Agreed. With the UN in control, the internet would become totally useless in no time at all. You think that the level of tracking and intrusions into our privacy are bad now? Just wait until some big guns in the UN decide that everything has to be sifted and censored, including our private emails. You want to be extradited to Thailand because you said their ruler is a douchebag? Don't think it's too far-fetched an idea.
I haven't watched the Olympics since I was a kid, because post-childhood I discovered that the Olypics are really all about politics, with the athleticism as a mere backdrop. Why waste my time with that when I could actually be doing something useful? All this martial law-style nonsense with social networking and WiFi is just more evidence of which I speak. Why should they care about people commenting? Or how they're connecting to the internet to do it? It's all a rediculous waste of time.
OTA-using master-race, reporting in. I even built my own antenna from scratch, to save even more money. Ironically I used a length of RG6 given to me by Comcast to connect it.
I dumped Failbook months ago; come arrest me for mass murder, you fucking morons! I've never heard such utter nonsense in my entire life! You may as well claim that ingesting saliva in minute amounts over a long period of time causes death!
Here's one idea why this may be: Perhaps some governments are operating faster TOR nodes, knowing that they will attract a larger percentage of TOR users, hoping they can catch more of their own citizens that they want to arrest.
Yeah, like I said: You have NO imagination, none whatsoever, and furthermore you sound like an absolute prick, likely tedious as hell to have to deal with personally, as rude as any kid from 4chan online, and you can go fuck yourself.
Apparently you have no imagination, which here in the U.S. anymore doesn't surprise me one bit, all the imagination, critical thinking skills, and initiative have been bred out of or trained out of just about everyone.
Then it would be mutually assured destruction. Their response would be to pound North America into dust -- non-radioactive dust, I might add, which could be re-colonized by the survivors immediately.
..and the AC has it. Did everyone else forget about The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress already?
I predict the next "space race" will be to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, and the Chinese will be playing the role the Russians played back in the 1950's and 1960's.
I have had the dubious pleasure to work with Win8 where I'm currently employed. It sucks ass. I wouldn't use it if gave me a full-featured version for FREE, and paid me to install it, it sucks that bad. If I want Playskool toys on my desktop, I'll stop by Toys R Us and pick some up.
I'll bet that the Chinese will set foot on the Moon and claim it for themselves, regardless of any long-standing International agreements to the contrary.
..and yes, I know this post will get modded down to "-1, Troll" and I'll get flamed for posting this. Haters gonna hate; I'm expressing my opinion, and I don't care who likes or dislikes it. I don't trust the Chinese government; I have been given no reason to.
..and a hearty FUCK YOU to whoever decided their personal opinions of my posts qualified as "moderation".
The whole "moderation" system on this site is a fucking JOKE, by the way. I'd prefer a way to opt out of it completely, or at least be allowed to confront my accusers personally.
Actually I print it all out onto paper tape which then gets sealed in an environmentally-controlled container which is then stored in an underground bunker with a nuclear auto-destruct mechanism against any possible intrusion.
Actually I've been working on my own vehicles since I was a teenager so I know how to adjust points and ignition timing, and I know how to drive a Ford Model "A", so actually I do know how to do those things, smartass. Of course your comment is a total non-sequitor, and you are a shitty troll for posting it.
I don't see the advantage of living in a world where people more and more are discouraged from learning to do things themselves. As is people on average are not really very good drivers, if you take the wheel away from them how are they going to be even minimally competent in the event of an emergency that requires human input?
If I was forced to purchase a car with either of these technologies, I'd opt for a backup system for me, and not the other way around. As a sidebar, if this is the direction things are going then I guess I'll be riding motorcycles more and more.;-)
To all of you who scoffed at me for being pro-privacy: I laugh in your faces now. HA!
Are you ready to get off Facebook now? Or are you going to cling to your mantra of "If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear"?
It's time to wake up and smell the reality: Your lives are under a goddamned microscope so long as you are on Facebook! Is this really worth it? Ask yourself: What are you really getting out of being on Facebook?
Wouldn't Amazon have to maintain a gigantic inventory across all these so-called "same day delivery warehouses" in order to make it work? Wouldn't that cost huge amounts of cash? More to the point, wouldn't there be a huge tax liability from all that inventory?
Never mind leaky tunnels, what about leaky cars? I can see the headline now: Mach 10 Train Arrives At Station, All Passengers Dead From Exposure To Vacuum
Why the hell would I want AT&T, Verizon, or some other wireless carrier having more or less complete control over the only computer I own (which, by the way, I wouldn't actually own, the way those companies work)? The submitter of this story is completely and utterly full of shit and needs to STFU.
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Agreed. With the UN in control, the internet would become totally useless in no time at all. You think that the level of tracking and intrusions into our privacy are bad now? Just wait until some big guns in the UN decide that everything has to be sifted and censored, including our private emails. You want to be extradited to Thailand because you said their ruler is a douchebag? Don't think it's too far-fetched an idea.
