Look to where the real power is; that is, who pays off the politicians in those governments. Look to where the politician's loyalties lie (hint: for the majority, it's not to the people who elect them.)
Like most such spin, it makes much more sense if you turn it around. In this case, a neocon saying, "We hate our own people for their freedoms" makes a heck of a lot more sense.
If you don't support this surveillance, you stand with the terrorists and child pornographers who want to keep the children from watching the Olympics!
No, it starts where the power is concentrated. And the greatest power in the world right now is corporate; which is still somewhat decentrailzied, but does spread all over the Western hemisphere.
Coming next: The National Bandwidth Preservation Act, making it a terrorist crime to use more than X gigs per month, and for intentionally adding noise to the national security logs.
They'd all be wrong - there was no such war. We're at war with Eastasia, and we're friends with Eurasia. It's always been this way. You need to be reeducated.
Just remember - power abhors a vacuum. Maybe you're right to want to kick both out (as I'm sometimes inclined), but if the power structure of government is torn down, others will move quickly to fill that void. And the power poised at this time is corporate power, which when allowed to be unchecked is not controlled by the invisible hand, but rather, becomes an heriditary feudalistic system.
Yeah, they're corrupt as all getup. But when the question is tear it all down or try to fix what we've got, and tearing it all down opens things up to even worse scenarios, one is only left with trying to find a way to fix what is.
At least, until it gets so bad that everyone takes to the streets and we wind up shooting each other until the rage is burned out and the next generation of politicians of some stripe take the reigns.
My read on the documents is that they provide conclusive proof that the Heartland Institute promoted systematic criminal fraud, corrupted science and effectively engaged in treasonous activity.
However, it sounds like you're probably not quite a sprint chicken any more, so I'll point this out: there is a definite age ceiling in the tech world.
You can avoid hitting it quite so hard as long as you keep working in the field, but once you switch tracks, it can be a lot harder to break back in. The way a lot of management will see things, you left/got pushed out, and they can hire a younger, naive, and inexperienced dev who will write bad code that is hard to maintain in three times the time for half the price. (Note: all the MBA types will see in that sentence is "younger means energetic for half the price"). And if you haven't been working - they can say that the younger/cheaper guy is "fresh", whereas your knowledge is "dated".
Again - not saying "don't" - just saying, "be aware of the consequences if you take this leap."
... funded by Big Oil comes out with what is basically pro-fracking study that basically says, "We're doing it in a dangerous manner; it's the process, not what we're doing, even though everyone is doing it wrong."
And peer review? Nope. But it was reviewed by the pro-corporation sham of an environmental watch-group, the Environmental Defense Fund:
In addition to university faculty, the Environmental Defense Fund was actively involved in developing the scope of work and methodology for this study, and reviewed final work products.
The "note" in question was a general guideline announcement, not a bill for that day's lunch.
All we know for sure is that (1) the kid didn't eat the provided lunch, (2) the kid did have the McNuggets and (3) the kid said she had the horrible burden of having the McNuggets because the school made her.
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Thy name is Corporate.
We won't be needing you anymore.
How long do you think you'd be allowed to keep the half a loaf?
Look to where the real power is; that is, who pays off the politicians in those governments. Look to where the politician's loyalties lie (hint: for the majority, it's not to the people who elect them.)
Like most such spin, it makes much more sense if you turn it around. In this case, a neocon saying, "We hate our own people for their freedoms" makes a heck of a lot more sense.
If you don't support this surveillance, you stand with the terrorists and child pornographers who want to keep the children from watching the Olympics!
No, it starts where the power is concentrated. And the greatest power in the world right now is corporate; which is still somewhat decentrailzied, but does spread all over the Western hemisphere.
Coming next: The National Bandwidth Preservation Act, making it a terrorist crime to use more than X gigs per month, and for intentionally adding noise to the national security logs.
They'd all be wrong - there was no such war. We're at war with Eastasia, and we're friends with Eurasia. It's always been this way. You need to be reeducated.
Wow. Getting called a coward by an anonymous coward.
Just remember - power abhors a vacuum. Maybe you're right to want to kick both out (as I'm sometimes inclined), but if the power structure of government is torn down, others will move quickly to fill that void. And the power poised at this time is corporate power, which when allowed to be unchecked is not controlled by the invisible hand, but rather, becomes an heriditary feudalistic system.
Yeah, they're corrupt as all getup. But when the question is tear it all down or try to fix what we've got, and tearing it all down opens things up to even worse scenarios, one is only left with trying to find a way to fix what is.
At least, until it gets so bad that everyone takes to the streets and we wind up shooting each other until the rage is burned out and the next generation of politicians of some stripe take the reigns.
And to make sure that there's some substance:
My read on the documents is that they provide conclusive proof that the Heartland Institute promoted systematic criminal fraud, corrupted science and effectively engaged in treasonous activity.
There. Now sue me.
Yeah, Stallman's The Right To Read may be getting linked a lot (for free, still) - but it is so apt.
Can't happen in the US? Where have you been for the past decade? Let alone the last year?
Interest on all subsidies paid as well.
If it's time to stop, it's time to stop.
However, it sounds like you're probably not quite a sprint chicken any more, so I'll point this out: there is a definite age ceiling in the tech world.
You can avoid hitting it quite so hard as long as you keep working in the field, but once you switch tracks, it can be a lot harder to break back in. The way a lot of management will see things, you left/got pushed out, and they can hire a younger, naive, and inexperienced dev who will write bad code that is hard to maintain in three times the time for half the price. (Note: all the MBA types will see in that sentence is "younger means energetic for half the price"). And if you haven't been working - they can say that the younger/cheaper guy is "fresh", whereas your knowledge is "dated".
Again - not saying "don't" - just saying, "be aware of the consequences if you take this leap."
I think that a reasonable offer would be to not take every single one of them out to a deserted field and put a bullet in the back of their heads.
This is modded as funny.
It should be modded as "good business model."
Try Lynx.
... stalks the corridors of Apple headquarters, inflicting great harm on anyone who quavers in their resolve to destroy Google.
The thing about car analogies is that every single time you make one, there will ALWAYS be a backseat driver ;)
However, the EDF is a known corporate water carrier with an eco-friendly sounding name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Defense_Fund
And that is NOT peer review, either.
... funded by Big Oil comes out with what is basically pro-fracking study that basically says, "We're doing it in a dangerous manner; it's the process, not what we're doing, even though everyone is doing it wrong."
And peer review? Nope. But it was reviewed by the pro-corporation sham of an environmental watch-group, the Environmental Defense Fund:
In addition to university faculty, the Environmental Defense Fund was actively involved in developing the scope of work and methodology for this study, and reviewed final work products.
(source)
Not buyin' it.
Did you read the article?
It's based on the word of the four year old.
The "note" in question was a general guideline announcement, not a bill for that day's lunch.
All we know for sure is that (1) the kid didn't eat the provided lunch, (2) the kid did have the McNuggets and (3) the kid said she had the horrible burden of having the McNuggets because the school made her.
Hmmmm.
Also:
Kid looks at healthy food from home.
Kid looks at McNuggets.
Kid says, screw the healthy stuff, I want the McNuggets. Does that come with a Happy Toy?