Why would you imagine that? There are crimes, e.g., pot smoking, that have no connection to morality whatsoever. And there are crimes, e.g., those commited by bankers, that are deeply immoral but never get prosecuted so they can never affect measured crime rates.
What the grandparent does not understand is we live in a society; where you don't always get to make the rules.
What you don't understand is that we live in a society where we never get to make the rules. The rules are made by the rich and powerful, in order to benefit the rich and powerful. And when it doesn't suit them, they ignore those rules.
If you assume we had a functioning democracy, where the will of the people was accurately assayed and implemented, and weath and power was unable to bias or outright pervert justice, then you might have a point. But in this cesspool of corruption? No. I damn well do have a choice to not follow those rules, and I'm not going to play the chump.
If and when the law goes away, GPL will no longer need to exist.
Not quite. Some form of law will be necessary to ensure we all benefit from the four software freedoms. Copyright is currently used as a means to that end, and if copyright was simply repealed it would mean the end of "free software". There would be no way to enforce the share-alike provisions. But that doesn't mean that copyright is necessary. Copyright should be repealed and our software freedoms enshrined in law directly.
Why do you assume he was crapping on others? As an American I can confirm that his post was entirely accurate. If it constitutes "crapping on" someone, it's crapping on an entity that deserves it.
As a liberal, I disagree. I fear going bankrupt because I cannot pay my medical bills. I fear getting sick and losing my job, and thus losing access to health care. There are many fear based reasons to favor single payer, and they're damn good reasons too.
I also favor drug legalization, because I fear being imprisoned. I also fear being robbed by drug addicts who cannot get their fix cheaply and safely. I fear for my wallet imprisoning more people here than in any other country in the world.
I also fear terrorism, which is why we should withdraw our presence in the middle east immediately. We've done nothing over there except create more terrorists.
I also fear the big banks. They've destroyed the economy once, and they will do it again unless they are stopped.
There's nothing wrong with being motivated by fear, as long as those fears are realistic, and the measures you take to address them are effective. The problem with conservatives is not the fear, it's the irrational response to the fear.
It isn't about "death". It's about "innocent death".
So how do you justify the Iraq war where hundreds of thousands of civilians died? "Oops?" If you're honestly against the loss of innocent human life, you have to be opposed to the US military.
Islamic conservatives provide another example of "conservative" that is very different from an American conservative
Perhaps in practice, but the underlying pathology is the same. A bible thumping Kansan is not really any different than a koran thumping Pakistani. They both refuse to actually think, and substitute fairy tales instead. Both think they are highly moral, but cause great harm to others trying to enforce their morality.
I'll tell you why. Because these retailers have already got their damn money once, and don't feel they should be paid again. And again. And again.
No, Ford and Rolex would absolutely love to get paid again if they could. They just recognize that high resale value contributes to the value of their products. They make more money selling something that can be resold. Video games are no different.
That's exactly why we need a second hand market. I'm not buying games full price. Period. Other people out there are willing to buy games full price, but only if they can sell those games to recoup some of that. If you eliminate second hand sales you exclude both of us from the market and get none of that money.
Fear cannot be the only explanation for Conservativism. The problem with that explanation is that Conservatives almost exclusively choose the most dangerous possible policies. If Conservativism was driven by fear, then fear of HPV would drive conservatives to vaccinate their daughters. Fear of teen pregnancy would drive them to teach actual sex education. Fear of heroin addiction would drive them to favor legalization of Cannabis. Fear of losing American lives unnecessarily would lead them to wage fewer wars.
No, Conservativism is not just about being sensitive to risk. It's about having no sense of proportion about risks.
Everyone should go to college. By that I mean, everyone will have their life enriched by a well rounded education. And everyone else's life will be enriched when all of our neighbors are well educated. Not everyone *needs* to go to college, but everyone can benefit from further education, and in a civilized society we ought to be able to provide that to everyone.
