Reread what AC said, I think you hit it too quickly.
Well, if you're a teabagging Palinista, unless you're pounding down Assange's door with a torch and pitchfork ready to behead him, you're a "supporter".
AC was saying that "if you are Palin", inherently saying that if you are of the "palinite" mindset, an individual would be by default a WL supporter if said individuals are not donning torch and pitchfork (which is actually in alignment with your link you posted as a counter point), per the "palinite" mindset of "If you are not 100% choking the red-white-and-blue dick, then you are a terrorist."
I know we are all quick to jump to the conclusion that 'oh noez teh gubment wants internet ppls infos' as the summary would suggest, but the supeona is asking for information of people who specifically were believed to have aided in the facilitation of leaking the actual documents. They aren't immediately just going after random Joe for saying "I like what those guys do". Now, whether or not Joe is on some CIA black-list now, along with half of us here, well that would be speculation and different story. (Unless somebody can cite otherwise).
Yea, Emporor Schwarzenaut is putting parsec limits on everybody's interstellar destinations, and quark fission has been banned since errant gluons have been shown to cause autism in Kzjiilinzpns. (Good thing he doesn't know about my Orbifold Resonance Cascade Multiplier!)
If I input my physiological information et al. into a health management program that plans my different foodstuffs intakes, am I managing my desires when I only eat what the software tells me? What if I was only allowed the food that the software determined, and was physically incapable (or restrained) from eating food not specified by the software? How far off do we think this future really is, 10, 15, maybe 30 yrs?
As we march towards the singularity (the one in which technology owns us, not the Terminator style one, but the point at which we are completely incapable as a cumulative species of surviving with little to know technology), we slowly hand our decision making skills over to software developers, who vicariously manage our desires with their code.
Summary is still poorly worded flame-bait though, you can't really manage 'desires' per se. You can recognize them and act on them accordingly, but setting my alarm clock (as a poster used as an example) doesn't manage my desire to get out of bed, it just adds a desire to stop that loud ass noise, with the added benefit of awaking to do so.
..and I didn't RTFA, but doesn't it seem kind of messed up that mega-banks get to invest their profit (which comes from fractional reserve interest scheming) into a company, keeping the wealth amongst the uber-wealthy? I understand the they still have to pursue the private clients consent for the rest of the money, but have the days of traditional IPOs gone by the wayside in this age of predatory, high-frequency investing. If there is anything I have learned about Wall Street, its that it serves its own private interest, and not the commonwealths.
Whether or not this is ultimately beneficial to main-street is definitely debatable, but my money is on an exponentially larger gap between the distribution of wealth between the middle class and the upper elite.
I'm all for keeping the money you as an individual earn, but it seems that as corporations get more and more of the ups of personified status (defamation rights, etc.), without also incurring the negatives (murder, genocide), we all get screwed by the plutocracy ad infinitum. Or is my armchair punditry completely off-base?
They fought to protect a statement found false in federal court? Why keep it up then if it isn't true in the first place? I can understand the whole "We didn't have our day in court" deal, but it's a lie to start with. You won, but you're still publishing a lie, at least of some sort.
Are you suggesting that people should yield to those who claim something is found false? That is wishy-washy ground you stand on. Say a site dedicated to AGW publishes a study showing a positive correlation to technological growth and increased global warming.
Another group comes out and claims the studies methodologies are incorrect, inherently making the conclusions drawn false. Enter beatnik judge/jury who rules in favor of a take-down because of the ruled 'false-ness'. Should we be the arbitrators of 'truthiness' of all published data, especially if it is from a private entity?
If I start a website called oneplusoneequalsthree.com, and it is proved false through the axioms of arithmetic, do you suggest that if I was brought to court I should just give up since I have been proven wrong? This is a strength, and I may be off base with the topic, but I believe in a free society in which there is no censorship by the government, the corporations, or the courts.
Lately it has seemed that free speech has only been free as long as it doesn't piss anybody off. This ruling is a step back in the positive direction.
Since it was a circuit court of appeals decision, does this set precedent in other districts? Hopefully it won't be overturned by our good DoJ friends up in the Supreme Court during an appeal.
That would be a sad, but not unexpected, precedent.
I've got the stupid magic box they're searching for. It's called the ballot box and if any politician were to grow a spine and stand up to these goons I'd use it. The box that comes next in the series is far less peaceful.
Soap box. Ballot Box. Ammo Box. Juries are mostly idiots now.
This sense of urgency makes me think that the US Govt is paying attention to the problem of Peak Oil. This country will experience some serious pain when we hit the downside of that slope, and probably the world for that matter.
