Why should I care where the sun is, where the moon is, where the earth is, with respect to time?
Because the primary function of time since the dawn of civilization has been to allow human activity to synchronize with the position of the sun, from planting seasons to night watches.
If it's winter, I can start work at 9, I can start at 10, I can start an hour after sunrise.
If you never leave the server room, perhaps. Most human beings have lives that are affected by sunlight. At the very least commuting in light or dark matters. Construction, farming, and many other jobs are deeply affected by daylight conditions. And some of us actually just like to go and play in the big blue room while it's blue. (Try it sometime!)
It is hard to call what happened in Gaza anything but self defense
Indeed, Palestinian Arabs have been engaging in self-defense against Zionist invaders since the Balfour Declaration. It's good to see you realize this.
what Israel did in response was pretty tame,
Oh, I see. In your mind it's self-defense when the attacker uses overwhelming force to try to end the mild and ineffective resistance of the victim.
Then one day I realized I hadn't used a VT100 terminal to write code in well over a decade
80 columns goes back much longer than the VT100, it's a punch card thing.
But longer lines needs a smaller font to fit on the screen, or take up real estate I could fill with another editor or terminal window. And I can just deal with 80 columns on my phone in landscape mode during an emergency SSH session into the server.
A densely-printed book gets about 70 characters to a line. 80 is about the right number to have in your visual field.
If we had overhead-free micropayments, there would be no issue. "This article costs $0.01. Buy? Y/N"
No, the issue is still there. The issue is that, a few niche cases aside, your content needs to be programmatically accessible to search engines in order to be useful on the web; you want to charge human users; but there isn't a way to distinguish the two, especially since search engines have zero (or negative) motivation to help you restrict content.
There is a much bigger body of evidence that show most cops are the exact opposite of that statement.
No. There isn't. Anyone signing on to be a cop today is signing on to fight the War on Drugs and to enforce inherently immoral laws. It is inevitable that when you have that state poking its nose into people's private business, that the state's recruits will consist of the morally crippled and the frighteningly naive. Give those recruits a few years to marinate in a culture of conformity and silence, and you have the most dangerous street gangs in America today.
There is a huge body of evidence that shows a hell of a lot of police abuse their powers and violate peoples constitutional and legal rights all the time
How about a 2 hour course for high-schoolers in the inner cities called: How to behave around the police?
How about a course for police called "How to respect human rights"?
Add mandatory jail time for resisting arrest.
"Resisting arrest" is already a crime. Usually it's a bullshit charge. Let's start with mandatory jail time -- and vigorous prosecution -- for cops making illegitimate arrests or using excessive force, or for prosecutors who bring bullshit charges against citizens or let cops skate off free.
Resisting or not shutting up while getting arrested should include a smack of the baton.
You are an authoritarian asshole and I hope that some day you learn enough to be embarrassed by the views you now hold.
Police on a call can do many things that civilians can not do.
Not legitimately, no. As soon as you get away from the core value that "the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence," you have an illegitimate use of police power. And one which violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.
If I witness a serious crime, I have the right (and perhaps the moral duty) to use reasonable and necessary force to stop it, same as a cop. (This is not legal advice, consult your local laws, I am discussing here what a sane and just set of laws should look like.) I don't have the right to break into someone's house to look for evidence, or to arrest someone accused of a crime that happened somewhere else days ago -- but neither does a cop, that power comes from a specific warrant, not a badge.
Yes, I don't have the right to enforce traffic laws on the public roads, but the roads are government property and they get to hire whatever security they want for that. Traffic cops are to the roads as "mall cops" are to malls -- empowered by the management, nothing more.
Remember that this country is older than the idea of police as we know them today. We got by all right for quite a while without special rights for police.
Most states, even those without explicit stand-your-ground laws, have legal language to the effect that a person is not required to attempt to flee.
That is exactly and only what a "stand your ground" law is: one that says there is no "duty to retreat". A substantial number of states still have a "duty to retreat" in some or all circumstances -- 19, by Eugene Volokh's count.
The copyrights to TOS episodes belong to, IIRC, CBS. But these fan-made episodes are not those TOS episodes.
These fan-made episodes might be argued to be "derivative works", but even if they are noncommercial creation and sharing of such is fair use and so does not infringe those copyrights.
Your smart phone already listens to everything you say, in case you might say some key word that it needs to react to.
No. No, my phone does not. Does anyone actually run down their battery and keep their phone unlocked and vulnerable to keep some voice-activated app always running?
Newer TVs and other electronic devices are becoming more voice activated.
On the other hand, many (most?) people are taught or learn programming in the same way or much the same way
Citation needed.
