Not by THIS Supreme Court. This Court is a bunch of authority worshipers, and the Constitution be hanged.
I must admit that the stage for this was set by the way that the Civil Rights movement expanded the authority of the Federal Government over the states. That was the WRONG solution, and went directly against the letter of the constitution. A good purpose doesn't excuse a crucial lack of insight into the ways of authority.
The thing to be aware of is that BOTH parties try to expand the power of the government when they are in charge. I would say that the swing back and forth of the parties should cause the self-aware to desire to limit the power of government...but with electronic voting there may never again be such a swing. The reported vote count is likely to ALWAYS favor those currently in power.
You can see company as a collective. Thus "Alienware" would be a macro for "people who are collected together under the name of 'Alienware'". So it is seen as a plural form. Thus "Alienware admit..." translates to "People who are collected together under the name of Alienware admit..."
It's not standard American, but I believe that something similar to this was the original concept of a company. Thus one may have companions on a hike, and the companions on a hike are a company of hikers.
There are people who stay in government all their lives and remain honorable. I can name one who hasn't quite died yet, and one who shows great promise. They just don't wield the kind of power that control over vast amounts of campaign dollars provides.
That said, that's two politicians that I know anything about that appear honorable, as opposed to more than 50 that I know about as much about that I would class as "better rendered harmless".
I think you mean we decline to report civilian casualties. The actual numbers (estimates...all that's available) is somewhat frightening and very excessive. Our presence is clearly not desired, despite the propaganda denying this.
It's true, we aren't doing "radical cleansing". No massive fumigations of cities with poisonous gas. We could do worse. This is hardly the same as "limiting civilian casualties". When you target someone's house with artillery aren't limiting casualties of anyone living in the same block, likely not in the same dozen blocks. When you destroy their water supplies, you aren't limiting casualties. Etc.
It is probably fair to say that we haven't intentionally striven to kill civilians for the sole purpose of killing civilians. I'm not sure, but that probably fair. OTOH, driving people homeless into the desert without food, water, or transportation isn't exactly "limiting casualties". That action in and of itself can easily lead to over 50% fatalities. Telling people to leave in just that way or be targeted by artillery isn't "limiting casualties". It's merely limiting the number of people who are shot.
It's also a great way to ensure that the rest of the populace loves you dearly.
I am a "consumer" of many more products than I am a producer of, and my experience was that very frequently I would be dependent upon two different closed source products with conflicting requirements. Under Linux, I can manage that without needing two separate machines. But it's still a bit of work, and annoying. Under MSWind I usually either had to choose one and let the other go, or maintain two separate machines. (This is partially because under Linux I usually have the source code available.)
OTOH, another solution that often works is to maintain multiple search paths. Under MSWind this required a reboot, but it was a solution that would often work. (It was just so much of a hassle that it was easier to maintain two machines...perhaps I could have always made it work with enough effort.)
??? I've *USED* MSWind, though not recently. It's NOT easy to handle in MSWind. Perhaps I didn't describe the process well. In MSWind the equivalent is referred to as "dll hell". Now perhaps you recognize it.
It's much easier to resolve in Debian (or Red Hat, or any other Linux I've tried) then in MSWind. I'll grant you I haven't used anything more recent than MSWind2000, but I believe that the problem still exists, and I haven't heard that it has become significantly easier.
Actually, it's worse, because under MSWind you rarely have the source code, so you CAN'T compile and link the programs in a different location. There may be other ways around this, but my solution before I switched was generally to just avoid the problem. Chose one or the other. Since I had two computers, occasionally I'd set them up differently, so that I didn't loose access to any needed program. (At some point I installed Linux on one of them and within 6 months Linux was on both of them. Withing 3 years MSWind was just gone. [I'll grant you that much of this was because I actually read the EULA on MSWind2000...and I saw excerpts from the EULA for MSWindXP.])
Did you hear about the precinct that turned in 10 times as many votes as it had registered voters?
