Why is it that every arrangement between two people that even remotely has the possibility of money changing hands must be a viable way to support a spouse and two children?
Even the majority of the ghettos and Appalachia enjoy a standard of living that, by historic standards, is not poor. The average poor person in the industrialized world is considered a victim primarily because they don't have opportunities for leisure and middle class goods and services, not because they are living on the razor's edge.
Bring a peasant from any continent circa 1500 to our poor communities and they would probably have to be pulled off of the first person who insisted that there was any level of parity between their experience of poverty. Even the average monarch would be awed at how the poor have emergency room access to medicine that not even the richest men of his time could afford.
A law requiring the automatic dismissal from employment of any police officer in Utah who fails to report criminal conduct by colleagues to the local district attorney.
Even if that were the case, it's still outrageous that teachers apparently feel they are required to report obvious spelling errors and that the police feel they are worth investigating. At any point someone could have said "this is stupid, it's clearly a mistake, let's not waste time and money or cause unnecessary grief for this family", but no one had the guts. This is what happens when you create a climate of fear, where if some kid decides to go to Syria because J1hadi2011 told him to his teachers get blamed for not spotting it.
Terraced and terrorist don't sound that much alike, unless you pronounce them kinda like George W. Bush, perhaps. Now here's the thing you're missing. What if the kid's father really is a terrorist and the kid is scared out of his mind about what his dad and friends are up to? At 10, any school kid should know what the word "terrorist" looks on paper and sounds like when spoken if they live in the English-speaking world. It's right up there with the word "pedophile" with only deaf people who've been living in caves their whole lives having an excuse to say "what does that word mean?"
How about as an official at ICE you do something more productive like bust some people employing illegal immigrants. You know, what your day job ordinarily entails, not pontificating about the Internet.
If they seem more of a hobbyist, I would give them a VB.NET cookbook and a copy of the express IDE. The reason why is that VB.NET will hold their hand and that will lead to one of two outcomes if they're the type that is at least warm to the field: either they'll get sick of that hand holding and want something better or they'll realize it's just a tool for them. In the latter case, don't worry. They may go into a field where programming is a supporting skill, but not something they need to be good at on a serious level to succeed.
If they seem a lot more serious, I'd choose Groovy. WHT, you're probably thinking. Groovy? Here's why:
1. Groovy has many of the advantages of Python and Ruby in terms of rapid feedback and coding cycle. 2. Groovy can effortlessly move between a simple scripting language and a full Java replacement. 3. Groovy has a mature tool chain in IntelliJ, Gradle and Maven for serious work later. 4. Groovy occupies a really interesting niche that makes learning Java, JavaScript and Ruby later really, really fast for a beginner.
Humanity will be quite capable of exterminating itself in space as well. What is needed is a spiritual and religious revival where men actually fear the eternal consequences of their actions again. Religion will be what saves us from this because only religion can provide the eternal carrot and stick necessary to not only make most people behave, but incentivize them to regulate with civility those who won't in ways that endanger the public.
"I want them to go as far as their dreams may take them. And, unfortunately because of long historic discrimination in the areas of gender, we can't be assured of that."
A lot of women also want to be able to be stay at home moms, supported by a husband on a single income. The effect of driving down wages in our field means it's that much harder for any woman married to a man in our field to have that option. What our economic policies mean for a lot of women in general is that should they want to give up their career, they can't, because cheap labor is more important than economic flexibility.
It is believed that modern society in the West developed by the upper-middle and upper classes' excess kids effectively outbreeding the lower classes over hundreds of years, resulting in gains in health, IQ and longer time preferences. That's a fusion of nature and nurture reinforcing one another.
What have we done for the last 2 generations? We've inverted it with the more intelligent having fewer and fewer kids. Now we have an economy where getting a good job increasingly depends on biological factors that are not being selected for in our reproductive habits as they once were, resulting in the virtuous cycle of the previous centuries becoming a vicious feedback cycle.
