Repressive Intellectual Property laws are prolonging global poverty and hunger by restricting access to technologies that could realistically be provided freely or at cost.
How is it that police are unable to refuse these requests? I mean if I asked for all the records the police held on Person X, would they just cough it up?
If yes, then the problem has nothing to do with body cams specifically.
If no, then why are these recording being treated so differently?
Isaac Asimov's essay, "The Relativity of Wrong"does a wonderful job of revealing the foolishness of this type of thinking.
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersi...
And for all those who argue we are burning too much fossil fuels, those carbon atoms weren't created into existence in the ground as they were today, unless you believe the earth is 6000 years old!
Okay, I don't think you understand the issues that climate change presents; for the Earth to sustain a healthy biosphere with 7+ billion humans we've had to develop a lot of infrastructure to make effective use of it's resources. Changes in the climate will require us to devote resources to re-configuring our infrastructure, the faster it happens, the more resources we'll need to devote, which will impact living standards.
We do not know exactly how high the cost will be, but we do know that it will be cheaper if we act now.
The politics is the only reason it gets discussed so much; if we were just talking about the science there wouldn't be all that much to talk about, because most of us lack the necessary knowledge to discuss the finer points of climate change modelling.
Lovejoy's Law: "As a discussion on violating civil rights grows longer, the probability of using the protection of children as a justification approaches 1."
If I was going to worship any god, it would have to be Prometheus.
Dude decided to defy the gods and give humans the gift of friggin' technology just because he felt it was the right the thing to do. For his kindness he was chained to a rock and is disemboweled every day for eternity.
And what does he ask in return? Nothing. He's just like "Nah dudes, I ask something in return for it's not a gift. And this whole "eternal torment" thing? Don't worry about it, I'm not going to hold y'all responsible for my decisions." Total bro.
You mean, like Canada? It has a 26% rate, compared the US's 40% rate. Yeah, third-world hell holes like Canada always whore around with those low numbers, right?
The nominal tax rate is immaterial, it's the effective tax rate that's the material factor.
It's about damned time we started building new nukes
I've been a proponent of nuclear power for years, but given how fast the cost of solar power has been falling, I think the time for investing heavily in nuclear power has passed.
Well, i guesd i'm one of your denialist because i have yet to hear an explanation to why all the sudden a long standing natural occurance is given more weight than when it previously naturally occured which was forever. Well, i taje that back. I have yet to hear an explaination that isn't convoluted and makes me laugh.
You mustn't of been listening very hard then, because the concern is that this "long standing natural occurrence" is being unnaturally accelerated and during other times when it "previously naturally occurred" at accelerated rates it resulted in mass extinction and damage to biodiversity.
Scientists can speculate and debate as much as they want whether it's getting warmer or colder. The issue with the global warming debate is the political demands to translate the science into specific actions,
So you want to keep performing scientific research, but not use that research to inform our actions? That's... genius.
often by scientists who have no qualifications in economics or politics.
Oh yeah, that's a real problem with a lot of political systems; too many scientists making policy and not enough career politicians and business lobbyists. Haw haw haw.
I can't imagine this being useful to any sort of authoritarian power in any regular way.
I'd say you lack imagination then, because the first thing that came to my mind was "Boy I bet the police in Ferguson would love to be able to disable people's phones right now."
Used on people en masse it'd be a great way for governments impede and control the flow of information around all sorts of events.
Combine this with the fact that police are much more likely to arrest black people and I think we just found a way to address the systemic poverty of black Americans...
No, we're not going to have a Big Crunch, as far as we can be certain of anything. As TFA says Einstein and De Sitter published an updated model a year later that went with the "expanding universe" theory.
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Those exist, they're called Repraps. http://reprap.org/
And when that fishing line eventually wears out and snaps, what happens to whatever axis that fishing line was supporting? It comes crashing down.
Why wouldn't you replace it before that happens?
What are the possible choices for farmers?
You forgot 3. grow good crops with free seeds.
So, what exactly is the issue?
Repressive Intellectual Property laws are prolonging global poverty and hunger by restricting access to technologies that could realistically be provided freely or at cost.
If yes, then the problem has nothing to do with body cams specifically.
If no, then why are these recording being treated so differently?
