All of that is fine, until you can't upgrade the bus, and that becomes the limiting factor. And, when you upgrade the bus, you usually cannot use existing cards (easily). Upgradable items are usually good for two, perhaps three generations before the rest of the device is obsolete. Which may be a fine goal, but if the cost of the device doubles between upgradability and the upgrades themselves, it becomes a wash at two upgrade cycles and only profitable at three. That is a risk, and one I've seen burn people when they are caught buying an upgradable item that has no upgrades made for it.
Germany's Health Care system is a ticking timebomb, with a similar "baby boom" generation that is quickly aging. They are having some of the very same issues we are having here in the states. Their doomsday is just a decade or so further down the road. They are, however, already cutting benefits and increasing costs to their people, under "shared pain" plans.
Germany's social programs are not nearly as extensive as say France's. And I admire Germany's ability to keep Europe afloat. But the fact is, Germany is in much better shape because it is almost as industrious as America is. The real success of Germany lies with how successful their economy is. I fear that they are going to be pulled under by the likes of Greece. And Greece has long been the laughing stock of laziness in Europe, it is no surprise that it is failing now.
Your 1) pairs with 1) quite nicely, thanks Your 2) pairs with 2) too, as well as 3) and 4) Your 3) is paired with 1). But it can be fixed by making them responsible for choices they make. Voucher system would work wonders giving people the ability to choose (choice, you left wingers love that word) what options they need for themselves.
IF we as a society want to provide heathcare to people, we MUST (have to) provide an incentive to them to be proactive in their healthcare choices. It won't and cannot work otherwise. The state cannot mandate personal choice, and that is where the deficiencies come in.
1) In otherwords, we cannot afford the promises we made to previous generations. Imagine that, politicians promising things that they cannot fulfill. AND you think doubling down on politician promises is going to be better? You're a fool.
2) Cost of care can be fixed by allowing RNs to be able to treat colds and flu symptoms (etc). Take the strain off where the strain is, by allowing alternate methods of care. Best care I get is from my Nurse Practitioner, not my primary care physician. That model works, but we don't use it more because it bucks the medical establishment.
3) I avoid hospitals, because exactly that reason. My care is less expensive because I look for alternate (non-hospital) locations for more of my care. In fact, many hospitals are building new facilities apart from the "Emergency" center. However, when I did need to go to the emergency room last year, my three hour stay cost my insurance 15,000 USD. It might have been cheaper to call a doctor to my house!
Immediate life saving does cost more, and I would put limitations on it. People doing stupid stuff and getting hurt should pay for their injuries. Fat people eating at McD's should pay for their heart attack, and not get triple bypass. The guy smoking two packs a day should pay for his cancer treatment, or not get it. I shouldn't pay for these guys' choices.
Without incentive, there is no reform. ObamaCare doesn't offer ANY incentives, nor can it. All it does do is scare people into paying more for less. Which is why the IRS is involved. At some point, you're going to realize that there aren't enough people working and paying taxes to make this shit work, not the way Nancy and Harry figured it out (behind closed doors).
I'm sorry, I don't trust politicians behind closed doors for a reason. Because it looks exactly like this. Screwed up law, we can't unwind and forever trying to "fix" it, when it is broken by design. I'd rather do nothing. Just because it is broken doesn't mean we can fix it.
Libertarianism is fairly definable and isn't really nearly what idiots leftwingers make it out to be. It isn't heartless, it just realizes that the state forcing people to do things is the very definition of tyranny. Libertarianism protects those people at the fringes better than one size fits all Leftwing, because it clearly defines WHY state power should be limited. Namely the appetite of the state is unlimited.
In one of the posts in this thread, the left wing guy says "It was the first step" (ObamaCare), of course it is. But it was NEVER sold to the public that way, and it was NEVER explained that way by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and it was never voted on that way. BUT I knew what it was the whole time, and if people had to vote on it as these people WANT it to be, it would never have happened. Tyranny never arrives at once, it is incremental because it is deceitful.
