"Standard" desktops are rapidly becoming like one piece un-upgradable iMacs. This could be a good workaround all around, except where blade servers are preferred.
...they could still control the person you voted for...
Then don't reelect them. They're already controlling the ones we have now, by threatening to reveal their crooked financing and sexual adventures. We have to force their hand and make them show if they have real power, first by electing somebody different and noticing what happens to them if and when they start to enact the reforms we should be demanding. And if they can't/won't do it, then we must vote them out at the soonest opportunity.
You are effectively calling for book burning. That is not anti-censorship. You don't stop sinning by poking your eyes out. This whole idea is so easily corrupted, it should be dismissed out of hand with no argument, or even comment. All information will become political because it will be controlled by politicians writing legislation on how it is to be stored and distributed. Hopefully our famous internet can route around such nonsense.
Open secrets should have some influence though. But the most influence still comes from the TV propaganda machine. The other probably being alcohol abuse.
Ah yes, the *dead hooker found in your hotel room* routine. Widely used by organized criminals. Well, I guess it's up to us to be more vigilant. The thing is, nothing is going to change under the present circumstances. Nobody will rescue us. If we don't take care of it ourselves, then we are doomed to live in the 10,000 year empire for all eternity.
That's bullshit. Google is not a credit company. This is clearly censorship for use by powerful people, just like the whole idea of libel/slander. The only issue is how the info is used. That is the only thing that should be controlled. I certainly hope there will be a way to circumvent such nonsense. Distributed search engines perhaps, hell distributed everything is what we desperately need, especially internet provision. Otherwise it will only become just another broadcast medium for the authorities to spread their propaganda. It has already started with the copyright wars as their first vector of attack.
And so far, most people don't really seem to care. Not enough to do anything about it, anyways.
Exactly. All this brouhaha won't amount to a hill of beans in November. Okay, maybe the reelection rates might dip below 90%, but that's not very likely. So far, the voters (and some of the responders here) have been very successfully conditioned to believe they are helpless to do anything about it. So I'm going to go with the assumption that this is what they want, but they are still being a bunch of crybabies.
...it helps when the facts are laid out in a responsible manner.
It doesn't help advertising rates. You need to add excitement, dancing, and cha cha cha.. Embellish, and lie if you have to, whatever it takes for Google analytics to notice.
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When you're a monopoly, or soon to be one, all your prophecies will come true. It's called "propheteering".
Sounds like just another day at the office.
...nobody likes the cable companies but they politically get their way.
Nobody likes congress either, but they reelect 90% of them anyway. That right there is the very source of the problem. People are fickle.
"Standard" desktops are rapidly becoming like one piece un-upgradable iMacs. This could be a good workaround all around, except where blade servers are preferred.
The company isn't holding back the hyperbole. Definitely front page news there.
"Somebody different" will quickly turn out to be not so different after all.
So what? The problem is when they are reelected. Don't do that.
They pay their puppet politicians to keep the competition out. And it's the voters' fault for constantly reelecting these crooks.
No, that would be censorship. Anybody and everybody that wants to should be able to produce "content". We just have to stop protecting the monopolies.
Not good enough. But I'm not expecting anything better until we stop reelecting the crooks that got us here.
...they could still control the person you voted for...
Then don't reelect them. They're already controlling the ones we have now, by threatening to reveal their crooked financing and sexual adventures. We have to force their hand and make them show if they have real power, first by electing somebody different and noticing what happens to them if and when they start to enact the reforms we should be demanding. And if they can't/won't do it, then we must vote them out at the soonest opportunity.
You are effectively calling for book burning. That is not anti-censorship. You don't stop sinning by poking your eyes out. This whole idea is so easily corrupted, it should be dismissed out of hand with no argument, or even comment. All information will become political because it will be controlled by politicians writing legislation on how it is to be stored and distributed. Hopefully our famous internet can route around such nonsense.
Open secrets should have some influence though. But the most influence still comes from the TV propaganda machine. The other probably being alcohol abuse.
...why should the minority with functioning brain stems have to be dictated to by stupid people with stupid agendas?
Majority rule, man...
Names please...
Frame the candidate for something...
Ah yes, the *dead hooker found in your hotel room* routine. Widely used by organized criminals. Well, I guess it's up to us to be more vigilant. The thing is, nothing is going to change under the present circumstances. Nobody will rescue us. If we don't take care of it ourselves, then we are doomed to live in the 10,000 year empire for all eternity.
Then vote for C or D or E or .... Get the idea?
That's bullshit. Google is not a credit company. This is clearly censorship for use by powerful people, just like the whole idea of libel/slander. The only issue is how the info is used. That is the only thing that should be controlled. I certainly hope there will be a way to circumvent such nonsense. Distributed search engines perhaps, hell distributed everything is what we desperately need, especially internet provision. Otherwise it will only become just another broadcast medium for the authorities to spread their propaganda. It has already started with the copyright wars as their first vector of attack.
And so far, most people don't really seem to care. Not enough to do anything about it, anyways.
Exactly. All this brouhaha won't amount to a hill of beans in November. Okay, maybe the reelection rates might dip below 90%, but that's not very likely. So far, the voters (and some of the responders here) have been very successfully conditioned to believe they are helpless to do anything about it. So I'm going to go with the assumption that this is what they want, but they are still being a bunch of crybabies.
Al Franken? No thanks! Besides, he thinks the NSA is a-okay...
I think we're screwed.
Only if you keep on reelecting the same old crooked politicians over and over again. The NSA can't control who you vote for.
...turn the entire southwest into a lush green sub-tropic region...
Do that, and see real fast climate change. It could just put half the Midwest under water again.
I think we'll manage just fine.
Yes, I am truly grateful that the people who built the first skyscraper had such foresight, Even better that they built it 600 feet above sea level.
Maybe, if we pick up on our desalination efforts, we can drain the oceans as fast as they rise. (take caution with that one :-))
The countries able to withstand this are countable on one hand.
So, there you go.
...the military-industrial complex (that Eisenhower warned us against)...
Yeah, that speech would have meant something if he gave it during his inauguration instead of on his way out.
...it helps when the facts are laid out in a responsible manner.
It doesn't help advertising rates. You need to add excitement, dancing, and cha cha cha.. Embellish, and lie if you have to, whatever it takes for Google analytics to notice.