None of those things change the fact that Zika would otherwise have only been able to spread to geographically adjacent places, which is not to say it would not have worked its way up thru Mexico and across the gulf states eventually but it could not have appeared spontaneously in Miami, unless it was brought there by infected people traveling.
Its here NOW and will be spread all over the Aedes range because we don't have the sense to restrict travel. We should have done so until either, 1) an effective vaccine could be developed and widely distributed. 2) it go here anyway by spreading naturally.
And Zika is the really sad thing. Just look at Florida right now. We have essentially one neighborhood with a Zika outbreak. Why is that? Well lets see the mosquito that carries it has a pretty limited range and the path the infection spreads by is really mosquito -> person -> mosquito -> person... So we can basically assume that since all the rest of Miami isn't a Zika hotzone it did not get there thru natural geographic expansion. Zika is here because someone went somewhere got infected than got on a plane!
Basically its the State Department and CDC's fault for every Zika related complication that happens. Every baby with microcephaly born here because of Zika is on their heads! We should banned travel to South America and close the boarder to anyone with a recent SA passport stamp the moment the outbreak began! Instead we are going to send thousands of people to the Olympics and let them come back to spread the infection all over the USA!
One could ask why we started letting people with other deadly infectious disease like HIV come into the country as well. Its not like increasing the number of infected individuals present isnt going to result in more newly infected Americas. What happened to promoting the general welfare? Is it to much to ask the government to do its core jobs outlined in the preamble? Oh right they are to busy makeing sure everyone bakes cakes for sodomites.
If I were an athelete at risk, I would skip this one. If for no other reason that it will be worse in the future if they tolerate it this time.
Easy to say hard to do. If these athletes are successful at the Olympics they stand to make a lot of money from sponsorships, speaking engagements, and product endorsements of various kinds.
The trouble is just getting to the Olympics is *hard* and they are not guaranteed a spot in the future, especially if they sit this one out. Even their own coaches/trainers etc might decide to throw most of their efforts behind someone younger and more *committed* if they back out.
So the risks are big, but on the other hand many of the athletes see this as 'their shot' which they have a lot invested in already.
It might, antibiotics are frequently prescribed to 'bolster the immune system'. Many of the bodies mechanisms for fighting infections are shared both for fighting bacterial and viral infections. If you make the body less hospitable to bacterial infection with antibiotics you free resources for resting viral pathogens.
Of course this results in all kinds of potential to create new antibiotic resistant super bugs. After all the usual course of action is to continue treating with antibiotics for a while after symptoms disappear so you have some confidence you have wiped out the entire offending bacterial colony. If you start treating people who are asymptomatic in the first place you have no idea what's going on in there.
Which is probably the strongest argument for small government. Most of us collectively realize that given the opportunity the game will be rigged, when faces with the choice as individuals we might even decide to rig it ourselves, so as to bring home the bacon. We need to understand that if we really care about justice and equality for all we need to limit government. We need to rigidly apply the Constitution at the federal level. We need to update our state Constitutions to prevent over reach of state and local governments. If you make government to small to be a worth while crony you don't have this problem.
Space X is doing some really cool work but it is also not meeting it's predicted launch rate.
True, but I think most outsiders 'priced' a bit of optimism into Space X's press releases. Overall they are enjoying a lot of success considering the complexity of what they are trying to do.
Tesla has some big problems with quality
Is that statistically true? I did some google searches and its hard to find good data. All the other big manufacturers are doing recalls with some frequency. Quality problems have always been a thing in the auto industry. Do you have proof Tesla is doing worse than average on per vehicle basis.
Tesla has some big problems with quality and the "beta" autopilot.
No the media has big problems with it, namely understanding and evaluating risk. Many of the known cases where auto pilot has caused problems have been in situations where it was not being used as directed. In terms of accidents per miles driven its a got a good record, with caveat that most people are using it in situations where humans typically do have a lower than average accident rate too.
Well okay being able to censor the publishing of exit poll data would do the trick, but there are probably free speech issues, and preventing leaks in the internet age would be nearly impossible.
Its probably easier legally speaking to pass a law that says you can't exit poll than the other options.
Because if you don't it will only make the west coast problem we have now worse. People will simply stay home if they thing their candidate is to far behind.
What people mean when they say worst of both worlds is that it does not solve the entirety of the problem where card present transactions are concerned and chip and pin easily could have.
