When we get a President who tells them to stop spying on the American people and prosecute every Saudi state proselytizer for sedition. 2/3 of the threat of terrorism could be stopped by heavily building up the Border Patrol and Coast Guard and ordering the FBI to unleash Hell on every Wahhabi and Salafist preacher in the US. Lock up the preachers for preaching terrorism and jihad. Use asset forfeiture to seize the state funds coming from the royal family.
But then again, we are at war with ISIS despite the fact that our own "allies" are funding it and transferring American weapons to it. I am at times tempted to vote for Trump simply because he's the only guy who's enough of an asshole to gently pull the Saudi king's ear close to him and whisper "I cannot be responsible if the CIA puts a 0.50 round in your head if the funds to ISIS don't dry up."
"These harms tend to fall disproportionately on low-income communities and communities of color, who tend to rely on mobile networks as their primary or exclusive means of access to the internet."
So, let me get this straight. T-Mobile decides to exempt a whole swath of data-intensive services from the data cap and that is harming these people who otherwise could never be a real user of Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc. Wait, I'm having problems following your SJW "logic" here. They can't afford mobile and wired broadband. Wireless, for obvious reasons, has more restrictions ordinarily than wired on data consumption. A company decides to give people unlimited data use on preferred, highly popular services. Services that those same communities really, really want.
I'm struggling to find the argument for network neturality here, and I am generally a proponent of it. If anything, these SJWs have just created an argument that everyone in Congress from the Black Caucus, to the Tea Party, to the moderates in the establishment could agree is a good reason to abolish network neturality.
For example, a set of emoji depicts only males playing sports or the avatars in a game present only Caucasian people." In other K-12 CS news, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics suggests CS for All may not be all it's cracked up to be.
I get why this upsets some people, but they need to be told to get a grip for their own good. You know what kind of woman in CS I respect? The kind of woman who is more interesting in talking about CS issues than talking about women in CS. That rare moment when she actually talks about "women in CS stuff" is more likely to be interesting and relevant to me if she has otherwise proved a greater interest in the subject than in demographics. If you spend more time talking about your group in CS than actually talking about CS, then you aren't really interested in CS. Your actions reveal your real interest which is social activism, not the subject.
"Inclusive avatars" itself makes sense if the software's purpose supports it. Mass Effect Andromeda has no reason to avoid having a black female option for the new Shepherd. Witcher 3, a game based on Slavic mythology does. You aren't going to find a lot of diversity in that universe except on the distant periphery. Seeing a black person in such a game without a damn good reason for their inclusion would harm suspension of disbelief. It would be like having Asian characters suddenly appear in a "Call of Duty: Africa Campaigns" that otherwise lets you fight as British soldiers or native black warriors resisting colonialism. You'd better have a good reason for presenting that option otherwise you're just screaming "hey, look at my virtue signaling" while people are trying to immerse themselves in an entertainment experience.
Make no mistake, the Republicans are looking at a serious upheaval and possible dissolution, but the Democrats are oddly enough not too far behind, if Bernie Sanders is any indication. I actually think that the Black vote that keeps electing Clintons is going to realize that they are getting very little but lip service and affirmative action for their loyalty. Neither one of those things is ending racism or inner city problem, and I'd argue that affirmative action makes it worse in some cases. Four or eight years of Clinton after eight years of Obama had better change their fortunes, or you could see a real problem for the Democrats too.
I think you give a lot of them too much credit. Many of these black voters live in areas that have been dominated by Democrats for the last several generations and still are terrified of what would happen if they elected a Republican for once. Nevermind the fact that the people who've been dominating the local governments and impoverishing them and setting police culture that kills blacks left and right are Democrats. Despite the fact that the "red states" tend to have cleaner government, lower police brutality, etc. a Republican is unthinkable.
Nadella would be sacked within a week if he did that. Not only that, but he would probably get sued for taking an action that traded a billion or two dollars of pure profit for "good will." From a fiduciary responsibility perspective, it would be just cut and dry.
