There's nothing particularly wrong with taxing wealth rather than income theoretically.
Heck yes there is. It punishes people for saving and investing.
And an income tax punishes people for working.
As a pastafarian I am deeply offended that you mock The One And Only True Good by insinuating that there are other gods.
The exploits used in stuxnet are already integrated in metasploit and canvas. The script kiddies already have access.
This is guaranteed to get modded down because it's anti-piracy.
Well, let's test this hypothesis: Piracy is wrong. There I said it. Mod me down.
But here's the ting: the piratebay case and all the "intellectual property" discussion is is not about whether the "creative" people deserve to get paid or should be ripped of. It is a fight between the RIAA, MPAA, et al on the one side and the pirates on the other side over who gets to rip them of. Search for "Hollywood accounting", read Courtney Love does the math, or find out why some guy suddenly was called "the artist formerly known as prince" if you don't believe me about the real goals of the "MAFIAA". Now there are some exceptions to these rules; both the MAFIAA and the pirates are willing to pay some of the creators for some of the work they produce but these exceptions are few and far between.
In a fight between MAFIAA and pirates it is very easy to see who the real assholes are (hint: it's the guys promoting global censorship and life crippling penalties for what could arguably be called the equivalent of stealing a CD). That's why the discussion is so "one-sided". But all of this doesn't change the fact that pirating content is legally wrong in many countries.
Keeping certain scientific discoveries secret was SOP during the cold war.
[...] but let's say the Stuxnet code was published [...]
Most of it was decompiled and published here. You can find all the binaries online if you're really interested. Hiding the results is just security by obscurity. The Dutch scientist didn't perform some magic trick that nobody else can do. Doesn't make it any less scary though.
"Thanks, I could have thought of this myself." I was just using your terminology.
The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence.
We can. This gives you you another chance to think for yourself. Let's see how it goes.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain