If you know you're not a racist... you've got no fear. Anyone who calls you a racist when you're not one just looks like an idiot.
That does not follow at all. May I refer you to the entire concept of "defamation"? People being called some bad thing who are not that thing and know they are not, are the foundation of a whole lo of lawsuits.
BTW, I believe in white privilege. Its awesome, so awesome I believe everyone should have it regardless of skin colour.
Racism is real, but calling "not being subject to a penalty" a "privilege" is both inaccurate and poor rhetoric. Telling a white guy in a West Virginia town ravaged by mining pollution, drug dumping, and a generational history of poverty to "check his white privilege" is not an effective way to talk to him about, e.g., police violence against black people.
I'd rather talk in a space where threats of violence result in not only permanent expulsion, but the same legal consequences as saying the same thing to my face. (An assault charge. Mere threats are an assault.
A "true threat" (see Watts v. United States is an assault. A rando hundreds of miles away telling me on the interwebs he's going to kick my ass or that I ought to be shot (and these have happened to me) is not a true threat. You pretty much cannot commit assault soley on the net, you need some degree of accompanying meatspace action to make it a true threat.
He DDOSed the fundraising website of a single hospital. Not their internal operations.
I can't think of any excuse that would actually excuse that, and "doing it to save some child's life" is flat out unbelievable.
Read up on the case before delivering such an opinion. The hospital kidnapped a sick child because they didn't agree with a prior diagnosis. If someone treated a child I knew the way Justina Pelletier was treated, I would have zero hesitation about shooting them in the face.
Most of you here on Slashdot are supporting a side Russia is strongly supporting. Doesn't that tell you anything about how wrong it is to support Net Neutrality as the FCC had it?
Pai's highly questionable claim, and yours, tell me that opponents of net neutrality are so desperate that they're going to the same "Russia did it!" nonsense that Clintonists adopted when they lost.
To the people who say "use NDEBUG to disable your asserts for production, because customers hate interruptions": no, don't do that. A violation of an implicit assumption is ALWAYS a bug
But it's not. I've seen asserts used for things that did not affect program operation. Don't assert the irrelevant.
But that narrative works to convince people who haven't seen it that it's bad,
It is bad...but not for any social justice reasons. I had to quit on the show when they made Sarek of Vulcan a liar. Between "those aren't Klingons!" and "if your magic stardrive is so great why is no one using it later?" and "Vulcan suicide bombers!?!?!" , I was screaming at the TV too much.
but what if it has to execute javascript which was embedded in the email message.
But it doesn't have to do that.
In fact, if it does do that, it's broken.
Sending me executable code I didn't request is an attack. My e-mail client should never execute code from a message. Never. Not under any circumstances.
What's actually happening is that China works for us. What's so bad about having people work for us?
It's bad having someone work for you if you're overpaying them. It's bad having someone work for you if their long-term goal is to start their own business, and so they are working to undermine yours. It's bad having someone work for you if they are a critical employee and you have no way to replace them if they walk.
There are smart ways to hire someone and there are dumb ways to hire someone. There are smart ways to trade with another nation, and dumb ways to trade with another nation. Our trading practices have been dumb for a while now.
I remember when Gabriel Giffords got shot. There was a 'good guy with a gun' on site but he didn't draw.
Joe Zamudio arrived on the scene after the shooter had been stopped, and make the right decision in a split-second call. He illustrates an armed citizen exercising excellent judgment and not screwing up.
Operating a vehicle on public roads may be a privilege, but due process of law is a right.
That said, getting the state to acknowledge your rights is always a dicey thing.
If, OTOH, many of them went back to buying printed pornography (as they did pre-Internet), then we'd have to account for the additional energy spent manufacturing, delivering, and procuring billions of additional paper magazines.
The fine article makes the point that the net has made it so easy to get porn that people consume so much more, that the much lower cost per image or second or whatever the right way to measure porn is (cost per boner?) is more than canceled out by the greater number of images/seconds/boners.
Is pornography in the digital era leaving a larger carbon footprint than it did during the days of magazines and videos?...But if pornography expertsâ(TM) estimates are accurate, they suggest a rare scenario where digitization might have increased the overall consumption of porn so much that the principal of dematerialization gets flipped on its head. The internet could allow people to spend so much time looking at porn that itâ(TM)s actually worse for the environment.
