And not just downloading. You need to give them temporary access. I will do that right after securing my Visa Card. On their site they call it "Temporary Limited Access" and that is exactly what I tell the ladies. Nothing can happen, although one is a slightly pregnant right now, but that is also just temporary.
I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!"
-- Bill Hicks
I am against it if it is because you want to be able to use it in court. That is the wrong reason. That is also the same reason many of the surveillance is happening under. 'To prevent crime.' is not a good enough reason to point a camera at me. No, I am not a surgeon, but why stop there? Why not all the other places in the hospital? When you allow or even encourage to film operations _so it can be used in court_ will find places where it is also a good idea and that lowers the bar a bit. Next you know it we will have camera's all over the place. There are already too many.
That does not mean that filming operations is a bad idea. It just is if you do it because you might get asked to show it in a court of law. Very soon people who do NOT do that will be suspicious under the 'if you have nothing to hide, why do you not allow it to be public.'
It will bring more tension to the (operation) table that will distract those people from saving my life. I need that part of your brain that is thinking about that camera. That could be the part that saves me or you or anybody.
If people really cared about their privacy, they would leave in droves. If people really cared about their privacy, people would lynch the NSA, TSA and other agencies raping their privacy. If people really cared they would see that ALL political people would have it high on their agenda and follow through on it.
Unfortunately, people do not care. They are willing giving up their privacy. They think it is nice to watch other peoples live on TV with 'reality shows' and they are willing to do almost anything for their 15 minutes of fame.
This is slashdot. We know the difference of the names like hackers, crackers, phreakers and script kiddies. These UK privacy-invading people should be called what they really are: the government.
I agree with the first part. I do not agree with the second part. I understand what you want to say: do not let weed smokers go to prison.
However it is not to free up so others can be put in there. The one has nothing to do with the other. A prison should not be run like a hotel and get its maximum occupancy.
If freeing the weed smokers from drug dealers means that prisons need to close, then that is a GOOD thing. There is no reason to find others to replace them.
Only if you run prisons to make money would THAT be a problem. Right? One other thing: you should try to prevent people to be repeat offenders. Unpossible? Look at Norway.
If you have any reason to doubt that it might not do what it says it does, do not use the binary, but compile it yourself. If you are unable to compile it AND you do not trust the binary, don't run it. Read and rewrite the code so it does work. If you are unable to rewrite the code, do not trust the binary AND are unable to compile. Look for an alternative. Or hire somebody who is able to write the code for you so that you are able to read it, compile it and change it.
Open source does not mean that it must be easy or even gratis.
What good the code is depends on you. To me most code is utterly useless. I could not compile it if my life depended on it. This due to my technical skills, but the reason is irrelevant. To me that code is as unusable as it is for those who do not have the right compilers.
And a phone call is very useful for those who can not speak. A fax is nothing but a phone call. Just because you are using things in one way does not mean that is the same for others.
For the government to now claim that probable cause can be established without the defendant seeing the evidence is quite literally overturning centuries of jurisprudence.
The way you state it make it sound as if that is something they would not do. In that case, you are mistaken. They gladly and happily will do that and much, much more as long as you allow them to do so,
Watch any show about raising kids or puppies. If you do not hold down your foot, they will go a bit further each time. In the beginning you have power over kids. Unless you don't handle them correctly. They they will get power over you. Each time you give in, they will ask a bit more the next time.
Sure, they will yell and give you a headache for a while, but when you keep your ground, they will respect you and follow your rules.
At this moment the public is not willing to take a stand because they do not like it when the kid whines, so they will just give it what it wants. Great short term solution. Lousy long term one.
They ask me such things all the time and I always refuse. Never had to explain myself, nor was I treated differently from other customers.
The conversations in the last 10-15 years are as follows: "Do you have a ?" -No "Would you like one?" -No, thank you. "OK. The total is...."
The reason these companies want those cards is not to track your each and every step and know to advertise the morning after pill, when you forgot to buy condoms. The real reason is customer binding.
They know that if you have a savings card, you will be more loyal to them then when you are not.
This works for enough people to make it profitable. One of the places where I worked that used this system, I saw people spending 10EUR more as with the competition, so they would get their star, uh, points with the worth of 10 cents if that.
