Making a business or any sort of living as a content creator on YouTube seems to be coming rather quickly to an end if this rule takes hold.
Then again, maybe all that will be left on YouTube are those that do this as a passion project and not expect to make money from it... Those that are only in it for the money will quickly move on to something perhaps more profitable.
We do not yet know *every single exact* effect the modification of this gene will do to a human being outside of a lab.
That is the reason why. No data = big problem.
Modern science is inherently cautious... The bonafide "mad scientist" He Jiankui, decided to say "F*** the ethical standards!" and went ahead and made it happen without any standard regulatory oversight.
From what I've seen, various scientific agencies of different countries have been trying hard to keep the CRISPR genie inside the bag... Dr. He Jiankui opened the bag wide open.
Nobody was bashing China until Trump's trade war started.
*spits out coffee*...What in tarnation?! Are you actually serious?! For *decades*, the Western world has lamented China's absolute disregard for human rights and equality in favor of keeping the Communist party in power without a single soul to question their power domestically. There's *plenty* of reports of Party officials "disappearing" or "harmonizing" dissidents within their country for daring to question the Party's authority.
You somehow manage to drag Trump (whom is a massive ignoramus, but that is an issue for another topic) into this already preexisting simmering mess of geopolitical tension between Western and Eastern powers and boldly proclaim that no one was bashing China for any reason whatsoever right until Trump decided to take long sought action against the China's *documented* misdeeds with the international community in terms of IP theft, currency manipulation, and cyber sabotage?!
I am not a great fan of Trump as much as any other reasonable, sane person would be, but this is most definitely NOT the current President's fault. Please remove your partisan skull out of your butt and take a fresh look at history.
He may be sued soon by Alphabet for forcing them to reveal their plans, but this has blown up to the point of having an Senate Inquiry that they would look extremely foolish to sue a whistleblower...
Sure, they would win, but it'd be a pyrrhic victory. They make themselves look like data-hungry geeks, chasing after potential scientific discoveries/advertising money at any cost.
This is pretty neat! I would be glad to see more activity from India's space agency! India has historically had some of the world's greatest astronomers and greatly influenced European and Islamic Astronomy; it's a natural fit for them!
Can't wait to see their contributions in a decade!
An innate sense of good business is surprisingly not common among most people, in my experience. Engineers help build things, they don't build businesses.
Why do you think Sergey and Larry had a "chaperone" of sorts in Eric Schmidt when their little search engine research project blew up in popularity in the last couple decades?
I know more than a few people that do like to disconnect even if their job requires them to be connected at all times.
These are the ones that like to leave their phone on, even if they're off-duty, and don't answer calls or "decline" them so as to give the illusion that they couldn't reach the ringing phone in time before it goes to voicemail.
Being in a place where there's no signal and/or having a device that is "not reachable at this time" means a lot to these folks.
Once companies hear about practical, cost-effective satellite internet and buy devices for their employees that can use this internet, employees will have very little excuse to say "Sorry, I was in a spot with no signal."
Some people may be very uncomfortable with this concept.
I concur. Weather will be what might stop further development of driverless cars. Working in snow weather, rural areas, and severe weather will not help LIDAR-based and camera/laser-based tech. Snow and rain molecules along with EM interference from lightning will make driverless cars stop on the side of the road... if it can find it.
With Uber facing numerous issues trying to get places like London to allow its style of contractor-based taxis, I have a feeling this same taxi industry that beat down Uber will also restrict driverless taxis as they are a threat to their livelihoods and careers...
This is where my concern begins... Not only who is liable when having one of these cars go around, but when insurance companies begin to see the act of manually driving (let alone stick shift) as a higher liability than owning a self-driving car.
When driving is no longer seen as a practical skill for life, such as it seems inevitable when listening to folks like Elon Musk.
Perhaps on the coasts, in the New York area and California, most people would rather have a driverless car than drive around in that traffic, but then there's the middle of the country... Cars around here, such as in Texas, are part of the local culture here and are a symbol of independence.
My concern is when insurance companies start charging more for knowing how to drive and/or owning a manually driven car... Will most people begin to forget the more enjoyable elements of driving? There's only so much that VR/AR gaming can replicate before it begins to bridge into creepy Matrix-style hooking up our minds into virtual worlds.
That's what I'm worried about. Sure, you could make comparisons to equestrian sports or going around cities in horse-driven carriages, and that's where I become sad... Driving, at least for me, is something to enjoy and sets me free. The joy of actively directing a machine larger than myself and the power behind it, not dependent upon public transportation. I'd hate to see driving become a "luxury skill."