If you're going to use a Chromium based browser, why not just use Chrome?
Why would I use a closed-source browser from a company whose entire business model is to spy on users in order to figure out what sort of mind control ("advertising") is most effective on them? Chromium at least is free software; Chrome is a deal with the devil.
...right wing lunatics were not regularly killing police, smashing stores, burning things... Antifa and BLM are meanwhile happily doing all those things on a regular basis.
Anonymous claims published with no evidence by the Washington Post -- the same paper that gave us the "Prop or Not?" debacle.
Did some trolls buy ads during the election? Almost certainly. Were some of them Russian? Probably. Did the average Russian on the street prefer Trump to Clinton? Of course -- Clinton backed a coup in their neighboring country Ukraine, a coup that put in place a government that stepped up repression of ethnic Russians, while Trump talked about normalizing relations.
Were these ads part of a coordinated plan by Putin, acting in collusion with Trump? Extraordinary claims requirry extraordinary evidence. "Anonymous sources tell us that they think X" is not evidence for X.
People are closer to state governments and are better able to change it so any tyranny will be short lived as the people vote it out.
That was the theory. In reality, since the late 1800s it became easier for trusts, megacorps, and billionaires to buy overwhelming influence in state governments. So in the Progressive era, people started looking to the feds to protect them from that corruption.
But as the rich got richer, they just bought out the federal government too.
In a society suffering from an L curve as severe as ours, the balance of state and federal power doesn't matter. It's all the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
A bakery is not a place of public accommodation. A place of public accommodation is (or is supposed to be, some legislatures have passed "ketchup is a vegetable" style laws to redefine it) a business that enjoys some special, limited privilege from the state.
This is an interesting paper on the topic that goes into the history: a href="http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2418&context=mulr">Alfred Avins,
What is a Place of "Public" Accommodation?, 52 Marq. L. Rev. 1 (1968).
Because a place of public accommodation enjoys some special privilege granted by the state, it's reasonable and just for the state to condition that on serving all the public. It's very different for the state to demand a typical sole proprietorship to serve people it doesn't want to.
It appears that Bitcoin, a currency designed with anonymity in mind...
No. Bitcoin is designed around decentralization, not anonymity. Every transaction is logged forever; for anonymity, that's a nightmare. This misconception is widespread. Bitcoin is not anonymous; if privacy is important to you, you should not be using it.
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That does not follow at all. May I refer you to the entire concept of "defamation"? People being called some bad thing who are not that thing and know they are not, are the foundation of a whole lo of lawsuits.
Racism is real, but calling "not being subject to a penalty" a "privilege" is both inaccurate and poor rhetoric. Telling a white guy in a West Virginia town ravaged by mining pollution, drug dumping, and a generational history of poverty to "check his white privilege" is not an effective way to talk to him about, e.g., police violence against black people.
Congratulations. You're re-invented the mutual fund.
A "true threat" (see Watts v. United States is an assault. A rando hundreds of miles away telling me on the interwebs he's going to kick my ass or that I ought to be shot (and these have happened to me) is not a true threat. You pretty much cannot commit assault soley on the net, you need some degree of accompanying meatspace action to make it a true threat.
He didn't DDOS a hospital. He DDOSed a hosptial's fundraising website, to bring attention to that hospital's bad behavior.
He DDOSed the fundraising website of a single hospital. Not their internal operations.
Read up on the case before delivering such an opinion. The hospital kidnapped a sick child because they didn't agree with a prior diagnosis. If someone treated a child I knew the way Justina Pelletier was treated, I would have zero hesitation about shooting them in the face.
Pai's highly questionable claim, and yours, tell me that opponents of net neutrality are so desperate that they're going to the same "Russia did it!" nonsense that Clintonists adopted when they lost.
But it's not. I've seen asserts used for things that did not affect program operation. Don't assert the irrelevant.
Which, in a democracy, is every citizen.
Security-state information hoarding is incompatible with democracy and liberty.
