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by noarchy 13y ago
Since when was the state responsible for culture and identity. I thought that was for the people..... Maybe you have to live here, to see the scope of how much the government thinks that it is their business. I received mail from the go
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by noarchy 13y ago
The announcement marks a change of heart by the government, which declined last year to grant pardons to the 49,000 gay men, now dead, who were convicted under the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act. They include Oscar Wilde. Pardoning only
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by noarchy 13y ago
Private space for everyone costs more. The entire point of the open plan is to save money, but it gets sold as something entirely different.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Property taxes are, effectively, rent paid to the local government by people who otherwise think that they own said property. Fail to pay it, and you get evicted. It is quite a racket already, but combine this with crony deals with privat
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by noarchy 13y ago
We know the US isn't the only country engaged in widespread spying. I'd be surprised if Brazil isn't doing it. We're all probably better off assuming that any country that can spy, is doing it. Of course, people can ca
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by noarchy 13y ago
So after these revelations of government spying, the idea is to trust email to a government? There is a potential user of such a system born every minute, I suppose.
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by noarchy 13y ago
"Hired to serve", but it brings to mind the following quote from Noam Chomsky, regarding who is being served: "Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to co
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by noarchy 13y ago
In some workplaces, not fitting into the social clubs makes you a poor "cultural fit". You have to go to the right meetups, drink the right beers with the right people, and so on. Contract extensions and promotions depend on it. T
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by noarchy 13y ago
I'm close to Ottawa. You can get by if you are riding mostly downtown, but if you're riding a road bike, it gets treacherous elsewhere very quickly. Fatter tires surely help.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Ottawa-Gatineau area, in my case. The downtown areas can often be clear of snow/ice, but not if you're on the outskirts. In this case it isn't the gear so much as the tire width.
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by noarchy 13y ago
I have to concur with the exercise-as-commute routine. I also cycle to/from work. My ride home, where I keep a brisk pace with some sprints mixed in, is actually my real workout. It is quite satisfying to arrive home having already wor
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by noarchy 13y ago
This. The "need" for secret information frequently means covering up for whatever rotten thing the government is doing somewhere. Decades later, you get to see the declassified documents, and you can see why the criminals of the t
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by noarchy 13y ago
In the case of one of our infamous hellbanned posters (hint: the guy with the random text generator, attributed to "God"), I'm fairly sure that he knows he's hellbanned.
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by noarchy 13y ago
People create threads to discuss hellbans (or shadowbans, or whatever others might prefer) from time to time, too. Hellbanning is a practice that I find almost embarrassing. Browse this site with "show dead" enabled, and you'
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by noarchy 13y ago
Part of this is the result of capitalism (for better or worse), sure, but this story is specifically about government trying to take a broom to a certain part of the population, and sweep them out.
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by noarchy 13y ago
On what basis can they even mandate such a ban? Is it based on the government's ownership of roads? In that case, can you live in your car on private property (parking lots, driveways, etc)? The article doesn't give enough info.
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by noarchy 13y ago
It isn't FUD. You're basically saying it is ok, as long as gays keep their mouths shut, and don't utter "propaganda".
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Android 4.3's New 'Always-On' Wi-Fi Feature Buried in Settings(pcmag.com)
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by noarchy 13y ago
That's $200 on contract, an important distinction for some of us. But the battery life is definitely one of the killer features of this phone. If you want good specs, without paying a lot, there is the very nice Nexus 4 (likely due for
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by noarchy 13y ago
I have no doubt that this will spread. I'm almost surprised that it hasn't taken off before now. But as for the people of Mass., they won't be rolling over and "giving". It is money that will be taken . That's
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by noarchy 13y ago
>I've never been clear why people think "guns" will protect them from a government that has massive technological and economic resources at their disposal. Those economic resource, of course, were taken from the population
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by noarchy 13y ago
The nice thing about Facebook, Google, and Twitter is that I don't have to use them. If there is a way to opt-out of what the NSA is doing, or what the government of my own country (Canada) is likely doing, I'd love to know about
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by noarchy 13y ago
Unfortunately, we're still quite capable of annihilating the world several times over with nuclear weapons. We just don't seem to be threatening to do so, these days, at least not so openly. The nuclear cartel, for lack of a bette
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by noarchy 13y ago
I normally work as a contractor, so I get paid for my time. So I'll work overtime, and in fact will work as much as my client wants. They're aware of the costs, and so everything works out. But I have to say, if I didn't get
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by noarchy 13y ago
Of course corporate entities should not be getting away with anything you haven't agreed to let them do. People need to become more aware of what they're agreeing to when they use any service. You can try to inform them, but you c
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by noarchy 13y ago
I've seen a number of people over the years who would take smoke breaks nearly every hour of the day. That doesn't necessarily impair judgment, but it may have an impact on performance. In theory this is something on which you can
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by noarchy 13y ago
These major media companies are just that. They are in the business of business, so what drives eyeballs to newspapers or television screens, or ears to the radio, is what will often take precedence. They're essentially giving the publ
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by noarchy 13y ago
I can't think of a better way to drive traffic to the authors that OP mentioned than to take this approach. You're going to make people wonder just what they're missing, if this stuff is so "extremist". I'd be
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by noarchy 13y ago
>Taxes are the means of transferring worth to folks like firefighters, police officers, construction works etc... You know, the folks who hold up infrastructure and need to eat food and stuff. And I can count on one hand the number of pe
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by noarchy 13y ago
Particularly, filters run by government . If private companies struggle to do this, imagine how poorly a team of bureaucrats will be at this.

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