Implementation issues aside the mechanical action of swipe is always going to be faster than insert, wait, remove; pretty much no matter how small you make the value of wait. That said plain text mag strips with no 'real' client authentication was not a realistic security model for 21st century.
Yes its beyond the reach of most attackers to clone a chip card. Stolen card is still a problem though. It might take me hours to notice my entire wallet is missing, could be a day or more before I realize a single credit card is gone AWOL. There is plenty of time for someone to run up a lot of charges there, and cause me a real headache even if I won't ultimately be liable. Chip + PIN would have made it nearly perfect. Sure steal the card from my back pocket, now what? Go get the account locked for exceeding the number of allowed invalid PIN entries?
As a consumer I am getting a lot of new inconvenience ( which I would have found acceptable otherwise ) for a far less than ideal security solution. I could probably bang in a 4, 5, or 6 digit PIN faster than scrawling something on those signature pads anyway.
The secret ballot is the only effective control anyone has come up with to prevent vote selling or exchanging.
If you can't prove how you voted its difficult to sell you vote because nobody will trust you. Similarly its difficult for someone to coerce your vote because they can't control you while you are in the booth, and have only your word you did what you were 'supposed' to.
This is why I am ardently opposed to all these absentee ballot early voting measures. Absentee ballots should be for people who can't be present at the polling place because they are away or infirm only. They should be rejected unless they carry a post mark from at least 20mi from your polling place or are accompanied by a signed statement on pain of prejury that you were physical unable to be present for medical reason (yours or someone you were caring for).
What we should to make sure everyone can vote is split it over two days, and bar exit polling. Additionally make it a holiday and require all employers to make a 1/2 day of vacation available for all employees on one of the two election days, no exceptions.
We really don't understand the relationship between diet and longevity yet. There is ample evidence to suggest that steak and eggs for breakfast at high frequency isn't a good health move for you and I. When you control for the population that also does a lot of physical labor most days, like farmers, landscapers, miners, etc than suddenly high fat/cholesterol, high animal protein diets don't seem to lead to heart disease and other conditions like diabetes nearly so often.
There is a relationship between what we should eat and how we use our bodies and its more complex than more work, means more calories or more sedentary means eat less.
We simply don't have enough astronauts and cosmonauts to do a good study and make more than a token effort to control other factors like tossing out a couple of extreme outlines or exuding an individual known to have made some unusual life style choices post mission. This is a situation where we have to make some anecdotally informed guesses. Its simply the best that can be done.
That is what the law says sure, but that isn't what the Lawless Obama administration / John Kerry do.
Remember Egypt - coup - no question about but the military aide keeps flowing.
I remember Kerry made a statement to the effect of "the law does not require us to make a determination if a coup has occurred."
I am going to try it next time I get pulled over, "sure office the law says I have to comply with all visible traffic control devices, it does not say I have to look to see if they are there!" oh wait I am guess that isn't go fly for me the little guy.
Its also possible they were loyal and changed sides. Its hard to change the culture of a something like a military.
You might manage to use political clout to install your 'loyalist general' but after he spends some time with the other generals and the ranks he might come round to their way of thinking.
That is the point you are obligated to follow BOTH sets of laws when abroad. If you can't because the law is fundamentally incompatible than you can't go/conduct business abroad!
No I would quit, and than file suit against my former employer for asking me to do something illegal and forcing my resignation.
Sucks for the employer but its a hazard of doing business internationally unless you are extremely careful to minimize your international exposure and fully understand the foreign laws you have to comply with.
Teslas on autopilot are involved in fewer accidents per mile traveled (adjusted, as much as possible, for type of driving) than human drivers
Not a slam on Tesla here, I totally think they are in the right on this so far every autopilot incident I am aware of the operator was misusing the technology by not paying attention and being prepared to take over as Tesla makes it VERY CLEAR every time you turn the thing on that you are supposed to be.
That said the statistic is a bit self serving because most users would be driving manually in the most challenging conditions because autopilot can't or won't. I don't know to many human drivers who get into accidents while cursing down long strait interstate highways in daytime fare weather conditions with minimal to moderate traffic. AP gets used a lot in that situation I would expect. Add some bad weather, cross streets, traffic, other aggressive drivers, poor or absent markings, construction, cops direction traffic, etc and the rate of human error I have no doubt goes up sharply. This would all be things that AP does not deal with much in terms of the "miles its driven" but human drivers do deal with.
