For those of us above the left-right divide, the equivalence isn't remotely false. The "antifa" idiots have done far more damage than right-wingers in the last 7 months. Take a look at Berkeley when Milo was going to speak, for instance. Did anyone talk about taking down their servers because of violence?
I hate fascists - whether they're on the right or "antifa". When there's a boot on your neck you don't really care who it's attached to.
There's plenty of hate speech on both sides, and, frankly, probably far more from the left than from the right. The biggest difference I see is that conservatives seem to have no problem distancing themselves from the racist nutjobs, while liberals don't do the same to the left wing nuts. A pox on both their houses.
I had the original Microsoft optical mouse (I don't recall the exact name) but it lasted for 15 years, and served as my gaming mouse during that time. That's the first iteration of that hardware. Yes, Microsoft at one time made great hardware, at least when they were making mice and keyboards.
The whole article sort of subtly conflates the two-- unlawful sex acts, and sex trafficking victims, as though they are one and the same. i.e. prostitution == victim
Of course. That's the game now - act as if all prostitution is "trafficking" and pretend that there are no women who voluntarily prostitute themselves. It's the easiest way to gain sympathy for the anti-prostitution position.
And how is it magically "cheaper"? audiokat below points out the study that shows that in the US it's quite a bit more - about double. He doesn't understand it and misstates the conclusion, but there it is.
Just a minor nit: prostitution was largely legal in the 1800s. It was the 1900s when we were prosperous enough as a country to start worrying about what other people do with their bodies.
"It does cost more to make enough room for every coder to have an office with a door that closes."
It does not cost more, and that's the point. Any up front savings on the building will be lost in diminished productivity. It doesn't make sense to pay people as much as programmers are paid without doing everything possible to make them as efficient as possible.
I'm a straight up libertarian - I'm against banning just about anything. But just pointing out the obvious. We supposedly ban drugs because they're harmful to you, but it's clear that football is far worse physiologically than some - if not most - illegal drugs. As I said, if it were a drug it would be banned. I don't agree that it should, just delivering the news.
You're likely not aware of Costco's business, but basically these models aren't going to show up for a long time. They help companies like iRobot clean out last year's models from the warehouse. You won't find the latest and greatest there for an item like this.
I've had mixed success with same-day shipping around here. The first time I used it Amazon had the same price as Best Buy but free one-day shipping instead of me driving 15 minutes each way to Best Buy seemed like a good deal. I needed the item that day. It still wasn't here at end of day, and they didn't seem to understand that's a big problem.
To me it's affordable, but not worth the risk. If a movie on Netflix sucks, I can quit watching or go mst3k on it for entertainment. I have been burned by suck ass films too much in theaters that I don't go unless it's great and the theater size adds something to it (like saving private Ryan). I might go see Dunkirk.
I hate to break it to you, but Amtrak went bankrupt decades ago. There's no reason to believe that less revenue is going to cause anything to happen to them other than more government money to prop them up.
"But the absence of net neutrality rules isn't just good for Verizon—it's also good for the blind, deaf, and disabled, Verizon claims. That's what Verizon lobbyists said in talks with congressional staffers, according to a Mother Jones report last month."
thegreatbob posted the direct Mother Jones link below (or above).
Last time we had this discussion Verizon claimed we needed to have "fast lanes" to help handicapped people on the internet. None of this has anything to do with reality, just trying to muddy the waters.
You don't get it. They don't want to pay more taxes, they want "the rich" to pay more taxes. "The rich" is defined by anybody who makes more money than them.
"DUH, it's government so the money will just get wasted!"
Just a heads up, you interact with things, entities, and services that taxes pay for all the time.
We know that. We also know that when we increase funding for a certain bureaucracy they typically don't put the money into what it's supposed to be funding. One example:
I'm really not convinced by these arguments that our ancestors were somehow multi marathon fit and could run down anything on the plain. No native peoples today do that - they wound first with spears or arrows then follow it until it dies, they don't wear it down physically!
As for running down a horse, you must be joking. Horses can gallop then trot for hours, long after even the fittest marathon runner would be in a sweaty heap on the ground panting like dog. And unless you're a first class tracker you're never going to find that horse that has probably put 10 miles between you and him in the first hour.
In the epilogue to the book "Black Elk Speaks" the author describes how the tribe that he was studying made moccasins. This describes "endurance hunting" while also shattering the silly myth that the American Indians weren't wasteful.
