The problem is when violent criminals are in a one on one situation, where they could potentially use child safety locks to prevent a rider from leaving a vehicle. It's a high risk situation, as opposed to other service environments where others are around and it's harder to engage in violent behavior. I agree that criminal background checks are too often a disqualification for jobs, but this is a time where it makes some sense.
Again, not all felons committed violent acts. Perhaps, there should be a monitoring period for certain types of jobs and the right to refuse employment based on the job type? Some felons might actually be rehabilitated?
So a rapist/molester/abuser/violent person that may be alone in a car with someone is less risky than a molester at a daycare? IS that the point being made here?
Exactly. Xians and Republicans are so stupid that they let Russians that speak poor English tell them how to vote. They did what Putin told them to do.
What's an Xian? Is that a Chinese Immigrant from a particular region of China like Cantonese or Mandarin? It looks like a Chinese surname.
They should consider volume discounts on purchase of multiples or not bother offering low margin products in single quantities online. It seems a bit unreasonable to expect free shipping on a box of macaroni and cheese across the country.
To help them stop polluting. This isn't a jobs Accord, it's an environmental one. If you are so concerned about jobs, you should, firstly, contact your senators and convince them to stop playing politics with every jobs bill that comes up, and secondly, set some damn environmental targets so we can get a crap load of clean energy jobs.
Sorry but they have more than enough money to stop polluting. It is a scam and you are falling for it.
Why are they receiving money from the Paris accord on pollution? Is the Accord just a scam to transfer wealth from Europe and North America to nations like India? How does that help the environment?
How does handing over 100 Billion dollars from the 1st world reduce pollution? Wouldn't increased money in the third world lead to more pollution? How is this not a globalist socialism scam?
The lion's share? Don't tell that to Sweden!
Someone needs to check his own citations.
Did you bother looking at where the money is going? How is this not global socialism? Why is India getting so much money when they are a major polluter? They are already getting a lot of jobs transferred from North American companies. Why do they get even more money?
This is the $64,000 question right here. Twitter has been actively censoring viewpoints they don't like and there is literally no oversight. 1984 memory holes are alive and well at Twitter.
And why do any of you give a rat's ass?
It's a business - not the government. They have no obligation to freedom of speech or any other freedoms.
That's what none of you are getting. If anyone thinks that Twitter, reddit, Slashdot, facebook or whatever has a legal obligation to free speech, you are horribly misinformed.
Try googling "Twitter payments". As twitter becomes involved in the payments space and even as a conduit for advertising, it will have to come under more regulatory scrutiny. They will have to implement SOX complaint controls into their platform to prevent a rouge employee from deleting an account on their last day. With SOX, you are supposed to have segregation of duties and controls in place that prevent any single employee from deleting to altering a record without approval from someone else. I think you are horribly misinformed. As soon as you start charging for services, you come under a different set of rules.
"Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope."
You are both right and wrong. Allah does not mean "god" in Arabic. It is a loan word from a much older culture from Mesopotamia called the Akkadian empire. They had a blood god in their pantheon. That blood god has an interesting backstory. He declared war on the head god of their pantheon and a third of their "gods" joined him in rebellion. He lost that war and was cast out of heaven along with his comrades. Does that sound familiar? In the Quran, Allah refers to himself as the greatest deceiver. Does that sound familiar? The cult of Allah came to southern Arabia when people migrated from Mesopotamia. An offshoot of that cult settled in Canaan but they called him Baal.
All of the traditions surrounding the Hajji to Mecca, the Kaaba, the circling of the Kaaba, the stoning of the devil (pillar), Ramadan are all from the Arabic religion that preceded Islam. Mohammed just incorporated them into his new religion. He borrowed a few characters from the Hebrew bible and Jesus but he changed everything around. None of the teaching of Jesus from the Bible is present in Islam.
Like another poster already pointed out, the ancient Egyptians, which lived thousands of years before arabs even existed.
The Coptic people in Egypt represent the ethnicity and culture of Egypt prior to the Arabic invasion. Egypt had converted to Christianity before it was overrun by the Muslims.
