Taking someone's stuff without their permission is still considered theft, whether or not the person it was taken from will ever notice that it is missing, and whether or not the person that takes it sincerely believes that what they actually took is, or at least ought be (and in so doing, making a moral evaluation on their part) considered to be valueless, perhaps on the allegation that it's "just digital", or "it has no physical component to it", for instance. Asserting that it is not stealing is really just a perpetuation of a myth started by people who typically practice such behaviors to convince others, or maybe even themselves that they never really did anything wrong. Since you are regurgitating this baseless rationalization, from where I'm standing it looks like they succeeded with you.
And we know from experience that WHENEVER somebody uses terms like "language <XYZ> is the future", it is inevitably baseless speculation, and often rests on the false belief that some single programming language, or any single technology for that matter, can actually be the "best" one.
Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion...
What country does this guy think he's living in that it should *EVER* be an expectation on an employee's part that their employer will, and by their own admission no less, BREAK THE FUCKING LAW?
He might be lucky to not end up facing jailtime if he admits to actually saying that.
At-will employment does not entitle an employer to violate an employee's civic rights... or at least not without all of the applicable consequences.
If that were to be the case, although I'm not meaning to imply that it won't be, then the purchaser of a vehicle would be assuming such liability.... if people don't to bear that responsibility, then they won't buy such cars in the first place. The demand will stay low, and there will be no need to create any new laws prohibiting them.
If encryption were off by default, and they want to ask me why I was using encryption if I wasn't doing anything wrong, I would tell them, entirely matter-of-factly, that my reason for using encryption is so that people with less noble intentions than what the government might claim they have may not also be secretly monitoring my communication, with the intent of trying to gain access to important things that I feel I should take measures to keep secure, such as my finances. I would then ask them whether such concern on my part, even if they may hypothetically characterize me as paranoid (which I do not allege, but even if it did), somehow automatically make *me* a criminal as well.
When you or your wife gets offered a promotion or big pay increase that requires you two to commute in opposite directions, it's likely that you will find yourself in a situation where you are a two-car household.
Or one of us wiil take public transit to work... which is what we do currently... and what is generally likely to continue to be the case, since most of the jobs in my area are based downtown, and there is very good transit service from almost anywhere in the greater metro area where I live into the downtown core.
And some of those bad people work for the government
Even *IF* that weren't the case, it wouldn't matter at all. You see, if one already knows that the government has keys that can be used to read your private data, then even *IF* you could hypothetically completely trust the government to not do anything unethical, there is absolutely *NO measure of certainty that someone with less noble or honorable intentions could not be secretly utilizing the exact same mechanisms (even if illegally) to monitor your communications as well, risking exposing confidential information to people who would exploit it, and potentially use it to cause harm, either financial or sociological. While any encryption mechanism may not be completely foolproof, at least it's a safeguard that one can take to protect their own interests, and feel as confident that their information is secure to the same extent that they feel they can trust the encryption method in the first place.
Traffic is certainly an issue on the freeways here in California. Probably not so in Canada which has population in the same range as California, but spread over a much larger area.
That last point is key.... and why decent range (or, as I said, a respectable network of superchargers so that longer trips are viaable) is important up here. There are 50% more superchargers in California than there are in all of Canada, but Canada has roughly 8 times the land area. If Canada had even half of the density of superchargers that there were in California, getting around by EV would probably not be a problem up here... Because of how large Canada is, that would mean Canada would have about 4 times as many chargers as California, but still only about half of what the USA has. I realize that to some extent, you need a decently sized population base to support a charging network, but in the end, the geographical proximity between the nearest two superchargers is still going to be a problem. whenever you want to travel any respectable distance. The fact of the matter is that simply owing to the vastness of this country alone, larger distances are going to be more likely to be needed.
If I had to go to Canada I would likely fly though, as I wouldn't be able to afford to take the time it would take to drive
In my experience, there is plenty to be gained just from making the journey... and I actually enjoy such long drives for their scenery and a greater appreciation for just how big this country really is, even though places as far as the other side of the world can often seem just microseconds when using modern telecommunications devices.
Another 9/11 isn't possible anytime in the foreseeable future. it was only as effective for the terrorists as it was that one time because the notion of doing something like that had simply never occurred to most people before then. Now, it is a firmly entrenched part of the North American mindset. and you can be certain that it will never happen again, at least as long as people remember what happened on that day.
