( an interestingly phrased question, old technology I use , 'the twentieth century,' being out as queer and poly, non-gendered relationship term to include 'aunt' and 'uncle, white women and white privilege' )
( an interestingly phrased question, old technology I use , 'the twentieth century,' being out as queer and poly, non-gendered relationship term to include 'aunt' and 'uncle, white women and white privilege' )
--HopefulNebula
the underlying purpose behind making a relationship contractual rather than voluntary is that at some point in the future, in changed circumstances, something people were at the outset willing to do may be something that they need to be compelled to do
The way it was phrased to me once, in the context of publishing contracts, was that they should be negotiated as though you and the publisher were the best of friends, but at some point in the life of the property, you would both be run over by a truck, and your heirs would hate each other.
—malkingrey
It makes sense in context.
It is perhaps more alarming that private concerns are able to build systems of this type, without anyone's even knowing of their existence, than that democratically elected governments should build them in open view and with legal safeguards. —Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom, 1973
It is perhaps more alarming that private concerns are able to build systems of this type, without anyone's even knowing of their existence, than that democratically elected governments should build them in open view and with legal safeguards. —Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom, 1973
Don't get me a pile of pseudo legalese to sign about how it's my responsibility to keep personal data safe—and then give me a hard time because I ask you questions like…"What the hell does that mean?" and
"If I'm responsible for maintaining physical security for an area and that area does not actually LOCK—what do I have to do?"
Because it means I'm actually looking at the crap you wrote and actually consider such issues.