Because some kids have religious parents and don't want them to take music or go to a competing religious ceremony? Somehow that shows the truth that they get euphoric when jews get murdered? Huh?
Or the school system in London is somehow leading to Slashdot being controlled by Islam?
Or that it's dangerous to criticize Islam In Europe?
Because so far nothing in the offhand story from your teacher friend in London lends weight to anything he's mentioned in this thread.
Hey, radicalized Islam sucks. Radicalized Christianity sucks too. You'd probably get the same sort of reaction from some people here in the states if the choir was invited to the science center. (And also that anti-evolution "Discovery Center" place. I know I would) Moderate amounts of religion is perfectly fine. This guy who went nuts drank WAY too deep of the religious rhetoric. But he could have just as easily come from the deep south or conservative parts of Poland or Utah or Latin America and the story would have been the same. And of course a school should try and cater to the parents, why wouldn't it?
I'd say that there is a strong political factor lashing out against people who condemn the strict uptight and unreasonable religious conservatism of Islam while also somehow supporting their own strict uptight and unreasonable flavor of religious conservatism. The hypocrisy is just a little too thick. Hey, let's imagine your teacher friend told a student that their parents religion is stupid and they should come sing at the cathedral. Can you imagine the clusterfuck that teacher would face if they tried to tell a staunch Baptist that their religion was stupid and they should let their kids sing the call to prayer at a mosque? And maybe, just maybe, it's not that the parents believe music is against Islam, but rather the choir at the public school has too close of ties to the catholic church for the tastes of the Islamic parents? You know, what with being invited to a cathedral and all.
And of course trying to lump everyone in a religion to a few nutballs is wrong. Saying all Muslims are terrorists is as laughable as saying all gay people are fashionable, all Christians don't believe in evolution, or all Trump supporters want to watch the world burn. That's classic stereotyping, and while it might be easy and tempting, it's wrong. If you want everyone to be open-minded and free, GREAT. Part of that is accepting people who aren't as open-minded as you. And as long as they don't shoot up a bunch of gays, or celebrate anyone's murder, they're allowed to keep their kids away from whatever they feel like.
But please, explain to me exactly what this truth is you're trying to get at.
Animals do not, generally, behave as amoral rapists, murderers and child molesters.
Ho, ho, HO! Someone needs to spend some quality time googling about duck penises and otters. There's a wide and terrifying world of nature out there and youtube and wikipedia are just waiting to provide you some nightmare fuel.
Yo. Whenever I start posting on Slashdot again, I typically get more mod points than I care to spend. I know, I know, it's good to self-police the community, but it just takes so much time.
And after looking at your comment..... Yeah, I'd mod down that piece of shit.
Seriously: " in actual fact, part of the European continent becomes hyper-euphoric every time Jews got murdered" !?
What the fuck are you smoking? You're coming off as unhinged and unstable. You're suggesting Muslims are in control of Europe. Which is laughable at best. Crazed conspiracy theorist at worst. In your head, parts of Europe celebrate Jewish people getting murdered. You're a crackpot. Batshit crazy. Off your meds. Deserving of the final moderation you received. What's scary is that there are 3 other people with mod points who actually agree with you.
Well alright, if the cops don't need a warrant to go find the location data from anyone's cell phone, then neither do I.
Gimme the past 2 years of movement of Trump, Clinton, and Sanders. And the names and paths of all those who intersected them within 30 feet for more than an hour.
Let me see who has visited the white house in the past decade, and what rooms they went into.
When have the paths of two congressmen crossed for more than 20 minutes outside of congress? Hell, let's throw CEOs in that search as well.
As none of this is now protected by the 4th amendment and enjoys no legal right to privacy, they should be perfectly fine with this data being openly searchable by the masses. If big brother wants to watch, then little brother should stare right back.
I'm hoping this election cycle results in the GOP splitting in two.
How does that happen without the Democrats splitting similarly?
Well, the republicans will form two parties while the democrats remain united and as a bigger voting bloc they curb-stomp the republicans. That's the whole "split-vote" thing.
You know, kind of like if the TEA partiers decided to buck the authority of the GOP and went their own way and didn't play nice with the group. They'd try to run their own candidate that wouldn't be popular enough with the GOP at large while simultaneously taking votes away from the GOP's top choice and he'd drop out of the race today.
Oh look. It happened. So.... get ready for that curb-stomping in November. Clinton's less then ideal, but holy shit vs Trump!? Not even a contest.
Oh, so you're a totally neutral party with no partisanship one way or the other? Both Hilary and Trump are terrible candidates eh?
You clearly have issues with Hilary and have listed them. Let's hear why you dislike Trump. There's PLENTY to choose from. Go on, list for us why Trump would be such a terrible president. Show us that you're not just a partisan hack.
. . . Seriously? You're trying to shoe-horn Trump into this debate? I know it's an election year, but come on.
Anyway, you want examples of why I don't like Trump, SURE THING! There are SO MANY. I don't actually know of any homophobic behaviour, but I'd say he's more of a racist, lying, anti-intellectual asshole with no regard for the truth. The majority of his entire shtick is a confidence-man con game.
