OK, 'grow' was an ambigous definition for my arguement. I was trying to point to the fact that this machine could not 'mutate' new code or new parts without a premise to work with. They could 'improve' upon, or learn better ways to implement the parts and code they have, but creating completely new code or parts would be impossible.
For instance, let's say this FPGA computer could alter it's FPGA (or even build new ones) to increase computational speed. Fine, I agree that that is within the realm of possibility. But it would be a mathematical impossibility for this computer to spontaneously generate a new piece of software or hardware that was outside of it's creator's realm of abilities that were bestowed upon it. Let's say we do not give this computer a device, knowledge, or method of communicating with any other computers. It cannot develop a communication protocol because it has no concept of such a thing. Plus, it would need to develop both the software AND the hardware, at the same time working together, to properly begin communications with other computers. So my arguement is that computers will not take over the world. They're confined to the knowledge we build them with.
Despite the fact that I think the original post by 'Dan' was a farce, and meant as general slashdot style satirical humor, I do agree with liberals on the free speech thing. And the far right does often like to champion the idea that not all speech should be allowed in public. I would consider myself conservative, but not a Republican. I may be dismayed and concerned about the KKK and Neo-Nazi's being able to spout their ridiculous rhetoric, but if they're not allowed to do so, it's only a few steps closer to the edge of banning all free speech, including the stuff I like to spout off about that others may not like to hear. That is why I specifically DO NOT go to KKK rallies just to boycott them and argue with them. They're largely ignored in America, and they never receive more attention than the occasional Jerry Springer show appearance because everyone ignores them.
And from reading all the posts on FR in response to one of the posts from this crazy guy, it seems he did his job of pissing everyone off. Bad karma posters only get recognition when people argue with them. Ignore people like that and they will stop, or find someone else who will listen to the endless lunatic ranting. FR obviously gave this guy a lot of attention, even though it was negative. So if he was receiving so much attention, why did they have to ban him? If their own conservative crowd couldn't ignore him, I would say they have issues of their own to deal with too.
However, if he was actually causing disruption to the site, DoS attacks, email spams, etc. I would have to say they were well within their rights to legally order him to 'stay off' their private property.
I would describe this work as a learning computer, not an evolving computer. You are correct in saying that true evolution means having the chips basically create something to better themselves from that which did not previously exist. AKA - they grow an extra FPGA to increase their processing power. I call that impossible, which is why I also see 'evolution' in its strictest sense, a repulsively foolish concept.
If, on the other hand, they were given the materials to build an FPGA, and general instructions on how an FPGA works, perhaps then they could improve on the original design. Sort of like humankind does today through scientific research. We have been given a basic design (with many variations of the basic design - our bodies), and have been able to increase our life expectancy and quality of life through learning about ourselves, our world, our universe, etc. To claim this as being a vision of 'evolution' is silly. Let's remember that someone created the FPGA machines in the first place, humans. They did not just magically form themselves from a bunch of spare parts in a computer lab.
Sorry, it should read:
Give a foolish man a million dollars, he will remain a poor man. Take away a million dollars from a wise man, he will make another million dollars. - anotherwords, he's not lazy and will work hard to make the million back. I guess I'm slaughtering the exact saying, but the point remains the same.
Give a poor man a million dollars, he will remain a poor man.
Take away a million dollars from a rich man, he will make another million dollars.
The point is, this guy seems to be very intelligent, so I'm sure he can move on with his life and do quite well for himself. Looks as if youthful enthusiasm has now been tempered with the cold steel edge of the real world. Although his message is a little jaded, he seems to have adjusted well to the change, all things considered. Good luck, buddy!
Yeah, but try processing the cure for cancer on an abacus. I bet you won't find it! Like it or not, technology does provide better quality of life (the physical aspect of life anyways). So you see, for all the environmentalists that say we should go back to hugging trees and eating dirt so as not to offend the planet, just realize that their life HAS been made better by technology.
I sure hope Dubya stifles this ridiculousness! Class-action lawsuits usually benefit the lawyers only in any significant way. Teams of lawyers will sue, charge $1000's of dollars per hour to the 'class-action' defendants, and M$ will be screwed out of lots of money. The lawyers walk off with a $1mil bonus check each after 3 years of work ($333,333.33/yr ain't too shabby!), and we get a $10 refund for having to 'endure' using M$ Windows after 1994.
But you are correct about the 'consumer dissatisfaction' effect. Which is precisely why we don't need class-action lawsuits like this. Go purchase a copy of Linux. Oh wait, it's free, so why go buy it? This is precisely why M$ is not feeling the hurt of quality products like Linux or FreeBSD -- because consumers are not forced to decide between buying one OS or the other. Just buy M$ for certain things, and get a free copy of *BSD or Linux for everything else.
Having said that, I plan on purchasing more Linux games like Tribes2, in my own little effort to support quality software, as opposed to the crash prone Windows9x OS's.
I have to agree here, this is what portable computers were made for . . . Buy a laptop and get a decent external monitor, keyboard, mouse, joystick and some speakers (all of which you will need anyway), all your problems will be solved. The only set back is price, even a low end laptop costs a lot more than a BookPC.
I fail to understand your logic. First of all, laptops were created for frequent flier business users who can't cart a ton of computer stuff around, not for the gaming crowd. Secondly, Why do you advocate buying all that extra stuff to supplement the laptop?! It would cost about $1000 less to just buy all that stuff, skip the laptop, and go with a full tower case w/ better equipment!
Above are two more links to pages with similar 'suitcase' mods, as VH refers to them. Hope this gives you some ideas on what's possible using a suitcase/briefcase!
Check out the Virtual Hideout Cool Case gallery. I've linked to a page that has some pretty good internal pics of a case that someone built as a 'LAN party case' out of one of those metallic briefcases (look at the bottom of the page). There's quite a few more pics of similar mods people have done to accomadate LAN gaming, if you have time to look through the 1000+ pics they have in the gallery.
The terms of use for Passport, which has 160 million customers, also give Microsoft authorization to "sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication" and "publish your name in connection with any such communication."
160 million customers?! Is that correct, or are there really that many uninformed people out there housing all there passwords, and personal and site info in one central location on an internet server?! And an MS one at that. I understand that every internet server houses your login and password when the site is set up that way (to require passwords to login), but to put everything in one place makes it an awfully inviting site to crack into and steal people's identities.
Even if the figure is 1.6 million or 16 million, I think that's still too many people entrusting a company with all of their personal info. Can someone give me the correct figure so I can better understand just how blindly the public is of everything these days?
Having said that, I realize that credit card companies, credit agencies, the government, etc. house all of my personal info. Unfortunately I have no choice but to give it to 'em, because I can't get a job, house, etc. without doing so. I think that's pretty messed up, but such is life. But I DO have the choice of not giving a site like Passport all my info, so why would people willingly give it up?
Sergei is also inputting new parameters for Plasma Crystal. The experiment is going great from our end. We are definitely seeing some unexpected results and the science team in Moscow is really excited.
So the warp core will be ready to be sent up by mid-September, right?
I thought a cardinal rule of computer data security was to NEVER, under any circumstances, give your passwords out to people! This is precisely why I would never use a service like M$ Passport or any other similar 'password repository' to make my online experience just a little bit easier.
So you may ask why a service like Passport even exists. My answer: M$ is a marketing genius of a company, not a computer genius of a company. Not to say that really bright people do not work at M$, just that the company motto is not how best to serve the individual, but the masses. And the unfortunate truth is that the masses do not care, or think much about computer security, or even their daily physical security either. Most people take things for granted (I know I do far too many times!).
So it does not surprise me that M$ would throw this kind of thing into their EULA for Passport.com. It's not illegal to do so, and the general public really doesn't know, so why not do it? And not just M$, but other companies do this sort of thing as well. *cough* Credit Card companies *cough*. Our info is getting sold to everyone all the time now-a-days.
Your best bet is to protect what info you do have, listen more often rather than talk, and keep voting for those who will best protect your interest to remain responsible for your own actions, and therefore free from corporate and governmental dictatorship (or oligarchy, as the case may be).
You would be surprised just how unknowledgeable some people are. I'm completely serious when I tell you that one of our offices held a "Basic PC skills" class about a year ago for customer service reps who use Windows everyday!. It's even a requirement to get hired, but they still had the class! Needless to say, my department made fun of that one for a long time.
