Well, yes, you should expect these kinds of lawsuits because unlike many regulations, the ADA was written specifically to require them. Rather than enforce regulation or have inspectors looking for violations, it is only triggered BY a civil suit. It was a stroke of genius on the part of lawmakers since the disabled are already socially shamed for being disabled, and then you can pile more shame on them if they try to actually enforce the rules designed to protect them.
The ADA was written in such a way that it is only triggered BY lawsuits. The government refuses to actually inspect or regulate, but instead drops the burden on the disabled community to enforce it themselves. It was a brilliant piece of anti-disabled propaganda slid into the law since it was intended to inspire just the type of attitude that you have.
Yeah, we normal people really stuck it to those degenerate disabled people this time! It is their own fault for being poor, otherwise the market would cater to them.
I recall this being a thing with law enforcement in England. I have read stories of police seizing people's computers for various investigation reasons and then returning them in ruined states, even when no charges are filed or the party is exonerated. So it could simply be part of the LEO culture there, destroying people's computers when they annoy you is just a socially accepted (within agencies) way to thumb their nose at citizens.
What a dim view of humanity... Valve is made up of people, and a lot of them are there because they love the field (seriously, in gaming, you can generally get twice the pay going elsewhere), and it would not surprise me if they had a plan to do something like this in place simply because the people themselves care.
That is one of two methods. The other one, Special Airworthiness Certificate (SAC) , is specifically geared towards research and development. Since the requirements around that one focus pretty much on safety requirements, it does not look that onerous given what they are attempting to do.
The internet, where anyone is 5 minutes of research away from being an expert, usually by managing to confirm whatever 'common sense' belief they had going in.
Granted, offline you also have people who take old misconceptions or simplifications, and will fight tooth and nail against anyone about them, even actual experts, but the internet seems to have really amplified the process. It probably does not help that over the last few decades we have REALLY devalued actual expertise on topics. The people most likely to get their ideas repeated are pop versions of their field, people who can create accessible and pandering content rather than dry but actually correct publications.
The US Government does not even care if they do their testing IN the US, the FAA has an category for that (unless they are being VERY negligent). Amazon is just throwing a public hissy fit over not being able to implement drone delivery for commercial purposes. But testing? Perfectly legal right now.
Yeah, but businesses are made up of people, people who will generally have to balance their own priorities and interests against what is good for the company.
I suspect that the only reason America has an 'obsession' with getting STEM rates up is that huge amounts of marketing and rhetoric have gone into the idea that there is a STEM shortage and thus we need more H1-B visas, and those are attractive not due to shortage or skill, but because 'threat of deportation' can be factored into total compensation packages at the expense of pay and benefits.
I had a similiar thought. This kinda throws a wrench in the idea that BTC will lead to tax avoidance becoming so common the fed gives up and abandons income tax because it is SO easy to hide what you are doing.
These people were not exactly noobs, so people can not even claim that it was only because they did not know what they were doing.
True, there is the special case of stores and services which cater exclusively to various religious groups, though they tend to depend on local concentrations of whatever community they serve, creating a regional majority. Though given that any Christian simply has to go a few miles in any direction to be back in a Christian majority region, it is debatable how much restricting the service would impact others. Which is why Christian groups are not sitting and worrying about being barred from Kosher bakeries or Halal meat vendor, and also why such vendors are unlikely to bother discriminating.
This highlights why a supposedly neutral law is de facto discriminatory.
If a business excludes gays, or atheists, or muslims, they lose some business and maybe get a bit of outrage if it gets enough attention, but chances are the effect on their bottom line will be minimal.
If a business excludes Christians, they go out of business.
So while in theory it is religion neutral, in practice, some types of exclusion can be practiced with minimal negative consequences while others are simply not an option for reasons outside the actual words of the law.
I too am rather skeptical. While there is always the possibility of parallel construction, the narrative that they used old fashioned 'pretend to be a recruiter and talk with people' technique seems pretty plausible, which does not require any kind of keylogging or breaking Tor.
Encryption is not new, but it is becoming increasingly accessible to non-technical people, so the sheep buffer of people not using it is starting to dwindle.
Economics is generally a terrible way to try to understand a motivation since, broken down to its roots, it has no value judgements in it. Every economic model or approach takes an outside value preference as an input.
'Useful' is subjective, esp living in a society where our basic needs are so easily met (at least for the type of person who is likely posting here).
While people might wrap up their reasons in something with more authority or social support behind it, ultimately, most projects we do are 'because it is cool'.
Well, a nice high profile one would be the entire McCarthy era, and Hover's infiltration of civil right's organizations under the argument that they were aligned with communists.
Given the low visibility slashdot has today, probably not many if any at all. Slashdot just isn't the major nexus it once was, and using paid shills here would likely not be all that worthwhile.
On the other hand, the US has always had a rather loose interpretation of 'war fighting outside' which allowed for usage on disruptive elements of American society too. How much it is done is a big question though.
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Well, yes, you should expect these kinds of lawsuits because unlike many regulations, the ADA was written specifically to require them. Rather than enforce regulation or have inspectors looking for violations, it is only triggered BY a civil suit. It was a stroke of genius on the part of lawmakers since the disabled are already socially shamed for being disabled, and then you can pile more shame on them if they try to actually enforce the rules designed to protect them.
