Law governs legal penalties; personal opinion and choice governs everything else we do. It's the law, because we are a free society.
The law should take the position that it is better for ten guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be punished. But in our personal dealings we can do whatever the heck we want because we are free people. There are plenty of things that should not be illegal that should still face social consequences. And while under the law the burden of proof should be "beyond a reasonable doubt," I don't have to wait for that standard before deciding I don't want to be around someone or don't want my children to be around them.
I've lived in a rural part of Texas for almost ten years. I left a programming job at a telecommunications company and joined a software outfit that had been out here for 25 years. I'm much happier here.
a peculiar kind of aggravation that mental health experts say can provoke rage in even the most mild-mannered person
Is there a citation for that, or is this one of the 72% of statistics that are just made up? My mental health expert told me that I needed to learn how to control my anger and never lose my temper, because an angry outburst is temporary insanity and will always make my problem worse. He went on to teach me how to practice relaxation as an automatic response to frustration so that my mind would literally rewire my neurons for the new habit of problem solving rather than for the old habit of blowing my stack. I find I'm much better at dealing with the problems I face in life now, much more creative at solving those problems, and much happier as a result.
For Netflix, Amazon Prime, and streaming your own media, I recommend the Amazone FireTV stick + Plex. It's what I use for exactly that use case, and it works well. The FireTV stick is usually cheap and every so often Amazon runs a sale.
Actually for most languages I have used in the last 20 years, it is **. My son recently got into programming and his first programming language used ** as well. At this point I don't remember what language I learned that used ^. I remember in one language that was bitwise negation or something and never did what I wanted.
I never feel like a higher level of government having more power to restrain the lower level of government is a good solution, though. It lends itself to all kinds of abuses. I would prefer the lower levels of government restrain the higher levels and that at the very bottom the government be very scared of its people.
Right, YouTube is doing something for me right now. Artists getting paid for something they performed years ago are not doing something right now. The service that is being provided to me is being provided by the distributor, and I am fine with them being rewarded. It's their network, and mine, doing the work today.
How do you renounce participation in security that the US military provides you?
Believe me, I've been desperately trying to figure out how to renounce participation in the "security" that the US military provides me for years. I am sick of my countrymen and fellow westerners being attacked by pissed off brown people that the U.S. and other western governments keep bombing, and I am sick of my Hispanic neighbors to the south being told they can't come live and work near me.
The Issue: People are forced to be subject to governments and to participate in their programs, usually as providers of financial support, regardless of their wishes to the contrary.
The Principle: As all political association must be voluntary, we recognize the right to political secession. This includes the right to secession by political entities, private groups or individuals. Exercise of this right, like the exercise of all other rights, does not remove legal and moral obligations not to violate the rights of others.
Solutions: We support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their affiliation with any government, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by those governments, while in turn accepting no support from the government from which they seceded.
Transitional Action: As a transition step, we support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their participation in any government program, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by that program, while in turn accepting no benefit from the program from which they seceded.
I don't support the Libertarian Party, but that's a quote from their 2004 platform, and I agree with it.
existing programmers don't like these efforts because they feel that doing so will result in kids being exposed to programming in a manner different then how they were introduced to it
Right, we don't like it when you do it in a way that is unlikely to be effective in helping more people learn to program and learn to enjoy programming. Because most of us like nothing more than the joy of spreading the love of programming.
white guys... largely comprised of white men
Oh, baloney. My university UTA was nicknamed the "University of TenThousand Asians." I'd go to the computer lab and come out with an accent. I once commented that a coworker who was flying back to Boston didn't sound like he was from Boston because he had a "normal midwestern accent" and a startled colleague said "jdavidb - he has a thick Indian accent! What are you talking about?" I didn't even notice because that was just normal to me.
Most programmers I know at least online have a leftist or multicultural bent, and nearly all of them love to help new programmers who show an aptitude.
My kids are homeschooled and are learning to program, and we're quite multicultural with weekly attendance at a bilingual church. I don't think more institutionalized schooling is the solution here, and it's not that I want to reserve programming to a priesthood of white men.
I'm writing about the point of view of a person looking for options when they are a victim and legal recourse is inadequate. In such a case the person knows full well what the truth is.
So, apparently there are a solid number of people who are well aware of things this guy has been doing
that are supposedly solidly covered by normal criminal law, and they have known for some time, and yet
no charges have been pressed, no police have been involved, and no one has had a day in court?
