Now they have the perfect excuse to ask for all your media devices (portable storage, tablets, notebooks, smartphones) at borders/TSA/wherever and even require that you decrypt them. You could be hidden secret terrorist plots there, think on the children.,
And if they find pirated media, they could always plant there the terrorist plots to incriminate you. You could end in Guantanamo for an illegal mp3 now.
Humans, as biological entities, are evolving too, but the selection process is given by the culture, everyone can survive, but to reproduce odds are better for culturally acepted ones, no matter if is less smart, or capable to dealing with predators or facing a wordwide climate change. Thats the evolutionary pressure, and it is changing too.
We aren't alone, a lot of animals (i.e. cows or dogs) and plants had some sort of directed evolution, also driven by human culture. If we fall,they could too.
Culture have its weights in this matter too, not just analytic thinking. To put a better (?) example, you have Descartes, in his "Discourse on Method" (yes, the one that started the "I think, therefore I am"). There tries to do analytic thinking, starts well taking all preconcepts out and, and then deduces the existence of god because he, as doubting, has to be imperfect so something perfect must exists.
So, he wasnt smart enough, or culture weighted on him more than analytic thinking, or had, well, "editorial pressures" to make his work published.
Time for a new internet for the rest of the world
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People from US are screwed anyway, but at least they voted the current government. But the rest of the world don't deserve being stripped from privacy for stupid US laws. Out of US backbones, social networks not owned by US companies, local providers for mail servers, by default hard encrypted traffic and so on. Internet was a nice dream, and is turning into a nightmare. Staying in things like they are is like keep living close from Chernobyl or Fukushima shortly after their accidents.
Wasnt exactly "predicted", was meant to be a joke. But anyway, the bibliography referenced on that "thesis" could apply here too. Where is free will if thiotimoline (or that quantum bits, whatever) already knows what you will choose?
Probably would be a minor eruption, and Mexico City would be safe. But, to put it in another perspective, next time that are inusual activity in the Yellowstone caldera like the one 2 years ago, would you order to evacuate half of US?
Is not to particuarly mine for Earth, but for space. Having resources up there means not having to lift them from earth surface. And not only scientific space stations, or satellites, could be built up there, factories, solar panels and other ships could be built there too.
Probably some of the reasons of such a big investment went thru some key patents. Thats the bubble that must be feared, the one that big capitals will try to keep growing at all cost, and that will sink us all either by bursting, or by not doing it.
Setting a country wide proxy (or something like OpenDNS's filtering) and giving instructions to how to use to it, and give ISPs ways to set it up for customers that ask for it. Then.massively promote it, give it for free, but must be user choice to use it.
Pushing a censor everywhere, in the other hand, won't solve the problem (will be easy ways to evade it), will create new problems, and opens the door to censor a lot more than specifically porn (at least, the one that meant to be, not like i.e. art, or health topics that are usually blocked as it) for children.
What about how much percent of all internet trafic goes thru companies based on a single country where by law (present or in a near future) must handle in a silver plate all their customer/visitors data to the government, and block whatever the government says, and so on.
You will still be an US based company that must follow US laws. No matter if you put local servers in the other side of the world, if the US government tells you that you must give them all your clients data, no matter where are the servers that have them, you must comply.
And remember, you are not just dealing with abstract institutions, you are dealing with people at all levels of it too, that could get some benefit getting a secret. Who watches the watchers?
Is like watching the exorcist and in the last minute realizing that you were watching an horror movie. If in the 1st 5 minutes you didnt realized that you were having a really bad nightmare and kept sleeping even being aware that you could wake up at will, you probably enjoy it.
Is not like Microsoft weren't caugth in the past 3 decades doing things like bribing, hardcoding to disable competing products (like when in Windows 3.something to not run in DR-DOS), offering vaporware, claiming the "most secure operating sytem ever" each year, forcing to exclude alternatives from hardware makers and sellers. Apple, Google and Facebook could had their hits and misses in the past few years, but Microsoft has been this evil the entire lives of a lot of columnists.
Editing and promotion adds to the cost? Yes. Could be that cost comparable to the cost of actually writing the book? Would you take a cut of 30% of i.e. Tolkien's works value on every book sold just because did a spellchecking on steroids once and displayed some banners for it?
But anyway that dont weight in the factors that put different costs to the physical and digital versions of a book, they work for both in more or less the same way. Paper (including luxury editions), storage, intermediaries (each level getting a cut), insurance, transport, are things that must have a weight by the time the client purchase the paper version. Maybe because living in another country feel that those costs should add really a lot, but still are not so far the digital and the paper versions
Why is a loss selling a digital version of a book at the same or similar enough price as the paper version, that have a physical space, a bunch of intermediaries, have to be transported (sometimes overseas) and must be stocked by libraries while covering in the price not selling all, or being stolen or whatever? The price of ebooks should be 99% author profit, and still would make a huge profit for amazon/apple/b&n/etc.
Or at least global social networks/mail providers/etc. What happens when (if?) other countries with some minimal respect for their citizens privacy (i.e. EU) put laws that forces companies to protect their citizens privacy?
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The TSA will begin to make deep inspections on travelers to check methane emission levels.
Now they have the perfect excuse to ask for all your media devices (portable storage, tablets, notebooks, smartphones) at borders/TSA/wherever and even require that you decrypt them. You could be hidden secret terrorist plots there, think on the children.,
And if they find pirated media, they could always plant there the terrorist plots to incriminate you. You could end in Guantanamo for an illegal mp3 now.
