I'm pretty sure that not everyone agrees to such a thing.
I'm pretty sure the majority of married folks agree with exactly what the parent poster stated...married changes it to implied consent unless rejected. You don't have to ask first before you grope in marriage. Marriage for 99.99999% of the people implies sex between the couple. Otherwise, why would you put up with the legal and fiscal baggage that comes along with it?
And...what if the chick in questions LIKES sex to be rough, which you do consensually...and then one day, she flips and says "rape"....then you're screwed (no pun intended).
The problem is..the news agencies have been so complacent in all this all along too.
If we had a more independent, and aggressive, investigative news agencies out there, Obama and other politicians (both parties) would not get away with half the shit they do.
I think the news agencies should, in general, always view the administration at the time as somewhat adversarial, and should always be on the look for errors, law breaking and any hint of wrong doing. That should be their jobs, to constantly being on the heels of those in power, and keep them on their toes.
When you lose true news investigation and reporting, you lose democracy....the free press is needed to keep the administration honest, and just parroting news feeds from whatever administration is in office does the country absolutely NO service, and can in fact, allow very bad things to happen to the country as a whole as well as to erode and harm citizens on a more personal level.
Hmm..is this also sexual discrimination against men?
Are they offering to freeze sperm of the young men...that might not want a kid early too. Sperm quality and motility degrade a man's age too, why are they not being offered this service/perk?
Err...it is a common way to refer to someone you have a relationship with. I have "my" friends. I have "my" cousin, I have "my wife"...I have my woman....My girlfriend.
I'd think if you were old enough to try to contribute to the discourse on Slashdot, you'd have a better grasp on semantics.
If you're married, and no constraint warrants out, etc...I think it is perfectly normal and acceptable for spouses to keep up with each other, that way for years...just that tech is putting a new spin on it.
As for marital rape, I think there is so much implied consent, that it would and should take a much higher level of proof on that one. I'm sure it happens, but it seems harder to prove to me. After all, marriage implies consent to sexual relations.
I don't think there are any direct flights from that area into the US. Thomas Duncan came through Brussels. It's probably impossible to totally quarantine such a large area.
Well, I'd think with today's computer systems, it would be pretty easy to keep track where someone is flying from. We could pull up his history,see he came from WA within the danger period, and put him on a US no-fly list till he passed that danger time limit.
Note that both of the Ebola patients were health care workers directly involved in the care of Mr. Duncan and so were exposed to him when he was extremely contagious. None of the people in the family he was staying with or the Emergency Room workers appear to have been infected and it's been long enough that we would probably know that by now.
And if patient "0" hadn't made it to our shores at all...these two people wouldn't now be ill and in jeopardy.
It's all about money and large corporations-----you and I don't make a difference.
That doesn't make any sense.
Exactly what large financial contribution to the world is made currently from West Africa?
I can't imagine the US or world economy would even register a *blip* if West Africa was totally cut off from the world. Not that I was saying that, I was merely saying normal, commercial flights from there shouldn't be allowed. Special military and sanctioned flights would be ok, since you could that way ensure quarantine actions be observed from anyone coming back from one of those very, very limited flights.
It might be better to simply bite the bullet, acknowledge that there is Ebola in Texas, and after giving non-residents a chance to leave, simple seal up Texas and route all flights to and from infected areas to that state.
There's a BIG difference between taking care of your own, vs allowing other outsiders in to damage you.
simple. because those persons can go to a third country and then travel from there. it creates an impetus for persons from West Africa to simply try to evade such controls. this would of course worsen the situation, not improve it.
the world as a whole needs to be sending more resources to West Africa to fight the epidemic *there*. that is the only thing that will help stop this from becoming an actual pandemic.
Err...with our flight systems, can we not pretty readily track anyone flying OUT of that area, and know if they are coming from a connecting flight within the 20 or so day incubation period?
I have nothing wrong with sending resources...BUT, I still see no reason to allow free travel out of the area especially with cases on the rise, I hear projections that soon it will ramp up to 10K a week or so over there. At some point, we need to expand the quarantine to the NATION and not just hospital rooms.
Better than have it reach pandemic proportions, and we "rest of the world" find ourselves in a position of deciding to do something even more drastic. Better to close the area off till it can be controlled, than to have it become Uncontrollable, and we have to resort to measures to protect the world by "cleansing" the area in a much broader sense. (warms up the nukes).
WAIT...this summary of the article bears one HUGE question.
How in the world is it even possible to "stalk" your spouse???
I mean, if you're married, living in same house, etc...by definition isn't stalking impossible, there is all kinds of implied consent there, no?
I'm not arguing right or wrong on what the guy did, but either that is a huge stretch on saying what "stalking" is, or the law was written FAR too broadly!!!
Can someone tell me why so many talking heads are saying "It would be a BAD thing to stop allowing any normal commercial flights INTO the US from that part of Africa till they get it under control?
I mean, special permission flights for health workers, aid, etc could be set up for private charter flights as needed, but why are we allowing people from the infected countries to freely come and go in the US?
