To add to this, I heard this evening that Netflix accounts for 20% of all Internet traffic in the evenings in the US. This is one reason that Comcast is being dicks about charging Level 3 for traffic, when Comcast is supposed to be a common carrier. Tiering off the Internet? Be careful what you wish for; it's supposed to route around damage.
I just finished the book "Three Felonies a Day" which was recommended to me here on Slashdot. I highly recommend you read it as well; "the excuses some people use are ridiculous", yes, like "I had asked the government whether I was in compliance and they said that I was; then I was thrown in jail for supporting terrorists." The basic theory behind this book is that there are so many laws on the books now, that every citizen, on average, commits three felonies every day. I heard something on NPR today about California and their prison population crisis, where inmates are dying due to lack of adequate medical treatment. Imagine, being thrown in jail for enjoying the wrong type of cigarette in public, and fucking dying because of it. That is wrong on so many levels, all of them caused by over-enforcement.
Similar to what a Brazilian told me about Brazil: "There are no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes; no 'force of nature' will kill you. Just other humans."
Aren't we somewhat "a little late" for this? I mean, Echelon (et al) are scanning and likely recording all communication, including that by government officials. The more they try to hide their conversations, the more the state machinery will want to hear what they're saying. And if the state machinery records it, the state machinery can leak it (Valerie Plame?) as well as be leaked (the recent WikiLeaks incidents).
When we pass laws (or Directives) allowing our agents to perform hidden "evil" actions, we're not benefiting society. I read here a few months ago a comment equating police actions to "evil" actions, where arrest is kidnapping, fining is theft, and the ultimate, death penalty, is the machinery of the state murdering a human being. We allow certain people in our society to perform these evil actions -- because we believe that it benefits society. But allowing the DHS to steal domains from citizens? That just doesn't sound right, on the face of it. So there must be something else going on, one would think, until one reads about this Directive.
so, just as drunken truck drivers can move classified "special weaponry" across the country routinely, as we read earlier this week
You know, it's incidents like this that make me think the people are going to be clamoring for Skynet to exist, initially to make the roads safer so their packages get to their destination (self-driving 18-wheelers), then of course with automated machinery comes military uses, and we're done.
I never know when or why people add me as a friend, so I'm telling you: it was from this post, and from this post. I say that in the spirit of Leslie Nielsen who died yesterday, BBC had a segment of his one-liners this morning that included someone else asking "Who are you and how did you get in here?", and he replied, "I'm a locksmith, and, I'm a locksmith." He had great delivery, RIP.
This has always baffled me about our country's planners. I mean, didn't they foresee that their decision to set a "wage floor" would result in manufacturing and other low-skilled jobs moving off shores? "Minimum wage laws" only create a new class of citizen, the welfare class, because their skills are worth less than employers are forced at gunpoint to pay no less than.
If your skills are worth a few cents less per hour than the minimum wage, then you will never be employed. Even though you could contribute to society. That is a shame, because it's creating a blood-sucking class, not merely an idle class.
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Perhaps throwing away my karma but: please mod parent up.
Wow I actually read that as "irradiates russian intelligence" and I thought, "In Soviet Russia..."
Poll is closed after 153 votes; not very statisticful, now, is it?
Exactly! I can't rape myself.
If you have to ask, you can't afford it. (Or, don't know how to Google, or something.)
Yes, and copyright is infinite, so it is protecting us infinitely against the alien overlords.
I wonder if Google might "pull a Geocities/MySpace/Facebook"? From your comment, it seems they have the "trust-share"...
OT: thanks for the link in your sig.
To add to this, I heard this evening that Netflix accounts for 20% of all Internet traffic in the evenings in the US. This is one reason that Comcast is being dicks about charging Level 3 for traffic, when Comcast is supposed to be a common carrier. Tiering off the Internet? Be careful what you wish for; it's supposed to route around damage.
I just finished the book "Three Felonies a Day" which was recommended to me here on Slashdot. I highly recommend you read it as well; "the excuses some people use are ridiculous", yes, like "I had asked the government whether I was in compliance and they said that I was; then I was thrown in jail for supporting terrorists." The basic theory behind this book is that there are so many laws on the books now, that every citizen, on average, commits three felonies every day. I heard something on NPR today about California and their prison population crisis, where inmates are dying due to lack of adequate medical treatment. Imagine, being thrown in jail for enjoying the wrong type of cigarette in public, and fucking dying because of it. That is wrong on so many levels, all of them caused by over-enforcement.
I don't have a globe called "America". (And, I respect you, doh...)
Similar to what a Brazilian told me about Brazil: "There are no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes; no 'force of nature' will kill you. Just other humans."
Funny, how their opinion tends to change over time...
Off-planet, more likely... Richard Branson?
Mod points gone; mod parent up.
Hang on a second. "Yes" ohohohoh "waitwaitwait NO!" You think that's right? Move to Sweden.
glwt
Sig double bonus!
Aren't we somewhat "a little late" for this? I mean, Echelon (et al) are scanning and likely recording all communication, including that by government officials. The more they try to hide their conversations, the more the state machinery will want to hear what they're saying. And if the state machinery records it, the state machinery can leak it (Valerie Plame?) as well as be leaked (the recent WikiLeaks incidents).
When we pass laws (or Directives) allowing our agents to perform hidden "evil" actions, we're not benefiting society. I read here a few months ago a comment equating police actions to "evil" actions, where arrest is kidnapping, fining is theft, and the ultimate, death penalty, is the machinery of the state murdering a human being. We allow certain people in our society to perform these evil actions -- because we believe that it benefits society. But allowing the DHS to steal domains from citizens? That just doesn't sound right, on the face of it. So there must be something else going on, one would think, until one reads about this Directive.
You know, it's incidents like this that make me think the people are going to be clamoring for Skynet to exist, initially to make the roads safer so their packages get to their destination (self-driving 18-wheelers), then of course with automated machinery comes military uses, and we're done.
I never know when or why people add me as a friend, so I'm telling you: it was from this post, and from this post. I say that in the spirit of Leslie Nielsen who died yesterday, BBC had a segment of his one-liners this morning that included someone else asking "Who are you and how did you get in here?", and he replied, "I'm a locksmith, and, I'm a locksmith." He had great delivery, RIP.
This has always baffled me about our country's planners. I mean, didn't they foresee that their decision to set a "wage floor" would result in manufacturing and other low-skilled jobs moving off shores? "Minimum wage laws" only create a new class of citizen, the welfare class, because their skills are worth less than employers are forced at gunpoint to pay no less than.
If your skills are worth a few cents less per hour than the minimum wage, then you will never be employed. Even though you could contribute to society. That is a shame, because it's creating a blood-sucking class, not merely an idle class.
You won't get tired of living if you're forever young.