According to the Huffington Post in 2011, NC ranks 36 in the nation and below average. Not that I take much stock in the Huffington Post. However, I know people that have lived in NC and I was surprised that they ranked as high as they did compared to what I've been told.
I fail to see how this is a straw man. I've not over simplified your statement and tried to argue against that simplification. On the contrary, I've refuted every single point. Granted, both are bullshit as far as I'm concerned, but my point still stands. Indoctrination is occurring for both extreme points of view. I was simply playing devil's advocate
Apparently you didn't notice that last bit. Both extremes are bad IMO. Creating a society of sheep is stupid as there will always be wolves. But if you go too far in the opposite direction you have no society at all
Don't forget the indoctrination being performed for decades on the minds of people:
Society owes you nothing;
if you fail, it's your own fault;
Don't blame others for being treacherous, just be smarter than them;
Your coworker is not your friend, he's after your job;
Anything has value only if it has commercial value;
Merciless competition is the natural way, live with it;
If you're not rich, you're useless scum;
. ..
This is not the way our brains were programmed to work. Without a sense of community, we drown in misery. Without trust, there's no community. The USA is a few steps ahead of Europe in this stupid individualistic mentality. Don't expect your country to go anywhere with this.
There's plenty of indoctrination in the other extreme too:
Society owes you a house, car, food, comfortable life, color TV, etc.
if you fail, it's never your own fault;
The rich and successful got there by being treacherous, just be better than them and take what they have
Your coworker is not your friend, otherwise he'd give you his job;
If it has commercial value, it must be bad
Competition is the evil, obviously if someone wins and someone loses it must be
If you're rich, you got there by being immoral and couldn't have actually worked for it.
. ..
This is not the way our brains were programmed to work. Without a sense of self worth, we drown in misery. Without competition, there's no progress. The EU is a few steps ahead of the US in this stupid herd mentality. Don't expect your country to go anywhere with this either. Some greedy bastards at the top will always take advantage.
There has to be a middle ground of some kind. Total self reliance will never make a great society, but dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator is pretty piss poor too.
Where's the guy with the bus simulator? Or a full size train simulator?
I can't think of anything more boring than flying a 737. I am a flight sim geek as well, but a 737? Sheesh. Its the most boring and actually very simple to fly plane.
A fighter sim is at least fun, especially older prop planes. 737 flying is sitting there staring at a screen for hours on end (in real life or in a sim.)
+10 for geek props, -1000000 for fun factor. Boooooooooring!!
Takes all types I guess!
I'm going to guess that his simulator is a little more complex than any of the computer simulators you have. Besides, if he wanted to fly an older prop fighter, he could have purchased the real thing for the cost of his simulator.
I didn't RTFA, but someone mentioned that he's an air traffic controller. Perhaps he thinks it will help him with his job. Or he would just like to fly one of the aircraft he directs all day long.
It's quite obvious that people are abusing the system and that results in increased prices for everyone. As someone who doesn't abuse that, I welcome the move so we honest people get things cheaper. Screw those who ruin things for everyone else.
It's probably illegal in many states. It varies by state, but the last I knew most had X number of days right of rescission. In some states this is the law, period. In others the retailer can post obvious signs at the register stating their return policy if it differs from the law.
On one hand I agree with your sentiment. But in the case of much of the merchandise that is sold at Best Buys, in home trial periods are common. For example, speakers are something that simply need to be auditioned in home before making the final decision to purchase. This has been common place for virtually any stereo shop for a long time. I think a better policy would be to base this decision around the time of sporting events rather than an all inclusive one. If Best Buys does not understand this, then I guess they will keep losing money. Or they can sell nothing but Bose crap and Monster cables to fools and hope for the best.
How many of us have hexagon drivers, star drivers, etc. that we're not really "supposed" to have? Hell, my uncle had a key to turn his water back on. As in the actual tool the water company uses.
Allen and Torx (hex & star)wrenches are not that hard to find. I probably have three different types (T-handle, driver, and socket) of each set. I also have Triwing (3 blade), security Torq-set (offset 4 blade), Security Torx (hollow center), Security Allen (hollow center), Security Spanner (forked two slot) Roberts (square) and triangle bits. Most of these can be found at either Sears or your local automotive store. Harbor Tools and Amazon also carry various versions of these.. The last time the cable company was at my house I loaned a termination tool and a line toner to the technician because he forgot his at the last house he was at.
1) Place phone on birdfeeder.
2) Fill birdfeeder with catfood.
