If they did tracking based on IPs, they'd get some pretty screwed up results. My university alone has hundreds of FB users behind a dozen IPs or less. Even my home alone has two.
Yeah, but you're probably the only one who's account is connected to both of those and some other places you've been at various times. Or? (I don't really know what I'm talking about.)
It's a complex question, but I think the main reason was just for child-rearing space. Crime wasn't an issue when the first suburbs exploded in the 50s.
With fewer people having children I think that's less of an issue.
The situation is analogous to the difference between the immune system of someone with limited exposure to all the normal diseases of western civ (f.ex. theo-facists, nazis, white supremacists) and someone brought up with sterilized everything and an instant antibiotics cure if he sniffs once.
EDIT: Not saying that murderous leftist radicals can't do damage, but the west's left has mellowed.
I think he means to say he's one of the people who believe differences in measured iq scores between ethnic groups reflect underlying genetic potential for intelligence.
He's british though, movement of college educated professionals from london to new york creates very little (if any) downward pressure on wages, working conditions etc. Movement from Bangalore to New york, on the other hand, might.
This is a great idea. Probably doesn't require any groundbreaking technology either. Dear internet, please make this.
EDIT: An iphone app that let's people call and text each other as their profile name (anonymously) would probably lower the barrier to sign up for something like this.
Maybe even a combination of this with the idea of pledging money if you don't achieve something? How much more motivated would you be to roll out of bed at 6am if you knew that skipping it would cost your buddy cash?
Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the new soviet man.
EDIT: And yes, the unrealistic dream of building a society of new soviet men is central to the failure of communism. Hayek's criticism of a planned economy is valid but a hypothetical society of very altruistic people could make it work much, much better than it ever did in practice.
CAVEAT: I'm only familiar with Marx from second hand sources.
I'm inclined to give Chomsky the benefit of doubt here. As a small l libertarian I can totally relate to the idea of ruling elites who falsely claim to share your ideals but are actually in politics for money, sex and ego stroking.
Helianthus is right. There's something about nerd culture that makes an inflexible and dogmatic adherence to the current intellectual fads very common. Curiously, the most hilariously unpc writers I've read do or have done computer stuff too.