The amount of garbage that I see posted on Facebook that is not only blatantly wrong but you-should-know-better-so-I-assume-dishonesty wrong is incredible in some places. My favorite example off the top of my head is the meme showing a pie chart with the federal budget that shows the military at 60% of the budget and some self-righteous line to the EBT piece that says "Republicans thinking cutting this will balance the budget." Well, guess what, that pie chart is the discretionary budget. That part is about 20% of the entire federal budget. Those of us who actually know enough about the government that our founding fathers wouldn't be embarrassed to let us vote actually notice things like "WTH are Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment and servicing the national debt?"
The majority just lap that garbage up. Left or right and in between. Doesn't matter. The more it confirms their biases, the more their brains shut down.
If Facebook wanted to censor something useful instead of legitimate German outrage over the complete disregard for popular opinion on the migrant issue, they could start with a lot of the "political" pages on Facebook that spread more dezinformatsiya than a Soviet state TV station on coke.
They would rather throw money at the daughters of the upper end of the 1% than money at the sons of the bottom 50%. Because equality. Because a girl born to a family that can afford $37k/year/kid for K12 tuition is "oppressed" by the "patriarchy" that includes a poor white kid who lives in Appalachia with a dad on Social Security Disability and a mom works as a waitress at a low end restaurant and a minority boy living in a violent ghetto with no father in his life. No siree, those boys have it easy because their penises give them preferential access, should the heavens open up and give them access to an accredited college at some point in their lives. Fight for equality, fight for the daughters of the privileged!
As opposed to the fact that most of the federal employees who got an iPhone just wanted one a lot more than a BlackBerry 10 phone. Which is a shame, really, because my Z10 is the best phone I've ever owned including my previous two iPhones. BlackBerry has the only MDM with an ATO from the DoD. If security were the primary motivation, they'd have standardized on BB10 phones with BlackBerry BES.
He broke the law, got called out for it and then a buddy called for a mob to join in a conspiracy to commit the crime of harassing the woman. This is probably a violation of a state statute on stalking. Even if it isn't, the union head should be fired and blacklisted from working in a government position in Florida.
Note: this is harassment. A constant stream of people retweeting your stuff, referencing you and stuff like that is not harassment. 90% of what happens on social media and gets called harassment these days is just someone refusing to acknowledge that when you post something in public, you are intrinsically inviting a public response. If you don't like that, use a privacy option. There is not such thing as privacy in public except with regard to what's under your clothes (and that's only outside of an airport).
SJWs like to tell us that freedom of association died with the Civil Rights act, so let's take it a step further. If you offer a public accommodation like a social media site, you are held to the same standard as a diner in Alabama. Twitter should have no more of a right to ever censor or moderate or mess with anyone's posting on Twitter than a diner owner can turn away people of different races, men or women, different religions, you name it.
It's long past time that political views became a protected class since everything else is a protected class at this point.
There are two classes of school policies that should be resulting in the prosecution of public school officials who implement them: zero tolerance policies and any sort of speech code that goes beyond upholding basic legal tenants like not creating a public disturbance. Enough of this bullshit about how the laws of our society don't apply in the one part of government most young people can't avoid (K-12) by law and at most of the universities they can afford.
As for private schools that promise free speech and renege, they should be fully liable for breech of contract, payment of legal fees and whatever else is necessary to make the student whole if they go after them in violation of their stated policies and values.
The "source" is one of the heads of FIRE, which is a civil liberties organization specifically devoted to issues like protecting the free speech rights of students and faculty from everything from overly broad speech codes, to not getting tenure because the professor fails to hold the right views. Chances are that if you are a university student or professor who has been victimized by campus commissars of political correctness, you will be represented by FIRE if you aren't doing it by yourself.
Your whole comment just screams "ad hominem" because it focuses on one particular source cited when the writer is the head of a different organization that has an excellent record at defending the rights of students and faculty from campus autocrats. And yes, that is "ad hominem" in the true sense. Hey folks, don't believe it because damn dirty right wingers are involved, even if they are arguing that college campuses are trampling the rights of political minorities.
