On the bright side, if they bought my vote, at least I would be getting SOMETHING out of it all. As it stands right now, I neither get what I want nor do I profit from it. The addition of profit would actually improve the system from my point of view.
Beyond all that a big question that none of these DMVs have had to answer is what the hell does the DMV need facial recognition for? It is a license to drive
It is also official identification that can be used when opening bank accounts and such. Would you want someone getting identification in your name? If that person already has an ID card, then when they apply for another in your name, the system will catch them.
The real issue with a system like this is that it can become (it sure looks like it is being planned) a master key in a database covering every scrap of information ever collected about you. And me. And him. And her.
Medicare and Social Security are not the government's money. It's our money we specifically paid in for those programs. They're mandated savings accounts.
Actually, you are wrong. It was stolen (in the early 80s IIRC). The government took the money out of the trust fund and replaced it with American debt. Good stuff... until an economic downturn. Oh wait...
"The Social Security Trust Fund was established in 1939 to receive monies collected for Social Security through payroll taxes. The monies in this fund are managed by the Department of the Treasury; they are not, nor have they ever been, put into the "general operating fund."
However, whether the Social Security Trust Fund can truly be said to be "independent" is problematic. The Social Security Act specifies that the monies in the fund may only "be invested in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal government," such as treasury bills, treasury notes, and treasury bonds, as well as special issue bonds. So, essentially, the government can "invest" Social Security funds by lending them to itself, then spending that money on programs not related to Social Security (e.g., defense, foreign aid, education). The government "pays back" this money when the Social Security program redeems the bonds, but critics of the program contend Social Security will eventually fall into deficit by 2018, and the Treasury won't have the necessary cash on hand to redeem the bonds and pay back the fund."
My other pet solution is to push a trillion ton block of ice out of Saturn's orbit and dump it onto the North Pole, which might buy us a couple extra decades at least.
Dude! I love this idea. Hm. How do we maneuver those trillion tons through the atmosphere and into the hydrosphere without any... erm, unhappy side effects.:)
Another issue is, how much heat energy is a trillion tons of ice going to absorb? I am guessing quite a lot but very little on a global scale; however, what will the evacuation of all that heat energy look like? A trillion ton block of ice at, say -275F is going to cause an extremely fast transfer of heat at one individual point. Should be fun. Anyone have some popcorn?
Hm. How much would the level of the sea rise with a trillion or more tons of ice placed into it? As a wild guess, I would say less than a meter. Fun to be had by all coastal communities since the sea level rise will happen immediately.:)
Futurama is not a place to get global warming solutions... even if they are cute. Heh.
Or you could stop eating beef and dairy products or buy from suppliers that use the genetically engineered low-fart cows.
Go fuck yourself. I am NOT going vegetarian. The world can burn first. I am unsure if there is a way to buy meat from "low-fart" cows, but I do not see any meat in the store labelled that way.
Or you could plant some trees
I already have trees around my house. Had to kill one of them because the roots were going into the sewage line.
put renewable energy devices on your house
What? A windmill to power some outside lights? Some solar panels whose construction is as bad as belching coal smoke and which will barely pay for themselves over their lifetime? I will think about it.
or get a shorter commute
Yeah, there are tons of jobs that are available closer to my house than my current job. Not. Oh wait, you mean sell my current house and move into a cramped and VERY expensive apartment in the city so I can stand near a bus stop for half an hour in freezing rainy weather so I can spend 45 minutes crawling through a circuitous route to where I need to go. Gotcha. I will get right on that.
Electric car
Sure, if I lived in that cramped and expensive apartment in the city.
see if there's an option to buy renewable power in your area
Good idea. I will check. Nope. Next idea please.
phase in lower-power devices in your home
I bought low power/energy saving devices from the time I bought my home. I know things improve every year but I am not willing to buy a new refrigerator every year. I am sure my next fridge will be ever more efficient.
maintain/reuse things instead of replacing them
I already do. Do you have any idea how much it costs to replace stuff? Of course, the LCD with the screwdriver through it does not appear to fixable but I am holding on to it in the hopes that I can fix it at some point.
but yeah it's hopeless and there's nothing an individual could do.