Education, at every level, should be free, rigorous, and completely optional. This will prevent the watering down of education. Finance free education by taxing alumni who get high paying jobs. This will provide an incentive for a college to actually turn out good students who are worth a lot.
Supercharging stations like this only make sense for people on long haul trips that don't have enough intervening downtime to do anything else.
Which is a lot of people. Picture your average truck stop off the interstate. Now imagine 10 times the number of people, each there for 10 times as long.
Yes, ultimately the only way this is going to be feasible is if there's a charger at every parking spot. That's a huge amount of infrastructure work that's going to have to be done before EVs can get anywhere close to replacing gas powered vehicles.
Even if you assume the charger occupies no extra space, you have to store all those cars somewhere. I see a lot of gas stations that don't even have parking lots. They can serve maybe 4 cars at a time, remove the pumps and maybe 8 cars. All those are going to have to be replaced with parking structures wired for EV charging.
I also thought that the supercharger network was dumb, reasoning that I wouldn't want to wait 50 minutes to recharge my car in the middle of a trip. The article made me rethink that as well. On a drive of >300 miles I almost always stop somewhere for lunch. Basically the cars range just enforces a break every few hundred miles.. not that bad a thing.
If it takes 5 minutes to fill up a gas vehicle, and 50 minutes to fill up an EV, it takes 10 times the charging stations to service the same number of vehicles. And when *everyone* wants to charge their EV at "lunchtime", that's only going to increase contention.
Sure, and notepad is a really great tool for making quick edits to simple text files. In either case, if you do anything non-trivial, you need a real tool.
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Why would you imagine that? There are crimes, e.g., pot smoking, that have no connection to morality whatsoever. And there are crimes, e.g., those commited by bankers, that are deeply immoral but never get prosecuted so they can never affect measured crime rates.
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What the grandparent does not understand is we live in a society; where you don't always get to make the rules.
What you don't understand is that we live in a society where we never get to make the rules. The rules are made by the rich and powerful, in order to benefit the rich and powerful. And when it doesn't suit them, they ignore those rules.
If you assume we had a functioning democracy, where the will of the people was accurately assayed and implemented, and weath and power was unable to bias or outright pervert justice, then you might have a point. But in this cesspool of corruption? No. I damn well do have a choice to not follow those rules, and I'm not going to play the chump.
If and when the law goes away, GPL will no longer need to exist.
Not quite. Some form of law will be necessary to ensure we all benefit from the four software freedoms. Copyright is currently used as a means to that end, and if copyright was simply repealed it would mean the end of "free software". There would be no way to enforce the share-alike provisions. But that doesn't mean that copyright is necessary. Copyright should be repealed and our software freedoms enshrined in law directly.
Why do you assume he was crapping on others? As an American I can confirm that his post was entirely accurate. If it constitutes "crapping on" someone, it's crapping on an entity that deserves it.
It has nothing to do with fear
As a liberal, I disagree. I fear going bankrupt because I cannot pay my medical bills. I fear getting sick and losing my job, and thus losing access to health care. There are many fear based reasons to favor single payer, and they're damn good reasons too.
I also favor drug legalization, because I fear being imprisoned. I also fear being robbed by drug addicts who cannot get their fix cheaply and safely. I fear for my wallet imprisoning more people here than in any other country in the world.
I also fear terrorism, which is why we should withdraw our presence in the middle east immediately. We've done nothing over there except create more terrorists.
I also fear the big banks. They've destroyed the economy once, and they will do it again unless they are stopped.
There's nothing wrong with being motivated by fear, as long as those fears are realistic, and the measures you take to address them are effective. The problem with conservatives is not the fear, it's the irrational response to the fear.
It isn't about "death". It's about "innocent death".
So how do you justify the Iraq war where hundreds of thousands of civilians died? "Oops?" If you're honestly against the loss of innocent human life, you have to be opposed to the US military.
