By "rescuing" people to an extent that it thwarts their own ability to be somewhat self-sufficient and resourceful ?
Seriously, do you really lack imagination to such an extent that you can't come up with exceptions to a rule on your own, much less find the obvious examples of those exceptions in the world around you ?
Challenging ones own assumptions is pretty basic stuff.
To be fair, it was the Cold War and the very real threat of global annihilation loomed over our heads.
The burden of warning people about the future has always fallen more on Science Fiction than any other form.
The spirit of the age was a depressing one.
That having been said, dystopian stories are always about a glass half empty sort of deal. In that regard, the dystopian story has always been more grounded in reality than it has been given credit. The point being, something is always lost when something big and heralded as awesome is gained. You're supposed to think about the cost of the new, and recognize that it's not all kittens and puppies, that's what dystopian stories are for.
Being an adult, I never for a moment expected the battery, drive train and electric motor to have also been printed, and did not expect this article to be about a 3D printed Cadillac-like car.
Some people seem to think 3D printing is somewhat hyped. I think the impact it has had already, much less is going to have, is decidedly understated.
Kind of reminds me of the early dial-up internet. Except 3D printing is developing WAY faster.
You need to go back to school and take some philosophy and history classes.
Because your insistence that Science is some sort of incorruptible absolute ideal that transcends it sure looking like a belief system is certainly not supported by the historical facts of it's development, much less the many fields of human knowledge that contributed to it's evolution.
What you're calling and reducing to "science" is as dead a thing as any dogma.
See, there you go - supporting a view of a particular belief system with nothing more than hyperbole and insults.
You're just like a religious fanatic that can't distinguish between philosophy, history, and science; much less recognize the interrelations and developmental aspects of them.
Good luck to you, you seem like a very happy person with all that smug going for you.
Insults aside, you haven't proven anything compelling in your childish tirade here.
It's not immoral to point-out that something is held as a belief system, that's just plain observation.
You don't understand as much about scientific method and the history of science as you believe you do.
The scientific method does not need you to passionately defend it with insults and some delusional hysteria whenever someone points out the fact that it too is a belief system.
You're just proving my point. Denial of the obvious is a hallmark of religious nuts. And you're just like them.
That doesn't solve the actual cause of the problem - the forfeiture laws.
And the courts, that have upheld these laws.
This assault on Liberty has been going on in the US for decades now. Legalized theft by law enforcement needs to be addressed, as well as the draconian prohibition laws that created the forfeiture laws.
buy off Bush, who exempted it from all EPA regulations and monitoring.
So, good luck with all that fracking money as that million fracking wells drilled all over the country gradually increasingly leak and pollute the environment, including the local water table.
The only way TO adapt quickly to the coming changes is to educate the public and work with industry to maintain a level of positive economic growth.
That would require a great deal of moderation from extremists though, so the transition is probably eventually going to be an ugly and violent one.
The Tesla factory, though, means ten thousand plus jobs int eh Reno area, and has been in the process of being constructed int he worlds largest industrial park. Most of those jobs are not "working poor" jobs, so the reality doesn't fit with your dialogue about industrial development being all about destroying the middle class.
A cop answering a trivial email while driving is exactly the same thing as soldiers following orders who are basically threatened with death if they disobey those orders.
Yeah, people lying about this sort of thing NEVER happens, and since it NEVER happens, people that just ask for some sort of verification, like a police report or investigation for example, THOSE people are real morons !
Nobody should ever question anything, just go with the fake internet outrage, because it just feels so good and gets you so high !
If "security" requires that everyone be obedient and fear the designation "antisocial", then by all means, we should all be actively seeking to destroy every vestige of THAT delusion.
Everything being "free" is not the issue at all, you obviously have not been paying attention.
People actually paid money for a hard copy cam-recorded version of the flick. That really surprises me, and it should cause the movie industry to question some very basic assumptions people make.
The film industry no long has the option of being able to control and restrict access to it's products; at one time they could create a product and say this is what it costs, in this/these forms, and if you want it you have to go here or here to get it in only this/these forms for this price.