Here is a case-in-point (rather old) showing that mainstream US media just doesn't get it. Anonomous and Lulz
U.S. Media,
Anonymous is not a secret hacker organization. It is the literal definition of the word. It is not a proper noun. It is just individuals acting without large-scale coordination, all pissed off for their own reasons, acting in semi-cohesion, and participating in groupthink. It is people either trolling for lulz, or lulzing for lulzing.
People downloading music are like anonymous. There is not a collective group organizing the individual downloaders. They just do it. The people "at the other end of the stick" view it as us against "them", and to have a proper OMGSCANDAL, you need a perpetrator, so they made one. And if they didn't cognitively make one for the purposes of degrading freedom on the internet, then it's more lulz for us and more idiot points for you.
They are riding the popularity of his name. Fueling the character assassination. They are diverting actual attention from the leaks. This article is just one more in the pile of NOTIMPORTANT documents. Yet I'm sure it's being tweeted and liked all across The United Social Network of Corporate America.
Back when I was a computer tech for one of the big retailers, I had a customer bring in a machine that wouldn't boot. After interrogating the customer a little more, it turned out he had tried 'upgrading' his CPU, and in the process had broken off one of the Athlon XP's (shows age) pins by inserting the CPU in the wrong orientation.
The dude couldn't afford anything new, so I offered my most MacGyver-ish attempt. I went over to the car-audio shop, grabbed some speaker wire, spliced out some copper about the same size as a pin, and voila!
After bending some of the pins back with a mechanical-pencil tip, and inserting the new 'pin' into the socket below the missing pin on the CPU (cut to semi-correct length), it booted right up! He took it home and all was well. I don't work for said company any more, but how long that 'fix' lasted is questionable.
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That makes absolutely no fucking sense, whatsoever.
Reread what AC said, I think you hit it too quickly.
Well, if you're a teabagging Palinista, unless you're pounding down Assange's door with a torch and pitchfork ready to behead him, you're a "supporter".
AC was saying that "if you are Palin", inherently saying that if you are of the "palinite" mindset, an individual would be by default a WL supporter if said individuals are not donning torch and pitchfork (which is actually in alignment with your link you posted as a counter point), per the "palinite" mindset of "If you are not 100% choking the red-white-and-blue dick, then you are a terrorist."
I know we are all quick to jump to the conclusion that 'oh noez teh gubment wants internet ppls infos' as the summary would suggest, but the supeona is asking for information of people who specifically were believed to have aided in the facilitation of leaking the actual documents. They aren't immediately just going after random Joe for saying "I like what those guys do". Now, whether or not Joe is on some CIA black-list now, along with half of us here, well that would be speculation and different story. (Unless somebody can cite otherwise).
Yea, Emporor Schwarzenaut is putting parsec limits on everybody's interstellar destinations, and quark fission has been banned since errant gluons have been shown to cause autism in Kzjiilinzpns. (Good thing he doesn't know about my Orbifold Resonance Cascade Multiplier!)
Slashdot Lays Waste To Fans of Patents
Once I get it back, it's in the shop right now, gotta pass inspection, the Galactic DMV requires both Oort Cloud lights to be functional.
I found a hybrid of myself! Although the orderings of our user ids are inconsistent with the chronological application of the prefix 'meta'.
WIN!
Best comment I have seen on here in awhile. Not because I am anti-apple, but that statement just 'feels' true.
I for one welcome our new robotic overlords, especially for sexual applications. And so does this guy.
That can be a grey area though,
If I input my physiological information et al. into a health management program that plans my different foodstuffs intakes, am I managing my desires when I only eat what the software tells me? What if I was only allowed the food that the software determined, and was physically incapable (or restrained) from eating food not specified by the software? How far off do we think this future really is, 10, 15, maybe 30 yrs?
As we march towards the singularity (the one in which technology owns us, not the Terminator style one, but the point at which we are completely incapable as a cumulative species of surviving with little to know technology), we slowly hand our decision making skills over to software developers, who vicariously manage our desires with their code.
Summary is still poorly worded flame-bait though, you can't really manage 'desires' per se. You can recognize them and act on them accordingly, but setting my alarm clock (as a poster used as an example) doesn't manage my desire to get out of bed, it just adds a desire to stop that loud ass noise, with the added benefit of awaking to do so.
..and I didn't RTFA, but doesn't it seem kind of messed up that mega-banks get to invest their profit (which comes from fractional reserve interest scheming) into a company, keeping the wealth amongst the uber-wealthy? I understand the they still have to pursue the private clients consent for the rest of the money, but have the days of traditional IPOs gone by the wayside in this age of predatory, high-frequency investing. If there is anything I have learned about Wall Street, its that it serves its own private interest, and not the commonwealths.
