Maybe not, but they also gave the finger to universities using PS3 clusters. The fact that Sony participated assisted said universities with setting up these clusters speaks volumes as to how ridiculously contradictory Sony's response was when they blocked OtherOS.
These types of applications are what attracted me to the PS3, not because I necessarily wanted to do this myself, but the fact that the console was powerful and flexible enough to be used in this way was very attractive to me. Most people prefer having an option to having the option taken away out of nowhere.
It's as if Sony gets a list of options and always picks the one that will most piss off their customers. They're sabotaging themselves...
Plus you can't ignore the likely tens of thousands of people globally that have been saved from being completely ripped off by the Church of Scientology due to their bullshit getting leaked.
Organized religion's needed to have it's dox leaked for centuries. The Vatican has 2,000 years worth of juicy information sitting in their vaults alone...
We're stuck in a positive feedback loop now. The more the government over-reaches in the interests of security, the more pissed off the populace gets, which leads to more civil disobedience and activism, which leads to more over-reaches in the interests of security, which leads to a more pissed off populace, and so on...
The Occupy protests are just the beginning. Things are going to get much worse before they get any better. It doesn't really matter much at all who is sitting in Washington, D.C., Demican or Republicrat, the bullshit has already reached critical mass, now it's just time to wait for the meltdown.
People call me crazy, but I'm taking steps to prepare myself and my family. A few years ago I read these eye-opening blog posts about the effects of the Argentinian Economic Crisis of 1999-2002 from the point of view of a regular, college-educated, city dweller. It's scary shit. I know that if similar things were to happen to the U.S. a lot of people would be in very poor shape to deal with it. I'm not going to allow myself or my family to be victimized due to being unprepared.
Growing up I never thought things would get to even this point in this country.
so we can be just as outraged at "ACTA 2.0; Now with a name to make you look like a pedo if you vote against it!"
I doubt Europe has much to worry about there, but here in the U.S., I damn sure know we do. The next SOPA/ACTA/PIPA bill here in the states is going to be called the "Stop Child Pornography and Terrorism Act" or something, just wait and see.
I honestly would not be surprised if cars start coming out with sealed up hoods and a "Warranty Void if Removed" sticker on the seam within 10 years.
I have great memories from when I was a kid helping my dad work on his various cars over the years. Such a shame...I open the hood of my car today and I don't even know wear to begin, it's such a tangled mess of shit everywhere. My dad used to be able to damn near stand inside the engine compartment back in those days...
and had been doing more drinking in his stand than hunting
I've never understood why people think getting drunk and shooting things is a good idea at all. I realize it would be impossible to enforce, and there seems to be a real "can't go hunting without beer!" attitude among hunters (the ones I've known, anyway) but it seems to me that hunting while drinking is no different than driving while drinking.
Kudos to you for doing your part to stop that nonsense.
If you're using Chrome, I highly recommend ScriptNo. It took a while, but they've finally got a decent analogue of NoScript for Firefox. With it's most restricted settings, it pretty much blocks everything you don't whitelist yourself, and has a special "antisocial" mode that automatically blocks all the social networking bullshit every fucking site in the world has now.
ScriptNo and Adblock Plus are pretty much a necessity for web browsing these days, in my opinion.
I don't quite live 'out in the country' but yes, a majority of people around here are of the conservative mindset. And those that aren't typically don't speak up about it. It is interesting to see the progressive/conservative split divided among urban and rural.
So we're in agreement, then? The majority of people are of the conservative mindset in your "not quite" rural area, and the majority of the people I've ever come across when visiting rural-living family are of the conservative mindset, so it seems like your anecdotes agree with what I said concerning rural areas being more conservative.
And what the hell are you talking about, "vitriol"? Besides the fact that I don't see what you could really call vitriolic in my post, I was talking about fundamentalists. Now, if you take exception to that, I'm sorry, but I admit I don't have much respect for the anti-science homophobic bigots. I never said all conservatives were this way, I know plenty of conservatives right here in the city that don't care about gays getting married, think abortion should be a mother's choice, etc. Hell, I actually know a gay Republican (although she's admitted she doesn't know what the fuck she's gonna do come November because none of the GOP candidates appeal to her at all, so maybe she's an Independent now).
