It almost killed the airline industry and helped collapse the economy.
It created new government agencies, a new level of secrecy, and a set of behaviors that are damaging to society.
It made flying so unappealing that millions of US citizens don't travel at all now, and millions more can't afford to travel.
Granted, they didn't do ALL this, our own government rushed in to achieve it. But to claim it was impotent, and disregard the significance of "the emotional aspect" is to entirely miss the point.
Ever inching towards the Brave New World...
The goal of showing that that concept of transparency with the US government is, and always was, an illusion, has been proven;
but they'll keep proving it, again and again, until you all pull your heads out.
Are you talking about the same drugs, or are you obfuscating the differences ?
Do you even know what the differences are ?
Are you assuming the toxicities are the same ?
Are you assuming that "highly variable doses" of all (or even most) supplements are hazardous ?
Once they figure out what a huge information suck, privacy and security breach, and vector for being a tool for undeserving corporations to use and exploit ?
It isn't funny if you give a crap about autistic kids.
Early diagnosis is going to be a big deal, there's the potential here to treat and possibly even cure autism.
There is also the potential to help kids that aren't even at risk for autism, as what's leaned about child development will be at least partially applicable.
It works great for what it's really intended for - to cause a perpetual problem created by politicians and administrators and the "grrrr, teachers in unions baaaaaaad" crowd.
It's funny in all the related discourse over the years I have never seen anyone mention what I always thought the real problem when I went to school was.
The other students. Too many kids in classes, too many kids that are unteachable because their parents never taught their kids how to behave. Too many bullies that need the shit kicked out of them. Too many administrators that don't do their jobs.
But no, it has to be that the teachers who are definitely under compensated, and constantly maligned, made to pay for supplies the parents should be paying for, are "the problem".
Oh, and then there's the parents, who don't take their child's education seriously enough to be supportive and create a home environment where it is even possible to excel academically.
Still, somehow, all THAT is the teachers fault.
I haven't forgotten my REALLY good teachers, and what I saw hindering their impact. It sure as hell wasn't that they were paid too much, or that they were unmotivated or lazy.
But seriously, anyone that actually believed Google's "Do No Evil" PR bullshit was falling for PR engineered self delusion.
I've always found it disturbing all the people that feel for THAT crap early on who really should have known better. Looking back, it's interesting to see who was warning everybody from the very begging that it was BS, and who was not.
Trust is earned, but some people think it can be gained or restored by buying it, or giving you pretty baubles "for free".
The taxpayers are going to end up paying it, as usual.
The people responsible for unconstitutionally going after businesses should be the ones to have to pay the fines, not the taxpayer.
Hiding behind the state to rip off the public is as American as apple pie. And accepting it as business as usual is, too.
Wow, hit with a -1 for pointing out that the 1%'ers can, and do, skirt the rules with their wealth, and that fines as a method of discipline have a completely different impact, dependent on one's wealth ?
the human species has made so much of a jackass of itself on Earth, we really need to think seriously about how we can be just as psychotic and violent in space !
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It almost killed the airline industry and helped collapse the economy.
It created new government agencies, a new level of secrecy, and a set of behaviors that are damaging to society.
It made flying so unappealing that millions of US citizens don't travel at all now, and millions more can't afford to travel.
Granted, they didn't do ALL this, our own government rushed in to achieve it. But to claim it was impotent, and disregard the significance of "the emotional aspect" is to entirely miss the point.
Ever inching towards the Brave New World...
The goal of showing that that concept of transparency with the US government is, and always was, an illusion, has been proven;
but they'll keep proving it, again and again, until you all pull your heads out.
Are you talking about the same drugs, or are you obfuscating the differences ?
Do you even know what the differences are ?
Are you assuming the toxicities are the same ?
Are you assuming that "highly variable doses" of all (or even most) supplements are hazardous ?
That being said, I'm still not going to take a prescription sleeping medication when I can just take a cheap and safe melatonin pill.
I don't know of a single prescription sleeping drug that has a normalizing effect, helps prevent cancer, and makes you more healthy.
