I don't see the difference. Whether the medium of exchange is a piece of paper or a number in a database, it's effectively a currency issued and controlled by a central authority that isn't you. The latter is just cheaper and safer to handle.
If you have no freedom with the currency being moved as electrons, the same is true with it being moved on paper.
Bah. In Italy you are legally required to keep your receipt for any purchase. To discourage tax evasion. And as a business you are required to accept cashless payments above a certain amount.
If you are paranoid you can always print out your bank statements. Printers put invisible serial marks on the print-outs, so if something is changed retroacticely you'll have admissable evidence on paper what and when.
"Socialism is evil" is a Fascist dogma. The Fascist dogma even. Everything else in that ideology follows from that.
If you condemn both Socialism (of any kind) and Fascism, you must be a feudalist.
Fascism has never worked in practice, which is probably why people who think it should work and still is a good idea call themselves something else, like the oxymoronic "anarchocapitalist". Even "social darwinist" has fallen out of favour because the term contains an adjective pertaining to society, which apparently is already too similar a word to the anathematic "socialist" than Fascists are comfortable with.
There is a difference between questioning something, and making a claim about something. Maybe just a poor choice of words by OneHundredAndTen. It happens.
Where does it say that they are using a Kalman filter?
I would rather expect them to use a Runge-Kutta method, but I am not an expert in simulation models.
Anyway, using mathematics to predict crime is not at all new. It is called predictive policing and has shown some success in London for years now. Mind you, it only predicts crime. It won't help prevent it if it isn't used by city planners instead of police.
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I was quoting the site you linked to.
The point you were trying to make was that the changes in airline security after 2001 made airline travel safer.
I question that. I suggest that the opposite is true.
This summary may not convince you that I am indeed responding to you and the points you make.
You are responding to mine either.
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You did not mention guns, but it was also one of the things that changed.
And you are correct: Before, the worst that would happen was usually that your flight was redirected.
Now, the worst that would happen is that you don't arrive at all.
Air marshals.
No, it turns out that bartering is younger than money.
See David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years.
I don't see the difference. Whether the medium of exchange is a piece of paper or a number in a database, it's effectively a currency issued and controlled by a central authority that isn't you. The latter is just cheaper and safer to handle.
If you have no freedom with the currency being moved as electrons, the same is true with it being moved on paper.
You are describing the status quo.
How would democratic socialism make anything about it easier?
Bah. In Italy you are legally required to keep your receipt for any purchase. To discourage tax evasion. And as a business you are required to accept cashless payments above a certain amount.
If you are paranoid you can always print out your bank statements. Printers put invisible serial marks on the print-outs, so if something is changed retroacticely you'll have admissable evidence on paper what and when.
If Kacouris can sue Facebook for losing value, or rather not telling him in advance to dump his stock in them,
then other stock holders can sue Kacouris for sueing Facebook, thereby causing tge company to lose value, without telling them in advance.
I doubt that any judge would rule in Kacouris' "favour", but I would laugh if they did.
Or didn't Quiet Sky bother with them because they were already on a different watchlist?
The locked cockpit door helped crash a plane into the French alps.
And plane hijackers have existed long before late 2001.
With MA270 in mind I have to question your assertion that bringing guns on an airplane has increased security.
What is a "terrorist area"?
Is that somewhere in Langley, Virginia?
Be that as it may, the point still stands.
"Socialism is evil" is a Fascist dogma.
The Fascist dogma even. Everything else in that ideology follows from that.
If you condemn both Socialism (of any kind) and Fascism, you must be a feudalist.
Fascism has never worked in practice, which is probably why people who think it should work and still is a good idea call themselves something else, like the oxymoronic "anarchocapitalist". Even "social darwinist" has fallen out of favour because the term contains an adjective pertaining to society, which apparently is already too similar a word to the anathematic "socialist" than Fascists are comfortable with.
Stone axes are three orders of magnitude older than money.
Not a SINGLE DNC supporter has an issue with that.
Are you sure about that?
There seem to be A LOT of salty Sanders supporters on the interwebs.
Quite.
There is a difference between questioning something, and making a claim about something.
Maybe just a poor choice of words by OneHundredAndTen.
It happens.
Because physical repairs fall under the purview of copyright.
You seem to have no idea how law works.
I don't see what any of that has to do with municipal politics.
where the poor prey on the poor
That's the worst.
Maybe it doesn't get reported to the police as much.
That way it would not show up on crime heat maps as much.
China has its own calendar also.
There is nothing wrong with questioning Einstein. While his theories are highly successful, they are not the end of physics.
What's more, questioning conventional wisdom helps understand it.
If people didn't like to excercise, nobody would pay for gym memberships.
Your assumptions are flawed. I don't trust your conclusions.
Congested roads are good for business if you are a profit-oriented public transport tycoon.
If your government is corrupt, why don't you elect a different one?
Or is someone buying all of your politicians?
Where does it say that they are using a Kalman filter?
I would rather expect them to use a Runge-Kutta method, but I am not an expert in simulation models.
Anyway, using mathematics to predict crime is not at all new. It is called predictive policing and has shown some success in London for years now. Mind you, it only predicts crime. It won't help prevent it if it isn't used by city planners instead of police.