Yeah.... not remotely possible that a person might be using encryption not because they are doing anything wrong, but simply because the information is confidential, and they don't want anyone whose intentions they cannot personally vouch for seeing it.
I wouldn't want just anyone to know my bank password for example. Even if the feds weren't going to do anything malicious with it, if *THEY* can see it, then so can people with less honorable intentions.
It's an impediment for anyone who makes highway trips almost anywhere in Canada... Unless you are only ever doing such driving in southern BC, or between Montreal and Toronto.
Of course, it's probably a whole lot simpler to say that Canadians that actually travel in Canada are just an edge-case, and don't matter than it might be to consider that my concerns have any validity for people in my geographical region.
Just how many >200 miles trips do you do a year by car that you won't stop ?
About 8 to 10 a year.
Stopping 30 mins to charge every 200 miles isn't the end of the world.
Not at all... except that unless you are driving south of about the 49th parallel, the routes you can take are extremely limited... instead of taking a direct route from A to B, you must drive a distance that can get to be two or even three times as far.
200 miles is at least 3 hours of driving and probably much more depending on traffic.
Traffic is not a huge issue on the freeway.
I know my bladder would be an issue long before the battery would. I would need to stop before 3 hours.
It takes 5 minutes for a rest-stop, maybe 10 minutes to fill up a car with gasoline, and 30 minutes to charge at a Tesla supercharger station. The latter might not sound too bad if you do it once every three hours or so, and you could still clock in 1000km in a day with that, but that time does not account for how long you may have to wait in line just to use a supercharger. Because of how sparsely they are distributed particularly in Canada, in practice, there is going to be a wait time as well... which can be upwards of half an hour all by itself.
Further, It's my understanding that map I linked to includes all currently planned supercharging stations, and not just all currently existing ones, so that map represents about what one can expect for at least the immediately foreseeable future. Want to drive from Calgary to Regina. for example? Fuhgeddaboudit in an EV....
Trips from Vancouver to Calgary are feasable, as long as you are spending the night in Calgary, and can use an overnight charging facility when you arrive... but it's utterly unworkable to drive from Vancouver to Edmonton via Jasper, since there are no superchargers in Alberta north of Red Deer, and no superchargers in BC north of about Kamloops anywhere along that route.
I think it's fairly realistic to use a Tesla S if there are Superchargers available on the route you are taking.
Yeah.... *IF*. Or did you miss my parenthetical remark about recharging...?
Not all condos are aimed at single people... There are several families in my building, for instance.
It's almost impossible to find parking on my street most of the time, which is a problem that we routinely face when having visitors... a second car would just not be viable unless we could live in a detached home... the price for which is pushing about a million dollars where we live, and quite out of our reach, and we don't even live in the expensive part of the metro area. Housing start getting more affordable once you get about 2 hours out of town or so... which is more than half of this economical Tesla's range. Perhaps some people like spending half of their day on a daily commute, but definitely not me... nor my wife.
As long as all of your extended driving is south of the 49th parallel, or else is primarily in the southern part of British Columbia. There are no planned superchargers anywhere along highway 1 that are east of Banff and west of Toronto.
Of course, it's not like Canada has a population base to really matter to most people, so of course it makes a whole lot more sense to just mod my comments as flamebait rather than think I may actually have some kind of point.
In my experience, when one lives in an apartment building, one usually does not have the luxury of having more than one parking spot, and street parking is often severely limited.
he only people from whom this *doesn't* make sense are those who are no longer living in their parents basement, but not yet married. Not sure if we can find anybody on./ who meets that criteria, but if we can, their comments would probably be interesting.
... or people who live in a condo or apartment, and don't have any place that they could actually park a second car.
... need to either own a second car for longer trips or else rent... and the latter option can quickly get prohibitively expensive when you are doing it regularly.... like more than 10 times per year or so.
Coupled with the fact that unless you live in a detached home and have a garage that can hold two cars, you may not even have parking available for two cars for your household anyways.
Make a vehicle with either enough range or a fast enough recharge time (with suitably spaced recharging facilities) to travel 1000km in a single day, and we'll talk.
