Lawtonfogle

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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Since distribution and even possesion are crimes because they hurt children this argument does not hold up.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
What is the problem with equalizing physical differences using a tool if we assume that fighting back is the right course of action? Personally I think physical attacks using the human body is using a deadly weapon.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
What about all the pain caused by alcohol? From liver damage to its use as a date rape drug to drunk driving. The liver damage is personal, so that might get a pass, but the rest hurts people who don't choose to drink. Is there evid
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Would you say good to a ban on alcoholic drinks? They do a great deal of damage directly and indirectly. Education, not prohibition, is needed.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Imagine this being used on homosexuals in the middle east. Or imagine it being used on the modern day equivalents who most view similar to how homosexuals are viewed in the middle east. To take away the ability to pass is extremely danger
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Why should anyone have to support them at all? It comes down to they and their supporters convinced society we should care about them and we decided those profiting off the majority to be the ones bearing the cost of the minority. Why do I
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Do disabled people actually bring in profit once you account for building code changes needed to support them at any brick and mortar location?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
You don't give the enemy a heads up. The fact the media is now an enemy is a nightmare in and of itself.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
The problem is secrets get massively abused on every level. From governments classifying evil to parents teaching their children to keep their abuse secret. While there are benefits for privacy, at least for the government, they do not ou
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Given no other information I would agree. But given other information both about Github and about the kind of processes that seek you out to tell you that you are being offensive, I understand. Maybe this was a one time thing, maybe it wi
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
The thing that makes this sad, not funny, is the rate that children are still being sexualy abused today. Instead of doing things to actually help children they are busy passing completely pointless laws to make it look like they are doing
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
As for the impact of the wealthy... I don't see any new issue here worth worrying about. The only thing that changed is we see someone pretty wealthy getting crushed by someone extremely wealthy. There is a level of the rich that hav
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
If social skills can be learned by practice, then we can share by teaching. Maybe force 15% of one's time socializing is done so with those considered socially awkward. Socializing, not sex. My actual point is that society says we sh
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Yet how would I be viewed if I applied the same logic to acquiring goods and services? If you aren't able to earn a living then you should focus on improving yourself. If you can't then you are SOL. It's funny how high prod
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
The reason is due to the difference between necessary and suficient. Hard work is necessary to get to the stop and stay there for any significant length of time, but it is not sufficient to do so. The Just World fallacy treats it as being
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
And the current framework hands out almost no punishments at all. Given the theory that social norms and laws are not what is written but what is enforced, then the current framework only supports limited cases of copyrights that apply gen
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Problem with the British system is that in practice race, gender, and SES are just as relevant as context and motivation.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Is it? That might only apply in some jurisdictions and is likely something many will keep making laws against until one sticks. If it is protected under the first amendment is something that could easily switch, being so many loop holes h
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Any chance the one who ran this exploit can sue for the money they were due? If the code IS the contract, then by the contract they are owed this money, no? Or does this mean the code isn't the contract?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
That it is hard isn't an excuse. That the customers don't pay for security is. And by pay I mean not only the paycheck but also funding and giving prestige and power to doing so. Government IT security is often seen as a necess
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Now apply this logic to other things traded on the darkweb.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
This sounds very close to "Brexit supporters are racist." There seems to be a growing trend of people labeling anything they don't like with some -ist to shut down discussion.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
He has a special case because they have been treating this as a special case from the start. Had he not been wanted for something beyond the official claim then he wouldn't have been treated as he is
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Already mentioned, but deserving to be mentioned again: in a normal criminal law case you don't have multiple nations deny airspace to a prime minister's plane on a hunch the suspect is on board.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
We have to come to terms that we have built an abstraction on nature and it has leaks. Let's move away for a moment from this issue and consider the issue of some animal being of a given species. A highly scientific classification wi
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
And our descendants will call us bigots. And when they explain why we will be filled with revulsion. Will we really be any less wrong than our ancestors?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
If you care about free speech as it relates to porn, then this is nothing compared to some of the other limits put on free speech. Consider the Australian guy who was convicted for having sexualized drawings of the Simpsons. Edit: grrrrr a
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
As to point 3, your question is still too narrow. We should ask if even self funding of legal matters should be allowed. Even if we say this case should have happened because of funding, we are left with two major issues. First, we are le
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
My biggest concern is the direct benefit off the death of others causing a perverse incentive to kill. There are people who will mug and risk killing you over the money in your wallet, so I could definitely see people being killed over th
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
The existing inequality caused by not working as much and choosing lower paying fields? You can bet if men benefitted from this instead it would be considered institutional sexism that would be targeted and dismantled.

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