Umm, the filiment in an incandescent light emits light through being hot. It is impossible for it to heat up red hot and cool to a non-light emitting tempreture 60 times per second. At best your argument could be that it throbs but even that is not likely to be detectable.
In a perfect world, you might be right, but this is doubtful optimism.
This is what I am looking for. Fighting against having cameras everywhere is a losing battle. I am looking for the things that need to be faught for in a society that is under constant surveillance.
This is modded funny, but this is actually the kind of interesting answers I was looking for. Unfortunately the AC seems to be a little hot headed in his answer and I would like to see more thought put into it.
Counter surveillance is a big issue on this. Once we get to the point where we can see everything a politician is doing and has done. I was attacked by a security guard and charged with assault although I did nothing, even in defense. Luckily it was caught on camera and the charges on me were dropped. The police were quick to wright up a report that made me look like the bad guy. The security guard was considered by the police to be the one in the right and wouldn't believe a thing I said. If not for the video I would have been probably been convicted and probably did jail time.
This all because a friend of mine likes to video tape damn near everything.
Another interesting fact from that same article, 60% of the fortune 500 are also new money. That is over half of the 500 richest people in the world have gone for that caret and got it.
And just under half of them did nothing more extraordinary to get on that list than be born. That list should be more like 95% new money - people who actually have vision should be on that list, not some guy who just paid some other guy to invest daddy's money./i?
By new money that is they did not inherit money. They actually built it up from near nothing.
My original question was more looking for good out of no longer having a certain level of privacy available. Not that I think it is a good thing, and I fear the day it comes to this, but I also see it as something that is going to happen. Whether it is a chip in your skull or facial recognition cameras covering every square inch of the world (notice not just US or EU or some other growing bb state) we will be tracked sometime in the future.
My problem with traffic cameras is not their use, but that they are in my city outsourced to a private company. From what I understand I thought it was Illegal to profit from criminal activity. They are actually paid more if more crime happens so what is their incentive to be accurate and impartial?
Also if you think that the government is making a ton of money off your speeding tickets then go to court with them and fight it. Your $120 fine will not pay the DA, Judge, court reporter, bailiff, admins etcs... salary for the 30 minutes you are in the court room.
I know I asked the question but I'd like to post my, umm, hopes for how this will turn out.
1. Standards of Law will have to change. As it is now, if people were recorded 24x7, and held accountable for everything done, everyone would be in jail and or have racked up millions of dollars in fines. So what would this do? It would have to make laws that are much more relaxed, lenient and reflect actual intent of evil or harm.
2. punishment would have to be adjusted to actually reflect the crime. Would this also be able to change things like drinking and driving laws? Right now they are so out of control, if you have been drinking and the cops go to pull you over you have about equal consequence if you are to pull over and cooperate as you do if you flee from the police, and are picked up much later after the alcohol has left your system, but if your recorded history shows that you don't drive any worse after having a beer at the pub, but after 3 your driving habits change would this make the legal limits individualized and appropriate rather than blacked and abusive as they are now?
3. In a fully monitored society, what would be the justification for things like anti-gun laws? If Big Brother always knew what you were doing and could see that you grabbed your rifle and are now climbing the clock tower and stop you before you could do anything, how could they say that you can't own any gun you want? If I enjoy taking a fully automatic machine gun to the range and blasting off some rounds, big brother nows I like doing this and watches me ever time and tracks to see if I deviate in an attempt to go shoot up a school and stop me before that could happen. Fully monitored societies could actually be more free.
So, how is this going to make life change? Is big brother going to become a huge menace to society as a whole or is it going to make a better standard of living? I know all the scifi authors' opinions so I'd like to find out what are the positive sides of this?
No. 1 Sorry the stock market doesn't create companies. The stock market is little more than a way to get companies that have already proven them selves successful more money. There has yet to be a company that sold stock in order to open it's doors. It takes money, Lots of money, right off the bat to get a business going. This comes from rich people in the form of capital investors. All the stock market has really done is given you a trade-off. A relativity safe place to put your money, yet you're stuck shopping at Walmart. Big hideous corporations are the way they are because you demand that your 401k makes money.