At what point does simply seeing an event or hearing a conversation constitute "recording" it? What if a person has an exceptionally accurate memory? What if they are utilizing drugs orctechnologyvthat enhance their memory?
I think It might be argued that simply overhearing something or seeing it is "recording", since human memory is a type of record... It's just one that may be challenged with somewhat more success than photographs or videos would be, but that Is primarily only because the latter are considered more reliable.
once we get into the realm of artificially enhanced memory, technology that I well expect to be available in my lifetime, lines between "recording" and "witnessing" may become indistinguishable.
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The crate can be strapped in place, just a child's car seat is.
And those of us with any sense in how we manage our pets put them in a crate whenever we are taking them somewhere in a vehicle.
It is safest practice for all concerned.
Taking someone's stuff without their permission is still considered theft, whether or not the person it was taken from will ever notice that it is missing, and whether or not the person that takes it sincerely believes that what they actually took is, or at least ought be (and in so doing, making a moral evaluation on their part) considered to be valueless, perhaps on the allegation that it's "just digital", or "it has no physical component to it", for instance. Asserting that it is not stealing is really just a perpetuation of a myth started by people who typically practice such behaviors to convince others, or maybe even themselves that they never really did anything wrong. Since you are regurgitating this baseless rationalization, from where I'm standing it looks like they succeeded with you.
And we know from experience that WHENEVER somebody uses terms like "language <XYZ> is the future", it is inevitably baseless speculation, and often rests on the false belief that some single programming language, or any single technology for that matter, can actually be the "best" one.
Brooks said it best, There is No Silver Bullet
Because when it becomes acceptable to steal from somebody else, then one day it may become acceptable to steal from you.
What country does this guy think he's living in that it should *EVER* be an expectation on an employee's part that their employer will, and by their own admission no less, BREAK THE FUCKING LAW?
He might be lucky to not end up facing jailtime if he admits to actually saying that.
At-will employment does not entitle an employer to violate an employee's civic rights... or at least not without all of the applicable consequences.
and...
What if the causal pathogen is named after somebody?
If that were to be the case, although I'm not meaning to imply that it won't be, then the purchaser of a vehicle would be assuming such liability.... if people don't to bear that responsibility, then they won't buy such cars in the first place. The demand will stay low, and there will be no need to create any new laws prohibiting them.
If encryption were off by default, and they want to ask me why I was using encryption if I wasn't doing anything wrong, I would tell them, entirely matter-of-factly, that my reason for using encryption is so that people with less noble intentions than what the government might claim they have may not also be secretly monitoring my communication, with the intent of trying to gain access to important things that I feel I should take measures to keep secure, such as my finances. I would then ask them whether such concern on my part, even if they may hypothetically characterize me as paranoid (which I do not allege, but even if it did), somehow automatically make *me* a criminal as well.
Or one of us wiil take public transit to work... which is what we do currently... and what is generally likely to continue to be the case, since most of the jobs in my area are based downtown, and there is very good transit service from almost anywhere in the greater metro area where I live into the downtown core.
Even *IF* that weren't the case, it wouldn't matter at all. You see, if one already knows that the government has keys that can be used to read your private data, then even *IF* you could hypothetically completely trust the government to not do anything unethical, there is absolutely *NO measure of certainty that someone with less noble or honorable intentions could not be secretly utilizing the exact same mechanisms (even if illegally) to monitor your communications as well, risking exposing confidential information to people who would exploit it, and potentially use it to cause harm, either financial or sociological. While any encryption mechanism may not be completely foolproof, at least it's a safeguard that one can take to protect their own interests, and feel as confident that their information is secure to the same extent that they feel they can trust the encryption method in the first place.
That last point is key.... and why decent range (or, as I said, a respectable network of superchargers so that longer trips are viaable) is important up here. There are 50% more superchargers in California than there are in all of Canada, but Canada has roughly 8 times the land area. If Canada had even half of the density of superchargers that there were in California, getting around by EV would probably not be a problem up here... Because of how large Canada is, that would mean Canada would have about 4 times as many chargers as California, but still only about half of what the USA has. I realize that to some extent, you need a decently sized population base to support a charging network, but in the end, the geographical proximity between the nearest two superchargers is still going to be a problem. whenever you want to travel any respectable distance. The fact of the matter is that simply owing to the vastness of this country alone, larger distances are going to be more likely to be needed.
