I don't care to hear any complaints about brutality.
That may be the way they did it in the old testament - cf the story of Susanna, but it is not appropriate now.
A basic principle of modern justice is that victims don't get too closely involved in the process. Otherwise the result is never ending blood feuds. If the victims relatives are involved and a miscarriage of justice occurs then the relatives of the falsely accused will take it out on the original victim's family.
No, we don't appreciate. Copyright is a mess and if it wasn't this would be a clear case where the service provided by freely making it available in multiple platforms clearly outmatches the need for some more profit. BBC will only manage to darken its image.
Since the BBC is funded by the licence fee - which the British public pays. It doesn't need to monetize things that the public has already paid for.
The attitudes of the KKK and similar have been characterised as hate - but I do not think that that is the correct usage of the word.
Some people are cruel to animals but no-one accuses them of hating animals.
True hate requires some knowledge (even if inaccurate) of the object - whereas the racist attitude is almost always based on a lack of knowledge.
The root cause of all these bad things is actualy much more straightforward. It is a lack of empathy, the inability to imagine yourself in the other's place.
The trouble is that "lack of empathy crime" doesn't roll of the tongue so well.
In my experience, people use "liberal" as a boogeyman,
and many other words too - in fact the term "hate speech" itself, anything ending "phobia" and quite a few other terms (fill in your own favourite) are easily used to stigmatize what might actually be valid criticism.
The problem with these words/phrases is that the people who use them are seldom prepared to say clearly what they mean - that way it is easier to categorise anything that you don't like with an emotional slur that is deliberately designed to be difficult to argue against.
"If that tool is taken away from us, 215, and, some untoward incident happens which should have been thwarted had we had it,
The onus would be on him to show HOW the tool would have prevented the attack.
So far none of the failures to prevent attacks have been traceable to a lack of security tools that increase the available data. In fact they have almost always been traceable to a lack of ability to discriminate relevant information from the large haystack of data that they already have.
In the absence of a demonstrable mechanism his argument becomes analogous to the kind of superstition that sportsmen often display. "When I won last time I tied may left shoelace first - if I tie my right shoelace first next time I will lose".
The purpose of the safeguards is to ensure that the authorities start from investigating a crime and search for suspects - as opposed to starting from a suspect and searching for a crime.
".it is the duty of those who have accepted them [Allah's word and message] to strive unceasingly to convert or at least to subjugate those who have not. This obligation is without limit of time or space. It must continue until the whole world has either accepted the Islamic faith or submitted to the power of the Islamic state"
"In reading Muslim literature -- both contemporary and classical -- one can see that the evidence for the primacy of spiritual jihad is negligible. Today it is certain that no Muslim, writing in a non-Western language (such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu), would ever make claims that jihad is primarily nonviolent or has been superseded by the spiritual jihad. Such claims are made solely by Western scholars, primarily those who study Sufism and/or work in interfaith dialogue, and by Muslim apologists who are trying to present Islam in the most innocuous manner possible"
"Shortly after 9/11, there was a book published called How Did This Happen? that included an essay by Karen Armstrong in which she said a world religion has been hijacked by this band of fanatics. I don’t buy that for a minute"
Notice also that the members of these groups are not poor and destitute - they are often rich and well educated - as we discovered yesterday when the identity of jihadi john was revealed.
It is the ideology. It was suppressed from the mid 19th century until the 1970s becasue it was weak and the west looked like a good model to emulate - but now it is funded by oil and a combination of greed on the right and self doubt on the left has made the west look less attractive.
Look at the history of communism and you see exactly the same pattern - during the period when it was successful.
It was defeated by undermining its core ideas.
Open Jihad can only be defeated in the physical world when it has been defeated in the world of ideas. Unfortunately our leaders make no apparent effort to do this.
Thuis is just another example of people going on gut instincts and not realising that certain things look bigger than they really are. As a rule anything that is prominent in the media is probably less important to the economy than you think it is. Thus:
Hollywood TV Music Sport Well known branded goods Shrink wrap s/w
are all smaller than you think whereas
Energy (oil, utilities etc) Construction Clothing (outside major brands) Food (outside major brands like Coca-cola, McDonalds etc)
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That may be the way they did it in the old testament - cf the story of Susanna, but it is not appropriate now.
