I am just taking things to their logical conclusions. Without God I don't see how any moral philosophy really holds up. Without God we are both accidental and finite. Therefore our individual experience and selves are worth nothing in the universal sense - whatever we did or had done to us will no longer matter as we will be gone as will everyone who remembered us.
If that is the case it matters not if we our oppressed or act as the oppressor, if we are killed or act as killer. There is no moral case to be made for freedom, or even justice as we commonly understand it.
My thesis there are only two possible causes for moral behavior; 1) We have no free will, we are simply playing out the chemical script inherent in our make up. Nothing is really bad or good at all we just perceive it that way, because we are wired to do so. The serial killer is no worse than your or I he's actually just different although neither you or I will owning to our nature ever be able to accept that.
2) There is a God, he is eternal, he offers us eternity if accept his bargain; which includes morality. Because he is eternal and we are eternal things actually do matter. We have free will and can cause our own destruction or not through our choices; our decision to know him or refuse him.
I for one don't believe the atheists who insists on both free will and morality without God. That is a man who either has not really examined fully his philosophy of life, secretly believes in a god, or is a sociopath and as a function of that wants to keep it secret. You can have morality or free will without a god but not both.
Are you talking about that time when he denouced Richard Spencer twelve times! Or Charlottesville when he made the radical suggestion that maybe just maybe some people on the right did come to protest the remove of statues and maybe its because they like them and not specifically out of some racist agenda. Let me guess you have ignored all the pesky little details about antifa beating people trying LEAVE in a parking garage, or chasing people around with "Assault Weapons."
Meanwhile you stick with a party that is lead by a Nation of Islam radical, won't denounce racists like Louis Farrakhan, and rigs its own primaries. Sorry dude the GOP has a lot of problems; Trump has a lot of problems but they pale in comparison to the corruption and graft that exists on the part of the American left. You are just to dumb to see the truth and that is this - You girl Hillary and your Boy Obama for that matter are no-different than Trump except they are a little smoother about lies and a little better at distracting you while they put one hand in the cookie jar and the other down your daughters pants than Trump is.
Right.. A lot of talented people don't want be in an organization that is going thru upheaval either. talented people want to work with a team that is performing, not storming.
I have lived thru corporate re-orgs before and even knowing my job was fairly secure the entire time its not a fun place to be.
1) You have coworkers that are not secure in their jobs; they are stressed and usually volatile and temperamental as a result. They will be quick to try and blame other possibly you for anything that might even be seen as negative.
2) Usually policy and procedure is in flux, the rules are constantly changing so you spend half your day trying to find who can even tell you how something is supposed to get done today, because its probably different than yesterday and its probably not because its better but because some middle manager feels he needs to be seen as doing something. You will have to find him specifically too, because non of your coworkers can tell you what the right way is as they do not themselves know.
3) You won't be getting anything you ask for no matter how useful it would be in your job. Want a $20 license for some software and permission from IT to install it - aint going to happen until the dust settles
4) Nobody will listen to you, you are part of that department which is in flux, even though you know you are not going anyone nobody else does. They won't "waste" their time on you in the mean time.
5) Much of your effort will go into the waste basket when the projects its supporting get abandon, radically rearchitected etc. So you can't take pride in any work you are doing.
Nope good people that have options would rather take an entirely new (to them) job in a place that is stable even if they are not at risk themselves. Living thru reorgs sucks.
Please enlighten me! Lets set the live forever thing aside for moment and just to to justify using logic the any moral system - besides "might makes right".
See I don't think there is one without God. All arguments and philosophies which argue for morals without God boil down to "I am important because I say so."
If my response is "I don't agree and I don't care" then YOU don't matter. On there other hand if there is a creator God who does care, things are very different.
So what is your point. If there is no God, than you are just an accident, like many other accidents. You are of no intrinsic value, once you are gone you will no longer matter; you don't actually matter right now either.
It does not matter how the government treats you; because you are just an animal. Seriously without God that is all there can be to it. There is exactly no reason any of us have to not just live entirely for the moment, and that includes killing and oppressing others if it furthers our own hedonistic desires.