While all of us can and should ensure that we are living as efficiently as we can, it really is a drop in the bucket. Nuclear power is, in theory, a panacea for much of our atmospheric pollution. Building more efficient transportation is also a solution... however, those things are FAR beyond the average person (who makes $20 a day I am told) to do anything about.
I suspect what they were getting at is using waste heat from the CPU (and GPU). So instead of calling this material a heat sink, you have it draw heat away from the heat sink. It would only be one source of heat draw so the heat sink will still be efficient at what it does... but, you recover some energy in the process.
You could use the energy for cool lighting effects in the case or to help power a cooling solution (fan?), or just feed it back in to the power supply to reduce the draw at the wall outlet. *shrug* I dunno. Just running with it.
First, let me state that you have a good eye. There was a deep subconscious affinity between myself and the focus of the content of those pictures. Well done. I have to ask: Is it a natural ability or did you learn how to take interesting shots?
I suspect that Android is overkill for a dedicated camera and that one of those special purpose, nameless OSs that most cameras come with will suit me better.
The Linux kernel is shaping up to be THE definition of a low level interface to managing hardware. The Android stuff on top merely provides a nice environment for programs to run in. I suspect your idea of Android being overkill is because you are familiar with seeing it on high end phones with lots of fancy programs running. Android does not have to be that extravagant and it probably will not be when on a camera.
At least READ TFA before pontificating on things you obviously know nothing about.
You must be new here.
(I have never said that tired meme before... but someone had to in this instance. Yes, I get the ironing(sic) of a 6 digit UID telling a 5 digit UID that meme. Shall we persue a rediculous... never mind.)
In the Savings and Loan Scandle, rich people bilked ordinary people of billions...
Trillions actually. Three iirc.
Essentially I indirectly gave a bunch of my money to Neil Bush.
Odd. If you look at most of the information about that era now, Neil Bush's part in it has been almost completely erased. You are obviously speaking from memory. In all actuality, that theft paid for Bush II to reign over use for 8 years.
Wow! I am not sure replying to you is even possible but I will try.
First, men and women are NOT equal, otherwise they would all be men or all be women; however, that has no bearing on the statement: All humans should be treated equally as far as rights and privileges are concerned. If a group is being deprived of those rights and privileges, then that aberrant behavior needs to be addressed. Am I practicing Jewishism when I treat a Jewish person as a regular normal person? Am I practicing niggerism (god I hate that word) when I treat a person with a darker skin color than myself as a regular person? So why is it feminism when I treat a female as a regular person?
Part of your confusion is that you are benefitting from male privilege but don't realize it.
Actually, I do realize when I benefit from male privilege. I also realize when I am harmed by being a male. I actually realize a lot of things. This comment makes no statements regarding how often I benefit or am harmed by being male.
Basically, men run the world and treat women like shit
You are correct that men mostly run the world even if Margaret Thatcher and others might argue with you a bit.
I am going to disagree with the general statement that men treat women like shit. While there is no doubt that there are men treating women like shit (ask the female FBI agent who had a pistol rammed into her vagina and fired in Arizona or the poor woman who was beaten, raped, and had a curling iron stuck in her vagina before she died from injuries sustained), this is not "normal" or "average". I have traveled to numerous places including the Middle East where the subjugation of women is far more institutionalized. For the most part, it appears that men care about women and treat them more or less respectfully. So I guess it all depends on what your definition of shit is.
...everywhere and for all time except for the last 100 years where privilege is being explored seriously
You do realize that there have been numerous matriarchal societies on this planet, right?
It seems you are too deep in the war to step out and look how absurd all of this is... which is likely why you said this:
and I'm sure you're seething right now to tell me how wrong i am
You are not wrong, we are not even playing the same game.:)
Okay, you are a fucking moron. Why does the subject of rape turn so many people into a drooling, angry, reactionary jackass?
