... but do people really use their laptops for serious gaming?
I use my laptop for gaming because it has a faster processor and video card than my desktop system. I hook the lappy up to my CRT monitor, use a fullsize keyboard, and mouse. Now, I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but this way I can bring my laptop over to my friends place so we can play games wirelessly. It's a lot easier to grab my laptop to go play a few games than it is to haul my PC/CRT. I'm also a sysadmin, so I need my laptop with me almost all the time anyway - might as well play some games when its not being used for "work."
I love Slackware. I haven't used it for ages, but it was, IIRC, my first linux distro. Yes, the installation wasn't a nice GUI, but my first *nix experience was on FreeBSD for a little while, and then OpenBSD. I started using OpenBSD at ver 2.1, which required a calculator to install. When I saw slackware, I remember thinking "Sweet, this install rocks!"
I also love that I can go to kernel.org, build a kernel, there are no problems. There is no kernel source that has been "massaged" for weird features like Redhat, etc. Its a great distro to LEARN linux. It gives you a more "intimate" (dunno if that's a good word to use) Linux experience, if your into that sort of thing:)
If there were ANY linux distribution that were to be elevated to be the model for "Standard Linux", Slackware would take my vote without question.
Yeah I think everyone should just stop trading with the USA. Just for awhile. I'm sure it would be a humbling experience for the "super power." Then they can see that they rely on others, as others rely on them. I am Canadian, and I really don't know what we get from the USA other than headaches. I admit, I am very ignorant when it comes to what we actually trade with the USA. We should be able to generate our own power, and supply our own resources, so I'm not quite sure why we need the USA so much. I don't like the US corporations cutting down our forests, and I don't like all the rich US tourists coming up here and buying all the water front property, building $300k "cottages" and only using them for 1 week every a year. I don't like the US Air Force telling us that we can't license our radio bands for wireless communication because it interferes with intermittent testing of fighters in our area. I don't like the US government pushing the Canadian government around. What do we really get from the USA?
This is not intended as flamebait, I just really don't know why we need to trade so much with the USA. Google time.
Perhaps these were all good-hearted individuals that could not even think the way that TV teaches us to think (theft, rape, murder, etc). Or perhaps these things were taught to be horribly evil. Once the people saw the glorification of violence (USA TV), it probably gave them a different perspective. Once the seed was planted, it grew in some individuals. I mean, you have to be pretty creative to think up stuff like Hellraiser. I know I probably wouldn't have some up with stuff like that unless I had seen it on TV. Now I'm a pinhead!
He should play some objective-based games like True Combat, or maybe CS. I'd like to try and play him in one of those. Im not a huge fan of fragfest games like QuakeIII, or UT. I like slower, more strategic games where you have to wait several minutes when you die. Eliminates spawn camping.
Let's say you were born, and grew up in this town. Your parents have died off, so you have the house. Nobody really wants to move into this dark town, so your property is not very valuable (financially). You can't sell your home. All the people around you have been your friends since you were a small child. You know everyone. Now, would it be fair to try and improve the town, or should everyone just close their doors, travel to a new city, try to find a new job, and start all over again by trying to afford a new property. Ofcourse, the nearest city might not be able to afford an influx of several thousand new jobs anyway.
It's not laziness, moron. Hey, I'm up in Canada, and I don't like the cold any more (after 23yrs). I want to move to the same style of place I have now, only in Southern California. Its just a quick plane ride, I'm not too lazy. Too bad that instead of $300/mo for rent, it will now be $2000. Food, travel, taxes, etc will be through the roof, my friends and family will be thousands of miles away, etc. Laziness has nothing to do with it. Perhaps your from a large city, and that's why you don't understand.
Yeah its like that darn New Orleans. I mean, people know its going to flood, right? But they move there anyway and expect tax money to help them out. And like.. New York city, you know, it can't support all those people natively. You need tax payers money to like, make sewers and stuff. Why wouldn't people just move away and poop in the bush?
Tax payers money gets spent on a LOT of useless things (primarily killing, or "defense contracts"), but improving the quality of life is generally a good thing - as long as it doesn't harm the environment in a severe way.
Perhaps these people don't have the money to move, or they simply don't want to leave their homes. A lot of people that live out in small country towns and villages get to supply big tax dollars to the huge city infrastructure that they may not agree with. They do it anyway. It's no secret that cities are not self sustaining in any way, shape, or form. The country folk have to pay for the city, AND provide for the cities. Why should they pay for all those people who want to live jammed in together in a detrimental way (environmentally)? Why does so much money get spent to foster that kind of lifestyle?