He's suggested immigrants from Mexico are drug dealers and thieves. "They’re rapists And some, I assume, are good people.”
He's supported the idea that vaccines cause autism. Seriously, he's an anti-vaxxer.
Even more laughable is that he's a Birther: “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud". And I'll bet my ass that he's simply lying about his source. It seems to fit his character.
He's simply lied about John Oliver inviting him onto the show. That's a petty little thing, but it shows that he simply lies off the cuff.
“It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!”
I didn't know about him particularly being a women-hater, but a quick look yields plenty. So HEY! feeding the trolls turns out to be an educational experience.
"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”
Some harsh digs at a media CEO, calling her ugly. Threatening Cruz's wife. Saying Rosie should be fired for being fat and ugly. He goes for the low blows.
And he's generally a braggart. He likes to call himself rich, a winner, and truthful. I have my doubts. And I would never want to be lead by someone who lies so casually and so easily. The bullshit threshold has been exceed, the bozo bit has been flipped.
No, the problem is that this time it's EXACTLY THE SAME. Know your history.
"A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.[79]"
If you were on the top of the pile, things were great. And veeeeeerrrrry slowly things got better for the masses. In England they just waited 3 generations. In America they did it at the end of Sherman's hammer and with the rise of unions. Do you want 3 generations of unemployed? And frankly, the UBI crowd sounds a lot like the union crowd. That's a better alternative, but it's not great. I'm open to suggestions.
Hey, we're on slashdot. We've got techy degrees and pretty ok jobs (if the god-damn HW guys would get me an answer why their bloody AMCC is feeding me garbage). Take your typical person with an IQ of 100. How well do you think they'd be able to do your job? Having millions of people transition to learning to be factory workers was an ordeal with a bunch of hardships. Having billions of people transition to knowledge workers will likely also have troubles. Even now we have economist hardliners who simply think college is over-priced and over-rated. China probably has it worse. They have one generation of rice-farmers, one generation of factory workers, and they're trying to jump straight to knowledge workers.
We've been dealing with disruptive technology for a while though. Arguably, disruption is the new normal. The rate of change is what's concerning to me. When my father was learning his trade, there was no such thing as software engineers. When my son decides what he's going to do with his life, things will be different. But I doubt he's going to a manual laborer, paper-pusher, truck driver, secretary, garbage man, or a cashiere. God help him if he isn't smart. Because the sub-100 IQ crowd looks to be facing a lot of competition. But maybe I'm just a worrying father.
I imagine he lies awake at night worrying about losing the free world the same way that J Edgar Hoover lied awake at night worrying about losing the free world. But both of them are simply wrong.
It turns out that letting black people vote, and letting women get jobs didn't destroy America. Hoover was simply wrong about that. Sure, there were race riots in LA. And there's been a lot of yelling about cops shooting black people. But it has not spelled the end of the United States of America. Hoover's subversion of the democratic process did FAR more to threaten the USA then those actors he was trying to thwart. There was no need to spy on MLK nor run a smear campaign against him. There was no need to radicalise the black panthers and help them pull off an assassination. There was no need to run a dragnet on academics. Now, he was also trying to thwart the commie bastards. And he failed. They simply had a better spy campaign then we did. But we were ideologically better and more aligned with reality, so it didn't really matter. Give it time. Even China is capitalistic now. (More then we are, by some measures)
And terrorism? The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 3,000 corpses in NYC is, with no disrespect to the dead, chump change in the larger picture. Simply put, these radicals have no hope of threatening the existence of the USA. The worst they can do is piss us off enough to go get a bunch of people killed in the desert (most of whom had no connection to the terrorists).
What he should lie awake at night worrying about is all of the clandestine and blatantly illegal operations he signed off on coming to light and spending the rest of his days in prison. But hell, he can bold-faced lie at a congressional hearing to a senator who has the clearance to know he's lying and still somehow not get charged with anything. So who knows how much dirt he has on everyone.
Oh man, I ran square into this just last week. This guy was claiming to work in big data as an economist. Said any sort of inefficiency should ultimately impact the GDP. I countered that, there are lies, damned lies, and statistic and that it might not make him comfortable, but the metrics he's using could be lying to him.
And get this: "I work with data. Statistics is for losers".... Can you believe that guy? Even after I point out that while every call to Map() might sort data very nicely, every Reduce() call AGGRIGATES data into a statistic, he still stuck to his guns and claimed to be somehow holier then icky statistics.
The LAST thing in the world your health-insurance is likely to underwrite is something which will extend your natural lifespan to something preternatural.
Huh? This doesn't make any sense at all. Health insurance companies have to pay out when you get sick. As happens when you get old. Indeed, what really ends up killing people is the inability to pay for the meds which are keeping them alive. They don't want you to get sick. They want you to keep paying them.
Life insurance companies would LOVE this. They are betting that you DON'T die soon. If you have life insurance, you are betting that DO die sooner rather than later. You know, just in case.
Can you imagine the impact of such a move, were it to occur, on the broken pension/SS/medicare system and the negative interest rate economy in general?
Yeah, people will no longer have to retire and live on a pension/SS or collect medicare benefits as they're NO LONGER OLD. That sounds fantastic.
