It's a combination of the two, actually - to make people think twice about their comments by exposing them to the possibility of retribution (in the form of social shunning). However some people really want to call the President a [church bells] but don't want to face any potential consequences, and one of the methods of shielding themselves from these consequences is anonymity, so they feel that their free speech is being undermined when private companies no longer give them a platform for anonymous commentary.
Some of these same people want to take it a step further and want special protection from these consequences when speech can be attributed to them, which ironically enough would require significant restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, and association, among others.
It only makes sense if you consider CEOs to be modern royalty, and that companies need to choose someone of a "noble bloodline" to rule them. I can't find any other logical explanation for putting someone as astronomically incompetent as Stephen Elop in charge of anything more than a mop & bucket (not even a gas pump or coffee machine, gas is flammable and coffee burns).
I'd say that this guy is the Hitler of business management, but I don't think that carries the weight it once did, we're too cool with Hitlers these days. Should we go back to the Pharaoh standard?
I don't imagine it would be too hard to trace the source of a Rod from God. They should show up on military radar for one thing. The best bet at plausible deniability would be to blame a meteor, but a targeted nation will only buy that line once at most.
You haven't thought it through my friend. First off, human want is basically infinite, so there is that.
Human want is not even practically infinite, it is sometimes very large but quite finite. The incorrect assumption that human want is infinite is one of the mistakes that will cause the next economic collapse - right now we're assuming that the 1% can create enough demand to make work for the 99%, but they can't.
I don't think the lack of megastructures is any indication of a lack of intelligent life. There's no reason to build dyson spheres etc. if you can keep your population levels under control. The idea of a Kardashev Type 2/3 civilization is almost laughable - a society advanced enough to build a dyson sphere but backward enough to reproduce to the point where a dyson sphere may be helpful.
They also denied that they were paid any money from the government for Tor research, which was just a lie:
In a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder.
Games are the only reason I still have 1 Windows computer, but a lot of new games are Linux-compatible these days, especially because of the Steambox. I'm hoping I won't have to keep my gaming machine on Windows 10 for long, but sadly it would be an expensive and nonsensical decision to stay on Win7 past the free upgrade deadline.
This would indeed work, disregarding any problems of political infeasibility. If income were capped to something, say, in the mid-6-digits-per-year range, the money would have to be spent on something. The ability to hoard wealth is the biggest economy-killer.
You misunderstand where the fruits of increased productivity went - it didn't go into government coffers, it went into Swiss bank accounts. If inequality hadn't increased since the "working 2 days a week" predictions were made, we would indeed be only working 2 days a week, and we'd be much wealthier too (since those calculations didn't account for the income stagnation almost all of us have been suffering for decades now).
Yes, there are some who gain their standing by exploiting others, but I can't buy into the narrative that people who have money are generally greedy and don't want anyone else to have it.
Well bad news, they are in fact greedy and seek greater inequality to make themselves feel relatively wealthier. It's evident in many of the goods and services they buy, they're expensive just for the sake of expense. Exotic pets that cost more than a worker could make in a month, no better as pets than any rescued from an animal shelter. Watches that cost more than a worker could make in a year, no better-looking than a $100 watch and no better at telling the time than a $5 watch. Opulent cars which cost more than a worker could make in a lifetime, most of which are objectively better in some way, but are mostly used to get from A to B like any other car which is orders of magnitude cheaper.
There's no function to the kind of wealth they seek other than to satisfy greed and flaunt that satisfaction.
Ah, the "rising tide causes inflation" idea, which is incompatible with any existing theory of how inflation works. I've even seen some people suggest that increased minimum wages would trigger the same effect. According to this idea, it seems that the only force keeping inflation in check is the desperation of underpaid workers.
It sounds like the brain wallet is simply a bad idea then. It practically reduces the security of your bitcoin wallet to nothing more than the strength of your password.
I prefer to imagine that God chose to smite a random Indian bus driver out of all the people in the world that he could have used a hurtling space rock on.
I think he's recommending military applications of pizza technology. It's a workable idea. Leave serverely overheated hot pockets on the enemy battlefield, enemy soldiers can't resist picking them up and biting into them once the outer crust cools (while the interior is still as hot as the inside of an operating fusion reactor), and then this happens.
It'll work until new treaties outlaw the use of hot pocket weapons as a war crime.
Even then, the technology could help medics cauterize wounds on the field. Dude's bleeding out through two severed thighs? Extrude some overheated hot pocket cheese from an insulated container onto the wound!
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Stupid hasn't won yet. In fact, after COP21, I'd say stupid is starting to lose.
That is also pointless. We also know that over the extended record, CO2 follows temperature
Wrong:
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
It's a combination of the two, actually - to make people think twice about their comments by exposing them to the possibility of retribution (in the form of social shunning). However some people really want to call the President a [church bells] but don't want to face any potential consequences, and one of the methods of shielding themselves from these consequences is anonymity, so they feel that their free speech is being undermined when private companies no longer give them a platform for anonymous commentary.
