You are talking about two different coins, not even two sides of the same coin. I believe that if you leave 100.00 on your door step you should not expect it to be there when you get home. The person who took it is not right for doing so, but you are not right for leaving 100.00 on your door step where people would be tempted to take it and in other circumstances would not have done so.
What GP said is that if you leave your doors unlocked and get robbed, people would claim that _you_ should go to jail. Which is not a valid argument since AM is not holding their own stuff, they are holding EVERYONE ELSE'S STUFF!
You are not talking about your own stuff here so stop making invalid comparisons! If You were holding all of your neighbors crap and didn't lock your doors would YOU be held liable? That is the question you should ask, and the answer is "YES, there is such an thing as criminal negligence." Especially in the case here where you are copying personal data from your neighbors and keeping copies even though you tell them they are safe.
Your own Apples to other people's Orangutans comparison.
The Government requires you to have vehicle insurance because you impact other people if you wreck on a road. Banks are required to have insurance protecting a specific percentage of deposited wealth. You will go to jail if you kill someone while driving even if it was on accident if you don't have insurance. Banks have had people go to jail when they lied about or have not met obligations required by law. Why should a business be treated differently exactly? No reason, except that we lack enforceable regulation.
People in power don't need to be knowledgeable about computers to pass decent laws. They need to have a good base to draw knowledge from. They don't have such a good base, but could.
Nobody in public office can be an expert at everything, and the best of the best admit where they lack knowledge and bring good people on board to advise them. Claiming equilibrium is impossible unless a office holder knows the answer is quite frankly irrational.
NT was not a competition for Windows, not even for a little while. NT3.5 was competition for Novell Netware, but had no Internet services (and it's TCP/IP support was 3rd party only and generally bad). NT4.0 did not change that at all, so I'd say your memory is plain old wrong. NT4 had the Back Orifice stuff with a Mail and IIS server, but only the daft people were putting them on the internet directly.
Sure, NT was better than Win9X for a lot of things. Workstation could run most games okay, but Server could not. It was never better than Novell and the competition with Unix was short lived and mostly marketing hype. Linux has eaten far more Unix market share than Windows ever did or could.
VR requires individual tuning to be really good. It's not worth the hassle and cost for most people to have it, use it, and/or develop for it. Having built 3 VR Cave/Powerwall systems for large company theaters I have a good amount of experience with subject.
A very minor amount of people think it's great and pay for it which is fine. VR has been, and will remain, a niche market. Most people realize that Johnny2D can kill them in the MMO even when they have VR and don't see the benefit in paying extra.
Had they been manipulative they'd change the data and simply report inflated numbers - not use vague, badly worded definitions, prone to misinterpretation, or protocols and methodology prone to bias from both surveyors and surveyed.
I smell a troll. Manipulation does not require one form, it takes many forms. Similarly dishonesty is not simply a lie, but can also be withholding information or re-ordering information to present a false reality.
You are describing a conspiracy where "studies use intentionally incorrect information".
Yup, it's a troll. I never claimed there was a conspiracy, I claimed that people commonly call things "science" in order to manipulate the public and provided examples which are easy to find and validate.
There is nothing conflated in what you have quoted. The person I responded to claimed that 1/3rd of the population of India is "well off", and I proved them wrong. Please work on your English literacy prior to claiming others are illiterate.
You seem to be missing the obvious conclusion. Science is surely capable of yielding better results than the irrational numbers you demonstrated in your last paragraph (amazingly the same number as the BS study I referred to). The issue is that people are inherently manipulative, so they don't want better numbers. Studies use intentionally incorrect information, like you point out with male rape not being counted as rape. That study claiming one in five counted any unwanted sexual advance as rape. Even if it was a woman being nice to her husband because she was not in the mood but he was.
Two other manipulations heavily used are studies that count bisexuals as gay and as bisexual to double the wanted demographics numbers. Murders not being counted as murders to make it appear like crime is being reduced. Deaths being linked to a specific cause to manipulate society even when the cause was only a minor factor.
My point was not intended to say that science is not possible, it was more a notice of the pot calling the kettle black.
