"Stupid users," I thought. "I have to protect them from themselves." I poured back another shot of bourbon. The moonlight crept through the window of my office. I do a lot of my work at night.
It had been a quiet day. Some broad had come in begging for me to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Unfortunately, I couldn't take the case. Her husband was a buddy of mine from the force. I told her to look on Facebook. Joe never was too bright, like most of the earthly scum I surround myself with. He'd probably put pictures up of his latest fling expecting Facebook to handle the privacy settings. I couldn't rat Joe out but it sure as hell wasn't my job to protect him from himself. Or was it. I didn't care, I wanted this shrill dame off my back so I could drink alone in peace.
Besides, only working girls can afford my rates and that's because my rates for working girls are usually on a sliding scale. That is to say, a scale of one through ten. The higher you fall on the scale, the cheaper the work is. The lower you fall, the cheaper the worker is. I struck a match for a cigar before I remembered I was out of cubans. I watched the match burn out before looking down at the melting ice in my empty glass. My senses were close to being unstimulated except for the way the wet ice caught the light and dazzled my drunken mind. Two things were clear. I needed a smoke, and Zuckerberg was behind this. Only one of those things I felt like dealing with right now.
Think of all the money we could save if we all lived in pods. ACTUALLY how about all the money we could save if we were dead. Plus, no more worrying about death! What's the point anyway, right? Let's bring everything back to the universal nihilistic conclusion that every single way we interact with the world is ultimately toxic but WHO CARES because we are doomed from birth to spend our entire lives slowly dying in an uncaring universe that will burn out after aeons of darkness leaving only absolute nothingness, or nothing but nothing and maybe not even that.
Hey you! We're supposed to be wagging our dicks around about how we don't use Facebook! Cmon get with the program we can't shit up this superintelligent thread about typical web based network traffic patterns and why websites that have reached a certain threshold of popularity are stupid and the users, cattle.
You are calling him racist for pointing out the rape epidemic in Africa? Are we just not allowed to talk about it? Some sort of moral relativity/the third world is always right sort of thing?
Your feeble mind can't process the difference between the colloquial meaning of homeless and the literal meaning. You are literally a child when it comes to parsing statements. You're completely pathetic.
You have no idea what words mean. You believe the term "homeless" may apply to the renting population and not just to the people who have absolutely nowhere to call 'home'. Have you ever even been in an urban environment? Your knowledge of both the rental market and the homeless population indicates "no". You're completely pathetic.
No offense but I've never heard it by anti-science nuts. I've only ever heard it in the context of someone saying "look at how religious leaders forced scientists to believe the Earth was flat despite how obvious it is that it isn't". It's always been touted as a "religion burning reason at the stake" sort of thing every time someone has brought it up, at least when I was going to school.
Syphilis? Come on man, this isn't the 19th century. You get syphilis you realize it and see a doctor. Some antibiotics later and you are cured. How can you compare that to HIV? Herpes would suck but it's common and controllable.. It doesn't result in slowly wasting away taking 100s of pills a day as you are treated like some sort of leper who is already dead. HPV I believe is already covered by a recent vaccine and hepatitis would suck but you can get it in other ways then sex anyway. HIV is the winner for current most devastating global disease also tied to sex and I don't even know how you could argue otherwise.
You are seriously hating on a generally regarded as amazing spec overhaul for the open web standard just because a corporation has the forethought to actually implement the spec properly leaving competitors forced to do the same? Would you rather IE6 was still on top? Are you completely insane?
Maybe your opinion is just an opinion which precludes you from correctly generalizing large groups of people how's that for a far out possibility.. just because you believe that anyone who does't abide by the GPL or similar standards in their daily life is patently evil doesn't make it so and your view point is very biased and extreme.
