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Probably one of the most promising ideas that has lost much of its meaning....We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS! I sort of feel like the internet is as close as we get to it now, with Twitter and other microblogging services bringing us a step closer. But really, I want full-on instant telepathic communication with anyone. Cell phones don't cut it. Gone would be the days of humming a tune in your head, whose name you do not know, only to realize you cannot emulate those noises with your mouth. Good luc…
Bandwidth as a constitutional right in addition to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS! I sort of feel like the internet is as close as we get to it now, with Twitter and other microblogging services bringing us a step closer. But really, I want full-on instant telepathic communication with anyone. Cell phones don't cut it. Gone would be the days of humming a tune in your head, whose name you do not know, only to realize you cannot emulate those noises with your mouth. Good luc…
Bandwidth as a constitutional right in addition to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
The Constitution, by design, doesn't establish positive rights. An example of a positive right is "You have the right to an education."
Positive rights suffer from implementation issues, expanding government creep as pressure groups suffer rights-envy, and the generic problems associated with state-provided services.
An example of an implementation issue: the Japanese Constitution guarantees that "All people shall have the right to receive an equal education correspondent to their ability, as provided for by law." This has been interpreted as making it unconstitutional to remove students from mainstream classrooms, regardless of behavioral disability or a distressing propensity to stab teachers in the neck.
An example of rights-envy: Once you have one positive right, every pressure group under the sun will want their own mandate. The argument will sound something like this: "The constitution guarantees bandwidth, food to eat is a lot more important than bandwidth, the constitution should guarantee food, too." Other favorites for expansion are health care, education, and sexual services. (Oh, Europe, what a continent.)
The American political consensus is that positive rights are not desirable at the federal constitutional level.
Probably one of the most promising ideas that has lost much of its meaning....We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Bandwidth as a constitutional right in addition to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not guaranteed anywhere in the Constitution. Those three are a rhetorical flourish in the Declaration of Independence, and do not create enforceable legal rights for Americans. The Constitution guarantees enforceable negative rights, for example, it forbids the government from killing (or otherwise punishing) you without due process of law. The Constitution, by design,…
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS! I sort of feel like the internet is as close as we get to it now, with Twitter and other microblogging services bringing us a step closer. But really, I want full-on instant telepathic communication with anyone. Cell phones don't cut it. Gone would be the days of humming a tune in your head, whose name you do not know, only to realize you cannot emulate those noises with your mouth. Good luc…
How is math not intuitive? Where is it needlessly complex? How is math not already "naturally recursive"? (What does that mean?) How is the universe naturally recursive? What does it mean to "build math off itself"? Are we not doing that already? I think you are complaining about math and then proposing that we build math back up exactly as it is now.
You know how in science and math people describe certain things as 'elegant' ? For example, E=mc^2 is very elegant. If math were elegant, you could get from here (higgs bosons) to there (atoms) with a simple equation which has been recursed x times to produce a mathematical model of an atom.
Math isn't bad, it's quite useful in fact. It's just not the natural language of the universe like everyone thinks it is.