Arguably the most highly educated populace in history is being denigrated day in and day out by the current system, which includes criminal justice and the mass media. If you don't belong to the corporate aristocracy (or the political class on the other side of the revolving door) then your personal life is held to be an outlet for their fishing expeditions and general thirst for exacting punishment.
Fueling that out of control punitive instinct is a commercial media that constantly gives people the impression they are being attacked by a crime wave -- no matter what crime statistics are like -- of lower and middle class good-for-nothings. So crime and corruption go unchecked among the elite, and their negative attitude toward the rest of us keeps getting bolder.
I'm not sure if direct democracy can fix this societal madness, but I do know that when strictures against "mob rule" were formed in our society, most of the population were totally uneducated. They were at the start of the industrial revolution and centuries before the computer revolution / information age. (Or, if you wish to take the long view, the anti-'mob' tradition of thought can be said to be not centuries but millennia old.) So it may be time to take the professionals of the 'four estates' down a peg and to start experimenting with initiatives like this.
Reading your post reminded me of all the people who also think that technology and science are the same.
Good science relies mostly on a preponderance of empirical observation, not on theories containing airtight logic the way mathematics does. And to become useful to society at large the evidence has to be convincing enough to create a consensus within its scientific field (i.e. among scientists). That's part of what makes science a kind of social phenomenon; There's no way for someone to 'prove' a scientific theory because the closest you can get is to let other people make observations that match or corroborate the theory.
The playlist is in reverse, but the show itself (from public television before it went commercial) is cute and entertaining as well as being an introductory course on physics. The same Youtuber also has a senior physics playlist that I haven't yet viewed.
It is conceivable there would be many bills that do not have popular attention, but which are still critically important to a functioning society. Will you require a minimum number of votes on an issue before going against your own better judgement, or will any amount of citizen input suffice to direct you?
...not just "scientists" who collaborate and challenge as a whole discipline.
They interact with the mass media at the level of individuals and very small groups. As such, most journalists won't pass up an opportunity to quote a researcher who says something like, "This changes everything!" and the spirit of such statements (if not the actual statements) are usually found throughout the articles written by "science" reporters. They play up the significance of individual studies and competition and downplay (or attempt to discredit) the consensus-built and collaborative aspects of science so that the stories fit in with the individualist and consumerist narratives favored by the corporate press.
That dynamic contributes greatly to the public's distorted notions of scientific pursuit. Thus, the popular American sentiment that scientists are mostly bozos "lacking in common sense", and that is when they feel charitible. You'll need to change the overall media culture before you can improve the situation.
Also, I keep thinking about the TV show "The Big Bang Theory". Is it me, or is the cast segregated into the engineers who manage a real social life, and the scientists who are not just eccentric but extreme (and extremely pitiful)?
If large institutional investors (like Wall St. banks) are heavily invested in higher education, then there would be ample pressure to do things like withholding of transcripts.
I would be interested in seeing some statistics on this question.
The Linux HFS+ driver can't even work in write mode unless the journal has been deleted, so the journal isn't working when using the HFS+ partition under Ubuntu and probably Windows as well (author take note). I would not use that filesystem under Linux or Windows on a daily basis. Also, since the journal has been deleted, you are probably missing the safety of journaling under the native OSX as well.
Author should also note that archival backups with md5 or sha256 checksums are probably the most straightforward way to maintain data integrity. If you want something more elegant for day to day use, I would consider setting up a NAS using either BTRFS or ZFS as the filesystem along with a nice 1Gbps LAN (if you don't have that already).
NATO can call the system whatever it wants, but the Russians have no obligation to take the claims at face value (that would be stupid). Recent history has shown that the US, given a Presidential cycle or two, is capable of breaking any of its promises and treaties and arbitrarily redefining terms of conflict in Orwellian fashion in the pursuit of global domination.
