The concept is that the carbon output from human activity is causing global climate change that is dangerous to future human activity of any kind. So, the government "solutions" so far have been to subsidize corn ethanol, windmills, electric cars, and solar panels.
The corn ethanol, windmills, electric cars, and solar panels are just smokescreens. They also allow distribution of money to friends of politicians, but that's just a side effect. What the "solution" is, in the minds of the environmentalists, is to reduce human activity in the first place. Whatever practical solution anyone comes up with to produce power, they will be opposed to for one reason or another. Even if it's as silly as "reducing the albedo of the desert".
I see your pro-environmentalist SF novel and raise you Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn's "Fallen Angels", where it's the environmentalists who have destroyed the world economy in the name of the environment; ironically, it turns out that while human-caused warming was actually occurring, it was merely staving off the end of the current interglacial period, so now people are freezing in the dark as the glaciers advance. The environmentalists in charge can't admit this so they blame the occupants of the last remaining space station for "stealing air".
What's it prove? Nothing, it's just a novel, just like yours.
Now, if you want to strip the political power away, sure - in the US, he'd probably be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law could be twisted in abuse to.
We don't have to guess. We know what happens. He'd have been driven to suicide, or if he didn't, branded a felon and thrown in federal prison.
And for many years, there were fewer junkies and drug-related crimes in the Netherlands than in surrounding countries. Then we introduced a measure that wouldn't even make it illegal, it's more like a membership required to smoke dope. That spurred crime alright... Within no-time we had street sellers occupying the corners of every street in towns that previously didn't have this issue.
So they reverted to the old system. And the peace returned.
Wait. Your government passed a law. It had a deleterious effect. And the response was not to increase enforcement, nor to increase penalties, nor to pile extra law on top of extra law to try to patch the problems (instead creating new ones at every step), but to repeal the bad law?
Wow. I'd say I'd look to emigrate to there, but the fact is I'd never ever believe the government would actually act that way, so the cognitive dissonance would kill me in short order.
Why cloud the situation with facts?:) Here's the interesting part: "Because the software is licensed, not sold, Microsoft reserves all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement.
Who owns the shiny disc included in the package? In the US, unless Microsoft owns that disc, a copy of the software has been sold.
Might work in the specific case, but not the general. As Richilieu said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. "
The more tortured the logic from the "evidence" to the accusation the better. And the best part? Any defense you raise only makes you sound guilty.
Medieval holidays were a little different than holidays nowadays. You didn't get time off work for them (dawn till dusk and a bit more, 7 days a week). Instead, you weren't supposed to have sex or any other sort of fun, and instead spend more time praying.
This has nothing to do with consumer toys or personal computers. It's to do with gov't/corp workstations. It prevents employees from accidentally installing unsigned updates and plugins.
It also prevents employees from deliberately installing useful items. It means they have to do their work on the computer in exactly the way that work has always been done; if they think some tool will make things easier or more efficient, that's just tough because they can't install it.
Imagine if you had to do everything in edlin because some program refused to let you install your favorite editor.
A company has every right to lock down their own computers.
The right, certainly. But turning a computer into a glorified cash register running only "approved" apps is a terrible move, even when you own it. Sure, you prevent malware. You also prevent everything else.
I hate fuckers who make software designed to prevent computer users from using their computer. This applies whether the software claims to be white-hat anti-malware stuff or outright admits it's a tool-of-the-devil locked bootloader or DRM tool.
And when enough people start doing that, the free services will disappear. The tragedy of the commons.
That's not the tragedy of the commons. The tragedy of the commons is that the users have an incentive to overuse and thereby damage a commons. Using adblockers on an ad-supported service isn't that; it might violate the Kantian categorical imperative, but it has nothing to do with the tragedy of the commons.
I have a pen which indicates when it is being used to write with poor penmanship or to write spelling and grammatical errors. It indicates this by not vibrating, flashing, or making any noise whatsoever. They're cheap as dirt, too -- less than 10 cents a pen. And I've never had one fail to indicate a problem, nor indicate a problem where none exists.
Sure. It means you can hold out in a bunker for a few days, if you have a child hostage. Until they decide to kill you anyway.
