If too many people want to do something you can't stop them even if they don't have majority of the vote (and I bet when they did many would not be bright enough to vote for it-- it takes a super majority.)
I've had friends equate other items with money they gave to dates where they were only interested in sex with the woman. They didn't see it as paying for sex because they worked a bit for a few dates (maybe had fun too) and spent about as much money either way. The lying / misleading they did to get what they want seemed ok/necessary to them and that is where I objected to it - they didn't see what was wrong with it on the grounds "everybody else does it." Yet they would find moral objections to prostitution when that doesn't make them act dishonest.
If you legalized drugs you would likely cut down on the bad parts of prostitution, perhaps lower it a little bit.
I could go further to some my divorced friends who kept up a pretense for too long and after marriage dropped it... ending the marriage rather quickly. Although, in this case sex wasn't the sole motivation but it was similar in that they "bought" love in the same way they found sex...
Artists can use lies to point out the truth - fallacies can be used to make indirect points just as fictional stories can represent truths and the bible can be allegorical but can be "true".... (Which directly ties into another related issue-- the people who take the whole bible literally...)
Colbert routinely makes silly arguments which are the same or analogous to the ones he is parodying. Many of the fallacies he uses are the SAME and he uses the COMMON method of illustrating false reasoning with crazy examples. Satire uses such methods ALL THE TIME. Another method is reductio ad absurdum, which is more difficult to use seriously because argumentative people can nit pick the whole path - a formal one is more like a legal contract and is not funny. Anyhow, many times I've seen him use the SAME words with the variables swapped out as the people he is parodying - yet some people attack him for doing what he is attacking others for doing using satire! He illustrates hypocrisy all the time; unfortunately, he may be making it more acceptable in the way he does it. (Just like Archie Bunker made racists more likable.)
Some people think it is a sad sign that Colbert can be viewed as REAL by so many people. This is a result of those viewers poor judgment and today's sick political climate. Irony, logical fallacies, reductio ad absurdum, and other satirical methods that intentionally go to extremes of analogy for humor and effectiveness end up MIRRORING the crazy extremists who seriously take positions too close to the satire!! I can't recall any right now but there were a few times with Colbert was ahead of the right wing fringe!
People in the USA use so many resources and have such a high standard of living that the world can not sustain it forever. Long ago I read a paper where the conclusion was that if you gave everybody EU standards of living (surely lower than USA back then) the planet and economy could only sustain less than 2 billion people.
In terms of resources, I would put the USA at 4x the EU per person - so that is a lot less people. The USA doesn't have the resources to sustain its current population. Now if standards of living came down a lot... then it would be possible.
Now economically, the USA can't sustain itself and hasn't been able to do so arguably since the manifest destiny period! I'm not merely basing this position on the decades of severe trade deficits... although that is enough of a problem in itself.
If you want to talk about starving to death, then naturally things could get really bad before levels get that high-- but that would be ignoring the fact millions worldwide ARE starving to death many times as a result of inequitable trade policies that favor the rich nations. The real world will NOT model the simple biological simulations - or even that of actual animal populations because human behavior is a big factor in how such things play out.
One could limit the population to meaningful jobs in which case it would probably never hit a billion. Consumerism is promoted because its important to the function of this over populated system to find work for people... Like how George Jetson's job is to press the ON button on the computer and keep the boss feeling important while the computers do ALL the real work...
You'd think all that hype around how democratic activists all over Iran were using modern communications to organize and protest that are popular in the USA and run on the internet... would remind people as to WHY you need an internet that is not easily killed by government. Iran had strong controls but it still took them a long time to lock down their networks. Now they want to build-in what Iran wanted and ended up to some degree creating??
King of England. Technically you can use a better label if you want but his power was sufficient enough.
Arguably less power than previous Kings but still more power than some dictators; sure they had Parliament but it was still gaining power and autonomy - and likely the driving force that undermined the royalty was the big money interests who were allowed too much power and wanted more; conveniently, they had a venue to formally exercise and expand that power.
I didn't say absolute power; I said near absolute which is still subjective. Arguably it was more civil because had he gone too far, some relative would have taken over (and did) but this to me is just a minor difference. Napoleon wasn't completely immune from his government either.
