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by adekok 9y ago
My answer was general. What part of that was unclear? Or do you think that this guy has a law which applies only to him, and no one else? If you find yourself unable to understand simple English, it probably means you haven't been li
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by adekok 9y ago
Again, read what I wrote, and read the article. They can shut off THEIR car, if THEY own it, and if THEY have title. If he owns the car, Quebec law is clear that it is ILLEGAL for them to shut off the car, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONTRACT SAYS.
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by adekok 9y ago
> The article is unclear on whether the title was actually transferred before the disagreement over return of the tracker. Yes, the article is abundantly clear. You're getting downvoted because your position is counter to available
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by adekok 9y ago
No, the contract would say "if you don't pay for OUR car, we can shut off OUR car after 90 days". If you're making rental payments on a car like he was, the title is still with the dealer. And the dealer can do what the
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by adekok 9y ago
Sure.. but that didn't happen here. He paid off the car. And they still disabled it.
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by adekok 9y ago
If only there was an article which talked about water on the moon... But seriously, since you're going to be unnecessarily pedantic, you're still wrong. Bones (even dry ones on earth) have a MUCH higher percentage of water conten
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by adekok 9y ago
Mars is effectively a vacuum (for people purposes) anyways, just like the moon. And both are bone-dry, which means lots of static charges when you go outside. The main difference is that Mars has sufficient weather that the dust is roundis
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by adekok 9y ago
> The jump from sexism to racism made perfect sense to me, they're pretty analogous; Except I wasn't being sexist. The re-phrasing of my comment as racism was offensive and demeaning, and entirely not analogous. > Sexism
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by adekok 9y ago
> You say biological reasons, I say social programming. The science says biological reasons: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Baron-Cohen/publi... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belinda
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by adekok 9y ago
> Counter devils advocate - let me remap what you're saying to race: That makes about as much sense as saying "let me remap what you're saying to hair color" > If the above doesn't sound insane to you, I don&#
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by adekok 9y ago
> sexism in tech is a thing, and that it shouldn't be. To play devils advocate, sexism is a thing everywhere . In some cases, there are good biological reasons why men and women are treated differently, e.g. child care (mostly wo
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by adekok 9y ago
> And how much does it cost to have your entire engineering team audibly and visually distracted and annoyed 100% of the time? No one has any idea, because that isnt a cost which is tracked by the accounting department... therefore it ha
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by adekok 9y ago
> I gave a concrete example, you've asked a hypothetical. And... I'm done. You're not arguing from a position of honest discourse.
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by adekok 9y ago
Since we're doing stupid questions: Do believe that free speech should be suppressed, simply because you don't like the people? Or you don't like the topic of their speech? a) yes - you don't believe in free speech b) n
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by adekok 9y ago
Yup. Ad hominems on HN are OK, so long as it's against people who don't support the violence left.
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by adekok 9y ago
What takes incredible mental acrobatics is the ability to read what I said, and not understand simple English. You apparently believe that it's OK to suppress the speech of "bad people". My point is that such suppression is,
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by adekok 9y ago
> violence is their core value. There are many groups which are accused of having violence as their core value. e.g. The Nazi attacks on the Jews, who were alleged to be dedicated to the destruction of the Aryan race. That allegation was
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by adekok 9y ago
> But, I'm on team antifa in Charlottesville. I sure as hell don't want to be on the side of the Nazis who murdered someone. Which is a thinly-veiled ad homimen directed at me. The truth is that in my experience, the authorit
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by adekok 9y ago
> A white supremacist killed someone at the weekend for protesting. If their free speech gives you supreme confidence, then you are simply wrong. The GP said no such thing. He talked about speech , and you changed the subject to viole
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by adekok 9y ago
> As someone who cherishes the rule of law over the rule of man, not aiding and these illiberal parties is the minimum. That's good. But the rule of law should apply over "not aiding" those people. In the private sector
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by adekok 9y ago
Maybe the LA Times is better: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charlottesville-witnesse... With witness testimony of antifa violence. In my own home town, I've seen the militant left engage in violent protest o
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by adekok 9y ago
> This burden has fallen on women since they were teenagers. To expect them to do it yet again, to have to defend themselves at work this time, is ridiculous. See "Self made man" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by adekok 9y ago
> He brought up scientifically baseless, The science behind it is well established. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manif... From what I've seen, much of the anti-memo invective is based
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by adekok 9y ago
> My words were "scams are hard to detect" and I stand by them. I think it should be easy to detect that two addresses are not identical. Which should make this scam easy to detect. * shipped to different address * shipped t
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by adekok 9y ago
> ... security organization has been taken over by many ex-Microsoft executives who are fairly clueless when it comes to security. i.e. the people who hired them are also clueless wen it comes to security. And, the people who hired t
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by adekok 9y ago
I talked to one company which was required to have drug tests and a drug policy for their security clearances. Allegedly, the drug tests were multiple choice, and the drug policy was "share, and share alike"
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by adekok 9y ago
In Canada, lawsuits have indicated that being impaired at work isn't necessarily a firing offence. If being sober is a job requirement, you can get fired for not meeting those requirements. But if you're drunk in a call center..
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by adekok 9y ago
Bury your bathroom floor in 10' of dry dirt, and it will last almost forever.
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by adekok 9y ago
> This is different, though, from the case where you are employed as a secretary for a bodyguard company and then work as a musician outside of your regular employment, isn't it? Not really. If the contract states they own everyth
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by adekok 9y ago
In the US, it's possible for your employer to own your ideas: http://www.salon.com/2004/08/18/evan_brown/ Follow-up: https://everything2.com/title/The+Thoughts+of+Evan+Brown So

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