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Now that I've got my flip answer out of the way, it's probably best that I don't leave your little talking points unaddressed. (UPDATE: Comboman's response is probably wittier and more concise - someone send 'em a gold star please. But I went to the trouble to type all this, so I'm going to post it anyways. It's the internet way.)
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s okay if our federal government borrows $85 Billion every single month.
Yup. Years of neglect have left our infrastructure in a sorry state, inherited wars cost money(!), and let's not even talk about the shitpile that was the economy. When Bush II handed over the reins. (A resounding win for Financial deregulation, wouldn't you say?)
I vote Democrat because I care about the children but saddling them with trillions of dollars of debt to pay for my bloated leftist government is okay.
This is really the same as the last one, but hey, it's still better than inventing evidence and starting a war that result in the deaths of ~4,500 of our kids, and maiming or otherwise injuring ~32,000 more (and totally ignoring the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens as a result of said war).
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil, because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.
Last I checked, we'd rather reduce our dependence on oil altogether (By jump-starting the wind and solar industries in the US), but big oil and coal has been lobbying like there's no tomorrow to prevent that.
I vote Democrat because I believe it is okay if liberal activist judges rewrite the Constitution to suit some fringe kooks, who would otherwise never get their agenda past the voters.
No worries, the conservatives engage in plenty of this too, especially in cases involving the 2nd ammendment and abortion rights (Hobby lobby decision was decided by 5 men who were conservative Catholics).
I vote Democrat because I believe that corporate America should not be allowed to make profits for themselves or their shareholders. They need to break even and give the rest to the federal government for redistribution.
Dude, you are crazy. No company should be able to avoid paying taxes through financial sleight of hand, but really, you think GE is paying too much tax for the benefits of being an american corporation? Apple?
I vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all of the murderers on death row alive.
As opposed to that other party, who preaches the sanctity of life, but is giddy to kill inmates.
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s okay if my Nobel Peace Prize winning President uses drones to assassinate people, as long as we don’t use torture.
Guess what? Most humans don't think that anyone should either engage in torture, or send drones to kill other humans. Shocking! One of two is a reasonable start, and we're working on the other one. At least we don't have Bush/Cheny in charge any more, they were fine with both.
I vote Democrat because I believe people, who can’t accurately tell us if it will rain on Friday, can predict the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Chevy Volt.
You do know the difference between climatology and meteorology, right? It's like the difference between socialism and communism (or patriotism and fascism, if you swing that way.) The later is a tiny subset of the former.
I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is not as important as preventing people from being offended.
Aw, here you're just trying to stir things up. I'm pretty sure the courts have a well-used system in pl
Yeah, aren't we talking about the same house that voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act some 2,527 times now? (No wait, this just in: we're up to 2,528!)
Very interested in this... it will set precedents I think..
Wrong. This was decided solely based on precedent. If you RTFA, the issue is that Lavabit attempted to raise arguments in the appeal that were not raised in the initial case (and in some cases, were directly counter to some of Lavabit's statements). ANY other decision would have broken with precedents, some of them long established. So, there's no precedent worth noting here. The judge explicitly said that the potential ramifications of the case are still unclear and need further litigation (which Lavabit has the option to do) before longstanding rules are ignored on Lavabit's behalf.
This is Yet Another Example Of Why You Should Hire a Good Lawyer When Dealing With The Feds In Court. If Lavabit had good advice at the earlier hearings, this appeal could have been much more interesting, and might well have gone the other way.
And for your other comments: 1) Bullshit. It's no more your SSL key than the IP used in your cell phone is yours. In fact it was Lavabit's SSL key, (Pay attention to this next part) AND THEY USED THE SAME KEY TO ENCRYPT TRAFFIC FROM ALL USERS OF THE MAIL SERVICE - not the brightest idea, hmmmmm? And as a general note: Your ignorance of the details does not mean that the world works the way you wish it would. 2) Contempt orders serve a valid purpose. You do not appear to know what that is. We can discuss your opinions on Contempt orders when you demonstrate otherwise. 3) RTFA. The Gov't is not required to do more, and if they did, you'd be bitching and moaning about their use of your tax dollars, the breed of puppy used, or inflation, respectively. 4) RTFA. The government requested the key because Lavabit was sending them encrypted data. They had the statutory authority to require Lavabit to provide all necessary help to retrieve unencrypted data, and since Lavabit was not providing it unencrypted, they asked for the appropriate key.