You mean to say that you can't defend your position using facts and have been called out on your BS. Humility is a good thing, you should learn to use it when you are wrong.
Besides the rural population you already mentioned, there are another 350M middle class there, and yet another 350M there that are quite well off, have access to excellent schools thus becoming as "highly skilled" as a westerner.
Why people want to claim such easy to disprove bullshit is quite befuddling. No country has a good balance between rich, poor, and middle class. The 1/3rd of the population you claim exists and is "quite well off" simply does not! India is very similar to the US where the top.01% own most of the country and the top 10% own 90% of the wealth just like the US. There are more people in extreme poverty in India which makes them worse than the US.
Getting a degree does not make a good and productive worker in a foreign country. If it did, every company would have more Chinese workers than Indian workers because that is who the numbers have favored for decades. There is quite a bit to that discussion, more than I care to get into in this thread. Anyone that has dealt with development and support out of a foreign country knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Your personal anecdote with hiring does not change the fact that H1B workers are easily pressured into working far more than anyone should. Recent criminal actions against several companies for human rights violations in the SF Bay area should make that abundantly clear, and we only know about the few that were abused to a point where they turned in their sponsors. Of course a H1B worker is "hard working"! That is the point of people calling it a legal indentured servitude. For every one company that uses the system correctly there are at least as many that don't.
Read what GP stated, then read what I wrote. To anyone that knows how to read it should be obvious that my comments regarding convenient 'facts' are related to him, and not TFA or it's summary.
I get that reading chronologically can be hard, but good grief... my commentary is directly below the post I commented on.
Copyright issues isn't as damaging to society as say a web sites that enables access to drug dealers.
That may be true, but you are also incorrectly attempting to equate apples to orangutans
It's not because there is proof that some encouragement of illegal activities is available and not reprimanded that it's not illegal. I can jerk off in front of your house all day but until someone calls the cops about it I'm not going to be charge for it. If nobody cares it won't see the light of day. Keep in mind that US is one of the few places where hate speech is allowed and the laws are very different in other countries such as Denmark in this case.
My advice to you is to learn some history
Why are you getting personal?
You ignoring history is not personal, it's a statement of fact. I provided two recent examples of what happens when a government is allowed to make arbitrary rulings by guessing intent. I could add Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, Germany, Cuba, and I'll stop there because you should get the point. If you want to defend your position show me where history is wrong. In fact show me in history where allowing this type of ruling has not turned out catastrophically for the majority of the population.
My advice to you is to learn some history and stop defending non-event prosecution. Perhaps then you would realize how dangerous the process you are backing really is. Immunity for people who think they are in the club generally does not last very long. Chinese and Russian history is full of examples.
Oh look, I played with a knife and I cut myself. Why are people surprised when this happens? I don't need history to tell me that publishing information about illegal activities is playing with fire. You piss someone off enough they'll make it their life's work to ruin yours. It's exactly what is happening here. History has many example of this too.
If you want to defend your position show me where my examples were wrong instead of making up more invalid comparisons and nonsense.
How is these people publishing text any different than the Anarchist's handbook? How is this different than writing up "how to" guides for taking apart machine guns?
You are claiming that writing and publishing here is a crime because you say the subject matter is dangerous. I provided equally dangerous materials which won't result in jail. I have been courteous enough to demonstrate my position. I provided other dangerous material which would not result in publishing being a crime.. Demonstrate your yours and show me the logic. Reality please, not more unrelated fluff.
The same claim you make about wacko's having ammo works in both directions. People on the side you believe to have the better opinions use the same papers as their "proof" for what ever they want.
People quote mythical 'facts' regularly. Today I heard yet another bonehead talking about the alleged "Rape Culture" at college which uses a 40 year old bullshit study for it's statistics. Not because we can't do better studies, but because the numbers in that particular study favor the bullshit they want you to believe.
Not very much "Science" relates to pure black or pure white answers. In fact the majority of science is trying to figure out what shade of gray something is. The most difficult task is to figure out your own biases, and in a world that puts "feelings" over correctness.. we are getting what we should.
The original reference to teachers was not comparable either.
It was not supposed to be comparable, it was supposed to demonstrate the dangers of prosecuting people for non-crimes based on what someone speculates as intent.
