That's fine, but here's another bit of science: abortion rates are the same whether or not they're illegal. So while people can debate the point of viability, the nature of life, etc, until the cows come home, the reality on the ground is that abortions are going to happen, and it's a question of whether they're going to happen safely, or at a great danger to women. Just like liberals need to accept that fundamentalists aren't going away any time soon, so too do conservatives need to accept the same about abortions.
Actually, with a $100 billion dollar price tag, and 122 million federal income tax payers, you've probably paid closer to $819.67. That's a pretty good deal for 17 years of space station.
To play devil's advocate, I assume you must be okay with me freely acquiring personal data about yourself (private correspondences, medical records, etc) and disseminating it, as long as it's digital, and therefore, a number.
So you did everything right (by your own reckoning), worked extremely hard, and to show for it, you have a studio apartment, and an income in the second-lowest 5th of all households. And you're arguing that the current system works?
So the cops want to drive around, scanning for mutable MACs, and if one matches up with a database they control, then they'll have probable cause to enter a dwelling.
Yup, no way to abuse that!
Oh, well, if that's the case in your small corner of the country, great. Around here, most DMVs don't have that. And how long are the extended hours for your DMV? Long enough for someone with only access to public transportation to get from their job to the DMV? What if they need to pick up their kids first?
Mainstream fiction is the propaganda of control of the general population: The central message is futility: "Do what the authorities tell you to do. No matrer HOW badly they're doing and HOW bad things get, don't try to improve them. Anything you try will make them worse."
Er, what fiction would that be?
Lots of popular mainstream fiction is about an underdog taking on a corrupt government/corporation.
“As someone who voted against the Patriot Act and opposed its reauthorization, I have long been concerned about out-of-control intelligence agencies.
“At a time when the American people are outraged by government attacks on our constitutional rights, the president’s proposal is a step forward. We must, however, go further. Ending the bulk collection of phone records of virtually all Americans – 99.999 percent of whom have nothing to do with terrorism – is important. The president should end that program now, not 90 days from now. We also must also make sure that the government isn’t harvesting records on our emails and other Internet activity except in instances where there are specific reasons to suspect wrongdoing.
“Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be given the tools they need to protect us, but that can be done in a way that does not sacrifice our constitutional rights. If we allow the government to see all of what we read, what we watch and what we hear, then we cannot be called a free society.”
You're definitely right about the "one roof" thing. I have reasons for not wanting to cut the cord, and one of them is that I'd then have to subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, and so forth.
Not only that, but it's impossible for them to design a better legal distribution mechanism than the illegal (or gray) one already in place. If there's drm, or streaming limits, or even the need to login, it'll always always always be easier to go to pirate bay, search, click, wait, done.
I mean no offense, but there's no way in hell you could raise enough money through crowdfunding or patronage to sustain, let alone launch, a 22 episode season of a TV show.
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Let me guess. You've never been poor.
Couldn't they just lower the bandwidth, rather than choking customers?
Yike, Europe, doesn't it just suck when a bunch of people from far away suddenly show up unannounced and move in? /sarcasm
Good to know that if your country were ever torn apart by brutal civil war, you'd just lie down and die.
That's fine, but here's another bit of science: abortion rates are the same whether or not they're illegal. So while people can debate the point of viability, the nature of life, etc, until the cows come home, the reality on the ground is that abortions are going to happen, and it's a question of whether they're going to happen safely, or at a great danger to women. Just like liberals need to accept that fundamentalists aren't going away any time soon, so too do conservatives need to accept the same about abortions.
Actually, with a $100 billion dollar price tag, and 122 million federal income tax payers, you've probably paid closer to $819.67. That's a pretty good deal for 17 years of space station.
To play devil's advocate, I assume you must be okay with me freely acquiring personal data about yourself (private correspondences, medical records, etc) and disseminating it, as long as it's digital, and therefore, a number.
So you did everything right (by your own reckoning), worked extremely hard, and to show for it, you have a studio apartment, and an income in the second-lowest 5th of all households. And you're arguing that the current system works?
Yes, maybe some alternative like, I don't know, a universal basic income...
So the cops want to drive around, scanning for mutable MACs, and if one matches up with a database they control, then they'll have probable cause to enter a dwelling. Yup, no way to abuse that!
Oh, well, if that's the case in your small corner of the country, great. Around here, most DMVs don't have that. And how long are the extended hours for your DMV? Long enough for someone with only access to public transportation to get from their job to the DMV? What if they need to pick up their kids first?
Because DMV offices are only open during business hours and not on weekends in poorer areas.
Good fucking luck.
How much longer do we have to put up with this Internet of Things nonsense until it goes away?
Eventually these "new competitors" would run out of places to get oil from.
Mainstream fiction is the propaganda of control of the general population: The central message is futility: "Do what the authorities tell you to do. No matrer HOW badly they're doing and HOW bad things get, don't try to improve them. Anything you try will make them worse."
Er, what fiction would that be? Lots of popular mainstream fiction is about an underdog taking on a corrupt government/corporation.
And what incentive would there be to keep prices low once they'd eliminated all competition?
“As someone who voted against the Patriot Act and opposed its reauthorization, I have long been concerned about out-of-control intelligence agencies.
“At a time when the American people are outraged by government attacks on our constitutional rights, the president’s proposal is a step forward. We must, however, go further. Ending the bulk collection of phone records of virtually all Americans – 99.999 percent of whom have nothing to do with terrorism – is important. The president should end that program now, not 90 days from now. We also must also make sure that the government isn’t harvesting records on our emails and other Internet activity except in instances where there are specific reasons to suspect wrongdoing.
“Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be given the tools they need to protect us, but that can be done in a way that does not sacrifice our constitutional rights. If we allow the government to see all of what we read, what we watch and what we hear, then we cannot be called a free society.”
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/...
Lets start by fixing all of the broken "security" mechanisms
There's no fixing human stupidity.
You're definitely right about the "one roof" thing. I have reasons for not wanting to cut the cord, and one of them is that I'd then have to subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, and so forth.
Not only that, but it's impossible for them to design a better legal distribution mechanism than the illegal (or gray) one already in place. If there's drm, or streaming limits, or even the need to login, it'll always always always be easier to go to pirate bay, search, click, wait, done.
Egg of Columbus.
Windows GUI was copied from Apple
Which was copied from Xerox PARC.
To climb the 30 degree grades.
But I suppose they could do both.
To all the naysayers: this is why we need to put people up there.
I mean no offense, but there's no way in hell you could raise enough money through crowdfunding or patronage to sustain, let alone launch, a 22 episode season of a TV show.