Or did you think mohamed invented arabs when he invented allah?
Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope.
Wow. so much misinformation, where shall I begin? Allah is not "god" in Arabic. It is the name of the head god in the Arabic pantheon which was the Moon god. Why do you think there are crescent moon symbols everywhere? Mohammed's people, the Arabs where likely not related to the people of Ishmael. His tribe was likely the nomadic tribes on the Mount Sinai area. Judaism did not even exist at the time of Abraham. It grew out of Abraham but Arabic people had nothing to do with that lineage. Mohammed wanted to make his people monotheistic so he adopted some ideas that he learned from travelling traders of Jewish and Christian background and chose the Moon god to be their only god in his new religion. They still kept all of the traditions from the old Arabic religion. Mecca was the center for worship of the pantheon. The Hajji Pilgrimage to Mecca, the Kaaba, the stoning of the Devil (pillar) , circling the Kaaba, are all from the Arabic religion the preceded Islam. Where are the laws of Moses in Islam? Where are the teachings of Jesus in Islam? Nowhere because they were incompatible with it.
Calling Islam an Abrahamic religion is pure nonsense. There is no direct lineage. He just copied some ideas and tried to create a new backstory to support it.
Laws like this reduce violence. If I throw a drink at you to put out your cigarette (or short your e-cig), it's assault. If you force me to partake, that's assault just the same.
Pass laws against things I subjectively hate or I will resort to violence.
That's literally terrorism. That is literally what ISIS is doing. That is what they exist to do.
No. It is like this. Smoke outside away from that pregnant woman or her husband will beat the shit out of you. You are literally trying to poison other people because you are a weak punk with no self control and an oral fixation.
Don't do this and don't do that. 'Cause we know what's best for you and we're gonna pass laws that make you conform. Nanny,. nanny boo boo! Hell, by the time we're done, you'll serve prison time.
Thus sayeth the Nanny State.
Who gave you the right to infect other people around you with toxic fumes? GTFO. The alternative to these laws would be people randomly beating the crap out of other people who light up around them. Which do you prefer? Inconvenience or a hospital stay sipping your food through a straw? You do not own the air. It is shared by everyone. Go outside in the rain and have your smoke.
I look forward to seeing Antifa accounts suspended.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable. It may not be politically correct to punch nazis, but that's too bad. Suck it up, buttercup.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is part of our heritage. You're not trying to destroy our heritage, are you?
Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.
The liberal perspective is that prostitution is a crime without a victim and an exchange of money for sex between two consenting adults.
The problem is that many prostitutes lie about their age and you are likely hooking up with a 16, 17 or 18 year old. Now 18 might be technically legal age but numerous studies have shown that even well adjusted individuals do not really mature until they reach 25 years of age.
Now consider that they prostitute you are getting serviced by might have run away from home because she was being abused by her father or step father.
So essentially, you are potentially abusing a child who had been abused by a caregiver in her home previously. Even if they are 18 or 19, their mental and emotional development has been retarded by previous abuse. They are in no position to consent to sex with an adult.
So you are no better than someone like Harvey Weinstein. Does any of this alter your view of prostitution? It is not a business deal between equals and I have not even brought up pimps and human trafficking into the picture yet.
Liberals often only look on the surface whereas conservatives look at the big picture. Try to be a big picture type person. Consider the effect your actions might have on others and where they might have come from.
maybe automated-trains should be a proven tech first.
Vancouver has been living in the future since 1986. The Skytrain system is the longest automated train system in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wireless carriers would be unable to cut deals with companies to provide unlimited streaming of certain services while only charging you for metered service. Wireless services would be unable to guarantee networks connectivity through QoS protocols to throttle heavy data users. ISPs would be unable to guarantee high QoS for streaming services like Netflix.
What many of you do not realize is that certain business interests are actually pushing for Neutrality so that they can charge you more.
I actually want to have competition driven not just on price but levels of service. I want to be able to choose the ISP that meets my needs. Some people are gamers, some are streamers while others are downloaders.
Imagine if your provider offered you IPTV but then they had to charge you for data at the same rate as Netflix. Imagine if your provider offered you VOIP or Wifi calling but then had to charge you for the data you used for voice.
