I once asked a man visiting us at work from Norway what voting system they used. "Paper and pen and then we count them.", he said with a facial expression as if I'd asked him how he normally cooked his offspring for consumption.
You only need voting machines for one thing: FRAUD. Fuck the corporate-owned networks wanting a winner two minutes after the polls close; if it takes a few days to count manually marked paper ballots openly, fully, and properly, SO BE IT.
No doubt research like this is being underwritten by insurance companies, whose lobbying arm will buy the politicians necessary to make this a legal requirement, along with some astroturfing sheeple moms: "Driving a car is a privilege, not a right! Won't someone think of the children!"
One more of our independencies snuffed out by the tech we thought would free us.
I'm a Christian, and I would prefer that there is no such thing as a 'religious' exemption from taxation.
We must go all the way: eliminate tax deductions for the religious institution of marriage. Government has no right in rewarding - to be blunt - Breeders (including adopters). We need *less* people, not *more*, FFS.
This is a fantasy that will never happen in the US, but might in the EU: require computer hardware manufacturers and those that sell said merchandise to clearly and explicitly state the Revision Level of the actual piece being offered for sale, and what changed in the new revision. A lot of these folks treat that info like the family jewels, with no way of knowing what version you will end up with until it is actually in your hands. Why? So they don't have to recall / scrap / take a bath on the Rev 0 crap that is already in the pipeline that they know has issues, as evidenced by them moving on the Rev 1.
The most important app that you folks could make is one that just launching it, begins recording audio and video (along with GPS info) which is real-time streamed to the encrypted file storage holder of your choice (ACLU, EFF, Glen Greenwald, Anonymous, a BitTorrent service, etc.). It would also have local storage for later auto-upload if not a good enough signal at the time and gives the goons a false sense of security upon deleting / wiping / crushing the device. But the kicker is: neither those recording it, nor the device itself, will have the ability to delete the uploaded record.
I know what the groupthink around here is, but "...now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is" is an expression of a preconceived notion, not a valid inference from data.
Frank Serpico *still* gets death threats from LEOs he didn't even serve with, so yeah, I'm more inclined (as the video evidence increases) to think less Thin Blue Line and more Big Blue Klan.
So at what looks to be the beginning of another Dry Epoch on the High Plains (REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE), we're still allowing millions of gallons of WATER to be thrown away instead of strictly mandating it be recovered and cleaned by any means necessary (and paid for by those that polluted it). Even setting aside their lies about the earthquake cause, this is the most damning proof of a corrupt Oklahoma government (though hardly the only one in the region).
With the near Jonestown-like acceptance of systemd (controlled by one dominant company with lucrative NSA contracts, if not even deeper ties), the fait is pretty much accompli.
Much like the US itself, all we can hope for is a somewhat benevolent dictatorship in everything but name.
I think the real agenda is to turn scientific and engineering careers (and their usually* higher than average level of pay) into far more common cookie-cutter, factory-worker style 'technicians'. The goal: techs being paid far-far less than the BS crowd, and the real world pay falling as more and more H1-B folks are brought in to suppress wages even further.
The absolute destruction of unions (yes, they were never perfect, but...) and the 'Walmarting' of tech jobs all done to bring about Gilded Age 2.0.
* - I do hold out desperate, in-denial hope that the only ones that answer engineering salary surveys are boastful liars in the highest cost of living areas of the US.
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I once asked a man visiting us at work from Norway what voting system they used. "Paper and pen and then we count them.", he said with a facial expression as if I'd asked him how he normally cooked his offspring for consumption.
You only need voting machines for one thing: FRAUD. Fuck the corporate-owned networks wanting a winner two minutes after the polls close; if it takes a few days to count manually marked paper ballots openly, fully, and properly, SO BE IT.
No doubt research like this is being underwritten by insurance companies, whose lobbying arm will buy the politicians necessary to make this a legal requirement, along with some astroturfing sheeple moms: "Driving a car is a privilege, not a right! Won't someone think of the children!"
One more of our independencies snuffed out by the tech we thought would free us.
This is the year of the Linux Dust Top!
We must go all the way: eliminate tax deductions for the religious institution of marriage. Government has no right in rewarding - to be blunt - Breeders (including adopters). We need *less* people, not *more*, FFS.
Are they spray-able? Will they stick to a General Products hull?
This is a fantasy that will never happen in the US, but might in the EU: require computer hardware manufacturers and those that sell said merchandise to clearly and explicitly state the Revision Level of the actual piece being offered for sale, and what changed in the new revision. A lot of these folks treat that info like the family jewels, with no way of knowing what version you will end up with until it is actually in your hands. Why? So they don't have to recall / scrap / take a bath on the Rev 0 crap that is already in the pipeline that they know has issues, as evidenced by them moving on the Rev 1.
It is all together proper that this story would show up duplicated in my RSS feed.
Did they try hitting it with a little carb cleaner?
The Central Committee sighs, hacks Intel, steals entirety of IP over lunch hour.
I wonder how much they want for .tld?
I read the Indy article and it still didn't explain why a TV network had the personal details of French soldiers.
The most important app that you folks could make is one that just launching it, begins recording audio and video (along with GPS info) which is real-time streamed to the encrypted file storage holder of your choice (ACLU, EFF, Glen Greenwald, Anonymous, a BitTorrent service, etc.). It would also have local storage for later auto-upload if not a good enough signal at the time and gives the goons a false sense of security upon deleting / wiping / crushing the device. But the kicker is: neither those recording it, nor the device itself, will have the ability to delete the uploaded record.
Frank Serpico *still* gets death threats from LEOs he didn't even serve with, so yeah, I'm more inclined (as the video evidence increases) to think less Thin Blue Line and more Big Blue Klan.
"The French don't have a word for Entrepreneur." -- Village Idiot
US spies can now change their irises.
So at what looks to be the beginning of another Dry Epoch on the High Plains (REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE), we're still allowing millions of gallons of WATER to be thrown away instead of strictly mandating it be recovered and cleaned by any means necessary (and paid for by those that polluted it). Even setting aside their lies about the earthquake cause, this is the most damning proof of a corrupt Oklahoma government (though hardly the only one in the region).
"Otisburg?"
With the near Jonestown-like acceptance of systemd (controlled by one dominant company with lucrative NSA contracts, if not even deeper ties), the fait is pretty much accompli.
Much like the US itself, all we can hope for is a somewhat benevolent dictatorship in everything but name.
"Oh, hey, my passenger turns out to owe child support from 30 years ago! Recalculating for the nearest police station."
I think the real agenda is to turn scientific and engineering careers (and their usually* higher than average level of pay) into far more common cookie-cutter, factory-worker style 'technicians'. The goal: techs being paid far-far less than the BS crowd, and the real world pay falling as more and more H1-B folks are brought in to suppress wages even further.
The absolute destruction of unions (yes, they were never perfect, but...) and the 'Walmarting' of tech jobs all done to bring about Gilded Age 2.0.
* - I do hold out desperate, in-denial hope that the only ones that answer engineering salary surveys are boastful liars in the highest cost of living areas of the US.
The war that the Vietnamese refer to as The American War.
Jobs touting the Humanities when he was far less humane to his low-level employees (perhaps sealing his Karmic fate).
Such as the jailers instead of the prisoners?
Then I doubt it was working in a warehouse, was it?
Man, I hated that class. One equation taking up half a page, with the audacity of including an error range of +/- 500%