Isaac Asimov's essay, "The Relativity of Wrong"does a wonderful job of revealing the foolishness of this type of thinking. http://chem.tufts.edu/answersi...
And for all those who argue we are burning too much fossil fuels, those carbon atoms weren't created into existence in the ground as they were today, unless you believe the earth is 6000 years old!
Okay, I don't think you understand the issues that climate change presents; for the Earth to sustain a healthy biosphere with 7+ billion humans we've had to develop a lot of infrastructure to make effective use of it's resources. Changes in the climate will require us to devote resources to re-configuring our infrastructure, the faster it happens, the more resources we'll need to devote, which will impact living standards. We do not know exactly how high the cost will be, but we do know that it will be cheaper if we act now.
How do we know the CO2 spikes caused the warming?
Because of 1. the greenhouse effect and 2. climate forcing.
The politics is the only reason it gets discussed so much; if we were just talking about the science there wouldn't be all that much to talk about, because most of us lack the necessary knowledge to discuss the finer points of climate change modelling.
The year is 2014, and these "scientists" are just NOW realizing that the ocean plays a key role in global climate change?
No, they've known this for a long time. Next question?
Lovejoy's Law: "As a discussion on violating civil rights grows longer, the probability of using the protection of children as a justification approaches 1."
How about protecting the public from the lobbyists and legislators pushing oppressive copyright laws?
a new parabolic dish that increases the sun's radiation by 2,000 times
Nope.
Dude decided to defy the gods and give humans the gift of friggin' technology just because he felt it was the right the thing to do. For his kindness he was chained to a rock and is disemboweled every day for eternity.
And what does he ask in return? Nothing. He's just like "Nah dudes, I ask something in return for it's not a gift. And this whole "eternal torment" thing? Don't worry about it, I'm not going to hold y'all responsible for my decisions." Total bro.
You mean, like Canada? It has a 26% rate, compared the US's 40% rate. Yeah, third-world hell holes like Canada always whore around with those low numbers, right?
The nominal tax rate is immaterial, it's the effective tax rate that's the material factor.
did FOR beat AGAINST?
Only in terms of numbers, in terms of net worth Against had it by a landslide.
A couple of months back I payed for a bunch of Ikea stuff with 10 $100 notes. It was so cash. Literally.
It's about damned time we started building new nukes
I've been a proponent of nuclear power for years, but given how fast the cost of solar power has been falling, I think the time for investing heavily in nuclear power has passed.
I can’t say I agree, but regardless there’s plenty of other uses for a database of 16000 criminals.
The real denialists are, and always have been, the ones who think science is never to be questioned.
I hear Creationists using that line a lot.
Well, i guesd i'm one of your denialist because i have yet to hear an explanation to why all the sudden a long standing natural occurance is given more weight than when it previously naturally occured which was forever. Well, i taje that back. I have yet to hear an explaination that isn't convoluted and makes me laugh.
You mustn't of been listening very hard then, because the concern is that this "long standing natural occurrence" is being unnaturally accelerated and during other times when it "previously naturally occurred" at accelerated rates it resulted in mass extinction and damage to biodiversity.
Scientists can speculate and debate as much as they want whether it's getting warmer or colder. The issue with the global warming debate is the political demands to translate the science into specific actions,
So you want to keep performing scientific research, but not use that research to inform our actions? That's... genius.
often by scientists who have no qualifications in economics or politics.
Oh yeah, that's a real problem with a lot of political systems; too many scientists making policy and not enough career politicians and business lobbyists. Haw haw haw.
Why?
So that when they do things like fire tear gas at journalists, there's no one with a phone out to record it.
I can't imagine this being useful to any sort of authoritarian power in any regular way.
I'd say you lack imagination then, because the first thing that came to my mind was "Boy I bet the police in Ferguson would love to be able to disable people's phones right now."
Used on people en masse it'd be a great way for governments impede and control the flow of information around all sorts of events.
Combine this with the fact that police are much more likely to arrest black people and I think we just found a way to address the systemic poverty of black Americans...
No, we're not going to have a Big Crunch, as far as we can be certain of anything. As TFA says Einstein and De Sitter published an updated model a year later that went with the "expanding universe" theory.