Men have far bigger family problems and a huge percent of men regularly get screwed over by the legal system (just ask any divorce or family court lawyer or look at the statistics).
This serves men right for inventing the ideas that women should stay at home and not pursue a career, and that their main purpose in life is looking after children. In a more equal society, these would disappear as issues biased against men.
The irony is that it is the same men's rights activists who moan about paying child support and alimony who hate feminism and equal opportunities so much.
Most MRAs are actually just barely concealed women-haters.
Most imbalances in family law are generally a hangover from the days of pre-feminism, e.g. the general assumption that children should always stay with the mother following a break up, since women's primary role in life is looking after children.
The anecdote about your friend just shows that the legal system in Georgia is corrupt, not that men's rights in particular are being systematically attacked.
What helps is to identify the protagonist. By the classical definition, it's the character with change.
Just for the nitpicking: it's not a "classical definition", it's a peculiar definition typical for litterature and movies in the US.
Other parts of the world don't necessarily need a *change*.
(Maybe that's why American have problems understanding european movies).
Americans are obsessed with the idea that anyone can change themselves into anything if they just work hard enough.
It's why in places like slashdot there is so little sympathy for poor people or minority rights groups, as it's generally assumed that they're just not trying, and so much love for billionaires, as it's generally taken that they are (a) supermen, (b) able to be emulated, and (c) worthy of emulation.
someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race
You can call him sub-human (if that means anything) as much as you want, what you can't do is then extrapolate it to say that all people with black skin are sub-human.
And every individual has the right to Freedom of NON-Association - the right to NOT live with people they don't want to
If you don't want to live near people with different coloured skin, that's up to you, just don't get all offended when people identify you as a moronic racist.
I think is was discovered that mountains 'float' when they did the survey of India back in the 1700 and 1800's. The summary makes it sound like it is news. It is not. I learned about it as a geophysics undergraduate.
Astonishingly, not everyone was ever a geophysics undergraduate.
Also any photography in public places is totally protected
A school is not a public place.
To test this, go to a random school and start taking pictures of the kids, then have fun explaining to the security guard or cop that will soon appear that you're exercising your right to take pictures of school children without their (or their parents') knowledge or permission.
whose job involves weeding out students who will be more trouble than they're worth.
Students who understand and exercise their civil rights are not "more trouble than they are worth" if the student is pursuing a career in law or journalism.
I hadn't realised that "making money illegally" was now a civil right in the US. Presumably the relevant constitutional amendment was sponsored by Uber?
My parents tried grounding me once. After I thoroughly enjoyed having so much free time to make progress through my stack of novels, they started adding the stipulation, "...and no reading!" whenever they'd send me off to my room. Getting grounded stopped being so much fun after that.
"Anubis, you've been a very naughty boy, so you have to go out and play football in the park with your friends, chase after girls, and go to bed late."
We used to call it "the hot seat" back in the 70's, there was no such thing as 'suspension', you were either punished or expelled.
You were lucky. In my day you were flogged with a cat-o-nine-tails even if you'd done nothing wrong. If you did something really bad (like getting a Latin declension wrong) then you were summarily executed. Twice if it involved girls.
I think you win the shithead, fucked up, most stupid and ignorant post of the year award. Um, congrats?
So, you don't agree with him then?
The OP made a not unreasonable analogy. Just because you subscribe to the slashdot hivemind belief that (a) copyright is bollocks and (b) everyone has a god-given right to make money in any way they like *cough* uber *cough* does not mean that there aren't valid counter-beliefs you can argue for.
Driving over the speed limit is a criminal act. Period. Crossing the street off the walkpath is a criminal act. Period. There are ethical ambiguities all up in this piece.
Where is the fucking ethical ambiguity in being caught for speeding? If you are genuinely rushing your pregnant wife to hospital, deal with the consequences - big deal you have to pay a fine.
