If there is an APB on your car, cops will find you sooner or later if you're on the road by your license plate. RFIDs just help them do their job faster and more efficiently.
Where does it end..? at what point do you say.. "Wait a minute that's too much?" and will you even be able to do anything about it by the time it gets to that point..?..and that's the point.
First off thank you for correcting me.. I don't live under the delusion that I am beyond infallibility... being incorrect is by no means a reason for humiliation.. perhaps it is for you, but I don't speak for you.
My statement about underestimating nature still stands however, despite your dismal opinion of humanity.
Ha... most people will be just as clueless after 5000 years as they are after 100. Really, 4900 years isn't going to make their brains any bigger, make them store more information, nor, most importantly, process and correlate that data any better.
Actually, I beg to differ. We use less than 10% of our brain. No one knows what kind of effect 5000 years of development would have on the human mind... and since we more often than not underestimate nature, it will by my humble guess that the effect would be greater than we would imagine.
Towards the end of the war it was becoming considerably more clear that Russia had less then altruistic motives for 'liberating' eastern europe from the nazi opressors.
War rarely has altruistic elements in the big picture.. and is NEVER 100% altruistic. If you're fighting beyond your own shores then you have something to gain from it, whether it's financial or strategic.
yup..that's right folks...Anakin is topless with a bronzed chest with a backwards hat and gold chains eating plastic wrapped snack crackers with a squeezable tube of peanut butter as he turns a chunk of rock into a space surf board with his mental abilities!
Oh and did I mention that the space surfboard can talk..... LIKE THE SCHMOO! and when not being used to surf over lava floats over his shoulder as his cowardly sidekick!
They say they'll destroy the data after 3 months. While this whole thing reeks evil to me, at least [they say] they're not going to be storing all this info in perpetuity.
Check back when they have the efficient means to do that...
If something can be done easily for the sake of security but is against privacy or ethics, it's only a matter of time before implementation.
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..will argue rules in the DM's Guide better than the highest paid lawyers. You don't know arguing until you watch two more geeks citing obscure sentences in backwater paragraphs as evidence in supporting claims that you would swear held the fate of the world in the balance.
AD&D lawyers have always been the best and worst to play with!
We didn't lose anything in translation, just interpretation. I can see and understand your pattern of logic, I just disagree with the way you interpret it... which is *fine*.. you see things differently than I do and that's cool... it's also why we end up needing things like democracies. If everyone thought and interpreted the same way we wouldn't even need government.
The actions *are* the same.. the *results* of the actions are different.
This is where the courts come in to interpret things. Does the problem lie with the action? absolutely not.. what was acceptable before as ideology has now become unacceptable because of the perception of lost profits.
What this essentially boils down to is the government choosing between protecting the rights of the people vs. the gains of corporations... and I think we all have no illusions on which way the government is leaning. After all lets face it, if the government actually chose for the rights of the people, X corporation would simply change business models and very quickly. since the government works for the corporations now, they have no need to change their business model...or in other words it is the people who are being forced to alter their behavior from the status quo not the corporations.
This guy is a common sight on college campuses. He is the guy that majors in Women's Studies and calls himself a feminist in the hopes that it will get him laid. I don't think it works.
Very true.. no woman likes a guy who is "softer" than she is... and no man likes woman who is "harder" than he is.. it's just the way we're wired.
Yeah sure you may be made late by a speeder.. on the other hand you may get a bonus green light from a speeder on the intersecting road.
I can also see this system training people to apply a burst of speed once they get to a certain point before the intersection, after the timing of the light has subconciously set in to the brain.
How long before we can wi-fi-cluster cars, and let the network arrange speed and routing through congested urban areas?
About the same time as you give up total control of your car (which is one step away from your day to day life) to a computer and to those who control the computer.
Don't get me wrong I like the idea from it's beneficial standpoint but that convenience carries with it a huge amount of vigilence on the part of the public to ensure that the technology used is not abused by those in power. Quite frankly I don't think the public is responsible enough to give control of such a large aspect of their livelihood to a controlled system yet.
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Some may wish to flame me for this, but, how is that any different than how the U.S. views themselves on the world stage.
It has been a long standing view of mine that Microsoft is to U.S. citizens, what the U.S. government is to the world.
The Netherlands never ceases to impress me with the decisions they make.
If there is an APB on your car, cops will find you sooner or later if you're on the road by your license plate. RFIDs just help them do their job faster and more efficiently.
..and that's the point.
Where does it end..? at what point do you say.. "Wait a minute that's too much?" and will you even be able to do anything about it by the time it gets to that point..?
This just isn't the way a responsible company behaves.
responsible company
Trying to put these two words together is like trying to touch two magnet ends with the same polarity.
The small-penis crowd needs to validate itself through what it owns.
Well I have a small penis and I don't care what kind of car *I* drive, so THERE!
