There is of course one of the issues with it, but I prefer it that people be overly critical of things such as this. I'd rather put up with ridiculously false information (which I can choose to research myself) and believe what I want when its all available to me, as opposed to having a limitted and narrow scope of whats going on, controlled by them so that I see what they want me to see.
For example, Barrack winning a Nobel Prize. Before the internet, I would have probably accepted that he must have done something to improve the world situation. Because the News was all over it, so were the papers, but because he was still being hailed as the first Black President he was untouchable, no one was criticizing him. However, people not on the payroll of a news corporation are allowed to do their own investigative journalism to find whats really going on without bias. I learned that he hadn't really done anything, he didn't make any visits, hardly any talks with anyone. No deals, treaties, or otherwise were signed, so what did he do to win this prestigious award? So I went looking around. Turns out the Nobel Prizes are very politically charged. I didn't know that Mother Teresa and Ghandi, the two most humanitarian people in the public eye, didn't recieve any awards at all. And I guess this isn't anything new, but I wouldn't know it without the internet, right?
I guess thats kind of what I'm getting at. Sure, there are conspiracy theories galore out there, and I'm sure a ton of them are complete trash. But its better to be overly critical of the system than to accept it blindly.
There's too much information available to people! It makes them harder to govern! By golly, when people UNDERSTAND our Policies and can see ALL of our platform, it sure does make it hard to make them like us! When people can actually review what we've done without relying on the news centers, how do we keep up the lies? We're doing our best to keep them as uneducated as possible, by failing to properly support the school system, but they seem to be teaching themselves how politics work by discussing it with other people!
Oh the humanity! What ever will us political figures do if we can't keep the sheep acting like sheep!
Well it kind of does, given that job security is supposed to be a fundamental part of Communism.
I mean, yes, its absurd to think that newspapers should be around just so that some people still have a job. But doesn't that sound more like a communist ideal than a capitalist?
For the second time in less than a month, a police officer was convicted from evidence obtained from a videotape. The first officer to be convicted was New York City Police Officer Patrick Pogan, who would never have stood trial had it not been for a video posted on Youtube showing him body slamming a bicyclist before charging him with assault on an officer. The second officer to be convicted was Ottawa Hills (Ohio) Police Officer Thomas White, who shot a motorcyclist in the back after a traffic stop, permanently paralyzing the 24-year-old man."
In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.
[...]
Drew is being prosecuted for illegal recording, a Class I felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison.
[...]
Hyde used his recording to file a harassment complaint against the police. After doing so, he was criminally charged.
And their defense is
The police are basing this claim on a ridiculous reading of the two-party consent surveillance law - requiring all parties to consent to being taped.
Does that mean you can break in and rob a store - and if there is security footage, whoever owns the camera is going to jail for 4 years?
Can I write a legal disclaimer that simply by looking at my face you agree to allow me to record footage of you, and post this disclaimer on my T-shirt?
There's a lot of reasons why you can't point a gun at a cop. There isn't a lot of drawback for a cop pointing his gun at you. (Filling out some paperwork)
While most people have become fine with that for weapons, the fundamental difference is that a Camera is not lethal. There is absolutely NO reason why Cops shouldn't be under the same scrutiny as the general public, and if they are allowed to use dashboard cameras, security surveilance, and whatever else at their disposal to help convict a criminal - then the populace should have the same ability at their disposal to defend themselves. Think of it as the right to bear arms.
Which suggests a certain confusion as there are contradictions between the beliefs of the two religions (try reconciling redemption through Jesus, reincarnation, and karma).
Which was actually interesting in that the kids whose parents were members of different religions had different out-takes on both religions than someone who may have been raised strictly on one their entire life.
I remember the whole "Afterlife" discussion coming up with our Christian-Buddhist classmate. His opinion was this: Christ asks you to be Christ like. Buddhism asks you to follow a similar lifestyle. So rather than put all his eggs in one basket, he seperates the conflicting parts from his activities. Basically, if you live a good life, what should it matter what you believe? If Christ was going to condemn you based on just your faith, and not your actions, than that is not the kind of Christ he wants to worship. Likewise, whether or not he should be striving to achieve enlightenment, there are lessons to be learned through Christianity that might help him get there.