And jaywalking is, as far as I know, a uniquely American piece of absurdity, but just because there are some ridiculous crimes on the statute books does not mean that all crimes on the statue books are ridiculous.
It's true in that those universal statements aren't universally true. Grass isn't green in the winter here, it's brown. The sky is blue outside my window currently, but yesterday it was gray. There's an awful lot of water around here that isn't wet during the winter.
And don't forget it's all a hologram inside a computer anyway, so let's all just kill ourselves and escape the Matrix.
Her dog is in to you. But that cute girl down the street? She won't let you have sex with her dog.
Yet another example of FEMINISTS interfering with my freedom of expression. My grandfather fought in the war to protect our freedom, and now we let SJWs take it away, piece BY piece in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!.
Look more closely. Are the the stone tools out of place in the volcanic sedimentary strata they are found in (xenolith)? Stone tools are often made of chert or some other material completely unrelated to the volcanic material that entombs them. Do they share similar fracture patterns to other xenoliths? Are they the right size to be held in a humanoid hand. The evidence adds up. Fascinating.
Ok, so even if they are stone tools, I thought it was impossible to calculate the age of stone artifacts.
Sure, you know how old the rock is but not when the rock was made into a tool.
Yes, clearly these so-called scientists just made up a number based on no evidence whatsoever and published it in a well known journal without anyone (other than you) checking on their methodology.
Slashdot Mirror
Clarey isn't really an MRA either, he's a PUA.
Unless you're in the military, communciating in TLAs makes you look like a twat.
Men have far bigger family problems and a huge percent of men regularly get screwed over by the legal system (just ask any divorce or family court lawyer or look at the statistics).
This serves men right for inventing the ideas that women should stay at home and not pursue a career, and that their main purpose in life is looking after children. In a more equal society, these would disappear as issues biased against men.
The irony is that it is the same men's rights activists who moan about paying child support and alimony who hate feminism and equal opportunities so much.
Most imbalances in family law are generally a hangover from the days of pre-feminism, e.g. the general assumption that children should always stay with the mother following a break up, since women's primary role in life is looking after children.
The anecdote about your friend just shows that the legal system in Georgia is corrupt, not that men's rights in particular are being systematically attacked.
What helps is to identify the protagonist. By the classical definition, it's the character with change.
Just for the nitpicking: it's not a "classical definition", it's a peculiar definition typical for litterature and movies in the US. Other parts of the world don't necessarily need a *change*. (Maybe that's why American have problems understanding european movies).
Americans are obsessed with the idea that anyone can change themselves into anything if they just work hard enough.
It's why in places like slashdot there is so little sympathy for poor people or minority rights groups, as it's generally assumed that they're just not trying, and so much love for billionaires, as it's generally taken that they are (a) supermen, (b) able to be emulated, and (c) worthy of emulation.
someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race
You can call him sub-human (if that means anything) as much as you want, what you can't do is then extrapolate it to say that all people with black skin are sub-human.
And every individual has the right to Freedom of NON-Association - the right to NOT live with people they don't want to
If you don't want to live near people with different coloured skin, that's up to you, just don't get all offended when people identify you as a moronic racist.
What's so bad about Domino's pizza? I mean, any pizza is a yummy but pretty unhealthy mess when it comes down to it.
I thought it was a reasonably good article.
Hold on, you seem to be implying that you actually read TFA. Have you no shame?
I think is was discovered that mountains 'float' when they did the survey of India back in the 1700 and 1800's. The summary makes it sound like it is news. It is not. I learned about it as a geophysics undergraduate.
Astonishingly, not everyone was ever a geophysics undergraduate.
As far as I'm concerned, if you sell photos of people, then you get a model release form.
Also any photography in public places is totally protected
A school is not a public place.
To test this, go to a random school and start taking pictures of the kids, then have fun explaining to the security guard or cop that will soon appear that you're exercising your right to take pictures of school children without their (or their parents') knowledge or permission.
It's pretty easy to guess the average age of posters in this thread. No one over eighteen cares.
whose job involves weeding out students who will be more trouble than they're worth.
