No. The solution is to upgrade their infrastructure. That's what we paid them for a decade ago. Japan is rocking 100+ mb/s while ISPs in America are limping with a 1-5 due to their greed.
Your "solutions" just create more problems for the same businesses Comcast wants no competition with. Comcast is the problem, not their competitors. Nothing has changed.
A quick google resulted in an affordable price of $999. Pocket change to the typical corporate entity. Toilet paper to the typical banker. That's not taking into account who could be doing the work(self interest) or who could be influencing them to get it done(or take a trip to Abu Ghraib).
there is more than enough work examining DNA from crime scenes to keep them busy, without data mining random DNA as well.
Not true. DNA analysis is a rarity in many murder cases. Hell, any investigation at all is uncommon, unless it's a white family with money. Law enforcement doesn't have the budget for them all.
We, by which I mean the DNA analysis crowd, are a long way from anything which could be applied on a large enough scale to pose a genuine threat to someones 'DNA Privacy'.
Forget about DNA privacy, what about my privacy? A simple test can determine whether you're biologically connected to your parents, have diabetes, are lactose intolerant, have bipolar disorder, what you're allergic to, your risk of arthritis, even if you have dry earwax, etc., etc., etc., and why.
Honestly, there are big enough problems to solve without wasting time on sensationalist bullshit like this.
Why should we pick and choose? And I don't see how not being thrilled this information is in the hands of our increasingly corrupt government and law enforcement is "wasting time".
I'm surprised to see high-modded 'insightful' suggestions towards fighting government tyranny that amounts to filling your shoes with rocks and taking dance lessons(don't forget your tinfoil hat), and that this sort of hopelessness has become increasingly popular around the world.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass
This is great. It should be accessible to the public at all times.
That's a nice fantasy. Unfortunately this is the real world, and if you think the government and law enforcement are going to just hand over their leverage against the public than you're very naive. You run the chance of jail time for trying anything of the sort.
They have no access whatsoever to our bank accounts. There's a reason we keep our funds locked away from greedy fingers. If they want me to pay, send a bill. If I don't pay it, send a notification/warning letter. If I still don't, take me to court. Under no circumstances do you become their property.
Spying on it's citizens, taking prisoners, and lying to start wars is what the Bush administration has been doing
There, fixed that for you.
Once you have any evidence of this administration's "taking bribes or favors" in the above-described manner, be sure to send that evidence to Senator Reed, Congresswoman Pelosi, and other leading opposition figures
A bit difficult, seeing as how they've been shredding(or as they call it, 'losing') all of it the past 8 years.
That you come off as completely apathetic and an apologist for this bullshit is downright disturbing.
You're missing the big picture. There's a very wealthy(and getting wealthier every day from our wars, oil prices, etc.) group of individuals, 'behind the curtain' if you will, who are very interested in globalization. The US will never become a third-world country. It will be weakened to the point where it's no longer separate from countries such as China(they're already entitled to a significant percentage from our deficit).
To quote one of them, David Rockefeller, from his Memoirs,
For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
There has been an abundance of McCain articles. Use the search function up top.
Now can someone tell me what reason is there to back him? I'm not crazy about Obama either, but fucking McCain? This guy gives the Daily Show and Colbert Report so much material to work with it isn't even funny(seriously he's Bush III except worse, if that's even possible).
Every time I see a McCain supporter, I think back to Orwell's notes on nationalism and sigh.
If only one vote was all it took. Unfortunately, we're likely to elect another warmongering elitist that will keep up the steady pace to totalitarianism, stripping away the people's rights, catering to corporations who also take a collective shit on the people, and you can blame Americans for being ignorant, again.. for the 3rd(higher?) time, or more likely, being douchebags.
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I wish I could mod you up.
No. The solution is to upgrade their infrastructure. That's what we paid them for a decade ago. Japan is rocking 100+ mb/s while ISPs in America are limping with a 1-5 due to their greed.
Your "solutions" just create more problems for the same businesses Comcast wants no competition with. Comcast is the problem, not their competitors. Nothing has changed.