So when Tesla says that AP gets into less accidents per mile than human drivers, and they have, I find it suspect that while it might be technically correct (the best kind of correct:-)) in the strictest sense, it might not really mean much.
So don't have the Irish employees do it. Microsoft has these neat protocols called RDP and SMB that would have easily allowed a US employee to do it.
The USA should have GLOBAL jurisdiction over its own citizens and corporate entities. If a law or court order is intended to apply to such an entity outside a US territory said order should apply!
This cuts both ways of course, a US entity wishing to do business/travel/etc ought to be prepared to comply with the laws of that place, if that can't do so perhaps because of US law than they have no business there.
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity. Additionally it should have to follow the rules for whatever locality it happens to be in. Yes that may make it impossible to perform certain activities where the laws are totally incompatible.
Maybe Microsoft simply cannot operate a server in the EU under the current rules because of this conflict; that is probably the case and I don't care. If MS can't do it neither can anyone else and I am sure the politicians would 'fix' the problem in hurry and change the laws; the economic consequences of not doing so being probably pretty bad.
As a US citizen you are not free to violate federal law even while abroad! Admittedly there is a presumption against the extraterritorial applicability of United States law unless there is explicit language in the law to indicate it was the intent of Congress for the law to have applicability outside the US. So most laws don't apply but there are ones that certainly do like FCPA, the same should apply to court orders. A US court should be able to order a US citizen or entity to comply with a subpoena for evidence, if its turn over all your E-mails fine turn over all the E-mails in the USA, if its turn over all your E-mails in Ireland than you must turn over all your E-mail stored in Ireland.
Don't like move HQ to Ireland and surrender your citizenship, with all the various import restrictions, foreign reporting, loss SEC related consequences for your publicly held company that implies.
Personally I actually disagree that this is good news. Here is a case where the rule of law was utilized, a warrant was issued by a court on the public record for data. Microsoft is a US entity and should have to follow lawful orders from a US court. When courts can't subpoena that leaves law enforcement with little recourse other than warrant free uncountable hacking that violates our Fourth Amendment or letting having to let criminals walk free no matter how much legitimate probable cause to suspect their may be.
This sets up a situation where all you have to do is setup a foreign subsidiary and stash some severs overseas and the government can't touch you? Yes I realize its a little more nuanced than that, but I still think its a serious problem. This is likely to cause more the behavior we really should oppose as citizens not less.
I am not suggesting it does not look 'different' I am simply saying for the most part it really does not matter, to me at least, in terms of my enjoyment of the content.
If the video is a little 'muddy' it really does not matter. I am only concerned with the 'big picture' the detail isn't relevant.
Just because rape can be violent doesn't mean that it is always violent.
That depends on your definition of rape, at common law it certainly has to be violent. Frankly I think we should use the common law definition for rape. Its a very serious crime and should be treated that way, in terms of the people who commit it really out to be permanently excluded from the rest of society. Rape should mean rape.
Which is not say other cases of using some form of duress should not be crimes as well. They just don't rise to the seriousness of rape, again not imply they are not serious or that they should not also carry heavy punitive action and restorative considerations for victims.
All I am really saying is we should not water down the word rape, which is probably the nastiest thing you might do to another human being short of murdering them. We don't need to label every sexual crime a rape its counter productive.
Well there you hit the nail on the head. To me 1080 vs 720 or even less matters more depending on the content than anything else. There is basically no difference watching a bunch of characters wonder around their apartment on the Big Bang Theory at 720 vs 1080. Its does not matter much, you get plenty of detail to see all the relevant information at 720. It might even be true that given its a man made set, the higher detail is more likely to reveal distractions like fake props and take away from the experiences.
While many will disagree I would say this is also true for most action flicks, its just as good on DVD as bluray. Why because when things are moving quickly for the most part you don't have time to appreciate the finer detail anyway. Unless you are some kinda weirdo steeping thru frame by frame no difference. The Avengers isn't really better at 1080 than it is at 480 on a 50" class screen.
Now a nature doc or a cooking show, its big deal to have the extra detail. You have fixed camera going in tight on subject and the point is to show the detail. The image is mostly still you so have time to visually explore it.
Some sports it matters, I would say for foot ball and hockey not so much, golf if you really want to be able to see the travel of the ball you need the resolution and lack of compression.
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None of those things change the fact that Zika would otherwise have only been able to spread to geographically adjacent places, which is not to say it would not have worked its way up thru Mexico and across the gulf states eventually but it could not have appeared spontaneously in Miami, unless it was brought there by infected people traveling.