The ADA was written in such a way that it is only triggered BY lawsuits. The government refuses to actually inspect or regulate, but instead drops the burden on the disabled community to enforce it themselves. It was a brilliant piece of anti-disabled propaganda slid into the law since it was intended to inspire just the type of attitude that you have.
Yeah, we normal people really stuck it to those degenerate disabled people this time! It is their own fault for being poor, otherwise the market would cater to them.
I recall this being a thing with law enforcement in England. I have read stories of police seizing people's computers for various investigation reasons and then returning them in ruined states, even when no charges are filed or the party is exonerated. So it could simply be part of the LEO culture there, destroying people's computers when they annoy you is just a socially accepted (within agencies) way to thumb their nose at citizens.
What a dim view of humanity... Valve is made up of people, and a lot of them are there because they love the field (seriously, in gaming, you can generally get twice the pay going elsewhere), and it would not surprise me if they had a plan to do something like this in place simply because the people themselves care.
Generally the pay when working for medical device companies is pretty good, how in the world are they getting that lousy of programmers?
Oh right, 'cultural compatibility'....
That is one of two methods. The other one, Special Airworthiness Certificate (SAC) , is specifically geared towards research and development. Since the requirements around that one focus pretty much on safety requirements, it does not look that onerous given what they are attempting to do.
The internet, where anyone is 5 minutes of research away from being an expert, usually by managing to confirm whatever 'common sense' belief they had going in.
Granted, offline you also have people who take old misconceptions or simplifications, and will fight tooth and nail against anyone about them, even actual experts, but the internet seems to have really amplified the process. It probably does not help that over the last few decades we have REALLY devalued actual expertise on topics. The people most likely to get their ideas repeated are pop versions of their field, people who can create accessible and pandering content rather than dry but actually correct publications.
The US Government does not even care if they do their testing IN the US, the FAA has an category for that (unless they are being VERY negligent). Amazon is just throwing a public hissy fit over not being able to implement drone delivery for commercial purposes. But testing? Perfectly legal right now.
Yeah, but businesses are made up of people, people who will generally have to balance their own priorities and interests against what is good for the company.
I suspect that the only reason America has an 'obsession' with getting STEM rates up is that huge amounts of marketing and rhetoric have gone into the idea that there is a STEM shortage and thus we need more H1-B visas, and those are attractive not due to shortage or skill, but because 'threat of deportation' can be factored into total compensation packages at the expense of pay and benefits.
BTC promises wealth, which tends to attract people who are not as successful as they believe they should be,.. and they tend to be easy prey.
Or this type of crime is not nearly as 'untraceable' as people (who have never done such a thing) believe it is.
I had a similiar thought. This kinda throws a wrench in the idea that BTC will lead to tax avoidance becoming so common the fed gives up and abandons income tax because it is SO easy to hide what you are doing.
These people were not exactly noobs, so people can not even claim that it was only because they did not know what they were doing.
True, there is the special case of stores and services which cater exclusively to various religious groups, though they tend to depend on local concentrations of whatever community they serve, creating a regional majority. Though given that any Christian simply has to go a few miles in any direction to be back in a Christian majority region, it is debatable how much restricting the service would impact others. Which is why Christian groups are not sitting and worrying about being barred from Kosher bakeries or Halal meat vendor, and also why such vendors are unlikely to bother discriminating.
Hate to break it to you, but homosexuality is not a paraphilia any more than hetrosexuality is. It is not even a sexual practice.
This highlights why a supposedly neutral law is de facto discriminatory.
If a business excludes gays, or atheists, or muslims, they lose some business and maybe get a bit of outrage if it gets enough attention, but chances are the effect on their bottom line will be minimal.
If a business excludes Christians, they go out of business.
So while in theory it is religion neutral, in practice, some types of exclusion can be practiced with minimal negative consequences while others are simply not an option for reasons outside the actual words of the law.
I too am rather skeptical. While there is always the possibility of parallel construction, the narrative that they used old fashioned 'pretend to be a recruiter and talk with people' technique seems pretty plausible, which does not require any kind of keylogging or breaking Tor.
Encryption is not new, but it is becoming increasingly accessible to non-technical people, so the sheep buffer of people not using it is starting to dwindle.
Economics is generally a terrible way to try to understand a motivation since, broken down to its roots, it has no value judgements in it. Every economic model or approach takes an outside value preference as an input.
If an antique car can be classified as 'useful', then so can an antique computer. It can still do all the things a computing machine can do.
'Useful' is subjective, esp living in a society where our basic needs are so easily met (at least for the type of person who is likely posting here).
While people might wrap up their reasons in something with more authority or social support behind it, ultimately, most projects we do are 'because it is cool'.
Well, a nice high profile one would be the entire McCarthy era, and Hover's infiltration of civil right's organizations under the argument that they were aligned with communists.
Given the low visibility slashdot has today, probably not many if any at all. Slashdot just isn't the major nexus it once was, and using paid shills here would likely not be all that worthwhile.
On the other hand, the US has always had a rather loose interpretation of 'war fighting outside' which allowed for usage on disruptive elements of American society too. How much it is done is a big question though.