When I was a lad we started programming in BASIC (not "Visual Basic, I mean 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10) and moved on to Pascal in high school. The standard language of instruction in universities has gone from C to C++ to Java; most folks today probably pick up Javascript or PHP as their first language.
I believe trademarks are where corporations should be able to protect characters of a franchise that is still being actively monetized.
Absolutely not. The purpose and justification of trademark is consumer protection, to prevent counterfeit goods. It's to ensure that when you buy a pair of jeans marked "Levis", they're actually made by the Levi Strauss company. The only relationship trademark has with creative works is to disallow you from selling, say, a shoddy Superman t-shirt in a manner that would make the buyer think it was from Warner/DC.
These subreddits got banned for the same reason that/r/jailbait got banned years ago- they bring shitty people to the site, who then vote and post in all of the other subreddits.
So...they have to limit the "acceptable" topics of conversation because their voting system is broken?
When it comes to state censorship, to silencing people by government force, there is no "line" to be drawn. It's all wrong, period.
Is it as OK for someone to have a discussion forum where they talk about all the sexual fantasies they have about children, as it is to be criticizing their government? Is it as OK to have a place where people are talking about how blacks and immigrants are awful and how they shouldn't be 'allowed' to live as well as white people, as it is to be discussing what is and isn't good about how TV shows are being written and produced? How about religious extremists promoting violence as a way of spreading their (version of their) 'faith', as opposed to discussion of whatever religious text you care to name?
Yes, yes, and yes, provided that by "OK" we mean "legally OK." I have my own personal opinions about whether various of these topics is socially acceptable, but "socially unacceptable" is not the same as "should be forcibly blocked." Why is that so hard for some some people to grasp?
That doesn't mean I have to let you hold that conversation about disgusting pedophile fantasies in my living room, or that my local bar has to let the KKK rent out their upstairs room for meetings. But on the other hand if I agree to provide a communication service and then start removing content, at best I have a broken service, a defective product.
I don't use reddit, but there seems to be a very simple solution to the problem of subreddits with content you object to: don't read them.
extremists end up being louder than everyone else because that's what extremists do.
"Extremist" is a content-free label. Abolitionists were extremists in the 1830s, and William Llyod Garrison was kind of loud. He was also right.
In this case, "only" is functioning as an adverb. The adverbial phrase "only in tech" modifies the verb "happens".
A synonym here would be "exclusively": "Do you think it happens exclusively in tech?" It might be easier to see the sentence structure there, since only can function as an adjective or conjunction as well as a adverb.
Start with the basic (and uninteresting) sentence "It happens." Assume we know what "It" is.:-) We want to say something about where, when, how, or why it happens, so we need an adverb or an adverbial phrase: "It happens only in tech.".
Then we can convert it into a question: "Does it happen only in tech?" Or I could ask you about your belief about that question: "Do you think it happens only in tech?"
Four out of five elderly people given CPR end up dying within days. Many of them with prolonged and intense suffering due to CPR prolonging the inevitable.
We certainly need more thought about end-of-life care, living wills, and do-not-resuscitate orders. But CPR is not the only intervention affected by that.
And in some cases CPR is given when it's not warranted, breaking ribs, collapsing lungs or otherwise causing serious and sometimes fatal damage.
If I keel over, please don't resuscitate unless there is at least a 50% chance of long-term success, and less than a 50% chance of causing long-term damage.
Dude, unless you're already in the hospital, whoever sees you go down or trips over your unconscious body does not have your medical history, nor can they predict your course of treatment.
Oh, cry me a river. Drone operators no longer have an unlimited right to invade people's privacy and endanger their safety.
Sorry dude, but the airspace is common property and it's sensible to regulate its use for the common good. Either that, or we can have drone wars, where people who don't want your drones in the skies fly their own to take them down.
Seems like people running mailing lists need to take a look at how spam filters work, rather than mail providers changing anything.
No, you're backwards. It's up to spam filter developers to understand how mailing lists work and not falsely flag legitimate traffic. If your filter breaks a mailing list, your filter is broken.
Now if we stop talking about mice and start talking about people we can look at what the science has always shown. There are things called diseases of modern culture. As in indigenous people who don't eat like western cultures have low cancer and mental illness rates and no heart attacks.
What science actually shows is what it's always shown: a diet based around whole plant foods, high in fiber and moderate to low in fat and protein, is the most healthful for primates, including those weird bald ones.
I don't need a native client for my bank or Twitter or Facebook or Slashdot or anything, for that matter, that does nothing more than save me from opening Chrome and going to a particular URL.
My credit unions' apps let me deposit checks by taking photos of them with my phone. That's not a service available via the website.
I agree with the general point of "the app for accessing your company's website should be my web browser", but in the real world there are reasons to have specific apps.
