I would assume that when "everything else is taken away", the legal protection of anonymity would be at the least devoid of any meaning anyway.
The issue won't be with having the right to anonymity, but with having the means (technical, for example) to remain anonymous. Those are two different things. And, again, situation close to China or Iran.
Not so much dead, as with all the life hidden and trying to survive ("the strongest..." and all that; which somehow the point;p )
Accidentaly, it seems one of the best adaptations to harsch condition turned out to be...high intelligence. And if our level of it is far from greatest even for organic or, more generally, biological systems...
Generally, it's a bit revealing how some seem to be convinced that the "founding fathers" were some ubermenschen; while its reasonably clear that they themselves wouldn't want to be considered anything of that sort. That the legal foundations of US are golden; while it's inevitable for them to be flawed.
Perhaps that's one of the problems; if the place has such approach...hell, what the "founding fathers" really said doesn't even strictly have to enter the equation - what's important is ability of finding support in what you want via them.
And the funniest part of this "invasion" - it seems to me that "games" focusing on electronic music actually went out of favor some time ago...maybe they focused too much around actually creating stuff? (which makes it even more funny, in a way)
OTOH some could go "hey, I like this, wanna more" route? And I imagine some other group, of "hardcore" players, might eventually get a muscle memory association between sound and its key; however clumsy that would almost always end up, perhaps good enough to play some simple song they could just hum previously ?;)
I wonder, do you wager it's possible that it can give some people...well, not "piano playing" skills, but at least some rudimentary, though still decent, "sound - piano key muscle memory"?;)
(btw, if you link to Permian-Triassic, you might also to this one)
Continuing survival, in decent form, of as many species as possible would be a damn good sign - it would basically mean the environment on which they depend is in moderately good shape; and stable. Now...we also depend on quality and stability of surroundings. We might be one of the last among the megafauna to get hit, with our high adaptability, but we can get hit eventually, too.
But instead we're in the middle of...a mass extinction, one of most rapid ones in the history of this planet (apparently around 100 times above background level), with quite possibly half of existing species gone by the end of the century...
I don't care much about those species per se, even if they are cute. Causes of their extinction OTOH warrant a closer look and some concern...
Well, manufacturing cellphones does take a bit, though - and many people are to obsessed with replacing their perfectly good old ones, which too often end up in the drawer (to be fair, that's also a result of carrier policies here and there)
And really, biking is not as hard as you think (there are spiked tires btw). If it becomes too hard, sometimes, then there could be always an option of public transport/etc....which you don't have because you set your place like that, you let lobbyists of automobile makers and oil companies to take over your cities. And trust me, if public transport is set up properly and bikes are even allowed, essentially (meaining: not building road infrastructure primarily around heavy car traffic), they are the fastest options in times of day when it matters.
You forget about China, Indonesia, India, the general region; also parts of South America or Africa...you know, places with plenty of growth and where people do care about cost a lot more. And those machines will be cheap.
(or some variant could just as well be a standard building block for "laptops" which aren't densely packed inside and don't ship with much of a battery (if any), but do include monitor, keyboard, etc.; and still cheaper)
The only civilised and working way of reducing birth rate is assuring good standard of living and social security (in whatever form that works, let us not get into the favorite implementation method here). So the trick is to do that in a way that produces and uses energy efficiently, with as small impact as possible.
And apart from finding new tech, we have lots of headway to improve efficiency... (which is simply the logical thing to do - think about it as putting your progress ahead with the same amount of resources used; or, for a given tech level, the same standard of living without lesser need of basic infrastructure)
As you point out at the end - the thing is that, well, "our" places can still go a long way to improve efficiency - it's not that hard to find two developed countries with basically the same standard of living, but the difference in total resource usage amounting to doubling (overconsuption, also of gadgets, is art of that too, btw). And even the "better" one can surely improve, too...
More generally - it's not a good thing if the poor of today will make similar mistakes. We have to welcome wiser energy production and usage (for them, and also for us)
As a Finnish citizen, I guess you're happy with focus on R&D at your place resulting in, say, a company like Nokia contributing quite decent portion of your GDP (maybe even that one contribution covers ongoing gov funding of R&D?). BTW, I'm not sure about this - is Nokia allowed to sell anything at all outside the Finnish borders?
