I guess that while you're correct, launching a few attempted religious extermination campaigns against Jews (and gays, and orphans, and...) every now and then is par for the course for muslims, it's still not considered acceptable behaviour everywhere...
Isn't depriving poor people of access to cars the only thing that has a shot at lowering US emissions ?
The problem with "poor" is that there is so many of them, since making something accessible to "the poor" inevitably means making it available for 300 million Americans + 50 million Mexicans. And while this is not a problem for TV dinners... Even that is a pretty high standard of living for the poor. Poor in Dubai, and there's a lot of them, have to survive on rice and salty water, in a country with budgets that would easily allow them to give them hotel rooms with restaurant meals to every last one of them. Regardless, in the US, anything that doesn't scale with 350 million people using it, is by definition not accessible for the poor. Anything "the poor" do immediately results in a massive load on the system. We can't "save" the poor. Any attempt to try will end in tears.
If "the rich" block parking enough, normal people will build elsewhere and the problem will be solved.
(yes, this is over-the-top numbers, but I mostly mean to illustrate the problem)
And the IPCC is all about government, and caters to government,... it's part of the same organization that caused the Rwanda and Jugoslavia genocides. Before that they were equally busy, starting with attacks against Katanga, including against my family. And frankly, whether they caused these genocides through malice or through blatant incompetence, doesn't make it any less despicable an organization.
As for temperatures... what do you check ? Reality ? Or the IPCC's version of reality ? Cause the IPCC AR1 prediction says the "temperature anomaly" should have passed 4 degrees now (with 95% confidence interval about 0.2 degrees at this point). In reality, it's only a tiny little bit warmer than when AR1 came out, at a little over 1.6 degrees temperature anomaly. It has been this way, with normal cyclical variations since 1998. Wait... what was that thing scientists supposedly did with theories that don't match reality ?
(I agree there are -very- good reasons for this sad state of affair, and huge investments in established theories which have created many subsidized positions at universities worldwide and these comments don't do justice to the 20 years that have passed at all, but they do accurately describe the result. Massive global investments, treaties were made based on AR1, at a huge cost... and AR1 is plain simply... wrong. And not a little bit. Now the prescription is : more of the same !)
the IRA has killed more British people than any other terrorist organisation in recent history
Source ? Besides, the majority of IRA victims were soldiers. While I don't approve the killing of soldiers either, it's on a different level to muslim terrorism.
Here's a simple comparison. An IRA terrorist says before perpetrating an attack against soldiers "may God forgive me". A muslim terrorist screams "allahu ackbar", which translates to "allah will win". Do you seriously have trouble grasping the difference ? For starters, IRA terrorism was considered to be a purely defensive action, while muslim terrorism is considered a purely offensive action (the paedophile prophet didn't believe in defense). While neither is condonable, they are not on the same moral level at all.
I don't get what your point is about. You neglect to mention which exact claim is false. More than 99% of terror attacks are muslims, more than 99% of terror victims are caused by an attack by muslims, Muslim ideology idolizes the killing innocents, both ways. By sharia, any attack on any muslim is an attack on a soldier, any attack against anyone, including babies, is considered merely an attack against an enemy soldier. (and the proceeds to say that these attacks are "to be avoided, IF subjugation can be achieved without them, other means should be used". It is VERY clear on the target though : complete subjugation of the entire world).
Anyone who thinks this is surprising shouldn't be. The international human rights treaty is basically a codification of canon law, initiated by the international committee of the red cross, a department of the vatican. Hell, the very concept of an innocent bystander to a conflict cannot be found in any law system before canon law. Surprise ! Human rights, innocents, only going after military targets,... It doesn't match other religions very well... None of them.
But do tell, what exactly do you claim is untrue ? Either of the 99% claims ? The fact that muslim ideology idolizes terrorists ? The fact that muslims revere terrorists, going so far as holding them up as examples for children ? All of these can be trivially substantiated.
I've actually got a degree in something similar, and while such attempts exist, they're either military (and we don't know jack shit about them, save that they have most likely not succeeded), startups or academics. As far as I know, only one of the startups got even a million, and they really got somewhere. While academics get "free" labour (as long as it's a tiny headcount), I'm not aware of any effort receiving even 500k. They do get old military robots (and thank God for that, because otherwise they'd be pretty much limited to lego).