But seriously, porting some of the programs we use to Linux would be difficult, just because it would take some serious time away from developing shiny new software. And the Exec VP's always want shiny new software and services for their client's, which is my point from my original post. Sure, I'd love to have *nix on my machine for everyday use, but that requires a mass upgrade to many software programs, processes, user training, etc. I know it can be done, but lots of big businesses don't want to spend time fixing broken things, just roll out brand new things.
Also, it is then hard to share files with cleints who are still using M$ Office, and are too stupid to figure out how to use anything else.
After reading through much of the posts on this discussion, it occurs to me that space will be a new frontier at some point in the next 50 or so years. All the new young entrepaneurs (sp?) will be setting up their revolutionary companies harvesting asteroids and space dust, making loads of cash from venture capitalists. Hopefully I'll see it within my own lifetime.
So if the USA, and Russia, and Canada, and everyone else would open this arena up to corp's, everyday Joe's/Jane's, and promote free form space tourism/exploration/whatever, they will only help their own economies.
The US in it's colonial days gave away land in the then western frontier states to encourage expansion and settlement. It was chaos at times, and people lost their lives, but that's what exploration is all about. If anyone thinks their life can be kept in balance and peaceful by an all-knowing government, then they should pull their head out from between their legs. A lot more learning has been done by free-wheeling pioneers than by bloated governments.
Let the man go to space for $20 mil. Encourage it while you're at it.
So would you like to retrain the 1000's of employees my company has on how to use KDE or Gnome? Oh yeah, you'll also need to rewrite the dozen or so programs we use to run on Linux instead of Windows. Oh, and one last thing, make sure any incoming employees are familiar with Linux and the X Desktop so we do not need to train basic "How to use Linux and X" classes.
Sorry, that sounds like a major flame, but I'm just trying to make a point. Switching to Linux would work for a technically proficient, computer programming only company, but any service oriented company with customer service reps is going to have a hard time doing so. You must remember that non-programmer types (which are more prevelant than programmers) use Windows everyday, but they don't have a clue what Linux is. That having been said, I'm sick of using Windows and would love to use Linux for everyday use, but that's not how my company works.
Hehe. I hope that's a joke, because my 'primitive' stomach has not evolved enough yet. I'm hungry right now.:)
So according to fair use clauses, I guess I'm not allowed to take an ear of Monsanto's corn and plant it in my back yard if I so desire, because that would be infringement? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't corn been around a lot longer than Monsanto? I can't believe our laws have allowed this copyright stuff to come to the point of copyrighting food. C'mon American companies, this is ridiculous! Better yet, our government needs to get some morals for once and squash this kind of silliness.
You are all failing to realize that this guy probably works for/runs a small business! So it would not make sense for him to have ISDN, T1 and OC3 backup connections with a Beowulf cluster of servers. Some businesses just need an internet connection for their employees to go looking for info, work on webpages for other companies, etc. so it does behoove him to get an inexpensive broadband line. And DSL is the cheapest alternative out there for broadband up and down streams. In retrospect, I'm sure he'll look for more assurances from a broadband provider in the future that service will not go dark suddenly.
Before you mark me as flamebait, realize that there are companies out there using the internet for reasons other than hosting websites. Head hunters, webpage designers, etc. do not need an expensive T1 line, just always on connectivity.
"Back in the 60's, we developed a special heat beam that we called, a "laser". Using this "laser" we could burn a whole in the earth's protective layer known as the "ozone layer", thereby increasing the risk of skin cancer, unless the world pays us a hefty ransom." - Dr. Evil.
Most of DoubleClick's data is just IPs and lists of websites.
Just IP's and websites?!?!!! Are you kidding!
Do you really think that, if hackers compromised doubleclick's servers they'd be looking for your information?
Yes they will! Lots of crackers out there are looking out for unsuspecting users' boxes that they can crack into to obtain just enough SSN and credit card info to use to do the infamous identity theft crime! Can't you imagine the havoc they could wreak with a whole list of people who took part in contests on a website?! There is a prime target for cracking individuals without the fear of alerting someone at a big corporation. All they have to do is grab your IP, jump into your unsecured Windows machine (as most M$ Windows machines are), and start grabbin' info. And the unsuspecting average Joe doesn't even know the cracker was there, because the identity theft cracker was not brain dead and remembered not to leave insulting messages or delete files in order to keep up the appearance of your computer being just fine. You had better rethink your security focus on your own machine if you truly believe what you just posted.