No. 2 you have given up on making money. Perhaps you didn't know that according to Fortune Magazine 80% of the millionaires in the US are new money. These are people who didn't inherit money and actually made it them selves? Another interesting fact from that same article, 60% of the fortune 500 are also new money. That is over half of the 500 richest people in the world have gone for that caret and got it. I may not ever reach the fortune 500 list buy I am well on my way to make that 80% margin. It is attainable. Has nothing to do with who's better or worse. I have no such opinion of "Rich people are better." Just that "Being rich is better." All money does is amplify the person. If you're an asshole you'll be a bigger asshole if you become rich.
I'd happily take people living according to their desire and ability. With desire left up to the individual and ability being evaluated and helped with as needed. (Things like public education, working welfare, etc) As it is now if you desire to sit on your ass and do nothing you can. You wont ever be rich but you can actually survive that way. There is no way out of a million people you are going to have the same number of people working hard enough to help support the people sitting on their ass if they are not going to get anything out of it.
And for the record I'd very happily trade a million people living well instead of 999,999 people living barely adequately so one asshole can live like a king as well. How you plan to make it so a million people are living well and are prosperous enough to continue to do so intrigues me. So far the only example close to this was Kuwait. Although not quite it was a country that had enough oil exports to support it's people living well. But in the end they were really just a rich country that did well for it's people.
Because trying to play hardball with the IRS is a bad thing. Suddenly eBay has a full audit by the IRS. Then they find they are having a 7 year history full audit then next year they are doing it again. the year after that eBay says, "why are we getting audited every year?" IRS points to thier saying no and people ebay sales start going to IRS.
I think you are missing a big part of amassing wealth. Other than their $10million dollar house and probably that much more in toys, all that wealth is in the hands of the middle class and working poor in the form of investment. Allowing rich people to have capital to post is a good thing not a bad thing for two reasons. It takes money, lots of money, to make certain business happen that is an intricate part of our way of life. And the other reason is it gives the working class something to strive for. A carrot if you want to call it that, but it is still a goal and a good driving factor.
no, it is accurate and sensationalist. In case you didn't know, a snitch is someone who tells authorities of someone else's miss doings. This is typically considered bad when the miss doings are harmless and or minor.
I don't think flat tax is as simple as you think it is. Basically it only gets rid of the easiest part of the tax code, Brackets. You still have to figure out how much you made minus the things you spent in order to post how much you pay.
Abolish income tax and having a national sales tax would be the only way to simplify the taxing situation.
I personally have to say that Blizzards real bread and butter are the casual players. We pay the same amount (except maybe the real hard core players who pay for multiple accounts) but use the servers much less. I know several people that play 2-3 hours a month yet still pay because it is a good time killer when things come up. (real sick days and the like)
I consider having a lvl 60 pretty hard core. I get a chance to play maybe 3-4 hours a week. This is casual. I have been playing for several months and don't see lvl 60 comming to me for at least another six months or more.
And the review isn't even very accurate. The casual player gets next to nothing out of this. I am a casual player and bought BC. So far other than two new races I have seen nothing of the expansion. All I hear is the 60+ hard core players in my guild having fun in it.
I consider my home brewed beer to be an artistic expression of brewing abilities. Does this mean I can sell it to minors and be covered under the first amendment?
so would you say it was environment or genetics. Both are problems of the family and both could very well be the culprit. Or it could be a little of column 'a' and a little of column 'b'
It has been shown though that adopted children from questionable parents to good parents don't do as well as either natural children of good parents or adopted children from good parents. At least coming from raw numbers.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that suns/stars idea of unexpectedly is in the realm of hundreds of thousands of years. Has there ever been a theory of a perfectly healthy middle aged star that would suddenly just Nova without a lot of warning before hand?
so give it to people who are willing to work for it rather than some crappy rat hole like welfare. I'd much rather support engineers than drug addicts. With the best answer to me being "Don't fucking take my money in the first place!!!"
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Umm, the filiment in an incandescent light emits light through being hot. It is impossible for it to heat up red hot and cool to a non-light emitting tempreture 60 times per second. At best your argument could be that it throbs but even that is not likely to be detectable.
