Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 582
The most likely thing to lead us to 'global war' is comparing Putin to Hitler without any sane reason to do so.
The most likely thing to lead us to 'global war' is comparing Putin to Hitler without any sane reason to do so.
I can see every app requiring a password and approval for all purchases.
That alone will hurt the model.
This seems to have implications in that whole free-to-play space. I wonder if anyone is worried about that angle?
So they're leaving the EU?
Seems unlikely.
So, what's the end game here, for Germany?
And why chastise the US publicly when you could manipulate them through false information instead?
What are the implications here?
So... why is it the people who upload and host this stuff do not have consequences?
I think that's a legitimate TOR angle, actually. In order to leverage the law you need to know where they physically are. TOR hides that, per design.
There's a case here, folks.
TOR is inhibiting legal remedies.
Otherwise when he talks about making gay people illegal, forcing women to be barefoot and pregnant, abolishing access to birth control and abortion people might question why this Canadian is pretending to be a Texan with values completely the opposite of the nation he held a passport in.
It's always nice when someone self-identifies as someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.
had something like the NSA mass surveillance been used against the founders
Had this been the case, there Revolution would have been depressingly short and unsuccessful.
Because the opinions of AC's matter...
Well, three problems:
1) Their users provide the feed. Facebook just displays it.
2) It isn't 'for free' as Facebook uses the data to advertise to you, and thus earns money on the content you generate.
3) The example I gave was explicitly not bullshit - if it were, why would anyone interfere with it?
Facebook's efforts to manipulate the feed are really disappointing. If they'll do it for jollies, then they'll damn sure do it if someone pays them to or if the government orders them to.
Imagine an 'American Spring'. Imagine the government not only spying on Facebook users communicating about it, but requiring that Facebook actively suppress any positive comments about it.
That shit ain't right.
It happens because there was something wrong with the zygote sufficient that the body aborted it on its own.
I covered that part already.
"Just leave it alone and give it a chance" isn't so difficult a standard for reasonable people to apply. Note, too, that this doesn't inhibit contraception in any way.
If your pill only targets those zygotes that would have been lost anyway, then I can see no problem with it.
I'm willing to limit the conversation to 'in the womb', but the point still applies. Also, we don't allow the killing of unwanted infants, so your logic stumbles a bit.
The defaults alone weren't the problem. The groupthink and perverse psychology of the private sector was the problem. Government just wanted to help people get homes. The greed of the private sector created such a mess that everything crashed because of their shenanigans.
This assumes that either:
A) Government is immune from private sector influence.
or
B) The private sector's behavior was in any way surprising.
Both are pretty naive. At least we all know better now, right?
Right?
Anybody?
You're focusing on the wrong aspect. It isn't about potential, but human potential. The same as eating meat is allowed, but eating human meat is not. This is largely because nobody wants to be eaten.
However rudimentary it is, if left alone it will most likely develop into a human. Same as you did when you were in that rudimentary stage because nobody interfered with your genetic material.
Note, too, this is why many of us don't object to funding primary education even though we don't all have kids. We received such an education, and wouldn't have wanted it taken away due to lack of funding.
So while the nervous system makes a fine line for certain arguments, in general it's the 'what if this happened to me' angle that makes human-material issues most unique.
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie