What made you ever think he (or any of them) was serious about protecting anybody not on the donor list? It is much more logical to assume that these people are lying and have always been lying.. But after seeing the vote, it appears logic plays no part in the process, on the contrary, it is an anathema to it. If you don't know cui bono, then you are hopelessly uninformed.
I always wiped my machine and installed the few things I really needed before going to Asia.
You should do that for coming back. You never know when customs will steal your machine. Always travel with throwaway items, and always give false information where possible and practical. This is what today's institutions reward while the honest weep in their jail cells.
Yes, well, we really don't know about anything, do we? But some things are pretty obvious, like the color of the sky, and the physical state of water... Even the tiniest glace at animal psychology provides a pretty good clue on the human condition. The gangsters are an evolutionary step. I see nothing abnormal, 'corrupt' or 'conspiratorial' or even anything specifically human about it. It is just the natural process at work. I do not see the big deal. Strip the emotional and sentimental baggage about people from your observations. This business is utterly and completely amoral (not immoral), simply working on the universal principle of might makes right, with lots of fancy philosophy to justify it all. Monkeys writing Shakespeare... I have stated nothing implausible, or even improbable. I try to remind people that it is most important to always treat authority in an adversarial manner. People cannot be trusted not to abuse it. They are violent gangsters. This has been scientifically proven in and out of the lab many times over. I assume you are familiar with Stanford, Milgram, Pavlov, Skinner and the others. And why are you finding 'the establishment' any more believable than me? Why do you prefer to believe their lies? Is the malice(more like indifference) of their normalcy really so difficult to comprehend? Or is that nobody likes to admit they've been had? As much as I would love to provide official documentation, I find it has no chance against the ideology of the reader, so I gave up making the effort. It's not like it can't be googled if you're really interested anyway. Personally I just don't care anymore. I'm going to say what I see regardless, and people can take it as they like, makes no difference.
One thing people learned from Nixon(for the most part, there's still a lot of dummies out there), 'Burn the tapes'... The world is a shark tank. Our facade of civility that we display at the library and in your finer restaurants just does not exist at their level. They are true sociopaths, by choice. Just follow the natural flow of power and mass. It can only lead to one conclusion. The process and motivation is truly universal across all things.
I certainly do. The Russian banks needed cash, real bad. The decision was a simple one to make. Business is business. How many other governments have done the same thing? Lots... The system didn't 'fall' by any means, where is Gorbachev? Resting comfortably for sure, the system changed, and everybody in the boardroom got paid. In fact nothing really changed upstairs, a minor rearrangement of the furniture, that's all.
I think it's funny all of you like to credit all your highfalutin ideology for conquering the beast, but the most likely scenario is that the World Bank/IMF finally showed them enough money to go take a powder... I think we're all grown up enough now to quit believing in Santa Claus
Ted Turner and Satellite TV (certainly not satellite defense) brought down the wall. Starting in Poland of all places(you remember Lech)... No, actually the Goodwill Games in '86 brought enough bootleg satellite dishes into Russia to bring in a good glimpse of western media. The propaganda game was suddenly over for the old politburo. Took three years, but they grabbed their money and ran, guess where?
Or what, maybe it was the western banks dangling all that money in front of them that did it... That sounds the most plausible...
...it seems like we really started to lose it around 1910 when the Federal Government began to assert itself as a central law enforcement and control authority.
Some will tell you even today, it began with the 'War of Northern Aggression'..
I would tell you it began with the Whiskey Rebellion.
And I do know why it's 'hip' to blame Wilson right now...
Damn, that's a shame this "Campaign Reform Act" ever saw the light of day. Any congressperson that voted for it should be sanctioned for clear constitutional violations. Such a silly charade these people play. I guess I'm one of those people that think that the Citizens United decision was a good one and the correct one. I believe in freedom of speech myself. The voter has his own responsibility to tune out the noise.
Where? Not in the US I guarantee you. You're thinking of one or two of those tinpot dictators south of the Rio Grande they're propping up. And, amazingly enough, there is no law that requires people to vote for those who spend the most money either. So, the people that cry about it are full of shit. They are only covering up their own desire for a piece of the bacon when they vote for these slugs. The whole money thing is a cover for the avocation of censorship, and you all are falling for it. Expediency and convenience are the objectives.