Seriously guy (assumption), sex and money can both be used as weapons and I am not talking about papercuts from cash or eyes popped out by nipples. Your view is so narrow or boxed that you are not seeing reality. Good luck with the rest of your life.
Median is also 11%. In short, approximately only one in nine rape accusations is false.
And you do the same thing you accuse him of: grabbing a number and assuming it was true. You think the median of all those percentages is the One True Percentage? Meh.
Your eagerness to grab a "lower" number (based on absurd methods lol) indicates to me that you have a horse in this race.
Honestly, this is all a really nasty business. People should not be forcing others to do their will, in this case, sexual contact. People should not be lying about being forced either. Both things, rape and lying, occur. The question of percentages have no bearing on any particular instance. Only facts will do when deciding guilt or innocence.
Honestly, if people would just act like adults and respect each other, this would never be a problem. As if that would ever happen. I feel so alone.:/ (BTW, I unfriended you on Slashdot several years ago because of some strong biases I saw that did not appear rational to me. I do not hate you, I just do not want to associate with you; otherwise, I am totally neutral.)
Hm. Wasn't going to comment in this article because it is already very busy... but, I kind of have to now. Heh.
"Unless you think women should not be able to vote, get an education, drive, or hold the same jobs men do, you are a feminist."
Common definition of feminism: "The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men."
This is a fracturing definition. How will you determine whether or not women's right are indeed actually the same as men's rights? There is an implication of different laws for different genders, but balanced to be fair or equal.
Why don't we just have rights or privileges that apply to humans? Children represent a special problem concerning rights and privileges but children should generally be treated similarly to adults since children will be growing into adults at some point.
Most gender issues are utter bullshit. Why is it that if I treat a female like I would treat a male during a non-sexual business relationship, why should I be called a feminist? I am not "empowering" women. It is just a business deal. Gender never entered into it.
Grrr. How frustrating. I can not seem to get across my idea. Anyways, have a good day. *sigh*
Remove the DRM bullshit and my wallet will open MUCH more widely to game publishers. I do not want MY resources to be used to help you maintain exclusivity of distribution. Yes, I know that it is critical for your business to maintain exclusivity of distribution... but it will not be my problem. I used to buy lots of $30 games back in 2002 or so. Most sucked in some way so when prices doubled, I said, "screw it", and stopped buying games. I did buy Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare a few months ago but then, I already knew it was worth my money. The last game I bought before that... I do not recall. Sometime before 2004 I am sure.
Sorry for rambling. It is all pointless anyways. DRM will always remain. It is like some sick control fetish that just can not be tossed aside like a nicotine or heroin addiction... and it just WILL NOT STOP hogging up resources, reducing framerates, and sccrewing up numerous other highly visible things. Relentless.:/
Does anyone really think it's a bad idea to screen out the gene for Huntingtons?
This is the start of the slippery slope.
Is it better to be cold blooded and let nature takes it course or is it better to show kindness to the future person and prevent their suffering to begin with?
Tough question. Assuming we answer with the latter option, how much suffering are we willing to prevent? There are plenty of terrible diseases which do not kill outright... should those be selected against? What about in a society of mostly blonde hair blue eyed children? Would your brown hair and brown eyed child suffer terribly?
This is a nasty business and I do not have a clear stance myself. The safest bet is just to be cold blooded and let nature takes its course but being safe means being extinguished on this planet when the Sun goes out of its current profile.
Ouch. Isn't "local control" ultimately Freedom? You can not get more local than yourself... but you meant at the county or state level. Right?
How do you explain giving up some freedoms to live in a society vs the county giving up some of its freedoms to reside within a state, with "Local control is overrated."?
Your politics are confused but it would appear at first blush as if your views are authoritarian in nature.
You are partially correct. Bill is doing it for the same reason that Andy and John did: It is part of the entrance requirements when you have been accepted to The Club.
Thank you. I especially appreciate the warning concerning privacy. While this was not news for many, I am sure it was useful to some people who read Slashdot. Not everyone has an iron hot lock on all aspects of technology even if they do understand how it all works.
"Because I present, for my case of man being inherently flawed and evil unless taught not to be and enforced with laws and social codes, the entire history of the human race."