In my experience, there is plenty to be gained just from making the journey... and I actually enjoy such long drives for their scenery and a greater appreciation for just how big this country really is, even though places as far as the other side of the world can often seem just microseconds when using modern telecommunications devices.
Another 9/11 isn't possible anytime in the foreseeable future. it was only as effective for the terrorists as it was that one time because the notion of doing something like that had simply never occurred to most people before then. Now, it is a firmly entrenched part of the North American mindset. and you can be certain that it will never happen again, at least as long as people remember what happened on that day.
I wouldn't want just anyone to know my bank password for example. Even if the feds weren't going to do anything malicious with it, if *THEY* can see it, then so can people with less honorable intentions.
Good people have plenty to hide.... primarily from bad people, mind you, but plenty to to hide nonetheless.
It's an impediment for anyone who makes highway trips almost anywhere in Canada... Unless you are only ever doing such driving in southern BC, or between Montreal and Toronto.
Of course, it's probably a whole lot simpler to say that Canadians that actually travel in Canada are just an edge-case, and don't matter than it might be to consider that my concerns have any validity for people in my geographical region.
About 8 to 10 a year.
Not at all... except that unless you are driving south of about the 49th parallel, the routes you can take are extremely limited... instead of taking a direct route from A to B, you must drive a distance that can get to be two or even three times as far.
Traffic is not a huge issue on the freeway.
It takes 5 minutes for a rest-stop, maybe 10 minutes to fill up a car with gasoline, and 30 minutes to charge at a Tesla supercharger station. The latter might not sound too bad if you do it once every three hours or so, and you could still clock in 1000km in a day with that, but that time does not account for how long you may have to wait in line just to use a supercharger. Because of how sparsely they are distributed particularly in Canada, in practice, there is going to be a wait time as well... which can be upwards of half an hour all by itself.
Further, It's my understanding that map I linked to includes all currently planned supercharging stations, and not just all currently existing ones, so that map represents about what one can expect for at least the immediately foreseeable future. Want to drive from Calgary to Regina. for example? Fuhgeddaboudit in an EV....
Trips from Vancouver to Calgary are feasable, as long as you are spending the night in Calgary, and can use an overnight charging facility when you arrive... but it's utterly unworkable to drive from Vancouver to Edmonton via Jasper, since there are no superchargers in Alberta north of Red Deer, and no superchargers in BC north of about Kamloops anywhere along that route.
Yeah.... *IF*. Or did you miss my parenthetical remark about recharging...?
Which in my case, it usually doesn't... or at least not one anywhere past about the first quarter or so of the trip.
Not all condos are aimed at single people... There are several families in my building, for instance.
It's almost impossible to find parking on my street most of the time, which is a problem that we routinely face when having visitors... a second car would just not be viable unless we could live in a detached home... the price for which is pushing about a million dollars where we live, and quite out of our reach, and we don't even live in the expensive part of the metro area. Housing start getting more affordable once you get about 2 hours out of town or so... which is more than half of this economical Tesla's range. Perhaps some people like spending half of their day on a daily commute, but definitely not me... nor my wife.
Of course, it's not like Canada has a population base to really matter to most people, so of course it makes a whole lot more sense to just mod my comments as flamebait rather than think I may actually have some kind of point.
In my experience, when one lives in an apartment building, one usually does not have the luxury of having more than one parking spot, and street parking is often severely limited.
... or people who live in a condo or apartment, and don't have any place that they could actually park a second car.
Coupled with the fact that unless you live in a detached home and have a garage that can hold two cars, you may not even have parking available for two cars for your household anyways.
Make a vehicle with either enough range or a fast enough recharge time (with suitably spaced recharging facilities) to travel 1000km in a single day, and we'll talk.
At what point does simply seeing an event or hearing a conversation constitute "recording" it? What if a person has an exceptionally accurate memory? What if they are utilizing drugs orctechnologyvthat enhance their memory?
I think It might be argued that simply overhearing something or seeing it is "recording", since human memory is a type of record... It's just one that may be challenged with somewhat more success than photographs or videos would be, but that Is primarily only because the latter are considered more reliable.
once we get into the realm of artificially enhanced memory, technology that I well expect to be available in my lifetime, lines between "recording" and "witnessing" may become indistinguishable.