It is bad...but not for any social justice reasons. I had to quit on the show when they made Sarek of Vulcan a liar. Between "those aren't Klingons!" and "if your magic stardrive is so great why is no one using it later?" and "Vulcan suicide bombers!?!?!" , I was screaming at the TV too much.
But it doesn't have to do that.
In fact, if it does do that, it's broken.
Sending me executable code I didn't request is an attack. My e-mail client should never execute code from a message. Never. Not under any circumstances.
Hemp production takes slightly more energy, but less water and land than cotton: "Overall, hemp appears to be slightly easier on the environment than cotton, superior on water and land requirements, and only slightly worse for energy use."
The way that energy use and the depletion of irreplaceable petroleum stocks are subsidized by our policy choices distorts those costs.
Then what do you call the little pictures next to people's names that I see, for example, here?
It's bad having someone work for you if you're overpaying them. It's bad having someone work for you if their long-term goal is to start their own business, and so they are working to undermine yours. It's bad having someone work for you if they are a critical employee and you have no way to replace them if they walk.
There are smart ways to hire someone and there are dumb ways to hire someone. There are smart ways to trade with another nation, and dumb ways to trade with another nation. Our trading practices have been dumb for a while now.
Except for all those times they did not screw up.
Do citizens (not police officers) with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Joe Zamudio arrived on the scene after the shooter had been stopped, and make the right decision in a split-second call. He illustrates an armed citizen exercising excellent judgment and not screwing up.
Operating a vehicle on public roads may be a privilege, but due process of law is a right. That said, getting the state to acknowledge your rights is always a dicey thing.
Yes, for technical people "Slack" means "Slackware", not yet another chat client for people too twitchy to use e-mail.
The fine article makes the point that the net has made it so easy to get porn that people consume so much more, that the much lower cost per image or second or whatever the right way to measure porn is (cost per boner?) is more than canceled out by the greater number of images/seconds/boners.
Why would I use a closed-source browser from a company whose entire business model is to spy on users in order to figure out what sort of mind control ("advertising") is most effective on them? Chromium at least is free software; Chrome is a deal with the devil.
So...make sure your files are never transmitted over a network controlled by the US or its allies, then?
In point of fact, most terrorism is the US comes from right wing lunatics.
I hold no truck with antifa vigilante goons, but to suggest that any group in the US is regularly killing cops shows a disconnect with reality.
Anonymous claims published with no evidence by the Washington Post -- the same paper that gave us the "Prop or Not?" debacle.
Did some trolls buy ads during the election? Almost certainly. Were some of them Russian? Probably. Did the average Russian on the street prefer Trump to Clinton? Of course -- Clinton backed a coup in their neighboring country Ukraine, a coup that put in place a government that stepped up repression of ethnic Russians, while Trump talked about normalizing relations.
Were these ads part of a coordinated plan by Putin, acting in collusion with Trump? Extraordinary claims requirry extraordinary evidence. "Anonymous sources tell us that they think X" is not evidence for X.
That was the theory. In reality, since the late 1800s it became easier for trusts, megacorps, and billionaires to buy overwhelming influence in state governments. So in the Progressive era, people started looking to the feds to protect them from that corruption.
But as the rich got richer, they just bought out the federal government too.
In a society suffering from an L curve as severe as ours, the balance of state and federal power doesn't matter. It's all the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
A bakery is not a place of public accommodation. A place of public accommodation is (or is supposed to be, some legislatures have passed "ketchup is a vegetable" style laws to redefine it) a business that enjoys some special, limited privilege from the state.
This is an interesting paper on the topic that goes into the history: a href="http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2418&context=mulr">Alfred Avins, What is a Place of "Public" Accommodation?, 52 Marq. L. Rev. 1 (1968).
Because a place of public accommodation enjoys some special privilege granted by the state, it's reasonable and just for the state to condition that on serving all the public. It's very different for the state to demand a typical sole proprietorship to serve people it doesn't want to.
They are awkward but there are phone cases with slide-out Bluetooth keyboards for some phones. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phon...
No. Bitcoin is designed around decentralization, not anonymity. Every transaction is logged forever; for anonymity, that's a nightmare. This misconception is widespread. Bitcoin is not anonymous; if privacy is important to you, you should not be using it.