I have heard numerous religious folks, of varying religions, all espouse this. "People are inherently evil", "People will only be good if you force them to be good".
What proof do you have for these assertions?
Anecdotal evidence from this quadrant says that some people are "good", some people are "evil", and a very large majority of people just do not act coherently, both "good" and "evil". This is a very far cry from "People are inherently evil".
"I wonder if it originated with the Orthodox Jewish approach of writing "God" as "G-d", which was based on a sort of superstition against writing out the full word, even if it was obvious what the word was."
Hm. I thought the name of the Jewish God was YHVH, or, Jehovah. Weird.
"reaching up a woman's skirt and grabbing her crotch is a criminal offense, and deserves prison time."
Whoah whoah whoah there buddy. You are correct that the action in question is wrong. You are correct that it is (or should be if it is not in your culture) a criminal offense. But...
You are absolutely incorrect that prison time is the proper answer. There are two reasons:
While punishment is usually a valuable part of solving a problem, it does not solve a problem all by itself. There needs to be reeducation and prison does not provide that.
The second, and possibly most important reason: Do you honestly believe that touching someone on their body, unasked, is worthy of prison time? Perhaps a weekend in jail with a fine and counseling for the first offense if the offense was fully intended and egregious in nature?
If I had to hazard a guess, I would assume your extreme over-reaction means that you have been trained well or you are ashamed of your sexual nature. Just relax and stop yelling, "off with their heads", like the Red Queen.
And which of those individual "inventions" did not exist already? This is clearly in the realm of a possible incremental improvement of existing processes. It is astounding that something making such simplistic claims is patentable.
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On the bright side, if they bought my vote, at least I would be getting SOMETHING out of it all. As it stands right now, I neither get what I want nor do I profit from it. The addition of profit would actually improve the system from my point of view.
(odd, CAPTCHA is uplinks)
Beyond all that a big question that none of these DMVs have had to answer is what the hell does the DMV need facial recognition for? It is a license to drive
It is also official identification that can be used when opening bank accounts and such. Would you want someone getting identification in your name? If that person already has an ID card, then when they apply for another in your name, the system will catch them.
The real issue with a system like this is that it can become (it sure looks like it is being planned) a master key in a database covering every scrap of information ever collected about you. And me. And him. And her.
Medicare and Social Security are not the government's money. It's our money we specifically paid in for those programs. They're mandated savings accounts.
Actually, you are wrong. It was stolen (in the early 80s IIRC). The government took the money out of the trust fund and replaced it with American debt. Good stuff... until an economic downturn. Oh wait...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)#Trust_fund
and a selection from here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp
"The Social Security Trust Fund was established in 1939 to receive monies collected for Social Security through payroll taxes. The monies in this fund are managed by the Department of the Treasury; they are not, nor have they ever been, put into the "general operating fund."
However, whether the Social Security Trust Fund can truly be said to be "independent" is problematic. The Social Security Act specifies that the monies in the fund may only "be invested in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal government," such as treasury bills, treasury notes, and treasury bonds, as well as special issue bonds. So, essentially, the government can "invest" Social Security funds by lending them to itself, then spending that money on programs not related to Social Security (e.g., defense, foreign aid, education). The government "pays back" this money when the Social Security program redeems the bonds, but critics of the program contend Social Security will eventually fall into deficit by 2018, and the Treasury won't have the necessary cash on hand to redeem the bonds and pay back the fund."
My other pet solution is to push a trillion ton block of ice out of Saturn's orbit and dump it onto the North Pole, which might buy us a couple extra decades at least.
Dude! I love this idea. Hm. How do we maneuver those trillion tons through the atmosphere and into the hydrosphere without any... erm, unhappy side effects. :)
Another issue is, how much heat energy is a trillion tons of ice going to absorb? I am guessing quite a lot but very little on a global scale; however, what will the evacuation of all that heat energy look like? A trillion ton block of ice at, say -275F is going to cause an extremely fast transfer of heat at one individual point. Should be fun. Anyone have some popcorn?
