No, I'm "upset" because the constitution plainly says that citizens do not have merely just the rights mentioned in the Constitution and that the federal government is limited to ONLY those allowed by the Constitution and yet, people like you, act like the 9th and 10th amendments don't exist. That this living document "doesn't cover everything". As if, something not being mentioned in the Constitution means that the government *can* have the right and the citizen *can not*. When it is the otherway around.
And people like you act like because the constitution is not narrow in constraint upon the citizens (such as free speech) that it means there are other restrictions that therefore are applied... just not enumerated within it. In other words, the constitution is very specific -- even in its "openness" and people like you do not like that. So, to get around it, you throw out phrases like "well, it's a living document" and "well, our founding fathers never blarghle blarghle blargh".
It's very amusing that the only people who seem to hold your viewpoint are those on *both sides* of the aisle who have agendas to push or support those who do.
Honestly, unless you're over 50, sustaining a relationship with someone over a prolonged and indefinite period of time from a great distance is probably a terrible idea all around. Obviously, this might not always be true if you're just moving away for part of a year for work or one of you has to move before the other . . . but otherwise, it probably makes more sense to call it and find someone local that you can actually have a relationship with.
Other than MMOs, I don't have much of an idea, because the last thing I want is a significant other that spends all their time playing videogames or surfing the net so that when I'm not busy doing those things, they are and we never spend time together. (Which is why I picked someone who spends their time as a semi-professional fashion-designer, instead).
That said, maybe a little Sexy-Wii time is in order?:P
I dunno. I keep hearing that kids don't use the phone anymore. But I also constantly see stories that they don't use twitter anymore (it's for old people). And stories that they don't use facebook anymore (that's for old people). Apparently, teens don't use the internet at all or something, because "that's for old people".
Frankly, if other people's kids want to be a natural resource for governments and industries to exploit, then go for it.
Because they largely don't care about privacy. Or, rather, what we consider to be important aspects of privacy. You know, like privacy and control of your data and information. Here is a quote from an article earlier in the year, discussing how teens see privacy totally different:
"The data suggest that teens care less about data privacy and more about more socially oriented forms of privacy, those designed to protect the integrity of a community."
They may care about not having mom track them via family-GPS on their cell phone, but I have seen no shift in their behavior over the last decade to suggest they give a flying fuck about their privacy, overall. Their actions and use of websites and services over the last decade also doesn't suggest anything other than this.
Exactly this. The media puts out this idea that because kids use more technology than kids of any other generation, it somehow equates to them being more technologically capable. I'm sorry, but kids using an iPad to play a game or their PC for twitter and WoW are not the same thing as kids knowing how a computer works, how to setup a router, debugging networking issues, writing code, and so on.
Further, I do not believe that most kids give a fuck about privacy, because their actions don't follow that claim. Further, these are the same age groups that were polled a few years ago and said they felt that the press had too much free speech and the government should do something about it.
That said, it has become trendy (thanks to reddit) for young people to suddenly give a fuck about things like their privacy. So . . . I guess there's that.
It's fair to mention that the "intellectual property" wouldn't be worth jack shit if there weren't a market for it. People purchasing your "intellectual property" give it a value and a market.
It suggests, to me, that musicians are stupid, myopic, and desperate.
"Gosh, feller! You're gonna make me a super rock star if I sign over all ownership and rights to my music for eternity? Where do I sign?!"
Writers are in a similar position of being in a profession that everyone wants to be in, having a high rate of competition, having little bargaining power because everyone is so desperate to be published, being in a creative field, and wanting to be famous against all odds . . . and yet they still manage to push for ownership of their material. Writers generally either retain rights to their material on certain media or require that rights to their material return to themselves after a certain period.
If you're so desperate to be "a golden god", then you get what you deserve.
The same congressmen and legislators that have known about much of the current NSA/CIA/FISA garbage and (I believe) have full immunity if they discuss disclosure of these situations on the floor . . . but kept their mouths shut?
That's clearly untrue. There was just an AMA on reddit recently by someone who changed their sex and then desperately regretted it.
If there is a mismatch between the gender of your physical body and its guts and what you feel you are in your head -- then there is something wrong SOMEWHERE. It isn't some magical ethereal thing compelling you to have this mixup. That isn't to say "if you have balls and no uterus, but you feel like you are supposed to be a woman, then you are mentally fucked up and need to have your head fixed". It's just to say that may sometimes be the case. Sometimes it may not be. I'm sure there are multiple potential catalysts and many are probably even a simple case of "mother nature screwed up and made me one thing but made me feel like another thing".
It would be a disservice to the health of people, I believe, to instantly treat everyone as either clearly the physical sex they seem to be but with a fucked up brain *or* as a perfectly normal person who just needs to whack off some bits and install some others.
