> some fear it could spur wave of highly expensive drugs While I absolutely believe pharma companies price-gouge to the best of their abilities (charge what desperate people are willing to pay, not what is required to…
> science is never final Why not wait till we're (more) certain? What's the worst that could happen? Catastrophic, runaway climate-change? I say we risk it - at least the science will have been settled... FUD works both…
So the error is... where? If you think I am beyond saving, at least point it out for the sake of any not-yet-lost souls reading.
Left and right ideas are just stepping stones to profit. After all, the 'left-leaning' Google sure isn't pushing for unions, only for what will benefit them.
"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other." ..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot product' of both concepts with election…
Whoopi did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115580/
What he said was: Best case: NK government falls on its own. Least casualties. Worst case: NK attacks (i.e. the missile had hit) or gets attacked, massive casualties on all sides. How does your appeal to emotion change…
> claiming that thanks to cryptography the world of intelligence was “going dark”. Quite the opposite was true [...] Twenty years ago it cost over a thousand pounds a day to follow a suspect around, and weeks of work to…
No 100% accurate license-plate reader exists - and that includes human eyesight. Showing license identification confidence levels, as the author's code does, is far better at dissuading the cops from over-reliance on…
Imagine if some non-US government voided Intel and AMD's patents as a self-defence measure against these probably-backdoored 'features'. Why should they protect the profits of hostile corporations?
So as long as the immigration was in the past, you're not allowed to criticize it?
History was not the argument - it was to illustrate that what you consider far right has been and is common. > we live in a global market, Treating local businesses preferentially does not mean abolishing international…
Holding the interests of your own country above those of others is by definition nationalism, and almost any opposition to immigration is labelled xenophobia. They are, and have historically been, the policy for the…
> calling for physical action against individuals They weren't raided for making true threats, but for letting the site become a "lawless realm" and/or for "sowing hate against different opinions and representatives of…
Shutting down a club seems just as oppressive. And the definition of 'club' is blurry and stretchy, so it's not unexpected a law against 'clubs' would get abused.
Amazing how quickly the proportion of whites dropped in a mere 35 years, in every single one of those charts. Pretty soon they'll have to get used to being a minority in the US as well.
> A right to water, is different to free speech. Not entirely. Consider the case of water privatization, where there's a real risk of extortionate pricing of what used to be a common good. If carefully written, right to…
As a society, we have to decide - do we allow economic pressure to be used to make people give up their fundamental rights?
> Explicit prejudice against whites is accepted in the Bay Area, and many Bay Area companies. I'm sure that, as the US becomes more diverse, things will turn around.
The proportion of whites in San Francisco is steadily falling [0], yet the interviewees are upset that rich white people are moving in. Whites went from 92% in 1940, to 42% in 2010, and still there's too many? [0]…
> It is inevitable that the best "product" wins. If that were so, then pharma companies wouldn't spend more on advertising than R&D. And fat32 isn't ubiquitous because it's 'best'. There are many, many ways to beat your…
Businesses are all too happy to use tactics that aren't 'fair', as long as they're legal-ish. Even then, they lobby for favourable laws, that are rarely also favourable for consumers, and more often hostile. Make no…
"When private companies take down Web pages, it isn’t a First Amendment violation, but it does enrage many on the right." The right, and anyone who still remembers…
RMS was right again.
> you are the benefitor He has to pay the taxes and has his social programs gutted to finance imperialist policies that primarily benefit the connected ultra rich, who might let him have a few crumbs of their wealth.…
> some fear it could spur wave of highly expensive drugs While I absolutely believe pharma companies price-gouge to the best of their abilities (charge what desperate people are willing to pay, not what is required to…
> science is never final Why not wait till we're (more) certain? What's the worst that could happen? Catastrophic, runaway climate-change? I say we risk it - at least the science will have been settled... FUD works both…
So the error is... where? If you think I am beyond saving, at least point it out for the sake of any not-yet-lost souls reading.
Left and right ideas are just stepping stones to profit. After all, the 'left-leaning' Google sure isn't pushing for unions, only for what will benefit them.
"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other." ..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot product' of both concepts with election…
Whoopi did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115580/
What he said was: Best case: NK government falls on its own. Least casualties. Worst case: NK attacks (i.e. the missile had hit) or gets attacked, massive casualties on all sides. How does your appeal to emotion change…
> claiming that thanks to cryptography the world of intelligence was “going dark”. Quite the opposite was true [...] Twenty years ago it cost over a thousand pounds a day to follow a suspect around, and weeks of work to…
No 100% accurate license-plate reader exists - and that includes human eyesight. Showing license identification confidence levels, as the author's code does, is far better at dissuading the cops from over-reliance on…
Imagine if some non-US government voided Intel and AMD's patents as a self-defence measure against these probably-backdoored 'features'. Why should they protect the profits of hostile corporations?
So as long as the immigration was in the past, you're not allowed to criticize it?
History was not the argument - it was to illustrate that what you consider far right has been and is common. > we live in a global market, Treating local businesses preferentially does not mean abolishing international…
Holding the interests of your own country above those of others is by definition nationalism, and almost any opposition to immigration is labelled xenophobia. They are, and have historically been, the policy for the…
> calling for physical action against individuals They weren't raided for making true threats, but for letting the site become a "lawless realm" and/or for "sowing hate against different opinions and representatives of…
Shutting down a club seems just as oppressive. And the definition of 'club' is blurry and stretchy, so it's not unexpected a law against 'clubs' would get abused.
Amazing how quickly the proportion of whites dropped in a mere 35 years, in every single one of those charts. Pretty soon they'll have to get used to being a minority in the US as well.
> A right to water, is different to free speech. Not entirely. Consider the case of water privatization, where there's a real risk of extortionate pricing of what used to be a common good. If carefully written, right to…
As a society, we have to decide - do we allow economic pressure to be used to make people give up their fundamental rights?
> Explicit prejudice against whites is accepted in the Bay Area, and many Bay Area companies. I'm sure that, as the US becomes more diverse, things will turn around.
The proportion of whites in San Francisco is steadily falling [0], yet the interviewees are upset that rich white people are moving in. Whites went from 92% in 1940, to 42% in 2010, and still there's too many? [0]…
> It is inevitable that the best "product" wins. If that were so, then pharma companies wouldn't spend more on advertising than R&D. And fat32 isn't ubiquitous because it's 'best'. There are many, many ways to beat your…
Businesses are all too happy to use tactics that aren't 'fair', as long as they're legal-ish. Even then, they lobby for favourable laws, that are rarely also favourable for consumers, and more often hostile. Make no…
"When private companies take down Web pages, it isn’t a First Amendment violation, but it does enrage many on the right." The right, and anyone who still remembers…
RMS was right again.
> you are the benefitor He has to pay the taxes and has his social programs gutted to finance imperialist policies that primarily benefit the connected ultra rich, who might let him have a few crumbs of their wealth.…