The Constitution is the supreme law of the land (at least where I live). Everybody is required to accept it. The Bible is a book that a large number of people in the country have great respect for, and many try to base their behavior on it. That's fine for them, but I don't have to agree (guaranteed by the Constitution).
"The Bible" may be a valid argument for people who think it's a holy book that contains the truth. That's not me, so it's not a valid argument where I'm concerned.
The only thing they stopped was use of the word, and I haven't read a reason why. It might have had to do with advertisers, or it might have been triggering content filters. It's not my site, and I don't know why the decisions are made.
For instance, a 70 year old man shot and killed a guy who was trying to steal his car in a public parking lot as he put his groceries into the trunk. This was a justified self defense shooting as there was plenty of evidence a crime was being attempted.
Exactly how is this self-defense? It's defense of personal property. There's a difference.
There was a lot of appeal to a cheap Unix-alike that ran on commodity hardware. Not much in terms of market share, but the actual number of people who wanted that was large. Linux turned out to have a lot more appeal than the BSDs.
The bakery sold cakes to people they didn't know were gay. They aren't required to wear pink triangles. I don't know what they'd do with customers they knew were gay.
You're also missing the details here. The bakers didn't say "We can't put that on the cake in good conscience, since we disagree with the message. Try another bakery." They called their potential customers "abominations before the Lord" and were, as far as I can gather, abusive in other ways. They made it extremely clear that this was about sexual orientation, in addition to destroying any possibility of a reasonable resolution. That, along with the doxxing, was why they lost the lawsuit.
There are good reasons to refuse a commission, and a few bad reasons. They made it clear it was for bad reasons.
Significant portions of the planet have birth rates below replacement levels. In some places, this is masked by immigration, and in some it will be a while before the population levels actually decline from it. This happens pretty much everywhere women get education, opportunities for employment, access to birth control, and where the society is sufficiently stable that a 1-year-old is very likely to mature. Lack of this is most common in parts of Africa and Asia, which is why the population increases tend to be there.
By my reading a constitutional convention doesn't just amend the Constitution. It proposes amendments for the normal ratification process. If it had the ability to change the constitution, the convention would have been better specified.
GP was not equating marriage with sex trafficking, but rather marriage with prostitution. It's better nowadays (at least in the US), but several decades ago marriage was the primary way women supported themselves, and there were no laws saying a husband couldn't rape his wife. Even today, there are people who marry old farts for their money, and many of them don't expect to have to do anything except put out. It's more voluntary, but it's still trading sex for money..
It's been getting more difficult to get illegal immigrants as workers, and anybody else who'd be competent can do much better with an easier job.
The right wing generally favors business policies that would include near-slave labor (as long as it doesn't apply to them), but is also against illegal immigration. Technology to the rescue.
They're female by default in the US. I've read that at least Siri is male by default in some other places. If nothing else, a female voice tends to be easier to understand under adverse conditions.
COBOL is an excellent language for a class of applications that I never liked working in and refused to as soon as I got the chance to move away from it. My experience left me with an intense dislike of the language. I told my son that, if I found porn, drugs, and a COBOL manual in his room, I was going to call him out on the COBOL.
Still, it was an impressive thing to develop at the time, and it did have some nice features for the time.
However, as a straight cisgender upper-middle-class white man, I'm not in a good position to see unequal opportunity. That's much easier to see from the disadvantaged side. I'm much more interested in hearing from people who aren't straight or cisgender or white or men or upper-middle-class about what they experience.
It's entirely possible that Lovelace showed Babbage that an Analytical Engine would be more generally useful than he'd thought, or that (had he transcended the mechanical limitations of his time and built one) it would be easier to use than he thought. I'm not saying it happened these ways, but it could have.
In addition to female supremacists, there's a lot of women looking for role models that resemble them, and it's common to over-hype people under those circumstances. That's probably what's happening here. There isn't a big push to declare Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper as the greatest, just to present them as more important than they actually were.
That completely fails to explain (a) the actual meaning of the phrase "general welfare" and (b) why the Federal government taxes and spends on things that it's not empowered to make laws about. Federal jurisdiction has been challenged in the courts before, and the Supreme Court has normally been willing to limit Federal power (exceptions being the interstate commerce clause being distorted out of meaning).
Digging into Wikipedia on the taxing and spending clause, it appears that the more expansive plain wording prevailed at first, was ruled wrong, and then was reinstated in the 1930s.
The US Supreme Court has confirmed a lot of things, at one time or another. Not all of them were correct decisions (in my opinion anyway). The interstate commerce clause was obviously seriously distorted, being applied to things that don't accord with the words of the Constitution, but "general welfare" has a clear meaning without further interpretation.
The constitution gives Congress authority to spend on the general welfare, so it can provide funding for education.
(Last time I brought this up, somebody claimed that "general welfare" didn't mean what it clearly does. If you're going to pull that on me again, come up with some support for your claims.)
It also suggests that Musk named his rockets Falcon just to set this up. Falcon isn't a bad name for a rocket family, but doing it to set up a pun seems a little much.
Feminists have been split on the topic of porn, with one group thinking it's exploitation of women and another thinking that liberated women can make their own choices.
Back in the late 70s, when I paid attention to these things, the Playboy models always looked like they were having more fun than the Penthouse models. (I'm not claiming they did, but that's how it was presented.)
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The Constitution is the supreme law of the land (at least where I live). Everybody is required to accept it. The Bible is a book that a large number of people in the country have great respect for, and many try to base their behavior on it. That's fine for them, but I don't have to agree (guaranteed by the Constitution).
