Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Politician justifies this by telling stories, trying to make you afraid, or angry, or resentful, or otherwise too emotional to ask yourself how any of this is his business, or the business of the police, or anyone else's business. Why can't the people involved in the transaction simply choose for themselves? (Don't ask. Don't think. Emote! Otherwise politicians won't have power over you.)
Except in this case, we are talking about currency, which is literally government fiat currency. It has no intrinsic value, other than the government recognizing it as currency.
The police are involved in either case - if you don't pay a restaurant, they sic the police on you.
So fine, come to your own agreement, but if you want armed agents of the state to enforce it, then you have to play by the state's rules. And as Churchill said, determining those rules via democracy is the least worst of all the ways we could do it.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
So, you're proposing the opposite of the "wall" idea to keep foreign immigrants out because they might be criminals: you're suggesting finding foreign criminals and importing them in.
Punish them in our prisons and then send them back.
Apple removed some apps from their store, and stores some encrypted data (but not the keys) in China. Not selling people a VPN app is totally different from telling the government if they search the web for "Winnie the Pooh" and getting them sent to jail.
Um, Apple doesn't have a cool search engine to sell out with.
Give them a break; they are selling out as hard as they can with what they have.
The group born between 1981 and 1997 has fallen behind because many of them came of age during the financial crisis.
We aren't poor. We've just seen what happens when the financial markets collapse and don't see the need to be leveraged out the ass with 2 car notes, a second mortgage (for those of us who were even lucky enough to find housing while it was still actually reasonably priced), and paying off 3 credit cards. We're spending less than we have so we aren't completely screwed come the next bust cycle. We'd love to be able to spend money, but we remember being un- or under-employed and how much that sucked while the Boomers with guaranteed pensions and social security (both being paid for by us with us likely to see no benefit or payout ourselves) trying to grab more and more.
Besides, any extra money we would have to spend on consumer goods that our parents bought with credit card debt is most likely wrapped up in another type of debt: student loans. The bonuses I've gotten from my company the last few years, instead of helping the local economy by being spent on house repairs/upgrades has gone towards paying off student loans. And this years'll be no different.
You do know that college costs have soared because of subsidies and guaranteed student loans, right? So it's the "we have to help people go to college" crowd who are responsible for the soaring costs.
Meanwhile, anybody who even suggests doing something actually useful economically, like say limiting competition from cheap foreign workers, gets shouted down.
Starch and Spit don't sound like they can last very long. Really hate to have that in your head when it dissolves away and your implant starts short circuiting or worse.
Thanks for catching that; I'll call the researchers immediately!
If mosquitoes went extinct: Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too. Mosquitoes can be wiped out but the ecological damage that would be necessary (draining swamps/wetlands, applying pesticides over wide areas), along with strict regulatory enforcement, would make eradication not worth it unless there was a very serious public health emergency.
The food source part is highly dubious, and the later part is completely unaffected by the method being tested.
But we can't adequately keep track of variables in software we've written.
Isn't it perhaps a tad presumptuous to think that we've taken into account all the variables in our reverse engineering of nature? I appreciate this mindset would mean no progress - but perhaps a halfway house, where we're not... yanno... attempting to make a massive modification, like "killing off an entire species"?
Nothing relies solely, or even mainly, on mosquitoes. Nor are they trying to kill off every mosquito species.
detect and highlight pedestrians wearing "exceptional" outfits
If the 'highlighting' included displaying a photo or video of the person wearing that outfit, wouldn't that be unauthorized for-profit use of that person's image?
Yeah, I was wondering that too.
If you want to use my image to sell stuff, you can compensate me financially for that, thanks. And get my consent too.
in a four wall box all day long doing meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system or learning to do meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system that normal healthy humans naturally want to do.
That's not what ADHD is at all. That's like calling clinical depression "being sad".
If humanity is to have any hope, it's going to come from the ADHD side of things. Cure all the diseases you want to, but please for the love of god, allow the natural flowering of creativity.
Don't allow us to make drones and brainiacs - that will snuff out the species faster than any other eugenics program could.
ADHD != "the natural flowering of creativity".
