If you're forced to drag your ass all the way down to the polling place, I'm betting more people will actually vote for the candidate/ballot measures that reflect their views. Forcing someone to vote for any candidate when they believe in none of them (Lebowski) is unethical, so if you really, really want to protest all of them, this is your option.
It's also a useful thing to measure: you can see just how much of the population essentially cast a vote of no confidence for the whole system.
When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who attempt to trifle with this bird.
The difference is, everyone is issued a social security number at birth (note that I'm saying present the number, not the card), and it sidesteps the need to present a picture ID. Requiring a picture ID keeps many poor people from voting.
I have a solution: raise wages, shrink the work week. It worked after the Great Depression. Minimum wage came into existence, work weeks were reduced from 60 hours to closer to 40, and you got a blue eagle label for your business if you complied, to add social pressure.
The idea that everyone needs to be working 40 hours a week in our modern, increasingly automated world is absurd. Productivity has done nothing but go up for forty years. Remember the dream of a world where people could pursue hobbies and have more leisure time, away from work, because we designed machines to do the hard work for us? It's basically here, but we're all operating under this crazy mentality that we should be working eight hours a day, five days a week, if not more. And you know what more free time means? More time for people to innovate and invent. There are tons of brilliant people out there with a great idea for a new product or new business, but they don't have the time to pursue it.
That's not how universal basic income works. Everyone gets enough for cost of living (food, shelter, utilities). If you want more than that, it's up to you.
Why? Name and social security number. Done.
Voter fraud is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent anyway. It would be even harder to commit if you go to vote, and the person at the polls helpfully informs you that you already did.
Yes, in our already overcrowded prison system, with disproportionately high populations of minorities, surely we should incentivize death sentences when there's such a high demand for transplantable organs.
There are skeletons and zombies, and some sounds that could be scary, but nothing an 8 year old couldn't handle. They won't learn java directly unless they get into mods, which I think a lot of kids do when they see how powerful mods can be. They may, however, learn about basic logic gates, as one of the materials in the game functions like basic circuitry. Plus, it's just a great game for encouraging creativity, and teaching kids how to set long term goals and meet them.
I learned some BASIC in high school because it meant I could program my TI-83 in class. For fun, I wrote a program that would solve triangles, and a few more that would output dirty limericks.
But I also wrote a program that would solve some physics problems that I didn't really want to learn. My physics teacher figured that if I were smart enough to write the program, I should be allowed to use the program in class.
That'll motivate kids.
That's great for places like England, but...
Look, the United States is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the US.
I was unaware that the moral thing to do was accept bullying.
I bet "The Great Dictator" upset Hitler, but in the US, it was the second most popular movie of 1941. I guess that's not comparably, since the terrorists won, and we all live in constant fear.
“You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.”
That's... not really the same. Average people should not be under surveillance at all times.
Cops are different. They're special; they're tasked with upholding the law and keeping the peace. They have more power than an average person, so they need to be under more scrutiny than the average person.
George R.R. Martin Explains Why There's No Gay Sex In His Novels
One of the most noticeable differences between George R.R. Martin's books and the Game of Thrones television adaptation was the fact that the latter features fairly explicit homosexuality, especially between Loras and Renly. Talking to the Edinburgh Book Festival, Martin explained why he left that out of the books.
Basically, it boils down to the fact that Martin's books are written with tight third-person narration, and that means Martin can only show scenes that one of his viewpoint characters personally witnesses.
As the Guardian goes on to explain:
Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books. "A television show doesn't have those limitations," he said. "Will that change? It might. I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women."
But he added: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them.
"It is not a democracy. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey [the sadistic boy king] would have died much earlier than he did."
At least he's leaving the door open for having one of the viewpoint characters in the last couple novels be someone who's either gay or witnesses some activity.
Maybe Loras will finally get his moment in the sun?
George R. R. Martin Explains Why His Books Don't Have Gay Sex Scenes
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, George R. R. Martin answered a fan question about why A Song of Ice and Fire (the book series upon which HBO's Game of Thrones is based) is chock full of straight sex scenes but lacks homosexual or bisexual scenes. His rather unsatisfying answer? None of his main characters are gay. The main characters that he invented. They all just happen to be straight. So. [SHRUUUUG]
Each chapter of ASOIAF is written from the first-person perspective of a different character—i.e., there are Ned chapters, Sansa chapters, Arya chapters, Dany chapters, Davos Seaworth chapters, Cersei chapters (O, THE HORROR), and so on. To have a gay sex scene, Martin explained, you'd have to have a gay POV character. And he's chosen not to have those, so how could he possibly have those!?!? It's almost as though you people think he's a sentient being creating this universe from scratch.
Via Rolling Stone:
Martin said that his storytelling is limited because he writes through "viewpoint" characters, and so far none of those characters have been gay. "Frankly it is the way I prefer to write fiction because that is the way all of us experience life. You're seeing me from your viewpoint, you're not seeing what someone over here is seeing."
Martin does have two more books left in his saga (possibly even three) and did say a shift was possible in the future, but only if it fit the story: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. If the plot lends itself to that — if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it — but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them." Noting that fans have written him about including a more "explicit male sex scene," Martin added of his writing process, "It is not a democracy. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey would have died much earlier than he did."
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Maybe if you couple it with celebrity endorsement. Funnel a few million to the Kardashian clan and I bet you could make some headway.
If you're forced to drag your ass all the way down to the polling place, I'm betting more people will actually vote for the candidate/ballot measures that reflect their views. Forcing someone to vote for any candidate when they believe in none of them (Lebowski) is unethical, so if you really, really want to protest all of them, this is your option.
