This is impossible, no private enterprise builds infrastructure, works on long term projects, etc. Only governments do that.
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For the sarcastically challenged: Ellison is expecting some form of a return from this purchase, all purchases that are not for consumption are investments and he is not going to 'consume' his properties, so whatever it is he does with infrastructure, etc., it's all designed to try and create revenue streams, which is what private enterprise does and which is why infrastructure projects should all be privately funded, then their economic viability, success or failure are on the backs of the owners and not tax payers.
...perchlorate is used within the pyrotechnics industry, and ammonium perchlorate is also a component of solid rocket fuel.... researchers propose a biochemical approach for the removal of perchlorate from Martian soil that would not only be energetically cheap and environmentally friendly, but could also be used to obtain oxygen both for human consumption and to fuel surface operations.
It lowers water freezing point:
Furthermore, seasonal flow features seen on Mars may be caused by high concentrations of the brines of perchlorate, which has a strong attraction to water and can drastically lower its freezing point, Smith told SPACE.com
and it's a poison for humans:
"It's bad for astronauts because it is toxic for humans, as it interferes with the thyroid," he said.
So read these signs, Mars is even more difficult for human exploration than previously understood, but it provides potential energy source for machines to fuel themselves.
This only means that if we are going to do something in the near future, it's going to be more robots powered by perchlorate chemical reactions.
Government discriminates and over time government grows to become more and more abusive, especially when government connected people's interests are at stake, news at 11.
The forums right now are filled with comments that are calling for Snowden's head, I have heard calls to radio shows that lust for Snowden's blood. He has proven to be damaging not only to the politicians, but also to egos of the 'common' people, who find him to be too good of a person to compare themselves to him and so they hate him for showing what they are to themselves.
There are plenty of NSA and other government agents flooding the Internet with all this propaganda, but there are likely 1000 times more actual USEFUL IDIOTS living their pathetic empty every day lives, being used as an instrument of fearmongering and hate, being used as a voting block or by these 'opinion polls', they provide the necessary background noise and support for the governments destroying individual freedoms.
I hope Ed Snowden thought hard before he did what he did and understood that the response to his actions will not be all rosy from the public, he knew what the response would be from governments, hopefully he didn't fool himself into thinking that the public will be united on his side and the side of individual freedoms.
After all, the people actually do deserve the governments that they had (though personally I think we must at some point get over this very idea that central governments are even necessary at all and shut them down entirely).
Large majority of the population chooses to be kept in the dark, it's their ideal world, where they are kept in the dark as long as the gov't delivers on the promise to subsidise their daily routine nonsense.
Except now they'll have to call it Senior. Arnold and Danny are happily married (to each other) and want to have another kid, for some reason they call him John Connor and it's Christian Bale, who grows up to become Batman.
I just wanted to see where this was and who was Woz talking with.
Anyway, he is right that the common people don't think about these things, common people don't think about pretty much anything in their lives, they just take things for granted as things happen, they don't think about affecting anything, changing anything.
However Woz is wrong that 'trouble comes from the top', the trouble starts from within. It's exactly the problem with the modern era that 'common people' and (his words) 'high thinkers, intellectuals, philosophers' are given the same vote. That's how the problems start, common people provided with the power to set policy via their majority vote and then they vote for long term destruction of the country by voting for politicians that promise short term gain (stealing from minorities and redistributing) and as freedoms of minorities erode first, eventually government grows big enough to take away everybody's freedoms.
Now, how does this process start precisely, whether it starts at the top that some canning politicians have this long term strategy or maybe canning businessmen that work with canning politicians have this long term strategy... I think it's not even that. I think all such strategies are fairly short term (5-10 years), but it happened periodically in USA that powers were given to government but apparently at first there are enough checks and balances that if a 'right' type of intellectual is found in position of power (a right type of POTUS for example) then this can be reversed.
That's why the current Fed is not the first central bank in USA. But eventually the combination of the exactly wrong (Teddy Roosevelt) POTUS comes to power and the wrong types of ideas (anti-trust laws, then IRS and the Fed) are pushed through.