"The Bible" may be a valid argument for people who think it's a holy book that contains the truth. That's not me, so it's not a valid argument where I'm concerned.
The only thing they stopped was use of the word, and I haven't read a reason why. It might have had to do with advertisers, or it might have been triggering content filters. It's not my site, and I don't know why the decisions are made.
Exactly how is this self-defense? It's defense of personal property. There's a difference.
There was a lot of appeal to a cheap Unix-alike that ran on commodity hardware. Not much in terms of market share, but the actual number of people who wanted that was large. Linux turned out to have a lot more appeal than the BSDs.
The bakery sold cakes to people they didn't know were gay. They aren't required to wear pink triangles. I don't know what they'd do with customers they knew were gay.
You're also missing the details here. The bakers didn't say "We can't put that on the cake in good conscience, since we disagree with the message. Try another bakery." They called their potential customers "abominations before the Lord" and were, as far as I can gather, abusive in other ways. They made it extremely clear that this was about sexual orientation, in addition to destroying any possibility of a reasonable resolution. That, along with the doxxing, was why they lost the lawsuit.
There are good reasons to refuse a commission, and a few bad reasons. They made it clear it was for bad reasons.
Which depends vitally on Net Neutrality Round 1, since the only way to overthrow a monopoly involves making alternatives.
Significant portions of the planet have birth rates below replacement levels. In some places, this is masked by immigration, and in some it will be a while before the population levels actually decline from it. This happens pretty much everywhere women get education, opportunities for employment, access to birth control, and where the society is sufficiently stable that a 1-year-old is very likely to mature. Lack of this is most common in parts of Africa and Asia, which is why the population increases tend to be there.
By my reading a constitutional convention doesn't just amend the Constitution. It proposes amendments for the normal ratification process. If it had the ability to change the constitution, the convention would have been better specified.
GP was not equating marriage with sex trafficking, but rather marriage with prostitution. It's better nowadays (at least in the US), but several decades ago marriage was the primary way women supported themselves, and there were no laws saying a husband couldn't rape his wife. Even today, there are people who marry old farts for their money, and many of them don't expect to have to do anything except put out. It's more voluntary, but it's still trading sex for money..
You can leave the word "modern" out of your sentence and be just as correct.
It's been getting more difficult to get illegal immigrants as workers, and anybody else who'd be competent can do much better with an easier job.
The right wing generally favors business policies that would include near-slave labor (as long as it doesn't apply to them), but is also against illegal immigration. Technology to the rescue.
They're female by default in the US. I've read that at least Siri is male by default in some other places. If nothing else, a female voice tends to be easier to understand under adverse conditions.
Thank you for providing an excellent example of why women are made to feel unwelcome some places.
Not so much for saying it as insisting on pushing it into people's faces, according to the labor board investigation.
COBOL is an excellent language for a class of applications that I never liked working in and refused to as soon as I got the chance to move away from it. My experience left me with an intense dislike of the language. I told my son that, if I found porn, drugs, and a COBOL manual in his room, I was going to call him out on the COBOL.
Still, it was an impressive thing to develop at the time, and it did have some nice features for the time.
Sure. All I want is equal opportunity.
However, as a straight cisgender upper-middle-class white man, I'm not in a good position to see unequal opportunity. That's much easier to see from the disadvantaged side. I'm much more interested in hearing from people who aren't straight or cisgender or white or men or upper-middle-class about what they experience.
It's entirely possible that Lovelace showed Babbage that an Analytical Engine would be more generally useful than he'd thought, or that (had he transcended the mechanical limitations of his time and built one) it would be easier to use than he thought. I'm not saying it happened these ways, but it could have.
In addition to female supremacists, there's a lot of women looking for role models that resemble them, and it's common to over-hype people under those circumstances. That's probably what's happening here. There isn't a big push to declare Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper as the greatest, just to present them as more important than they actually were.
In a universe where that were true, absolutely nobody would have voted for Trump. For most of the complaints I've seen about Clinton, Trump's worse.
That completely fails to explain (a) the actual meaning of the phrase "general welfare" and (b) why the Federal government taxes and spends on things that it's not empowered to make laws about. Federal jurisdiction has been challenged in the courts before, and the Supreme Court has normally been willing to limit Federal power (exceptions being the interstate commerce clause being distorted out of meaning).
Digging into Wikipedia on the taxing and spending clause, it appears that the more expansive plain wording prevailed at first, was ruled wrong, and then was reinstated in the 1930s.
The US Supreme Court has confirmed a lot of things, at one time or another. Not all of them were correct decisions (in my opinion anyway). The interstate commerce clause was obviously seriously distorted, being applied to things that don't accord with the words of the Constitution, but "general welfare" has a clear meaning without further interpretation.
The constitution gives Congress authority to spend on the general welfare, so it can provide funding for education.
(Last time I brought this up, somebody claimed that "general welfare" didn't mean what it clearly does. If you're going to pull that on me again, come up with some support for your claims.)
It also suggests that Musk named his rockets Falcon just to set this up. Falcon isn't a bad name for a rocket family, but doing it to set up a pun seems a little much.
FTFY.
Feminists have been split on the topic of porn, with one group thinking it's exploitation of women and another thinking that liberated women can make their own choices.
In the US, nudie magazines were considered inappropriate and distasteful. Shameful, a bit, abnormal, not if you look at circulation figures.
Back in the late 70s, when I paid attention to these things, the Playboy models always looked like they were having more fun than the Penthouse models. (I'm not claiming they did, but that's how it was presented.)