I think you immediately jumped to a defensive you did not need to jump to. The GP himself said "fundies". Despite what you may hear to the contrary, most people don't equate conservatives with fundamentalists. Hell, most of the conservatives I know think the fundamentalists are fucking crazy. They just say it a lot nicer than I do.
And, to be totally honest...as someone who spent a few years only able to afford an apartment in an area with a lot of people on government assistance and living in Section 8 housing, there weren't many people "voting in the guy with the best handouts", because hardly any of them voted at all, even with volunteers standing out on street corners telling people that it was voting day and showing them where their polling place was, within walking distance...I know because I always vote and walked down there myself many times. Still didn't matter, the polls were always dead empty. Contrast this with the much better neighborhood I live in now, just a few miles away from there, I always end up waiting in line 30-45 minutes to vote; going after 6 PM and you're looking at an hour at least (and now that we have fucking voter-ID laws, it'll probably be two).
So I wouldn't worry too much about people voting on candidates based solely on handouts. A lot of the people I've seen collecting them don't even vote.
Unless you're one of those "The earth is 6,000 years old, Jesus rode a dinosaur to school, and Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for homosexuality" conservatives (working for NASA I highly fucking doubt it, but I admit I could be wrong there) you're not the type of conservative I'm speaking about.
I figured that was clear by my use of the term "fundamentalist mindset". Maybe things are different in your neck of the woods, but we don't consider typical conservatives "fundamentalists" around here. That's reserved for the people that want to censor books, make Christianity the state religion, ban evolution, etc.
However, out of curiosity, seeing as how you live out in the country, how many of your neighbors would you call "progressive"? I ask honestly, because in my visits to extended family that live out in the country (who are pretty much all conservative, except for the kids, who spend all their time on the internet) I don't often hear many people espousing "progressive" viewpoints. Not to say that they don't exist, but, for instance, I've rarely heard anyone come down on the progressive side of many issues out there. Especially now that we're out of Iraq (that was one thing we all agreed on, getting the fuck out of Iraq).
From a progressive point of view, I think it makes perfect sense. The more access to the "real world" these people have, the harder it will be for the echo chamber to hold them.
How long can they remain "backward" if they are able to see the goings-on of the world around them? The fundamentalist mindset you're complaining about requires an echo chamber. This is why cults always cut themselves off from the outside world. The outside world provides too much evidence that the crap they're being fed by their chosen David Koresh or Jim Jones is just that, crap.
I honestly think that getting high-technology out into the country would be a progressive's wet dream. The rural parts of the country are so staunchly conservative in part because of their isolation. I suppose one could argue the opposite, as well, that people in urban areas are more progressive because they're forced to live in close quarters and thus have no choice but be more tolerant of those different from them, whether in looks, opinions, religion, etc.
When I was in high school, there was a Catholic grade school that fed into our public school. It was funny watching those kids, in just a few months, go fucking crazy with the freedom to act and dress that they never had before. Ditto with the kids coming in to our "city" school from out on the farms.
Very much this. Doctors are notorious for being stuck in their ways, especially as concerns administration and computerization. My step-mother actually just quit her administration job at a small practice a few days ago because they were still doing everything on paper; she said she hadn't worked in an office with that minimal level of technology in almost 20 years.
Especially now as doctor's "margins" are getting thinner due to Medicare cutbacks and such, I'm sure this trend will continue. New tech costs money, and medical tech, even on the administration end, is ridiculously expensive.
In the US, with all the gerrymandering there are so many safe seats the equivalent could never happen.
That's certainly what they're trying to do here in Wisconsin.
The newest district maps the Republican-controlled legislature designed are completely one-sided, which in itself is nothing new, but with all the recalls and shit going on, they're now trying to figure out ways to force the recalls to happen in the newly created districts. Never mind the fact that the districts do not legally go into effect until November 2012 by the bill they themselves ratified; now that they stand to actually lose control of the legislature with the recalls (only one more seat needs to be picked up in the state senate and the Republicans lose their majority) they're in full on panic mode trying to do whatever they can to prevent it.
It makes no logical sense; by forcing the recalls to happen in the new districts, they're basically telling many people that voted in the last election that they don't get a say in whether or not their representative gets to keep their seat. Not only that, but the recall signatures were collected under the old districts...so now they're trying to throw out any signatures that don't fall under their new district boundaries. Boundaries that aren't even legally in effect yet.