We had one for a little while, but rather than reform CIFA it was shut down in a hurry.
We need something like CIFA because having the FBI do both general law enforcement and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism makes it too hard to prevent intelligence products from landing in general law enforcement operations.
The agency doesn't need to be big. In fact, it should be the smallest member of the intelligence community because virtually none of our "domestic threats" are anything more than ordinary hate crimes that belong to the states and FBI. Even most of the hate crimes by Muslims that have been prevented aren't strictly speaking relevant because they're just people trying to act on ISIS propaganda, not a real nexus to ISIS. That too is the domain of the FBI.
You know what would be the domain of a domestic intel agency would be the Saudi and Qatari funding of extremist mosques on our soil. Or Russian espionage. Things that actually have a nexus between domestic and foreign, so there would be a domestic agency that could work hand in hand with the CIA and NSA to hunt down the domestic side of international threats without involving ordinary law enforcement.
If Cruz or Trump wins and Hillary is the nominee. You will see Republican-leaning voters and blue dog democrats coming out of the wood work to support the Republican over Hillary. Cruz is not controlled by Wall Street and Trump is openly running a pro-common man, fuck the special interests campaign and he can pull it off because he's so rich he could moon Wall Street in public and not miss a single dollar from them.
Clinton, on the other hand, is married into Wall Street. She's pro-amnesty, pro-every Chamber of Commerce fuck the little guy interest out there.
And to add to the problem for Clinton, she consistently loses millennial female support every time the issue of her and Bill's behavior toward women comes up. Bill makes Trump look like Billy Graham in his treatment of women. Hillary has a proven legacy of keeping women from getting their due in court, including laughing at a 12 year old rape victim.
Sanders is the only electable candidate they have unless it's a Kasich-Bush ticket.
1. Build a LLC that owns all IP rights to the tools that forensics tools. 2. Have the LLC sign a contract with Apple that states that Apple will never release trade secrets to other vendors to comply with the production of forensics tools. 3. Have Apple refer them to the LLC. 4. Let the LLC charge the government $100,000/job as a firm fixed price contract.
You'll see the FBI getting pretty libertarian in how it prioritizes searches and seizures if that's the only way Apple will work with them.
Offer him a fair trial with a standing executive order that says that the Attorney General must conduct an after the fact review of the US Attorney's conduct and bring criminal charges for even the slightest technicality from Brady violations on down. The slightest misconduct and you're fucking crucified by order of the President.
It would give Snowden no excuse, make us look fair and still accomplish their goal of prosecuting him. They just lacked imagination, I guess.
The current system was set up to control behavior, not raise revenue. That's why we don't think of tax enforcement at the federal level as the banal process it should be, as we do with local taxes. No one fears their county tax assessor like they fear a visit from the IRS because state and local tax laws are almost black and white compared to the federal income tax. If the local tax man visits you, you should have known better because 4th grade level math is the max you need to calculate your property tax bill in most areas.
If the system were rational, there would be a flat federal income tax of 17.5% (10% to the treasury, 7.5% to FICA programs) on all earned income and capital gains. Employers would deduct 17.5% from your paycheck; banks would take 17.5% of all interest, brokerages would automatically take 17.5% of all measured profit.
It would simultaneously let us lay off 50-75% of the IRS, make 99% of the taxpayers never dread April 15th and make no one assume that it's really the IRS talking to them unless someone shows up with a badge and a briefcase, saying it's audit time.
Most of those "wrong industries" were actually doing just fine until it became possible to move the job to the other side of the Mexican border or China and send the product back into the US. Many of the people in the "right industries" who self-righteously simultaneously defend free trade and scream about income inequality need to look at themselves in the mirror and realize they are part of the problem.
The company forced them to train their replacements, who are non-citizens brought in to the do the same job cheaper because the utility is run by people who apparently feel it's fine to sell out their own countrymen to make a buck.
