The only problem with euthanizing me for my disability is that as a person born with defective genes I had no opportunity to correct the problem, ergo, I would be punished for something that is not even my fault.
One may as well punish people for being black...oh wait, we already did that didn't we? I believe it was called slavery. The point being that people (not just myself) are disadvantaged all the time through no fault of their own, simply due to natural cause and effect. Adding to the problem with artificial measures only makes things worse.
At any rate, letting "survival of the fittest" take over would open the floodgates to perverse incentives, and people would start considering cheating as a viable method of survival. Getting someone euthanized by sabotaging them into unfitness, for example, would be entirely possible.
Of course, unlike the other person who responded to you, I can tell that you are just being sarcastic.
The psychologist that examined me strongly advised me to seek a work environment that doesn't require frequent interaction with other people.
Considering that he's a licensed professional, I probably should follow his advice.
Besides, even if I could do a brain job, my resume isn't likely to get me anywhere until I've "paid my dues" working at a crap job like McD's or Walmart for awhile.
Personally I'd be happy dropping the minimum wage a bit to take care of the disparity between supply and demand.
Perhaps also giving workers a basic 5 dollar an hour subsidy on their wages, taking off 1 cent for every 2 they earn above that.
That would jumpstart the economy pretty damn fast. Businesses, by being able to hire more cheaply, will get more people off the dole and onto the roll, the payroll. The bazillions of unemployed people would line up for work faster than the crowd at PAX when DNF was demoed.
And most likely, I'd be happy to join them. Having a public dole I can count on is good for peace of mind, but if it weren't for my involvement in SF I'd be bored to insanity.
I've actually had a couple jobs before. I was fired from the first one (autistic blunder), and the second one I agreed to a voluntary layoff. I was a tutor working on commission. I didn't earn enough to cover the 22 dollar a month difference I'd need to make it more profitable to stay employed than to give up working and get more in food stamps through a different office that pays more, but requires you to be unemployed to qualify.
Perverse incentives like that aren't pretty. That, and not having even $22/mo worth of tutoring business to cover it is just flat out lame.
A licensed psychologist diagnosed me. So either I'm a nutcase, or I'm a damn good bullshitter.
And if I was, I'd probably be working in a bank or a brokerage with the other greedy fuckers that brought our country down to its knees during the whole subprime mortgage fiasco.
You might think I'm a bum, but I would never have gotten SSI in the first place without them thinking I had a disability.
So either
1) I have a disability that keeps me from working 2) The doctor who SSA sent me to thinks I does but screwed up 3) I pulled a fast one and bullshit BOTH the doctor AND ssa.
I'm doubtful of case 3. It's quite hazardous considering the penalties for defrauding the federal government. Furthermore, if I was that good of a BSer I'd rather ply my skills working in a bank or a brokerage firm. Lots more money to be made there.
Case 2 might be possible, but unlikely considering that I've had a history of autistic symptoms.
I guess that leaves case 1. I have autism. A bad case too. My psychologist strongly advised me to stay away from a work environment until I was ready.
I'm in poverty, but I'm also frugal. Half the stuff I need I cobble together on my own, and the other half I just save up for like everyone else probably should.
I only get 8k a year, but I'm not drowning in debt like half of the rest of the USA. I got high scores in accounting and consumer econ, as well as basic economics.
And tell me how that'll work when I get some greedy bastard that cares more about selling his land off to the highest bidder than he does about protecting the environment.
The thing about private property is that it can be bought and sold.
More like they exploited the ignorance of the person whose rights were infringed and got a bargain on the sale by keeping it a secret that they could have sued the infringer themselves.
A more accurate analogy would be using a metal detector to snoop around on someone's land and finding a huge pile of buried gold, then making a low ball offer to the property owner who doesn't know about it.
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The only problem with euthanizing me for my disability is that as a person born with defective genes I had no opportunity to correct the problem, ergo, I would be punished for something that is not even my fault.
One may as well punish people for being black...oh wait, we already did that didn't we? I believe it was called slavery. The point being that people (not just myself) are disadvantaged all the time through no fault of their own, simply due to natural cause and effect. Adding to the problem with artificial measures only makes things worse.
At any rate, letting "survival of the fittest" take over would open the floodgates to perverse incentives, and people would start considering cheating as a viable method of survival. Getting someone euthanized by sabotaging them into unfitness, for example, would be entirely possible.
Of course, unlike the other person who responded to you, I can tell that you are just being sarcastic.
The psychologist that examined me strongly advised me to seek a work environment that doesn't require frequent interaction with other people.
Considering that he's a licensed professional, I probably should follow his advice.
Besides, even if I could do a brain job, my resume isn't likely to get me anywhere until I've "paid my dues" working at a crap job like McD's or Walmart for awhile.
Personally I'd be happy dropping the minimum wage a bit to take care of the disparity between supply and demand.
Perhaps also giving workers a basic 5 dollar an hour subsidy on their wages, taking off 1 cent for every 2 they earn above that.
