Nope. MBAs are running the companies. It's rule by con artists who pretend to know more than economists, engineers, sociologists and politicians. They are creating a world without a functioning middle class - a feature, not a bug.
They are looking for under-29, preferably under-25, recently graduated PhDs with 15 years experience in _______, _______, ________, and _____________, dress like bankers, require no training, and will work 60+ hours a week for about fourteen dollars an hour. As independent contractors. From India. With visas that make them essentially voiceless indentured servants. In Bismark, North Dakota.
Not their fault that the talent pool is so limited.
If you renounce your citizenship, they make it pretty much impossible to return to the US anyway. They do not treat you well at the border if you try to enter. Imagine the scene as the armored USA-USA border patrol looks at your papers. They specialize in making AMERICANS miserable; imagine indeed what they do to "traitors".
Using Google Translate, we get some new rhetorical fallacies:
Most are criminals! = Maxime sunt reos Because they are guilty! = Quia sunt reos
Examples: 1. We should allow people to use a phone anonymously, because free speech sometimes requires secrecy to prevent the powerful from punishing the speakers. (Supreme Court decision, BTW, anon pamphleteering).
Response: Then criminals would use the phones to harass employers or order illegal drugs, indulge in pedophilia, organize crimes, or wage terror on us. This cannot happen: quia sunt reos (they are guilty).
2. People should be allowed to copy media, as they always have done, because to do otherwise requires a panoptikon police state never before seen in human history, A Bad Thing indeed.
Response: Most will perform illegal deeds: maxime sunt reos (most are criminals).
Enormous numbers of cars, perhaps most, are being driven about our roads with illegal content in the car or the bodies of the drivers. Many are going places where the occupants will be performing illegal acts. Many have movie or music players that can play illegally ripped content for the occupants' pleasure. They certainly transport almost 100% of all criminals. Crime is EVERYwhere, if you lower your threshold on what "crime" is (watch a movie). QED shut down the roads.
Really, the "majority are criminals" logical argument is quite novel. We should coin a Latin phrase for it. We can selectively shut down almost anything we like using it. Singapore everywhere.
That's why the 11 months, that's why the easily refuted charges, the pointless lying by the security forces. They aren't punishing him as much as they are demonstrating what they can do to YOU or YOU or YOU, if you get lippy.
It's working. People are shutting up. You can't meter what ain't there, but public disagreement with the established police state is muted by these endless arrests. People don't want to go into debt for the rest of their lives, lose their jobs and their families, just to say "I disagree."
Stay tuned for Rahm Emmanuel's series of lessons in Chicago later this week. It's Tuesday, and already the security forces are running helicopters overhead. We have LDAPs! Let the schoolin' begin.
Not a chance in hell. Too much money. And college football is a religion in the U.S. Watch and observe denial behavior in action - it's educational. This will take decades to stop, and the supporters will scream "Liberals and government don't tell us what to do!" and "You haven't proven anything!" the entire bloody way. I can name the other topics they similarly fight the bad fight on, but that would depress all of us. A century from now, with thousands of dead players dissected and shown to be damaged, they will STILL print textbooks to tell their children that It Is A Controversy.
You named boxing and football as occupations with deceleration injuries comparable to, say, military service. No... soldiers do not receive hundreds or thousands of collision/stop injuries. A single bomb would do it; but that's just one shock, not thousands. If they show brain damage, they should be sent home, and frequently are. I can't think of any other non-sport job that requires head-on collisions as a price to play. Both boxing and football are killer sports.
Football players have operated for a century without the knowledge their brains are being damaged. Now, they discover that they are being slowly killed, and will die young if they are lucky, or live to an old age of dementia and depression. "Get over it" ain't gonna do it. They did not accept the hazard; no one had looked for its existence before. Informed consent was lacking. Now that we know we're operating the Hunger Games in slow motion, what are we going to do about it? Lie to ourselves? Ignore it? No other business would be allowed to continue killing its employees this way. Money has nothing to do with it. How much do you think dying at 42 with a damaged brain is worth? The current crop of former players are just now finding out they are doomed. The younger ones don't know or don't care - that's part of being young. If there was a televised game, let's say, of watching college kids hit themselves in the head with hammers until they drop - would that be legal? Would bets be allowed? How about Russian Roulette? Minefield dodging? Setting yourself on fire? All those things would just kill you instantly. Football kills you ten years after your retire, when no one is looking.
