Lampooning often involves exaggeration and cheapens nothing, if you can't laugh at something, how can you take it seriously? I'm there every time Free Gaza protests happen in my town, so lighten up, lol. Even Palestinians make fun of the blockade and I know quite a few. The only people who can't laugh about the situation are the jingoist-types in Israel and the hardliners in Hamas.
Arbitrary and contradictory lists/lists, that they neither Israel or Apple will disclose on what is allowed. What Israel is doing is inexcusable, I agree, but it seems an apt comparison even if a bit over the top.
Steve Jobs, I believe having a good "sex life" means something entirely different than it does for the rest of us. Even me, a staid almost boring 30 year-something person with a long term partner has gotten on board with sexting, sex pics and other naughty stuff with gadgetry.
I would never even consider owning a telecommunication/internet device that came with somebody's seemingly arbitrary and contradictory moral strictures as the arbiter of what I may use the device for. Ownership of Apple products has always been about willing to go into their secretive walled garden but lately with the hostility and snarkiness that has been shown to both Apple developers and consumers the experience is more akin to living in Gaza.
The question is, is where does most of the investment in open source come from and who profits the most from it. In both cases you are going to get fortune 500 companies. It might only be 2-3% of a large company's budget but it still will outspend any purely open source shop out there.
There are thousands of bacteria on the face of the planet that can break down oil and I bet many of them are in the Gulf itself, right now, which has been seeping oil for what, 100's of millions of years? The problem is not if there are bacteria that can metabolize oil; we already know 100's of ones that do, the question is, will it be more effective than the 1000's already out there?
This is just a press release for a grant writing fishing expedition for BP money. Everyone is doing it right now in academia, trust me.
Protecting rights is simple with an engaged 4th estate and should be even easier with a burgeoning 5th estate online; but, alas people would rather work on becoming Mayor of Dunkin Donuts on foursquare than use social media to keep the flame of liberty safe from those who would try to extinguish it.
We aren't all libertarian/Republican IT monkeys. Some of us are scientists or engineers, which tend to be skewed towards the left side of politics.
If you killed everyone carrying an AK-47 in Iraq or Afghanistan you would have to kill half the country. The vast majority of people with guns in those countries carry them around their whole lives and never fire them in anger. It is a very Wild Wild West 'tude out there. Lots of machismo, engaging in a fire fight with everyone with a gun would be disastrous strategically as we found out in the first 2 weeks of occupying Baghdad where 100's of innocent people protecting their homes from looters were killed by American troops who happened to be in the area. Thank god neither you or the parent poster are making decisions over there, because you would be making the same mistake they made 6 years ago.
Total War is illegal, we made god damn sure about that after WWII. There were no American troops in the area, it took a Humvee 10 minutes to arrive on the scene. No weapons were ever found, no conclusive pictures of weapons and not a single person killed there was linked to militants.
Irrational jingoism pervades the discussion of Iraq and Afghanistan in the US, so much so that for some that means " My Country Right or Wrong, " extends to the individual actions of US soldiers. We saw this on during WWII where war crimes by the Allies were largely prosecuted, Korea/Vietnam where open fire orders killed millions of civilians and in every conflict since than. There is a reason why the US and Israel refuse to participate in the International Court of Justice, they would be there a long time answering for crimes they committed over the past 50 years. It is more disappointing than surprising since the military industrial complex and military bases are present as the top employers in many communities across the United States. It may only represent 5% of US GDP but this is spread across the United States in pork barrel projects and military bases.
No jokes about that horrible Guns n Roses album, shudder.
The first world for the past 40 years has been using China as a source of cheap industrial labor that relied heavily upon absolute totalitarianism finds itself dealing with nascent labor unions, human rights organization and popular dissent and outrage during times of strife and disaster. As this increasingly puts strain on the kleptocratic communist party and the equally corrupt Chinese state military a rumbling/robust market economy is emerging that stands to give a significant financial foothold to an emerging Chinese middle class to the world's 3rd largest economy. Once you have a middle class anything goes, once you lose one, well...
No army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
There are over 500 million documents waiting to be declassified from the past 25 years alone. There is simply no way that much information would ever need to be classified unless the practice of classifying information in certain agencies and by some individuals had grossly abused the system for either financial, political or personal gain. Your words ring hollow friend, I have low-level clearance and find this case interesting for the fact that I've seen systematic abuses of using secrecy even at the lowest rungs of government bureaucracy. I cannot even imagine how perversely they abuse classifying information in the higher echelons of government where billions are routinely expended for projects that are run in absolute secrecy even from most of congress.
It is either a Social Contract or Natural Rights, I for one would rather hammer out my own document that protects my rights based on my consent to be governed, even if such consent was presumed by birth than trust a bunch of philosopher-types and theologians to endlessly argue over what inalienable rights are.
This guy was reportedly paid under 50k a year to handle Top Secret documents, care to apply for a job that invades your privacy and pays you less than a second year programmer makes on the street? You are not going to be recruiting from the brainy bunch with that sort of package.
Why do you think we are the most prosperous? Freedom isn't free, it is often enough paid for by another's slavery.