I do know too many unhealthy people that can't read and comprehend a PDR listing that take any drug their told.
"myspace"
If you had specific examples of any of these assertions, you'd cite them.
And why couldn't anonymous break-in ?
The Vatican has better security than the DoD ?
I guess everybody just assumes God is protecting them, that must be why nobody finds it curious that their systems are so secure.
Given the racial disparity of our prison population, one might argue that prisoners aren't more likely to be any more amoral than anyone else.
They are simply a subset of a group of people just more likely to get caught.
Yes, but he's a fucking live gun-toting moron defending himself and his family and what belongs to him on his own private property.
Where do YOU live ? Where does HE live ?
I have to wonder if one of you is an urban dweller and the other a rural one.
In which case, you'd both be right - and wrong.
make it to SD ?
"It's automated" isn't an excuse, it's a business plan.
Brilliant business plan though, profiting off ads for content that isn't even yours.
Thanks for sharing this, I really love SD for comments like this.
Once they figure out what a huge information suck, privacy and security breach, and vector for being a tool for undeserving corporations to use and exploit ?
The example of a corporation that hired a PR firm to fix something that wasn't their fault in ANY way is right in the article.
PR is a tool, like anything else, in and of itself it is morally neutral.
It isn't funny if you give a crap about autistic kids.
Early diagnosis is going to be a big deal, there's the potential here to treat and possibly even cure autism.
There is also the potential to help kids that aren't even at risk for autism, as what's leaned about child development will be at least partially applicable.
It works great for what it's really intended for - to cause a perpetual problem created by politicians and administrators and the "grrrr, teachers in unions baaaaaaad" crowd.
It's funny in all the related discourse over the years I have never seen anyone mention what I always thought the real problem when I went to school was.
The other students. Too many kids in classes, too many kids that are unteachable because their parents never taught their kids how to behave. Too many bullies that need the shit kicked out of them. Too many administrators that don't do their jobs.
But no, it has to be that the teachers who are definitely under compensated, and constantly maligned, made to pay for supplies the parents should be paying for, are "the problem".
Oh, and then there's the parents, who don't take their child's education seriously enough to be supportive and create a home environment where it is even possible to excel academically.
Still, somehow, all THAT is the teachers fault.
I haven't forgotten my REALLY good teachers, and what I saw hindering their impact. It sure as hell wasn't that they were paid too much, or that they were unmotivated or lazy.
No, no, NO. THE TSA was created to rip-off the American public, and to give jobs to otherwise unemployable human refuse.
Wow, thanks for this, that is very alarming.
But seriously, anyone that actually believed Google's "Do No Evil" PR bullshit was falling for PR engineered self delusion.
I've always found it disturbing all the people that feel for THAT crap early on who really should have known better. Looking back, it's interesting to see who was warning everybody from the very begging that it was BS, and who was not.
Trust is earned, but some people think it can be gained or restored by buying it, or giving you pretty baubles "for free".
The taxpayers are going to end up paying it, as usual. The people responsible for unconstitutionally going after businesses should be the ones to have to pay the fines, not the taxpayer. Hiding behind the state to rip off the public is as American as apple pie. And accepting it as business as usual is, too.
Where is this theoretical car built of fine materials that lasts forever ? Maybe if you leave it parked in a garage and never actually drive it.
Wow, hit with a -1 for pointing out that the 1%'ers can, and do, skirt the rules with their wealth, and that fines as a method of discipline have a completely different impact, dependent on one's wealth ?
Contempt for the truth is never pretty.
You did read that she demanded a drivers license from a twelve year old child with a valid passport ?
Some people have no business interacting with the public.
Or it could be a potentially lucrative market for selling GM pigeons TO hunters, because, after all, they wouldn't be "real" animals now, would they ?
Same thing can be said of some serial killers. Arguing that killers are very humane killers doesn't change the fact that they're still killers.
It'll mean plenty of jobs to deal with it and scientific progress !
the human species has made so much of a jackass of itself on Earth, we really need to think seriously about how we can be just as psychotic and violent in space !