If nuclear weapons were outlawed, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons. Therefore: Everyone should have nuclear weapons. Problem?
You are poorly failing to compare a weapon with less than 600J of energy to something with 4.184×10^15J of energy. You are equating the power to kill a few people to the power to eliminate a large metropolitan area. This is the same as asking if it were ok to drop a grain of sand on your head or 200 empire state buildings.
You can't buy a nuke on a walmart shelf like you can a gun (behind a glass case, whatever). Anybody can get and operate a gun, I would go as far as to say that ALMOST anybody could even make a rudimentary gun with simple hardware store parts. You cannot do this with a nuke.
Ever heard of the cold war? Mutual destruction? Every country with any significant power/interest in wold politics/commerce does have nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are essentially outlawed with all of the regulation. We try very hard to not let those outlaws get the technology to build weapons of this type. We also try very hard to prevent unstable government entities from getting nuclear technology to prevent the sale of weapons like this to outlaws.
This man has a drivers license! Lets give him his own Airbus A380!
Don't take it too far. Your analogy creates a slippery slope. Problem?
Irritating. Take your correctness somewhere else. Ever seen a link on the 'web' to something like SSH, or a UNC path to a windows/samba share, how about an email link? These are not 'web' but still exist within the 'web'. Your concept of what the "web" or internet has evolved into is outdated. Yes, I understand what HTTP is as well as most other common protocols out there, and yes I know the tcp/ip stack up and down. Another thing about these streaming sites like Hulu - likely, they are not even using HTTP for the media. Some other application/media server normally handles the streaming to try to keep it as proprietary and controlled as possible. Even if "web browser only" was more correct, I wouldn't need flash/silverlight
You appear to be oversimplifying and over complicating the matter at the same time. Stop. Nobody cares. Next time, try to contribute something.
A friend of mine in law enforcement explained to me that those "scared straight" programs are mostly worthless. The kids come in, take a look, and say "Oh that isn't going to be me, I am way smarter than those fools."
I'll definitely agree they are MOSTLY worthless. The kids that were still pretty hardcore on drugs and into larceny were still pretty hardcore on drugs and into larceny. Those of us who were not yet into that kind of thing, did not ever go into that kind of lifestyle. I still keep in touch with most of those guys too. I wont go as far as to say I would have picked up that lifestyle if I hadn't gone through the jail, but I can definitely say that it made up my mind at the time.
And we also seem to realize that taking kids on field trips to see humans in jail wouldn't be prudent either.
Not the case - I was on a traveling football team in my younger years (early teen). We had drug and theft issues running through the community and team. We were actually brought to see the humans in jail. I decided at that moment that it was never going to be the place for me. Maybe we should take MORE of our kids to see humans in jail.
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