I'm thinking corporate espionage. If I were a company competing on a global scale, I'd pay to view every feed from every television they had. One of them is bound to be in a board room somewhere. Oh the information that could be had.
Doesn't the job "Ethicist" sound like bullshit? Not that ethics isn't a valid field of study, it's just that it feels like more of a religion than something serious. I mean really isn't it just a way of codifying your opinion?
However, the problem with internet censorship is that other material (such as political material, eg. WikiLeaks) [will] also be blocked [in the near future].
I found a couple of grammar errors in your sentence.
... do we try to enact privacy laws for cows, all the while emasculating or eliminating entirely the privacy laws for humans. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U...
I'm not sure if prohibition is a good solution. Maybe some good, some bad. But since it's clearly not on the political table right this second we at least need to target the real problem before it gets beyond our control.
The real problem IS prohibition. Until that's on the table all else is a fucking waste of time, money, effort, and lives, but really, what politician gives a shit as long as they get re-elected, their friends get paid, and their kids don't get killed.
... another corporation using laws that were designed to further the public good to take away the right to free speech. Nothing unusual. Probably shouldn't even be considered 'news' anymore.
This is my idea for Psychics: whenever some sort of disaster happens and a Psychic comes along claiming to have predicted it, unless he can produce any evidence showing that he tried to warn people beforehand with specific warnings, he should be thrown into prison as responsible for those lives.
Now you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and gesture interfaces, don't you see? People today have attention spans that can only be measured in nanoseconds.
For those of you that use your PS3 mainly for streaming Netflix (like me), just keep hitting login after you've gone to the red 'Netflix' screen. It will try to login and fail about 3 to 5 times in a row. Then you will be able to access your Netflix account like normal.
Can somebody equip an Alzheimer's patient with a few Uzi's
There is no need. The judges that will oversee these cases will have no problem seeing the absurdity of this patent trolls claim's due to the proximity of Alzheimers to their own mortality. They only have a problem seeing patent/copyright trolls for what they are when it affects the young/poor.
Humans, while all built from the same base materials, rarely share the same OS and app software. The driverless cars [most likely, in the beginning at least] would. Which means that if widely deployed before the bug(s) is/are discovered, they're statistically more likely to kill a whole bunch of people in a short time
Wow! You really have seen too many 'evil robot' movies. Isn't that the plot of most of them?
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The question what we choose to do with bit.
I'm thinking corporate espionage. If I were a company competing on a global scale, I'd pay to view every feed from every television they had. One of them is bound to be in a board room somewhere. Oh the information that could be had.
Doesn't the job "Ethicist" sound like bullshit? Not that ethics isn't a valid field of study, it's just that it feels like more of a religion than something serious. I mean really isn't it just a way of codifying your opinion?
Have you ever noticed how the skeptic's skepticism is biased in one direction? I wonder if they have ever noticed this.
Phucking Phreaks!
I'm getting my degree in electrical engineering. Could I sign it too?
Conservatives love a good sales tax because it is nice and regressive.
wattsupwiththat fucking .gif that doesn't move?
Now that's fuckin' funny right there that is. :-D
I'm going to get money for pointing out their interface to them.
However, the problem with internet censorship is that other material (such as political material, eg. WikiLeaks) [will] also be blocked [in the near future].
I found a couple of grammar errors in your sentence.
... do we try to enact privacy laws for cows, all the while emasculating or eliminating entirely the privacy laws for humans. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U...
I'm not sure if prohibition is a good solution. Maybe some good, some bad. But since it's clearly not on the political table right this second we at least need to target the real problem before it gets beyond our control.
The real problem IS prohibition. Until that's on the table all else is a fucking waste of time, money, effort, and lives, but really, what politician gives a shit as long as they get re-elected, their friends get paid, and their kids don't get killed.
I have no mod points so: MOD PARENT UP! Thanks for the great post.
... another corporation using laws that were designed to further the public good to take away the right to free speech. Nothing unusual. Probably shouldn't even be considered 'news' anymore.
This is my idea for Psychics: whenever some sort of disaster happens and a Psychic comes along claiming to have predicted it, unless he can produce any evidence showing that he tried to warn people beforehand with specific warnings, he should be thrown into prison as responsible for those lives.
Now you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and gesture interfaces, don't you see? People today have attention spans that can only be measured in nanoseconds.
the internet: where the men are men, the women are men, and Over 7.5 Million Facebook Users Are FBI agents.
Doesn't atheist bigotry pisses you off? I mean really! The nerve of those people stepping on religion's territory.
Funny, I don't remember Kennedy saying,"Ask not what your country can do for you, [just go shopping]." Must keep shopping.
You know, the way Sony is acting on this and other things is making Micro$oft look like a good alternative. shudders
it's just the Jesus Particle.
Wouldn't that just be a small portion of the iPhone?
I thought it was the Zombie Jesus Particle: it ate a souliton, but it really wanted BRAINSium.
For those of you that use your PS3 mainly for streaming Netflix (like me), just keep hitting login after you've gone to the red 'Netflix' screen. It will try to login and fail about 3 to 5 times in a row. Then you will be able to access your Netflix account like normal.
Can somebody equip an Alzheimer's patient with a few Uzi's
There is no need. The judges that will oversee these cases will have no problem seeing the absurdity of this patent trolls claim's due to the proximity of Alzheimers to their own mortality. They only have a problem seeing patent/copyright trolls for what they are when it affects the young/poor.
Humans, while all built from the same base materials, rarely share the same OS and app software. The driverless cars [most likely, in the beginning at least] would. Which means that if widely deployed before the bug(s) is/are discovered, they're statistically more likely to kill a whole bunch of people in a short time
Wow! You really have seen too many 'evil robot' movies. Isn't that the plot of most of them?
Everyone.
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Oh? Being #1 (by far) in the world in incarceration rate per capita is not something to brag about? But we have such fantastic privately run prisons.