I guess this is how the long term "revenge" for the crusades will happen.
Between the death of Mohammed and the time of the First Crusade, the following happened:
1. The Caliphate invaded and destroyed the Persian Empire. [Much conversion by the sword of Zoroastrians] 2. The Caliphate took control of over 50% of the Byzantine Empire. [Mass conversion by the sword of Christians] 3. The Caliphate conquered the Iberian peninsula and attempted to conquer the Merovingian Empire in modern day France. 4. All throughout that period and well into the Renaissance, Muslim pirates and raiders took huge numbers of slaves from Southern Europe and coastal territories as far as Iceland.
So no, not revenge. Just a series of efforts by the Muslim world to expand rather violently.
And after that period we have the annexation of much of Eastern Europe, Lepanto, Vienna, need I go on? Anyone who goes "oh noes, teh Crusades" about anyone other than the poor Orthodox Greeks is an ignoramus.
If someone gets arrested for child neglect, what relief does this law provide? I doubt it would, but I would like to see it do two things:
1. Provide for both civil and criminal relief against the police. 2. Provide for civil relief against the anonymous caller, including a provision that allows the police to be sued if they don't take reasonable means to ascertain the identity of the caller.
Anonymous callers should not be anonymous. Many times, it's malicious people claiming to be good samaritans. They need to be sued into bankruptcy, not protected.
"Girls don't see other girls programming," Microsoft explained in 2013, "so they just don't know that it's available to them."
I think any commentary I add is likely to just detract from the awesomely stupid essence of that last quote. They don't know it's available to them? What the hell does that even mean?
Meanwhile, a mob of 1,000 men sexually assault over 100 women on NYE in public and the authorities are mostly dithering about teaching said immigrants to respect the rules.
So please, spare us the bullshit about how Germans respect the rules. What we see is a Germany that on rules strains gnats while swallowing camels.
Until some politician like this claims "harassment" because their malicious tweets are permanent parts of the public record. Never mind the fact that a lot of politicians could stand to take a heaping dose of "harassment" for the garbage that they spew and do on a regular basis. When the right one, probably a liberal democrat, crybullies Twitter hard enough, they'll pull the plug.
Because that's what they do. This is a site that banned Milo Yiannopoulos for a while, but has never touched Randi Harper's accounts despite the fact that the former is a journalist and the latter a female troll so bad that a major open source community was willing to risk opprobrium by asking her to leave.
The NSA were regularly skipping the FBI and sending ICE a bucket list of profiles from online communications showing non-citizens engaging in support for anti-American activities. Unfortunately, they have no intention of using these powers to streamline the removal of hostile, foreign elements from our soil. Their focus is primarily on domestic malcontents and criminals, all of whom are having their constitutional rights trampled to not upset foreigners. And when the feds aren't trampling theirs, they are stepping on ours in the name of protecting the "open society."
Here's a little fact the elites and chattering classes hate. Anti-terrorism is not that hard intellectually. It involves a few basic premises:
1. Control your effing borders. 2. Control who you allow to enter legally at ports of entry. 3. Keep tabs on the people you let into the country. 4. When a foreigner starts showing any meaningful hostility, kick them the hell out of your country. They're not a citizen, they have absolutely no right to speak quasi-seditious rhetoric and expect to be treated like a citizen railing against their government. 5. If anyone, citizen or non-citizen, starts doing stuff like taking to the pulpit to exhort the believers to wage acts of violence, arrest them, charge them with sedition and lock their ass up in a dungeon. If they're a foreigner, deport them no matter what will happen to them on their voyage home. It's not our problem. If they didn't want to spend the next five years being used as a training dummy by Syrian interrogators, then they should have had some basic courtesy in dealing with the host society that let them take refuge.
A person I met long ago and really liked, and wife to Alan Cox. Not anyone unreasonable. Still driven out of the community.