The problem, incidentally, is only one of machine learning. We are perfectly capable of making the necessary motors, sensors (well, "acceptable" sensors might be a better term), and in settings like power plants it wouldn't be a problem to be dependant on a power plug. The problem is preventing these robots from collapsing in on themselves while still maintaining maneuverability. Due to the demands on maneuverability this must be done in an "active-stable" system (ie. the system collapses if control fails, like a human fainting. This should be looked at as opposed to control failing in a car : nothing spectacular happens and the system can just be restarted and be immediately expected to operate at peak performance. A human/android collapsing can -and often does- damage itself or even other things (e.g. things it's holding), an android might be heavy and have the potential to damage a lot). This makes reliable 6 9's + control essential before this can be deployed. It seems unlikely, at this point in time, that any reasonably simple static algorithm would ever be able to control a decent robot, and you don't want to miss out on the advantages of AI algorithms anyway (e.g. keep operating with acceptable efficiency while partially defective, like humans with a bruised ankle or arm).
Anyway the problem with a hugely complex body (human body has a 297-dimension movement vector, not counting a lot of muscles that don't seem directly related to locomotion, if counting everything we'd be up into thousands, decent androids get up to 50). The best -static- control algorithms have managed 8 dimensions (although it might be fair to say that multiple robot cooperation implementations have controlled up to 12 dimensions... But due to those dimensions being 2-by-2 independant, nobody really thinks that's quite the same problem. It's much harder to control one arm with 12 muscles than do something with two arms, 6 muscles each). The best machine learning systems are up to about 20.
So the problem is mostly algorithmic, and 10 million would go a long way towards solving it. If successfull, it would enable us to have a human-looking android walk around a relatively controlled space (say a factory floor, a data center,...), carry things around,... and allow for it's hands to be operated while the algorithm maintains stability.
A total of 11,500 people have been confirmed dead since the quake on March 11. Another 16,400 are still missing and hundreds of thousands more are living in evacuation centres.
(source: wikipedia)
Unless the laws of physics have changed since I last checked... none of them will even die of cancer at age 120. Chances are something like 1 in 1000.
How big where the doses of those 7 special cases ?
Over 20 workers had been injured by 18 March.[1] 3 workers were exposed and 2 were rushed to hospital having up to 180 mSv, which is less than the maximum 250 mSv that the government is allowing for workers at the plant.[11] Both workers, one in his twenties and one in his thirties, were from Kandenko and were regular workers at Fukushima II nuclear power plant.[9] Another worker was from a contract company of Kandenko.[52]
Presumably at the hospital large doses of iodine would have been immediately administered, followed by prolonged hot showers and fresh clothes, further massively reducing the risk (the risk of carrying radioactive particles along on your skin or clothes or in your stomach, resulting in a long-term concentrated radiation dose). Nobody got blocked or injured in a high radiation area.
This is radiation, so it's a chance game. 1 mS during a plane flight can prove fatal where people are known to have suffered close to 1000 mS in less than a day without any apparent ill effect (that last one is not the usual case though, usually some short-term symptoms set in at 250 mS. At 250 mS they're not fatal, that takes over 1000).
You have to keep in mind that it's not "high risk" but rather "perceived high risk". Less people die on the job in Iraq than in manhattan rush hour, with similar numbers of people moving about. (I don't know about this nuclear business though. High time we get a decent human-sized remote control force-feedback android operational. *sigh* if I had 10 million to spend on a startup...)
Sadly, high pay is also overrated. It's high given the qualifications, but we're talking 50k-75k unless you acquire a rank. But it doesn't require the kinds of qualifications(/expertise) that a job at google requires. Although one should keep in mind that pay is including food and lodging, and you're generally stationed in places where it's very cheap to live, with options to have your family on the base (or on another base, if you're on mission to Iraq or somewhere else). Also : cool toys you won't find anywhere else.
Unless you mean IT contracting for external parties in war zones, with no protection from the US army. But that's madness. Still fatality rate is far under 1%.
True and this is called "sneakernet". Now compare the size of sneakernet and p2p networks. Studios, and generally everyone are perfectly happy with letting sneakernet exist.
It was hit with essentially random damage. The critical spots (the interlink points, with large amounts of high voltage equipment that is only made to order) don't get damaged, only a few cables do.
