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>>demonstrate they will use it responsibly. The problem is to define "demonstrate" and the criteria. Remember the gatekeeper is now an unemployed gal who "know lot's of things about cyber security" according to her main page. Seems likely a competent bad actor could easily impersonate a well-meaning reporter... Yes, security through obscurity isn't security, but this also seems incredibly irresponsible for any "secur…
Please give maia the respect she deserves and use the correct pronouns.
How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if “they” is being added to style guides as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender? I seem to recall that “they” has been in use in that manner long before non-binary arguments were something I’d heard about.
No, and it’s frustrating for people who had it hammered into their reading and writing habits all through school. I can’t read a singular “they” without mentally tripping on it.
> No, and it’s frustrating for people who had it hammered into their reading and writing habits all through school. I can’t read a singular “they” without mentally tripping on it.
If you mean "no" in the sense that this specific sentence isn't true:
> Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender?
then you are mistaken, as sibling comments point out. Certainly there is a history of teaching people not to use singular 'they' (I don't know how long, but I was certainly taught it), but people have actually been using singular 'they' for a long, long time, and usage trumps fiat at least in English.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The German language doesn't understand?" :) (wa should be ga. wa means German is the subject that is doing the not-understanding.)
I was split between で or は, forgot all about が. Funnily enough I think omitting the particle altogether would have made more sense. Edit: After further reading は seems to work fine. In this case I think both work but が places greater emphasis on the german language being the thing not understood. で however was totally incorrect :P. But due to the tacit nature of informal Japanese I think the context already informed…
Yes, people will understand what you meant if you used wa.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No? This seems more likely to be used as a form of public shaming than a way to expose injustice.
> If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No? How would they know? How would they prove it? There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, makin…
>There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, making it easy for him to get divorced and keep the house.
How does one "put her on the list"? It's not that easy.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#125Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The German language doesn't understand?" :) (wa should be ga. wa means German is the subject that is doing the not-understanding.)
No, it's fine as is. I think you have は and が backwards but neither of them imply ドイツ語 is "doing something" even though it's the subject of the sentence. It's a pro-drop language so meanings that don't make sense are just excluded.
>I think you have は and が backwards
I do not.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#127This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities.
However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#128This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
The fact that they can do it so casually means there's a problem journalists need to know about.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#129This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to involve myself in this argument but I will say that I can not see their original post. It displays as just "[flagged]" for me. I don't know if that's the app I'm using or what, but I cannot see the post.
Really? I see the "[flagged]", and the post, it's just slightly dimmer and I had to manually open it. I'm using no special extensions or anything, just a normal browser.
There is a stage past [flagged] where a post can also be [dead].
You only see dead posts if you have showdead=yes in your settings.
So you may have seen their comment before it was killed, or you may have showdead=yes in your settings.