This quickly corrupts the entire power structure, because it does give government much more power and the apparatus grows very quickly, if it's not killed off at the very beginning, in the first 10 years say, then it's going to be successful and kill the system based on idea of individual freedom.
That progression was clear in USA, from anti-trust laws and beginning of the destruction of private property rights in the case against Standard Oil, to the creation of IRS (initially targeted only top 1-2% for maximum of 7% income) and the Fed (printing money) and then in less than 5 years the Fed is given the power to monetise gov't debt and manipulate interest rates.
That's what it took for USA the last time. Eventually it led to the Fed causing one bubble after another with all the inflation (1921, 1929, 1971, etc). The presidents became bolder and bolder, especially starting with Hoover and FDR, who caused the Great Depression to arise from the recession with all the intervention.
Then the space race and cold war and the related spending, the Medicare and SS to buy more votes, which gave green light to allow prices to start going up because clients were no longer price sensitive. Then all the other departments, from energy to education, again more gov't intervention, subsidies (wars for energy, loan guarantees for education), agriculture of-course, then destruction of real money, shifting the world to fiat currency that allowed massive inflation around the world on an unprecedented scale.
Anyway, there are many chapters here, all leading to bigger and bigger government, more and more 'bread and circuses' mentality with total destruction of self-reliance and initiative, huge increase in feelings of entitlements, more and more obligations shifted to people who still produce. All of this leads to the destruction of productivity and growth of government, as it becomes the biggest economic sector, the biggest employer, the biggest welfare system as well. Every day a number of stories come up how governments want more and more regulations, more and more laws, more and more lawsuits of-course, it seems that this is the status quo of our day and nobody is even noticing the self-destructing trend.
Don't worry for now about the government system itself, until they can readily and reliably convert sound to text and index every word, they won't be tracking you specifically (statistically unlikely). However DO worry about people proposing individual government agents to sell information about individuals and their meta and actual data.
If they offer, say, 20,000,000 for a dump of every 1000th or 100th or 10th (or every ones) person's data, so that the data can be mined and used to build up commercial database that would be used to to steal from you, to sell to you, to sell you to other parties, then you should worry.
Does that mean that every word and every phone conversation is equally important? I think not. But there will be plenty of interesting stuff there.
Your address and SIN are nothing. How about all of your bank accounts and passwords you use online or over phone, your credit cards, your medical insurance information, your taxes, details of your private business, your kids schedules (blackmail, kidnapping) etc.?
I think that is a more likely problem FOR NOW than government using the data specifically against you to throw you into GITMO, it's statistically unlikely to happen. It is much more statistically likely that your data will be sold to data aggregators or just thieves.
Aha, but nobody can force an intern to do a job he doesn't want to do. Going to court because as an intern you agreed to do some things that you think weren't teaching you anything you didn't know.... well, if the court takes your side, then eventually there will be no more internships because it's arbitrary what teaches you to do something vs. something that doesn't teach you anything?
AFAIC as an employer I wouldn't want to hire anybody that brings up a lawsuit against their employers, which is why I wouldn't hire anybody in USA (and most other Western countries).
In USA the internship is the only way for somebody to enter the labour force and actually learn on a job that they could not otherwise land most likely. The minimum wage laws and the socialist State agenda already made it impossible for people to take very low paid position only to be apprentices, so apprenticeship is dead in America because of the minimum wage.
Until now it was quite curious to see that a person couldn't be paid less than minimum wage even if he wanted to (in order to land his first job, where he could learn something rather than spending years in worthless education system, racking up the insurmountable debt.)
Obviously this judge thought that it is unfair to allow people to keep a loophole, where they could still start with a company at a low level by being interns and then learn and eventually progress forward, so if this stands then this would be the last nail in the coffin of apprenticeship in USA as we know it.
As always in the name of 'fairness' the government takes away opportunities. This is the same thing in this case as it is in all other such cases, including minimum wage laws, including various labour regulations that make it expensive to hire people that are just not economically viable at higher wages.