There are a lot of people who profit off of their work. This is commercial software. It is not evil. There are a lot of people who believe that restricting rights on something supposedly free for use is hypocritical and hilariously sick and filthy. We want to laugh in-between bouts of vomiting. This is everyone (like me) who releases various pet projects under MIT style licenses because we don't believe "freedom" is synonymous with multipage lawyer speak documents that restrict usage in anyway since many of us have faced documents similar when applying to jobs where someone believes it is their right to tell us that everything we do is theirs. To be completely honest, the 1984-style joke of a license for sociopaths is the GPL because it is pretty much "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" personified. I make something. I claim my copyright due to being the works' creator. I say "everyone, here is something I just made, go crazy and have fun I hope it can help anyone and everyone who might find use for it". I don't have 20 pages of "yes and hrmph quite verily twixt to be only copied inasmuch that such blah blah blah blah lawyer bullshit YOU CAN USE THIS FOR ANYTHING BUT NOT REALLY;)"
Please don't use clinical terminology to make your opinioned argument sound professional ps you don't what a sociopath is defined as so don't link to Wikipedia articles while throwing the term around to pretend that you do
It's also the second one except that investors know how to cash in (advertising). Still, the creators aren't thinking in terms of real money though, just cool ideas that attract a userbase. The money should sort itself out if there is a userbase that is significant.
This is pretty much the equivalent of looking at your bank account balance and then looking around your room for things you could sell. Except that while you are mentally finalizing your decision to sell your couch and a bunch of kitchen appliances and some other odds and ends while desperately telling yourself you'll be fine and that you will be maintaining the same standard of living you are accustomed to, you don't have hundreds of millions of people across thousands of miles erupting in the streets and millions more watching the world burn in fear and awe from the sidelines.
As someone who suffered through this curfew as a Philadelphia born and raised citizen (it isn't new btw), I never would compare being forced to stay inside of a home or in the company of adults when outside after a certain hour as being incarcerated. How melodramatic and completely off base. 15 year old me couldn't go outside at 4am by myself. Boo hoo.
It boils down to the fact that enforcing a curfew for minors makes sense because they make up a group of people who are currently menacing society and not having reached the age of majority, are subject to having certain rights taken away. The age of majority is accepted and agreed upon as a legitimate reason to restrict or alter rights. Under 18 and you may get off much easier for smoking marijuana in public but you also can't vote and if your peers are all out destroying things after midnight you may have to suffer the consequences.
Don't even think about comparing it to racism because that implies racism has a biological grounding when it doesn't. Being a child, however, actually is a universally distinguishable biological trait which can lead to stupider decisions getting made, hence the legitimacy of using it as a decider and discriminator.
Yeah this isn't about their safety. It's about the safety of everyone else lol. I agree with the overprotective thing, but trust me, these kids have parents who only care about beating them. Every day on the public bus to school I'd see their mom's beat the shit out of these 5 year old for giggling or talking. All they do is embrace this violent attitude on how to raise children despite the fact these people are pushed out the door by their single moms ASAP. The only parental involvement is getting beat up. These kids can do whatever they want and it leads to this terrible cycle of violence and poverty because no one is looking out for them. These aren't suburban problems. This isn't a well off kid throwing a house party in high school. This is the side of American adolescence that isn't nostalgic; the side people like you probably don't even know exists. It is adolescence where there is no one for you except some people who want you to shoot at random bus passengers to prove your worth and then maybe you'll have friends and protection. You probably never met your dad and your mom doesn't care what you do as soon as you are 10, possibly younger, probably since birth. Then these kids take the streets and do what the article is about because there is nothing else to do. I empathize with their situation but at that point, no, the police do have the right to ban all children from wandering the streets of the city of Philadelphia at night. This isn't a suburban area curfew. This is a crime ridden city filled with criminal minors who consistently pose a threat to society in the after hours. You have to change your perspective because there are no helicopter parents or suburban morals in this situation.
PS: The curfew isn't new. I remember it from when I was in high school which was 5-9 years ago now. And it wasn't new then either. They are just enforcing more now probably but I have friends who got caught after curfew. They got called parents and a citation. They don't get sent to guatanamo.
You can blame them because they are fighting innocent people. People like you think that 9/11 was legitimate because of Palestine or some other nebulous "innocent people dying is good because of this idealistic PC viewpoint I have". The middle class, the people living in the neighborhoods being attacked, are being raped by the angry poor and the greedy rich. The middle class is collapsing in America; we are being cut loose by the wealthy and fed to the poor who think that not being dirt broke makes you bourgeois. Meanwhile the middle class is the only class that isn't (pragmatically speaking) a societal leech. It's actually pretty disgusting and as much as I empathize with these people for having so much rage I can't forgive them and I am not strong enough to not be angry at them for what they are doing to where I grew up and forcing me to worry about my parents who are hardworking people who don't deserve this crap as they near retirement. They don't deserve animals (I don't mean this in a slur way, sometimes in Center City, the main antagonist has been heroin addled white crusties, I mean animals as in people with no human emotion left over) roaming outside their house. They also don't deserve their financial security threatened by the state of America as perpetuated by the rich.
