Readit NewsEdit to add: I do of course concede that DRM is evil regardless of context and must be defeated.
Edit: I see they don't offer that option anymore. Problem solved :)
If it's illegal to cancel a buy order immediately after placing it, then perhaps exchanges shouldn't provide that facility? Perhaps there's some legal reason you would immediately cancel an order, and this action somehow doesn't destabilize the market or screw over other traders?
!!! This is not silicon valley. I wonder how they ensure accuracy.
Link to the books http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/
- Systematic execution for the crime of belonging to a particular ethnic group or religion
- Open and openly arbitrary disappearing, detention, and torture of intellectuals for the crime of writing articles critical of state-sponsored religious and political doctrine
- Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, disobeying their parents, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite sex, being homosexual, etc. Or, more commonly in the "developed" world, failure to investigate or pursue family-based vigilante "justice" against same.
- Failure to acknowledge women as people and rape as a crime
- Committing violence against, or being complicit in violence against, children who dared to go to school
- Corruption to a degree that renders the public health infrastructure so dysfunctional that tens of thousands of people die needlessly
- Outright censorship of any reporting that paints the state in a negative light
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"Knowing things about citizens" is dangerous because it enables the state to be far more effective in pursuing policies like the above. We ought to limit the government's knowledge of the lives of its citizens because that makes it much harder to effectively implement policies like these.
HOWEVER, HN sounds downright ridiculous when it declares that being listed in a database is comparable to being summarily executed for criticizing state religion.
This happens but you tolerate it because it's consistent with your arbitrary local culture. Consider pedophilia (having "wrong" sexual feelings) which comes with chemical castration and an attempt to "cure" it along with imprisonment of course. You don't even have to abuse anyone to suffer some of these consequences. Sound familiar? Have you ever met any self-confessed pedophile who hadn't been arrested for a related crime? Until they're outed, they're forced to keep their feelings secret from everyone because it's a kind of western thought crime. This leads us to imagine that all pedophiles rape children. They don't any more than 60 years ago all homosexuals raped children.
Maybe I am imagining it, but (anecdotally) I tend to see mainly expensive cars parked illegally in handicapped spots.
Income proportional fines seems to me like a fair way to apply a monetary deterrent to people that now get meaningless (to them) fines.