What you really need is an app that will geolocate and display your rights in whatever jurisdiction you're in. State by state or even international (languages become a problem here) it tells you what the cops can and can't do to you. It includes a script that says you won't be talking and asks the cop a pointed question. You could even make this run as an mp3, so you wouldn't have to talk at all.
There used to be ads on cable TV for drunk drivers that showed some guy getting pulled over. When the cop came to his window he put a cassette tape into his tape player. A studio announcer's voice came on and said that the driver will not be talking, and rattled off a string of legal arguments in the driver's favor. The driver sat back looking pretty soused and pleased. Now with smartphones you can have that anywhere, and tailored to the jurisdiction. I hope someone chimes in with "dude, they already made that 3 years ago" so I can go download it.
Are you kidding me? The Left in America *despises* the common folk. Seriously, fuckin' hates them. Just look at Lessig...Harvard professor, really? Because Harvard is so well known for NOT being an elitist hellhole. Talk about someone who really cares about rednecks, spics, and niggers. Hell, Harvardites look down on people with PhDs from state universities. Lessie is just another ivory tower academic, if you think he has any compassion or love for the kind of people who post on Slashdot, you are seriously mistaken.
Argument from authority is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy.
In informal reasoning, the appeal to authority is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism. The appeal to authority relies on an argument of the form:
A is an authority on a particular topic
A says something about that topic
A is probably correct
Fallacious examples of using the appeal include any appeal to authority used in the context of logical reasoning, and appealing to the position of an authority or authorities to dismiss evidence, as authorities can come to the wrong judgments through error, bias, dishonesty, or falling prey to groupthink. Thus, the appeal to authority is not a generally reliable argument for establishing facts.
In other words, "The literature is not in error, therefore the literature is not in error."
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Why on earth are you quoting a fake set of rules from a fictional TV show as some sort of citation of truth? The "rules" were made up on the spot as the writers needed them, they're not some kind of unified philosophical system. Plus the rules were forgotten as soon as the episode ended and the characters violated them in later episodes. How many times in the series did Data use a contraction? Yeah, exactly.
No it wouldn't. I've heard this referred to as a "precision F-strike" and it refers to an ordinarily mild-mannered man losing his shit and screaming for a moment in order to make his point crystal-clear for everyone. When all you do is say fuck/shit/bitch all day long, you can't make an impression this way, but when you do it once or twice a year, people remember why you did it.
I know the 'microagression' thing is a beloved trope of the left and fearless Social Justice Warriors. But the thing is, in order to show what a good person you are in this context, you have to keep moving and moving further and further to the left. It always comes to a point where it becomes ridiculous and counterproductive.
Remember the "Black Lives Matter" people who deliberately disrupted the furthest left presidential candidate America has ever had, the openly socialist Bernie Sanders? Yeah, that. If there is anyone who is a friend of the extremists in BLM, it's him - and yet they treated him like an enemy. Even if you're on the left, or the hard left, there are always others who are ready to show you just how far down the rabbit hole goes.
Now, this is just a programming language, this isn't the literal jackboot of oppression as employed by left-wing governments of the past. Nobody is going to be sentenced to slavery or sent down to the countryside for defying Andrew Gerrand. So, let's keep some perspective here. However, this is showing all the classic signs of the ever-ratcheting extremism that is a hallmark of the political left. They'll come for you too, even if you have a stellar record of social justice warrioring. A single offhand comment is sufficient. I thought I recognized the "theodp" account, and sure enough it's one of Slashdot's solidly left-wing contributors, with a long record of approved social justice friendly submissions. But even SHE is turned off by this kind of thing!:(
I don't think a country like Cuba is too concerned with the UN charter of human rights. Go ahead and have a look at it. Particularly Article 9, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."
Cuban law greatly limits freedom of expression, association and assembly. Anyone attempting to voice views, attend meetings, or form organizations that do not conform to government policy or state ideology is likely to be persecuted, the punishments ranging from harassment and loss of employment to imprisonment and beatings. The judicial system in Cuba has little in place to protect these individuals since lawyers are employed by the Cuban state and are often reluctant to question seriously the arguments put forth by prosecutors or the Department of State Security.