Copyright issues isn't as damaging to society as say a web sites that enables access to drug dealers.
That may be true, but you are also incorrectly attempting to equate apples to orangutans. These guys were not publishing maps to drug dealers, and even if they were that would not be illegal (at least in the US). Arrest records are public information which would give someone enough to know where to buy drugs. While it may seem sleezy to publish such a map, it certainly would not be illegal. These guys were only publishing information, not providing the tools to use the information with.
Since you can not make a fair comparison either, how about I give you one? "The Anarchists Cookbook" is not illegal to possess and not illegal to purchase (again, at least in the US). That book contains information on how to do illegal things too, and nobody is going to jail over that book.
An even better comparison may be to a crime novel. There is lots of information in those about how to break the law. Are those illegal also? How about a book that shows the parts of a Machine gun, are those now illegal because anyone can go to a URL and read how to take one apart and put it together? Machine guns are illegal right?
My advice to anybody is to avoid getting involved in enabling illegal activities or be willing to accept possible consequences.
My advice to you is to learn some history and stop defending non-event prosecution. Perhaps then you would realize how dangerous the process you are backing really is. Immunity for people who think they are in the club generally does not last very long. Chinese and Russian history is full of examples.
I partially agree with you. AMD/ATI graphics can run as good as nVidia under certain circumstances. Generally not with OpenGL and not with non-Windows drivers. ATI has never been good with providing Linux drivers, and what they did in Windows was mostly for DirectX.
nVidia and Intel have both done a bunch to ensure that AMD and ATI are playing on an unfair field. I still boycott Tom's Hardware because they were so extremely dishonest with benchmarking.
There are two big reasons for the "Hell no". First, in the 70s and 80s Computers were all about money. If you could afford it, you did it. If you did not have enough memory, you either re-wrote or paid for more. I'm sure we could have reserved some core to hold the LZ libraries, but that would consume more space than any piece of code we ran. Space conservation would be the second reason.
I'd say the same for the first *Nix systems as well. If you had to worry about compressing in memory you were doing something wrong.
The people pushing for these prosecutions have gotten around the civil case restrictions since day one. Accessing content that a person claims is protected can (and often does) result in charges for illegal wiretapping, criminal hacking, and and in the US about a half a dozen other federal charges. If you want an example, look at what Aaron Schwartz was getting charged with for copying books. His case would be a bit more than average since he installed a laptop in a library to do this, but not that far out of what you could be charged with for copying file.
The charges vary depending on who is pushing for charges.
While I disagree with his premise regarding games I believe he has a valid point. Probably very unintentionally, but I have to be fair. Should Nerds/Geeks be learning Arts too? Absolutely they should. The classical education system worked so well because people learned a bit of everything while they also specialized. Our industrial education system does not work because it focuses on testing on two subjects (mostly). People might be able to find a rounded education outside of the public system, but you won't find it within.
Where I do think he's wrong is pushing for Mandarin based games. Unless China revolts somehow, they will still be a 2 class system with the majority living in extreme poverty. It does not matter how many people speak the same language a game is released with, if they can't afford the product.
Who cares how long the development time is? When a company has a dangerous product, the Press is supposed to ensure the product gets fixed. Imagine if the Dell Laptop battery issue was put under a gag order for 2 years. Dell and the court knew that it could catch fire causing death and injury, but did not want to hurt Dell's profit margins.
I have no idea why people lose any established logic because something is Electronic versus Mechanical. If a person could hit a car a certain way and cause the transmission gears to fall off, it would be all over the news and a law suit. Even if the Transmission was being developed for decades (as many are), there would not be a gag order on findings. Why you want to put an electronic system on a pedestal and insult people who can equate the two is appalling.
Ignore literature and science fiction and look at reality. Remember that saying "Art imitates life."? Well, it has some realistic foundation.
The people did not see the extent of manipulation being used against them 60 years ago. It was easy for them to imagine a world in a state of Utopia because they were under the impression that their Government was run by them, it was looking out for their best interests, it wanted Freedom and Republics across the globe. We could argue how true this actually was, but there is no question that the majority had this belief.
