I generally agree with what you said, but you exaggerated a bit.
There are a few places where the version of communism they are calling "trekonomy" works besides a star ship. Besides modern militaries and families, many religious institutions use something similar. Nuns and Monks are clear examples. So do non-evil prison systems - they don't charge the inmates for food, clothing, etc. Note the highly authoritarian system for all of those categories - military, family, religioun and prisoners.
But yeah, the idea that it is going to be adopted by the general population is stupid. Not all of us want to live like a soldier/child/nun/prisoner.
2. That does not change the fact that the economy portrayed in the show is a version of communism. That is the scientific term for the economic system they used.
3. Morons that think calling 'communism' "STAR TREK ECONOMY" will somehow hide what it is should be laughed at.
4. Communism is ALSO the system used by almost all modern militaries and families. You don't charge your kids for the use of the house. Nor do you charge Fighter pilots for the use of the plane, fuel, bombs, etc.
5. While Communism works pretty well within the military and within Families, it SUCKS for a general economy. See Russia, Cuba, North Korea for prime examples.
6. WE WILL NOT EVER END UP USING COMMUNISM / 'STAR TREK ECONOMY' FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION. That battle was fought and Communism lost during the 20th century.
7. A 'post scarcity' economy is a false idea. there will always be scarcity - fuel, ideas, certain types of entertainment, sex, will ALWAYS be scarce. Merely because we will have solved the scarcity of the original commodities - food, clothing, certain types of products, does not mean nothing will ever be scarce again.
Look, it isn't unreasonable for the police to search a home of someone they found trespassing.
If they bring charges on anything beyond trespassing, that would be unreasonable and very wrong.
But, who wants to bet that the kid was white keep in mind they did not pressed charges.
If the kid had been black....
Chances are pretty good you won't have to pay them $100. Hell, I know a lawyer that would write a letter for free - on the contingency that should they ignore the letter, then I would hire him to go further.
What makes you think aliens aren't doing it already? If they are doing it, we wouldn't care. Because we couldn't notice - anymore than the rats do. Those rats will definitely do a lot better than the rats that I called the exterminator on last week.
The main problem with your argument is that you are granting greater capabilities to the rats than they have. I'm not talking about hypothetical souls, I'm talking about comprehensive power. The rats are not smart enough to understand any of what we are proposing doing to them.
Secondly, as below, as above fails many ways. It is not transitive. Just as humans ascribe greater rights to a intellectually challenged human than we do to mammals and greater rights to mammals than we do to bacteria (you don't hear about bacteria abuse cases), intelligent aliens should grant greater rights a talking, tool using humans than they do to non-talking, non-tool using mammals. If they don't, then they are no better than criminals that abuse animals.
Rights are not an all or nothing affair - they are granted based on various factors, including intelligence.
Throw in some control traits that are weird, but not "advantageous" per se.
For example, I am a supertaster. Sure, technical it makes it much harder to poison me. But it also means I am surrounded by food that has been over-seasoned for my taste and I have to keep telling people "NO SAUCE", and I can't enjoy a 'good' beer, wine, coffee, etc.
82.5%, 92.5%, or even 95% is WORTHLESS when it comes to lies. We need something along the lines of 99.99% to even begin to consider it helpful.
Let's say we have a school of 200 students, one of whom pulls a prank. Teachers apply the test to all 200 students and they get 35 people that failed the lie detector - but only of them did it. Worthless information.
You correctly identified the point of the article but failed to recognize the point of my post.
Go back and read it, paying particular attention to the stuff I bolded.
People bold things because they are the most important part. If you re-read my post, you can see that the most important part was yelling at idiots for telling Google their gender, then complaining about what Google did with that information. The article, unlike my post, failed to point out how stupid it is to tell Google your gender.
The article said browsing behavior was identical, but I doubt google was magically detecting women.
At some point the women told Google their gender. Why? What moron thinks Google needs to know their gender?