The situation changes when you use explosives to destroy the 2 or 3 transformer stations that link a state to the global grid. Cables would be intact, but it would impossible to link them up until replacement equipment can be delivered or built. For maximum damage, do this to Texas. It won't hurt Texas, like, at all, but it'll cause constant power outages over the entire US for weeks. Pipelines, like the ones linking up Alaska, are another obvious weak point that's almost impossible to strengthen, although the US is much better off than most countries : it has a strategic petroleum reserve that's not tiny (not big either, but...)
True, but it's the same as that door. If the police forces you to open that door, they can go in and, say, help someone getting murdered inside. They cannot, however, charge you with what they find.
This is different as compared to a court-ordered search. At which point a locksmith or some coller external means will be used to provide access for the police.
My most sincere apologies. We all know which large group produces 99%+ of all terrorists. Has something to do with a certain paedophilic genocidal thief and rapist in the year 634.
(just so you know paedophilic rapist = forcing sex with a 7 year old girl (actually that girl was bought and paid for, so it's actually even worse), genocidal = starting about 5 genocides, and 17 wars total, thief = modus operandi of early muslims (and current ones), and they're proud of this, was "raiding". Of course none of this reflects on muslims who revere this behavior right ? Of course it does to any sane person)
But that "certain" file size is a moving target. Okay with my 60 Mbps fiber line I can get 5-6 MB/s over BitTorrent and maybe 1-200 kB/s with indirect routing, but it's still as fast as my 1 Mbps ADSL line was 10 years ago. True you won't be sharing BluRays that way - yet - but at full 24x7 download I'd probably manage to suck 30GB/month down that straw.
Sadly, no. I know a lot about internet backbone routing and it just isn't designed for doing this. It won't work at scale. It's not that far removed from total collapse with direct routing. Actually this may be a good compromise since only die-hards will continue to pirate if direct routing pirating gets targeted.
Besides, even in such a model you still need meet-me functionality. A "thepiratebay". Does Tor provide that ? I'm pretty sure that given a static target you can interact with, no location protection is possible.
And there's the China technique : block tor altogether.
In most of Europe you can still tell the police to put a sock in it without any real harm, though you can expect the police to slam you with everything else they can find.
One of the things they'll slap you with is not providing access to encrypted devices.
Religion is the anthropomorphization of reality, that behind it all there's an invisible man pulling invisible strings.
I would think that once that piracy really does start killing studios and distributors, the moral situation will change. Right now an argument for piracy is that nobody gets hurt. Nobody loses their jobs, no companies die.
Once that changes, I would expect a tidal shift in the average public opinion on piracy. And not in the direction you would want it to.
I would hope that this is obvious. Piracy is a crime, copyright is something people want to exist, and you'd do well to remember "it's only fun until someone loses an eye". You want piracy ? Pray hollywood does well.
That's not actually true. Terrorists, like most other large groups (and we all know which large group produces terrorists), are on average morons.
The reasons weak spots get hit is not the intelligence of terrorists, but rather the number of attempts. And most obvious weak spots, like say the US electricity grid, have proven near 100% impervious for a decade now.
Once what you say becomes true, and you can generally expect any weak spot to be exploited then the tactical situation changes. It will change in the same manner as it is changing already. If weak spots get constantly attacked, we can't go after individual terrorists any more, but we must make sure they're caught before the attempts. There is no choice here. And yes that means arresting or isolating people whose only crime is suspicion of having certain ideas.
In the US, forcing someone to give up encryption codes is generally considered to run afoul of the self-incrimination principle. So once the police ask someone for their codes, which they can do, they lose the ability to convict that person for what they find. So, given the prevailing legal opinion on the matter, and giving the fact that most congressmen and senators are either lawyers or judges or other parts of the legal system, I doubt this will come to pass. Even if it does, the US has precedent, and the self-incrimination thing is established by precedent and is part of the constitution, so it's unlikely judges would play ball.
Add to that that it's not necessary. You can "bait" p2p networks. At some point, no matter the encryption or routing tricks, you have to tell someone you don't know about the content you want. It is prohibitively expensive not to use direct routing once you get past a certain file size (so while tor is useful for downloading hacker texts, it's not useful for movie downloads). How do you know you're not asking an MPAA server ? You don't. 2 or 3 states consider that to be entrapment, but most don't, and that'll be enough.
Of course, most other regions like Europe or China don't consider the self-incrimination thing to be a problem at all. Nor do they consider forcing Americans in their jurisdictions to give up codes even the slightest bit objectionable (you don't have the right to private encryption anywhere in Europe, and let's just shut up about China and the rest).
