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Yeah. don't get a 700 series (obsolete) or buy from Newegg (over priced).

Take a look at this Geforce GTX 960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.amazon.com/The-WAR-...

> CS should be in K-12 schools

You think it's going to be Undergraduate CS? They're going to pitch it at the K-12 level.

Stuff like Snap Circuits isn't a BSEE. It's circuits for the kids.

K-12 CS isn't figuring out O(n). It's getting kids exposed to it young. A lot of slashdotters talk about how they got into STEM, by programming young.

Where are our famously underfunded schools going to get the money ...

American schools are NOT underfunded. They receive more funding than almost any other country in the world. Only Norway and Switzerland spend more per student on education. Many of the countries spending a small fraction of what America spends, get far better results.

However, America's education spending is mostly based on local property taxes, which results in very unequal funding. But it is not clear if more spending will help much. New Jersey's "Save Our Schools" program poured millions into poorly performing schools, and resulted in negligible improvement. After Freddie Gray was killed in Baltimore's Sandtown slum, people pointed at the terrible schools as a source of the social decay. Yet Sandtown has some of the best funded schools in the country. The Feds have poured in millions spread over two decades. Yet, on a typical day, only half the kids show up for class. Whatever the problem is, it isn't just money.

Walmart has more advantages... they've even managed to get into the dating market see this

"Which monopolies exist without the force of law?"

Capitalism has never obeyed the law and was always lawless, this is ahistorical bullshit.

First, you need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Next capitalism has always been lawless:

Forced policy

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

Where are our famously underfunded schools going to get the money to teach all this CS to the lowest common denominator, anyway?

Is it possible to get a 40gbe uplink to Amazon ? Any cloud service ?

Azure has ExpressRoute https://azure.microsoft.com/en... which looks like it would cost $20,000/month for 40gb/s. They have several ways to connect your network to their internal network.

Amazon similary has DirectConnect which lets you plug straight into a 10gbe port in select buildings.

Looks like 40gb/s of connectivity would cost you around $6,500 a month.
https://aws.amazon.com/directc...

Can't vouch for 5 times the cost, but often the same product is significantly cheaper through Walmart, and is delivered quicker.

http://www.amazon.com/Everlast...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ever...

And most recently, as Amazon is pushing it's subscription service, there are products Amazon refuses to sell unless you join Prime (Prime Pantry items being the most egregious). Only the hubris Jeff Bezos can justify the logic in not selling things.

Amazon's only grace at this point is near one-stop shopping, but increasingly on terms of price, total ease (especially if there is the possibility of a return involved), and speed of delivery (Walmart usually takes 3-5 days, Amazon is averaging 2 weeks), other retailers have got them beat.

"How do you know this?"

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

I think what you mean to say is that they need to make Tough Choices :p

The Paradox Of Choice is excellent. The most important point among a legion of somewhat unexpected findings is: people generally make choices either by optimizing and finding the best choice, or by setting a threshold and choosing the first option that exceeds that threshold. The people who generally use optimization strategies consistently make better choices than the people who set thresholds, but are consistently much less happy about both their choices and their lives. This appears to be because in the process of optimizing, they calculate the cost of all the choices they didn't make, in a sort of buyer's remorse, and that has a huge impact on their satisfaction with the choice they did make.
He spends a lot of time talking about how you can make good choices and be happy about them. One of the main ways of doing this is figuring out ways to reduce the number of apparent choices you have, so that the cost of the paths not taken is lower.

"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."

It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."

It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."

It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

SAS M.2 adapter. They already have M.2 SSD to 2.5" SATA III adapters.

I would fit 4x into a 3.5" drive and make a SSD NAS.

No, my girlfriend wrote this one. Don't judge.

I messed up on the link in that previous comment sorry, this book will help you do defensive programming within your schedule (and once you get the hang of it, probably faster than schedule because you'll have fewer bugs).

And then the programmer wakes up into the reality of the fact that their manager demands that the product be done yesterday and far under budget leaving them next to no time to worry about such issues.