I haven't watched the Olympics since I was a kid, because post-childhood I discovered that the Olypics are really all about politics, with the athleticism as a mere backdrop. Why waste my time with that when I could actually be doing something useful? All this martial law-style nonsense with social networking and WiFi is just more evidence of which I speak. Why should they care about people commenting? Or how they're connecting to the internet to do it? It's all a rediculous waste of time.
OTA-using master-race, reporting in.
I even built my own antenna from scratch, to save even more money. Ironically I used a length of RG6 given to me by Comcast to connect it.
I dumped Failbook months ago; come arrest me for mass murder, you fucking morons! I've never heard such utter nonsense in my entire life! You may as well claim that ingesting saliva in minute amounts over a long period of time causes death!
Here's one idea why this may be: Perhaps some governments are operating faster TOR nodes, knowing that they will attract a larger percentage of TOR users, hoping they can catch more of their own citizens that they want to arrest.
Yeah, like I said: You have NO imagination, none whatsoever, and furthermore you sound like an absolute prick, likely tedious as hell to have to deal with personally, as rude as any kid from 4chan online, and you can go fuck yourself.
Apparently you have no imagination, which here in the U.S. anymore doesn't surprise me one bit, all the imagination, critical thinking skills, and initiative have been bred out of or trained out of just about everyone.
So you're inside the heads of the Chinese military leadership? You know exactly what they'd do in that situation? I think not.
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Get PETA all over your shit for it.
Then it would be mutually assured destruction. Their response would be to pound North America into dust -- non-radioactive dust, I might add, which could be re-colonized by the survivors immediately.
..via large kinetic weapons
..and the AC has it. Did everyone else forget about The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress already?
I predict the next "space race" will be to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, and the Chinese will be playing the role the Russians played back in the 1950's and 1960's.
I have had the dubious pleasure to work with Win8 where I'm currently employed. It sucks ass. I wouldn't use it if gave me a full-featured version for FREE, and paid me to install it, it sucks that bad. If I want Playskool toys on my desktop, I'll stop by Toys R Us and pick some up.
I'll bet that the Chinese will set foot on the Moon and claim it for themselves, regardless of any long-standing International agreements to the contrary.
..and yes, I know this post will get modded down to "-1, Troll" and I'll get flamed for posting this. Haters gonna hate; I'm expressing my opinion, and I don't care who likes or dislikes it. I don't trust the Chinese government; I have been given no reason to.
Sure. Let's do that. Let's make it even easier for malicious types to hack everything.
No. Just, no.
Now Facebook can serve you personally tailored ads based on you political leanings.
..and, likely, alert Government watchdog agencies to the presence of anyone who registers as anything other than "Republican" or "Democrat".
..and a hearty FUCK YOU to whoever decided their personal opinions of my posts qualified as "moderation".
The whole "moderation" system on this site is a fucking JOKE, by the way. I'd prefer a way to opt out of it completely, or at least be allowed to confront my accusers personally.
Actually I print it all out onto paper tape which then gets sealed in an environmentally-controlled container which is then stored in an underground bunker with a nuclear auto-destruct mechanism against any possible intrusion.
Actually I've been working on my own vehicles since I was a teenager so I know how to adjust points and ignition timing, and I know how to drive a Ford Model "A", so actually I do know how to do those things, smartass. Of course your comment is a total non-sequitor, and you are a shitty troll for posting it.
..electric range of 15 miles and a top speed of 21 mph
Yeah, it's a toy. As it sits there's no real practical use for something that a really fit cyclist could outrun and outdistance.
Why mod this guy down to -1?
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I don't see the advantage of living in a world where people more and more are discouraged from learning to do things themselves. As is people on average are not really very good drivers, if you take the wheel away from them how are they going to be even minimally competent in the event of an emergency that requires human input?
If I was forced to purchase a car with either of these technologies, I'd opt for a backup system for me, and not the other way around. As a sidebar, if this is the direction things are going then I guess I'll be riding motorcycles more and more.
An air-gap between the data and any Internet-connected device.
To all of you who scoffed at me for being pro-privacy: I laugh in your faces now. HA!
Are you ready to get off Facebook now? Or are you going to cling to your mantra of "If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear"?
It's time to wake up and smell the reality: Your lives are under a goddamned microscope so long as you are on Facebook! Is this really worth it? Ask yourself: What are you really getting out of being on Facebook?
Wouldn't Amazon have to maintain a gigantic inventory across all these so-called "same day delivery warehouses" in order to make it work? Wouldn't that cost huge amounts of cash? More to the point, wouldn't there be a huge tax liability from all that inventory?
Never mind leaky tunnels, what about leaky cars? I can see the headline now:
Mach 10 Train Arrives At Station, All Passengers Dead From Exposure To Vacuum
Why the hell would I want AT&T, Verizon, or some other wireless carrier having more or less complete control over the only computer I own (which, by the way, I wouldn't actually own, the way those companies work)? The submitter of this story is completely and utterly full of shit and needs to STFU.