knowing how not to make stupid mistakes like drink yourself to death like some of these dumbass kids do, or stupid women who let men drug their drinks and get raped.
I mean really if you are in college you should be intelligent enough to avoid these things and situations, you may not avoid all situations but 90 percent of the time the situation you are in are the situations you allow yourself to be put into.
I know I'm ahead of the game in terms of social intelligence, and moral intelligence considering I dont have to fuck up a thousand times to learn not to do something, I know better because I watch other people fuck up and then I learn from them.
Every action I do, I know the effects of this action, and possible reactions in which the enviornment might have on these actions.
Theres alot more to being intelligent than just getting good grades,
If you do these things you have fun and then become a corporate drone. If you worry about moral intelligence and such things when you're young, then you'll be a borg child and then grow up into a corporate drone. Why should we make it easier for our children to transition into being corporate drones?
A man cannot have a conscience unless it's tempered by his own mistakes.
Thus, the learning process depends, initially on two factors: the structure at time 0 (the initial structure, e.g. the brain when you are born) and the structure at the time a person receive the impulses (the brain after experimenting and processing all the impulses one got up to now). That means, genetics influence your behaviour because your brain is biased by the structure it has when you are born, but the environment is the one that provides the impulses
Whoa. So the brain's like one big self-reprogramming FPGA. The intial code of which is decided at birth. Cool.
Some people get upset when other people say that people may not be entirely responsible for their actions. This means that significant parts of our goverment, society, and justice system are flawed
I remember when they tried to impeache Clinton, a whole bunch of people didn't want it to be shown on PrimeTime TV because they and their kids would lose track of their lives. The entire system is a dream anyway, the gold price will collapse because India is decreasing all consumption of new gold. Gold underpins the Federal Reserve, so the Federal Reserve will collapse very soon MANY PEOPLE WILL WILLINGLY TAKE THE BLUE PILL!
However, you are wrong where you draw the line between needs and frivolities like a popsicle stick. My father had no problems telling me to go soak my head whenever I asked for something stupid. That's all it takes
This kid runs around, punches walls, pulls the hot fryer, puts his hand in the oven, screams so loudly these new neighbours again issued a noise ordnance against us so we'll have to move again, and throws toys at my head. I wish I could inject him with cyanide, I swear to God I'm not kidding you
The problem isn't the cartoons, it's the parents that decicde to babysit their kids with cartoons. If you just spent a little time teaching them the difference between right and wrong, you wouldn't have kids running around trying to "kill their parents with a knife".
The child is too young to take Ritilin, and has a bad case of Attention Deficit Disorder with autism. A bad combination! He's unable to understand or comprehend learning, and is unable to learn. His Mother is schizophrenic and also attacks people with knives, the child has learnt it from her. If the child isn't watching TV he's attacking people with knoves, so TV is the preference
If some backdoor boy sings "baby-girl-baby" over and over again, and all your little daughters run out and buy it, then they deserve the money. The basis of capitalism is that your ability to make money is limited only by the demand for your product. If you want it, buy it. If you don't . ..
Incorrect. By advertising to children in the middle of cartoons, the corporations are profiting from creating consumerist and discontent children - Instilling the "I want" factor
I've seen children picking up knives and attacking their parents if they don't get them that stuff, and these children can't take Ritilin before the age of 5 so the Parents just have to withstand that behaviour. This is because a cartoon creates a reality within children's minds, and any advertisement becomes "reality" as a child cannot make a Capitalist judegement call ie. is it worth the money?
A popsicle stick with a picture of the Spice Girls can sell for $100, because it's worth $100 to a parent with a child jumping up and down. If you don't have kids, then you don't have any authority to flame any reply to this post; Parents are genetically willing to die for their children, and thus will obviously be willing to spend an infinite amount of money to fulfil their needs. They are using this business model:
1. Create advertisement to impress child
2. Screaming child at 100dB is louder than an aircraft engine and will damage Parents' hearing. The child is now your advertisement 3. Sell product at a price equivalent to the market price of the value of the Parents' hearing.
Adults in past times didn't have teenagers as apprentices because it made the kids' lives meaningful. They did it because it made economic sense. And it just doesn't anymore. Like mothers, teenagers have been left high and dry by the receding waters of specialization
So the specialisation needed to contribute in any non-Burger-flippin' "job" in the current Capitalist system is the root cause of the feelings of purposelessness and despair in teengers. Therefore an advanced Capitalist society based on specialisation is prone to teenage revolution.
We'll have to rewrite some major economic theories to solve this one - we have to put dumb teenagers and jocks into R&D and coding jobs to give them something useful and important to do. However Corporations always act to maximise their profits, which would mean that these inexperienced teenagers would be the last people they'll think of hiring for important positions. Looks like American corporations will have to make children a priority instead of $$Profits. We must pass a law that will force all corporations to have a 10% teenage workforce which will do the same jobs as the adults, that'll fix it.
This is typical American corporatism, and you all love it! You pay for your service, you should get to use it whenever you want, however you want. If there's an emergency and the lines get clogged up, then the people who can't use the service they've paid for should be able to sue the Telco for loss of service.
ALL INFRASTRUCTURE MUST BE CAPABLE OF ABSORBING EMERGENCY DEMAND *PLUS* NORMAL DEMAND SIMULTANEOUSLY. Otherwise you've just gotta face the fact that you're building an inferior infrastructure; why not save money on the Internet's backbone routers by assuming that 2am traffic levels are the maximum, then when your routers start crashing during the day just say, "Hey, you should use the routers at 2am, there's no point wasting money by having everybody do it at the same time".
Not exactly. They are selling an access plan to the Internet. If I buy a car, I can choose from various models of car with various accessories
And the corporations think that "car" is a lump of metal with one wheel. If they advertise it's a "car" then they should sell you a "car" with 4 wheels and a steering wheel as it should be. Forget ABS, leather trim, etc.
Many countries have been living with monthly download caps for a while now... 1GB per day is MORE than enough for anyone, even hardcore warez downloaders (30gb/month!) If someone has to download more than 1GB worth of software/music/etc it is easily possible to schedule your downloads.
And a Jew going to live in Texas, I mean what does he expect - his tires are gonna get slashed, he's gonna get beat up for celebrating Honnaka, he's gonna get shot if he goes to the Synagogue. But hey, many countries especially Germany have been living with this for a long time.</sarcasm>
The people can demand freedom and Unlimited downloads, let's all go and throw bricks at our cable providers' headquarters just like all the *normal* non-Geek citizens do when the 1st Amendment is removed. Oh yeah, I forgot that Geeks don't do anything apart from e-mail, ah well you'll just have to put up with it then...
Either dump or control the 1% of customers using 80% of the bandwidth and everyone is happier because NTL can support more (paying) customers on the same bandwidth with better service. The only cost is a bit of bad PR which will evaporate with the noisy users.
These 1Mb cable connections are contended 50:1, so even 1GB a day is 5 peoples' share. It's not unreasonable, but people who have been treated to cheap peak bandwidth on the assumption that they won't use it all the time are getting a lesson in how much it costs.
You're missing the point. They changed their terms and conditions on their website, they didn't get their customers' signatures. Customers purchased an Unlimited bandwidth service for a 1-year fixed contract which cannot be broken by law. Now halfway through this contract they have altered the contract, leaving customers who have signed the 1-year contract with a service that doesn't reflect what they purchased, and are forced to continue purchasing.