Um excuse me, I did go to public school. But it was a magnet school which is a free public school for kids who have motivation. It's representative of a broken system but I was picked on enough for my entire middle school experience. I'm sorry that 10 year old me and my parents didn't think I needed to die because some other kids might feel bad if I abandoned them or whatever the hell it is you are implying.
But yeah I bet you went to a private school and just are so happy that you can try to talk shit. I went public in the actual city of Philadelphia (no suburban bullshit).
I don't think it comes off as racist. Only on the internet, where racism has taken a meaning of pointing out problems within a certain community, would it be considered racism. Back in the real world, you pretty much described what a Philly flash mob is and likely what a good part of the reason is that they occur, specifically with poor black youth. It's not racist, it's a depressing reality: the majority of a flash mob (if not the entirety) is poor and black for a reason and not by chance. It's because of these issues that the black community in Philadelphia is dealing with: being raised by no one except some sociopath who was also raised by no one, to bash heads and snatch wallets.
The school system is falling apart meanwhile, we've got a string of terrible superintendents, teachers laid off, when I was in high school 5-9 years ago, there were schools known to be absolute hell holes (I went magnet, my neighborhood school would have probably led to my death) and even now some of these kids apparently were on their way to college but they decide to just participate in this violence? There is clearly something at work here, but that being said there is also no excuse for violence, none of the "white people deserve to get bashed" internet rage is appropriate, especially when most people posting it are white but super far removed from anything close to this because they live in some rich suburb in their parent's house and then act like white people in an urban environment are spoiled children for complaining about these sorts of things.
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"Stupid users," I thought. "I have to protect them from themselves." I poured back another shot of bourbon. The moonlight crept through the window of my office. I do a lot of my work at night.
It had been a quiet day. Some broad had come in begging for me to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Unfortunately, I couldn't take the case. Her husband was a buddy of mine from the force. I told her to look on Facebook. Joe never was too bright, like most of the earthly scum I surround myself with. He'd probably put pictures up of his latest fling expecting Facebook to handle the privacy settings. I couldn't rat Joe out but it sure as hell wasn't my job to protect him from himself. Or was it. I didn't care, I wanted this shrill dame off my back so I could drink alone in peace.
Besides, only working girls can afford my rates and that's because my rates for working girls are usually on a sliding scale. That is to say, a scale of one through ten. The higher you fall on the scale, the cheaper the work is. The lower you fall, the cheaper the worker is. I struck a match for a cigar before I remembered I was out of cubans. I watched the match burn out before looking down at the melting ice in my empty glass. My senses were close to being unstimulated except for the way the wet ice caught the light and dazzled my drunken mind. Two things were clear. I needed a smoke, and Zuckerberg was behind this. Only one of those things I felt like dealing with right now.
Think of all the money we could save if we all lived in pods. ACTUALLY how about all the money we could save if we were dead. Plus, no more worrying about death! What's the point anyway, right? Let's bring everything back to the universal nihilistic conclusion that every single way we interact with the world is ultimately toxic but WHO CARES because we are doomed from birth to spend our entire lives slowly dying in an uncaring universe that will burn out after aeons of darkness leaving only absolute nothingness, or nothing but nothing and maybe not even that.
Facebook is like STDs. Slashdot users have misplaced pride that they will never have to worry about it.
This. This is it. The ultimate Slashdot post. If Slashdot was a person, this would be the beating heart.
Hey you! We're supposed to be wagging our dicks around about how we don't use Facebook! Cmon get with the program we can't shit up this superintelligent thread about typical web based network traffic patterns and why websites that have reached a certain threshold of popularity are stupid and the users, cattle.
You are calling him racist for pointing out the rape epidemic in Africa? Are we just not allowed to talk about it? Some sort of moral relativity/the third world is always right sort of thing?
Your feeble mind can't process the difference between the colloquial meaning of homeless and the literal meaning. You are literally a child when it comes to parsing statements. You're completely pathetic.