In a perfect world, you might be right, but this is doubtful optimism.
This is what I am looking for. Fighting against having cameras everywhere is a losing battle. I am looking for the things that need to be faught for in a society that is under constant surveillance.
This is modded funny, but this is actually the kind of interesting answers I was looking for. Unfortunately the AC seems to be a little hot headed in his answer and I would like to see more thought put into it.
Counter surveillance is a big issue on this. Once we get to the point where we can see everything a politician is doing and has done. I was attacked by a security guard and charged with assault although I did nothing, even in defense. Luckily it was caught on camera and the charges on me were dropped. The police were quick to wright up a report that made me look like the bad guy. The security guard was considered by the police to be the one in the right and wouldn't believe a thing I said. If not for the video I would have been probably been convicted and probably did jail time.
This all because a friend of mine likes to video tape damn near everything.
Another interesting fact from that same article, 60% of the fortune 500 are also new money. That is over half of the 500 richest people in the world have gone for that caret and got it.
And just under half of them did nothing more extraordinary to get on that list than be born. That list should be more like 95% new money - people who actually have vision should be on that list, not some guy who just paid some other guy to invest daddy's money./i?
By new money that is they did not inherit money. They actually built it up from near nothing.
My original question was more looking for good out of no longer having a certain level of privacy available. Not that I think it is a good thing, and I fear the day it comes to this, but I also see it as something that is going to happen. Whether it is a chip in your skull or facial recognition cameras covering every square inch of the world (notice not just US or EU or some other growing bb state) we will be tracked sometime in the future.
My problem with traffic cameras is not their use, but that they are in my city outsourced to a private company. From what I understand I thought it was Illegal to profit from criminal activity. They are actually paid more if more crime happens so what is their incentive to be accurate and impartial?
Also if you think that the government is making a ton of money off your speeding tickets then go to court with them and fight it. Your $120 fine will not pay the DA, Judge, court reporter, bailiff, admins etcs... salary for the 30 minutes you are in the court room.
I know I asked the question but I'd like to post my, umm, hopes for how this will turn out.
1. Standards of Law will have to change. As it is now, if people were recorded 24x7, and held accountable for everything done, everyone would be in jail and or have racked up millions of dollars in fines. So what would this do? It would have to make laws that are much more relaxed, lenient and reflect actual intent of evil or harm.
2. punishment would have to be adjusted to actually reflect the crime. Would this also be able to change things like drinking and driving laws? Right now they are so out of control, if you have been drinking and the cops go to pull you over you have about equal consequence if you are to pull over and cooperate as you do if you flee from the police, and are picked up much later after the alcohol has left your system, but if your recorded history shows that you don't drive any worse after having a beer at the pub, but after 3 your driving habits change would this make the legal limits individualized and appropriate rather than blacked and abusive as they are now?
3. In a fully monitored society, what would be the justification for things like anti-gun laws? If Big Brother always knew what you were doing and could see that you grabbed your rifle and are now climbing the clock tower and stop you before you could do anything, how could they say that you can't own any gun you want? If I enjoy taking a fully automatic machine gun to the range and blasting off some rounds, big brother nows I like doing this and watches me ever time and tracks to see if I deviate in an attempt to go shoot up a school and stop me before that could happen. Fully monitored societies could actually be more free.
So, how is this going to make life change? Is big brother going to become a huge menace to society as a whole or is it going to make a better standard of living? I know all the scifi authors' opinions so I'd like to find out what are the positive sides of this?
No. 1 Sorry the stock market doesn't create companies. The stock market is little more than a way to get companies that have already proven them selves successful more money. There has yet to be a company that sold stock in order to open it's doors. It takes money, Lots of money, right off the bat to get a business going. This comes from rich people in the form of capital investors. All the stock market has really done is given you a trade-off. A relativity safe place to put your money, yet you're stuck shopping at Walmart. Big hideous corporations are the way they are because you demand that your 401k makes money.