But once you give Google (or Facebook, or Yahoo, or basically anyone...) information like gender, then I guarantee you they will correlate it with other people.
What this means is that somewhere in Google's algorithm they have found that people that claim to be women (this is the internet after all), are less likely to click on ads for high paying jobs.
So Google wisely decides to show them less such ads.
Do not blame Google for basing their ads on what they know about you and ALSO what they know about people like you.
Do blame yourself for telling Google that much about you.
Your basic logic is almost correct. But you missed a few important details:
They will lose a few customers who quit when their bill goes up/see a cheaper plan advertised and lose a lot more customers who never switch to them because they are now more expensive than the competition.
This WILL affect their bottom line. That is how capitalism works and in their industry their is a lot of competition.
In reality this fine is not large enough to matter to the company, but the blow to their reputation is worse. It makes them look stupid and their competition can take advantage of that.
I can tell you that as just an office worker, I get PISSED when my co-worker comes in with a cough, I know I will end up getting it.
I would rather work harder and longer hours today than have to take off a day myself (and possibly come in a day or two when I am recovering myself).
I know of NO ONE in my office that doesn't think people should stay home when we are sick.
Of course, it helps that I work for a law firm that is more concerned with obeying the law than most work places.
I think this is one aspect of poor management., Management sets the tone - do they complain etc. when you call in sick? If they don't, then people take off when they are sick.
It is truly a shame that hospital management is so penny-wise/pound foolish as not to insist on generous sick time.
First, the reason the standing desk works is that it forces you to use your muscles.
This is called "PHYSICAL LABOR".
It may be a foreign concept to you. If so, keep in mind that some symptoms of physical labor are muscle fatigue and pain after extended time.
Most people use the standing desk on/off. Some of them mostly use it off.
Also note that given that you are on slashdot during business hours. You might not feel comfortable using a standing desk - and the extra attention it brings - while looking at slashdot or other non-work related web sites.
A standing desk, if you use it consistently, will work in that it will keep you in better physical condition. But only if you are the kind of guy that will put up with PHYSICAL LABOR.
Most people that suddenly decide to try physical labor hate it and quickly quit. It's similar to a gym membership.
Create a government funded council of exploits. Appoint the first 5 members, 1 government employee, 2 academics, and 2 from business.
It now becomes 100% legal to report any exploit to them an any time. Once an exploit has been submitted, they independently confirm it works and report the exploit to the appropriate author. They also give the author a deadline to fix, based on severity of the exploit - somewhere between one week and one year.
After that one deadline is up the Council itself will publish the exploit giving the original submitter full credit.
Anyone that has successfully submits an exploit gets official 'submitter' rights, granting them the right to vote on who replacements for the Academics. Anyone that has an exploit on their code submitted becomes an official 'victim' rights, granting them the right to vote on replacements for the Business council members. President continues to appoint the government chair.
Give them the same terms they gave Germany
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After World War II, Germany owed people a lot of money (actual legal obligations willingly entered into, not "you invaded us, pay us damages.) Germany was given major concessions, in part because they knew that much of the cause of WWII was Germany tried to pay off WWI damages.
So various countries (including GREECE) agreed to forgive much of the debt and to offer them generous lower interest rates for the rest.
So just offer Greece the same deal we offered post-NAZI Germany.
If you actually read the article, you see that training with this device on makes you a better shot even when it is OFF. As this is not a weenie thing that bad soldiers use to avoid training, instead it's a he-man, extra hard training to make you a better shooter or hurt you until you fail.
The reasons why are fairly obvious to me. Any teacher will tell you that more than half the job is teaching someone to STOP doing it the wrong way. This technique makes sure you never pick up bad habits.
Secondly, muscle memory. By physically forcing you arm into the correct position, your muscles learn to do it correctly. It's as if your drill sergeant is grabbing your hand and forcing you to do it right.
Oh and to the idiots that think women are bad shots, you are wrong. Data from biathlons clearly show that women are better shots, but slower runners. http://www.quora.com/Shooting/...