I don't know what's so mysterious about this. It is what it is. The only question is what are you going to do about it?
I have a really simple solution. Abolish corporate taxes in their current form and replace them with a head count tax. Every US citizen is, say, $1000/year. Every legal immigrant is $2500. Every foreign national abroad, including contract workers on outsourced work, gets a fee of $5,000. If at any time, more than 25% of your work is either performed by subsidiaries or outsourcing firms based overseas that has a sales or some other nexus into the US, you pay FICA on your global workforce including contracted employees.
So carrot and stick. A big, incredibly sweet looking carrot and a stick that has nails driven into it because we want to make the choice obvious.
You realise you're literally saying that SJWs are worse than Hitler, the archetypal fascist. IOW you're being exceptionally silly.
You realize that you are demonstrating an absolute lack of historic knowledge and understanding of the word "literally" as you are using it.
Because Hitler was not a real Fascist because his party was the National Socialist German Worker's Party, not a party based on the doctrines of the Italian Fascists or their peers in Austria.
As a matter of fact, I do believe that if SJWs got their way, most Americans would find being ruled Mussolini to be preferable to them because Mussolini was closer to Ron Paul than the average SJW in his need to micromanage every aspect of life in Italy.
Remember that the identical arguments made for safe spaces on college campuses are being used against FOSS communities. They have every intention of setting themselves up to be the arbiters of what can be said and done, even outside of campus or a FOSS project. Calling these people Fascists is an insult to real Fascists because they've never been as petty and domineering in the minutia as SJWs.
They get a free and presumably effective tool to enforce the law and the fines go to pay the company that provides them the tool.
The flip side of this tool is also that the company can provide analytics to seniors in the political system on how the police are using their tool, and they won't get the tool dropped. Why? Because the agency knows that Podunk Jurisdiction ain't going to pay huge licensing fees in this economy to replace the system with a competitor's tool because the company responded to a request from the Attorney General or the legislature on how the police were using their product. It's a captive audience.
1. Pedestrians won't modify their behavior in any meaningfully large numbers. 2. Cars will still miscalculate and get into accidents. At least early on, a few of this will probably end up being W...T...F... sized accidents involving bad programming and human error in human-driven vehicles.
WRT #1, people jaywalk all the time. I frequently see people just jump out and expect a car to instantly stop for them. Well, what happens if the self-driven car either doesn't detect them or doesn't do so in time? Can you imagine all of the faux populist outrage?
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When we get a President who tells them to stop spying on the American people and prosecute every Saudi state proselytizer for sedition. 2/3 of the threat of terrorism could be stopped by heavily building up the Border Patrol and Coast Guard and ordering the FBI to unleash Hell on every Wahhabi and Salafist preacher in the US. Lock up the preachers for preaching terrorism and jihad. Use asset forfeiture to seize the state funds coming from the royal family.
But then again, we are at war with ISIS despite the fact that our own "allies" are funding it and transferring American weapons to it. I am at times tempted to vote for Trump simply because he's the only guy who's enough of an asshole to gently pull the Saudi king's ear close to him and whisper "I cannot be responsible if the CIA puts a 0.50 round in your head if the funds to ISIS don't dry up."
So, let me get this straight. T-Mobile decides to exempt a whole swath of data-intensive services from the data cap and that is harming these people who otherwise could never be a real user of Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc. Wait, I'm having problems following your SJW "logic" here. They can't afford mobile and wired broadband. Wireless, for obvious reasons, has more restrictions ordinarily than wired on data consumption. A company decides to give people unlimited data use on preferred, highly popular services. Services that those same communities really, really want.
I'm struggling to find the argument for network neturality here, and I am generally a proponent of it. If anything, these SJWs have just created an argument that everyone in Congress from the Black Caucus, to the Tea Party, to the moderates in the establishment could agree is a good reason to abolish network neturality.
