Every oppressor always starts with disarming the people.
Not even remotely true. At the risk of invoking Godwin, the Weimar Republic had tougher gun laws than... uh... that government that came after it. You know the one.
If you can convince people that oppression is in their own best interest, if you can hammer home the "fact" that some subset of the citizenry are actually outsiders or traitors, then history shows that an armed citizenry can be a dictator's willing accomplice.
Honestly, if things keep going they way they are, I'm afraid something WILL break out.
Let me put it this way: The US actually rounded up its own citizens and put them in mass internment camps just a few decades ago. That did not spark a revolution. If that won't do it, nothing will.
Don't take it the wrong way... but I like the bill of rights.
I can appreciate that. Something closer to the Canadian Bill of Rights would be even better, of course, but at least it's something, especially since marriage equality seems to be implied by it.
On the other hand, Australia doesn't have elected elected judges, elected prosecutors, grand juries, plea bargaining, civil asset forfeiture, police getting military surplus gear, Reid technique interrogations, or capital punishment. So you if you do get in trouble with the law, you'll probably be treated humanely and will get a reasonably fair trial even if you're not the sort of person who has $15M gathering dust.
We also don't have elected school boards. You can probably appreciate the advantage of that.
A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. A social justice warrior, or SJW, does not necessarily strongly believe all that they say, or even care about the groups they are fighting on behalf of. They typically repeat points from whoever is the most popular blogger or commenter of the moment, hoping that they will "get SJ points" and become popular in return. They are very sure to adopt stances that are "correct" in their social circle.
The SJW's favorite activity of all is to dogpile. Their favorite websites to frequent are Livejournal and Tumblr. They do not have relevant favorite real-world places, because SJWs are primarily civil rights activists only online.
That is what "SJW" has always meant. MLK was not a SJW, Gandhi was not a SJW, Anita Sarkeesian is not a SJW, and almost nobody on Slashdot is a SJW.
Unfortunately for Multics oldbies, the x86-64 architecture has no hardware segmentation in long mode. So you're not going to see the likes of Multics again.
Of course, address spaces are so big these days that using virtual memory to do file I/O is practical.
And it should be pointed out that the whole point of locations is that they be basically what the death camps are today- aka, public places, museums, etc.
Indeed. The whole point of the game is to get gamers outside and walking and visiting interesting and significant places. (One game slogan is "it's time to move".)
The problem isn't that the location is in the game. The problem is that some players act like complete arses, ruining those locations for everyone else. In retrospect, this is an obvious point.
One of the hardest lessons I ever learned in this business is that if you tell a customer (often any customer) about it, you support it. It does not matter in the slightest whether it's officially documented or not.
I learned this lesson long before I started reading Raymond Chen's blog, which is full of examples.
In what possible universe is an incentive "coercion"?
I wish you that you end up out of work on the street with no retirement, because that's the world you want to create.
I want a world where people are held responsible for the actions of corporations. How much prison time did those responsible for the Bhopal disaster do, again?
They can't, and the idea that Sweden should have to make a guarantee to a fugitive from justice is silly.
This is correct, however it's the law in many places that you can't be deported to another country if there's a risk of that country doing something that is abhorrent. I don't know what the law is in Sweden, but it is likely that he could not be extradited to a country where he may face execution.
Yes, the large number of US politicians calling for Assange to be executed is probably bluster. However, the fact remains that the US still executes people despite it being the 21st century, and still has execution on the books for crimes that Assange could conceivably be charged with, should he ever end up in US jurisdiction. Yes, those charges may only be used to try to coerce a plea "bargain". Still, the risk is nonzero.
This isn't something that Sweden can really deal with upfront, but were he to end up in Sweden and were the US to demand extradition, that is something that may well be fought in the Swedish courts.
Any government policy addressing climate change necessarily involves coercion.
Incentives and nudges are approaches which could work in theory......but you're probably right. There's no such thing as enlightened self-interest (to a first approximation), and the Invisible Handwave of the Market has proven that it won't fix this by itself. If the alternative to a modest amount of coercion is a reasonable-sized risk of destruction of the planet's life support system, I guess we're stuck with a modest amount of coercion.
Everything is a tradeoff.
If you screw corporations, you screw the people owning them.
If only that were true. Limited liability sucks in that respect.
Notice how everybody who proposes ways of addressing climate change agrees that people need to be coerced to live differently [...]
Uhm... no? Everyone who thinks that climate change is an issue that needs addressing (i.e. everyone who is correct) agrees that the behaviour of people needs to change. Whether that happens by coercion, by persuasion, or by some other means, is an open question.
Some people wear black nail polish for the same reason that Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks: because black goes with everything.
If you're as fashion-impaired as I am, it's useful to stick with something that you know will work. Dressing with some modicum of sense is a courtesy to others.