OH fucking bullshit. No, the skeptics aren't just asking for evidence, they spend pretty much the entirety of any diatribe attacking scientists, denying evidence, and promoting completely ludicrous an unscientific claims.
CO2 has been known to have the properties it does for over one hundred fucking years. There is absolutely nothing fucking controversial about increasing PPM of CO2 leading to increased trapping of energy (heat) in the lower atmosphere and surface of the planet.
And you're right, I have a particularly loathing for anyone, either out of ignorance or malice, who attacks science. Such people are vile.
Are you finished? Do you feel better? All I see is irrational histrionics and name calling. You are not making your case very well.
The Holy Crusades were not an attempt at world domination? What about Britain's colonization of every continent in the world? What about America's "Manifest Destiny" and "American Exceptionalism"? Seems like you're OK with world domination as long as you're on the dominating side.
The crusades occurred "after" all of the christian lands had been conquered and Muslims were already invading Spain. They Muslim crusaders had already been on the offensive for 4 centuries.
So if you are travelling to the U.S. or the UK from "The Good Airports", nobody bothers you. Try to fly from Istanbul to New York or LA, though, and you are stripped of your electronics for the entire duration of the long flight? What if you are a businessperson who needs to work while on the plane? What if you have concerns about putting a 2,500 Dollar laptop full of your private data in your luggage, where it may break or become lost, rather than carrying it on your person? And what precisely can go into a Laptop or Smartphone that is sooo well hidden that airport X-Ray scanners don't see it? Plus: Wouldn't would-be attackers be smart enough to get on a plane from a "Good Airport" as opposed to a "Bad Airport" after such a ban? Am I missing something about the point of this ban?
Is communism a race? Islam is an ideology bent on world domination. Go read their handbook. There are Christians from every tribe and race on the planet almost but do you see anyone screaming racism when Christians are attacked? Why not?
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The problem is when violent criminals are in a one on one situation, where they could potentially use child safety locks to prevent a rider from leaving a vehicle. It's a high risk situation, as opposed to other service environments where others are around and it's harder to engage in violent behavior. I agree that criminal background checks are too often a disqualification for jobs, but this is a time where it makes some sense.
Again, not all felons committed violent acts. Perhaps, there should be a monitoring period for certain types of jobs and the right to refuse employment based on the job type? Some felons might actually be rehabilitated?
So a rapist/molester/abuser/violent person that may be alone in a car with someone is less risky than a molester at a daycare? IS that the point being made here?
Not all felonies involve violence.
Exactly. Xians and Republicans are so stupid that they let Russians that speak poor English tell them how to vote. They did what Putin told them to do.
What's an Xian? Is that a Chinese Immigrant from a particular region of China like Cantonese or Mandarin? It looks like a Chinese surname.
They should consider volume discounts on purchase of multiples or not bother offering low margin products in single quantities online. It seems a bit unreasonable to expect free shipping on a box of macaroni and cheese across the country.
Please.
You have to give out your name first citizen. How else are they going to find you?
To help them stop polluting. This isn't a jobs Accord, it's an environmental one. If you are so concerned about jobs, you should, firstly, contact your senators and convince them to stop playing politics with every jobs bill that comes up, and secondly, set some damn environmental targets so we can get a crap load of clean energy jobs.
Sorry but they have more than enough money to stop polluting. It is a scam and you are falling for it.
Why are they receiving money from the Paris accord on pollution? Is the Accord just a scam to transfer wealth from Europe and North America to nations like India? How does that help the environment?
How does handing over 100 Billion dollars from the 1st world reduce pollution? Wouldn't increased money in the third world lead to more pollution? How is this not a globalist socialism scam?
The lion's share? Don't tell that to Sweden! Someone needs to check his own citations.
Did you bother looking at where the money is going? How is this not global socialism? Why is India getting so much money when they are a major polluter? They are already getting a lot of jobs transferred from North American companies. Why do they get even more money?
Comrade I hate to tell you but nobody will give you any rubles for trolling slashdot in 2017.
Then why are you still here? Pro-bono?
