How is sending the money and then not getting the product any different from being "robbed"?
Silk Road operates an escrow system to help avoid this. I've never purchased anything from Silk Road, so I can't comment on how it works in practice, but anyway, that's supposed to prevent you from sending money and not getting the product.
The bigger risk of buying from Silk Road is that there is no protection for the buyer as her or she accepts delivery of the package. Sellers are protected because they get paid in bitcoins, which are received digitally and can be somewhat anonymized. Buyers need to accept the physical shipment, which is a large risk if the parcel has been discovered to contain illegal substances during transit.
It'd be best to avoid phrasing this in a way that suggests that any other feminist would be the same; feminism is a very diverse movement, and there are flavours (like mine) that are very anti-PC-policing.
Most everyone is "feminist" in the sense that they favor equality amongst the sexes. That's equivalent to "not being an asshole".
I believe in equality too, but I doubt I'd be very welcome in a modern Women's Studies department.
Adria was the only one who should have been fired. Her job was to evangelize SendGrid and make them look good, but she has a history of overreacting and pissing off lots of people. Her repeating that behavior pattern at PyCon proves that she has not matured, and has not learned from her past mistakes. SendGrid got mountains of bad publicity from this event, and they had no reason to believe that this would be the last time. As the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you..... "
She didn't deserve to have her firing be quite so public though, in my opinion. But that's a minor point, considering she was the one who decided to take the episode public to begin with.
A woman complains about two adult males making sexist jokes near her and SHE gets fired? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Complaining is one thing. Throwing a massive Twitter tantrum and stirring up bad press for a company that you're supposed to be evangelizing is grounds for termination.
Termination for cause was the correct action for SendGrid to take, and I commend them for it.
One of the invited speakers decided to make their talk about drug use during sex, and didn't let anyone know about this until a few hours before they were scheduled to present.
This is disingenuous. Nobody can claim that they thought Violet Frickin' Blue was going to present about Wi-Fi security.
If they didn't want a talk that included sex, they shouldn't have invited her to present. None of the subject matter should have surprised anybody because she planned to give the exact same talk that she gave last year.
Clinton was impeached because he committed perjury, lying under oath.
As I understand it, lying about a immaterial facts in a civil trial is not generally treated as perjury. I am not a lawyer, but my father in law is, and I'm fairly certain that's how he explained it.
Also, Clinton testified that he did not have "sexual relations" with Ms. Lewinsky based on the agreed definition of: Clinton contacting Lewinsky's "genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks".
Given that definition, I'm not sure why Clinton would have needed to respond, "Nah, I didn't touch on any of the listed body parts, but she sucked my cock like a champ, y'all!"
If I understand this correctly, this new bittorrent product will NOT back up your files. It is for file synchronization only.
In other words, if you have 5 devices synced up, and you corrupt or delete an important file from one of the devices, that file is toast. It is not backed up to any remote location.
I don't think that complicated grammar should be much of a deterrent. I don't know how Russians are, but German speakers generally seemed appreciative that I would speak to them in German, even though my grammar is atrocious. Also, I think that it depends a lot on how you learn languages. I tend to learn them in phrases, so if I'm able to recall an entire phrase that says what I want to say, it's going to be pre-conjugated.
Like anything else, it's best not to let perfect be the enemy of good.
Well, you can include me under "incompetent". I don't have the first clue how to install a solar system, and it seems like it'd something that you don't want to get wrong.
a leather jacket or any thick clothing would be enough. A taser has to attach the prongs to you so anything that prevents contact and does not conduct electricity would work.
Nope. A police taser has two barbs that go through your clothing and into your skin. Then a current is passed between the two barbs. A leather jacket will not protect you.
Sure if you have some 300lb tanked up guy being belligerant, then yeah, they'll probably get hit with a truncheon. Buy small, light badly behaved people aren't a new invention, and I don't recall stories of them generally being beaten senseless with a truncheon on a regular basis.
Beaten, no. Pepper sprayed, yes. There's plenty of video of police officers pepper spraying trespassers who are doing nothing more violent than sitting there trespassing.
Seriously, the police should be trained in unarmed restraint well enough to use the minimum level of violence possible, since it's their job. I still claim that if they couldn't force a pair of handcuffs onto that rather small woman without the aid of a taser or truncheon then they are really badly trained.
The question is whether or not they could force a pair of handcuffs onto her without injuring her. I haven't watched the video to see how squirmy she was being, but a determined person, even a small one, can put up a fair amount of resistance, and the officer might have been concerned for her safety.
And yes, I know, tasering has risks too. But that's the reality of the situation if you intend to resist arrest. You are putting your safety and the officer's safety (to a lesser degree) at risk.
Torrents offer a revenue stream through legal intimidation of its users, but usenet is still a problem for the RIAA and MPAA, so as the legal revenue stream of suing (or threatening to sue) torrent users dries up, they are left with cleaning up the remaining sources of pirated media.
Also, Usenet policing isn't self-funding like torrent policing is. You can't extort money from the users, because downloading copyrighted works isn't, as far as I'm aware, illegal. It's the uploading that's unlawful.
Torrent swarms conveniently provide the IP and content of the seeders, and every swarm will have many seeders. With Usenet, you have only one uploader, who is typically going to be very difficult to track down. And once you track that person down, you have only one person to try to extract money from.
Automated takedowns are pretty much the only reasonably way for studios to control this.
Yup! But you can only access it from the restaurant down the block that offers free lunch. You know the one, right? Across the street from the unicorn zoo?
They could make pretty big bucks with a service like that with that price point as well, but the problem is you have to get basically all of them on board.
The people that are on usenet should be savvy enough to a) have already heard of BitCoin, and b) know how to use it.
Just because we know how to use BitCoin doesn't mean that we want to. Paying by BitCoin means:
Buying bitcoins (which is effort since I already have USD and a credit card) or mining bitcoins, which would cost me more in electricity than I would earn by mining.
Owning bitcoins. Bitcoins are difficult to spend (most mercants don't accept BC), fluctuate too much in value as compared with USD, and you need to keep backups of your bank (or use an online "bank", which is subject to hacking).
Spending bitcoins. Also, a pain. You need to run the client or trust a "bank". It takes like 10 minutes just to buy something. Can't reverse transactions, so there is no recourse if the seller rips you off.
I think that people who use Usenet for binaries today are those who don't want the inconvenience of: ISP harassment/throttling, partially-seeded files, slow torrent downloads due to asymmetrical up/download bandwidth, legal situation regarding distributing copyrighted works (downloading is much more legal than uploading), hunting down files, etc. They just want to subscribe to a show and have it be there waiting for them to watch. When they download something, they want to have it be there in a few minutes and not have to worry about ratios, communities, reputation, limiters, etc. In other words, they don't want to fuck around with BitCoin.
I think that a lot of people get married with misguided notions of what it means to be married, with no clue how to make a marriage last, and with equally little clue regarding what causes marriages to fail. Based on your comments, I'm just going to go ahead and include you in that group. Here's why:
For one thing, "until death do we part" is a religious ideal, not a part of secular marriage. Anyway, it's unrealistic to expect that people who marry young, before they even know their adult selves, are going to be able to choose a life partner with any reliability. The statistics back me up on this, by the way. People who marry young are much more likely to divorce. And is that really so bad? If two people have an "oops" marriage, shouldn't they just admit their mistake and go find more appropriate partners? Would you rather they wait until one spouse dies (or possibly kills the other one?)
Secondly, sexual infidelity is not the most common cause of divorce by a long shot, so your preaching on cheating is wrongheaded. Financial problems are the #1 cause, followed by poor communication. Next, you have the end of the marriage's sexual relationship, and only after that you have infidelity. I really wish that more people would engage in premarital education/counseling because good communication and good financial habits can be taught and learned very easily.
Lastly, part of the fight for same-sex marriage is the fight for same-sex divorce. This is every bit as important. State-controlled divorce strives to achieve a situation where one departing spouse isn't left destitute, and that the children's needs are met. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I realize that certain jurisdictions and certain courts and certain judges are more fair than others. Some people get royally screwed in divorce, and it's unfair. But the intent is to try to ensure that everyone is provided for.
Perhaps if that was the case, then you can go to court and tell your side of the story. Much like if you legally purchase a gun that is stolen, and then used to commit a murder. The take away shouldn't be "well I'll just steal all my porn then." It should be "I won't give away my porn to lots of other people." And MAYBE if you are accused of something, defend yourself?
The court was located in Illinois and the defendant was located in Virginia. Perhaps the defendant either couldn't afford, or didn't want to afford, to litigate a case in Federal Court halfway across the country.
No, the lesson here is that if you get a court summons, you show the hell up, or the other side will get everything they're asking for.
The court was located in Illinois and the defendant was located in Virginia. Perhaps the defendant either couldn't afford, or didn't want to afford, to litigate a case in Federal Court halfway across the country.
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How is sending the money and then not getting the product any different from being "robbed"?
Silk Road operates an escrow system to help avoid this. I've never purchased anything from Silk Road, so I can't comment on how it works in practice, but anyway, that's supposed to prevent you from sending money and not getting the product.
The bigger risk of buying from Silk Road is that there is no protection for the buyer as her or she accepts delivery of the package. Sellers are protected because they get paid in bitcoins, which are received digitally and can be somewhat anonymized. Buyers need to accept the physical shipment, which is a large risk if the parcel has been discovered to contain illegal substances during transit.