Can you imagine the situation when billionaires -- and only billionaires -- can afford to live forever?
Yes, and that sounds horrible. For this part at least, your fear-mongering is on target. But #3 is simply backwards.
Gather round children, it's time old uncle Sherman played his favourite tune called Collusion.
Now when the young little cats get to hissin' n' scratching
You can bet all them rats are a hidin' and a quakin'
All the kittens that compete get a nice little treat
And the market is nice and free.
Buuuuuuuuuuut,
When the cats dun grow fat... and they can't scratch their back
And they get an old friend to help
Well we call that a scam what a horrible sham
And ol' sherman dun gets out his belt
Cause them rats get to play all the night and all day
And they dun shit on all of our pay.
With a whip and whap I take care o' all that
And them cats get to lose a few pounds.
Now children, you might remember when your kitten was a darling little cute thing and it was full of spit and fire trying to make the world a better place. But times change and kittens grow into cats. And cats get fat with power and wealth. And then it's time to take them out back teach them some proper manners.
Personally, I thought it would take longer. I gave Google until the time that the founders stepped down. In retrospect, it was awfully nice of them to have a name-change to indicate the moment when they decided to grow goatees and give into the bean counters and business suits.
the group of students who were preventing the officers from leaving.
Huh? The cops were surrounded by students at a couple points, yeah, but the ones they sprayed were the ones sitting in on the ground. Not the ones surrounding them.
Then a mob surrounded the officers to block them from leaving and demanded the release of the people who had been arrested. It's those people, the mob, who got sprayed. Watch the video if you're still confused.
Uh, huh.... Was there another spraying incident I'm not aware of? Man, if only someone hadn't tried to fuck with the search results.
Hiring an SEO company to bury your embarrassing search results IS trying to erase it from the internet. As best they can at least.
They really didn't need to be removed. They were "blocking" the sidewalk in the middle of a commons. There were sidewalks going around all the borders. There were PLENTY of people walking around them. Oh noes, walking in the grass. TERRIBLE. It was a token gesture of protest.
And hey, sure, removal by force is needed sometimes. Sometimes people really do need to be arrested. Sometimes, pepperspraying unruly crowds can rout them and make them more manageable and de-escalate the situation. Othertimes it'll just piss them off and justify their unrulyness. There are times to use it, there are times not to. Same way with batons and bullets. The proper use of force as the situation calls for is a key aspect of their proffession. But some use as much force as the situation legally allows them, and those are bad apples, authoritarian jack-boot thugs that should be removed from their position.
The only reason that the administration even sent security to deal with the protesters was to try and remove or reduce their message. It wasn't actually about ensuring right of way on a campus sidewalk. And, likewise, the students weren't actually trying to block anyone, they also were just using the technical letter of the law to provoke a reaction. That the administration rose to that bait and decided to escalate the conflict by pepper-spraying completely docile protestors further shows that they were being punative. They were simply butting heads. And rather than simply reminding the students that they were in fact in charge and had legal authority, they and security decided to also throw in a sucker-punch for good measure.
And then they try and erase it from the Internet!? Spending that much money on it? "Authoritarian thugs" looks spot on.
They certainly were resisting, passive resistance is resistance.
What do you think of a cop shouting "STOP RESISTING" as the baton rises and falls?
I AM NOT ARGUING FOR BACKDOORS, I AM ARGUING FOR THE USE OF A WARRANT
A warrant to go use the backdoor....Unless I'm REALLY mis-reading your statements. That backdoor doesn't exist yet you know. Yes, they can essentially go snoop on a LOT of information about you, sans any real warrant, (Legally, they still need a warrant, but I think we both know that's been worked around).
BUT. Hard encryption is still beyond their power to break. They can't do it on any meaningful scale. Now, if they had Osama Bin Laden's hard drive and he wasn't an idiot, then they might fire up some serious server farms and try and take a crack at it.
If you're arguing that the FBI and CIA and the rest start getting warrants before snooping on people, GREAT. It's a really good idea.
But what do you think those "third party keys" go to?
a controllable munition, where they simply control distribution. That won't stop you from using it, but it only be useable to a few (as great as it is). Tell me how PGP will protect your voicemail and GPS position that tracks your position constantly when there are no authorizations needed to collect it?
PGP is not a controllable munition. It's an idea. If there's ever ONE copy of it anywhere, everyone can get it. It's NOT controllable. The NSA, for all their power, can't remove things once it's been released to the Internet. It's the wild. Untamable.
how PGP will protect your voicemail
Well, if you really want to be secure: Call using VoiP, something like GNU SIP Witch. Which uses libgcrypt, which was built off of GPG if I remember correctly.
If you don't care about the call in transit, secure voicemail is a pretty common thing for people who have to deal with HIPPA. It essentially takes the call and stores it in an encrypted format. (Which you could do with GPG if you really wanted to, you just have to have some telephony set up to download voicemails as files)
and GPS position that tracks your position constantly
What tracks you? If you're walking around with an iPhone, then you kinda get what you deserve. I mean, no one is forcing you to do that. GPS doesn't just magically bounce off you and into NSA's collectors. Go pick up open Android if your paranoid.