Go against the powerful forces who are benefiting from the system they manipulate results in the whole sphere of their influence going against you! The only way to have a lot of power is to do what the powerful want and want to continue to do it-- as long as you don't go against the flow in any major way they will let you along for the ride. This is why Bush appeared to have so much power and why Obama has so little but can get some work done because he is tacking against the wind (arguably he is still losing ground overall) and people like Alan Grayson get popular and that is about the extent of it.... unless they run for president and get shut down like Howard Dean did.
Ever notice how Dean seemed to get pushed out of his DNC spot? They had a push against him even getting the position and I doubt he could get it again today - his timing was perfect for when he squeaked in. The new guy has been influenced in the past to break from the law so I don't trust him any more than Steele over at the GOP (who's not as much of an idiot as he appears. Some of his plans will prove to be successful long term.)
The US system was based around the concept of dividing powers; not only the isolation of government power into separate but equal branches but also in terms of representation, where location and population were separate but mostly equal (the senate has a little more power - but then it used to represent state government; therefore, it should have lost its edge when it stopped representing the states.) Then we had state and federal separations. They broke up power to keep it from its naturally corrupting nature to a minimum. Term cycles and later on term limits also are a result of this thinking. The 4th branch was defined as being nearly immune from government to the point of not structuring it or properly defining it (if they had kept going it may have been) - they even went so far as to put 3% of the GDP into subsidizing the press and the post office was used to deliver the media as well.
The reason power limitation was so central to their design philosophy was due to a dictator with near absolute power they just had a war with.
Inheritance tax was created on the SAME BASIS in order to prevent an elite class who owned everything creating Feudalism (which was enforced by military and not literally by land rights not that a variation based upon land rights indirectly enforced wouldn't amount to the same thing.)
Corporations had no real power and individuals were more susceptible to accountability. The civil war is when the system broke down and it has never recovered and power has accumulated in the shadows --- ever since creating new loopholes and growing to be more powerful. Until we have today where the democracy functionally powerless and the republic exploited by the plutocracy. Its been going on rather brashly since Nixon but until Bush 2 most people were ignorant of it. Possibly a majority still are...
Anyhow, high taxes on the wealthy were put in place to limit individual power and corporate regulations and taxes attempted to do the same but neither was strong enough after the civil war so like a leak in a dam -- it grew bigger and bigger; the outcome is easily predictable. In fact, Ben Franklin understood this well and gave a great ending speech at the constitutional convention (the end part is usually left out because its too realistic.)
We stopped learning civils in any form in the USA. Don't think this was for any other reason than the powerful found it troublesome and convinced people it was not needed. You see the problem is when you let power accumulate some of those people are clever enough to leverage that power in ways that are not obvious to the public so a majority does not get upset enough to oppose it. Power is worse than money - you never have enough.
Democratic systems always fail when the majority starts letting things slip bye and then fester over time corrupting the system and the populace itself; we don't have the Roman distractions for voters - we have so much more powerful distractions we don't need their primitive entertainment and terrorism. We also have well studied methods from history and psychology on how to manipulate the masses - not that we need to excel over what was done in history - the public isn't any less susceptible now than back then.
Obviously I left out a bunch from this posting... there is a lot going on over a long span of time; some is planned and most is emerging patterns based upon the environmental conditions of the time. I can easily predict the next crash like I did the previous one, because the groundwork is all there and I'm not a believer in the preaching that goes on or entertained by the distractions. Both parties for the most part are distractions on top of distractions.
The roads work great - everybody has some complaints but they WORK and they are everywhere and benefit the communities that have them beyond their cost. Business wouldn't go to a city without roads. The argument for citywide internet is GREATER than a football or baseball stadium - although those have plenty of corrupt power pushing them forward at the expense of the citizens.
I can't imagine comcast managing and building roads even half as good as government. We have officials get into trouble over roads and something happens we also sometimes have an actual VOTE on some aspect of it-- with a monopoly we get no input and there is no accountability at all.
USB 2 wasn't as fast as claimed. firewire consistently beat it everytime despite the theoretically higher bandwidth promoted by USB 2. In addition, its design made it poor for some situations. While USB cost less due to its primitive nature, high speed USB 2 devices ended up with just as much overhead but the mass production kept them cheaper (and that firewire was seen as a premium feature.)
Instead of hacking old methods to create complex and STILL lacking new versions can't we finally start to produce some new standards that are good at what they do and won't need to be hacked further? USB3's hack to stick TWO different kinds of connections into 1 expensive cable is ridiculous!
