Lawtonfogle

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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
But I never read any explanation as to why the dynamics are different. Especially considering that films of other crimes can be porn to the right individual (such as snuff).
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
College 'kids' are adults and if they act as children it is only because we enable such behavior by coddling them. I wonder if college would be better for most if they lived a year on their own first. I know I would have gotten
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
So if I share a video of a murder or theft... or even just view such a video shared by others, I'm complicit in the crime?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Law and order responds after the wrong. I'm talking about protection to prevent the wrong.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
The top 3% do pay their fair share. More than their fair share really. It is the .1% or even .01% that draw far more from society than they pay.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
To add to this, what about those unable to take care of themselves. Children, the mentally ill, those who are badly addicted, those who are easily taken advantage of (like in borderline elder abuse cases).
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
When renting out part of your home, does protected status apply? Last I remember if a woman only wants another woman to live in her home that is legal even though gender is a protected class. Only after passing certain limits does protect
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
And when race is one such aggregate?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
So given how little work is done reproducing findings, there is minimal value?
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Combined with a bias in family courts, an acceptance of alternate families (so a reduction in social costs of not marrying), and a rise in the acceptance of divorce. Why marry when you can cohabitate in a state without common law marriage.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Promoting marriage? All I've see is a massive increase in the risk of marrying, especially as a man.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Sounds like saying we already have clear evidence but it'll take time to dig through it so you are now compelled to show us where you hid the body.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Odd that the phone records were needed. If I thought the victim was telling the truth about beimg abused then the records wouldn't matter and if I had reason to doubt them then I don't see matching phone records satisfying the do
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
I never used that word. I called it harassment, which can come in different varieties. Upon reviewing my previous response, I don't even see where I made mention of gender even to the extent of a pronoun.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>The original story told about a couple of polite phonecalls where they have requested to talk with her. How does it get described as "harassment"? As soon as they continued after the very first 'no' it becomes harass
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
I think the difference here is not that it was entrapment, but that it wasn't a crime at all. Unless the law says this crime is strict liability, then the prosecutor would need to show that these individuals intended to commit the cri
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
But the damages are still done. By having a library where people can get a book for free instead of buying it, even though there is some throughput limits, they still make it so that the media is no longer consumed. Imagine a pirating serv
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
A pirated book likely came from a purchased original.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Given the extent contracts are abused by the powerful to exploit the weak, I'm thinking your suggestion might be an improvement over the current situation.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>Imagine the same site with pirated high quality scientific books. Imagine if publishers went and banned libraries, because only those who can afford books should be allowed to read them.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
It is my opinion that any research behind a paywall does not exist. If I told you that I have research that showed some effect X, but there was no way for me to make that accessible to the public, no one would put any weight at all behind
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>That said, the H1-B gives companies way too much leverage over their workers. Which is why they need to be done away with. If we still want the talent (and why shouldn't we, brain fill is good), we need a way for them to enter whi
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>But seriously, sounds like a "good idea" gone wrong Don't contribute to stupidity what can adequately be explained by malice, especially when dealing with a massive company who hires quite intelligent individuals. Lock-in
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Corporations have spent decades conditioning their users to accept all ToSs and EULAs, using a combination of forbidding the software outright (often with no ability to get a refund) and applying scary language that they have limited the ab
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
One solution would be to not give basic income for children, but to give it to children once they are working age (~16) or when they become an independent adult (18). Everyone gets a certain amount to provide a very basic life on, where th
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Is having a child a basic or a luxury? This idea seems to be built on a notion that there are needs and that their are wants, and that we are only going to give enough to supply needs. But there are two major underlying problems with this.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>This article says it's talking about a universal basic income, and makes the usual point that a completely universal, no-strings-attached income is simple to administer, doesn't have poverty traps, etc. Does anyone advocate gi
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
Once they can read minds, what then? And this isn't just science fiction; I've read reports that a persons inner monologue is soon to be accessible because when you talk in your head, it causes ever so slight commands to be sent
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>It would be obstruction, not destruction. It is obstruction in the same way that requesting a warrant before handing over evidence is obstruction.
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by Lawtonfogle 10y ago
>Are men more valuable to the market? And if so, why? Maybe men and women work equally hard, all else being equal, but in a society where a man's income is used to determine his worth as a person to a greater extent that a woman&#x

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