Please keep this under wraps. Thus far the major media outlets in the US have been doing a good job. Consequences of this knowledge could be very negative. Most notably to government/police power, law enforcement, the prison industry, the pharma companies, the current illegal drug trade, the other makers of legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco), and i'm sure a few others I forgot.
The only people that could possibly benefit from this are the 300 million or so American citizens. Doesn't seem like it would be worth it to me.
What is a false law? I understand the concept of bad law, but as long as a law has been passed legally, how can it be false unless it's unconstitutional?
Laws like this seem like parents that suck at parenting. Any behavior in your kids you wish to modify you have the choice to try to teach what they should be doing and why or simply mandate that they act according to your wishes.
It's so much easier to mandate than to teach or try to convince.
If it has a modicum of intelligence and also self-determination, it will quickly come to the conclusion that humanity is going to destroy itself if it is not enslaved or better yet just killed off for its own good.
I know it's april 20th, but geez that stuff has got you bugging.
Our fellow geeks who have router-based firewalls and logging would surely have noticed network activity that they didn't initiate and trace it back to its source.
The Constitution asserts a man's right to bear arms, and... arm bears, and all points in between. Who ever heard of a gun... or a bear causing problems? --Alex Shrub
Good point. The only reasonable conclusion is to monitor everyone. Then we can find the bad guys easily whenever there's a problem. And we'll never ever misuse these powers, pinky swear.
Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
Here's an attempted proof why playing as a female character is more manly than playing a male character (assuming you're male, and not a hardcore RPer):
You have to look at your character all the time. You dress them up, you give them new stuff, you make them dance and do socials. You watch them beat the crap out of stuff and cast spells all day long. It makes more sense to me as a guy to be watching a hot female character do all those things rather than some buff, half-naked, hercules lookin fella.
Or... (wild ass theory made of common sense coming, you might wanna duck):
Average citizens would have more of their own money that isn't getting wasted on layer upon layer of bureaucracy before filtering down into those government programs and would then donate to local charities to fix local problems and those people who used to go to the government can go to local food banks, shelters, etc.
It's amazing how charitable you'd find people when they aren't getting 25-35% of their pay siphoned off by a monolithic organization that thinks it can solve problems better than small groups of people yet time after time has nothing but failure and waste to show for it.
I think it's odd that people put libertarians all over their little charts with their left sides and right sides and whatnot.
As I understand it, libertarian ideology is about following the constitution. That doesn't seem like it's on any "side". It's smack in the middle of what America is supposed to be. It probably seems left or right because America itself is so far off course..
Dunno about most of you, but unless the money is in my bank account (a.k.a. the check has cleared), I haven't received it.
The SSN one probably gets a lot of people especially those desperate to get a job. Again though, people need to simply be untrusting as a rule while on the interweb.
Yeah, but most people are. And what I've seen at all the 7+ companies i've work for is pretty much right out of Office Space: people only working just hard enough to not get fired.
It seems the corporate system is designed this way though. At most companies I've been paid a straight salary with no overtime and either no bonus or a possible 5% bonus based on how well I've been able to project a productive air to my manager.
So where's the incentive to work harder? When we kick ass and do well as a company, I rarely see an extra cent. When we do poorly as a company I still get paid exactly the same. True I have the possibility of getting laid off but everyone faces the same possibility and generally the axe doesn't fall on me because I do a perfectly OK job. I'd love to be encouraged to work harder with profit sharing or the like but few companies do this.
It seems there are much better models to encourage productivity and I have no idea why most companies don't adopt them.
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"control begets more control". +1
i'd say you should be modded up.
Was he really that hot?
Nat Sherman is a much better tasting, additive-free cigarette than spirits, IMO.
If you think drugs are ok to be legalized, then why do we need to set up rehab centers for them?
Same reason we have rehab centers for alcoholics, numb nuts.