The last 20 years has been moving further an further toward a 2 class system where the Tyrants own everything and the worker class has nothing. The crash and housing losses in 2008 were not the first down turn that made a few people extremely wealthy and put middle class people into poverty, just the biggest since the last crash and not limited to a "tech bubble". Amazingly the tech-bubble that burst resulted in a couple billionaires who own and control most IT today. Money only left one set of hands, not the market completely.
It is no longer a majority believing that their country is all about them and Freedom.
Art in general does not predict anything, it reflects. The cycle we are in now is the same cycle we have seen through human history repeated over and over. The "have's" take until people have no choice but to lop heads and re-distribute. Technology has prolonged the end, but it's there. Human nature does not change and will not change.
Actually I did read TFA, but thanks for making a false accusation. Who gave the person the name makes no difference to my comment.
Anyone with ethics would immediately have seen a problem with the question. "Are you the Socrates of [ROLE]?" in any Government bureaucracy would have been scoffed at. Anyone knowing anything about Socrates would have known the idiocy of that question.
Instead of remaining ignorant and making baseless accusations ask questions to educate yourself! That method completely contradicts what you just did.
As someone wise once told me.. "Wish in one hand and shit in the other. One hand will be full and the other empty, tell me which is which." What you are attempting to claim is that someone today can unlearn thousands of years of study on human nature. I realize you were attempting to be nice, but nice and honesty don't always go hand in hand.
To the psychopath that decided this person was Socrates I will ask that they actually go study Socrates. This person was not Socrates or Plato by any stretch of the imagination. In both cases the Philosopher would have been smart enough to know that self interests and preservation prevents a fair view of their ethics. The only way for someone to evaluate the ethics fairly would be to evaluate as an outsider.
I don't believe an update is needed, because the tyrants don't have new ideas or plans. The implementation of the ideas is being closer to a reality does not make it a new idea.
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Nothing like abusing a commonly used phrase for gain instead of using innovation and good will.
Oh, One more thing.
This generally results in the failure of a company, people have great disdain for abuse.
One more thing.
Politicians usually lose offices after this too, so hopefully the cronies were already retiring.
One more thing!
Nah, too easy...
You are talking about two different coins, not even two sides of the same coin. I believe that if you leave 100.00 on your door step you should not expect it to be there when you get home. The person who took it is not right for doing so, but you are not right for leaving 100.00 on your door step where people would be tempted to take it and in other circumstances would not have done so.
What GP said is that if you leave your doors unlocked and get robbed, people would claim that _you_ should go to jail. Which is not a valid argument since AM is not holding their own stuff, they are holding EVERYONE ELSE'S STUFF!
You are not talking about your own stuff here so stop making invalid comparisons! If You were holding all of your neighbors crap and didn't lock your doors would YOU be held liable? That is the question you should ask, and the answer is "YES, there is such an thing as criminal negligence." Especially in the case here where you are copying personal data from your neighbors and keeping copies even though you tell them they are safe.
Your own Apples to other people's Orangutans comparison.
The Government requires you to have vehicle insurance because you impact other people if you wreck on a road. Banks are required to have insurance protecting a specific percentage of deposited wealth. You will go to jail if you kill someone while driving even if it was on accident if you don't have insurance. Banks have had people go to jail when they lied about or have not met obligations required by law. Why should a business be treated differently exactly? No reason, except that we lack enforceable regulation.
People in power don't need to be knowledgeable about computers to pass decent laws. They need to have a good base to draw knowledge from. They don't have such a good base, but could.
Nobody in public office can be an expert at everything, and the best of the best admit where they lack knowledge and bring good people on board to advise them. Claiming equilibrium is impossible unless a office holder knows the answer is quite frankly irrational.
NT was not a competition for Windows, not even for a little while. NT3.5 was competition for Novell Netware, but had no Internet services (and it's TCP/IP support was 3rd party only and generally bad). NT4.0 did not change that at all, so I'd say your memory is plain old wrong. NT4 had the Back Orifice stuff with a Mail and IIS server, but only the daft people were putting them on the internet directly.
