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Because now you are responsible for all followups on those small miscellaneous tasks, and those might come up when you don't have two extra hours in the day.

I'm the child of substinence farmers and have had to go hungry and without shelter for multiple days. Am I allowed to hold such opinions?

Well, yes. Most people who suggest such things aren't considering what it would take to get humans to work because they assume all the work will be done by robotic slaves.

Shocked in a good way, sure. Locking up half of all Americans would be uncontrovertible evidence that these bullshit laws need to be rewritten.

Locking up tons of people who others think don't deserve to be in prison is exactly how you start a social movement to change something.

This system has a long and defendable track record of encouraging assholes to commit small violations that are not worth suing over, while penalizing those that are considerate of others.

Their salaries are. That's the whole point of this submission.

So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.

It would be a step in the right direction.

Uh, yeah. We're not talking about their process. We're talking about how to improve it. AKA by making it not bullshit and by requiring real verification.

The whole point is you don't verify it. You accept their government-issued identification and verify the validity of that. Currently this is done stupidly by comparing their face to a photograph, but if the demand is there, the process will improve.

Compare to how we verify certificates. Trusted CAs issue certs and we verify the chain of trust.

Sure there is. Outsource that verification to someone who already needs to do it, like the local government. South Korea has a pretty poor implementation of this already, but things will only get better over time.

No more than they would send you several hundred separate bills. If all the domains are linked to the same account, verify the account and you're done.

And if you are not a Bad Person, there is plenty of compassion. Sounds like a more efficient system than blindly distributing compassion to everyone regardless of merit.

"The measure of a value judgment is whether it is enclosed by quotation marks"

That's hardly news. It's been happening for decades, and before that it was the same story except with Jews instead.

I have never seen a venue that would have failed to give a complete refund in that scenario. That's basic customer service.

The problem is exactly what I said. The use of the phrase voluntary pedophilia. It is a problem because it implies that such a thing actually exists.

You consider wikipedia part of facebook's walled garden? Or you just don't see any benefit to providing poor people around the world with access to it?

If you get fired before payday, your employer is still legally obligated to pay you for the days you actually did work during that period.

It's also totally reasonable for them to not provide their product in a form that only a tiny percentage of people actually need. Might as well complain that they no longer sell VHS tapes because "all I have is a VCR and I just want content in a form I can watch". At some point you have to recognize that you need to meet them halfway. I mean heck, you even recognize that Flash isn't supported on Linux. How hard is it to replace the word "Flash" in that sentence with "Hulu"?

Or instead of playing a blame game, perhaps we can try to be good people and improve society.

Nobody's claiming the answer is to simply accept bad laws along with the good ones. That's absurd. It should be pretty obvious that the only sensible answer is to get rid of the bad laws. We're just talking about what to do in the interim, since that process is not going to be instantaneous - scoff at whichever laws you personally disagree with, break those laws and accept the preposterous consequences as a form of protest, or follow them even though they're stupid. If you don't see the first option as a recipe for chaos, I don't know what else to say to you.

I disagree. If you want to use civil disobedience as a tool for changing bad laws, you have to be willing to accept the punishment for disobeying those laws. Otherwise you're not an activist, just an asshole.

If you'd rather not be punished for breaking a bad law, that's fine too. Just lobby for it to be changed without violating the law, like the rest of us.

If you don't want to face charges, don't commit the crime in the first place.

But more seriously, you will face charges anyway. And if you haven't said anything, that will only prolong the inevitable. Or is it your personal goal to get away with committing crimes?

Using illegal methods is bad. Catching bad guys is good. Using illegal methods to catch bad guys? That's a much more complicated question than you make it out to be.

If you're actually guilty, please do talk to the police. It will save everyone a lot of time.

Why does it matter if this is really why he was caught? The facts are that he was caught, and there was a legal way for him to have been caught. That's why parallel reconstruction is acceptable in the first place.

Yes, that's why he's challenging how the rule of law works. Otherwise people wouldn't be so obsessed with this quote. Surely when it comes to a topic like this, you could come up with some reasons why a change to the status quo is bad other than "that's not how we do it now"?

That's not the problem. The problem is how he expresses it - especially the phrasing "voluntary pedophilia". It's very similar to the hullabaloo about Todd Akin's statements where he spoke about "legitimate rape victims".