You are misusing logic. If we went by that standard, nothing would be responsible for anything.
It is reasonable to assume that thousands of head-on collisions would damage the brain. Even one car crash can cause lifelong tissue damage; imagine what hundreds or thousands do.
That stipulated, you look for evidence. No-one had actually looked before, not really; we're sociologically prone to not look, because we like football. It's like asking people to look for brain damage caused by kneeling to pray to God, and I don't think that's too extreme a comparison.
Evidence was looked for, and found in abundance. Football players who received such shocks to the brain show, post-mortem, significant damage to the tissues. Live players who submit to tests show similar damage to their living brains. Such damage is not normally found in people who do not receive shocks to the brain for a living. It is found in those who do.
At this point, this is a done deal. Throwing people around and suddenly slamming them to a stop causes brain damage resulting in reduced capacity, depression, strange behavior, and eventually, for some, death by repeated trauma.
Now. What do we do about it? Football, American style, is crippling and killing the players. Do we stop? If not, why not? How far does the human delusion go in the face of reality?
For mesh networks, we really need one of the former TV channels. Fat chance they let us do it; we could subvert the entire system they've built on the dark backend which they use to monitor everyone. A true Little Brother TV channel mesh network wouldn't need the internet backbones, not if it were cheap, easy, and used its own protocols. So it will be illegal. But, as I said elsewhere on the talkback, don't let that stop you.
Man, after ten years of watching the internet slide into being something resembling a privately-run prison system, a light glimmers.
Damn it, yes. Use da lasers. We need alternative cheapnets that go around the massively centralized and monitored leylines that the commercial and government spooks have utterly co-opted.
Lasers on the roofs, encrypted comm, backbones sneakily flashed around the countryside. Move the switches and bridges into software on commodity hardware, so they can't be controlled by manufacturers working with spooks. Move DNS into decentralized networks. Build an alternative to the US-controlled internet. Goodness defined.
Illegal in 3... 2... 1... but don't let that stop you all. Sex outside of marriage was felonious once. So is betting on cards and ladies showing their ankles. What is illegal today is a joke tomorrow.
Because life is not completely safe. If you fly, and you crash, you usually die... we can't make everything as safe as we'd like. Otherwise why leave the house.
"Freedom" for whom, that's the question. We, the people, who need more network capacity, and could easily get it for pennies if we paid for it with taxes, like our roads, are now paying enormously more for shrinking, monitored, censored communications. And it's going to get worse.
Image what our roads would be like if we had built them with a "free market" model. Constricted, gated, metered, and ten times more expensive. And most of us would walk.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
'The only music that you can hear for free is when the birds sing,' said Stingray CEO Eric Boyko
Please do go fuck yourself, Mr. Eric Boyko.
Free music has existed for over a thousand centuries without you, and will go on after you and your vicious little pack of horse thieves are long dead.
Thanks for reminding me how evil the music "industry" is. I've sort of forgotten since the Napster days how much it needs to expire. Not one more penny for music distributors. We'll give the cash to the musicians.
Sell door-to-door fake roof repairs to Alzheimer's patients, Mr. Boyko - your true calling.
It's a false choice forced on us by the telcos and cable companies. Netflix could, and did, offer hi-def streaming content - until Comcast and the others slammed down bandwidth caps, for the unspoken but obvious purpose of destroying first Netflix's video and audio quality, and secondly to destroy Netflix outright by slowly ratcheting down the caps while making their own offerings cap-free. Netflix could offer Blu-ray quality. iTunes already nearly does. We've been screwed by the pipe owners. As I said 12 years ago right here in Slashdot, don't let the people who control the pipes own the water as well. This is what happens.
No, Macs do not get viruses. This type of malware is not a virus; it does not infect, does not travel from mac to mac, and does not install without permission. The malware is installed precisely because someone gives it permission. You can't stop people from installing malware - it's just human nature. If this is a virus, than so is Facebook.
It's not a virus, but a trojan. A trojan can be considered a virus, but in this case the term is misleading. A virus infects your computer without your permission or action. A trojan requires the user of the computer to install a program, usually by faking them out. You can screen for viruses, but you can't stop people from clicking "yes" to "You have a virus! Download THIS app now!". Macs don't have any known viruses, and people who don't understand this are the very people who keep installing the bloody trojans.