Some of these same people want to take it a step further and want special protection from these consequences when speech can be attributed to them, which ironically enough would require significant restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, and association, among others.
It only makes sense if you consider CEOs to be modern royalty, and that companies need to choose someone of a "noble bloodline" to rule them. I can't find any other logical explanation for putting someone as astronomically incompetent as Stephen Elop in charge of anything more than a mop & bucket (not even a gas pump or coffee machine, gas is flammable and coffee burns).
I'd say that this guy is the Hitler of business management, but I don't think that carries the weight it once did, we're too cool with Hitlers these days. Should we go back to the Pharaoh standard?
I don't imagine it would be too hard to trace the source of a Rod from God. They should show up on military radar for one thing. The best bet at plausible deniability would be to blame a meteor, but a targeted nation will only buy that line once at most.
You're missing that the mechanism which unlocks the actual encryption key based on the PIN is not software but a tamperproof chip.
You haven't thought it through my friend. First off, human want is basically infinite, so there is that.
Human want is not even practically infinite, it is sometimes very large but quite finite. The incorrect assumption that human want is infinite is one of the mistakes that will cause the next economic collapse - right now we're assuming that the 1% can create enough demand to make work for the 99%, but they can't.
I don't think the lack of megastructures is any indication of a lack of intelligent life. There's no reason to build dyson spheres etc. if you can keep your population levels under control. The idea of a Kardashev Type 2/3 civilization is almost laughable - a society advanced enough to build a dyson sphere but backward enough to reproduce to the point where a dyson sphere may be helpful.
They also denied that they were paid any money from the government for Tor research, which was just a lie:
In a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder.
Games are the only reason I still have 1 Windows computer, but a lot of new games are Linux-compatible these days, especially because of the Steambox. I'm hoping I won't have to keep my gaming machine on Windows 10 for long, but sadly it would be an expensive and nonsensical decision to stay on Win7 past the free upgrade deadline.
I prefer "climate conspiracy ideology." >:D
Free speech is not "say whatever the hell you want and no one's allowed to criticise you".
Tell that to the Social Injustice Enthusiasts :-P
This would indeed work, disregarding any problems of political infeasibility. If income were capped to something, say, in the mid-6-digits-per-year range, the money would have to be spent on something. The ability to hoard wealth is the biggest economy-killer.
You misunderstand where the fruits of increased productivity went - it didn't go into government coffers, it went into Swiss bank accounts. If inequality hadn't increased since the "working 2 days a week" predictions were made, we would indeed be only working 2 days a week, and we'd be much wealthier too (since those calculations didn't account for the income stagnation almost all of us have been suffering for decades now).
Yes, there are some who gain their standing by exploiting others, but I can't buy into the narrative that people who have money are generally greedy and don't want anyone else to have it.
Well bad news, they are in fact greedy and seek greater inequality to make themselves feel relatively wealthier. It's evident in many of the goods and services they buy, they're expensive just for the sake of expense. Exotic pets that cost more than a worker could make in a month, no better as pets than any rescued from an animal shelter. Watches that cost more than a worker could make in a year, no better-looking than a $100 watch and no better at telling the time than a $5 watch. Opulent cars which cost more than a worker could make in a lifetime, most of which are objectively better in some way, but are mostly used to get from A to B like any other car which is orders of magnitude cheaper.
There's no function to the kind of wealth they seek other than to satisfy greed and flaunt that satisfaction.
Ah, the "rising tide causes inflation" idea, which is incompatible with any existing theory of how inflation works. I've even seen some people suggest that increased minimum wages would trigger the same effect. According to this idea, it seems that the only force keeping inflation in check is the desperation of underpaid workers.
If it were possible, you could use gravity for FTL communication, possibly even allowing you to violate causality.
It sounds like the brain wallet is simply a bad idea then. It practically reduces the security of your bitcoin wallet to nothing more than the strength of your password.
Or agronomists and a magic 8-ball...I'm only half joking.
I prefer to imagine that God chose to smite a random Indian bus driver out of all the people in the world that he could have used a hurtling space rock on.
I think he's recommending military applications of pizza technology. It's a workable idea. Leave serverely overheated hot pockets on the enemy battlefield, enemy soldiers can't resist picking them up and biting into them once the outer crust cools (while the interior is still as hot as the inside of an operating fusion reactor), and then this happens.
It'll work until new treaties outlaw the use of hot pocket weapons as a war crime.
Even then, the technology could help medics cauterize wounds on the field. Dude's bleeding out through two severed thighs? Extrude some overheated hot pocket cheese from an insulated container onto the wound!
At this rate, I wonder if fusion will be able to compete with renewables by the time it's made practical.
Nothing a Sonny Bono act for certain energy patents can't fix...
It looks to me like it's just a local torrent client with a browser plugin that allows it to be loaded and controlled from a webpage.
I think they're trying to choke David Cameron to death on his own porridge.