What leads to a fool proof society is the idea of solving dangers by forbidding them, instead of using them as indicators of where the education, or public information, systems are failing.
Wow, way to show your despotic cards. Let's examine that statement, you think that "forbidding dangers" is a solution that leads to a "fool proof society"? Who, pray tell, is the arbiter of these "dangers" and who enforces the actual "forbidding".
I wasn't clear. I meant "fool proof society" as your "society of rounded corners"; something that doesn't work.
I'm not a smoker but I don't believe I, or anyone else, has the right to tell smokers that they can't smoke.
Using the smoking example, my point was that forbidding smoke is useless and that people smoking is an indicator that the information given to the population about tobacco was insufficient or wrong.
An even clearer example is that of drugs. Prohibiting them, instead of making sure that everybody understands their dangers, has the effect of concentrating the negative effect on the less educated population and still doing very little to stop their spread.
So, finally, what I implied was that, while I despised tv fortune tellers (or other businesses based on taking money fro the uninformed), I'd not stop them from continuing with their job. I'd rather use them as pointers to where is the education/information system failing.
Yeah, because virii don't mutate between generations or anything. What could possibly go wrong.....
Yeah, because existing bioligical and nuclear weapons are so much safer.
btw, would you mind passing me the source of "non mutating virii are impossible"? I'd feel safer having it.
Although, if virii prove to be too dangerous, I'm sure we'll find an apropiate illness and its cure, only to release the cure on our population and donate the illness to the general public.
if people are enjoying the product what's so harmful about it?
I don't judge the product. I despise those who work on finding ways of monetizing the product, even at the expesnse of offering an inferior product.
It's that sort of logic that leads to a society of rounded corners and no risk, a world that simply can't exist.
What leads to a fool proof society is the idea of solving dangers by forbidding them, instead of using them as indicators of where the education, or public information, systems are failing.
I don't believe we will seem full nuclear weapon non-proliferation, ever.
Don't be so pessimistic.
We'll see nuclear weapon disappear when we find cheaper, smaller, ways to destroy an attacking country.
No point in keeping the large nuclear complexes if you can have some portable gravity discombobulators hidden in a couple dozen places, ready to pulverize any perceived threat.
If I were you I'd be worried about someone discovering a weapon that can be built with common materials, portable and powerful enough to destroy a country.
that's probably why real scientists are surprised that is such a thing as a "software bug" --- they don't really expect you to say a program works unless it actually works.
Well, we could say the program works in theory, and then, when it doesn't, say it's all right, the theory was just disproven.
Or, we could say we don't know if works, but it's a good enough aproximation for what you need. And then we can put someone to investigate whether it really was.
I would say getting hold of a £500000 ICBM is still pretty far fetched
Well, we can offer you the "silver deal". Instead of flying over the ocean, the missile gets a little boat and two robotic arms to row. It does take some time to reach its destination, though.
He illegaly gained access to servers in the US, so he commited the crime in the US and should be prosecuted there.
Who decided he illegaly gaines access? The US?
Now imagine you're just browsing and North Korea decides you were illegally accessing their servers. Should you be sent there? Or maybe it'd be more reasonable that the north korean government informs yours of what they see as a crime and let your own law decide whether you're a criminal or not.
Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK should he be tried in the UK?
Obviously, yes.
However I see the structure in your sentence implies the answer might be "No". And answer I can't even imagine.
Now I'm interested in anyone's explanation on why would someone have to face a legal process that's not of his country.
I'd welcome any other similar example too. Paying another country's taxes, electing another country's president (Ok, forget that last one if you're CIA).
I don't know anything about particle accelerators but...
It's a machine that does something that no other machines can do. So, I imagine there could be an industrial process that such machine could be used for.
Is there? Can the old accelerators be transformed from science labs into industrial tools?
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What leads to a fool proof society is the idea of solving dangers by forbidding them, instead of using them as indicators of where the education, or public information, systems are failing.
Wow, way to show your despotic cards. Let's examine that statement, you think that "forbidding dangers" is a solution that leads to a "fool proof society"? Who, pray tell, is the arbiter of these "dangers" and who enforces the actual "forbidding".
I wasn't clear. I meant "fool proof society" as your "society of rounded corners"; something that doesn't work.
I'm not a smoker but I don't believe I, or anyone else, has the right to tell smokers that they can't smoke.
Using the smoking example, my point was that forbidding smoke is useless and that people smoking is an indicator that the information given to the population about tobacco was insufficient or wrong.
An even clearer example is that of drugs. Prohibiting them, instead of making sure that everybody understands their dangers, has the effect of concentrating the negative effect on the less educated population and still doing very little to stop their spread.
So, finally, what I implied was that, while I despised tv fortune tellers (or other businesses based on taking money fro the uninformed), I'd not stop them from continuing with their job. I'd rather use them as pointers to where is the education/information system failing.
Yeah, because virii don't mutate between generations or anything. What could possibly go wrong.....
Yeah, because existing bioligical and nuclear weapons are so much safer.
btw, would you mind passing me the source of "non mutating virii are impossible"? I'd feel safer having it.
