You can easily solve a social problem with technological features. Just the approach needs to change. Government only needs to push for the switch to autonomous cars instead.
The thing is, that if you had a gun, and I had one too, then if I was a criminal, instead of checking the local state laws, I would simply opt to shoot you dead, instead of running the risk of being shot dead. Hell, the easy availability of guns would make me do so just to play it safe, even if I did not see a gun in your hand. Who knows? You might pull one hidden away, and shoot me. Criminals elsewhere? They would loot you but have no pressing need of seeing you dead, unless you can identify them.
For the record, you do not get a huge number of folks getting clubbed/stabbed to death either, on a daily basis in Japan. Nice straw-man.
And pray thee, why would your average thug want to actually beat you to death? Rob you, sure. Knock you out maybe. Run up a murder charge, when your intent was just robbery?
It must be an American thing to value your possessions more than your life? Or perhaps the American thugs are more psychotic than thugs elsewhere.
Actually, if the other guy has a gun too, logically your best bet at survival is to shoot and kill him first. If you do NOT do that, AND you are trespassing, you stand a high chance of being killed... especially because US laws allow the home-owners to kill you.
If you are trespassing, and the other guy does NOT have a gun, then you have the option of NOT murdering him since you yourself are at no risk. He will lose his stuff, but you will probably not risk a death sentence, if you were masked and he couldn't identify you.
Socio-economics do not matter. If we both had a gun, and you were pointing at me, I WOULD shoot first, to save myself. And burglars are the ones who would shoot first, since you are legally allowed to kill them anyways.
You pulled out that old canard that people shot dead are more dead* than people beaten to death with cricket bats, wrenches, or tire irons, or stabbed to death.
So how good do you rate your chances of beating to death, a fleeing victim who is 10 feets away from you, with just a cricket bat, wrench or tire iron?
Also, If you did NOT have guns being sold like chewing gum everyplace, the thugs and gangs might have a harder time procuring one too. Works for Japan and Singapore at any rate.
Does this means you will be returning the billions of dollars worth of wealth(after including interest) that you Brits stole from India? You can start with sending back the crown jewels for starters, which were also stolen from India by you guys. I believe *that* is the right thing to do.(Especially with all the lip-service you are giving to "doing the right thing").
Really? If that is their business, why are we, the *subscribers* paying them? .
Lots of subscribers don't want to see advts. And the sponsors would like as much advts to be shown. If you FORCE advts to be shown, while still charging the subscribers, they will just flock to whatever is more convenient. In all likelihood, pirated shows. For someone who claims to really HATE piracy and equates it to actual terrorism(blowing people up), media companies sure seem to go out of their way to provide all sorts of incentives for pirating stuff.
Only thing poorly thought is your comment. You could do with a bit more of common sense.
Because, the moment you posted those dialogs for your friend to see, you effectively made it less private than you think. Nothing is stopping your friend from copy-pasting the whole conversation into a file, and pasting *that* into a blog/forum/printing-and-framing-it-on-a-wall.
Do enlighten us how "exporting" the said conversation is all that much different from his simply copy-pasting the same information into a file?
Oh ok, we get it. Now you want to ban copy-paste. Carry on then.
Perhaps we should start "seeing" all those made-in-China electronics as well. All that stuff inside your PC, those webcams, those sound cards... all those things that can connect to the internet one way or another, just waiting for that "switch-on" signal... oh wait. Cannot "see" them:p
Okay I am making this up. But considering that China is actually conducting cyber-warefare against USA, setting itself as the new rival/enemy, what is the guarantee it cannot happen/hasn't happened?
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You have in a single paragraph(and what a long paragraph!) argued very successfully for abandonment of following ideas at their conception itself:
1. Research in medical science(why bother saving the poor? It is all vanity in any case)
2. Research in aviation(Oh those damned Wright brothers! Trying to get all these poor masses to fly in air. It will have no practical application! Flight will be of no use to mankind... it is all vanity.)
3. All works of art and literature, cinema etc.. (Entertaining the masses ? Who wants these poor folks to be entertained ? They are a pox on us, I tell you! Wanting your name to live on, after you are dead ? Vanity! It is all vanity, I tell you!).
4. Research in navigation and seafaring.(Bah! Trying to get all those poor teeming masses to float on water and go to some place farway. Discovering new searoutes and lands ? What for? Who cares about whether these damned undeserving poor folks go to this place called the New World and establish some country called America... or populate some place called Australia. America...bah! who needs it!)
Get a clue. You might be actually be right about things being done for sake of vanity. And yet the results are usually of great benefit to mankind, that seem inconceivable at worst, and farfetched at best.
If your forefathers had thought like you, there would be no America or Australia. And you wouldn't be here preaching to us about vanity and questioning the rights of those less fortunate than you, to exist.
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You can easily solve a social problem with technological features. Just the approach needs to change. Government only needs to push for the switch to autonomous cars instead.