Actually, just the state-enforced famine deaths in Russia and China, plus the Soviet, Chinese and South Asian communist death camp deaths will get you to half a billion dead. I do know about the black book of communism, and frankly while it's on the very high side it's not absurdly unfair. It's certainly not impossible that the numbers are right, albeit somewhat unlikely.
Sadly, one thing Stalin was right about, is that once you get to a million corpses, the exact number hardly matters.
What especially baffles me about genocides, is that the nazi genocides were unique only in a single respect : they used real weapons, and they were much more discriminatory than most other genocides. There was a documented reason for each and every death that they possibly could document. The constant muslim genocides are mostly committed with knives and kidnapping people into slavery, starving them and working them to death, often killing a sizeable population of muslims on the way, and throwing the rest into misery. The only "successes of islam", and all tolerance just happened to take place in places that while nominally under muslim control, had vast majorities of Christians and/or Jews. Extremely low-tech. Most communist deaths, even in death camps, were famine-related, again extremely low-tech, and again, killing a very large population of communists along the way.
How is this even tangentially related to the point ? If another ideology's excesses excuses islam's barbarism, why not just go with "islam is ok, after all nazism is worse ?".
Although it should be said, it is kinda hard finding ideologies that approach islam's level of brutality and disgustingness. As for genocides, nazism is actually only small change compared to the number of bodies islam seems to constanly require : nazism killed maybe 50 million. muslims killed 50 million people in the last two decades alone. Only communism really qualifies as worse than islam as far as genocides is concerned. While hitler was inspired by muslims, even an admirer as some claim, he never got anywhere near their level of massacring.
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A-O ? So that would be like virtual adaptive optics (as in lens corrections executed in mathematics) ?
Bad thing happened in horrible region of the planet worshipping a paedophilic rapist prophet ...
Reasons to blame America : 25-30 per hour. Spin machine closing on full capacity.
the problem is in the extra requirements :
getting rid of worshipping a paedophilic rapist and slaver ... without getting killed
I guess that while you're correct, launching a few attempted religious extermination campaigns against Jews (and gays, and orphans, and ...) every now and then is par for the course for muslims, it's still not considered acceptable behaviour everywhere ...
Visit the region. You will find out who doesn't want anything modernized in short order.
I'll give you a hint : it's not some ghostly foreign influence.
Isn't depriving poor people of access to cars the only thing that has a shot at lowering US emissions ?
The problem with "poor" is that there is so many of them, since making something accessible to "the poor" inevitably means making it available for 300 million Americans + 50 million Mexicans. And while this is not a problem for TV dinners ... Even that is a pretty high standard of living for the poor. Poor in Dubai, and there's a lot of them, have to survive on rice and salty water, in a country with budgets that would easily allow them to give them hotel rooms with restaurant meals to every last one of them. Regardless, in the US, anything that doesn't scale with 350 million people using it, is by definition not accessible for the poor. Anything "the poor" do immediately results in a massive load on the system. We can't "save" the poor. Any attempt to try will end in tears.
If "the rich" block parking enough, normal people will build elsewhere and the problem will be solved.
(yes, this is over-the-top numbers, but I mostly mean to illustrate the problem)
And the IPCC is all about government, and caters to government, ... it's part of the same organization that caused the Rwanda and Jugoslavia genocides. Before that they were equally busy, starting with attacks against Katanga, including against my family. And frankly, whether they caused these genocides through malice or through blatant incompetence, doesn't make it any less despicable an organization.
As for temperatures ... what do you check ? Reality ? Or the IPCC's version of reality ? Cause the IPCC AR1 prediction says the "temperature anomaly" should have passed 4 degrees now (with 95% confidence interval about 0.2 degrees at this point). In reality, it's only a tiny little bit warmer than when AR1 came out, at a little over 1.6 degrees temperature anomaly. It has been this way, with normal cyclical variations since 1998. Wait ... what was that thing scientists supposedly did with theories that don't match reality ?
(I agree there are -very- good reasons for this sad state of affair, and huge investments in established theories which have created many subsidized positions at universities worldwide and these comments don't do justice to the 20 years that have passed at all, but they do accurately describe the result. Massive global investments, treaties were made based on AR1, at a huge cost ... and AR1 is plain simply ... wrong. And not a little bit. Now the prescription is : more of the same !)
when Ruppert Murdoch is tried for crimes against humanity
Arguments like this are 50% of the reason people "oppose" global warming. Seriously.