Sure, NT was better than Win9X for a lot of things. Workstation could run most games okay, but Server could not. It was never better than Novell and the competition with Unix was short lived and mostly marketing hype. Linux has eaten far more Unix market share than Windows ever did or could.
VR requires individual tuning to be really good. It's not worth the hassle and cost for most people to have it, use it, and/or develop for it. Having built 3 VR Cave/Powerwall systems for large company theaters I have a good amount of experience with subject.
A very minor amount of people think it's great and pay for it which is fine. VR has been, and will remain, a niche market. Most people realize that Johnny2D can kill them in the MMO even when they have VR and don't see the benefit in paying extra.
Had they been manipulative they'd change the data and simply report inflated numbers - not use vague, badly worded definitions, prone to misinterpretation, or protocols and methodology prone to bias from both surveyors and surveyed.
I smell a troll. Manipulation does not require one form, it takes many forms. Similarly dishonesty is not simply a lie, but can also be withholding information or re-ordering information to present a false reality.
You are describing a conspiracy where "studies use intentionally incorrect information".
Yup, it's a troll. I never claimed there was a conspiracy, I claimed that people commonly call things "science" in order to manipulate the public and provided examples which are easy to find and validate.
There is nothing conflated in what you have quoted. The person I responded to claimed that 1/3rd of the population of India is "well off", and I proved them wrong. Please work on your English literacy prior to claiming others are illiterate.
You seem to be missing the obvious conclusion. Science is surely capable of yielding better results than the irrational numbers you demonstrated in your last paragraph (amazingly the same number as the BS study I referred to). The issue is that people are inherently manipulative, so they don't want better numbers. Studies use intentionally incorrect information, like you point out with male rape not being counted as rape. That study claiming one in five counted any unwanted sexual advance as rape. Even if it was a woman being nice to her husband because she was not in the mood but he was.
Two other manipulations heavily used are studies that count bisexuals as gay and as bisexual to double the wanted demographics numbers. Murders not being counted as murders to make it appear like crime is being reduced. Deaths being linked to a specific cause to manipulate society even when the cause was only a minor factor.
My point was not intended to say that science is not possible, it was more a notice of the pot calling the kettle black.
You mean to say that you can't defend your position using facts and have been called out on your BS. Humility is a good thing, you should learn to use it when you are wrong.
Besides the rural population you already mentioned, there are another 350M middle class there, and yet another 350M there that are quite well off, have access to excellent schools thus becoming as "highly skilled" as a westerner.
Why people want to claim such easy to disprove bullshit is quite befuddling. No country has a good balance between rich, poor, and middle class. The 1/3rd of the population you claim exists and is "quite well off" simply does not! India is very similar to the US where the top .01% own most of the country and the top 10% own 90% of the wealth just like the US. There are more people in extreme poverty in India which makes them worse than the US.
Getting a degree does not make a good and productive worker in a foreign country. If it did, every company would have more Chinese workers than Indian workers because that is who the numbers have favored for decades. There is quite a bit to that discussion, more than I care to get into in this thread. Anyone that has dealt with development and support out of a foreign country knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Your personal anecdote with hiring does not change the fact that H1B workers are easily pressured into working far more than anyone should. Recent criminal actions against several companies for human rights violations in the SF Bay area should make that abundantly clear, and we only know about the few that were abused to a point where they turned in their sponsors. Of course a H1B worker is "hard working"! That is the point of people calling it a legal indentured servitude. For every one company that uses the system correctly there are at least as many that don't.
Read what GP stated, then read what I wrote. To anyone that knows how to read it should be obvious that my comments regarding convenient 'facts' are related to him, and not TFA or it's summary.
I get that reading chronologically can be hard, but good grief... my commentary is directly below the post I commented on.
Copyright issues isn't as damaging to society as say a web sites that enables access to drug dealers.
That may be true, but you are also incorrectly attempting to equate apples to orangutans
It's not because there is proof that some encouragement of illegal activities is available and not reprimanded that it's not illegal. I can jerk off in front of your house all day but until someone calls the cops about it I'm not going to be charge for it. If nobody cares it won't see the light of day. Keep in mind that US is one of the few places where hate speech is allowed and the laws are very different in other countries such as Denmark in this case.