Some might disagree and say that faith should be the basis of religion, but I suppose we all choose our own paths right?
Hmm... That's almost more interesting to me. Seems pretty odd to have a doomsday forum. If you think the world is ending soon, you're going to be online, chatting about it?
I look at the tapes, and yes, I know how useless they'll be in about 3 years time, we'll have migrated to a new system that isn't compatible with this. I look at the backup tapes from 1999, and how we don't even have a tape drive for them anymore, but should we need to access them we'll probably hunt them down.
What kind of disks are you talking about? Well I need over 1TB of space per backup, at the end of each month, 4 different 1+ TB backups to be stored indefinately. So I can't use floppies, CD/DVD/BRD...
Because Hard Drive Disks go through different mediums too you know, I can't plug my SCSI into a SATA. I am not entirely sure that any hard drive I use today will be accessible 10 years from now. And lets look at the prices for a 2TB hard Drive (since that'd be what I'd need). Let's say I get lucky and get them for $100 each. Tapes I can get for $30.
By using tapes we get the size we need, though the speed is slow, for the right price. Saving almost $3000 a year by using tapes.
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There is of course one of the issues with it, but I prefer it that people be overly critical of things such as this. I'd rather put up with ridiculously false information (which I can choose to research myself) and believe what I want when its all available to me, as opposed to having a limitted and narrow scope of whats going on, controlled by them so that I see what they want me to see.
For example, Barrack winning a Nobel Prize. Before the internet, I would have probably accepted that he must have done something to improve the world situation. Because the News was all over it, so were the papers, but because he was still being hailed as the first Black President he was untouchable, no one was criticizing him. However, people not on the payroll of a news corporation are allowed to do their own investigative journalism to find whats really going on without bias. I learned that he hadn't really done anything, he didn't make any visits, hardly any talks with anyone. No deals, treaties, or otherwise were signed, so what did he do to win this prestigious award? So I went looking around. Turns out the Nobel Prizes are very politically charged. I didn't know that Mother Teresa and Ghandi, the two most humanitarian people in the public eye, didn't recieve any awards at all. And I guess this isn't anything new, but I wouldn't know it without the internet, right?
I guess thats kind of what I'm getting at. Sure, there are conspiracy theories galore out there, and I'm sure a ton of them are complete trash. But its better to be overly critical of the system than to accept it blindly.
This is not the 1950's.
There's too much information available to people! It makes them harder to govern! By golly, when people UNDERSTAND our Policies and can see ALL of our platform, it sure does make it hard to make them like us! When people can actually review what we've done without relying on the news centers, how do we keep up the lies? We're doing our best to keep them as uneducated as possible, by failing to properly support the school system, but they seem to be teaching themselves how politics work by discussing it with other people!
Oh the humanity! What ever will us political figures do if we can't keep the sheep acting like sheep!
It's not?
I don't need to force a change on anybody. I am 100% fine with Apple being Capricious.
Communism in theory would find some other job that was more useful, but communism in practice doesn't mean they'd call the old system obsolete.
It really has nothing to do with capitalism.
Well it kind of does, given that job security is supposed to be a fundamental part of Communism.
I mean, yes, its absurd to think that newspapers should be around just so that some people still have a job. But doesn't that sound more like a communist ideal than a capitalist?
Yes. Not everyone likes the idea of voluntarily being abused before things get better.
That is, IF things get better.
One last tidbit from the article worth reading
For the second time in less than a month, a police officer was convicted from evidence obtained from a videotape. The first officer to be convicted was New York City Police Officer Patrick Pogan, who would never have stood trial had it not been for a video posted on Youtube showing him body slamming a bicyclist before charging him with assault on an officer. The second officer to be convicted was Ottawa Hills (Ohio) Police Officer Thomas White, who shot a motorcyclist in the back after a traffic stop, permanently paralyzing the 24-year-old man."
No kidding.
FTFA
In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.
[...]
Drew is being prosecuted for illegal recording, a Class I felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison.
[...]
Hyde used his recording to file a harassment complaint against the police. After doing so, he was criminally charged.