It's a bit like if you were to rent a Lincoln from budget.com for 1 year, then 3 months later they come to your house at night and switch it for a 10-year old Chevy without any refund. Then they say, "But we can change the T&C's at any time"
These guys at least deserve a refund because they purchased 1 year of Unlimited GB in advance, and actually get 1GB/day. The cable company has a right to adjust future services for customers, not current services that customers have already paid for, regardless of the fact that they can change the T&C's. Otherwise all T&C's would say, "We can seize the houses of all our customers to pay off our debts". Come on MCI, COME GET ME! It'll be like The Magnificent Seven
But a proper ID system makes it a hell of a lot more difficult to common criminals to commit ID fraud against me
Rubbish. Biometric sensors are easy to fool and spoof. They're also vulnerable to replay attacks, unless you have a damn complicated encryption infrastructure which'll make it vulnerable to DoS attacks and tyranny of a disgruntled police officer. How can a Judge be impartial when all the police officers know who he and his family are, and where they live? In other words, having a reliable ID system is impossible. It's better to take prudent measures such as shredding/burning your letters, and make it illegal for STUPID corporations like CapitalONE to put all your information into an advertisement and send you a pre-filled credit card application with all your personal details written there.
Why the hell should the British people have to suffer because the corporations and some Government agencies treat our personal data like a gigolo treats a prostitute? Simply enforce Data Protection Standards, strengthen some Government agencies, and that should be enough
When I get pissed stuff falls out of my pockets, and if I'm unlucky I'll get stopped without ID, what happens then - you going to arrest me for walking down the street?
The State may abuse its power and abuse the identity system. Heaven forbid. They could go to war, repress an entire race group, raise taxes, collude with big business, detain us without trial and not tell anyone... but damnit don't let them know who we are.
As an ethnic minority, I feel personally threatened by this system. Already I'm victimised because of the colour of my skin, but at least I can change it if necessary like Michael Jackson. However an ID card I cannot subvert without becoming a criminal. I want the Right to Privacy wherever I go, because EVERYBODY goes OUT to work or to the dole office. When bullied children have their ID cards stolen as a joke, and criminals plant their ID cards on innocent citizens and then point the police at them, then you'll see the fun. Then criminals will steal ID cards from old people and give them to their criminal friends. ID cards make everything guilty until proven innocent.
When you get mugged all a criminal has to remember is, "Gimme your wallet and your ID" instead of just "Gimme your wallet". And then splice your photo in.
You mustn't judge a system until weaknesses and countermeasures have been measured, it'll be like releasing PGP without any hAxOrS having a go at it.
Well the trick is to have a system where you can prove your identity, but no-one else can prove they are you. Biometrics is the typical answer
Rubbish, any biometric system can be subverted, just watch Gattaca. The sensor can be fooled, the sensor data can be intercepted, even if encrypted who would set the private key? Remember the Nazis infiltrated the upper echelons of Government, that's who you'd have to fight against, just like binLaden!!!
I suggest you watch the movie Gangs of New York to see how Governments can be subverted.
If the system is succesful, then all Al Qaeda has to do is to put a Bali bomb on 10 Downing Street and the BBC (so nobody can be warned), then issue orders to control the database. They could then post Ricin envelopes to every non-Islamic British person. Remember Governments can be taken over - just look at Grenada which was seized by US special forces. Al Qaeda has 20,000 members at its peak so they could use significant force.
There's no need to come across so strong. The ethical argument is much easier.
If the Chinese Government starts killing innocent people/spammers randomly, then the Chinese people will overthrow the Government. Therefore you're doing a service for freedom. If the actions of US citizens are dictated by the fear of Chinese Government, then the fight for freedom is already lost, might as well sell GPL-PGP to Microsoft, and change US law to make non-corporate licenses like GPL default to Micro$oft.
If the Chinese Government doesn't get overthrown, and keeps killing innocent people, then we're in the same situation that we're in now.
If the Chinese Government starts killing people in other countries for sending an "interesting" spoof weapons-shipment email, then war will be declared and the country will be destroyed.
We've fought hard for freedom in the West, yet you're *afraid* of even upsetting a tyrannical regime overseas. Upset them as much as you like, millions died in 2 world wars to defend your right to attack such regimes peacefully or otherwise. THIS IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE. We've forgotten the meaning of fearing our own Government here in the West, and how to fight it, lessons forgotten are destined to be repeated.
Let them watch cartoons. Do they really need to know about everything bad in the world right when it happens, live?
If you live in the United States, they should watch it, otherwise they'll not fit in at school and get beaten up by jocks. In an oppressive Communism, they won't need to watch the news as this would just build a sense of needing to know in the children, which would get them in trouble with the Stazi or KGB. No point teaching your children to become criminals. Maybe they'd commit a worse offince by using the alphabet you teach them to read the instructions to PGP which is a hanging offence in some oppressive dictatorships (suspicion).
My nephew starts throwing chairs around when I try to teach him the alphabet, so I don't bother, and neither does his father. I mean why do you need to teach your kids to learn the alphabet if all they can do with it is watch propoganda on CNN, and read propoganda in NYTimes and then bitch about the world on Slashdot?
The one thing I wonder is when will a computer beat us at the game of general life - when will robots raise our children better than we can? Already Knowledge Management systems are collecting enough data about our behaviours, when will an intelligence come about that can apply them automatically?
Re:Painful? Yes. Helps long term? I don't see it.
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Another untrue nationalist fable. The EU has prohibited all national government subsidies of industry, including nationalized industries for more than ten years. The EU was doing this before the GATTII round turned into the WTO.
DAMN! Why doesn't the media inform us when the Government fixes these things, I was wondering why the subsidees weren't reported in the news any more, I thought they'd got bored of reporting such a mundane headline. European farmers still get massive subsidees but that isn't in the news any more, I was assuming steel was the same
As a result of the nationalist fable the failure in the Whitehouse has slapped a punitive tarrif on imports of steel. The reason the EU is not retaliating much is that as a direct result their car industry is now much more competative. Instead of importing the raw steel, GM and Ford are going to switch production to the EU and import engines, gearboxes and complete cars.
Bwa ha haaaa! I wonder if globalisation is going to make bonehead US policies completely ineffective, and therefore all Government policies ineffective unless they have general global jurisdiction...
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If that fable was true the European steel industry would have gone as well
Don't forget the European Governments subsidise steel companies.
Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either.
And when the 90% piss away their wealth it'll end up in the hands of the ones who provide expensive services to these people. Thus the wealth moves around and creates a new super-rich who would save money by globalising. Remember corporations can be created, destroyed, bought and sold.
It's not the Golden Era of manufacturing anymore in my part of the US; $25k gross is considered a decent middle-class income here. If you are fortunate to have any financial reserves, they are probably very slim.
Seriously, go to India and code there. They LOVE American foreigners (at least in the regions far away from Afghanistan). You never know they might even send you back to the US as a H-1B???
You have your view of Muslims in general, I have mine, they do not meet. Nothing I say will convince you, and you have failed to convince me. I have Muslim friends, none of them want to kill me or to tax me until I convert (or if they do they have hidden it well for many years).
I'm glad that that's your situation. Many of my friends have been beaten up by young Muslims (sometimes with baseball bats) in Southall, Brick Lane, Green Lanes, East Ham, Canary Wharf, Croydon, Bradford, Manchester. I also have some nice Muslim friends who don't give a crap about the religion and eat pork, and I like them a lot. They also hate these people.
Agnostic Muslim = Good Religous Muslim = Bad
If one follows a book purely, then that book must contain zero passages of violence, ambiguity, hatred or subversion techniques.
Well, apparantly that's what *you* believe, others have different beliefs. Logic hardly ever wins over belief so there is no point in discussing this because our beliefs differ and so your logic probably wouldn't win me over either
One nice man surrounded by a thousand evil men will surely be turned to evil, and may even start believing that evil is good. So at the end of the day, I don't have to convince you, as if the world becomes evil, you yoursef will be inextricably affected.
the Old Testament but that they should be taken together as the church's teachings. There's the stoning a woman to death for picking up sticks bit. The putting homosexuals to death bit. So many other bits of biblical hatred that if you really followed the bible you'd be out killing people now
That's why the UK and US are "free" to some extent - because we ignore the religous nonsense. The leaders of the Muslim people I know don't care about the passages of peace and love, they just preach hate and Sharia Law. I walked into a restaurant in Ilford today and a 7-year old Muslim child seeing that I wasn't Muslim told the chef to put poison in my food so that he could go to heaven. The chef nodded at him approvingly but was unable to do anything as I watched him like a hawk. They gradually exclude you from their society. If you move to Ilford Lane you'll agree with my point of view within a year. Of course if you live in a sheltered part of the Cotswolds, crime doesn't exist and everything I write here can be ignored safely.
I cannot comment on "Jizyah" since I've never heard of it before
It's an extra tax penalty that you must pay if you are not a Muslim
There are Muslim commandments about how people should be treated that these terrorists have broken... and many Muslims around the world live straddling two societies, their religion and their society. They don't agree with the fanatical zealots that would give their lives for their faith, but they can still admire someone whose faith is that strong, in the same way I can admire nuns who take a vow of silence and poverty, and will support their right to do so, without it meaning I think I should do the same thing myself. Admiring a strong faith is not the same thing as necessarily agreeing with the subsequent actions
CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE - The nun who takes a vow of silence is doing it for herself and to herself only. If instead she were to take a vow to stab anybody she sees on the street, one must not admire that vow. The Muslims however are different, they do indeed admire that vow, the vow to kill others of a different religion/faith/freedom/capitalism. Is it moral to admire murderers? If an entire people admire murderers, do those people themselves become carpet-bomable?
I'm glad you seem to be able to speak ex cathedra about what is and what isn't a redundant religion. Is that your personal opinion or a "fact"? And if it is a "fact", why do so many people disagree with it?
ex cathedra? Latin died for a reason, mate. Anyway, the way I look at it is that religion and all religous books are simply lesson 1, which still the vast majority of people cannot understand due to their own voluntary ignorance. The trouble is that voluntary ignorance is a good thing - the Doctor that sees you (I know) doesn't know what the hell he's doing, but we all wish to believe that he does.
To some people, the restrictions of a religion are comforting, it reminds them that God is in their daily lives as they say their grace before meals, their nightly prayers, wash their feet, don't eat during daylight hours during Ramadan, avoid meat on Fridays etc. They believe that "a little suffering is good for the soul".
These people are called "base men" by the top philosophers, and these are the people for whom the Bible, etc. was designed. If one follows a book purely, then that book must contain zero passages of violence, ambiguity, hatred or subversion techniques. The Bible contains some e.g. eye for an eye. The Koran contains lots e.g. Jizyah tax on non-Muslims living in a conquored Muslim state which will gradually increase until the conquored population can no longer afford food and dies off or converts. Since murder is part of the Koran (Jizyah) anybody who truly follows Islam is a terrorist - the only Muslims who are nice are the ones that ignore the Koran and do their own thing, but these people admire and are inspired by the former murderers which is a problem.
The Taliban had a very strong belief in certain concepts as being part of their religion, which included the destruction of priceless artefacts. You and I know this to be bad and wrong, they knew it to be God's revealed will and word. If they are allowed to have "freedom of religion" then should we have a right to stop them expressing their religion (and of course the answer is, hell yes!)
Exactly! The Taliban is just a buzzword though. By my estimation, there are 300 million Muslims who share in the Taliban's destructive beliefs and would follow them if they weren't "oppressed" by British laws, which by their population growth they will be setting in the UK before long. Then under Sharia law you and me will pay 10% of our wages to our Muslim rulers, then 20%, etc. until we either starve to death or convert to Islam, so it is written in the Koran (I'm not joking). The UK is predominantly Christian, but who would know? The Hindus and Irish who have arrived in the UK have also forgotten their heritage in order to "blend in", whereas the Muslims attempt to impose their religion on the native population, now that's the difference. Try to buy non-Halal meat in Afghanistan/Pakistan, you'll be spat at, and your home address will be passed to local gangland killers (my Uncle was killed this way).
You know some very weird Muslims if you get a 70% agreement on views. I am worried by your "Sometimes I grow a long beard..." comment. Many are insular, and many it would seem rightly so (if you scan the BBC website for stuff on Muslims you'll find that a large number of the articles are about Muslims being attacked in the streets, in their mosques and in their homes... how biased this reporting is is hard to tell, but I think it is about as unbiased as we're likely to get in the West... and it shows a continuing oppression and terrorisation of "normal everyday" Muslims whereever they go... if you kick a dog every day, eventually it will bite you, and then you can justify getting out the big gun and shooting it
They're quite typical Pakistani muslims, and have a militant anti-West attitude when they arrive in the UK.
Perhaps we wouldn't have so many rabid fundamentalists and fanatics (of all kinds) if we could reduce hatred in general... but that doesn't seem to be the Western way...
Hatred is profitable - arms sales.
all the leaders of British Muslims have denounced terrorism
Figureheads have no choice, denounce the WTC attacks or we'll put you on TV and send you to jail. Wha counts is what Muslims say behind closed doors, and in their own houses. Remember that in Palestine, Arafat constantly talked of peace whilst daily suicide bombings were taking place.
Our faiths used to have "commandments" and requirements, as a Catholic I should be eating fish on Friday, fasting during Lent, attending church on the holy days of obligation, etc. and our priests should not be abusing small children... it seems we have lost our ability to follow "Gods laws" and many of us have become lazy "Christians"... and then we criticise other religions because they have a dress code. Do you criticise equally the strict Jews who require their women to keep their heads/hair covered? How about the Amish?
Religions *impose* this. That's the problem, you must be free to not follow the religion. If your religion teaches you that freedom is wrong, it's a redundant religion.
... why is being tolerant of outsiders a requirement for a country? I know *I* prefer it, and I assume you do, but that doesn't make it "right", just what we expect of a society. Some people expect a society to provide universal education and healthcare, to provide safety nets for the poorest and the unemployed, to ensure food and shelter, but this is so obviously not globally true (look how much of Africa and South America fails on the healthcare and education to name but two important social concepts, and the "right" to food and shelter is a luxury in far too many countries)
An excellent question which God will answer or not.
"Dark powers are gathering" on every side. There is religious fundamentalism in the USA as well, blowing up abortion clinics and killing doctors, blowing up federal buildings in Oklahoma, planting bombs in Atlanta etc. And let's just take Northern Ireland as read shall we? The Chinese (not particularly Muslim) have made their views on Tibet well known, the Russians (also not predominantly Muslim) have shown how they feel about Chechnya... and then there are the situations within countries ranging from Serbia to El Salvador (and you do remember Rwanda don't you? One MILLION dead, 100,000 still in prison on trial for genocide/murder/etc. where were we then?)... it doesn't take religion to destroy a country, look at the Congo, or Ethiopia, or so many other "third world" countries... yes there are Dark Forces out there, but they aren't (just) Muslims, and if you wiped every Muslim from the face of the planet, you'd just get the next bunch of Waco/Jonestown/KKK/VC/Black Panthers/Opus Dei/whatever declaring it God's will that the unbelievers be converted or destroyed.
The UK has a significant Muslim population which is pacifist and tolerant of others. It also has a small minority of extremists that hide behind the majority to commit acts of terrorism. This is true of the "white christians" in the UK also (see British National Party, Class War etc.) Don't recall the National Socialist (Nazi) party claiming to be Muslims but they are out there too, and growing again in places like Germany...
The Muslims are the only ones with massive funding from Saudi oil money, which is paid for by anybody with a car. Whoops I support terrorism whenever I fill up my tank. Thanks to incompetence, Russia is in the same financial situation as Africa, so inter-warlord hatred and the resultant genocides don't surprise me.
The majority of Muslims in the UK support Osama binLaden, just look at the polls that were conducted after the WTC attacks. Go to Ilford and Bradford and look at the majority of Muslims. Tell them they shouldn't beat their women, tell them they shouldn't cage up their women, tell them they shouldn't force their women to wear bhurka (many Muslim women don't want to). You'll get a punch in the head if you ask Bradford/Ilford/Southall Muslims to allow their women to follow the English way of life. They key is they are against *the freedom*, that's the fundamental difference.
You seem to be arguing that the USA *is* in fact the enemy of the Islamic world, or am I misunderstanding your point?
I hope so, they deserve a good beating after blowing up those ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan. Trouble is the views of those Muslims that blew it up are shared by 70% of the Muslims I know personally. This worries me greatly sometimes. Sometimes I grow a long beard and pretend to be one of them, they're very insular, and many hide a deep anger.
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MANY PEOPLE WILL WILLINGLY TAKE THE BLUE PILL!
I've seen children picking up knives and attacking their parents if they don't get them that stuff, and these children can't take Ritilin before the age of 5 so the Parents just have to withstand that behaviour. This is because a cartoon creates a reality within children's minds, and any advertisement becomes "reality" as a child cannot make a Capitalist judegement call ie. is it worth the money?
A popsicle stick with a picture of the Spice Girls can sell for $100, because it's worth $100 to a parent with a child jumping up and down. If you don't have kids, then you don't have any authority to flame any reply to this post; Parents are genetically willing to die for their children, and thus will obviously be willing to spend an infinite amount of money to fulfil their needs. They are using this business model:
1. Create advertisement to impress child
2. Screaming child at 100dB is louder than an aircraft engine and will damage Parents' hearing. The child is now your advertisement
3. Sell product at a price equivalent to the market price of the value of the Parents' hearing.
We'll have to rewrite some major economic theories to solve this one - we have to put dumb teenagers and jocks into R&D and coding jobs to give them something useful and important to do. However Corporations always act to maximise their profits, which would mean that these inexperienced teenagers would be the last people they'll think of hiring for important positions.
Looks like American corporations will have to make children a priority instead of $$Profits. We must pass a law that will force all corporations to have a 10% teenage workforce which will do the same jobs as the adults, that'll fix it.
ALL INFRASTRUCTURE MUST BE CAPABLE OF ABSORBING EMERGENCY DEMAND *PLUS* NORMAL DEMAND SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Otherwise you've just gotta face the fact that you're building an inferior infrastructure; why not save money on the Internet's backbone routers by assuming that 2am traffic levels are the maximum, then when your routers start crashing during the day just say, "Hey, you should use the routers at 2am, there's no point wasting money by having everybody do it at the same time".
The people can demand freedom and Unlimited downloads, let's all go and throw bricks at our cable providers' headquarters just like all the *normal* non-Geek citizens do when the 1st Amendment is removed. Oh yeah, I forgot that Geeks don't do anything apart from e-mail, ah well you'll just have to put up with it then...
No riot, no result
It's a bit like if you were to rent a Lincoln from budget.com for 1 year, then 3 months later they come to your house at night and switch it for a 10-year old Chevy without any refund. Then they say, "But we can change the T&C's at any time"
These guys at least deserve a refund because they purchased 1 year of Unlimited GB in advance, and actually get 1GB/day. The cable company has a right to adjust future services for customers, not current services that customers have already paid for, regardless of the fact that they can change the T&C's. Otherwise all T&C's would say, "We can seize the houses of all our customers to pay off our debts". Come on MCI, COME GET ME! It'll be like The Magnificent Seven
Why the hell should the British people have to suffer because the corporations and some Government agencies treat our personal data like a gigolo treats a prostitute? Simply enforce Data Protection Standards, strengthen some Government agencies, and that should be enough
When I get pissed stuff falls out of my pockets, and if I'm unlucky I'll get stopped without ID, what happens then - you going to arrest me for walking down the street?
When you get mugged all a criminal has to remember is, "Gimme your wallet and your ID" instead of just "Gimme your wallet". And then splice your photo in.