Please keep this under wraps. Thus far the major media outlets in the US have been doing a good job. Consequences of this knowledge could be very negative. Most notably to government/police power, law enforcement, the prison industry, the pharma companies, the current illegal drug trade, the other makers of legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco), and i'm sure a few others I forgot.
The only people that could possibly benefit from this are the 300 million or so American citizens. Doesn't seem like it would be worth it to me.
What is a false law? I understand the concept of bad law, but as long as a law has been passed legally, how can it be false unless it's unconstitutional?
Just as you said.
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Laws like this seem like parents that suck at parenting. Any behavior in your kids you wish to modify you have the choice to try to teach what they should be doing and why or simply mandate that they act according to your wishes.
It's so much easier to mandate than to teach or try to convince.
lol, House!
I for one am pretty glad we haven't invented AI.
If it has a modicum of intelligence and also self-determination, it will quickly come to the conclusion that humanity is going to destroy itself if it is not enslaved or better yet just killed off for its own good.
He fixes the cable?
I know it's april 20th, but geez that stuff has got you bugging.
Our fellow geeks who have router-based firewalls and logging would surely have noticed network activity that they didn't initiate and trace it back to its source.
The Constitution asserts a man's right to bear arms, and... arm bears, and all points in between. Who ever heard of a gun... or a bear causing problems? --Alex Shrub
this is awesome.
Good point. The only reasonable conclusion is to monitor everyone. Then we can find the bad guys easily whenever there's a problem. And we'll never ever misuse these powers, pinky swear.
Being an asshole and being correct are not mutually exclusive.
It's worth noting that in order to use CIPAV, the FBI has to get court approval after explaining how the software can help stop a crime.
+1 funny
War. War never changes.
Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
Here's an attempted proof why playing as a female character is more manly than playing a male character (assuming you're male, and not a hardcore RPer):
You have to look at your character all the time. You dress them up, you give them new stuff, you make them dance and do socials. You watch them beat the crap out of stuff and cast spells all day long. It makes more sense to me as a guy to be watching a hot female character do all those things rather than some buff, half-naked, hercules lookin fella.
Make sense?
Or... (wild ass theory made of common sense coming, you might wanna duck):
Average citizens would have more of their own money that isn't getting wasted on layer upon layer of bureaucracy before filtering down into those government programs and would then donate to local charities to fix local problems and those people who used to go to the government can go to local food banks, shelters, etc.
It's amazing how charitable you'd find people when they aren't getting 25-35% of their pay siphoned off by a monolithic organization that thinks it can solve problems better than small groups of people yet time after time has nothing but failure and waste to show for it.
I think it's odd that people put libertarians all over their little charts with their left sides and right sides and whatnot.
As I understand it, libertarian ideology is about following the constitution. That doesn't seem like it's on any "side". It's smack in the middle of what America is supposed to be. It probably seems left or right because America itself is so far off course..
Dunno about most of you, but unless the money is in my bank account (a.k.a. the check has cleared), I haven't received it.
The SSN one probably gets a lot of people especially those desperate to get a job. Again though, people need to simply be untrusting as a rule while on the interweb.
No no, phased is correct. Like in that Star Trek: TNG episode with Geordi and Ensign Ro.
Duh. The newspapers are still perfectly visible and touchable.
Yeah, but most people are. And what I've seen at all the 7+ companies i've work for is pretty much right out of Office Space: people only working just hard enough to not get fired.
It seems the corporate system is designed this way though. At most companies I've been paid a straight salary with no overtime and either no bonus or a possible 5% bonus based on how well I've been able to project a productive air to my manager.
So where's the incentive to work harder? When we kick ass and do well as a company, I rarely see an extra cent. When we do poorly as a company I still get paid exactly the same. True I have the possibility of getting laid off but everyone faces the same possibility and generally the axe doesn't fall on me because I do a perfectly OK job. I'd love to be encouraged to work harder with profit sharing or the like but few companies do this.
It seems there are much better models to encourage productivity and I have no idea why most companies don't adopt them.