Note, I have previously written an unpublished science fiction novel that used a similar technique to train martial arts - the machine relentlessly drilled you in the correct form until your muscle memory gets it right. Same concept, with a smaller set of muscles.
Sure there are some special cases. But let's be clear about this - a password is not what is protecting Obama's transcripts.
Instead, it's the real legal prosecution that would follow anyone attempting to claim they are him, and/or get it. Because I absolutely guarantee that people could crack whatever password protection they use to protect it.
When it comes to passwords, I have found that corporations (and people) do one of two things:
1) Treat them like worthless things - only having them to satisfy those weirdos that want something called 'privacy', whatever that is.
What the hell, use the same default 123 for all passwords.
2) Here is your top secret password. It must be 23 digits long, have symbols, letters, cyrillic characters and at least one unicode symbol whose name you don't know. Nothing can EVER be repeated, and it must change every 60 minutes. Also do NOT write it down - even though these conditions mean you absolutely have to write it down in order to remember it.
Honestly, you are talking about your transcript for a University. I can not honestly think of a situation where someone that you don't want to see it would care enough to see it - unless you yourself are planning on committing fraud.
If I was in charge (and I am not), the university should not use a password. They should let ANYONE see your transcript - but also notify you that someone has requested to see it.
1) The reviews are probably fake, given the pictures.
2) It is appropriate to sue for fake, defamatory reviews. I only wish it was legal to sue for fake promotional reviews. That it basically just business as usual.
3)They are suing for the full amount 8 times not because they want to get paid x8, but because they are concerned that they might only be able to prove one review is fake. I fully expect that once the identities are revealed, the law suits will be consolidated from 8 to fewer, probably only 1. This way if they prove even a single issue they will get fully paid.
The secret service raid always struck me as one the most ridiculous things I ever heard the government doing. It sounds like the kind of plan a conspiracy nut would propose. They raided you because a reporter who wrote about cybercrime also liked you. Do you have any idea what possessed them to do something that incredibly stupid?
Worse, the vaporware they are talking about doesn't even have anything new - it's just talking about design elements and style - that a company MIGHT return to.
Hey, can I write an article about a theoretically possible new car that has an expresso machine built into the engine, using it for heat?
How about my pipe dream of a house where all the furniture is built into the walls?
Because the people that really want to know by definition are not being told. The subjects of the gag order don't care enough to get a really good lawyer to make the argument.
Or maybe I'm simply the first one to ever think of it. Man I'm smart!
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There are a few places where the version of communism they are calling "trekonomy" works besides a star ship. Besides modern militaries and families, many religious institutions use something similar. Nuns and Monks are clear examples. So do non-evil prison systems - they don't charge the inmates for food, clothing, etc. Note the highly authoritarian system for all of those categories - military, family, religioun and prisoners.
But yeah, the idea that it is going to be adopted by the general population is stupid. Not all of us want to live like a soldier/child/nun/prisoner.
2. That does not change the fact that the economy portrayed in the show is a version of communism. That is the scientific term for the economic system they used.
3. Morons that think calling 'communism' "STAR TREK ECONOMY" will somehow hide what it is should be laughed at.
4. Communism is ALSO the system used by almost all modern militaries and families. You don't charge your kids for the use of the house. Nor do you charge Fighter pilots for the use of the plane, fuel, bombs, etc.
5. While Communism works pretty well within the military and within Families, it SUCKS for a general economy. See Russia, Cuba, North Korea for prime examples.
6. WE WILL NOT EVER END UP USING COMMUNISM / 'STAR TREK ECONOMY' FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION. That battle was fought and Communism lost during the 20th century.
7. A 'post scarcity' economy is a false idea. there will always be scarcity - fuel, ideas, certain types of entertainment, sex, will ALWAYS be scarce. Merely because we will have solved the scarcity of the original commodities - food, clothing, certain types of products, does not mean nothing will ever be scarce again.