I'd like something that took the best of USB and firewire and had the bandwidth to kill off Display Port.... LightPeak looks like it could be the solution! But they'll probably come up with something wrong in the protocol because some nerd doesn't want to waste a few bytes so it can be flexible enough to address some future issue which will end up in a version 2.... Add a few extra unused fibers to the cable; create a means for speed control so we don't have version 1,2,3 cables as well... and USE ONLY ONE KIND OF PLUG!
PLEASE make LightPeak have a little overhead; it has the bandwidth! If the hardware costs more for a while, it'll come back down eventually.
We don't need something to replace SATA; because SATA is specialized and speed/cost needy it will always win over a generic solution. Consumer level devices could skip it but the pros will want the benefits of a niche standard and cost will likely end up with internal drives using the same thing.
California is in debt due to a bad economy, a huge illegal population that doesn't pay into the system, and MOSTLY DUE TO poor management resulting from the voters being unable to elect good managers over good campaigners.
California budgets are locked in law leaving very little left over that can be changed and to make changes you need a super majority higher than the constant filibusters that have kept the US Senate from doing much to fix this depression. Filibusters are a core source of budgetary problems for both California and the US Senate; and they disrespect the constitution by hacking the operating procedures - its a DoS attack plain and simple (except their program stops once a DoS attack is detected... our computers would work so much faster if we did that...)
I think 50 years ago was just fine and we don't need to go beyond what was done then for the most part. Today we are going too far; the TFA gives a few examples.
Being cruel is not the issue. Its not a slippery slope (which is a fallacy BTW and rather silly to use in such a way.) It is a complex issue without a simple line that can be drawn on a spectrum. I'm ONLY referring to common sense, not actually useful measures like poison warning labels.
I suppose you feel that something in the system is wrong when you read about each years darwin award contenders? The system was supposed to save them somehow right?
Some idiot sterilizes himself by doing something stupid and we spend a ton of money having smart people not just save him but also restore fertility...
Government is continually doing things for our own good as a guise for other motives which is yet another reason to hold back on all this protectionism BS. 1 person dies of something and then we all have to adjust because 1 in the next million might repeat it. We'll put effort into that because politicians get temporary traction while long term battles like cancer sacrifice a few resources (or other problem that is not self afflicted.)
No there are more teachers than jobs because teachers are getting laid off all over the nation because their unions don't have the pull to counter all the PORK spending that is not cut and continues to be added to budgets by more influential forces.
Plenty of jobs are underpaid yet they find workers who either want the job OR just NEED work. Some jobs are so low that Americans do not want them so then illegals take them; not because the job is so horrible but because the pay is too low for the work. Do we want teachers paid so bad that nobody wants to become a teacher BECAUSE the pay is so low.... then hire illegals to do the work? There are already good teachers who are doing other jobs because it takes a lifetime to make a good wage as a teacher.
We didn't get from some stupid ape-like creatures to where we are today by putting great effort into saving the stupid so they can reproduce. If you believe science has the best answers on where we come from then you can't deny that the smart reproducing in larger numbers was important and should to some degree be respected today. As opposed to the other extreme where we save everybody from themselves to the point where a terminally ill person can't pull their own plug.
If people DIE from doing stupid things then others hear about it and become more careful; those that do not have the "common sense" end up dead either way.
Perhaps the impact of such social policies are becoming noticeable in that common sense seems less common today?? (or maybe just in the media where these people get too much airtime. Stupid seems to be more entertaining... and to be informative is less profitable.)
"A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as 'Daniel'. "
No I have not!!! WTF? I did in no way equate justice and revenge!
Let me help you understand what I wrote:
Justice does not mean giving prison sentences. Revenge does not mean giving prison sentences.
Prison should not be associated with physical or sexual abuse (which is a veiled threat; a terrorist threat at that.)
Prison is costly and and wasteful.
The purpose of prison is not far from locking up a wild animal. It does not get let lose until it is tame; not at a set time period.
Punishment is a different issue and can in some cases involve a "time out" by caging a person but can involve a great deal more things.
It is especially foolish to equate punishment and prison by placing those being punished with the "wild animals." At least separation of pot heads means they free other pot heads to make room and not violent nutcases. BTW, since Reagan we've put nutcases in the prison system instead of nuthouses. As far as killers, some are nuts and others are just being punished. Sane killers differ greatly and one should consider what benefit to society there is to punishing MANY of them for life at great expense.
