It hasn't happened, yet, in the USA but rest assured, at some point the tide will shift away from the government as we know it and move back (hopefully) toward the government as it was intended.
Actually the opposite is happening. Demographics are trending towards more government, not less. That is why we big-government socialists won the last election, explicitly on the platform of increasing the size and power of the federal government at the expense of individual rights and freedoms. This happens because more people are graduating college and are now starting to understand that a big-government is better than a small, freedom-oriented government, since a small freedom-oriented government enables corporate control.
We prefer government to have control instead of private corporations.
The days of freedom-loving libertarians will soon end.
And, it will only be a matter of time before we will confiscate your weapons.
Maybe more gun safety is to be taught? Why not have that as an elective class in schools? Gun education?
Because it costs money?
It would be far cheaper for government to take away your gun and have you risk living your life without the safety and security of a gun.
I think the best thing for libertarians to do is to train themselves to live a riskier life, instead of a life they feel they need to control for themselves.
Allow government to control you. You never had freedom anyways.
I'm saying users of your HC's are doing the exploiting, the breaking, the every-day-using. They're the ones who are going to hold it upside down. Under water. Backwards. And then turn it on.
Wow i've never heard of people doing this kind of "product testing" before.. tell us more about it.
You're everything that is wrong with designers of any stripe. Holy arrogance, Batman!
The arrogance is in the non-designers attitude that they know how to design better than a professional designer.
I'm claiming that, in aggregate, yes users will end up knowing your system better than you do, at least if it's used often enough.
And that is exactly what's wrong with users. Millions of monkeys isn't going to churn out Shakespeare. Millions of photographers on Instagram isn't going to produce 1 Ryan McGinley work.
A single designer will produce better results than millions of average users.
Like I said, step away from the design world if you do not know design.
BTW, millions of people have bought things I've worked on...
And yet cars kill many thousands more people every year than guns. Where is your login in this? In the last 4 years there have been 32,000 to 40,000 deaths from cars every year.
many people are trying to ban cars... specifically for safety reasons.
There's this concept, called "personal responsibility," that used to be the norm amongst humans; in general, the idea is that the onus of survival is on the individual, and if said individual is dumb enough to not follow proven safety guidelines, they take their lives into their own hands.
I thought we agreed that "personal responsibility" was an obsolete concept in social policy? Wasn't this a concept only for the pro-corporate libertarians?
Many people mistakenly believe humans have freewill, instead of being the controllable mechanical devices that they actually are.
And theoretically private citizens are allowed guns partly to protect them from the government and invasion.
No, government does not allow its citizens to protect themselves against them. That is a misinterpretation of the constitution.
And if you actually get in a firefight with the government or an invading army you would need more than three rounds.
If you were to get involved in a firefight against government, you would need the tools that government has and you are not allowed to have.
There is this false sense of "freedom" that libertarians mistakenly believe they have.
NO ONE has ever had "freedom". It is not a theoretical construct granted by law. It is an absolute construct determined by power of force, and the people with the strongest force is... government.
Libertarians need to understand that they do not live in a theoretical world. They live in the real world, and the real world doesn't care if you are legally allowed to do what you wish.
The only thing libertarians need to understand is that government has guns, and you are only allowed to do what government says you can do.
It is amazing that libertarians do not understand the power structure of society.
They are the guys that never grew up and as kids would always yell at their parents saying "I can do what I want because it's a free country". lol.
No, it is not a "free country". There has never been a "free country". You were never allowed to do "what you want".
So would locking guns in a gun cabinet when not in use, as you're obligated to do.
But that relies on owner action.
These technologies are designed to remove owner action from the safety equation. It doesn't matter if the owner is responsible or not, since the technology doesn't care.
Any system that relies on personal-responsibility is unsafe, since individuals aren't reliable.
Any well designed system doesn't allow for individual actions to break the system.
I think the guy who did this latest shooting really really wanted to kill people.