We're clearly not THAT ready in the US to handle this disease and it seems common sense to isolate that part of the world from general travel till things get under control.
Actually, so far...I've not found any jobs that required any Oracle DBA certification as a requirement for work. Maybe for starting out, but for me, job resume experience is what sells you.
I've never been certified, I've taken the classes in the past, but never got around to taking the actual exam, and I've never found it to be a job requirement, nor pay amount factor.
I'm pretty much contracting only these days, so maybe the more beginner W2 jobs value this more, but for now, I find that in general, Oracle Certs are about as worthless as MS certified engineer credentials. You just don't need them really.
Considering Slashdot is a US centric website, it can usually be assumed that the stories and comments pertain primarily to how things are done in the US.
You understand that in most of the western world, insurance companies aren't allowed to do anything with that kind of information, right?
Hmm..exactly where are you talking about?
I don't know of any laws in the US that forbids the insurance companies from using information from any source, especially if it is voluntarily dispersed by the individual??
I have to imagine if you're wanting life insurance, this will be one of the first wells the insurance companies go to mine for info....I would.
And besides, men are VISUAL...we become interested by how women look first and foremost in most cases. I'm certainly not going to be wasting my time and efforts of women I can't see first.
I'm thinking my God....are people so fucking stupid to voluntarily put all that information out there, and on Facebook to top it off?!?!
I can see a LOT of insurance companies flocking to "friend" everyone to get a share of this info, not to mention the other thousands of advertisers, and of course the govt, since it is becoming so entangled into a person's private healthcare history.
Although, I must say, I enjoy all that tailgating and community get together MUCH with college football games here in the south, than I do for Pro games.
Better looking and younger chicks at the college game day celebrations!! That and you don't have to go through something resembling TSA airport security like you do with the NFL these days more and more.
Help me out here - those of you who live where/good/ teams are, don't you normally avoid blackouts because your team is worth watching? Wouldn't it be the stinkers that have to be propped up by rules like this?
I live in New Orleans...and it has only been in recent years (not this year apparently) that the Saints were anything but a losing team.
For decades...fans filled the stands, wearing bags over their heads, but still..they were loyal and came to see the games. I know some games were blacked out in the past, but I don't remember *that* many.
Granted, we have a dome and don't have to sit outside in the sweltering heat and humidity (which lasts usually till about the end of Oct), but even so...I think it depends on the community you live in as much as how the team is doing. I mean down here, we're looking for any excuse to get together for a party, hell we even have parades for funerals.
I just found Pixelmator, looks interesting. Know any good sites with comparisons between PS and PM? I might do the trial and see how it works...the thing that made me a bit apprehensive, is that on the PM site, they are showing off in tutorials all the "click and it is done for you" stuff predominately.
I had to actually DIG through the site to find out about curves, and layer masks, often the meat of a serious workflow...not one touch instagram filters.
With the Adobe move to CC, I was really hoping someone out there with funds would take this opportunity to take GIMP, and either work with the current team or fork it, and really turn it into a full blown PS competitor.
A very solid product would see a huge uptake. If they could get the keyboard shortcuts pretty close to 1:1 with PS, that alone would have a lot of pros looking seriously at GIMP, since that is a huge part of the workflow if you're trying to move fast.
So many keyboard shortcuts are memorized and moved into muscle memory with heavy users of PS, that that aspect alone would be a major boon to GIMP adoption by those that are not that happy with the CC *rental* model.
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I'd say one extra thing...don't tax food, that way it wouldn't be regressive against the poor which is often the argument for a consumption tax.
I'd also be for a flat tax too....one simple form, done.
I'm pretty sure the majority of married folks agree with exactly what the parent poster stated...married changes it to implied consent unless rejected. You don't have to ask first before you grope in marriage. Marriage for 99.99999% of the people implies sex between the couple. Otherwise, why would you put up with the legal and fiscal baggage that comes along with it?
And...what if the chick in questions LIKES sex to be rough, which you do consensually...and then one day, she flips and says "rape"....then you're screwed (no pun intended).
If we had a more independent, and aggressive, investigative news agencies out there, Obama and other politicians (both parties) would not get away with half the shit they do.
I think the news agencies should, in general, always view the administration at the time as somewhat adversarial, and should always be on the look for errors, law breaking and any hint of wrong doing. That should be their jobs, to constantly being on the heels of those in power, and keep them on their toes.
When you lose true news investigation and reporting, you lose democracy....the free press is needed to keep the administration honest, and just parroting news feeds from whatever administration is in office does the country absolutely NO service, and can in fact, allow very bad things to happen to the country as a whole as well as to erode and harm citizens on a more personal level.
Are they offering to freeze sperm of the young men...that might not want a kid early too. Sperm quality and motility degrade a man's age too, why are they not being offered this service/perk?
I'd think if you were old enough to try to contribute to the discourse on Slashdot, you'd have a better grasp on semantics.