A rapist could be punished by an amputation...and then let to go free... The impact of their crime can easily last a lifetime - one could argue that is justice and not revenge. But locking them up for a few years then releasing without any effective preventative measures is not justice its a time out.
A pedophile is sick in the head. I would argue for a class of nuthouses for them where its likely most would never be cured; but I would make it productive and less prison like; they are sick pathetic creatures and may be functional members of society outside of the sickness.
In fact, technology may be such that someday they can be monitored 24/7 and just go to therapy. I'm not sure we should allow nutcases out today where if they forget to pop a pill they may kill somebody...more technology to assure they take their medication is required.
Should you get jail time for speeding? You get a fine.
Why can't he get a fine? or be barred from IT work for X years? What is the point of locking him in a cage like a rabid animal? punishment can take many forms.
Conspiracy happens every day. Most USA politicians conspire for a living to do the bidding of their corporate masters. The word conspiracy used to not be loaded with anti-thought connotations. In fact, its quite likely some PR people working for government or industry helped destroy the word conspiracy; I wonder how much harder it is to convict some people of criminal conspiracy as a result of this word losing its meaning? (not that conspiracy law was ever fair in the 1st place, that is another issue.)
Today, Nixon would never have been caught for the watergate conspiracy; true the redefinition of "conspiracy" would not be the sole cause but it would play a significant role in Nixon getting away with it.
As far as the US military.... if HAARP could do things other than simple radio messages they'd probably have studied it long ago and it would still be classified so we can only guess what it is if anything and wonder if they'd ever deploy it and risk exposure of its existence - resulting in reverse engineering by the enemy; as is the case when any new weapon is discovered by the other side. The US military has been involved in far more conspiracies than most Americans could comprehend that are KNOWN and surely have more that are unknown. A recent but simple example would be Pat Tillman.
We do know the Pentagon has taken climate change seriously and has assessed its benefits and threats and some papers are public on this - not about controlling it, but on understanding how it will impact our military and economic strength. We do better than most nations according to their estimate, so I could see them not caring about its relative impact on our security because the rest the world gets hit harder. I highly doubt they are doing anything as far as weather control; other government groups are talking about how to mitigate climate change so if the Pentagon is thinking about it, they will be thinking about how to mitigate things for us and minimize the benefits for nations we do not like. It is likely we can't avoid helping everybody when we start climate engineering so I doubt they are giving it any serious thought at this time. BTW, Climate engineering is getting serious attention these days and I predict will be the path the big pollution nations take instead of cutting emissions; despite the risks and objection of most the poor nations. Politics is all about conspiracies.
1st mistake is calling it stealing. It is a copy, if it was stolen then the employer would be missing something and would be asking for it back.
It may or may not cause harm but what can you expect when you purposely try to blur work and home to get extra free labor from employees and blur the distinction between friend/family and work to also take advantage of employees? Employees are not going to respond to all that quite the same if work would just stay in its role in their lives.
Cops are government. Many rules limit government but do not limit private parties. Sometimes government has to go to 3rd, 4th, or 5th parties to get around its limitations. If this is a public school, then one could argue government, civil rights etc. If this is google then you have to find some law you can use to go after them in criminal court and/or civil court
The Pirate Party is a fringe 1 issue group and not a conventional party. Besides your simplistic idealism does not work in the real world when you have the USA claiming it can kidnap or kill anybody anywhere even its own citizens for national security purposes and parts of the US government (military parts at that) are trying to label wikileaks as a really serious security threat. This is not ticking off a nation, this is ticking off a HUGE empire who has flagrantly violated international law just recently. The Pirate Party of Sweden is probably the LAST stronghold of actually free speech outside of actual US enemy nations.... which would seriously look bad if any form of partnership was formed... as well as raise legitimate legal issues.
Not all those who fire upon American troops are Taliban; defending their home or not - they have their subcultures just as we have. The actual Taliban numbers are low and of that group it has subgroups such as Al Qaeda.
A video game with a lame story isn't expected to make such complex distinctions when the media in the USA doesn't do it.
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"Laws too severe are seldom obeyed" -Franklin
If too many people want to do something you can't stop them even if they don't have majority of the vote (and I bet when they did many would not be bright enough to vote for it-- it takes a super majority.)