Its here NOW and will be spread all over the Aedes range because we don't have the sense to restrict travel. We should have done so until either, 1) an effective vaccine could be developed and widely distributed. 2) it go here anyway by spreading naturally.
And Zika is the really sad thing. Just look at Florida right now. We have essentially one neighborhood with a Zika outbreak. Why is that? Well lets see the mosquito that carries it has a pretty limited range and the path the infection spreads by is really mosquito -> person -> mosquito -> person ... So we can basically assume that since all the rest of Miami isn't a Zika hotzone it did not get there thru natural geographic expansion. Zika is here because someone went somewhere got infected than got on a plane!
Basically its the State Department and CDC's fault for every Zika related complication that happens. Every baby with microcephaly born here because of Zika is on their heads! We should banned travel to South America and close the boarder to anyone with a recent SA passport stamp the moment the outbreak began! Instead we are going to send thousands of people to the Olympics and let them come back to spread the infection all over the USA!
One could ask why we started letting people with other deadly infectious disease like HIV come into the country as well. Its not like increasing the number of infected individuals present isnt going to result in more newly infected Americas. What happened to promoting the general welfare? Is it to much to ask the government to do its core jobs outlined in the preamble? Oh right they are to busy makeing sure everyone bakes cakes for sodomites.
If I were an athelete at risk, I would skip this one. If for no other reason that it will be worse in the future if they tolerate it this time.
Easy to say hard to do. If these athletes are successful at the Olympics they stand to make a lot of money from sponsorships, speaking engagements, and product endorsements of various kinds.
The trouble is just getting to the Olympics is *hard* and they are not guaranteed a spot in the future, especially if they sit this one out. Even their own coaches/trainers etc might decide to throw most of their efforts behind someone younger and more *committed* if they back out.
So the risks are big, but on the other hand many of the athletes see this as 'their shot' which they have a lot invested in already.
It might, antibiotics are frequently prescribed to 'bolster the immune system'. Many of the bodies mechanisms for fighting infections are shared both for fighting bacterial and viral infections. If you make the body less hospitable to bacterial infection with antibiotics you free resources for resting viral pathogens.
Of course this results in all kinds of potential to create new antibiotic resistant super bugs. After all the usual course of action is to continue treating with antibiotics for a while after symptoms disappear so you have some confidence you have wiped out the entire offending bacterial colony. If you start treating people who are asymptomatic in the first place you have no idea what's going on in there.
Which is probably the strongest argument for small government. Most of us collectively realize that given the opportunity the game will be rigged, when faces with the choice as individuals we might even decide to rig it ourselves, so as to bring home the bacon. We need to understand that if we really care about justice and equality for all we need to limit government. We need to rigidly apply the Constitution at the federal level. We need to update our state Constitutions to prevent over reach of state and local governments. If you make government to small to be a worth while crony you don't have this problem.
Space X is doing some really cool work but it is also not meeting it's predicted launch rate.
True, but I think most outsiders 'priced' a bit of optimism into Space X's press releases. Overall they are enjoying a lot of success considering the complexity of what they are trying to do.
Tesla has some big problems with quality
Is that statistically true? I did some google searches and its hard to find good data. All the other big manufacturers are doing recalls with some frequency. Quality problems have always been a thing in the auto industry. Do you have proof Tesla is doing worse than average on per vehicle basis.
Tesla has some big problems with quality and the "beta" autopilot.
No the media has big problems with it, namely understanding and evaluating risk. Many of the known cases where auto pilot has caused problems have been in situations where it was not being used as directed. In terms of accidents per miles driven its a got a good record, with caveat that most people are using it in situations where humans typically do have a lower than average accident rate too.
Well okay being able to censor the publishing of exit poll data would do the trick, but there are probably free speech issues, and preventing leaks in the internet age would be nearly impossible.
Its probably easier legally speaking to pass a law that says you can't exit poll than the other options.
Because if you don't it will only make the west coast problem we have now worse. People will simply stay home if they thing their candidate is to far behind.
What people mean when they say worst of both worlds is that it does not solve the entirety of the problem where card present transactions are concerned and chip and pin easily could have.
Implementation issues aside the mechanical action of swipe is always going to be faster than insert, wait, remove; pretty much no matter how small you make the value of wait. That said plain text mag strips with no 'real' client authentication was not a realistic security model for 21st century.
