It's threads like this that give me hope for/.. Regardless of the outcome of the debate, it was civil and well-written. Thanks to both of you for that.
The LGBT issue effects a tiny percentage of the population. Blowing up this issue into an extinction level event shows how warped the proles are becoming. The majority including myself do not give a shit about this LGBT issue. I am not against anything the LGBT movement is doing but frankly there are more important issues playing out today.
Who gives a flying fuck what percentage of the population is LGBT? They are ALL citizens, and they ALL deserve the same Constitutional rights that you do. And who the fuck do you think you are determining which issues are "more important" for those people whose rights are being abrogated? You can bet your ass that if it were YOUR rights being denied you'd be out there marching, as well you should be.
Unfortunately, the scientific community hasn't actually quantified these properties.
Well HELL son, why don't we just run that experiment! We can dump, say 50 billion tons a year into the planet that we all live on and see what happens! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
I mean, wouldn't Russian puppet Trump already know about the rigging and all that since it's rigged in his favor?
Of course not. Need to know applies. The only thing President Trump needs to know is that the FSB has tapes of him pissing on prostitutes or details of some shady deal with some Russian mobster or another or whatever it is they have on him.
Uhhh... what's wrong with a standardized voting system? I get that managing elections is delegated to each state under the Constitution, and I agree with that, but how is that mutually exclusive from having a comprehensive, standardized set of voting systems that are verifiably secure? If this election has taught us anything, it's that we seriously need to get up off our asses and modernize how we vote, or others will do it for us (not modernize, but VOTE)
Hard to pay taxes without a valid Social Security number.
You haven't thought this through very much. I assure you it is quite easy to pay taxes; the cash register is even kind enough to include it in the amount you pay!...or did you think that income taxes were the only taxes people pay? As for income taxes, well, they does get more complicated. You see, illegals pay MORE in income taxes than you or I, since taxes are withheld just like everyone else but they can never file for a refund.
Finally, why do you give a flying fuck about what Pedro does with his hundred bucks when Rothschild is hiding a couple billion?I presume you're aware that all of the Pedros on the planet still have less than half of what the Rothschilds have?
This is why dog whistles are so useful: it allows apologists to respond with straw men and whine about everything BUT their racism. I never claimed "everyone is a racist". While I'm glad you're willing to accept the obvious racism, if you want to talk about issues, talk about issues. I certainly never stopped you. Which issues did you want to discuss? Or did you simply want to whine that you have somehow been prevented from talking about issues because someone else is pointing out something entirely unrelated?
Finally, no, that is FAR from "all I have". How much time do you have?
If the activities alleged to have been performed by the company by the write-up require a license, such requirement in itself is is the scandal that needs to be fought by ACLU, EFF (the social media parts), and others.
ACLU? EFF? Requiring that a private security company carry appropriate licenses and insurance is not a violation of the Constitution, so the ACLU doesn't care and certainly not anything that the EFF seeks to protect. What's next for you? Sending the fire department to investigate murders? Sending the meat inspectors to check out buildings?
Government is not the solution, government is the problem
Corporations can also be problematic, often times FAR more problematic. Things like regulatory capture are at their root corporate corruption, not government corruption. In any event, approaching the question of whether government or corporate control over some resource and/or market from a dogmatic "government is the problem!" attitude betrays ideology, not intellect.
It's the reason the current taxi system sucks so bad that Uber and Lyft have a viable market in the first place.
Are there any government regulations prohibiting innovation in the taxi market? Then what is your basis for making the claim that "government is the reason the taxi system sucks"?
It helps me. For all you know, it helps others with something they hadn't c0nsidered as well when they get presented with this same question. There's a saying that nobody ever changed their mind I an internet debate, which is often untrue. Minds get changed all the time -- but minds change in slow motion, and it's almost never admitted to at the time it happens.
And just so we're clear on the answer to your question of "why bring it up"? --
Because "bringing it up" is how we turn "wrong" into "right" in this country. "Shutting it down" or, in your case, "ridiculing the majority who have been disenfranchised just because you personally like the result of said disenfranchisement" is what a child does, not a citizen.
Well goodness me you must be the winner of the Slashdot "Missing the Point in the Most Asinine and Condescending Way Possible" award. You really should be careful about throwing around the "dumber by the minute" insult, given that you apparently don't realize the point of this isn't to call out the obvious reality that any kid who graduated third grade will know.
We KNOW how the EC works. We know why it exists, and we know who it empowers and disenfranchises. Those of us who have our heads outside of our asses know also know that it failed us. That isn't how Democracies are supposed to work, nor is it how any other Democracy on the planet functions.
It's one thing to have a quirky little system that gives some measure of protection to those who live in less populated states; it is quite another to disenfranchise ~3 MILLION people (approximately the population our FIVE smallest states put together) and give power to the candidate who lost the election by ~2.2% of the total votes. It's one thing to protect the minority; it's quite another to give them the equivalent of five new states worth of voting power.
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It's threads like this that give me hope for /.. Regardless of the outcome of the debate, it was civil and well-written. Thanks to both of you for that.
So they tore them down! See! TEMPORARY!
I wish you weren't AC so I could mod you up. But you are, and I don't waste mod points on cowards.