Hm. How much would the level of the sea rise with a trillion or more tons of ice placed into it? As a wild guess, I would say less than a meter. Fun to be had by all coastal communities since the sea level rise will happen immediately. :)
Futurama is not a place to get global warming solutions... even if they are cute. Heh.
Or you could stop eating beef and dairy products or buy from suppliers that use the genetically engineered low-fart cows.
Go fuck yourself. I am NOT going vegetarian. The world can burn first. I am unsure if there is a way to buy meat from "low-fart" cows, but I do not see any meat in the store labelled that way.
Or you could plant some trees
I already have trees around my house. Had to kill one of them because the roots were going into the sewage line.
put renewable energy devices on your house
What? A windmill to power some outside lights? Some solar panels whose construction is as bad as belching coal smoke and which will barely pay for themselves over their lifetime? I will think about it.
or get a shorter commute
Yeah, there are tons of jobs that are available closer to my house than my current job. Not. Oh wait, you mean sell my current house and move into a cramped and VERY expensive apartment in the city so I can stand near a bus stop for half an hour in freezing rainy weather so I can spend 45 minutes crawling through a circuitous route to where I need to go. Gotcha. I will get right on that.
Electric car
Sure, if I lived in that cramped and expensive apartment in the city.
see if there's an option to buy renewable power in your area
Good idea. I will check. Nope. Next idea please.
phase in lower-power devices in your home
I bought low power/energy saving devices from the time I bought my home. I know things improve every year but I am not willing to buy a new refrigerator every year. I am sure my next fridge will be ever more efficient.
maintain/reuse things instead of replacing them
I already do. Do you have any idea how much it costs to replace stuff? Of course, the LCD with the screwdriver through it does not appear to fixable but I am holding on to it in the hopes that I can fix it at some point.
but yeah it's hopeless and there's nothing an individual could do.
While all of us can and should ensure that we are living as efficiently as we can, it really is a drop in the bucket. Nuclear power is, in theory, a panacea for much of our atmospheric pollution. Building more efficient transportation is also a solution... however, those things are FAR beyond the average person (who makes $20 a day I am told) to do anything about.
I suspect what they were getting at is using waste heat from the CPU (and GPU). So instead of calling this material a heat sink, you have it draw heat away from the heat sink. It would only be one source of heat draw so the heat sink will still be efficient at what it does... but, you recover some energy in the process.
You could use the energy for cool lighting effects in the case or to help power a cooling solution (fan?), or just feed it back in to the power supply to reduce the draw at the wall outlet. *shrug* I dunno. Just running with it.
"Aggro?! Do you mean EU is somekind of monster of which somebody is always tanking and getting the aggro while the others shoot?"
Sounds like a valid description of the current market to me.. just sayin'. Apple is currently the tank but it used to be Nokia.
First, let me state that you have a good eye. There was a deep subconscious affinity between myself and the focus of the content of those pictures. Well done. I have to ask: Is it a natural ability or did you learn how to take interesting shots?
I suspect that Android is overkill for a dedicated camera and that one of those special purpose, nameless OSs that most cameras come with will suit me better.
The Linux kernel is shaping up to be THE definition of a low level interface to managing hardware. The Android stuff on top merely provides a nice environment for programs to run in. I suspect your idea of Android being overkill is because you are familiar with seeing it on high end phones with lots of fancy programs running. Android does not have to be that extravagant and it probably will not be when on a camera.
At least READ TFA before pontificating on things you obviously know nothing about.
You must be new here.
(I have never said that tired meme before... but someone had to in this instance. Yes, I get the ironing(sic) of a 6 digit UID telling a 5 digit UID that meme. Shall we persue a rediculous ... never mind.)
In the Savings and Loan Scandle, rich people bilked ordinary people of billions...
Trillions actually. Three iirc.
Essentially I indirectly gave a bunch of my money to Neil Bush.
Odd. If you look at most of the information about that era now, Neil Bush's part in it has been almost completely erased. You are obviously speaking from memory. In all actuality, that theft paid for Bush II to reign over use for 8 years.