That was pretty blatant. But they let the fraudulent votes be counted. (Didn't they? I never saw any notice that they threw them out.)
The main hope is that if there's lots of people trying to fix the election, they MIGHT cancel each other out. (Not a very big hope you say? Yes. But it's the best one.)
The elections have been rigged ever since electronic voting was introduced. There are many instances where it's been so blatant as to be beyond dispute. Were they rigged before electronic voting? Maybe. Not as systematically, and not as blatantly. But I can't prove that it wasn't happening then.
So. Either democracy in the US is now a farce, or it's been one for (you pick the time interval since you believe there was a sufficiently honest election). What the electronic voting machines have definitely done is cause the voter fraud to become blatantly obvious. Now nobody who is paying attention can doubt it. I'm not sure this guarantees that the government will fix the problem. This "problem" may well be how the people in charge got elected.
If two different programs each demand a different version of the same library...you've got problems no matter what size disk you have. There are ways around this, though none are particularly good.
If Debian has the programs in it's repository, then you can choose which one you want the system to handle, and install the other as a/usr/local/... program. WITH it's needed libraries. Debian will then only manage the upgrades to one of the programs. More usual is to find a version of the program that is compatible with the current system. If that's possible, then the installer will handle it. (But just TRY to install Alice from the testing repository!)
The Debian approach is to handle all the most common cases with the installer. If the installer won't handle it, it's up to the user how to handle it. Usually this means putting all the necessary executables (including libraries) in a place that won't conflict with any system file. Frequently a simple compile will handle the process, linking against the system libraries. If not, you may need to compile lots of auxillary libraries. This can get messy enough that complex cases are usually better avoided. (The repository contains a tremendous breadth of programs, so this is normally feasible.)
Your MSWind95 install must have been broken if you considered MSWind98 an improvement. I installed it, and within a week I was re-installing 95. I still have that MSWind95 machine...though it no longer connects to the net. I haven't had a memorable crash since I removed the anti-virus and disconnected from the net (and re-installed).
I do understand that the later versions of MSWind98 were better, but the first one blew goats...and I never bothered with the later versions because it also offered NO benefits.
Sorry. This is unpleasant. That doesn't suffice to make it like SCO. So far there's no evidence that SGI didn't own the claimed patents. So far there's no evidence that SGI is going to refuse to say what it's suing about. Etc.
SCO is so much worse than any ordinary company that it's difficult to comprehend just how foul they are, and how foul the legal system is to allow them to use it so. SOMEBODY's got to be being paid off. It can't normally be THAT bad.
The SCO case is so bad that they have yet to clearly state what they are suing about. Currently it appears to be something about the AT&T contract with IBM. AT&T and IBM both deny that the contract means what SCO says it means, and under contract law that should mean that the case is immediately dismissed with prejudice (caution: IANAL). And yet it goes forward, spending IBM's and Novell's money. (O, Yes. SCO is paying it's lawyers with stolen money. Stolen from Novell.)
Do not compare SGI with SCO. SGI may well have a legitimate grievance.
Didn't SGI just get out of bankruptcy? I'd guess that this is how. On the strength of various lawsuits that they could file, they got a new round of financing. There's probably some way to check this, but I don't know what that would be, so this is just a guess.
Eh? Illegal fishing is likely to destroy all the fisheries in the ocean, resulting in millions (billions?) of people starving. I don't think pirated music is CLOSE to the same magnitude of problem.
Actually, given the current laws, I consider people who pirate music to be "very stupid heros". (Think Groo here. They're actually likely to make the problem they're attacking worse.)
HOWEVER, expecting programmers to follow patents is totally disingenuous. Perhaps some more abusive word that submarine should be substituted, as your argument that submarine is the incorrect term is probably valid.