If the money is spent on making people happy, and not hurting the environment, or other people, then I say it's a good thing.
This misses a very important point. Impressions. I'm up there with you man. I miss having purple hair, but as first boss out of college explained: "I don't care what you look like, your coworkers don't care what you look like, but some of my collabarators will care when they come to visit. I need them more than I need you."
It's funny, I hear that a lot. My boss says the same thing to me. I often wonder if the people coming to meet us have the same discussion. It seems that most people don't care what you look like (to a point), but the excuse is always that "others" will care. That these "others" would perhaps not purchase X units of Whatever, at Y price if you don't look sharp. It seems that everyone I speak to doesn't care what I look like, but that someone else might, and that someone must hold fashion as the number one deciding factor as whether or not to purchase a product or service from me. It seems that everyone is calling everyone else (important business people with money) an idiot, or assuming that they will draw conclusions about what kind of person I am, based on what I wear, even though my boss, coworkers, friends and family, do not.
Yeah, I almost think that our (Canadian) government is trying to convert health care to a private system like the USA. We keep losing too many doctors to the States, so the gov't keeps fucking up our system more and more until privatisation seems much more appealing to the general public. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
For me, the US system is more appealing *right now*. I haven't been to the doctor in ages, and I am a pretty healthy person, so if I was putting a bit of money away incase I neeed it for surgery instead of dumping into all these crazy new fees, I would be much happier. Our fees have went through the roof, while the quality of care has declined steeply. Every pay day, money comes off for health care, as well as new premiums. I don't know how much money I have put into the system since I started paying, but it FAR outweighs any benefit that I have received.
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Human nature is full of agression. You can see it in how 5 year olds play. War is ALWAYS going to be a part of humanity. Some humans can get past agressions, but I'd reason to guess that most can't.
This is why we need to help people out, love them, assist them, instead of just killing them off without chance. We are scared of them , so we kill them. Basically that's why they are killing us, or trying to.
I would much rather that our armed forces go kill them, before they come here and try to force my conversion to Islam.
I'm pretty confident that the Islamic Extremists won't come over to the USA/Canada on planes and boats and try to convert us, or kill us all. It's much more the case that we keep going over there and killing them "before they get the chance." Perhaps thats what makes them want to kill us so much?
Frankly, I wish the world was like the one you believe in
It could be, if we tried.
But I've met enough people to realize it won't ever happen. Either we will kill ourselves off, or we will maintain the same level of warfare and agression as we always have.
You mean you've met enough "lost" people that the task seems hard enough that you won't try. You just give up. That's the problem. Lots of people have an abundant amount of "good" in them. They see all these problems, only see the problems, and become overwhelmed. Then they just give up and say "Fuck, well this is the way life is I guess."
The threatening to kill via firebombing is probably far-fetched enough that it doesn't count. I mean, if someone on the internet said they were going to come and firebomb my house, I wouldn't be sitting here scared shitless. I know the threat is just that - a threat.
It's like me threatening to come and bull doze your house down. Do you think I'd make it there without being stopped? Do you think I would put the effort and time into it just because you said something to me on the internet?
Yes, but is that 4 Billion Watts all concentrated in a very small area? If so, would this FAR exceed what would normally be in said small area? Just because the ENTIRE globe gets 320 TerraWatts it doesn't mean that 4 billion watts isn't way more than would normally be experienced.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about in this case - 4 billion watts might be a small amount as well.
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So does this thing have a capability to alter weather at all? Does it have the capability to mess with (enemy) VLF communications, while amping up the US VLF communications (for subs, etc)? Are both of these questions simply conspiracy theory BS? Is it safe to be pumping all this energy, or can it have negative effects on the planet? Should I be running up to Alaska and blowing this thing up before the USA fucks up the world?
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And McDonalds. Oh the horrors of that clown and his big fat blue friend - the Evil Grimace.
Dude, Grimace is purple.
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Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. That is, sometimes you have to start a fire in one direction to prevent a wall of fire comming at you from the other direction.
Umm, that's how wars start. Now its you starting the wall of fire for the other side. So then they fight back, so on, and so on. The only way to stop war, is to (are you ready for it?), STOP WAR.
War is the same thing. Sometimes we have to kill those that wish to kill us.