Despite attempts at negotiations, the Russians were firmly excluded from participating in the very "defense" system that would be sitting near their border. Once a system is installed there, virtually anything can be done with it (railguns, lasers, or even just reprogrammed or upgraded missiles) and all sides know that nuclear missiles are much more vulnerable during ascent which is when an Eastern Europe-based system is in an ideal position to strike. As such, it is a threat to MAD.
and the government is meddling and attempting to twist the culture and activities of POLITICAL groups.
This is akin to a psychiatric association that specializes in pedophile rehab purchasing computers and internet connections for their targets and teaching them how to use chat rooms and how to find the ones with the most flirty youngsters.
The FBI agents found "dissident" groups with no malicious intent, but possible malicious thoughts. The agent would then conceive the plans and pressure the non-violent dissidents to act, then arrest them when they did.
Then its Black Ops targeted at the domestic population (dissidents on American soil). They have elevated the desire for "regime change" to a thoughtcrime.
says "Attacks like this one aren't typical of Anonymous". He is rationalizing his disbelief.
The hacked site actually is typical of an Anonymous target... like that website trafficking in underage girls. Anonymous also go after individuals. One thing that isn't typical of Anonymous, however, is fabricating lies.
Ron Paul has stated himself that he accepts the support of groups like 'stormfront' although claiming to disagree with them. He has also posed for a picture with them on at least one occasion.
There would be nothing too hard about email encryption, if only keys and certs were made first-class objects in OS and email user interfaces. Most of the time when average users start to grapple with email encryption the keys and the actions they perform on them (like signing) seem to disappear somewhere in unseen and disparate databases.
If every email user where subtly nagged about communicating with an un-secured party, and a big broken-lock icon accompanied every address book entry by default, then perhaps we would start to get somewhere. After that, however, you'd need a standard mechanism for sharing keys between apps such that the keys and actions associated with them always look and feel the same.
The current crop of apps and middleware don't provide visual consistency, and consistent visual cues are the only way end users can really tell if what they're doing falls within a specific context (in this case, the security context).
I believe the major email program authors are far too conservative to go in for this kind of standardization effort by themselves. If anything, emails' best chance to change for the better at this point is to let IM blaze that path and then incorporate the changes once the dust has settled.
constantly tries to invent ways for people to spend more, and rapid technical innovation is at the core of that process. You have to outstrip not only the ability of people to simplify their lives, but outdo the very desire to do so.
Um, no. Apple got caught being secretive about a major project that could impact public health and then/assumed/ people would be a-OK with their assurances that the data center would be wildly out of whack with how the industry normally allocates money and floor space (the 500,000 sq feet does not include space used by the solar array).
The only bullshit in this subthread is the corporate mentality that Apple is entitled to keep up its culture of secrecy.
and pro-worker regulation (incl. unions) is usually the role of Fascists.
Between the unsurpassed waste of the private health insurance industry and an overblown consumer culture, I don't see where you get off blaming women, minorities and LGBT people. The labor movement may share some of the blame, but mainly because it made a consumer culture possible. In today's environment with unions' insignificant share of the workforce (and little if any threat of unionization), jobs are still being frenetically off-shored.
The main reason is the cost associated with entrenched economic backwardness. Americans put up with it because we are saturated by bread and circuses; copious availability of cheap, fattening food and mind-numbing media. None of these maladies revolve around identity politics, though I would say that the identity group with the most to learn is the one you didn't mention.
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Arguably the most highly educated populace in history is being denigrated day in and day out by the current system, which includes criminal justice and the mass media. If you don't belong to the corporate aristocracy (or the political class on the other side of the revolving door) then your personal life is held to be an outlet for their fishing expeditions and general thirst for exacting punishment.
Fueling that out of control punitive instinct is a commercial media that constantly gives people the impression they are being attacked by a crime wave -- no matter what crime statistics are like -- of lower and middle class good-for-nothings. So crime and corruption go unchecked among the elite, and their negative attitude toward the rest of us keeps getting bolder.
I'm not sure if direct democracy can fix this societal madness, but I do know that when strictures against "mob rule" were formed in our society, most of the population were totally uneducated. They were at the start of the industrial revolution and centuries before the computer revolution / information age. (Or, if you wish to take the long view, the anti-'mob' tradition of thought can be said to be not centuries but millennia old.) So it may be time to take the professionals of the 'four estates' down a peg and to start experimenting with initiatives like this.
Reading your post reminded me of all the people who also think that technology and science are the same.
Good science relies mostly on a preponderance of empirical observation, not on theories containing airtight logic the way mathematics does. And to become useful to society at large the evidence has to be convincing enough to create a consensus within its scientific field (i.e. among scientists). That's part of what makes science a kind of social phenomenon; There's no way for someone to 'prove' a scientific theory because the closest you can get is to let other people make observations that match or corroborate the theory.
...Oh, wait.
OTOH, go to a network with no Windows systems, download update containing certificate revocations, and burn to CD before reinstalling and updating.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE82493DFAB9EA6FD&feature=plcp
The playlist is in reverse, but the show itself (from public television before it went commercial) is cute and entertaining as well as being an introductory course on physics. The same Youtuber also has a senior physics playlist that I haven't yet viewed.
http://www.whispersys.com/
This may or may not be what you're looking for... not all of their offerings appear to be open source.
It is conceivable there would be many bills that do not have popular attention, but which are still critically important to a functioning society. Will you require a minimum number of votes on an issue before going against your own better judgement, or will any amount of citizen input suffice to direct you?
Runnin around tryin to be Apple... runnin around tryin to be Sony/Nintendo... runnin around tryin to be Google.
If you ask me, the company is way over-diversified.
They are just uncomfortable with how brazenly the current wording spells it out.
The right move would be to come out against the bill. Why is that so hard for them?
...not just "scientists" who collaborate and challenge as a whole discipline.
They interact with the mass media at the level of individuals and very small groups. As such, most journalists won't pass up an opportunity to quote a researcher who says something like, "This changes everything!" and the spirit of such statements (if not the actual statements) are usually found throughout the articles written by "science" reporters. They play up the significance of individual studies and competition and downplay (or attempt to discredit) the consensus-built and collaborative aspects of science so that the stories fit in with the individualist and consumerist narratives favored by the corporate press.
That dynamic contributes greatly to the public's distorted notions of scientific pursuit. Thus, the popular American sentiment that scientists are mostly bozos "lacking in common sense", and that is when they feel charitible. You'll need to change the overall media culture before you can improve the situation.
Also, I keep thinking about the TV show "The Big Bang Theory". Is it me, or is the cast segregated into the engineers who manage a real social life, and the scientists who are not just eccentric but extreme (and extremely pitiful)?
If large institutional investors (like Wall St. banks) are heavily invested in higher education, then there would be ample pressure to do things like withholding of transcripts.
I would be interested in seeing some statistics on this question.
The Linux HFS+ driver can't even work in write mode unless the journal has been deleted, so the journal isn't working when using the HFS+ partition under Ubuntu and probably Windows as well (author take note). I would not use that filesystem under Linux or Windows on a daily basis. Also, since the journal has been deleted, you are probably missing the safety of journaling under the native OSX as well.
Author should also note that archival backups with md5 or sha256 checksums are probably the most straightforward way to maintain data integrity. If you want something more elegant for day to day use, I would consider setting up a NAS using either BTRFS or ZFS as the filesystem along with a nice 1Gbps LAN (if you don't have that already).
A trade union... Look it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
No dear Reaganite, you're wrong:
NATO can call the system whatever it wants, but the Russians have no obligation to take the claims at face value (that would be stupid). Recent history has shown that the US, given a Presidential cycle or two, is capable of breaking any of its promises and treaties and arbitrarily redefining terms of conflict in Orwellian fashion in the pursuit of global domination.