I mean there has to be a bazillion alternative file manages for Windows out there if you don't like Explorer for some reason and power shell and or good old cmd.exe/command.com + xcopy, deltree and friends won't cut it for you.
Even back in 1993 - winfile was something people without a copy of Norton Desktop used; in other words poor people, and folks with no common sense.
And yet, somehow reserves of natural resources just keep staying about the same
I think this statement is over simple. Some people will claim we are rapidly running out of things critical to our survival. Those people are either miss-informed, lying, or using a very different definition of "rapidly" than we use in common speech.
On the other hand we are seeing massive decrease in biodiversity and there is potential for collapse of ecosystems we depend on going over an edge where they could go into some kind of deterioration feedback loop. I think the 'truth' about this lies somewhere in the middle. The reality is though unless you are prepared to radically reduce the population "conservation" alone isn't going to work. We need to make technological advances that allow us to do more with less. Ultimately we probably need to get our consumption levels down below a certain replacement rate.
I made it clear - I'd much rather us sit and yell about parties because the alternative is some really draconian anti-1A and anti-10A legislation will get passed.
The thing is so far nobody has made any credible claim anyone broke any laws as related to this! Not the Obama campaign, not the Trump campaign, not even Cambridge Research.
At most what we have here is a Cambridge violating facebook's TOS; and facebook with a history of allowing TOS violations by people the happen to like. You were not allowed to extract the entire social graph, facebook thought their controls at the time were adequate to prevent it; when they discovered the Obama people were doing it they allowed it to continue. Before that there was Zinga (sp?) and other issues about privacy where facebook did not really take the high road. They seem to be upset about what Cambridge primarily because a group of "conservatives" (not sure Bannon really fits that definition) used their site for propaganda and facebook's sensibilities nominally only allow liberal propaganda (a point that if you want to argue at this point is silly the evidence is clear).
The political class has already derailed it; you had in 2k12 DNC Senators and House reps singing the praises of the Obama facebook and data efforts. You had the media claiming Romeny lost because he had not got a data game. Suddenly when the other side does the same kinds of things they have problem with it. Meanwhile you have conservatives also up in arms because there is real fear when you look at whats happen to sites like the NY Post dues to FB and Twitter censoring that the DNC is going to use these tools to hit back, and because the owners of these tools are friendly with the DNC its a fight conservative groups ultimately can't win. So everyone now wants to do something but those are different somethings for different reasons, with different objectives.
Mudslinging is actually the order of the day because I assure you the status quo is better for our democracy over all than anything that is about to come out of the political class on this for either side of the isle.
I am not suggesting lead exposure is good or that more lead exposure is better. The GGP was arguing that homeopathy works because small amounts of lead had impacts as significant as large ones.
All I was saying is the fact that harm from lead exposure does not increase greatly with additional lead exposure helps explain why people got by "alright" when lead exposure at much higher levels was common. The point is after you have eaten a few chips the pain smoothie doesn't become good for you but its not as harmful (due to the lead anyway) as those first few chips where.
Right but it does explain how people got by eating and drinking from leaded pewter dishes every day while slathering them selves in lead based make up; and how later people managed to be mostly okay breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline.
It explains quite nicely how a small amount of lead can cause both serious problems and at the same time mass lead exposure did not destroy society. Although there is thinking that it impacted crime rates.
Debateably unconstitutional. The right case before the court could fix that. Unlike the GPs complains against the EU where I don't see any legal recourse, or hope for change.
The US has citizens, that did nothing wrong, barred from voting.
No we don't this is propaganda. Occasionally someone does not get to vote because they fail to do very very basic things, we require of anyone who even wants to purchase cold medication. The people making this claim are doing so because they want ineligible voting. Legitimately ineligible people, because they are non-citizens or convicted felons. This actually happens in large numbers in some places and provably so.
The US has TSA and constitution free zone
Again nope, not there are no abuses but this isn't true.
The US does not have universal health care.