I've had friends equate other items with money they gave to dates where they were only interested in sex with the woman. They didn't see it as paying for sex because they worked a bit for a few dates (maybe had fun too) and spent about as much money either way. The lying / misleading they did to get what they want seemed ok/necessary to them and that is where I objected to it - they didn't see what was wrong with it on the grounds "everybody else does it." Yet they would find moral objections to prostitution when that doesn't make them act dishonest.
If you legalized drugs you would likely cut down on the bad parts of prostitution, perhaps lower it a little bit.
I could go further to some my divorced friends who kept up a pretense for too long and after marriage dropped it... ending the marriage rather quickly. Although, in this case sex wasn't the sole motivation but it was similar in that they "bought" love in the same way they found sex...
Artists can use lies to point out the truth - fallacies can be used to make indirect points just as fictional stories can represent truths and the bible can be allegorical but can be "true".... (Which directly ties into another related issue-- the people who take the whole bible literally...)
Colbert routinely makes silly arguments which are the same or analogous to the ones he is parodying. Many of the fallacies he uses are the SAME and he uses the COMMON method of illustrating false reasoning with crazy examples. Satire uses such methods ALL THE TIME. Another method is reductio ad absurdum, which is more difficult to use seriously because argumentative people can nit pick the whole path - a formal one is more like a legal contract and is not funny. Anyhow, many times I've seen him use the SAME words with the variables swapped out as the people he is parodying - yet some people attack him for doing what he is attacking others for doing using satire! He illustrates hypocrisy all the time; unfortunately, he may be making it more acceptable in the way he does it. (Just like Archie Bunker made racists more likable.)
Some people think it is a sad sign that Colbert can be viewed as REAL by so many people.
This is a result of those viewers poor judgment and today's sick political climate. Irony, logical fallacies, reductio ad absurdum, and other satirical methods that intentionally go to extremes of analogy for humor and effectiveness end up MIRRORING the crazy extremists who seriously take positions too close to the satire!! I can't recall any right now but there were a few times with Colbert was ahead of the right wing fringe!
People in the USA use so many resources and have such a high standard of living that the world can not sustain it forever. Long ago I read a paper where the conclusion was that if you gave everybody EU standards of living (surely lower than USA back then) the planet and economy could only sustain less than 2 billion people.
In terms of resources, I would put the USA at 4x the EU per person - so that is a lot less people. The USA doesn't have the resources to sustain its current population. Now if standards of living came down a lot... then it would be possible.
Now economically, the USA can't sustain itself and hasn't been able to do so arguably since the manifest destiny period! I'm not merely basing this position on the decades of severe trade deficits... although that is enough of a problem in itself.
If you want to talk about starving to death, then naturally things could get really bad before levels get that high-- but that would be ignoring the fact millions worldwide ARE starving to death many times as a result of inequitable trade policies that favor the rich nations. The real world will NOT model the simple biological simulations - or even that of actual animal populations because human behavior is a big factor in how such things play out.
One could limit the population to meaningful jobs in which case it would probably never hit a billion. Consumerism is promoted because its important to the function of this over populated system to find work for people...
Like how George Jetson's job is to press the ON button on the computer and keep the boss feeling important while the computers do ALL the real work...
You'd think all that hype around how democratic activists all over Iran were using modern communications to organize and protest that are popular in the USA and run on the internet... would remind people as to WHY you need an internet that is not easily killed by government. Iran had strong controls but it still took them a long time to lock down their networks. Now they want to build-in what Iran wanted and ended up to some degree creating??
King of England. Technically you can use a better label if you want but his power was sufficient enough.
Arguably less power than previous Kings but still more power than some dictators; sure they had Parliament but it was still gaining power and autonomy - and likely the driving force that undermined the royalty was the big money interests who were allowed too much power and wanted more; conveniently, they had a venue to formally exercise and expand that power.
I didn't say absolute power; I said near absolute which is still subjective. Arguably it was more civil because had he gone too far, some relative would have taken over (and did) but this to me is just a minor difference. Napoleon wasn't completely immune from his government either.
Go against the powerful forces who are benefiting from the system they manipulate results in the whole sphere of their influence going against you! The only way to have a lot of power is to do what the powerful want and want to continue to do it-- as long as you don't go against the flow in any major way they will let you along for the ride. This is why Bush appeared to have so much power and why Obama has so little but can get some work done because he is tacking against the wind (arguably he is still losing ground overall) and people like Alan Grayson get popular and that is about the extent of it.... unless they run for president and get shut down like Howard Dean did.