I doubt dry cat food would upset Blue Jays as they'll eat it, and probably bitch slap any cat that gets too close. But they are a pretty angry bird naturally.
If it's wet cat food, then I'll probably have some angry neighbors after a couple of sunny days.
At least not for me. My phone is an HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5. I can't find any apps for it. I was going to put Angry Birds on it because everyone keeps talking about it, but I don't think it's available. At least I couldn't find it in the two minutes I spent looking for it. Other than that, it already does everything I need it to.
That said, since some devices can and do cause interference, the default should be "don't allow",
No, the default should be fix the goddamn plane. An engineer somewhere needs to be slapped if a small device emitting a few hundred milliwatts can interfere with *anything*.
Commercial aircraft are not some cheap thing to replace/fix like your car or house, or frankly anything that virtually any of us would be able to purchase. The average age of aircraft in most fleets is 14 years old. The Airbus A320 was designed in the early to mid 1980's. The original Boeing 737 went into service in 1967. There were no mp3 players, cell phones, or WiFi devices then. I'm sure the airlines could fix this by purchasing all new planes for their fleets, but then no one who would fly commercial would be able to afford the ticket price. Perhaps the fix is that you need to seek professional help if you find it so impossible to unplug for first and last 10 minutes of a flight.
I'm not sure which I find more surprising. Just how little we seem to know about the planet we live on. Or that we humans are so unobservant that a new species can be found in a city that is a almost 400 years old and none of the 8+ million people noticed this frog until now.
I was approached about working with the NSA
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
The NSA responded to the suit with a so-called 'Glomar' response in which the agency said it could neither confirm nor deny whether any responsive records exist.
The NSA Representative then followed up that they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the NSA as well. The reporters counter question was, "So you're saying that there may, or may not be an arrangement between Google and an agency that may or may not exist?" To which the NSA representative simply replied, "I'm not saying anything." And then promptly morphed into a bubble which shrank out of existence over a three second period of time and vanished with a small pop.
My guess is (s)he works in the medical imaging field where it's pretty common knowledge. It doesn't need to be mentioned in the article. GE scanners run Linux and ran Solaris before that.
Maybe the link have changed from an earlier version. The article is intel.com so I assume that it's main purpose was PR, but still I thought it was pretty ok and it was clear on the improvement that was made (computation time was reduced by a factor of 100).
I have a friend who works for Sapheneia They have been doing this for several years now. Not only have they been able to do this for some time, but they also work with almost any vendors scanner.
Because we live in a software-dominated society, all our common technical lingo is computer-related. Instead of the correct terminology which few would understand, a computer booting is something we all deal with now. Probably there's some kind of capacitor being charged here.
That must be it. Obviously the term "charging" is like some kind of voodoo in comparison to booting a computer. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been at the automotive stores looking for jumper cables and the counter help was surprised to find out there's a battery that needs charging in a car. I mean, hell the Prius is obviously the first car to use this type of pagan magic. Can you imagine going back to the 1950's and telling your mechanic your car's battery might need to be charged? They'd be totally confused by technology like this. I'm sure any mechanic worth his salt, in the 1950's would next ask you if your car was "booting" correctly. They'd probably check to see if the engine is bricked too
Back in that same time period software was so slow. Even with things like radios, you had to wait for them to "boot". Those vacuum tubes were instant on in comparison to the way integrated circuits need to "warm" up now. It's a good thing boot times are so much faster now due to the slow warm up time of the newer ICs. The concept of electronics needing to "warm up " would really set off some serious future shock.
Well, I am ALWAYS of the opinion that more communication is better than less. It also lets the authorities more easily monitor the "opposition" in order to detect those with "bad" intentions. If they cut off all cellular communications, then the real terrorists will simple fall back to other means to coordinate their actions, such as public WiFi access points, satellite links, etc.
Don't get me wrong, giving any agency the power to do this is scary as hell to me. And I'm assuming this is not intended as something that would be done long term. However I did not RTFA, so I may be mistaken. Even so, these are supposed terrorists we're talking about. They are not the CIA or a covert branch of a national military. I seriously doubt there are fall back plans or redundancy in most cases. They trigger a bomb with a cell phone. They don't add secondary WiFi or satellite detonation devices.
Hell, I'm not even sure they want to kill civilians in the US anymore. Making failed attempts seems to be more effective at eroding our freedoms and causing civil unrest. If you think about it, during 9/11 civilians were kill and the country became more unified than it had been for 30+ years prior. Because of this two countries were toppled and al-Qaeda was reduced to a shadow of its former self.
