A lot of the problem is just that 535 people just can't reasonably listen to or properly represent the interests of 300 million (when this system was devised the population was ~3M, ie. 1% of what it is now!)
But increasing the number of lawmakers at the national level by a factor of 100 wouldn't improve anything, it will just result in bigger nosier gridlocks. Perhaps devolving power to more local and regional control would help. Like, the state governments, perhaps.
A TOS is a two-sided contract. It's important, if a company wants to have any credibility, that they clearly define what grounds will lead them to delete content hosted on their site.
They are not obligated to explain, but people who might potentially want to use them as a host site aren't obligated to use them if their TOS seems arbitrary or even ideologically bent. Potential users aren't even obligated to be quiet about the reasons they choose to not use a host site.
Free Speech is not a government-granted privledge. Certainly there are guidelines and rules for Government that prescribe how it cannot encroach on Free Speech, but Free Speech is a stand-alone entity and github can certainly encroach on it.
We've gotta get beyond the idea that our freedoms descend down from Government to us.
Something doesn't need to be 'bound to the First Amendment' to relate to the concept of 'Free Speech.' In fact, Free Speech can exist in regions of the world entirely unbound by the US Constitution.
Thus, private entities can foster or thwart the concept of Free Speech.
Just detecting the paper bag and differentiating it from a rabbit is really kinda irrelevant. What is inside the paper bag? It could be rabbit food (harmless little pellets) or it could be a trailer hitch. History shows that this is relevant.
You're thinking of worgen, not a warg. And he probably just has the market cornered on netherweave cloth on his server and won't stop undercutting the other tailors on netherweave bag prices.
They should definitely throw the book at him. Or at a minimum isolate him from being able to purchase Rune Thread.
No, I think it's more complex than that. Mitnick is a narcissist. He's actually a pretty successful one, as shown by the fact that we're discussing him in this thread. Him being mentioned in an otherwise interesting discussion turns it into a fanboy thread. And while that might not bother everybody, it dumbs down the discussion.
Can't Google just register as a Telecom or Cable company? Why isn't that the obvious solution? Why should they be allowed to leverage their massive presence as an outsider to the Telecom/Cable industry to force their way into that market.
Since it's trivial to engage in that sort of 'Hate Speech' anonymously, it's probably cranks and even opposition figures posting that crap to pollute the otherwise reasonable opinions being expressed on said forums. People who oppose free speech can easily pollute a forum with crap they have no belief in whatsoever.
Since when did Advocacy become a crime? I'd rather have people advocating the things you listed right out in plain view, easy to identify, and avoid. Otherwise you end up with the Fever Swamp phenomenon. Granted, they're likely cowards who would never express said views in public.
The articles and comments on these sites are mostly very
harsh, distastefully racist, and written anonymously.
It might do some good to expose the people making that sort of post. Because, often enough, the 'over the top' anonymous comments on ANY forum are posted by opposition-trolls whose whole point is to make the other side look bad to bystanders who read the forum comments.
When you go to Conservative forums, there are obvious fake troglodyte racist posts made anonymously by people on field trips from Daily Kos, etc. Usually they're easy to spot, because the Kossites have such a cartoonish view of what the people they disagree with really are. I am sure this kind of opposition trolling happens on all forums of every political persuation; any tool that helps identify and eliminate this is good.
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Also, no child should go to sleep at night hungry.
Flowers, and I'm not talking about unattractive flowers, should spring up on all free patches of earth outside.
Universal Love should take hold, and the birds should sing.
So, no guns on school property, and doping stations throughout the school, to supplicate any students who are unhappy.
But increasing the number of lawmakers at the national level by a factor of 100 wouldn't improve anything, it will just result in bigger nosier gridlocks. Perhaps devolving power to more local and regional control would help. Like, the state governments, perhaps.
Be careful. That chip is labeled as being a 74LS245 but it's really a PIC16F84 programmed to act as one.
That would be a waste of good weed. You wanna imbibe in settings where the buzz will enhance, not in environments that suck to begin with.
Naw. Christ hasn't been dead long enough for his remains to have fossilized. The probability of his remains being fossilized are pretty remote, too.