What I'm concerned about is those who are not as responsible as jamie, and instead of notifying DC, simply took the data and ran. I'm sure there has been more juicy info than just some list of names that has been accessed over the past year.
Being a Linux user for only a little while I have noticed that it lacks two things: a consistent, easy to use graphical interface, and a powerful, interoperable "Office suite" set of software that is being used in the workplace. What work is being done to port Microsoft Office to Linux/*nix while maintaining cross platform interoperability, since that has been one of Microsoft's most successful software pieces to date?
Very true. I think of how Nintendo is STILL supporting its archaic GameBoys, and it's still selling like mad! Likewise, Sony is still selling PS1's and new games are still being created for it. In the PC market it's ok to make something and move on to the next big thing ASAP because if you don't, someone else will. But in the console market there's not much room (as of yet) for upgrade ability because it is meant to be a stand-alone gaming only system. Therefore, console companies really need to build a quality product, hype it up, and support it as long as possible. Sega never has done support of systems well, and I think that's what has killed them over and over again.
My high school honors physics teacher my senior year actually worked with Texas Instruments on developing programs and science expirements for the TI-CBR. So my honors physics class (all 9 of us), got to play each day with that thing using our calculators to record data from the CBR. It had an infrared sensor, radar sensor, etc. that were used to sample data from a falling object, moving cart, etc. It was fun, and this all happened back in '95! Needless to say, that was one of the best high school classes I took, and one of the few I aced.:)
It was a real treat to do expirements with the CBR because it made for much more detailed and accurate lab results, and helped you to learn the material better. We all did some pretty quality lab write-ups which our teacher took with him to a summer training/feedback session at the TI offices. I guess it payed off, because now they've got a whole slew of calc's out there that can do tons more than my measly TI-85!
Not so. The U.S. is about having the freedom to go live in the woods by yourself, but with freedom comes responsibility. Therefore, it is also your responsibility to vote, to be concerned about what the government is doing, and to be concerned about your neighbor's well being. You wouldn't have roads to drive on if no one voted for the proper people to run the country. If everyone thought as you do, we would have anarchy, and you'd be holed up in the woods, rifle in hand, hoping no one came by to take everything they wanted from you just because they could.
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For instance, let's say this FPGA computer could alter it's FPGA (or even build new ones) to increase computational speed. Fine, I agree that that is within the realm of possibility. But it would be a mathematical impossibility for this computer to spontaneously generate a new piece of software or hardware that was outside of it's creator's realm of abilities that were bestowed upon it. Let's say we do not give this computer a device, knowledge, or method of communicating with any other computers. It cannot develop a communication protocol because it has no concept of such a thing. Plus, it would need to develop both the software AND the hardware, at the same time working together, to properly begin communications with other computers. So my arguement is that computers will not take over the world. They're confined to the knowledge we build them with.
And from reading all the posts on FR in response to one of the posts from this crazy guy, it seems he did his job of pissing everyone off. Bad karma posters only get recognition when people argue with them. Ignore people like that and they will stop, or find someone else who will listen to the endless lunatic ranting. FR obviously gave this guy a lot of attention, even though it was negative. So if he was receiving so much attention, why did they have to ban him? If their own conservative crowd couldn't ignore him, I would say they have issues of their own to deal with too.
However, if he was actually causing disruption to the site, DoS attacks, email spams, etc. I would have to say they were well within their rights to legally order him to 'stay off' their private property.
If, on the other hand, they were given the materials to build an FPGA, and general instructions on how an FPGA works, perhaps then they could improve on the original design. Sort of like humankind does today through scientific research. We have been given a basic design (with many variations of the basic design - our bodies), and have been able to increase our life expectancy and quality of life through learning about ourselves, our world, our universe, etc. To claim this as being a vision of 'evolution' is silly. Let's remember that someone created the FPGA machines in the first place, humans. They did not just magically form themselves from a bunch of spare parts in a computer lab.
Sorry, it should read: Give a foolish man a million dollars, he will remain a poor man. Take away a million dollars from a wise man, he will make another million dollars. - anotherwords, he's not lazy and will work hard to make the million back. I guess I'm slaughtering the exact saying, but the point remains the same.
Give a poor man a million dollars, he will remain a poor man.
Take away a million dollars from a rich man, he will make another million dollars.