By the way, just count the number of stories in the news where government gets involved in whatever way and says: companies must do this and companies must do that, businesses have all these obligations, from taxes and health care to minimum wages and whatever benefits and conditions (free birth control for some reason, paying people in birth control?) What I want to say is that if you take a step back and look from a higher level at this, you'll see an amazing encroachment on the rights of individuals to agree with each other upon mutually beneficial conditions of employment or other forms of contracts and governments intervening in every aspect of every possible contract and business. You shouldn't be surprised at growing unemployment (and the only reason the gov't is able to declare unemployment as low as 7-8% right now is various accounting tricks, otherwise you'd know that the real unemployment in USA is about quarter of all people that can work).
You can't opt out of rights, it doesn't matter what you sign, the only thing that matters is that the government does not have any authority to do what it is doing, (the mob gave the gov't the power but not legal authority, that would require a Constitutional change)
The only way to give up your rights legally is to authorise the government to have more power by changing the Constitution. Of-course in practice the government has all the power (and none of the Constitutional authority) to do all the things it has been doing for over 100 years now, from 'anti-trust' destruction of private property rights, to all the regulations that also destroy private property rights, rights to association, speech, etc. From anti-trust to OSHA and EPA and Fed and FDIC and SS and Medicare and IRS and departments of all sorts, to the so called 'Patriot Act' and NDAA and the murder of people by order of the POTUS and his kill list.....
They have the power and they even have the courts that tell you that it's OK because it's "legal", but none of this is Constitutional and thus all of this is a crime.
I would hire him, I think many people would hire him and he definitely would not be making 'minimum wage'. He sounds like a very intelligent and knowledgeable guy in his industry.
You would probably call ME right wing, yet I am more liberal socially than most of you.
The republicans would call me... I don't know what, a Martian? I am more conservative than most of them economically.
This NSA thing is a complete outrage, there is no purpose for it, it really has no purpose at all BUT as a huge self-gratification mechanism. Wait, what am I saying? This is a way to STEAL money from people by building this nonsense and it is a way to DISCRIMINATE against people by using information against them.
The data is collected and stored there forever until the government wants to zero in on you, then your specific data can be targeted and scrutinised and something will be used against you in whichever way possible.
From my perspective the only correct solution is to get rid of all central governments immediately, but since that is not going to happen, the next best thing is to vote out everybody involved and vote in only libertarians, but that would take a huge effort because the majority of people are quite set in their beliefs. They want this government for their selfish reasons, they get checks, they get special privileges, they get what they believe are 'protections', etc.etc.
In reality they are slaves themselves and they want others to be slaves as well, that's why they will keep voting for their 'side' and they will not go outside, demanding immediate resignation and impeachment of all people involved in this.
There shouldn't be any 'campaign finance' laws in the first place. Any individual and company should be able to dump as much money as they want into any campaign and do it secretly if they wish so.
That's not the problem, and if you think that by setting some silly limits you can actually prevent problems in politics, you are deluded.
The problem is WHY people want to dump insane amounts of money into political campaigns in the first place, the root cause of this behaviour is that it makes sense to get your own guy into power because it's an investment given the fact that the system is set up TO DISCRIMINATE AND STEAL.
You can't possibly expect people not to try and get their guy into power given the fact that power is used to discriminate and go after individuals and after companies. Power is used to discriminate and steal, it is also used to murder, but that's just a logical extension of the first problem, theft and discrimination.
The real problem is that the government in USA is no longer limited to what it is able to do and to what it does by any laws, by the Constitution and even by the desire of any majority but that specific problem is not related to money itself.
Money is not power, money can be used for power but power in itself is something else. Confusing the two is so dangerous and lacking in understanding. Power is ability to use the system to discriminate and steal and government provides that level of power to individuals and the majority of people actually cheer when governments do that on daily basis.
That's right, majority of people cheer when power in government is used to discriminate and steal. The majority of people gave the government the power by either tacit or explicit approval of such actions. How can any rational individual expect to use this type of power over other individuals and not get a defensive response is beyond me.
