I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted."
Because prisonplanet and infowars are news websites of great repute. Oh wait...
Yes, because posting the official CPS report, interviewing the person and quoting another article on the matter is such lousy journalism.
In the report you will find: "Parents are unsuitable and create an environment where the children believe the government will harm them" which is the sole concern listed.
So, please explain what is so bad about that article? Or is it that you don't like that website because they cover topics and asks questions which you don't typically agree with?
I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.
Or whoever is behind the attack is going after the Dalai Lama to implicate the Chinese Government.
Corporations, nor the government will have what is best in mind for the people unless the people direct them.
For many reasons I spend my own money to filter the water coming from the government with all of their "wonderful" regulations. If it was so safe why can't I put fish into it immediately after getting it from the tap?
I have no problem with Comcast or other ISP's doing common sense traffic filtering. I don't mind them giving priority to VOIP and video game traffic over P2P and other traffic.
Government can't do anything to corporations that the people couldn't. It just so happens that most people are apathetic and expect someone else to do it for them. That allows corrupt government officials to write regulations that will do nothing but benefit a few large corporations.
Have you seen the stock prices of the large insurance companies after the health care "reform" bill was passed?
It's no wonder he got lots of resistance against his peers, administration and teachers union. Public schools are not about education, its about creating dumbed down automatons who are easily controlled.
You wouldn't be able to share your dream-videos of you smashing the RIAA headquarters with your friends, as that'd be infringing on intellectual property.
The example I'll use is google but it applies to most companies. Whenever they come out with a press release saying that they're now collecting this or that information it is only to serve you targeted ads, yet every ad I've ever seen while logged in to Google is directly related to my search terms or the e-mail I'm currently reading.
Here is an article from 2006 that states that Google is going to listen in to your microphone and webcam to serve ads. Where are these targeted ads?
Now it's 2010 and most people know about the PA school district dialing into kids' laptops to spy on them with webcams.
There is also a less known PBS documentary from last year called Digital Nation which celebrates the fact that school administrators are spying on kids with laptops and webcams.
I'd love to know what these companies are really doing with the data and the sad fact is we probably aren't suspicious enough about it.
Where was the Spanish Inquisition errr... Congress when Ford had to recall 4.5 million cars a few months ago due to their cruise control causing fires?
I should have added that Yahoo had tried taking down their lawful spying guide but wasn't as "successful" as Microsoft. I say "successful" because Microsoft claims they only wanted to take down the document and not the website. However, it resulted in the takedown of the website and thus generated much more interest in the document and had the opposite effect of what they wanted.
Thankfully for us most corporations and governments don't realize this. If MS had done nothing the majority of people would have never read this because most people don't visit cryptome or other whistleblowing websites on a regular basis.
http://cryptome.org/ is back up and has dozens of different companies similar documents from the likes of yahoo, facebook, paypal, myspace, aol, skype, et al.
Since coming back online he has made all of those available at the top of his website because of the interest generated from his temporary censorship.
OSS is free market enterprise and has nothing to do with socialism.
Socialism is when the government forcefully confiscates someones time, money or resources and gives it to someone else.
OSS is 100% voluntary and thus is free market enterprise. Voluntary associations are essential to any capitalist society because individuals and corporations can not fill the needs of everyone.
The kind of society we are living in now is Piracy, where large corporations can keep their profits and then plunder the public treasury when things go bad. Piracy is what this IIPA organization is advocating, not capitalism.
As funny as it may sound, when you freely give away your time and money to a cause, such as OSS you are being a capitalist and when you pay any non-voluntary taxes you are participating in socialism.
That's because this idea has been floating around for awhile. This company was founded by Max Keiser, who created a model that would allow you to set up a Stock Exchange based on any market. Keiser, to say the least is a very colorful character.
Scarily enough, the Pentagon had once wanted to set up a similar stock exchange that would rely in predicting when terror attacks would occur.
He is doing a very interesting project called Pirate My Film where producers can finance their films by selling future copies of their movie, where investors can expect a share in any future profits from sale of the film.
If the NHTSA didn't exist Toyota would have had to spend money to fix the problem instead of paying ex-regulators to quash multiple investigations.
Toyota (TM) hired ex-government regulators to kill at least four investigations into problems with its cars in the U.S. That's the conclusion of an investigation by Bloomberg. The news service reports that, "Christopher Tinto, vice president of regulatory affairs in Toyota's Washington office, and Christopher Santucci, who works for Tinto, helped persuade the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to end probes including those of 2002-2003 Toyota Camrys and Solaras, court documents show. Both men joined Toyota directly from NHTSA, Tinto in 1994 and Santucci in 2003. "
The same goes for Wall Street. Most of the financial regulators are former high level executives from Goldman Sachs or strong ties to them and other financial institutions.