It's also a useful thing to measure: you can see just how much of the population essentially cast a vote of no confidence for the whole system.
When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who attempt to trifle with this bird.
So have a box on every ballot that says, "None of the above."
The difference is, everyone is issued a social security number at birth (note that I'm saying present the number, not the card), and it sidesteps the need to present a picture ID. Requiring a picture ID keeps many poor people from voting.
The idea that everyone needs to be working 40 hours a week in our modern, increasingly automated world is absurd. Productivity has done nothing but go up for forty years. Remember the dream of a world where people could pursue hobbies and have more leisure time, away from work, because we designed machines to do the hard work for us? It's basically here, but we're all operating under this crazy mentality that we should be working eight hours a day, five days a week, if not more. And you know what more free time means? More time for people to innovate and invent. There are tons of brilliant people out there with a great idea for a new product or new business, but they don't have the time to pursue it.
That's not how universal basic income works. Everyone gets enough for cost of living (food, shelter, utilities). If you want more than that, it's up to you.
Why? Name and social security number. Done. Voter fraud is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent anyway. It would be even harder to commit if you go to vote, and the person at the polls helpfully informs you that you already did.
Yeah, what we really need in America is more inequality.
Yes, in our already overcrowded prison system, with disproportionately high populations of minorities, surely we should incentivize death sentences when there's such a high demand for transplantable organs.
So... you do know that it costs taxpayers more to execute someone than imprison them for life, right?
Not if you need to write simple batch scripts sometimes. I can do it on any Windows system, in Notepad, with no additional software.
There are skeletons and zombies, and some sounds that could be scary, but nothing an 8 year old couldn't handle. They won't learn java directly unless they get into mods, which I think a lot of kids do when they see how powerful mods can be. They may, however, learn about basic logic gates, as one of the materials in the game functions like basic circuitry. Plus, it's just a great game for encouraging creativity, and teaching kids how to set long term goals and meet them.
I learned some BASIC in high school because it meant I could program my TI-83 in class. For fun, I wrote a program that would solve triangles, and a few more that would output dirty limericks. But I also wrote a program that would solve some physics problems that I didn't really want to learn. My physics teacher figured that if I were smart enough to write the program, I should be allowed to use the program in class. That'll motivate kids.
That's great for places like England, but... Look, the United States is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the US.
I was unaware that the moral thing to do was accept bullying. I bet "The Great Dictator" upset Hitler, but in the US, it was the second most popular movie of 1941. I guess that's not comparably, since the terrorists won, and we all live in constant fear.
“You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.”
If a significant portion of games have linux releases, and I can run various Adobe apps on linux, there's no reason to stick with Windows.
Shit happens.
A company on an Alibaba-owned Chinese Internet-trading platform even posted an ad for the sale of the rare metal gallium
Oh no! Not the "rare metal" gallium!
How could something so dangerous and rare be sold to the general public?
That's... not really the same. Average people should not be under surveillance at all times. Cops are different. They're special; they're tasked with upholding the law and keeping the peace. They have more power than an average person, so they need to be under more scrutiny than the average person.
Unless you have a crappy connection that makes streaming all but impossible.
I don't get notability deletions at all. What, are they going to run out of digital pages?
io9:
io9.com/george-r-r-martin-explains-why-theres-no-gay-sex-in-hi-1620422705
George R.R. Martin Explains Why There's No Gay Sex In His Novels
One of the most noticeable differences between George R.R. Martin's books and the Game of Thrones television adaptation was the fact that the latter features fairly explicit homosexuality, especially between Loras and Renly. Talking to the Edinburgh Book Festival, Martin explained why he left that out of the books.
Basically, it boils down to the fact that Martin's books are written with tight third-person narration, and that means Martin can only show scenes that one of his viewpoint characters personally witnesses.
As the Guardian goes on to explain:
Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books. "A television show doesn't have those limitations," he said. "Will that change? It might. I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women."
But he added: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them.
"It is not a democracy. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey [the sadistic boy king] would have died much earlier than he did."
At least he's leaving the door open for having one of the viewpoint characters in the last couple novels be someone who's either gay or witnesses some activity.
Maybe Loras will finally get his moment in the sun?
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And from Jezebel:
http://jezebel.com/george-r-r-martin-explains-why-his-books-dont-have-ga-1620341547
George R. R. Martin Explains Why His Books Don't Have Gay Sex Scenes
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, George R. R. Martin answered a fan question about why A Song of Ice and Fire (the book series upon which HBO's Game of Thrones is based) is chock full of straight sex scenes but lacks homosexual or bisexual scenes. His rather unsatisfying answer? None of his main characters are gay. The main characters that he invented. They all just happen to be straight. So. [SHRUUUUG]
Each chapter of ASOIAF is written from the first-person perspective of a different character—i.e., there are Ned chapters, Sansa chapters, Arya chapters, Dany chapters, Davos Seaworth chapters, Cersei chapters (O, THE HORROR), and so on. To have a gay sex scene, Martin explained, you'd have to have a gay POV character. And he's chosen not to have those, so how could he possibly have those!?!? It's almost as though you people think he's a sentient being creating this universe from scratch.
Via Rolling Stone:
Martin said that his storytelling is limited because he writes through "viewpoint" characters, and so far none of those characters have been gay. "Frankly it is the way I prefer to write fiction because that is the way all of us experience life. You're seeing me from your viewpoint, you're not seeing what someone over here is seeing."
Martin does have two more books left in his saga (possibly even three) and did say a shift was possible in the future, but only if it fit the story: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. If the plot lends itself to that — if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it — but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them." Noting that fans have written him about including a more "explicit male sex scene," Martin added of his writing process, "It is not a democracy. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey would have died much earlier than he did."
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