Ever notice how Dean seemed to get pushed out of his DNC spot? They had a push against him even getting the position and I doubt he could get it again today - his timing was perfect for when he squeaked in. The new guy has been influenced in the past to break from the law so I don't trust him any more than Steele over at the GOP (who's not as much of an idiot as he appears. Some of his plans will prove to be successful long term.)
The US system was based around the concept of dividing powers; not only the isolation of government power into separate but equal branches but also in terms of representation, where location and population were separate but mostly equal (the senate has a little more power - but then it used to represent state government; therefore, it should have lost its edge when it stopped representing the states.) Then we had state and federal separations. They broke up power to keep it from its naturally corrupting nature to a minimum. Term cycles and later on term limits also are a result of this thinking. The 4th branch was defined as being nearly immune from government to the point of not structuring it or properly defining it (if they had kept going it may have been) - they even went so far as to put 3% of the GDP into subsidizing the press and the post office was used to deliver the media as well.
The reason power limitation was so central to their design philosophy was due to a dictator with near absolute power they just had a war with.
Inheritance tax was created on the SAME BASIS in order to prevent an elite class who owned everything creating Feudalism (which was enforced by military and not literally by land rights not that a variation based upon land rights indirectly enforced wouldn't amount to the same thing.)
Corporations had no real power and individuals were more susceptible to accountability. The civil war is when the system broke down and it has never recovered and power has accumulated in the shadows --- ever since creating new loopholes and growing to be more powerful. Until we have today where the democracy functionally powerless and the republic exploited by the plutocracy. Its been going on rather brashly since Nixon but until Bush 2 most people were ignorant of it. Possibly a majority still are...
Anyhow, high taxes on the wealthy were put in place to limit individual power and corporate regulations and taxes attempted to do the same but neither was strong enough after the civil war so like a leak in a dam -- it grew bigger and bigger; the outcome is easily predictable. In fact, Ben Franklin understood this well and gave a great ending speech at the constitutional convention (the end part is usually left out because its too realistic.)
We stopped learning civils in any form in the USA. Don't think this was for any other reason than the powerful found it troublesome and convinced people it was not needed. You see the problem is when you let power accumulate some of those people are clever enough to leverage that power in ways that are not obvious to the public so a majority does not get upset enough to oppose it. Power is worse than money - you never have enough.
Democratic systems always fail when the majority starts letting things slip bye and then fester over time corrupting the system and the populace itself; we don't have the Roman distractions for voters - we have so much more powerful distractions we don't need their primitive entertainment and terrorism. We also have well studied methods from history and psychology on how to manipulate the masses - not that we need to excel over what was done in history - the public isn't any less susceptible now than back then.
Obviously I left out a bunch from this posting... there is a lot going on over a long span of time; some is planned and most is emerging patterns based upon the environmental conditions of the time. I can easily predict the next crash like I did the previous one, because the groundwork is all there and I'm not a believer in the preaching that goes on or entertained by the distractions. Both parties for the most part are distractions on top of distractions.
The roads work great - everybody has some complaints but they WORK and they are everywhere and benefit the communities that have them beyond their cost. Business wouldn't go to a city without roads. The argument for citywide internet is GREATER than a football or baseball stadium - although those have plenty of corrupt power pushing them forward at the expense of the citizens.
I can't imagine comcast managing and building roads even half as good as government. We have officials get into trouble over roads and something happens we also sometimes have an actual VOTE on some aspect of it-- with a monopoly we get no input and there is no accountability at all.
USB 2 wasn't as fast as claimed. firewire consistently beat it everytime despite the theoretically higher bandwidth promoted by USB 2. In addition, its design made it poor for some situations. While USB cost less due to its primitive nature, high speed USB 2 devices ended up with just as much overhead but the mass production kept them cheaper (and that firewire was seen as a premium feature.)
Instead of hacking old methods to create complex and STILL lacking new versions can't we finally start to produce some new standards that are good at what they do and won't need to be hacked further? USB3's hack to stick TWO different kinds of connections into 1 expensive cable is ridiculous!
I'd like something that took the best of USB and firewire and had the bandwidth to kill off Display Port.... LightPeak looks like it could be the solution! But they'll probably come up with something wrong in the protocol because some nerd doesn't want to waste a few bytes so it can be flexible enough to address some future issue which will end up in a version 2.... Add a few extra unused fibers to the cable; create a means for speed control so we don't have version 1,2,3 cables as well... and USE ONLY ONE KIND OF PLUG!
