1-You are willing to lose your basic human rights for the convenience of the government. If the government had caught or killed any terrorists because of the spying they would be bragging about it to end the complaints. 2-The government is a bigger threat to the American people than the terrorists are (more people killed, more abducted, more theft, more illegal drugs imported etc), so letting the government have more power without even asking for it (legislative process) makes you less safe.
We already know Obama wants Snoden in jail. The NSA works for him directly, he could end all the "Issues" by simply ordering them stopped. If he approves of what is happening (he chooses to allow it to continue=approval) then he must oppose those who work to end those practices.
Any American should be able to take an H1B job, if they can prove they are able to perform it. Having previously done that exact job would count as proof.
America was founded on greed. American independence was fought over corporate taxes. What's kept America great was the steady importation of smart well educated people from elsewhere.
America has the best and most advanced health care in the world, but only if you are rich. Average Americans may as well live in a third world country for the quality of care received. So yes, Canada has a less advanced health care system that consistently gives better results than the American system (on average).
They really need to control the sale of ammunition. With modern automated manufacturing systems it's easy to make a lower receiver, but the bullets are beyond the current tech.
To destroy the human species you'd need to wipe out every single city/town/village on the planet, in a single attack. That's a lot of nukes, more than actually exist (in total). Our current total could certainly destroy our civilization though, throw us into a new Dark Ages for a few centuries, but so could Donald Trump.
I'm more worried about someone secretly dropping a bunch of them in a western country and just letting them kill, without any way to know who sent them or why. You could inflict massive economic damage on a country this way, possibly enough to shift the balance of global power.
1-You only need 1 (one) person to rig an election run entirely by computer. You need thousands to rig a paper election, minimum of one in every counting room. The more people who know a secret, the harder it is to keep the secret.
2-The political stability (lack of civil wars) you get from democracy is because most of the people believe they can change the system by voting instead of having to overthrow the government. Being able to trust the voting system is a basic requirement of that trust, and ability to understand the voting system is required for trust. Black box computing is hard to understand.
Can we now have a discussion about alternatives to "first past the post" voting? How about proportional representation, where the number of seats is directly proportional to the number (percent) of votes you get?
People didn't vote for leave because they wanted more of the same. Closing the borders and forcing the factories to be built in England will cause a huge upheaval and raise prices, but it will also create a lot of jobs in England and stop the flow of refugees.
If you make a completely safe and secure and anonymous communications system, the governments (all of them) will ban it. If you don't they will spy on you and you'll be worse off because you think you're safe.
Skyhooks(requires materials that don't exist), Railgun(requires a large up front cost), Launch Loop(requires large up front cost, really nasty failure modes), Laser Ablation rocket(needs more R&D).
We need a third option: Deny but fake yes. The App thinks it has permission but it doesn't. All access just gets fake data and a "Everything worked ok" message. And log all access attempts, with data, so we can see what it's actually doing.
How does the energy efficiency of this drive compare to a normal rocket? Could this allow interstellar travel, by humans, within a normal human lifespan? What kind of reletavistic effects happen at high speed? I would assume thrust would drop as you approach C.
Americans like having existential threats, it saves them from having to think. Buying politicians only works if the voters don't keep track of what they do, meaning voters are directly responsible for the awful shape the USA is in.
You need to do more than provide things to the general public to be aiding and abetting criminals, you must also knowingly be doing so. Otherwise anyone who sold trucks could be arrested for selling a truck used by ISIS, or selling shoes (as used by ISIS).
Possibly you forget the sweatshop stories about Nike? These things tend to go in cycles, and the press (mostly owned and operated by rich friends of the government) really doesn't care to report on more of the same.
Capitalist economies have better working conditions because we export the low value jobs to other places. We have a healthier environment because we export the dirty industries to other places.
So they re-created a capitalistic society, as envisioned (and described) by Karl Marx? It's ironic that a communist country (created to escape the evils of capitalism) would so perfectly re-create the society their country was created to escape. It would be like the US becoming a feudal theocracy.
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1-You are willing to lose your basic human rights for the convenience of the government. If the government had caught or killed any terrorists because of the spying they would be bragging about it to end the complaints. 2-The government is a bigger threat to the American people than the terrorists are (more people killed, more abducted, more theft, more illegal drugs imported etc), so letting the government have more power without even asking for it (legislative process) makes you less safe.