Right, so how do you encrypt a call to someone who does not know how to use encryption when it is illegal to teach them how to use it?
It's NOT illegal to teach them. (Wait, US law, right? wtf kind of dystopia do you live in?) You teach them how to set up VoiP and enjoy hard encryption. You know, if they want. You're not going to be able to get everyone to do it. You won't even be able to get most of them to CARE. But the people who DO need to have security and privacy, like my senator, my boss, my HR, my lawyer, and my accountant most certainly need to have access to real, true, non-fucked HARD encryption.
How does that help people who don't know how to compile software.
Plenty of companies repackage these tools to sell to clueless suits. Unless they worm their own servers into the process or do something stupid and roll their own, then it's just as secure. Netflix is the best example of a company taking what was previously only available to the uber-race and repackaging it for the masses. But most people simply don't care about encryption, so you're probably not going to get ludicrously rich. Still, there's big business here.
Ok, you're clueless. And you think everyone else is as well. Are you thinking of anyone else except yourself?
Well they're international players.For some, the majority of their product is outside the USA. They're literally operating at a level ABOVE the USA. The politics involved can affect their business both good and bad. NOT stepping into the political arena could doom their business.
This is the political process. Everyone gets to have their say about "oh god no, anything but that". It's a bit unfair that they seem to have a louder voice than us little folk, but that's kind of the nature of power.
It's less of a terrible thing than backroom deals and international trade agreements negotiated in secrecy. And far less terrible then bribes and campaign contributions wink wink nudge say the word. If anything it's a step in the right direction as opposed to super PACs whose sole purpose is to obscure who is actually advocating what.
The point we really have to worry is if they start forming their own military units or push for extraterritory and the right to defend it. That and ancient dragons ushering in an age of magic. mmmm, now I want me some more Shadowrun.
I already am on the record for defending your rights for *access* to encryption technology and the last thing I want is anybody oppressed.
Then what the fuck is this:
The right way is to have an office of the judicature maintain a set of third party keys
That's you, being "on the record" as advocating they COMPLETELY fuck it up. That exact thing has been tried before. The Clipper Chip. It was a clusterfuck. Know your history. Poking a hole in everyone's locks does NOT make anyone safer. As those holes will most assuredly be compromised, your reducing the security of a lot of people and giving out sensitive information to hackers and terrorists.
You have advocated people no longer having the right to hard encryption, but instead only having access to SHIT encryption full of mandated holes. The one looking like a cunt here is you.
If you had read and understood the law you would understand that most western countries *already* have means in which to control access to encryption
And if you recall, the source code for PGP is protected under copyright law and the first amendment as it was published in book form so as to specifically flip the finger to anyone trying to control access to it.
But please, enlighten me. How does the US government control my access to GPG? It's a handy dandy little tool that I can go get and verify and use to my hearts content. Legally.
Entirely. This is essentially the big dog chasing away someone attempting to undercut him and cheapening the product that is US citizenry.
And it's a little more nefarious as this pay-to-stay program is more like rent/extortion rather than fostering investment.
Question, if you could get someone to loan you $1,000,000 which you then invested in the USA, does that work towards getting you a visa? Is there some sort of no-cash-out clause?
Except there is no such thing as H1B immigration. H1B visas are temporary work visas. They are not immigrating here. It doesn't let them stay unless they're working and has a company sponsor them. There's hoops the company has to perform to justify importing workers, which apparently can be abused for profit.
AND, everyone with a (legit) H1B visa would here LEGALLY.
You're arguing in favor of the freedom of people. Freedom is fleeting if they can slip chains on you at a latter date. Software licenses are a mechanism for achieving freedom. The GPL keeps the codebase free by protecting it from those who would slip chains on it. Other people prefer to be free to bind your works with even more perilous licenses. Hey, it worked out pretty well for BSD and Apple's OS X. Through the goodness of Apple's heart and bottom line they made contributions back from OS X to BSD. But as far as empirical measurements, I'm fairly sure that LINUX is beating out BSD. And since Linux still runs under GPL it falls under RMS's camp, I'm not entirely sure how you can say RMS is losing the debate.
Man, it's a real damn shame that Linux is such a bad choice. Imagine if they had made a phone with it or something.
Especially since the evil old leaf's narfarious plan included
"Embrace open source"
as their opening move. And now we're supposed to be so glad that Microsoft is embracing open source? Seriously?
Hey, sure, if they get stuck on this phase, that's fine. But the moment they start making suggestions about the direction of the project, or new features they want to add, or "powerful extensions that would really help the project"... You know... I not sure which is worse, the maniac telling everyone to drive into the brick wall or the fool listening to him and steering the car into the brick wall.
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Some truth to... What exactly?
Because some kids have religious parents and don't want them to take music or go to a competing religious ceremony? Somehow that shows the truth that they get euphoric when jews get murdered? Huh?
Or the school system in London is somehow leading to Slashdot being controlled by Islam?
Or that it's dangerous to criticize Islam In Europe?
Because so far nothing in the offhand story from your teacher friend in London lends weight to anything he's mentioned in this thread.