This isn't even the dirtiest trick being played here, just read this rebuttal to the challenged signatures; it's hysterical. You want to see what the goals are of the Far Right nationally, look no farther than Wisconsin...they really shot their wad here. Another laugh-fest is the emails between the GOP lawyers involved in the redistricting. A judge just ordered them released a few days ago (they did all their communication through their lawyers so they could claim attorney-client privilege and keep the records hidden from FOIA requests and discovery) and they openly talk about "wildly gerrymandering" one particular district to nullify the Latino vote in Milwaukee. Another gem is an email discussing a Professor they got to testify in support of the maps...which includes a request to actually get him the maps so he can review them. I wonder how much of a consultant's fee they paid him to support a map he'd never even seen yet?
I mean, if a cop decides to beat me for no reason, he gets investigated (and if there's evidence) gets convicted.
Yeah, right. More likely he gets a paid vacation for a few weeks (if even that), a slap on the wrist, and then he's back on the streets to abuse people just like he learned back in grade school bullying his classmates.
Oh, that takes far too long for the MAFIAA's tastes. "Better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty person escape" should be their new motto.
If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear.
Yeah, right. That's about as stupid as the "If you have nothing to hide..." bullshit.
The government doesn't even need to prove that you (or your users) did anything wrong before they punish you. Look at the Jotform crap for proof of that. That business is more than likely ruined now; who's gonna trust a cloud storage site that could get nuked off the face of the internet again because some random asshole posted something that violates IP somewhere on it?
I really hope to God you were being sarcastic, and if so, will gladly accept my "WOOOOOOSH".
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Maybe not, but they also gave the finger to universities using PS3 clusters. The fact that Sony participated assisted said universities with setting up these clusters speaks volumes as to how ridiculously contradictory Sony's response was when they blocked OtherOS.
These types of applications are what attracted me to the PS3, not because I necessarily wanted to do this myself, but the fact that the console was powerful and flexible enough to be used in this way was very attractive to me. Most people prefer having an option to having the option taken away out of nowhere.
It's as if Sony gets a list of options and always picks the one that will most piss off their customers. They're sabotaging themselves...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy, 1962
Plus you can't ignore the likely tens of thousands of people globally that have been saved from being completely ripped off by the Church of Scientology due to their bullshit getting leaked.
Organized religion's needed to have it's dox leaked for centuries. The Vatican has 2,000 years worth of juicy information sitting in their vaults alone...
We're stuck in a positive feedback loop now. The more the government over-reaches in the interests of security, the more pissed off the populace gets, which leads to more civil disobedience and activism, which leads to more over-reaches in the interests of security, which leads to a more pissed off populace, and so on...
The Occupy protests are just the beginning. Things are going to get much worse before they get any better. It doesn't really matter much at all who is sitting in Washington, D.C., Demican or Republicrat, the bullshit has already reached critical mass, now it's just time to wait for the meltdown.
People call me crazy, but I'm taking steps to prepare myself and my family. A few years ago I read these eye-opening blog posts about the effects of the Argentinian Economic Crisis of 1999-2002 from the point of view of a regular, college-educated, city dweller. It's scary shit. I know that if similar things were to happen to the U.S. a lot of people would be in very poor shape to deal with it. I'm not going to allow myself or my family to be victimized due to being unprepared.
Growing up I never thought things would get to even this point in this country.
so we can be just as outraged at "ACTA 2.0; Now with a name to make you look like a pedo if you vote against it!"
I doubt Europe has much to worry about there, but here in the U.S., I damn sure know we do. The next SOPA/ACTA/PIPA bill here in the states is going to be called the "Stop Child Pornography and Terrorism Act" or something, just wait and see.
I honestly would not be surprised if cars start coming out with sealed up hoods and a "Warranty Void if Removed" sticker on the seam within 10 years.
I have great memories from when I was a kid helping my dad work on his various cars over the years. Such a shame...I open the hood of my car today and I don't even know wear to begin, it's such a tangled mess of shit everywhere. My dad used to be able to damn near stand inside the engine compartment back in those days...
