But this is not even technology.

This is fashion statement as form matters more than function.

That is a bit anti-nerdy.

"Lack" implies you have deficinecy.

You can not say you lack third arm, because you would not have third arm.

Telling people they "lack faith" implies you think less of them for not being religious. Not a way to win hearts and minds, but good way to get people adversarial (as your exchange nicely illustrates).

If people come to conclusion that "there is no god" is rational answer with no contrary evidence, you can not disreard it as a belief and be done with it.

Simply put, using word "lack of faith" makes you insulting asshat.

As reciever of packages, I have to agree.

Both Fed-Ex and UPS failed to call on cellphone or write email or basically have any attempt at contacting sendee at all.

Case 1:

FedEx, street address. There are no nameplates on house to show who lives in flats, because there is supposed to be some amount of privacy. Fed Ex Employee sees he can not get into house nor can he ring bell and enters "undeliverable address" a continues on.

Sendee had to call them up.

Package is returned to business even if support on phone claimed it will he held on for picking it up on in person for whole month. Turns out FedEx office is 45 minutes drive away, upon arrival dead adresee was infromed that package was returned to sender with invalid address after day.

Fuck fedex. How much is a phone call?

Case 2:

UPS Failed to transcribe address properly to computer system. And misspells phone number too. They are quite happy with undeliverable address even if it contains way too obvious typo. No phonecall, not even email. Customer is obviously supposed to babysit tracker.

They attempt to return it in one week, no one with single braincell noticing anything. It took very angry phonecall to get it back. Then I learn that they only do deliveries between 9:00 and 17:00 and only in working days and cant guarantee time of arrival. How fuckign useless is that? Am I supposed to take day off to get package?

Of course, they have their facility also 45 minutes drive from city.

Fuck UPS.

Next time I ecnounter eshop that will not use standard mail, i will mail them and go do my shopping elsewhere.

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National mail system?

Never-ever had a issue. I can pick package up pretty much anytime, 5 minutes walk away from me.

UPS and FedEx? Here, they have reputation of intentionally "loosing" packages or "delivering" them. I have defninitelly learned my lessing.

Have you ever put your cellphone into your poket?

You are comparing:

A) Toying with some IT stuff where worst that can happen is loosing couple of hours of work and where you have all the time in the world to google you answer or retake certs (like they matter).

to

B) Being in potentially fatal situation where windows of opportunity to handle that situation at all are secconds and less and where safety net for figuring that out is about size and durability of paper tissue.

My natural, experience driven intellect tells me that patronizing you is correct course of action.

The only option?

Hardly.

You can accept donations. You can have freemiums. You can offer merchandise.

"I have nothing to hide" needs to die. And goverment actions are exactly the reason:

Did judes have anything to hide from goverment before Nazis came to power?

Nope. Yet they suffered greatly because of goverment knowledge of their ethnicity.

Was being communist or friend of one crime in US before red scare?

Nope. But then red scare came and whowledge of who is fiend with who destroyed careers and lives.

Was Alan Turing doing anything wrong?

Nope. But he was still brutalized and died as a result after nature of his sexuality was revealed.

Was ownership of land of factories crime?

Nope. But then commies came to power on many countries and people were shited to prisons, prison colonies or executed outright.

In history, many people thought that their religion, political orientiation, sexual orientation, friendships and relationships, ownerships or opinions. ... that none of it would ever be issue because they are not doing anything wrong or illegal or even mean.

And they were wrong. And died because of it.

Laws change. Society changes. Rules change. People in power change. Things can be taken out of context, or put into another.

You might be completelly fine one day, and monster another.

And if list of "monsters" can be gotten as easily as simple database querry, it is best not to be part of it. And to not have any such database.

In general, you shouldn't try to solve social non-problems with technical solutions.

Conclusion: You should't stop it, so don't even try.

Guess what?

Reading article helps:

"prosecution recommended a six-month sentence in a minimal security prison, instead of 35 years suggested by the US law, and the judge could have reduced this term even further."

If Swartz suicided because of six months in jail, he gets no sympathy however prosecutors definitelly get mine for being basically victims of his worthless and pointless "martyrdom".

Wow, you have been fed incredible amounts of FUD. Where did you get this "information"?

None of the things you are scared of are true. All the "i would like it to work this way" are correct.

Most succesfull criminals generally have:

  * Honest looking face, do not avert eye contant and have firm grip
  * Dress the same or a bit better than their marks.
  * Are happy and unconcerned when doing their work.
  * Bathed and groomed.
  * Get a bit of charisma.
  * Are not dumb.

This is incredibly important for pickpockets - if you are in suit and looking like you are just comming from business meeting, people will not suspect a thing. And if you get caught, you can talk your way out because it can be played as misunderstanding.

Compare this to badly dressed, tatooed, nervous member of differently colored minory which causes people put their hands on their valuables immediatelly. (Those are good to detecting where people have their valuable stuff so that their coworker has much easier time)

Any system that judges people on looks is going to be way too stupid to know this. Most people are too scared to notice real dangers. And now they made software that mimicks this stupidity.

Bravo.

And we are not event getting to how evil this thing is because of basically labeling people randomly as criminals.

Married child-bearing people pay less taxes, because they provide important thing that you are likely not:

Future taxpayers.

You know, people who will in 20 years start paying for your roads and public infrastructure and all those nifty things that goverment provides you. And most likely for your retirement home or some other shit that you will eventually need.

So fuck you, in eyes of goverment (and in mine) you are dead-end and freeloader. Paying full amount of taxes and chipping in is least you can do to offset that.

So shut up about how unfairly you are taxed because in the end, those married people are subsiding you.

This is selfishness of stunning degree. Guess comes with your lifestyle.

Well, I certainly hope authors can do it.

Many such projects died - which is usually great shame if is episodic sci-fi like L5

50 - 100 years is about time to:

  * forget fads and kitch no-one will remember
  * filter out crap and crud withing medium or genre
  * discover enough nuances and develop artisty to level where we can appreciate works for what they are

This is all very necessary.

Take a look at any "popular" lists like "10 best movies of century" or "20 best book authors" - they will nearly always contain disproportionate amount of recent stuff which is worthless and only got there because it is still fresh in memory and talked about, but which will be completelly forgotten and left out of those lists ten years later.

There are always idiots who think that recent pop and kitch is unrecognized art. Time needs to test the art.

And you want cake (watch movie) and eat it too (not pay a cent).

What about everyone having their cake?

You download stuff that people want to share - you get free stuff and can consume it, but refrain from touching other stuff.

You know, pay respect to authors or works you enjoy.