International law is based upon sovereign states which coexist. Article 2 of the UN Charta. If you don't like your government feel free to get a new one. If you don't like your state feel free to proclaim a new one. Unfortunately most governments don't like the idea of sovereign citizens or secession as the US civil war demonstrates.
Supressing parties? You mean the Communist Party or the Reichspartei ruled unconstitutional in the 1950ths?
Look, the sovereignty principle is fine but the ITU is actually a corrupt and geriatric telecom cartel. The WCIT is a world conference of states. One of the proposals says that ITU-T recommendations become binding for members.
Well, the American order is based on the random set of issues that entered the US constitution and seemd highly relevant for progressive minds in the 18 century. The German order is based on other experiences which develop from the core principle "human dignity is inalienable". Of course, given the experience with 1930s hate speech you had a different priority order. In Europe the catalogue of fundamental rights is virtually the same.
It was news to me that Germans don't care about freedoms. Quite the opposite. And there a few criminal laws against use of neonazi imagery for incitement of the people. I am fine with that. Fortunately you could curse on television which you probably won't do, but in 1971 someone axed a table.
The ITU is just the body. WCIT is a world conference, that means "all states" on equal footing and they revise the ITRs. The ITRs define the competences of the ITU. Now, the ITU is virtually owned by the telco companies. Decide for yourself what competences you want in their hands.
Which is specially crazy for IE. The market is the same as firefox and Chrome, it lies in search. Open Source results in thousands of code monkeys submitting patches and reviewing your shit. Microsoft develops IE closed without any real benefit and money going down the drain In principle they could also ship Windows with Firefox. I would open source IE.
Shooting cash cows could be real fun.
Google for instance has the power to simply dump 50 Million on Libreoffice to give them a hard time, when Microsoft pisses them- Apple could put 300 Mio into Wine development. All this is corporate pocket money and shows the potential.
It needs a single pissed-off Sheik customer to crack the Microsoft monopoly.
Of course. Still the North Korean regime is outrageous.
What you find stunning are the American double standards: The President publicly admits that they have a Killer drone program to assasinate persons in third countries (without permission of the third country). That would be clear case of state terrorism and I would expect the President to be taken to the International Court of Justice as a killer or at least into custody. But he doesn't even have to resign. There are no consequences. They are very public about that. No shame, no doubts. Where is the institutional resistance? Absent.
Now, the longer perspective is that this is peanuts compared to the bombine and human suffering in past (undeclared) wars. Probably it would not even be possible anymore to imagine a war in the proportions of Vietnam these days. Targeted drone killings sound more humane than Dresden and Hiroshima. Those who carry the crimes out say it was an order. And when someone bombs their base he becomes a "terrorist". That is the whole hypocrisy. So maybe the standards and principles are wrong, not the practise.
Yes, it should feel inappropriate to collect the data. However, we as citizens should not be afraid. We should of course demand that no information gets collected. We should fight for legislative safe guards, data protection laws and so forth.
Are there laws which ban the government to monitor journalists from the press and news media? Not really, Still they don't dare to spy on them and when they did, they got very bad press. There are of course nations where its completely different but overall we are moving towards a society where more free speech is exercised and regimes get replaced by more moderate ones.
I have pretty good access to power. I don't think someone would dare to target me. I think it is dangerous when you make people believe they are powerless. In the GDR we had strong surveillance and santioning and still the state collapsed because people were not afraid. The real state surveillance terror is behind us, we finished these regimes off.
What do you mean with verbal and visual intimidation?
Look, I invest into blurring my profile. I don't believe in the wonders of government technology, esp. when it is kept confidential. I have seen to much in the lights which didn't work as advertised. Don't make people believe these organisations are powerful and ubiquitious. The United Stated and the West can't even manage to keep their own soldiers safe in Afghanistan. Free citizens should not be afraid.
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UN means 180 states and developing nations officials get bribed, that is the only reason why they participate.
Same for other Microsoft products which do not generate profit anymore.
Their products are made in China and branded Apple.
You are free to watch these things at home but honestly...