Instead, we have people who can 'verify Anonymous victims' (no, really) and that makes a public and well
organised smeer campaign the correct path forward?
however vigilante justice is now the socially accepted way of dealing with
what should be reasonably simple criminal complaints
This is not vigilante justice. It's just telling the truth publicly, and it encourages other victims to report these crimes sooner and more regularly.
he also has the right to face his accusers (in a court of law), have a legal defense,
all those trappings of a just society that we all would demand, dont we?
No, that's only if they charge him in a court of law. This is just telling the truth. Nothing wrong with that. Everybody should know the good news.
Everybody ought to read the entirety of the letter that came out yesterday from Brock Turner's victim. It shows exactly what it's like to be checked out for sexual assault.
In the wake of what happened to an actual convicted rapist Brock Turner, it's no wonder that victims are afraid to step forward. Depending on the color and social level of the perpetrator, there's almost no chance of justice and a very large chance that the victim's life will be further destroyed.
Ronin Farrow wrote a superb piece recently based on his sister's own experience of a molestation suit that gives a lot of explanation as to why victims don't always want to come forward or continue to pursue the matter.
Maybe they can apply this to those terrible security questions. Was my high school mascot the Cardinals or the Red Cardinals? Which one did I type when I was first asked this question, because we used to call ourselves both when I was in school. And did I capitalize it? And did I pluralize it? I got locked out of an important system because of this, and it was a system that didn't need that level of security.
I never upgrade machines; I just wait till a new machine comes with the new OS. That said I went to Windows 10 on new machines at work and home all at the same time, and I have no real complaints, as long as I have:
Cygwin
Firefox
A selection of tools from ninite.com
These are the programs that have made Windows tolerable for me since NT, and as long as I have them, the specific version of Windows has never been too much of a problem.
By the way, I like Windows 10 much more than Windows 8.
Slashdot Mirror
We can't have a truly free market in art thanks to copyright
Are we a society rules by law?
Law governs legal penalties; personal opinion and choice governs everything else we do. It's the law, because we are a free society.
The law should take the position that it is better for ten guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be punished. But in our personal dealings we can do whatever the heck we want because we are free people. There are plenty of things that should not be illegal that should still face social consequences. And while under the law the burden of proof should be "beyond a reasonable doubt," I don't have to wait for that standard before deciding I don't want to be around someone or don't want my children to be around them.
I've lived in a rural part of Texas for almost ten years. I left a programming job at a telecommunications company and joined a software outfit that had been out here for 25 years. I'm much happier here.
science has no business telling people how to live.
It is well within the realm of science to tell people how to live their lives BUT not force them to.
That's what this guy was saying when he said "telling people how to live." You're arguing against a strawman.
Also, you just proved why this whole proposal should never happen.
a peculiar kind of aggravation that mental health experts say can provoke rage in even the most mild-mannered person
Is there a citation for that, or is this one of the 72% of statistics that are just made up? My mental health expert told me that I needed to learn how to control my anger and never lose my temper, because an angry outburst is temporary insanity and will always make my problem worse. He went on to teach me how to practice relaxation as an automatic response to frustration so that my mind would literally rewire my neurons for the new habit of problem solving rather than for the old habit of blowing my stack. I find I'm much better at dealing with the problems I face in life now, much more creative at solving those problems, and much happier as a result.
I take notes in vi all day long.
For Netflix, Amazon Prime, and streaming your own media, I recommend the Amazone FireTV stick + Plex. It's what I use for exactly that use case, and it works well. The FireTV stick is usually cheap and every so often Amazon runs a sale.
Actually for most languages I have used in the last 20 years, it is **. My son recently got into programming and his first programming language used ** as well. At this point I don't remember what language I learned that used ^. I remember in one language that was bitwise negation or something and never did what I wanted.
I never feel like a higher level of government having more power to restrain the lower level of government is a good solution, though. It lends itself to all kinds of abuses. I would prefer the lower levels of government restrain the higher levels and that at the very bottom the government be very scared of its people.
Right, YouTube is doing something for me right now. Artists getting paid for something they performed years ago are not doing something right now. The service that is being provided to me is being provided by the distributor, and I am fine with them being rewarded. It's their network, and mine, doing the work today.
generate huge profits by creating ease of use for consumers to carry almost every recorded song in history in their pocket via a smartphone
Heaven forbid that somebody do something that makes my life more wonderful and get massively rewarded for it.
How do you renounce participation in security that the US military provides you?
Believe me, I've been desperately trying to figure out how to renounce participation in the "security" that the US military provides me for years. I am sick of my countrymen and fellow westerners being attacked by pissed off brown people that the U.S. and other western governments keep bombing, and I am sick of my Hispanic neighbors to the south being told they can't come live and work near me.