Get a life.
the IRA has killed more British people than any other terrorist organisation in recent history
Source ? Besides, the majority of IRA victims were soldiers. While I don't approve the killing of soldiers either, it's on a different level to muslim terrorism.
Here's a simple comparison. An IRA terrorist says before perpetrating an attack against soldiers "may God forgive me". A muslim terrorist screams "allahu ackbar", which translates to "allah will win". Do you seriously have trouble grasping the difference ? For starters, IRA terrorism was considered to be a purely defensive action, while muslim terrorism is considered a purely offensive action (the paedophile prophet didn't believe in defense). While neither is condonable, they are not on the same moral level at all.
I don't get what your point is about. You neglect to mention which exact claim is false. More than 99% of terror attacks are muslims, more than 99% of terror victims are caused by an attack by muslims, Muslim ideology idolizes the killing innocents, both ways. By sharia, any attack on any muslim is an attack on a soldier, any attack against anyone, including babies, is considered merely an attack against an enemy soldier. (and the proceeds to say that these attacks are "to be avoided, IF subjugation can be achieved without them, other means should be used". It is VERY clear on the target though : complete subjugation of the entire world).
Anyone who thinks this is surprising shouldn't be. The international human rights treaty is basically a codification of canon law, initiated by the international committee of the red cross, a department of the vatican. Hell, the very concept of an innocent bystander to a conflict cannot be found in any law system before canon law. Surprise ! Human rights, innocents, only going after military targets, ... It doesn't match other religions very well ... None of them.
But do tell, what exactly do you claim is untrue ? Either of the 99% claims ? The fact that muslim ideology idolizes terrorists ? The fact that muslims revere terrorists, going so far as holding them up as examples for children ? All of these can be trivially substantiated.
I've actually got a degree in something similar, and while such attempts exist, they're either military (and we don't know jack shit about them, save that they have most likely not succeeded), startups or academics. As far as I know, only one of the startups got even a million, and they really got somewhere. While academics get "free" labour (as long as it's a tiny headcount), I'm not aware of any effort receiving even 500k. They do get old military robots (and thank God for that, because otherwise they'd be pretty much limited to lego).
The problem, incidentally, is only one of machine learning. We are perfectly capable of making the necessary motors, sensors (well, "acceptable" sensors might be a better term), and in settings like power plants it wouldn't be a problem to be dependant on a power plug. The problem is preventing these robots from collapsing in on themselves while still maintaining maneuverability. Due to the demands on maneuverability this must be done in an "active-stable" system (ie. the system collapses if control fails, like a human fainting. This should be looked at as opposed to control failing in a car : nothing spectacular happens and the system can just be restarted and be immediately expected to operate at peak performance. A human/android collapsing can -and often does- damage itself or even other things (e.g. things it's holding), an android might be heavy and have the potential to damage a lot). This makes reliable 6 9's + control essential before this can be deployed. It seems unlikely, at this point in time, that any reasonably simple static algorithm would ever be able to control a decent robot, and you don't want to miss out on the advantages of AI algorithms anyway (e.g. keep operating with acceptable efficiency while partially defective, like humans with a bruised ankle or arm).
Anyway the problem with a hugely complex body (human body has a 297-dimension movement vector, not counting a lot of muscles that don't seem directly related to locomotion, if counting everything we'd be up into thousands, decent androids get up to 50). The best -static- control algorithms have managed 8 dimensions (although it might be fair to say that multiple robot cooperation implementations have controlled up to 12 dimensions ... But due to those dimensions being 2-by-2 independant, nobody really thinks that's quite the same problem. It's much harder to control one arm with 12 muscles than do something with two arms, 6 muscles each). The best machine learning systems are up to about 20.
There are in-production AI algorithms controlling large amounts of robots with 5 and 6 dimensions per-robot. (The AI part is necessary to make these robots fail gracefully)
So the problem is mostly algorithmic, and 10 million would go a long way towards solving it. If successfull, it would enable us to have a human-looking android walk around a relatively controlled space (say a factory floor, a data center, ...), carry things around, ... and allow for it's hands to be operated while the algorithm maintains stability.
*ahem*
A total of 11,500 people have been confirmed dead since the quake on March 11. Another 16,400 are still missing and hundreds of thousands more are living in evacuation centres.
(source: wikipedia)
Unless the laws of physics have changed since I last checked ... none of them will even die of cancer at age 120. Chances are something like 1 in 1000.
