laurelrusswurm at 2013-12-28T11:29:26Z
There was a time not too long ago when perfectly honourable people believed slavery was fine.Jacob Barkdull, Jason Self, a(n) person likes this.
None of the things I mentioned are on the same level as human bondage. I used to make the mistake of making that comparison to modern issues. It's a mistake.
I'm reminded of when Alan Keyes says that USA's income tax is the same as slavery.
It's not a question of equivalence, but attitude. When slavery was permitted by law, many reasonable law abiding citizens accepted it. Still, you might want to rethink what constitutes "human bondage." Many years after American abolition of slavery, your civil rights movement was still necessary.Citizens require protection from the state ~ Civil Rights ~ because the state can't be trusted. Certainly not to interpret nuance. Even with civil rights written in law, we've seen how quickly they can be done away with. Erosion of civil rights and constant surveillance strips people of the human right of privacy, and imposing its own form of bondage. At minimum, constant surveillance puts a chilling effect on freedom.From what you wrote, I am quite sure your father sees himself as one of the good guys, just as I am quite sure he has never yet had personal cause to fear the state. How many Americans can say that, I wonder?Has he considered what country he would be living in today if the British Government had had NSA capabilities in 1776? Or if Adolph Hitler had had the capability to do what the NSA is doing today?Even if you Americans are fine with being watched by your own government, many citizens of foreign nations don't appreciate it.
Here in Canada we have enough to worry about from our own government. Up here, Canadian activists, environmentalists, First Nations people and copyright lawyers get labelled "radical extremists" and are very likely subject to government surveillance.Our countries are not so different, so I expect you are considered a radical in some government circles. It might be an idea to ask your dad if you are on any government watch list.
Stockholm Pride 2013
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This is something I didn't fully grasp until I thought about what the early pride parades in San Francisco were like, and what the Russian non-straight population is going through right now. Though, I think there would be less confusion if it were explicitly about defiance and lack of shame, than pride in something you can't control.
Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-29T04:06:38Z
OK - I've got a fragile but barely-working pump-to-RSS bridge going at https://pump2rss.com/ .
It's about as rudimentary as possible -- put in a pump handle, and it will spit out the last N activities as an Atom feed.
It tries to be smart about which activities should be shown as objects and which should be shown as activities -- any help would be welcome on that score.
I still have a few things to add to the feeds -- attachments would be great. And at some point I'd like to PubSubHubbub-enable the feeds.
The code is here: https://github.com/e14n/pump2rss If anyone wants to help out, please let me know!McScx, *freie funken*, Mike Linksvayer, Arthur Lutz and 30 others likes this.
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@Jacob, by "public JSON feeds", do you mean what ofirehose.com provides?
Question? public only correct? basically the same stuff that goes to firehose?
Is it on purpose that "re-shares" are not included ?arthurlutz: no, it's not on purpose. It's probably due to the fact that shares are sent by default just to your followers. I'll see what I can do to fix that up.
Arne Babenhauserheide at 2013-07-08T06:15:50+00:00
“If you feel that way about [GPL], then you are probably one of the reasons the license was made.” → ur1.ca/ekdyp — great comment!Jacob Barkdull likes this.
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9GAG at 2012-08-18T15:28:07+00:00
Everyone has an annoying friend. If you don’t have one, it’s probably you.nba hat, Aleksej, fzerorubigd, Jacob Barkdull and 5 others likes this.
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X11R5 at 2012-04-30T19:20:05+00:00
or a homo-erotic special move by a big penis for 45 seconds. I guess that makes sense. Another example would be "a user"ddevine@identi.ca, Kipngetich Ibrahim Ngeno, Jacob Barkdull, Clay Hobbs and 3 others likes this.
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@x11r5 Most of the users I encounter fall into the former category♺ @x11r5: or a homo-erotic special move by a big penis for 45 seconds. I guess that makes sense. Another example would be "a user"
@x11r5 Well, I guess you're not customer-focused enough then let alone caring.
What is this special move you speak of? I need some tips. #foreveraloneX11R5 at 2012-02-21T23:56:11+00:00
@speeddefrost Now would be so easy to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not widely recognized as a featureJacob Barkdull, a(n) person, Brian van den Broek likes this.
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That's so profound. Have a +1. :)You always know the exact right things to say to me. Thanks.
Stav Prodromou at 2012-01-30T21:15:25+00:00
Electile Dysfunction: inability to become aroused by any of the choices for President put forth by either party in 2012 !humor !neologismBruce Cowan, Jacob Barkdull, Hugh Barnes, Craig Maloney likes this.
Ed Fonseca at 2011-12-07T22:03:42+00:00
Understanding female anime characters http://identi.ca/attachment/61838593Jacob Barkdull, Neil Hodges likes this.
@edythemighty Good one! :D
@edythemighty Where did you find this?
Patrick Niedzielski at 2011-09-11T18:34:37+00:00
http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/9918102.jpg Server Admin-ingJacob Barkdull likes this.
X11R5 at 2011-08-29T03:20:06+00:00
What's this newfangled dadbummed bitcoin thing all about?Jacob Barkdull, Michael Gratton, Brett Smith, Sidney Charles Witherjay and 2 others likes this.
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Walter Lapchynski at 2011-06-30T05:30:55+00:00
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@wxl Sounds like the beginning to an "Angels & Airwaves" song.
yareckon at 2011-03-15T22:17:18+00:00
nice Stallman quote on Linus' indifference to tivoization "His rejection of GPLv3 is why most !Android phones are jails." !linuxOsama Khalid, Jacob Barkdull, Kete Foy likes this.
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laurelrusswurm at 2011-03-14T20:16:44+00:00
Microsoft is making IE9 available today; please upgrade by clicking here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ @tnorthcutt !remix !fsfCarlos Solís, Osama Khalid, a(n) person, Kete Foy and 6 others likes this.
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Manu García at 2011-07-02T21:23:12+00:00
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded http://i.imgur.com/rx8SY.jpg !q Lawrence KraussJacob Barkdull, Kuro Sawai likes this.
@lendu not all of the hydrogen