The same is being done with the Gun debate. But the left wing types like Diane "legal to hunt humans" Feinstein aren't going for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment, because they know that the public won't go for it. Instead, they are trying to repeal it piecemeal. That is deceptive and deception is evil, even if the intentions are good.
As a Libertarian, I see through the lies of the tyranny, and realize what they are. Leftwingers think that their version of tyranny is somehow better because... well it is their version. Don't get me wrong, right wingers are the same way. Unfortunately we don't have media explaining why tyranny is wrong, be it left or right wing versions (except perhaps John Stossel)
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I don't want to live in France. My French relatives don't really want to live in France, and would love to move to America.
What I don't understand, is people who don't like what America is, and has, coming here, and complaining about how awful it is (Linus Torvalds for example). You love your country, stay there. I love my country and don't want it to be like Europe.
OR, as my mom used to say, "If everyone else was jumping off a cliff, why do you want to join them". Don't get me wrong, there are things that I don't like about my country, namely the nanny state incremental-ism. I don't want, or need people telling me how to live my life. I treat others the same way I expect to be treated.
In other words, don't tell me I can't have a 64oz BigGulp. I don't understand people who allow the government to tell them how to live, when they wouldn't let me do the same thing. Be very careful about telling others how to live, because you have given them the right to tell you how to live, and you just might not like it.
The Spiraling costs are caused by a few different factors, of which most are not addressed by ObamaCare directly.
1) Entitlement attitude. Everyone deserves the exact same level of care, regardless of ability to pay. Rich people do not deserve care they can pay for, and poor who cannot pay, deserve the care rich people can afford, but they themselves cannot.
2) Insurance masking the cost of care.
3) Disparate pricing models based on who is paying.
4) Insurance middleman costs
5) Malpractice Lawsuits (jury awards)
None of those are fixed in ObamaCare. In Fact, ObamaCare makes it even more of a regulatory nightmare. Hell to apply for insurance at one of the Insurance Exchanges requires 60+ pages of paperwork by the IRS. Tell me, how does that make healthcare more affordable?
And in spite of your protestations that everything is going honky dory, it isn't
If you don't understand the libertarian point of view, then please do not parrot the left wing "people are going to die, grandma is going to eat dog food, do it for the children" scare tactics. I don't buy it.
Specifically, on Health Care issues, I don't have a problem providing IMMEDIATE life saving help to people, free of charge. In fact, we had that. I am not opposed to helping out a kid who is dying of cancer, get help.
What I am opposed is Government telling me, or anyone else, that I have to pay for Paul to become Pauline because S/he is a prisoner and that is "basic human right". I am opposed to the guy who eats nothing but McD's and being 300 lbs overweight getting a triple bypass on my dime. I'm opposed to smoking being considered "Pre-existing condition". Sorry, I'm not heartless, I'm just realistic that "free" isn't really "free". You like 32 Soda bans in New York City? I don't, even if it is for the good of everyone. We don't need a fucking Nanny State.
ObamaCare was not marketed as a first step, it was marketed as the "fix it all solution". As a first step(towards what??) , it would never have passed. If you want Universal Care, move to France or wherever, you are free to leave. I don't want it here, I've seen what it really means and it is just as ugly(possibly worse), but with a bit a "feel goodism" added in.
The basic premise of "universal health care" is flawed and will break down. The only reason it has any resemblance of working now, is because the US still leads the world in medical innovation. Take the US out of the equation, and all medical advancements come to a snails pace. Of course, you'll reject this notion.
Meanwhile Europe is going broke, along with the rest of the world (except China and Russia), under the weight of Socialistic market controls. And don't bother comparing small Scandinavian countries with monolithic culture, who's population isn't that of New York City, to the whole of the US of A, which is the size of all of Europe (population, area....), and has varied cultures from Boston to Georgia, to Texas to California to Washington.
Some people don't grasp the fact that One Size doesn't fit all.
Of course, feel free to keep promoting systems that are breaking down.
