Felonies are a Mid-Evil concept that every country (excepting America and Nigeria) in the world got rid of, generally in the 19th century. The idea of having a class of citizens who permanently have their rights infringed perhaps made sense in a feudal society when things like inheritance were important. Now a days, a Judge sentences you, once the sentence is finished, the person should be able to rejoin society. Where I live, a Judge has to remove your privilege of owning firearms, and they only do it if you did something stupid with a firearm, not for having a joint. Sex offenders have to be purposely put on the list by a Judge. People pissing in the bushes are not put on the list. Once your sentence is totally finished, employers are generally not allowed to discriminate. (there are exceptions where it makes sense not to hire former criminals). Personally I find the idea of having a class of people who are officially segregated for life disgusting and not the mark of a free country but rather the opposite.
The question is why the government passed a law that makes it illegal to verify that no fraud took place. It seems to be standard procedure to pass laws to make it hard to uncover fraud. My government did it with the Orwellian "Fair Elections Act" that amongst other things declawed the agency in charge of verifying the election was fraud free.
No pedestrians or cyclists doing stupid things? No trees falling over, or infrastructure failures? No floods, snowstorms, or other unexpected weather events? Then of course there are the software glitches, including the ones taking central traffic control out. Not to mention how far away we're from having 100% automated cars. My vehicle was manufactured 29 years ago and as the average person gets poorer due to lack of work, vehicles won't be replaced as fast.
Went through an accident scene the other day. Fireman (could have been a cop) was doing ad-hoc traffic control. It was fairly complex and it is hard to see how a purely autonomous car would have handled it. I think for a long time cars are going to need a way for manual override along with a warning system. Approaching a construction zone, accident, traffic stop. Car slows down and signals driver to take control. All the cops etc can do is put out a signal, slow down, driver take control. Then it is up to the driver whether to stop, do complex maneuvers or run away depending on situation.
The problem is cheaping out on brakes, steering components, tires and such. We've had a few fatal accidents involving trucks that were due to lack of maintenance. Eventual the truckers themselves, both union and non-union went on strike as the race to the bottom was screwing everyone.
The competing service just means that prices race to the bottom even faster, which makes the problem of lack of maintenance even worse. Eventually people start dieing and the people demand regulations.
so what's a better way? wander around and learn as you want? most kids will do nothing. autodidactics are rare
It actually can work pretty well, especially if you give the kids an equal say in running things. They'll fart around for a bit and then get interested in something and then discover a need to know the uninteresting stuff. The would be carpenter suddenly discovers that he needs math and flies through it kind of thing. Note that you will not produce people who will put up with the abuse that many white collar jobs come with. Summerhill is one of the most famous and it is worth reading one of the books about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OMG don't they teach ANYTHING in school nowadays? Sheesh.
"Amendment IV" to the United States Constitution (the document that establishes our government):
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The flaw in the 4th is the word "unreasonable" as anything can be argued as reasonable so searching everything to stop "evil" is reasonable to many.
It has been tried. Doesn't take long for some business to realize that by getting their man into office, they can increase government power in a way that benefits them. Capitalism says that the most efficient wins and it is more efficient to make the rules favour you then come up with a better, cheaper product. (unluckily other systems have their own problems)
While disease made the conquest much easier, the conquest started before the diseases really took off and it just ended up being an ally. Even if there were no natives, it is still nothing like colonizing Mars would be like and too many people equate the two.
Most all treaties have a withdrawal clause, eg IIRC NAFTA requires 6 months notice. So Congress decides to withdraw from NAFTA, official notice is given and 6 months later NAFTA has one less country, or more likely the treaty is re-negotiated. America also has a history of breaking treaties when convenient, including the President laughing at the Supreme Court about breaking a treaty as the President has the army. (Jackson).
Perhaps just launch it pointed at a safe URL on first launch (untested without a profile), firefox http://127.0.0.1./ Other then that you will have to jump through hoops, even omni.ja is hard to unzip and rezip after manually editing the default preferences. I do agree that Firefox gets much wrong which is why I don't usually run it, preferring the suite as it is actually lighter now, not as privacy invading and has a consistent interface.
Right to a jury varies with jurisdiction. Not sure about the UK but in Canada it only kicks in for indictable offences with the possibility of over 5 years prison time.
You seem to be confusing the conquest of the new world with the original colonization by humanity. Something that was not unique as a similar story happened in Australia as well as various other places. As we're talking about colonizing Mars, it is not really comparable to the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and English conquest of the Americas.
How's the colonization of America an unique event? People walked across the Bering land bridge when they had the chance just like they walked into Europe and Asia. They may have had boats as well like the people who colonized Australia probably did and the people who colonized many islands definitely did. Now an unique event would be colonizing Antarctica, something much easier then Mars but still needing quite a bit of technology beyond fire, canoes and spears
Civilized countries got rid of the felony status thing in the 19th century. Having classes of people who have their rights permanently removed is pretty feudal.
"browser.pageThumbs.enabled" just stops the tab preview from appearing, which is what many actually want. The other totally disables producing the page, which others are looking for. As usual it comes down to individual preference and all we can do is give choices.
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Felonies are a Mid-Evil concept that every country (excepting America and Nigeria) in the world got rid of, generally in the 19th century. The idea of having a class of citizens who permanently have their rights infringed perhaps made sense in a feudal society when things like inheritance were important.
Now a days, a Judge sentences you, once the sentence is finished, the person should be able to rejoin society.