Despite attempts at negotiations, the Russians were firmly excluded from participating in the very "defense" system that would be sitting near their border. Once a system is installed there, virtually anything can be done with it (railguns, lasers, or even just reprogrammed or upgraded missiles) and all sides know that nuclear missiles are much more vulnerable during ascent which is when an Eastern Europe-based system is in an ideal position to strike. As such, it is a threat to MAD.
and the government is meddling and attempting to twist the culture and activities of POLITICAL groups.
This is akin to a psychiatric association that specializes in pedophile rehab purchasing computers and internet connections for their targets and teaching them how to use chat rooms and how to find the ones with the most flirty youngsters.
The FBI agents found "dissident" groups with no malicious intent, but possible malicious thoughts. The agent would then conceive the plans and pressure the non-violent dissidents to act, then arrest them when they did.
Then its Black Ops targeted at the domestic population (dissidents on American soil). They have elevated the desire for "regime change" to a thoughtcrime.
says "Attacks like this one aren't typical of Anonymous". He is rationalizing his disbelief.
The hacked site actually is typical of an Anonymous target... like that website trafficking in underage girls. Anonymous also go after individuals. One thing that isn't typical of Anonymous, however, is fabricating lies.
Ron Paul has stated himself that he accepts the support of groups like 'stormfront' although claiming to disagree with them. He has also posed for a picture with them on at least one occasion.
but he keeps meeting with them. Maybe that's where he was during the vote.
If the bill gets signed into law, it won't matter in which state you live.
than one government. The biggest technical hope there is to reduce spying is to migrate services into anonymous networks.
Every bit of data gets multiplied at least X3, and not just duplicated but also encrypted 3 times over. :^)
There would be nothing too hard about email encryption, if only keys and certs were made first-class objects in OS and email user interfaces. Most of the time when average users start to grapple with email encryption the keys and the actions they perform on them (like signing) seem to disappear somewhere in unseen and disparate databases.
If every email user where subtly nagged about communicating with an un-secured party, and a big broken-lock icon accompanied every address book entry by default, then perhaps we would start to get somewhere. After that, however, you'd need a standard mechanism for sharing keys between apps such that the keys and actions associated with them always look and feel the same.
The current crop of apps and middleware don't provide visual consistency, and consistent visual cues are the only way end users can really tell if what they're doing falls within a specific context (in this case, the security context).
I believe the major email program authors are far too conservative to go in for this kind of standardization effort by themselves. If anything, emails' best chance to change for the better at this point is to let IM blaze that path and then incorporate the changes once the dust has settled.
Why wouldn't an onion network be able to hide the fact that particular people are communicating with each other? Or anonymous remailers?
constantly tries to invent ways for people to spend more, and rapid technical innovation is at the core of that process. You have to outstrip not only the ability of people to simplify their lives, but outdo the very desire to do so.
Um, no. Apple got caught being secretive about a major project that could impact public health and then /assumed/ people would be a-OK with their assurances that the data center would be wildly out of whack with how the industry normally allocates money and floor space (the 500,000 sq feet does not include space used by the solar array).
The only bullshit in this subthread is the corporate mentality that Apple is entitled to keep up its culture of secrecy.
and pro-worker regulation (incl. unions) is usually the role of Fascists.
Between the unsurpassed waste of the private health insurance industry and an overblown consumer culture, I don't see where you get off blaming women, minorities and LGBT people. The labor movement may share some of the blame, but mainly because it made a consumer culture possible. In today's environment with unions' insignificant share of the workforce (and little if any threat of unionization), jobs are still being frenetically off-shored.
The main reason is the cost associated with entrenched economic backwardness. Americans put up with it because we are saturated by bread and circuses; copious availability of cheap, fattening food and mind-numbing media. None of these maladies revolve around identity politics, though I would say that the identity group with the most to learn is the one you didn't mention.