... I don't care if they get him on phony charges of tax evasion or something. Or 15-life for jaywalking.
Somehow I doubt that The Sharia States of America would care much about free speech. Or any of the other hot causes that their allies here claim to care about. They'd be too busy executing accused gays and anyone who's neighbor said they had a negative thought about Mohamed.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Ideally, the world's population would be small enough that everyone could live somewhere with a nice climate but also with easy access to water.
See, that's the part you are missing. CA has a "nice climate" because not much water falls from the sky.
It's called a "trade off". Life is full of them.
equal opportunity does not mean equal outcome.
Yep. We used to have a nifty word called "aptitude".
If opportunity were to be magically made really equal, then the only remaining differences in outcome would be due to aptitude.
We know for sure that aptitude for various tasks is not spread equally among individuals - that's why we have things like the Scholastic Aptitude Test, for Pete's sake.
Is aptitude for all tasks spread equally among groups? Genders? Racial groups? We don't know, and we sure aren't going to be allowed to study it. But if it isn't, then there will always be differences in outcome, unless you create Procrustean regulations that force an entirely artificial outcome, artificially benefiting some groups and penalizing others.
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
Utter nonsense. You wouldn't support forcing someone to bake an "I love Hitler, I hate Jews" cake for a neo-Nazi rally. But you support forcing someone to bake a cake for your favored event. Because you, of course, are self-evidently right.
You're all about the force, as long as it is forcing them to do what you want. That makes you the tolerant one?
until you want to shape the lives of others with rules or demands originated from your beliefs, at that point, kindly shut the fuck up and go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
Mmm. So I assume that includes people who seek out some obscure pizza restaurant, ask them if they hypothetically would cater an event they abhor, and then unleash a carp storm on them for not joining the latest groupthink?
And I assume it includes those who would fine others for not baking celebratory cakes for events they consider wrong?
I guess the question is how do they determine location? If it simply by where you say you are then the software would depend on people accurately entering their location? Geo staged photos? Not hard to fake. I do not know how you extract location data from Facebook. Maybe Facebook sells the data to the software provider so they get accurate data based on FB ability to ID locations? I know sone services use IP addresses which my VPN easily confuses.
Based of what Facebook periodically asks me (I have not provided them a location) Facebook themselves make content based guesses on your "where you live" location, even though they obviously have your IP address.
Someone else can use public Facebook data and do the same thing. Will the guesses be perfect? No. Will they be good enough for squishy data aggregation, probably.
We're all the same, Milgram proved that. Given similar circumstances you or I would behave the same way, so let's stop perpetuating the stereotypes.
Erm, no, we're not. There are George Washingtons, for example.
That trope is a nice way of not having to make choices, and also of course excusing one's own transgressions, though.
Why not simply let the user choose what they want ? Personally, I don't really care what they look like, but once I'm used to a set of icons, I would prefer to keep it.
Because
What do you want? It's not like these are computers and you can configure them or anything!
Pretty much this. "We fucked up and embarassed ourselves, so we're going to take it out on you because we can". That's what it reads like. Was the guy who owned the car black, too?
So you are saying that California is a racist police state?
Whoops, wrong article.
Same snarky question re DC though
Pretty much this. "We fucked up and embarassed ourselves, so we're going to take it out on you because we can". That's what it reads like. Was the guy who owned the car black, too?
So you are saying that California is a racist police state?
My 15 year old me is kicking me for saying this, but learning how to integrate into society, listening to other people's thoughts, and learning how to agree and disagree without going all Fox News screamy-shouty goes a long way.
I agree. You should have your child(ren) listen to Rush instead.
Give it a try. He's actually much more respectful of callers who disagree with him, than most people who say "Fox News" a lot are of those who disagree with them.
without going all Fox News screamy-shouty
Oh dear. Perhaps also teach them not to project all bad things onto their political opponents?
To do nothing is to be nothing.