There is little difference between extreme right wing and extreme left wing, and most of the area in between. Both sides are for greater Government control in people's lives, just in different areas. The real sad thing is, if you give government control over one area, it inevitably bleeds into more areas as its desire to consume rights increases. When people fear their government, there is something wrong. THIS is what most people don't get.
Please notice, Obama has done absolutely nothing in regard to all those polices left wingers complained about GWB about (rightly so), and as often as is the case, has actually expanded those policies. Where is the outrage? Oh right, Obama passed ObamaCare so all is forgiven "He is better than GWB" line of pointlessness comes spewing forth from the mouths and keyboards of left wing drones.
And we are just now finding out how much of a clusterfuck ObamaCare actually is, doing nothing that was promise except taking freedom from people and assigning more intrusiveness by the IRS. "But it is universal health care, yay that is good" line of crap is just stupid, bad laws doing bad things is never good, even if the goal is admirable. Doctors are quitting, because they can't afford to provide care for free, which is what ObamaCare is doing, Insurance Premiums are increasing even faster to cover the losses being imposed by ObamaCare, the Insurance Exchanges are costing twice what they thought and aren't providing any new services or getting people insured better. The whole thing is broken, but rather than scrap it, left wingers want to "fix it". You can't fix rose tinted viewpoints. These things NEVER work out as advertised and yet people keep believing it. You can't make this stuff up, and you can't fix stupid.
So, yeah, i have a bit of disdain for those people who think that increasing government intrusion into the day to day lives of average people is a good thing, be they Right Wing or Left Wing.
So, when Obama preempts an attack on NK, you'll know he has been bought by Halliburton. Then what?
I know, you guys on the left think there is an actual difference between (R) and (D), but being a (L), it is really hard to distinguish between More Government and More Government.
When you lose 7-40% of your money every time you do something with it, you stop doing stuff with it. It doesn't hurt the people with the money, it hurts the people that could provide a service or good that money used to buy, because the people with the money will protect it. Liberals do not understand this very principle and think it is "greed".
I'll tell you what greed looks like, it looks like people who want other peoples money just for existing. Be it big business or government.
You can work with Champagne taste on a beer budget, but you can't work with a beer taste on champagne budget. Though it pays more, it ends up a FUGLY mess.
Almost everything you said is irrelevant to my point. AS, IMHO, did exactly what they said he did. The facts are not really in dispute. In which case, he should have taken the plea. The safety net of Jury Nullification isn't in effect, so judging the appropriateness of the law is not really possible.
Having been arrested, and tried, for a crime that I didn't commit, I and assure you, that in many cases, the jury can see through prosecutor stubbornness. The facts in my case were such that it was cops saying one thing, and everyone else saying something else. The cops had no chance because they were caught in so many lies it wasn't even funny. My lawyer didn't even understand how the DA sought to put me on trial. The other thing that my lawyer said, was because I was "rich white man", I wouldn't be able to sue for false arrest, but if I was poor black person, it would have turned out completely differently, but if the result ended the same way as me, I would have been able to sue for false arrest.
Trust me when I say this, our justice system isn't blind, and it isn't fair. I know it. Which is why I support full implementation of jury nullification. It truly is the last bastion of protection against the state run amok. I hate bad laws, and the best way to rid ourselves of bad laws is to protest against them. When we don't, it is bad for everyone.
My view of memory has changed over the last few years. I now view ALL storage/memory as a single contiguous space, measured in speed/latency and measured by distance.
Closer Memory is faster, further Memory is slower.
Processor Cache (tiered), RAM, NAND/SSD, Magnetic Media/Drives, Cloud etc are all contiguous at some level. This view changes how we look at storage and how we will design systems in the future. The only issue is measuring volatility of the storage media and risk of loss. Closer Storage tends to be more volatile, while further storage tends to be longer lasting. Designing an OS that handles the risk of volatility against the need to have the data protected is going to really change the game.