No. 2 you have given up on making money. Perhaps you didn't know that according to Fortune Magazine 80% of the millionaires in the US are new money. These are people who didn't inherit money and actually made it them selves? Another interesting fact from that same article, 60% of the fortune 500 are also new money. That is over half of the 500 richest people in the world have gone for that caret and got it. I may not ever reach the fortune 500 list buy I am well on my way to make that 80% margin. It is attainable. Has nothing to do with who's better or worse. I have no such opinion of "Rich people are better." Just that "Being rich is better." All money does is amplify the person. If you're an asshole you'll be a bigger asshole if you become rich.
I'd happily take people living according to their desire and ability. With desire left up to the individual and ability being evaluated and helped with as needed. (Things like public education, working welfare, etc) As it is now if you desire to sit on your ass and do nothing you can. You wont ever be rich but you can actually survive that way. There is no way out of a million people you are going to have the same number of people working hard enough to help support the people sitting on their ass if they are not going to get anything out of it.
And for the record I'd very happily trade a million people living well instead of 999,999 people living barely adequately so one asshole can live like a king as well. How you plan to make it so a million people are living well and are prosperous enough to continue to do so intrigues me. So far the only example close to this was Kuwait. Although not quite it was a country that had enough oil exports to support it's people living well. But in the end they were really just a rich country that did well for it's people.
Because trying to play hardball with the IRS is a bad thing. Suddenly eBay has a full audit by the IRS. Then they find they are having a 7 year history full audit then next year they are doing it again. the year after that eBay says, "why are we getting audited every year?" IRS points to thier saying no and people ebay sales start going to IRS.
I think you are missing a big part of amassing wealth. Other than their $10million dollar house and probably that much more in toys, all that wealth is in the hands of the middle class and working poor in the form of investment. Allowing rich people to have capital to post is a good thing not a bad thing for two reasons. It takes money, lots of money, to make certain business happen that is an intricate part of our way of life. And the other reason is it gives the working class something to strive for. A carrot if you want to call it that, but it is still a goal and a good driving factor.
no, it is accurate and sensationalist. In case you didn't know, a snitch is someone who tells authorities of someone else's miss doings. This is typically considered bad when the miss doings are harmless and or minor.
I don't think flat tax is as simple as you think it is. Basically it only gets rid of the easiest part of the tax code, Brackets. You still have to figure out how much you made minus the things you spent in order to post how much you pay.
Abolish income tax and having a national sales tax would be the only way to simplify the taxing situation.
$5000 a year is a shitty living.
yes that would be the other 10% in the 90% for hardcore players.
yea and lvl 70 items are for casual players.
I have to say 4 hours a night is pretty hard core. I was there for a while and had to taper off. I get about 1-8 hours a week now.
I personally have to say that Blizzards real bread and butter are the casual players. We pay the same amount (except maybe the real hard core players who pay for multiple accounts) but use the servers much less. I know several people that play 2-3 hours a month yet still pay because it is a good time killer when things come up. (real sick days and the like)
I consider having a lvl 60 pretty hard core. I get a chance to play maybe 3-4 hours a week. This is casual. I have been playing for several months and don't see lvl 60 comming to me for at least another six months or more.
And the review isn't even very accurate. The casual player gets next to nothing out of this. I am a casual player and bought BC. So far other than two new races I have seen nothing of the expansion. All I hear is the 60+ hard core players in my guild having fun in it.
BC is 90% content for hard core players.
I consider my home brewed beer to be an artistic expression of brewing abilities. Does this mean I can sell it to minors and be covered under the first amendment?
so would you say it was environment or genetics. Both are problems of the family and both could very well be the culprit. Or it could be a little of column 'a' and a little of column 'b'
It has been shown though that adopted children from questionable parents to good parents don't do as well as either natural children of good parents or adopted children from good parents. At least coming from raw numbers.
Unregulated? Sweet I'm going to go jack up a 15,000 Watt 802.11g network antenna so I can get on line through my home account at work.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that suns/stars idea of unexpectedly is in the realm of hundreds of thousands of years. Has there ever been a theory of a perfectly healthy middle aged star that would suddenly just Nova without a lot of warning before hand?
so give it to people who are willing to work for it rather than some crappy rat hole like welfare. I'd much rather support engineers than drug addicts. With the best answer to me being "Don't fucking take my money in the first place!!!"