No porn like bible porn! A little dry perhaps, but definitely inventive!
Who gives a flying fuck what percentage of the population is LGBT? They are ALL citizens, and they ALL deserve the same Constitutional rights that you do. And who the fuck do you think you are determining which issues are "more important" for those people whose rights are being abrogated? You can bet your ass that if it were YOUR rights being denied you'd be out there marching, as well you should be.
Well HELL son, why don't we just run that experiment! We can dump, say 50 billion tons a year into the planet that we all live on and see what happens! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Of course not. Need to know applies. The only thing President Trump needs to know is that the FSB has tapes of him pissing on prostitutes or details of some shady deal with some Russian mobster or another or whatever it is they have on him.
Uhhh... what's wrong with a standardized voting system? I get that managing elections is delegated to each state under the Constitution, and I agree with that, but how is that mutually exclusive from having a comprehensive, standardized set of voting systems that are verifiably secure? If this election has taught us anything, it's that we seriously need to get up off our asses and modernize how we vote, or others will do it for us (not modernize, but VOTE)
Please burn your computer and forget you ever thought you knew anything about programming. People like you are why we can't have nice things.
"computers we have these days" = -1020451
"overwhelming amount of computing tasks" = -9.1093822E+14
"well within reason" = "OMG shoot you now"
"C++ or any other fast and obtuse language." = "OMG shoot ME now"
You haven't thought this through very much. I assure you it is quite easy to pay taxes; the cash register is even kind enough to include it in the amount you pay! ...or did you think that income taxes were the only taxes people pay? As for income taxes, well, they does get more complicated. You see, illegals pay MORE in income taxes than you or I, since taxes are withheld just like everyone else but they can never file for a refund.
Finally, why do you give a flying fuck about what Pedro does with his hundred bucks when Rothschild is hiding a couple billion?I presume you're aware that all of the Pedros on the planet still have less than half of what the Rothschilds have?
This is why dog whistles are so useful: it allows apologists to respond with straw men and whine about everything BUT their racism. I never claimed "everyone is a racist". While I'm glad you're willing to accept the obvious racism, if you want to talk about issues, talk about issues. I certainly never stopped you. Which issues did you want to discuss? Or did you simply want to whine that you have somehow been prevented from talking about issues because someone else is pointing out something entirely unrelated?
Finally, no, that is FAR from "all I have". How much time do you have?
MAGA is a euphemism for Make America White Again.
You are a turribul capitalist! Turrrrrrible!!!
ACLU? EFF? Requiring that a private security company carry appropriate licenses and insurance is not a violation of the Constitution, so the ACLU doesn't care and certainly not anything that the EFF seeks to protect. What's next for you? Sending the fire department to investigate murders? Sending the meat inspectors to check out buildings?
Because States have licensing requirements for security companies? TigerSwan wasn't licensed?
First of all, I call bullshit on your "paid roommate" lie. Paid by who? Cui bono?
Second of all, protest is protected under the First Amendment. Private security firms are not.
Third. for all we know, you're a paid troll for TigerSwan.
Corporations can also be problematic, often times FAR more problematic. Things like regulatory capture are at their root corporate corruption, not government corruption. In any event, approaching the question of whether government or corporate control over some resource and/or market from a dogmatic "government is the problem!" attitude betrays ideology, not intellect.
Are there any government regulations prohibiting innovation in the taxi market? Then what is your basis for making the claim that "government is the reason the taxi system sucks"?
President Kim Jong Trump? Is that you again?
It helps me. For all you know, it helps others with something they hadn't c0nsidered as well when they get presented with this same question. There's a saying that nobody ever changed their mind I an internet debate, which is often untrue. Minds get changed all the time -- but minds change in slow motion, and it's almost never admitted to at the time it happens.
And just so we're clear on the answer to your question of "why bring it up"? --
Because "bringing it up" is how we turn "wrong" into "right" in this country. "Shutting it down" or, in your case, "ridiculing the majority who have been disenfranchised just because you personally like the result of said disenfranchisement" is what a child does, not a citizen.
Well goodness me you must be the winner of the Slashdot "Missing the Point in the Most Asinine and Condescending Way Possible" award. You really should be careful about throwing around the "dumber by the minute" insult, given that you apparently don't realize the point of this isn't to call out the obvious reality that any kid who graduated third grade will know.
We KNOW how the EC works. We know why it exists, and we know who it empowers and disenfranchises. Those of us who have our heads outside of our asses know also know that it failed us. That isn't how Democracies are supposed to work, nor is it how any other Democracy on the planet functions.
It's one thing to have a quirky little system that gives some measure of protection to those who live in less populated states; it is quite another to disenfranchise ~3 MILLION people (approximately the population our FIVE smallest states put together) and give power to the candidate who lost the election by ~2.2% of the total votes. It's one thing to protect the minority; it's quite another to give them the equivalent of five new states worth of voting power.
What's this? A cogent argument? On slashdot?!? You never seem to have mod points when you need them...
Did you just use "slashdot" and "moderation" in the same sentence? You MUST be new here.
Thank you for elegantly proving your own point.
Because in some countries in the world, winning the popular vote means you actually win the fucking election...
I'm guessing this move coincides with the launch of President Trump's latest startup: LAPTOP RENTALS!