Now if you look at what the failed attempts have done, I'd say they've been vastly more successful, especially considering the loss from retaliation of the terrorist group perpetrating the attempt. One guy fails to blow up a bomb in his shoes and now millions of people have to take their shoes off prior to boarding a plane. One guy tries to detonate a bomb in his pants and millions of people have to be irradiated or groped. What has been the financial cost to the US for all of this added "security"? How much money will it cost the economy to disrupt cell phone communications? They don't need to kill us. Just scare us into giving our freedom away and bankrupt the country at the same time.
Does the FCC have the authority to [regulate local or state authorities' decision to] take down cellular networks if they determine there is an imminent threat?
I'm not sure which scares the hell out of me more. Giving the FCC the power to do this. Or the agency that will have the power to do so if it's not the FCC. I don't like the idea of the FCC having this power, but I like the idea of DHS even less.
We very well may be heading toward an Orwellian future. Sadly we seem to be selling ourselves while making it happen more so than it being thrust upon us. I'm still dumbfounded by shows like the Jersey Shore, Kardasians, etc. These people are rich because they act like (or are) complete morons and do so in front of a camera. Then the masses happily do the same on Youtube for free. And now this. Lets' not forget the domestic drones and other cameras that have been slowly invading our privacy for years.
I remember as a small child being creeped out thinking that the people on the television could see me the same as I could see them. It seems this could very well become reality soon.
Weren't we supposed to have flying cars, no poverty, and shiny cities under glass domes on the moon to go along with the computers, "eyes in the sky", the police state, and video phones? Someone really screwed this up.
Sorry, Mr RIAA CEO, it wasn't a one time deal. As long as you morons try passing this crap, we'll keep protesting. And the protests will only get bigger and bigger.
I so hope you are correct. Sadly that does not seem to be how these things traditionally work. They keep making slight changes and resubmitting them over and over until the public becomes apathetic and finally passing it.
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According to the Huffington Post in 2011, NC ranks 36 in the nation and below average. Not that I take much stock in the Huffington Post. However, I know people that have lived in NC and I was surprised that they ranked as high as they did compared to what I've been told.
I fail to see how this is a straw man. I've not over simplified your statement and tried to argue against that simplification. On the contrary, I've refuted every single point. Granted, both are bullshit as far as I'm concerned, but my point still stands. Indoctrination is occurring for both extreme points of view. I was simply playing devil's advocate
Apparently you didn't notice that last bit. Both extremes are bad IMO. Creating a society of sheep is stupid as there will always be wolves. But if you go too far in the opposite direction you have no society at all
It's a good thing the IMF team in Mumbai was able to abort the detonation of that "meteor".
Don't forget the indoctrination being performed for decades on the minds of people:
This is not the way our brains were programmed to work. Without a sense of community, we drown in misery. Without trust, there's no community. The USA is a few steps ahead of Europe in this stupid individualistic mentality. Don't expect your country to go anywhere with this.
There's plenty of indoctrination in the other extreme too:
Society owes you a house, car, food, comfortable life, color TV, etc.
if you fail, it's never your own fault;
The rich and successful got there by being treacherous, just be better than them and take what they have
Your coworker is not your friend, otherwise he'd give you his job;
If it has commercial value, it must be bad
Competition is the evil, obviously if someone wins and someone loses it must be
If you're rich, you got there by being immoral and couldn't have actually worked for it.
. . .
This is not the way our brains were programmed to work. Without a sense of self worth, we drown in misery. Without competition, there's no progress. The EU is a few steps ahead of the US in this stupid herd mentality. Don't expect your country to go anywhere with this either. Some greedy bastards at the top will always take advantage.
There has to be a middle ground of some kind. Total self reliance will never make a great society, but dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator is pretty piss poor too.
Where's the guy with the bus simulator? Or a full size train simulator?
I can't think of anything more boring than flying a 737. I am a flight sim geek as well, but a 737? Sheesh. Its the most boring and actually very simple to fly plane.
A fighter sim is at least fun, especially older prop planes. 737 flying is sitting there staring at a screen for hours on end (in real life or in a sim.)
+10 for geek props, -1000000 for fun factor. Boooooooooring!!
Takes all types I guess!
I'm going to guess that his simulator is a little more complex than any of the computer simulators you have. Besides, if he wanted to fly an older prop fighter, he could have purchased the real thing for the cost of his simulator.
