" Who adjudicates "promiscuous" or not?"
The people following the rules of society that you liberals destroyed....you know, sex before marriage. Sex with more than one man ever.

"(retarded moralizing of your personal beliefs blah blah blah)....have the right to control the use of their own image"
no they don't, what about this do you not get.
You can't restrict other people from communicating and transferring their personal property because it hurts your retarded feelings.

God you're stupid.

1) Large Corporations that are too big to fail.
2) Governments that are safe with your secrets because they're never go corrupt - or collapse.

You can't put back what comes out of Pandora's box, be it nukes, widespread guns, or the ability to decrypt anything ever.
The tools you have today can become your enemy's tools tomorrow.

That opening line says it all. Uber's business model is treat employees as shitty as it possibly can.

Big Sister Corporation collecting information on you is just as invasive, just as evil, as Big Brother Government.

My understanding of it was more like interoperability rather than backwards compatibility. So you could call into go1 code from go2.

I love it when antitheists try to tell us about religion. No, sorry, the part about "force" is a dead giveaway that you are wrong.

;-)

I still don't get why Bombadil represented to the hobbits the world outside the shire. With or without him, they were to find that out anyway, in a most severe crash course over the next year or so. I guess it was the sing-y bits that irked me though. I suppose they were relevant though, in the way that many cultures pass on down information or customs via song; and in those older British decades, that kind of thing was more common than today.
Granted, I read the book(s) only once, about 8 years ago, so I've forgotten much of it.

They are 40 and look like 14 ...

Critical thought in that sentence: after divorces. He can't be her step-father "after a divorce" is he was never married to her mother.

Uhhh, there's a little thing called a marriage certificate.

It's a moot point, since you are saying that you replace the lie "Lucy, I am your father" with "Lucy, I am your step father" after 8 years. A "father" doesn't turn into "step-father", and if the step-father was never married to the mother then he doesn't turn into a step-father at all. "Father" doesn't need matrimony to be one; step-fathers only assume that role after that happens. Otherwise it is "boyfriend".

And, in any case, a lie like this will not turn out well for anyone involved, even the duplicitous mother.

There is no debate.
Or are you a french fries denier?

They are Belgic, everyone knows that.

Do I know you? You sound familiar, eh?

Why is it disturbing or embarrassing? Why kink shame? It's really unsettling and crass. Some like same sex anal intercourse, some need to convert their genitals, some need watersports, people need many things to feel fulfillment and we should not shame them because if it.

BB10, not BBOS.

You can't be a pragmatist without some sort of ideology.

Being pragmatic means that you favor measures that work well towards a goal without too may ill effects. However, you have to have some idea what the goal is and what effects are ill. If you have no idea of what you want to have happen, you can't be pragmatic about it.

If you criticize a policy for not being effective at reducing the crime rate, you're saying that reducing the crime rate is important to you. If you further criticize it for imprisoning people who aren't really harming society, you're saying that such people shouldn't be seriously punished for, say, smoking a joint.

I suppose you could imagine an axis with "means" on on end and "ends" on the other. The "means" people are what you'd think of as ideological, who think that right conduct must bring good ends. The "ends" people would be more like you or me, being very willing to try new means, and considering that right conduct is that which brings good ends.

There was a whole arc about how Neelix was jealous of Tom Paris giving her attention.

Citations needed, I think.

We somehow managed to rule that corporations are people, so we're simply eating our own crow here.

You didn't read TFA, they state at the very end:

The mouse image above is not the same that Gammell used in his emails.

I think you should blame Catalin Cimpanu, the author of that article, for that gopher image.

I dislike laptops and resent it, when employers push everyone to use them — and expect us to lug them along.

For emergency access to servers, I have ssh-client on my "smart" phone. For everything else, there is a machine at work and one at home — with today's Internet speeds, data-transfers aren't an issue.

One ad hominem after another. That's about what I expected.

Go away, snowflake. Adults are having a conversation.

From the Article: "The mouse image above is not the same that Gammell used in his emails."

Of course you still have the fact that they're calling their bad example a mouse image...

Using a dichotomy as an argument, i.e. it's either we have Spock-like rational free choice OR we're automatons, isn't persuasive.

Prof. Bruce Hood is well worth reading; both a talented cognitive psychologist and a clear, concise, accessible writer. He investigates cognitive biases and all the different ways our brains can hi-jack our rational selves, extending the work of Daniel Kahneman (Who won the Nobel prize for Economics by showing that stock market traders are far from rational decision-makers). Bruce Hood on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/result... His book on the self: http://www.harpercollins.ca/97...

When Disney hears he's been using a cartoon mouse, he'll be in even more trouble.

I've known a few escorts. They were, without a doubt, both impersonating a date at social and business functions, and preforming sexual services. This stuff is well known. Go to "Escort Agency" at Wikipedia, and they lay it bare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_agency.

Nevertheless, your point is taken, especially now that the up-and-up Japanese juggernaut, RentAFriend.com, is servicing the US too.

I want more good, hard scifi war stories.

David Drake then. I'm reading him right now. Not Azimov's caliber by far, but if you want war, he delivers — a Vietnam veteran, he knows it first hand. The "Hammer's Slammers" series is just combat. Go for Reaches to expand to other things. Reportedly, the author is a history buff, many of his stories recast the historical episodes from humanity's past in a "spaceship" era.

The Leutenant Leary line is is a bit repetitive — and much too implausible... You enjoy it while you read it, but you can't remember, how many you've read, when you are done...

Sure he is. Money attracts money. If you start out on 3rd base you'll do fine. If you're smart but start out with nothing, you face really tall odds to get anywhere.

11/11 is also "Pocky Day", because 11 11 looks like four of them.

You have a point.
However based on what he did, and how poorly he did it, I seriously doubt he would be the "anal retentive trainer" you described.

With computing power that could be available to government it's more than feasible to run dictionary or even bruteforce attacks. Most people have shitty passwords. Also there's always possibility that specific solutions will be available in particular case. Dumping this on corporations simply isn't future proof solution, gov will need to have own security expertise. Not to mention there always be crypto solutions that aren't maintained by particular corporation, or maintained by corporation in other country.

It crowds out domestic competition

Come on, at best if Apple and Google vanished overnight all that would happen is everything sold would come from China. The truth is Europe is a very long way from competing in most of the markets Apple is in.

take Baidu for example

That seems like a really bad example because it's domestic competition succeeding against Google.

Some sort of Mongolian throat singing fan site.

His computer's password? Swordfish

First there came hackers, and they were good.

Then came Script Kiddies, who did use the works of the Hackers, and they were kind of lame.

Then did the Script Kiddies monetize the Hacks, and animated gif makers could enter the realm of wonder and system penetration with mere BitCoin, and these assholes made life hell for everyone.

And it was The Suck.