When you commit a crime, you forfeit some of your rights, upto and including all of your rights (life/death). Determining if you committed a crime or not, is up to the courts to decide. AS was arrested and charged with crimes, and in the middle of the legal process, and was offered a sure thing versus an unsure outcome, the plea bargain.
If he didn't commit to a crime, then he should have gone to trial, and made the prosecution make the case that he broke the law. Otherwise, he should have taken the plea deal. The fact is, he was charged with breaking the law, and most people here are protesting the law he was charged with breaking, not the facts that he did the deed.
This is important distinction, and is being overlooked by too many people. Should AS be charged? Yes, according to the laws he was being charged with breaking, the facts are really not in dispute, not really. The issue is that the laws he was charged with breaking were unfair, and that is also not in dispute.
This is where and why we need Jury Nullification instructions, where the Jury not only judges the facts of the case, but the merits of the law itself. The Jury box is the last defense against unfair laws. Problem is, the state has a definitive interest in not allowing for Jury Nullification instructions.
If you want to help the next person charged with an unfair law, become an advocate for Jury Nullification. The state doesn't have ultimate power, We the People do, we need to learn to exercise it .
This wasn't a hack of the database. It was a DDOS attack. The database was not at risk in this case. People who don't understand technology need to not talk about it like they do.
And unlike most other exchanges, I can actually hold on to my own bitcoins, and submit to the exchange only when I want to trade them for other currencies.
I don't trust MTGOX, and I have no illusions of trust. However many people trust the government. The real question is, is the illusion of trust better than the reality of not trusting anyone.
That depends on if the US government can confiscate money held in banks like what happened in Cyprus, or not. The question is, do you trust government to honor its promises. Ask the Native Americans how the government honors its treaties.
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All of that is fine, until you can't upgrade the bus, and that becomes the limiting factor. And, when you upgrade the bus, you usually cannot use existing cards (easily). Upgradable items are usually good for two, perhaps three generations before the rest of the device is obsolete. Which may be a fine goal, but if the cost of the device doubles between upgradability and the upgrades themselves, it becomes a wash at two upgrade cycles and only profitable at three. That is a risk, and one I've seen burn people when they are caught buying an upgradable item that has no upgrades made for it.
Which is ... an absolute in and of itself.
Germany's Health Care system is a ticking timebomb, with a similar "baby boom" generation that is quickly aging. They are having some of the very same issues we are having here in the states. Their doomsday is just a decade or so further down the road. They are, however, already cutting benefits and increasing costs to their people, under "shared pain" plans.
Germany's social programs are not nearly as extensive as say France's. And I admire Germany's ability to keep Europe afloat. But the fact is, Germany is in much better shape because it is almost as industrious as America is. The real success of Germany lies with how successful their economy is. I fear that they are going to be pulled under by the likes of Greece. And Greece has long been the laughing stock of laziness in Europe, it is no surprise that it is failing now.
Your 1) pairs with 1) quite nicely, thanks
Your 2) pairs with 2) too, as well as 3) and 4)
Your 3) is paired with 1). But it can be fixed by making them responsible for choices they make. Voucher system would work wonders giving people the ability to choose (choice, you left wingers love that word) what options they need for themselves.
IF we as a society want to provide heathcare to people, we MUST (have to) provide an incentive to them to be proactive in their healthcare choices. It won't and cannot work otherwise. The state cannot mandate personal choice, and that is where the deficiencies come in.
1) In otherwords, we cannot afford the promises we made to previous generations. Imagine that, politicians promising things that they cannot fulfill. AND you think doubling down on politician promises is going to be better? You're a fool.
2) Cost of care can be fixed by allowing RNs to be able to treat colds and flu symptoms (etc). Take the strain off where the strain is, by allowing alternate methods of care. Best care I get is from my Nurse Practitioner, not my primary care physician. That model works, but we don't use it more because it bucks the medical establishment.
3) I avoid hospitals, because exactly that reason. My care is less expensive because I look for alternate (non-hospital) locations for more of my care. In fact, many hospitals are building new facilities apart from the "Emergency" center. However, when I did need to go to the emergency room last year, my three hour stay cost my insurance 15,000 USD. It might have been cheaper to call a doctor to my house!
Immediate life saving does cost more, and I would put limitations on it. People doing stupid stuff and getting hurt should pay for their injuries. Fat people eating at McD's should pay for their heart attack, and not get triple bypass. The guy smoking two packs a day should pay for his cancer treatment, or not get it. I shouldn't pay for these guys' choices.
Without incentive, there is no reform. ObamaCare doesn't offer ANY incentives, nor can it. All it does do is scare people into paying more for less. Which is why the IRS is involved. At some point, you're going to realize that there aren't enough people working and paying taxes to make this shit work, not the way Nancy and Harry figured it out (behind closed doors).
I'm sorry, I don't trust politicians behind closed doors for a reason. Because it looks exactly like this. Screwed up law, we can't unwind and forever trying to "fix" it, when it is broken by design. I'd rather do nothing. Just because it is broken doesn't mean we can fix it.
Libertarianism is fairly definable and isn't really nearly what idiots leftwingers make it out to be. It isn't heartless, it just realizes that the state forcing people to do things is the very definition of tyranny. Libertarianism protects those people at the fringes better than one size fits all Leftwing, because it clearly defines WHY state power should be limited. Namely the appetite of the state is unlimited.
In one of the posts in this thread, the left wing guy says "It was the first step" (ObamaCare), of course it is. But it was NEVER sold to the public that way, and it was NEVER explained that way by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and it was never voted on that way. BUT I knew what it was the whole time, and if people had to vote on it as these people WANT it to be, it would never have happened. Tyranny never arrives at once, it is incremental because it is deceitful.
The same is being done with the Gun debate. But the left wing types like Diane "legal to hunt humans" Feinstein aren't going for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment, because they know that the public won't go for it. Instead, they are trying to repeal it piecemeal. That is deceptive and deception is evil, even if the intentions are good.
As a Libertarian, I see through the lies of the tyranny, and realize what they are. Leftwingers think that their version of tyranny is somehow better because ... well it is their version. Don't get me wrong, right wingers are the same way. Unfortunately we don't have media explaining why tyranny is wrong, be it left or right wing versions (except perhaps John Stossel)
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I don't want to live in France. My French relatives don't really want to live in France, and would love to move to America.
What I don't understand, is people who don't like what America is, and has, coming here, and complaining about how awful it is (Linus Torvalds for example). You love your country, stay there. I love my country and don't want it to be like Europe.
OR, as my mom used to say, "If everyone else was jumping off a cliff, why do you want to join them". Don't get me wrong, there are things that I don't like about my country, namely the nanny state incremental-ism. I don't want, or need people telling me how to live my life. I treat others the same way I expect to be treated.
In other words, don't tell me I can't have a 64oz BigGulp. I don't understand people who allow the government to tell them how to live, when they wouldn't let me do the same thing. Be very careful about telling others how to live, because you have given them the right to tell you how to live, and you just might not like it.
The Spiraling costs are caused by a few different factors, of which most are not addressed by ObamaCare directly.
1) Entitlement attitude. Everyone deserves the exact same level of care, regardless of ability to pay. Rich people do not deserve care they can pay for, and poor who cannot pay, deserve the care rich people can afford, but they themselves cannot.
2) Insurance masking the cost of care.
3) Disparate pricing models based on who is paying.
4) Insurance middleman costs
5) Malpractice Lawsuits (jury awards)
None of those are fixed in ObamaCare. In Fact, ObamaCare makes it even more of a regulatory nightmare. Hell to apply for insurance at one of the Insurance Exchanges requires 60+ pages of paperwork by the IRS. Tell me, how does that make healthcare more affordable?
