It's worse than that. As the next paragraph says: "The online data were collected in two stages. In the first stage, the participants were recruited via several open internet discussion forums and several student…
There's a lot of trust of the government here[1] and in general[2] -- though, as that Gallup link shows, it MASSIVELY depends on which arm of the government you're talking about. Again, not many people live in or around…
It feels like everyone would be better served if the tech community admitted the legitimacy of the government's (and many, MANY people's) security concerns and stopped pretending that the right to privacy always trumps…
Ah, yeah, you're right. My bad.
Ah How does that work with Norway and Switzerland? Or is that different because they're members of the Schengen?
Gove's statement today -- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-... -- sounds to me like he'd also like the UK to leave the ECHR.
True.
> There is also a quote of Gandhi I cannot find. So I'll paraphrase: If you are angry at someone, and he did not intend to hurt you, you should not be angry. If he did intend to hurt you, he is not as wise/it's in his…
Wait. So, on your view, it's fair -- "Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination" or "Just or appropriate in the circumstances", according to oxforddictionaries.com's top two definitions -- for a…
On one version of retributive thinking, retribution isn't really about restoring fairness, about balancing out cosmic scales of justice. It's about giving a person what's due to him or her. We call it reward when what's…
So if imprisoning people for beyond 16 years doesn't provide better opportunities for rehabilitation or reintegration, isn't that a reason to continue imprisoning them beyond 16 years in order to protect society from…
> "Coming from Denmark where life is max 16 years..." What's the rationale for that limit? Is that the maximum time it takes to reform someone? The time after which anyone's being a threat to society expires? The magic…
That's not being bad at abstract thinking. That's thinking abstractly (and well), but just differently from you.
I don't even know where to begin. And I mean that literally. I started typing about five different responses, each beginning differently. None of them seemed to work, and besides I would've probably ended up typing too…
> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it I hope, for the sake of American democracy, that this just isn't true.
People still make that argument now. SCOTUS decisions don't suddenly change everyone's mind.
I don't think that's the trick. I'm talking about greater goods than privacy and order, goods that make privacy and order good. And I'm not just talking about things that one group or another really thinks should be…
Yes. And you could be a member of Ashley Madison who's just curious, or who's doing a documentary for Al Jazeera, or who's trying to see if your spouse is on it. I was speaking generally. I said that it's…
No, because I'm talking about intentions and motivations, not actions. I said it's reason to believe that someone has intentions/motivations to have an affair; I didn't say it's enough to believe that someone has had an…
Uh, what? How is membership in a website that is known, markets itself, and is designed as a cheating website not evidence of the intentions and motivations of its members? Of course membership in Ashley Madison isn't…
hyperoptic?
Yeah, I think -- and just about everything I've seen on it says -- that the net effect of the EU has been positive for all European countries and most European people involved. I also hope the experiment works, and not…
The European jury is out on whether or not there is ongoing catastrophic mass migration across the EU. Anti-immigration sentiment has been surging in the EU over the last few years in large part because of perceptions…
Haha, that article's brilliant!
It doesn't neatly fit into the "rebels" headline, but I think it should've given a sentence or two to the fact that countries like the UK, Canada, and (parts of) the US are now on summer time for most of the year. It's…
It's worse than that. As the next paragraph says: "The online data were collected in two stages. In the first stage, the participants were recruited via several open internet discussion forums and several student…
There's a lot of trust of the government here[1] and in general[2] -- though, as that Gallup link shows, it MASSIVELY depends on which arm of the government you're talking about. Again, not many people live in or around…
It feels like everyone would be better served if the tech community admitted the legitimacy of the government's (and many, MANY people's) security concerns and stopped pretending that the right to privacy always trumps…
Ah, yeah, you're right. My bad.
Ah How does that work with Norway and Switzerland? Or is that different because they're members of the Schengen?
Gove's statement today -- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-... -- sounds to me like he'd also like the UK to leave the ECHR.
True.
> There is also a quote of Gandhi I cannot find. So I'll paraphrase: If you are angry at someone, and he did not intend to hurt you, you should not be angry. If he did intend to hurt you, he is not as wise/it's in his…
Wait. So, on your view, it's fair -- "Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination" or "Just or appropriate in the circumstances", according to oxforddictionaries.com's top two definitions -- for a…
On one version of retributive thinking, retribution isn't really about restoring fairness, about balancing out cosmic scales of justice. It's about giving a person what's due to him or her. We call it reward when what's…
So if imprisoning people for beyond 16 years doesn't provide better opportunities for rehabilitation or reintegration, isn't that a reason to continue imprisoning them beyond 16 years in order to protect society from…
> "Coming from Denmark where life is max 16 years..." What's the rationale for that limit? Is that the maximum time it takes to reform someone? The time after which anyone's being a threat to society expires? The magic…
That's not being bad at abstract thinking. That's thinking abstractly (and well), but just differently from you.
I don't even know where to begin. And I mean that literally. I started typing about five different responses, each beginning differently. None of them seemed to work, and besides I would've probably ended up typing too…
> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it I hope, for the sake of American democracy, that this just isn't true.
People still make that argument now. SCOTUS decisions don't suddenly change everyone's mind.
I don't think that's the trick. I'm talking about greater goods than privacy and order, goods that make privacy and order good. And I'm not just talking about things that one group or another really thinks should be…
Yes. And you could be a member of Ashley Madison who's just curious, or who's doing a documentary for Al Jazeera, or who's trying to see if your spouse is on it. I was speaking generally. I said that it's…
No, because I'm talking about intentions and motivations, not actions. I said it's reason to believe that someone has intentions/motivations to have an affair; I didn't say it's enough to believe that someone has had an…
Uh, what? How is membership in a website that is known, markets itself, and is designed as a cheating website not evidence of the intentions and motivations of its members? Of course membership in Ashley Madison isn't…
hyperoptic?
Yeah, I think -- and just about everything I've seen on it says -- that the net effect of the EU has been positive for all European countries and most European people involved. I also hope the experiment works, and not…
The European jury is out on whether or not there is ongoing catastrophic mass migration across the EU. Anti-immigration sentiment has been surging in the EU over the last few years in large part because of perceptions…
Haha, that article's brilliant!
It doesn't neatly fit into the "rebels" headline, but I think it should've given a sentence or two to the fact that countries like the UK, Canada, and (parts of) the US are now on summer time for most of the year. It's…