The United States has begun trading away 'actual rights' like the right not to be spied upon, murdered extrajudicially by your own country or prosecuted for leaking documents that reveal criminal activity for 'personal rights' like the right to shop at Walmart, the right to own 2 cars or watch the latest reality show. The Patriot Act sailed through both the congress and the media as if it were incontestable on any grounds but he last time they tried to propose an increase in regulation for Tobacco to fall under the FDA millions of people organized in protest. People would rather be free to smoke in an Orwellian nightmare than wake up in a country where they would be required to actually participate in the day to day protection of our civil liberties.
Our life, liberty and livelihoods are on the line when the three-letter agencies and the White House go around the shadows skulking about looking for loopholes, creating them or running roughshod over the Constitution. When executive power is illegally used to justify futile efforts to demoralize terrorist networks or destabilize pesky anti-US regimes that than backfire and are used as the rallying cry to recruit ever more desperate and hateful individuals to proclaim that the US and its peoples are their blood enemies, we have more than an interest in the documentation of such activity we have the right to know.
Should "society's consequences" include being hunted down by a CIA death squad? That is the crux of this because we have no idea what level of force is going to be used in administrating the wishes of the government on silencing this gentleman. In fact we don't have any idea because they refuse to release documents that show the US is acting illegally according to its own laws and international agreements including the seminal Fourth Genevea Convention on the rights of non-combatants in CIA drone attacks, black ops in Iran and domestic spying at home.
Once secrecy begins to be used an excuse to act according to a decision-making apparatus that has separated itself from the democratically elected one than such a society is on the path to totalitarianism as it rejects transparency it loses legitimacy and eventually will only be able to rule through institutions that use propaganda, intimidation and other actions that cohere to its true nature.
We like to sneak up on such creatures and photograph them in their natural habitat; however, if there ever were a 'People of Tesco' page it would have enough Chavs to Walmart's fugly folk a run for their money.
Some of us don't work for 8-10 hour stretches of time without any real break. I'm a grad student and part time CAD monkey who is online about 14 hours a day between school, work and home and I devote maybe 5-15 minutes an hour to browsing forums and posting. How do you not have time to follow forums discussing current events, do you watch TV or something? This is my 2-3 hours a day of TV.
Who says the documents aren't encrypted? Most people have no idea what wikileaks does but it is likely to involve cracking crypto. Did you think all that money went to hosting?
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End-to-end auditable voting systems, FIFY.
Ack, forgot to close tags. I feel like a freshman.
That is like saying it is the best porn musical, which sadly never made it past the late 1970's when the nation collectively ran out of the good drugs and had to start using blow.
Lampooning often involves exaggeration and cheapens nothing, if you can't laugh at something, how can you take it seriously? I'm there every time Free Gaza protests happen in my town, so lighten up, lol. Even Palestinians make fun of the blockade and I know quite a few. The only people who can't laugh about the situation are the jingoist-types in Israel and the hardliners in Hamas.
Arbitrary and contradictory lists/lists, that they neither Israel or Apple will disclose on what is allowed. What Israel is doing is inexcusable, I agree, but it seems an apt comparison even if a bit over the top.
Steve Jobs, I believe having a good "sex life" means something entirely different than it does for the rest of us. Even me, a staid almost boring 30 year-something person with a long term partner has gotten on board with sexting, sex pics and other naughty stuff with gadgetry.
I would never even consider owning a telecommunication/internet device that came with somebody's seemingly arbitrary and contradictory moral strictures as the arbiter of what I may use the device for. Ownership of Apple products has always been about willing to go into their secretive walled garden but lately with the hostility and snarkiness that has been shown to both Apple developers and consumers the experience is more akin to living in Gaza.
The question is, is where does most of the investment in open source come from and who profits the most from it. In both cases you are going to get fortune 500 companies. It might only be 2-3% of a large company's budget but it still will outspend any purely open source shop out there.
I'm betting a lot more people will be kept alive by the truth than could ever be saved by deceit, secrecy and lies. Why worship chaos?
There are thousands of bacteria on the face of the planet that can break down oil and I bet many of them are in the Gulf itself, right now, which has been seeping oil for what, 100's of millions of years? The problem is not if there are bacteria that can metabolize oil; we already know 100's of ones that do, the question is, will it be more effective than the 1000's already out there?
This is just a press release for a grant writing fishing expedition for BP money. Everyone is doing it right now in academia, trust me.
Protecting rights is simple with an engaged 4th estate and should be even easier with a burgeoning 5th estate online; but, alas people would rather work on becoming Mayor of Dunkin Donuts on foursquare than use social media to keep the flame of liberty safe from those who would try to extinguish it.
We aren't all libertarian/Republican IT monkeys. Some of us are scientists or engineers, which tend to be skewed towards the left side of politics.
If you killed everyone carrying an AK-47 in Iraq or Afghanistan you would have to kill half the country. The vast majority of people with guns in those countries carry them around their whole lives and never fire them in anger. It is a very Wild Wild West 'tude out there. Lots of machismo, engaging in a fire fight with everyone with a gun would be disastrous strategically as we found out in the first 2 weeks of occupying Baghdad where 100's of innocent people protecting their homes from looters were killed by American troops who happened to be in the area. Thank god neither you or the parent poster are making decisions over there, because you would be making the same mistake they made 6 years ago.
