All that will do is inflate the currency accordingly. Prices will go up because that's what the market will bear. Next you'll suggest state mandated price fixing... This has been tried before.
So you want to tax wage earners so you can, in turn, pay everyone a stipend that comes with a debt+interest burden? With today's western governments running deficits, that's essentially what you're suggesting. You're crazy. You can't just print money when people need/want more.
It's washington's terrorism paranoia (or convenient excuse to clobber liberty) that created this situation in the first place, and now the president is trying to make up for it with some publicity stunt? A solution fixes the problem. It does not brush it under the rug and hopes it goes away.
When it: 1. Installs without permission 2. makes any unnecessary network connections 3. tracks the user and uploads any data not relevant to functionality (with or without permission, mandatory or not) 4. injects code into the bootloader, filesystem, or anywhere else that's not strictly necessary 5. localfunction/desktop software that requires the user to 'log on' to a vendor portal and/or has 'dead man' switches that require subscriptions (adobe suite) 6. abuses system GUI conventions (skinned applications) 7. is bundled with irrelevant 3rd party plugins, addons, or extensions for marketing purposes (browser search toolbars, apple itunes/quicktime on windows etc)
There's no reason to suspend him, send him to juvenile detention, and force him to write a 'statement' for some kind of show trial. Schools are out of control.
Yup. All wrong. No one's been able to secure much of anything these days. As a result, mission critical equipment like personal vehicles should not have unnecessary complexity or connectivity. Let owner's cellphone do that for auxiliary purposes only (music streaming, navigation etc).
Microsoft is not responsible for that. Laptop vendors test microsoft's products on their own equipment. Why don't you hold ms responsible when your laptop fails to sleep properly? Right, it's the hardware vendor's fault for lack of support and/or documentation.
No. It's a choice based on the fact that over complexity has a way of magnifying minor errors into major fuck ups. What you prefer and what makes you safer aren't always the same thing. I'm unhappy people are rushing into vehicle automation before the technology is ready (or secure for that matter). It increases my chances of getting killed by your car when it decides to slam the brakes at speed because of a software glitch, or a misanthrope with a laptop on an overpass..
Eh come on, the 'afraid of change' mantra is a tired refrain at this point. There are valid criticisms to unnecessary complexity and change. Such features CAN save lives. They can also cost them if the rather rigid assumptions set by the designers/programmers (or assumed by politicians) are not true. As a result, I prefer to have more control over a simpler device.
Seems to me they spend too much time playing paddy cake to avoid conflict of any sort, no matter what civil rights they give up in the process. This is when they're not asking the USA to do their dirty work while simultaneously calling the country a bunch of warmongers. How typically marxist of them.
Perhaps you don't pledge to your flags because your flags don't stand for anything the individual finds worth in saluting. That's atrophying here in america, too, thanks to the idiocy in washington, and it's saddening. It's killing the understanding of the importance of individual freedom and liberty.
Yes, Europeans are subject to propaganda but unlike you, we don't believe it.
Ah, so it's ok to generalize americans as being idiots, but not europeans? Got it. Sounds like the average iq isn't any better on the other side of the pond. The criticisms coming from the european contingent here on slashdot sound very much like idiots parroting anti-US propaganda. Congratulations: You're no better than the average bill oreilly fan.
The existence of a law is a terrible way to justify something. Laws are just codified opinions of the (usually) technically uninformed. Laws that force the use of safety 'features' that only add safety under certain conditions while causing serious distractions in others, just make the uneducated driving public even less attentive and more distracted behind the wheel.
Also accept that safety is not guaranteed. Gimmicks like these, at best, grant dimishing-return safety, and only when certain assumptions are true. They aren't always. That's why there's resistance to them.
Part of that decision making process also lies with the dead. They chose to take the risk of driving. Welcome to life. It is not others responsibility to make sure you are 100% safe at their own expense. Not only is it an oppressive imposition, it's not possible to accomplish.
if you have ABS, the car is already deciding when you can brake and when you can't.
Not exactly. ABS is (mostly) a fixed response to a fixed input, and even with that there are situations where it's better to have it disabled. Systems like 'automatic braking' are using (shitty) heuristics to decide when to brake for you.
if you have an automatic transmission, the "gas" pedal is merely a "suggestion" to the system that actually controls the throttle.
Agreed, and there's already been issues with such systems. The answer isn't more needless complexity.
if you are driving on public roadways you have already agreed to follow whatever regulations the government has decided to impose on you
That doesn't mean those impositions are rational or valid.
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You talk like that's a good thing. All that funny business is what's causing the problems we have now.
That money does not just come from nowhere.
You're proposing that all elements in the market place making up the GDP do what exactly? Where is all this money going to come from?
You talk like that's a good thing..
