Isn't the Nuremberg defence more as a defence to breaking the law because you had to follow orders?
15,276 karma · joined April 5, 2011
Why not another option - battery manufacturer notices that if they build an equiv. battery they can sell to every car manufacturer in the world. With the higher volume they'll be able to do it for less than Tesla if they are only building for their own cars.
No, that's how markets are _supposed_ to work but we don't live in a world of perfect competition where completely free markets work without flaws.
Obviously this is all city specific but I think a valid counter point to the 'unnecessary regulation' argument at least where I live.
- Holding a regular driving license for n years
- First aid training
- Taxi specific theory/practical driving test
- Passing extra vehicle tests (I know where I'm from they used to require taxis to be fitted with small fire extinguishers for example).
- Background check
My point being that your twisting of my words to the point they are unrecognisable is silly. Some people may look at my policing suggestion as a positive you look at it as a negative. Same thing applies to privacy. You may trust doctors (and corporations) and mistrust the police, others feel the opposite way - or trust neither.
Obviously as you said you're in the US and it sounds like your situation is very different (you haven't identified a law stopping your work just an ethics board that won't sign off for a reason you don't know).
>> I work in a craft studio and face a large fine - so I'm told - if I reveal personal data, or make that possible
I'm guessing you're subject to the exact same process the NHS has went through here. The only reason you would be more likely to receive the fine is because it makes sense as you're not funded by the taxpayer. Fining the NHS is in effect fining the taxpayer for breaching the rights of the taxpayer. It's the same reason the police and other public bodies don't often get fined.
I also don't think it's a debate we really need. More and more people are wearing health tracking devices. There have been research studies done through mobile apps. People are tracking health data themselves more and more and a lot of those people are going to be willing to share it. Let it happen naturally instead of opening the floodgates and leaving people without a choice.
No there doesn't. If I don't want my personal information being provided to Google by the NHS it shouldn't happen. In a country where private healthcare isn't an option for most, the only option (the NHS) shouldn't be giving personal data to private, foreign companies, in breach of the law. 'It'll make my job easier' is awful reasoning for violating privacy and the law.
NB: I'm thinking about actual CD players here, not your CD through iTunes or something where you can click to skip on a progress bar.
- CD's scratch and then skip easily
- CD's come in horrible plastic covers that break if you look at them wrong.
- Skipping to a certain part of a song is much more difficult with CD's.
- The benefits vinyl provides (large artwork and liner notes/ lyrics, posters etc.) don't all apply to CD's and at that point there's not much/any benefit CD's have over digital.
Given the high price of most brand new vinyl I'd be highly surprised if this was true. I do think you're on to something though. I will listen to the digital/streaming version of a record I have much, much more often than the vinyl copy. Usually if it's a new release I'll buy the vinyl, sit down and enjoy it start to finish, and then the only time I'll play it after that is the odd evening/weekend when I want to sit down and do nothing but listen to some music. It's kind of something you'll put aside time for (like watching a movie) but at the same time you'll still be streaming in the background all day at work.