Posters on slashdot are prone to simplistic binary thinking. Something is either right or wrong.
Since free speech is generally agreed to be a good thing, then any criticism of absolute free speech is seen as bad, and even more ridiculously any speech at all is seen as fine, so that you can't criticise paedophiles or neo-Nazis because they're just expressing their opinions.
Free speech does not give you immunity from repercussions or consequences.
There is no "right" not to be offended, but that doesn't prevent people from being offended. Unless they have no moral, ethical, personal or intellectual standards at all, anyone would surely be offended by something or other.
I find people who defend ISIL, Nazism or paedophilia pretty offensive, and I would not rule out taking direct action against them for doing so.
They do not earn a Get Out Of Jail Free card just because it's free speech.
GG wanted ethics in gaming - when they got it they shut up. That's about all that's needed to show that they didn't give a flying tootsie roll about women in gaming.
The claim is that it won't create "a right to be offended", because the term "Serious emotional distress" is supposed to exclude mere outrage. Nor embarrassment, anxiety or worry.
(See paragraph 10 on page 3 of the ministry of Justice's briefing on the bill).
Courts in the US award damages for serious emotional distress (or whatever you call it) over and above actual physical damages, so it can't be that difficult to work out the difference..
The whole point of passing laws like this is to encourage people to attack one another, preferably in the form of class warfare. Populations fighting themselves tend to ignore the tyrants at the helm.
You appear to be using some strange American interpretation of the term "class warfare". In fact, class warfare is precisely the mass of the population fighting against the elite tyrants, i.e. workers against capitalists in Marxist terms.
People in the US get confused and think that everyone is now a capitalist (billionaire-in-waiting) and that therefore class warfare is just smaller capitalists against bigger capitalists. In fact, it is only the very rich who have power. Owning a mortgaged house and having a few shares to pay a pension doesn't make you one of the powerful elite.
I think that 'organic engagement within a rich ecosystem' is something that you usually have to visit a tropical medicine specialist to get cleared up; horrid parasitic infections, that sort of thing.
I assumed it meant having sex with the local wildlife.
Of course the Queen can, as head of state, still remove the current government.
Only theoretically. If she tried to intervene in politics in any way, there would be an outcry on all sides of the political spectrum, and shortly thereafter the end of the Monarchy.
In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.
The kind of forced optimism that CEOs of startups often have to show is actually one of the things that causes depression. They have to live a lie, where they tell everyone that their shitty platform which does the same thing as five other shitty platforms is going to be the next Facebook.
That's only a problem if you lie to yourself. Lying to others is just business.
It's a form of mania. It often swings between the extremes. The middle is no fun. Bye-bye polar. Some might consider it a fair price to pay for the highs.
The highs are just as bad for other people as the lows.
Fuck you and your My Little Pony friendship shit, you homofag. Just break a bottle on your head, slice your belly open with the shards and strangle yourself with your entrails. Loser.
Much of the last depressive episode was tied to the implosion of my last start-up. It's been a couple years since I exited that project and I'm only now reaching a point where I'm building my next new business.
Wouldn't it be more sensible just to go and get a nice easy job somewhere, like the rest of us?
You have solved fusion power, space radiation deflection and the atomic level reconstitution of matter, nano deconstruction and manufacturing. We are not there yet, but the technology will exist within the next 50 years
Unfortunately the Singularity will already have happened in 25 years time, and so humanity will be obsolete.
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Since free speech is generally agreed to be a good thing, then any criticism of absolute free speech is seen as bad, and even more ridiculously any speech at all is seen as fine, so that you can't criticise paedophiles or neo-Nazis because they're just expressing their opinions.
There is no "right" not to be offended, but that doesn't prevent people from being offended. Unless they have no moral, ethical, personal or intellectual standards at all, anyone would surely be offended by something or other.
I find people who defend ISIL, Nazism or paedophilia pretty offensive, and I would not rule out taking direct action against them for doing so.
They do not earn a Get Out Of Jail Free card just because it's free speech.
GG wanted ethics in gaming - when they got it they shut up. That's about all that's needed to show that they didn't give a flying tootsie roll about women in gaming.
Thanks for the laugh.
The only real way to protect speech critical of the ruling party is to protect all speech
You can't cause emotional distress to a political party. This law couldn't be used to jail you for political comments.