Next time you are standing in line at the checkout, start yelling and screaming, demanding that you be checked-out immediately, and you be given a 30% discount on everything.
The reason your manager does that to you is because you are a pushover. Read this book and it will tell you how to do better..

You act as if the developer has a choice in 99.9% of the cases.

If you think you don't have a choice, you need to read this book. It will teach you how to act professional and do the right thing, while keeping your job. There is no excuse for not using defensive programming.....those programmers should be fired.

Warning: Shameless Self-Promotion

I've written a science fiction novel, The NPC that deals with the ramifications of this sort of thing. The solution in the novel is extreme: all recording devices are required to stream their data to a trusted 3rd party (in this case, a corporation called VuDyne) in real time with an encrypted certificate. Otherwise the digital data is not trusted to represent reality. As you can imagine, this gives VuDyne a great deal of power.

This thing kicks the shit out of any sub $799 laptop out there.

LOL, you're on crack. No, it does not. Quite the opposite actually.

The lowest priced Surface Pro 4 (Intel Core Intel Core m3-6Y30 with 4GB RAM) is is $899 and the Surface Book (Intel Core i5-6300U with 8GB RAM) is $1499 (I don't know why you specifically mention $799. Cheating a bit?). Those are really shit specs. Even the highest end models have shit CPUs and GPUs.

This $799 laptop utterly decimates the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book.

40" TCL 1080p 60hz dumb tv (got it for $250 on sale).

Roku 3 ($99)(1st version, no voice search)

Philips 2.1 sound bar w/ virtual surround. $80

I have a fairly small living room and this setup does the trick.
Certain videos and shows (mainly youtube stuff) have a strange "laptop speakers" effect through the sound bar unless I disable the virtual surround. It must have something to do with the way the soundbar encodes the audio into separate channels?
I also have an old dvd player that I use once in a blue moon for library rentals
On occasion I will move my PC across the living room to the tv and do some couch gaming when the wife isn't around. She always lets out a distinct *sigh* whenever I make a move to my computer desk, as she knows once I've started the machine there will be no netflix&chill for the remainder of the evening.

40" TCL 1080p 60hz dumb tv (got it for $250 on sale).

Roku 3 ($99)(1st version, no voice search)

Philips 2.1 sound bar w/ virtual surround. $80

I have a fairly small living room and this setup does the trick.
Certain videos and shows (mainly youtube stuff) have a strange "laptop speakers" effect through the sound bar unless I disable the virtual surround. It must have something to do with the way the soundbar encodes the audio into separate channels?
I also have an old dvd player that I use once in a blue moon for library rentals
On occasion I will move my PC across the living room to the tv and do some couch gaming when the wife isn't around. She always lets out a distinct *sigh* whenever I make a move to my computer desk, as she knows once I've started the machine there will be no netflix&chill for the remainder of the evening.

Netflix and Amazon subscriptions + rip anything worth owning for me. Not bothering with OTA stuff at the moment.

In terms of the ripping/encoding, I use a combination of MakeMKV and Don Melton's transcoding scripts for my blu-rays and DVDs, since they allow me to preserve full surround sound and a high quality video image while encoding in a format that I can use across all of my devices without additional or on-the-fly transcoding (a la Plex) being necessary. I used to use Handbrake for the encoding, but I find that Don's scripts work much better for me and are a lot less fiddly in terms of their output. For now, I'm serving them up from a Mac Mini via iTunes Home Sharing to an Apple TV (and any of the Apple mobile devices in the house), since I found iTunes Home Sharing to be significantly more reliable and easier to manage and use than DLNA or other methods I've tried in the past, but I'm not averse to switching media servers in the future as my needs change, and since the files aren't DRM-encumbered, it'd be trivial for me to do so.