No we don't
Now what would your rather choose? Islamic facist killing the inocent over and over again in the name of a perversion of Islam the believe? Or, would you rather put them down like the sick dogs they are so as to have them kill anymore.
Neither. It seems you aren't very creative. I don't blame you or anything. See, you just heard this line of thinking from other people, took it as true thinking, and then adopted it as your own. Someday you will see past it. I just hope you don't infect others with your line of reasoning.
You can take humans out of nature, but you cannot take the nature out of humans.
Human nature is not killing people, or fighting. Wrong (from the perspective of a free and healthy society) thinking is killing and fighting, and fearing, etc. Human nature can also be about love, tolerance, repect, etc. I see which path you have chosen - pity.
I have no problem with the USA having control of DNS right now. If the Gov't got involved and wanted to use it to influence other countries, then yes, I would have a problem. I support a decentralized layout of DNS though. Each country should have a couple of ROOT DNS servers handling their own TLD. The.com,.net, etc should be mirrored to ALL OTHER ROOT SERVERS. Authority over the main TLDs (not country-specific) could still be handled by the USA (they did make the TLDs after all), but they should be mirrored (read-only) to every other ROOT server out there. This would increase redundancy and share workload. Each country can control its own TLD with as many ROOT servers as it deems necessary. Each country can promote its own TLD in its own country. Hopefully businesses in those countries will make more use of their own TLDs. If the USA went crazy and wanted to shut down DNS, everyone would still have their own TLDs, their own ROOTs, and their own way of keeping communication active. I would rather use.ca than.com anyway.
Now, with all the Freedom pissing contests going on in this thread, lets get one thing straight: None of us are free. We are free-minded, but in the real world, we aren't free to do what we want. We can't go and find a piece of land, build a home, and live on it. We have to pay someone (who paid someone else, who never really owned the land anyway), and then we have to pay taxes on the purchase, and then we have to pay yearly taxes on the property - sort of like a LEASE. If we don't get a job, we can't live on "our" land, so the Bank (who doesn't really own the land) gets to take it away. We are only free if we lump our existing responsibilities into what we call "Freedom."
Stop bitching about who is more free. The USA has shitty laws, Canada has shitty laws, everyone has shitty laws. Laws = control = lack of Freedom. If there is a law, it controls you in some way (unless it's the obvious Law #1 - no laws).
I've always felt that if the government wants to put us under that much surveillance, then I think we should have surveillance on the politicians that give the thumbs up to these proposals, the people that administer the system and the people that access. They should be forced to wear microphones, they should be monitored, with their every move accessible by the public.
I fully agree.
I am not one to use violence, but if CCTV cameras were put up all over my town, I would be out there disabling them. Either messing with the CC itself, or the camera. Obviously the only people (general public) that want these systems, are the ones that are scared of something (muggings, drugs in their neghbourhoods, etc), while the politicians want them for money, power, and obedience. I would disable each and every camera. If they were put back up, I would take them down again. Yes, people would be angry because of the lost money, but after a few times they would be pissed off with the gov't re-spending the money on the same failed solution. Hopefully the idea would then be quashed.
With all of these crazy gov't powers around the world, I am really starting to feel like starting a revolution to bring them down. My thoughts have been shifting from normal, every day things like going to work, eating, and socializing to figuring out how to take down governments. And no, I don't mean Im going to bomb them or something crazy like that. Anyone else starting to feel this way?
That's because this bill is only being discussed, and not likely to pass, whereas the USA has already passed several of privacy invasion laws. See the difference?
So far (as long as SSH is not secretly vulnerable), it does solve everything. The rules in this Bill state that the ISP has to hand over the communication to the authorities. If the ISP compresses, encrypts (etc) the communication, then the ISP has to remove the treatment (the bill calls it a treatment), or give the authorities the method of how to remove the treatment. If the communication is encrypted by the customer (evildoer), then the ISP just hands that over without being responsible for breaking the encryption.
Sweet, no more french on everything, no more having to take french in school, no more money going to Quebec, no more listening to French when I wait for 30min on hold with Bell Canada. Goodtimes!
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... but do people really use their laptops for serious gaming?
I use my laptop for gaming because it has a faster processor and video card than my desktop system. I hook the lappy up to my CRT monitor, use a fullsize keyboard, and mouse. Now, I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but this way I can bring my laptop over to my friends place so we can play games wirelessly. It's a lot easier to grab my laptop to go play a few games than it is to haul my PC/CRT. I'm also a sysadmin, so I need my laptop with me almost all the time anyway - might as well play some games when its not being used for "work."
