no methods exist to adequately ensure those machines are safe to use in future elections
So, after the machines were in a possession of possible hackers for a few weeks, all bets are off.
Yet, we're supposed to believe, they were safe and sound before — whoever designed and built them, and whoever had access to them before the poll...
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Evidently, claims of having "debunked" it were premature, and what was presented as a fact, was merely an opinion.
Quite frankly, Kyle, it ain't your web-site either...
Michigan Merit Curriculum
The real question is — or should be — why does the government decide college curriculum in the first place?
If the origin is known, it will display the information
Cellar will tell you, where the seller is located — not where the product was made.
Interestingly, according to the plugin's description, on amazon.cn, the seller's country is always displayed already — what are they, racist or something?
The origin of the item being sold ought to be a field as mandatory for the sellers to populate as the price. Then, Amazon ought to allow shoppers to explicitly exclude or include whatever countries they wish to boycott/support.
For a while I thought not implementing this feature was a deliberate act by Amazon, but now, seeing, how crappy their search engine is, I'm beginning to suspect, it is simply incompetence, rather than malice.
Feel free to come up with a reliable method that does not require government involvement
A reliable method for what, Karen?
For keeping your children away from somebody's web-site?
It appears, you've run out of arguments — and had to switch to Ad Hominem. I accept your surrender. Remember to logout.
public amenities are regularly given to cities by benefactors who live in the community
That only makes sense, when the subject is tangible property. Does anyone even own the software projects in subject?
What you said is a pithy false dichotomy that disregards any and all motivations other than pay and pleasure.
No. You pick that litter because it gives you pleasure — you've improved the world around you, and can feel better about yourself. You're under no obligation to do it. I know, that this is, what motivates me to fill out bug-reports, donate my own code, return shopping carts, and, yes, pick up litter.
disagree with your thinking that such demands are being made here
Well, I'll be happy if you end up being right.
Could you specify what you took as a demand?
The implication, immediately following from the (rhetorical) question, whether the current model is "sustainable", that the current state of affairs is, in fact, "not sustainable". Which further implies, the development may cease if someone does not pony up the donations.
Because capitalism demands that Facebook be allowed
Not capitalism. Human rights demand that. If Zuckerberg chooses to pursue happiness that way, it is his right.
equivalent of luring kids to smoke cigarettes
At least, smoking has been scientifically proven to harm... Social media? Meh...
The only way to prevent Facebook from doing that (harm kids) is for the government to intervene
You don't value parenting for much, do you?
It does not just "take a village", "it takes a sheriff", in your opinion, to keep all kids from the web-site, that you want to keep away from your children... You do have children, right? Right?!
Because otherwise Instagram/facebook for kids will get implemented
Hate, when that happens!
facebook has shown that they can't moderate their content or protect people
Protect from what?
Sticks and stones — which break bones — do not transfer through Internet. And the words never hurt me...
Can you defend the need for government to keep your children from an Internet site without ad hominem?
Kids absolutely do not need a facebook
Nobody needs Facebook. Some people choose to use it.
Why must government be involved in keeping your children away from it?
everyone should care
And the government has to rescue the children from this menace. Right, Karen?
When open source software is being developed for the common good
There is no such thing. Things are done either as a hobby, or for pay. (The luckiest among us are those, for whom hobby and profession overlap significantly.) That's it.
it’s not unreasonable to ask how we might want to see that work supported financially
Only if the strings of such financial support were originally attached in the license and/or other documentation. To begin demanding it later is "bait and switch"...
in the same way that we as a public support roads, parks, or other projects
Those amenities are paid for with tax monies from the get go. Anyone volunteering to work on them is not entitled to back pay later.
Right now we don’t have public systems in place to provide that sort of support, and we may never
Yeah, wouldn't it be nice for gcc to be managed by the government? Who, in your opinion, would do it better — Donald Trump or Joe Biden?
it makes sense to depend on charity or corporate contributions
Once you begin demanding it — and Linus' words cannot be taken as anything other than a demand — it is no longer "charity"...
"Oh what wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face..." -- a prisoner in "Life of Brian"