The story is about an Indian in his 60s who needed a new pair of moccasins. The moccasins were made of deer hide, and you had to hunt and kill the deer yourself. Nothing else was done with the deer - the entire carcass was left to rot. Only the skin for the moccasins was taken. The author was amazed that the guy chased the deer to exhaustion. Yes, the deer outran him. At first. Deer can sprint really well, just not very far. The human, on the other hand, wasn't as good of a sprinter but he easily made up for it with endurance.
When the deer was exhausted he suffocated it while saying a prayer, basically in a ritualistic manner. When the deer was dead, he took the skin.
Anyway, yes, endurance hunting is a real thing. For horses? Probably not. But deer? Yes.
That's a list of stuff that Virginia will sell to you. You know - state of Virginia, Governor Terry McAullife who's standing up to that evil Trump and not giving him a damned thing!!!!!
Yeah, but he'll sell it to you.
One of the items in the list:
"Vote History List (VHL) – a list of those persons who voted in a primary, special or general election in a specified jurisdiction, legislative, election district or statewide over a four year time period."
That's what they're talking about.
You know what's funny? Since people like me are pointing out their hypocrisy they changed the page. Here's what it said last week:
"Vote History List (VHL) – full name, gender, date of birth, registration date, date last registration form received, registration status, locality, precinct, voting districts, voter identification number, election date, election type, and whether the voter voted in-person or absentee. Grouped by election, chronologically."
They took away some of the specifics since it makes them (properly) look like hypocrites.
No, I don't, because I know that/. is supported by nothing but ad revenue, and if I want it to continue the owners have to make money to pay for their costs and hopefully make a little profit. It would be extremely selfish of me to deprive them of their revenue source while making use of their resources.
Then you deserve what you get.
If everybody uses ad-blockers, what we're all going to get is one giant paywall.
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Here, let me help you with this. It's called False Equivalence: a logical fallacy in which two opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not.
For those of us above the left-right divide, the equivalence isn't remotely false. The "antifa" idiots have done far more damage than right-wingers in the last 7 months. Take a look at Berkeley when Milo was going to speak, for instance. Did anyone talk about taking down their servers because of violence?
I hate fascists - whether they're on the right or "antifa". When there's a boot on your neck you don't really care who it's attached to.
There's plenty of hate speech on both sides, and, frankly, probably far more from the left than from the right. The biggest difference I see is that conservatives seem to have no problem distancing themselves from the racist nutjobs, while liberals don't do the same to the left wing nuts. A pox on both their houses.
I had the original Microsoft optical mouse (I don't recall the exact name) but it lasted for 15 years, and served as my gaming mouse during that time. That's the first iteration of that hardware. Yes, Microsoft at one time made great hardware, at least when they were making mice and keyboards.
Liberals also have fewer children (at least the ones who actually have children), and that's a far bigger deal than life expectancy.
We'll see how the AI factory boss performs siting across the table from the AI union.
unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims
The whole article sort of subtly conflates the two-- unlawful sex acts, and sex trafficking victims, as though they are one and the same. i.e. prostitution == victim
Of course. That's the game now - act as if all prostitution is "trafficking" and pretend that there are no women who voluntarily prostitute themselves. It's the easiest way to gain sympathy for the anti-prostitution position.
People are so accustomed to judges legislating from the bench that they no longer understand how the process is supposed to work.
And how is it magically "cheaper"? audiokat below points out the study that shows that in the US it's quite a bit more - about double. He doesn't understand it and misstates the conclusion, but there it is.
Just a minor nit: prostitution was largely legal in the 1800s. It was the 1900s when we were prosperous enough as a country to start worrying about what other people do with their bodies.
"It does cost more to make enough room for every coder to have an office with a door that closes."
It does not cost more, and that's the point. Any up front savings on the building will be lost in diminished productivity. It doesn't make sense to pay people as much as programmers are paid without doing everything possible to make them as efficient as possible.
I'm a straight up libertarian - I'm against banning just about anything. But just pointing out the obvious. We supposedly ban drugs because they're harmful to you, but it's clear that football is far worse physiologically than some - if not most - illegal drugs. As I said, if it were a drug it would be banned. I don't agree that it should, just delivering the news.
As I've said before, if the NFL were a drug, it would have been banned years ago.
You're likely not aware of Costco's business, but basically these models aren't going to show up for a long time. They help companies like iRobot clean out last year's models from the warehouse. You won't find the latest and greatest there for an item like this.