For the record: Lavabit could have avoided a lot of this posturing, and risked compromising fewer people, if it had used different encryption keys for different users - but they didn't . . .
I use an accountant. Thankfully, I was ahead of the game this year and got everything filed a month ago.
But the worst part is getting the letter from the IRS saying that they'd adjusted my refund by $30 due to some minor error.
My feelings on the matter: "If you knew how much money I was supposed to send in, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IN THE &@#$ING FIRST PLACE! It could have saved everyone time, money and trouble."
Particle Physicists would probably be SOL. Hedge fund managers and investment bankers too (bless their hearts). Lawyers will probably survive longer than anyone really wants.
As for most useful: it's pretty clear that anyone who already lives off the grid is going to be way better off than the rest of us. The Amish, subsistence fishermen/hunters, and pretty much anyone who lives in Small-Town Alaska or Northern Canada will probably be fine.
Let's be honest: if there ever is a nightmare scenario, what's really going to matter is your ability to stay protected during the adjustment period: People who have no skills and no protection will starve. (Culls) People with no skills and sufficient ammunition will attempt to take whatever they can. (Bandits) People with skills and no protection will be exploited or killed (Golden goose syndrome). People with skills and sufficient protection will be a the seeds of the next civilization.
Keep that in mind. Your skill set is necessary, but not sufficient for surviving long enough to rebuild a civilization. The community you belong to is absolutely critical.
Humans have always had arms. (Aside: that may one of the first things that distinguished us from other apes - our remarkable ability to turn anything into a weapon, despite our lack of sharp teeth, claws or other "natural" equipment to be used for attack or defense.)
But I digress - It wasn't until we developed more powerful arms that could not be easily copied using found materials that we started to see restrictions on people having arms. The goal of the second amendment was to ensure that the population could not be disarmed through legal methods, then easily subjugated by force.
For reference, here is the text of the 5th amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
So, to be clear, you only appear to be interested in one portion of it, the self-incrimination clause.
The purpose of this amendment, as written, was to prevent the government from abusing the legal process in such a way that no private individual could reasonably expect to prevail. All of the things that are prohibited in this amendment, were things that had actually happened to the colonists or their recent ancestors in England, so the concern was a very real one.
Let's take a brief break, and let me get something out of the way: You say "It would be disturbing to think that we've built a whole legal edifice in the United States (and many other countries) on a "right" that has no rational basis." - But you haven't done the most basic of research to discover what that is. Here's a link (PDF warning) to a examination of the events that led to the existence of the self-incrimination clause of the 5th amendment: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3341&context=wmlr Because you have said that links constitute a fail, (which is foolish of you), I will summarize:
In 15th and 16th century England, people were accused of a crime (Frequently it was that they were not strictly holding to the beliefs of Anglicism, which was interpreted as interpreted as treason against the King or Queen). When brought before a judicial authority, an oath was applied requiring that they answer all questions truthfully and completely - even if it incriminated themselves.
Then, one of two things would occur:
1) A fishing expedition, where questions would be asked until something was revealed that was a offence deemed worthy of punishment. (Damned if you do) 2) A refusal to take the oath. This was interpreted as directly denying the authority of the monarch (who had ostensibly given permission for such questions to be asked), and a charge of treason would be leveled, usually with a disproportionate punishment. (Damned if you don't)
So the end result was that the accused receives punishment. There was little possibility for a good outcome.
The 5th amendment exists to prevent the threat of disproportionate punishment for not answering questions from compelling a person to answer questions. It also prohibits the government from using a $5 wrench (http://xkcd.com/538/) on you - it follows directly from this amendment that the use of torture to compel information which could incriminate you is prohibited. (A prohibition against torture as a form of punishment is covered under the 8th amendment.)
