Well, what do you expect when for the first 18 years of their lives they're raised in an environment where the authorities care more about keeping the system rolling than about justice - being "disruptive" is inherently bad even if you're right, where disrespecting authority, even with nothing but speech, is a punishable offense, and where if you have any grievances your only option is to go through the "proper channels", where nobody listens to you because you're just a kid?
Freedom and its necessary corollary, self-responsibility, start with the educational system.
Since Caveon Test Security, whose clients have included the College Board, the Law School Admission Council and more than a dozen states and big city school districts, began working for the state of Mississippi in 2006, cheating has declined about 70 percent
1995: Year of the Linux server has arrived! Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now! 2000: Year of the Linux wireless router has arrived! Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now! 2008: Year of the open-source browser has arrived! Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now! 2009: Year of the Linux smartphone has arrived! Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now! 2011: Year of the Linux tablet and cloud desktop has arrived! Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now! 2043: Year of the Linux mind-machine interface, interplanetary spaceship and household robot. The Windows source code has been wikileaked six times, and it is statistically impossible for Microsoft suing someone giving away their own fork of Windows to get a jury of people all 12 of which are willing to enforce copyright law, so Windows is de facto open source. Linux people: No, all that is insignificant! Windows is still winning on the desktop! Come on, year of the Linux desktop already!
I know Slashdot likes pretending they know everything about law, but what you guys don't realize is that "hack" has a far more nuanced and complex definition than you think.
1) chop: cut with a hacking tool 2) one who works hard at boring tasks 3) be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" 4) machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends 5) cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest" 6) a mediocre and disdained writer 7) kick on the arms 8) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil 9) cab: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money 10) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" 11) an old or over-worked horse 12) significantly cut up a manuscript 13) a horse kept for hire 14) cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" 15) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
For all we know, this guy could be an expert at chopping up a manuscript with an axe while coughing.
People serve each other, you have to give as much as you receive.
Exactly. People serve each other. Individuals are not slaves to some abstract idea of "progress" or "society", they serve other individuals, and in doing so serve themselves.
You must not interact with children much, a civilization without them is not one worth living in.
I interact with children a lot. This is part of the reason why I'm so willing to go without them.
It would tear a community apart and end up in a Sparta like situation where all the wealth is funneled into keeping the old folk on top.
Except, as you yourself state, such a pyramid is inherently authoritarian and unstable and would eventually fall apart. So what's the problem?
Man wants to be free and procreate. That's pretty much it. Everyone would have kids and stop aging (thus destroying the world)?
Let's look at some statistics:
Fertility rate of Uganda - 6.77 children per woman Fertility rate of Ethiopia - 6.12 children per woman Fertility rate of India - 2.72 children per woman Fertility rate of Mexico - 2.34 children per woman Fertility rate of France - 1.98 children per woman Fertility rate of Sweden - 1.67 children per woman
The facts clearly show that as society becomes more advanced, children become less desirable. In developed countries, the problem is not population going too high, it's the threat of population going too low. And even if there will be a population boom and people start starving or there's a war, how is people dying of one of those two worse than people dying of aging?
Think about this issue from the other side - imagine that people are immortal, there are whatever social problems that arise. Imagine someone stands up and suggests that as a solution we use genetic engineering to make everyone die after 80-120 years no matter what. How would you feel if someone decided to force such a solution on you?
Because I can prove that the photo is mine through the metadata I have
Or you're proving that you can edit metadata.
counterfeiting (I like being able to use money, and hope you are caught)
Last time I checked off-the-shelf printers can't print out shiny paper and holograms...
I just can't get that excited about anyone being able to trace what I print back to me. I can't think of a situation where I would care.
Printing subversive anti-government materials in oppressive regimes? Anonymously organizing a protest, strike, or other mass demonstration? Whistleblowing? (also, this last point applies to camera traitorware as well).
I don't own an IPhone (Droid), but I *like* the idea that it can send my location and heartbeat back to Apple. I'd have liked this on my laptop that had gotten stolen. I'd just call the police, and send Apple the police report.
Or, alternatively, how about an app that sends my location back to me? All the security, none of the privacy infringement.
How can a community reject something? If you mean a group of individuals who reject it going off and forming a new community, fine. But in practice it'll end up being a community that forces some individuals who don't want to die to do so anyway. My point is that this is morally unacceptable - it's murder. If some people can't figure out what to do with infinite life and kill themselves after 300 years, that's fine. But they still lived 300 years instead of 80. And as for "stagnation", so what if there's stagnation? The point of a community is to serve individuals, people who think individuals are only there to serve the community have it backwards. The whole point of progress is to make people's lives better and longer. If progress does the opposite, then I for one think it's better to live without that false 'progress'.