P.S.: For programmers to follow patents would be a very bad idea. If you claim to understand what a patent means you automatically become liable to triple damages. (I think I have that right. It may be worse.) Only an attorney approved of by the patent court is supposed to be allowed to express an opinion as to what a patent means. (Yet another reason why the patent system and all laws authorizing or implementing it should be revoked and reconstructed ab initio with a blank slate, and no ability to patent anything that was known before the present date.)
When I think of UniSys I think of the submarine patent on gifs, and the "burn all gifs" campaign.
I suppose that there are worse companies to do business with...I could even hazard a guess at the names of a few. Still, UniSys isn't a company that *I* would choose to do business with unless there were not a decent alternative.
I remember when the name meant technical excellence. Pity. And it's taken less than a decade to come to this: the lawsuit model of business. Well, may their prospects be as bright as those of SCO.
K can be more that one year, but usually isn't, and is usually the first public schooling a child has. Nursery school is an optional precursor.
Grades aren't tied directly to age, of course, as children are born all through the year, but most primary schools only accept a new batch starting in September. Different schools systems have different rules as to exactly when a child should start.
As a result 6th graders tend to be around 11 or 12 with special exceptions.
Symantech gave up on compilers, etc. because of unfair competition from MS which probably couldn't quite be proven in a court of law. Or possibly the cost would just be too high.
Mind you, I don't think their products were that good. Not since they moved their focus from the Mac where they really DID have good products. (Of course at about that time they not only changed their focus from the Mac to the PC, they also swallowed Norton. It may well not entirely be MS's fault that their later products blew goats.)
It's interesting that all of the best programs that I know of were on the Mac. E.g. MSWord 5.2a was the best word processor I've ever encountered to this day.
Considering that people use a signature based antivirus in their biological systems...I'd like some evidence that "signature based antivirus is going to die" rather than just an assertion. It seems quite improbable.
Now if you'd said that signature based antivirus is going to need to change significantly, then I'd be agreeing with you.
In some ways you are correct. He was not called Schicklgruber, since his father reportedly changed his name before the birth of his son. The reasons are unclear. I'm no historian.
I can't prove anything about anyone's ancestors. My own included. I accept as probable that the was never religiously jewish. At that time and place whether or not you were a Jew was not solely defined by your religious practices.
Certainly Wikipedia bears out many of your statements, but they contradict much of what I was taught in school. Either source is plausibly correct, so I will accept his status as disputed. (If you have a definite source, I might consider it more probable.)
If you don't like his example, then let's pick King Olaf, or Emperor Julian. It's not like the examples are few...merely the famous ones. I know several people who (more or less) violently reject some part of what they were taught as a child. Usually if you don't know them well you don't get to know why they act the way they do.
If someone isn't really famous, you generally don't find out much about how they were raised. (Frequently not then, hagiographers being the liars that they are.) This make it difficult to come up with commonly known examples. Perhaps you are right that I picked a poor one. (He was definitely a poor one for you, and you have convinced me that several things I though were facts are disputed.) This doesn't affect the basic argument.
The thesis "Give me a child until he seven and he is mine for life." supposedly originated with Voltaire's Jesuit teacher. Sorry, right now I can only track down an indirect reference to this (in Pratchett's
Small Gods
). I first heard this, however, long ago in a high school class. At that point I had the name of the speaker (and I believe that the quote was slightly different).
It's certain that such people make an impression, but it's often not the one they intend. I still remember "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot
12 full ounces that's a lot
Twice as much for a nickel too
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you"
From when I was eight. Over the years since then this has, perhaps, caused me to buy ONE extra pepsi. I wanted to know what it tasted like. That is the only time I've intentionally purchased one.
The ad made an impression...but perhaps not the one that was intended. I probably bought more cokes due to the rumor that some lady found a mouse in her Coke bottle, and was given a case of Coke to settle. But I've never heard Coke advertise that, and the rumor may well even have been false.
Memorable doesn't mean acceptable or desirable. They are different concepts, nearly orthogonal.