ADHD actually gets in the way of creativity by making it difficult to focus.
Everyone is completely bereft of personal responsibility? In the richest country in the history of the world, people can not be held responsible for their own future? They can be excused because they have to have the latest big-screen LED and Iphone?
How about because their wife got very sick, they needed to pay for child care for all their kids for years, and of course all the other many expenses involved in losing the other parent's help, plus they tried to actually be responsible and pay all the bills, including the medical bills?
There are indeed people who would think the way the article describes.
Hmm, maybe Chrome making the lock gray now wasn't as dumb as I thought. While the absence of https (at least according to Google) is baaaaad, the mere presence of it doesn't mean all that much.
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Go ask in Venezuela, in Iran, in the UK or even in the US. You will get pretty much that same answer.
{Sesame Street}Two of these things are not like the other ... two of these things are not quite the same ... {/Sesame Street}
Every place has problems, but no, the UK and US are not totalitarian dictatorships, outside of the fever dreams of overexcited political junkies.
How can I put this? If someone just believes just any old message that comes at them, then the problem is not with the message ...
Right ... Facebook is on Republican's side, lol.
It's just so obvious. I knew it the second they introduced their 53 genders. Dead giveaway.
Which is why you will typically find a person that runs the register while other people handle the food. It's a good answer to your observation.
True; we wouldn't want to get hepatitis all over the money ...
Politician wants you to give up your choices, want to use the police to force his own choices upon you.
Politician justifies this by telling stories, trying to make you afraid, or angry, or resentful, or otherwise too emotional to ask yourself how any of this is his business, or the business of the police, or anyone else's business. Why can't the people involved in the transaction simply choose for themselves? (Don't ask. Don't think. Emote! Otherwise politicians won't have power over you.)
Except in this case, we are talking about currency, which is literally government fiat currency. It has no intrinsic value, other than the government recognizing it as currency.
The police are involved in either case - if you don't pay a restaurant, they sic the police on you.
So fine, come to your own agreement, but if you want armed agents of the state to enforce it, then you have to play by the state's rules. And as Churchill said, determining those rules via democracy is the least worst of all the ways we could do it.
Both of our governments could hit the potential labor pool pretty hard by having the Indian government extradite the offenders and then issue proclamations across their media that amount to a worst possible scenario under federal law.
So, you're proposing the opposite of the "wall" idea to keep foreign immigrants out because they might be criminals: you're suggesting finding foreign criminals and importing them in.
Punish them in our prisons and then send them back.
A little reverse outsourcing there ;)
Every day, Slashdot admins shocked to discover that China is a dictatorship.
A real one, not an "OMG, my political opponents won something so oh noes" one.
Apple removed some apps from their store, and stores some encrypted data (but not the keys) in China. Not selling people a VPN app is totally different from telling the government if they search the web for "Winnie the Pooh" and getting them sent to jail.
Um, Apple doesn't have a cool search engine to sell out with.
Give them a break; they are selling out as hard as they can with what they have.
formatted in AutoLISP, an AutoCAD-specific dialect of the LISP programming language.
With apologies to Dorothy Parker, what fresh hell is this?
The group born between 1981 and 1997 has fallen behind because many of them came of age during the financial crisis.
We aren't poor. We've just seen what happens when the financial markets collapse and don't see the need to be leveraged out the ass with 2 car notes, a second mortgage (for those of us who were even lucky enough to find housing while it was still actually reasonably priced), and paying off 3 credit cards. We're spending less than we have so we aren't completely screwed come the next bust cycle. We'd love to be able to spend money, but we remember being un- or under-employed and how much that sucked while the Boomers with guaranteed pensions and social security (both being paid for by us with us likely to see no benefit or payout ourselves) trying to grab more and more.
Besides, any extra money we would have to spend on consumer goods that our parents bought with credit card debt is most likely wrapped up in another type of debt: student loans. The bonuses I've gotten from my company the last few years, instead of helping the local economy by being spent on house repairs/upgrades has gone towards paying off student loans. And this years'll be no different.
You do know that college costs have soared because of subsidies and guaranteed student loans, right? So it's the "we have to help people go to college" crowd who are responsible for the soaring costs.
