I didn't change the subject. Allowing the government to force me to live your lifestyle destroys my quality of life. You're still welcome to pack a dozen people into a single family home if you like, but I don't want to live that way.

Yeah, but only because the net will then be so expensive and legally risky to use that people just won't use it very much.

Internally Metered Pulse drives of course.

wow.. the taxpayers will have a lot of f35s in their back yards....oh wait. the taxpayer just gets the bill in the form of higher taxes and higher inflation.. oh well.

I suppose the 9/11 bombers were just "defending their country from an invading force" too?

why should "difficult during questioning" result in expulsion? You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Nah, socialists use taxes on your income and property, the communists use guns as they already own all of your property.

skin color and sex, both, yes.

What should be the case is that your personal information belong to YOU and not google or facebook. Then you get to call the shots.

or random things that happen on the roads. Ice slicks, debris, that truck with the steel bar that's about to bounce off and land in front of you, etc..

On slashdot, there was an article that linked to a video of google engineers describing how their system works. IIRC, they preprogrammed responses to a bunch of situations (like avoiding a bicycle on the side of the road), using heuristics to detect when/where/which situation was occuring. In contrast, humans are in a constant state of intuitive heuristics. While they take longer to react, they're aware of possible consequences long before a computer can be, which puts them way ahead of electronic idiot savants with lightning reflexes.

Because.. it's not a website. It's an 'experience'! which is just newspeak for the assumption that users need/want it fed to them through a needle because they don't know what's best for themselves. This mentality has infected local software and UIs too.

It gets in the way of getting shit done because it adds too much bureaucratic overhead, which is its own form of tyranny.

So do so-called 'progressive's. The real delineation is one of ideological conflict with reality. The more the defended ideology conflicts, the more often its defenders justify censorship to keep it afloat. The last 100 years of politics should've taught us all this.

Web apps will always be second class to local applications and data. In terms of access control they can't be beat.