Hey, radicalized Islam sucks. Radicalized Christianity sucks too. You'd probably get the same sort of reaction from some people here in the states if the choir was invited to the science center. (And also that anti-evolution "Discovery Center" place. I know I would) Moderate amounts of religion is perfectly fine. This guy who went nuts drank WAY too deep of the religious rhetoric. But he could have just as easily come from the deep south or conservative parts of Poland or Utah or Latin America and the story would have been the same. And of course a school should try and cater to the parents, why wouldn't it?
I'd say that there is a strong political factor lashing out against people who condemn the strict uptight and unreasonable religious conservatism of Islam while also somehow supporting their own strict uptight and unreasonable flavor of religious conservatism. The hypocrisy is just a little too thick. Hey, let's imagine your teacher friend told a student that their parents religion is stupid and they should come sing at the cathedral. Can you imagine the clusterfuck that teacher would face if they tried to tell a staunch Baptist that their religion was stupid and they should let their kids sing the call to prayer at a mosque? And maybe, just maybe, it's not that the parents believe music is against Islam, but rather the choir at the public school has too close of ties to the catholic church for the tastes of the Islamic parents? You know, what with being invited to a cathedral and all.
And of course trying to lump everyone in a religion to a few nutballs is wrong. Saying all Muslims are terrorists is as laughable as saying all gay people are fashionable, all Christians don't believe in evolution, or all Trump supporters want to watch the world burn. That's classic stereotyping, and while it might be easy and tempting, it's wrong. If you want everyone to be open-minded and free, GREAT. Part of that is accepting people who aren't as open-minded as you. And as long as they don't shoot up a bunch of gays, or celebrate anyone's murder, they're allowed to keep their kids away from whatever they feel like.
But please, explain to me exactly what this truth is you're trying to get at.
Animals do not, generally, behave as amoral rapists, murderers and child molesters.
Ho, ho, HO! Someone needs to spend some quality time googling about duck penises and otters. There's a wide and terrifying world of nature out there and youtube and wikipedia are just waiting to provide you some nightmare fuel.
Who else has so many excess mod points
Yo. Whenever I start posting on Slashdot again, I typically get more mod points than I care to spend. I know, I know, it's good to self-police the community, but it just takes so much time.
And after looking at your comment..... Yeah, I'd mod down that piece of shit.
Seriously: " in actual fact, part of the European continent becomes hyper-euphoric every time Jews got murdered" !?
What the fuck are you smoking? You're coming off as unhinged and unstable. You're suggesting Muslims are in control of Europe. Which is laughable at best. Crazed conspiracy theorist at worst. In your head, parts of Europe celebrate Jewish people getting murdered. You're a crackpot. Batshit crazy. Off your meds. Deserving of the final moderation you received. What's scary is that there are 3 other people with mod points who actually agree with you.
Well alright, if the cops don't need a warrant to go find the location data from anyone's cell phone, then neither do I.
Gimme the past 2 years of movement of Trump, Clinton, and Sanders. And the names and paths of all those who intersected them within 30 feet for more than an hour.
Let me see who has visited the white house in the past decade, and what rooms they went into.
When have the paths of two congressmen crossed for more than 20 minutes outside of congress? Hell, let's throw CEOs in that search as well.
Here's the list of all the judges on that court of appeals. Let's see where they go eat lunch. Where they've slept at night and in whose room. Lets see who has gone to what sort of doctors office. Who do they golf with?
As none of this is now protected by the 4th amendment and enjoys no legal right to privacy, they should be perfectly fine with this data being openly searchable by the masses. If big brother wants to watch, then little brother should stare right back.
I'm hoping this election cycle results in the GOP splitting in two.
How does that happen without the Democrats splitting similarly?
Well, the republicans will form two parties while the democrats remain united and as a bigger voting bloc they curb-stomp the republicans. That's the whole "split-vote" thing.
You know, kind of like if the TEA partiers decided to buck the authority of the GOP and went their own way and didn't play nice with the group. They'd try to run their own candidate that wouldn't be popular enough with the GOP at large while simultaneously taking votes away from the GOP's top choice and he'd drop out of the race today.
Oh look. It happened. So.... get ready for that curb-stomping in November. Clinton's less then ideal, but holy shit vs Trump!? Not even a contest.
So... gullible and delusional?
Oh, so you're a totally neutral party with no partisanship one way or the other? Both Hilary and Trump are terrible candidates eh?
You clearly have issues with Hilary and have listed them. Let's hear why you dislike Trump. There's PLENTY to choose from. Go on, list for us why Trump would be such a terrible president. Show us that you're not just a partisan hack.
. . . Seriously? You're trying to shoe-horn Trump into this debate? I know it's an election year, but come on.
Anyway, you want examples of why I don't like Trump, SURE THING! There are SO MANY. I don't actually know of any homophobic behaviour, but I'd say he's more of a racist, lying, anti-intellectual asshole with no regard for the truth. The majority of his entire shtick is a confidence-man con game.
He's suggested immigrants from Mexico are drug dealers and thieves. "They’re rapists And some, I assume, are good people.”
He's supported the idea that vaccines cause autism. Seriously, he's an anti-vaxxer.