Meanwhile, anybody who even suggests doing something actually useful economically, like say limiting competition from cheap foreign workers, gets shouted down.
OK, so what do you propose doing about it?
Well, for one thing, pretty sure that bringing in countless foreigners to compete for jobs isn't going to help, but what do I know.
It's unpopular to say that, so not enough of us do say it. But popularity doesn't seem to be taking care of the problem.
Starch and Spit don't sound like they can last very long. Really hate to have that in your head when it dissolves away and your implant starts short circuiting or worse.
Thanks for catching that; I'll call the researchers immediately!
Do you want fewer mosquitoes, for at least a little while, or not?
If so, shaddup!
No, I'd rather maintain a reasonable amount of biodiversity.
If mosquitoes went extinct: Mosquito larvae are very important in aquatic ecology. Many other insects and small fish feed on them and the loss of that food source would cause their numbers to decline as well. Anything that feeds on them, such as game fish, raptorial birds, etc. would in turn suffer too. Mosquitoes can be wiped out but the ecological damage that would be necessary (draining swamps/wetlands, applying pesticides over wide areas), along with strict regulatory enforcement, would make eradication not worth it unless there was a very serious public health emergency.
The food source part is highly dubious, and the later part is completely unaffected by the method being tested.
But we can't adequately keep track of variables in software we've written.
Isn't it perhaps a tad presumptuous to think that we've taken into account all the variables in our reverse engineering of nature? I appreciate this mindset would mean no progress - but perhaps a halfway house, where we're not... yanno... attempting to make a massive modification, like "killing off an entire species"?
Nothing relies solely, or even mainly, on mosquitoes. Nor are they trying to kill off every mosquito species.
detect and highlight pedestrians wearing "exceptional" outfits
If the 'highlighting' included displaying a photo or video of the person wearing that outfit, wouldn't that be unauthorized for-profit use of that person's image?
Yeah, I was wondering that too.
If you want to use my image to sell stuff, you can compensate me financially for that, thanks. And get my consent too.
....a scramble suit handy?
Scramble suite wearers are 60% more likely to buy barbecue related products.
Advertising gold!
That would have been a lot funnier without the typo.
Though now I have a new marketing idea, the Scramble Suite of anti-ad defenses ..
....a scramble suit handy?
Scramble suite wearers are 60% more likely to buy barbecue related products.
Advertising gold!
in a four wall box all day long doing meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system or learning to do meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system that normal healthy humans naturally want to do.
That's not what ADHD is at all. That's like calling clinical depression "being sad".
If humanity is to have any hope, it's going to come from the ADHD side of things. Cure all the diseases you want to, but please for the love of god, allow the natural flowering of creativity.
Don't allow us to make drones and brainiacs - that will snuff out the species faster than any other eugenics program could.
ADHD != "the natural flowering of creativity".
ADHD actually gets in the way of creativity by making it difficult to focus.
So, UsTube?
Because they spend money on campaign contributions.
Hmm... If we all chip in, you think we could afford a politician that actually works for us for a change?
You are overrating money.
We didn't get a President Forbes, despite all of Steve Forbes' money. He didn't even win the party nomination.
Money matters, but blaming your losses on money is a way of avoiding the fact that you didn't make a compelling case (yet) to enough of the public.
Focusing on money in politics is also a trick to get away with regulating speech.
"Politician promises politically popular thing, to happen in the politically indefinite future."
Everyone is completely bereft of personal responsibility? In the richest country in the history of the world, people can not be held responsible for their own future? They can be excused because they have to have the latest big-screen LED and Iphone?
How about because their wife got very sick, they needed to pay for child care for all their kids for years, and of course all the other many expenses involved in losing the other parent's help, plus they tried to actually be responsible and pay all the bills, including the medical bills?
Asking for friend ...
Which just happens to be an incredibly effective weapon.
Especially against a stationary target.
There are indeed people who would think the way the article describes.
Hmm, maybe Chrome making the lock gray now wasn't as dumb as I thought. While the absence of https (at least according to Google) is baaaaad, the mere presence of it doesn't mean all that much.