I'm sure there are many others who may feel the same.
Would you like to inform the sitting Supreme Court Justices that their ruling is illegal and unconstitutional? From what I know, they are the ones to set precedent, not legal professors and opinion writers in The Washington Post. SCOTUS can break precedent if they wish. There is no law requiring them to do so....
Kim Dotcom is done. The goose is cooked. No more chances to recover any assets from US authorities. I somehow doubt that he will gain any assets from China or New Zealand courts, either.
Until our country's people come around to the idea of a secure National ID card, SSNs and passwords are all American industries are gonna get.
It's still politically toxic for the American right-wing to even consider national ID. The solution is political. No amount of superior "wizz-bang" super-duper innovations in security such as blockchain will get these people off their seats. They're perfectly content extracting money from the corporation that lost their data and not much else.
They don't want "big brother" to know who they are, except they already have a passport and a birth certificate...
National ID cards are a non-starter for ultra-conservatives/wingnuts that want no extra regulation on their lives. Let alone the fact that most people already have passports.
As much as it sucks to say this, but the solution is political, it isn't blockchain-based or creating some new security. Until those wingnuts are affected by such data breaches in a personal way, they will not come around to supporting national ID laws.
(I'm sure some of you are going to tear what I say into bits and pieces in an attempt to make a counter-point on each one. Go for it. Let's have a debate.)
Those among the "anti-fascists" and "the resistance", as they like to keep calling themselves, advocated non-violent protest. When they find that doesn't seem to stop from their interests getting shot down in Congress in an extremely fair manner, they then advocate violence.
Americans are not "down-trodden" by *any* means, not even those that suffer police brutality or lack of clean tap water when we all have the ability to obtain clean water from bottles or perhaps centers where clean water is being distributed. We all still have rights. At least for *most* of us, you're able to sue your police department through due process instead of getting shut away for life by default.
Our presidential elections are still being held every 4 years. We still have our congressional elections. Those aren't being taken away.
Spare me the BS of being "the resistance". 51% voted for Clinton, 48% for Trump. That's pretty darn close to 50/50. There is nothing to resist! Your voices are loud enough!
Those on the far left and right in the American political spectrum need to calm down.
The idea on the part of the Car Dealer Associations is to "starve" Tesla of potential sales and eventually force them to the bargaining table with the auto dealers and start franchising their brand.
What I'm seeing so far is Tesla losing the war. There's too much entrenchment of the auto sales industry for any real change to take place, much like Uber and Lyft attempted to change the Taxi industry.
Tesla wants to portray themselves as the "Apple Inc." of the automotive industry, and they're certainly making a big effort on that, but at this point, no one should keep their hopes up of letting car manufacturers selling their cars directly to consumers, especially with a conservative government installed for likely the next decade.
(Plus, I actually *like* the idea of being able to bargain for a car for way less than MSRP. I can't do that with Tesla, so I don't buy their cars...)
Why 44.0.2? Because at 45.0 Mozilla was already pressured by the US government and they removed the ability to spoof time/time zone.
Can you tell me why I should do this? Couldn't a state-sponsored entity (that you might swear up-and-down is tracking you because who knows why) use a security bug/loophole to track you anyway regardless of turning off all communication settings with Mozilla servers?
Attempting to take another argument's words literally when their intent is obviously quite different is a rather poor way to create a counterpoint. But, I respect your opinion regardless.
Of course there is (generally) no physical contact between the sexes in a public restroom. Duh.
For your words of, "It does no such thing," I point you in the direction of what seems to be a majority of Americans leaning towards the "right" in this country as of January 2015. I'm pretty sure the data has become more extreme in variance with the decline of moderates in both parties. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/180452/liberals-record-trail-conservatives.aspx) These people believe that there is significant harm done to societal structures that may have been in place for decades, if not centuries. This same train of thought is not only shared by ~38% (+ right-leaning moderates) of American society, but for other societies around the world, including the Islamic ones you mention.
At this point, our opinions can be considered "subjective" and can be either confirmed or denied by people with the same or opposing ideological beliefs and philosophies. We have reached the point where there is "no one right answer" to this subject.
We could continue to debate over this but we would not reach any closer to the truth, whether or not this North Carolina law is upheld or struck down in court. It will not resolve public discourse.
One more thing, I see you calling Muslim societies "malignant"... I would *love* to dip into the subject of the "Intolerance of Intolerance" found thriving in the left wing of American politics, but that is a topic for another time... I find your words for their society to be quite... intolerant.
I may or may not be addressing all your points in your statement, but here is what I think from what I've read of your opinion.
Your argument centers around the faulty idea of essentially "If it doesn't cause others physical harm, then it is okay and shouldn't be regulated." And the idea that, "There is no survival or evolutionary advantage..." to having laws or societies forbidding contact between the sexes while taking a shit or piss.
It causes harm to societal order. That in itself is cause for regulation and is a much higher priority in most people's minds than you may believe.
This is not the point of these kinds of legislation like that of North Carolina and more recently Mississippi. These laws are not designed to give separated bathrooms any sort of survival or evolutionary advantage. The point is to ensure a current societal order and that *the majority* are comfortable in these restrooms and preventing harassment between the sexes while sexual genitalia are exposed to perform these functions.
The issue the law is addressing is preventing abuse for a biologically female person entering into a male restroom being subject to harassment or worse and vice versa with a biological male attempting to enter a female restroom.
Whether the American political left wishes to like it or not, the LGBT are still a *small* but very vocal minority in the world overall. In a Democratic Republic, such as the one in the USA, the majority rules, not the minority. It happens every election cycle. And as of right now, there are more people wanting to vote in a politically right-sided candidate vs. one of the left.
The Left's ideals are not morally perfect, neither are the Right's. A lot of people don't like to think they're wrong, but in this case, the Right has a point in keeping this law, even though the Left seems to be arguing a "slippery slope" fallacy whereas somehow all LGBT rights disappear if this law is upheld in a Federal Appeals court or Supreme Court.
For half this country, America symbolizes liberty. For another half, this country symbolizes equality. The two philosophies used to coexist, but recently it seems that is no longer the case.
I agree with you here... I feel our society in USA has become lost and without guidance. We don't know what's "right and wrong".
Some of those prejudices are indeed rational. But, in a fury of attempting to take a moral high ground by saying all forms of discrimination are wrong, we are messing up an order our society had.
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Ah...Does this make them "Black Hats"?
Making a business or any sort of living as a content creator on YouTube seems to be coming rather quickly to an end if this rule takes hold.
Then again, maybe all that will be left on YouTube are those that do this as a passion project and not expect to make money from it... Those that are only in it for the money will quickly move on to something perhaps more profitable.
We do not yet know *every single exact* effect the modification of this gene will do to a human being outside of a lab.
That is the reason why. No data = big problem.
Modern science is inherently cautious... The bonafide "mad scientist" He Jiankui, decided to say "F*** the ethical standards!" and went ahead and made it happen without any standard regulatory oversight.
From what I've seen, various scientific agencies of different countries have been trying hard to keep the CRISPR genie inside the bag... Dr. He Jiankui opened the bag wide open.
Nobody was bashing China until Trump's trade war started.
*spits out coffee* ...What in tarnation?! Are you actually serious?! For *decades*, the Western world has lamented China's absolute disregard for human rights and equality in favor of keeping the Communist party in power without a single soul to question their power domestically. There's *plenty* of reports of Party officials "disappearing" or "harmonizing" dissidents within their country for daring to question the Party's authority.
You somehow manage to drag Trump (whom is a massive ignoramus, but that is an issue for another topic) into this already preexisting simmering mess of geopolitical tension between Western and Eastern powers and boldly proclaim that no one was bashing China for any reason whatsoever right until Trump decided to take long sought action against the China's *documented* misdeeds with the international community in terms of IP theft, currency manipulation, and cyber sabotage?!
I am not a great fan of Trump as much as any other reasonable, sane person would be, but this is most definitely NOT the current President's fault. Please remove your partisan skull out of your butt and take a fresh look at history.
At this point, who *hasn't* had their information leaked by some company or agency?
My feeling is if somehow Congress forces Alphabet/Google to abandon their China plans, Pichai may revert all their R&D back to US again...
I can get their execs' feeling though... That China money looks *so* damn good... "What (further) harm could it do to the Chinese people?"
He may be sued soon by Alphabet for forcing them to reveal their plans, but this has blown up to the point of having an Senate Inquiry that they would look extremely foolish to sue a whistleblower...
Sure, they would win, but it'd be a pyrrhic victory. They make themselves look like data-hungry geeks, chasing after potential scientific discoveries/advertising money at any cost.
This is pretty neat! I would be glad to see more activity from India's space agency! India has historically had some of the world's greatest astronomers and greatly influenced European and Islamic Astronomy; it's a natural fit for them!
Can't wait to see their contributions in a decade!
They are engineers, not businesspeople.
An innate sense of good business is surprisingly not common among most people, in my experience. Engineers help build things, they don't build businesses.