Everything you said could have just as easily been said about people like Brendan Eich, who've been told "there is no place for someone with views like yours in our community." You want inclusivity? Then practice it on everything, including ideology. Until then, you are worse than people like weev because at least they admit that they reject "equality" and "inclusion" as ideals. You reject it on ideology, then someone else is free to reject it wherever they please. It really is an all-or-nothing proposition.
Let insurance companies raise the premiums 100-300% and let government programs bill back the cost of the coverage to every source of incoming including food stamps.
The FAA has no jurisdiction over hobby drones in my neighborhood. Those drones cannot fly high enough to even risk an incident with interstate air travel or the military. The US Constitution affords no such authority to the federal government in such matters and there is no nexus which can be stretched to create one. It's like justifying the drug laws on "smoking weed impacts interstate commerce, so the feds can get involved." Well, no, smoking locally grown weed in the same municipality or state or flying a drone that never actually interferes with interstate travel of goods and people happens entirely within a state's borders and the US Constitution affords almost no jurisdiction in such cases.
I really don't. They are the only company that could do something like the Atrix lapdock and make it work really well. In fact, the sanest thing for them to do would be to put together a beast of a phone and sell the dock at cost to business customers. Once docked, all of the touch stuff fades away into a full blown Windows 10 desktop experience complete with extra USB ports, wired ethernet, HDMI output, you name it. If they wanted to be really slick, just make the phone pluggable like a PCMCIA card into the dock itself so no one even knows it's a dock.
John Deer, most car companies, and other big name product vendors that have gone increasingly "computerized" have taken the view that you have at best a "perpetual license" to the software that runs your machine. The fact is that it works in bigger industries only because of the relative benevolence of the companies involved. However, what are you going to do when your self-driving car is 10 years old and needs updates? You're going to have to buy a new one because they may have switched out all of the underlying hardware, firmware and even the embedded OS by then.
Most people don't want nuance on the extent they own the goods they buy. This horse shit about you owning the physical properties, but licensing the software that is essential to its function is going to drive a deeper wedge between the public and IP than the corporate sector realizes. When your property rights become antithetical to mine, guess whose rights I'm going to choose...
Our society will probably never accept the principle that pedestrians are responsible for their own safety around cars. Whenever I drive near shopping areas, people just walk out like they own the road. Even at a cross walk, they often just start walking without any regard for courtesy or the laws of physics. Heck, even the weather often doesn't stop them such as thinking that maybe it's not wise to jump out in front of any driver when the road is wet or icy. A lot of people are just too stupid to be trusted around human-driven vehicles. Self-driving vehicles will kill them left and right, and so the law will have to be firmly on the side of the vehicle.
And here's a serious question. Why wasn't that Minnesota politician who doxxed her complaining constituents banned from Twitter? It made national headlines because she was taking a self-righteous "herp derp, take that you racists" view of perfectly sane, non-racist complaints that she was siding with Black Lives Matter as they planned to disrupt access to an airport and the Mall of America.
Then she takes her account private. You want to drive these trolls off social media? When they do stuff like that, block them from privacy. Make every dirty, rotten thing they've said public.
"The end state is fairly obvious — every light, every doorknob will be connected to the internet." The term for this is "ambient computing." There will obviously be a transition period — perhaps the so-called internet of things is just an early phase of that transition. But with powerful chips and sensors becoming incredibly cheap, Andreessen's scenario seems possible. I guess it's time to get cracking on those security and privacy concerns.
And when that happens, expect trolling and hacking to become extremely serious, no intent involved felonies. If a troll messes with my house and I get robbed, I want the SOB put away for life. Literally. You mess with people, your lulz should get you not one iota of mercy. Expect if we ever get halfway to this that countries that treat it lightly will be lucky if all they suffer is sanctions.
It should be illegal to publish a naked photo of someone else without their written consent. Want to make porn? Fine, sign a consent form for the publication of your own naked pictures, and get paid for it. Publish a naked photo of your ex and can't produce the consent form? Go to jail, and get added to the sex offenders registry. Watching non-consensual porn? You get to pay a big fine too.
