Yep - in fact the whole "prohibition" thing started when the drinks companies got drugs like heroin, cocaine etc banned in order to preserve their own business models.
Unfortunatley for them, having started the prohibition bandwagon, they found they couldn't control it and alcohol got banned too.
"Communities have been crippled by drug abuse and addiction, stifling economic productivity and destroying families. "
All this has happened under the current prohibition regime.
We don't know what would happen if Ms. Gupta's ideas were followed because people like the NSA have made damn sure that it hasn't been tried on a large enough scale.
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You will find that the video focuses mostly on the (supposedly "Christian") counter patrols. I don't know why they call them Christian - they don't seem to have much in common with Christianity and don't even claim to be Christian much of the time.
However it does provide enough hard evidence to support the only claim I made which was that
"something a bit like it does exist on a small scale and is certainly an aspiration of some muslims."
Hint: if you're reading something in the Daily Fail, it's usually either outright made up, or the truth is stretched to such ridiculous extremes that they might as well be.
Depends on the issue. I have often found the Daily Mail to be really good on a number of the issues around copyright and the extradition of hackers from the UK to the US.
Don't make the mistake of rubbishing something purely because of the source.
A lot of myth and nonsense is talked about Galileo.
It is simply not true that the church blindly opposed the heliocentric theory and persecuted anyone who proposed it.
From wikipedia:
In 1533, Johann Widmanstetter, secretary to Pope Clement VII, explained Copernicus' heliocentric system to the Pope and two cardinals. The Pope was so pleased that he gave Widmanstetter a valuable gift
So heliocentrism had ben widely debated in the church and widely approved for 80 years before the Galileo incident.
The problem with Galileo was that he wrote a book in which the a foolish character was made to argue against heliocentrism and some of the things he said made that character identifiable with the Pope.
Look carefully at the article - this is not about race this is about religion.
Islam is not a race - there are muslims of every race and in every race where there are muslims there are also Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, atheists and agnostics.
Now the original Fox report was really really wildly exaggerated but something a bit like it does exist on a small scale and is certainly an aspiration of some muslims.
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Religion is a purely subjective matter of personal belief, but morality cannot be.
So where does morality come from?
Attempts in the 19th century to produce morality independent of religious belief (not that there is such a thing - because atheism is itself a religious belief) spawned Communism and Nazism.
Like it or not your morality is almost certainly a legacy of your Judeo-Greco-Romano-Christian heritage. Rahter than to try to construct something new it is much simpler to ask which of the religiously derived moralities is most likely to be tolerant of others.
Any religion which holds to the precept "Love your enemies" is a good candidate and you will find some common ground between Christianity and Buddhism on that point (of course Christians and Buddhists don't always practise this but that is not the point).
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Further to that I would note that in the cold war the side spying on its own citizens (whilst maintianing strict secrecy for its own actions) was the East - and they lost.
Learn what a trade secret is and you will be able to answer your own question without any difficulty whatsoever.
How can he do that - given what you said earlier?
What is missing from all the discussion here and elsewhere, and academics are notorious for simply ignoring this, is a clear and concise definition of what a trade secret actually is.
But battery powered automaobiles were found to be a false lead back in the 19th century. Sorry Tesla, there is no room for you.
Battery technology has come on quite a bit since then. Electric motors have advanced significantly too. The combination of Lithium batteries, rare earth magnets and brushless motors has revolutionised many fields. The model aircraft scene, for example, is unrecogniseable compared to 20 years ago (where do you think all those drones come from).
However, based on my model aircraft experience I would say that electric cars are still not quite there yet. What works at 2hp for 10 minutes doesn't yet provide 20 hp for 4hrs with the same level of convenience.
This actually happened in the aircraft industry in 1917 when the US government found it had no serviceable aircraft to enter ww1 with - largely due to a patent dispute between the Wrights and Curtiss.
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Unfortunatley for them, having started the prohibition bandwagon, they found they couldn't control it and alcohol got banned too.
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The point is this
All this has happened under the current prohibition regime.
We don't know what would happen if Ms. Gupta's ideas were followed because people like the NSA have made damn sure that it hasn't been tried on a large enough scale.
Einstein's definition of insanity springs to mind.
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Not true - since these instruments leverage copyright to achieve their effects.
See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html
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That was Floyd - I never said that.
I said "something a bit like it does exist on a small scale ".
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Then the rest of us will have to use steganography.
They canna change the laws of mathematics.
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However it does provide enough hard evidence to support the only claim I made which was that
"something a bit like it does exist on a small scale and is certainly an aspiration of some muslims."
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https://news.vice.com/video/londons-holy-turf-war
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Depends on the issue. I have often found the Daily Mail to be really good on a number of the issues around copyright and the extradition of hackers from the UK to the US.
Don't make the mistake of rubbishing something purely because of the source.
Hint - you don't approve when others do it.
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Re: Galileo as an example of free speech.
Well it didn't prevent Galileo from deliberately provoking the establishment for the purpose of massaging his own ego.
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It is simply not true that the church blindly opposed the heliocentric theory and persecuted anyone who proposed it.
From wikipedia:
So heliocentrism had ben widely debated in the church and widely approved for 80 years before the Galileo incident.
The problem with Galileo was that he wrote a book in which the a foolish character was made to argue against heliocentrism and some of the things he said made that character identifiable with the Pope.
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Islam is not a race - there are muslims of every race and in every race where there are muslims there are also Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, atheists and agnostics.
Now the original Fox report was really really wildly exaggerated but something a bit like it does exist on a small scale and is certainly an aspiration of some muslims.
see http://www.secularism.org.uk/blog/2012/03/the-rise-of-sharia-in-the-west
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Maybe not zero BUT there was certainly much less than in the East.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
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Religion is a purely subjective matter of personal belief, but morality cannot be.
So where does morality come from?
Attempts in the 19th century to produce morality independent of religious belief (not that there is such a thing - because atheism is itself a religious belief) spawned Communism and Nazism.
Like it or not your morality is almost certainly a legacy of your Judeo-Greco-Romano-Christian heritage.
Rahter than to try to construct something new it is much simpler to ask which of the religiously derived moralities is most likely to be tolerant of others.
Any religion which holds to the precept "Love your enemies" is a good candidate and you will find some common ground between Christianity and Buddhism on that point (of course Christians and Buddhists don't always practise this but that is not the point).
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That was my point. I was only talking about the things that actually worked.
That rhetoric (together with a much more effective economy) was certainly the only way in which communism was successfully addressed.
The other things you mention were actually counter-productive as well as being disgraceful.
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By that argument the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, GCHQ etc etc are all terrorist organisations!
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How can he do that - given what you said earlier?
What is missing from all the discussion here and elsewhere, and academics are notorious for simply ignoring this, is a clear and concise definition of what a trade secret actually is.
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Battery technology has come on quite a bit since then. Electric motors have advanced significantly too. The combination of Lithium batteries, rare earth magnets and brushless motors has revolutionised many fields. The model aircraft scene, for example, is unrecogniseable compared to 20 years ago (where do you think all those drones come from).
However, based on my model aircraft experience I would say that electric cars are still not quite there yet. What works at 2hp for 10 minutes doesn't yet provide 20 hp for 4hrs with the same level of convenience.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
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jumpstart
You can't jumpstart an electric car!
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