Chip is not necessary. Put it into cars and phones and you've got almost everyone covered. No need to bond the tracker to the body. They could use bracelets or anklets for that, as they do now for all the tens of thousands they can't fit into jails and prisons. Not everyone - just the lawbreakers. And with full time internet, phone, and personal location tracking, it'll be damned hard not to be caught breaking any number of thousands of laws. A hell of a lot of people are going to be sporting locked trackers in the future. Maybe even a majority. Wouldn't be too hard to make the anklet/bracelet check for drugs, either, as it's touching the skin.
Not a problem. They "watched" you walk up to the hyperbaric chamber, so that's not going to help you. "They" aren't stupid, and will have a lot of AI and their own personal experience to figure out why the readings went off into Narnia for a few minutes. In a decade or two, trying to mess with the tracker will be a felony, anyway, if people become too annoyingly successful at beating it. (plasma separator centrifuge would be funny, or a model rocket, or a quad copter, or tying it to a wild wolf... so many options).
Your statement isn't even misleading. It's intentionally obtuse. Of course the chip doesn't phone home. It passes the tracking info to the phone itself, which of course can both log and transmit your trail to whomever has the power to ask for it. It's like saying a gun doesn't kill. Well, technically, a human has to pull the trigger (+4 Informative). I don't know why so many people try to obfuscate the obvious. They, and that's a broad freaking THEY, want to track everyone. Except business owners (that'd be communistic), the very wealthy, law enforcement, Homeland Security, and those who make the laws, of course.
As I posted only weeks ago, this means that even if you turn off your phone, or the GPS tracking, or even walk under a radio shield of some kind, the phone will extrapolate where you are based on your last verified map-pin by using solid state gyroscope, clock, and 3-axis accelerometer. The only need for radio will be to correct inevitable errors. Turning off the bloody phone, or "turning off the GPS", or putting it in a steel box, or perhaps even removing the user-accessible battery (there'll be a backup, guaranteed) won't stop it from tracking you. Sales my tired soul, this is DHS tracking.
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Nope. MBAs are running the companies. It's rule by con artists who pretend to know more than economists, engineers, sociologists and politicians. They are creating a world without a functioning middle class - a feature, not a bug.
They are looking for under-29, preferably under-25, recently graduated PhDs with 15 years experience in _______, _______, ________, and _____________, dress like bankers, require no training, and will work 60+ hours a week for about fourteen dollars an hour. As independent contractors. From India. With visas that make them essentially voiceless indentured servants. In Bismark, North Dakota.
Not their fault that the talent pool is so limited.
If you renounce your citizenship, they make it pretty much impossible to return to the US anyway. They do not treat you well at the border if you try to enter. Imagine the scene as the armored USA-USA border patrol looks at your papers. They specialize in making AMERICANS miserable; imagine indeed what they do to "traitors".
You don't come back.
Si Reos uti, tunc oportet interficiam
"If criminals use it, then we must destroy it"
or just
Reos uti (criminals use it)
Using Google Translate, we get some new rhetorical fallacies:
Most are criminals! = Maxime sunt reos
Because they are guilty! = Quia sunt reos
Examples:
1. We should allow people to use a phone anonymously, because free speech sometimes requires secrecy to prevent the powerful from punishing the speakers. (Supreme Court decision, BTW, anon pamphleteering).
Response: Then criminals would use the phones to harass employers or order illegal drugs, indulge in pedophilia, organize crimes, or wage terror on us. This cannot happen: quia sunt reos (they are guilty).
2. People should be allowed to copy media, as they always have done, because to do otherwise requires a panoptikon police state never before seen in human history, A Bad Thing indeed.
Response: Most will perform illegal deeds: maxime sunt reos (most are criminals).
Enormous numbers of cars, perhaps most, are being driven about our roads with illegal content in the car or the bodies of the drivers. Many are going places where the occupants will be performing illegal acts. Many have movie or music players that can play illegally ripped content for the occupants' pleasure. They certainly transport almost 100% of all criminals. Crime is EVERYwhere, if you lower your threshold on what "crime" is (watch a movie). QED shut down the roads.
Really, the "majority are criminals" logical argument is quite novel. We should coin a Latin phrase for it. We can selectively shut down almost anything we like using it. Singapore everywhere.