Why do you think Sergey and Larry had a "chaperone" of sorts in Eric Schmidt when their little search engine research project blew up in popularity in the last couple decades?
"I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes"
Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell's Laughing Man calling card... His sticker would appear over people's faces in VR if they were infected.
I know more than a few people that do like to disconnect even if their job requires them to be connected at all times.
These are the ones that like to leave their phone on, even if they're off-duty, and don't answer calls or "decline" them so as to give the illusion that they couldn't reach the ringing phone in time before it goes to voicemail.
Being in a place where there's no signal and/or having a device that is "not reachable at this time" means a lot to these folks.
Once companies hear about practical, cost-effective satellite internet and buy devices for their employees that can use this internet, employees will have very little excuse to say "Sorry, I was in a spot with no signal."
Some people may be very uncomfortable with this concept.
+1 on this... This makes hacking a moving vehicle all the more likely, especially with V2V tech.
I concur. Weather will be what might stop further development of driverless cars. Working in snow weather, rural areas, and severe weather will not help LIDAR-based and camera/laser-based tech. Snow and rain molecules along with EM interference from lightning will make driverless cars stop on the side of the road... if it can find it.
With Uber facing numerous issues trying to get places like London to allow its style of contractor-based taxis, I have a feeling this same taxi industry that beat down Uber will also restrict driverless taxis as they are a threat to their livelihoods and careers...
This is where my concern begins... Not only who is liable when having one of these cars go around, but when insurance companies begin to see the act of manually driving (let alone stick shift) as a higher liability than owning a self-driving car.
When driving is no longer seen as a practical skill for life, such as it seems inevitable when listening to folks like Elon Musk.
Perhaps on the coasts, in the New York area and California, most people would rather have a driverless car than drive around in that traffic, but then there's the middle of the country... Cars around here, such as in Texas, are part of the local culture here and are a symbol of independence.
My concern is when insurance companies start charging more for knowing how to drive and/or owning a manually driven car... Will most people begin to forget the more enjoyable elements of driving? There's only so much that VR/AR gaming can replicate before it begins to bridge into creepy Matrix-style hooking up our minds into virtual worlds.
That's what I'm worried about. Sure, you could make comparisons to equestrian sports or going around cities in horse-driven carriages, and that's where I become sad... Driving, at least for me, is something to enjoy and sets me free. The joy of actively directing a machine larger than myself and the power behind it, not dependent upon public transportation. I'd hate to see driving become a "luxury skill."
I'm sure there are many others who may feel the same.
Would you like to inform the sitting Supreme Court Justices that their ruling is illegal and unconstitutional? From what I know, they are the ones to set precedent, not legal professors and opinion writers in The Washington Post. SCOTUS can break precedent if they wish. There is no law requiring them to do so. ...
Kim Dotcom is done. The goose is cooked. No more chances to recover any assets from US authorities. I somehow doubt that he will gain any assets from China or New Zealand courts, either.
Until our country's people come around to the idea of a secure National ID card, SSNs and passwords are all American industries are gonna get.
It's still politically toxic for the American right-wing to even consider national ID. The solution is political. No amount of superior "wizz-bang" super-duper innovations in security such as blockchain will get these people off their seats. They're perfectly content extracting money from the corporation that lost their data and not much else.
They don't want "big brother" to know who they are, except they already have a passport and a birth certificate...
National ID cards are a non-starter for ultra-conservatives/wingnuts that want no extra regulation on their lives. Let alone the fact that most people already have passports.
As much as it sucks to say this, but the solution is political, it isn't blockchain-based or creating some new security. Until those wingnuts are affected by such data breaches in a personal way, they will not come around to supporting national ID laws.
I find it very funny and strange. Even ironic.
(I'm sure some of you are going to tear what I say into bits and pieces in an attempt to make a counter-point on each one. Go for it. Let's have a debate.)
Those among the "anti-fascists" and "the resistance", as they like to keep calling themselves, advocated non-violent protest. When they find that doesn't seem to stop from their interests getting shot down in Congress in an extremely fair manner, they then advocate violence.
Americans are not "down-trodden" by *any* means, not even those that suffer police brutality or lack of clean tap water when we all have the ability to obtain clean water from bottles or perhaps centers where clean water is being distributed. We all still have rights. At least for *most* of us, you're able to sue your police department through due process instead of getting shut away for life by default.
Our presidential elections are still being held every 4 years. We still have our congressional elections. Those aren't being taken away.
Spare me the BS of being "the resistance". 51% voted for Clinton, 48% for Trump. That's pretty darn close to 50/50. There is nothing to resist! Your voices are loud enough!
