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by wfo 9y ago
The article also touches on the case where the person is not legally qualified to understand that what they have done is criminal. Or even to understand that what the company is doing is criminal. Unfortunately it's a smaller part in t
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by wfo 9y ago
You are certainly correct about fascism and dictatorship, that was a mistake not an intentional bait and switch on my part. And certainly in isolated cases dictatorships can be better than democracies. But I think there's plenty of evi
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by wfo 9y ago
If you are getting a vote on the board of a company you are management, not labor so yes you're right unions are not great for you. They make your life harder because now instead of having complete and total control over your workers,
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by wfo 9y ago
No, the governance structure of a union is democracy. The governance structure of a corporation is dictatorship. The corporate structure is designed with the interests of management and shareholders in mind. To protect against brutal abuses
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, because Aaron was not faculty.
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by wfo 10y ago
The bad faith I was referring to was the multiple-paragraph long rant that takes place entirely in your perception of the internal thought process of the people that disagree with you. Let them speak for themselves, they're perfectly c
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by wfo 10y ago
Sure. If I beat you up and take your bike in the United States, I possess your bike, but I don't own it. That's an easy distinction by example and it is noncircular. The law thinks it belongs to you and men with guns will try to t
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by wfo 10y ago
If developers had a professional organization and working for Uber (or some company that does things which are banned by that organization) was a black mark on your resume that would ensure you never get a good job again, then we'd be
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by wfo 10y ago
No, they don't have ownership, they have possession. And they use violence to enforce it. And if they leave their possessions, even for a moment, they don't have them anymore and another animal takes them.
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by wfo 10y ago
You should try to present an argument against the position of your opponents in good faith, against the best version of their argument. Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are experiencing "cognitive dissonance&q
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by wfo 10y ago
The downvote, at least from me, was because: 1) Suggesting that posting/reading an interview with someone with radical views is "glorifying" them. How dare we listen to the opinions of others? 2) The post implicitly accepts t
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by wfo 10y ago
Ownership /in general/ is an ephemeral fantasy that does not "exist" per se and is socially constructed. You "own" a piece of property only by virtue of the fact that the law decides nobody else can step on it.
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by wfo 10y ago
You're going to need a stronger argument than "I know what's in your head better than you do" if you want to accuse wide swaths of people you've never met of lying.
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by wfo 10y ago
In order to make an effective argument you need to sympathize with and understand the positions of your opponents. You should be able to produce an honest, excellent argument in support of the opposing position before you should expect your
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by wfo 10y ago
I'm tempted to agree with you ignoring some concerns mentioned downthread: in wartime (which looks like it is approaching fast), the judicial branch tends to let the executive do what it wishes. Imprison every American citizen with a c
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by wfo 10y ago
I can understand many of these moves even though I don't agree with them -- these agencies are wasteful from the perspective of very very conservative people. They are government overreach from a Libertarian perspective. They are advoc
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes, established recently to deal with an enormous crisis of failures in forensic science that were putting innocent people in jail in huge numbers across the country. The FBI crime lab was essentially doing junk science and sending expert
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by wfo 10y ago
You are correct that other offices matter and do not use the electoral college but the one office that does use it is exactly the one that we are discussing in this thread (recall, it began with "thanks Jill Stein voters"). It&#x2
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by wfo 10y ago
Weird, I seem to remember the legislative branch repealing some regulations that nearly all Americans support exactly on party lines in order to make the Internet worse recently... It doesn't matter at all in this particular instance b
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by wfo 10y ago
Specifically, all non-Clinton voters and non-voters in a tiny number of relevant states. For everyone else, their votes never counted. To blame it on Stein specifically is of course insane and purposely incendiary without any other purpose
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by wfo 10y ago
I don't have a problem with skeptics. They're a healthy part of the scientific ecosystem. But as devil's advocate style checks against the consensus, challenging premises and acting in an adversarial but respectful manner. Ma
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by wfo 10y ago
If you're so concerned that the Trump administration is actually doing the right thing here and they are being inappropriately maligned, you can certainly go look at the legal request and check for yourself on what grounds it was made.
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by wfo 10y ago
Yes, the horrible life of the persecuted right wing racists. We MUST let them spew any racist garbage they wish at all times on any platform, otherwise they will throw a hissy fit and vote for Trump again. It's very important we let ou
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by wfo 10y ago
It doesn't need to be, anyone with the most basic understanding of the issues or anyone who cares enough to do the most basic cursory examination of the facts knows exactly what's being referred to. There simply is no worthwhile d
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by wfo 10y ago
Agreed, but selling software you wrote to a person while knowing they intend to commit a crime with it on the other hand... Not sure that happened here but I don't have a problem with that being illegal.
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by wfo 10y ago
They are pretty objective, but you're right they are oriented around what's testable. This mostly is true in large intro classes -- specialized grad courses (well really qualifiers), advanced undergrad courses with 10 students, th
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by wfo 10y ago
Obviously this scheme is just political pandering. They want to create an organization whose sole purpose is to assault the legitimacy of factual science for political purposes, and put it inside the government under the guise of "scie
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by wfo 10y ago
Does this even help? Are DNS requests encrypted? I had thought that they were not.
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by wfo 10y ago
I don't think Trump supporters are actually behind this. It's one of those things he never campaigned on but we're going to get anyway. Plus, it's congress that pushed it. Presumably, if it's unpopular enough he cou
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by wfo 10y ago
Well, that's exactly the point. Just as corporations extract questionable value from society on behalf of their owning structure, unions extract questionable value from society on behalf of the workers. They are a similar-in-kind count

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