Otherwise, as far as the media hardware goes, I have my PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Dreamcast, and Apple TV all in a closet and hooked up to an Onkyo A/V receiver (TX-NR609) that then goes to my TV. I use the Onkyo AVR's remote for both the AVR and the Apple TV (since the Apple TV can be trained to recognize other remotes in its Settings). Because I keep all of that equipment in the closet (i.e. not in line of sight for IR signals from remotes) I use a Next Generation Battery Transmitter Remote to transmit the IR signals via RF into the closet. Such an awesome product, since, unlike most IR transmitter/receiver devices, it effectively turns your IR remote into an RF remote, meaning that you don't have to have an ugly box sitting next to your TV to catch and retransmit the IR signal. Don't ask me how the thing works, since all I know is that you put the provided RF transmitter in place of a AAA or AA battery in your remote, and somehow it knows what to transmit to the receiving end. And the thing barely ever needs recharging, plus it even has a standard battery size you can buy at Walgreens for the user-replaceable, rechargeable battery it uses.

Sorry for shilling out, but in case it wasn't already obvious, I really do love the little thing, even if it does look like a UFO.

As for OTA TV, meh. My wife has already told me she'll need the Olympics whenever they come around next summer, but NBC just launched a channel on the Apple TV, so I figure we'll just use that, or else we'll stream it via AirPlay to the Apple TV from one of the Macs or iPads in the house.

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

Amazingly, Chris Lloyd is right. Fax machines today are still for sale on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Brother-...

"My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.

However, that's a FAR cry from accepting internet surveillance. "

Except your employers are behind it... big business (elites and their corporations) fears people waking up. The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

First, see the science on reasoning. The human brain is bad at reasoning and reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

"My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.

However, that's a FAR cry from accepting internet surveillance. "

Except your employers are behind it... big business (elites and their corporations) fears people waking up. The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

First, see the science on reasoning. The human brain is bad at reasoning and reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

"My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.

However, that's a FAR cry from accepting internet surveillance. "

Except your employers are behind it... big business (elites and their corporations) fears people waking up. The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

First, see the science on reasoning. The human brain is bad at reasoning and reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

http://www.amazon.com/Public-L...

Immortan Joe will look at you.

http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-7...

SHINY AND CHROME! WITNESS ME!

This one got really popular earlier this year!

Or these, which became unexpectedly popular after the second Presidential debate in 2012.

He's not just an actor, he's a golden-tongued living deity with powers far beyond the mere superhuman. Proof abounds in these Amazon reviews of his finest work: http://www.amazon.com/Very-Bes...

I hope Amazon doesn't shut down the reviews for the The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee

It is pure Internet Gold!

That would kill reviews like this warning away people from counterfeit products.

I'm all for them deleting fake reviews, especially those that are written in exchange for money. But they had better leave these comments alone!

I'm all for them deleting fake reviews, especially those that are written in exchange for money. But they had better leave these comments alone!

I'm all for them deleting fake reviews, especially those that are written in exchange for money. But they had better leave these comments alone!

I'm all for them deleting fake reviews, especially those that are written in exchange for money. But they had better leave these comments alone!

Not sure how many of these are legit, but they are funny as hell, since they replace sugar with some ingredient that leads to intestinal issues.

http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Sugar-Free-Gummy-Bears/product-reviews/B008JELLCA/

I got tired of receiving follow-up communications requesting reviews after I buy something. It seems to happen almost half the time now.

This is where to report these sellers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

I had no idea they were breaking the rules by doing this.

I worry about losing the funny ones. Like these.

Some of this stuff is pure gold, and I think it actually helps Amazon overall, as it gets people to go to the site, and hang around on it, and think about it.

Far more serious are real reviewers, who are happy to give a 4 or 5 star review to anything they get for free:

http://www.amazon.com/forum/am...

Amazon explicitly allows this, which I guess is better than driving it underground, but does nothing to account for this heavy reviewer bias:

"if you offer a free or discounted product in exchange for a review, you must clearly state that you welcome both positive and negative feedback. If you receive a free or discounted product in exchange for your review, you must clearly and conspicuously disclose that fact."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...

I've seen MANY products whose 4.5 star averages are purely because the seller sends out tons of free samples in exchange for positive reviews. Meanwhile, products that are considerably less expensive but don't bribe their customers unfortunately get less prominently featured in search results because their average rating, sales counts, and review numbers are so much lower.