Wanting to keep out members of a "religion" that openly-stated goal of which is the takeover of the world, and which is fundamentally incompatible and in conflict with many of the most basic principles of your society makes perfect sense. In fact, not doing so seems completely insane.
What a lot of people don't get is that many of the people in their beloved minority groups wouldn't hesitate in a second to completely destroy many of the freedoms that we've fought so hard to accomplish. And quite frankly seeing women wearing that full-face-cover head veil thing (there's at least one who lives near me) makes me sick.
Islam teaches that women are literally the property of their husbands, no different than cattle. That should make anyone sick.
With live people, those live people will be able to make live decisions, on the spot. There will be much more of a dynamic operation with live people, whereas currently, they're setting most things up to statically unfold.
Are you by chance one of Obama's science advisors?
And of course you're not an electrical engineer and don't know that the decision wasn't made because of technical reasons such as the spec lifetime of the battery exceeding the lifetime usage of the phone and other design considerations such as water resistance which went into the decision. No, rather you just spew shit because you're unhappy.
They probably have staff who are paid to edit ads to remove explicit pictures which is a standard thing on many websites. Its disingenuous to equate that with deliberately pimping out kids.
Bullshit. They absolutely did not. Its absurd to think that any employee of Backpage went to work one day and deliberately intended to allow, create, or promote an ad for an underage prostitute.
By the way, illegals routinely pimp their own kids out. Mothers (older brothers, etc.) will literally accompany their kids on "dates". An attractive girl born into an illegal family is considered a family asset and the parents pimping the kids out is considered training and helping the kids.
The feminazi bitch Harris who is the AG from California pulling this off is likely to be elected to the US Senate. Ttterly despicable how far American politics have descended. Democracy is pretty much dead in America.
Another way to look at it is: Any place where 'tis (or 'twas) would be suitable would also be suitable for it's. I think we should switch to 'tis from now on.
I get that the possessive sense is always its but OED says preceding a gerund or noun-verb that "its" is also correct. In the case of passé which is an adjective I'm not sure. OED doesn't specifically list the contraction anywhere although perhaps they take it as implied.
Under the "it" entry there are numerous examples dating back to the 17th century of the contraction being used. It's also interesting to note that that "tis (or 'twas) would have been used. So I will correct it:
Not to nitpick or anything, but according to OED "its, adj. and pron." A.b. "Modifying a verbal noun, gerund, or gerundival clause, forming an embedded phrase corresponding to a clause consisting of it and a main verb." its spelled its.
Even if they straight-up don't want to hire them, what's wrong with that? I find something very wrong with the government doing a shakedown of a private company because of its internal activities which, basically, should not be the government's business.
Also, there are way to many "asians" in Silicon Valley. Deport them all. All companies in America should have an Americans first policy. H1B immigrants, illegals, and their offspring should not be considered the same as natives. They need to undo the damage of appalling government policies before they can restore something that is even close to a normal balance in that area.
No my guess is its deliberate. The low risk was deemed acceptable and they can save money. They don't want to spend money to prevent whatever remote odds it may kill or injure anyone on Earth. That's their attitude.
The fact that so many other posters here don't even see the egregious issues right in front of us is indicative of the need for the question, and perhaps also to some extent of why problems are not being solved but rather exacerbated as time goes on.
For all the supposed wondrous things that high technology is capable of, our society and our planet are headed for failure. Our society is in shambles - unless you happen to be someone in the entitled class living in an exclusive enclave. Ghettos are increasing. There are literally corpses all over the streets - people literally decomposing right in front of us. Our government is a de facto oligarchy and the "fourth estate" which is supposed to be like a check on the powers of government is controlled by the same oligarchy and is an apparatus of inducing conformity through mass deception.
Our ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the midst of a great extinction event. Overpopulation - already there are at least 2 -3 times more humans than Earth can comfortably carry - is set to increase to levels that are alarming and truly unsustainable. Humans are burning everything up and once fossil fuels become too scarce I guarantee you people will burn every combustible thing in sight in order to keep their kids warm and to cook food. And then there are the great catastrophes like the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima. One wonders what other great catastrophes are waiting down the road.
In terms of society, the family has basically collapsed as the building block of society. The role models are appalling. Can you think of any of the famous people in the limelight who hasn't had a marriage fall apart after only 1 or 2 years? There is the drug use. Huge drug epidemic of opiates and record deaths in the midwest.
There is a huge disparity which is only getting worse between "haves" and "have nots". There's a more or less permanent entitled class whose lives and values are radically different from the non-entitleds.