We already know Obama wants Snoden in jail. The NSA works for him directly, he could end all the "Issues" by simply ordering them stopped. If he approves of what is happening (he chooses to allow it to continue=approval) then he must oppose those who work to end those practices.
Any American should be able to take an H1B job, if they can prove they are able to perform it. Having previously done that exact job would count as proof.
There should be a way to draft good politicians into office. All the ones on the ticket suck.
America was founded on greed. American independence was fought over corporate taxes. What's kept America great was the steady importation of smart well educated people from elsewhere.
You're not Rich if you don't have human servants.
Only half of your genes get passed on to your kids. There could be serious consequences to having your improvements missing a few key parts.
It's worse than that even. The rest of us who lost everything will vote to confiscate your foreign currency for the common good. Yay Democracy!
America has the best and most advanced health care in the world, but only if you are rich. Average Americans may as well live in a third world country for the quality of care received. So yes, Canada has a less advanced health care system that consistently gives better results than the American system (on average).
They really need to control the sale of ammunition. With modern automated manufacturing systems it's easy to make a lower receiver, but the bullets are beyond the current tech.
To destroy the human species you'd need to wipe out every single city/town/village on the planet, in a single attack. That's a lot of nukes, more than actually exist (in total). Our current total could certainly destroy our civilization though, throw us into a new Dark Ages for a few centuries, but so could Donald Trump.
I'm more worried about someone secretly dropping a bunch of them in a western country and just letting them kill, without any way to know who sent them or why. You could inflict massive economic damage on a country this way, possibly enough to shift the balance of global power.
1-You only need 1 (one) person to rig an election run entirely by computer. You need thousands to rig a paper election, minimum of one in every counting room. The more people who know a secret, the harder it is to keep the secret. 2-The political stability (lack of civil wars) you get from democracy is because most of the people believe they can change the system by voting instead of having to overthrow the government. Being able to trust the voting system is a basic requirement of that trust, and ability to understand the voting system is required for trust. Black box computing is hard to understand.
Can we now have a discussion about alternatives to "first past the post" voting? How about proportional representation, where the number of seats is directly proportional to the number (percent) of votes you get?
People didn't vote for leave because they wanted more of the same. Closing the borders and forcing the factories to be built in England will cause a huge upheaval and raise prices, but it will also create a lot of jobs in England and stop the flow of refugees.
If you make a completely safe and secure and anonymous communications system, the governments (all of them) will ban it. If you don't they will spy on you and you'll be worse off because you think you're safe.
Skyhooks(requires materials that don't exist), Railgun(requires a large up front cost), Launch Loop(requires large up front cost, really nasty failure modes), Laser Ablation rocket(needs more R&D).
We need a third option: Deny but fake yes. The App thinks it has permission but it doesn't. All access just gets fake data and a "Everything worked ok" message. And log all access attempts, with data, so we can see what it's actually doing.
How does the energy efficiency of this drive compare to a normal rocket? Could this allow interstellar travel, by humans, within a normal human lifespan? What kind of reletavistic effects happen at high speed? I would assume thrust would drop as you approach C.
Americans like having existential threats, it saves them from having to think. Buying politicians only works if the voters don't keep track of what they do, meaning voters are directly responsible for the awful shape the USA is in.
You need to do more than provide things to the general public to be aiding and abetting criminals, you must also knowingly be doing so. Otherwise anyone who sold trucks could be arrested for selling a truck used by ISIS, or selling shoes (as used by ISIS).
Possibly you forget the sweatshop stories about Nike? These things tend to go in cycles, and the press (mostly owned and operated by rich friends of the government) really doesn't care to report on more of the same.
Capitalist economies have better working conditions because we export the low value jobs to other places. We have a healthier environment because we export the dirty industries to other places.
So they re-created a capitalistic society, as envisioned (and described) by Karl Marx? It's ironic that a communist country (created to escape the evils of capitalism) would so perfectly re-create the society their country was created to escape. It would be like the US becoming a feudal theocracy.
One third of Americans have effectively NO medical coverage, so I expect they have low expectations of medical care.