And in spite of your protestations that everything is going honky dory, it isn't
http://www.dpmafoundation.org/physician-attitudes-on-medicine.html
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/survey-doctors-dropping-out-medicare
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/03/28/california-health-care-costs-to-rise-under-affordable-care-act/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/business/despite-new-health-law-some-see-sharp-rise-in-premiums.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-10/obama-doubles-estimate-to-4-billion-for-health-exchanges.html
If you don't understand the libertarian point of view, then please do not parrot the left wing "people are going to die, grandma is going to eat dog food, do it for the children" scare tactics. I don't buy it.
Specifically, on Health Care issues, I don't have a problem providing IMMEDIATE life saving help to people, free of charge. In fact, we had that. I am not opposed to helping out a kid who is dying of cancer, get help.
What I am opposed is Government telling me, or anyone else, that I have to pay for Paul to become Pauline because S/he is a prisoner and that is "basic human right". I am opposed to the guy who eats nothing but McD's and being 300 lbs overweight getting a triple bypass on my dime. I'm opposed to smoking being considered "Pre-existing condition". Sorry, I'm not heartless, I'm just realistic that "free" isn't really "free". You like 32 Soda bans in New York City? I don't, even if it is for the good of everyone. We don't need a fucking Nanny State.
ObamaCare was not marketed as a first step, it was marketed as the "fix it all solution". As a first step(towards what??) , it would never have passed. If you want Universal Care, move to France or wherever, you are free to leave. I don't want it here, I've seen what it really means and it is just as ugly(possibly worse), but with a bit a "feel goodism" added in.
The basic premise of "universal health care" is flawed and will break down. The only reason it has any resemblance of working now, is because the US still leads the world in medical innovation. Take the US out of the equation, and all medical advancements come to a snails pace. Of course, you'll reject this notion.
Meanwhile Europe is going broke, along with the rest of the world (except China and Russia), under the weight of Socialistic market controls. And don't bother comparing small Scandinavian countries with monolithic culture, who's population isn't that of New York City, to the whole of the US of A, which is the size of all of Europe (population, area ....), and has varied cultures from Boston to Georgia, to Texas to California to Washington.
Some people don't grasp the fact that One Size doesn't fit all.
Of course, feel free to keep promoting systems that are breaking down.
There is little difference between extreme right wing and extreme left wing, and most of the area in between. Both sides are for greater Government control in people's lives, just in different areas. The real sad thing is, if you give government control over one area, it inevitably bleeds into more areas as its desire to consume rights increases. When people fear their government, there is something wrong. THIS is what most people don't get.
Please notice, Obama has done absolutely nothing in regard to all those polices left wingers complained about GWB about (rightly so), and as often as is the case, has actually expanded those policies. Where is the outrage? Oh right, Obama passed ObamaCare so all is forgiven "He is better than GWB" line of pointlessness comes spewing forth from the mouths and keyboards of left wing drones.
And we are just now finding out how much of a clusterfuck ObamaCare actually is, doing nothing that was promise except taking freedom from people and assigning more intrusiveness by the IRS. "But it is universal health care, yay that is good" line of crap is just stupid, bad laws doing bad things is never good, even if the goal is admirable. Doctors are quitting, because they can't afford to provide care for free, which is what ObamaCare is doing, Insurance Premiums are increasing even faster to cover the losses being imposed by ObamaCare, the Insurance Exchanges are costing twice what they thought and aren't providing any new services or getting people insured better. The whole thing is broken, but rather than scrap it, left wingers want to "fix it". You can't fix rose tinted viewpoints. These things NEVER work out as advertised and yet people keep believing it. You can't make this stuff up, and you can't fix stupid.
So, yeah, i have a bit of disdain for those people who think that increasing government intrusion into the day to day lives of average people is a good thing, be they Right Wing or Left Wing.
So, when Obama preempts an attack on NK, you'll know he has been bought by Halliburton. Then what?
I know, you guys on the left think there is an actual difference between (R) and (D), but being a (L), it is really hard to distinguish between More Government and More Government.
When you lose 7-40% of your money every time you do something with it, you stop doing stuff with it. It doesn't hurt the people with the money, it hurts the people that could provide a service or good that money used to buy, because the people with the money will protect it. Liberals do not understand this very principle and think it is "greed".