And for all the supposed innovation in tech, how much of it is developed by people with noble intentions vs. greedy losers eager to capitalize on the next niche thing? Many tech people's minds are in the absolute gutter from a truly humanistic and even strictly technological viewpoint as they are conditioned to strive for $$ and not for things which benefit all.
For people to post on here and question what possibly could be wrong with things now shows how completely lost and sick things are.
I didn't mean to imply that the user has to have the technical knowledge. I agree that's not realistic. But I also don't think that it should be necessary for any user to have to have that knowledge but still not be able to rely upon the integrity of their system. If we are using such incredibly complex machines and don't have chains of integrity, assurance, or whatever else it can be called, that is a huge problem.
I guess an analogy would be that every user of a credit card doesn't have to have a complete understanding of every technical component related to a transaction, but still has a relatively high level of assurance of the integrity of the card and its employment for purposes of payment.
but how to you feel if that info was passed to the FBI / CIA / NSA / ETC?
Depending upon who you are and what you do, the consideration that one's location history is potentially accessible to any other parties (not just government) could be an important one.
But for a boring person like me its not really a concern. In fact there might even be benefit from it. If something ever happened to me it might actually be beneficial that some other(s) know.
Another consideration is how malevolent those others might be. Even if there's basically no relevance to anyone knowing your location history, the idea that it might be collected out of a malevolent intent is still unpalatable.
For me the issue is what are the intents of those others who might know it, and how and who arbitrates what is considered just and unjust with respect to the reasons and intentions it is collected.
I believe that violation of trust is itself an actual harm, aside from whatever injury or damage might otherwise occur from unwanted disclosure.
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Wanting to keep out members of a "religion" that openly-stated goal of which is the takeover of the world, and which is fundamentally incompatible and in conflict with many of the most basic principles of your society makes perfect sense. In fact, not doing so seems completely insane.
What a lot of people don't get is that many of the people in their beloved minority groups wouldn't hesitate in a second to completely destroy many of the freedoms that we've fought so hard to accomplish. And quite frankly seeing women wearing that full-face-cover head veil thing (there's at least one who lives near me) makes me sick.
Islam teaches that women are literally the property of their husbands, no different than cattle. That should make anyone sick.
The Verge are crap. I'm putting them on my list of shit to never bother reading. Ever.
Ding!
Could see this coming from far away! LOL
With live people, those live people will be able to make live decisions, on the spot. There will be much more of a dynamic operation with live people, whereas currently, they're setting most things up to statically unfold.
Are you by chance one of Obama's science advisors?
How appallingly delusional and arrogant.
How destructively delusional and grandly arrogant.
You're free to do what you want with your life, not destroy a healthy country because of your sick delusion.
And of course you're not an electrical engineer and don't know that the decision wasn't made because of technical reasons such as the spec lifetime of the battery exceeding the lifetime usage of the phone and other design considerations such as water resistance which went into the decision. No, rather you just spew shit because you're unhappy.
They probably have staff who are paid to edit ads to remove explicit pictures which is a standard thing on many websites. Its disingenuous to equate that with deliberately pimping out kids.
Bullshit. They absolutely did not. Its absurd to think that any employee of Backpage went to work one day and deliberately intended to allow, create, or promote an ad for an underage prostitute.
By the way, illegals routinely pimp their own kids out. Mothers (older brothers, etc.) will literally accompany their kids on "dates". An attractive girl born into an illegal family is considered a family asset and the parents pimping the kids out is considered training and helping the kids.
I don't see Harris cracking down on illegals.
The feminazi bitch Harris who is the AG from California pulling this off is likely to be elected to the US Senate. Ttterly despicable how far American politics have descended. Democracy is pretty much dead in America.
Another way to look at it is: Any place where 'tis (or 'twas) would be suitable would also be suitable for it's. I think we should switch to 'tis from now on.
I get that the possessive sense is always its but OED says preceding a gerund or noun-verb that "its" is also correct. In the case of passé which is an adjective I'm not sure. OED doesn't specifically list the contraction anywhere although perhaps they take it as implied.
Under the "it" entry there are numerous examples dating back to the 17th century of the contraction being used. It's also interesting to note that that "tis (or 'twas) would have been used. So I will correct it:
'Tis passé.
Not to nitpick or anything, but according to OED "its, adj. and pron." A.b. "Modifying a verbal noun, gerund, or gerundival clause, forming an embedded phrase corresponding to a clause consisting of it and a main verb." its spelled its.