Yes and until that conartist Obama go elected we were a free nation for it. Thanks to DJT's tax reform the truly evil part of Obama's healthcare law is going away.
The US has gerrymandering
Which is changing thanks to the courts. Though I am not sure that its a good thing. gerrymandering actually protected certain minorities by ensuring they go representation which they will now loose.
The US has trigger happy cops with tanks.
Well you go there, there is no excuase for cops having tanks. There should be no such thing as a SWAT team. If "special weapons and tactics" are needed that isn't a crime anymore its an uprising and our National gaurd not local police forces should be handling it. Accountability should at least hit the Governors office.
The US has death penalty.
Which I also think is a good thing. There are certain class of criminals who do things that are both heinous and for whom decades of statistics show have little hope of reform. I agree we tragically over use capital punishment it should be reserved for the absolute worst sorts of rapists and mass murders and I think the standard ought to be higher, not just beyond reasonable doubt, but beyond almost any doubt. The Boston bomber and the recent school shooter are good examples - we have lots of witnesses and video from multiple sources. Both Justice and Society are served by putting these monsters beyond where they can ever hurt anyone again!
The US has for profit private jails.
And why not? Waaay more accountability than you get with public union employees. Much better chance of individuals who are wronged getting redress thru the courts.
And even if all of that was resolved, you still have Trump for president;-).
Yes well we can be forgiven for that I think. You have to consider the alternative was Hillary Clinton!
The SEC prosecuting her for fraud does not necessarily make the investors whole, remember.
I don't feel much pity of the investors either; Theranos was asked many times to "show their work" and the answer always came back "trust us!" diligent savvy investors ( a whole lot them ) saw that and avoid the mess. Many even went as far as to write articles and advice letters warning other of Theranos stock.
Then there were others who were either gullible greedy or both and bought into the lies; after all if what Theranos claimed was true they stood to make a lot of money. Now even if they can recapture of the residual value of Theranos even in excess of their personal holdings as a percentage of equity; they still stand to lose a lot of money.
None of this changes they fact that Holmes made material false statements to induce behavior in others that was against their interests for her personal gain. That is FRAUD, and fraud is crime. I don't think we want a society where its okay to run around telling lies for the express purpose of duping other out of their property. I am not talking about opinions and highly selective statistics, or gross generalizations of the political kind either, I am talking about plainly demonstrable falsehoods.
I agree conventional addresses are a lot more useful to the pedestrian or even the driver without a GPS unit of some kind in hand.
One problem they do suffer from though is sometimes the names change. That is fine for storing delivery/calling on information about locating a person or business where the address will get updated; its a not a good system for location of things at all. A location system should feature immutability.
The other thing sometimes street names don't confer much navigation information. Is Oak Ln, after or before Maple blvd, when traveling north -> south on High street?
"He wrote a script that would automatically replace his username with those of The_Donald's most prominent members, directing the insults back at the insulters in real time: in one comment, "Fuck u/Spez" became "Fuck u/Trumpshaker"; in another, "Fuck u/Spez" became "Fuck u/MAGAdocious."
That does not sound like plan to "detoxify the internet" so much as one to replace it with their own preferred toxic garbage/
Sorry "Liberals" we are on to you now. You don't give a crap about liberal democracy, you don't care about the free exchange of ideas. You are not really against violence, or harassment. You only want to be ones to decide who is on the receiving end. You and your leadership in the DNC are transparent pieces of garbage.
The assisted suicide law is very predictably being used to exploit the gullible.
I'll pump my magic chemicals into you and freeze your brain, so you can revived in the future!
This is nothing but a scam to deprive the families of dying loved ones their inheritance. This dude is going to cheat these people out of their last days and make off with their cash. Way to go libs.
Right but my desktop PC does not have GPS and neither does my laptop. The clock on either may or may not reflect the desired condition. In the interior of some office building if you are pulling an all nigher you might be under bright fluorescent light even if its 11pm where you are according to the clock and time zone data. A laptop might be in use in an dimmed air craft cabin or train car even in the middle of the day..
An ambient light sensor IS the right type of sensor for this consideration.
