Are you really wondering why a person would feel that being discriminated against based on gender is threatening or unfair? How PC brainwashed do you have to be to not even understand why some people might not want to be discriminated against?
The thing is that 'magic' (as in your example which is 'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.') has been discovered with practical and affordable applications so many times in our lifetimes that it isn't an absurd to believe it will happen again.
That is because it is a direct barter. Money is a proxy system for barter where the 'Money' is a generic marker for barter 'points'. So, Canadian Tire Money is money. Trading parts for parts is not money. Forbes knows this. The question becomes, Why would he make a statement that is so obviously wrong.
Another Fact: Fewer people died in Massachusetts that day from bombings than from cancer.
Another Fact: Fewer people died in Boston that day from bombings than from cars.
Wrong. I specifically said "Not connected to ". Most new TVs play Youtube, Hulu, and Netflix directly. No HTPC required. Plug it in and start watching.
My favorite is that mommy got fat and decided to go to the hospital for a doctor monitored diet. If she does really good, they give her a baby to take home as a prize.
My kid has had a checking account with a Visa card attached since he was 5. You can definitely get them. Of course, the parents suggestion of "When it runs out of money, the kids have to wait until next week and maybe learn a bit about delayed gratification." means that he has already failed. My kid has never run out of money in his account because we taught him that spending every last penny is a dumb, self destructive thing to do. We openly discuss our finances with him and always have. He is fully aware that we pay our credit cards down to 0 every month and why we do it. He is fully aware of how expensive it is to max out your credit cards every month.
New form factors might not be as hard of a sell as you think. I have notice that when it comes to LED, many of the big box stores actually sell fixtures that have the bulbs permanently wired in. The premise being that the bulbs will last the life of the fixture. So, those manufactures clearly believe that people will replace fixtures often enough to make a profit.
The early CFLs also used to emit a huge amount of IR noise. I found out about it when I was alone in my house and my TV changed channels on it's own. ~10 minutes later it changed channels again, and shortly after it turned off on it's own. It's a bit disturbing when you are in a house by yourself and the TV starts changing channels on it's own.
Yes, the library of PC games is not every single game every made. We unfortunatly don't have manditory licensing for games the way we do for music on the radio. That doesn't mean they don't have an all you can eat PC game rental. http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?pf=1100&cat=UnlimitedPlay#.UWeeQMrzlEY Bioshock Infinite may not be for rent on the PC yet, but the very first game shown for me is Bioshock.
Not likely going to happen. More and more stores are actually adding wifi for the customers. If I am in a Safeway, the competing store is going to have to have one heck of a deal to get me to put the product down where I am and drive across town to get it somewhere cheaper. For a $25 steak, they would have to sell it below cost. For a $2 can of soup, they would need to pay me to come and get it.
I don't mind if the can wear them as long as MUST is included with the can. I would be very happy if every single time I interacted with a cop, there was a recording of the incident.
That isn't necessarily true. Just as a genetic predisposition to eating your young is going to effect you evolutionarily in that even though you have technically already passed on your DNA, it doesn't help keep your DNA in the gene pool if it is destroyed before it can also pass on it's DNA. Extending the parents life beyond childbirth can certainly increase the chances of your DNA propagating through the gene pool.
Just use the Netflix player built into your TV. If your TV doesn't have it, $50 and you can have a Roku that will play your Netflix. Netflix on a gaming console falls into the category of, 'They might as well offer it since the device can handle it.' It shouldn't even come into play in deciding to buy a game system. Of course, paying an extra fee to watch Netflix on your console is just plain absurd.
That would be www.gametap.com. $80 a year and you get to play any of the 844 games they have in their catalog. It is actually a pretty decent deal since 1 account works for 6 users. They are completely upfront about the fact that you are renting the games though. Unlike all the companies that 'sell' software with online DRM. Oh, and GameFly has an all you can eat PC game rental included with their subscriptions too.
The current standards are 90% not 99.9%. I'm not arguing against autodrive cars. I want them. The discussion is concerning how current, "We enforce it when we want" laws would play out. Your hypothetical 54.5 would never happen. The autodrive cars would max out at 54.5. Road conditions including other cars would put a fair amount of variance in that 54.5 max speed. The law is specifically designed to put the top 10% into the speeding category. If everyone is maxing out at 54.5, the only way to put 10% back in the speeding category is to lower the speed limit.
Our current laws rely on a lack of enforcement and a lack of consistency. This is simply one example.
On an side note, I suspect that by the time we see a less than 1% human controlled vehicle count, human controlled cars on public roads will be all but outlawed. At what percent it happens is debatable, but I suspect that at somewhere around 25% human controlled, we would see laws outlawing human control on public roads. 75% of the population would not be affected by laws outlawing human driving, so the 25% holdouts wouldn't be able to stop the requirement. Of course, the number could go higher faster depending on the FUD (real or made up) that is spread. We already see how statistics can be skewed concerning driving dangers with things like drunk driving (which I don't support, but can recognize the faked statistics) and cell phone use.
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Unless you are wrong and there is a systemic bias for women that you have been too PC brainwashed to even consider this a possibility.
No. Not good for them. Discrimination is not OK just because it is "inside the law". Owning people used to be "inside the law" that didn't make it OK.
Are you really wondering why a person would feel that being discriminated against based on gender is threatening or unfair? How PC brainwashed do you have to be to not even understand why some people might not want to be discriminated against?