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Now, to answer your questions:
The outcome in the world where we do have the Fifth Amendment, is clearly different from the outcome in a hypothetical world where the Fifth Amendment does not exist, even while holding all other assumptions constant.
You cannot be specifically punished (beyond the crime of which you have been found guilty) for refusing to testify. Without the 5th amendment, that would not be true.
The outcome in the "Fifth Amendment" world is better than the outcome in the "no Fifth Amendment" world:
Less use of $5 wrenches. Here's a test: If the outcome in a 5th amendment world is no better than the non-5th amendmen
Also, you're taking the wrong tack: you should submit both sets of claims to the same level of scrutiny.
As it happens, Evolution and the Billion-Plus-Year-Old universe also has a lot more evidence supporting it than special creation. Just be cause you aren't aware of the evidence doesn't mean that your pet theory is better supported.
Huh. You know that IT folks can make bad decisions without a CEO's help, right? And really, when was the last time you really wanted the CEO making policy decisions for the IT department.
If you are in the unfortunate position of having to justify more spending to mitigate risks, the best policy is usually just to warn the CEO of the risks in writing. Add dollar signs to make sure they are paying attention: "In the event of a failure, recovery costs are likely to excede $###,### per failure. This risk appears to justify the cost of purchasing and installing XYZ equipment."
Contrary to popular belief, CEOs are not to blame for every corporate disaster. Good luck.
Google apps is sold with a 99.9% uptime guarantee - that works out to a maximum of 526 minutes downtime per year.
In the last three years that we've been using Google apps, I've never had more than one hour of cumulative downtime in a calendar year. I also haven't spent a single second configuring or monitoring email servers, backing up email data, or with an executive breathing down my neck while I work on a server problem.
I've got better things to do than baby servers along, so it sure is nice to have this be someone else's problem. Things were fixed in less than 30 minutes for us. Maybe 6 people at our company (roughly 60 people) even noticed that there was a problem.
And I got 30 minutes without anyone pestering me by email. Glorious.
I actually like lots of music, even though my hearing's not so great. I do tend to prefer music that has strong vocals or strong instrumentals, but not both - it can be hard to distinguish between them.
What I find helps me appreciate music the most is a quiet room with a comfy chair and a glass of wine. Distractions or background noise makes things tough.
As to whether I could recommend a particular device for your partner, the answer is no. The details of this totally depends on the state of your partner's hearing loss. I would suggest that (if you have not already done so) you go visit an audiologist and make sure you have a good understanding of the loss, then go shopping for devices with an MP3 player full of your favorite music. Find out what works by empirical testing.
Wrong question! Try this: Why the hell do we have laws that keeps hardworking individuals from entering the US, contributing to our GDP, and paying taxes? (If they want to live on a shoestring and send our currency abroad, so much the better . ..) We should be repealing these things post-haste.
(Maybe we could do an exchange program - send out lazy american kids in exchange for hardworking foreigners.)
Now that I've had time to go back and look at this:
The City and the Stars was published in 1954. It is a re-write of an earlier book Against The Fall of Night, published in 1948. That guy was crazy ahead of his time.
Actually, you should make some small effort to inform yourself.
It is not our responsibility to recap the entirety of history as relevant to this discussion so that you don't have to spend 10 minutes researching on the internet. You don't even need to get out of your chair.
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2. Make sure that your website (yes, website) has not been hacked. If someone is sending out spam that contains a link to your website, then services may mark you as spam. I had a customer who's wordpress install was hacked, and the 404 page was set up as a redirect to a shady pharmacy site. Once the problem was identified and corrected, the blacklist problems went away.
You mean like this: http://openfabpdx.com/fffiddle...
Consider that box checked!
Now that I've got my flip answer out of the way, it's probably best that I don't leave your little talking points unaddressed.