I can see a page switching between a night time and day time theme like the GPS in my car does for one thing. Is that worth the loss of privacy in a networked application, probably not but you asked for a use case so I gave you one.
Right, Sun is probably the best example. They *thought* they were better off in the high margin, high end micro computer market. The problem is while the margins might have been better the market was shrinking and underwent a rapid shrink; to rapid for sun to effectively respond to once Intel ( and compatibles ) got good enough for a lot of those jobs. A nearly a century before you see the opposite with FOMOCO. There were 10s if not more little automakers around the great lakes region ( proximity to existing steel industry, and chemical industries which depended on the lakes for transport, I assume was why ). They were all building small number of expensive cars by hand. Ford comes along and creates a cutthroat low margin high volume business. They create a auto platform that was "good enough" and the market spoke. Even people who could afford a bespoke car often chose a model A because it had everything they really wanted.
I think we are getting there now, with CPUs at least in the consumer space. First in the high end desktop world you see traditional enthusiasts who are gamers, or video editors etc selecting mid-tier chips like the i5 or using legacy-generation i7 parts (the ticks, not the tocks). They are getting the performance they want without having to pull from the very top drawer. You see a bunch of other people running around with low end business laptops and who seem to be perfectly happy. Though they have better displays and expansion those i3 laptops probably are in terms of CPU performance as compared to a high end i7 machine what a netbook was to a core II duo back when those were introduced. Personally I think netbooks failed mostly due to the displays, and not the anemic CPUs.
Heck a RPi3 makes a reasonable desktop for anyone doing basic office work now; well okay a web browser is a bit slow but that is more a memory starvation issue than CPU for a lot of cases. There may not be much market for non-Xeon parts in a few years.
The answer is: "It varies" and so as a matter of setting public policy picking a number like 16 being the age of consent, makes all kinds of sense. Some people develop much sooner other puberty onset might not be much before 16, but by 16 barring really abnormal otherwise obvious health conditions pretty much everyone will be physically speaking ready for sex.
Now as far as mental and social maturity that varies a lot too. There are plenty of 16 year olds who are capable of navigating most adult situations. There are also lots of them who are not. So again from a policy perspective picking a 'safe age' 18 where most people generally capable of decision making is reasonable. Saying adults can not engage in sexual relations with non-adults is perfectly reasonable as well because its a good protection for those less savy 16s and 17s out there. If you at least make some carve outs like if the difference in age is less than 36 months an over 18 can engage with a consenting under 18; many states do something exactly like.
No I am big states rights guy - so I loath to say this but these *might* be one of those things where we ought to have a federal law. I think historically it might have been reasonable to relax those age range protections in low population western and northern states like Alaska. The need to grow the population for economic prosperity out weighted some number of minors being taken advantage of, forced in arraigned marriages etc. Population growth (as in encouraging it) really isn't a concern today. So we probably should have one uniform set of rules, for everyone to know and live by.
Or maybe the other controls are relatively effective. The two most obvious
1) a robust intelligence gathering effort that feeds a number of various "lists" 2) Physical controls on passport documents. Look at them there are number glossy, hologramed bits. The guy at the corner is going to be hard pressed to make a convincing forgery. You might fool the inattentive clerk at your local motel or gas station attendant ringing up some beer but you won't fool a TSA agent. Without access to a lot of resources most criminals don't have. Well funded terrorist organizations might be a different story.
That's the point. If the digital signature is not checked its possible to create altered data. You create a password with your picture, so it look like you standing in front of the agent with the information belonging to some other person who would be admitted at the border.
Obviously its still a challenge, you need to create convincing physical forger or alter an existing document; which does have physical tamper controls in place. You will also need to be able to program the thing correctly save for needing to produce a valid cryptography signature - that can probably be just something with the right leading magic numbers followed by any old string of junk.
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I am just taking things to their logical conclusions. Without God I don't see how any moral philosophy really holds up. Without God we are both accidental and finite. Therefore our individual experience and selves are worth nothing in the universal sense - whatever we did or had done to us will no longer matter as we will be gone as will everyone who remembered us.