What ever, they should release source code by now. Time to end ideology and talk business.
The strange aspect is that we have approx 80% civilian casualties and 20% semi-combattant targets.
Actually that turns the argument.
Try the defense with Mr. Manning.
International law is based upon sovereign states which coexist. Article 2 of the UN Charta. If you don't like your government feel free to get a new one. If you don't like your state feel free to proclaim a new one. Unfortunately most governments don't like the idea of sovereign citizens or secession as the US civil war demonstrates.
Supressing parties? You mean the Communist Party or the Reichspartei ruled unconstitutional in the 1950ths? Look, the sovereignty principle is fine but the ITU is actually a corrupt and geriatric telecom cartel. The WCIT is a world conference of states. One of the proposals says that ITU-T recommendations become binding for members.
Well, the American order is based on the random set of issues that entered the US constitution and seemd highly relevant for progressive minds in the 18 century. The German order is based on other experiences which develop from the core principle "human dignity is inalienable". Of course, given the experience with 1930s hate speech you had a different priority order. In Europe the catalogue of fundamental rights is virtually the same.
It was news to me that Germans don't care about freedoms. Quite the opposite. And there a few criminal laws against use of neonazi imagery for incitement of the people. I am fine with that. Fortunately you could curse on television which you probably won't do, but in 1971 someone axed a table. The ITU is just the body. WCIT is a world conference, that means "all states" on equal footing and they revise the ITRs. The ITRs define the competences of the ITU. Now, the ITU is virtually owned by the telco companies. Decide for yourself what competences you want in their hands.
You mean history lessons from Hollywood?
Is Win8 better than Win7?
Which is specially crazy for IE. The market is the same as firefox and Chrome, it lies in search. Open Source results in thousands of code monkeys submitting patches and reviewing your shit. Microsoft develops IE closed without any real benefit and money going down the drain In principle they could also ship Windows with Firefox. I would open source IE.
Do they open source IE10?
Shooting cash cows could be real fun. Google for instance has the power to simply dump 50 Million on Libreoffice to give them a hard time, when Microsoft pisses them- Apple could put 300 Mio into Wine development. All this is corporate pocket money and shows the potential. It needs a single pissed-off Sheik customer to crack the Microsoft monopoly.
Microsoft should simply start to open source their products. Must not be GPL, could be "here is our code but you can't use it" license.
I think Micrsoft provides decent products but as long as they are not open source we won't embrace them.
Yes, and now its time to invest in Libreoffice and Linux to kill Microsoft's cash cows. Enough is enough.
Now, the longer perspective is that this is peanuts compared to the bombine and human suffering in past (undeclared) wars. Probably it would not even be possible anymore to imagine a war in the proportions of Vietnam these days. Targeted drone killings sound more humane than Dresden and Hiroshima. Those who carry the crimes out say it was an order. And when someone bombs their base he becomes a "terrorist". That is the whole hypocrisy. So maybe the standards and principles are wrong, not the practise.
Yes, it should feel inappropriate to collect the data. However, we as citizens should not be afraid. We should of course demand that no information gets collected. We should fight for legislative safe guards, data protection laws and so forth. Are there laws which ban the government to monitor journalists from the press and news media? Not really, Still they don't dare to spy on them and when they did, they got very bad press. There are of course nations where its completely different but overall we are moving towards a society where more free speech is exercised and regimes get replaced by more moderate ones.
I have pretty good access to power. I don't think someone would dare to target me. I think it is dangerous when you make people believe they are powerless. In the GDR we had strong surveillance and santioning and still the state collapsed because people were not afraid. The real state surveillance terror is behind us, we finished these regimes off. What do you mean with verbal and visual intimidation?
When persons get access, fine. What could they do with the information. How much time can they afford to investigate your data.
Look, I invest into blurring my profile. I don't believe in the wonders of government technology, esp. when it is kept confidential. I have seen to much in the lights which didn't work as advertised. Don't make people believe these organisations are powerful and ubiquitious. The United Stated and the West can't even manage to keep their own soldiers safe in Afghanistan. Free citizens should not be afraid.