The convention organizers aren't trying to punish those who are being homophobic or racist, though. They're trying to punish those who believe that homophobes or racists have that freedom.
No they aren't.
They're taking a stand against a law they do not support.
it really ticks me off how the right has characterized the ability to be openly racist, sexist, misogynist, transphobic, and homophobic as "freedom and liberty. absolutely disgusting.
This.
My country protects speech, it does not protect hate speech however. I'm not even sure the US would protect hate speech as an inalienable right.
If the KKK or ISIS came into your print shop and asked for some hate speech to be printed up, you'd be within your rights to refuse the job because the job is borderline illegal and distasteful, beyond this, it's also harmful to your business. Its a similar story if someone asked you to print off a large quantity of their own hardcore pornography. The porn is legal, the job is legal, but you do not want your business to become known as a purveyor of adult literature because that would scare away many customers.
Whilst it's not illegal for people to be arseholes, there is no law stating that we have to facilitate their ability to be arseholes.
So the KKK can force a black or Jewish printer to print posters for their next rally, then?
If you answer no, you agree with the govenrnor of Indianapolis. If you answer yes, you're in favour of slavery (forcing the printer to serve against their will). Pick one.
Since when were the KKK protected?
Same as if the Black Panthers or ISIS came in and asked you to print up some hate speech. You can refuse service as the job they're asking you to do is borderline illegal.
I cannot refuse to serve a Muslim or black person on account of their skin colour or religion, but I can refuse to serve someone for being unruly, disruptive, drunk, argumentative or would harm the good name of my business. That last one is important, refusing to serve people with ginger hair would harm my businesses reputation, not refusing to serve the grand pooba of the KKK would have the same effect.
I could buy Apple being more robust or more reliable (because it's probably WinDOS we're talking about here) but the idea of the PC being less powerful just sounds like you swimming in the kool-aid.
As someone who did tech support for Macs many years ago, I cant buy them being more robust or reliable.
And this was back in the early 00's where suggesting a Mac had a problem meant Apple sent hired goons to your office. You didn't complain that it took two weeks to get a PSU for an Imac... because it was just better (TM).
Pretty much anything you can get from a Mac these days can be gotten from another manufacturer for less money... Except the wank factor of course.
Moderated 'insightful'? Seriously? To me it is blindingly obvious.
Welcome to modern society.
The banks addict them to using a card (gotta get those points) but they act all hurt when the merchant raises prices because of credit card fees. Allow all kinds of draconian laws to be created to fight "teh terr'sts" but act like its the end of the world when this is used to curtail something they enjoy.
Hypocrisy isn't just in fashion, it's become a way of life.
Easy, the solution is don't use Uber. I am surprised that this is surprising anyone.
This is my complete lack of surprise.
I took one look at the permissions the app needed on Android and figured out that they were collecting data wholesale.
I dont expect them to be nearly as meticulous as the likes of Google in anonymising it. They probably give out your phone number as part of the package and offer to determine your home address for a nominal fee.
Sucks if you're already an Uber fanboy and have given them all your details.
Less time checking your speed equals more time looking where you are going.
How long does it take you people to check your speedo, for me it's a fraction of a second. This is for every car I've ever been in.
Also, if you spend all your time with your eyes glued to the road in front of you, you're driving horribly wrong. You should be focusing on multiple things, mirrors, instruments, blindspots. If you're not checking your mirrors every 10-15 seconds you're dangerous. Same if you change lanes or turn without checking your blind spots. As for your instruments, well your car may not overheat every day, but when it does you want to know about it long before it reaches the red and you need a new head gasket.
I check my speedo every 10-15 seconds, same with my mirrors. It hardly changes unless I move my right foot. Realistically if you need more than half a second to read a speedometer or cant keep a consistent speed for 10-15 seconds, you need to hand in your license and admit this driving thing is beyond your capabilities.
I was moving at speed in a tuk tuk in Phnom Penh when my phone was stolen out of my hands by two guys on a scooter. Not sure how likely that is for most people, but you did ask.
Its not exactly a secret that Cambodia is a poor nation with lots of opportunistic theives, what made you think it was safe to play with your smartphone in public.
I've lived in Thailand and the Philippines which are pretty much the same, using a phone in the open is practically asking for it to be stolen.
Couple of mitigations
Which wont do a damn thing to prevent theft.
The thief wants the hardware (which is valuable) not your personal information (which, lets face it, is completely worthless).
The first thing a thief is going to do is sell it to someone who will first reset it to factory settings so they can sell it. Your data actually makes the device worth less than a blank one.
I dont even have a password on my Android phone. The absolute worst thing a thief can do is spam from my Gmail account and Facebook. Seeing as I can simply go to the nearest Telstra shop and get my phone number back by flashing my drivers license, even if they reset my password it's only temporary. However chances are, they wont even bother looking at whats on there and just flog it.
Phone theft may sound rare, but it isn't uncommon, and thieves know that they can just grab the phone, stuff it in a tinfoil envelope, let it sit for a week or two until the battery dies, disassemble it, then sell the screen, case, and other parts for a good amount of cash.
If they're going to sell the phone for parts, why wait for the battery to die? Beyond this, why not simply just remove the SIM card instead. Like a lot of
Getting the phone wiped isn't a problem for a phone thief, they dont care about your personal data. They want to sell the hardware to make a buck. So they simply take it to a pawn shop run by someone who will get the phone wiped. They want a blank phone to sell.
Even IMEI blocking is useless as you can just sell it over the border and anyone unscrupulous enough to steal a phone wont think twice at selling a phone that doesn't work (and no, there will never be a shortage of suckers).
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
I've also lived outside the angloshpere, every single nation has huge glaring problems that people simply ignore because it's part of their culture.
There's no real way to say which one is better, both have their advantages and drawbacks. You may be able to get away with more things in Thailand than the UK, but in Thailand you'll always be a second class citizen, accepted only because you have enough money to live there without working. Any fight between you and a Thai will result in the Thai winning regardless of what actually happens. If you want to live in Asia, you'll have to get used to the corruption, nepotism, tiered society, face, blood money and a lot of other things we would consider uncivilised in Anglo countries.
I would rather be less safe and free.
Often you dont have to give up essential liberty for essential safety. The key is in also being an accepting society. It becomes harder and harder for a malicious person to hide when the average person does not feel the need to hide a lot of details about themselves (please note, this is not a "if you have nothing to hide" argument, its about people feeling secure to be themselves without the fear of societal judgement).
The problem is, politicians know that fear sells. So they use fear to get through what would ordinarily be unpopular and unacceptable laws.
I'm thankful for that. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average car is that it gently rolls to the side of the road. The failure mode of most mechanical problems with an average light aircraft is plummeting to death, and likely destroying something below you in the process.
Think of all the nitwits you see on the freeway, and then imagine them with hands on stick in a Cessna. No, thanks.
The mechanical failure mode of a light aircraft is to turn it into a glider. But you have a point in that your average moron would probably screw it up.
I mean they cant even concentrate on a simple task like driving without complaining that its too boring and playing with their phone.
The mechanical failure mode of a jet liner is plummet to the ground, this is why they have multiple redundant systems and see more mechanics in a week than cars will see in their lifetime.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
