Those of us who oppose the death penalty see no reason to "fix" the system, and instead prefer to keep it as dysfunctional as possible until there is enough popular will to abolish it.
Revealing a typical left wing tactic. When popular opinion opposes what you want, rather than argue the case and convince people to do things the way you would prefer introduce "improvements" to the current system which actually make it worse, then use the results of these "improvements" to argue that the system is hopelessly flawed and must be replaced.
What would it take for a connected device, whether a wallet or a smoke detector, to gain mass appeal?
For it to only be connected to devices I own. I am sorry, but I just do not get the "Internet of things".
are also big enough to go through the processes to properly train their people to ensure they're not causing disasters.
Well, I will point out that, in a different area of government regulation, ALL of the cases of food poisoning from USDA regulated companies have come from large companies, none of them from the small companies.
The reason for this is simple. In big companies the guy who makes the rules about how to comply with the regulations does not actually see the workers doing the work day in and day out. As a result, he is unaware when what they are doing does not meet standards for the procedure. Those who do see what the workers are doing have other priorities. As a result of these priorities, they either let the workers get away with not quite following the procedures because it would interfere with productivity, or they miss that the workers are not following the procedure because they are not watching for that.
I think the real debate is not so much about freedom of speech - I would hope that everyone basically agrees with that to a large extent...
Except if you read the article I linked you discover that the author of that article does NOT agree with that. They appear to feel that no one should be allowed to express ideas which they find unacceptable.
Wow, who is making the argument that we should "sacrifice free speech for a better society"?
The answer is this person, among others: http://www.thecrimson.com/colu...
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