Why does it have to be very large? Genuinely curious, because I can't think of any physical/mobility reasons -- just ones linked to space requirements for supporting the growing of food, generating power, cleaning water, etc.
Ya moving to the closest planet to the sun being the first planet to get eaten by our sun when it expands and their is no question that will happen, is a great idea..Not.
The timescale required to move to another planet at our current rate of technological advancement is trivial compared to the length of time that will pass before the sun expands to a diameter that would significantly affect temperatures on the planets in the solar system -- let alone "eat" them.
Even if it took us one hundred thousand years to settle Venus, the sun would have barely changed in that time frame.
But Google isn't keeping quiet about it, either. Everyone knows Google makes their money from sharing user's habits with 3rd parties and targeting advertising.
So they are mad about the bombs, but typically only show up to kill people in Western society in response to pictures being drawn of their prophet?
That doesn't add up to me. I'd be mad about being bombed too, but I probably would only show up to kill people drawing pictures of a religious figure if I cared A LOT about my fictitious belief system. The bombing/killing of civilians is a major factor to their hatred of the West, but to say that the religion has nothing to do with these attacks is just willfully ignoring the evidence.
When I make a company that makes product A and it competes with product B from abother company, I'm "depriving that company of revenue". Is that stealing as well?
And also, as is commonly stated here, just because I'm willing to download an album for free does not mean I would have bought it for ten dollars had the free download not been available. If anything, my downloading the free album exposes me to an artist that I otherwise would not have been as familiar with and make me far more likely to attend their shows, where they can charge me anywhere from 10-200 dollars at the door.
And please explain "listen to other people's experiences amd believe that that is what they experienced" is different than "listen to the narrative sold by the media and believe it without analysis."
In both cases you're just believing something said to you, but in only one is there even the possibility of verifying validity (the media story). What you're suggesting is that we should apply critical thought to news stories, but when dealing with people we should blindly accept anecdotes about their experiences and how those experiences made them feel. That doesn't make any sense -- especially when Anita and her ilk have proven that they will invent instances of abuse and malisciousness, as well as go far out of there way to portray events/media in a completely different light than it actually exists (Anita's video on Hitman, anyone?).
A similar situation would be if you bought road infrastructure via subscription, which is then used by the post office to deliver your mail. You pay a monthly fee for a guaranteed 55 mph road speed; however, you find that although most traffic can travel down the last 5-mile stretch to your house at 55 mph, the post office's mail truck can't travel faster than 20 mph due to the road infrastructure not being sufficiently upgraded. When you call to complain to the road infrastructure company, they tell you it's the post office's fault because the post office is refusing to pay to upgrade the roads.
Personally, this would leave me asking, "Why is this the post office's fault? I pay you, the road infrastructure company, for guaranteed road speed to my house -- not the post office!"
The short of it, is that Comcast is selling the service, guaranteeing a certain speed, not providing it due to intentionally avoiding upgrading their routers, and then telling their customer that the issue is Netflix's fault because they wont pay up.
Netflix even offered to pay for the routers -- and even install them -- and Comcast STILL refused. Not until Netflix started paying Comcast to house their servers inside their network did users get the bandwidth they are paying Comcast for when using the Netflix service.
In the Pentium 4 days they had some of the best deals on low-latency 2-2-2-5 RAM after BH-5 ceased to exist. And since then, I've bought a number of great bang/buck PSUs and a SSD from OCZ as well. And did I mention none of these components ever failed before I retired them naturally? I've also in that time span had a Gigabyte motherboard, an Asus motherboard, an intel CPU, and two Western Digital hard drives fry.
The scenarios you mention are not analogous. With Apple, they are supplying (often forcing) a new version of iOS every year. In the desktop scenario, people usually upgrade their OS every 4-7 years (I mean shit -- I used Windows XP from 2001 until 2010!).
I, and I think most people, can bare to deal with the pain of upgrading and having applications break twice a decade, but refuse to deal with it happening every year and will take my business elsewhere if that is the situation.
Except juries are well known to have convicted people of crimes which they haven't committed with less-than-bullet-proof evidence -- usually because the media had already crucified the defendant publicly before the trial even started.
Are you really going to sit by and let it build up until it's too late? Yeah, most likely you'll get a fat settlement. The downside risk, however, is spending ten years in jail for a crime you didn't commit. That gamble isn't worth it.
His point, which I think is a fair one, is that the definition of what constitutes an "enemy of the US" is going to vary a lot depending on who you ask. The US government, with the help of the media, has painted many groups/bodies, both foreign and domestic, as dangerous enemies of the state. And I, like GP, don't trust the US government and/or the NSA to define who is an "enemy of the US" in a reasonable way or with the proper checks/balances in place.
Fair, but when the Federal Government's power trumps that of the States more often than not ("Make your drinking age 21 or we take away your highway funding!"), living in one state is the same as another, so there is no point in moving.
I actually think Boston drivers are some of the best. I now live in Boston -- the roads aren't conducive to organized driving, so people ignore the rules when necessary for the sake efficiency and doing what makes sense. People honk to let people know their intention or to make themselves known when in a blind spot.
It beats the hell out of places like North Carolina, where drivers are classically bad (tailgating, no blinkers, drive way under the speed limit, stop on on-ramps, people don't know how to parallel park, etc.), but also impractical (no one will cross double yellow to go around a tractor, even with plenty of vision, because "it's against the law") and people take it personally when others honk, as if honking is only reserved solely for when you want to let someone know that you are flipping them the bird.
I believe limiting profit in that way will just lead to clever accounting -- a la Hollywood. I assure you, insurance companies will find a way to be making just under that threshold.
...we should be bombing the fuck out of assholes who start conquering, looting and raping their neighbors like it was the middle ages!...... We can't let that cancer grow - humanity mustn't slide back into barbarism.
Hahaha... Do you read what you write? These statement are about 3 sentences apart!
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Why does it have to be very large? Genuinely curious, because I can't think of any physical/mobility reasons -- just ones linked to space requirements for supporting the growing of food, generating power, cleaning water, etc.
Ya moving to the closest planet to the sun being the first planet to get eaten by our sun when it expands and their is no question that will happen, is a great idea..Not.
The timescale required to move to another planet at our current rate of technological advancement is trivial compared to the length of time that will pass before the sun expands to a diameter that would significantly affect temperatures on the planets in the solar system -- let alone "eat" them.
Even if it took us one hundred thousand years to settle Venus, the sun would have barely changed in that time frame.
Why is there only complaints about corporations?
Because corporations aren't people. They don't breathe and they can't die.
What about the entire mortgage-backed security fiasco? Who went to jail for that?
Yes, some rich people get put in jail for things (as you pointed out and gave examples for), but usually only when they screw over other rich people.
But Google isn't keeping quiet about it, either. Everyone knows Google makes their money from sharing user's habits with 3rd parties and targeting advertising.
So they are mad about the bombs, but typically only show up to kill people in Western society in response to pictures being drawn of their prophet?
That doesn't add up to me. I'd be mad about being bombed too, but I probably would only show up to kill people drawing pictures of a religious figure if I cared A LOT about my fictitious belief system. The bombing/killing of civilians is a major factor to their hatred of the West, but to say that the religion has nothing to do with these attacks is just willfully ignoring the evidence.
When I make a company that makes product A and it competes with product B from abother company, I'm "depriving that company of revenue". Is that stealing as well?
And also, as is commonly stated here, just because I'm willing to download an album for free does not mean I would have bought it for ten dollars had the free download not been available. If anything, my downloading the free album exposes me to an artist that I otherwise would not have been as familiar with and make me far more likely to attend their shows, where they can charge me anywhere from 10-200 dollars at the door.
And please explain "listen to other people's experiences amd believe that that is what they experienced" is different than "listen to the narrative sold by the media and believe it without analysis."
In both cases you're just believing something said to you, but in only one is there even the possibility of verifying validity (the media story). What you're suggesting is that we should apply critical thought to news stories, but when dealing with people we should blindly accept anecdotes about their experiences and how those experiences made them feel. That doesn't make any sense -- especially when Anita and her ilk have proven that they will invent instances of abuse and malisciousness, as well as go far out of there way to portray events/media in a completely different light than it actually exists (Anita's video on Hitman, anyone?).
Genuinely curious -- where are these marches happening and over what?
Uh... don't know where you heard that.
On every single one of Columbus' voyage he attempted to take hundreds of captives back to Europe with him, and most of them died on the voyage.
I would think that there would be a higher bar set for an editor of a website than for some random dipshits who post on said website.
You're analogy is all wrong.
