I don't remember anyone saying, "The iPhone is a gamechanger" when it was released. People said, "this is really cool" or for some, "this is really lame." They focused on the features of the phone, and how it felt. They didn't need to tell people it was a gamechanger, because that was fairly obvious right at the start.
Hypothesis: if you have to tell people your product is a "game changer," then it probably isn't.
In Sweden, do you have to pay a fee for every transaction? Here in the USA, you have to pay when you use a credit card (but the merchant pays the fee).
All of which would eventually be made illegal via expedient justifications.
Someone mentioned that if you use too much cash, banks in Sweden will already report you to the government as a likely criminal. So that seems moderately likely.
And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Amazon eventually either forbids the resale of used books in their marketplace, or else makes it so unprofitable that people just won't do it.
I don't think they care, they get their cut either way.
Why was there never a/. story about the ridiculous UN Women/Broadband propaganda report that tried to promote the idea of "cyber-violence" (an awkardly obvious pretense to a desired government crackdown) which proved so embarassing that they had to pull it from public view (and no/. story when that happened either).
tbh, I'm kind of glad that didn't show up on Slashdot......
It's funny that one extremely corrupt but intelligent guy generally manages to make objectively better decisions than some well meaning but entirely clueless citizen.
The way I look at it, the competent-but-corrupt guy will mostly run things well, but every once in a while he gives a little kickback to his friends. So instead of completely ruining things, he tilts the field slightly.
Which still isn't good, but it's kind of how mayor Daley in Chicago worked. For the most part, he did a good job.
Lets say that after a law is voted on, a random sample of those that voted for it is chosen, and they are given a quiz about what the law would mean in various situations
every table, every wall, every surface will have a screen or can project." Within 20 years, he expects most new physical objects to have some sort of chip implanted within them.
That sounds like a hacker's playground to me.
DEFCON is going to get more and more fun the closer we get to that.
That would be ideal, but most people don't learn the laws by reading them. If you have an idea of how to write them in a way that they are understandable to normal people, but still remain formal enough to have clear meaning, then I am happy to hear your ideas.
Because laws are like source code to the legal system. You wouldn't expect people to understand source code to their operating system, and if the source code to an OS were written in a way that they could understand, it would be useless.
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I don't remember anyone saying, "The iPhone is a gamechanger" when it was released. People said, "this is really cool" or for some, "this is really lame." They focused on the features of the phone, and how it felt. They didn't need to tell people it was a gamechanger, because that was fairly obvious right at the start.
Hypothesis: if you have to tell people your product is a "game changer," then it probably isn't.
What makes you think we do? Some evidence perhaps?
Some evidence.
In Sweden, do you have to pay a fee for every transaction? Here in the USA, you have to pay when you use a credit card (but the merchant pays the fee).
All of which would eventually be made illegal via expedient justifications.
Someone mentioned that if you use too much cash, banks in Sweden will already report you to the government as a likely criminal. So that seems moderately likely.
Oh, come on. You just have alternate, "illegal" means for conducting transactions.
Like what?
Does it include systemd?
I'm sorry, but can you trust law enforcement when they profit from the misapplication of terrible laws?
No.
The US are the biggest thief and the biggest bully thug the world has ever known.
This sort of thing could only be said by someone completely ignorant of history.
And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Amazon eventually either forbids the resale of used books in their marketplace, or else makes it so unprofitable that people just won't do it.
I don't think they care, they get their cut either way.
One would think that would make the front page, but nope. Went into submission limbo.
It made the front page, you didn't pay attention. Try to do better next time.
Why was there never a /. story about the ridiculous UN Women/Broadband propaganda report that tried to promote the idea of "cyber-violence" (an awkardly obvious pretense to a desired government crackdown) which proved so embarassing that they had to pull it from public view (and no /. story when that happened either).
tbh, I'm kind of glad that didn't show up on Slashdot......
Do you think that means it's more reliable?
Any state where you could convince enough of the citizens to go along with it.
Given that 70% of psychology experiments are unreproducible, it's most likely that they have not even found a correlation.
All of these devices will have a certain level of personalization
but it will be mostly used to show people ads.
ok, I have no problem when you use words the way you want to.
You sound like you have it all figured out.
You're a genius.
It's funny that one extremely corrupt but intelligent guy generally manages to make objectively better decisions than some well meaning but entirely clueless citizen.
The way I look at it, the competent-but-corrupt guy will mostly run things well, but every once in a while he gives a little kickback to his friends. So instead of completely ruining things, he tilts the field slightly.
Which still isn't good, but it's kind of how mayor Daley in Chicago worked. For the most part, he did a good job.
Lets say that after a law is voted on, a random sample of those that voted for it is chosen, and they are given a quiz about what the law would mean in various situations
That would be a good idea.
every table, every wall, every surface will have a screen or can project." Within 20 years, he expects most new physical objects to have some sort of chip implanted within them.
That sounds like a hacker's playground to me.
DEFCON is going to get more and more fun the closer we get to that.
That would be ideal, but most people don't learn the laws by reading them. If you have an idea of how to write them in a way that they are understandable to normal people, but still remain formal enough to have clear meaning, then I am happy to hear your ideas.
Nah, you know as well I as I do that there would be plenty of people who vote on things just for the lulz
And why are the bills written like that?
Because laws are like source code to the legal system. You wouldn't expect people to understand source code to their operating system, and if the source code to an OS were written in a way that they could understand, it would be useless.
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Yeah. I was trying to find a graph of temperatures in Germany, but that was the best I could find before I got bored lol, sorry