And their defense is
The police are basing this claim on a ridiculous reading of the two-party consent surveillance law - requiring all parties to consent to being taped.
Does that mean you can break in and rob a store - and if there is security footage, whoever owns the camera is going to jail for 4 years?
Can I write a legal disclaimer that simply by looking at my face you agree to allow me to record footage of you, and post this disclaimer on my T-shirt?
There's a lot of reasons why you can't point a gun at a cop.
There isn't a lot of drawback for a cop pointing his gun at you. (Filling out some paperwork)
While most people have become fine with that for weapons, the fundamental difference is that a Camera is not lethal. There is absolutely NO reason why Cops shouldn't be under the same scrutiny as the general public, and if they are allowed to use dashboard cameras, security surveilance, and whatever else at their disposal to help convict a criminal - then the populace should have the same ability at their disposal to defend themselves. Think of it as the right to bear arms.
A) For your protection
B) So they get paid
C) It makes it sound like they do work
Politics is fun, isn't it?
So they put a transister inside a cell membrane. How exactly does that make it part human?
It's powered by the cell, and not its own battery?
Imagine having a wrist calculator that was more reliable than a solar calculator, but you have to eat a bit more.
Yes. Because no one drinks Whiskey, or Rye. Try drinking that stuff, straight up no junk. Tell me how awesome it tastes. Then ask if it sells.
Which suggests a certain confusion as there are contradictions between the beliefs of the two religions (try reconciling redemption through Jesus, reincarnation, and karma).
Which was actually interesting in that the kids whose parents were members of different religions had different out-takes on both religions than someone who may have been raised strictly on one their entire life.
I remember the whole "Afterlife" discussion coming up with our Christian-Buddhist classmate. His opinion was this: Christ asks you to be Christ like. Buddhism asks you to follow a similar lifestyle. So rather than put all his eggs in one basket, he seperates the conflicting parts from his activities. Basically, if you live a good life, what should it matter what you believe? If Christ was going to condemn you based on just your faith, and not your actions, than that is not the kind of Christ he wants to worship. Likewise, whether or not he should be striving to achieve enlightenment, there are lessons to be learned through Christianity that might help him get there.
Some might disagree and say that faith should be the basis of religion, but I suppose we all choose our own paths right?
Oh come on, everyone knows the Mayan Calendar has been debunked.
Hmm... That's almost more interesting to me. Seems pretty odd to have a doomsday forum. If you think the world is ending soon, you're going to be online, chatting about it?
I take it no one has introduced you to Bash.org?
That's because he doesn't use the forks.
There are plenty of other places to go for bad rumors and conspiracy theories.
I mean, does this story warrant inclusion on slashdot?
When you read it backwards, you sound ridiculous.
I look at the tapes, and yes, I know how useless they'll be in about 3 years time, we'll have migrated to a new system that isn't compatible with this. I look at the backup tapes from 1999, and how we don't even have a tape drive for them anymore, but should we need to access them we'll probably hunt them down.
What kind of disks are you talking about? Well I need over 1TB of space per backup, at the end of each month, 4 different 1+ TB backups to be stored indefinately. So I can't use floppies, CD/DVD/BRD...
Because Hard Drive Disks go through different mediums too you know, I can't plug my SCSI into a SATA. I am not entirely sure that any hard drive I use today will be accessible 10 years from now. And lets look at the prices for a 2TB hard Drive (since that'd be what I'd need). Let's say I get lucky and get them for $100 each. Tapes I can get for $30.
By using tapes we get the size we need, though the speed is slow, for the right price. Saving almost $3000 a year by using tapes.
all they want in return is the ability to meticulously sift through your data in order to find the best way to bombard you with text-based ads.
And to insert their ads on your printed reports.
I do. What do you use that's cheap and 1.6 Terabytes in size? Need 4 new ones every Month.
Stop your IT Department from visitting Slashdot
But I guess thems the breaks huh? We can't all be rock stars, there has to be janitors.
Hokey religions and ancient execs are no match for a good Distro at your side, kid.
And thats why the stocks went through the roof. Best investment IBM has ever made.
They said we can give away a Zune HD, but not an iPod Touch.
Not to mock your plight, but this made me laugh.