It *is* considered an impediment, just like I have "corrective lenses required" clearly marked on my license. But the fact that some people are deaf and unable to hear does not mean that people who CAN hear properly can deafen themselves, the same way that assistive controls for limb-impaired people (steering wheel knobs, alternate throttles) are limited to use by people who need them.
>>>> If you hear emergency vehicles before you know they're there through visual cues then stop fucking driving.
If you are sitting in a normal car like mine, you can usually hear emergency vehicle sirens LONG before you can see them through the minivans and pickup trucks. That is, if you are paying attention to driving like you should be (especially on the highway when you're moving fast enough to die on impact).
Yes, and which day per week should it be shut down?
- the original Sabbath?
- the second-revision Sabbath a day later?
- the third (or is that fifth) revision Sabbath two days earlier?
- one of the other four days?
It was seen as major steps in the "blue laws" at the time when NY went from "every business has to close on Sunday" to "every business has to close one day per week", and then to "every *worker* has to have at least one day off per week".
If there is a suit on board the ISS that is not ready for use, then it might as well not be there. OTOH if it's really a matter of only 12 hours of work to get it ready and usable, rearrange the schedule to get that lifeboat ship-shape. Shouldn't the first priority on any vessel be to ensure that all operational equipment is in working order, especially life-safety equipment? If the first act of a "Babylon 5" or "Battlestar Galactica" episode showed a suit still in its bubble-wrap, you could bet that by the end of the episode someone would be dead because that suit was not ready. ("Star Trek" would have had someone manage to get it ready JUST IN TIME, because "failure is not an option", but that's not always how the real world works in an emergency.)
Mod parent up. And let's add the more obvious and more practical lesson that "All our past imperialism and land/resource grabs from indigenous peoples looked like THIS EVIL from the other side", before we list the speculative possibilities.
Yes, there will be abuse in the direction of classifying all sorts of things "sensitive"; OTOH how much of this is a grab by business to get hold of data (even more data) that is currently less available, and making taxpayers pay for destroying their own privacy (what little is left)? Just because something is revealed in interaction with the government, doesn't mean that it is completely "public" data. An old example - someone's alibi for not being at a crime scene is being at a hotel with a lover. Witnesses etc. (nowadays security video) confirm. But neither someone nor lover wants it to be "public" knowledge, and police have no reason to make it so if it's not germane to the crime; their only statement is "suspect has a solid alibi, no longer considered a suspect".
>>> because the people with the ability to fix it (that banks) have no incentive to do so
Not about "fix it", about doing it right in the first place. The merchants with many swipe readers - like gas stations (where the reader is integrated into the pump) and fast-food chains - didn't want to pay for new hardware with chip handlers, so they convinced the banks to delay. The same merchants didn't want to slow down transactions, so they didn't want the "wasted time" of PIN entry; after all, the chip guarantees that the card is valid and not cloned, right? Well, yes, but it says nothing about whether the PERSON is valid.
Add in American exceptionalism (why should we do what everyone else is doing, even if it's right?)
I believe there is a huge difference between "I did plenty of stupid shit in my youth that could have resulted in ***MY*** death" (emphasis added) and doing something to put someone ELSE at risk.
Anyone I know who uses Windows does all they can to prevent updates, including - perhaps especially - IT departments. For some strange reason, it only takes one time of the CEO having his computer go into a forced update in the middle of a presentation to lenders, and policy changes REAL fast.
Maybe it feels "natural" for a single reference, but for a comparison it is useless, unless the group is exactly the same. And if the group is 100 . . . . we're done here.
For some people, yes, doing nothing will be a waste; for some, perhaps it will afford the time to be creative in non-remunerative ways. The most important group, hopefully, is people for whom doing nothing will be better for society than expending their effort and creativity doing something criminal and/or destructive. Compare to the idea of "negawatts" - power companies spending money on diminishing electricity use through efficiency rather than on increasing supply (building generating capacity). I would expect that in parallel with a UBI, penalties for theft and robbery and white-collar crimes-for-money should all increase, because there would no longer be any excuse that "I needed the money to survive".
You can walk into libraries all over the world, pull a book off the shelf, and read it. Nobody maintains it; it just sits there. Some things work that way.
It's a Catch-22 situation. The authoritarian crowd would say: A doctor who prescribes a prohibited substance has discredited his own good standing. That's why I say that the stronger argument is that it should be moved to a handle-with-care category - it is certainly no more dangerous than the Schedule 2 opiods and painkillers. And I'm sure that after further study and experience it would be lowered to Schedule 4 like valium, if not removed from restrictions entirely.
Can't run for President; naturalized citizen, not a "natural born Citizen" per the Constitution (usually interpreted to mean born in the US or on a US territory/base/embassy, or child of a US citizen temporarily outside the US at the time of giving birth)
sorry, while I sort of agree with you, your logic is weak and would be knocked down in debate. Yes, marijuana should never have been on schedule 1 and in particular should have been on one of the schedule levels that permits research; at the same time you can't argue that point based on "people use it where it's legal" because that's self-fulfilling. The problem is that the simplest logic, "research first and prohibit later", seems beyond the grasp of the political side that says "it's already prohibited therefore it must have been decided already" without regard for the history.
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It *is* considered an impediment, just like I have "corrective lenses required" clearly marked on my license. But the fact that some people are deaf and unable to hear does not mean that people who CAN hear properly can deafen themselves, the same way that assistive controls for limb-impaired people (steering wheel knobs, alternate throttles) are limited to use by people who need them.
>>>> If you hear emergency vehicles before you know they're there through visual cues then stop fucking driving.