Wow! I am not sure replying to you is even possible but I will try.
First, men and women are NOT equal, otherwise they would all be men or all be women; however, that has no bearing on the statement: All humans should be treated equally as far as rights and privileges are concerned. If a group is being deprived of those rights and privileges, then that aberrant behavior needs to be addressed. Am I practicing Jewishism when I treat a Jewish person as a regular normal person? Am I practicing niggerism (god I hate that word) when I treat a person with a darker skin color than myself as a regular person? So why is it feminism when I treat a female as a regular person?
Part of your confusion is that you are benefitting from male privilege but don't realize it.
Actually, I do realize when I benefit from male privilege. I also realize when I am harmed by being a male. I actually realize a lot of things. This comment makes no statements regarding how often I benefit or am harmed by being male.
Basically, men run the world and treat women like shit
You are correct that men mostly run the world even if Margaret Thatcher and others might argue with you a bit.
I am going to disagree with the general statement that men treat women like shit. While there is no doubt that there are men treating women like shit (ask the female FBI agent who had a pistol rammed into her vagina and fired in Arizona or the poor woman who was beaten, raped, and had a curling iron stuck in her vagina before she died from injuries sustained), this is not "normal" or "average". I have traveled to numerous places including the Middle East where the subjugation of women is far more institutionalized. For the most part, it appears that men care about women and treat them more or less respectfully. So I guess it all depends on what your definition of shit is.
...everywhere and for all time except for the last 100 years where privilege is being explored seriously
You do realize that there have been numerous matriarchal societies on this planet, right?
It seems you are too deep in the war to step out and look how absurd all of this is... which is likely why you said this:
and I'm sure you're seething right now to tell me how wrong i am
You are not wrong, we are not even playing the same game. :)
Okay, you are a fucking moron. Why does the subject of rape turn so many people into a drooling, angry, reactionary jackass?
Seriously guy (assumption), sex and money can both be used as weapons and I am not talking about papercuts from cash or eyes popped out by nipples. Your view is so narrow or boxed that you are not seeing reality. Good luck with the rest of your life.
Median is also 11%. In short, approximately only one in nine rape accusations is false.
And you do the same thing you accuse him of: grabbing a number and assuming it was true. You think the median of all those percentages is the One True Percentage? Meh.
Your eagerness to grab a "lower" number (based on absurd methods lol) indicates to me that you have a horse in this race.
Honestly, this is all a really nasty business. People should not be forcing others to do their will, in this case, sexual contact. People should not be lying about being forced either. Both things, rape and lying, occur. The question of percentages have no bearing on any particular instance. Only facts will do when deciding guilt or innocence.
Honestly, if people would just act like adults and respect each other, this would never be a problem. As if that would ever happen. I feel so alone. :/ (BTW, I unfriended you on Slashdot several years ago because of some strong biases I saw that did not appear rational to me. I do not hate you, I just do not want to associate with you; otherwise, I am totally neutral.)
Hm. Wasn't going to comment in this article because it is already very busy... but, I kind of have to now. Heh.
"Unless you think women should not be able to vote, get an education, drive, or hold the same jobs men do, you are a feminist."
Common definition of feminism: "The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men."
This is a fracturing definition. How will you determine whether or not women's right are indeed actually the same as men's rights? There is an implication of different laws for different genders, but balanced to be fair or equal.
Why don't we just have rights or privileges that apply to humans? Children represent a special problem concerning rights and privileges but children should generally be treated similarly to adults since children will be growing into adults at some point.
Most gender issues are utter bullshit. Why is it that if I treat a female like I would treat a male during a non-sexual business relationship, why should I be called a feminist? I am not "empowering" women. It is just a business deal. Gender never entered into it.
Grrr. How frustrating. I can not seem to get across my idea. Anyways, have a good day. *sigh*
Remove the DRM bullshit and my wallet will open MUCH more widely to game publishers. I do not want MY resources to be used to help you maintain exclusivity of distribution. Yes, I know that it is critical for your business to maintain exclusivity of distribution... but it will not be my problem. I used to buy lots of $30 games back in 2002 or so. Most sucked in some way so when prices doubled, I said, "screw it", and stopped buying games. I did buy Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare a few months ago but then, I already knew it was worth my money. The last game I bought before that... I do not recall. Sometime before 2004 I am sure.
