I don't think anyone is saying we need to start banning people who want to get educated, of course education is a right.
But it's not an entitlement either.
And I don't quite understand how education can be a right if you're not actually entitled to an education.
Or do you mean it in the sense that I have a "right" to drive a Ferrari and live in a palace?
Do they not lease a connection, with a certain speed, and that's that? Data caps are a thing of the nineties...
Yes, obviously the entire article is wrong, and all Indians have unlimited high speed broadband internet access, so why on Earth they're accessing a single limited, mobile website is a total mystery, because self evidently India is exactly like South Korea or California in terms of wealth and communications infrastructure.
I can only guess that it is something to do with the whole Ayn Rand/superman philosophy beloved of software developer libertarians.
"I make a few hundred thousand a year because I got a Computer Science degree and work in silicon Valley, therefore so can anyone else, and someone who is not at least reasonably rich is just a loser responsible for their own poverty, stupidity and poor choice of career and domicile."
The world is not a black and white as you seem to see it. In most cases both parties carry some blame with the majority going to the perp.
From there it's a short step to the professional criminal's view of (non-criminal) people as "mug punters". I suppose it helps soothe what little conscience you have, if you're not particularly bright or possessed of self-awareness.
Do you explore a 4 meter boulder? Or do you just examine it?
If you sent astro-mites, I'm sure that would count as exploration.
Yeah? And how do you account for superclusters?
What do you mean? An African or European supercluster?
As much as it sounds like a cop out, leaving it to future generation who will no doubt have better technology isn't such a bad idea. As a poor example, we didn't have the capability to combat microbiology 200 years ago, now it's trivial (well in some cases at least). Who knows, when space travel becomes cheap we could shoot it all into the sun, or maybe someone will invent a genetically engineered Kaiju that eats Plutonium and shits out crude oil. As long as the costs of long term storage and maintenance are taken into account, I have no problem with this approach.
You honestly couldn't make this shit up if you were trying to make an anti-nuclear point.
With friends like you...
That's an infitnite liability problem, not a nuclear power problem.
If nuclear power has an infinite liability problem, then that is a nuclear power problem.
I don't object to sensibly done nuclear power, I do object to private companies making a profit out of it at the expense of taxpayers who have to fund the downstream decomissioning and storage costs and pick up the bill in case of any unfortunate accidents.
Obviously, I'm going to have to start a holy burger war to resolve whose right.
That would be a flame war.
*rimshot*
"No coloreds" was in many places a law, not a business rule. The argument that many free market supporters make (myself included) is that the market would have naturally moved toward inclusiveness. Sure, some assholes will still be assholes. And thinking people would avoid those stores, diminishing their market presence until they disappeared naturally.
So racism only existed because of government interference in the free market?
Who knew?
Society has a very clear interest in preventing you from running someone over in your car, which trumps your claim of religious freedom.
It's much more debatable whether society has, for example, such an interest in forcing you to participate in a gay wedding.
How can you be forced to participate in a gay wedding? Do you mean the priest? I can't believe that a gay couple getting married would want an unwilling priest to officiate.
I'm not religious, and I value gay rights. But I also value to the right of people to do as they please, and not be forced to serve anyone they disagree with.
So it's fine for a shop to refuse to serve black people?
That's a posible viewpoint, it just means that you should admit you're supporting racism.
I'm left handed you insensitive clod!
Then if you use your right hand it's like someone else is doing it for you. Apparently.
I bet no one ever accused you of thinking big.
Just because we can 3D print small plastic widgets now does not mean that we will be printing cars, helicopters and the like on our home printers in a couple of years time.
There is a difference between welcoming genuine technological advances and living in a fantasy world.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