I cannot comprehend this entitled attitude. on cable tv you see ads. in a magazine or newspaper you see ads. before movies you see ads. during movies you see ad placements. so it's not like Netflix is proposing a crazy new concept
I cannot comprehend this apathy about the ongoing invasion of every bit of space and time by attempts at mind control. ("Buy! Buy! Buy!")
The idea is that your device runs a calendar app and syncs with Google Calendar. You then get notifications regardless if you are online or outside a coverage area,
And through what magic does that sync occur if you are offline or outside a coverage area?
I'm not foolisbn enough to give an advertizing company my callendar, but I'm pretty sure that Google Clendar uses TCP/IP to sync. Which means you have to have data reception. Which is much less avaiable than SMS.
The school owned the camera he used. Therefore all work from that camera belongs to the school.
No. It does not work like that. If you borrow my guitar and write a hit song, it's your song, the copyright is yours. If you borrow my camera and take a Pulitzer-winning photo, it's your photo, the copyright is yours. Copyright goes to the creator of a work, not to the owner of any tools incidental to the creation.
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Because the primary function of time since the dawn of civilization has been to allow human activity to synchronize with the position of the sun, from planting seasons to night watches.
If you never leave the server room, perhaps. Most human beings have lives that are affected by sunlight. At the very least commuting in light or dark matters. Construction, farming, and many other jobs are deeply affected by daylight conditions. And some of us actually just like to go and play in the big blue room while it's blue. (Try it sometime!)
Indeed, Palestinian Arabs have been engaging in self-defense against Zionist invaders since the Balfour Declaration. It's good to see you realize this.
Oh, I see. In your mind it's self-defense when the attacker uses overwhelming force to try to end the mild and ineffective resistance of the victim.
80 columns goes back much longer than the VT100, it's a punch card thing.
But longer lines needs a smaller font to fit on the screen, or take up real estate I could fill with another editor or terminal window. And I can just deal with 80 columns on my phone in landscape mode during an emergency SSH session into the server.
A densely-printed book gets about 70 characters to a line. 80 is about the right number to have in your visual field.
80 characters is the One True Line Length.
No, the issue is still there. The issue is that, a few niche cases aside, your content needs to be programmatically accessible to search engines in order to be useful on the web; you want to charge human users; but there isn't a way to distinguish the two, especially since search engines have zero (or negative) motivation to help you restrict content.
No. There isn't. Anyone signing on to be a cop today is signing on to fight the War on Drugs and to enforce inherently immoral laws. It is inevitable that when you have that state poking its nose into people's private business, that the state's recruits will consist of the morally crippled and the frighteningly naive. Give those recruits a few years to marinate in a culture of conformity and silence, and you have the most dangerous street gangs in America today.
Here's one link for you: in 2006 -- almost a decade before the Baltimore Uprising this spring -- a grand jury in Baltimore found 21,721 meritless arrests of African-Americans over a one year period.
How about a course for police called "How to respect human rights"?
"Resisting arrest" is already a crime. Usually it's a bullshit charge. Let's start with mandatory jail time -- and vigorous prosecution -- for cops making illegitimate arrests or using excessive force, or for prosecutors who bring bullshit charges against citizens or let cops skate off free.
You are an authoritarian asshole and I hope that some day you learn enough to be embarrassed by the views you now hold.
Not legitimately, no. As soon as you get away from the core value that "the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence," you have an illegitimate use of police power. And one which violates the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection.
If I witness a serious crime, I have the right (and perhaps the moral duty) to use reasonable and necessary force to stop it, same as a cop. (This is not legal advice, consult your local laws, I am discussing here what a sane and just set of laws should look like.) I don't have the right to break into someone's house to look for evidence, or to arrest someone accused of a crime that happened somewhere else days ago -- but neither does a cop, that power comes from a specific warrant, not a badge.
Yes, I don't have the right to enforce traffic laws on the public roads, but the roads are government property and they get to hire whatever security they want for that. Traffic cops are to the roads as "mall cops" are to malls -- empowered by the management, nothing more.
Remember that this country is older than the idea of police as we know them today. We got by all right for quite a while without special rights for police.
That is exactly and only what a "stand your ground" law is: one that says there is no "duty to retreat". A substantial number of states still have a "duty to retreat" in some or all circumstances -- 19, by Eugene Volokh's count.
There is no such thing as "intellectual property", and you can't "take" it.
The copyrights to TOS episodes belong to, IIRC, CBS. But these fan-made episodes are not those TOS episodes.
These fan-made episodes might be argued to be "derivative works", but even if they are noncommercial creation and sharing of such is fair use and so does not infringe those copyrights.
