How knowledgeable are you about French politics and, in particular, the specific people they were satirizing? Because they often look offensive to an outsider, but people who know what's going on understand the message.
Facebook et al. certainly have the right, as companies, to censor as they wish, whether it be anti-"hate speech" or not. I think it's a silly move, and I would absolutely be against the EU forcing them to comply with their asinine "hate speech" laws, but as private companies they can do that. I doubt it's a good business move, and I think it's likely to escalate to the point of being harmful to their user communities, but that's their call.
Freedom of press is absolutely important. However, Gawker really did screw up when they posted revenge porn of Hulk Hogan, and while I think the damages he's getting are a little excessive, it's ultimately Gawker's fault. Thiel helped fund the lawsuit, which had merit, for his own ends. There's no real reason he shouldn't have been able to help Hogan out; Hogan had a legitimate complaint.
I doubt he used it long enough for the difference in accident rates to be statistically significant, and I also doubt you personally have access to that data.
There's no money in antibiotics at the moment, and they do take quite a while to develop - even most academic institutions aren't working on new ones very much. The basic R&D pipeline has failed in this area too.
You know Viagra was initially intended to be a drug for hypertension (AKA the circulation problems you're talking about), and they discovered the other effects later on, when men (but not women) who were in the clinical trials wouldn't give their drugs back when they were supposed to? Also, joint replacements are much better than they used to be.
For long-term service, competition (between hospitals) actually worked quite well in the UK's NHS, until they started shutting down hospitals that were near each other.
Yeah, the people building and maintaining the robots will probably be German, so there's jobs from that. They'll get taxes from property taxes, if nothing else, but probably extra sales/import taxes (depending on where they get the materials from) and some amount of payroll taxes.
If you're using a Microsoft Account (rather than a local Windows account), then yes, it is. However, these rules don't seem to apply to local Windows accounts, at least not yet.
Neither do I, but does that mean that MS should be able to force me to use one that they consider "strong"?
Yes. Many places set password requirements, including what cannot be part of your password (username, birth date, previous passwords, etc.). If you don't want to follow their password rules, don't use their services.
I doubt it was any safer - I'd actually expect the opposite. If they were talking on the phone while driving, and then the call suddenly drops, they're probably going to be *more* distracted, not less.
If he was misled by a claim, and got a big fine because of that, maybe he could sue the company for false advertising to try to recoup at least some of that cost.
Ideally? Yes. From my experiences (and those of my friends) that's not terribly accurate. Plus, you can still have a few people on staff for full-time cleaning, if you want.
Nope. It's used by someone who is against the tactics used and - in some cases - thinks that what they're calling "social justice" isn't justice at all.
Legalize selling organs? Sure, that's potentially okay, although implementation is really tricky.
From this site, about 30,000 people in the US get life-saving organ transplants every year. That's roughly 0.1% of the US population each year, and that doesn't include the transplants that aren't live-saving (think corneal transplants or replacing a kidney).
Swine flu is unlikely to cause mass infection from this sort of procedure. Uninfected pigs can be used, and fears of a global swine flu apocalypse are pretty unfounded.
Any pigs (or other animals) used to grow organs wouldn't be normal farm pigs; they'd live in different facilities and would be carefully screened for diseases. On top of that, dying from not having a liver is certain, while getting swine flu is a (low) risk.
Moreover, knowingly doing something dangerous (shooting a high-powered rifle at someone) with no benefit to society or, indeed, any other people, is very different from medical experiments that could end up saving a lot of lives and improving the quality of life for people on an organ transplant list.
I think that's a little bit of a different situation - speeding increases risk for other people, while possession of drugs does not. Even still - did he lose his license, job, wife, etc. from getting caught speeding once? Generally you have to do that on a repeated basis - or have done other traffic violations, like causing a crash or drunk driving - in order to not be able to drive at all. If your friend lives in an area where one instance of speeding on an otherwise clean record did all that - then yeah, it's certainly partially the fault of the overzealous busybodies. That penalty may be the legal punishment, but I don't think it's the appropriate one.
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How knowledgeable are you about French politics and, in particular, the specific people they were satirizing? Because they often look offensive to an outsider, but people who know what's going on understand the message.