The Issue: People are forced to be subject to governments and to participate in their programs, usually as providers of financial support, regardless of their wishes to the contrary.
The Principle: As all political association must be voluntary, we recognize the right to political secession. This includes the right to secession by political entities, private groups or individuals. Exercise of this right, like the exercise of all other rights, does not remove legal and moral obligations not to violate the rights of others.
Solutions: We support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their affiliation with any government, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by those governments, while in turn accepting no support from the government from which they seceded.
Transitional Action: As a transition step, we support the right of political entities, private groups and individuals to renounce their participation in any government program, and to be exempt from the obligations imposed by that program, while in turn accepting no benefit from the program from which they seceded.
I don't support the Libertarian Party, but that's a quote from their 2004 platform, and I agree with it.
Only if you reject the concept, that taxes are your due share in being part of a society you profit from.
Of course I reject that concept. Taxes are the resources the government uses to wage war on others and on ourselves.
If you copied my song without being authorized by me, ... you took away my ability to control who copies it
Who cares? Whenever somebody is granted monopoly privilege it should certainly be "stolen" in this manner.
Yeah, but it's +2, Troll, which is always cool. :)
He's not qualified to say that copying is theft because it isn't factually true.
Copying isn't theft
existing programmers don't like these efforts because they feel that doing so will result in kids being exposed to programming in a manner different then how they were introduced to it
Right, we don't like it when you do it in a way that is unlikely to be effective in helping more people learn to program and learn to enjoy programming. Because most of us like nothing more than the joy of spreading the love of programming.
white guys ... largely comprised of white men
Oh, baloney. My university UTA was nicknamed the "University of TenThousand Asians." I'd go to the computer lab and come out with an accent. I once commented that a coworker who was flying back to Boston didn't sound like he was from Boston because he had a "normal midwestern accent" and a startled colleague said "jdavidb - he has a thick Indian accent! What are you talking about?" I didn't even notice because that was just normal to me.
Most programmers I know at least online have a leftist or multicultural bent, and nearly all of them love to help new programmers who show an aptitude.
My kids are homeschooled and are learning to program, and we're quite multicultural with weekly attendance at a bilingual church. I don't think more institutionalized schooling is the solution here, and it's not that I want to reserve programming to a priesthood of white men.
I'm writing about the point of view of a person looking for options when they are a victim and legal recourse is inadequate. In such a case the person knows full well what the truth is.
So, apparently there are a solid number of people who are well aware of things this guy has been doing that are supposedly solidly covered by normal criminal law, and they have known for some time, and yet no charges have been pressed, no police have been involved, and no one has had a day in court? Instead, we have people who can 'verify Anonymous victims' (no, really) and that makes a public and well organised smeer campaign the correct path forward?
Read what the prosecutor said about the case against Woody Allen on behalf of Dylan Farrow. Read the letter from Brock Turner's victim and learn about what she went through just to get the guy a six months' sentence. Read about Bill Cosby's victims. Find out why criminal complaints are not the path forward.
however vigilante justice is now the socially accepted way of dealing with what should be reasonably simple criminal complaints
This is not vigilante justice. It's just telling the truth publicly, and it encourages other victims to report these crimes sooner and more regularly.
he also has the right to face his accusers (in a court of law), have a legal defense, all those trappings of a just society that we all would demand, dont we?
No, that's only if they charge him in a court of law. This is just telling the truth. Nothing wrong with that. Everybody should know the good news.
Everybody ought to read the entirety of the letter that came out yesterday from Brock Turner's victim. It shows exactly what it's like to be checked out for sexual assault.
In the wake of what happened to an actual convicted rapist Brock Turner, it's no wonder that victims are afraid to step forward. Depending on the color and social level of the perpetrator, there's almost no chance of justice and a very large chance that the victim's life will be further destroyed.
Ronin Farrow wrote a superb piece recently based on his sister's own experience of a molestation suit that gives a lot of explanation as to why victims don't always want to come forward or continue to pursue the matter.
Maybe they can apply this to those terrible security questions. Was my high school mascot the Cardinals or the Red Cardinals? Which one did I type when I was first asked this question, because we used to call ourselves both when I was in school. And did I capitalize it? And did I pluralize it? I got locked out of an important system because of this, and it was a system that didn't need that level of security.
I never upgrade machines; I just wait till a new machine comes with the new OS. That said I went to Windows 10 on new machines at work and home all at the same time, and I have no real complaints, as long as I have:
These are the programs that have made Windows tolerable for me since NT, and as long as I have them, the specific version of Windows has never been too much of a problem.
By the way, I like Windows 10 much more than Windows 8.