I get why this upsets some people, but they need to be told to get a grip for their own good. You know what kind of woman in CS I respect? The kind of woman who is more interesting in talking about CS issues than talking about women in CS. That rare moment when she actually talks about "women in CS stuff" is more likely to be interesting and relevant to me if she has otherwise proved a greater interest in the subject than in demographics. If you spend more time talking about your group in CS than actually talking about CS, then you aren't really interested in CS. Your actions reveal your real interest which is social activism, not the subject.
"Inclusive avatars" itself makes sense if the software's purpose supports it. Mass Effect Andromeda has no reason to avoid having a black female option for the new Shepherd. Witcher 3, a game based on Slavic mythology does. You aren't going to find a lot of diversity in that universe except on the distant periphery. Seeing a black person in such a game without a damn good reason for their inclusion would harm suspension of disbelief. It would be like having Asian characters suddenly appear in a "Call of Duty: Africa Campaigns" that otherwise lets you fight as British soldiers or native black warriors resisting colonialism. You'd better have a good reason for presenting that option otherwise you're just screaming "hey, look at my virtue signaling" while people are trying to immerse themselves in an entertainment experience.
I think you give a lot of them too much credit. Many of these black voters live in areas that have been dominated by Democrats for the last several generations and still are terrified of what would happen if they elected a Republican for once. Nevermind the fact that the people who've been dominating the local governments and impoverishing them and setting police culture that kills blacks left and right are Democrats. Despite the fact that the "red states" tend to have cleaner government, lower police brutality, etc. a Republican is unthinkable.
Nadella would be sacked within a week if he did that. Not only that, but he would probably get sued for taking an action that traded a billion or two dollars of pure profit for "good will." From a fiduciary responsibility perspective, it would be just cut and dry.
When it's foreigners doing it to you, does it China?
The amount of garbage that I see posted on Facebook that is not only blatantly wrong but you-should-know-better-so-I-assume-dishonesty wrong is incredible in some places. My favorite example off the top of my head is the meme showing a pie chart with the federal budget that shows the military at 60% of the budget and some self-righteous line to the EBT piece that says "Republicans thinking cutting this will balance the budget." Well, guess what, that pie chart is the discretionary budget. That part is about 20% of the entire federal budget. Those of us who actually know enough about the government that our founding fathers wouldn't be embarrassed to let us vote actually notice things like "WTH are Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment and servicing the national debt?"
The majority just lap that garbage up. Left or right and in between. Doesn't matter. The more it confirms their biases, the more their brains shut down.
If Facebook wanted to censor something useful instead of legitimate German outrage over the complete disregard for popular opinion on the migrant issue, they could start with a lot of the "political" pages on Facebook that spread more dezinformatsiya than a Soviet state TV station on coke.
They would rather throw money at the daughters of the upper end of the 1% than money at the sons of the bottom 50%. Because equality. Because a girl born to a family that can afford $37k/year/kid for K12 tuition is "oppressed" by the "patriarchy" that includes a poor white kid who lives in Appalachia with a dad on Social Security Disability and a mom works as a waitress at a low end restaurant and a minority boy living in a violent ghetto with no father in his life. No siree, those boys have it easy because their penises give them preferential access, should the heavens open up and give them access to an accredited college at some point in their lives. Fight for equality, fight for the daughters of the privileged!
As opposed to the fact that most of the federal employees who got an iPhone just wanted one a lot more than a BlackBerry 10 phone. Which is a shame, really, because my Z10 is the best phone I've ever owned including my previous two iPhones. BlackBerry has the only MDM with an ATO from the DoD. If security were the primary motivation, they'd have standardized on BB10 phones with BlackBerry BES.
He broke the law, got called out for it and then a buddy called for a mob to join in a conspiracy to commit the crime of harassing the woman. This is probably a violation of a state statute on stalking. Even if it isn't, the union head should be fired and blacklisted from working in a government position in Florida.
Note: this is harassment. A constant stream of people retweeting your stuff, referencing you and stuff like that is not harassment. 90% of what happens on social media and gets called harassment these days is just someone refusing to acknowledge that when you post something in public, you are intrinsically inviting a public response. If you don't like that, use a privacy option. There is not such thing as privacy in public except with regard to what's under your clothes (and that's only outside of an airport).