If you want to solve the problem of corruption in government you have to APPLY THE LAW. You have to use the law and force the government to live within the chains that the law, the Constitution puts upon the government. You can't remove the chains of the law from the hands of the government (politicians, executives, officials) and not expect massive corruption.
You give them the power and you remove the bounds. You give them the power and you remove the chains. You give them the power and you remove the constraints.
The people have to fight back, we would be dead if we didn't have it built into us to fight back against our attackers and the mob uses the power of the government to attack individuals and companies.
Somehow this amazing duplicity, maybe the cognitive dissonance, this thing that Orwell called blackwhite, this lives within the modern day voters and just people. They want a government big enough to give them what they personally want by using the power to steal and discriminate but they don't want the government to get enough power that they themselves would be the subject of discrimination because the government would sell its power to whoever is successful enough to fight back against the initial discrimination.
You will have to grow up eventually because no amount of patches and laws on top of a broken system will solve the problem, you will have to actually solve the root cause of this problem or you will perish as a nation.
So there is a new weird name for an OS, but how is it really different from any other OS in that every other modern OS can do the same and will be doing the same: allow many input devices and it is up to drivers to take care of what type of device is allowed.
I mean it sound like a system based around specific drivers rather than a generic system that allows any device to be added by allowing drivers as modules.
Every government official more important to me than anybody I ever knew in my life. The State is the only true judge of character, our moral compass, our guiding star.
The politicians know best what is best for everybody and we must obey because they are wise and we are not, so we must listen to everything they say and do as they say.
The mass media is the only true source of real information and whatever we are told in the mass media is what we must follow.
The President is a kind person that only wants the best for his children that we are, we must listen to his words and do as he teaches us, he is wise and all knowing (really, he is all knowing and if you don't do as he says, well)
Anyone who didn't see this coming 12 years ago had their head in the sand or hasn't read their history.
- anyone who didn't see this coming from the year 1911, when the government successfully destroyed private property rights of a large private economy of scale (Standard Oil), anyone who didn't see this coming since 1913, when gov't took the unauthorised power to print money (the Fed) and to steal private property 'Constitutionally' (income related taxes) and since 1917, when government authorised the Fed to monetise gov't debt and not set fake interest rates had their heads in the sand and has no clue about history.
Anyone who didn't see the coming economic collapse since 1971, when the gov't severed the last ties between money real and imaginary is completely oblivious of all history and has no capability of thinking logically.
Also, I don't know if they realise it, pretty much every person sneaks a biological vector attack onto the plane right in their underpants, and I am not talking about bombs, well, not the kind that explode, well, not the kind that explode with shrapnel, well, not with anything made of metal (almost never).
This is probably something that is not what is expected, like some of those steering wheel locks that can be removed by breaking them in half by hitting in the middle of them rather than trying to pick the lock. They are not breaking the encryption, they are breaking the system, going around the expected secure path, not through it.
- for its legitimate purpose - so that government cannot torture you to force you to give up anything (or come up with anything and admit to anything to stop the torture).
You are part of the problem with eroding rights when you make these asinine arguments.
- no, I am being pedantic.
I am also against government criminalising people for any type of pornography including child pornography.
There has to be an actual crime against an actual person committed in order to bring charges against anybody, but there is nothing there except pictures or other form of visual, textual or audio data.
There is no child that is harmed, if a child is harmed, then the people DOING the harm should be caught and tried and punished, not somebody with any video or images or text. This is governmental abuse of power, like the drug war, so it's NOT 'me' that is the problem, it's the mob that gives government unauthorised, unconstitutional powers.
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This is impossible, no private enterprise builds infrastructure, works on long term projects, etc. Only governments do that.
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For the sarcastically challenged: Ellison is expecting some form of a return from this purchase, all purchases that are not for consumption are investments and he is not going to 'consume' his properties, so whatever it is he does with infrastructure, etc., it's all designed to try and create revenue streams, which is what private enterprise does and which is why infrastructure projects should all be privately funded, then their economic viability, success or failure are on the backs of the owners and not tax payers.
