Reading all the way through the article, the article concludes with the author claiming that government would be better if it was run by people like him.
People in the west have NEVER been as free as they are now.
Speaking just about the United States, and just about political freedom (i.e. ignoring the misleading issue of technology freeing people from physical labor, etc.), freedom peaked aound 1900. Slavery had ended, and the era of big government destroying individual rights had not yet made much headway.
Just looking around the room I'm sitting in, there are about 2000 items, and the only thing I can find that hasn't been in some manner made worse by government is the soil in the plant pots.
You need to look at a dictionary. Technocracy is just another form of tyranny by a self-elected elite, in this case an elite that claims it rules in the name of efficiency and practicality.
Your evaluation of philosophers as not being punished for sloppy work is spot-on, as far as professional teachers and devisers of philosophies is concerned. However, everybody and every government has a set of principles to guide their actions, and that set of principles constitutes a philosophy. Better philosophies tend toward better results.
Like many laws, this was overkill. Many older people have several body parts that are badly degraded, and the weakness of one part stresses other parts. At death the doctor or coroner has to choose something, and if there's nothing prominent he has to choose something bogus like "cardiac arrest", when "old age" would have been closer to the truth.
It's not uncommon for a death certificate to say cause of death was A and B, caused by C and D, in turn caused by E and F. Why not just say "the old buzzard was 115, he just wore out"?
I've heard about, and seen, too many examples of running not being good for you. The endorphins produced by extended running produce results similar to other mind-degrading drugs: if your career depends upon topflight mental performance, you will lose your edge if you run long distances frequently. Run long distances at oxygen-deficit levels (particularly in polluted air), and unless you consume adequate supplements you'll see signs of accelerated aging (wrinkles) within a year.
Pain is a big clue that you're doing something wrong. If you run until you hurt, or until your body produces chemicals to dull pain (endorphins), you're damaging yourself.
That is the beauty of open source governance: you don't have to participate if you don't want to. The important distinction is that you _can_ participate whenever you think you need to.
Concentrated benefits, diffused costs, is already a severe problem that bloats government and brings up the complaint of "special interests". Your description of "open source goverance" sounds like a description of how the problem will be made worse.
When a company institutes censorship or engages in corrupt processes that hurt you, its consumer, you always have the option (even if it is very inconvenient) to deal with another company (provided that it's not a government enforced monopoly). When the government engages in censorship or becomes thoroughly corrupt, there's no workaround. That the government might be limited by law to regulate just some aspects of the internet does not mean that it will not attempt to control all aspects. Remember, the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US consitution was used as an excuse to regulate elevators.
Failing to check occasionally is negligence, and actually is to the tennant's disadvantage. As a tennant my whole adult life (the last 40 years) I am slightly worse off financially (by about $1000) due to landlords failing to inspect for damage (caused by natural degradation of the dwelling) that ended up getting worse due to failure to repair in a timely manner. (Hey, I'm a tennant. What do I know about rotting in the eaves?) A scheduled inspection every 2 months or so, properly marketed as a benefit to the renter, is a win-win.
As I understand it, in the US if Joe shoots Steve in a manner than will cause Steve to bleed to dead in 5 minutes, then Harry chops off Steve's head before Steve has died, it's Harry that's guilty of murder.
You're being very generous in your assumptions. I doubt that the systems could be installed for less than $100 in cars that don't already have some sort of video display. I also doubt that it's going to save many lives; people who can't see behind themselves generally back up very slowly, allowing potential victims to move away or make noise. People backing carelessly and rapidly aren't going to be paying attention to a display, either.
If something like this is mandated, there ought to be exceptions for vehicles that meet certain rear vision requirements.
Batteries easily achieve 1 kilowatt-hour per cubic foot. Inverters and transformers are smaller than that. 15 kWh easily fits in a small clothes-closet, for one night's storage. (ignoring cooling requirements, this is just for a volume estimate.) Most homes could accomodate that with a little thought.
And I deplore the arguments of people who don't bother to run through the math that their posts imply. Slashdot user IDs are near 2e6, plus ACs brings the total to well over 2e6. That implies over 2e10 people on the planet, off by a factor of over 3.
The quest for money is the most empty and fruitless thing in life
So, providing for your old age, so that you won't be a burden on your family, neghbors, and country, bleeding them to their deaths, that is the most empty and fruitless thing in life? How shallow. Money is the reward for production, and used for buying the productive effort of others. The earlier a person learns to be productive, and the more productive he is, the better a person he is (other things being equal).
A farmer near me had to save a young calf from coyotes. Children are less safe from coyotes than they are from like-sized domestic dogs, such as pit bulls.
This was a jury trial. Some lawyers are particularly good at swaying juries, even to the point of going against established law. Patrick Henry, for example.
First, companies frequently hire for positions that don't really exist yet. You can't develop a new product line and then, on the day you are ready to start production, suddenly say "Oh by golly, we've got to hire people to make this stuff."
Second, his career was damaged, not destroyed, by being terminated. What has destroyed his career is suing Seagate. No rational employer will look at his history, see that he cost Seagate about 2 million dollars and loads of bad publicity, and even let him on their property, let alone hire him. It is not just a sign of someone who'll cost the company money, but someone who'll be a whiner and a troublemaker even if he doesn't sue.
If a person can't live in luxury for a lifetime on $1,900,000.00, he's too grossly incompetent to have earned a living as a "yield engineer" in the first place.
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Reading all the way through the article, the article concludes with the author claiming that government would be better if it was run by people like him.
Surprise, surprise.
Speaking just about the United States, and just about political freedom (i.e. ignoring the misleading issue of technology freeing people from physical labor, etc.), freedom peaked aound 1900. Slavery had ended, and the era of big government destroying individual rights had not yet made much headway.
