Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 242
Why type a URL? We all have copy and paste. In all my years on the internet I've never used a URL shortening service or seen the need.
QFT.
Why type a URL? We all have copy and paste. In all my years on the internet I've never used a URL shortening service or seen the need.
QFT.
Hardly. It might raise some ethical conundrums, but it certainly won't make colonization any more difficult.
If we ever colonize mars, we're going to start by building habitats. We'll have hundreds of years to live on a planet which we haven't even begun to terraform.
Cool. Just don't drink the water.
> The only thing that would probably appease the EU is if a fork of MySQL was established that would allow an easy transition or as others have mentioned that MySQL is spun off.
Aren't there about a dozen forks of MySQL already?
> Do people not understand the concept of what identification is and why we need it?
I'm wondering if *you* understand the concept of identification and why we need it, to be frank. But more to the point...
> Your drivers licence has become so much more than just a "drivers licence."
Why should a government issued "drivers license" be the gold standard for identification, and why should anybody be bound to require the presence of such an ID for a private transaction (like opening a bank account, purchasing alcohol, buying a gun, boarding an airplane, etc.)? The government can't do anything else right, why would we trust them with our identities? And even more to the point still is this.. it's just not a proper role for government to mandate anything about how we identify ourselves. The only proper roles of government are to provide rule-of-law, protect private property rights, and - arguably - to enforce contracts.
Now if the government wants to say "fine, if you expect us to enforce your contract, then identify yourself to our standards" then ok... but they have no basis to tell another private person/entity that they must - in turn - require a government sanctioned ID in order to conduct business with me.
Unfortunately the NC state government are just lap dogs for the Feds. Our DMV has been one of the most aggressive about complying with RealID, and otherwise participating in the feds privacy violating schemes, for years now. Sad for a state with an unofficial state motto of "First In Freedom", huh?
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