It's an energy and useful material source:
...perchlorate is used within the pyrotechnics industry, and ammonium perchlorate is also a component of solid rocket fuel....
researchers propose a biochemical approach for the removal of perchlorate from Martian soil that would not only be energetically cheap and environmentally friendly, but could also be used to obtain oxygen both for human consumption and to fuel surface operations.
It lowers water freezing point:
Furthermore, seasonal flow features seen on Mars may be caused by high concentrations of the brines of perchlorate, which has a strong attraction to water and can drastically lower its freezing point, Smith told SPACE.com
and it's a poison for humans:
"It's bad for astronauts because it is toxic for humans, as it interferes with the thyroid," he said.
So read these signs, Mars is even more difficult for human exploration than previously understood, but it provides potential energy source for machines to fuel themselves.
This only means that if we are going to do something in the near future, it's going to be more robots powered by perchlorate chemical reactions.
Government discriminates and over time government grows to become more and more abusive, especially when government connected people's interests are at stake, news at 11.
The forums right now are filled with comments that are calling for Snowden's head, I have heard calls to radio shows that lust for Snowden's blood. He has proven to be damaging not only to the politicians, but also to egos of the 'common' people, who find him to be too good of a person to compare themselves to him and so they hate him for showing what they are to themselves.
Here is an example of such a phone call, scroll to the beginning of the second hour (minute 60 of the show) and just listen to a guy named Gregory calling in.
There are plenty of NSA and other government agents flooding the Internet with all this propaganda, but there are likely 1000 times more actual USEFUL IDIOTS living their pathetic empty every day lives, being used as an instrument of fearmongering and hate, being used as a voting block or by these 'opinion polls', they provide the necessary background noise and support for the governments destroying individual freedoms.
I hope Ed Snowden thought hard before he did what he did and understood that the response to his actions will not be all rosy from the public, he knew what the response would be from governments, hopefully he didn't fool himself into thinking that the public will be united on his side and the side of individual freedoms.
After all, the people actually do deserve the governments that they had (though personally I think we must at some point get over this very idea that central governments are even necessary at all and shut them down entirely).
For a dollar?
Large majority of the population chooses to be kept in the dark, it's their ideal world, where they are kept in the dark as long as the gov't delivers on the promise to subsidise their daily routine nonsense.
Don't believe me? Look at the comments following mine and the moderation as well, isn't that a choice?
Except now they'll have to call it Senior. Arnold and Danny are happily married (to each other) and want to have another kid, for some reason they call him John Connor and it's Christian Bale, who grows up to become Batman.
He'll be back...
for it.
I just wanted to see where this was and who was Woz talking with.
Anyway, he is right that the common people don't think about these things, common people don't think about pretty much anything in their lives, they just take things for granted as things happen, they don't think about affecting anything, changing anything.
However Woz is wrong that 'trouble comes from the top', the trouble starts from within. It's exactly the problem with the modern era that 'common people' and (his words) 'high thinkers, intellectuals, philosophers' are given the same vote. That's how the problems start, common people provided with the power to set policy via their majority vote and then they vote for long term destruction of the country by voting for politicians that promise short term gain (stealing from minorities and redistributing) and as freedoms of minorities erode first, eventually government grows big enough to take away everybody's freedoms.
Now, how does this process start precisely, whether it starts at the top that some canning politicians have this long term strategy or maybe canning businessmen that work with canning politicians have this long term strategy... I think it's not even that. I think all such strategies are fairly short term (5-10 years), but it happened periodically in USA that powers were given to government but apparently at first there are enough checks and balances that if a 'right' type of intellectual is found in position of power (a right type of POTUS for example) then this can be reversed.
That's why the current Fed is not the first central bank in USA. But eventually the combination of the exactly wrong (Teddy Roosevelt) POTUS comes to power and the wrong types of ideas (anti-trust laws, then IRS and the Fed) are pushed through.
