If putting something into your own body is directly linked to causing harm to others, then it is my opinion that they sure as hell have a right to dictate as they see fit to mitigate the risk (to serve and *protect*).
This is why cars should be illegal - they kill more people per year than just about anything else, and 100% of them are potentially deadly.
I never get this kind of map. If you take their logic, Netherlands should already be flooded. As far as I can see from my window, it isn't.
Higher sealevel just means building some infrastructure against flooding.
You need a decent government for that. In the U.S., we knew for decades that much of New Orleans was going to be underwater if a decent hurricane hit it (I first learned about it in college in 1992). Nothing of substance was done.
If you have an older Ford/Chevy, 99% of the aftermarket parts you buy are not built by Ford/Chevy (unless you're getting them from a junkyard). Even with newer cars, aftermarket parts tend to be cheaper and work just as well, or are more expensive but provide superior performance.
IOW, car analogies rarely work, and yours is no exception.
When you show how this is anything at all new, and also applicable to medicine and other fields, I'll get excited. But it's not, so I won't hold my breath. Also, PLAYING sports is great. WATCHING sports is for paraplegics, fat people, and/or parents who have kids in the game.
I nearly posted the same rant, but then I actually read GP's post and realized that I totally misunderstood what he said. (Seriously, those modding this up should learn to read.)
Still waiting for examples of how it's possible for 3rd party candidates to *WIN*.
In both of these cases, not only did these candidates lose, but they split the vote so that the candidate most opposite of themselves won. IOW, a vote for Perot was actually a vote for Clinton, and a vote for Nader was actually a vote for Bush.
No, only the free market can break that stranglehold.
Funny, all my friends in Europe (and an awful lot of people in Asia) have much, much faster internet speeds than me, and their networks are far less "free market" than those in the U.S. Also, they pay a hell of a lot less than my $95 per month.
And while I agree that the U.S. has no free market to speak of, the result of a truly free market will ALWAYS be monopoly; the most successful company will buy the rest until only 1 is left.
I think TFA and TFS misses the point: The problem isn't that we don't have decent science education; the problem is that we don't create scientists.
Look at any science or engineering school in the U.S. and it becomes pretty clear. There are many, many more foreigners than Americans. Now go look at the liberal arts programs: Nothing but Americans. The country and the world don't need more out-of-work English majors. There not a shortage of tech jobs right now, particularly in engineering, but also in other hard sciences.
There is something warm and fuzzy about a free market economy, where everything "just works" because everyone is making decisions that are optimal for themselves. Back in cold, hard reality, that is a load of shit, because people are nincompoops who make retarded decisions, which collectively results in a massive clusterfuck.
Actually, this is exactly why a free market works. See, the smart, hard working, and let's face it, lucky people tend to win. They are successful and they multiply. Google creates a search engine. It is successful, more search engines emerge.
You contradict yourself. Google isn't an example of the free market -- it wouldn't exist without the internet, which was created entirely with government funding. Google is a success thanks to a partnership between government and the free market. The same could be said for any business that requires the internet, highways, nationwide electricity, telephones, lasers, and a billion other things that we only have because of government intervention.
And those are just the easy ones. Don't forget that Americans used to die regularly from water-born diseases before the government decided to dictate how municipal water was treated (against the strong objections of the free-marketers). Would Google have been invented if clean water wasn't a part of American culture? Who knows.
I know that fire in a sub is considered one of the most dangerous threats there is
yep, fire is usually considered the #1 hazard aboard space ships and subs. Simply because the first thing you normally do when there's a fire is evacuate, something that's not such an easy option for them.
Evacuating ship is *not* the first thing submariners do. They attack fires with a vengeance. One, it's stealing our oxygen. Two, it's polluting our oxygen supply with *deadly* gases. Three, it can kill you fairly quickly. Some exhaust gases on board submarine cause damn near instant death.
He (fairly obviously) meant that when you're NOT on a sub or spaceship, the first thing you do is evacuate. Building on fire? Evacuate quickly. Sub on fire? Evacuating quickly isn't an option.
If I discovered all 14 of my sites were taken down, while I'm trying to raise money for Special needs...
If you can't be bothered to learn what you are and aren't allowed to do with other people's work, your websites deserve to be taken down no matter what they are. I don't get to include someone else's story in my book of short stories just because I'm sending a small percentage of the proceeds to Jerry's Kids.
Also, most of her sites have nothing to do with kids, special needs or otherwise.
Don't they mean users "accused" of downloading? As it seems to me, all that is required is an accusation by some asshole MAFIAA goon. It's not like they actually prove their accusations or anything.
Agreed. I've gotten exactly ONE infringement notice from my ISP (Cox Cable), and it was for a TV show I've never pirated.
I see 2 problems with the 6-strike policy: 1) There's no incentive for an ISP to do this -- it will lose them paying customers without benefit. 2) Since Cox has a monopoly on fast internet in my area and I require it to do my job, they'd be looking at a lawsuit if they improperly cut off my service based on untrue accusations.