I don't think so. I think he sorta wanted to kill, and decided to might as well do it since the gun was right there.
The lesson: Systems-level design enables actions to happen. The harder the system, the more desire needed to overcome it.
Before the iPod, only the people that REALLY, REALLY wanted to listen to portable MP3 players actually did it. After the iPod, with systems-level design improvement, the people that sorta kinda wanted to listen to MP3s now started to do it..
Let's make the system really tough, so it eliminates casual actions on guns.
Ban guns, ban ownership, ban manufacture, ban import, ban possession, ban possession of ammunition, etc.. We can do it!
Have you seen the unemployment and welfare lines? They all have them. Go down to the poorest neighborhoods in a major city, and you'll see out of work people sitting on their porches playing words with friends on their iPads.
Does that answer your question?
No, since you didn't provide a citation.
Please show poor people being able to afford iPads.
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It hasn't happened, yet, in the USA but rest assured, at some point the tide will shift away from the government as we know it and move back (hopefully) toward the government as it was intended.
Actually the opposite is happening. Demographics are trending towards more government, not less. That is why we big-government socialists won the last election, explicitly on the platform of increasing the size and power of the federal government at the expense of individual rights and freedoms. This happens because more people are graduating college and are now starting to understand that a big-government is better than a small, freedom-oriented government, since a small freedom-oriented government enables corporate control.
We prefer government to have control instead of private corporations.
The days of freedom-loving libertarians will soon end.
And, it will only be a matter of time before we will confiscate your weapons.
I believe that disarming the general population causes criminals to feel safer while committing crimes.
This is an incorrect belief then.
Disarming the general population would prevent criminals from having guns.
How many criminals do you know have Stinger missiles? They don't have them because they are illegal.
Maybe more gun safety is to be taught? Why not have that as an elective class in schools? Gun education?
Because it costs money?
It would be far cheaper for government to take away your gun and have you risk living your life without the safety and security of a gun.
I think the best thing for libertarians to do is to train themselves to live a riskier life, instead of a life they feel they need to control for themselves.
Allow government to control you. You never had freedom anyways.
Not to mention as we've seen in the Arab Spring uprising,
Which BTW was done without firearms, since Tunisia had the lowest gun-ownership rate in the world when they overthrew their dictator.
I'm saying users of your HC's are doing the exploiting, the breaking, the every-day-using. They're the ones who are going to hold it upside down. Under water. Backwards. And then turn it on.
Wow i've never heard of people doing this kind of "product testing" before.. tell us more about it.
You're everything that is wrong with designers of any stripe. Holy arrogance, Batman!
The arrogance is in the non-designers attitude that they know how to design better than a professional designer.
I'm claiming that, in aggregate, yes users will end up knowing your system better than you do, at least if it's used often enough.
And that is exactly what's wrong with users. Millions of monkeys isn't going to churn out Shakespeare. Millions of photographers on Instagram isn't going to produce 1 Ryan McGinley work.
A single designer will produce better results than millions of average users.
Like I said, step away from the design world if you do not know design.
BTW, millions of people have bought things I've worked on...
And England figured out that they had to ban guns.
So, there goes that Bill of Rights..
And yet cars kill many thousands more people every year than guns. Where is your login in this? In the last 4 years there have been 32,000 to 40,000 deaths from cars every year.
many people are trying to ban cars... specifically for safety reasons.
What is it you think banning guns will do?
Prevent guns from being used in criminal acts.
Did banning illegal drugs actually stop them from being used and people over dosing on them?
I didn't know drugs were illegal.
I am not interested in living in a country which makes it illegal to defend yourself.
The 2nd amendment was never meant to allow you to defend yourself.
Personal defense was never a right.
The 2nd amendment was only for the purposes of the formation of a militia.
...Which means you'll have an over-designed system, prone to breaking in really weird and unpredictable ways.