They already made a porn, and she consented to being part of it. Softcore or hardcore, doesn't matter. What she did was consent to the production (especially if she took the shots herself) and distributed to them. At this point, the only thing legally relevant is copyright claims in the film. However, the unholy alliance of feminists and white knights sees yon damsel in distress and must sally forth to do battle with the dragon which is an ex-boyfriend who might distribute it at some point in the future.
How about this? You don't want to star in a porno, don't bloody make a porno of any sort, and send it to someone else. I swear, people today are absolutely barking mad in their demand for privilege and naivete about the nature of the Internet and humanity. Up next: don't want to be convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime when your ex gets pangs of conscience? Don't commit one.
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Even the majority of the ghettos and Appalachia enjoy a standard of living that, by historic standards, is not poor. The average poor person in the industrialized world is considered a victim primarily because they don't have opportunities for leisure and middle class goods and services, not because they are living on the razor's edge.
Bring a peasant from any continent circa 1500 to our poor communities and they would probably have to be pulled off of the first person who insisted that there was any level of parity between their experience of poverty. Even the average monarch would be awed at how the poor have emergency room access to medicine that not even the richest men of his time could afford.
A law requiring the automatic dismissal from employment of any police officer in Utah who fails to report criminal conduct by colleagues to the local district attorney.
Terraced and terrorist don't sound that much alike, unless you pronounce them kinda like George W. Bush, perhaps. Now here's the thing you're missing. What if the kid's father really is a terrorist and the kid is scared out of his mind about what his dad and friends are up to? At 10, any school kid should know what the word "terrorist" looks on paper and sounds like when spoken if they live in the English-speaking world. It's right up there with the word "pedophile" with only deaf people who've been living in caves their whole lives having an excuse to say "what does that word mean?"
How about as an official at ICE you do something more productive like bust some people employing illegal immigrants. You know, what your day job ordinarily entails, not pontificating about the Internet.
If they seem more of a hobbyist, I would give them a VB.NET cookbook and a copy of the express IDE. The reason why is that VB.NET will hold their hand and that will lead to one of two outcomes if they're the type that is at least warm to the field: either they'll get sick of that hand holding and want something better or they'll realize it's just a tool for them. In the latter case, don't worry. They may go into a field where programming is a supporting skill, but not something they need to be good at on a serious level to succeed.
If they seem a lot more serious, I'd choose Groovy. WHT, you're probably thinking. Groovy? Here's why:
1. Groovy has many of the advantages of Python and Ruby in terms of rapid feedback and coding cycle.
2. Groovy can effortlessly move between a simple scripting language and a full Java replacement.
3. Groovy has a mature tool chain in IntelliJ, Gradle and Maven for serious work later.
4. Groovy occupies a really interesting niche that makes learning Java, JavaScript and Ruby later really, really fast for a beginner.
Humanity will be quite capable of exterminating itself in space as well. What is needed is a spiritual and religious revival where men actually fear the eternal consequences of their actions again. Religion will be what saves us from this because only religion can provide the eternal carrot and stick necessary to not only make most people behave, but incentivize them to regulate with civility those who won't in ways that endanger the public.
A lot of women also want to be able to be stay at home moms, supported by a husband on a single income. The effect of driving down wages in our field means it's that much harder for any woman married to a man in our field to have that option. What our economic policies mean for a lot of women in general is that should they want to give up their career, they can't, because cheap labor is more important than economic flexibility.
It is believed that modern society in the West developed by the upper-middle and upper classes' excess kids effectively outbreeding the lower classes over hundreds of years, resulting in gains in health, IQ and longer time preferences. That's a fusion of nature and nurture reinforcing one another.
What have we done for the last 2 generations? We've inverted it with the more intelligent having fewer and fewer kids. Now we have an economy where getting a good job increasingly depends on biological factors that are not being selected for in our reproductive habits as they once were, resulting in the virtuous cycle of the previous centuries becoming a vicious feedback cycle.
