I think both of you are using the wrong metric.
Yea, but I bet only one of us did it knowingly and intentionally
We don't want to cramp people into the empty Midwest, we want to cram them into cities
We do that naturally. That's why the people who live in the rural Midwest live in the rural Midwest, and people who live in New York City live in New York City.
I don't buy it - an app that monitors every sensor, plus apparently monitoring abstract stuff like "stress level" somehow, 24/7?
Wouldn't that pretty much lock up and drain the battery of almost every phone on the market today? Hey, maybe that's how they determined stress level - using the accelerometer to determine how hard the student threw the phone against the wall when it froze up on them for the last time.
(remember the butter mountains and wine lakes?)
No;
Pics or it didn't happen.
FEAR the technology! Its' gunna getcha! It might invade ten privacy you don't actually have on public roads!
Yea, because the best response to extremist idiots is to become an extremist idiot yourself. Nothing bad ever comes of that *coughCrusadescoughcough*
And your car will someday refuse to boot without them.
Someday NEW cars might refuse to boot or whatever, but MY car, the carburated one with no electronics other than lights and a stereo, will never have that problem.
Your '84 T-bird was fuel-injected and had electronic ignition. It was in no way EMP-proof.
My '81 GMC had electronic ignition, too... until I ripped out the drivetrain and put in a good ol' fashioned carburated setup.
Clearly, space is the answer.
Preferably for people who want to turn America's farmland into some sprawling metropolis...
Vast areas of Earth remain unpopulated. In no particular order:
Uh, no, it's not, actually. In fact, as of the 2010 Census, the Midwestern states had higher combined populations than the Northwestern states.
Belief vs reality.
The number of people on Earth is likely to reach 11 billion by 2100
Nope; before then we'll have a good solid pandemic, or war, or famine, or hey - maybe all three! That will make a significant dent in the existing population.
At least, one could hope
Point being, my privacy is worth more than 13%.
Yes, it is. Your "privacy" is not worth a human life. And no, you don't get to have any say in the matter.
Sayeth the Anonymous Coward.
Why not include your name, address, and contact info on every post? after all, your "privacy" is not worth the chance that you might someday take a human life, right jackass?
Crime reduction is certainly a worthy reward, but as the article says, lots of people might not be too happy with having their information shared this way.
Especially considering that said "information sharing" leads to a mere 8% increase in accuracy.
Let's hope it is truly anonymous (which I doubt) and see how it goes.
Let's assume that it's not, and see how it's used nefariously. That's not cynicism, that's realism.
And you trust the cashier making $3 an hour after taxes not to be stealing your controlled substances?
So long as the bags are sealed in the pharmacy and the contents are not noted on the outside, it should be fine.
Where the hell are you shopping, where your scripts are divvied out by the teenager running the check-out lane???
I get my scripts from, you know, a pharmacist, who makes a hell of a lot more than $3/hr.
EMP is not biologically dangerous, unless you are wearing something like a pacemaker.
In which case, it's still not biologically dangerous. It's just dangerous to you because you have non-biological parts performing essential functions.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