PLEASE make LightPeak have a little overhead; it has the bandwidth! If the hardware costs more for a while, it'll come back down eventually.
We don't need something to replace SATA; because SATA is specialized and speed/cost needy it will always win over a generic solution. Consumer level devices could skip it but the pros will want the benefits of a niche standard and cost will likely end up with internal drives using the same thing.
What about internet radio which they barred from using their AAC codec? will free radio or almost all radio be free to use AAC now? and without fees?
How many corps in the 70s+ had SOFT or software at the end of their names?
Clearly nobody went around stopping that...
Then there are fads with COM, COMM, Bell, mart, tree, micro, tech, sys, systems, .com....
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California is in debt due to a bad economy, a huge illegal population that doesn't pay into the system, and MOSTLY DUE TO poor management resulting from the voters being unable to elect good managers over good campaigners.
California budgets are locked in law leaving very little left over that can be changed and to make changes you need a super majority higher than the constant filibusters that have kept the US Senate from doing much to fix this depression. Filibusters are a core source of budgetary problems for both California and the US Senate; and they disrespect the constitution by hacking the operating procedures - its a DoS attack plain and simple (except their program stops once a DoS attack is detected... our computers would work so much faster if we did that...)
Life IS harsh; you are sheltered.
I think 50 years ago was just fine and we don't need to go beyond what was done then for the most part. Today we are going too far; the TFA gives a few examples.
Being cruel is not the issue. Its not a slippery slope (which is a fallacy BTW and rather silly to use in such a way.) It is a complex issue without a simple line that can be drawn on a spectrum. I'm ONLY referring to common sense, not actually useful measures like poison warning labels.
I suppose you feel that something in the system is wrong when you read about each years darwin award contenders? The system was supposed to save them somehow right?
Some idiot sterilizes himself by doing something stupid and we spend a ton of money having smart people not just save him but also restore fertility...
Government is continually doing things for our own good as a guise for other motives which is yet another reason to hold back on all this protectionism BS. 1 person dies of something and then we all have to adjust because 1 in the next million might repeat it. We'll put effort into that because politicians get temporary traction while long term battles like cancer sacrifice a few resources (or other problem that is not self afflicted.)
No there are more teachers than jobs because teachers are getting laid off all over the nation because their unions don't have the pull to counter all the PORK spending that is not cut and continues to be added to budgets by more influential forces.
Plenty of jobs are underpaid yet they find workers who either want the job OR just NEED work. Some jobs are so low that Americans do not want them so then illegals take them; not because the job is so horrible but because the pay is too low for the work. Do we want teachers paid so bad that nobody wants to become a teacher BECAUSE the pay is so low.... then hire illegals to do the work? There are already good teachers who are doing other jobs because it takes a lifetime to make a good wage as a teacher.
We didn't get from some stupid ape-like creatures to where we are today by putting great effort into saving the stupid so they can reproduce. If you believe science has the best answers on where we come from then you can't deny that the smart reproducing in larger numbers was important and should to some degree be respected today. As opposed to the other extreme where we save everybody from themselves to the point where a terminally ill person can't pull their own plug.
If people DIE from doing stupid things then others hear about it and become more careful; those that do not have the "common sense" end up dead either way.
Perhaps the impact of such social policies are becoming noticeable in that common sense seems less common today?? (or maybe just in the media where these people get too much airtime. Stupid seems to be more entertaining... and to be informative is less profitable.)
"A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as 'Daniel'. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7901025/Palestinian-jailed-for-rape-after-claiming-to-be-Jewish.html
(sorry about the link source but i wasn't going to dig for a better one.)
The US government wouldn't conspire to make Assange look bad! The tin foil hat conspiracy nuts must be idle today ;-)
No I have not!!! WTF? I did in no way equate justice and revenge!
Let me help you understand what I wrote:
Justice does not mean giving prison sentences.
Revenge does not mean giving prison sentences.
Prison should not be associated with physical or sexual abuse (which is a veiled threat; a terrorist threat at that.)
Prison is costly and and wasteful.
The purpose of prison is not far from locking up a wild animal. It does not get let lose until it is tame; not at a set time period.
Punishment is a different issue and can in some cases involve a "time out" by caging a person but can involve a great deal more things.