Now let's change the subject to America to avoid these inconvenient truths. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Prison is not jail. Repeat that to yourself until you understand.
A lot of people don't want to talk to prisoners and do so only under duress. Being cut off from contact is actually a blessing to them. It's those damn inconvenient truths!
A lot of people like prison calls to be blocked. The prisoners call frequently and have nothing to say. The calls add up and the girlfriend/wife doesn't want to talk to him. They were grateful when I contacted them and informed them prison calls would be blocked due to nonpayment. Just a little inconvenient truth to disrupt the "TEH CORPORASHUNS" comments that are infesting the thread.
Extra isn't exactly a job that requires skills. In fact, the evidence that you just walked in off the street with no training and were able to do the job pretty much proves it. Makes me wonder, why are all those other people even doing the job? Even flipping burgers needs training, if you went into a McDonald's and started trying to make burgers you'd fail.
Congratulations, you win this thread's award for "most obtuse way of twisting the topic everyone else is talking about back to the out-of-left-field subject that is currently obsessing your brain."
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The person who fucked up was desperately trying to deflect the blame onto someone else. Rather than admit that she screwed up bigtime, she decided to persecute another person. Pretty sad, but then she was just a piece of human trash.
Hello moron, they are not talking about completely autonomous cars, they are talking about the transition period when humans will still have to drive. When other morons start using the auto-drive, their skills will atrophy. One day, when the auto-drive turns off because the situation is out of its library, the dependent driver won't remember how to drive and will crash. Nobody's talking about your absurd premise, you misunderstood the entire thing.
China can't do that, otherwise the Communist Party will fall and lose all its power it has carefully built over decades. Why do you think they still keep WWII alive? As long as they keep the population mad at the Japanese, the people won't come to the conclusion that their government is a piece of shit. China has the unique position of being a power that is completely safe. They have no real enemies and nobody will ever invade them because they're too big to digest. So the only threat is their own people.
Chinese leaders have of course read the Big Four classics of Chinese literature. In these, kingdoms are called into existence and swept away in revolt on a single page. The Communist Party knows it is on one of these pages. The only thing that matters is that they are not swept away like all the others. They'll do whatever it takes to stay in power because they've seen the alternative. And frankly, some of these leaders who were overthrown were total idiots. Communists are nothing if not the compete opposite of total idiots.
It really hammers home just how well off we are in America, eh? Our homeless - at the bottom of our society, are still in the top quintile globally. Wow, we really should take some time and give thanks for what we've got, shouldn't we?
You know, you'd think what with being drenched with the blood of millions, socialism would rebrand. I love how it has to be qualifed with "democratic" socialism - to distinguish it from the non-democratic kind that puts right-wingers in prison. You know, it's funny, socialists always sound really good up until you put them in office. How's Venezuela working out these days? Oh, right, they just put their leading right-wing political future in prison for the next 15 years.
Which makes it all the more delicious that far-left Assranger was undone by his own far-left buddies. I love how men lying to get women in bed is SJW hate territory - until their hero does it, in which case it suddenly changes to OK and it's the accuser who's wrong. By the way, these rules are law on many American university campuses, if you didn't know.
Informing the Detroit city government what the problems are has never been the problem. Getting them to do something about it is the problem. The telephone worked just fine, it's that the city government either just doesn't care or is blatantly incompetent. Detroit, ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang. Yeah, I think an app wasn't why their streets were full of potholes and the sidewalks were full of litter. Giving it credit for cleaning things up is typical journalistic thinking.
You've never been on mass transit and been forced to be near people who (1) stink to high heaven, (2) are drunk, or (3) loud and threatening? If you haven't, then now you know why a lot of people avoid the bus. Your car might sit in traffic but at least you're not sweating, listening to obnoxious music. etc.
Oh, and by the way, the classicism(sic) is all on your side, buddy. Who's looking down their nose at the rest of us for failing to uphold moral standards he himself has set? Yeah, that's the pot calling the kettle black, pal.
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What you really need is an app that will geolocate and display your rights in whatever jurisdiction you're in. State by state or even international (languages become a problem here) it tells you what the cops can and can't do to you. It includes a script that says you won't be talking and asks the cop a pointed question. You could even make this run as an mp3, so you wouldn't have to talk at all.
