Health care is not a right. Food is not a right. Get over it.
Oh! oh! oh! Can I live in your post-apocalyptic hellscape too? I can't imagine how fun it would be to live in a dystopia where the only form of government is guns and money --and people without one or both get to die miserably in the street like dogs. Can we shoot the poor for sport too? It's not like they have any money to buy human "rights."
i wonder if any of the deniers will actually step forward and admit they were wrong? Every time i see a denier post on Slashdot that seems to come from someone who sincerely believes what they're saying i'm tempted to write their name down and ask them about it when that time comes, but i'm far too lazy to actually follow through on that.
I've got it covered. A while ago I decided to just add the more shrill deniers to my enemies list so their crank opinions could more easily be ignored. Not trying to be mean, just saving some time detecting and ignoring trolls (wouldn't an ignore list be nice?). I would assume their politically motivated positions on science can be safely ignored in the future as well.
Couldn't agree more, and yet... I heard something on NPR the other day that caused me excruciating cognitive dissonance. It seems the Gipper actually championed some real, progressive tax reform. I know... Huh?!?
Can't think of much I liked about his policy decisions, but this is pretty amazing for a Republican. If only the Dems had a media platform like Faux News to run short clips of the Republican God spouting these heresies like having "every corporation pay their fair share" on an endless loop, maybe some of the right-wing's useless fools would wake up.
My biggest concern with longer lifespans would be a slowing--or even stagnation--of social, and to a lesser degree, scientific/technological progress. One of the best things about people dying (I'm sure we could think of several) is that it often takes a fresh (or even naive) perspective to create real breakthroughs and that requires new blood. It's fairly established that creativity peaks when we're younger and if we stop making new models, the tendency to do things the way that's "always worked fine for us before" will only hold humanity back.
Another problem is no nation has more criminals than the USA.
Not to go off on a tangent, but --heck, why not? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Another problem is no nation has more citizens that it treats as criminals than the USA." Seriously... Is the world record for highest incarceration rate a distinction we want? Maybe if our collective of overzealous puritans stopped putting so many potentially productive members of society in prison for victimless crimes, we might even get a small uptick in GDP?
There's another free voice app that does much more Siri-esque magic than Google's default. It's a lot of fun to play with and I can't wait to see how much better these voice command apps get in the next decade. Seems like the most difficult challenge ahead is filtering out the aggravating background noises and conversations in most environments.
Hmmm... If you're artistic, how about a budget version of David Hockney's latest experimentation.
"According to former Republican representative Bob Inglis, being conservative means dealing in facts."
Wow. What a wacky way to self-destruct your political career. I guess his unorthodox opinion explains the "former" modification.
I was just thinking, it would be nice if Slashdot had some anti-malicious link tech blocking their advertisers. Swear to god, last drive-by spyware attempt I intercepted was from clicking on some dumb ad (some curiosity, but more to give
Oh god... Every time I have mod points I wish there was a "Painfully Ignorant" moderation. Not to punish, but to keep the stupid from potentially infecting others. Like the poster earnestly commenting that a hydrogen economy would deplete all the water in the oceans because H2O would be the source of the hydrogen. Sigh... What if children were to accidentally read crap like that?!?
If you can prove how you voted then you can be pressured to prove it by a third party. Since you can prove how you voted it would be possible to sell your vote to the highest bidder.
Hmmm... I see your point. But, then again, the GOP has been buying votes by bribing people with their own money (lower taxes) for years now.
Rev Al Gore who neglects to tell you the "inconvenient truth" that he has set himself up to be a carbon billionaire
It's called commitment, or putting your money where your mouth is. You know, like Dick Cheney being heavily invested in oil and pushing an agenda to help his bottom line, except that Al Gore isn't denying or hiding his support of green energy. But, hey... If you loathe Al Gore, go ahead and twist his integrity into some tin foil hat conspiracy.
The fundamental difference between voting and those other transactions is that voting is a secret transaction where you can't be able to connect a particular vote to a particular voter. Those other things don't require that level of secrecy.
Identity and encryption really don't need to be related. TOR doesn't know who you are, but the packets get there nonetheless. Give a voter an encoded receipt and they can punch/scan in a code from any web browser to see what votes were made for the unique, randomized code they received. Anonymous and verifiable.
Dear AC,
Please send me your name, address, and SSN as I would like to frame you for various crimes and introduce you to the fun and excitement of living in a gulag. I really think you'll like it in jail; I understand there are other delusional assholes in there, also devoid of compassion and common sense. Perhaps this explains your enthusiasm for prisons? Or is it that the word "penal" makes you smile?
The trouble with a lot of self-made men is that they worship their creator.
