Comment Re:Not seeing the issue here (Score 1) 209
So, in your scenario, is there anyone who is not corrupt/complicit in some degree?
So, in your scenario, is there anyone who is not corrupt/complicit in some degree?
Lets see
And even if everyone could be moved to the areas that have optimal growing conditions, they're going to need space to live. Where is that coming from? The people who already live there? Don't think they're going to like "squatters" taking over part of their "home". Who's going to police the conflicts that will cause? Or does everyone just print up armaments and leave it to the last one standing?
The fact is that while it might, theoretically, be possible to achieve, WE can't get there from here, because WE are humans.
And what is the incentive for the people owning the machines to give away everything they make for nothing?
Not being torn limb from limb by a hungry, homeless, and angry mob.
The problem with that scenario is that not everyone will end up in that situation simultaneously. As today, people who are not YET affected will fight to keep their privileged position, and be quite willing to step on the neck of those without, since "they made bad choices" or whatever. Those at the very top won't have to defend themselves until the very end.
For your simplified example, it is probably cheaper -- and just as secure -- to have an operator enter the dozen or so keystrokes to order "produce x amount of class y steel" than to design, build, install and support a more automated method. Human involvement has the added bonus of (nominally) intelligent oversight of the intended behavior for the day.
Do you have any idea what the error rate for manual data entry is? Typically about 0.5% of the entries will be wrong. Retyping information is a very error prone process.
As long as the character they create is entirely fictional and not based on impersonating someone they know is a friend of the suspect, I'm fine with it. Cops running around trying to "friend" people in my name is not.
The article is written as if the yellow-timing issue was something the newspaper had previously caught the city on,
No, it isn't. It says
allowing the tickets even when cameras showed a yellow light time just under the three-second federal minimum standard. That shift earlier this year snared 77,000 more drivers
[emphasis added]
It is very clear that the cameras showed yellow lights under 3 seconds, this year.
But they did not mention the severity of the injuries. T-bone crashes (which were reduced) are likely to result in more severe injuries than rear-end collisions (which were increased).
This is "it stands to reason" logic, not empirical evidence. Other studies have concluded that the number of injury accidents and ALSO their average severity increased at camera intersections.
Viacom’s claim wasn’t that YouTube was just turning a blind eye to users infringing copyright—it was that YouTube was offering filtering technology to its media partners that it wasn’t making available to companies who weren’t playing ball.
I think it is useful to document the historical record.
What would you label Al Gore "the polar caps will be gone in twenty years!!!"
One of the things that makes you an idiot, not a sceptic is the belief you can just invent a quote based on something you half remember from a denier site.
Another thing that makes you an idiot is the complete lack of knowledge that the north polar ice cap is indeed shrinking every year.
A third thing that makes you an idiot is believing that the truth or falseness of AGW depends in any way on what Al Gore says, even if you hadn't invented the quote.
It's not a clear cut "freedom of speech" issue as some are making it out to be. The situation is a difficult one, and people's lives are on the line. Upsetting the DPRK in this way is not likely to improve things. So, while legally the right to make and release such a film exists, morally it's more questionable.
I'm not drawing a conclusion, I'm just trying to explain how it isn't a simple free speech or appeasement issue. Try to imagine being someone living near the border in South Korea, as many millions of people do. You might wish people took account of how delicate the situation is before acting.
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