Comment Continued development (Score 1) 475
If the last current build is secure why should we need continued development? The tool is out there and it works. I don't see that as a problem.
If the last current build is secure why should we need continued development? The tool is out there and it works. I don't see that as a problem.
Pipedot is nearly dead too. SoylentNews seems to be doing alright.
There's a huge, giant, enormous difference between the legal definition of rape: involving violence or its threat, the sort you clearly mean, the sort any reasonable person would mean; between that and the sort I described in my post. That was rather the point of my post, which you seem to have missed.
He escaped everything pre-Magna Carta style
No, he escaped doing time for disclosing Valerie Plame's name to the press because it turns out that someone else is the person who did it. Try to keep up.
Libby was charged with the disclosure
No, he wasn't. Where do you get this stuff?
No, whatever news source you got that idea from is completely incorrect. Karl Rove outed Valerie Plame for political retribution.
How's that Koolaide tasting? Richard Armitage not only was the guy the reporter got her name from, he sat down for interviews and said as much. Then, the reporter conceded as much. If you're going to revise history, pick a topic that isn't so well documented - you'll still look like an anonymous coward, but perhaps like a slightly less foolish one.
The last person to out an operative was Scooter Libby. His sentence was commuted so that he served no jail time.
Are you really that misinformed, or are you just trying to deceive?
The person who disclosed Valerie Plame's name was Richard Armitage, not Libby. Libby's legal trouble revolved around how cooperative he was during one round of questioning, and his prosecution had nothing whatsoever to do with her name getting out. Because
Of course, Armitage was NOT the last person to "out" an operative. Just a few days ago, the White House stupidly disclosed the name of the top CIA official in Kabul. You know, a guy actually out dealing with dangerous ground, rather than occupying a desk in Virginia like Plame was.
1. Wal-Mart employees and shoppers are mostly from the bottom third, income wise. Under the current system, those workers are subsidized by taxes, mostly paid by the top third. If Wal-Mart raised wages and benefits, that cost would translate directly to higher prices, shifting the burden of the subsidy from the top third to the bottom third, income-wise. Hey, I like the way you think!
2. Risk is why capital gets a share of profits. CEO is also a hard job. Good thing it pays well, or no one would do it.
3. Fuck the environment - what are you some kind of hippie? Hipster? And yet you didn't mention how it's Wal-Mart's fault the ice caps are melting. I'm confused by your position.
Maybe you've never been poor enough the need to shop at Wal-Mart, but here's a hint: people shop there because it's so cheap. It's also already the nations biggest grocery store chain (arguably, it's now a grocery store that also sells some other stuff, since groceries are the majority of its revenue), Prices can only go down from competition, though I don't think Amazon's direct-delivery model for groceries will play in the same market as Wal-Mart, they do compete in other areas.
So then you agree that few would consider them fungible.
Except Wal-Mart's prices are damn low over time. They can sustain lower prices than just about anyone else because they have the best logistics chain in the world - really amazing tech there. Also partly because they sell low-quality versions of familiar products, of course, but apparently consumers are just fine with that.
Face it: hatred for Wal-Mart is a tribal identification thing, not a rational economic argument.
The interesting fight is yet to come. Eventually, Wal-Mart and Amazon will be in direct competition. Bring popcorn.
A Hyundai and a Ferrari are both cars, like any other consumer good, but few would consider them fungible.
Nothing wrong with Amazon playing hardball in negotiations. They're still far from a monopoly.
nobody ever argued that literally half of men are rapists
Maybe your friends don't - that just means your friends aren't nuts. There are people who argue that all men are rapists (some just haven't gotten around to the act yet). Seriously.
Are you actually saying that there aren't men (a significant number of them) who feel like they have the right to sleep with women they find attractive? I don't mean the desire, I mean that they actually think they deserve it for some reason, regardless of what the woman in question feels like. Those men do exist.
Ah, so you want to create more thoughtcrime here, just more narrowly defined? Fuck that. A man has the right to believe any damn thing he chooses to believe about anyone. Actions, on the other hand, are appropriate for discussion.
Let me put it another way. Have you ever been groped on the sidewalk? Have you ever been followed for over two hours by a man who was staring at you the whole time? Have you ever had someone say something suggestive to you when you were minding your own business and then they called you a stuck up cunt when you politely told them you were busy? Those are common stories I hear from women ALL THE TIME. They are not isolated incidents.
Having been the victim of actual criminal violence more than once, I find little sympathy for someone who gets worked up about being called a bad name, or getting a look they don't enjoy (shall we have facecrime too - oh wait, we doo, it's called "microaggression"). Grouping, of course, is actual assault, though the traditional response of slugging the guy in return is justified IMO: a rare instance where escalating is appropriate. In any case, those examples have nothing to do with rape.
And a startling number of people have no regard for a women's autonomy and simple right to go about their business without being harassed.
Almost everyone agrees that people have a right not to be harassed. It's the definition of harassment that varies. It's also a minor thing in life - if the worst thing that happens to you today is that you get a comment or a look that displeases you, you had a good day. And the idea that it's only men that harass women? Laughable.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