This quickly corrupts the entire power structure, because it does give government much more power and the apparatus grows very quickly, if it's not killed off at the very beginning, in the first 10 years say, then it's going to be successful and kill the system based on idea of individual freedom.
That progression was clear in USA, from anti-trust laws and beginning of the destruction of private property rights in the case against Standard Oil, to the creation of IRS (initially targeted only top 1-2% for maximum of 7% income) and the Fed (printing money) and then in less than 5 years the Fed is given the power to monetise gov't debt and manipulate interest rates.
That's what it took for USA the last time. Eventually it led to the Fed causing one bubble after another with all the inflation (1921, 1929, 1971, etc). The presidents became bolder and bolder, especially starting with Hoover and FDR, who caused the Great Depression to arise from the recession with all the intervention.
Then the space race and cold war and the related spending, the Medicare and SS to buy more votes, which gave green light to allow prices to start going up because clients were no longer price sensitive. Then all the other departments, from energy to education, again more gov't intervention, subsidies (wars for energy, loan guarantees for education), agriculture of-course, then destruction of real money, shifting the world to fiat currency that allowed massive inflation around the world on an unprecedented scale.
Anyway, there are many chapters here, all leading to bigger and bigger government, more and more 'bread and circuses' mentality with total destruction of self-reliance and initiative, huge increase in feelings of entitlements, more and more obligations shifted to people who still produce. All of this leads to the destruction of productivity and growth of government, as it becomes the biggest economic sector, the biggest employer, the biggest welfare system as well. Every day a number of stories come up how governments want more and more regulations, more and more laws, more and more lawsuits of-course, it seems that this is the status quo of our day and nobody is even noticing the self-destructing trend.
Nobody, until some inco
Money.
Don't worry for now about the government system itself, until they can readily and reliably convert sound to text and index every word, they won't be tracking you specifically (statistically unlikely). However DO worry about people proposing individual government agents to sell information about individuals and their meta and actual data.
If they offer, say, 20,000,000 for a dump of every 1000th or 100th or 10th (or every ones) person's data, so that the data can be mined and used to build up commercial database that would be used to to steal from you, to sell to you, to sell you to other parties, then you should worry.
Does that mean that every word and every phone conversation is equally important? I think not. But there will be plenty of interesting stuff there.
Your address and SIN are nothing. How about all of your bank accounts and passwords you use online or over phone, your credit cards, your medical insurance information, your taxes, details of your private business, your kids schedules (blackmail, kidnapping) etc.?
I think that is a more likely problem FOR NOW than government using the data specifically against you to throw you into GITMO, it's statistically unlikely to happen. It is much more statistically likely that your data will be sold to data aggregators or just thieves.
Aha, but nobody can force an intern to do a job he doesn't want to do. Going to court because as an intern you agreed to do some things that you think weren't teaching you anything you didn't know.... well, if the court takes your side, then eventually there will be no more internships because it's arbitrary what teaches you to do something vs. something that doesn't teach you anything?
AFAIC as an employer I wouldn't want to hire anybody that brings up a lawsuit against their employers, which is why I wouldn't hire anybody in USA (and most other Western countries).
In USA the internship is the only way for somebody to enter the labour force and actually learn on a job that they could not otherwise land most likely. The minimum wage laws and the socialist State agenda already made it impossible for people to take very low paid position only to be apprentices, so apprenticeship is dead in America because of the minimum wage.
Until now it was quite curious to see that a person couldn't be paid less than minimum wage even if he wanted to (in order to land his first job, where he could learn something rather than spending years in worthless education system, racking up the insurmountable debt.)
Obviously this judge thought that it is unfair to allow people to keep a loophole, where they could still start with a company at a low level by being interns and then learn and eventually progress forward, so if this stands then this would be the last nail in the coffin of apprenticeship in USA as we know it.
As always in the name of 'fairness' the government takes away opportunities. This is the same thing in this case as it is in all other such cases, including minimum wage laws, including various labour regulations that make it expensive to hire people that are just not economically viable at higher wages.