If that is the case it matters not if we our oppressed or act as the oppressor, if we are killed or act as killer. There is no moral case to be made for freedom, or even justice as we commonly understand it.
My thesis there are only two possible causes for moral behavior;
1) We have no free will, we are simply playing out the chemical script inherent in our make up. Nothing is really bad or good at all we just perceive it that way, because we are wired to do so. The serial killer is no worse than your or I he's actually just different although neither you or I will owning to our nature ever be able to accept that.
2) There is a God, he is eternal, he offers us eternity if accept his bargain; which includes morality. Because he is eternal and we are eternal things actually do matter. We have free will and can cause our own destruction or not through our choices; our decision to know him or refuse him.
I for one don't believe the atheists who insists on both free will and morality without God. That is a man who either has not really examined fully his philosophy of life, secretly believes in a god, or is a sociopath and as a function of that wants to keep it secret. You can have morality or free will without a god but not both.
Are you talking about that time when he denouced Richard Spencer twelve times! Or Charlottesville when he made the radical suggestion that maybe just maybe some people on the right did come to protest the remove of statues and maybe its because they like them and not specifically out of some racist agenda. Let me guess you have ignored all the pesky little details about antifa beating people trying LEAVE in a parking garage, or chasing people around with "Assault Weapons."
Meanwhile you stick with a party that is lead by a Nation of Islam radical, won't denounce racists like Louis Farrakhan, and rigs its own primaries. Sorry dude the GOP has a lot of problems; Trump has a lot of problems but they pale in comparison to the corruption and graft that exists on the part of the American left. You are just to dumb to see the truth and that is this - You girl Hillary and your Boy Obama for that matter are no-different than Trump except they are a little smoother about lies and a little better at distracting you while they put one hand in the cookie jar and the other down your daughters pants than Trump is.
Right.. A lot of talented people don't want be in an organization that is going thru upheaval either. talented people want to work with a team that is performing, not storming.
I have lived thru corporate re-orgs before and even knowing my job was fairly secure the entire time its not a fun place to be.
1) You have coworkers that are not secure in their jobs; they are stressed and usually volatile and temperamental as a result. They will be quick to try and blame other possibly you for anything that might even be seen as negative.
2) Usually policy and procedure is in flux, the rules are constantly changing so you spend half your day trying to find who can even tell you how something is supposed to get done today, because its probably different than yesterday and its probably not because its better but because some middle manager feels he needs to be seen as doing something. You will have to find him specifically too, because non of your coworkers can tell you what the right way is as they do not themselves know.
3) You won't be getting anything you ask for no matter how useful it would be in your job. Want a $20 license for some software and permission from IT to install it - aint going to happen until the dust settles
4) Nobody will listen to you, you are part of that department which is in flux, even though you know you are not going anyone nobody else does. They won't "waste" their time on you in the mean time.
5) Much of your effort will go into the waste basket when the projects its supporting get abandon, radically rearchitected etc. So you can't take pride in any work you are doing.
Nope good people that have options would rather take an entirely new (to them) job in a place that is stable even if they are not at risk themselves. Living thru reorgs sucks.
Please enlighten me! Lets set the live forever thing aside for moment and just to to justify using logic the any moral system - besides "might makes right".
See I don't think there is one without God. All arguments and philosophies which argue for morals without God boil down to "I am important because I say so."
If my response is "I don't agree and I don't care" then YOU don't matter. On there other hand if there is a creator God who does care, things are very different.
So what is your point. If there is no God, than you are just an accident, like many other accidents. You are of no intrinsic value, once you are gone you will no longer matter; you don't actually matter right now either.
It does not matter how the government treats you; because you are just an animal. Seriously without God that is all there can be to it. There is exactly no reason any of us have to not just live entirely for the moment, and that includes killing and oppressing others if it furthers our own hedonistic desires.
NDW and Norton Commander - not the same thing.
NDW 3.0 was still a better shell + file manager than the modern windows desktop. If it could handle hi-res and long file names; I'd still be using it.
Really?
