No it isn't. The resident is complaining about "people taking photos", "rappers", and noisy parties. These are NOT equivalents. There are already laws about noisy civil disturbances. Lumping photography in with that is nonsense.
We don't need more laws micromanaging every aspect of our lives. If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
FYI, I'm automatically modding ShanghaiBill up every time I see this flamebait troll in response to one of his comments.
There is no need for that. I am actually flattered to have my own private little troll following me around. I consider it to be a status symbol. I am honored that someone cares enough about my opinions to troll me.
their stores are effectively closed to people who can't get a credit card.
Nope. You can buy with a debit card. You can also buy with a prepaid gift card, which you can buy for cash elsewhere.
From the privacy perspective, you're boned regardless if you shop at Amazon Go
Only because the government is making it harder to buy prepaid cards anonymously. I believe the current limit is $50, and even then, they can't be used for international transactions.
So we need a stupid law to protect us from a stupid law.
Sad, there was a time decades ago where some of them at least tried to be professional reporters.
Not true. 60 Minutes has never been professional journalism. From the beginning they relied on sensationalism, biased reporting, ambush interviews, editing of interviews to swap in different questions that what the interviewee actually answered, and fabricated evidence. They were doing fake news long ago.
I don't know if Net Neutrality is a big enough deal to most voters for it to matter.
Hillary lost Wisconsin by 0.6% and Michigan by 0.23%. A small shift can mean a lot.
The Dem's would be better off pushing things like gun control, protections for abortions
These are loser issues for the Democrats. Most people agree with them on abortion and guns, but the passionate single-issue voters that actually turnout are on the other side.
The Democrats learned this from the 1994 Republican landslide after they passed the Brady Bill. When Obama tried to close the "gunshow loophole" after Sandy Hook, many politicians in his own party refused to support him.
Maybe it’s time to have a serious discussion about executive overreach... regardless of who is President?
There was no executive overreach, by either Obama or Trump. If there is no law that says otherwise, them the president can set FCC policy as he pleases. This legislation is an attempt to fix that.
Unfortunately, the probability of it becoming law is 0%.
The problem is that these crackpot (and racist for that matter) groups seem to be growing more prevalent thanks to the internet.
The key word (highlighted by me) is "seem". The Internet makes crackpots (and racists for that matter) more visible. But there is little reason to believe they are actually more prevalent, and plenty of reason to believe they are not.
If you think racism is worse today than in the past, you should read some history books. Or go to YouTube and watch some documentaries. You will be shocked.
What do Anti-vaxers, flat earthers, Anti-gmo crusaders, and a certain branch of one of our main political parties all have in common? They get their information from Facebook.
All of these movements predate Facebook, sometimes by centuries.
There was strong resistance to smallpox inoculation in Britain, that was only somewhat reduced when the children of the royal family were inoculated in 1722.
Throughout the 19th century, there was religious opposition to vaccinations, and resistance to vaccinations today is strongest in muslim countries such as Pakistan where Facebook is not so pervasive.
The anti-GMO movement started in the 1990s, long before social media became common. Facebook was started in 2004.
Believe it or not, political extremism also predates Facebook. Seriously.
The parent is rather annoyed because we've taken a cool technology and pretty much limited it
Except that there is no "limit". If he, or you, have another application, Corning will be happy to talk to you. There are other companies, including Schott and AGC, that also make scratch resistant glass. Go for it.
If a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth is fractured, that just turns it into a bunch of little asteroids that will hit Earth.
Not really. Space is big. Really big. If you break up an asteroid months, or even weeks, ahead of time, most of the fragments are going to miss earth by many thousands or even millions of kilometers.
A typical delta-v is 40,000 km/hr. So in a day, that is a million kilometers. In a month, it is 30 million km. The diameter of the earth is 12,000 km. That is about 0.02 degrees. That is not much of a deflection.
This is a sensible outcome. Many stupid decisions were made by Uber managers, by the driver, and by the pedestrian. But stupidity is not a crime. If it was, we would need a lot more prisons.
Uber has civil liability, but they have already settled with the dead woman's family.