How big where the doses of those 7 special cases ?
Over 20 workers had been injured by 18 March.[1] 3 workers were exposed and 2 were rushed to hospital having up to 180 mSv, which is less than the maximum 250 mSv that the government is allowing for workers at the plant.[11] Both workers, one in his twenties and one in his thirties, were from Kandenko and were regular workers at Fukushima II nuclear power plant.[9] Another worker was from a contract company of Kandenko.[52]
Presumably at the hospital large doses of iodine would have been immediately administered, followed by prolonged hot showers and fresh clothes, further massively reducing the risk (the risk of carrying radioactive particles along on your skin or clothes or in your stomach, resulting in a long-term concentrated radiation dose). Nobody got blocked or injured in a high radiation area.
This is radiation, so it's a chance game. 1 mS during a plane flight can prove fatal where people are known to have suffered close to 1000 mS in less than a day without any apparent ill effect (that last one is not the usual case though, usually some short-term symptoms set in at 250 mS. At 250 mS they're not fatal, that takes over 1000).
You have to keep in mind that it's not "high risk" but rather "perceived high risk". Less people die on the job in Iraq than in manhattan rush hour, with similar numbers of people moving about. (I don't know about this nuclear business though. High time we get a decent human-sized remote control force-feedback android operational. *sigh* if I had 10 million to spend on a startup ...)
Sadly, high pay is also overrated. It's high given the qualifications, but we're talking 50k-75k unless you acquire a rank. But it doesn't require the kinds of qualifications(/expertise) that a job at google requires. Although one should keep in mind that pay is including food and lodging, and you're generally stationed in places where it's very cheap to live, with options to have your family on the base (or on another base, if you're on mission to Iraq or somewhere else). Also : cool toys you won't find anywhere else.
Unless you mean IT contracting for external parties in war zones, with no protection from the US army. But that's madness. Still fatality rate is far under 1%.
The claim is that they falsify the numbers. Not the employer, not the plant, not the government. The worker.
Why ? To make a few more quick bucks. Nuclear worker is one of the few highly paid relatively unskilled jobs available, because you get exposed.
If they force you to incriminate yourself ...
True and this is called "sneakernet". Now compare the size of sneakernet and p2p networks. Studios, and generally everyone are perfectly happy with letting sneakernet exist.
It was hit with essentially random damage. The critical spots (the interlink points, with large amounts of high voltage equipment that is only made to order) don't get damaged, only a few cables do.
The situation changes when you use explosives to destroy the 2 or 3 transformer stations that link a state to the global grid. Cables would be intact, but it would impossible to link them up until replacement equipment can be delivered or built. For maximum damage, do this to Texas. It won't hurt Texas, like, at all, but it'll cause constant power outages over the entire US for weeks. Pipelines, like the ones linking up Alaska, are another obvious weak point that's almost impossible to strengthen, although the US is much better off than most countries : it has a strategic petroleum reserve that's not tiny (not big either, but ...)
True, but it's the same as that door. If the police forces you to open that door, they can go in and, say, help someone getting murdered inside. They cannot, however, charge you with what they find.
This is different as compared to a court-ordered search. At which point a locksmith or some coller external means will be used to provide access for the police.
Given the situation before modern copyright, you might want to hold off on that "great leap". Unless you like bibles and revisionism that is.
My most sincere apologies. We all know which large group produces 99%+ of all terrorists. Has something to do with a certain paedophilic genocidal thief and rapist in the year 634.
(just so you know paedophilic rapist = forcing sex with a 7 year old girl (actually that girl was bought and paid for, so it's actually even worse), genocidal = starting about 5 genocides, and 17 wars total, thief = modus operandi of early muslims (and current ones), and they're proud of this, was "raiding". Of course none of this reflects on muslims who revere this behavior right ? Of course it does to any sane person)
But that "certain" file size is a moving target. Okay with my 60 Mbps fiber line I can get 5-6 MB/s over BitTorrent and maybe 1-200 kB/s with indirect routing, but it's still as fast as my 1 Mbps ADSL line was 10 years ago. True you won't be sharing BluRays that way - yet - but at full 24x7 download I'd probably manage to suck 30GB/month down that straw.
Sadly, no. I know a lot about internet backbone routing and it just isn't designed for doing this. It won't work at scale. It's not that far removed from total collapse with direct routing. Actually this may be a good compromise since only die-hards will continue to pirate if direct routing pirating gets targeted.