Voltaire was raised by the Jesuits, and people keep saying that.
Adolph Schicklgruber grew up as a Jew. And people keep saying that.
Statistically it may be true, but frequently there comes a time when a person decides to define himself by violently rejecting (some part of) what he was taught. The more coercively it was shoved down his throat, the more violent the reaction.
Note that the curve is skewed along ages. The an individual is, the more probable that individual is to have genital herpes. (There is no cure. It is chronic. It subsides, but doesn't go away.)
This means that the younger your partner is, the less likely that partner is to be uninfected. (There are other variables...but let's just consider the simple case.)
No. Individual people often make good decisions in various differing time frames. It's just that people en mass don't. For this we must hope that the FDA makes the right choice (to maintain the ban), whether for the correct reason or not.
For the longer term, we need a new technique. A way for individuals to combine their wisdom rather than their stupidity. The net appears to be a step along the way towards that.
But the current system is broken in the ways that I have described.
If people acted based on the long term best interest of the species, then I'd concede that you had a valid point.
They don't.
Wise people make decisions that are valid in a perspective of a century. Most people make decisions on a basis of a few years. Business leaders make decisions on a quarter to quarter basis. Politicians make decisions on "Whatever sounds good at the moment". This NOT a good recipe for wise long term decisions.
Yes. Ask people from Louisiana. It wasn't only the black people who were left to die. (True, they were more likely to be ignored, but they weren't the only ones.)
Also, consider the health benefits that the rescue workers at New York got. (None. And a large number of them have still got lung problems.) Many to most of them were Caucasian. (The one's I know personally were.)
I'd also mention the way military health benefits have been cut recently, but that one may actually BE racist.
Generally, though, actions that are called racist aren't. They are people with power discriminating against those without power. Race doesn't enter into it, except statistically. (Yes, there *ARE* exceptions. I said GENERALLY.)
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Not by THIS Supreme Court. This Court is a bunch of authority worshipers, and the Constitution be hanged.
I must admit that the stage for this was set by the way that the Civil Rights movement expanded the authority of the Federal Government over the states. That was the WRONG solution, and went directly against the letter of the constitution. A good purpose doesn't excuse a crucial lack of insight into the ways of authority.
The thing to be aware of is that BOTH parties try to expand the power of the government when they are in charge. I would say that the swing back and forth of the parties should cause the self-aware to desire to limit the power of government...but with electronic voting there may never again be such a swing. The reported vote count is likely to ALWAYS favor those currently in power.
You can see company as a collective. Thus "Alienware" would be a macro for "people who are collected together under the name of 'Alienware'". So it is seen as a plural form. Thus "Alienware admit..." translates to
"People who are collected together under the name of Alienware admit..."
It's not standard American, but I believe that something similar to this was the original concept of a company. Thus one may have companions on a hike, and the companions on a hike are a company of hikers.
There are people who stay in government all their lives and remain honorable. I can name one who hasn't quite died yet, and one who shows great promise. They just don't wield the kind of power that control over vast amounts of campaign dollars provides.
That said, that's two politicians that I know anything about that appear honorable, as opposed to more than 50 that I know about as much about that I would class as "better rendered harmless".
I think you mean we decline to report civilian casualties. The actual numbers (estimates...all that's available) is somewhat frightening and very excessive. Our presence is clearly not desired, despite the propaganda denying this.
It's true, we aren't doing "radical cleansing". No massive fumigations of cities with poisonous gas. We could do worse. This is hardly the same as "limiting civilian casualties". When you target someone's house with artillery aren't limiting casualties of anyone living in the same block, likely not in the same dozen blocks. When you destroy their water supplies, you aren't limiting casualties. Etc.
It is probably fair to say that we haven't intentionally striven to kill civilians for the sole purpose of killing civilians. I'm not sure, but that probably fair. OTOH, driving people homeless into the desert without food, water, or transportation isn't exactly "limiting casualties". That action in and of itself can easily lead to over 50% fatalities. Telling people to leave in just that way or be targeted by artillery isn't "limiting casualties". It's merely limiting the number of people who are shot.