You are clearly not a designer. Maybe you incorrectly believe a user knows how to use a system better than the designer?
It's impossible to design an idiot-proof system, as we know the world excels in producing Grade A idiots.
Yah. Don't ever design anything. Leave it to the professionals that actually do know.
There's this concept, called "personal responsibility," that used to be the norm amongst humans; in general, the idea is that the onus of survival is on the individual, and if said individual is dumb enough to not follow proven safety guidelines, they take their lives into their own hands.
I thought we agreed that "personal responsibility" was an obsolete concept in social policy? Wasn't this a concept only for the pro-corporate libertarians?
Many people mistakenly believe humans have freewill, instead of being the controllable mechanical devices that they actually are.
And theoretically private citizens are allowed guns partly to protect them from the government and invasion.
No, government does not allow its citizens to protect themselves against them. That is a misinterpretation of the constitution.
And if you actually get in a firefight with the government or an invading army you would need more than three rounds.
If you were to get involved in a firefight against government, you would need the tools that government has and you are not allowed to have.
There is this false sense of "freedom" that libertarians mistakenly believe they have.
NO ONE has ever had "freedom". It is not a theoretical construct granted by law. It is an absolute construct determined by power of force, and the people with the strongest force is... government.
Libertarians need to understand that they do not live in a theoretical world. They live in the real world, and the real world doesn't care if you are legally allowed to do what you wish.
The only thing libertarians need to understand is that government has guns, and you are only allowed to do what government says you can do.
It is amazing that libertarians do not understand the power structure of society.
They are the guys that never grew up and as kids would always yell at their parents saying "I can do what I want because it's a free country". lol.
No, it is not a "free country". There has never been a "free country". You were never allowed to do "what you want".
Learn what actual power is.
So would locking guns in a gun cabinet when not in use, as you're obligated to do.
But that relies on owner action.
These technologies are designed to remove owner action from the safety equation. It doesn't matter if the owner is responsible or not, since the technology doesn't care.
Any system that relies on personal-responsibility is unsafe, since individuals aren't reliable.
Any well designed system doesn't allow for individual actions to break the system.
Show me how exactly can you aim well after getting woken up by a break-in.
The best defense against home break-ins is to move away from high-crime areas.
Which one of these two guns should be banned
Both of them?
and why?
Because they're guns?
Any other questions?
This really is the best cross-platform Apps framework out there. Far better than HTML5/Javascript.
I think the guy who did this latest shooting really really wanted to kill people.
I don't think so. I think he sorta wanted to kill, and decided to might as well do it since the gun was right there.
The lesson: Systems-level design enables actions to happen. The harder the system, the more desire needed to overcome it.
Before the iPod, only the people that REALLY, REALLY wanted to listen to portable MP3 players actually did it. After the iPod, with systems-level design improvement, the people that sorta kinda wanted to listen to MP3s now started to do it..
Let's make the system really tough, so it eliminates casual actions on guns.
Ban guns, ban ownership, ban manufacture, ban import, ban possession, ban possession of ammunition, etc.. We can do it!
A BAN ON LOUD TV COMMERCIALS TAKES EFFECT TODAY /an all caps filter? really? people are actually bothered by that?
Have you seen the unemployment and welfare lines? They all have them. Go down to the poorest neighborhoods in a major city, and you'll see out of work people sitting on their porches playing words with friends on their iPads.
Does that answer your question?
No, since you didn't provide a citation.
Please show poor people being able to afford iPads.
BLS shows that labor participation rates include everyone over the age of 16, which includes seniors. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
The boomers are now retiring, which is why you're seeing a few percentage point drop in participation rates over the last few years.
I already have that.. it's called VMWare Fusion on a Macbook Pro. =^)
and probably the most useful thing is that I never have to worry about driver support in Linux!
yes sir! it won't be as fast as native boot camp, but it does work and is decent enough.
as well as OS X and Windows.
VMWare is pretty nice :)