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Now that we know about the lube, pray tell us, where you can get an inflatable sex goat...
I wouldn't type a query like that into Google, but privacy-respecting search engine DuckDuckGo reveals several sources for inflatable sex goats.
Why are people getting so wrapped up, particularly adults, in the details?
Because it reveals a lot of about human thought processes that unless we explicitly single out our prejudice and bigotry we will obliviously enslave entire classes of people without a second thought. How many people honestly thought about the plight of Robot Slavery in the Star Wars universe. It's a way to reveal our own shortcomings without having to go through a brutal civil rights campaign.
My father was an elementary school teacher at the time and said the ones he had didn't do much. No one knew how to use them, they didn't fit into any educational plan, they were just paper weights that were occasionally used for games.
Except in this case it comes with Microsoft Office and a web browser. Between those two things most school use cases are taken care of. This isn't the 80s, schools know what to do with PCs, they know what to do with ipads and if the summary thinks a windows device is hard for a windows IT staff to manage... how the hell are they handling ipads?
I don't believe that's true. To quote Findlaw.com
Witnesses who are called to the witness stand can refuse to answer certain questions if answering would implicate them in any type of criminal activity.
But unlike defendants, witnesses who assert this right may do so selectively and do not waive their rights the moment they begin answering questions.
You have the right to shut up at any point but I don't believe you can shut up and then start talking and then shut up again. This was the point of debate in the IRS congressional hearing where the manager made a statement and then plead the 5th.
Well... seeing as the NSA has said that they've only looked at the meta-data of 300 people that's not exactly a vast government conspiracy.
And considering that the corrected news article accurately states that the NSA still requires a wiretap to listen to a phone call... I don't see where this is illegal.
The government has tapped phones since the 1800s. As long as they get a search warrant this isn't any new invasion of privacy. What this is, is a bunch of tech blogs freaking out over misreading transcripts. Not less than 1 sentence away from this supposed "admission" the director says "We need a warrant to listen to calls".
The person who initiates the process by first making the item available does not have the right to give it away in the first place
Sharing information is a basic human right, and no one has any right to use force to prevent a person from sharing information that they have.
you think it is perfectly acceptable to not pay for something that someone else produced because somehow, magically, people don't need to get paid for what they produce.
I failed to pay for access to things other people produced for a long time before the net came around. We called it a "library".
One can believe that it's good for authors and musicians and the like to get paid, without believing that a state-backed artificial monopoly on the making of copies is a useful or even acceptable means to that end.
Ahhh gotcha that sucks. So your driver's license will perpetually remain M even if you are now F and result in constant conflicts of "that doesn't match your driver's license".
I was envisioning a system similar to changing your legal name. How many states don't allow gender/sex changes on their official IDs?
we'd rather not have our private lives paraded around in front of others
Forgive my ignorance but is it really any more embarrassing to correct that information in a database than any other? I would imagine vast amounts of data are inaccurate on everybody. I've called and changed my birthday, I've accidentally listed 'male' for my girlfriend when filling out forms online (out of habit). If you're embarrassed just say you erroneously filled out the form or say you were reviewing your records and noticed a big inaccuracy.
I've heard a number of transgender people ask for options which are more inclusive and specific--but that would go against your complaint since it would make your transgender status front and center and 'parade around it around in front for others'.
I agree though on the point that tracking gender is pretty pointless for almost all forms.
The government is spying on our codebase! It's so cute.
More importantly, why should you be on the defensive? Isn't it good to know both things? Is it somehow a binary choice between wanting to know about the two issues? Snowden is the messenger, not the message, and you probably have a higher likelihood of impacting domestic policy than raising awareness to the 'scandal' that is foreign governments trying to disrupt or influence local politics. Especially since it doesn't take any tinfoil whatsoever to discuss USA's storied history of doing the same. This strawman of somebody who thinks that China would never stoop to what the USA stoops to all the time is pretty hilarious. This is what governments do, the world over. The idea that the USA isn't doing this, or wouldn't do it in the future is downright silly given the history of unilateral foreign interference by all world super powers.
I'm sorry, I'm going to need a car analogy to make sense of this.
I see someone has been reading David Brin.
which the same environmentalists now say is evil
Do you know this for a fact, or are you idiotically assuming all environmentalists are legitimate and all believe the exact same things?
Actually, it sounds like you believe environmentalists are responsible for the nation's energy policy and the choices of billion dollar energy companies. Bless your heart.
people selling snake oil or people whining about "solutionism".
Since when is a documentary required to promote every possible agenda? I haven't seen the documentary, but I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that it does not ignore nuclear power's downsides, especially considering its focus on previously anti-nuclear environmentalists.
"Solutionism" is a thought terminating cliche, a way to dismiss any solution because it doesn't encompass every possible solution. It's a ploy for people who only know rhetoric and politics to wrestle control of the debate from people who know science and engineering.
Consider the vacuous absurdity of the closing of the article:
A more powerful approach to this complex threat to humanity would be to film a fact-based, passionate debate that explored the alternatives, trade-offs, and consequences of various energy options. Such an exploration might move us from the usual politics of zealotry to new habits of thought, and perhaps to new forms of action based on all the facts.
No one is under any obligation to please you, the head of an anti-nuclear activist group, which is no stranger to zealotry. If you want other options, make your own documentary to promote them. You can make it "fact-based" too!
I'm still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie.