Why are people defending him? Mainly because ravi is not guilty of murder even though the court wanted to punish him as such just to make some kind of stupid social statement.
This is the same crappy logic lobbyists use to justify censorship of all kinds. if it wasn't ravi, it'd've been someone else, or something else eventually. like a video game for instance, or a crap teen movie. anything, really. clementi had issues. Ravi might be a douchebucket, but he is not responsible for clementi's choice to take his life.
not at the expense of that person's rights. the fact is clementi took his own life. it was his choice. Ravi didn't kill him no matter what the bleeding heart everyone-should-be-ultra-sensitive-emotes PC bandwagoneers say. this case probably sets dangerous precedent (if it doesn't exist already) for who's responsible for whose behavior. this guy, douchebag jokester or not, does not deserve 10 years, nor is he responsible for clementi's death.
then the next layer of our society will fall to poverty (info-tech upper middle class), and those companies will find even fewer people able to afford their products. this forces them to cheapen up even more, helping our quality of life spiral ever downward..
1. those 'socialist funded roads' (as well as other infrastructure) are often still in disrepair. meanwhile, the 'socialist government' demands more and more in taxes from citizens and states every year while still borrowing money, depreciating it for everyone else. Ironically, but tellingly, it threatens to pull funding for those very same roads (and schools and other services that the citizens will kneejerk-fear-miss the most) when said local governments/citzens refuse to fall into line.
2. I don't think he is suggesting anarchy.. no strawmen needed here.
3. of course you don't hear them, you don't work there, so how would you know either way?
in a 'social' situation, both types are told what to do by overreaching authority 'for the good of the people.' in capitalism, it's 'for the good of the company.' there really isn't all that much difference between the two as far as citizen contentment goes. A society must respect liberty, freedom, and rights first and foremost, if it is to keep the ideological 'isms' in check.
You are forgetting one key component: freedom. You can have a capitalist/socialist hybrid system (like the US) and still have your freedoms trampled.. Protected rights are a key component of a happy, productive society.
isms generally are bad things when taken to extremes, like most political parties would like.. then they blame the other side(s) for the inevitable collapses when their ideologies aren't congruent with reality.
this only applies to robot world.. in reality land, assuming square holes and demanding square pegs gives us what we have now, 40+ hour work weeks in inefficient bureaucracies.
1. that's what they do now. the future will bring 'enhancements.' theoretically we have a hand in local politics, but in many municipalities today, it's actually a racket made up of politicians, law enforcement, civilian vendors, and lobbyists. voting alone does not prevent these groups from ripping citizens off at citizens' expense no less (taxes fund these 'safety programs').
2. the problem is that people who get the tickets aren't always guilty. the cameras are misconfigured to maximize profit (short yellows, bad license plate text OCR heuristics). receiving a cite in the mail stating the recipient is guilty unless he can prove otherwise is a rights violation..
3. I have yet to see a government system that allows one to trust it. If anything, governments prove the axiom of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' no matter how convoluted the anti-corruption design is on the outset. it's just a matter of time.
state income. it's basically another tax.. the fuel consumption thing sounds even more suspect.. how is the cop supposed to know the optimal fuel economy for your vehicle? in that case going too slow would also get you a cite.. unless of course the real goal was to hit you up for speeding without calling it that, which is the most likely..
why? at 50 or 65, you'll still kill whoever you hit, and the probability of hitting someone doesn't change much from 50 to 65..esp on a limited access road. these limits are for $$$ only. safety is only the excuse.. if the work truly required traffic to slow, they'd either close the road, or reroute traffic with jersey barriers.
well, when all other avenues fail because the owner is many orders of magnitude more powerful and connected than you are, and he goes out of his way to rob you of money by misconfiguring his 'property' with state backing, it does not surprise me that most people would cheer on this 'vandalism'.. as a property owner, one of your responsibilities is to keep your property in such a way as to minimize its negative impact on other people. if you choose to be a dick with it, then I say no holds barred.
..or maybe sanctimonious preacher pricks like you could wake up and realize these deliberately mis-configured cameras are a part of the broad based attack on the state-theft of citizen money...
in the grand scheme, do you really want every little decision you make in life judged and recorded by a computer for a nice after-the-fact monday night quarterbacking by some state official?
1. speed is only one component of safety and lower is not automatically safer. 2. insurance does not protect you on the road either. it only protects you from an overlitigious culture/state which in turn benefits insurance companies... 3. the components of safe driving are: skill, awareness, good vehicle condition. if safety (and not self righteous preaching) is your real concern, these are the things we should focus on.
the people who go 50 in the left hand lane also don't give a shit either. Their selfish projection that everyone should move at their pace and those who don't have the time are just flat stupid is a good example of passive-aggressive behavior coming from a severe insecurity/inferiority complex. They say things like "why shouldn't everyone care more about the children" while thinking "why shouldn't the world move at my personal pace and style? it makes me feel powerful"
ah..the black and white world of childhood.. if only everyone were like $X, Y would = 1 and we'd have utopia!
the only roads with 55mph+ limits are limited access roads anyway.. even when those roads pass by a popularted area, there's no safety reason not to drive faster during normal conditions. they vary the limits on those roads just to make speed traps more convenient to set up...and more profitable.
Ok then it's about time that companies quit demanding that employees give their lives/prove their 'loyalty'/work excessive hours/sacrifice work/life balance/hand over all intellectual property in contracts etc.
only do gooder types whose lives match up perfectly with the brown nose lifestyle or the ultra rich qualify for donations anyway, so it's likely he's not missing out on much.
you must not use your desktops for much of anything then. a tablet interface on a desktop is little different than using a keyboard to drive a car. it can be done, but the effort is hardly worth it and you lose a lot of capability in the process.
xbox actually fits the model better than a desktop does. not great mind you, but not as bad as it's closer to a tablet single use device than a PC.
while I agree with your assessment about microsoft, apple is pulling this touch interface on desktop crap too.. 10.7 and the upcoming 10.8 are steps in that direction. ugh.. this three pronged attack on my desktop worries me (ms, apple, and oss).
The big fallacy people seem to make on this topic is that newer = better. This is not always the case. It's great that a new class of device has revolutionized certain tasks, but forcing their interface onto existing systems that cover the rather large corner cases for them REDUCES choice for those who need/prefer these other systems. This is being done completely for marketing reasons. There is no benefit to the consumer at all.
Have a touch based tuned environment for touch devices, and a traditional desktop environment for desktops.. make it an install and/or control panel option as it is something you'd know up front you want (you are installing on a tablet or a full PC). what ms is doing is forcing touch environments on traditional desktops by having the traditional desktop buried as a metro app that forces you to go back to it to select new applications. making application launch, task switching, and window management visually disruptive moves on a phone might make sense, but not on a desktop with a 23" monitor. tacking mouse support into this 'fullscreen start menu' doesn't help its case either.
Finally, I dont' consider giving touch platforms 'a boost' at the expense of desktops a good thing.. they should both sink or swim on their own merits as they serve different needs as surely as a hummer H1 and F1 mclaren do. (there's your car analogy!)
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Why are people defending him? Mainly because ravi is not guilty of murder even though the court wanted to punish him as such just to make some kind of stupid social statement.
This is the same crappy logic lobbyists use to justify censorship of all kinds. if it wasn't ravi, it'd've been someone else, or something else eventually. like a video game for instance, or a crap teen movie. anything, really. clementi had issues. Ravi might be a douchebucket, but he is not responsible for clementi's choice to take his life.
not at the expense of that person's rights. the fact is clementi took his own life. it was his choice. Ravi didn't kill him no matter what the bleeding heart everyone-should-be-ultra-sensitive-emotes PC bandwagoneers say. this case probably sets dangerous precedent (if it doesn't exist already) for who's responsible for whose behavior. this guy, douchebag jokester or not, does not deserve 10 years, nor is he responsible for clementi's death.
sorry, if you decouple healthcare, companies will just pocket the difference as profit and continue as before.
then the next layer of our society will fall to poverty (info-tech upper middle class), and those companies will find even fewer people able to afford their products. this forces them to cheapen up even more, helping our quality of life spiral ever downward..
kinda biased, no?
1. those 'socialist funded roads' (as well as other infrastructure) are often still in disrepair. meanwhile, the 'socialist government' demands more and more in taxes from citizens and states every year while still borrowing money, depreciating it for everyone else. Ironically, but tellingly, it threatens to pull funding for those very same roads (and schools and other services that the citizens will kneejerk-fear-miss the most) when said local governments/citzens refuse to fall into line.
2. I don't think he is suggesting anarchy.. no strawmen needed here.
3. of course you don't hear them, you don't work there, so how would you know either way?
in a 'social' situation, both types are told what to do by overreaching authority 'for the good of the people.' in capitalism, it's 'for the good of the company.' there really isn't all that much difference between the two as far as citizen contentment goes. A society must respect liberty, freedom, and rights first and foremost, if it is to keep the ideological 'isms' in check.
You are forgetting one key component: freedom. You can have a capitalist/socialist hybrid system (like the US) and still have your freedoms trampled.. Protected rights are a key component of a happy, productive society.
isms generally are bad things when taken to extremes, like most political parties would like.. then they blame the other side(s) for the inevitable collapses when their ideologies aren't congruent with reality.
this only applies to robot world.. in reality land, assuming square holes and demanding square pegs gives us what we have now, 40+ hour work weeks in inefficient bureaucracies.
1. that's what they do now. the future will bring 'enhancements.' theoretically we have a hand in local politics, but in many municipalities today, it's actually a racket made up of politicians, law enforcement, civilian vendors, and lobbyists. voting alone does not prevent these groups from ripping citizens off at citizens' expense no less (taxes fund these 'safety programs').