I mean there has to be a bazillion alternative file manages for Windows out there if you don't like Explorer for some reason and power shell and or good old cmd.exe/command.com + xcopy, deltree and friends won't cut it for you.
Even back in 1993 - winfile was something people without a copy of Norton Desktop used; in other words poor people, and folks with no common sense.
And yet, somehow reserves of natural resources just keep staying about the same
I think this statement is over simple. Some people will claim we are rapidly running out of things critical to our survival. Those people are either miss-informed, lying, or using a very different definition of "rapidly" than we use in common speech.
On the other hand we are seeing massive decrease in biodiversity and there is potential for collapse of ecosystems we depend on going over an edge where they could go into some kind of deterioration feedback loop. I think the 'truth' about this lies somewhere in the middle. The reality is though unless you are prepared to radically reduce the population "conservation" alone isn't going to work. We need to make technological advances that allow us to do more with less. Ultimately we probably need to get our consumption levels down below a certain replacement rate.
I made it clear - I'd much rather us sit and yell about parties because the alternative is some really draconian anti-1A and anti-10A legislation will get passed.
The thing is so far nobody has made any credible claim anyone broke any laws as related to this! Not the Obama campaign, not the Trump campaign, not even Cambridge Research.
At most what we have here is a Cambridge violating facebook's TOS; and facebook with a history of allowing TOS violations by people the happen to like. You were not allowed to extract the entire social graph, facebook thought their controls at the time were adequate to prevent it; when they discovered the Obama people were doing it they allowed it to continue. Before that there was Zinga (sp?) and other issues about privacy where facebook did not really take the high road. They seem to be upset about what Cambridge primarily because a group of "conservatives" (not sure Bannon really fits that definition) used their site for propaganda and facebook's sensibilities nominally only allow liberal propaganda (a point that if you want to argue at this point is silly the evidence is clear).
The political class has already derailed it; you had in 2k12 DNC Senators and House reps singing the praises of the Obama facebook and data efforts. You had the media claiming Romeny lost because he had not got a data game. Suddenly when the other side does the same kinds of things they have problem with it. Meanwhile you have conservatives also up in arms because there is real fear when you look at whats happen to sites like the NY Post dues to FB and Twitter censoring that the DNC is going to use these tools to hit back, and because the owners of these tools are friendly with the DNC its a fight conservative groups ultimately can't win. So everyone now wants to do something but those are different somethings for different reasons, with different objectives.
Mudslinging is actually the order of the day because I assure you the status quo is better for our democracy over all than anything that is about to come out of the political class on this for either side of the isle.
I am not suggesting lead exposure is good or that more lead exposure is better. The GGP was arguing that homeopathy works because small amounts of lead had impacts as significant as large ones.
All I was saying is the fact that harm from lead exposure does not increase greatly with additional lead exposure helps explain why people got by "alright" when lead exposure at much higher levels was common. The point is after you have eaten a few chips the pain smoothie doesn't become good for you but its not as harmful (due to the lead anyway) as those first few chips where.
Right but it does explain how people got by eating and drinking from leaded pewter dishes every day while slathering them selves in lead based make up; and how later people managed to be mostly okay breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline.
It explains quite nicely how a small amount of lead can cause both serious problems and at the same time mass lead exposure did not destroy society. Although there is thinking that it impacted crime rates.
How unstable can the remaining stuff be? I mean it obviously did not detonate when the fist blast went off.
My guess if the FBI is covering something up.
The US has civil asset forfeiture.
Debateably unconstitutional. The right case before the court could fix that. Unlike the GPs complains against the EU where I don't see any legal recourse, or hope for change.
The US has citizens, that did nothing wrong, barred from voting.
No we don't this is propaganda. Occasionally someone does not get to vote because they fail to do very very basic things, we require of anyone who even wants to purchase cold medication. The people making this claim are doing so because they want ineligible voting. Legitimately ineligible people, because they are non-citizens or convicted felons. This actually happens in large numbers in some places and provably so.
The US has TSA and constitution free zone
Again nope, not there are no abuses but this isn't true.