The point is, this guy seems to be very intelligent, so I'm sure he can move on with his life and do quite well for himself. Looks as if youthful enthusiasm has now been tempered with the cold steel edge of the real world. Although his message is a little jaded, he seems to have adjusted well to the change, all things considered. Good luck, buddy!
Yeah, but try processing the cure for cancer on an abacus. I bet you won't find it! Like it or not, technology does provide better quality of life (the physical aspect of life anyways). So you see, for all the environmentalists that say we should go back to hugging trees and eating dirt so as not to offend the planet, just realize that their life HAS been made better by technology.
But you are correct about the 'consumer dissatisfaction' effect. Which is precisely why we don't need class-action lawsuits like this. Go purchase a copy of Linux. Oh wait, it's free, so why go buy it? This is precisely why M$ is not feeling the hurt of quality products like Linux or FreeBSD -- because consumers are not forced to decide between buying one OS or the other. Just buy M$ for certain things, and get a free copy of *BSD or Linux for everything else.
Having said that, I plan on purchasing more Linux games like Tribes2, in my own little effort to support quality software, as opposed to the crash prone Windows9x OS's.
I fail to understand your logic. First of all, laptops were created for frequent flier business users who can't cart a ton of computer stuff around, not for the gaming crowd. Secondly, Why do you advocate buying all that extra stuff to supplement the laptop?! It would cost about $1000 less to just buy all that stuff, skip the laptop, and go with a full tower case w/ better equipment!
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Above are two more links to pages with similar 'suitcase' mods, as VH refers to them. Hope this gives you some ideas on what's possible using a suitcase/briefcase!
Check out the Virtual Hideout Cool Case gallery. I've linked to a page that has some pretty good internal pics of a case that someone built as a 'LAN party case' out of one of those metallic briefcases (look at the bottom of the page). There's quite a few more pics of similar mods people have done to accomadate LAN gaming, if you have time to look through the 1000+ pics they have in the gallery.
160 million customers?! Is that correct, or are there really that many uninformed people out there housing all there passwords, and personal and site info in one central location on an internet server?! And an MS one at that. I understand that every internet server houses your login and password when the site is set up that way (to require passwords to login), but to put everything in one place makes it an awfully inviting site to crack into and steal people's identities.
Even if the figure is 1.6 million or 16 million, I think that's still too many people entrusting a company with all of their personal info. Can someone give me the correct figure so I can better understand just how blindly the public is of everything these days?
Having said that, I realize that credit card companies, credit agencies, the government, etc. house all of my personal info. Unfortunately I have no choice but to give it to 'em, because I can't get a job, house, etc. without doing so. I think that's pretty messed up, but such is life. But I DO have the choice of not giving a site like Passport all my info, so why would people willingly give it up?
So the warp core will be ready to be sent up by mid-September, right?
So you may ask why a service like Passport even exists. My answer: M$ is a marketing genius of a company, not a computer genius of a company. Not to say that really bright people do not work at M$, just that the company motto is not how best to serve the individual, but the masses. And the unfortunate truth is that the masses do not care, or think much about computer security, or even their daily physical security either. Most people take things for granted (I know I do far too many times!).
So it does not surprise me that M$ would throw this kind of thing into their EULA for Passport.com. It's not illegal to do so, and the general public really doesn't know, so why not do it? And not just M$, but other companies do this sort of thing as well. *cough* Credit Card companies *cough*. Our info is getting sold to everyone all the time now-a-days.
Your best bet is to protect what info you do have, listen more often rather than talk, and keep voting for those who will best protect your interest to remain responsible for your own actions, and therefore free from corporate and governmental dictatorship (or oligarchy, as the case may be).
But seriously, porting some of the programs we use to Linux would be difficult, just because it would take some serious time away from developing shiny new software. And the Exec VP's always want shiny new software and services for their client's, which is my point from my original post. Sure, I'd love to have *nix on my machine for everyday use, but that requires a mass upgrade to many software programs, processes, user training, etc. I know it can be done, but lots of big businesses don't want to spend time fixing broken things, just roll out brand new things.
Also, it is then hard to share files with cleints who are still using M$ Office, and are too stupid to figure out how to use anything else.
So if the USA, and Russia, and Canada, and everyone else would open this arena up to corp's, everyday Joe's/Jane's, and promote free form space tourism/exploration/whatever, they will only help their own economies.