Ooof! People have to get over this 'term limits' crap. It doesn't work. The presidency is as corrupt as ever. The same party has ruled since after the civil war. Term limits is like putting new shingles on a rotten roof. Now it just leaks in a different place, eh.. no problem, it's only the servant's quarters...
That's because money is not the issue. Psychology is. Money is just the scapegoat to avoid addressing that. We don't want people realizing that they are responsible for the people they elect. So, let's blame the 'system'. There are few buckets in this world that contain more crap.
They'll be doing them a favor. Those wells will still be there when the Saudis' run dry. And of course the Saudis know that, and we know that they know... and so on...
They will tread softly. A good parasite will nurture the host for their mutual benefit, a very well understood and very natural symbiotic relationship. We can do much better though than to let these pirates monopolize the business and be giving the key to the city to their lackeys.
Even an amateur radio operator mesh network (which exists in places at the moment) would be subject to interference at practical levels.
Yes, I know all that. We live in primitive times. So, then we need to learn to use their jamming signal as our carrier, turning it into a repeater. Mix your signal with theirs(heterodyne) and modulate that frequency... Exploit the plain old sidebands maybe. You can modulate any noise to carry a message if you time your pings right, I would hope... Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but it seems to me we can get anything, whether it was intended to or not, to carry a message, with throughput and latency being the major hurdles to overcome.
No, we need to do it differently. Ultimately it will be a neural mesh. The impediment is purely economic/political. There is no technical reason for anybody on the whole planet to be without internet right now. It is strictly business. In the meantime you should at least do what you can to prevent monopoly/duopoly contracts. You have to pry the market open to all comers, including the state where needed, like out in the sticks. But... I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen. Anyway, that's what I mean by 'one provider'.
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What made you ever think he (or any of them) was serious about protecting anybody not on the donor list? It is much more logical to assume that these people are lying and have always been lying.. But after seeing the vote, it appears logic plays no part in the process, on the contrary, it is an anathema to it. If you don't know cui bono, then you are hopelessly uninformed.
I always wiped my machine and installed the few things I really needed before going to Asia.
You should do that for coming back. You never know when customs will steal your machine. Always travel with throwaway items, and always give false information where possible and practical. This is what today's institutions reward while the honest weep in their jail cells.
Why? It only means your ATM fees will go even higher. The executives pay nothing. You pay all costs.
Yes, well, we really don't know about anything, do we? But some things are pretty obvious, like the color of the sky, and the physical state of water... Even the tiniest glace at animal psychology provides a pretty good clue on the human condition. The gangsters are an evolutionary step. I see nothing abnormal, 'corrupt' or 'conspiratorial' or even anything specifically human about it. It is just the natural process at work. I do not see the big deal. Strip the emotional and sentimental baggage about people from your observations. This business is utterly and completely amoral (not immoral), simply working on the universal principle of might makes right, with lots of fancy philosophy to justify it all. Monkeys writing Shakespeare... I have stated nothing implausible, or even improbable. I try to remind people that it is most important to always treat authority in an adversarial manner. People cannot be trusted not to abuse it. They are violent gangsters. This has been scientifically proven in and out of the lab many times over. I assume you are familiar with Stanford, Milgram, Pavlov, Skinner and the others. And why are you finding 'the establishment' any more believable than me? Why do you prefer to believe their lies? Is the malice(more like indifference) of their normalcy really so difficult to comprehend? Or is that nobody likes to admit they've been had? As much as I would love to provide official documentation, I find it has no chance against the ideology of the reader, so I gave up making the effort. It's not like it can't be googled if you're really interested anyway. Personally I just don't care anymore. I'm going to say what I see regardless, and people can take it as they like, makes no difference.
Once again we prove everything has a physical cause. And remember, judge not!
One thing people learned from Nixon(for the most part, there's still a lot of dummies out there), 'Burn the tapes'... The world is a shark tank. Our facade of civility that we display at the library and in your finer restaurants just does not exist at their level. They are true sociopaths, by choice. Just follow the natural flow of power and mass. It can only lead to one conclusion. The process and motivation is truly universal across all things.
Uh, you consider that the most likely scenario?