If you are sitting in a normal car like mine, you can usually hear emergency vehicle sirens LONG before you can see them through the minivans and pickup trucks. That is, if you are paying attention to driving like you should be (especially on the highway when you're moving fast enough to die on impact).
No, India is being called out for this because they did it when there are people (and other satellites) to be put in danger.
Yes, and which day per week should it be shut down?
- the original Sabbath?
- the second-revision Sabbath a day later?
- the third (or is that fifth) revision Sabbath two days earlier?
- one of the other four days?
It was seen as major steps in the "blue laws" at the time when NY went from "every business has to close on Sunday" to "every business has to close one day per week", and then to "every *worker* has to have at least one day off per week".
If there is a suit on board the ISS that is not ready for use, then it might as well not be there. OTOH if it's really a matter of only 12 hours of work to get it ready and usable, rearrange the schedule to get that lifeboat ship-shape. Shouldn't the first priority on any vessel be to ensure that all operational equipment is in working order, especially life-safety equipment? If the first act of a "Babylon 5" or "Battlestar Galactica" episode showed a suit still in its bubble-wrap, you could bet that by the end of the episode someone would be dead because that suit was not ready. ("Star Trek" would have had someone manage to get it ready JUST IN TIME, because "failure is not an option", but that's not always how the real world works in an emergency.)
OMG if Warren Miller had had 3D for his SKIING movies . . .
>>> American, with a gun, overly confident and rude
You mean "overpaid, oversexed, and over here"? Well, yeah.
Mod parent up. And let's add the more obvious and more practical lesson that "All our past imperialism and land/resource grabs from indigenous peoples looked like THIS EVIL from the other side", before we list the speculative possibilities.
New meaning for DDOS: *drone* denial of service.
Yes, there will be abuse in the direction of classifying all sorts of things "sensitive"; OTOH how much of this is a grab by business to get hold of data (even more data) that is currently less available, and making taxpayers pay for destroying their own privacy (what little is left)? Just because something is revealed in interaction with the government, doesn't mean that it is completely "public" data. An old example - someone's alibi for not being at a crime scene is being at a hotel with a lover. Witnesses etc. (nowadays security video) confirm. But neither someone nor lover wants it to be "public" knowledge, and police have no reason to make it so if it's not germane to the crime; their only statement is "suspect has a solid alibi, no longer considered a suspect".
>>> because the people with the ability to fix it (that banks) have no incentive to do so
Not about "fix it", about doing it right in the first place. The merchants with many swipe readers - like gas stations (where the reader is integrated into the pump) and fast-food chains - didn't want to pay for new hardware with chip handlers, so they convinced the banks to delay. The same merchants didn't want to slow down transactions, so they didn't want the "wasted time" of PIN entry; after all, the chip guarantees that the card is valid and not cloned, right? Well, yes, but it says nothing about whether the PERSON is valid.
Add in American exceptionalism (why should we do what everyone else is doing, even if it's right?)
I believe there is a huge difference between "I did plenty of stupid shit in my youth that could have resulted in ***MY*** death" (emphasis added) and doing something to put someone ELSE at risk.
Woody Allen, "Sleeper" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anyone I know who uses Windows does all they can to prevent updates, including - perhaps especially - IT departments. For some strange reason, it only takes one time of the CEO having his computer go into a forced update in the middle of a presentation to lenders, and policy changes REAL fast.
Maybe it feels "natural" for a single reference, but for a comparison it is useless, unless the group is exactly the same. And if the group is 100 . . . . we're done here.
Thereafter, it takes a SPECTACULAR level of blockheaded arrogance (I'm not going to learn, and you can't make me ...
And this differs from the state of affairs in America . . . how?
Especially where they don't have to gather food (or fatten up) for winter,
For some people, yes, doing nothing will be a waste; for some, perhaps it will afford the time to be creative in non-remunerative ways. The most important group, hopefully, is people for whom doing nothing will be better for society than expending their effort and creativity doing something criminal and/or destructive. Compare to the idea of "negawatts" - power companies spending money on diminishing electricity use through efficiency rather than on increasing supply (building generating capacity). I would expect that in parallel with a UBI, penalties for theft and robbery and white-collar crimes-for-money should all increase, because there would no longer be any excuse that "I needed the money to survive".
+1 Insightful Where are mod points when I need them?
How's that been doing recently? Especially with the current US administration?
You can walk into libraries all over the world, pull a book off the shelf, and read it. Nobody maintains it; it just sits there. Some things work that way.
It's a Catch-22 situation. The authoritarian crowd would say: A doctor who prescribes a prohibited substance has discredited his own good standing. That's why I say that the stronger argument is that it should be moved to a handle-with-care category - it is certainly no more dangerous than the Schedule 2 opiods and painkillers. And I'm sure that after further study and experience it would be lowered to Schedule 4 like valium, if not removed from restrictions entirely.
Can't run for President; naturalized citizen, not a "natural born Citizen" per the Constitution (usually interpreted to mean born in the US or on a US territory/base/embassy, or child of a US citizen temporarily outside the US at the time of giving birth)
sorry, while I sort of agree with you, your logic is weak and would be knocked down in debate. Yes, marijuana should never have been on schedule 1 and in particular should have been on one of the schedule levels that permits research; at the same time you can't argue that point based on "people use it where it's legal" because that's self-fulfilling. The problem is that the simplest logic, "research first and prohibit later", seems beyond the grasp of the political side that says "it's already prohibited therefore it must have been decided already" without regard for the history.
Wars in Asia between major powers aren't fought with guns anymore. They are fought with bankers, accountants, lawyers, and propagandists.
I question how many "bankers, accountants, lawyers, and propagandists" were working on the explosives under "Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site".