Once people have a savings card, they often even stop to look at the competition, because in their mind, they save with their points and disregard the fact that they spend more.
You will most likely go to another place in a heartbeat and THAT is what they want to prevent.
Also do not forget that this is talking about large numbers of customers. Once you start caring for each individual customer, you are either very exclusive and expensive or very bankrupt.
Reminds me of two American girls where saying 'I love your English accent." They were nice looking and obviously flirting with the guy. He responded: "Accent? That is how you are SUPPOSED to speak it."
I don't think it is going too far to call them sentient
So is sentient important or how close they are to us? Perhaps you mean both. So if we get proof that they are NOT sentient, then we can go on using them as test subjects?
If you want to protect them, tell it how it is: they LOOK too much like us on the outside. I am sure you are well aware that pigs are also often used, because they resemble people in many ways, yet they do not look like us (and they produce bacon) so that is less problematic for many.
As long as you are aware that it is a social issue, fight your battle that way. Making it a technical one (They are sentient. They are our closest relative.) will make you vulnerable to attacks on that part that you might loose and with that your whole battle.
Because that is the standard where he lives? Programmers should write programs that consider reality. Reality should not change because you are unable to program
They could have gone with just 419 and 421 and leave out the box number altogether. There are even places that have NO house number and that often is a problem as well.
Sure, people will then enter a 1, but in reality it is sloppy coding that causes people to enter the wrong data.
For me it isn't. I have not had contact with transgenders (as far as I know) but I have with people who did not confirm with the standard that the majority of people have.
e.g. a friend of mine came out to me as being lesbian and she was clearly disappointed in my reaction. I said something like "So?" or "Good for you.".
So just because the majority does not accept it right away, do not assume that nobody can. For me it is not difficult at all. The fact that you think that only people who went to the same situation can understand it, is YOUR problem. You make it difficult to be understood, because you assume that nobody understands you.
I do not make the difference between people, so why do you do it?
In Belgium you must be male or female. You still get maternity leave as a male.
You do make a good point in that it is society. So it is just a social issue that has nothing to do with changes that need to be done in a database.
Leaving out the gender will not take away the discrimination. Women or men will still be discriminated against. People will identify them by their first name. Take that away? Then they will be discriminated against when they walk into the building.
So I would say that anybody should be able to identify him/her/itself as they please and to stop the discrimination part. No discrimination on gender, age, color of their skin, religion, country of birth, country of origin, profession,...
Optional is not an option in Belgium due to the law.
Where I work, we have customers and send those customers letters. The majority of our clients wants to get the "Dear Mr. John Doe" as start.
When we get the customer, we put the data in the database when we get official proof.
OTOH sometimes things change. Their address changes. Then we just do that change in our database, as soon as we get official proof. If they change their name, we change their name in the database when we get official proof.
And when they change their gender, we change it as soon as we get official proof.
I see nothing that is to be ashamed about, nor anything that should be explained. Just show me your that your old ID needs an update and we do it as required by law.
From a social point, it might be hard for some, but I am sure, this is the easy part for those who have done the gender change. At least in Belgium where I live it is not that difficult. I have explained what they needed to do to several already and if anything I hear almost disappointment of how this is just like a change of address to me.
From a technical side I see absolutely no problem. If the law adds options next to M and F, we just add them. At this moment the law requires people to be either male or female. Change the law and we will add T for Transgender, H for Hermaphrodite, N for None, U for Unknown and what not. Obviously you will need to change the output of the letters we send as well.
For others with an old database, it might be a challenge to even add a third option if they have it in binary in their system. e.g. 0 for male and 1 for female. Or if it is in digits and there will be more then 10 options. e.g. now 0 is unknown, 1 is male and 2 is female.
In Belgium you can still send a telegram. So no idea where this idea comes from that it isn't available anywhere anymore. If Belgium has it and even has International AND Intercontinental prices, there must be at least two other countries that have it.
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And not just downloading. You need to give them temporary access. I will do that right after securing my Visa Card.
On their site they call it "Temporary Limited Access" and that is exactly what I tell the ladies. Nothing can happen, although one is a slightly pregnant right now, but that is also just temporary.
I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!"
-- Bill Hicks
I would say the same to all the guards in Gitmo.