All that will do is inflate the currency accordingly. Prices will go up because that's what the market will bear. Next you'll suggest state mandated price fixing... This has been tried before.
So you want to tax wage earners so you can, in turn, pay everyone a stipend that comes with a debt+interest burden? With today's western governments running deficits, that's essentially what you're suggesting. You're crazy. You can't just print money when people need/want more.
A lot of that budget is funded from borrowed money..off the taxpayer's back. There is no free money.
It's not free. Someone's paying for it: the German taxpayer.
It's washington's terrorism paranoia (or convenient excuse to clobber liberty) that created this situation in the first place, and now the president is trying to make up for it with some publicity stunt? A solution fixes the problem. It does not brush it under the rug and hopes it goes away.
When it:
1. Installs without permission
2. makes any unnecessary network connections
3. tracks the user and uploads any data not relevant to functionality (with or without permission, mandatory or not)
4. injects code into the bootloader, filesystem, or anywhere else that's not strictly necessary
5. localfunction/desktop software that requires the user to 'log on' to a vendor portal and/or has 'dead man' switches that require subscriptions (adobe suite)
6. abuses system GUI conventions (skinned applications)
7. is bundled with irrelevant 3rd party plugins, addons, or extensions for marketing purposes (browser search toolbars, apple itunes/quicktime on windows etc)
You misread me. None was necessary.
There's no reason to suspend him, send him to juvenile detention, and force him to write a 'statement' for some kind of show trial. Schools are out of control.
..or avoid software altogether if they can't/won't write secure code.
Yup. All wrong. No one's been able to secure much of anything these days. As a result, mission critical equipment like personal vehicles should not have unnecessary complexity or connectivity. Let owner's cellphone do that for auxiliary purposes only (music streaming, navigation etc).
Microsoft is not responsible for that. Laptop vendors test microsoft's products on their own equipment. Why don't you hold ms responsible when your laptop fails to sleep properly? Right, it's the hardware vendor's fault for lack of support and/or documentation.
Talk about delusional.. Have you ever been off-road before?
No. It's a choice based on the fact that over complexity has a way of magnifying minor errors into major fuck ups. What you prefer and what makes you safer aren't always the same thing. I'm unhappy people are rushing into vehicle automation before the technology is ready (or secure for that matter). It increases my chances of getting killed by your car when it decides to slam the brakes at speed because of a software glitch, or a misanthrope with a laptop on an overpass..
Eh come on, the 'afraid of change' mantra is a tired refrain at this point. There are valid criticisms to unnecessary complexity and change. Such features CAN save lives. They can also cost them if the rather rigid assumptions set by the designers/programmers (or assumed by politicians) are not true. As a result, I prefer to have more control over a simpler device.
Seems to me they spend too much time playing paddy cake to avoid conflict of any sort, no matter what civil rights they give up in the process. This is when they're not asking the USA to do their dirty work while simultaneously calling the country a bunch of warmongers. How typically marxist of them.
Perhaps you don't pledge to your flags because your flags don't stand for anything the individual finds worth in saluting. That's atrophying here in america, too, thanks to the idiocy in washington, and it's saddening. It's killing the understanding of the importance of individual freedom and liberty.
Yes, Europeans are subject to propaganda but unlike you, we don't believe it.
Ah, so it's ok to generalize americans as being idiots, but not europeans? Got it. Sounds like the average iq isn't any better on the other side of the pond. The criticisms coming from the european contingent here on slashdot sound very much like idiots parroting anti-US propaganda. Congratulations: You're no better than the average bill oreilly fan.
The existence of a law is a terrible way to justify something. Laws are just codified opinions of the (usually) technically uninformed. Laws that force the use of safety 'features' that only add safety under certain conditions while causing serious distractions in others, just make the uneducated driving public even less attentive and more distracted behind the wheel.
Also accept that safety is not guaranteed. Gimmicks like these, at best, grant dimishing-return safety, and only when certain assumptions are true. They aren't always. That's why there's resistance to them.
very cool.
Part of that decision making process also lies with the dead. They chose to take the risk of driving. Welcome to life. It is not others responsibility to make sure you are 100% safe at their own expense. Not only is it an oppressive imposition, it's not possible to accomplish.
Your assumption that it's always safer is the problem.
if you have ABS, the car is already deciding when you can brake and when you can't.
Not exactly. ABS is (mostly) a fixed response to a fixed input, and even with that there are situations where it's better to have it disabled. Systems like 'automatic braking' are using (shitty) heuristics to decide when to brake for you.
if you have an automatic transmission, the "gas" pedal is merely a "suggestion" to the system that actually controls the throttle.
Agreed, and there's already been issues with such systems. The answer isn't more needless complexity.
if you are driving on public roadways you have already agreed to follow whatever regulations the government has decided to impose on you
That doesn't mean those impositions are rational or valid.