It is especially foolish to equate punishment and prison by placing those being punished with the "wild animals." At least separation of pot heads means they free other pot heads to make room and not violent nutcases. BTW, since Reagan we've put nutcases in the prison system instead of nuthouses. As far as killers, some are nuts and others are just being punished. Sane killers differ greatly and one should consider what benefit to society there is to punishing MANY of them for life at great expense.
A rapist could be punished by an amputation...and then let to go free... The impact of their crime can easily last a lifetime - one could argue that is justice and not revenge. But locking them up for a few years then releasing without any effective preventative measures is not justice its a time out.
A pedophile is sick in the head. I would argue for a class of nuthouses for them where its likely most would never be cured; but I would make it productive and less prison like; they are sick pathetic creatures and may be functional members of society outside of the sickness.
In fact, technology may be such that someday they can be monitored 24/7 and just go to therapy. I'm not sure we should allow nutcases out today where if they forget to pop a pill they may kill somebody...more technology to assure they take their medication is required.
Should you get jail time for speeding?
You get a fine.
Why can't he get a fine? or be barred from IT work for X years? What is the point of locking him in a cage like a rabid animal? punishment can take many forms.
Conspiracy happens every day. Most USA politicians conspire for a living to do the bidding of their corporate masters. The word conspiracy used to not be loaded with anti-thought connotations. In fact, its quite likely some PR people working for government or industry helped destroy the word conspiracy; I wonder how much harder it is to convict some people of criminal conspiracy as a result of this word losing its meaning? (not that conspiracy law was ever fair in the 1st place, that is another issue.)
Today, Nixon would never have been caught for the watergate conspiracy; true the redefinition of "conspiracy" would not be the sole cause but it would play a significant role in Nixon getting away with it.
As far as the US military.... if HAARP could do things other than simple radio messages they'd probably have studied it long ago and it would still be classified so we can only guess what it is if anything and wonder if they'd ever deploy it and risk exposure of its existence - resulting in reverse engineering by the enemy; as is the case when any new weapon is discovered by the other side. The US military has been involved in far more conspiracies than most Americans could comprehend that are KNOWN and surely have more that are unknown. A recent but simple example would be Pat Tillman.
We do know the Pentagon has taken climate change seriously and has assessed its benefits and threats and some papers are public on this - not about controlling it, but on understanding how it will impact our military and economic strength. We do better than most nations according to their estimate, so I could see them not caring about its relative impact on our security because the rest the world gets hit harder. I highly doubt they are doing anything as far as weather control; other government groups are talking about how to mitigate climate change so if the Pentagon is thinking about it, they will be thinking about how to mitigate things for us and minimize the benefits for nations we do not like. It is likely we can't avoid helping everybody when we start climate engineering so I doubt they are giving it any serious thought at this time. BTW, Climate engineering is getting serious attention these days and I predict will be the path the big pollution nations take instead of cutting emissions; despite the risks and objection of most the poor nations. Politics is all about conspiracies.
1st mistake is calling it stealing. It is a copy, if it was stolen then the employer would be missing something and would be asking for it back.
It may or may not cause harm but what can you expect when you purposely try to blur work and home to get extra free labor from employees and blur the distinction between friend/family and work to also take advantage of employees? Employees are not going to respond to all that quite the same if work would just stay in its role in their lives.
Cops are government. Many rules limit government but do not limit private parties. Sometimes government has to go to 3rd, 4th, or 5th parties to get around its limitations. If this is a public school, then one could argue government, civil rights etc. If this is google then you have to find some law you can use to go after them in criminal court and/or civil court
The Pirate Party is a fringe 1 issue group and not a conventional party. Besides your simplistic idealism does not work in the real world when you have the USA claiming it can kidnap or kill anybody anywhere even its own citizens for national security purposes and parts of the US government (military parts at that) are trying to label wikileaks as a really serious security threat. This is not ticking off a nation, this is ticking off a HUGE empire who has flagrantly violated international law just recently. The Pirate Party of Sweden is probably the LAST stronghold of actually free speech outside of actual US enemy nations.... which would seriously look bad if any form of partnership was formed... as well as raise legitimate legal issues.
The EU passed the USA years back for biggest economy. If China is now #2 then the USA is #3.
Not all those who fire upon American troops are Taliban; defending their home or not - they have their subcultures just as we have. The actual Taliban numbers are low and of that group it has subgroups such as Al Qaeda.
A video game with a lame story isn't expected to make such complex distinctions when the media in the USA doesn't do it.