Between the death of Mohammed and the time of the First Crusade, the following happened:
1. The Caliphate invaded and destroyed the Persian Empire. [Much conversion by the sword of Zoroastrians]
2. The Caliphate took control of over 50% of the Byzantine Empire. [Mass conversion by the sword of Christians]
3. The Caliphate conquered the Iberian peninsula and attempted to conquer the Merovingian Empire in modern day France.
4. All throughout that period and well into the Renaissance, Muslim pirates and raiders took huge numbers of slaves from Southern Europe and coastal territories as far as Iceland.
So no, not revenge. Just a series of efforts by the Muslim world to expand rather violently.
And after that period we have the annexation of much of Eastern Europe, Lepanto, Vienna, need I go on? Anyone who goes "oh noes, teh Crusades" about anyone other than the poor Orthodox Greeks is an ignoramus.
If someone gets arrested for child neglect, what relief does this law provide? I doubt it would, but I would like to see it do two things:
1. Provide for both civil and criminal relief against the police.
2. Provide for civil relief against the anonymous caller, including a provision that allows the police to be sued if they don't take reasonable means to ascertain the identity of the caller.
Anonymous callers should not be anonymous. Many times, it's malicious people claiming to be good samaritans. They need to be sued into bankruptcy, not protected.
I've seen in a long time:
I think any commentary I add is likely to just detract from the awesomely stupid essence of that last quote. They don't know it's available to them? What the hell does that even mean?
Meanwhile, a mob of 1,000 men sexually assault over 100 women on NYE in public and the authorities are mostly dithering about teaching said immigrants to respect the rules.
So please, spare us the bullshit about how Germans respect the rules. What we see is a Germany that on rules strains gnats while swallowing camels.
Until some politician like this claims "harassment" because their malicious tweets are permanent parts of the public record. Never mind the fact that a lot of politicians could stand to take a heaping dose of "harassment" for the garbage that they spew and do on a regular basis. When the right one, probably a liberal democrat, crybullies Twitter hard enough, they'll pull the plug.
Because that's what they do. This is a site that banned Milo Yiannopoulos for a while, but has never touched Randi Harper's accounts despite the fact that the former is a journalist and the latter a female troll so bad that a major open source community was willing to risk opprobrium by asking her to leave.
The NSA were regularly skipping the FBI and sending ICE a bucket list of profiles from online communications showing non-citizens engaging in support for anti-American activities. Unfortunately, they have no intention of using these powers to streamline the removal of hostile, foreign elements from our soil. Their focus is primarily on domestic malcontents and criminals, all of whom are having their constitutional rights trampled to not upset foreigners. And when the feds aren't trampling theirs, they are stepping on ours in the name of protecting the "open society."
Here's a little fact the elites and chattering classes hate. Anti-terrorism is not that hard intellectually. It involves a few basic premises:
1. Control your effing borders.
2. Control who you allow to enter legally at ports of entry.
3. Keep tabs on the people you let into the country.
4. When a foreigner starts showing any meaningful hostility, kick them the hell out of your country. They're not a citizen, they have absolutely no right to speak quasi-seditious rhetoric and expect to be treated like a citizen railing against their government.
5. If anyone, citizen or non-citizen, starts doing stuff like taking to the pulpit to exhort the believers to wage acts of violence, arrest them, charge them with sedition and lock their ass up in a dungeon. If they're a foreigner, deport them no matter what will happen to them on their voyage home. It's not our problem. If they didn't want to spend the next five years being used as a training dummy by Syrian interrogators, then they should have had some basic courtesy in dealing with the host society that let them take refuge.
Everything you said could have just as easily been said about people like Brendan Eich, who've been told "there is no place for someone with views like yours in our community." You want inclusivity? Then practice it on everything, including ideology. Until then, you are worse than people like weev because at least they admit that they reject "equality" and "inclusion" as ideals. You reject it on ideology, then someone else is free to reject it wherever they please. It really is an all-or-nothing proposition.
