The assumption that only pedophiles rape very young children is wrong - there is a "phenomenon" of substituting preferrred sex partners with what is available.
That's why there is a rape problem in prisons which is certainly not caused by gays ...
On HN regularly posters demand the US not to impose their values upon other "cultures".
Then again - I don't believe this is part of Afgan culture at all anyway. I think that happens when survival bias due to war and destruction over a long period of time leads to very fucked up people climbing to the top of a society.
At the end of the day - or maybe rather at its start - the US is partly responsible for Afghanistan being trapped in a downward spiral.
Have a look at this (randomly chosen gallery) about Afghanistan in its 60s - I don't think that culture would be very fond of rapists.
the overfishing problem you mention is also addressed in "Cowspiracy" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/) which I highly recommend. Since few days available on Netflix Germany.
1. The majority of people in fact doesn't care about being tracked - "hackers" (and also myself) do care though - but that's a minority.
2. Most people like good advertisement.
3. It's wrong to just naturally assume that ads have to be annoying. A discreet, not-moving, not-animated ad is not bothering anybody.
4. Just as most people aren't willing to pay for content they aren't willing to pay for the maintenance of ad blockers - which is why the devs of those ABs will (and as a matter of fact) already offer whitelisting for money. [http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...]
5. More and more web-sites will simply deny access to their content if ad blocking is detected.
6. The HN people's perspective on ads is in each and every way not that of the majority of people potentially clicking ads. We are not the driving force.
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The equilibrium will be Ad Blockers that white list benevolent and discreet ads - advertisement as an income source will become less attractive but it won't go away.
Also Ad Blocking depends on detectable code or ad servers. If the ad dissemination technology shifts accordingly then Ad Blockers simply won't be able to detect ads any longer.
The decision is of course that you would comply ... but that's at the end of the day b/c police fails to protect their citizens in Mexico ... even worse, they directly cooperate with the cartels to an extent that they become hardly distinguishable. Think about the dozens of students mass murdered few months ago.
> but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years.
Do you really think Mexico made progress during the past decades just b/c they have malls and fast internet? I guess any untouched indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest offers more original culture than what developed in Mexico during the past twenty years.
The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.
Judging from what you read and hear about Mexico it seems to be trapped in a downward spiral degenerating every aspect about its society and government. It's absolutely disgusting and revealing to watch documentaries like "Narco Cultura" and about their eating disorders [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/america-fattest-obese-un-14...].
You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses. But then again you (or whatever is left of your body) don't want to end up hanging upside down from a bridge somewhere ...
> Express now collect 1% to 3% of domestic credit and debit transactions, generating more than $70 billion a year in fees in the U.S. market alone. “That’s a tax on all payments,” says Wedbush analyst Luria. With Bitcoin that goes practically to zero.
There are and will be also tx fees for Bitcoin.
> Here’s how primitive the infrastructure is now: The Bitcoin blockchain can currently handle 7 transactions a second
That's not an infrastracture issue but an intentional limitation by design.
As a matter of fact even with a GPU rack it will take a hundred years or so given what you are up against by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXerV3f5jN8