Cyclists are safe, because their own bodies are on the line. It's just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.
Who says everyone needs to "participate in the community" in exactly the same manner? Personal choice -- people should marry because they want to, not have marriage as their only option to satisfy a human need.
Some people want to get married, settle down in a boring suburban hell, and have kids. Others may want to marry and not have kids. Still others might just want to sample the wares and maybe eventually settle down. Others might think there are more important things than marriage and kids, but contribute to society in other ways. Tolerance. There's room in the world for all lifestyles and all types of relationships between consenting adults.
What's wrong with sex for the pure enjoyment of it? Why should you shackle yourself to any one person for life, or necessarily be expected to risk pregnancy out of any and every sexual encounter?
There's nothing wrong with free sex or multiple partners through out one's life. If you find a person whom you're willing to settle down with, marry, and have kids, great. But marriage shouldn't be the only place where people can enjoy physical love.
I'm bemoaning this because I see it as part of a larger long-term trend to require a real identity on the Internet -- requiring an identity will stifle a lot of unpopular political speech, if only because an employer could Google it using an employee's real name. And politics are not a protected class under US law, so people can lose their jobs for political views.
Our gods are likely all the same, they just have a misguided view of the god. If God created humanity to derive pleasure from sex (as opposed to need it, a la Vulcan Pon Farr), then s/he meant us to enjoy sex. Thus, sex for pleasure between consenting adults is a good and godly thing, since s/he has given us a natural, cheap, relatively safe stress-reduction and enjoyment mechanism. We should get down on our collective knees and thank him/her for it.
Canada... (1) Is moving towards legalization of marijuana on a Federal level. Check. (2) Mostly legalizes or ignores prostitution among consenting adults. Check. (3) Has 15-20% of the incarceration rate (per 100,000 people) as the US. Check. NOT one of the world's largest jailers. (4) Got rid of the death penalty 50+ years ago. (5) Recognizes an explicit legal right to privacy.
The US is moving backwards in many of those respects.
Canada is only "intolerant" if you want to own powerful rifles or spout Nazi filth.
The US sent kids to "youth centers" (basically like prisons) for minor crimes like mocking school officials less than 10 years ago. Judges responsible were eventually jailed, but don't think that such atrocities are only a Canadian thing...
The law (obviously) can't prevent a state actor outside the US from using spy satellites. What it did prevent is PRIVATE entities launching spy satellites.
It's called Puritan authoritarianism. Long ingrained in US culture, coming from both religion (R) and secular (D) do-gooders.
Frankly, the US would have been a better place if the Mayflower had hit rocks and turned the zealots it was carrying into fish food. Canada was settled by the British and French for profit instead of by Puritan refugees, and it's a much more tolerant place than the US.
They're basically the "light" version of the Saudi and Iranian theocracies. Screw all religion in government -- the French have the right idea. Laicite'. Not only are church and state separate, but it's considered very uncouth for politicians to run on the basis of their religion or throw it in people's faces via legislation.
Because the real bad actors can't register a PO Box, shell company, and Photoshop a fake ID? We're talking about intelligence agencies messing around with elections.
This will likely censor smaller entities with politically unpopular views -- e.g. anti-war or anti-military organizations.
No, according to the Christian Right, sex should be ONLY for making babies, no enjoyment permitted. Only politicians and CEOs get to boink pr0n stars for fun, since the rules don't apply to them.
What if we're talking about a smaller country without satellites? Say Panama, Ukraine, or Grenada. Enough advance warning of an invasion would give them time to prepare things like booby traps against invading forces, get their leaders into hiding, etc, etc.
That's incorrect. I specifically asked for an ATM-only card for one of my accounts. It works at an ATM, with a PIN, and is not a Checkcard. i.e. it's only useful for deposits and cash withdrawals, not as a "credit card."
We're not talking about tracking objects in orbit, we're talking about monitoring military sites on Earth. A color change of a runway parking area could indicate a few C-130s with troops and tanks just landed in preparation for an invasion.
Exactly. Which is why I hope that US private corporations start broadcasting photos of Chinese sites, Chinese private corporations broadcast US sites, and Russian satellites start broadcasting US and Chinese sites. The more transparency about military sites, the better -- destroying all superpowers' ability to wage war and prepare for war in secret would be a laudable goal. Here's to peace on Earth in the future!
At that scale, the "private places" are mostly those that are used by military goons to launch mass homicide campaigns. If every square inch of every military base around the world was under 24/7 surveillance with footage available to every Internet user worldwide, it would be a good thing -- countries would lose the ability to wage war and commit genocide.
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Cyclists are safe, because their own bodies are on the line. It's just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.
10.8 feet is one second away at 7 mph. Too damn close -- company deserves a ticket.
In 2018, you do have a choice whether to make a child or not. Many reliable methods of birth control exist.
Who says everyone needs to "participate in the community" in exactly the same manner? Personal choice -- people should marry because they want to, not have marriage as their only option to satisfy a human need.
