Everybody who confuses correlation with causation eventually dies.

One tweak to maximize safety in these cases:

If other car is close behind
        reduce speed in proportion to how close it is
Endif

That's the algorithm I go with when driving. It's saved my bacon a few times.

its my understanding that google backs up their backups. queue backup song

I don't want people who aren't invested enough* to go to a poll to decide policies that affect my life.

(*modulo people with disabilities or who have work conflicts, but we already have mechanisms in place to account for that -- I'm talking about the general issue of lowering the bar too much)

its life jim but not as we know it

i cant see how steganography can anonymize a connection and hide a transaction when the end point is public knowledge. it is also not trivial to categorize a data stream as encrypted or not so further discussion isnt needed. i dont know the device he/she is talking about but im guessing its just an average basic web services filter that would disallow everything thats not allowed.

you must be the new guy

government sponsored capitalism and unbounded individual capitalism are the only types i hate. capitalism as an idea is great but the current system could use some work.

Patents and Software Patents are a problem due to the limitations thats imposed. There would be no problem if there was restrictions in respect to original ownership and limited commercial gain only. At the end of the day the system as it stands overly protects commercial interests and overly limits human interactions.

Some people get caught up in designing their own parade, and then on feedback from those who shit on it, realize they might prefer to spend their time elsewhere because they hadn't thought of the critiques that others provided them.

"Shitting on people's parades" is part of the corrective, stabilizing force of sociality. People who never talk to other people often think they've figured out all the answers, and then they go tell everyone else (as in this case) that everyone else should follow their solutions. In what world does it not make sense for some people to shit on some other people's poorly-thought-out-in-a-social-bubble parades??

Positive feedback is also part of this system, but since you're only shitting on the parade of shitting on parades, I'm only addressing the negative.

I'm with you on spending money on healthcare of all kinds, but the AMBER stats I'm finding are nowhere like what you're claiming. They look pretty effective from http://www.statisticbrain.com/amber-alert-statistics/ and http://www.chp.ca.gov/amber/ - do you have some sources for the stats and studies you're citing? It would be most helpful.

The flip side of this is the common anarchist and/or anti-capitalist comment I've heard, that "if all the physicists had to do mining or garbage collecting now and then, we'd quickly have robots to do all that labor." Of course it's a bit silly, but there's a nugget of truth buried in there.

Yeah - the answer isn't decentralization, it's interoperability... which yields a sort of decentralization.

Someone pointed out when ISPs offered email, but now (almost) everyone uses GMail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. But those three biggies all interoperate because email is a standard system.

It'd be nice if basic elements of social networking could somehow have standards, such that content I share on G+ was visible to G+ friends with Facebook accounts on their Facebook page, and vice versa ... but I suspect there's too much incentive to keep these services walled gardens, and any sort of open social network adoption is a decade off, perhaps.

"A content-filled and freely-accessible Internet is a resource that the whole community benefits from"

Yes, yes it is. And would still be without adblock. People like to create and share. It need not be monetized.