Just looking around the room I'm sitting in, there are about 2000 items, and the only thing I can find that hasn't been in some manner made worse by government is the soil in the plant pots.
You need to look at a dictionary. Technocracy is just another form of tyranny by a self-elected elite, in this case an elite that claims it rules in the name of efficiency and practicality.
Your evaluation of philosophers as not being punished for sloppy work is spot-on, as far as professional teachers and devisers of philosophies is concerned. However, everybody and every government has a set of principles to guide their actions, and that set of principles constitutes a philosophy. Better philosophies tend toward better results.
Like many laws, this was overkill. Many older people have several body parts that are badly degraded, and the weakness of one part stresses other parts. At death the doctor or coroner has to choose something, and if there's nothing prominent he has to choose something bogus like "cardiac arrest", when "old age" would have been closer to the truth.
It's not uncommon for a death certificate to say cause of death was A and B, caused by C and D, in turn caused by E and F. Why not just say "the old buzzard was 115, he just wore out"?
Too much law is a curse.
I've heard about, and seen, too many examples of running not being good for you. The endorphins produced by extended running produce results similar to other mind-degrading drugs: if your career depends upon topflight mental performance, you will lose your edge if you run long distances frequently. Run long distances at oxygen-deficit levels (particularly in polluted air), and unless you consume adequate supplements you'll see signs of accelerated aging (wrinkles) within a year.
Pain is a big clue that you're doing something wrong. If you run until you hurt, or until your body produces chemicals to dull pain (endorphins), you're damaging yourself.
Your chart is missing tortoises, which outlive humans by a substantial margin and (usually) weigh less.
Many people believe in god, too. Many believe in Santa Claus. Belief has no causal relation to reality.
"Alot" is not a word.
Concentrated benefits, diffused costs, is already a severe problem that bloats government and brings up the complaint of "special interests". Your description of "open source goverance" sounds like a description of how the problem will be made worse.
When a company institutes censorship or engages in corrupt processes that hurt you, its consumer, you always have the option (even if it is very inconvenient) to deal with another company (provided that it's not a government enforced monopoly). When the government engages in censorship or becomes thoroughly corrupt, there's no workaround. That the government might be limited by law to regulate just some aspects of the internet does not mean that it will not attempt to control all aspects. Remember, the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US consitution was used as an excuse to regulate elevators.
Government is the problem
Rouge is Fe2O3. The satellite was rusty.
Failing to check occasionally is negligence, and actually is to the tennant's disadvantage. As a tennant my whole adult life (the last 40 years) I am slightly worse off financially (by about $1000) due to landlords failing to inspect for damage (caused by natural degradation of the dwelling) that ended up getting worse due to failure to repair in a timely manner. (Hey, I'm a tennant. What do I know about rotting in the eaves?) A scheduled inspection every 2 months or so, properly marketed as a benefit to the renter, is a win-win.
As I understand it, in the US if Joe shoots Steve in a manner than will cause Steve to bleed to dead in 5 minutes, then Harry chops off Steve's head before Steve has died, it's Harry that's guilty of murder.
You're being very generous in your assumptions. I doubt that the systems could be installed for less than $100 in cars that don't already have some sort of video display. I also doubt that it's going to save many lives; people who can't see behind themselves generally back up very slowly, allowing potential victims to move away or make noise. People backing carelessly and rapidly aren't going to be paying attention to a display, either.
If something like this is mandated, there ought to be exceptions for vehicles that meet certain rear vision requirements.
Obama has already removed his only mask.
Batteries easily achieve 1 kilowatt-hour per cubic foot. Inverters and transformers are smaller than that. 15 kWh easily fits in a small clothes-closet, for one night's storage. (ignoring cooling requirements, this is just for a volume estimate.) Most homes could accomodate that with a little thought.
I believe it was Andrew Jackson (of whom I am no fan) who said "You've made your decision, now enforce it."
Some others should be considered worthless with proper understanding of the first ten.
And I deplore the arguments of people who don't bother to run through the math that their posts imply. Slashdot user IDs are near 2e6, plus ACs brings the total to well over 2e6. That implies over 2e10 people on the planet, off by a factor of over 3.
Coppers catch copper coppers who cop a plea on copper caper.
So, providing for your old age, so that you won't be a burden on your family, neghbors, and country, bleeding them to their deaths, that is the most empty and fruitless thing in life? How shallow. Money is the reward for production, and used for buying the productive effort of others. The earlier a person learns to be productive, and the more productive he is, the better a person he is (other things being equal).
I notice that all your "solutions" involve taxing.
Theft, even when it's the government that practices it, is never a net good.
A farmer near me had to save a young calf from coyotes. Children are less safe from coyotes than they are from like-sized domestic dogs, such as pit bulls.
"face" in a telecomunications context. Such as "interface"? Someone needs to beat them in the face with a clue stick.
This was a jury trial. Some lawyers are particularly good at swaying juries, even to the point of going against established law. Patrick Henry, for example.
First, companies frequently hire for positions that don't really exist yet. You can't develop a new product line and then, on the day you are ready to start production, suddenly say "Oh by golly, we've got to hire people to make this stuff."
Second, his career was damaged, not destroyed, by being terminated. What has destroyed his career is suing Seagate. No rational employer will look at his history, see that he cost Seagate about 2 million dollars and loads of bad publicity, and even let him on their property, let alone hire him. It is not just a sign of someone who'll cost the company money, but someone who'll be a whiner and a troublemaker even if he doesn't sue.
If a person can't live in luxury for a lifetime on $1,900,000.00, he's too grossly incompetent to have earned a living as a "yield engineer" in the first place.