This is the $64,000 question right here. Twitter has been actively censoring viewpoints they don't like and there is literally no oversight. 1984 memory holes are alive and well at Twitter.
And why do any of you give a rat's ass?
It's a business - not the government. They have no obligation to freedom of speech or any other freedoms.
That's what none of you are getting. If anyone thinks that Twitter, reddit, Slashdot, facebook or whatever has a legal obligation to free speech, you are horribly misinformed.
Try googling "Twitter payments". As twitter becomes involved in the payments space and even as a conduit for advertising, it will have to come under more regulatory scrutiny. They will have to implement SOX complaint controls into their platform to prevent a rouge employee from deleting an account on their last day. With SOX, you are supposed to have segregation of duties and controls in place that prevent any single employee from deleting to altering a record without approval from someone else. I think you are horribly misinformed. As soon as you start charging for services, you come under a different set of rules.
"Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope."
You are both right and wrong. Allah does not mean "god" in Arabic. It is a loan word from a much older culture from Mesopotamia called the Akkadian empire. They had a blood god in their pantheon. That blood god has an interesting backstory. He declared war on the head god of their pantheon and a third of their "gods" joined him in rebellion. He lost that war and was cast out of heaven along with his comrades. Does that sound familiar? In the Quran, Allah refers to himself as the greatest deceiver. Does that sound familiar? The cult of Allah came to southern Arabia when people migrated from Mesopotamia. An offshoot of that cult settled in Canaan but they called him Baal.
All of the traditions surrounding the Hajji to Mecca, the Kaaba, the circling of the Kaaba, the stoning of the devil (pillar), Ramadan are all from the Arabic religion that preceded Islam. Mohammed just incorporated them into his new religion. He borrowed a few characters from the Hebrew bible and Jesus but he changed everything around. None of the teaching of Jesus from the Bible is present in Islam.
Don't forget algebra and, arguably more important, distillation.
Arabic numerals actually originated in India.
Who do you think built the pyramids, idiot.
Like another poster already pointed out, the ancient Egyptians, which lived thousands of years before arabs even existed.
The Coptic people in Egypt represent the ethnicity and culture of Egypt prior to the Arabic invasion. Egypt had converted to Christianity before it was overrun by the Muslims.
Or did you think mohamed invented arabs when he invented allah?
Allah means "God" in arabic, and Islam is based on Judaism and Christianity - in many ways it's the same religion worshiping the "one true God". So Mohammed didn't invent Allah. Nope.
Wow. so much misinformation, where shall I begin? Allah is not "god" in Arabic. It is the name of the head god in the Arabic pantheon which was the Moon god. Why do you think there are crescent moon symbols everywhere? Mohammed's people, the Arabs where likely not related to the people of Ishmael. His tribe was likely the nomadic tribes on the Mount Sinai area. Judaism did not even exist at the time of Abraham. It grew out of Abraham but Arabic people had nothing to do with that lineage. Mohammed wanted to make his people monotheistic so he adopted some ideas that he learned from travelling traders of Jewish and Christian background and chose the Moon god to be their only god in his new religion. They still kept all of the traditions from the old Arabic religion. Mecca was the center for worship of the pantheon. The Hajji Pilgrimage to Mecca, the Kaaba, the stoning of the Devil (pillar) , circling the Kaaba, are all from the Arabic religion the preceded Islam. Where are the laws of Moses in Islam? Where are the teachings of Jesus in Islam? Nowhere because they were incompatible with it.
Calling Islam an Abrahamic religion is pure nonsense. There is no direct lineage. He just copied some ideas and tried to create a new backstory to support it.
The same people who want to ban this are trying to legalize smoking pot in cars and airplanes.
I hate pot heads.
Laws like this reduce violence. If I throw a drink at you to put out your cigarette (or short your e-cig), it's assault. If you force me to partake, that's assault just the same.
Pass laws against things I subjectively hate or I will resort to violence.
That's literally terrorism. That is literally what ISIS is doing. That is what they exist to do.
No. It is like this. Smoke outside away from that pregnant woman or her husband will beat the shit out of you. You are literally trying to poison other people because you are a weak punk with no self control and an oral fixation.