I didn't RTFA, but someone mentioned that he's an air traffic controller. Perhaps he thinks it will help him with his job. Or he would just like to fly one of the aircraft he directs all day long.
Unfortunately Techno Viking stomped all said life to death in a celebratory dance.
It's quite obvious that people are abusing the system and that results in increased prices for everyone. As someone who doesn't abuse that, I welcome the move so we honest people get things cheaper. Screw those who ruin things for everyone else.
It's probably illegal in many states. It varies by state, but the last I knew most had X number of days right of rescission. In some states this is the law, period. In others the retailer can post obvious signs at the register stating their return policy if it differs from the law. On one hand I agree with your sentiment. But in the case of much of the merchandise that is sold at Best Buys, in home trial periods are common. For example, speakers are something that simply need to be auditioned in home before making the final decision to purchase. This has been common place for virtually any stereo shop for a long time. I think a better policy would be to base this decision around the time of sporting events rather than an all inclusive one. If Best Buys does not understand this, then I guess they will keep losing money. Or they can sell nothing but Bose crap and Monster cables to fools and hope for the best.
How many of us have hexagon drivers, star drivers, etc. that we're not really "supposed" to have? Hell, my uncle had a key to turn his water back on. As in the actual tool the water company uses.
Allen and Torx (hex & star)wrenches are not that hard to find. I probably have three different types (T-handle, driver, and socket) of each set. I also have Triwing (3 blade), security Torq-set (offset 4 blade), Security Torx (hollow center), Security Allen (hollow center), Security Spanner (forked two slot) Roberts (square) and triangle bits. Most of these can be found at either Sears or your local automotive store. Harbor Tools and Amazon also carry various versions of these.. The last time the cable company was at my house I loaned a termination tool and a line toner to the technician because he forgot his at the last house he was at.
You can get angry birds easily on any platform.
1) Place phone on birdfeeder. 2) Fill birdfeeder with catfood.
I doubt dry cat food would upset Blue Jays as they'll eat it, and probably bitch slap any cat that gets too close. But they are a pretty angry bird naturally. If it's wet cat food, then I'll probably have some angry neighbors after a couple of sunny days.
At least not for me. My phone is an HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5. I can't find any apps for it. I was going to put Angry Birds on it because everyone keeps talking about it, but I don't think it's available. At least I couldn't find it in the two minutes I spent looking for it. Other than that, it already does everything I need it to.
That said, since some devices can and do cause interference, the default should be "don't allow",
No, the default should be fix the goddamn plane. An engineer somewhere needs to be slapped if a small device emitting a few hundred milliwatts can interfere with *anything*.
Commercial aircraft are not some cheap thing to replace/fix like your car or house, or frankly anything that virtually any of us would be able to purchase. The average age of aircraft in most fleets is 14 years old. The Airbus A320 was designed in the early to mid 1980's. The original Boeing 737 went into service in 1967. There were no mp3 players, cell phones, or WiFi devices then. I'm sure the airlines could fix this by purchasing all new planes for their fleets, but then no one who would fly commercial would be able to afford the ticket price. Perhaps the fix is that you need to seek professional help if you find it so impossible to unplug for first and last 10 minutes of a flight.
I'm not sure which I find more surprising. Just how little we seem to know about the planet we live on. Or that we humans are so unobservant that a new species can be found in a city that is a almost 400 years old and none of the 8+ million people noticed this frog until now.
It was a triangle and not a rectangle. And it was the star that was full of triangles, not the other way around. ;-)
It's from Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. The title character is explaining why he shouldn't use his intelligence to benefit the government.
I know, but it's just not as funny when it's in text. It sounds more like a lunatic rant.
I was approached about working with the NSA Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
Forgot to take your meds today, eh? ;-)
The NSA responded to the suit with a so-called 'Glomar' response in which the agency said it could neither confirm nor deny whether any responsive records exist.
The NSA Representative then followed up that they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the NSA as well. The reporters counter question was, "So you're saying that there may, or may not be an arrangement between Google and an agency that may or may not exist?" To which the NSA representative simply replied, "I'm not saying anything." And then promptly morphed into a bubble which shrank out of existence over a three second period of time and vanished with a small pop.
4. No mention of linux
My guess is (s)he works in the medical imaging field where it's pretty common knowledge. It doesn't need to be mentioned in the article. GE scanners run Linux and ran Solaris before that.
Maybe the link have changed from an earlier version. The article is intel.com so I assume that it's main purpose was PR, but still I thought it was pretty ok and it was clear on the improvement that was made (computation time was reduced by a factor of 100).