That's not the use of a handgun I was thinking of. I'm not going to mention my use, because those who have suggested it publicly have been disappeared.
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The corn ethanol, windmills, electric cars, and solar panels are just smokescreens. They also allow distribution of money to friends of politicians, but that's just a side effect. What the "solution" is, in the minds of the environmentalists, is to reduce human activity in the first place. Whatever practical solution anyone comes up with to produce power, they will be opposed to for one reason or another. Even if it's as silly as "reducing the albedo of the desert".
I see your pro-environmentalist SF novel and raise you Niven, Pournelle, and Flynn's "Fallen Angels", where it's the environmentalists who have destroyed the world economy in the name of the environment; ironically, it turns out that while human-caused warming was actually occurring, it was merely staving off the end of the current interglacial period, so now people are freezing in the dark as the glaciers advance. The environmentalists in charge can't admit this so they blame the occupants of the last remaining space station for "stealing air".
What's it prove? Nothing, it's just a novel, just like yours.
We don't have to guess. We know what happens. He'd have been driven to suicide, or if he didn't, branded a felon and thrown in federal prison.
Trolling and flaming count as writing.
It's FRANCE.
They're both snooty.
It's Disney; they'll alter the deal, and Lucas will have to pray they don't alter it further
Make enough rules, and that becomes true. We're well above that point now.
Citation needed; what I've read of Dworkin doesn't show that she admits the existence of "otherwise decent men".
Wait. Your government passed a law. It had a deleterious effect. And the response was not to increase enforcement, nor to increase penalties, nor to pile extra law on top of extra law to try to patch the problems (instead creating new ones at every step), but to repeal the bad law?
Wow. I'd say I'd look to emigrate to there, but the fact is I'd never ever believe the government would actually act that way, so the cognitive dissonance would kill me in short order.
Yeah, given the choice, I'd rather appear naked and everyone else would rather I cleaned the toilet.
So who owns the physical media?
Who owns the shiny disc included in the package? In the US, unless Microsoft owns that disc, a copy of the software has been sold.
Might work in the specific case, but not the general. As Richilieu said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. "
The more tortured the logic from the "evidence" to the accusation the better. And the best part? Any defense you raise only makes you sound guilty.
That's bullshit. R-12 and R-22 were long out of patent by the time the phaseout started.
That, unfortunately, is true.
Medieval holidays were a little different than holidays nowadays. You didn't get time off work for them (dawn till dusk and a bit more, 7 days a week). Instead, you weren't supposed to have sex or any other sort of fun, and instead spend more time praying.
It also prevents employees from deliberately installing useful items. It means they have to do their work on the computer in exactly the way that work has always been done; if they think some tool will make things easier or more efficient, that's just tough because they can't install it.
Imagine if you had to do everything in edlin because some program refused to let you install your favorite editor.
As Abraham Lincoln pointed out, you can call a tail a leg but that doesn't make it one. Not every free rider problem is a tragedy of the commons.
The right, certainly. But turning a computer into a glorified cash register running only "approved" apps is a terrible move, even when you own it. Sure, you prevent malware. You also prevent everything else.
Microwave ovens.
In Detroit? Everyone foolish enough to bring electronics into Detroit gets them taken immediately. Not by DHS agents.
And when you say "science", you mean the long-running Bell Labs experiment called Unix, right?
I hate fuckers who make software designed to prevent computer users from using their computer. This applies whether the software claims to be white-hat anti-malware stuff or outright admits it's a tool-of-the-devil locked bootloader or DRM tool.
That's not the tragedy of the commons. The tragedy of the commons is that the users have an incentive to overuse and thereby damage a commons. Using adblockers on an ad-supported service isn't that; it might violate the Kantian categorical imperative, but it has nothing to do with the tragedy of the commons.
I have a pen which indicates when it is being used to write with poor penmanship or to write spelling and grammatical errors. It indicates this by not vibrating, flashing, or making any noise whatsoever. They're cheap as dirt, too -- less than 10 cents a pen. And I've never had one fail to indicate a problem, nor indicate a problem where none exists.
That's not the use of a handgun I was thinking of. I'm not going to mention my use, because those who have suggested it publicly have been disappeared.