Trolls have feelings too.
And that word 'retard' you used.... umm...
Actually, they believe they have a right to post entries in the Academic Course Catalog, to lure in new victims.
A TOS is a two-sided contract. It's important, if a company wants to have any credibility, that they clearly define what grounds will lead them to delete content hosted on their site.
They are not obligated to explain, but people who might potentially want to use them as a host site aren't obligated to use them if their TOS seems arbitrary or even ideologically bent. Potential users aren't even obligated to be quiet about the reasons they choose to not use a host site.
Free Speech is not a government-granted privledge. Certainly there are guidelines and rules for Government that prescribe how it cannot encroach on Free Speech, but Free Speech is a stand-alone entity and github can certainly encroach on it.
We've gotta get beyond the idea that our freedoms descend down from Government to us.
Code must be boring and have no relation to culture or commentary on everyday life.
"That's Not Funny' really does rule the world.
Something doesn't need to be 'bound to the First Amendment' to relate to the concept of 'Free Speech.' In fact, Free Speech can exist in regions of the world entirely unbound by the US Constitution.
Thus, private entities can foster or thwart the concept of Free Speech.
And the act of them not giving you their address doesn't encroach on your free speech.
You're free to spray-paint that on your own house, though.
Just detecting the paper bag and differentiating it from a rabbit is really kinda irrelevant. What is inside the paper bag? It could be rabbit food (harmless little pellets) or it could be a trailer hitch. History shows that this is relevant.
You're thinking of worgen, not a warg. And he probably just has the market cornered on netherweave cloth on his server and won't stop undercutting the other tailors on netherweave bag prices.
They should definitely throw the book at him. Or at a minimum isolate him from being able to purchase Rune Thread.
The only explanation I can find would be if the two cases of ministers being murdered by random madmen over the last decades were arranged by the U.S.
Naw. It's alien mind-control spores. They're putting them in the lime jello.
No, I think it's more complex than that. Mitnick is a narcissist. He's actually a pretty successful one, as shown by the fact that we're discussing him in this thread. Him being mentioned in an otherwise interesting discussion turns it into a fanboy thread. And while that might not bother everybody, it dumbs down the discussion.
I thought Chelsea was a Clinton.
What did Bill do THIS time???
I thought Denmark was a yurpean country, and everybody knows everything is better in yurrup.
Can't Google just register as a Telecom or Cable company? Why isn't that the obvious solution? Why should they be allowed to leverage their massive presence as an outsider to the Telecom/Cable industry to force their way into that market.
I take it your name is Soren Ceror and you were the 171st Soren Ceror to sign up for a gmail account.
Do you seriously think what GP described is a Usian problem?
Do you know why Barack Obama changed his mind about the NSA after he was elected? Do you know why Diane Feinstein doesn't care what they do?
Oh, come on now. Apply Occams Razor.
Diane Feinstein is just totally out of touch stupid.
Barack Obama is a serial narcissist.
Both surround themselves with yes-people who will support anything they believe.
There's no need to weave a grand conspiracy to explain them.
Since it's trivial to engage in that sort of 'Hate Speech' anonymously, it's probably cranks and even opposition figures posting that crap to pollute the otherwise reasonable opinions being expressed on said forums. People who oppose free speech can easily pollute a forum with crap they have no belief in whatsoever.
Since when did Advocacy become a crime? I'd rather have people advocating the things you listed right out in plain view, easy to identify, and avoid. Otherwise you end up with the Fever Swamp phenomenon. Granted, they're likely cowards who would never express said views in public.
The articles and comments on these sites are mostly very
harsh, distastefully racist, and written anonymously.
It might do some good to expose the people making that sort of post. Because, often enough, the 'over the top' anonymous comments on ANY forum are posted by opposition-trolls whose whole point is to make the other side look bad to bystanders who read the forum comments.
When you go to Conservative forums, there are obvious fake troglodyte racist posts made anonymously by people on field trips from Daily Kos, etc. Usually they're easy to spot, because
the Kossites have such a cartoonish view of what the people they disagree with really are. I am sure this kind of opposition trolling happens on all forums of every political persuation; any tool that helps identify and eliminate this is good.