SJWs like to tell us that freedom of association died with the Civil Rights act, so let's take it a step further. If you offer a public accommodation like a social media site, you are held to the same standard as a diner in Alabama. Twitter should have no more of a right to ever censor or moderate or mess with anyone's posting on Twitter than a diner owner can turn away people of different races, men or women, different religions, you name it.
It's long past time that political views became a protected class since everything else is a protected class at this point.
There are two classes of school policies that should be resulting in the prosecution of public school officials who implement them: zero tolerance policies and any sort of speech code that goes beyond upholding basic legal tenants like not creating a public disturbance. Enough of this bullshit about how the laws of our society don't apply in the one part of government most young people can't avoid (K-12) by law and at most of the universities they can afford.
As for private schools that promise free speech and renege, they should be fully liable for breech of contract, payment of legal fees and whatever else is necessary to make the student whole if they go after them in violation of their stated policies and values.
The "source" is one of the heads of FIRE, which is a civil liberties organization specifically devoted to issues like protecting the free speech rights of students and faculty from everything from overly broad speech codes, to not getting tenure because the professor fails to hold the right views. Chances are that if you are a university student or professor who has been victimized by campus commissars of political correctness, you will be represented by FIRE if you aren't doing it by yourself.
Your whole comment just screams "ad hominem" because it focuses on one particular source cited when the writer is the head of a different organization that has an excellent record at defending the rights of students and faculty from campus autocrats. And yes, that is "ad hominem" in the true sense. Hey folks, don't believe it because damn dirty right wingers are involved, even if they are arguing that college campuses are trampling the rights of political minorities.
We had one for a little while, but rather than reform CIFA it was shut down in a hurry.
We need something like CIFA because having the FBI do both general law enforcement and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism makes it too hard to prevent intelligence products from landing in general law enforcement operations.
The agency doesn't need to be big. In fact, it should be the smallest member of the intelligence community because virtually none of our "domestic threats" are anything more than ordinary hate crimes that belong to the states and FBI. Even most of the hate crimes by Muslims that have been prevented aren't strictly speaking relevant because they're just people trying to act on ISIS propaganda, not a real nexus to ISIS. That too is the domain of the FBI.
You know what would be the domain of a domestic intel agency would be the Saudi and Qatari funding of extremist mosques on our soil. Or Russian espionage. Things that actually have a nexus between domestic and foreign, so there would be a domestic agency that could work hand in hand with the CIA and NSA to hunt down the domestic side of international threats without involving ordinary law enforcement.
If Cruz or Trump wins and Hillary is the nominee. You will see Republican-leaning voters and blue dog democrats coming out of the wood work to support the Republican over Hillary. Cruz is not controlled by Wall Street and Trump is openly running a pro-common man, fuck the special interests campaign and he can pull it off because he's so rich he could moon Wall Street in public and not miss a single dollar from them.
Clinton, on the other hand, is married into Wall Street. She's pro-amnesty, pro-every Chamber of Commerce fuck the little guy interest out there.
And to add to the problem for Clinton, she consistently loses millennial female support every time the issue of her and Bill's behavior toward women comes up. Bill makes Trump look like Billy Graham in his treatment of women. Hillary has a proven legacy of keeping women from getting their due in court, including laughing at a 12 year old rape victim.
Sanders is the only electable candidate they have unless it's a Kasich-Bush ticket.
1. Build a LLC that owns all IP rights to the tools that forensics tools.
2. Have the LLC sign a contract with Apple that states that Apple will never release trade secrets to other vendors to comply with the production of forensics tools.
3. Have Apple refer them to the LLC.
4. Let the LLC charge the government $100,000/job as a firm fixed price contract.
You'll see the FBI getting pretty libertarian in how it prioritizes searches and seizures if that's the only way Apple will work with them.
