It's not so much a question of ability, but of inclination. Just like someone that has thoughts/urges of raping person X should avoid being alone with person x, so should pedophiles avoid children, and since it's hard to avoid something that freely roams the neighborhood - tell the parents they shouldn't let children come to your house alone.
If a (non-offending) pedophile is attacked/killed, treat it as a hate crime.
What punishment or police state are you talking about? I said that the pedophiles themselves should inform people. Not due to any law, but because of simple decency.
Well one way to deal with it is to have the pedophiles reveal their 'desires', and take steps to ensure they never act on them. Warn family members and neighbors not to leave their children alone with them, chemical castration,.... Yes they will be looked down on and shunned, but much less then what will happen if they hide the problem until their 'moment of weakness'. And if such behavior becomes the norm, then people will probably learn to accept them (probably not quickly, it might take generations).
Sure pedophilia can be though of as an incurable disease, one for which the carrier is not responsible. But knowing they have it, they should be responsible about it. Just like a child with HIV should be responsible in school, to reduce the likely hood of infecting other children, so should the pedophiles enable other people to help them avoid situations where they could harm a child.
Why not condone the use of 'historic' material? The harm it's production did is done. Nothing can undo it. If it's use can save even one child from abuse, isn't it justified? Just like using the knowledge from nazi 'doctors'. If it saves lives then we should damn well use it. What they did was an atrocity, but ignoring the knowledge this produced would be an atrocity as well. Just imagine if knowledge about the effects of a nuclear bomb on people was ignored just because it was gained by nuking Japan.
If a person is mentally capable of abusing a child or beating up a random person with a baseball bat, then there is already something seriously wrong with them. So why not encourage the filming of those acts? All it will do is make it easier to track down the perpetrators.
Imagine if instead of forcing the videos they were freely distributed. Newspapers could compile databases of the children, then run articles 'do you know this child?'. Once a child is identified, finding the abuser should be a walk in the park, REDUCING the number of children they can abuse. Right now children can be abused and filmed for years, and there isn't much of a chance of their abusers being discovered because of the content of their videos, since those videos will only be seen by other abusers and a few law enforcement personnel. But I remember a case where the abuser released his video to the public, but obscured his face incorrectly. He was soon identified when newspapers ran his picture. So why not do the same for every video? Wider exposure would probably quickly reduce the number of children being exploited for child porn.
I think many jurisdictions allow underage sex as long as the two involved are married, and the parents of the minor consented to the marriage. Aren't laws great?
I don't think they ever moved anything out of the holodeck, and when it lost power everything vanished. If there was actual energy to mater conversion, wouldn't the meat-puppets stay behind/could be moved out of the holodeck?
But then the big corporations won't get the patents. Small inventions mostly come from individuals or universities. The corporations incorporate them with other existing technology and patent them. We mustn't let the corporations starve!
Why should people be so horrified when things go wrong? I can see why they should be disappointed, but they should mostly just figure out what went wrong and fix it for the next try. Space is a new frontier, and people have always died when new frontiers were being explored. And there are so many more people alive now then ever before. But at the same time the deaths of people exploring these new frontiers are somehow seen as MORE horrific then the deaths of thousands that die for other reasons, even from such causes as car crashes. Just think about it. If the shuttle crew died in a bus crash to the launch site it wouldn't much of a newspaper story. But if the shuttle, which is essentially a big bomb explodes then you get weeks of discussions about what went wrong.
It's not that they're less valuable. It's that the American public is extremely sensitive to celebrities getting killed and the US keeps making it's astronauts celebrities. The US doesn't care much if hundreds of people die as long as they don't have to see it on TV every day which becomes a problem when the press decides that a couple of astronauts dying is worthy of extensive coverage, while hundreds of people getting shot is just background noise.
But the equipment isn't going to cost half a billion. It will cost a fraction of that, since the safety margins will be smaller. They will probably be able to launch 10 missions for each US mission, and not care if one or two blow up.
No, but they don't have to be, since english is not a foreign language to them (or is at least the dominant (for now) language of the country they live in).
I'm pretty sure we can already grow tomatoes in the Sahara (hydroponics). The problem is that it's not cost effective. It's cheaper to grow them elsewhere, then ship them to the Sahara.