You have no idea what words mean. You believe the term "homeless" may apply to the renting population and not just to the people who have absolutely nowhere to call 'home'. Have you ever even been in an urban environment? Your knowledge of both the rental market and the homeless population indicates "no".
You're completely pathetic.
No offense but I've never heard it by anti-science nuts. I've only ever heard it in the context of someone saying "look at how religious leaders forced scientists to believe the Earth was flat despite how obvious it is that it isn't". It's always been touted as a "religion burning reason at the stake" sort of thing every time someone has brought it up, at least when I was going to school.
The ability for a user to explicitly declare permission for something to run at boot regardless of what it may or may not be?
Syphilis? Come on man, this isn't the 19th century. You get syphilis you realize it and see a doctor. Some antibiotics later and you are cured. How can you compare that to HIV? Herpes would suck but it's common and controllable.. It doesn't result in slowly wasting away taking 100s of pills a day as you are treated like some sort of leper who is already dead. HPV I believe is already covered by a recent vaccine and hepatitis would suck but you can get it in other ways then sex anyway. HIV is the winner for current most devastating global disease also tied to sex and I don't even know how you could argue otherwise.
You are seriously hating on a generally regarded as amazing spec overhaul for the open web standard just because a corporation has the forethought to actually implement the spec properly leaving competitors forced to do the same? Would you rather IE6 was still on top? Are you completely insane?
Maybe your opinion is just an opinion which precludes you from correctly generalizing large groups of people how's that for a far out possibility.. just because you believe that anyone who does't abide by the GPL or similar standards in their daily life is patently evil doesn't make it so and your view point is very biased and extreme.
There are a lot of people who profit off of their work. This is commercial software. It is not evil. ;)"
There are a lot of people who believe that restricting rights on something supposedly free for use is hypocritical and hilariously sick and filthy. We want to laugh in-between bouts of vomiting. This is everyone (like me) who releases various pet projects under MIT style licenses because we don't believe "freedom" is synonymous with multipage lawyer speak documents that restrict usage in anyway since many of us have faced documents similar when applying to jobs where someone believes it is their right to tell us that everything we do is theirs. To be completely honest, the 1984-style joke of a license for sociopaths is the GPL because it is pretty much "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" personified. I make something. I claim my copyright due to being the works' creator. I say "everyone, here is something I just made, go crazy and have fun I hope it can help anyone and everyone who might find use for it". I don't have 20 pages of "yes and hrmph quite verily twixt to be only copied inasmuch that such blah blah blah blah lawyer bullshit YOU CAN USE THIS FOR ANYTHING BUT NOT REALLY
Please don't use clinical terminology to make your opinioned argument sound professional ps you don't what a sociopath is defined as so don't link to Wikipedia articles while throwing the term around to pretend that you do
It's also the second one except that investors know how to cash in (advertising). Still, the creators aren't thinking in terms of real money though, just cool ideas that attract a userbase. The money should sort itself out if there is a userbase that is significant.
Mos Eisley joke
Actually this troll is right. It's up there with extended ellipses after every statement...................
This is pretty much the equivalent of looking at your bank account balance and then looking around your room for things you could sell. Except that while you are mentally finalizing your decision to sell your couch and a bunch of kitchen appliances and some other odds and ends while desperately telling yourself you'll be fine and that you will be maintaining the same standard of living you are accustomed to, you don't have hundreds of millions of people across thousands of miles erupting in the streets and millions more watching the world burn in fear and awe from the sidelines.
As someone who suffered through this curfew as a Philadelphia born and raised citizen (it isn't new btw), I never would compare being forced to stay inside of a home or in the company of adults when outside after a certain hour as being incarcerated. How melodramatic and completely off base. 15 year old me couldn't go outside at 4am by myself. Boo hoo.
These kids generally don't have good parents. Some would argue they really don't have any parents in a lot of cases.
It boils down to the fact that enforcing a curfew for minors makes sense because they make up a group of people who are currently menacing society and not having reached the age of majority, are subject to having certain rights taken away. The age of majority is accepted and agreed upon as a legitimate reason to restrict or alter rights. Under 18 and you may get off much easier for smoking marijuana in public but you also can't vote and if your peers are all out destroying things after midnight you may have to suffer the consequences.