Once the lawsuits start flowing, the policy will be out the window.
Sorry, I accidentally made reference to TFS, forgetting that many on/. lack the skill to READ before commenting. I'll clarify for the shortbus crowd:
The name of the Act is Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act. It does nothing to protect privacy.
Your illogical, meandering rant aside, as long as you are under surveillance, you're are not experiencing privacy. The act of surveillance necessitates the removal of privacy.
... now, there are no more U.S. TV manufacturers. They've completely killed the industry in the U.S..
Of course there are U.S. TV manufacturers, they just moved their manufacturing plants overseas (just like nearly every other type of electronics). This has nothing to do with "selling them below cost" -- labor is just more expensive in the U.S. so manufacturers can't compete. Strictly speaking, this can still be considered "dumping" according to the Wikipedia definition, but it has nothing to do with selling below cost.
You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.
This is a huge problem for almost every manufacturer. Take a look at the HP DV series of laptops for example. Why are we picking on Apple and not the GPU manufacturers here?
Because this story is about Apple, not HP or Nvidia. RTFA.
Can't be done in this country currently, the teacher's unions are too much money for the DNC in their current form in order to risk losing some of it by changing things...
GOP is not allowed to do anything with education without guarnteeing losing elections due to lies from the DNC.
So you are suggesting we stop the DNC's war against children.
I notice you very carefully neglected to mention what exactly Republicans would like to do to increase education. Teach creationism in science class? An economics class explaining how cutting taxes while vastly increasing spending (during wartime, for example) leads to a balanced budget? Babies from storks?
The fact is, neither party has any interest in educating anyone, as it would put their jobs at risk.
He learned something when he took office. Something scary. Because otherwise he just burned a ton of political capital (with every intention of running for a second turn) for no reason. That doesn't make sense for a capable, career politician.
This reminds me of the folks who supported going into Iraq to begin with: "The President has secret knowledge that you don't have! THAT'S why he's so gung ho over going to war! We have to support him!!"
The fact is, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We see it with every president, but it manifests in different ways.
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If putting something into your own body is directly linked to causing harm to others, then it is my opinion that they sure as hell have a right to dictate as they see fit to mitigate the risk (to serve and *protect*).
This is why cars should be illegal - they kill more people per year than just about anything else, and 100% of them are potentially deadly.
What other nanny state measures do you support?
I really wish any links posted in the comments automatically opened in a new window/tab so we didn't accidentally navigate away from the conversation.
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I never get this kind of map. If you take their logic, Netherlands should already be flooded. As far as I can see from my window, it isn't.
Higher sealevel just means building some infrastructure against flooding.
You need a decent government for that. In the U.S., we knew for decades that much of New Orleans was going to be underwater if a decent hurricane hit it (I first learned about it in college in 1992). Nothing of substance was done.
If you have an older Ford/Chevy, 99% of the aftermarket parts you buy are not built by Ford/Chevy (unless you're getting them from a junkyard). Even with newer cars, aftermarket parts tend to be cheaper and work just as well, or are more expensive but provide superior performance.
IOW, car analogies rarely work, and yours is no exception.
When you show how this is anything at all new, and also applicable to medicine and other fields, I'll get excited. But it's not, so I won't hold my breath. Also, PLAYING sports is great. WATCHING sports is for paraplegics, fat people, and/or parents who have kids in the game.
I nearly posted the same rant, but then I actually read GP's post and realized that I totally misunderstood what he said. (Seriously, those modding this up should learn to read.)
It has been quite possible for a third party candidate to win. Here are some examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campaign,_1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campaign,_2000
Still waiting for examples of how it's possible for 3rd party candidates to *WIN*.
In both of these cases, not only did these candidates lose, but they split the vote so that the candidate most opposite of themselves won. IOW, a vote for Perot was actually a vote for Clinton, and a vote for Nader was actually a vote for Bush.
We need instant run-off elections.
No, only the free market can break that stranglehold.
Funny, all my friends in Europe (and an awful lot of people in Asia) have much, much faster internet speeds than me, and their networks are far less "free market" than those in the U.S. Also, they pay a hell of a lot less than my $95 per month.
And while I agree that the U.S. has no free market to speak of, the result of a truly free market will ALWAYS be monopoly; the most successful company will buy the rest until only 1 is left.
I think TFA and TFS misses the point: The problem isn't that we don't have decent science education; the problem is that we don't create scientists.
Look at any science or engineering school in the U.S. and it becomes pretty clear. There are many, many more foreigners than Americans. Now go look at the liberal arts programs: Nothing but Americans. The country and the world don't need more out-of-work English majors. There not a shortage of tech jobs right now, particularly in engineering, but also in other hard sciences.
Few animals are cuter than rabbits and squirrels, which you are free to eat whenever you like. Apparently there's more to it than you think.
There is something warm and fuzzy about a free market economy, where everything "just works" because everyone is making decisions that are optimal for themselves. Back in cold, hard reality, that is a load of shit, because people are nincompoops who make retarded decisions, which collectively results in a massive clusterfuck.
Actually, this is exactly why a free market works. See, the smart, hard working, and let's face it, lucky people tend to win. They are successful and they multiply. Google creates a search engine. It is successful, more search engines emerge.
You contradict yourself. Google isn't an example of the free market -- it wouldn't exist without the internet, which was created entirely with government funding. Google is a success thanks to a partnership between government and the free market. The same could be said for any business that requires the internet, highways, nationwide electricity, telephones, lasers, and a billion other things that we only have because of government intervention.
And those are just the easy ones. Don't forget that Americans used to die regularly from water-born diseases before the government decided to dictate how municipal water was treated (against the strong objections of the free-marketers). Would Google have been invented if clean water wasn't a part of American culture? Who knows.
yep, fire is usually considered the #1 hazard aboard space ships and subs. Simply because the first thing you normally do when there's a fire is evacuate, something that's not such an easy option for them.
Evacuating ship is *not* the first thing submariners do. They attack fires with a vengeance. One, it's stealing our oxygen. Two, it's polluting our oxygen supply with *deadly* gases. Three, it can kill you fairly quickly. Some exhaust gases on board submarine cause damn near instant death.
He (fairly obviously) meant that when you're NOT on a sub or spaceship, the first thing you do is evacuate. Building on fire? Evacuate quickly. Sub on fire? Evacuating quickly isn't an option.
If I discovered all 14 of my sites were taken down, while I'm trying to raise money for Special needs...
If you can't be bothered to learn what you are and aren't allowed to do with other people's work, your websites deserve to be taken down no matter what they are. I don't get to include someone else's story in my book of short stories just because I'm sending a small percentage of the proceeds to Jerry's Kids.
Also, most of her sites have nothing to do with kids, special needs or otherwise.
Don't they mean users "accused" of downloading? As it seems to me, all that is required is an accusation by some asshole MAFIAA goon. It's not like they actually prove their accusations or anything.
Agreed. I've gotten exactly ONE infringement notice from my ISP (Cox Cable), and it was for a TV show I've never pirated.
I see 2 problems with the 6-strike policy:
1) There's no incentive for an ISP to do this -- it will lose them paying customers without benefit.
2) Since Cox has a monopoly on fast internet in my area and I require it to do my job, they'd be looking at a lawsuit if they improperly cut off my service based on untrue accusations.
Once the lawsuits start flowing, the policy will be out the window.
The name of the Act is Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act. It does nothing to protect privacy.
Your illogical, meandering rant aside, as long as you are under surveillance, you're are not experiencing privacy. The act of surveillance necessitates the removal of privacy.
Hopefully that's less confusing.
The greatest danger we face is the government
Thanks for your agreement.
...You can't have both.
... now, there are no more U.S. TV manufacturers. They've completely killed the industry in the U.S..
Of course there are U.S. TV manufacturers, they just moved their manufacturing plants overseas (just like nearly every other type of electronics). This has nothing to do with "selling them below cost" -- labor is just more expensive in the U.S. so manufacturers can't compete. Strictly speaking, this can still be considered "dumping" according to the Wikipedia definition, but it has nothing to do with selling below cost.
You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.
What happens? Nothing.
Apple's problems wasn't that they were doing it; it's that they were selling it.
Mine was great. Sucks to be you I guess.
No, it sucks to be 88% of us.
Nice to see that the U.S. isn't the only country with a "conservative" party that's not at all conservative.
This is a huge problem for almost every manufacturer. Take a look at the HP DV series of laptops for example. Why are we picking on Apple and not the GPU manufacturers here?
Because this story is about Apple, not HP or Nvidia. RTFA.
Can't be done in this country currently, the teacher's unions are too much money for the DNC in their current form in order to risk losing some of it by changing things...
GOP is not allowed to do anything with education without guarnteeing losing elections due to lies from the DNC.
So you are suggesting we stop the DNC's war against children.
I notice you very carefully neglected to mention what exactly Republicans would like to do to increase education. Teach creationism in science class? An economics class explaining how cutting taxes while vastly increasing spending (during wartime, for example) leads to a balanced budget? Babies from storks?
The fact is, neither party has any interest in educating anyone, as it would put their jobs at risk.
Exercise your 2nd Amendment rights at the airport and find out who gets to treat who like child.
The point is that price-fixing is anti-consumer. Of course it works out great for you; you're not the consumer.
He learned something when he took office. Something scary. Because otherwise he just burned a ton of political capital (with every intention of running for a second turn) for no reason. That doesn't make sense for a capable, career politician.
This reminds me of the folks who supported going into Iraq to begin with: "The President has secret knowledge that you don't have! THAT'S why he's so gung ho over going to war! We have to support him!!"
The fact is, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We see it with every president, but it manifests in different ways.