Humans, as biological entities, are evolving too, but the selection process is given by the culture, everyone can survive, but to reproduce odds are better for culturally acepted ones, no matter if is less smart, or capable to dealing with predators or facing a wordwide climate change. Thats the evolutionary pressure, and it is changing too.
We aren't alone, a lot of animals (i.e. cows or dogs) and plants had some sort of directed evolution, also driven by human culture. If we fall,they could too.
People do. The downfall was made by people using tools (like that formula) without understanding all that required or implied.
Culture have its weights in this matter too, not just analytic thinking. To put a better (?) example, you have Descartes, in his "Discourse on Method" (yes, the one that started the "I think, therefore I am"). There tries to do analytic thinking, starts well taking all preconcepts out and, and then deduces the existence of god because he, as doubting, has to be imperfect so something perfect must exists.
So, he wasnt smart enough, or culture weighted on him more than analytic thinking, or had, well, "editorial pressures" to make his work published.
People from US are screwed anyway, but at least they voted the current government. But the rest of the world don't deserve being stripped from privacy for stupid US laws. Out of US backbones, social networks not owned by US companies, local providers for mail servers, by default hard encrypted traffic and so on. Internet was a nice dream, and is turning into a nightmare. Staying in things like they are is like keep living close from Chernobyl or Fukushima shortly after their accidents.
Wasnt exactly "predicted", was meant to be a joke. But anyway, the bibliography referenced on that "thesis" could apply here too. Where is free will if thiotimoline (or that quantum bits, whatever) already knows what you will choose?
Probably would be a minor eruption, and Mexico City would be safe. But, to put it in another perspective, next time that are inusual activity in the Yellowstone caldera like the one 2 years ago, would you order to evacuate half of US?
23% still have confidence in banks?
Is not to particuarly mine for Earth, but for space. Having resources up there means not having to lift them from earth surface. And not only scientific space stations, or satellites, could be built up there, factories, solar panels and other ships could be built there too.
Probably some of the reasons of such a big investment went thru some key patents. Thats the bubble that must be feared, the one that big capitals will try to keep growing at all cost, and that will sink us all either by bursting, or by not doing it.
That is ontopic. You try to read that page, then turn off the computer and leave internet for a few days. That is really power saving
A lot of times the very top levels are the most deadly insider threats for companies. Ask Nokia.
Setting a country wide proxy (or something like OpenDNS's filtering) and giving instructions to how to use to it, and give ISPs ways to set it up for customers that ask for it. Then.massively promote it, give it for free, but must be user choice to use it.
Pushing a censor everywhere, in the other hand, won't solve the problem (will be easy ways to evade it), will create new problems, and opens the door to censor a lot more than specifically porn (at least, the one that meant to be, not like i.e. art, or health topics that are usually blocked as it) for children.
What about how much percent of all internet trafic goes thru companies based on a single country where by law (present or in a near future) must handle in a silver plate all their customer/visitors data to the government, and block whatever the government says, and so on.
but, well, they could suck at it
Manage that the Darwin Awards give mankind one special prize each time one of such denialist articles get published
will rise a lot when they have to move to local servers and companies to avoid the intrusion on their private data mandated by US government
You will still be an US based company that must follow US laws. No matter if you put local servers in the other side of the world, if the US government tells you that you must give them all your clients data, no matter where are the servers that have them, you must comply.
And remember, you are not just dealing with abstract institutions, you are dealing with people at all levels of it too, that could get some benefit getting a secret. Who watches the watchers?
Is like watching the exorcist and in the last minute realizing that you were watching an horror movie. If in the 1st 5 minutes you didnt realized that you were having a really bad nightmare and kept sleeping even being aware that you could wake up at will, you probably enjoy it.
Is not like Microsoft weren't caugth in the past 3 decades doing things like bribing, hardcoding to disable competing products (like when in Windows 3.something to not run in DR-DOS), offering vaporware, claiming the "most secure operating sytem ever" each year, forcing to exclude alternatives from hardware makers and sellers. Apple, Google and Facebook could had their hits and misses in the past few years, but Microsoft has been this evil the entire lives of a lot of columnists.
Editing and promotion adds to the cost? Yes. Could be that cost comparable to the cost of actually writing the book? Would you take a cut of 30% of i.e. Tolkien's works value on every book sold just because did a spellchecking on steroids once and displayed some banners for it?
But anyway that dont weight in the factors that put different costs to the physical and digital versions of a book, they work for both in more or less the same way. Paper (including luxury editions), storage, intermediaries (each level getting a cut), insurance, transport, are things that must have a weight by the time the client purchase the paper version. Maybe because living in another country feel that those costs should add really a lot, but still are not so far the digital and the paper versions
Why is a loss selling a digital version of a book at the same or similar enough price as the paper version, that have a physical space, a bunch of intermediaries, have to be transported (sometimes overseas) and must be stocked by libraries while covering in the price not selling all, or being stolen or whatever? The price of ebooks should be 99% author profit, and still would make a huge profit for amazon/apple/b&n/etc.
Or at least global social networks/mail providers/etc. What happens when (if?) other countries with some minimal respect for their citizens privacy (i.e. EU) put laws that forces companies to protect their citizens privacy?
Is worse than that, works for the ones that aren't citizens too, on any country, because your poilice state.