I love Slackware. I haven't used it for ages, but it was, IIRC, my first linux distro. Yes, the installation wasn't a nice GUI, but my first *nix experience was on FreeBSD for a little while, and then OpenBSD. I started using OpenBSD at ver 2.1, which required a calculator to install. When I saw slackware, I remember thinking "Sweet, this install rocks!"
:)
I also love that I can go to kernel.org, build a kernel, there are no problems. There is no kernel source that has been "massaged" for weird features like Redhat, etc. Its a great distro to LEARN linux. It gives you a more "intimate" (dunno if that's a good word to use) Linux experience, if your into that sort of thing
If there were ANY linux distribution that were to be elevated to be the model for "Standard Linux", Slackware would take my vote without question.
Me too.
Yeah I think everyone should just stop trading with the USA. Just for awhile. I'm sure it would be a humbling experience for the "super power." Then they can see that they rely on others, as others rely on them. I am Canadian, and I really don't know what we get from the USA other than headaches. I admit, I am very ignorant when it comes to what we actually trade with the USA. We should be able to generate our own power, and supply our own resources, so I'm not quite sure why we need the USA so much. I don't like the US corporations cutting down our forests, and I don't like all the rich US tourists coming up here and buying all the water front property, building $300k "cottages" and only using them for 1 week every a year. I don't like the US Air Force telling us that we can't license our radio bands for wireless communication because it interferes with intermittent testing of fighters in our area. I don't like the US government pushing the Canadian government around. What do we really get from the USA?
This is not intended as flamebait, I just really don't know why we need to trade so much with the USA. Google time.
I would, but I'm trying to make myself happy :)
If I get my school debts paid off, I'll give you a ring..
Perhaps these were all good-hearted individuals that could not even think the way that TV teaches us to think (theft, rape, murder, etc). Or perhaps these things were taught to be horribly evil. Once the people saw the glorification of violence (USA TV), it probably gave them a different perspective. Once the seed was planted, it grew in some individuals. I mean, you have to be pretty creative to think up stuff like Hellraiser. I know I probably wouldn't have some up with stuff like that unless I had seen it on TV. Now I'm a pinhead!
He should play some objective-based games like True Combat, or maybe CS. I'd like to try and play him in one of those. Im not a huge fan of fragfest games like QuakeIII, or UT. I like slower, more strategic games where you have to wait several minutes when you die. Eliminates spawn camping.
That's pretty shallow, don't you think?
Let's say you were born, and grew up in this town. Your parents have died off, so you have the house. Nobody really wants to move into this dark town, so your property is not very valuable (financially). You can't sell your home. All the people around you have been your friends since you were a small child. You know everyone. Now, would it be fair to try and improve the town, or should everyone just close their doors, travel to a new city, try to find a new job, and start all over again by trying to afford a new property. Ofcourse, the nearest city might not be able to afford an influx of several thousand new jobs anyway.
It's not laziness, moron. Hey, I'm up in Canada, and I don't like the cold any more (after 23yrs). I want to move to the same style of place I have now, only in Southern California. Its just a quick plane ride, I'm not too lazy. Too bad that instead of $300/mo for rent, it will now be $2000. Food, travel, taxes, etc will be through the roof, my friends and family will be thousands of miles away, etc. Laziness has nothing to do with it. Perhaps your from a large city, and that's why you don't understand.
Yeah its like that darn New Orleans. I mean, people know its going to flood, right? But they move there anyway and expect tax money to help them out. And like.. New York city, you know, it can't support all those people natively. You need tax payers money to like, make sewers and stuff. Why wouldn't people just move away and poop in the bush?
Tax payers money gets spent on a LOT of useless things (primarily killing, or "defense contracts"), but improving the quality of life is generally a good thing - as long as it doesn't harm the environment in a severe way.
Perhaps these people don't have the money to move, or they simply don't want to leave their homes. A lot of people that live out in small country towns and villages get to supply big tax dollars to the huge city infrastructure that they may not agree with. They do it anyway. It's no secret that cities are not self sustaining in any way, shape, or form. The country folk have to pay for the city, AND provide for the cities. Why should they pay for all those people who want to live jammed in together in a detrimental way (environmentally)? Why does so much money get spent to foster that kind of lifestyle?