It's also a great way to ensure that the rest of the populace loves you dearly.
No. In order to be a quisling one must be in a position of power. Troll is more accurate.
I am a "consumer" of many more products than I am a producer of, and my experience was that very frequently I would be dependent upon two different closed source products with conflicting requirements. Under Linux, I can manage that without needing two separate machines. But it's still a bit of work, and annoying. Under MSWind I usually either had to choose one and let the other go, or maintain two separate machines. (This is partially because under Linux I usually have the source code available.)
OTOH, another solution that often works is to maintain multiple search paths. Under MSWind this required a reboot, but it was a solution that would often work. (It was just so much of a hassle that it was easier to maintain two machines...perhaps I could have always made it work with enough effort.)
???
I've *USED* MSWind, though not recently. It's NOT easy to handle in MSWind. Perhaps I didn't describe the process well. In MSWind the equivalent is referred to as "dll hell". Now perhaps you recognize it.
It's much easier to resolve in Debian (or Red Hat, or any other Linux I've tried) then in MSWind. I'll grant you I haven't used anything more recent than MSWind2000, but I believe that the problem still exists, and I haven't heard that it has become significantly easier.
Actually, it's worse, because under MSWind you rarely have the source code, so you CAN'T compile and link the programs in a different location. There may be other ways around this, but my solution before I switched was generally to just avoid the problem. Chose one or the other. Since I had two computers, occasionally I'd set them up differently, so that I didn't loose access to any needed program. (At some point I installed Linux on one of them and within 6 months Linux was on both of them. Withing 3 years MSWind was just gone. [I'll grant you that much of this was because I actually read the EULA on MSWind2000...and I saw excerpts from the EULA for MSWindXP.])
Did you hear about the precinct that turned in 10 times as many votes as it had registered voters?
That was pretty blatant. But they let the fraudulent votes be counted. (Didn't they? I never saw any notice that they threw them out.)
The main hope is that if there's lots of people trying to fix the election, they MIGHT cancel each other out. (Not a very big hope you say? Yes. But it's the best one.)
The elections have been rigged ever since electronic voting was introduced. There are many instances where it's been so blatant as to be beyond dispute. Were they rigged before electronic voting? Maybe. Not as systematically, and not as blatantly. But I can't prove that it wasn't happening then.
So. Either democracy in the US is now a farce, or it's been one for (you pick the time interval since you believe there was a sufficiently honest election). What the electronic voting machines have definitely done is cause the voter fraud to become blatantly obvious. Now nobody who is paying attention can doubt it. I'm not sure this guarantees that the government will fix the problem. This "problem" may well be how the people in charge got elected.
If two different programs each demand a different version of the same library...you've got problems no matter what size disk you have. There are ways around this, though none are particularly good.
/usr/local/... program. WITH it's needed libraries. Debian will then only manage the upgrades to one of the programs. More usual is to find a version of the program that is compatible with the current system. If that's possible, then the installer will handle it. (But just TRY to install Alice from the testing repository!)
If Debian has the programs in it's repository, then you can choose which one you want the system to handle, and install the other as a
The Debian approach is to handle all the most common cases with the installer. If the installer won't handle it, it's up to the user how to handle it. Usually this means putting all the necessary executables (including libraries) in a place that won't conflict with any system file. Frequently a simple compile will handle the process, linking against the system libraries. If not, you may need to compile lots of auxillary libraries. This can get messy enough that complex cases are usually better avoided. (The repository contains a tremendous breadth of programs, so this is normally feasible.)
Your MSWind95 install must have been broken if you considered MSWind98 an improvement. I installed it, and within a week I was re-installing 95. I still have that MSWind95 machine...though it no longer connects to the net. I haven't had a memorable crash since I removed the anti-virus and disconnected from the net (and re-installed).
