Sounds like it would be better to have everyone work one day a week, while everyone benefits from social welfare. Though it also sounds like severe taxes on having too many kids should be in order too.
So tax the kids. makes sense.
Nope, we're approaching 3 classes, Robot Slaves(who don't mind), super wealthy robot owners, and people who are expected to work in a world where work is done by robots.
You forgot the 4th class. The permanently underemployed.
No, the radio is one of the most deadly innovations because it facilitates coordination. Coordinating 5 people can result in far more damage than hundreds cooperating, assuming the right tactics.
the twinkie is the deadliest innovation. 1 selfish uncoordinated person with a twinkie can defeat an any finite number of co-ordinated selfish people armed with radios, even if they use the right tactics, assuming that twinkies always win every battle.
How is it "mob rule" when democratically elected representatives ban something years in advance, then an independant law enforcement agency takes someone to be tried before an independant judiciary for violating it?
Your argument can be equally applied to the enforcement of any law whatsoever as being "mob rule".
the law might be an infringement of the Charter of Rights and could even be overturned by the Supreme Court, but it isn't going to be influenced by the size of mob that shows up at anybody's doorstep, or what any politician wants to say about it.
Most NDA's don't involve Top Secret intelligence information. Who did the asking, by the way? You may remember that the UK warned airlines that they would be liable for all expenses for handling Snowden (arrest, confinement, etc.) if they brought Snowden to the UK. The UK has no interest in dumping money down the well like they've had to with Assange.
The UK will be compensated - one way or the other - for this. There is no treaty obligation on the UK authorities to go to such extreme efforts to block Assange from leaving and this is very irregular, so the simplest explanation is that there is a keen interest in this.
while the project is held up they arent making money. yet they still have to pay their workers. or they can lay them off. and they (the company) has to pay the cost of the research too.
its a double jeapardy burden on the company, effectively punishing them for "doing the right thing"... and you think that's right and fair?
bugger off.
its like the morons around here who all of a sudden want to "make it a law for everyone to have tornado shelters....but they have to pay for it them themselves". if "the law" wants to require people to do something that costs money, then "the law" needs to pay for it. otherwise "the law" can go bugger itself.
The company knew or should have known its legal obligation before spending a single penny on anything. Whatever they found AFTER they started work, could have been found prior to starting work.
An obligation to obey the law, is not a punishment. It is a responsibility and if you don't like it then all you need to do is get the law changed or work in a different industry with different risks. Perhaps selling used cars rather than excavation.
You can't really engineer 'better' conventional shielding. You're up against fundamental physical constraints. Magnetic could work, but these are iron ions being discussed - a rather heavy nucleus, so it could take quite the field to deflect them effectively.
You only need to shield sleeping quarters and living quarters. not the entire ship. and you don't need to use dead weight. the shielding need not be 6 feet of homogenous lead. How about 20 feet of supplies, machinery, computers, drinking water, oxygen, rocket fuel etc etc. most of that stuff is perfectly happy being exposed to that degree of cosmic radiation.
Spaceships and aeroplanes are incomparable. We know of no greater existence than space itself. We need to forget this silly notion of space travel IF we want to survive. Otherwise, our own lack of attention to what is happening on (and to) THIS planet is going to kill us.
Don't worry. We spend far far far more attention to what is happening in football than we do on space travel.
But it's hard to define 'consensual' with children. If a parent/trusted adult tells a young child that something is good, the child will likely trust him/her and do it. So for example a girl could agree to have her genitals mutilated, since it would make look 'pretty'. Would that be considered consensual?
The 'legal age' is a bit arbitrarily set, but there has to be some way to protect children until they are old enough and have enough information about what they are consenting to.
Yes. but your analogy is terrible.
At what age do you think a woman is mature enough to choose to have her genitals mutilated in order to make herself look pretty? How about having her face mutilated? Would you EVER consider such consent to be valid?
In Canada the definition of child porn also includes actresses who appear to be or are depicted as being under 18 regardless of their actual age.
I know it's been said a dozen times in response to you, but you described exactly what is necessary for trickle-down to work. If the rich guys are spending money, then that money is circulating and doing our economy good. If the rich guys are sitting on a pile of cash in the bank and not spending it (or investing, or anything else to keep it moving) then that is when it actually hurts the economy. Having them spend metric buttloads of cash on crazy inventions is not only good for the economy and the lower-class folks in it, but it's also good for society because, heaven forbid, they might actually discover something useful -- even if it's not quite what they were trying to do.
