Most of us are simply too naive to really believe the NSA could have ulterior motives here. There is still just enough lack of education and naivety to support the general faith that the government isn't spending all these resources on something petty that anyone but criminals and ex-patriots would disapprove of.
The rest of us have been crying foul for almost a decade already, but the pop-culture majority wrote our opinions off a long time ago as paranoid and delusional.
The problem you're not foreseeing is what happens when they run out of actual criminals to hunt down and have created a giant, profitable industry on spying. That database that can be used to track down every single person who is a $whatever turns into a motive with a universal applicator. Who could possibly protect that much power from misuse? Its already been demonstrated that they can not.
You're right. Sorry, I did misunderstand the implied context behind your statements, but you missed an important key behind mine too: Going without sleep a few nights now and then won't kill you or significantly injure your brain if you make it up within a day or so, even sleeping in the daylight if necessary. What I'm saying in fact is that being a good little cog in the capitalist machine, early to bed and early to rise and all that, and basically living your entire life on an average of 6 to 6.5 hours of sleep per night is probably many orders of magnitude worse for you than just going without sleep occasionally, or eating junk food, or failure to exercise daily, etc, or shirking any of the other many rules for basic health and well-being we regularly shirk but no longer question the wisdom of.
A little used system that few people even know about is shutting down.
Sure, but you shouldn't be so judgmental. The same thing has also likely been said of the likes of Usenet, and AltaVista. The same thing might easily be said about Slashdot one day. Those who live in glass houses should not throw rocks at glass houses.
Note: being a parent doesn't make you automatically right, or even more informed about basic health in any way whatsoever. Convenience to you doesn't automatically make it healthy for the kids either.
Other things will go wrong instead; its not just cellular structure that is replenished during sleep but critical fluid chemical balances as well.
Luckily for you though, the United States military already has a drug to manually re-balance those other chemicals. It has been tested extensively for years and has been reported to keep your reaction times and accuracy levels to within well-rested parameters for up to 40 hours without any of the side effects of amphetamines traditionally used for such exercises.
Because 16 hours is a long time to go without food, even if you are asleep the whole time. You need to strike an appropriate balance between rest and nutrition and activity. We have lost our natural rhythm.
I could feel it killing me, when I was forced to wake up too early as a child. I could feel it stretching my consciousness thin... the most appropriate description for the feeling is the one used by Bilbo Baggins; "... like butter scraped over too much bread."
I predict that next they will discover that while 7 may be an absolute minimum for basic health, some people will need more depending on their brain capacity and "usage patterns." I predict they will eventually discover that having at least 8 hours every night during childhood will prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease in old age. I further predict that never going under-slept (sleeping in up to even 10+ hours if necessary to stop feeling groggy or "stretched") will eventually prove to extend longevity by 20-50% and cure a whole host of neuroses and other emotional and psychological disorders.
Once, in a previous life before becoming an enlightened free software user, I had a windows 95 install that got infected with a virus and died. For reasons that are obvious or easily guessed I probably deserved it but I also lost valuable data when I sanitized the harddrive. If the NSA could retrieve a pre-infection copy of my clipart folder from 1997 I'd pay up to a 5$ service charge without hesitation. I can't imagine I'm the only one who might actually have a legitimate use for my own intercepted data, either.
I've got an idea! Maybe if you can get some 3rd world country to train children to code your games 20 hours a day in exchange for only housing and basic sustenance then the development costs will be low enough that you can still afford cover up the huge faceplant that every game's release has become...
No, its not. You're thinking of the Hippocratic Oath, which isn't even a law, its just a traditional vow taken by western doctors in honor of some Greek guy who died a couple millinea ago.
Seriously though, the requirement that it can't look like a donation is pretty limiting. Most open source projects are ONLY prepared to accept donations under the exact same US tax laws your company is trying to dodge, and the ones left over (especially the ones that haven't yet attained actual status as a scientific non-profit) are almost certain to look at your proposal for exactly as long as it takes to drag&drop it into the spam/phishing/blacklisted folder.
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Wrong. DUCK tape is a brand of duct tape. Duct tape should still not be used on ducts.
"Both" parties you say? How about instead of purposefully spreading misinformation you grow a pair and vote for one of the other parties.
Incidentally I'm pretty sure he was alluding to the Gestapo.
What is the sentence in the Soviet Union for being convicted of insanity??
NOPE but I'm willing to admit I'll probably never vote Democrat or Republican again.
Most of us are simply too naive to really believe the NSA could have ulterior motives here. There is still just enough lack of education and naivety to support the general faith that the government isn't spending all these resources on something petty that anyone but criminals and ex-patriots would disapprove of.
The rest of us have been crying foul for almost a decade already, but the pop-culture majority wrote our opinions off a long time ago as paranoid and delusional.
The problem you're not foreseeing is what happens when they run out of actual criminals to hunt down and have created a giant, profitable industry on spying. That database that can be used to track down every single person who is a $whatever turns into a motive with a universal applicator. Who could possibly protect that much power from misuse? Its already been demonstrated that they can not.
You're right. Sorry, I did misunderstand the implied context behind your statements, but you missed an important key behind mine too: Going without sleep a few nights now and then won't kill you or significantly injure your brain if you make it up within a day or so, even sleeping in the daylight if necessary. What I'm saying in fact is that being a good little cog in the capitalist machine, early to bed and early to rise and all that, and basically living your entire life on an average of 6 to 6.5 hours of sleep per night is probably many orders of magnitude worse for you than just going without sleep occasionally, or eating junk food, or failure to exercise daily, etc, or shirking any of the other many rules for basic health and well-being we regularly shirk but no longer question the wisdom of.
A little used system that few people even know about is shutting down.
Sure, but you shouldn't be so judgmental. The same thing has also likely been said of the likes of Usenet, and AltaVista. The same thing might easily be said about Slashdot one day. Those who live in glass houses should not throw rocks at glass houses.
P.S. you're a sadist. seek help.
Note: being a parent doesn't make you automatically right, or even more informed about basic health in any way whatsoever. Convenience to you doesn't automatically make it healthy for the kids either.
Other things will go wrong instead; its not just cellular structure that is replenished during sleep but critical fluid chemical balances as well.
Luckily for you though, the United States military already has a drug to manually re-balance those other chemicals. It has been tested extensively for years and has been reported to keep your reaction times and accuracy levels to within well-rested parameters for up to 40 hours without any of the side effects of amphetamines traditionally used for such exercises.
Because 16 hours is a long time to go without food, even if you are asleep the whole time. You need to strike an appropriate balance between rest and nutrition and activity. We have lost our natural rhythm.
I could feel it killing me, when I was forced to wake up too early as a child. I could feel it stretching my consciousness thin... the most appropriate description for the feeling is the one used by Bilbo Baggins; "... like butter scraped over too much bread."
I predict that next they will discover that while 7 may be an absolute minimum for basic health, some people will need more depending on their brain capacity and "usage patterns." I predict they will eventually discover that having at least 8 hours every night during childhood will prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease in old age. I further predict that never going under-slept (sleeping in up to even 10+ hours if necessary to stop feeling groggy or "stretched") will eventually prove to extend longevity by 20-50% and cure a whole host of neuroses and other emotional and psychological disorders.
Once, in a previous life before becoming an enlightened free software user, I had a windows 95 install that got infected with a virus and died. For reasons that are obvious or easily guessed I probably deserved it but I also lost valuable data when I sanitized the harddrive. If the NSA could retrieve a pre-infection copy of my clipart folder from 1997 I'd pay up to a 5$ service charge without hesitation. I can't imagine I'm the only one who might actually have a legitimate use for my own intercepted data, either.
I've got an idea! Maybe if you can get some 3rd world country to train children to code your games 20 hours a day in exchange for only housing and basic sustenance then the development costs will be low enough that you can still afford cover up the huge faceplant that every game's release has become...
No, its not. You're thinking of the Hippocratic Oath, which isn't even a law, its just a traditional vow taken by western doctors in honor of some Greek guy who died a couple millinea ago.
Seriously though, the requirement that it can't look like a donation is pretty limiting. Most open source projects are ONLY prepared to accept donations under the exact same US tax laws your company is trying to dodge, and the ones left over (especially the ones that haven't yet attained actual status as a scientific non-profit) are almost certain to look at your proposal for exactly as long as it takes to drag&drop it into the spam/phishing/blacklisted folder.
Don't feed the trolls.
YOU sir look like a shrewd and discerning businessman. How would you like to buy a bridge?
My wireless just died.
No, don't ever do that. God will only punish you for pointing out the flaws in his plan.
Too bad though that because of people like him mine will never be proud of me. :(
My not, indeed!
"We couldn't have expected better results if we had planned it."