I am against it if it is because you want to be able to use it in court. That is the wrong reason. That is also the same reason many of the surveillance is happening under. 'To prevent crime.' is not a good enough reason to point a camera at me.
No, I am not a surgeon, but why stop there? Why not all the other places in the hospital? When you allow or even encourage to film operations _so it can be used in court_ will find places where it is also a good idea and that lowers the bar a bit. Next you know it we will have camera's all over the place. There are already too many.
That does not mean that filming operations is a bad idea. It just is if you do it because you might get asked to show it in a court of law.
Very soon people who do NOT do that will be suspicious under the 'if you have nothing to hide, why do you not allow it to be public.'
It will bring more tension to the (operation) table that will distract those people from saving my life. I need that part of your brain that is thinking about that camera. That could be the part that saves me or you or anybody.
Well, Google is a marketing company and marketing will convince us we have needs we did not even know they existed.
Next you know we will buy water in bottles instead of drinking tap water. Oh wait.
I was going for funny points. Instead I got insightful. Oh well.
Because they can and we let them.
If people really cared about their privacy, they would leave in droves. If people really cared about their privacy, people would lynch the NSA, TSA and other agencies raping their privacy. If people really cared they would see that ALL political people would have it high on their agenda and follow through on it.
Unfortunately, people do not care. They are willing giving up their privacy. They think it is nice to watch other peoples live on TV with 'reality shows' and they are willing to do almost anything for their 15 minutes of fame.
This is slashdot. We know the difference of the names like hackers, crackers, phreakers and script kiddies.
These UK privacy-invading people should be called what they really are: the government.
I agree with the first part. I do not agree with the second part. I understand what you want to say: do not let weed smokers go to prison.
However it is not to free up so others can be put in there. The one has nothing to do with the other. A prison should not be run like a hotel and get its maximum occupancy.
If freeing the weed smokers from drug dealers means that prisons need to close, then that is a GOOD thing. There is no reason to find others to replace them.
Only if you run prisons to make money would THAT be a problem. Right? One other thing: you should try to prevent people to be repeat offenders. Unpossible? Look at Norway.
If you have any reason to doubt that it might not do what it says it does, do not use the binary, but compile it yourself.
If you are unable to compile it AND you do not trust the binary, don't run it. Read and rewrite the code so it does work.
If you are unable to rewrite the code, do not trust the binary AND are unable to compile. Look for an alternative.
Or hire somebody who is able to write the code for you so that you are able to read it, compile it and change it.
Open source does not mean that it must be easy or even gratis.
What good the code is depends on you. To me most code is utterly useless. I could not compile it if my life depended on it. This due to my technical skills, but the reason is irrelevant. To me that code is as unusable as it is for those who do not have the right compilers.
And a phone call is very useful for those who can not speak. A fax is nothing but a phone call. Just because you are using things in one way does not mean that is the same for others.
The way you state it make it sound as if that is something they would not do.
In that case, you are mistaken. They gladly and happily will do that and much, much more as long as you allow them to do so,
Watch any show about raising kids or puppies. If you do not hold down your foot, they will go a bit further each time. In the beginning you have power over kids. Unless you don't handle them correctly. They they will get power over you. Each time you give in, they will ask a bit more the next time.
Sure, they will yell and give you a headache for a while, but when you keep your ground, they will respect you and follow your rules.
At this moment the public is not willing to take a stand because they do not like it when the kid whines, so they will just give it what it wants. Great short term solution. Lousy long term one.
They ask me such things all the time and I always refuse. Never had to explain myself, nor was I treated differently from other customers.
The conversations in the last 10-15 years are as follows: ...."
"Do you have a ?"
-No
"Would you like one?"
-No, thank you.
"OK. The total is
The reason these companies want those cards is not to track your each and every step and know to advertise the morning after pill, when you forgot to buy condoms. The real reason is customer binding.
They know that if you have a savings card, you will be more loyal to them then when you are not.
This works for enough people to make it profitable. One of the places where I worked that used this system, I saw people spending 10EUR more as with the competition, so they would get their star, uh, points with the worth of 10 cents if that.
Once people have a savings card, they often even stop to look at the competition, because in their mind, they save with their points and disregard the fact that they spend more.
You will most likely go to another place in a heartbeat and THAT is what they want to prevent.