In Korea, speed cameras are spaced out and clearly marked in advance. The intent is partly to catch speeders but mostly to annoy you into slowing down since they're spaced out around every 5-7km
It also encourages literacy by taxing people that can't read the signs.
Or they could just install fake cameras. This greatly reduces the cost of the camera, eliminates the need for wiring, and there is much less maintenance required.
I have six cameras around the perimeter of my house. Only one is real. It is the one that isn't easily visible.
For years everyone has known that using a cellphone when driving is dangerous. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet the federal government has done nothing about it
Have you read the Constitution? There is nothing in it that gives the federal government jurisdiction over driving.
But local governments are taking notice and passing laws.
As they should. That is what local governments are for.
$10 a month, why would anyone want to pay $1 for one song?
Because I buy way fewer than 10 songs per month. Heck, I doubt if I buy 10 songs per year. I mostly listen to oldies, and I got nearly all I wanted back when Napster made them all free.
Also, by having my own copy, I will be able to listen to music in my fallout shelter after civilization collapses, while you streamers will be SOL.
Would the police be willing to do anything about it?
Most likely the perp is outside their jurisdiction, in another state, or even in another country. Even if they were located, and tracked to an IP, it would be difficult to build a case that it was a particular individual.
Our law enforcement system is not designed to deal with these situations.
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a woman at a cluck and chuck was using her phone to take pictures of peoples debit / credit cards.
That is a different problem. She was stealing from the customers, not her employer.
The solution to credit card fraud is for America to do what all the other countries in the world are already doing.
Your list on Wikipedia missed the GM truck side impact explosions, where they put explosives in the truck to make it happen.
That was "Dateline NBC", not 60 Minutes.
That's why you can't have nice things.
No it isn't. The resident is complaining about "people taking photos", "rappers", and noisy parties. These are NOT equivalents. There are already laws about noisy civil disturbances. Lumping photography in with that is nonsense.
We don't need more laws micromanaging every aspect of our lives. If you are offended by someone taking a photo of your street, then don't live in the middle of a tourist attraction.
FYI, I'm automatically modding ShanghaiBill up every time I see this flamebait troll in response to one of his comments.
There is no need for that. I am actually flattered to have my own private little troll following me around. I consider it to be a status symbol. I am honored that someone cares enough about my opinions to troll me.
when every penny counts you can't afford to have some parasite company siphoning off your money because you needed groceries.
This is backwards. Companies want to eliminate cash because the security problems and handling issues raise costs, which leads to higher prices.
their stores are effectively closed to people who can't get a credit card.
Nope. You can buy with a debit card. You can also buy with a prepaid gift card, which you can buy for cash elsewhere.
From the privacy perspective, you're boned regardless if you shop at Amazon Go
Only because the government is making it harder to buy prepaid cards anonymously. I believe the current limit is $50, and even then, they can't be used for international transactions.
So we need a stupid law to protect us from a stupid law.
Sad, there was a time decades ago where some of them at least tried to be professional reporters.
Not true. 60 Minutes has never been professional journalism. From the beginning they relied on sensationalism, biased reporting, ambush interviews, editing of interviews to swap in different questions that what the interviewee actually answered, and fabricated evidence. They were doing fake news long ago.
Plenty of examples here.
He'll be in Canada or the USA not far from his wife.
With $137M, he can afford a new wife.
I don't know if Net Neutrality is a big enough deal to most voters for it to matter.
Hillary lost Wisconsin by 0.6% and Michigan by 0.23%. A small shift can mean a lot.
The Dem's would be better off pushing things like gun control, protections for abortions
These are loser issues for the Democrats. Most people agree with them on abortion and guns, but the passionate single-issue voters that actually turnout are on the other side.
The Democrats learned this from the 1994 Republican landslide after they passed the Brady Bill. When Obama tried to close the "gunshow loophole" after Sandy Hook, many politicians in his own party refused to support him.
Maybe it’s time to have a serious discussion about executive overreach... regardless of who is President?
There was no executive overreach, by either Obama or Trump. If there is no law that says otherwise, them the president can set FCC policy as he pleases. This legislation is an attempt to fix that.
Unfortunately, the probability of it becoming law is 0%.