Let insurance companies raise the premiums 100-300% and let government programs bill back the cost of the coverage to every source of incoming including food stamps.
The FAA has no jurisdiction over hobby drones in my neighborhood. Those drones cannot fly high enough to even risk an incident with interstate air travel or the military. The US Constitution affords no such authority to the federal government in such matters and there is no nexus which can be stretched to create one. It's like justifying the drug laws on "smoking weed impacts interstate commerce, so the feds can get involved." Well, no, smoking locally grown weed in the same municipality or state or flying a drone that never actually interferes with interstate travel of goods and people happens entirely within a state's borders and the US Constitution affords almost no jurisdiction in such cases.
I really don't. They are the only company that could do something like the Atrix lapdock and make it work really well. In fact, the sanest thing for them to do would be to put together a beast of a phone and sell the dock at cost to business customers. Once docked, all of the touch stuff fades away into a full blown Windows 10 desktop experience complete with extra USB ports, wired ethernet, HDMI output, you name it. If they wanted to be really slick, just make the phone pluggable like a PCMCIA card into the dock itself so no one even knows it's a dock.
John Deer, most car companies, and other big name product vendors that have gone increasingly "computerized" have taken the view that you have at best a "perpetual license" to the software that runs your machine. The fact is that it works in bigger industries only because of the relative benevolence of the companies involved. However, what are you going to do when your self-driving car is 10 years old and needs updates? You're going to have to buy a new one because they may have switched out all of the underlying hardware, firmware and even the embedded OS by then.
Most people don't want nuance on the extent they own the goods they buy. This horse shit about you owning the physical properties, but licensing the software that is essential to its function is going to drive a deeper wedge between the public and IP than the corporate sector realizes. When your property rights become antithetical to mine, guess whose rights I'm going to choose...
Our society will probably never accept the principle that pedestrians are responsible for their own safety around cars. Whenever I drive near shopping areas, people just walk out like they own the road. Even at a cross walk, they often just start walking without any regard for courtesy or the laws of physics. Heck, even the weather often doesn't stop them such as thinking that maybe it's not wise to jump out in front of any driver when the road is wet or icy. A lot of people are just too stupid to be trusted around human-driven vehicles. Self-driving vehicles will kill them left and right, and so the law will have to be firmly on the side of the vehicle.
And here's a serious question. Why wasn't that Minnesota politician who doxxed her complaining constituents banned from Twitter? It made national headlines because she was taking a self-righteous "herp derp, take that you racists" view of perfectly sane, non-racist complaints that she was siding with Black Lives Matter as they planned to disrupt access to an airport and the Mall of America.
Then she takes her account private. You want to drive these trolls off social media? When they do stuff like that, block them from privacy. Make every dirty, rotten thing they've said public.
And when that happens, expect trolling and hacking to become extremely serious, no intent involved felonies. If a troll messes with my house and I get robbed, I want the SOB put away for life. Literally. You mess with people, your lulz should get you not one iota of mercy. Expect if we ever get halfway to this that countries that treat it lightly will be lucky if all they suffer is sanctions.
Because threatening to shoot someone is soooo much worse than threatening to beat them with a bat or stab them if they don't comply.
They already made a porn, and she consented to being part of it. Softcore or hardcore, doesn't matter. What she did was consent to the production (especially if she took the shots herself) and distributed to them. At this point, the only thing legally relevant is copyright claims in the film. However, the unholy alliance of feminists and white knights sees yon damsel in distress and must sally forth to do battle with the dragon which is an ex-boyfriend who might distribute it at some point in the future.
How about this? You don't want to star in a porno, don't bloody make a porno of any sort, and send it to someone else. I swear, people today are absolutely barking mad in their demand for privilege and naivete about the nature of the Internet and humanity. Up next: don't want to be convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime when your ex gets pangs of conscience? Don't commit one.