Don't do this and don't do that. 'Cause we know what's best for you and we're gonna pass laws that make you conform. Nanny,. nanny boo boo! Hell, by the time we're done, you'll serve prison time.
Thus sayeth the Nanny State.
Who gave you the right to infect other people around you with toxic fumes? GTFO. The alternative to these laws would be people randomly beating the crap out of other people who light up around them. Which do you prefer? Inconvenience or a hospital stay sipping your food through a straw? You do not own the air. It is shared by everyone. Go outside in the rain and have your smoke.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable. It may not be politically correct to punch nazis, but that's too bad. Suck it up, buttercup.
Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is part of our heritage. You're not trying to destroy our heritage, are you?
Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.
The problem is that many prostitutes lie about their age and you are likely hooking up with a 16, 17 or 18 year old. Now 18 might be technically legal age but numerous studies have shown that even well adjusted individuals do not really mature until they reach 25 years of age.
Now consider that they prostitute you are getting serviced by might have run away from home because she was being abused by her father or step father.
So essentially, you are potentially abusing a child who had been abused by a caregiver in her home previously. Even if they are 18 or 19, their mental and emotional development has been retarded by previous abuse. They are in no position to consent to sex with an adult.
So you are no better than someone like Harvey Weinstein. Does any of this alter your view of prostitution? It is not a business deal between equals and I have not even brought up pimps and human trafficking into the picture yet.
Liberals often only look on the surface whereas conservatives look at the big picture. Try to be a big picture type person. Consider the effect your actions might have on others and where they might have come from.
maybe automated-trains should be a proven tech first.
Vancouver has been living in the future since 1986. The Skytrain system is the longest automated train system in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What many of you do not realize is that certain business interests are actually pushing for Neutrality so that they can charge you more.
I actually want to have competition driven not just on price but levels of service. I want to be able to choose the ISP that meets my needs. Some people are gamers, some are streamers while others are downloaders.
Imagine if your provider offered you IPTV but then they had to charge you for data at the same rate as Netflix. Imagine if your provider offered you VOIP or Wifi calling but then had to charge you for the data you used for voice.
OH fucking bullshit. No, the skeptics aren't just asking for evidence, they spend pretty much the entirety of any diatribe attacking scientists, denying evidence, and promoting completely ludicrous an unscientific claims.
CO2 has been known to have the properties it does for over one hundred fucking years. There is absolutely nothing fucking controversial about increasing PPM of CO2 leading to increased trapping of energy (heat) in the lower atmosphere and surface of the planet.
And you're right, I have a particularly loathing for anyone, either out of ignorance or malice, who attacks science. Such people are vile.
Are you finished? Do you feel better? All I see is irrational histrionics and name calling. You are not making your case very well.
The Holy Crusades were not an attempt at world domination? What about Britain's colonization of every continent in the world? What about America's "Manifest Destiny" and "American Exceptionalism"? Seems like you're OK with world domination as long as you're on the dominating side.
The crusades occurred "after" all of the christian lands had been conquered and Muslims were already invading Spain. They Muslim crusaders had already been on the offensive for 4 centuries.
False dichotomy is false.
What false dichotomy? Are not all travellers affected by this?
So if you are travelling to the U.S. or the UK from "The Good Airports", nobody bothers you. Try to fly from Istanbul to New York or LA, though, and you are stripped of your electronics for the entire duration of the long flight? What if you are a businessperson who needs to work while on the plane? What if you have concerns about putting a 2,500 Dollar laptop full of your private data in your luggage, where it may break or become lost, rather than carrying it on your person? And what precisely can go into a Laptop or Smartphone that is sooo well hidden that airport X-Ray scanners don't see it? Plus: Wouldn't would-be attackers be smart enough to get on a plane from a "Good Airport" as opposed to a "Bad Airport" after such a ban? Am I missing something about the point of this ban?
Is communism a race? Islam is an ideology bent on world domination. Go read their handbook. There are Christians from every tribe and race on the planet almost but do you see anyone screaming racism when Christians are attacked? Why not?