Also do not forget that this is talking about large numbers of customers. Once you start caring for each individual customer, you are either very exclusive and expensive or very bankrupt.
Reminds me of two American girls where saying 'I love your English accent." They were nice looking and obviously flirting with the guy. He responded:
"Accent? That is how you are SUPPOSED to speak it."
Keep pointing at them and telling how they are spying on us. That way it keeps the attention away how we are also spying on us and them.
Nuke the entire planet from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
It is even harder for the medical sector. How can they say we need medicine for paranoia? After all, we ARE being followed.
Perhaps that is why we are not allowed soft drugs. It does not make us paranoia. It makes us see the truth.
So is sentient important or how close they are to us? Perhaps you mean both.
So if we get proof that they are NOT sentient, then we can go on using them as test subjects?
If you want to protect them, tell it how it is: they LOOK too much like us on the outside. I am sure you are well aware that pigs are also often used, because they resemble people in many ways, yet they do not look like us (and they produce bacon) so that is less problematic for many.
As long as you are aware that it is a social issue, fight your battle that way. Making it a technical one (They are sentient. They are our closest relative.) will make you vulnerable to attacks on that part that you might loose and with that your whole battle.
It is evolution, not intelligent design. This means that there is no plan. Only afterward can you say why something did happen.
Because that is the standard where he lives? Programmers should write programs that consider reality. Reality should not change because you are unable to program
They could have gone with just 419 and 421 and leave out the box number altogether. There are even places that have NO house number and that often is a problem as well.
Sure, people will then enter a 1, but in reality it is sloppy coding that causes people to enter the wrong data.
For me it isn't. I have not had contact with transgenders (as far as I know) but I have with people who did not confirm with the standard that the majority of people have.
e.g. a friend of mine came out to me as being lesbian and she was clearly disappointed in my reaction. I said something like "So?" or "Good for you.".
So just because the majority does not accept it right away, do not assume that nobody can. For me it is not difficult at all. The fact that you think that only people who went to the same situation can understand it, is YOUR problem. You make it difficult to be understood, because you assume that nobody understands you.
I do not make the difference between people, so why do you do it?
Almost? You are so cute,
Signed: Omar Muhammed
In Belgium you must be male or female. You still get maternity leave as a male.
You do make a good point in that it is society. So it is just a social issue that has nothing to do with changes that need to be done in a database.
Leaving out the gender will not take away the discrimination. Women or men will still be discriminated against. People will identify them by their first name. Take that away? Then they will be discriminated against when they walk into the building.
So I would say that anybody should be able to identify him/her/itself as they please and to stop the discrimination part. No discrimination on gender, age, color of their skin, religion, country of birth, country of origin, profession, ...
Optional is not an option in Belgium due to the law.
Where I work, we have customers and send those customers letters. The majority of our clients wants to get the "Dear Mr. John Doe" as start.
When we get the customer, we put the data in the database when we get official proof.
OTOH sometimes things change. Their address changes. Then we just do that change in our database, as soon as we get official proof.
If they change their name, we change their name in the database when we get official proof.
And when they change their gender, we change it as soon as we get official proof.
I see nothing that is to be ashamed about, nor anything that should be explained. Just show me your that your old ID needs an update and we do it as required by law.
From a social point, it might be hard for some, but I am sure, this is the easy part for those who have done the gender change. At least in Belgium where I live it is not that difficult. I have explained what they needed to do to several already and if anything I hear almost disappointment of how this is just like a change of address to me.
From a technical side I see absolutely no problem. If the law adds options next to M and F, we just add them. At this moment the law requires people to be either male or female. Change the law and we will add T for Transgender, H for Hermaphrodite, N for None, U for Unknown and what not. Obviously you will need to change the output of the letters we send as well.
For others with an old database, it might be a challenge to even add a third option if they have it in binary in their system. e.g. 0 for male and 1 for female. Or if it is in digits and there will be more then 10 options. e.g. now 0 is unknown, 1 is male and 2 is female.
So to me this whole issue is a non-issue.
In Belgium you can still send a telegram.
So no idea where this idea comes from that it isn't available anywhere anymore. If Belgium has it and even has International AND Intercontinental prices, there must be at least two other countries that have it.