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This is mostly a vacation disguised as a business expense.
by xwdv 5y ago
This is mostly a vacation disguised as a business expense.
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoI would definitely prefer to stay in Redmond Ridge if you know what I mean.
- devnulll 5y agoRedmond from Jan to June vs Fiji? Seems an easy choice if you're without children and concerns around their schooling. I think the engineers who work there would jump at the chance. :)
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoIt's 55F and overcast here most days, which for my pasty Dutch skin is quite the dream! I've lived in NY, Boston, DC, Cali, Florida, NC, London, AZ, WA.... nothing beats Redmond! Personaly preference of course :)
- cptcobalt 5y agoIs open access to information and the internet by not currently a fundamental human right? It is good that a company is working to rapidly restore reliable internet service to Tonga.
- xwdv 5y agoAre vacations also a fundamental human right? Sounds like a good way for two groups of people to both get what they need.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Is open access to information and the internet by not currently a fundamental human right? No. People trying to stuff everything under the sun into the human rights label are to a large part to blame for public disillusionment with the term.
- nexuist 5y agoHow is open access to information not a fundamental human right? Do you believe in a society where people can't find out about things? If you don't, then you believe in the open access of information.
- xwdv 5y agoYou can believe people should be able to find out about things. But not be entitled to it. People don't need to be entitled to everything. There are very few true fundamental human rights in this world. All of them are raw primal needs. Food. Water. Air. Not being killed or tortured. What else really?
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> How is open access to information not a fundamental human right? Do you believe in a society where people can't find out about things? Non sequitur. I believe in many things that make a society good and better which do not reach the standard of a human right. This is my personal litmus test: the deprivation of a human right should create a legitimate claim to be violent. If your human rights are being denied, you have the right to take up arms. (My theory being the state, at that point, has lost the legitimacy of its monopoly on violence.) Blood has been spilled over slavery. Starvation. Torture and free speech. Blood is not owed because someone didn’t pay their Comcast bill.
- datameta 5y agoI would argue governmental domestic disinfo programs violate said right (i.e. Russia or China). They change the heuristics for what is believable by many citizens and thereby effectively make much external information useless. This is a form of control by the government, and in extreme forms is grounds for protests or even anti-government riots.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThe goal posts have moved pretty significantly in this thread from "access to information and the internet" to "government domestic disinfo programs".
- readthenotes1 5y agoMostly a vacation is not completely a vacation!
- mlindner 5y agoI don't get how some people can be so jaded. Like really?
- stjohnswarts 5y agoDid you and I read the same article? It's amazing how two people can get two diametrically opposed ideas out of the same source material.