I do understand that the later versions of MSWind98 were better, but the first one blew goats...and I never bothered with the later versions because it also offered NO benefits.
Sorry. This is unpleasant. That doesn't suffice to make it like SCO. So far there's no evidence that SGI didn't own the claimed patents. So far there's no evidence that SGI is going to refuse to say what it's suing about. Etc.
SCO is so much worse than any ordinary company that it's difficult to comprehend just how foul they are, and how foul the legal system is to allow them to use it so. SOMEBODY's got to be being paid off. It can't normally be THAT bad.
The SCO case is so bad that they have yet to clearly state what they are suing about. Currently it appears to be something about the AT&T contract with IBM. AT&T and IBM both deny that the contract means what SCO says it means, and under contract law that should mean that the case is immediately dismissed with prejudice (caution: IANAL). And yet it goes forward, spending IBM's and Novell's money. (O, Yes. SCO is paying it's lawyers with stolen money. Stolen from Novell.)
Do not compare SGI with SCO. SGI may well have a legitimate grievance.
Didn't SGI just get out of bankruptcy? I'd guess that this is how. On the strength of various lawsuits that they could file, they got a new round of financing. There's probably some way to check this, but I don't know what that would be, so this is just a guess.
Eh? Illegal fishing is likely to destroy all the fisheries in the ocean, resulting in millions (billions?) of people starving. I don't think pirated music is CLOSE to the same magnitude of problem.
Actually, given the current laws, I consider people who pirate music to be "very stupid heros". (Think Groo here. They're actually likely to make the problem they're attacking worse.)
Technically you may be (probably are) correct.
HOWEVER, expecting programmers to follow patents is totally disingenuous. Perhaps some more abusive word that submarine should be substituted, as your argument that submarine is the incorrect term is probably valid.
P.S.: For programmers to follow patents would be a very bad idea. If you claim to understand what a patent means you automatically become liable to triple damages. (I think I have that right. It may be worse.) Only an attorney approved of by the patent court is supposed to be allowed to express an opinion as to what a patent means. (Yet another reason why the patent system and all laws authorizing or implementing it should be revoked and reconstructed ab initio with a blank slate, and no ability to patent anything that was known before the present date.)
When I think of UniSys I think of the submarine patent on gifs, and the "burn all gifs" campaign.
I suppose that there are worse companies to do business with...I could even hazard a guess at the names of a few. Still, UniSys isn't a company that *I* would choose to do business with unless there were not a decent alternative.
Sony continues to live down to it's reputation.
I remember when the name meant technical excellence. Pity. And it's taken less than a decade to come to this: the lawsuit model of business. Well, may their prospects be as bright as those of SCO.
One grade per year, usually.
K can be more that one year, but usually isn't, and is usually the first public schooling a child has. Nursery school is an optional precursor.
Grades aren't tied directly to age, of course, as children are born all through the year, but most primary schools only accept a new batch starting in September. Different schools systems have different rules as to exactly when a child should start.
As a result 6th graders tend to be around 11 or 12 with special exceptions.
Symantech gave up on compilers, etc. because of unfair competition from MS which probably couldn't quite be proven in a court of law. Or possibly the cost would just be too high.
Mind you, I don't think their products were that good. Not since they moved their focus from the Mac where they really DID have good products. (Of course at about that time they not only changed their focus from the Mac to the PC, they also swallowed Norton. It may well not entirely be MS's fault that their later products blew goats.)
It's interesting that all of the best programs that I know of were on the Mac. E.g. MSWord 5.2a was the best word processor I've ever encountered to this day.
Considering that people use a signature based antivirus in their biological systems...I'd like some evidence that "signature based antivirus is going to die" rather than just an assertion. It seems quite improbable.
Now if you'd said that signature based antivirus is going to need to change significantly, then I'd be agreeing with you.
