It's a network designed to prevent you from being snooped upon, but by and large the (work of mouth) advertising isn't "And this way Google will never be able to select ads that are of interest to you" or "You don't have to worry that your affair will be discovered by your spouse" (to use two extremes) but "The government will not be able to snoop on you!"
If it occasionally gets in the way of lazy-ass cops who'd rather not be bothered doing legwork to track down real crimes, too bad. We have a word for states where freedom is restricted in order to make things easier for police: a police state.
Examples also exist of low-neuron (and synapse) count individuals who retain cognitive (and all other major) function; these examples cannot be explained away by "counting neurons."
The example you cite shows images of a compressed brain. It says nothings about "counting neurons"; the person in question could have roughly the same number of neurons as you or I compressed into a smaller space.
Also the guy is said to have an IQ of 75. That's "borderline intellectual functioning", and it's incorrect to say that cognitive function has been retained, it's clearly degraded.
Of course it takes more than a high number of neurons and a high degree of interconnection to perform processing; training the network is vital.
land was offered. MANY TIMES. 100% of the time it was turned down and they wanted no peac with the 'dirty jews'.
I will steal from you your life savings. When you get upset and try to punch me in the nose, I will offer a small fraction of it back to you. Will you be satisfied and stop trying to punch me?
Most of modern history in the Middle East results from the UN sticking its fingers where they don't belong, randomly stealing a big chunk of land considered sacred to the natives, and giving it to Israel.
Blame the British and the Balfour Declaration. By the time the UN came into existence the theft was well underway; the UN at most ratified it.
Most of the trouble spots in the world today can be traced to the British Empire. It's time for the British and other colonial nations to face up to the disaster they caused the rest of the world and start paying reparations.
These people are "libertarians", die hard free-market-is-always-correct folks?
Don't confuse "libertarian" with "Libertarian". The original, and correct, meaning of "libertarian" is pretty much the same as "anarchist" -- a leftist, socialist, (pro-labor orientation. The U.S. right-wing, pro-capitalist "Libertarian Party" and its associated movement deliberately stole and distorted the term in the mid-20th century.
And yes, some (though not all, I'm sure) of these bogus "Libertarians" would argue that if a website puts up a contract of adhesion forbidding the use of ad blockers in conjunction with their site, that such should be a binding contract enforced by the state.
I don't think I've ever had a job where I didn't have a badge, at least after college. Last job I had without an ID badge was flipping burgers in high school
Only job I've ever had where I had to wear an ID badge was working at the movies in high school. ID badges are for low-skill jobs -- waitresses, supermarket cashiers, etc. -- so customers can complain to your boss about you, and for security theater.
Libertarians are about a smaller federal government and expanded states' rights.
Such "Libertarians" are not "libertarian", they're merely anti-federalists. Ron Paul, who is happy to have the states regulate your sex life, falls into this category.
Under a Libertarian Utopia, it would be up to your state to limit the power of big business... or not.
And how a state would regulate large corporations whose profits are greater than that states' entire budget....is left as an exercise for the reader.
Either way, your voice gets louder and your vote counts for more the smaller the election gets.
In practice, the smaller the election gets, the easier for it to get bought.
random teens on Facebook would still have no idea what a GIF is.
Get hep, daddy-o. Animated GIFs are bad. Or whatever the kids call it these days. They're an easy and widely-supported means to get short video clips out.
"This applies to personal emails and other effects but it is not license to take others intellectual property and do with as you like."
There is no such thing as "intellectual property". There is copyright, patent, and trademark law. These were created for various policy reasons most of which no longer exist or were never valid in the first place.
And a dollar is a dol... Oops, my bad. I hear its definition is proprietary now.
Not at all. A dollar is valued, by federal law, at 1/7.25 of an hour of unskilled labor. Tying it to something useful -- human labor -- is certainly more sensible than the medieval practice of tying currency to chucks of a metal too soft for most practical uses beyond jewelry-making.
How will this encourage racism? Are we to think all races learn all subjects equally in school?
Uh, yes. If you believe that someone's race means that they cannot learn a subject, than you are a racist fuckwit. Please go hit yourself in the head with a clue-by-four until enlightenment results,
How about men and women's learning abilities and aptitudes?
And if you believe that someone's gender means that they cannot learn a subject, than you are a sexist fuckwit. Please continue the beating.
I think funding is a minor issue as funding does not equate to schools with high performing students.
What are you going to do if someones culture really does have a significant measurable impact on their learning performance? Tell them that their culture sucks?
Sure, it would be nice if we could tell conservative Americans that their anti-intellectual culture, that teaches kids that history and science don't matter, sucks.
But that's not really the issue here; the issue is funding and performance disparities in schools in different parts of a state, disparities that correspond pretty well (because of the long-lasting legacy of racism) with skin color. Rather than make schools in black neighborhoods work, much cheaper and easier (if you're a racist fuckwit of the sort that seems common in Virginia government today) to set a lower bar for educating black kids.
