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by king_jester 12y ago
> But when I read recent reports about arson, looting, windows smashed, trash cans overturned and lit on fire, businesses destroyed, police officers assaulted with rocks, explosives and firebombs, millions of damages caused, when I read
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by king_jester 12y ago
> and he attacked the police officer and tried to take the officer's gun This is disputed by witness testimony: same say this happened, others say it didn't. Other testimony indicates that Wilson may have instigated conflict wh
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by king_jester 12y ago
There are plenty of straight folks doing this same thing but there is no ban on people from talking about heterosexuality around minors.
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by king_jester 12y ago
The trouble always was being able to find all those missing pieces when the download took a long time. These scenes really encouraged a level of interaction with other users that is kind of missing today. Knowing someone who was consistentl
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Also, what was reported to Uber was allegations of "staring" and just generally making the passenger feel uncomfortable. While thats definitely not cool and not the experience anyone wants to have with Uber, thats hardly enou
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by king_jester 12y ago
It's always amazing how people repeat this coal mine idea: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-...
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Removing criminals from society is easy and straightforward. This is one of the biggest misconceptions about prison. Prisons and incarceration do not remove people from society, those people are still a part of society even if their in
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by king_jester 12y ago
> His racism probably isn't his fault. It's probably a factor of his condition. I don't know if his racism is the result of or related to his condition. However, even if it is, so what? Why exactly does that behavior get t
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by king_jester 12y ago
> but it's a shame people's dinner conversations or even pub conversations will be taken as their official edicts and sanctioned pronouncements --when lots of times there is boasting, bravado, nervousness and other times there
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by king_jester 12y ago
> We know what happens when humans are free to have all the food we want. They get fat. Next question. Nope, not even close. Access to food is not a causal relationship with being fat and fat people exist even when food isn't easil
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by king_jester 12y ago
Bad behavior by some journalists doesn't justify personal attacks by companies against journalists.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Juvenile crime rates are plummeting, and the leading theory is that it's because all the kids are too busy on their electronic devices to commit any crimes. I have never heard that theory at all from any crime reporting, statistic
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by king_jester 12y ago
While clearly some folks that get booked are harder to work with than others, do you even know what dehumanization looks like for someone like that? It's not safety procedures taken by officers, its getting the shit beaten out of you b
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Most of the inmates in our prison system are treated "with humanity." This is not true whatsoever. Fundamentally, if the system that feeds prisons treated people with humanity, a large number of people would never be prisoner
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by king_jester 12y ago
Prison still sucks even if you can follow your diet. Its not like prisoners who have allergy reasons for avoiding things like dairy and honey are having a great time. The fact that he went to high security holding and didn't have acces
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by king_jester 12y ago
In Material design, you are still intended to make use of proper cues for useable components. Interactive components are supposed to exist as another logical layer on top of static content. This is the change from Holo, do not use flat thin
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by king_jester 12y ago
> as they passed the ACA, they simply changed to rules to use the reconciliation process to pass what they wanted without the Republicans being able to say a word. Not quite. The Democrats had 60 Senate seats for a very brief period bef
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by king_jester 12y ago
At no point since 2009 did the Democrats control 60 or more seats in the Senate, which would be a requriement to beat a filibuster from the opposing party. So no, the Democratic party did not have a free license for appointee approvals. EDI
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by king_jester 12y ago
Android Studio is always ahead in Android support, so if you want to take advantage of some new feature in a future update, you'll have to wait for Intellij to get it. That said, most common things like gradle support and SDK support a
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by king_jester 12y ago
It's not just the privately run prison complexes, but also suppliers, consultancies, police equipment manufacturers, arms manufacturers, and so. That's the 'industrial' in prison industrial complex.
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by king_jester 12y ago
The broken windows theory is not accurate and is extremely controversial in its implementations. Moreover, the kinds of things broken windows fallacy argues against are not petty theft, but things involving infrastructure and the status of
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by king_jester 12y ago
This already happens all the time for salaried employees, they often receive vacation time that doesn't reduce their yearly salary and this works perfectly fine for those roles. This isn't a tax scenario, this is more of a compens
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Being opposed to gay marriage does not imply being against homosexuals. How is that even possible? How is enforcing legal restrictions against a minority class of people not inherently discriminatory?
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by king_jester 12y ago
It's important for mere visibility and representation of MOGAI people in general. Everyone is generally assumed to be heterosexual by default, so people who are het don't need to make public announcements about it.
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is true, and you can easily view this as a form of abuse against userbases: your data will be exploited and not properly secured while a company profits and you suffer the consequences.
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by king_jester 12y ago
This is true, but generally aid and scholarships aren't enough to cover costs for one full year, let alone two. Many students will take out loans because of this.
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by king_jester 12y ago
> Have a 3.0? Dont have any drug arrests or convictions? The first two things are the reason why a lot of people I knew had to go to community college instead of directly to university. Florida has a similar program (Bright Futures) that
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by king_jester 12y ago
A lot of apps are just API consumers, but apps with any kind of moderately advanced functionality will require some kind of entity model and business rules that need to be captured. Having those things go out of sync between platforms can b
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by king_jester 12y ago
> The author of this piece made the classic, and often unavoidable mistake of being between a rock and a hard place and not vetting the company she interviewed at and ultimately worked for for a day. Vetting a place for a hostile work en
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by king_jester 12y ago
I'm not surprised that a company that would treat its service providers so shitty would also treat its employees that way. Between stories like this and the things I hear about other service startups like Task Rabbit it makes me never

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