A similar situation would be if you bought road infrastructure via subscription, which is then used by the post office to deliver your mail. You pay a monthly fee for a guaranteed 55 mph road speed; however, you find that although most traffic can travel down the last 5-mile stretch to your house at 55 mph, the post office's mail truck can't travel faster than 20 mph due to the road infrastructure not being sufficiently upgraded. When you call to complain to the road infrastructure company, they tell you it's the post office's fault because the post office is refusing to pay to upgrade the roads.
Personally, this would leave me asking, "Why is this the post office's fault? I pay you, the road infrastructure company, for guaranteed road speed to my house -- not the post office!"
The short of it, is that Comcast is selling the service, guaranteeing a certain speed, not providing it due to intentionally avoiding upgrading their routers, and then telling their customer that the issue is Netflix's fault because they wont pay up.
Netflix even offered to pay for the routers -- and even install them -- and Comcast STILL refused. Not until Netflix started paying Comcast to house their servers inside their network did users get the bandwidth they are paying Comcast for when using the Netflix service.
That's a real overstatement.
In the Pentium 4 days they had some of the best deals on low-latency 2-2-2-5 RAM after BH-5 ceased to exist. And since then, I've bought a number of great bang/buck PSUs and a SSD from OCZ as well. And did I mention none of these components ever failed before I retired them naturally? I've also in that time span had a Gigabyte motherboard, an Asus motherboard, an intel CPU, and two Western Digital hard drives fry.
To each their own. =)
Forcing someone to provide information stored in their head is not the same as forcing someone to hand over a key to a door.
And the S&P 500 went up 45% in that same time period. Meaning, that if you were invested in index funds you would have tripled your Amazon return.
Not such a great investment after all...
Phones are in the real world too, so I guess you bought a shitty car...? I'm afraid I don't get your point.
The scenarios you mention are not analogous. With Apple, they are supplying (often forcing) a new version of iOS every year. In the desktop scenario, people usually upgrade their OS every 4-7 years (I mean shit -- I used Windows XP from 2001 until 2010!).
I, and I think most people, can bare to deal with the pain of upgrading and having applications break twice a decade, but refuse to deal with it happening every year and will take my business elsewhere if that is the situation.
Except juries are well known to have convicted people of crimes which they haven't committed with less-than-bullet-proof evidence -- usually because the media had already crucified the defendant publicly before the trial even started.
Are you really going to sit by and let it build up until it's too late? Yeah, most likely you'll get a fat settlement. The downside risk, however, is spending ten years in jail for a crime you didn't commit. That gamble isn't worth it.
His point, which I think is a fair one, is that the definition of what constitutes an "enemy of the US" is going to vary a lot depending on who you ask. The US government, with the help of the media, has painted many groups/bodies, both foreign and domestic, as dangerous enemies of the state. And I, like GP, don't trust the US government and/or the NSA to define who is an "enemy of the US" in a reasonable way or with the proper checks/balances in place.
Fair, but when the Federal Government's power trumps that of the States more often than not ("Make your drinking age 21 or we take away your highway funding!"), living in one state is the same as another, so there is no point in moving.
I actually think Boston drivers are some of the best. I now live in Boston -- the roads aren't conducive to organized driving, so people ignore the rules when necessary for the sake efficiency and doing what makes sense. People honk to let people know their intention or to make themselves known when in a blind spot.
It beats the hell out of places like North Carolina, where drivers are classically bad (tailgating, no blinkers, drive way under the speed limit, stop on on-ramps, people don't know how to parallel park, etc.), but also impractical (no one will cross double yellow to go around a tractor, even with plenty of vision, because "it's against the law") and people take it personally when others honk, as if honking is only reserved solely for when you want to let someone know that you are flipping them the bird.
I believe limiting profit in that way will just lead to clever accounting -- a la Hollywood. I assure you, insurance companies will find a way to be making just under that threshold.
...we should be bombing the fuck out of assholes who start conquering, looting and raping their neighbors like it was the middle ages! ...... We can't let that cancer grow - humanity mustn't slide back into barbarism.
Hahaha... Do you read what you write? These statement are about 3 sentences apart!
Then I'd recommend some sort of RAID 5 scenario, where distributed parity allows for the image to be maintained even when one stripe is missing.
Citation for any of this? Why is this rated insightful? Because he said it is so?