That would jumpstart the economy pretty damn fast. Businesses, by being able to hire more cheaply, will get more people off the dole and onto the roll, the payroll. The bazillions of unemployed people would line up for work faster than the crowd at PAX when DNF was demoed.
And most likely, I'd be happy to join them. Having a public dole I can count on is good for peace of mind, but if it weren't for my involvement in SF I'd be bored to insanity.
I've actually had a couple jobs before. I was fired from the first one (autistic blunder), and the second one I agreed to a voluntary layoff. I was a tutor working on commission. I didn't earn enough to cover the 22 dollar a month difference I'd need to make it more profitable to stay employed than to give up working and get more in food stamps through a different office that pays more, but requires you to be unemployed to qualify.
Perverse incentives like that aren't pretty. That, and not having even $22/mo worth of tutoring business to cover it is just flat out lame.
I have autistic disorder.
A licensed psychologist diagnosed me. So either I'm a nutcase, or I'm a damn good bullshitter.
And if I was, I'd probably be working in a bank or a brokerage with the other greedy fuckers that brought our country down to its knees during the whole subprime mortgage fiasco.
You might think I'm a bum, but I would never have gotten SSI in the first place without them thinking I had a disability.
So either
1) I have a disability that keeps me from working
2) The doctor who SSA sent me to thinks I does but screwed up
3) I pulled a fast one and bullshit BOTH the doctor AND ssa.
I'm doubtful of case 3. It's quite hazardous considering the penalties for defrauding the federal government. Furthermore, if I was that good of a BSer I'd rather ply my skills working in a bank or a brokerage firm. Lots more money to be made there.
Case 2 might be possible, but unlikely considering that I've had a history of autistic symptoms.
I guess that leaves case 1. I have autism. A bad case too. My psychologist strongly advised me to stay away from a work environment until I was ready.
I'm in poverty, but I'm also frugal. Half the stuff I need I cobble together on my own, and the other half I just save up for like everyone else probably should.
I only get 8k a year, but I'm not drowning in debt like half of the rest of the USA. I got high scores in accounting and consumer econ, as well as basic economics.
I have almost unlimited free time.
I also happen to be a 25 year old geek with too much time on his hands. Besides reading slashdot, I also work on a few projects at SF.
I get only $8088 a year in income from SSI.
Of course, I also get food stamps, and make use of Section 8 rent subsidies, so my effective income is probably a little higher.
I'm still well below the 75k mark, but then again I'm not paying in sweat to get it either.
I even have $1400 in credit available, thanks to a couple of credit cards.
I'm fairly happy.
Imagine if you sent a readout of /dev/urandom and the feds thought it was encrypted?
Methinks that the main bill is about pharmaceuticals and the like, with draconian anti-sharing as a rider tacked on by special interests.
Uh huh.
And tell me how that'll work when I get some greedy bastard that cares more about selling his land off to the highest bidder than he does about protecting the environment.
The thing about private property is that it can be bought and sold.
That was kinda my point.
You can use "national security" as a rubber stamp for almost anything if you pretend to panic hard enough.
Naturally I don't condone this kind of bullshit.
Maybe Wikileaks sees that the US has sicced the dogs of war on Assange and they want to dump him now that he's a liability.
When it comes to national security, nothing is sacred, unfortunately.
That's because nobody has to pay for environmental damage unless they are forced to.
Tragedy of the commons.
Look up "externalities".
Incidentally, the Ruhr region of Germany solves this by making polluters pay for the privilege.
And you can bet that the rules won't change back once the crisis is over.
Hitler used an economic crisis to jump start the police state that was Nazi Germany.
And just to avoid an exclusive godwin, this is also how Senator Palpatine turned into Darth Sidious.
Taking advantage of a crisis to usurp power is an old trick.
The same Senate whose campaign contributions come from the very same companies that are pushing for ACTA in the first place?
Then maybe the persons that sold the copyright should have done their homework and charged a higher price for a copyright with ripe damages.
Kinda like how spammers started harassing Blue Security users after getting a taste of their own medicine.
It's sorta like how SCO's legal claims would be inherited by the highest bidder if it were ever liquidated.
I think it's called a successor in interest.
More like they exploited the ignorance of the person whose rights were infringed and got a bargain on the sale by keeping it a secret that they could have sued the infringer themselves.
A more accurate analogy would be using a metal detector to snoop around on someone's land and finding a huge pile of buried gold, then making a low ball offer to the property owner who doesn't know about it.
Heh, interesting how you can lose your rights so easily.
You have to opt-in to get your share of the settlement, but you have to opt-out to retain the right to sue seperately.
I think it was making a point that correlation!=causation.
Big whoop, if you wanna use the school network, follow the fracking rules.
Let me put it this way.
You sail a ship, and she springs a leak in the hull.
It doesn't matter how fast you haul her back ashore, the bilge is still going to be wet.
The auto-follow still exposed information without my consent.
It doesn't matter how easily it was to undo, data was still exposed where it shouldn't have been.