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Here's my reference.
Not even remotely true. At the risk of invoking Godwin, the Weimar Republic had tougher gun laws than... uh... that government that came after it. You know the one.
If you can convince people that oppression is in their own best interest, if you can hammer home the "fact" that some subset of the citizenry are actually outsiders or traitors, then history shows that an armed citizenry can be a dictator's willing accomplice.
Honestly, if things keep going they way they are, I'm afraid something WILL break out.
Let me put it this way: The US actually rounded up its own citizens and put them in mass internment camps just a few decades ago. That did not spark a revolution. If that won't do it, nothing will.
FTFY
I can appreciate that. Something closer to the Canadian Bill of Rights would be even better, of course, but at least it's something, especially since marriage equality seems to be implied by it.
On the other hand, Australia doesn't have elected elected judges, elected prosecutors, grand juries, plea bargaining, civil asset forfeiture, police getting military surplus gear, Reid technique interrogations, or capital punishment. So you if you do get in trouble with the law, you'll probably be treated humanely and will get a reasonably fair trial even if you're not the sort of person who has $15M gathering dust.
We also don't have elected school boards. You can probably appreciate the advantage of that.
Personally, I have two very nice microbreweries within easy driving distance. But since you asked, here's the top ten by market share.
Or a HQ Monaro if you're a purist.
You do know that no Australians actually drink Foster's, right? That's the stuff we flog to foreigners.
Not in the original sense, no.
Allow me to quote urbandictionary:
That is what "SJW" has always meant. MLK was not a SJW, Gandhi was not a SJW, Anita Sarkeesian is not a SJW, and almost nobody on Slashdot is a SJW.
Unfortunately for Multics oldbies, the x86-64 architecture has no hardware segmentation in long mode. So you're not going to see the likes of Multics again.
Of course, address spaces are so big these days that using virtual memory to do file I/O is practical.
Yup, for the UI you want something more like QNX Photon.
And it should be pointed out that the whole point of locations is that they be basically what the death camps are today- aka, public places, museums, etc.
Indeed. The whole point of the game is to get gamers outside and walking and visiting interesting and significant places. (One game slogan is "it's time to move".)
The problem isn't that the location is in the game. The problem is that some players act like complete arses, ruining those locations for everyone else. In retrospect, this is an obvious point.
Kind of like how the Prime Directive always makes the best course of action perfectly clear.
Of course, if you didn't keep it in a cage, then maybe it wouldn't lash out against its handlers.
If it implements all the REQUIRED features, then it is TLS.
If you're not free to marry nobody, and are unhappy about this, I'd be honoured to get behind your cause.
One of the hardest lessons I ever learned in this business is that if you tell a customer (often any customer) about it, you support it. It does not matter in the slightest whether it's officially documented or not.
I learned this lesson long before I started reading Raymond Chen's blog, which is full of examples.
In what possible universe is an incentive "coercion"?
I want a world where people are held responsible for the actions of corporations. How much prison time did those responsible for the Bhopal disaster do, again?
This is correct, however it's the law in many places that you can't be deported to another country if there's a risk of that country doing something that is abhorrent. I don't know what the law is in Sweden, but it is likely that he could not be extradited to a country where he may face execution.
Yes, the large number of US politicians calling for Assange to be executed is probably bluster. However, the fact remains that the US still executes people despite it being the 21st century, and still has execution on the books for crimes that Assange could conceivably be charged with, should he ever end up in US jurisdiction. Yes, those charges may only be used to try to coerce a plea "bargain". Still, the risk is nonzero.
This isn't something that Sweden can really deal with upfront, but were he to end up in Sweden and were the US to demand extradition, that is something that may well be fought in the Swedish courts.
Well, they haven't done that yet, either.
Incentives and nudges are approaches which could work in theory... ...but you're probably right. There's no such thing as enlightened self-interest (to a first approximation), and the Invisible Handwave of the Market has proven that it won't fix this by itself. If the alternative to a modest amount of coercion is a reasonable-sized risk of destruction of the planet's life support system, I guess we're stuck with a modest amount of coercion.
Everything is a tradeoff.
If only that were true. Limited liability sucks in that respect.
Uhm... no? Everyone who thinks that climate change is an issue that needs addressing (i.e. everyone who is correct) agrees that the behaviour of people needs to change. Whether that happens by coercion, by persuasion, or by some other means, is an open question.
P.S. Corporations are not "people".
I can personally vouch for Professor Hogg. That is indeed his or her real name.
I identify as as false name.
Some people wear black nail polish for the same reason that Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks: because black goes with everything.
If you're as fashion-impaired as I am, it's useful to stick with something that you know will work. Dressing with some modicum of sense is a courtesy to others.