wholesale in stolen software, piracy exists in homes, schools, businesses and government. Software pirates not only steal from the companies that make the software, but with less money for research and development of new software, all users are hurt. That's why all software piracy -- even one copy you make for a friend -- is illegal.
As the number of PCs and Internet use grow, the incidence of software piracy is growing, too. The Business Software Alliance believes new technologies should enhance ways to access and distribute copyrighted works legally, not illegally. I hope you will take this into consideration.