Exactly...this has been happening for million of years on this planet.
Not this rapidly, no.
When one area becomes unsuitable, another area becomes perfect.
Species can only adapt at a certain rate. If the environment changes more quickly, they go extinct. It's not like they can pack up the U-haul and quickly and deliberately move to the new spot.
Adapt or die..
Right -- if our civilization does not adapt to the realities of physics and biology, it will die.
I keep the house around 68F, so that means loads of AC in the hot summers of OK.
Everything else you mention isn't a big draw; but for this one, sir, you should be ashamed of yourself. Unless you have some strange medical condition, setting your AC cold enough that most people would need a sweater is simply profligate waste.
And now you see why small businesses don't like to have to collect taxes for hundreds of different taxing jurisdictions.
Most small businesses don't. They collect sales taxes in the jurisdiction where they are located. If I (in Maryland) sell you something by mail, I collect tax if you're in Maryland, or no tax if you're not. You might owe use tax, but that's Not My Problem.
In New York, where it's a destination tax, a merchant located there has to collect for a few dozen jurisdictions -- a pain, but far from "thousands".
It's a problem for too-big businesses such as Amazon that have "nexuses" of business all over the place; screw them, companies shouldn't be that big.
But it can be a problem for small companies that provide a venue for merchants in many different locations.
Third, you fill out the ballot form, sign it, and mail it in. Note that the signature means your ballot is not really "secret."
You sign the *envelope*. Or at least you do here in Baltimore County, Maryland.
I'm public about how I vote, so I haven't checked on the process, but it would be simple to have Alice verify the signature and then cross it and my address out with a big black magic marker, and then hand the enveloped over to Bob, who opens it and processes my -- now anonymous -- ballot. Of course Alice and Bob could collude to find out how I vote; but Alice could stick a camera in the voting booth over at the school, too. This is pretty low on my list of concerns.
Why should not I use a credit card? There is no downside for me.
No downside unless you find <insert your bank here> having a complete record of where you shopped disturbing. A record that can be hauled into court, or at the very least used to target you for mind-control, i.e., advertising.
Sure, knowing that you bought gas or coffee is probably not that interesting to anyone. But never buy anything interesting with a card if you can use cash.
You can also tell when stores have a minimum purchase requirement for credit.
In many states it is illegal to charge more for a credit transaction, however it is not illegal to offer a discount for using cash... it would be interesting to see stores offer a "2% discount on all cash purchases!" deal.
Minimums and extra charges for using a card are forbidden by the contract with the card companies, not by state laws. But it is, as you note, ok to offer a cash discount, which is a weird loophole.
Who said life was fair? Who said the law is supposed to be fair?
Life, without human artifice, is not fair. Law is a form of artifice we apply to life in to, in part, make it less unfair. In a democracy, the people say that law is supposed to be fair; in non-democratic systems, the more unfair the laws, the greater the possibility of violent revolution, so indirectly the people say that law is supposed to be fair.
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I like news from different perspectives. "Fox News", however, is primarily an entertainment channel, and is an active source of noise whose viewers are less informed than people watching no news at all. I also avoid MSNBC, which seems to be increasing following that model but in mirror-image.
For a right-wing perspective I can turn to sane (often wrong, but sane) media outlets like the WSJ, National Review, U.S. News & World Report.
The "word of mouth" I hear about Tor is that it's software originally developed by the U.S. government that can to help people in China and Syria and other totalitarian nations get net access without being snooped on.
If it occasionally gets in the way of lazy-ass cops who'd rather not be bothered doing legwork to track down real crimes, too bad. We have a word for states where freedom is restricted in order to make things easier for police: a police state.
Sure it is. A TM has an infinite tape. It would take infinitely long to read in or out, of course...
The example you cite shows images of a compressed brain. It says nothings about "counting neurons"; the person in question could have roughly the same number of neurons as you or I compressed into a smaller space.
Also the guy is said to have an IQ of 75. That's "borderline intellectual functioning", and it's incorrect to say that cognitive function has been retained, it's clearly degraded.
Of course it takes more than a high number of neurons and a high degree of interconnection to perform processing; training the network is vital.
I will steal from you your life savings. When you get upset and try to punch me in the nose, I will offer a small fraction of it back to you. Will you be satisfied and stop trying to punch me?
I didn't know this demographic was on /. now...
Blame the British and the Balfour Declaration. By the time the UN came into existence the theft was well underway; the UN at most ratified it.
Most of the trouble spots in the world today can be traced to the British Empire. It's time for the British and other colonial nations to face up to the disaster they caused the rest of the world and start paying reparations.
Don't confuse "libertarian" with "Libertarian". The original, and correct, meaning of "libertarian" is pretty much the same as "anarchist" -- a leftist, socialist, (pro-labor orientation. The U.S. right-wing, pro-capitalist "Libertarian Party" and its associated movement deliberately stole and distorted the term in the mid-20th century.
