I'd call them what they want to be called, "pro-life," if only there was any evidence that this were an accurate description of their stance - say, because it tended to coincide with other "pro-life" beliefs, such as opposition to war and capital punishment, or advocacy for healthcare for people who can't pay for it. Overwhelmingly, this hasn't been the case. If you are the exception to the rule, then wear your 'pro-life' badge with pride, I guess. But the vast majority of the kooks with giant fetuses on picket signs don't warrant such a generous phrase. And, mysteriously, the distinction between different kinds of stem cells is overwhelmingly lost on them - the very people to whom the difference should matter most.
I'm sure you know very well that the definition of "human being" is what the whole argument is about, so using that term as if it were just a universally agreed-upon fact, does you no favours.
That would be why there are so many nations in the world which managed to lift themselves up to first world status by eschewing the ideas of labor laws, right?
History is replete with examples of libertarian paradises where the job-creators built wealth unfettered by regulation and the fruits of their labor enriched everyone! Why, there's Somalia, and Libya, and...
the free market is infallible; whatever ends up happening is BY DEFINITION THE FAIREST OUTCOME POSSIBLE And you can take my word for it, 'cuz I'm above the poverty line!
Reasonably sure that no one in the world abbreviates it like that. In fact, Googling "dow jones" and "doja" together, brings up... This exact news story. And no others.
No, I feel the same way. I've long since hit the point of 'semantic saturation' with that image, so the visceral shock reaction is virtually gone. In its place is the knowledge that, out there, there are millions of people who played the same gross-each-other-out adolescent games as I did.
I kind of miss the guy who posted the "brown rope" scat-porn stories about Pres. Obama too.
Do you really wonder which entity has the ability to make sure you "go f___ yourself": 1) a private security company or airline, or 2) a department of the federal government? Because I don't.
Some people also think this exact thing about net neutrality. Yet, private telcos have gotten pretty comfortable with telling people to fuck themselves - and by and large, their customers are acquiescing and fucking themselves.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that Rep. Mica's plan would not replace the TSA with a "free market" entity, but rather an "american market" entity which, as you say, is nothing like the same thing. So while my comment doesn't work as a criticism of the entire concept of free trade, as a criticism of privatization within the American market it stands.
The private firm, too, can tell you to go fuck yourself.
B-b-but then you can go to the snazzy new competing airport across the street which was built with zero startup capital (and does not actually exist), and they'll give you a backrub and a blowjob and then pay YOU to fly with them and then the "go fuck yourself" airline will go out of business for lack of customers, because competition always leads to the best deal for the consumer!
This argument would be more convincing if market competition in America actually worked the way free-market fundamentalists swear it works.
BTW, there's also a theory about how when the government gropes you, this is supposed to hurt their poll numbers and therefore their job security. You might even call it the central idea of representative democracy. Unfortunately that mechanism is just as broken as the "competition" one.
I had the sneaking suspicion that this was more about solidarity-among-a-nearly-extinguished-people, and less about Azteca supremacy, but it's generally really hard to get Slashdotters to see the difference between racism-as-a-personal-conviction-that-this-is-better-than-that, and racism-as-a-power-dynamic-played-out-by-millions-of-people-who-may-not-even-be-racists-individually.
So I figure, give the baby his bottle and accept, provisionally, the notion that racism is just racism regardless of the particular background power imbalance it happens against. Even with that proviso, it seems pretty obvious that a little group like La Raza, even if they win the "racist in intent" competition, is hopelessly outclassed in the "racist in effect" department.
that's an interesting philosophical question - is an openly racist lobby more racist than a deniably-racist loby whose power and proliferation dwarfs the first?
I've just noticed an inverse relationship between the sentiment "Racism is so overplayed" and the condition of actually, y'know, being a victim of racism.
Wake me when members of formerly victimized groups declare that racism has ended as often as members of the privileged group do. By and large, they haven't yet.
Don't quote me but I think the deal is, you don't have to wait until the remote server has committed the writes, but the data has to be locked at the remote node until that's complete. So to make a write, you don't have to wait for the entire data block to be written, but you do have to wait one RTT's worth of latency in order to complete the locking operation. Which is faster, but still not -fast-.
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Let the stegano/cryptography arms race commence. Sorry, Iran, but the Church-Turing thesis guarantees you're not going to win this one.
("anti-choice"? Really? Grow up already).
I'd call them what they want to be called, "pro-life," if only there was any evidence that this were an accurate description of their stance - say, because it tended to coincide with other "pro-life" beliefs, such as opposition to war and capital punishment, or advocacy for healthcare for people who can't pay for it. Overwhelmingly, this hasn't been the case. If you are the exception to the rule, then wear your 'pro-life' badge with pride, I guess. But the vast majority of the kooks with giant fetuses on picket signs don't warrant such a generous phrase. And, mysteriously, the distinction between different kinds of stem cells is overwhelmingly lost on them - the very people to whom the difference should matter most.