There used to be ads on cable TV for drunk drivers that showed some guy getting pulled over. When the cop came to his window he put a cassette tape into his tape player. A studio announcer's voice came on and said that the driver will not be talking, and rattled off a string of legal arguments in the driver's favor. The driver sat back looking pretty soused and pleased. Now with smartphones you can have that anywhere, and tailored to the jurisdiction. I hope someone chimes in with "dude, they already made that 3 years ago" so I can go download it.
Are you kidding me? The Left in America *despises* the common folk. Seriously, fuckin' hates them. Just look at Lessig...Harvard professor, really? Because Harvard is so well known for NOT being an elitist hellhole. Talk about someone who really cares about rednecks, spics, and niggers. Hell, Harvardites look down on people with PhDs from state universities. Lessie is just another ivory tower academic, if you think he has any compassion or love for the kind of people who post on Slashdot, you are seriously mistaken.
Argument from authority is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy.
In informal reasoning, the appeal to authority is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism. The appeal to authority relies on an argument of the form:
Fallacious examples of using the appeal include any appeal to authority used in the context of logical reasoning, and appealing to the position of an authority or authorities to dismiss evidence, as authorities can come to the wrong judgments through error, bias, dishonesty, or falling prey to groupthink. Thus, the appeal to authority is not a generally reliable argument for establishing facts.
In other words, "The literature is not in error, therefore the literature is not in error."
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Why on earth are you quoting a fake set of rules from a fictional TV show as some sort of citation of truth? The "rules" were made up on the spot as the writers needed them, they're not some kind of unified philosophical system. Plus the rules were forgotten as soon as the episode ended and the characters violated them in later episodes. How many times in the series did Data use a contraction? Yeah, exactly.
No it wouldn't. I've heard this referred to as a "precision F-strike" and it refers to an ordinarily mild-mannered man losing his shit and screaming for a moment in order to make his point crystal-clear for everyone. When all you do is say fuck/shit/bitch all day long, you can't make an impression this way, but when you do it once or twice a year, people remember why you did it.
I know the 'microagression' thing is a beloved trope of the left and fearless Social Justice Warriors. But the thing is, in order to show what a good person you are in this context, you have to keep moving and moving further and further to the left. It always comes to a point where it becomes ridiculous and counterproductive.
Remember the "Black Lives Matter" people who deliberately disrupted the furthest left presidential candidate America has ever had, the openly socialist Bernie Sanders? Yeah, that. If there is anyone who is a friend of the extremists in BLM, it's him - and yet they treated him like an enemy. Even if you're on the left, or the hard left, there are always others who are ready to show you just how far down the rabbit hole goes.
Now, this is just a programming language, this isn't the literal jackboot of oppression as employed by left-wing governments of the past. Nobody is going to be sentenced to slavery or sent down to the countryside for defying Andrew Gerrand. So, let's keep some perspective here. However, this is showing all the classic signs of the ever-ratcheting extremism that is a hallmark of the political left. They'll come for you too, even if you have a stellar record of social justice warrioring. A single offhand comment is sufficient. I thought I recognized the "theodp" account, and sure enough it's one of Slashdot's solidly left-wing contributors, with a long record of approved social justice friendly submissions. But even SHE is turned off by this kind of thing! :(
Corrupt insiders are writing the rules so that they have permanent control, no competition, no oversight and guaranteed high profit margins.
What you describe is not capitalism.
Cuban law greatly limits freedom of expression, association and assembly. Anyone attempting to voice views, attend meetings, or form organizations that do not conform to government policy or state ideology is likely to be persecuted, the punishments ranging from harassment and loss of employment to imprisonment and beatings. The judicial system in Cuba has little in place to protect these individuals since lawyers are employed by the Cuban state and are often reluctant to question seriously the arguments put forth by prosecutors or the Department of State Security.
Now let's change the subject to America to avoid these inconvenient truths. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
It really destroys Progressive thought when it claims to be tolerant and openminded and then non-ironically makes dated, stereotype-based hate posts.
And if you're going to criticize Alabama, it has one of the highest rates of black people in the nation, so you're a racist as well.
Prison is not jail. Repeat that to yourself until you understand.
