A business is evidently different to an individual. It can't vote, it can't go to prison, it can't have children.
But most importantly, an individual's "raison d'etre" is to pro-create, to take personal responsibility for the well being of others. A company's is to make as much money as possible. These two, very different, life-goals mean that the rights afforded to an individual will simply be (and are) abused by a corporation, which is inherently greedy.
A corporation has no sense of ethics, no sense of guilt. It has no remorse, or any other feeling, because the buck doesn't stop anywhere - its ultimately distributed.
If a company dumps industrial waste into a river and ends up killing people, the employees of that company (including the CEO), don't feel personally responsible. It was a group-led action, so it wasn't any particular person's fault. Hence, no remorse and no guilt.
Yes there are. These are both protected by the European convention on Human Rights
You always have an absolute right to silence when you've been arrested. The change to the rights that are read to you simply make it clear that "it may harm your defense if you don't mention, when specifically questioned, something that you later rely on in court". Ie - the prosectution may question the believability your alibi if you don't mention it to the police when you're arrested and asked about it.
The Radiocommunications Agency (RA) owns the radio frequency spectrum in the UK. Its an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry.
The government has no control over the usage of infrared communications.
The "British Post Office" has nothing whatsoever to do with telecommunications in England, Scotland, or anywhere else. It did many years ago, before its telecoms and mail services were split up and privatized
Also - can you provide a reference for this laser broadcast technology? Why, for example, is it not in common usage?
aeroplane is a two part word constructed from the Latin (a bit like television). aero meaning air, and plane meaning flat. Airplane is a fairly recent invention. I suppose it simplifies the word - perhaps we can start renaming all Latin/Greek-derived words.
Astronaut -> StarSailor
Television -> DistantSight
Telephone -> DistantSound
All flights can follow polar routes. And they do. I've been in plenty of Airbuses, and 767, 777s From Heathrow to Seattle over Northern Greenland.
Only 3 and 4 engined aircraft can fly more than n hundred miles from land (where n is some number that I can't remember). This means routes directly over the Atlantic and Pacific.
That reminds me of high school final exam grades in England.
The scores went: A, B, C, D, E, N, U
U stood for "unclassifiable", failed in other words
N stood for "near-miss". I remember the arguments over whether or not a "near-miss" was a hit, and therefore a pass.
If the street outside your house needs resurfacing, who pays for that? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay.
What about when your car is stolen? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay for the police investigation.
What about when your house catches fire? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay for the fire services.
What about when you are diagnosed with cancer? That's your problem, not mine...
Actually, all the above aren't just your problem - and that's the point. In all the above cases, not dealing with the problem costs a great deal for society later on. In the case of the cancer sufferer, you deny preventative treatment and let the disease spread until they need ER treatment. At this point they remain in IC at much greater cost. (Unless you intend all uninsured people requiring ER treatment to be left to die - which is the taking your belief to its logical conclusion)
Although I'll acknowledge that "high rate" is a bit of a misnomer these days.
Compare that to France or Germany's 50-60% tax rate, though...
you can't get around that BBC is big government-controlled media
No its not. In fact, government interference with the BBC is specifically prohibited by law. That's why the BBC routinely turns out to be the government's biggest thorn. See the recent situation in the UK with the BBC and the government battling it out as an example.
...government control of health care...
Only in America is free health care "left wing", despite the fact that it's universally available in every other western nation.
...most of the economy...
Name me a government owned company...
Slashdot Mirror
Which is why Europeans pay so much less for their wireless tech than Americans, I suppose.
The plural of sheep is "Lego bricks"? Wow, I never knew that.
How would fingerprinting on arrival have helped?
His intention was to destroy the plane before it arrived at its destination.
Making things even simpler is the useful fact that the population of Planet Earth contains precisely zero "Britians", whatever they are.
How about George and Tony?
Seems like an ideal Master/Slave replacement.
Yup, the Catholic Church is definitely a supernatural organization.
Oh. Hang on...
I think you're confusing "right to silence" with an expectation that being silent has no implications.
Personally, I see a right to silence, as meaning no guilt will be inferred from that silence (which it isn't)
A business is evidently different to an individual. It can't vote, it can't go to prison, it can't have children.
But most importantly, an individual's "raison d'etre" is to pro-create, to take personal responsibility for the well being of others. A company's is to make as much money as possible. These two, very different, life-goals mean that the rights afforded to an individual will simply be (and are) abused by a corporation, which is inherently greedy.
