Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Champion on Mar 15th, 2017 @ 3:45am
Experiments have shown that in fact there is a 60% probability that YOU would do that (or something morally similar) yourself.
See my comment above and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Being willing to commit a crime at the behest of an authority figure telling you to do it (and that IS the situation of these people) is something around 60% of the population would do. This was shown by the famous Milgram experiment.
Do you really want to lock up 60% of the population?
OK that is impossible.
Do you want to lock up a random sample of that 60%?
Hang on that is not what is happening.
Do you want to lock up a random sample taken disproportionately from the poor and minority groups?
What kind of morals do YOU have if you want to do that?
I can't take Elon Musk seriously. He sounds too much like a character from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Likewise Kimbal Musk and Wolfgang Puck. Surely these are all fictional.
However one person who might have a say in the current dispute would be Tom Kitchin. (https://thekitchin.com/about/tom-kitchin?gclid=COfggJ74xtICFde6GwodiaIJqw)
Being a chef and actually being called Kitchin surely should have given him all the trump cards - pity about the pesky "i".
Are these the same local authorities who are compalining that they cannot afford to provide proper care for the elderly and disabled - yet they can splash out £2M for this. Seems to me that the moment a sexy new technology for controlling people is on the agenda all the talk of spending constraints and "living within our means" goes out of the window.
In fact this is the key weakness of capitalism. Once people have achieved a certain success the associated money and "position in the world" gives them some power and they use that power to get something for nothing.
No, you don't. You only need one thing. What they write.
Strictly speaking what they write isn't the point - but neither is "knowing all their sources of finance".
The reality is that "independent" is not a well defined concept. Every outlet has some funding mechanism that might influence their attitude. However what matters is that there are a variety of voices and that they don't all have the same bias.
Actually Trump is Zaphod Beeblebrox - in so many ways.
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
"One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous. "
“Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.”
“He had rather liked Zaphod Beeblebrox in a strange sort of way. He was clearly a man of many quallities, even if they were mostly bad ones.”
The source told me that at least one of the companies plans to say that consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.
If that is possible it should not be legal to sell the phone in the first place.
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Lol, this is the internet, everything is offensive to someone.
Maybe it is - maybe it isn't - but as George Orwell said
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
On that basis when someone objects to content Google should up-rank it!
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President Trump has given the CIA increased autonomy to launch drone strikes
Since when did the CIA need presidential authority to do anything?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Champion on Mar 15th, 2017 @ 3:45am
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heist_(Derren_Brown_special)
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Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Champion on Mar 15th, 2017 @ 3:45am
Experiments have shown that in fact there is a 60% probability that YOU would do that (or something morally similar) yourself. See my comment above and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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You have to be willing to commit the crime.
Being willing to commit a crime at the behest of an authority figure telling you to do it (and that IS the situation of these people) is something around 60% of the population would do. This was shown by the famous Milgram experiment.
Do you really want to lock up 60% of the population?
OK that is impossible.
Do you want to lock up a random sample of that 60%?
Hang on that is not what is happening.
Do you want to lock up a random sample taken disproportionately from the poor and minority groups?
What kind of morals do YOU have if you want to do that?
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However one person who might have a say in the current dispute would be Tom Kitchin. (https://thekitchin.com/about/tom-kitchin?gclid=COfggJ74xtICFde6GwodiaIJqw)
Being a chef and actually being called Kitchin surely should have given him all the trump cards - pity about the pesky "i".
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The same Local Authorities
Seems to me that the moment a sexy new technology for controlling people is on the agenda all the talk of spending constraints and "living within our means" goes out of the window.
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Every Nation gets the Government it deserves
Every Inane comment gets the put down it deserves.
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They simply want to be paid for doing nothing.
They simply want to be paid for doing nothing.
Doesn't everyone?
In fact this is the key weakness of capitalism. Once people have achieved a certain success the associated money and "position in the world" gives them some power and they use that power to get something for nothing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/comment.labour1
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No, you don't. You only need one thing. What they write.
Strictly speaking what they write isn't the point - but neither is "knowing all their sources of finance".
The reality is that "independent" is not a well defined concept. Every outlet has some funding mechanism that might influence their attitude. However what matters is that there are a variety of voices and that they don't all have the same bias.
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No way. Zaphod was a lot smarter and smoother than Trump.
Maybe (although the ego is on the same level)- but I thought it was a good opportunity to lighten the mood by breaking out a few Hitchhiker quotes...
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Actually Trump is Zaphod Beeblebrox - in so many ways.
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
"One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous. "
“Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.”
“He had rather liked Zaphod Beeblebrox in a strange sort of way. He was clearly a man of many quallities, even if they were mostly bad ones.”
And remember he became Prsident of the Galaxy...
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The judge's argument is that the defendant doesn't have to open his mouth, just unlock the phone.
They have to communicate information to do this so your distinction is false.
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Re: Re: My conundrum....
The law is pretty clear, you can be forced to unlock your electronic device,
The law is an ass because you might not be able to.
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Re: The court can probably compell
WHat you are saying actually amounts to:
"The court can keep someone in prison indefinitely if they do not decrypt" , which is not the same thing at all.
Since it is entirely possible that a person in that situation might not be able to decrypt this is completely intolerable.
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The source told me that at least one of the companies plans to say that consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.
If that is possible it should not be legal to sell the phone in the first place.
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Apple
What you pay for is access to Steve Jobs' playroom (even after his demise) and to be allowed to play with one of his toys.
You don't own it - and if you don't play nice or you break something then his mum will throw you out.
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If you are referring to radical Islam,
Well it seems that even mainstream Islam in supposedly moderate Indonesia has a problem with voting for a non-muslim:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=84890
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Here is a really good simply written, well referenced life:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100132969/Short%20biography.pdf
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