No we haven't 'eliminated' anyone - there is still a 17.5% chance that the guilty is not in the 35 'liars'.
But, who wants to bet that the kid was white keep in mind they did not pressed charges. If the kid had been black....
Chances are pretty good you won't have to pay them $100. Hell, I know a lawyer that would write a letter for free - on the contingency that should they ignore the letter, then I would hire him to go further.
The main problem with your argument is that you are granting greater capabilities to the rats than they have. I'm not talking about hypothetical souls, I'm talking about comprehensive power. The rats are not smart enough to understand any of what we are proposing doing to them.
Secondly, as below, as above fails many ways. It is not transitive. Just as humans ascribe greater rights to a intellectually challenged human than we do to mammals and greater rights to mammals than we do to bacteria (you don't hear about bacteria abuse cases), intelligent aliens should grant greater rights a talking, tool using humans than they do to non-talking, non-tool using mammals. If they don't, then they are no better than criminals that abuse animals.
Rights are not an all or nothing affair - they are granted based on various factors, including intelligence.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/time-warner-cable-placed-163-robocalls-about-unpaid-bill-to-wrong-person/
Here time Warner ignored a woman's repeated attempts to get them to stop robo-calling her.
So she hired a lawyer and sued. They continued to call her even after she began her law suit. They lost the lawsuit, paying more than $200,000.
Most likely it won't go to court. Your goal is simply to scare them into doing their job correctly.
Throw in some control traits that are weird, but not "advantageous" per se. For example, I am a supertaster. Sure, technical it makes it much harder to poison me. But it also means I am surrounded by food that has been over-seasoned for my taste and I have to keep telling people "NO SAUCE", and I can't enjoy a 'good' beer, wine, coffee, etc.
But there is NO reason to check a box that specifically tells the various advertising leaches that kind of personal information.
There is a difference between telling the 'internet' and telling advertisers.
Let's say we have a school of 200 students, one of whom pulls a prank. Teachers apply the test to all 200 students and they get 35 people that failed the lie detector - but only of them did it. Worthless information.
Go back and read it, paying particular attention to the stuff I bolded.
People bold things because they are the most important part. If you re-read my post, you can see that the most important part was yelling at idiots for telling Google their gender, then complaining about what Google did with that information. The article, unlike my post, failed to point out how stupid it is to tell Google your gender.
At some point the women told Google their gender. Why? What moron thinks Google needs to know their gender?
But once you give Google (or Facebook, or Yahoo, or basically anyone...) information like gender, then I guarantee you they will correlate it with other people.
What this means is that somewhere in Google's algorithm they have found that people that claim to be women (this is the internet after all), are less likely to click on ads for high paying jobs.
So Google wisely decides to show them less such ads.
Do not blame Google for basing their ads on what they know about you and ALSO what they know about people like you.
Do blame yourself for telling Google that much about you.
They will lose a few customers who quit when their bill goes up/see a cheaper plan advertised and lose a lot more customers who never switch to them because they are now more expensive than the competition.
This WILL affect their bottom line. That is how capitalism works and in their industry their is a lot of competition.
In reality this fine is not large enough to matter to the company, but the blow to their reputation is worse. It makes them look stupid and their competition can take advantage of that.
I would rather work harder and longer hours today than have to take off a day myself (and possibly come in a day or two when I am recovering myself).
I know of NO ONE in my office that doesn't think people should stay home when we are sick.
Of course, it helps that I work for a law firm that is more concerned with obeying the law than most work places.
I think this is one aspect of poor management., Management sets the tone - do they complain etc. when you call in sick? If they don't, then people take off when they are sick.
It is truly a shame that hospital management is so penny-wise/pound foolish as not to insist on generous sick time.
There was a maximum of 1 year term even for the worst possible exploit.
This is called "PHYSICAL LABOR".