First off thank you for correcting me.. I don't live under the delusion that I am beyond infallibility... being incorrect is by no means a reason for humiliation.. perhaps it is for you, but I don't speak for you.
My statement about underestimating nature still stands however, despite your dismal opinion of humanity.
Ha... most people will be just as clueless after 5000 years as they are after 100. Really, 4900 years isn't going to make their brains any bigger, make them store more information, nor, most importantly, process and correlate that data any better.
Actually, I beg to differ. We use less than 10% of our brain. No one knows what kind of effect 5000 years of development would have on the human mind... and since we more often than not underestimate nature, it will by my humble guess that the effect would be greater than we would imagine.
I almost shudder to imagine the wisdom and intelligence of a person who has lived 5000 years...
Hands down one of the best classic games. No dice. No cards. No Random bonuses.
It's purely a derivative of chess mixed with politics! A highly addictive game if you have a set of highly competative and suspicious friends!
Towards the end of the war it was becoming considerably more clear that Russia had less then altruistic motives for 'liberating' eastern europe from the nazi opressors.
War rarely has altruistic elements in the big picture.. and is NEVER 100% altruistic. If you're fighting beyond your own shores then you have something to gain from it, whether it's financial or strategic.
yup..that's right folks...Anakin is topless with a bronzed chest with a backwards hat and gold chains eating plastic wrapped snack crackers with a squeezable tube of peanut butter as he turns a chunk of rock into a space surf board with his mental abilities!
Oh and did I mention that the space surfboard can talk..... LIKE THE SCHMOO! and when not being used to surf over lava floats over his shoulder as his cowardly sidekick!
They say they'll destroy the data after 3 months. While this whole thing reeks evil to me, at least [they say] they're not going to be storing all this info in perpetuity.
Check back when they have the efficient means to do that...
If something can be done easily for the sake of security but is against privacy or ethics, it's only a matter of time before implementation.
..will argue rules in the DM's Guide better than the highest paid lawyers. You don't know arguing until you watch two more geeks citing obscure sentences in backwater paragraphs as evidence in supporting claims that you would swear held the fate of the world in the balance.
AD&D lawyers have always been the best and worst to play with!
We didn't lose anything in translation, just interpretation. I can see and understand your pattern of logic, I just disagree with the way you interpret it... which is *fine*.. you see things differently than I do and that's cool... it's also why we end up needing things like democracies. If everyone thought and interpreted the same way we wouldn't even need government.
The actions are not the same.
..or in other words it is the people who are being forced to alter their behavior from the status quo not the corporations.
The actions *are* the same.. the *results* of the actions are different.
This is where the courts come in to interpret things. Does the problem lie with the action? absolutely not.. what was acceptable before as ideology has now become unacceptable because of the perception of lost profits.
What this essentially boils down to is the government choosing between protecting the rights of the people vs. the gains of corporations... and I think we all have no illusions on which way the government is leaning. After all lets face it, if the government actually chose for the rights of the people, X corporation would simply change business models and very quickly. since the government works for the corporations now, they have no need to change their business model.
You can share an analog copy of a CD you own, but only with "friends", and you can't do it for commercial gain.
You can't make a digital copy of a CD and share it without seriously risking infringment.
Why should the type of copy matter when the action is the same?
exactly how long will this paper last before it starts decomposing in some way?
This guy is a common sight on college campuses. He is the guy that majors in Women's Studies and calls himself a feminist in the hopes that it will get him laid. I don't think it works.
Very true.. no woman likes a guy who is "softer" than she is... and no man likes woman who is "harder" than he is.. it's just the way we're wired.
At 4 feet tall, how is it going to help get anything from a cabinet? My 5' tall mom has trouble doing that, With a step lader.
Didn't anyeone mention that most of that $100,000 cost is the jet packs...
..and I think we all know what kind of track record *those* people have throughout history...
you get two speeders approaching an intersection at the same time?
Do you get a blue light of death!?
Yeah sure you may be made late by a speeder.. on the other hand you may get a bonus green light from a speeder on the intersecting road.
I can also see this system training people to apply a burst of speed once they get to a certain point before the intersection, after the timing of the light has subconciously set in to the brain.
How long before we can wi-fi-cluster cars, and let the network arrange speed and routing through congested urban areas?
About the same time as you give up total control of your car (which is one step away from your day to day life) to a computer and to those who control the computer.
Don't get me wrong I like the idea from it's beneficial standpoint but that convenience carries with it a huge amount of vigilence on the part of the public to ensure that the technology used is not abused by those in power. Quite frankly I don't think the public is responsible enough to give control of such a large aspect of their livelihood to a controlled system yet.
Thousands of brand new undocumented micro-organisms!
I'll fill you in on it later... I'm feeling a little under the weather!
I just downloaded it off Kazaa *Lite*!