Weren't you around back in '04? We reelected Bush for fuck's sake.
and had been doing more drinking in his stand than hunting
I've never understood why people think getting drunk and shooting things is a good idea at all. I realize it would be impossible to enforce, and there seems to be a real "can't go hunting without beer!" attitude among hunters (the ones I've known, anyway) but it seems to me that hunting while drinking is no different than driving while drinking.
Kudos to you for doing your part to stop that nonsense.
If you're using Chrome, I highly recommend ScriptNo. It took a while, but they've finally got a decent analogue of NoScript for Firefox. With it's most restricted settings, it pretty much blocks everything you don't whitelist yourself, and has a special "antisocial" mode that automatically blocks all the social networking bullshit every fucking site in the world has now.
ScriptNo and Adblock Plus are pretty much a necessity for web browsing these days, in my opinion.
They are...
Oh, you said better...never mind.
I don't quite live 'out in the country' but yes, a majority of people around here are of the conservative mindset. And those that aren't typically don't speak up about it. It is interesting to see the progressive/conservative split divided among urban and rural.
So we're in agreement, then? The majority of people are of the conservative mindset in your "not quite" rural area, and the majority of the people I've ever come across when visiting rural-living family are of the conservative mindset, so it seems like your anecdotes agree with what I said concerning rural areas being more conservative.
And what the hell are you talking about, "vitriol"? Besides the fact that I don't see what you could really call vitriolic in my post, I was talking about fundamentalists. Now, if you take exception to that, I'm sorry, but I admit I don't have much respect for the anti-science homophobic bigots. I never said all conservatives were this way, I know plenty of conservatives right here in the city that don't care about gays getting married, think abortion should be a mother's choice, etc. Hell, I actually know a gay Republican (although she's admitted she doesn't know what the fuck she's gonna do come November because none of the GOP candidates appeal to her at all, so maybe she's an Independent now).
I think you immediately jumped to a defensive you did not need to jump to. The GP himself said "fundies". Despite what you may hear to the contrary, most people don't equate conservatives with fundamentalists. Hell, most of the conservatives I know think the fundamentalists are fucking crazy. They just say it a lot nicer than I do.
And, to be totally honest...as someone who spent a few years only able to afford an apartment in an area with a lot of people on government assistance and living in Section 8 housing, there weren't many people "voting in the guy with the best handouts", because hardly any of them voted at all, even with volunteers standing out on street corners telling people that it was voting day and showing them where their polling place was, within walking distance...I know because I always vote and walked down there myself many times. Still didn't matter, the polls were always dead empty. Contrast this with the much better neighborhood I live in now, just a few miles away from there, I always end up waiting in line 30-45 minutes to vote; going after 6 PM and you're looking at an hour at least (and now that we have fucking voter-ID laws, it'll probably be two).
So I wouldn't worry too much about people voting on candidates based solely on handouts. A lot of the people I've seen collecting them don't even vote.
My prediction: slow and boring.
Socialist! Is a man not entitled to the sweat from his great-great-great-grandfather's brow?!
You call it sarcasm, they call it talking points. Stop giving them ideas, asshole!!
Unless you're one of those "The earth is 6,000 years old, Jesus rode a dinosaur to school, and Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for homosexuality" conservatives (working for NASA I highly fucking doubt it, but I admit I could be wrong there) you're not the type of conservative I'm speaking about.
I figured that was clear by my use of the term "fundamentalist mindset". Maybe things are different in your neck of the woods, but we don't consider typical conservatives "fundamentalists" around here. That's reserved for the people that want to censor books, make Christianity the state religion, ban evolution, etc.
However, out of curiosity, seeing as how you live out in the country, how many of your neighbors would you call "progressive"? I ask honestly, because in my visits to extended family that live out in the country (who are pretty much all conservative, except for the kids, who spend all their time on the internet) I don't often hear many people espousing "progressive" viewpoints. Not to say that they don't exist, but, for instance, I've rarely heard anyone come down on the progressive side of many issues out there. Especially now that we're out of Iraq (that was one thing we all agreed on, getting the fuck out of Iraq).
Honestly, I fucking hate CAPTCHA and will cheer on its demise. Good luck typing this shit in...
From a progressive point of view, I think it makes perfect sense. The more access to the "real world" these people have, the harder it will be for the echo chamber to hold them.