2. the problem is that people who get the tickets aren't always guilty. the cameras are misconfigured to maximize profit (short yellows, bad license plate text OCR heuristics). receiving a cite in the mail stating the recipient is guilty unless he can prove otherwise is a rights violation..
3. I have yet to see a government system that allows one to trust it. If anything, governments prove the axiom of 'absolute power corrupts absolutely' no matter how convoluted the anti-corruption design is on the outset. it's just a matter of time.
state income. it's basically another tax.. the fuel consumption thing sounds even more suspect.. how is the cop supposed to know the optimal fuel economy for your vehicle? in that case going too slow would also get you a cite.. unless of course the real goal was to hit you up for speeding without calling it that, which is the most likely..
why? at 50 or 65, you'll still kill whoever you hit, and the probability of hitting someone doesn't change much from 50 to 65..esp on a limited access road. these limits are for $$$ only. safety is only the excuse.. if the work truly required traffic to slow, they'd either close the road, or reroute traffic with jersey barriers.
well, when all other avenues fail because the owner is many orders of magnitude more powerful and connected than you are, and he goes out of his way to rob you of money by misconfiguring his 'property' with state backing, it does not surprise me that most people would cheer on this 'vandalism'.. as a property owner, one of your responsibilities is to keep your property in such a way as to minimize its negative impact on other people. if you choose to be a dick with it, then I say no holds barred.
..or maybe sanctimonious preacher pricks like you could wake up and realize these deliberately mis-configured cameras are a part of the broad based attack on the state-theft of citizen money...
in the grand scheme, do you really want every little decision you make in life judged and recorded by a computer for a nice after-the-fact monday night quarterbacking by some state official?
1. speed is only one component of safety and lower is not automatically safer.
2. insurance does not protect you on the road either. it only protects you from an overlitigious culture/state which in turn benefits insurance companies...
3. the components of safe driving are: skill, awareness, good vehicle condition. if safety (and not self righteous preaching) is your real concern, these are the things we should focus on.
the people who go 50 in the left hand lane also don't give a shit either. Their selfish projection that everyone should move at their pace and those who don't have the time are just flat stupid is a good example of passive-aggressive behavior coming from a severe insecurity/inferiority complex. They say things like "why shouldn't everyone care more about the children" while thinking "why shouldn't the world move at my personal pace and style? it makes me feel powerful"
ah..the black and white world of childhood.. if only everyone were like $X, Y would = 1 and we'd have utopia!
the only roads with 55mph+ limits are limited access roads anyway.. even when those roads pass by a popularted area, there's no safety reason not to drive faster during normal conditions. they vary the limits on those roads just to make speed traps more convenient to set up...and more profitable.
right because by the time you get to the bottom of his list, the law will be so draconian it will be IMPOSSIBLE to obey.
Ok then it's about time that companies quit demanding that employees give their lives/prove their 'loyalty'/work excessive hours/sacrifice work/life balance/hand over all intellectual property in contracts etc.
the issue is the ability to determine if braindeath has occurred is not fool proof.
only do gooder types whose lives match up perfectly with the brown nose lifestyle or the ultra rich qualify for donations anyway, so it's likely he's not missing out on much.
I dont' see a difference.. whether this is arrogant fanboism or a rip on apple, ipad and its competitors do the same things by and large..
no that is not what he said.
ad hominem.
you must not use your desktops for much of anything then. a tablet interface on a desktop is little different than using a keyboard to drive a car. it can be done, but the effort is hardly worth it and you lose a lot of capability in the process.
xbox actually fits the model better than a desktop does. not great mind you, but not as bad as it's closer to a tablet single use device than a PC.
while I agree with your assessment about microsoft, apple is pulling this touch interface on desktop crap too.. 10.7 and the upcoming 10.8 are steps in that direction. ugh.. this three pronged attack on my desktop worries me (ms, apple, and oss).
The big fallacy people seem to make on this topic is that newer = better. This is not always the case. It's great that a new class of device has revolutionized certain tasks, but forcing their interface onto existing systems that cover the rather large corner cases for them REDUCES choice for those who need/prefer these other systems. This is being done completely for marketing reasons. There is no benefit to the consumer at all.
Have a touch based tuned environment for touch devices, and a traditional desktop environment for desktops.. make it an install and/or control panel option as it is something you'd know up front you want (you are installing on a tablet or a full PC). what ms is doing is forcing touch environments on traditional desktops by having the traditional desktop buried as a metro app that forces you to go back to it to select new applications. making application launch, task switching, and window management visually disruptive moves on a phone might make sense, but not on a desktop with a 23" monitor. tacking mouse support into this 'fullscreen start menu' doesn't help its case either.
Finally, I dont' consider giving touch platforms 'a boost' at the expense of desktops a good thing.. they should both sink or swim on their own merits as they serve different needs as surely as a hummer H1 and F1 mclaren do. (there's your car analogy!)