/sarcasm....

Never said it would. In fact I, as an American, understand and accept that being an American has, does, and will forever put me at a degree of risk. I prefer that level of risk and danger over that lie of "security" fed me by those who wish to control me.I value my freedom to protect myself in part through exercise of my privacy, and hold these far more dear than any dilusion that a faceless organization can prevent me coming to harm.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, among others, have built careers on this very principle. Are you saying that what you describe is not valuable for those individuals to pursue because it is no longer a racial? Or because its ok to allow it now because whites are equally wronged?

Thanks for the permission. But you might aslo beat your kids, or have a meth lab in your house. To be sure everyone is safe we'll need to install cameras in every room. If you're not doing anything wrong, you wont have any objectsion, right?

Every country manipulates its currency for its own benefit.
Every country coerces and silences disidents.
Every country threatens legal action against political enemies.
Every country lies about how a bill/law/policy is all about safety/savings/efficiency. "Think of the children!" When the reality is a grab for more power.

By your reasoning these are just realities and every citizen of every country needs to just sit down and shut up. At what point is it ok to say that they've gone too far? Do they get to speak out only when the id number is being tattooed on their arm?

Apparently sarcasm doesnt exist in that other universe.

Disruptive to who? The company that enjoys selling you multiple iterations of the same device produced from shitty materials that continually breaks on you?

Ah, I understand now. When you said the company's predictive model I read it as their prediction of their overall costs. But you actually mean the medical industry's predictive model based on a person's genome.

You're right. Or they bring up a security concern only to get accused of being incompetent for not seeing it sooner.

Allow me to clarify for the deliberately obtuse: The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which unborn lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle.

That doesnt make any sense.

I can only translate what you're saying to mean that on the one hand that insurance is expensive because the company has to coverage its statistically imperfect prediction of it's costs. And on the other hand that has they perfect their prediction of their expenses they will charge the customers more?

Not if you're a webfarm. Should you use something else? Yes. Should you yank the plug and then try to figure out how to bring your entire operation back online after the fact because a patch was missing? Probably not.

Exactly. That's like saying just because the NSA is collecting email and phone logs they are also indexing it all and searching for patterns and... Shit... Nevermind.

Oh, right, that's because thats to protect us. It's not like sequencing every kid's DNA is going to be used to correlate behavior to genetic traits and... Shit.... forget I said anything.

It's not a slippery slope. It's a reality. The world has moved significantly down the road of choosing which lives are worthwhile, and which are just too big of a hassle. The scope of the lives that are ended broadens every year rather than narrowing, and correlates closely to the entitlement and selfishness of those choosing.

People who abort because they dont want to deal with a child who has special needs are not uncommon. Girls are aborted because their less valued. Now lets ensure that every parent knows the color of their child's hair and eyes, skin tone, temperment, susceptibility to cancer or the flu or the common cold. The shape of the child's head, or if they are genetically likely to have birthmarks, or maybe just be ugly.

Are you honestly going to argue that there are not people shallow enough to abort a baby because they dont want to have an ugly kid?

Or worse, their ignorance spawns knee-jerk reactions that cripples wide swaths of the workforce's productivity.

"What!? There's IIS vulnerability on serverXYZ ?! Uninstall all IIS on all systems immediately!"

And maybe that makes the whole thing that much more fun.