I'll tell you what greed looks like, it looks like people who want other peoples money just for existing. Be it big business or government.
You're like this, because you have yet to realize that all taxes are regressive, and should be avoided whenever possible.
You can work with Champagne taste on a beer budget, but you can't work with a beer taste on champagne budget. Though it pays more, it ends up a FUGLY mess.
Almost everything you said is irrelevant to my point. AS, IMHO, did exactly what they said he did. The facts are not really in dispute. In which case, he should have taken the plea. The safety net of Jury Nullification isn't in effect, so judging the appropriateness of the law is not really possible.
Having been arrested, and tried, for a crime that I didn't commit, I and assure you, that in many cases, the jury can see through prosecutor stubbornness. The facts in my case were such that it was cops saying one thing, and everyone else saying something else. The cops had no chance because they were caught in so many lies it wasn't even funny. My lawyer didn't even understand how the DA sought to put me on trial. The other thing that my lawyer said, was because I was "rich white man", I wouldn't be able to sue for false arrest, but if I was poor black person, it would have turned out completely differently, but if the result ended the same way as me, I would have been able to sue for false arrest.
Trust me when I say this, our justice system isn't blind, and it isn't fair. I know it. Which is why I support full implementation of jury nullification. It truly is the last bastion of protection against the state run amok. I hate bad laws, and the best way to rid ourselves of bad laws is to protest against them. When we don't, it is bad for everyone.
Feinstein also thought it was legal to hunt humans.
My view of memory has changed over the last few years. I now view ALL storage/memory as a single contiguous space, measured in speed/latency and measured by distance.
Closer Memory is faster, further Memory is slower.
Processor Cache (tiered), RAM, NAND/SSD, Magnetic Media/Drives, Cloud etc are all contiguous at some level. This view changes how we look at storage and how we will design systems in the future. The only issue is measuring volatility of the storage media and risk of loss. Closer Storage tends to be more volatile, while further storage tends to be longer lasting. Designing an OS that handles the risk of volatility against the need to have the data protected is going to really change the game.
When you commit a crime, you forfeit some of your rights, upto and including all of your rights (life/death). Determining if you committed a crime or not, is up to the courts to decide. AS was arrested and charged with crimes, and in the middle of the legal process, and was offered a sure thing versus an unsure outcome, the plea bargain.
If he didn't commit to a crime, then he should have gone to trial, and made the prosecution make the case that he broke the law. Otherwise, he should have taken the plea deal. The fact is, he was charged with breaking the law, and most people here are protesting the law he was charged with breaking, not the facts that he did the deed.
This is important distinction, and is being overlooked by too many people. Should AS be charged? Yes, according to the laws he was being charged with breaking, the facts are really not in dispute, not really. The issue is that the laws he was charged with breaking were unfair, and that is also not in dispute.
This is where and why we need Jury Nullification instructions, where the Jury not only judges the facts of the case, but the merits of the law itself. The Jury box is the last defense against unfair laws. Problem is, the state has a definitive interest in not allowing for Jury Nullification instructions.
If you want to help the next person charged with an unfair law, become an advocate for Jury Nullification. The state doesn't have ultimate power, We the People do, we need to learn to exercise it .
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The problems aren't technical, not really.
This wasn't a hack of the database. It was a DDOS attack. The database was not at risk in this case. People who don't understand technology need to not talk about it like they do.
And unlike most other exchanges, I can actually hold on to my own bitcoins, and submit to the exchange only when I want to trade them for other currencies.
How can a government confiscate that which it has no knowledge of?
I don't trust MTGOX, and I have no illusions of trust. However many people trust the government. The real question is, is the illusion of trust better than the reality of not trusting anyone.
Caveat Emptor.
That depends on if the US government can confiscate money held in banks like what happened in Cyprus, or not. The question is, do you trust government to honor its promises. Ask the Native Americans how the government honors its treaties.
"I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it further"