Yes its beyond the reach of most attackers to clone a chip card. Stolen card is still a problem though. It might take me hours to notice my entire wallet is missing, could be a day or more before I realize a single credit card is gone AWOL. There is plenty of time for someone to run up a lot of charges there, and cause me a real headache even if I won't ultimately be liable. Chip + PIN would have made it nearly perfect. Sure steal the card from my back pocket, now what? Go get the account locked for exceeding the number of allowed invalid PIN entries?
As a consumer I am getting a lot of new inconvenience ( which I would have found acceptable otherwise ) for a far less than ideal security solution. I could probably bang in a 4, 5, or 6 digit PIN faster than scrawling something on those signature pads anyway.
The secret ballot is the only effective control anyone has come up with to prevent vote selling or exchanging.
If you can't prove how you voted its difficult to sell you vote because nobody will trust you. Similarly its difficult for someone to coerce your vote because they can't control you while you are in the booth, and have only your word you did what you were 'supposed' to.
This is why I am ardently opposed to all these absentee ballot early voting measures. Absentee ballots should be for people who can't be present at the polling place because they are away or infirm only. They should be rejected unless they carry a post mark from at least 20mi from your polling place or are accompanied by a signed statement on pain of prejury that you were physical unable to be present for medical reason (yours or someone you were caring for).
What we should to make sure everyone can vote is split it over two days, and bar exit polling. Additionally make it a holiday and require all employers to make a 1/2 day of vacation available for all employees on one of the two election days, no exceptions.
We really don't understand the relationship between diet and longevity yet. There is ample evidence to suggest that steak and eggs for breakfast at high frequency isn't a good health move for you and I. When you control for the population that also does a lot of physical labor most days, like farmers, landscapers, miners, etc than suddenly high fat/cholesterol, high animal protein diets don't seem to lead to heart disease and other conditions like diabetes nearly so often.
There is a relationship between what we should eat and how we use our bodies and its more complex than more work, means more calories or more sedentary means eat less.
We simply don't have enough astronauts and cosmonauts to do a good study and make more than a token effort to control other factors like tossing out a couple of extreme outlines or exuding an individual known to have made some unusual life style choices post mission. This is a situation where we have to make some anecdotally informed guesses. Its simply the best that can be done.
That is what the law says sure, but that isn't what the Lawless Obama administration / John Kerry do.
Remember Egypt - coup - no question about but the military aide keeps flowing.
I remember Kerry made a statement to the effect of "the law does not require us to make a determination if a coup has occurred."
I am going to try it next time I get pulled over, "sure office the law says I have to comply with all visible traffic control devices, it does not say I have to look to see if they are there!" oh wait I am guess that isn't go fly for me the little guy.
Its also possible they were loyal and changed sides. Its hard to change the culture of a something like a military.
You might manage to use political clout to install your 'loyalist general' but after he spends some time with the other generals and the ranks he might come round to their way of thinking.
That is the point you are obligated to follow BOTH sets of laws when abroad. If you can't because the law is fundamentally incompatible than you can't go/conduct business abroad!
No I would quit, and than file suit against my former employer for asking me to do something illegal and forcing my resignation.
Sucks for the employer but its a hazard of doing business internationally unless you are extremely careful to minimize your international exposure and fully understand the foreign laws you have to comply with.
Teslas on autopilot are involved in fewer accidents per mile traveled (adjusted, as much as possible, for type of driving) than human drivers
Not a slam on Tesla here, I totally think they are in the right on this so far every autopilot incident I am aware of the operator was misusing the technology by not paying attention and being prepared to take over as Tesla makes it VERY CLEAR every time you turn the thing on that you are supposed to be.
That said the statistic is a bit self serving because most users would be driving manually in the most challenging conditions because autopilot can't or won't. I don't know to many human drivers who get into accidents while cursing down long strait interstate highways in daytime fare weather conditions with minimal to moderate traffic. AP gets used a lot in that situation I would expect. Add some bad weather, cross streets, traffic, other aggressive drivers, poor or absent markings, construction, cops direction traffic, etc and the rate of human error I have no doubt goes up sharply. This would all be things that AP does not deal with much in terms of the "miles its driven" but human drivers do deal with.
So when Tesla says that AP gets into less accidents per mile than human drivers, and they have, I find it suspect that while it might be technically correct (the best kind of correct :-)) in the strictest sense, it might not really mean much.