Students who understand and exercise their civil rights are not "more trouble than they are worth" if the student is pursuing a career in law or journalism.
I hadn't realised that "making money illegally" was now a civil right in the US. Presumably the relevant constitutional amendment was sponsored by Uber?
My parents tried grounding me once. After I thoroughly enjoyed having so much free time to make progress through my stack of novels, they started adding the stipulation, "...and no reading!" whenever they'd send me off to my room. Getting grounded stopped being so much fun after that.
"Anubis, you've been a very naughty boy, so you have to go out and play football in the park with your friends, chase after girls, and go to bed late."
They should have been at least making us mop up or something.
yeah violate child labor laws and the union contract with the employees, all at once
Fight the power, man.
We used to call it "the hot seat" back in the 70's, there was no such thing as 'suspension', you were either punished or expelled.
You were lucky. In my day you were flogged with a cat-o-nine-tails even if you'd done nothing wrong. If you did something really bad (like getting a Latin declension wrong) then you were summarily executed. Twice if it involved girls.
And you try telling that to kids today...
has a restriction on the use of photographs taken at a sporting event and subsequently used for commercial gain ever been tested in court?
It would be settled (or rather thrown) out of court because its's fucking illegal to make commercial use of a model without a signed release form.
But of course, on slashdot, as long as something makes money it must be good because it's not the government.
I think you win the shithead, fucked up, most stupid and ignorant post of the year award. Um, congrats?
So, you don't agree with him then?
The OP made a not unreasonable analogy. Just because you subscribe to the slashdot hivemind belief that (a) copyright is bollocks and (b) everyone has a god-given right to make money in any way they like *cough* uber *cough* does not mean that there aren't valid counter-beliefs you can argue for.
Just puhhleease stop the "maker" movement
FTFY.
Driving over the speed limit is a criminal act. Period. Crossing the street off the walkpath is a criminal act. Period. There are ethical ambiguities all up in this piece.
Where is the fucking ethical ambiguity in being caught for speeding? If you are genuinely rushing your pregnant wife to hospital, deal with the consequences - big deal you have to pay a fine.
And jaywalking is, as far as I know, a uniquely American piece of absurdity, but just because there are some ridiculous crimes on the statute books does not mean that all crimes on the statue books are ridiculous.
There's really only one question: is the owner aware that his site is being used for illegal stuff, or has be willfully made sure he isn't aware.
As a guess, he thinks he's being clever, like a lot of people who end up in prison for psychopathically profiting from breaking the law.
It's true in that those universal statements aren't universally true. Grass isn't green in the winter here, it's brown. The sky is blue outside my window currently, but yesterday it was gray. There's an awful lot of water around here that isn't wet during the winter.
And don't forget it's all a hologram inside a computer anyway, so let's all just kill ourselves and escape the Matrix.
Her dog is in to you. But that cute girl down the street? She won't let you have sex with her dog.
Yet another example of FEMINISTS interfering with my freedom of expression. My grandfather fought in the war to protect our freedom, and now we let SJWs take it away, piece BY piece in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!.
Literally Hitler. THANKS Obama.
Because they found 100 of them together. Plain rocks don't congregate like that. They prefer a more solitary existence.
You shouldn't anthropomorphise rocks. They get really upset.
Look more closely. Are the the stone tools out of place in the volcanic sedimentary strata they are found in (xenolith)? Stone tools are often made of chert or some other material completely unrelated to the volcanic material that entombs them. Do they share similar fracture patterns to other xenoliths? Are they the right size to be held in a humanoid hand. The evidence adds up. Fascinating.
Ok, so even if they are stone tools, I thought it was impossible to calculate the age of stone artifacts. Sure, you know how old the rock is but not when the rock was made into a tool.
Yes, clearly these so-called scientists just made up a number based on no evidence whatsoever and published it in a well known journal without anyone (other than you) checking on their methodology.