It only needs to be so to be useful. But it needs to be far better to be perceived to be useful. Because humans - regulators, law-enforcers and car buyers do not think like that.

If an automated car drives 10 times better than average, that is zero advantage. Because an average driver perceives himself as 10 times better than average.

Then there is the issue of control - driving a car seems safer to most people even today than flying as a passenger in an aircraft, because in an aircraft passengers do not control the possibility of accidents. In a car, the driver decides how much risk he takes, and a huge majority of drivers think they are taking zero risk.

Ability to remain anonymous legally in a jurisdiction does not mean everyone is completely anonymous. Ability to carry a loaded gun does not mean everyone carries and is trained to use one. Anonymity in the bullying case is so similar to guns, even fallacies are alike !!

The outbreak of Facebook has ensured 99% of internet users are "effectively de-anonymized". An outbreak of a similar disease in the gun world would ensure guns are rendered useless as a defence too, by de-gunning 99% people.

1. No, online platforms today have done a horrible job in protecting most cases of bullying. There is no reason why de-anonymization laws in one country will suddenly make all online platforms completely cooperative with that one country's vicims in relieving them of the bullying. It is a huge uphill battle to even convince Facebook that a registered account is bullying. Many of those online platforms are not based in that country.

Even if they did get so cooperative suddenly, the bully can change identities and bully again.

If there were a polite society, online bullying wouldn't be allowed to go so out of control, even without anonymity.

No, cross country you just need HV. DC comes handy when there are too many suppliers with independent problems and synchronization issues between them cause trouble all over the grid. But DC isn't fundamentally necessary just because transmission is cross country.

And no one does 3000 miles at 110 V. Transmission (long distance) grade voltage starts at 110 kV and above.

So the virus is not "smart". A "smart" virus doesn't kill most of its hosts, at least for a long time. The hosts then spread the virus around and virus propagates.

Though Ebola virus is smart about staying comfortably in fruit bats without killing the bats.

Caution : The women will not be pretty.

No.

Time passes continuously. Time doesn't start passing once jbolden threshold of outdatedness is attained.

This is very arbitrary as some essential assumptions are not mentioned, but presumably this is not directly related to outdatedness but an effect of even more time passing after something getting outdated.

You haven't proven knowledge must decrease. Use of knowledge, as well as its decrease, are dependent on purpose which you refuse to discuss.

So no, these are not answers to my questions.

Society cannot be "equal". Males cannot get pregnant. Females cannot successfully mate with multiple partners per mating season. These essential limitations, and many more differences make it impossible for a society to be "equal".

So you are saying that feminism is not "the belief that women are just as capable and deserving of respect as men". But according to you, feminism is, instead, a belief that we live in a male-dominated society along with the belief that women are just as capable and deserving of respect as men. You intentionally hid this important fact to promote feminism as an equitable belief system, and not poisoned. But since I pointed out the contradiction in your definition, the lid is blown. How do you avoid to accept now that feminism, is indeed poisoned as claimed by the earlier post.

Secondly - "the realization that we live in a male-dominated society, not a female-dominated one". This is a highly childish statement with an implicit assumption that society is either male-dominated, or female dominated. This implicit assumption is false. Some people dominate others, of either sex.

I did not hypothesize any female-dominated society.

If you called it humanism, which is much less poisoned, the original poster wouldn't have claimed it poisoned and I wouldn't have needed to expose your facade.

Cost is a noun, I asked the implications.

I asked the implications of something being "outdated" , not those of time passing.

So it's not outdated for running DNS servers !

If outdated is defined without a purpose, what are the real life implications of something being outdated? You yourself admit that they are fit for some purposes.

Yes, now the definition moves from imprecise to useless. The other remaining deficiency is that it still doesn't define the purpose for which it is outdated - for developing latest software to sell to currently selling and upcoming versions of the operating systems - yes it is outdated. For running your DNS server, browsing slashdot after adequate safeguards? No, only an idiot would call it outdated for that purpose.

Why useless? Just because something is defined as outdated by jbolden without even taking into account the purpose , doesn't mean anything as to the usefulness of using it. Which was my original point - it is mental masturbation having no impact on real life.

I know. Not precise enough to disagree with someone, but precise enough if there is agreement. There isn't now so this definition is not enough.

You're refusing to define outdated for any meaningful discussion to take place. Then you are assigning the quality of outdatedness as per your whims.

Either you'll have to let everyone decide what is or is not outdated, or define it precisely. I have defined it precisely as far as a purpose goes.

A user keeps a machine for a purpose, and not for the sake of keeping the machine. Any definition of "outdated" that doesn't define "outdated for what purpose?" is useless mental masturbation.

So if the Windows XP machine does its job, it is not outdated for its purpose. If an application runs currently, it is "current application" for the purpose of running. So the Windows XP machine runs "current applications".

It does not run some software being produced today. The machine is outdated for running those software. But running them is not the purpose, so the machine is not outdated for its purpose.

No, it cannot possibly be. Because it implies men are just as capable and deserving of respect as women. So by that logic it can be renamed as masculism.

A thought experiment proves that no feminist would accept this renaming - even though it espouses the exact same idea. The ideas "women are just as capable and deserving of respect as men" and "men are just as capable and deserving of respect as women" ARE the exact same ideas.