(UPDATE: Comboman's response is probably wittier and more concise - someone send 'em a gold star please. But I went to the trouble to type all this, so I'm going to post it anyways. It's the internet way.)
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s okay if our federal government borrows $85 Billion every single month.
Yup. Years of neglect have left our infrastructure in a sorry state, inherited wars cost money(!), and let's not even talk about the shitpile that was the economy. When Bush II handed over the reins. (A resounding win for Financial deregulation, wouldn't you say?)
I vote Democrat because I care about the children but saddling them with trillions of dollars of debt to pay for my bloated leftist government is okay.
This is really the same as the last one, but hey, it's still better than inventing evidence and starting a war that result in the deaths of ~4,500 of our kids, and maiming or otherwise injuring ~32,000 more (and totally ignoring the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens as a result of said war).
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil, because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.
Last I checked, we'd rather reduce our dependence on oil altogether (By jump-starting the wind and solar industries in the US), but big oil and coal has been lobbying like there's no tomorrow to prevent that.
I vote Democrat because I believe it is okay if liberal activist judges rewrite the Constitution to suit some fringe kooks, who would otherwise never get their agenda past the voters.
No worries, the conservatives engage in plenty of this too, especially in cases involving the 2nd ammendment and abortion rights (Hobby lobby decision was decided by 5 men who were conservative Catholics).
I vote Democrat because I believe that corporate America should not be allowed to make profits for themselves or their shareholders. They need to break even and give the rest to the federal government for redistribution.
Dude, you are crazy. No company should be able to avoid paying taxes through financial sleight of hand, but really, you think GE is paying too much tax for the benefits of being an american corporation? Apple?
I vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all of the murderers on death row alive.
As opposed to that other party, who preaches the sanctity of life, but is giddy to kill inmates.
I vote Democrat because I believe it’s okay if my Nobel Peace Prize winning President uses drones to assassinate people, as long as we don’t use torture.
Guess what? Most humans don't think that anyone should either engage in torture, or send drones to kill other humans. Shocking! One of two is a reasonable start, and we're working on the other one. At least we don't have Bush/Cheny in charge any more, they were fine with both.
I vote Democrat because I believe people, who can’t accurately tell us if it will rain on Friday, can predict the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Chevy Volt.
You do know the difference between climatology and meteorology, right? It's like the difference between socialism and communism (or patriotism and fascism, if you swing that way.) The later is a tiny subset of the former.
I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is not as important as preventing people from being offended.
Aw, here you're just trying to stir things up. I'm pretty sure the courts have a well-used system in pl
I vote democrat to (among other reasons) piss people like you off.
Yeah, aren't we talking about the same house that voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act some 2,527 times now? (No wait, this just in: we're up to 2,528!)
Very interested in this... it will set precedents I think..
Wrong. This was decided solely based on precedent. If you RTFA, the issue is that Lavabit attempted to raise arguments in the appeal that were not raised in the initial case (and in some cases, were directly counter to some of Lavabit's statements). ANY other decision would have broken with precedents, some of them long established. So, there's no precedent worth noting here. The judge explicitly said that the potential ramifications of the case are still unclear and need further litigation (which Lavabit has the option to do) before longstanding rules are ignored on Lavabit's behalf.
This is Yet Another Example Of Why You Should Hire a Good Lawyer When Dealing With The Feds In Court. If Lavabit had good advice at the earlier hearings, this appeal could have been much more interesting, and might well have gone the other way.
And for your other comments:
1) Bullshit. It's no more your SSL key than the IP used in your cell phone is yours. In fact it was Lavabit's SSL key, (Pay attention to this next part) AND THEY USED THE SAME KEY TO ENCRYPT TRAFFIC FROM ALL USERS OF THE MAIL SERVICE - not the brightest idea, hmmmmm? And as a general note: Your ignorance of the details does not mean that the world works the way you wish it would.
2) Contempt orders serve a valid purpose. You do not appear to know what that is. We can discuss your opinions on Contempt orders when you demonstrate otherwise.