My advice to you is to learn some history
Why are you getting personal?
You ignoring history is not personal, it's a statement of fact. I provided two recent examples of what happens when a government is allowed to make arbitrary rulings by guessing intent. I could add Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, Germany, Cuba, and I'll stop there because you should get the point. If you want to defend your position show me where history is wrong. In fact show me in history where allowing this type of ruling has not turned out catastrophically for the majority of the population.
My advice to you is to learn some history and stop defending non-event prosecution. Perhaps then you would realize how dangerous the process you are backing really is. Immunity for people who think they are in the club generally does not last very long. Chinese and Russian history is full of examples.
Oh look, I played with a knife and I cut myself. Why are people surprised when this happens? I don't need history to tell me that publishing information about illegal activities is playing with fire. You piss someone off enough they'll make it their life's work to ruin yours. It's exactly what is happening here. History has many example of this too.
Take a minute to review the definition of accessory to a crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want to defend your position show me where my examples were wrong instead of making up more invalid comparisons and nonsense.
How is these people publishing text any different than the Anarchist's handbook? How is this different than writing up "how to" guides for taking apart machine guns?
You are claiming that writing and publishing here is a crime because you say the subject matter is dangerous. I provided equally dangerous materials which won't result in jail. I have been courteous enough to demonstrate my position. I provided other dangerous material which would not result in publishing being a crime.. Demonstrate your yours and show me the logic. Reality please, not more unrelated fluff.
The same claim you make about wacko's having ammo works in both directions. People on the side you believe to have the better opinions use the same papers as their "proof" for what ever they want.
People quote mythical 'facts' regularly. Today I heard yet another bonehead talking about the alleged "Rape Culture" at college which uses a 40 year old bullshit study for it's statistics. Not because we can't do better studies, but because the numbers in that particular study favor the bullshit they want you to believe.
Not very much "Science" relates to pure black or pure white answers. In fact the majority of science is trying to figure out what shade of gray something is. The most difficult task is to figure out your own biases, and in a world that puts "feelings" over correctness.. we are getting what we should.
The original reference to teachers was not comparable either.
It was not supposed to be comparable, it was supposed to demonstrate the dangers of prosecuting people for non-crimes based on what someone speculates as intent.
Copyright issues isn't as damaging to society as say a web sites that enables access to drug dealers.
That may be true, but you are also incorrectly attempting to equate apples to orangutans. These guys were not publishing maps to drug dealers, and even if they were that would not be illegal (at least in the US). Arrest records are public information which would give someone enough to know where to buy drugs. While it may seem sleezy to publish such a map, it certainly would not be illegal. These guys were only publishing information, not providing the tools to use the information with.
Since you can not make a fair comparison either, how about I give you one? "The Anarchists Cookbook" is not illegal to possess and not illegal to purchase (again, at least in the US). That book contains information on how to do illegal things too, and nobody is going to jail over that book.
An even better comparison may be to a crime novel. There is lots of information in those about how to break the law. Are those illegal also? How about a book that shows the parts of a Machine gun, are those now illegal because anyone can go to a URL and read how to take one apart and put it together? Machine guns are illegal right?
My advice to anybody is to avoid getting involved in enabling illegal activities or be willing to accept possible consequences.
My advice to you is to learn some history and stop defending non-event prosecution. Perhaps then you would realize how dangerous the process you are backing really is. Immunity for people who think they are in the club generally does not last very long. Chinese and Russian history is full of examples.
I partially agree with you. AMD/ATI graphics can run as good as nVidia under certain circumstances. Generally not with OpenGL and not with non-Windows drivers. ATI has never been good with providing Linux drivers, and what they did in Windows was mostly for DirectX.
nVidia and Intel have both done a bunch to ensure that AMD and ATI are playing on an unfair field. I still boycott Tom's Hardware because they were so extremely dishonest with benchmarking.
There are two big reasons for the "Hell no". First, in the 70s and 80s Computers were all about money. If you could afford it, you did it. If you did not have enough memory, you either re-wrote or paid for more. I'm sure we could have reserved some core to hold the LZ libraries, but that would consume more space than any piece of code we ran. Space conservation would be the second reason.