Who reads anymore? Its so passé.
I didn't know they still print $100,000 bills. I remember $500's though. Wish they still made them.
Deport them all. Deport all H1B. Deport all illegals and their "dreamer" kids who steal opportunities from Americans.
If you're American, don't miscegnate with invaders.
Fuck the Obama administration.
Even if they straight-up don't want to hire them, what's wrong with that? I find something very wrong with the government doing a shakedown of a private company because of its internal activities which, basically, should not be the government's business.
Also, there are way to many "asians" in Silicon Valley. Deport them all. All companies in America should have an Americans first policy. H1B immigrants, illegals, and their offspring should not be considered the same as natives. They need to undo the damage of appalling government policies before they can restore something that is even close to a normal balance in that area.
No my guess is its deliberate. The low risk was deemed acceptable and they can save money. They don't want to spend money to prevent whatever remote odds it may kill or injure anyone on Earth. That's their attitude.
Would be nice if it crashed in downtown Beijing.
The fact that so many other posters here don't even see the egregious issues right in front of us is indicative of the need for the question, and perhaps also to some extent of why problems are not being solved but rather exacerbated as time goes on.
For all the supposed wondrous things that high technology is capable of, our society and our planet are headed for failure. Our society is in shambles - unless you happen to be someone in the entitled class living in an exclusive enclave. Ghettos are increasing. There are literally corpses all over the streets - people literally decomposing right in front of us. Our government is a de facto oligarchy and the "fourth estate" which is supposed to be like a check on the powers of government is controlled by the same oligarchy and is an apparatus of inducing conformity through mass deception.
Our ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the midst of a great extinction event. Overpopulation - already there are at least 2 -3 times more humans than Earth can comfortably carry - is set to increase to levels that are alarming and truly unsustainable. Humans are burning everything up and once fossil fuels become too scarce I guarantee you people will burn every combustible thing in sight in order to keep their kids warm and to cook food. And then there are the great catastrophes like the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima. One wonders what other great catastrophes are waiting down the road.
In terms of society, the family has basically collapsed as the building block of society. The role models are appalling. Can you think of any of the famous people in the limelight who hasn't had a marriage fall apart after only 1 or 2 years? There is the drug use. Huge drug epidemic of opiates and record deaths in the midwest.
There is a huge disparity which is only getting worse between "haves" and "have nots". There's a more or less permanent entitled class whose lives and values are radically different from the non-entitleds.
And for all the supposed innovation in tech, how much of it is developed by people with noble intentions vs. greedy losers eager to capitalize on the next niche thing? Many tech people's minds are in the absolute gutter from a truly humanistic and even strictly technological viewpoint as they are conditioned to strive for $$ and not for things which benefit all.
For people to post on here and question what possibly could be wrong with things now shows how completely lost and sick things are.
I didn't mean to imply that the user has to have the technical knowledge. I agree that's not realistic. But I also don't think that it should be necessary for any user to have to have that knowledge but still not be able to rely upon the integrity of their system. If we are using such incredibly complex machines and don't have chains of integrity, assurance, or whatever else it can be called, that is a huge problem.
I guess an analogy would be that every user of a credit card doesn't have to have a complete understanding of every technical component related to a transaction, but still has a relatively high level of assurance of the integrity of the card and its employment for purposes of payment.
I have a simpler one: Cut China, Russia, Ukraine & Nigeria the fuck off the Internet
but how to you feel if that info was passed to the FBI / CIA / NSA / ETC?
Depending upon who you are and what you do, the consideration that one's location history is potentially accessible to any other parties (not just government) could be an important one.
But for a boring person like me its not really a concern. In fact there might even be benefit from it. If something ever happened to me it might actually be beneficial that some other(s) know.
Another consideration is how malevolent those others might be. Even if there's basically no relevance to anyone knowing your location history, the idea that it might be collected out of a malevolent intent is still unpalatable.
For me the issue is what are the intents of those others who might know it, and how and who arbitrates what is considered just and unjust with respect to the reasons and intentions it is collected.
I believe that violation of trust is itself an actual harm, aside from whatever injury or damage might otherwise occur from unwanted disclosure.
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by Anonymous Coward on 2016-08-24 17:07 (#52765709)
*cough* ... ...ties shoelaces ... ... ...
HUMANITY!
LMAO I nominate this for Funniest Post of the Year!
How does this thing qualify as an "aircraft" rather than "airship"?
I totally agree. That was the lamest crash vid I've ever seen.
LOL exactly what I was thinking!