But people don't care if the flick is in ultra high res on DVD or IMAX, they just want to watch it at their own leisure on their PC monitor or whatever, they don't even care if the quality of it is really great, and when it comes down to paying what the industry demands for it in just the form they've made available, or simply watching a less high quality version of it for a reduced price or for free, it is obvious what people are going to do.
The obvious solution would be for the industry to grow up and spend less money on attorneys, and more effort on making their product available in all the forms potential customers want it in for a reasonable price for those forms.
I've yet to see any proof the music or film industries have lost a dime from the enormous amount of free PR their products get. Quite the contrary. Given this, THAT is why people here find the prosecution of people and the long prison sentences outright ineffectual and offensive. Because it serves no purpose. You are not deterring anybody; the imprisonment of people is just costing us all a fortune. Which would be OK if it made any discernible difference in pirating materials - which it does not.
In essence, the state is being used to persecute the public and to steal FROM the public in order to permit industries to continue to fail to produce and distribute the products they have efficiently in the forms that people want.
So you just keep missing the point yourself and keep clinging to the idea that this is a simple matter of criminal activity for profit. You're a sucker for sticking-up for a system set-up to put people in prison for years and paying for their imprisonment just to make some scumbag lawyers rich.
Nobody is getting a heart or kidney transplant by stealing someone else's medical identity, that's just ridiculous, impersonating someone else's medical history is not going to result in proper diagnosis or treatment.
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For an "immigrant worker" you certainly write just like a typical American troll.
Not buying it, AC.
How nice to see that teachers aren't skilled enough to do on their own what their students do every day -
Figure out how to use new software by going on-line to the appropriate sites and using search engines to answer questions.
This doesn't surprise me; most of the teachers I've had just plain sucked.
By making it compulsory ?
By "rescuing" people to an extent that it thwarts their own ability to be somewhat self-sufficient and resourceful ?
Seriously, do you really lack imagination to such an extent that you can't come up with exceptions to a rule on your own, much less find the obvious examples of those exceptions in the world around you ?
Challenging ones own assumptions is pretty basic stuff.
To be fair, it was the Cold War and the very real threat of global annihilation loomed over our heads.
The burden of warning people about the future has always fallen more on Science Fiction than any other form.
The spirit of the age was a depressing one.
That having been said, dystopian stories are always about a glass half empty sort of deal. In that regard, the dystopian story has always been more grounded in reality than it has been given credit. The point being, something is always lost when something big and heralded as awesome is gained. You're supposed to think about the cost of the new, and recognize that it's not all kittens and puppies, that's what dystopian stories are for.
Tell the whole truth, you Boeing shill.
It was not uncommon in antiquity to blind prisoners of war, and keep them as slaves.
So, yeah, there ARE a lot of things a whole lot worse than death.
Is freakin' awesome.
Being an adult, I never for a moment expected the battery, drive train and electric motor to have also been printed, and did not expect this article to be about a 3D printed Cadillac-like car.
Some people seem to think 3D printing is somewhat hyped. I think the impact it has had already, much less is going to have, is decidedly understated.
Kind of reminds me of the early dial-up internet. Except 3D printing is developing WAY faster.
You need to go back to school and take some philosophy and history classes.
Because your insistence that Science is some sort of incorruptible absolute ideal that transcends it sure looking like a belief system is certainly not supported by the historical facts of it's development, much less the many fields of human knowledge that contributed to it's evolution.
What you're calling and reducing to "science" is as dead a thing as any dogma.
See, there you go - supporting a view of a particular belief system with nothing more than hyperbole and insults.
You're just like a religious fanatic that can't distinguish between philosophy, history, and science; much less recognize the interrelations and developmental aspects of them.
Good luck to you, you seem like a very happy person with all that smug going for you.
Insults aside, you haven't proven anything compelling in your childish tirade here.
It's not immoral to point-out that something is held as a belief system, that's just plain observation.
You don't understand as much about scientific method and the history of science as you believe you do.
The scientific method does not need you to passionately defend it with insults and some delusional hysteria whenever someone points out the fact that it too is a belief system.
You're just proving my point. Denial of the obvious is a hallmark of religious nuts. And you're just like them.
It absolutely is a belief system.