The US in it's colonial days gave away land in the then western frontier states to encourage expansion and settlement. It was chaos at times, and people lost their lives, but that's what exploration is all about. If anyone thinks their life can be kept in balance and peaceful by an all-knowing government, then they should pull their head out from between their legs. A lot more learning has been done by free-wheeling pioneers than by bloated governments.
Let the man go to space for $20 mil. Encourage it while you're at it.
Sorry, that sounds like a major flame, but I'm just trying to make a point. Switching to Linux would work for a technically proficient, computer programming only company, but any service oriented company with customer service reps is going to have a hard time doing so. You must remember that non-programmer types (which are more prevelant than programmers) use Windows everyday, but they don't have a clue what Linux is. That having been said, I'm sick of using Windows and would love to use Linux for everyday use, but that's not how my company works.
So according to fair use clauses, I guess I'm not allowed to take an ear of Monsanto's corn and plant it in my back yard if I so desire, because that would be infringement? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't corn been around a lot longer than Monsanto? I can't believe our laws have allowed this copyright stuff to come to the point of copyrighting food. C'mon American companies, this is ridiculous! Better yet, our government needs to get some morals for once and squash this kind of silliness.
Before you mark me as flamebait, realize that there are companies out there using the internet for reasons other than hosting websites. Head hunters, webpage designers, etc. do not need an expensive T1 line, just always on connectivity.
"Back in the 60's, we developed a special heat beam that we called, a "laser". Using this "laser" we could burn a whole in the earth's protective layer known as the "ozone layer", thereby increasing the risk of skin cancer, unless the world pays us a hefty ransom." - Dr. Evil.
Just IP's and websites?!?!!! Are you kidding!
Do you really think that, if hackers compromised doubleclick's servers they'd be looking for your information?
Yes they will! Lots of crackers out there are looking out for unsuspecting users' boxes that they can crack into to obtain just enough SSN and credit card info to use to do the infamous identity theft crime! Can't you imagine the havoc they could wreak with a whole list of people who took part in contests on a website?! There is a prime target for cracking individuals without the fear of alerting someone at a big corporation. All they have to do is grab your IP, jump into your unsecured Windows machine (as most M$ Windows machines are), and start grabbin' info. And the unsuspecting average Joe doesn't even know the cracker was there, because the identity theft cracker was not brain dead and remembered not to leave insulting messages or delete files in order to keep up the appearance of your computer being just fine. You had better rethink your security focus on your own machine if you truly believe what you just posted.
What I'm concerned about is those who are not as responsible as jamie, and instead of notifying DC, simply took the data and ran. I'm sure there has been more juicy info than just some list of names that has been accessed over the past year.
Being a Linux user for only a little while I have noticed that it lacks two things: a consistent, easy to use graphical interface, and a powerful, interoperable "Office suite" set of software that is being used in the workplace. What work is being done to port Microsoft Office to Linux/*nix while maintaining cross platform interoperability, since that has been one of Microsoft's most successful software pieces to date?
Very true. I think of how Nintendo is STILL supporting its archaic GameBoys, and it's still selling like mad! Likewise, Sony is still selling PS1's and new games are still being created for it. In the PC market it's ok to make something and move on to the next big thing ASAP because if you don't, someone else will. But in the console market there's not much room (as of yet) for upgrade ability because it is meant to be a stand-alone gaming only system. Therefore, console companies really need to build a quality product, hype it up, and support it as long as possible. Sega never has done support of systems well, and I think that's what has killed them over and over again.
It was a real treat to do expirements with the CBR because it made for much more detailed and accurate lab results, and helped you to learn the material better. We all did some pretty quality lab write-ups which our teacher took with him to a summer training/feedback session at the TI offices. I guess it payed off, because now they've got a whole slew of calc's out there that can do tons more than my measly TI-85!
Not so. The U.S. is about having the freedom to go live in the woods by yourself, but with freedom comes responsibility. Therefore, it is also your responsibility to vote, to be concerned about what the government is doing, and to be concerned about your neighbor's well being. You wouldn't have roads to drive on if no one voted for the proper people to run the country. If everyone thought as you do, we would have anarchy, and you'd be holed up in the woods, rifle in hand, hoping no one came by to take everything they wanted from you just because they could.