A corporation has no sense of ethics, no sense of guilt. It has no remorse, or any other feeling, because the buck doesn't stop anywhere - its ultimately distributed.
If a company dumps industrial waste into a river and ends up killing people, the employees of that company (including the CEO), don't feel personally responsible. It was a group-led action, so it wasn't any particular person's fault. Hence, no remorse and no guilt.
Yes there are. These are both protected by the European convention on Human Rights
You always have an absolute right to silence when you've been arrested. The change to the rights that are read to you simply make it clear that "it may harm your defense if you don't mention, when specifically questioned, something that you later rely on in court". Ie - the prosectution may question the believability your alibi if you don't mention it to the police when you're arrested and asked about it.
*Cough* Bullshit
The Radiocommunications Agency (RA) owns the radio frequency spectrum in the UK. Its an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry.
The government has no control over the usage of infrared communications.
The "British Post Office" has nothing whatsoever to do with telecommunications in England, Scotland, or anywhere else. It did many years ago, before its telecoms and mail services were split up and privatized
Also - can you provide a reference for this laser broadcast technology? Why, for example, is it not in common usage?
Wow, what country are you in?
I hope you're not claiming that's the case in the UK, because it hasn't been since World War I. Even my grandfather would laugh at you.
aeroplane is a two part word constructed from the Latin (a bit like television).
aero meaning air, and plane meaning flat. Airplane is a fairly recent invention. I suppose it simplifies the word - perhaps we can start renaming all Latin/Greek-derived words.
Astronaut -> StarSailor
Television -> DistantSight
Telephone -> DistantSound
we as citizens need to apologize to Great Briton
Perhaps you could apologize for misspelling the nation's name, too.
I love the unbiased quote.
In other news:
"The Democrats' policies are dangerous" say the Republican party.
Oy, govnah
What does a Cockney accent have to do with the story?
All flights can follow polar routes. And they do. I've been in plenty of Airbuses, and 767, 777s From Heathrow to Seattle over Northern Greenland.
Only 3 and 4 engined aircraft can fly more than n hundred miles from land (where n is some number that I can't remember). This means routes directly over the Atlantic and Pacific.
Err...Chair? Oxford?
perhaps you are talking about the position of "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" at Cambridge University.
Huh? HDTV is a set of standard frame rates and sizes, it has nothing to do with an encoding format.
HDTV can be compressed unsing anything you like, in the same way that PAL and NTSC can be.
No, they start the size of a house and break down as follows:
1 Small house
2 trucks
4 VW bugs
8 laser printers
That reminds me of high school final exam grades in England.
The scores went: A, B, C, D, E, N, U
U stood for "unclassifiable", failed in other words
N stood for "near-miss". I remember the arguments over whether or not a "near-miss" was a hit, and therefore a pass.
How can you possibly make that assertion? Since an asteroid that misses leaves no evidence, who knows how close they've come in the past.
The best we can say is that this is the closest "recorded" near-miss.
If the street outside your house needs resurfacing, who pays for that? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay.
What about when your car is stolen? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay for the police investigation.
What about when your house catches fire? That's your problem, not mine - but I still pay for the fire services.
What about when you are diagnosed with cancer? That's your problem, not mine...
Actually, all the above aren't just your problem - and that's the point. In all the above cases, not dealing with the problem costs a great deal for society later on. In the case of the cancer sufferer, you deny preventative treatment and let the disease spread until they need ER treatment. At this point they remain in IC at much greater cost. (Unless you intend all uninsured people requiring ER treatment to be left to die - which is the taking your belief to its logical conclusion)
ex elderly people
Aren't they called "dead" people?
Why would a corpse be interested in receiving email? or snail mail for that matter?
Taxation isn't that high:
...government control of health care...
...most of the economy...
10% low rate
22% mid-rate
40% high rate
Although I'll acknowledge that "high rate" is a bit of a misnomer these days.
Compare that to France or Germany's 50-60% tax rate, though...
you can't get around that BBC is big government-controlled media
No its not. In fact, government interference with the BBC is specifically prohibited by law. That's why the BBC routinely turns out to be the government's biggest thorn. See the recent situation in the UK with the BBC and the government battling it out as an example.
Only in America is free health care "left wing", despite the fact that it's universally available in every other western nation.
Name me a government owned company...
Depth perception is only a factor for objects within about 30 feet. Beyond that, its irrelevent.
If the images were of the normal "demo variety", ie, landscapes, waterfalls, cars, etc, then the imagery will be very convincing.
Even for closer objects, the brain doesn't need two images to resolve depth. It can use other cues, such as parallax.