That's why the 11 months, that's why the easily refuted charges, the pointless lying by the security forces. They aren't punishing him as much as they are demonstrating what they can do to YOU or YOU or YOU, if you get lippy.
It's working. People are shutting up. You can't meter what ain't there, but public disagreement with the established police state is muted by these endless arrests. People don't want to go into debt for the rest of their lives, lose their jobs and their families, just to say "I disagree."
Stay tuned for Rahm Emmanuel's series of lessons in Chicago later this week. It's Tuesday, and already the security forces are running helicopters overhead. We have LDAPs! Let the schoolin' begin.
Not a chance in hell. Too much money. And college football is a religion in the U.S. Watch and observe denial behavior in action - it's educational. This will take decades to stop, and the supporters will scream "Liberals and government don't tell us what to do!" and "You haven't proven anything!" the entire bloody way. I can name the other topics they similarly fight the bad fight on, but that would depress all of us. A century from now, with thousands of dead players dissected and shown to be damaged, they will STILL print textbooks to tell their children that It Is A Controversy.
You named boxing and football as occupations with deceleration injuries comparable to, say, military service. No... soldiers do not receive hundreds or thousands of collision/stop injuries. A single bomb would do it; but that's just one shock, not thousands. If they show brain damage, they should be sent home, and frequently are.
I can't think of any other non-sport job that requires head-on collisions as a price to play. Both boxing and football are killer sports.
Football players have operated for a century without the knowledge their brains are being damaged. Now, they discover that they are being slowly killed, and will die young if they are lucky, or live to an old age of dementia and depression. "Get over it" ain't gonna do it. They did not accept the hazard; no one had looked for its existence before. Informed consent was lacking.
Now that we know we're operating the Hunger Games in slow motion, what are we going to do about it? Lie to ourselves? Ignore it? No other business would be allowed to continue killing its employees this way. Money has nothing to do with it. How much do you think dying at 42 with a damaged brain is worth? The current crop of former players are just now finding out they are doomed. The younger ones don't know or don't care - that's part of being young.
If there was a televised game, let's say, of watching college kids hit themselves in the head with hammers until they drop - would that be legal? Would bets be allowed? How about Russian Roulette? Minefield dodging? Setting yourself on fire? All those things would just kill you instantly. Football kills you ten years after your retire, when no one is looking.
You are misusing logic. If we went by that standard, nothing would be responsible for anything.
It is reasonable to assume that thousands of head-on collisions would damage the brain. Even one car crash can cause lifelong tissue damage; imagine what hundreds or thousands do.
That stipulated, you look for evidence. No-one had actually looked before, not really; we're sociologically prone to not look, because we like football. It's like asking people to look for brain damage caused by kneeling to pray to God, and I don't think that's too extreme a comparison.
Evidence was looked for, and found in abundance. Football players who received such shocks to the brain show, post-mortem, significant damage to the tissues. Live players who submit to tests show similar damage to their living brains. Such damage is not normally found in people who do not receive shocks to the brain for a living. It is found in those who do.
At this point, this is a done deal. Throwing people around and suddenly slamming them to a stop causes brain damage resulting in reduced capacity, depression, strange behavior, and eventually, for some, death by repeated trauma.
Now. What do we do about it? Football, American style, is crippling and killing the players. Do we stop? If not, why not? How far does the human delusion go in the face of reality?
For mesh networks, we really need one of the former TV channels. Fat chance they let us do it; we could subvert the entire system they've built on the dark backend which they use to monitor everyone. A true Little Brother TV channel mesh network wouldn't need the internet backbones, not if it were cheap, easy, and used its own protocols. So it will be illegal. But, as I said elsewhere on the talkback, don't let that stop you.
Man, after ten years of watching the internet slide into being something resembling a privately-run prison system, a light glimmers.
Damn it, yes. Use da lasers. We need alternative cheapnets that go around the massively centralized and monitored leylines that the commercial and government spooks have utterly co-opted.
Lasers on the roofs, encrypted comm, backbones sneakily flashed around the countryside. Move the switches and bridges into software on commodity hardware, so they can't be controlled by manufacturers working with spooks. Move DNS into decentralized networks. Build an alternative to the US-controlled internet. Goodness defined.
Illegal in 3... 2... 1... but don't let that stop you all. Sex outside of marriage was felonious once. So is betting on cards and ladies showing their ankles. What is illegal today is a joke tomorrow.