3) RTFA. The Gov't is not required to do more, and if they did, you'd be bitching and moaning about their use of your tax dollars, the breed of puppy used, or inflation, respectively.
4) RTFA. The government requested the key because Lavabit was sending them encrypted data. They had the statutory authority to require Lavabit to provide all necessary help to retrieve unencrypted data, and since Lavabit was not providing it unencrypted, they asked for the appropriate key.
For the record: Lavabit could have avoided a lot of this posturing, and risked compromising fewer people, if it had used different encryption keys for different users - but they didn't . . .
I use an accountant. Thankfully, I was ahead of the game this year and got everything filed a month ago.
But the worst part is getting the letter from the IRS saying that they'd adjusted my refund by $30 due to some minor error.
My feelings on the matter:
"If you knew how much money I was supposed to send in, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IN THE &@#$ING FIRST PLACE! It could have saved everyone time, money and trouble."
Particle Physicists would probably be SOL.
Hedge fund managers and investment bankers too (bless their hearts).
Lawyers will probably survive longer than anyone really wants.
As for most useful: it's pretty clear that anyone who already lives off the grid is going to be way better off than the rest of us. The Amish, subsistence fishermen/hunters, and pretty much anyone who lives in Small-Town Alaska or Northern Canada will probably be fine.
Let's be honest: if there ever is a nightmare scenario, what's really going to matter is your ability to stay protected during the adjustment period:
People who have no skills and no protection will starve. (Culls)
People with no skills and sufficient ammunition will attempt to take whatever they can. (Bandits)
People with skills and no protection will be exploited or killed (Golden goose syndrome).
People with skills and sufficient protection will be a the seeds of the next civilization.
Keep that in mind. Your skill set is necessary, but not sufficient for surviving long enough to rebuild a civilization. The community you belong to is absolutely critical.
I second this.
If you read the proposal, the tubes are made of steel (that would be opaque) so I don't think lensing is going to be an issue . . .
Read the whitepaper. Musk explicitly states that airline-style security will be used.
Humans have always had arms. (Aside: that may one of the first things that distinguished us from other apes - our remarkable ability to turn anything into a weapon, despite our lack of sharp teeth, claws or other "natural" equipment to be used for attack or defense.)
But I digress - It wasn't until we developed more powerful arms that could not be easily copied using found materials that we started to see restrictions on people having arms. The goal of the second amendment was to ensure that the population could not be disarmed through legal methods, then easily subjugated by force.
Because no liberty is essential ...
Hah. Tell it to the second amendment folks.
For reference, here is the text of the 5th amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
So, to be clear, you only appear to be interested in one portion of it, the self-incrimination clause.
The purpose of this amendment, as written, was to prevent the government from abusing the legal process in such a way that no private individual could reasonably expect to prevail. All of the things that are prohibited in this amendment, were things that had actually happened to the colonists or their recent ancestors in England, so the concern was a very real one.
Let's take a brief break, and let me get something out of the way: You say "It would be disturbing to think that we've built a whole legal edifice in the United States (and many other countries) on a "right" that has no rational basis." - But you haven't done the most basic of research to discover what that is. Here's a link (PDF warning) to a examination of the events that led to the existence of the self-incrimination clause of the 5th amendment: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3341&context=wmlr Because you have said that links constitute a fail, (which is foolish of you), I will summarize:
In 15th and 16th century England, people were accused of a crime (Frequently it was that they were not strictly holding to the beliefs of Anglicism, which was interpreted as interpreted as treason against the King or Queen). When brought before a judicial authority, an oath was applied requiring that they answer all questions truthfully and completely - even if it incriminated themselves.
Then, one of two things would occur:
1) A fishing expedition, where questions would be asked until something was revealed that was a offence deemed worthy of punishment. (Damned if you do)
2) A refusal to take the oath. This was interpreted as directly denying the authority of the monarch (who had ostensibly given permission for such questions to be asked), and a charge of treason would be leveled, usually with a disproportionate punishment. (Damned if you don't)
So the end result was that the accused receives punishment. There was little possibility for a good outcome.