Sorry for rambling. It is all pointless anyways. DRM will always remain. It is like some sick control fetish that just can not be tossed aside like a nicotine or heroin addiction... and it just WILL NOT STOP hogging up resources, reducing framerates, and sccrewing up numerous other highly visible things. Relentless. :/
Does anyone really think it's a bad idea to screen out the gene for Huntingtons?
This is the start of the slippery slope.
Is it better to be cold blooded and let nature takes it course or is it better to show kindness to the future person and prevent their suffering to begin with?
Tough question. Assuming we answer with the latter option, how much suffering are we willing to prevent? There are plenty of terrible diseases which do not kill outright... should those be selected against? What about in a society of mostly blonde hair blue eyed children? Would your brown hair and brown eyed child suffer terribly?
This is a nasty business and I do not have a clear stance myself. The safest bet is just to be cold blooded and let nature takes its course but being safe means being extinguished on this planet when the Sun goes out of its current profile.
Local control is overrated.
Ouch. Isn't "local control" ultimately Freedom? You can not get more local than yourself... but you meant at the county or state level. Right?
How do you explain giving up some freedoms to live in a society vs the county giving up some of its freedoms to reside within a state, with "Local control is overrated."?
Your politics are confused but it would appear at first blush as if your views are authoritarian in nature.
You are partially correct. Bill is doing it for the same reason that Andy and John did: It is part of the entrance requirements when you have been accepted to The Club.
Thank you. I especially appreciate the warning concerning privacy. While this was not news for many, I am sure it was useful to some people who read Slashdot. Not everyone has an iron hot lock on all aspects of technology even if they do understand how it all works.
"Because I present, for my case of man being inherently flawed and evil unless taught not to be and enforced with laws and social codes, the entire history of the human race."
I have heard numerous religious folks, of varying religions, all espouse this. "People are inherently evil", "People will only be good if you force them to be good".
What proof do you have for these assertions?
Anecdotal evidence from this quadrant says that some people are "good", some people are "evil", and a very large majority of people just do not act coherently, both "good" and "evil". This is a very far cry from "People are inherently evil".
Re: Savages
I assume you mean uneducated and uncivilized people. Yes? People like this: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110705-uncontacted-tribe-confirmed-science-world-indians-amazon-rainforest/
Are these people evil? If so, how? Are they good? If so, how?
It seems to me that a very twisted view of the world is being presented to us.
"I wonder if it originated with the Orthodox Jewish approach of writing "God" as "G-d", which was based on a sort of superstition against writing out the full word, even if it was obvious what the word was."
Hm. I thought the name of the Jewish God was YHVH, or, Jehovah. Weird.
I second the Samsung (unlocked bootloader) Galaxy Note.
+6 insightful and succinct.
"reaching up a woman's skirt and grabbing her crotch is a criminal offense, and deserves prison time."
Whoah whoah whoah there buddy. You are correct that the action in question is wrong. You are correct that it is (or should be if it is not in your culture) a criminal offense. But...
You are absolutely incorrect that prison time is the proper answer. There are two reasons:
While punishment is usually a valuable part of solving a problem, it does not solve a problem all by itself. There needs to be reeducation and prison does not provide that.
The second, and possibly most important reason: Do you honestly believe that touching someone on their body, unasked, is worthy of prison time? Perhaps a weekend in jail with a fine and counseling for the first offense if the offense was fully intended and egregious in nature?
If I had to hazard a guess, I would assume your extreme over-reaction means that you have been trained well or you are ashamed of your sexual nature. Just relax and stop yelling, "off with their heads", like the Red Queen.
And which of those individual "inventions" did not exist already? This is clearly in the realm of a possible incremental improvement of existing processes. It is astounding that something making such simplistic claims is patentable.