I feel like this is indicative of the internet age, rather than isolated to academia, and the solution has evolved to become a penchant for sorting through the noise.
Perhaps true insight is to be realized by a more talented eye toward the sifting through the chaff
one innocent put to death is too many
"If it could save just one child", "Spare one innocent", or "Every life is meaningful"...
At some point, on a World with seven billion souls, it really just becomes a point of where exactly you prioritize the human lives. For whatever reason, lives taken unfairly in Western nations in the pursuit of justice are the epitome of travesty... yet it is important that we recognize crime and punishment must be dealt with the only way we humans can do anything: imperfectly.
Meanwhile, back in Western Africa, the ebola plague just took its 10,000th victim.
Modulator-demodulator.
The illudium Q-36?
Where's the kaboom?
So much. It's just a naturally occurring number, not even particularly special.
It is this year. It was Pi to ten digits at 09:26:53 this morning.
Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
I altruistically believe this protection ought to extend to the non-recipient of youtube's ad dollars, but then I'm a giver.
A multi-faceted amendment if there ever was one, AFAIC, the 1st gave us a right that was nearly as important as the freedom of speech, religion, and press: the separation of church and state.
The only way to avoid technical surveillance is to keep everything sensitive away from email or phone calls or instant messages. There is no way to avoid being the target of the NSA and CIA if they really want to get your data. None at all. The NSA and CIA are creating these techniques against countries such as Russia, China, and Iran with devastating success. (Look at the Iranian nuclear weapons program getting hacked by Stuxnet.) You have no way to avoid the hacking of your data if they are really set in doing it.
Pretty much this. Ergo, if you are intent on inviolable secrecy, you wouldn't be posting on ye olde green line site... nor any other. Who then, is willing to give up the internet and the freedom of speech to ensure no measure of antiestablishmentarianism viewpoint is uttered and recorded?
That I can still post my POV freely from the south side of somewhere without being erased by a midnight death squad is proof enough that the battle for your freedoms is not yet lost.
Vote for candidates, serve on juries, impress the importance of participation on your sports-distracted friends... do what can as one of the minority who can still afford to pay attention
Is the LAPD so bad that they need a police force that exists just to keep them in line?
There is some historical evidence to corroborate your theory.
Of course, it could be the LAPD needs to justify the huge expense of patrolling from Ghetto Birds instead of ground-based black-and-whites, and they're not at all bothered by the statistical insignificance of the small sample trotted out here as causation.
The right to sue to wrong a grievance or unsafe condition is a foundation of free Western society, often allowing the little guy to challenge a behemoth.
Unfortunately, not unlike many grand and beneficial social systems, it is ripe for abuse by the unscrupulous.
Very few things are "worth" what they cost. I mean, sure, on one level things are worth exactly what they cost. But on another level there's the cost of the raw materials and the labour required to assemble them, and the factory and its running costs etc. Do you include marketing? Shipping? R&D which is required up front but not to manufacture. A $600 smartphone costs $100 or so to build, and less after a while. What's it worth - $100 or $600?
Very few things are worth what they cost...aside from the value-added things you mention, profit enters the mix as a reasonable consideration a company must account for if remaining in business is part of the mission statement.
Apple's products are Veblen goods of the most coveted sort: profitable and popular.
Things are always and only worth what you can get for them.
Another, favored by those in the lawmaking business, believes the right to bear those arms comes with some red tape: serial numbers and background checks.
It's like a Baptist Preacher and a Catholic Priest arguing over the same biblical text.
Whatever else Hillary Clinton is, she is quite adept at the art of being in government.
Since this system was designed for her husband, she was aware of its advantages (and disadvantages). It was not used instead of the official gov't email on a whim. It just smacks of entitlement....... Maybe you don't know who I think I am!
It's a nice feature, but it doesn't generate the sort of priority response that a triggered alarm will.
Keep in mind the police also respond to dozens of false alarms for every genuine burglary.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