I don't understand why we need so many useless regulators who are usually wolves being put in charge of the hen house when the courts could easily handle this. It's going to end up being prosecuted in a court of law anyway and not solved by some magic regulation hand-waving.
Warlords added many new features to the original game. These include:
A new category of Great People known as Great Generals; The ability to institute vassal states; Eight new scenarios[2] Six new civilizations playable in single-player and multiplayer; Ten new leaders (including new leaders for existing civilizations); Three new leader traits (Charismatic, Protective and Imperialistic); Unique buildings for each civilization; Three new wonders; New units, resources, and improvements; Core gameplay tweaks and additions; Inclusion of all patches released for original Civilization IV.
10 new civilizations and leaders (Babylonia, Byzantine Empire, Ethiopian Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Khmer Empire, the Mayans, Native Americans, Netherlands, Portugal and Sumer) 6 new leaders for existing civilizations (Abe Lincoln, de Gaulle, Boudica, Darius I, Suleiman the Magnificent and Pericles). 25 new units, 18 buildings and new technologies added primarily to the late game.[16] 11 new scenarios.[5] 6 new Wonders of the World. New diplomatic resolutions through the United Nations.
Then you had Civ4: Colonization which was a standalone remake of the original Colonization with the Civ4 engine.
So Civ4 did exactly what Blizzard plans to do: add unique civilizations and single-player scenarios to be played along with other general improvements.
The only difference between Blizzard and Firaxis is Blizzard is upfront about how they are going to split up single player content and have yet to divulge their pricing scheme.
Slashdot Mirror
Congratulations on doing exactly what you chastised the poster for; making an assertion and then providing no proof.
Bravo on being modded insightful for such obvious hypocrisy.
I heard a story a few days where Parents lost custody of their kid because, "They were teaching the child that the government can not be trusted."
Because prisonplanet and infowars are news websites of great repute. Oh wait...
Yes, because posting the official CPS report, interviewing the person and quoting another article on the matter is such lousy journalism.
In the report you will find:
"Parents are unsuitable and create an environment where the children believe the government will harm them" which is the sole concern listed.
So, please explain what is so bad about that article? Or is it that you don't like that website because they cover topics and asks questions which you don't typically agree with?
I continue to get a kick out of the Chinese government's fixation on the Dalai Lama. If the whole thing didn't involve the theft of a nation and the brutal repression of the Tibetan people, the situation would be hilarious in a Monthy Python sort of way.
Or whoever is behind the attack is going after the Dalai Lama to implicate the Chinese Government.
I think everyone can agree that the subject in question (all information being treated equally) is a very big part of Net Neutrality.
I would certainly hope not. Why shouldn't VOIP and traffic from playing video games be given higher priority than, say, bittorrent traffic?
Corporations, nor the government will have what is best in mind for the people unless the people direct them.
For many reasons I spend my own money to filter the water coming from the government with all of their "wonderful" regulations. If it was so safe why can't I put fish into it immediately after getting it from the tap?
I have no problem with Comcast or other ISP's doing common sense traffic filtering. I don't mind them giving priority to VOIP and video game traffic over P2P and other traffic.
Government can't do anything to corporations that the people couldn't. It just so happens that most people are apathetic and expect someone else to do it for them. That allows corrupt government officials to write regulations that will do nothing but benefit a few large corporations.
Have you seen the stock prices of the large insurance companies after the health care "reform" bill was passed?
It's no wonder he got lots of resistance against his peers, administration and teachers union. Public schools are not about education, its about creating dumbed down automatons who are easily controlled.
"I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers." - John D. Rockefeller
But this is slashdot, where people only read the headline! Who needs sophisticated AI to tell us that?
What I don't get is why he doesn't invest in an American company, like Westinghouse, or B&W, or GE...
Toshiba has owned Westinghouse Electric (which includes all of their Nuclear business) since 2006.
You wouldn't be able to share your dream-videos of you smashing the RIAA headquarters with your friends, as that'd be infringing on intellectual property.
Nothing from Austria could possibly be evil!
They editorialize.
Since when did "news" mean copying and pasting a press release? "Editorializing" is nothing more than asking questions and trying to answer them.
If newspapers actually did this then there'd be no reason to go to blogs.
The cake was not a lie, Gabe ate it.
Government: There's no success like failure.
That's because they are probably lying to you.
The example I'll use is google but it applies to most companies. Whenever they come out with a press release saying that they're now collecting this or that information it is only to serve you targeted ads, yet every ad I've ever seen while logged in to Google is directly related to my search terms or the e-mail I'm currently reading.
Here is an article from 2006 that states that Google is going to listen in to your microphone and webcam to serve ads. Where are these targeted ads?
Now it's 2010 and most people know about the PA school district dialing into kids' laptops to spy on them with webcams.
There is also a less known PBS documentary from last year called Digital Nation which celebrates the fact that school administrators are spying on kids with laptops and webcams.
I'd love to know what these companies are really doing with the data and the sad fact is we probably aren't suspicious enough about it.
Amazon's recommendations have become so accurate lately that it typically asks me if I'm interested in buying things I've already purchased from them.
Future quote from Eric Schmidt, Google CEO:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to see, maybe you shouldn't have it in the first place."
Where was the Spanish Inquisition errr... Congress when Ford had to recall 4.5 million cars a few months ago due to their cruise control causing fires?
I should have added that Yahoo had tried taking down their lawful spying guide but wasn't as "successful" as Microsoft. I say "successful" because Microsoft claims they only wanted to take down the document and not the website. However, it resulted in the takedown of the website and thus generated much more interest in the document and had the opposite effect of what they wanted.
Thankfully for us most corporations and governments don't realize this. If MS had done nothing the majority of people would have never read this because most people don't visit cryptome or other whistleblowing websites on a regular basis.
http://cryptome.org/ is back up and has dozens of different companies similar documents from the likes of yahoo, facebook, paypal, myspace, aol, skype, et al.
Since coming back online he has made all of those available at the top of his website because of the interest generated from his temporary censorship.
Just ask Joe Stack about being an independent programmer.
OSS is free market enterprise and has nothing to do with socialism.
Socialism is when the government forcefully confiscates someones time, money or resources and gives it to someone else.
OSS is 100% voluntary and thus is free market enterprise. Voluntary associations are essential to any capitalist society because individuals and corporations can not fill the needs of everyone.
The kind of society we are living in now is Piracy, where large corporations can keep their profits and then plunder the public treasury when things go bad. Piracy is what this IIPA organization is advocating, not capitalism.
As funny as it may sound, when you freely give away your time and money to a cause, such as OSS you are being a capitalist and when you pay any non-voluntary taxes you are participating in socialism.
That's because this idea has been floating around for awhile. This company was founded by Max Keiser, who created a model that would allow you to set up a Stock Exchange based on any market. Keiser, to say the least is a very colorful character.
Scarily enough, the Pentagon had once wanted to set up a similar stock exchange that would rely in predicting when terror attacks would occur.
He is doing a very interesting project called Pirate My Film where producers can finance their films by selling future copies of their movie, where investors can expect a share in any future profits from sale of the film.
http://www.piratemyfilm.com/
If the NHTSA didn't exist Toyota would have had to spend money to fix the problem instead of paying ex-regulators to quash multiple investigations.
Toyota (TM) hired ex-government regulators to kill at least four investigations into problems with its cars in the U.S. That's the conclusion of an investigation by Bloomberg. The news service reports that, "Christopher Tinto, vice president of regulatory affairs in Toyota's Washington office, and Christopher Santucci, who works for Tinto, helped persuade the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to end probes including those of 2002-2003 Toyota Camrys and Solaras, court documents show. Both men joined Toyota directly from NHTSA, Tinto in 1994 and Santucci in 2003. "
The same goes for Wall Street. Most of the financial regulators are former high level executives from Goldman Sachs or strong ties to them and other financial institutions.
I don't understand why we need so many useless regulators who are usually wolves being put in charge of the hen house when the courts could easily handle this. It's going to end up being prosecuted in a court of law anyway and not solved by some magic regulation hand-waving.
You mean, expansion packs which have just as much content as they normally would, just like any strategy game since C&C has done?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Warlords
Warlords added many new features to the original game. These include:
A new category of Great People known as Great Generals;
The ability to institute vassal states;
Eight new scenarios[2]
Six new civilizations playable in single-player and multiplayer;
Ten new leaders (including new leaders for existing civilizations);
Three new leader traits (Charismatic, Protective and Imperialistic);
Unique buildings for each civilization;
Three new wonders;
New units, resources, and improvements;
Core gameplay tweaks and additions;
Inclusion of all patches released for original Civilization IV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Beyond_the_Sword
New content includes:
10 new civilizations and leaders (Babylonia, Byzantine Empire, Ethiopian Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Khmer Empire, the Mayans, Native Americans, Netherlands, Portugal and Sumer)
6 new leaders for existing civilizations (Abe Lincoln, de Gaulle, Boudica, Darius I, Suleiman the Magnificent and Pericles).
25 new units, 18 buildings and new technologies added primarily to the late game.[16]
11 new scenarios.[5]
6 new Wonders of the World.
New diplomatic resolutions through the United Nations.
Then you had Civ4: Colonization which was a standalone remake of the original Colonization with the Civ4 engine.
So Civ4 did exactly what Blizzard plans to do: add unique civilizations and single-player scenarios to be played along with other general improvements.
The only difference between Blizzard and Firaxis is Blizzard is upfront about how they are going to split up single player content and have yet to divulge their pricing scheme.
How is that new edition of Newspeak coming along?
To quote P.T. Barnum: "There's a fucker born every minute."