A basic principle of modern justice is that victims don't get too closely involved in the process. Otherwise the result is never ending blood feuds. If the victims relatives are involved and a miscarriage of justice occurs then the relatives of the falsely accused will take it out on the original victim's family.
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Since the BBC is funded by the licence fee - which the British public pays. It doesn't need to monetize things that the public has already paid for.
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Re: Avoiding a subject
Some people are cruel to animals but no-one accuses them of hating animals.
True hate requires some knowledge (even if inaccurate) of the object - whereas the racist attitude is almost always based on a lack of knowledge.
The root cause of all these bad things is actualy much more straightforward. It is a lack of empathy, the inability to imagine yourself in the other's place.
The trouble is that "lack of empathy crime" doesn't roll of the tongue so well.
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I did suggest that you could fill in your own favourite!
I know there are a good few more...
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and many other words too - in fact the term "hate speech" itself, anything ending "phobia" and quite a few other terms (fill in your own favourite) are easily used to stigmatize what might actually be valid criticism.
The problem with these words/phrases is that the people who use them are seldom prepared to say clearly what they mean - that way it is easier to categorise anything that you don't like with an emotional slur that is deliberately designed to be difficult to argue against.
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Re: More effective than you may think
The onus would be on him to show HOW the tool would have prevented the attack.
So far none of the failures to prevent attacks have been traceable to a lack of security tools that increase the available data. In fact they have almost always been traceable to a lack of ability to discriminate relevant information from the large haystack of data that they already have.
In the absence of a demonstrable mechanism his argument becomes analogous to the kind of superstition that sportsmen often display. "When I won last time I tied may left shoelace first - if I tie my right shoelace first next time I will lose".
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Safety
All it now requires is for your opponents to claim somehow that your site is "commercial" and you are shut down - or maybe worse.
This is especially true if other countries, that have even more lopsided politics than the US, get the same idea.
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The purpose
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We're the good guys
You see it everywhere - here is another recent example.
Russian aircraft flying up the channel is a "provocation" or a "threat" - but NATO exercises in the Baltic is just fine and dandy.
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less controllable
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Also try Bernard Lewis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lewis
".it is the duty of those who have accepted them [Allah's word and message] to strive unceasingly to convert or at least to subjugate those who have not. This obligation is without limit of time or space. It must continue until the whole world has either accepted the Islamic faith or submitted to the power of the Islamic state"
or David Cook https://reli.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=68
"In reading Muslim literature -- both contemporary and classical -- one can see that the evidence for the primacy of spiritual jihad is negligible. Today it is certain that no Muslim, writing in a non-Western language (such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu), would ever make claims that jihad is primarily nonviolent or has been superseded by the spiritual jihad. Such claims are made solely by Western scholars, primarily those who study Sufism and/or work in interfaith dialogue, and by Muslim apologists who are trying to present Islam in the most innocuous manner possible"
Or Michael Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cook_%28historian%29
"Shortly after 9/11, there was a book published called How Did This Happen? that included an essay by Karen Armstrong in which she said a world religion has been hijacked by this band of fanatics. I don’t buy that for a minute"
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No - just trying to point out that (at least some factions within) both of them have some blame for the problem.
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It is the ideology. It was suppressed from the mid 19th century until the 1970s becasue it was weak and the west looked like a good model to emulate - but now it is funded by oil and a combination of greed on the right and self doubt on the left has made the west look less attractive.
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Re: Adapting
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This has been done before
It was defeated by undermining its core ideas.
Open Jihad can only be defeated in the physical world when it has been defeated in the world of ideas. Unfortunately our leaders make no apparent effort to do this.
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Pushing up re-offending rates - so again they lose money.
If the contract can be set up right it can work.
In education we call it "constructive alignment". It's hard to set up correctly but it can be done.
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Looks bigger than it is
Hollywood
TV
Music
Sport
Well known branded goods
Shrink wrap s/w
are all smaller than you think whereas
Energy (oil, utilities etc)
Construction
Clothing (outside major brands)
Food (outside major brands like Coca-cola, McDonalds etc)
Are all bigger
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