What you want to do is so basic I don't understand why there needs to be an Ask Slashdot about it.
This is true of most Ask Slashdots, except for the ones that want a solution that is (a) amazingly technologically advanced including at least three out of 3D printing, lasers, rockets, nuclear power, space travel, (b) free as in freedom and (c) free as in beer.
As is, I go to the office (which is now 5 minutes away after they moved it closer to my apartment), sit there for 8 hours and then, unless there's a specific event I'm attending, I walk back home. This shit gets old after a while.
Pretty much the ultimate First World Problem, with the exception of moaning about how uncomfortable the vast piles of cash you've inherited are to sleep on.
I've often wondered if the people who find every 3 minute car ride an "adventure" are trying to justify to themselves the amount of money they spend on vehicles.
I always assume that they've been brainwashed by car ads, and really do think that, instead of popping out to Walmart, they're really on the way to a futuristic nightclub with their supermodel girlfriend.
The best way to fight stupid ideas, like Nazism and censorship laws, is to argue with them.
It's not just a case of fighting stupid ideas. Actual Nazis (or neo-Nazis) actually do things like murder immigrants by burning down their houses. No one's freedom of speech extends to encouraging or facilitating direct criminal acts.
If I, as a US citizen, want to deny the holocaust on Facebook, FB then has two choices - Remove the offending comment entirely, or at least block it from viewers in Germany. Either of those infringe on my right to express whatever brand of bigotry I may subscribe to despite living in an entirely different country that doesn't feel the need to outlaw critical thinking. I might not get arrested for it, but I would have had my voice silenced as a result of Germany's stupidity.
You do not have a right to force facebook to broadcat your views to countries where those views are illegal.
The US Constitution says: Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech [emphasis mine]
The Constitution didn't create a "freedom of speech", it's protecting one that pre-exists.
Just because people (typically police, but any individual) have been known to abridge the freedom of speech doesn't make it any less of a natural right.
The idea of a "natural right" is meaningless. When slavery was legal, a slave had no rights at all. Society permitted him to be treated as a piece of property rather than a human being.
I find hate speech on facebook useful. It shows me who is no longer my friend and can be unfollowed.
Nobody is forcing anyone to follow racists and bigots on facebook, You can simply block them and go on with your life.
Similarly, none of the stuff posted by ISIS has any effect on impressionable young people, and they're just exercising their freedom of expression by travelling to Syria to behead prisoners. We should probably encourage schools to play their videos, since they can only have positive educational value.
I was just pointing out that jcr was anti-democracy.
Democracies can become tyrannies just like any other form of government. That's why we have a bill of right in the USA.
-jcr
A bill of rights is irrelevant if your government decides it's inconvenient.
During the McCarthy witchhunts, many people's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (not to mention the ability to earn a living) were completely trampled on.
And, no, the fact that the US didn't actually purge thousands of people by firing squad (unlike the USSR) does not excuse this.
Wow, what a zinger. I have imperialist ambitions because I don't want to put a gun to your head to shut you up.
Logic is a completely alien concept to you, isn't it?
-jcr
You are an imperialist if you believe that the rights of US corporations like facebook or google to make money should over-ride the laws of democratic countries.
First you help Hitler try to exterminate the jews, and now you engage in yet another bout of fascism...
So I suppose anyone who opposed Hitler was a fascist, because they wanted to limit his freedom to call for the killing of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and socialists?
I know a guy that met one of them. She played the whole married looking for an affair game, said she just wanted to fuck around, and he got hooked.
So the deal was she'd organise a hotel for their rendezvous if he'd split the bill. He rocks up, she asks for the money, quick shower and sex, and within the hour she asks him to leave. Through sheer chance I heard the exact same story from another guy, same girl, same hotel room. She probably had 10 guys lined up for the day and made a decent income, although you can only pull that off for so long.
Unless she really enjoyed the whole story telling part, it seems like a lot of effort rather than just advertising as a call girl/escort.
Using UK prices, a modest hotel room at something like a Holiday Inn Express (thanks google) is about GBP80 so she'd be earning GBP40/hour (say USD60/hour). I'm pretty sure escorts charge more than that.
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What you want to do is so basic I don't understand why there needs to be an Ask Slashdot about it.
This is true of most Ask Slashdots, except for the ones that want a solution that is (a) amazingly technologically advanced including at least three out of 3D printing, lasers, rockets, nuclear power, space travel, (b) free as in freedom and (c) free as in beer.
As is, I go to the office (which is now 5 minutes away after they moved it closer to my apartment), sit there for 8 hours and then, unless there's a specific event I'm attending, I walk back home. This shit gets old after a while.
Pretty much the ultimate First World Problem, with the exception of moaning about how uncomfortable the vast piles of cash you've inherited are to sleep on.
I spent 3 winters living on a motorcycle
You must have really good balance.
I don't think you can call sitting in a huge RV on a site with electricity, flushing toilets and so on "camping" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Ah yes, the notoriously powerful taxi complex that dwarfs the better known military-industrial complex...
there are plenty of ways for people to blow things up without killing themselves
But if there is a much less ruisky way to do it, why wouldn't they choose that?