Don't even think about comparing it to racism because that implies racism has a biological grounding when it doesn't. Being a child, however, actually is a universally distinguishable biological trait which can lead to stupider decisions getting made, hence the legitimacy of using it as a decider and discriminator.
Yeah this isn't about their safety. It's about the safety of everyone else lol. I agree with the overprotective thing, but trust me, these kids have parents who only care about beating them. Every day on the public bus to school I'd see their mom's beat the shit out of these 5 year old for giggling or talking. All they do is embrace this violent attitude on how to raise children despite the fact these people are pushed out the door by their single moms ASAP. The only parental involvement is getting beat up. These kids can do whatever they want and it leads to this terrible cycle of violence and poverty because no one is looking out for them. These aren't suburban problems. This isn't a well off kid throwing a house party in high school. This is the side of American adolescence that isn't nostalgic; the side people like you probably don't even know exists. It is adolescence where there is no one for you except some people who want you to shoot at random bus passengers to prove your worth and then maybe you'll have friends and protection. You probably never met your dad and your mom doesn't care what you do as soon as you are 10, possibly younger, probably since birth. Then these kids take the streets and do what the article is about because there is nothing else to do. I empathize with their situation but at that point, no, the police do have the right to ban all children from wandering the streets of the city of Philadelphia at night. This isn't a suburban area curfew. This is a crime ridden city filled with criminal minors who consistently pose a threat to society in the after hours. You have to change your perspective because there are no helicopter parents or suburban morals in this situation.
PS: The curfew isn't new. I remember it from when I was in high school which was 5-9 years ago now. And it wasn't new then either. They are just enforcing more now probably but I have friends who got caught after curfew. They got called parents and a citation. They don't get sent to guatanamo.
You can blame them because they are fighting innocent people. People like you think that 9/11 was legitimate because of Palestine or some other nebulous "innocent people dying is good because of this idealistic PC viewpoint I have". The middle class, the people living in the neighborhoods being attacked, are being raped by the angry poor and the greedy rich. The middle class is collapsing in America; we are being cut loose by the wealthy and fed to the poor who think that not being dirt broke makes you bourgeois. Meanwhile the middle class is the only class that isn't (pragmatically speaking) a societal leech. It's actually pretty disgusting and as much as I empathize with these people for having so much rage I can't forgive them and I am not strong enough to not be angry at them for what they are doing to where I grew up and forcing me to worry about my parents who are hardworking people who don't deserve this crap as they near retirement. They don't deserve animals (I don't mean this in a slur way, sometimes in Center City, the main antagonist has been heroin addled white crusties, I mean animals as in people with no human emotion left over) roaming outside their house. They also don't deserve their financial security threatened by the state of America as perpetuated by the rich.
Um excuse me, I did go to public school. But it was a magnet school which is a free public school for kids who have motivation. It's representative of a broken system but I was picked on enough for my entire middle school experience. I'm sorry that 10 year old me and my parents didn't think I needed to die because some other kids might feel bad if I abandoned them or whatever the hell it is you are implying.
But yeah I bet you went to a private school and just are so happy that you can try to talk shit. I went public in the actual city of Philadelphia (no suburban bullshit).
I don't think it comes off as racist. Only on the internet, where racism has taken a meaning of pointing out problems within a certain community, would it be considered racism. Back in the real world, you pretty much described what a Philly flash mob is and likely what a good part of the reason is that they occur, specifically with poor black youth. It's not racist, it's a depressing reality: the majority of a flash mob (if not the entirety) is poor and black for a reason and not by chance. It's because of these issues that the black community in Philadelphia is dealing with: being raised by no one except some sociopath who was also raised by no one, to bash heads and snatch wallets.
The school system is falling apart meanwhile, we've got a string of terrible superintendents, teachers laid off, when I was in high school 5-9 years ago, there were schools known to be absolute hell holes (I went magnet, my neighborhood school would have probably led to my death) and even now some of these kids apparently were on their way to college but they decide to just participate in this violence? There is clearly something at work here, but that being said there is also no excuse for violence, none of the "white people deserve to get bashed" internet rage is appropriate, especially when most people posting it are white but super far removed from anything close to this because they live in some rich suburb in their parent's house and then act like white people in an urban environment are spoiled children for complaining about these sorts of things.