No. No, my phone does not. Does anyone actually run down their battery and keep their phone unlocked and vulnerable to keep some voice-activated app always running?
A pointless gimmick that's a usability fail.
Citation needed.
When I was a lad we started programming in BASIC (not "Visual Basic, I mean 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10) and moved on to Pascal in high school. The standard language of instruction in universities has gone from C to C++ to Java; most folks today probably pick up Javascript or PHP as their first language.
Absolutely not. The purpose and justification of trademark is consumer protection, to prevent counterfeit goods. It's to ensure that when you buy a pair of jeans marked "Levis", they're actually made by the Levi Strauss company. The only relationship trademark has with creative works is to disallow you from selling, say, a shoddy Superman t-shirt in a manner that would make the buyer think it was from Warner/DC.
So...they have to limit the "acceptable" topics of conversation because their voting system is broken?
When it comes to state censorship, to silencing people by government force, there is no "line" to be drawn. It's all wrong, period.
Yes, yes, and yes, provided that by "OK" we mean "legally OK." I have my own personal opinions about whether various of these topics is socially acceptable, but "socially unacceptable" is not the same as "should be forcibly blocked." Why is that so hard for some some people to grasp?
That doesn't mean I have to let you hold that conversation about disgusting pedophile fantasies in my living room, or that my local bar has to let the KKK rent out their upstairs room for meetings. But on the other hand if I agree to provide a communication service and then start removing content, at best I have a broken service, a defective product.
I don't use reddit, but there seems to be a very simple solution to the problem of subreddits with content you object to: don't read them.
"Extremist" is a content-free label. Abolitionists were extremists in the 1830s, and William Llyod Garrison was kind of loud. He was also right.
In this case, "only" is functioning as an adverb. The adverbial phrase "only in tech" modifies the verb "happens".
A synonym here would be "exclusively": "Do you think it happens exclusively in tech?" It might be easier to see the sentence structure there, since only can function as an adjective or conjunction as well as a adverb.
Start with the basic (and uninteresting) sentence "It happens." Assume we know what "It" is. :-) We want to say something about where, when, how, or why it happens, so we need an adverb or an adverbial phrase: "It happens only in tech.".
Then we can convert it into a question: "Does it happen only in tech?" Or I could ask you about your belief about that question: "Do you think it happens only in tech?"
We certainly need more thought about end-of-life care, living wills, and do-not-resuscitate orders. But CPR is not the only intervention affected by that.
Sometimes, yes, but more rarely than you might think.
Dude, unless you're already in the hospital, whoever sees you go down or trips over your unconscious body does not have your medical history, nor can they predict your course of treatment.
Oh, cry me a river. Drone operators no longer have an unlimited right to invade people's privacy and endanger their safety. Sorry dude, but the airspace is common property and it's sensible to regulate its use for the common good. Either that, or we can have drone wars, where people who don't want your drones in the skies fly their own to take them down.
No, you're backwards. It's up to spam filter developers to understand how mailing lists work and not falsely flag legitimate traffic. If your filter breaks a mailing list, your filter is broken.
Except that science has never shown that. Atherosclerosis has been found in mummies (not just from Egypt but also Peru, the southwest America, and the Aleutian Islands), and the idea that modern Inuit have low rates of heart disease was never evidence-based
But protein does spike insulin.
What science actually shows is what it's always shown: a diet based around whole plant foods, high in fiber and moderate to low in fat and protein, is the most healthful for primates, including those weird bald ones.
My credit unions' apps let me deposit checks by taking photos of them with my phone. That's not a service available via the website.
I agree with the general point of "the app for accessing your company's website should be my web browser", but in the real world there are reasons to have specific apps.
For most people in the US, there is no such thing.
I cannot comprehend this apathy about the ongoing invasion of every bit of space and time by attempts at mind control. ("Buy! Buy! Buy!")
Once upon a time you actually could pick up some magazines and see very few ads, or even none at all. There were not ads before movies. Product placement was inconspicuous or non-existent. There was even less ad time on broadcast TV -- one guy estimates that the time spent on commercials more than doubled since the 1950s.
Ads as we know them are memetic toxins. Anyone unconcerned about them is unconcerned about their own mind.
And through what magic does that sync occur if you are offline or outside a coverage area?
I'm not foolisbn enough to give an advertizing company my callendar, but I'm pretty sure that Google Clendar uses TCP/IP to sync. Which means you have to have data reception. Which is much less avaiable than SMS.
No. It does not work like that. If you borrow my guitar and write a hit song, it's your song, the copyright is yours. If you borrow my camera and take a Pulitzer-winning photo, it's your photo, the copyright is yours. Copyright goes to the creator of a work, not to the owner of any tools incidental to the creation.