Do you have any idea how much DNA analysis costs?
A quick google resulted in an affordable price of $999.
Pocket change to the typical corporate entity. Toilet paper to the typical banker. That's not taking into account who could be doing the work(self interest) or who could be influencing them to get it done(or take a trip to Abu Ghraib).
there is more than enough work examining DNA from crime scenes to keep them busy, without data mining random DNA as well.
Not true. DNA analysis is a rarity in many murder cases. Hell, any investigation at all is uncommon, unless it's a white family with money. Law enforcement doesn't have the budget for them all.
We, by which I mean the DNA analysis crowd, are a long way from anything which could be applied on a large enough scale to pose a genuine threat to someones 'DNA Privacy'.
Forget about DNA privacy, what about my privacy? A simple test can determine whether you're biologically connected to your parents, have diabetes, are lactose intolerant, have bipolar disorder, what you're allergic to, your risk of arthritis, even if you have dry earwax, etc., etc., etc., and why.
Honestly, there are big enough problems to solve without wasting time on sensationalist bullshit like this.
Why should we pick and choose? And I don't see how not being thrilled this information is in the hands of our increasingly corrupt government and law enforcement is "wasting time".
Terrorists that are looking more and more like any government opposing persons. There are organized databases, covert disruptive operations, large-scale surveillance systems, and methods to psychologically analyze you such as these.
I'm surprised to see high-modded 'insightful' suggestions towards fighting government tyranny that amounts to filling your shoes with rocks and taking dance lessons(don't forget your tinfoil hat), and that this sort of hopelessness has become increasingly popular around the world.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass
This is great. It should be accessible to the public at all times.
That's a nice fantasy. Unfortunately this is the real world, and if you think the government and law enforcement are going to just hand over their leverage against the public than you're very naive. You run the chance of jail time for trying anything of the sort.
They have no access whatsoever to our bank accounts. There's a reason we keep our funds locked away from greedy fingers. If they want me to pay, send a bill. If I don't pay it, send a notification/warning letter. If I still don't, take me to court. Under no circumstances do you become their property.
I don't love the waterboarding, but I don't think, it is a big deal.
We both know waterboarding isn't the only torturemethod going on in these prisons.
Spying on it's citizens, taking prisoners, and lying to start wars is what the Bush administration has been doing
There, fixed that for you.
Once you have any evidence of this administration's "taking bribes or favors" in the above-described manner, be sure to send that evidence to Senator Reed, Congresswoman Pelosi, and other leading opposition figures
A bit difficult, seeing as how they've been shredding(or as they call it, 'losing') all of it the past 8 years. That you come off as completely apathetic and an apologist for this bullshit is downright disturbing.
and too many people are looking.
At their television sets maybe.
You're missing the big picture. There's a very wealthy(and getting wealthier every day from our wars, oil prices, etc.) group of individuals, 'behind the curtain' if you will, who are very interested in globalization. The US will never become a third-world country. It will be weakened to the point where it's no longer separate from countries such as China(they're already entitled to a significant percentage from our deficit).
To quote one of them, David Rockefeller, from his Memoirs,
For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
Alas, this will probably be modded -1 tinfoil.
There has been an abundance of McCain articles. Use the search function up top.
Now can someone tell me what reason is there to back him? I'm not crazy about Obama either, but fucking McCain? This guy gives the Daily Show and Colbert Report so much material to work with it isn't even funny(seriously he's Bush III except worse, if that's even possible).
Every time I see a McCain supporter, I think back to Orwell's notes on nationalism and sigh.
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Someone should have told this guy about the internet's porn.
If only one vote was all it took. Unfortunately, we're likely to elect another warmongering elitist that will keep up the steady pace to totalitarianism, stripping away the people's rights, catering to corporations who also take a collective shit on the people, and you can blame Americans for being ignorant, again.. for the 3rd(higher?) time, or more likely, being douchebags.
You know, nothing is stopping you from starting your own website to compete for intellectual discussions. The more the better.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -George W. Bush, current president
There's more than enough information in parent's post. Someone mod him up.