Posted on 06/27/2021 7:54:19 AM PDT by LuciusDomitiusAutelian
duh
also how many times do you have to steal to be a thief?
You tell me.
The first time LEO catches you, you are so labeled.
no, you tell me
you’re the expert defining the term
how many times do you have to steal to be a thief?
I am asking you - just you
How many times does one have to steal to be a thief?
I believe by your response you do not like this question and dont want to answer it.
Then go out in the yard and play a flute or bang on a drum instead...
“I believe by your response you do not like this question and dont want to answer it.”
That’s because you’re emoting like a 12 year old girl.
Are you asking if I stole a candy bar when I was 8? If so, ask and spring your trap.
All i am asking you, just you, is, how many times does one have to steal to be a thief?
You don’t want to answer it for some reason.
If they are an adult, just once.
And yes, I stole a candy bar when I was 8 and got caught.
The store manager held me until the cops arrived to give me a ride home.
I resolved then to never steal again.
And did not. I haven’t even picked up a quarter on the sidewalk.
How about you? How do you define a thief?
I just wanted to hear your definition. I don’t understand why it was such a tooth puller for you.
I appreciate the answer. What is your thought process behind the distinction between a kid who steals not being a thief, but an adult who may only steal once, being considered a thief?
I ask because if someone is not a thief stealing before an arbitrary date or age, but is one after that, I’d like to understand why you believe this is your primary reason why someone is or isnt considered by you to be a thief. I mean even the law as we have it considers juveniles who steal as thieves. They are charged with various levels of theft.
Personally for me age or gender does not enter into the equation. The definition of theft never had an age or gender requirement to be one. For me I think its more critical as to whether the person is still believing that its okay to do it, keep doing it, is still engaged in the lifestyle, or ha topped doing t, and has left that behind because they know its wrong and live by the golden rule. If you are living the life of a thief and its what you do and have no moral problem stealing anytime you decide to, you are a thief. Your actions will prove it and by those actions you will be actually stealing, so real violations of the law will occur. The actions will confirm it. If you’ve screwed up in the past, but dont live that way now, all it means is you WERE a thief before, but are not now one. If yu no longer live that way, yu are no longer a thief, and your actions will also prove that out, as you won’t be stealing from anyone so there wil be no crime you are committing.
This is all independent from a persons age or sex, which are irrelevant factors determining if someone is a thief or not.
In regard to all of this utility talk, doesn’t widespread open source software that they can’t control and force us into schemes of surveillance, doesn’t that naturally turn software into a utility?
Without having government do it for us?
I think the answer is yes. Yes, it does.
Absolutely. But, don’t think for a second that the open-source community hasn’t been infiltrated. I work with a lot of Linux kernel plumbers and 99% of them are liberal as hell. They would gladly build holes for the gubmint. But........If you know what to look for you can see the source. Unlike proprietary OS’s and software.
“In regard to all of this utility talk, doesn’t widespread open source software that they can’t control and force us into schemes of surveillance, doesn’t that naturally turn software into a utility?
Without having government do it for us?
I think the answer is yes. Yes, it does.”
Because it is crowd sourced, transparent, and there are a lot of watchdogs. I would say it definitely has an advantage of being more honest and fair.
But first you have to talk folks into adopting open source with numbers that actually make a difference and reset the market away from the greed. Most are too lazy to even try something new.
No matter what sentiments are, it is indeed transparent and hard to sneak anything by.
You’d be surprised. Just unintentional holes pop up everyday. Look at the CVEs from just 2021.
Well open source software is great and I am both a user and contributer. Its amazing how well engineers just help each other out with it. But a cloud provider had lots of big buildings and cables and computers and churn on lots of power such that it causes them to have to employ industrial cooling systems and such. Not the kind of thing that lends itself to be open sourced anymore than a water sanitation plant or the like. Its a defacto utilty.
What do you think about blockchain? I think it is the future.
Most of those are local “hands on” though right?
Have not worked with block chains so can only speak as a layman about them. I am a retail forex trader and am not confident about trading crypto currencies because I don’t really have any insight on that kind of market and it seems scary level volatile. Not sure any crypto currency will normalize as a regular currency until or unless a central bank stabilizes the market for them though. Other block chain uses seem to be along the lines of validating data records for audit purposes. Maybe it can be used to help keep voting honest some day...provided those with power are interested in such.
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