I've often wondered if the people who find every 3 minute car ride an "adventure" are trying to justify to themselves the amount of money they spend on vehicles.
I always assume that they've been brainwashed by car ads, and really do think that, instead of popping out to Walmart, they're really on the way to a futuristic nightclub with their supermodel girlfriend.
The best way to fight stupid ideas, like Nazism and censorship laws, is to argue with them.
It's not just a case of fighting stupid ideas. Actual Nazis (or neo-Nazis) actually do things like murder immigrants by burning down their houses. No one's freedom of speech extends to encouraging or facilitating direct criminal acts.
If I, as a US citizen, want to deny the holocaust on Facebook, FB then has two choices - Remove the offending comment entirely, or at least block it from viewers in Germany. Either of those infringe on my right to express whatever brand of bigotry I may subscribe to despite living in an entirely different country that doesn't feel the need to outlaw critical thinking. I might not get arrested for it, but I would have had my voice silenced as a result of Germany's stupidity.
You do not have a right to force facebook to broadcat your views to countries where those views are illegal.
The US Constitution says: Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech [emphasis mine]
The Constitution didn't create a "freedom of speech", it's protecting one that pre-exists.
Just because people (typically police, but any individual) have been known to abridge the freedom of speech doesn't make it any less of a natural right.
The idea of a "natural right" is meaningless. When slavery was legal, a slave had no rights at all. Society permitted him to be treated as a piece of property rather than a human being.
I find hate speech on facebook useful. It shows me who is no longer my friend and can be unfollowed.
Nobody is forcing anyone to follow racists and bigots on facebook, You can simply block them and go on with your life.
Similarly, none of the stuff posted by ISIS has any effect on impressionable young people, and they're just exercising their freedom of expression by travelling to Syria to behead prisoners. We should probably encourage schools to play their videos, since they can only have positive educational value.
I was just pointing out that jcr was anti-democracy.
Democracies can become tyrannies just like any other form of government. That's why we have a bill of right in the USA.
-jcr
A bill of rights is irrelevant if your government decides it's inconvenient.
During the McCarthy witchhunts, many people's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (not to mention the ability to earn a living) were completely trampled on.
And, no, the fact that the US didn't actually purge thousands of people by firing squad (unlike the USSR) does not excuse this.
All hail jcr, Emperor of the World.
Wow, what a zinger. I have imperialist ambitions because I don't want to put a gun to your head to shut you up.
Logic is a completely alien concept to you, isn't it?
-jcr
You are an imperialist if you believe that the rights of US corporations like facebook or google to make money should over-ride the laws of democratic countries.
FUCK YOU!
First you help Hitler try to exterminate the jews, and now you engage in yet another bout of fascism...
So I suppose anyone who opposed Hitler was a fascist, because they wanted to limit his freedom to call for the killing of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and socialists?
Hey, Germany, does denial of the Armenian holocaust count?
If so then WTF is anyone considering Turkey for EU membership?
If not then WTF double standards anyone?
Germany was not responsible for the Armenican holocaust.
Also, by your argument, Germany should not be eligible for EU membership either because they most certainly did carry out the Holocaust.
You make it a very clear binary arrangement of Free speech and access... or censorship = full blackout.
So, since facebook prevents people in the US from posting porn, which is censorship, therefore facebook should close itself down in the US?
When women who have given birth hit their 40s, they lose their sex drive.
No, quite the contrary in fact. I thought this was a well known fact?
It took me a while getting used to how fast people moved on a first date - even on a lunch first date.
Ah yes, the old "shagging in Mickey D's toilets" scenario.
Tinder: The app that gets the top 10% of men by positive sexual characteristics an unbelievable amount of pussy.
Does knowing the dialogue to all the Star Wars films by heart count among the top 10% of positive sexual characteristics?
Wow, that's about as blatant as Big Doug's Protection Industries writing "ooh, nice place, shame if it got broken" on their business cards.
Was Ashley Madison first and foremost a gay hookup site for married men?
Wouldn't you just sign up to a gay hookup site instead?
It's not like you're going to be in any more trouble if your wife finds out, is it?
I know a guy that met one of them. She played the whole married looking for an affair game, said she just wanted to fuck around, and he got hooked. So the deal was she'd organise a hotel for their rendezvous if he'd split the bill. He rocks up, she asks for the money, quick shower and sex, and within the hour she asks him to leave. Through sheer chance I heard the exact same story from another guy, same girl, same hotel room. She probably had 10 guys lined up for the day and made a decent income, although you can only pull that off for so long.
Unless she really enjoyed the whole story telling part, it seems like a lot of effort rather than just advertising as a call girl/escort.
Using UK prices, a modest hotel room at something like a Holiday Inn Express (thanks google) is about GBP80 so she'd be earning GBP40/hour (say USD60/hour). I'm pretty sure escorts charge more than that.
Affair(s) are a symptom, not the cause of your marriage's failure.
So if tasers are non-lethal and still have killed people, what constitutes as less than lethal? scary
I think they're using the definition of "non lethal" as being "not lethal 100% of the time" which, usefully, also applies to firearms.
Surely the drones will have flashing blue lights on?