By the way, just count the number of stories in the news where government gets involved in whatever way and says: companies must do this and companies must do that, businesses have all these obligations, from taxes and health care to minimum wages and whatever benefits and conditions (free birth control for some reason, paying people in birth control?) What I want to say is that if you take a step back and look from a higher level at this, you'll see an amazing encroachment on the rights of individuals to agree with each other upon mutually beneficial conditions of employment or other forms of contracts and governments intervening in every aspect of every possible contract and business. You shouldn't be surprised at growing unemployment (and the only reason the gov't is able to declare unemployment as low as 7-8% right now is various accounting tricks, otherwise you'd know that the real unemployment in USA is about quarter of all people that can work).
So what is a 'well-written but politically unpopular comment' in your opinion?
You can't opt out of rights, it doesn't matter what you sign, the only thing that matters is that the government does not have any authority to do what it is doing, (the mob gave the gov't the power but not legal authority, that would require a Constitutional change)
The only way to give up your rights legally is to authorise the government to have more power by changing the Constitution. Of-course in practice the government has all the power (and none of the Constitutional authority) to do all the things it has been doing for over 100 years now, from 'anti-trust' destruction of private property rights, to all the regulations that also destroy private property rights, rights to association, speech, etc. From anti-trust to OSHA and EPA and Fed and FDIC and SS and Medicare and IRS and departments of all sorts, to the so called 'Patriot Act' and NDAA and the murder of people by order of the POTUS and his kill list.....
They have the power and they even have the courts that tell you that it's OK because it's "legal", but none of this is Constitutional and thus all of this is a crime.
I would hire him, I think many people would hire him and he definitely would not be making 'minimum wage'. He sounds like a very intelligent and knowledgeable guy in his industry.
You would probably call ME right wing, yet I am more liberal socially than most of you.
The republicans would call me ... I don't know what, a Martian? I am more conservative than most of them economically.
This NSA thing is a complete outrage, there is no purpose for it, it really has no purpose at all BUT as a huge self-gratification mechanism. Wait, what am I saying? This is a way to STEAL money from people by building this nonsense and it is a way to DISCRIMINATE against people by using information against them.
The data is collected and stored there forever until the government wants to zero in on you, then your specific data can be targeted and scrutinised and something will be used against you in whichever way possible.
From my perspective the only correct solution is to get rid of all central governments immediately, but since that is not going to happen, the next best thing is to vote out everybody involved and vote in only libertarians, but that would take a huge effort because the majority of people are quite set in their beliefs. They want this government for their selfish reasons, they get checks, they get special privileges, they get what they believe are 'protections', etc.etc.
In reality they are slaves themselves and they want others to be slaves as well, that's why they will keep voting for their 'side' and they will not go outside, demanding immediate resignation and impeachment of all people involved in this.
There shouldn't be any 'campaign finance' laws in the first place. Any individual and company should be able to dump as much money as they want into any campaign and do it secretly if they wish so.
That's not the problem, and if you think that by setting some silly limits you can actually prevent problems in politics, you are deluded.
The problem is WHY people want to dump insane amounts of money into political campaigns in the first place, the root cause of this behaviour is that it makes sense to get your own guy into power because it's an investment given the fact that the system is set up TO DISCRIMINATE AND STEAL.
You can't possibly expect people not to try and get their guy into power given the fact that power is used to discriminate and go after individuals and after companies. Power is used to discriminate and steal, it is also used to murder, but that's just a logical extension of the first problem, theft and discrimination.
The real problem is that the government in USA is no longer limited to what it is able to do and to what it does by any laws, by the Constitution and even by the desire of any majority but that specific problem is not related to money itself.
Money is not power, money can be used for power but power in itself is something else. Confusing the two is so dangerous and lacking in understanding. Power is ability to use the system to discriminate and steal and government provides that level of power to individuals and the majority of people actually cheer when governments do that on daily basis.
That's right, majority of people cheer when power in government is used to discriminate and steal. The majority of people gave the government the power by either tacit or explicit approval of such actions. How can any rational individual expect to use this type of power over other individuals and not get a defensive response is beyond me.
If you want to solve the problem of corruption in government you have to APPLY THE LAW. You have to use the law and force the government to live within the chains that the law, the Constitution puts upon the government. You can't remove the chains of the law from the hands of the government (politicians, executives, officials) and not expect massive corruption.
You give them the power and you remove the bounds.
You give them the power and you remove the chains.
You give them the power and you remove the constraints.
The people have to fight back, we would be dead if we didn't have it built into us to fight back against our attackers and the mob uses the power of the government to attack individuals and companies.
Somehow this amazing duplicity, maybe the cognitive dissonance, this thing that Orwell called blackwhite, this lives within the modern day voters and just people. They want a government big enough to give them what they personally want by using the power to steal and discriminate but they don't want the government to get enough power that they themselves would be the subject of discrimination because the government would sell its power to whoever is successful enough to fight back against the initial discrimination.
You will have to grow up eventually because no amount of patches and laws on top of a broken system will solve the problem, you will have to actually solve the root cause of this problem or you will perish as a nation.
Why bother, you are already paying for this, just call NSA guys and ask them for the schematics, I am sure you'll get them in a short order.
So there is a new weird name for an OS, but how is it really different from any other OS in that every other modern OS can do the same and will be doing the same: allow many input devices and it is up to drivers to take care of what type of device is allowed.
I mean it sound like a system based around specific drivers rather than a generic system that allows any device to be added by allowing drivers as modules.
and they still have their heads up you know where, they still don't understand the problems, the moderation is done by people who still are oblivious.
GOVERNMENT IS MY FRIEND.
I LOVE GOVERNMENT.
Every government official more important to me than anybody I ever knew in my life.
The State is the only true judge of character, our moral compass, our guiding star.
The politicians know best what is best for everybody and we must obey because they are wise and we are not, so we must listen to everything they say and do as they say.
The mass media is the only true source of real information and whatever we are told in the mass media is what we must follow.
The President is a kind person that only wants the best for his children that we are, we must listen to his words and do as he teaches us, he is wise and all knowing (really, he is all knowing and if you don't do as he says, well)
Anyone who didn't see this coming 12 years ago had their head in the sand or hasn't read their history.
- anyone who didn't see this coming from the year 1911, when the government successfully destroyed private property rights of a large private economy of scale (Standard Oil), anyone who didn't see this coming since 1913, when gov't took the unauthorised power to print money (the Fed) and to steal private property 'Constitutionally' (income related taxes) and since 1917, when government authorised the Fed to monetise gov't debt and not set fake interest rates had their heads in the sand and has no clue about history.
Anyone who didn't see the coming economic collapse since 1971, when the gov't severed the last ties between money real and imaginary is completely oblivious of all history and has no capability of thinking logically.
Also, I don't know if they realise it, pretty much every person sneaks a biological vector attack onto the plane right in their underpants, and I am not talking about bombs, well, not the kind that explode, well, not the kind that explode with shrapnel, well, not with anything made of metal (almost never).
This is probably something that is not what is expected, like some of those steering wheel locks that can be removed by breaking them in half by hitting in the middle of them rather than trying to pick the lock. They are not breaking the encryption, they are breaking the system, going around the expected secure path, not through it.
Then why even have it.
- for its legitimate purpose - so that government cannot torture you to force you to give up anything (or come up with anything and admit to anything to stop the torture).
You are part of the problem with eroding rights when you make these asinine arguments.
- no, I am being pedantic.
I am also against government criminalising people for any type of pornography including child pornography.
There has to be an actual crime against an actual person committed in order to bring charges against anybody, but there is nothing there except pictures or other form of visual, textual or audio data.
There is no child that is harmed, if a child is harmed, then the people DOING the harm should be caught and tried and punished, not somebody with any video or images or text. This is governmental abuse of power, like the drug war, so it's NOT 'me' that is the problem, it's the mob that gives government unauthorised, unconstitutional powers.