Facebook et al. certainly have the right, as companies, to censor as they wish, whether it be anti-"hate speech" or not. I think it's a silly move, and I would absolutely be against the EU forcing them to comply with their asinine "hate speech" laws, but as private companies they can do that. I doubt it's a good business move, and I think it's likely to escalate to the point of being harmful to their user communities, but that's their call.
I find that view offensive, please remove it.
Freedom of press is absolutely important. However, Gawker really did screw up when they posted revenge porn of Hulk Hogan, and while I think the damages he's getting are a little excessive, it's ultimately Gawker's fault. Thiel helped fund the lawsuit, which had merit, for his own ends. There's no real reason he shouldn't have been able to help Hogan out; Hogan had a legitimate complaint.
I doubt he used it long enough for the difference in accident rates to be statistically significant, and I also doubt you personally have access to that data.
There's no money in antibiotics at the moment, and they do take quite a while to develop - even most academic institutions aren't working on new ones very much. The basic R&D pipeline has failed in this area too.
You know Viagra was initially intended to be a drug for hypertension (AKA the circulation problems you're talking about), and they discovered the other effects later on, when men (but not women) who were in the clinical trials wouldn't give their drugs back when they were supposed to? Also, joint replacements are much better than they used to be.
For long-term service, competition (between hospitals) actually worked quite well in the UK's NHS, until they started shutting down hospitals that were near each other.
Yeah, the people building and maintaining the robots will probably be German, so there's jobs from that. They'll get taxes from property taxes, if nothing else, but probably extra sales/import taxes (depending on where they get the materials from) and some amount of payroll taxes.
If you're using a Microsoft Account (rather than a local Windows account), then yes, it is. However, these rules don't seem to apply to local Windows accounts, at least not yet.
Neither do I, but does that mean that MS should be able to force me to use one that they consider "strong"?
Yes. Many places set password requirements, including what cannot be part of your password (username, birth date, previous passwords, etc.). If you don't want to follow their password rules, don't use their services.
Ah yes, the CCTV cameras that the police paid for and installed are "private" now, apparently.
A thin coating would protect it until an impact occurred.
If it works, this sounds like a great way to kidnap someone.
I doubt it was any safer - I'd actually expect the opposite. If they were talking on the phone while driving, and then the call suddenly drops, they're probably going to be *more* distracted, not less.
If he was misled by a claim, and got a big fine because of that, maybe he could sue the company for false advertising to try to recoup at least some of that cost.
I agree - there are plenty of ways to keep the place clean even with a mostly robot staff.
Ideally? Yes. From my experiences (and those of my friends) that's not terribly accurate. Plus, you can still have a few people on staff for full-time cleaning, if you want.
And then, hopefully, those former employees get thrown in jail.
No, it's only chilling for people who publish naked pictures and video of someone without their consent, and who then defy a court order to remove it.
I don't know why this was modded flamebait; it's clearly not.
Nope. It's used by someone who is against the tactics used and - in some cases - thinks that what they're calling "social justice" isn't justice at all.
Short answer: probably not. Most pathogens only affect certain tissues, and we can easily screen pigs used for this purpose for the flu.
Legalize selling organs? Sure, that's potentially okay, although implementation is really tricky.
From this site, about 30,000 people in the US get life-saving organ transplants every year. That's roughly 0.1% of the US population each year, and that doesn't include the transplants that aren't live-saving (think corneal transplants or replacing a kidney).
Swine flu is unlikely to cause mass infection from this sort of procedure. Uninfected pigs can be used, and fears of a global swine flu apocalypse are pretty unfounded.
Any pigs (or other animals) used to grow organs wouldn't be normal farm pigs; they'd live in different facilities and would be carefully screened for diseases. On top of that, dying from not having a liver is certain, while getting swine flu is a (low) risk.
Moreover, knowingly doing something dangerous (shooting a high-powered rifle at someone) with no benefit to society or, indeed, any other people, is very different from medical experiments that could end up saving a lot of lives and improving the quality of life for people on an organ transplant list.
I think that's a little bit of a different situation - speeding increases risk for other people, while possession of drugs does not. Even still - did he lose his license, job, wife, etc. from getting caught speeding once? Generally you have to do that on a repeated basis - or have done other traffic violations, like causing a crash or drunk driving - in order to not be able to drive at all. If your friend lives in an area where one instance of speeding on an otherwise clean record did all that - then yeah, it's certainly partially the fault of the overzealous busybodies. That penalty may be the legal punishment, but I don't think it's the appropriate one.