Yeah, so they're too stupid to tell the difference between a mass of tissue and a human being. That's not exactly improving their image.
Islamic conservatives provide another example of "conservative" that is very different from an American conservative
Perhaps in practice, but the underlying pathology is the same. A bible thumping Kansan is not really any different than a koran thumping Pakistani. They both refuse to actually think, and substitute fairy tales instead. Both think they are highly moral, but cause great harm to others trying to enforce their morality.
I'll tell you why. Because these retailers have already got their damn money once, and don't feel they should be paid again. And again. And again.
No, Ford and Rolex would absolutely love to get paid again if they could. They just recognize that high resale value contributes to the value of their products. They make more money selling something that can be resold. Video games are no different.
That's exactly why we need a second hand market. I'm not buying games full price. Period. Other people out there are willing to buy games full price, but only if they can sell those games to recoup some of that. If you eliminate second hand sales you exclude both of us from the market and get none of that money.
Fear cannot be the only explanation for Conservativism. The problem with that explanation is that Conservatives almost exclusively choose the most dangerous possible policies. If Conservativism was driven by fear, then fear of HPV would drive conservatives to vaccinate their daughters. Fear of teen pregnancy would drive them to teach actual sex education. Fear of heroin addiction would drive them to favor legalization of Cannabis. Fear of losing American lives unnecessarily would lead them to wage fewer wars.
No, Conservativism is not just about being sensitive to risk. It's about having no sense of proportion about risks.
How is a Free to Play (AKA Pay to Win) MMO an "interesting new idea"?
What are you talking about? The best honey I've ever had was also the palest honey I've ever had. And yes, it was locally produced.
Everyone should go to college. By that I mean, everyone will have their life enriched by a well rounded education. And everyone else's life will be enriched when all of our neighbors are well educated. Not everyone *needs* to go to college, but everyone can benefit from further education, and in a civilized society we ought to be able to provide that to everyone.
Education, at every level, should be free, rigorous, and completely optional. This will prevent the watering down of education. Finance free education by taxing alumni who get high paying jobs. This will provide an incentive for a college to actually turn out good students who are worth a lot.
The problem with your argument is that professors have pretty much never been trained in pedagogy.
Is there evidence that training in pedagogy actually improves student outcomes?
Supercharging stations like this only make sense for people on long haul trips that don't have enough intervening downtime to do anything else.
Which is a lot of people. Picture your average truck stop off the interstate. Now imagine 10 times the number of people, each there for 10 times as long.
Without vigilance, there might be a widespread problem with people getting these vaccines against their will.
What you are witnessing is the disintegration of American secondary education.
Along with everything else that was once good about America.
Yes, ultimately the only way this is going to be feasible is if there's a charger at every parking spot. That's a huge amount of infrastructure work that's going to have to be done before EVs can get anywhere close to replacing gas powered vehicles.
Even if you assume the charger occupies no extra space, you have to store all those cars somewhere. I see a lot of gas stations that don't even have parking lots. They can serve maybe 4 cars at a time, remove the pumps and maybe 8 cars. All those are going to have to be replaced with parking structures wired for EV charging.
Right, but it does mean that they are not "free" choices. They are constrained by the laws of physics.
And yet they can apparently still hold office.
I also thought that the supercharger network was dumb, reasoning that I wouldn't want to wait 50 minutes to recharge my car in the middle of a trip. The article made me rethink that as well. On a drive of >300 miles I almost always stop somewhere for lunch. Basically the cars range just enforces a break every few hundred miles.. not that bad a thing.
If it takes 5 minutes to fill up a gas vehicle, and 50 minutes to fill up an EV, it takes 10 times the charging stations to service the same number of vehicles. And when *everyone* wants to charge their EV at "lunchtime", that's only going to increase contention.
Sure, and notepad is a really great tool for making quick edits to simple text files. In either case, if you do anything non-trivial, you need a real tool.