More info here: http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/libsoc.html.
And yes, some (though not all, I'm sure) of these bogus "Libertarians" would argue that if a website puts up a contract of adhesion forbidding the use of ad blockers in conjunction with their site, that such should be a binding contract enforced by the state.
Only job I've ever had where I had to wear an ID badge was working at the movies in high school. ID badges are for low-skill jobs -- waitresses, supermarket cashiers, etc. -- so customers can complain to your boss about you, and for security theater.
Such "Libertarians" are not "libertarian", they're merely anti-federalists. Ron Paul, who is happy to have the states regulate your sex life, falls into this category.
And how a state would regulate large corporations whose profits are greater than that states' entire budget....is left as an exercise for the reader.
In practice, the smaller the election gets, the easier for it to get bought.
Get hep, daddy-o. Animated GIFs are bad. Or whatever the kids call it these days. They're an easy and widely-supported means to get short video clips out.
You mean how Hostess tripled their CEO's pay and raised other exec's salaries, while cutting worker's pay and benefits?
Stop drinking the far right's Kool Aid. It's not unions that are killing companies like Hostess, it's vulture capitalists.
There is no such thing as "intellectual property". There is copyright, patent, and trademark law. These were created for various policy reasons most of which no longer exist or were never valid in the first place.
Not at all. A dollar is valued, by federal law, at 1/7.25 of an hour of unskilled labor. Tying it to something useful -- human labor -- is certainly more sensible than the medieval practice of tying currency to chucks of a metal too soft for most practical uses beyond jewelry-making.
Uh, yes. If you believe that someone's race means that they cannot learn a subject, than you are a racist fuckwit. Please go hit yourself in the head with a clue-by-four until enlightenment results,
And if you believe that someone's gender means that they cannot learn a subject, than you are a sexist fuckwit. Please continue the beating.
Except, you know, that student achievement is in fact linked to school funding levels.
Sure, it would be nice if we could tell conservative Americans that their anti-intellectual culture, that teaches kids that history and science don't matter, sucks.
But that's not really the issue here; the issue is funding and performance disparities in schools in different parts of a state, disparities that correspond pretty well (because of the long-lasting legacy of racism) with skin color. Rather than make schools in black neighborhoods work, much cheaper and easier (if you're a racist fuckwit of the sort that seems common in Virginia government today) to set a lower bar for educating black kids.
The world he lives in is the one you and I you live in, where inter-generational class mobility in the United States is low compared to other developed countries. The outcome of your live is by-and-large a result of what opportunities the environment your are born into offers.
(Oh, and quoting a fan of Adolph Hiltler and notorious union buster doesn't really help your argument.)
Not this rapidly, no.
Species can only adapt at a certain rate. If the environment changes more quickly, they go extinct. It's not like they can pack up the U-haul and quickly and deliberately move to the new spot.
Right -- if our civilization does not adapt to the realities of physics and biology, it will die.
Everything else you mention isn't a big draw; but for this one, sir, you should be ashamed of yourself. Unless you have some strange medical condition, setting your AC cold enough that most people would need a sweater is simply profligate waste.
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If you believe that, you have not been paying attention...patent abuse and censorship put them on the "evil" list for sure.
Most small businesses don't. They collect sales taxes in the jurisdiction where they are located. If I (in Maryland) sell you something by mail, I collect tax if you're in Maryland, or no tax if you're not. You might owe use tax, but that's Not My Problem.
In New York, where it's a destination tax, a merchant located there has to collect for a few dozen jurisdictions -- a pain, but far from "thousands".
It's a problem for too-big businesses such as Amazon that have "nexuses" of business all over the place; screw them, companies shouldn't be that big.
But it can be a problem for small companies that provide a venue for merchants in many different locations.
You sign the *envelope*. Or at least you do here in Baltimore County, Maryland.
I'm public about how I vote, so I haven't checked on the process, but it would be simple to have Alice verify the signature and then cross it and my address out with a big black magic marker, and then hand the enveloped over to Bob, who opens it and processes my -- now anonymous -- ballot. Of course Alice and Bob could collude to find out how I vote; but Alice could stick a camera in the voting booth over at the school, too. This is pretty low on my list of concerns.
No downside unless you find <insert your bank here> having a complete record of where you shopped disturbing. A record that can be hauled into court, or at the very least used to target you for mind-control, i.e., advertising.
Sure, knowing that you bought gas or coffee is probably not that interesting to anyone. But never buy anything interesting with a card if you can use cash.
Minimums and extra charges for using a card are forbidden by the contract with the card companies, not by state laws. But it is, as you note, ok to offer a cash discount, which is a weird loophole.
Life, without human artifice, is not fair. Law is a form of artifice we apply to life in to, in part, make it less unfair. In a democracy, the people say that law is supposed to be fair; in non-democratic systems, the more unfair the laws, the greater the possibility of violent revolution, so indirectly the people say that law is supposed to be fair.