Where I live, a Judge has to remove your privilege of owning firearms, and they only do it if you did something stupid with a firearm, not for having a joint. Sex offenders have to be purposely put on the list by a Judge. People pissing in the bushes are not put on the list. Once your sentence is totally finished, employers are generally not allowed to discriminate. (there are exceptions where it makes sense not to hire former criminals).
Personally I find the idea of having a class of people who are officially segregated for life disgusting and not the mark of a free country but rather the opposite.
Newsflash, government that wins election through fraud passes law to make it illegal to investigate election fraud.
The question is why the government passed a law that makes it illegal to verify that no fraud took place. It seems to be standard procedure to pass laws to make it hard to uncover fraud. My government did it with the Orwellian "Fair Elections Act" that amongst other things declawed the agency in charge of verifying the election was fraud free.
No pedestrians or cyclists doing stupid things? No trees falling over, or infrastructure failures? No floods, snowstorms, or other unexpected weather events? Then of course there are the software glitches, including the ones taking central traffic control out.
Not to mention how far away we're from having 100% automated cars. My vehicle was manufactured 29 years ago and as the average person gets poorer due to lack of work, vehicles won't be replaced as fast.
Went through an accident scene the other day. Fireman (could have been a cop) was doing ad-hoc traffic control. It was fairly complex and it is hard to see how a purely autonomous car would have handled it. I think for a long time cars are going to need a way for manual override along with a warning system. Approaching a construction zone, accident, traffic stop. Car slows down and signals driver to take control. All the cops etc can do is put out a signal, slow down, driver take control. Then it is up to the driver whether to stop, do complex maneuvers or run away depending on situation.
As countries birth rates go down, immigration goes up, happens every time and our system depends on the growth.
Do the executives have such a strong union?
The problem is cheaping out on brakes, steering components, tires and such. We've had a few fatal accidents involving trucks that were due to lack of maintenance. Eventual the truckers themselves, both union and non-union went on strike as the race to the bottom was screwing everyone.
The competing service just means that prices race to the bottom even faster, which makes the problem of lack of maintenance even worse. Eventually people start dieing and the people demand regulations.
Actually, the Russians also bought the space pen. No one used pencils in space, since the graphite dust would ruin everything.
Grease pencils, no graphite involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
so what's a better way?
wander around and learn as you want? most kids will do nothing. autodidactics are rare
It actually can work pretty well, especially if you give the kids an equal say in running things. They'll fart around for a bit and then get interested in something and then discover a need to know the uninteresting stuff. The would be carpenter suddenly discovers that he needs math and flies through it kind of thing. Note that you will not produce people who will put up with the abuse that many white collar jobs come with. Summerhill is one of the most famous and it is worth reading one of the books about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There will still be legal encryption such as ROT13 and if you break it or even talk about it, to circumvent DRM, it's life in jail.
OMG don't they teach ANYTHING in school nowadays? Sheesh.
"Amendment IV" to the United States Constitution (the document that establishes our government):
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The flaw in the 4th is the word "unreasonable" as anything can be argued as reasonable so searching everything to stop "evil" is reasonable to many.
There's one democracy in the world by your standard, and they've done pretty good for themselves, namely Switzerland.
It has been tried. Doesn't take long for some business to realize that by getting their man into office, they can increase government power in a way that benefits them.
Capitalism says that the most efficient wins and it is more efficient to make the rules favour you then come up with a better, cheaper product. (unluckily other systems have their own problems)
While disease made the conquest much easier, the conquest started before the diseases really took off and it just ended up being an ally.
Even if there were no natives, it is still nothing like colonizing Mars would be like and too many people equate the two.
Most all treaties have a withdrawal clause, eg IIRC NAFTA requires 6 months notice. So Congress decides to withdraw from NAFTA, official notice is given and 6 months later NAFTA has one less country, or more likely the treaty is re-negotiated.
America also has a history of breaking treaties when convenient, including the President laughing at the Supreme Court about breaking a treaty as the President has the army. (Jackson).
Perhaps just launch it pointed at a safe URL on first launch (untested without a profile), firefox http://127.0.0.1./ Other then that you will have to jump through hoops, even omni.ja is hard to unzip and rezip after manually editing the default preferences.
I do agree that Firefox gets much wrong which is why I don't usually run it, preferring the suite as it is actually lighter now, not as privacy invading and has a consistent interface.
Are there imperial military bases in Guam? Korea?
Right to a jury varies with jurisdiction. Not sure about the UK but in Canada it only kicks in for indictable offences with the possibility of over 5 years prison time.
You seem to be confusing the conquest of the new world with the original colonization by humanity. Something that was not unique as a similar story happened in Australia as well as various other places.
As we're talking about colonizing Mars, it is not really comparable to the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and English conquest of the Americas.
How's the colonization of America an unique event? People walked across the Bering land bridge when they had the chance just like they walked into Europe and Asia. They may have had boats as well like the people who colonized Australia probably did and the people who colonized many islands definitely did.
Now an unique event would be colonizing Antarctica, something much easier then Mars but still needing quite a bit of technology beyond fire, canoes and spears
Sounds like here in the temperate rainforest, at least until this year when the California drought spread north.
Things change.
Civilized countries got rid of the felony status thing in the 19th century. Having classes of people who have their rights permanently removed is pretty feudal.
"browser.pageThumbs.enabled" just stops the tab preview from appearing, which is what many actually want. The other totally disables producing the page, which others are looking for.
As usual it comes down to individual preference and all we can do is give choices.