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CommentRe:We need the coercive power of the state (Score 1)39

Bingo, people forget how artificial and unnatural copyright laws are. Someone tries to grab your stuff, you are morally justified to fight back, alone or with a million of your best friends who decided to form a city and hire police force. Someone sees you doing something and does the same thing, you have some unhealthy control issues if you complain. If it has to be a thing, make it truly time limited like 20 years and have generous exceptions like libraries can stock 5% of total copies in circulation.

CommentRe:Transphobic (Score 1)251

Would not wanting cis straight men to use women's bathrooms, shared locker rooms and sports competitions be androphobic? Having boundaries is perfectly healthy. Most have nothing to do with fear of you personally, but with a small minority who would take advantage of the situation. Others are not even about fear. I want to appear my best in front of opposite sex, in my own definition of opposite sex, and it's my right to brush my hair and put on flattering clothes before they see me. If other people have different preferences, they can join nudist camps.

CommentEven with a house, EV is a luxury second car (Score 1)186

I drive to other people's houses or AirBNBs quite often. What are the odds all of them will have chargers? If not, I have to sit in some random place late at night for an hour, provided there is a free spot with a working charger. I don't hate the planet, but my family's safety is a more immediate concern. Modular battery swapping is the way to go I would think.

CommentLinux is UNIX (Score 2)155

And runs on a whole lot of personal computing devices - phones, Chromebooks (as native OS and Crostini), Windows (WSL), NAS boxes, routers... No need to remember when it's everywhere. UNIX started out as an operating system with widely available sources, if not open sources in modern sense. It's attempts to create closed source proprietary ecosystems that largely failed. If the complaint is that interesting new CPUs were abandoned in favor of Intel, there are lots of ARM options these days and RISC V is coming up. I am actually typing it on a mini Elementary OS desktop that I get to avoid doing personal stuff on a work laptop, but desktops are largely out in general, so UNIX desktops are too. Although at work we do most development on Linux workstations.

CommentWhy would anyone expect otherwise? (Score 1)35

Companies and regulators are an adversarial relationship. Regulators should insist on certain type and quality of data available after an accident, companies should comply but can't be expected to criticize every aspect of their own performance. If I unfortunately have an accident, I am not expected to tell police officer, DMV and insurance companies all the ways I could have handled it better "oh you know, I was thinking of work and not paying attention, and I could have started breaking earlier...". There are certain facts I have to relay to the best of my knowledge, like whether I was stopped or moving during collision, and then authorities will determine who they think is at fault.

CommentRe:Not a Rose (Score 2)181

That's on us if we are so idiotic that we can't separate a creation from its creator. Asperger's is quite clearly not autism and is not necessarily disabling, with many affected having great family and professional lives. Conflating the two exposes some to unnecessary stigma and interventions and deprives others of full support they need. All because we have some beef with long dead author.

I would be happy to try out ReiserFS if it's indeed better for something. I would also support Hans Reiser being given access to computer that he can use to positively contribute to society despite his crimes, provided that any profits go to compensate his wife's relatives and/or general social benefits. If that happened, renaming the project would be in order. But thousands of California inmates are already keeping us safe as firefighters. I don't see benefiting from that, or even celebrating any heroic actions, as minimizing or celebrating their crimes. It's just completely separate things.

CommentNavajo == US Christian Conservatives (Score 1)193

But liberals love to pretend that the later are ignorant savages and the former have a great culture that has to be given unconditional deference. Whereas both should be given equal treatment. You are free to believe whatever you want and educate your children in your values. Schools have no right to say that moon is not sacred or that gay marriage is great. When children become adults, they will interact with the rest of society and form their own opinions on these subjects.

HOWEVER, your beliefs are not binding on everyone else in society. You are free to not have an abortion or bury remains on the moon, but you can't stop others from doing so if they want.

Off late, the same distortion is used to justify Hamas. Hamas may believe that any land once conquered by Muslims belongs to Muslims forever and needs to be reconquered by any means (I am not generalizing this belief beyond Hamas specifically and in fact a few officially Muslim countries normalized their relationship with Israel). Well, that's their belief, but it's not an international precedent. Unfortunately people are displaced all the time, however that does not entitle them to violently take the land back from current occupants who were born and grew up on it. We would rightly condemn a prosecute an attack on Germany by Jewish terrorists.

But because Hamas somehow won the oppressed badge from the left, they are the "freedom fighters". I just wish we could send everyone who thinks so to celebrate Pride Month in Gaza and then any survivors can tell us who much these guys are for freedom.

None of the above should be taken to be pro or against religion, gay marriage or moon burials, it's just that we need to end our derangement as a society and go back to the idea that everyone is free to believe whatever they want, meaning also that you can't force your neighbor or his kids to believe what you believe.

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