In response to the earlier Slashdot article which argues that innovation has slowed down...there is now a risk of Skodas exceeding the speed limit. I'd call that progress.
In addition to the countless video cameras watching every moment of daily life, starting today, GPS units will be implanted in every infant born prior to handing the child over to the mother.
This is considered important in the fight agains crime as it will allow police to instantly know who was at a crime scene at any given moment. Scotland Yard said that the GPS units do not infringe on citizens' rights as the data will only be used for tracking down criminals. The average citizen who does not break th
The average citizen does break the law. But so many laws exist, to compensate for the lack of police competence in catching criminals, that omniscent surveillance will catch so many people in its web that we'll all be criminals. The next step is for us all to be perpetually on parole, to be rounded up whenever someone in power pulls the lever, or just "watch what we say", lest the government revoke the favore of letting us act "free".
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
"You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up
against -- then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful
gestures. We're after power and we mean it. Your fellows were pikers, bu
Most people I know who read _Atlas Shrugged_, and liked it, went through a phase where they thought they had the key to fulfilling their greed: just do it, without caring how you're "fleecing the sheep". Those who happened to be successful during that phase tended to stick with the accumulation of power at the expense of others. Those who weren't, regardless of the useful contribution by Rand's philosophy, usually came away distrustful of those who do.
"These days it's all secrecy, and no privacy."
- The
_The Fountainhead_ is better. Especially better than the 50-page grandiose rationalization, her "Objectivist Sermon on the Mount", at the end of AS. She was a great writer, but, though she redeemed selfishness from its benighted status as purely "bad", she brought it too far. Humans aren't as rational as she portrayed us, and we can serve others, while also being selfserving - contradictions are our form of balance. A biopic [imdb.com] gives some perspective in understanding her vehemence about life. It's especially fun to watch it screened here in NYC, where her cult still lives, and packs the theater with both worshippers and snipers. FWIW, the Fountainhead movie was terrible.
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This is considered important in the fight agains crime as it will allow police to instantly know who was at a crime scene at any given moment. Scotland Yard said that the GPS units do not infringe on citizens' rights as the data will only be used for tracking down criminals. The average citizen who does not break th
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"You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up
against -- then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful
gestures. We're after power and we mean it. Your fellows were pikers, bu
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"These days it's all secrecy, and no privacy."
- The
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As to AR's beliefs...well some are 'a little' intense and that is all I am going to say at this time
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