Although, if virii prove to be too dangerous, I'm sure we'll find an apropiate illness and its cure, only to release the cure on our population and donate the illness to the general public.
Those who beat swords into plowshares will plow for those that don't.
Those who beat swords into plowshares are forced to do so after being beaten by better swords.
What if some guy or some country becomes so insecure or so desperate that they'll stop bothering about retaliation? Emotions are irrational, you know.
That's the problem you solve with a secret service and a tactical team.
How well does it intercept bombs in standard 40 foot shipping containers? Thats the "delivery vehicle of the future".
The delivery vehicle of the future is wind.
Once we learn to target virii to specific genetic patterns.
if people are enjoying the product what's so harmful about it?
I don't judge the product. I despise those who work on finding ways of monetizing the product, even at the expesnse of offering an inferior product.
It's that sort of logic that leads to a society of rounded corners and no risk, a world that simply can't exist.
What leads to a fool proof society is the idea of solving dangers by forbidding them, instead of using them as indicators of where the education, or public information, systems are failing.
I don't believe we will seem full nuclear weapon non-proliferation, ever.
Don't be so pessimistic.
We'll see nuclear weapon disappear when we find cheaper, smaller, ways to destroy an attacking country.
No point in keeping the large nuclear complexes if you can have some portable gravity discombobulators hidden in a couple dozen places, ready to pulverize any perceived threat.
If I were you I'd be worried about someone discovering a weapon that can be built with common materials, portable and powerful enough to destroy a country.
I agree in the analysis and disagree in the resulting conclusion.
At some point I stop seeing an insightful, astute, marketer and I start seeing someone who bases his income on the stupidity of the most stupid.
The guy you call genious, from my point of view is just as repugnant a person as a tv fortune teller.
You know how blind people often wear sunglasses to hide their useless eyes? Guess hat they wore back before sunglasses were invented. Go on, guess...
Buckets!
I pity the guy who has to find a way to monetize the virtual currency of a game that's inside a social network, inside internet.
I wonder if he has found a strong enough soap to remove that constant slimy sensation.
I'm more worried that the proper care is made to archive the data for future generations.
I wonder how unlikely it would be to lose all history of the internet culture in a giant magnetic wave that deleted all hard drives.
It'd be the modern burning of the Library of Alexandria.
First they closer Limewire
First they closed the usenets.
When they came for my router, it was to replace it with a FTTH.
And it was good. ...
Wait... I think I fracked up that one. What were we talking about?
Why doesn't Slashdot have a Star Wars opening credits formatting option?
That option is only available to premium Slashdot subscribers.
that's probably why real scientists are surprised that is such a thing as a "software bug" --- they don't really expect you to say a program works unless it actually works.
Well, we could say the program works in theory, and then, when it doesn't, say it's all right, the theory was just disproven.
Or, we could say we don't know if works, but it's a good enough aproximation for what you need. And then we can put someone to investigate whether it really was.
What happens when you hit underwater sea life with a nuke?
The same thing that happens to anything else.
And we don't want green, muscular, lobsters?
I would say getting hold of a £500000 ICBM is still pretty far fetched
Well, we can offer you the "silver deal". Instead of flying over the ocean, the missile gets a little boat and two robotic arms to row. It does take some time to reach its destination, though.
Even here, in the UK, it's against the law to gain unauthorized access to a computer system.
And yet a judge has to decide whether you committed a crime or not.
Another country telling yours you committed a crime may, as the very most, grant an investigation. Period.
He illegaly gained access to servers in the US, so he commited the crime in the US and should be prosecuted there.
Who decided he illegaly gaines access? The US?
Now imagine you're just browsing and North Korea decides you were illegally accessing their servers. Should you be sent there? Or maybe it'd be more reasonable that the north korean government informs yours of what they see as a crime and let your own law decide whether you're a criminal or not.
"one's country" is the country which owns you.
With a careful definition on what a country is and how can it "own" things, that definition is quite appropiate.
pay income tax to their country of citizenship
What's your definition of "one's country"?
Say he fired a cruise missile at the whitehouse from the UK should he be tried in the UK?
Obviously, yes.
However I see the structure in your sentence implies the answer might be "No". And answer I can't even imagine.
Now I'm interested in anyone's explanation on why would someone have to face a legal process that's not of his country.
I'd welcome any other similar example too. Paying another country's taxes, electing another country's president (Ok, forget that last one if you're CIA).
I don't know anything about particle accelerators but...
It's a machine that does something that no other machines can do. So, I imagine there could be an industrial process that such machine could be used for.
Is there? Can the old accelerators be transformed from science labs into industrial tools?
I love your post. Much food for thought.
Thanks.
It would be so funny to discover now that the laws of physics are uneven in space...
That the same experiment gets you different results depending on which sid of the Milky Way you are...
Or they could be uneven in time. Maybe every 54.12 years the relation between produced matter/antimatter switches from 1:1.01 to 1.01:1.
The OP's second point is debatable, but his first point is correct, in terms of evolutionary advantage.
I agree.
The second point is just a possible cause of changes in the first. Subjugated men will have less chance of avoiding extermination.