You mustn't judge a system until weaknesses and countermeasures have been measured, it'll be like releasing PGP without any hAxOrS having a go at it.
Rubbish, any biometric system can be subverted, just watch Gattaca. The sensor can be fooled, the sensor data can be intercepted, even if encrypted who would set the private key? Remember the Nazis infiltrated the upper echelons of Government, that's who you'd have to fight against, just like binLaden!!!I suggest you watch the movie Gangs of New York to see how Governments can be subverted.
If the system is succesful, then all Al Qaeda has to do is to put a Bali bomb on 10 Downing Street and the BBC (so nobody can be warned), then issue orders to control the database. They could then post Ricin envelopes to every non-Islamic British person. Remember Governments can be taken over - just look at Grenada which was seized by US special forces. Al Qaeda has 20,000 members at its peak so they could use significant force.
If the Chinese Government starts killing innocent people/spammers randomly, then the Chinese people will overthrow the Government. Therefore you're doing a service for freedom. If the actions of US citizens are dictated by the fear of Chinese Government, then the fight for freedom is already lost, might as well sell GPL-PGP to Microsoft, and change US law to make non-corporate licenses like GPL default to Micro$oft.
If the Chinese Government doesn't get overthrown, and keeps killing innocent people, then we're in the same situation that we're in now.
If the Chinese Government starts killing people in other countries for sending an "interesting" spoof weapons-shipment email, then war will be declared and the country will be destroyed.
We've fought hard for freedom in the West, yet you're *afraid* of even upsetting a tyrannical regime overseas. Upset them as much as you like, millions died in 2 world wars to defend your right to attack such regimes peacefully or otherwise. THIS IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE. We've forgotten the meaning of fearing our own Government here in the West, and how to fight it, lessons forgotten are destined to be repeated.
My nephew starts throwing chairs around when I try to teach him the alphabet, so I don't bother, and neither does his father. I mean why do you need to teach your kids to learn the alphabet if all they can do with it is watch propoganda on CNN, and read propoganda in NYTimes and then bitch about the world on Slashdot?
The one thing I wonder is when will a computer beat us at the game of general life - when will robots raise our children better than we can? Already Knowledge Management systems are collecting enough data about our behaviours, when will an intelligence come about that can apply them automatically?
Agnostic Muslim = Good
One nice man surrounded by a thousand evil men will surely be turned to evil, and may even start believing that evil is good. So at the end of the day, I don't have to convince you, as if the world becomes evil, you yoursef will be inextricably affected.That's why the UK and US are "free" to some extent - because we ignore the religous nonsense. The leaders of the Muslim people I know don't care about the passages of peace and love, they just preach hate and Sharia Law. I walked into a restaurant in Ilford today and a 7-year old Muslim child seeing that I wasn't Muslim told the chef to put poison in my food so that he could go to heaven. The chef nodded at him approvingly but was unable to do anything as I watched him like a hawk. They gradually exclude you from their society. If you move to Ilford Lane you'll agree with my point of view within a year. Of course if you live in a sheltered part of the Cotswolds, crime doesn't exist and everything I write here can be ignored safely.It's an extra tax penalty that you must pay if you are not a MuslimReligous Muslim = Bad
The majority of Muslims in the UK support Osama binLaden, just look at the polls that were conducted after the WTC attacks. Go to Ilford and Bradford and look at the majority of Muslims. Tell them they shouldn't beat their women, tell them they shouldn't cage up their women, tell them they shouldn't force their women to wear bhurka (many Muslim women don't want to). You'll get a punch in the head if you ask Bradford/Ilford/Southall Muslims to allow their women to follow the English way of life. They key is they are against *the freedom*, that's the fundamental difference.
I hope so, they deserve a good beating after blowing up those ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan. Trouble is the views of those Muslims that blew it up are shared by 70% of the Muslims I know personally. This worries me greatly sometimes. Sometimes I grow a long beard and pretend to be one of them, they're very insular, and many hide a deep anger.Aindows
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