I have a friend who works for Sapheneia They have been doing this for several years now. Not only have they been able to do this for some time, but they also work with almost any vendors scanner.
Because we live in a software-dominated society, all our common technical lingo is computer-related. Instead of the correct terminology which few would understand, a computer booting is something we all deal with now. Probably there's some kind of capacitor being charged here.
That must be it. Obviously the term "charging" is like some kind of voodoo in comparison to booting a computer. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been at the automotive stores looking for jumper cables and the counter help was surprised to find out there's a battery that needs charging in a car. I mean, hell the Prius is obviously the first car to use this type of pagan magic. Can you imagine going back to the 1950's and telling your mechanic your car's battery might need to be charged? They'd be totally confused by technology like this. I'm sure any mechanic worth his salt, in the 1950's would next ask you if your car was "booting" correctly. They'd probably check to see if the engine is bricked too
Back in that same time period software was so slow. Even with things like radios, you had to wait for them to "boot". Those vacuum tubes were instant on in comparison to the way integrated circuits need to "warm" up now. It's a good thing boot times are so much faster now due to the slow warm up time of the newer ICs. The concept of electronics needing to "warm up " would really set off some serious future shock.
What mechanical operation requires 16 hours of prep?
Windows.
I guess you need to be really sure you want to open the ones in your house then.
Mark Hamil has been in so many block buster films since Star Wars- should be easy to get footage of him to use.
"Don't fuck with the Jedi master, son." -Cock-Knocker
Well, I am ALWAYS of the opinion that more communication is better than less. It also lets the authorities more easily monitor the "opposition" in order to detect those with "bad" intentions. If they cut off all cellular communications, then the real terrorists will simple fall back to other means to coordinate their actions, such as public WiFi access points, satellite links, etc.
Don't get me wrong, giving any agency the power to do this is scary as hell to me. And I'm assuming this is not intended as something that would be done long term. However I did not RTFA, so I may be mistaken. Even so, these are supposed terrorists we're talking about. They are not the CIA or a covert branch of a national military. I seriously doubt there are fall back plans or redundancy in most cases. They trigger a bomb with a cell phone. They don't add secondary WiFi or satellite detonation devices.
Hell, I'm not even sure they want to kill civilians in the US anymore. Making failed attempts seems to be more effective at eroding our freedoms and causing civil unrest. If you think about it, during 9/11 civilians were kill and the country became more unified than it had been for 30+ years prior. Because of this two countries were toppled and al-Qaeda was reduced to a shadow of its former self.
Now if you look at what the failed attempts have done, I'd say they've been vastly more successful, especially considering the loss from retaliation of the terrorist group perpetrating the attempt. One guy fails to blow up a bomb in his shoes and now millions of people have to take their shoes off prior to boarding a plane. One guy tries to detonate a bomb in his pants and millions of people have to be irradiated or groped. What has been the financial cost to the US for all of this added "security"? How much money will it cost the economy to disrupt cell phone communications? They don't need to kill us. Just scare us into giving our freedom away and bankrupt the country at the same time.
Does the FCC have the authority to [regulate local or state authorities' decision to] take down cellular networks if they determine there is an imminent threat?
I'm not sure which scares the hell out of me more. Giving the FCC the power to do this. Or the agency that will have the power to do so if it's not the FCC. I don't like the idea of the FCC having this power, but I like the idea of DHS even less.
Just lower the legal age for marriage. They tend to put on 5 lbs. per year after the wedding. ;-)
We very well may be heading toward an Orwellian future. Sadly we seem to be selling ourselves while making it happen more so than it being thrust upon us. I'm still dumbfounded by shows like the Jersey Shore, Kardasians, etc. These people are rich because they act like (or are) complete morons and do so in front of a camera. Then the masses happily do the same on Youtube for free. And now this. Lets' not forget the domestic drones and other cameras that have been slowly invading our privacy for years.
I remember as a small child being creeped out thinking that the people on the television could see me the same as I could see them. It seems this could very well become reality soon.
Weren't we supposed to have flying cars, no poverty, and shiny cities under glass domes on the moon to go along with the computers, "eyes in the sky", the police state, and video phones? Someone really screwed this up.
Sorry, Mr RIAA CEO, it wasn't a one time deal. As long as you morons try passing this crap, we'll keep protesting. And the protests will only get bigger and bigger.
I so hope you are correct. Sadly that does not seem to be how these things traditionally work. They keep making slight changes and resubmitting them over and over until the public becomes apathetic and finally passing it.