Some people DO choose to get pregnant to get support. Not all of them (or even most of them), but it does happen. So why keep supporting them even after they've had their x-th child and are obviously not looking for work?
Whose fault is it that call centers are staffed by people that can't speak english? Is India at fault, or the company that hired them and didn't want to spend enough to actually hire educated people?
As for just copying the US, where else do you expect them to start? Should their first mission be to send people to Mars? Every country needs to get some practical experience with space flight before they can start doing new things. After they've done that, you can expect them to start doing new things - and probably much more cheaply then the US, since they won't be quite so obsessed with the safety of their X-nauts.
It's not just the 400KM. It's the 400KM + orbital speed. Once you've got that, you no longer need great big fuel guzzling engines to quickly get above the atmosphere. You can start using low thrust but high efficiency engines, like ion drives. Sure they may be slow, but if you aren't in a hurry they'll get you wherever you want.
Isn't it more of a capitalist dictatorship? With a communist system, you usually had state-set goals for the economy. They decided that the country needed X pieces of Y, then made the (state owned) companies produce it. With China, it's the other way around. The companies decide what they can market, then the government makes the people work for the companies. It's actually just highly evolved capitalism. The Chinese managed to skip the period in which the workers think they are free, and go straight to the endgame where they are little more then slaves to their corporate overlords.
I think it only doesn't cost taxpayers anything if things go well. If there is an accident with lots of collateral damage, then the government has to pay for it (even commercial flights are insured by the government).
One of our professors went a step further. He told us which chapters from a textbook we were going to need, and mentioned that he left his copy of the book at the local photocopy place (wink wink).
Plenty of men would have been willing to do it. It's just that they wouldn't have been able to learn enough to operate the vehicle, pass the physical tests and drug tests. The challenge was finding someone smart enough to pull it off, while at the same time stupid enough to try it:).
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It's not so much a question of ability, but of inclination. Just like someone that has thoughts/urges of raping person X should avoid being alone with person x, so should pedophiles avoid children, and since it's hard to avoid something that freely roams the neighborhood - tell the parents they shouldn't let children come to your house alone.
If a (non-offending) pedophile is attacked/killed, treat it as a hate crime.
What punishment or police state are you talking about? I said that the pedophiles themselves should inform people. Not due to any law, but because of simple decency.
Well one way to deal with it is to have the pedophiles reveal their 'desires', and take steps to ensure they never act on them. Warn family members and neighbors not to leave their children alone with them, chemical castration,....
Yes they will be looked down on and shunned, but much less then what will happen if they hide the problem until their 'moment of weakness'. And if such behavior becomes the norm, then people will probably learn to accept them (probably not quickly, it might take generations).
Sure pedophilia can be though of as an incurable disease, one for which the carrier is not responsible. But knowing they have it, they should be responsible about it. Just like a child with HIV should be responsible in school, to reduce the likely hood of infecting other children, so should the pedophiles enable other people to help them avoid situations where they could harm a child.
Why not condone the use of 'historic' material? The harm it's production did is done. Nothing can undo it. If it's use can save even one child from abuse, isn't it justified? Just like using the knowledge from nazi 'doctors'. If it saves lives then we should damn well use it. What they did was an atrocity, but ignoring the knowledge this produced would be an atrocity as well. Just imagine if knowledge about the effects of a nuclear bomb on people was ignored just because it was gained by nuking Japan.
If a person is mentally capable of abusing a child or beating up a random person with a baseball bat, then there is already something seriously wrong with them. So why not encourage the filming of those acts? All it will do is make it easier to track down the perpetrators.
Imagine if instead of forcing the videos they were freely distributed. Newspapers could compile databases of the children, then run articles 'do you know this child?'. Once a child is identified, finding the abuser should be a walk in the park, REDUCING the number of children they can abuse. Right now children can be abused and filmed for years, and there isn't much of a chance of their abusers being discovered because of the content of their videos, since those videos will only be seen by other abusers and a few law enforcement personnel. But I remember a case where the abuser released his video to the public, but obscured his face incorrectly. He was soon identified when newspapers ran his picture. So why not do the same for every video? Wider exposure would probably quickly reduce the number of children being exploited for child porn.