The problem is that these crackpot (and racist for that matter) groups seem to be growing more prevalent thanks to the internet.
The key word (highlighted by me) is "seem". The Internet makes crackpots (and racists for that matter) more visible. But there is little reason to believe they are actually more prevalent, and plenty of reason to believe they are not.
If you think racism is worse today than in the past, you should read some history books. Or go to YouTube and watch some documentaries. You will be shocked.
they also can lead to people who are allergic to vaccines, or otherwise cannot be vaccinated, to be infected with these controllable diseases?
It may seem heartless, but from a Darwinian perspective, this is also a self correcting problem.
What do Anti-vaxers, flat earthers, Anti-gmo crusaders, and a certain branch of one of our main political parties all have in common? They get their information from Facebook.
All of these movements predate Facebook, sometimes by centuries.
There was strong resistance to smallpox inoculation in Britain, that was only somewhat reduced when the children of the royal family were inoculated in 1722.
Throughout the 19th century, there was religious opposition to vaccinations, and resistance to vaccinations today is strongest in muslim countries such as Pakistan where Facebook is not so pervasive.
The anti-GMO movement started in the 1990s, long before social media became common. Facebook was started in 2004.
Believe it or not, political extremism also predates Facebook. Seriously.
The parent is rather annoyed because we've taken a cool technology and pretty much limited it
Except that there is no "limit". If he, or you, have another application, Corning will be happy to talk to you. There are other companies, including Schott and AGC, that also make scratch resistant glass. Go for it.
to one kind of disposable electronics.
... that is used daily by four billion people, in many cases greatly improving their economic well-being.
Ummm, the pharma industry is in favor of vaccines.
That is only because they want people to live long enough to get more profitable afflictions like cancer and heart disease.
But they can drive their children somewhere in a car - say, to get vaccinated.
In many countries, the vaccines are given at school, not by parents driving individually to doctors' offices.
And the probability of a child be severely harmed, in a developed nation, is much higher from the car ride than from not being vaccinated.
This is only true if most people vaccinate.
If a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth is fractured, that just turns it into a bunch of little asteroids that will hit Earth.
Not really. Space is big. Really big. If you break up an asteroid months, or even weeks, ahead of time, most of the fragments are going to miss earth by many thousands or even millions of kilometers.
A typical delta-v is 40,000 km/hr. So in a day, that is a million kilometers. In a month, it is 30 million km. The diameter of the earth is 12,000 km. That is about 0.02 degrees. That is not much of a deflection.
This is a sensible outcome. Many stupid decisions were made by Uber managers, by the driver, and by the pedestrian. But stupidity is not a crime. If it was, we would need a lot more prisons.
Uber has civil liability, but they have already settled with the dead woman's family.
In Korea, speed cameras are spaced out and clearly marked in advance. The intent is partly to catch speeders but mostly to annoy you into slowing down since they're spaced out around every 5-7km
It also encourages literacy by taxing people that can't read the signs.
Or they could just install fake cameras. This greatly reduces the cost of the camera, eliminates the need for wiring, and there is much less maintenance required.
I have six cameras around the perimeter of my house. Only one is real. It is the one that isn't easily visible.
Why would anyone want to take their SUV off road? It might get scratched.
For years everyone has known that using a cellphone when driving is dangerous. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet the federal government has done nothing about it
Have you read the Constitution? There is nothing in it that gives the federal government jurisdiction over driving.
But local governments are taking notice and passing laws.
As they should. That is what local governments are for.
$10 a month, why would anyone want to pay $1 for one song?
Because I buy way fewer than 10 songs per month. Heck, I doubt if I buy 10 songs per year. I mostly listen to oldies, and I got nearly all I wanted back when Napster made them all free.
Also, by having my own copy, I will be able to listen to music in my fallout shelter after civilization collapses, while you streamers will be SOL.
Would the police be willing to do anything about it?
Most likely the perp is outside their jurisdiction, in another state, or even in another country. Even if they were located, and tracked to an IP, it would be difficult to build a case that it was a particular individual.
Our law enforcement system is not designed to deal with these situations.
Too many streaming services.... way too many.
But this one will be better because it is run by the government.