If yes, that could maybe work for solar cells, too... (nvm that I was under the impression of daylight in the Arctic Circle still averaging close to 12h throughout the year, the summer time kinda improving the stats)
PS. While seeing that there is always a place for improvement and striving for it, you might also remember that you place seems to do pretty damn well in healthcare alredy; when looking at bigger picture.
Well...Google bought Android team quite a bit before iPhone announcement, plus they don't actually have any consumer "Google OS" (and of you refer to ChromeOS, that's a different thing, aimed mostly at tablets and netbooks; in the first case, also made public before Apple move, in the second - Apple claims they are not interested). As for browser...c'mon, Apple would be pissed after building large part of it on someone's else work, too?
And what about the possibility of the milkman poisoning breakfast eaten by your usual pilots, in a way that shows results when they are long into the flight?
Seriously, it's that kind of argument. You're looking for something absolutely temper-proof?... Tough luck, this is not a good Universe for you...
OTOH "when your rear is in the hot seat and death is riding you", people tend to act erratically (there were some catastrophes essentialy due to humans arguing with the machine...). And we can't be certain if knowing that you will surely survive any catastrophe is not actually at least as strong deterrent & motivation - after all, you know you will face the consequences if that was your fault.
More specifically, expensive if you want them to be damn good - still large portion of airplane crashes is due to human error; some are even because humans tried to "fight" the machine, essentialy.
You almost do that already, with large part of most airline flights happening sort of autonomously; and newer airplanes with ability to do basically whole journey without direct control input from human pilots.
Uhm, all that particular bit of evidence conveys is that Apple chose (for one of their biggest shows, mind you) people who are not only presentable and outgoing, but also very trained in usage of iPhone onscreen keyboard.
Hey, if the last one was what it takes, instead of just the one about bsods/kernel panics/X crashes that happen so often as to destroy the illusion of guru meditations...;p
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I would assume that when "everything else is taken away", the legal protection of anonymity would be at the least devoid of any meaning anyway.
The issue won't be with having the right to anonymity, but with having the means (technical, for example) to remain anonymous. Those are two different things. And, again, situation close to China or Iran.
Not so much dead, as with all the life hidden and trying to survive ("the strongest..." and all that; which somehow the point ;p )
Accidentaly, it seems one of the best adaptations to harsch condition turned out to be...high intelligence. And if our level of it is far from greatest even for organic or, more generally, biological systems...
Generally, it's a bit revealing how some seem to be convinced that the "founding fathers" were some ubermenschen; while its reasonably clear that they themselves wouldn't want to be considered anything of that sort. That the legal foundations of US are golden; while it's inevitable for them to be flawed.
Perhaps that's one of the problems; if the place has such approach...hell, what the "founding fathers" really said doesn't even strictly have to enter the equation - what's important is ability of finding support in what you want via them.
I'm pretty sure the point wasn't about some present distortions...
OTOH - "moderate" climates in reality mean something which has a habit of swings from harsch to soft, and back. A bit like the situation from TFA.
...or if it is in any.
And the funniest part of this "invasion" - it seems to me that "games" focusing on electronic music actually went out of favor some time ago...maybe they focused too much around actually creating stuff? (which makes it even more funny, in a way)
OTOH some could go "hey, I like this, wanna more" route? And I imagine some other group, of "hardcore" players, might eventually get a muscle memory association between sound and its key; however clumsy that would almost always end up, perhaps good enough to play some simple song they could just hum previously ? ;)
I wonder, do you wager it's possible that it can give some people...well, not "piano playing" skills, but at least some rudimentary, though still decent, "sound - piano key muscle memory"? ;)
Not really "responsibility" however you put it; it's simply in our damn self-interest to keep the surroundings decently nice & stable.
(btw, if you link to Permian-Triassic, you might also to this one)
Continuing survival, in decent form, of as many species as possible would be a damn good sign - it would basically mean the environment on which they depend is in moderately good shape; and stable.
Now...we also depend on quality and stability of surroundings. We might be one of the last among the megafauna to get hit, with our high adaptability, but we can get hit eventually, too.
But instead we're in the middle of...a mass extinction, one of most rapid ones in the history of this planet (apparently around 100 times above background level), with quite possibly half of existing species gone by the end of the century...