How long can they remain "backward" if they are able to see the goings-on of the world around them? The fundamentalist mindset you're complaining about requires an echo chamber. This is why cults always cut themselves off from the outside world. The outside world provides too much evidence that the crap they're being fed by their chosen David Koresh or Jim Jones is just that, crap.
I honestly think that getting high-technology out into the country would be a progressive's wet dream. The rural parts of the country are so staunchly conservative in part because of their isolation. I suppose one could argue the opposite, as well, that people in urban areas are more progressive because they're forced to live in close quarters and thus have no choice but be more tolerant of those different from them, whether in looks, opinions, religion, etc.
When I was in high school, there was a Catholic grade school that fed into our public school. It was funny watching those kids, in just a few months, go fucking crazy with the freedom to act and dress that they never had before. Ditto with the kids coming in to our "city" school from out on the farms.
Doubleplusungood!!!!!!
Very much this. Doctors are notorious for being stuck in their ways, especially as concerns administration and computerization. My step-mother actually just quit her administration job at a small practice a few days ago because they were still doing everything on paper; she said she hadn't worked in an office with that minimal level of technology in almost 20 years.
Especially now as doctor's "margins" are getting thinner due to Medicare cutbacks and such, I'm sure this trend will continue. New tech costs money, and medical tech, even on the administration end, is ridiculously expensive.
In the US, with all the gerrymandering there are so many safe seats the equivalent could never happen.
That's certainly what they're trying to do here in Wisconsin.
The newest district maps the Republican-controlled legislature designed are completely one-sided, which in itself is nothing new, but with all the recalls and shit going on, they're now trying to figure out ways to force the recalls to happen in the newly created districts. Never mind the fact that the districts do not legally go into effect until November 2012 by the bill they themselves ratified; now that they stand to actually lose control of the legislature with the recalls (only one more seat needs to be picked up in the state senate and the Republicans lose their majority) they're in full on panic mode trying to do whatever they can to prevent it.
It makes no logical sense; by forcing the recalls to happen in the new districts, they're basically telling many people that voted in the last election that they don't get a say in whether or not their representative gets to keep their seat. Not only that, but the recall signatures were collected under the old districts...so now they're trying to throw out any signatures that don't fall under their new district boundaries. Boundaries that aren't even legally in effect yet.
This isn't even the dirtiest trick being played here, just read this rebuttal to the challenged signatures; it's hysterical. You want to see what the goals are of the Far Right nationally, look no farther than Wisconsin...they really shot their wad here. Another laugh-fest is the emails between the GOP lawyers involved in the redistricting. A judge just ordered them released a few days ago (they did all their communication through their lawyers so they could claim attorney-client privilege and keep the records hidden from FOIA requests and discovery) and they openly talk about "wildly gerrymandering" one particular district to nullify the Latino vote in Milwaukee. Another gem is an email discussing a Professor they got to testify in support of the maps...which includes a request to actually get him the maps so he can review them. I wonder how much of a consultant's fee they paid him to support a map he'd never even seen yet?
At this rate data, information and knowledge will be the new thing to smuggle.
Who would have thought Johnny Mnemonic would have been so prophetic?!
I mean, if a cop decides to beat me for no reason, he gets investigated (and if there's evidence) gets convicted.
Yeah, right. More likely he gets a paid vacation for a few weeks (if even that), a slap on the wrist, and then he's back on the streets to abuse people just like he learned back in grade school bullying his classmates.
Hell, how hard is it to even prove that the beating was "for no reason"? Cops already routinely confiscate any video proof of their misdeeds, even from innocent bystanders. And those dash-cams? Good luck depending on those to exonerate you.
What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
Oh, that takes far too long for the MAFIAA's tastes. "Better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty person escape" should be their new motto.
Sounds like a good reason to leave GoDaddy, IMO.
How many more do people fucking need?
If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear.
Yeah, right. That's about as stupid as the "If you have nothing to hide..." bullshit.
The government doesn't even need to prove that you (or your users) did anything wrong before they punish you. Look at the Jotform crap for proof of that. That business is more than likely ruined now; who's gonna trust a cloud storage site that could get nuked off the face of the internet again because some random asshole posted something that violates IP somewhere on it?
I really hope to God you were being sarcastic, and if so, will gladly accept my "WOOOOOOSH".