Don't worry, as I'm sure we all remember, they're trying to kill the internet too.
for national security, they are Throttling, and Blocking all those child-molesting internet users for the greater good.
Get online, go to your alloted 3 AoL recommended sites per day, be sure to watch your commercials. We'll contact you with tomorrows content later. Welcome to internet 3.0
And your children grow up in a world where this is the norm... and their government bends it a bit further.
All rights won't be lost at once, it's a slow erosion that will defeat our grandchildren... for their parents grew up in a world where the chains were on our necks, how much is it to bow?
Seriously, if I ran google I'd get sick as hell of this crap. That's how china runs things, and anyone doing business there has to comply to their laws. Subject to local laws, as it (for good or bad) should be. I know I wouldn't want my products/services based on forign laws.
As far as companys go, googles about the only 'good guys' we have... naive? Maybe. But they've gone to bat for the good team more then once... I'll give them the benifit of the doubt when they are making a tool to HELP us that it isn't going to kill us all and rape our corpses.
As in all things; Ballence.
It's wrong to have everyone equal, regardless or effort or skill... however it's also wrong for someone to abuse the systems in place to aquire to much that there isn't enough left over.
Finding that ballence is always going to be a fight... those with everything don't want to share their toys, and those with none resent them.
The republicans know that misinformation will sway people. All the facts in the world can't keep up with lies.
So what if you are proven wrong later, the point is to say what you want to be true loud as possible, and even if half the people find out its a lie, you've gotten the other half.
Compare this for example:
Snope.com shows this for emails and spam received about McCain; 3 articals, 2 true, 1 partialy true but the lie was swayed toward McCain. http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/mccain.asp
I'm not saying the rep party is sending these out or any such tinfoil hat nonsense, I'm saying look at the mentality that shows.
This spam email hits enough people who take it as fact that it is effecting things. (How many people still belive we swallow dozens of spiders a year while sleeping?)
The type of work being done is a large part of if the IM is a good or bad thing.
On a job where short, quick answers will solve an issue, it is fantastic. Tech support work is a prime example, especially if those using it are capable of multi-tasking enough to not only help other techs, but do so without slowing the flow of their own work.
However, other lines of work can't get by as well with quick-direct communication. Legal work for example often will need to be focused into email, not only for the added detail that implys, but for record keeping and storage.
In either case though, having IM avalible (if discuraged in some cases) is a useful tool... but like any tool it needs to be used correctly.
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Don't worry, as I'm sure we all remember, they're trying to kill the internet too. for national security, they are Throttling, and Blocking all those child-molesting internet users for the greater good. Get online, go to your alloted 3 AoL recommended sites per day, be sure to watch your commercials. We'll contact you with tomorrows content later. Welcome to internet 3.0
And your children grow up in a world where this is the norm... and their government bends it a bit further. All rights won't be lost at once, it's a slow erosion that will defeat our grandchildren... for their parents grew up in a world where the chains were on our necks, how much is it to bow?
Seriously, if I ran google I'd get sick as hell of this crap. That's how china runs things, and anyone doing business there has to comply to their laws. Subject to local laws, as it (for good or bad) should be. I know I wouldn't want my products/services based on forign laws.
As far as companys go, googles about the only 'good guys' we have... naive? Maybe. But they've gone to bat for the good team more then once... I'll give them the benifit of the doubt when they are making a tool to HELP us that it isn't going to kill us all and rape our corpses.
Bend over and take it, because they will do what they want, when they want. It's not your internet, it's theirs. Was fun while it lasted guys
As in all things; Ballence. It's wrong to have everyone equal, regardless or effort or skill... however it's also wrong for someone to abuse the systems in place to aquire to much that there isn't enough left over. Finding that ballence is always going to be a fight... those with everything don't want to share their toys, and those with none resent them.
While you are saying that, would you mind disabling your cellphone, gps, tv, and anything else space travel has given you? k thx
Should have named it Icarus
The republicans know that misinformation will sway people. All the facts in the world can't keep up with lies.
So what if you are proven wrong later, the point is to say what you want to be true loud as possible, and even if half the people find out its a lie, you've gotten the other half.
Compare this for example:
Snope.com shows this for emails and spam received about McCain; 3 articals, 2 true, 1 partialy true but the lie was swayed toward McCain.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/mccain.asp
While it shows this for Obama.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
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I'm not saying the rep party is sending these out or any such tinfoil hat nonsense, I'm saying look at the mentality that shows.
This spam email hits enough people who take it as fact that it is effecting things. (How many people still belive we swallow dozens of spiders a year while sleeping?)
Just food for thought.
The type of work being done is a large part of if the IM is a good or bad thing. On a job where short, quick answers will solve an issue, it is fantastic. Tech support work is a prime example, especially if those using it are capable of multi-tasking enough to not only help other techs, but do so without slowing the flow of their own work. However, other lines of work can't get by as well with quick-direct communication. Legal work for example often will need to be focused into email, not only for the added detail that implys, but for record keeping and storage. In either case though, having IM avalible (if discuraged in some cases) is a useful tool... but like any tool it needs to be used correctly.