That entirely depends on the legal system. The same decision that may be a non-issue in one jurisdiction will result in a lengthy prison sentence in a...
This subject is sheer impossible to discuss because it requires distinguishing between man and woman. They will no longer be simply interchangeable in...
At travelgirls.com women are actually doing something similar. The "travel girls" apparently want to travel with a man to another country. Of course, ...
I did not mention the gender of the "someone" getting paid cash and prizes. That is not necessary because these laws do not mention that either. It co...
They simply misunderstand the incentive structure created by the legal system. If someone gets paid cash and prizes for blowing up the relationship, t...
That is a false dichotomy. In fact, you can still physically live in the West. However, in order to avoid legal trouble, you'd better give up on your ...
There's the Passport Bro movement which advises pretty much the same policy but for other reasons. The Passport Bro Movement: Exploring Why Men Are Fe...
The difficulty that exists in Columbus, Ohio can however be avoided automatically by sticking to the 4 no's policy: No marriage, no cohabitation, no c...
Close to half of the population will live through a harrowing court case, called "divorce". It is a byproduct of civil marriage. No civil marriage mea...
It's all about avoiding court cases. I simply don't want them. It's the same in business. If I suspect that a business deal will lead to a court case,...
This amounts to claiming that Christianity coincides with exactly one of the many historical Christologies, i.e. the Trinitarian-Chalcedonian one. It ...
Experiments with human behavior is considered really hard: Experiments with human behavior have the same problem as experiments with computers, only w...
Observational studies are moderately useful for providing a working hypothesis but are absolutely unsuitable as a replacement for an experimental test...
The difference can be found in the justification report for the claim they are making. A historian will supply a collection of scrutinized and corrobo...
I think that the vast majority of academic papers are considered to be irrelevant. In that sense, it does not matter if the justification supplied is ...
There is an expectation that other people will try to repeat the experiment but that is actually not necessarily the case. A lot of publications are n...
Having lived there is about a fact. It is not an illusion. Unlike you, I have a truckload of immigration entry and exit stamps to show for. I have spe...
Unlike you, I have lived for some while in these countries. I still regularly visit them. I am talking as an eyewitness from personal experience. Furt...
How is that compatible with the following? But then again, I am not gay. So, I am not familiar with the specific details of what exactly is tolerated ...
Wikipedia's "no original research" policy pretty much guarantees that its pages stand or fall with the objective justification in its original sources...
Quite a few laws are indeed just political statements with absolutely zero intention of setting up a specialized police department to hunt down cases ...
He is almost surely exaggerating about "gay persecution": He was most likely complaining about "persecution" by his own family who do not accept his s...
I have no clue about how things are in Malaysia for homosexual people. But then again, I am certainly aware of Malaysia's casual sex scene. If I were ...
You really don't know Indonesia, do you? Concerning Indonesia, you don't know what you are talking about, do you? You simply have no clue whatsoever. ...
Concerning original research, it depends on whether the subject has a standard justification method. In mathematics, it does not matter who exactly pr...
In my Indonesian and Malaysian experience, it simply is. The law making consensual sex outside of marriage a criminal offense is a full-scale assault ...
If you don't sign any marriage-related government documents, these governments simply won't get involved. I spent one whole year in Indonesia in the p...
I am actually not very or particularly demanding. (1) Most importantly, as a government, do not interfere in my private family life concerning women a...
I am the only foreigner in my street, well, in the entire neighborhood, really. In fact, there are a few Chinese here, but they are not really counted...
No problem for visual and auditory information. We can include written language as a specialized subset of auditory information. Practical problems ab...
During colonial times, the colonizing powers strictly prohibited access from the motherland to the colonies, except for some colonies earmarked for se...
There is quite a bit of literature on the $5 wrench attack. The reality is that there are no gangs that specialize in this crime, simply because other...
Again a question of company or retailer size. The large businesses pay it. The small businesses don't. Other taxes such as import duties are more impo...
A well-structured operating system does not need a virus-checker. I don't have one installed, because it is irrelevant in my context. In fact, anti-vi...
The power of the local ruling mafia is continuously being challenged by other political clans who want to replace them. If you've got nothing to do wi...
What exactly is insecure? It really depends on the software that you use. The software needs to be reproducible-build compliant free and open source o...
I would have to distrust the math/cryptography. In fact, mathematicians and cryptographers generally do. That is why they invariably demand proof and ...
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Sovereign nations will fight each other -- that is human nature -- and the results are invariably ugly...
I think that the truth about Nazi Germany is even worse than that. Hitler was merely good at voicing what a large number of Germans were thinking alre...
Changing society at large ... Have you already managed to pull off one, single change to society, no matter how small? If not, then why do you expect ...
The anatomy of a Bitcoin heist typically falls into three categories: - social engineering (80%). No solution. - faulty implementation of hot server s...
Seizure-prone wealth is protected by the flimsy promise by the government that they will respect your so-called "property rights". Your house, your ca...
I do not interpret the text like that. It spells out particular types of misbehavior to avoid, but that is exactly what morality is about. I expect th...
Society indoctrinates us from early childhood into believing this. That is why you cannot trust modern people, including oneself, concerning matters o...
A car is not a living adversary. If it is not alive, then you can use statistics. If it is alive, then statistics are often misleading. In his book, "...
You cannot protect a system from attackers who seek to exploit its vulnerabilities by means of statistically good enough solutions. It won't work. Exa...
It was a reference to David Wolpert's and Josef Rukavicka's publications: They apparently used Cantor's theorem directly. It sounds like they could al...
No. I believe that it is built into our biological firmware. We were preprogrammed with a sense for justice from birth. Societal education, however, c...
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