Tell that to Volkswagen
So don't have the Irish employees do it. Microsoft has these neat protocols called RDP and SMB that would have easily allowed a US employee to do it.
The USA should have GLOBAL jurisdiction over its own citizens and corporate entities. If a law or court order is intended to apply to such an entity outside a US territory said order should apply!
This cuts both ways of course, a US entity wishing to do business/travel/etc ought to be prepared to comply with the laws of that place, if that can't do so perhaps because of US law than they have no business there.
Now you are trying to go in circles, my original post was disagreeing with the courts opinion.
Should actually be pretty safe unless the power level is really high because its hardly going to penetrate the skin.
Disagree. Microsoft is a US entity it should have to follow US rules wherever it goes as long as it remains a US entity. Additionally it should have to follow the rules for whatever locality it happens to be in. Yes that may make it impossible to perform certain activities where the laws are totally incompatible.
Maybe Microsoft simply cannot operate a server in the EU under the current rules because of this conflict; that is probably the case and I don't care. If MS can't do it neither can anyone else and I am sure the politicians would 'fix' the problem in hurry and change the laws; the economic consequences of not doing so being probably pretty bad.
As a US citizen you are not free to violate federal law even while abroad! Admittedly there is a presumption against the extraterritorial applicability of United States law unless there is explicit language in the law to indicate it was the intent of Congress for the law to have applicability outside the US. So most laws don't apply but there are ones that certainly do like FCPA, the same should apply to court orders. A US court should be able to order a US citizen or entity to comply with a subpoena for evidence, if its turn over all your E-mails fine turn over all the E-mails in the USA, if its turn over all your E-mails in Ireland than you must turn over all your E-mail stored in Ireland.
Don't like move HQ to Ireland and surrender your citizenship, with all the various import restrictions, foreign reporting, loss SEC related consequences for your publicly held company that implies.
Personally I actually disagree that this is good news. Here is a case where the rule of law was utilized, a warrant was issued by a court on the public record for data. Microsoft is a US entity and should have to follow lawful orders from a US court. When courts can't subpoena that leaves law enforcement with little recourse other than warrant free uncountable hacking that violates our Fourth Amendment or letting having to let criminals walk free no matter how much legitimate probable cause to suspect their may be.
This sets up a situation where all you have to do is setup a foreign subsidiary and stash some severs overseas and the government can't touch you? Yes I realize its a little more nuanced than that, but I still think its a serious problem. This is likely to cause more the behavior we really should oppose as citizens not less.
I am not suggesting it does not look 'different' I am simply saying for the most part it really does not matter, to me at least, in terms of my enjoyment of the content.
If the video is a little 'muddy' it really does not matter. I am only concerned with the 'big picture' the detail isn't relevant.
Just because rape can be violent doesn't mean that it is always violent.
That depends on your definition of rape, at common law it certainly has to be violent. Frankly I think we should use the common law definition for rape. Its a very serious crime and should be treated that way, in terms of the people who commit it really out to be permanently excluded from the rest of society. Rape should mean rape.
Which is not say other cases of using some form of duress should not be crimes as well. They just don't rise to the seriousness of rape, again not imply they are not serious or that they should not also carry heavy punitive action and restorative considerations for victims.
All I am really saying is we should not water down the word rape, which is probably the nastiest thing you might do to another human being short of murdering them. We don't need to label every sexual crime a rape its counter productive.
Well there you hit the nail on the head. To me 1080 vs 720 or even less matters more depending on the content than anything else. There is basically no difference watching a bunch of characters wonder around their apartment on the Big Bang Theory at 720 vs 1080. Its does not matter much, you get plenty of detail to see all the relevant information at 720. It might even be true that given its a man made set, the higher detail is more likely to reveal distractions like fake props and take away from the experiences.
While many will disagree I would say this is also true for most action flicks, its just as good on DVD as bluray. Why because when things are moving quickly for the most part you don't have time to appreciate the finer detail anyway. Unless you are some kinda weirdo steeping thru frame by frame no difference. The Avengers isn't really better at 1080 than it is at 480 on a 50" class screen.
Now a nature doc or a cooking show, its big deal to have the extra detail. You have fixed camera going in tight on subject and the point is to show the detail. The image is mostly still you so have time to visually explore it.
Some sports it matters, I would say for foot ball and hockey not so much, golf if you really want to be able to see the travel of the ball you need the resolution and lack of compression.