I think many jurisdictions allow underage sex as long as the two involved are married, and the parents of the minor consented to the marriage. Aren't laws great?
I don't think they ever moved anything out of the holodeck, and when it lost power everything vanished. If there was actual energy to mater conversion, wouldn't the meat-puppets stay behind/could be moved out of the holodeck?
What we're missing is force fields. I think that's how holodecks are supposed to work - holograms bordered by force fields.
But then the big corporations won't get the patents. Small inventions mostly come from individuals or universities. The corporations incorporate them with other existing technology and patent them. We mustn't let the corporations starve!
Is the judge allowed to tell the jury about jury nullification? If he is, then his/her hands are never tied.
Is a false C&D a civil or criminal offense? If it's criminal, good luck getting anyone to file charges.
Why should people be so horrified when things go wrong? I can see why they should be disappointed, but they should mostly just figure out what went wrong and fix it for the next try.
Space is a new frontier, and people have always died when new frontiers were being explored. And there are so many more people alive now then ever before. But at the same time the deaths of people exploring these new frontiers are somehow seen as MORE horrific then the deaths of thousands that die for other reasons, even from such causes as car crashes.
Just think about it. If the shuttle crew died in a bus crash to the launch site it wouldn't much of a newspaper story. But if the shuttle, which is essentially a big bomb explodes then you get weeks of discussions about what went wrong.
It's not that they're less valuable. It's that the American public is extremely sensitive to celebrities getting killed and the US keeps making it's astronauts celebrities. The US doesn't care much if hundreds of people die as long as they don't have to see it on TV every day which becomes a problem when the press decides that a couple of astronauts dying is worthy of extensive coverage, while hundreds of people getting shot is just background noise.
Perhaps some campaign finance reform is in order?
But the equipment isn't going to cost half a billion. It will cost a fraction of that, since the safety margins will be smaller. They will probably be able to launch 10 missions for each US mission, and not care if one or two blow up.
No, but they don't have to be, since english is not a foreign language to them (or is at least the dominant (for now) language of the country they live in).
I'm pretty sure we can already grow tomatoes in the Sahara (hydroponics). The problem is that it's not cost effective. It's cheaper to grow them elsewhere, then ship them to the Sahara.
Some people DO choose to get pregnant to get support. Not all of them (or even most of them), but it does happen. So why keep supporting them even after they've had their x-th child and are obviously not looking for work?
Whose fault is it that call centers are staffed by people that can't speak english? Is India at fault, or the company that hired them and didn't want to spend enough to actually hire educated people?
As for just copying the US, where else do you expect them to start? Should their first mission be to send people to Mars? Every country needs to get some practical experience with space flight before they can start doing new things. After they've done that, you can expect them to start doing new things - and probably much more cheaply then the US, since they won't be quite so obsessed with the safety of their X-nauts.
It's not just the 400KM. It's the 400KM + orbital speed. Once you've got that, you no longer need great big fuel guzzling engines to quickly get above the atmosphere. You can start using low thrust but high efficiency engines, like ion drives. Sure they may be slow, but if you aren't in a hurry they'll get you wherever you want.
It's not communism, it's capitalism. The guys who 'own' the state also 'own' the people.
Isn't it more of a capitalist dictatorship? With a communist system, you usually had state-set goals for the economy.
They decided that the country needed X pieces of Y, then made the (state owned) companies produce it. With China, it's the other way around. The companies decide what they can market, then the government makes the people work for the companies. It's actually just highly evolved capitalism. The Chinese managed to skip the period in which the workers think they are free, and go straight to the endgame where they are little more then slaves to their corporate overlords.
I think it only doesn't cost taxpayers anything if things go well. If there is an accident with lots of collateral damage, then the government has to pay for it (even commercial flights are insured by the government).
One of our professors went a step further. He told us which chapters from a textbook we were going to need, and mentioned that he left his copy of the book at the local photocopy place (wink wink).
Plenty of men would have been willing to do it. It's just that they wouldn't have been able to learn enough to operate the vehicle, pass the physical tests and drug tests. :).
The challenge was finding someone smart enough to pull it off, while at the same time stupid enough to try it