"Get a second opinion" has always been good advice in medicine. The internet is not a good place to get a second opinion, but if encourages people to get second opinions from real doctors, that's a net positive.
The terrorists haven't won. "The terrorists" have nebulous and ill-defined victory conditions which vary greatly from terrorist to terrorist - if they even have a clear idea of what they want. But you can be sure that "Waste Americans' time at the airport" wasn't the objective.
No, that was the day that the USA lost. "The terrorists" have an entirely different set of victory conditions - most of them not yet satisfied, although it depends greatly on the terrorist - and it's not a zero-sum game. If they cared about your personal freedoms they would have hit the Statue of Liberty.
if you're going to let me drive a manual transmission, then you can't say that I lack the second hand for a phone while driving an automatic transmission.
Put both your hands on the steering wheel. If you hit a chuckhole, the wheel is likely to bounce out of your grip and you're going to swerve and hit something or someone. You are endangering lives.
Regardless of your vehicle, you should keep both hands on the wheel unless you're operating another control.
So, if the phone equals 0.079% blood-alcohol, and you want to say that I can't drive with a phone unless I'm completely sober, you'll get little argument from me.
This is not about staying below some imaginary threshold level of danger. This is about staying as safe as possible regardless of circumstances. If you are forced to drive in a blizzard, then that is dangerous. But if you drive with non-zero blood alcohol or a phone in your hand then that is unnecessarily dangerous. You are endangering lives.
I fail to see how "a series of web pages, each with one page of the story on it in image form" is a poor choice of medium for a story consisting of a series of images.
Because most laws are based on fairly sound ethical principles like "don't hurt or endanger other people". These are principles which any right-thinking human should abide by, regardless of carrots or sticks.
Just because you can get away with something doesn't make it right.
This is a contentious point. I have a friend who outright refuses to play any videogame or PC game unless the source is open and he can create or modify all the levels. But the thing is, while you ARE free to manually edit the binary code making up the game, for the developer to provide the game engine is a completely different thing from providing the game.
The way I see it, a game is a creative work, like a marble sculpture. If you buy the sculpture, you ARE free to chip bits away from it, because it's your sculpture now. But you have to figure out how to do that by yourself. The original sculptor is under no obligation to teach you to sculpt, or provide you with his hammer and chisel.
I hope you understand that the only ridiculous part of your story is the $120. It is extremely right and proper that you should be required to consult a trained medical professional in order to get the treatment you need, because 1) almost nobody is smart enough to reliably, safely and accurately diagnose themselves using the internet and 2) even if you got it right, the treatment you administered to yourself could be dangerous to you for entirely different reasons which you hadn't even thought to check up on.
The alternative is for people to be permitted to treat themselves. Utterly horrific things would result. Requiring a doctor to be part of the process makes perfect sense. Charging you for that doctor's time is the insane part.
Well, it's a good job we measure the accuracy of a clock by how many times a day it shows the correct time! This radio-controlled clock I have here, which runs maybe a tenth of a millisecond slow, will be wrong for ever!
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"Get a second opinion" has always been good advice in medicine. The internet is not a good place to get a second opinion, but if encourages people to get second opinions from real doctors, that's a net positive.
The terrorists haven't won. "The terrorists" have nebulous and ill-defined victory conditions which vary greatly from terrorist to terrorist - if they even have a clear idea of what they want. But you can be sure that "Waste Americans' time at the airport" wasn't the objective.
You have lost, but it's not a zero-sum game.
No, that was the day that the USA lost. "The terrorists" have an entirely different set of victory conditions - most of them not yet satisfied, although it depends greatly on the terrorist - and it's not a zero-sum game. If they cared about your personal freedoms they would have hit the Statue of Liberty.
Sure, if your degree was in computer science.
Who?
In theory they can list or not list any results they like, whatever combination is most profitable.
If anybody can find #19,000,000 I would be really interested. Currently it seems to be missing presumed dead.
You're right! 64 bits should be enough for anybody. I think I remember reading that somewhere.
Put both your hands on the steering wheel. If you hit a chuckhole, the wheel is likely to bounce out of your grip and you're going to swerve and hit something or someone. You are endangering lives.
Regardless of your vehicle, you should keep both hands on the wheel unless you're operating another control.
This is not about staying below some imaginary threshold level of danger. This is about staying as safe as possible regardless of circumstances. If you are forced to drive in a blizzard, then that is dangerous. But if you drive with non-zero blood alcohol or a phone in your hand then that is unnecessarily dangerous. You are endangering lives.
Walk away from floods? Along what? Roads? I would bet any money that this thing is not street legal.
I fail to see how "a series of web pages, each with one page of the story on it in image form" is a poor choice of medium for a story consisting of a series of images.
That sounds like a wager to me!
Because most laws are based on fairly sound ethical principles like "don't hurt or endanger other people". These are principles which any right-thinking human should abide by, regardless of carrots or sticks.
Just because you can get away with something doesn't make it right.
Physical media? Pff, what century is this?
Corollary: make sure the people you're listening to are indeed your customers. Not, e.g. pirates. Their opinions don't count.
This is a contentious point. I have a friend who outright refuses to play any videogame or PC game unless the source is open and he can create or modify all the levels. But the thing is, while you ARE free to manually edit the binary code making up the game, for the developer to provide the game engine is a completely different thing from providing the game.
The way I see it, a game is a creative work, like a marble sculpture. If you buy the sculpture, you ARE free to chip bits away from it, because it's your sculpture now. But you have to figure out how to do that by yourself. The original sculptor is under no obligation to teach you to sculpt, or provide you with his hammer and chisel.
This strikes me as an approach which replaces one problem with two problems.
I hope you understand that the only ridiculous part of your story is the $120. It is extremely right and proper that you should be required to consult a trained medical professional in order to get the treatment you need, because 1) almost nobody is smart enough to reliably, safely and accurately diagnose themselves using the internet and 2) even if you got it right, the treatment you administered to yourself could be dangerous to you for entirely different reasons which you hadn't even thought to check up on. The alternative is for people to be permitted to treat themselves. Utterly horrific things would result. Requiring a doctor to be part of the process makes perfect sense. Charging you for that doctor's time is the insane part.
If the Earth is completely destroyed, you will be the first to know.
Well, it's a good job we measure the accuracy of a clock by how many times a day it shows the correct time! This radio-controlled clock I have here, which runs maybe a tenth of a millisecond slow, will be wrong for ever!
Yes, because if there's anything that's always worked out for humanity before, it's lying down and giving up.
Me to sense perfect makes.
Not only is this ironic for a Google site, it didn't work for me in FF3...
Personally I do:
Unless that's what they want us to think...