The US does not have universal health care.
Yes and until that conartist Obama go elected we were a free nation for it. Thanks to DJT's tax reform the truly evil part of Obama's healthcare law is going away.
The US has gerrymandering
Which is changing thanks to the courts. Though I am not sure that its a good thing. gerrymandering actually protected certain minorities by ensuring they go representation which they will now loose.
The US has trigger happy cops with tanks.
Well you go there, there is no excuase for cops having tanks. There should be no such thing as a SWAT team. If "special weapons and tactics" are needed that isn't a crime anymore its an uprising and our National gaurd not local police forces should be handling it. Accountability should at least hit the Governors office.
The US has death penalty.
Which I also think is a good thing. There are certain class of criminals who do things that are both heinous and for whom decades of statistics show have little hope of reform. I agree we tragically over use capital punishment it should be reserved for the absolute worst sorts of rapists and mass murders and I think the standard ought to be higher, not just beyond reasonable doubt, but beyond almost any doubt. The Boston bomber and the recent school shooter are good examples - we have lots of witnesses and video from multiple sources. Both Justice and Society are served by putting these monsters beyond where they can ever hurt anyone again!
The US has for profit private jails.
And why not? Waaay more accountability than you get with public union employees. Much better chance of individuals who are wronged getting redress thru the courts.
And even if all of that was resolved, you still have Trump for president ;-).
Yes well we can be forgiven for that I think. You have to consider the alternative was Hillary Clinton!
The SEC prosecuting her for fraud does not necessarily make the investors whole, remember.
I don't feel much pity of the investors either; Theranos was asked many times to "show their work" and the answer always came back "trust us!" diligent savvy investors ( a whole lot them ) saw that and avoid the mess. Many even went as far as to write articles and advice letters warning other of Theranos stock.
Then there were others who were either gullible greedy or both and bought into the lies; after all if what Theranos claimed was true they stood to make a lot of money. Now even if they can recapture of the residual value of Theranos even in excess of their personal holdings as a percentage of equity; they still stand to lose a lot of money.
None of this changes they fact that Holmes made material false statements to induce behavior in others that was against their interests for her personal gain. That is FRAUD, and fraud is crime. I don't think we want a society where its okay to run around telling lies for the express purpose of duping other out of their property. I am not talking about opinions and highly selective statistics, or gross generalizations of the political kind either, I am talking about plainly demonstrable falsehoods.
I agree conventional addresses are a lot more useful to the pedestrian or even the driver without a GPS unit of some kind in hand.
One problem they do suffer from though is sometimes the names change. That is fine for storing delivery/calling on information about locating a person or business where the address will get updated; its a not a good system for location of things at all. A location system should feature immutability.
The other thing sometimes street names don't confer much navigation information. Is Oak Ln, after or before Maple blvd, when traveling north -> south on High street?
We could be using single cycle machines with no pipe-lining, in order execution and several megabytes of SRAM.
They would be slow but they could be they could be secure by now. We chose fast and cheap over reliable.
"He wrote a script that would automatically replace his username with those of The_Donald's most prominent members, directing the insults back at the insulters in real time: in one comment, "Fuck u/Spez" became "Fuck u/Trumpshaker"; in another, "Fuck u/Spez" became "Fuck u/MAGAdocious."
That does not sound like plan to "detoxify the internet" so much as one to replace it with their own preferred toxic garbage/
Sorry "Liberals" we are on to you now. You don't give a crap about liberal democracy, you don't care about the free exchange of ideas. You are not really against violence, or harassment. You only want to be ones to decide who is on the receiving end. You and your leadership in the DNC are transparent pieces of garbage.
The assisted suicide law is very predictably being used to exploit the gullible.
I'll pump my magic chemicals into you and freeze your brain, so you can revived in the future!
This is nothing but a scam to deprive the families of dying loved ones their inheritance. This dude is going to cheat these people out of their last days and make off with their cash. Way to go libs.