You do realize that when you say "nation that rejects immortality", you're saying "government that denies its citizens the right to medical care"? You're quite literally advocating mass murder.
A cure to aging is not a means to some other end, like cultural or industrial progress, it is an end in itself.
If it's that important, why not just have uniforms? I don't pay much attention to dress but I recall at least one of the banks in my area had all their employees dressed exactly the same way.
Honest != morally on the right side. For example, a policeman going into a gang undercover is doing the right thing, but being very dishonest in the process.
The parent never said that we don't need some dishonest people, we just need to keep those kinds of people away from political power.
My dad's wife is not aging gracefully. Her skin is wrinkled like someone 15 years older than she is. One of her regular dishes is fish fried in "vegetable" oil (corn/soy/rapeseed).
Safe oils are saturated, like butter, coconut oil, and lamb fat.
I really need a citation for that. What you said is the exact opposite of what all nutrition/health literature has been saying for the past few decades.
If you go to the "tour" section of the website (really smal link at the bottom of the main page) or the "features" section, right at the top you get the text "Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers".
I've noticed on practically all websites these days the front page is mostly useless and you need to look for a link labeled with some synonym of "about" or "FAQ" to figure out what exactly the program is.
Thankfully, us ideologues do exist and are willing to fight against computer proprietarization while we still can and aren't going to wait until everyone is running an iPad-like walled garden with the US government holding a backdoor key. These things do have long-term consequences.
Maybe not colonial control and a Nazi Europe, but secession was definitely an acceptable outcome. If the south had won, you would be saying "it was time for the south to be independent". Instead of letting the South go, just as you clearly believe Britain should have let the US go, we started a 140-year spiral into the black hole of centralization.
You have a God-given right to do anything that doesn't interfere with other people. Ramming into the car in front of you at a relative speed of 100 kilometers per hour has a good chance of killing the other driver, and the accident also has a chance of blocking up the entire road for thousands of people. Peacefully flying on an airplane does not interfere with anyone else.
1) Send neural impulses to direct your right arm such that said arm is above the keyboard. You may, if you wish, separate your eyelids so that you might see when you are successful in this. 2) Send more neural impulses to move your thumb right over the key the light reflecting off of which forms the letters Ctrl upside down on your retina. Similarly move your pinky finger right over the key that looks like a T. Note that although pressing the key normally places a lowercase t on the screen, the key is still labeled with a capital T. 3) Send another neural impulse (if sending these impulses is taking up too much of your energy, you may wish to grab a chocolate bar) to lower your hand until the aforementioned Ctrl and T keys are both pressed. 4) Perform step 3 in reverse. You should see a new tab appear in your browser. 5) Type in the first letter of the subdomain (ie. not the TLD). If you do not know what a subdomain or a TLD is, you may google for it. If you do not know how to google, follow this guide with the URL www.google.com. You should see the rest of the subdomain appear, followed by a dot, and then the TLD. If this is the address you want, send more neural impulses in order to press the Enter key (sometimes called "enter", "Return" or "return"). If it isn't, type in more letters of the subdomain until it is. 6) Congratulations! You have reached your website! You may now get further benefit from this guide by sticking it to the part of the screen that has the annoying flash ads on it - computer help and adblock, 2 for the price of one!
At rush hour in my city, the subway entrance at some stations has multiple people going through it per second. They have to open up the gates and let people rush in with a person sitting there trying to make sure that everyone pays. It is not too difficult to sneak through at these times without even paying. How exactly is it possible to put in security measures without creating a 10 minute lineup?
To get to slashdot.org (I don't use facebook), I hit Ctrl+T, then the letter s, then the right arrow key, then enter. Once you've been to a site once, you barely need to think at all these days.
Discouraged from boarding planes and encouraged to bomb subways. Bombing subways can in fact be even more harmful since it can disable an entire subway line until the damage to the subway can be fixed and the train removed. And with the high volume of traffic that subways get, any kind of security (beyond fare control) is impractical. Given this, protecting planes seems like reinforcing the door with steel while the windows are open.
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Well, what do you expect when for the first 18 years of their lives they're raised in an environment where the authorities care more about keeping the system rolling than about justice - being "disruptive" is inherently bad even if you're right, where disrespecting authority, even with nothing but speech, is a punishable offense, and where if you have any grievances your only option is to go through the "proper channels", where nobody listens to you because you're just a kid?
Freedom and its necessary corollary, self-responsibility, start with the educational system.