If the money is spent on making people happy, and not hurting the environment, or other people, then I say it's a good thing.
IMO.
This misses a very important point. Impressions. I'm up there with you man. I miss having purple hair, but as first boss out of college explained: "I don't care what you look like, your coworkers don't care what you look like, but some of my collabarators will care when they come to visit. I need them more than I need you."
It's funny, I hear that a lot. My boss says the same thing to me. I often wonder if the people coming to meet us have the same discussion. It seems that most people don't care what you look like (to a point), but the excuse is always that "others" will care. That these "others" would perhaps not purchase X units of Whatever, at Y price if you don't look sharp. It seems that everyone I speak to doesn't care what I look like, but that someone else might, and that someone must hold fashion as the number one deciding factor as whether or not to purchase a product or service from me. It seems that everyone is calling everyone else (important business people with money) an idiot, or assuming that they will draw conclusions about what kind of person I am, based on what I wear, even though my boss, coworkers, friends and family, do not.
Strange eh?
Let's just hope we don't find out this sweet stuff causes cancer 6 months after it hits the market. : (
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Or that it makes us disappear
*poof*
Yeah, I almost think that our (Canadian) government is trying to convert health care to a private system like the USA. We keep losing too many doctors to the States, so the gov't keeps fucking up our system more and more until privatisation seems much more appealing to the general public. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
For me, the US system is more appealing *right now*. I haven't been to the doctor in ages, and I am a pretty healthy person, so if I was putting a bit of money away incase I neeed it for surgery instead of dumping into all these crazy new fees, I would be much happier. Our fees have went through the roof, while the quality of care has declined steeply. Every pay day, money comes off for health care, as well as new premiums. I don't know how much money I have put into the system since I started paying, but it FAR outweighs any benefit that I have received.
Human nature is full of agression. You can see it in how 5 year olds play. War is ALWAYS going to be a part of humanity. Some humans can get past agressions, but I'd reason to guess that most can't.
This is why we need to help people out, love them, assist them, instead of just killing them off without chance. We are scared of them , so we kill them. Basically that's why they are killing us, or trying to.
I would much rather that our armed forces go kill them, before they come here and try to force my conversion to Islam.
I'm pretty confident that the Islamic Extremists won't come over to the USA/Canada on planes and boats and try to convert us, or kill us all. It's much more the case that we keep going over there and killing them "before they get the chance." Perhaps thats what makes them want to kill us so much?
Frankly, I wish the world was like the one you believe in
It could be, if we tried.
But I've met enough people to realize it won't ever happen. Either we will kill ourselves off, or we will maintain the same level of warfare and agression as we always have.
You mean you've met enough "lost" people that the task seems hard enough that you won't try. You just give up. That's the problem. Lots of people have an abundant amount of "good" in them. They see all these problems, only see the problems, and become overwhelmed. Then they just give up and say "Fuck, well this is the way life is I guess."
Again, it's a pity.
The threatening to kill via firebombing is probably far-fetched enough that it doesn't count. I mean, if someone on the internet said they were going to come and firebomb my house, I wouldn't be sitting here scared shitless. I know the threat is just that - a threat.
It's like me threatening to come and bull doze your house down. Do you think I'd make it there without being stopped? Do you think I would put the effort and time into it just because you said something to me on the internet?
Yes, but is that 4 Billion Watts all concentrated in a very small area? If so, would this FAR exceed what would normally be in said small area? Just because the ENTIRE globe gets 320 TerraWatts it doesn't mean that 4 billion watts isn't way more than would normally be experienced.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about in this case - 4 billion watts might be a small amount as well.
So does this thing have a capability to alter weather at all? Does it have the capability to mess with (enemy) VLF communications, while amping up the US VLF communications (for subs, etc)? Are both of these questions simply conspiracy theory BS? Is it safe to be pumping all this energy, or can it have negative effects on the planet? Should I be running up to Alaska and blowing this thing up before the USA fucks up the world?
And McDonalds. Oh the horrors of that clown and his big fat blue friend - the Evil Grimace.
Dude, Grimace is purple.
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. That is, sometimes you have to start a fire in one direction to prevent a wall of fire comming at you from the other direction.
Umm, that's how wars start. Now its you starting the wall of fire for the other side. So then they fight back, so on, and so on. The only way to stop war, is to (are you ready for it?), STOP WAR.