Now, pity we can't use the former TV channels.
Because life is not completely safe. If you fly, and you crash, you usually die... we can't make everything as safe as we'd like. Otherwise why leave the house.
"Freedom" for whom, that's the question. We, the people, who need more network capacity, and could easily get it for pennies if we paid for it with taxes, like our roads, are now paying enormously more for shrinking, monitored, censored communications. And it's going to get worse.
Image what our roads would be like if we had built them with a "free market" model. Constricted, gated, metered, and ten times more expensive. And most of us would walk.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
-Lifeline, published 1939
"I have to agree. If record companies are so evil, why are bands so keen to get record deals? "
Weed and booze. Not the best mind sharpeners.
Please do go fuck yourself, Mr. Eric Boyko.
Free music has existed for over a thousand centuries without you, and will go on after you and your vicious little pack of horse thieves are long dead.
Thanks for reminding me how evil the music "industry" is. I've sort of forgotten since the Napster days how much it needs to expire. Not one more penny for music distributors. We'll give the cash to the musicians.
Sell door-to-door fake roof repairs to Alzheimer's patients, Mr. Boyko - your true calling.
It's a false choice forced on us by the telcos and cable companies. Netflix could, and did, offer hi-def streaming content - until Comcast and the others slammed down bandwidth caps, for the unspoken but obvious purpose of destroying first Netflix's video and audio quality, and secondly to destroy Netflix outright by slowly ratcheting down the caps while making their own offerings cap-free.
Netflix could offer Blu-ray quality. iTunes already nearly does. We've been screwed by the pipe owners. As I said 12 years ago right here in Slashdot, don't let the people who control the pipes own the water as well. This is what happens.
No, Macs do not get viruses. This type of malware is not a virus; it does not infect, does not travel from mac to mac, and does not install without permission. The malware is installed precisely because someone gives it permission. You can't stop people from installing malware - it's just human nature. If this is a virus, than so is Facebook.
It's not a virus, but a trojan. A trojan can be considered a virus, but in this case the term is misleading. A virus infects your computer without your permission or action. A trojan requires the user of the computer to install a program, usually by faking them out. You can screen for viruses, but you can't stop people from clicking "yes" to "You have a virus! Download THIS app now!". Macs don't have any known viruses, and people who don't understand this are the very people who keep installing the bloody trojans.
Chip is not necessary. Put it into cars and phones and you've got almost everyone covered. No need to bond the tracker to the body. They could use bracelets or anklets for that, as they do now for all the tens of thousands they can't fit into jails and prisons. Not everyone - just the lawbreakers. And with full time internet, phone, and personal location tracking, it'll be damned hard not to be caught breaking any number of thousands of laws. A hell of a lot of people are going to be sporting locked trackers in the future. Maybe even a majority. Wouldn't be too hard to make the anklet/bracelet check for drugs, either, as it's touching the skin.
Not a problem. They "watched" you walk up to the hyperbaric chamber, so that's not going to help you. "They" aren't stupid, and will have a lot of AI and their own personal experience to figure out why the readings went off into Narnia for a few minutes. In a decade or two, trying to mess with the tracker will be a felony, anyway, if people become too annoyingly successful at beating it. (plasma separator centrifuge would be funny, or a model rocket, or a quad copter, or tying it to a wild wolf... so many options).
Your statement isn't even misleading. It's intentionally obtuse. Of course the chip doesn't phone home. It passes the tracking info to the phone itself, which of course can both log and transmit your trail to whomever has the power to ask for it. It's like saying a gun doesn't kill. Well, technically, a human has to pull the trigger (+4 Informative).
I don't know why so many people try to obfuscate the obvious. They, and that's a broad freaking THEY, want to track everyone. Except business owners (that'd be communistic), the very wealthy, law enforcement, Homeland Security, and those who make the laws, of course.
As I posted only weeks ago, this means that even if you turn off your phone, or the GPS tracking, or even walk under a radio shield of some kind, the phone will extrapolate where you are based on your last verified map-pin by using solid state gyroscope, clock, and 3-axis accelerometer. The only need for radio will be to correct inevitable errors.
Turning off the bloody phone, or "turning off the GPS", or putting it in a steel box, or perhaps even removing the user-accessible battery (there'll be a backup, guaranteed) won't stop it from tracking you. Sales my tired soul, this is DHS tracking.