The thing is that 'magic' (as in your example which is 'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.') has been discovered with practical and affordable applications so many times in our lifetimes that it isn't an absurd to believe it will happen again.
That is because it is a direct barter. Money is a proxy system for barter where the 'Money' is a generic marker for barter 'points'. So, Canadian Tire Money is money. Trading parts for parts is not money. Forbes knows this. The question becomes, Why would he make a statement that is so obviously wrong.
Nope. Sony has not promised behave in the future. So, it isn't even as good as the kid who promises not to wreck a third car.
Another Fact: Fewer people died in Massachusetts that day from bombings than from cancer. Another Fact: Fewer people died in Boston that day from bombings than from cars.
You keep telling yourself that. It might make you feel better.
Not unacceptable time and place. It is you are being rude. You are just too self centered to recognize it.
At least that is how people like you rationalize for your neo-luddite attitudes.
Man I wish cats would become common food here. Around these parts the cats are an infestation worse than rats.
Wrong. I specifically said "Not connected to ". Most new TVs play Youtube, Hulu, and Netflix directly. No HTPC required. Plug it in and start watching.
My favorite is that mommy got fat and decided to go to the hospital for a doctor monitored diet. If she does really good, they give her a baby to take home as a prize.
Maybe.
My kid has had a checking account with a Visa card attached since he was 5. You can definitely get them. Of course, the parents suggestion of "When it runs out of money, the kids have to wait until next week and maybe learn a bit about delayed gratification." means that he has already failed. My kid has never run out of money in his account because we taught him that spending every last penny is a dumb, self destructive thing to do. We openly discuss our finances with him and always have. He is fully aware that we pay our credit cards down to 0 every month and why we do it. He is fully aware of how expensive it is to max out your credit cards every month.
Not 'connect5ed to displays the size of a living room TV'. Is my living room TV.
New form factors might not be as hard of a sell as you think. I have notice that when it comes to LED, many of the big box stores actually sell fixtures that have the bulbs permanently wired in. The premise being that the bulbs will last the life of the fixture. So, those manufactures clearly believe that people will replace fixtures often enough to make a profit.
The early CFLs also used to emit a huge amount of IR noise. I found out about it when I was alone in my house and my TV changed channels on it's own. ~10 minutes later it changed channels again, and shortly after it turned off on it's own. It's a bit disturbing when you are in a house by yourself and the TV starts changing channels on it's own.
Yes, the library of PC games is not every single game every made. We unfortunatly don't have manditory licensing for games the way we do for music on the radio. That doesn't mean they don't have an all you can eat PC game rental. http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/browse/?pf=1100&cat=UnlimitedPlay#.UWeeQMrzlEY Bioshock Infinite may not be for rent on the PC yet, but the very first game shown for me is Bioshock.
Not likely going to happen. More and more stores are actually adding wifi for the customers. If I am in a Safeway, the competing store is going to have to have one heck of a deal to get me to put the product down where I am and drive across town to get it somewhere cheaper. For a $25 steak, they would have to sell it below cost. For a $2 can of soup, they would need to pay me to come and get it.
I don't mind if the can wear them as long as MUST is included with the can. I would be very happy if every single time I interacted with a cop, there was a recording of the incident.
That isn't necessarily true. Just as a genetic predisposition to eating your young is going to effect you evolutionarily in that even though you have technically already passed on your DNA, it doesn't help keep your DNA in the gene pool if it is destroyed before it can also pass on it's DNA. Extending the parents life beyond childbirth can certainly increase the chances of your DNA propagating through the gene pool.
Just use the Netflix player built into your TV. If your TV doesn't have it, $50 and you can have a Roku that will play your Netflix. Netflix on a gaming console falls into the category of, 'They might as well offer it since the device can handle it.' It shouldn't even come into play in deciding to buy a game system. Of course, paying an extra fee to watch Netflix on your console is just plain absurd.
That would be www.gametap.com. $80 a year and you get to play any of the 844 games they have in their catalog. It is actually a pretty decent deal since 1 account works for 6 users. They are completely upfront about the fact that you are renting the games though. Unlike all the companies that 'sell' software with online DRM. Oh, and GameFly has an all you can eat PC game rental included with their subscriptions too.
The current standards are 90% not 99.9%. I'm not arguing against autodrive cars. I want them. The discussion is concerning how current, "We enforce it when we want" laws would play out. Your hypothetical 54.5 would never happen. The autodrive cars would max out at 54.5. Road conditions including other cars would put a fair amount of variance in that 54.5 max speed. The law is specifically designed to put the top 10% into the speeding category. If everyone is maxing out at 54.5, the only way to put 10% back in the speeding category is to lower the speed limit.
Our current laws rely on a lack of enforcement and a lack of consistency. This is simply one example.
On an side note, I suspect that by the time we see a less than 1% human controlled vehicle count, human controlled cars on public roads will be all but outlawed. At what percent it happens is debatable, but I suspect that at somewhere around 25% human controlled, we would see laws outlawing human control on public roads. 75% of the population would not be affected by laws outlawing human driving, so the 25% holdouts wouldn't be able to stop the requirement. Of course, the number could go higher faster depending on the FUD (real or made up) that is spread. We already see how statistics can be skewed concerning driving dangers with things like drunk driving (which I don't support, but can recognize the faked statistics) and cell phone use.