Women can't be sexist. Black people can't be racist. It's a power struggle.
(If what I wrote up there sounds pretty ridiculous, I agree. If it still rings true somehow? Well... there you go.)
I feel like I've heard that before somewhere. Where could it be? Thinking.. thinking.. OH, that's right! It's from Adria herself!
Black people CANNOT be racist against White people. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power
I guess you were right!
It'd be best to avoid phrasing this in a way that suggests that any other feminist would be the same; feminism is a very diverse movement, and there are flavours (like mine) that are very anti-PC-policing.
Most everyone is "feminist" in the sense that they favor equality amongst the sexes. That's equivalent to "not being an asshole".
I believe in equality too, but I doubt I'd be very welcome in a modern Women's Studies department.
Adria was the only one who should have been fired. Her job was to evangelize SendGrid and make them look good, but she has a history of overreacting and pissing off lots of people. Her repeating that behavior pattern at PyCon proves that she has not matured, and has not learned from her past mistakes. SendGrid got mountains of bad publicity from this event, and they had no reason to believe that this would be the last time. As the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you..... "
She didn't deserve to have her firing be quite so public though, in my opinion. But that's a minor point, considering she was the one who decided to take the episode public to begin with.
An 8 year girl just gave up on becoming a programmer, because of you.
Women don't avoid programming because they might hear a dongle joke. Women avoid programming because it's as shit job and they know it.
A woman complains about two adult males making sexist jokes near her and SHE gets fired? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Complaining is one thing. Throwing a massive Twitter tantrum and stirring up bad press for a company that you're supposed to be evangelizing is grounds for termination.
Termination for cause was the correct action for SendGrid to take, and I commend them for it.
The first thing you see (still, actually) when you look at her Twitter page is that she's an evangelist at SendGrid.
Then she needs to update her Twitter, because she is currently a former evangelist at SendGrid.
One of the invited speakers decided to make their talk about drug use during sex, and didn't let anyone know about this until a few hours before they were scheduled to present.
This is disingenuous. Nobody can claim that they thought Violet Frickin' Blue was going to present about Wi-Fi security.
If they didn't want a talk that included sex, they shouldn't have invited her to present. None of the subject matter should have surprised anybody because she planned to give the exact same talk that she gave last year.
Clinton was impeached because he committed perjury, lying under oath.
As I understand it, lying about a immaterial facts in a civil trial is not generally treated as perjury. I am not a lawyer, but my father in law is, and I'm fairly certain that's how he explained it.
Also, Clinton testified that he did not have "sexual relations" with Ms. Lewinsky based on the agreed definition of: Clinton contacting Lewinsky's "genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks".
Given that definition, I'm not sure why Clinton would have needed to respond, "Nah, I didn't touch on any of the listed body parts, but she sucked my cock like a champ, y'all!"
If I understand this correctly, this new bittorrent product will NOT back up your files. It is for file synchronization only.
In other words, if you have 5 devices synced up, and you corrupt or delete an important file from one of the devices, that file is toast. It is not backed up to any remote location.
The real question is would someone who leaked pictures of an Ex get the same?
I doubt it. Penalties for hacking are very stiff. Not sure what the penalty for posting a nudie pic is, but it's probably pretty light.
I don't think that complicated grammar should be much of a deterrent. I don't know how Russians are, but German speakers generally seemed appreciative that I would speak to them in German, even though my grammar is atrocious. Also, I think that it depends a lot on how you learn languages. I tend to learn them in phrases, so if I'm able to recall an entire phrase that says what I want to say, it's going to be pre-conjugated.
Like anything else, it's best not to let perfect be the enemy of good.
Did you read the summary? Panel prices have dropped 80% in 5 years. Math from a couple of years ago is obsolete.
But installation hasn't fallen 80%. The panels are just one part of the price.
I did the math this year, and here in coal-happy VA, where we have very few subsidies and crappy net-metering, my breakeven was like 20 years.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Well, you can include me under "incompetent". I don't have the first clue how to install a solar system, and it seems like it'd something that you don't want to get wrong.
a leather jacket or any thick clothing would be enough. A taser has to attach the prongs to you so anything that prevents contact and does not conduct electricity would work.
Nope. A police taser has two barbs that go through your clothing and into your skin. Then a current is passed between the two barbs. A leather jacket will not protect you.
She was being arrested for trespassing. And yes, that is the officers' job.
I disagree:
Sure if you have some 300lb tanked up guy being belligerant, then yeah, they'll probably get hit with a truncheon. Buy small, light badly behaved people aren't a new invention, and I don't recall stories of them generally being beaten senseless with a truncheon on a regular basis.