I certainly do. The Russian banks needed cash, real bad. The decision was a simple one to make. Business is business. How many other governments have done the same thing? Lots... The system didn't 'fall' by any means, where is Gorbachev? Resting comfortably for sure, the system changed, and everybody in the boardroom got paid. In fact nothing really changed upstairs, a minor rearrangement of the furniture, that's all.
I think it's funny all of you like to credit all your highfalutin ideology for conquering the beast, but the most likely scenario is that the World Bank/IMF finally showed them enough money to go take a powder... I think we're all grown up enough now to quit believing in Santa Claus
Ted Turner and Satellite TV (certainly not satellite defense) brought down the wall. Starting in Poland of all places(you remember Lech)... No, actually the Goodwill Games in '86 brought enough bootleg satellite dishes into Russia to bring in a good glimpse of western media. The propaganda game was suddenly over for the old politburo. Took three years, but they grabbed their money and ran, guess where?
Or what, maybe it was the western banks dangling all that money in front of them that did it... That sounds the most plausible...
...it seems like we really started to lose it around 1910 when the Federal Government began to assert itself as a central law enforcement and control authority.
Some will tell you even today, it began with the 'War of Northern Aggression'..
I would tell you it began with the Whiskey Rebellion.
And I do know why it's 'hip' to blame Wilson right now...
Does anybody at all see anything wrong with that concept? You can be honest, this is not a poll.
I gotta wonder how long we will remain the dominant species on the planet.
We've been fighting imaginary threats to democracy for 13-14 years now...
Damn, that's a shame this "Campaign Reform Act" ever saw the light of day. Any congressperson that voted for it should be sanctioned for clear constitutional violations. Such a silly charade these people play. I guess I'm one of those people that think that the Citizens United decision was a good one and the correct one. I believe in freedom of speech myself. The voter has his own responsibility to tune out the noise.
Murdoch still owns it, right? Well, there ya go...
But don't you see? Climate change means victory for ISIS!
Where? Not in the US I guarantee you. You're thinking of one or two of those tinpot dictators south of the Rio Grande they're propping up. And, amazingly enough, there is no law that requires people to vote for those who spend the most money either. So, the people that cry about it are full of shit. They are only covering up their own desire for a piece of the bacon when they vote for these slugs. The whole money thing is a cover for the avocation of censorship, and you all are falling for it. Expediency and convenience are the objectives.
Ooof! People have to get over this 'term limits' crap. It doesn't work. The presidency is as corrupt as ever. The same party has ruled since after the civil war. Term limits is like putting new shingles on a rotten roof. Now it just leaks in a different place, eh.. no problem, it's only the servant's quarters...
Let people decide their own fate.
That's because money is not the issue. Psychology is. Money is just the scapegoat to avoid addressing that. We don't want people realizing that they are responsible for the people they elect. So, let's blame the 'system'. There are few buckets in this world that contain more crap.
96.4% reelection rate....
Nobody 'moved'... This is bullshit.
And advertising has no effect on consumer buying habits. Political campaigning has no effect on the vote...
They'll be doing them a favor. Those wells will still be there when the Saudis' run dry. And of course the Saudis know that, and we know that they know... and so on...
They will tread softly. A good parasite will nurture the host for their mutual benefit, a very well understood and very natural symbiotic relationship. We can do much better though than to let these pirates monopolize the business and be giving the key to the city to their lackeys.
Even an amateur radio operator mesh network (which exists in places at the moment) would be subject to interference at practical levels.
Yes, I know all that. We live in primitive times. So, then we need to learn to use their jamming signal as our carrier, turning it into a repeater. Mix your signal with theirs(heterodyne) and modulate that frequency... Exploit the plain old sidebands maybe. You can modulate any noise to carry a message if you time your pings right, I would hope... Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but it seems to me we can get anything, whether it was intended to or not, to carry a message, with throughput and latency being the major hurdles to overcome.
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black..
There is no such thing as interfere-less internet.
That's why we have to make one!
No, we need to do it differently. Ultimately it will be a neural mesh. The impediment is purely economic/political. There is no technical reason for anybody on the whole planet to be without internet right now. It is strictly business. In the meantime you should at least do what you can to prevent monopoly/duopoly contracts. You have to pry the market open to all comers, including the state where needed, like out in the sticks. But... I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen. Anyway, that's what I mean by 'one provider'.