Offer him a fair trial with a standing executive order that says that the Attorney General must conduct an after the fact review of the US Attorney's conduct and bring criminal charges for even the slightest technicality from Brady violations on down. The slightest misconduct and you're fucking crucified by order of the President.
It would give Snowden no excuse, make us look fair and still accomplish their goal of prosecuting him. They just lacked imagination, I guess.
The current system was set up to control behavior, not raise revenue. That's why we don't think of tax enforcement at the federal level as the banal process it should be, as we do with local taxes. No one fears their county tax assessor like they fear a visit from the IRS because state and local tax laws are almost black and white compared to the federal income tax. If the local tax man visits you, you should have known better because 4th grade level math is the max you need to calculate your property tax bill in most areas.
If the system were rational, there would be a flat federal income tax of 17.5% (10% to the treasury, 7.5% to FICA programs) on all earned income and capital gains. Employers would deduct 17.5% from your paycheck; banks would take 17.5% of all interest, brokerages would automatically take 17.5% of all measured profit.
It would simultaneously let us lay off 50-75% of the IRS, make 99% of the taxpayers never dread April 15th and make no one assume that it's really the IRS talking to them unless someone shows up with a badge and a briefcase, saying it's audit time.
Most of those "wrong industries" were actually doing just fine until it became possible to move the job to the other side of the Mexican border or China and send the product back into the US. Many of the people in the "right industries" who self-righteously simultaneously defend free trade and scream about income inequality need to look at themselves in the mirror and realize they are part of the problem.
The company forced them to train their replacements, who are non-citizens brought in to the do the same job cheaper because the utility is run by people who apparently feel it's fine to sell out their own countrymen to make a buck.
I don't know what's so mysterious about this. It is what it is. The only question is what are you going to do about it?
I have a really simple solution. Abolish corporate taxes in their current form and replace them with a head count tax. Every US citizen is, say, $1000/year. Every legal immigrant is $2500. Every foreign national abroad, including contract workers on outsourced work, gets a fee of $5,000. If at any time, more than 25% of your work is either performed by subsidiaries or outsourcing firms based overseas that has a sales or some other nexus into the US, you pay FICA on your global workforce including contracted employees.
So carrot and stick. A big, incredibly sweet looking carrot and a stick that has nails driven into it because we want to make the choice obvious.
You realize that you are demonstrating an absolute lack of historic knowledge and understanding of the word "literally" as you are using it.
Because Hitler was not a real Fascist because his party was the National Socialist German Worker's Party, not a party based on the doctrines of the Italian Fascists or their peers in Austria.
As a matter of fact, I do believe that if SJWs got their way, most Americans would find being ruled Mussolini to be preferable to them because Mussolini was closer to Ron Paul than the average SJW in his need to micromanage every aspect of life in Italy.
Remember that the identical arguments made for safe spaces on college campuses are being used against FOSS communities. They have every intention of setting themselves up to be the arbiters of what can be said and done, even outside of campus or a FOSS project. Calling these people Fascists is an insult to real Fascists because they've never been as petty and domineering in the minutia as SJWs.
They get a free and presumably effective tool to enforce the law and the fines go to pay the company that provides them the tool.
The flip side of this tool is also that the company can provide analytics to seniors in the political system on how the police are using their tool, and they won't get the tool dropped. Why? Because the agency knows that Podunk Jurisdiction ain't going to pay huge licensing fees in this economy to replace the system with a competitor's tool because the company responded to a request from the Attorney General or the legislature on how the police were using their product. It's a captive audience.
Because of two factors:
1. Pedestrians won't modify their behavior in any meaningfully large numbers.
2. Cars will still miscalculate and get into accidents. At least early on, a few of this will probably end up being W...T...F... sized accidents involving bad programming and human error in human-driven vehicles.
WRT #1, people jaywalk all the time. I frequently see people just jump out and expect a car to instantly stop for them. Well, what happens if the self-driven car either doesn't detect them or doesn't do so in time? Can you imagine all of the faux populist outrage?
This is seems more like a UX issue where they should be getting some focus groups together to try some new software short cuts.