To further counter your point that there's supposedly nothing wrong and it isn't a disorder or illness and has nothing to do with the brain -- you can not have a gender reassignment surgery without an IMMENSE amount of psychological counseling.
I think it is wrong to judge people with gender identity issues. I am sure that, whatever causing them, it is fucking awful to deal with (not to mention coping with society, along with it). We are definitely a long way from clearly understanding everything about it, though. Once we do, I'm sure we will be very far along the path to society being able to cope with it more rationally.
People are being ridiculous. As bad as Slashdot has gotten as all the old-school slashdotters turned into their grandfathers over the last fifteen years, it is nowhere near on the level of the comment sections of almost every article on the internet. Those places (the bottom of any CBS article, for example) are the most racist, ignorant, homophobic, religious-nuttery, anti-anyone-not-super-christian, rah-rah america depths of total shit on the planet.
Those make the worst of Slashdot look like fucking poetry.
Funny, because the personal issues are suddenly not relevant, when it's a republican fucking congressional pages in the ass or major religious leaders snorting coke off the ass of a male hooker.
The only thing that surprises me is that, in the case of Manning, they didn't drag out some sort of rape accusations or something ages ago. That's the common way we go about character assassination, as a government.
Sadly, there is a huge chunk of American society who now sees this as putting a "filthy deviant" in prison for 35 years "like they all should be" and the "espionage" merely the side-snag that helped them put that "sick pervert" away.
Manning didn't "indiscriminate release" any information. Let's remember the simple fact: He gave the information to long-established news papers. Those newspapers spent a lot of time and money pouring over the information with their editorial staff, legal staff, AND THE ASSISTANCE AND REFERENCE AND DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, ITSELF.
The release of this data was fucking anything but god damned indiscriminate.
Good luck with that. All the slashdotters from the late 90s have gone gray and now they mostly find this sort of thing abhorrent to their precious values.
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No, I'm "upset" because the constitution plainly says that citizens do not have merely just the rights mentioned in the Constitution and that the federal government is limited to ONLY those allowed by the Constitution and yet, people like you, act like the 9th and 10th amendments don't exist. That this living document "doesn't cover everything". As if, something not being mentioned in the Constitution means that the government *can* have the right and the citizen *can not*. When it is the otherway around.
And people like you act like because the constitution is not narrow in constraint upon the citizens (such as free speech) that it means there are other restrictions that therefore are applied... just not enumerated within it. In other words, the constitution is very specific -- even in its "openness" and people like you do not like that. So, to get around it, you throw out phrases like "well, it's a living document" and "well, our founding fathers never blarghle blarghle blargh".
It's very amusing that the only people who seem to hold your viewpoint are those on *both sides* of the aisle who have agendas to push or support those who do.
More young people need to heed the wisdom of Biz Markie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg
Honestly, unless you're over 50, sustaining a relationship with someone over a prolonged and indefinite period of time from a great distance is probably a terrible idea all around. Obviously, this might not always be true if you're just moving away for part of a year for work or one of you has to move before the other . . . but otherwise, it probably makes more sense to call it and find someone local that you can actually have a relationship with.
Other than MMOs, I don't have much of an idea, because the last thing I want is a significant other that spends all their time playing videogames or surfing the net so that when I'm not busy doing those things, they are and we never spend time together. (Which is why I picked someone who spends their time as a semi-professional fashion-designer, instead).
That said, maybe a little Sexy-Wii time is in order? :P
http://www.mojowijo.com/
I really gotta know if they sell enough of those to be profitable.
Also... selling for $40k a *REPRINT*... because "it would otherwise be worth tens of millions"... ... no it wouldn't... because they're reprints.
I dunno. I keep hearing that kids don't use the phone anymore. But I also constantly see stories that they don't use twitter anymore (it's for old people). And stories that they don't use facebook anymore (that's for old people). Apparently, teens don't use the internet at all or something, because "that's for old people".
Frankly, if other people's kids want to be a natural resource for governments and industries to exploit, then go for it.
Two years. Windows 95 came out in the summer of 95 and Slashdot started in the summer of 97.
But little billy started playing Plants versus Zombies on the iPad when he was two years old! He's a TECHNOLOGICAL GENIUS!
Because they largely don't care about privacy. Or, rather, what we consider to be important aspects of privacy. You know, like privacy and control of your data and information. Here is a quote from an article earlier in the year, discussing how teens see privacy totally different:
"The data suggest that teens care less about data privacy and more about more socially oriented forms of privacy, those designed to protect the integrity of a community."
They may care about not having mom track them via family-GPS on their cell phone, but I have seen no shift in their behavior over the last decade to suggest they give a flying fuck about their privacy, overall. Their actions and use of websites and services over the last decade also doesn't suggest anything other than this.