Beaten, no. Pepper sprayed, yes. There's plenty of video of police officers pepper spraying trespassers who are doing nothing more violent than sitting there trespassing.
Seriously, the police should be trained in unarmed restraint well enough to use the minimum level of violence possible, since it's their job. I still claim that if they couldn't force a pair of handcuffs onto that rather small woman without the aid of a taser or truncheon then they are really badly trained.
The question is whether or not they could force a pair of handcuffs onto her without injuring her. I haven't watched the video to see how squirmy she was being, but a determined person, even a small one, can put up a fair amount of resistance, and the officer might have been concerned for her safety.
And yes, I know, tasering has risks too. But that's the reality of the situation if you intend to resist arrest. You are putting your safety and the officer's safety (to a lesser degree) at risk.
Torrents offer a revenue stream through legal intimidation of its users, but usenet is still a problem for the RIAA and MPAA, so as the legal revenue stream of suing (or threatening to sue) torrent users dries up, they are left with cleaning up the remaining sources of pirated media.
Also, Usenet policing isn't self-funding like torrent policing is. You can't extort money from the users, because downloading copyrighted works isn't, as far as I'm aware, illegal. It's the uploading that's unlawful.
Torrent swarms conveniently provide the IP and content of the seeders, and every swarm will have many seeders. With Usenet, you have only one uploader, who is typically going to be very difficult to track down. And once you track that person down, you have only one person to try to extract money from.
Automated takedowns are pretty much the only reasonably way for studios to control this.
Any free fast binary usenet services? [grin]
Yup! But you can only access it from the restaurant down the block that offers free lunch. You know the one, right? Across the street from the unicorn zoo?
They could make pretty big bucks with a service like that with that price point as well, but the problem is you have to get basically all of them on board.
Isn't that what Hulu was supposed to be?
The people that are on usenet should be savvy enough to a) have already heard of BitCoin, and b) know how to use it.
Just because we know how to use BitCoin doesn't mean that we want to. Paying by BitCoin means:
I think that people who use Usenet for binaries today are those who don't want the inconvenience of: ISP harassment/throttling, partially-seeded files, slow torrent downloads due to asymmetrical up/download bandwidth, legal situation regarding distributing copyrighted works (downloading is much more legal than uploading), hunting down files, etc. They just want to subscribe to a show and have it be there waiting for them to watch. When they download something, they want to have it be there in a few minutes and not have to worry about ratios, communities, reputation, limiters, etc. In other words, they don't want to fuck around with BitCoin.
I think that a lot of people get married with misguided notions of what it means to be married, with no clue how to make a marriage last, and with equally little clue regarding what causes marriages to fail. Based on your comments, I'm just going to go ahead and include you in that group. Here's why:
For one thing, "until death do we part" is a religious ideal, not a part of secular marriage. Anyway, it's unrealistic to expect that people who marry young, before they even know their adult selves, are going to be able to choose a life partner with any reliability. The statistics back me up on this, by the way. People who marry young are much more likely to divorce. And is that really so bad? If two people have an "oops" marriage, shouldn't they just admit their mistake and go find more appropriate partners? Would you rather they wait until one spouse dies (or possibly kills the other one?)
Secondly, sexual infidelity is not the most common cause of divorce by a long shot, so your preaching on cheating is wrongheaded. Financial problems are the #1 cause, followed by poor communication. Next, you have the end of the marriage's sexual relationship, and only after that you have infidelity. I really wish that more people would engage in premarital education/counseling because good communication and good financial habits can be taught and learned very easily.
Lastly, part of the fight for same-sex marriage is the fight for same-sex divorce. This is every bit as important. State-controlled divorce strives to achieve a situation where one departing spouse isn't left destitute, and that the children's needs are met. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I realize that certain jurisdictions and certain courts and certain judges are more fair than others. Some people get royally screwed in divorce, and it's unfair. But the intent is to try to ensure that everyone is provided for.
Perhaps if that was the case, then you can go to court and tell your side of the story. Much like if you legally purchase a gun that is stolen, and then used to commit a murder. The take away shouldn't be "well I'll just steal all my porn then." It should be "I won't give away my porn to lots of other people." And MAYBE if you are accused of something, defend yourself?
The court was located in Illinois and the defendant was located in Virginia. Perhaps the defendant either couldn't afford, or didn't want to afford, to litigate a case in Federal Court halfway across the country.
No, the lesson here is that if you get a court summons, you show the hell up, or the other side will get everything they're asking for.
The court was located in Illinois and the defendant was located in Virginia. Perhaps the defendant either couldn't afford, or didn't want to afford, to litigate a case in Federal Court halfway across the country.
Because if I'm in my car and comes into contact with salt water (after, say, a winter's worth of salting roads), I don't want it to fucking explode.
That's why it matters.