It may be a foreign concept to you. If so, keep in mind that some symptoms of physical labor are muscle fatigue and pain after extended time.
Most people use the standing desk on/off. Some of them mostly use it off.
Also note that given that you are on slashdot during business hours. You might not feel comfortable using a standing desk - and the extra attention it brings - while looking at slashdot or other non-work related web sites.
A standing desk, if you use it consistently, will work in that it will keep you in better physical condition. But only if you are the kind of guy that will put up with PHYSICAL LABOR.
Most people that suddenly decide to try physical labor hate it and quickly quit. It's similar to a gym membership.
It now becomes 100% legal to report any exploit to them an any time. Once an exploit has been submitted, they independently confirm it works and report the exploit to the appropriate author. They also give the author a deadline to fix, based on severity of the exploit - somewhere between one week and one year.
After that one deadline is up the Council itself will publish the exploit giving the original submitter full credit.
Anyone that has successfully submits an exploit gets official 'submitter' rights, granting them the right to vote on who replacements for the Academics. Anyone that has an exploit on their code submitted becomes an official 'victim' rights, granting them the right to vote on replacements for the Business council members. President continues to appoint the government chair.
So various countries (including GREECE) agreed to forgive much of the debt and to offer them generous lower interest rates for the rest.
So just offer Greece the same deal we offered post-NAZI Germany.
The reasons why are fairly obvious to me. Any teacher will tell you that more than half the job is teaching someone to STOP doing it the wrong way. This technique makes sure you never pick up bad habits.
Secondly, muscle memory. By physically forcing you arm into the correct position, your muscles learn to do it correctly. It's as if your drill sergeant is grabbing your hand and forcing you to do it right.
Oh and to the idiots that think women are bad shots, you are wrong. Data from biathlons clearly show that women are better shots, but slower runners. http://www.quora.com/Shooting/...
Note, I have previously written an unpublished science fiction novel that used a similar technique to train martial arts - the machine relentlessly drilled you in the correct form until your muscle memory gets it right. Same concept, with a smaller set of muscles.
Instead, it's the real legal prosecution that would follow anyone attempting to claim they are him, and/or get it. Because I absolutely guarantee that people could crack whatever password protection they use to protect it.
1) Treat them like worthless things - only having them to satisfy those weirdos that want something called 'privacy', whatever that is. What the hell, use the same default 123 for all passwords.
2) Here is your top secret password. It must be 23 digits long, have symbols, letters, cyrillic characters and at least one unicode symbol whose name you don't know. Nothing can EVER be repeated, and it must change every 60 minutes. Also do NOT write it down - even though these conditions mean you absolutely have to write it down in order to remember it.
Honestly, you are talking about your transcript for a University. I can not honestly think of a situation where someone that you don't want to see it would care enough to see it - unless you yourself are planning on committing fraud.
If I was in charge (and I am not), the university should not use a password. They should let ANYONE see your transcript - but also notify you that someone has requested to see it.
2) It is appropriate to sue for fake, defamatory reviews. I only wish it was legal to sue for fake promotional reviews. That it basically just business as usual.
3)They are suing for the full amount 8 times not because they want to get paid x8, but because they are concerned that they might only be able to prove one review is fake. I fully expect that once the identities are revealed, the law suits will be consolidated from 8 to fewer, probably only 1. This way if they prove even a single issue they will get fully paid.
The secret service raid always struck me as one the most ridiculous things I ever heard the government doing. It sounds like the kind of plan a conspiracy nut would propose. They raided you because a reporter who wrote about cybercrime also liked you. Do you have any idea what possessed them to do something that incredibly stupid?
Worse, the vaporware they are talking about doesn't even have anything new - it's just talking about design elements and style - that a company MIGHT return to.
Hey, can I write an article about a theoretically possible new car that has an expresso machine built into the engine, using it for heat?
How about my pipe dream of a house where all the furniture is built into the walls?
Or maybe I'm simply the first one to ever think of it. Man I'm smart!