If the government is spending money, then that money is circulating and doing our economy good. If the government is sitting on a pile of cash in the bank and not spending it (or investing, or anything else to keep it moving) then that is when it actually hurts the economy. Having it spend metric buttloads of cash on crazy inventions is not only good for the economy and the lower-class folks in it, but it's also good for society because, heaven forbid, the government might actually discover something useful -- even if it's not quite what it was trying to do.
if I have a choice between letting rich guys waste money and letting the government tax the rich guys and waste the money. I have more reason to support the system that actually lets me vote and participate and is at least officially supposed to be looking out for the publics best interests and not merely itself. That system is a democratic government - not private ownership.
Hell... with enough courage the government might even figure out how to put a man on the moon someday. oh wait.. it did that already!
By that reasoning, a 70 MPH speed limit would be the wedge which inevitably lead to making driving illegal. That hasn't happened.
It's not a wedge, it is what it is - it will show what it thinks you're looking for. If it thinks you're not looking for porn, it won't show porn. If it thinks you want porn, it'll give you porn.
By your reasoning, anything that is non-sequitur can be falsely claimed to be analogous to anything else thus proving whatever you want to prove.
You should be more irritated that a handful of US citizens in the form of soon-to-be-paid creditors will absorb every penny of that as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, following the $256M sale. And those creditors are not stockholders, who will be left empty-handed.
China didn't get a $250M check from the US government -- a group of nameless American creditors did.
And rightly so! Why should the owners of a failed company get to keep cash if there are still debts left unpaid?
I'm a fair bit younger than you, but I've already begun to think in some classic old man ways. What is my legacy? What will I leave behind when my short life finishes, to live on through my deeds? I don't want to be remembered for gorging myself on blackberries and ice cream. So: (a) stop handwaving over the fact that you expect others to pay for your retirement on Mars - (b) Stop thinking that the object of your desire has some inherent, universal "good" - it doesn't. It's just something you want.
And yet, all you will be remembered for is gorging yourself on blackberries and ice cream and someone else will be remembered for being the first living human being to step foot on mars.
It's too bad you can't figure out why 1 accomplishment is more significant than the other.
Enjoy the rest of your meaningless life.
Under copyright law you don't need their permission to use the software, anymore than you need Stephen King's permission to read one of his books. To use software you need a computer and a legally obtained copy of the software. Copyright law takes care of the rest (by giving you the right to execute the software on a computer and even make modifications for the limited purpose of getting it to execute on the computer).
This is all true. However, the catch is in the "legally obtained copy" part.
Without agreeing to the license, you haven't legally obtained ownership of a copy.
if the copy was made by someone authorized to make the copy (for instance the copyright holder), and someone authorized by to sell the copy sold you the copy (for instance an authorized distributor) then the copy is an authorized copy - i.e. "legally obtained copy" to re-use the phrase we both agree on. There is no additional requirement in copyright law beyond possession of the authorized copy to execute software on the computer even though the computer makes its own internal copies as a result of execution.
At least - this is explicit in Canadian Copyright Law. I'm not going to argue about US law.
So in Canadian law, unless you agreed to some kind of restriction in connection to that act of Distribution then once the distribution is concluded you may rely on the full extent of copyright law and execute it on your computer. You can tear up that EULA because you don't NEED a license. You have the law.
your analogy of a ticket is invalid. You can be denied entry to the venue in accordance with terms because those terms are terms for entry into the venue. A venue which does not belong to you.
On the other hand, your copy DOES belong to you. so nobody can impose additional terms without your consent.
it would be more like if you buy a hair drier for $20 from an authorized distributor: Then it arrives at your house with a sticker on the "on" button, saying that "you must agree to the following EULA in exchange for the license to use the hair drier. pressing the ON button on the hair drier indicates that you agree."
Since you don't need permission to press the "on" button on your own property, you can freely ignore the sticker and use the hair drier. Further more since pressing the ON button does not communicate anything to anybody except yourself, it can't be said to signify an agreement. agreements require a meeting of the minds.
having sold you the hair drier, they can't hold YOUR "on" button hostage in order to compel you to agree to their additional terms.
This may almost all be moot as software has largely moved beyond consisting of merely a physical copy, but often now depends on access to online services. Access which in fact DOES require permission to access somebody elses computer system.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