Since Caveon Test Security, whose clients have included the College Board, the Law School Admission Council and more than a dozen states and big city school districts, began working for the state of Mississippi in 2006, cheating has declined about 70 percent
Or cheaters have become 70% less detectable.
1995: Year of the Linux server has arrived!
Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now!
2000: Year of the Linux wireless router has arrived!
Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now!
2008: Year of the open-source browser has arrived!
Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now!
2009: Year of the Linux smartphone has arrived!
Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now!
2011: Year of the Linux tablet and cloud desktop has arrived!
Linux people: Come on, year of the Linux desktop any time now!
2043: Year of the Linux mind-machine interface, interplanetary spaceship and household robot. The Windows source code has been wikileaked six times, and it is statistically impossible for Microsoft suing someone giving away their own fork of Windows to get a jury of people all 12 of which are willing to enforce copyright law, so Windows is de facto open source.
Linux people: No, all that is insignificant! Windows is still winning on the desktop! Come on, year of the Linux desktop already!
I know Slashdot likes pretending they know everything about law, but what you guys don't realize is that "hack" has a far more nuanced and complex definition than you think.
Here you go:
1) chop: cut with a hacking tool
2) one who works hard at boring tasks
3) be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
4) machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
5) cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"
6) a mediocre and disdained writer
7) kick on the arms
8) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
9) cab: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
10) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
11) an old or over-worked horse
12) significantly cut up a manuscript
13) a horse kept for hire
14) cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
15) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
For all we know, this guy could be an expert at chopping up a manuscript with an axe while coughing.
People serve each other, you have to give as much as you receive.
Exactly. People serve each other. Individuals are not slaves to some abstract idea of "progress" or "society", they serve other individuals, and in doing so serve themselves.
You must not interact with children much, a civilization without them is not one worth living in.
I interact with children a lot. This is part of the reason why I'm so willing to go without them.
It would tear a community apart and end up in a Sparta like situation where all the wealth is funneled into keeping the old folk on top.
Except, as you yourself state, such a pyramid is inherently authoritarian and unstable and would eventually fall apart. So what's the problem?
Man wants to be free and procreate. That's pretty much it. Everyone would have kids and stop aging (thus destroying the world)?
Let's look at some statistics:
Fertility rate of Uganda - 6.77 children per woman
Fertility rate of Ethiopia - 6.12 children per woman
Fertility rate of India - 2.72 children per woman
Fertility rate of Mexico - 2.34 children per woman
Fertility rate of France - 1.98 children per woman
Fertility rate of Sweden - 1.67 children per woman
The facts clearly show that as society becomes more advanced, children become less desirable. In developed countries, the problem is not population going too high, it's the threat of population going too low. And even if there will be a population boom and people start starving or there's a war, how is people dying of one of those two worse than people dying of aging?
Think about this issue from the other side - imagine that people are immortal, there are whatever social problems that arise. Imagine someone stands up and suggests that as a solution we use genetic engineering to make everyone die after 80-120 years no matter what. How would you feel if someone decided to force such a solution on you?
Because I can prove that the photo is mine through the metadata I have
Or you're proving that you can edit metadata.
counterfeiting (I like being able to use money, and hope you are caught)
Last time I checked off-the-shelf printers can't print out shiny paper and holograms...
I just can't get that excited about anyone being able to trace what I print back to me. I can't think of a situation where I would care.
Printing subversive anti-government materials in oppressive regimes? Anonymously organizing a protest, strike, or other mass demonstration? Whistleblowing? (also, this last point applies to camera traitorware as well).
I don't own an IPhone (Droid), but I *like* the idea that it can send my location and heartbeat back to Apple. I'd have liked this on my laptop that had gotten stolen. I'd just call the police, and send Apple the police report.
Or, alternatively, how about an app that sends my location back to me? All the security, none of the privacy infringement.
How can a community reject something? If you mean a group of individuals who reject it going off and forming a new community, fine. But in practice it'll end up being a community that forces some individuals who don't want to die to do so anyway. My point is that this is morally unacceptable - it's murder. If some people can't figure out what to do with infinite life and kill themselves after 300 years, that's fine. But they still lived 300 years instead of 80. And as for "stagnation", so what if there's stagnation? The point of a community is to serve individuals, people who think individuals are only there to serve the community have it backwards. The whole point of progress is to make people's lives better and longer. If progress does the opposite, then I for one think it's better to live without that false 'progress'.
You do realize that when you say "nation that rejects immortality", you're saying "government that denies its citizens the right to medical care"? You're quite literally advocating mass murder.
A cure to aging is not a means to some other end, like cultural or industrial progress, it is an end in itself.
If it's that important, why not just have uniforms? I don't pay much attention to dress but I recall at least one of the banks in my area had all their employees dressed exactly the same way.
So jail innocent pot smokers and then offer them the choice of going into the military or staying in prison? That basically is a draft.
Honest != morally on the right side. For example, a policeman going into a gang undercover is doing the right thing, but being very dishonest in the process.
The parent never said that we don't need some dishonest people, we just need to keep those kinds of people away from political power.
My dad's wife is not aging gracefully. Her skin is wrinkled like someone 15 years older than she is. One of her regular dishes is fish fried in "vegetable" oil (corn/soy/rapeseed).
Safe oils are saturated, like butter, coconut oil, and lamb fat.
I really need a citation for that. What you said is the exact opposite of what all nutrition/health literature has been saying for the past few decades.
Extrapolating from current demographic trends, we'll just have no new children. I'd gladly sterilize myself if that was the price of living forever.
If you go to the "tour" section of the website (really smal link at the bottom of the main page) or the "features" section, right at the top you get the text "Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers".
I've noticed on practically all websites these days the front page is mostly useless and you need to look for a link labeled with some synonym of "about" or "FAQ" to figure out what exactly the program is.
Thankfully, us ideologues do exist and are willing to fight against computer proprietarization while we still can and aren't going to wait until everyone is running an iPad-like walled garden with the US government holding a backdoor key. These things do have long-term consequences.
Maybe not colonial control and a Nazi Europe, but secession was definitely an acceptable outcome. If the south had won, you would be saying "it was time for the south to be independent". Instead of letting the South go, just as you clearly believe Britain should have let the US go, we started a 140-year spiral into the black hole of centralization.
The Marijuana Party is also named after something illegal. I don't see the problem.
Realize. That's how it's pronounced. It's a z, not an s. US spellings are not bastardized, they are improved.
Where I come from debit cards are useless without the PIN.
You have a God-given right to do anything that doesn't interfere with other people. Ramming into the car in front of you at a relative speed of 100 kilometers per hour has a good chance of killing the other driver, and the accident also has a chance of blocking up the entire road for thousands of people. Peacefully flying on an airplane does not interfere with anyone else.
1) Send neural impulses to direct your right arm such that said arm is above the keyboard. You may, if you wish, separate your eyelids so that you might see when you are successful in this.
2) Send more neural impulses to move your thumb right over the key the light reflecting off of which forms the letters Ctrl upside down on your retina. Similarly move your pinky finger right over the key that looks like a T. Note that although pressing the key normally places a lowercase t on the screen, the key is still labeled with a capital T.
3) Send another neural impulse (if sending these impulses is taking up too much of your energy, you may wish to grab a chocolate bar) to lower your hand until the aforementioned Ctrl and T keys are both pressed.
4) Perform step 3 in reverse. You should see a new tab appear in your browser.
5) Type in the first letter of the subdomain (ie. not the TLD). If you do not know what a subdomain or a TLD is, you may google for it. If you do not know how to google, follow this guide with the URL www.google.com. You should see the rest of the subdomain appear, followed by a dot, and then the TLD. If this is the address you want, send more neural impulses in order to press the Enter key (sometimes called "enter", "Return" or "return"). If it isn't, type in more letters of the subdomain until it is.
6) Congratulations! You have reached your website! You may now get further benefit from this guide by sticking it to the part of the screen that has the annoying flash ads on it - computer help and adblock, 2 for the price of one!
At rush hour in my city, the subway entrance at some stations has multiple people going through it per second. They have to open up the gates and let people rush in with a person sitting there trying to make sure that everyone pays. It is not too difficult to sneak through at these times without even paying. How exactly is it possible to put in security measures without creating a 10 minute lineup?
To get to slashdot.org (I don't use facebook), I hit Ctrl+T, then the letter s, then the right arrow key, then enter. Once you've been to a site once, you barely need to think at all these days.
Discouraged from boarding planes and encouraged to bomb subways. Bombing subways can in fact be even more harmful since it can disable an entire subway line until the damage to the subway can be fixed and the train removed. And with the high volume of traffic that subways get, any kind of security (beyond fare control) is impractical. Given this, protecting planes seems like reinforcing the door with steel while the windows are open.
Facebook:
http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
http://www.joindiaspora.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
Amazon:
http://www.bookfinder.com/about/booksellers/
Skype:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software
Twitter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
http://www.plurk.com/
Apple:
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
http://www.ubuntu.com/
eBay:
http://online-auction-sites.toptenreviews.com/
Google:
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/