A lot of people don't want to talk to prisoners and do so only under duress. Being cut off from contact is actually a blessing to them. It's those damn inconvenient truths!
A lot of people like prison calls to be blocked. The prisoners call frequently and have nothing to say. The calls add up and the girlfriend/wife doesn't want to talk to him. They were grateful when I contacted them and informed them prison calls would be blocked due to nonpayment. Just a little inconvenient truth to disrupt the "TEH CORPORASHUNS" comments that are infesting the thread.
Extra isn't exactly a job that requires skills. In fact, the evidence that you just walked in off the street with no training and were able to do the job pretty much proves it. Makes me wonder, why are all those other people even doing the job? Even flipping burgers needs training, if you went into a McDonald's and started trying to make burgers you'd fail.
Congratulations, you win this thread's award for "most obtuse way of twisting the topic everyone else is talking about back to the out-of-left-field subject that is currently obsessing your brain."
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The person who fucked up was desperately trying to deflect the blame onto someone else. Rather than admit that she screwed up bigtime, she decided to persecute another person. Pretty sad, but then she was just a piece of human trash.
They had to make a trade-off between security and convenience somewhere. How many times a year do you lose your phone, anyway?
China doesn't NEED any bases outside its own country. It doesn't have any allies, so it doesn't need to defend others.
The whole 'ghost city' phenomenon is a false creation of idiotic Western journalists. People move in, it just takes a few years.
Hello moron, they are not talking about completely autonomous cars, they are talking about the transition period when humans will still have to drive. When other morons start using the auto-drive, their skills will atrophy. One day, when the auto-drive turns off because the situation is out of its library, the dependent driver won't remember how to drive and will crash. Nobody's talking about your absurd premise, you misunderstood the entire thing.
China can't do that, otherwise the Communist Party will fall and lose all its power it has carefully built over decades. Why do you think they still keep WWII alive? As long as they keep the population mad at the Japanese, the people won't come to the conclusion that their government is a piece of shit. China has the unique position of being a power that is completely safe. They have no real enemies and nobody will ever invade them because they're too big to digest. So the only threat is their own people.
Chinese leaders have of course read the Big Four classics of Chinese literature. In these, kingdoms are called into existence and swept away in revolt on a single page. The Communist Party knows it is on one of these pages. The only thing that matters is that they are not swept away like all the others. They'll do whatever it takes to stay in power because they've seen the alternative. And frankly, some of these leaders who were overthrown were total idiots. Communists are nothing if not the compete opposite of total idiots.
It really hammers home just how well off we are in America, eh? Our homeless - at the bottom of our society, are still in the top quintile globally. Wow, we really should take some time and give thanks for what we've got, shouldn't we?
Nah, America sucks. Sanders for President!
You know, you'd think what with being drenched with the blood of millions, socialism would rebrand. I love how it has to be qualifed with "democratic" socialism - to distinguish it from the non-democratic kind that puts right-wingers in prison. You know, it's funny, socialists always sound really good up until you put them in office. How's Venezuela working out these days? Oh, right, they just put their leading right-wing political future in prison for the next 15 years.
Which makes it all the more delicious that far-left Assranger was undone by his own far-left buddies. I love how men lying to get women in bed is SJW hate territory - until their hero does it, in which case it suddenly changes to OK and it's the accuser who's wrong. By the way, these rules are law on many American university campuses, if you didn't know.
Informing the Detroit city government what the problems are has never been the problem. Getting them to do something about it is the problem. The telephone worked just fine, it's that the city government either just doesn't care or is blatantly incompetent. Detroit, ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang. Yeah, I think an app wasn't why their streets were full of potholes and the sidewalks were full of litter. Giving it credit for cleaning things up is typical journalistic thinking.
You've never been on mass transit and been forced to be near people who (1) stink to high heaven, (2) are drunk, or (3) loud and threatening? If you haven't, then now you know why a lot of people avoid the bus. Your car might sit in traffic but at least you're not sweating, listening to obnoxious music. etc.
Oh, and by the way, the classicism(sic) is all on your side, buddy. Who's looking down their nose at the rest of us for failing to uphold moral standards he himself has set? Yeah, that's the pot calling the kettle black, pal.