Right but my desktop PC does not have GPS and neither does my laptop. The clock on either may or may not reflect the desired condition. In the interior of some office building if you are pulling an all nigher you might be under bright fluorescent light even if its 11pm where you are according to the clock and time zone data. A laptop might be in use in an dimmed air craft cabin or train car even in the middle of the day..
An ambient light sensor IS the right type of sensor for this consideration.
I can see a page switching between a night time and day time theme like the GPS in my car does for one thing. Is that worth the loss of privacy in a networked application, probably not but you asked for a use case so I gave you one.
Right, Sun is probably the best example. They *thought* they were better off in the high margin, high end micro computer market. The problem is while the margins might have been better the market was shrinking and underwent a rapid shrink; to rapid for sun to effectively respond to once Intel ( and compatibles ) got good enough for a lot of those jobs. A nearly a century before you see the opposite with FOMOCO. There were 10s if not more little automakers around the great lakes region ( proximity to existing steel industry, and chemical industries which depended on the lakes for transport, I assume was why ). They were all building small number of expensive cars by hand. Ford comes along and creates a cutthroat low margin high volume business. They create a auto platform that was "good enough" and the market spoke. Even people who could afford a bespoke car often chose a model A because it had everything they really wanted.
I think we are getting there now, with CPUs at least in the consumer space. First in the high end desktop world you see traditional enthusiasts who are gamers, or video editors etc selecting mid-tier chips like the i5 or using legacy-generation i7 parts (the ticks, not the tocks). They are getting the performance they want without having to pull from the very top drawer. You see a bunch of other people running around with low end business laptops and who seem to be perfectly happy. Though they have better displays and expansion those i3 laptops probably are in terms of CPU performance as compared to a high end i7 machine what a netbook was to a core II duo back when those were introduced. Personally I think netbooks failed mostly due to the displays, and not the anemic CPUs.
Heck a RPi3 makes a reasonable desktop for anyone doing basic office work now; well okay a web browser is a bit slow but that is more a memory starvation issue than CPU for a lot of cases. There may not be much market for non-Xeon parts in a few years.
The answer is: "It varies" and so as a matter of setting public policy picking a number like 16 being the age of consent, makes all kinds of sense. Some people develop much sooner other puberty onset might not be much before 16, but by 16 barring really abnormal otherwise obvious health conditions pretty much everyone will be physically speaking ready for sex.
Now as far as mental and social maturity that varies a lot too. There are plenty of 16 year olds who are capable of navigating most adult situations. There are also lots of them who are not. So again from a policy perspective picking a 'safe age' 18 where most people generally capable of decision making is reasonable. Saying adults can not engage in sexual relations with non-adults is perfectly reasonable as well because its a good protection for those less savy 16s and 17s out there. If you at least make some carve outs like if the difference in age is less than 36 months an over 18 can engage with a consenting under 18; many states do something exactly like.
No I am big states rights guy - so I loath to say this but these *might* be one of those things where we ought to have a federal law. I think historically it might have been reasonable to relax those age range protections in low population western and northern states like Alaska. The need to grow the population for economic prosperity out weighted some number of minors being taken advantage of, forced in arraigned marriages etc. Population growth (as in encouraging it) really isn't a concern today. So we probably should have one uniform set of rules, for everyone to know and live by.
Or maybe the other controls are relatively effective. The two most obvious
1) a robust intelligence gathering effort that feeds
a number of various "lists"
2) Physical controls on passport documents. Look at them there are number glossy, hologramed bits. The guy at the corner is going to be hard pressed to make a convincing forgery. You might fool the inattentive clerk at your local motel or gas station attendant ringing up some beer but you won't fool a TSA agent. Without access to a lot of resources most criminals don't have. Well funded terrorist organizations might be a different story.
That's the point. If the digital signature is not checked its possible to create altered data. You create a password with your picture, so it look like you standing in front of the agent with the information belonging to some other person who would be admitted at the border.
Obviously its still a challenge, you need to create convincing physical forger or alter an existing document; which does have physical tamper controls in place. You will also need to be able to program the thing correctly save for needing to produce a valid cryptography signature - that can probably be just something with the right leading magic numbers followed by any old string of junk.