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"Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law."
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As a result, the novel interactions that could have made the Apple watch a must-have device aren't in the company's launch product, nor are they on the immediate horizon. And all Apple can sell the public on is a few tweets and emails on their wrists—an attempt at a fashion statement that needs to be charged once or more a day. You Guys Realize The Apple Watch Is Going To Flop, Right? | Co.Design | business + design

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To me, it’s ironic that a company that has imagined and invented new tools for our daily lives is now reaching back into the analog world to rebuild an archaic technology. My iPhone put an end to my watch-wearing days at least.

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That’s why she balks at things like Kickstarters. “If a band wants to organize a benefit concert, we thank them very much and we wish them good luck,” she says. As things stand, “where else can you go and receive things and not be shaken down for money?” she says. “If we’re in a position to not ask ask ask, why not let it go for as long as we can responsibly can?” Do Ya Feel Lucky, Punks?: D.C. almost lost the Fort Reno summer concert series. Why? - Washington City Paper

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Ian and Fugazi did everything they could to keep ticket prices for their shows as low as possible and still profit, usually around $5 bucks in the early days.

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In the end, Fort Reno’s punk response did what punk does best: It made folks take a community institution a little less for granted, it humanized a bureaucratic dispute, it inspired folks to speak up. And in practical terms, it may have nudged officials to right-size their policing and demystify their decisions—results that may have occurred anyway, had the Park Service engaged with Fort Reno earlier in the year. Do Ya Feel Lucky, Punks?: D.C. almost lost the Fort Reno summer concert series. Why? - Washington City Paper

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Great definition of punk!

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Today, Fort Reno may bring to mind strollers and Tupperware; in the late ’70s, when Ian MacKaye first went to a show there, “everyone was smoking pot and drinking.” (Well, except him.) If Park Police were posted there, they did little to curtail the hard-partying vibe. Do Ya Feel Lucky, Punks?: D.C. almost lost the Fort Reno summer concert series. Why? - Washington City Paper

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For anyone not familiar with Ian MacKaye, he’s “straight edge” meaning he doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs among other things. MacKaye wrote a song called “Straight Edge” for his band Minor Threat, but the idea would become a movement among DC teens of the 80s.

I’m a person just like you
But I’ve got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at the shows
I don’t even think about speed
That’s something I just don’t need

I’ve got the straight edge

As a middle schooler in DC in the late 80s, I remember this being a pretty convenient philosophy for a kid too young and a little too scared to drink. “I’m Straight Edge, motherfucker, so back off!” Actually all it took was a Sharpied X on the back of the hand. Better than any “Just Say No!” shit for damn sure.

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...tion of the shows was also becoming a minor political cause. After hearing from constituents, Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen sent a letter to the Park Service, as did D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. The little punk series in Tenleytown, it turned out, had some big friends. Do Ya Feel Lucky, Punks?: D.C. almost lost the Fort Reno summer concert series. Why? - Washington City Paper

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Great line, but also says a lot about DC history over the previous 30 odd years: some of those little punks grew up into bigger punks.

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Let's put this countdown clock away The New Pornographers (Ft. Neko Case) – Marching Orders

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The speaker continues the militaristic metaphor here but in the interest of de-escalating tensions. The countdown presumably to some fatal launch is called off.

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However annoying they may be, hipsters help the poor. Their vintage shops and craft-beer bars generate jobs and taxes. So if you see a bearded intruder on a fixed-gear bike in your neighbourhood, welcome him. Gentrification: Bring on the hipsters | The Economist

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Bold claim. I just wish it was satirical.

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Just don’t let that bike near your Jordans.

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I’m mindful of other pedestrians, but scuff my own kicks all the time:

And like a true gentrifier, I’ve gone all in on the Nets!

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Gentrifiers can make life better for locals in plenty of ways, argues Stuart Butler of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank. When professionals move to an area, “they know how to get things done”. They put pressure on schools, the police and the city to improve. As property prices increase, rents go up—but that also generates more property-tax revenue, helping to improve local services. In many cities, zoning laws force developers to build subsidised housing... Gentrification: Bring on the hipsters | The Economist

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The suggestion here that previous inhabitants of these neighborhoods didn’t know how to advocate for their rights ignores a whole history of civil rights activism. But even more repugnant in the argument here is that such pressure should be necessary, that the very things missing in these neighborhoods are not rights but privileges.

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Yet there is little evidence that gentrification is responsible for displacing the poor or minorities. Black people were moving out of Washington in the 1980s, long before most parts of the city began gentrifying. In cities like Detroit, where gentrifiers are few and far between and housing costs almost nothing, they are still leaving. One 2008 study of census data found “no evidence of displacement of low-income non-white households in gentrifying neighbourhoods”. They did find, however, that the average income of black people wit... Gentrification: Bring on the hipsters | The Economist

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Well, sure, systematic neglect of these areas because they were predominantly occupied by minorities literally paved the way for the kind of gentrification we see today! There is a decades-long history of American post-industrial urban policy that this article just skims over.

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