Besides, even in such a model you still need meet-me functionality. A "thepiratebay". Does Tor provide that ? I'm pretty sure that given a static target you can interact with, no location protection is possible.
And there's the China technique : block tor altogether.
In most of Europe you can still tell the police to put a sock in it without any real harm, though you can expect the police to slam you with everything else they can find.
One of the things they'll slap you with is not providing access to encrypted devices.
Religion is the anthropomorphization of reality, that behind it all there's an invisible man pulling invisible strings.
Even here I disagree :)
I would think that once that piracy really does start killing studios and distributors, the moral situation will change. Right now an argument for piracy is that nobody gets hurt. Nobody loses their jobs, no companies die.
Once that changes, I would expect a tidal shift in the average public opinion on piracy. And not in the direction you would want it to.
I would hope that this is obvious. Piracy is a crime, copyright is something people want to exist, and you'd do well to remember "it's only fun until someone loses an eye". You want piracy ? Pray hollywood does well.
That's not actually true. Terrorists, like most other large groups (and we all know which large group produces terrorists), are on average morons.
The reasons weak spots get hit is not the intelligence of terrorists, but rather the number of attempts. And most obvious weak spots, like say the US electricity grid, have proven near 100% impervious for a decade now.
Once what you say becomes true, and you can generally expect any weak spot to be exploited then the tactical situation changes. It will change in the same manner as it is changing already. If weak spots get constantly attacked, we can't go after individual terrorists any more, but we must make sure they're caught before the attempts. There is no choice here. And yes that means arresting or isolating people whose only crime is suspicion of having certain ideas.
In the US, forcing someone to give up encryption codes is generally considered to run afoul of the self-incrimination principle. So once the police ask someone for their codes, which they can do, they lose the ability to convict that person for what they find. So, given the prevailing legal opinion on the matter, and giving the fact that most congressmen and senators are either lawyers or judges or other parts of the legal system, I doubt this will come to pass. Even if it does, the US has precedent, and the self-incrimination thing is established by precedent and is part of the constitution, so it's unlikely judges would play ball.
Add to that that it's not necessary. You can "bait" p2p networks. At some point, no matter the encryption or routing tricks, you have to tell someone you don't know about the content you want. It is prohibitively expensive not to use direct routing once you get past a certain file size (so while tor is useful for downloading hacker texts, it's not useful for movie downloads). How do you know you're not asking an MPAA server ? You don't. 2 or 3 states consider that to be entrapment, but most don't, and that'll be enough.
Of course, most other regions like Europe or China don't consider the self-incrimination thing to be a problem at all. Nor do they consider forcing Americans in their jurisdictions to give up codes even the slightest bit objectionable (you don't have the right to private encryption anywhere in Europe, and let's just shut up about China and the rest).
Actually, just the state-enforced famine deaths in Russia and China, plus the Soviet, Chinese and South Asian communist death camp deaths will get you to half a billion dead. I do know about the black book of communism, and frankly while it's on the very high side it's not absurdly unfair. It's certainly not impossible that the numbers are right, albeit somewhat unlikely.
Sadly, one thing Stalin was right about, is that once you get to a million corpses, the exact number hardly matters.
What especially baffles me about genocides, is that the nazi genocides were unique only in a single respect : they used real weapons, and they were much more discriminatory than most other genocides. There was a documented reason for each and every death that they possibly could document. The constant muslim genocides are mostly committed with knives and kidnapping people into slavery, starving them and working them to death, often killing a sizeable population of muslims on the way, and throwing the rest into misery. The only "successes of islam", and all tolerance just happened to take place in places that while nominally under muslim control, had vast majorities of Christians and/or Jews. Extremely low-tech. Most communist deaths, even in death camps, were famine-related, again extremely low-tech, and again, killing a very large population of communists along the way.
How is this even tangentially related to the point ? If another ideology's excesses excuses islam's barbarism, why not just go with "islam is ok, after all nazism is worse ?".
Although it should be said, it is kinda hard finding ideologies that approach islam's level of brutality and disgustingness. As for genocides, nazism is actually only small change compared to the number of bodies islam seems to constanly require : nazism killed maybe 50 million. muslims killed 50 million people in the last two decades alone. Only communism really qualifies as worse than islam as far as genocides is concerned. While hitler was inspired by muslims, even an admirer as some claim, he never got anywhere near their level of massacring.