You don't just spy on enemies. Spying on friends is a good way to know how to push them diplomatically or to know how to reach a bargain with them. Happens ALL the time.
You say that like it's a good thing. What kind of friend is that?
The US is not at war with Mexico, what business did they have doing that? Highly unethical IMO. The value is that it lets the President of Mexico know that his "friends" are spying on his emails. Friends tell friends when other friends are being dicks behind their back.
Did you see a problem when the NSA started indiscriminately spying on communications?
Good luck, the last world leader who tried to trade oil in something other than US dollars was soon hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him...
LOLZ DUM OCCUPIERS BUNCH OF USEFUL IDIOTS FOR DARK LORD SOROS HAR HAR!!1!ONE!
Yet when the Koch brothers dump millions directly into the Tea Party's 2 main organizing foundations, one of which they founded and run, that's exactly the same thing.
If there's top-down Democratic support, why would they take away TV cameras when they send in cops to bust up the camps, or organize a protest which is very nearly as much against themselves as the other parties? And why haven't they done any more than pay a little lip service to OWS causes? Man they sure are shitty at organizing a conspiracy.
The charcoal should really be sealed off from the biosphere somehow, if you burn it or bury it the machine is carbon-neutral rather than carbon-negative.
It's going to get worse too. I think the movie In Time gives a good idea of what would happen if life extension became trivially cheap and easy for anyone to have. "Life credits" would have to be used to cap-and-trade lifespans, and then guess what...
I hope all the companies working on life extension know what they're playing with.
Because it looks a lot more suspicious to drive a knife into someone's heart, than to press a button on your bluetooth headset which launches the attack code on your phone...
Maybe they don't want the gene sequence patented by some outside party which could make tests and vaccines harder to access. Prior art wasn't worth shit before, and it's not worth half a shit under the new explicit first-to-file system.
I had to read it about 10 times very slowly, but after a couple of minutes I figured out that he's trying to say that both the newspaper's phone hacking and Snowden's leaks were both unauthorized access to information, and that since the Guardian acted against the unauthorized access to information in the case of the phone hacking scandal, they should have acted against the unauthorized access to information in the case of the Snowden leaks by keeping quiet about it.
I guess that's how people think when they have a religious duty to authority in place of a good system of ethics and morals.
That's actually how I see it, and I think it might finally bring about some change to the shitty economic system holding our civilization back. I'm equally OK with either outcome, I know the collapse would be hard.
He says laws are insufficient, and proposes that these surveillance technologies should have built-in artificial limitations that defy the will of the user. What does that sound like?
Silicon Valley startups' ideas are mostly worthless by themselves. It's the real estate, hipster glasses, and quirky offices that have value. Being inside the Silicon Valley circle jerk, where VCs freely blow loads of money on startups is what has value.
An overly-high IQ might not be a good thing, it's likely to make the kid a miserable outcast. Better to have an average-intelligence popular kid who will have lots of friends in college and make many connections with the children of rich kids, each one worth as much as a good solid degree, never mind the easy joke major he/she will have the luxury of studying.
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You don't just spy on enemies. Spying on friends is a good way to know how to push them diplomatically or to know how to reach a bargain with them. Happens ALL the time.
You say that like it's a good thing. What kind of friend is that?
The US is not at war with Mexico, what business did they have doing that? Highly unethical IMO. The value is that it lets the President of Mexico know that his "friends" are spying on his emails. Friends tell friends when other friends are being dicks behind their back.
Did you see a problem when the NSA started indiscriminately spying on communications?
Good luck, the last world leader who tried to trade oil in something other than US dollars was soon hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him...
There are a good number of deities to choose from in libertarianism. Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Ludwig von Mises...
He just needs to come out of the asshole closet like the people in the Facebook commercials. No point being a closet asshole.
How the hell did Soros ever get to be a conservatives' bogeyman? He crashed the UK economy to make his fortune for fuck sake.
$185k of his dollars may have indirectly made it's way to one of the early promoters of OWS:
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/reuters_george_soros_is_secretly_behind_occupy_wall_street/
LOLZ DUM OCCUPIERS BUNCH OF USEFUL IDIOTS FOR DARK LORD SOROS HAR HAR!!1!ONE!
Yet when the Koch brothers dump millions directly into the Tea Party's 2 main organizing foundations, one of which they founded and run, that's exactly the same thing.
If there's top-down Democratic support, why would they take away TV cameras when they send in cops to bust up the camps, or organize a protest which is very nearly as much against themselves as the other parties? And why haven't they done any more than pay a little lip service to OWS causes? Man they sure are shitty at organizing a conspiracy.
The charcoal should really be sealed off from the biosphere somehow, if you burn it or bury it the machine is carbon-neutral rather than carbon-negative.
It's going to get worse too. I think the movie In Time gives a good idea of what would happen if life extension became trivially cheap and easy for anyone to have. "Life credits" would have to be used to cap-and-trade lifespans, and then guess what...
I hope all the companies working on life extension know what they're playing with.
The same reason all acknowledged attack vectors are left open: Convenience and carelessness.
Because it looks a lot more suspicious to drive a knife into someone's heart, than to press a button on your bluetooth headset which launches the attack code on your phone...
This "Tea Party" isn't getting funding from the execs of the top closed-source megacorps, are they?
Maybe they don't want the gene sequence patented by some outside party which could make tests and vaccines harder to access. Prior art wasn't worth shit before, and it's not worth half a shit under the new explicit first-to-file system.
I had to read it about 10 times very slowly, but after a couple of minutes I figured out that he's trying to say that both the newspaper's phone hacking and Snowden's leaks were both unauthorized access to information, and that since the Guardian acted against the unauthorized access to information in the case of the phone hacking scandal, they should have acted against the unauthorized access to information in the case of the Snowden leaks by keeping quiet about it.
I guess that's how people think when they have a religious duty to authority in place of a good system of ethics and morals.
Hahaha that's rich, the same Hilary who was caught being the driving force behind spying activities in Cablegate?
Never liked her, she's totally two-faced, even by politicians' standards.
That's actually how I see it, and I think it might finally bring about some change to the shitty economic system holding our civilization back. I'm equally OK with either outcome, I know the collapse would be hard.
Man I hope you're right, this would be way better than everyone just being totally apathetic about privacy. There is a lot of precedent...
Or maybe he doesn't have that much say in the matter...
It's the only way to move past this stupid, broken, obsolete economic system.
He says laws are insufficient, and proposes that these surveillance technologies should have built-in artificial limitations that defy the will of the user. What does that sound like?
Silicon Valley startups' ideas are mostly worthless by themselves. It's the real estate, hipster glasses, and quirky offices that have value. Being inside the Silicon Valley circle jerk, where VCs freely blow loads of money on startups is what has value.
Sounds like the plant equivalent of a Xenomorph 8-(
Nice. So if someone has no interest in supporting a family, it doesn't matter you are going to force the job to not exist through price controls?
No it means the employee just has a high fraction of disposable income.
Call it iOrgy and people will automatically believe that you invented it.
I'd expect we'd be on it from the start, just a natural extension of all the forms of discrimination in use today...especially in HR departments.
An overly-high IQ might not be a good thing, it's likely to make the kid a miserable outcast. Better to have an average-intelligence popular kid who will have lots of friends in college and make many connections with the children of rich kids, each one worth as much as a good solid degree, never mind the easy joke major he/she will have the luxury of studying.