Whether or not this is ultimately beneficial to main-street is definitely debatable, but my money is on an exponentially larger gap between the distribution of wealth between the middle class and the upper elite.
I'm all for keeping the money you as an individual earn, but it seems that as corporations get more and more of the ups of personified status (defamation rights, etc.), without also incurring the negatives (murder, genocide), we all get screwed by the plutocracy ad infinitum. Or is my armchair punditry completely off-base?
They fought to protect a statement found false in federal court? Why keep it up then if it isn't true in the first place? I can understand the whole "We didn't have our day in court" deal, but it's a lie to start with. You won, but you're still publishing a lie, at least of some sort.
Are you suggesting that people should yield to those who claim something is found false? That is wishy-washy ground you stand on. Say a site dedicated to AGW publishes a study showing a positive correlation to technological growth and increased global warming.
Another group comes out and claims the studies methodologies are incorrect, inherently making the conclusions drawn false. Enter beatnik judge/jury who rules in favor of a take-down because of the ruled 'false-ness'. Should we be the arbitrators of 'truthiness' of all published data, especially if it is from a private entity?
If I start a website called oneplusoneequalsthree.com, and it is proved false through the axioms of arithmetic, do you suggest that if I was brought to court I should just give up since I have been proven wrong? This is a strength, and I may be off base with the topic, but I believe in a free society in which there is no censorship by the government, the corporations, or the courts.
Lately it has seemed that free speech has only been free as long as it doesn't piss anybody off. This ruling is a step back in the positive direction.
Since it was a circuit court of appeals decision, does this set precedent in other districts? Hopefully it won't be overturned by our good DoJ friends up in the Supreme Court during an appeal.
That would be a sad, but not unexpected, precedent.
I've got the stupid magic box they're searching for. It's called the ballot box and if any politician were to grow a spine and stand up to these goons I'd use it. The box that comes next in the series is far less peaceful.
Soap box. Ballot Box. Ammo Box. Juries are mostly idiots now.
Or is this just some Americanism which has been allowed to go too far??
Gerunds? Sorry to be a Grammar Nazi, but they exist in other languages as well.
Does it explain how they work?
Year of the mainstream Linux derivatives.
This sense of urgency makes me think that the US Govt is paying attention to the problem of Peak Oil. This country will experience some serious pain when we hit the downside of that slope, and probably the world for that matter.
I just want to come clean and be honest in disclosing - GLEN BECK is a member of anonymous. There I've said it. Whew - load off my mind that is.
Good thing you didn't say GLENN BECK, otherwise he might have tried suing you. Although I did hear he raped and mur....never mind.
Somewhere in the world, there is a Glen Beck, and he probably having a rough couple years.
Probably not as bad as Julian Asage, hopefully they don't accidentally pick her up by mistake identity and take her to a torture camp in Afghanistan.
Slashdotters,
Here is a case-in-point (rather old) showing that mainstream US media just doesn't get it. Anonomous and Lulz
U.S. Media,
Anonymous is not a secret hacker organization. It is the literal definition of the word. It is not a proper noun. It is just individuals acting without large-scale coordination, all pissed off for their own reasons, acting in semi-cohesion, and participating in groupthink. It is people either trolling for lulz, or lulzing for lulzing.
People downloading music are like anonymous. There is not a collective group organizing the individual downloaders. They just do it. The people "at the other end of the stick" view it as us against "them", and to have a proper OMGSCANDAL, you need a perpetrator, so they made one. And if they didn't cognitively make one for the purposes of degrading freedom on the internet, then it's more lulz for us and more idiot points for you.
Sincererely
The Lulz.
They are riding the popularity of his name. Fueling the character assassination. They are diverting actual attention from the leaks. This article is just one more in the pile of NOTIMPORTANT documents. Yet I'm sure it's being tweeted and liked all across The United Social Network of Corporate America.
Back when I was a computer tech for one of the big retailers, I had a customer bring in a machine that wouldn't boot. After interrogating the customer a little more, it turned out he had tried 'upgrading' his CPU, and in the process had broken off one of the Athlon XP's (shows age) pins by inserting the CPU in the wrong orientation.
The dude couldn't afford anything new, so I offered my most MacGyver-ish attempt. I went over to the car-audio shop, grabbed some speaker wire, spliced out some copper about the same size as a pin, and voila!
After bending some of the pins back with a mechanical-pencil tip, and inserting the new 'pin' into the socket below the missing pin on the CPU (cut to semi-correct length), it booted right up! He took it home and all was well. I don't work for said company any more, but how long that 'fix' lasted is questionable.
Never told the boss about that one.
Recommending torrents wouldn't be very beneficial to a person holding a pile of books, would it now?
So it's running Windows ME?
Or perhaps fell off a cliff.