I can't prove anything about anyone's ancestors. My own included. I accept as probable that the was never religiously jewish. At that time and place whether or not you were a Jew was not solely defined by your religious practices.
Certainly Wikipedia bears out many of your statements, but they contradict much of what I was taught in school. Either source is plausibly correct, so I will accept his status as disputed. (If you have a definite source, I might consider it more probable.)
If you don't like his example, then let's pick King Olaf, or Emperor Julian. It's not like the examples are few...merely the famous ones. I know several people who (more or less) violently reject some part of what they were taught as a child. Usually if you don't know them well you don't get to know why they act the way they do.
If someone isn't really famous, you generally don't find out much about how they were raised. (Frequently not then, hagiographers being the liars that they are.) This make it difficult to come up with commonly known examples. Perhaps you are right that I picked a poor one. (He was definitely a poor one for you, and you have convinced me that several things I though were facts are disputed.) This doesn't affect the basic argument.
The thesis "Give me a child until he seven and he is mine for life." supposedly originated with Voltaire's Jesuit teacher. Sorry, right now I can only track down an indirect reference to this (in Pratchett's
- Small Gods
). I first heard this, however, long ago in a high school class. At that point I had the name of the speaker (and I believe that the quote was slightly different).It's certain that such people make an impression, but it's often not the one they intend. I still remember
"Pepsi-Cola hits the spot
12 full ounces that's a lot
Twice as much for a nickel too
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you"
From when I was eight. Over the years since then this has, perhaps, caused me to buy ONE extra pepsi. I wanted to know what it tasted like. That is the only time I've intentionally purchased one.
The ad made an impression...but perhaps not the one that was intended. I probably bought more cokes due to the rumor that some lady found a mouse in her Coke bottle, and was given a case of Coke to settle. But I've never heard Coke advertise that, and the rumor may well even have been false.
Memorable doesn't mean acceptable or desirable. They are different concepts, nearly orthogonal.
People keep saying that.
Voltaire was raised by the Jesuits, and people keep saying that.
Adolph Schicklgruber grew up as a Jew. And people keep saying that.
Statistically it may be true, but frequently there comes a time when a person decides to define himself by violently rejecting (some part of) what he was taught. The more coercively it was shoved down his throat, the more violent the reaction.
WRT:
1. 25% of Americans have genital herpes.
Note that the curve is skewed along ages. The an individual is, the more probable that individual is to have genital herpes. (There is no cure. It is chronic. It subsides, but doesn't go away.)
This means that the younger your partner is, the less likely that partner is to be uninfected. (There are other variables...but let's just consider the simple case.)
How does this affect your optimism?
No. Individual people often make good decisions in various differing time frames. It's just that people en mass don't. For this we must hope that the FDA makes the right choice (to maintain the ban), whether for the correct reason or not.
For the longer term, we need a new technique. A way for individuals to combine their wisdom rather than their stupidity. The net appears to be a step along the way towards that.
But the current system is broken in the ways that I have described.
If people acted based on the long term best interest of the species, then I'd concede that you had a valid point.
They don't.
Wise people make decisions that are valid in a perspective of a century. Most people make decisions on a basis of a few years. Business leaders make decisions on a quarter to quarter basis. Politicians make decisions on "Whatever sounds good at the moment". This NOT a good recipe for wise long term decisions.
Therefore, this is a dangerous decision.
Yes. Ask people from Louisiana. It wasn't only the black people who were left to die. (True, they were more likely to be ignored, but they weren't the only ones.)
Also, consider the health benefits that the rescue workers at New York got. (None. And a large number of them have still got lung problems.) Many to most of them were Caucasian. (The one's I know personally were.)
I'd also mention the way military health benefits have been cut recently, but that one may actually BE racist.
Generally, though, actions that are called racist aren't. They are people with power discriminating against those without power. Race doesn't enter into it, except statistically. (Yes, there *ARE* exceptions. I said GENERALLY.)