British colonisers used Shakespeare’s works as an example of how people should act, Hyland said. “It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stories first and discovered Shakespeare afterwards.
While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?
So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the poorest countries the most. From that point of view, environmentalism is "economic justice".
*Interesting term. Does that mean the economically better off have committed a crime, and must be punished?
Your examples are all less scalable and easier to detect that hacking.
> That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before.
It's still a black box. You have only their word to go that the published source is what is actually running on the machine in front of you in the voting booth. And they have only the word of their computers.
So yes, it's a great step forward, in the same way that going up a flight of stairs is a great step towards reaching orbit.
A related question: How secure is an Android phone that does receive security updates from its vendor? I vaguely recall hearing that it can take months before a security patch makes it from mainline Android to consumer devices.
> is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them
Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. And that this motel chain owned 40% of rentable rooms across the globe, and a handful of their friends owned the remaining 59%, with 1% belonging to small independent moteliers.
If you leave enforcement to them, then you've effectively privatized policing. Do you want a private police force? Wouldn't that represent a union of state and corporate power, i.e. fascism?
A common argument is that, because only a small fraction of US prisons are private [1], it means private prison lobbying is a negligible problem. But this is a fallacy! The fraction doesn't matter, only the absolute amount of funds flowing through private prisons, that are available for lobbying. That, and the political connections of prison owners that make lobbying more effective.
Even taking the cherry-picked history [1] and denial of Uyghur genocide at face value, this is simply yet another in a long line of articles that boil down to:
Your history is evil, therefore you do not have a right to self-defense [2].
[1] The author never asks himself how a country the size of China came to be 91.6% Han-Chinese, nor does he mention the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest civil war in history at 20 million dead, that overshadows the Opium Wars and cannot be blamed on the West.
[2] Against e.g. Chinese soft power/influence and economic exploitation of various forms.
> free speech is meant to protect you from government censorship to ensure the balance of powers
That's the 1st amendment of the US constitution, not "free speech". Since this is a United Nations report, the context is wider than just the US.
> Not everyone deserves a voice, but even if you do we don't have to listen.
Ah the old "we". Only in practice it's not "we" or "I" deciding not to listen, but some other entity deciding on our behalf what we're allowed to hear. Sometimes a government, but most often a multinational corporation. For most of the world, a foreign corporation.
regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine, and Ukrainian populated areas were given lower amounts of tractors which were correlated to a reduction in famine mortality, ultimately concluding that 92% of famine deaths in Ukraine alone along with 77% of famine deaths in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus combined can be explained by systematic bias against Ukrainians
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Under the collectivism policy, for example, farmers were not only deprived of their properties but a large swath of these were also exiled in Siberia with no means of survival. Those who were left behind and attempted to escape the zones of famine were ordered to be shot.
It's also worth pointing out that your statement is "downplaying" the Holodomor. If applied to the Holocaust instead (e.g. "many died from typhus"), such a statement may be illegal in Canada:
One difference is intent. The computer logging was somewhat incidental (but not entirely benign, so we shouldn't give it a pass without thinking), while the heat sensors are there very deliberately.
The other difference is territoriality. The students very acutely (and accurately) perceived the sensors as intruders in their space. This may be a crude animal instinct, but it's there for a reason. Permit one intrusion, and more will follow.
> "They are proposing that grad students share desks, taking turns with a scheduling web-app, so administrators can take over some of the space currently used by grad students."
Give them an inch, and they take a mile - administration is so proficient at growth, they are now literally pushing students out of their desks to make room for more administration.
From 1970 to 2012, school administration has grown by 138%, and student enrollment by 8% [1]. And don't let the slight 2011-2012 drop fool you - the trend endures, e.g. Yale grew its administrative staff by 45% from 2003 to 2019 (while students grew by only 11%) [2].
> Here he goes after the "interventionistas" (foreign policy theorists with no "skin in the game,") who have repeatedly urged us to intervene in foreign countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria -- whose governments did not meet the interventionistas abstract standards for political acceptability.
That's being extremely generous in taking the interventionistas at their word, that they are not driven by ulterior motives. Or acting as useful idiots for others with ulterior motives.
While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?
[1] As at the 2018 census, the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (70 percent) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Demographics