Not only that:
"Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Porsche, and Daimler"
That's three companies in a random order. Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche are all under the Volkswagen Group.
You'd think Der Spiegel would know this, but it makes it look more sinister with a longer list.
I've had mixed success with same-day shipping around here. The first time I used it Amazon had the same price as Best Buy but free one-day shipping instead of me driving 15 minutes each way to Best Buy seemed like a good deal. I needed the item that day. It still wasn't here at end of day, and they didn't seem to understand that's a big problem.
To me it's affordable, but not worth the risk. If a movie on Netflix sucks, I can quit watching or go mst3k on it for entertainment. I have been burned by suck ass films too much in theaters that I don't go unless it's great and the theater size adds something to it (like saving private Ryan). I might go see Dunkirk.
I hate to break it to you, but Amtrak went bankrupt decades ago. There's no reason to believe that less revenue is going to cause anything to happen to them other than more government money to prop them up.
Absolutely:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
"But the absence of net neutrality rules isn't just good for Verizon—it's also good for the blind, deaf, and disabled, Verizon claims. That's what Verizon lobbyists said in talks with congressional staffers, according to a Mother Jones report last month."
thegreatbob posted the direct Mother Jones link below (or above).
Last time we had this discussion Verizon claimed we needed to have "fast lanes" to help handicapped people on the internet. None of this has anything to do with reality, just trying to muddy the waters.
They'll probably have to put spikes on the roof, similar to pigeon spikes:
https://www.google.com/search?...
You don't get it. They don't want to pay more taxes, they want "the rich" to pay more taxes. "The rich" is defined by anybody who makes more money than them.
"DUH, it's government so the money will just get wasted!"
Just a heads up, you interact with things, entities, and services that taxes pay for all the time.
We know that. We also know that when we increase funding for a certain bureaucracy they typically don't put the money into what it's supposed to be funding. One example:
http://reason.com/blog/2012/04...
I'm really not convinced by these arguments that our ancestors were somehow multi marathon fit and could run down anything on the plain. No native peoples today do that - they wound first with spears or arrows then follow it until it dies, they don't wear it down physically!
As for running down a horse, you must be joking. Horses can gallop then trot for hours, long after even the fittest marathon runner would be in a sweaty heap on the ground panting like dog. And unless you're a first class tracker you're never going to find that horse that has probably put 10 miles between you and him in the first hour.
In the epilogue to the book "Black Elk Speaks" the author describes how the tribe that he was studying made moccasins. This describes "endurance hunting" while also shattering the silly myth that the American Indians weren't wasteful.
The story is about an Indian in his 60s who needed a new pair of moccasins. The moccasins were made of deer hide, and you had to hunt and kill the deer yourself. Nothing else was done with the deer - the entire carcass was left to rot. Only the skin for the moccasins was taken. The author was amazed that the guy chased the deer to exhaustion. Yes, the deer outran him. At first. Deer can sprint really well, just not very far. The human, on the other hand, wasn't as good of a sprinter but he easily made up for it with endurance.
When the deer was exhausted he suffocated it while saying a prayer, basically in a ritualistic manner. When the deer was dead, he took the skin.
Anyway, yes, endurance hunting is a real thing. For horses? Probably not. But deer? Yes.
Go here:
http://www.elections.virginia....
That's a list of stuff that Virginia will sell to you. You know - state of Virginia, Governor Terry McAullife who's standing up to that evil Trump and not giving him a damned thing!!!!!
Yeah, but he'll sell it to you.
One of the items in the list:
"Vote History List (VHL) – a list of those persons who voted in a primary, special or general election in a specified jurisdiction, legislative, election district or statewide over a four year time period."
That's what they're talking about.
You know what's funny? Since people like me are pointing out their hypocrisy they changed the page. Here's what it said last week:
"Vote History List (VHL) – full name, gender, date of birth, registration date, date last registration form received, registration status, locality, precinct, voting districts, voter identification number, election date, election type, and whether the voter voted in-person or absentee. Grouped by election, chronologically."
They took away some of the specifics since it makes them (properly) look like hypocrites.
You mean you don't use an adblocker?
No, I don't, because I know that /. is supported by nothing but ad revenue, and if I want it to continue the owners have to make money to pay for their costs and hopefully make a little profit. It would be extremely selfish of me to deprive them of their revenue source while making use of their resources.
Then you deserve what you get.
If everybody uses ad-blockers, what we're all going to get is one giant paywall.