If you're married, and no constraint warrants out, etc...I think it is perfectly normal and acceptable for spouses to keep up with each other, that way for years...just that tech is putting a new spin on it.
As for marital rape, I think there is so much implied consent, that it would and should take a much higher level of proof on that one. I'm sure it happens, but it seems harder to prove to me. After all, marriage implies consent to sexual relations.
Well, I'd think with today's computer systems, it would be pretty easy to keep track where someone is flying from. We could pull up his history ,see he came from WA within the danger period, and put him on a US no-fly list till he passed that danger time limit.
And if patient "0" hadn't made it to our shores at all...these two people wouldn't now be ill and in jeopardy.
That doesn't make any sense.
Exactly what large financial contribution to the world is made currently from West Africa?
I can't imagine the US or world economy would even register a *blip* if West Africa was totally cut off from the world. Not that I was saying that, I was merely saying normal, commercial flights from there shouldn't be allowed. Special military and sanctioned flights would be ok, since you could that way ensure quarantine actions be observed from anyone coming back from one of those very, very limited flights.
There's a BIG difference between taking care of your own, vs allowing other outsiders in to damage you.
Err...with our flight systems, can we not pretty readily track anyone flying OUT of that area, and know if they are coming from a connecting flight within the 20 or so day incubation period?
I have nothing wrong with sending resources...BUT, I still see no reason to allow free travel out of the area especially with cases on the rise, I hear projections that soon it will ramp up to 10K a week or so over there. At some point, we need to expand the quarantine to the NATION and not just hospital rooms.
Better than have it reach pandemic proportions, and we "rest of the world" find ourselves in a position of deciding to do something even more drastic. Better to close the area off till it can be controlled, than to have it become Uncontrollable, and we have to resort to measures to protect the world by "cleansing" the area in a much broader sense. (warms up the nukes).
I have no problem with a woman of mine "emotionally cheating". Just as long as she isn't actually FUCKING someone physically, what's the big deal?
How in the world is it even possible to "stalk" your spouse???
I mean, if you're married, living in same house, etc...by definition isn't stalking impossible, there is all kinds of implied consent there, no?
I'm not arguing right or wrong on what the guy did, but either that is a huge stretch on saying what "stalking" is, or the law was written FAR too broadly!!!
I mean, special permission flights for health workers, aid, etc could be set up for private charter flights as needed, but why are we allowing people from the infected countries to freely come and go in the US?
We're clearly not THAT ready in the US to handle this disease and it seems common sense to isolate that part of the world from general travel till things get under control.
I've never been certified, I've taken the classes in the past, but never got around to taking the actual exam, and I've never found it to be a job requirement, nor pay amount factor.
I'm pretty much contracting only these days, so maybe the more beginner W2 jobs value this more, but for now, I find that in general, Oracle Certs are about as worthless as MS certified engineer credentials. You just don't need them really.
I've just been wasting my tall tales for free in the bars when getting hammered.
Considering Slashdot is a US centric website, it can usually be assumed that the stories and comments pertain primarily to how things are done in the US.
Hmm..exactly where are you talking about?
I don't know of any laws in the US that forbids the insurance companies from using information from any source, especially if it is voluntarily dispersed by the individual??
I have to imagine if you're wanting life insurance, this will be one of the first wells the insurance companies go to mine for info....I would.
That's just nature.
I can see a LOT of insurance companies flocking to "friend" everyone to get a share of this info, not to mention the other thousands of advertisers, and of course the govt, since it is becoming so entangled into a person's private healthcare history.
Better looking and younger chicks at the college game day celebrations!! That and you don't have to go through something resembling TSA airport security like you do with the NFL these days more and more.
I live in New Orleans...and it has only been in recent years (not this year apparently) that the Saints were anything but a losing team.
For decades...fans filled the stands, wearing bags over their heads, but still..they were loyal and came to see the games. I know some games were blacked out in the past, but I don't remember *that* many.
Granted, we have a dome and don't have to sit outside in the sweltering heat and humidity (which lasts usually till about the end of Oct), but even so...I think it depends on the community you live in as much as how the team is doing. I mean down here, we're looking for any excuse to get together for a party, hell we even have parades for funerals.
Then, we'd know it was on par and lock step with Apple's OS going forward.
I just found Pixelmator, looks interesting. Know any good sites with comparisons between PS and PM? I might do the trial and see how it works...the thing that made me a bit apprehensive, is that on the PM site, they are showing off in tutorials all the "click and it is done for you" stuff predominately.
I had to actually DIG through the site to find out about curves, and layer masks, often the meat of a serious workflow...not one touch instagram filters.
A very solid product would see a huge uptake. If they could get the keyboard shortcuts pretty close to 1:1 with PS, that alone would have a lot of pros looking seriously at GIMP, since that is a huge part of the workflow if you're trying to move fast.
So many keyboard shortcuts are memorized and moved into muscle memory with heavy users of PS, that that aspect alone would be a major boon to GIMP adoption by those that are not that happy with the CC *rental* model.