War is the same thing. Sometimes we have to kill those that wish to kill us.
No we don't
Now what would your rather choose? Islamic facist killing the inocent over and over again in the name of a perversion of Islam the believe? Or, would you rather put them down like the sick dogs they are so as to have them kill anymore.
Neither. It seems you aren't very creative. I don't blame you or anything. See, you just heard this line of thinking from other people, took it as true thinking, and then adopted it as your own. Someday you will see past it. I just hope you don't infect others with your line of reasoning.
You can take humans out of nature, but you cannot take the nature out of humans.
Human nature is not killing people, or fighting. Wrong (from the perspective of a free and healthy society) thinking is killing and fighting, and fearing, etc. Human nature can also be about love, tolerance, repect, etc. I see which path you have chosen - pity.
I have no problem with the USA having control of DNS right now. If the Gov't got involved and wanted to use it to influence other countries, then yes, I would have a problem. I support a decentralized layout of DNS though. Each country should have a couple of ROOT DNS servers handling their own TLD. The .com, .net, etc should be mirrored to ALL OTHER ROOT SERVERS. Authority over the main TLDs (not country-specific) could still be handled by the USA (they did make the TLDs after all), but they should be mirrored (read-only) to every other ROOT server out there. This would increase redundancy and share workload. Each country can control its own TLD with as many ROOT servers as it deems necessary. Each country can promote its own TLD in its own country. Hopefully businesses in those countries will make more use of their own TLDs. If the USA went crazy and wanted to shut down DNS, everyone would still have their own TLDs, their own ROOTs, and their own way of keeping communication active. I would rather use .ca than .com anyway.
Now, with all the Freedom pissing contests going on in this thread, lets get one thing straight: None of us are free. We are free-minded, but in the real world, we aren't free to do what we want. We can't go and find a piece of land, build a home, and live on it. We have to pay someone (who paid someone else, who never really owned the land anyway), and then we have to pay taxes on the purchase, and then we have to pay yearly taxes on the property - sort of like a LEASE. If we don't get a job, we can't live on "our" land, so the Bank (who doesn't really own the land) gets to take it away. We are only free if we lump our existing responsibilities into what we call "Freedom."
Stop bitching about who is more free. The USA has shitty laws, Canada has shitty laws, everyone has shitty laws. Laws = control = lack of Freedom. If there is a law, it controls you in some way (unless it's the obvious Law #1 - no laws).
I don't know then. I guess it's just more fun to bash America because they tout their freedom and patriotism so much?
I've always felt that if the government wants to put us under that much surveillance, then I think we should have surveillance on the politicians that give the thumbs up to these proposals, the people that administer the system and the people that access. They should be forced to wear microphones, they should be monitored, with their every move accessible by the public.
I fully agree.
I am not one to use violence, but if CCTV cameras were put up all over my town, I would be out there disabling them. Either messing with the CC itself, or the camera. Obviously the only people (general public) that want these systems, are the ones that are scared of something (muggings, drugs in their neghbourhoods, etc), while the politicians want them for money, power, and obedience. I would disable each and every camera. If they were put back up, I would take them down again. Yes, people would be angry because of the lost money, but after a few times they would be pissed off with the gov't re-spending the money on the same failed solution. Hopefully the idea would then be quashed.
With all of these crazy gov't powers around the world, I am really starting to feel like starting a revolution to bring them down. My thoughts have been shifting from normal, every day things like going to work, eating, and socializing to figuring out how to take down governments. And no, I don't mean Im going to bomb them or something crazy like that. Anyone else starting to feel this way?
That's because this bill is only being discussed, and not likely to pass, whereas the USA has already passed several of privacy invasion laws. See the difference?
So far (as long as SSH is not secretly vulnerable), it does solve everything. The rules in this Bill state that the ISP has to hand over the communication to the authorities. If the ISP compresses, encrypts (etc) the communication, then the ISP has to remove the treatment (the bill calls it a treatment), or give the authorities the method of how to remove the treatment. If the communication is encrypted by the customer (evildoer), then the ISP just hands that over without being responsible for breaking the encryption.
I'm voting Green Party again. Fuck the big 3 (+ PQ). None of them are respectable people. None that I have seen anyway.
Sweet, no more french on everything, no more having to take french in school, no more money going to Quebec, no more listening to French when I wait for 30min on hold with Bell Canada. Goodtimes!
Buhbye!
Final Fight?