Some people want to get married, settle down in a boring suburban hell, and have kids. Others may want to marry and not have kids. Still others might just want to sample the wares and maybe eventually settle down. Others might think there are more important things than marriage and kids, but contribute to society in other ways. Tolerance. There's room in the world for all lifestyles and all types of relationships between consenting adults.
Not really...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What if you want to have sex but don't want to necessarily be in a life-long relationship with any one person? Or perhaps haven't met that person yet?
What's wrong with sex for the pure enjoyment of it? Why should you shackle yourself to any one person for life, or necessarily be expected to risk pregnancy out of any and every sexual encounter?
There's nothing wrong with free sex or multiple partners through out one's life. If you find a person whom you're willing to settle down with, marry, and have kids, great. But marriage shouldn't be the only place where people can enjoy physical love.
I'm bemoaning this because I see it as part of a larger long-term trend to require a real identity on the Internet -- requiring an identity will stifle a lot of unpopular political speech, if only because an employer could Google it using an employee's real name. And politics are not a protected class under US law, so people can lose their jobs for political views.
Our gods are likely all the same, they just have a misguided view of the god. If God created humanity to derive pleasure from sex (as opposed to need it, a la Vulcan Pon Farr), then s/he meant us to enjoy sex. Thus, sex for pleasure between consenting adults is a good and godly thing, since s/he has given us a natural, cheap, relatively safe stress-reduction and enjoyment mechanism. We should get down on our collective knees and thank him/her for it.
Canada...
(1) Is moving towards legalization of marijuana on a Federal level. Check.
(2) Mostly legalizes or ignores prostitution among consenting adults. Check.
(3) Has 15-20% of the incarceration rate (per 100,000 people) as the US. Check. NOT one of the world's largest jailers.
(4) Got rid of the death penalty 50+ years ago.
(5) Recognizes an explicit legal right to privacy.
The US is moving backwards in many of those respects.
Canada is only "intolerant" if you want to own powerful rifles or spout Nazi filth.
That was the 60s and 70s in Canada.
The US sent kids to "youth centers" (basically like prisons) for minor crimes like mocking school officials less than 10 years ago. Judges responsible were eventually jailed, but don't think that such atrocities are only a Canadian thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The law (obviously) can't prevent a state actor outside the US from using spy satellites. What it did prevent is PRIVATE entities launching spy satellites.
It's called Puritan authoritarianism. Long ingrained in US culture, coming from both religion (R) and secular (D) do-gooders.
Frankly, the US would have been a better place if the Mayflower had hit rocks and turned the zealots it was carrying into fish food. Canada was settled by the British and French for profit instead of by Puritan refugees, and it's a much more tolerant place than the US.
They're basically the "light" version of the Saudi and Iranian theocracies. Screw all religion in government -- the French have the right idea. Laicite'. Not only are church and state separate, but it's considered very uncouth for politicians to run on the basis of their religion or throw it in people's faces via legislation.
Because the real bad actors can't register a PO Box, shell company, and Photoshop a fake ID? We're talking about intelligence agencies messing around with elections.
This will likely censor smaller entities with politically unpopular views -- e.g. anti-war or anti-military organizations.
No, according to the Christian Right, sex should be ONLY for making babies, no enjoyment permitted. Only politicians and CEOs get to boink pr0n stars for fun, since the rules don't apply to them.
What if we're talking about a smaller country without satellites? Say Panama, Ukraine, or Grenada. Enough advance warning of an invasion would give them time to prepare things like booby traps against invading forces, get their leaders into hiding, etc, etc.
Facebook would probably not accept crypto because they'd WANT to know users' identities.
Payment would actually be worse, since it would allow FB accounts to be tied to a real identity via a credit card or Paypal account.
That's incorrect. I specifically asked for an ATM-only card for one of my accounts. It works at an ATM, with a PIN, and is not a Checkcard. i.e. it's only useful for deposits and cash withdrawals, not as a "credit card."
We're not talking about tracking objects in orbit, we're talking about monitoring military sites on Earth. A color change of a runway parking area could indicate a few C-130s with troops and tanks just landed in preparation for an invasion.
Exactly. Which is why I hope that US private corporations start broadcasting photos of Chinese sites, Chinese private corporations broadcast US sites, and Russian satellites start broadcasting US and Chinese sites. The more transparency about military sites, the better -- destroying all superpowers' ability to wage war and prepare for war in secret would be a laudable goal. Here's to peace on Earth in the future!
If there are thousands of satellites all broadcasting the same imagery, they won't be able to assassinate all of the owners.
Not the location, just movements on a base. A mass of vehicles or aircraft being prepared for an invasion might be visible from space.
At that scale, the "private places" are mostly those that are used by military goons to launch mass homicide campaigns. If every square inch of every military base around the world was under 24/7 surveillance with footage available to every Internet user worldwide, it would be a good thing -- countries would lose the ability to wage war and commit genocide.