Even more laughable is that he's a Birther: “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud". And I'll bet my ass that he's simply lying about his source. It seems to fit his character.
He's simply lied about John Oliver inviting him onto the show. That's a petty little thing, but it shows that he simply lies off the cuff.
“It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!”
I didn't know about him particularly being a women-hater, but a quick look yields plenty. So HEY! feeding the trolls turns out to be an educational experience.
"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”
Some harsh digs at a media CEO, calling her ugly. Threatening Cruz's wife. Saying Rosie should be fired for being fat and ugly. He goes for the low blows.
And he's generally a braggart. He likes to call himself rich, a winner, and truthful. I have my doubts. And I would never want to be lead by someone who lies so casually and so easily. The bullshit threshold has been exceed, the bozo bit has been flipped.
No, the problem is that this time it's EXACTLY THE SAME. Know your history.
"A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.[79]"
If you were on the top of the pile, things were great. And veeeeeerrrrry slowly things got better for the masses. In England they just waited 3 generations. In America they did it at the end of Sherman's hammer and with the rise of unions. Do you want 3 generations of unemployed? And frankly, the UBI crowd sounds a lot like the union crowd. That's a better alternative, but it's not great. I'm open to suggestions.
Hey, we're on slashdot. We've got techy degrees and pretty ok jobs (if the god-damn HW guys would get me an answer why their bloody AMCC is feeding me garbage). Take your typical person with an IQ of 100. How well do you think they'd be able to do your job? Having millions of people transition to learning to be factory workers was an ordeal with a bunch of hardships. Having billions of people transition to knowledge workers will likely also have troubles. Even now we have economist hardliners who simply think college is over-priced and over-rated. China probably has it worse. They have one generation of rice-farmers, one generation of factory workers, and they're trying to jump straight to knowledge workers.
We've been dealing with disruptive technology for a while though. Arguably, disruption is the new normal. The rate of change is what's concerning to me. When my father was learning his trade, there was no such thing as software engineers. When my son decides what he's going to do with his life, things will be different. But I doubt he's going to a manual laborer, paper-pusher, truck driver, secretary, garbage man, or a cashiere. God help him if he isn't smart. Because the sub-100 IQ crowd looks to be facing a lot of competition. But maybe I'm just a worrying father.
I imagine he lies awake at night worrying about losing the free world the same way that J Edgar Hoover lied awake at night worrying about losing the free world. But both of them are simply wrong.
It turns out that letting black people vote, and letting women get jobs didn't destroy America. Hoover was simply wrong about that. Sure, there were race riots in LA. And there's been a lot of yelling about cops shooting black people. But it has not spelled the end of the United States of America. Hoover's subversion of the democratic process did FAR more to threaten the USA then those actors he was trying to thwart. There was no need to spy on MLK nor run a smear campaign against him. There was no need to radicalise the black panthers and help them pull off an assassination. There was no need to run a dragnet on academics. Now, he was also trying to thwart the commie bastards. And he failed. They simply had a better spy campaign then we did. But we were ideologically better and more aligned with reality, so it didn't really matter. Give it time. Even China is capitalistic now. (More then we are, by some measures)
And terrorism? The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 3,000 corpses in NYC is, with no disrespect to the dead, chump change in the larger picture. Simply put, these radicals have no hope of threatening the existence of the USA. The worst they can do is piss us off enough to go get a bunch of people killed in the desert (most of whom had no connection to the terrorists).
What he should lie awake at night worrying about is all of the clandestine and blatantly illegal operations he signed off on coming to light and spending the rest of his days in prison. But hell, he can bold-faced lie at a congressional hearing to a senator who has the clearance to know he's lying and still somehow not get charged with anything. So who knows how much dirt he has on everyone.
Oh man, I ran square into this just last week. This guy was claiming to work in big data as an economist. Said any sort of inefficiency should ultimately impact the GDP. I countered that, there are lies, damned lies, and statistic and that it might not make him comfortable, but the metrics he's using could be lying to him.
And get this: "I work with data. Statistics is for losers". ... Can you believe that guy? Even after I point out that while every call to Map() might sort data very nicely, every Reduce() call AGGRIGATES data into a statistic, he still stuck to his guns and claimed to be somehow holier then icky statistics.
The LAST thing in the world your health-insurance is likely to underwrite is something which will extend your natural lifespan to something preternatural.
Huh? This doesn't make any sense at all. Health insurance companies have to pay out when you get sick. As happens when you get old. Indeed, what really ends up killing people is the inability to pay for the meds which are keeping them alive. They don't want you to get sick. They want you to keep paying them.
Life insurance companies would LOVE this. They are betting that you DON'T die soon. If you have life insurance, you are betting that DO die sooner rather than later. You know, just in case.
Can you imagine the impact of such a move, were it to occur, on the broken pension/SS/medicare system and the negative interest rate economy in general?
Yeah, people will no longer have to retire and live on a pension/SS or collect medicare benefits as they're NO LONGER OLD. That sounds fantastic.
Can you imagine the situation when billionaires -- and only billionaires -- can afford to live forever?
Yes, and that sounds horrible. For this part at least, your fear-mongering is on target. But #3 is simply backwards.