I'd say the same for the first *Nix systems as well. If you had to worry about compressing in memory you were doing something wrong.
The people pushing for these prosecutions have gotten around the civil case restrictions since day one. Accessing content that a person claims is protected can (and often does) result in charges for illegal wiretapping, criminal hacking, and and in the US about a half a dozen other federal charges. If you want an example, look at what Aaron Schwartz was getting charged with for copying books. His case would be a bit more than average since he installed a laptop in a library to do this, but not that far out of what you could be charged with for copying file.
The charges vary depending on who is pushing for charges.
While I disagree with his premise regarding games I believe he has a valid point. Probably very unintentionally, but I have to be fair. Should Nerds/Geeks be learning Arts too? Absolutely they should. The classical education system worked so well because people learned a bit of everything while they also specialized. Our industrial education system does not work because it focuses on testing on two subjects (mostly). People might be able to find a rounded education outside of the public system, but you won't find it within.
Where I do think he's wrong is pushing for Mandarin based games. Unless China revolts somehow, they will still be a 2 class system with the majority living in extreme poverty. It does not matter how many people speak the same language a game is released with, if they can't afford the product.
Who cares how long the development time is? When a company has a dangerous product, the Press is supposed to ensure the product gets fixed. Imagine if the Dell Laptop battery issue was put under a gag order for 2 years. Dell and the court knew that it could catch fire causing death and injury, but did not want to hurt Dell's profit margins.
I have no idea why people lose any established logic because something is Electronic versus Mechanical. If a person could hit a car a certain way and cause the transmission gears to fall off, it would be all over the news and a law suit. Even if the Transmission was being developed for decades (as many are), there would not be a gag order on findings. Why you want to put an electronic system on a pedestal and insult people who can equate the two is appalling.
Ignore literature and science fiction and look at reality. Remember that saying "Art imitates life."? Well, it has some realistic foundation.
The people did not see the extent of manipulation being used against them 60 years ago. It was easy for them to imagine a world in a state of Utopia because they were under the impression that their Government was run by them, it was looking out for their best interests, it wanted Freedom and Republics across the globe. We could argue how true this actually was, but there is no question that the majority had this belief.
The last 20 years has been moving further an further toward a 2 class system where the Tyrants own everything and the worker class has nothing. The crash and housing losses in 2008 were not the first down turn that made a few people extremely wealthy and put middle class people into poverty, just the biggest since the last crash and not limited to a "tech bubble". Amazingly the tech-bubble that burst resulted in a couple billionaires who own and control most IT today. Money only left one set of hands, not the market completely.
It is no longer a majority believing that their country is all about them and Freedom.
Art in general does not predict anything, it reflects. The cycle we are in now is the same cycle we have seen through human history repeated over and over. The "have's" take until people have no choice but to lop heads and re-distribute. Technology has prolonged the end, but it's there. Human nature does not change and will not change.
Actually I did read TFA, but thanks for making a false accusation. Who gave the person the name makes no difference to my comment.
Anyone with ethics would immediately have seen a problem with the question. "Are you the Socrates of [ROLE]?" in any Government bureaucracy would have been scoffed at. Anyone knowing anything about Socrates would have known the idiocy of that question.
Instead of remaining ignorant and making baseless accusations ask questions to educate yourself! That method completely contradicts what you just did.
As someone wise once told me.. "Wish in one hand and shit in the other. One hand will be full and the other empty, tell me which is which." What you are attempting to claim is that someone today can unlearn thousands of years of study on human nature. I realize you were attempting to be nice, but nice and honesty don't always go hand in hand.
To the psychopath that decided this person was Socrates I will ask that they actually go study Socrates. This person was not Socrates or Plato by any stretch of the imagination. In both cases the Philosopher would have been smart enough to know that self interests and preservation prevents a fair view of their ethics. The only way for someone to evaluate the ethics fairly would be to evaluate as an outsider.
I don't believe an update is needed, because the tyrants don't have new ideas or plans. The implementation of the ideas is being closer to a reality does not make it a new idea.