I'm sure you know very well that the definition of "human being" is what the whole argument is about, so using that term as if it were just a universally agreed-upon fact, does you no favours.
I know you're right, but can't you let me have my optimistic delusions for a few minutes first?
Maybe now we're one step closer to ending the ridiculous interaction between medical research and anti-choice politics.
By all means, vote 'em out if that's what you want to do. That generally isn't what is meant when people "expect restitution", though.
So let me get this straight: You're in favour of free speech, and that's why you want four men punished for writing a paper? Do I have that right?
That would be why there are so many nations in the world which managed to lift themselves up to first world status by eschewing the ideas of labor laws, right?
History is replete with examples of libertarian paradises where the job-creators built wealth unfettered by regulation and the fruits of their labor enriched everyone! Why, there's Somalia, and Libya, and...
the free market is infallible; whatever ends up happening is BY DEFINITION THE FAIREST OUTCOME POSSIBLE
And you can take my word for it, 'cuz I'm above the poverty line!
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOJA)
Reasonably sure that no one in the world abbreviates it like that. In fact, Googling "dow jones" and "doja" together, brings up... This exact news story. And no others.
Me too. The WikiLeaks mission is an important and productive one and I applaud and support them.
But Julian himself is just so goddamned hard to like.
depending on how your workplace regards close-up photos of rather good-looking bikini crotches.
No, I feel the same way. I've long since hit the point of 'semantic saturation' with that image, so the visceral shock reaction is virtually gone. In its place is the knowledge that, out there, there are millions of people who played the same gross-each-other-out adolescent games as I did.
I kind of miss the guy who posted the "brown rope" scat-porn stories about Pres. Obama too.
(campaign finance is just one mechanism by which the flow can be reversed to politicians - bureaucrats. FYI.)
warning: goatse
Do you really wonder which entity has the ability to make sure you "go f___ yourself": 1) a private security company or airline, or 2) a department of the federal government? Because I don't.
Some people also think this exact thing about net neutrality. Yet, private telcos have gotten pretty comfortable with telling people to fuck themselves - and by and large, their customers are acquiescing and fucking themselves.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that Rep. Mica's plan would not replace the TSA with a "free market" entity, but rather an "american market" entity which, as you say, is nothing like the same thing. So while my comment doesn't work as a criticism of the entire concept of free trade, as a criticism of privatization within the American market it stands.
for certain definitions of "out of business"
The private firm, too, can tell you to go fuck yourself.
B-b-but then you can go to the snazzy new competing airport across the street which was built with zero startup capital (and does not actually exist), and they'll give you a backrub and a blowjob and then pay YOU to fly with them and then the "go fuck yourself" airline will go out of business for lack of customers, because competition always leads to the best deal for the consumer!
This argument would be more convincing if market competition in America actually worked the way free-market fundamentalists swear it works.
BTW, there's also a theory about how when the government gropes you, this is supposed to hurt their poll numbers and therefore their job security. You might even call it the central idea of representative democracy. Unfortunately that mechanism is just as broken as the "competition" one.
Mod parent up. Shark safety is perhaps the most neglected aspect of power grid design.
I had the sneaking suspicion that this was more about solidarity-among-a-nearly-extinguished-people, and less about Azteca supremacy, but it's generally really hard to get Slashdotters to see the difference between racism-as-a-personal-conviction-that-this-is-better-than-that, and racism-as-a-power-dynamic-played-out-by-millions-of-people-who-may-not-even-be-racists-individually.
So I figure, give the baby his bottle and accept, provisionally, the notion that racism is just racism regardless of the particular background power imbalance it happens against. Even with that proviso, it seems pretty obvious that a little group like La Raza, even if they win the "racist in intent" competition, is hopelessly outclassed in the "racist in effect" department.
that's an interesting philosophical question - is an openly racist lobby more racist than a deniably-racist loby whose power and proliferation dwarfs the first?
I've just noticed an inverse relationship between the sentiment "Racism is so overplayed" and the condition of actually, y'know, being a victim of racism.
Wake me when members of formerly victimized groups declare that racism has ended as often as members of the privileged group do. By and large, they haven't yet.
Don't quote me but I think the deal is, you don't have to wait until the remote server has committed the writes, but the data has to be locked at the remote node until that's complete. So to make a write, you don't have to wait for the entire data block to be written, but you do have to wait one RTT's worth of latency in order to complete the locking operation. Which is faster, but still not -fast-.
The rockets required to achieve escape velocity are correspondingly harder to design?