Total War is illegal, we made god damn sure about that after WWII. There were no American troops in the area, it took a Humvee 10 minutes to arrive on the scene. No weapons were ever found, no conclusive pictures of weapons and not a single person killed there was linked to militants.
Irrational jingoism pervades the discussion of Iraq and Afghanistan in the US, so much so that for some that means " My Country Right or Wrong, " extends to the individual actions of US soldiers. We saw this on during WWII where war crimes by the Allies were largely prosecuted, Korea/Vietnam where open fire orders killed millions of civilians and in every conflict since than. There is a reason why the US and Israel refuse to participate in the International Court of Justice, they would be there a long time answering for crimes they committed over the past 50 years. It is more disappointing than surprising since the military industrial complex and military bases are present as the top employers in many communities across the United States. It may only represent 5% of US GDP but this is spread across the United States in pork barrel projects and military bases.
The US State Department's frank opinions of Middle Eastern leaders, militaries and intelligence agencies.
No jokes about that horrible Guns n Roses album, shudder.
The first world for the past 40 years has been using China as a source of cheap industrial labor that relied heavily upon absolute totalitarianism finds itself dealing with nascent labor unions, human rights organization and popular dissent and outrage during times of strife and disaster. As this increasingly puts strain on the kleptocratic communist party and the equally corrupt Chinese state military a rumbling/robust market economy is emerging that stands to give a significant financial foothold to an emerging Chinese middle class to the world's 3rd largest economy. Once you have a middle class anything goes, once you lose one, well...
No army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
There are over 500 million documents waiting to be declassified from the past 25 years alone. There is simply no way that much information would ever need to be classified unless the practice of classifying information in certain agencies and by some individuals had grossly abused the system for either financial, political or personal gain. Your words ring hollow friend, I have low-level clearance and find this case interesting for the fact that I've seen systematic abuses of using secrecy even at the lowest rungs of government bureaucracy. I cannot even imagine how perversely they abuse classifying information in the higher echelons of government where billions are routinely expended for projects that are run in absolute secrecy even from most of congress.
It is either a Social Contract or Natural Rights, I for one would rather hammer out my own document that protects my rights based on my consent to be governed, even if such consent was presumed by birth than trust a bunch of philosopher-types and theologians to endlessly argue over what inalienable rights are.
This guy was reportedly paid under 50k a year to handle Top Secret documents, care to apply for a job that invades your privacy and pays you less than a second year programmer makes on the street? You are not going to be recruiting from the brainy bunch with that sort of package.
Why do you think we are the most prosperous? Freedom isn't free, it is often enough paid for by another's slavery.
The United States has begun trading away 'actual rights' like the right not to be spied upon, murdered extrajudicially by your own country or prosecuted for leaking documents that reveal criminal activity for 'personal rights' like the right to shop at Walmart, the right to own 2 cars or watch the latest reality show. The Patriot Act sailed through both the congress and the media as if it were incontestable on any grounds but he last time they tried to propose an increase in regulation for Tobacco to fall under the FDA millions of people organized in protest. People would rather be free to smoke in an Orwellian nightmare than wake up in a country where they would be required to actually participate in the day to day protection of our civil liberties.
Our life, liberty and livelihoods are on the line when the three-letter agencies and the White House go around the shadows skulking about looking for loopholes, creating them or running roughshod over the Constitution. When executive power is illegally used to justify futile efforts to demoralize terrorist networks or destabilize pesky anti-US regimes that than backfire and are used as the rallying cry to recruit ever more desperate and hateful individuals to proclaim that the US and its peoples are their blood enemies, we have more than an interest in the documentation of such activity we have the right to know.
The police will rip your eyes out and than charge you with a crime.
Should "society's consequences" include being hunted down by a CIA death squad? That is the crux of this because we have no idea what level of force is going to be used in administrating the wishes of the government on silencing this gentleman. In fact we don't have any idea because they refuse to release documents that show the US is acting illegally according to its own laws and international agreements including the seminal Fourth Genevea Convention on the rights of non-combatants in CIA drone attacks, black ops in Iran and domestic spying at home.
Once secrecy begins to be used an excuse to act according to a decision-making apparatus that has separated itself from the democratically elected one than such a society is on the path to totalitarianism as it rejects transparency it loses legitimacy and eventually will only be able to rule through institutions that use propaganda, intimidation and other actions that cohere to its true nature.
We like to sneak up on such creatures and photograph them in their natural habitat; however, if there ever were a 'People of Tesco' page it would have enough Chavs to Walmart's fugly folk a run for their money.
Some of us don't work for 8-10 hour stretches of time without any real break. I'm a grad student and part time CAD monkey who is online about 14 hours a day between school, work and home and I devote maybe 5-15 minutes an hour to browsing forums and posting. How do you not have time to follow forums discussing current events, do you watch TV or something? This is my 2-3 hours a day of TV.
Who says the documents aren't encrypted? Most people have no idea what wikileaks does but it is likely to involve cracking crypto. Did you think all that money went to hosting?