I wonder, if it could be demonstrated that expanding welfare would decrease crime and societal friction (and result in lower taxes because of reduced need for spending on law enforcement), would you allow your pocketbook to vote for expanding welfare?
Or is the concept so horrible that you don't care how much it costs you, you'd rather spend more money and have more problems than give people free money?
you just think like the popular kids now because they've got you thinking you're accepted but they're really laughing just as hard at you when you're not around because now they've turned you against your own kind.
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Solar energy in it's current form is not concentrated enough. Nobody has proposed a solution that can change that
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but I doubt that the PDAs will be powerfull enough to do it with any reasonable speed.
compared to looking it up in a berlitz dictionary? or making hand signals? at least it will be more convenient (if it works...) and the speed will improve
if the thought that law enforcement would ultimately be hardly used in a more advanced society could be introduced into the popular consciousness, instead of law enforcement being seen as inevitable and worthy even...
ok now I'm going to gratuitously quote the holy grail at great length (from www.montypython.net):
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society!....If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship...... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
It's my theory that if you let people do whatever they want (child molestation, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, publishing academic papers, whatever) in a virtual environment where no other living thing is affected (unless they want to be affected...), the need for law enforcement would be greatly reduced.
You might still have the occasional person who wouldn't be satisfied with the "virtual" environment and would want to inflict harm on real live human beings. Lock them up. But if your vr was good enough, they wouldn't be able to tell...
If you don't like it, get the fuck off my planet, or we'll be coming for you next (yes, that means you, whiny pro-terrorist Euro-leftists).
Yes well this would be the best solution: with enough space (and terra-forming, etc...) there wouldn't have to be any wars because you could always run away.
As for the law enforcement approach: I understand your point of view. I just don't think it will ever be as effective as dealing with the source of the anger (if you could balance stereotypes taught to children with factual counterexamples...remember blacks in this country were considered sub-human too).
So be prepared for a long, expensive, psychologoically stressful fight, my brother; which you may very well lose.
Plus (I should have incorporated this argument better into the above), the very fact that you come down so hard and seemingly arbitrarily on terrorists may engender sympathy for the terrorists behind your own lines.
In other words I predict the terrorists will win, eventually, just as the drug cartels will win, eventually.
Meanwhile the fat cats in the military-industrial complex will be the real benefitters.
don't forget ebonics, since drugs == terrorism now
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so we're okay with the government reading all our transmissions now? what if instead we found out why people were willing to kill themselves for their cause, and see if we can come to any basic understandment on that level, before spending vast amounts of energy on symptoms of the basic cause?
Just think how much farther along we'd be technically (read: your life more convenient) if we devoted all the energy and capital we spend on law enforcement now, on space exploration, or virtual reality...
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You struggle nobly against those who would use arbitrary language rules in an attempt to humiliate or dominate.
and russia is in such great shape today...
IMHO if people are too stupid to figure out a ballot
If people are too stupid to figure out how to make a ballot that can't be misunderstood...
I wonder, if it could be demonstrated that expanding welfare would decrease crime and societal friction (and result in lower taxes because of reduced need for spending on law enforcement), would you allow your pocketbook to vote for expanding welfare?
Or is the concept so horrible that you don't care how much it costs you, you'd rather spend more money and have more problems than give people free money?
they use(d) the same argument against drugs.
you just think like the popular kids now because they've got you thinking you're accepted but they're really laughing just as hard at you when you're not around because now they've turned you against your own kind.
Solar energy in it's current form is not concentrated enough. Nobody has proposed a solution that can change that
Decrease the population by ~90%?
and: get us off this planet.
except during Republican administrations.
I think an attractive girl just mentioned that she may want to talk to me.
You're just feeding their power. One day though geeks will simulate girls well enough to level out the playing field a bit more.
make the software simulate the babes, then you don't need the babes. suddenly the value of babes goes down, and no one cares what they advocate...
laziness is a virtue (for programmers)
don't you get it? we're the checkers.
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so they need to tune the sensors...and maybe separate primary target (loudest) from other potential targets...tough problems right now.
translation has been a goal of AI since its start practically (I think...). Finally it's starting to move into the mainstream...
but I doubt that the PDAs will be powerfull enough to do it with any reasonable speed.
compared to looking it up in a berlitz dictionary? or making hand signals? at least it will be more convenient (if it works...) and the speed will improve
ah yes, down the street on the left, near the postbox...
if the thought that law enforcement would ultimately be hardly used in a more advanced society could be introduced into the popular consciousness, instead of law enforcement being seen as inevitable and worthy even...
....If there's ever going to be any progress--
..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
ok now I'm going to gratuitously quote the holy grail at great length (from www.montypython.net):
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society!
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
It's my theory that if you let people do whatever they want (child molestation, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, publishing academic papers, whatever) in a virtual environment where no other living thing is affected (unless they want to be affected...), the need for law enforcement would be greatly reduced.
You might still have the occasional person who wouldn't be satisfied with the "virtual" environment and would want to inflict harm on real live human beings. Lock them up. But if your vr was good enough, they wouldn't be able to tell...
If you don't like it, get the fuck off my planet, or we'll be coming for you next (yes, that means you, whiny pro-terrorist Euro-leftists).
Yes well this would be the best solution: with enough space (and terra-forming, etc...) there wouldn't have to be any wars because you could always run away.
As for the law enforcement approach: I understand your point of view. I just don't think it will ever be as effective as dealing with the source of the anger (if you could balance stereotypes taught to children with factual counterexamples...remember blacks in this country were considered sub-human too).
So be prepared for a long, expensive, psychologoically stressful fight, my brother; which you may very well lose.
Plus (I should have incorporated this argument better into the above), the very fact that you come down so hard and seemingly arbitrarily on terrorists may engender sympathy for the terrorists behind your own lines.
In other words I predict the terrorists will win, eventually, just as the drug cartels will win, eventually.
Meanwhile the fat cats in the military-industrial complex will be the real benefitters.
don't forget ebonics, since drugs == terrorism now
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"where's the heroin?"
"where's the platoon sex slave?"
"who can we have fun shooting at as target practice next?"
seems like an awfully engineered approach...how do we do it?
so we're okay with the government reading all our transmissions now? what if instead we found out why people were willing to kill themselves for their cause, and see if we can come to any basic understandment on that level, before spending vast amounts of energy on symptoms of the basic cause?
Just think how much farther along we'd be technically (read: your life more convenient) if we devoted all the energy and capital we spend on law enforcement now, on space exploration, or virtual reality...
maybe it means that through better communication the whole mess could have been avoided?
not.