It is supposed to explode first, I think.
http://www.fiveeightforums.com/threads/list-of-things-in-china-that-explode.90930/
The thing is, that if you had a gun, and I had one too, then if I was a criminal, instead of checking the local state laws, I would simply opt to shoot you dead, instead of running the risk of being shot dead. Hell, the easy availability of guns would make me do so just to play it safe, even if I did not see a gun in your hand. Who knows? You might pull one hidden away, and shoot me. Criminals elsewhere? They would loot you but have no pressing need of seeing you dead, unless you can identify them.
For the record, you do not get a huge number of folks getting clubbed/stabbed to death either, on a daily basis in Japan. Nice straw-man.
And pray thee, why would your average thug want to actually beat you to death? Rob you, sure. Knock you out maybe. Run up a murder charge, when your intent was just robbery?
It must be an American thing to value your possessions more than your life? Or perhaps the American thugs are more psychotic than thugs elsewhere.
Actually, if the other guy has a gun too, logically your best bet at survival is to shoot and kill him first. If you do NOT do that, AND you are trespassing, you stand a high chance of being killed... especially because US laws allow the home-owners to kill you.
If you are trespassing, and the other guy does NOT have a gun, then you have the option of NOT murdering him since you yourself are at no risk. He will lose his stuff, but you will probably not risk a death sentence, if you were masked and he couldn't identify you.
Socio-economics do not matter. If we both had a gun, and you were pointing at me, I WOULD shoot first, to save myself. And burglars are the ones who would shoot first, since you are legally allowed to kill them anyways.
You pulled out that old canard that people shot dead are more dead* than people beaten to death with cricket bats, wrenches, or tire irons, or stabbed to death.
So how good do you rate your chances of beating to death, a fleeing victim who is 10 feets away from you, with just a cricket bat, wrench or tire iron?
Also, If you did NOT have guns being sold like chewing gum everyplace, the thugs and gangs might have a harder time procuring one too. Works for Japan and Singapore at any rate.
Does this means you will be returning the billions of dollars worth of wealth(after including interest) that you Brits stole from India? You can start with sending back the crown jewels for starters, which were also stolen from India by you guys. I believe *that* is the right thing to do.(Especially with all the lip-service you are giving to "doing the right thing").
Really? If that is their business, why are we, the *subscribers* paying them?
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Lots of subscribers don't want to see advts. And the sponsors would like as much advts to be shown. If you FORCE advts to be shown, while still charging the subscribers, they will just flock to whatever is more convenient. In all likelihood, pirated shows. For someone who claims to really HATE piracy and equates it to actual terrorism(blowing people up), media companies sure seem to go out of their way to provide all sorts of incentives for pirating stuff.
Only misleading part is that it will actually last only 9 days. China quality. Exploding toilets and support pillars stuffed with trash! ;)
Only thing poorly thought is your comment. You could do with a bit more of common sense.
Because, the moment you posted those dialogs for your friend to see, you effectively made it less private than you think. Nothing is stopping your friend from copy-pasting the whole conversation into a file, and pasting *that* into a blog/forum/printing-and-framing-it-on-a-wall.
Do enlighten us how "exporting" the said conversation is all that much different from his simply copy-pasting the same information into a file?
Oh ok, we get it. Now you want to ban copy-paste. Carry on then.
Perhaps we should start "seeing" all those made-in-China electronics as well. All that stuff inside your PC, those webcams, those sound cards... all those things that can connect to the internet one way or another, just waiting for that "switch-on" signal... oh wait. Cannot "see" them :p
Okay I am making this up. But considering that China is actually conducting cyber-warefare against USA, setting itself as the new rival/enemy, what is the guarantee it cannot happen/hasn't happened?
1. Research in medical science(why bother saving the poor? It is all vanity in any case)
2. Research in aviation(Oh those damned Wright brothers! Trying to get all these poor masses to fly in air. It will have no practical application! Flight will be of no use to mankind... it is all vanity.)
3. All works of art and literature, cinema etc.. (Entertaining the masses ? Who wants these poor folks to be entertained ? They are a pox on us, I tell you! Wanting your name to live on, after you are dead ? Vanity! It is all vanity, I tell you!).
4. Research in navigation and seafaring.(Bah! Trying to get all those poor teeming masses to float on water and go to some place farway. Discovering new searoutes and lands ? What for? Who cares about whether these damned undeserving poor folks go to this place called the New World and establish some country called America... or populate some place called Australia. America...bah! who needs it!)
Get a clue. You might be actually be right about things being done for sake of vanity. And yet the results are usually of great benefit to mankind, that seem inconceivable at worst, and farfetched at best.
If your forefathers had thought like you, there would be no America or Australia. And you wouldn't be here preaching to us about vanity and questioning the rights of those less fortunate than you, to exist.
heh!
A large part of it *was* ruled by the muslims, before British came and through their policy of divide and rule, managed to enslave all of it.
After gaining independece from British enslavement, it opted to be a secular nation.