I don't care much about those species per se, even if they are cute. Causes of their extinction OTOH warrant a closer look and some concern...
Well, manufacturing cellphones does take a bit, though - and many people are to obsessed with replacing their perfectly good old ones, which too often end up in the drawer (to be fair, that's also a result of carrier policies here and there)
And really, biking is not as hard as you think (there are spiked tires btw). If it becomes too hard, sometimes, then there could be always an option of public transport/etc. ...which you don't have because you set your place like that, you let lobbyists of automobile makers and oil companies to take over your cities. And trust me, if public transport is set up properly and bikes are even allowed, essentially (meaining: not building road infrastructure primarily around heavy car traffic), they are the fastest options in times of day when it matters.
You forget about China, Indonesia, India, the general region; also parts of South America or Africa...you know, places with plenty of growth and where people do care about cost a lot more. And those machines will be cheap.
(or some variant could just as well be a standard building block for "laptops" which aren't densely packed inside and don't ship with much of a battery (if any), but do include monitor, keyboard, etc.; and still cheaper)
The only civilised and working way of reducing birth rate is assuring good standard of living and social security (in whatever form that works, let us not get into the favorite implementation method here). So the trick is to do that in a way that produces and uses energy efficiently, with as small impact as possible.
And apart from finding new tech, we have lots of headway to improve efficiency... (which is simply the logical thing to do - think about it as putting your progress ahead with the same amount of resources used; or, for a given tech level, the same standard of living without lesser need of basic infrastructure)
As you point out at the end - the thing is that, well, "our" places can still go a long way to improve efficiency - it's not that hard to find two developed countries with basically the same standard of living, but the difference in total resource usage amounting to doubling (overconsuption, also of gadgets, is art of that too, btw). And even the "better" one can surely improve, too...
More generally - it's not a good thing if the poor of today will make similar mistakes. We have to welcome wiser energy production and usage (for them, and also for us)
As a Finnish citizen, I guess you're happy with focus on R&D at your place resulting in, say, a company like Nokia contributing quite decent portion of your GDP (maybe even that one contribution covers ongoing gov funding of R&D?). BTW, I'm not sure about this - is Nokia allowed to sell anything at all outside the Finnish borders?
If yes, that could maybe work for solar cells, too... (nvm that I was under the impression of daylight in the Arctic Circle still averaging close to 12h throughout the year, the summer time kinda improving the stats)
PS. While seeing that there is always a place for improvement and striving for it, you might also remember that you place seems to do pretty damn well in healthcare alredy; when looking at bigger picture.
Riiight...developer of iMovie / 1st party high profile app not highly trained in using iPhone? Same with 3rd party one?
Is RDF that strong where you live?
Well...Google bought Android team quite a bit before iPhone announcement, plus they don't actually have any consumer "Google OS" (and of you refer to ChromeOS, that's a different thing, aimed mostly at tablets and netbooks; in the first case, also made public before Apple move, in the second - Apple claims they are not interested). As for browser...c'mon, Apple would be pissed after building large part of it on someone's else work, too?
And what about the possibility of the milkman poisoning breakfast eaten by your usual pilots, in a way that shows results when they are long into the flight?
Seriously, it's that kind of argument. You're looking for something absolutely temper-proof?... Tough luck, this is not a good Universe for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNtlS_HUKU
OK, US was generally few decades late with implementing autoland systems, but c'mon...
OTOH "when your rear is in the hot seat and death is riding you", people tend to act erratically (there were some catastrophes essentialy due to humans arguing with the machine...). And we can't be certain if knowing that you will surely survive any catastrophe is not actually at least as strong deterrent & motivation - after all, you know you will face the consequences if that was your fault.
More specifically, expensive if you want them to be damn good - still large portion of airplane crashes is due to human error; some are even because humans tried to "fight" the machine, essentialy.
You almost do that already, with large part of most airline flights happening sort of autonomously; and newer airplanes with ability to do basically whole journey without direct control input from human pilots.
Uhm, all that particular bit of evidence conveys is that Apple chose (for one of their biggest shows, mind you) people who are not only presentable and outgoing, but also very trained in usage of iPhone onscreen keyboard.
Hey, if the last one was what it takes, instead of just the one about bsods/kernel panics/X crashes that happen so often as to destroy the illusion of guru meditations... ;p