Those on the far left and right in the American political spectrum need to calm down.
How are people being "silenced" if a comment period is extended in the event of technical issues and your comment is still successfully posted?
No one is being silenced here. There are over-reactions, that's for sure. But no silencing.
The idea on the part of the Car Dealer Associations is to "starve" Tesla of potential sales and eventually force them to the bargaining table with the auto dealers and start franchising their brand.
What I'm seeing so far is Tesla losing the war. There's too much entrenchment of the auto sales industry for any real change to take place, much like Uber and Lyft attempted to change the Taxi industry.
Tesla wants to portray themselves as the "Apple Inc." of the automotive industry, and they're certainly making a big effort on that, but at this point, no one should keep their hopes up of letting car manufacturers selling their cars directly to consumers, especially with a conservative government installed for likely the next decade.
(Plus, I actually *like* the idea of being able to bargain for a car for way less than MSRP. I can't do that with Tesla, so I don't buy their cars...)
Why 44.0.2? Because at 45.0 Mozilla was already pressured by the US government and they removed the ability to spoof time/time zone.
Can you tell me why I should do this? Couldn't a state-sponsored entity (that you might swear up-and-down is tracking you because who knows why) use a security bug/loophole to track you anyway regardless of turning off all communication settings with Mozilla servers?
Yes, I'm serious.
Attempting to take another argument's words literally when their intent is obviously quite different is a rather poor way to create a counterpoint. But, I respect your opinion regardless.
Of course there is (generally) no physical contact between the sexes in a public restroom. Duh.
For your words of, "It does no such thing," I point you in the direction of what seems to be a majority of Americans leaning towards the "right" in this country as of January 2015. I'm pretty sure the data has become more extreme in variance with the decline of moderates in both parties. (http://www.gallup.com/poll/180452/liberals-record-trail-conservatives.aspx) These people believe that there is significant harm done to societal structures that may have been in place for decades, if not centuries. This same train of thought is not only shared by ~38% (+ right-leaning moderates) of American society, but for other societies around the world, including the Islamic ones you mention.
At this point, our opinions can be considered "subjective" and can be either confirmed or denied by people with the same or opposing ideological beliefs and philosophies. We have reached the point where there is "no one right answer" to this subject.
We could continue to debate over this but we would not reach any closer to the truth, whether or not this North Carolina law is upheld or struck down in court. It will not resolve public discourse.
One more thing, I see you calling Muslim societies "malignant"... I would *love* to dip into the subject of the "Intolerance of Intolerance" found thriving in the left wing of American politics, but that is a topic for another time... I find your words for their society to be quite... intolerant.
What a great irony, if I may say so for myself!
I may or may not be addressing all your points in your statement, but here is what I think from what I've read of your opinion.
Your argument centers around the faulty idea of essentially "If it doesn't cause others physical harm, then it is okay and shouldn't be regulated." And the idea that, "There is no survival or evolutionary advantage..." to having laws or societies forbidding contact between the sexes while taking a shit or piss.
It causes harm to societal order. That in itself is cause for regulation and is a much higher priority in most people's minds than you may believe.
This is not the point of these kinds of legislation like that of North Carolina and more recently Mississippi. These laws are not designed to give separated bathrooms any sort of survival or evolutionary advantage. The point is to ensure a current societal order and that *the majority* are comfortable in these restrooms and preventing harassment between the sexes while sexual genitalia are exposed to perform these functions.
The issue the law is addressing is preventing abuse for a biologically female person entering into a male restroom being subject to harassment or worse and vice versa with a biological male attempting to enter a female restroom.
Whether the American political left wishes to like it or not, the LGBT are still a *small* but very vocal minority in the world overall. In a Democratic Republic, such as the one in the USA, the majority rules, not the minority. It happens every election cycle. And as of right now, there are more people wanting to vote in a politically right-sided candidate vs. one of the left.
The Left's ideals are not morally perfect, neither are the Right's. A lot of people don't like to think they're wrong, but in this case, the Right has a point in keeping this law, even though the Left seems to be arguing a "slippery slope" fallacy whereas somehow all LGBT rights disappear if this law is upheld in a Federal Appeals court or Supreme Court.
For half this country, America symbolizes liberty. For another half, this country symbolizes equality. The two philosophies used to coexist, but recently it seems that is no longer the case.
I agree with you here... I feel our society in USA has become lost and without guidance. We don't know what's "right and wrong".
Some of those prejudices are indeed rational. But, in a fury of attempting to take a moral high ground by saying all forms of discrimination are wrong, we are messing up an order our society had.
Only chaos will ensue, not greater happiness.