Non-IT News Thread
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@penguinwrangler said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
European Union orders review of daylight saving time
When Ben Franklin proposed it, it was actually as a joke. https://gizmodo.com/ben-franklins-daylight-saving-time-proposal-was-writte-1456363759
When our country adopted it, it was in 1918 when it was adopted. Which I don't get because electricity was beginning to spread wildly and the need for more daylight wasn't really true. Get rid of it I say.
Yeah, there has never been a legit excuse for it.
"Well, they did it for the farmers." -Farmers work by the sun. The sun comes up, they go out to work. The sun goes down, they go home and go to bed. They don't care about "the official time".
Yeah, no farmer EVER works by a clock. That's insane.
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#MeToo tag used by woman with multiple accusations of being the harasser, not the harassed. This will give a very different context to the hashtag.
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Real question... only nine years?
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Real question... only nine years?
That's really bad.
Not only is it bad, its a matter of WTF was this perv thinking. . . And to the next point . . (as has been tested / is being tested in court) can a minor be charged with creating/distributing child pornography. . .
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I didn't read the article but not only is that against child pornography laws. It also goes against any number of state and federal privacy laws, as well as digital intrusion and digital espionage (although that may only be for state actors) laws.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
I didn't read the article but not only is that against child pornography laws. It also goes against any number of state and federal privacy laws, as well as digital intrusion and digital espionage (although that may only be for state actors) laws.
And specifically using a position of state mandated authority as a means of exploiting children!
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
(as has been tested / is being tested in court) can a minor be charged with creating/distributing child pornography. . .
Yeah, this is a disaster.
The laws are no where close to keeping up. Not really a surprise.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Finally, somebody sees it. Now the question is, are they going to do something about it? If so, will America follow suit? Probably not.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
will America follow suit?
lol no
Sadly... Now if we as citizens just said screw it and stopped following this bad practice it would go away...
What is the most likely means of achieving this (since ignoring timezones isn't really possible for computers), is to do it a state at a time since we already have two that don't use DST iirc.