Gather round children, it's time old uncle Sherman played his favourite tune called Collusion.
Now when the young little cats get to hissin' n' scratching
You can bet all them rats are a hidin' and a quakin'
All the kittens that compete get a nice little treat
And the market is nice and free.
Buuuuuuuuuuut,
When the cats dun grow fat... and they can't scratch their back
And they get an old friend to help
Well we call that a scam what a horrible sham
And ol' sherman dun gets out his belt
Cause them rats get to play all the night and all day
And they dun shit on all of our pay.
With a whip and whap I take care o' all that
And them cats get to lose a few pounds.
Now children, you might remember when your kitten was a darling little cute thing and it was full of spit and fire trying to make the world a better place. But times change and kittens grow into cats. And cats get fat with power and wealth. And then it's time to take them out back teach them some proper manners.
Personally, I thought it would take longer. I gave Google until the time that the founders stepped down. In retrospect, it was awfully nice of them to have a name-change to indicate the moment when they decided to grow goatees and give into the bean counters and business suits.
the group of students who were preventing the officers from leaving.
Huh? The cops were surrounded by students at a couple points, yeah, but the ones they sprayed were the ones sitting in on the ground. Not the ones surrounding them.
Then a mob surrounded the officers to block them from leaving and demanded the release of the people who had been arrested. It's those people, the mob, who got sprayed. Watch the video if you're still confused.
Uh, huh.... Was there another spraying incident I'm not aware of? Man, if only someone hadn't tried to fuck with the search results.
Hiring an SEO company to bury your embarrassing search results IS trying to erase it from the internet. As best they can at least.
They really didn't need to be removed. They were "blocking" the sidewalk in the middle of a commons. There were sidewalks going around all the borders. There were PLENTY of people walking around them. Oh noes, walking in the grass. TERRIBLE. It was a token gesture of protest.
And hey, sure, removal by force is needed sometimes. Sometimes people really do need to be arrested. Sometimes, pepperspraying unruly crowds can rout them and make them more manageable and de-escalate the situation. Othertimes it'll just piss them off and justify their unrulyness. There are times to use it, there are times not to. Same way with batons and bullets. The proper use of force as the situation calls for is a key aspect of their proffession. But some use as much force as the situation legally allows them, and those are bad apples, authoritarian jack-boot thugs that should be removed from their position.
The only reason that the administration even sent security to deal with the protesters was to try and remove or reduce their message. It wasn't actually about ensuring right of way on a campus sidewalk. And, likewise, the students weren't actually trying to block anyone, they also were just using the technical letter of the law to provoke a reaction. That the administration rose to that bait and decided to escalate the conflict by pepper-spraying completely docile protestors further shows that they were being punative. They were simply butting heads. And rather than simply reminding the students that they were in fact in charge and had legal authority, they and security decided to also throw in a sucker-punch for good measure.
And then they try and erase it from the Internet!? Spending that much money on it? "Authoritarian thugs" looks spot on.
They certainly were resisting, passive resistance is resistance.
What do you think of a cop shouting "STOP RESISTING" as the baton rises and falls?
And what alternative do you suggest?
Ignore them. Let them protest.
I AM NOT ARGUING FOR BACKDOORS, I AM ARGUING FOR THE USE OF A WARRANT
A warrant to go use the backdoor. ...Unless I'm REALLY mis-reading your statements. That backdoor doesn't exist yet you know. Yes, they can essentially go snoop on a LOT of information about you, sans any real warrant, (Legally, they still need a warrant, but I think we both know that's been worked around).
BUT. Hard encryption is still beyond their power to break. They can't do it on any meaningful scale. Now, if they had Osama Bin Laden's hard drive and he wasn't an idiot, then they might fire up some serious server farms and try and take a crack at it.
If you're arguing that the FBI and CIA and the rest start getting warrants before snooping on people, GREAT. It's a really good idea.
But what do you think those "third party keys" go to?
a controllable munition, where they simply control distribution. That won't stop you from using it, but it only be useable to a few (as great as it is). Tell me how PGP will protect your voicemail and GPS position that tracks your position constantly when there are no authorizations needed to collect it?
PGP is not a controllable munition. It's an idea. If there's ever ONE copy of it anywhere, everyone can get it. It's NOT controllable. The NSA, for all their power, can't remove things once it's been released to the Internet. It's the wild. Untamable.
how PGP will protect your voicemail
Well, if you really want to be secure: Call using VoiP, something like GNU SIP Witch. Which uses libgcrypt, which was built off of GPG if I remember correctly.
If you don't care about the call in transit, secure voicemail is a pretty common thing for people who have to deal with HIPPA. It essentially takes the call and stores it in an encrypted format. (Which you could do with GPG if you really wanted to, you just have to have some telephony set up to download voicemails as files)
and GPS position that tracks your position constantly
What tracks you? If you're walking around with an iPhone, then you kinda get what you deserve. I mean, no one is forcing you to do that. GPS doesn't just magically bounce off you and into NSA's collectors. Go pick up open Android if your paranoid.
Right, so how do you encrypt a call to someone who does not know how to use encryption when it is illegal to teach them how to use it?