The 5th amendment exists to prevent the threat of disproportionate punishment for not answering questions from compelling a person to answer questions. It also prohibits the government from using a $5 wrench (http://xkcd.com/538/) on you - it follows directly from this amendment that the use of torture to compel information which could incriminate you is prohibited. (A prohibition against torture as a form of punishment is covered under the 8th amendment.)
---------------------
Now, to answer your questions:
The outcome in the world where we do have the Fifth Amendment, is clearly different from the outcome in a hypothetical world where the Fifth Amendment does not exist, even while holding all other assumptions constant.
You cannot be specifically punished (beyond the crime of which you have been found guilty) for refusing to testify. Without the 5th amendment, that would not be true.
The outcome in the "Fifth Amendment" world is better than the outcome in the "no Fifth Amendment" world:
Less use of $5 wrenches. Here's a test: If the outcome in a 5th amendment world is no better than the non-5th amendmen
Also, you're taking the wrong tack: you should submit both sets of claims to the same level of scrutiny.
As it happens, Evolution and the Billion-Plus-Year-Old universe also has a lot more evidence supporting it than special creation. Just be cause you aren't aware of the evidence doesn't mean that your pet theory is better supported.
Huh. You know that IT folks can make bad decisions without a CEO's help, right? And really, when was the last time you really wanted the CEO making policy decisions for the IT department.
If you are in the unfortunate position of having to justify more spending to mitigate risks, the best policy is usually just to warn the CEO of the risks in writing. Add dollar signs to make sure they are paying attention: "In the event of a failure, recovery costs are likely to excede $###,### per failure. This risk appears to justify the cost of purchasing and installing XYZ equipment."
Contrary to popular belief, CEOs are not to blame for every corporate disaster. Good luck.
Or seek elected office in Canada?
Google apps is sold with a 99.9% uptime guarantee - that works out to a maximum of 526 minutes downtime per year.
In the last three years that we've been using Google apps, I've never had more than one hour of cumulative downtime in a calendar year. I also haven't spent a single second configuring or monitoring email servers, backing up email data, or with an executive breathing down my neck while I work on a server problem.
I'm pretty happy about that track record.
Hey, that's what I was thinking this morning!
I've got better things to do than baby servers along, so it sure is nice to have this be someone else's problem. Things were fixed in less than 30 minutes for us. Maybe 6 people at our company (roughly 60 people) even noticed that there was a problem.
And I got 30 minutes without anyone pestering me by email. Glorious.
I actually like lots of music, even though my hearing's not so great. I do tend to prefer music that has strong vocals or strong instrumentals, but not both - it can be hard to distinguish between them.
What I find helps me appreciate music the most is a quiet room with a comfy chair and a glass of wine. Distractions or background noise makes things tough.
As to whether I could recommend a particular device for your partner, the answer is no. The details of this totally depends on the state of your partner's hearing loss. I would suggest that (if you have not already done so) you go visit an audiologist and make sure you have a good understanding of the loss, then go shopping for devices with an MP3 player full of your favorite music. Find out what works by empirical testing.
Good point. Sadly, my $3k hearing aids don't seem to help either.
Bitrate doesn't matter much if your ears are the lossy part.
Wrong question! Try this: Why the hell do we have laws that keeps hardworking individuals from entering the US, contributing to our GDP, and paying taxes? (If they want to live on a shoestring and send our currency abroad, so much the better . . .) We should be repealing these things post-haste.
(Maybe we could do an exchange program - send out lazy american kids in exchange for hardworking foreigners.)
Now that I've had time to go back and look at this:
The City and the Stars was published in 1954. It is a re-write of an earlier book Against The Fall of Night, published in 1948. That guy was crazy ahead of his time.
He describes this in The City and the Stars, and possibly in an earlier work.
Actually, you should make some small effort to inform yourself.
It is not our responsibility to recap the entirety of history as relevant to this discussion so that you don't have to spend 10 minutes researching on the internet. You don't even need to get out of your chair.