Well, MEMS oscillators suck, so I won't fight that battle, but I'm not giving up cheap motion and pressure sensors just because some idiot is on dust and thinks he's smart.
probably too late, but if china gets these things it it game over for their population. The only thing they need to add is a AI and the whole country will be an authoritarian dystopia where any expression of discontent or disagreement will be subject to the necessary reconditioning / reeducation or termination of the trouble work unit. They are much closer to the society ruled by science that many here have advocated. Take a good look at the provinces in 40 day lock downs with strip searches and people b
"This is what 'the singularity' and secular atheism really look like. This is where rejection of religion leads." So it's an atheist idea that masks are a form of control? Nope. An atheist idea that some deserve to be poor and die sick? Nope. An atheist idea that it's okay to burn the planet to a cinder because my invisible friend(s) will be here any minute to fix it? Nope. An atheist idea that others deserve to die simply for not being atheist? Nope.
Those are all common religious beliefs though, and they're li
Wrong, plenty of atheist regimes have done just that, genocide, oppression of classes, racism, polluting, persecution of religions. China is poster child for all that, as are some other communist regimes like n. korea.
outlaw its use (Score:5, Insightful)
neither government nor large corporations can be trusted with such devices, outlaw them.
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Well, MEMS oscillators suck, so I won't fight that battle, but I'm not giving up cheap motion and pressure sensors just because some idiot is on dust and thinks he's smart.
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monitoring yourself and your property is fine. Government or google dusting a town and recording everything is not.
Re:outlaw its use -- china. (Score:2, Troll)
probably too late, but if china gets these things it it game over for their population. The only thing they need to add is a AI and the whole country will be an authoritarian dystopia where any expression of discontent or disagreement will be subject to the necessary reconditioning / reeducation or termination of the trouble work unit. They are much closer to the society ruled by science that many here have advocated. Take a good look at the provinces in 40 day lock downs with strip searches and people b
Re: outlaw its use -- china. (Score:5, Insightful)
"This is what 'the singularity' and secular atheism really look like. This is where rejection of religion leads."
So it's an atheist idea that masks are a form of control? Nope.
An atheist idea that some deserve to be poor and die sick? Nope.
An atheist idea that it's okay to burn the planet to a cinder because my invisible friend(s) will be here any minute to fix it? Nope.
An atheist idea that others deserve to die simply for not being atheist? Nope.
Those are all common religious beliefs though, and they're li
Re: outlaw its use -- china. (Score:2)
Wrong, plenty of atheist regimes have done just that, genocide, oppression of classes, racism, polluting, persecution of religions. China is poster child for all that, as are some other communist regimes like n. korea.