It's NOT illegal to teach them. (Wait, US law, right? wtf kind of dystopia do you live in?) You teach them how to set up VoiP and enjoy hard encryption. You know, if they want. You're not going to be able to get everyone to do it. You won't even be able to get most of them to CARE. But the people who DO need to have security and privacy, like my senator, my boss, my HR, my lawyer, and my accountant most certainly need to have access to real, true, non-fucked HARD encryption.
How does that help people who don't know how to compile software.
Plenty of companies repackage these tools to sell to clueless suits. Unless they worm their own servers into the process or do something stupid and roll their own, then it's just as secure. Netflix is the best example of a company taking what was previously only available to the uber-race and repackaging it for the masses. But most people simply don't care about encryption, so you're probably not going to get ludicrously rich. Still, there's big business here.
Ok, you're clueless. And you think everyone else is as well. Are you thinking of anyone else except yourself?
Well they're international players .For some, the majority of their product is outside the USA. They're literally operating at a level ABOVE the USA. The politics involved can affect their business both good and bad. NOT stepping into the political arena could doom their business.
This is the political process. Everyone gets to have their say about "oh god no, anything but that". It's a bit unfair that they seem to have a louder voice than us little folk, but that's kind of the nature of power.
It's less of a terrible thing than backroom deals and international trade agreements negotiated in secrecy. And far less terrible then bribes and campaign contributions wink wink nudge say the word. If anything it's a step in the right direction as opposed to super PACs whose sole purpose is to obscure who is actually advocating what.
The point we really have to worry is if they start forming their own military units or push for extraterritory and the right to defend it. That and ancient dragons ushering in an age of magic. mmmm, now I want me some more Shadowrun.
I already am on the record for defending your rights for *access* to encryption technology and the last thing I want is anybody oppressed.
Then what the fuck is this:
The right way is to have an office of the judicature maintain a set of third party keys
That's you, being "on the record" as advocating they COMPLETELY fuck it up. That exact thing has been tried before. The Clipper Chip. It was a clusterfuck. Know your history. Poking a hole in everyone's locks does NOT make anyone safer. As those holes will most assuredly be compromised, your reducing the security of a lot of people and giving out sensitive information to hackers and terrorists.
You have advocated people no longer having the right to hard encryption, but instead only having access to SHIT encryption full of mandated holes. The one looking like a cunt here is you.
If you had read and understood the law you would understand that most western countries *already* have means in which to control access to encryption
And if you recall, the source code for PGP is protected under copyright law and the first amendment as it was published in book form so as to specifically flip the finger to anyone trying to control access to it.
But please, enlighten me. How does the US government control my access to GPG? It's a handy dandy little tool that I can go get and verify and use to my hearts content. Legally.
How 1% privilege is that?
Entirely. This is essentially the big dog chasing away someone attempting to undercut him and cheapening the product that is US citizenry.
And it's a little more nefarious as this pay-to-stay program is more like rent/extortion rather than fostering investment.
Question, if you could get someone to loan you $1,000,000 which you then invested in the USA, does that work towards getting you a visa? Is there some sort of no-cash-out clause?
Except there is no such thing as H1B immigration. H1B visas are temporary work visas. They are not immigrating here. It doesn't let them stay unless they're working and has a company sponsor them. There's hoops the company has to perform to justify importing workers, which apparently can be abused for profit.
AND, everyone with a (legit) H1B visa would here LEGALLY.
Finally, that bill did a LOT of stuff to reform immigration.
We kicked the shit out of that horseman and threw him on top of Pestilence. Now we're coming for you DEATH!
Sadly War seems to linger around, although we've shrunk him down quite a bit.
We've experienced this elsewhere. Check out Poe's Law.
Any sufficiently advanced form of crazy is indistinguishable from attempts at parody.
You're arguing in favor of the freedom of people. Freedom is fleeting if they can slip chains on you at a latter date. Software licenses are a mechanism for achieving freedom. The GPL keeps the codebase free by protecting it from those who would slip chains on it. Other people prefer to be free to bind your works with even more perilous licenses. Hey, it worked out pretty well for BSD and Apple's OS X. Through the goodness of Apple's heart and bottom line they made contributions back from OS X to BSD. But as far as empirical measurements, I'm fairly sure that LINUX is beating out BSD. And since Linux still runs under GPL it falls under RMS's camp, I'm not entirely sure how you can say RMS is losing the debate.
Man, it's a real damn shame that Linux is such a bad choice. Imagine if they had made a phone with it or something.
Especially since the evil old leaf's narfarious plan included
"Embrace open source"
as their opening move. And now we're supposed to be so glad that Microsoft is embracing open source? Seriously?
Hey, sure, if they get stuck on this phase, that's fine. But the moment they start making suggestions about the direction of the project, or new features they want to add, or "powerful extensions that would really help the project"... You know... I not sure which is worse, the maniac telling everyone to drive into the brick wall or the fool listening to him and steering the car into the brick wall.
The president CAN simply dictate "go kill everyone over there".
He's commander in chief of the military. He can't declare war, but he can go send the military to go kill people and try to have it funded later.