Laws aren't really like boiling a frog.
The claim is that it won't create "a right to be offended", because the term "Serious emotional distress" is supposed to exclude mere outrage. Nor embarrassment, anxiety or worry. (See paragraph 10 on page 3 of the ministry of Justice's briefing on the bill).
Courts in the US award damages for serious emotional distress (or whatever you call it) over and above actual physical damages, so it can't be that difficult to work out the difference..
The whole point of passing laws like this is to encourage people to attack one another, preferably in the form of class warfare. Populations fighting themselves tend to ignore the tyrants at the helm.
You appear to be using some strange American interpretation of the term "class warfare". In fact, class warfare is precisely the mass of the population fighting against the elite tyrants, i.e. workers against capitalists in Marxist terms.
People in the US get confused and think that everyone is now a capitalist (billionaire-in-waiting) and that therefore class warfare is just smaller capitalists against bigger capitalists. In fact, it is only the very rich who have power. Owning a mortgaged house and having a few shares to pay a pension doesn't make you one of the powerful elite.
illustrates that in the long run, the United States has some significant disadvantages as a spaceport location.
We can fix that. Just make NZ a territory of the US and that is not an issue any more. Clears up the Kim Dotcom issue too.
Although I'm not a great fan of US imperialism, if it gets rid of Kit Dotcom I'd be prepared to make an exception.
Well then you're going to absolutely love the next story. It's about 3D-printed graphene quadcopters...
And they're being developed by Elon Musk in partnership with Uber.
I think that 'organic engagement within a rich ecosystem' is something that you usually have to visit a tropical medicine specialist to get cleared up; horrid parasitic infections, that sort of thing.
I assumed it meant having sex with the local wildlife.
A combination of encryption and steganography will soon follow. ;-)
Just fuck off with the smilie / winkie face crap.
I-write-like-a-retard.com is that way --->
Were you abused by a clown as a child?
Of course the Queen can, as head of state, still remove the current government.
Only theoretically. If she tried to intervene in politics in any way, there would be an outcry on all sides of the political spectrum, and shortly thereafter the end of the Monarchy.
Germany is western?
Why, where the fuck do you think it is? Central Asia?
I bet you were the kid at school who told everyone Santa Claus wasn't real.
In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.
https://twitter.com/sarahoconn...
I assume she ended the tweet with #theresastormcomingin?
When the government outsources to contractors, there is an automatic revolving door between the government insiders and the contracting firms.
Indeed. The solution is not to try to mix business and government.
But instead, the trend is to seed government with more and more contractors. .
The kind of forced optimism that CEOs of startups often have to show is actually one of the things that causes depression. They have to live a lie, where they tell everyone that their shitty platform which does the same thing as five other shitty platforms is going to be the next Facebook.
That's only a problem if you lie to yourself. Lying to others is just business.
It's a form of mania. It often swings between the extremes. The middle is no fun. Bye-bye polar. Some might consider it a fair price to pay for the highs.
The highs are just as bad for other people as the lows.
Fuck you and your My Little Pony friendship shit, you homofag. Just break a bottle on your head, slice your belly open with the shards and strangle yourself with your entrails. Loser.
Issues? Me?
Much of the last depressive episode was tied to the implosion of my last start-up. It's been a couple years since I exited that project and I'm only now reaching a point where I'm building my next new business.
Wouldn't it be more sensible just to go and get a nice easy job somewhere, like the rest of us?
Mod parent up.
If you've ever known any actual autistic kids, there is no way on earth you'd mistake them for someone who's just a bit shit socially.
My parents get even more defensive when I bring up that I think I'm an undiagnosed Aspie.
Gosh, I wonder why?
You have solved fusion power, space radiation deflection and the atomic level reconstitution of matter, nano deconstruction and manufacturing. We are not there yet, but the technology will exist within the next 50 years
Unfortunately the Singularity will already have happened in 25 years time, and so humanity will be obsolete.
Why don't we just explode loads of H-bombs on the side nearest the Sun, so it gets blown further away from the Sun and cools down naturally?
And yes, the inevitable heat death of the universe does cause me problems. But I have a sliver of optimism that at some point, we can address that
1. I'm not sure if you quite grasp the meaning of the words "inevitable" or "heat death".
2. You are a loony.