And people adhere to it with the same fervor and irrationality they do to religions.
And all you jackasses posting your opinions of what science is are really just proving the point.
That doesn't solve the actual cause of the problem - the forfeiture laws.
And the courts, that have upheld these laws.
This assault on Liberty has been going on in the US for decades now. Legalized theft by law enforcement needs to be addressed, as well as the draconian prohibition laws that created the forfeiture laws.
buy off Bush, who exempted it from all EPA regulations and monitoring.
So, good luck with all that fracking money as that million fracking wells drilled all over the country gradually increasingly leak and pollute the environment, including the local water table.
The only way TO adapt quickly to the coming changes is to educate the public and work with industry to maintain a level of positive economic growth.
That would require a great deal of moderation from extremists though, so the transition is probably eventually going to be an ugly and violent one.
The Tesla factory, though, means ten thousand plus jobs int eh Reno area, and has been in the process of being constructed int he worlds largest industrial park. Most of those jobs are not "working poor" jobs, so the reality doesn't fit with your dialogue about industrial development being all about destroying the middle class.
Hunter subsidy in this case falls under environmental management. Unchecked Boar populations are very capable of tearing-up an ecosystem.
Nice analogy.
A cop answering a trivial email while driving is exactly the same thing as soldiers following orders who are basically threatened with death if they disobey those orders.
No wonder you're posting AC.
Art and graphics ARE "content".
Why choose just one, when being both would be freakin' AWESOME.
of people who would take a job at an organization like the TSA.
Seriously. I have more respect for drug dealers and prostitutes for choosing their respective lines of employment.
Yeah, people lying about this sort of thing NEVER happens, and since it NEVER happens, people that just ask for some sort of verification, like a police report or investigation for example, THOSE people are real morons !
Nobody should ever question anything, just go with the fake internet outrage, because it just feels so good and gets you so high !
releases far more methane, directly into the atmosphere, without miles of ocean to absorb it.
But the US needs a million fracking wells.
Because it's our Christian Psycho duty to end the world.
If "security" requires that everyone be obedient and fear the designation "antisocial", then by all means, we should all be actively seeking to destroy every vestige of THAT delusion.
Everything being "free" is not the issue at all, you obviously have not been paying attention.
People actually paid money for a hard copy cam-recorded version of the flick. That really surprises me, and it should cause the movie industry to question some very basic assumptions people make.
The film industry no long has the option of being able to control and restrict access to it's products; at one time they could create a product and say this is what it costs, in this/these forms, and if you want it you have to go here or here to get it in only this/these forms for this price.
But people don't care if the flick is in ultra high res on DVD or IMAX, they just want to watch it at their own leisure on their PC monitor or whatever, they don't even care if the quality of it is really great, and when it comes down to paying what the industry demands for it in just the form they've made available, or simply watching a less high quality version of it for a reduced price or for free, it is obvious what people are going to do.
The obvious solution would be for the industry to grow up and spend less money on attorneys, and more effort on making their product available in all the forms potential customers want it in for a reasonable price for those forms.
I've yet to see any proof the music or film industries have lost a dime from the enormous amount of free PR their products get. Quite the contrary. Given this, THAT is why people here find the prosecution of people and the long prison sentences outright ineffectual and offensive. Because it serves no purpose. You are not deterring anybody; the imprisonment of people is just costing us all a fortune. Which would be OK if it made any discernible difference in pirating materials - which it does not.
In essence, the state is being used to persecute the public and to steal FROM the public in order to permit industries to continue to fail to produce and distribute the products they have efficiently in the forms that people want.
So you just keep missing the point yourself and keep clinging to the idea that this is a simple matter of criminal activity for profit. You're a sucker for sticking-up for a system set-up to put people in prison for years and paying for their imprisonment just to make some scumbag lawyers rich.
For all the talk and dreaming about the Linux desktop you'd think by now the community would have designed a GUI that doesn't frustrate end users.
Where would all that smug go if there was a decent and usable Linux desktop ?
Nobody is getting a heart or kidney transplant by stealing someone else's medical identity, that's just ridiculous, impersonating someone else's medical history is not going to result in proper diagnosis or treatment.