Exactly this. The media puts out this idea that because kids use more technology than kids of any other generation, it somehow equates to them being more technologically capable. I'm sorry, but kids using an iPad to play a game or their PC for twitter and WoW are not the same thing as kids knowing how a computer works, how to setup a router, debugging networking issues, writing code, and so on.
Further, I do not believe that most kids give a fuck about privacy, because their actions don't follow that claim. Further, these are the same age groups that were polled a few years ago and said they felt that the press had too much free speech and the government should do something about it.
That said, it has become trendy (thanks to reddit) for young people to suddenly give a fuck about things like their privacy. So . . . I guess there's that.
Alliteration is a tool of the truly stupid.
How's that going for all those ENRON employees?
It's fair to mention that the "intellectual property" wouldn't be worth jack shit if there weren't a market for it. People purchasing your "intellectual property" give it a value and a market.
It suggests, to me, that musicians are stupid, myopic, and desperate.
"Gosh, feller! You're gonna make me a super rock star if I sign over all ownership and rights to my music for eternity? Where do I sign?!"
Writers are in a similar position of being in a profession that everyone wants to be in, having a high rate of competition, having little bargaining power because everyone is so desperate to be published, being in a creative field, and wanting to be famous against all odds . . . and yet they still manage to push for ownership of their material. Writers generally either retain rights to their material on certain media or require that rights to their material return to themselves after a certain period.
If you're so desperate to be "a golden god", then you get what you deserve.
The same congressmen and legislators that have known about much of the current NSA/CIA/FISA garbage and (I believe) have full immunity if they discuss disclosure of these situations on the floor . . . but kept their mouths shut?
Right, because if there's anything most Americans are sympathetic towards, it's people who are gay or have gender identity issues.
Being an asshole doesn't affect me. It affects people around me. :)
That's clearly untrue. There was just an AMA on reddit recently by someone who changed their sex and then desperately regretted it.
If there is a mismatch between the gender of your physical body and its guts and what you feel you are in your head -- then there is something wrong SOMEWHERE. It isn't some magical ethereal thing compelling you to have this mixup. That isn't to say "if you have balls and no uterus, but you feel like you are supposed to be a woman, then you are mentally fucked up and need to have your head fixed". It's just to say that may sometimes be the case. Sometimes it may not be. I'm sure there are multiple potential catalysts and many are probably even a simple case of "mother nature screwed up and made me one thing but made me feel like another thing".
It would be a disservice to the health of people, I believe, to instantly treat everyone as either clearly the physical sex they seem to be but with a fucked up brain *or* as a perfectly normal person who just needs to whack off some bits and install some others.
To further counter your point that there's supposedly nothing wrong and it isn't a disorder or illness and has nothing to do with the brain -- you can not have a gender reassignment surgery without an IMMENSE amount of psychological counseling.
I think it is wrong to judge people with gender identity issues. I am sure that, whatever causing them, it is fucking awful to deal with (not to mention coping with society, along with it). We are definitely a long way from clearly understanding everything about it, though. Once we do, I'm sure we will be very far along the path to society being able to cope with it more rationally.
People are being ridiculous. As bad as Slashdot has gotten as all the old-school slashdotters turned into their grandfathers over the last fifteen years, it is nowhere near on the level of the comment sections of almost every article on the internet. Those places (the bottom of any CBS article, for example) are the most racist, ignorant, homophobic, religious-nuttery, anti-anyone-not-super-christian, rah-rah america depths of total shit on the planet.
Those make the worst of Slashdot look like fucking poetry.
Agreed. If there's one thing Bradly Manning sacrificed almost his entire lifetime for by whistleblowing, it was to eradicate privacy and free speech!
Funny, because the personal issues are suddenly not relevant, when it's a republican fucking congressional pages in the ass or major religious leaders snorting coke off the ass of a male hooker.
The only thing that surprises me is that, in the case of Manning, they didn't drag out some sort of rape accusations or something ages ago. That's the common way we go about character assassination, as a government.
Sadly, there is a huge chunk of American society who now sees this as putting a "filthy deviant" in prison for 35 years "like they all should be" and the "espionage" merely the side-snag that helped them put that "sick pervert" away.
I don't think you understand the difference between sex and gender.
Don't be willfully stupid.
Manning didn't "indiscriminate release" any information. Let's remember the simple fact: He gave the information to long-established news papers. Those newspapers spent a lot of time and money pouring over the information with their editorial staff, legal staff, AND THE ASSISTANCE AND REFERENCE AND DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, ITSELF.
The release of this data was fucking anything but god damned indiscriminate.
Good luck with that. All the slashdotters from the late 90s have gone gray and now they mostly find this sort of thing abhorrent to their precious values.